HISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

a~ae eee ee —— A BEScRIVTION OF THE PERSON OF JESUS CHRIsI

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was eeu ! is Lentulus, President of a. to tre Ne rents f Ronx

Chere lives at this time in Judea a man of singular character, whose name is Jesus Chriet. The barbarians esteem bim a pto- plet, bat his followers adore him as the im mediate offspring of the immortal God. He te caduWed with such unparalieled virtue as ty call back the dead from their graves. And to heal every kind of disease with a word or e touch. tie person is tall and elegantly shaped ; hie aspect ainiable and reveread; bis hair Gows in beautiful shades, which no united eslvars can match, falliag into graceful cucis beluw his ears, agreebly couctiag on hee shoulders, and parting on the crown of his bead, like the head-drees of the sect of the Necurntes. Lis forehead is armeoth, and his checks without a spot, save that of a lovely red. Hie wese and meath are formed with

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i bad en Dear) Cape. Kearney and nine ef the

Surrerine at Ska.—The steamship Edin- burgh, Captain Roeiell, at New York on the Cth wos. from Liverpool and Queenstown,

crew of barque Elza Annof Piymouth, Kovland, taken from that vessel on the 2hch Jan... in flat 50 02. lon. 26. was from St. Juno's. Nfld., bound to Ply- mouth, with a cargo of timber and almost trom the time she left St. John’s tad ex- ;erienced westerly gales, during which se- veral heavy seas boarded her, currying away everything reuseable from the decks uod dam- aging the steering gear, rendering the vexsel unwanageable. The bouts alse went over- board.

For thirteen days Capt. Kearney and his

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erew were on the wreck, during winch seven | the detectives, and tinaily he was arrested, when |

of them died trom exhaustion and exposure, aad enc poor fellow expired ufter being taken on board the steamer Five of the rescued men are badly frostbitten and otherwise in- jured. Atter the Rdinburgh arrived at New York the rescued seamen were taken to the Seamen's Ketreat Hospital, Staten Island. aS

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be priduced by fear, exerssive grief, ot the heat of the room. A child of * four” years lol age kept in after school heemuse she fathead to apell the word * ledge’ eorrectiy! a little sensitive thing ~the delight, probably, of some fund father’s heart — killed, ay it would seem, by w thoughtless disregard of the laws of nature. Let the above case he a warping to ull who have the care of children.

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sum up their aggregate value in one brief sentence, d could not perlape do it better thun by simply saying that they are just so many ‘ free-will offermgs’ of the uasavory lincense of evasion, pure, flimsy, provoking evasion at the grim shiine of the imperioas _goddess of Toryiom io this Island. ;

The Bible question, as it haa peculiarly

developed itsedt in this country, hes bas { the

| ipever so much #8 once touched upon.

that no general author either living or dead penned one solitary sentence from any distinct impression in bis own mind of the existing peculiarities of ether the religions or political wtate of the little Island of St. Juin, at the immediate crisis of time.

They know, at least, that this is trae o all those authors in particalar from whose | fureign writings such gentlemen as you have _recently been bundling out tu them, pitch-

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The Police of Boston have ut last discovered writers themselves are nyt fully aware of this, pore fashion, such unmitigatedly merciless

ithe murderer of Mr. Frank E. Converse, Asaistaut Cashier ef the Malden ( Maza.) Bank, whe, vur readers will remember, wus shot while alove in the Bauuk on the 15th of December last. For va- riews reasons auspicion attached to Edward W. Green, Postinuater at Maldea. His every toot- step Was watched, and every action iarked, by

he made a tull contession of the crime, aud that he had alse taken S000 in bank dotes—$ 1069 of which was recovered by the police. Green is 27 years ol age, wid hes an estimable lady for a wile, who bas an infant but three months old. The prisover stated juat he committed the murder tor the purpose of obtaining money to pay tis debts.

