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on uvy tétidal Reve: F Satie ip to the digyiags Kia

busoe yoat, about Cars tune, | had sane bust

ness at Mr. John Suapson’s station, near

which T was at work. <A violent stort came on while | was there, and the cM rose so much that it was impossible forthe to retufn | to the camp thatnight. Mr. Sictpsbn, there- fore, very kindy offre? me supper and a bed. Daring the evening | had thé misfor tune to break ‘iy pipe. ‘ I cfu,” he said, only offer you a clay, for F have no othes in| the house.’ * uve you'not a very handsome meerschaurs?’ said [ involuntarily. He| looked at we for a moment with’ surprise,

and thew fepiied, laughing: * Dhad certainly, |

hut my wife there, compelled ne to ge with it.’ *And with good ‘reason,’ 8.1 she, | made no remark, but from theje words J in- for that my friend, the ghost, had at last suc- ceeded in securing hie prize.’

“Well,” said’ the storekeeper, ‘1 suppose that’s al! tro.’ ‘

'Rvery word of it.’

_ * Uitdn all 1 can’ say is, that [ shouldn’e have believed it bad Uheard it from any one eis.’ —_— : ‘Aw Op Curvy. ‘mie * ver had 7 -

The Civil War in the States. LN rn tet 8S LATE BATTLE OF FREPERICRSBURG.

The correspondonY of the Tribune gives the following account of the butchery of Ceaeral French's division :—

** It is not using too strong an expression t5 su} that ia this battle we were butchered "Phe foae of The enemy fn comparison to ours tiust be ingignidcant.

’ “t* More t! aa oné lialf of t&e division of Gen. French weré ‘placed ‘hors ‘dz combat before they had fired a shot, haying orders to with- hold their fire, charge bayonets and rush upon the entrenchments. They anticipcted

hand to Ping fight fof the ctest of the first rae eo Of HiMs. Lying close upon the soft 3 beh ‘ ‘stroyed fence, WLIW We had bot taken into! out etloblations as obstacles, thé enemy | watehed the approach of Cendral French un- ‘tif every man in the battle Rite came under tim of the best oharpshooters in the rebel ar- my jaan tant, almost before the fence | ‘}toctf was digeovered to be an vbetacle, a, ‘Jong fhik line of fame and smoke streamed | above the fence and walh, and et the foment, the first volléy of sméke jab fired, Sixty | pieces of artillery, charged with gttpe and ‘cannister, sent their iferiul cofitents straight | through our advancing Nunes, raking them in) frontand on both Ranks. ‘Destruction so) terrible has never been seen during the war. |

Gen. French went into the action with | 7000 men; to-night, two days after the bat- tle, bat 1200 men haye reported to him.) The entire loss in the dorps of Gen. Coueh, | consisting of the divisions of Gens. Howard, | French and Handéock, and which on the!

orning of thé battle contained! 4D regiments, | old and new, athofnting at Icast to 20,000 | men, is about lu.wod. Tue loss of Gen. | Reynolds corps of Franklin s grand division, | ‘whieh wete at first supposed to be bat 2000, | is to-night coneidered by sowe of Gen. Frank. jin’s staff ts to be nearly 4000. The following are the estimated: losses in the

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three grand divisions :—~Thie total in the,

right grand division, 7,505 ; centre grand division, 2,950; left grand division, 3,050. | Tetal 13.505. 6 is believed that these | figures wl: fall utder sather then exceed the offieia! report. Gen. Franklin suffered some what from the enemy's shells white crossing | ‘the river. Had he remained 2 day Jonger, | his position would have been fiost perilous. | ‘One of our brigades felt iy ‘tents and knap-| sacks tehind in Fredericksburg.”’ : _——sao Halleck, in his report, is very severe on | MeGieilan, whom he is accused of wishing to, defame and Yesizoy. We have already pub- jished some pastiges whyii show this. Le says of McCiellan’s inactivity after the bat- tle of Antietam :-— } ' Prom the 17th of September till the 26th of Getaber MeVlellan’s main army remained om the notth Sdnk of the Potomac, in the vicinity of Sharpsburg and Larper’s Ferry. Phe long inaetivity of so large an army in| the face of a defeated foe, and during the | ‘most fayourable seasya for rapid movements | “and a vigorous campaign, was a matter of | ‘great jueappointwent and regret. Your Fetter ef the 27th, aud my reply om the 23th ‘of Vetebgr, ip rexard to the alleged cause of | this unfortueate delay, I subimit herewith, ‘marked Exhibit No. 5. Jo Foply to the ‘telegraphic order of the Oth Uetober, quoted ‘im my letter of the 28th, above referred to, Gen. McClellan disapproved of the plan of | ‘Yrossing the Potomac routh of the Blue ‘Ridge, and said that he would ervss at) Harper's Ferry and advanee on Winchester | Ve, bowever, did not begin to cross till the | Both of October, and then at Berlin. ‘This passage occupied several days, and tompleted gbout the 2rd of November.

