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CORRESPONDENCE,

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For Tre EXAMINER,

Mr. Eprron—Wouid you be kind enough te!

(For the Examiner.)
THE SOURIS TEA PARTY.

Thursday, the 24th instant. was—in the good
old O'Connell parlance—" a great day for" Souris;

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

Sr, Joun’s, N, F., July 24, 1862,
The Etna from Liverpool 16th, Queenstown |
17th, arrived at Cape Race on Thursday evening. |

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allow me to tre pass on your y. luable space with | for, during all the forenoon of that day, there ga- | ‘The «Times? again deprecates new American

the following letter :

TO THE INTELLIGENT AND
PROTESTANTS OF P. EU ISLAND.

GENTLI MEN, — Having read that meck and}
enilemaniy production over the siguature of W
H. Pope, dated Charlettetown, 2nd inst., which
of course was written ia the true spirit of Chris-
tian charity, of doing to others and judging them
as you would have others do to and judge you, I
feel tempted to write a few observations thereon
tu the intelligent aud henest pertion of the Pro-
testant community, lest Mr. Pope may think that |
the mere fact of his making certain nisrepresen
tations of the Cabelic religion, and no one think
ing it worth while te contradict him, may be pui |
down by any one as proof of the currectness ot |
his statements
Admitting, for argument sake, that among the |
long. list of Popes —a list extending for over}
eighteen centuries—some were liable to the viees |

-arqn- | Mousedom, in gayest boliday attire, from distant |“ J sips wn
HONEST | Georgetown, Morell, St. Peter's, Grand River, | * it than fo any one else. {
| Bay Fortune, Rollo Bay, and all the coantry east. |

inherent to humanity. and that those vices were |
highly exaggerated by men writing in the same
spirit as Mr. Pope huuself, is that any proof o!
badness of Catholic dectrines ! Why, among |
the twelve Apesties selected by Christ himself a |
Jadae Iscariot was found ; according to our Pro-}
testant Pope that s! o tid be taken as proof positive |
ot the falsehood of Christianity. In Pope's ramb-|
ling from fanaticism te polities, he next assumer |
the disloyalty of Catholies and the loyalty of
Orangemen, The loyalty of Catholice has been |
well shown im the * Examiner's’ editorial, but |
may make one remark about the pretended and
highly selfish wyalty of Orangemen. Previous t
the accession of Queen Victoria, in the reign of |
William the Fourth, there was a parliamentary
enguiry into the loyalty of Orangemen, and it was |
then clearly shown in the British "louse of Com-|
mons, to the complete satisfaction of the ther
King, nobility, and people of Great Britain and
Ireland, that the Orangemen entered into a gene-
ral conspiracy to put their Grand Master, the ther
Duke ot Cumberland, oa the throne, and to de
ps Queen Victoria and her descendants of their |
timate righis. The Orange Grand Secretary, |
@ eolenel in the army, had to fly the kingdom,and |
Took with him certain documents clearly showing |
their treason. The Privy Council issued a Pro
clamation aguinst the Orange treason, and the
King himself called on all Public Officers to Jeave
the disloyal organization, and this timely enquiry,
twenty eight years ago, saved the throve to Queer
Victoria and ber descendants against the foul ms-
chinations ef Orange criminals. And the rejected
fai of this organization have now the brazen |
e@untery to cail then.s -ives loyalists.
Pupe's saying it is evidence of a tyrannical des-|
jan to eall fer bis removal. As a private indivi
wal he may think, dream, or rave what he pleases ; |
but as Seeretary of this Colony he should net be |
sllowed to insult the moral feelings of the com-
unity. Mr. Pope next compares the worship
of Jesns Christ to the idolat-y alluded to by the
Prophet isias. Perhaps in Mr. Pope's opinion
they may be the same, but surely every intelli-
geut and honest Protestant must admit that idol
atry means the worshipot talse gods aud aot the
worship of Christ. That Christ gave Bread and
Wine at the last supper to his Apostles, and re-
markéd: “ This is my body—This do in remem-
berance of me—This is my blaed,”—even Pope
himself cannot deny, though he may consider it |
disgusting idolatry. Now, if a Catholic believes
that the God of the world could turn bread into
his body and wine into his blood, must iz be con-
sidered impossibie,beeause the infallible Mr. Pope
of P. E. Isiand may tell him, that according to
MrPope, Christ did not mean whit be plain y
said’ | wish to kuow, if the Bible should be it-
terpreted according to private opinion,why Roman |
Catholics of the present day, iu commen with the
exerwaelming majority of the Christian world in
all ages, are pot as entitled to take these words
in their plain sense as Mr. Pope and others to put
® figurative sense of their own composing on
them! Asaspeeimenof Pope's wisrepresentation, |
he supposes in his gentlemanly imagination a
Priest over a copious vomit looking for a crum)
of bread, a contingency that could never happen,
the Eucharist never being iv the shape of a crumb
of bread, and the remark only proves the false-
hood, or ignorance, or both of the writer; and as
te a copious vomit, priests do not indulge in glut-
toay, and say Mass fasting. Pope next alludes |
towne of those oit refuted falselivods in English
History, written to borrify old women of beth
sexes, and abont which Pope, the moral poet of
England, net the immoral writer of P. E. Island,
remarks, “ London's culamn rears its tall head
and lies.” Mr. Pope then alludes to what he calls
that most abominable Sacrament, Confession.
Certainly Mr. Pope would consider it a most
abominable thing to be called upon te contess
some of his acts. He finds great fanit that the
priest dors net publish what be is told private)
in eontession ; but what would Pope say if he did?
or what would acy eae thivk of the priest who
woukl publish to the world what be was told!
ueder the private seal of confession! Depraved,
indeed, raust be the mind that would want hituto
publish it to the +-orld.* Catholic priests are ot
ordained for the purpose of pampering to the Views |
of mankind, but for correcting them, and are not
likely to preach in the style of some preachers ot |
reformed Christianity, who, for the world, would |
ot be so impolite as to mention hell in the!
presence of certain people; and, therefore, it is |
their duty to probe moral sures to the bottom and
(then apply remedies, and hot, like an ignorant
quack, skin them over and leave the moral cor-|
ruption festering inade. But it would be as)
qFeasouable to suppose that every instrament of |
purgery was to be used by a skilful surgeon to a.
healthy patient, as to suppose that a moral and
virtuous female was to be questioucd about every |
-ethne. “What would be thought of the fool who, |
on reading over alf the laws for punishing crimes, |
exclaimed, horribls, horrible! Are innocent |
“people to be visited with all these punishments /
and is it not as feylish for a slanderer, on reading |
a book on Theology, proposing questions to be
asked of all surts of characters, to exclaimare all
these questions to be put to every virtuous female’ |
But if Deu’s Theology were asPope falsely alleges,
&% most immoral book, such an argument would go
far more aguinat Protestantisin than against Ca.

| worthy of especial mention. ate : ;
| train of carriages which eutered the village from | sity of discharging a most disagreeable duty.
| the east, after journeying from St. Peter's and the |
| ** North Side ;”’

|thered together in that diminutive capitai o

ward, the young people and the old, the laughter-

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most bewitching daughters ot Hymen to whow |

early matrimony had iniparted the slightest pos-

| sible air of matronfy philosophy.

