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CORRESPONDENCE,

SON NN INNIS I ll Liat la “WHAT Is TRUTH?” To tue Epitor or rar Bgawsven. *

Sin: — Many important questions of a practical as well aso! a speculative charac- ter have ever been found engaging the atten- tion of men. Stull, t) any reflecting mind, they will appear resolvable uito the abote | Simple inquiry, ** Whatis truth?’ In the exact fourm in which it bere stands, it is in- deed usually associated with * Pontius Pilate,’ the official betrayer of our Lord But im a slightly different sense from that in whieh propounded by him, it may be re- getied apeonstrmuny the one interrogative whieh hes at the foundation of all human, “Moug , of ali haman action, and of al’ hu-| man interest. In the existing jumble of | social elements in the United States, tor im- stance, how natural the question—W hich of the two great contending parties is in the | right? Which of the many conilicting prin- | ciples there at war is must deserving of yenc | ral sympathy? Ww bas strict justice vn | thew side? Lo other words, taking the | whele Rebellion into aecoant ag to its pro. | woking Causes, and as to ite intrinsical merits, | + Whatistrath?"* How, using the expres: | sion in the same coarmon import, may we not at the present, perbups, rather than at any previews period of our social history.

bring thia very interrogavion home to vur- selves, and pointedly the people of this

Island-~in the aidst of all our own exrsting

party animosity—‘ What ‘ia truth?’ Aé

to the **\ Land Question’ in pa:ticalar, who have beea riyht and whorhave been wrong?

Whe all along have been eherishing the most ‘correct sentiments on this radical subject,

and who have been eagerly so wing the tures

ei diseord and upholding prineiples in them- selves caleaiated to result m positive evil to theevuntry at large? Who,in brief, have been actually our real ‘*Pilates'’ and **J aduses’’ — the whole sule betray ers of our puor tenantry

‘im every deed’ r-—* George Coles") or

** Edwerd Pe'mer?’’ — >> Pie editor of ‘the

Examiner’ or * WH. Pope? —"Oar pre

sent Guverpment’’ or + their political oppo-

nenis’’?,, As to this question there can, in strict justice, be but one answer. Let os took at plain facts. [Che policy of Mr. Coles

& Co. from the beginning was whet? Weal! know that aggressive and progressive tux- ation ofall propricter y lands stili in a wilder- nesd state was the sui and substance of that poliey. Phis, every honest man in the eoun- try must be already saflicient!y aware of tu render any special remark on the fact here quige superfluous. The only observation in- deed now worthy of bemg made on the nature of that policy is, that the proprietors them selves no doubt understood tt tar better than the people. They kwew it fuil well, All

their agents and syaipatiiwers throughout} Henee their |

the country knew the same. inveterate hostility te all true liberal or po- pular principles. Henee their long eoneerted

and ever je be remembered enmity to! George Cotvs. How clearly did they see, that at they coutd not succeed in erying him dowa, **theirt cratt,’’ by him so endangered, would sown bave come to an end. « Aecord- ingly, Ghey, Jor years jogether, kept denoun- cing lum as ‘‘@ dad mun.’’ **Ob that seoun- drel.”' thas *: muschie!-muaking fellow,’? that * bad, bad — that awiul bud man?’? Such. in inet, was the ouly species of argument of which many of chew vad the smallest com- prehension. Such, we say, for years, was taeir sgle ery —their one great, ever pew and uafaling political ordinance, Aud alas, how lawentshly silly did they find but two many of the people to whom they kept ever and anon dlating this tine sample of modern reasoning! How ready to believe the vileat, | most pitifully childish. aud most utterly un- | truthiul slander which perhaps was ever) prupageted in Prince Edward Island! But} here comes ‘ the rub'"—What have they

now got forall their credality? lad they

only Deen clear-headed enough to have seen | chrougt *Geurge Ovles’ policy yes that

