Ghe Examiner.

NOMINATION.

Mr. Homes did not, as was antici-

pated by many, oppose the return of the

Commissioner of Public Works. In our opinion he acted wisely and patriotically

t¥.4 he been successiul, some other sup porter of the would only

have stepped into the breach he made.

LrUVeruurcur

The Governmental phalanx would have re- |

mained unbroken. No practical good to the Provinee or to the Liberal Conserva- tive Party would have been gained,

Mr. Holmes, it

is not of those who oppose the policy of

is needless

the Government respecting public edus |

tion in our towns. His candidature ruld not, th agitating the question whether or not the

of Charlottetown

W erefore, have had the effect

denominational schools (espe ci lly) should be re coguized, utilized for the purpose of conveying to children

the secular instruction which government

is bound to impart, and remunerated ac- |

cording to the results produced. It would merely have been a factious opposition to the Government—an opposition such as Brecken or Pope or Sir John A. Mec Don- ald, or any leading man ia the Liberal- Conservative Party could not have coun- tenanced—an opposition entailing need less expense upon the country and trouble upon the Administration. Even if Mr. Holmes were in favor of the policy respect- ting City Schools which bas been pros pounded by Mr. Pope, hiv opposition of a member of the Government would have been politically immoral—unless, indeed,

An

opposition offered to a Governmental can-

his election were morally certain.

didate—not with the hope of defeating him, but merely for the purpose of forcing the views of the minority upon the coun- ry—is an improper use of our legislative machinery.

Witha free Press and a free Parliament, no good cause need suffer for lack of means to carry on a legitimate agitation. The politician who hopes to advance his prin- ciples by putting the country to the ex- pense and trouble of a needless and hope less political contest, makes a grevious mistake. By incensing his opponents and alienating the sympathy of his sensible friends, he delays the triumph of his cause be it never so good. Such a course is pever adopted by leading politicians such as Disraeli or Gladstone or Sir John A, Macdonald.

Messrs. Pope and Brecken were, we understand, urgently solicited to oppose the Attorney General and the Provincial Secretary-Treasnrer on Thursday next. Hopes were reasonably entertained that they might be elected. Yet, because they Were not sure of election, and because they repudiated the idea of factions opposition, they decided not to run. We regret that H. B. Smith, Esq., was not influenced by their example. True, Mr, Smith repudi- ates the idea cf making the School Ques- tion an element in the election. He comes

to remark, |

ere PET STS

THE EXHIBITION.

* Survey the globe through every zone, From Lima to Japan;

In lineaments of light ‘tis shown (hat culture makes the man.”

** All that man has, had, hopes, can have, Past, promised or possesssd,

| Are fruits which Cuilure gives or gave, |

At Industry’s behest.”’

. XTENSIVE preparations are being made for the Provincial Fair and Exhibition to | ly

pe

held in this city on Thursday and |

Friday novt. The OCvumissioners have |

selected an eligible spot for the Cattle |

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Show—a large field on the St. Peter's | -

Road opposite the residence of the Hon. | | John Longworth. The Exhibition will, as | | usual, be held in the Drill Shed,

| courage owners of stock in the outlying |

To ens |

| Counties to eompete with those of Queen’s | County Mr. MeKechnie has consented to carry stock exhibited to and from Char-

| lottetown by rail for one fare; and to in-

| duce farmers of Prince and King’s Coun- at thorough-breds from the Stock Farm, the

: | ties to purchase Stock the sale of!

| Commissioners have determined to make | a reduction of 20 per cent. on their pur. | | chases, so that they may be saved the | cost of transportation. | Culture makes the man. In agriculture | Ex. |

| hibitions tend to raise the standard of eul- |

lies the prosperity of this Island. -| ture. The Agricultural Exhibition of | Thursday and Friday next should be at» tended by farmers from all parts of the

Province. HORRIBLE MASSACRE.

