Che Examiner.

Charlotietown. Oct. 25, 1875,

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READING CLUBS. |

We hoy t \ We therbe’s leotare | will be practi ally » neficlal to the citizens

[a the struggle to get 1 the world —we fear |

ef Charlottetown mcnuey--to Fuceec d i that the pleasures, to be gained by reading good |

intellectu profits, the refined books are comparatively unappreciated. | Rooks. written by the best English authors, | to vear, unsold and un- f our bookstores

remain, from year read on the shelves o It needs no very close observer to discover number of our

that, in far the greater

. ) homes.the elecantly bound rolumes whien |

adorn the centre tuble of the drawing room und the bookcase in the study, are nt more for ornament than use. And t we enjoy peculiar advantages here for

the improvement of our minds by reading Our loag winter might be to us the most highly profitable season of the year,—our isolation from the If the

gre atest of our

ruble

world, our

benefit. eaders sociu

circles would take the tré

members . res} ective iY mes o

reading clubs — the

would meet at the sjtervate everniogs,—and if the works

our best authors were read and discussed by these clubs; if and women were persuaded to join them and

ar young men

to attend their meetings rather than spend |

evening after evening in dissipstion, a

good and great work would be done.

Should Mr. Weatherbe’s lecture be fol- | lowed by some such a social movement as |

we have indicated it will be well for Char- lottetown

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” THE AWARDS,

Tus Hon. Joseph Pope and W.C. Des Brisay, Esq., reture ed from Montreal on Thursday evening They brought $306,550 with which to pay persons, lute ly proprietors of | ad in this Province,

9st.

the amounts awarded them by the (em- The jer notes of one thousand dollars each. Dis- notes

mniasioners money is 20 iega! ten

tributed among our banks, these

will supply exchange ; and should have

the effect of rendering the money market

of the Province less tight than it has been for the past six mouths We hope soon to hear that our merchants and trader

ere again receiving bank accommodaticn,

he paid out at the Trea—

The movey wii eury, as follows : Charlotte A : $81,! Rehert x 76,50 Hion. S$ brabonzon

Pe e 21 20 j net Y \ ‘ 34.000 Dr ' , James Fre k Monigomery, 15,200 . : . ) Maria Susanna Mati) ia Panning, 20,200 William Cundai, 9, 201 Bliza Mary Cundall, 4,45 Lieut yionel Bentinck Harry

Cumberiand, and Margaret

Witlism Cumberiand, his

wife 1 900 | sie Graham Graham Montgomery ;

Sar t, 12,400

$306,550 —

RAILWAY MEETING.

A large Railway Meeting was held at Murray River School house, on Friday | the inst. The principal speakers were Messrs. Maleolm McFadyen, A

MacIoxis, James Cuddy, Henry Beer,

99nd

~- Ge Samuel Peterson, and Robert Whiteway, | E-q. The Resolutions passed at the meeting held at Murray Hurbor South, were uoar:mousis adopted ; and a peti- tion to the Loeul Government, was signea by all present. The motto of the peope of Marray River is, “no anti railway Re

presentutive need apply.”” A correspond

ent writes Our present members wert considered lamentably remiss io their du ty, in not attending these meetings, when the interests of their constituences are at I: is supposed they want to ‘* At all

stake.” evade some ticklisa questions. events,” remarks our correspondent, * they | will pay us a visit on the eve of an elec- |

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ties

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“LECTURES.

“Iw Charlottetown,’’ writes Mr.Camp- | bell, the historian, ‘‘ there is a good deal | ef latent talent which might be beneficial- ly elicited in the delivery of lectures dur- ing the winterevenings.’’ There is truth { in this. But the talent seems to be very | deeply buried. We hardiy ever hear s/ good lecture. And yet it is certain that | it the thick mantle ef sloth and reserve , were bat removed, sufficient ability to pro- duce an excellent course of lectares might | We trast that our ‘iterary societies (so called) will resolute: | ly set to werk to find the “ latent talent,” and provide lectures which the peaple will

be made available.

table—during the coming winter eveuings.