same George Coles’.ttue poley, and jaye

given bim # fair chance tu have earried it, out, it is ver sulemn belief, and we write at) from pe party sympethy whatever, every | tenant im tus. Province would . have, been able to purchase bis land tor 7s. Gd | currency to-day, at the very highest. Not} one Proprictur amoung them all but would, by this time, bave been very glid to have vt rid of bis ‘ail-gotten”’ and intinitely more | dsereditably tetamed eeresin this Ishand for | probably even less than chis sum to-day, | *+ What,’’ then, in this certain view of the | subject, ‘is Truth?’ +*Cules's policy’ per: | sisted in a listle longer, must inevitubly Lave | driven each and all ui them ww this at, last Must it not have unquestionably done so? We ask any maa—we ware not who—tu lovk | dispassionately at the wnavenlable tacts of | the case, and deny tis with a vlear con-| scree be dare! Liere, them, is in. iteeil | a great fact worthy surely of the unbiassed | redection of every man who may have arrived | at years of maturity in this Provinee ; for, ) emidst al] the noise and bluster and perfidy | and staped tom-foolery (fur really we cannot, designate it by apy betver name) perpetrated | by our existing rulers -‘anens’’ this distract- ing Land Questivn, aod notwithstandimg all their abuse of those wlio are in every respect hy much their superiors, we must now bluntly assert, in the ‘sce of the whole peo- ple of this Provinee, that what we have now Written is exactly ‘what ts Truth.’ It is nyt one whit more. i in fact it be anything lke a8 mugh as the entire, the andisguised, aud the undisgeisuble truth. And further, we fourlossly challenge any man to under- take suceessiuliy to reuse it. Aceyrding to the nature of things, as well as of men, ** Coles’s pyliey,’’ if 16 bad only been eon- sistently persevered iv, could not, whatever Way. you chogse to fix it, have well resulted Otherwise than as we have just. affirmed. And was.this the man whom. ‘he unsuspect- ing tenantry of this lsiand were asked to re-

and no gain! Whatatfich harvest of bene-

ed

fits, to be sure, they have reaped from their mighty Government! But possibly some of them may still doubt the ateojute relimbility of thia representation. Well,if so, we shall hot at present give ourselves any trouble rea- sonipg with them on the pommt. All We say is —** Boys, wait a little longer, and you shall see for yourselves."’ ** Seeing,” you know, *i8 believing.’’ And if you wefuse either to see or believe, we can safely promise you that some of you, in all likelihood, shall be made to ** feel,” and that wo before wery | long, the gerfuine force df these sume state- ments. UO yes, the upshot of the whole mat- ter 18, that this Land Question is now iv & fair way to turn vut @ pretty feeling subject. It will cause many to feel the sweets of hard | work dnd Tittle pay. Tt will necessitate not | a few to feel the sublime pleasareof paying | rent so long as they shall live. [Le will oom) pel numbers to feel their pockets, while it will eventually oblige the greater purt of P. EB. Island tenants to feel sve ehilly touch of the oppresser’® chain daily and hourly con- tracting still more unreleatingly about their | so-callediree- born British wbs.. Ye tenants | of Prince Edward Is and, lave you not gotten a glorious reward from your present Govern ment for.al] your ereduiity Don't you wish you may ever get the change of allowing ‘horrid George Coules’’ to test fully the legi- | timate effects of his far better policy now 2) A bad man surely Ae who, if leit alone, would, in all human probability, have liber- ated every inch of territory in this Province before to-day? Fine fellows E. Palmer, W.. H. Pope, and all the rest of the proprietary sieek-laces, (oh very religious men tov) who have thus desigaedly and on purpose —without even either meaning or wish- ing or intending to do anything else — tor their own private interests—for the sake of! their craft—their ill-gotten gains, —saddled the whole country with the charming bard n just specified, and made bond slaves (by law) of two thirds of that country’s present and fature inhabitants! Aye,aye, now comes che query—and does itnotcome with avengeance —*+ What is Truth?” Was there any ne- teessity for a law ever having been passed de- manding 15 yeors purchase and seven, gra dozen more likely, years back rent from the poor tensnery of this Islind?) The Govern- ment itself acknowledges that the measure is a bad one for the people. But if so, why epact it? Who, in the name of universal suffrage, compelled them to pass i.? © The equotry ?—the British Government? — the Proprietors! . Ne, no, there was no compal- sion about it, bat what ix truth. They did so for the sake of their own selfish interests As constituted principally of proprietors, they, as the only local Government ever sillily permitted tovclub togetiier on this ts- land, fuund their chance wus come, and they simply acted accordingly. Such, in one word, is the splendid resu.t of this long dis- pated Land Question,

