il ag ae ee a eee, ee Se ae eee A? AEF “AE Be EE ORE igi fot A ta a? = BP» are 5 —— — CORRESPONDENCE. | By books of travels, by novels, by songs, Srars Denrs.—This being the season for by sermons, by reviews, by newspaper ar- governor's messages, ubout adoaen dooumenta) ~~~~~~~~~~~~ eer a standing their blustering asd bellowing against it, find an enemy admitting that he bas had no the Lower Canada opposition with hope, and suppress a free and open discussion; and the and the crooked devices of Mr. Palmer to bout. matel sinee the death of D. McLean. But if your Legislature says that it will have baMed and erest-fallen Anti- Unionists retired . serene | oF , , -a Fdwar i ace v si -ortai hi j ‘ y ill F . . . « ticles, by Exeter Halls and political emiss of thie eharaoter Save made their appearance | FROM OUR HALIFAX CORRESPONDEN r.!'To have Prince Edward Island placed under the | j js certainly a poor compliment to D. nothing te do with the scheme, then we wi from the City Meeting in disgust. ‘The Court saries, by contributions of money, by diplo- within a few weeks. Se far as they show er : | macy, oe social and religious aibaseees 1 in the delt ef the several States, chew! bbe of | Havirax, N.S., Jan. 30, 1865. | fine, by every instrumentality that could be special interest, the effects of war upon Dear Examiner—- brought to bear upon the human mind, finance being in some cases very distinctly! JF ¢here is one feeling which predominates | England bas been laboring tor the last thirty, marked. As will be perceived from the fol-|j,. Nova Scotia more than in any other, years to propel her whole moral weightupon lowing statement, debts have rapidly acca- | Colony, it is that of loyalty—devoted attach- the Northera mind, so 48 to instigate and in- mulated within the last four years, and | ment to British Institutions and the British | flame it to sectional hastility against those chiefly in prosecuting the war :— Queen and a just pride in the power and| States of the Union in which slavery existed ’ ‘ Pennsylvania... y.eey eee y + 00+ $39,379,603 | prosperity of that empire upon which ** the| Phe west distinguished Southern statesmen, Wassachusettsc....ccececees +» 22.893.972!sun never sets.”” 1 do not mean by this} oa & visit to her capital, was ostentatiously | pio...) o.oo... ke a ees ae .. 13,500.751) statement to make any invidious com purisons slighted by the nobility, and a fugitive slave) pyinois. . ee eee AEE 11,178,514) between this and the sister Provinces, but publicly petted by the same Duchess of) Now York. ,.......... eo - 6.278.954 ‘simply aver that, from our surroundings for Southerland who dispossessed her white ten-/ yjaine,.... 6... Ce ae ee « 5,137,500) the past hundred years, the continual pre- satry in Scotland to convert their farms 1t0) Connecticut............. +.+-+ 5,000,000) sence of large armies and fleets, from remini- sheep walks. ' ~~." | Pet necscess hcinbanee 3,541,129 | seences handed down to successive generations, The Suuth never had a friend in England) Wisconsin........ caneanannnes 2.500.000 | this country is devotedly, enthusiastically til this war began! Was all this philao~| yor, one thropy? Every child knows that Englend | hes Sees the greatest slave-trader in the} world, and herself planted the inst'(ution here which suddenly became a0 wh orrent to her moral sense. Even an idiot can under-| stand that ehe only uscd anti-slavery as a wedge to accomplish the disruption of a| hated and formidzble power, and hence, pow) that her object is accomplished, she preserves a ** rigid newtrality,”’ and takes sides with neither ** belligereats."’ i But the day of retribution will one day| come. We are beginuing to think that the) day is not far distant. Her held upon the Now Jersey enjoys the enviable distinction) The above may seem irrevalent in a letter of having no debt, but some other States are | like miuv, but what Ll want to show is this: heavily burthened. Take Maine for example, Nothing has had more influence in turning which, before the war, owed only $700,000, | the tide of public opinion in favor of Confe- but now has an indebtedness of $5,137,000, | deration, in this I tovince, than the favorable exclusive Of large amounts to he refunded to} idea entertained of the measure by the Go-| cities and towns for aid given to soldiers’ | verument and leading men of Great Britain. | families. The Portland Argus, in contem- | Stamy ed with this great seal of authority, | plating the gloomy prespect, is constrained | the scheme has commended itself to the to say ** the indications are that the amount | tention and favorable consideration of ban-| of taxation, municipal, State and Federal,| dreds who before were dubious as to the ad-| will inevitably reach the utmost limit that | visability of entering into the arrangement, | can be borne. The State tax this year is to} or the benefits to be conlerred thereby. enseya en. ap sarious, | 02 increased by some three bundred and fifty | Under the sanction of the British Govern- seageiGerns provines mea ye (gpa * | thousand dollars over that of last year, or to) ment, and with an assurance of its protec-| und her ancient Gomination “ - Wes a eight times the amount it was six years ago.’’| tion in time of need, they are willing to) ere long, ee enseemtally ap ag he R 1 ‘l | Massachusetts owes no less than $22,893,-| enter upon tbis new era, feeling that even if} or doubt — eyepiece wom a ' . | 972, of which $14,372,000 was added during| the state of affuirs is not bettered by the} lion, and wishes that he — ws: sad the war. This sum, however, includes the| change, they cannot be made much worse. ever ; but it is only cand, ae One eek | debt ($5,000,000) guaranteed by railroad} Then there is another large class of our may be built up oa the Common ruin of the} companies. Of the State debt of Wisconsin, | population who trouble themselves very little United States and the Confederacy. all bat $100,000 was incurred for war pur- about the merits or demerits of the scheme ; | . a ay -w oses. Pennsylvania, with a large debt, ex-| but having full confidence in the judgment THE NEW YORK HERALD ON WA 8-1 ceeetiens a pen en relief in the discovery of and patriotism of the party leaders who have The Herald, not “enntens with inflam ng| immense subterranean reservoirs of oil, to say for the nonce buried er eae in the passions of the American people aga ast; nothing of the continued development ol | order to concummate this amed secre > England, indulges its readers this morning the iron and coal regions. In this she is) are perfectly na dae em ete Sevtia should with a iecture upon the benefits