—

= ye _-—-- PN an ce cee ae ad oo ee ade eenmneneeeeee cares of ofce, We ment se fag HE SU BSUBAMES fr rrp er uP OME a a ee emcee ae TOES rhe om eR 2 ee hen Gai th (ea ely ot having an efficient Fire Depart-| crew when she lett New York. One cinealabadaiiagaeiamaaiamemes SES eee eee a a Re Ee - ——— a =" rt f : Poe Fi olat thi ore or le | - ; | questions mixed op with it, but they are of| CIRRESPONDENSCE, bad sign in an individual er body of men, the) prising in reality uething m has been reeveuized as a net

MISCELLANEOUS WEWS.

——— ee & OEE] | minor Importance, and mainly affeot the in.

(From the Toronte Glove. | ternal adwinistration of affairs in Schleswig,

nh a : one . 9G jwith whieh the Federal Diet bus po more TUE GERMAN-DANISH EMBROGLIO. “right to interfere than Engiand has to inter-

”-——s 1

world ever, tofind them thus at any time liable to) hesitate about inewrring the full responsibility ‘of boldly advancing theirown principles. Surely fauch men must occasionally experienee sume

“GOD IS.LOVE.”

|

plain blunt interregative: whether or pet the Bible after all has ever constituted, in any virtual sense, a real plank at all in - political platiorm whatever which any party, Tory or otherwise,

‘ipent until one half of the town may be burned down. We would, however, advise the citizen« who always turn out at fires wilh commendable alacrity, to make for the Engine House first,

. ; j re eve in the legislative history of , oi . ‘ : ; * | ali : ess of shame at their own actions. | have ever yet adopted in the leg ; Hoaliiax. On arriving bere the © As the quarrel between Germany and fore with the internal affeire of Prussia. ‘Let gratitude in acis of goodness flow ; alight conseiousn so . hale to do} this Province? To say that it has not will most | | to the fire, so as that when they reach | pong inalel wae Denwark bas once more assumed a6 Im-| Pig patri pom “aaa hich cnieain the | Var love to God, in love to man below.” | But fear, we surmise, had very ee probably sound like a rather starting assevera- instead of : oe ane to the 5 —

ith thus preventing our present Goverament can-

the latter place they may be of sume service.

when will vest the responsibility of

Pe docinli “pow portant position in European Lyre: we! ple of Germany for a closer union, is one | [To such as believe this to be their duty, the. Tee at the late election from openly assuming | tion to many ; a peenseeer sm — merits of this most sinvolar trausaction. the propose to give a short resumeof the mal@) wih Eagland looks upon, aad has always following Verses are, with a view to the benefit | the responsibility of consistently maintaining mer 1 say most advisedly and, , Since writing the above, another fire has oc) The Che had « valuable carge;

jeatures in a very intricate case. The death of abe late King of Doomark bas given pro- qwipence to w feature 10 the oontroversy which may lead to important resu/te:

The Danish monarchy is composed of the Kingdora of Denmark and the. Duchies of Sehleswig, Uvlstern, and Lauenburg. The two latter only are included in the Germanic Confederations, They are tepresenied in the Diet, and are liable to the same duties as) other States, over Which it has control. Schlewwig was orce a fief of the Danish cyown, but since 1721 it has been a Danish proviues. Never has it been a member of the «unfederations. From the diva af Charle- magne duwaward, the river Liver, dividing Seliewwig trom Holstein, tas been the geo- | graphical boundary between Germany and Denmerk. It ie otherwise with Loiscein. Up te the dissulution of the Gorman Empire by the cong esta vl Napole mm, the Kings al

jloeked upon with great favour. It was mainly by her efforts that in 1816 the present Conlederation was e/eeted ; and the prop si- tions lately pat forward by the Emperor of Austria wet with ber moral support. Every intelitgent man in Cur mother country i8 ik favour of German consolidation. ‘Ihe hap- prest day whieh has dawned upon Europe for many along year will be that whieh shail wi, ness Germany preseniing a firm and upbroken

Russia on the ether. so desirable a consummation is not by tramp- ling under toot the rights of the nuble Jitile kingdom of Denmark. = aa - Goup Currency.-—It is stuied that all the oats purehased in P inee Edward [xhind, this seuson, for und on account of the Federal Government, have been paid for in gold, the coipaye of either Great Britain or the United Shues The larve amounts of

