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MISCELLANEOUS WEWS.

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| questions mixed ap with it, but they are of
a ee ee ee ewes | Or importance, and mainly affect the in.

(From the Teronty Globes ; — oe reg - of — » Sehleswig,
neh ae : “re : ‘ jwith which the Federal Diet bas po more
TUE GERMAN-DANISH MSBROGIAO. “right to interfere than Engiand has to inter-

As the quarrel between Germany @nd fore with the internal affeire of Prussia.

Denwark bas once more assumed an im-| Pe patriotic desire which animates the
portant position in European politica, we) ple of Germany for a closzr union, is one.

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propose to give a short resume of the mult) wingh Kagland looks upon, aad has always)
jeatures in a very intricate case. The des Te was

jloeked upon with great favour.
ot abe late King of Doamark bas given I ro. | I .

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bad sign in an individual er bedy of men, the | prising in reality uething more or less

CORRESPONDENCE,
“GOD IS.LOVE.”

Let gratitude in acts of goodness flow ;

world ever, to‘find them thus at any time liable to
hesitate about inewrring the full responsibility
‘of boldly advancing theirown principles. Surely
fsuch men must occasionally experience sume
| slight consciousness of shame at their own actions.
Var love to God, in love to man below.” ' But tear, we surmise, had very likely more to do
4 : : : ‘with thus preventing our present Goverament can-
(‘To such as believe this to be their duty, the G,Jates at the late election from openly assuming
following Verses are, with a view to the benefit the responsibility of consistently maintaining their

. satin ihe » ional ‘true position in this respect before a mixed con-
of the poor, most respecttully and hambly inserib d y than anything ele. Yea verily-—before

plain blunt interregative: whether or pet the
Bible after all has ever constituted, in any virtual
sense, a real plank at all in - political platiorm
whatever which any party, Tory or otherwise,
have ever yet adopted in the legislative history of
this Province? To say that it has net will most
probably sound like a rather starting assevera-
tion to many; but still} do say—and what I say
1 say most advisedly and, at the same time, most
deoliberately—it has not. But whether or net, in
| making this blunt assertion, 1 am now giving ut-

than this the necessity of baving an

efficient Fire Depart-
‘ipent until one half of the town may be burned
down. We would, however, advise the citizen«
who always turn out at fires wilh commendable
alacrity, to make for the Engine House first, Holtiax
instead of to the fire, so as that when they reach | ciated cure ten the Sreeinal A.
the latter place they may be of sume service. | whem will rest the dose 5 of
merits of this mest sinvular trausaction,
The Che had « valuable earge: but ep
by ber

docking the

F

Since writing the above, another fire has oc

curred in the City, affording a turther illustration | learn that all ber deck load has been séld

qwipence to w feature 10 the oontroversy which
Yay lead to im portant resuite:

The Danish monarchy is composed of the
Kingdora of Denmark and the Duchies of
Schleswig, Helstemn, and Lauenburg. The
two latter only are included in the Germanic
Confederations, They are tepresenied in the
Diet, and are liable to the same duties as)
other States, over Which it has control.
Schlewwig was orce a fief of the Danish
c'yown, but sinee 1721 it has been a Danish
provines. Never has it been a member of the
«uonfederations. From the diva of Charle-
magne duwaward, the river Liver, dividing
Selsiewswig trom Holstein, tas been the geo- |
graphical boundary between Germany and
Denmerk. It ie otherwise with Loiscein.
Up te the dissulution of the Gorman Empire
by the conquesta of Napoleon, the Kings of
Jienmark beid thom fief of Gormany. When!
m ISL6 the Confederation was re the King of Denmark jJomed that Confedera-
trom as Duke of Lbolstein and Lavenburg,
whieh Latter Wae ceced to Denmark va heu
ol Norway, then annexed to Sweden.

Poe Davieh monarchy was lone a d ‘Spot-
ism. In IS3SL it was tempered by Provincial
Assembites, two in Deomark proper in
Sehicewe, and another im bivistein. But
s sovere.gn was independent of them, in so
lat that he might lawluiy disregard tien
vet.a and espressed wishes. lu 1348, an era
ol insurrection, the now deceased mounare!:,
Frederick the VIL. ascended the throne. Le
then gave to each of ele divisions ol the mon.
eeeuy lull parhawentary representation
‘The coneéesions hh wade were great, and were
recery d with pry Dy tue Dunes. Not so with
lie ut the blue tes
DSebleswig bad received so large on iolasion,
by emigration of Che Uemantc eleuwent, that
tic Danes were ia the wminerty A coolest
Llolstein and eswiy clalw-
eda pontical and adwitistrative seperation
tren Denmark. a union of the two duchies,
and the mevrporaten of Sebleswig inte the
ésefmanie Conmlederation > and luriuer, they

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trerman poperatl us

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soeedilly afogte,

mainly by her efforts that in 1816 the present
Conlederation was e/eeted ; and the prop si-
tions lately pat forward by the Emperor of
Austria wet with ber moral support. Every
intelitgent man in Cur mother country i8 ik
favour of German consolidation The hap-
prest day which has dawned upon Europe for
many along year will be that which shail wis-
ness Germany preseniing a firm and upbroken
front te France dn the oue band, and to
Russia on theether. But the way tu achieve |
so desirable a consummation is not by tramp-
ling ander toot the rights of the ouble Jitile
kingdow vf Denmark.

——a Oo -
Goud Currency.-—It is stuied that all the oats
purehased in P inee Edward [xhind, this seuson, for
und on account of the Federal Government, have
been paid for in gold, the coipaye of either Great
Britain or the United Shues The large amounts of
wold in cirealation in the British North American
Provinces, during the pust few venrs, forine ove of
the distinguishing and most remarkable foutures of |
these Colonial tives lu this Province gold evin |!
has, tow very cousiderable extent, tuken the plaice |
Nova Scotia 84 and $> votes, in carrying on the
yrdivary bosiness of the citv and e¢ yunery ; and it is |
the subject of general remark, how tunsnally bare |
the « urreney market js of Provincial paper. Con
sidering the rather large amonnts of one potnd |
and @> bills that have from time to time been set
atioat by the Nova Scotia treasury, it is really re
markable how comparatively few of those attractive |
little pietures are to be met with. But the al
from cireniation of our Prov iucial paper proves on
wreat and wratifving fact. namely. that the cre
Nova Seotia and the ability of the Province to fuliil
ever we whieh it :
redeem to the letter all the pledses to whiel this
in the esti-
ion of capitalists at home and abroad, as at the
moment One Caunuat help thinking, in
view of the altogether unprecedented prosperity ot
highly favored Province, how little she is in
deited for her present proud position, on this North
Awermnh continent, to
one Whe 1) cupy ne tts

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wlwinistrative capicity OF those whe sit in the |

wouanebie of Fie cuqutry.
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The Quebee Mercury says that a Rock |
Salt Mine has been diseovercd in the eounty |
ot Leeds. und a jommt stock company, with |
enpat sl of Bou woo sin le G00 shares of Sou

by the Author. ]

“Tam all that is, was, or ever shall be; and’ hit on something here.
ne mortal has been able to raise the weil whieh have been the real clue after all to much of their
— luscription on the facade of an go wuiversally remarked strange inconsistency ot

covers my face.”
ancient Egyptian Temple.
te enel

“All that has ever been I am,
‘Phat is or e'er will be,

Unchanging, through unceasing change,
1 AM eternally!

