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the army, and calle for contributions weal ye tor the coming winter “ear ’ pate) f provid them, owing te specula-

» Re, nai

He }beeves, and a lot of brogans.-“The Raleivh, N C..| « department will Express 8 alarmed at the prospect of the eastepn ;

| portion of North Car:

. ’ an says that there isa gene ' le frore Culpepper throw t the

| fteen thousand andes antd horses, eight thousand

rals -Hleavy tiring was heard up James iver on Sinday Oveung jast There Was a green! cale on the Western ‘uakes on Sunday L great many

Pesree Welre wrecked, amd mueb life lost

| BORRESPONDENCE,

. ant rater ' wvance of The

Yankees i ai dire ' tl ones ami 1}

' : villing Aga to Phe Richmeoud Mheg of Oct 22. eave A lett

wm the Maver of Wihwit N.C ., saya thet for |

The f t » ° . * . mc frst tune in wane ry days, the reports of

of ferret chow falling off, and we

entertain the howe that wi huv

the Warst.” A:iviers from

new Cases

‘ Texas state that the ‘ Gen. Hask has arriv: d at a Southern port, with au RHENS? Amon nf of pow der and other arfieles.” Phi Was the Enelish” steamer Blanehe, lately devt roped ou the coast of Cuba

--- THE ATT AOK ON SHS PUARLES ON AND SAVANNAL R. R.

The boston eomtan full partieulars of the attack upon the Charleston and Savan- nah KR. R by the Federals, and claim it as subst mtially n victory. They acknewledge, howe wer, that thay suffered a very larga loss, and did not achieve their object: We take

th » flowing reswme from the Boston Cou-

Ter ——

‘ Phe special design of thigce lerrm from the cogrtespendemer 0 York papers, was fo destroy the tressel-work bridges of the Chartogton and Sayannah Rail- read, crogsing the Toeotalizo, Tullfinny and Coosawhatchie. ‘These streams are all tribu- tarieg of the Broad River; and te approgen them it wag determined to make a landing at Mackay Point. at the Jenctign of the Rroad and Pocoltaieo riyers, a digrance of 25 miles from Hilton Head, where our troops could be debarked under cover of rupboats, and a march of eleyen mileg wou uke ese to the village of Pogotaligo, at which place it was gc bat the carey would make 4 stand, The chaps Wag iqtended ag s surprige ; and while our main force toe advance, as stated, & smaller body of troops was to create a dirersfon by pengtaading to the Coosawhat- ehie bridge in the steamer Planter, conzoyed by the ganbost Patroon 5 hut with sot E tye to retire ¢ a supenor force. By eu the in ner eae ee the evties ie 1 and 7 be destroyed, and the we ned fog a syd- den blow upor. one Torn of these The land and paval fo i the movement = t It o’elock on t ante of the @ist. The lane forees were composed of

first and seeond bri of the Tenth army corps, 4500 in number, commanded by Brig. Gens. JM. Brannan and A. H. Terry, the former being senior officer, and therefore pre Lee expedition. ‘The troops lund- ed at Mackay’s Puint, and commeneed their mateh soon after ten o'clock on Wedneatay morning. The enemy's forces rt. met about seven miles out, and gradually driven back, fighting ag they retired, uptil, gt near- ly six o'clock in the afternoon, they crogsed the Poeotaligo river and destroyed tiie bridge, thas preventing farther purs@it. There were indications of the approach of reinforce-

‘the New

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pients from Charleston and Savapnal, and |

naw i at last reached

steamer

BRUNSWICK ABFAIRS.

i NEW

Fram eur cen Correspondent. )

Subdseriptions towards the relief of the distressed cotton yperatives ia Bayland are being obtained At the

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jhere and in other parts ef the Province

