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reyented Usie eter to the Coancil on!
ky grt joss, DWE Ley refused tv xive |
ony answer, and ordered him t transaiit the same |

Oe rely of William of Orange was a letter, |
ined by Dalrymple, in whieh, upon the
recital that “several of the chieflains and many of
their clans have not taken the benefit of our gracious
ity,” he guve orders fot a general imaseaere . |
« fTotbat end, We have given Sir Paemas Livingston |
orders (0 ewploy our troops (which we have already |
conveniently posted.) to ent off these obstinate |
rebels by all manner of howtility ; and we do require |
you to give him your assistance aud concurrence in|
ail other things that may conduce to that service ; |
and because these rebels, te aveid our forces, uaay |
draw themselves, their families, goods, or cuttle, to}
jurk oF be coucealed among their neighbours ‘|
therefure, we require and authorise vou to emit a
lumation to be published at the market crosses |
of these or the udjaceat shirey where the rebels
reside, discharging Upou the highest penalties the |
faw allows, ny re set, correspondence, or inter }
communing with these rebels.’ ‘Chis monstrous |
yandate, which Was in fact the death-warraut of
fuany thousands of ianocent people, ve distinction
being made of age of sex, would, in all human pro- |
pabiiuy, have been put inte execution, but for he |
rewoustrance of ove bigh-winded nobleman Lord |
Caruarthea, afterwards Duke of Leeds, accidental
ly becute? aware of the purposed massacre, and |
liy rewoustrated with the movarch against |
a measure Whica be deuouuc ed as ut once cruel aud |
jnpe lic After wach discussion, William, influenced
patner by an apprehension that so savage and |
eweepiug an act might prove futul to bis new
gutheriiy, than by any compunetion or hm rulse of
humanity, ayreed to recall the weueral order, and
to limit hinwelf, in the first instance, to a single
deed of butchery, by way of testing the lemper of
the nation. Svwe dificulty seems to have arisen in
the selection of the fittest victim. Both Keppoch |
and Glercve were named, but the personal ranever |
of Seerewry Dalryuipiec decided the doom of the
latter. The Secretary wrote thus:>—" Argyle tells
me that Glencue ball not wken the oath, ut which
I rejoice. kt isa great work of ebarity to be exact |
jn rooting out that damnabie set." The tinal iu-|
structions regarding Glencoe, which were issued ou}
}éth January i0¢%, are as follows:— i

“Witttam R.—As for M'lan of Glencoe and |
that tribe, if they cun be well distinguished from
the rest of the High landers, it will be proper for |
public justice to extirpate that set of thieves.”

“7.2

This letter is remarkable as being signed and
eeantersizned by William alone, contrary to the
esux! practice. ‘The secretary was no doubt desirous
we ecreen bimself from after respousibility, aud was
farther aware thatthe royal signatare would ensure
@ mgorous execulion of the sentence.

Macdonald, or as he was more commonly designat
ed, M lun of Glencoe, was the head of 4 consicera
ble sept or branch of the great Cian Coila, and was
lineally descended from the ancient Lords of the
Isles, and from the royal fanuly of Scotland, the
common ancestor of the Maccdouaids having espoused
= daughter of Robert If. He was, according toa
contemporary testimony. “a person of great in
tegrity, houonr, good nature, and courage, and his
Jovalty to his old master, King James, was such,
that be continued in arms from Dandee's first
appearing in the Higb lands till the fatal treaty that
brought vn bis ruin.” In common with the other
chiefs, he had omitted taking the benefit of the
indemnity until he received the sanction of King
James; but the copy of that document which was
forwarded to him unfortunately arrived too late.
The weather was so excessively stormy at the time
that there was no possibility of penetrating from
Glencoe to Inverara, the place where the sheritf
resided, before ihe expiry of the stated period ; and
M'fan aceordingly adopted the only practicable mode
of signifying bis submission, by waking his way
with great ditficulty to Port-William, then called
Inverivehy, and tendering bis signature to the
military governor there That officer was not
authorised to receive it, bat at the entreaty of the
chief, be gave him a certificate of his appearance
und tender, and on New-year's day, 1692, M'lan
reuched Inverara, where be produced that paper as
evidence of his intentions, and prevailed _— the
sheriff, Sir James Campbell of Ardkingiass, to
adwinister the oaths requred. After that ceremony,
which was immediately intimated to the Privy
Council, bad been performed, the unfortunate

Jeman returued home, in the full conviction
that he had thereby made peace with government
for bimeelf and for hia clan. But bis doom was
already sealed. "

A cempany of the Earl of Argyle’s regiment had
been previously quariered in Glencoe. These men,

nh Cumpbelis, and hereditarily obnoxious to
So lnabes de, Camerons, and other of the loyal
clans, were yet countrymen, und were kindly and
hespitably received. Their captain, Robert Camp
bell of Gleulyon, was connected with the family
of Gleacee through the marriage of a niece, and |
was resident uuder the roof of the chief. And yet|
this was the very troop selected for the horrid
service.

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Aud the fires were rising tast.
When thy noble futher bouuded
To the reseue of his men,
And the slogan of our kindred
Pealed throughout the startled glen.
When the herd of frantic women
Stumbled through the midnight snow,
With their fathers’ houses blazing,
And their dearest dead below !
Oh, the herror of the tempest,
As the tlashing drift was blown,
Crimeoned with the couflagration,
And the roofs went thundering dewn!
Oh, the prayers—the prayers and curses
hat together winged their flight
From the maddened bearts of many
Through that long and wofal night!
Till the tires bogan to dwindle,
And the shots wrew fuint and few,
And we heard the foeman’s efallenge,
Oaly in a tair halloe.
Till the sileuce ouce more settled
O'er the gorges of the glen,
Broken only by the Cona
Viunging through its naked den.
Slowly from the mountain sammit
Was the drifting veil withdrawn,
And the ghastly valley glinunered
In the gray December dawn.
Better bad the morning never
Vawned upon our dark despair!
Black amidst the common whiteness
Rose the spectral ruins there :
But the sight of these was nothing,
More that wrings the wild dove’s breast,
When she searches for her offspring
Round the relics of her nest,
For, in many a spot, the tartan
Peered above the wintry heap,
Marking where a dead Macdonald
Lay within his frozen sleep
Tremblingly we scooped the covering
From each kindred victim's bead,
And the living lips were barning
On the cold ones of the dead.
And [ leit them with their dearest—
Dearesi charge bad every one—
Left the maiden with her lover,
Left the met.er with ber son.
1 alone of all was mateless,
Far more wretched I than they,
For the snow would not discover
Where my lord and husband lay.
But I wandered up the valley,
Till I found him lying low,
With the gush upon lis bosom
And the frown upon his brow—
Till I found him lying murdered,
Where he wooed me long ago!

Woman's weakness shall not shame me!
Why should I have tears to shed?
Could I rain them down like water,
O my hero, ov thy head—
Could the ery of lamentation
Wake thee from thy silent sleep,
Could it set thy heart a throbbing,
It were mine to wail and weep!
But I will not waste my sorrow,
Lest the Campbell women say
That the daughters of Claaranald
Are as weak aud frail as they.
I had wept thee, badst thou fallen,
Like our fathers, on thy shield,
When a host of English foemen
Camped upon a Scottish tield—
I had mourned thee, hudst thou perished
With the foremost of his name,
When the valiant and the noble
Died xround the dauntless Graeme !
Bat | will not wrong thee, husband,
With my unavailing cries,
Whilst thy cold and mangled body,
Stricken by the traitor, lies;
Whilst be counts the gold und glory
That this hideous night has woa,
And his heart is big with triumph
At the murder he has done.
Other eyes than mine shall glisten,
Other bearts be rent in twain,
Ere the heath belJs on thy hillock
Wither in the autumn rain.
Then I'll seek thee where thou sleepest,
And I'll veil my weary head,
Praying fora place beside thee,
Dearer than my bridal bed.
And I'll give thee tears, my husband,
If the tears remain to me,
When the widows of the foemen,
Cry the coronach for thee !

