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ray, “Tecannot pay it for sig or twelwe| im the discharge of his parliamentary daties,
months,’ the mortgagee weald compel hia could not have come, from any quarter, with
fo take a new mortgage at a higher rate ofa worse grace than from the bon. member
poterest. Tle migh® say, © LC you will pay | from Summerside. The absence of that hon,
me ten per cent.. iwill give you two yeurs) member from the Island, ia the prosecution
more t» pay it."" That is the greatest ob-| of his own private affuirs ia England, had
jection | see to passing the Bill without any | oeeasioned the sammoning of the Legislature
restriction. The proposed amendment will! tor the despatch of public business, to be de-
not interfere with Promissory Notes or Bils| layed a month beyond the usual period ; and
of Exchange. The Act te reguiate the inte-| thet delay, oceasioned by hie inopportune
rst on thove is proposed t) be repealed, and | absence, might—and, indeed, most probably
wople cen then make any bargains they) would— prove greatly detrimental to public
ike, except im cases where mortgages or} interests, both directly and indirectly. Yet
judgments are gtyen. (onder the present} that hon. member, only just returned to at-
law, on all Promissory Notes and Bills of! tend to his parliamentalll deticn, had the as-
Fachange, payable within three years, any) surance to tax biw (llon. Mr. Whelan) with
amount of interest may be charged. W e | neglect of public duty and the retarding ot |
are only endeavouring at present ¢) affurd | the prosecution of puble business, beenuse |
some protection to those person’ who are) he was ovcasionslly absent from his plage at |
placed in such unfortunate eircunmstances) the openmg of the }louse iw a morning or at
that they would have t) submit ty such the resumption of business in an alterqvon !
terms as hard-hearted moaey-lenders might) Lil, indeed, did such a charge become that
ghoose to dictate. {hon. member! ll, indeed, did it become
lion. Mr. McLaren : I now gee the matter aoy hon. member on the Government side of
iu @ defferent hgbs. | think there should be! the House! As to the Government, their |
pome restriction, and seyen per cent. would, | general mode of directing parliamentary pro-
ja my opmion, be a fair rate, | ceedings was such as, he believed, bud never
ion. Mr. Dixawens: ihe reason that ]| been adopted by any other adginjstration,
Cummon Tate on agreements al present, and supporters were, it was yet deemed becessary
if we could leaye if at the sume rate if would) by them (the Government) to hold a caycus
which mmght be) meeting aumost daily, in the Library, for the
caused by a change. purpose of drilling them into still greater
lion. Mr. Lono: I think it is better to re-| subserviency—if that were possible. Than
strict the rate to six per cent.; and if those) such » mode of conducting it, scarcely any
pentionen who are ig the habit of lending} thing, be thought, could be retardauve ol
gneney twel that they are injured, they can) the progress of the legislative basinegs of a
introduce a Bill next session to change it. | country. iemaaiel
have the greatest respect for the geatleman) Covpasor por CARRYING TUE MAILS TO AND
who mtroduced this Bill, [believe he would rau THIS ISLAND AND TBR NEIGHBURING
not (ake one shilling more thay the law al-| Desmenens,
Jowed him ; therefore, i presume that he was} teat niente Mibiahi
actuated hy the best motives when he intro- | : “
duced the Bill, and I am also convinced that} A sum sufficient jor the Summer and Win-
jt is based on sound principles. [| was mis-| ter Mails. : m
person who intro-! Lion. Mr. Coles moved a Resolution to the
prevent that eommotior
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proposed six per cept. was, that that is al either here or elsewhere ; for pliant as their The bon.
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taken with regard to the a Besta Sen » consideration
oe Bill’ when | addressed your honore | effeet that the amouné proposed to be oe Pep lace eggs the consideratic
before. | for the Mail Service be reduced £1500. He | Hob. G, Cotes moved that the sum of 7 appro-
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lat, Montgomery,—ls.
| same division reversed.
| House to a question of privilege, une
| bills just
} to the Louse ;
| request
| were disposed Lo infringe
| this House.
| Hon. J. Longworth also said that the
| Inuded to should be
| against 6,
‘to Liverpool, Sar yy Hom
i : j ok ace i wineh h . : . . . .
| bare on the subject took plaice, during vn tion of ove week earlier in the time for holding
ment Issuing warrants for the payment of their
salaries as all the other officers of the Colony are
paid. These accounts, he rey would never be
properly kept until a Financial Secretary was ayy)
pointed, whose duty it would be to correct alt)
mistakes. fe said much credit was due to the
chairman of the committee (Mr. McLennan) tor
drawing up the Report se as to secure the signa
tures o1 the Opposition as well as Govt, members
of committee, , ’ .
Hou. Mr. Davies approved of the suggestions of)
the bon. leader of the Opposition in reference to!
the mode of paying the salaries of out-port and
Exeise collectorse These officers had not, how- |
ever, acted in any way contrary to the present act |
which recoguises their right to pay themselves,
The Report was then adopted avd agreed to.
Hon. Mr. Pope moved that the Resolution s
ihe pemalsine Ou supply relative tu pew reat re |
now received, :
Hon. G. Coles moved an amendment that it *
received this day three months, it
For the amendment :—hons, ( oles, Hensley, |
Haviland, Warburton, Lporntun, Beaton, Messe. |
Conroy, Howlan, Walker,—¥. , : , 4
For the Resolution ;—-hous, Col. Gray, Co). Sec.,
é.. & Pore, Longworth, Laird, Fad * —
‘ M S * . samt: we
vasps. Green, McLennan, Duncan, Hasiain, Ho
eo The Speaker then os
cbe Chair, and the Resolution was carried on the
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The bill relating to summary and appeal cases |
from the inferior to tiie Supreme Court was ones
ir sand passed, a
+ ee, anche Council by message in
formed the House that the bill to ¢ onsolidate und}
amend the Land Assessment Act, and also the |
Act to raise a Revenue bad received the assent 0
that hon. body.
|
flon. Mr. Haviland called the attention of the}
tsaid that the |
alluded tashould have been sent dows |
he said he was lead to make this |
there were, he believed, some
Legislative Council who
upon the liberties of
because L
hen. members of the
bills al
subinitted by message frou
Council; said Acts were then submitted to the
ilouse by the Clerk of the Legislative Council.
A message from his Excellency the Lieut, Gov
ernor was received commanding the attendance
ef the House at the Bar of the Council Chamber,
where his Excellency was pleased to give his as
sent to the Act for raising » revenuc.
priated for the payment of His Exceltency’s pew
rept in St. dames’ Church be struck out of the
bill, which motion was lost on a division of 18
Mr. Howlan moved that the sum of 300/ appro
oriated to Messrs. Palmer and Pope as Delegates
to England on the sutgect of the Land Comuiis
sien be struck out of the bill, which taotion was
lust op the following division: Yeas —Howlan,
Coles, Beaion, Conroy, Walker, Heusiey, 6; Nays
—Col, Gray, Col. Seety., Brecken, Hashana, Green,
Montgomery, McLennan, J.C. Pope, Yeo, Laaird,
Howat, Kaye, Davies, Long worth, Haviland, 15.
Hon. J. Longworth moved tint the bill relative
j . serauting of letters patent Lo dJvho Robinsen
for the granting of letters p .
Kugland, be submitted, a short de- }
orable mention was made of the distinguish
patent of Mr. Duchemia, as 4 work of art which
had secured jeliers patent noe ouly in America,
bat aleo in Englind and France, That ie would |
tend tu adVatice the interest of the Colony to fos |
tion Was discanted upon by hen. members, after |
Hon. J. Hensley asked the government, by
i ail Steamer u
whose authority had the Mai me
: (Sunday) for the En
despatched on yesterday (SUNC&y) [Y adinittod |
glish mail to Cape Tormentiues see am wo
that cases might arise in which 0 ~ pw
sity might require work fo be perloried 0
the Sabbath day, but in this Case it was eo
work of necessity. ‘The steamer might as we
have been sent this morning as yeater day ;
what was the use of having a Statute requir
ing the due observance of the Lord’s ~~
those in the government employ did not ob-
serve it. He was sure, he said, that the mem-
bers of the government, when they considered
the matter, were ag anxious as he was to en-
force the strict cbservance of the sabbath, but
he felt it Incumbent upon him to ask by what
authority the mail steamer bad yesterday (Sab-
bath) been despatched to Cape Pormentine.
Hon. leader of the Government: replied and
said, that all matters convected with the tails
and postal arrangements were under the charge
of the Post Master General's departunety.—
Passengers and mails were delayed and kept
ov the other side because of the Huating ice 19
the Straits. ‘The steamer had made several
attempts during the past week to get to Pie-
tou, but could net succeed. luformativn by
telegraph was received that the American and
Colonial mails were forwarded to Cape Tor
wentive ; and also that a pamber of passengers
for this Island bad arrived there, and were
doubtless anxious to proceed on io the end of
their journey ; and further, had not the. mails
been here Chis morning in time to be forwarded
to the different country post offices, whole
weeks’ delay, in many cases, would have been
the consequence. He therefore had no hesita
tion in saving that under all these circumstan-
ces the Post Master General considered he
had acted for the best ii this matter.
On motion of hon. J. Longworth a com, of
conference with the hon. Legislative Council
was appointed relative to an amendment mad
by the Council to the bill altering certain
terms of the supreme court in this Island;
said com. reported that the Council passed
unauimously the ameudmeut in question, rela-
tive to the changing of the March frm of the
supreme court in Georgetown.
Hous, Hensley snd Beaton contended that
the change asked for in the bill was in accord
ance with the wishes of the people of King’s
county, more especially the eastern seetion of
the county, and regretted that any obstacle
was thrown in its way by the coaucil ‘They
would rather see the bil thrown vat aliogether
than submit to the amendment of the council.
Hon. Mr. Haviland eaid, that no less than
three Grand Juries of King’s County present-
ed, at different terms of the Supreme court, to
the Judge, the necessity of making an altera
the March term of the court at Georgetown.
Ihe Bill now before the House originated, in
fact, with the people of King’s County. It
ip. | Was thereture, he said, very extraordinary that
|} ter enterprize and improvement of every descrip: | p,
they could not be allowed this alteration in
— ‘did so, he said, because the — ye
7 . a ¢ , (hoc 7 } joverninent, with the eulb
NOTES OF THE SESSION. Boat Banc dlngp tes £1500 per annum more
No. & ‘than Mr. Boultenhouse had tendered to d»
Woarrsia Pstare, ithe work fur. The question nots: Sogeh mie |
flon. Mr. Coles contended that the Worel)/ and the diyision ge as * tic nadiae
; 5: re ro | ers ¥ re the . cc
an os otra | et arte an on, ipasmuch us they my, by | om appagrenesg |
Aldous, the Land Cummuissioner. By those! rule, incapacitated trou roam ide ¢ the
Accounts, it was chewn chat the cost of the|queree of their being 7s" aye if
Estate amounted to 120.550: that the) 0 Steam Boat at a, "Dal ak
amount due on Sales, bearing mterest, was) bers, tu whose yotes the tig Pa . a ortho
214981 lds 4d. ; leaving a balance £4,753) ected, on the said eg Sy Ae p it od
}6s. 8d. against the estute, to meet which | Colonial Soaretary, the oe a 4 ah r
ghere were 41235 acres of Jand to be sold, the Lion. D. Davies, mem ote @ ie a vern
whieh at 2s. Gd. per acre, would have ligut- ment, and Mr. James Dunean, diye, vad
dated the said balance, and cleared the Es- of the Government. In support ~ re 0 8
tate. If, eaidthe hon. gentleman, the present | Hon to the votes of the@e hon. inembers, thc
Government have, during the last six years,
mnismanaged the estate, so as to have spent
ail in the mismanagement, it is pot the fault)
of the Liberal 4dovernment who bought it, for}
the ery of the Tory party. before they got
into power, with respect to the Estate, was,
* Letall the land be avid atauction for what-
ever it will bring. and close the Land Ufice.’
Jiowever, on their accc sion to power, they
guw the Land purchase Act ina light very
different from that in which they pretended
to view it when they were out of power ; and
now they wish to charge the Liberals with |
whatever blame may attach in any quarter,
for any joss on the purchase of the Estate.
The statement, to which the Hon. Mr. Coles
referred, in corroboration of bis wesertion that)
the Worrell Estate was in a prosperous condi- |
jtion when it passed from the bunds of the)
Liberals into those of the Conservative Go-
sernment, is as follows, copied fromthe Jour-
nal, dared 31st of January, 1859, and signed,
* Jubo Aldvus.”’
Dr.
To paid on purchase of Lau:!,
ca
£950 0 0
By amowat due on
sales, L481 15 4
Bunda, suo 8 5
Bulsuce, 473 16 3
Zs 8 0O~L£W 50 0 0
83.309 acres
pd pnrebsaed,
ba 5 42,074
Seid,
Balance unsold,
ance in each year over ¢ spenses.
Bal ~ ch) I £35 14 0
}8038 415 17 2 |
£731 24
41,255 acres. |
To be deducted from baimnee
mbooyve
ORANGEISM.
Mr. Duncan. The Petition was false upon
jteface. Butthet was not al]. When the
Rowan Catholic Bishop signed it, he knew it}
to be false; be knew he was signing a falac-)
hood; and they who drew it up knew
that they had drawn up @ falsehood. The
Petition was deliberately drawn up with |
@ view to deceive. Whoever drew it up knew |
Siat he was stating a lalsehood. He (Mr. |
Duncan) thought thac when Responsible |
troverpwent was conceded to the Colony, the}
cuneession gaye us the right of goveruing |
ourselves, and of enacting whatever laws we |
might deem needful for the preservation of |
peace and good order and the promotion of |
the genera! wellare,s long as such laws!
prould pot be in any way opposed to the}
rinetples of the Constitution. The Orange!
el was a measure of that kind, intended to |
foster and protect the best interests of the |
Colony. ‘The murderous riot, some years
ago, at Belfast, led wo the formation of Ur-
page Lodges ia the Island. The members of |
those Lodges bad nothing in view but the}
pssertion and observance of the principt!es of |
our Constitution, and the preservation c!}
peace aod good order throughout the Coloay;
they had no private ends of their own to}
romote; they bad in no iastance either |
violated the laws or sought to abridge or in-|
vade the rights and privileges of any class of |
their fellow subjects, and therr rise and pro-|
gress in this Island bad a salatary influence |
upon the community. They had as mach
right tu an Act of Incorporation as any other
body oF society, st whose request and in
whose fayor euch an Act had been passed by
tue Legielature of the Colony — certainly
quite as good # right to it as the Roman
Catholic Bishop of Charlottetown. By what-
ever reasons tha Duke of Newcastle had been
snttuenced—whetber by such as especially
weighed with bim with Fespeet to the secu-
rity of bis public position, 98 @ minister of
ghe Crown, or otberwise-—in withholding the
Orange Bill frow thie Royal) consideration,
he had been guilty of y direct violation of |
therconstitutfopal privileges of the people of
the Colony ; aod it was a duty se the
|
+| mewbers whom he bad numed were, be said,
'privilege of voting on the question then un-
| der the consideration of the Llouse.
