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7 , : ‘hn yO IE WS CALIFORNIA. ade all over Sweden ; the merchants on the MISC eee eek [a A STRANGE STORY OP CRIME. change af er a an, "a cnn aaa 7, » Dientie —— : .| princely sums; king and court haye set the THE WRECK OF THE COLOMBO Te Aen ree dy the montann,|extuple of genoyous charity, and everybody. Orvawa, Rep Sea, Dee. ]9, 1862. | suinary eT oseaiall neyelist of the age, is from down to the lowest peasant, bas contributed

L sappoee by this time you hare received | fhe Sau hege ( Cal.) correspondence gt the San) Something to the *t Finland Relief Fund. my letter from Bombay. ft would be quite) Francisco Ala. |t beats auything we over read [n fact the poople of Sweden geeq to have imposv ble to describe aithes our gppearayce im real life. —A terrible murder was perpetrated | done, comparatively, quite ag much for the or that of the ship. We did pot get away othe persons of Warren Hall and —-— Wilkin-| starving Pinnigh population as we for our uetil 6 a. m. on the 27th, owing to the engine %™. at or vear Dr. Smith's rence, on the re own Lancashire poor. Jn striking contrast wetasing duty. We were all ready at} p.m. the mings, thirty miles from Sau Bernardo. Mr.) with this behavour stands that of the Russian

WwW age t t d\ a : on the 26th, Soate up, and crew on board, er ee te eae, ~ as oo pe Government. All along er sue owe but could not move the engines. They tied) yy, ccios; and ae it was proving a bad speculation relief only has been seat from St. Peters g

for nearly fous hours ; the superintendent: | ¢, the proprietors, lie was sent out to withdraw | 0 the adjoining province in the nopth; 4n engines; co off himgelf ; no - oo they had | the cock, Ae ‘ belynging to the ata. and us that the policy of the Home ee to kjow off steam, and haye a thorough over-| would be bis last trip, of course the most that) Seems to have been rather to suppress fio ; haul, which lasted until next moraine. No- could in had = be _— ae it. When be | ie to incite the sympathy of the genera h tter, anly they have | started fram the mines, he hac tive sengers, | public.

screwed up too tight, and others not tight ditlerent rsous in Los Angelos and San F'ran-| coupts from St. Petersburg that the famine enough. Got away at last all right, gnd | Sica. He was also accompanied by ene of his | in Finland bas now reached its culminating ; : idrivers, ‘The night that they staid at the place | oift, and is visibly abating. ‘he price of jabove mentiqnad, through seme hoays-pacus er) pr, mino, too, seems to be realy secured, for

yaade the best af our way down to Migiooy, aoe anges nade yaar wd another, the money was missing. In the morning, | there are serious preparations made for as- sembling the Parliament of Finland at the

ed, bug aad dry on shore and broken in | afer making due search, it could not be found; aif, just before the foremost funnol, and | and finally, Hall, who was a yery violent man, Dlin The old hase over on her port side. It | suspected a driver who had been in his employ, | beginning of April. ie 0 cae ¥ a seems she left Point de Galle at 2 p. m. on | named Gorden, who formerly come to this State) whigh j@ to be recalled into life 4 oe " e the 17th, and had very bad, ungettled weather | from ‘Texas. Hall and Wilkinson acoused Gordon lapee af more than half a century, — 6 all the tame. On the night of the I8th the | of stealing the money, and threatened to hang | 1772, and ia similar tg that of Sweden. |t) : ied shifted to the gouth-west ini heavy |him, &e., while Gagtion stontiy denied the thett. | rovides for a Diet gf four estates, compris- v 7 fe. a | At this juneture of affairs, they procured a yope, | ing deputies of the nobility, clergy, burghers, thender-storm, with torrents of rain. It cqn-| : : tion theac’ times | POO clergy, barghe ° al i 1 e yi tl land did actually hang peat Gordon three uy ‘| and peasants, each estalo deliberating and tinued oe ly I night, ¢ earag Up © tie e| telling him to confess that he stole the money ; ; a Ned : ; ona] , : voting separately, except jn constitutional | at intervals, and then re down BEA 88) but as he knew nothing of it or its where- b . . : wh hard and thick as ever. At 4 a. m. ont e| ahouts, he had Seiline to ganless respecting it.| questions, when all four unite together. — 19th the weather was fearfully thick, gv they | Finding that they could nat wring & fyldehoud out _ somewhat cumbrons legislative machinery the