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For THE EXAMINER.

TO HIS EXCELLENCY HE LIEUT. GO-|

VERNOR—THE HONORABLE THE LE-
GISLATIVE COUNCIL — THE HONOR-
BLE THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.

The huuble Petition of the undersigned Inhabitants |
(into any details upon it.

of King’s County, sheweth—

Special instractious were sent to the major of the
regiment, one Duncanson, then quartered at Bal. |
jacbulish, a morose, brutal, and savage man, W bo}
accortingly wrote to Campbell of Gleulyon in the |
following terms :—

“ Batracnorts, 12 February, 1692. |

“ Stn,—You are hereby ordered to fall upon the)
rebels, the M’Donalde of Glencoe, and putt all to
the sword auder seventy. You are to have special
cave that the old fox and Lis sous dove upon to
arcount escupe your hands. You ure lo sectire all!
the avenues that ho mah estape. This you are w |
put in execution att live © eluck in the moruiny ;

inelyand by that time or very shortly after i
Fi strive to be att you with a stronger party. if 1)
dve not Come to you at five, vou are ‘not to tarry for
we but to tall un. This i by the king's special)!
coumaand, for the good and saiety of the country,
that these miscreants be cutt off root aud brauch.
dee that this be putt in execution without feud or |
favour, else you may expect to be treated as not]
true to the king’s government, nora mun litt tocarry |
« commission iv the king's service. Expecting you
will not faill in the fuldiling hereof as you love
yourself, I subserive these with my hand.
ie “Roserni Duscanson.” |
“Por their Majesty's service. To Captain }
Kobert Campbell ef Glenlyon.”

This order was too literally obeyed. At the)
appointed hour, when the whule inbabitants of the |
glen were asleep, the work of murder begaa. M'lan |
was one of the first who fell. Drammond’s narra
tive fills up the remainder of the dreadful story.

“They then served all within the family in the |
same manner, without distinctiun of age or person. |
Iu a word, for the Norror of that execrable butehery |
must give pain to the reader, they left nove alive!
bat a young ehild, who being frightened with the |
noine of the guns, and the diemal shrieks and cries |
of its dying parents, whom they were a-murdering,

hold of Captain Campbell's knees aud wraj
iteelf within his cloak ; by which, chaneing to move |
compassion, the captaia inclined to have saved it, |
but one Drummond, an officer, arriving about the |
breuk of day with more troops, commanded it to be |
shot by w file of musqueteers. Nothing could be |
more shocking and horrible than the prospect of |
these houses bestrewed with mangled bodies of the
dead, covered with blood, and resuunding with the |

of wretcbes in the last agonies of life.

“Two sous of Glencoe'’s were the only persons
that escaped in that quarter of the country ; for,
—— jealous of sowe ill-desigus from the beha-
viour of the soldiers, they stole from their beds a
few minutes before the tragedy beyan, and chancing
to overhear two of them discoursing plainly of the
matter, they endeavoured to have advertived their |
father, bat finding that impracticable, they ran to |
the other end of the country and alarmed the inha- |
bitants. There was anotheraccident that contridu- |
ted much to their safety; for the night was so

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:

That your Petitioners, grateful to Parliament |
for the arrangement by which they, or many of |
them, have been relieved of all outstanding claims |

against them as tenants, and placed in a fair posi-

ly the absence of convenient markets, or good |
roads leading to those already existing; in conse-
quence of which they find4t to be a perfeet hard-|
suip, at least, to meet their annual engagements |
with Government at the proper season, and ia the |
shape required. |

That were the Gorernment prepared (or au-}
thorised, if need be, by Parhament) to accept pay- |
ment of the annual “instalments,” outstanding |
and still due upon their farms as balance of pur- |
chase, ix grain, your petitioners should truly con- |
sider this an inestimable advantage to them, whiist
to the Government it would insure the regular re- |
ceipt of said instalments.”

That this arrangement night readily be rendered |
stil more advantageous to them in the market |
which it weuld rapidly create fur the disposal ot |
their entire surplus produce, inasmuch as the Go-}
vernment Grain Commissioners, appointed for its |
execution, weuld be certain to attract ready pur-

| chasers or orders for much more grain than would |

be required under their commission.

That, with the view to render this business of |
easy execution, as well as to meet the most press |
ing want of the place, should the Legislature au- |

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thorise at once the early construction of a good | boon the means

Plank Road from the Head of Saint Peter's Bay |
to Grand River Bridge—a brief distance of some |

| tion to become proprietors, have to regret extreme-|

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M‘Aulay; Messrs. Ramaay, J. Yeo, Montgomery,! Tue Devez to Psy IN Hesse Casst..—

Howat, Davies—-13. The original motion was
then agreed to.”

Mr. Longworth moved the following addition to
Mr. Haviland’s resolution before the question was
finally put upon it:—

“A person ownirg lands, partly freehold and
partly leasehold, amounting together in value to
One Hundred Pounds currency, shall be entitled
to the qualification referred te in the feregoing
resolution.”

The next resolution on this subject was moved
by Mr. Haviland on Saturday, and is as follows ;—

“ Resolved, Thata Candidate for election to the
Legislative Council shall be thirty years of age, |
a British subject, aud atieast five years a resident |
in the Colony prier to the teste of the writ of |
election,

“Hon. the Speaker moved in amendment
thereto, that the Candidate be three years a resi- |
det in the Colony.

“ Forthe amendment—Hons. the Speaker, Coles,
Woaelan, Perry, Thornton, Kelly, Wightman ;
Messrs. Davies, Cooper, Sinclair, Sutherland,
Owen—12. Against it: Hons. Haviland, Hensley,
M’Aulay, Yeo, Col. Gray, Longworth, Pope,
Laird; Messrs. Ramsay, Douse, Moutgomery,
Beer, Howat. J. Yeo—14. The original motion
was then agreed to.”

It 1s evident from the tenor of the foregoing re-
solutions, that if ever the elective Council Bill
should go inte operation ~ which we very much
doubt—the majority of the people will have no
control over it. The Council, as it now stands,

is infinitely preferrable to what it would be under

}

There has been the very deuce to pey in Hesse
Cassel. As to the British public, the majority of
their number is in a pleasing state of uncertainty
as to where Hesse Cassel is, and who the poten-
tate may be who rules over it. There are somany
Hesses. ‘There is the Hessian Landgrave who
keeps the gambling-house, and the Hessian Prince
who is about 20 become a son-in-law of England.
‘There is one magnifico who resides at Darmstadt,
and is a Duke; and ‘then there is the Elector oi
Hesse, who has lately got into such a terrible
trouble, and made such a pother in the minor
German mind. ‘The, capital of the Electorate—
although we are not at all sure about it—is Cas-
sel. Beyond this, and an indistinct idea that all
things Hessian are in some way connected with
boots, Hesse fades away into a kind of shadowy
land ef pumpernickel, saur-kraut, bad oysters,
Hof-Kammerers, armies twenty-seven strong,with
as many field-marshels as soldiers, royal revenues
of five hundred a year, and coats of urms with
five hundred quarterings—a kind of German coun-
try of Cockayne split up into Wolfeubuttels and
Schaumberg Lippes, and Saxe Everythings. Un-
less we are misled by the Almanach de Gotha,
electoral Hesse is at this moment ruled bya
sovereiga called Frederick William I., who as-
vended the electoral chair in 1847, and who is
now in the sixtieth year of his age. Very lately
the Elector of Hesse, perambulating his palace,
strolled into his wife’s boudeir, and discovered her
Effulgeacy the Electress—if that be her proper
title—greedily devouring tae contents of the Prus-
sian Punch, the current number of which con-
tained some comments not altogether complimen-
tary to her lord. His Serene Excrescence—ii
that be his proper title—felt, like Mrs. Bond of
the nursery ballad, and in re the sage and ontons,

the elective principle based on the foregoing re-

tailing enormous expense on the Culony. We
have net time for further comment now, but will
take an early opportunity to retura to the subject.

