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close to the mangrove creek, ond, led by! lows, and as the prisoners walked down from
Forbes, crossed over the spit of land to lfeuck- the rising ground on which the scaffold w a

swan, aad, haviag surrounded the rains,
a them, to take the hare in ite
form. Amonget the broken wall, over which
the prickly cactus was fast epreading, there
stood the larger pact of a cotiage, roofless,

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eloged im uy

erected, they were shaken by the hand and
offered cigars by many of the crowd. With
20 years of Siberia before them, they did not
yhjeet to receive the fragrant comforters even
a moment after salvation from death.’’—

j least 50,000 of those miserable beings, pro-

vided they have strength erough left to make
‘their escape North. Five Federal officers,
| consisting of a colonel, lieut.-cvlonel, major

but sfording something like accommodation, | Correspondent of the Globe.

the fire-place und chimney sti
Ilere. then, the fugitive
den Che purty ere;
and mede a rus ineide

remaining

t around the cottage

was doubtless hid-!

Chere was nobody | that the ship had aut been well kept up.

Tue Great Eastern.—A visit to the Great
Eastern one day this week told us ata glance
Phe

there—but evidence of recent occupation was | seams in ber deck looked open and as though they

plainiy apparent. The embers of a fire of
cedar-branches were still warm, and some
fragments of food—poelings of the eweet po- |
tato, the on whieh
chiefly liwed—were strewn on the ground, but
the man hurosell was gone
entered the hat the mulat‘o rushed out again,
nod prea ntly the others heard him atter a
quick cry. They ran to where he stood, ges
uevlating and ehoating, and looking seaward
eaw at the distance of a full wile trom shore
a man palling away from it with all his
might, and handling the oars like one accus-
tomed to their use

“ By g uly him gone
**bat we eateh him yet!’

it was no time tor standing ide if they in
tended te do so; and without more delay th:
party ran back to the mengrove creek, got in
therr boat, and bending to their work, rowed
round the spit. Liall mad with excitement.
the mulatto, who feared alike the loss of the

vegetable

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reward and the escape of his persecutor, |

stood up in the bow the better to direct the
pursuit. Hulfan hour had been gained by
the fugitive, who lad increased his distance
from tive shore by nearly a couyle of miles
It was a hard task fur the parsu
take an experienced boatman with so great a

sturt; but they bad almest asstcong a motive |

m their endeavor te du so, as he whom they
tcllowed had in preventing them, and the
efturte on buth sides were increased by a fact
which the mulatto as well as the murderer
became aware o'—a ship was in the offing,
exiling with a wind, and evidently only pass-
ing the islands, .
“Pull away, my men !"" cried Forbes, as it
he were the captain of aman-of-war. ‘This
dam raaca) get away if you don’t. T seo the
colore ot the ship’ By golly, the stars and
stripes! Once he. gets aboard that dam
Yarkee eliprer we neversee him more. Get
aiong you lazy lubbers—pull! pull !°’
it the race had been ewift belore it was
doubly rapid now, but superior power Segan
to tell, and the) persurng boat drew fast upon
the ether. Seven days vf half starvation had
greatly reduced the murderer's strength
while they who tollowed were in the full
jenitade ef health and vigonr ‘Lhoug!
Tucker, who aw his danger as well as hus
means of ‘scape, exerted every muscle, he
was yet balfa mile from the € pper when
the officer's boat was within a quarter of a
mire of bw own. Once more he sade # des

(wanted caulking

Tucker had!

As aiek'y as he |

exclaimed Porbes;!

rs to over-

The paint and varnish were
| shabby, but hands were at work with the brusb,
}and she will, ne doubt, very shortly put on a more
decent appearance. On entering the grand sa-
jloon we saw that all the mirrors and gilding had
| disappeared, and those who remembered this
:partment in its original granedur could not fail
to be struck at the changes that time and misfor-
jtune had made. The handsome gold and white
panvelling has given place to sober imitation of
i what Was once intended for oak or maple, but
which is now toned down to a sombre and dirty
looking brown. With a little cleaning up this sa
loon would be more comfortable in its working
dress than in its zew-gaw finery.—The ship ap-
pears exceedingly light, and is high ovt of the
water, the tep of her screw being bared a foot or
js » The green grass and slime shows itselt
plainly ow her bottom, thongh a good deal of this
would come off by the foree ot the hull through
ithe water. Nothing has been done yet to provide
ifor stowage of the Atlantie eable. The floats
lhave been taken off her wheels for protection, and
| she is movred well up the Medway out in the
jatream, where she is aa object of curiosity to
| sight-seers, whe board her by the shipload. Ex-
jcursien steamers ply from Chatham and Sheer-
iness to the Great Eastern, iu conjunction with
railway excursion trains. This great folly does
inet appear to have lust attraction.
ruther teo much exposed for quiet winter-riding,
ind her holding power 1 likely to be well tested
before ehe moves from her anehorage. She rides
ise high out of the water, aud has such little hold,
i} that a broadside gale would try the metal of her
, Chas.

She seems

BF Rk PEER ORE ho

The Boston Journal says :—** Recent cases
f spontaneous combustion in eval brought
from the British provinces has, we under-
stand, led to wide spread distrust of all coal
from that quarter. But these apprehensions
are in general unfounded. Coal from Pictou,
Sydney and other quarters has been brought
to this market for years without an instance
of spontaneous combustion. The incendiary
coal is from new mines, and contains a grent
amount of sulphur. Dealers know what coals

tomers, who have been in the babit of using

what is generally known as ** cannel coal.””
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John Mitchell, the Irish exile and late editor of

the Richmond Enquirer, is now, it is said, serving

|} asa Conuseript private in an ambulance covps of the |

rebel army, after giving his own talents and in-
fluence, and the lite of two et his sous to the re-

De libon.
——_—- —

Pearl hunting is lively in Montpellier, Ver-
mont. Over fifteen hundred dollars worth

are dangerous, and should protect their ens- |

ae amen mata all Bs

rr Tee

subjected to the course of treatment which |

makes life far more uncertain than the bat-
tle-field itself. A general pardon from Lin-

'coln would doubtless relieve the South of at

‘and two captains, who were dishonourably
expelled by Gen. Sherman from his army
‘and sent into the rebel lines, for speaking
disrespectiully of the President of the United
States in presence of the enemy, while ac-
companying a flag of trace, have arrived in
Richmond, where they are to be confined
during the war for fighting against their
principles.””

Two Treasury officials have absconded from
Richmond, after converting nearly @ million
rebel treasury notes into greenbacks.

A flag of truce recently brought into New-
bern quite a number of refugees, many of
whom belong to the first families of the
State, who are on their way North, having
lost all confidence in the rebel cause since
the capture of Atlanta. Among the number
was the wife of the rebel Gen. Martin.