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What ecuced hits" lo chothige his views, or, what his plan of ett!paign wat, Tamignorant, | Yor about this time he ceased to comm tnicate |

‘with me in regard td his operations, setiding his reports directly to the President. Un the ‘Sth inst , I'received the written order of the President relieving Gen. MeClellan and plac- ing Gen. Burnside in the command of the army of the Potomac. This order was trans- mitted by a special messenger, who delivered at to Gen. SeCtellan at Rectortown on the Gh. :

Of the acknowledged inertness of the Fede- ral armies he rays :—

fought with bravery, and gained many is- portant battles, these Wetories have not pro- duced the usual results. In many instances the defeated foe was not followed from the batt'c-field, and even where a purauit was at- tempted it almost invariably tailed to effeet Yhe capture or destruction of any part of the yetreating army. This is @ mattet which yequires serious and careful coneideration. A victorious army is au dition tage.

serious, if not fatal injury. This result hes | Union men in Kentucky.

usually been attained in other countries. Js ‘apy reason why it should not be ex-

fin this? It is easily wuderstovd that acsubtry hke that between Yorktown and, ichmowd, or the thickly wooded swamps ol | Missiasippi and Louisiana, that the retreating, force, by felling trees across the roads and sonebel

streams, may effectually prevent any rapid) 1 it. The one in a few minutes blocks) or destroys roads, which the other cannot Sher or repair for hours, or even days. the] ‘pursoer has very littie hope of overtaking | is flying foe. But this reasoning is not! applicable to Maryland, and the grystey part’ "v irginia, Kentucky and Middle Tennessee. tmuse be admitted that in these theatres” of war the rebel armies have exhibited much more mobility and activity than oar own. ot only do they vat yaarch us, both in ad-| née and retrea’, bas on two memorable oe- | basic pstheircayalry have made with umpunity bey -*re circuit of the army oi the Poto- Settent the success of an-

and legs,’”” | rter.

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ey in rebellion against the”

+artifeyry tnd other engines 6f wou employed, the

| forces

| tured! or disperse —the feture'was entirely owing hte the near neighborhoed of Their &trongheolds, tu | which they fed when they found Wemselves wn} Lable te face our fovee any letyer inthe field. ithe battle beow foweght tweuty miles tlris side of | ho obstacle anti! thoy thould meet in the} the

ind a Tow stone wall avd half de-|

t is seen during the last two or three’ months that while our soldiers have generally

Merete - =e . v ~ _—— - oo — ae — ment to inePeuse the immobility of our armies) Les thercot, will recognize and uraintain the frie in ‘the field dom of sail persons, Lb hereby enjoin upon the Agvin, ow? troops, especially those in the | a. declared to be free to abstain trom “— East, havé been yery Fietle Bccustomed to luce unless in necessary selt-delence, and 2 re mareh, af least to that kind’ of marching) usually required by active opetations in the | ther deelare and make kuewn thet suet persons fiel®. Absent ‘eisim a8 one of the Most serious of suitwhle condition will be ‘réceived into the evils in all our armies.” Hundreds of officers grued service of the United States, to garrison atid fhousands of men argalmost continaally | forts, positions, stations and other places, wud to from their commnds. Many of these are) man vessels of all sorts ip said service; aud Upon really stragglers anc deserters. In regard to | this Act, sincerely believed to be an Act of dus- officers, the evil is being abated by Bummary | tice vranted by the Constitution upon Miltary dismissals, and if the lew could be stringent-| Necessity, [ invoke the ee ly enforced aganst (he men i# would von | mankind and the gracious favor Of 4 righty tied.