On Saturday afternoon, immediately after the
adjournment, a grosa outrage was offered to the
Hon. Mr. Coles by the Colonial Secretary and his
brother the member for Bedeque. It appears
that Mr. Coles used some language in debate, in

self-defence, which was particularly distasteful to |

the Messrs. Pope. Instead of having disposed
of the matter while the House was sitting, the

: : | have always beer remarkable for upholding their
solutions. It would certainly then be the subser- | 9 3 .

vient tool of the proprietary clique, besides ev- |

in “a very very great rage.” German potentates

matrimonial rights by the strong band. Frederick |
William I. of Prussia used to cane his wife and
birch his daughter Wilhelmina. In emulation of
this famous example, Frederick William LI. of
Hesse proceeded to have what our Freueh allies
i term a “ fackeuse explication” with the Electress,
but what in England subjects unbelted husbands
to the risk of six months’ imprisonment and hard
labour. We don’t know exactly how the Hessian |
Bluebeard went to work—whether he corrected |
his consort with his seeptre—if be have oue—or,
according to the spirit of the old common law ot
England, with a stick no thicker than his thumb.
At all events, he proceeded to the most womis-
takeably violent exereise of the Faustrecht.
| Piercing sereams were heard from the electoral
japartments, and an adventerous flunkey ventured
to the scencof contention. Here the story grows

member for Bedeque rushed at Mr. Coles, in a
most threatening and violent attitude, the moment
the House was adjourned— demanding him to re-
peat his words, if he dared; while the Colonial
Secretary—convulsed with rage, and his counte-
nance black with passion—called repeatedly on
his brother James to “wring the nose”’ or neck of
Mr. Coles, accompanying his vociferations with
eurses and foul abuse. Mr. Coles was perfectly
unmoved during the whole scene; and neither

“ James” nor William H. Pope had the courage | teary ‘ ; =
| tongue is termed a“ rive,” and in ours a * shindy.

to attempt to put their threat in execution.
Quietness was restored after a little time by the
Speaker ordering the Colonial Secretary to leave
the floor of the House of Assembly, where be

the Honse,even while they are engaged in debate,
and making nearly as much use of the floor as if)
he were privilesed to holda seat there. We hope
the Speaker’s reprimand will not be wholly lest |

on this shameless individual.

The House have been engaged during the whole
of this day, (Monday), in discussing the priner- |
ples of the famous Award—Coi. Gray having in- |
troduced a resolution, recommendiug the passing |
of a Bill te confimn the Award, without entering

Although the majority
openly advocate the confirmation of the Award, |
they do not hesitate to express their opiaions
privately that their legislation on the subject will
be perfectly uugatory.
that the system: of hunrbug with which the Gevern-
ment inaugurated their adininistration, will be
practised to the fullest extent in reference to the

Indeed, there is no doubt,

Land Question, as we hare already shown on}
many occasions; and we have now wore abundant
proof than ever to establish the duplicity of the
Government in reference to it, which we shall do
at an early day.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

——

“Dreamer,” “W. D. Stewart,” on the Montague
Meeting, “ One of the People,’
Award; aud “Observer,” hare been received.

’ in reference tothe
St Slide. ae

We have had no Mails from abroad since our
last issue. The violent storms which commenced
about ten days ago, and by which the roads have
been most effectually blocked up, hare no doubs |
of interrupting our regular coir- |
inunieation with the postal departments in the ad- |

seven miles, and throughout which every nataral | joining Colonics.

facility presenta itself{—the undersigued could de-
posit then all their surplus produce at the latter
point, which, owing to its safe and favorable situ-

| ation for shipping, should soon become a very po- |

pular place of export.
That by accepting the labor of the people, in
payment of the aforesaid “ instalments,” on said

road, the entire expense, perhaps, of its coustruc- |

tion would be obviated as an item of the public |

estimates, whilst the revenues should be largely
improved incidentally with the increased prospe-
rity growing out of this good work.

Wherefore, &e. &e. Ke.

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Che Examiner,

Charlottetown, March 24th. 1862.

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.

thiscise |

Catuotrc Youne Men’s Literary Insti-}
Turer.—The leeturer being unavoidably absent on |
Thursday evening last, a debate took place on}
Education. The audience was large and respect- |
able; and eight or nine gentiemen present entered
upon the discussion of matters relating to education
generally, and the educational system af the Co-
lony, with considerable spirit and ability. Some
of the points advanced and discussed were as fol-
lows:—Ist. That it is absurd to establish expensive
Celleges, where there exists no intermediate |
schouls between them and the districts. 2nd. That |

County. 4th. That the Normal Schoo} is an wn-}

ares | nance was lace
: t ‘i ral entity had to be conveyed to bed, there to
only an intruder, having no seat there. We have |

|
long since observed that Mr. Secretary Pope ap-| paper, or such subst
As | eament . hy
pears to be dead to al! sense of shame in thrusting | C26" 8S the court pay
. . co
himself perpetually on the notice of members of}

' due to the carelessness of the fvotman.

| tosbring the war to a successful close, there wi

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mystified. Perhaps the flankey was a kind ot
|Teutonic Ruy Bilas, with the livery of a John}
| Thomas but with the soul of a Cid. Perhaps he |
sympathized with beauty in distress, repudiated
| his plash and asserted his dignity, and with retri-
| butive fists impressed on the Elector the truth of
| the apopthegm that “ He who would lift his hand
| against a woman, save in the way of kindness, is
| unworthy the name of a man.” Perhaps Frede-
i rick William essayed to kick the audacivus menial
‘trom the apartmenut—these pantomime potentates
lare always kicking their subjeets—and stumbled
‘or tripped himself up in doing so. Under any
‘vireumstances there arose what in the Gailic

/A table and a mirror were overturned and
' smashed, and, worse than this, the Electoral body
‘was brought to the ground, the Electoral counte-
rated and bruised, and the Electo-

have its anguish assuaged by vinegar and brown
titutes for these homely medi- |
sicians of Hesse Cassel} |
A cock- |

uld provide for so illustrious a patient.
d-bull story was hashed up that the Elector’s
i and that his fall was |
lt was)
said even that grave jurisconsults had been called |
in to know whether ‘the neglectful lacquey could |
not be criminally prosecuted. But the real truth |
of the matter soon oozed out; and it beeame |
known that the palace servants had been threat: |

an
toot had caught in a carpet,

lened, not with prosecution, but with dismissal, if |

hey revealed the real case of the down-tumbling |
of this Reval Humpty-Dumpty. The seeret was, |
however, as well kept as palace secrets generally |
are, and at this moment all Germany is chackling
at the misadventures of the Elector of Hesse, and |
the burlesque tragedy which has just been played
at Cassel. A political moral, not altogether de-
void of significance, may be derived trom this
tempest in the Electoral teapot. Are not these |
and similar scandals which have of late years|
occurred among the halécrowned heads of Ger-
many, calculated to shake our faith ia the wisdom
of the Germanic Federationg which coaiinues to

‘tolerate the existence of these truimpery little

principalities, bringing power inte contempt aud

monarchical institutions into derision?
evmsaiiadiiestiillia innwaibente

TAXATION UN THE Srares.—The Philadelpiia

| Daily News thus moralizes on the subject :—

“We have taken a calin and deliberate view of
this question, and while we are satisfied that it is
true policy to act promptly apd evergetically, we
do not think it wise to iiapose greater burthens |
ou the people now suffering froin the derange-
eat of ordinary business, than the emergency

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makes vecessary; and we are sure that it is not
| patriotic to seare timid men by exaggerating the |

li/we suppose that,
m

al

wants of the Government.

be wanting $1,000,000,000, and if it be all procured

lat the average rate of the recent loan, it will be}

seen that the aanual interest on that sum, at7
3-10 per centum will amount to $73,000,009 ; and

we have frequentty heard it asserted in Congress

that an economical administration of the Govern-
would reduce its ordinary expeues to F59,-
GU0,P00. }

If, therefore, to these sums we add one per cent.