” linstance of some influential requisitionists a pub-

lic meeiing of the citizens of St. John was con- veved for the purpose ef adopting measures te ac- complieh this benevolent ebject. Seeretaries, |treasuregs, and colleetors were appointed as an jexecutive directory in the matter. 4 series of re- | solutions waa passed in the ustal manger on such an oceasion, without the least gppearauee of op- | position, or design to commit a breach of the peace. ‘Lhe whole proceedings were conducted im & spirit of remarkable tranquility, and nobody evinced the selfish desire of surpassing his neigh- bour in the liberality of his eoutributions. As I have just observed, the peaceable character of the meeting was al} thas coukd be desired. It was also unanimeusly resolved thet al! the clergymen io the eity be requested ta appeal te their cougre- gations fer gaviatance in the advancement af this pinkantbropte enterprise, though same of the churehes have anticipated this regoumendation, and haye colleeted fumds: from ‘the proceeds of charity sermons and other sources. This city alone, if @ said, willsend more than five thousand dollars te the victims of Jeff. Davis’ tramendous vilainy ; and “of hell and treachery keep their pro- mises,” this perfidieus rebel will surely be amply rewarded far his eyormeus guilt. I was almgst forgetting to state—but which I now do, careless of the consequences, and with full deliberation— that imunediately before the meeting referred to, dispersed, a vote of thanks was teydered to and aceepted by his Worship, Mr. Mayor MeAvity, for “ his able conduct in the chair.” Wasn't that nice? And so uncommonly flattering !

For some months past the current of public opinion has bee strongly coursing against the

John has been conducted ; and loudly dewanding a rigid investigation. That investigation has been cqnehided. Its results involve charges of grave delinguency against sping of the functionaries counceted with the police force. Two of the officials have been dismissed by the Executive [Ouaaes for incapacity and misconduct in their public duties. One was the Captajn of the Wateh, and the other Clerk of the Police Coupt; both highly esteemed and greatly sympathised with in their ejection from oifices of considerable emoli- ments. But that corruption crept into the system

Gen. Brannan therefore ordered & retreat. } and existed somewhere, nobody pretends to ques-

which was conducted in 8 moat orderly man- ner, the regiments retiring in successive lines, carrying off their dead and wounded,

jtion, and the action of the Government in endea- and } Faring t purify this branch of the corporation,

jeaying no arms cr ammunition on the field. | hewever inconzenient to the objects of its opera-

While these events were happening with the main body, Col. Barton, with 250 men pene- trated to the railroad at Coosawhatchie, tear- ing ep the track end ties, and catting the ote Be wire. Col. Barton algo gttempted to reach the railroad®bpidge hat was unable, as it was protected ty a battery of three guns. Pegring that bis retreat might be cut off by the enemy's cavalry, he gaye the order to retire to the steam-boat, which was done successfully. The Federal logs op this expe- dition was 4§ men killed, 224 wounded, and 3 missing. “ Although the main object of the expedition failed of suecess.”’ says the correspondent of the New York Times, ‘+ yet tle benefits confepred were not of trifling value. We have made a thorough recon-' noissanee of the heretofore unknown Broad |

river and ite trity taries, and ascertained the | honnces the withdrawal of Mr. Smith from his or any other sum, belonging to George E.

character of the country, which is knowledge | of immense importance, in view of future | movements in that direction. We haye also

demonstrated the necessity of heavy yerm-|

forcements, if the Government desire Gea. | being entirely upon consciencious grounds, a silk | Treasury of this Island, are entirely false. And

j man’s elevation tp the professieval rank of Queen's,

tion, is not only jestifiable, but was imperatively required as a mattey of substantial justice to all eoncegped.,

Mr. Smith's rgaignation of the first political situation in the Guyernment has caused, as might be expected, a great deal of Newspaper remarks. Every ope is willing to bestpw unmeasured praise

lifts being overran by bede-| =

LOLOL LAL Le rt |

manner wy which the police department of St.}!

bre seee ev moras Ghe Examiner,

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Charlottetown, November 10th, 1862. | I eet

INNOCHNCE AGALN IN DISTRESS

/THS COLONIAL SECRETARY IN GRIEF | | OVER ANOTHER PECCALIELLO—TRIES TO MUZZLE THE OPPOSITION PRESS, AND GET A CERTIFICATE OF CHA- RACTER PROM THE SUPREME COURT, WITHOUT ALLOWING HIS OPPONENT TO BE HEARD IN DEFENCE.

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We thought that Mr. Secretary Pope has had enough of law-suits under the name of ag- tions for libel and slander, but it appears that his appetite for thege things is as ingatiable as his thirst for revenge against the unoffending Catho- lies because they will not support the Government of whieh he is a mpst unworthy servant. Bailing to gather wisdom from experience, he tried, a few days age, te bring another action for libel against the editor of the Examiner, by the old, oppres- sive and arbitrary mode of y criminal information — it he obtained whieh he would be saved the very disagreeable nevessity of having the truth discloage: by witnesses on theireath. ‘The matter ; complained of as libellous is set forth at length in | the following affidavit from Mr. Pope:—

Prince Eowanrnd Isuanp, 2 In the Supreme Court Queen's County. ; of Judicuture.