/had thus been directly disputed semained in
|) their places, neither denying nor admitting
| notwithstanding their silence, may have been
jean, Breckon, Kaye, McAulay, Green—16.
; acceptable of the three.’ Mr. Montgomery
hon. gentleman read the Rule of the Lupe-
rial Parlhament, by which it is declared that |
no member of the House, having any share
or interest in any Company, entering Intu @
Contract with the Government, could vote
vn any question betore the Llouse in which
such Company had any interest. The bon.
members of the Steam Boat Company having
the Contract for carrying the Mails to and
irom the Island and the neighboring Pro-
vinces; and, therefore, according to the Par-
liumentary Rule which he had just read
they were precluded from votiag vt the ques-
tion then beture the Huuse; Inasmuch as,
were they to vote thereon, their dving so
would be a direct voting of uoney iato their
own pockets.
His Honor the Speaker said there was no
provf before him that the hon. members
pamed were shareholders in the said Com-
pany ; but, if they were. they certainly were
excluded, by parliamentary rule, from the
lion. Mr. Coles replied that the hon. mem- |
bers whom he had named could sot but be
}very well aware whether they had a right to
vote on the question or not; and he would,
therefore, leave it to their uwa sense of houvur
to do so or not,
The hon. gentlemen whose right to vote
their alleged disqualificati.n to do so; and,
interpreted as ap admission of their disquali-
fication, they voted on the Division, whica
was as follows: |
For the Metion of the Hon. Mr. Coles.— |
Hvoabis. Messrs. Coles and Waerburton, |
Messrs. Sutherland, Sinclair, Waiker ana
Howlan—6.
Against t.—Honbls. Colonel Gray. Colo-
nial Seeretary, J. UC. Pope, D. Davies, and
Laird, Messrs. Haslam, Ramsay, McLennan, |
Jubn Yeo, VD. Montgomery, Howat, J Dan-
Avy comment upon the peculiar features
of the facts above stated would be quite su- |
verfluous
Yhe fon. the Colonial Secretary read the |
fesolution which was moved by the Hon
Mr. Warburton, declaring Mr. Boulten-
house’s Tender the lowest, and tbat as it
was calculated to saye the Island a large ex-
penditure of public money, it ought, there-
iore, to be accepted. This Resvlotion, said
the hon. gentleman, was negatived by the
House, and, therefore, it was the House, and
not the Governmeut, who rejected Mr.
Boultenhouse’s Tender.
The Hon. Mr. Coles contended that the
effect of the rejection of the Hon. Mr. War-
burton’s pa en hy the majority of the
House, was to leave the whole of the Ten-
ders in the hands of the Government, as
some objections had been made to the secu-
rity offered by Mr. Boultenhoose. This,
said the hon. gentleman, would appear from
the opinions touching the question expressed
by some hon. members who yoted against
the Hon. Mr. Warburton’'s Resolution, as
well as from the Resolution which was car-
ried. Hon, Colonel Gray, in the course of
the discussion of the question, said * tHe was
of opinion that it would be useless to call for
fresh Tenders, and that the offer of Mr.
Boultenhouse was the best that the Govern-
ment could accept.”’ Mr. Davies said, * If
Mr. Boulteniouse’s Tender was accepted,
the most ample security should be required.’’
Hon. Mr. Lard said. * If Me. Boultenhouse
gave proper and awple security, his was de-
eidediy the best offer.’ Mr, Brecken re-
warked, ** At the present state of the pro-
ceedings, he could not but acknow edge tiat
the tender of Mr. Boulterhouse was the most
strongly objected to the Tenders of Messrs
Hodgson and Bourke.’? Mr. Davies again
Legislature owed o the country and te them-
selves, plainly to declare-—as was purposed |
tu be dune by the Resolutions then under the |
consideration of the House—in what a re- |
prehensible Jight they viewed bis conduct |
with respect to that [hiil.
A desire to press the Committee to a divi-
siog being manifested by some hon. members
on the Government side of the House—
Hon. Mr. Whelan rose and said, there was
a degree of unfairness in seeking to press a
division upon the Committee before hon.
members who might be « pposed to the Reso-
Jutions had an opportunity to examine them
fully. To that end, they should have been
pilowed to lie upon the table a sufficient
Jength of time before being brought under
the consideration of te Huvwse in Committee.
He himeelf would have taken copies of the
Resolutions --- bad « suitable opportunity
been offered him to do so—in order that, as
he intended to oppose them, he might be pre-
pared with counter Kesviutions to move an_
amendment. When common gourtesy was
observed, by a party in power, towarde the
minority, suitable vo; portunities were offered
them to pare counter Resotutions,
Hon. Mr. J. ©. Poe obrerved that, if the
hon. member who bed last spoken was more
observant of the hours at which the House
commenced businere iv a morning and re-
sumed it in an aftersoon, and were, in a
general way ,as ear'y in hs place as he ought
to be, he would hay: no vceasion, at any time
to complain that due opportunities were not
afforded him to consider any Resolutions to
be brougnt forwarh by the party in power,
and to prepare others in Opposition to them.
Hon. Mr. Wheien, in reply, said, ic was) ge@tieman who prides himself apon bein e
eertuinly that the attention ‘ohieh it weal beet ay “som
Necessary tor bim to give to the direetion of
his private business did not a}ways admit of
his a punctoally in his place in the, credited in the Treasurer's office,
some other hon. members were : spec
but, he thought, eeneure of any hon. mem-|
Jiouse as
said, ** He would b> surry tu see Mr. Boulten-
houses Tender eet aside.’’
Hon. Mr. Coles having read the several
opinions as above cited by him, said, ** Mr.
Speaker, I think it is clear, from the opin-
ions which J have just read. of hon. mem-
bers who vuted agaist the Hon. Mr. War.
burton’s Resolution, that they only wanted
to leaye the question open, tou the end that
it might be ascertained whether the security
which Mr. Boultenhouse war prepared to of-
for was sufficient. Mr. Boultenhouse was
here at the time, and was told that he would
be commynicated with upon the subject ; but
he neyer heard any thing further about it
from the Government. This si:ows that the
House did not yote the Contract to Messrs.
Hodgson and Bourke ; but the Government,
of which four of the shareholders were
members, gave the Contract to themselves at
£1500 more per annum than Mr. Boulten
ay = had tendered to perform the work
ur.
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SUMMARY OF HOUSE O®8 ASSEMBLY
PROCEEDINGS.
Saturday, April 30,
On motion of Mr. McLennan, the ouse went
into committee op the report of Lhe committee on
public accounts,
Hon. leader of the Opposition remarked that
the cotoutittee had rectitied the error relative to
the entry of 1 , Which appeared in both the
receipts and expenditures of the Colony. It was
difligujt, he said, to understand or correct the out-
rtaccounts. Between the first sheet of the au-
ditors’ classified Linpost and Excise accounts, and
the corrected cue, = ome ap ed to be no less
than thirty-five Dusronention The classitication
submitted by the Government, and prepared by «
ntanton the Island, differed in some
respects frou the one suumitted by the auditors.
Phere was also a difference of 6GOOL Leeween the
smount shown in the Impost accounts and that
but thi
counted for by the different Excise iat
eiug allowed to pay themselves instead of xe-
ber fur begligence— either seal or apparent— | counting to the Government fur the Whole amount
) OF Ube duties reevived by thew,
| jouruals of the House, ; / ic
| discussion upott the necessity of having a Finan
| clal Sceretary for the Cuiouy, Ww house duty it would
| Commission
| aud said he was glad to inform the House that |
and ile Goveru-\ ing provision fur having them bound
which the bill was read a secund tite and agreed
1 to. h
On motion of Col. Sec., a Committee was “e
pointed to determine what Vouchers reiative fo
the public aecounte shouid be published ik the |
This motion elicited at
be to prepare the public accounts, Already £100
a year Was paid for uuditors’ salary, to which sutn |
might be added the expense the Colony sustained
because of the manper in which the time of the}
llouse Was occupied in examining and correcting
weouuts, and also the deficiency that might ap
pear in the returns of any officer which would be |
promptly collecced by the Financial Secretary,— |
li was argued by hon, members on both sides of|
he House, that the appointment of such a fune-|
tionary Weuld not only expediate the business of |
the Legislature, but alse prove a great saving to
the tinancial interests of the Colony.
Mr. Breen moved that the thanks of the
House be conveyed to His Excellency the Lieut.
Governor for the various despatches, nersayges,
| aud correspondence submitted by His Excellency |
for the information of this tlouse. ae
Hon. Mr. Coles seconded the motion, and said,
| it should be remembered His Excellency was not |
| allowed a private Secy. by the Government of che
Colony, this he cousidered Very Wrong, When
we had a private Secretary’s salary paid for out of
the public funds, be could be required, und it Was
expected of Lim, to place ali necessary doctienuts
before this House in proper order, bul now it
was depending upon a yenlieman Upon Whol we
|} have no claiay Whatever fur such papers as We
| ite y . ‘
jhe alluded (His Excelleney’s private Secretary) |
require. Lhe gentleman, he said, lo whom
received no salary from Chis Colony,
Hon. Mr. Haviland said he was now free to
speak out his mind ov this subject, and would un |
hesitatingly say that it was extremely uiggardls
su the part of Lhe goverpiment Wot Lo pay the sal
ary ut Private Secretary ; this he said was the only
Colony, in which the Private Secretary is not a
paid official.
Hon. J. Hensley said he would be glad to see a
of public works aiso appointed
For want of this officer, miucb of the public money
| was throwe away in the cous-ruction and perform: |
ance of roads, bridges, &c. |
Hoa J. Warburton supported the hon. J. Hens- |
ley’s views on this sulject and referred to the}
shameful magner in which public grauts fur roads,
bridges, &c., were mis-appropriated.
Mr. Duuean also agreed with what lad fallen
| from hon. members on this subject; Le said that
ib must appear evident to every Intelligent person
| in the community, that the services of a Cowmis-
sioner of Public works would prove a great say-
ing tothe country, much of public money was
now thrown away for want of a proper kKuowledge
| of the manner in which it should be expended. In
illustratiug his arguments he instanced the case of
a Ship builder who having several vessels build
my would refuse or ueglect to pay a Foreman or
Inspector of the work. From his own experience
in this braveh of business, he could say that the
want of competent superintendence would inevit
ably end in a loss to the owner, The same result
would follow in every department which requir
ed a heavy expenditure of capital, but more eés-
pecially in that branch of the public service, over
which a» Commissioner of Public Works would
exercise coutrol. It must be perfectly clear he
said, to every hon. member of that House, that it
would be a great saving to the pablic revenue, to
have a fit and proper ofticer appointed, Whose
duty it would be to see that the appropriations
for the Road Service were properly aud judicially
ex pended. J
Hon. Mr. Laird remarked that as ‘the discus-
sion hac taken a wide range, he wouid direct the |
attention of the House to an officer, the duties of |
whom would be second Lo none yet naibed by}
any hon. member. In Canada they had a Minister |
of Agriculture, whose business It Was to superin- |
tend the agricultural interests of the country, and |
his reports clearly show this his labors tend very |
inaterially to the advancement and improvement!
of agricultural pursuits. In this [sland our chief
dependence is upon our agricultural resourees we
therefore above all other should be the first Lo en-
courage in every possible way that important
branch of industry; and the appointment of a!
minister of agriculture for the whole Islaud would |
doubtless confer a benefit upon the interests of
this Colony, i
Mr. Howat said he thought the time had arrived
for him to speak, were told Auditors of Public Accounts were yoing |
to do everything that would be necessary to per-
fect the sytem of placing before the House in a
¢la-sitied form the Public Accounts, and yet we
fiad blunders committed, What guarantee, he
would ask, have we that a Financial Secretary
would be more competent or perform his work
better than the Auditors had done. We were
every now and then annoyed by officcholders ask
ing for inerease of salaries, and some of them even
threatening tu resign, because as they allege of
the small salaries they receive; and how could
we be expected to provide for additional officers?
He for one would not support the appointment of
any ofthe officers to whom allusion had been
made by hon. members To muitiply officials
by the dozen and have them scampering about
this building half their time was 4a dactrine to
which he would never give his consent, The ob-
ject he said of the hon. leader of the Opposition
relative to these uiatters, Was to lead the guyern-
ment into difficulties, he would therefore advise
them to be on their guard
Tne appropriation bill was read a third tinye
and passed,
Mr. Brecken as chairman of committee, report-
ed a draft address in accerdance with the Kesolu
tiou of the House, acknowledging the indebted-
ness of the House to his Excellency in submit-|
ting for their information, despatches, messages,
and correspondence relating to the interests of
the colony, Said address was received and read.
House adjourned.
Monday, May 2d.
The honorable Legislative Council by mes-
sage informed the House that they had passed
the following bills viz ;
A bill authorizing the goverument to open
a cash account with the bank of P. K. Island,
A bill relative vo the issuing of certain de-
bentures.
Hon. Col. Gray presented to the House a
despatch received this day from the secretary
of State anuoaucing that Her Majesty the
(Queen was pleased to confirm the Act to ineor-
porate the Farmer's Bank of Rustico.
A message from the Legislative Council an
nounced their assent to the apprupriatio.: bill.
A bill to enable John Robinson of Liverpool,
Englaud, to obtain letters patent, was read a
third time and passed.
Hon. Col Sec. informed the House that he
had corresponded with the honorable the
Speaker of the House of Commons, on the
subject of obtaining for the use of our Leg isla-,
ture the Journals of the Imperial Parliament,
|
|
}
ithe said Jourvals were kindly offered. He
would therefore suggest the propriety of niak-
ithe Act. He cosld not see the force or
justice of the reasons assigned by the Leg-
| islative Couneil for their amendment, and hop-
}ed the House would have the good sense to
‘throw out the Bill altogether rather than sub-
mit to that amendment, If, he said, the House
would not now stand by King’s County in this
matter, and throw out the Bill, the people of
that County would never again get their rights
reiative to this question.