‘of the amount of the public debt, asa sinking fund, |

say $10,000,000, we shall uave an aggregate of
$133,000,000, which is all the preseut Congress
should be expected to raise, and as such a sum ix, |
it will not be a serious burthen to the country
when peace and prosperity are restered to the
people.

Ye cannot understand the efforts of the New
York Press, unless they be intended to add to the
embarrassment of Congress,aud to create panic in
the minds of the people. The English element
which pervades that city, ef course, syinpathizes
with their home Government; and with the pros-
pect of trouble between the two countries, it will
bear a little watching.”

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SouTHERN LAMENTATIONS OVER TIE FALL|

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AMERICAN AFFALRS.

——
The battle of Roanoake Island is acknow-
ledged by the Confederates to bave resulted
in a most complete and ovorwhelming defeat
of their forces, Tue whole army are made
prisoners—all their armed vessels captured or
destroved—Elizabeth city deserted and burn-
ed—such is their own account of the disaster
which bas befallen them. The number of
prisoners is stated at 2500 or 3000, which
probably includes only the troops upon the
island. It has been reported that General
Wise, with about 5000 men had taken up a’
position at a place called Nagg’s Lead on a |
narrow strip of land which separates the At-
lantie from Roanoake Svund, to the westward
of which only a few miles distant is Roanoake
Island) What has become of this body of
troops does not uppear from the aceounts re- |
ceived, although it appears that their com-|
mander retired beyond the reach of danger. |
The New York World thus remarks upon |
the recent capture of Fort Mellenry :—
“The capture of the fort, which is situated |
just upon the Tennessee border, secures us a
foothold in the rear both of Columbus and |
Bowling Green—the two strongest positions)
of the rebellion, Manasses excepted. More-!

.PTURE C€ AT ‘ : ALA.
from Capt. pb Ie Burdett, states the Traveller,
master of the bark Neapolitan, to her owners,

Messrs. Joseph Holmes & Son of Kingston, giving
an account aie wigs yy and destruction by the
Privateor Sumter, off Gibralter on the Jith mit.
The letter, which gives the first particulars of the
atfuir reevived in this Country, is dated Gibraltar,
Jan, 21, and is as follows;
“T jeft Messina on the 29th of December, and
on the moruirfy of Jan. 19, I was in the Straits of
Gibraltar, within a mile and a half of Gata Point.
At daylight made a steamer showing the Aweri-
can ensign, Whieh came alvngside aud ordered me
to heave to. She sent her boat on board with
orders fur me to take wy papers and go on board
her. The steamer proved to be the rebel steamer
Sumter, After examining my papers, the captain
informed me that [ wasa prize, and that he should
burn the bark after stripping her of sails and rig-
ging. He was as good ashis word. He algo tovk
all iny nautical instruments and charts and cliro-
nometer, besides robbing my person of $86 in
money. I was boarded at 6.45. a. m., and at 2,
p. m., they set the bark on fire. I was transferred
to the bark Investigator, which was captured at
the same time within three miles of me. The
captain of the Sumter took the bond of the captain
of the Lavestigator for $15,000, but he would not
take a bond from me. My cargo was consigned
to Baring Brothers, Londoa; and be said this was

over the command of the Memphis and Ohio | only a trick to couceal American property. Le
railroad, which it has given us, euts off all | told me that he would bura every Massachusetts
communication between the two strongholds, | vessel he captared, as there was no chance ot
except by the extremely circuitous route | getting them into port. ;

through North Alabama and North Mississ-| “Thave made a protest — = American
ippi, over a portion of the great Virginia and Consul at this port, and shall bring home a copy.

| back the irun gunboats, that now ran freel
~ y

south-western route, already overburdened
by its army service. ‘Lie Confederate forees
at Columbus nuwber about fifty thousand
inen, and those at Bowling Green about forty
thousand. A considera! le portion of these
two armies consists of sixty days’ men, o!
little discipline or practical efficiency. Nei-
ther of the twostrong :olca cin space anything
like the number of good soldiers that would
be required te retake Fort Henry and drive

up the railroad bridge across the Tennessee.
If the heavy detail should be made from Co-
lumbus, 1t would at once expose that point
to be euptured by our large force at Cairo,
acting in cenjunetion with gunbyats on the
Mississippi. if the detail should be made
from Bowling Green, General Buell’s large
army, now at Musfordsville and vicinity,
would sweep in irresistibly. Yet to permit
our forces up the Tennessee river to strenz-
then themselves, would be to ineur the risk
of beang completely hemmed in on the rear,
and losing both armies completely. There-
fore an abandonm nt of both of these great
positio: s, in order to give us battle on our
own ground, or in order to eseape without
fighting, must quickly become a nulitary ne-
cessity. A battle given against the tremen-
dous ferce we could at once concentrate,
could hardly fail to result in their overwhelm-
ing defeat ; and retreat without battle woald
be justas disastrous. The effect in both cases
would be clearance of both Kentucky and
Tennessee from the reellion.’’

Tue ATLANTIC TeLEGRAPH.—The excitement

The Sumter is Jying in the bay, with no means to
fit out. She could pay for but thirty tons of coal
at Cadiz. There are ten or twelve American
vessels in the bay, none of them daring to start
out.”

Hotroway's Prrts.—Beiter and worse.—The
varying temperatures of our winters are always ac-
companied by a large increase of pulmonary dis-
eases. To-day they are better, to-morrow worse,
which frequently oceurs without fresh exposure to
cold. This arises fromthe ipritabje state of the air-
tnbes, and may be entirely prevented by rubbing
Holloway’s soothing Ointment on the ‘buck ava
frontof the chest. It penetrates to the lungs, allays
theirirratability, reduces the burried respiration and
regulates the cireulation both throagh the heart and
lungs. Holloway’s Pills should be taken at the
sume time; they parily the blood and restore tone
generally. Chest coumplaiuts require no remedial
wmensires besides Holloway's Preparations and a
regular temperature.

A destructive fire broke out in Augusta, Me.,
on last Saturday night, destroying the post office,
the ‘Age’ printing offive, telegraph office, the steam
and dry press rooms of the * Kennevec Journal,’
several stores and law and insurance offices.
total loss by the fire is $27,800, on which there is
an iusurance of $12,500.

PRICES CURRENT.
Cuarvotretows, March 15, (862.