Loutsvitiu, Sept. 14.—Among the guests
at, the Felt House this evening are Major
General F. Blair and Brig. Generals R. A.
Smith, Rice and Long, from Atlanta, who
report all quiet there. A portion of the
city is being destroyed, the lumber from the
dwellings being used to construct camps.
Che rebel army is swinging uround to cover
the Atlanta and West I’vint Railroad to pre-
vent our advance on Mobile. Gov. Brown,
of Georgia, has offered to General Sherman
propositions for peace, notwithstanding the
assertions of Eastern correspondents to the
contrary.

On a Sanday, at Louisville, the guards,
assisted by the police, surprised the congre-
gation of a colored church, by surrounding
itand gobbling up the male p -rtion of the
congregation for fortification purposes. The
female portion, of whom there was an equal
lnumber, went home—not as they eame—in
pairs — but single file, for every blooming
lassie had been made forlorn by having their
heaux thus cruelly snatched away trom
Chem. Such is life.

it is anticipated that Forrest is about to
make an attempt on the railroad in Rous-
sean’s division, similar to the last effort of
Wheeler. At last accounts be was at Oka-
lona, Miss , with the forces of Wheeler and
Roddy combined with his own, and large
preparations were being made to invade
lennessee,

The Examiner complains that there are
citizens ot Winchester and of the neighbour-
hood, calling themselves Confederates, who
refuse to supply Gen. Early’s commussaries
jand quarter-masters with food for man or
| horse, except on the terms of being paid in
Mr. Fessenden’s greenhacks, and who utterly
| refuse to sell to a soldier an egg or an apple
|for any quantity of the paper which serves

perate effort, but the space between the rival-| have been found in Winooski river and its) us for money in this country ; and the Er-

gradually diminished, till only two boats} branches within a fortnight.

lengthe remained between them. and littl

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more than a hundred yards dividi 1 the wur- l, . .
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derer from the clipper, on the deck of whie
the crew were gathered to witness the

ruce
The mulatto became as pale as if }\e had heen |
born of white parents, and shouted wit!
frantie enetyy : the boats nearly touched

d Forbes. |
on Tucke r}
4 thought,}

*« Giwe way! | jumpinto fim,” er
lie was on thie point of doing eo. 8
rege tram hie seat, and ay q cick

fired a pratol at the malattu—a second whic
he reserved for eel(cdefence. Owing to th

unsteadiness Of bis arm the ba!
harmlessly by, close to the head of the ua-
jatto. [Throwing away the weapon, and)
calling out *Save me!"’ the murderer leaped
inte the sea, and swam towards the clipper
But the mulatto was in the waves as soon as
bimeel{, and. with the «wiftness of che shark.
in three str >kes was abreast of his prey, and
ecized him. by the meck. The murderer
grappled with him, and in the struggle they
both disappeared, only, however, to rise

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again afew moments alterwards, with Tucker | sures to try and prevent such expeditions preeiated, even by our enemies.

senseless and stretehed across the mulatt nw |
trast, while hie captor, lying on his back, |
and showing the white teeth, grinning with
delight, swam to meet the officers’ boat. |
captain of the clipper through his speaking-
trumpet. ;

* Committed murder,’ was the reply

* Lynch him, then!’ rejoimed the Yankee ;
and easing his vessel off a few pointe, he |
waved his band in token of farewell
salute was retarned, but the American's ad-|
vice was not obe-rved. Tucker revived >|
learm that a more legitimate fate awaited
hnn.

| nati there Is great excitement.
ident telegraphs that it is well known that| 8a.
of citizens are leaving for Canada. | ‘rem Polignac’s head-quarters the other
|The trains leaving here to-night are over-

| crowded.”’ :
by: ‘We should have come to you, General, long

IN TILE

ace cunts

WAR
\eeording to in the
papers, the eall

young men of that section, and they are ske-|
daddling in immense numbers for Her Brit-|
tannic Majesty’s Canadian dominions. A

{telegram trom Milwaukee says :—* The la- |

hoaring Classes have nearly all ceased their)
parently too anxious to work.

seeores
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General Dix has gone to Sandusky to in-|
quire into the recent Confed-rate plot to}

capture steamers on Lake Erie, and to take |

in the future.

for five hundred thousand |
}men 18 creating a pame among the eligible

jaminer is sorry to learn that there are
planters and merchants in Winchester and

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STATES. | tity who do absolutely refuse to touch

our country’s legal currency, and who de-

Wenben | mand to be paid foreverything in that of the

| enemy's currency.
—— a
TRANS-MISSISSIPPI AFFAIRS.

A letter from an officer in command of a
‘ederal iren-clad on the Mississippi, dated Sept
7th says:

““We have been having very lively times here-
abouts lately from the efforts of Generals Prince

whistled occupations, and are cr pwding the streets in) Polignac, Walker, and Dick Taylor, toe eroas the
ithe vicinity of the Academy of Music, ap-} Mississppi to the reliet of Hood at

Atlanta,

day, and
one of the writers accounted for their failure to
cross and assist their triends, by saying proftane-

since, but the d—d Yankee gunboats are thicker on
the river than fiddlers in hell, and we can’t make the
trip!’ It is pleasant to find one’s efforts are ap-
The Texans be-
ordered to prepare tet

came mutinous when

| crossing, having a very stroug leaning toward the

PURSUIT OF PRIVATEERS. | flesh pots of Texas, and a dread of the barren

New Yor, Sept. 25.—The schooner Sarah) (yoy siehecisiia ‘tam hile f
; . | ‘ , . an nive “tse l Ves ‘ ” e
* Whit haa that fellow done ? . outed the (rage reports that off ‘ ape Sable, on the be u u ietse ip > tne, Whi wut

18th, saw a gunboat chasing a pirate. A|

schooner, spoken by the Sarah Gage, reported
& pirate as having pot into a sma'l port in
Nova Scotia, after having destroged a naum-
ber of mackerel fishing vessels. She was

The | blockaded by gunboats, but eacaped at night.} 4, 5 downward course,

The New York Tribune saves cf Sheridan's
victory in the Shenandoah Valley :—
‘The prisoners already taken are com:

i need not dwell on this part of the story | puted at no lest than 7.200, and the total

The murderer was tried at Hamilton, the!

chief town in Bermuda, and sentenced to be | army.

loss of the enemy is one-third of their whole
They lost nine generals — three

hung ou the spot where his crime was com- | killed, six wounded.

mitted.

wien the sentence was carried out. Capital

it was my duty to super:ntend the |
military arrangements for preserving order | Passes the present in completeness, and con-|
jsidering the numbers engaged, none sur-

* Altogether, no victory in this war sur-

punishment was a thing almost unknown in | Passes it in importance and probable results,

the Bermudas—at least since the days of the |

pirates — but there was no difficulty in find

itor we believe that Sheridan means now to
make clean work of the Shenandoah Valley.

ing a hangman. So mach was poor F——} Karly’s is surely one of the worst beaten
Leiuwed by the coloured people, and so strung | 4tmtes that the rebellion has yet seen, and

was the feeling against bis murderer amungst
them, that the ofhée wae volunteer: d; bat to
preserve a kind of decency, while « fantastic
notion was gratified, the bangman wore a
mask, a elop dress, and a cocked-bat and
feathers.