After some further debate aid conferences
on this subject, the amendment of the Council
was finaliy rejected by the Louse, and conse
quently the Bill was lost.
His honor the Speaker laid before the House
a letter from his Excellency the Lieutenant
Governor's Private Secretary, announcing that
his Excellency would attend in the Council
Chamber to prorogue the House at 5 o'clock
this afternoou.—House adjourned.
AFTERNOON.
Mr. McLennan chairman of the Contingen!
Fund commitice, submitted the report of thai
Committee which was read and agreed to.
Hon. G. Coles ressacked that he had great
pleasure in observing that a number of Ladies
ad just entered the Assembly room, as he be
lieved for the first Gime. He trusted sume
sieps would be taken @aring the recess to pro
vide a Ladies’ Gailecy Tor the accommodation
of Ladies.
Hivn. Col. Gray replied and approved of the
remarks of the hon leader ef the Opposition.
Mr. Conroy also said he hoped Cuat proper
provision would be made so as to secure the
attendance of Ladies at our Legislative Halls.
Their presence, be said, would have a beneficial
eflect on the debates of the Jouse.
——- CORRESPOWDENCE,
MEETING OF FREEHOLDERS AT SQUAW
BAY, LOT 49.
Verbal information having been circulated
among the independent and respectable Free-
holders of that portion of Township No. 49, that
a meeting of the worthy inhabitants of said Dis-
trict would be held at the School House in that
locality on Monday the 25th inst., at 3 o'clock,
p. w., tor the express purpose of deliberating upou
the present pernicious aggrarian and protracted
and agitated laud question, the source and origin
of the apparant dissutislaction and distracted
state of this unparalleled Colouy,aud the propriety,
coustitutional, and feasibility of the tenant orga-
nizations throughout this Island, now embracing
indigenous talent, effort, and ahnost incredible
daily accumulating sympathy and numerieal ace |
quisition and strength. After further preliminary
observations, approbatory of the judicious course
adopted and pursued by the tenant organizasiens
ot this retarded slave-holding and oppressed Co-
lony, the meeting truly appreciated the laudable
and indepen@ent attempts and efforts of the ten-
ant organizations of this sea-girt Isle to emanci-
pate themseives and suceeeding generations from
the intolerable yoke of land monopolists, the de-
vastating scourge and cause of the prevailing
destitution in this purely agricultural aud inele-
ment Colony. Therefore, the meeting, as an
evident pledge of their approbation, commissera-
tien and heartfelt sympathy for their more untor-
tunate fellow Colonists, enrolled their names in
the bond of union, and ligerally subscribing to-
wards the fuad in connection with the orgauiza
tion, at the same time extremely regretting, a8
ardeut and strenuous supporters of this existing
Govergment, that unfortunately the Legislature
of this aggrieved Colony should assume the pre-
rogative, without the consultation of their respec-
tive constituencies, to pass an Act confirmatory
of the proprietory titles, and thereby unposing
upon the inadequate tenantry of this Island a
ruineus purchase, at a rental of fitteeu years, &e.
The feelings of the meeting cannot be more co-
gently illustrated than by adopting the following
poetical quotation :
«© ves, ‘tis thus grieved Isle, thy doom
Hath hitherto been sealed,
These Politicians dig thy tomb,
Lut ieave thy wounds unbealed.
Thy vex'd land question never can
Be set to rights by them,
Thy sons alone, joined as one man,
Thy tide of ills can stem.”
The meeting being constitutionally organized
by the appointment of Mr. Wii. Wood to the
Chair, and Alex. McNeill, Acting Secretary, the
tollowing Resolution was submitted and unani-
mously approved of :—
Moved by James 1B. Gay, Esq., seconded by
William Jones, Esg.—
Whereas, that in the opinion of this meeting,
that the long agitated and nun-settlement of the
Land tenures, being the west vitally important
and absorbing question at present affecting the
wass of Her Majesty’s loyal subjects in this Colo-
ny, and that no measure would be wore conduct-
ive to the prosperity of the Colony, and peace
and contentment of the tenantry and eo iy
than the couversion of the present injurious rent-
paying system into a freehold; and recognising the
strenuous efforts gid powertul influence exercised
by Sir Samuel Cunard and the other large pro-
plictors, aud their agents, to prevent the laudable
efforts of the people, through their representatives
in the Government, at all tines, to effect this much
desired cousumation on terms at all possible to be
complied with; therefore, this meeting reeipro-
cute and cordially sympathises with the present
popular movement throughout the Island, which
constitut onally contemplates the settlement of this
agrarian question, viz; the amelioration of the
oppressed and suffering tenantry, by offering terms
equivalent to what other estates im this Colony
have bwew purchased fur; and should the Govern-
meut at this peculiar aud critical juncture as-
sume the responsibility of establishing the proprie-
tors’ proposition of sixteen years’ purchase, that
this meefing cannot consider such legislation but
prejudieial, injurious and ruinoys to the interests
and: well-being of the Calynista, ;
a oe aaare having accorded a vote ef thanks
3 nan for his impartial and praisewor
thy conduct in the chair, the weeting in unani-
a ot sentiment and opinion consider that jeour-
‘ gratuitously, communications tend-
tig to the prosperity and success of the object in
coutem plation i therefore, the meeting gave three
oe meyer ad our gracious and beloved So-
ereign, an
ticipated a im order, harmony and an
ALEXANDER MeNE] ,
Lot 49, 25th April, 1864 NEILL, See'y.
————
TENANT MEETING ON VALDWIN’S
ROAD, LOY 51.
A "cFy numerously attended Publie Meeting of
the Tevantry and Freeholders of Baldwin's Road,
Cardigan Road, and the neighboring settlements,
was held at the School-house on the above named
road, on Tuesday, the 3rd instant, for the pur-
pose of taking inte consideration the accumulated
grievaneee entailed upon the country by the
Leasehold System; and of forming themselves
inte a branch of the Tenant League, in order that
they may be prepared to act in concert with their
fellow-sutterers uf other districts, as vccusiou may
require. :
Several speakers made very appropriate re-
marks on this subject, with a good deal of force
aud effect — facts which are of sufficient mpor-
tance to prove that good results may be antici-
pated. Mr. Henry Bradley spuke very pointedly
on the subject, in expressing his ablorrence ot
rent-paying, by saying that the system is a dis-
grace to any country having preteosions to inde-
| pendence or intelligence, and that our condition
is the more humiliating when we consider our
position in respect to our neighbours im the Colo-
nies, Who are perfect strangers to the many evils
of rent-paying; and that therefore the united
efforts of the tenantry should be used by every
lawful means to abolish this pernicious system,
| which is se very much crushing the best energies
loft the tenantry throughout the Island. He also
remarked that if the tenantry on Lots 48 aud 49
are so Vehement in this movement, and who, trom
their contiguity to market, shipping and other
privileges, enjoy advantages superior te tary
districts in the [sland—certainly then the tenarts
in this isolated place should louse no vpportunity
in following their example.
It has been rewarked by many of the tenants
on thie part of the Montgomery Estate, (on Bald
win's Road,) that although they have not yet much
reason to complain of very great harshness on
the part of their agents in urging their demauds
lor rent, nevertheless they are and will be at the
mercy of those agents, who may prebably be
“nursing thew wrath to keep it warm” until it
suits their own purpose; aud that therefore it
devolved upon them equally as well as others to
have ther minds fixed as to the course they
should pursue in cases of emergency. It was
also the unanimous opinion of those present at
the meeting that every embarrassment should be
caused to those Proprivtors, their agents or
bailiffs, who wight have the harditiood to attempt
seizing or selling the effects of any individual
tenant in these localities, uutil some reasonable
negotiation shall be entered inte, which will
enable the tenautry to purchase their farms on
terws similar to those obtained on the Goveru-
ment estates throughout the Island.
Atter these and other remarks of a similar
nature, the Meeting was declared duly orgamzed
by the appointment of Mr. Henry Mooney as
Chairman, when the follawing Resolutions were
submitted aud uuauitiously agreed to, viz:—
Proposed by Mr. Thomas McKenna, and second-
ed by Mr. Dennis Malligan :—
_Kesorven, That us the present Government,
either from inenpacity or deception, notwithstaud.-
ing all their extravagant promises, have uwerly
failed to settle the dillerences so lony existing be
tween landlord and tenant; andas avy terus which
the proprietors or Goverment offer as. pretended
relief to the tenantry, namely ;—Lo yours purchase,
with all arrears -ince 18538 paid duwn, are not only
useless, but ruinous ty ike great majority of ten
wuts; we are, therefore, zealously determined to
withhold the payment of rent in any form, until
we purticipate in the benefits of the Land Purchase
THE BOMBAKDMENT OF SONDERBURG.
The laws of warfere seem to be gradually
dissolving into the chaos from which tie
emerged as European civiligation advanced.
Hamanity is interested in the highest sense
in watching the progress of commanders in
order that the conditions imposed by Treaties
and Congresses may nut be set aside by bel-
ligerenta. There ws no excuse to be offered
even for the Awericans whea they burn towns
wod villages, and make war upon non-com-
batants. If the Americans huve never been
parties to the diplomacy of Europe, they had
at Jeust the advantage of knowing all that
had been decided in one quarter of the world
from motives of humanity, Even in Asia
we do not pretend to relieve our commanders
from the just criticism necessarily following
such ** antoward events’? as the bombard-
ment of Kagosima. All that the Americann
have done in their own country, and all that
the Englieh and the French have done 1s
Asia and Africa, cannot be compared, im
point of deliberate and useless cruelty, to
the conduct of the Pruesian army at Sonder-
burg. We desire to speuk with caution as
to an event which is only yet reported to us
by telegram, and of which the full details,
and, as we hope, explanations, have yet to
arrive. We know enough, however, already
to show us that a veFy fuul crime against the
human race hus been committed by one of
the most enlightened nations in Europe.
is stated by the Special Correspondent of the
Times, that ** the Prussians have bombarded
Sonderburg forty eight hours without any
previous intimat.on ;"" that * eighty towns-
people, women, and children have been kil-
led or wounded ;”’ that ** filty houses in the
centre of the town have been burnt ;”’ and
that ** fifteen bundred shellp have been
thrown into the town, which is deserted.’’
It is impossible to conceive any statement
more colcelated to prove that the Prussians
are both cruel and cowardly. For a belli-
gerent to shell a town without the previous
notice demanded by the laws of war, in order
to provide fur the removal of non-combat-
ants, is at once so base and brutal as to
cause Englishwen at once to withdraw any
sympathy from the Prussian cause. The
eighty women and children killed and
wounded were murdered and mangled with-
out any justification known to the laws of
warfare. We do not profess to complain of
the burning of fifty houses in the centre of
the town, as if war is to be conducted on
me | principle at all, it must be on one which
inflicts as much loss on an enemy as possible.
But nothing in the shape of an uonecessar
destruction of human life is to be justified.
and it is an unnecessary and purposeless
waste of human life to kill and woand pon-
cambatants like women and children.
lt would be very easy to lash ourselves in-
to a state of frothy indignatiop as to this
transaction, but it is nut our wish that the
English people should do sv. We may, how-
ever, ask whether the Government do not
conceive that so feartul an outrage does not
justify some act of bigh-handed interven-
tion, not upon any ground of sympathy or
the defensive. lo
netraied within the rind of the (
only where we were favored b ana
main successes have heen on the Missisesinn:
the Tennessee, and their cotheneatan te
we have saved Kentucky ; bot a “yy
the people of Kentucky have been steadf
Joyal. The same remark applies tu West V 7
ginia, which we have detached from a epi
ing state. But we have gained no consider
able area, in which the mass of the populati A
adhered to the rebel cause, exce
advantage of our naval resources hay
uson the great rivers,
not new, and we hasten on.
sume in the winter what the bounty of the
Iyjcummer mdusiry. Add to this the
jects.
/and completely ceased this morning.
Bill, so liberally extended tu other more favoured
H » ‘ , ¢ r, ‘ iy
portions of our felluw-colonists. any expression of opinion as between Den
wark and Germany, but upon the highest
ground of humanity The presence of the
Reso.van, That in the opinion of thie meeting British fleet in the Baltic would be the best
the Government lave takeu Upon themselves most | remonstrance we could offer to the notice of
anwarrantable liberties, and very much abused the the Prossians, for they are 80 profoundly
rd sme ban og hg anges into Law the 15) philosophical that anything like argument
deserving of the must ung alilied censure frum the | @ane and practically inhuman. ‘The Prus-
Tenantry. sian commander has y‘aced himself and his
Propos@t hy Mr. John MeWade, seconded bviMr,|@rmy beyond the pale vf civilization, and it
Hugh Mefuvis :— , : is equally our duty and our interest to bfing
Lots 49, 50. 35.46. und nther party of the belaat | wake war upon women and childr:n ie not
their laudable efforts te be releved from the servile | to be allowed ubless Europe 18 to roll back-
jand galling yoke of Landlordism, and to effect a| Ward to the barbarism of the Middle Ages
| purchase of the land in fee simple. ata jast and/ And yet it seems that we are faust tending
Psa rsigy valuation, accordiug to te quality aud that way, for, although we are able to boast
Proposed by Mr Terrence Cai: 2 led = ~ sey vip — ¥ ea ben “? —
Pg soe Becel 166 METER, SEOBEES OY | when we do get to war we seem to degener-
| Resurveo, That we. the Tenantry, assembled at | 2te 19% acts of ervelty of which Henry the
this Meeting, will be ; koghth and Lows the Fourteenth would
In the Austro- Italian
war, in 3359, Count Cavour appealed with
Proposed by Mr. James Curran, seconded by Mr.
-atrick Cairne :— "
‘ satisfied with wotiing bess
j than a rightto convert our leasehobiemto treeholds, | have been ashawed.