Provisions.
Beef, (small) per Ib.....--. +00 seers 3d to 5d
Do by the quarter.......... bess ound -34 to 4d
Mutton, per 1D.......cecece cree cece cees 3d to 6d
Pork, pot 1b. Sia gjss 006 ++cccenscsscese 29d to 4d
Do (small).... ce. eeeee veces oe 44d to 6

Butter (fresb)......... -++ Is ld to ls 3d

teeter

which has prevailed for some weeks past relative
to the American difficulty bas been the means of |
again directing the attentioa of electricians and |
capitalists to the possibility of establishing tele-'
graphie communication between this country and

America. The question is now seriously asked |
whether there are any really insuperable difficulties
in laying a submarine telegraphic cable across the |
Atlaatic. It may be usetal at this time to aseer- |
tain what are the facts that affect this question of |
submarine telegraphy. A short time since a joint
cominittee was appointed by the Board ef Trade

and the Atlantic Telegraph Company to inquire |
into the whole subject, and their report will be |
found te contain much useful information on the |
subject. The report stated that at the date at

Which the committee coneladed its labour, 11,364

miles of submarine telegraph had been laid, and |
that of this extent about 3000 miles were actually |
at work. Of the total quantity laid 3074 miles
were in shallow water, 8290 were deep sea cables.
The fatlure of the Atlautic cable was due in a
great measure to its most defective construction,
and the iuefficiency of its insulation. The Malta
and Alexandria cable, which has recently been
laid at the cost of the Government, was manufac-
tured with great care, and uoder the supervision
of engineers appointed by the Board ot Trade.

|

That line is in working order, and has been so}

from the time of its submergence. This affords |
reason for believing, that with care and caution, |
and the use of the best materials that can be ob-|
tained for the purpose, deep sea cables may be |
laid for great distances aad worked with efficiency. |
Upon a carefil consideration of al! the facts bear- |
ing upon this important question of submarine |
telegraph, we think there is yet a prospect of
success for deep sca lines, and we believe the time
is not far distant when renewed attempts will be |
made to conneet by telegraph the old and hew |
world.—Loudon Observer.

Ee

Mextco.—The latest advices from Mexico, Jan-
uary 23%, state that Commissioners of the allics
and of the Mexican Government have had a con-
ference for the purpose of negotiating a treaty, |
and that some arrangement has probably been
~igds slthough its terms had not then been dis-
closcd.

We learn that a private letter dated January
28, from an intelligent American geatleman now
residing in Mexico, has been received in this city,
which gives the terms of this treaty, which are
substantidlly as follows: That the Spanish force
is to leave the country forthwith; thatan English
and French torce consisting of 18,000 infantry and |

| ten batteries of artillery are to remain in Mexico; |
' that those Governments are to loan the Mexicans |

to coutrol all}

forty million dullars; that they are
the Mexican custom houses, retaining two-thirds
of the revenue, and paying the remaining third to |
the Mexican Gevervment; that they are to con-|
trol the Tehuantepec route; that this treaty is to)
remain in foree five years, or until the foreign |
elainsare paid.—{ Busten Courier.

‘

Tue Late Prixce Consort's ILuyess.—|

the study of classical languages is acomparatively | or Fort DoneLson.—The Richmond Dispatch ‘The ‘Medical Times and Gazette’ says :—‘ There |
pee ma of time. = That instead of one | of the 19th instant bas a leader on the capture of cay be no objection to the publieation of the de-
School Visiter for the whole Island, one Visitor, ! Fort Donelson, which represents the rebels there | tajls of the symptoms and treaument ef the late) yw : "KLE

with smaller salaries, should be appointed for each | as having been opposed by tremendous odds, and prince, prov ie i ‘ ©) Water-street, now occupied as a TELEGRAPH

it be done at such a time and ia,

necessury burthen to the Colony. Sth. That per- | most desperate fighting,” and says that the result ings of his nearest relatives, ‘These details would | year.
soas shivwld not be allowed to teach school until) entails no dishonor on the rebel cause, and will! probably be commonplace enough. Exery prac- | |

they are 21 years of age. 6th. That female | nly animate to the most stern and undying resis- | titioner knows how insidious are the symptoms at |

Do by the tub.......... re
Cheese, per Idnoee so o>. 00000 aeoseetegms .4d to 6d
Tallow, pet CGiecs owee ce 0+. ooee peep anck 9i to itd
Lrard, per 1D... oo... ccc ores cece cone ones cone 1
Hous, ee 10... on'.. ge cc cccoceecsscces cone 5d to 7d
Pearl Barley, per 10.......0+-ss000+003hd bo 1}
Plows, per harrebis. . 0.5 cc cceecces +--+ 428 to 45s

Doe per Wi dicins de 0000 ce0e ccs. -Giumie aetde 234
Dgtbahs 908 Bisa sicj0 000 coe ce toca pas eee) § to 2!
Ezgs, per dugen........+-..4. «+++ 10d to Ie

Vegetables.
Potatoes, per bushel..... 1s 21 to Is 44

see ew weet

Carrota, per bushel.......... + coer ccs 20 G4

Grain.
Wheat, per bushel......iseeere+-++ cece yee One
Barley itl Eee ee 3s to 45
Vsts Pe Seen Pe ee $
Poultry.
Darkeyapewtles iss... ccccccc cece ° 3s to Gs
‘ o oc. cee ante Gf

Geese, each......0-.

avi, COOP oro +002 ceed eer +. 9d to Is
Rinoks. engh.... nc onpacage tates >be mene ls to ls 3d
Partridges, cach... .... ..+0 sess csescees 9d to Is
Fish.
COBROR, DOT BU...» 000, nc ce:0902 00000007 GN TD ae
Herrings, per barrel........... Par ttn 25s to 50s
Mackerel, por doen... ....0+ ecco cess ls 6d to 3s
Lumber.
Boards (Hemlock)..........0+ 008 - +.++38 6d to 4s
Do (Sprace) ..2-.s» PT <<

Do = (Pine) .nencesessssee opens epee 6,00 OS

Shingles, per Mf. ... ~.-- + 0ess0 voce cece cee ROMS
Suudries.
Timothy Sood; per bathed: 625. 0005 Snes see none
Ciover Seed, per lb........ eonr.cbce speeds ..s hone
Wool, per Ib....... orccees o tee ecee eres eee RONG
Hay, perton....... ° -— ere, FS
SCTAW, PCT CHL ee reeeece cece coseccee ce 1s 6d to 2s
Hometpan, DOr Yard...0-sisceneseccee 3s Gd to 6s
Apples, per dosen... os oc0e.ccee se voce ooes oe4e RODS
Caliskins, per Ib....... oneee snes oevewccs 4d te 7d

Sh idlot, POE?" cwwsie Sheepskins, each........ + eee 5a to 6a Gd

GEORGE LEWIS, Market Clerk,

HEA ADVERTISEMENTS.

Particular Attention!
J. W. PICKARD,
ADDLER, HARNE33 MAKER, &c.,

(adjoining the Store of John Trenaman, Esq.)
gratefully acknowledges the very liberal support
he bas received since commencing business, and
sulicits a continuance of public favor, conlident that
he can muke it advantageous to all those who may
deal with Lim. The present depressed state of
business renders it necessary to make a call on all

+ @eee

| whose accounts are over due; it is therefore fully

expected that all such will make paymenton or be-

fore the FIFTEENTH APRIL ENSUING, and thus save

diificulty on the one hand, and trouble ou the other.
dMarcli 24, Lo02, ai

The

STEAMERS W

BQO(RED BY Tus GOVERN.
ENT OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND,
a = CLASS BOAT, — Two —
DRED TVons ReGister, new or

ow metalled, capable of maintaini agen fe
miles per hour, at a of hiney pounds
steam, wit ions for P. similar
in sty le to the accommodations usualiy found in the
better class of American Passenger Lboate, To be
built of JUNIPER, under inspection of Lloyd's
Surveyor; the butts to be fastened with screw’belte.
To draw not over seven feet of water, when with
coals for 18 hours on board.

A second BOAT, of sume clase, in size not less
than Ose Hesxpuev Tons Reoister, of Wood or
Iron, with Evgiags below desks; to maintain a
speed of not lesa than ten miles per hour. If of
wood to be coppered or metalled, and to be fiued
commodiously for passeagers.

