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eer as er : , lates from Ene! o vi the 9th inst., with

The Bible, where it is ree, in ™ ud to the 24th ult,

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than a

son enforced. The mail qerely regarded as a book for learnin’. the child

ad — the worst use to whic? the Bible can i

for this *

— jnight. The news is not very Important, upplied because calculate : to meky at a book ef

settled axersion to b*,, for alt his future.”

GREAT BRITAIN,

| The Paris correspondent of the London Times jhas reason to know that officiel instructions have j been sent by the French Government to W ashing- este f | ton, siggesting that Commissioners be delegated Phe geod and by the Federal Government and by the Southern States to meet on neutral ground, and eoufer to- gether, without hostilities being suspended, so that they might advise mutual concessions, and effect a reconciliation se desirable for the interests of the world.

*The Paris Pays saya~We believe we are able to state that the Government of the Emperor has addressed a letter to: Washington, peopens a

* ever since constituted the great fund of election- means of arrangement between the whieh would fully protect the amour propre aud

evring clap-trap.” : son to express a heavier censure, and a truer one, j dignity of the Americans. . Le Nord also says that France has proposed a

The secor’, religious fover did vot break out

wotil about a year age; and net a word was said about the Bishop's lettor then venerable man had gone to his eternal reat long before; and no ene should, surely, then accuse him of having stirred up the strife between Pro- testante and Cathelies. The Rev. Mr. Allan has publicly declared that the ery agajust the Hishop's letter was a mere “vulgar clamour,” and has

It is not possible for any per-

than is conveyed in these few words of the [’res, i byterian Minister at Covehead.

As regards the parttuken by the Rey, Rector of St. Dharistan’s College in the religious cOuten-

view ta peace.

The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian \earus, on excellent authority, that the Coufederate Government has been dome a very cousiderable stroke of business in England, through }the medium of cotton warrants. These warrants are undertakings to deliver so much cotton at fixed prices—reported from threepence te four-

tions of the past year, every one knows that that geotieman was vot theaggressor, Mr. McDonald commenced to publish some letters en “ Educatign

THE REAL TRUTH. | (From the “ New York Herald.” )

| Defeat! Pooh! Bah! Who talks of defeat to the eagles of the republic, one and indivi- sible? Perish the miscreant from off the

asland was received here on Thursday| face of this glorious continent, or let him |

| hurry across the ocean, and hide his ruffian | head ir the bosom of Britannia—the sordid and ferocious hag who exults in the disasters | which she hypocritically affects to deplore— Britannia,who shall have some real disasters of her own to lament as soon as we have put down this accursed and moribund rebellion.

‘There has been no defeat, and the man who jealls the affair at Fredericksburg by that name is a contemptible idiot. If foreign na- | tions do not understand our strategy, and |seek to make American generals to walk by | the feeble light of old world traditions, all | that we shall condescend to say is, that time We deliberately assert, and we

| will show.

wilizerents, | are in @ position to prove the truth of the) ing’s enjoyment.

| words (though the character of this journal ‘needs no additional testimony to . its state- 'ments), that the magnificent operations at

convocation of an American Congress, with a Fredericksburg were ail parts of a defined |

plan, and that the result is precisely that | which was expected and desired. Now then! Do the citizens of our mighty republic believe that its interests are lelt in the hands of in-

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‘to deal with matters which they do yot un- | derstand? Who will dare to insult the peo-

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

“Tax Payer” has been received, and wiil re- ceive attention next week.

“A Looker On,” in reply to “Rob Roy” in the Menitor, on the election at St. Peter's came too late for insertion. It will be inserted in our pext. | “One of the Party” in a Matrimonial Exeur- | sion, will not be forgotten.

