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standing their blustering asd bellowing against it, find an enemy admitting that he bas had no the Lower Canada opposition with hope, and suppress a free and open discussion; and the

and the crooked devices of Mr. Palmer to bout. matel sinee the death of D. McLean. But

if your Legislature says that it will have baMed and erest-fallen Anti- Unionists retired

. serene | oF , , -a Fdwar i ace v si -ortai hi j ‘ y ill F . . . «
ticles, by Exeter Halls and political emiss of thie eharaoter Save made their appearance | FROM OUR HALIFAX CORRESPONDEN r.!'To have Prince Edward Island placed under the | j js certainly a poor compliment to D. nothing te do with the scheme, then we wi from the City Meeting in disgust. ‘The Court

saries, by contributions of money, by diplo- within a few weeks. Se far as they show er : |
macy, oe social and religious aibaseees 1 in the delt ef the several States, chew! bbe of | Havirax, N.S., Jan. 30, 1865. |
fine, by every instrumentality that could be special interest, the effects of war upon Dear Examiner—-

brought to bear upon the human mind, finance being in some cases very distinctly! JF ¢here is one feeling which predominates |
England bas been laboring tor the last thirty, marked. As will be perceived from the fol-|j,. Nova Scotia more than in any other,
years to propel her whole moral weightupon lowing statement, debts have rapidly acca- | Colony, it is that of loyalty—devoted attach-
the Northera mind, so 48 to instigate and in- mulated within the last four years, and | ment to British Institutions and the British |
flame it to sectional hastility against those chiefly in prosecuting the war :— Queen and a just pride in the power and|
States of the Union in which slavery existed ’ ‘

Pennsylvania... y.eey eee y + 00+ $39,379,603 | prosperity of that empire upon which ** the|

Phe west distinguished Southern statesmen, Wassachusettsc....ccececees +» 22.893.972!sun never sets.”” 1 do not mean by this}
oa & visit to her capital, was ostentatiously | pio...) o.oo... ke a ees ae .. 13,500.751) statement to make any invidious com purisons
slighted by the nobility, and a fugitive slave) pyinois. . ee eee AEE 11,178,514) between this and the sister Provinces, but
publicly petted by the same Duchess of) Now York. ,.......... eo - 6.278.954 ‘simply aver that, from our surroundings for
Southerland who dispossessed her white ten-/ yjaine,.... 6... Ce ae ee « 5,137,500) the past hundred years, the continual pre-
satry in Scotland to convert their farms 1t0) Connecticut............. +.+-+ 5,000,000) sence of large armies and fleets, from remini-
sheep walks. ' ~~." | Pet necscess hcinbanee 3,541,129 | seences handed down to successive generations,

The Suuth never had a friend in England) Wisconsin........ caneanannnes 2.500.000 | this country is devotedly, enthusiastically

til this war began! Was all this philao~| yor, one
thropy? Every child knows that Englend |
hes Sees the greatest slave-trader in the}
world, and herself planted the inst'(ution
here which suddenly became a0 wh orrent to
her moral sense. Even an idiot can under-|
stand that ehe only uscd anti-slavery as a
wedge to accomplish the disruption of a|
hated and formidzble power, and hence, pow)
that her object is accomplished, she preserves
a ** rigid newtrality,”’ and takes sides with
neither ** belligereats."’ i

But the day of retribution will one day|
come. We are beginuing to think that the)
day is not far distant. Her held upon the

Now Jersey enjoys the enviable distinction) The above may seem irrevalent in a letter
of having no debt, but some other States are | like miuv, but what Ll want to show is this:
heavily burthened. Take Maine for example, Nothing has had more influence in turning
which, before the war, owed only $700,000, | the tide of public opinion in favor of Confe-
but now has an indebtedness of $5,137,000, | deration, in this I tovince, than the favorable
exclusive Of large amounts to he refunded to} idea entertained of the measure by the Go-|
cities and towns for aid given to soldiers’ | verument and leading men of Great Britain. |
families. The Portland Argus, in contem- | Stamy ed with this great seal of authority, |
plating the gloomy prespect, is constrained | the scheme has commended itself to the
to say ** the indications are that the amount | tention and favorable consideration of ban-|
of taxation, municipal, State and Federal,| dreds who before were dubious as to the ad-|
will inevitably reach the utmost limit that | visability of entering into the arrangement, |
can be borne. The State tax this year is to} or the benefits to be conlerred thereby.

enseya en. ap sarious, | 02 increased by some three bundred and fifty | Under the sanction of the British Govern-
seageiGerns provines mea ye (gpa * | thousand dollars over that of last year, or to) ment, and with an assurance of its protec-|
und her ancient Gomination “ - Wes a eight times the amount it was six years ago.’’| tion in time of need, they are willing to)
ere long, ee enseemtally ap ag he R 1 ‘l | Massachusetts owes no less than $22,893,-| enter upon tbis new era, feeling that even if}
or doubt — eyepiece wom a ' . | 972, of which $14,372,000 was added during| the state of affuirs is not bettered by the}
lion, and wishes that he — ws: sad the war. This sum, however, includes the| change, they cannot be made much worse.
ever ; but it is only cand, ae One eek | debt ($5,000,000) guaranteed by railroad} Then there is another large class of our
may be built up oa the Common ruin of the} companies. Of the State debt of Wisconsin, | population who trouble themselves very little
United States and the Confederacy. all bat $100,000 was incurred for war pur- about the merits or demerits of the scheme ; |
. a ay -w oses. Pennsylvania, with a large debt, ex-| but having full confidence in the judgment
THE NEW YORK HERALD ON WA 8-1 ceeetiens a pen en relief in the discovery of and patriotism of the party leaders who have

The Herald, not “enntens with inflam ng| immense subterranean reservoirs of oil, to say for the nonce buried er eae in
the passions of the American people aga ast; nothing of the continued development ol | order to concummate this amed secre >
England, indulges its readers this morning the iron and coal regions. In this she is) are perfectly na dae em ete Sevtia should
with a iecture upon the benefits of war. ‘The| rewarkably favored. Ohio will have to meet | pase favorably upon the scheme, and thus |
text is the Monroe Doctrine, and the ideas of | ber obligatious under circumstances less pro- form a portion of the new empire. The lat- |
the Herald's editorial are derived from the) pitious, for while the public mdebtedness| ter class number many thousands, and on
Richmond Engwrer, whieh, a few days ayo, | bas increased, the available resources in some | to be found in all the Colonies. To some,
expressed the hope that if the South 1s com-| respects have diminished, apparently on| again, the grandeur of the work—that of
peiled to submit, the chivalry may still be|#ccount of the loss of manual labor by ab- forming @ por of's large empire, instead |
enabied to continue in the path of war by | Sotption in the army or by emigration. The} of being a emali Province, couiparatively
joining the North in @ crusade against che| editor's statement just published shows| unknown abroad—holds out sufficient induce-
rights uf oar neighbours. | that, as compared with the year 1861, the| ment for the ardent support of anything

The Herald says :— number of acres in cereal crops has fallen | and everything having this vbject in view.