Inbour faithfully for reasoneble wilges, and T fur-

: ' : 1) witness Whereot, &e., &ee pat an end to desertions. — Bat straggling ot | (‘Sigued) , jupausaas Laxgous the march and in battle can b@ prevented Tass caeiiaial a caine

only by a severe and summary punishment! a i “— : inflicted on the spot. In this ne lati other, my THLEGRHA ae tr.

important particulars our military Jaws re-| Sr. Joy, Jan. 5. At the battle of quire #evisfor and amentment. They were, Murfreesboro un Friday lass, the Confeder- mastly enacted for a small army and for times! ates charged heavily and were repulsed ; on ‘of pedce, and ave unsuited to che governmens| Saturday they again attacked the left wiry of the army we now have, which we ave now engaged

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‘ed. Colonel Anderson reportg that the Con- ' | federates were decidedly ‘ whrpped,”’ and FROM HWE Som RT |that the Federal forces were nine miles GREAE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG. south of Murfreesboru.—The Confederates | kill aN’ @ontrabands captured on the Poderal wagon trains Geweral Sherman's (Federal) advance or Vicksburg had a terrible conflict

| Frem the Richmond Wespateh, Hecember 16. | | ‘The Bottle of Saturdhy.'tebing inte eousidera- | i tion ‘thé hamber of men enesded, th® quantity of

valor of the ¢ombatants and the skit of the gene- | hours, dziving the enemy 1D the rear of rails, wax protiekly the greatest batt fe ever fought | city, and from his entrenched works Fhe fon this continent. It was fought by nearly two! next day there wes a general advance nade | hundred thousaud men and ¢everal ba adred pieces by the ederal forces, who sueceeded in car- lef artillery. It was contested ‘for ten hours. It | rying « strong Coniederate position situated resulted in a complete victory to the Confederate | Gy rising ground.’ The gunboats did not co- We say cothplete, because, although the} operate it the engazement. General Banks eee 6 et eae Soe Sree COP) aod Admotral Parra ut were expected to ar- izive at Vicksburg.—TPhe ‘iron clad steamer | « Monitor’? founderéd on Tuesday night last, | fiag near Cape Hatteras, There were three ol- | ficers and thirty-eight men drowned by this Happalnnmer’ river there workt have been catastrophe. The ‘ Passac’’ which sailed forty-six years that chipsed between the battle of! at Beaufort, North Carolina.— The Richmond Waterloo and the first battle of Miaiiangin. As it} apers claim great success to the Confederate | Was, it bas proved’ td the Yankees that No #it-| Fane ip ‘Tennesse. periority of numbers gr of preparation’ ean avail "! ¢ ; : | that tt a pitched Wattle with the furée? of the Sr. fons, dan . Fvenittg.— Advices from coufedetaty“a trattt so patent and’ $0" Siten ex-| MuMfreesboro to Saturday fight represent emptied that we believe they are the drily people | Pederals having advahtigé atid wil! hold it; 0n.outph wfhe venture to deny i. everything favorable ufftess ihe enemy receive ae cw seat a roe - gg We ao reiploreements from Richmond. — Bragg re- see whateve » at o eh oahe’ ° , tre le wee pf lt ik as es don twenty-fice hundred killed, wetlided | ports “@ Richmond W Cdnehday prior eed dnd missing, wile, according to the repoft of success over Federals, cd pturing our thousand | those best skilled jo making estimates @f this de- | (4000) ‘prisoners, ol pieces artillery, 500 seriptién, Woes dot certainly fall short of ten -