- —-- The Ladies of the Congregatiomof Notre Dame | ackuowledge the receipt of two pounds (£2) for | the poor of the Roman Catholic Church, Char- | lattetown, the gift af the wife of C. G. Colclough, | Esqr., of Tintern. Abbey, Wexford, Ireland, and daughter of a former Chief Justice of this Island. - ~~ ~ CHARLOTTETOWN DEBATING CLUB. | Agreeably to announcement, Friday evening, | the 13th instant, was devoted tou Readings, Reci- | tations, &e., faction of all present. ‘in attendance, and added materially to the even- Mr. John LePage recited an leriginal opening address, which was ou motion | ordered to be published. Before adjournment, the | thanks of the meeting were tendgred to the Baud | Master, Mr. Galbraith, and to all the members | for their services on the oecasion. It is contem- | plated to continue meetings of this nature monthiy, lif practicable, during the season, and the next | may be expected to be an improvement on the last, as more time and longer notice will be af

capable fools, or of politicians who assume | forded members to prepare their several Read-|

ings, &e. On Friday evening next, the subject for debate will be —“* Which has coutributed more te the

whieh passed off to the entire satis- | The Volunteer Band were |

and the Church” avly after Mr. Seeretury Pope

bad published souve of the foulest hbels he eould |

perpetrate against Catholicity, which he desig- nated the parent of igne anes aad superstition ‘There was noth ng tu pravoke Pope's lihels. The

Catholic clergy bad dove nothing — could do no- |

thing—their (riends being powerless in the Legis- lature, in the Geverument and in all the public institutions of the land—te menace Protestantism, or te secure any inflaeace for the Catholic Chureh. Indeed, the oaly quarter from whieh the Catholic Church had reasan to expect favours was from the Executive Council, Members of that body gravely discussed the prapriety af endowing St Dunstan's College. Mr. Pope highly fayoured the project—had long interviews with the Bishap and with Catholic laymen ay the subject, and it was only abandoned when it was faund that Catholic members ia the Legislature could not be bought by an endowment to the Coill-ge, and when some of the orntivary supporters of the Go- vernment would vot couitenance the measure: Mr. Pope and the Government then turned their at- tention to the formation of Orange Lodges, and ta the exeitement of that rancorous spirit of re- ligious bigotry, in the full flow of which their political shert-comings have been overlooked or | jorgotien by thousands who Would otherwise re- nembler them. Of that spirit they are now ashawed, and their pubhe journals are base enough to throw the blame of it upon others. good result of the elections : that the Goyerument, having obtained what they wanted, will affect to loathe the means by which their want has been

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This is one

supplied. Sectarian bitterness will be depreated, |

and, if posible, lulled by those whe have aroused | it. Bigots will net be hounded on so fiercely as heretofore to abuse the Catholics ;—there will be | seme pretence at commisseration fer them, and | waly pretence; but that pretence will neverthe- | less induce some discreet silence; and no man |

penee per pound — se many days after sight, at any Confederate port, after the recoguition of the Contfedsracy. He also says it is reported that the Contederacy have even addressed proposals to the British Government for some snea reversionary jand speculative transactions on a large seule.

FRANCE.

Paris letters speak of probable animated debates |

in the Legislature, on Italy, Mexico, and the treatment of the press, with cousiderable opposi- tien to the Mexican war.

The Emperor is reported to have said to mem- bers of the Chambers, “The public do not yet uuderstand the theught whieh dictates the Mexi- ean expedition te me; it will be judged later by results, aud every ove will see that it is one of the mest important and glorious acts of my reign.”

MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WaLes.—The marriage contract between the Prineé of Wales and Princess Alexandra was sigued.gu Thursday, at Copenhagen. Her Majesty's Minister at that Court transmitted the news by telegraph to Earl Russell, and the information was immediately for- warded to Osborne also by telegraph.

ARRIVAL OF DHE GREAT HAsSTeRN. — The steamship Great astern, Captain Paton, from New York ou the Sth instant, arrived in the Mer- sey this forenoon. She experienced a very rough passage. On the 15th inst., Mrs. Captain Paton gave birth tea san. Mr. Richard C I Nautig, Mowmouthshire, died dyring the passage.

_>- - The following are given as the numbers polled at the late Couneil elections :— QUEEN'S COUNTY. FIKST DISTRICT. | Hon, D. Montgomery, 978 Hon. G. Bagnall, 464 K. Henderson, 799

SECOND DISTRICT,

Beer, 970 Lawson,, 622 Goff, 942 Knight, 6US

THIRD DISTRICT. Hon. Edward Palmer.

PRINCE COUNTY.

SECOND DISTRICT.

