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evreme i happy and hopefal
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Suidenly the
captarn sprang to hoe feet, with a Geree oath
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he consigned tg the dreary captiv
Warren and Lafayecte. Nor was it pleasant
ee a a ee
town, making the trip actually in nine days
and three quartere of an hour.
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short distance Pour troops. More and more
(of the latter attempted to get back to our
at died away int: @ loud shout of anger to wes the despair of my elmrge, poor Mre In Auguet, 1860, the Great Eastern made lines from the work and the pits and minut
liilloa! ve bourd there Whe did. Belton, whose hopes of seeing her husband! the shortest trip from the States to Kngland entrenchwents about it. Many succeeded,
ti again in life were, to all appearance, dashed | on record up to that time. in nine days and but wany alsu were killed and wounded.
Look alive there! Who loosed that to the ground when on the eve of being re- four hours The Scotia beat thie trip last About ten o'oluck the enemy wade another
e4 ied the captain alised , while to poor Captain Harrison the year from New York to the Merey, in De- charge, when a great ewarm of men, eati-
ind. ae we glanced upwards, we aaw, to qfsir was simply ruin. The sight of his comber, in nine days, two hours and three | muted by some at a thousand, mostly blacks,
vor uetoniebment, that the maintopead| ef the p¥le Segry face haunts me still, as he was quarters, stopping one hour at Queenstown. | broke out of the furt and attem to escape
schooner was loose, and heavily Sapping to led ewey to be pinoed in itons, like the rest It appeare that nearly all the Scotia's trips to our lines. Hundreds them sever
. . of the crew and officers. Liowever, the ca- last year, east and west, were made ig less! reached it.
nod fro in the freshening breete, like 4
t
needed but a glimpaco of Harrison's look
of wrathtul dimany, ae he eprang on bvard
hia orders—ordera thet instantly
brond ating of some wounded tes
aad gave
bird
price or merey of the Federal autborities
procured the release of Mra. Bulton, as weil |
as of several of the other ladies, after a short |
detention; and, though I was oot myself!
ent three or four seamen serambling up the| PeTmitted to accompany my charge within:
rigving to reduce the sail—to assure us that) tbe confederate lines, 1 was glad to heur that |
mischrel wae afoot
utterir vuss siosely reeled, bu
fluttering canvass wae clo hed shes ¥ sail) Captain Bulton's recovery was considered
joone was leas easy. [n yain did the captain] Probable. And thas eoded what was my | nearly all the companies in operation are
sternly interrogate such of the crew as had) Sret, and will most assuredly be my lust
- All deo ared thet they knew | ¢=perience of blockade running.
One asilor, whe had}
heen doging under the buiwarks eft, did, in-! :
deed, any that he had opened his eyes a few been sadly realized in an occurrence near
minatee before, and had, while in ® state ot | Cleveland, Ohio, which the Herald of that
heeween sleeping and waking, seen some one! City records as follows :—
discover the off nder who
been on deck
nothing of the matter
jump out of the standing rigging, and slip “A wan namned Andrew Schoger lives near
down the fore hatchway And it was his! the Buckeye House on the Kinaman street road,
belief thag this person was no uther thaa the | leading to Warrensville, better known as Dolph
udre"e boy, Indian Blaise.
} .
But Bigise was found fast asleep jn hislair|
and he did not seom jo understand | jeaving four child
what was guid to him when be wna asked in
whether he bad been aloft lately.
ile shouk his bead in dissent, however, and
indeed no one had ever seen the Indian ascend
the rigging. ot beleved him capable of get-|
ting bigh enough to losen the sail, even if |
there bad been any comprelens: dle reason
Most na-
sural conjecture was that the sail had been
curelessiy secured, and tne captain's only
hope was that the tell tale canvase had not
shurp-sighted
And
to
ow,
French,
Th»
for such an act on hie part.
attrected the eyes of any
Jook-out man on beard a Federal ship.
a@ boyr passed alter hour, and nu columa ot
jarkening
viviet sky. giving token of the unwelcome
breathed more
freely again, and all looked forward to) the Sour children took place on Friday, from
i The sun| their parents’ house near Cleveland. ‘Every
went dows sinking into a bank of grey| preparation was made that reepect and sy m-
clouds, and there were signs of a probable | pathy could suggest, and the four were laid
change of weather, but still the sea was calm. | side by side in the same grave, the burial
We were all abourd again, supper was over. | services being in German sud according to
aud the| the Lutheran ceremuny."’
passengers in their berths, somewhat earlier
than usual, The deck was left to the wateh, quadrupel grave the intense agony ot the afflicted
wod as the schooner's bell told off the hours) jother completely overmastered her, and it seem-
we knew that the time for sailing would soon) ed as if reason had been destroyed, while the
smoke rose Diack against the
approach of an enemy, we
break/asting in Charleston itself.
and the lights were extinguished,
arrive.
tiny bed in my little cabin, when |
Vvuice
oN “yet : Japh :
leaning over the side, torward.
shadow.’
And then followed a gentile splashing of | times let it fall, sometimes throwing it down with
the water, and u faint tapping ayainst the | force and other times silowing it to fall with its |
planking as if some bout ur canoe were be-| own weight merely, and not one time in twenty
ing guided along the schooner’s side by the | did the lock catch.
jent torce of a paddle or oar and a human
hand chat grasped the woodwork o! the ves- | -
els side und drew the boat forward. U1} ine
this I should bave thought littl — nothing
was more likely than that # boat should
have been lowered for some purpose connected | carry on his back across the Niagara wae a
with our getting elear of the sand-bhanks and | Milanese, who, breaking down in his affatrs,
sunken rocks that were namerous in our im-/ resolyed to commit suicide.
mediate proximity—bat -he words were sus-| him to be his assistant in his perilous feat by
pictous, and the voice was wonderfully like | the following lugie ‘—_** If we go down, very
that uf the good old priest, M. Duchvehvis. | good: you are drowned according to your
For a moment I hesitated as to whether I) intention; if we arrive sufe on the other
L was lying, half dressed, on the | touching seeve drew tears from the whole asseu-
heard ua} bly.”
suy, ia & husky smothered tone—
i see one of the Britizhers
kK ep in the
In a very short time the| She and ber children had arrived safely at/have great advantages in speed. |
, t to! Charleston, and still more glad to hear that | strides have been made in the navigation of
the Atlantic within the last few years, and
| Edward's Tavern. About four o'clock on Wed.
| nesday afternoon Mr. Scheger and wife went into
the field with the oldest boy to get a load of hay
ren—Mary, aged 7 yeara, Charles
ten years, Jobn four years, and Catherine one
year ld at howe. The parents told the children
to ge inte the corn bouse and shell some cern tor
the chickens. Returning from the field, the
children could not be tuund. Search was made,
the neighbors rallying to the aasistance of the dis-
| tressed fax ily, and the search of the premises, in-
cluding the cern house and the weeds, waa con-
tinued through the night, but witheut sueceas
Chis morning (Thursday,) the corn house was
| aguin searched, and on opening an old German
fchest standing there, the children were found
smothered to death, and their tacew turned black
from suffucation. The children, at play, had got
into the chest, and bad either themselves slut
down the lid, or the lid fell down, aud a epring
lock shut them in a living tomb.”
A later account saya that the burial of
” When the four coffins were placed in the
}
“It is a singular fact that itis only occasionally
the luck of that fatal chest will catch of itself
The seyhbours who have been to the premises to
| see the spot where the singular tragedy occurred
have raised the lid of the chest and innumerable
When thr poor innocent
\echildven sought the cheat as a play bouse, and ul!
| had gleetuily nestled there together, the lid tell,
i lock caught, aud they wet their distressing
death.
-_-+-—_—-- @-o——
The assistant whom Blundon was wont to
Blondin got
| important accession by the launch of the Cu-
than ten days All these have been
beaten by the CAing, which has recently
been added to the Cunard doet.
The Cunard steamships are swift in com-
rison with what they were when that
fine was first estublished, and they now
Rapid
doing an expensive and remunerative carry-
ing trade. Travel on board the numerous
lines of steamers which now cross the Atlan-
tic is within the reach of the poorest class of
passengers ; and as fur freight, the tariff of
charges lor carrying it is nearly as low as
that established by sailing vessels. But of
all the lines existing, the ‘* Cunard”’ is the
favourite, and is likely to maintain the high
character it now maintains for some time to
come. After the failure of the Collins line.
the Cunard had a monopoly of the trade fora
brief period, and it might have been a rash
venture for any company to enter into com-
petition with @ line so heavily subsidiged as
the latter one. The experiment was, how-
ever, tried by Canada, and has been attended
with a fair measure of success, in the face of
many obstacles, and not a few serious mis-
haps. The Canadian Jine, however, has
been, up to a recent period. in the enjoyment
of a heavy Government subsidy, but is now
compelled to work upon a much smaller one.
There ia one line which haa had to work ite
way into public favour without any govern-
ment assistance. When the loman line, com-
osed of screw steumehips, was started, its
prospects did not look purticularly bright
Its rivals stood so high im popular favor oo
both sides of the Atlantic, thac it seemed
very improbable that any part of their ocean
trade could be diverted. But this line has
succeeded. Ic makes nearly as good average
passages as the Cunard line, and is well pa-
tronized.
The Galway line, also subsidized by the
British Government, hus lately come into
the field, but its suecess is problematical, in-
asmuch agit has already wet with several
damaging disasters.
Of all the various other lines competing
for public favor, none have been so fortu-
nate and eminently successful as the ** Cu-
nard,’’ and the proprietors seem to be deter-
mined to deserve that confidence the travel-
ling world has reposed in them. It will be
seen by u paragraph pablished elsewhere
that the Cunard Company has received an
ba, on the Clyde, on the 20th of July. This
vessel has been twelve months in course of
construction, and the Scottish papers tel] us
that her beautitul modelled hull nas formed
& vonspicuous object among the numerous
specimens of nayal architecture which stud
the banks of the Clyde.—Nova Scotian.
A large and powerful steamer called the Acadia,
fitted up in superior style, now piya between
Pictou, N. 8., and Quebec, Canada, calling at
intermediate porta.
ee
shuuld seek the Captain or one of the mates. | side, the fortune of both of usis made.”’ The
i bad been drowsy and only half «wake, and terrible feat was accomplished, and the two}
the very notion that the cure had been the! friends have since been inseparable cum- |
awner of the voice was a manifest absurdity | panions.
that made we consider the whole affair un-;
L listened, but)
worthy of w second thought.
1 could bear nothing, and soon sank into a
peal slucaber.
I was awakened by the quick tramp of feet
overhead, the word of command, the rattling | every deacription of crops; making indentations
down of cos of rope upon the deck, the) in the feucing and such buildings as withatood the
quick wash of the surging water along the| storm as though they had been fired at by mil-
Evidently sail had been, livns of musket balls
made on the Seucy Jane, and we were bead-| ded uf their leaves, but the bark was chopped as |
echooner’s sides.
ing for Charlestun harbour, 1 got u
p, threw
on my upper garmerts, and went on deck,
where | tound two or three of the male pas-|
They were talking together near! 11)
sengers.
the stern with excited gestures, bur
tions tones
words -*the boat,”’ and at once aske
thing had gone wrong.
* Yes, Mr. Phillips, the dingy’s miss ng,
anid one of the Southerners, a tall G
who bore the title of majur;
in Cau-
As | drew near, I caught the
iif any-|
eorg ian,
~ 1 wae the | some suggestions, be launched forth into a
only boat towing astern, as you may have
noticed, all the others being on board.
before sailing it was found to ha
peared, thoagh in what wanner———
‘Captain Harrison suspects,” in
hy the captain, who came quickly
Just
ve diss p-
verru pted
another ; but he was interrupted in his curn
up, and
said in a voice that shook with eu ppressed
anger
* There's treachery afoot, gentleme
been removed frum the bottom of wake :
plags have
every boat, and not an oar but has been sawn
through just above the blade. Some
traitor must
The
nh.
raseally
* Sail ho!’ sung out a sailor from the mast
head
‘Sail ho! a steamer to leeward
out the look-out wan in the bows.
* A large ship on the weath:
“r bow.
* ealleg | Cats 18 bustin’ withia me; I have sheep and
_—--—-—- —< POG ~othe '
TuorNabo in CaNavpa.—Some two weeks ago |
a tract of country in the county of Vandreuil, |
) some five or six miles square, waa visited with a
| terrific tornado, levelling barns, houses, &e., kiil-
ing cattle, and literally chopping up and blasting
Trees were not only denu-
with au axe.
‘ome al
Western Exoquence.—A suspicious look-
ing dog bud been seen im one of the towns of |
| Iiinois. Sombody had cried ** mad dog?”
jand every body was alarmed A _ public
jmeeting was called and a distinguished
** brigedier’’ was appointed chairman. Af-
| ter stating the ohjects of the meeting in a
| not very parliamentary manner, instead of
| taking his seat and alluwing others to make
| speech of sume hulf hour's length, of whieh
; the following burst of forensic splendor is
& sample :
| Psucex Crrizexs:—The time has come
| when the overcharged feelins of aggravated
| human natur are no longer to be stood. Mad
| dogs are in the midst of us. Their shrieking
yelp and foamy track can be seen and hear
fon our pararies. Death follows in their
slall we sit here like cowards, while
our lives and our neighbour's lives are in
1 ene from their dreadful, orshus, didrofo-
| bie caninety? No, itkinnot be! E’en now
‘my heart is torn with conflicting feelins ot |
' wrath and vengeance ; a funeral pile of wild
| pigs; L have a wife and children, and (rising
‘higher ag the importance of the subject)
‘explosion took place was substantially des-
advanced at a charging pace.
The captsin started, sprang into the rigg-
ing, and tock @ hasty survey of the probable
enemy Ae he did so, the red flash of a!
cannon-shot lit the darkness of the night, and!
the bellowing report tulluwed sullenly ove. |
the waters.
