a SFE SR Re Meee On ee es ce | ee | Bs . a srcepnsmmsn emennsteestsinaaiin itt atineninacinnintateattatiasteae o_—- Sicha ELAS IOS — ee : of the Coufeassional; and a» Our Lord says, “by mee ee A . eee o SrrEwine Malin nae epL an see eee: THE PACciFIC. ‘heir fruite you shall koow then.” The Civil War in the States, |PPP#cT OF REPRRSSING INTELLIGENCE. VICKSBURG ABANDONED BY THE FE-|the opporent rent We cher os te sitlin 6s bean een The Examiner. yay : one (vem the Seettich Ansorican.) DERALS. ie a Po aeteee population of the Northeru | teresting letter from H. E. Seelye, » who re- Edward Colonia! Secretary, and the The Federal fleet abandoned their position y leter is 1862. obscenity of its contents, prevent us trom

THE WAR IN ‘AMWERTOA. ie i (Prom the Timer.) bos some Juys past the tidings of the bat

The lull én Loge e operations in the Potomac army may enable Mr. Recoueay Stanton to reflect bow much thnorable renown be bas achieved tor

beiore Vicksburg on the 24th Jyly, The water was falling so fast the vesaels would have been lett high and dry bad they net moved down.

States.""-—Halifaz Reporter.

The Grand Jury of the State of Indiana have discovered a secret egpspiracy of persous to de-

cently left St. Joho for the Pacefie. Sod. St. Franciseo, June 11, Wegivea pertin of Itt-—

“San F seciaco ia very eonsh sash 8.8 oF aioe bust,

Charlottetown, August 18th,

NIAL SECRETARY OF P. E. oe ISLAND.

it iv full; but some extracts we will lay our readers, trom which they will be able te judge of the condition of a Britizh Colony

himeelf, how inuch glery be bas won tor the forces ‘ ian :* Times’ th - ‘ ; San ; ‘ { ment official, one holdi ea taloge Hithinond have. Nbmuted. with |ol tee United States ad how isch ete bens) A cormandeut of the Chetan’ Thue us| Ars ten of Gains that State.” AD: pad agin, fll of bt and rabid owing dence Saharan every hour. Lelegrams and watls have soc- | acgdired for bis country abrvad, by bis measures 15,060 ple are embraced in it. hey ar) constant building; theve are few houses of eleg ’ express such sentinents as tue tollowing, with re

ceeded euch other wit diseurduat rapidity The penda um has swuhg from the puitt vt Federal victory to that uf F-deral des(re“ton Nu one could tell what had really har pened. %. s@ no one could believe the Kovernment assurances, ard it was mot sule to give ere- @ nee to the panic ‘ears whieh in the the ge- /Beral ignorance apose in the popal Ff imay!- Dativa , Everything which lay between a Successful strategic mouvement and the atter pMestracciun of the army ot the Potomac, wus spose bie, and every possible con mgenay bad ite advwcates. At length. however, tue truti begins to become apparent, and there really is. ve ry hithe difference between the facts us they are now toid in suber | lirase and the worst version which was blurted tu the word im startling telegrams If it be not trye that) M-Clelian «sw fugitive, and the whole of hie! Srary pressed to tre neees-ty uf capitulation. it appears that there was 4 mument when the appeared So Hetyral wo reaule of the post Boo towt they who usserted tose facts might fairly buve believed that chey were justified | by what was happening around them. A

: | ; : : or of | Nearts disloyal to the Hereticul Sovereigns of Eng. . series of six days of butte and ox days ol | like the army vf Spjlob, under the protection ot} expose Ourseives Deedlessly and senselessly to} brave, says & great number of these who have re-|,, rain in the summer season, Artesian wells are used to being blackguarded by all ppm I.nd: and enemies of my sovereign and of the Pro- deleat ts nuw described ig the letters received | ing gunboats, they would lave draited subsidiary | every enemy of heaith—is a mental blunder that | turned ax sick are veriest cowards. Just ou the eve | shound, and are used for that purpose. Fruit is | men; and neither ip the manner, nor im the matter) ior Religion. J believe, Kev. Sir, that thetiae

at New York. the way of fight, and in whien thy never) sucereded in staying the headlong row. per |

of their men, # general ** stampede "’ tu She | [s it too late to emancipate the press, to relieve | Wes tua that al they wanted was to ger the send him men aud pot boys, wy perish by the roud ery vt ** Due Rebels are coming.” & ren irom | the War Seeretary of duties ter which, it ia mani-| Yankees opposiie tueir city, aud that diseaxe | side or to die in hospitals i and, uydey a new | Would destioy them without the aid of secession | Jue men huve got off from the Army of the Potomac The boast of the rebels was |

post to post the enemies ever puraying. and |

the dead and wounded left im the bands ot | incuinbent, these ure the events whieh | the Nurth to retrieve the nptional credit!