of war. ‘The| rewarkably favored. Ohio will have to meet | pase favorably upon the scheme, and thus | text is the Monroe Doctrine, and the ideas of | ber obligatious under circumstances less pro- form a portion of the new empire. The lat- | the Herald's editorial are derived from the) pitious, for while the public mdebtedness| ter class number many thousands, and on Richmond Engwrer, whieh, a few days ayo, | bas increased, the available resources in some | to be found in all the Colonies. To some, expressed the hope that if the South 1s com-| respects have diminished, apparently on| again, the grandeur of the work—that of peiled to submit, the chivalry may still be|#ccount of the loss of manual labor by ab- forming @ por of's large empire, instead | enabied to continue in the path of war by | Sotption in the army or by emigration. The} of being a emali Province, couiparatively joining the North in @ crusade against che| editor's statement just published shows| unknown abroad—holds out sufficient induce- rights uf oar neighbours. | that, as compared with the year 1861, the| ment for the ardent support of anything The Herald says :— number of acres in cereal crops has fallen | and everything having this vbject in view. “Foreign ware can be recognized on every | from 6 570,892 to 0,145,374, of which about 4, am a British American,’’ would be to| page of bistery as the definite turce that binds) fifteen per cent was in the last year. In the| them as proud a boast, when asked their na- communities inty nations, that furees into uvity; quantity of cereals produced there was a| tionality in foreign lands, as **T ama Ro-| separate peopies,that consolidates and strengthens} decline from 106,748,942 bushels in 1862 to man’? was to the ancient inhabitants of that the unity of these who hold loosely together, and! 88 945,636 in 1864, the decrease being about classic city in response to a similar query. that invigorates an already established nationality | seventeen per cent in the last year. Except | Meanwhile * the (Confederation) bail is wita the grandest spirit. War is a severe regi-| jn the single item of sheep, there was a cor-|up”’ throughout the country. Meetings are | men, & ferce treatment; but, like every other| responding decline in the number of domestic! being held every day in some one or more | acvere regunen or fierce treatment, while it is | animals. | districts, end ot: the naan enening. ween tien) certain destruction to the puny—te those whose | felloivine 4. ; 4 | we Hate tga for yo a ee | ollowing day, the telegraph ashes to us the vital current runs low—it is lite and a higher er-| A telearans went th nds of the papers intellie “that ** tl U a ganization, a vigorous health, a more periect| “ s e & rounds 0 pap | tate igence 5 at the L nion feeling was! sympathy, and oueness of all the parts in those| @ short time ago, about a number of murders | tfemendous,”’ or that ** Resvlutions denoun- | whe ean stand it. This is so true that, great as! in New York on New Year's Day. The fol- cing the pro posed Confederation were passed | the herrors of war unquestionably are, it is cer- : ’ z | unanimously.’’ [tis to be observed, however, tain that there are times when it would bea wise| owing from a Liverpool paper is quite as} as rather a singular circumstance, that ac- stutesmanslip to invoke war, with all its horrors, | bad ;— cording to the position taken by the news- as See oe pag at | 4 The season of Christmas seems to be re- | paper to whom the telegram is forwarded, 80) the assertion made by intelligent Europeans, At the bow street pulice uffice, London, there | tt soa” tea mina uiiiemcctiemmm Te that the American people have imbibed the| ¥°T® MOFe persons arrested on the 2oth than} mts “6 Suibedaiines 9 ee wai : em “4 spirit of the Indian from the soil whieh they | *#¢ cells could accommodate, and theest nt of | rite nael baying camps i. : Tae belief in| dissipation is declared to be unprecedently |'t—4re constantly on the ** go,’’ now ad- have wrested from his grasp. The belief in) auned., - paietine Gineiman ese cated on | dressing some half dozen sturdy settlers in the benefits of war is an essentially a the Sch Gee. tenedes. Theos men, for the| the backwoods of the Province, and again one, the more man recedes from the **state same offene*, were under sentence of death | laying their views befure large and influenual " ’ > 2» i . . an ° > f Lhe dvctrine of the Herald, if carried into| °4- [a London, an [talian, named Poliom.| score a th iy pti wm * FA th sist practice, would make the whole world a|'2® public-house brawl, killed one man by prereetie rh 5 4 nll Poe ’ | scene of carnage, and place, at all times, the! stabbing bim in the abdomen, and dangerous-| th 7 ott of an ear tine feat sie acai *s weak eader the hesie of the strong. No free| ly wounted two others. At Brighton a| a ogee e ne ane appeals at community could exist upon the face of the| wretched cripple, without either of his legs, | ae ra pe a ae sa a bess ats yh tt earth ualees it were sufficiently powerful to| deliberately blew out the brains of a man 93 memo “~~ ms sy . — pete snese pnd withetand aggressions on the part of their with whom be had some trumpery quarrel. uM ‘ om the pen of any o _ eyes . . . | At Aldershot the body of a man has been| Mr- McCully, I have every reason to believe | mangeaers. oe NESD Ae Sintey JueNe co found, and it is believed that murder has| that they would have an immense effect. | tion nor bigher right than the desire to kuit beencommitted. At Chelasford, Wane, the} * * * * * | ther more closely the component parts of | 0 ies . U naeepediabehe i, mca et | man who murdered Amelia Blunt, was hang- | But Mr. McOully isa member of the Upper What would be suid of the morality or de-| ed. At Liverpool thirty cases occupied the | serie pac yy probests: = pe ple cency of the individual who makes a mur-| COTOMer Ss attention in a single day, and in| fish ne rag dy re hae ne oe 4 cae: | dervus attack upon an innocent and unoff-nd-| fitteen of these cases the persons were found me " oor aan : - 4 seth tt, ing wt ing pedestrian whom he chances to meet, dead. erie y sg "t ng sae . eit with no higher justification for bis ruffian an | * pe se . . i 0 ay ba 8 Spi oo bes pgs I i a than that he felt the necessity for some ¢x-| The New York Herald ie at its favorite | © d it i t be | set r hi Bo deena citement ; thet the exercise incident to the) ¥°T* of abusing England and threatening all | ted ; mn he PPh ~ el ate tie ge bipen ath wielding of a club upon the heads of his fol.