* Dows helm, you! pat her about ' smart-
ly, now, my lads '° shouted thecaptain . but}
unother flush succeeded, and down came the!
sohvoner’s toamboom, maimesil and all,}
thundering upon the deek, knocking down}
upd raiseng several of the erew, while a}
third shot crashed into the deck, and made!
the white eplinters fy. Escape was impos-
sible in our crippled condition. We backed
the topanils, and in ten minutes more a large
dark steamer had ranged alongs de. We!
were immediately boarded by a powerful |
foree of armed seamen and marines, and de-|
clared & lawful prize to the U.S. steam-sloop!
Sus puechannah,
By the light of the battle lanterns we were
at! paraded on deck as prisoners, when what!
was our amazement! at recogniwing in the!
heutenant who commanded the buurders no}
jess a personage than the ayre of St. Gaspard, |
the Rew. M. Duchochois. Yes, there could
he no mistake abogt it. The shove!-bat and |
shabby soutane and born spectacles hac been |
replaced by navy blue cloth, a gold !aced eap
and a belt, in which a revolver balasced the
cutlass that hung on the left side, but the
crafty black eyes were those of oar late pro-
tege, though the expression was wholly)
ghanged.
* Yes, gentlemen and ladies, your hamble|
servant,’ said the epy, with @ eneet of ma-|
lice, ** old Papa Duchochoi*, very much at!
your service in his new capacity uf lieuten-!
wat in Uncle Sam's navy, you rebel cai
horns.’’
And, indeed, the villain, for the part he|
had played in practising on our compassion
was to enable him the better to betray ua,
was Lieutenant Aminadab Hitech, of the!
Ausquehanneh, while grinning at |ie princi-|
pal's ede with the eo -eoloured pigment,
hut bali washed frow hw cunning face, was
the ci-devagt indian boy, Blaise, alias Ja-
peth Ranch, « Yankee corporal of marines. ! former Reapecting thie the statement is as
We heard afterwards thut the leutenant,! iollows :-~—
who was famous for his power of personating | Rranght to Amerita. Taken to Faro
an eesumed natype, had visited Nasewu for! (anard Line.....,. Ui ade....,,-..6,,-00000e Hy
the express purpose of securing the prize | Inman Line... 34,840... .--- 22-2 2s teens ;
money of so valuable u eepture as the Saucy | Gulway Line. - +A BS. . resets Peat
y " mt : Allan Line... . -45.032. .. un-etes de kee
Jase w his own war eeose]. [t was his ao-| O°" “s ‘ .
. National Lise i a: esdeednenaeaan ,- None
complice, the pretended Indian lad. who had} Anchor Line........ ou. .c.2, pa sie
steaithily asceade! the rigging and loons-ned | tatiana a
the seil to grye potice to the look-out od 74,034 7,211
vt the sloop, af the whereabouts of the block-| Pursuing this interesting report further
ede runner- After this, the two worthice
had stolen the diogey, first dwabling the
other boats frum pursuit. eng pulled out to
ea, where, ge they had expasted. they had
een & preconcerted signal from their own
ahip, apd bud deen picked up dy hep befure
ue ie ved the echagnel through whieh
Tt) i r ware " “sin-
tratign to pam,” Sipe wos, aren uitocd ak
Bus , we
sunlt or taken hy
Awarting us un the other tack.
{ do not wish to
misery that ensued
when husbands were torn from the
fod fathers separated from their ¢
ust have been inigiligly
ir wives
waldegn,
| deepened in his estimation) | have money out)
/ut interest, all in danger of being bit by
we even eluded the
© Portland, whiokh woe
dwell on the seunes of! « eto
on board the schooner Ano*
bo houre, with © ome hours delay at
these infernal mad dogs.
THE ATLANTIC FERRY.
A report bas lately been presented to the!
British Parliament which contains sume high- |
ly interesting statistics in relation to the ex-
tent of ocean navigat.on by steamships, be-
tween Great Britain and North America.
The principal steamship lines between the
old and new world, are the Cunard Line, the
Inman Line, the Galway Line, the Allan
Line, the National Company, and the Anchor
Line, the latter plying between the Clyde
and the British North American Provinces.
In the year 1863 the ships of the above lines
made tripa aud carried passengers us fol-
lows :—
Cunard, outward voyages from New York
to Liverpool, sixty-seven ; passengers, 5.587 ;
inward voyages from Liverpool to New York,
seventy-one ; passengers, 13,342.
Inman line. outward voyages, seventy-four ;
passengers, 7,980; inward voyages, seventy-
six; passengers, 30,840.
Galway line, outward yoyages, nine; pas-
sengers, 429; inward voyages, eight, pussen-
gers. 4,373.
Allan line, outward voyages, sixty-four ;
passengers, 2924: inward voyages, sixty -
one ; paseengers, 15.092.
National Company, outward voyages,
seven ; no passengers ; inward voyages, eight;
passengers, 3.287.
Anchor line, outward voyages, ten; pas
sengers, 291; inward voyages, vlever ; pas-
sengers, 2,560.
We ledrn from the documents in question
that besides these there were other steamers
in the cecusional trade, belonging to ten
English firme, who probably might have em-
ployed fifteen steamers, but of them or their
performances there is nv account.
The figures in the report show a remark-
able ditterence in the intercourse between
America and Rurope, the preponderance of
passengers heing greatly im favor of the
we find upon inspection that the steamers ot
whose pertormances we have accounts, made
235 voeages from North Amerios to Europe,
and 208 return trips In regard to the eg.
tent of the freights curried by those steawers
the report is silent, but in respect to the
wveraze time ocoupied in the voyages we have
sowe interesting facts. [he Scotia, tbe favur-
tte steauner of the Cunard line, previous to
the introduotion of the China, made one trip
in 1863, tram Livorpool to New York, in nine
days, nineteen and three quarter hours, with
uo page ot geyen hours at Queenstown.
f trip between the same ports was
/Uall, bat they failed under the severity of
THE WAR IN THE STATES.
THE FAILURE AT PETERSBURG.
The mine was to be exploded at 3 30 4 uw.
The dampness of the main passage had effect-
ed the fuse by which it wus to be ignited,
causing a delay of over three quartery of an
hour. At 4.20 those in charge succeeded in
springing it. There was not 4 simultaneous
explosion along ite whole length and breadth,
bat several successive ones ut intervals of a
few seconds. There wus no very strong de-
tonation in the air, but the ground around it
shook for a few seconds ae though moved by
an earthquake, Severs) spout-like masses of
debris were thrown up and fell back to the
depth of the mine, some thirty feet below the
surface. The rebel battery under which the
troyed, but its contour was still descernable
Within a few minutes after the explosion
the two brigades of the first division—the
second, Col. Marshall of the 4th New York
lleavy Artillery commanding, in the lead,
followed by the first, onder command of Brig.
Gen. Bartlett, of Massachusetts, jumped over
the breastworks forming our main line, and
They were
bardly in motion when they received a volley
from the enemy, who, although surprised by
the explosion, were evidently prepared against
an attack, ewing to the noise inevitubly made
by the concentration of troops and the move-
ment of trains, etc, for hours, close to their
front.
The explosion, although it had destroyed
the rebel battery, hud not effected the abbat-
tis, and other obstructions in its front, and
the attacking column experienced consider-
able trouble in working their way over them.
Part of our line passed into the fort, and part
to the right of it, upon curtain-like entrench-
mepts connecting the right of the buttery
with the line of breasetwork beyond it. The
interior of the exploded work was a confused
mass of earth, broken guns, cump equipage
and human bodies. It had been oceupi-d by
a battery of artillery, manning six rifled field
pieces and a part of the 18th and 32d South
Carolina regiments. Over two hundred men
had gone up with the work, and were buried
amoung the ruins. About twenty, more or
less mutilated, were dug out by our men.
The rifle pits and entrenchments to the
right of the work were occupied by several
handred of the enemy, 250 of whom were
taken prisoners and sent tu the rear.
As soon as the first divisiun bad moved, the
2d and 3d fullowed it to the right and left,
and closed up with it at the work.
The enemy, meanwhile, had opened a vi-
gorous musketry and artillery fire from their
eutrenchments, that inclosed the work in
the form of an angle, giving them an enfi-
lading fire.
Several attempts were made by our troops
to continue the advance toward Cemetery
the fire.
Abvut 6 o'clock, the colpred division, Gen
Ferrero commanding, was ordered to take up
the attack and push to the right of the other
divisions for Cemetery Hill, distant four
hundred yards beyond. It advanced in line
with great steadiness, until it came up in
line with the other divisions, and received a
severe fire, when the ovlumn turned to the
left, whether-by command or without [ am
unable to say, and the wass of it bscame
mixed “P with troops in snd about the work.
About 1000 of the coloured troops rashed
over the parapet into the interior of the
work, which the explosion had caused to
What waa left of our troops in the work
now become completely hemmed in, the rebel
standards being planted close to the parapet
weet of the work, and the rebul fire causing
|retreat impracticable. They continued io
| that predicament for nearly an hour, when
‘an order was issued (by whom I have not
| positively ascertained) directing the whole
army to fall back to its original position.
Whether it ever reached those stili outmde
of yur lines is not definitely known, but it is
known that about two o'clock Gen. Bartlett,
who was left in the fort, being unable to
move owing to the breaking of hie artificial
leg, sent in @ note by « private, stating that
being out of ammunition, he and those with
him, if not speedily relieved, would soon
have to surrender. Shortly afterwards the
rebels were heard to make another charge,to
which the party doubtless surrendered.
The 5th corps was under fire all the fore-
noon, but did not join in the attack. The
2d corps wae entirely parsive. The cavalry
corps crossed the rear of our lines in the
course of the forenoon. General Sheridan's
original orders were afterwards modified,
and the further wovement of bis command
stupped.
The exact losses in the battle have not been
officially ascertained, but as near as can be
judged will reach 2500, not including the
missing. Many believe that the figures will
prove larger.
In the hospitals of the 9th corps the first
division has 206 men; 2d division, 307; 3d
division, 341 ; and 4th (or colored) division,
626. The large number of wounded are ly-
ing between the two lives, and cannot be
got off.
The 16th corps lost about 200, while Tur-
ner's division, 19th corps, had nearly 400
killed and wounded.
A flag of truce was sent to the enemy to-
day fur the purpose of getting the remainder
of our wounded off the field, but was refused ;
reason not given.
Gen. Butler also sent a flag of truce to-
day, which was likewise refused. The rebel
officer gave no reason for refusing excepting
that his orders were peremptory not to re-
ceive such fag.
The rebel officers also refused to exchange
newspapers, and the rebel soldiers are so
closely watched by their officers that they
have no chance of making an exchange.
There must be some reason for this. Many
believe that their line is very weak, while
others think they have some extensive move-
ment on foot, and sre afraid of it becoming
known to us. The raid into Pennsylvania
may Se the reason for their wishing to keep
everything from us and as quiet as possible.
THE INVASION OF PENNSYLVANIA.
The Baltimore correspondent of the New York
Times, under date of August 1, furnishes the fol-
lowing particulars in regard to the Confederate
movement in Pennsylvania :—
I find it is believed here by those who are the
beat informed that the present movewent into that
State is being made by a very large force of the
best soldiers in the Confederate army; that its
object ia not to plunder the people, although no
doubt large contributions will be exacted; that
the party whe burned the houses in Chamberabury
is & mere recondeitering party, who will move
rapidly from place tu place; that they will be
followed in a few days by the main body of the
torees destined for the invasion of Pennaylvania;
and that Harrisburg and Pittsburg will probably
be the two points te which the Confederate army
will firat proceed. There is said to be abundaut
testimeny, to the effect that thia invading army
consiats of af least 75,000 troops. a part of whom
have beea recently detached from Gen. Lee's army,
and probably have not reached the Potomac yet.
The Government, as you will see by this morn-
ing’s papers, coutinues to assure the people of
Pennaylvannia that there ia no cause for alari ;
that the only rebel troopa in Pennsylvania are a
mere gang of treebooters; and that the measures
taken by the Government will secure the capture
of these audacious scoundrels before they can re-
cross the Potomac. The yalue of these assurauces
can be seen from the tact that the Government
asserted just as positively, four days age, that the
tucasures they had taken would prevent the re-
bela from coming nerth of the Potomae at all,
and that betore daylight on the morning of July
30 the Goverumeut autheriged the assurances to
be telegrsphed from Washington to Penosylvania
that “no uueasiness whatever is felt by the Go-
vernment in relation to afftirs ia Peunsylvania.”
[u aix hours after that official assurance reached
Harrisburg, Chambersburg waa in flames. Does
that cause the Government no uuecasiness? If
the tewna in Pennsyivania can thus be laid in
ashes, what difference does it make to the people
of that State whether or not the Goverument
feels no uneasiness? If the towns of Pennay!-
vania are thus to be given to the flames, what
difference docs it make whether they are destroy-
ed by a terce of 5,000 or of 50,000 rebels? The
Government neglects to protect them in either
event,
All the facts that have transpired up to this
time indicate a purpose on the partef Gen, Early,
or whoever commands the expedition, to pene.
trate as far aa possible into the interior of Penn-
sylyania; and there is too much reason to fear
that other towns will share the sad fate of Cham-
bersburg unless the troops under Gen, Wright,
on the line of the Potomac and near Washington,
be withdrawn from those points and sent in pur-
suit of Early's rebel treops. This, of course, is
what Gen. Early desires. This is the military
object of the invasion. But it must be done, it
other towns in Pennsylvania. Tins ie the time
to speak the plain truth, and 1 will speak it
calmly ; but I must use plain language.
nonsense to think that the militia of Pennsylvania
can defend their State against the disciplined te-
gions of Breckinridge and Early. They cannot
prevert the plunder of both Pittsburg and Harris
burg, and the destruction, it may be, of both
thoae cities, if such be the orders that Gen. Early
haa received from his superiors.
To avert thease calamities, and to drive Early
and Breckinridge out of the State, will require at
least all the troopa under Gen. Hunter, and all
those now at Washington, The alternative is
now before the Government, Let them decide
which todo; ‘To keep the tronps on the line of
the Potomac and near Washington, and see Pena-
sylvania given up to pluuder and the torch; or
leave Washington exposed in order to save that
State from those feartul exlamities. It ig a hu-
miliating diletmma for a great nation to be in.
MATTERS WITH GENERAL SHERMAN.