William Henry Pope, of Charlottetown, in the said Island, Esquire. Gclonial Secretary of the said Island, and John Arbuckle. of the same place, Gentioman, seyerally make oath and say; and first this deponent, William Henry Pope,for bimself saith, that he was appointed Colonial Secretary of the said Island in the year One thousand eight hundred and tifty-nine, hath ever since held, and still holds, the sail atlice; and depenent saith that in a certain Number of a public Newspaper called ‘ The Ex- aminey,’” printed and published by Kdward Whelan, at Charlottetown aforesaid, and bearing date Monday the twenty-ninth day of September last past, there appeared, as part of a column of the printed mater oF the said number of the suid Newspaper, the following :—

“ PezzLinG QuEsTIONS FoR THE CoLoniaL Sec- RETARY—To Mr. Secketary W.H. Pork.’

“ Sir, —Do you know an official of the present

Government who drew from the Treasnry'of this

Island, under false pretences, seven “hundred

nds? Do you know that be hyd phis £700 in

is possession about twelye months, and then was

Oe forced to refund that amount to the right- ul owner.

* Do you know that the Hon. 8. Palmer was fully cognisant of the fact of the abstraction, under false wetences, of the 2700, by the official of the Go- vernment of ‘pish he, Bie: P., isthe Leader? And do you know that he, Mr. Palmer, as Attorney for the rightfal owner of the £700, made the official, under threats; refund that money ?

‘De you know that because of the official's in- dispensable connection with the Government, his nefarjous and criminal act, known only by the Go vernment and Treasarer, and one gentleman, not residing im this Island, was kept hermetically sealed by the “ God-fearing Government !”’

Yours, INTERROGATOR.

“28th September, 1862.”

And this deponent farther saith that in a certain other pumber of the said ‘‘ Examiner” Newspaper. —— and published in Charlottetown aforessid, »y the suid Edward Whelan, and Learingdate Mon- day the sixth day af Qctober. One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, there a spearsa certain other paragraph, whieh 18 as follows, namely :-—

“Tre £700 “Skeoappie.”— We have received a second communication from * Interrogator,” giv- ing the particulars, dates and facts, as regards the abstraction from the Treasury of Seven Hundred Pounds, belouging to George F.. Morton, af Halifax, Mr. Secretary Pope is the person who is charged

aan eer see

Monday, the Srd_ instant, was Whelan to shew cause against granting Mr. Pope's wpplication. The Court opened earlier than the usual hour, and after disposing of some civil busi nesa, the Tion, Joseph Hensley informed their Fordships—the Chiet Justice and A: sistant Judge| heing both on the Bench--that Mr Whelan was iw attendance te answer the rule of Court. dr W. then delivered a speech, which has been pe- ported as follows for the * Vindicator,’ and waick gives, as well as we can remember, a fair gutline of the leading points urged by hima against Mr. Pope's application, and disposes af the affiday its

ziven to Mr. |

above priuted :— Max t9 PLEASE yoUR LorpsHirs > —

It is with yery great reluctance I aggin ap- pear before this honorable Court, in a ease similar to that which brought me into your lordships’ presence a few months ago. J was then required go shew cquse why a criminat information for libel showhd not be filed against me at the suit of Mr. William Henry Pope, because his name figured m the Exuminer im a way not pleasing to himself. Phe same im- dividual brings me here to-day with the vrew of placing me in the position of 2 criminal, because two other publications in the same paper are alleged to refleet upon hin injur- iously. Lam very far, my lords, trom desir- ing the notoriety which such appearances are apt to confer upon an individual. Law has no attractions for me, in any form, even if I were sure of being a successful suiter, Lhave no apprehensions for my success in this case, but sincerely regret that your lordships time, as well as mine, should be occupied in examining a complaint preferred by Mr. Pope, which, I think, I shall be able to shew the Court is a frivolous, vexatious and unjus- tifiable one. It may seem egotistical in me, my lords, to speak thus confidently ; but I do so, not because I feel conscious of my own ability to conduct this case, or any other, with efficiency, but because my opponeut has no ground to stand upon, and I can easily shew thaé of all others in the community, he should be the last to make application for a criminal informasion against me, or any one else, in reference to matters of libel. If, in- deed, the ease were a complicated one—in- volving difticult and abstruse points of law, and surrounded by legal technicalities —I should leave the matter in the hands of jearn- ed counsel: for should I place myself in the position of an advocate under such circum- stances, L would warrant the application to myself of the old adage, which says that **a man who goes to law, and acts as his own lawyer, generally has a fool for his client.” One of Mr. Pope's objects, I feel assures, is, to put me to all the expense he ean, as well as to punish me as 4 crupinal, Now, I think, I can defeat that object, in a great measure, by taking this case to the Coyrt myself, trust- ing to the justice and impartiality which regu- lates your lgrdships’ decisions, as well as to the groundlessness of Mr. Pope’s application.