| 8°" of vengeance upon monarchial govern. sakes aif Ces aie del tt wikier ba low citizens is beneficial to bis muscular sys- ag vse in a late moar Ahi fiod | Orie, r dowd eherguantieeey - gt sh exere : hi the fv owing chuice morceau :—** e must ? i : : | pt rn tr years. bra ang close up the war in order that we may have aa — eee. wer heen tion be impaired. Such an individeal ought|® {ree field for the settlement of our scores | "*F® he ee von be k i got). bb Beinland and Ber aor |an indication of the unpopularity of Cunte- to be incarcerated fur life, or be subjected to) Wit Sogiend and France for the insults and/ | in the ehiesia’ . ween: ‘ith | tue restraining influence of a straight jackot. | °UT4Ecs heaped upon us by those countries | ‘ al SGimmity -with | , : f .| while oar hands have been tied by this great) Which it is opposed ; while their opponents A nation acting under the advice of the! y & | looks upon it as of little consequence which | : . 0 |domestic struggle. Foreign wars, through : stant menace to the happiness of mankind, | ee 4 bond of union to a people; and a they will oventeall re + ek be Tealiae be For four years past we have experienced fteign war that is necessary to our dignity rete y ced to come ty the ‘blessings of war.”’ We have felt what and honor must serve this purpose for us, . , Finish the rebellion, and the men of the tw There is but little local intelligerce to| it was to lose friends, brothers, fathers and| nae | 5 baits ‘ ™ chronicle. The sleighing is good, and has! hasbands upon the battle field. We can no| Sections, engaged in a common war against a) | ime T: Senetit tad Mar with an eye of contempt the|Co™mon enemy, will be brothers once more | 5v¢® 80 tor sume time past. Tandem and single | Zz £ y empt the | p teams, with fast Lorse flesh attached, are! |i i i ‘ » m f two tax-ridden people of the earth, as we are |g.| 9 the first battle. Put an army o Solas sredad | : * ° + alt aronnd in all directions. ‘The weather bouring under self imposed burthens, heavier hundred thousand Northern and Southern | 4J!%% e by far than are imposed upon any nation in men commingled on the Canadian border, | 00 Sar during the winter season has been | Europe. But we were willing to bear ali| #94 4 similar urmy on the Rio Grande, and | poo Geld Mines ined tonite this, and more, because we believed that we M@ximilian will skedaddle out of Mexico, ; nt "4 on po oe # wma, | were fighting and suffering for a principle jand England will pay bills for the damage se 7 pans ‘3 a sample of this, the ''done to our commerce be her pirates; or | ‘#¢t need only be cited that a lump of the for nativnal life and national | ; but i Bi ul w i = " , > gs c % ional eee a i we shall have a war that will shake the Prec-ous metal was brought to the city one e strugg!s in which we are engaged, if all) ‘ : jr day this week weighing over 250 ounces this blood-letting has nu higher justification. governments of those two countries to their| d valued 5 r nine als Mee ie eae “health ‘foundations, and give their people an occa- #94 Valued at $5000, the product of nine B that it ws tu serve asa ‘healthy stimu-| © days’ crushing at the German Company's Jent,”? the world may well stand aghast at %09 “ chaunt over themselves those requiems k Warerl - company sesh an caterop of barbariem in the pera of {that chey intended to chaunt over the great) WOTSS os er a Such pleasing results civilization, and its interests would be to or- | T¢PUblic.” Bye tet ew teen deen oe Kanize an international posse comitatus for D +" ——— yew Co re me a ry the cuming of a socia! monster, such as we, . AN OFFER TO MURDER PresipENT Lavcoty, | °F ea OG os Senmnenateve 68 . fs water the Merelds advices would mate f| SECRETARY SewakD AND ANDREW JOHNSON, or Lunendarg Lo., it is said, will not be ae sii © OF! "The following appears in the advertising co-| able to attend this session in consequence of vareclecs.—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, lumns of a rebel paper — the Selina (Ala.) Dis-| illness. The meeting is looked forward to Jan 25. si P patch—which has been sent us from the front by | with great interest, as may naturally be ex- ies: Sheen eae iis pone ge ~ yoageter ang pit Fg vg oa pected. ee on — é “Ore Mdlim Dollars ua@ited to hare Peace b yy j i contemporaries continue to complain loudly the Ist of March.—If the citizens of the Peri ra vo pe Tacs ag 4 ae of the evils and inconveniencies of the p@ss-| Confederacy will furrish me with the cash, or versede » Sons of T z = i prs. 4 wort system. The Cincinnati Gazette says :— | good securities for the sum of one million dollars, be which in Halif oly aye i ‘acts are growing daily more numero| | will cause the lives of Abraham Liacoln, Wm. ide ryan ivanti a Pa _ An rg J te show that the passoort system in operation | H. Seward and Andrew Jobuson to be taken by ve biee .o or yn Smnng. a, with ope at the outlets of the Canadian railroads isnot) the Ist of March next. This will give us peace, | S94¢ Object In view—the aggrandisement of valy of uc possible advantage to this Govern-| #%4 satisfy the world that cruel tyrants cannot some of the more influential members — cun- ment, in serving asa check to the enemeninl live in a “land of liberty.” If this is not ace »m | siderable Jealousy is manifested by the latter fb 7 men, but thet it ic actual! ood | plished, nothing will be claimed beyond the sum| body in reference to the new Society, and Ce) Bere er ar Jo serloas of fifty thousand dollars, in aavance. which is| much correspondence has taken place upon evil to the general interests of OUF 6F8I2,| supposed to be necessary to reach and slaughter | the subject. In the country it is undoubtedly and honest and necessary communication be-| the three villains. I will give, myself, one thou-| gifferent, but here in the city the Divisions tween the east and the west. Were the; sand dollars towards this patriotic Otprt. Lose’ seneniied da the resort of bypocri d British Provinces sout in by a Chinese wall,| Every one wishing to contribute, will address X., ft “0 dot ladiatienle A en ad oe with ite only openings at the border railroad Canawba, Alabama—Dee. 1, 1864.” wy 4 yy pom - great reform is stations, there might be some plea in favor ~~. na pers an mee eons. eat wauice | of the present rule; but it weald even THe Bui AND THE So._piers.