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POLICE REGULATIONS.

gulations for the Police of this city. The eity is divided into patrol districte. A policeman is required to walk in each dis- trict day «na night. He is under the su- pervision of either (he marshal, sergeant, oresrporal; and is required to enter in a

Ts Stipendiary Magistrate bas issued res |

book—kept for the purpose, and daily |

placed before the Magistrate—a report of | what he has done and seen, So that, if the | regulations are rigidly enforced—as we | hope they will—s policeman will not be able to loiter, or sleep unnoticed ; and the | duty will be performed. The entire force | is required to parade before the Mayor,

Magistrate, and Council, once a month.

} have

}

| countered j We remem! r | tweive years

| French, of about the year

ing and ' Egmont.

| seribed in the said memorial,

eurveved—he should be divided into fitty parts of equai |

} acres Were eacn to ie ' rent of four shillings sterling to the Lord o

| parts of the | town, forty market towns, and four bun- each hundred or Barony was |

|; putting every

| strong castles found a place here. | should, at least, have some fine old ruins to attend—which will be pleasing and prefi- |

ep or

CAMPBELL'’S HISTOR) PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

Wer have now before us Mr. Campbell's llistory of Prinee Edward Island; and duly considering the interest which the subject EK. Islander, have perused it with attention, in order that free from the charge

miust haya for every P

our review may be

a

? feseneecs

care We must cc nfess to something like dis- appointment, at the outset, at the meagre- ness of the early notices, even the year of We should

ita discovery b ing unrecorded.

liked to know something about

state of the aborigines! owners at the time,

the dithculties, if any, ens tho first ch

sean ome ten or

and also about

tr } } y Fren setiiers

h ving

ago, at [falifax, a treaty, in

3 >.

the then English Governor and

| tered

the Chief

|

j

the }

\ jand the ' cerned

|

between |

}

of the Miemaes, by which the former en gaged to maintain inviolate all their pos- | sessions, mghis and liberties, on con- iit of the Istter furnishing six thou- sand warriors when called upon, against | the Freneb Other foreign armies. Such a contingent must prove their indepen den numbers aad importance to have

We

French introduced the

‘en consideraDdie. should like to have

<nown whe ther tho

~ iil System > asin Canada; and if so, wit t may not have suggested the lea to t h Government of granting the hind large bIOCKS tO be peopled oy in | tocracy and tenantry, | Howev s vot blame Mr. ( ampbell f the defect He could but use the materials to hand to the best of his ability

His aim was, we are informed, to produce

@ bistory of the [sland from the time it became a British possession until the recent union. ile gives interestudg particuiars

} british

(24th of June, 1767) it was balloted for by

‘

Court favorites, till the passage of the Land ;

Purchase Act, IS75, are lucidly and power- fally presented—with a plentifally adminiss

on the popular aide,

mrile wash

Mr. Campbell is evidently a man of patient | and trest-worthy research, born with an | inmate love of justice and fairplay. He | foresees the possibility of the applause of | to-day becoming the censure of a few years

Hence the following admirable piece

later. of black-r.cash with which (page 168) he closes the Land Question:

The measure, though one of absoiute | nece-sity—so far as the Local Government interest of the tenants sre con- | must be regarded as the most Une |

possible and to explore the Arctic regions | She left on her vo. age sbout three months | ago, arrived sately at Disco, leit that port on | the 7th and Upernayik on the }3th August, | crossed the dreaded Melville Bay in smooth | jeal of consultation on the subject, and as |

{ROTIC EXPLORATION. lun Pandora ia the vessel fitted out by | the united means of Lady Franklin, Cap- tain Young, commander, 4nd Mr. Bennett, | of the New York //erald, to recover further relies of Sir John Franklin, bie archives, if

water to Carey Island, steered for Lancaster | Sound and there encountered for the first | time ice floes. Pressing through fogs and | floating iee Captain Young traversed the | entire length of Barrow Straits, and reach

from

. : | NEWS SUMMARY. | RRR RR tees |

CANADIAN.