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drank deep of this horrible compound ; and never did a pure draught from gushing spring or mur muring streamlet taste so sweet and refreshing. It was now nepy sunset, Que troops had nearly all retreated to the yiver under cover of our gun boats. ‘The musketry firing, that had beep so constant gpd terrific since daylight, had now ceased all glnpg the line, only to be reyewed the next morning by our brave boys, amid shoyts of victory. Meaptyme, other sounds, scarcely less terrific, that had dl dyowned amid the roar of battle, now broke on the ear with awful dis- tinctuess — the shrieks and moans of thy dying, and their unavajling cries for help. IL cannpt give you an aceount of the horrors pf that great battle- field. Let me give you one incident that struck me as peculiarly harrowing and disgusting. A fine specimen of a soldier, who had just been dis- embowelled by a fragment of a shell, passed by me, bearing his broken intestines yt his arms. asked him where he was gaiag in that condition. He replied with amazing calmness that he was seeking a comfortable place to die. He stretched himael, ou a grassy spot at the root of a large oak tree, where he soon fell into * the sleep that kuaws no Waking.” How gloomy and despondeyt were my thoughts as I sat over that pool, bathing my temples in the disgusting liquid! [had seen the “Grand Army” of the West — an army which, from its stupendous magnitude, its bravery and discipline, | had fondly imagined invincikie-after the most desperate fighting, out-generaled, out- flanked, and defeated. : i

* Not knowing anything about the junction of Gen.

Suell that night, I imagined that the victorious and ¢gxulting foe had quly to pursue our broken and disheartened trgops to the river to make their victory final and overwhelining. While thus pon- dering over our misfortunes—not dreaming how

in the chair an the evening of the ‘Tes gathering. In order to effect this exeulpation, it was necos- gary to set up a defpnce af the ynmannered indi- vidual, charged with having uttered matter) offensive to Ramay Catholics present regarding the late Protestant puion in this Colony. This) line af defence, to gain the end in view, the Reve- rend gentleman adypted, gnd having prosecuted his desideratum, we shall see if his champiouship in the case entitles him to wear the helt of success.

Passing by the indisputable fapt that there were ladies and gentlemen gt the niecting endowed with the sevse of hearing, possessing the gift of mental digest, understanding the import of common English, and acutely sensitive to insult, besides the Rev. Genatlemay himself and his chairman, ot whom he js so tender—ladies and gentlemen hose evidence of what they did hear aud feel on the occasion, is equally good, and is quite ays reliable as the evidence of yoy others present, whe did | not hear what they heard.

But passing from this jine of reasoning, I shall take q passage or two from Mr. Dupean’s letter in justification of the charge made upoy the indi, vidual whose innocence it is necessary for Mr. Dancan to establish, that he may thereby excul- pate his Chaiyman. Referring to the criminal, Mr. Dunean says: “ T cauuot understand how his language should have given such effenee,” and he | further adds, “ Mr. Grant, whe spake sammecdiately

i heerd a voter named MacIntosh say he had sold berance of joy onthe part of our politieal eppovents

half his farm with all his buitdings for ‘pad, therefore, only the worst half of it left, with-

lout the jmproyements, and on | paid 80s, of the jaurehage), that he

‘more thau the second instalment of the purchase yon

———————————EEETET £40, (and | than to bebuld thems wringing their hands with unutterable grief—teading away frou te publie which he had only “gawe — uttering inaledietions ou the country, and would sell it on their own sad fates, and then hastening to pack and | up their trankefr a speedy triy ty Australia, Tt ne is an agreeable reflection that won't be any aide, and were talking amongst themselves, agid | we . aa z .. ae goa ‘ = —