THE Report of Baring, Secretary of

the British Legation at Constantinople, on the Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria, sums up the slaughter of of 12,000 Bul- garians, and the destruction of 52 vil- lages. The most fearful tragedy was enacted at Batatz on the 9th of May, where the Bashi-Bazouks fell upon an unarmed population, slaughtering them like sheep. “I visited this place on the 3lst of July. Hardly a corpse had been buried. Where a man fell there he now lies in the streets. At every step lay human remains, rotting and sweltering in the sun,

Mr Baring says:

The stench was overpowering. Three thousand in all were killed here, and about eighty girls were carried off. The surviving inhabitants live ia wooden huts outside the village in great misery.”

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LIBERAL - CONSERVATIVE VICTORY.

HALIFAX exchanges of the 23rd inst. , convey the pleasing intelligence that Mr. Charles J. Campbell (the Liberal—Con- servative candidate) has been elected to |

represent Victoria County, C. B., in the Dominion Commons. Thus another con- stituency has been wrestsd from the Gov- ernment.

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CIVIL SERVICE.

Tue Government dismissed Mr. Wm. MeDonald,an efficient and popular official of four years standivug, and appointed a

man who has had no experience whatever | to the important office of Superintendent | |

out squarely and fairly for a measure of justice to the City. Mr. Smith is an active City Councillor. His energy is shown in the improvements of our streets which are now going on. He is an influential man ; and, if he contests the election a large vote will undoubtably be polled in his favor.

of Public Works. This action is not in| accord with the principles expressed by | the Premier while in opposition.

A SHORT-MEMORIED MINISTER OF FINANCE, In referring to Mr. Cartwright’s speech

We think, however, that he has not pur- sued the proper course. If elected, he cannot hope, immediately, to gain his |

With the country members and the | Government embittered against him be- |

end.

cause of his opposition to the Administra- | tion, he cannot hope to gain even a mea- | sure of the justice due the city. He may

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but his egitation will be vain.

agitate ;

We understand that previous to his | nomination, Mr. Smith desired the Pre- mier to state whether or not he would permit a bell tower to be erected at the rear of the Provincial building, at the junction of Great George street with Queen Square. Mr. Davies does not evi- dently possess a Disraelian talent for ef- fect, or he would instantly have complied. What could have been more apropos than a handsome tower—erected in the centre of the city—on a spot where it would be the first prominent object seen by the people comieg from the country north, east and west of the city—a tower with a fountain playing at its base and suit— ably inscribed—at once a memorial of the first great victory of Mr. Davies and of the era inaugurated by his accession to the political primacy of the Province, an ornament to the city, and a fitting erection for the support of “ Big Donald ?” The wonder is, that Mr. Davies had not-~only granted the location instanter, but that he did not guarantee the cost of the monu- mental, ornamental and useful edifice.

But while we are surprised at the re- fasal of Mr. Davies, we are pained by the course adopted by Mr. Smith. Had he (in his capacity of City Councillor) brought the matter of justice to the city before the City Council and obtained the support of his colleagues ; had he called a mass meeting of the citizens'and received, as he undoubtedly would, the assurance that he would be well backed up in his endeavours to obtain justice for the city, —he could (at the head of 2 deputation) have approached the Government with dignity, and in a manoer which could not but prove effective. Had then the Gov— ernment refused his reasonable demands, he would have been justified in opposing the Premier, and he might have opposed him successfully.

We look upon the agitation inaugurated by Mr. Smith as of the highest possible importance to the City. Why should the City, because it has a Corporation, be shut out from all participation in the bene- fits derived by the country from the Pro- vineial Treasury? Why should it not receive grants towards the repair of its

streets,the erection and maintenance of its publie buildings, ete., as well asthe coun-

Why should citizens heavily tax |

try ? themselves for those things which are sup- plied to the country by the Provincial Legislature? The mere fact that they are incorporated is, we think, a reason whieh should carry no weight with lovers of fair play in either country or town. While we hope that Mr. Smith will retire | from the ecoutest when he may do so honorably,we trust that the cause of justice to the city—which he has so mapfully e-poused—will be taken up and advanced

then

| Cartwright.