The number of cattle shipped this season | Montreal to Liverpool by tne Do. |

LATEST

> ~

minion line of steamers amounts to 734)

head.

Gi

shipped each, which were sold at £27 per head.

Mesars. Keeves and Frankland of Toronto, and Mr. Price of Montreal, lately 110 steers, aversging 1,300 \bs.,

It is rumored that Mr. Cauchon is going | into the abinet; there has been a good |

far as con bo learned they can’t afford to | throw him overboard. Some understanding | was arrived at, and it is said that he goes | in as leader of the French party.

The Ottawa Citizen has unearthed ano- |

| ther job from the Public Works department |

constitutional Act that ever received Im- led Beechy Island on the 25th August. that is a farther samp/ie of the corrupt maby,

perial sanction, It may bo safely affirmed that its parallel is not to be found in the | British Statute Book. In its principles it

isantagonistic to the fundamental rigits of | property, as usually recognised in eivil zed | The Act as a precedent will doubt-

OT |

states. less, ba cast in the teeth of the owners property by our modern Com- munists, the tendency of whose views finds the solemn sanction of law in this measure, [t is unjust to the landlord, inasmuch as it compels him to seli his land, even when he deems it bis wterest to retain it; and 1t 1s ipjust ts the tenant as it necessitates his paylog, if he be desirous of securing the | tee-stmple of his land, at a comparatively high price, But itis anactof governm ptal necesrily, a further delay. would greatly enhance the value of lauded property, and render ‘h- prospects of the tenant still more unsatisfactory. Far better, how- ever, that millions of pounds sterling were devoted by “reat Britain to the compensa- tion of tue landiords and tenants of P. E. Island than that 50 pernicious an act should disyzrace the British Colonial Statute Book,’

Lius

The questicns of the introduction of Responsible Government and free educas | tion, Confederation, and the construc- | tion of our railway are fairly treated. |

respecting the early surveys; and details |

the schemes centemplated for its co.oniZa- the most elaborate that of We take the liberty of tran- s¢riving the account of it (page 10): —

‘‘In December, | 765, the Eari of Egmont, then tirst Lord of the Admirulity, present

tion. Of these schemes amuss

wis Lord

ed an elaborate mem rial to the King

praying for a grant of the whole Island of “aint Jobn, to boid the sume In Crown forever, accoruing toa tenure de-

posiion that the isisand contained two millions of acres, — for it had not then been proposed that

extent, (0 be designated hundreds, ® 1D Eugiand, or baronies asin ireland, forty of

fee of the |

Un Ube supe |

the whole}

} tionally weli printed

these to be granted to as many men who |

should be styted Lo:ds of Hundreds, and

i ward

each of whom should pay to the Earl, as;

twenty pounds sterling Earl— to

Paramount On the property cf the

Lord y early ‘ whow

hundreds be allotted

Were to

with bis family Of nine children, ten | a strong |

castie was to be erected, mounted with ten |

pieces of cannon,each carrying a ball of four

_ pounds, with acireuit round the castie of » three miles every way

The forty hundreds or baronies were to be dividea into twenty

manors of two thousand acres each, which |

manors were to be entitled a Court

Lo

Baron, according to the Common Luw of |

Engiand.

of a town-hip, which township was to be divided into one tundred jots, of pay a yearly free-furm

the Hundred. Kacb Hundred was to have

| a fair four times a year, and a market twice

be

the

In every week There were also to Courts Leet and Courts Baron, under

direction of the Lord Paramount. A foot-

; note reterring to these Courts, attached by

the framers of the memorial, indicates the

| ideas which were entertained at this time

in the old country respecting nrotection to life and property to the North American Colonies. A tred snd others of our Saxon princes, to maintain order and tring justice to every