—There is c mre ao ar a, ¢ societies flourisl in then be necessary to forget the existence of among the papers of the late Sir William belt "6 Shane fo enaanytes re ree all mears of climbing over or digging uuder. | Napier a story of a bull which met a com- Men® “ — : nig ny store the ang , ‘ ‘pany of British soldiers on march and| en's Christian Association are all the raze, As it ia, only honest men are detained and! pany ra Hail ; made to ouffer heavy loss in fees to shar sh| charged them. The scene of the encounter|*™¢ +emperance Hall is crowded to its evosuls. Such important iinks bave the (a-| Was the Island of Mauritius. The company utmost capacity on lecture night. b. nadian railroads become in the great throu was marching in a column of sections, when [FOR THE Ex PSB lines connecting the West with the seabva: the oe scape Aen it ans g the rear, knock- ieee that the embargo rests with heavy weight) ing the men all ways and emerging at the z 3 : upon the sections of country and inne ta ruslied onwards. Hardly had the TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT. lines of railroad this side of the border, both men time to pick themselves up and recover Me. Epiror :— east and west, being the practical paralysis their order, when the bull curned round and| Your contemporary of the Herald bas had the of all routes on our soil with connections ex-| charged their front. The commanding officer a ae! pe, te pees ele 4 tending over the Canadian border. This, at a| called out—* Prepare to receive cavalry,” o hak = pcb igs npn wee phe ae | easun when, for hundreds of miles ef the) ead the men fixe their bayonets and got about the contemplated British edits. bitettoke | frontier, sulid ice forms now a natural brid ze, | down jast in time to meet theshock. The tull| Pederal Union. As the people of this community and where at a!! other points, at al! seasoas, | charged home, and fell pierced by a doz:n point to me as being the butt of their vitupera- akiffs can land their passengers, unobserved| bayonets. The story is told asa remarkable | tious, I trust you will allow me space in your ou American avil, not to speak of wide tracts, ¢xample of the courage of the British soldier, | liberal and enlightened journal to defend myself, where the division is only an imaginary line,| but we think that the bull of the Island of | and to contradict tie false assumptivus of these should ull go to expose the absudity of ex-| Mauritius was most conspicuous upon this, Werthies. : pecting any practical result fur guod from a oceasiun.— Saturday Review. a or few Be Be ag brag that Messra prohibiwry toll on railroad passengers. ‘| be) +o “ a tis pond ranting tn irate ef Uden bens people of all loyal communities are slow to| Hopes ReaLtzep.—Young women lamenting | '"8 - von seve : ; é been calli ubli lings, iti take offence at any public measure, however insecret the first grey hairs, these ugly harbingers frothy name Sg Siaahte ices every the whe oppressive, that is really designed to further yf decay. Mus. 8. A. ALLEN’S World's Hair! bas the hardihood to oppose their views, and ar- our interests in this struggle. [t wae 6up-| pestorer and Zylubalsamum, or Hair Dressing, | '¢4@ting to themselves powers and privileges gouged the restriction in question would be but t-te seal mnes tile ate) which they never derived from God or wan. In- sewparaiy, and so to be bore without eom-| Cer Ua fo restore grey hair fo is youthful) deed, the subject un which they are thus presum- deine. as not an uscless embargo been | vlor. They act directly upon the roots uf the ing to arbitrate, lies vastly beyoud the grasp of wng enough sustained? Has one particle of | bair, invigorating them, rendering the hair soft,| tit musty minds. Whew these self-constituted é lag ie “luminaries” are asked whether there are an , ’ besefit thus far resulted from the stricture ? | ailey and glossy, and disposing it to remaiu in any terms on which they*would approve of an Union . : iil iaonasllmeaas™ | desired position. Every Druggist sells thew.) of the B. N. A. Colouies, they uuhesitatingly res- Tux Canaotan Dusriceity.—The Army nnd W. B. Watson, Agent for P. E. Island, poud in the affirmative, yet, strange to say, they Navy Gazette says, dew difficulty will i all tae ee never propound these terms. But the tunniest probability lapse but aut harwlessly. The) yy. Daowet, M. P. P. for Two Meuntains,| edge of all is to Gnd the “ Callaghans” and display of attachment tu great Britain, aud arrested for forgery in Montreal, has been ad-| “ Spuds” counag torward as defenders and eulo- af pateiviia geal, whieh recent events have) mitted to bail, himself in £1200, and two securi-| gists of the tortuous Attorney General Palmer. eaited torus, will add wang soureca of irrita- ties ia L600 each. bea id & Ge ~— soe worthy pair of Lot tiun, whieh the contest ia Ameries haa open- would sovner choke thaa cherish the wazy ed, ond wail teansier to the Cagadiane rf ull| Probably the largest salary paid to any church | easures of that officer. Mr. Palmer must cer share of the overflowing amimosity with! singer in America is received by a bey but twelve | tinly be proud of his great patrous! But we : etsy shard Ca Trinity Chureh, | @ust ooly mfer that the Attorney General is the whieh Great Britain is regarded by the ease yeare— Master Kichard Cuber,of + dollars | 8traw at which our drowning patriots are gras of the Northern population, but Can idiang| New York. This salary is vue thousand dollars age h ! blishad fresh claime to |? SOON ing. They are new fieundering in the wire of their own ambition and egetisin, and are grasp- iwpersa! syu: pathy and support. Aw omnibus drawn by a locomotive, inatead of ing at the skirts of Mr. Palmer to recover their — ape. A muvewent is being made to erect 4! of France. [t can be turned and stopped with horses, ie wow running at Chanteuay,in the auuth | tue Now, I have to inform Messrs. “Callaghan and movumept to the late Lord Curlisle in vase; and both inside and outside passengers Murphy” iat the Union of the B.N. A. Colonies Dubiis. | travel by it withwwt fear. will, suvuer wt later, be consummated, uvtwith-! -— -—-—-oPeo ——— The course pursued by the politicians in| —--—__- > »-—_- — gh d, a ~~ at-/ $eed grace. Doing sv will not cast us off trom and not abused. Until | am better iniurmed, | our present happy connexion with Great Britain a higher statusin view of all christendom. Our lesding men | }and his remarks abuut the fluating popula- | servative.’’ | ing about this County for many years with- las sound a drubbing as ever fell to the lot is that he is as ignorant of the meetings | passed similar resvlutions. Stars and Stripes may please such wen as the) | aird, W. H. Pope and J. B, Cooper—three two great orators of Lot MH, but it will not please! paitors of considerable experience—to know meu of sound sense aud nyse yet that they have never even * properly re-| The Yankee prvclivities ef Callaghan Os mind ?? 