! tariff, predicts far greater injury to America her-|

Fighting before Richmondis eagerly canvassed. |

| Some of the journals regard it as a great reverse |

i leving girls and ‘heir manly tavourites, and those | for the North,and reproach the American govern- | amoun

ment for treating it in any otaer light. Others |
jeontend that MeClellan bas sustained no serious |
| disaster, is, indeed, practically nearer Richmond, |

only compelled to return to the ranks of their rege

ments by provost guards and by hunger, Make
a salle at home disgraceful to the deserters,

The local police should arrest every man linpro-
perly absent from his regiment,

Another correspondent writes from the same
place as follows :

“ What is a geing te be done, I don’t know,
but I know that we must have more men, for they
outnumber us two to one, It is a large regiment
that bas 450 men for duty. No body knows what
t of sickness there is in this army but them
that have seen it, and it makes me mad to see some
ot the puffs in the papers for the voluateer doctors.
lake thei together they are a drunken set of

To see them all clustering round the merry | and may congratulate himself on accomplishment | quacks, eating and drinking things that were sent

dancers on the green, or at the bountiful festive
board beneath the wide-spread canvas awning, and
ta wateh the youthful play and infinite variety of

| character and feature, was in itself a study and a

rich feast, which net even the material one there
set forth with finest picturesque effect aud culinary
art, could approach. The site was the selection,

i} doubtless, of the proprietor, Mr. Beaton; aod in

its decoration alse the finest taste was manifested
On the one side was the lofty sea-beaten cliff and
mighty melancholy sea; and onthe other the bold

| beautiful landscape, pregnant with the young bar-
vest, and hallowed by the peacetul, holy presence ot |
a Chureh of God, rearing its graceful spire over |
all, and its crucial signal to the mystic conscience |

of the passing mariner, and to those who pass their
quiet hives within the sublime and varied scenery
aroundit. The entire scene was extremely grand,
byt withal lonely, in view of its insular obscurity
and isolation.

Bat turn we te the social incidents of this festive
occasion; one rich and rare une, at least, being
LT allude to the long

and at the head of which moved
lown upon the startled beholders a gigantic omui-
bus, driven by Mr. Douglas MeCallum and the
Boys et the Bay, accompanied by bag-pipes and
nowy “email arms.” No Yankee cireus could
¢ mipare with it, decked out as it was with banners
innumerable, whilst its six paneplied steeds moved
cuward respeusive to the rein, and even, one would
| faney, to the pibroch,

} Only that no one is or can be sincerely concern-
d with the political theology of the newspapers, |

knowing fall well that Ged has not given to am-
bitious editors any “ mission for preaching the
Gospel,” I should be for prescribing to all soured
consciences and bigots generally, a full dose of

tea and sweetmeats, together with a fair share ot |
dancing, &¢., at these charity reunions of ours

But as te that, every age has been found to be an
“age of humbug.” and the * humbug” of our day,
« this Island at least, will net in vain be songht
after in Responsible Government—so long at least
as we witness the present glaring contradictions

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As to Mr.) between its spirit and the practice, and the people, Prussia will take place in September.

always ignerant of their rights and privileges under |
it, remain tolerant of all sorts of niouopoly and

political deception.
What never was, however, and never can be
“ humbug” is the genial cultivation of all Christian

sentiments amongst neighbours whom God has |
thrown together to work out,in charitable accord, |

the solemn problem of a common destiny; and on

this account we hai) with unaffected pleasure the |

appearance of these joyous pic-nies and tea parties,
where even our suber-minded merchants eau be
tempied to try the moral and hygienic virtues of

a brief conge from the ‘ couating honse.”’ In faet.
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their contributions to charity in this way are so

much actual loss to their poor physiciaus—be sure

you do not point me out to the “learned faculty” | |
Fake, for instance, this seuris Tea Party, (and |
une could say as much of th t Pie-Nie at Apple- |

tree farm), where it done us good to witness big
pletboric bodies moving with surprising elasticiis
and trolie through the varius nimble “ reels” and
four or eight hand encounters, and giving, like the
a h onab'e Cockney to his atunning necktie, “the
whole foree of their minds,” and their extremities
also, to the business.

To proceed; let us now ester beneath the spa-
cious awning, and witness for ourselves the grace-
ful hospitality of the ladies of Souris. Right at
the eutrance to this fairy scene or refectory of the
angels, we eheounter Mrs. Beaton and Mrs. Mec-
Gowan doing the honors; whilst, modestly moving
ubout, we recognize the resident pastor, for whose
presbytery the ladies lent their services on this ve-
casion, and whose almost timid nature gave a
charm to everything, even to the few delicate
compliments paid by him, en passant, to bis Pro-
testant and Catholic friends. Other ladies, or
“ministering angels,” were there as well, and
right gently and cheerfully did they attend to the
comforts of their happy guests. But, lest too
much staring might seem rude, we shal! withdraw
our reluctant eyes,and return to the dancing; and
dfficult it would be to say of the six hundred or
80 present, whose iantastie tees moved lightest and
most gracefully through the “ mazes of the dauce,”
wherein all of them scemed at one time or another
to take a turn or two.

It was expected, I believe, that Charlottetown
would have been fully m presented there, but the
disappointment was accounted for by the funeral
of poor Father Brady occurring on the same day.
Even as it was a few were present; and between
four and five u’clock the Vicar General and Father
Dan \wurriedly arrived from Vernon River to grace
the denouement of this Souris Tea Party.

A GUEST.

St. Peter’s, 26th July, 1862.

— me
TEA PARTY AT ST. DUNSTAN’S COL-
LEGE GROUNDS.

We hear of
bazaars,

Exenrsions night and day in steamers,
gine and curs,

And many summer pleasures, of which Prince Ed
ward Isle abounds,

And ‘mougst the rest a Tea upon Saint Dunstan's
College grounds,

waggons,

And all enjoy'd their own suecess, according to its |

kind,

Of taste to please the appetite,— discourse to suit | sive form of incendiarisin.

the mind,

Of exercise and merriment, and harmony of sounds,
And

these were all enjoy’d upon Suint Dunstan's
College grounda.

“Religion’’ and Crown loyalty upbeld their dignity
At this convivial gathering with uniformity,

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}ol a great and most successful operation.

Hopes are freely expressed that more pacific}
councils will soon prevail at Washington, |

The ‘Times’ is particularly sareastic. It treats |
the matter as a decided Confederate vietory ;
thinks there are good evidences in North that the
beginuing of the end is not far off. In another
article it deuounces the insolence of Gen. Butler
in his intercourse with the Consul—says it is not!
the way to conciliate neutrals, and superiors
should consider whether he is not deing more |
harm than good to Federal cause,

The Morning Post says affairs approach a crisis |
which will necessitate some decided course on the
| part of the Federal government. Neutrals eannot
j much longer reinain passive spectators, and great
| question is, When shall the South be considered to
| have vindicated }ts right torecagnition? It points
| past policy of England in recognizing successtil
| opposition, and says if North would take initiative |

and sail with current, which it cannot stem, neu- |

tral states might be saved a disagreeable neces-

The ‘ Daily News’ points ont what would be

i the feelings of ane if situated like the North,

jand argues that secession will be crushed at all
) baszards.,

Parliamentary business unimportant. i

out here for the sick, and thea they will cut and
slash a man all to pieces if he happeus to be bit
by a bullet. ‘Lalk about Catholics, they are the
best friends the soldier has got. ‘The Sisters of
Charity are doing a noble work here, and although
every regimeat has its chaplin, he won't speak to

a private. The priest is the ouly man that is amoung |

the men. Although J have not lost any of my

{ardor or patriotism, fur 1 am out to help to put
and Lam going to do it,!

down this rebellion,
yet it vexes me to see our brave men die by
hundreds and killed like sheep, while such men
as Jolin A. Andrew are talking politics instead oi}
sending men and money to help us and our gallant
General. Itfit had not been for him the Army of the
Potomac would have beeu annvililuted. He is the
idol of the army, but he must have wore men, or
instead of the war being in Virgitia, it will be in
Maryland and Pennsylvania, and God kuows
where it will stop; but give him 50,000 more,
und we will stop it where it is.”