“Foreign ware can be recognized on every | from 6 570,892 to 0,145,374, of which about 4, am a British American,’’ would be to|
page of bistery as the definite turce that binds) fifteen per cent was in the last year. In the| them as proud a boast, when asked their na-
communities inty nations, that furees into uvity; quantity of cereals produced there was a| tionality in foreign lands, as **T ama Ro-|
separate peopies,that consolidates and strengthens} decline from 106,748,942 bushels in 1862 to man’? was to the ancient inhabitants of that
the unity of these who hold loosely together, and! 88 945,636 in 1864, the decrease being about classic city in response to a similar query.
that invigorates an already established nationality | seventeen per cent in the last year. Except | Meanwhile * the (Confederation) bail is
wita the grandest spirit. War is a severe regi-| jn the single item of sheep, there was a cor-|up”’ throughout the country. Meetings are |
men, & ferce treatment; but, like every other| responding decline in the number of domestic! being held every day in some one or more |
acvere regunen or fierce treatment, while it is | animals. | districts, end ot: the naan enening. ween tien)
certain destruction to the puny—te those whose | felloivine 4. ; 4 |

we Hate tga for yo a ee | ollowing day, the telegraph ashes to us the

vital current runs low—it is lite and a higher er-| A telearans went th nds of the papers intellie “that ** tl U a
ganization, a vigorous health, a more periect| “ s e & rounds 0 pap | tate igence 5 at the L nion feeling was!
sympathy, and oueness of all the parts in those| @ short time ago, about a number of murders | tfemendous,”’ or that ** Resvlutions denoun- |
whe ean stand it. This is so true that, great as! in New York on New Year's Day. The fol- cing the pro posed Confederation were passed |
the herrors of war unquestionably are, it is cer- : ’ z | unanimously.’’ [tis to be observed, however,
tain that there are times when it would bea wise| owing from a Liverpool paper is quite as} as rather a singular circumstance, that ac-
stutesmanslip to invoke war, with all its horrors, | bad ;— cording to the position taken by the news-
as See oe pag at | 4 The season of Christmas seems to be re- | paper to whom the telegram is forwarded, 80)
the assertion made by intelligent Europeans, At the bow street pulice uffice, London, there | tt soa” tea mina uiiiemcctiemmm Te
that the American people have imbibed the| ¥°T® MOFe persons arrested on the 2oth than} mts “6 Suibedaiines 9 ee wai : em “4
spirit of the Indian from the soil whieh they | *#¢ cells could accommodate, and theest nt of | rite nael baying camps i.
: Tae belief in| dissipation is declared to be unprecedently |'t—4re constantly on the ** go,’’ now ad-
have wrested from his grasp. The belief in) auned., - paietine Gineiman ese cated on | dressing some half dozen sturdy settlers in
the benefits of war is an essentially a the Sch Gee. tenedes. Theos men, for the| the backwoods of the Province, and again
one, the more man recedes from the **state same offene*, were under sentence of death | laying their views befure large and influenual

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Lhe dvctrine of the Herald, if carried into| °4- [a London, an [talian, named Poliom.| score a th iy pti wm * FA th sist
practice, would make the whole world a|'2® public-house brawl, killed one man by prereetie rh 5 4 nll Poe ’ |
scene of carnage, and place, at all times, the! stabbing bim in the abdomen, and dangerous-| th 7 ott of an ear tine feat sie acai *s
weak eader the hesie of the strong. No free| ly wounted two others. At Brighton a| a ogee e ne ane appeals at
community could exist upon the face of the| wretched cripple, without either of his legs, | ae ra pe a ae sa a bess ats yh tt
earth ualees it were sufficiently powerful to| deliberately blew out the brains of a man 93 memo “~~ ms sy . — pete snese pnd
withetand aggressions on the part of their with whom be had some trumpery quarrel. uM ‘ om the pen of any o _ eyes

. . . | At Aldershot the body of a man has been| Mr- McCully, I have every reason to believe |
mangeaers. oe NESD Ae Sintey JueNe co found, and it is believed that murder has| that they would have an immense effect. |
tion nor bigher right than the desire to kuit beencommitted. At Chelasford, Wane, the} * * * * * |

ther more closely the component parts of | 0 ies . U
naeepediabehe i, mca et | man who murdered Amelia Blunt, was hang- | But Mr. McOully isa member of the Upper

What would be suid of the morality or de-| ed. At Liverpool thirty cases occupied the | serie pac yy probests: = pe ple
cency of the individual who makes a mur-| COTOMer Ss attention in a single day, and in| fish ne rag dy re hae ne oe 4 cae: |
dervus attack upon an innocent and unoff-nd-| fitteen of these cases the persons were found me " oor aan : - 4 seth tt, ing wt
ing pedestrian whom he chances to meet, dead. erie y sg "t ng sae . eit
with no higher justification for bis ruffian an | * pe se . . i 0 ay ba 8 Spi oo bes pgs I i a
than that he felt the necessity for some ¢x-| The New York Herald ie at its favorite | © d it i t be | set r hi Bo deena
citement ; thet the exercise incident to the) ¥°T* of abusing England and threatening all | ted ; mn he PPh ~ el ate tie ge bipen ath
wielding of a club upon the heads of his fol.| 8°" of vengeance upon monarchial govern. sakes aif Ces aie del tt wikier ba
low citizens is beneficial to bis muscular sys- ag vse in a late moar Ahi fiod | Orie, r dowd eherguantieeey

- gt sh exere : hi the fv owing chuice morceau :—** e must ? i : : |
pt rn tr years. bra ang close up the war in order that we may have aa — eee. wer heen
tion be impaired. Such an individeal ought|® {ree field for the settlement of our scores | "*F® he ee

von be k i got). bb Beinland and Ber aor |an indication of the unpopularity of Cunte-
to be incarcerated fur life, or be subjected to) Wit Sogiend and France for the insults and/ | in the ehiesia’ . ween: ‘ith |
tue restraining influence of a straight jackot. | °UT4Ecs heaped upon us by those countries | ‘ al SGimmity -with |

, : f .| while oar hands have been tied by this great) Which it is opposed ; while their opponents
A nation acting under the advice of the! y & | looks upon it as of little consequence which |

: . 0 |domestic struggle. Foreign wars, through :

stant menace to the happiness of mankind, | ee 4 bond of union to a people; and a they will oventeall re + ek be Tealiae be
For four years past we have experienced fteign war that is necessary to our dignity rete y ced to come ty

the ‘blessings of war.”’ We have felt what and honor must serve this purpose for us, .