wagons.—Believed at Fredericksburg that thousand, and in all probability greatly exceeds) large number of Confederates had gone to it. This will not be regarded asatall uwprobable | reinforce Brikz at Murfreesboro, — Gen. when we take into consideration the relative Pe Grant telegraphs ganboats engaging Vicks- | sitio’ of the opposing armigs, The Confederates | were ou the heights, which rendered them _ aceeasible to eannen. ‘The Yankees were in the |G. ‘ions (6.000.000) worth of property | low grounds, subject to a murderous fi real artillery | eaeaies Sdeconed by. bata Caltedean, and musketry as they advanesd! Every shot told, | ©" Hol Sori —teneral Bi amd these who witnessed it yay that the slaughter | raid upon ito ly Springs enefal Plunt wae awful beyoud anything yet witnessed in the | reports further successes orey ones . m his war. Gegert! Lougstres t syecreded in getting departinent.— Contederate t teckan? | hoetaw powsession of A loug stone # all ow fhe outskirts of Indians desire to lay down arme.— lew York | Fredericksburg, and itt placing “4 whole divi) Comnrercial says another? senatorial raid in | sion Ighind it. The Yankees, with more boldaess contemplation on the President to gut Seere- | than they’ usually exhibit on such” Greases, | tapy Seward. } attempted to get possession of If” Phey were | , repnised “with unparalieied slaughter bi every! Sr. Joun, Jan. 6.—-4 despatch from Gen. attempt, and at last broke and fed iv eimfysion.| Rosecranz on Sunday announces the retreat) The Yankees, we preswmre, will wait for tear of the Confederate army on Saturday night, | rival of Sigel’s corps beiore hey try they lick | anda pursuit by the Federals across Stone | —— ee ~ ae aie; - yo! ‘River. — Another despateli says that the we bate no means of deteria ; Bt we feel) : ; : a convinced that it is not aufficiently gredt Yo alte: Federal success i8 com ple te, ane that the en the resiit, avd that if alter its arrival Gnother ure t onfederate ay feerms towards attack should’ be’ hazarded, the end will be the | Tullahoma ia disorder.— The federal loss is same. ‘The fetetal hope here ie that the trial! estimated at nine thousand. The Confederate | will he made, s# confident are allia the valor ef) shenghtey is great.—Gen. Sherman, at latest our army and the Comsnmmate shill of its great! secounts, had carried three lines of the Con-. leader. J veers to be doubted whether General | federate works near Vicksburg, fring on the | Lee permitted the enemy te come over, or W lether fourth and dest. He was only two milcs from | he could havé pre vdilted tt had he tried. It seams the city, whveh it is snpposed had surrender to us that he had efery rensom to wish them 0) og. tte had eaptored tey gang and 700 prisvn- come over. He had selected bis field of battle, = . : : oe 4 "ese ‘ers. The Federal futce 1s 40,000 — General and had thervnghly etudied it, ax Napoleon had)". seh ai a } i done the field of Austerifz, when he fell back! Sullivan, with six thousand men, had a despe- , thirty miles te drat his euemy te it, and as Well,prate fight, whieh lasted all day with Forest, ington is said te fiite done at Waterluo, He had?near Lexington, Pennessee rooting and scatter: an army full uf confidence in themselves and in| ing the enemy with a loss of 1400 filled and | hime. The dparity of foree was net so great as! wounded, and 400 prisoners, over UU horses, te render vierterbs at all hnprobable when the com-| one battery, and six guns.—flour, super. position of the two aranes and the animating $5 90 4 6 00; $6.35 a 6 50. apirit of each ape’ teken inte consideration. It) they were deteryoiied to pass be could hardly have prevented them, sinee they had possession | of the heights dn the uatere side, and had | crowned them with ihtumefalle batteries. —W hat | may have been his motives it ix impossible for us of course to say; but we understand one of his i : : : officers, very high in rank, expressed himself, in | THE HONBLES. KE. PALMER AND JOHNS strong terms, anxious above all things for them to} LONGWORTH. come over and try their fortunes on the very} . ground which was the theatre of the battle seve. | To The Execrons— ral weeks Rigo. : | Gentlemen, —One of the avowed priuciples under Buinis Ge tele yitehos battle rm which General | which the present Gevernment came inte power Lee has cotunanded, withitt less than six months, aa : | and iu all of thein he hag been yietyeious, No) ¥as embodied in a solemn declaration and public other caritpiign, éacvept that of Italy in 1796, and | pledge before the lust election, that, should they that of France in 1814, presents such a result | Our peoyte ate cheered by the reflectina that their z : armies aré commanded by to Generals Who have | Assembly should hold office of emolunenut, aor en- no rival in the art of war—Lee on the Rappahan- joy any positivn of profit from the Government. neck, and Johnson in the Southwest. They are) as superivt ty the Yankee generals in every qua-| lity that cunstitetes the uplitary ehief as the |

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CORRESPONDENCE,

LE LNLNOO

ee

(FOR THE EXAMINER.)

be feturned with a majority, no member of the

Fhe two gentlemen whore names figure in the frotitispiece of thia letler were among the most

that Lincoln tent to subjugate thea.

-_- VICTORY IN KENTUCKY.

| no-office doctrine, atid did rvleanly pledge them- selves publicly to adhere to that political course, | From the Richmond Examiner, Dec. 18. if they shutld be returned to the Legislature.