These boats are required for the conveyance of
Mails and Passengers. The larger one to run from
CHARLOTTETOWN to SILEDIAC ans ub
SUMMERSIDE, three times a week, and trom
SHEDLAC to CHARLOTTETOWN, calling at
SUMMERSIDE, three times a week, under tus d>
rection of the Post Oilice authorities.

The smaller one to ran from CHARLOTTE-
TOWN to HARBOR BRULEE’ and PICTOU, four
times a week, nanaely, three trips to BRULE’ and
one to PICTOU, and from BRULE' and PICTOU
wo CHARLOTEETOWN the like number of trips.

‘The Boats to be ‘at all times under Government
inspection, and subject to regulations similar to those
required by the Laws of New Bruuswick relating
to Steambouts.

The above boats required to ply on the above res-
pective routes, from the opening of the navigation
io the 10th December or the closing of the navig»-
tion in each year; and to be placed on the routes a»
signed to them in the menth of May, 186 .

ALSO,
SEPARATE TENDERS will be received for
STEAM BOAT wo form, next suminer, the Mai
services between Prince Edward Island, and Pi
or Brale Harbor, and Priace Edward Island
Shediac, four trips a week, namely : from Charlutte-
town to Pictou or Brule Harbsr, iwhiehever of the
lutter ports may be determined on), twice a week,
and from Charlottetown to Shediac twice a week.
lhis boat to be a substantial and suitable sized boat
of the description of the siaaller boat above referred
to, or similar to the better clase of American passon-
ger boats.

Tenders for the performance of the shove mon-
tioned services, as regards the two first above mon-
tioned boats, will be received at the ollice of the
Colonial Secretary of Prince Edward. Island, nawil
Saturday, the 7th day of June next ensuing, at the
bour of twelve o'clock, noon; and as regurds the
last meutioned boat, until Saturday, the fifteenth
day of March ensuing, at the like hour. Tenders
to state the amount per season for which such ser-
vices, to be undertaken by the two first mentioned
bouts, will be ormed for a term of ten years ;
and the amount for which the services of the last
mentioned boat will be performed for the one sum-
mer. Payment to be accepted by the Contractor ia
Warrants on the Treasury of Priuce Edward Islan¢;
and the fenders to be accompanied by the writes
undertaking of at least two responsible persona, ex-
pressive of their willingness to become sureties in
the sum of £2000, as respects the two first boata;
and £500 as respects the last. mentioned boat, for
the faitufal perforinance of U2 contracts.

Tenders to be marked “ Teader for Steamboats,”
The Government reserve to themselves the righd
te accept such tender or tenders as they may deow
most advantageous to the public interest.

WH. POPE, Col. See'y,
Sth February, 1862. aoe

IN STORE,

20 IIhds. Porto Rico MOLASSES
4 do SUGAR
6 Bbls. = do do
4 Ubds. HOLLAND GIN
2 Casks Jamaica Ram
4 do Whiskey
20 Chests Eaglish TEA
10 Boxes Liverpool Soap
50 Bbis. Apples
4 Cases Cham
50 Reams Wrapping Paper.
ALSO

80 pieces Grey Cotton
40 dozen Cotton Handkerchiefs.

All of which are offered low for Cash or

approved paper.
N. RANKIN,
Queen-street, Feb. 3, 1862. uf

GRAND RIVER WHARF, LOT 56.
RONALD WALKER

ESPECTFULLY intimates to his Friends
and the Public that he has commenced
Business in the Store Jately occupies by
Messrs. McAulay & Johnston, where he has
received a LARGE ASSORTMENT of

NEW GOoDpDSsS,

suitable for the present and a proachi
seasons, which will be sold cheap OP cash.
R. W. assures bis Friends and the Publie
that nothing shall be wanting on his part to
render his Establishment worthy of their
patronage.

October 14, 1861. Ex. only, 6m

DODD & ROGERS

Have sti!l on hand a few of the celebrated

“MAGICIAN COOK STOVES,”

wholly adapted for BURNING COAL,

FANS isa superior first cass STUVE in
every respect,—the Oven is very capa-

cious. It is economical in its consamption of
fuel, and the large size of its flues always
insures a good draught.

Aso — Extfa Soapstoxg and Grates, for
the above Stoves.

Charlottetewn, Dee. 23, 1861.

LUMBER! LUMBER!

OR SALE~—
20,000 feet PINE BOARDS,
36,000 3 and 33 feet LATIs,
4,000 PIECES PAILING.
For sule low.
JAMET PUR
Charlottetown, March 10, 1862. jm _

Ey Auction,

N THURSDAY, 20ch instant, at 11
o'clock, on the premises, the BUILDING in

\ ech OP “ srstinnge « “the 110, OFKICK, NEWS ROOM, SHAVING SHOP, and |
vreed to give in irom sheer exhaustion, after “the | guch a manner as-not needlessly to wound the feel-| WAREHOUSE, and now let at a rent of £50 2}
Terms anc particulars made known at Sale. |

J. & T. MORRIS, Auctioneers.
harlottetown, March 10, 1862. lw

ROOM PAPER.

TPXUE subscriber bas on hand 3500 pieces
ENGLISH ROOM PAPER in variety of
style, varying in prices from %¢ to 68 ench.
Leugths warranted l2 yards, and 22 inches ix
breadth. A piece of English paper covers nearly
double the space of the American manufactures.
~ > a DAVIES,
Sueapside, n Square.
Feb. 24, 1862. eer

excessively stormy and tempestuous, that four teachers of district schools should receive as high | tance every Southern heart. | their invasion, and how, with a deranged state of |

Hiay! Hiay! Hay :

h soldiers, who were appointed to murder — salaries as male teachers. 7th. That musie should; « [f" it says, “these bloody barbarians, whose | th , ager. Pe |

’ : 7 ag male teachers. . mus ry ‘ ays, § y be ans, Se the blood and concurrent debility, brain or lungs | . a
Anveriveh ean dl aor bel as Tue principal part of the time of the House bo taught ty the district schools. Sth. That parents | hands are now soaked to the elbows in the life) may suffer from rapid congestion, or effusion, or| %) he Sold hy Public Aueri tu FIWVAL NOTICE, -
to save themselves. To cover the deformity of #9 during the past week was occupied in receiving | = 7 orn nem oy tae te nome roe ae | blood of men defending their own homes ~p fire-) hemorrhage. There is really pothing unusual in i a MOND "os tan edie ke Sedge 4 LL persons being indebted to the As-
droudful a sigt, the soldiers burned all the houses)... my aoe en ' td |< deme Mheaeepetintetenctcall 2 erating tal monroe be ycpelh iy aay go Poa eae gate inch nearer’ the Prince’s fate, dreadful as it is—and until the |g, yarn” a Te 9 eee ee See oo signees of Mr. Nett Rawk. t
to the ground, after having ritled them, carried awey | petitions, which elicited little or no discussion. | yjews; others were generally supported by the | the subjugation of the South than when they start-| whole population are as thoroughly imbued with | Peters farm, North River, nearJacob Dockendort's, cddet Jestgiintns caate: by the id of

nine hundred cows, two hundred horses, numberless |
berds of sheep and goats, and every thing else that |
to these miserable people. Lamentable
was the euse of the women and children that}
escaped the butchery. The mountains were covered |
with a deep suow, the rivers impassable, storm and |
tempest tilled the air, and added to the borrors and
darkness of the night, and there were no houses to |
shelter them within many miles.”