; rold in civealation in the British North American ath beid tm fief of Gormany. When! 2? Siemmatl het a When | Provinees, during the pust few venrs, forme one of

m IS16 the Confederation was re-formed, the distinguishing and most remarkable features of | the Aing of Denmiurk J uned that Confeders-! these Colonial times. Tu this Province gold evin | trom as Duke of Holstein and Lanenhbury, | bts, to 4 very ee then the place | ; 3 " fova Scotia jand $) notes, in currving on t whiel) latter Was ceced to D. nhmark vo heu Nova + Sian ; ‘: ' :

yrdivary bosiness of the city and country; and it is | ul Norway » them annexed ty Sveden, the subject of general remark, how tainsnally bare |

of

front te France dn the one band, and to |

But the way tu achieve |

position in this respect before a mixed con- y than anything elae, Yes verily--betore | ‘a iixed constlucncy! We base, perchance, just “Tam all that is, was, or ever shall be; and hit on something bere. Who knows but this aay ne wortal has been able to raise the veil whiel have been the real clue after all to much of their covers my face." luscreption on the facade of an go wuiversally remarked strange inconsistency of ancient Egyptian Temple. | conduct in this very respect? This one fact is | “" lat all events notoriously certain, that they all alike | heeemed to labor under ve sivall amount of secret | jdread, Jest this long ridden religious lobby ef | theivs might be gradually assuming a somewhat | different color in the popular mind, and in the! | special apprehension we do not, to tell the honest | truth, thinis they were far astray, And this may also perhaps be quite sufficient in itself to account j ter the correspoudiig fact equally notorious to the iniversal observation of ihe whole colony, that they | preterred em; loytig other agents of a somewhat | peculiar statup, as letporary coadjutors, tostrike through the pulpit and press, this for themselves persovally cou idered, increasingly delicate cord

of the poor, most respectiully and humbly inserib.d Ue

| by the Author.) | stittenc

==>

“All that has ever been I am, ‘Phat is or e'er will be,

Unchanging, through unceasing change, 1 AM eternally!

In clouds and darkness, flame and light, Mysteriously Idw ell; And of ny nature none aright

Can or conevive or tell !

|

‘

For though iv all man’s aciive mind

doliberately—it has not. But whether or not, in muking this blunt assertion, 1 am now giving ut- teranee to auy more than the etrictest truth, the

public shail presently be ye aaah Malpeque, Dee. 23, 1865.

Che Examiner,

———a

Charlottetown, December 28, 1863.

A LULL IN Tild POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE.

Very littie or no interest at present attaches to questions connected with vur local polities— henee the silence with which we have regarded

curred in the City, affurding a turther illustration ut the inefficiency of the Fire Department. At 2 o'clock this morning, the Fire Bell gave an alarm. This Bell is not sufficiently loud to be heard at any considerable distance from the Old Court House, and therefore, a larger one should be provided, or another Bell placed on the Prince

_—~ | of Wales College. The fire originated in a house

lin the eceuyation of Mr. John Quinn, at the | western end of the City, generally ealled the Bog | Tt was said that a writ was about to be served by ‘the Sherif’ on the house for the amount of a mortgage on Saturday night last, aud that Quion | requested the Sherifl not to seize the property till Monday. Asmaller crowd than usually gather ‘at fires were in attendanee. A-few persons ex-

.

learn that all ber deck load has been séld temporary ewer, at Shelburne and La barrel of sngar being offered fer a enaldron'eg and other goods sacrafieed inthe same . _ It new transpires that Brains was not commander, At Grand Manan, Captain Vertun | Locke, of Ragged Island, whe has been for ‘time in the Confederate service, Joined the jand assumed the command. Braine lefh the vither at Shelburne or Latlare, and has Not Ringe | been on board. —He was im thie ~ one Or two nights of this week. Some time inet Bight, or early this morning. a Warrant was‘mened tor hie apprebension, charging him with the trie yi “piracy and murder, and officers of Jnsticr ate new lu pursuit of hin. it ‘he character of the traanvaction jp whieh ; Braine was the chief actor, being thas Treeopuned by the legal authorities of the country, We sume warrants will be issved forthwith for thes

but by ber ja

My power may surely trace,

of their comparatively worn out political Piddie, | them for the last two er three weeks. The poli-

prehension of bis associates, who are nay;

erted themselves to put out the tire, but the within the Province, and iv is wot ery probable

| | | |

Yet bas he ne'er attain'’d to roise while they, io the moautine, contented thetuscls es

| tical sky, though calin, 18 very far from being |

The vetl that shrouds my face!” ‘Twas thus of God Egyptia wrote, Wen glory fillad her Jand; And kings, in search of wisdom, sought

}with harping ousome other cords of less apparent hazard to the open ear of our mixed population, This was, no doubt, for the time vet allogether in one sense a Wholly unelever dodge of theirs. It did not tail of procuring them a goodly number of the more credulous sort, or rather of the more |

| clear; but if the people are content with it, we [have no desire to get up a tempest on our own The Land Commission Humbug has The Govern-

acconnt.