Now, what a five Government we have ! What wade them terminate the hopes of the tenantry thus disastruusly, aye? Whar made them, session betore last. tuke the duty off imported liquors and lay it on home ma- nufactured and molasses?) Was it not be- cause Mr. D. Davies, one o/ their owe num- ber, had a large qaantity of the precious stuf coming to the Island at the time? Perhaps some of our poor country folk never heard this fact beiore. Why did they take the duty off iron this very winter? Was it not to suit Hons. Jas, C, Pope and Ye», two more of their own capital compact? Perhaps nubody ever understood, this before. But "twere vain to proceed thus — only we may juet state that the sole reason they have le- gislated as they have done all along, is just because it suits their own and they have been allowed sv long to have their own way, that they have at length ar- rived at the happy conclusion that the people are tow dull and stupid to **know the diff r- enée 3” and that is precisely what is truth. Glorious fellows! well met! go ahead! bully for you! Whe will venture to sey after this thet yoo can’t do things up toa nicety 2?) Stull in this «.nrestricted ex-rcise of their present craft. we must honestly fore- warn this very sume magnificent’ Govern- ment of ours not altogether to lose sight of what is truth. Let them not forget the chiet * fub’’—that they, alter wil that has been said and done, have proven the worst set of * friends *’ into whuse hands the people of this Provinee ever entrusted their pol ical interests, and that on the skirts of their gar iaents must be henceforth found the red! Stains of those ‘bleeding tenantry,’’ those unfortunate P. EB. Island Ethiopians whom they nave now doomed to perpetual serfdum

|

| Albeit, although they have ‘at the tast’’

thas finely succeeded in ‘*biting’’ those from wliom they derive ther power like serpents, and stinging them like adders, yet they may. peradventure, count stil) on being *double

tungued" enough, after their most approved fashion, to beguile them afresh like the same slippery-going Species of aaimals. Theor last — ('*Catholieaseendaney in P E-Ishand’’) was certainly @ grotesque bait . enough. Mic-mac ascendancy will no doubt be their next! Amd in the hands of W..H. Pope (the very wan for all such buffoovery) what a capital one it will make! To indulge in a Shakspearian mode of expression, these Shakspearian times, *¢ “Twe/l suet our model Government toa tva.”’ Semething of the kind we may at least confidently cxpect, Ob ain't the; beauties? How awlully aiarmea the poor ¢reatures now are lest those ** Ten- ant Leaguee’’ should result in evil. They fear for nothing, however, as it happens, su wach as for their own cralé; and the ten- antry very well know that their present rulers have betrayed their dearest interests —ignominioasly so—and that the editors of the Islander, Protéstant and Monitor news- papers, tor the sake of the little serubby pickings they respectively obtain by it— amvunting simply tike ** Balaams”” to * the ‘wages of unrightéousness’’—have rendered them all the asa.stance which their seanty-

gard ua ‘a villain?’’ as it not even.so? Aye, the very George Coles whom they were Grilled to believe a fellow terribly inimical to their best “interests ? | Verily, therefore, while ** the ox knew his oWner, and the ass his master’s crib,’ toese people could not have knowt their ows best ftiends!’ Credu- lows people! Likely enough they will now perceive, us usual, when tov lute, that they have been thoroughly **yulled.”” In all conseterite they bave been abundantly sucked. And whatever else may or may not be cor- rect, this at all events forms one egnsideration which may be very salely put down for what is truth. No very pleasing considvra- tion, one woutd suppose, to solace the jaded minds of any of our worthy teaantry alter a long and Jaburioas day's work. Pleasing or nut pleasing, however, they must now make the te of 16 Some. we are aware, take pleasure in this tefl-etion, and publicly cun- tend that itus nothing more than what many of them righteously d. serve. For, notwith- Standing at the council they got to the con- trary, they would persist ip.eecting ** Pro- pees: to settle their ** Land Question.’’ ‘ise people ass irediy ' oh very, very wise ! In such pleasure, however, we cannot parti- cipate, Still we are willing to hope it may yet ull turn out. lor the best. in this case as iu the mot of others, although the hardest, way prove the most sulutary of human teachers. And what a lesson have they now before them! Have they in very deed tot got a full reward for ali cheir past creduity? Look agar at plain facte, and read, alas, the all tov plain answer! They have, for one thing. got the proprietors snugly eonfirmed in Sooty shabby titles! They have, for another thing, got an ex ht. tant price, considering the suppusitious ni- ture of these titles, seitled on every iovt o/ thos: tore’ so-claimed poxsessivns, They bave got for a third thing those pro- pristors Ives legality invested in such a the falt pomet tages b fore enj ryed, with the fnil etiog from those p sees t ment he fails to cae

Up the uttermust ¥ ing of his envigitenns —

y exacted rent. But they have got wore, Laey have loet ev ry circumstantial advants ge over those prop rie-

tore which, Irom the late conditi tenure. tee! t in this Dee a me Widuwlly imieried. Ail gone—ull lows

brained pates could possibly devise. Fie, fie two all such men! © The people will not furget | them in a very great hurry.—no lear of that )part of it. But the only trouble is that fthey are likely to remember them in the iright way when unhappily too late,