+ . rw tier thel ie a 3 exumine. | We have authentic atcontits of two en-, Mew Mey Kept thefr pledge let us extniine ‘gagements with the enemy on the 7th and. Having turreptitiously, with their political conte- | 8th of December. son, with a part of General Floyd's furce, justice, they seized with guilty hands the Govern- / mot the enemy af E eens, aos were ‘ment of the Colutiy. Thus positioned, and so em- ae poe Oe aioe — powered, and placed beyond the reach of On the th Goeent Fiera. with another confiding constitietits, the Tonbls, EF. Pahoer and part of his force, in conjunction with Col Jvka Lougworth, no longer begging hat in hand, _Caadel’s Kentueky regiment, fell upon the! under vows 21 pledgés for your suffrages, dared a — a ee! eer tw disregard their word, and stooped to the viola- renting tele waele eek. ew iano ‘tion of their solemn pledge. side was trifling, but the batchery of the | Gentlhemen. Give me your atleutioa for a Yankees was terrible General Floyde few minutes while 1 tell how Palmer and Long- captured — a | yap om & train) worth broke their obligations te you. jot several bun pack mules, seven-| ty seeming aceord with their pledge, Messrs | gr setae te ae la Palmer and Longworth — both members of the enough, it is suid, to supply his army for. ; several months. The loss of the enemy in| filled the publie departments with gentlemen un-

How! do you asc

Executive—the tormer leadet of the Government,

‘able. Mr. Palmer, who, under the Responsible system of Government, would have been by right Atterney Genoral, refuses by his pledge that office,

Pm PRESIDENT’S PROCLAMATION,

jietcus, on the 224 day of September, in ‘the but deceives youin that refusal, and imposes upon Year Uf our Lord 1862, a proclamation was issued | you the belief vf hia self sacrifice ef pay and po- | by the President of the United States, containing | git in not accepting the office of Attorney.| among vither things the following, to wit: That! a <n . a ee ore a ae on the fiest day ot January, in the year of eur General, But le, the Leader of the Government, Lord Kighteen Hundred and Sixty-three, all per- appoints Mr. FP. Breeken —one of the juvenile sons held as slaves within any State or desiguated | members of the Bar—and partner in the law of

part of a State, the people whereof shall be in re- 1. “ : 5

bellion against the Uuited States, shal! be then Mr. T. H. Haviland, anotker member of the Ex- ficheeforth aud forever free, and the Executive | ecutive, first Crown Officer of the Govermneut, Bat

Covernwent of the United States, including i) with the emolument of £350 per annum.

Military and Naval authorities thereof, will reeog- . oa ‘ M2e and maintain the treedom of such pereons, | mmasking ae ee 5 spore Soy ee

aiid will do no act or aets to repress such persons, | is sub rosa secured in the salary of Attorney Ge-

or ~ of Soy ~ 7 ~ - tees may make! neral, £350, Which sum Mr. Brecken hands over for their actual freedom; that the Executive will : ti tins of ou the first day of Junuary aforesaid, by souhet to him, deducting, howove r, such amount of fees, mation, designate the States and parts of States, | 88 Mr. Palmer reecives as Queen's Counsel, which

¥ rt. in —e the Lem yy Toa fees, during one term of the Court, amounted to shall be in rebellion against the United States, and! ¢ recke Fa , a the fet that auy State or the people thereot shall | * — ae, a men SETH: <eRPEES nee on that day be in good faith vepresented in the | Palmer m all Crown cases, in order to pile on the Congress bf i United a by members chosen | Queen's Counsel’s fees, and leave him, Mr. Brecken, therete, at Blection, wherein a ihijority of the he stnalle: ieable be . > qnalified Voters of such State shall have partici- the apace, practicable balance to pay Mr. TP. out pated, shail jn tiie absence of stronger cauuter- of the £250, which would ib the ratio of the one term of Q. ©. fees, £100, reduce the $350 te

acting testimony, hé deethed conclusive evidence at sueh State nod the biaple thereof are not £150, payable trom brecken te Palmer, and leaving bona fide in the hands of M?. Brecken

Tinted States. OMS. Therefore, 1, Abratiam Lineolu, President :

_ Myited States, by virtue hf the power in me | £200, to be divided between him and his partner,

pit mnmandet-in-Chief ofthe Army and| Mr. T. H. Haviland, ex M.P., ex M. E. C., as

ee aiined Beane oad. ve spoils out of the office of Attorney General—jn-

asure, do, at this first) Volving a cost to the country of £550, which work

our Lord 1863, and| was executed under the old regime, or late Go-

fuel | yermuent for £40

a and designate The dodge in the office of Attorney. General

jherein the | being accounted for, L next find Mr. E. Palmer

8 Fe-| and Mr. Johu Longworth sitting snugly in Coun-

il and appointing themselves, in company with

As of the Executive Council and Secretary

Mr. W. H. Pope, Commissioners

this Provinee. For this ser-

yo received, or will be

wy, by order of the

vder a Colonial

he Hone

a6 went,

‘counnend to them in all cases, when allowed, they

and thé war in| of the Federal army, and were again repuls- |

lwith ‘the Confederate forces, lasting ie the |

land good wilt,

totherwise would be. bitaelt Heyond these bounds, and ameng the papers jaow reeebyed way be nambered the leading jour-