The matter alleged to be libellous, is, m

the purpose of showing that there are men in the ‘nd who will regard as a virtue, or at a meritorious act, that which the

least as l , . a crime, and which is pu-

world esteems nished as such, |

Before levying aside the affidavit to which | Mr. Pope's naine is affixed, [ beg to offer a; few word My Arbuckle’s co partaership te the business. ‘This gentleman stands confessed as Pimp and Spy to the Co- | lonial Secretary. That officer could not have a more apt servant, and the servant a master more to his taste. But the Punp does not, I believe, confine his attentions to the Colonial Secretary—he makes himself useful, T under stand, to the whole Government, a8 messen- ger, gossipper, tattler, spy, and general worker at small jobs that way'd be spurned by honourable men Ile takes a a erent deal of space in this affidavit ta shew that | am the publisher and proprjetox of the hw aminer. 1 have never orice denied ney re- sponsibility in cqngectiqn with that paper. I here openly and frankly avow it, and if Mr. Arbackle hac any manly principle about him, instead of putting to the printers in my office, whow he designates servants, silly questions as to whether they sold a paper worth 4d. for and on my behalf, he might put the question direct to inyself as to whether Lacknowledged myself the publisher of the particular No. he wanted to buy; and profoundly as [hold that individual in contempt, he should have cer- \tainly received an answer in the aflirmative. | But Mr. Arbuckle knew the man for whom he was executing his disreputable mission—the man knew him—and both judged that them purposes would be served best by adopting a mean and contemptible proceeding.

With regard to Mr. Wright's affidavit, it requires Dut few remarks. That gentleman swears that Mr, Pope did not, with his (Mr. Wright's) knowledge, receive money from the ‘Treasury under false pretences. I am quite willing to admit that Mr. Wright has made a conscientious oath. Leannotsee how he conld have sworn otherwise. It is not possible to suppose that he could connive at the abstraction of money from thegl'reasury under false pretences. His oath of oflice would forbid it,—his position in society, his regard for the honour of the country as a na- tive of it, his respect for the Government under which he holds so high an oflice, the security of his own official income, independ- ently of all moral ‘considerations, would ren- der it extremely improbable that Vright should connive at the abstraction of money from the Treasury under false pretences, by Mr, Pope, or any one else. But Mr. Wright does not deny that Mr. Pape has received £700, or £750, with which Mr. George E. Morton’s name was in some way connected ; and Mr. Wright may have given the money, or allowed it to be given by his deputy, with- out being conversant with all the facts which bear upon the transaction.—Many of these remarks will apply to Mr. Palmer’s affidavit, which is the lastto be noticed. Me makes his deposition in the same general terms as Mr. Wright does. He declares that he has no

conceming

the first place, a commmnication published in the Examiner of the 29th September, over the signature of ** futerrogator,” in which several questions are put to Mr. Pope as to whether he knows an official of the present Government who received £700 from the ‘Treasury, under false pretences,—he is asked whether the money so received did not beleng to another person not in the Colony—and whether the official who thus improperly re- ceived it, was not compelled to refund it to the rightful owner ? 1

with the abstraction. He understood this very well from our correspondent’s letter in last week's Ex- AMINER.”'

paragraph recited from the said number of the * Examiuer’’ Newspaper, as last aforesaid, refers | to, and is meant to axpicn the passage or paragraph hereinbefore recited to bave been pritited

and pub

lished in the said number of the gud “ Exuwiner’’| there was a communication signed ‘* Repon-| me, when I was last before this Honorable

upon the ex-Attoruey Geueral for big intrepidity ) Newspaper, bearing date the twenty ninth day of |