We would not, however, advise the tenan- itry even yet to despair of obtaining some ‘more favoratle terms thin present } Pognos- ' ties seem to indicate. ‘Let the r agsociations be conducted in a legal and becoming man- ner. Let them stick together—stic: always to ‘*what is truth"*—beware of ail ** Pilates, * all ** Judasess,”* all **wolves in sheep’s cloth- ing,”’? and they may yet accomplish more than their most sanguine friends articipate. We wish them still final success, and if they do not in the end svcure for themselves some- thing better than ** 15 years purchase, and 7 years and vnward back rent’’—all night to them. Yours reepecttully,

A LOVER OF TRUTH. May 28, 1864.

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—<—>- To The Eptror ov THe Examiner.

Sin--I see by Ross's Weekly that Mr. Adams delivered an addyess at the Tenant's Delegation Meeting, in Mr. Murphy's hotel in Charlottetown, ou the 19th inet. which I conclude mast have been written by some one, and that he only read it there, as there is a large portion of it in itahes and really ter the lifecof me I -eannot ace how any man can speak in italies and initials. Then, jin consequence of its being written, it must have j been a premeditated address, and therefuse should have been the more parteet and consistent. Mr. Adams says that Catholie Emancipation was gained by public meetings—then, why was theirs 4 private meeting, as all political matters were excluded.” No persou, Tam informed, bad dared te speak against the Government who passed the Bill which they are petioning Her alajesty to withhold her Royal assent trem ; and any per- sen, it appears, would be permitted to speak against the Bill, but not against the men whe have passed it—* Oh cousisteney thou art a jewel,” as Adama’s address

Now, how was Catholic Eaancipation gained ? certainly by a legal agitation brought to bear ou the Parliament of England—it was granted by it, aad passed into law by the Kiya. Lords and Com- tnens of the reaim, And what was that Emanei |

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"pee Act only @ repeal of some Of thé old Punal |

awe! andthe Tewautieagners way rest assured | that they cannot get their condition “ameliorated” | wuly by the very sie means that: were resorted jv jor the Eanuncipation of the Catholics, tat js

by a peacetul agitation to get! dt many inembers

rivate interests, |.

of gur Colooial parliament as will repeal this ob- voxious Bill agaist which they re petitionmng— aud why will pase justlaws to “ameliorate” the cyadition of thé tenautry, and any person who

Wl vot vote for a tevant right meinber, und ayainst every man who voted 1m eur Legislature: tue this obuoxious Bill, is a strong supporter of Landlvcdisur, lebbia be a Tevaut Leaguer or not 5 and ia thelr pledge this should be the prevailing principle, that ho pereeh should receive any bene> tit from their association whe would net vole against any aud every anewt the 16 weibers 1 tie Assembly Who helped to pass ‘the Laudlord’s Bil, and fom these ouly who woald support teuaut right to its fullest extent. It sees that the only men who attended at that delegation meeting were triends of the present Lasdlord Orange Govy't,* for, in that sane studied, written address, that the most uvble the Duke of Newcastle, who hus shown hunself to be the real tenant’s frietd, atid who wis the only persat ia all Miiglaud se leeted by her most gracious Majesty the Queen to be the principal guide, preceptor and care-wker of her eldest sen, the hew to Englaud’s throne, in lus tour to and through North Awertea, is written down by Mr. Adios as an * agrarian” house burver, aid net a burner of & stranger's house either, bat that of his own father; aud all, says fe, for the simple reason that he (the Duke's ta- ther) was opposed te fim in polities. Who, I ask, will believe sueh nonsense? None but those who are always ready to believe a ialseaood, aud there is no doubt but it will go down wel wilh the Orangemen, and that will be so much support tor Mr. Adams at che next éleetion when le stands at the Beltast District as a Candidate.

