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RICHEST MAN IN AMERICA — SKETCH
OF W. B. ASTOR.
A recent writer for the press thus describes Wm.
B. Astor
As the ordinary pesser by is traversing Prince
xtreet, he is not likely to be struck hy the appear

TWILIGHT THOUGHTS.

1 love tie Sammer’s twiticht hours,
As fade we stad wey hues of even,

When dew begins to wei the flowers, {
And early stars shine out of heaven

ance of any of bis surroundings
is of athird rate character, and though quite re
apectable, the houses are of a common stamp. Near
‘ur in th "e re : Roondes ay, however, one may notice a small brick
Aas we b a asd Ane me linwere~ otfice, neatly built, gf ene storey, with gable to the
Their ene pr phe + ibeelior — street, but with doors aud window sclosed, and the

It ps ib rel’s Aamare whole appearance one of security. Near the door
er Tea mav be seen a little sign which reads as follows :
*Entrance next door, office hours from Sto 3."
The next door to which we are thus referred is a
| plain three storey brick dwelling, with no name on

Thongh it is neither day nor night,
Yet both are sweetly now combining,
‘
Awd blend theie dusky, softened light, i ie door, and wiebtiitatehen ib.the recihantdl
To beautify the day's declining some well to do old-fashioned family. Indeed, one
* 4 , a l would be quite startled to léurn that this is the hend
ver like Cn ‘ hristian s dying hour, ; quarters de the yreatest capitalist in America. En
Fy i sane aps the cower } tering the street door, we final ourselves in "4 omall
j Ss lh if beaven. i vestibule neatly floored wult « heekered oileloth wind
bv look, Eke Biephse, ite ben | opening a door on our lefi, we are at once in a front
room, Well lighted, but destitute of any faruiture,
suve a counting-house desk anda few chairs. At
ithis desk muiy be séen a yeung men using pen and
: ount books, and ev identhy en
He will answer all ordinary
}imquires, will de the duty of refusing solicitations
jot charitable nature, and will attend to the gene
jral ran of business; but if you have anything spe
| eial he wil! point you to a door opeving into a rear
| office. Thig office is of moderate size, and of plain
jfurnitare. On a table a few books, and on
opening that one which
perceiye that itis a volume of maps of city prorert#,
carefully and elegantly executed, aud, as a whole,
ewbraciny the sundries of au enyrimous estate
Seated by the desk, neur the window, you may
behold a hirge stout built man,with coarse features,
j stitf, rowgzh, sandy colored huir, and a cast of coun
4 tenance ot a very ordinary , and even vulvar type,
He is plainly, theagh neatly dressed, and ocuss a
| somewhat cire-worn look, und appears to be fifty
:
;

The cord which binds to earth his soul
‘Yue knife of death will shortly sever;
Tinea free from tears and pain’s control,

ink on a series of ace
His spirit will be happy ever

| joving an easy berth.

While sinks bia palse, his eves grow dim,
And things of time, not worth his heeding
At euch an hour, are nought to him,
But, like the duy-beaus, are receding
ure

es ife °
As ebbea the tice of life away, appears noet thumbed, you

His fuith each moment growing stronger,
lic would not here protauct his stay,
To weep, aud grog, aad sutter longer.

Between two worlds, with half-plamd wings,
lis dattering spirit is suspeaced ;

An? things of earth with heavenly things,
dike twilight s yuinghag hues, are bleuded.

/Jie sweet to die as Christians die,
Resigned, rejeicing and victorions,

Waren not a choad obscures theit sky,
Aud all is tranquil, bright aud glorious

to sixty years of ave. You naturally feel a degree
of uwe on addressing him, since it is not often you
| speak to 2 man worth twenty-five millious of dol-
lars. Sueh,at least, was our experience at our first
interview with William B. Asior. We were in
want of a loan of $10,090, and so determine d to yo
to headquarters. Having been introduce d ne afore

Be auch a dying triamph mine—
May holy prospeccs rise before me—
While forms angelic aud divine,

. nat 4 <5 daa le q | said, to the rear office, the enquiry was, Well sir,
} ith beckouing lingers, hover o'er me. what is your business!’ ‘ I wish a» loan of ten
Pe eae Ithousund dollars on real estate.”’ ‘ Whit is Your

THE DY ING CHID. | property worth?” “Sixteenthousand.’ “1 mph!

people generally come here and wané a little more
ou property than it is worth. Leave your applica
tion and it will be looked at.’ We did so. In the
eourse Of the day, from our window, we noted a
atall and somewhat uncouth form pacing in front
and taking a survey of the premises, with no favor

Mather, I'm tired, and f would fain be sleeping— |

Let me repose upon thy bosom meek ; :
But premise me that thou wilt leave dif weeping,
Reeanse thy tears fall hot upon my cheek:
flere it is cold; the tempest ravech huadly ;
Bat in my dreams all is so woidrews bright ;
J eee the angel chiliren smiling wladly,
When frow niy weary eyes J shut the light.

SS ee

Prince-street office, tie clerk replied te our question
| —“ Mr. Astor has concluded net to take that loan.’’
| Thus began and ended our dealings with the great
} capitalist; and we got the loan somewhere else and
| when it fell due we paid it. Mr. Astor oecupies one
ofa large row of dwellings (in Lafayette Place.)

Mother, one steals behind we now ; and listen—
Jost thou not hear the music's sweet accord ?
See how his white wings beautifully glisten!
Surely those wings were given him by ou Lord. which twenty-five years
Green, gold. and red are floating all around m?; | the gity, though new they are distanced by the pa
They are the flowers ihe angels seuttereth laces of the Fifth Avenue. Near by is the magni
Shall ] have also wings while life has bouad me?) ficent library founded by his father, to which he
Or, mother, are they given aloue in death !

dow ment.
Why dost thou clasp me as if I wero going’ the remainder being oceupied by bis duties in the
Why dost thou press thy cheek thas ento wine?! Prince-street office, where, Suudays excepted, he
Thy cheek is hot, and stil thy tears are flowing; | does a full day's work every day ia the week.
Twill, dear mother, will be always thine! | Thus the whole routine of life of the ricbest man
Do not sigh thus—it marreth my reposing, {in America is a walk to and from home of a half
And if thou weep, then [ must weep with thee! | mile, and close attention to business. The care of
O, Lam tired, my weary eyes are closing ; | Mr. Astor's estate is a vast burden. He has seve-
k, wother, look! the angel kissetl me. | ral hundred tenements of all xrades, from the $300

| cottage to the $300,000 store. To relieve himself of
j}this vexatious duty he has commitied it for years
| to an agent, who does the work well, and who, of

1 ‘ourse i kes a tine thing of it ile collects reuts

In the se ys f per petual P ka an 1 censel “RS | cous » Tait ¥ . 5 .

small talk ant va iwing-r af . cb ie nia ~- - and mitke: quarterly returns, and thus pays overa
, ie : r-roou game is an acqu ° -

SQUARING WORDS.

sition. In

The street ised t |

able result, since, on our second appearance at the }

ayo were the grandest in |

{has added a fund nearly equal to the original en- |
Here he spends a sinall part of his time, |

