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THE LATE REBELLION IN JAMAICA. |

(From the Loudou Standard, Dee. 8).

Phe discussion Upou the recent events in Ju! mace 8 barrow gx Meedl, be mere ihau Cle quarter, ne @ cCoucteversy pon Lie personal quaiilies vi Ga. W. Gerdes, vatiged lor ibecgaling » massacre, aud Guiernur Lyte. We regiei rows tue Baglea principle of eve Jusiive is to tui day sv detie apprecuiied D) sei Bluey Us tual hk Becumes po ceseary tv sland Beiween au nusent mae, placed ina siiuation of palatal ree | pousiutiiy, wud & clique hnyaticut for his con-| uvtuatlua, Wideul Inquity oF Lue least Cousider | auen of civculmsicoces. dul It seems as Cinenedggia | tue more resliess embers of @ parlour sect, eulising & few Tiougutiess poucmus trom oul} side, BY au OULDUTS, of putiaereplic Geclamatiud, | bad resuived to exact lue lor lic, lo wake repr | race tor Gordon, aid Co bang ab least sume one in | memory of Laas deplored uiarlyt. UI ihe camp ratye Wow Was bung fread ive arch of the ruiues | (uurt-bouse gale we cau have Lille more to say ;

Tue optutens of The ulissiouaries are divided avuul| head or the tail of the business. What is de-

him; oe bad eheved lu the bland & stuister Pepu- tation; be Was the nelorious ringleader of disuec tion, and entertained au nnpmvabie hatred 04 the

whines, Conmvicced Upou evidence, he was e@x-| cile.

ecuted in ordinary codise of maral aw, Ceraiuly | taken by a handtal of determined Fenians, who

with ihe pity of keow who bad weeu daulilar nto can throw up works, and hold it against any force

bis poli teal deals aurotg (we MtKed population,

su lar there Was wu end o baw, ulluougu tu Kug-| the Canadian Government can or is prepared to

jaud Alricau eywypalaicere bave been louud to wugyue tur tae trooty Ut his lnsecence upon Luree remarkable gruunds—(that beiere dying le

Worst culprits Gave dotie; that his policies of ute ussucanee are Nut regardea as catecelied by the otficets ta London, Wiien, I true, speats weil tor tue tiberality of Those associations; aud, actually, tuat the graves of ine lorefatiers may sul ve

* “hy ohn! . seen in some of Our Country clurebyaras, | the other side. It has sentenced one of their

how this last asser(ivt bears wpon tue port at is- sue is not Ww be easy compretended. liow- ever, sv rane the piea; bar the organs at the coloured faction 1» Lugiana have neacy exuaust- ed their buaget of regeeis over the came of G. W. Gorden, since tue more deepiy his uistory is ransacked the more damaging te (ue mdependent testimony Voluuteered. “Lue cue now 18 Lo vility aud = preyudge Governor kyre, the Governor Wail, the A.va, the Dantou of Jamaica m isto —fer those histerieal personages are pressed ity the service lu a Dudy— Bnd the Man Whe pi otect- ed a helpless throng of White Women aud Cuiidren trou death, or waree, ts loid te consider hinsel us having Sayed alive an Innocent negio, slaughier- ed tae peopie of & cIy, and massacred the tlowes of a nation simultaneously, uf bguratively. We usually find Cuese ex aggeracous deieat Gictuselves, aud tuey are the more likely to be mefiectual i tuis inalance because the tuci is so plainiy in ceu- trast with ite eurtesture. But we entirely depre cate the Wea that our action in Jamatea, iv the repression ot @ ferocious and dangerous outbreak, s vould be judged either by the tanatics of a sect oF ihe triends of an individual, Every one knows

whence The angry outery arises; ils the voice of |

Baby low the Lactic: it is the wall of seattered cou- gregulions which pave learned to believe that lueir peculiar missions hase cultured the negro and the negro’s blood relations inte a superiority over the white mau, and which unatieetedly sui- ter, and mveluataniy bowl, when their pet lamb becomes & raging bud and bas to be tethered very stimmarily wed efivctuaily betere his violence abates. As dealers iv Vicious horses are apt to explain, the brute is uly too playtul There is ah organization for the purpose of complaint; its centre ts ta Loudon ; 18 branches are everywhere Laroughout the kingdom; and its the protector- general ef all barvarians, though chiefly when at miachiet, affiliating the Jamaica black, in this res- pect, to the Malayun rever, a peacetu! trade iv piracy, the New Zealand outlaw, who bras a whole taunly because bis grandtather made a bad bargam im land, or the yak, whose ancestral pursuit of be d-bunting was claimed jor him asa prerogative fur the saute reasous as those which jasiily the Jamaica hali-breed in slaugutering to right aud jeff, thet be may express a general consciousness ef wrongs endured und superiority insulted. Bat as (his sort of advocacy, which

bas been sickening the public ever since the ex-| and effective movement agaiust the British Pro-|

ecution of the Moreut Bay assassins, is self-retut- ig and ineffectual, ¢o, on the other band, Gover wor Eyre can efford to have bis policy judged