‘The ‘Tevants are, Mr. Editor, entitled to torm themselves into a league tur mutual protection, and a¥ you yourself remarked in a late No. of the Ecaminer,that tor advice and counsel every associa tien requires leaders who should be the must tn telligent in the community. And se should thea leaders be the same, and vet the Incompetent ig voramuses they have shown themselves to be Phese Delegates should have been sent by public meetings beld in each Lot, instead of a kind ov selfappoiited Delegates from hele and corner meetings, about which very few heard until they were over, ubless some of their triends, whe, they knew, would set say anything. against these previously written speeches, or any, part of them, But it weald be just as well, aud a great deal better, lo have those objectionable parts left oul in time than te have the iguerance of thei author or authors exposed, [ hope some one with more ability than L, will take up Me, Adaiis’s address. and dissect it properly, as there is a great quau- tity of objectionable stuff in it; and a great many think it must have been dietuted by a supporter: of the Gov't, as the whole gist of it isto suppli- cate the Landlords to take seme suiall sum tha will be offered them, and theu if that does noi succeed, Mr, Adauis siiys let tenant leaguers turn and support whouw they choose te represent them. Not having the Meeldy, 1 write trom memory However, this is the substance of his remarks; se that after all the tuss and petitioning and loss o Hine avd Gaoney, tis toed in nothing if they and the Liberals cannot agree; se accordingiy it ir better to step i ia tinue, us there are not. the least hopes ef the Laudlords submitting lo thei: terms, uuless they trighien them, and cousequent- ly the tenants should be frightened of any more Land Delegation tminougs.—What a pity that George Adams, Leonard Weeds, Robt. Stewart aud Alex. MeNeill would not be sent tuo Sir Samuel Cunard, all the way to Loudon, to nego tate a peace between hun aud the teuautry! How the latter would display to perfection his knowledge of Walker, Jonson aad Worcester, as it seeus be is largely read in Uiese volumes.

When the tenants do league themselves, le them accept ie such tom tools as the toregoing but let thew select these whe have proved them- selves to be able, Competent aud howest in thei volitical career, and let them uot be. lhumbuggeu mite any belief that the Laud Question is not a political question, for such a manceuvre is a thoreugh Lery, Landlerd dodge; and uo dvubi invented by the present party tu power ter the purpose of diverting public opinion trom seruti- nizing their base acts towards the tenautry, ie they Knew an agitation would commence as sve as they passed the Landterdy Bil inte law.

Yours respectiuity, CONSTILPUTIONALIST. King's County, May 3ist, isd. * This is not correct. Many of the Delegate- are. on general political grounds, very determines oppovents of the Goverument.—bEp. Ex, snares tlle tb cers

(POR THE EXAMINER.)

Mr. Eprron:—Knowing you to be asupporte of Education, and’ teelittg coutideot that you wil appreve ef any movemeut that is calculated t unprove and develope ‘the mental tuculties, ! therefore, transtnit to you fer insertion in yeu valuable and widiey circulated journa an acceun of the laudable efforts that are being made in this locality for the advancement of Iterature. 2 mecting has recently been convened tor the pur- | pose of takmg inte cousideration the propriety of establishing a literary Lasiitute. The meet- ing was largely attended, net only by the i- habitants of the distriet, but these of the sur- rounding districts. Several gentlemen who wer present expressed their views, at great length, upon the subjeet, aud explicitly proved the grea: utility of such an institute, aud the great benefits it would likely coufer upon the rising generation. by affording them such an excellent opportunity of practismg public speakmg. After the severa gentlemen had terminated their lengthy and ap propriate addresses they proceeded to elect th: tollowing geatlemen officeholders for the present year, viz:—John Yeo, Esq, M. P. P., Patrou: Mr Augustine Callaghan, President ; Mr. Jame> Henderson, Vice President; Mr. Josep: Murphy. Seeretary; Mr. Robert Rameuy, Treasurer, anc Mr. David Sauth, Librartin. Managing Con- mittee—Measrs. James Barclay, George Jelly, G. P. Palmer, T. Boyle, T. Ramsay, Atter the office-holders were elected it was moved that a library should be estabhshed in ecounection with the Lusti ute, a subscription list was accordingly opened for the purpose of realizing a fund for the acconiplishinent of that object, when the parties present showed their zeal, in the cause which they had engaged, by the wunificent contributions which they gave. The good effeets of thi- Instatute will not ooly be evinced by the material uuprovement it will efleet in the persoits who will attend if, byt as it will be attended by persons of all denouinations if will be the means of cultiva ting friendly affections amoug them, and teaching them to respect each other in a beeoming. aud charitable manuer. The members of this Lustitute will, during the summer meiths, meet once a fortwight, and during the winter mouths ‘once every week. The Lostitute has beemdenommated the * Prince of Wales: Lustitute.”’

By uiving. this a place in the columns of your pauper you will extremely oblige

Yours very respectfully, Lot 11, May 30th, 1864, A. selenite To THe Eprrok ov vik eX AMINER,

Drak Sm — Through the wedium of your widely circulated pauper we beg to draw the at- tion of these immediately concerned, to the state of the boiler of the Southport ferry boat.