Thie was the first execution I ever wit-
nessed. It was also the last.

MISCELLANEOUS.
ee
VCMANCE OF THE PoLisH

St. Petersburg states that the melancholy

trials now coming to @ close, one after the}

other, at Warsaw, have lately led to one of
those extraordinary exhibitions which may
be well adduced hereafter in proof of the
ancient saying, that truth is stranger than
fiction :—** Among others, the courts had in
# recent ease to deal with the eliet of the
nasassine, the head of that furmida! le band so
dreadiuliy notorious for resolve and the ul-
most unerring certainty of their revoletion
Who banded over so wany bandreds of ¥re-
tims to the murderer, or at any rate held a

post in which bhecatombhs had been sacrificed | this time, butso he was when he was attacked | thorougl
;

INsUREECTION — |
ReEPRixVE ON TUE SCARFOLD. — A letter from |

cannot possibly he equal to the task of hold-
the Shenandoah Valley against the impetuous
advance of its victorious adversary.”’

The Washington correspondent of the New
York Dai/y News, writing of the great battle
| anticipated at Petersburg and on the Weldon
| railroad, says :—

** It is the universally received impression
| among the officers of the army that General
| Grant intends very soon to make another
grand assault on the Confederates at Peters-
burg; this time without a mine. It has
i been found that not the slightest military
advantage bas been gained by our occupation
lof the Petersburg terminus of the Weldon
1R tvilroad, while its has been no disadvautage
| whatever to General Lee. Nothing remains,
;therefure for General Grant to do but to
jmake a direct assault on the Confederate
|lines, and this be will now do very soon
| His ranks have been largely reinforced dur-
|ing the last four weeks, by the addition of
inew recruits; and indeed his numerical
| force is much laryer thau is generally sup-
|posed. Le himselt is confident of success

plains of Virginia, Several of them lave desert-
mutdred at one time lett Walker's division and
returned to their homes in Texas,
oo
GOLD AND COTTON GOODS TUMBLING
The N, Y. Express says:—The deeline in gold
jsome time since te 2134 started cotton goods
which the publre will be
happy to learn has not yet been arrested. There
have been two large auction sales reported in the
Express this week, and both of them went off at

lower prices at the next sale. Cotton goods ean-
not be manufactured at the current rates, but there
are considerable stocks held on speculation, and
there is a general disposition to get out, for fear
that a crash may come. Wholesale dry goods
merchants seem to be rivalling each other to see
who can sell the lowest, and if the retailers will
only find out the receut large decline in prices,
then the public will reap the benefit. The proper
way to break up the speculation in produce and
merchandise is for the cousumers te buy no more
than they actually want for immediate use, and
with the present want of confidence in values, our
word for it lower prices must rule.

ROBESPIERRE OUTDONE.

Castro, Sept. 15.—Gen. Fry of Kentucky, and
of Zolheo®er tame, bas arrived at Paducah, hav-
ing been sent trom Washington to investigate the
reign of terror and blood of Gen. Paine. The
simple facts that will be substantiated upon this
investigation will send a thrill of horror through
the people of the civilized world.

Paine was in command fifty-six days, and shot
sirty-seren men, aud no evidence can be found that
€ single one was ever tned by a military commis-
sien or court of any kind. He was at the guard-
house one day, and a prisoner happened to dis-
please him, when he ordered the guard to shoot
him down. A negro faithfully executed the order.

When a prisoner was brought to Gen. Paine,
pronounced by his captors a rebel-in-arm, the
matter was always summarily settled by an order
to “ shoot him to-morrow morning at 5 o'clock.”

Gen. Meredith tarned fifty one persons loose at
Mayfield, and has emptied the guard-house at
Paducah.

The bloody days of Robespierre have been
blotted out, and au American avw bears aloft the
reeking palin.

Gen. Fry is determined the matter shall be
y sifted, and that stern justice shall be

by bis predecessors? Why, a boy ~a boy of at Spottsylvania, at Cold Harbour, and at) done. ‘The greatest excitement ‘prevaila among

j9—a student of medicine.
Paul Landuwski was tried and sentenced to

‘July. Te Confederates have iong been ex-

In short, one) Petersbarg on the 16th of Jane and 30th of | the people of that district, and when Gen. Fry no-

| tified thei that he wanted to talk to them, instead

death on the 10sh August, in the unenviable | peeting such an attack, and are fully pre-| ef coming in a little squad they rushed en masse.

capacity of chief de tous les genda mes pen-
eeurs dela Pologne. When men ol riper age
had been all arrested, abducted, and, other-
wise diaposed of on the mere suspicion of
holding a place in the great league, the game,
we know, was taken up by boys, and, as now
appears, played manfully oat by them to the
end. Sed, M. Landewski had been entrusted
long enough with the executioner 6 seals tw
erder sundry bombs and pistols to be aimed
at General Berg—an onslaught which pre-
ceded the very last stage of the rebellion He
is, however, indebted to the ev rage and
moving eloquence of his mother for the re-
pete he eventually obtained. On the 17th
ve was led out with two associates of in-
ferior digsity to undergo capital punishment
on the glace of Warsaw citadel. One
of the unfortunate trio, a man notorious for
having cut off and eaten the ears of one of his
Victims, was alreagy dangling from the gal-
lows. The two others were being k «pt ready
under the fatal beam. They were Uressed in
the penstent’s shroud, were barefooted, bare-
headed, and had the halter artistica|ly arran-
ged round their devoted necks. At this awiul
womens a Cossack was seen gallopiug up,
waving & paper in bishand. it was the re-
prieve, announced im the old styl. of cruel
ienieney, But the arrangement proved a
grand success. The unexpected, un! »ped-for,
undreamt-of clemency affected ali present.
the more powerfully fur its proclamation er
coup de theatre. Many cried, all were moved
and inspired with a sort of gratitude to the
Czar. The mother of young Land owski, it
appears, who could never have hoped to ob-
fin access to the Eva peror here, had illegally
Passed the frontier.and following his Majesty
bo Kissingen, threw herself at tis {vet in the
public grounds.
and lasiionable world crowding round
distinguished visitor,
crously, according the prayer atonee. Even
the Kussian soldiers who bad been « ymmand-
ed to attend the exeention joined in the ery
when they found that the miserable core-

theee. For a moment there was a relazation
in the usual street discipline ot Warsaw. The

people were » lowed to press pear the gal-|ex

pared for it.”’

NEWS FROM THE SOUTH.

New York, Sept. 25.— The Richmond
| Despatch of the 22nd contains an official des-
|
| first defeat.

Richmond papers contain verg little news
| They admit their deteat in the Valley, and
| give their loss at 2.500,
are prisoners.
)men.