In clouds and darkness, flame and light,
Mysteriously 1 dwell;

And of ny nature none aright
Can or conevive or tell !

For though iv all man’s aciive mind
My power may surely trace,

Yet bas he ne'er attain'’d to reise
The vetl that shrouds my face!”

‘T'was thus of God Egyptia wrote,
When glory fill’d her land;

And kings, in search of wisdom, sought
Old Nius’ letter’d strand.

When her swart race, all men beside,
In arts and arms exeeli'd;

Awd she, to tribute, all the East
Triumphantly compell'd.,

When cities, temples, palices,
All skill and mystic lore,
Made her, of arts ard sciences,

The treasure house and store:

Ev'n then, whea her illumin’é mind
Kuew God was ever nigh,

Pervading, filling, moulding al,
Tn vevan, earth aud sky ;—

And great this know ledge was indeed—
Creat, woudertul aud true ;—

Yei, of God's nature, she no wore

i “ne :
pr constiluency ! teranee to auy more than the etrictest truth, the

W ce hase, perchance, just
p iblic sha il 1 resently be the judg 3.

Who knows but this aay

Malpeque, Dee. 23, 1865.

| conduct in this very respect? This one fact is -_ ——E
lat all events notoriously certain, that they - alike in f 7
seemed to labor under ve small ameunt of seeret Ch (i :
| drend, lest this long ridden religious lobby ef ; Ct Yair
theivs might be gradually assuming a somewhat = seiilaiinecpiemeeniis
different color in the popular ming, and in the!
| special apprehension we do not, to tell the honest
| truth, thinis they were far astray, And this may
also perhaps be quite sufficient in itself to account
| tor the corresponding fact equally notorious to the
iniversal observation of ihe whole colony, that they
| preterred em; loytig other agents of a somewhat
| peculiar statup, as lemporary ceadjulors, tostrike | to questions connected with our local polities—
through the pulpit and press, this for themselves ;
persovally cou idered, increasingly delicate cord |
ol Lheir comparatively worn out political Piddie, | them for the last two or three weeks. The poli-
While they, do the ping sony so fy epoca ‘tical sky, though calin, 18 very far from being
pwith harpiog Ousome other cords of less apparent | yt : * : is
| hazard re i open ear of our mixed population, jelear; but if the people are content with it, we
This was, no doubt, for the time vet allogether in
one sense a Wholly unelever dodge of theirs. It
did not tail of procuring them a goodly number of
the more credulous sort, or raiher of the more’
lcasily entrapped description among certain grades |
ot Liberal Protestants, IT use the term grades
here ina purely atellectual sense. We all know

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Charlottetown, December 28, 1863.
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A LULL IN Tid POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE.

Very littie or no interest at present attaches

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‘hence the silence with which we have regardec

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[have no desire to get up a tempest on our own
The Land Commission Humbug has
The Govern-

acconnt.

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long since been brought toa close.
ment journals are ashamed to say anything about
For the

Delegation Humbuy not beg bronght also te an

it. und we are tired of laughing af it.
that no Cluas ot men js oiten without its own quota |
oi just such soft or siuppie minded people, who are
ever liable te be played upeu by just such freaks, |
and caught by just such straws. ‘The stratagem
in the present case was in itseli, dear knows, |
clumsy enough. But the simpler the trap the |
more aptoiten such folk are to ran blindteld into
it. Such traps, however, seldom either work
long. or result eveutualiy in Vielluizing any ro
coupleiely ae the very partios themselves by |
when they are se disrepuiably gotten ap. This
will most assuredly turn out to be the uitimate
result alse, in all probability with our much
respected Tory tricuds in the case immediatels
They have already, we find, began to
manifest strong symptoms of dread at this very
trap of their own clumsy mavutaeture. This
fsaime plainly growing teat of this special hobby of |
} Their own, we trust way not euly stil ceniunue to
jinerease day by day as both they and we grow
and experience, bat ere avother |

| iynominious Close, there is a trifling excuse lefi

and we use the word trifling in a double
Mr. W. H. Pope, eve of the Delegates, has not

sense.

we belieye that Mr. Pope will net be foreed to

hurry himself in coming back. The Government,

therefore, will have considerable breathing time
uotil the Legislature shall meet, which they will,
no doubt, put off as long as they decently can;
and by the thue that event comes round, some

belore Us,

new dodge or lLumbug in the religious line will be

pocrilos in high places — to the prejudices and
funaticisin of the bigots in high and low places—
and to divert’ the attention of the general public

aulthe in ee

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returned from his travels; and frog all we bear, |

ated the rig

7a ’ yee ral election shall have arrived, we hope to
Pad Windies matter kuew,

from the legitimate action of the Administration.

ut the inefficiency of the Fire Department. At
2 o'clock this morning, the Fire Bell gave an

heard at any considerable distance from the Old
Court House, and therefore, a larger one shonld
be provided, or another Bell placed on the Prince

_— | of Wales College. ‘The fire originated in a house

lin the eceuyation of Mr. John Quinn, at the
| western end of the City, generally ealled the Bog
| Tt was said that a writ was about to be served by
‘the Sherif on the house for the amount of a
mortgage on Saturday night last, aud that Quion
| requested the Sherifl not to seize the property
till Monday. Asmaller crowd than usually gather
‘at fires were in attendanee. A-few persons ex-
lerted themselves to put out the tire, but the
greater nuviber skulked irow their duty. In tact,
|many did not show the least sympathy, but ap-
peared to be not serry that the * Bog was burn-
jing.” ‘Lhe ugines out of order, uo water could
“be had, t

truckmen could not be found te carry the water

be people world not form lines, and the

casks, and nothing but confusion was the order of
the day. A bitterly cold breeze frem a northerly
Givection fanned the flames, which spread on all

i sides of the house in which the fire originated.
The fire cou!d not be stopped until four houses
und a large stable were burved to the ground.
The property belonged ta a Mrs. Young, who is
svid to be antiouest and indusirious person. The

‘heuses were ouly partially insured.
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| THE NEW AMATEUR BAND.
Dering the past summer several of our city

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musical amateurs, unconnected with the Veolun-

started, to pander to the self interests of they tm }-sent to the United States for some

new instruments, with which and other baton
meats, tuey formed themselves inte an Auateur
Hund. It seems that the wembers have been

alarm. This Bell is vot sufficiently loud to be

temporary ewer, at Shelburne and La
barrel of sngar being offered for a ehaldron'eg
and other goods sacrafieed inthe same ‘
It new transpres that Brains was hot
commander. At Grand Manan, Captain Vertun
| Locke, of Ragged Island, whe has been for
‘time in the Confederate service, Joined the
jand assumed the command. Braine lefh the
either at Shelburne or LaHlave, and has Not Ringe
| been on board.—He was im thie city one ep two
nights of this week. Some rey + Bight, or
early this morning. a Warrant was‘mened tor hig
apprebension, charging him with the trie yi
“piracy and murder, and officers of Jnsticr ate new
lu pursuit of hin. e
‘he character of the traanvaction jp whieh
Braine was the chief actor, being thas Treeopuned
by the legal authorities of the country, We
sume warrants will be issved forthwith for thes
prebension of his associates, who ary haw.
within the Provinee, and iv is wot very Probable
that many of them wall esempe.