} |

long since been brought toa close.

| greater nuuber skhulked irow their duty. In fact, |many did not show the least sympathy, but ap- peared to be not serry that the * Bog was burn- jing.” ‘Lhe ugines out of order, uo water could }

“be bad, the people would not torin lines, and the

that many of them willeseape. —— ———— oOo +

THE WAK iN THE STATES. By Telegreph to the Examiner and Kendnig Room,

DecenBER 2], a, »: Schr. I. L. Gerety, from Matamoras with

; . ; weheata 7 eral 2 j nYE 18 ashes ay thi about Cotten toe Danish monarchy wax ions a d ‘Spot- | the curreney market is of Provincial paper. Con- | Old Nius’ Jetter’d strand —s sutremees socrip ies cemeeal eel — | as es # — a ’ 7 “ y truckmen could net be found te carry the water | for New York was captured when two days out jem. In isal it was tempered by Provincial sidering the ruther large amonnts of one pond | ia Nk slr ° oft Liberal Protestants, I tise the term grades 7. und we are tired ot laughing af it. I or the j by passengers on board, whe hemted ©

' r i and %> bilis that have from time to time been set Assembites, two in Deom. Tope : : Reveahinees, Ue Devin oe pruper - atioat by the Nova Scotia treasury, it is really re

Sehiceweg, and another im bivistern, But) py irkable how comparatively few of those attraciive | s eovere:gn was independent of them, in so] little pictures are to be met with. But the al

» ulve

' sence

from cirentation of our Provincial paper proves on

When her swart race, all men beside, In arts and arms exeeli'd;

here ina purely wtellectual sense. We all know that ne clussol tenis oilen without its own quota of just such sett or Stuppie minded people, who are

Awd she, to tribute, all the East ever liable to be played upou by just such treaks, |

Delegation Humbuy not beg bronght also te an

S

sense.

‘ignominious close, there is a trifling excuse left

and we use the word trifling in a double

casks, and nothing but confusion was the order of

the day. A bitterly cold breeze frem a northerly Givection fanned the flames, which spread on all

flog. Pirates set capinin and crew afloat mi bat they report four other parties in Maiuworgs

waiting tor like chances. ,

\ i : : : . - Stories afiat in Culpepper that ©

lur that be might lawluiy disregard ties / any 3 “4h straws, s siraiagen | i , side: se in which the fire originated, . ; : re ,

- if wh , y ad are gf pone para cg aggre agar ge Triuraphantly compell’d and caught by just such st awe. ihe att Mage ve WEL Pupe, one ef the Delegeics, bes. nat | sides of the howse in « or 8 army with President Davis in command gf

Vote and espressed O08 tu 1543, an ere Nova Scotia and the ability of the Province to fuliil | rae ier Ha the | presen a “— oo s ra re ; if oat Sina d frog all we bear, | Tbe fire could rot be stopped until four houses | ake last desperate atiempt on the North, pn of ineutreets mm, the now deceased monarel, | a ad ce te ha eiieis id | a cs clumsy enough jut the simpler the trap the | returned from his travels; an rom i e * . 3

. iN. | every enyugeinent it 10 which it has entered. ie tid ) £ 7 3 a ciated ‘ e gronnd. Mayguzine exploded m = Yorkto destroy Frederick the VIL. ascended the throne. Le | redeem to the letter all the pledyes to wlhiel this | When cities, templs, palices, mare apt atten such folk are to run blindtold into) we belieye that Mr. Pope wall vet be foreed to) and a lange cable’ were Serusd to'the grees y —

then gave to each of ele divisions ol the mon. eeeuy lull parhawentary representation ‘The coneéesions hh wade were great, and were recery d with pry Dy tue Dunes. Not so with lie ut the blue tes DSebleswig bad received so large on iolasion,

trerman poperatl us

} he U ose who occupy seats ou the red heuches, or the | Kuew God was ever wigh, respected Tory tricuds in the ease immediately ad by the thie that event comes round, 80me) — prpiwe the past suminer several of our city | Confederates relutoreing Lew te attack the yy emigration uf the emanic ceuwecnt, Chat) oy inistrutive canicity OF those v ho sit iu the | Pervading, filling, moulding al, belore us. They have already, we find, begun to” new dodge ot humbug in the religious line will be: musical aaiteurs, unconnected with the Vulua-| of the Potomac. Crmbe riand Gap