: ° \ ° smed to it was not worth £10. Many of them seemed to) oe y erti believe that when they were presented with their | Let no ship-owner be rash enough to advertize

deeds they had their lund free, and had nothing - good cabin Te won for a a age . the y for j sh yery few have paid antipedes — wou't pay at present, —a morg to pay for jt, glthough yery te oi th ayo, if the mavigation had been open, and

a good vessel at the wharf, ready to weigh ane hor, vared to be) Lerths would have heen at a tremendous premiun . d’s Vote But the gold fields of Ballarat will now be allowed him, for ‘to reserve their precious ore for adventurers from making some sharp remarks about Mr. Commis- | other kands ; oud our dear country will be spared sioner’s conduct in persuading the people to vote the inex pressible martificatien of parting with on deeds which, in some instances, were not two many of her children. hours in their possession, ‘The Sheriff's Orange} We all remember what a lamentation Was Poll Clerk was taking a very active part in the heard throughout the land, a tittle more than proceedings. I found him exhibiting in a highly | stoves years ago, ty the first change of Gosern- pugilistic manner, aud pitching inte one of the | ment baok place. The country, it wes noid, was Candidgte’s agents, who had insisted an his taking ' nearly ruined — uathing could save it but aunex- down the purport of some answers given by a ation to Nova Segtia ; or what was still better, it voter, aud which he refused to do. The proceed. should renounce its allegiance to Great Hiritain, ings at this polling division were the most dis. | aud go in for the glorious 7 stars and stripes,” — graceful that could be imagined, and partiglity | ¥e gentleman of fortune or influence coud be ex- was so glaringly exhibited by the officers, that the | pected to live a: the place—~imigration weald be Honble. E. Palner, Attorney General, who repre- | *tepped—real estate eould be had for an old song;

for £30, but that { they, made pin swear,” several of his neighbours who voted py the ga

money.

The Commissioner of Lands appé inciting the people to pull Mr. MeDonal Inspector off the lustings, and te mob

gased the engines dqwn to ‘‘ quite slow."’ | of him in this manner, they gave hin a pick and | Cgyr-Grand Duke jntends working in a new

The ship had’ sail on her at the time, sol seppose she must haye been going about six or seven knots. At sx o’clook they hada hard squall, with forrenty of pain, and had to lower the topsails down to a close reef at § 30. The wedthes moderated a little, and, to use theig own ex ion, the rain and glouds seemed to lift like a curtain, and there was the | about two-thirds of g mileoff. They stopped at once, let fly everything. and gave orders to go astern, full speed. Unfartunately the

d close ahead and on both bows, |

shovel and told him te go up to the gulen and dig | Way, hy means of questions and answers. , his grave. Not

near I was mysell to a great personal mistortune |} —L heard loyd gheering from the hilly above.

ing able to resist them, he First, the Government ig to ask a series Of) sacked a fugitive, passing hy, What that meant. He started off with the tools, follawed ky Wilkinson, | questions of each of ghe four Chambers, and

replied that it was our troops rallying. I imume-

| who had a revolyer in his hand prepared to shoot! ghege having been satiglactofily answered, diately grasped up iny musket, and ran up to tuke

| him | Gordon told Wilkinson that the money was under }a large reck nearthem, and that he had hjd it j there. Wilkinsen went to look for it, and, as be | | stooped over, Gordon rushed gn him with 3 drawn | knite and killed hin = : | Hall heard the rampus and went to see what | General of Finland, Baron : was the matter, and as he approached, Gordon) be then either yoted pr rejected hy the Diet.

ty to interrogate the government. the quintessence of all these ; answers is to be shaped into constitutional

As they passed out of site of the stato", then the Chambers in their turn are at liber- | a part in the struggle. ‘ Finally, | of the bill, I discovered 9 battalion of infantry uestiong und | drawn out inline betore me.

| formulas and propositions by the Goyernor- Ma Tpokticaee. to

On reaching the summit

Somewhat stupitied with the effects of the blow [ had received, I did not perecive their grey uniform till I walked right upto them. Just as | had djagayered my mistake, the officer in command gallopped up to me, and | sinilingly and politely informed ye that 1 was a

| seeing that he was armed with a drawn revolver, | The new system will form a curious inaugu- | prisoner. In the same tone I replied that 1 was

eng:nes would not move, and the ship, forging | picked up a stone, and when he was near enough pation of parliamentary governwentin Russia. not in a condition to dispute his proposition,

ahead, took the rocks slightly forward. The engines at that time began to wark astern, but wo late.