A Horemir But Fienr—a Man Gorep
To Deari.—Certain Spanish Journals have yep-
‘tured upon a surprising picee of philanthropy—
surprising, beeanse they advocate the abolition of
a great national institution, the bull-fight. Yet so
Vitis. This brutal pastime has been disturbed by

joceurrence. The Verdad takes oceasion to de-
nounee tauromachy as an amusement ‘ unworthy
| of a ¢ivilised nation, serving only to feed the fero-
4 cious instinets of an ignorant mob.’ TL expresses
jits wonderment that the horrors which it how de-
| lores are not the results of evgry conflict, and
asks whether it is moral, rational, or Christian-
Hike to authorise a spectacle which derives its in-
terest from the most harrible tortures inflicted
upon defenceless animals, and contests in whied
the wretahes who expose their lives for hire are
} so constantly maimed inthe disgraceful “ pastime.’
|The Reino professes to be as much shocked as the
| Perdad, but thinks the abolition of the national
| sport neither necessary nor advisable. It sees no
loceasion to deprive the people ofan amusement th
lL which they take great delight, but it proposes that
lthe Government shall allow bull-fights only on
Sunday!!! No foreigner ever gazes at a bull-
fight without horrey aud disgust. ‘The nation that
, can find diversion in bloodshed is fit ouly to wal-
low in the shambles, Surrounding nauions have
[no need to be meek or gentle with such butehers.
| Yet a Spanish journal gravely proposes that the
exhibition of these butcheries shall be restricted
| to the day which all other nations are wont te
keep holy, A few days ago a matador was gored
to death by a bull in the ring. There were not a
few amongst the spectators who, carried away
by the excitement, applauded the bull, whilstthey,
| perhaps, pitied his victim, whose name 1s Rod-
j riguez. He was beifer known by his sobriquet ol
El Pedite. He had just thrown his red mantle
jover the bull’s eyes, and thus preserved a picador
‘from great danger. ‘The bull, howsver, coutrived
| toshake off the incumbrance, rushed at Rodriguez,
| threw him down, and tore open lus chest with his
horns, He then tossed his victim in the air, and
{rushed about wildly in search of another victim.
| Rodriguez rose, strove to stanch his gaping wounds
{whence the blood flowed copiously ; he staggered
ja few steps and fell, never to rise again. The
| picadors bore the corpse to an ambulance ; and de
you think that the performances were stopped for
jsuch a trifle!) No; the idea was not even enter-
tained, the {Qmous toreador, El Gaz-tano, made
his bow, and resumed the amusements on the ver)
spot yet reeking with his colleague’s gore. He
slew five buils in suecession, and miraculously es-
caped being “butchered to make a Spanish boli-
day.’ At the close he was loudly applauded.
|The buli-fivht which was to have taken place the
| following day has been suspended, as El Gazetano
was too exliausted by his exertions on the prece-
| ding day to renew them so seon, and no other
toreador could be found. They have telegraphed
all over Andalusia and the surrounding country
to send up a supply of toreadors without delay.

‘

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A Sattror SomNnambBunist. — The following
istory of somnambulism on board the British ship
| Sardimian, Captain J. Davis, vow at Macao, oc-
leurred only last week, in this harbour (Houg-
j kong), and the particulars are supplied by the
j captain bimself— Ou Friday last, at halfpast ten

p.in., [was in the cabin, when the watch came
}aud reported to me a man on the main royalnast
|head. I gave orders not to disturb him, then went
fon deck, and found him working at the royalist
lhead, with a warlin-spike round his neck. he
; stayed there about a quarter of an hour after he
| was first seen: then came down upon the royal

sum which would be almost ineredible, aud which | yard, clapped his hands te warm them, and went | Government should labour, as they do, to advance

one of the horrible aceidents which are of frequent "

spite of Wilkie’s picture, we are afraid

we may roughly estimate at $300,000 per annum. | out upon the port reyval yardarm; knocked the

EF xanriner,

_— SS

Che

~~ Charlottetown, 9th June, 1862.

Tue ‘Islander’ still labours to propagate the
delusion that the Bills passed last Session to con-
firm the Award will really be sanctioned by the
Queen—ihat they are regarded with especial fa-
vour by the country, and that great “ privileges
and advantages” will be conferred on the Ten
autry by the operation of thoge Bills. The Colo-
nial Secretary, Who writes the nonsensical stufl
which bears this interpretation, further says :—

“We rather feared that the ‘Examiner’ would
have devoted its columns to dengthy articles in
advocacy of the Proprietors’ Bill, and have coun-
gelled the abandoument of the Award, in the hope
that if the Government, by such a course, should
discharge the consenting proprietors frou the ob
ligation which their letter to the Duke of New
castle imposed upon them, and simply obtain for
the tenants a right to purchase, on payment ot
fitteen years rent, be would not have much diffi-
culty thereaiter 1m proving that the Award would
have been much better, and that the abandonment
of a measure which four-fifths of the Representa.
lives of the people had declared should be con
firmed, was an act of the Goyeruament whieh evi-
denced their proprictory bearings, and rendered
them worthy only of “ profound detestation
throughout the length and breadth of the Jand.””

The Colonial Seeretary is not easily pleased.
If we write anything that savours of an imputa-
tion against the Proprietors, Mr. Pope rushes for-
ward as their champion, and assails us violently.
Then, again, he is afraid that we will favour all
their claims and pretensions—(as set forth, for
instanee, in Sir 8S. Cunard’s Bill)—and expresses
satisfaction when he finds that he is mistaken. We
are glad that he has got comfortably over his
fright with regard to our support of the latter
Bill; and as to the extent of our influence over
the Government, which might induce them to pre-
fer the Proprietors’ Bill to the Award, we are
willing to admit that Mr. Pope’s remarks on that
point are, to us, far more complimentary than
truthful. Mr. Pope evidently coincides with us in
opinion that the majority of his readers may be
easily imposed upou when he can venture to offer
them such literary garbage as the first paragraph
in the leading article of the last * Islander’ con-
tains.

The second paragraph in the same article is
still more note-worthy. The official Editor assures
us that the Government “are not at all afraid
that the people generally will suspect them of
labouring to promote proprietory interests.” We
are certainly not aware of any other lateresis
promoted by them during the time they have been
in Office. We have frequently challenged their
advocate topoiut out ove good measure they have
completed, and he has not been able to accept our
We are not at all surprised that the

| challenge.

| poprietory interests. Jour members out of the

right and wrong, and whose judgme s are
perverted that they can see nothing but “ justice
and equity,” in measures which Her Majesty's
Government have declared to amount te plain un

aud does His Lordship believe that, — foiled oe
ther attempts to enact unjust laws—smarting un-|
der the exposure—not of their dishonesty, but ef
their want of power to take lands from the Proprt |
etors and give them to the Tenants — and burning |
with resentment towards those who were to have |
been their victims, those men would hesitate to)
resort to any means, however dishonorable, to!
gain their ends, er that the Government of the |
Colony is likely to be conducted by them on those |
principles of Justice, on which alone the subjects |

After giving this testimony as regards the rela-
tions which existed between the Liberal Govern-
ment aud the Proprietors in 1856, in what light |
are we to regard the statement now made by Mr. |
Pope as to mutual assistance and co-operation, un-|
less as the emanation of a mind most lamentably
disordered ?
“Tn reference to the Bill which the Proprietors
have sent out,” says the Colonial Secretary, * we
can only say that we are pleased to find that they
are disposed to negociation.” Really that is a
wonderful concession on the part of Mr. Pope’s
friends. Were ihe proprietors not disposed to ne-
gociate when they consented to the appointment
of the Land Commission two or three years rgo!
Evidences of a disposition of this kind were al-
ways apparent; and we are quite sure that if the |
Liberals had been allowed to carry out their po-
liey under the Loan Bill, which had been resisted
for the purpese of enabling land agents to grow
rich at the expense of landlords and tenanis, near-
ly all the principal estates in the Island wight have
been, ere now, converted into small frecholds.
The ‘Islander’ says that the rejection of the
Award by the Colouial Minister — which is cer-
tainly a foregone conclusion with the Duke’ of
Neweastle—* will not fail to produce wide spread
discontent throughout the Colony.” We do not
believe it will do anything of the kind; the people
do not care one farthing about it, for it is worth-
less to the tenantry. Dut its official rejection—
which is certainly the fate that awaits it—will shew
unnistakably to the few eredulous people whe
may yet be found in the Island that the Govern-
ment have practised the most flagrant deception |
on the country by their recent legislation in refer-
ence to the Award. And if anything can incline
us to the belief that a general election will take

the final decision of the Colonial Office on the
Award cannot be looked for before a late period |
in the year; and the Governmert no doubt be-
lieve that they would stand a better chance at the
hustings before Unan after their air castle was shat-
tered about their heads. Regarding a general
election, therefore, from a purely party poiat of

nts are so We stillfind it difficult to
ce | journalists, we are bou

own private 4 !
by those who ought to be well informed, and we | ing toward

fore best informed per-
over ; pal an af annealing | must, there vo , ae oe Nerd te fag 2h po te
disguished dishonesty... .‘The power 0 3pj ar | sons have of late been more unez ve
Judges, Coroners aud Sheriffs, is in their hands, | than they have ever been before.
e ’ |

of Her Majesty should be governed ?” }

place this summer, it will be the fact, that) the persons distinguished by their skill were two

| Blanchina Light.

