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Correspondence. To rae Beitox or rue Prorasranr Sra, — My attention having beeu directed to an article, | veaced * Index Prohibitory,” which appeared in the Protes- rani of the 30rh wlt., and in which yeua!lude to St. Dunstan's | College aud the Catholic Lustitute. | feel that, in justice to! these ivetitations, with both of which [ am closely connected, 1 am obliged te make a few observations in order to remove the false impressions which the article in question may tend to | ereate, Asa Protestant journalist, you are at libecty, asa matter of cearse, to exhibit the doctrines of our Chureh in the most edious light possible, without giving any Catholic the oppertunity of defending them in your columns, even should he desire to do so; but whew you attack our local in- stitutvoms and our principles regiuding Kdacation, L ihink that the case becomes altered. and that in justice to us you ere obliged to afford as an opportunity of replying. For this reawn | presume that you will be just and honorable eoough VO publish im your journal this communication, us well as whatever else 1 uy consider necessary to write on the subject.

That the “ Lodex” concerning which you have written exiats, is true = It is also true that the writings of Voltaire, Koussesu, wod many otber infidel. heterodox and immors! writers have been placed thereon, and prohibited to be read Bat it ise quesiion of importance to inqnire whether these writings, are prbibited absolutely and everywhere. Had you, Sir, been berter acquainted with the teuel ing and dis- eipline of the “ Romish Church,” regarding which you ven- ture to write so dogmatically, you would have known that the prohibitions of the “ Ludex ” are vot in force bere. and you would not have showe your unacquaintance with Catholic phraseology by asking she young men of the Catholic Lnsti- tute if they “ubssined an indu/gence (!!) for the gratification of their humor in perusing * The Tale of a Tub.’ ”

That the students of St. Dunstan's College are not go re- etrieted with regard to the authors whick they ar’ permitted | to read a8 you have tusinuated, is evident from the fact that they bave within ‘heir reach some three thousand volumes of the chvicest works on history, literature, philosophy aud the sciences, including some of those works which yeu say are on the * Index,” bur which they have been permitied to peruse without having obinined an “indulgence” for that purpose We shall le happy to afford you an opportunity o! sufistylog yourselr by ocular dewoustration, regarding the trath of this

essertion, at any time yeu please to howor us with a visit.

Perteps | way be permitted to express the hope that you, Sir, will be kind enough. io cons+quer.ce of the lively tute est whieh you sppear to manifest fur the development of the bebe faculties of the mind, to give the public some informa- 1.0n Fepardinyg the vumber of histories!. literary philosophical

and other works wich the Government, infacneed by the!

Jaudabse desive of perfeciing our syerem of Hiueation, and Geveloping, to their fullest extent, the iatelleetaa!l ‘aculties of the yourh of the Culeny. have placed at the disposal of the students of their pet institution, the Prince of Wules College.

Tae right of the Popes to prohibit the reading of books Gangerous to faith or worals, is a covsequence of their spiri- ual autbority; sod | presume, Sir. that you will not dens Shat it is a duty incuwvent on these who have the charge of others to see that those under their cure imbibe nothing whieh may be to them dangerous of fatal. The Sovereign Pontiff

in placing bad bucks ow the “ ladex,” wished to guard the. faiteful fiom danger, and [ eunnot understand why they) ehouls de cexwared for placing on the black list the immoral |

sud inbue! writings of Voltaire, Rousseau ef hoc genus omne. Brom the faci of » bovk being placed on the “ Index ’ we ere not to couciude that every thing contained in them is conden ned, Lui rather thai the whole thereot is not approved of. Une error, one fulse principle in a whole work is suili- erent to have 1 placed ou the * Index.” You way eousider

this very liberaj ow the partof the Popes; bet on reterence »

to your Bible you wit! tind the following: —" Ile, theref ire. @hat sirall Ursak one of these lecat cvortwsandments, and shall ee teach wen. 6 all be called the leset in the kingdom of heaven.” And syain: “ Whosucver shail keep the whole law but cfend ia one point, is become guilty of all.” IL doube pot but the do trine o.otamed in teeee texts from oly Writ * way be questioucd,” ty use your own words, “ by uot a few libera! @iuds,”