‘atridge, of dare to write such words as an exposition of |

| ple by such a description of the men whom

the noble machinery of our constitution civil liberty of England —her Lawyers or her

, . ‘ » ”” to» oy 2 " ~* - raised to the highest offices, and whose genius | Clergy! Gro. ALLEY, Sec'y. for government shames the wretched systems | ; : : eee ere

Sap AccipeNnT. — A correspondent of the

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fe yong we spate: oo Sy Frederieks’ | Church Be cord fornishes the following particulars : of a melaacholy accident by incautiously ventur-

burg was a planned thing, and a glorious | jy on the ice: ; vousety. | Cnesrer, January 26.—On Saturday last Dr We dare say that were Dr. Rusil'. 0: &0Y | Jamison went out ou the Windsor read, and took | with him Capt. James Nass. Dr. Jamison had (to prolong his journey to visit some patients, and | Capt. Nass said, “ Whatever is the reason I feel sulted by the residence here of no man who | as if I wished to goto the Western Shore to-day.” | will not speak the people’s wishes and feel- | Shortly after they left the shore, and when about ings), we should be treated to a narrow- | 4 milebelow Gold River bridge, they saw three minded view of the situation, and we should | persens en the ice, a long distance from the shore, ‘be told that the gallant and glorious Burnside | 0" of whom disappeared. The others also fell ‘had ehown himself incapable of leadership. | Sone - wee pee | Dr. Jamison and We should be reminded, in the most insvlent | fot Sas ee a no oe ewe and calied }and exulting manner, that Burnside led the | mga oom ie _ eT = ee eenehem, Smt , cape }one went lmmediately back; the other~—Keizer army of the Potomac into a semi-circle of |—remained. They dragged the boat some dis- fire ; we should be told that he attempted | tance on the ice, uutil it broke through, and they, | what could haye succeeded by miracle only, | breaking through also, had to get into the beat to }and that he caused the slaughter of some ten | save themselves. After breaking the ice, and or twelve thousand Federal soldiers for no end | sculling the boat for some time, they reached the or object whatsoever. ‘That he fled, defoated nearest man, Stephen Dauphiney, and got him and disgraced, and that a fourth fatal blow" the boat. He was sinking when they saved ‘has been inflicted by the rebels. Luckily jhim. The other man, William Daniel, was also

no man breathes on this free soil who would

| writer of that kind, among us (which, thank Providence and a wise administration, is not the case, and the free soil of America is in-

sinking, the water being upto his chin. He ealled out, * You have saved him, but you can’t save : | me, IT am gone; but by means of a pole they | the ae - tte — this “ee ae ny j saved him also with great difficulty. It was then opportunity of tendering our thanks to the

Government that made it impossible for any | was Ellen Morash, 14 years old. Her bedy was cold-blooded Britisher to disseminate among found next moruing, under the ice, face duwn- | us his discouraging photographs, by which, | Wards, aud clothes frezeu to the ice. The boat | under the pretext of impartiality and truth. | Was taken back to the shore, the rescued lying in ‘fulness, the warm and glowing hearts of our | water, the boat being leaky, aud those who went enthusiastic citizens are chilled, and doubts | aa oe ~*~ npn wets ~ —e oa are cast upon the perfect working of our un- | ied ate le ae berg: ee ae caene ae - Med imebitations : | clothes, in order to get home w ithout being frozen. | equa -~s 3 . is | The little girl, who was returning home from a | Bat it is fit that our citizens should hear | visit to Mahone Bay, was drowned, and the two | the real truth with which they ean always } men came thus near to sharing the same tate, in | be trusted. Yes, always, and if our wise ad~| consequence of trying to shorten the land route. | ministfatora ever deem it discreet to manipu-|—Halifar paper,

late telegrams and despatches, and not to set ‘ or |fucts before the world in . their naked | A LETTER FROM JOHN MITCHELL. ; literalness, it is not because are afraid of| Among the intercepted Confederate corres- /our own people, but because foreign nations, pondence is a letter from John Mitchell,

jascertained that the one who first disappeared

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THE CLVIL WAR IN THE STATES.

NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.

BanGor, Feb. 7.

Cairo despatch says Federal ram-Queen of the West ran by Vicksburg on Monday morning, being under fire of 100 siege guns for three quarters of an hour.

Tribune's despatch saya Federal. blockade at Charleston was in two circles, outer one seven miles from Fort Hunter, inner one on bar, and Confederate iron clads ouly drove off latter.

Federal Commodore has given Galveston non- combatants 24 hours to leave the city.

Official report says four thousand attacked Fort Donelson, which was defended by 800, Former were repulsed with a hundred killed and three hundred prisoners.

