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SN NE OOM AMAM AS | ADVENTURBS OF A FEMALE SALLOR., a Pifteen years ago a fir and ardent girl of | fourteen, residing ina certain part of New | York State, became so fractious under a pa- | rental discipline that accorded j}] with her | irrepressible nature, that her maternal parent undertook tu bring her to reason by the aid of that presentment of leather which little boys regard as capable of communicating rather inore temporary warmth to the system than | an ordinary cooking stove. The maiden bore | the infliction with commendable heroism, but | improved the first opportunity thereafter to |

elope from the scene of her sufferings. Going

to , she there purchased and donned a te outfit of masculine attire, cut off!

her hair, and suuntered to the wharves with

@ marine determination.

Tt waw not long before she found a captain of a China-bound ehip, who willingly agreed to take her a voy with him as a cabin-

; and to the Coleetial Kingdom she went, | without betraying her sex or her ship. The voyage was a long one, lasting no ‘eas than £ve years; and when the vessel re-xppeared in harbor it was as mate that our distinguished heroine trod the decks. Her good conduct had won promotion for her, through all the intermediate grades. Upon recetying her appointment she could no) longer keep her secret, but with trae woman- ly confidence informed the good-looking next- highest officer of her womanhood. Like a sepsible man and sailor, this officer at once | fell in love with her, and the twain were | privately married, having previously deter- mined, however, that the disguise should atill be kept up.

The happy couple occupied the same state- room, On the next outward passage, without exciting suspicion. The voyage was a long one ; andon the arrival of the vessel at Mar- | seilles, the young mate, having been prompt | in her sailor-duties, as before, received per- | wission from the captain to go ashore for two | weeks. At the expiration of this leave, she | came aboard again; but not until she had | committed to the care of an honest French couple @ wee bit of humanity in her own image.

‘The ship sailed again for America,and once | more furled her sails at the wharves of the | City of Notions. During the absence of the} etaft, the owners bad built a new and larger | vessel, the command of which they conferred | upon our hervine’s husband. He accepted | the position gratefully, and at once appointed | his still disguised wife first mate of the ves- | sel. The new ship made a prosperous trip | around Cape Horn to San Francisco, where a contract was made for her to go out to the} Sandwich Islands for a cargo and back. She

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prove the destitation and mis ‘ry amongst the

{poor of London, one of the metropolitan jour- if tho

nals states that of forty seats placed m the Park between the Dake of York's Column and the front of Buckingham Palace a// are oceupied every night by persons,

them young and females, who have not the! means of procuring a shelter within doors. | They pasa the night in the Park without food | and almost destitute of clothing. * The | number of men,’’ says the writer, ** exceeds| that of women, but only slightly. Some of both sexes are yet wide awake, and stare right forward with fixed eyes. Not one of them speaks; each is wrapped up in the sense of his or her individual misery. They) are of almost all ages. Fortunately, indeed, | there are no children; but there are little lads, there are old men, there are poor, pitiful, aged women, whom it is heart-rend- ing to behold. We coutinue our walk, look- ing at every bench, until we reach the Palace There is a black man on a seat in a little re- cess at the end of the Mall, which is occu- pied by a couple of young women. One lies with her head on the other’s lap, and her faee is visible. It has been almost pretty once, but it is very wan and pale. The other woman's countenance is hidden. Both are dressed in black, which is rusty and faded.’ And thus a painful sketch is carried out of the misery and destitution which fell under the writer's eyes almost within earshot of

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lander,’ would bear out the assertion of the | friends of the Government that the Report} was all in favour of the ‘Tenantry. Now, Sir, itis true that in the first of the published Re- port in the ‘Islander’ it is shown by the census returns that the quantity of produce raised on some new farms was not suflicient to support a family and yay the rent; but what do we see published lately but a report of a number of farms in a wildnerness state sold and offered for sale whieh the Spy values, after allowing so much for clearing and build- ing, at from $35 to $6 per acre, or from 18s. to 368. per acre; and in the last ‘Islander’ the Report gives the value of lands situated in the most flourishing parts of the Island, and what certain farms suld fer, some as high as $11.90 per acre, cash down, without build- ings—a sum equal to £3 12s. per acre. Now, Sir, if this report is considered favourable to the tenantry, | am ata loss to see it; but it is very wucli like the promises of the present Government's supporters at the last election, when they were going to reduce taxation and get the country out of debt; but instead of that, they have nearly doubled the taxes and doubled the debt. So with the Spy’s Report: instead of being favourable, it is the reverse, for by the tenor of the whole Report it is making the lands appear worth 20 years’

the royal residence. Most or all of

mode of relief is intense amongst certain sec- tions of the poor.