, Doctor won their esteem and gratitude,

at Dunneville, we remarked that in con- demning the ‘better terms’ accorded to Nova Scotia by the late government he con~ demned his own leaders, for they have never questioned that that Province was ens titled to receive more from the Federal Treasury than was granted to her by the British North American Act. The Mon- treal Gazette points out that he does more | his

condemn leaders—ZJ/e condemns

himself! Read:

‘‘ But there are some more extraordinary | cases of lack of memory on the part of Mr. | Referring to the late Govern- | ment he said:—‘Scarcely were they in office for a year when we find them willing to destroy the whole financial basis of Con- federation to appease the people of Nova Scotia.’ And, warming with tne subject, be continued :—‘ In fact, if the late Gov-~ ernment had set their wits at work to devise a plan which would inflict the most serious injury on the prospects of Confederation, they could not have succeeded better then did.’ Now, that subject was tolerably fully dicussed in Parliament, and the policy of the Government, whether it was wise or unwise, was sustained by a very Jarge ma- jority, and among that majority, turning to the journals of Parliament, we find the name of Richard A. Cartwright! On the 12th June, 1869, a vote was taken on an amendment moved by Mr. Blake, declar- ing that the financial basis of Confederation was fixed and should not be disturbed, and among the nays voting with Sir John Mac. donald we find the present Minister of Finance. On the 16th of the same month, another amendment was moved ty Mr. Holton, and Mr. Cartwright again voted against it; and on the same day a vote was taken on the bill—which we are now told was calculated ‘to inflict the most serious injary on the prospects of Confederation,’ and Mr, Cartwright voted for it.”

Verily this wonderful financier is eating humble pie enough for the privilege of be- ing Minister of Finance under a Grit leader and of drawing $7,000 ayear! He even forgets sometimes that, until he took Mr. Mackenzie’s shilling, be was, as Sir John Macdonald called him recently, a Pre Adas mite Tory. But it is quite evident there is no “ lower depth” for him, That man is capable of anything who could denounce an act he had himself voted for, and en- deayour in a political harangue to make the Canadian public believe that he squeezed thirty mulion dollars out of British capital-

ists under false pretences.— Toronto Mail.

scsi

Mer. Exitsua Weatuersiz, of this town, intends placing a new Grain Shaker on ex~ hibition at Charlottetown, on Thursday next. This invention, we are convinced, will prove to be the best, and on the best principle, of anything of the kind that has yet come before the public, The simplics ity, durability and lightness of this inven- tion will commend it to the public a great deal faster than anything extant. Gentle- men capable of judging, who have been visiting the great Centennial during the summer, have pronounced it superior to anything they could see at Philadelphia. Mr. Weatherbie has secured a patent for his valuable machine, and is satisfied that. it will awaken a lively interest among all the farmers who will visit Charlottetown on Thursday next. —Advertizer,

Rey. D. Wrieur, of McGill College, Mon« treal, spent his holiday at Georgetown, While there he ministered to the English Church people of the town ; and, it is need. less to remark, the learned and pious

On the eve of his return to Montreal, the he was presented with an address on behalf of the Church Wardens, Vestry and mem-

legitimately and successfully.

bers of the Church,

| ‘his Government had remained in too lon

| the party now in power.

BEXPERIENCE TEACHES,

At the magnificent demonstration at

¥s hen ear € Belleville last Tuesday, Sir John said that

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| because both parties should know what the | ; | responsibilities of office were.’ The remark | seems to be the Indian War, aud the aca * a perfectly just one; and its application | counts are so conflicting tha! it is really in the sense intended by Sir John must be | difficult to form ss ep 09 | evident to all persons interested in public wrote it seemed to be clearly settled that Mr. Mackenzie has found out long | the Indians had dispersed,or rather broken

affairs. ere th’s that it is one thing to be a most

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efficient professor of carp and cavil on the |

upposition benches, and another, and very different thing, to carry on the business of a great and growing country in Government.

| Whether the knowledge thus acquired is

more pleasant to Mr, Mackenzie than the instructions of Dame Experience usually are, we will leave to the consideration of anyone who has read the report of his latest utterances at Watford, and marked the

| querulous tone running through the entire

speech, Put itis not with Mr. Mackenzie's dearly-bought experience that we intend at present to deal. The lesson that the change of Government has taught the people is much more important.