, Finish the rebellion, and the men of the tw There is but little local intelligerce to|
it was to lose friends, brothers, fathers and| nae | 5 baits ‘ ™ chronicle. The sleighing is good, and has!

hasbands upon the battle field. We can no| Sections, engaged in a common war against a) | ime T:
Senetit tad Mar with an eye of contempt the|Co™mon enemy, will be brothers once more | 5v¢® 80 tor sume time past. Tandem and single |
Zz £ y empt the | p teams, with fast Lorse flesh attached, are!

|i i i ‘ » m f two
tax-ridden people of the earth, as we are |g.| 9 the first battle. Put an army o Solas sredad | : *
° + alt aronnd in all directions. ‘The weather
bouring under self imposed burthens, heavier hundred thousand Northern and Southern | 4J!%% e

by far than are imposed upon any nation in men commingled on the Canadian border, | 00 Sar during the winter season has been |
Europe. But we were willing to bear ali| #94 4 similar urmy on the Rio Grande, and | poo Geld Mines ined tonite
this, and more, because we believed that we M@ximilian will skedaddle out of Mexico, ; nt "4 on po oe # wma, |
were fighting and suffering for a principle jand England will pay bills for the damage se 7 pans ‘3 a sample of this, the
''done to our commerce be her pirates; or | ‘#¢t need only be cited that a lump of the

for nativnal life and national | ; but i Bi ul w i
= " , > gs c % ional eee a i we shall have a war that will shake the Prec-ous metal was brought to the city one
e strugg!s in which we are engaged, if all) ‘ : jr day this week weighing over 250 ounces
this blood-letting has nu higher justification. governments of those two countries to their| d valued 5 r nine
als Mee ie eae “health ‘foundations, and give their people an occa- #94 Valued at $5000, the product of nine
B that it ws tu serve asa ‘healthy stimu-| © days’ crushing at the German Company's
Jent,”? the world may well stand aghast at %09 “ chaunt over themselves those requiems k Warerl - company
sesh an caterop of barbariem in the pera of {that chey intended to chaunt over the great) WOTSS os er a Such pleasing results
civilization, and its interests would be to or- | T¢PUblic.” Bye tet ew teen deen oe

Kanize an international posse comitatus for D +" ——— yew Co re me a ry
the cuming of a socia! monster, such as we, . AN OFFER TO MURDER PresipENT Lavcoty, | °F ea OG os Senmnenateve 68 . fs
water the Merelds advices would mate f| SECRETARY SewakD AND ANDREW JOHNSON, or Lunendarg Lo., it is said, will not be
ae sii © OF! "The following appears in the advertising co-| able to attend this session in consequence of
vareclecs.—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, lumns of a rebel paper — the Selina (Ala.) Dis-| illness. The meeting is looked forward to
Jan 25. si P patch—which has been sent us from the front by | with great interest, as may naturally be ex-
ies: Sheen eae iis pone ge ~ yoageter ang pit Fg vg oa pected.
ee on — é “Ore Mdlim Dollars ua@ited to hare Peace b yy j i
contemporaries continue to complain loudly the Ist of March.—If the citizens of the Peri ra vo pe Tacs ag 4 ae
of the evils and inconveniencies of the p@ss-| Confederacy will furrish me with the cash, or versede » Sons of T z = i prs. 4
wort system. The Cincinnati Gazette says :— | good securities for the sum of one million dollars, be which in Halif oly aye i
‘acts are growing daily more numero| | will cause the lives of Abraham Liacoln, Wm. ide ryan ivanti a Pa _ An rg J
te show that the passoort system in operation | H. Seward and Andrew Jobuson to be taken by ve biee .o or yn Smnng. a, with ope
at the outlets of the Canadian railroads isnot) the Ist of March next. This will give us peace, | S94¢ Object In view—the aggrandisement of
valy of uc possible advantage to this Govern-| #%4 satisfy the world that cruel tyrants cannot some of the more influential members — cun-
ment, in serving asa check to the enemeninl live in a “land of liberty.” If this is not ace »m | siderable Jealousy is manifested by the latter
fb 7 men, but thet it ic actual! ood | plished, nothing will be claimed beyond the sum| body in reference to the new Society, and
Ce) Bere er ar Jo serloas of fifty thousand dollars, in aavance. which is| much correspondence has taken place upon
evil to the general interests of OUF 6F8I2,| supposed to be necessary to reach and slaughter | the subject. In the country it is undoubtedly
and honest and necessary communication be-| the three villains. I will give, myself, one thou-| gifferent, but here in the city the Divisions
tween the east and the west. Were the; sand dollars towards this patriotic Otprt. Lose’ seneniied da the resort of bypocri d
British Provinces sout in by a Chinese wall,| Every one wishing to contribute, will address X., ft “0 dot ladiatienle A en ad oe
with ite only openings at the border railroad Canawba, Alabama—Dee. 1, 1864.” wy 4 yy pom - great reform is
stations, there might be some plea in favor ~~. na pers an mee eons. eat wauice |
of the present rule; but it weald even THe Bui AND THE So._piers.—There is c mre ao ar a, ¢ societies flourisl in
then be necessary to forget the existence of among the papers of the late Sir William belt "6 Shane fo enaanytes re ree
all mears of climbing over or digging uuder. | Napier a story of a bull which met a com- Men® “ — : nig ny store the ang
, ‘ ‘pany of British soldiers on march and| en's Christian Association are all the raze,
As it ia, only honest men are detained and! pany ra Hail ;
made to ouffer heavy loss in fees to shar sh| charged them. The scene of the encounter|*™¢ +emperance Hall is crowded to its
evosuls. Such important iinks bave the (a-| Was the Island of Mauritius. The company utmost capacity on lecture night. b.
nadian railroads become in the great throu was marching in a column of sections, when [FOR THE Ex PSB
lines connecting the West with the seabva: the oe scape Aen it ans g the rear, knock- ieee
that the embargo rests with heavy weight) ing the men all ways and emerging at the z 3 :
upon the sections of country and inne ta ruslied onwards. Hardly had the TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT.
lines of railroad this side of the border, both men time to pick themselves up and recover Me. Epiror :—
east and west, being the practical paralysis their order, when the bull curned round and| Your contemporary of the Herald bas had the
of all routes on our soil with connections ex-| charged their front. The commanding officer a ae! pe, te pees ele 4
tending over the Canadian border. This, at a| called out—* Prepare to receive cavalry,” o hak = pcb igs npn wee phe ae |
easun when, for hundreds of miles ef the) ead the men fixe their bayonets and got about the contemplated British edits. bitettoke |
frontier, sulid ice forms now a natural brid ze, | down jast in time to meet theshock. The tull| Pederal Union. As the people of this community
and where at a!! other points, at al! seasoas, | charged home, and fell pierced by a doz:n point to me as being the butt of their vitupera-
akiffs can land their passengers, unobserved| bayonets. The story is told asa remarkable | tious, I trust you will allow me space in your
ou American avil, not to speak of wide tracts, ¢xample of the courage of the British soldier, | liberal and enlightened journal to defend myself,
where the division is only an imaginary line,| but we think that the bull of the Island of | and to contradict tie false assumptivus of these
should ull go to expose the absudity of ex-| Mauritius was most conspicuous upon this, Werthies. :
pecting any practical result fur guod from a oceasiun.— Saturday Review. a or few Be Be ag brag that Messra
prohibiwry toll on railroad passengers. ‘| be) +o “ a tis pond ranting tn irate ef Uden bens
people of all loyal communities are slow to| Hopes ReaLtzep.—Young women lamenting | '"8 - von seve