Tae Ricnvonp Dasratcn on Ges. Porte.

: at these | the Commissioners’ Report to that effect, or persons could have claimed relief from the! the demand for an arbitration, which we find

metropolitan parishes, but the dislike to this } isalla humbag and worse, by the conduct

purchase in their original state; and hence

of the Goyernment in making it a lottery by

their endeavour to crain-downa the Tenants’

throats their Arbitration Bill of last Session. lam, yours, &e.

i treme Jeft.

—liow Pope blustered himself into the notice TENANT. of the administration, which gave him the command of the expedition for sinking ar-|

tesian wells through the desert, we do not| $6.66 per acre, equal to 40s.,

Lot 34, Oet. 4th, 1862.

P.S. The Spy says land on Lot 45 is worth | and that the}

ae po we do — and Ses ae land on that Lot has risen 20 per cent. in| . a ¢ » . . . mows, the issue of that expedition. It! viine since: last year. Very favourable, in- was like its commander a signal failure.

> 7 deed, Mr. Spy. We were going to say it was 2 water-haul, , ry

but it was not exactly that, for he did not get adrop of water. How he got his present cone is better understood. Lincoln wanted @ man to gain victories on paper,|I[ find a letter signed ‘* D. Fitzgerald,’’ in| and Pope has proved himself to be that man.| which the writer, as a ‘ Minister of the! ilis report to Halleck, that he had captared| Gospel’? of the Church of England, makes | 15,000 of Beauregard’s army and 20,000) a semi-apology for attending a Presbytery of stand of arms, when he had not taken a man} Mr. Pope's ‘*hard-headed”’ friends and allies. | or a musket, stands alone in the history of | * D. Fitzgerald,’ as a Church of England | lying. Among the |

— —b eee + To tue Epiror or tur Examiner. Sir ;—In the * Protestant’ of a late date!

It left him without a rival in that re-| Minister, had no business there. spectable art. Ie distanced Munchausen and | bitterest foes to the English Charch the } all other professors It was ‘‘ Eclipse first, |‘* hard-heads ’’ have ever ranked Al. Mr. | and the rest nowhere.’’ | Fitzgerald knows he was out of place at the |} —- —w ror | ** Presbytery,’’ and his laboured apology is|

Stnevt.arn Contest.—A Toronto paper says :— | worse than his very foolish offence. Why, |

ae . d 7 ‘ is i. } “ An ineident took place a few evenings ago in| George Sutherland himself, with all his igno-| this city, which,

MARYLAND — AUTHENTIC PARTIC!}=| as can be ascertained from the number ot the | ed an explanation.

LARS —~A DECISIVE BUT DEARLY; BOUGHT VICTORY. (From the Petersburg Express, Sept, 23.)

; se | The Richmond Enquirer of yesterday gives the’

following relative to the terrible Battle fought at |

jour troops.

lead found upon the field, sad. from other data, | sulting, Sigel resented it with a pistol shot,| iwill not fall short of the following estimate :— s S | Major Davis, Assistant Inspector General, who | } auperintends the burial of the dead, reports about |

3000 rebels buried upon the field of Antietam by |!

Previous to this, however, the rebels

Sharpsburg, Md., on Wednesday last se jhad buried many of their own dead upon a distant | We have received authentic particulars of the | portion of the battle field, which they occupied |

sanguinary battle at Sharpsburg, alluded to else. va hinine. and coneerning whieh ao many painful To. | mours were afloat yesterday. We have the gra- tification of being able te apnounce that the battle resuited in one of the most complete victories that has yet immortalized the Confederate arms. The ball was opened on Tuesaday evening about wx o’elock, all of our avaliable force, about sixty thersand strony, commanded by General Robert | E, Lee in person, and the enemy about one hen- | dred and fitty thousand strong, commanded hy General McClellan in person, being engaged. ‘The position of our army was Upon the range of hills; forming a semi-circle, with the coneave to- wards the enemy; the latter oceupying’a less commanding position- opposite, their extreme right resting upon a height counmanding our &x- The arrangement of our line was as tollows—Gen. Jackson on the extreme deft, Gen. Longstreet in the centre, and Gen. A. P. Hill on the extreme right.