} on the sine COMMMons a8 Chose obtained by settlers
jon the Worrell, Seleirk aud other estates; and
; that we are strongly bupressed with the idea that
} those who reclaimed the dreary forest from a wil-
| dertiess state. have every just right t assert that
they will not submit auy longer to be the slaves of
euld blood.
| but a very slender elaim to lands in this Island, and
| for which they have received quite enough already. |
It was resolved that two of the Talind journals | ' cas i
jinterested in the Tenant Right movement be re- | lives and properti-s of peacea te mhabitants |
| quested to publish the proceedings of this meeiiug. | |
} A Committee of Management having been duly | in open evoflict hand to band, man to wan.
appointed, and the usual vote of thanks been ac-| Prussia is very desirous of proving ber
| corded the Chairman, not forgetting to give tivee | prowess in the field, but if she couce:ves tua; | epthusiasua which prevailed among the mes
most hearty cheers for our Sovereign Lady the / she ins} ires Europe with any salatary fear | ®t the beyiuning of the war bas oruken forth
anew, and they are ready lor anything that
may turn up. Longsireet bas given Morgan
I Qacce, the meeting retired to their respective | by such transactions as the bombardmen* of
ioe J. E. KELLY, Sec’y. | Sonderburg, she may only live long enough
|
May 4. 1864 }as a Power in Europe to find that there is a}
- e ? higher power in the world than gunnery and
Late Kuropeaun News. jstatecraft. Lulightoned men svon come to |
THE WAR IN DENMARK.
THE B-MBARDMENT IN SONDERBORG.
Copennacen, April 4.— The Prussians contemplate their being improved off the face
‘sia, as only useful tor a temporary purpose,
have bombarded Sunderburg 43 Lours, witu-/ of the earth.
out any previous intimation. Eighty towns-| Rhevish Provinces should be absorbed by |
people, women and children, have been kil- Franee, and that Prussia should once more | 4
ot the town have been burnt.
however, recommenced, The Danish posi-| News of the World, Apri 10. ¥
tion isaninjured. Last night our outposts
were frequently disturbed by the enemy,
who, however, in each instance withdrew.
{The Darish city of Sonderborg is under a
process of deliberate destruction. First it
was annuunced that the Prussians had, with- [From the New York World ] iP
out soy previous warning, or any notice to. The protraction to three years of a war &
remove the women and children, commenced which the administration assured foreign go- |
throwing shelis into the city. Next day | vernments would terminate in three months,
London and Paris and Berlia and Vienna and which the mass of the northera people b
heard that nearly a third part of the town | expected to see closed within the first year,
had been burnt down, but that the cannuo-| is not very creditable either to the forecast.
ade bad ceased) Then it was told that the lot our rulers or to the sagacity of our people.
intermission had not been of long continu-) We have failed chiefly by bad management ;
ance ; and the succeeding account was that) but we have also greatly underrated tie re-
Sonderborg had been bombarded for forty-| sources of a people whom we scorned to con-/ 4
eight hours, that eighty towns-people, women | ciliate and deemed it easy tosubdue. Neither a
The War im the States.
and that the city was then deserted.
is not a fable imported from the other end of cordingly teeme
eyes of Europe. These people, who are kil-| ragemwent wholly irreconcilable with the col-
ling women and children, and burning their| ossal magnitude of the military task pow
habitations, and these poor wretches, who| immediately before us,
are being burnt in their homes like bees in| The greatest error into which we of the
their hive, are among us. We can almost) North have fallen is an egregious under-esti-
ve
,
we might communicate by telegraph im a problem of the war, as it presented itself tu
few minutes with the actors. The King of our minds, was, whether twenty millions of
Prussia, or the Emperor of Austria, or the| people could cope successfully with twelve
Emperor ot the French could ‘nan hour serd | millions, Thus stated, stript of all modily- |p
a telegraph message into the Prussian camp | ing uccessories, it could admit of but one | q
whieh would explode with greater power) answer. And when it was considered that
than any shell there and biow away the the twenty millions had a bavy, and the
siege itself. This story uf death and wounds | twelve millions had none; that the North
and rushing away for safety, is not a ficti-| abounded in great wealthy cities and diversi-
tious tale of woe, to be mourned over in! fied manufactures, while the South was a
maudlin tones of sympathy ; it is au acting | sparsely settled agricultural region, depen-
atrocity, which might have been stupped.— dent on foreign commerce for a market, the
There are po eXawples now-a-days of a city | illusion under which the northern people la-
being shelled intentionally without fuil pre-| bored at the outset of the war may seem na-
vious notice being given. If some rare in-| tural and pardonable. Why is it thas the
stance should happen in America, we appre- expectations founded upon such data have not
hend that even General Butler would not! been realized ?
undertake to defend so cruel a blunder.—| The reasons are many, each strong in it-
What possible object can the Prussians seive | self, and in the aggregate overwhelming. We
by destroying this city, and the people in-| proceed to name some of the most prominent: | t
side it? The war itself has ceased to have| First. ‘The Mmanagementof the war view-
apn object. Every shot that is fired is fired} ed on its purely Strategic side, haa been in
in pure waste ; every death that occurs is a| the main, a tissue of blunders resulting from
human sacrifice ata shrine which has not! civilian interterence with military plans
even an idol. There is not only no object in| 'Lbis pout bas been discussed to exliaustion ;
this war, but there is not an excuse for any | we merely allude to it in passing.
military operations of the commonest kind. Second. ‘The political policy of the govern-
lt may be imagined, perhaps, that, even | ment has obstructed the success of the war.
without any defensible wilitary object, if| lt has been a policy of exasperation caleulat-
I
rebel population, and to brace up their rego
lution tu the extreme point of reckless eelf-
sacrifice.
cient without rearing up gratuitvus moral
obstacles, which render conquest arduous,
and subsequent government wader republi-
can forme impossible.
announces ** ali ready ”’ tor the a vachmg
conflict of arms, and says that pegs ban
can do to prepare for the fearful day hag
been done, and the South, at least, staple
/ great efect to the Cabinets of Europe, when Confederates tu loyalty ; the bluckade has
the Austrians shot a farmer and tis family in| 80¢ cerbed their defiens (reason , starvation
So now the Danes have a right Yas not Lumbied their proad spirit; and the
to cli on all good men to denounce as brutal | fourth year of the war opens upon thet
ja propretary faction, who are well kiuown to have | : : . larmies numerous h he fi ii
cowards the people dressed in the uniforms | ™ ruus us those of the foe, as we
lof suldiers, who, standing safely behind guns | drilled, and in better morale, and seedy te
‘end batteries, eovlly sbell and destroy the | St
| Tue Prussians do not dare to meet the Danes) ore salt in the Confederacy now thes ever
before at any one time.
lregard powers capable of cruelty, like Prus-; 12 Tennessee.”
8 at t y jcommanded by Colonel Stukes, defeated a
part of the affair is narrated as follows:=
'whieh, when fulfilled, may lead us calmly to | band of so-called gueriilas.
It would be better that the | After the defeat of Ferguson’s command, the
led or wounded. Filty bouses in the eenure | be represented by the Duchy of Brandenberg, | 0D Was taken, he was shot without eere-
Fifteen bun-| than that she should continue only to plague | LMY- : :
'dred shells bave been thrown into the town, | ber own subjects at home, and play the part | the next day after the fight, be was told to
which is deserted. The cannonade suddenly jof a brigand and a murderer, under cover of | Prepare for death, when he begaw ser
Ithas, warfare, beyond her territory. — London | piteously for his lite. He informed the ¢a-
would conduct them to a house where Per-
guson was concealed.
pate" tac | proposition, and svon a squad of
/whieh the guerilla chief was secreted, A
wound received the day before.
mediately surrounded the bed, aud riddled
and our own go to show that the garrison of
Plymouth, net much short of two .
twenty-five pieces of artillery, and « vast amount
jot stores, have fallen inte the power of the enemy.
and children, had been killed or wounded, | government nor people are yet disabused of | of the disaster above detailed. Months since it
This | this original erryr ; nor newspapers bave ac- | was kuown that this ram was being completed;
4 during the winter, with) but the people of the North depended upon the
the earth, it is a reality passing before the | stories of starvation, exbaustion, and discou- | U8ceasing vigilance of Secretary Weiles, who has
spent sixty millions on iren-clads te destroy this
Secretary is.— New York Herald.
hear the yuna that are doing the butchery ;| mete of the resources of the Scuth. The Federal disaster, and nothing is done say
where to realize the great hopes which the
poopte of the North were Jed to entertaid-
expedition has been a miserable failure. The
fall of Plymouth is a heavy blow.
while, President Linevln, bis Ministers
bis Generals, seem more devoted to We
business of President-making than tothe
of subduing the South; more desirous of 4
party victory than of a national sacse®
Grawt is still preparing to do something #
deriul ; and despite all efforts ty keep 4d"
| gold is again gomg up rapidly.
point of fuct, we mite
y
rivers, Our
major ity of
ww
Pt by the
oa
This point, equa. hk
Fov ii. The South has a powerfg)
meutation of its resources in its warmer on
mate. ina great part of the North we
earth bestows on us in the summer. It
to be a favorite statistical trick of the
tionists to Compare the hay crop of t North
with the boasted eutton ee ir ae
and demonstrate the immense Superiority of
its money value. It never seemed to
+ these astute statisticians that this
tay Crop was @ tribute levied upon us
capetion of our climate Soot she bd
Novembef to the first of May, that is, for
tialf the year, our bores, cattle, and shee
instead of cropping thesr own living jn ghe
pastures, must be fed by the product of our
of wore substantial and expensive dwellings
to protect us from the rigour of the Winter,
and better barns and outbuildings fop gy
cattle ; add alsv the great labour expendedin 4
the preparation of fuel, and the eng
idleness of our agricultural population during
more or less of the winter months, we
may easily see why twelve millions of
bave proved relutively so much pris,
resuurces than, af the outset of the war we
supposed them.
Fifth. Another of the chief cauges of
soutbero military strength is the institutigy
of slavery. ‘The slave consumes a ay
proportion of the products of his labor thay
a tree laborer, and consequently affords ¢
larger surplus for expenditure op other gh
fv the labor of the male slaves we
must add that of the female, who haye few
tudour daties, and of the children, who
no time ip schools, an addition which
abuut twiee as many productive laborers ing '
given slive population as are found in a free
—— vf the same number.
hese considerations do pot, by an
prove that the South cannot be su
tu balance our disadvantages the loyal at
possess that great superority ip
and wealth trom which, im the outeet, we te
hastily solerred the easy suppression of the
rebelliun. But they should cegvince us
that advantages in this contest are not all Y
on vurside; they ought to cure us of che”
vaunting and vainglurious spirit in whieh we
have been wont tu indulge. It is absurd w
Lave wasted so much time ib discussions as
to what we will do with southern pro
and suuthern slaves, while the great yet
remains unaccomplished, of subduing the
southerp armies. It is waddess te waste a
much distracting effort on measures whieh,
until the military problem as sulved, serve
no purpose but to inflame and exasperate the
The military difficalties are suff-
Frou tae Sourn.—The Richmond Engury
ready, like the strong man armed; the good
wan with his sword ivose in the eheath, bis
harness bright and bis heart fulj .
People and army feel alike that when the
clash comes it will be a struggle fur life or
death. It adds:
** Numbers bave pot reduced the rebellious < E
he pohey of concentration. "’
Lie Engusrer says it is believed there is
A letter from Longstreet’s army says the
ermission tu ** go somewhere,””
Federal! journals report a ‘brilliant affair
A party of Federal cavalry,
‘The “brilliant” .
uerillas scattered, and were eagerly bunted
own by Colonel Stokes’ men. Whenever
On the capture of one of the gang
alry that if they would not kil! bim he
They agreed to the
arty entered and found Ferguson lying 00
bed in one of the rooms, suffering from the
They im-
is body with pistol balls.’’
i ie eee
Tue Loss oF PLYMouTH. — Rebel reports
iso we have lost a number of guuboats sunk by
rebel ram, which bas been the principal cause
‘sel and defeat the purposes of its constructiot.
he result proves how reliable oué venerable
es
Every day now brings news of someserioat
he affair on the Red River would seem ¥
ave been far more serious than the Federalt
re willing to admit. At the very best the
x
—_—- P — +
Cairo despatches of Saturday, state that it #
generally conceded that the late battles in Low
lana Were uot favorable to General Bavks, ne
nuch as he retreated forty miles, fer want
water, while the enemy maintained their
The steamers Rob Roy and Matte :
which arrived at New Orleans from Red 4
iad tw fight their way dowa through @
fire from guerillas ou the banks.
a
Te
THE CAMPAIGN IN LOUISIANS-
Three Days’ Battles
FIRST DAY,
two squadrons of Danish and of Prussian
horse were to meet in the open, the instinct
of fight, old hatreds, and revent emulations
might send them on each other cleaving and
piercing. Hot blood and high passion would
excuse this in the eyes of Kurope, although,
alter the conflict was over, the residum of al]
this effervescence would be sad and repulsive
enough. But to pour shot and shell into a
town for forty-eight hours, to burn houses,
and mutilate a wretched little village crowd,
ail in cold blood, and to do this when there
was nothing to be deeided by the war, and the
whole matter had already been submitted to
ed w strengthen the prejudices, inflame the
passiuns, and consolidate the opposition of the
South. Secession, originally the work of an
active minority, bas by this means become
the choice and the determination of the
Whole southern population. This point is
also trite, 80 we leave it with a mere mention.
_ Third. The geographical obstacles to mi-
litary success are a source of disappointment
whieh would have been equally encountered
had tue civil policy and military manage-
ment of the government been ever so wise and
prudent. A region equal in extent to France,
Graxp Ecore, La., April 1.