The Albany ‘Evening Journal,’ (Rep.) speak-
ing of the demagogue Congress just adjourned,
and which has intlicted so ainel disaster and dis-
honor on the country, says:

“ There bas been s good deal of buncombe; a
good deal of foolish talk; a good deal of absurd

Van Dorn and Breckinridge were at Vicksburg,
and would endeavour at every cost to hold it,
They belonged to regiments, one of which num-
bered 2uv, the other 150. Gen. Dancauand three
captains with thirty privates, according to them,
were killed during the fleet's passage. :
Finding that Vicksburg would hold out, Flag
Officer Farragut determined to open the Missis-

sippi in another way, namely, by cutting @ canal
across the bend, and leaving Vicksburg far to one
side, Instantly the work commenced. Negroes
were gathered from every plantation around, and
three or four hundred of them set to work. The
canal is already partly finished and in a week will
be comipeted.

IN
AR

Even at the risk of being again denounced by
the Pittsburg Catholic as pandering to the preju-|
dices of “bad and foolish Lrishmen,” we call the |
attention of our readers to the accounts of Irish |
valor on the battle-fields of Virginia which they }
will find in another part of to-day’s paper. The |
charge of the Irish Lrigade at Seven Pines was |

IRISH BRAVERY THE PRESENT
W

| tial fame has never been eclipsed nor tarnished. |
It war like the stroke of ickisine: it was like |
the sweep of the burricane, With a yell they |
bounded into the thick of the battle, literally |
bearing duwn all opposition by their fierce im-}
petuous rush. Never were brave men more |
bravely met than on that bloody field; and as we |
read of the advance of our men in the teeth of the |
‘battle-wind”’ that swept in counter currents
|and of the gaps iu the enemy’s lines filled up time
jatter time by our heroic but mistaken brothers,
} amid the whirl of confused feelings that it excites,
' we teel a glow of exultation that even on such a
‘field Irish valor could achieve distinction. Not
that it was needed; their deeds illustrate every
page of history, and will not be sven forgotten ;

tor

“ The Historie Muse,

| generalization; a good deal of harping upon im- Proud of her treasure, marches with it down
practicable themes; a good deal of windy decla- |
| Foster, in the House of Commons, gave notice | ation and vapid bluster; a good deal of as-|

lo latest time.”
But never did Irishmen centend with a nobler

The Examiner.

Charlottetown, August 4th, 1862.

PRR Owl’ ;

A potiricat article appeared in the * Protestant’
of the 26th alt., which we bad almost forgotten to
notice. A very few lines must suffice at present
to dispose of it. Its object is, or was, to induce
Protestants of all shades of belief to throw aside
their political priuciples—no matter how strongly
attached they may be to them and how antago-
uistic to our rulers—and unite for the support of

| che present Government, to which some of its sup-

porters persist in attaching the name of “ Protes-
tant’—theugh, considering some of the materials
of which it is composed, and remembering the tor-
tuous and deceitful policy it has pursned, it is a
stretch of conscience to say, that any religion at all

this “evangelical” advice—which, we are credi-
bly informed, emanated from the evangelical pen
of that purely evangelical son of the Church, Wm.
H. Pope—is alleged to have been prompted by a
remark which appeared in the EXAMINER, a fort-
n ght ago, in the course of our observations oa Se-

’\ eretary Pope's infamous and blasphemous attack

on the Catholic feligion. We said then, and we
shall on more than one occasion hereafter reiter-
ate the opinion, that “if, atthe next election,
any Catholic elector should, under any pretence,
or excuse, vote for a member or supporter of the
Government, he will deserve te be marked out for
the contempt and disrespect of his co-religionists.”’
We said this, not because we want to establish a
Catholic Government — we are far from wishing

whieh the Tea tubles stood ; and of course the in.
telligent reader will not want to be told that they
were abundantly stpplied with all the delicacies
of the seaso# and the various condiments which
are required to make a tip-top spread of the kind.
Neither ia it necessary to say that justice was
done to the excellent viands; for the etercizes,
games, dancing, &c. #0 freely practixed until the
hour for separation, showed that physical exertion
was Well sustained by bealthfu) aod itvigorating
refresher. ‘Fhe Lady Managers, and their nu-
merous coadjutors at the Tea tables, were inde’
fatigable in their eflorte to make the Tea Party
eminently successful and their surrounding friends
supremely happy. In beth they succeeded far
beyond their expectations, 43 Was shown by thé
gratifieation which every one expressed—the ads
mirable order and deeorum observed from the ber
| ginning to the end of the entertainment, and the

worthy of the sons of that Old Land whose muar-| oyaracterises the Administration. The motive for | reluctance with which all parties left the grounds,

when day, with lingering beams, was fading inte
night.

One of the most attractive sights at this Tea
Party was what was called the Newfoundland
Cake. This was a contribution from natives and
resents of Newfoundland, who bave reeently
taken up their abode in Charlottetown, and pre-

which was of the richest description, weighed
nearly 50 lbs. ; it was surmounted by a very in-
genious representation of the Catholic Cathedral
Church of St. John’s Newfoundland, chiefly done
in sugar, and ornamented with numerous amal)
flags. The whole structure weighed between 70
and 80 Ibs., and was made by Mr. W. HM. Simma,

sented to the Right Ker. Dr Melntyre, to be
given by him in aid of the Tea Party. The Cake,

that when Lindsay's motion for recognition ef S4mption of functions that didu’t belong to it; 4) foe then when they crossed swords with the South-
South comes up, he will move an amendment | £90d deal of pharisaical pretence and assertion of | ery chivalry; never did they contest the palm

a most skilful artificer in the Confectionary Tine,
recently arrived from Newfoundland. There was

to see anything of the kind— we don’t waat to
have a Government that will assume any distine-

pledging the House to sustain Government in its |S¢petior wisdom; a good deal of disposition te) with an ene my #0 rich m every quality that con

| policy of non-intervention.
The increasing distress in manufacturing dis- |
| triets in England is engaging the attention of par- |
| liament. ee
It is denied that the Prince of Wales will visit |
*} Russia,
| Palmerston in a speech befere the Volunteers |
spoke impressively, and some say significantly, |
of the importance of waintaiuing the efficiency of |
the mevement.
Paris ‘ Patrie’ says an interview between the
Emperers of France and Russia and King of |
Bourse cloosed heavy—68. 50. |
In the Italian Chamber, the Ministry explained
Garibaldi’s course at Palermo, regretted his at- |
| tack on France, and said his journey was without |
| Official sanction.
} Prussian Ministry introduced a bill providing |
| credits far increased navy.
| Steamer Edinburgh leaves Liverpool 17th for |
New York, to accommodate cargo shipping in an- |
ticipation of New Tariff.
Markrrs—Coiton Market buoyant—advanced |
ida 4d. Breadstuffs downward tendeney. Flour |
dull. Wheat steady. Cora declining. Consols |
YS ta 94.