- : : : September last, x at ] Seeretary P< . vd | . es é | @ and disinterestedyess in surrenderipg his title to) “SRY ?*! last, and that Mr. Secretary Pope, name \/ Mr. Pope himself, whieh, at all events, could | eloquence and influence to shew that Mr. g | I 1

the emoluments aad distinctions of a lucrative office. But what political party ean count ppon |

not easily decided without some practical proof,

and referred to in the said passayves or paragraphs)

hereinbefore recited from tie anid numbers of the |

said Examiner Newspapes, is this deponent. And] concurrence, as he is the editor of the Js-| Bank were of the most honorable and upright | . farther saith that the whole of the | lander—wherein it is broadly answered that! character : 7 : : } I : i 3 3 ans i aracter. his vote and exertions in Parliament, isa question | said hereinbefore recited paragraphs contained in ¥ | the said two numbers of the said Examiner New

this depenent

vaper, dated respectively the twenty-ninth day «

and that niust be postpoued unjil the meeting of | September last, and the sixth day of Oetober instant,

the Legislature.

Counsel. Lut big secession from the Liberals

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tion, under fulse pretences, of seven liundred pounce, } Morton, |

The same Gazette that an-|*° 88 they impute to this deponent the abstrae-

the so-called libel. The second part is a small paragraph in the Zxaminer of the 6th

| October—about half a dozen lines—in which! when he espoused Mr. Pope’s quarrel, and And deponent farther saith that the passage « was provoked to say that the official re- i fi

rred to was William Henry Pope. I say

provoked, my lords, because in the /slander |of the previous Friday, the 3rd of October, | criminal information had been granted against

sio,” which, | have no doubt, was written by

not have appeared without his knowledge and

sf; money from the Treasury under false preten-| to that character ;

ces; and this very letter of ** Responsio’ contains a foul and malignant libel upon me, every word of which I can prove to be false.

; eo > , > eo « e » | € ‘ » late collengues, contains a notige of that gentle-| of Halifax, or belonging to any other person, from|1 have already proved more than once the | to that matter.

iis is the first part of

knowledge of Mr. Pope having obtained mo- | ney from the Treasury under false pretences iat any time. 1 believe him. His exalted | position as Leader of the Government, with- | out regard to his own just views of what is right and wrong, would be a @trong guarantee |against his allowing any nefarious act to be practised upon the Government. Mr. Pal- mer would not, I believ e,je ypardize his high station for any individual, “He is a clever man, but he is not the first clever man that has been imposed upon by a clever sharper. There was one instance of his delusion—per haps it was merely a professional delusion—

| wanted to punish me as a criminal, as he is | now trying to do, for my remarks about Mr. | Pope’s notorious Bank ‘abstractions. If a

| Court, Mr. Palmer would have used all his

Pope’s proceedings in connection with the

ithe Colonial Se

ae. +

letters which she has openly avowed, that

every Catholic woman lm the land—every

~yife, and dauyhter, and sister of a Catholic,

becomes @ prostitute when she contorms to che rules of her Church. There is not the} shadow of a doubt that this foul, wicked and | atrocious libel was deliberately publiched by

I need not say it

was never answered—no sane man would} think of replying to any thing so infameus. | But is it not incredible that a beng who will thus revel in the foulest and basest calumnies —who spares no grade of society —w ho ruih-

lessly violates the sanctity of domestic life—- | who pollutes by the slime of his pen the sa-| cred temples dedigaged to the wership gf God | —who has no compassion fer woman in her} innocence and weakness, but ux whose eyes

woman when she ts mest virtuous is most vile,

is it, not incredible, my lords, that a man

who has thus made himself so notorious as an

unscrapuiors libeMer, should think of prefer- rmg a complaint for libel against another ?

