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| ANOTHER COLONIAL CONFEDERA TION,

that the majority of our readers know very little, except ina general way, of the group of colonies which lie around the Cape of Good Llope, but it

We dare say

seems that the people of these colonies have been studying the institutions of Can- | ada to some purpose. The Confederation of the provinces of Canada, which was so | bitterly opposed by a faction, but which | has been such a political success. has en- amvored the Cape Colonists of a similar | scheme, and it is probable we will shortly | see in South Africa the of another Federation, not only including the hitherto divided British colonies, but sxlso_ the Grigua Land, the Orange Free State, a Transvaal Dutch Republic, the first of | which bears the same relation to Cape | Colony that a territory does to the United States Government, and the latter of which is both nominally and actually independent | of the British Crown. The or | territorries now to be formed intoa new

rise

colonies

federation are the two Cape Colonies, east and west, Caffraria, Land, all whi the two Dutch settlements of the Orange | River, and of the Transvaal Republic. It | is a bold attempt to bring not only natives and Europeans, but also Dutch boers and English settlers as well, under one common rule. Mr. Froude, the historian, is to be sent out as the representative of the Col- |

| onial office, to endeavour to carry out this

Natal, and the Grigua

ch are British territories, and

plan, which has received the sanction of | the British Government. A conference of | delegates under the chairmanship of Mr. Froude, is to meet at Cape Town, to ar-| ‘range the preliminaries of a general federa.

tion, which will include the entire group of | Colonies, Dutch and English speaking | which now extend over the whiole of South Africa. One of the main causes which has encouraged the idea of this federation, is | the difficulty which has been experienced |

in dealing with the natives, and a common |

policy with regard to them will be one of | its first results. At present there is the | greatest variety in our mode of dealing | with the Zulus. In the Free States the | natives are not allowed to squat on the public lands. There isalso a Con- tract Act and a Vagrant Act there. In| Natal the opposite poliey prevails, and the | j native population has, consequently, risen

.from 30,000 to 38C0,000 within thirty-five | ;years. In the Free States the law ens | courages the natives to industry. In Natal | the <quatting of indolent and proud natives |

who live by the labour of their many wives 1. : ;is encouraged, and the evil, as we have

| recently seen, is in danger of breaking out

at any time into an open insurrection.

| Taking it thenas a whole, this scheme of

| Federation may not realize all that Lord

| Carnarvon expects from it, but it must in any case bea considerab’e advance on the

old ‘thappy go-lucky.’ system by which the

English pushed out the boers, and the

boers the Caffres, until at last the whole of South Africa became a medley of races and | tribes, jarring and jostling together. We | now see the foundation of a new and better | colonial system, a system under which colonies will not be regarded as things to be thrown away, but to be preserved and cherished. This South African lederation | will, no doubt be followed by an Australian Federation, and then we may begin to prepare for.a Federation of the whole Ems pire.—St. John Tel.

At arifle match at Edinburgh on Satur- day between England, Ireland and Scotland the last named carried off the prize, beat- | ing England by twenty and Ireland by 139 | points.

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‘My success is owing to my liberality in | advertising.’— Bonner.

‘The road to fortune is through printer's ink.’—P. T. Barnum.

‘Frequent and_ constant brought me my own.’A. T. Stewart.

‘ Business depends upon a liberal patro- nage of printing offices.’—J.J. Astor.

advertising |

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* My son, deal only with men who adver- tise; you will never lose by it.’ — Ben. Franklin.

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ed

| in walked Ugly Sam.

| a third.

whiskey-red had faded from his face,and he looked sober and dignified. expressed disgust and contempt as he | looked around the room, and then reveals ed pity as his eyes fell upon the red eyes and bloated faces of the crowd betore him,

Chicago, as they all stood there.

| drawing a clean hendkerchief from his pocket. ‘What! have you turned preacher?’

| they shouted in concert.

| but [hain’t on the fight any more, and I

| about. it,’

| like.

*Tfow ean the world know a man has a)

SS ae

SPT ET ERE

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PORTRY.