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exquisite symmetry; hus heard is tinck, and |

Ay Extex : Pica un wa ia LATE SULLHUBEEN NEWS. cnitatile to te heww-ef hin hendi neaghing -s AY ENSIVE Factrory.—Colt’s Pratel Fax

tery, cunsumed last week at Hartford, C.na, | (From tie Mobile Advertiser and Register.)

fact, they need not presume that other _people are correspoudingly ignorant. Let ‘the author of ** The Bible in the Common

| Schuvls,”’ tor example, just take up some of

‘the now defunct Protestants, wad read over | earefully his own production, and what will be find? Lt he will only take che troudle to extract from it all the quotations from nearly ‘all other men both living and dead on nearly ‘ali other topics except those which expressly | relate to the true state of educational matters hin this Peovince, how much does he muagine ‘be shall have left over and above tu place to ‘hisown.credit? If any one wanis to se in 'what ‘glorious confusion’ this mystical writer has alike, without mitigauen or

‘mercy, burled down apen our poor defence-|

quotations. They know, too, that nv merely theoretical questions of @ general nature in any other country under the face of the sun can ever compass the local politics of this ; und consequently, of whatever else they may be ignorant, this one fact they know, and know full well, that any amount of such ill devised and worsely exveuted witempts at unconditional evasion, wholesale sophistry, as those which we have first delineated, louk pitifully contemptible in oven of such large pretensions ue you. Your terrific quotations from Webster, Waylaud, &c., were, doubt, designed to impress the poor plebians of this Isiand with an eternal awe of your

f. tion of nearly all the self-thioking and intel- Glaagow, aud somewbscure evrner called « Strath.

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or their country, they would have ta adopt! nor, dougratulating hie Excellency oni hie iain

}wnuch more vigorous and decisive means that “wn theit wonderful achievement jp ’

gaudy theatricals for that purpose! And find Comunesion mhac ianerl the , lhe rested

so, gentiemen, we hambly presame it has. ; : come to pass with you. ir you ever really | Wither day nor wight while tht official Cajolery

‘intend clearing up, to the general satisfac. | Ws geing on. The people of New Lindon, lew

{ligeac people of this country, this great albyn,” greatly distinguished thouselves ts ts ‘mystery of mysteries,’’ thir ** fine art’’ of sxgberanee of their zeul in praise of the : religiv-politieal necromuney, this oew style) |. but the Belfasters = Couunia- of *‘guming Paddy over’’ credulous Protes- | le 0d the Murray Harbour ‘tants, now 6o long practised by the clique- | Pe¢Ple—whe are now in revult, and clameuring to managers of our public affairs, you must set get their lands at Gd. insteud of 18d. an acre, with » and set, without delay, either much more total remission of urrears—got ¢o full of glory about a to Petes — you have ever ~ the Comunssion that they declared their readiness one. You have aire given us quite proof | : : enough of your skill A teste hen | Se ae Sante avainet any aud every ong we next bear from aay of you may we not, Wh? dared say “ Boo ™ to the Goverument. Bir, hope that, instead of wholesale evasion, you Dundas, in his reply to one of these exuberant ad.” dresses, tuld his glorified fricnds that the thing was

| will make, at least, one sincere effurt to give ‘us something really tangible and to the) surety be done—mildly rebuked their zeal— W hoped

point? ‘ - KER, they would trast to hia; and he would see ’ that als peqes, PPh; eu we everything would be made comfortable and plea- To Tue Korroa oc tHe Examiner. sant under the Commission, Abuut two years ago, | Sin ;— the Duke of Newcastle declared that the Award of

own prodigious learaing! Nor bave you) In the last issne of the Weekly I observed an thus indulged merely im the worst kind of | article wpen the “Presidential Elegtion.” As it im

the Commission wie impracticable, Messrs, and Paliner went to England jastAugast

ictthe below his chin, aed paciod in the mad- dle ike «a fork ; bis eyes are bright, clear, and serene. He rebukes with majesty, coun- sels with mildness, and invites wit! the most tewder and persuasive language. His whole addrese, whether in word er deed, being ele- gant, brave, and streetly characteristic of so exaised a being. No man has seen him laach, but the whele wortd has frequently seem hem weep; and so perruasive ure his

war five hundred feet long, and three and a halt steries high, With the office and eounections the live of buildings was neariy a theusand feet loug. ight Gundred thousand dollars werth of machi- very aleve is destreyed, and tour hundred thea- sumd dollars werth ot finished work. Ready wade pistels, all tinished, to the value of more than B500,000, were burned in the oftice building. An lemense numb or were gel out, but wore re- mained. A thousand lathes and milling machines

A hundred ore

are among the machinery lost

tears, that the wultitade cannot withhold ginal and peculiar machines used nowhere else the:re from joming in sympathy with him. He) were destroyed. ‘The company's stock is in S100 is Very madent, temperate und wise, In short) shares, and it has been in demand, but nut readily whatever this phenanema way be in the end, | procurable. Quoted at S300, it really commanded he seeuss at present a man of excellent beauty 9 atid higher price. The company have now wy surpassing about $100,000 at command, and their enpital jis iu shape te cuable thea te r build whenever they choose. —The number of workmen employed io the factery was about SvU. The aggregate in- surance Was $650,000 in special risks.