The fight on Tnesday evening was kept up until nine o'clock at night, when it subsided into spasmodic skirmishes along the line. Wed- nesday morning it was renewed by Gey, Jackson, and gradually became general. Both armies maintained their respective positions, fd fought desperately throughout the entire day, During this battle Sharpsburg was fired by te enemy's shells, and at one time the enemy obtained a posi- tion whieh enabled them to pour a flanking fire upon a pertion of our left wing, causing it to waver. At this moment, Gen. Stark, ot Missesippi, who had comraaud of Gen. Faehron’s divisien, galloped to the freat of his brigade, and seizing the standard rallied them forward. No sooner did the gallant Geueral thus throw himself in the van than tour bullets piereed his bedy, and he fell dead amidst his men. Tho effect, instead of discouraging them, fired them with determination abd revenge, and they dashed forward, drove the enemy back, and kept them from the position during the rest Ofethe day.

Ttbeing evident that the “Young Napoleon,” finding he could not foree his way through the invincible ranks of ourarmy in that direction, had determined upon a flank movement towards Har- per’s Ferry, and thus obtain a position in our rear, Gen. Lee, with ready foresight, anticipated the movement by drawing the main body of his army hack on the south side of the Potomac, at Shep- herdstown, Virginia, whence he will, of course,

be ascertained with accuracy, but as our troops | ¢ u continually dreve them from the commencement | have been driveu of the action, and asa much greater number of position to position their dead were seen on the field than of our own | begins to ooze mev, it is not unreasonable to suppose that their | and his jloss was greater than onrs,

j after the battle, probably at least 500

The loss of the rebels at South Mountain cannot | «

battles would be 400,

Aecording to the ratio of our own killed wounded, thus would make their loss in wounded 18,742. a

As nearly as can be determined at this time, the number of prisoners taken by our troops in the battles will at the lowest estimate amount te 5000. ‘the full returns will ne doubt show a large | number of these, about 1200, are wounded. ‘This gives a rebel loss in killed, wounded and prisoners ot 25,542. :

It will he observed that this does net include their stragglers, the number of whom is said by citizens here to be large.

It may be safély coneluded, therefore, that the rebel army lost at least 30,000 of their best troops.

From the time our treeps first encountered the enemy in Maryland until he was driven back into Virginia, we captured 13 guns, 7 caisson’, 9 lim- bers, 2 field forges, 2 caisson bodies, 39 colors, and I signal flag. We have not lost a single gun or a color.

On the battle field of Antietam 14,000 small arms Were collected, beside the large number carrried off by eitizens, and these ¢Cistributed on the ground te recruits and other unarmed men, | arriving immediately after the battle. At South | Mountain no collection of small arms was mde, | but owing to the hasty pursuit from that potat, | 100 were taken on the other side of the Potomac Geo. B. McCLeLuan, \ Major-General. |

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| CONFESSION OF FAILURE.

The N. Y. ‘ World’ admits that the great battle | of Sharpsburg was an ignominious failure. It says i—

“A great battle has taken place at Sharpsburg | —creat in the numbers engaged, ia the issues ine volved, and in the leadership and bravery of both | armies. The stake on one side was a lodgment in Maryland, an invasion of Pennsylvania, and |

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project the necessary combinations for again de- feating his adversary.