The Lord of each Aundred was | | to set apart five hundred acres for the site

five acres | each, and the happy proprietors of five |

;

| thing may soon be done,’

|

‘These Courts—established by '

| Fadyen, however, provide a boatand boat-

mans’s door—are obviousiy essential to a |

stnail people, forming or formed into a small society in the vast, impervious and dangerous with seas mountains

bays, lakes, without roads, without inns or

by snow and intense trost, and where the

settler can scarce Straggle from his habita

tion 500 hundred yards, even in times of peace, without ri-k of being intercepted sca! ped «nd murdered ’

lo epitomi-e the proposal; there was to

be a Lord Paramount of the whole Island, forty Capital Lords of Forty Hundreds, four hundred Lords of Manors, and eight bun dred Freeholders, For assurance of the said tenures, eight hundred thousand acres

e

2 g r | engers

forests of America, inte sected | rivers, marshes and | | twenty-five miles

acco jodations, locked up haif the vear! ., ro sag . P | Murray River.

were to be set apart for establishments for |

trade and commerce in the most suitable Isiand, including one count)

dred villages ; to consist of somewhat less than eight

'aquare miles. and the Lord of each was

bound to erect and maintain forever a

a Castle or blockrouse as the cipita!l seat of | | bis property, and asa place of retreat anc

rendezvous for the settiers; and thus on any alarm of sudden danger, every inhabitant might have a place of security within four wniies of his babitation. A cannon fired at

' one of the casties would be heard at the

next. and thus the firing would proceed in regular order from cwtie to castle, and be the means, adds the noble memoriali-t ‘of inhabitant on the whole I-jaud under arms and in motion in the space of one quarter of an hour.’”’

It is to be regretted that this -cheme was not adopted in preference to the one which

uble upon us and). oe brought #0 much trouble Upon us an | will be finished later in the season.

our forefathers. Our ‘Island story’ might

contemplate. There is littie more we can extract that will amuse the general s@d unbiassed

reader, unless it be the account of the un seemly antics of Governor Smith end his

\@ momenced

{

|} letters and papers,

But in his biographical ssetches, Mr, Camps | bell has apparently had his mind’s eye on | the good old Roman suying, (slightly alter-

ed) Le omnibus nil nisi boaum, We note, too, a few triflog inaccuracies snd irrevas |

j

lencies which slightly mar the narrative.

Lord MeAulay declares that he never read a history which came up to his notion } The History | of Prince Edward Island by Mr. Campbell, hardly reaches the standard which, ment- Yet we have no hesitation in characterizing it a highly re- spectable book,—well worth the price at

It much inter- | esting matter never before published : it is erspicuous Btyle ; it is excep- [tis faulty history , but it is @ book which every Prinee Ed-

of what @ history should be.

ally, we had set up.

which it is sold, contains

composed in x

[stander shvuuld read. THE ROAD,

ON

Leaving Montague Pridge in a hurry, we

pass through Sturgeon, Gaspereaux and |

Murray LE arbor North to

South. and poor;

Murray Harbor | In Sturgeon the land is stony

and the early settlers in the wilderness had peculiarly bard times. Stur- |

{t is one of the | !

geon Bay is very pretty. last closed by ice; and is often available for shipping until January. Fish are plentiful a short distance from tand. |

purposes

Che people of Sturgeon are badly in need | of postal accommodation, some of them | having to go five or six milea for their } They have, we under. | on the subject; but their grievance has not Hoping that ‘some

we pass on. At Murray Harbor North we find that there is no public ferry boat between that large and

thriving settlement and the larger and further advanced settlement at Murray Harbor South. Messrs. Davies & Mc- |

man at their own expense, and ferry pass: | over for nothing. After a long tramp on ‘ Poverty Beach , we are, through a walk of about the Head of |

yet been redressed.

saved

around

ther enterprise,

A FINE BSTABLISHMBNT, On the Point, opposite Poverty Beach, is » of the finest fishing and merchant.ioe It con-

on

establishments in King’s County.