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revising the laws, and illegally held seats there. Mr, Palmer covert!? receiving the pay of Attorney Céneral, and openly poeketing the remuueration ‘as reviser of the’ laws, did, a3 also did Mr. John Longworth, iv fobbing the revised Inw remunera- ltioit money, Viulate the kuw im respect te their seats in Parl@tent, and broke their selému pledge to the country, nade previdus to the fast election,

There can’ Sut be one universal feeling of con- demuation, i honorable minds, of the deception and disingenuous course adopted by these gentle- then to blind thei” cenituents, anit hoodwink the country F fud let mey in couclusion, ask you, Gentlemen, what faith or coffidence em? be placed iu the public word or pledge of those gentlemen ! ” Your's,

Ivso FACTO.

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nr ‘Third Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the Cliarlottetown De- hating Club and Reading Room.

His now some free years site this Lnstitution

has bven inaugurated in Charlottetown, und your |

> - . Committee, in accordance with the tauat Custou,

‘would present a Report of their proceedings and ot the progress of the Club wile veder theu aries pian Committee asswned office ir the begimming of 1862, the prospects of the Club were auvthing Mit encouraging; seme upbappy differ- ences whitly Bad previously arisen wneny the heading ieiubers, of the association had cast a gloom over ibs’ Qshates, 2nd by excluding many whe hakhitherteBeen ithe habit of participating in thems, hid pes wed them less interesting and instructye. Phar Hierences were, however, by the prouwt dud decisive action ot the Club seen restored, #nd youre Uyinin tee rejoice to report that, with owe mihappy exception, Jhat harmony Which isthe sure harbinger of prosperity and advanvewnent, was then established

Se ; cr ‘und has ever since confined to govern and ani- | j such x rout ax the world did not witmese in the | jp company with the “ Mousor”’ had arrived |

mate the members of this seciety. ‘ With regard to thegexception, yorr Coumittee

de pet think it necessary to parficularize but

merely to report, that diferéevces baving arisen

between the Committee dvd the Siperintendent | intiniely supers 0 the lecture system > tor White | lof the Reading Room, a divisiet took place which | upon the one had you usscibke merely lo hear the

resulted in the establishment of s seperate Read-

ing Room, It was, however, found that the mi-

‘berot those desirous of supportilg societies of tis

kind was not sutticient to sustaia twe of theni in an efficient manner, and tha® au aimulgyration, if auch could be effected. would be highly bereticial to boch parties. Acting on this belief, ‘and With the ‘Sneere desire of benefitting the Cal, your Committee entered into au arraagement with the

preprictor of the ** Merchants’ News jJtoom, |

which at length resulted iv a junction of the two

: ; ‘dn terms Well Liewn te the Club at large.” Your | burg batterieS.—Grenada Appeal says the ‘Committee feel Ht the result has juatrhed their | vexpbctations as reguféy the benefits te arise frou

this amalgamation, aiid they feel assured that, all

former disputes and prejudices being buried in the dust, the Charlottetown Debating Club and Read- |

ing Roout has now attained a poxttiem far dhéve

any of a like ¢haracter which may have’ hitherto | existed in our (tle Isle, aud that it will compare | twt uutaveurably with many institutions of a s1- |

wmilar kind in the lower provinces. Your Com- mittee feel that thiS is not a mere boast, and they would point with pride and satisfietion to the

painerous files of newspapers, now received here |

trom aluiost all quarters ub the globe, in support of their stabement.” They would alse embrace the present opportunity ee pen thauking those ladies and gentlemen wht baye kindly placed oo the tables of the Reading Room many instruetwe aud interesting papers, thus proving by their eon- duct that they have the interest of the suciety at heart; and they feel assured thot if this vourse of procedure were adapted by all whe have it in

their power todo so,-if would not only be the |

means of rendering the tables more interesting and attractive, but might, perhaps, enable the Committee to lessen that expenditure which now weighs so heavily on the finanees of the Club.