THE WAK iN TUE SPATRS.
By Telegraph to the Examiner and Keadnig Room,
Dee_NBeR 21, a, ay
Sehr. I. L. Gerety, from Matamoras with cotton
for New York was captured when iwo days gut
by passengers on board, whe hoisted ©
flvg. Pirates set capinin and crew afloat my bat
they report four other parties in Maiuworag
wating tor like chances. ,
Stories uhoat jo Culpepper that ©
army with President Davis in command Raut te
wake last desperate atiempt on the North
Magazine exploded m Yorktown, destroying
nearly all the buildings in the town,
Pederals capture? Fort Sperance in Matagorda

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Bay, (on Texas cousi) several th
federate Loops, Lindred praeners,

Drerme

'Contederates reimtoreing Lee te attack the
of the Potomac. Comberiand Gap

| Longstreet divided his army, attacking twe
| with desige te eat off Gens, Sb
| Foster. Plan waged

. werd wn tw een
jwell and Chink River. Later advices
| Longstreet returning Ball Gap. Contederate |

theon, A

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Letter from Bealten Station reports 5k

diligeutly practising, for on Christnias-Day whilst | attack on outposts of Fert G
playing the Irish Volunteers to and trom St. | 88 repulsed. “TP worthirds of Kirky Susitis’s \
reat of the counmuuity, aud wail, in all humility, Jynetan’s Cathedral they made a very creditable | PICParNs attack on Litile Kock; tokens A

si pitt j attack Fort Smith.

for the “good tine coming” that will develope tt out. Alihough they labored ander great Roving bands of Gueriilaa swarming in Weat
iculties, the weather being cold and the walk. | Tennessee. Captured ram “ Atlanta” refitted

our “ God-fearing Government.” aod will Snen oy i> ane from Pir : ‘
etna RE else ot gia : : “ + The Union Virginia Legislature passed a

THE CONCERT TO-MORROW EVENING. | TH Principal of the Quick Steps, and Marches | calling Couventivn, fur abulition of slerery,
alajeaed | were distinetly rendered whilst the otier parte) Decemper 23.
We. trust that our fellow citizens will ast for-) were well sustained, Reported surrounding of Longstreet net cone.
firmed. Thnes’ Washington despateh says letter
’ : ‘trou Charkeston fleet states, taat as faras visible
reach high proticiency in the divine art of suuric. | the omy obstructions were double limes of pi ne
pevening. Prow all we can learn, there is every | [i stands a betier chance of being &@ more perma. | Serene the Channel, trons Fort Vinkney te Middle
Viuis question; at all eseata, in every proper | reason to expeet that it will be quite a brilliant | nent affair than the Volunteer Band, inastnuch as Ground, and thence to Fort Johuston, There isa

two hundred feet
, * a ‘ | twe hundr eet opening.
political peint of view, is one which almost ex-|@ffair, and a crowded house to honor it — the Cinewmnatti nantes ake 1 ki :

the mewhers are chiefly old residents aud are wot |

getul the German Augusten-| each, is about to be wormed in Kiogst mo ior)
tw the duchies, on the | the purpose of working it.
Wiiv —t ee. oe --——

find thei ready to abandon it altogether, even
although, as heretefore, they should not succeed in
securing anything wm the form of a more usetul
| politicad steed, ou Which to preseat themselves be
jiore the aggregate constituency of this same little

butg hemaly death o We suppoRe we must practise patience like the
hie Kins ot Lavponed ty be |

the fast remaining reyresemiacive of lus dy-) Gold and silver bearing quartz veins have

tasty. King Freder ck retused the demands; hoes found within mine miles of Vietorin,

‘wie wade, wnd the ifoistemers rose i ine Vonecaver’s Island, creating @ great excite-

surrection. Lhe Danis: parcot ihe w soarchy | ment in that colony.
} strtvtically Pushed tu te rescue, and routed A > |
the insurgents Tue would sovn | Ir is reported that gold has been discovered

have Deen & ttled, bad nut the Germ inie 19 Victoria County - ape Brutus. |
wifedera stein. At Dane.
Viree Che Dunes 20 OUU str mg zallunity foushi
luv vO of their enemtes, but lonted.
Tovey retreated to the isiiunds, a for ue atly
two years successfully and bervicaily bed de- | Uret the death of Demwark’s King bas led

fiance w the who's vi Germany. Frussia— | Some of our enterprising journaiets to give |
wae had beem acting as chief Federal exeeu- | U8 8M Insight into the family afaers of toate:

She knew that We was all ip all,

Dewupark,
Arowad, Detieuih, above; mn

Yet kiew she not this glorious truth, new schomes of piety from the unctuous souls of ditt

“The great 1 am is Love!”

ling slippery, the mnusie was above medioerty.
pig This great, this everlasting truth
Misitiess . °
By Christ to man was taught,
bth an. Ta deeds of merey, and in words.

Gossip nespeetina Countess Danner--!
Morauity or kvroresns wn inpia — With |
respect to gossip of Various Kinds, if Seems

‘ ion sided with il

island. But, although like ail other mortals, we

jallow them space for repentance, still we at the |

jsdie time couceive that jt can be nothing but |

| just that they should up to the present moment at |

| least be duder the necessity ot bearing their own | T

burdens. And one of the very chielest of these | nee © giant Oe er
With lve diiiswhidade Weiaulie i burdens, we feel ready ty predict, will be yet | eet the Grawd Concert by the Choir of St. | that this Bund, in the course of a short time, will
[tovud to resolve isell diametrically inte nothing | Danstan’s Cathedral, advertised for to-nerrow
j more ver less than this self sume Bible Question,
jou whieh we now deseant,

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And ev'ry ieart, where it has found

A sanctified abode, i
A living temple it has made, }
io God.

* Not buddi with aands,” ie

fomer—at leagta cul thuded «a peaee tor Monarch; and they tell strange stories of ; lusivety “iy 9 ” the ree Pc I eet j tickets, Hiern put at a good figure, having | se likely to remove as young wen. The want of | fron Arkansas, papurte tuwense Union moeeting
Rel whe ce fut : pe ithe PA 3 pueau isand | wish to be disiinetiv underetood . . : . : | . remng adi this! ration
} seed and Geemang. Nothing was gained his ** Queen,’ who (« Dane by birth) was And man, so bless'd, and none | he ty thet afdian than oe mee a we wideretoud | bon readily sold. We are sorry to see that some a good Band has often been felt in this piace to! bern beled there, ede 9
. 1 Shed 'b bieddedaitle Meveae . witt ‘in 0 ited an, I i, and none bul sux —~ they alone have as ye Heel, as a dvurinant | a i , F : ‘ f ) SUppressinig rebellion, and Teen me ade State |
Nu coagesssun was @ade by the Denes. The frst regs it a ay, next an actress Are “wen ef Gud” indeed | party,—or, more specifically stilim they in reality | HArrew -souled persons in the Monitor and Protes-| vuliven the proceedings of the gatherings of the Convention tor re-organiaing State Government.
t'mled ration, however, delayed the with-) '" Paris, subsequently a undiner te © spene | Ww Se to a i jcvustiiute the oily party, ia any seuse, whe ave | tant have laboured to turow the brands of religious people. It has been observed regarding lawyers | Reported that Gen. Batler weuld leave F
drawal of the arary wut the tasurgents could | gen where she ateracted the attention vi | * ho, By their love to all mankind, leven ae yet ti ken any legisiative action pow ite) gj 1 ij tl h of one “ ' Monrue to-day tor City Point with one theneand
awel ob the arary Toe tise ‘ “ | , e i. a gh ee ei. a Ore *| discord into the path of this most prais rly ww . single one neve iv he ’ ’
organigeand retreat from the resi of Germany | S58 Kinz, not then called cto tre throne. Piove © Gow is Love,” their creed. | Pins is strictly and idisputibiy trae. It must, | . — ey | ee ee prisoners, for exchange, Baltinore Seeessionite,