Major-General Thomas has issued the following
circular to his army oear Atlanta :—
ARMY HeapD-QvuarrTers, July 26, 1864.
The major-General commanding the army cous
gratulates the truope the brilliant success
attending the Union army wm the late battles In
the battle of 20th instant, in which the Twentieth
Corps, one diviaion of the Fourth Corpa and part
of the Fourteenth Corps were ing , the total
Unien loas in killed, wounded wissing was
one thousand seven hundred aud thirty-three.
The second division of the corps repulsed seven
make a pit-like form, and was already
crowded tu overflowing with ofiversand men.
The negroes tambled headlong down the
sloping sides, when a scene of inextricable
confusion ensued. Eorts were mude by offi- |
outside, but they failed, and the strangely
mingled mass of human beinge continu
crowd the pit, the upper portion of which
was about 100 feet in diameter.
When the attack commenced all our heavy
and light batteries in position,over 100 pieces
in all, o d and kept op a tremendous
tire, mostly with shell, upon the enemy's line,
but, nevertheless, the rebel fire increased in
severity. The enemy could be plainly seen
from our main line moving his troops from
rizht and left to the point of attack, and it
wag evident they were massing their whole
available force to meet the attack.
were made by our troops to charge, but each
of them was checked by the enemy’s fire.
. of men, during that time, were oon-
tinually trying to make thuir way back to
our main line, but the intervening space—
open ground, about 150 yards in width.
was 6 thoroughly swept by the enemy's Gre
that many were shot dowe in the sttempt
© escape.
About 9 o'clock the fire from our batteries
slackened, and soon alterwarde the enemy
rushed out from his intrenchments and
charged upon the positian held by our troops.
+ made in nine deye, nine and three quarter
ueens-
They were at first checked, but finaily suc-
© iD gaining inaet of the ground between
the work and their line, and ume witbio
to| 88nd five hundred, and tea
Between 7 and 9 o'slock, three attempte; ;
different assualts of the enemy with light lous to
theinselves, and which must have swelled the num-
ber of the dead buried by the rebels to beyond
300. No report has been received of the part
taken fu the battle by the Fourteenth Corps. In
cers to get them out of the work and form) the battle of the 22d instant, the total Union loss
was three thou-
of artillery.
The rebels Jost three t two hundred cap-
tured. The known dead of the enemy in front
of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Corps, and ope
in killed, wounded and missing
! division of the Seventeenth was two thousand one
hundred and pte 0 The other divisions of
the Seventeenth Corps repulsed six assaults of the
the Confederates. The Court House, Town
}and Bank Were firet fired. -
curred atterwarde is thus describeé—" A atrong
consideration us the Hayards
13 age. But jo view of their military wie
_—— as
breeze communicated the Gaines tu the surround.
‘ing buildings. Parties of suidiers, baving sacked
‘the several drug and chemical stores, manutac-
tured turpentine balla, which they threw in all
directions, creating flaunes in different localities,
whieb avon iu one general conflagration.
Speedly the aceaw becawe heart-rending and ap-
palling. The crackling aud rearing of the flames
ua they from house to houee, the sbrieks
of terri womeo, tricken and suffering
childreu, and the pitiful appeals of the old aod
helpless, formed au iodnesiakhen acene of berror,
Two hundred and sixty-five of the most ralyable
and elegant public buildings were destroyed.
A SAMPLE UF SOUTHERN SENTIMENT.
[From the Richmond Euguirer.]
Ruiding and ravisbiug is all that Goneral
Grant can at present get cut of troops. He has
seat off another part of bis “ veteran raiders” to
reak railroads, burn residences, destroy provi-
aivos, steal negrees, and dishonor women.
any of these uiscreunts be bard pressed they have
en to throw down their arms and throw up
their hands, and, trom being murderers and felons,
they instantly becume “ prisoners of war.” A
arty of U 3. troops lately landed in the Northern
Neck counties, comwitted ten oe he the per-
sons of respectable women, and, had they been
captured, would have been beld tur exchange, and
other opportunities fur committing the same
cries offered them. Fortunately they were met
by a few resolute old wen and boys, and the last
vue of the wretches put todeath. Are proclama-
tions aod orders necessary to effect punishment
for such wretches? Will not our soldiers take
vengeance in their own bands, and capture less
by killing more of these fiends?) There are al-
ready,thirty odd thousands of these wretches now
awaiting exchange to recommence their career of
plunder and outrage. Shall more and more be
added tu the number! We think that quite
enough are already in Confederate prisons.
The Governor of Virginia bas taken steps to
perpetuate the testimony in all cases of outrage
and wrong perpetrated by the army of Grant.
The record will be fuithfully wade, aud wall pre-
sent a mass of crime and borrer that will appal
the civilized world.
But this will not stop these outrages. Nothing
short of prompt hanging or sheoting of all captur-
ed wen belonging to any regiment or brigade
charged with these crimes will effect a change in
their conduct. Thia rewedy is the only one thut
offers any hope to the defenceless women of the
State—they are near aud dear to all the army—
their honor, aa well as the liberty of the country,
is in the keeping of the soldiers.
mity to execute on the spot of capture such
wretches, then no proclamations or orders would
de any good. Public sentiment will not much
longer stand the recital of these crimes. Some
batch of prisoners, who may have escaped the
of an outraged people has limits, which, when
passed, renders them capable of avenging the
wrongs of their own helpless women.
A correspondent of the same paper remarks:
companies of negroes, officered by white men,
landed in the upper part of Westinoyand and
passed down through Richmond County.
march, no age ner conditlon was exempt from
their desulating hand. Pluuder and lust stismulat-
ed and inarked all their movements. No appeal
ner supplication could turn thein from their
benstily purposes sud brutal exceasys. In vain
did the mother beseech and the daughter shrick.
My paper would blush did I attempt to write in
full detail the scenes wiich were enacted.
Wherever they weut they were led by their
officers, and told, “ You can go leose and do as
you please.” And verily, they did go loose and
do as they pleased, as inany » heartbroken parent
and ruined daughter will testify. The registers
of Heaven have made their record. Myself a
firm believer in the fall and depravity of waukind,
I had not conceived that natural curruptivn was
40 extensive in the nineteenth century as Puritan-
ical fanaticism has exemplified it under the names
of religion, liberty and emaucipation. Does not
humanity and benevolence and religion claim that
examples shall be inade? Does not the life of
liberty, virtue and christianity demand that nv
inure prisoners be takeu tu be turned loose, again
tu return upon us to repeat their crimes aud our
auffering?) Men of Virginia, husbands, fathers,
rothers, areuse to your duty and your safety, to
the preservation of the lite and honor of your
dear ones. Seek vet, desire not to mvade nor in
any way to disturb in their country and their
howes even this debased, rentless, cruel foe. But
let him understand—let him teel that never again
shall one who dares to tread our soil in the execu-
tion of his inhuman mission, return to give te his
kindred by nature, and in aentament und feeling,
a narrative uf bis baseness, bis profigacy and his
brutality.”
15th isd.
Tue Orssine or a New Cuarptrer —Rich-
moud has ed conspicuously intu the same ca-
tegery as Charleston —a town that has foiled the
suust clossal attempt the administraiion could or-
gauize for its capture. We have no interests in
deceiving ourselves, but every Interest that our
subsequent efforts shall be based upon a currect
appreciation of the actual position of aflaire. We
canuot take Richwoud. It has been evident to
youd judges, for several weeks, that General
Grant's campaign is a failure ; but theugh an ad-
verse fate had the deed deawn and signed, it
lacked the seal of fiual aucbenticatioun which was
impressed upou it by the battle of Saturday @—
What is left for General Grant that he bas not al-
ready attempted? When, nearly a month age,
he undertook the laborious task of constructing
imwense mines under the rebel works, at Petera-
burg, he confessed to hinwelf that the out-lying
defences of Richmond were impregiable to direct
assault aud incapable of bemg turned.
rvic but wasteiul tenacity m assaults bad only
weakened his army without any other results; his
splendid and admirable flank movements always
-brought him face to face with the same insoluble
problem of carrying the earth-works by aterm. | majority being those unscrupulous place-hunters, | the determination of testing ite practicability to
‘he surprising wobility of his army proved as
futile as would have been an attempt by General
Grant to flank bis own shadow. North of Rich-
mond, east of Richwond, south of Richwond,
wherever he granted bia army, the inevitable.
earthworks still fronted him and trowned defiance,
The waste of hurling troops against them in ine!-
fectual assaults would, if persisted in, have re-
the Government doca not desire to ace the fright-| duced his army to euch a point that it would be} ligious
ful ecenea of Chambersburg re-enacted in many | compelled to stand on the defensive. The great! the last general election by the rulers of the pre-
change which the military situation has undergone,
cousists in this: that heretufore Gen. Grant has
after Gen. Lee will dietate the movements of
Gen. Grant. Lee has, thus far, fought on the de-
tensive, and Grant has determined hia successive
itions from Spottsylvama to Petersburg.
C. will now adopt a bolder strategy.
weakened and worn away the forces of his ad-
versary, and no longer fearing tor the sutety ot
Richmond, he will compel Grant to change his
position, or will wake the North pay the penalty
of persisting in a hopelese undertaking by suffer-
ing the saine borrors of invaswn whieh it has been
inflicting on the South. The valley of the She-
n is Open; it is already wceupied by rebel
forces strong envugh to bave collected snpplics
for a great army from ite teeming harveste; and
if Grant be not promptly reealled, Wszhington
will, within ten days, be in greater than
any to which Richmond has beeu exposed since
the opening of this ill-starred caujpaigu.— New
York World.
Tue Brack Buttocks Berorne Petersavns.
—The butchery of vegroes before Petersburg is u
mournful jllustratioa of Abolition philanthropy.
The soal sickens while conceiving the natare of
the fearful errand upon whch these poor victims of
unaticiam were sent, A breustwork is to be storm-
ed in the fuce of a marderons fire that 4 military
eye must have fureseen could be withstood by none
but those of the most ved und stabborn
courage and agp oe discipline
comparatively untried troops was selected to ut
tempt thar terrible xsauult, impossible to aay bat
chosen veteruus. The result was that the doumed
blacks, mowed down hy the e.filading fire, became
a pn snd utterly demoralized, searce know-
w way to ran to excupe destraction. In
the lungauage of the despatch nae They seemed to
he without any one to munaye them, and finally
they fell buck to the rear, out of the range of the
volleys of canister and that were plonyh-
ing. thymagh ‘hele. sache. Why is it that they
were made « forlorn , © storm & position that
the Commanding General must huve known to be in-
accessible, except by the most unflinching valor aud
the most complete orgunization? If it was becuuse
the thunce of v was vo Tate that the
employment of white troops would be too costly of
valuable material, we, who do uot profess to be
negro Worshippers, pity them nevertheless for the
terrible uses to which they are put. Hud it not
been tly proven apon other tields that
black ure not to be trusted in a military
crisis, it might be sap that the post of r
was xiven them out of pure love, to their ttle
to of the
nts, we
can on that th pusbed
to be batehered that better scldiors i
That inay be for the white soldi :
the poor —New York * Duily eos ~
ee
CORRESPONDENCE,
fo Tue Korrom or Tue Exaanven.
Sta :—On my return to this Colony last May,
atter an absence of some months, [ aceidently met
with a gentleman, on a wet day, in an betel in an
wdjoining Colony. then returning to the United
States after having spent the winter in Charlotte.
town; and on comparing nutes, it was mutually
agreed that I might make any extracte I thought
Proper from bie Journal of daily occurrences in
might be spsred.
dat
If the soldiers
of the army huve too much kindness to hang or
shout a “veteran ravisher,” too much waguanik
fortunes of war, will yet find that the vengeance
— Ou Sunday, a Yankee force, consisting of one
or two companies of white meu and three or four
In their
puppet.”
Charlottetown, while be did the sawe with wine
while at New York and elaewhere. If, therefure,
FRAGMENTARY NOTBS OF A TRAVELLER.
APRIL 2 let, 1964.—Still at Charlottetown, P.
E. Ialand, (day gnewing.) Went to House of
Assembly, and introduced inyself to a very old but
venerable looking gentleman, Whuse name I as-
certained waa Birch, who, on learning that I was
from a neighbouring Republic, at ounce expressed
bis willingness to act as wy guide and informant
in wll watters and things relative to the House of
Assewbly aud ite members—adding that he was
the oldest parliamentarian in the Colony, haring
served in that uty for of hulf acentury.
After waking known wy gratitude tu Mr. Birch
for hia great courtesy, he at ones led mye to the
gallery, and seated we in a cunvenient ;
which afforded a good view of the individuals who
compvse “ the collective wisdom" of the Colony.