aad divine perivotions, every 5 the chiudrea ci mer. - —-—- > eo —— - Tee “Surre” oF Pus CANADIAN GoveRN- MUN’ Tne facts contained iu the aunexed

statement wade vy the Canadian Premier to a} tn Oe VE ‘Ad Se ‘ t Halif th le pucalion trou Ot lawa whe urged the ieanamnerd igates | j m EGO tee Admicality Court, a aitax, .

val ut the Government hat city, ahows |* udge tas decided to restore the Chesapeake aod remwevai « rs at u ). °

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that deeverhnient ib Cauada is a somewhat ex- cargy ww the ewners, subject tu such conditions

respecting payment of expenses, and securitiy for prospective claius as the Advocate General may exact. The latter demands security against latent clans, which Uhese acting ou belalial the owners demur giving. The Judge suggested that the At- torucy tor the clauments confer with the Advocale General, with a view of arranging terms of deli- very. The position of the Judge has been quite cousistent throughout.

pensive affuir, The bangers on of that Govern ‘at would constitute @ town us large snd as yr} ulous as Fredericton At the same tine it should not be overlooked that the contemplated remoral tu Ottawa was a nietement sg great responsibility on the part of the people of Ottawa car well as that of Minwsters. Whee it wae considered that about Soe) persons are directly or indireetly connected with the Govermment, that ig: those employed in the Civel Serview, the Queen's and Parliameutary priataug offices aod binderies, requiring at least 4 0 dwellugs, it would be seen that the task wus + wt great magnitude, and required all the pre caution of the Government and wiutual co-opera- tion of the people of Ottawa, to meet the neces-

invely:

eitwes of the case that from a return made by the several depart- ments it was found that in connection with the Governor General's Office, there were 47 persons requiring 8 bouses ; Provincial Seeretary's Office “J, requiring 11; Executive Covacil 64, requir- ing 10: Provincial Registrar 64, requiring 5; Minister ot Finance 236, requiring 37; Receiver (several 78, requiring 12; Attorney General, L.

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|in that State of 37.000.

-_- moe A terribly fatal fever is prevailing at Car- bondale, Pa. It is called the black or spotted fever, and with the exception of a very few cases, has completely baffled the skill of the physicians. From six to eight deaths a day vecur, the victims tying within a few bours

The Hon. gentieman stated | after being attacked.

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Mate ann Fewate.— From a statistical

| work just published, under the auspices of the ‘Commonwealth of Massachussetts, we learn

that there 1s an excess of females over males

diana there is an excess of males over fewales

In the State of In- |

' an officer just from the army of Virginia, |

and whe bas served ysilantly init iroa the beyinuing vi the war, gives us clieering ac- counts vf the good coud:tion and dauutless spirit ol these troupe. they are weil clad and abundantly provided with rations. and like old soldiers who kuow how to take

‘care of themselves they buve buile themselves |

hute, have pienty of tuel, and are as comfor- table as men can be in a climate so rigorous us that of Northern Virginia. The troops are as full of pluck as ever, have po idea of any- thing but fighting vet the war as long as Fe- derals are on the soil and threaten the li-

berties of the South, and tt never enters their)

head that they can be whipped by the Fede- ‘rals. It is a veteran, tried and glorious army that Gen. Lee commands. The morals 'and confidence it possesses it has won by tts ‘own surpassing gallantry. Its laurels are all its own. in their glorious chief, und that chief is not

annoyed by the snarls and discontents of |

scheming political generais.

From w private ieuter received in this city |

from Gen Juheson, says the Atlanta Conie- | deracvy, we make the following extracts : **f find the freops im generat comfortably clothed, A few hundred, bowever, are with- jout blankets, end as many withoutshues. | ltear that the Quartermaster’s Department jwill not be ub e to furnish the blankets sovn, but we ure receiwiog and expecting regular ‘supplies of shoes. Pwo benevolent ladies of 'Colutabus, Mrs.Carter and Mrs. Law, brought }us une hundred and filty blankets, a few days

ago, collected by them atthat place. Might)

|} not the sume thing be dune im and about Ac- jlunta?”’