You say that there is no charge more confidently “ pre- ferred against the Loma Cathoiw Church than that she has

ee oa ge ,ever is d doctrine. a Tae ; : os as ented of bad books was given by the | Shedive this evening,

ering to converts from that superstition, Were Corsizner

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oll dues ’ -\ with the Maile on buurd. The steamer agnir returned from | eda om apdagewss Po ae’ When she lett Shodiee the smart eraft ic, telong- | bad not arrived with the Mails, which should have heen there J to the! on Wednesday evening last, and have passed ere this through | fawses, as we learn from the 19:h ebapter of the Acts of the different paris of the other Provinces. oe poten | Aposties, Will the readers of Scripture charge the Apostles | of the wouderfully good people who ordered the 25th o

with hostility to knowledge? ‘The moral restraints resulting month to be kept us a holy-duy, while they themselves kept. from our discipline serve to avert many of the eviis with)

Apostles, when the vast co!lection of works of mag

their shops avd vllives open, aud all their helps at work.

which the licentiousnees of the pre-s deluges the world. The [| am. Sir. a poor o'd man who oever minds any bodys busi- pangs of the broken heart, whe its shame bas been revealed | ee —the desolation of families. whose sorrows have wruby ou | THOMAS WATERSON. the public ear—the torture of bigh-minded patriots, writhing | Saturdry eveuing, Nov. 80, 1561. under the calumuies of reckless rivals—the fury of a popue | —--- lace maldered to arson and bloodshed by inceadiary publica. | To rue Epitorn or tue Examiner. tions, and the struggles and convuls:ons of parties, which | . altiost threaten the dissolution of society, are 00 imaginary | outr.bution to your columns, Tuat geotlewan or lady is | ‘viw Even Voltaire did not besitate to declare that the) ) angry at you, Ser, aud at me. At as to he wished that | prev had become ove ot the seourges of society. « La presse. | he or she had chosea a more dignified mode of expressing 1s id le faut avour, est devenue un des fleaux de la societe, et | or her indiguation, Lt will, per haps, be more convenient to un brigandage intoleralle.” ‘assume that * Aurora” belongs to the male sex, though the It is evident, therefore, that the Popes, in proseribing bad lsintetbuasliis te question bears suong internal evidence of books.ouly performed a duty which they owed to religion wna | having been writen by a red-haired, sharp-Visaged maiden | soviety--a duty which will be performed not only by clergy. lady ou the shady side of forty. Such outrageous scoldins | men who ave faithtul to their oblizutions, but al-o by public! |, very undignified, aod does not at all become the gravity jourouli-ts who desire to aid in protecting Inuocepee and | nd + respectability’ of a writer on publie uffairs. Petu.en: youth from the baneful effects of the unhallowed and polluted ‘effusions such as that of ** Au-or a's’ are indeed scarcely matter which (oo frequeutly disgraves the publicationsol the | jocent, and are apt to oving down upon their authors the) prevent day. ‘ridicule avd contempt of those whom they are intended to’ On a future occasion 1 will reply more direstly to your | yw ybilare. Sehvol-boys may be exeu-ed when they g ve) charge agatust the Popes of repressing freedom of thought. | vent to their angry teelings by “ calling names ;" but hold! Lu the meantime L have the honor to be, Sir, /L do the manly litte felows au injastice, it is oaly the ill-| Your obedient and humble servant, | satured and spitetul anong the girls who resort to the! A. McDONALD. | practice, but when a grown-up wan descends to such a! St. Dunstan's College, Dee. 10, 1861. pores -girl trek, he falls tar below our abyer, und becouwes | ee Sa ereneceremmegaentnet | tou inalgnifieant fur contempt. For tux Examiner. But * Aurora” in bis letter not only forgets his good | Mr. Eprron.—Exeuse we for again troubling you in refe- “manuers, bis grammar, his Ku clish, but even his common rence to * Probos,” who, asbamed to sppear over bis own sig- sevse. * L have endeavoured, says ** Aurora.” * to ye esent nature again appears in the Islander of the 29th ult. with a the truth, regardiess of style or any other ornament.’ He |

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. t , . ‘ e , * tissue of falseboods to which any bonest man might weil) way pe chaps teil us, when he geis a iattle cooler, how he| way being entrenched by our forces.

blush to see his name appended. ‘predenis rub, and to whom, and also how long ic is since |

are fighting, not for abolition, but for conquest. A pertizan Corcoran and a Lee. Bot we will not caleuless e

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wust have w definite wish, though he may be unable to pro- mote its accomplishment, but a dispasmonate foreigver ¢ n- | templating the American strugyle is atu love even for a result. which he can fairly consider desirable. The ae of the | South would, for the ume, tend to establish more raly the monstrous system which elave-holding sophists have developed, from an accident into & permanent social luw. On the wther | hand, the most complete vietory which the Free States cvuld | achieve, would, as Lord Russell observed. only revive, to- | gether with the Union, the old and insvluble problem of ola very.”’