i which we answer that, whatever may be done to

the pureurere are Dow detailed in bormble minuteness by

fur the repression of public intelligence, Had the truth been known respecting the series of engage- ments between Yorktown and the Pawunkey; had the press been allowed to say that in nearly every one of these engagements the Federal troops had vither beep outenumbered or vut-generalled— would the people of the North bave beeu lulled inte a fale security, aud luvked with credulous and Jonging eyes for victories which turned into aumiiiathog disasters before their very gaze? Hau even seme particles ef the truth been allowed m time to mix with the fabricated telegrams of the War Office, is it possible to believe tiut, iu place if the cupgure ef the Contederate capital, a sub- ervient press could only re-ecbo the official shout hat the Federal army had iteel/escaped capture ! | Aud that instead ot returning bowe with tue lau | ‘els of conauerors and thé spoils of war, the trust: | ing and deceived tag payerut the North ip requie| ced tg send five nines a9 many trovys, for the pur- | pose of reiaturcement, as Were Called tor on ik } outbreak of the rebellion, eighteen months age Ualess it can be shown that the North tras lost al.

spirit, we must believe that timely infurmunion 0} the state of matters in the Pevinsula would Lave rouged the different Pedera! States te activa; avd} rather than see the great army of MeCleilan chases |

| trom its intrenehments, and forced to seek retuge | amps day aiter duy and night after night;

Route where officers often led | forces, sufficient at least te protect the wadeuds| yy Que would be rash cuongli, at this heur, te

July 25:

Sickness on the Motilla has stesdily continued to increase, and the feet nuw bears the appear- anee of one vast lazar-house. Nearly all the crews of the gunbvats are prostrated by disease, and are working vegroes instead of their pegular crews, The atmospbere is walarjous, aud ty inbale it js to breathe infection. Disease is in the air, aud every man one sees looks weak and sickly, as if he were going to, or had just risen trow a couch of illness, There is ne light in their eves, ue elasticity in their step, poenergy in| heir life, Every hope, every ambition, every aspiration are crusbed beneath the fierceuess vo: this Suutheru sun aud the walaria of this Southern chin If the flotilla remain here during the coming mouth, there is litle doubt the crews will all be | digabied; and for this reasen I do net think it ai | ail improbable that Commodore Davies will leave | vere in a tew days. We cun do gotbing bere | wader existiug circumstances, We have pe country ty deieud, uo people to protect; we are} ia the Imwost heart of the enemy's country; he posiuep to buld; nothing te guln, in p word, and everything ty lose.

To come ty Vicksburg in midsummer without any adequate laud iorce ; to liz off Lhese infectious

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prestige aud uphold the credit of the army. juttempt to apologize ur or explain.

It may be asked: Can this not be dune now! |

test, he is in no way adapted ;

te reuse the slumbering strength oi) To} tet Valu.

Tae Vicksburgers boasted in their papers for

| bullets and buyoneis. lt proved a predict oa. with all bis savage muiguity could hardly have

recruit the National army, so much time has been | asked more calauntes to haye fallen on us.

}him, alle? whow he cuptured aud wureched oi,

lof a battle they become sick

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The enemy |

bound by oaths and call themselves “ Kuiguts v. the Golden Circle.”

A number of citizens of Missouri bound them- selves together to resist the evrojlment act. A skicmmish took place between them and the State truops near Point Pleasant, Missouri, in which several were kalled on both sides. There have been several guerilla fights in that State. These characters are swarming in Tenvessee also.

Tnere has been an extensive stampede fron Baliimore of parties eager to escape drait, sou wo Europe, wany to Canada, aud others ty varied: Northern Siates. Many leading secessionists, 1 ix said, are fast disappearing ty parts unkuown.

A guerilla leader ws Kansas vamed Quartrell seized a steamer near St. Juseph apd crossed 1,oUU men to the other side of the river, The wuitary authorities of Fort Leaveuworth hearing of the capture, and pot kuvwjyng Quartretl’> strength, sent oje buudred men down le igtereep:

capturing Liverty, Phe Federal Col. Pennich vad previously evacuated tbat piace, escaping with bis command,

COWARDS IN THE FEDERAL ARMY.