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effect upon our gatlant troops; butghey replied

perhaps the capture of Washington; on the otter, | | the complete destruction of the main rebel army, ;

Phe enemy’s artillery was served with disastrous | which would end forever the dream of Southern | frem the trees . . '

Confederacy. To decide these issues not less)

Estimating their] the second ar | killed at 500, the total rebels killed in the nnn Sorrene® - ,

leause as the first; and year’s hard fighting, and still harder digging and

en ead te aed ela a Be ~s. SFIS Eee reap Peete ea Tyee CSS 2: +a Ty PEI GE EN YL “ - : 1 cr . ’ Qi } . 5 : , os IO killed. O416! al : t tis § i ceenes” WE re se } Ne ore Ni n> } ran p A nuetaim ’ on ir » enemy. o} rel i 8 Fo tne Entror or rire Exawxee The Gi vil War in tae States, wounded, and 1043 missing. Tofal, 12469, Sigel, while engaging the enemy, obscrved : a , ' , Wounded, : 1 oot ae las. ra wire 2 handkerchief to tne)! Sin j—L have been waiting anxiously to see | owe eee n etre ten tenet orn ener entrain ‘Total loss in the two battles, 14,794 MeDowell waving his ha vd thie to a “ ‘ a * mame ; y : ‘ * tha tara hattles. a8 near ? a immediately rode uy and dem: ‘ Spy s Report, as published in the ¢ Is- | py TERRIFIC FIGHI AT SHARPSBL Ra, | The loss of the rebels in the two battles, as near | papoejs, [le immediatel i» and ¥

The reply being very in- |

1es3 of the occurrence. — ~~ INVINCIBLE BRAG.

The New York correspondent of the London Times saya that “Invineible brag stil] rules the lay. Although the Federal Generals have been wutmancuvred and beaten; though their armies from field to field and from

with heavy loss; though it out in spite of Pope's despatches, ‘immense captures’ (all fabulous) that land third battles of Bull Run were as as humiliating, to the Northern though, after more than a

delving, the Federais find themselves in the old position on the Potomae, the besieged and not the besievers; though the well worn stereoty ped phrases * All quiet on the Potomac,’ ‘Washington 1s safe. express the greatest comfort that: can be admi- nistered to the Northern people in this day of their adversity; though the recruitments fail, and the draught frightens the President; though the South have assumed the offensive, and earried slarm not only to Washington and Baltimore, but to Cincinnati and Louisville, and even to Pittsburg, —Lrag, bold, brazen, unblushing, unconquerable Brag is lord of the ascendant, and strives to keep up the spirits of the people. In face of all the heavy reverses and discouragements of the past week, and of the present position hich is as gloomy as it can well be, Brag persists in the assertion that the rebels have risked all in one final throw ; that they fight out of desparation not out of settled purpose; that their efforts are the last contortions of an expiring monster; that before the ‘first frost’ of the coming winter the

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r pulsed, and enbeean nfl; landed at Green le Point, dnd marched te rear batteries, where ight took place. Ne particulars

Unconditional Union candidate elected Mayor f Baltimore, over seven thousand majority.

Draft forcibly resisted in Hartford, Indiana, lestroying ballot box and forcing commissioners

. ; ‘ 91 20 | “\ the ball striking McDowell's seabbard. I his} and Provost Marshal to resign, and denouncing statement purports to come from an eye-wWit-} Goyernment p

VER LATEST: BANGor, Oct. 9, Afternoon. Falling back of Lee’s army confirmed. It is

expected that he will retreat to Gordonsville if

pressed, It is reported that they are on half ra- tions. The emancipation proclamation inspired lively terror throughout the South, as they pelieve the negroes are organized in secret associations, and waiting the opportunity to rise. Newspapers all forbidden publishing proclamation.

One who has been with the Federal army from the beginning represents the soldiers as tired of the war, and desire that it should be ended one way or another. ‘They dislike the idea of another winter campaign, and much prefer fighting to in- action.

‘There is one impression in the Confederate army that the war will not end until the expira- tion of Lineoln’s term.

Reported that Gen. Freemont attacked and routed Morgan’s gueritias near Frankfort.

The. Examiner.

Charlottetown, October 13th, 1862.

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REASONS FOR EXPECTING A SPEEDY DISSOLUTION.

ALTHoUGH many persons are of opinion that

l habit of boasting has become inveterate

i South, and But the date

i instead of a victory

ion | With the departure of Summer and the rapab fad- million |

roe] rorate ‘gions of the North, a : i . re-invigorated legio ling of Autumn into Winter, there is no chawen of

strong, will drive their armies into Mexico, if they

: so i . oe ‘ » silelilaal do not annihilate them; and that the 1 nion, | an election until the Gorernment shall be actually greater, brigt mere powerful than ever Wii) «08 ints it by the legalextinetion of the Assem- be re-established from Maine to Texas. The} ?