No seoner did wy venerable friend, Mr. Birch,
see me take trom ny pocket a peucil and note
book, than be asked me if 1 was about to tuke
portraits. I replied, I only take pencil travelling
notes. I aw glad of it, said Mr. Bireb, for there
is a coxcomb about these premises named “ Tonalt
Curree”’ who undertouk to depict what be called
“Parliamentary Portraits”; and would you be-
lieve, sir, his own ugly phiz was the most notorious
feature of each persun whom be attempted to por-
tray. Well. sir, continued Mr. Birch, 1 think it
is better to begin with the Leader, and mind you,
sir, my motto has been ever since I entered Par-
liament, “si vie me flere, dolendum est primum
ips: tibi.” Yes, sir, | always say what I mean,
and what I know to be facts of my own knowledge
and experience I only speak. That rather pro-
minent person just anent you, with the huge black
hair or moustache on bis face, with such war-like
eyes, and sharp proboscis, aballow pate and hungry
aspect, that is the “ Leader"; and to a stranger
like you it way appear odd that however black be
looks, he is nyt a blackinan but a Grey-man, and
a soldier every ineb of bin, generous and brave ;
and yet a mystery of Weakness in aome few peen-
liarities of wind, owing to which weakness be ba«
become a were puppet in the hands of the notorious
Secretary, who is now called “the Leader's
Jackal.” There be is to his right band, with the
sinister down east suspicious look—a fellow whe
can endorae £14,000 of plunder from a Bank, who
can befool Proprietors of certain Townships out
of several years’ rent inthe way of agency! Here
[ interrupted Mr. Birch, and begged him to con-
tinue his narrative of the “ Leader” fivat, and
then return te the “ Jackal,” lest my ideas should
get contused between two characters eo identical
in supe particulars, and yet so widely different
apparently in others; and requested him to ex-
plain how he could reconcile his statement of the
Leader's brivery and generosity as a suldier, and
yet be only a puppet in the hands of a disreputable
a creature as the Jackal. Very well, sir, con-
tinued Mr. Birch, I have already mentioned that
the Leader was a mystery of weakness in some
things: for instance, he declared in hie place in
Parliament that some statements and arguments
subject him to 4 fit of Aypochondriasis. I don't
well urcderstund the word inyself, but am told that
hunger bas sxuwething to do with it, for the mo-
ment it comes on, he bolts off to feed, and you know
the office of the “Jackal” to the Royal Forest
Brute is te Gad out prey for him; and so while the
Leader renovates the inner man, the Jackal hunts
up plenty ef political prey for him, which he de-
Yours as greedily ail it never emanated from the
uoscrupulous Jackal; and besides, sir, there is no
small share of vanity among bis eatalogue of
weaknesses, which prompts him to pretend that
the cunning wachinations of the wily Jackal are
his own, 8o that when he rises to talk he reminds
me of the air balloon, which, when filled with
hydrogen gas, ascends upwards, because he
shouts at such a rapid rate when be “takes the
floor" to ventilate the gas with which the very
pious, saintly, “ God-fearing" Seerétary bas xo
copiously primed him. Look, look, sir, said Mr.
Birch, see how he vrompta the leader new; you
will see hin up directly “ tuking the fluor,” as be
miuat be by this time pretty well charged; and
when be dees take the fluor, sir, you will, (as a
stranger not thoroughly aware of the depth of
hypwerisy which he has at command.) be quite
charmed at bis off-handed attack or * vaid” on
the enemy (Opposition), a8 you United States
folka would call #. And strange and inconsiatent
as it may appear when one ef bis “treids" happens
to be bronght te a period by a“ breadside ” from
the artillery of Coles, Whelan, Howlav or Con-
roy, &c., he can be again easily goaded to a new
attack by the Jsekal, who flatters ban more by a
proiwise of bers on the division than by
strength of argument on the subject. Bat since
he became so tully recognized as the “ puppet”
of the “ poterious Seeretary,” few persons care
to hear him, or pay nmch attention to what he
says Formerly, sir, it was net so: be was con-
sidered to be a high-minded, independent, and
honewrably disposed man; but the wily cunning
Jackal, having once found out bie vamty snd
weakness, bas prompted and flattered him, and
brought him te adopt se many diabslical senti-
ments, that he is pow completely woder bis con-
trol, although he (the leader) wishes to -bebieve,
and to make others believe, too, that he is on!
using the Jackal tv do such of the “ dirty work,”
in the way of foul-mouthed vituperation, as will
answer his purpose, as if bis adoption of the same
did net disgrace bim a8 mueb aa the atterer.
Ah, sir, it is very distressing to me, who spent so
many years of my life attending to my parliamen-
tary duties, to wilnesa x» much humbug and hy-
pecrisy within these walls lately. Formerly the
House was composed of honest, well-disposed
men; and although some of them were not such
yet they had an honesty of purpose and good in-
tentions, which go far to make the true gentle-
man and patrivtic representative of the people.
But now the case is very different — the great
whose hypocrisy, deceptious cunning, raseally
lying, “sowing discord among brethren,” creating
religious rancour and hatred throughout the
length and breadth of the land, for the sole pur-
pose of keeping themselves in power and keeping
the tenantry trom uniting against their werciless
tyrannical landlords, and exacting their natural
rights of freeholders. Yes, air, the demon of re-
bigotry waa propagated and uurtured at
sent critol majority for the sole purpose of saving
the rapacious proprietors from the «ited action
It is all) dictated the murements of Gen. Lee, but here-| of the tenantry, and alan to keep themselves in
power and in receipt of their respective share of
ae from the public revenue. But he (the
eader) little thinks ef the odium which he has
they see him walking or driving, sing out to each
other in exclamation — “ There gues Bill Pope's
( To be continued.)
er
TORY DOINGS VENTILATED.
Mr. WHELAN :—
Sin—There is a commandment, “ Thou shalt
not stval,”” which it is presumed applies as well
tu.the public funds as te private ones, Well, sir,
some of our Tory frie in the eastern end of
Prince County have been trying ther hands at
breaking this commandment, thinking, perhape,
that there would not be as much sin in robbing
this Island Treasury, beeause it belongs to every-
body, as there we be in robbing their neigh-
bor’s hen-roost, or his dairy, and that if they only
succeeded in piliering from the “ public chest,”
it would not be so easily discovered ; but robbing,
or attempts at rebbig are like murder, they
“ will out!"
Travelling, not jong since, I at a
friend’s, when the woman of the house enid, “you
will bave to attend your horse, as all our ‘ men
I found the men were performing “ statute labor.”
In the course of conversation relative to roads,
bridges and wharfe in that neighbourhwed, my
hoatess let me into the doings of her tory neigh-
bours as followe:—Unele Jake, the Commissioner,
had ten pounds to lay out for repairing the read
between the aboiteau and the county line, and m-
stend of advert:smg it in the usual way, be whie-
pered it to a few cronies, who made sure to be on
the spot, and they divided the spoil (when fifty
shillings would be sample) between thei, finishing
off the job with a drunken frolic! Then there
was a bridge, known as Guold's, wanted repair,
and the Legisiature appropriated £25 for this
ject. Well, Unele Jake called an auction and.
told this job to some of his particular friends for
£79! Whether he knew there was only £25
laid out tor that epeci Tpose, dovs act r,
but that ve bei the Ou to be dane for -
ger sum, there # no mistake; however, the mat-
ter was “ nipped in the bud,” and the contr
will only get £25. rae. oe was 8 wher!
down the river which * Superintendant of
forward | Pubhe Works”® had cundemned, and a new ane to
be contracted for. Well, a H—-t crew pat their
heads together and determined to have it, and
this is the way they worked: Dividing thew-
selves, one party putin a tender tur £390, which
wen to be pushed upes the Clesernment, and if it
—- nd out that no ther tender
found wut
one was to
took a neighbour of his inte
two put in a tender for the yod.
whieh he very adroitly, by
|iuto the Supeintendant's possesssion and w
quietly about “bis buemess. Well, some of the
position, |/
—- ae
Ht crew, with the two
theuselves at the Colunial buiidir
clear as they thought, and om ag oI
ha Conteonaaatiiine
you deem the present extracts deserving a place Corney,” the “ master of the t te * Unele
in the Examiner, I shall send you some wore | what ofa fasourite of the apr the “od
vecasionally. carrits found out that nv tenders bad beens.
Yours respectfully, cvived at the office up te the latest hour, put in
ABBERDUMBIF. | theit £390 one und retired, chuckling among
August, 1864. themecives at the great haul they would wake yut
vf the treasury ; but judge of their surprise when
they found that one of their confederates with s
political eoemy of theirs bad undermined and
got the job for £130, when they afi knew that
£75 vr £80 would be @ superabundance for the
work !!" “Now,” said my infurmant, “we a
not like to amy exe ctly that’ Uncle Corney’
the above great howl, and was to bave a share of
it; but when @ man, & Dear relative of these
H—is, ie mee Somes to a Coroner's jury
receives the auount for two inquests, ea i
takes such good care of it that nut pte for
but hisnself see or receive one penuy of it, why we
Sa ee
way, even the erence me
ab if
Now, Mr. Whelan, you must not feacy that my
informant was a Liberal, and told me these things
sv that 7 might tell you; but she isa Tory, yet
heartily despises the meen actions or w
robberies perpetrated by ber Tory nei Te.
latives or friends, and se do very many others ia
than roti «iin ranean: and * Uncle Corny’
as he in styled, may not enter the Legislature
such flying colours as heretofore. es
Yours, TRAVELLER.
Prince County, July, 1864. .
Tre Late De Joun ALaxanper StT#waat.—h
is not often thet New Lordon is so shocked as it
lately hasbeen by the very sadden and unexpected
death of Dr. Stewart, a man of great
28 yeure, and son of Bir Charles Stewart, of 4
ley Point Road. For many be followed the
vceupation of Sehcol T in this Island, in
whieh basiness be was much esteemed.
duated at McGill College, Canada
1861, where he uot onl i is M.D. C
but so distinguished himself as to merit and
off the firet prize (value about £30) from 157 of
= students. —— eS New
dou the ee . in
unul his death. He was «a man of copies tee
pr aged gs veg h and ster worth; bat,
of .bhe human race, su eb sate na’
llis practice was exteusive.
w the pees Asa man, was bigbly
us a physician and surgeov, unive
servedly beloved. His death was caused
disease of the heart, which was
ved w all, by Coroner's luguest and
exawination, (ap account of which
been published, the fears i of
persons nsistogeadieg eile
‘Those best sequainted with bim, who Krew
disease und beard his frequent complainings,
well as his medical adviser, bad no doubts as
the natural cause of bis sudden death. He
been in poer health for about a month, but
a'tend practice. He returved home on the 26th ult.
about 4 o'clock—spoke us asual-—looked iil—teok
ho tea—went to his study lyidg in bed, and in less
thav an hour was forever! His pa-
renis and others now mourn the loss of a <
thet of tied
man aud skillful physician. . He was followed to
bis yy Ape | in St. Jobo's Charch Ceme-
£
.
FFE
pre
i
fitted
tery, by w large concourse of pev-
ple, who deeply sympathise with bis sorrowing
riehds.
1 wi thie published in of Dr. Stewart
who has na and kind fri to me
wife, and my hildeee. of
lam, traly you
the "deus G. McKar.
|
Che Exawiner.
Charlottetown, Aagust 15,
——e
EXCURSION TRIP BY THE FRANCONIA.
Fraxkux Sxow, Esgr., the enterprising
owner of the Franconia, baving paid a second
visit to Charlottetown in bis splendid new Steam-
ship, invited a numerous party of ladies and gen-
tlemen on an excursion trip down the harbour
and out the Bay. The Steamer left the what o
tew minutes alter ten o’cluck thie morning, and
returned at about ten minutes to two vo clock.
Though the ship is quite 8 capacious une, she
was crowded from stem to stern — Members of
Parliament, Editors, Clergymwen, Lawyers, Doc-
tors, Merchants — all professions and all rauks
in the community being well represented ;
and the beauty sod fashion of the City were seldou |
if ever so charmingly displayed. We made an
attempt to covnt the number of Mr. Snow's guests,
but did pot succeed. The general opivion seemed
to be that there were between four and five hun
dred persons on board; and never, we believe,.
was a party more delighted with their excursion.
At 1h e’check a Proit and Lemonade Lunch was
serted in the Dining Salven, which, «f course,
could net accurmmodate all the guests at one time,
but they were served by instalments. There was
asplendod Piano Forte in ome of the Ladivs’
Cabins which wae kept m constant use during
the tnp,—parties of bdtes aloo amnsrd themesises
singing on the quarter deck, "
After Lunch, when nearly all the party were o9
deck, Mr. Snow intimated that he wished to ad-
Gress a few words to hie friends who benoured
spoke modestly of his own enterprise in eatablish-
ing & line of steamers between Charlottetown,
Halifax, and Boston ; but he embarked in it with
the utmost; he said he had great confidence in its
success ; and if not disappointed in bis expecta-
tions, he would increase the number of steemors
on the line. He greatly admired the beauty of
this fertile Island, which he and his countrymen
would invade, net with any hostile intent, but
with the olive braoch of peace, to cultivate more
tween us—to interchange therr commodities for
ours; and while expanding their own trade, te
help to develope the valnable resources of which -
this Island is possessed. He thanked the coim-
But! brought on himself and his posterity by such as-| pany very cordially for their acerptance of bis,
aving | seciations, for the boys on the streets, whenever | invitation, and hoped he would be better ac
quainted with them all in time to come.
The Hon. T. H. Haviland, Mayor of the City, -
(who, together with all hs family, were amonget
the guests,) was then elected Chairman of this
novel and hurriedly improvised meeting. He
expressed the very great pleasure he felt at par-
ticipating in such an excursion. He ssid that
the enterprise of which their estimable host was
the head, was not only eminently creditable to
hin and to those conneeted with him, but it gave
promise of conferring very great advantages on
Prince Edward Island, in whose prosperity they
were all so deeply concerned. He was sure that
he expressed the feeling of al) present, when he
suid it was his heartfelt hope that a line of
steamships, such as the one just established by
Mr. Snow, would recerve sufficient
. Anegro division of | folk’ are from home,” and on entering the house to have them continued, as they could not fail to
enbance the wealth and prosperity of the coun- ~
try. Mr. Haviland concluded by thanking Mr.
Snow, on behalf of the company present, for the
kindness shown to them by imviting them on thay
eXcursion.
His Worship then called upon the Hon. Edward
Palmer, Attorney General, to address the meeting.
Mr. Palmer promptiy responded to the eal). He
expressed bis admiration of the splendid steaw-
ship on whose deck he stood, and the gratification
he felt at enjoying such an exeursiun. He rejored
at the enlarged intercourse whieb was springing
up between this Island and the United Btates.
It was not merely conducive te the wealth snd
prosperity of the country by opening pew changels
of trade, and developing resources bitherte. se -
glected, but such a lime of steam communication,
was invaluably, (said the honorable gentleman),
as a bond of friendship, that be hoped would
never be sundered, bat whose lioke would
become brighter by long cuntinued imtercourse
beween American citizeus and the people of
im,| this Island, thereby affording » guarantee, thet
;| 00 matter what mternational misunderstand:ng®
might arise, we would ve less disposed to quarrel”
when we understood each other better. He al-
'| luded to the prejudices, engendered by ignorance, —
whieh led those who encouraged them, to look
with an unfavorable eye upon such stesmabipe 94
the Franconia, that gave so much employment to
the butchers and bakers, and carried away large
quantities uf farm produce, thereby raising the
price of asticles taat entered so largely ipto ous
-
re
*
A wa
—————-—»
4
— 2
———
Suidenly the
captarn sprang to hoe feet, with a Geree oath
— >=
he consigned tg the dreary captiv
Warren and Lafayecte. Nor was it pleasant
ee a a ee
town, making the trip actually in nine days
and three quartere of an hour.
