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THE DAILY EXAMINER,

MARCH 5, 1889.

The Policy of “Give Away.’

fur Patriot has much The de- fence of the six noble gentlemen who mis- Island in the

to do.

represent Prince Edward

House of

Commons is a very hard task. How to excuse or account for their conduct in respect tothe duty on corn is not the least of its difficulties.

abolish that duty was

Everyone sees now that the attempt to a stab at one of the most material interests

of

the duty on corn are, under our Protective

this Province. The duty on pork and system, essential to the protection of the

the them, enabled to sell oats and pork in the neigh- not

home market of farmers of Canada.

By reason of our farmers were

boring Provinces, when they could

have sold Great Britain or the States.

a bushel in either

These duties

a& Carcass or

are the chief compensations to the farmer for the help be is compelled to give in the Cinadian ‘manufacturers, and his

protection of Yet Mr. L. H. Davies

colleagues

would —-for the reason that corn pancakes should be cheaper than they are— have ruthlessly swept one of them away without obtaining for their constituents any compensation whatever. If the question were one of free trade all round, there would be some sense in their attempt.

But seeing that the United States’ wall of prohibitory duties is still high, their effort co repeal the corn duty was a ‘* pure un- mitigated give-away.” Had they been suc- cessful, our farmers would simply have lost

sbout six cents a bushel on oats ; and, in-

stead of upplying the neighboring Provinces of our owa country, they would have bsen forced to seek a market in foreign ports for a large part of their surplus grain. This would have been the result of the little Mr. L. H. Davies and his friends tried to play,—while the burden of taxation borne by our farmers would not

gaine which

have beon lightened ia the smailest degree.

They are now playing a similar game in

respect to our fisheries—a game of ‘‘ give- away.” Our fishermen know that they

possess a great advantage in the exclusion of Uaited States fishermen from our inshore fisheries, and still greater in the inability of the United States fishermen to tranship fish

if the United States Government

hrough Canadian territory in bond. would only let our fishermen have the free use of the United States fish market, and a few other commercial privileges, they would be willing to give up these great advantages. But the Oppositien, with Mr. L. H. Davies, Dr. M:lntyre et a!, propose that they shall be given away for nothing—~and for no other reason than that ‘ may 4 conciliated.”

bors irritated ?

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our irritated neighbors Why are our neigh- Because the Government f the States abrogated the fishery articles the Washington Treaty and forced the

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Government of Canada to stand its rights ander the Treaty of 1818. fore, our neighbors are irritated, the cause of the ivritation sprang from themselves. Tiey csunot blame the Government of Candas for standing by the rights of Can* ada, nor can they, as honest men, expect

upon If, there-

to have the free use of our fishing privileges without compensation on their part. Is it this, then, that Canadian fishermen compelled to surrender their ad-

come to

must be

vantages simply because sume of the fishing interests of the States are irritated ? Mr. Maurier, Mr.

Davies, _De. The Patriot is very much put out because Tae Exantver’s Ottawa correspondent re- tmoarkel that they wished Canada to eat ‘*Humble pie” it would be—humble pie of the worst kind. Canada (in the right) must, forsooth, give way be-

McIntyre jete., say ** yes.”

a ee **humoble pie.

cause the United States (in the wrong) is big, and is ‘* irritated,” and wants to be the advantages which Canadian fishermen pos- the Treaty of 1818! If that is not ‘‘hamble pie” for Canada we know

**conciliated” by the scquirement of aes3 under

not the meaning of the term—and that is the kind of pie which the Opposition party are preparifg for the people of Canada!

Fortunately for the farmers and fisher- of Canada, Mr. Laurier, Mr. Davies and their friends are not in office at Ottawa. Fortunately the day is far distant when they will be in office. Fortunately for the honor and dignity and welfare of the country at large, Sir John Macdonald and his colleagnes ‘** hold the fort.”

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Republicans in Office.

Errect has at last beengiver to the

will of the people of the States as expressed at the polls in November. The Govern- ment has, in the meantime, been carried

The Government Savings Banks.