Lu cousequenuce of some disarrangement on the ist instant, we, as well as several others, haviug occasion to cross constantly, were not a little in- couvenienced. We thought it right ty pen these lines, as an Engineer previously took occasion to notice the detective state of her boiler, and fear- ing that if not looked afier in time, she might meet the sane end asthe ill-fated * Fairy Queen.” The former method of plying, namely, by sailing oats, can be adopted while she is uudergeing the necessary repairs.

Au article on boiler explosions from super- heated steam, in reterenee to the Chenange disas- ter, in the ‘Scientific American’ of the 21st ult, will repay perusal to those interested in the matter,

Fearing 1 uave encroached on your invaluable Space, 1 am, dear Sir,

Your ob’t serv’t,

June 3, 1854. SCISCET.

————— EE ee EUROPEAN NEWS.

THE NAVAL ACTION IN THE NORTH SEA.

A correspondent writing ou the 11th, off Cux- haven, says:—

The telegraph will have informed you of the sea fight which took place off Heligoland on Monday afternoon last. The Austro-Prussian flotilla returned to their moorings at the mouth | of the Elbe between 3 and 4 a. m. yesterday | morning, bearing evident sigus ef having been severely bandied. The following particulars of the engagement may be relied upon as authentic: On Saturday lasi, May 7, the Austrian frigates Schwarzenberg and Redetsky, in company of the Prussian gunboats Adler and Blitz, left their an- chorage off Cuxhaven fora cruise in search of | the Danish fleet. Capt Teggetoff. under whose | orders the combined Gerthan flotilla is placed, is | described by the pilot who brought him up the | Channel as a very start fellow, and the crews as bent upou fighting. However, the Danish fleet war not to be found, aud on Monday morning the flotilla returned to its anchorage at the meuth of. the Elbe, after a cruise of 42 hours, They had searcely dropped anchor when a telegram reach- ed the Austrian Consul af Cuxhaven, intornsing | him that three Danish frigates were bearing down towards Heligeland, This intelligence was

ouce.

i ine Wal ; ey * ;

stantly forwarded to Captain Peggetotf, ed his. wrt thd “ay? po hg Saticand | xave orders to get up steau and pul to sea ut troops run off and leit him. Penusylvania charged with

ee ee se

edi nnatlingen tin aetinod

{ “Ata o'clock ward case that Howell's brigaded

Tie Schwardenberg ia a screw steaw ‘frigate,

carrying 50 gums. Her crew amounted ty 540 wen ou the morning of the engagement. tween decks she is Gtted with beavy guna, mostly

0-poundersy her upper deck guns being 24-poun-

ders. 4

Be-

Ort last, two fure and two aft are rifled, the reat smooth bored.

The Radetshy is alao a screw steam frigate, |

carrying 30 guns, and is likewise fitted with two rifled 24 pounders on her ver deck, fore aud alt. Her erew mmnbered 310 wen. :

The Prussian gupboatg 4 dler aud Blitz, both cased with iron piatesedtis bes thick, carry tour rifled guns eaeh on hpper dec =

A little dbetore? p.m, the Gérmaw flotilla cante in sight of the Danish frigates, whieh showed every willingness te accept the offered battle. The Schwarzenbety opened the prycecdings by firing three blank stots, wifich were unanswered

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by the Danes... Aitert is warning, Captain ‘Leg-

getoff, taking the Schwarzenberg well in between

the Danish trigates, the Niels Juel aud the Dug- mar, handling bie sbip as Aduural liyens was wont to do the Agamemnon, fired a double broad- side against the enemy's ships on either side ot Althotigh somewhat takeu aback by this daring bit of seamanship, the Danish frigates lost ne@ time in returning the fire, aud the engagement soon became general. One ot the first shots fired by the Niels Juel struck the officer second in comuiand full ih the breast, and of course killed

him.

him wn the spot. He was buried) yesterday is the Cemetery at Cuxlaven, ‘a large concourse 0 persons attending,

guns, which was served by 16 men. 16, five were killed on the spot and nine wounded voly two getting off unscathed.

which threatened the destruction of the ship

bursting, set the whole rigging of the foremast i ablaze. ‘The ship haviug ber head to the wind

the flames communicating themselves Lo the main inast, temporarily reduced to the sule use of her twe aft rifle guns.