The political feeling of any country is always largely dependent upon the feeling of the young menof the country. Although lacking, of course, of the matured wisdom and experience of the veterans in political strife, it is nevertheless by their energy and

| zeal that the most important changes are

brought about. Itis they who form the bulk of all political clubs. Itis they who are most indefatigable in the canvass and the political campaign. It is they who do most to mould public sentiment in the columns of the Press, Men who have grown gray in party conflict; who have fol- lowed some idolized leader through many a fierce struggle on to the attainment of some great and well defined object of victory, are often astonished that the younger generation should hesitate to pay that veneration to their party idol which they have come to look upon as his of in- dubitable right. Yet the reason is very simple. A large section of the community has come to years of discretion since the great storm which welded the party to« gether has passed, Probably the signs of another contest upon totally different issues is looming up in the political hori- zon, and the younger men are beginning to to cast about them for a pilot through the coming danger. Ifthe old one will do, he will be chosen ; if not, he must give place to a better man.

Something of this sort has been the state of mind among a very large section of the young men of the Dominion since Con. federation. The older men, who had seen the long fierce struggle for Rosponsible Go~ vernment, and had ranged themselves under*the banner, and adopted the war cry, of one or other of the opposing factions, still felt themselves bound by the old party ties. But young Canada, with political res collections bounded by a period, little,if at all, antecedent to the formation of the Do« minion, considered only what man, what party was best caluculated to promote the interests of the country, It is upon this generation that the change of Government is calculated to have the most effect:

As far back as many of us ean recollect Sir John Macdonald and his party have been in power, It would be quite in ac- cordance with human nature that, even had the opposition made to their measures been comparatively slight, many persons

| Should long for change, if for no better reas |son than to “let somebody else have a

chance to show what he could do.” Then, of course, Sir John’s Government, being purely human and terrestrial, partook of the liability of all things human and terrestrial to make mistakes. Sir John himself would be the last man to have claimed infallibility for his administration. Again, in the whole annals Of Parliamentary warfare, it would be difficult to find a more furious and un- scrupulous opposition than was for years waged against Sir John’s Government by To find a paral. lel to it, we should have to revert to the days of the elder Pitt, or Walpole, or even to the days when Shaftsbury pitted all the

CORRESPONDENCE,

ERLE RSE ER ~~~ enn

OUR WASHINGTON LiTTER,

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Wasninoton, D.C., Sept. 11, 1876. After politics, the next thing of interest

\VhemI last

up into small bands, and were keeping out of the way of the troops, who were, in view of this fact, going into “winter-quarters, Now comes a despatch from Omaha, dated Sept. I4th, stating that Lieut, General Sheridan passed through there that morn. ing, en route for Fort Laramie, where he is to meet General Crook in a few days to ar- range for a vigorous prosecution of the Indian War through the coming winter and the establishment of a large cantonment in the Powder River country. Right on the heels of this, and bearing the same date, |