It is rumored that the French have been de- feated at Puebla, loss three thousand.

Reported that Farragut’s fleet is reduced so j}muech as to render attack on Port Hudsen im- possible until reinforced.

Reported that Morgan contemplates raid on Lexington, Kentucky.

Bancor, Feb. 9.

Iren prize steamer Princess Royal from Char- lestos arrived at Philadelphia, bringing information of an attack on ochuelues) which only disabled two Federal vessels; Mereidita escaped, supposed by enemy to be ina siaking condition, and arrived lat Port Royal. | Tron clad Palmetto State then attacked and

| disabled the Key Stone State, which was towed |

| to Port Royal.

| Gunboat Hoasatomic drove off other Iron eclads.

| Most of the Federal vessels sailed to Key Stone

| State during tue day to ascertain her condition,

| but resumed stations at dark.

Confederate statement of disappearance of |

blockading fleet not sustained.

Washington despatch wo Philadelphia Transcript | reports only fifteen thousand Contederates at Fredericksburg, the rest haying gone to Black- water or Vicksburg.

| Gold 1564.

memes - _-<- — — THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. | Of military operations, that have either oceurre4 lor been made knewn during the past week, there | is very little to be said, though an error in our | last issue requires correction. Crediting current | rumneur, we spoke of the Army of the Potomac having crossed the Rappahannock. It did not cross; it did not attempt to cross. It simply made a movement of a few miles to this end; but was | fairly beaten by bad weather and consequently impassable roads, returning after three days’ distressing experiences to its old cantonments opposite Fredericksburg, where it remains stuck jin the mud. In one respeet only has it expe- | rienced a decided change. Having previously | failed several times to shake off the honour thrust } upon him, General Burnside bas at last been per- | mitted to resign his command, which has been } conferred upon General Joseph Hooker, a West Point graduate of some experience, and with a | keen relish for fighting, his soldierly qualities being ‘in faet rated higher than those which are requisite | tor his present high and difficult position. Words ‘are not of much moment, conzing from so true and | valiant an officer; but it is scarcely wise to under- | rate, as General Hooker does at the outset of this ‘his new eareer, the strength of his foe. “In equipment,” says his first Order to the Army, |“ intelligence, and valour, the enemy is our infe- irior.” In equipment—perbaps; ii valour—we need not discuss this point; butin intelligence—after | the number of times this identical army has been | outwitted, to say the ieast, this is drawing a | on credulity. When General Burnside resigned, | two leading Generals went with him into retireme:t | both having stood high with their comrades and | before the country. General Sumner declined to serve under General Hooker, and was relieved at his own request. General Franklin was also re- lieved, but took care, in his parting address, to in- | timate that it was by no means at his own request. The siege of Vicksburg is recommenced. This

though we should be surry to read them in the

Hon. Alex. Anderson, Hon. D. Ramsay,

will be knave or fool evough to raise an alarm | abeut Catholic ascendaucy, when the Catholics | are politically trampled under foot. The late elections are suggestive of many re- flections, which will evolve many facts. We have barely touched the outskirts of the subject, but | p17... J. MeLaren, S67 must wait for another opportunity te make further Wm. McGowan, 466 advances. ‘ i 5 tS i@ . “ey ’ . Tue editors of the Monitor and Islander are | ELECTION FOR quite indignant at our having omitted a portion of the letter of the Rev. Mr. Grant, peblished in our

KING'S COUNTY FIRST DISTRICT. Hon. J. Dingwell, Ilon, P. Walker. SECOND DISTRICT.

A. MeDonald, 490 Hon. J.Wightman, 469 ——o- THE FIRST OF PRINCE COUNTY. The correct state of the Poll at the close in the

DISTRICT

above District was as follows :—

last paper. The Islander questions our right to | Bue W.W. Lleol 439 omit any portion of a letter intended for publica. | lion. James Yeo, 537 tien. We are told that it is our duty to publish | Hou. 8. F. Perry, 422