When this Reading Room was first formed in

' connection with the Club, it wax uel anticipated |

that it would reach the dinreusious to which it

bas now expanded iisel; the iuteution of its ori’ ginators was mtereby te get possible, one or two | of the leadiag English journals ty otder to reader |

the Club mere attractive and interesting than it It has, however, expanded

vals net ealy of Beghand, Seethend and Trekud, but ako of the Waited States, Canada and the Lower Provisces. Vt is tanecessary tor ux tu re- mind the Club that these papers bave entailed an

additional expense, which, not being by the first |

iustauce foreseen, Was, therefore, left unprevided ‘for, and that to ‘this circunitance the existing ‘debt now burdening the Chib or : | greater part of ft, must be attributed, | ‘Phe debt ef the Club at the beginning of 1861, jaccording to’ the report of the Committee pre- viously ie office, was about 225; but your Coim- mittee are sorry to report that this staterment was inade wader a misconception, and they now thud

that mstead ef £25 the debt of the Clob was up- | Your Committee, by practising | the utmost economy in the expenditure of the |

wards of £20.

Chub, have reduced this anount by a few pounds, bat the debt is still so heavy thet it retards the progress of the Club greatly: and your Committee lview with uudixgtiised satistaction the recent ac- |View of the Clabam raising the subscription to 15s. instead ef DOs. as formerly, ter it proves deci-

jstand; aud if the members come forward, as is expected, yor Committee feel coufident that at ‘the end of the coming year the debt will be so

jacosibly decreased ax te warrant a return to"the | without 4 single exception, aud a determination | lold rate of subseviption. Phis debt was, as will yas expressed by all te have bim re-elected. A |

ibe seen at a glance, a serious obstacle te the effi- Cent working of tke Society, and in this light at

jducing it in amount if not of wiping it away alto- igether. As a means te thet end it was intended

| taimments,” (several of which have already taken | place), the, proceeds arising from them te be ap- | phed te this uliiehs and your Committe rejuice to

report that aided ax they were by the exertions of

ithe members of the Club and patronized by the again — lest bis doing so wight cause a very un-| at the sympathies of his hearers in favour of the

‘citizens of Charlottetown generally, the results | were attended with perfect success. The proceeds vi the tirst of these entertainments, after paying ‘all the expenses connected therew!!), ameuuted ito the sum of £10; and aithoug: the second, owing to some unfortunate misunderstanding, did not (ooking at it in a pecuniary point of view)

realize as much ax its predecessor, still the net | tage, should circumstances render it necessary for | meeting.

proceeds amounted to the uot despicable sum of three pounds, Your Committee do not view these entertain-

d to be iv a con-, killed, in the two engagements,was about two connected with the Legislature ;—thus far faith ments with se mueb faveur merely beeause of to pursus ita-defeated foe with ddyan-, hundred—among them Colonel Dills, and! was kept with you, and all looked fair and honor- | ah astine such pursuit, to du thém| two others of the vilest and most dangerous, :

the pecuniary advantages arising tothe Claby from thom; they also look at it from another point of lyiew and from a broader basis, viz: asa means of

‘diffusing a love of literature and music among the | the distriet—saw, likewise, the propriety of not | pocket would suffer, being an Agent for one or

people at large, Beparated ax we are daring the contesting the election, betng, like the other can-| two absent proprietors. It ls not for me to say, | greater part ef the year almost entirely from the |

rest of the world, without the advautages which wany of the cities of of sister Colonies possess, we teel that entertainments on this principle are te be heartily desired; and yorr Committee would express the hope that during the present winter the seheme may be further advanced; and they feel assured that (judging trom the past at least) the citizens of Charlottetown will heartily respond and endeavour with all that lies in their power to render them as entertaining and profitable as possible,

Your Committee regret to report the absence of C. C. Vaux, Exq., our late worthy President, who, since the formation of the Club, laboured assiduously for its advancement, and whose zeal and energy in promoting the welfare of ths Club, entitles him to the good wishes of every member. |

During the year which has just new closed, and | aince the report of the previous Committee, a great event bas éceurred iv the natioual history of the world. The great * futernational Exhibi- tien” OF 1562 has come and passed; thousands, hundreds ot thdusands from all quarters of the globe have congregated in that one centre, and have displayed their wares, their products, and theiy manufactures ia a worthy and glorious com- petition with each otber; the swarthy and semi- civilized son of Asia has there met with the re- fined and gentlemauly Karopean; and the inhabi- tant of the iey regions of the North hastested his skill in the arts and scicuces with those whe live in more genial etimes. Little Prince Edward Esland has also made het display; thé artiéles, as a leading English jofirnal remarks; have been “more those of a thoroughly useful and necessary than faneiful or ornamental east, but on the whole very creditable >’ we feel, thereferé, that it has not been made in vaih, an that the day is not far distant when we shal! its fruits nan extend- ed and beveticial commerce with the niother country. Thousands sho hitherto bave been al- together anayware of our very existence, will now ber made ultimately dequainfed hot buly with our prospetts and our resources but also with our civil histery.. Yuur Committee feel all the more

