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fiill’s ecorpa with a powerful forea, a single corps d armee General, who alone had a spy-ziuss, and in which they imaged detached trom the, whose intelligent and impressible features

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[hey designed innihilating | ‘+ In the midst of the grouo stood our! miles, and by this time hae them to Julea-

burg or Dengereity. As soon as he reevived sufficient foraes he intended to pursue the

wain body tO tear up the pailrosd traek.| we were reading the progress of the fight ter {ndians and eaterminate all be eould find

Cnfortooetely for the sucessa of their plan,| better than with the gaked eye. Suddenly three divisions of the Sch eorps were at hand he drops the glass from hia eye, Paises it aod the salvation of Warren's command was | again, and in a low voice matters to himself: eure. Lee has generally been sucvessfal when | ** She has ceased fring.”’

be comes with trewendaous power apgm an) * And true it was, the goble ship had jeoluted body of troops. This time he faded. | struck her colors, not that she was tired, not We lost nearly ane thougand meu takea pri-/ that she was conguered, but ae we learned gouers, and about five buadred killed and soon afterwarde, beeause her rudder chains wounded. Over one handred rebel! slain were | had parted, and she had become an inertand found in front of one brigade thie morning. unmanageable mass unable any longer to ibey were interrecs. A short time belore;conirunt the foe, or turn upon those base dark our line was redressed and strengthened | vultures who had stood far off from her, it was too lung and attenuated before the | gathered around like all wild beasts of prey Seht. ft was now our tarn to advance. Por-! which come to the carrion but run from the ward rushed our soldiers, and back went the living desh, and the Tennessee was lost to rebela. We recaptured the works and the | our view. yrouad leat two hours before. No doubt Lee) and two of his men killed during the action, desires og to leave bere. Jt is very inconve-)} but, ae informed by the flag of truce boat, nient for us to remain in thie soit glutinous) the vessel herself was as sound as when mud. but I fear we cannot sccomaodste the | launched, and had she not met with that ap- + great Virginian."’ Whatthen? He will) parently trifling accident, she might yet be force ne! Oh! twice he tried that and fail-| the proud mistress of the bay.

ed. Would he risk a general engageweatat; ** As it i¢, she will soon be one of the most, thie time and place? Yertly, no. Then we | if not moat redoutable of tle enemies we may claim the read to be ours by right of) shortly have to combat.

** squatter aorereignty,” for we now are} ** Thus closed at forty minutes past 9 a.m. camped around and about it. Lee is thus} the contest for the possession of Mobile Bay, forced to Jengthen his line. which necessarily} heving lasted two hours and a half, dle must forego all supplies by | sulted disastrously but not ingloriously to is lime our arms.’

weakens if.

Lis route, and relinquish t ol egrcss

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AMERICAN MATTERS.

The Richmond Enquirer of the 23rd, gives

rik NAVAL ENGAGEMENT IN MOBILE| BAY—A SOUTHERN ACCOUNT, |

fhe Mobile Trifene, of the Sth coutaiga @ jively description of the

the Southern version of the battle on the Weldon Railroad, on Sunday the 2lst, ad-

August fierce struggle which tock place m Mobile Bay on) mitting a defeat. Lt says :— ** About 9 o'clock Sunday morning our forces again attacked the enemy lodged on the : a hn hee ot | Weldon railroad, in front and on flank. The tred for the Sorth for whieh the mem 0!) .jomn assaulted in front pushed the enemy Mobile are most notorious. We make an/ back half a miie, carried two lines of earth- extract whieh will be read with interest | works, and captured three handred prisoners Aiter the Feders! feet had anceeeded in fore-} Ibe force assaulting in flank captured the ing % Wey past the forte, the writer says :— }enemy's skirmishers and reached his heavy

‘» But hark! a potent voice, ye ie now adding its grave and ominogs soun te the awful concert. [ct is the ‘lenneasee is is the hery of the Merrimac. It is the Nestor of modern days, the intrepid Buchan nan, Who wow lew lovse on the enewy the direty! dags of war. All seems husted into ; : She SUteT pound that rings in our ears ax | COTp® holding naan railroad with | Se the precursor and harbinger of a change ol | tions of the s:rongest character. — They ma ; fortune. It is the gray haired veteran, who * heavy demonstration oe Ou leit on Bpen etarnding alone on the deck of the Merrimac. | Road this morning with infantry and artil- aunk the whole of the boceted Fedveal feet! lery, but accom plished nothing. gt Fortress Movrve, and who made them pay | Grant's plans on the Danville road are Woasiv for the | ao fenee counted | "°* revealed, and all the energy and gallant-