I] do not shrink from my responsibility con- nected with the matter alleged to be libellous. All I want is to be placed on an equal footing with my opponent—to prove the truth, so far

retary.

|as I can prove it; and I cannot suppose that

your lordships will deny me that privilege, should Mr. Pope feel inclined to proceed in the usual and constitutional way.—I shall not presume to cite any authorities in re- ference to the practice of the Court in granting obatail informations. 1 humbly submitted to your lordships a few references from Chitty’s Criminal Law on the occasion of my iast appearance here. Those will ap- ply to the present case, and it would be pre- sumptuous in me to urge them upon the at- tention of your lordships. I may, however, be pardoned for saying, that under no cir- cumstances has an application such as Mr. Pope has made, been entertained by the Su- preme Court of this Oolony. Some years ago, Mr. Coles, who was leader of the Gov- ernment of this Island at the time, applied, with the adviee of the late Ge ious. Esq., for an indictment agaist the proprietor of the Islander, because that paper had hbetted Mr. Coles in the foulest manner withregard to the returns ofspirits distilled at his amanuiac- tory. Mr. Coles had no alternative bat toyur- sue the course he did. Hisretarns were made on oath. There could be no evidence to corro- borate orrebut the sworn statement ; but [very well remember the outery which was made by the very individuals who are trying to mote this persecution agamst myself, as to the unfairness of the proceeding which Mr. Coles sought to institute, because it would not allow the defendant to prove his silega- tions in open Court. On that occasion Mr. Coles submitted his case to, the whole repre- sentatives of the County, the Grand Jury,— but in this instance Mr. Pope will not trust himself to the Grand Jury. He asks your lordships to do that for him which he seems to think the Grand Jury willnot do. He and his party considered it very wrong for Mr. Coles to attempt to indict the proprietor of the Islander when he (Mr. Coles) considered himself foully libelled; but now he will not be satisfied with the decision of a Grand Jury. Ile asks your lordships to prejudge a case against me for libel, after havmg proved himself to be the most unmitigated lbeller that ever degraded the press of this Colony.

After a few further observations as to the evils that might arise from reviving an obso- lete practice that is only worthy of the dark ages——a practice by which one man was al- lowed to have extraordinary immunities over j another, and under the operation of which a person accused of libel was placed in a far worse position than a criminal charged with the darkest crime—Mr. Whelan concluded by apologising for the time he had taken up. He was fully conscious, he said, of his own deficiencies and of the imperfect manner in which he had presented his case to the Court. Learned and experienced counsel would have taken a legal view of the whole matter, and have given great force to the arguments which bear upon rt. “‘But I, (says Mr. W.) trust

Ile might have worked himself

no official of the present Government received | into the belief that they were really entitled |

but [ am confident he could | not have converted a Jury to the same belief; jand up to this hour the public refuse to be- | lieve that every thing was right in reference . Now, if Mr. Pope had no-

the Treasury of this Island, or the commission by | falsehood of the statement; but it is repeated ithing to fear from a full enquiry into the this deponent of any nefarious or criminal aet, in| by ‘* Respousio ” in such a way as to lead the | merits of the present case, he would not have respect to auy monies of the said George FE. Morton, | pubjic to believe that Mr, Palmer positively | asked this Honorable Court for a criminal in-

or any other person, abstracted or drawn from the

‘ avily i ' vu will se sly +j »m- | this deponent farther saith that tl bers of the | itchell to strike heavily in his department.”’ | gowu will scarcely reconcile the honorable mem- | this depone r saith that the numbers of the not. Mi I to strik J I 8 said Examiner Newspaper, dated the twenty-ninth | rency to the statement; and he has not yet) produced such vague and general affidavits as

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AMr Spencer, a Northern man, who resi- | ded for a number of years in Savannah, and who recently succeeded in waking his way North, informs the New York Time; that the feeling of the citizens of Savannah with reference to tie rebellion, is unanimous in fayor of continuing the course they have be-

gun, and of never yielding unti! they have gained their independence. Many of them openty declare that they would prefer he- |

coming the subjects of 9 foreign Power to a reunion with the Nationa! Government. Not a few openly ayowed that they had me- ditated that moyerent for twenty years past, and that in the elecsion of Lingolp they saw their opportgnity. He g]gy gays that the Emancipation proclamatiun ig impolitic, as it will greatly imeragge the Confederate army ; and the idea is abeurd that the mass of plantation negroes in the interior will, in consequence of the measure, strike a blow for theif own freedom. He questions whe- ther they wif ever hear of it.

ee BY TEeLEGHAPIL.