They put our
/ 8u00. i

General Rhodes and “Goodwin were

| killed, and General Fitz Lee and Col. Patin|

Gen sounds here—take no heed of them in this gay and

'wounded. General York lost an arm.
Early was entrenched at Fisher's Hill, 22)
} miles south of Winchester.
| Late Charleston newspapers contain ad-
|} vertisement requiring all male persons in
| that district, between the ages of 16 and 50,
| to immediately report themselves for enroll- |
|ment. ‘The order extends throughout the
; South, the object being to ascertain the pre-
feent and prospective military strength of the
|Confederacy. In several military districts
jslaveholders are required to furnish one-
|fourth and in some cases one-half their
isluves to work @ the Charleston fortifica
‘tions. Advertisements are also published for
| the collection of 30 per cent., on profits, as
|a war tax, and for the sale of foreign and
|domestic goods of recent importation from
| Nassau.

The Mercury says Gen. Sherman has seized
}and sent north every bale of cotton in At-
|lanta, to the credit of the United States

in .
Treasury, and that on the l4th the Federals | dieners have inereased in number,

| were apparently very busy hauling ammuni-
ition, &e., to batteries Wagner and Gregg.
| The Savannsh Republican says that the

persons killed and 59 wounded.

Generals Dick Taylor, Maury, Forrest,
Frank Gardiner, Liddell, ‘Thomas and Go-
vernor Watts were all in Mobile on the 10th

mony was Lo be over with one instead of! instant.

The Saulsbary (N.C.) Watchman saye :--
“We protest against the inhuman treatment
ed to the Yankee deserters, who are

Rhodes’ division lost 1000 | ;
loss at from 6000 to) 8»arp report of musketry, the shriek and groans of

He has arrested and plaeed in the guard-house
a number of the negro soldiers that have been
flourishing there lately so extensively, because
they had commenced to denounce Gen. Fry fora
“ secesh”’ general.

The country may look for more than Gen Fry’s

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patch from General Lee, announcing Early’s | investigation, that will tax their utmost credulity.

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EXTRAVAGANCE IN NEW YORK.
The New York Herald refers as follows to the

about 500 of whom | extraveganee which prevails in that city:

| “Par away the dull boom of cannon, the shrill,

| the dying may be heard. There the brave sol-
) diers of the North are battling to preserve our
glorious Union. We hear none of these direful

crowded metropolis. Here fashion and pleasure,
net grim war, reign supreme. Here music and
festivity are the order of the day, not carnage and
strife. Never was New York so brilliant, so cap-
tivating. We never before made such actwe
preparations for a season of enjoyment and gaiety.
Our elite, onr aristocracy of money, our shoddy
people, have run their mad race of extravagance
and show at the fashionable watering places, and
are returning fo commence in the city a season of
unparallelled display.

“ All classes are taking advantage of the reck-
lessness and extravagance of the day. Now that
pleasure, fashion, and expenditure rule our people,
these who cater to the spirit ofextravagauce have
become as daring and reckless ax the crowds they
serve, and are playing a gawe of follow the lead-
er whieh would have driven the past generation
wild with dismay. Gur theatres and other places
of amusement have increased their prices fitty per
cent, but this had no effect upon the masses. On
the contrary, it is a noiiceable fact, a sign of the
times, that since the increase of prices the anu-
In short, in-

crease is the order of the day. Onee upon atime
people were content to drive two horses, and even
}one, before their carriages. ‘This summer nothing

In sight of all tie elegant! losses during the bombardment of Altanta) short of a four in hand was considered the ton at
é the} reach $5,000,000 worth of real estate, em-| Newport and sueb places, where some of the ex-
the Czar raise | her gra-| bracing 47 houses barnt. There were 497 [fa refined shoddy gentlemen drove as many as

ten or twelve maguificent horses at a time. The
ladies, in a spirit of emulation, got up pony teams,
| but were content to drive a pair. They harness-
‘ed three, and then five, together, and had postil-
| lions and vutriders, aud made a show which grew
greater as the seasun lasted. The mind becomes
bewildered when reflecting upon what would
bens oceurred had the season pot drawn to a

Taking its cue from the extravagance of the
lenmmer season, the city 18 preparing to outshine
itself during the fall and winter. The theatres
heve all brightened up and refitted, and have, as
we have said, raised their prices. The opera
will be more than usually attractive and brilliant,
and has also raised its price. The Negro min-
strels have been seized with the contagious spirit
of increase, and their prices have been raised.
Our fashionable shops—millinery and such like—
have given themselves up to the mania of high
prices with an abandon which is fearfully admir-
able. A lady’s bounet, a little piece of velvet and
a flower—to cap the climax, now costs cne hun-
dred dollars, aud exnnot be manufactured fast
enough to supply the dewand. Silks, satina, and
laces now cost their weight in greenbacks.
Gloves are worth what was formerly considered
a week’s salary for many people, while other
styles of dress have increased in ratio. The won-
der of it all is, that, spite of those high prices, the
consumption is greater thanever. But never he-
fore was the general expenditure of the citizens
of this metropolis so liberal, so extravagant.”
TT

LATE BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

THE DANISH-GERMAN QUESTION.

Denmark is getting impudent on Austria and
Prussia’s hands, The Ost Deutsche Post says:

The reports of difficulties which have arisen in
the peace negociations, of new pretensions put for-
ward by the Danish Government, as regards Nor-
thern Schleswig, are daily renewed; in vain does
the press endeavour to point out the inexorable
necessity of Denmark, as she is circumstanced, to
The rumour of a postponement

conclude peace.
of peace still prevails.

The Vienna New Free Press says :—

Denmark would never have dared to raise ob-
jeetions as regards the financial question, or
threatened to abaudou the clauses stipulated in
the preliminaries, if she were not backed by the
three great powers. Russia, France and Englaud
ure now acting in concert, with the sole objeet of
paralyzing the work of peace, te save, at least,
North Schleswig to Denmark, and to effect a re-
union of the Duchies to Denmark by the aid ot
the fatal question of suecession, which still re-
mains pending.

Deputations from Northern Schleswig had ar-
rived at Copenhagen with addresses to the King,
demanding protection for their nationality.

THE BRIGGS MURDER.

The adjourned inquest on the body of Mr.
Briggs, alleged to have been murdered by Muiler
in a railway train, was resumed on the Sth, but
was again adjourned to await the arrival of the
accused and witnesses from New York. A man
named King was under examination at the Wor-
ship street police court, charged, on bis own con-
fession, of being an accompiice of Muller. The
police gave evidence that King had been seen
near the spot of the murder about two hours be
fore the commission of the crime. ‘The prisoner,
who pleaded innocence, stated that he was drunk
and incapable when he made the statement. He
was rewanded for a week.

NEW CONFEDERATE PRIVATEER.

An agent at Lloyd’s reports thata large steamer
is stated to have put into Niedup With signals for
a pilot. She changed colors at Bremerhaven
and hoisted the Coutederate fag. The pilot whe
took her to Bremerhaven believes she still re-
wains there. She steams ten Knots at half speed
She is reported to be commanded by Captain
Semmes, has 300 men on board, and is pierced for
torty guus. Stated to have been built at Bordeaux.
Che pilot volunteered the iuformation. Official
information received in Washington says that the
vessel, to which allusion is made, ig one of those
built at Bordenax, supposed on rebel account,
but which was seld to the Prussian Government.
So the latter part of the agent’s story is untrue.