’ P. Doyle, Exqr, 333

the whyle of s.cowmunitation or none at a!l. We | never did, and. never shell take this view of an | editor's privileges and responsibilities, and we are. C. Y. M. L. INSTITUTE,

sure that pone of our professional brethren of any | ON last Wednesday evening Dr. MeKeon en- nense or experience will differ from us, It jg] etninad the Catholie Young Men’s Literary often necessary for a wan to wake a statement of Institute with the second part of his lecture on fucts, allveting his own reputation,or that of hia |” Pbysivlegy,” in which he employed a very large friends ; but be has vo right to demand publicity | aod tinely executed anatomical diagram, copied ef matter that would be very offensive to the | with great care and ability by Mr. J. Murphy, from public taste, and whieh would, by no means, * collection of anatomical plates in the pos- strengthen his argument ; and upon thix point the ***en of Mr. Henry Barnard, of this city. This editor wust exercise his own judgment. If we, were desirous of doing Mr. Grant an injury we should have published the eliminated passages,

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that a certain amount of preliminary study is

we are satisfied that those present gleaned con-

Glumns of any paper, because we do not think The study

that low ribaldry aud bufivenery become the eharacter of a clergyman. - —-- —— VANDALISM.

siderable information from the lecture.

vines leven in a moral point of view. AT the late election for Councillors ia Queen's | ene ae County some extraordinary scenes were enacted.) Gyygrat McCiettan’s Girt House.—The

At or near one of tho polling divisions in the Bel- New York Herald bas the following deserip-

fast section, three sleigh belonging to gentlemen | tion of the residence reeently presented to | with rage, and evenexcitesenvy in the bosom to a man, warm in the cause of the Confede- | the wife of General McClellan by the many | of the Hebrew Fould, has informed the Presi- | racy ; but their district is surrounded on three

froma Charlottetown, who had gone down as agents |

very interesting subject was treated by the learned | Doctor with ease and facility; aud notwithstanding |

needfu) fur its due appreciation by an audience, |

| whicl: have never understood us, would mis-

}understand many things that would be says :—

| perfectly well compreheuded here. Hence) the apparent mystific:.coas with which we | have been so frequently taunted by the baffled | diplomatists of Europe, men whom we have thus beaten on their own ground. But there is no necessity for ever deceiving a true-born American citizen, and we have now authority |for offering the fullest explanation of the | Battle of Fredericksburg. | dt was all along intended bg our Govern- ment that our Army should underge what | would be considered a defeat. | Hitherto, so confident bas the Union been | | in.its own majestic resources, and so pleased | have our patriots naturally been with the long series of victories which have crowned | our arms, thatithas been impossible to arouse | ns to a sense of the importance of the occasion. | | We have played with the war rather than) ‘fought. We have volunteered and mustered | and reviewed, but the proceedings have rather | been those of some brilliant rejoicing day | than the stern preparations of war. The- Anaeonda, that was to draw round the re-| bellion and crush it to powder, has hitherto preferred to bask in the sun, and show its glittering tints for the delectation of the | people, to drawing itself up for the fell hug, 'that shall end the strife. When the rebels) have been too presuming, they have been | stricken down, and put tu ignominious flight ; bat it has been with the playful whisk of the lion's tail rather than the blow from his paw. Perfectly certain of our irresistible might, we have treated the rebels as spoiled children rather than as enemies. We might have contioued to do so, putting |

,of the human system ought to be better known, | them down whenever they were presumptuous, a nurse, and the bows of ribbon upon the | for there ix none other in physies which displays' and wearing them out until they should little one’s shoulders did not please a con- | the wondrous works of God more advantageously, prostrate themseives like peuitent children, | stable who passed that way. Both nurse and |

| but for considerations quite apart from any) of a military ebaracter. But the admirable | financier who presides over our interests, and | who administers them in a way which furns the malignant Southerner Gladstone pale |

and long for nothingso much as the day when

| white and red, and mirched off to the station plied by an officer with his boat's crew, who was

addressed to the Dublin Nation, in which he ‘time by General MeClernand, U.S., whose first : | step is an effort to complete and open the pro-

‘*In Baltimore [ spent a week before any | jeeted canal or * eut off,” by which the waters of opportunity ocearred for rauning the block-| the Mississippi are te be turned aside from the ade upon the Lower Potomac. I stayed in| the contumacious city, which is to be left bigh and the house of a worthy Irish citizen, and met! dry and ruined. On Vicksburg, as on Port Hud- with the principal [rish reside nts of the place. isou lower down the stream, public attention is To my great comfort, I found that the Irish | anxiously fixed; and immense forces on either