_——<--- —
—_—— 28 ee ee
short distance Pour troops. More and more
(of the latter attempted to get back to our
at died away int: @ loud shout of anger to wes the despair of my elmrge, poor Mre In Auguet, 1860, the Great Eastern made lines from the work and the pits and minut
liilloa! ve bourd there Whe did. Belton, whose hopes of seeing her husband! the shortest trip from the States to Kngland entrenchwents about it. Many succeeded,
ti again in life were, to all appearance, dashed | on record up to that time. in nine days and but wany alsu were killed and wounded.
Look alive there! Who loosed that to the ground when on the eve of being re- four hours The Scotia beat thie trip last About ten o'oluck the enemy wade another
e4 ied the captain alised , while to poor Captain Harrison the year from New York to the Merey, in De- charge, when a great ewarm of men, eati-
ind. ae we glanced upwards, we aaw, to qfsir was simply ruin. The sight of his comber, in nine days, two hours and three | muted by some at a thousand, mostly blacks,
vor uetoniebment, that the maintopead| ef the p¥le Segry face haunts me still, as he was quarters, stopping one hour at Queenstown. | broke out of the furt and attem to escape
schooner was loose, and heavily Sapping to led ewey to be pinoed in itons, like the rest It appeare that nearly all the Scotia's trips to our lines. Hundreds them sever
. . of the crew and officers. Liowever, the ca- last year, east and west, were made ig less! reached it.
nod fro in the freshening breete, like 4
t
needed but a glimpaco of Harrison's look
of wrathtul dimany, ae he eprang on bvard
hia orders—ordera thet instantly
brond ating of some wounded tes
aad gave
bird
price or merey of the Federal autborities
procured the release of Mra. Bulton, as weil |
as of several of the other ladies, after a short |
detention; and, though I was oot myself!
ent three or four seamen serambling up the| PeTmitted to accompany my charge within:
rigving to reduce the sail—to assure us that) tbe confederate lines, 1 was glad to heur that |
mischrel wae afoot
utterir vuss siosely reeled, bu
fluttering canvass wae clo hed shes ¥ sail) Captain Bulton's recovery was considered
joone was leas easy. [n yain did the captain] Probable. And thas eoded what was my | nearly all the companies in operation are
sternly interrogate such of the crew as had) Sret, and will most assuredly be my lust
- All deo ared thet they knew | ¢=perience of blockade running.
One asilor, whe had}
heen doging under the buiwarks eft, did, in-! :
deed, any that he had opened his eyes a few been sadly realized in an occurrence near
minatee before, and had, while in ® state ot | Cleveland, Ohio, which the Herald of that
heeween sleeping and waking, seen some one! City records as follows :—
discover the off nder who
been on deck
nothing of the matter
jump out of the standing rigging, and slip “A wan namned Andrew Schoger lives near
down the fore hatchway And it was his! the Buckeye House on the Kinaman street road,
belief thag this person was no uther thaa the | leading to Warrensville, better known as Dolph
udre"e boy, Indian Blaise.
} .
But Bigise was found fast asleep jn hislair|
and he did not seom jo understand | jeaving four child
what was guid to him when be wna asked in
whether he bad been aloft lately.
ile shouk his bead in dissent, however, and
indeed no one had ever seen the Indian ascend
the rigging. ot beleved him capable of get-|
ting bigh enough to losen the sail, even if |
there bad been any comprelens: dle reason
Most na-
sural conjecture was that the sail had been
curelessiy secured, and tne captain's only
hope was that the tell tale canvase had not
shurp-sighted
And
to
ow,
French,
Th»
for such an act on hie part.
attrected the eyes of any
Jook-out man on beard a Federal ship.
a@ boyr passed alter hour, and nu columa ot
jarkening
viviet sky. giving token of the unwelcome
breathed more
freely again, and all looked forward to) the Sour children took place on Friday, from
i The sun| their parents’ house near Cleveland. ‘Every
went dows sinking into a bank of grey| preparation was made that reepect and sy m-
clouds, and there were signs of a probable | pathy could suggest, and the four were laid
change of weather, but still the sea was calm. | side by side in the same grave, the burial
We were all abourd again, supper was over. | services being in German sud according to
aud the| the Lutheran ceremuny."’
passengers in their berths, somewhat earlier
than usual, The deck was left to the wateh, quadrupel grave the intense agony ot the afflicted
wod as the schooner's bell told off the hours) jother completely overmastered her, and it seem-
we knew that the time for sailing would soon) ed as if reason had been destroyed, while the
smoke rose Diack against the
approach of an enemy, we
break/asting in Charleston itself.
and the lights were extinguished,
arrive.
tiny bed in my little cabin, when |
Vvuice
oN “yet : Japh :
leaning over the side, torward.
shadow.’
And then followed a gentile splashing of | times let it fall, sometimes throwing it down with
the water, and u faint tapping ayainst the | force and other times silowing it to fall with its |
planking as if some bout ur canoe were be-| own weight merely, and not one time in twenty
ing guided along the schooner’s side by the | did the lock catch.
jent torce of a paddle or oar and a human
hand chat grasped the woodwork o! the ves- | -
els side und drew the boat forward. U1} ine
this I should bave thought littl — nothing
was more likely than that # boat should
have been lowered for some purpose connected | carry on his back across the Niagara wae a
with our getting elear of the sand-bhanks and | Milanese, who, breaking down in his affatrs,
sunken rocks that were namerous in our im-/ resolyed to commit suicide.
mediate proximity—bat -he words were sus-| him to be his assistant in his perilous feat by
pictous, and the voice was wonderfully like | the following lugie ‘—_** If we go down, very
that uf the good old priest, M. Duchvehvis. | good: you are drowned according to your
For a moment I hesitated as to whether I) intention; if we arrive sufe on the other
L was lying, half dressed, on the | touching seeve drew tears from the whole asseu-
heard ua} bly.”
suy, ia & husky smothered tone—
i see one of the Britizhers
kK ep in the
In a very short time the| She and ber children had arrived safely at/have great advantages in speed. |
, t to! Charleston, and still more glad to hear that | strides have been made in the navigation of
the Atlantic within the last few years, and
| Edward's Tavern. About four o'clock on Wed.
| nesday afternoon Mr. Scheger and wife went into
the field with the oldest boy to get a load of hay
ren—Mary, aged 7 yeara, Charles
ten years, Jobn four years, and Catherine one
year ld at howe. The parents told the children
to ge inte the corn bouse and shell some cern tor
the chickens. Returning from the field, the
children could not be tuund. Search was made,
the neighbors rallying to the aasistance of the dis-
| tressed fax ily, and the search of the premises, in-
cluding the cern house and the weeds, waa con-
tinued through the night, but witheut sueceas
Chis morning (Thursday,) the corn house was
| aguin searched, and on opening an old German
fchest standing there, the children were found
smothered to death, and their tacew turned black
from suffucation. The children, at play, had got
into the chest, and bad either themselves slut
down the lid, or the lid fell down, aud a epring
lock shut them in a living tomb.”
A later account saya that the burial of
” When the four coffins were placed in the
}
“It is a singular fact that itis only occasionally
the luck of that fatal chest will catch of itself
The seyhbours who have been to the premises to
| see the spot where the singular tragedy occurred
have raised the lid of the chest and innumerable
When thr poor innocent
\echildven sought the cheat as a play bouse, and ul!
| had gleetuily nestled there together, the lid tell,
i lock caught, aud they wet their distressing
death.
-_-+-—_—-- @-o——
The assistant whom Blundon was wont to
Blondin got
| important accession by the launch of the Cu-
than ten days All these have been
beaten by the CAing, which has recently
been added to the Cunard doet.
The Cunard steamships are swift in com-
rison with what they were when that
fine was first estublished, and they now
Rapid
doing an expensive and remunerative carry-
ing trade. Travel on board the numerous
lines of steamers which now cross the Atlan-
tic is within the reach of the poorest class of
passengers ; and as fur freight, the tariff of
charges lor carrying it is nearly as low as
that established by sailing vessels. But of
all the lines existing, the ‘* Cunard”’ is the
favourite, and is likely to maintain the high
character it now maintains for some time to
come. After the failure of the Collins line.
the Cunard had a monopoly of the trade fora
brief period, and it might have been a rash
venture for any company to enter into com-
petition with @ line so heavily subsidiged as
the latter one. The experiment was, how-
ever, tried by Canada, and has been attended
with a fair measure of success, in the face of
many obstacles, and not a few serious mis-
haps. The Canadian Jine, however, has
been, up to a recent period. in the enjoyment
of a heavy Government subsidy, but is now
compelled to work upon a much smaller one.
There ia one line which haa had to work ite
way into public favour without any govern-
ment assistance. When the loman line, com-
osed of screw steumehips, was started, its
prospects did not look purticularly bright
Its rivals stood so high im popular favor oo
both sides of the Atlantic, thac it seemed
very improbable that any part of their ocean
trade could be diverted. But this line has
succeeded. Ic makes nearly as good average
passages as the Cunard line, and is well pa-
tronized.
The Galway line, also subsidized by the
British Government, hus lately come into
the field, but its suecess is problematical, in-
asmuch agit has already wet with several
damaging disasters.
Of all the various other lines competing
for public favor, none have been so fortu-
nate and eminently successful as the ** Cu-
nard,’’ and the proprietors seem to be deter-
mined to deserve that confidence the travel-
ling world has reposed in them. It will be
seen by u paragraph pablished elsewhere
that the Cunard Company has received an
ba, on the Clyde, on the 20th of July. This
vessel has been twelve months in course of
construction, and the Scottish papers tel] us
that her beautitul modelled hull nas formed
& vonspicuous object among the numerous
specimens of nayal architecture which stud
the banks of the Clyde.—Nova Scotian.
A large and powerful steamer called the Acadia,
fitted up in superior style, now piya between
Pictou, N. 8., and Quebec, Canada, calling at
intermediate porta.
ee
shuuld seek the Captain or one of the mates. | side, the fortune of both of usis made.”’ The
i bad been drowsy and only half «wake, and terrible feat was accomplished, and the two}
the very notion that the cure had been the! friends have since been inseparable cum- |
awner of the voice was a manifest absurdity | panions.
that made we consider the whole affair un-;
L listened, but)
worthy of w second thought.
1 could bear nothing, and soon sank into a
peal slucaber.
I was awakened by the quick tramp of feet
overhead, the word of command, the rattling | every deacription of crops; making indentations
down of cos of rope upon the deck, the) in the feucing and such buildings as withatood the
quick wash of the surging water along the| storm as though they had been fired at by mil-
Evidently sail had been, livns of musket balls
made on the Seucy Jane, and we were bead-| ded uf their leaves, but the bark was chopped as |
echooner’s sides.
ing for Charlestun harbour, 1 got u
p, threw
on my upper garmerts, and went on deck,
where | tound two or three of the male pas-|
They were talking together near! 11)
sengers.
the stern with excited gestures, bur
tions tones
words -*the boat,”’ and at once aske
thing had gone wrong.
* Yes, Mr. Phillips, the dingy’s miss ng,
anid one of the Southerners, a tall G
who bore the title of majur;
in Cau-
As | drew near, I caught the
iif any-|
eorg ian,
~ 1 wae the | some suggestions, be launched forth into a
only boat towing astern, as you may have
noticed, all the others being on board.
before sailing it was found to ha
peared, thoagh in what wanner———
‘Captain Harrison suspects,” in
hy the captain, who came quickly
Just
ve diss p-
verru pted
another ; but he was interrupted in his curn
up, and
said in a voice that shook with eu ppressed
anger
* There's treachery afoot, gentleme
been removed frum the bottom of wake :
plags have
every boat, and not an oar but has been sawn
through just above the blade. Some
traitor must
The
nh.
raseally
* Sail ho!’ sung out a sailor from the mast
head
‘Sail ho! a steamer to leeward
out the look-out wan in the bows.
* A large ship on the weath:
“r bow.
* ealleg | Cats 18 bustin’ withia me; I have sheep and
_—--—-—- —< POG ~othe '
TuorNabo in CaNavpa.—Some two weeks ago |
a tract of country in the county of Vandreuil, |
) some five or six miles square, waa visited with a
| terrific tornado, levelling barns, houses, &e., kiil-
ing cattle, and literally chopping up and blasting
Trees were not only denu-
with au axe.
‘ome al
Western Exoquence.—A suspicious look-
ing dog bud been seen im one of the towns of |
| Iiinois. Sombody had cried ** mad dog?”
jand every body was alarmed A _ public
jmeeting was called and a distinguished
** brigedier’’ was appointed chairman. Af-
| ter stating the ohjects of the meeting in a
| not very parliamentary manner, instead of
| taking his seat and alluwing others to make
| speech of sume hulf hour's length, of whieh
; the following burst of forensic splendor is
& sample :
| Psucex Crrizexs:—The time has come
| when the overcharged feelins of aggravated
| human natur are no longer to be stood. Mad
| dogs are in the midst of us. Their shrieking
yelp and foamy track can be seen and hear
fon our pararies. Death follows in their
slall we sit here like cowards, while
our lives and our neighbour's lives are in
1 ene from their dreadful, orshus, didrofo-
| bie caninety? No, itkinnot be! E’en now
‘my heart is torn with conflicting feelins ot |
' wrath and vengeance ; a funeral pile of wild
| pigs; L have a wife and children, and (rising
‘higher ag the importance of the subject)
‘explosion took place was substantially des-
advanced at a charging pace.
The captsin started, sprang into the rigg-
ing, and tock @ hasty survey of the probable
enemy Ae he did so, the red flash of a!
cannon-shot lit the darkness of the night, and!
the bellowing report tulluwed sullenly ove. |
the waters.