A contest

eswiz ciuiu-

tic Danes were ia the wminerty Holstein and eda pontical and adwitistrative seperation trem Denmark. w unton of the tw @nd the smcurporation of Sehieswig inte the ésefmanice Conmlederation > and luriuer, they tui the German Augusten-

ce

soeedilly afogte,

7 te the duchies, on the

Wiiv

atime the ri burg hemaly Bie kms oF

the fust remaiming frepreseniaiive oi lis dy-

death o

uD huabera, tii bP ned to be

= ; j ; . ; : ‘ar ‘ ‘ i . ing’ ‘ “te a ‘ : : * . . se ri r ell Gold and vilver bearing q \artz veins have _Arvuud, Deneuih, above; | polittead steed, ou Which to present themselves be | for the “good same eis ig” that will develope | tury out. Although they labored ander great) Roving bands of Gueriilaa swarming in Wet hasty. King Preder if. y og 4 ae ee 2 and 77 ‘in mine miles of Victorin, Yet Kuew she not this glorious truth, j tere the augregale constituency of this same litthe new schomes of piety from the unctuous souls of difficulties, the weather being cold and the wack. | Pennessee. Captured ram “ Atlanta ” refitted, * tie made, and the Moistemers rose in ine Vanecaver'’s Island, creating &@ great excite. | “The great 1 aM is Love!" | Island. But, although like all other mortals, we our “ God-fearing Government.” | \ aod will soon ge to sea from Ph ry : abe ‘ » * a‘ * } ‘ 4 .

surrectien. Lhe Danish pari of the monarchy } strtetically rushed tu the rescue, and routed the wmsurgenis. Toe w have been settled, bad nyt the G& rmanic wfederation sided with Uulstein. At Dane. Virwe the Danes 20 OU str mg wallanily fouchi luv vO of their enemtes, but feated. Touey retreated to the isiands, a tor uearly twe years successfully and beroically bed de- L snee w the who'e a Germany.

Dusitiess ‘

yy 4

Welte

“a

Prossa— wo bad beem acting a chief Federal exeeu-

tometemat lenytis concluded a peace fur; Munarch; and they teli strange stories of feltted wets ge to” the = What I distinetly jtickets, theugi put at a good figure, having so likely to remove as young wen, The want of | Frew Arkansas, repusts huwwenee Union meeting re. le I bis ** Queen,” who (« Dane by birt jurean is—and Twist to be distivetiy undereiood | been readily sold. We are sorry to see that some 1 Band has often been felt in this piace to | bcime held there, endorsing administration in 1 uiset and Germ ny ‘ Not ing Was Kaibed Re, = : 7 i whee! ie ’ eer And man, se bless‘d, and none but such j—- they alone have as yet taken, as a dwawinant | ae : ; se at P ky gow = . r it ! | SUppressing rebellion, aud reemmmends State | iv congesssun was Gade by tie Danes. Tie firs & Governegs in Norway, next an actress Are “wen of Gud” indeed, | party,—or, more speciticalls siili— (hey in reality | BArTOM -souled persons in the Moniior and Protes- enliven the proceedings of the gatherings of the Convention tor re-organiaing State Gesernment, Cmled rdtiun, howe ve delayed the with- oe ee : oe pene | ; Wihw:-by tt bs thas Pl bee j conalitats eo pias party id any seuse, whe lave | tant have laboured to Lurow the brands of religious people. It has been observed regarding lawyers | nears Gen. Batler weuld leave Fort drawalot thearay uuttl the tusurgents could "8S , te uctod ihe 3% Mion ot | Tee De: , “eo feven &@3 Vet token any legislative action upon it. | asco. : Sy . ia : . ce. ‘ | Monree te or City Poi j i onguaaoant retreat from the resi al sormany | the Kinz, not then called co tie throne. Dieve © Gow is Love,” their creed. | Phos is striet!y and iidisputabiy trae. ae dues, | ree pee ot Sn wen pratewnrthy | and’ave apeyen Sarr eo | prisoners, nevoshaenet ‘pekinese :

nee more the Danes gave tieu battle, de-

- Jueated them, aud crove thew out of Dele wig intu Holatem. There they again found pulety under the prutectiva of tue Federal army.