sists of a well stocked store, aship yard, g | . ’ c : he ’ confidently teli the outside world that prices

1 fishing station, a lobster factory, a sub- ‘f, » forge, two warehouses, two | men and women.

more or less; and all the appurtenances

stantia! ths cook-houses, a hundred

| thereunto appertaining. The business was

some fifteen years ago, by Mr. Daniel R.Stewart. Now it is carried on by Messrs. Davies & McFadyen. Within the past three or four years, the establishment

has been greatly enlarged—to the manifest | , advantage of the country roundabout, and

|

we trust, to the profit of the owners THR SHIPYARD,

There are now on the stocks, and nearly |

vl | {

| ready to launch, the bulls of two handsome |

{have been much more romantic, and not | | more tragic, had Barons and Lords and | We.

j

fiiends which certainly were more likely to |

make imps chuckle than angels weep. For instance, when the House (page 66, “ was insulted by Mr. Carmichael, the Lieutenant

| Governor e son-in-law and Secretary, who, | aivancing within the bar, addressed the

Speaker in these words: ‘Mr. Speaker, if! ‘ ; ? J |} through the round hole to get it, and are}

you sit in that-chair one minute longer, this House will be immediately dissolved '

and at the same timo shaking his fist at the Speaker ; and while the fiouse was engaged in considering the means of punishing this

him. said he would allow the House three

| bait—a cods head or other garbage—is fas-

!

feet |

{

brigantines—each 105 feet keel 24 beam, 15 feet depth of hold,— to measure about 240 tons, Both are to be iron kneed | and copper fastened—first-class vessels in every respect. Mr. John McLeod—a vete- ran ship~builder—is foreman of the works. tie hopes to Isunch one of the vessels in the course of a week or two. The otber

THE LOBSTRR FACTORY. This breuch of the business is superine— tended by Mr Joba Cairns. In connection | with it, are elaborate arrangements first to | catch lobsters and then to prepare them | for market, ster traps. These traps are semi-cylindrical in form—about tbree feet long and one foot six inches across the flat side. One end of each is filled in with s piece of netting,in | the centre of which isa round hole. ‘Ihe

There are three hundred lob- |

| | { :

tened toa stick and suspended from the |

top. ‘The traps, thue prepared, are sunk |

'

/reached by the Foz when McClintock was |

| Captain McClintock in the soz,

|added to our knowledge of the Arctic

' which extraordinary abundance or extra

‘abroad, will probably end in giving the | peopie cheap bread without too greatly di

' '

| table as they mili; and when foreign mirk- , ets have been thus regsined,s fresh era

Here was discovered, still standing with her masts upwright, the yacht Mary, which | had been drawn up oa the beach by Cap- | tain Koss in 1850; here also the crew found | the storehouses built for the benetit of | sailors and castaways broken into by Polar bears. and the contents, clothing and pro- visious, scattered about in confusion. lhe graves of Sir John Franklin's men buried on the Island were also visited; the head~ boards stood upright and were in good preservation. On the 26th August the Pandora steamed away trom Beechy Island, making her way cautiously through vast tields 0! pack ice, pass ng the farthest point

in search of Sir John Franklin’s relics, and

| touching the Island known as King Wile | | hams Land—thus navigating a sea where

no ship was ever before, except perhaps |

| that of Sir John Franklin, who, it is not uns |

likely, here, beset with ice,met his destruc- tion, From King William s Land the /’and-

| ora steamed down the west coust of the

Prince of Wales’ Land, enjoying delicious weather and open’ water Eventually | Bebring’s Straits were taade and Roquette | sland was discerned ahead, Anticipat.on | was sanguine that Ballot’s Straits would be passable, but untortunately a solid pack of , hammock ice stretching acrose the entrance in an unbroken expanse barred the way, This ls the same pack of ice that stopped Alter re- muining until the 7tb of September watch-~ ing fora favourable change, Captain Young, | resolved, in preference W wintering where be was, to turn home and naske a fresh at- tempt next year, He reached Plymouth on the 16:b inst., with all on boaru well,