* Dows helm, you! pat her about ' smart-
ly, now, my lads '° shouted thecaptain . but}
unother flush succeeded, and down came the!
sohvoner’s toamboom, maimesil and all,}
thundering upon the deek, knocking down}
upd raiseng several of the erew, while a}
third shot crashed into the deck, and made!
the white eplinters fy. Escape was impos-
sible in our crippled condition. We backed
the topanils, and in ten minutes more a large
dark steamer had ranged alongs de. We!
were immediately boarded by a powerful |
foree of armed seamen and marines, and de-|
clared & lawful prize to the U.S. steam-sloop!
Sus puechannah,
By the light of the battle lanterns we were
at! paraded on deck as prisoners, when what!
was our amazement! at recogniwing in the!
heutenant who commanded the buurders no}
jess a personage than the ayre of St. Gaspard, |
the Rew. M. Duchochois. Yes, there could
he no mistake abogt it. The shove!-bat and |
shabby soutane and born spectacles hac been |
replaced by navy blue cloth, a gold !aced eap
and a belt, in which a revolver balasced the
cutlass that hung on the left side, but the
crafty black eyes were those of oar late pro-
tege, though the expression was wholly)
ghanged.
* Yes, gentlemen and ladies, your hamble|
servant,’ said the epy, with @ eneet of ma-|
lice, ** old Papa Duchochoi*, very much at!
your service in his new capacity uf lieuten-!
wat in Uncle Sam's navy, you rebel cai
horns.’’
And, indeed, the villain, for the part he|
had played in practising on our compassion
was to enable him the better to betray ua,
was Lieutenant Aminadab Hitech, of the!
Ausquehanneh, while grinning at |ie princi-|
pal's ede with the eo -eoloured pigment,
hut bali washed frow hw cunning face, was
the ci-devagt indian boy, Blaise, alias Ja-
peth Ranch, « Yankee corporal of marines. ! former Reapecting thie the statement is as
We heard afterwards thut the leutenant,! iollows :-~—
who was famous for his power of personating | Rranght to Amerita. Taken to Faro
an eesumed natype, had visited Nasewu for! (anard Line.....,. Ui ade....,,-..6,,-00000e Hy
the express purpose of securing the prize | Inman Line... 34,840... .--- 22-2 2s teens ;
money of so valuable u eepture as the Saucy | Gulway Line. - +A BS. . resets Peat
y " mt : Allan Line... . -45.032. .. un-etes de kee
Jase w his own war eeose]. [t was his ao-| O°" “s ‘ .
. National Lise i a: esdeednenaeaan ,- None
complice, the pretended Indian lad. who had} Anchor Line........ ou. .c.2, pa sie
steaithily asceade! the rigging and loons-ned | tatiana a
the seil to grye potice to the look-out od 74,034 7,211
vt the sloop, af the whereabouts of the block-| Pursuing this interesting report further
ede runner- After this, the two worthice
had stolen the diogey, first dwabling the
other boats frum pursuit. eng pulled out to
ea, where, ge they had expasted. they had
een & preconcerted signal from their own
ahip, apd bud deen picked up dy hep befure
ue ie ved the echagnel through whieh
Tt) i r ware " “sin-
tratign to pam,” Sipe wos, aren uitocd ak
Bus , we
sunlt or taken hy
Awarting us un the other tack.
{ do not wish to
misery that ensued
when husbands were torn from the
fod fathers separated from their ¢
ust have been inigiligly
ir wives
waldegn,
| deepened in his estimation) | have money out)
/ut interest, all in danger of being bit by
we even eluded the
© Portland, whiokh woe
dwell on the seunes of! « eto
on board the schooner Ano*
bo houre, with © ome hours delay at
these infernal mad dogs.
THE ATLANTIC FERRY.
A report bas lately been presented to the!
British Parliament which contains sume high- |
ly interesting statistics in relation to the ex-
tent of ocean navigat.on by steamships, be-
tween Great Britain and North America.
The principal steamship lines between the
old and new world, are the Cunard Line, the
Inman Line, the Galway Line, the Allan
Line, the National Company, and the Anchor
Line, the latter plying between the Clyde
and the British North American Provinces.
In the year 1863 the ships of the above lines
made tripa aud carried passengers us fol-
lows :—
Cunard, outward voyages from New York
to Liverpool, sixty-seven ; passengers, 5.587 ;
inward voyages from Liverpool to New York,
seventy-one ; passengers, 13,342.
Inman line. outward voyages, seventy-four ;
passengers, 7,980; inward voyages, seventy-
six; passengers, 30,840.
Galway line, outward yoyages, nine; pas-
sengers, 429; inward voyages, eight, pussen-
gers. 4,373.
Allan line, outward voyages, sixty-four ;
passengers, 2924: inward voyages, sixty -
one ; paseengers, 15.092.
National Company, outward voyages,
seven ; no passengers ; inward voyages, eight;
passengers, 3.287.
Anchor line, outward voyages, ten; pas
sengers, 291; inward voyages, vlever ; pas-
sengers, 2,560.
We ledrn from the documents in question
that besides these there were other steamers
in the cecusional trade, belonging to ten
English firme, who probably might have em-
ployed fifteen steamers, but of them or their
performances there is nv account.
The figures in the report show a remark-
able ditterence in the intercourse between
America and Rurope, the preponderance of
passengers heing greatly im favor of the
we find upon inspection that the steamers ot
whose pertormances we have accounts, made
235 voeages from North Amerios to Europe,
and 208 return trips In regard to the eg.
tent of the freights curried by those steawers
the report is silent, but in respect to the
wveraze time ocoupied in the voyages we have
sowe interesting facts. [he Scotia, tbe favur-
tte steauner of the Cunard line, previous to
the introduotion of the China, made one trip
in 1863, tram Livorpool to New York, in nine
days, nineteen and three quarter hours, with
uo page ot geyen hours at Queenstown.
f trip between the same ports was
/Uall, bat they failed under the severity of
THE WAR IN THE STATES.
THE FAILURE AT PETERSBURG.
The mine was to be exploded at 3 30 4 uw.
The dampness of the main passage had effect-
ed the fuse by which it wus to be ignited,
causing a delay of over three quartery of an
hour. At 4.20 those in charge succeeded in
springing it. There was not 4 simultaneous
explosion along ite whole length and breadth,
bat several successive ones ut intervals of a
few seconds. There wus no very strong de-
tonation in the air, but the ground around it
shook for a few seconds ae though moved by
an earthquake, Severs) spout-like masses of
debris were thrown up and fell back to the
depth of the mine, some thirty feet below the
surface. The rebel battery under which the
troyed, but its contour was still descernable
Within a few minutes after the explosion
the two brigades of the first division—the
second, Col. Marshall of the 4th New York
lleavy Artillery commanding, in the lead,
followed by the first, onder command of Brig.
Gen. Bartlett, of Massachusetts, jumped over
the breastworks forming our main line, and
They were
bardly in motion when they received a volley
from the enemy, who, although surprised by
the explosion, were evidently prepared against
an attack, ewing to the noise inevitubly made
by the concentration of troops and the move-
ment of trains, etc, for hours, close to their
front.
The explosion, although it had destroyed
the rebel battery, hud not effected the abbat-
tis, and other obstructions in its front, and
the attacking column experienced consider-
able trouble in working their way over them.
Part of our line passed into the fort, and part
to the right of it, upon curtain-like entrench-
mepts connecting the right of the buttery
with the line of breasetwork beyond it. The
interior of the exploded work was a confused
mass of earth, broken guns, cump equipage
and human bodies. It had been oceupi-d by
a battery of artillery, manning six rifled field
pieces and a part of the 18th and 32d South
Carolina regiments. Over two hundred men
had gone up with the work, and were buried
amoung the ruins. About twenty, more or
less mutilated, were dug out by our men.
The rifle pits and entrenchments to the
right of the work were occupied by several
handred of the enemy, 250 of whom were
taken prisoners and sent tu the rear.
As soon as the first divisiun bad moved, the
2d and 3d fullowed it to the right and left,
and closed up with it at the work.
The enemy, meanwhile, had opened a vi-
gorous musketry and artillery fire from their
eutrenchments, that inclosed the work in
the form of an angle, giving them an enfi-
lading fire.
Several attempts were made by our troops
to continue the advance toward Cemetery
the fire.
Abvut 6 o'clock, the colpred division, Gen
Ferrero commanding, was ordered to take up
the attack and push to the right of the other
divisions for Cemetery Hill, distant four
hundred yards beyond. It advanced in line
with great steadiness, until it came up in
line with the other divisions, and received a
severe fire, when the ovlumn turned to the
left, whether-by command or without [ am
unable to say, and the wass of it bscame
mixed “P with troops in snd about the work.
About 1000 of the coloured troops rashed
over the parapet into the interior of the
work, which the explosion had caused to
What waa left of our troops in the work
now become completely hemmed in, the rebel
standards being planted close to the parapet
weet of the work, and the rebul fire causing
|retreat impracticable. They continued io
| that predicament for nearly an hour, when
‘an order was issued (by whom I have not
| positively ascertained) directing the whole
army to fall back to its original position.
Whether it ever reached those stili outmde
of yur lines is not definitely known, but it is
known that about two o'clock Gen. Bartlett,
who was left in the fort, being unable to
move owing to the breaking of hie artificial
leg, sent in @ note by « private, stating that
being out of ammunition, he and those with
him, if not speedily relieved, would soon
have to surrender. Shortly afterwards the
rebels were heard to make another charge,to
which the party doubtless surrendered.
The 5th corps was under fire all the fore-
noon, but did not join in the attack. The
2d corps wae entirely parsive. The cavalry
corps crossed the rear of our lines in the
course of the forenoon. General Sheridan's
original orders were afterwards modified,
and the further wovement of bis command
stupped.
The exact losses in the battle have not been
officially ascertained, but as near as can be
judged will reach 2500, not including the
missing. Many believe that the figures will
prove larger.
In the hospitals of the 9th corps the first
division has 206 men; 2d division, 307; 3d
division, 341 ; and 4th (or colored) division,
626. The large number of wounded are ly-
ing between the two lives, and cannot be
got off.
The 16th corps lost about 200, while Tur-
ner's division, 19th corps, had nearly 400
killed and wounded.
A flag of truce was sent to the enemy to-
day fur the purpose of getting the remainder
of our wounded off the field, but was refused ;
reason not given.
Gen. Butler also sent a flag of truce to-
day, which was likewise refused. The rebel
officer gave no reason for refusing excepting
that his orders were peremptory not to re-
ceive such fag.
The rebel officers also refused to exchange
newspapers, and the rebel soldiers are so
closely watched by their officers that they
have no chance of making an exchange.
There must be some reason for this. Many
believe that their line is very weak, while
others think they have some extensive move-
ment on foot, and sre afraid of it becoming
known to us. The raid into Pennsylvania
may Se the reason for their wishing to keep
everything from us and as quiet as possible.
THE INVASION OF PENNSYLVANIA.
The Baltimore correspondent of the New York
Times, under date of August 1, furnishes the fol-
lowing particulars in regard to the Confederate
movement in Pennsylvania :—
I find it is believed here by those who are the
beat informed that the present movewent into that
State is being made by a very large force of the
best soldiers in the Confederate army; that its
object ia not to plunder the people, although no
doubt large contributions will be exacted; that
the party whe burned the houses in Chamberabury
is & mere recondeitering party, who will move
rapidly from place tu place; that they will be
followed in a few days by the main body of the
torees destined for the invasion of Pennaylvania;
and that Harrisburg and Pittsburg will probably
be the two points te which the Confederate army
will firat proceed. There is said to be abundaut
testimeny, to the effect that thia invading army
consiats of af least 75,000 troops. a part of whom
have beea recently detached from Gen. Lee's army,
and probably have not reached the Potomac yet.
The Government, as you will see by this morn-
ing’s papers, coutinues to assure the people of
Pennaylvannia that there ia no cause for alari ;
that the only rebel troopa in Pennsylvania are a
mere gang of treebooters; and that the measures
taken by the Government will secure the capture
of these audacious scoundrels before they can re-
cross the Potomac. The yalue of these assurauces
can be seen from the tact that the Government
asserted just as positively, four days age, that the
tucasures they had taken would prevent the re-
bela from coming nerth of the Potomae at all,
and that betore daylight on the morning of July
30 the Goverumeut autheriged the assurances to
be telegrsphed from Washington to Penosylvania
that “no uueasiness whatever is felt by the Go-
vernment in relation to afftirs ia Peunsylvania.”
[u aix hours after that official assurance reached
Harrisburg, Chambersburg waa in flames. Does
that cause the Government no uuecasiness? If
the tewna in Pennsyivania can thus be laid in
ashes, what difference does it make to the people
of that State whether or not the Goverument
feels no uneasiness? If the towns of Pennay!-
vania are thus to be given to the flames, what
difference docs it make whether they are destroy-
ed by a terce of 5,000 or of 50,000 rebels? The
Government neglects to protect them in either
event,
All the facts that have transpired up to this
time indicate a purpose on the partef Gen, Early,
or whoever commands the expedition, to pene.
trate as far aa possible into the interior of Penn-
sylyania; and there is too much reason to fear
that other towns will share the sad fate of Cham-
bersburg unless the troops under Gen, Wright,
on the line of the Potomac and near Washington,
be withdrawn from those points and sent in pur-
suit of Early's rebel treops. This, of course, is
what Gen. Early desires. This is the military
object of the invasion. But it must be done, it
other towns in Pennsylvania. Tins ie the time
to speak the plain truth, and 1 will speak it
calmly ; but I must use plain language.
nonsense to think that the militia of Pennsylvania
can defend their State against the disciplined te-
gions of Breckinridge and Early. They cannot
prevert the plunder of both Pittsburg and Harris
burg, and the destruction, it may be, of both
thoae cities, if such be the orders that Gen. Early
haa received from his superiors.
To avert thease calamities, and to drive Early
and Breckinridge out of the State, will require at
least all the troopa under Gen. Hunter, and all
those now at Washington, The alternative is
now before the Government, Let them decide
which todo; ‘To keep the tronps on the line of
the Potomac and near Washington, and see Pena-
sylvania given up to pluuder and the torch; or
leave Washington exposed in order to save that
State from those feartul exlamities. It ig a hu-
miliating diletmma for a great nation to be in.