While the foremast was still burning, a shel burst in the eater chamber of the powder maga

inoinentary panic among the crew. The flames however, were at onee extinguished, and the dan ger averted,

by a reund shot.

and once by a chain shot, which is preserved ot board,

flames is blistered all over trom the heat.

between 30 and 40 slightly wounded. nothing is known for certain of the Danish lugs i inust have been considerable, or the Schwarzen berg iu ber disabled condition must have fallen in te the enemy's hands, nion that officers aud men bebaved with grea

tol's services by promoting him te the rank o admiral,

other business, uotil they had succeeded in com pletely disabling the Schwarzenberg. However before the conclusion of the engagement the Radet zky was struck by 28 shots, mostly on her side

two rifled cannon on the quarter deck, was severe

at tl. The shell which fractured the thigh o of a seaman whe was hauling back his gun te recharge it. Li spite ef bis desperate wound, the rave yerny fellow cheered on his wea, while he himself lay in agony on the deck

cooluess throughout, and more than once re charged their guns with Danish halls, which fel on the deek.

Marshal Radetsky, which wag hanging on th: walls. A second shot made ereéat havec with th. iurnitere in the eaptain’s cabin, in the chamber where the ship's papers wer

parable ifischief. amounted to five killed and GL wounded.

Danish shot falli.g short of theiramark,

Bristol Daily Press.

Po + THE WAR LN THE STATES. FROM JAMES RIVER. MIDNIGHT ATTACK ON GEN. BUTLER'S pos) TION

New York, May 24.—The Herald has the fol column:

rut FieLp, May 22, 1504.—Shortly betore mid wight, after nearly every one, Worn out with the tatigues of a hard day’s work, had gone to rest a volley of musketry, resewbling the distant rum

owe the echo died away the heavy booming ©

catinen tovk its place aud coutinued for full thir ty minutes.

troops thus menaced vn the alert. Sure enough

torees for one grand aasault to pierce our lines was, it resulted in a most disastrous defeat to the toe, never flinched. Phey returned volley for volley aid gradually retired in the reserve.” When thi

low the artillery to play on the enemy. The

ed down hike grass, but as usual they came up te the men fell.

the coufident fue at last balted it his Capt. Langley’s battery, the Ist U_8.

played on the rebel force with great effvet.

discomfiture of the rebels.

impartial test. The fight lasted about thirty-five tninutes, and as soon as it was over our men pro- ceded to bury the rebel killed lett on the field

iment on Fort Powhattan, to attack and capture, for its defence, and also to keep the euemy from

obstructing our navigation of the James River, Col. Baxter, in command, nofified Brig. Gen.

forcements, Gen. H., counnanding the division vt colored troops, at once despatehed ments to the relief of Powhatan, aud arrived there in due time to participate in the. engagement, which ensued at half past If o’elock last night.— tr Hinks ao to Gen. Butler, that the rebels werd badly repulsed at Fort i

but stated ne particulars. mye, New York, May 24.—The Tribune has the following, dated near City Pyiut, May 20:

There has been a fierce ay ~ to-day to regain the rifle drove us out of yesterday, which so t unsuccessful, although sh have talbidahe entaras them, which is in the woods, At 9 o'clock the guns from the rebel position o The 9th Maine, with: portions of the 4th New Hampshire, 55th Pennsylvania, and 97th New York, were occupying the rifle pits. The rebels charged and were met firmly, but the 9th Maine broke and fled, thus permitting the rebels to flank — Se ae us tu retire. Two officers of the

Bnve “were summarily disuiissed «froin th service by Gen. Butler, tor retiring their abel 2

ee pursued impetupusly, but our guas

ad Sauguinary strug- pits which the rebels

13th Lidiaua made an im- Juring this charge we twok Major General He had Bays his

Soon after the 97th, wo better success.

bh a shell,and he

Shortly after, two shells struck the Schwarzen- berg near the same spot, by one of the heavy Ont of the

This episode was shortly followed by a disaster

Phe sails were furled, aud as ill-luck would have it, a shell forced its, way iute the cauvass, and

it became necessary to put her abeut, to preveut

lo this manner the Schwarzenberg was

zine, setting the tiusbers on fire, and creating a

Tv complete the diseomfiture of the Schwarzenberg, ber bowsprit was carried away

During the course of the engagement the Schwar- zeuberg was struck 70 times by shot and shell,’

Her foremast is burut down te a stump, and the side of the mainmast turned towards the

The actual loss on board the Schwarzenberg amounted to 34 killed, 44 severely wounded, and Although

[t seems the general opi-

bravery and coulness, and the Euiperor of Austria has already shown his sense of Captain Tegge-