This seems to be the true solution of the problem as be-

tween the Northern and southern States. At the vuteet, the | feeling in England, and in these Colunes, was altogether in favour of the North; but when it was found that statesmen — at Washington, and the whole press of the Northern cities, |

Sir—I was much amused on reading “ Aurora’s” last) breathed only fre and fury against England, the sentiment | for the press undergoes. Every despatch has to f Rene th

became completely changed. It has been sid, that a man may like a friend very much; but that hin adeetion will cvol | it he finds the friend insulting his mother. Just eo in this, ease—the good mother — givrivus uld England — has been | grievously insulted by the grandchildren of those who revolted againet her in 1776 aad the latestinsult ts by tar the greatest

vand the gravest.so that our North Awerican cousins have lost |

our sympathy and gvod wall,and are pushing matters to an! extreme shat will render Engiisimen unwilling to believe they } are derived from ss the good old stuck,’’ or ure worthy of | bearing the name of Anglo-Daxous. senile tales FORT LICKENS ATTACKED -— REPORTED HEAVY) LUSS!s OF THE PEDERALS. New Yorx, Nev. 26 —The Herald's special dispatch from | Fortress Munroe says :—By a flag of trace trom Nortolk we) learn that news has been received at Norlolk from Fort! Pickens and Port Royal on Saturday morning. Fort Piekens| opened fire on the rebels, but the firing was wild

Union forees were beavy losers, ‘There was the wildest ex |

citement at Norfolk. Gen, Bragg was jubilant and sent con- | From the same |

gratulatory dispatches ail over tue South. source it is learned that at Beaulort three companies of Gen. Sherman's command bad an engagement with the rebels and were compelled to retreat with the lo-s of 3 men.

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Later it} . : Toad : : cial was stated that Fort Pickens was breached and the firing | Advertiser gives the lol owing notice of the orthvvting stupped. The rebels did not sustain apy ioss, whereas the |

| lable information on the rebellion, and the important ics.

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atrocities. No people will dare tu tuce the ter oem euch bility of opening such food-yaten ut Vengeance = Ba pung. s round guardians of the law tare tw dy ia, to their duty eerevely and fearlessly, and th ' care of itself. . , ae is Sake eo -— CENSOKSHIP OF THE PRESS IN THE N - STATES. ORTHERS The Washington correspondent of the Boston ourier recent Jetter to that paper, Speaks of the nae ce which the government martains towards the Mietubers ro press Who wre at Washington, at heavy sacr. tives i — employers. It seews that much that would Intervet the — rul reader, and afford * nourishment for the curious oe as the suspicious’ portion of the Community, is ae public, owing tu the process through which letters leteoae

the hande of some government employee, while letters often shurn of their fair proportions, after they have en elaborately diversitie! by the authors, lest SOME Heutence paragraph may bave a dawaging intluence Upuv some te of the Cabinetior head of a Bureau,who deemethe protect ot his own interesss as trunscendant sbowe that of the inn at wen in arms, who are evnsidered ag soldiers, only ou far the press is. necessary to defend their superigrs, That ¢ reasonalje care is necessary to guard aguinat the transmission of intelligence derogatory to the interests of the Goy- . there is no duubt ; but when that censorship becomes wo arbi. trary that the suffering soldier cannot find # ehanne} gj, which his grievances can be mate public, it iy time, the Courter thinks, the question of a ** free press’? should be fully discussed, as that the public may kuow where the rel

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THE REPORTS OF TUK SECRETARIES OF STATE. The Washing:on correspondent of the N.Y, Commer

reports of the several Secretaries of Stare :— * The forthcoming Presideni’s message, with jig ace . panying reports of Seeretartes, will be the most j

Sate paper issued on this continent, and will give wach v,.

* Sucretary Seward's report will give a sketch of 90 much of the oficial correspondence with foreign powers as it is now

*An Onserver” also, tired of the restriction placed on style became an ornament, Witt he have the yooduess to | TUE ARREST OF SLIDELL AND MASON. proper to tnse public, ae a the developement of his gen:as while connected with Probos imerm us how a lever contrives to make its apperrance in| An article in the Boston Traveller, on the eapture a a a ta. t ion reed co ieee ia the produetion of their joint epistle, has evden ly repus & Newspaper, and why lie scolded you beeuuse bis did not | Messrs. Slidell and Mason. concludes as luliows i—_ aoe ? en tv eek ie ae asm wud 60 prcVeus tres. diated the partnership, desircus of commy out ou his own Saveved te perturwing that truly wouderlui aud unparalleled) ** Must sincerely do we hope that the Enylieh SS ana pie re vee wee © " we 4 : hook. L will, however, disappoint this pair of * yelping fear @ | wouid also tke to be intortmed us to the best man- and oe ss nation _— take a ee ea aT * Secretary Se Ee Wii nar. ate the unexaupled increas curs,” who appear to thivk they will be taken notiee of by ver of setting down pring pies, aod if he would -how me how been dune, and not attribute it to suy desire o of our array. and make <one Mopertant sugzestiens caley.