Matters had reached this stage when the Contederate powers absuluiely refuged to withdraw eats) the King entered intya ireaty Wits Chou, chasing t putin furee & certain einetitution.. Frederick would net do this Jie cianned that he was the ruler of his own peepie, und that he ought to be allowed to pettie the affairs of his monari hy Wwithuut vuteids interieredave ; but suci duties as ie owed to the Cuniederation by v riwe of tis positive as Dake of Uvistera wal Lauenburg, those he would diseliarge. The Confederates

uld Soot,

in the esti- ion of capitalists at home and abroad, as at the moment One eanvet help thinking, in view of the altogether unprecedented prosperity of highly favored Provinee. how little «he in deited for her present proud position, on this North Awermnh continent, to

country 18 a party, never stood co ligt

present

ot} 18

ts

j j i. bio ae the legiwlative ability of |}

weaneble of tie cu vatry.

> 0 eo -

All skill and mystic lore, Made her, of arts ard sciences,

The treasure house and store:

Ev'n then, whea her illumin’é mind

Tn vevan, earth aud sky ;—

The Quebee Mercury says that a Rock

» duchies, Salt Mine has been discoverod in the eounty | ot Leeds, and a joint stoek company, with al

emp sl ol Sou woo sin 10 G00 shares of Sou

each, is about to be iormed in Kiogst mo ior,

| the purpose of working it. —s 00: --——

And great this know ledge was indeed— Creat, woudertul and true ;— Yei, of God's nature, she no wore

Than Wiibdeess inaller Kiuew,

She knew that We was all ip all,

|

ment in that colony. <P - --—- —— ;

It ie reported that gold has been discovered in Victoria gunty, Cape Breton,

seo oO

Gossip nespeotina Countess Danner—- | MoraLity or Kyroresns on inpia — With | respect to gussin of various kinds, it seems that the death of Denuwark’s King bas led some Of our enterprising Jourbaiests ty give | usan insight into the faauly offuers of coat!

crowned he contracted a left-hand alliance with this iady and made her a}

Baroness, and afterwards Countess i/anner, |

gave hera palace for a residence, and sur- |

rounded her with all the grandeur and state!

lot Royalty. * In 1856 the marriage of the | King was re-celebrated in public im the

ehureh of Prederioksourg, ano io 185] and, i354 she accompanied his M tjesty in his) tours, and participated in ail the popular | ovations. She was possessed of a firm and |} intelligent mind, was as jealous of Ler runk as a veritable Queen, and ts said to bave tad great influence in directing tle ime of policy which bas of late years been pursued by | Denmark towards the German Conlederacy.’ Cases of seanda! cf all descriptions are re- |

W hen

This great, this everlasting truth By Christ to man was taught, Jo deeds of merey, and in worda.

With love and wisdom fraught.

And ev'ry ieart, where it has found aA saiiclilied abode, A living temple it has mada,

Lu Ciod.

* Not buddi with aands,”

They are not His who fondly think Phat they are His alone, And deem, to Him, all wen besides

Ave alieus, and uwuknown

They are not Hts, who by the hand ‘Tie sinner cannot take,

And uid, by words and deeds of Love, His ervel bonds to brenk !

Tacy are not Js, wha, all anmov'd,

The shivering wretch cau see;

Unmoe'd by Love,—can hear the ery UF fawmist’d agony!

it. Such traps, however, seldom either work long. or result eveutualiy in Vielluizing any ro coupletely ue the very when they are se disrepuiably gotten up, will most assuredly turn out to be the uitimate result alse, in all probability with our much

manifest strong symptoms of dread at this very trap of their own clumsy tmavefveture. This

| saane plainly growing teat at this special hobby of |

| lincrease da ulihe in oe gene ral election shall lave arrived, we hope lo find thei ready to abandon it altogether, even although, as heretefore, they should not succeed in securing anything wm the form of a more usetul

thelr own, we trust way not euly stil ceniunue to y by day as both they and we grow

| sane time couceive that jt can be nothing but | just that they should up to the present moment at | least be duder the necessity ot bearing their own burdens. And one of the very chietest of these

| burdens, we feel ready to predict. will be yet | get the Grand Concert by the Choir of St. | that this Bund, in the course of a short time, will

jlound to resolve iselt diametrically into nothing j more ver less than this self sume Bible Question, jou whieh we now deseant,