yoone imavines,
indeed, that the French Emperor wishes to see
Utaly in the hands of Piedmont. So fur from de-
siring a united Italy there is nothing he would #9
little tolerate. The suspicion is that some com
promise may have been perce upon between the
Governments of Paris and Turin in virtue of which
Nuples isto become practically Freneb, under the
rule probably of a Murat, while Rome is abandoned }
to Victor Kiomanuel. We find this expectation a- |
quertionably gaining ground among those who most
zealously support the mitcrests of the Bourbon dy
nasty in Naples—for instance, the French pews
mper, the Union, It is observed that something
has so deeply affected the yg Eugenie, whose
devotion to ;be interests of the Holy Father is no
int she bas secluded herself in her pone

a declined to appear at the din-
ries tothe Qucen of Holland.
Her place was taken by the DPrineess Mathilde.
These indications we neea “ardly say are watched
by many keen eves. It is bejieved that the sath er-
ing of the Bishops at Rome fou the approaching
canonization has suggested some move unfavorable
to the Holy Father, to the Freach aud Sardinian
Governivents.

The ‘ Constitationnel’ publishes the following a8
the full text of the letter addressed by the King of
ltaly to the Emperor of the French :

Napwes, May 3, 12.30 p.m.
THE EMPE-

secret,
apartiaents, and ev
ner given at the Tuil

ITALY TO HIS MAJESTY
BOK OF THE FRENCH,

I have just visited the fleet which yon have been
se good as to send to this port. ‘Chis act of careful
kindness on your part foy my person, and of sym-
pathy for the cause of Haly, has much moved me,
and I thank you for it. It is a Jong time, sire.since
I have undergone so mayy emotions as on this day.
The order which prevails in the southern provinces
andthe warm marks of affection which I receive
from all sides, reply vietoriously to the calumnies
of our enemies, and will, I hope, convince Earope
that the idea of the unity of Italy rests upon a solid
basis, and is deeply engrayed iu the hearts of al: |
Italians.

Accept, sire, the expression of my sincere and
unalterable friendship.

MISCELLA&BOULS.

No less than 2000 of the high ecelesiastices of all
Enropean nacions will meet at Rome on the oecusion
of the Japanese canonization.

THE KING OF

The arrival of the New Governor Sir Dominick
Daly, and*the departure of his predecessor, were
the chief events in South Australia, the month end-
iug Mareh 20.

The latest solution ramor is that the Kmperor ie
to give the Island of Sardinia to Pope Pius in ex-
change for Rowe!

The Paris correspondent of the Morning Herald
says that, no matier what people may say, the pre-
valent belief in that city is, that the solution of the
Rowan Question is far more distant than the present
aspect of afluirs would lead one to suppose.

Exevisa Lapies Excacixng ix Ririe Compe-
TiT10N.—A letter from Florence mentions that, at
the preparatory rifle shooting im that city, among

young English ladies, Miss Adela Reader and Miss
The manver im which they bit
the mark excited general admiyaiiou.——‘ Galignani.’

FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.

‘The steamer City of New Yori: passed Cape
Race at one on the afternoon of Saturday the 3ist.
uli., with dates from Queenstown to Thursday eve-
ning 22nd ult. The English Journals continue

view, we really hope that the Government will

to expatiate on the retreat trem Yorktown and

add to the number of their follies by postponing | the fall of New Orleans,

that “ Blind Man's Buff” would now be reckoned |
hoydenish, and, for all its undoubted antiquity,
“ Hunt the Slipper” has becoune decidedly vulgar. |
“ Proverbs” are excellent, but require considerable
histrionic talent to be thoroughly and suceessfilly |
carried out. The mechanical games, from “ ‘The |
Royal Game of the Race” down to “ Spellicans,’
gre commen enough. Cards are voted * borish” |
and “frumpish.” £rge, as we said before, anew |
drawWing-reom game is an acqmsition
Doubtless those are the best drawing-reoin |
games which stimulate the imagination and tax |
the knowledge of he players. Without submit-
ting the members of a merry party to the tortures |
of a competitive examination, some of these jexr®
de salon are better and more real tests of the ac-|
quirements of an individual than 2 hundred delibe-
rate examinations. They require no special effort; |
they do nut admit of eramming; eribs are quite |
wardens wel! as juadmissable ; all is spentancous,
fair, od Fon tevomry Fer a combination of all
these exeellent qualities. we recommend, as an!
reeable itron to drawing-room games, that |

| department.

This inan, of course,employs a small army of paint
ers, carpenters, and other m
keep up repairs, and superintends the whole of the
As a large part of Mr. Astor's pro
perty consists of yacaut lots which are in continual
demand, and which he wiil not sell, be is much

schanics, ln order to

j} employed with architects und master builders, and

generally has gne or two lurge blocks in course of
erection ata Ume. This isa very serious burden,
and we presume that were it not for the he Ip de
rived from his family it wonld seon erush him.

Howeveg, his son, John Jacob, is quite a business |

man, and bears his share of the load.
some fifteen vears ago,a talented and elegant young

merchant (Franklin Delane,) marned one of the |

danghters, and also affords assistance. In addition
to these labours, the attention to the eollection of
interest, in bonds, dividends, &c., is a heavy item,
since in that little brick office (which is, of course,
fire proof,) there are several millions of Government
and State seeuritics. In orderto get a fair estimate
of the immense iuceme rolling in upon this farnily,
we begin by remarking that $3 perC€ay is considered
very fair wage>—that the man wh makes $5 daily
throagh out the year may be considered very forta

nate—that $10 a day are attained by the few who

Lesides this, |

rigging op, and made the sail, fast; afterwards | wight whi coustitate the Government are, in their
went to the royalmast head, with half his body; >

above the truck; then came down upon the royal) ©
‘yard, and warmed his hands as before; went out! other four are well known sworn friends to the
on the starbeard yard, Knocked the rigging on, |
jand made the sailfastonthat side. He nexteame |
| down upon the topgallant yard, and performed the
| same Work as on the royal yard. He atterwards| the four Land Proprietors referred to, and whose

‘went on each side of the cross-trees, examined the |

wn persons, proprietors and ageuts; and the

Proprietors, and will, ia all things, do the bidding

name figures in the vow notorious Bill from his

| of the Leader of the Government, who is ene of

the winter of 1863.

=

FURTHER NEWS BY THE

ENGLISH MAIL.

Tue English Mail, the arrival of which at Hali-

mast head, and game down into the main yard,
and did the same thing. He next got into the
listings of the min yard, aud stayed about ten
midutes examining the sling and truss of the main
i yard, then came on deck, whore he was seizel bj
two men, but could not be awakened, drewing 2
| knife and exclaiming that they Were all his ene-
inies. He afterwards walked into the forecastle
jand into his berth, where he was woke up. He
}said he dreamt he had been dsing some sa‘lor rg F ‘ : ,
work. At two ov Monday morning he again came | believe anything they say against the officeholders.’
out of his berth, and went up en the reyal yard,| What was Mr. Pope’s case between tliree and four
loosed the yard aed gaskets of the sail, and then} Was he not looking for office then

brother landlords. It woukl be very strange, in-

deed, #f a Government composed of such materials

That is the cry always raised by Lim when he can-

not answer our arguments. “ O, the Liberals are

lovking for office, therefore the people should net

years ago?

a ing Words.” The apparatus of this

are more favored and gifted, and whose proportion

game consists of a few seraps of writing paper and
a peneil for each player.
RULES OF THE GAMP.