a ’ : ' : : tos . ‘quarrel with them. There is no such desire among the ) | jog i fulness, aud } the

' . ; @ suci ubinat * lie w nat signe (quarrel wit ated (0 lucrease I's Uselulvess, aud to place Vulubteers ‘howhmz after those who have atta'ved positions i the social tO subinit © Impiettiy’ with proper grace und resignation, | | American people, who are not a nation of lanaties—and none | ‘" Is sheo ruweured

scale to which they weil know it is aveless tor thea: to aspire would be ererually graie'ul. Lt it would “> be too much | put junatics could thins of seeking a war with England at a) ns acne ube a aaa f ole In taking leave of those two uxlmost beurdtess buys, whose trouble, saud tuo Krewt Po vendeseension, he wight {00 pive time when their powers were taxed tu encounter a mighty * tat they will bu i Sa - 2 aati v : vem, aud thus nerves are so dreadfully afleered by the visions of Rebvow your readers a hittie tustracton inthe right use of the words, rebellion, over the armies of which no decided advontages jenn ihe Seppe & the ultra epu a i Congress. Lodges, &e.. { wm quite willing to allow them any consola- shall. wiil, this, that, these, those, §-c., as his use of them | have been vbtained in a war that has ‘usted more shan seven | Secretary Welles will show that ihe Navy Departinens Shue ‘they eun derive from their effurts to attain nutoriety ; difieis very Cuous.uerabl y trom that uf any uuthority to which wonths. Were England to unite with the Confederates, and has reodered thai arm of the service useful, aud will | to send ber fleets to act in concert with their armies, the in-| add tional naval strength, including iron plated Vensels,

: same ti “an it them shat f am quite |b have access, ‘ ; sid at tte same time | can inform aed | dependence of the Contederacy would be established in a few | Secretary Ohase will preveut the most intersting chap.

ready — thouv!s uo special advocate of Messrs. Coles and) “ Aurore” asserts that I, in the unfortunate letter in aren pres pager hose » ; 4 wre iets atiswer, 10 best of my wbilily, any questions im whicu L tad the presump ion tu ufler bims “ j:ttle good ad- | oe ae aa a eat "eat i bah os eats | of enn a the a with whe ae relerence to this“ road jobbing.” eonghed im proper laugusge, Vice, stated what is wot truth. Now, if he will cousult avy in force, and our army at Port Royal would bave to re-vane | Hats aod the peopie b&ve repietish: he A persey ‘s and emanating from persous whose character fur veracity lady or gentieman of average intelligence, he will fiud that bark and retarn to the North, unless it whould prefer w be | 8estions on the substituiion of a national ex eurreney for stands somewhat higher than that of * Probos ” and * Ay he has been labouring uoder a most ridiculous mistake. The |shut up between a Britisi flees and a Svathern army. Our | bank wotes, and on tie sources from whic the Tevepue Is to Observer.” aad whose positions will be a guarantee tor their writer does vot know whether ** Aurora” is acquainied with | Whole coast would be blockaded ; and while we siivuld not be | be ibcreased, wiil lead to projon ed discussions in conducting themselves with at lous the semblauee of propriety, | the people of New Lovdun or not. He never hinted im the uble & vbtain w bale oF cotton, and our mille would lie idie, land out of it, but all wil approve of tos plan for wotring the Yours truly. |remotest manver that ** Aurora” had ever set his foot on | poaene be we the Te she ore hav- | vegroes ig conquered provinces at work, auder the direction ALEX ROVERTSON, | New London sot! or ever slept under a New London roof.) giticulty in getting money lor hereelt’ wud for her allies, 1y/°! Gv¥ermment officials. eet /How a man of your corres,oudeut’s erudition could bsve js well to think of these things. as the reverse of that fine | iain ska th ie eee To ruz Epitor or tax Examiner. jfalleu inte such an error as to undersiand * Observer’ to picture which we have been contemplating fur a week, and | TIE FIGHT AT I ENSACOLA. ‘ Stu.—For the lust tew weeks [ have been considersbly have said that he ever did either the oue or the other, is past | the rich bues of which appear to bave dazzled most eyes. Bautimore, Nov. 30.—Toe American bes received the , ” | the comp. ebeusion of your | People seem to think that whieh they desire shall not bappen, | followimy :— : Huwble servant, cannot happen. Lhe faith removes mountains of doubs. but «+ The Richmond Dispatch gives the following from the Let 17, Dee. 2, 1861, , 1t dues not cast them imto the sea. We of the North believe | Pensacola Observer of the 224 end 234. That paper of the aia | secession tu be nonsense, and we never dreamed that it could ‘22d thus announces the beginuing of the fight.