nee more the Danes gave tieu battle, de-

- Jueated them, aud crove thew out of Dele wig
intu Holatem. There they again found
pulety under the prutectiva of tue Federal
army.

Matters had reached this stage when the
Contederate powers absuluiely refuged to
withdraw eats) the King eitered intya treaty
Wits Chou, chasing t putin furee & certain
einetitution.. Frederick would net do this
Jie cianmed that he was the ruler of his own
peepie, und that he ought to be allowed to
pettie the affairs of his monari hy Wwithuut
vuteids interieredave ; but suci duties as ie
owed to the Cuniederation by v riwe of tis
positive as Dake of Uvistera wal Lauenburg,
those he would diseliarge. The Confederates

lot Royalty.

crowned he contracted a left-hand
alliance with this iady and made her a}
Baroness, and afterwards Countess i/anner, |
gave hera palace for a residence, and sur- |
rounded her with all the grandeur and state!
* In 1850 the marriage of the |
Keng was reecelebrated in public im the
ehoreh of Fredericksburg, ana in 1851] and
1954 she accompanied bis Majesty in his |
tours, and participated in ail the popular |
ovations. She was possessed of a firm and |}
intelligent mind, was as jealous of Ler runk
as a veritable Queen, and ts said to bave tad
great influence in directing tle ime of policy
which bas of late years been pursued by |
Denmark towards the German Conlederacy.’
Cases of seanda! cf all descriptions are re- |

W hen

They are not His who fondly think
Phat they are His alone,
And deem, to Him, all wen besides

Ave alieus, and uwuknown

They are not Hts, who by the hand
‘Tie sinner cannot take,

And uid, by words and deeds of Love,
His cruel bonds to brenk !

Tacy are not Js, wha, all anmov'd,

The shivering wretch cau see;

Unmoe'd by Love,—can hear the ery
UF fawmist’d agony!

\ theredore, wWilveul the slightest reom for discus- | vbject— yelling the “ No-Popery ” ery, und at-
sion, belong, as L ave aiready stated, uninisinke | tempting to hound on Protestante against Cathe-
ably belong in its only properiy eudorsed value to] tex
them. Now, this is even in’ itself one positive .

Such persous falsely aceuse the Catholics

janyibiag be mayver In W heh, bea public body— | y high order tor the education and enlightenment
tue tisbest lu fag tland—they have never takev, : 7
lin their own constituent eapacitv as a Govern.) @! their youth, the Bigots won't let them do it, if
}ineat, any airect: puvle action. ‘This is aimere | they ean uelp it. When did a Catholie writer
ruisia au pobdeal economy. ~The late Liberal
j rey “ri a 1 am aware, ii
ited any sueh action whate®er nm loetr corperate
iJ tice, be held aimenable ‘aie people tui atiiy-
jthing relating fo this partielar subicet. The
jbever actual leg hiled Ob) tie Gtiewl ian. li is
}nu mutter West the coun fed Maas
@ outside wre, have said or gpne.

Heh hever, ti se ty i

| Beguars and Pie Nice so often held iw religious

capucity. y can neverSdhereiore, in strict) aud educational mirpeses connected with

various sects of Protestuniisa?
hoppy to say—and never, we hope, wall the iike
h 9

Pithe:, i anu witnessed. On the contrary, Catholic “ riters

The fact stitl ae recommended a liberal patronage to Bozaars

ever davise bis crreligtoiists not to patronise the |

Tu like manner, it

jmay happen that, whilst one Band could never
| . . .
‘exist in Charlottetown, for any length of time,

/ well as two in a community.

tact which must not be furgattea. No Govern | of keeping ther children iu iguerance; and now | like the “ fast rose of summer lett blooming alone,” |
pent ean ever be held atuenaule Lo any people for ;“ ben the Catholics want to establish a school of (‘the two Bands now iv existence juay benefit |

veach other.
<>

During tue week rumors have been afivat con-
cerning the mysterious death of a man wanwd
| McIunis, whe resided on the road leading from

the)

Cardigan to Georgetown.
left home with a horse and cart with grain te be
ground ot the mill, His next door neighbour

desired bun to take a bag of grain te the suill,

Oue day last week he |

i
/ Court House. Alse reported Confederates sent
| Commissioners to Breland te obtaim reernita,
Gold at New York ow the 2st, 152.
Dee. 23, (a. m.)
Reported disaster to Federal Lrouacladse woe
donbtedit a canard. Reported death of Letige

street another canard.

SUPPOSED CASE OF WILFUL MURDER. | World's despatch saya Gen. Barnside ia vai ;
wy and ©

af

pected de take permanent leave of ar
) relive le private ite.

| Generals Sherman and SSackford, and at
had arrived at Louisville dat eseniag.

Port Sruth despatcy save Contedernte force
lerossing Arkansas River, going sevthveased vaguely r
| Standwatt, Aider, and Quantre!l, were reated Ly
Captain Spillan with some lodiana treoye, atter
an booe'’s tight at Baumer Fork. Conutederat-<

- . - . . i H 1 . . i }
the aeked what bis intentions were He ant nore: free poriig hy every mail — of i Now, at this time, when thy free Love remaias the ®. ae, ane nollie TAU OVer aiter it 1 Pie N { Prot ' with which reques§ MeSunis coupled. Ja } a wg i ° nee ce | ? saa
retrte ' we : i. elupemenis, sometimes successful, : her | Pollen bE ie oe ees yo me Fatendi ‘ a Pe Nies lor Protestaut purposes; and Caiho- , . CUINBOLRRIINE I CLBUMe HONE eS
Peplied by issuing a proclamation tu Lis own f ai ucee 1, at other Redewption sent waukind, | 1 am ne re, by any Means, iitencing ta mseort tH oe” the evetiing, Melunis was observed walking to- | Foreign arrival revoria King wiipoed Toenon

subjects, BnNUUbCINg bis purpose bo organize
weurt ot Federal Porliament, elected on the
basis ol equal Tepresenta ton tor the whole
monerelty, with seperate ** s nate’ assewhblies

tines [rustrated—of actions in whieh married
ladies and married men wre concerned =]
veal.y appears, saya the Hera/d. us if in|
india peace were the great deworaliser in|