ry of the army under Lee and Beauregard

honor

him swong their bravest commanders. There

aL. SIRE LO gr eagg will not be tov much to beat baek this pold movement to the suuth of Petersburg. The

he egeia cupfrunts them, as each pass 6, and fon f, ’ i vive 9 side ‘ oa ceipert: OF peut, inte. gts a enemy's Centre Tests ou the railroad, about wteady and regular fire : first the tu sitors, | three wiles from the vIty, and his lett atretch- shying of to the weet at Jeast 12/0 yards | °° westward to the Vaughan road. Around the cautiags Mrooklyn ard Hartford, then |“ position works of great strength have : ; | sprung up like magic, mounting heavy guns }and guarding eve ry approach. Behind these

the whele feet running past him in terror az wach of bis name as his deeds. One, | rd :

; works hes the main body ol Grants army. i not less than 30,000 wen.

two, three, then six, then ten, then twelve, | seventeen pass bim affur off, and seventeen | Sees Sinko cali siete yeceive bis salute; and then, with the wings I : See ee er ws al that dear lends to the pale face and poltroun, | "J r . :

they rush down toward the westera shore | far beyond bis range. Uf those who lag be-) ++ Grant's designs are new apparent. but jund, two engage the Selma, each o which | he has vigilant and able adversaries, and a could haul ber open her deck as a faney | Confederate arury in tis front anused to see

jolly boat; three wake fur tine Gaines, which, i Yankees atand firm befote them. {t would

che ach. Ihe writer relera to the disasters

in a deapondent tone, bat with ail that ha

unheard, |

j accountable giving way at an important mo-

| ment of one of our brigades, we were repuls-

jed with considerable loss and compelled to retire.

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once

The Examiner remarke:

ja stii] greater disproportion, rushes in their! be foolish to deny or disguise our repulse ol!

gaidst, and boldiy attempte to grapple the| Sunday, but the end is not yet.’’ west powerful ot her adversaries, roiled mn A Wishington despatch of the 29th says : thes fyol-hardy enterprise, receiving io a few ely : a ws minutes fifteen shots through her hall and} Vur total loss sn the fight of Thursday did machivery. crippled and almost sink ng, she | 20%! xeeed 2.000, while that of the enemy is appeare, under the vivilying touch of the | supposed tu be about 5.000. L geliaat Bennett. to recuver une moment the | We still hold about 4 miles of the Weldon spasmudic energies of a dying man. Extries- | railroad, and the portion abandoned by the ting herself by a supreme effort frm the | 2d corps was effectually destroyed. grasp of her powerlul enemy, aie frantically | Deserters who came in yesterday state that yushed toward the shore, where, as she | Since the Weldon Railroad fell icta our pos- beaches Sigh and dry on the sulid sand, her | Session pork has advanced to $600 aad beet whole frame shattered avd exhausted by the | $800 per Lbi in Richmond, and their off effort, renders a low rumbling sound, as the | © declare the ruad must be captured at all death-ratiie uf a giant. uazards. : i eee ; ** But, yonder, yonder, near the western fue Confederates estimate Gen. Sheridan's shove, the Selma, raked tore and aft by the forces ip the Shenandoah valley at 41,000 men. bruad-ides of her antagonists, ie ewept by! A letter from the Winchester to the Rich- gheir shot, and her decks eovered with dead | mond Whig says: wad dying. Sie strikes that dag which she) «The enemy, as they retired from Stras- sv vahantiy defended. Thus the gallant Pat) burg, literally destroyed everything in the Murphy falis im the hands of the enemy. | way of food for man or beast. With their whe wiumphantly reise their infamous stare | mense cavalry they extended their lines oud stripes over the immaculate standard vo! | from Front Royal, in Warren county, to the tue South. : 'North mountains, west of Strasburg, and ‘* Meantime the Morgan has hugged in the barnt every buafel of wheat in stack, barn eaatera shore, and exchanging rapid shows! op mill in Frederick, Warren or Clark, as with two of the Federal ships, she wdroitly well as oats and hay ; they really left abso- manages to draw off from the unequal con | jytely nothing in these two counties. What tast, and thus save at least one of our gallant) the people are to du, Gud only knows."’ ehips after receiving voly slight injuries. | Well did she act, the brave ship; for as the| Gaines and Selma were already disposed of. |

A Mobile despatch of the 17th says that a heavy column of Yankees is moving down

Brave Buchanan bad lost a leg.