The Charleston Courier iearns that scouts, who have recently returned from the region of Knoxville, report that Buroside had re- cently been reinlurced by # division of troops wiio came through Camberisnd Gap. The | position uf the euemy in front uf Longstreet, | however, is still considered untenable. Heavy

Hie represents that!

Phev are in winter quarters,

less heads, Hodge, Dick, Wayland, Webster, Chalmers, Chancellor, Fisher, Ames, &c., &e., &c., without all the while either proving

any thing or touching ope solitary point im,

dispute. Possibly some of the old Protestants in which be wrote may yet be tound neither consumed by natural flame, nor iguited of

their own accord by the tatringieal fervor of |

the special communications of which we now speak! Like many other great men in all

pedantry, but we greatly fear that this childish desire to be thought. ** learned,” has wholly blinded you to a proper cunscivus- ness of your own superficiality, our forefathers used to say, you bave no doubt some * great parts’?! Lf our poor il- ‘literate s.1f has beeu accused by sume **com- mon’? mortal bl-ssed with an inordinate | amuunt of **sense’’ (?), vf eating tue diction- jary, we must naturally conclude, from the

Well, as)?"

i calcalated to give a false impression iu relation to President Lineolu, Gen. MeClellan aad Govervor Seymour, allow we through the Columns of sour | paper to correct it.

to find out whether the Duke was right or wrong’ in his decision; and Mr. Pope hes just discovered,

‘That “(a streng effort is made to renominate (Me. Linceln,” no ove will deuy; but that “ the | conservatives of all parties will suppert him,” ne 'person with the slightest knowledge of his admi- | uistralion or political standing will assert. He is | supported as President by the Democratic as well as Republican party, ivasmuch as he was consti-

* We understand,” says he, “ it hae been arcer- tained that the Award canvot be enforced against the Proprietors.” It seems incredible that @ pab-— lic officer should be allowed to spend six months in England at the expense of a poor and heavily

that, at all events, the decision caoust be reversed,

past ages, Cis particular writer, we presume, | style of * tie Bible in tie Commun Schools,” has been self-taught. He bas plainly never pias you, Sir, have eateu all the books,

_tutioually elected —the Democratic party being a | ltw-abidimg, constitutional party; but they are, julimest tou member, bitterly eppused to lis re-

taxed people, and then to bring nothing howe but this piece of piper’s news! ft

enjoyed tuy familiar an aequaintiuce with tue inside of & common, sehvvul either with or | without the Bible, ta bis own youthlal days. fuis une thing af least, we do protest, that neither from the one vor the otuer could he ever bave learned this like a man on the top ut w hay-stack to pitch duwa upun us, forkiul alter forkiul, of * remarks’ by nearly all other

‘‘wholua bolus’? to which the universal | printing press bas ever given birth! you the editor of @ certain pewspaper in this

| same Province, of whom we wot, we would naturally say with Goidsimith—

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** But still the wonder was, the wonder grew, | How oue small bead could told the ialf he knew.”

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| nomination. Mr. Lincolu’s unpopularity ia daily Increasing; his warmest political triends are forsuk- | ing him—eveu a member of bis Cabinet. He bas net shown bimsell 30 well qualified jor the Presi- dency as tor his turmer positivon—* Rail splitter,” afterward “ second-rate country court lawyer.” A celebrated Boston writer, commeuting upon | his last act — a proclamation calling for half a

Cunard is said to have made to the Government

thing of it; but we may de sure it is not very favorable to the tenantry, or is a thing that is not likely to create any popularity for the Goverawent,

As to the new proposal which Sir Samuel

of the island through the Delegates, we knew ho

otherwise it would be described with the wtmust!

Trese men bhava «a religious faith |

meu vd nearly ail Otuer subjcets but tuose on Or were we thas after your fashion to com- jpillion of men to serve three years—says: “ The which we were led to suppuse by his title he mit ourself entirely to the art of quoting, we | west rabid Republican is unwitling to accept it; really Wants to treat, jmight, perhaps, in the present case, stil] | it is received with anxiety and consternation nut

particularity, and the Government journals would overflow with braggadocia about it, as a proof of

tious vt his, had any real point or pertinence about them it would rot be altogether so bad. But when we feel that in strict equity |they have about as much to dv with the well-knowo peculiarities of his subject as lthey bave with the nature of vaten-mea! grucl, we must consider ourselves rather badiy sould. The idea is simply provoking. Does the writer im question duubt my sincerity in muking these strictures? Well, tor vur mutual benelic let me give a fair illustration of their unquestivuable applica- bility to bis whole periormance. Were