7

Ged grant we each, by Love subdued,

May turn, with heavenly wind,

Te wile or bueband, child or fi iend,

a
Pt’
i

ja pleain be iad «
ity the pie

WEF i }

ie LibereBparty in preferegiee | UC ladies, and gontlewenesiay and chorieal—have
hut j trerety uh we Meseri ui piven thei money withent stint te such objects ;
witch tn this eOUNTEY 18 too apt te | ar
l de overimouked in lie Gilera Poliical experience We
jot oll party legislation alike. cAs a douinant Go} have ne desive te pursue

ene? We
Va iC ulad bbe

aud will,.we beve no doubt. do co again.

wards bis home, preceded a short distance by his
horseandcart. Lhe terse and cart reached home,

but Che owner was ionad dead inthe cart. It was

Un twenty five rowneds, basting Thirty one amiuates,
| Lou Sayers was Hoenan’y seeond. -
Dee. 24,8, 8. M.

| Flilton Head arrival wentions Monit ar*R ek"

, hewsed ie time tead of war. During the mutinies we heard : this subject further | si : —e i ; : >
18 each duchy and division of the kingdom, *® 4 t i To " ; ( . ‘a ‘te : supposed, at firet, that be beiug au aged man, fell | ; ' “ker @ Fort
7 : : arent, sister, brother: rnimental par ty FY ae aliens , : : er ; etss. ’ > ’ ‘ nyround, While om ple uty near
for the magagement ol locaiaffuire. He aley/ Of Valor and purity going band in band ; ot! Para power, Dewtaer s ivernuental pariy, then, T sag public legiskition inj now. We wish, indeed, to aveid eversthag ja Oe : :
4 ; ’

, ,
promised thet the two races in Sehleswig— #4! lant deeds beng accompanied by the

the Germans end Danes—rhoud be placed
’

noblest acts of self-devotion and self-denial ; |
of respect paid to the Bex under t Ww ptations |

jthis pacteclar bible questo lirst began, and has
leer singe been eonufined ce our present Yor,
jaduntuistration 74 this Proviniee. “4

Aud, knowing that we ail lave sinned,

Forgive aud bless each other!

Nereven shtuply

i baving the least ap pearanee of religious autayen- |
isis ane we confiientiy hope that there is good

down in the cart in an epileptic fit, (be being |
killed.
But it was observed en examination that

subject to epilepsy), and was thereby

the

Jolusten, she was yet off and towed te Hiltea
Head for repoire.
Gen. Gilmore was shelling Cherleston daily with

Keported Lee's army will winter at. Hanerer

. ' most st = ‘ . ;
. . ; ange ny : > aie 3 é i. ; a iit . nig ; “lL ponuders. Chatieston despatch mention
upon & basis of perliect equality, but te re- : re , jee. Net merels in absolute ruth have they thus | sete and libevality enough in the community j : ‘ ‘ bumired po i
jused tu eutes a > BLY Chpupemoul wil hot oiten expericnedd ; of a chivalrous sense | And now, when at this season here, t poli ivaly udepted it, bec they have a, diy | 1 : : © COMMUNITY 00 Hived with which he was covered preceeded from) the sac but reports lilth damage. ° ™
use i ) reid h : é i . m ; ' aiiy a , : edly | make the fort an ileal : “ee ails #
of bonour, todeed, which made heroes and Stark Winter's horrors reign, take the forthcoming Coneert emai ntly suecess

jureign powers.
well satisfied, ber troops were withdrawa,
nid peeee once mere rerrned,

‘Tae Génetiiutiuon the King had promised
to his people was immediately put in force.

Germany prOiessed hersell

heromes of ail engaged in the struggle. But!
security once established, the finer feelings |
appear to be furgutten iv too many instances

uw We bear nothing. wail alier mail, bet!

Putas soon as the Hoistemers found they ve eld Anglo-lodian siang about balls and |

And Sin and Sefrow, Shaw and Want,
Iu sordid huts-coupiain ;
O may thy love, the hearts of those,

W hose stores thyself bath biess’d,

} gone much iurivers they hate prafessedly made
iit the grat d central plink, 80 to speak, i ®o far
jas theory goes, of their eating politied] platiorm.
, Ly it, theretore, as sech of arse We must ex-

_ ful, as regards tue suinbders in attendance, despite
the envy and narrow-mwindeduess of a few un-

, principled tellows who trade upon, and live by |

wounds abont his head, which bad been apparent-
'

y in flieted by seme instrument like an axe. J
| R. Bourke, Esq., summoned a jury to hold an

Expected Athansas will soon be represented in
Congress, arrangements progressing tor election

"in that state aud believed state Government will -
soon be in harmeny with the general Government, —

| Reported that all the Contederate rams in

pect that they are jet resdived consigteatly to

inquest on the body, and the members of the jury

abide. We bave indeed offirtned that tuey do not | 'lxieus diseord. The Choir will not disappoint,

| Englaad bave been offered to the English Govern

—_ wi e eet] " oa 2 Pon i : wii
| —with the exception of the person who requested [nent at certain price; proposition is betore the

vould not have evergthing their own way
under it, they again commenced an agitetion
= wy coofplaioe I that the repres Riatiow in
tie central parliament was based on pop-
ulation, and asked that Denmark proper,

pie-nies:; burra knanas and burra beedes; |
*epins,”’ f.rtation, and the rest of it. W.
have never been amoung those who louked |

;

jupon Indian society as worse in point ot |

tavrality than svciety at home; but it must
be contessed that its scandals are more flig- |

Constrain to seek, where'’er they lie, j luis peculiar elemeutot Cousintency in thus abiding |
: cous ientiously by it, which the vecessity of their
To it, :
jar not, tuey have no alternative neweleft then |
| but thus iairly to adhere,

Aud succour the distressed:

j
i Cuse Ie y iPes

Se shall “ th’ unrighteous mammon” yield
A blessing to the poor,

jeppear very much disposed to exhibit very long | we feel assured, an pudyence of taste and intel-

howefer, whether willing |

They have gone too |

, ~—Melunis to take tine bag of grain to ihe mill, whe
ligenee, w be defnat consider that the maintenance was one of the jurors—came te the conclusion
of their religion depends upon abridging their | hat the deceased bad been wutully murdered.
rativial, woral and highly intellectual enjoyments. | Tae person alluded te would not sign the verdict

a

dSehleswiz, Uvistein. and the tainute Duehy

jiar at this Bour to retrace their steps; they need |

of wiliul wurder, and persistently declared that |

| Admiralty.
| Federal navy department will build tour ease-
‘inated steawslips to carry tweuty inch guns.