Sr. Joy, Oct. 31, 1862—The Cavalry force from the grmy ef the Potomac, made a foreed q wrt intp Virginia, upgn a marauding party 1s

confederates, exptu sizter souers one hundred and fity head

“a of stolen cattle. The O it jets were den fom Up- pervilly ow Wednesday last. Their infantry were said to have marched to kerevilie, with the evident intention of eaeaping to the right of Blue hidge, vie Snicker's (sap Tap New York frou

pris ate

airing a

I and terribly eat up, having lost one thousand men out of a toree of a litte more than ‘our thousand which originally ‘tormed it. ‘The Confederates had the tullest knowledge of tue Federal expedition, and manifested the ytuost auxiety tp meet it.

sr. Jaux, Nov. 3.—There is a rumogr via Corinth that the Pederal torees occupy Mobile. —Lryg “ Barron De Castine,” uf Bangor, Me., ar- rived at Boston, reports was captured 29th ult., by Confederate steamer“ Alabama,” and released upon giving a bond to pay six thousand dollars (36000) after peace has been declared. The crews of captared vessels were put on board, viz: bark Lamplighter ef Boston, Oct. 5th. Burned ship “ Lafayette,” of New Haven, cargo wheat and corn, bownd tu: Ireland. Also, burned schoover “ Crewshaw,” ot aad from New York. Also, boruet barqae * Lamatta,”’ of Boston. ain

es No mgge at present, my dear reader

ber's political actions with the policy of our pre-| day of Sopteniber last sent rulers. | Sarat respectively hereinbefore referred to, and

The Hon. J. M. Johgaon, of Miramichi, whom | Lonee termed a “shrewd old gentleman,” has} been jnstalled as Mr. Smith’s successor in the office of Her Majesty's Attorney General. His re-clegtion is certain, The post of “ first com-|

Johnson, has become vacant. to encounter a strong and able opposition in the

Suuth’s resignatiog.

were present. The day was 4 sort of gala-day, and a great number of persons attended tu witness the mancevres of the noble defenders of our coun- try

Much valuable property has been lately des- trpyed by fires in the city. It is syspected that on too many oceasions it has not resulted from casualties, but from the deliberate acts of incen- diaries. Public guxpicion rests upon different villains: Rewards for discovery are offered, and condign punishment awaits the perpetrators of such henious crimes.

The weather is now yery changeable and some- what unpleasant. [Beef plenty; potaiges on the rise; buckwheat abundant; money scarce; times hard; pusinese dull, and winter negr at hand.

PELL &t, John, N. B., Oct. 27, 1362,

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Jo THe Eorrog or THE EXAMiyeR.

Sin,—Through the medium of your widely eir- culated and popular journal, I wish to call the attention af the Government to two very serious publie grizvances. The first of these ia the de- tention and stoppage of the mails, in consequence of the inability of the regular packet steamer to perform her trips regularly at this season of the year. The inconvenience and trouble which mer- cbants and tradersex perience from this irregularity in forwarding mails, can hardly be conceived by those unacquainted with the complications avd losses that naturally follow a want of ;ynetuality in making remittances. But it is impossible to

Semmes also reported had eaptared ship “Tona-

wanday” and ed her ev giving bonds for eighty thousand dollars (380,000). Ship Man- chester avd brig Dunkirk have beyn ourned, and

their crews put on board the Tonawanda.—The Britich stemsers Anglia and Seotia have been cap- tured and taken into Port Royal, ¥. C_ They

yor raed Pa ca nes, at one miffion of wars ‘ —Anot ritish v rau ashore, and haa been degtrozed. peel wes Sv.Joun, Nev. 3.—The Hepyld’s cor at ways the advance at poe mato Virgi w aud sure, Willraan be accelerated treyille vor lent of the Times cays Confederate General Walker, with 11,000 was dri

ivom Upperville through Thorooghhere Ggp McClellan telegraplis he has full Se of Snicker’s Gap. Etiemy's ore rive out by

jon is a st owe. Yaging fn Wiloy tom N. €. Sixteen huadred of Satioe Pass Federal Ste € anier i coulirmed. Ca ocket advanced into the

of the eppture ot the Bri- tah steamers Scotia, Avglia, aid Washvte, and destrae Relton of the Minto. —Dhe Seatia’s crew wae ead were put in items. ‘The Nauiner eomplai shameful

after release at Confederate hands. he same won ae that Kirby Swith’s waggen train of env tdeught out of Keulneky, wae 40 miles ung, with a million yards of Rotects jeans, an jumense amount of cipthiog, bacon ayd hams ;

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meet business engagements in Boston; St. John, and other places unless the mails ars promptly forwarded by the first conveyance. Qur preseat worthy aud efficient postinaster, would, I am sure, do allin his power, poorly as he is paid to facilitate the publie good by hiring a schooner here every time the steamer fails to make ber trip, but the authorities ia Towa refuse to grant him power to act on his own respousibility: consequently red- eism and “ Cireumlocution Office’ prevail, and pie interests are completely overshadowed

by the desire of certan officials in Charlottetown to return te the old-fashioned and aristocratic that obtained under the “ Ancient Regine.”

to it, Mr. Postmaster Owen !