The J/'sadore has not penetrated the North- West Passage, or discovered the Pole, or tound relics of Sir Joho Frankiin ; sion is incomplete. She has,

her mis~— however,

regions; she has accomplished a yoyage remarkable for despatch, countered and safely surmounted.

for perils eu-

Soe

| brings lettera from Captain Nures for the |

Admiralty, found at Carey Island on her res } turn voyage, and sleo well grounded ex- | pectations that the expedition under that, commander hae by this time reached the | highest latitude possible for an Arctic | vessel to reach. As an example ot journal | istic enterprise the voyage of the /’undora |

1s unique. —7Zoronio Nation.

_—em ©

i

A DOWNWARD TENDENCY.

Not very long ago it seemed almost cer- |

tain, from reports of a deficient harvest in | would have pitied me. } stand, memorialized the Po-tmaster General | ’ : : | Europe, that high prices for grain would |

|

prevail, but potent influences soon inter- | fered to check the upward movement. We | do not here allude to any discovery of ex-

aggeration in the first reports of scarcity, | but to the subtle and far-reaching policy of |

the Bank of England and the great English |

financiers, by which, whenever any article that England requires to buy an unusually | large supply of threatens to run up to high

one consent, to prevent a raise or to com pells fall. England is, in fact, so large a) buyer that she can to a great extent, con- | trol the market for staple articles of raw | produce—of course within eertain limits |

| ordinary scarcity may impose. All re- | ports of searcity in Europe to the contrary | notwithstanding, leading English journals

must and shall be kept down. Says the| London Latly Telegraph :

“The harvest is below the bountiful years of 1574 or 1868, but is far from disas~ | trous, and, combined with a large surplus

' |

Minishing the moderate profits of the far- | mer. Itis true that one important cereal, varley, is under an average, and the ma t- | ing description of grain is inferior ; but it | by no means follows that the brewers will make less beer, or that the nation wiii drink leas One consequence will be that the brewers will use more sugar, so that what the home farmer loses the internatio- nal trade will gain. The great point, how ever, is that the main staples of food will | continue cheap for the next twelve months, |

| and bere we have one lending element ot |

pro-perity already assured. Of trade in general we need not spesk, as it is still pass~ ing through a process which neither harvest | nor legislation can modity. The cost of production in our chief industries is being siowly, and must be still further, reduced, jet working men struggle against the inevi

of animation will commence.” Aithough actual scarcity of any impor | tant staple in several countries at once | must Operate as a natural cause of high | prices, it is never safe to leave out of the | calculation the power of England, as the largest buyer in the world, to supply an ar- | titicial counteractive, and by « financial | policy suited to the oocasion, to keep prices | down — Torenio wail, —=»-ee- Tas Domestic Moxtnty.—The November | number of this popular fashion magazine, being one of the four double | issued during the year, gives 9 comprehen-~ view of the styles now prevailing, and

; of a gun

| $3609.

| knew the agony of mind my smiling lips |

| wegon road has been completed from the

| ner in which public contrasts are manipue | Inted '

Thos. H. Hogg, Keq., editor and propri- etor of the Fredericton Leporter, died on | Monday evening about 10 o'clock, from | injuries inflicted by the accidental discharge |

It is gratifying to know that the case of | the sufferers from grasshopper devastations in Manitoba this year, has not been over- | looked. Itis reported from Ottawa that | seed grain has been purchased and sent on for the use of these persons next spring.