A correspondent of the New York ‘Herald’ says: Au officer who rane with the bravest of the

A good wany of the troops Who abe coming here how are mere boys Bonaparte, in the great despairing campaign which turned uguinst bis star at Leipsic, wreie home tw

It is said that over 2U,- on the pretence of sickuess.

On the same subject of cowardice, General Kevés, lin his report of the battle of #uir Ouks, niakes the

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and many are very mean. The comforts are yer) inuch less than are te he bad in any Atlantic City. The climate is cold, nearly the same the year round, except when it rains. Lam sow wearing my winter clothing, and feel cold ut that, The ladies here wear (hesr furs all summer.

“T have just returned from San Jose, where 1 left Mrs. Seelye with her brother, aad my sisters. Sau Juse is the shire town of Santa Clara Couuty, it was once the capital of the State. The valicy of Santa Clara is, [ think, tht finest part of Cali- fornia, It extends from San Frauciseo, about 100 miles sonthwardly, running paraliel with the Pacific coast, trom which it is separated by a high range of mountains, called the couet range. These wountains, from the sea, appear to be barren rocks, but it js quite the reverse, They are covered with grass, wild oats, flowers, and trees of the most waguificent order, L ascended the samunit, and -tood, widway between Santa Cruz, on the Pacitic, and San Jose, 10 the Sauta Clara Valley, 1,060 -ee. above the level of the sea, gud snjoyed the finest sight I ever beheld. J thought of you, Mr. Editor, and your recollection of green louse plants and flowers, as some ol your rarest Were “wasting theit fragrance” on these giant mountain peaks. Sana Clara Valley is very tertile, although it requires irrigation, owing to the long drought, there being

very abundant, and grapes grow exceedingly well. There are many vine yards of fifty acres eagh; the crops of wheat are almost fabulous, sixty and seventy bushels to the acre is not unusual.

“I was surprised to learn that the best crops of wheat were “ volunteer”; that is the term given here, once in three yedrs being quite sufficient to sow their grain. Te rain continues su late in

[We commend to the notice of His Excellency the Lieut, Governor and his advisers, the fullow- ing article from the Moutrea) Trme Witness, of the Ist inst, Mr, Secretary Pope is deservedly re- probated, but those who sustajn bim in his posi- tien are not one whit wore blameless than be.)

“ Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride to the devil”"—quoth the old adage. Who shall tel whither is bound, or how far snall ride, a govern- wept official ot a small British Colony, when ones mounted upon the “high Protestant horse We have seen sirange equestrian feats pertormed upon this noble anjual by our old acquaintance, George Brown; but George Brown is net av official; aua even his capers have been far outdone by the fau- tastic tricks of a tellew called Pope, who, clothea w hetie bret authority as Colomal Secretary vi Prince Edward Isiaud, bas of late signalised tit sell by the vigor, if not the ryccess, ol his attacks upon Popery, and by a tilting match with the Reverend Mr. Angus Maedouuld, the Rector oi st. Dunstan’s College.

It is indeed a strange, not to say an unseemly spectacte to which this government “ Jack” treats us. Like the eels to their flaying alive, we Papists

of this tellow Pope, is there any thing to distinguish him from the ordinary run ot low No-Popery ranters, whe from tub or platform launch wither- ing invectives against the unmentionable lady o Babylon, burl defiance at the Pope, and make the welkin ring with their denuaciations of the “ Man of Siu.” In ordinary circumstances Mr. Pope would have been but a very second rate orator of the Leahy stamp; being, however, a goverowent

the Spring generally, that a good erop the firs:

| tullowing remarks :—

year is not certain. Fall ploughing and sowing is

official, a ” Jack-in-cflice,” as the saying is, and a

ierence tv @ lange portion of Her Majesty's sub-

ta,

a alinding to the fact that the Rev. Mr, Mae donaid bad pen nee 3 called the attention of the Lieut. Governor to the gross mapropr fallow. ing an officer of his Goveroment Ce leet .be beliet and morals of the Catholic y clergy, iv @ style wbich in Canada would be deem. ed mdecorous in the nou-cflicial coluunns of the Globe, or of the Montrea! Nitness—the Colonial Secretary of Prince Edward Island thus addresses his oppouent:—