1. The game should be played with words of coe.

bree, four, five, or six letters; more than six will
tee difficult. 2. The words should be chosen
either by a person who remains independent of
the game, or at random from a veeabulary. 3.
‘The game may be played either for a siwall pool,
to which each player contributes, or for forfeits.
Tf for a pool, & prize may be awarded to the play-
er who first squares the word, aud another to the
second

The ‘operation of squaring a word may be best
shown by example. It may, however, be descri-

bed as follows: having written duwn the word.
horizentaliy and Oe te a you must find |

otherletters to cowplete the square, which will

also read in words both Lorizovtally and perpen- |
|
To

dicularly.
Woxps or Turer Lerrers.—Examples:
square the words Cat, Dog, Tea, Pig, Kap:

Cam: (pee TRA PIe@’ RAP
O24.,, 088: 1: Ra? 8B acw
SEA... 48:9; 69 8: ORF «2 st

Words ot three letters are generally very easily
squared, and should ouly be used for the purpose
ot teaching the game. Once, however, we were
very much puzzied with a proper name containing
three letters. The name was Cor, The obvious

difficulty was to get a word of three letters begin-!

ning with X. After some trouble, we succeeded
in ishmg the faet by the aid of a well-
known tie pi ealled “Obi; or, Three-
fingered Jack,” and the name of the dwarf who
attended the three giganiie wardersin Mr. Harri-
son Ainaworth’s, * Luwergt London,” Thus then
stuod the :

cox
oBt
» iw y
Worps or Four Lerrens are more difficult.
—Examples: To square Loew, Milk, Lamp, Town.
LOVE MILK LAMP TOWN
OBEY IDEA AREA OBOE
VETU LEAS MEAT Wonr
EYoT KASNT PATS ZaeTts
Worps or Five Letrrers are more difficult

still. Chair may be squared with the help of) itself which almost defeats description.
Rouse.

Haddo, Adieu, ldeas, and

With Six Lefrexs the difficulty increases pre-
gressive Were, however, we may achieve the
‘a impossibility of — ,

Squaring the Circle.
CIRCLE
IC ARUS
RAREST
CREATE
LUSTRE
ESTEEM

Lhe six words required to perform the feat may | ful injury.
the following ae jons:—1. We | blood has been well kept, for not merely had all
have the cirele to square, whieh is regarded as a| tradjtious of the seene taded away, but even the

———
mathewatical i wibil ity. 2. A man who nt
tempted si page sibility, and failed gaserably.
3. i accom
Suly moda be 4. That whieh enly the Oumipo-
tent can accom 5. The physical expression
of Glory. “6. mental éXpression of the same,

: Sowotimes in squaring six letters we way have

* recourss to tWo, ur éven more words, as in the

\ word Deming i—

' 7 POMINO

ONEDSY

MERIPS

ITpripiyr

NATIVE

OYSTER
-Here we have Oue day, and | did it, for lines.

/The sequence of Natice and Oyster is etitious

enough; theagh very curious accidents of this
‘kind are wot uncommon in the game of SQUARING
Worbs.— The Queen. ‘ 4
Tur. Eprror.—if an-ditor omits anything, he
is lazy. if he speaks of things as they are, people
" are owd, If he glosses over, smooths down the
rough points, he is bribed. Jf he calls things by

\. their proper names, he is up§t Gr the position of

an tor. If he dows not tarnish his readers

r with jokes, he isa mull, If be does, We is a

rattle-head, lack y. Jf he condemns

the wrong, he is a good teow, but lacks disere-

tion. If be lets wrong and injuries go unmen-

tioned, hg jt a coward. If he uphokin si pabiie

nan, he dyws jb ly gratily spite—is a tool of a
| clique, or “Ty lh 4 the, outs”’ If he indulges
in personalities, be isa Glackguard; if Le does uot,
his paper is dull and insipid,

{ A Neat Taek.—The Gironde Bordeaux states

\ that a respectable 1

errs Ang ren prmeerthenaber dl woen

a HO aap ch tere stopped to jook at him-

self in it. As le stood thus oveupied, with his

hind +

accideut iannbelatety cliored to pay the value of
raves, aud banded the

—

of an lmpossi- don

to the miss is about one in a hundred. Starting |
with such an estimate, we may get a fuir view of
| Mr. Astor's wealth by comparing the above with
the sum of $6000, which is said to be his daily in-
Good heavens! one exclaims, Creesus might }
die of envy at such a rival, and even Midas would | topgallant sail ;
confess himself outdone. Yet we add, let no mau to joose the jib: but returned to the deck, gathered
-e th * 4 i
envy the man of gold. It is peng # certain per) all the loose belaying-pins, went forward into the
son once felicitated Mr. Astor on bis wealth. Point-| ¢yreeastle, and threw them inte his berth,
jug to his pile of bonds, nips, &e., the capitalist
| replied: ** How would you like tomunage all these | “~" bunk. where he ke up L wi ite s
| matters for your board and clothes!" The man dee ils ke an ~ WRETe At ise © up, and Was quite sur-
murred to the idea. “Sir,”’ continued the other, | prised at seeing the belaying-jius im his berth—
“itisall J eet.” Hence philosophising ou the true | China Mai,
view of Jife, we have never envied Mr. Astor, and | i i : argent

would not bear his burdea for all the glory of his| for New Orvesns.—lt is estimated that
wealth. jover 500 vessels will sail from the North for
ithe Southern ports by the first of June.
There will be at least 200 clearances for czr-
jgovs of ice. It is said that by last accounts
about 50 English and French vessels were
hovering around these ports, waiting for the
blockade to be raised or modified.

——_——

72>.

EXTRAORDINARY Discovery.—We extract
the following from a letter of a London corres-
| pondent :—

“This is the age of discoveries, and one of a
startling nature has just bewn made in an English
jcounty. The Rarl of ——~ married not long
jage, and brought his bride home to one of the |
old family mansions, which members of the Eng- |
| lish aristucraey regard with au affection amount-| vide for the protection of the American eagle came

ing to veneration, The Jady, however, being | up in the House of Representatives of Minnesota,
more continental in her tastes, after a short re-| on its third reading, Mr, Severance, the author of
sidence in the apartments appropriated to her! the bill, arose in its defence, und, according to the

—_—<—

i

use, expressed a wish to have a boudvir in the | St. Paul ‘Pioneer,’ addressed the House as tollows :

| vieinity of her bedroom, The noble earl would “Mr. Speaker, I have only to say that any man
i gladly have complied with the réquest, but, upon | who will in any way injure or take the life of our
examination, it was found that reoms, as some-| y-tienal bird, Is mean enough to carry rotten sar-
j times happens in antique buildings, were so aWk-| dines in the same pocket with musty fine ént to-
| Wardly distributed that by ne conceivable plan er} paeeo, and pass the same round on the ace ot
i gag, ctl igs the desired passages be —_ } spades at the commmnnion table; or would empty
in. wereupon it became beeessary to Invoke » canteen of a rebel prisoner, : i ‘.
professional gusidtanice, and an ewinent architect ind whistle @ contedetste air ‘through the key
| was summoned from Londen. He examined the | yole of Washmgton’s tomb.” g .
fhouse narrowly, aud said there ecetmed to be | ‘The bill, vt course, passed unanimously.
nothing for it bat te build, though, at the saine | crgingerse:
time, he could not es impression that there) Cyiygsg Ant ov Uarcuinc Fisu.—Take
must be another undiscovered room somewhere 11 | a is ae : t
' that wing of the mansion. The uoble earl laughed | Coveulas Indiens, pulverize and me with
at the idea; the oldest servants, the retainers of | dough, then scatter it bro adcast over the
ithe family were questioned, and declared that | ¥@te?, a8 you would sow secd = The fish will
they had never even heard a rumour of its exist-| Seize it with avidity, and will instantly become
lence, Still the architect retained his conviction, |8o complecely intoxicated that they will tarn
|The ear! at last consented to let tle walls be| belly up on the top of the water, by dozens,
| bores, and, when an opening lad been made, not | hundreds or thousands, as the case may be.
only was the reom found, but a sight ot prem All that you now have to do is tu bave a boat
te) > i > y
apartment was fitted up in the richest and mest ea ohn. ni tage ap to rg og —
luxuriona style of 150 years ago. A quantity of |” J = eee yon ee avr an, See
lady’s apparel lay about the room, jewels were | ¥4%F, aod presently they will be as lively
seattered on the dressing table, aud, but for the | and healthy as ever.
faded aspect everything wore, the chamber might er eee
have been tenanted half an hour previously. On| A Cieyer Rascat.—The Portland ‘ Ad-
approaching the bed the most curious sight of! vertiser’ of Monday teils of & man named
all was seen, and this it is which affords the only George W. Whitten who made his escape a
clue to the mystery. The couch held the skele-| few duys ago from the jail at Augusta, Me.
ton, that of @ mau, presenting evident traces of! while awaiting his trial ~ by fastening he
a gue: and proving that, before he expired in| turnkey into one of the cclls, and then with
that position, he must have reevived sume dread-| kev which be bad ee . lock
The secret connected with this tale of |? *°Y WO8 Be bad 10 his possession, unlock-
ing the door opening into the jailor’s office,
and making his escape to thestreet. Sunday
night he slept in a church in Manchester.
Monday he stole a pair of booteand proceeded
to Winthrop, and there stole an overcoat from
the depot, and exchanged his boots for a pair
of shoes. Tuesday he proceeded to Readfield,
and that night entered a building used as a
store and post office, hel ping himee]t to various
artivles in the store, and robbing the post
office of letters, stamps, and a small amount
of money. Wednesday he was arrested by
Sberiff Uateb, who bad been on his track since
his eseape,and was conveyed back to Augusta,
It is quite evident that cs made the must of
the time allowed him, while on this little
expedition.