comes a despatch from Bismarck, saying | the final breaking up of General Terfy’s command occurred yesterdsy morning, and all the troops are now en route for home, with the exception of two regiments of infantry which will remain at the mouth of Tongue River. On the other hand it seems that the Indians still mean work, Advices from the Red Cloud Agency say there is no doubt but that thousands of young men have gone over to the hostiles, as a recent count only shows 4901 men, women and children present where there should be 13,000, and it is quite probable that an in- vestigation aft the Spotted Tail Agency will show a corresponding deficiency, A de- spatch from Standing Rock says they have 4009 where there should be 7000. If Sit- ting Bull should mass his forces I pity those two regiments at the mouth of Tongue River. The old Romans used to say ‘ Dul- ecet dranumees pro patria mori,” which we render, ‘ It is sweet and honorable to die for one’s country.’ Perhaps it is, but I never tried it; and taking all things into consideration, [ think I’d rather stay in Washington this winter than be with the brave boys at Tongue Rivér.—Numberless reports, in relation to the Safe Burglary trial in which Babcock, Harrington and several professional thieves hired by them for the occasioa sre principally concerned, are in circulation. The thing will bea complete farce, a wanton burlesque upon justice, Parties who are old hands at fixing up juries are at work, and their aq quittal is a foregone conclusion. This thing is more disgusting in its details and is as much talked of as the Beecher affair,and for biack-hearted viillany stands unparalleled upon the calender of crime. In discussing the coming election in November, a good many papers are apprehensive that a severe diticulty may arise as to who is really elect~ ed. The Cincinnati Commercial puts the case in this way: Under the laws the obs jection of either Houses to the reception of the vote of a State is suflicient to throw out that vote without debate. The assump- tion is that if Hayes is elected by a small majority carrying such States as North and South Carolina, Louisana, Mississippi, Ar. kansas or any of them the House will ob- ject to counting the votes of one or more of those States or as many of them as _ will suffice to oust Hayes and elect Tilden. On the other hand, should Tilden have a smalj majority with the above named States or any others, the Senate will object to count~ ing the vote of such State or States, and thus defeat Tilden and elect Hayes. It is very easy to understand how the popular will could be set at naught simply on ac- count of a political complexion of the two Houses, There is no discussing the fact that the present method of counting the vote is fraught with danger to the country, or as Senator Thurman, puts it, the present system renders us liable to a revolution every four years. A clear case of duty on the part of Congress seems to be presented in this matter. They should certainly so amend the Constitution as to prevent the occurrence of any such contingency. While too late to have any effect upon the ap- proaching contest, should so great a mis-

weight of English middle-class pride and | | in coming years the wisdom of sucha stop

religious phrenzy against a corrupt yet powerful court, and equally corrupt and powerful oligarchy. Throw dirt enough and some of it will stick; and it would in. deed have been strange if all Mr. Mac- kenzie’s plausible sophistry, all Mr. Bl.ke’s indignant denunciations, all Mr. Hunting~ ton’s glittering rhetoric, and aji the ponder- ous, though perverted, facts and figures of the ponderous Mr. Holton had failed large- ly to influence public feeling. So long as an Opposition confines itself mainly to criticizing and cavilling, it may gain much, and certainly can risk nothing. And as- suredly, so faras lay in their power, they stuck to criticising and cavilling. Une fortunately, however, for themselves, it is impossible to be forever criticizing without laying down some canons of criticism. Under all these circumstances it is not at all surprising if, for some time before the Macdonald ministry went out of power,many eyes of pity began to be turned upon those clamorous patriots, who had so long been sitting in the cold shades of opposition; and it is evident that the Pacific Scandal only precipitated an event that was destin. ed to come sooner or later.

Well! The change has been made. The Grit Government has had a fair trial on

its merits. What has been the teaching of experience, not to Mr. Mackenzie, but to the people of Canada? ‘They have seen Mr. Mackenzie who thundered against coalition, when in opposition, uniting him- self with Mr. Cartwright, who only left the Tory party when Sir Jobn A. refused to value bis abilities as a financier above those of Sir Francis Hincks, and placing at the head of the Council M. Cauchon, whose conduct in connection with Beaufort Asylum has made him abhorred by all honorable men. They have seen Mr, Mackenzie after denouncing the ruinous extravagance of a Cabinet of thirteen ministers, himself the chief of oue of the same number, at an in« creased rate of salary. They have seen him who was never weary of proclaming the needless and wicket expenditure in the civil service, swell the expenditure by more than $9),000. They have seen mem.~ ber after member of the party which came into power under the battle flag of Reform unseated for corrupt practices. They have seen one of the chiefs of that party—a man above all others loud-mouthed and clamor- ous in his denunciation of corruption— himself convicted of the most shameful corruption; and, to crown all, they have seen the commerce and manufactures of the nation languishing under the bad man- agement of those to whom the care of them had been confided. Such have been the teachings of experience to the Dominion at large; and more particularly to that secs tion which stands ina certain degree aloof from both the hostile camps, but which has nevertheless the power of tarning the tide of victory to what side it will, Hence the Conservative reaction which is causing our good friends of the Grits camp so much pers turbation of spirit just now. If Sir John had never gone out of power we should never have known how badly it was possible for Canada to be governed. When Sir John and his party return to power, as they as- suredly will ere long, the people of the Do- minion will be able to appreciate, at their true merits, the clamor of Mackenzie, Blake & Co. from the opposition benches, and will hesitate long before again jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Yes, many persons besides the present Premier have acquired experience these last few years, and the result of these lessons will, we are convinced, be very manifest at the next election, —Hx, Reporter,

fortune occur as above alluded to. Still

| may be clearly demonstrated.