ture over the signature of “ T’robos,”? who is usststed by | ie . be favoured anywhere out of south Carolina and Bedlaw,her | : Pe ; another styling himself “Aa Observer.” and who. in my | To rsx Eviror ov tae Examiner. | alater : but owr belief and convictions bave net preven.ed | At 5 minutes past 10 o'clock ibis aa ei eee

i — r a ¢ | . . ‘ae i iti ‘ . opioion, is equally as unblushingiv impudent « personage as Sin,—In looking over the Protestant of the 33rd (! !) ult.,| secession from becouing # face as big as it ia ugly. May we. ae bre commntpend. at thy Ferree » Prahes™ taneull, Shes Me. U chectd. tecabie kanal! which was accidently put into my bands a few days ago. 1 pot make the sume mistake now in respect to England that wenced it we are unable yet to way.

h stiee the lisyr me | ‘eff a ail scans ile Be observed w very flattering compliment paid to the Protestant we made last November with respect tothe South? The Latex.—We learn from a persou just arrived from the wuld, or 0 oa 8 Se Coe oF 7 ed portion of the community for the edilying wanver in which matier is worth thinking of, nor should we give reason for Navy Yard that the fire was opened by Fort Pickens upon such UNSCTUPUlOUS, Ihe NUsliNg wod utterly worthless crea- they ubserved the Governor's Holiday. This is all wellenough ; | saying that our eagie ought to be taken down, and ite place | the Confederate steziner ‘Tiwes, aud was returned by our bat- tures, | am certainly surprised, as he mwu-t be well aware there is bothiug wore vatural than to see a journal, which is| be conterred on the ostrich, a bird that thinks that dauger teries and torts that such persons care wot what they write, su long ay they tudebted tor its very existence to popular prejudice, endeavor | dues uot exist Which it caupol seo.” T oe : : :

' be U. 5. steamer Niagara is trying to cross the bar for an even | der the f auevymous ’ pamper the yvuuity of is readers, Whenever occasion offers. | * ; a - ; can even for s time appear under the disguse of auvuyaous y the purpose of entering she harbor. Tre excitementio tows

- -—- <0 tee | Bus it caynot help occurring to the mind of any sensible man | THE NORTHERN NaVAL EXPEDITION scribblers. p us 5 y 2 NOK N NAV: be N. roe . . : ’ } ir. 2g > “ or ; ££ ° , r °: ; ; Jae osed, . livured The productions of “ Prohos* and ** An Observer " cer- | ee ge othcent nie 3 at weed ees ts A New York correspondent of the New Brunswacker gives ee — Sajeuk: ivan ae tue tape of ; ¥ _ ‘$e ’ ei ee juus tact sonbestion with the recent uaval » [es oe ee - —v ae ae ~ ms esa a for bis fulsome adulation. It may probably have been the sechoss cabanas Whi "seat. te ahyd Os Sagebition akties) the Observer of tae 23rd has the following: "The Bring jt Waste time Wi ein, Mr. rts » Dut case, that the different services on that day were attended by ‘country over $500.00, besides the military. After sailing, | from Fort Pockens during the worming was diresied of tive four vessels put back badly disabled. The Ocean Express, steawer T mes. with very little effeet, } d } )

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amused at observ ng # controversy, concerning * the Repre- sentation of the Third Disirict of Queen's Coanty,” carried | ow hy Mr. A. Robertsou. of St. Peter's Road, and some crea- |

OBSERVER.

justice demands a few words when a personof Mr, R's weil-| the older portion of uur Protestant population, composed |

exerted her iuflurnce to repress treedyin of thought aud the | known and universaily acknowledged churacrer tur honesty, partly of those of steady habits, and partly of those of jious |

€Xpression ot private opinion.” That eueh a charge is made, | 4 wightness and sucerity is so irreverently drawn beture the

je indeed true; bat it ts eqrally as true that it 1 wojustly | public, to be slandered and falsely accused by such unprin- |

Lai " ’ seal et ' } ° athens . ‘ s* > 9 | a made. The serviers of the Pepes to letterto borrow the cipled and un ea ae desiguiug worthivn Z Proves” | ge tii as it may, the less that is waid of the manner in which words of ap illustrious writer of our das—are forgotten, | aud * An Ovserver. sein tastes appear tu be at present | 4 majority ol the younger portion passed the duy of + Thauks-