: ; é been calli ubli lings, iti
take offence at any public measure, however insecret the first grey hairs, these ugly harbingers frothy name Sg Siaahte ices every the whe

oppressive, that is really designed to further yf decay. Mus. 8. A. ALLEN’S World's Hair! bas the hardihood to oppose their views, and ar-
our interests in this struggle. [t wae 6up-| pestorer and Zylubalsamum, or Hair Dressing, | '¢4@ting to themselves powers and privileges
gouged the restriction in question would be but t-te seal mnes tile ate) which they never derived from God or wan. In-
sewparaiy, and so to be bore without eom-| Cer Ua fo restore grey hair fo is youthful) deed, the subject un which they are thus presum-
deine. as not an uscless embargo been | vlor. They act directly upon the roots uf the ing to arbitrate, lies vastly beyoud the grasp of
wng enough sustained? Has one particle of | bair, invigorating them, rendering the hair soft,| tit musty minds. Whew these self-constituted

é lag ie “luminaries” are asked whether there are an
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besefit thus far resulted from the stricture ? | ailey and glossy, and disposing it to remaiu in any terms on which they*would approve of an Union

. : iil iaonasllmeaas™ | desired position. Every Druggist sells thew.) of the B. N. A. Colouies, they uuhesitatingly res-
Tux Canaotan Dusriceity.—The Army nnd W. B. Watson, Agent for P. E. Island, poud in the affirmative, yet, strange to say, they
Navy Gazette says, dew difficulty will i all tae ee never propound these terms. But the tunniest
probability lapse but aut harwlessly. The) yy. Daowet, M. P. P. for Two Meuntains,| edge of all is to Gnd the “ Callaghans” and
display of attachment tu great Britain, aud arrested for forgery in Montreal, has been ad-| “ Spuds” counag torward as defenders and eulo-
af pateiviia geal, whieh recent events have) mitted to bail, himself in £1200, and two securi-| gists of the tortuous Attorney General Palmer.
eaited torus, will add wang soureca of irrita- ties ia L600 each. bea id & Ge ~— soe worthy pair of Lot
tiun, whieh the contest ia Ameries haa open- would sovner choke thaa cherish the wazy
ed, ond wail teansier to the Cagadiane rf ull| Probably the largest salary paid to any church | easures of that officer. Mr. Palmer must cer
share of the overflowing amimosity with! singer in America is received by a bey but twelve | tinly be proud of his great patrous! But we
: etsy shard Ca Trinity Chureh, | @ust ooly mfer that the Attorney General is the

whieh Great Britain is regarded by the ease yeare— Master Kichard Cuber,of + dollars | 8traw at which our drowning patriots are gras
of the Northern population, but Can idiang| New York. This salary is vue thousand dollars age

h ! blishad fresh claime to |? SOON ing. They are new fieundering in the wire of

their own ambition and egetisin, and are grasp-
iwpersa! syu: pathy and support. Aw omnibus drawn by a locomotive, inatead of ing at the skirts of Mr. Palmer to recover their
— ape.
A muvewent is being made to erect 4! of France. [t can be turned and stopped with

horses, ie wow running at Chanteuay,in the auuth | tue
Now, I have to inform Messrs. “Callaghan and
movumept to the late Lord Curlisle in vase; and both inside and outside passengers Murphy” iat the Union of the B.N. A. Colonies
Dubiis. | travel by it withwwt fear. will, suvuer wt later, be consummated, uvtwith-!

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The course pursued by the politicians in|

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at-/ $eed grace. Doing sv will not cast us off trom and not abused. Until | am better iniurmed,
| our present happy connexion with Great Britain

a higher statusin view of all christendom.

Our lesding men |

}and his remarks abuut the fluating popula- | servative.’’

| ing about this County for many years with- las sound a drubbing as ever fell to the lot

is that he is as ignorant of the meetings | passed similar resvlutions.

Stars and Stripes may please such wen as the) | aird, W. H. Pope and J. B, Cooper—three

two great orators of Lot MH, but it will not please! paitors of considerable experience—to know
meu of sound sense aud nyse yet that they have never even * properly re-|
The Yankee prvclivities ef Callaghan Os mind ?? 5 heli fe |
will find no Gapeihy with the majority of the bake d” Pa ¥ oan at vet ad
people of this or any other British Colony. Our) oj ees otal

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| sister Culonies will, doubtlessly, form themselves | that when he writes again, argument will)

into a Confederation, aud they care but litte | supply the ;lace of bombast.
whether we cast iu our lot with them or vot.| Some obscure and splenetic scribbler|
Iudeed, in a few years heace, our total revenue] signing himself * C, T. V. L.?’—** Canes
would form but a small item inthe Exchequer ot) Tjmili Vehementius Latrant ’’—cow arp y |
the new Confederation, Should we prove 80) cvas park Lovvest—has also made a feeble]
stubborn as to maintam that we are wiser than sttack on me in the fest sumber of the
all the statesmen of the Luperial Government and Movahdu: Thea ans trathe ben called: bimanlé:
Colonial politicians together, and refuse to be “©. T. V. L.’—is very appropriate, for |
arawn into the new Confederation, we shall am not the only person who has i char

richly deserve the destiny that must inevitably ' : cidade al
4 ‘ » allowed to drift away at| to complain of bis cowardly and nonsensica
pivot eg ne Fags he “ He has made an attempt to prove

random, to become the prey of whatever power | barking. 4 ;
may pounce upon ue, that I am inconsistent, when he usserts that

Great Britain has no desire or intention to|L bave * come out strong in favor of Whelan,
ceverce any of her untoward children to cling to Gray, and Uaviland, but it seems be 1s
her skirts against their will, On the contrary, if! altogether opposed to their principles.’’ 1
they strike out boldly and manfully in their owt) haye come ou: in their favor this far, that I
strength to better their fortunes, she is both able! gy not believe them capable of treachery ;
~ — “ gay ory f ptt mares. ot that if they are advocates of Union, they
Our best policy, then, ie to strike the best bar-| are sincere and conscientious advocates of it,

gain with the other colonies we are able to make, : Te : aaa
while we can do so to our advantage and with a| #04 therefore should, at least, be respected