'

existence of the room itself was forgotten.—
Liverpool Journal.

> te o-

THe Meerscuaum Pree.—The Meerschaum is
To pipes what the diamoud is to precious stones.
No other material is so easily wrouglit inte beau-
tiful forms, and nothing takes such glowing rich
colors by use, While at the same time its porous-
ness absorbs much of the essential oil, and thus
rendeys the smoke less harmfull. Meerschaum,
1 as the name signifies, is sea-foam, or keil-kiil, to
use the Tartar term for it. It is found in various
parts of Asia Minor. The principal ingredi-nts
are a silicia, magnesia, carbonic acid and water.
It is found chiefiy in veins and lumps among ser-
peeeer rocks, In its natural state it forms a
ather like soap, and isused in washing linen by
the Tartgrs, The Turks fabricate it in the same
mayer as potter's clay is made; the pipe is then
boiled in tallow or wax. The Germans have car-
ried the meerschaum pipesto great uicety. Some
varieties of superb dysign, mounted in precious
metgls anid jewelled, have been valued as high as

$5,000,

An elderiy lady, who was handling a pair of ar-
tificial plates in a deatisi’s office, aud admiring
the fluebey with which the deutist described them,
asked him,

“Can a body eat with these things?”
dear ma’am, mastication can be per-

“ M
tonal with a tucility scareely excelled by Nature

——— — 092
A boy went into a baker's shop for a two-penny
loaf, gud eouceiving it to be diminished in size,
remarked to the baker that he did not believe it
was weight. * Never mind that,” gaid the man of
dough, “ you will have the jess to carry.” True,”
replied the lad; and throwing the ajf&pence on
the counter, left the shop. The baker called him,
saying that he had not leit money enough. “ Never
mind that,” said the bey, “* you will haye the less
to cout.”

a el

rr
QUAKER Toast.—" This is me and mine to
thee and thine. 1 wish when thee and thine come
to see mie and mine, that me and miye will treat
thee and thine as thee aud thine have treated me

herself.” and mine.” This is a new version pf the old
“ Yes, I know; but ean a body eat with them?” compliment which rans somewhat in this wise:
still queried the old lady. “1 wish thee and thy folks loved me and my folks

as well us me and my folks love thee and thy
folks. For sure, there never was folks ginee folks
was folks, that ever loved folks half so jyeil as me
and my folks Jove thee and thy folks.”
UNaNimiTy.—A Sevich parson, in his prayer,
said ;

“ Lord bless the grand council, the parliament,
and grant that they may hang together.”

vomasiaitaliiae ican
The body ef a middiing-sized man contains a
pound of phosphorous, which, if in a free state,
and inflamed, would burn him up and everything
around him.—L£ xchange.

*Can’t be,” says the Hartford Times; “ we
know lots of old bachelors aud antiquated maideus
who haven't eyeu phosphoroys puough iu ’em to
make a match,”

—_——»@-——— A country fellow standing by replied ;
A young man who applied at a recruiting sta-| “ Yes sir, with all my heart, the sooner the

tiou ia vue of the far western States, for endlist-

‘r—and | aia sure it is the prayer of all good
ment, was asked “if he could sleep ou the point ae

people.”

ot the bayonet,” when he prom replied by| “ But, friends,” said the parson, “I don’t mean
his | saying, “ he could it, as had often slept on| as that fellow does, but pray thit they may all
a pint of whiskey,and the kind they used in L togetherin accord and concord.”
that} would kill farther than any -irou he ever! “ No iiatter what cord,” replied the other, “sq
zaw.” "tis but a strong one.”

then came down, and was gving |

He}
then wiped his feet upoa the chest, and went inte | ceived the appointment as a reward for his ser-

WESTERN ELoQuence.—-W hen the bill to pro- |

ear of Her Majesty's Colonial Minister, I would
ask that uprigit, Honorable British statesman,
whether he cousiders Her Majesty’s Government
are geting justly towards that portion of Her Ma-
jesty’s Loyal subjects who reside in this Island—
who obey the laws and claim their protection—in
abandoning them and their property to the domi-
nation of a number of men, who either do wot! |

| loosed the topgaliant sail, and came down to the aes Z ’ :

maintop; went up the mizen topmast stay, and) Wt4 a) eager#ess sca as no other man ID the
loosed the mizen topgallant sacl and mizen reyal: And had he not the inex-
came down the mizen topgailant stay into the
maintop, and then upon the rail; ran along it.
went up the rigging, and loosed the fore and fore

Colony could display?
pressible meanness to ask au appointment from o
Governor whom be had foully libelled at varieus
times! - Tle gof the office when the Governor lefi
the Isiand—Mr. Henry Haszard served as warm-
ing*pau for him—but no one supposes that be re-

views to Uae country, er en account of his political
jinfluence. Ie never lad influence enongh to pro-
| cure hima dozen votes in any district in the Island ;
and he never rendered services to any one but to
the proprietors and himself. To the proprietors,
and io the proprietery Government
strenuously labour to promote their interests, he
| ewes his situation as Colonial Secretary, His pe-

who so

|e uiar claims coukl not be safely resisted.

He has
a brother in the Goverumeut, supposed to be very

Brother William were overlooked, Brother Janies
would be bound to know the reason why in double
quick time; and the Government might seon look
out for a fatal rumpus amongst themselves if the
reason did aot perfectly satisiy the Popes, though
every one else in the Islaud might be disgusted
_and dissatisfied. Aud this is the man, who—put-
ling an extra seowl upon his lowering countenance,
| measures our political principles by the low stan-
| dard which regulates his own. He says our “ aim
_is to get into office.” Suppose it is—we have a
better right to be there than he has, for we would
be backed by popular favour, which never yet fell
to kis lot, and we believe never will. Aiming to
get into effice! What is the difference between
that and aiming to keep in office? Mr. W. H,
Pope is doing the latter by all the means in his
power, He hesitates not at any falseliood, or pre-
varication, or trickery, or inirigue that will serve
this purpose of his,—and he exhibits a degree of
silliness of which even his acquaintances would
not suppose hun capable, when he directs asa
taunt against others a motive or disposition which
he nourishes to excess in his own heart.
Mr. Sseretary Pope says, the tenantry “know
that Messrs. Whelan and Coles were, when in
power, most energetic advocates of proprietory
interests ;”” and he states in tae next paragraph
“that Coles and Whelan would most willingly do
any and every act in their power to secure pro-
prictory interests in return for proprietory sup-
port.” Mr. Pope knows that these extracts con-
tain clear, unquestionable, and deliberate false-
hoods. If proofs were necessary to show how
false they are, we might instance the long list of
measures introduced juto the Legislature by Mr.
Coles when he was Leader of the Government,
and which were supported by the whole Liberal
party, in the face of the most determined opposi-
tion from the Proprietors, Free Education, Ten-
ant Compensation, Tax on Rent Rolls, Free
Franchise, Small Debt Act, so far as it relates to
the collection of rents—the One-Ninth Bill andthe
Loan Bill—-are some of the measures against
whieh all the influence and power of the proprie-
tory party were directed, If the Liberal majority
were engaged in “ secyring proprictory interests”
would they bring forward such measures as those ?
The proprietors resorted toa very curious method
of giving “support” to“ Messrs. Coles and Whe-
lan” when every measure advocated by them
received the most decided opposition which
the Proprietory party could give, If we
want another proof of the antagonism exist-
ing between the late Liberal Government and the
landholders, we shall find it in the pamplilet pab-
lished by Mr. Pope in 1856, from which we gave
an extract a short time ago, That publication
bewails the sad condition of the proprictors, who
are described as being abandoned by the Colonial
Office to the sacrificial hands of Mr. Coles and his
Goyernment. We shall make one extract from
this pamphlet to show how much the Liberals were
doing to secure proprietory interests when Mr.
Coles was at the head of affairs.
“ Had I,” says William H. Pope, in 1856, “ the