Whiist the restrictions imposed by them on the press are | peculiarly zratilied at being atlowed to vent ther spleen in.

mades matter of reproach. A Cowtmittee of diviues was | #lzehoods and dark insinuations, but ai] the wretches can do

Sppointed br the Council of Trent to farm « list of bad or! it that respect will in no way ivjure Mr KK, whose charac. | A : ‘ness of lie beart, feel itmeelf, before bringing bis artiele ww a

G8: gel us Guwks; who. having tailed to on plete the task ‘ter haw been tou long favourably known by his veighbors and

aesigued them before the close of the Voancil. were allowed | the public at large, except a few such characters as *Probos” |

to evbtinue their isvours, aod ordered to subunit them tothe) sad * An Ubserver,” Wao are never sulistie] with the doings Poje tor approval. The list of books is daily increasing, the | of any ove, except they consult them as to dow they shall do reeding Or retention of which is prohibited under ceelesinsti- | ad say. But Mr. ahertene iy a man of independent prin- esi ceusures; and although this diseipliae is owceruled by | ciples, and because he is, and chores to stand up in favour of CubIrary Usage in most cuntries, it seems to give coloring the party to which he has been attached for years, he of course

ty the charge that the Popes ore hostile to the liberty of the | st necessarily be made the burt of the dawyer-like special |

press. io justiee to them | must oberve that their sole | peelings and false insinuations of » Probos” and bis bosom

object bas been to restrain the preas within the limits of the ‘tteud * An Observer” But it is grantying to know that | Civive jaw; and that the licentiousness which seads forth | te public are not so easily guiled, and that their siily pro- |

um pious aca corrupt books, to poison the miods of youth, is dactious will be sure 'o meet with the coutempt and censure | be seems sadly in want, and briefly explain to him how it is!

that which our late veovrable Pontiff visited with unmitigated | &¢¥ se deservedly merit.

@eurure. Liberty of tne press, considered ae a eivil righ’, | Tae cuntroversy commenced abour the distribution of the

Cove Rot suppose freedom from moral restraiat, or impunity j road money, but as they have siready suid more sbout that from civ | penalties fur its abuse.

int of view, is to give fiee expression te public seatiment proceed to notice briefly what the real eause was that led |

in regard 10 the mauagement of public affairs, by rulers aud | ‘bem to make themecives vo ridiculous, a¥ they have already ether officers, and thus to prevent oppression, or procare ite | one. Doth © Probos” and his friend appear to be great remedy. by exposing at to general censure. The exercice af | friends of the present didde-loving Goverument, and us a

puch liberty for the true iaterests of the country, is gowise | natural consequence, they are disatistied that they should be |

epposed tu the spirit or discipliae of the Chureh. Lt ie wei) Tepreseoter! by liberal members, Lu their goal they would hucwo that the Poyes have permitted the publication at Home | have the District cut up to suit themselves and a few more, of works ou civil polity. which, on acevunt of their liberal and | ¥%°. they woud insiunate, are more respectadle and enlight- popular priveiples, were proserited in several Huropean ened than the rest of the Hiee ors of the Disiriet, thus exem- States * aod that at ell tice, they have shown chem p!'lying their honesty of purpose ia wishing tu deprive the selves dit posed to favour the oppressed, rather than stifle | *@poruy ofa right to eeet their own members. Ls it not a their compiaints. Incendiary aud seditious works could nat, great pity bur we bad such diseeruing and honestly inclined e! course, ve sunctivued by the ralers of the Chureh, wie are | be*Ous for our law-inukers? What a paradise uur Leland beuod tv sustain establisicd order, aod promo'e peace; lex would evan become under their management,

these are woi included tw the true sotiva of liberty of the floping that Mr. KR. will for the furure treat the produ.