THE STATE OF RUSSIA.
The vast system of despotic Government in |
| Russia seems about to pass away. Whether the |
loss of the Imperial mind of Nicholas, and of the |
astute Nesselrode, is to tell fatally or not is more
than can be predicted, but the system does not |
answer its ends under the milder rule of Alexan-}
der. Indeed, every item of iutelligence seems to
| indicate the commencement of a process of poli-
| tical disintegration, From St. Petersburg comes
news of arrests so fast, and sv numerous, as to
cause serious apprehensions for the satety of the
| Government. Consternation has seized the ruling
powers from the Emperer downwards, and grave
men believe that the “ revolution is at the gates.”
It is about to be preved in Russia, as in every
other country misguverned by absolutism, that
selfishness cannot permanently rule a people. It
may for a few generations be permitted to an ex-
clusive class to manage the business of adruiuis-
tration, without the aid of representation from the
ranks, but in the end the collective intelligence of

; “se ; - maintain its independence.
| the mass is sure te tell, advantageously, upon pub- | impossible to cope. Ih is impossible to refuse admi gg

jlic iberty. As yet, however, no constitutional ot
'

j revolutionary leader has appeared, but sach a

+ iilitary supplies f tereign countrie ‘et uble| Won by the Confederates, as well as the rapid ex-| Confessional,—the Catholie is told all this —it is |
non-appearance is even more dangerous than the |" U4tY applies from Tereign countries, ts yet uble : ‘ , ‘ p { ’

actual presence of a Mazzini er a Kossuth, for it
leaves the Russian Government to deal with an
| indefinite headless “conspiracy.” Such an incep-
tion of revolution only intensifies the feelings of
the people, and tends to give them shape by the
action of secret societies,
distinguished German, whose masterly lines of for-
tifications at Sebastopol so long held the Allies at |
| boy, is arrested; so is Prince Obelinski, the bre-
tier of one airsady banished to Siberia, and thes
} are joined in captivity by the head of a distin-|
| gushed German house, Baron Engelboldt. In

| fact, everybody who is at all notable, is in danger | rals will have again to bewin the scige of Richmond | that quarter, which confirms all that we have said friends—the Catholics wilt £0 to the polls a united |

| of being consigned to durance, because everybody | With much worse chances than at first. A beaten | of the
r No man is | 2?™Y, whieh loses daily large numbers from fevers | foree.
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‘lives in au atmosphere of suspicion.
i safe, for ne matter how Joyal his antecedents, be |
| may, on the mere suggestion of a connection with
| @ secret society, be consigned to Siberia. Colo-
juel Rostoffsoil, one of the Emperor’s aide-de-

sia bears a meaning so fearfully significant, as to
}make it a merciful relief to know that he has jour- |
| neyed North even under compulsion, A committee |
| ot inquiry long ago appointed has not yet completed
lan investigation, and the reason assigned is, that

the dimensions of the “conspiracy far exceed | the telegraph prepared us to believe that the battle |” ere . : ‘ : ‘

f y the telegrapit prep ts | xides of Harrisen’s Landing, about twelve miles farthing. Catholics never
There is also an undercurrent of discontent in| The thing is now made clear. A Mederal General, | long on the river, and running into the country six
| the large cities, and it takes the mute but expres- plainly ignorant of the enemy he was to attack and | or eight miles, on which are concentraged the
' For weeks the largest | He defences he was likely to meet, advanced with | shattered remains of MeClellan’s army.

| the most gloomy anticipations,

| brewbeat the Executive and interfere with the stitutes the soldier; and here they conquered, and

prerogatives of the camp. Ithas been samewhat } so have they done throughout the whole of this

being able to know what its legitimate business
was, or knowing, of net being able ta attend te
it.

j severely afflicted with the infirmity of nat always | war.

|
}

‘ ; | the tide af victory ever set in the direction taken | approve of Pope's borrible and disgusting attack
It has been overmuch given to considering | py the frish troops.
| itself a kind of general regent—a superviser, and | © was their haughty and intolerant shout ( Faugh-

No matter how it chanced with their corps,
uo matter how the fortunes of the day fluctuated,

“ Never,” says Napier,

| tive so-called religious character in the adminis-
‘tration of political affairs—we expressed the opi-

union quoted because the Government seemed to

on the religion ef the whole Catholic world.

a very pleasant interchange of courtesies between
the contributors of the Newtoaudland Cake and
| the Bishop of Charlottetown in reference to the
contribution—the former cengratulating his Lord-
ship, in a written address, on his safe arrival from

| Rome, and expressing their deep saterest in the

|of Generals, and the rascalities of contractors.

| bing, but it forgot even to censure a Senator for |

La i . > °
uvallagh, Angliee, * Clear the way,”) heard upos Aud the editor of the ‘I vetestant, wae assumed : .
world at large. It has been demonstratively re-| the field ot battle, that it was not followed by a} ihe responsibility of publishing the Secretary's) success of every undertaking honoured by his
formatory. It has lifted ifs voice loudly in faver| charge that seemed the rushing incarnation of | article as an editorial, acted a very disingeuuous! countenanee and patronage. The Bishop, of

of retrenchment. It has done a good deat of) fangh-a-ballagh.” ‘The historian of the present | : - : : | plied i i
work in the way ef uncovering peeulation avd | campaign could no better describe the charge ot | Pt i leaving out this explanation of ours.) course, replied im the most grateful and coupli

Jobbing. It has resolved itself into we don’t know | the Lrish in the different engagements than hy tran- | Supposing we had said of Wesleyans, or Baptists, mentary terms; and thanked the Newfoundlanders
how many committees for the investigation of the | scribing Napier’s words. They are as applicable | or Episcopalians, what Secretary Pope bas said | for their handsome gift in aid of the Tea Party.

of Generale, ond the rascalities of contractor. |°2 mninen whe fight under the Stare and Stripee| or ux. Cotnchesinia written lttce—ond far moro) After Tes. ti’ Cite web Aidehe as a

blood-red flag of England. —New York Recon | hideous and loathsome utterances have fallen from | and won by a young girl named MeCabe,and whe
* | his lips in private conversation, deeply wounding | very generously made a present of it to the Lady
franking privilege or the mileage ef its members. | SEF, Davis Sean Same RECOGNITION to the feelings of the leaat sensitive Catholic — | Managers, when it was eect ap by auetion, and
of the New York World says reliable advices re-| denomination we have mentioned as that of a| who intends te have it exhibited at the greatest

“regulater” of the affuirs of the pation and the

And yet it has not been over eager to refori it-|
self. While it has preached economy, it failed to |
reduce its theory to practice by abolishing the |

—_—--

charging five per cent. commission upon contracts |

obtained for a constituent. Se easy is it to per-
ceive the mote in our brother's eye, while we fail
tv notice the beam in our own!”

THE LATE BATTLES NEAR RICHMOND.

ceived trom Richmond state that Jeff. Davis has
| sent a special messenger to the Emperor of France
| and to the Queen of England, with despatches of

shockiug idvlatry—that disgusting practises were
| tolerated in the church of that particular deremi-

| Tea Party—decidedly the greatest — whieh ever
yet astoniahed this Island, and which will be held

a private nature, dewanding the immediate recog- | "4tion — that the women who worshipped there | in the eourse ot the present month.

nition of the Southern Confederacy. The demand
is said to be followed by a voluminous bundle ot

We take the following extract from an article in documents, including letters written by the Eng-

the London * Times’ in reference to the

of battles near Richmond, only partial accounts of | to the

which had been received when the

ufanimity manifested by the inhabitante ot

A day or two more will bring us more exact news | their ability to maintain it. Anether decument,

of this great event of the war, but it is diflicult to! merely devoted te the

believe that we have not already learnt its main in-
cidenta.

tion in Virginia for a time that may be indetinitely
prolonged. A few days ago we were in doubt whe

ther the Sontherners would be uble to hold the | Shenandoab Valley, were as many victories wou blame the Adu.inistration for the gross and un-
Many who were | by the South against the enemy vastly superior in | provoked libels that Pope bas been allowed te