A frightful colliery explosion took place on
Wednesday night, 7th ullimo, near North Simtelds,
England. ‘The pit in which the explosion oc-

In Uinein- | However, they have at last abandoned the attempt | curred is eatled the Seghill Colliery. Eighteen
A corres pon-| and are now, apparently, moving toward Arkan
I captured a rebel mail en route to Atlanta |

men and lads were at work in a part of the pil
knewn as the Far California Bank, when sudden-
jly the gas fired, and in a mement they were all
killed. Fortunately, the explosion did not extend
to other parts of the pit, Where a large number of
wen Were al werk, Up te Thursday evening the
bodies had net been recovered, but every exertion
was being made to get at them.

The Liverpool female Penitentiary had been to-
tally destroyed by fire. There were 40 inmates
at the Lime of the outbreak, but all escaped with-
outinjury. The logs is said to have been covered
by insurance.

The Executive of the Union and Emancipa-
tien Socicty have issued an address te the ** peo-
ple of Great Britain” and Ireland, on the progress
and prospects of the great struggle for treedom
in America,” in reply te adecument whieh bas
been sirculated for siguatuies by the Southern [n-
dependence Association. “The address expresses
ceutidence that the people of this country will
never give their “sanetion to any proposition,
even in the loly name of peace, that seek to beis-
ter up and sustain an mtamous slave power.” The
address further points outthe great progress which

a heavy decline from last week's rates, while the} has been made during Mr. Lincolu’s Presidency
feeling yeaterday afternoon was in favour of still | iu the work of emancipation, and concludes by de-

claring that “vet until slavery is annihilated
throughout the Uuited States, can come the leng-
ed for era of peace—a true, holy and lasting peace,
tounded on union, freedom, justice and hamanity.”

The New York correspondent of the London
Times says: —‘ McLellan’s chances for the Pre-
sidency are better than those of any other candi-
date. He is understood fo have explained away
some passages ina recent speech, which originally

war for the extirpation of slavery, aud to have
otherwise made himself wore acceptable than for-
merly to that great wing of the Democratic party
whose whole sympathies are with the South.
Smuggling is assuming large proportions. British
yoods, paying no duty, peur from Vietoria and
Vauneouver’s Islaud into California; in like man-
ner, foreign goods, especially light wares of sual!
bulk, are imported inte Canada and conyeyed
over the St. Lawrence and across the lakes along
a portion of a thousand miles with small hin-
drance from the Federal revenue officers.”

COLONIAL.

The new Custom house at Quebec, one of its
finest public buildings was almost wholly consun-
ed by fire on last Saturday night week. An edi-
fice of more stately architectural proportions for
its size, did net exist in British North America.
It cost $300,000, and was fitted up with all the
modern improvements. The whole interior of
the edifice is destroyed. ard the walls, which are
of splendid cut stone, are so exteusively injured
that it would take a considerable suin to recon-
struct the building. By the disaster the Govern-
ment will be a heavy loser, as it has ne more than
| £6,UUU of insurance on the property destroyed.
| The Engineer department also suffers consider-
ably; the sketches and plans for the proposed
| new fortifications made by the party who had
been occupying the dome being all consumed, be-
sides a quantity of instruments. How the fire
originated will probably forever remain a mystery,
The officials bad all lett at the usual hour, and the
principal housekeeper, Mr. Bowden, was also out
at the time. A party of the Roval Eugineers had
been occupying, tor seme time past, the dome,
where the fire was first seen, and some apart-
ments underseath, for the purpose of making ob-
servations and taking sketches. Some plumbers
had also been at work during the afternoon, effect-
ing repairs to that portion of the edifice. The
above we glean from the Quebee Daily News.

<< +

FLoop aT TANTRAMAR, AMueERST, N. S.—
We regret to learn from a gentleman who arriv-
ed in our city Monday afternoon, that the recent
rains in Westmorland caused such a flood that
the dykes ou the Tantramar Marsh were broken
in many places, the whole of that valuable land
has been inundated, aud an immense quantity of
hay has been swept away, especially of the “* bread-
leaf” quality. No correct estimate of the damage
done can be made yet, but it is very great. The
party engaged on the railway survey were flooded
out, and compelled to suspend work. Mr. Boyd
and Mr. Tuck arrived in town on Monday. ‘The
inain road between Sackville and Amherst was un-
der water for miles—the depth of water on it va-
rying trom nine inches to three feet— and was at
places quite impassable. So great an inundation
has not visited those marshes for fifty years.—St.
John Telegraph.

a oe

The Members of the Corporation of Toronto
have had an excursion to Portland and Bosten
All Canada appears to be on aspree this season.
It is to be hoped that the people with whom they
associate will not become contaminated by their
example.—St. John @lobe.

FAMINE AT LABRADOR.—Quebec papers state
that recent accounts from Labrador are very dis-
mal, and that destitution threatens the inhabitants.
Efforts are being made to induce the Government
to despateh one of the Provincial steamers with a
supply of provisions, to be dispensed during the
Winter a8 the necessities of the people require.
Private individuals are making collections, and
sending donations of flour, &e.

CORRESPODENCE.
[FOR THE EXAMINER. ]

THE UNION OF THE PROVINCES.

The good feeling which is said to exist
among the Delegates promises fair that they
will arrange matters tur a Union satisfactory
to al] the Colonies, and it is unfair for any

couveyed the impressivy that he was in laver of

portion of the Press to throw out insinuations
to prejudice the public against them for
holding their meetings with closed doors.
[be Delegates are in the position of @ minis-
try met to prepare measures for legislation,
and it 18 pot customary for ministers to
allow their opinions to become public aatil
their measures are prepared.

It there were only the interests of the se-
yeral Colovies to arrange and balance, there
might be less cause for secrecy. Each Co-
lony being represented, 5! thing said by
one party can be answered by another with-
out offence. But a anion of the Provinces
will have its inluence upon other nations of
whom the Delegates, in speaking their minds
freely, might say somethiug offensive, unfit
for publication ; and it will te our interest
us a nation to be on good terms with all the
world, to show some of the effects our union
might bave upon our near neighbours.

Aumcrican citizens, in common parlance, do
not conceal their desire for an annexation of
the British Provinces, for which they believe
the provincials themselves are inclined. But
that Great Britain, the parent, with the
stern authority of a tyrant, (to serve her
own ends), forbids a consummation of the
mateh, and therefore the outery of the un-
reasoning portion of American citizens for a
war with Great Britain.