Fis question, at all events, in every proper political peint of view, is one which almost ex-

i | ic

sion, belong, as Lave already stated, unimisiake- ably belong in ifs oniy properiv eudorsed value to them. Now, this is even in’ itself one positive

janyibing whatever in which, asa public body—

hin their own constituent eanac ty as a Gover. }tieat, any airect: puvlie action. This is a mere ruisia au poktieal economy. ~The late Liberal | Gover ws L am aware, ini-

ited auy sueh action whate®er ie laeir corperate

| Thi

Je tice, be held amenable @ people for aiy-

fthing relating to this particBlar subjcet. The

jbever actual leg Med Ob tue Gtterlian. lh Td ° ‘

}nu mutter West the coun fed Maus

@outside wr, have said or dpe.

Wiehe Hever, Lit mer by

capacity, ‘y can neverSdhereiore, in strict

Pithe:, i anu

The fact still

pairtios themselves by | This

and experience, bat ere avother |

iow them space for repentance, still we at the |

tue fisbest io fag land—they have never taken, |

hurry himself in coming back. The Government, therefore, will have considerable breathing time uotil the Legislature shall meet, which they will,

no doubt, put off as long aa they decently ean;

started, to pander to the self interests of they pocrilos in high places — to the prejudices and funaticisin of the bigots in high and low places— and to divert’ the attention of the general public from the legitimate action of the Administration. We suppose we must practise patienee like the

jreatot the commnuuity, aud wail, in all humility,

| " noe er inrer-sotepsiennin | THE CONCERT TO-MORROW EVENING. We. trust that our fellow citizens wil! aut for- | Dunstan's Cathedral, advertised for to-inerrow pevening. From all we can learn, there is every reason to expect that it will be quite a brilliant

/ laffair, and a erowded house to honor it — the

, therefore, Without the slightest room for discus- | vbject— yelling the “ No-Popery” ery, aud at- well as two in & community.

tempting to hound on Protestanta agaiast Cathe- | lies.

: . . 1 a: . . ae | tact which must not be furgattea. No Govern | of keeping ther children iu iguerance; and now | like the “ fast rose of summer lett blooming alone,” |

vent can evér be held anuenayle to any people for | when the Catholics want to establish a scleol of ‘the two Bands now in existence way benefit

ja ligh order tor the education and enlightenment of their veuth, the Bigots won't let them do if, if

tiey cau beip it. When did a Catholie writer

ever davise bis crreligtonists not to patronise the |

| Bezaars and Pic Nies so oiten eid sor religious

aud educational purposes connected with

various sects of Protestuniisa? <Necer, we are

hoppy to say—and never, we hope, wall the iike h 9

witnessed. On the contrary, Catholic writers

dove recommended a liberal palrovage to Bo zanrs

Such persons falsely accuse the Catholics!

the |

nearly all the buildings in the town, Pederals capture? Fort Sperance in

Bay, (on Texas cousi) several th

federate Loops, Lindred praeners,

Drcemrer Letter from Bealten Station reports 5k rey

The property belonged ta a Mrs. Young, who is svid to be antiouest and indusirious person. The

. . . ‘heuses were ouly partially insured. Con. nantes THE NEW AMATEUR BAND.

| Longstreet divided his army, attacking pwe | with desige te ewt off Gens, Sb i Foster. Plan woeed

Yoor Thnmbsent to the United States for some new instruments, with which and other lnsten-

; -” era tae i ine “nselves inte an Amateur 7 eee orton een “f = tuey formed themsclves lite ' | well Sad Chaaiivat Later sashes pund.

It seems that the wembers have been | Lanigetreet returning Ball Gap. diligeutly practising, for on Christnias-Day whilst | attack on outposts of Fert Gibson, playing the Trish Volunteers to aud trom St. | 88 man + , Danetan’s Cathedral they made a very creditable | prevariug attack on Lite Kock;

A

j attack Fort Suith.