Cxpital which they had chosen

The Three Days of June mean that tne |
Confederate army is strong enough to hold its posi

military operations of the

Confederates, states that nearly all the battles | our act — and who would

fought in Virginia, from Ball Run down to the

battle of Fair Oaks, and the operations in the

disposed to give most eredit tv their determination | men, in material of war, in money and in resour-

aud military spirit still thought that, though Rich
mond might hold out during a considerable term,

and gain a place among the towns memorable for |

Luaportant seizes, it wust fall daring the present
cuinpaign. ‘The retreat of the Confederates to
strony positions in the rear, and their prolongation
of the war in the more hilly parts of Virginia,
seemed the natural course ef the campaign.
present it cannot be suid that there is any probabi
lity of the reduction of Richmond. The Confeds
rates, by using all the strength and rousing all the
enthusiasm of the country, have brought togethe;
armies in Virginia with which the Federals find it

rauion to a people which, invaded by a cOMMBUDILY
three times as numerous as itself, and deprived ot

ict only te oppose a sfubborn resistance to its eve
mivs, but to take the offensive, and intlict on them
the most severe defeuis. The present situation of
the two armies is likely to yive the greaiest encou
rigement w the South, and to raixe ta the highest
piich the resolution and the military pride of the

vot eater, aud now the muin army of the enemy is

j driven back and shat up in @ uarrow peninsula,

Where iis comumhications are endaugered and its
power of demy harm fo the Confederates is almost

| ces of al! kinds.
}
i

In a private note addressed by

| 're-ident reminds His Majesty of the fact that
nine months ago, several cabinet councils were
held in Paris with the special object of discussing

seven days fight before Richmond, including the |

lost evers vestige of their henour and chastity in
_ their intercourse with their ministers—supposing

of Colonial Secretary or Queen's Prister, and that

“Asia” left:—| that city in forming a separate goverpment, and of | the Government had not removed us—would not

‘the whole Execatixe be justly held responsible for
question the propriety
of having the whole Protestant population warned
against supporting such a Government? We

heap upon the Catholics; and the latter would be

vernment.

A Catholic is told by the chief officer
in the Colony, with the apparent sanction of the

The most wteresting feature of the Fea Party
was the genera} ond aurestrained mtercourse be-

late series | lish and French consuls at Richmond, testifying | ¥® published such stuf, while holding the office _ tween Catholics and Protestants. Though avewed-

ly a Catholic eutertainment, Protestants of al}
denominations. were to be seen at all the tables,
| and im every greup epon the grounds—thusahew-
|iug that the attempts of unprivcipled politicians
_toexcite jealousy and discordbetween Protestants
| and Catholics have happily proved unavailing,—
and that the Orange element, so mischievously
| introduced into our society for political purposes,
_ has not seriously disturbed the good feeling which

Jeff Davis to Louis Napoleon himself, the rebel contemptible dotards if they supported that Go-) has xe long characterised in this Island the inter-

, community of afi denominations. The number at
| the Lea Party was estimated az from M00 te

. . . ~ . } . .
the propriety of recognizing the Confederate | Whole Executive authority — and the foul libel is) 1500; and the amount realized was £105—which

cognition, and that the thing was given up only

| When the reverses of Port Roval and Fort Donel-) _ i . : . .
sen made the French Cabtiet thet that the South frightful idolatry—that its priests are filthy in ibeir |

would not be able to stand against the North aud
The note ends by
stating that all tears of that kind ought te be
abandoned now, and the series of brilliant victories

haustion of the resources of the North, ought to
satisfy the Ewperor of the unanimity of sentiment
existing in the South concerning its separation
from the North, and of the resources it possesses
for the buildiag up of a strong, respected, pros-

General Tottleben, the | People. They have defeated the Northern men in | PCTOUs aud independent nationality.
every battle of war ia which navel strength did |
| Conprrion

—_—

Or McCievian’s Army.—~A
gentleman who har just arrived from MeCilellan’s
army, and who is probably the enly independent

: WE ol See 5 whethe i i net
destroyed. What must be the result of sueh a bat- | 0D8erver whe has visited that corps for some weeks,

tle as has been fought! Evideutly that tie Fede

aud other maladies, encatuped on a desert tract of
laud, debarred from all coumanication with the
country beyoud them, and with enemy’s cavalry
ever ready to take advantage of any weakness in
their communications with the sea behind them, is

iu the midst of an Anerican summer.

has given us some interesting information from

present deplorable conditon of McClellan's

All the newspaper correspondents have
been banished, and those who would uot go volun-
tarily were arrested and sent home on a steamer,
and the only civilians now allowed to visit the
James river, are those engaged in furnishing sup-

’ eae : me “Aid ared.” » word which in Rus-| not likely vain any very important advantages | Plies tu the army. Of these there are about twice
parties and pic nics, of banquets and | C@iups, has “disappeared,” a word whieb in Rus-) not likely to yain any very important advantages | [ 3

48s many as there are soldiers, and each one deems

But ar States who were then thought deserving their re- | seattered broadcast over the community—that the

religion in which he was bern and educated is a

habits, disgusting in the performance of their re-

ligious offices— lewd and libidinous in their inter. Our City readere—the only parties interested

}course with females even in the sanctuary of the |

| proclaimed to the world that his w ife, or daughter, |
}or sister, or mother, or perhaps all four, suffer |

;

- nameless evil” in the very place where inno- |
jeence aud virtue are believed to be the most |
secure,—and thea a cry is raised, even by the li. |
'beller himself, when the Catholic, whose teelings
are thus outraged, is advised net te vote for the |

Government who sanction the outrage! Let not |
ithe Celonia! Secretary deceive himself and bis!
i

body, not as Catholics, but as Liberals, to over: |
throw @ hypocritical Government who insult the |
understanding of every sensible map by pre-|
tending that they are altogether influenced by a |
of God in holding en to office.

love The vonsense |
about the Emigration scheme,and the Billof Rights,

j

But, if the Virginian campaign has ended in a) it his duty to praise the army and its leader, in 804 the forcing of Catholic Professors into the |

manner Which shows that the Confederates are | return fer the enormens

able to carry on a long war, the fighting at Charles

ton shows that, even at isolated points, they are |

prepared to receive the enemy. The ambiguity of

before Charlesi~u ended in a victory for the South.

profits which he gets out

of the Goverment. /
A long series of entrenchinents on which the |

men are stil] bard at work, enclose a space on both |

The |

| fires have been reported at the capital; and now | Se 1200 ten to che attuck of # battery, and Le | deadly miasmas of the Chickahominy swamps and

| we learn that the torch of the incendiary has been |

at work at Tiflis, where ten houses were destroy- |

‘ed, at Mobilew, where twenty were burnt, whilst ,
| at Czarnichehow, on one day, the 1th of June, |

no leas than forty-four houses, one hundred and | vearly half a century, bat conient themselves with | of men.

in the same manner. The Southern ne Wepapers
however, appear not to magnify the action, as the
light we have mentioned has been exvolled tor

; seems to have been as compietely defeaied us the! ¢he tearful seven days’ fight with the rebels have
British were at New Orleans, and perhaps mach | 4

made wide gaps in their ranks, and as many more |

) are still enfeebled by disease, that regiments now |

are scarcely more than companies in the number |

There

Prince of Wales College, conjured up by Pope ia |
his contribution to the * Protestant ’—will not im- |
pose upon any man whose opinion is worth a)
asked, when they had

a Government of their own choice, for superior |
advantages in any thing, — they hope for nothing |
but an honest distribution of civil rights; and they
will be quite content, as heretofore, to leave that |
distribution to a majority of Liberal Protestants. |

The ‘ Monitor,’ whose editor and correspondents |

| was a very handsome return, considering that
| there was no Bazzar to inerease the funda.
ansiilillalliaiaiisas
CIVIC AFFAIRS.