I shall think them mistaken in their views
but, on the contrary, draw us still closer to the’|onm that subject; yet 1 shall not, as one,
triendship, avd the institutions and interests of| slander them or impeach their honesty on
the parent State, besides securing for ourselves a! that account. ** Cowardly Cur’’ says that
greater influence in the Imperial Parliament, and| jf an election were to take place to-morrow
that I would vote for them, but at ‘* all
events, would surely vote for Gray.” This
‘depends upon circumstances. Were they
political freedom; nor are we to huld a subordi- to set up as the cham pions ot OTT a
nate position in any of the elements that may go | would not vote for either of them. ut
to form the General Government; but that we| were Palmer to come out as their opponent,
shall be secured our full and equitable share of | itis hard to tell what course I might think
power in all matters, political and fiscal, belonging | proper to take, as I would like to give my
to the new Confederation. But what avails all) suppert to a man who would advocate the
this, while the redoubtable “Jo Spud” and the! same opinions in the House as he would
classic ** Callaghan” raise their potent voices | qdyocate at the polls. 1 am not such a poli-}
against Confederation ? The Hon. E. Whelan is| giea} weather-cock as “ C. T. V. L.,’’ neither |
_ favour of ap: Watens but: what is he whew) would 1 allow myself blindly to be led by a
weighed in the balance against “Spud and | b it nial de cians Walenta
Callaghan”? Judge Wilmot of New Brunswick | MOG NO WHE ONG Whee 8. eeteag Vals .
is strongly for an Union; aye, but what is de to | #94 the next a bitter Anti-Unionist, only
the illuminated “Spud” and whitewashed * Cal | because he did not possess the moral courage
laghan’’? Bishop Connelly of Halifax gives bis | to face the tide of public opinion whieh he!
powerful support for an Union; but then “ Spud saw rising against the scheme of which he|
and Callaghan” are opposed to it. The first) was a framer. Neither would I thank a man|
Statesmen of New Brunswick, of Nova Scotia, | for coming to the assistance of the Anti-|
of the Canadas, and of Great Britain declare for! Union party, because he began to see that!
CS eye alas! who will presume more to| the 14th Article of the Quebee Report decla-
speak ? for the Spuds and Callaghans of Lot 13.) 524 that the « first selection of the members |

Prince County, Prince Edward Island, have| = ¢ : .
sealed the doom of such a measure by putting of the fT egislative Council opal be made,
their irrevocable veto upon it. Let every tongue | racept as regards P. E. Island, trom the
therefore be henceforth silent on the subject, and Legislative Coancils of the various Pro-
let us all humbly bow before the great patriots| vinces.’” The Hon. E. Palmer is a memt
who have thus averted the eternal ruin of our) of our Legislative Council, and therefore can
Island. have no chance of becoming a lord!

It is most amusing to find “Jumper Joe” ad-| ©C. T. V. L.”? next says that ‘*a few more|
vertising himself as a teacher of Grammar, or) musty unread volumnes from the Colonel!
faulting others for writing ungrammaatieally.
shall here give him a few passages from bis own |
elegant composition to parse or correct, just as he | - toe ; pe a aes
pleases. wt will tell ion that any sane else he certaip persons I could name, who haveeal- |

nay say over any other signature BUT his own, | ready changed couts for a less consideration.
&e! See Lennie’s Grammar, Syntax, Rule| Phe Colonel gave his 40 volumes of good |
25th. “The best of a@memory” is also a yery| books to the **Orwell Young Men's Insti-
classic phrase. Is not the following sentence a tute’’ long before Confederatiun was thought
wodel of elegance, p-rspecuity, and grammatical! of. The Hon. George Beer, much to his ere-

It is net coutemplated by the trieuds of Union,
thatin our incorporation with the other Colonies,
we are to yield up our present privileges aud

construction? * — * but no person can say,| dit, also lately gave our Institute twenty | gaining converts, and the fact that the Address in
Will *C. T. V. L."” say that!
| this was to win any of its members to his|

with any degree of truth, that it is anything else | nice volumes.
but the effusion of a small mind, aad a jealous |
one too; and although three or four of a spiteful |
wwe oe met to get it Written, yet & 8 re-! that Mr. Beer is an anti-Unionist. This
plete, &e. Poor Jve’s candle must have gone | : - lecti d ith hes

out as be commenced to write the third paragraph luminous pa jar’ a SEeO RD (Ore
of his letter, or he must have beea sleepy and | words: ‘The words that you quoted against

duzed over it; for the first sentence of it appears | Mr. W helan, Mr. Fletcher, would make us | mn his sid . . , : . rt) | 4 ’ .
‘ ; iis side of the House than by that supporting | nesday Jast the a
He has laid down some kind of believe were your own, although marked | the henemediad. The Toronto a gt thic tay »on the question of Cunfederativa,

| aud thin supporter of the Opposition, says that

minus the tail.
premises, but the conclusion must have vanished! with inverted commas; but very likely he
trom bis muddled mind, And again be says * Mr.) does not know what inverted commas mean.”’
Palmer is none of these men, &¢.”
matical Joe! is like the pedagogue who asserted as the head that framed it. If he means that
to the School Visitor, “T teaches gramwar!” How | Mr. Whelan dues nut: know what inverted
beautitully grammatical is the phrase, “1 have a} commas mean—which is the meaning of the
knowledge of who they are. I shall now leave | a
these sacants wutil some future time, aud remain, | SD bene? — I have only to say that Mr. Whe-
Your obd’t servant, | lan understands their meaning, and when to
AUGUSTINE McINNIS, | to use them with effect too, aud this
| V. L's” old master has been taught by bitter |
jexperience. If he means that I do not un-|
(FOR THE EXAMINER.) Peery Sages “7 — ceo ag He-|
y : iy ie in Ag jrald of Dee. , and then he will find wiw)
SUMMERSIDE TOWN TALK. used them first, and whether 1 know what)
The talk stiil continues for and against the | they are or not.
Union of the Colonies. The laughabie talk! In conelusion, I will extend the same
is about the ** Organ of the Tenant Union ’’| challenge to. T. V. L.”’ as I did to‘Con-|
Let him appear ander his real |
Let him quit his cowardly barking |

Feb. 9, 1865.

———- 0e

tion of Summerside. | name.

The talk is that the proprietor of acertain| behind the bush, and stand forward the.
newspaper, not a hundred miles from the | champion of his hero and his god, Mr
great City of Carlottetown, had been float-| Palmer, and [ promise bim 1 shall give bi

out much benefit to himself or aay Other | of a barking cur. An assertion is ong thing
person, and that people living in glass houses | and proof is another. And although i
should not throw stones. |} know bim to be an utter stranger to argu-
The talk is that every man who spoke for ment, to truth, to manly discussion, yet |
and against Union at our meetings was a will venture to say, if he will only take up
property-holder, and nearly every man in the the gauntlet, I shall teach him the proper
Hall a qualified voter. The talk is that it is| use of *tinverted commas.’
not surprising that this community, who are| in advance of other localities, should have! L.”’ gained by assuring the readers of the
their eyes open to the tide of prosperity | Herald that | will vote fur Col. Gray, accord-
which would flow into this Island, if a part) ing to my cummunication in the Examiner?
of a great nationality. | A good cause reqaires no lie to support ic!
The talk is that if the other Colonies gene-| | will ask one wore question: I lately acted
rally unite, the Secretary of State will put Secretary to an anu-Union meeting wiere|
us in by a stroke of his pen, after we have|there was a resolution passed commending |
wade ourselves obnoxious by our opposition | Mr. Palmer for the course he had taken as a|
to the whole Union! | delegate to the Canadian Conference. And,
The talk about the ** Boy of the Herald” | indeed, I see that several meetings have als |
What is the