A heavy seq struck ber ag the shah 1 bo cand he at : irty times. | : : » stabbed Hall some thirty times. | quarter aud threw her right broadside Upon | (i rdo,), after despatching his persecuters, went | ~s.s2~

threw it and knocked Hall down, and he attacked | ‘him with the knife and cut him so severely that) he soon died. Gordon was so euraged at the time |

~ CORRESPONDENCE,

~ | that J was a Scotchman.

| quietly deliveriag up my anne. When I told him the mistake that had cost me my liberty, he was Pereeiving wy foreign accent, I replied

greatly amused. be asked me if 1 was an Jrishman. (1 may remark here

the rocks, exposing the whole of her port) pack to the station, whery the passengershad been 1 pepER FROM AN ISLANDER QN_ that the Scotch are more esteemed and respected

side to the heayy surf that was rolling od] sn and gave himself up.

aad then she be to strike heavily fore and alt. About 7 o'clock, finding she was firmly fixed on the rocks, land ahead and agtern,

and entigely gtove in gp the gtacboard side | Same officer also took charge

amidships, they stopped the eagines and blew yf steam. i

qe the sugf were all stave in, and the cabins |

gu that side all full of water. Portynately,

to the ship wae a little sheltered by the ship on innocent man. Gerdon was at ounce ac¢ nitted, | finally by domestic troubles which required the | ponsible for it. berself, hut on shore the hreakers were ter-| and released by the

zitie. “About 7 they managed to get 4 line

gn ghoge to baul the boats in by, ag rowing | dark annals of erune than was atte ited to be | ‘ n The women, chil-| — a. sme cand

ren, and gick were then put in the boatsand | 8¥e* & wile and two ehiidion. of ei Gre # ek were ™ Wilkinson was a) place between the North and South. The letter | sigualize any advantage gained over the enemy

was outof the question hauled on shore, ag close as possible with gafety, aad thep the unfortunate people ha to be hauled right through the surf hy the natives, the beat way they could, most of them being rolled over and over before they

pos in their night gear, nothing on their) fabulous rapidity, and the rush thither is unpre-| state of war. e

adg or feet, the most unhappy mortalg you aver saw—for the whole day. \t raining near- ¥ all the time. The people gn hoard, in

¢ meantime, were doing their best to save the wails and passepgers’ baggs mails, up to the time we took them off the igland, only 257 boxes out of 630 were saved —if you could call them saved, for they were al] saturated with sale water, and a great many broken open. ey managed to land

during the day some of the baggage and ship) police for transmission, within five days.

stores. The liye stuck swam on shore, so nearly all* the oo pigs were saved. Late in the evening they got all the awnings, epare sails, spars, and ropes, and rigged a tent for the Judieg and children, alao a few beds, but all wet. So they had to content themselves with a glass of grog and some bis- cuits, and turn in, g/l of @ heap, during the

night. The ship broke in half, bat the rain had geased god the weather got finer. Next day

they sent everything they could find on shore, the people wese getting more comfort- able—drying theiy things, those saved anything, vinsing in fresh water, and going halves with those who had none. They had breakfast and dinner that day, barring wine, &c. The attire of the ladies charming—one petticoat, and 3 man's een shirt over all, with a handkeschiaf rewnd their waite for a belt. It was only om the thisd day that some of them got any shoves or stockings. Even now some of them are suffering from sore feet. The musquitoes had a tremendous feed. preventing them from sleeping day and night. Un the morning of the third day the Rajah came down, and offered them the use of some large hyts on the other side af the island, which was of gouree accepted, and after they had shifted gotonsplendidly. In fact | think, gecarding to all accounts, the latter part of the peveced; ings wust bave been rather fan for them, but not for the officers and crew, who had, when we left, been working every day and

By this time the boats exposed. ining the trunks, one half et the money was found, |

q young man, gud tormerly lived in [hinais,

ge ; of the | and is situated wearly under the 4oth parrale! ot

As the driver had been |

killed, they desired bim to drive them into San | Bergardion. This he did, and when they arrived | |he (Gordon) gave bimselt up to the Sheri, The of Hall's and) ago, a letter written by Mr. Josiah McLeod, tor