Such was the awful nimssacre of Glencoe, an
event which has left an indelible and execrable |
gtain upon the memory of William of Orange. The
records of Indian warfare can hardly afford a)

lei instauee of atrocity ; and this deed, coupled |

with his deliberate treachery in the Darien busi-|

ness, whe Seotland was for a time absolutely |

ined, ia mt to aceount for the little estima-
Son jn whieli the name of 7

or ” is sili regarded iv the valleys of the North.
Do not lift him from the bracken,

Leave him lying whee he fell—
Better bier ye cannot fashion:

None beseems him half so well,

As the bare and broken r,

And the bard and trampled sod,
Whence his angry soul ascended

To the judgment-seat of God!
Winding-sheet we cannot give bim—

Seek no mantle for the dead,

Save the cvid and spotiess covering,

Showered fron: heaven upon bis head.
Leave his broadsword, as we found it,

Bent and broken with the blow,
That, before be died, avenged him

On the foremost of the foe.

Leave the blood upon his besom—

Wash not off that sacred stain:
Let it stitfeu on the tartan,

Let his wounds unelosed remain
Till the day when he shall show

At the thrope of God on high,

When the murderer and the murdered

Meet before their Judge's eye!

~~ shoald not weep, my ebildren!
a we me faint and w ;
ula Woman's Weapoli—
wm betit a maiden’s cheek.
Weesant of Maedona'd!
Not in si re bis orphan heir—

, but siajuless honour,
wo oy slaughtered father there.
pes thine “oi when years are over,
is
And op is ewit ond a oy
On mountain and the mujr—
lp oak
Ww)
mu the I whee = th hg:
or the ruce that slew th !
Till im deep and dark Giesben””
Kise » louder shriek of wo,
Than at midnight, from their eyrie
Beured the eagles of Glenvoe. *

the “ great Whig deliver- |

Che Committve appointed last Session to report
on the several petitions then laid before the House,
praying for more stringent regulations in the Li-
cense Law, presented their report, which was
agreed toon Thursday last. The following pro_
visions are to be embodied in the new law :—

“ Licenses in the City of Charlottetown, here-
after to be issued, to be subject to the approbation
of a majority of the Council, instead of two only,
as at present.

“ Every year when a party holding a License
pays his renewal fee, he must also preduce a cer-

| tifieate sigued by two neighbouring Magistrates,

that he has during the preceding twelve months
coudneted his Tavern m an orderly and respecta-
ble manner.

“ Confirmed drunkards to be treated as Luna-
tics, and their property put in charge of a Com-
mittee appointed by the Master of the Rolls.”

On Thursday afternoon the House went into
Committee ou the Despatch of the Duke of New-
eastle, relating to the alterations to be made in the
Legislative Council Bill, which despatch was late-
iy published in this paper. A very warm debate
arose on this subject, which was continued until
Saturday. The principal point in dispute was, as
to the qualification of persons entitled to vote for
mewpbers of the Legislative Council,—the Govern-
ment party contending that electors sbould possess
property to the amount of £100 before they could
vote for members of Coaneil, while the Liberals
contended that property to the amount of £50,
the same as qualified a meinber of the House of
Assembly, should be deemed quite sufficient for an
elector. The views of the majority on this sub-

posed by the Hon. Mr. Haviland :—~

“ Resolved, That any male person of the age of
Tweaty-one years or upwards, who shali own a
treebold or leasehold qualification of the value ot
One Hundred Pounds currency, and shall have
been in possession of the same tor a period of at
least iwelve months previous to the teste of the
writ of Election, shall be entitled to vote for a
Member to serye in the Legislative Council of
this Island.”
Mr. Coles moved to amepd the above by sub-
stituting “fifty” for “one hundred” pounds, but
the amendment was lost on the following division :

“Por Mr. Coles’ eS Ts Coles.
Wightman, Kelly, Hensley, Whelan, 1bornton,
ey Messrs. Owen, Sutherland, Sinclair,
c 11. Against it: Hons. Col. Gray, Ha-

---—
* Mewoirs of fir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel.

viland, Yeo, Pope, Longworth, Laird, the Speaker,

ject are embodied in the following resolution, pro- |.

apeakers.
forth some interesting and important facts, and
was courteously couducted throughout.

Ou Tharsday evening next Mr. Donaid James
MeDonald, of St. Danstan’s College, will lecture
en “The Progress of the Mechanical Arts.”

Pressrterian Tea Meetine.—The Tea Meet-
ing held in the Temperance Hall on Friday evening
last, and given by the Ladies of the Queen Square
Presbyterian Church, was quite a successful affair.
Above three hundred persons were in attendance,
among whom were several members of the Lexis-
lature. The tables were tastefully and abundantly
spread with good things to satisfy the most fastidious
taste, and the tea had the merit—a rare merit in pub-
lic tea meetings—of being hot and strong. After
the tables having been removed, the Hon. Donald
Montgomery took the chair, and the Rev. Mr. Fal-
coner opened the intellectual part of the proceed-
ings in an easy humorous manner, showing that sach
meetings were beueficial, inasmnch as they promoted
friendly feeling and that union which should be the
aim of all true Christians. Revds. Messrs. Barker,
Nicholson, Davis and Knight followed in the same
strain, and with out any effort to be te 4 eloquent
were very happy in their remarks. e may re-
mark that Mr. Falconer was warmly complimented
by the speakers on the spirit as well as the style
of his preaching in the Queen Square Church.
Several pieces of masic sung by the choir, und ac-
companied by the Melodeon, added greatly to the
pleasure of the audience. Hons. Messrs. Longworth
and Coles made a few appropriate observations.
Mr. Laird and Mr. W. MeGill made the concluding
speeches. The former gentleman s ke ably on the
influence of the ladies, the latter eloquently on the
blessings cf civil and religious toleration. :

A very pleasant evening was thus spent, besides
realizing tue handsome sum of £13.

nits

SnockinG Murper.—A horrible and heinous
murder took place on Wednesday in Cavetown
district, Washington county, Md A respectable
wan named Frederick Smith had for several
inonths been paying bis addresses to Miss Agnes
Tracey, a young lady of very respectable parentage,
but with no sucessful result. On W ednesday she
was on her way to visit the
bour, having some rice in
her at a distance from any house, 4
suit in strong terms. On ber refusi
Sinith drew a revolver, and saying she should never
warry avy one else, deliberately fired, the ball
taking effect in her left breast, killing her instantly.
The murderer, taking the rice from her, carri
it to the parents of sick child, and told them
the above details of his hellish act, on whose evi-
dence he was arrested, and now awaits his trial
in the jail at Hagerstown. The murderer had
always mai an excellent character for

.

sobriety and morality.

The debate was well sustained, drew |

sick child of a neigh-| P*

od | beeu despatched by the last mail

ed on their infernal mission, they prove themselves
to be fools and madmen as well as savages and
murderers. ‘They have taught us alesson, we ad-
mit; they have admonished us to be more wary
and circumspect, ty husband with greater care
our limited resources, and not to underrate our
enemy.

But they have also placed between them and us
a guif that ean never be crossed by their arts or
arms, and a universal determination to die, if die
we must, for our country, but never permit her to
be subjugated by the most malignant, the most
murderous,
is at this very moment such a by-word of scorn
and repreach throughout Europe, for their com-
bined cruelty and cowardice, that their own am-
bassadors cannot stand ths scorn ot the world’s
coutempt, and are all anxious to fly back to the
United States. ;

Their success at Fort Donelson, gained only by
vast superiority of numbers, will only have the et-
fect of converting the whole population of the
South—men, women and children—into an im-
inense army, whe will resist them at every step,
and everywhere ‘welcome them with bloody bands
te hospitable graves.’ ‘The glorious valor of our
troops at Fort Donelson is not dimmed in the
slightest degree by their inability to held their
ground against overwhelining odds, but on the
contrary, shines through the black clo
aster with a radiance which will kindle the whole
South into a blaze, and surround their own names
with a halo of imperishable honor.”