MATTERS WITH GENERAL SHERMAN.
Major-General Thomas has issued the following
circular to his army oear Atlanta :—
ARMY HeapD-QvuarrTers, July 26, 1864.
The major-General commanding the army cous
gratulates the truope the brilliant success
attending the Union army wm the late battles In
the battle of 20th instant, in which the Twentieth
Corps, one diviaion of the Fourth Corpa and part
of the Fourteenth Corps were ing , the total
Unien loas in killed, wounded wissing was
one thousand seven hundred aud thirty-three.
The second division of the corps repulsed seven
make a pit-like form, and was already
crowded tu overflowing with ofiversand men.
The negroes tambled headlong down the
sloping sides, when a scene of inextricable
confusion ensued. Eorts were mude by offi- |
outside, but they failed, and the strangely
mingled mass of human beinge continu
crowd the pit, the upper portion of which
was about 100 feet in diameter.
When the attack commenced all our heavy
and light batteries in position,over 100 pieces
in all, o d and kept op a tremendous
tire, mostly with shell, upon the enemy's line,
but, nevertheless, the rebel fire increased in
severity. The enemy could be plainly seen
from our main line moving his troops from
rizht and left to the point of attack, and it
wag evident they were massing their whole
available force to meet the attack.
were made by our troops to charge, but each
of them was checked by the enemy’s fire.
. of men, during that time, were oon-
tinually trying to make thuir way back to
our main line, but the intervening space—
open ground, about 150 yards in width.
was 6 thoroughly swept by the enemy's Gre
that many were shot dowe in the sttempt
© escape.
About 9 o'clock the fire from our batteries
slackened, and soon alterwarde the enemy
rushed out from his intrenchments and
charged upon the positian held by our troops.
+ made in nine deye, nine and three quarter
ueens-
They were at first checked, but finaily suc-
© iD gaining inaet of the ground between
the work and their line, and ume witbio
to| 88nd five hundred, and tea
Between 7 and 9 o'slock, three attempte; ;
different assualts of the enemy with light lous to
theinselves, and which must have swelled the num-
ber of the dead buried by the rebels to beyond
300. No report has been received of the part
taken fu the battle by the Fourteenth Corps. In
cers to get them out of the work and form) the battle of the 22d instant, the total Union loss
was three thou-
of artillery.
The rebels Jost three t two hundred cap-
tured. The known dead of the enemy in front
of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Corps, and ope
in killed, wounded and missing
! division of the Seventeenth was two thousand one
hundred and pte 0 The other divisions of
the Seventeenth Corps repulsed six assaults of the
the Confederates. The Court House, Town
}and Bank Were firet fired. -
curred atterwarde is thus describeé—" A atrong
consideration us the Hayards
13 age. But jo view of their military wie
_—— as
breeze communicated the Gaines tu the surround.
‘ing buildings. Parties of suidiers, baving sacked
‘the several drug and chemical stores, manutac-
tured turpentine balla, which they threw in all
directions, creating flaunes in different localities,
whieb avon iu one general conflagration.
Speedly the aceaw becawe heart-rending and ap-
palling. The crackling aud rearing of the flames
ua they from house to houee, the sbrieks
of terri womeo, tricken and suffering
childreu, and the pitiful appeals of the old aod
helpless, formed au iodnesiakhen acene of berror,
Two hundred and sixty-five of the most ralyable
and elegant public buildings were destroyed.
A SAMPLE UF SOUTHERN SENTIMENT.
[From the Richmond Euguirer.]
Ruiding and ravisbiug is all that Goneral
Grant can at present get cut of troops. He has
seat off another part of bis “ veteran raiders” to
reak railroads, burn residences, destroy provi-
aivos, steal negrees, and dishonor women.
any of these uiscreunts be bard pressed they have
en to throw down their arms and throw up
their hands, and, trom being murderers and felons,
they instantly becume “ prisoners of war.” A
arty of U 3. troops lately landed in the Northern
Neck counties, comwitted ten oe he the per-
sons of respectable women, and, had they been
captured, would have been beld tur exchange, and
other opportunities fur committing the same
cries offered them. Fortunately they were met
by a few resolute old wen and boys, and the last
vue of the wretches put todeath. Are proclama-
tions aod orders necessary to effect punishment
for such wretches? Will not our soldiers take
vengeance in their own bands, and capture less
by killing more of these fiends?) There are al-
ready,thirty odd thousands of these wretches now
awaiting exchange to recommence their career of
plunder and outrage. Shall more and more be
added tu the number! We think that quite
enough are already in Confederate prisons.
The Governor of Virginia bas taken steps to
perpetuate the testimony in all cases of outrage
and wrong perpetrated by the army of Grant.
The record will be fuithfully wade, aud wall pre-
sent a mass of crime and borrer that will appal
the civilized world.
But this will not stop these outrages. Nothing
short of prompt hanging or sheoting of all captur-
ed wen belonging to any regiment or brigade
charged with these crimes will effect a change in
their conduct. Thia rewedy is the only one thut
offers any hope to the defenceless women of the
State—they are near aud dear to all the army—
their honor, aa well as the liberty of the country,
is in the keeping of the soldiers.
mity to execute on the spot of capture such
wretches, then no proclamations or orders would
de any good. Public sentiment will not much
longer stand the recital of these crimes. Some
batch of prisoners, who may have escaped the
of an outraged people has limits, which, when
passed, renders them capable of avenging the
wrongs of their own helpless women.
A correspondent of the same paper remarks:
companies of negroes, officered by white men,
landed in the upper part of Westinoyand and
passed down through Richmond County.
march, no age ner conditlon was exempt from
their desulating hand. Pluuder and lust stismulat-
ed and inarked all their movements. No appeal
ner supplication could turn thein from their
benstily purposes sud brutal exceasys. In vain
did the mother beseech and the daughter shrick.
My paper would blush did I attempt to write in
full detail the scenes wiich were enacted.
Wherever they weut they were led by their
officers, and told, “ You can go leose and do as
you please.” And verily, they did go loose and
do as they pleased, as inany » heartbroken parent
and ruined daughter will testify. The registers
of Heaven have made their record. Myself a
firm believer in the fall and depravity of waukind,
I had not conceived that natural curruptivn was
40 extensive in the nineteenth century as Puritan-
ical fanaticism has exemplified it under the names
of religion, liberty and emaucipation. Does not
humanity and benevolence and religion claim that
examples shall be inade? Does not the life of
liberty, virtue and christianity demand that nv
inure prisoners be takeu tu be turned loose, again
tu return upon us to repeat their crimes aud our
auffering?) Men of Virginia, husbands, fathers,
rothers, areuse to your duty and your safety, to
the preservation of the lite and honor of your
dear ones. Seek vet, desire not to mvade nor in
any way to disturb in their country and their
howes even this debased, rentless, cruel foe. But
let him understand—let him teel that never again
shall one who dares to tread our soil in the execu-
tion of his inhuman mission, return to give te his
kindred by nature, and in aentament und feeling,
a narrative uf bis baseness, bis profigacy and his
brutality.”
15th isd.
Tue Orssine or a New Cuarptrer —Rich-
moud has ed conspicuously intu the same ca-
tegery as Charleston —a town that has foiled the
suust clossal attempt the administraiion could or-
gauize for its capture. We have no interests in
deceiving ourselves, but every Interest that our
subsequent efforts shall be based upon a currect
appreciation of the actual position of aflaire. We
canuot take Richwoud. It has been evident to
youd judges, for several weeks, that General
Grant's campaign is a failure ; but theugh an ad-
verse fate had the deed deawn and signed, it
lacked the seal of fiual aucbenticatioun which was
impressed upou it by the battle of Saturday @—
What is left for General Grant that he bas not al-
ready attempted? When, nearly a month age,
he undertook the laborious task of constructing
imwense mines under the rebel works, at Petera-
burg, he confessed to hinwelf that the out-lying
defences of Richmond were impregiable to direct
assault aud incapable of bemg turned.
rvic but wasteiul tenacity m assaults bad only
weakened his army without any other results; his
splendid and admirable flank movements always
-brought him face to face with the same insoluble
problem of carrying the earth-works by aterm. | majority being those unscrupulous place-hunters, | the determination of testing ite practicability to
‘he surprising wobility of his army proved as
futile as would have been an attempt by General
Grant to flank bis own shadow. North of Rich-
mond, east of Richwond, south of Richwond,
wherever he granted bia army, the inevitable.
earthworks still fronted him and trowned defiance,
The waste of hurling troops against them in ine!-
fectual assaults would, if persisted in, have re-
the Government doca not desire to ace the fright-| duced his army to euch a point that it would be} ligious
ful ecenea of Chambersburg re-enacted in many | compelled to stand on the defensive. The great! the last general election by the rulers of the pre-
change which the military situation has undergone,
cousists in this: that heretufore Gen. Grant has
after Gen. Lee will dietate the movements of
Gen. Grant. Lee has, thus far, fought on the de-
tensive, and Grant has determined hia successive
itions from Spottsylvama to Petersburg.
C. will now adopt a bolder strategy.
weakened and worn away the forces of his ad-
versary, and no longer fearing tor the sutety ot
Richmond, he will compel Grant to change his
position, or will wake the North pay the penalty
of persisting in a hopelese undertaking by suffer-
ing the saine borrors of invaswn whieh it has been
inflicting on the South. The valley of the She-
n is Open; it is already wceupied by rebel
forces strong envugh to bave collected snpplics
for a great army from ite teeming harveste; and
if Grant be not promptly reealled, Wszhington
will, within ten days, be in greater than
any to which Richmond has beeu exposed since
the opening of this ill-starred caujpaigu.— New
York World.
Tue Brack Buttocks Berorne Petersavns.
—The butchery of vegroes before Petersburg is u
mournful jllustratioa of Abolition philanthropy.
The soal sickens while conceiving the natare of
the fearful errand upon whch these poor victims of
unaticiam were sent, A breustwork is to be storm-
ed in the fuce of a marderons fire that 4 military
eye must have fureseen could be withstood by none
but those of the most ved und stabborn
courage and agp oe discipline
comparatively untried troops was selected to ut
tempt thar terrible xsauult, impossible to aay bat
chosen veteruus. The result was that the doumed
blacks, mowed down hy the e.filading fire, became
a pn snd utterly demoralized, searce know-
w way to ran to excupe destraction. In
the lungauage of the despatch nae They seemed to
he without any one to munaye them, and finally
they fell buck to the rear, out of the range of the
volleys of canister and that were plonyh-
ing. thymagh ‘hele. sache. Why is it that they
were made « forlorn , © storm & position that
the Commanding General must huve known to be in-
accessible, except by the most unflinching valor aud
the most complete orgunization? If it was becuuse
the thunce of v was vo Tate that the
employment of white troops would be too costly of
valuable material, we, who do uot profess to be
negro Worshippers, pity them nevertheless for the
terrible uses to which they are put. Hud it not
been tly proven apon other tields that
black ure not to be trusted in a military
crisis, it might be sap that the post of r
was xiven them out of pure love, to their ttle
to of the
nts, we
can on that th pusbed
to be batehered that better scldiors i
That inay be for the white soldi :
the poor —New York * Duily eos ~
ee
CORRESPONDENCE,
fo Tue Korrom or Tue Exaanven.
Sta :—On my return to this Colony last May,
atter an absence of some months, [ aceidently met
with a gentleman, on a wet day, in an betel in an
wdjoining Colony. then returning to the United
States after having spent the winter in Charlotte.
town; and on comparing nutes, it was mutually
agreed that I might make any extracte I thought
Proper from bie Journal of daily occurrences in
might be spsred.
dat
If the soldiers
of the army huve too much kindness to hang or
shout a “veteran ravisher,” too much waguanik
fortunes of war, will yet find that the vengeance
— Ou Sunday, a Yankee force, consisting of one
or two companies of white meu and three or four
In their
puppet.”
Charlottetown, while be did the sawe with wine
while at New York and elaewhere. If, therefure,
FRAGMENTARY NOTBS OF A TRAVELLER.
APRIL 2 let, 1964.—Still at Charlottetown, P.
E. Ialand, (day gnewing.) Went to House of
Assembly, and introduced inyself to a very old but
venerable looking gentleman, Whuse name I as-
certained waa Birch, who, on learning that I was
from a neighbouring Republic, at ounce expressed
bis willingness to act as wy guide and informant
in wll watters and things relative to the House of
Assewbly aud ite members—adding that he was
the oldest parliamentarian in the Colony, haring
served in that uty for of hulf acentury.
After waking known wy gratitude tu Mr. Birch
for hia great courtesy, he at ones led mye to the
gallery, and seated we in a cunvenient ;
which afforded a good view of the individuals who
compvse “ the collective wisdom" of the Colony.