On exam-. . : a | marly of this Island, and we believe a native, wh«

THE WAR IN THE STATES.

| Wilkinson's trunks and other effects.

hid away caretully, ia Hall's trunk, and the other) was known to many of our readers by his contri half in Wilkinson's, This convinced the officers) butions to the periodical press of the Colony, it

in this country than any other foreign nation.) “* What in the hell, then,” he inquired, * made you join the North?) I am serry that such a brave

We have had placed in our hands, 9 few days | — like the Scotch take sides with the Yaukees

-| in this quarrel. Some of the bravest men in our ;

»/ ranks are your countrymen; and the only good ‘fighting that was done against us at Manassas “| was by a Scotch regiment.” I replied that if 1! some Scotchmen so far forget the moral principles

on the side nearest the sbore the water close —* eo ry La mage phe ae which eousiderable talent was displayed, and jastalled into their mind at home, as te enlist in bie pati “4 elves 3 » bi:

roper officer. There is intervention of the Divorce Court. seareely a more heyioys qutrage recorded in the) tot str. McLeod, shortly after leaving the Island

Hall was @ married man, and | enlisted in the Federal 4 rmy, and was engaged it

| California trom Utiea, N. Y. —-- -

NEW ZEALAND,

| part of it,—it is well written, and very interest

jace@&ants. Fortanes are being made with almost

cedented. Aceerding to one local journal, the | provinee of Otage was increasing its population by thousands every week. Otago occupies the | Southery part of the larger island (New Munster),) Dean Farner ;

Gexerat Hoserrat, Camp Benton, St. Louis, Mo.

. t é F : So loug a time has clapsed since you heard fron South latitude, The portof Dunedin was over-| me, that I suppose you feared [ had passed off te | flowing with passengers from Australia.— Within | that “bourne whence uo traveller returas.” In | one week four ships had arrived at Port Chambers, | deed it was by a miracle that I escaped. Hun

He came to) some of the sanguinary conflicts that have taken),

is addressed to his father, and we copy the greater |

their ranks, their couutry stlould not be held res- This remark did not appear to

It appears | please him, and he sent me to the rear under

,| guard, assuring me, however, that I should be ,| Well treated. Here 1 was guilty of a little indis- jeretion that had well nigh cost me my life:

| Through the day it was customary with us to by loud and spontaneous cheering. While I was

| standing here, waiting to be disposed of, a huge | shell from one of our guuboats fell among a dense

At ne time were the reports from New Zealand ing. It vividly depiets the privations of a soldier's | crowd of rebels,immediately exploding and sweep- | about the gold mines so favorable as by the latest jife, and the sad vicissitudes inseparable from a ling them all to destruction. Not reflecting upon

reagbed the ghore, and there they stood—

| the change that bad so lately taken place in my circumstances, | cheered lustily. The first thing that awoke me to a consciousness of my impru- dence was the clicking of the guard's musket lock. He swore that, if I should utter another such exclamation, he would blow my brains out. , Judging that, in my condition, discretion was ihe ,| better part of yalor, I maintained a prudent si- | lence afterwards. [I was marched off, and soon - found myself in company with a vast crowd of

| bringing thirty-two hundred passengers. At Dun-| dreds, who were stronger and healthier than I at Watortanates like myself, who were being mareled | Stan “‘ diggings’’ three thousand one hundred and | the time of our capture, are now sleeping “their off to Southern prisons. Gen. Prentiss and ji

| thirty-three ounces of gold were lett with the) Jast sleep” in the “ far South,” | of three or four ounces of yellow dust per day | per laborer were thought of little account, aud janguage would fail to describe. several were reported to be taking it out by the you with the recital. If God please to restore my | arebank notes, wherewith ty purchase the precious let form, and I'll send you a copy. | metal. i . _travagent prices, and rowdyism was becoming | disease could efiect was effected upon us.

I saw

/paund. Among the apticley reported as searce health, 1 intend to publish the whole in a pamph- : : ‘ : c i intever! about three miles over the battle-field in the di- All kinds of prodyge had advanced to ex-! cruelty, neglect, keen iusuits, hunger, filth and reetion of Coriuth.