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Tur RoMaN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE Ex-
HIBITION.—The Commissioners of the Pope are
desirous of exhibiting the works of Roman con-
tributors for five or six days at the Exhibition
Rooms, on the Pizza del Popolo, before sending
them to London, but they will hardly have time
for this. Besides works of painting, seulpture,
mosaic, cameos, and silk, the Roman department
will comprise some magniticent services of silver
plate, made in Rome, and belonging to Roman
princes.
_—<9 000 &—

A new branch of industry is about to be estab-
lished by the Emperor Louis Napoleon. In every
rt of France immense reservoirs are to be dug
ior the purpose of breeding fish for the consumption
of the navy, as well as for the sailors of the mer-
chant service. An immense revenue is anticipated
from the adoption of the system.

Tur Rep Sea CaBLe.—Four electricians have
Messrs. Bright
and Clark, the engineers of the Telegraph to India
Company, in order to make the arrangements for
the Sea cable.

ait,ee-te>

hice in England and Wales.

the meanest of mankind, whose name |

uds of dis-

It is calculated that there are 1,500,000 Catho-

‘the daugers of sewer gases as they are with the |
Ten Commardments, aud until all sewer systems
shall be carefully and scientifically worked, 60
loug will the most valuable lives—those of men in

the prime of life—coutinue to be frequently in|

| jeopardy.

| HorriB.e RaitRoaD ACCIDENT.—One of the |
| most deplorable casualties ever kuown in this re- |
‘gion, occurred on Monday. A switch engine on |
the New York and Erie Railroad, while crossing |
'aroed near the Dunkirk. station, ran against a)
i sleigh occupied by Mr. James of Sheridan, and |

his wife. ‘The latter jumped to the track imme-|
| diately in frovt of the engine, aud was instantly
jerushed beneath it. Mr. James escaped harm,
| but on seeing his wife thus mangled, leaped from
his sleigh, exclaiming: “ You have killed my
wife!” and fell to the earth, dead.— Buffalo Com-
mercial,

—
>

Cup ATTACKED BY A Rat.—Between one
and two o’clock yesteeday morning, a little girl,
daughter of Mrs. Yielding, residing on Front street, |
was attacked by a rat while in bed. The mother
‘heard the child ery, and on making eaquiry—was
‘informed that the girl was bitten by sume animal.
| A light was speedily procured, aud a large rat
| was seen to leap out of the bed in which the mo-

| ther and daughter had been Jying. The child was
‘severely bitten about the head and arm, aud a
large quantity of blood had flowed from the
wounds.— Toronta Glode.

Serious ACCIDENT ON THE EasTEeRN RalL- p

| ROAD. — The Newburyport ‘Herald’ gives the
| tollowing account of a serious accident upon the
| Kasteru Railroad on Saturday:—A freight train,
consisting of forty cars, drawn by twe engines—-
| the lougest train tor years, that extended the whole
‘length of the Newburyport bridge — passed over
the road for Boston on Saturday morning. When
within about a mile of Parker river, the wheel ot
a ear broke, which was bot noticed until striking
the bridge, where about twenty cars were thrown
from the track upon either side of the bridge.
Seventeen pairs ot wheels were noticed in one pile.
The cars were loaded with a variety of merehan-
dize, such as cotton and woollen goods, rifles, staves,
felt hats, potatoes, beet, eggs, &c., ali of which
were more or less damaged by water.

RemarkaB_es Purvomenox.—The Montreal
Gazette of the 7th inst. says that between two
and three o'clock on Lhersday morning a
bright red light, having the shape and ap~-
pearance of a sword, was seen in the West-
ern part of the heavens and remained visible
for some minutes.

pearance, and by many was looked upon as

It had a very striking ap-|s

14 'Tons Upland Hay.

Tenms — All sums under £19, cash; over £10,
credit will be given until Ist Novewber next, on

|approved joint Notes of Hand.

WILLIAM DODD, Auctioneer.
Maren 17, 1862.

Freehold Tand.

OR SALE, 100 ACRESof FREEHOLD LAND,

in Lot 35, about ten miles, by the Ferry at

Southport, from Charlottetown.

good quality and a portion of it cultivated ; there is

an abuadance of black mud upon the property, and

a stream of water, cupable of driving a mill, lowe

constantly through the land. This stream passes

within a few ehains of the main post road, which

has its course through the centre of the Farm.
Price moderate aud terms favourable.

ANDREW MITCHELL,
Ch.Town, March 17, 1862. (2m. R. W.)

Very Superior Congo Tea.
bk EW Chests and Half Caests imported
from the best Tea House jn Liverpool, G. B.,

and warranted superior, is on sale by
Feb. 24, 1362. WM. McGILL.

Queen Insurance Company
OF LIVERPOOL.
FIRE AND LIFE!
FEINHE Subscriber, having been appointed

agent for tlie above first class Insurance Com
pany, is prepared to take risks on all descriptions of
roperty. J. 8. CARVELL.
Cuuriottetown, Feb. 10. tf

Hats, Lats.

R. BENJ. DAVIES keeps continually
on hand the latest style of FASHIONABLE
PAKIS HATS, —— prices from 9s. to 30s.
Store, Cheapside, Queen Square.
Feb. 24, 1862.

ivin

Notice

O THE CREDITORS of the ESTATE o!

the late Firm of LOCKERBY & HER-
MANS, Tinsmiths, &c., Charlottetown. The
Book of Accounts, and a Deed of Assign-
ment of the said Estate, for the benefit of the
creditors thereof, are at present lying at the
Office of R. B. IRVING, Accountant, Pownal
Street, Charlottetown, where will re-
main for Thirty Days from the date hereof.
‘Tbe former for the inspection, and the latter

have not yet assented to it, but who, on in-

eet, may azree to become parties thergto.

an omen of evil portent,

Ch-Town, March 17, 1862. Zi,

This land is of

for the signature of such of the Creditors as
ion of the Books of Accounts and Balaagce ;

Rankin, of Charlottetown, to them im Au
tast, of his Books of Accounts, Book debis,
Notes ot Hand, judgments, and other eecurt+
ties then due and owing to him, are bereby
fixally notified that immediace payment af
their respective liabilities is required to be
wade to the undersigned; and are farther
notified that all obligations remaining unsa.
tisfied on the 23th day of Mareh next, will be
prosecuted for at law,
ANDREW MITCHELL,
Attorney of Arsignees.
Ch. Town, Feb. 24, 1862.—P_R.W.1 M 4i

LAND OFFICE.
pESSES. BALL & SON take leave moet
VA respectfully to inform the Publie that
piph sin rosrhedny~ ab ow 4 parties desirous t
or pu Land Property, or —- 7
or Conveyancing; and trust, trom their
oud poustusl stteutanes to tadaaen ther tae ts
a ne to
sce hecw nr

eral Properties are now for of
full particulars may be ained by arpring
their Office, East corner ef Prince Water
Streets, Charlottetown.
Caarlottetown, January 20,1962. RW
"To Let, z
HAT commodious DWELLING
i Thouse AND PREMIsEs _
HH ated on Water and Prince Screeia,
at present ocoupied by Mas. U,
MceNurr. Possession given on the first day
of May next. Further particulars on

cation to JAMES D. Masog
Charlottetown, 17th Feb’y, 1862. tf

To Let,

TEXUHE TWO STOREY HOUSE
in Prince-streer. late!

. bing
+44 cupied by John MeNeill, a
and near the residence of the Liug,

iy Juvnson. For particulars to
subscriber, next door. Ty
GSORGE F. DOGHERTY.
Charlottetown, Dee 9. 1861. tf

pat DESIRABLE WATER LOT, in
GEORGETOWN, containing halt ap
aore of LAND, with usual priyjleges, known
as No, 1, or Potwr Lor. Jash or short
time on security. Apply to lon. Josarg

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