and re-|

| breastworks, when, owing to his heavy force, | jj the great strength of his works, and the un-

The enemy have their 24, 5th and 9th)

‘Gen. Mitchell bad one battle with the La- dians, in which he killed sixty. | Arpanta, Agg. 24 —Another large cous | flagration occurred this mgraing ia Alabume \etreet, destruping @ large warehouse and 8e- vera! buildings The tire was caused by a shell trom the Yankee batteries. During the conflagration the fire was kept up on that portion of the city with great ra- pidity. Prisoners report that Sherman's army continues well fed. | (Citizens from Marietta report that Pederal officers claim that there are 20 days provi- | sions at that place.

A letter from Fartagut’s fleet says that | men are much wanted to supply the place of | those killed and wounded in the late engege- bones in Mobile Bay. | A couple of miners at Washoe fought a 'ducl recently, with pick-axes for weapons. | They were placed a rod apart, and advanced at a given signal. Ose hurled his pick at | bis antagonist and burved it in hiseye. The | wounded man lingered some days in hornd

agony.

A | fhe New York Herald says that coal m i that city has come down in the price two | dollars per ton by wholesale, and that large | quantities are accumulating along the docks os shhaiiaabttaiininione | Anew boiler for steam engines hus been | patented by an Trish inventor of the name of | Elson. It consists of a number of cast-iron bottles, twelve inches in diameter and stx | feet in length, set in ovens, aud connected in their steam and water spaces. Forty-two of | these evole a power of sixty horses.

igi cli Ali eaten | The Mobile Bank has recently loaned a | Confederate paywaster $100,000 to pay out |to the soldiers. —_—_

| COLONIAL.

The Bishop of Arichat has addressed the | following letter to the Clergy and Laity of | his Diocese :—-

“ Whereas, by the Canon Law of the Ca- tholie Chureh — via. Trid. Syd. Sess. 24, de | Reform. Matr. cap. 1. the Sacrament of | Matrimony must be preceded by publication |of Banns, and no authority save chat emanat- ing trom the Church, through its Bisbops, can “give license to its ministers to dispense with such publications, And whereas the Legis- ‘lature of this Provinee has, by an act of its jlast Session, thougt fit, among other things, co impose a penalty of S200 on every person who shall officiate in the solemnization ol marriage, uniess under licence from she civil ' Government, or under Banns, &c. — which ‘act, so far as it relates to such licence being ‘obtained by Catholics, we consider an in- fringewentol our episcopal rights, and would, \if allowed to be carried out, tend to ignore the authority of the Church, which it is our }bounden duty to maintain in all matters spiritual, | + We, therefore,to avoid this invasion of our

rights, ordain that you, beloved Brethren ol ithe Clergy, shall in no case henceforward, ‘administer the sacrament of Matrimony, or | marry persons ender any pretext whatever, | without first publishing the Banns as requir- ed by the law of the Church ; and that you,

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| Beloved Children of the Laity, shall not, funder any circumstauces, apply to civil lautherity for licence to receive the seventh

| sacrament of the Charch to which you belong |

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under pain of its censure } ———- +> --- | Quite a gathering of Roman Catholic Cler- | gywen bas recently taken place at Chatham, | tor the purpose of holding what 18 called a | Spiritual Retreat, where they abstain from jall public exercises for a number of days, or }a week, if they see fit, where they retire and ‘examine their consciences and meditate on their duties and obligations as clergymen and ebristians. | ton, had been invited tu conduct the services | This, we are told, is one of the most univer- sally respected R. C. Clergymen on the Continent, le is in his &3u year. There are also present the Rev. Canon Butler, | Chaplain to the forces in Halifax, the Rev iE. J Dunphy, St. Stephen's, and the Rev. | Mr. Farre! from this city, all the guests ol

| Bishop Rogers.—Sz. John Evening Globe.

ei-lpanbasper 8 | The Halifax Citizen says that Mr. Levesey left here on Saturday morning last, for the

| purpose of having an interview with the lead- |

ing men of Nova Seotia and New Brunswick respecting the extension of the railway from Truro to Awherst, and probably to Shediae Our contemporary says —** |sey) is e@id to be authorized, on behalf ot a

The Rev. Juin MeElroy, of Bus- |

ble (Mr. Leve- }

through the State of Mississippi in the direc-| celebrated English firm, to accept the terms

sie would have been beset by not less than) aeven of the most powerful gunboats. he gallant deed of Captain Harrison, who} ;