roud of evr Island display beeause they remen-

sr that it was within these walls that the aubjec Was Carnestly recommetded and urged Oh ‘th Government; and if evar asked by some’ doubtiul member if the Club ever did anything beneficial to the Islqnd, they would point with pride and satisfaction to the Island Exhibition in the great Industria! niart of 1862, and say, it wae thfough us the Island Mon agen there = all. sin As regurde the debates, the primary object of the

iety, and indeéd that for which it Nears form- Comutittee have also a cheerful Report to he subjects discussed daring the year pws” 1--Cau any meaus be devised re ely ment to our surplas po- = -Whieh has conduced most to the civilization, the Pen or the Sword !

| offer for the distriet ~ an impression haying pre-

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{3—Cromwell’s character, 4—~Whether has Ireland re Seotland produced the best songs 7 —knprison- ment for debit. 6— Award of the Land Commis sioners. 7—Limited Liability as applied to our Island epmmerce. 8+ fe or qualified suf: lfrage. 9—-Nevossity of change in Charlottetown } Corporation, 10— Klective beyielative Comneil, hit—Southern Confederacy, should now be revoy nized! 12—Lunterference of clergymen in politics. | Ls Establishment of a Poor House. ¥ “Preach | Revolution of 1790. 15—Union of the ¢ colonies, | Mix-Royal Agricultural Society—its benefits. 1y7— Relative merits of Shakspeare and Milton.

Your Committee feel that it veeds only a glance at the subject matter of these questions to detertiine lehat they all, or most of thenp at feast, ave of great, {of paramount ae td the interespot the istaud | kaabracing, ae thpy do, questions of & political, hie | eobicul, social, and commercial character, auk stretching over such a wide fiékt of useful inquiry, they cannot fail not only to give a temporury and pleasing vratitication, bat also to dmphant many Use | ful and highly necessary traths npen the mind, not lonly of these of the rising generation, but also ot | those whe have attwined maturer years. Nor are

the subjects coufiued or interesting only as regards

ourselves. Abroad, und in that country whieh for many years We have regurded ju the light of au elder smster —~ Which fer-years has Hived a lite of liaxuriouk ease and prosxpérity, We How behold torn | wwsunder by interncene war and bloodshed — we now behold a strife which for ram hatred and op position oft the one hand, and fem bet determined resuive on the other, bas, perbaps, never before | been equnilled, dud certainly never surpassed Me the leivil histary of the’ w orld, itis, indeed, u glorious | sivht (however much the coluseqacnces attending # ure to be deplored} to behold. a people rivitiy en wasse ib resistance to What they consider an iu- fringement of those rigtts which have been handed down from their foretwthers, and Yor which they lhawe bled and died. hi is, We say, a vlowious sight ito see them yo forth stundmy “shoutder to shoul der,” determined, come what with, to preserve those liberties which are so dear to them t provesthem, {indeed, worthy des¢eudants of then reat Hberty loving forefathers. : : : *¥t is our duty vot only to acquaint ourselves with | tte facts of such events, but alsvo to judge o | merits of the cises of the contending parties soeh iaguiries this Lustitution is admirably adapted ; l for white upon the one band are collected upon our tables 4 large and well-assorted number of papers, coutai#img clear and’ heid aecounts of passing events, we also bave in the debwtes a mcaus by which exch aid all of the members of the society ure enabled 6 vive thetr read*he and the know- ledge for the benetit of the others. ~ Your Comejttiee have no hesitation i sey

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| opinion of one maw tion a subject yenerally of his hown choosing, and meré, as has been apt ly remark Led, “tor the purpose 6f shewiy off rather thei selves than the subjeet,’ on the other we meet to hear che views not of ome’ man only but of mriny, ‘am not only to bear bef to sitt them of al? their

| dros? dad arrive at the proper trath of the subject. | | be this Society and ander this system our judgiment |

| need not be warped, either theetigh fear of displeas | in # prejudiced audience or meting the couucen ance 6f party ; a free and unlimited scope is given, land Seaylessly advance what arguments smd sustain what views he may think just aud proper. Society being composed of all classe’ of religious | belief, qre#tious of a sectarian character are alone | excluded 7

| ‘The’ étueidation of truth ought always to Serm lone of ‘our principal objects, aud your Cormuittee | would expres the hope aud belief that of éllorts,

nent of thik end, have not been made in vain, ‘bu