“ Herald” has letter from Gunboat © Huron”
in Soboy Sound, announcing the capture of Con

te
ee

Za
y

Laueaubdurg should cach be represented by | 24%. and they are becoming wore frequent, | Aud everlasting howes in Heaven jot even dream of attempting it. In the exac t!| Fi x ES! | Melunis could not have met his death through | federate blockade running Steamer * Cheat em™

*

TG eoaber of members, without any
yeference to the difference in population.
‘he result would bave been that tue Danes.
aitnougo the wajority of the poosple, would
Jiave been inp the minority in the Congress
Of evurse, the proposition-was refus d. Bus
Germany agam Steppeu in and demanded
that UWolstern und Lauenburg snould bo ex.
ex» pted frow the o,eraton vu! the oa

ne

ulgo, tuum they were.
— '

The Freneh Eu. peror’s speech on the open. |
ing of the present session consisted uf 26044)

words. The transmissivn by telegraph frou |

}

the central 6tarion in Paris commenced as. fine hot-pressed paper, will be left at the Book |

soon as it was ascertained that the reading
had been completed, which was about hali- |
past ons. The average tuoe vceupied in the |
transmission to the principal cities of France |

The douors shall secure.
R. B. IRVING.
Charlottetown, 20th Dee., Is63.
N. B.—Copies of the above, neatly printed on

and Drug Stores, and at the otber principal
Stores in Town, to be sold at Yd. each, for the
benefit of the poor. a: B. 4.

On Saturday wight last the alarm of fire was
The
| tire proceeded iroma schooner called the Amagent,
She

j position inv hich they have voluntarily placed |
j themscives before the country they must hence-
| forward be prepared to stand. What this posi-
tion equivecally is, we shell presently see.
| What We here sa} is, on if In all houesty, be it

igiven a few winntes after seven o'clock,
ul
| belonging to Captain Nicholson, of Orwell.
| What it may, they as a party, (nso far as it is! was laying at the head of Queen's Wharf, having
concerned, must iow be prepared either to stand | : i Me
for tall. But they-muet staad or full only, be it)’ he Gre origmated
lananifestly remembered, nat as it may iv itself be | in the cabin from sparks which came trem a
| coutempiated as lorming an Open aosiract qies-| cooking steve. Had the fire department been im
tion of prominent Interest toevery mixed comuu-

been put up for the winter.

foul meas.

Suspicien, thereiore, feil upon him,

| “7 .
;amurdered man. The person refused to do so;

and Melanis’s wife remarked that he need nut be
put to that test, as he was the last person who
would injure ber husband. Mr. Bourke dismissed
| the jury, but recorded a verdict of wilful murder

i
j

)and one of the jurors desived hin to lay bis hand bea Say mo

on the body of Melunis, and declare he was not |

laden with cotton, tebacce, rosin, d&c., prize
red aud fifty thousand dollars.
ircapium” was seized at New
‘York under suspicious circumstances, aud many
arrests were made, of males and temales—four re-
volvers were taken from one woman.

Government grows more rigid relative to pass
port system for vessels, all vesecls of whatever
nation will be subject to it.

Texas reports General Washburn with con- —

ou. With tis the Danes coniplied > e@ cries tttettadiadoivnie | hese ae thi like worki r 18 i ‘ei siderable body of troops, started for Indianola—

F ase aay were invested ty the power and Europe wae an bouraada quarter. Tie | OP TH oy . jaity possessing religious Conditions sitar to our wi dined ~ MESDINE OFF, fire im the’ dpalust some Unkuown person, Tae body of the | believed that San pyoen.rs4 will soon be in Federal
two Cea ie la aeabilitive. The. did capitals tor which the longest time wae res | KOR THE PUBLIC. own, but they must stand or fall on it, cousidered schooner might have been put out in a short deceased was buried, but the arighbours iad sueh | possession. .

‘ Obst them, and ingited theret> by Prussia, quired from a want of direct commanigation | (No. 3.) ,exclusively in that precise light which it assumes time; but the fire was observed raging in the | Great number of Texans represented reinforeed

they asked fur separate assemblies in the
different divistone of the monarchy, each of
whiew should possess ap adwiute veto on all
roatcers of common interest, This demand
was aleo refused. And finally, they now ask
that Holstein shall bs herself endowed with
nn judependent vole of ali matters which
goneern the monarchy. Lf this were granted,
Tre tleistern Assembly would have the power,
ead would mall probsbility at voce eX-reise
it, te stop the supplies for the Central G>-
vernment. Sach an abeurdig einnos be
catertumed by tie Danes, and they steadily
patuee the required Concession. ihe Frank-
tort Diet, huwever, msists upon it, and has
ordered a * Federal ex-cution.”” Saxony,
and we believe Uanover, were cach to turaish
6 GUO men for the purpose, but, as usual with
(i-rman proceedings there Wes a quarrel
about precedence, and nothing las yet been |
dune |
The City of New York now brings us the
jaformation that Frederick VII. is d ad. to

were Rome, 5t. Petersburg, Athend. and |
Lisbon. The speech was nevertheléss re- |
ceived everywhere before the evening, and |
the journals of the whole of Europe produc d!
iton the follow:ng qoruing, the same us those
ai Paris.

---—--_ Oo DS oC —

The following singular ; aragravh appears
in a Partsian journal :—* The origin of whist
dors not go back further than 8&0 years.
Lord Lyndburet, born in 1772, was one of the |
most devoted adepts of this game. Jt is to
hin thas is owing that manner of playing,
bamely, when & person holds a sing)e eard ot |
a suit that he at once plays it out, and whieh
i@ gnuwn by the name otf Singleton.”’
this, name is derived trom its inventor, Sir
John Singletun Copley. His public services
wili be torgotten, but his name will survive
at the whet tabie.”’

s.

—2e oe -—

Arreuptep FiLoresent or aN Orn Man op
Pirty wira a Scnoot Gian —A man fi ty
Veurs of age, the proprietor o! a rag shop, at-

* Justnm ae tenaceum proponti virum,
Now civiem ardor prava jubeutimn,
Non volors instantis ty rannii
Mente quatit solida.”’—Honat.
Mr. Epiror;:

The topie which I have now resolved ta an-
nalyze is one which in the existing state of

promiscuous feeling in this country, re quires to |
be handled not only with delicacy, but wise with |-
' firmness and decision.

The object of this letter,

is, as announced in uy last, an tupartial effort to |

bring oub in their true bearings the real merits of
that particular question which has now tor such

a iength of tie, aud withal se very ‘injudiciously’ |

agitated the moral, intelieetual, and social equill-
brium of this litte Island under the well known
contour of the Bible controversy, ‘This contro-
versy, a8 Lalse intimated, is that especial * boue ot
contention’ which, belonging more properly in its