Tur last Canada Gazette shows that the all the Government Savings Banks of the Dominion for January exceed- ed tho actual withdrawals by $34,208.04. Sav-

deposits in

During the same period the Windsor ings Bank having on deposit $533,720.47 was transferred from the Government to the Post Office Savings Bank. The follow - ing are the returns from the Charlottetown

: . . , = , lante- and Summerside Savings Banks for Janu

ary CHARLOTTETOW.

Deposits iawn heen oe a ee $29,568 Oo Withdrawale .....¢-sceeeececnes 97,836 70 TuGreRGO...5 0 ce se esee cows $ 1,731 SUMMERSIDE,

Deposits ... 6... cee cece eee ee cece $ 9,973 9! rahe isd. whe as 4,420 16

Increase .... $ 5,553 75 Pigetts Early Career. HELPED TO INCITE THE TIPPER ARY INSUR- RECTION ONLY TO BETRAY ITS LEADER.

‘he early exploits of Richard Pigott, the

vender and forger of the famous Parnell etters, form an interesting chapter in the story of his career. In youth, he was a merry, careless fellow, drifting about the city of Dublin, intent upon pleasure and excitement. His father was the Chiei Baron of the Exchequer, and was ohe ol the tirst Catholic o udges lreland had. The

younger Pigott was educated at Clangowes

College, with a number of enthusiastic

young [rishmen, whom he deserted in the hour of perilafew years later, Among the men in this city who knew Pigott well at this time is Col. John O'Byrne. He de-

scribes the Pigott of that day as a talented, ooth-talking young man, with pleasant and persuasive manners. His father's pos- i siaed for him admission to the best

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circles, where his rampant talk against the foes of Ireland made him appear to be a man willing to sacrince eve ‘ything for the sake of his country. He was on friendly

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terms with a number of the Young Ireland parity, and when th party separated in 1847, and the Moral Force party was organized in its stead, Pigott became prominent in the councils of the latter. He was ove of the twenty-one delegates to the Council of Irish Con- federation. Among the others were Judge O'Gorman, Charles Gavin Duffy, Thomas Francis Meagher, Thomas D'Arcy McGee and William Smith O’Brien.

Pigott was a prominent figure in t! meetings of the Council, and talked s great deal about the necessity of bloodshed an: other terrible things. [It was difficult to calm him after one of his cutbursts, and he acted as though he wanted to go right out and whip Erigland himself. He couldn't bear to hear of a suggestion of peaceful measures, and protested again and again that bloodshed alone could accomplish the ends desired.

It was as much due to Pigott’s inflamma- tory speeches as to any other consideration that, at the convention in D’Olier street in Dublin, in July, 1848, it was resolved to attempt to raise the peasantry of Tipperary to insurrection. Pigott grew hysterically happy over this, and demanded that he be assigned to # post of danger and difficulty. The Council sent Richard O'Gorman, Thomas Francis Meagher and Morris Leyne, a nephew of Daniel O'Connell, to different cities. John Lawless, a solicitor; Patrick O’Donohue, Col. O’Brien and Pigott were stationed in the counties of Wicklow and Kildare. They were to meet and arrange for a division of their work. All were on hand at the appointed time, except Pigott, After a dreary wait it became evident that Pigott would not appear, and O’Donohue declared that he must have betrayed them. The result of this attempt to rouse and arm the peasantry of Ireland is well known. Scarcely a month had passed before O'Donoghue, Meagher and O'Brien were arrested and lodged in prison. Pigott had mysteriously disappeared. It was rumored that efforts were making to arrest him, but when at last he reappeared he was perimit- ted to strut about unmolested. The three prisoners were hurriedly tried and promptly convicted. They were sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered. The sen- tence aroused widespread indignation, and Minister Buchanan vigorously protested against its execution. He said it would shock the sentiment of the civilized world. in spite of an apparently earnest fight on the part of the prosecution against clemen- cy, the sentence was commuted to trans- portation to Van Dieman’s Land. The men were taken there, but all of them eventually succeeded in escaping.