5 heli fe | will find no Gapeihy with the majority of the bake d” Pa ¥ oan at vet ad people of this or any other British Colony. Our) oj ees otal . . ' | sister Culonies will, doubtlessly, form themselves | that when he writes again, argument will) into a Confederation, aud they care but litte | supply the ;lace of bombast. whether we cast iu our lot with them or vot.| Some obscure and splenetic scribbler| Iudeed, in a few years heace, our total revenue] signing himself * C, T. V. L.?’—** Canes would form but a small item inthe Exchequer ot) Tjmili Vehementius Latrant ’’—cow arp y | the new Confederation, Should we prove 80) cvas park Lovvest—has also made a feeble] stubborn as to maintam that we are wiser than sttack on me in the fest sumber of the all the statesmen of the Luperial Government and Movahdu: Thea ans trathe ben called: bimanlé: Colonial politicians together, and refuse to be “©. T. V. L.’—is very appropriate, for | arawn into the new Confederation, we shall am not the only person who has i char richly deserve the destiny that must inevitably ' : cidade al 4 ‘ » allowed to drift away at| to complain of bis cowardly and nonsensica pivot eg ne Fags he “ He has made an attempt to prove random, to become the prey of whatever power | barking. 4 ; may pounce upon ue, that I am inconsistent, when he usserts that Great Britain has no desire or intention to|L bave * come out strong in favor of Whelan, ceverce any of her untoward children to cling to Gray, and Uaviland, but it seems be 1s her skirts against their will, On the contrary, if! altogether opposed to their principles.’’ 1 they strike out boldly and manfully in their owt) haye come ou: in their favor this far, that I strength to better their fortunes, she is both able! gy not believe them capable of treachery ; ~ — “ gay ory f ptt mares. ot that if they are advocates of Union, they Our best policy, then, ie to strike the best bar-| are sincere and conscientious advocates of it, gain with the other colonies we are able to make, : Te : aaa while we can do so to our advantage and with a| #04 therefore should, at least, be respected I shall think them mistaken in their views but, on the contrary, draw us still closer to the’|onm that subject; yet 1 shall not, as one, triendship, avd the institutions and interests of| slander them or impeach their honesty on the parent State, besides securing for ourselves a! that account. ** Cowardly Cur’’ says that greater influence in the Imperial Parliament, and| jf an election were to take place to-morrow that I would vote for them, but at ‘* all events, would surely vote for Gray.” This ‘depends upon circumstances. Were they political freedom; nor are we to huld a subordi- to set up as the cham pions ot OTT a nate position in any of the elements that may go | would not vote for either of them. ut to form the General Government; but that we| were Palmer to come out as their opponent, shall be secured our full and equitable share of | itis hard to tell what course I might think power in all matters, political and fiscal, belonging | proper to take, as I would like to give my to the new Confederation. But what avails all) suppert to a man who would advocate the this, while the redoubtable “Jo Spud” and the! same opinions in the House as he would classic ** Callaghan” raise their potent voices | qdyocate at the polls. 1 am not such a poli-} against Confederation ? The Hon. E. Whelan is| giea} weather-cock as “ C. T. V. L.,’’ neither | _ favour of ap: Watens but: what is he whew) would 1 allow myself blindly to be led by a weighed in the balance against “Spud and | b it nial de cians Walenta Callaghan”? Judge Wilmot of New Brunswick | MOG NO WHE ONG Whee 8. eeteag Vals . is strongly for an Union; aye, but what is de to | #94 the next a bitter Anti-Unionist, only the illuminated “Spud” and whitewashed * Cal | because he did not possess the moral courage laghan’’? Bishop Connelly of Halifax gives bis | to face the tide of public opinion whieh he! powerful support for an Union; but then “ Spud saw rising against the scheme of which he| and Callaghan” are opposed to it. The first) was a framer. Neither would I thank a man| Statesmen of New Brunswick, of Nova Scotia, | for coming to the assistance of the Anti-| of the Canadas, and of Great Britain declare for! Union party, because he began to see that! CS eye alas! who will presume more to| the 14th Article of the Quebee Report decla- speak ? for the Spuds and Callaghans of Lot 13.) 524 that the « first selection of the members | Prince County, Prince Edward Island, have| = ¢ : . sealed the doom of such a measure by putting of the fT egislative Council opal be made, their irrevocable veto upon it. Let every tongue | racept as regards P. E. Island, trom the therefore be henceforth silent on the subject, and Legislative Coancils of the various Pro- let us all humbly bow before the great patriots| vinces.’” The Hon. E. Palmer is a memt who have thus averted the eternal ruin of our) of our Legislative Council, and therefore can Island. have no chance of becoming a lord! It is most amusing to find “Jumper Joe” ad-| ©C. T. V. L.”? next says that ‘*a few more| vertising himself as a teacher of Grammar, or) musty unread volumnes from the Colonel! faulting others for writing ungrammaatieally. shall here give him a few passages from bis own | elegant composition to parse or correct, just as he | - toe ; pe a aes pleases. wt will tell ion that any sane else he certaip persons I could name, who haveeal- | nay say over any other signature BUT his own, | ready changed couts for a less consideration. &e! See Lennie’s Grammar, Syntax, Rule| Phe Colonel gave his 40 volumes of good | 25th. “The best of a@memory” is also a yery| books to the **Orwell Young Men's Insti- classic phrase. Is not the following sentence a tute’’ long before Confederatiun was thought wodel of elegance, p-rspecuity, and grammatical! of. The Hon. George Beer, much to his ere- It is net coutemplated by the trieuds of Union, thatin our incorporation with the other Colonies, we are to yield up our present privileges aud construction? * — * but no person can say,| dit, also lately gave our Institute twenty | gaining converts, and the fact that the Address in Will *C. T. V. L."” say that! | this was to win any of its members to his| with any degree of truth, that it is anything else | nice volumes. but the effusion of a small mind, aad a jealous | one too; and although three or four of a spiteful | wwe oe met to get it Written, yet & 8 re-! that Mr. Beer is an anti-Unionist. This plete, &e. Poor Jve’s candle must have gone | : - lecti d ith hes out as be commenced to write the third paragraph luminous pa jar’ a SEeO RD (Ore of his letter, or he must have beea sleepy and | words: ‘The words that you quoted against duzed over it; for the first sentence of it appears | Mr. W helan, Mr. Fletcher, would make us | mn his sid . . , : . rt) | 4 ’ . ‘ ; iis side of the House than by that supporting | nesday Jast the a He has laid down some kind of believe were your own, although marked | the henemediad. The Toronto a gt thic tay »on the question of Cunfederativa, | aud thin supporter of the Opposition, says that minus the tail. premises, but the conclusion must have vanished! with inverted commas; but very likely he trom bis muddled mind, And again be says * Mr.) does not know what inverted commas mean.”’ Palmer is none of these men, &¢.” matical Joe! is like the pedagogue who asserted as the head that framed it. If he means that to the School Visitor, “T teaches gramwar!” How | Mr. Whelan dues nut: know what inverted beautitully grammatical is the phrase, “1 have a} commas mean—which is the meaning of the knowledge of who they are. I shall now leave | a these sacants wutil some future time, aud remain, | SD bene? — I have only to say that Mr. Whe- Your obd’t servant, | lan understands their meaning, and when to AUGUSTINE McINNIS, | to use them with effect too, aud this | V. L's” old master has been taught by bitter | jexperience. If he means that I do not un-| (FOR THE EXAMINER.) Peery Sages “7 — ceo ag He-| y : iy ie in Ag jrald of Dee. , and then he will find wiw) SUMMERSIDE TOWN TALK. used them first, and whether 1 know what) The talk stiil continues for and against the | they are or not. Union of the Colonies. The laughabie talk! In conelusion, I will extend the same is about the ** Organ of the Tenant Union ’’| challenge to. T. V. L.”’ as I did to‘Con-| Let him appear ander his real | Let him quit his cowardly barking | Feb. 9, 1865. ———- 0e tion of Summerside. | name. The talk is that the proprietor of acertain| behind the bush, and stand forward the. newspaper, not a hundred miles from the | champion of his hero and his god, Mr great City of Carlottetown, had been float-| Palmer, and [ promise bim 1 shall give bi out much benefit to himself or aay Other | of a barking cur. An assertion is ong thing person, and that people living in glass houses | and proof is another. And although i should not throw stones. |} know bim to be an utter stranger to argu- The talk is that every man who spoke for ment, to truth, to manly discussion, yet | and against Union at our meetings was a will venture to say, if he will only take up property-holder, and nearly every man in the the gauntlet, I shall teach him the proper Hall a qualified voter. The talk is that it is| use of *tinverted commas.’ not surprising that this community, who are| eh res yar won na ge gay did not give their remarks entire, Ip order todo with tie arrangement, especially in etrroit, i .. whieh city a large amount of Canadian money | *° W® shall apprupsate to them a very large was spent. Now that traffic is stopped, 28 people | amount of space in our next No, will not pay the enormous price charged by the) Mr, Irving will also report the speeches at the Consular Agents for vise-ing the passport. Ru-} . ). 2 (th . ‘ : mors were very rife in this city to-day that it was adjourned City Meeting to-night, for Tue Ex- the purpose of the Federal Government to with-| AMINER, draw the obnoxious order. Whether it is so or T oo eee ers : not, Lam at present unable to say. They must|* +W° Meetings have been held here during see that the imposition of the frontier passpert| the past fortnight by a new Society, organ- systein is of no use, as the descriptions given will! ; . : ‘ often answer two or three persous. At Detroit ied chiely by bier mony whe are blind to itis a common practice fur a lot of persons to | their own interests in their mad efforts to land on the same passport. One passes muster, | obstract Confederation, and whose organiza- and after a short time be hands bis passport to) : his friend, who also runs the blockade, and this) “on seems to have been designed for the } lias been found to be the case in as many as | purpose of making an exhibition of their twelve different persons, and considering the tact | that so soon as the person carrying the passport} madness. Some heads that are older, and lands on Awerican soil, he has no wore use for it. ought to be wiser, countenanced the folly, I have ascertained that these passports are sent) 4 nq indulged in heated declamation against to Canada by mail, aud thus go backwards and) : ; forwards, from oue country to the other, day Confederation. Others, friends to the cause, alter day. So wuch for Seward’s nou-intercourse | supported it at the first meeting with, per- policy. I learn that the Federal Government de-| littl ee. cided to put a prohibition on freight traffic as | haps, a little too much vehemence, and no- well as ipou the passenger traffic, and if he does thing but turmoil and unseemly bickering d ‘ . ject ie to artuoy us, and break us dow if possible. | *°* the results. Confederation will not be He knows that we are dependent upon the reads stopped oradvaneed by passionate exhibitions running through the United States for an outlet (on either side. We advise the advocates of to the sea, and by placing an embargo upon it he | 1| will make him a full convert to the princi-| fancies he will coerce us inte annexation, or, if| Confederation to keep their temper; they ples of Union.’’ I am not so easy swayed as | not that, that we will go down en our knees and can wel! affurd to do 80; the cause is pros- do thus and so for us. T for one, and I know ae ‘ a a that almost all in this Western section wonld . Sb = weer Giveptiyn > and its strength sooner see Seward, Lincoln and the Federal! will increase in proportion to the weakness States subwerged in the Atlantic Ocean first. exhibited by their adversaries in lashing CONPEDERATION. themselves up into a silly fury agsinst the This scheme, I am happy to say, is day by day | measure. acer ete cle Meetinc at Souris acainst Conrepera- TION. — We learn from the Protestant of reply to the Speech from the Throne was passed after one day's debate, shows that the opposition direct hostility te the scheme; bat the course | Hensley and Beaton addressed a large estat. that he, as leader of the Opposition, took on that) oceasion bas been condemned more by the press | Dg of their constituents at Souris, on Wed- at which @ resolution was passed disa; prov- '“ Mr. Doriou over did the affair.” When con-| ing of the measure as framed at the Quehee ».’