: alti we ‘mt a | Side are congregated respectively for their attack in Balinese, Soth.-Rige. nem low, (onmagt * | and defence.—Some minor operations, in favor of

few Orangemen), are intensely Southern, | the North, have taken place below New Orleans; : ; | while news is expected of others on a far larger they may drive the’ Lincolnites out of the geale in North and South Carolina and in Georgia. eity forevr. The regime of Mr. Lincoln,} General Hunter, U. 8., is again in command at / indeed, is humiliating enough. The city! Port Royal. . swarms with detectives, who watch and listen| The naval movements and collisions have been about hall doors, by. night and day, to see numerous and serious; nor can it pass unnoticed who goes in or out, aad in whose houses the | that, whereas the South was presumed to be in an girl’s sing ** My Magyland.”’ utterly hopeless and defenceless position so far as oW hen Oonieienate prisoners are marched, regarded all maritime affairs, it has upon the into some prison within the town, the men water inflicted no slight amouut of loss and annoy- v ee r |ance upon its enemies. The story of the armed of Baltimore must pot address them, nor) [7 s. transport Hatteras, sunk off Galveston on exhibit the smallest mark of sympathy under | th. nivlt of the 17th iust., is a very strange one, nalty of instant inearceration: but the) the disaster being clearly the result of bad judg- adies on such occasions don their richest | ment. It appears that on the evening of that day dresses, line the streets where the poor, | the Brooklyn, U.S. sloop-of-war, in company with ragged, glorious fellows pass, hold aggregate = wegpenl a unc i . a — _ oe meetings round the prison, and provoke the | eng and despatched the Hatteras to overhau Yankeo officecs past bearing, 80 ane the guard ‘her. The stranger was hailed just before night has sometimes been ordered to charge bay onets | came on, and declared herself to be H. B. M. ship upon the fair. inéureente Balt women. Spitfire, which vessel — as an American naval ei a. | a 2 ’| officer ought to have known—is employed on har- however, are not allywed 5) wear the wrong bor duty at Bermuda, and was not likely tu be colors—a matter which o decided by the taste | cruising off Galveston. The first error was the of the police. Not in. Warsaw, or in Venice, | sending a vesselof such small furce as the Hatteras are female ornaments more-strictly prescribed on what might prove a dangerous enterprise. than in Baltimore; and while | was there, Such it was. A running fight took place, andthe | young ladies -were stopped in the street by U.S. transport was found next morning sunk, | policemen because they wore a ribbon of red, | such particulars as are known having been sup- |

. . ia ina . | ordered to board the presumed Spi/fire, just before

A child wat aeikd tn tho ctasete by | the action began, cae was left behind and subse- quently picked up. The Brooklyn and her con- sorts heard the firing, and hastened up; but the ; : : night was dark, and daylight alone revealed the child were carried off to the police office. | reason Why no more was seen of the Hatteras. ‘** From Baltimore | proceeded through the | There is every reason to believe that the terrible | southern counties of Maryland, «rich tobacco | Alabama was in this case the real aggressor.— | country, inhabited by a most worthy class of | And the Alabama has vow another dangerous |

planters (most of them Catholics), and all, | consort at sea. The Ovecto, now christened the | Flérida, a heavily armed and fast Confederate

screw-steamer, had been blockaded mm Mobile river for four mouths by a squadron of nine U.S.

house.

}namerous circle of relatives and friends to mourn

of friends of the Liberal candidates, were much. disfigured and injured by being daubed over with

friends of the latter in the city of New York : | ** The friends of General McClellan—and

dent that the finance of the country demands sides by the sea, and is therefore at the mercy u decisive step. We can state that Lincoln, of the gunboats. On the other side it adjoins

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their name is legion—will be glad to learn Seward and Chase met over oysters and, the District of Columbia, and is held in awe

coal tar. This was well known to be the work that his services to his country haye been | accounts on the 7th December, andthe latter by the huge army there. No part of all the of some ruffians who had voted at the previous fully appreciated by a number of his fellow- | submitted his arguments. They were irre-/ South, notin Virginia, not in South Carolina,

election fur Mr. Seeretary Pope. If any excuse | Countrymen. : ‘been presented with a most beautiful and can be offered for the blackguards, it mast be on P