}

.

influential in his own part of the country. I?

seemed to be immediately impending over our be-
loved Queen, seems at least to have been deferred.
The latest uccounts are greatly improved. ‘Chere
is still, we are told, an operation to be performed,
bes We are encouraged to look for a favourable re- a
sult.

of tue position of Rowan affairs, a London journ
says :—

the day on which they shall be tried for their po- |
litieal misdemeanors until some frosty morning in! she was going trom Bermuda and Nassau, and re-

The captain of the steamer Berumda, in a letter
to her owners p,rotests against her seizure while

presents it as laving taken place in British waters. |
He bears testimony, however, to the gentlemanly
conduet of her captors.

The U. 8. frigate Constellation left Algeria on
ihe Gth for the eastward. The Tuscarora re-
mained there, and the Sumter at Gibraltar.

In the House of Commous, Disraeli, ina party

fax was noticed in our lust, reached here on Tues- |

jday morning. We give the following gleanings |

GREAT BRITAIN, }

The House of Commons witnessed on the night |
of the Sth a remarkable epectacle—a gigantic frame
—is Lord Palmerston said—after long renainiug in }
a stete of lethargy, suddenly aroused itself mio
vigor and strength. Io plain terms, Mr. Disraeli }
made a fierce onclangit on Governthent. His sub. |
ject and bis treatment of it alike caused surprise. |
{fe condenined the * bloated armaments,” and he
ened that England ought to place entire and ubso-
lute confidence in the Eiuperor Napoleon, and in
ihat confidence immediately te commence ie pr
cess of * beating ear swords into plonzhshares.’
Then he ran over the whole world, showing that
the Emperor's policy was the same 2x England's,
aad here, as Lord Palmerston replied, he gave de
ttils whieh show that be was the * meuth piece of

alone could have told. Mr. Cobden and Me. Bright,
if they believe he is sincere. will hail bim as anew
partizan. Dut, as Lord Palmerston said, be threw
out friendly siguals to every portion of the House,
except the Ministers, Professing entire indifference
on the question of the Pope’s temporal power, he
urged the importance, alike to France and to kng-
land, of his spiritual idependeace. His inference
wis that England oaght to leate the settiement of
the Pope's atfiir cordially aud uureservedly in the
hands of Napoleon.

The common opinion of the press is that Lord
Palmerston obtained a distinguished triamplh, and
that the attack of Mr. Disraeli signally failed. far as the display of etraordinary talent goes,Lor

obtained. He must have been taken wholly by
surprise when the leader of the Opposition, after
baving carefully held his peace when Lalian af-
airs were debuted in the [Louse, after allowing the
voies for the Naval and Military service to pass
unopposed—nay, after having taken care to be
“accidently” absent when the discussion came on
that very evening, and having left his place to be
lilled by a subordinate, poured forth a deliberately
prepared speech, assuiling every part of the con-
duct of Governnent, and holding out cleverly de-
vised signals for aid to every section of every party
in the House ; and yet, thoug
prise by a speech Ph te (no deabt * acciden-
tally,’’) when Mr. Gladstone having already spoken
could not reply in defence of lis financial ineasures,
Lord Palwerston sprang to bis feet with a bodily |
agility more resembling twenty-seven than seveuty-
seven, and ran in turn over every subject of
‘iis assailant’s attack ina speech as brillivnt, and
as much tu the purpose, as any umn ever heard from
nim,
The Church Rates division on the 14th was un-

; > rae . ; ]
ithe French Government,’”’ for he tohi what they |

Valmerston’s reply deserves all the praise it has |

speech against continued heavy expenditure, aud

|

alter that belief. Yet, as | ty, if the theory we have i
ud to state, not merely our | ed,
expectations, but also what ix expected | in so amar trap, and jf
1e ne -
enemy gone and hiinself seme he wit Td

We ean coneeive of no miling
abandonment of the Shemudoah valle

The rebe

heartless movement, whoever ij i I wae
hey yee that the little foree of
re entirely cut mp or captared, and hig ronal

left beimdreds

the rebels,
wood etiects °
invest tation
moval of the
this dieur ee

the fleet of (
that city and

and children
ler, at New ¢

fe,ale who

or soldiers, *

bronght no t

ascended the

blow.
of stores and
or abundonec
capture of th

confederacy
Powers of E

ses, and that
futhers—the

ral Butler:

tempt for an
she shall be
command of
A. B.C.

questioning the cordial relations between France

J : : ere : . ae : » pautaed Ragland, again referred to the relations of |
would lose sight of their own individual interests. | from our late papers, in addition to the news ob-| }
Mr. Pope says we are aiming to get into effice. | tuined by Telegraph while the R. M. Steansship! that votwithstandiag the misisterial deuial, that |
was off Cape Eace. jrivalry existed between them, and would be)

| proved ou the publhoation of the document. Pal

janersten in response again asserted that Disraeli!

was tisinformed, aud that Lyons and Mereier}
as if they were Representatives of one power. ;

The Government was defeated by ninety-two

majority, on the bul relative to the removed posi-
hon of the contents of the British immsenm.
Earl Russell in submitting the new treaty with
Aunerica, on the elave trade, tothe House ot Lords
; bore testhneny to the eforts of Lincola’s Goveru-
iment to put a step to the traffic.

The Paris correspondent of the Lovden Post
‘gives a rumour that the Freneh GoVErUene nan
decided to wiidraw their troops fren Mexico,
as soon as possible, but nothing confirms this.

It is reported from Italy, that Austrian troops
‘in campaigaing order aceupied lize of the Lago
ide Grada,.
| ‘The policy of Spain in Mexico has been de
| bated in Cortes, and a resolution of censure with-

| drawn.

i

a

én»

‘CIVIL WAR IN THE STATES.

|

THE DEFEAT OF GEN. BANKS.

| Barrimore, May 26.

| The following is the statement of Capt, Geo
| Smith, of the lst Maryland regiment, who sucegeded
ia making his escape from the fight at Front Royal;

; At about one o'clock in the afternoon a negro,
| mounted upou horseback, came dashing into camp,
lerying out that “the rebels are coming in great
numbers, and they will surround you aml eut you
off.” At first the men Janghed at him, stating that
they had waited too long for them: they did not be-
| lieve a word of it. As soon as Colonel Keuly,
| however, saw the man, he became satisfied of their
‘approach. The long roll was beaten, and the men
sae ey im springing hastily to arms, and forming
in line by companies. Very soon the rebels made
their appearance, and strange to say, not a single

li thus taken by sur-| S42 Was tired by the pickets of the ist Maryland |

jregiment. It may have been that in consequence of
a sudden turn in the road they were surprised and
captured. Company A was ordered to deploy as
skirinishers and suppert a section of Kaapp’s Penu-
sylvania Battery, which mustered about forty men.

Twenty-uinth infantry, with a small detachment of
his men, who had been acting as a pioneer corps,
also formed and prepared to receive the eneniy.