= £ game night ae ys. hie anal * Mo. | formidable foree which left Memphis sevo- bile, keening vp arunning fight with three |"! Geye since. Federal — ono, of the enomy, the world is already ac aint. | Progress Of Smith's army. Oa the 12th an ed; but what they know not is, the wher |

thie eagelire ¢ ’ Porcst's trun * she started, he and hia nuble crew had pledged his cavelry and part of Forest's troops. The jememy were driven through Oxtord, and

ere nines eoerne ree anne F ay pursued fifteen miics further. Un the Lith ow her up vuner than let her fall into tae) F f sbbegevilie, MM ; enemy's hunds re ony tom ° y en é, eet ate- ++ And now all anxious eyes are turned to-| ot re thing as progressing favyourat ly wards the Tennessee, which, still in the midst) WHER comBLEN. of the ebannel, seems proudly and defiantly} A speeral despatch to the Mobile Advertiser tu expect the combined effurts of the seven-| from near Aberdeen, dated Aug. 24th, says wen heavy crafts now hovering vn her flanks} the enemy burot Asherville last night. and rear; but she soon realizes the fact thar} Cheir advance forces passed through Holly they are afraid of ber, even in the proportion | Springs this morning, ¢ wards Lagrangs of seven to one. nuader the cannons of the fort, and leave her | night. As they were about crossing yester - there until eaten up by worms, starved out | day, Chambers fired into their intautry turce of coal and provisions, she wili fall ao easy add a sharp skimish took place, He captured prey inte their hands. | hone waggons and their teams. Our joss * When the noble ship, like a thing of} was 20. Lhe pursuit was renewed this life, ceased to awake from a deep slumber | morning. ud her whole frame, shaking with anger The Richmond Fagvirer asks the question vibrates through the iron nostrils of her| where the necessaries of life will be obtained long rescramed fury. and suddenly wheeling | after the war, and says: round, she darts with her utmost spect! after } * From our enemies or our friends? How the miscreants. As she steams up west ard, | will we pay for them? With the money earned in quest of the arrant erew, her broud } umes | by varelaves? Will we be willing tenths at See a ee ne tas eek ae: | war to take the stund of au independent peo- ing geen 2 * ae ake, WET! oie? Nominally we will, but, strangel pointed ram cleav-ng the waves io twain.) ooogeh our oni eihepeatines will tertnina te she realizes ee ves Fenet # ee ~ with reeugnition. Yankee drummers will be wwer cumoined, & pe n yes ; = . wi Hike the Leviathan of ublical wythology.| re tated the peace party. They. wil (in, on she rashes, and ~ hme the wer ain aalene t they, will open stores. The tern shore, the enemy 8 Keet scatters iM Very | bioekade runners will come home from Nas- direetiun — four towards town, and eleven.) wy and Wilmington, and tempt our women

with the Sao monitors, north and suvth of i with useful and ornamental wares. We will her, Still she keeys on her frantic raco, :

driving them before her, when, souner ent rola pee oaee dependence Me the Yankece he henghed they finally turn and accept thre | wae Engilot. cue Fankssvans ane oe ; ‘fe we fear, destined to be the Relief Committee challenge. There, in the midst of thirtwen) ¢ o. Confederacy, beatowing upon ue such gessels, ae Of, whieh. sauay pemesta! thal! things as they think we need. Whenever qersell. We > ques saune 20. she ene ager! we hecome restless under this dependence our in the fight. givee the first signal aud maker) foreign masters will be offended, and we wi the first ohergs. : , again be driven to propitiate the Deity who Thus like an infuriated bear worried bya has brought the scourge of war upon us by a

pack of hounds, now rushes and tears uy 2.) tibation uf blood and tears poured out upon rips another open, knocks down and smashes} hie ites.”

# third under his powerlul claws, theo falls} : : : : vack to take a fresh spring, and makes tor! Intelligence received at St Louis from the

the vital part of the yeiping curs, hus | Indian expedition of Gen. Sully is of an un- gaye Buchanan darts right and left, forward | favorable character. yad rear, of evch vessel in taro, and though | tu have met with a defeat at Knife River,

which enters inte the Mi-suuti, a short dis-

his epeed ie rot equal to the promptness o! : ; pis tion heagt. get each time he rushes tu-| ‘nee from Fort Clark. [t is thought pro-

wards one of them, she latter bastily back«| bable that a detachment or adyance of Gen |