(for instance, now to undertake to write a | treatise on the natural climate of this Island, land instead of virtually duing so, were L to ‘turn round and fill my pages, after his | fashion, with quotations from the writings ul vthers vu the character uf the weather in Australia, England, China, Bermuda, or ou the general atwuspheric couditions of tie earth, wout would tie think of me? Would he gut tastantiy pronounce that altho” | was

It even those endless and merciless quota-| more ippropriately call w your recollection to be mistaken.” ‘The Meekly turther states that

the stanzas of Pope commencing thus— “ The bookful blockhead ignorautly read.’

| Bat we shall forbear. We were never par- | tial to *-cabbage,’’ nor, to tell the truth, do | we esteem Dick, Wayland, Webster, Chal- ‘mers, &e., in any wise capable, great as they | may have been, of re@-scting mach light ona little petty sehool squabble ta this avt in 1t- ‘self over-cunsiderabie Island. Tne subject | searcely demands such august authorities. Neither, on the other hand, is it any less | true that even were the circumstances other- | wise, great quoters, fur the most part, have recourse tu their pilfering propensities from ‘necessity, and mot from ehowe. They have | to fill up tor the benetic of their readers the |greater proportion of their available space |with **extracts’’ eulled from the mental | workshops of other, which, with the clamsy | touls consained in their own *‘cerebral forger”’ | they ure totally incapable of hammering out

acy possible method for themscives,

a . r 3: Atterney | sral, U. oe ot 48,000. : 7 aie: Ar ae M62 Teieien 24; | ro - | ekirwishiog is constantly going on ut the

Hureau of Agriculture, 47. requiring 10; Crown | A Paria carriuge-builder has invented a | outposts. Ln one of these, recently, a culo- Lands Departmeut 306, requiring SU; Post Office | vehicle for invalids. Lt opens in the centre, | bel and fiity men were captured. Department 157, requiring 24; Adjutant Gene- | and the seat is made to deseend to the ground | The Marietts Rebel hus the following : ral's Department 68, requiring 1: Legislative } by means of a serew. The invalid placed imn- | We have cheering news from the Cumber- Coanei 207, requiring 35; Leginative Assembly | side, the seat is raised and fastened with laud River, in the vieisity ot Clarksville, 370, requiving 74; making @ total of 2,022 per- (Tenn. trom @ geutiewan wiv bus just come

/They are almost invarmbly knows to be a}! the time tating obuat. gemnies mares | wholly ingocent of the nutural power of close rel, out bad cumpletely evaded my true | logical reasoning. They are not usually sebjes? Bat certainly this wepid aus be | wseretocked with originality of thouzhe. ohne Whit wure inconsistent than to take tur | Better, however, that any man who uid. apace Tue Sees eee takes to demonstrate the absulute indis;ea-

aud instead of adhering inteliigibly to my | sabitity of ++ the Bible in Cammon Schools,”

ee TeEQuirinig 320 dvecilings. A ld to this luvU persens, such as Queeu’s printer Parliamentary P "lulerts avd binders, aud the umber is over SU, exclu low in the wake of the government.” -. —

Sr. Anprew’s GRAMMAK SCHOOL. — The followmg extract is taken from tie St. Andrew's Standard, of the 30th ult. The institution referred to is the Grammar Seheol at St. Andrew's which pas been fur seme time under the charge of the

eola great many tamiies Whe lu

jabout hke a ship without a rudder.

great facility.

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A Howe ror BacheLors —A home for the cs Duchelors is organized in London. That un-

| happy class may at last hope to find comiort | the first day's figut at Gettysburg, and who

in this world. Heretofore they have drifted

It is said that retired old maids are to be the con- ducturs of this philanthropic institution. o- “>. —_ Fourteen hundred shipwrecks are stated to

Dieu rely 32 a bee J subject, merely quote aud discuut as he bas | ander all ciréd:nstaness, ¢huald want “a geal dyvue va tue general principles of

, eons aan coat? itwseil in the coldest winter day syaentvan ee | chan that be shoald not possess this special iie telis us we cheertully grant wany | ental qualificacion. And wiiuite 1 by ue | things which are ia themselves ail quite true, weans arrogate it t) myself, still [ have, at Bederal |i aod which ao person ever for oue instant) che sime time, this dubious consolation, that, eh Baawey yeeenane Sew Saat oe thought of disputing. tHe tells us /without it, Lf am not left “alone im my