But, | bly in March next, and that, by stretching the

though self-confidence and a brave’ heart in the | law to serve the ends of their partizans in office, g ' he |

hour of peril are admirable, vulgar bravado, built

upon emptiness, rottenness and conceit, is in-

they will resort te the wncerstit stienal proeceding lof holding a fiftl: anneal Session under the Quad-

7" nm ral ee smeensikiiies a are tolerable Che Northern braggarts, who are| ; greatly more pumerous than the Northern armies, | rennial Act—re are not yet disyosed te entertain . . } } . . - .

jcontinually fix a date for the conquest of the} the same opinion. We cannot imagine that the

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ifor the »>rebel leaders. |

: : : yovernme ill be sa foolhardy as to brave an alwavs a mistake, and when the | @overnm nt ” 1 . ” ‘ 5 nevitable day dawns it inevitably finds the South} examination of their fman mmether With their policy ou tse Land Question lutterly broken down—a policy about which they

hanging of the

a! affairs im stronger instead of weaker, and records a defeat | goggion. The first frost is: now the favourite term, The musquitoes and the Rebel lion are to disappear simultaneously. of the South are to change colour with the | formed the subject of so many congratulatery ad- liage, and “+n the red <¢ jiew leaves fal! sae : foliage, and when the red and yellow leaves fall 9. o26¢ to, and high sounding answers from, the

the legions of Jetlerson Davis Oras ; : a to fall bloodred under the irresistible blast of | Lieut. Governor in all his rambles through the

from musket, howitzer, and cannom with a rapi-| than two hundred and fifty thousand men were | Northern valour, that shall sweep them from their | Tsland—with almost perpetual streams of wishy

dity and will that earried havoc amidst the oppos- ing ranks

jengaged in deadly strife on Wednesday. Ten|

. The battle was one of the most severe | thousand men have been killed and wounded on only the ‘ buncombe as regards the circumstances | prance and impudence combined, would never | that has been tought since the opening of the war. ithe national side, and perhaps an equal number | behef of Ministers and legislators

‘ 3 i 5 r ir cl S ine ig ‘ i yl is his ‘ . >

piece in the sree of Me ir lignation. eae ; cn | washy eloquence from Colonel Gray during the OL ihe Hewspapers, Binet." a : _

. em It is the talk | sitting of the Legislature—he, being the originator

made the trip, and then, after cruising about | that attended it, is probably without precedent. | think of attending one of our vestry meetings. | Many of our brave men fell. At dark the firing | on the Confederate side, but with all this carnage | aud the hope of thousands who have made and are | of the policy, considering that he had a peculiar oD os |

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from one port to another, started once more | for home. Half the passage was accomplish- ed, when the captain died, and bis wife took | command, and Boston, whea the owners offered her half. | ownership, and the captaincy of the ship. | Wishing to visit her child at Marseilles, she | was obliged to decline this handsome offer, | and took passage immediately in a steamer | for Europe.

Arriving at Marseilles, she visited the spot where she left her babe ; but, to her horror, | the house even was gone, and she could get no intelligence of her missing babe. Asa) last resource, she enlisted the aid of the lice, Who finally succeeded in discovering | that, some three years before, the husband | of the woman to whom she had entrusted the | ehild had died, leaving bis wife without | means of support. She had relatives vgn | at Beleastre, in Naples, and thither she had | gone for help, taking her youthful charge | with her, using for her travelling ex neee | the money that had been forwarded, just, previous to the death of her husband, by the | mother'ef the child. To Belcastre, accord- ingly, the anxious mother took her way, and on her arrival there, learned that the woman child had been there, but that the rela-_ ives of the former would give her no aid, that: Rie was to go elsewhere in

of employment ; where she had gone what

Our heroine still refused to be discouraged, and continued the search perseveringly and | vainly fur two years. At last she was re-|

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A large, therough-bred bull-dog, was passing by | Yet “ D. Fitzgerald" so far forgets his true | ceased, and in the morning (Thursday) our army | yo decisive result haa been arrived at. ‘ eer:

the Lobster store of Mr. O'Hara, in Craig Street, | | Were ready to recommence the engagement, the | pave won the field. ‘The enetay was driven from | opivion of the Republican party : | . ;

when his attention was attracted by the move-

rought the vessel safely to | ments of a gigantic lobster crawling in front ot |

the door. The dog attacked the lobster, when the latter at once showed fight, extending its tre-!