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Pie mani (man of all ther | Viose heart is open as his face, | h his hand to help another, the blood of kith or kin,

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‘Lis the heart that beats within, Which makes the mau aman aad brother |

ilis words are warm upon his lips, | lis heart beats to his@uger tips, He is a friend and loyal neighbor ; Sweet children kiss him on the way, And women trust him for they may, | He owes no debts he cannot pay ; He carns his bread with honest labor

Ile lifts the fallen from the ground,

And puts his teet upon the round,

Of dreaming Jacob's starry ladder ; Which lifts him higher day by day, ‘Towards the bright aud heavenly way, And farther from the tempter’s sway,

Ile strikes oppression to the dust,

He shares the blows aimed at the just,

He shrinks not from the post of danger,

And in the thickest of the fight,

ile battles bravely for the right,

Por thet is mightier than might, Thouga cradled in a humble manger.

Hailto the mantiest man! he comes

Not with the sound of horus and drums.

Though grand as any duke, or grander;

ie dawns upon the world, and light

Dispels the weary gloom of night.

And ills, like bats and owls, take flight, He’s greater than great Alexander. ;

LITERATURE,

A TOUCHING STORY,

UGLY SAM AND WHY HE REFORMED —A PROMISE TO A DYING MOTUER,

| appointed except

of Justice ; or a gownsman at the head of

quire distinct professors, propriety landsmen should leave to seas men the management of things that bes under a good deal of excitement, and ex. claimed to his wife, * I have visited to-day, an instance in the public departments in ina poor Irishman’s hut, the most beautix | ¢),0 name of the place referred to as which this safe rule is not carried out, landsmen deficient in nautical skill being appointed to discharge duties requiring skill in nautical matters. ofthe Minister of Marine and Fisheries is that alluded to. often happen thit the minister is neither a

long to the sea.

scornful language of sea-faring men a mere ‘Jandslubber.’

OWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, JULY

! THE CIVIL SERVICE.

(From the Toronto Nation.)

Our contemporary the Reporler and Ti:nes | of ITalifax makes a suggestion regarding | the choice of public departmental offieers, to the effect that to offices the duties of | which require knowledge and skill of a} particular character. no one should be those possessing that skill. For instance, a farmer ought not to be placed in the posi, tion either of Minister, or Deputy Minister

knowledge and

the Admiralty. As a general rule men are proficient only in those things they have made a specialty. Law and Physic re- and with equal

VUur contemporary quotes

The department | * In this department it may |;

mariner nor a fisherman, but in the | !

In this, or, indeed, in als

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rock for miles at Lockport was in progress, under the supervision of David Thomas as Chief Engineer, and of which Darius stock, a widely-known citizen was one of the largest contractors.

returned one day from his visiting rounds | _

ful woman | ever saw in my life. very sick— her case must be an extraordin- | ; ary one you can do for her."’ The wife consented

| sick woman lying on a bed of straw, sup ported on rough poles, which constituted the bedstead.

Q, L875.

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The physician to whom we have referred | ,