Great Sgortaorn Sate - On the 13th | inst., there was held at Winchester, Ken- | tucky, one of the greatest sales of shorts | horns on record, when the Vinewood herd was disposed of, sixty-four animals realizing | in all the large sum of 123440. The 22nd Duchess of Airdrie, a calf only three months old, was sold for the great price of $17,900, to J. H. Spears & Son, of Tuitula, ill. A

anadian gentleman, Mr. J. R. ( raig, | bought Kirkleavington Duchess, tor $5. 1U0. The same buyer paid 31 288 for Ruby Duchess, and $50 for Cambridge Queen 5th. Among the other high priced animais was Fennel Duchess Sth, bought by Ben).- min Sumner, ot Woodstock, Connecticut, for the sum of 35100. Highland Maid, 5th, was sold for $5,550 to a Vermont man, and Duchess of Clarence brougut 14 100. Duchesa of Clarence 2nd, a calf one mouth old, was sold for $3 175, to J. H Spears & Son. Some of the other high priced Oves

| were Kirkleavington Lady, 3rd, §3 (1).

Wild Eyes Rose, 33050, Kirkleavington | Lady, 4th, $2550, Kuirkleavington Lady oth, $39°0. Kirkleavington Lady, 6th, $2,000 Princess of Vinewood, . 3,300, Duch- ess of Clarence, +4100 Georgia « illburst, | $2800, Fennel Duchess of Knightly Hill, $2,500, and Lady Bates, 2nd, of V newooud, 2.00. The females of the herd averaged $1,7L9 and the males $] 559. The highert | priced male was ()xford Geneva, sold to Rey. D. L, Hughes of ndians, for 75,00), Sec- ond + ompton, Lord Wild Eye, soid for . 2,-

| 5 0, and Third Duke of Underege, for 2,- } LOO,

The Lowest priced male sold, was Duke of Duenna, Ist, which cost its buyer The lowest priced tem:le sold, Wis Leuty, lst, or which only $:)0 was paid, | Still even that price seems a pretty good one to pay for a cow, '

Tak Late Cuartes McFappen.—The St. Joba Globe gives some extracts from a let-

| ter written by (baries McFadden to his

wife, just before he committed suicide.

tter a reference to his late partner, whom be blames as the author of bis late troubles, and giving his wife some directions 48 to the disposal of his effects, he says :—

concealed these last three months, you I did not confide in you as | ought, on account of the delicate state of your health ; but do not think that | | committed this rash act without having « foreta-te of death, in leaving you and my chidren to the cold charity of a pitiless world. I have hoped against hope, in ex- pectation of getting something to do, but in vain, a8 there are hundreds walking about as bad offas myself. I should like to be burned in Bear River, by my mother’s side, | if they will let me, for it is the spot I love |

, dearest On earth, and where I have played / many # happy hour in childhood's happy | prices, purchasers there hold back as if by days; and when I knelt on her grave a tew

weeks ago, I litile thought it would end in | this manner. the Royal Sussex Lodge of Freemasons ‘as

| Past Master) you may sell to pay my fune. |

ral eXpenses ; the picture of the “ Koyal | Alfred’s'’ crew, sent me from Halitax, I |

| should like * Peach Blossom ’ to get.........

i stould like to kiss the rosy lips of my dar- | tings who are now asleep, but thatl feel | would be a sacirlege. Now comes the hardest word ever penned by morts#! man ~ good-bye forever.

UNITED STATES. Florida killed 10,000 aliigatora iast year |

| for their hides.

The Irish citizens of St- Louis propose to erect a monument to O'Connel in that city, |

General A, E. Barber, © prominent color- ed politician of New Orieangs, is dead.

The population of the United States is @-timated at 45,000,000

Birtn.—The wife of Judge Thomes J, Gunn, Smithville, Clay County, Mo.. on on the 29th September. ofa son. Mother and child doing well. The former is aged seventy-seven.