; Char | aa . . , twee he ; , 4 } o Win &® section of country between che tiudge says thie, Diek that, and sume on- glory ” To the author of “the Bible in tie

the Poderal lines. Capt. Bruce Phillips formerly of che L4ch Tennessee Regi- meat and whe comunsoded that Regiment iv

turvugu

received authority last fall to reerui a regi-

| Couberrland and aes rivers, duing se- lelse the other thing. Well, perhaps, they do| common sehouls,”” then, we humbly say, that rivus damage ty the lve. : say quite all, aud some of them even wore! if these remarke be inapplicable to bim it is }than be affirms. But even sdpposing they | pot his own fault.

JOUN MOKGAN’S CALL.

the patriotism and zeal of the Government, and of their sympathy for the tenautry, It most pro. bably asks the Government to pledge the revenues of the country for the payment of the lands owned by Sir Samuel, to be svld te the Government, jn the first instance, at the high figure of fifteen or, sixteen shillings an acre. This, of caurae, would vot be popular. and hence the bluster and threats lu conciusion he styles Geo. MeClellan aud | Which the Colonial Secretary uses against Sir Governor Seyumur ol New York “ Peace men.” | Samuel Cunard. Mr. Pope does not Siw

| Che tormer served the admuuustration two years | proposal ” \ in the field honestly and faitutully, and when re- a ee are = be not

| Mr. Liveolu, if he is renominated, will surely be

elected, as the “ Opposition” — meaning Demo- }erats—are greatly in the minority. Quite lkely jhe has not seen the official returns of the last elections for Goveruor in New York, New Hanp- |shire, New Jersey. Delaware, Maryland, Keu- j tucky aud Missouri — cach of these States gave | Democratic wajorities ; aud iu the States of Penn- | sylvania, Indiaua, Mlineis, Michigan and Miune- seta the Opposition had very simall majorities.

larity— he offered to take a * on aud fight Wednesday next, some very violent

im the ranks, sv desirous was he of “serving his : must country” and so enthusiastic tor the cause ef the | ene tene eae _ Seas cemansee “Union. (See liis letter to the President ot July7th.) %¢ "ade to part with his Jands just at wiateser last message. I fancy he has not seen it. Note bi i

his cali, clear, logical discussion ef Natieual af- pay a ae a ee =e — _ fairs; his earvest protest ugamst the usurpations prictors, we are now tuld, had great indulgence of the Federal administration; bis admouitions of | Shown them by the Crown in the matter of the the destructive cousequences to the material in- Quit Rents; and in coasideration thereof, in-

tevests of the country, the former form ot gover u- . ry usust ‘trou jment aud to public liberty of Mr. Lincoln's aboli- | dulgedourteytie aneyy © ted

lieved of his command — ov account of bis popu- cepted Ly the supporters of the Goverament uz

| Uf Gov. Seymwur, I will reter the Weekly to lus | price the Government may chovse to give, and)

| thee policy, and the continuanes of the war | the proprietors. Our party were reviled in)

under it. Both MeClellan and Seymour ditier | every possible way for atlading to the Quit Rents materially as to the inanner in which the war). qos honestly due to the Colony; sow our should be prosecuted — they would conduct it so | : ‘ as tv bring back the seceded States to the Union; Opponents say—" Ha! ha! we shall usethe Quit to restore peace to every fireside ; to put an end | Rent question as a sort of rod im pickle, to lay | to the policy inaugurated by the MeNeils, Popes, ‘over the back ef Sir Samuel Cunard.” Our op

| Hookers and Burasides of murder, robbery, des- ‘ ‘truction of property, aud the making wart ipod | ponents yelled out the fiercest anethemas againet

wowen and children, so faithfully carried out by us when our party proposed a Tenant Compensa ~

| Butler, Sehivk and Millrey. But just so long tion Bill and a Rent Roll Bill, as measures that

jas Mr. Lincoln is in power, and controlled as he | ‘ ‘ : ; is by che radicals, just so long will the war last; | “*T calctlated to induce the pruprastets Shahiat

tuey would not have it stop. Le only imduce- | seriously of selling their lands to the Government:

jelaims of humanity; opposed to these are all the | Bil. There persvasive measures were denounced | piandishinents of power aud the possession of | ; ve :

wealili—every quality of man's worse nature is | 43 Coercion in its most offensive shape. We