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| position as not only to attend the ‘* Presby- tery,”’ }out’’ there, and, to foolishly rushes into print.

but to allow himself to be ‘ trotted |

‘cap the climax,’’| As a theologian

enemy having been foreed back th® evening be- fore, and the advantage of the battle still on our side,

Firing was consequently opened upon the new

mendous claws and seized its antagonist by the | he is bad, but as a politician he is worse. | position supposed to be held by the enemy, but no

leg. versary's coat of mail, but still continued to fight. At length the lobster letting go its hold of the dog’s | leg grasped the animal’s tail with its powertul | weapons of offence, and the dog at once relin-

quished the contest, and ran off, its adversary stil] | maintaining its hold. At the corner of St. Law- | rence and Muin Street, the lobster was detached, | when the dog bolted, and in a few minutes was | out of sight.

‘lar combat, and were as much surprised at its| do that of ‘'Sieepy David."

termination as at its commencement. The lobster | waa a most formidable specimen of its class, and weighed no less than 27 pounds.”

A large crowd witnessed this singu- | and I like those nom-de-guerres as little as I

breaking a fly upon the wheels. Bat I may} ask, it Dr. Jenkins was rebuked for giving! a conscientious vote, what ought David to! suffer? It is, to say the least, bad manners} to call names, and the example is most repre- | hensible in a ‘* Minister of the Guspel.”’ L! am neither a ‘‘Bryanite’’ nor a *‘Kieker,’’

Appropriate as they each may be, it is unwise to use them | either in private or public talk.

Il am afraid eur ** David’? will never con-

————~<0 200 o—__—__- In Moravia there is a man living, a pea-

quer the Philistines, even if he combined the most practised use of the sling and stone, and

become of her none could tell. | port her in the States. _————

sant, who is one hundred and forty-seven years old, and still hale and hearty. Ie wae formerly a soldier, and re-married at the age of ninety. Le lives on milk and pota- toes.

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The Diamond Wedding, which excited so much interest in New York about two years since, when & young miss in her teens was united in the bonds of matrimony to an old Cuban grey-beard, who was immensely rich, has resulted in separation, the wite beiag allowed $4,000 per annum to sup-

inte consideration the propriety of organiz- ing a Rifle eae in that locality.

j young men of N

| somewhat annoyed by seeing so many ** red- jeoats’’ parading about before the eyes of

the other tremendous weapon of Sampson. NOLO EPISCOPARL. Michaelmas Day, 1862. seeds digestible ctl To tus Epiror or raze Examiner.

Sir, ~ By an article which appeared in * Ross's Weekly’ of the Lith ult., it appears that the people of North River are taking

The orth River evidently feel

CORRESPONDENCE,

paid for her labor of love. One day, while | passing through a ward in a hospital at Flo-, Fence, her attention was attracted by the | woman who jay dying in one of the rooms, with a handsome boy weep- ing over her. She ap hed and heard her own name ateugiel by. the sufferer. Ir another moment she was on her knees beside the bed, clasping the sick one’s hands in her own, and asking her the question she almost dteaded to hear answered. The answer was in the affirmative, and with her last breath the dying woman restored to the mother the childsbe been so long looking for. Scarce- ly was the faithful creature dead when the im- patient mother undid the jacket of the wee ing boy, and discovered about his neck a little trinket herown hands had placed there years before. Mother and son immediately pro- ceeded to Havre, from whence they sailed for this country, and are now residing in the eity of Detroit. =_— —

; _-— > WEALTH OF GREAT BRITAIN.

“A writer in the Edinburgh Review estimates the property of Great Britain and Ireland in 1358:

Real Estate...........£3,200,000,000 Personal Property... ... £2,775,000,000

Total..........--£5,975,000,000

Which is, in round numbers, twenty-nine thousand snilliona of dollars. This i« just about $1,000 to each inhabitant.