The suffering | Whole brigade had been surrounded and taken Yields | that J witnessed and eudured, during over six prisoners. The men desired to cut their way months’ imprisonment in the South, was such as through the enemy, but their officers, perceiving 1 will not shock | that it would be inevitable destruction, would not

-| permit them. Several of them were killed after the white flag was raised. We were marched

The ground was covered The dead and

with arms of every description.

| disgustingly prevalent in a community which was | many of my comrades shot in mere wantouness| Wounded lay strewn along our path. Many, wak

founded under rehgious influences, and named | by the guard, and had a narrow excape from | lowing in blood, feebly raised their hands, calling j after the great Scottish divine by his evuntry-| death myself on one occasion. When I have lain | out, “Que mouthful of water tor God's sake,”

| men.

The w population

‘for weeks in the delirium of fever, on the hard | but nobody heeded them. I teok a peculiar kind New Zealand, a8 fluor that never saw a broom, covered with filth | of pleasure in noticing the features and attitudes | ascertained by a census, before the gold excite: | and vermin, with the moans of the dying in my | of the dead as we passed along.

Some were 80

;ment broke put, was 106,000, of which about cars, gnd the stench of the half-decomposed dead | fearfully mupitated as te bear but little resem-

doubled, and will continue to advanee at

: gster an nousually rapid

that had | fifty per cent. was natives. Lut with thie dis-| jn my nostrils—oh! bow welcome then would have | blance to the human form. Here lay a bey on aineak it is probable that the foreign element has | been she kind, soothing attentions of a mother or | his tace, 1 already When, after the exhaustion of a long | and a pool of blood under his mouth and nose. e for years to come. The ‘and terrible battle, I was kept for three consecu- | His mothdr's uaue was the last word on his lips.

the side of his head resting on his arm,

climate and soil are for the most part among the | tive days and nights without any other sustenance There lay another big ruffian in grim repose, his

| best on the globe, and the situation of the islands | than about four ounces of pickled pork—raw, fat ‘is well adgpted to European constitutions.

| there, | Since the paragraphs above were set up we wy father’s humble table ! | have foodie Panama. than the others. New discoveries are reported, | that could scarcely comprehend who I was, where throwing inte the shade those made in Otago, | | was, what was the matter with me, or what ] and the New Sealgud mines are believed to excel peeded. But I forbear, for fear L might be led in richness those of California or Australia, Their jute a history of my sufferings, which [ wish to present weekly product ix estimated at 20,000) avoid. Certain it is, that no spectacle of human ounces. Prices of pl} kinds are gt maystpous) suffering can ever more elicit any other emotion figures; and rail rouds, telegrap)s, steamboat in my breast than, perhaps, a feeling of passing lives, gas works, &e., are amoag the grand pro- curisity. | jects of day.—N. ¥. Com. Advertiser,

'jn one of the most terrifie actions of modern

; ——_ Pe - ; RUSSJA AND FINLAND. times—certyinly the gregtest eyer fought on this | Jt is no salaca, hut gather a subject for | continent — and came out of it safe aud sound.

later news from New Zealand, via agonies of death by hunger; for, when the food

| Well, | was actively engaged for a whole day

all day in the water, under a broiling gun. melanchaly reflection that the poor Lan-

They bave lost all their things. Fostunate- cashire weavers are not the only sufferers long narrative, I would give you the ae ot

ly, we were able to lend them a lot of things from deetitution. From another quarter,

Ouly that I have not the patience to enter into a

that great battle in detail. How the loftiest

they mast wanted,—flanne}, whoes, hats, and rather an qbscyre ane, comes a voice of flights of imagination fall short of the sublime and

gocks, and backy. _ | forgot to tell you that on the 20th they wade arrangements with the Rajah for the

largest native boat he had, and 12 men to

vend aver to the mainland for assistance. Kortwright, the supernumerary third officer, and quartermaster, wept in charge, with or- ders w make the best eae on the near, est port on the coast, telegram tu he nenigr efliece nad cfieialeia Bombay. Jie arrived at Coghin on the morning of the 25th, and we got the news at 4 o'clock at night. Ic will be a great feather jn his cap, for it is no joke cruising about these seas in an open boat and a dozen savages with you. He did the 300 miles in a little over four days — smart work, if he had the weather we had cqming down.