Kev. Ranold BE. Smith, B. A., whe is known to have taken place in the Mediterranean during | be @ very able and successtul teacher. Young | the first week in December.

men trom this school, in repeated Welances, have | ——_ — 202 o—__-

taken the highest boneurs at the University, and | Two deacons were disputing abont the pro-

several under Mr. Suith’s trainiag have passed posed site for a new graveyard, when one re- | most ereditably for comunssious in the army and! mariced, «1'li never be buried in that ground

navy i— jas jong as | live.’? «* What an obstinate |

“The semi-annual examinstion of this echool oat : i =e was held in the preeeuce of the President aud | ™@" - said the other; **if my lle is |) 4 long ave patm'ul imprisonment, Lam anxious to be again in the field, I,

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Divectote, on Tuesday, the 22d inet. spared I will. “The subjects submitted for examination em- P Tee i j therefore csil on all soldiers of my command braced the Classics, Mathematica, Grecian and ! A Paepiction.—* A sea captain of forty | wo assemble at once at therendezvous which |

English History, Geography, and the usual |

We tind the tullewing in the Richmond ii pers . Heapgvarter’s Moreax’s Commann, Decatur, Ga , van., 1st.

Pars experience,’ says & Boustun peper,| has been estublisbed at this place. Your)

So/diers—-| am once more among you after | : island in waich we tive? W iy cunnechion | Rial. ss This loud demand to sarresasr | (can such general quotations af tus possidly | oi. Bible’

do, will he just peru:tus tu ask wi this vue plain quesueu. — What im the name oi ; common sense, the general Opinions and | say ings vi such meu as these ean strictiy | uave tu du with the particular lveal difficulties about tie petty sehuui squabbies of tuis litde

‘have with suct littie loc

al peculiarities, even | God's W were We not lO VieW thew iu the honest lizuc| ‘ui all those more exclusive. aspeeta which

i . ° . . The mysterious character of his perform: | appealed to, to continuc the strite.

ance throughout may possibly bave ted us| Butler wish the war to close, when by its coutin- astray. Tue fundamental positioas oo which | uance he can clear millions of doliars? Why a : | he seems to base the whuie of his quotationary | should the Huetis, Camerous, Morgans, the cot- Long and loud discourses were uttered in the Legis- ramilings are svoply, from beginning to end, | teurthieves, detectives, intormers, contractors,and | lature, and dreary platitudes filled the Government ‘vroundiess. ** ‘fney ask us to give up our the thousand classes of officials, wish a war tv | journals, aguiuet the euormily of interfering with te | Ceuse Wliose eXistence opens Lo them a treasury tl dileis Cate * ani + bs ee

"cud Phone: iatamete: ito iauint pot wealla as rich as the diamoud valley discovered | ve clauns of t proprictore contrary . ” he. die re hief os ; by Sivbad the sailor!) Why should New England | most gracious wishes. Bot new an officer of the ord, we, “re e chet corner desire a cessaiion of the strite when it costs ber! Government gravely propounds the doctrine that coercion may aud should be practised against the

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stones of his whole fabrie. He may, indeed, luothing; wheu she eau steal wegtves from otber have purposely written @ Fomance,—e way | sections to fill her quotas; wheo she can doe her,

branches of au English cdiucatiot

and accurate replies to bumerous and general | questions in English History, Geology, English | izrammar and Spelling, the specimens of good | writing whieh were exhibited, clearly shewed | that these subjects bad been weil aud faithfully | studied. Tne Kev. W. Q. Ketesum, President, | and Rev. John Koss, each, briefly addressed the | boys, 2ad commended them tor “ae examination | wiieb they bad passed. Tue educatwual advan- tages afforded by this echoel coubined with the | beaithful climat: of the place, are beld out as | strong inducements te parents to send their sens | from abroad. Arrangements base been made | whereby youths may be cowtorte bly boarded ina private house, at # mederate rule; and, at the sate time, a careful supervision of their general | couduet will be strictly kept. DPhe sehoul will be re-opened on Monday, January 11.” — Church bi itness.

The answer- |" ing of the pupile gave perfect satisfaction. The | bundred miles nearer our coast than usual, ration is wide, aud the future givrious, it we traudlation and parsing +f the Latin, the prompt | and predicts a warm winter in New England, junly deserve it. Remember how

asserts that the Gulf Stream is several

but not at the South, in consequence.”’ ee ~

Manuscripts are occasionally to be met with River op human skin, either Mexican or Peruvian. One of the former is in the li- brary of Vienna, beautifully executed in co- ivured figures ; a second is in the library of Dresden, containing a fragmentary history of tie Lncas of Peru.