beyond hia reach. | Sully’s command may have been attacked ** St last getting courage, they form around by overwhelming numbers, or that the sava- Lim, at more than # mile distapt, @ cymplete 5° sucgeeslully umbuacaded the Federal wemircircle, she [enneavee in the centre, and | TOPs, concentraung their fire gpon bez. Jaig broad-| Large bodies of Indians are reported bel ede after bposdside into her finks, Yet she) tween Smoky [ill and Salina rivers, aod al- yrores Bot, but ap buck shot fur shot, blow, the valleys weet of the Kansas are swarming fur blow, steel fur steel, emitting Bre at once} with them. from each of her port-holes, gy severely | eaptuged over 3000 horses and mules, besides penmbing three of er oewrest adversaries us| a large nuwber of cattle, during the last six to compel them to draw back aad careen over! weeka, The [ndians have renewed their out- on shore. She kept up the unequal cus vest | rages ig Sinaesota, having made a raid on in spate af the feartul odds agarnst her. ithe settleapents on Willow Crevk, in Blue Ae che eonfict was waxing warwer,! Larth County, where men, women and chil-

W ith | om of that city. This undoubted'y refers to! A. S. Smith's recent expedition, comprising |

lengagement took place between a portion of

They intend to drive her ‘Tueir waggon treiu erossed at Waterford last!

Gen Sully is reported |

The savages are said to have)

offered by Nova Scotia in the reselution re ferred to above, for the construction of tae | line to New Brunewick ; and it ia believed in | well informed cireles that a contract to that leffect, with the government, will be signed ‘within « fortnight. {t must not besupposed that either the magnitude of this wor, or the bunus off red by this Province, is such as 'to make the firm about to undertake it, desi- |rous to obtain the building of the road on its ‘own account. It is only a part of the great | intercolonial line and the still greater Paci- fie line, to whose importance and necessity | British capitahsts are becoming fully awake, that the 60 miles in Nova Scotia have any value in the eyes of the men now about to undertake its construction.”’ ~? eo We learn from the Hauwilton Spectator that the three deserters from the 63rd regt.., /whose resistance and subsequent arrest on the Lake we noticed @ short time ago, re- ceived their sentence on Wednesday aiter- inoon Jast. They were removed from the gaol and conveyed to the McNab Street Par- ude Ground, when the sentences, confirmed |by Major General Williams, were read.— | MeCoy and Bullark, who fired at the pursu- ling party, were condemned to be shot on |Monday, the Sth Sept., and Connell was sentenced to ten years penal servitude. The 'two former were then sent to the Military Prison at the Crystal Palace, where they were heavily ironed, and will remain until | the day of their execution. | ——— Poe | An insane woman, torty years old, living neac Niagara Falls, being left unwatched for la few minutes, a duy or two ago, ran to the | river, and, throwing herself in, was carried | over the Falls. She appegyad to recover her ‘reason as she was sweptlopg, lor she cried

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| A severe gale was experienced on the New- | foundland coast on the Lith ult. At Blak- | head 30 fishing boats were lost or wrecked, fishing stages were carried away, and other damage done. The Schooner Jemima, with ‘three men, was lost, At Larbour Grace two men named baggs weredrowned, A nuwber lof beats were also lost at Bay de Verds at | the same time.

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| Beare are committing extensive ravages among the sheep in the neighborhood of Sackville, N. B, Here's a chance fyr bear huntiug.

j To rue Evrrok oF THE EXAMINER. Sik :—

lu the Vindicator of the 7th instant, I am sorry to sev a sevions blunder in his notice of the Con- jeert avd Lea in connection with our Convent

lhere, Phe dates there given are doubly erre- neous, Not only are the days of the month

‘wrong, but the two events are crammed into one Such mistakes in a public print are inexcusable, as much damage and loss

day's proceedings.

| might oceur owing to confusion between days of

‘the week and month. The notice should have run

ADLIOUS Zreups were formed on the gaimports | dren were killed in a night aesauit, and seve-| thus: The Miseoueh Concent will be opened by

of the forte, watching im bresthiess silence the ral farm huyses burned and the stuck driven ogress of that yoperalieled engazeweas. | off. In regard to the troubles on the plains, The forw bad long since ceaged ring, exeopt | a letter frum Umaha, Nebraska, saya the ex- whee « contemptible Federal cralt, formerly | citement yo the fruntier ie growing more in- the Bucnend, I believe, thinking, nu doubt, | tense. It is reported now that o large body that the entrance was free to all, came up) of Lodians yse upop the Big Blue, killing the braggiugly to seek admittance, and being, men, women agg children indiscriminately turned over to the brave esrygeagt, he, with s Lt is reported thet the town of Biue Springs

contem pigous swile sent through hors heavy 18 burnt, and thirty of the inhabitants killed. |

+’ Brooks,’ whch goon setiled ber aceouot, Gen. Mitchell grrived at Fort Kearney, and when Morgan detailed a party of men to go has made that Fort bie headquarters for the blow her up, the crew having taken to present.