SAXON.

“AN INADVERTENCE.”

The Toronto Globe, while admitting that the $8,000 paid Mr. Anglin for Post Office printing while he was speaker of the House of Commons, was contrary to the Indepen- dence Act, said that it was “an inadvert- ance,’ Grip, the comic paper of Toronto, thereupon issued a cartoon representing Mr. Mackenzie standing on a safe labelled Treasury, with a bound copy of the Inde~ pendence of Parliament Act under his feet, to raise him a little higher, while he pastes up a placard announcing that independence of parliament is one of the cardinai doc- trines of the Reform party. While en- gaged in this, he turns round and is horri- fied to find that the Opposition, represented by Sir John MacDonald as a policeman, is arresting Mr. Speaker Anglin in his official robes, for carrying off $3,000 in gold, for extra printing. Mr. Brown, as the innocent page, points with his thumb to Mr. Maes kenzie behind him and says, ‘ Please, Mr. Policeman, I know it’s not right, but, per-

haps Mr. McKenzie gave it to him inad-

vertently.’ ‘lhe accompanying lines are as

follows :

THE LATEST INADVERTANCE—SUNG BY G. B. What if Speaker Anglin got Certain money he should not! Clear eight thousand—was it not

Just an Inadvertence ?

What if not a Clear Grit sheet

In the country thought it meet,

To remark !—Was it deceit? No, just Inadvertence.

Speaker certainly must know Government should not do so. Ask you how he took it, though ! Oh, by Inadvertence. Why he is not on the way, Back his ill-got cash to pay, Silent keeps~-[ cannot say, Must be Inadvertence. Cash goes carelessly abuut To supporters, there’s no doubt. Don’t tell this—I let it out Just by Inadverience.

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Business Prospecrs.—Owners of shipping —and in our Province they are numerous —are now finding their vessels more re. munerative than at any former date for the last year or more. Freights, especially from United States ports to Europe are fairly good, more particularly for cotton, grain, oil and naval stores, and many of our ships have secured good paying rates for such cargoes. Instead of our shipping calling upon the owners to make good, the defici- encies of their voyage, as was the rule early in the year, there is now something to the good, and remittances are coming in with gratifying frequency. The larger class of vessels have been getting good freights for two or three months past, and now the earning of our brigs and small barks are showing up fairly. There is not much, if any, improvement, however, in the pro- spect for our coasting craft and those that formerly found employment in the West India business, Still, on the whole, the outlook is encouraging for our shipping interest; and the fact has a favorable effect on the commercial community.—St, John Watchman,

| years ago more so even than

CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY.

We do not, as a rule, take note of the per- sonal disputes of our contemporaries. The dispute between the editor of the Argus and the editor of the Presbylerian bas, however,

so humorous that, in

assumed an aspec justice to our readers, we cannot refrain from alluding to it. A short time ago, the editcr of the Presbyterian charged Mr. Fletcher with drinking in a tavern while pledged to total abstinence. Mr, Fletcher will, we feel sure, excuse the insertion of the following explanation of the Presbyterian :—

“ Fiat Justitia rual Calum—Lel justice be done though the heavens should fall.”