press. dm all tha: regards science, literature, pitlosopk y, tious of the champions uf Duustaffuage aod Hillsborough | and the artsthe utmort ireedom of ike press may be enjoyed. | Rtiver, a@ I shail do, with the coutewpt shey merit, L shal,

with no lit but the caution of mt advane az on hely)*?* cuue'ude, and trust L have uot trespassed on your velu- ground. The golden age of Spaairh literature was precisely #)!¢ Ue aod pace iu giving the worthies wiluded tu a litte that in which the jaws ot the Ludex were s'rictly enfi read | Culmitete over. Yours, &e. How can it be pretended that science is impeded in her legi-| Lot 34, Decemter 6, 1861. tunate progress, becwuse she is warned not to di-piace the | ——_——+-20e-¢ ——________— lanuma:ks of religion? A vast space fies open 10 research aed eee eneroaching on the realew of | farch. - ‘ eek y oa the Human Duderstand ag. and been but dete Money pratted tor repairing ther ' ‘ ere nae nih found er “ probildiced | t:tt1e badly tad oo 7 a toes 1 Ag stage a0 caaiden of ihe 6 Sea ime nl eee the da'y it is te atiend to such matters gengrally arrange with rarer yaad Ph tad caaei ines ~ roe e ~~ €x- ; wuune of the poorest people Wuo may be in their debi w slide ele tet ry fe cemnninaas 2 ae a Grade ower the coads for some old account, and they pocket the andeen, should -tedsitis fatal erver. aa sarod oben! money. Auuther matier we have to couplain of is the wa a eee ee cia ie prevais. | thing they ley haads oo, are huwbugging us aout the Mails all iimes respected the ieltineehae of t i hilow ons nd Je tant Let 0 fed @ temgrem outing <ban, the hedivad Gs inipinationé @ the. Moces a P . we ¥, 809 Steamer had left ‘Town for here; and about tue sume time euth wie AES hes euated y Aways BaVing the | the a a ae ee Grovern- : De i went to ecnd the mails by a suiling vessel, his [lojiness having | Sdienuthonmaae, ne ae — * e0a- prewiously ialormed Mr Crabb that the Mails were to go be ingbOtd QAANs Abidiind tis ends arpings of a father | hig jitile vessel, the ** Champion,” a trap that was never sale | age re € undersianding aud corruyi |10 ¢roxe the harbour iv. Well she, the said trap, left here | the hearts of hie children. Independently of them, we are) ; "i : |

os oy Wednesday afternoon, about three o'clock, with the Mails, ae os AD gaat by ar! to our faith | yg passeoyers veuluriay to go by her, although the wind aud | a . slide Steitehins tehe if - : P rest CV) weuther appeared favourable. Tue sewe afternoon the deuces : ’ sarelt with Fuime's Age! sieamer arcived here, discharged and took im her usual freighe ©! iieanon,ex poses himself to the manifest danger of tofidelity. >

TRUTH.

To tux Eprrorn or tue Kxantxer Deraz Ssu,— Our roads are desperately bad—there having

5 ; } Its chief value, ia a civi!| | 'ba" the whole was worth, | shalt leave it to themselves. and |

puritanical zeal for the amalgamation of Charch and State, thougn [ aw inclined tu beleve that the zealous preac.ers were eloquently discuursing to a goodly number ul empty pews.

giving,’’ the better for their own reputation. However, |

would willicgly have allowed this empty ridiculous praise w |

sink into oblivion, did nut Mr Laird, in the unbounded gouod-

close, as it were suddenly inspired with a new mission He becomes the censor of the actions of his Catholic fellow-citi- zens, and as a consequence of this, mercilessly pounces down upoo them, like w oird of prey, upbraiding them for their vio- lution of the Guvernur’s Huliday. He then indignantly asks, *» Have they no reason to be thankful ?’’

am not as the rest of men,’’ &c., Luke 18. 11

will proceed to give Mr. Laird a little instraction. of which

that Catholics do not conform to the Governor’s Proclamation,

| formed, that the Church and the Church only, has the power

tate her, usurp a power to which they have no claim; and

that consequently the faith'ul are obliged to keep no days) boly, except those commanded to be so kept by the Church. Even | Mr. Laird, however unfortunately blinded by prejudice or

This is, [ understand. the doctrine of all Catholies.

‘ignorance, is able to perceive the difference between spiritual jand temporal authority, Catholics are strictly commanded by the Church to obey the tempora! power in all things re- garding the government and well-being of the state, of which | they are subjects, but when that power attempts to intrude

‘on the spiritual power, they know that their obligation to | —

‘obedience ceases in this particular case, but they must never- theless continue their allegiance in other matters

‘effurte made to the contrary. This expianation ougtt tu be sufficient to convince Mr. Laird of the barmlessness of bis unholy crus de against bis Catoolie feliow ettizens ; but lest bis eurtosity should prompt bim 0 languive further inte the practices of Catholies, L will inform {him that, as regards weans of Thanksgiving, they ure incom- | parably in advance of any other denomination throughout the | world. {in the whole course of the year, Catholics have in each season | three days, called Ewber Days, which are particularly set aside iby the Church to return thanks to the Giver of all good gifts

| kind.