| Convention, but not of Union in the abstract. eeu the policy all throughout the western Province, aud the} geedings to be ublished in the Charlettetow majority have decided to go in for Confederation. E P ~ | I do not think that the Opposition in the present f P®Pt?s. The Secretary, whoever he was, HC. Th ‘Louse is strong enough to upset the Mistry on/ has not furnisbed us with a report; and that apy measure that they may bring up this session, Hon. Mr. Brown has a large army of spporters, which appeared in’ the Protestant of Satur- iso also have Messrs. Cartier and Join A. Me-| day nigitt came too late to be available fur Donald, whilst on the opposite side the only mau! our present No., but it will appear i who bas any followers is the Hon. Mr. Dorion, | i , PP — so that you see their (the Opposition’s) chance of | gaining their point, in opposition to the Go- next. contin ili acca ANOTHER pistincuisoep Catnouic Bisnor IN FAVOUR oF CONFEDERATION — Weare happy has supplied to the House all the correspoudence Governwent and the Maritime Provmees. This} '0 learn that the Right Rev. Dr. Mallock, | is most satisfactory. The opinion of Mr. Card-| the eminent Catholic Bishop of St. John’s, well, M. P., for Oxford, on the Confederation | ,, : : ‘ scheme, has given great satisfaction here, and has N. F., has proclaimed bimself, in no doubt- done much to dispel grave doubts whieh were ful terms, as a warm advocate of Confedera- entertained as to how the Home Govermment | tion, The latter from hie o. deabticta would view the scheme; but now these who were)" * | 2 os , tain : 5 afraid that England would cut the * apron strings” | his views, and published in the St. John's and let us driit on ovr course, are satisfied that | papers, will appear in our next issue. Some we will still have the protection of the British | ‘ h i Lion, and that bis paw will be ever ready to| People are rash enough to say that the Ca- strike down those who attempt to do us injury.| tholic Clergy, and the Jrish Catholic Ciergy The despatch of Mr. Cardwell came most op: | aiall ae a portunely, and proves a heavy luad for some who | cepecially, a ore q to Confederation : depended upon the opposition of the Luperial| The published declarations of Arebbishop Government. Connoily and Bishop Mullock—(two of the BENJAMIN B. BURLEY. most true hearted Irishmen that ever lived) This individual who has gained so much no- ; sap a ae : toriety in the seizing of the Philo Parsons, Bilice | Te See contradiction to this false the Americans who burned her,bas been tried and | Statement, But we shall have wore to say held fur extradition, Mr. Recoder Duggan seat | op this subject at another time. him te jail to await the return of the Gevernor General; but Mr. M. C. Cameron, M P. P., who a To was his Couusel, got out a writet Habeas Corpus,, A GLANCE AT THE MARITIME PRO- and had his client taken before theCourt of Queen's VINCES FROM A CANADIAN STAND Bench, where his case was argued betore tour a POINT. in the law,” sustained the judgment of the Re- _—_ corder, much to the dissatistaction and annoyance! The Quebec Mornin Chronicle of th ot the Soutuern refugees who crowded the Court. ‘ a I _ 13th They now see that nothing will save the male-| Ultimo, has a very able article on the agita- iactor from justice in Canada, and they tremble | tion in the Maritime Provinces against Con- tur themselves. This judgmeut will have a great} , : , deal to do with the breaking up of those hordes federation. We can make room for only the of Southern raiders who thought that they could | following paragraphs, but they are to the do anything in Canada, and that as long as they int, and we especially c Sipe ¢ ommend t . sought shelter here that they were safe. They . , P y wt cher the ne did not eare for the consequences tu us, as long | tice of the ** malcontents "’ here the pointed as (hey Were themselves proiected ; but now they | allusions to Prince Edward Island, and the find that Canadians will net be made cat’s paws : toad k ’ ; of, they will in all probability betake theuselves | PTECHOUS leader they have set up in the per- to the South, where their services are so much | son of their Attorney Genera! :— required at the present time. In this connection ‘The constitutional controversy in th 1 way introduce the Mari y e Maritime Provinces, as revealed to us by the ALIEN BILL, ; leading newspe pers there, is full of instruc- which the Hon. Join A. McDonald has laid be- tion, though not at first sight very intelligi- fore the members of the House. In this Bill he , 7 7 Br -lgicasut ; ’ : . | ble to Canadian readers. We see that cer- seeks fur wore power tu be vested in theExecutive, , oes d h sv that that body may give all suspected parties ame pow se maa fo Ps so — aaees, their conge aud show them the frouuer. The only | St editorial anger is fying about in a objection to the Bill as yet was offered by the Hon. | dense shower of sparks; that public meetings J.3. McDonald and Mr. A. A. McDonald, who| have been held for and against Union, and on the whole approved of the Bill, but did not| that one of the delegates at least, who had like its being brought up at present as we might) the honor to take part in the late memora- be looked upon by the Federal Goverument a8) ble Conference at Quelec, has recanted his ’ afraid of cousequenees, and that it was through | opinions, and gone back to the blind and feur that this measure was introduced at the pte | fatal fuld of isolation and estrangement. We see, that the strugyle, so far as there is one, even in the least vf the Colonies, is waged follow when the Bill comes to be discussed, will between intelligence and prejudice, between a Federal Goverument would gladly put such a prove to them that they bave not drawn us into generous advocacy of the general gocd of all had occasion to remark merely that L believed which will materially affect the prosperity any thing at all, but that it is brought up to | the Colonies,and short-sighted appeais to éocal, Confederation, as agreed upon at Quebec, to| of the country will be brought under discus-| prove our neutrality, and to save our government | specral, and personal interests. be detrimental to our interests, and | say so/ gion. still. But as for writing on the subject,| Excellency calls upon the Ministers of both producing an argument for or against, 1) Liouses to give the scheme of Confederation a never did. Ag for taking the ** lead in im-| fair and itapartial hearing. am not vastly mistaken in whom ** Conserva-| scheme, and hopes that their deliberations In the Speech from the fhrone, his) trum eudless litigation and broil. **At this stage of tuings no one who knows what stuff men are made of could be sur- prised. It was natural, it was inevitable, FIRES. We have suffered dreadfully in this Province from He urges upon) fires duriug the last six mouths; and nearly allare| that isolation should have its defenders, and ” oe IO the work of incendiaries. pudence,”’ I will merely remark, thas if 1| the members the careful consideration of the have been five of these fires in London, destroying property to the extent of about $150,000. There’was | 820t and habitual for swall men to domineer Since last Sunday there | estrangement ite partizave. It was so plea- tive really 18, that he, at least, can eclipse | will be carried on in that spirit which will one in Hamilton ou the 26th, by whieh a pork | on a small stage that no one could wonder if me in this respect. 