‘ing slippery, the musie was above mediveriy. | The Union Virginia Legislature passed a

| The principal of the Quick Steps, and Marebes | calling Convention, for abvlition of slavery, | were distinetly rendered whilst the oties parte Decemper 23. j were well sustained, There is reason to hope ee GIN firmed. Thnes’ Washington despateh says letter : : ‘trou Charkeston fleet states, taat as faras visible reach high proticiency in the divine art of suuric. | the omy obstructions were double limes of pi be ‘Ti stands a betier chance of being & more perma. | across the Channel, trons Fort Vinkney te Middle Ground, and thence to Fort Jobuston. There ing | two bundred feet opening. : Cincinatti deapateh saya General Kimball

the mewhers are chiefly old residents aud are wot |

| nent affair than the Volunteer Band, inasinueh as

Tu like manner, it |

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(may happen that, whilst one Band could never Court House. Also veperted Confederates sent

‘exiet in Charlottetown, fur any length of time, | Commissioners te Erotand te obtain reermita, ~~ Gold at New York ow the 2st, 152. : Dee. 23, (. m.)

Reported disaster to Federal Lrouacladse woe

donbtedit’ a conerd. Reported death of Longe

street another canard.

veach other. <>

| Daring the Week rumors have been afioat con- | pected 40 take permanent dene of ar ) relive le private ite.

: | Generals Sherman and SSackford, and at i Melunis, who resided on the read leading from : had arrived at Louisvilkedaot esening. Cardigan to Georgetown. Que day last week he | Port Smith despate says Contederate force lerossing Arkansas River, going sevthveased wn, tf : | Siandwatt, Aider, and Quantre!l, were reated Ly His next door neighbour Captain Spillan with some lodiana treoye, atter desired bun to take a bag of grain te the mill, 98 hovr’s Bight at Bauner Pork. Coutederas-s

cerning the mysterious death of a man wanwd

left home with a horse and cart with grain te be ground «t the mii.

the aeked what bis intentions were Hie . ived here from Inia hy every wail — o! Now, at this time, when thy free Love remains the some, and notlge cau ever aiter ir tid Pie X for Prot d ; with which request MeTunis couphed. Ta ' will er? i nee they ORES oe . : j elope men! etime ci ? her | 2ede . on } et a. ; Cal i . wna Pe Nies tor Protestaut purposes; and Caiho- ” , , colmeenet on Aart , . Tepiied by Issuing & proclamation ly his own spemenis, sumetimes successful, at other Redewption sent waukind, jE aim nes fe, Uy } means, dlencing te tisert purl te | the evening, Melunis was observed walking to- | Foreign arrival revoris Kiag wihipeed Therion

subjects, BnNUUbCINg bis purpose bo organize weurt ol Federal Perliament, elected on the Lasis ol equal Tepresenta ton tor the whole wonerelty, with seperate ** stute’’ asscwhlies

tines [rustrated—of actions in whieh married ladies and married men wre concerned =] veal. y appears, saya the Hera/d. us il in| india peace were the great deworaliser in- |

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Ged grant we each, by Love subdued,

May turn, with heavenly wind,

Te wile or bueband, child or fi iend,

a + i

ja pleain be iad « ity the pie

ie LibersBparty in preferegice hut } pierely

ene: Vunt Te asseri iu

| Pa eular ae | Pe overiogned in Loe keberut polldical experience

jot oll party legislation alike. As a douinant Go-

witch In this geuntry is toe apt te!

he ladies, and genth weierlay and chorcat—hare piven thei¢ noes Wifhent stint to such objects ; aud will,.we beve no doubt. do co again, We

(have ne desive te pursue

wards bis home, preceded a short distance by bis in twenty five rounds, basting Marty one giostes, | Lou Sayers was Hoenan’y seeond.

Dee. 24,8, 8. M. Hilton Head arrival mentions Monit ir*R ek”

horseandcart. Lhe terse and cart reached home,

but Che owser Was toad dead inthe cart. It was |

| : this subject turther | . sh dae bewist . the kina stead of war. During the mutinies we heard y ; i a Xie ee | 4% Ia gl | : | “ 3 "9 weet juechy and divist iA vt the kingd rin, ‘ ' snd i - . r ‘ Po parent, sister, brother; Pyernimental party, then T say mrblic legislation in) now. We wish, indeed, t wold everyti ee ee aa son waa _ ‘wo Hil for the management ol locai affaires li+ aley | OF V8lOr and purity going Land in band + oF ih ee ee z J

promised thet the two races in Sehleswig — the Germans ond Danes—ehou.d be placed ! perieet equality ; but he re- aly

HpeR & Dasis ul juced Ww euler jureign powers. well satisfied, ber troops were withdrawa, nid peeee once mere rerrned,

‘Tae Génetiiutiuon the King had promised to his people was immediately put in force.

tithe CUpupeimokl will

Germany prOiessed hersell

gatiant deeds berng aceompanied be the

noblest acts of self-devotios and self-denial : | at respect paid to the Bex under t Ww ptations | hot oiten experienedd ; of a chivalrous sense | of bonour, tndeed, whieh made heroes and | heromes of ail engaged in the struggle. But! security once established, the finer feelings | appear to be iurgutten in too many instances

uw We bear nothing. wail alier mail, bet!