“ This demand proves that you possess one at least, of these characteristics, whicl pertain to the order to which you belong,—a tyrannical cisposition,—it, at the same time is evidence that you ure sudly de- iicieut jn others, pawely, craft and cunning. “Had yon postessed even ” Very amount of pra- dence you would have borne your defeat in silence. Perwit me, Rev, Sir, totell you that the knowledge Lout every suljectof the Pope, whether priest oriay- mau, in this Island, would gladly join you iu theem deavour to deprive me of Her Majesty's © i

.ives me not the shghtest anexsinvess. Lo veuot. y position to the support of papists 1 believe, that so iong as the declaration “ that po man can servetwo wasiers,”’ shail bold true, e> long will the vassalaof iue Pope in the British Empire remein im their

vue arrived, when in this Colony every maa who desires to live free from the degrading tyraany of Priests, who have sworn obedience w the Roman Bishop, should exert himself, regardiessof what pa- pists luay say or do, jn order to walntain a Protest. unt Governwent iu this Colony. Within my reeol- lection, Rev, Sir, no papixt was allowed to vote for tue election ot membersof Assewbly. Now Komish priests aspire to govern the Colony. and to dictate w the Representative of the Sovereiyn. They uve even dared to practise their disgust i

- . ‘ed to zuat idolatry in these who have survived teem. Six days * J should be glad if the name of every individual | Magistrate, and a Colonial Secretary to boot, a} our public highways. But, Rey. Bir, Thole Pee

and 27 miles of fight and slaughter are tre rea] jacts Which have been sickened over by pele. goastly huaste of strategic success. Tue)

dead had nu wore tu fear, but the wounded | out belore young men can be found to volunteer. |

j test, and public contidence has been so abused, | Every hour we are growing weaker; (he prospect |

i that the errors of Mr. Stanton’s poiicy are almos!, | ! Every hour shows | account of the rapidly decreasing strength of our) ye other

lit not ewtirely, inrecrievable.

vi our success against Vicksburg becomes less, on

that additional money inducements must be held | 6.cuder turce.

ere leit in the ewan. ps where they fel] mec-| Not ocly are the familjes of gbseat rolunteers ceseurily deserted by their fying friends. | shamefully uegiecied; net ouly are those who are

passes over by their enegpies. and without hope of seemng other faces in this warld than thore of men and wowen whe had a right to detret them as wereenary plunderers and in. vaders Such # seene afuuses every sense of

bertor and pty ~ hut thes feelings are cura:

ed bali inte contempt when we find that the leader uf this pante-etricken host, haying Jeft all his seige botteries and his stares be- hind, baying id to ins ships, and beng mo-

wentarily sae ander the protection of their

gens. complugents ip a general order the rugged remnants of his army upon their va-

lour, and yulunteers the conspicuggs falee- | heod that **tiey have saved ail ther mute

rial and a}] thes gona, except a few lost in battie."’ ‘Such a. dreadial carnage as that whieh has just taken place in America is Uu- ke own jo modern times. As the burrors of the Frenes Revolution crept out of peaceful lovk.:ng votes of general fraternity and the abolition of capital pauianment, 8» the bluud- less setzes and byettles which guve the com- mencement of tins cori! war an air of pastime have deepened inw a furious strnggie, in Which both populations secia to juin with no other idea than that of mutual extermina- tiop, Wiha great army completely beaten and demurajiacd. it ia painful to find the de- feated General fabricating port-ntous esti

water of the amount of men bis conquerors wust have lust in beating wim. It is sadiy ludicrous te vee him making a pretence of stealing buck towurds the oy be lately be- leageured, teelirg bis way along the banks of bis protecting river with cactious levsure, and venturing only where his gunboats can ac- company him, and can shell the woods in his front to make sure taere is no Confederate force that can harmbim. While his f.ge of truce are refused, and whiie be is unable to count his own de :d or gather bis own wound- ed, it pitiubie to Pear him tatk of the Con- federate luxe. Perhaps we migst pardon bin, onder the cireumstaners, tor stating in his despatches to Wastungton that at + | © eluck on the 4th of Juy-- the great Day of Independsnce — the bands were playing the national salutes being fired, and things looking bright; ° bat itis vot purdunable m & General so utterly beaten and so nearly destroyed to reassest mn that sume despatch that ‘tour forces were net beaten in any con

fliet, nur could they be driven from the field by the uttermust efforts of the enemy *’ Neither is it pardonabie ina General ad Jdress- ing wo ary yet panting from a 27 miles’ Tun tw parody the jansuage of Napoleon, and

tell his wretched followers that they m-ty

always say with pride, *f belonged to the

army of the Potomsae.”’ We understand the | fortitude and determination of a brave man