We left Natchitoches on the morning ie
6, and marched until nearly dark, ¥ nf the
camped in a pine forest. Ou the m oe ol
7th we started again, and owen? ~*
Pleasant Hill abvut five o'clock. Lig
lirst open piece of country that ape | s
since we leit Natchitoches, and bes a 8 brisk
mile square. The cavalry ha hont aif
skirmish during the parvene 3 hospital
wounded ot were brought 1,
was established. a
At two o’clock on the morning wis xh
arbitration ~ fie upon it~ it is an abuse ot
the privilege of a belligerent to be brutal.—
Low is it that such a waste of wickedness is
committed? The Germans are nut patural-
ly a cruel race, loving cruelty for its own
suke? Why should they inflict such useless
Woes upon these poor Danes ?|
Spain, Austria, and Prussia; 3 sontour of . ; a east
surface broken by elevations and mountain) - brigade oo fihous, ad W icon
| passes, affurding strong defensive positions ; | ie Indiana, numberiug about 1500
=
three fou: the of the vast region covered with : wd by day tigit }
| ! tarted in advance, aud ¥Y . Chiceg?
| virgin forests which have never felt the axe, | chirmishing with the encwy- by with
(and of @ nature to prevent accurate recou- \ereantile battery — st 3d division, sans ns
“avissance ;—these ure obsacles which afford the 2d brigade avd the trough
nopulation fighting on | about 2500 or 3000 mee, wnarcbed
great advantages t
SY mc is aay ae
weer
2 Se AT TI
— = ome ee Senet ne — —
ray, “Tecannot pay it for sig or twelwe| im the discharge of his parliamentary daties,
months,’ the mortgagee weald compel hia could not have come, from any quarter, with
fo take a new mortgage at a higher rate ofa worse grace than from the bon. member
poterest. Tle migh® say, © LC you will pay | from Summerside. The absence of that hon,
me ten per cent.. iwill give you two yeurs) member from the Island, ia the prosecution
more t» pay it."" That is the greatest ob-| of his own private affuirs ia England, had
jection | see to passing the Bill without any | oeeasioned the sammoning of the Legislature
restriction. The proposed amendment will! tor the despatch of public business, to be de-
not interfere with Promissory Notes or Bils| layed a month beyond the usual period ; and
of Exchange. The Act te reguiate the inte-| thet delay, oceasioned by hie inopportune
rst on thove is proposed t) be repealed, and | absence, might—and, indeed, most probably
wople cen then make any bargains they) would— prove greatly detrimental to public
ike, except im cases where mortgages or} interests, both directly and indirectly. Yet
judgments are gtyen. (onder the present} that hon. member, only just returned to at-
law, on all Promissory Notes and Bills of! tend to his parliamentalll deticn, had the as-
Fachange, payable within three years, any) surance to tax biw (llon. Mr. Whelan) with
amount of interest may be charged. W e | neglect of public duty and the retarding ot |
are only endeavouring at present ¢) affurd | the prosecution of puble business, beenuse |
some protection to those person’ who are) he was ovcasionslly absent from his plage at |
placed in such unfortunate eircunmstances) the openmg of the }louse iw a morning or at
that they would have t) submit ty such the resumption of business in an alterqvon !
terms as hard-hearted moaey-lenders might) Lil, indeed, did such a charge become that
ghoose to dictate. {hon. member! ll, indeed, did it become
lion. Mr. McLaren : I now gee the matter aoy hon. member on the Government side of
iu @ defferent hgbs. | think there should be! the House! As to the Government, their |
pome restriction, and seyen per cent. would, | general mode of directing parliamentary pro-
ja my opmion, be a fair rate, | ceedings was such as, he believed, bud never
ion. Mr. Dixawens: ihe reason that ]| been adopted by any other adginjstration,
Cummon Tate on agreements al present, and supporters were, it was yet deemed becessary
if we could leaye if at the sume rate if would) by them (the Government) to hold a caycus
which mmght be) meeting aumost daily, in the Library, for the
caused by a change. purpose of drilling them into still greater
lion. Mr. Lono: I think it is better to re-| subserviency—if that were possible. Than
strict the rate to six per cent.; and if those) such » mode of conducting it, scarcely any
pentionen who are ig the habit of lending} thing, be thought, could be retardauve ol
gneney twel that they are injured, they can) the progress of the legislative basinegs of a
introduce a Bill next session to change it. | country. iemaaiel
have the greatest respect for the geatleman) Covpasor por CARRYING TUE MAILS TO AND
who mtroduced this Bill, [believe he would rau THIS ISLAND AND TBR NEIGHBURING
not (ake one shilling more thay the law al-| Desmenens,
Jowed him ; therefore, i presume that he was} teat niente Mibiahi
actuated hy the best motives when he intro- | : “
duced the Bill, and I am also convinced that} A sum sufficient jor the Summer and Win-
jt is based on sound principles. [| was mis-| ter Mails. : m
person who intro-! Lion. Mr. Coles moved a Resolution to the
prevent that eommotior
}
}
proposed six per cept. was, that that is al either here or elsewhere ; for pliant as their The bon.
|
taken with regard to the a Besta Sen » consideration
oe Bill’ when | addressed your honore | effeet that the amouné proposed to be oe Pep lace eggs the consideratic
before. | for the Mail Service be reduced £1500. He | Hob. G, Cotes moved that the sum of 7 appro-
|
lat, Montgomery,—ls.
| same division reversed.
| House to a question of privilege, une
| bills just
} to the Louse ;
| request
| were disposed Lo infringe
| this House.
| Hon. J. Longworth also said that the
| Inuded to should be
| against 6,
‘to Liverpool, Sar yy Hom
i : j ok ace i wineh h . : . . . .
| bare on the subject took plaice, during vn tion of ove week earlier in the time for holding
ment Issuing warrants for the payment of their
salaries as all the other officers of the Colony are
paid. These accounts, he rey would never be
properly kept until a Financial Secretary was ayy)
pointed, whose duty it would be to correct alt)
mistakes. fe said much credit was due to the
chairman of the committee (Mr. McLennan) tor
drawing up the Report se as to secure the signa
tures o1 the Opposition as well as Govt, members
of committee, , ’ .
Hou. Mr. Davies approved of the suggestions of)
the bon. leader of the Opposition in reference to!
the mode of paying the salaries of out-port and
Exeise collectorse These officers had not, how- |
ever, acted in any way contrary to the present act |
which recoguises their right to pay themselves,
The Report was then adopted avd agreed to.
Hon. Mr. Pope moved that the Resolution s
ihe pemalsine Ou supply relative tu pew reat re |
now received, :
Hon. G. Coles moved an amendment that it *
received this day three months, it
For the amendment :—hons, ( oles, Hensley, |
Haviland, Warburton, Lporntun, Beaton, Messe. |
Conroy, Howlan, Walker,—¥. , : , 4
For the Resolution ;—-hous, Col. Gray, Co). Sec.,
é.. & Pore, Longworth, Laird, Fad * —
‘ M S * . samt: we
vasps. Green, McLennan, Duncan, Hasiain, Ho
eo The Speaker then os
cbe Chair, and the Resolution was carried on the
j
}
The bill relating to summary and appeal cases |
from the inferior to tiie Supreme Court was ones
ir sand passed, a
+ ee, anche Council by message in
formed the House that the bill to ¢ onsolidate und}
amend the Land Assessment Act, and also the |
Act to raise a Revenue bad received the assent 0
that hon. body.
|
flon. Mr. Haviland called the attention of the}
tsaid that the |
alluded tashould have been sent dows |
he said he was lead to make this |
there were, he believed, some
Legislative Council who
upon the liberties of
because L
hen. members of the
bills al
subinitted by message frou
Council; said Acts were then submitted to the
ilouse by the Clerk of the Legislative Council.
A message from his Excellency the Lieut, Gov
ernor was received commanding the attendance
ef the House at the Bar of the Council Chamber,
where his Excellency was pleased to give his as
sent to the Act for raising » revenuc.
priated for the payment of His Exceltency’s pew
rept in St. dames’ Church be struck out of the
bill, which motion was lost on a division of 18
Mr. Howlan moved that the sum of 300/ appro
oriated to Messrs. Palmer and Pope as Delegates
to England on the sutgect of the Land Comuiis
sien be struck out of the bill, which taotion was
lust op the following division: Yeas —Howlan,
Coles, Beaion, Conroy, Walker, Heusiey, 6; Nays
—Col, Gray, Col. Seety., Brecken, Hashana, Green,
Montgomery, McLennan, J.C. Pope, Yeo, Laaird,
Howat, Kaye, Davies, Long worth, Haviland, 15.
Hon. J. Longworth moved tint the bill relative
j . serauting of letters patent Lo dJvho Robinsen
for the granting of letters p .
Kugland, be submitted, a short de- }
orable mention was made of the distinguish
patent of Mr. Duchemia, as 4 work of art which
had secured jeliers patent noe ouly in America,
bat aleo in Englind and France, That ie would |
tend tu adVatice the interest of the Colony to fos |
tion Was discanted upon by hen. members, after |
Hon. J. Hensley asked the government, by
i ail Steamer u
whose authority had the Mai me
: (Sunday) for the En
despatched on yesterday (SUNC&y) [Y adinittod |
glish mail to Cape Tormentiues see am wo
that cases might arise in which 0 ~ pw
sity might require work fo be perloried 0
the Sabbath day, but in this Case it was eo
work of necessity. ‘The steamer might as we
have been sent this morning as yeater day ;
what was the use of having a Statute requir
ing the due observance of the Lord’s ~~
those in the government employ did not ob-
serve it. He was sure, he said, that the mem-
bers of the government, when they considered
the matter, were ag anxious as he was to en-
force the strict cbservance of the sabbath, but
he felt it Incumbent upon him to ask by what
authority the mail steamer bad yesterday (Sab-
bath) been despatched to Cape Pormentine.
Hon. leader of the Government: replied and
said, that all matters convected with the tails
and postal arrangements were under the charge
of the Post Master General's departunety.—
Passengers and mails were delayed and kept
ov the other side because of the Huating ice 19
the Straits. ‘The steamer had made several
attempts during the past week to get to Pie-
tou, but could net succeed. luformativn by
telegraph was received that the American and
Colonial mails were forwarded to Cape Tor
wentive ; and also that a pamber of passengers
for this Island bad arrived there, and were
doubtless anxious to proceed on io the end of
their journey ; and further, had not the. mails
been here Chis morning in time to be forwarded
to the different country post offices, whole
weeks’ delay, in many cases, would have been
the consequence. He therefore had no hesita
tion in saving that under all these circumstan-
ces the Post Master General considered he
had acted for the best ii this matter.
On motion of hon. J. Longworth a com, of
conference with the hon. Legislative Council
was appointed relative to an amendment mad
by the Council to the bill altering certain
terms of the supreme court in this Island;
said com. reported that the Council passed
unauimously the ameudmeut in question, rela-
tive to the changing of the March frm of the
supreme court in Georgetown.
Hous, Hensley snd Beaton contended that
the change asked for in the bill was in accord
ance with the wishes of the people of King’s
county, more especially the eastern seetion of
the county, and regretted that any obstacle
was thrown in its way by the coaucil ‘They
would rather see the bil thrown vat aliogether
than submit to the amendment of the council.
Hon. Mr. Haviland eaid, that no less than
three Grand Juries of King’s County present-
ed, at different terms of the Supreme court, to
the Judge, the necessity of making an altera
the March term of the court at Georgetown.
Ihe Bill now before the House originated, in
fact, with the people of King’s County. It
ip. | Was thereture, he said, very extraordinary that
|} ter enterprize and improvement of every descrip: | p,
they could not be allowed this alteration in
— ‘did so, he said, because the — ye
7 . a ¢ , (hoc 7 } joverninent, with the eulb
NOTES OF THE SESSION. Boat Banc dlngp tes £1500 per annum more
No. & ‘than Mr. Boultenhouse had tendered to d»
Woarrsia Pstare, ithe work fur. The question nots: Sogeh mie |
flon. Mr. Coles contended that the Worel)/ and the diyision ge as * tic nadiae
; 5: re ro | ers ¥ re the . cc
an os otra | et arte an on, ipasmuch us they my, by | om appagrenesg |
Aldous, the Land Cummuissioner. By those! rule, incapacitated trou roam ide ¢ the
Accounts, it was chewn chat the cost of the|queree of their being 7s" aye if
Estate amounted to 120.550: that the) 0 Steam Boat at a, "Dal ak
amount due on Sales, bearing mterest, was) bers, tu whose yotes the tig Pa . a ortho
214981 lds 4d. ; leaving a balance £4,753) ected, on the said eg Sy Ae p it od
}6s. 8d. against the estute, to meet which | Colonial Soaretary, the oe a 4 ah r
ghere were 41235 acres of Jand to be sold, the Lion. D. Davies, mem ote @ ie a vern
whieh at 2s. Gd. per acre, would have ligut- ment, and Mr. James Dunean, diye, vad
dated the said balance, and cleared the Es- of the Government. In support ~ re 0 8
tate. If, eaidthe hon. gentleman, the present | Hon to the votes of the@e hon. inembers, thc
Government have, during the last six years,
mnismanaged the estate, so as to have spent
ail in the mismanagement, it is pot the fault)
of the Liberal 4dovernment who bought it, for}
the ery of the Tory party. before they got
into power, with respect to the Estate, was,
* Letall the land be avid atauction for what-
ever it will bring. and close the Land Ufice.’
Jiowever, on their accc sion to power, they
guw the Land purchase Act ina light very
different from that in which they pretended
to view it when they were out of power ; and
now they wish to charge the Liberals with |
whatever blame may attach in any quarter,
for any joss on the purchase of the Estate.
The statement, to which the Hon. Mr. Coles
referred, in corroboration of bis wesertion that)
the Worrell Estate was in a prosperous condi- |
jtion when it passed from the bunds of the)
Liberals into those of the Conservative Go-
sernment, is as follows, copied fromthe Jour-
nal, dared 31st of January, 1859, and signed,
* Jubo Aldvus.”’
Dr.
To paid on purchase of Lau:!,
ca
£950 0 0
By amowat due on
sales, L481 15 4
Bunda, suo 8 5
Bulsuce, 473 16 3
Zs 8 0O~L£W 50 0 0
83.309 acres
pd pnrebsaed,
ba 5 42,074
Seid,
Balance unsold,
ance in each year over ¢ spenses.
Bal ~ ch) I £35 14 0
}8038 415 17 2 |
£731 24
41,255 acres. |
To be deducted from baimnee
mbooyve
ORANGEISM.
Mr. Duncan. The Petition was false upon
jteface. Butthet was not al]. When the
Rowan Catholic Bishop signed it, he knew it}
to be false; be knew he was signing a falac-)
hood; and they who drew it up knew
that they had drawn up @ falsehood. The
Petition was deliberately drawn up with |
@ view to deceive. Whoever drew it up knew |
Siat he was stating a lalsehood. He (Mr. |
Duncan) thought thac when Responsible |
troverpwent was conceded to the Colony, the}
cuneession gaye us the right of goveruing |
ourselves, and of enacting whatever laws we |
might deem needful for the preservation of |
peace and good order and the promotion of |
the genera! wellare,s long as such laws!
prould pot be in any way opposed to the}
rinetples of the Constitution. The Orange!
el was a measure of that kind, intended to |
foster and protect the best interests of the |
Colony. ‘The murderous riot, some years
ago, at Belfast, led wo the formation of Ur-
page Lodges ia the Island. The members of |
those Lodges bad nothing in view but the}
pssertion and observance of the principt!es of |
our Constitution, and the preservation c!}
peace aod good order throughout the Coloay;
they had no private ends of their own to}
romote; they bad in no iastance either |
violated the laws or sought to abridge or in-|
vade the rights and privileges of any class of |
their fellow subjects, and therr rise and pro-|
gress in this Island bad a salatary influence |
upon the community. They had as mach
right tu an Act of Incorporation as any other
body oF society, st whose request and in
whose fayor euch an Act had been passed by
tue Legielature of the Colony — certainly
quite as good # right to it as the Roman
Catholic Bishop of Charlottetown. By what-
ever reasons tha Duke of Newcastle had been
snttuenced—whetber by such as especially
weighed with bim with Fespeet to the secu-
rity of bis public position, 98 @ minister of
ghe Crown, or otberwise-—in withholding the
Orange Bill frow thie Royal) consideration,
he had been guilty of y direct violation of |
therconstitutfopal privileges of the people of
the Colony ; aod it was a duty se the
|
+| mewbers whom he bad numed were, be said,
'privilege of voting on the question then un-
| der the consideration of the Llouse.