1 am sorry to add that! not thwart the objects of the scheme. That| curing establisliment was razed to the ground, the insignificance itself should make some stir toc many would-be politicians of the ** Con-| the Union of the Canadas with the Maritime servative ’’ stamp indulge too freely in hard | Proyinces would be beneficial to Canada, few | names and personalities, particularly when/in the West have the hardihvod to deny ; in| they find themselves strangers to argument fact the Western Province is ripe for the| and incapable of reasoning. For this reason| movement, and the then, | make ** Conservative’? a fair and| pledged to du all they can for carrying cut open offer : that great object. The people have expressed Come out over your real name—throw| their satisfaction in no ** uncertain sounde,”’ away the mask of ** Conservative ’’—-and/ and little oppositiun will arise from the then prove wherein my arguments are ‘* con-| Western members : but I know that a strong tradictory,”’ or wherein they are‘ at variance) movement is being made in tho Kastern with the subject at issue ;”’ make an attempt| section to quash the movement. Hon. Mr. if you dare to vindicate Palmer's conduct| Derion and Hon. John Sandfield McDonald whilst in the capacity of Delegate, and if I/ have laid their heads together to offer a don’t shut your mouth forever on that point, | sturdy opposition, and their Opposition is not then [ shal! willingly bear the reproach of| to be despised, but the present Cabinet have having tuken tie ** lead in ignorance.”’ If! a sufficient number of followers to outvote you decline accepting this fair and open! the Opposition, provided they each and all challenge, the public, a8 well as myseif, who, prove trne to their colours. Whether they may have condescended to read your last, will do eo or not remains to be seen. The_ lecter, shail brand you with the stigma o/| bull of discord has been set rulling ; and if it Coward Accept of this, Mr. Conservative,| gathers strength as its rolls, those in favour and then we shall see who is most capable of ot Confederation will have all they can dv to taking the ** lead in ignorance.’’ keep their heads above water. We, in the The rest of ** Conservative's ’’ letter ig un-| West, are satisfied that thia scheme is our deserving of notice, ualess it be that part| only salvation, and if it fails through instead wherein he paysyou Mr. Editor, the Editors of increasing in wealth we will retrograde. of the Islander and Monitor such a high| The course pursued by the Federal Govern- compliment. ** Conservative ’’ says, **Sinee| ment towards this country is dving much in the demise of the much lamented Duncan favour of the Union, and if the American McLean, Whelan has never been properly Government go on insisting upon non- rebuked for his insults and low manceuvring intercourse, and abolishing treaty after in politics. The Herald has been the only treaty—we will have nothing left but to shut match he has met with since, as it can be ewsily up shop and wait to se what will turn up. seen the Herald gave him the worst of it.’' Ie) The opposition offered to the scheme in New. is certainly a compliment to Mr. Whelaa to. Brunswick has bad @ tendency to inspire viher towns they have had their fires, and property aud lives have beew endangered. carry through the streets a pair of skates; and loss of which is estimated to be $100,000. In seven befure consenting to be enufied out. The moth struggles with the candle, as is its na- ture, but the candle consumes it. THE WEATHER " ‘+ We have no intention, far from it, to ba Is now all that could be wished. We have representatives are|exceilent sleighing, and dry cold atwosphere.| personally severe with those gentlemen of Skating is all the rage. Mau, woman and child) the Maritime Provinces who have selected ‘y for themselves the invidious character of op- looking at th J 10 carry : : iseful articles, one would say that Toroutouious ned | Ponente of Union. We are as little angry skating on the brain.” as surprieed at the election they haye made. - But we think we bave a right to say to them a 6 in all sadness, that the day is not distant OGhe Gxaminer when the children who hear their names will ™ blush for having had fathers who sought the —_ ea a and weakness, and disaster of these Provinces, rather than their i Charlottetown, February 13, 1865. and strength, and security. 1 as **W hat has been proposed (and not without CONFEDEKATION IN CHARLOTTETOWN. Sme sacrifices), by the statesmen of Vanada? comme A political union under certain arrange- PUBLIC MEETING CALLED BY THE MAYOR./ ments. What is Maintained by the maleon- ‘ sae 5 tents of the Lower Provinces? Politi A Public Meeting, cailed by His Worship the separation without hope of nar bla Mayor, in compliance with a requisition addressed | Tuese are stri ped of all disguises of detail,— to hiur for that purpose — was held at the Cuurt | the two broad propositions put forth clearly House in the Provines Building, on Friday | fom pe auch Oe eee peo lard i nea Aempal ‘ . riti myaoe last. = Worship the Mayor presided, America must pies himself an adberent and the City Clerk, P. Macgowan, Esqr., acted as| during the coming season of legislative ac- Secretary. An attempt was made tu get the tivity in all the Colonies. It is not that we Meeting adjourned, in order to procure a full| have a shadow of anxiety as to which cause house for the Debating Society in the Temperance | ust "ro ayo pr near et Hall, where the Auti-Unioui 5 pemapeelensS ggd s ; set to collect tb Ponape pone et are regarded, and with whom hereafter they ' po men® Oe ae °°| must consent to be classed. We are perfect- against the measure; but the energy and firmness ly confident of the triumph of the Union of the Mayor defeated the disgraceful attempt to cause in every Colony (except, yerhape