,a great measure responsible.

fighting tur pay; bub every successive day makes | their pay were worthless. The soldier who has been a national creditor tur six mouths will fad

Farragut has left his position below Vicksburg,

the lower part of the river, and prevent the Arkansas trow Jeaviag her position. Farragui was very anxivua to destrey or capture the rebel

that what might ence have been worth to hima |} gunbout, but his orders to leave were huperative,

hundred dollars is worth less than eigaty to-day

and so be could only obey,

The paper he tages trom the Government, and | General Wiliiams, wav, by the by, has shown

bea:iug the Natwusl impress, is worth no more than the shin-plaster of tke private bank, for whieh goli may be given at a sacrifice of one-fourth Its} vadenal value. And the recruit who enters the

much more euergy and zeal in protecting the

property and conciliating the faver of the rebels | ow i ' (han any other wan, since bis arrival bere, bas | to decorate a coward with shoulder strups is to pave | measured a fir tree twenty feet in diameter, an

been compeljed to take bis departure, un account

service to-day sees the sawe prospect—or more | af the feartul mortality in his ranks.

probably a worse one—staring him in the face ukewiss, At the present rate of depreciation, the | pundred-dollar bill fa three months may be worth | less than fifty, and what gain is it to the reeruit that he gets this difference in au immediate bounty! He really pockets no more than he who enlisted at the fall of Sumter, before the country was de- luged with overwhelming piles of irredeemabie paper.

Fer the aggravation of these evils there 1s no |

doubt the couatry will hold the Wur Secretary in j It is impossible te look over the long files of his spurious bulletins— each ove wore pretentiows and deceptive than its predecessor—witheut serving that the tendency ot nis policy was to unfit the public of the United States tor seberly learning te distinguish truth trom fulsehood, Nou one of his deceptive measures, either dealing with Russell, of the Tunes, or the least pretentious of the corr sspondents ot the local press, had, or could be pretended to have _ any effect ix keeping secrets from the enemy. For it will be remembered that the exclusion of civilians from General Halleck’s advance on Tennessee was in full force before the battle of Shiloh, and yet the Contederates knew every preparatory movement, knew the weakness of General Grant at Pittsburgh Landing, and made such acenunt ot their knewledg. as will net seon be rergarten. The same was true of the forces under Geavial} Banks, in the valley of the Shenandoah, altheugu every line written by correspondents of the press was subject te the strictest revision, And again in this fast great engagement on the Pawunkey, noe war correspondent aided “ Sionewail” Jacks. n to rush, like a wef on the fold, on MeClellan’s right. No newspaper enterprise effected Those forced warches which lett Fremont, Sigel and Shields scores of miles in the rear, and pounced at the very front of the army of the Potomac. And yet, while net even the stadew ot gain can be showa, a creduleous public have been cheated for montis by lying official telegrams; the press of a people boasting ot the most antimited politi- cal francaise bas been placed under a surveillance unknown out of the Empire of Russia or Japan; and the who-e has been attended with a su cession ot military disasters from which it is doubtial it the greatest sagacity aud courage can now relieve the country.

A FEW WORDS EXPLANATORY OF THE STRONG “Secesu’’ Feetine ts Bairish America.—The parties to this cruel civil war alone excepted, the people of these British North American Colonies have, beyond all qu ‘ation, the yreatest stuke inthe

final issue of it. If the Senth be victorions, and

TROUBLES IN RECRUITING,

The Presidert has ordered a geueral draft, to}

begi:s on the loth inst., if the three hundred thousand troops called for are nut recruited by that time, aud of three huudred thousand addi- tienal trocps. It is tor the best interests of every citizen that this dratt shall be rendered unuecessa- ry by the pruimpt response of volunteers. Parti- cularly is it te be desired that the Empire State ot New York shall send no uuwilling seldier te the field, and that every man in the ranks of her regiments shall be entitled to the name of a patriet, vet ef a conscript. Now that we know

both the work to be done and the time we have |

to do it in, let us fill up our quota speedily aud zealously.