—are aware the the muuicips! elections for this
noportant City will be beld toanorrow. We dv net

| suppose there will be any excitement, or mucia

c»mpetition. Civie honours are not eagerly
sought for, because not highly prized.’ The
Mayoralty is the only cffice worth looking for,
and it appears that Mr. Haviland will continue to
hold it. Some short time ago, in answer to a
requisition to come forward again, be declined ty
be put iu nomination. A second requisition has,
however, induced hitn to change ‘his mind; aud
he will, no doubt, be elected without oppasitiou.—
Much dissatisfaction appears to prevail as regards
our Corporation affuirs—the expense of the whele
municipal establishment, and the large debt ou
the City, are complained of; but nobody seems
willmg to take an active part in bringing about a
change in the city government, if a change is really
necessary. For our own part, we take no interest
in Corporation matters—we have quite envugh te
do to confine our attention to the generol affairs
of the Provincial Government.
——£po-
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

“Fair Play.” Having declined to publish your
former counnunication, as we did not believe it te
have any interest for the public, we are not dis-
posed to publish your discourteous note of the 25th

; panei im page a ult., calling us to account for our apparent neglect
is still a feeling of confidence in their | }8¥¢ always raised the “ No-Popery” ery more , " ore

| For good decorum and discourse, while pacing plea- | thirty-three shops, and a church were devastated | Stying that the defeat of the North has, for a time
sunt rounds

but | lustily than others—shares the well-grounded ap- of the letter to which it refers. You may think

thelieism. Den’s Theology was written in a dead
language for the use oniy of ove profession of
men, who are aceustomed to mortify themacives

and te curb buman passion, and must Jearn bu-|.

snaa crimes from a book in order te check them.
(Alas! it would be well for humanity if men of
other callings did not too well know some of these

Was visible to all apon Saint Danstan’s College | stadt have

While Catholies and Protestants conversed ‘neath | (@¢! ether, are in operation.

| by flame. Cooflagrations at Novegorod and Cron- }at least, delivered their city from pressing danger. | General among some of the officers and men,
ies al so been noticed. It may be difficult | The moral to be deduced from these events is | many of them have lost their former faith in bis |
_ , ok, _ bead clear. There is probably, at the present moment, | prowess. and oue officer high in rank remarked |
| to connect the acts of political revolutioniets and |; a> “a ec, Sah edt es :
ge pale . inskLurope, not w single society where the defenders | that if they had all the men iv the world they |
incendiaries ; but it is worse if we are to believe | of this hateful and atrocieus war could make them- | ld not ; 2 Richmond ander McClellan’s lead
that fico causes of disturbance, unconnected with! selves heard. The impartial opinion of every civi-| ~~ preiengrenee of reaching Ri h ‘ d fi th t|
So much for Russia | lized nation is being more cal more strongly ex- Indead any hope of reac e a meet . See ~~
itself, but now from Warsaw comes the intelli-| pressed ayainst the evterprise in which the Fede-| direction before spring, and even wit 000

grounds.

The banner of the British Isie was floating in the |
breeze,

prehension of the ‘ Protestant’ that the fate of the |
Government is sealed, and expresses “ great pain” |

|

at seeing Messrs. Coles, Davies and McGill op-|

| editor.

| aud write what you please about the duties of an

As one of that ill paid class, we have some
independent notions of our own, and we publish

posed to the Executive. The gentlemen named, _Just such things as we please, and as the humour

shady trees,

The orators of the Northern} additional men, seemed not to be entertained. |

like many others, have certainly no regard for the | akesus. Any one who supposes we can bescolded

¢rimes practically, without any book to inform Bespeuking ull the fellowship that harmony pro-! gence th would-be assassin has fired at the | tls are embarked,

them of them.) If Deu's Theology be considered _ pounds | Grand Duke Constantine, only newly arrived to! ay ets ety ah a as xd ———
an immoral book, what is to be considered about | Under sucred auspices, on Saint Dunstan's College | take upon himself the duties of his vice-royalty. | aoa of English adtad Ge Gacine of Rnalieh
the moral conduct of those who, so considering Krounds. | This may only be the isolated act of a maniae, | En F

P , . arms; but English opinion is, after all, the opinion |
The “ Spirit” aword of God th ‘th Clerey- | but it may be an attempt representative of a vast | of the
; J . ) ' y - . . . 4 4 ° . - . °
PTB. giver! layt Sn enere with Clergy- | feeling of discontent, as waa the attack of Orsini | tected indignation ard high-Hown eloquence, the
> pci ‘ , ‘ag ye in Russia 3 *o- | good sense which has uniformly marked our coun- |
For good example and precept combined, thro’out | ¥Pe" Napoleoa. Events both in Russia and Po-) good sense whi ’ . ;
the day, : iba : land all gu to prove that the absolute system of | s¢ls in this affair may at length prevail. We must
With honest mirth and gaiety, and music's charm-| government has had its day, and that, if the rule 4 0m rsa co again ee ag ee geen
ing sounds, of the Czars is to continue, it must be based upon | wh =f a - ty pas ib os 4 + Recta ulpadcaae
Sweet singing and light dancing on Saint Dunstan's | the represented interests of the people. It is dif- oe i. rey gained by it? ret can they ever |
Celleze grounds ; P 39 ee ae gain by it? Do they think that these men of their!
Bee . ficult, perhaps, to devise a system of constitutional

. j own race, Whose exploits they are daily witnessing, |
goveruwent for an empire so colossal, but the very |

it, wish to rescue it from the obscurity of a dead
) nguage, clothe it in an English garb, and ex-
iuit it to the libidinows depravity of their ad-|
sairerst Why, there are sowe yeople of so im-
snoral a disposition that the most innocent expres-
sion cannot be used but they will put an immoral)
construction on it. With men of this class,
certainly, a book written against crimes is to be
considered as favouring them; and these sort ot
people, judging of others by themselves, tell us

can ever be so subjugated as to submit to the yoke
which a Hunter

Upon the rustic tables shone rich taste and eloquence,

ee

not ef the depravity of others, but what their own
would be under similar circumstances. The Ca-
tholie church wisely makes candidates for the
priesthood go through a Joug course of moral
truining, and unless found pertect, expels them, |
and lamentable mdeed it is, that the rejected of |
the Catholic church for immoral conduct become |
the apostles of some new seet; but, as by a wise |
dispetisation of Providence, every evil has a)
counteracting good. Some of the most learned |
and virtuous , euch as Dr. Newman,
anda host of others, turn from Protestantism to|
‘Cathe . Hit be immoral for a priest, hen!
Mpenitent ‘religiously wishes to unburthen her |
troubled consvience, to propose questions to assist.
her in doing 80 according to such doctrines, what |
ate we te consider about the morality of oad
dow seamps getting an English Bible aud reading
to females out of it the Jeth and 20th chapters of |
Leviticus, and severe] other paragraphs, such as
the 2lst chapter and 20th verse ot Leviticus, ete ,|
ete.? But such ineousistency is tow contemptible |
to refute. Pope finds fault with the Catholic |
ergy for not stopping the circulation of Butler’s|
Lives of the Saiuts,or tor not correcting any things
in it they way not believe. Why, the great argu-|
ments of wach les as Pope agaiust the Ca-|
thelie church is, that the church presumes to)
eheck the cireulation of books. What admirable |
p mere to turu round andask them why they |
uot stop the circulation of books? If al! books |
were € and none allowed to be circula-|
ted but such ar contained nothing but what every |
one believed, to what a stall compass buman |
Jiterature would be reduced! With respect to
saints, certain things may be related. Catholics
* are not bound to believe or to disbelieve them, no

more than they are bound to believe that a certain
efute Catholic writer swindled the Provincial! poorer classes are resorting to plunder to secure