While it fared inthis manner with the Schwar- zenberg, the Kadetzky did her best to draw of the attention of the Danish frigates, whieh showed considerable auwillingness to attend to

A young naval cadet, who directed the fire of hes

ly wounded in the early part of the engage- ment, and died of his wounds yesterday morning

the young officer passed clean between the legs

Phe gunners of the Radetsky showed great

One shot eutered the-ante-chamber leading te tie captain's cabmy and, enriously enough, smashed te atoms asportrait of Fichi

A shell burst

kept, selting lire to them, and doiwg: mney iree- Phe totalloss of the Radgtsky Cairo, May 17.—New Orleans dates of thel Ith

The engagemeut, which commenced a few mi- | wus making arrangements tor the nutes before 2 p. m., was over by 4 Pp. ue— ) Mexican Government.

lowing correspoudeuce from General Butler's

Masor Gen. BuT en's Hrapquarters IN

bing of an earthquake, startled all hands, and

Some time betore: 1 o'clock Gen. Butler received a imessage frei the front that the enemy was massing on our eenutre, and he re- plied: “ Let them mass; but guard against eur- prise.” This message somewhat prepared us for what was to come, and also kept’ vur valiant

as Was expected from the enethy, he did mass his

and had we not discovered his inteution, the at- tempt would probably have succeeded. As it

Our pickets in front of Gen. Ames’s line re- ceived the rebel fire with great steadiness, and

rebel column approached, it was received with a most witheriag fire, and our meu dropped to al-

siege guns and hght batteries commenced their work then, The advance of the rebels was mow-

the breach like veterans, filhuy up the gaps as

Another aud dnether murderous fire trom our batteries at last checked tiem, and mad career. Artillery,

About twenty minutes after the fight had @om- enced a 20-pound Parrot shell struck and ex- ploded a rebel caision, seattering death and de- struction all around. At this sight the uiost deaf- ening cheers went up from our lines, to the great The gunboats on the James aud Apvotomax rivers also opened their batteries and shelled the woods around, making it deGidedly uncomfortable fur the rebel reserves, At last when the enemy found we were well pre- pared for lis advange, aud having already lost very heavily, he thought it best to withdraw which be did after giving our mettle a fair aud

Yesterd+y forenoon the rebels made a move-

if possible, some colored troops stationed there

Hinks of the rebel approach, and asked for reine

two regi-

pened upon us.— |

baek to th i eeca wan Shortly atterward the te wewly acquired pits.

rudeut charge on the pits and were repulsed, — |

eeeneeteiaaetlliagel

the rifle pits. Our losses { cannot be'estimated. In Infantry they are heavy

and probablyexceéd that of the enemy. Some

shells of the Sf artillery tuiled to explode, On

examimationthey werd found ty be filled with | | plaster. : | LATER—May 23.—There was some firing ter Naas ar ae al) was quiet, It is estimate

| that there ate 25,000 rebel troops in our trout.— The loss of the 97th Peunsylvania yesterday was 170, and the 13th Indiana Gv. : “New Youtk, May 24.=The World's Berninda Hundred despatch, dated, 22ud, says ligt shir- mishing is gving on. ‘The attack uf the enemy last night was repulsed with great slaughter.— | The picket lines are Within one huudre yards of each other. ae Beauregard was. ip compl dad fhe Davis was on the field. The works have been materially strengthened by Gen. Weitzel,

occupied the right yt

RED RIVER AND THE WEST. ; “Tt is stated in.a Western paper that on the 5th inst., Porter bad a large toree-at work in dvedg- ing the river at Alexandria, 80 a8 lo enable the gunboats to pass over the falls. two weeks to secure the desived result, Smith's troops are to return to Vickeburg, and) Me (lefiand's Corps, at New Orleans, is to reiitorce »| Banks. Magrader has jowed Kirby Siiith at {| Sabine Cross Roads with 24,009 wen. Dr, Derby, Surgeon-in-chief with Geo. Banks, reports the Federal loss at Pleasant Hill at 670 kiled 1340 wounded, and 1560 missing and prisouers, On the other hand the rebel General Taylor elamme to have captured 20 pieces of artillery, many colors, 250 wagens, and 1500 prisoners from Gen. Banks, By order of the Government, St. Louis is made the headquarters of the West Division of the Cavalry Bureau, with Brigadier General Joho W. Davidson in command, and Capt. lnghaw » (Coryell, Chief Quartermaster, Siuce the 26th October last, 17,549 horses have been purchased at the St. Louis depot, at au average cost of B13U . | aggregate $2,250,000.