What we lately declared we saw and heard personally asto Mr. J. H. Fietcher® of the Argus, we could have taken oath to the truth ofa thousand times over. It was about two years ago the occurrence referred to, took place. Being slightiy acquainted with Mr, Fletcher and his brother Joha then, we were not so intimately cognizant of the difference or peculiarities in their features as now. They are so remarkably alike in size, form, face, moustache and general appearance, and two now, that al- most daily, persons take one for the other: The time, too, at which the event occurred, was at night in a shop near Mr. J. H. Fletch- er’s office, led us never fora moment to think of John at Mount Stewart, but of James in Town, and just from the oflice near at hand, Mr. Gillis can prove we said or did nothing to show that John wasat allin our thoughts, An intimate friend can testify that we told him contidentially at the time that Mr. J. H. Fletcher had been violating his pledge. But strange to say, Mr. John Fletcher lately called upon us and very solemnly declared that he was the man, Mr. A. H. Gillis, who had also been preseat at the time alluded to, which fact we had forgotten, alse called lately and positively affirmed the same fact, Any person reading the following from those gentlemen, which at our request they have written, can see for himself how the mistake oceurred. In justice, however to Mr. J. H. Fletcher, we consider it our duty to declare that we are are thoroughly convinced that we mistook Mr. James for his brother John, and if we ourself were so astoundedl, mistaken as to identity we would not be at all sur- prised if it might be possible for our infor- mants to be so too.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

Yellow fever continues its ravages in Sa- vannah,

Sitting Bull and his Sioux tribes have so far escaped.

A Nevada man who does not carry a re- volver is called reckless.

Prince Milan was proclaimed King of Servia by his army on Saturday last.

A Brussels despatch says the Porte is wil- ling to meke important modifications in its demands.

Negotiations have been opened at Con- stantinople by the foreign ambassadors for an armistice of one month.

Nearly 1000 head of fat cattle have been shipped to England this year by the Allan line of steamers from Montreal.

Whites and negroes have had more troubles in South Carolina, resulting in 3 negroes being killed and 1 white wounded.

The Reformist Republicans, a band of Spanish conspirators, have issued a mani- festo promising a redistribution of property.

Eleven car loads of Canadian live stock, valued at $65,000, passed through Buffalo on Monday, for the Centennial Exibition.

A sculling match is proposed between Scharff, of Pittsburg, Hanlon, of Toronto, and Brayley, cf Halifax, for a $3,000 sweep~ stake.

The Czar is reported to have given Prince Milan 3,000,000 roubies, and a large body of Cossacks is said to be in readiness to en- ter Servia.

It is thought unlikely that Russia will take any open part in the Eastern war as long as the Servians can retain possession of Alexinats and Deligrade.

In Paris there are neariy 25,000 cafes, or public -houses, to say nothing of 180 music halls and 238 public ball rooms, where ‘ re- freshments’ of various degrees of alcoholic power may be obtained at exhorbitant prices.

A Mrs. Andrews, who brought her hus- band before the Police Magistrate of St. Catharines lately, on a charge of bigamy, offered to settle the case for $15, cash; the defendant, however, could not produce the money, and was accordingly remanded for trial,

The invasion of England by the United States continues, The following is the latest announcement: The first cargo of slates from the United States has arrived in England. They are said to be equal to those found in the Welsh quarries, and much cheaper.

Work on the tunnel across the British Channel is to begin on the Ist July, 1877. The tunnelling machinery to be used can bore a drift nine feet in diameter across the Chanel in two years, at a cost of $4,000,s 009. Four years more an additional out~ lay of $20,000,000 will complete the tunnel.

The lurkish Government has ordered all commanders to discontinue hostilities until further notice, and Prince Milan bas sent similar orders to General Tchernayeff and other Servian commanders. No limit to the duration of thearmistice isspecified,but either party may terminate it by giving notice.

Mr. C. L. Jennings, of Rochester, the place where spirit-rapping had its birth makes public the means by which he de. luced the faithful believers in ‘ materiali., zation.’ He confesses that he used a cabi- net vith a secret panel, and was assisted by a confederate, with masks and wigs. He states that the faith or credulity, of the public was so tirm that the flimsiest tricks seldom excited suspicion,

“Lenero OF THE Law.’’—Some faint idea of the bulk of the English records may be obtained from the fact, thata single statute, the Land Tax Commission Act, passed in the Ist year of George 1V., measures when unrolled, upwards of 900 feet; and if ever it should become necessary to consult the fear- ful thing, it would take an able bodied man three hours to coil and unroll its monster- ous folds,—Quarterly Review.