The batiery was soon engaged, and discharged shot |

doubtedly a Conservative triumph. A few years
ayo the Bill for the abolition of Church Rates was |
carried in the House of Commons by a majority of, |
if we recollect rightly, about seventy. Since then |
the reaction of the Ciureh party bas steadily set in, |
or that party have aroused themselves into greater |
energy, and the majority for the abolition of Church

|
when, there being a tic, the Speaker guve the cast- |
ing vote aguinst the Bill. On the i4th this diffi-

whipped up a clear majority of oue against the
measure, in the fullest house that has been wit-
nessed this session, the number present being 578
(or within 76 of the whole house,) of whom 287
voted in the Conservative sense, and 286 on the op-
posite side.
Kesolation offered by Mr. Estcourt declaring it
unjust and inexpedient to abolish rates until some
provision was made to supply their place, carried
by seventeen majority. Enthusiastic opposition
cheers.
The Parliamentary debate on the Education Code
came to au end on the 12th. Mr. Walpole, Mr.
Henley, Sir John Pakington, and Lord Robert
Cecil, although united in dissatisfaction with the
new code as it stands, admitted that the concessions
had been greater than they had expected, and that
it weuld now be right to give it atrial. Mr. Ad-
derley approved. Mr. Walter called attention to
the real grievance, that the rich are aided, and the
poor left without aid. This was always the evil of
the old grant system. Whether the moditied sys-
tem may make things worse we cannot tell without
practical experience of its resulis: that it should
make them better is beyond hope. Yet this evil
must, one way or another, be removed before the
Government education system can be in any degree
satisfactory.
The distress in Lacashire increases. The want
of the customary supply of cotton from America is
the canse. The people have, so far, borne their
privations patiently. Many shrink from applying
‘or relief, and only do so when money, furniiure,
“¢., are exhausted. Fortunately, provisions are
cheap, and the Government seem Uisposed to afford
the necessary relief.
A collision between the two Houses of Parlia-
ment has often been threatened, and has always
hitherto passed off before matvers Lecame serious.
However, the dullness of the present Session is to
be relieved by a pitched battle between the two
houses, the Speaker, in the name of the Commons,
having challenged the Lords to meet them armed
with rifles, and the puguacious Chancellor in the
name of the House of Lords.

INTERVENTION IN AMERICA,
There have been strong rumours of mediation
on the part of France, seconded by a threat of re-
cognizing the independence of the Seuthern States
if it isdeclimed. It islikely enough, for the distress
inthe manufacturing districts of France for want
of cotton is as great us itis in England, and gene-
ral distress in France is no light matter for the Go-
verument. But the report is as yet unconfirmed.
The last report is that Mexico is to become a de-
pendency o1 France.
THE KING OF BELGIUM.

The King of the Belgians was somewhat better.
We are truly grateful that the new blow which

ITALIAN AFFAIRS.

General Goyou had arrived in Paris. ane

_ We have never abstained from deciaring our be-
ief that the Emperor Napoleon has no intention of

know, or do act regard the difference betweey

giving over Rome to the Picdmontese invaders.

rates hus been rapidly diminishing, until last year, |‘

culty was obviated, the Conservatives having f

closely pursued, they abandoned the woods where

land regiment —— in the fight, the remaining
four being on pic

Secretary Stanton’s course in taking frou Ge

Banks two-thirds of his available 7 lo is bo
movement was a profound
surmised that Banks was weakened and ordered to
retreat in order to entice the rebel army down the
Shenandoah valley and cut them off by a flank
movement of McDowell's column. The advance of
MePowell from Fredericksburg is
Pei 7 Lee coujecture.

rtained by the erratic genius who presides ov

the War Department, it de wana i Aad
in I . monst his atter in-
comprehend the first principles of wilj

Banks, whieh we published yesterday, shows that
indo Freemon

r nts had been

aud Hauke to bag the force of Jackson,
et operation.
ried Out on the ver

doevseany 4d Wi ae fans the order came from the
and orderin
our grasp when the
ken uway.
uneertainty*-to what was w

and shell for nearly tyo hours, uatil nearly all their |
ammunition had been expended. |The firing was |
nF oege and there is no doubt of its effieacy. Un-

able, however, to withstand such an overwhelming

force, the order was giveuto retire, which was done, |
and tie entire column moved over the Shenandoah |
river, the retreat beiug covered by a company of the
Sth N. York eavalry, about 80 strong. While pres. |
ing over the bridge the captain distinctly saw the
rebel forces. There was a very strong colunim of
infautry, say four squadrons (eight companies), aud
ive regiments of infuntry. Of this force two reyi-
ments of infantry and two squadrons of cavalry,
were fording the stream, the water being very low.
The order “double quick’? was given, and the
Unionists took to the pike, where another stand
was made, Colonel Keuly addressing the men and
telling them that their only chance was to stand
and fight to the last, especially as the rebel cavalry
Were fast pushing on and displaying a black ilag.
Captain Smith states that he did “not sce them dis-
play the white flag.

A second stund was made, and many shots ex-
ne rsp baie the roid Sap cavalry’ (still in the
rear of the column) broke, and retreated, riding pell-
mell through the ranks of the infantry,” ee

A part of the Marylané command retreated to a
wheuitield, and there made still another stand, firing
rapidly and with deliberate precision, Presently
on eae the rebel cavalry, eutting right and left
and terribly yelling like Indians. i. some instances
neither the dying nor wounded were s vared, and in
two instances the Captain saw the rebels draw their
pistol and shoot them in the head whilst lying on
the roadside. The Captain told the men they had
better retarn to the pike and escape as they best could.

He had not proceeded fur betore a cavalry officer
rode up to him and demanded his sword and pistol
which he threw upon the ground, the rebel at the
sume tine drawing a pistol upon him. In the con-
fusion of the occasion, however, he succeeded in re-
gaining his pistol, aud observing a rebel shoot one
of the First Maryland, he drew his pistol and shot
him, and succeeded, with Lieut. Camplior, in seeur-
ing the rebel’s horse and riding off. “After proceed-
ing about two miles they came across the ambulance
in which Colonel Kenley lay, ettended by Surgeon
Mitchell, of toe regiment. “The vehicle was puss-
ing along the pike, and had been repeatedly fired
into by the rebel cavalry. Finding themselves

they managed to cuiceal themselves wntil the ene-
my gave up the search.
tere Were but six companies of the First Mary-

t duty and 2
Pree eae et duty and as provost guard at
te eed
THE RETREAT OF GEN. BANKS.

The only defence which has been suggested of

piece of strategy. It is

cited in confir-
If such an idea was en-

to direct the movements of an wrmmy, or to
The letter of Major Copeland, of the staff of Gen,

, between

a

an by a com-
Lhe plan was to have nam

General Shield’s foree
Victory was within

it were ta-
le san

Banks to
A certainty

rehed om the projection of the

. genera
to the tender mercies of the eo
lew}y olarwed the whole

VICKSBURG
We have teteMigence from Vick

to his authority,
Vicksburg paper of the 13th says —«

Gen. Sinith, in advance of the
with the enemy.”
order purporting to have been

treated as a Woman of the town.”

nothing later than the brief
night, anpouncing that the enemy's

subsequent silence may have been

the confidence of Europe in oar
independence.
wivice given ina friendly spirit to gewtlemen of hj
position by Count Mercier, during his aoe
never to surrender the capital,

Bat, happily, the wealth and the strength of this

ing only upon themselves, will show
world that their spirit cannot be Se

The Vicksbu
General Order No. 28 has just been issu

Heap Quarre®s DepantMent or tae Gr
May 15, 1862. — As the oflicers and soldiers of
United States have been snbject to

from the women calling themselves “

New Orleans,” in retarn for the most
nou-interference aud courtesy on our part, it is
ceved that hereafter when any female ehall
word, gesture, or movement, inenit or :

y ollicer or soldier of the United Stutes

1 Generals

wentioned is to be
{0 shrewd te
cDowell ix comhe

Hecemity the
it.

of Union men and their f

Why
Lifvapent
North ° given deed.