Buewep To Drata in Tumin Barat Beo. — | About 1] o’clock on Fitday night, the resi - | dence of Mrs. Susan Bradley, in the town of Cheshire, Con., was di-covered to be on | fire. There were five «r six persons in the | house at the time and among them Peter |

| Murray, who had just been married to the |

adopted daughter of Mrs. Brad! y. The building was entirely consumed and the charred remains of Mr. and Mrs. Murray were afterwards found on the iron springs of their bed,

Tew Hicumsr Bees in tas Worip.— Ata great outlay of time and money a

highway passing through the Deleware Water Gap to the summit of Yount Minsi, the peak forming the Pennsylvania wall of | the gap. Tue mountain is 1,600 feet high. | A suspension bridge is to be built from | tho summit of this mountain to that of | Mount Tammany on the New Jersey side | of the river. This will be the highest | bridge in the world. It will be over half a | mile jong. The cost of the structure will | be about 3100,000.

EUROPEAN. .

A dreadful confligration in Poland has | rendered 3 000 people homeless.

j A meeting of the leading manufacturers |

in line in the deep water off Cape Bear. | coming in vogue during the approaching | and merchants was held in Paris regarding

|The lobsters see the bait, make their way |

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thus caught. Twice every day the traps are

visited ; and the captured fish taken out.

| Sometimes as many as six lobsters are caught |

: ho factory. This building is si insult, the Lieutenant Governor sent for | arte : ne SNES ee ee

} m 9: . | the Speaker, and holding up his watch to| I

in one trap. Thence they are conveyed to |

lt is built in the form of an 100 feet one way SO feet the other—two

water side.

winter season, in every department of | Fashion. Its numerous articles are un- | usually full and complete, and traverse the | whole domain of Fashion, all being distia guished by that clearness, snd practical value of the information embodied, for which the magaziue is so justly celebrated Ladies will find in it every thing to supply the most exucting needs and wants in

| minutes, before the expiration of which, if | it did not adjourn he would resort to im.

mediate dissolution, and this extraordinary | conduct was 400n after followed by @ pro- | rogation of the Legislature, in consequence | ot the House having committed to jail the |; Lieutenant Governor's son, for breaking the _ windows of the apartment, in which the | [louse was then sitting.”

Again, (page 68) “ Mr. Haszard having given the names of tho writers of an ob- } noxious article published in the Prines Edward Island Cazetie, the Chancellor ad dressed him thus -—ji compassionate your

Mr. FitsGerald deserves credit for this re- form. We hopo he wil! be well backed up by the City Council and the citizens,

-_---—@B o- aD -o oo — -—- -- - OUR FISHERIES.

Wea are pleased to learn that the Domi- nion Gevernment have, at last, taken mea- sures for the protection of our River Fish- eries The following official regulations have been issued :~~

Salmon Fishery.

1. No person shall fish for, catch, kill buy, seli or possess any Salmon, between the First day of September and the Thirty- first day of December, in each year, in the Province of Prince Edward Island ; nor shall any person tish for catch, kill, sel! or pos #es6 at apy timetou! orspent Salmon fry in the said Province.

2. The diidgeil, Morell, Dunk and Winter make you remember it. You have delivers Rivers, in the aloressiu Province, are bere- |

by ect apert for the natural and artificial | ed your evidence fairly, pla:nly, clearly,and

propagation of fish. | &s becomes & man, but I caution you when- Trout Fishery 4. No person shall fish for, cateh, kill, | clear, sir, of a Chancellor !

youth and inexperience. | | would lay you by the heels jong enough to

; ever you publish anything again, keep Beware, sir, of |

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bay, sell or possess any Jrout, between the | a Chancellor!’ and with this solemn ad-—

First day of October and the First day of December, in each year, in the Province of Prince Edward Island. and Trout shail nos | 26 bar at any time be fished for or taken by spears Beyond this the general tenor of the ae Seines, 1 any Fiver, stresin | book is more suitable to the gravity of a

poad within the said Island. | law-student than the general reader. Our

We understand that Fisbery Inspect and Wardens are to be a wolsted ond | Land Question bas absorbed much of Mr. of the taree Counties. We hope to see the | Campbell's attention. He bas discussed aw rigidly enforced. iipebly, Tt weried phases, from the dey

monition Mr. Haszard was Gismissed from

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