/had thus been directly disputed semained in
|) their places, neither denying nor admitting
| notwithstanding their silence, may have been
jean, Breckon, Kaye, McAulay, Green—16.
; acceptable of the three.’ Mr. Montgomery
hon. gentleman read the Rule of the Lupe-
rial Parlhament, by which it is declared that |
no member of the House, having any share
or interest in any Company, entering Intu @
Contract with the Government, could vote
vn any question betore the Llouse in which
such Company had any interest. The bon.
members of the Steam Boat Company having
the Contract for carrying the Mails to and
irom the Island and the neighboring Pro-
vinces; and, therefore, according to the Par-
liumentary Rule which he had just read
they were precluded from votiag vt the ques-
tion then beture the Huuse; Inasmuch as,
were they to vote thereon, their dving so
would be a direct voting of uoney iato their
own pockets.
His Honor the Speaker said there was no
provf before him that the hon. members
pamed were shareholders in the said Com-
pany ; but, if they were. they certainly were
excluded, by parliamentary rule, from the
lion. Mr. Coles replied that the hon. mem- |
bers whom he had named could sot but be
}very well aware whether they had a right to
vote on the question or not; and he would,
therefore, leave it to their uwa sense of houvur
to do so or not,
The hon. gentlemen whose right to vote
their alleged disqualificati.n to do so; and,
interpreted as ap admission of their disquali-
fication, they voted on the Division, whica
was as follows: |
For the Metion of the Hon. Mr. Coles.— |
Hvoabis. Messrs. Coles and Waerburton, |
Messrs. Sutherland, Sinclair, Waiker ana
Howlan—6.
Against t.—Honbls. Colonel Gray. Colo-
nial Seeretary, J. UC. Pope, D. Davies, and
Laird, Messrs. Haslam, Ramsay, McLennan, |
Jubn Yeo, VD. Montgomery, Howat, J Dan-
Avy comment upon the peculiar features
of the facts above stated would be quite su- |
verfluous
Yhe fon. the Colonial Secretary read the |
fesolution which was moved by the Hon
Mr. Warburton, declaring Mr. Boulten-
house’s Tender the lowest, and tbat as it
was calculated to saye the Island a large ex-
penditure of public money, it ought, there-
iore, to be accepted. This Resvlotion, said
the hon. gentleman, was negatived by the
House, and, therefore, it was the House, and
not the Governmeut, who rejected Mr.
Boultenhouse’s Tender.
The Hon. Mr. Coles contended that the
effect of the rejection of the Hon. Mr. War-
burton’s pa en hy the majority of the
House, was to leave the whole of the Ten-
ders in the hands of the Government, as
some objections had been made to the secu-
rity offered by Mr. Boultenhoose. This,
said the hon. gentleman, would appear from
the opinions touching the question expressed
by some hon. members who yoted against
the Hon. Mr. Warburton’'s Resolution, as
well as from the Resolution which was car-
ried. Hon, Colonel Gray, in the course of
the discussion of the question, said * tHe was
of opinion that it would be useless to call for
fresh Tenders, and that the offer of Mr.
Boultenhouse was the best that the Govern-
ment could accept.”’ Mr. Davies said, * If
Mr. Boulteniouse’s Tender was accepted,
the most ample security should be required.’’
Hon. Mr. Lard said. * If Me. Boultenhouse
gave proper and awple security, his was de-
eidediy the best offer.’ Mr, Brecken re-
warked, ** At the present state of the pro-
ceedings, he could not but acknow edge tiat
the tender of Mr. Boulterhouse was the most
strongly objected to the Tenders of Messrs
Hodgson and Bourke.’? Mr. Davies again
Legislature owed o the country and te them-
selves, plainly to declare-—as was purposed |
tu be dune by the Resolutions then under the |
consideration of the House—in what a re- |
prehensible Jight they viewed bis conduct |
with respect to that [hiil.
A desire to press the Committee to a divi-
siog being manifested by some hon. members
on the Government side of the House—
Hon. Mr. Whelan rose and said, there was
a degree of unfairness in seeking to press a
division upon the Committee before hon.
members who might be « pposed to the Reso-
Jutions had an opportunity to examine them
fully. To that end, they should have been
pilowed to lie upon the table a sufficient
Jength of time before being brought under
the consideration of te Huvwse in Committee.
He himeelf would have taken copies of the
Resolutions --- bad « suitable opportunity
been offered him to do so—in order that, as
he intended to oppose them, he might be pre-
pared with counter Kesviutions to move an_
amendment. When common gourtesy was
observed, by a party in power, towarde the
minority, suitable vo; portunities were offered
them to pare counter Resotutions,
Hon. Mr. J. ©. Poe obrerved that, if the
hon. member who bed last spoken was more
observant of the hours at which the House
commenced businere iv a morning and re-
sumed it in an aftersoon, and were, in a
general way ,as ear'y in hs place as he ought
to be, he would hay: no vceasion, at any time
to complain that due opportunities were not
afforded him to consider any Resolutions to
be brougnt forwarh by the party in power,
and to prepare others in Opposition to them.
Hon. Mr. Wheien, in reply, said, ic was) ge@tieman who prides himself apon bein e
eertuinly that the attention ‘ohieh it weal beet ay “som
Necessary tor bim to give to the direetion of
his private business did not a}ways admit of
his a punctoally in his place in the, credited in the Treasurer's office,
some other hon. members were : spec
but, he thought, eeneure of any hon. mem-|
Jiouse as
said, ** He would b> surry tu see Mr. Boulten-
houses Tender eet aside.’’
Hon. Mr. Coles having read the several
opinions as above cited by him, said, ** Mr.
Speaker, I think it is clear, from the opin-
ions which J have just read. of hon. mem-
bers who vuted agaist the Hon. Mr. War.
burton’s Resolution, that they only wanted
to leaye the question open, tou the end that
it might be ascertained whether the security
which Mr. Boultenhouse war prepared to of-
for was sufficient. Mr. Boultenhouse was
here at the time, and was told that he would
be commynicated with upon the subject ; but
he neyer heard any thing further about it
from the Government. This si:ows that the
House did not yote the Contract to Messrs.
Hodgson and Bourke ; but the Government,
of which four of the shareholders were
members, gave the Contract to themselves at
£1500 more per annum than Mr. Boulten
ay = had tendered to perform the work
ur.
~~ - —
SUMMARY OF HOUSE O®8 ASSEMBLY
PROCEEDINGS.
Saturday, April 30,
On motion of Mr. McLennan, the ouse went
into committee op the report of Lhe committee on
public accounts,
Hon. leader of the Opposition remarked that
the cotoutittee had rectitied the error relative to
the entry of 1 , Which appeared in both the
receipts and expenditures of the Colony. It was
difligujt, he said, to understand or correct the out-
rtaccounts. Between the first sheet of the au-
ditors’ classified Linpost and Excise accounts, and
the corrected cue, = ome ap ed to be no less
than thirty-five Dusronention The classitication
submitted by the Government, and prepared by «
ntanton the Island, differed in some
respects frou the one suumitted by the auditors.
Phere was also a difference of 6GOOL Leeween the
smount shown in the Impost accounts and that
but thi
counted for by the different Excise iat
eiug allowed to pay themselves instead of xe-
ber fur begligence— either seal or apparent— | counting to the Government fur the Whole amount
) OF Ube duties reevived by thew,
| jouruals of the House, ; / ic
| discussion upott the necessity of having a Finan
| clal Sceretary for the Cuiouy, Ww house duty it would
| Commission
| aud said he was glad to inform the House that |
and ile Goveru-\ ing provision fur having them bound
which the bill was read a secund tite and agreed
1 to. h
On motion of Col. Sec., a Committee was “e
pointed to determine what Vouchers reiative fo
the public aecounte shouid be published ik the |
This motion elicited at
be to prepare the public accounts, Already £100
a year Was paid for uuditors’ salary, to which sutn |
might be added the expense the Colony sustained
because of the manper in which the time of the}
llouse Was occupied in examining and correcting
weouuts, and also the deficiency that might ap
pear in the returns of any officer which would be |
promptly collecced by the Financial Secretary,— |
li was argued by hon, members on both sides of|
he House, that the appointment of such a fune-|
tionary Weuld not only expediate the business of |
the Legislature, but alse prove a great saving to
the tinancial interests of the Colony.
Mr. Breen moved that the thanks of the
House be conveyed to His Excellency the Lieut.
Governor for the various despatches, nersayges,
| aud correspondence submitted by His Excellency |
for the information of this tlouse. ae
Hon. Mr. Coles seconded the motion, and said,
| it should be remembered His Excellency was not |
| allowed a private Secy. by the Government of che
Colony, this he cousidered Very Wrong, When
we had a private Secretary’s salary paid for out of
the public funds, be could be required, und it Was
expected of Lim, to place ali necessary doctienuts
before this House in proper order, bul now it
was depending upon a yenlieman Upon Whol we
|} have no claiay Whatever fur such papers as We
| ite y . ‘
jhe alluded (His Excelleney’s private Secretary) |
require. Lhe gentleman, he said, lo whom
received no salary from Chis Colony,
Hon. Mr. Haviland said he was now free to
speak out his mind ov this subject, and would un |
hesitatingly say that it was extremely uiggardls
su the part of Lhe goverpiment Wot Lo pay the sal
ary ut Private Secretary ; this he said was the only
Colony, in which the Private Secretary is not a
paid official.
Hon. J. Hensley said he would be glad to see a
of public works aiso appointed
For want of this officer, miucb of the public money
| was throwe away in the cous-ruction and perform: |
ance of roads, bridges, &c. |
Hoa J. Warburton supported the hon. J. Hens- |
ley’s views on this sulject and referred to the}
shameful magner in which public grauts fur roads,
bridges, &c., were mis-appropriated.
Mr. Duuean also agreed with what lad fallen
| from hon. members on this subject; Le said that
ib must appear evident to every Intelligent person
| in the community, that the services of a Cowmis-
sioner of Public works would prove a great say-
ing tothe country, much of public money was
now thrown away for want of a proper kKuowledge
| of the manner in which it should be expended. In
illustratiug his arguments he instanced the case of
a Ship builder who having several vessels build
my would refuse or ueglect to pay a Foreman or
Inspector of the work. From his own experience
in this braveh of business, he could say that the
want of competent superintendence would inevit
ably end in a loss to the owner, The same result
would follow in every department which requir
ed a heavy expenditure of capital, but more eés-
pecially in that branch of the public service, over
which a» Commissioner of Public Works would
exercise coutrol. It must be perfectly clear he
said, to every hon. member of that House, that it
would be a great saving to the pablic revenue, to
have a fit and proper ofticer appointed, Whose
duty it would be to see that the appropriations
for the Road Service were properly aud judicially
ex pended. J
Hon. Mr. Laird remarked that as ‘the discus-
sion hac taken a wide range, he wouid direct the |
attention of the House to an officer, the duties of |
whom would be second Lo none yet naibed by}
any hon. member. In Canada they had a Minister |
of Agriculture, whose business It Was to superin- |
tend the agricultural interests of the country, and |
his reports clearly show this his labors tend very |
inaterially to the advancement and improvement!
of agricultural pursuits. In this [sland our chief
dependence is upon our agricultural resourees we
therefore above all other should be the first Lo en-
courage in every possible way that important
branch of industry; and the appointment of a!
minister of agriculture for the whole Islaud would |
doubtless confer a benefit upon the interests of
this Colony, i
Mr. Howat said he thought the time had arrived
for him to speak, were told Auditors of Public Accounts were yoing |
to do everything that would be necessary to per-
fect the sytem of placing before the House in a
¢la-sitied form the Public Accounts, and yet we
fiad blunders committed, What guarantee, he
would ask, have we that a Financial Secretary
would be more competent or perform his work
better than the Auditors had done. We were
every now and then annoyed by officcholders ask
ing for inerease of salaries, and some of them even
threatening tu resign, because as they allege of
the small salaries they receive; and how could
we be expected to provide for additional officers?
He for one would not support the appointment of
any ofthe officers to whom allusion had been
made by hon. members To muitiply officials
by the dozen and have them scampering about
this building half their time was 4a dactrine to
which he would never give his consent, The ob-
ject he said of the hon. leader of the Opposition
relative to these uiatters, Was to lead the guyern-
ment into difficulties, he would therefore advise
them to be on their guard
Tne appropriation bill was read a third tinye
and passed,
Mr. Brecken as chairman of committee, report-
ed a draft address in accerdance with the Kesolu
tiou of the House, acknowledging the indebted-
ness of the House to his Excellency in submit-|
ting for their information, despatches, messages,
and correspondence relating to the interests of
the colony, Said address was received and read.
House adjourned.
Monday, May 2d.
The honorable Legislative Council by mes-
sage informed the House that they had passed
the following bills viz ;
A bill authorizing the goverument to open
a cash account with the bank of P. K. Island,
A bill relative vo the issuing of certain de-
bentures.
Hon. Col. Gray presented to the House a
despatch received this day from the secretary
of State anuoaucing that Her Majesty the
(Queen was pleased to confirm the Act to ineor-
porate the Farmer's Bank of Rustico.
A message from the Legislative Council an
nounced their assent to the apprupriatio.: bill.
A bill to enable John Robinson of Liverpool,
Englaud, to obtain letters patent, was read a
third time and passed.
Hon. Col Sec. informed the House that he
had corresponded with the honorable the
Speaker of the House of Commons, on the
subject of obtaining for the use of our Leg isla-,
ture the Journals of the Imperial Parliament,
|
|
}
ithe said Jourvals were kindly offered. He
would therefore suggest the propriety of niak-
ithe Act. He cosld not see the force or
justice of the reasons assigned by the Leg-
| islative Couneil for their amendment, and hop-
}ed the House would have the good sense to
‘throw out the Bill altogether rather than sub-
mit to that amendment, If, he said, the House
would not now stand by King’s County in this
matter, and throw out the Bill, the people of
that County would never again get their rights
reiative to this question.