and by sending al Somufort tg
Washington is «til in fogs ned

WI neatrasi
fall our receut suec pine Athos
Ir jusperatively demanded ahd the

Secretary of War, who has >

wpon the nution, is loud}
TOWDY cabled for,
SURRENDER

; . > Mixg
om. ¥F arragut had arriv : be
denuded the sarveatier aif” front

Abin shemverind Was vefoned
w

REFUSES TO

are being removed to-day, |
The same paper

Irleans, to the effect that

of
Dat

Officers and soldiers of the U.S, Army pres the
repeatedly insulted by women exiling the, been
“ ladies of New Orleans,” it ix ordered

tselveg
shall hereafter hy word, that

mover. “nt, insnlt or show contempt fer rae, e

hall be regarded and held lise

———

DESPAIRING OF RICHMOND.
(From the Charlestan Mercury, May 35, )

The fate of the cupital, though stil] q
us, is probably tixed before these worsen”
the eves of our readers, The te reid

idings from Richmond, and wee?
had

James river ns far as City Point. The

looks ominous. We fear we shall ha bat it

story of New Orleans over again, and au same

lost; through imbecility, sloth and delay Wit ihe

Grand Army of McClellan could never pa

But we ee hope a mi Fone baad
City Point, the head of water navi

the James river, is nearly thirt ruiles dow ta

mond, For the past fortnight the work of
ing the channel at 2 point some miles higher np has
been vigorously going on. U =»
stractions rest thesafety of the city; and

the

we presume, that efficacy hae been
The fall of Richmagd would, fndeed, be whe
It is 7

difficult to estiinate the a3
public works which ment be Senne
lin the event of snch a disaster The
eseatof government would midly shake
We see it stated that en

do net reside in its cities, We have

ceased to hope for encouragement or aid fran the

urope ; and the rebels of to-dky, rely.
t the
they are no degenerate ne thet
rebels of our first Revolution =
sniisipiiaahaial, | Sa
NEW OKLEANS,
‘ Citizen’ says that the

i

ing

ziis

g .

regarded and held liable to be treated

asa woman of the town plying her avoention. 1

Major Gen. Butler, Geo. ©. Srmonc,

The following address has been issued by Gene-
ra} Bennregard
MeN OF THK SovpTH—Shall onr mothers, wives,
Canghters and sisters be thus outraged by the raf.

timuty soldiers of the North, to whom is yviven the

South as cou

fuglish and French awbassaders, and reasserted | tight to teat at their pleasure the ladies of the

uinon harlots ! Arouse, friends, and

drive back from our soil these infamons invaders of

| one homes and disturbers of our family ties. WG. T.

Beavnecano, Gen. Commandin,.

} : ees Improrrax?’ Dexiat.—The New York ‘E ’
were acting together with the utmest cordiality says tle following is Plenty Pas web be Mo, el

French vessel Milos, daied May 4, and addressed to

Adintai Rey

mid in New on

“By the enclosed paper yon will see that Tam

reportod ua h

aving w ritten a letter to Com, Farm

In the meantime the Lientenant-Coloael of the | Col. Lang.

jsut. Lever had occasion to write to hime, and had
idone so my lerter would have been couched in

} more proper torus.”

| A Derricvety wire tuk Pereu.—The Agent
Uf Marti ade ROS itn? SRE pha Con end
pot New Grleans pater to the orenpation of that cay
| by the Pederal forees. Gen. Basses Fomabe posing ionia
| of the noney ; whereupm the Consuls of Foreign
| powers Guabinously protested agninst the seizure,
jad the Datch Copel hauled dowa his thy.
further issue of the affair is not stated.

Tae Paestorst’s Virws. — The Washiegton
correspondent of the New York Post writes :—

* Ii worst comes to worst there ean be no dont
that the Presideut will drop all attempt at concili-
ution, and give the South her choice between utter
desulation nada retarn to the Union. The time for
this has not yet eome, is Mr. Lincoln's position.
| The people of the loyal States must first be fully
j convinced that the rebellion eammot be crushed by
ordinary menus —then the hour will have arrived
for the overthrow of every institution in the Seuath
| that makes Union impossible. Sneh, F umderstand,
| are the views of the President, as expressed te his
typed my

:

| A Barre veronk RicumMoxn, — A telegram to
the ‘ Express’ dated St. John, Jane 3d, gives the
following account of a battle near Richmond:

A — erate battle occurred on Saturday last be-
fore Richmond, Virginia. The Confederates taking
advantage of a terrible storm which i at-
tacked Geu. Casey's division in the tront line, whic
guve way in confusion, losing its guns and .
Generals Heintzleman and Kearney brought up
| their respective troops and checked the Confede-,
, rates. ‘The Federals being reinforced by Generals
Sedgewick and Richardson's commands, drove back
the Confederates at the point of the bayonet, taking
inany prisoners, among them Genera! when se and

The Federal loss is reported to have
been heavy, and the Confederates satiered very se-
verely. On Sanday morning the Confodenutes in
attempting to renew the conflict were everyw
repuised. All the movements in the battle
were telegraphed from a balloon to Gen. MeClellan,
thus giving him a great advantage,

|

Bursixne Corres. — Beauregard hag issued the
following address :—

To PLanters Sortn: The casualties of war
have opened the Mississippi to our enemies.
time has therefore come to test the earnestness of
all classes, and I caJ] on all patriotic plauters own-
ing cotton ia the ible rench of our enemies, ty
apply the térch to it without delay or hesitation.

Feperat Reverses.—A Montreal paper of
the 24th says :—~—"* We have information which wa
be reliable, that the Federal
have sustained serious reverses befure Corinth and
Richmond. The condition of the New York Stock
warket indicates that Federal affairs are not pros.
pering.”

Saute oats

COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE,

Tie SQUADRON aT HALIPAX.—Phat porti
of the N. A, and W, I. Squadron at ti
harbor ona ta a magn t force.
sist of: Nile, 90, Flag of Vice Adwiral Sir
Milne, K. C. B.; Edgar, 89, Flag of Rear
wiral Sydney C. Dacres, C. B.; Aboukir,
Agamemnon, 89; Hero, 39; Mersey,
pomene, 51; Jason, 21: Challener, 22;
5; Pyramus, receiving ship. Lt will be seen
siace our last issue, an addition has been
the imposing fleet now moored pear H. M.
Yard, by the arrival of the Edgar, 89, Captain
George P. Mends, bearing the Flag of Rear Ad-
miral Dacres, (blue at the mizzen.) The
ary salutes were exchanged between the
and Nie, at and after 8 A. M. yesterday }
Subjomed is a list of the Officers of the Edgar:

Edgar, ®9, 8. Ship, 3,094 tons, 600 b-p,
Ship North America and West Indies:—
Admiral, Sydney C. Dacres, C. B.; Flag-Liest.,
John O. Hopkins ; Secretary, George Love; Clerk
todo., Wm. P. Taylor. Captain, G P, Mends;
Commander, Chas. L. W nddilove: Liedteusnts,
Edward Stubbs; Charles BR. Tuckey ; Chas. 8.
Filton; Robt, J. Stotherd; Fras. tf Hastings;
Master, George Marsh; Capt. Marines, John F.
Hawkey; Ist Licutenants, Robt. R. A. Weed.
forde; Gerald A. Heseltiue; 2nd “ Ringrose D.
Tully; Chaplain, Rev. John Milner; Staff Sur-
geon, Willian H- Sloggett; Paymaster, Wm. P.
O'Brien; Chief Fngineer, Geo. G. Bardine; Sub-
Lieutenant, Henry M’Inrey; Arthur Louis Tre-
vor; Asst. Surgeon, Peter Comrie; Duncan
Hilston; 2nd Master, Edward Hinvest; Asst.
Paymaster, Fred. North.

_ In addition to the above we have much pleasure
in noticing the arrival this forenoon of the Freneh
frigates Foudre and L’ Ardent, from Vera Cruz.
Both these are heavy and handsome ships, and
appear te be inenatinbatien Atter anchoring.
nearly abreast H. M. Ordnanee, the senior.
s-luted the British flag which was

:
chil or

ae

returned, gun for gun, by the val
stationed on the A 3 se pr ye a
The flag of Admiral Milne was |
ted by our allies with the number of guns

bis rank,which compliment was respouded to
with by H. M. 8. i

i

Nile —Halifax Evening

The Rev. Donald MeKinnon, of the Roman

Catholic Chureh, died at his residence,
Breton, on Friday week. La noticing his death

ap uncertain-

Pr ee a a ee ee

Cape Britop News says:

fh

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