Ry the last censua returne the wealth of the United Statee was estimated at sixteen thousand millions of dollarse—about &5v0 to eavh inhabitaat.

‘The tax fur the support of the British Govera- ment amounts to a littl more than one per cent. of the whole wealth of the kingdom. Thie ix in addition te city and etber local taxes, the church tithes, poor rates, &e. The public debt is four thousand .willions of dollars—about 14 per cent of the wealth of the nation.”

oe sa ‘ A Navat. Ficur~Propanty a Hoax.—The | But Col. Gray's resolutions were nut repeal-| Teacher at the Little Sands.

following circumstantial aceount of a fight, sup Confederate war vessels, appears in the Liver- pool Telegraph :

** The following very doubtful report ap-|own judgment, yet the same Minister, in| vassing for the Tory party these three days,

are in the Liverpool Telegraph :—** On Tuceday night last Mr. James Shipley, chan- nel pilot, who wae in charge of the Mary, Captain Marshall, bound from Liverpool to Genoa, etates that he witnessed a desperate naval engagement between two vessels, in a)) probability belonging to the two sections of

(POR THE EXAMINER.)

Several persons have expressed a desire to | know my opinion of matters since the Award |'8 annulled. Opinions to be of any weight ought to have some foundation, and this leads me to review the proceedings of the | proprietory Government to take the advan-

| tage of their position to confirm the Proprie- the enormous amount of time wasted, and| a os ; a . ithe other end of the hall, and again addressed |Tebel army. The slaves, 150 in number,

tors’ claims; and I intend to show, that the

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| quently it has been quashed.

When Responsible Government was con- ceded to the colonies, Ministers made a rule that ** the Colonies are ta be governed by the wishes of the people as expressed by their re- presentatives ;'’ therefore the proceedings on the Land question must be tried by that rule, to enable us to reconcile apparent contradic- tions, for according to this rule any measure agreed to by a majority of the House of As- sembly becomes an expression of the wishes of the people. even if all the rest of the peo- ple were opposed to it, unless they petition against it in due time, for silence is consent.

At the last election the people returned a Pneneery Government, and Colonel Gray’s resolutions were passed and sent home as the | wishes of the people for the royal assent. |Tbe resolutions required the Crown to ap- {point one or more Arbitrators who were to | | decade between proprietors and tenants accord- jing to eertain provisions propounded in the resolutions; but the Minister could not ask

for the assent to appoint arbitrators unless they were allowed to use their own disere-

Award was made under restriction—that the gufficient reasons to prevent the ambitious! Commissioners did not expect or desire their! song from adopting such a kill-time movement. Award to be adopted ; but we find it can be! made a mischievous instrument in the hands | riflemen have brought a silver tea-pot or a) of a Proprietary Government, and conse-|

}hundreds of admiring spectators, whilst),

jthey, despite all their effurts to attract | notice, remain unobserved. But it would , be wisdom in the ‘*sons’’ of North Kiver to | dispel this petty ambition, and have nothing | |to do with ‘fuss and feathers.” Such a) course would not only exhibit diseretion on! | their part, but would conduce to the advanee- | jment of their own welfare. The expense of | } £90 or £100 to precure military suits, and |

| mischief doue at those shooting sprees are

The facta, that one or two of our Island) eugar-bowl fiom te Provinces, and that the old packing-boxes, hen-coops, and tar-barrels | are ever ready to fly into « heap and exult-| ingly fling their gleesome flames to the sky | in commemoration of such a victory, are too | futile to induce any sensible community to) participate in such yain-glory. It would be much better for the young men of North River to organize a Literary Institution ; and, instead of squandering £100 for paltry mili- tary suits, to expend the much lower amount of £30 to procure a Library, which would entertain them during their leisure hours, and impart useful information to their minds. The people of all communities, in which Volunteer companies have not yet been formed. would do well to consider those mat- ters before they consent to go to a useless expense. Yours, &e. GENTLE HINT. Sept. 30, 1862.

~——— 0 900 To tae Epitor or Tur EXaMINer.