His former companions had hardly been taken away before Pigott bobbed up again. He was terribly enraged at the way they had been treated by the Government and talked loudly and furiously about war and bloodshed as formerly,'but the people were shy of him, and his barangues were mostly addressed to ominously silent audiences. The hunt after tho men engaged in the councils of the Confederation was vigorous- ly prosecuted, and there was a scramble among them to get out of the country. The people were awed by the prompt con- viction and terribly severe sentence of the three men who were captured. This em- boldened Pigott to appear again in Dublin and try once more to lead Irish patriots into trouble. For a time he was recognized as an agent of the English Government, whose plan was to betray men into expres- sions of ill will against the Government and to organize tem for he purpose of re- sisting it and then to deliver them upto the prison and the gallows. - His life might

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on by men known to have lost the conti- dence of the country. This would have been unconstitutional in Canada—in the States it is strictly constitutional. It is evident, therefore, that the constitution under which we live, is in one point at at least in better accord with the spirit of representative government than that of the States,

What the result of the change of Admin- istraticn will be is still necessarily a matter of speculation. General Harrison has been very reticent. He has kept his own coun- acl well. This may be taken as an indica tion that he has goood sense and firmness ations his course will be shaped by

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have been in$jeopardy in other circumstan- ces,{but as it was he was feared as much as hated, and lived to engage in the plots which are now being revealed before the Parnell Commission of Inquiry. —N. Y. Sun.

Personal,

Hon. John Lefurgey is in town.

The Summerside Pionzer says that Messrs J. Alfred Gourlie, V. S., and§Artbur C, Rogers of that town lett for the Capes last Friday evening. They goto New York to attend Peter C. Kellog & Co’s great sale of horses which comes off thera on the 9th and Sth inst.

Father—You do not push my boy forward He is anxiou? to get ahead.” Empluyer-—‘‘in- deed! Then I hope he will capture one very soon,” — Boston Garetts.

Notes by the Way. Jus? as we had completed arrangements for Charleston, 5. earthquake

for leaving Jacksonville C., news came of sume slight shocks having been felt in the latter place; but our not to be thwarted from carrying it out by such simatl amatter a3 an earthquake. Not tbat we desired to monkey with any earthquake, but we thought we might safe- ly assume the ‘risk. We therefore” took passage on the Ciyde Line 8.5. Seminole, 2550 tons. This line is composed of five iron steamships, which ply between New York and Florida, calling at Charleston.

The St. John’s River below Jacksonville is narrow, crooked and in many places very shallow. It resembles the Tantamar River in New Brunswick, with its great marshy stretches on either side, and one can almost pluck the tall grass which grows along its banks (if banks they can be called) from the steamer’s deck.

Shad fishing is a great industry on this part of the river. fishermen stretch their nets right across the river, and drift down with the ebb tide; they then drift back again with the flood tide and take up their nets. As many as forty and fifty nets may be seen in the drifts. Each fishermen follows his drift ina small boat to prevent fouling with his neighbor; and when a steam or sailing ship is seen coming, one end of the net is swung around out of the way.

Mayport, at the h of the river, twenty-five miles below Jacksonville, tall fishing village and summer resort. It s built on a sandy beach of dazzling snowy

programme being laid out, we were

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whiteness. We now miles or more

into the Atlantic ere black waters of

the St. John’s River lose their identity in

the ocean.

A pleasant

Jacksonville

two

the

steam out

run of twenty hours from

and we land atthe historic city of Charleston. The receut earthquake shock of February dth passed over without doing avy injury beyond giving the citizens a short lurid scare.

Charleston is a fine, old, substantial city of near 60,000 inhabitants, situated seven miles from the ocean, at the junction of the Ashley and Cooper Rivers. it possesses a fine harbor, and has a large export irade in rice, pine, phosphate and naval stores. Three milesfrom the city and in the centre of the harbor stands Fort Suam- ter, grim, silent and unoceupied, save by one sergeant andthe lighthouse keeper. It was against this fort the Confederates tired the tirst shot in the ‘‘ late onpleasant- ness”’ between the North and the South. On Feb. 14th we took possession of Sum- ter, and ‘“‘held the fort” in the name of Canada for about the space of four hours ; but being unable to arrange any terms of capitulation with the sergeant in charge, him to keep his old fort. Before evacuating the stronghold, however, he requested our autograph in the visitors’ register— not necessarily for publication, but as an evidence and a memento of our gall.