‘endorsed value to the preseut Tory cousociation

of the land, leadsus back to their wore distinctive
organization late that peculiar aspect wuich, asa
pulitical party, they new present to the common
eye of the general pubhie. ‘They, as a body, will
not of course themselves pretend to deny that the

jwhen viewed under the express ireatment which |
jit has received from their own own hands, We! F : : :
imust take it just. 8 they have given it to us, and | hour before a single engine made its appearance.
lihey must abide by it, just as it amounts to that, A large crowd assembled on tie wharf, sud at
precisely that, and nething but that, whatever |
| that way be which they heimselves have made it. | : tat ‘
; Aud what have we said they did make it: the | Capt. McKinnon, made its way to the head of
i grand cextral plank of their entire political plat-| Queeu's Whart. Then fiercer thaa the flames

form?! No; but we have said thet they bave arose a din of tongues amongst the Engineers
‘made it such, in so far as theary goes, and only mn \ " ‘ . : 4
so far as theory goes are we prepared to prove | Fire W ardens. Captaing, and bysstanders in gett-
have they actually made anything of it, whatever. | jing the Engine ready.
' For this tuudamental plank of theirs, be it here
essentially voted, reveals itself to many of the
tnost Ivelligent minds in our midst as being, after
all, one whieh is involved in the deepest obseurity,
and positively enveloped in fhe utinast suspicion.
The main point to be desiderated, be it remen-
bered, is vel, by any ineans, whether the Bible in
itself is a good work or bot. ‘Tis we allat least |
| profess to acknowledge: and if this were the real |
| problero at issue, these of whom we now speak ‘ti ~ ton * a j
jas having endorsed it theoretically as their special |My found TE was Useless fo Waste any more
_politieal platform in this ecantry would have wo | time with the Engine. Then, and not till then,
thing to tear, But this — aiax for hutwan heyes | did the Captain of Engine No. 2 order his men to
‘and the security of medern Toryism in Prinee

cabin of the vessel for fully three quarters of an

length the new Fire Engine, under control of

|

[spent in fixing on the suction hose; ten minutes
{more in getting the Engine in her proper place:
‘sean it was found that the valves were frozen, or

he done,

| that some screws were The officers and
nen perseveringly fumed, fretted, aud trittered

away their time and patience, but the water

would pot come; and atter fully an hour's labour

A quarter of an hour was

' was guilty of bis death, that they requested Mr.
, Bourke te summou the jury again. He did so,
jand they all atteuded, except the supposed

‘
|

murderer. Mr. Bourke sent the constable atter

biuw several Gines, but he refused to atteud. At >

leage
‘he

ha writ was issued for his appreheusion, but
bid himeelf, and upto the time when we heard
| the abuve particulars, he was not taken.

- a
NEWS BY THE MAILS.—RECAPTURE OF
«THE FKDERAL STEAMER CHESAPEAKE,
We have had a large batch of Coionial and
American Maile on Friday evening last, but no
later dates than the 22d. The English Mail
| Steamer, a8 we learn by telegraph, arrived at
| Halifax on Wednesday, the 23d, but the Mails
for this Island bad not arrived here up to the

| tine of going to press.
| There is scarcely any news of much importance

a strong suspicion that the individual alluded to | at the pruspect of arly redencption of the Brats

|

SOUTHERN ITEMS.

President Davis’ message is despondent over
the loss of Vicksburg, Port Hudson and other
points. No improvement in the relations of the Cba-
federacy with Foreign powers; on the contt
'gveater divergence among them, assuming an
titude positively untriendly. Accuses Great
Britain ot marked partiality. He says finances
demand strict and earnest attention, aud re-
commends taxation instead of turther issues of
bonds aud treasury notes,

it i® reported that the Georgia Senate has
ordered the conscription of every able bodied
citizen over 15 sears.

Some peace resolutions recently introdweed in
the North Caroliza House of Commons got only
two voles.

A Newbern despateh says that immense
quantities of goods nave run the blockade into
Wilanngton, aud are supplying the Coufederate
Army.

The number of steamers and vessels engaged ia
this business is stated at over two hundred.

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vecordance with a law passed In 1355 in an- tem) ted on Thursday, (Thanksyiving day). gaan wt | ho i eetieneoes gy ad Edward Isiand — is iv ho sense whatever the en art o little Engine, which at all our | by the Colonial and American Mails except an The rebels have pleasant things in stove
weipation of the contingenoy, tie Crown | to ciope with a young wise of thirteen years, {tain status on Which they profess ‘to build their |" al problem at issue. Nor is even the ques- | fir proved the best of all the Engines. In accnuat of the tectgture ef the’ Biremer Chase Burnside—should ikey capture tim. P

Prince of Denmark, the latver ot the Prinevss
of Wales, hae been raised to the throne,
woder the titie of Christian ix As eoun as
the deats of Frederick was angounced, the
Dues! Government of Gotha, as the teie-
graph reports, ‘recognised the present here-
ditary Prmce of Ausustenburg as Duke ot
dal leawig ond [Jolstern, and imiormed the re-

otative of Holstein at the Federal Diet
that soy vther pretender to the succession
for the Dochies would be met by @ proposi-
tion to the Federal Diet, requesting it to
proteet the rights of the legitimate Prince by
the necessary meaus, and in case of need to
establish it by force.’ Lf the Duke of Gotha
stood alone,.the Danes would svon punish
lus iwpertinence; byt be is protected by the
Germanic powers, aud it is probable will be
rapported by them. By tie death of the
King an Impetus has thus Leen given to a
yaarrel wineh way Jead to « seedy war.
England hae always sided with the Dan-s
against Germany, considering that the poar-

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the daughter of a wealthy resident of Chica-
go. with whom, in Various ways, be had es-

lie mace her acquaintance ut @ pic-nic,
subsequently lavisted presents upon her, and
finally it seems, actually succeeded in forwing |
4 Murriage engagement. On Lbanksziving |
day the rascal calied at the house and took |
the girl out to ride, and in a short time,
brought up in froat of a Cathulie church. |
where arrangements had been made for per
forming the marriage cerewony. Just as
they alighted a brother of the young girl, |
whose suspicions had been aroused; and who |
had followed the carriage, appeared'on the |
scene, armed with a pistel, and stepping in.
tront of the old villain told him if he didnot,
return his sistergto her home at once, he,
wonld blow him through. The old man tried |
to argue the case, but in vain = The trio got
lite the carriage and the girl was speedily
restored to her paremts. On reaching the |

giel’s home the old man took from his anti- |

;open canvassing meetings during the reee

political fame, as well as the most proginent
grounds on which they stil rest their chief claim
, tabhiied aa Mumacy, UNK OW bo the tamuly. | to popular faver and current support. At certain

tines, it is true, as ior instance ut seme of their
nt
General klecuon, Lam indeed aware, they have
shown a temporary disposition to keep this par-
ticular fact clandestinely in the back ground,
While aguin i their every day, more private
electioneering incursive movements, whieh they
were ever, for their owneredit, but teo unwearied

2

| in prosecuting, with a zeal greatly deserving of a

better cause, they were seldom sileut about its
vast importance in securing what they please to

designate “ the Protestant independence of this |

youthtul country.” This, however, is simply
in keeping with the fest of their mysterious eou-
duct as a general rule, under that sigually complex
ebaracter which we have already remarked as
belonging pre-eminentivy to Chemselves, in contra-

iatinelion to almost every otuer political taction

perhaps ever heard or read of in this world betore. |

Consistency, judeed, throughout the whole
current of their preceding history, in no perceptive
respect whatever, has formed any trait in their

j tion Whether the Bible, thus universaliy esteemed
jan iu itself incomparably the best of all books,
lis proper to be dsed in our common schools, the
query at present requiring solution. There are
jmany, no doubt, still labouring wader the impress
jsion that this is the true point now actually in
jdixspute. Were it really so, however, we are
jaguin free to admit that our Tory friends at the
| present juveture in this Calony would net, per;
(haps, have quite so much resseu to apprehend |
jany great changes to their prospective destiny as
}a permanent power in the land. But that even
i this is m any positive degree the actual gist of the
| question involving thus so much of their public
jeredit as a party, We are tot merely iu the very

the meantime, the cabin and upper deck of the
schooner were consumed, Only that the night
was very calm the vessel would geviainly have
been totally consumed. The beavy timbers pre-
vented, for a time, the flames fros: spreading,
uutil a stream of water from Engine No. 2 sue-
ceeded in putting out the fire.