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which were held bere, to discuss the merits
of Confederation, as the organ of the Tenant import are tendered to the Hon. George
Union—that he was often soundly thrasbed| Coles? a man who now, and all along. has
lor his impertinence, but that it bas not yet opposed Confederation, who did not sign the
wade him a good boy. The talk is, Summer- Report, and who manfally split with the
side is bound to go ahead, ** Union ”* or no! Conference on a subject which the Secretary |
** Union,” that a Bank is to be established | for the Colonies afterwards advised the Ca-
bere next autumn, and a weekly newspaper | nadians to reconsider. ‘The answer is simple; |
is to be started early next summer. Mr. Coles’s straightforward, hunest and in-
Hem aie ts 2 dependent actions require no such trifling

[FOR THE EXAMINER ] assistance. All the monuments Mr. Palmer’s

“aiiiens friends can raise in bis behalf will never be

Mr. Epitor;—In the Protestant of the! crowned with that imperishable lustre which
28th inst., L notice a communication from a! belongs only to sterling integrity, the de-
person calling Limself ** Conservative.’’ In) fenders of liberty, the advocates of justice,
this communication he says of my letcer in| and the friends of the people.
the Ezaminer that, ** his arguments are so You's as ever,
contradictory, and so much at variance with J. H. FLETCHER.
the question at issue, that of all writers who| Orwell! Mills, 6th Feby, 1865.
had occupied a plave in the columns of any
of the newspapers since the Union question
was first moved, that J. Ll. Fletcher took the
lead both in ignorance andimpudence."’ All
these rough schoolboy expressions may be
satisfactory to ‘* Conservative,’’ and minds
like his; but for my part, I want something
more substantial—argument, for instance, in
the place of abuse. MEETING OF THE LEGISLATURE,

In the first place, I challenge ** Conserva-| On Thursday week last, the Governor-
tive’’ to show that my ‘*urguments are! General of Canada opened the Session of |
contradictory.’’ In the second piace, 1 beg| Parliament at Quebec. ‘This is likely to be
to inform bim that 1 Aave not written on the| one of the most impurtant Sessions which |
Union. In writing upon another subject, [| ever were held in this Province, and weasures |

CANADIAN AFFAIRS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Toronto. Canapa West,
January 30, 1865.

| so it will surely show unmistakeably that his ob-

| way of thinking? be wonld, perhaps, only to the scheme is weak indeed. Hon. Mr. Dorion :
\ \is the only member who lifted up tis voice mm) Saturday evening, that the Hons. Messrs.

Poor gram-| [bis sentence is as ubscure and unintelligible} demnation comes from sv influential a source, |

} then wrong indeed must have : : ;
pursued. Meeting afier meeting bas been held! A resolution was passed directing the pro-

) Verninent, is very small. Tue Governor General

| which passed between Canada and the Iuperial |

reason, then, that no resolutions of similar | judges, and on Friday last, those men * learned

sent time. There is Jitthe doubt but that the

| coustruction upon it, but the discussion which will |

, wo resources, and both
eT We have a large ‘Guloant of House was densely annie when the discussion
produce each year which we cannot use, and commenced, about 7 o'clock, and every intelli.
unless we can get communication with the gent person in the community appeared to
seaboard direct all the year round, one red be present — Clergymen, Lawyers, Doctors,
two things will happen, either less will be! \ferchants, Members of beth Branches of the
grown, or it will require to be kept gh ies Legislature, Mechanics, and, indeed
barns until the opening of the navigation, then _~ tis « ’ » Indeed, every class
ratsand other vermin will help themselves, '? the City was fully represented. The fol.
and the farmer will bea loesr to a great owing are the n ames of the gentlemen who ad-
extent. : dressed the Meeticg—Hon. T. Heath Haviland,

THE RECIPROCITY TREATY. Hon. George Coles, Mr. A. MeNeill, Hon. George

The notice that the Senate of the “free and en-| p,, on. D. : . “
lightened” purpose abolishing the Reciprocity aa ee ¢° = Davies, Frederick Brecken, Esq.
Treaty, has not taken us greatly by surprise. | Messrs. Coles, Beer and Brecken were opposed
Their actions lately have all tended to show that| to Confederation—the others were in favour of it
they were tired of “Jobn Bull's” strict neutrality, | yy. :
and the only revenge they can have is by putting We hare age: besn-able se get a report of the
embargoes on Canadian Commerce. It is useless | SPeeches in time for this Ne.; but a report ig
to disguise the fact, that the repeal of this Treaty | in course of preparation, and we will give it ag
will, for a time at least, act against the interests soon as possible,

of us Canadians; but it wil] only be for a time, The Meeti f

as We must have an outlet to the sea all the year) —*2@ Meeting did not break up until about 12
round, come frem whatever source it will, and/ o'clock, and then only adjourned until this (Mon-
there is no better way than through the Maritime day) evening.

Provinces. With the Interevlonial Railroad in _
vperation, we could snap our fingers at the Ame-
ricaus, be they North or South. Following close
upon the notice of the repeal of the Reciprocity,
ihe next west important nuisance is the

y 44+ —__-—__——
We have received from our own Reporter, R,
B. Irving, Esgr., a portion of his Report of the
speeches at the Court House on Confederation,
on Friday evening last, but so fully are the
PASSPORT, SYSTEM, speeches reported, that our present space is j
which has for the last month been in operation Getout toa! : ’ te —
on vur frontier, is the cause of much annoyance | BOCBE fe Ale “— — speech ; and we thiuk we
to Canadians, But we are nut the ouly sufferers. | would not be doing justice to the speeches if we
ie > eh res yar won na ge gay did not give their remarks entire, Ip order todo
with tie arrangement, especially in etrroit, i ..
whieh city a large amount of Canadian money | *° W® shall apprupsate to them a very large
was spent. Now that traffic is stopped, 28 people | amount of space in our next No,
will not pay the enormous price charged by the) Mr, Irving will also report the speeches at the

Consular Agents for vise-ing the passport. Ru-} . ). 2 (th . ‘ :
mors were very rife in this city to-day that it was adjourned City Meeting to-night, for Tue Ex-

the purpose of the Federal Government to with-| AMINER,
draw the obnoxious order. Whether it is so or T oo eee ers :
not, Lam at present unable to say. They must|* +W° Meetings have been held here during
see that the imposition of the frontier passpert| the past fortnight by a new Society, organ-
systein is of no use, as the descriptions given will! ; . : ‘

often answer two or three persous. At Detroit ied chiely by bier mony whe are blind to
itis a common practice fur a lot of persons to | their own interests in their mad efforts to
land on the same passport. One passes muster, | obstract Confederation, and whose organiza-
and after a short time be hands bis passport to) :

his friend, who also runs the blockade, and this) “on seems to have been designed for the

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lias been found to be the case in as many as | purpose of making an exhibition of their
twelve different persons, and considering the tact |

that so soon as the person carrying the passport} madness. Some heads that are older, and
lands on Awerican soil, he has no wore use for it. ought to be wiser, countenanced the folly,
I have ascertained that these passports are sent) 4 nq indulged in heated declamation against
to Canada by mail, aud thus go backwards and) : ;
forwards, from oue country to the other, day Confederation. Others, friends to the cause,
alter day. So wuch for Seward’s nou-intercourse | supported it at the first meeting with, per-
policy. I learn that the Federal Government de-| littl ee.