without the multiplication of testimoniais to per: |

soual character by histriends. Iti perteetly tair, atnid the yell of det: aetion waich has arisen round his name, and the cowardly aspersions cast against him by a bandred anonyreus assailants —all of the sawe brotherhoed—to remember and point out the salient points of bis public career, tne conduct Which bas earned bun a high reputa- tien for courage, chivalry, humanity, and benevo- lenee, and the honers he has won vy the upright and biamel v= tulfiiment of duty during a long lite passed iu tne public service, but we dv net need to be harangued open bis private merits, the character of his acquaintances, or Lis direct de-

wo scent from Governor ky re of Newark. Ali thie

is injudicions and wonecessary, aud would, vo doubt, be repudiated by the man bimsel!. whe need only stand upon the policy which saved Ja- niaica, and trust to (he sagacity und the just spi- rit of his eouutrymen. He has good warrant tor anticipating from both a satiatactory vindication. There is ouly one question to be discussed, and ii will be far wiser to iake 1 upon its own basis than to coafute it with a uumber of others, irreievant and embarrassing.

We shail do service, we think, if we now glance at the real seope and significance of the noisy ngitation against Governor Eyre, or in other words, agaist the white population of cur West Indian cvlomes. Superticially, it viewed through the columns of two or three metropolitan and jait a score of provincial prints, the tempest might eppear te bave risen bigh; i's winds and waves gulhering strength from every quarter; the surt wlready beating upon the new Parl.ament, and a great Jamaica debate in prospect, to be followed by a Reyal commission, with, perhaps, a state trial, and the execution of a geserner, Remove the glass, and the cloud, which evemed so black and vast, is only 9 epeck in the sky. Ninety-nine journals so a hundred are complete “know-no things” with regard to it; if 18 the special canopy

the werld, concocting impeachments. The pro- cess, in this particular instance, is the easiest wasible, There ia » venerable, rich, and influ- gial association called the African Seciety ; it ry inntiimerable lipk*, connecting it with many ts Ugneas ii gives and receives official information ; Je has the ear of functionaries, bigh and low; ite pervading element ir the Noveoutormiat, all va- rities Ineluded But this society is too solid, too serious, too reapeetabie, to authenticate the movement on beholt of the Jamaica assassins, and will not stir in a mass to persecute Governor Hyre. Inall such a*seciations, however, there pre old and new parties, sections and sub-sections, heresies and schisme, and some blood has been drawn from the great bedy to invigorate the little coteries sprouting mp arourd it. Infinite disap- pointment bas been felt because a more deter- inioed demeonatration 18 vet made. Where are the Congregational and Baptist Unions?) Where ore ther committees) Where are their boards? Far aloef trom the egitation aguinst Governor Hyre, as some of the public may be surprised to learn! Where, demands an indignant philan- tryphiat, are the clerg) of the Established Church ? Not with haw, we are hoppy to know ; but, like bis betters of his own denominaiion, refusing to defame and injure an vbsent servant ofthe Crown, engaged, with the fall confidence of every respec- veble person in Jamaica, in restoring the security ond prometing the civ lized interetts of the colony ‘Tue cetion ef these mistaken gentry may be wide-spread, but its forees are ridiculously attenn- ated. Nothing is easier, upon such an opportunity, than te elicit a hundred declamations from the Noneonformist palpit, to obtain signatures for petitions encugh to swamp the Speaker's basket, te multiply public mertings vf twe or three hun- <teeds ia towns of ten or thirty thousand popula- con, aud thus to make a grand parade, aud call | popular teeling. Two or three eireumstances, however, if noted, will dispose of at least three- fourtha ef any-impresswu which this formidable talk may have produecd. The same stock nawes copstantly re-appear, whether the “cause” ia hatofa at Warsaw, who, having received 3 Nay Banta eo plots ne his Government, : urpe atores te witha large profit Fong M, aud ia hanged oy discovery ; or an

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UNITED STATES. ~

THE FENIAN BROTHERHOOD — WHAT THE FENIANS SHOULD DO. (From the New York Herald.)

Tuere appears to be no doubt about the fact that the Fenians have en hand a couple of mil- liens of dollars, and have been iw the recerpt of seme twenty thousand weekly up te the present time. This we have before stated. Now, what are the Fenians doing with all this money? What are they abcut in this erists in their affairs? In- stead of waking sowe practical use of their money, and even making some practical demonstration against the power of England, they are wrangling about who shall hold the money bage, and about this aud That head centre. This is absurd. It does not matter the toss of a copper who is at the

manded now is action. They should go to the The Government ef Cauada is inbe- The capital, Ottawa city, can be easily

frontiers.