We arrived gt Minigoy 9¢ naoy on the 30th of November. Captain Farquhar came off. and‘we steamed pound fo the other side of the island, where we anchored about five miles from the shore, nat heing able to get any gloser on account of tie rocks. The pas-

agerscame in native boatsabout6; anything But the woo. begone peuple you would think, after 10 days on Minicoy—some of whom you might safely eall screwed—from the heut of the sun and excitement of the day, of course. We were husy all —_ takin baggage, bnd at) the and ep been sayed. ‘The last boat of mails did not come alongside until noon on the first of De-

| lamentatiqn. How and why the people of Finland are starving, may be seen in the fol- |lowing narrative of ther sufferin s: The terrible scourge of famine, which formerly desolated whole districts of Europe, hag found its last refuge in our days in the yast realm of Russia. In many respects, and /partieulaply jp the want af inland com- ‘munication, the empire of the Cgar ia sti!l much in the same condition in which the | western states af Europe were a century or ‘twoago. Although Russig ig one of the lar- | gest corn-praducing countries ip the world, yet there scarcely passes 4 year without gne : : : ar the other of its provinces being afflicted by famine. Owing to the all but complete ab- sence of high roads, while there is abundance of food in one district, there is utter scarci- ty in another, to the extent ef causing the death of thousands by absolute starvation. The deseription which Swedish and Nor-

wegian jogrngls give of the present condition af Finland is perfegtly horrible, The chief crops, potataes, rye, and barley, haying fail-

| terrible realities of a gregt battle, where two bun- dred thousand combatants meet in deadly coutlict. | The ceaseless roar of musketry, extending in a line of #ix miles; the heavy booming of artillery, fairly shaking the earth; the dreadtul hissing and

loud explosion of shelle; the loud whistling of

cannon balls through the air; the erash of the falling forest; the shouts of the combatants; the shrieks and yjoans, the iningled prayers and curses (af the wounded and dying; formed aliogether a , combination of terrors such as, unless seen, can- | not be imagined. You ean have an idea of the obstinacy of the engagement, when I tell you that suing of the ground was fought over five and six times. We had a stubboru enemy to fight with

tack us. We would repulse them; yet the same / men, repulsed again oak again, would still reform pand come on with loud yells. We—I mean the | lowa ‘Third—swepta whole regiment of them out of existence at one fire. We were in the timber, by the side of a wide and swooih field, supporting artillery. ‘The enemy had a battery of artillery in the timber on the apposite side of the field. For a lang time we kept up a splendid artillery duel. Finally, the enemy's fire ceased. We }eould not believe that we had silenced them.

in mai)s, | that had the fyrmerly flourishing Kuopio, Heinoia, | ourselves on our faces, and reserve our fire till

ed in two successive seasons, three-fourths of | There was an omineus pause in the tragedy. We the duchy are in a state of starvation, and were not left long in suspense, however. The thousands are said to have already succumb- enemy marched out of the timber opposite in solid ed to famine. Jn sqme towns in the interior, column at “shoulder arms,” their bayonets glit- for instance the ancient Javastehus, with its| tring in the sun; they were a splendid looking grand ald castle gn the margin of a vast lake, | body of men. We were commanded to throw

we should have the word of command. When and other places, all trade and commerce they came within easy range, we had the com-

stern and gloomy features still bearing the impress

| , One | and gross—that the generosity of a comrade sup-_ of the storm of suffering and passion that Lad so }of these days auathyr gegeratiqn will be berye | plied me—~how delicious then would be a plate ot | lately passed over his soul,

Another lay with his

porridge and milk, or a pieee of vaten eake from countenance wreathed in smiles, aaif, through the 1 suffered all the gloom of the valley of death, he had caught a

| glimpse of ‘*the better land” beyond. One was

These accounts are still more glowing eame, I was reduced to a kind of idwtie stupor kneeling in the mud, with his head between his

| kneex, no time being afforded him to streteh his | limbs. Another lay cloxe by him, stretched out | jon his back, full length, with his cap drawn

i slightly over his forehead, and his arms folded

| across lia breast, as it he wished, even in death,

to look graceful and “assume the position of a

soldier." We pasaed by the place where the re- | bel surgeons were attending to their wounded. The “ victims of war" lay stretched out on plat-

forms, while a crowd of surgeons, with white

aprons on, and their sleeves rolled up, their arnis

aud clothes all covered with blood, like so many

butehers, were busy in taking off their shattered - timbs. One man was busy carrying off the aro-

putated limbs, and"throwing them inte a pit pre-

pared for the purpose.