-and you must go and see what

o go, and on enterivg one of the most

poverty-stricken hovels she had ever seen | —the floor of

bare earth, the door cut vartly down through the jog sides, so that |

on entering it was necessary to step over |

he logs that were left -she found the iy

She was young in years, | 3

lent enterprise

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NO. 27.|

20 2G RNP ae RTOS cae lls ee

A REMARKABLE NARRATIVE. leannot be described, and we shall not attempt it. It wasone of intense emotion. Our lady informant, who was well acanainted SKETCH OF INCIDENTS IN THE LIVE OF A FoRMER | ~2 3 . ee a ee . Pe MAYOR OF ROCHESTER, | eo ae — a eo Ly 1 Ket i the chief mode of jceurneying in those A most eventful and instructly rs : . he on Yeates ta al hist has id instructive ee days) on his return home from Ireland on ai history has come to our knowledge, | this journey, and he gave a life-like de- mainly through the statements of a lady sel iption of the scene in his own eloquent : mn * ce . “i . - : ; 4 ‘ 4 ’ a= 87% ’ Vika 4 now far advanced in years, and still! living | words and in speaking ef his relation of in this State, who was formerly a resident the occurance als wikt Ue a [ 4a not : : ‘ ae i ecurant she said ae i not | of Lockport, and the wife of a physician | holieve any one could | vedi to hi . i " ‘“ tere ny tht ty > Mest WO iis of that place. She is personally known to | poeital without ¢ the editor of the Count; y Gentleman, and ot, . Se ee ford ‘1 ark ee ea sn , | me il Ce IMU » Us ‘ reg rn, | reliance may be placed in all her state. / , hich accords with what those who remem ments. The occurrances referred to began | tered him in hia days know len, Shed if oe ~ , iil al SD URS HAOW O1 ddiada, 6 ’ about 1823 or 1824, when the grent -exca | the ladiesof R-——wished at anv time to vation for the Erie Can: ‘oug idl | ; ‘ee Rargagmemnegy teeter d! ayee eo Pan a the Erie Canal through t e solid | get up a subscription, or start any benevo-

they always went first to John , and were never denied, his zenerosity always going quite as far as his and

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What an instructive listory was his vhat an encouragement for young men the habits of industry, temperance,

tegrity, and virtue

We need only add to this marrative that

R—’ She is| js Rochester, and that the man whose iisyory is so interestingly told. was John Allen, chosen \ ayor of Rochester in 1844. (vier : | CO ee EE 2 a a -

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most any case he depends upon his deputy, | and trouble had not obliterated the sur-| prince Bismarek will it is «tated on the he in tuca mast depend upon his local | Passing beauty nor the refined expres-ion advice of his medical attendants. pass in agents in the Lower Provinces, and unless of her countenance. lhe language she | future his periods of leave ina warm lis Susan Selon Minin: imaiiailion sill ua uadiaad used indicated a high and excellent edu- | mate. Ife intends, therefore, to pu whan

g i * | cation, and she had evidently been brought | property in southern Germany, and to sell

Ife had been missing from the ‘Potomac’ for several days, and Cleaveland Tom, Port Huron Bill, Tail Chie:go, and the rest of the boys, who were wont to get drunk with him, couldn’t make out what hid happen. | They hadn’t heard that there was a| warrant out for him, had never known of his being sick fora day, and his absence from the old haunts puzzled them. They were in the !lole-insthe Wall saloon the other morning, nearly a dozen of them, drinking, smoking, and playing cards when

There was a deep silence for a few mo- ments as they lookedat him. Sam hada new hat, had been shaved clean, had ona clean collar and a white shirt, and they didn’t know him at first. When they saw it was ugly Sam they uttered a shout and leaped up.

‘Cave in that hat,’ cried one.

‘Yank that collar off!’ shouted another,

‘Lets roll him on the floor ' screamed

There was something in his look and bearing which made them hesitate. The

His features

‘Why, what ails you Sam? ‘said Tall ‘I’ve come down to bid you good-bye,

boys !’ he replied. removing his hat und

‘Boys, you know [| ean lickany two of you

have put down the last drop of whiskey, | which is ever to go into my mouth. I've switched off. I’ve taken an oath. I am} going to be decent!’

‘Sam. be you crazy?’ asked Port Huron Bill coming nearer to him.

answered Sam. ‘Move the

all know I have been rough, and more too,

| | have been a drinker, a fighter, a gambler, cartridge shaped and tempered, dropped

1 can’t look back and re- : : ot Wiswlis I from different heights. Best English-plate | Qu jjay language in common used by the

and a loafer. member when I veearned an honest dollar. The police hez chased me around like a wolf, and I’ve been in jailand the work- house, and the papers hez said that Ugly Sam was the terror of the Potomac, Ye all know this boys, but ye didn’t know [ had an old mother.’

The faces of the crowd expressed amaze- ment.