On the starboard hand in entering the harbor lies Sullivan’s Island, on which stands Fort Moulterie, and on the port side, on James Island, is Fort Johnston— but in a range with and but « short dis- tance from Fort Sumter. Still farther up, and nearer the city onthe north side, is the Fort called Castle Pinkney.

Charleston lies on a point of land at the junction of the Cooper and Ashley Rivers, aud its location is not unlike Charlottetown, our East River being represented by the Cooper, and the North River by the Ashley. Dundas Esplanade corresponds to the Bat- tery. The Battery forms a fine promenade, being a sea wall of solid granite ten feet in width, and extending fifteen hundred feet along East Battery, thence eight hundred feet along South Battery. Here is a fine shady park with numerous seats scattered through it for the accommodation of the hundreds of visitors who might resort thither, but do not.

The other resorts are Sullivan’s Island and Magnolia Cemetery, but the greater portion of those who go to the latter place remain there. it og : :

The majority of the buildings in Charles- ton are of brick, but there are also numer- looking buildings of stone, with huge columns in front, similar to our Provincial Building. All the dwelling houses have double piazzas, facing south- ward, the piazzas being shaded by lattice work. The brick here is of an ugly greyish color, which presents a weather+beaten ap- pearance when not plastered or cemented.

The earthquake of 1886 shook the city to its foundations, and its evidences are still apparent in the great rents seen in the buildings, the repairs of new brick work, iron straps and girders and the cement patchings. The shock which caused the most damage occurred at ten o’clock on the night of Aug. 31st. All che lights went out, fires broke out in many sections of the city, and the terror-stricken citizens thought the ‘grand wind up” had surely come. Out of nineteen thousand chimneys in the city but two hundred withstood the shock and remained standing.

The Charleston Market is one of the longest in America, if not in the world. It is paces 515 long, (our count), and three streets intersect it. It 1s @ curious and iuteresting sight to stand at one end and look through it.

Among the old Colonial residences, two houses still stand as near to their original ap- pearance as the ravages of time would per- mit. One of these is No. 59 ¢Church Street, and is noted as being the place where Washington was entertained during his visit to Charleston in 1791 ; the other,

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are many elegant stores. Hast Bay Street

is the location of the wholesalers and cotton There is a Meeting St. and Com

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No. 24 Meeting Street, was ,the residence of Lord Campbell, the last Roya! Governer |

One of the oldest churches in the city is St. Michael’s (Episcopal) on Broad Street. On a tablet in the main vestibule of the Church is given its history as follows :—

Parish of St. Michael's, established June 14,

1751. This building begun in 1752. Opened for Divine Worship, Feb. 1, 1761. Exposed

to the fire of the British Artillery on James Island in 1780. Struck four times by the Federal Artillery on Morris Island, 1861 to 1865. Seriously injured by cyclone Aug. 25

oe ee ae ie i ‘ 3% of South Carolina. | Cornet Solo-—* Anchored

a, 1885. Almost destroyed by earthquake Aug. 31, 1886. re-opene for worship June 19, 1887. in Excelsis Deo.

The spire of this church and the Custem House are the seen on entering Charleston from the sea.

Here we find streets with such royal names as Kiag, Queen and Princess. King is the fashionable shopping and promenade street. Itisa benutffulstreet, and on it

osity of American churehmen and friends, and | d Gloria |

most conspicuous objects |

Has been restored by the gener- | Violin Solo— Meditation ”....;.... auuee . Bach

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String Quartette for four Violins

Clarinet Sclo—‘‘ Good Night, Farewell”..Kucken

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Grand Potpourri—* 0, Fair Dove ”—Schiepegrel

Striog Quartette—“ Selection from Mount of

suc we did not enquire.

To write a history of Charleston from fires, cy- clones and earthquakes, and to follow each rebuilding to its present stage, would occupy too much time and and space, even had we the requisite quali- fications for its pursuance; and now lest a further prolongation might provoke un- secmly language in Tan Examrner’s com- posing room, or cause a general uprising of the populace to congregate im the vicini's of the London House, and indulge in rivi ous demoustrations—for these reasons we deem it prudent to close, and thus avert bloodshed. CANUCK.

Charleston, S. C., Feb. 29, 1889.