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bbeir boatrand escaped

Bening troops wlopg the road every fifteen

Jue Genezal bad commended ata-'

special Service on Sunday the I1th instant. Ou Monday, the 12th, a Concert will be given in the building at halfpast seven in the eveniug; aud ou Tuesday, the 13th, a ‘Tea Party will close the festivities. ‘Sea on the table at 11 o'elock. I may mention, en passant, that the Classes will be opened aa Thursday the 15th. } have the bonor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, ONE INPELESTED. Miseourhe, Sept. 9th, bs64

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Charlottetown, September 12, 1864. PPP PPP PP LP DLO LEE

THE DELEGATION.

PUBLIC BALL AND BANQUET,

Tue Bail and Banguet given at the Provincia!

Examiner.

the Intereslunial Delegates, assembled here te deliberate on the question of a Umon of the Colonies, was, we believe, the most brilliant Fete that has ever occurred in Charlottetown. Ne ex- ertion was spared to make it so; and the expense was regulated by a jndicions but net parsimonious spirit. It was the feeling of all persons in the community that, however much some of us wight! differ as to the desirability of a Union, there could be no difference as to the propriety of giving a hospitable reception te the representatives of the sister Provinces. The Government, to whom we all looked as the proper quarter from which the rites of hospitality should be dispensed, was slow in doing its duty; but when once that duty was entered upon, we felt that we ought to aid rathe than discourage ils performance.

‘The nuwber in attendance was not so large as was expeoted, but this was chiefly owing to the late hour at which invitations were issued. The Managing Committee had only two or three days to wake all the necessary preparations, and it was impossible that invitations could reach distant parts of the country in tape to enable all the persons to whom they were addressed to arrange for their due acceptance. However, as it was, the Provincial Building teemed with more festive life than it ever did before, and two or three oc- casiuns occurred within the last thirteen or four- teen years when its halls rang with festive sounds

The guests commenced to assemble at balf past eight o’clock—His Excellency the Lieut. Goyer- nor and Lady were amongst the first to arrive. His Worship the Mayor and three other members of the Managing Committee were in the lowe: Hall of the Building to receive them, and direct them to the Robing Room, the Lieut. Governor's Office having been set apart for that purpose. The Delegates from Cauada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, arrived nearly together, about nine o'clock, and were escorted by fhe Mayor to the Council Chamber, which was most tastefully fit- ted up as a Reception and Drawing Room. Here they were received by the Lieut Governor and Mrs. Dundas, where they remuined until ten o'clock, being introduced to the ladies aud gen- tlemen in attepdance whose acquaintance the) had not previously made. At ten o’cluck they repaired to the Hall of the House of Assembly—

Batt Room— the Hon. J. A. M’Donald, Attorney Genera! o! Canada West, having Mrs. Dundas on his ari, and the Lieut. Governor having Mrs. T. Heath The Band played the na- tional Anthem as they entered, and as svou as il

Haviland on his arm.

was over the first set of quadrilles was opened, the Delegates and their partners with whow they entered joining in the dance. The Assembly Rooni

was superbly decorated with flags and evergreens

Festuons of green boughs, riclily interwoven with flowers, were suspended trom the ceiling, cross- ling and recrossing each other at right angles ; and all the pillars wich support the gallery were gaily ‘decked with twisted evergreens, iuterwoven, like the festouna, with flawers, “Phese decorations

were prepared by Mr. Watson

| sed some members of bis family, and were

Duchemin

greatly admired by every euc whe eulerea The Provincial Delegates were warm we their culogies, and eeteral of them declared

the reom.

} they had never seen Balfroom decorations thal | ae and taste. The Lciinopy Which overkangethe place appropriated to the Speaker’s chair was ornamented by 2

could surpass them for

trauspareney ou whieh were painted the arms and motty of the Islaud. It was very w ell done, and was an object of ¢onsiderable attraction Mr. G. W. Milner was the artist, and his well- hinoWwn taste Was couspicueus in the werk,

Splendid mirrors, trom the establishment of Mr. | George Douglas, were placed at both ends of the | room and costly vases,tilled with the most delicivus | flowers, shed a grateful fragrance through: it. ) Phe skill and euergy of Mg. Murphy, Superintend- | ent of the Gas Works, were taxed to give the most brilliant gas light, and in thia respeet his work was Indeed, there was uothing wanted to meke the Ball Room a acene of en- chantment.

admirably done.