‘I never mentioned it to any of ye, for I was neglecting her,’ he went on. ‘She was a poor old woman, living up here in the alley, and if the neighbors hadn’t helped her to fuel and food, -he’d have been dead longago. I never helped her to a cent— didn’t see her for weeks and weeks, and [ used to fee! mean about it. When a fellow goes back on his old mother he’s a-gittins purty low, and [ kaow it. Well, she” dead—buried yesterday! [was up there afore she died. She sent for me by Pete, and when I got there I seen it was all day with her.’

‘Did she say anything ?’ asked one of the boys, as Sam hesitated.

‘That’s what ails me now,’ he went on. ‘When I went in she reached out her hand to me, and, says she: ‘ Samuel, I’m going to die, and I know’d you'd want to see me afore I pass away !’ I sat down, feeling queer- She didn’t goon and say as howI was a loafer, and had neglected her, and all that but says she : ‘Samuel, you'll be all alone when Im gone. I've tried to bea good mother to you, and have prayed for you hundred o’ nights, and cried about you until my old heart was sore!’ Some of the neighbors had dropped in, and the women were crying, and I tell you I felt weak!’ ©

He paused fora moment, and then cons tinued :

‘ And the old woman said she’d like to kiss me afore death came, and that broke me right down. She kept hold of my hand and by-and-bye she whispered : ‘+ Samuel | you are throwing your life away. You’ve | got it in you to bea man, if you'll only make up your mind, I hate to die and feel

| that my only son and the last of our family | may go to the gallows. IfI had your pros | mise that you’d turn over a new leaf and try /and be good, it seems as if I’ddie easi- er. Won't you promise we my son?’ | And I promised her boys, and that’s what -ailsme! She died holding my han‘, and | I promised to quit the low business and to go to work. ! came down to tell ye. and now ye won’t see me on the Potomac /again. I’ve boughtan ax, and am going up in Canada to winter. There was a dead | silence for a moment. and then he said :

* Well, boys, I'll shake hands with ye all around aforeI go. Good-bye, Pete—good~ bye Jack—Tom—Jim. I hope you won't fting any bricks at me. and | shan’t never fling at any of ye. It’s a dying promise, ye see. and I'll keep itif it takes a right arm!’

The men looked reflectively at each, other after he had passed out, and it was a long time before any one spoke. Then tall Chicago flung his clay pipe mto a cors ner, and said :

‘I'll lick the man who says Ugly Sam’s head isn’t level.’

‘Soll lL!’ repeated the others. — Detroit

affairs they can neither furnish information to their superiors, nor carry out the in. | #e utter destitution, of her present sur- | structions they receive from head quarters so as to promote the public interest, | the local agents often falls the duty of selecting sites for lighthouses, marking

Leech’s protege in some department where | ¢ he will do the least harm to the public he will place him in the first vacancy that offers, no matter how much the public interests Marine

experiments ona wonderful kind of glass is from the New York Iorld :—

threw a few pieces of red glass, of consider- able thickness, about the room, which only | excited a smile from the many glass dealers | present; next saucers and various otber | t glass dishes of more fragile dimensions bounded unbroken from the hard floor, and the smiles perceptibly dwindled ; and when, in handfuls, watch crystals and long thin : pieces of glass fell on the floor and remain- ‘Tvecome “own Hevg te tell you alli og whole, a round of applause broke from ; : ; ali present. | chairs back a little and give me room. You | tag of testing the strength of ordinary and | ;

this patent glass beneath a steel weight, | ( Friends), observing that he possessed su-

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suffer thereby. In Fishery Department,

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The following interesting

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‘As a preliminary Professor Egleston

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The next experiment consis-

glass broke beneath a two-ounce ball, fall. | « ing fifteen inches, while the La Bastie glass of an equal thickness was only broken by the same ball falling four feet eight inches.