To aid in reeruiting for the New York regiments already in the field, the Army of the Potumac has sent us some of its best and most popular officers Among these are Generals Meagher and Sickles,

to whom we have before alluded, and now Colonel | Joun MeLeod Marphy has arrived, and asks twe |

hundred men to fillup his gallant engineer regi- ment. Ip spite of the preseuce of euch officers as these, however, aad in spite of the liberal bounties offered by the Federal and State governments, as well as by private individuais, it is noterious that recrurting ‘+ not halt so brisk as it should be to render a dra tsuperfiuous. There are difficul- ties in the way of recruiting which can aud must be removed, aud we are serry to euy that the cuief of these difficulties is in some of our State rocruning officers

FrRoM McCLELLAN’S ARMY—SMELLING OF THE CAMPS BY THE CONFEDERATES.

The late shelling of our camps on the James river by the rebels s.cms to buve created a de- cided sensation in the army, which had been undisturbed tor sowie time, aud the troops Were drawn up iv line et battle. All the principal tacts in regard to the affair bave been made public. A correspondent of the New ‘ Herald, after narrating the occurreuce, says:

“We have been in au oxpeetant state tor the last two or three days.

be attempted by the rebels, which should make |

au aud perhaps prove u matter, seemed to be generally anticipated. oue could give a very good reason tor the general

Inpression,

officers as well as wen. It was an audacious ex-

perhnent on the part of the rebels; but ot late |

they have been much given to audacity. They

river so d.fficuit as te cut us off trou our supplics,

taking all bis vesseis byt three gunhouts, whict | remain with the Sumter and the Essex, tu guard |

That something was te}

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No |

|known. All there deserve praise and reward. On

hand, the meu who left the ranks and the

who kept bis place inthe long strugyie could be |

lout of the question, owing to the hard aud baked | condition of the soil, which very much resembles | a dried brick betore itisburned. Manure isnever

| tield, especially the officers who wentaway without used, except iu the gardens, where irrigation is

j orders, suould be known and held up to scorn. In sume of the retreating groups U discovered officers ; jund sometimes the officers were furthest in the rear | What hope can we haye of the safety of the coun- try, When even a few military officers turn their backs upon the enemy without orders? Such of- | ticers should be discharged and disyraced, and have | meu advanced to their places. The task of refor-

mation is vot easy, becuuse much true manliness |

has been sulfgcgted in deluding theeories, and the improvement will wot be complete until valor is nore esteemed, nor uutil we adopt ag a maxim that

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the roud to » nation’s ruin A Nave. Atrewet at Desertion.—A Ca- /nadian paper states, that a ies days since a private al the 30ch Reyt.. stationed at Poran- (tu, named dames Duane, di-guised hitaselt jin female attire, with the view of desertion, jand pearly accomplished his design. Ue in | this ** rtg ”’’ got on buard # steamer, and. af- ter she bad been out shout an bour, he made ‘his appearance en the promenade deck. | Here, placing tis e} ows on the bulwarks, he | leaned over the gide of the boat in a very un- | lady-like attitude. whi h = tiracted the noti-e of the captain, and upon eX unination, he saw (a pair of military pantal oos peeping forth j|frum under the erinoline = Lhe captain sue- jceeded in decoying hiw into a state-room | where he locked him up, and, upon the re- ‘turn of the steamer handed him over to the military authurities at Toronto. Morecessxess oF McCretras’s Tasx.— The ‘Montreal Advertiser’ says:—‘* Already one ban dred thousand men have been sacrificed in the vain elfort to make a great military reputation for Me- Clellan, and impress Enrope with the power and ability of the North to erush the rebellion in its stronghold. j and the Federal Government onght to have the | courage to look the gruth in the face, and put an end to the useless Wrete of human life which is oc- casioned by persisting in holding the worthless, and insalubrious posilion on the James River. A per sistence in heiding tLe present position for a few weeks longer will anniliilate the army. In addi tion to the usual mitamatic disenses of the loculity

nota single reyiment, hardly a single company is

The sacrifice bas so far been in vain; !

| practicable. | “The gulches in the mountains I have spoken 0°

contain what is called red wood timber; in each | of these guiches, or “! creeks” is a steam, or water i saw mill, circular saw being now much approved —the vld “ muley” being abandoned.—These red woods grow to an enormous size. I bave measur- (ed some 30ft. in circumference; a tree that will not make 1,000 feet of boards, is considered too small to cut; other trees grow in proportion,

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ian alder eight feet, and al@it] OU fret high, cau- taining at least 3,000 full blown roses, with buds innumerable. The cacus grows spontaneossly, land used for hedges; same species are adusirably | alapted ter such a purpose, gwing to their prickly nature, pnd their strength.