Great Britain feels berself bound in honor
to defend ber Colonies while she rules over
them ; butag she has long given up the main
part of her autnority necessary to defend
them, she is beset with difficulties; she
cannot compel the service of the Colonists
even tor their own defence, nor impose a tax
in the Colonies to support an army ; conse-
quentiy, a war for their detence would be
all loss and no gain to Great Britain, There-
(ere, the sooner she can release herself with
honor from such obligations, by placing the
Colonies in a position without any cause for
war on her account, 80 that they might go-
vern and defend themsclves in future, would
be for the interest cf all parties; and it is
my opinion that the anion of the Provinces
is proposed with that understanding. P

em to unite the Provinces, and declare
them an independent nation, would he agree-
able to the Monroe doctrine, and consequently
would be taken as a concession from Great
Britain to the United States, and instead of
war—threatened from that quarter—would
be more likely to promote good-will, and
mst assuredly the enrollment of a new
nation in the ranks of representative govern-
ments would meet the approval! of all liberal-
minded men.

‘The reasons which I have stated have led
me to believe that the Delegates have the
whole subject matter under their considera-
tion; and as it coneerns Great Britain and
other nations as well ae che Colonies, the
Delegates, asa matter of course, would see
the necessity of imposing secresy on them-
selves.

‘To enquire into history, and eelect suitable
materials to lay the foundation of a consti-
tution for the stable government of a nation
to advance liberal principles and discourage
despotism, i8 one of the greatest questions
which can engage the attention of men.
Chat the Delegates may succeed in doing so,
has the best wishes of

WM. COOPER.

Sailor's Hope, Sept. 26th, L864.

0 =

(FOR THE EXAMINER.)

FRAGMENTARY NOTES OF A TRAVELLER
( Continued )

Look yonder, said Mr. Bireh, at those two
members just whispering outs:de the bar—
[ mean the rail, (for itis only in the Sperker’e
‘refreshment’ room that the bar is kept.)
That short, thick-set, dogmatic looking fel
low is, in his own estimation at least, the
most consequential fellow in the House, ]
mean of the members Sir, we call him the
* Washington Ambassador ;' des light is too
great to be put under a bushel ; nor, indeed,
is it confined to the Uouse ether; for his
fume as an ambassador to Washington, sell
appointed, too, on behalt of whom it may
concern, has already been published in some,
if not all, the respectable European news-
papers of the day ; but whether or not 1t was
to coerce the Courtat Washington to give up
the contest with the South as hopeless, or to
insist on an immediate and uancenditional
emane:pation of his triends the negroes, has
not as yet been made officially public; for
you must know, sir, that all great ambassa-
durial negociations are usually kept in the
back ground from the valgar gaze of the pub-
he until after the matters have been finally
determined, if not luily consummated ; and
my friend the Crapaud member is of too much
importance to deviate one iota from the
strictest rules of cvurtly etiquette. The
magnitude of his head and trontisp:ece is
wer positive of the great capacity of his

rain-box; and there 18 no member in the
House so fond of puffing up his own personal
independence ; and so far as his word 1s to
be taken on that subject, he is not oniy not
the slave of the Government, but ‘-the master
of the Government.’’ He often reminds me,
sir, of the fish which swellows the angler’s
hook, and when it finds its gills or jaws under
the very unpleasant influence of the barbed
bit of steel, it splashes away as if to pretend
to its finny acquaintances that it is not
** hooked,’’ and that it is ‘* the master ’’ of
the angler, inasmuch as it can fap away with
his line, &e.; but by-and-bye the angler
wants to count his catch, and checks his line,
which dr ves the hook deeper into the poor
fish, which is soun safely landed and added to
the ‘*ecateh.’? And so it is, sir, with the
** master of the Government,’’ He, indeed,
makes a great splash about his independence
—and the poor tenantry! how his heart
yearns for their sad fate, and threatens the
Government, over whom he claims a master-
ship, that he will cut them up ‘:as small as
herbs for the pot’ if they don’t settle the
land question to his satisfaction. But after
much silly evaporation of his windy declama-
tion, the ‘*notorious’’ Jackal jerks bis line,
and reminds ‘*the ambassador’ of the terms
and conditions upon which he was elected.
and that his presence is desired at ‘*Castle
Inkerman’’ at a specified period, to account
for his looseness of expressions on several re-
cent occasions, respecting the Government
and the tenantry, &c. &e. The poor Ambas-
sador, alter baving renovated the ‘* inner
man’’ at ** [Inkerman ” Castle, is safely laid
aside with the rest of the hacks for the next
division, at which he appears as quiet ag a
lamb, and numbers his vote with the ma-
jority of backs for the Government, ‘‘as in
duty bound,’’ as meek and as unblushing as
the **notorious’’ Jackal himself, under whose
control he appears to care as little about the
interests of the poor tenantry as il be never had
polled a vote from one of them at an election.
Chere is, however, this to be said of his in-
dependence, that it is reported of him, that
the smoke or fumigation of or from his
broadsides while at ** Inkerman *’ Castle so
affected its interior, that, on his departure
therefrom, all the weather-ports lad to be
thrown open, in order to ventilate the pre-
mises, for certain sanitary reasons more easily
imagined than expressed in polite conversa-
tion. Well, Ll think so, too, Mr. Birch, said
1; but pray what about the other razor-
faced gentleman who whispered with the
Ambassador, of whom | think | heard quite
enough for the present. Oh, that is Mr.
Hazlehim, said Mr. Birch—the name I think
is somewhat modified now from its original
orthography. You see, sir, in lreland in the
former great ‘*faction fights,’’ so well des-
cribed by Carlton, the Irish had other re-
nowned weapons besides the ‘‘shelalah,’’ and
amongst these the Haz/e was paid to have at-
tained a very prominent position ; one of its
many good qualities was said to be, that it
was sv elastic that when it was struck against
a man’s head, it usually yielded to the pres-
sure, so as to bend to each side of the crown,
thereby inflicting a wound in the shane of a
bow or semicircle, so that- whenever a ‘*chap”’
would display any symptoms of pugnacity it)
was usually sung Gut amongst some of the
“boys” to ** Hazle him’’—thet was to chas-
tise him with the Hazle; and henee the de-
rivation of the word Hazle-’em, which 1
think it is new usually called, or something
very like it. Well, it is true he has a very
sharp visage, or *‘razor’’ if you will; but.
sir, | can assure you, that | have heard him
called **the handsomest man in the Livuse,”’
and that, sir, by no less a personage than
Mr. Coles, who, [ can sufely say, ie no mean
authority in parliamentary affairs. Mr.
Hazlebim is said to have been a very indus-
trious, good sort of man, ana well respected

by his neighbours; but he never stadied po-
hitics.
to be a political back, antil in an evil hour
he gave up bis own betier judgment to the
Siren flattery of the **noturious W. H. Pope;”’
and,perhaps.one or mure Gospel'politicians had
also something to eay in bringing him oat to
support the Urange Ascendancy ery. Both
himself and brothers bave the good fortune
of being freeholders, and of course have the
less sympathy for the poor tenantry ; and
although he may profess to be in favor of the
Tenant cause, and even possibly may mean
well, yet @ young politician, in the hands of
or under control or guidance of the **leader
and bis Jackal,’’ cannot be expected to vote
against his party, at whose instance and

out or elected.

be continued )

To rue Eprror or THE EXAMINER.