. ae spacious residence, furnished in a superb and the ground that their representative, who began | costly manner. The house is not only de-

hia earver by spilling the tar pot over people's lightfalty situated, but it has beon provided houses, has taught bis constituents the disgraceful with all the essentials to comfort and even of trick. Semeof the Belfasters have been deseribed fashionable elegance. The utile dulei have as approaching in want of civilization to Hotten- | been most exquisitely combined. While the

4 ee ae a : |deep parlois are covered with the rich car- tots or Kamtsehatkans. ‘Ve think it was doing a pets of Turkey, the eapacious cellare are

tots would not dirgrace themselves by resorting ‘The safes, cupboards and lockers have been tw the dirty, cowardly practices by which some ¢Tmmed with the choicest grocerics and de-

i ‘ma eae licacies which could delight the most epicu- + - Pope's constituents have sigualised them ‘rean tastes and appetites. Around the lofty “Vea,

walls are suspended splendid paintings—the

ation (not enormous to a country like ours, | but still very large) which our playful man- | | ner of conductibg the war has occasioned, | would startle our citizens, and might possibly | be resisted, unless they were roused to a_ realisation of the fact that the Southern rebels are in earnest, and have some means of resis-_ tance. He therefore called upon his chief

spirited and courageous people. ‘They con- | cluded that General Burnside should be ordered to advance under conditions which

i

ea and his colleague to take sume action that great injustice tu the latter to have them cow- stored with amphora of such Falernian wine | should make an impression on our high-| pared to some of the Lelfasters, beeause Hotten- as Horace would have been pleased to broach. |

made his military success an impossibility. | A He was telegraphed, and the result is known. | counties, the Washington Government under- | Fredericksburg was a financial, not a took to enroll and draft these planters, so as

His excellent lady has just sistible. He showed that the enormous tax- | is more entirely Southern, in principle and | interest, than these southern counties; but

as the North will strain every nerve to hold the command of the Chesapeake Bay, it must crush out and exterminate these original Marylanders. They are doomed; the Celts of Eoris and Tyrawley were never more inexo- rably predestined to utter destruction ; and the method of procedure is this wise; they are bullied and tormented by constant pa- trolling of cavalry through the country, who ‘insult them daily, and carry off their slaves before their eyes, either by force or by false | promises.

** Then, the very week that I spent in those

Some Orangemen in another part of the County | chef d’eucres of ancient and modern masters ; military operation. Its success was complete, | to compel them either to put on the detested

also distinguished themselves, as, for instance, at | while glittering chandeliers depend in bril- the polling division on Breckly Poiut Road. At/tiant beauty from its ceilings. this Wb Crandsunn theettenel to beat ext! house was made worthy of the honored parties pl a mg , ar ou" | for whose acceptance it was intended.”

Mr. Kuight's brains tor presuming to come for- | ward as a candidate, while the voting was actually |ter, says the Herald, were some of going on; and at the close of the poll, another leading Republicans cf the jand,”’ and the scoundrel of the same fraternity seized a large |New York names of Astor, Aspinwall, Mor- fence stake, with which he struck Mr. Knight's |8°" and others eminently distinguished. horse a violent blow, and threatened to serve Mr. Kuight himeelf in a similar manner.

At the polling place, at Lot 48, a Liberal voter had the reius of his baruess —a new sett —cut | Prussia. They beseech him to ‘‘tread those jute shreds, for no other reason than that he voted paths which lead out of dissension into re- fur the Liberal candidates ! conciliation and peace,’’ and trust ‘*the hopes

Such acts as these must reflect immense eredit

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Corporation of Berlin has sent in an addriss

os aa, = ting p inate tered against the high wisdom and justice of where the Liberals had overwhelming majorities, Hig Majesty.”” This language ie considered such as Fort Augustus and Seotch Fort, the Tory in Prussia very bold, and the King bas re candidates, their agents and friends, were treated plied that ‘*the present position of affairs in with the greatest kinduess and eourtesy. Prussia, which bas been styled a confjict,has Sk Sihachadidlpgtpenetionetan ,arisen from a confusion in the public mind.”

jee i ” sai A smart? Reruaninc Orricer. ~— The brik cae I pg gnc bn sa

liant genius whe was appointed te take the poll as Returning Officer at Belfast, on the veeasion Oe eal :

, i i Tho office of Provincial Secretary in the ~ _ capes oney vo Canadian Government, vacated by Mr. Do- from Wednesday unt! Thursday, and proceeded | rion, hag been filled by the acceptance of to take votes accordingly on the second day, on | Mr. Jacques Bureau, M.L.C. for the Division no other pretence whateyer than that all the intelli-

re ne

of DeLorimiere. geut Kelfasters had not had time to come forward -

on the first day! Such a freak as this is quite| A Boston paper says that in that vicinity “ the worthy of Beltast Its ludicrous effect would f

be epoiled if committed any where else.