The convietion could not but force itself upon
every person Who observed the proceedings on
Saturday night, that there is no preparation bere
| to allay the ravages that may arise any day from
‘fire. We have a military organization, patron-
vised by the Government aud supported by the
public funds, to keep off foreign invasion, which

joutset ready te deny. but in the sequel most em
phatically and manifestly prepared to disprove.
This can furn.eh them, we shall duly show, uo
tevable growne on which te assume any defensible
| position. Jadeed!) = This, seme will doubtless
conceive, it once clearly detined and conclusively
‘maintained, is at least making an aggressive

|

pening; but we have no competent organization
| 1 ' to ward off the dangers of fire, an evemy
jinevement on our part, winch must, in uo meon-

siderable degree, Uhruw the whole coatrayersy, that way attack us at any moment. We treely
‘from beginuing to end, into a now garb entirely. | admit that every person connected with the fire

i.

peake, whose seizure by Southern sympathisers

was described at some length in a late No. of this

paper. The recapture was effected near Halifax,
aud the vessel was brought into that port, where
“she was handed over to the Provincial authorities,
'who will deal with the question of her owne rship.
|The Halifax papers are filled with sensation ar-
tickes on the subject. The facts of the recapture
are succinctly and clearly stated in the follawing
| Short article, for which we are indebted to the
| Halifax Citizen of the 17th instant :—

At three P M. today che Chesapeake, which
vessel had been recaptured this mourning 1m
Sambro, stented up the harbor with a prize erew

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there is not the remotest probability of ever hap- 0" boartl, followed by the Ella & Annie, and |

shortly atierwards by the Dacotah, another U.
States guubout, We learn that alter the arrival
of the Ciespeake at Sambro yesterday eveaing,
ber commauder came up to the city, and ma

arrangements for obtaining a supply of coal,
which was sent down to Sambro iu small vessels

burg Express, referring to Morgan's confinement
in the Obie Peuttegtiary says:

* Should a kind, just Providence ao will it that
Burnside should tall inte our bands, we trust that
a Geil in seme State prisen, with a shaved head,
coarse fare, prison garb, ete., will be instently
awarded him, as it was by his order that
| Morgan was subjected to the outrages which be
| has endured.

The Charlesten Mercury says that since last
March the arseval iu that city bas melted up ain
ae tous of iron, and cast more than sixteet
thousand proje cules, exclusive ot grape and eal
| wister,
|. Tbe rebels say they captured Parson Brow?
_low’s press, type and paper thirty miles fre@
| Knoxville.
| ‘Phe amount of cotton shipped from Wilmington

a Jan. 1. and Sept. 30, 2863, was

PR.

The Alabaina State salt works now produce
er 300 bushels daily. Private establishments
produce about 2600 bushels daily, and it ia

| the supply will exceed the amount.

+--+ - -2 > eo -—-

bev
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tive whieh they have taket: 1 just and gon- | eipated brid) some of the articles of dress

known practical experience. ‘They bave sys | Yes, ad se It unquestionably doce. But, never-
«|

department, on the occasion of fires, tries to do

during the uight. HOW THE SOUTH SUFFERS.

*

‘

fonent with the true interests of nations which he hud presented to herand mace tracks tewatically ignored it as a yecesstry Ingredient of | theless, this is the only geuyue garb, which w

Vertainly in the present juncture she is not for bis rag shop. Such is the story of the
likely to desert hee ally. By her advice it Chicago Tribune,
% that the reported concessions by Denuark | —
have Leen made. Aa implied agreement
thas tu some extent exits, that should Ger.
tany venture open aggression, the Danes
wil gbtum British sid. Phe marriage of the
dangbter of the present King with our future
King, will give additional torce to the mutual
Wnderetanding. Here, then, is the pith of
ly whole tex. ft is true there aro other

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oe
BEGINNING TO WALK.

He's not got his sew Jeya, the darling ;
Ije's been ju onr ship but a yeur;

He is'nt yet versed in our tingro-—
Koows nothing of sailing, | fear.

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tut he soon will hear more of the billows,
Ané learn the salt taste of the wave;
Que vorage, thuagt it's short, is guiticjent,
bes our porte are the Cradle gud Graye

*s weer wey edu

4;

Mpublic life.

, aiand,
i hardiv be extremely certain ja their own winds of

uctover xb, Lab.

Why they should thus scruple so very
remarkably at times of stated publicity, and under
such contingently distinguishable eireumetances
a8 those just instanced, to profess same of their
own well ungerstood and most markedly charac-
teristic principles, seems a little diffieult to wader-
Oe would certaiiy infer that they can

the abstract propriety of many of their own more
fundamental aud seil-assumed positions, This is

‘inore than probably the striet fact of the case,

It is always very jodily regarded es au imminently

hope before long to dewonstrate, it either ever
could or ever shall be rightiuilly capableof as-
suming. And it we shall only be able tully to
satisty the public wind as forthe absolute earrect-
ness of this primary thesis en our part, on whose
shoulders must the great burden of the whole al-
tercation then selfevidently fall?) What will the
exact mevits‘of the entire case then in very truth
turn out to be? | Will it not have simply to hinge
itself inte the great door of human knowledge, by
which all true light has froin time immemorial
been admitted into the common miud, as com-

,

Charlottetown, Ang, 24, 1864. tr

his best, but there is uo system, no deference
‘to order; and no readiness for emergencies.
| Many observations occur to us apon this subject,
but it is almost useless to say anything about it.
Every one tor a tew days will agree with ua that
sowething oaght te be done, aud that will be the
eud of the subject. The tine and energies of our
leaduig men are so ocenped with Orange Lodges,
Volusteer Corps, and similar institutions, that
there tw ne hope of having them roused up to see

Charlottetown, Sept. 28, 1863. 3m i

| This tact becoming known to the American
Consul, was commuuicaied by him to the com-
mander of the Llg & Annie, who immediately
started for Sambro, where be succeeded in getting
possession uf the Chesapeake this morning. The
latter ship was busily engaged in taking in coal
from swail vessels alongside, and ber crew were
(at breakfast, when seeing the gunboat entering
the harbor, they made their eseape to the shore.
abandoning the ship without resistance to her
captors,

Ouly four men remained on board, and of these
two gre beLeved to have been part of the uriginal

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Jannarw 6 1249 wi SS

|] OUPTnen-etreet. jeer Kinc.eanen

[Private correspondence of a lady who lax travelled
iu the South }

‘The deeolation of the Southern State#
beggars description. Destitation and poverty
have taken the place of opulence and pro*
perity. Men that were worth hundreds of
‘thousends are reduced to utter poverty.

‘tor the luxuries of life, formerly so abundant
in the South, there are none. Who

formerly the wealthiest have nothing to sa®
tain lite but what the country «afferds, 3m
nut enough of that, for by impressunent at

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