the Examiner cf the 16th alt.

ing with him a huge envelope, equal in size
to that which bore his commission to the
Whim Road.

to trifle with him or his office.’’ Now, Sir,
belicving that this huge article reached Char-
lottetown through the post office, or some
special conveyance, and that the Government
might be induced to believe Sandy’s state-
ments, and like him exclaim, ‘* nobody will
believe what the Exvamuner prints’’—I have
thought proper not only to make good the
former statements, bat to add a few additional
facts. Now, Sandy, at the sale on the back
Road from McFarianes to the Albion Road,
when you solid to the amount of 18s 6d,
did‘you not say it was all the money you
had? you said also that the Bridge at Wm.
Povle’s was not safe to go over; you said
you had ty attend a Council meeting the fol-
lowing Tuesday, and you would try to get
money from the Government to repair the
bridge at Poole’s; and if you could not get
money from the Government, ‘* you would
come and lay vut the £2 Is 6d, and give the
poor people notice when it would be.”’ Now,
Sir, L ask you did you do this? It not, what
did you do with the £2 1s 6d that onght to
have been expended on that road? For you
know that road was not in such a bad state
of repair since it was opened first, as it is at
this present time ; and yet you took £2 1s 6d
out of £3 that was allowed for this road to
some other convenient place, Again, respect-
ing the sale of the new road from Montague
to the Whim Road, Sandy says, **it is all
lies; it was not seld by private contract a
mile and a quarter from the work, for fear
of masquitos,’’ Stop, Sandy. The testimony
of half a dozen men can be had at any time
to prove that they went to the new road at
the day of sale, and waited there for three
hours for you, and you did not come. After
that, on coming out to the Montague Road
they were told you had svld the work by
private contract. That can be proved by
those who were with you on the Montague
road, when you and Melnnis made the ar-
rangement, at the sale at Montague Bridge.
| do not hear that he denies that, but be says
he could fiil ap the bonds and get them signed
in five minutes, and the Government would
bear him out in the way he acted. [ dare-
siy they would, Sandy ; it will not do to
lose the influence of such as you at election
contests. Kut there is something more here
than the way which Donnelly was ased at
this sale. When this bridge was erected
there were braces let in with a shoulder
under every cap piece and sh uldered into the
piles, thereby rendering essential service to
the bridge. The present contractors put on
the new caps without braces. It appears
there was no mention of braces in the speerfi-
cation; then an advantage was taken of
ignorance ; and before new braces would be
put in an additwnal sum of £8 had to be
paid tor this, not extra work mind you, but
work which really belonged to the contract
if we had the right man in the right place.
And that os not the worst part of it. If those
braces, after costing us £8 were of any ser-
vice to the bridge, we might be induced to
look over it a little, but to see those braces
spiked on to the sides of the piles and caps
without a shoulder or dovetail, aud only one
spike in each end, is of no service for the
support of the bridge, only a mockery. Now,
Sir, we will suppose a man to take a contract
to tear down a house to rebuild it over, and
in which there were braces,—would he even
dream of raising that building again without
braces? Reason says not. It might be well
tor the Government to send the superintend-
ant of Public Works to Montague Bridge to
see if those statements are fucts or not, as the
shipping season is fast approaching, eitner
to properly secure the bridge, or to make an
order that no vessel shall make fast to the
bridge, for the purpose of loaling, and there-
by it is more than probable will save the
bridge from going down the stream, besides
the Joss of many valuable lives, Sandy says
it is because he is young and inexperienced
that people have a pluck at bim. Read the
following, Sandy; it may comfort you a
little: Go to New Perth, Sandy; you will
see a stone arch built across the road that
cost £7 10s—ask why that cost s0 much
when £3 is plenty for it. You will likely
be told the Commissioner's brother expressed
his desire to have the job, and there was no
one to bidagainst him. Go on again, Sandy,
near the 18 Mile Brook you will see another
stone arch, the foundation of which is old
covering pieces that were in the bridge be-
fore, and in a few years down it goes, Sandy
will observe that it is not the age‘ of the man
we look after, but having to pay taxes we
think we have a constitational right to find
out the way the money goes; and as far as
our business lead us through the country, we
shall have an eye to those things, and report
accordingly. é TRUTH.
King's County, Sept. 2, 1864.

cmormen csp iiieersinion

To rue Epitor or tne Examner.

Sir: —- According to the report of the
speeches delivered at the Delegation Banquet
by our public men, even by those who were
not delegates, all seem to be favourable to a
union of the Colonies, especially the Hon.
Tt. Heath Haviland, who delivered a good
speech last winter in his place in the Louse
of Assembly against a union, seems altoge-
ther now in favour of a union. What has
come over the spirit of his dreams since which
has apparently occasioned such a change?
It seems that he and some more of the non-
delegates were let into the secrets of the
Convention as to the few that are to be bene-
fitted by whatever kind cf a union it may be,
us we country folk are free to admit that it
will benefit some, — say about twenty or
thirty individuals on the whole Island, cer-
tainly not more. It is to be hoped that they
will not make the transter or change of our
Parliament without holding an election first ;
and then take my word for it, that there
will not be one unionist returned by @ coun-
try constituency on the whole Island. What-
ever tempting offers may have been made to
the [sland Delegates. in the secret conclave
held in our Colonial Buiiding, they had no
right to promise anything on bebalf of the
people as to sending away all or a part of
our Parliament, for a federal unicn would
work aus much to our ruin as a legislative
one ; either would be bad for the Island, but
a federal one would be worse, as then we
would have to support two Parliaments,
which would occasion @ taxation that we
would not be able to bear; for, in addition
to supporting our share of the federal Par-
liament’s expenses, we would also have to
keep up a little Parliament at home, which
wou.d be fuily as expensive as the one we
have at present, fur then we would very
likely have to pay our own Governor or
Commissioner, or whatever he would be
called, which we have not to do at present;
and the Governor's salary as at present paid
from England is a little benefit tous, and in
case of a iederal or any union, ail those of
aristocratic pretensions at present living
amongst us, would take their departure the
moment @ union would be accomplished, and
take up their abode at head-quarters, where
they could associate with their equals at the

ludeed, L believe he was too honest know right well that we

partly by whose machinations he was brought
He is suid to be too honest
to set up again; but if he should set up, the
tenantry shall know too well how he has
acted against their interest under the tute-
lage of the ‘‘notorious Secretary’’ and the
present proprietary Guvernment. —— (To

Six :—Our friend Sandy, the Commission-
er, feels very indignant at the raseal who
wrote such infamous lies, as lie calls it, for
For three or
four weeks Sandy could be seen strutting
about the roads, in stores and forges, carry-

fle says that it contained a
‘ dose for the rascal that had the impudence

|

OUNtEY Folk ater
Would receiga a
eigkhouring Colo.