We halted for the uight in an old cornfield, where the ground, recently plowed, was thoroughly saturated with recent rains, with a strong cavalry guard around us. A few were fortunate enough

jaround, and placed them under them for a bed.

/bare ground, leaving the impress of my body in ‘the soft and yielding mould. There was no rest j for us, however, that night. Whenever sleep be- | gan to visit our eyes, the scenes of the day seemed

re-enacted before us, The boomiug of the artillery, | the rear of wusketry, the clashing of cavalry sabres, che loud bass voice of Major Stone giving |) commands, “ the thunder of the eaptains and the

They would come farward in solid cylunn ta at- | shouting,” still rang in our ears and disturbed our

incipient repose. But our sleep was soon dis- | turbed by more substantial evils. Huge cumuli, that had, during the evening, been piling their | black and ragged masses in the eastern horizon, | aus if preparing a fitting closing seene to the ter- vible drama, had gradually overspread the whole | heavens, and now poured down their contents in | drenching torrents on our devoted heads. Vivid | flashes of lightning permeated the almost palpable | darkness. ‘The thunder bellowed dreadfully, while }at intervals, all throughout the night, could be | heard in the distance the sullen rear of our guu- | boats, as if man vied with heaven in adding to | the terrors of that night. Not feeling inclined to. sleep, and judging that “ it was a naughty night to swim in,” L rese and moved about during the remainder of the night. Wet, weary, and hungry as We were, we were marched off the next morn- ing to Corinth, a distance of over twenty miles, over the worst read Lever saw: we waded rather than walked. The smeil of the battle-field was

after, added a rider to the effeet, that our Protes- , tant union should be aimed at for ts own sake, in| sented one of the Candidates there, had to rebuke the first instance, and not that we uaght be arrayed the officers himself; and I have been since told against others.” ‘The italics are mine. Here it| that bis presence was the only protection the ix admitted that the Protestant wnon, as arrayed agents ef the Liberal candidates had ; and had he not been there they believe ‘they would not be allowed to question a voter. We next passed on As I got there,

against others, was conveyed in the “ union ” speech made by the individual whom Mr. Duncan a would defend as guiltless of the offence. Mr. | to the Polhing Division at Alley’s. ' Grant evidently delivered a mild rebuke to that | my attention was called to two men talking toge- individual, and acknowleged the presence of | ther, one of them describing his title te vote to offence in the onlaying of his geutle rod in the sen-) the other, who presently struck the peor man a tence quoted from Mr. Duneau’s letter. Had no | cowardly and treacherous blow, which completely offence been given, the ‘rider’ salve would not | demolished the first person. have been administered. kad no reprebensible | matter been uttered, the wacerking of the cleric | ral voters as they came up to poll, trying, by oil phial would have bed ungeeessary. Mr. | jibing, taunts, and epea threats, to frighten them Grant had a delicate duty to perform, and did it from voting. I remained but a shert time here, mildly with effeet. but while I did #0, 1 saw two men goll for Me- Fiom Mr. Dunean’s own letter, E have con-| Gowan and McLaren, and heard their friends vieted the individual indicted for an edence, and | beast that they both voted on one piece of land. have concomitantly to a degree mpugaed hin | fac which they had neither deed ner lease, and chairman of laxity of duty in the choir; sd, | the whole of which was ned worth £50. I hear moreover, have established my premises and de-| that at the other polling divisions such gress pas- feated Mr. D. on his own ground. Were it tiality was net openly exhibited as at the two last necessary to entrench myself with facts from | wamed polling places, although at Let 64 about others whe heard and felt the insult offered to! thirty High Bankers voted without a shadow of Catholics, I could further fortify and establish mny | 4 qualification. It is said that Mr. Wightman in position; but Mr. Duncan's voluntary evidence | tends holding a scrutiny, and from what } saw | at Mouiague and Cardigan, if justice can be got,

precludes that action on my part.