Keniale loveliness—the most dis- tinguishing feature of it—could net possibly be better displayed in so small a place as Charlotte- All the unmar- ried aud divengaged gentlemen lost their hearts, as a watter of course ;—and all the married ones— well, we had better say nothing about them at present, lest we shuuld cause the faintest ap- proaches of the “green-eyed monster.” We shall otly add, in connection with the Ball Room, that dancing was kept up with great spirit and the most joyous feeling until uearly five o’clock,—

town, 88 if was on this occasion.

every ove seemed desirous of pleasing each other —net the wost trifing iueident occurred to war the universal harmony ; aud, indeed, this was the | case in ewery part of the Building, as well as the Ball Rooin. Tue RerrResuMent Room,

to whieh purpose the spacious Legislative Library Was appropriated, was always filled. Mr. W. B Allen, with a staff of assistants, attended to the Refreshment Department, Tea, Coffee, Cake, and other delicacies, were in abundance—Sherry, | Claret, Champagne, and ether wities, were also there in profusion fer thee who preferred the more exhilirating fluids, “There, old friends met and interchanged courtesies, and jokes and repar-

tees; new friendships were formed that may change the destinies of many @ life; those who felt them- selves tov old or tow indoleut for dancing, aud some few, perhaps, not skilled inthe Terpsichorean art, as directed by modert fashion, found abundant sources of pleasure in the Refresbweut Reom ;— there, the Hon. D'Arcy Metice displayed the “ ad- mirable dexterity of his wit,” and kept au eager listening crowd coutiuually “ina rear,” But THe BANQueTinG Room was the most interesting place ofall. The Supreme Court Room, on the firet floor, was the place se- lected fur the Supper, to which the party repaired a little before one o'clock. ‘The Premier of the Canadian Government took in Mra. Dundas, and for each of the other Delegates a lady was aelected by the Managing Cowmittee. The Hon. Col.Gray presided, supported by His Excellency the Lieut. Governor on his ght, aad by the Hon. the Leader ef the Canadian Goverument on hia left, with his The Hon. John Longworth, Chair- man of the Managing Committee, acted as Croup- ier, and discharged the duties of that post in a very able manner, The Tables were ingenieusly arranged by Mr. George L. Dogherty, and were done so with a view to econymise all the space which the room could possibly afford; but still a large number were obliged to wait until places were vacated by some of those who first went in. Asregards the rich viands that were placed upon the table, we will aot pretend to give 4 minute notice of them. Everything that could | minister to the taste of the epicure, from sub- ' stantial rounds of beef and splendid hams, tu the | more deliente trifles of the cwisine, were in great abundance—salmon, Jobster salad, oysters pre- ‘pared in every shape and style, all the different | kinds of foul which the season and the market could afford—a!! vegetable delicacies peculiar to | the season—pastry in all forme—truits in almost levery variety ~ winea of the ebvicest yintage— were in the greatest profusion, leaving scarcely an iuch of vacant apace on the wide tables. Lhere L was neyer such a * apread™ prepared iy Chaylotty

fair partner.

Building, on Thursday evening last, in honer of|

a aera ea town, aad the caterer, Mr. Jobo } furphy, of the North Asmericam Hotel, well deserved all the praise which he received for it. ‘The wines and fruits were specially selected by the Committee; a list of the other articles was prepared for Mr Murphy's guidagec, and although be had very little time to mxke eo large a selection as be was required to make, the complete success of all] iis arrangements justified the confidence placed in him,

The Committee had prepared @ short list of re- gular Toasts, and great curiosity prevailed to hear Tue Seeecies which some of them, at least, would elieit from the Delegates. We append a list of the Toasts,

duly nuinbered :-—

1. Her Most Gracious Majesty the Pease:

2 Their Royal Wighnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales andall the over members ot the Royal Family.

3. His Excellency the Govervor General, and their Excellencies the Lieutenaut Governors: of the British American Provinces.