Baok out of a large sum of money; but Catholics
are not bound to disbelieve it either, nor are the
Catholic cl called on to discourage the belief,
ut may be the case. Pope concludes with a

that his erful writing may convert a

* great number of Catholics; certainly it will cou-
vert them to the belief that he entertains no sma!)
epinion of himself. Pride, however, drove the

' father of lies from heaven to a very disagreeable
geen: aud hago ae ery may yet lose

i K Haping, genilemeu, that your
at pate Aate and love of fir play will induce
you ty wen you, + eed a a it de-
, : "a scurrilous 2 on the religion
° athe; of the Christian world, and leav-

% culo Janes oa ee +s
July 23, 19”

| So that we may, on the last day, when Gabriel's

Prepared by ladies yood and fair, the pleasures to
i enhance,
Who cheerfully ran to and fro with light and joy-
ous bounds ; t
And gave the Tea a flavour on Saint Dunstan’s
College grounds.

A neble token of respect, in grandeur took its etand ;
Of good and faithful Catholics who hail from New.
foundland ,—
The fruits of earth—the works of men—the praise
of God resounds !
A wodel of their Church, upon Saint Dunstan's
College grounds.

Amvsements gay and various were constantly in
view;

Arousing merry laughter with something always
new.

The joyous swell of voice and bell ran th rough the
meadow wounds,—

May happiness be ever on Saint Dunstan's College
grounds.

At length the day being near done, all parties
bail'd for town;

Tho’ upwards of twelve bundred, there was not the
slightest frown ;

But glad and satisfied they start—the rattling wheels
resound,

Bidding good-bye till next time, to Saint Dunstan's
College ground.

Then let ill feeling lie and die, and unity a.
With nobleness of nature, in cultivating peace,

trumpet sounds,
happy as we were upou Saint Dunstan's College
grounds. es Be Be

bt

Tue Istanp or Jamaica.—The social etate
Jamaica is a sad picture. It is stated that the

Be

ot

| livelihood. Sruull planters refuse to sow, as they
| cannet hope to reap, the crops being robbed before
| they are ripe, while if saved they cannot be ex-
| changed for other commodities. “Native foodand
| Provisions have decreased un‘il many of the peo-
ple are subsisting upon the young bamboo and
the spontaneous truits of the soil. The cause of
this alarming state of things, says the Kingston
Standard, is the absence ef a market jor the prin-
cipal staples of the island, sugar and rum, in the
production of which the Jamaicans caunet com-
pete with Cuba,where the yield of sugar is increas-
mg enormously under the slave trade system,
which waintaius an abundant supply of cheap
labor. The revenue returns for March quarter
showed a total of £63,946, being a decrease of
£ 1.000 on the previous quarter, and over £3000
on the This is

| attempt is better thau the fermentation now going |
on.

every element of calawity appears to be seething.
The nobles are annoyed at the emancipation of!
the serfs, and, not improbably, at the loss of those |
golden and gilded rewards which absolutism can)
ouly reserve for the few. They see that their day |
ig now gone, and they are not patriotic enough to |
leud their help to the reconstruction of the Em-|

are called upon to suffer without the hope of re-)
dress. Russia is apparently crumbling to ruin, |
and is ovly entering upon that stage of disquiet
through which Austria has painfully travelled but |
has nearly completed the course. Ou the whole |
We are encouraged by these transitions in the fate |
of great empires, because they prove to us the
wisdom of our own form of government, which
renders despotism impossible, and brings injustic
publicly within the scope of collective kuowledge
for immediate redress.

The Civil War | in the States.

SPIRIT OF THE NORTHERN PRESS—
ARMY CORESPONDENCE, &c.

The 300,000 men called for by the President do |
not appear to be fortheoming.—Iu some iastances |
the volunteers get a bounty of $400, and yet the
men do not enlist. There are good reasons for |
holding back. ‘The northern campaign has been a |
series of blunders, its armies have been decimated
by disease, the men are not paid; and during the
summer months it is almost certain death for the
Northern soldiers to go into the Southern country.
Besides, many are tired of the war, are willing
that the South should go in peace, and see no hopes
of subduing it. A correspondent writing from Mc-
Lellan’s Army, at Harrison's Landing, Virginia,
says :—

“ The shameful desertion of officers and men
from the ranks of their regiments, which has been
going on aines the battle of Wilhamsburg and
which has more than decimated the army within
the last fortnight, should receive notice at the
hands of the press. The press can de no better
service to the military interests of the nation,
than to persevere jn attacking men absent under
pretence of sickness. Robust or slightly wounded
officers and meu are parading the streets of cities,
loitering at home, who are absent without leave,
and who are needed here, Make it detestable for
any man able to do duty to be away from the
—. Hold him up te the public view. Let him
be shamed to his duty. In the recent battles and
movements hordes of stragglers rushed
hospital boats and escaped from the army, while

ae of 1861.
py hyping the import duties, and 3

| defendin

and a Butler are preparing for |

‘

mation? |

| Do they not feel the common pride of Lu-
manity in

the exploits of a gallant peop
their f

transcendent valor and devotion ?
no disgrace in desisting from the Lopeless and, con-
sequenUy, wicked attempt to conquer and govern
the South. Every one knows that the Northern

There would be |

man is as good as the Southern, and that if any sec-| {Wenty thousand muskets captured by the Con-
pire. The sertt are not content, and the traders | tion of the late Union were invaded by the rest, it | federates in the famous retreat of the Federals

give the same proofs of uutlinching | across the Chickahominy, only one thousand have
two | sustained serious damage.

would assuredly
resolution. The whole difference between the
belligerents is that the South is thoroughly in earn-
est, and fights as for life and death. This makes up|
for want of food, of arms, of medicines, of al! thai!
makes wareasy. As loug as this resolution lasts, |
and several millions of people are iu arms to resist |
subjugation, so long must the efforts of the North

meet with the failure which bas thus far attended

the Virginian campaign of 1862,

OPERATIONS AT VICKSBURG.

A correspondent of the St. Louis Republican,
thus writes :—

Vicksburg cannot be taken by the navy, al-
though it may be destroyed, and we will have to
patiently wait until a land force arrives. Deter-
wined that they should have little rest, Com. Porter
improved the position of his mortar vessels, and
at short intervals threw sheil.

The rebels from their batteries thought our fleet |

lay at the bend, and that troops were being landed.

| It was apparently tempting oppertunity for |

* boarding,” throwing overwhelming bodies ou the
two or three thousand soldiers that might be op-
posed to them, and by one grand coup de main
gaining success.

Doubtless Van Doran was in ecstacies over the
sudden idea, and bis evil genius prompted him to
make ove of the boldest, and, as it proved, most
unsuccessful dashes yet undertaken. Cautious!y
warching six thousand troops out from their camps
far behind the bluffs, he skirted the woods, passed
unseen below the vessels on that side of the river,
and cautiously approached his intended victims.
Hidden in dense timber, he deployed his treops
with the rare military skill of a veteran, and when
two bundred yards from the river ordered a charge.

