The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-08-20
PUBLI3 WORKS.

AT political meeting held in Carleton
county, Ontario on Monday last, the Hon.
James Skead, candidate for the Local Leeis-
iature, is reported to have spoken as follows:
He had been assured by members OF tie
Privy Council that it was the determination
"of the Government to proceed with the Otta-
"wa Ship Canal before that railway (the In
"tercolonial) was completed" The Toronto
Globe comments as follows:
SO, at last, one plank of the Coalition plat
form has been proclaimed, not by one OF the
Ministers themselves, bat doubtless on the
pest authority. The Commissioner OF Pubic
works, WHO is now in the West, ought to take
anriy an early opportunity of stating whether it IS
correct OF course. there are advocates for
enlaTging the st. Lawrence canals, and some
feople IN the west think the Toronto and
.l GeoTsia pay canal should be constructed. Has
.ne Coantion given these projects the go-by,'o
takeh up the Ottawa project So it seem.
But OF course, MIR. McDougal can lexplaip ali
that. Mr. Gait can very easily obtain the
twenty or thirty millions of dollar required
for the canal projects. The poor Nova SEQ
tians will, however, be more alarmed than ever
because this canal scheme implies taxation,
and therefore the new Canadian tariff will
have to be increased instead of lowered.
THE FENIANs.
The recent cable dispatch to the effect that
the British Government was going to send out
troops to Iepel Fenian invasion of which
nobody on this side Of the water had heard
anything, has excited some merriment from
the press in the States 1t would seem as
though the rumor of new Fenian invasion
had been hit upon by some Of the political
agitators in Canada as q means Of stimulat-
ing the excitement of the canvass. A dis
patch from Montreal says: hao H
Private information has been received here
to the effect that Fenian raid is expected dur
ing the approaching elections. This has in
duced the British Government to send out
troops. Signs of q Fenian cooperation with
the Devlin party in Montreal West are evil
dent every day. fas s..... .5 ..f.......
1t is not difficult to understand the animus
of this. In the meantime there are rumors
that the Rev. John McMahon and perhaps
some of the other Fenian prisoners in Cana1a
would be liberated at no distant day.
Mr.. MCGEE and some of his friends were
mobbed In Montreal the other night. On
leaving one of their ward Committee rooms
they were received with yells and cries, fol
lowed by missiles, and cheers for Mr.. Devlin
which continued as they proceeded to anoth
er Committee room, followed a part of the
way by the crowd.
The pastoral letters of the bishops on Con-
federation and the elections are exciting con-
siderable discussion in the papers. A writer
in DOrdre thinks that they will give rise to
many mistakes; that their recommendations
have little in them that is 10 the purpose
that the bishops have not the power to pro
hibit efforts to substitute another system lol
Confederation; that the counsels of the bisli-
ops in this case are contrary to the principles
of the British Government, and are an insult
or bitter censure upon all true patriots, dc.
At the Dairyman's Convention, lately held
in Upper Canada, one of the speakers esti-
mated the amount OF cheese likely to be pro-
duced in that Province during the present
season at 25,OOOOO0 lbs, worth upwards oI
two millions of dollars. an' $3.50 i A