Aud, knowing that we ail lave sinned, Forgive aud bless each other!

And now, when at this season here, Stark Winter's horrors reign,

And Sin and Sefrow, Shaw and Want,

Iu sordid huts-coupiain ;

O may thy love, the hearts of those,

jthis pacteclar bible questo lirst began, and has fefer since been confined te our present Lor, jadipinistration in this Provinee. Noreven stu ply ; Net merel in absolute truth bave they thus ! politically adopted ii, bec they have avewedly } gone much iurivers they hate prafessedly made hit the grand central plivk, 8@ f6 speak, ii se far jas theory goes, of their eating politied] platiorm. , Uy it, therefore, as such of arse We must ex- pect that they are jet resdived consigteatly to

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having the least appearanuee of religions autayen- ; i8ti ; and we confidenty hope that there is good

Setme and liberality ehongh in the community te! j tuake the fortheaming Concert eminently snecess- til, as regards tue vuinbers in attendance, despite

the envy and narrow-mindeduess of a. few un | , principled tellows who trade upon, and live by |

i blood with which he was covered proceeded from

down in the cart in an epileptic fit, (ie being | Jolusten, she was got ef and towed te Hilieg killed, | Head for repairs. ‘ ‘ ;

Gen. Gilmore was shelling Cherleston daily with ‘bumire? potuders. Chanieston despatch mention the sauce but reports liith damage. °

subject to epilepsy), and was thereby

But it was observed on examination that the

wounds abont his head, which bad beenappareni- , ; y i flieted by seme instrument like an axe. J. lm thine stubs endl tedoed ante aacteeanan na R. Bourke, Exq., summoned a jury to held an |

inquest on the body, and the members of the jury

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| Reported that all the Contederate rams in

Contederae ' ‘Two-thirds of Kirby Suvith’s ‘ balaner te

t ?

Reported surreunding of Longstreet net eon.

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Keported Lee's army will winter at. Hanerer

SUPPOSED CASE OF WILFUL MURDER. | World's despatch saya Gen. Barnside ia vai { wy and ©

af

Expected Athansas will soon be represented in

soon be in harmeny with the general Government, —

the old Anglo-[ndian slang about balls and |

labide. We have indeed offirined that tuey do not

| veligious discord, The Choir will not disappoint, | —with the exeeption of the person who requested

| Englaad bave been offered to the English Govern

But as soon as the Hoisteiners tound they vould not have evergthing their own way under it, they again commenced an agitetion = wy coofplaioe } that the repress Riation in tie central parliament was based on pop- ulation, and asked that Denmark proper, detleswiz, Uvistein, and the minute Duehy Laueuburg sould cach be represented by TG eoaber of members, without any yeference to the difference in population. ‘he result would bave been that tue Danes. nita ugn the w aj wily of the poopl >, would Jiave been inp the minority in the Congress Of evurse, the proposition-was refus d. Bus Germany agam Steppeu in and demanded that UWolstern und Lauenburg snould bo ex. ex» pted frow the o,eraton vu! the oa ne

pie-nies:; burra knanas and burra beedes; | *epins,”’ f.rtation, and the rest of it. W. have never been amoung those who louked |

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jupon Indian society as worse in point ot |

taorality than society at home ; but it must be confessed that its scandals are more flig- | tant and they are becommg more frequent, | ulgo, tuum they were. — '

The Freneh Eu. peror’s speech on the open. | ing of the present session consisted of 244 |

words. The transmissivn by telegraph frou |

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the central 6tarion in Paris commenced as. fine hot-pressed paper, will be left at the Book |

soon as it was ascertained that the reading had been completed, which was about hali- | past ons. The average tuoe vceupied in the | transmission to the principal cities of France |

W hose stores thyself bath biess’d, Constrain to seek, where'’er they lie,

Aud succour the distressed:

So shall “ th’ unrighteous mammon” yield A blessing to the poor, Aud everlasting howes in Heaven The douors shall secure. R. B. IRVING. Charlottetown, 29th Dee., Issz. N. B.—Copies of the above, neatly printed on