gal balle and banqnets. Were

benefits trom any of the n
nies, for they are not able to give us an

except it would be « benefit t i
with a share of their great ootlenal —-

lieu of which we could not ever, pr atins in
cultural country, derive the least ents

irom their railways, except they will
u bridge across the Straits from Ca T
mentine to Cape Traverse ; for, as ite, hase
railways are an injury to the farmers of P
E. Island, as they can have the advan ;
us in their agricultural districts, wea -
kets are high, by having such a opeedy oe.
veyance for their produce to market, inetead
of us who would have to send our Produce to
perhaps the same markets by tedious sailj
Arges by a long round about way,
the water route alwaysis. Theref
all things into eet th a we have enmnt
thing to lose and nothing to gain by a anand
and the sooner ali agitation by those at head
quarters is stopped the better for us coun
to.ks, as very tew of us would get any sita.
ation from a foreign Parliament. ‘[ a9
those favourable to a union, what have we to
sell that the Canadians would require of yg
and what they have to sell we can get .
from the United States? The ©
want none of oar oats or potatoes; there.
fore, even if there be a ws it is stilj to
the United States we must look for a markes
+ bd surplus produce.

an Act of Union be
sentatives, it will be ogeiess Coe eae
mostly every elector in the country; ang
they will find that the people will pa them
that they had no right to take the thing intg
consideration at all, until they w take
the sense of the voters on it.

Hoping you will give this insertion in x.
very widely circulated paper, as I believe
these are the views of a great many,

l am, dear sir, yours, &e
Ab

ELPASTI
September 17th, 1864. ASTER

P.S —I should have mentioned that you,
Mr. Editor, did not, in your speech at the
Banquet, commit yourself to a Union of
the Provinces. a

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Che CGxaminer,

Charlottetown, October 3, 1864.
LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE.

Tux English Mail Steamship Asia arrived
at Halifax on Thursday last. The Maile for
this Island reached here late on Saturday
night. The principal portion of the news
| was anticipated by telegraph from Cape Race,
which we give below. The details of the
news are hereunto annexed, but nothing of
very great importance seems to have trane-

pired in Europe since the adyices by the last
Ruglish Mail.

GREAT BRITAIN.

The crops are abundant and are nearly all
gathered.

Captain Speke, the Afriean explorer, was ac-
cideutally killed while out shooting. He was
getting through a hedge when his gun went off
and shot him through the heart. The sad event
was announced by Sir R, Murchison at the meet-
ing of the geographical sectivn ot the British Ae
suciation.

Fravz Muller, the alleged murderer, arrived in
Liverpool by the Etna ou the evening of Friday
[the 16th. An immense concourse of people bad
lassembled to see bim, but the dexterous mau-
| wuvring of the police got bim landed quietly at
ithe Clarence Deck. He did not appear at all
| dejeeted, but siniled at the sight of se many us-

sembled to receive hina, La jaet bis conduct on
the whole passage out was of the same stamp. He
read “ Pickwick” and other novela, laughed
heartily, and enjoyed himself geveraily. He was
taken to London by the Saturday merning train.
The Germans in London are securing Counsel tor
him. An insane man, it seems, auneaneed hin-
| self as au accomplice of Muller, and he has beea
coumitted ull the examiuation of the latter.
Beltast is quietly settling down after the riote.
The Dublia extubition is higuly successtul.
FRANCE. ,

The rumor that the Emperor had again relapsed
into ul health is likely unfounded, as he was out
shooting in the woods ej St. Gerwain on the 14th
iustant.

Tie Corps Legislatif will be summoned earber
than usual this year, to receive a Manifeste of the
luperial poticy, home and foreign.

Marshal Mc Mahou bas started for bis Governer-
geueralship in Algeria.

THE DANO-GERMAN QUESTION.

Tie vews from Vieuna confirms the rumour
that the peace vegotiations between Avstria and
Prussia and Denmark make little progress. Never-
theless the armistice will be prolouged beyond
the end of October, Prusssian troops still vecupy
the Duchies. and will wiuter in the large towns.

PRUSSIA AND GERMANY.

At last accounts the Crown Priscess of Prussia
and her infant were duing weil. The Czar is ex~
pected at Berlin.

It is stated that the Sovereigns of France,
Russia, aud Prussia will shortly meet at Baden.

DENMARK

Copenhagen is full of grumbling because the
Prince and Princess of Wales have net visited it,
and are likely to return home without doing ev.
The Prince stayed away lest an auti-Britush feel-
ing might make his reception cold if nut uncom-

urtable.
AUSTRIA.

The Austrian Emperor deems it prudent after

a seven years’ abseuce to revisit Hungary and

conciliate its people by conveking its Diet.
ITALY.

The fourth Anniversary of the entrance of Gari-

baldi into Naples was celebrated io that city, with

great popolar demonstratious

Garibaldi’s health is completely re-established.

M. de Labanoff is the new Russian Ambassador

to Rome.
SPAIN.

The Queen of Spain has formed a new Cabinet
under the presidency of Marshal Narvaez. It ie
asserted that it was by the advice of Marshal
O'Donnel that the Queen summoned Marshal
Narvaez. and it may, therefore, be expected that
the O'Donnell party will support the new

Ministry.
TURKEY.

Advices from Constantinople announce that
Prince de Joinville had arrived in that city. The
Porte had signed the treaty with England re-
lative to the Turco-Indian line of telegraph.
NEW ZEALAND.

The arrivals from New Zeuland give the parti-
culars of the latest affair between the British
troops and the watives, recently reported in the
anticipatory telegram. The engagement was
fought not far from the scene of the last repulse,
and resulted disastrously for the natives. The
soldiers, it is said, were anxious to remove the
atain of their defeat at the Gate Pah, and in three
or four minutes they completely routed the
Maories. One of the leading chieftains was
killed, another has made his peace with the Go-
vernment, but still the war is actively carried on.
The “conquered soil” is being apportioned
among the military settlers, a plan which, it 18
eaid, will effectively cut off the Maories trom their
sources of supply.

EUROPEAN NEWS BY * ASIA.”
Hair ax, September 29.

Asia for Halifax at Cape Race, 4 p. m2, 08
Tuesday. :
Crown Princess of Prussis has given birth to ®
son. Captain Speke, African explorer, accident-
ly killed. Narvaez has succeeded in forming #eW
Ministry in Spain. The supposed new privateer
Alabama, at Bremerhaven, bas been pure

by Prussian Navy. :
Paris Moniteur reports English Commander it
Japan summoned Japanese Government to Te-
wove all obstacles in Strait Sunowisckie. If nob
complied with, fortifications will be attacked.
Bank France show talling off 320,000
bullion.

Bourse flat. London meney market demand for
discount at Bank 16th unimportant ; 1p oped war-
ket business raiber active.

Stock leas animated, owing to unfavourable re-
turns of Bank of France.

Make

We are indebted to the Protestant of
Saturday evening for the following account
of the Rifle Shooting. The gathering of the
Volunteers was very small —smaller thao
ever, we think —and there did not appest to
be the least public interest excited io :

to their Rifle practice. We suppose this
amateur holiday soldiering must be endured

seat of Government, andat tend at the Vice-re-

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