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fluence of spring On vegetation. In the Public Garden the erocusses and hyacinths are peering torth from the soil in the most exposed places. In one or two instances shrubs have Jeayed out. Ten days ago leaves could be seen here and there among those in front of the old Hancock Mansion, Early blooming fruit trees - extremely oroek : : and a few days of such mild weather as we have Kingston, in order to erect 0 arsenal, for had during the past few days will burst the buds which, we learn, the Imperial Government into bloom.” has allocated the large sum of nine thousand. — nds. Kingston being almost central be- | ween Canada East and West, the home au- thorities think it the best location for a royal

magasine.”” 000,

The London Prototype oa 8, in @ recent number :—** We have heard a rumor that the 18th Company of Royal Engincers, quar- tered in this city, will leave us in s ring for

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| Tue Prussians AND THEIR Kixa. — The|

late singularly mild weather has had gl) the in-|

The January dividends of the two great/extend in a single line 55 miles. ‘fire-arms companies in Hartford—Colt’s and men to carr | thew ‘s— together, amount to nearly $l,

| brilliant, triumphant.

‘and the finances of the nation have pow i

nothing to apprehend. It would be long be-

'terly device. We have more of such in our

By that stroke of! uniform of Lincoln, In short, the genius the eyes of America have been opened, | against their own peo

and arm their hands

le and their own kin- dred—for the flower of their youth is already _in the Southern armies—-or else abandon their

Among the signers of the presentation let- fore the slew, cold, stupid heads of old world | families and their property, fly into Virginia, ‘* the arithmeticians would have bit on such a mae-| and take arms themselves for the ‘* Rebels.’’

This is the consummation the Lincoln Go-

“quiver, as the rebels shall know very soon, | vernment desires ; once in the rebeilion, these

'and old mother Britannia, it may be a little, but perhaps not much, later.— Punch.

i> & =

A writer in the Berkshire (Eng.) Chronicle

‘to the King of a kind unprecedented in in reply to a question asked by the editor of |

that paper, saya:

| planters are to be robbed of all their property | by the Washington ‘‘ confiscation act,’’ and

| their place is to be supplied by enterprising

| Yankees.”’

<> 20° The efforts now being made to supply the mills of Lancashire with cotton, in lieu of

gun-beats ; yet she contrived during the night of the 13th inst. to run past them all, and has since been heard of at Havana, having conveyed thither 1700 bales of cotton. Two or three U. S. mer- chant vessels have already fallen mto her clutches. Hereupon, there will probably be a fresh anti- British outbreak. It is a fact, that sinee prizes have fallen so fast into the possession of the blockad- ing ships, very little compiaint has been emitted regarding the despatch of cargeos from Liverpool or Nassau to Contederate ports; but s% soon as the shoe pinches ow the other foot, so sven as the Alabama preys again upon American commerce, nothing can exceed American indignation. Congress is still debating the ways and means for carrying on the war, or gpr liquidating the en- ormous debts already contracted; and Wall Street goes into spasms of speculative excitement from day to day, as the conviction becomes more general that the high price of paper can alone limit the future issues of paper money.—Diplo- matie letters that passed between Mr. Seward and the Mexican Envoy at Washington, and that have now been laid before Congress, show the efforts vainly made by the latter te check the export of contraband of war hence to Vera Cruz, tor the French, and show too how apt neutrals are some- times to lean in favour of powerful beligerents.— The question of raising 150,000 negro troops has been sharply debated ; but so far without result. It may be remembered that, previous to the au- tumnal elections which exhibited so strong a seuti- ment of opposition te the Government, the autho- | rities at Washington ruled the press with a pretty high hand, suppressing in faet, at their own dis- | cretion and without legal process, fair freedom of | veice and pen. It was thought that a course so objectionable and suicidal was abandoned ; but we regret to perceive that this fatal disease has | broken out again at Washington. This time, a | Philadelphia paper, the Evening Journal, is the