After some further debate aid conferences
on this subject, the amendment of the Council
was finaliy rejected by the Louse, and conse
quently the Bill was lost.
His honor the Speaker laid before the House
a letter from his Excellency the Lieutenant
Governor's Private Secretary, announcing that
his Excellency would attend in the Council
Chamber to prorogue the House at 5 o'clock
this afternoou.—House adjourned.
AFTERNOON.
Mr. McLennan chairman of the Contingen!
Fund commitice, submitted the report of thai
Committee which was read and agreed to.
Hon. G. Coles ressacked that he had great
pleasure in observing that a number of Ladies
ad just entered the Assembly room, as he be
lieved for the first Gime. He trusted sume
sieps would be taken @aring the recess to pro
vide a Ladies’ Gailecy Tor the accommodation
of Ladies.
Hivn. Col. Gray replied and approved of the
remarks of the hon leader ef the Opposition.
Mr. Conroy also said he hoped Cuat proper
provision would be made so as to secure the
attendance of Ladies at our Legislative Halls.
Their presence, be said, would have a beneficial
eflect on the debates of the Jouse.
——- CORRESPOWDENCE,
MEETING OF FREEHOLDERS AT SQUAW
BAY, LOT 49.
Verbal information having been circulated
among the independent and respectable Free-
holders of that portion of Township No. 49, that
a meeting of the worthy inhabitants of said Dis-
trict would be held at the School House in that
locality on Monday the 25th inst., at 3 o'clock,
p. w., tor the express purpose of deliberating upou
the present pernicious aggrarian and protracted
and agitated laud question, the source and origin
of the apparant dissutislaction and distracted
state of this unparalleled Colouy,aud the propriety,
coustitutional, and feasibility of the tenant orga-
nizations throughout this Island, now embracing
indigenous talent, effort, and ahnost incredible
daily accumulating sympathy and numerieal ace |
quisition and strength. After further preliminary
observations, approbatory of the judicious course
adopted and pursued by the tenant organizasiens
ot this retarded slave-holding and oppressed Co-
lony, the meeting truly appreciated the laudable
and indepen@ent attempts and efforts of the ten-
ant organizations of this sea-girt Isle to emanci-
pate themseives and suceeeding generations from
the intolerable yoke of land monopolists, the de-
vastating scourge and cause of the prevailing
destitution in this purely agricultural aud inele-
ment Colony. Therefore, the meeting, as an
evident pledge of their approbation, commissera-
tien and heartfelt sympathy for their more untor-
tunate fellow Colonists, enrolled their names in
the bond of union, and ligerally subscribing to-
wards the fuad in connection with the orgauiza
tion, at the same time extremely regretting, a8
ardeut and strenuous supporters of this existing
Govergment, that unfortunately the Legislature
of this aggrieved Colony should assume the pre-
rogative, without the consultation of their respec-
tive constituencies, to pass an Act confirmatory
of the proprietory titles, and thereby unposing
upon the inadequate tenantry of this Island a
ruineus purchase, at a rental of fitteeu years, &e.
The feelings of the meeting cannot be more co-
gently illustrated than by adopting the following
poetical quotation :
«© ves, ‘tis thus grieved Isle, thy doom
Hath hitherto been sealed,
These Politicians dig thy tomb,
Lut ieave thy wounds unbealed.
Thy vex'd land question never can
Be set to rights by them,
Thy sons alone, joined as one man,
Thy tide of ills can stem.”
The meeting being constitutionally organized
by the appointment of Mr. Wii. Wood to the
Chair, and Alex. McNeill, Acting Secretary, the
tollowing Resolution was submitted and unani-
mously approved of :—
Moved by James 1B. Gay, Esq., seconded by
William Jones, Esg.—
Whereas, that in the opinion of this meeting,
that the long agitated and nun-settlement of the
Land tenures, being the west vitally important
and absorbing question at present affecting the
wass of Her Majesty’s loyal subjects in this Colo-
ny, and that no measure would be wore conduct-
ive to the prosperity of the Colony, and peace
and contentment of the tenantry and eo iy
than the couversion of the present injurious rent-
paying system into a freehold; and recognising the
strenuous efforts gid powertul influence exercised
by Sir Samuel Cunard and the other large pro-
plictors, aud their agents, to prevent the laudable
efforts of the people, through their representatives
in the Government, at all tines, to effect this much
desired cousumation on terms at all possible to be
complied with; therefore, this meeting reeipro-
cute and cordially sympathises with the present
popular movement throughout the Island, which
constitut onally contemplates the settlement of this
agrarian question, viz; the amelioration of the
oppressed and suffering tenantry, by offering terms
equivalent to what other estates im this Colony
have bwew purchased fur; and should the Govern-
meut at this peculiar aud critical juncture as-
sume the responsibility of establishing the proprie-
tors’ proposition of sixteen years’ purchase, that
this meefing cannot consider such legislation but
prejudieial, injurious and ruinoys to the interests
and: well-being of the Calynista, ;
a oe aaare having accorded a vote ef thanks
3 nan for his impartial and praisewor
thy conduct in the chair, the weeting in unani-
a ot sentiment and opinion consider that jeour-
‘ gratuitously, communications tend-
tig to the prosperity and success of the object in
coutem plation i therefore, the meeting gave three
oe meyer ad our gracious and beloved So-
ereign, an
ticipated a im order, harmony and an
ALEXANDER MeNE] ,
Lot 49, 25th April, 1864 NEILL, See'y.
————
TENANT MEETING ON VALDWIN’S
ROAD, LOY 51.
A "cFy numerously attended Publie Meeting of
the Tevantry and Freeholders of Baldwin's Road,
Cardigan Road, and the neighboring settlements,
was held at the School-house on the above named
road, on Tuesday, the 3rd instant, for the pur-
pose of taking inte consideration the accumulated
grievaneee entailed upon the country by the
Leasehold System; and of forming themselves
inte a branch of the Tenant League, in order that
they may be prepared to act in concert with their
fellow-sutterers uf other districts, as vccusiou may
require. :
Several speakers made very appropriate re-
marks on this subject, with a good deal of force
aud effect — facts which are of sufficient mpor-
tance to prove that good results may be antici-
pated. Mr. Henry Bradley spuke very pointedly
on the subject, in expressing his ablorrence ot
rent-paying, by saying that the system is a dis-
grace to any country having preteosions to inde-
| pendence or intelligence, and that our condition
is the more humiliating when we consider our
position in respect to our neighbours im the Colo-
nies, Who are perfect strangers to the many evils
of rent-paying; and that therefore the united
efforts of the tenantry should be used by every
lawful means to abolish this pernicious system,
| which is se very much crushing the best energies
loft the tenantry throughout the Island. He also
remarked that if the tenantry on Lots 48 aud 49
are so Vehement in this movement, and who, trom
their contiguity to market, shipping and other
privileges, enjoy advantages superior te tary
districts in the [sland—certainly then the tenarts
in this isolated place should louse no vpportunity
in following their example.
It has been rewarked by many of the tenants
on thie part of the Montgomery Estate, (on Bald
win's Road,) that although they have not yet much
reason to complain of very great harshness on
the part of their agents in urging their demauds
lor rent, nevertheless they are and will be at the
mercy of those agents, who may prebably be
“nursing thew wrath to keep it warm” until it
suits their own purpose; aud that therefore it
devolved upon them equally as well as others to
have ther minds fixed as to the course they
should pursue in cases of emergency. It was
also the unanimous opinion of those present at
the meeting that every embarrassment should be
caused to those Proprivtors, their agents or
bailiffs, who wight have the harditiood to attempt
seizing or selling the effects of any individual
tenant in these localities, uutil some reasonable
negotiation shall be entered inte, which will
enable the tenautry to purchase their farms on
terws similar to those obtained on the Goveru-
ment estates throughout the Island.
Atter these and other remarks of a similar
nature, the Meeting was declared duly orgamzed
by the appointment of Mr. Henry Mooney as
Chairman, when the follawing Resolutions were
submitted aud uuauitiously agreed to, viz:—
Proposed by Mr. Thomas McKenna, and second-
ed by Mr. Dennis Malligan :—
_Kesorven, That us the present Government,
either from inenpacity or deception, notwithstaud.-
ing all their extravagant promises, have uwerly
failed to settle the dillerences so lony existing be
tween landlord and tenant; andas avy terus which
the proprietors or Goverment offer as. pretended
relief to the tenantry, namely ;—Lo yours purchase,
with all arrears -ince 18538 paid duwn, are not only
useless, but ruinous ty ike great majority of ten
wuts; we are, therefore, zealously determined to
withhold the payment of rent in any form, until
we purticipate in the benefits of the Land Purchase
THE BOMBAKDMENT OF SONDERBURG.
The laws of warfere seem to be gradually
dissolving into the chaos from which tie
emerged as European civiligation advanced.
Hamanity is interested in the highest sense
in watching the progress of commanders in
order that the conditions imposed by Treaties
and Congresses may nut be set aside by bel-
ligerenta. There ws no excuse to be offered
even for the Awericans whea they burn towns
wod villages, and make war upon non-com-
batants. If the Americans huve never been
parties to the diplomacy of Europe, they had
at Jeust the advantage of knowing all that
had been decided in one quarter of the world
from motives of humanity, Even in Asia
we do not pretend to relieve our commanders
from the just criticism necessarily following
such ** antoward events’? as the bombard-
ment of Kagosima. All that the Americann
have done in their own country, and all that
the Englieh and the French have done 1s
Asia and Africa, cannot be compared, im
point of deliberate and useless cruelty, to
the conduct of the Pruesian army at Sonder-
burg. We desire to speuk with caution as
to an event which is only yet reported to us
by telegram, and of which the full details,
and, as we hope, explanations, have yet to
arrive. We know enough, however, already
to show us that a veFy fuul crime against the
human race hus been committed by one of
the most enlightened nations in Europe.
is stated by the Special Correspondent of the
Times, that ** the Prussians have bombarded
Sonderburg forty eight hours without any
previous intimat.on ;"" that * eighty towns-
people, women, and children have been kil-
led or wounded ;”’ that ** filty houses in the
centre of the town have been burnt ;”’ and
that ** fifteen bundred shellp have been
thrown into the town, which is deserted.’’
It is impossible to conceive any statement
more colcelated to prove that the Prussians
are both cruel and cowardly. For a belli-
gerent to shell a town without the previous
notice demanded by the laws of war, in order
to provide fur the removal of non-combat-
ants, is at once so base and brutal as to
cause Englishwen at once to withdraw any
sympathy from the Prussian cause. The
eighty women and children killed and
wounded were murdered and mangled with-
out any justification known to the laws of
warfare. We do not profess to complain of
the burning of fifty houses in the centre of
the town, as if war is to be conducted on
me | principle at all, it must be on one which
inflicts as much loss on an enemy as possible.
But nothing in the shape of an uonecessar
destruction of human life is to be justified.
and it is an unnecessary and purposeless
waste of human life to kill and woand pon-
cambatants like women and children.
lt would be very easy to lash ourselves in-
to a state of frothy indignatiop as to this
transaction, but it is nut our wish that the
English people should do sv. We may, how-
ever, ask whether the Government do not
conceive that so feartul an outrage does not
justify some act of bigh-handed interven-
tion, not upon any ground of sympathy or
the defensive. lo
netraied within the rind of the (
only where we were favored b ana
main successes have heen on the Missisesinn:
the Tennessee, and their cotheneatan te
we have saved Kentucky ; bot a “yy
the people of Kentucky have been steadf
Joyal. The same remark applies tu West V 7
ginia, which we have detached from a epi
ing state. But we have gained no consider
able area, in which the mass of the populati A
adhered to the rebel cause, exce
advantage of our naval resources hay
uson the great rivers,
not new, and we hasten on.
sume in the winter what the bounty of the
Iyjcummer mdusiry. Add to this the
jects.
/and completely ceased this morning.
Bill, so liberally extended tu other more favoured
H » ‘ , ¢ r, ‘ iy
portions of our felluw-colonists. any expression of opinion as between Den
wark and Germany, but upon the highest
ground of humanity The presence of the
Reso.van, That in the opinion of thie meeting British fleet in the Baltic would be the best
the Government lave takeu Upon themselves most | remonstrance we could offer to the notice of
anwarrantable liberties, and very much abused the the Prossians, for they are 80 profoundly
rd sme ban og hg anges into Law the 15) philosophical that anything like argument
deserving of the must ung alilied censure frum the | @ane and practically inhuman. ‘The Prus-
Tenantry. sian commander has y‘aced himself and his
Propos@t hy Mr. John MeWade, seconded bviMr,|@rmy beyond the pale vf civilization, and it
Hugh Mefuvis :— , : is equally our duty and our interest to bfing
Lots 49, 50. 35.46. und nther party of the belaat | wake war upon women and childr:n ie not
their laudable efforts te be releved from the servile | to be allowed ubless Europe 18 to roll back-
jand galling yoke of Landlordism, and to effect a| Ward to the barbarism of the Middle Ages
| purchase of the land in fee simple. ata jast and/ And yet it seems that we are faust tending
Psa rsigy valuation, accordiug to te quality aud that way, for, although we are able to boast
Proposed by Mr Terrence Cai: 2 led = ~ sey vip — ¥ ea ben “? —
Pg soe Becel 166 METER, SEOBEES OY | when we do get to war we seem to degener-
| Resurveo, That we. the Tenantry, assembled at | 2te 19% acts of ervelty of which Henry the
this Meeting, will be ; koghth and Lows the Fourteenth would
In the Austro- Italian
war, in 3359, Count Cavour appealed with
Proposed by Mr. James Curran, seconded by Mr.
-atrick Cairne :— "
‘ satisfied with wotiing bess
j than a rightto convert our leasehobiemto treeholds, | have been ashawed.