«J have learned yery little since I came here

good otf that country. L[ intend, however, to take to-morrow.

going in company with we

anything I have yet seen.

iio! the most prejudiced and the most illiterate

about British Columbia; the press and the people | strong language against Popery, of this pluee do not seem disposed to say any:hing | practice more reticence ; and even George Brown,

leertain amount of interest attaches to his utter- lauces. That a persen holding, as Mr. Pope boasts | that he holds, * Her Majes:y’s Commission” — entrusted with the executior of the law, and the | administration of justice betwixt all classes ot Her | Majesty’s subjeets—and bound therefore, during his tenure of office, to the observance of dignified j weutrality upon all matters not connected wiih the | discharge of his official functions—should descend | into the arena of religious controversy at all, and jshould therein couport himselt like the vilest of ithe hireling gladiatorial crew who earn their infa- | mous stipends by paudering to the morbid tastes | classes of seciety—is a spectacle as novel, thank /God, in a British Colony, as it is humilating and

lestunts are at length thoroughly alive to the dan. ger with which they are threatened ; at this moment thousands throughout the land fave associated them. selves in Orange Lodges; und I trust ere long to be able to inform you that no Township is without ita Lodge. These associaiions are now required.”

Remembering as we do the dignified attitude towards Orangeism assumed by the Duke of New- castle when in Canada, and acting as responsible adviser tothe Prince of Wales—we cannot believe that the present British Government will applaud the man who, belding “ Her Majesty’s Coumis- sion,” and exercising important civil functions, deliberately exhorts to the tormation of Orange Lodges; who openly avows his regret ibat the happy times when“ no Papist was allowed to cute"

idisgraceful to uis immediate superiors who tole- irace such conduct on the part of one of their | subordinates, and the salarjed servant of the pubsic, | Our Protestant army swears berribly it is true in | Canada, and non-official persous in and out uf Par- | liament indulge often it pust be confessed in very But official men

lhad he succeeded ip attaining the loug desired

the steamer ‘sierra Neveda,’ for Victoria direct | haven, would have found it necessury to moderate Mr Woodrow, of St. John, Mr. Otty, | the rancor of his tongue, and for the nonce, to of Hampton, and Mr. Cole, of St. Andrew's, are | have assumed the virtue of decency towards bis After I get there, and | learn more of the country, I will write you again. | Prince Edward Island, argues little tor the future Meanwhile, after two weeks residence in Calitor- | peace of the cov munity, or for the diseretion and nia, let me say, that New Brunswick, as a home, | good tyste af the Lieutepant Gaovernor—Mr. has lost nothing in my opinion in comparison wich | Dundas.

Catholic fellow-subjects, That it is otherwise in

As far as we can gather from the Provincial papers which haye reached us, the following are

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MISCELLANEOUS ([feMs.

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lite causes which have provoked thjs display | of oficial Insolence, Mr. Pape had, it seeus, | published over a nom de plume a-series of violent ‘and insulting tirades against Popery in the lecal

quested to oe present at and give my opinion | press. The Rev. Angus McDonald, having pene-

'un a performance whict I hardly knuw trated the flimsy disguise beneath which the l whether to call a feat of strength or a featof writer sought to sereen himself, insisted upon

inrenuity ! former of this featinto a evar with rope i

such a manner that he ¢ uid not get loose

Accordingly [ presented myself qt the time aud place appainted, and, half suspecting | assumed tae responsibiliy of the offensive letters Of ©8e! abridge. rome sleight-o'-hand trick, provided mys li | which had previeusiy appeared over a pseudony me; | The | and ia still more obscene and personally offensive |

(with several yards of very strong rope.

perionaer—an intelligent and rather good-|terms proceeded fo rake up all the filth wath, ‘looking young man—sat himself in a eemmon | Which a long and caretul study of the works ot |

free from seurvy, while the debility arising trom! wooden kitchen ehair, and presented lie:

the non-intnition which precedes it is almost ani- | with Ais rope.

versal. A full third of the army js anfit for duty ; }and thecandition of the remainder is daily becoming ; worse. As no goad object is to served by persisting (in an enterprise wise was fror first to best a mill tary blunder, itis probable that the vew Comnumu

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York | der-in Chief, who is now responsible for the safety i jof the army, will order the Army of the Potomac |

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| to retire to Yorktown ”