Ordinary plate glass was broken by a four- | ounce ball dropped from a height of one | foot, while the tempered glass resisted the | blows of the weight until it had been rais~ ed to three feet nine inches. A one pound

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break a piece of this wonderful glass | an inch thick. ‘To demonstrate the advan.

upon it perpendicular'y,as hailstones strike- | ing upon slanting roofs, and it was | not until the ball fell from a height of | nine feet had struck the

and spot | thrity-six that it broken, |

times was

Another ex- |

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was demolished at four feet. periment consisted in allowing a strip of glass three inches wide and three-sixteenths of an inch thick, to project from a vice six | inches, and placing weights upon ‘the pros | jecting end. In this position it supported forty six pounds, while ordinary glass of the same dimensions sustained but sixteen and a half pounds. A strip of the patent glass ten inches in length, three inches wide, and 3-16th of an inch thick, was bridged upon two uprights? and weights

suspended from it in the centre. One hun-- dred and eighty pound: were thus sus- pended, when the glass still remaining unbroken, with no signs of its giving way, and there being no more weights on hand, the experiment had to be abandoned. Many similar experiments were tried, all

with great success, Glass dishes were

heated and cooled without injury, and one

plate was exhibited which Professor Egles-

ton said had had remained upon the range |

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in his house, subject to every change of | temperature, for over a week. The Pro~ fessor also vouched for having heated a large plate of the materiil in the centre to 2000 degrees, and still held it comfortably by the edges in his bare hands. A photo- graph taken upon a piece of the glass was likewise exhibited, and the immense |

enable them to preserve their negative was shown. Specimens were also prepared, coloured, engraved and stained, so that

glass is used that cannot be improved and benefitted by this discovery. The process of manufacturing the article is also said to be within the scope of any ordinary work~ man, while the cost is said to be but 5 per cent. additional in its manufacture. ees cee

The United States Government is about

to despatch a maval force to the mouth of

in the suppression of the Mexican raids. The Montreal S/ar says that the failure of the Jacques Cartier Bank is attributed to large sums of money having been given to friends of directors on straw endorsation.

Free Press,

up in genteel society, notwithstanding the

away.

All their effects public will not perhaps insist on nautica! | bottom of the wide river. knowledge from the Minister, though that would be very desirable, but such know. ledge in made imperative. th > discouraged, and through the enticements of bad companions he resorted to drinking.

port—a place where many laborers were wanted at that time for excavating the

hardships and

who emploved him,observed that the young man had not been accustomed to the severe labor which he had undertaken, and that in handling the wheeling the loaded barrow, the blood ooz ed from his fingers. A few days afterwards, when pay day arrived, he signed the receipt for his wages by the usual ‘cross or his mark,’ used by the Irish labor: rs generally,

thy right place

to make # cross-mark | this reproof, his latent ambition was arous. | ed; and stepping forward, he took the pen and signed his name in a rapid, practised,

| tonished, and said to him, the place fer thee

weight required to be raised three feet to| at once double thy wages ’

heard in America their lifegwing energy . | went through him like electricity, and from tage of using this substance in roofs of hot- that moment he never drauk a drop. houses, a plate was placed in a slanting po- | proved himselt fully worth their contidence, sition and a two-ounce ball allowed to fall | and became distinguished for his efliciency,

| upon him.

| minent citizen of western New York who . | was also a leading member of Congress. while common glass of twice the thickness | {Re writer of this letter who well remem-

value of the article to photographers to) ing them, and made many excuses.

there appears nothing for which ordinary |

the Rio Grande, to co operate with the army

ed of the canal. ‘the sick woman was

hey concluded to get married and +B]

“run |

hey sailed for Quebec, in Canada. The hip was wrecked in the St. Lawrence nd they barely escaped with their lives, | 7

Their condition

country among strangers. He

hem from starving. He became utterly n this state they found their way to Lock-

privations was prostrated

hat Comstock & Hathway, the contractors

c } in

heavy crowbar, and

i n the course of a few weeks, his employers who were members of the Society of yerior intelligence, suid to him in the pe-~ Friends’ in that day, ‘John, this is not aman like thee ought to

and know b: than John was stung by

tor Vea

know how to write

His employers were as- ‘John this is not

and elegant hand.

stop drinking, and we

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