Washington. {Read at the annual dinner of the Dorches- ter Yacht Club, of Boston, vn the eve of Washington's birthday, by James Jeffrey Roche. } Gop wills no man a slave. ‘The man most meek, Who saw Him face to face on Horeb’s peak, Had slain a tyrant for a bondman’s wrong, And met his Lord with soul and strong. But when, years after, ov »rfraught with care, His feet once trod doubt’s pathway to da- spair, For that one treason lapse, the guiding hand That led so far now barred the promised land. God makes no man a slave, no duubter free; Abiding faith alone wins liberty.

sinless

No angel led our Chiettain’s steps aright; No pilot cloud by day, no flame by night ; No plague nor portant spake to foe or friend; No doubt assailed him, faithful to the end.

W eaklings there were, 48 in the tr ibes of old, :

A Who craved for fleshpots, worshipped caives should harder be than Wwron A 1 4, ’ ~~ “ee Di 1 And treedom 3 narrow roud 80 steep and iODg; vho ne’er on Sinai’s summit trod, Kea tre highest heights and spake with God: Saw with anncinted eyes no promised land

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By petty bounds or pettier cycles spanned,

Its people curbed and broken to the ring.

Packed with a and with a king

But freedom’s heritage and training school,

Where man unruled should rule.

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Content to wear the higher crown of worth,

While time endures, First Citizen of earth.

LiSN CHURCH Karly Reminiscences.

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bageie te ALLEY has kindly consented to

deliver his Lecture,

Prince Edward Island 100 Years Ago, |

In the Basement of Zion Church,

On EKhursday Evening Next.

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Admission, 10 cents.

Proceeds to be appropriated to Church purposes. ae

Lectare to commence at 8 o'clock.

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; y 8 Horses Wanted. ERTANTED IMMEDIATELY. —Twenty Y five good Horses, weighing between 1,000 and 1,400 ibs., and between 5 and 10 years of age. W. S. McKIE.

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ORCHESTRAL CONCERT,

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Y.M.C. 4. HALL,

Rr. Vinnicombe, - - - Conductor Miss Lewis, - - - - Accompanist

EROGRAMME.

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Orchestra.

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Masters Fred Hyndman, James Hynd- man (Leader.)

Mr. Vinnicombe.

Master Jas. Hyndman and Mr. Vinnicombe. (by request)...Watson Mr. Fietcher.

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Vocal Solo—** The Chorister”.........A. Sullivan Rev. F. E. J. Lioyd.

ON ii ici) cvaeascne cs jioncs ..... Beethoven Miss May Mci>naid, Messrs. Jas Hyndman, Vinnicombe, Scott.

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Concert at 8 o’clock, sharp, fickeis 35 cents, at Chappelle’s, Reddin’s, Lew is’. and also at the door.

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QERVANT WANTED. —Good wages. Apply Ko to Mra. R. K. Jost, Sidney Street (east).

OUR NEW

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“Golden Year Silk ” Cashmere *ilk, Gros Grain Silk, French Faille, ‘otis, Duchesse, eties De 2vons, ‘Teecm HK. Merveilicux,.

Is now open, and marked TEN PER CENT. LESS than last year.

BEER BROS.

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BLACK SILK GOODS.

Before the recent heavy advance in Silks, we purchased a large stock from the cele- ‘brated House of ARBELO? & CO., Lyons, and are now oifering this, the Largest

Stock we have ever shown, at special prices.

BEER BES.

Guaranteed,

Diack Tricetin, &c.

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the time to secure

BLACK FRENCH MERINOS, BLACK HENRIETTA CLOTHS, BLACK FRENCH SERGE, BLACK PHANTOM CHECK, BLACK FOULEE,

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Special Prices Now Given to Cash Customers.

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BLACK DRESS GOODS.

The demand for our MOURNING GOODS is unprecedented. being offered at prices we cannot possibly duplicate next summer,

Many lines are now Now is, without doubt,

FRENCH CASHMERES, COSTUME CLOTHS, FANCY CASHMERE, PHANTOM STRIPE,

BLACK AMAZON CLOTHS,

_ Tne Largest Stock of HIGH-CLASS MOURNING Every requisite of FAMILY MOURNING at low prices.

And a Superior Steck of Courtauld’s and Evans’s Crapes.

GOODS ever imported by us. BEER BROS.

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