BY TELEGRAPH. St. Joun, Angust 11

Col. MeNeil again evertock Porter's Guerillas | beliei, but if seemed to be deeply impressed upou | in Missouri, ou Saturduy last, routing and scatter- | ot

ing them. The Confederates seut a flag of truce yesterday

to Pope, asking permission to bury their dead ; | bave threatened to reader the navigation ot the | thus showing that their talling back on Sunday,

i uotwithstandiag their superior nambers, arose

‘tion to my using my rope?

jinany way, and with as tight knots as you please.”

jwas all right and abovse-board, | proceeded | first to pintou the arms of the young man, |} who sat down on the chair; pimioning teem bes Jack Kereh fashion’? Debind his body. 1 then lashed them (ted as they were) ughily with wany knote and twistings to the back the chair, I then tied bis two

‘ropes. I fear, eruelly tight, as the man a/ter-

jolfered ine the challenge. [ then by means

I was challenged wo tie the per- jthe flagraue impropriety of such writings n the part of a Government offiver, and directed

apy way. and with any number of knots m

I usked if he had any objee- ++ None wha’ ‘ever,’ was the repoy ; ‘+ and you may Ue me

wrists luvhthy to the legs of the chair, pulling the |

on

she attention of the Lieut. Governor to the gross | impropriety of which one of his subordinates tad jbeen guilty. This elicited a rejoinder trom the

| Cotouml Secretary, whe, ever his own name,

jwriters hke Maria Meuk, Belial Achilli, and >: tuers of the stamp had turnished him. As may |well be supposed such conduct on the part oi ‘their Coloutat Seeretary has vot a littl shocked the Catholics of Prince Edward Island, subjects of the Sovereign whose commission Mr. Pope boasts that he hetds; and we believe that

Having examined the chair to see that that justice to then demands that the facts of the case

should be made as public as possible.

Not that we would attempt even to enter into )apy controversy with this Mr. Pope, or to offer }auy serious reply to the abuse ot Catholjes aud

their rehgiow with which sis communications fteem. For the sake of argument, Catholics may iwell afford to concede to their enenjes thai, jamengst ihe many eccupits of the Papal See, sone have been wicked men. This is a question of history, a mere matter ef fact, which by no

wards showed we where | cot the rkin; but) aeans affects the dogmas or supernatural teach- he did not complain of this a bit. as he bad sings of che Church, tor never has impegcability | ae |

| Tue Prize Shooting, which occapied five days

lbven predicated either of Pope or Priest. Even

the.

are gene, and cannol be re-valied ; and whospeaks _of the religion of Catholics as “ disgusting idolatry.” (Sucu la.guage, sucu s 1 timents frou a private individual might of course ve allowed to pass unheeded; but when they are publicly and deliberately uttered by a public officer, helaing “Her Majesty's Commission,” they call, we submit, fer seriqus yttensien. the proper authorities. In India we that the Govyerupent always prohi , Under severe penalties, any interierenee with all offensive com- ments upon the lascivieus rites of ite Asiatic idolatrous subjects, by any af ite a subordinates; we can therefore bardly believe that 1t can approve the language of one of its junctionaries in North America towards Her Majesty's loyal Catholic subjects; or that it will retrain trom visiting with -censure a Colonial dig- uitary Who avails kiursel! uf his official ppsition to | inguit their clergy in the igllowivg styaiy s—

| |“ My private opinion, J may inform yoa, is that ‘all Ecclesiqstics—not excepting Father Angus Cardinal Wisenan—who aid and assist in the dissemination of such books as * Butler's Lives of the Saints,’ are either fools or kuaves.”

| Mr. Pope may entertain this opinion, but as Coivnial Seeretary he hos ne right publicly te express it. Every man ip private lite indeed, or

| goverumnent a perieot right ty hold and to peblsh | Wiytisuever opinion ef Popery and its protessers he pleuses ;-and this right we segk net ty restrain But the vibcil, but be who holds * Her Majesty’s Commission,” and derives his salary from the pubiic, is loaaelf beand over to keep ihe peace towards wil the Queen's sejects ; aud as an implied couditiwn of bis tewure a office, /be is bound ta mgintain & rigid impartiality us | towards Ca.bolies and Provestauts, and to trout } both, se lung as beth obey the laws, with equal , deferenee. : | ‘This law—whose justice we sane man will ' covtest—ithe Colouial Secretary of P. BE. Island vhas grossly violaied, and Wf by ne other meang | redress ean be bad, it aust be sought tor im the , Imperial Parliament. ‘the Loudon Tablet, of the #eedy Register, aud our lother gitted and juflacutial contemporaries, to the | subject lit uuder the neice of the pubic, ond the spiriied