It is not known where he who invented the plough was born or where he died; yet he hae effected more for the happiness of the, world than the whole race of herves and con- querors, who have drenched it with tears and wanured it with blood.

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, . jthey most undoubtedly wear? Did the | country needs your services ; the field of ope- | : ie - j Pres ot peculiar political condition of this

many. of Province, even to your knowledge, Sir,

have intended po sibly producing a work v1 ‘limagination. {f not, we must honestly beg | PH8s | or him to explain lamself. Who ever asked |

, them ?

ion’s coll. They call loudly on you for help. Piey «xpect iz of you.

Come at vace, and come cheertully, |

for | want no man ion wy command who has!

Will you disappoint |

ito be sent to bis duty by the provost marshal. ‘Lhe work before us will be arduous, and will} require brave hearts aod willing bands. Let |

juno man falter or delay, for no time is to be Fi — i

lost. gu who can them furnished.

Every one must bring his horse and Those who caunut will Lave

Another steamer ladeu with Government freight bas slippedinto port. Tue blockaders saw ler and tried tu cut her off, but she had too much heels for them. She is called the

for a Dick ?

| . / fur one woment ander the luwtinvus mentui }your brave comrades are still pining in a te-|

wicroscope of either a Hodge, a4 Chalwers, We opine not. And even if it}

j aad, Woat would likely have been the result? |

is there put, on the very lowest supposition, | ua exceedingly strong bypothetical proba- |

bility, that yov yourself would have been |

furnisned long since by thuse very authorities |

iwith sume other sayings vastly dilferen: |

from, aud incomparably more to the purpose | than any which you have yet presented to | the sumaing public of this Coluny?) Hunt) ap some of the uot very remote issues of such | papers as * The Glasgow Examiner,’ aud | there you will find some of the sayings of such men as Dr. Kddie, Chalmers, &&., on somethiug like the true points at issue amoung ourselves, bat yet | am sorry to say tor your |

him toyive up his Bibie? Tne ouly intima- tion, we can frankly assure him, we have ever had of such a demand ever having been | made by **min or mortal’’ in Prince Eiward | Island is in his own writings Aud then, as) tu ** restrictions,’’ we can just as bluntly pro-

test that the only restriction we have ever | beard of our Bible being subjeeted to in our | own midst, isthe ** Without nole or comment” jate.y imposed on it by our owa present Go- vernment inthis very province. Any desire. indeed, to lay it under any resirictions of any sort whatever before that we never, in our consummate ignorance, heard of cominy | from any other quarter. We. in common | witb all our fellow countrymen, have long | been perfectly aware of the slight misunder-

rH K FAILURE Cr THE DELEGA-

proprietors—that they may be terced te tell their lands on such terms a3 the Government shall pre- pose—that, iw short, the wishes and interests ot the Jand-owners must yield to what the Islander vaguely culls “reasous of public advantage.” Wie, now, are the reckles® men who would sacrifice the “ sacred rights of property?" Who, now, are the Gothie mvadere of proprietary claims, with “spoliation” and “eoercion” in every breath?

But the proprietors need not apprehend actual hostility from the Government. They and we understand this thing quite well. The Goveru- ment waut something to divert public attettion from their iynominious failure ia the Land Com- mission and Delegation schemes. They evidently suppose that it will be pepular te pick a quarrel

work frow the pulpit and bails of tegisiation. Lr) is for such reasons as these that the war will not | stop under the Lincolo administration, esteemed | su uighiy by the Weekly. It has long since been | pushed beyond the coustitution, and pow is car | ried on in a manner that most effectually renders | it impossible for the South to return, huwever | much she may desire te do sv. “The powers thas | rale are drunk with blued and authority ; people | nave beeowe mad, and to-day society and morals ruo riot as unlimited as did the citizens of Rome during the Saturnalia.

Ghe Examiner.

Charlottetown, February 22nd, 1864.

a pe ives 18 @ practical philanthropist, Denbigh, is made of iron and a ** good one to after all. uring two years past he has * ‘SI , ii k » Louse ip : i i ‘ : : * : gv. She comes tu & we huwn ho we understand, a oon of the Hon. J. Spencer given a substantial dinner, once a fortnight, this city, ts which she belunys.