cided to put a prohibition on freight traffic as | haps, a little too much vehemence, and no-
well as ipou the passenger traffic, and if he does thing but turmoil and unseemly bickering

d ‘ .

ject ie to artuoy us, and break us dow if possible. | *°* the results. Confederation will not be
He knows that we are dependent upon the reads stopped oradvaneed by passionate exhibitions

running through the United States for an outlet (on either side. We advise the advocates of
to the sea, and by placing an embargo upon it he |

1| will make him a full convert to the princi-| fancies he will coerce us inte annexation, or, if| Confederation to keep their temper; they
ples of Union.’’ I am not so easy swayed as | not that, that we will go down en our knees and

can wel! affurd to do 80; the cause is pros-

do thus and so for us. T for one, and I know ae ‘ a a
that almost all in this Western section wonld . Sb = weer Giveptiyn > and its strength
sooner see Seward, Lincoln and the Federal! will increase in proportion to the weakness
States subwerged in the Atlantic Ocean first. exhibited by their adversaries in lashing
CONPEDERATION. themselves up into a silly fury agsinst the

This scheme, I am happy to say, is day by day | measure.
acer ete cle

Meetinc at Souris acainst Conrepera-

TION. — We learn from the Protestant of

reply to the Speech from the Throne was passed
after one day's debate, shows that the opposition

direct hostility te the scheme; bat the course | Hensley and Beaton addressed a large estat.
that he, as leader of the Opposition, took on that)

oceasion bas been condemned more by the press | Dg of their constituents at Souris, on Wed-

at which @ resolution was passed disa; prov-

'“ Mr. Doriou over did the affair.” When con-| ing of the measure as framed at the Quehee

».’| Convention, but not of Union in the abstract.
eeu the policy

all throughout the western Province, aud the} geedings to be ublished in the Charlettetow
majority have decided to go in for Confederation. E P ~

| I do not think that the Opposition in the present f P®Pt?s. The Secretary, whoever he was,
HC. Th ‘Louse is strong enough to upset the Mistry on/ has not furnisbed us with a report; and that

apy measure that they may bring up this session,

Hon. Mr. Brown has a large army of spporters, which appeared in’ the Protestant of Satur-

iso also have Messrs. Cartier and Join A. Me-| day nigitt came too late to be available fur

Donald, whilst on the opposite side the only mau! our present No., but it will appear i
who bas any followers is the Hon. Mr. Dorion, | i , PP —

so that you see their (the Opposition’s) chance of |
gaining their point, in opposition to the Go-

next.
contin ili acca
ANOTHER pistincuisoep Catnouic Bisnor
IN FAVOUR oF CONFEDERATION — Weare happy

has supplied to the House all the correspoudence

Governwent and the Maritime Provmees. This} '0 learn that the Right Rev. Dr. Mallock,

| is most satisfactory. The opinion of Mr. Card-| the eminent Catholic Bishop of St. John’s,

well, M. P., for Oxford, on the Confederation | ,, : : ‘
scheme, has given great satisfaction here, and has N. F., has proclaimed bimself, in no doubt-

done much to dispel grave doubts whieh were ful terms, as a warm advocate of Confedera-
entertained as to how the Home Govermment | tion, The latter from hie o. deabticta
would view the scheme; but now these who were)" * | 2 os , tain : 5
afraid that England would cut the * apron strings” | his views, and published in the St. John's
and let us driit on ovr course, are satisfied that | papers, will appear in our next issue. Some
we will still have the protection of the British | ‘ h i
Lion, and that bis paw will be ever ready to| People are rash enough to say that the Ca-

strike down those who attempt to do us injury.| tholic Clergy, and the Jrish Catholic Ciergy
The despatch of Mr. Cardwell came most op: | aiall ae a
portunely, and proves a heavy luad for some who | cepecially, a ore q to Confederation :
depended upon the opposition of the Luperial| The published declarations of Arebbishop

Government. Connoily and Bishop Mullock—(two of the
BENJAMIN B. BURLEY. most true hearted Irishmen that ever lived)

This individual who has gained so much no- ; sap a ae :
toriety in the seizing of the Philo Parsons, Bilice | Te See contradiction to this false
the Americans who burned her,bas been tried and | Statement, But we shall have wore to say
held fur extradition, Mr. Recoder Duggan seat | op this subject at another time.
him te jail to await the return of the Gevernor
General; but Mr. M. C. Cameron, M P. P., who a To
was his Couusel, got out a writet Habeas Corpus,, A GLANCE AT THE MARITIME PRO-
and had his client taken before theCourt of Queen's VINCES FROM A CANADIAN STAND

Bench, where his case was argued betore tour a
POINT.

in the law,” sustained the judgment of the Re- _—_

corder, much to the dissatistaction and annoyance! The Quebec Mornin Chronicle of th

ot the Soutuern refugees who crowded the Court. ‘ a I _ 13th
They now see that nothing will save the male-| Ultimo, has a very able article on the agita-

iactor from justice in Canada, and they tremble | tion in the Maritime Provinces against Con-

tur themselves. This judgmeut will have a great} , : ,
deal to do with the breaking up of those hordes federation. We can make room for only the

of Southern raiders who thought that they could | following paragraphs, but they are to the
do anything in Canada, and that as long as they int, and we especially c

Sipe ¢ ommend t .
sought shelter here that they were safe. They . , P y wt cher the ne
did not eare for the consequences tu us, as long | tice of the ** malcontents "’ here the pointed
as (hey Were themselves proiected ; but now they | allusions to Prince Edward Island, and the

find that Canadians will net be made cat’s paws : toad k ’ ;
of, they will in all probability betake theuselves | PTECHOUS leader they have set up in the per-

to the South, where their services are so much | son of their Attorney Genera! :—
required at the present time. In this connection ‘The constitutional controversy in th
1 way introduce the Mari y e
Maritime Provinces, as revealed to us by the
ALIEN BILL, ; leading newspe pers there, is full of instruc-
which the Hon. Join A. McDonald has laid be- tion, though not at first sight very intelligi-
fore the members of the House. In this Bill he , 7 7
Br -lgicasut ; ’ : . | ble to Canadian readers. We see that cer-
seeks fur wore power tu be vested in theExecutive, , oes d h
sv that that body may give all suspected parties ame pow se maa fo Ps so — aaees,
their conge aud show them the frouuer. The only | St editorial anger is fying about in a
objection to the Bill as yet was offered by the Hon. | dense shower of sparks; that public meetings
J.3. McDonald and Mr. A. A. McDonald, who| have been held for and against Union, and
on the whole approved of the Bill, but did not| that one of the delegates at least, who had
like its being brought up at present as we might) the honor to take part in the late memora-
be looked upon by the Federal Goverument a8) ble Conference at Quelec, has recanted his

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afraid of cousequenees, and that it was through | opinions, and gone back to the blind and

feur that this measure was introduced at the pte | fatal fuld of isolation and estrangement. We

see, that the strugyle, so far as there is one,
even in the least vf the Colonies, is waged
follow when the Bill comes to be discussed, will between intelligence and prejudice, between a

Federal Goverument would gladly put such a

prove to them that they bave not drawn us into generous advocacy of the general gocd of all

had occasion to remark merely that L believed which will materially affect the prosperity any thing at all, but that it is brought up to | the Colonies,and short-sighted appeais to éocal,
Confederation, as agreed upon at Quebec, to| of the country will be brought under discus-| prove our neutrality, and to save our government | specral, and personal interests.

be detrimental to our interests, and | say so/ gion.
still. But as for writing on the subject,| Excellency calls upon the Ministers of both
producing an argument for or against, 1) Liouses to give the scheme of Confederation a
never did. Ag for taking the ** lead in im-| fair and itapartial hearing.

am not vastly mistaken in whom ** Conserva-| scheme, and hopes that their deliberations

In the Speech from the fhrone, his) trum eudless litigation and broil.