The valedictory Mandement of Monseig- neur Bourget, announcing his resignation of the Bishopric of Montreal, and the ap- pointment of his successor, Monseigneur Edourd Charles Fabre, has been published. The document, which bears date 8th Sep- tember, refers in touching terms to the Bishop’s long pastoral connection of more than thirty-six years with the Montreal Dio~ ces, and contains some parting counsels to his late flock,

Bishop Whipple illustrates the cost of the Indian war rather strikingly. He recently remarked to a correspondent of the Omaha Herald that if ten soldiers were placed in a line with an Indian at one end, and the American people could be brought to under- stand that in order to secure the scalp of that one Indian it would require the sacri- fice of the ten soldiers and an expenditure of $500,000 in money, they might be led to inquire whether the scalp was really worth the outlay.

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The remarkable passage recently; made by the steamship ‘ City of Pekin,” on her last voyage from China to California, is at tracting great attention. The distance be~ tween Yokahama and San Francisco is about 5,000, miles and she steamed it in fifteen days, an average of about 337 miles daily, or about fourteen knots an hour. This voyage, itis further stated, was made with only half the proportionate consumption of coal required to produce an equal speed for the English transatlantic steamers. The ** City of Pekin’”’ is one of the two large iron steamers recently built on the Delaware river for the China mail service of the Pa- cific Mail Steamship Company.

It is a remarkable circumstance, and not less significant than remarkable, that in hardly an instance has the punishment of the lash had to be repeated upon any of- fender for the crimes for which it is inflict. edin England. The repetition of ordinary punishments, fines and imprisonments, is incessant, but it is not so with those who have onee undergone an application of the cut. A man named Leonard, was recently convicted of highway robbery with violence from a young lady, and the fact that he had been previously flogged in 1870, for a simi. lar offence, was so unusual that the Judge made special reference to it, and sentenced him to undergo two separate floggings of twenty lashes each, at intervals of a month and then to keep in penal servitude for seven years. ‘Tha prisoner was much more terrified by the corporal part of the punish. ment than the prospect of the imprison. ment,

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

LLL LLL LOLOL LLL

AUCTION.

VALUABLE BUSINESS STAND

AT ORWELL RIVER.

(MILE subscriber is instructed by Mr. A. E. McDougall, to offer for sale by Auction, at the Colonial Building, Charlottetown, on

THURSDAY, the 28th of Sepr.

instant, at 11 o'clock, a. m., that valuable Business Stand at Orwell, tormerly owned by William H. Findley, Esq., consisting of about Etght Acres of Land, on which Stands a splendid Dwelling House with Stables and out-buildings, and a large Shop with fixtures complete,with warehouse, &c. The whole will be sold cither in one or two lots. to suit purchasers, with immediate possession.

Terms liberal, made known at sale.

WiLLIAM DODD, Auctioneer. Sept. 20, 1876,—lin

AUCTION !

We will sell at Auction, on

Wednesday Next, AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK,

TO CLOSE CONSIGNMENT:

100 BBLS. CANADA FLOUR, 100 bbls. K. D. CORNMEAL, 3 hhds. choice Porto Rico SUGAR, 2“ ‘“* English Refined do., chests

hif. do. } TEA,

boxes TOBACCO, bbls. White BEANS, boxes. Valencia RAISINS, 25 drums FIGS, 20 boxes Brown SOAP, 50 boxes Smoked HERRING, 15 doz. BROOMS, 25 doz. PAILS, 10 kegs Baking SODA, 25 coils 6 thd. MANILLA, 100 Butter TUBS. Terms at Sale. FENTON T. NEWBERY & Co. Sept. 25. 1876.—li pat a

POR Satan. | AN AMERICAN SQUARE PIANO!

N EXCELLENT INSTRUMENT, FINE tone, may be had at a bargain as the owner is about leaving the Island.

Apply at EXAMINER OFFICE, or to S. N. Fare. Sept. .23, 1£76.—2i

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