Uttering an exceeding terrifying yell, the butter-
nut multitude rushed forward, aud so quickly that
they were surprised themselves at arriving 80 soon
upon the opeu bank, and still more at being greeted
by a terrible discharge of shot. Quicker than the
approach was the retreat, aud a headlong fight
ensued. Some hundreds were for a few moments
seen struggling waist deep through a swamp, while

thousands who could not get on the boate were

| be speedily rendered as good as new.

| invention and European manufacture.

The Ist Mass. Regiment oceupies an important
position, which is considered the bay of their de-_
feuces, and they are well supported by the 11th, |
under Lieut. Col. Tileston, the I6th, 22d and |

world, and we may hepe that, in spite of af- | other of our Bay State regiments. — Boston | °Ppose the Government because their

cane |

DRAFTING IN MAINE.—The Fredericton ‘ Head |

Herald.

ing tor the army has been resorted to ia Maine, |
and that in consequence numbers are crossing |
over to Province terrtiory, in order to get clear of |
this very unpleasant operation.” We understand |

Russia is now like a boiling cauldren,in which | them? Can they, in fact, wish for such a consum-/| that the above statement is literally correct, and |

that many persons have arrived in our city lately |
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e, who are} who would probably not have come had they net
omes by a display of the most! feared to be

drafted into the army. — St. John |
Morning News, July 23.

The Richmond Despatch says that in a lot ef

The othe: 19,000 can
; These arms |
are of superior quality, including many of recent

NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
Baneor, July 31.

Surgeons and other exchanged prisoners from
Richmond agree that the Confederates are gather-

Aduinistration on religious grounds, because, we |
suppose, they have not yet discovered any proots
of sincere religion amongst them; but they chiefly
principles |
and policy are bad—because they have disregard- |

ed the true interests of the country — because

into publishing any thing, makes a great mistake.
“William Henry Adams.” We kaow you eon
write better verses than those you have sent ue
last. ‘Their meaning is too far-fetched, and would
not be appreciated. Send us a better specimen.

Correspondents in town, desirous of sending

| Quarters’ says—“ It is rumoured here that draft- | 80%¢ of the members and many of the sepporters | communications te THe EXaminer, will find a

of the Government in the Legislature, pretended | letter box at our office door, which will render it
to be great friends of the tenantry,and bave been unneceseary to have their letters put in the Post
steadily playing into the hands of the Proprietors | Office, or thrust under our door, at the imminent

| doubt, that a Government who have no other!
| banner to raise than that with “ Religion” inseri

|
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| ing an enormous foree at Richmond, and are re-
| ceiving accessions night aud day from every point
| South, having new near 300,000 men in and around
Richmond.

Movements in other directions are feints to con-
}eeal the real design to overthrow McClellan's
army, and then march against the Nerth.

Coutederates are concentrating between City
Point and Vicksburg.

They have appeared in large numbers at Fort
Powhattan, te harass transports and cut off com-
inunication with Fortress Monroe, which appears
to be a favorite Confederate scheme.

Ten iron clad guuboats ordered in England for
the Southern Coufederacy, arrived at Mobile Har-
bour, mounting from 10 te 30 guns each. Three
more are on the way.

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BanGor, August 1.

The Confederate vessela up Lipoak Greek,
James River, were captured by expedition sent
by Com. Wilkes. Two other schooners and
steamers were found scuttled same place.

_ Latest foreign advices at Washington do not
indicate any official movements of European Go-
vernments towards intervention,

Major Bracht in pursuit of a gang of guerillas
from Mount Sterling, killed 13 aud captured over
100; nine escaped.

About 500 Confederate prisoners at Fort Dela-
ware took the oath of allegiance; Louisiana Ti-
gers being most forward.

Three officers and twelve men among Confede-
rate prisoners, en route for Richmond, preferred
eervice in Federal ranks.

during the existence of the present House of As-|
sembly. The gentlemen named have also an|
abiding faith in this doctrine, which we have al-!
ways believed and advocated—and whose adherents

are largely inereasing every day — that religious
prejudices should not be allowed to operate ou the |
minds of those who govern a couptry wherein al! |
forms of retigion are free ; and they believe, no.

bed thereon, mean to cheat their Maker, to prac-
tise hypoeriay and deceit, aud probably to oppress
some Portion of their fellow men.

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TEA PARTY ON ST. DUNSTAN’S COLLEGE
GROUNDS.

Public Tea Parties have been of such frequent
occurrence daring the present summer—and, in-
deed, they appear te be the only money-making
transactions that occur —that we, like many of |
our readers who have not been able te partake of
the pleasures they afford to a very great extent,
are becoming wearied ef reading the many newe-
paper accounts of them. People may think we
are envious of the happiness of others, but we
don’t acknowledge any such feeling. We only
know from what we read, that Tea-drinking seems
to be astonishingly on the increase ; and if vendors
of the delicate plant, “ which soothes but not in-
ebriates,” don’t make their fortunes, we shall be
apt to think that their generosity is sadly imposed
upon by the fair managers of the public Tea Par-
hes, or that burglarious and vot unsuccessful at-
tempts are made upon their shops or warehouses.
Every Tea Party that occurs is, of course, descri-
bed as the most interesting one of the Season; but
we believe the testimony is unanimous and over-
whelming as te the success and attractiveness of
the one which was held on the beautiful grounds
of St. Dunstan's College on Monday last. We had

on the interesting occasion, and we are confident
‘We never s4W So Many persons at a similar enter-

other regiments were ordered near to preyentany) Advices from Southera Expedition from Kansas
attack upon the warriors. speak of falliug back South of Fort Scott.

Three were oa but the number killed and} — Nothing further about Southera
wounded is unkuown. The prisoners stated that’ iron-clade, ity

risk of being mutilated or lost.
scales inn tte
BLACKWOob’s MaGazine, for July, bas been
received from the American publishers, and is ope
of the most interesting numbers we have read for
many days. The first artiele is a candid and im-
partial review ef Lord Stanhope’s Lite of William
Pitt. The errors of the great Minister are frankly
yledged, and his transcendant abilities are
eulogised. “ Jeffrey's British Conchology
ii,” the sixth article, has afforded us great
pleasure in the perusal. It is a very genial serio-
comic dissertation on an interesting branch of
natura history, and abounds with information in
illustration of it.—* David Wingate” is an
esting critique on the genius and writings of ©
humble poet in one of the mining districts of Eng-

the pleasure of “ assisting” for a very short time | di

land, whe, ® countryman of Robert Burns, bide
fair to rival the fame of the Ayrsbire ploughmaa.—

| There are some beautiful “Stanzas to Werde

worth,” in the same No., by another poet; and,
indeed, all the articles in the July No. of Black-
wood combine to make it attractive to readets of
a literary taste.

vivcrcwesonhtiileaiilaitn ESOS:

Tea aT DunDas—~On Wednesday, the 23rd
ult., the friends of the Bible Christian Chureb a6
Dundas held a Public Tea, in aid of
their chapel. Fears had been ertertained on the
score of the weather, which had been very
ted for some days previously, but the day
out all that could be desired. Fri
in goodly numbers. from great distances,
Montague, Murray Harbour, Vernon River,
and Charlottetown, The provision,
provided by the ladies, was bountiful
and unexceptionable in quality; and
ance of the festive grounds must have been & Fe
lef to the monotony of this remote
but energetic community. The Tes
duly discussed, the remaining cakes
auction, and unusual spirit evineed by the peor
in purchasing. Mr. C. Barker delivered 8 ied
address, when John Frost, Esq., mored, Ladieo—
by T. Clay, Esq.a vote of thanks te the
a vote cordially giver, and without

ous ivn, rarely better earned.
of £15 was realiz od, as nett proceeds

fsioment apparently enjoying tigueel:e: 60

the cause of God, with the additional good
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