No seoner did wy venerable friend, Mr. Birch,
see me take trom ny pocket a peucil and note
book, than be asked me if 1 was about to tuke
portraits. I replied, I only take pencil travelling
notes. I aw glad of it, said Mr. Bireb, for there
is a coxcomb about these premises named “ Tonalt
Curree”’ who undertouk to depict what be called
“Parliamentary Portraits”; and would you be-
lieve, sir, his own ugly phiz was the most notorious
feature of each persun whom be attempted to por-
tray. Well. sir, continued Mr. Birch, 1 think it
is better to begin with the Leader, and mind you,
sir, my motto has been ever since I entered Par-
liament, “si vie me flere, dolendum est primum
ips: tibi.” Yes, sir, | always say what I mean,
and what I know to be facts of my own knowledge
and experience I only speak. That rather pro-
minent person just anent you, with the huge black
hair or moustache on bis face, with such war-like
eyes, and sharp proboscis, aballow pate and hungry
aspect, that is the “ Leader"; and to a stranger
like you it way appear odd that however black be
looks, he is nyt a blackinan but a Grey-man, and
a soldier every ineb of bin, generous and brave ;
and yet a mystery of Weakness in aome few peen-
liarities of wind, owing to which weakness be ba«
become a were puppet in the hands of the notorious
Secretary, who is now called “the Leader's
Jackal.” There be is to his right band, with the
sinister down east suspicious look—a fellow whe
can endorae £14,000 of plunder from a Bank, who
can befool Proprietors of certain Townships out
of several years’ rent inthe way of agency! Here
[ interrupted Mr. Birch, and begged him to con-
tinue his narrative of the “ Leader” fivat, and
then return te the “ Jackal,” lest my ideas should
get contused between two characters eo identical
in supe particulars, and yet so widely different
apparently in others; and requested him to ex-
plain how he could reconcile his statement of the
Leader's brivery and generosity as a suldier, and
yet be only a puppet in the hands of a disreputable
a creature as the Jackal. Very well, sir, con-
tinued Mr. Birch, I have already mentioned that
the Leader was a mystery of weakness in some
things: for instance, he declared in hie place in
Parliament that some statements and arguments
subject him to 4 fit of Aypochondriasis. I don't
well urcderstund the word inyself, but am told that
hunger bas sxuwething to do with it, for the mo-
ment it comes on, he bolts off to feed, and you know
the office of the “Jackal” to the Royal Forest
Brute is te Gad out prey for him; and so while the
Leader renovates the inner man, the Jackal hunts
up plenty ef political prey for him, which he de-
Yours as greedily ail it never emanated from the
uoscrupulous Jackal; and besides, sir, there is no
small share of vanity among bis eatalogue of
weaknesses, which prompts him to pretend that
the cunning wachinations of the wily Jackal are
his own, 8o that when he rises to talk he reminds
me of the air balloon, which, when filled with
hydrogen gas, ascends upwards, because he
shouts at such a rapid rate when be “takes the
floor" to ventilate the gas with which the very
pious, saintly, “ God-fearing" Seerétary bas xo
copiously primed him. Look, look, sir, said Mr.
Birch, see how he vrompta the leader new; you
will see hin up directly “ tuking the fluor,” as be
miuat be by this time pretty well charged; and
when be dees take the fluor, sir, you will, (as a
stranger not thoroughly aware of the depth of
hypwerisy which he has at command.) be quite
charmed at bis off-handed attack or * vaid” on
the enemy (Opposition), a8 you United States
folka would call #. And strange and inconsiatent
as it may appear when one ef bis “treids" happens
to be bronght te a period by a“ breadside ” from
the artillery of Coles, Whelan, Howlav or Con-
roy, &c., he can be again easily goaded to a new
attack by the Jsekal, who flatters ban more by a
proiwise of bers on the division than by
strength of argument on the subject. Bat since
he became so tully recognized as the “ puppet”
of the “ poterious Seeretary,” few persons care
to hear him, or pay nmch attention to what he
says Formerly, sir, it was net so: be was con-
sidered to be a high-minded, independent, and
honewrably disposed man; but the wily cunning
Jackal, having once found out bie vamty snd
weakness, bas prompted and flattered him, and
brought him te adopt se many diabslical senti-
ments, that he is pow completely woder bis con-
trol, although he (the leader) wishes to -bebieve,
and to make others believe, too, that he is on!
using the Jackal tv do such of the “ dirty work,”
in the way of foul-mouthed vituperation, as will
answer his purpose, as if bis adoption of the same
did net disgrace bim a8 mueb aa the atterer.
Ah, sir, it is very distressing to me, who spent so
many years of my life attending to my parliamen-
tary duties, to wilnesa x» much humbug and hy-
pecrisy within these walls lately. Formerly the
House was composed of honest, well-disposed
men; and although some of them were not such
yet they had an honesty of purpose and good in-
tentions, which go far to make the true gentle-
man and patrivtic representative of the people.
But now the case is very different — the great
whose hypocrisy, deceptious cunning, raseally
lying, “sowing discord among brethren,” creating
religious rancour and hatred throughout the
length and breadth of the land, for the sole pur-
pose of keeping themselves in power and keeping
the tenantry trom uniting against their werciless
tyrannical landlords, and exacting their natural
rights of freeholders. Yes, air, the demon of re-
bigotry waa propagated and uurtured at
sent critol majority for the sole purpose of saving
the rapacious proprietors from the «ited action
It is all) dictated the murements of Gen. Lee, but here-| of the tenantry, and alan to keep themselves in
power and in receipt of their respective share of
ae from the public revenue. But he (the
eader) little thinks ef the odium which he has
they see him walking or driving, sing out to each
other in exclamation — “ There gues Bill Pope's
( To be continued.)
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TORY DOINGS VENTILATED.
Mr. WHELAN :—
Sin—There is a commandment, “ Thou shalt
not stval,”” which it is presumed applies as well
tu.the public funds as te private ones, Well, sir,
some of our Tory frie in the eastern end of
Prince County have been trying ther hands at
breaking this commandment, thinking, perhape,
that there would not be as much sin in robbing
this Island Treasury, beeause it belongs to every-
body, as there we be in robbing their neigh-
bor’s hen-roost, or his dairy, and that if they only
succeeded in piliering from the “ public chest,”
it would not be so easily discovered ; but robbing,
or attempts at rebbig are like murder, they
“ will out!"
Travelling, not jong since, I at a
friend’s, when the woman of the house enid, “you
will bave to attend your horse, as all our ‘ men
I found the men were performing “ statute labor.”
In the course of conversation relative to roads,
bridges and wharfe in that neighbourhwed, my
hoatess let me into the doings of her tory neigh-
bours as followe:—Unele Jake, the Commissioner,
had ten pounds to lay out for repairing the read
between the aboiteau and the county line, and m-
stend of advert:smg it in the usual way, be whie-
pered it to a few cronies, who made sure to be on
the spot, and they divided the spoil (when fifty
shillings would be sample) between thei, finishing
off the job with a drunken frolic! Then there
was a bridge, known as Guold's, wanted repair,
and the Legisiature appropriated £25 for this
ject. Well, Unele Jake called an auction and.
told this job to some of his particular friends for
£79! Whether he knew there was only £25
laid out tor that epeci Tpose, dovs act r,
but that ve bei the Ou to be dane for -
ger sum, there # no mistake; however, the mat-
ter was “ nipped in the bud,” and the contr
will only get £25. rae. oe was 8 wher!
down the river which * Superintendant of
forward | Pubhe Works”® had cundemned, and a new ane to
be contracted for. Well, a H—-t crew pat their
heads together and determined to have it, and
this is the way they worked: Dividing thew-
selves, one party putin a tender tur £390, which
wen to be pushed upes the Clesernment, and if it
—- nd out that no ther tender
found wut
one was to
took a neighbour of his inte
two put in a tender for the yod.
whieh he very adroitly, by
|iuto the Supeintendant's possesssion and w
quietly about “bis buemess. Well, some of the
position, |/
—- ae
Ht crew, with the two
theuselves at the Colunial buiidir
clear as they thought, and om ag oI
ha Conteonaaatiiine
you deem the present extracts deserving a place Corney,” the “ master of the t te * Unele
in the Examiner, I shall send you some wore | what ofa fasourite of the apr the “od
vecasionally. carrits found out that nv tenders bad beens.
Yours respectfully, cvived at the office up te the latest hour, put in
ABBERDUMBIF. | theit £390 one und retired, chuckling among
August, 1864. themecives at the great haul they would wake yut
vf the treasury ; but judge of their surprise when
they found that one of their confederates with s
political eoemy of theirs bad undermined and
got the job for £130, when they afi knew that
£75 vr £80 would be @ superabundance for the
work !!" “Now,” said my infurmant, “we a
not like to amy exe ctly that’ Uncle Corney’
the above great howl, and was to bave a share of
it; but when @ man, & Dear relative of these
H—is, ie mee Somes to a Coroner's jury
receives the auount for two inquests, ea i
takes such good care of it that nut pte for
but hisnself see or receive one penuy of it, why we
Sa ee
way, even the erence me
ab if
Now, Mr. Whelan, you must not feacy that my
informant was a Liberal, and told me these things
sv that 7 might tell you; but she isa Tory, yet
heartily despises the meen actions or w
robberies perpetrated by ber Tory nei Te.
latives or friends, and se do very many others ia
than roti «iin ranean: and * Uncle Corny’
as he in styled, may not enter the Legislature
such flying colours as heretofore. es
Yours, TRAVELLER.
Prince County, July, 1864. .
Tre Late De Joun ALaxanper StT#waat.—h
is not often thet New Lordon is so shocked as it
lately hasbeen by the very sadden and unexpected
death of Dr. Stewart, a man of great
28 yeure, and son of Bir Charles Stewart, of 4
ley Point Road. For many be followed the
vceupation of Sehcol T in this Island, in
whieh basiness be was much esteemed.
duated at McGill College, Canada
1861, where he uot onl i is M.D. C
but so distinguished himself as to merit and
off the firet prize (value about £30) from 157 of
= students. —— eS New
dou the ee . in
unul his death. He was «a man of copies tee
pr aged gs veg h and ster worth; bat,
of .bhe human race, su eb sate na’
llis practice was exteusive.
w the pees Asa man, was bigbly
us a physician and surgeov, unive
servedly beloved. His death was caused
disease of the heart, which was
ved w all, by Coroner's luguest and
exawination, (ap account of which
been published, the fears i of
persons nsistogeadieg eile
‘Those best sequainted with bim, who Krew
disease und beard his frequent complainings,
well as his medical adviser, bad no doubts as
the natural cause of bis sudden death. He
been in poer health for about a month, but
a'tend practice. He returved home on the 26th ult.
about 4 o'clock—spoke us asual-—looked iil—teok
ho tea—went to his study lyidg in bed, and in less
thav an hour was forever! His pa-
renis and others now mourn the loss of a <
thet of tied
man aud skillful physician. . He was followed to
bis yy Ape | in St. Jobo's Charch Ceme-
£
.
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pre
i
fitted
tery, by w large concourse of pev-
ple, who deeply sympathise with bis sorrowing
riehds.
1 wi thie published in of Dr. Stewart
who has na and kind fri to me
wife, and my hildeee. of
lam, traly you
the "deus G. McKar.
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Che Exawiner.
Charlottetown, Aagust 15,
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EXCURSION TRIP BY THE FRANCONIA.
Fraxkux Sxow, Esgr., the enterprising
owner of the Franconia, baving paid a second
visit to Charlottetown in bis splendid new Steam-
ship, invited a numerous party of ladies and gen-
tlemen on an excursion trip down the harbour
and out the Bay. The Steamer left the what o
tew minutes alter ten o’cluck thie morning, and
returned at about ten minutes to two vo clock.
Though the ship is quite 8 capacious une, she
was crowded from stem to stern — Members of
Parliament, Editors, Clergymwen, Lawyers, Doc-
tors, Merchants — all professions and all rauks
in the community being well represented ;
and the beauty sod fashion of the City were seldou |
if ever so charmingly displayed. We made an
attempt to covnt the number of Mr. Snow's guests,
but did pot succeed. The general opivion seemed
to be that there were between four and five hun
dred persons on board; and never, we believe,.
was a party more delighted with their excursion.
At 1h e’check a Proit and Lemonade Lunch was
serted in the Dining Salven, which, «f course,
could net accurmmodate all the guests at one time,
but they were served by instalments. There was
asplendod Piano Forte in ome of the Ladivs’
Cabins which wae kept m constant use during
the tnp,—parties of bdtes aloo amnsrd themesises
singing on the quarter deck, "
After Lunch, when nearly all the party were o9
deck, Mr. Snow intimated that he wished to ad-
Gress a few words to hie friends who benoured
spoke modestly of his own enterprise in eatablish-
ing & line of steamers between Charlottetown,
Halifax, and Boston ; but he embarked in it with
the utmost; he said he had great confidence in its
success ; and if not disappointed in bis expecta-
tions, he would increase the number of steemors
on the line. He greatly admired the beauty of
this fertile Island, which he and his countrymen
would invade, net with any hostile intent, but
with the olive braoch of peace, to cultivate more
tween us—to interchange therr commodities for
ours; and while expanding their own trade, te
help to develope the valnable resources of which -
this Island is possessed. He thanked the coim-
But! brought on himself and his posterity by such as-| pany very cordially for their acerptance of bis,
aving | seciations, for the boys on the streets, whenever | invitation, and hoped he would be better ac
quainted with them all in time to come.
The Hon. T. H. Haviland, Mayor of the City, -
(who, together with all hs family, were amonget
the guests,) was then elected Chairman of this
novel and hurriedly improvised meeting. He
expressed the very great pleasure he felt at par-
ticipating in such an excursion. He ssid that
the enterprise of which their estimable host was
the head, was not only eminently creditable to
hin and to those conneeted with him, but it gave
promise of conferring very great advantages on
Prince Edward Island, in whose prosperity they
were all so deeply concerned. He was sure that
he expressed the feeling of al) present, when he
suid it was his heartfelt hope that a line of
steamships, such as the one just established by
Mr. Snow, would recerve sufficient
. Anegro division of | folk’ are from home,” and on entering the house to have them continued, as they could not fail to
enbance the wealth and prosperity of the coun- ~
try. Mr. Haviland concluded by thanking Mr.
Snow, on behalf of the company present, for the
kindness shown to them by imviting them on thay
eXcursion.
His Worship then called upon the Hon. Edward
Palmer, Attorney General, to address the meeting.
Mr. Palmer promptiy responded to the eal). He
expressed bis admiration of the splendid steaw-
ship on whose deck he stood, and the gratification
he felt at enjoying such an exeursiun. He rejored
at the enlarged intercourse whieb was springing
up between this Island and the United Btates.
It was not merely conducive te the wealth snd
prosperity of the country by opening pew changels
of trade, and developing resources bitherte. se -
glected, but such a lime of steam communication,
was invaluably, (said the honorable gentleman),
as a bond of friendship, that be hoped would
never be sundered, bat whose lioke would
become brighter by long cuntinued imtercourse
beween American citizeus and the people of
im,| this Island, thereby affording » guarantee, thet
;| 00 matter what mternational misunderstand:ng®
might arise, we would ve less disposed to quarrel”
when we understood each other better. He al-
'| luded to the prejudices, engendered by ignorance, —
whieh led those who encouraged them, to look
with an unfavorable eye upon such stesmabipe 94
the Franconia, that gave so much employment to
the butchers and bakers, and carried away large
quantities uf farm produce, thereby raising the
price of asticles taat entered so largely ipto ous
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