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avors, including, ef course, the inestimable blessing of an

y ; ‘ite Tories, after their usual method of mismauaging every jabupdant harvest. Mere L cannot help remarking how quietly,

how unostentatiogsly Catholics pertorm this duty, so ineum- benton all: they dv not think i necessary tu parade them- selves beiore the publie at the corners of streets, alter the manner oi certain parties of old, whose practices are, sorry to say, in a fair way of being revived at the present

teaus which Catholics possess, how infinitesimally small his miserable one day is und what a poor pitiable speck it pre- senis, even when backed with all the induence of a Governor s Proclawatiyn. more prudent in his observations on passing events, particu- tarly on those Which may provoke unfavorable comparisons, My reason for entering at such length into the matter will be

when that gentleman, or any other in bis position, sees fit to | issue an order, commanding such a day to be kept holy. The | doctrine of Catholics on this point is, if Iam correctly in-

to institute festivals, that temporal potentates, when they imi-

Thas there isan inseparable barrier betwixt Church and State. and so tar} , as regards Catholies, that barrier will continue, in spite of all |

How forcibly this | reminds the reader of u notorious character mentioned in the | Sacred Scriptures, who occasionally made his Thanksgiving” | in the following strain: ** O God, Ll give Thee thanks that I)

Passing over this, although suggestive of many remarks, I |

_tur the innumerable fators whieh He day eonfers on man- |

oe to their Creator for ail Lis blessings, graces and heen tried in Phil

1 hops that for the future he will be a little!

Stores, is a total wreck. ‘The Winfield Scott, with 450 troupe

(on board, fuundered. Two otuer transports bave not been heard from, besides some sualier crait on sbore in Beautort river. The Confederates have secured | S00 prisoners from the wrecks of the Federal shiys.

And whataure the facts of all those magnificent victories which the Northerners say are the most brijliant. and for which Commodore Dupont will be taade an Adairal? [we ‘mud forts each side of Port Royal harbor, called Walker and

Beauregard, aro taken. Fort Walker is on Hilton Isiand,. whigh is @ sand bank, 12 miles from Beaufort; and if th y succeed in effecting a landing in the mainland, they will have | to travel thas distance through swaups and quaymires, where itis hardly possible fur individuals to pick their way—les alonehorses, artillery and munitions of war.

Fort Beauregard 1s on the upposite side, on an Island ; it is |impossible to reach Beaufort from this Fort without going up

| Beaufort river; im attempting which, two gun boats have run The river is only eight feet deep, and spiled across some distance below the town. The Federals up tu this time have not landed a sing/e soldier upon the mainland. ‘The magnificent exploits of tais expedition bave been the capture |of two mud Forts! ‘The base of future operations in South Carolina are two Island sandbanks! !

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| Tue Lorrsey or Deatu at Richaonp.—Col. A. M. Wood, uf the lath New York Regimwent,now a prisoner at Richmond, i gives, in a private letter, a thrilling account of the drawing

| for the prisoners at Kichmond, who are to stand as a set-off

| ashore.

| against the condemned pirates at New York and Philadelphia, He had been at large upon his parole until the 10th instant, when he was summoned to Gen Winder’s quarters. On ask- | ing on what business he was wanted, Gen. Winder anawered /that he bad a very unpleasant duty to perform, in fact the | must unpleasant of his lifeand handed to Col. Wood a paper, | which proved to be Benjanan’s order to draw lots among the | Federal prisoners for a victiin. | the ofhce to the prison, where ke found all his fellow officers, } 79 1n number.drawn up to await the sad issue. The names o! | the officers, on separate slips of paper, having been put into # tin box, Gen. Winder requested the tion. Alfred Ely to draw from the box one name, who should be held in place of Swish, sentenced at Philadelphia Mr. Ely, with evident emotion, ‘drew the fatal elip, and amidst a death-like stillness, an- nounced the name of Col.+ orcoran. Thirteen other officers, including Col. Wood bimself, were sent to the common jail nt | Richmond on the fullowingday — Col. Wood suysof the juei- tion of himself and his feliow prisoners: ++ You may rest jassured that our fate depends upon that of the privateersimen.

Instead of having bat oe day of ** Thanksgiving’ | IL trust you wall do all you can consistent with your duty to

ithe Government, to relieve those officers who went forth ¢. fight the buttles of their couctry, from a position of peril and distress *’

In reference to the above the Boston Journal has the fullow-

Besides this, there i daily offered, on Catholic altars, | ing editorial !— itrom ** the rising of the sun even to the going down of the |

jecme,’’ a sacrifice of infinite value, and one ot the principal Se (e@ ds for which this sacrifice is offered is to acknowledge their the Government