} on the sine COMMMons a8 Chose obtained by settlers
jon the Worrell, Seleirk aud other estates; and
; that we are strongly bupressed with the idea that
} those who reclaimed the dreary forest from a wil-
| dertiess state. have every just right t assert that
they will not submit auy longer to be the slaves of
euld blood.
| but a very slender elaim to lands in this Island, and
| for which they have received quite enough already. |
It was resolved that two of the Talind journals | ' cas i
jinterested in the Tenant Right movement be re- | lives and properti-s of peacea te mhabitants |
| quested to publish the proceedings of this meeiiug. | |
} A Committee of Management having been duly | in open evoflict hand to band, man to wan.
appointed, and the usual vote of thanks been ac-| Prussia is very desirous of proving ber
| corded the Chairman, not forgetting to give tivee | prowess in the field, but if she couce:ves tua; | epthusiasua which prevailed among the mes
most hearty cheers for our Sovereign Lady the / she ins} ires Europe with any salatary fear | ®t the beyiuning of the war bas oruken forth
anew, and they are ready lor anything that
may turn up. Longsireet bas given Morgan
I Qacce, the meeting retired to their respective | by such transactions as the bombardmen* of
ioe J. E. KELLY, Sec’y. | Sonderburg, she may only live long enough
|
May 4. 1864 }as a Power in Europe to find that there is a}
- e ? higher power in the world than gunnery and
Late Kuropeaun News. jstatecraft. Lulightoned men svon come to |
THE WAR IN DENMARK.
THE B-MBARDMENT IN SONDERBORG.
Copennacen, April 4.— The Prussians contemplate their being improved off the face
‘sia, as only useful tor a temporary purpose,
have bombarded Sunderburg 43 Lours, witu-/ of the earth.
out any previous intimation. Eighty towns-| Rhevish Provinces should be absorbed by |
people, women and children, have been kil- Franee, and that Prussia should once more | 4
ot the town have been burnt.
however, recommenced, The Danish posi-| News of the World, Apri 10. ¥
tion isaninjured. Last night our outposts
were frequently disturbed by the enemy,
who, however, in each instance withdrew.
{The Darish city of Sonderborg is under a
process of deliberate destruction. First it
was annuunced that the Prussians had, with- [From the New York World ] iP
out soy previous warning, or any notice to. The protraction to three years of a war &
remove the women and children, commenced which the administration assured foreign go- |
throwing shelis into the city. Next day | vernments would terminate in three months,
London and Paris and Berlia and Vienna and which the mass of the northera people b
heard that nearly a third part of the town | expected to see closed within the first year,
had been burnt down, but that the cannuo-| is not very creditable either to the forecast.
ade bad ceased) Then it was told that the lot our rulers or to the sagacity of our people.
intermission had not been of long continu-) We have failed chiefly by bad management ;
ance ; and the succeeding account was that) but we have also greatly underrated tie re-
Sonderborg had been bombarded for forty-| sources of a people whom we scorned to con-/ 4
eight hours, that eighty towns-people, women | ciliate and deemed it easy tosubdue. Neither a
The War im the States.
and that the city was then deserted.
is not a fable imported from the other end of cordingly teeme
eyes of Europe. These people, who are kil-| ragemwent wholly irreconcilable with the col-
ling women and children, and burning their| ossal magnitude of the military task pow
habitations, and these poor wretches, who| immediately before us,
are being burnt in their homes like bees in| The greatest error into which we of the
their hive, are among us. We can almost) North have fallen is an egregious under-esti-
ve
,
we might communicate by telegraph im a problem of the war, as it presented itself tu
few minutes with the actors. The King of our minds, was, whether twenty millions of
Prussia, or the Emperor of Austria, or the| people could cope successfully with twelve
Emperor ot the French could ‘nan hour serd | millions, Thus stated, stript of all modily- |p
a telegraph message into the Prussian camp | ing uccessories, it could admit of but one | q
whieh would explode with greater power) answer. And when it was considered that
than any shell there and biow away the the twenty millions had a bavy, and the
siege itself. This story uf death and wounds | twelve millions had none; that the North
and rushing away for safety, is not a ficti-| abounded in great wealthy cities and diversi-
tious tale of woe, to be mourned over in! fied manufactures, while the South was a
maudlin tones of sympathy ; it is au acting | sparsely settled agricultural region, depen-
atrocity, which might have been stupped.— dent on foreign commerce for a market, the
There are po eXawples now-a-days of a city | illusion under which the northern people la-
being shelled intentionally without fuil pre-| bored at the outset of the war may seem na-
vious notice being given. If some rare in-| tural and pardonable. Why is it thas the
stance should happen in America, we appre- expectations founded upon such data have not
hend that even General Butler would not! been realized ?
undertake to defend so cruel a blunder.—| The reasons are many, each strong in it-
What possible object can the Prussians seive | self, and in the aggregate overwhelming. We
by destroying this city, and the people in-| proceed to name some of the most prominent: | t
side it? The war itself has ceased to have| First. ‘The Mmanagementof the war view-
apn object. Every shot that is fired is fired} ed on its purely Strategic side, haa been in
in pure waste ; every death that occurs is a| the main, a tissue of blunders resulting from
human sacrifice ata shrine which has not! civilian interterence with military plans
even an idol. There is not only no object in| 'Lbis pout bas been discussed to exliaustion ;
this war, but there is not an excuse for any | we merely allude to it in passing.
military operations of the commonest kind. Second. ‘The political policy of the govern-
lt may be imagined, perhaps, that, even | ment has obstructed the success of the war.
without any defensible wilitary object, if| lt has been a policy of exasperation caleulat-
I
rebel population, and to brace up their rego
lution tu the extreme point of reckless eelf-
sacrifice.
cient without rearing up gratuitvus moral
obstacles, which render conquest arduous,
and subsequent government wader republi-
can forme impossible.
announces ** ali ready ”’ tor the a vachmg
conflict of arms, and says that pegs ban
can do to prepare for the fearful day hag
been done, and the South, at least, staple
/ great efect to the Cabinets of Europe, when Confederates tu loyalty ; the bluckade has
the Austrians shot a farmer and tis family in| 80¢ cerbed their defiens (reason , starvation
So now the Danes have a right Yas not Lumbied their proad spirit; and the
to cli on all good men to denounce as brutal | fourth year of the war opens upon thet
ja propretary faction, who are well kiuown to have | : : . larmies numerous h he fi ii
cowards the people dressed in the uniforms | ™ ruus us those of the foe, as we
lof suldiers, who, standing safely behind guns | drilled, and in better morale, and seedy te
‘end batteries, eovlly sbell and destroy the | St
| Tue Prussians do not dare to meet the Danes) ore salt in the Confederacy now thes ever
before at any one time.
lregard powers capable of cruelty, like Prus-; 12 Tennessee.”
8 at t y jcommanded by Colonel Stukes, defeated a
part of the affair is narrated as follows:=
'whieh, when fulfilled, may lead us calmly to | band of so-called gueriilas.
It would be better that the | After the defeat of Ferguson’s command, the
led or wounded. Filty bouses in the eenure | be represented by the Duchy of Brandenberg, | 0D Was taken, he was shot without eere-
Fifteen bun-| than that she should continue only to plague | LMY- : :
'dred shells bave been thrown into the town, | ber own subjects at home, and play the part | the next day after the fight, be was told to
which is deserted. The cannonade suddenly jof a brigand and a murderer, under cover of | Prepare for death, when he begaw ser
Ithas, warfare, beyond her territory. — London | piteously for his lite. He informed the ¢a-
would conduct them to a house where Per-
guson was concealed.
pate" tac | proposition, and svon a squad of
/whieh the guerilla chief was secreted, A
wound received the day before.
mediately surrounded the bed, aud riddled
and our own go to show that the garrison of
Plymouth, net much short of two .
twenty-five pieces of artillery, and « vast amount
jot stores, have fallen inte the power of the enemy.
and children, had been killed or wounded, | government nor people are yet disabused of | of the disaster above detailed. Months since it
This | this original erryr ; nor newspapers bave ac- | was kuown that this ram was being completed;
4 during the winter, with) but the people of the North depended upon the
the earth, it is a reality passing before the | stories of starvation, exbaustion, and discou- | U8ceasing vigilance of Secretary Weiles, who has
spent sixty millions on iren-clads te destroy this
Secretary is.— New York Herald.
hear the yuna that are doing the butchery ;| mete of the resources of the Scuth. The Federal disaster, and nothing is done say
where to realize the great hopes which the
poopte of the North were Jed to entertaid-
expedition has been a miserable failure. The
fall of Plymouth is a heavy blow.
while, President Linevln, bis Ministers
bis Generals, seem more devoted to We
business of President-making than tothe
of subduing the South; more desirous of 4
party victory than of a national sacse®
Grawt is still preparing to do something #
deriul ; and despite all efforts ty keep 4d"
| gold is again gomg up rapidly.
point of fuct, we mite
y
rivers, Our
major ity of
ww
Pt by the
oa
This point, equa. hk
Fov ii. The South has a powerfg)
meutation of its resources in its warmer on
mate. ina great part of the North we
earth bestows on us in the summer. It
to be a favorite statistical trick of the
tionists to Compare the hay crop of t North
with the boasted eutton ee ir ae
and demonstrate the immense Superiority of
its money value. It never seemed to
+ these astute statisticians that this
tay Crop was @ tribute levied upon us
capetion of our climate Soot she bd
Novembef to the first of May, that is, for
tialf the year, our bores, cattle, and shee
instead of cropping thesr own living jn ghe
pastures, must be fed by the product of our
of wore substantial and expensive dwellings
to protect us from the rigour of the Winter,
and better barns and outbuildings fop gy
cattle ; add alsv the great labour expendedin 4
the preparation of fuel, and the eng
idleness of our agricultural population during
more or less of the winter months, we
may easily see why twelve millions of
bave proved relutively so much pris,
resuurces than, af the outset of the war we
supposed them.
Fifth. Another of the chief cauges of
soutbero military strength is the institutigy
of slavery. ‘The slave consumes a ay
proportion of the products of his labor thay
a tree laborer, and consequently affords ¢
larger surplus for expenditure op other gh
fv the labor of the male slaves we
must add that of the female, who haye few
tudour daties, and of the children, who
no time ip schools, an addition which
abuut twiee as many productive laborers ing '
given slive population as are found in a free
—— vf the same number.
hese considerations do pot, by an
prove that the South cannot be su
tu balance our disadvantages the loyal at
possess that great superority ip
and wealth trom which, im the outeet, we te
hastily solerred the easy suppression of the
rebelliun. But they should cegvince us
that advantages in this contest are not all Y
on vurside; they ought to cure us of che”
vaunting and vainglurious spirit in whieh we
have been wont tu indulge. It is absurd w
Lave wasted so much time ib discussions as
to what we will do with southern pro
and suuthern slaves, while the great yet
remains unaccomplished, of subduing the
southerp armies. It is waddess te waste a
much distracting effort on measures whieh,
until the military problem as sulved, serve
no purpose but to inflame and exasperate the
The military difficalties are suff-
Frou tae Sourn.—The Richmond Engury
ready, like the strong man armed; the good
wan with his sword ivose in the eheath, bis
harness bright and bis heart fulj .
People and army feel alike that when the
clash comes it will be a struggle fur life or
death. It adds:
** Numbers bave pot reduced the rebellious < E
he pohey of concentration. "’
Lie Engusrer says it is believed there is
A letter from Longstreet’s army says the
ermission tu ** go somewhere,””
Federal! journals report a ‘brilliant affair
A party of Federal cavalry,
‘The “brilliant” .
uerillas scattered, and were eagerly bunted
own by Colonel Stokes’ men. Whenever
On the capture of one of the gang
alry that if they would not kil! bim he
They agreed to the
arty entered and found Ferguson lying 00
bed in one of the rooms, suffering from the
They im-
is body with pistol balls.’’
i ie eee
Tue Loss oF PLYMouTH. — Rebel reports
iso we have lost a number of guuboats sunk by
rebel ram, which bas been the principal cause
‘sel and defeat the purposes of its constructiot.
he result proves how reliable oué venerable
es
Every day now brings news of someserioat
he affair on the Red River would seem ¥
ave been far more serious than the Federalt
re willing to admit. At the very best the
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Cairo despatches of Saturday, state that it #
generally conceded that the late battles in Low
lana Were uot favorable to General Bavks, ne
nuch as he retreated forty miles, fer want
water, while the enemy maintained their
The steamers Rob Roy and Matte :
which arrived at New Orleans from Red 4
iad tw fight their way dowa through @
fire from guerillas ou the banks.
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THE CAMPAIGN IN LOUISIANS-
Three Days’ Battles
FIRST DAY,
two squadrons of Danish and of Prussian
horse were to meet in the open, the instinct
of fight, old hatreds, and revent emulations
might send them on each other cleaving and
piercing. Hot blood and high passion would
excuse this in the eyes of Kurope, although,
alter the conflict was over, the residum of al]
this effervescence would be sad and repulsive
enough. But to pour shot and shell into a
town for forty-eight hours, to burn houses,
and mutilate a wretched little village crowd,
ail in cold blood, and to do this when there
was nothing to be deeided by the war, and the
whole matter had already been submitted to
ed w strengthen the prejudices, inflame the
passiuns, and consolidate the opposition of the
South. Secession, originally the work of an
active minority, bas by this means become
the choice and the determination of the
Whole southern population. This point is
also trite, 80 we leave it with a mere mention.
_ Third. The geographical obstacles to mi-
litary success are a source of disappointment
whieh would have been equally encountered
had tue civil policy and military manage-
ment of the government been ever so wise and
prudent. A region equal in extent to France,
Graxp Ecore, La., April 1.
We left Natchitoches on the morning ie
6, and marched until nearly dark, ¥ nf the
camped in a pine forest. Ou the m oe ol
7th we started again, and owen? ~*
Pleasant Hill abvut five o'clock. Lig
lirst open piece of country that ape | s
since we leit Natchitoches, and bes a 8 brisk
mile square. The cavalry ha hont aif
skirmish during the parvene 3 hospital
wounded ot were brought 1,
was established. a
At two o’clock on the morning wis xh
arbitration ~ fie upon it~ it is an abuse ot
the privilege of a belligerent to be brutal.—
Low is it that such a waste of wickedness is
committed? The Germans are nut patural-
ly a cruel race, loving cruelty for its own
suke? Why should they inflict such useless
Woes upon these poor Danes ?|
Spain, Austria, and Prussia; 3 sontour of . ; a east
surface broken by elevations and mountain) - brigade oo fihous, ad W icon
| passes, affurding strong defensive positions ; | ie Indiana, numberiug about 1500
=
three fou: the of the vast region covered with : wd by day tigit }
| ! tarted in advance, aud ¥Y . Chiceg?
| virgin forests which have never felt the axe, | chirmishing with the encwy- by with
(and of @ nature to prevent accurate recou- \ereantile battery — st 3d division, sans ns
“avissance ;—these ure obsacles which afford the 2d brigade avd the trough
nopulation fighting on | about 2500 or 3000 mee, wnarcbed
great advantages t