**At this stage of tuings no one who knows
what stuff men are made of could be sur-
prised. It was natural, it was inevitable,

FIRES.
We have suffered dreadfully in this Province from

He urges upon) fires duriug the last six mouths; and nearly allare| that isolation should have its defenders, and

” oe IO the work of incendiaries.
pudence,”’ I will merely remark, thas if 1| the members the careful consideration of the have been five of these fires in London, destroying

property to the extent of about $150,000. There’was | 820t and habitual for swall men to domineer

Since last Sunday there | estrangement ite partizave. It was so plea-

tive really 18, that he, at least, can eclipse | will be carried on in that spirit which will one in Hamilton ou the 26th, by whieh a pork | on a small stage that no one could wonder if
me in this respect. 1 am sorry to add that! not thwart the objects of the scheme. That| curing establisliment was razed to the ground, the insignificance itself should make some stir

toc many would-be politicians of the ** Con-| the Union of the Canadas with the Maritime
servative ’’ stamp indulge too freely in hard | Proyinces would be beneficial to Canada, few |
names and personalities, particularly when/in the West have the hardihvod to deny ; in|
they find themselves strangers to argument fact the Western Province is ripe for the|
and incapable of reasoning. For this reason| movement, and the
then, | make ** Conservative’? a fair and| pledged to du all they can for carrying cut
open offer : that great object. The people have expressed

Come out over your real name—throw| their satisfaction in no ** uncertain sounde,”’
away the mask of ** Conservative ’’—-and/ and little oppositiun will arise from the
then prove wherein my arguments are ‘* con-| Western members : but I know that a strong
tradictory,”’ or wherein they are‘ at variance) movement is being made in tho Kastern
with the subject at issue ;”’ make an attempt| section to quash the movement. Hon. Mr.
if you dare to vindicate Palmer's conduct| Derion and Hon. John Sandfield McDonald
whilst in the capacity of Delegate, and if I/ have laid their heads together to offer a
don’t shut your mouth forever on that point, | sturdy opposition, and their Opposition is not
then [ shal! willingly bear the reproach of| to be despised, but the present Cabinet have
having tuken tie ** lead in ignorance.”’ If! a sufficient number of followers to outvote
you decline accepting this fair and open! the Opposition, provided they each and all
challenge, the public, a8 well as myseif, who, prove trne to their colours. Whether they
may have condescended to read your last, will do eo or not remains to be seen. The_
lecter, shail brand you with the stigma o/| bull of discord has been set rulling ; and if it
Coward Accept of this, Mr. Conservative,| gathers strength as its rolls, those in favour
and then we shall see who is most capable of ot Confederation will have all they can dv to
taking the ** lead in ignorance.’’ keep their heads above water. We, in the

The rest of ** Conservative's ’’ letter ig un-| West, are satisfied that thia scheme is our
deserving of notice, ualess it be that part| only salvation, and if it fails through instead
wherein he paysyou Mr. Editor, the Editors of increasing in wealth we will retrograde.
of the Islander and Monitor such a high| The course pursued by the Federal Govern-
compliment. ** Conservative ’’ says, **Sinee| ment towards this country is dving much in
the demise of the much lamented Duncan favour of the Union, and if the American
McLean, Whelan has never been properly Government go on insisting upon non-
rebuked for his insults and low manceuvring intercourse, and abolishing treaty after
in politics. The Herald has been the only treaty—we will have nothing left but to shut
match he has met with since, as it can be ewsily up shop and wait to se what will turn up.
seen the Herald gave him the worst of it.’' Ie) The opposition offered to the scheme in New.
is certainly a compliment to Mr. Whelaa to. Brunswick has bad @ tendency to inspire

viher towns they have had their fires, and property
aud lives have beew endangered.

carry through the streets a pair of skates; and

loss of which is estimated to be $100,000. In seven befure consenting to be enufied out. The

moth struggles with the candle, as is its na-
ture, but the candle consumes it.

THE WEATHER "
‘+ We have no intention, far from it, to ba

Is now all that could be wished. We have

representatives are|exceilent sleighing, and dry cold atwosphere.| personally severe with those gentlemen of

Skating is all the rage.

Mau, woman and child) the Maritime Provinces who have selected
‘y for themselves the invidious character of op-
looking at th J 10 carry : :

iseful articles, one would say that Toroutouious ned | Ponente of Union. We are as little angry

skating on the brain.” as surprieed at the election they haye made.

- But we think we bave a right to say to them

a 6 in all sadness, that the day is not distant

OGhe Gxaminer when the children who hear their names will

™ blush for having had fathers who sought the

—_ ea a and weakness, and disaster of

these Provinces, rather than their i

Charlottetown, February 13, 1865. and strength, and security. 1 as

**W hat has been proposed (and not without

CONFEDEKATION IN CHARLOTTETOWN. Sme sacrifices), by the statesmen of Vanada?

comme A political union under certain arrange-

PUBLIC MEETING CALLED BY THE MAYOR./ ments. What is Maintained by the maleon-
‘ sae 5 tents of the Lower Provinces? Politi

A Public Meeting, cailed by His Worship the separation without hope of nar bla

Mayor, in compliance with a requisition addressed | Tuese are stri ped of all disguises of detail,—

to hiur for that purpose — was held at the Cuurt | the two broad propositions put forth clearly

House in the Provines Building, on Friday | fom pe auch Oe eee peo lard
i nea Aempal ‘ . riti

myaoe last. = Worship the Mayor presided, America must pies himself an adberent

and the City Clerk, P. Macgowan, Esqr., acted as| during the coming season of legislative ac-

Secretary. An attempt was made tu get the tivity in all the Colonies. It is not that we

Meeting adjourned, in order to procure a full| have a shadow of anxiety as to which cause

house for the Debating Society in the Temperance | ust "ro ayo pr near et

Hall, where the Auti-Unioui 5 pemapeelensS ggd s ; set

to collect tb Ponape pone et are regarded, and with whom hereafter they

' po men® Oe ae °°| must consent to be classed. We are perfect-

against the measure; but the energy and firmness ly confident of the triumph of the Union

of the Mayor defeated the disgraceful attempt to cause in every Colony (except, yerhape