Sm—Permit me through the columns of your paper to offer a few remarks on the

ition, consequently another resolution, for the | appointment of three arbitrators, was sent home, and the Commissioners appointed. |

ed, they remained in full force. ‘Thus we!

to have been between Federal and | find that the Colonial Minister could uot ob-| 9go, and seeing the children playing round

‘tain the Royal assent to pees arbitrators | lunless they were allowed to exercise their}

jobedience to the resolutions, hed to instract the Commissioners not to escheat the land, and Col. Gray's resolutions, which were un- fit to be prescribed for the royal assent, were , given for instructions to the Commissioners. | But the evidence given, and wishes expressed by the people themselves before the Commis-

the late American Republic, about 25 miles! sioners being at variance with the instruc-

place to place deluding the ignorant,

proceedings of some of the Teachers on this Township, who attend to political affairs more than to their duty, especially the

Having passed the Schoolhouse a few days

tive house, l enquired about the Master, when a smart young boy toid me that he was can-

that he was an Orangemen, and that he was determined to get Mr. Wightman out of the House at the coming election.

Now, Mr. Editor, is it reasonable to sup- pose that this Teacher will] fulfil his part of the agreement, when, instead of instructing the youth under his tuition, he goes from It is

| struck him at the same time on the head.

| Where he fell on the floor,

The dog vainly endeavored te pierce its ad-| ‘fo analyse his letter would be worse than} reply was obtained, and it was then discovered

that he had disappeared entirely from the field, leaving many of his dead and wounded in our hands and about three hundred prisoners. ‘The report current yesterday (that a trace occurred on Thursday for the burial of the dead was unfound- The prisoners stated that their force was

ad.

; more than a hundred thousand strong, and that

MeCleilan commanded (he army in person.

Our loss is estimated alt five thousand in killed, wounded and missing. @he prisoners state that their ranks were greatly (deeimated, and that the slaughter was terrible, from which we may infer that the enemy's loss wis fully as great if net greater than our own,

The tollowing is a list. of commanding officers killed and wouuded in the engagement :—

General Stark, of Mississippi, commanding Jackson's division, killed, ea Brainech, of North Carolina,

lied,

Brigadier-General R, Hf. Anderson, wounded in hip, net dangerously. *

Brigadier-General Weight, of Georgia, wounds in breast and le a

Brigadier-General Loseton, in JR.

Brigadier-General Armistead, in the foot. Brigadier-General Rigey, in neck, not danger- ously. >

Brigadier-General Tuiistane, of North Carolina, slightly,

Colonel Alfred Cammings, in command of Wil- cox’s brigade, slightly. ~

flesh

iesalhiiccinili Rationales GEN. NELSON SHOT BY GEN. DAVIS. LOUISVILLE, Sept. 29—p.m. One of the saddest incidents of the war has just eceurred here. A few minutes before 9 o'clock General Jefferson C. Daris of Indiana met Gen. Nelson in the hall of the Galt House, and attempt- ed to speak to lum. Gen. Nelson refused to lis- ten, and turned away. Davis followed him te

fe)

him. Nelson now turned te him, saying, “* Do you wish to insult me, you cowardly puppy 1” and

did not. retaliate on the spot, but made through

the crowd of guests until he met an officer of his

acquaintance, borrowed a pistol of him, and then pushed to the west door of the hall, where Nelson was conversing with seme gentlemen. When within a few feet of him, he cocked the revolver and fired istantly. ‘The ball entered Nelsou’s left breast, inflicting a mortal wound. naged toowalk up stairs to General Buell’s reour,

LORD LYONS ANXIOUSLY LOOKED FOR.

The Washington correspondent of the N. Y. Com. Advertiser says :—

Certain it is that the return of Lerd Lyons is anxiously awaited by those who have regarded him as the real representative of the European powers on American affairs. It is well known that Louis Napoleon has the highest regard for his lordship’s opinions, and it is believed that those opinions are favourable te the United States.

Monsieur Mersier, the French Minister, was evidently impressed, during his visit to Richmond last spring, with the power and streneth of the rebellion, : his house at Georgetown was burned, after his return, the Federal soldiers sent{to gnard his property plundered what was rescued from the flames, has increased his sympathy with the Seces- sionists,