4. Our Distinguished Guests, the Delegates trom Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

5. The Army and Navy. {ry

6. Union ef Seutiment and Fraternal ¥ eeling between all Elvr Majesty’s Sabjects in British America.

7. Mrs. Dundas and the Ladies.

The first and second Peasts having been honored in the most enthusiastic wanner—

His Excellency the LIEUT. GOVERNOR rose to respoud to the third toast, and was loudly cheered. He thanked his friends at the festive board for the compliment which bad been paid to his Excellency the Governor General, to the othe Representatives of Her Majesty in British Ame- rica, and to himself. faction at the auspicious meeting of so many

He expressed his great satis-

distinguished gentlemen from the neighbouring Provinees, whose Convention would, he trusted, be conducive to the best interests of Her Majes \)’s subjects on this side of the AUante—enabling them to form, as it would, a more extensive ac- quaintance with our people and their resources chan could be acquired in our present isolated coudi‘ion, an thue greatly enlargefthe comercial and social intercourse between the several Pro- vinces.

The fourth Tvast having bees duly honoured, called forth responses from several of rhe Delegates trom the other Provinees, bat it will bp seen that they were all careful net to commit themselves to any precise statement of the views entertamed by the Convention. The first to speak was—

Hon. Col. Gray, Chairman, who prefaced the Coast—! Our Distinguished Guests, the De legater from Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick,” by a few appropriate remarks: — The Hon. Col said that be had no doubt bat that he was giving utterauce te the sentiments of all the people, of this Colony, in expressiig pleasure and entire gratification at this visit fo our fsland home oi some of the ablest statesmen of Canada and the adjvining Provinees. He would not, he said, at- tempt to make a speech, as he was proud to know that those who had honorably assembled to wei- come their distinguished visitors would now be addreased by some of the representatives of two of the greatest Nations of the World, whom he had the hover and extreme pleasure of seeing around him, Ove remark, however, he would wake, and it was this, that he sincerely and eonfi- dently believed that this visit would be preduetive of much good, and serve a8 the happy harbinger of such a union of sentiment aad interests among the three and a half milion of freemen, which now inhabit British Ameriwa, as ucither time vor change could tor ever destroy.

Ion. Mr. McDonato, Attorney General o! Capada West, replied, Ue said the people of these lower Provinees and of Canada were separated too long. Our hearts, he said, were one, our loyalty and attachment to the throne of England one, and we were one an- cestry—except a portion of Canada —and yet, we were unfortunately severed from eaeh other by the preseat construction of yur respective Constitutions and governments tHe bad, however, every reason to believe that the result of the Convention which held its sittings in Uharlotterown for the. past week would lead to che !ormation and estab- lish ment of sueliia Federation of all the Bri- tish North American Provinces as would tend very materiaily to enhance their individual and collective prosperity, politically, came wereially, and socially ; and also give them. in their united manhood. that national prowess and strength wineh would meke them at least the fuurth nation on the face uf the globe. He then alluded, in a most elegant and humourous manner, to the unin- terrupted pleasure and happiness which he, in common with all the Delegates, felt at their visit to this lovely Island. He said he appreciated the hospitality and kindness which they all received at the hands of their co-Delegates and others in this place ; and he felt assured that the very favorable im- pressions made on the hearts and minds of all the Canadian gentlemen, whetber married or unmarried, would lead ‘to other, and il possible, more happy visits to this eharming place.

llon. Mr. Cartier, Attorney General of Canada East, was the next called upon. He expressed his timidity in attempting to speak after the able and learned Attorney General of Canada West. He alluded, in the most humourous manner, to the remarks of the lion. Attorney General of Canada West, re- lative to the jadies—and then proceeded to say that it was a gratifying fact for the Bri- tish American Provivees that they eould claim, as their ancestry, two of the greatest nations of the world: He, in common with nis countrymen in Canada East, claimed to be the descendants of the inhabitants of of4 France. He said we are Frenchmen as to race, but Frenchmen of the old regime. He spoke of a recent visit to France, and said when present at a meeting of the French Academy of Paris, a few years ago, he was asked haw had the French in Lower Canada managea to maintain their nationality ? Lis reply was, that 1t was because they separated from France before the French Revylution fad it not been for that fact their nationality would have been Jost in the convulsions which followed that period of their country’s history. ‘They owed the preservation of their nationality to the free institutions which they had received from England. It was a honey day, iv his opinion, when Eng- land and France fought side by side as bro- thers at the Crimean war. That was the first time since the 12th century that they did battle together in one common cause ; and he was proud to say that the French Canadians to-day rejoice as much at the prosperity of England as thatof France. As to the question of Colonial Union, he said, shough the Convention held its meetings with closed doors, and he was not at liberty to state all that transpired, yet thismach he would say, that he hoped and believed the