The other grievance is the rotten and dilipidat- whic wharf. Notwithstanding poneed sums yp time to time, been ex-

upon this. pi of publie property, so myudicionsly was the money ox ed, that to- day there is not a mote ‘inseeure wharf on the Island. Passengers would be in danger of losing their lives after dark, were it not ia wany instances owing to the Kindness of an indyvidual who is proverbial for his attention to sirayyers. The verpment should see to it, otherwiye they may, perhaps, bave te mourn the loss Gf gn’ efficient public officer who was deprived of an optic ‘years ago on foreign service, and whose official duties call him to the wharf early and ‘até. Tt is ho streteh of the imagination to suppode that this veteran might, sume dark night, fall hone of the many man-traps with which the whart abounds. If these evils are not speedily cured, the Govern- ment may expect to hear again %

moner” of Yew Brunswick, lately held py Mr. the character of this deponent, and were published, There ean be little |

doubt that Mr. Tilley and his associates will have | official gapacity ia tlhe estimation of the public. | And this deponent, Johu Arbuckle, for himself saith,

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Legislature op the questiyn which induced Mr.

A grand revjaw of the Volunteers took place a| of Seppember last past, and hereunto annexed, few days ago on the Barrack Green, at which his | Excellency the Lieutenant Governor and suite | day of September last past, by this deponent, from

and the sixth day ot October |

containing the hereinbefore recited libellous extracts or pa pls, are hereunto annexed, marked res- yectively A and B; and that both of the said nam-

ers of the said Examiner Newspaper are printed and published at Charlottetown, in Queen's County, in the said Island, by the aforesaid Edward Whelan.

déponent further saith that the said extracts or | paragraphs contaiy a wicked and malignaut libel on

as this deponent believes, from corrupt motives, and |for the parpose of ‘injuring this deponent in his

that the “ Examiner’ Newspaper is printed and mblished, in Charlottetown aforesaid, by Edward | Whelan; and depovent saith the number of the said | Kxamjnep Newspaper, dated the twenty-ninth day

marked A, was purghaged in Charlottetown, in Queen's County, in the said Island, on the thirtieth

}a servant of the said Edward Whelan, who, at the | time when the said number was so purchased, in- | formed deponeut to the etfect that he, the said servant, suld the said Newspaper for and on account of the said Edward Whelan, which this deponent verily

that the number of the said Examiner Newspaper, dated the sixth day of October instant, and hereunto annexed, marked B, was also purchased by this deponent, from a servant of the said Eaward Whelan, in Charlottetown aforesaid, on the eighth day of October instant, and in the office of the said Edward Whelay. WA

. POPE,

JOHN ARBUCKLE. Sworn to by the sald William Henry Pope and John f = Arbuckle, at my Chambers, in Charlottetown,

in Queen's County, in the said Island, this 28th

day of October, [862, before me,

D. Hopesox, ;

Commissiqner for taking affidavits in the Supreme

Coust ot Judicature. ;

The following very vague and general affidavits by the Colonial Treasurer and Leader of the Government were also handed in by the Colonial Seeretary. It will be easily seen how very feebly they support his application for a Ormminal Infor- ination :—

Prixce Eowarn Istanp. 2 In the Supreme Court Queen's County. of Judicature.

George Wright, of Charlottetown Royalty, Co- lonial Treasurer of the said Island, maketh oath and saith that he hath read the affidavit of William Henry Pope and John Arbuckle, hereunto annexed, and deponent saith that he hath held the said office of Colonial Treasurer ever gipee the accession to otlice of the present Government of this Colony, in the year one thousand cizghphyndred and fifty-ning, and that the said William Henry Pope bath never,

any other sum belonging to George E, tan, of Halifax, or belonging to any other person, nor is this deponent aware of any nefarious and criminal act of the sajd William Henry Pope i: : the manies of the said George E. Morton, or other- wise.