What thrilling effect such

or the United States Government will be cbliged to look into their affairs. The British Govern- ment has already declared war against them on

number to twenty years’ transportation, and has a tight hold upou many others of the Brother- hood. go ts Canada, take their men and money with them, and fight it out Mere. We say the war has commenced on the other side: now let the Fenians follow it up here, and bit England hard in a tender spot—Canada. They must not keep fouling about the republic in Union Square, where

They must now accept the gage of battle,

they have been playing Government as children play with toys. They mustfbristle up, show their teeth, square off, and pitch in right and left. We hope they will not make a fizzle of it, as Kossuth did about the Hungarian Republic. Kossuth raised about two hundred thousand dollars on Lfungarian bonds, and when he left the country, there is a tradition that he bad invested the | money in the purchase of a prodigious number of

| saddles.

It is probable, however, that the only saddies he procured were those upon which he rode so easily into the affections of our credulous people, and cheated ‘them out of their money. upon which he and his tail-bearears are now living in clover in Europe. We repeat, the Fenians must go to werk. They must do some- thing. They must prove whether there is a great and patriotic movement or a huge and infamous swindle. They must stop their palavering and quarelling about the funds, and show the world (hat they are wen of mettle and muscle; other- wise they will stand stigmatized as worse than Kossuth and his tollowers, and their organization be forever stamped with scorn and hate by the

true-hearted Irish people.

WHAT THE FENIANS PROPOSE. (From the New York World}

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THE FUTURE OF THE SOUTH. There is @ hopetul future for the South, but it is not to be found in the counsels of those time- servers aud submissionists who are for yielding unconditional obedience te every bebest of a po- litical party in power, and are guxious that those in authority tay spit upon them, that they way give evideuce of their docility, The South bas nothing of good to expect from its timid and mer- cenary press, It bas nothing of good to expect frou misrepresentatives in Congress, who claim, asa decisive qualification and a peculiar merit, that they can swear that, in a war which invaded the howes of the South, they were the beartless creatures who stood mute aud neutral in the face of the grand tragedy that ran with blood and tears, without aid, comfort or countenance to their countrymeu dying before their eyes, reach- ing their hands for bread, fighting and starving beneath the glorious banners of Lee and Jackson, and Johnsen, and Pickett, and Gordon!

Counsels obtained from such sources are not what the Seuth needs, or what she should accept. She should take a new lesson of courage and self-respect. She should re-assert some of her terwer spirit. She should rest her hopes in some brave organization of public opinion, resolved to concede nothing to the North but what was de- cided in the issues of the war; determined to resist every encroachment upen her constitutional rights; prompt to claim the benefit of the Con- stilutivn as of old, and steadily and even defiantly asserting the ancient landmarks of the Union. Such a party may restore the fallen fortunes ot the South; it will, at least, ereet again the self- respect and pride — those high standards of per- sonal character — which formerly distinguished this part of the Union.— Richmond Despatch.

THE MEXICAN DIFFICULTY.

The Americans hardly kuow what to do with their Mexican question about which they have blustered so much. Bluster does not frighten Louis Napoleon, and although Geus. Grant and Sherman and others are said to be iu favor of an nuomediate invasion, the prospect of anothe: bloody aud exp usive war is not very inviting for the mere cautious and prudent. The Boston Journal tries to wix prudence aud bluster as fol- lows :—

Under other circumstances, the situation of af- fairson the Rio Grande might cause the pro- foundest anxiety. Many Americans are undoubt- edly slipping over to the assistance of the Jaurez cause, and, being determined to fight themselves, they may not be unwilling to ivelve their coun- Jaurest Mexicans are also reported to have crossed over and eontinued

try alse in the struggle. hostile acts from the American side. Finally, we have the rumour of the Ainerieans firing upon an Imperial steamer from the Texas bank of the river. ‘Fhough this account is net tobe implicitly relied upon, yet it, or something like it, we fear, is not wholly improbable, from the disturbed and threatening state of feeling which prevails in that quarter.

But war must net be sprang upen us by any such individual unsdemeanors. That is the feel- ing and determination of Mr. Seward, as we bear from Washiagton, and the people will sustain

The supporters of the Senate among the Fenian

Brotherhood are strongly in faver of a combed

| Vinees of North America, iu order te take posses ;sion of some territory eutside of the United States, where a permauevt base may be estab- ‘lished, aud ports obtained where swarwe of pri- vateers against the world-wide commerce of the | English people may sally forth. The cities bor- | dering on the lakes, will, it is asserted, gu inte } sueb a movement with the greatest enthusiasm, and an individual high in the councils of the Bro- | therbood is said te be in favor of such a move | This person, whose name we do not mention for | certain reasons, ia reported te have asserted, that Canada can be taken possession of in thirty days, | with a foree of 40,000 infantry, 5,000 cavairy, and 150 pieces of artillery, the entire force to be di- | vided into separate divisions, officered by men whe have hitherto acted in bigh positions in the Federal service. A well-knowu cavalry officer, now in the field, bas promised to take command of all the cavairy, when the time comes. Several infantry and cavalry officers bave also proffered their services tu the organization, with the proviso that immediate steps shall be taken to pnt the force in motion. The plan is te march inte Canada at different points, and after concentra- tion, tu move against the principal forces of the

British Government, disperse and capture them, take possession of the principai cities, by the aid of the eighty-five thousand Fenians, who are now curolled on the books of the Brotherhood in the twe Canadas, organize a provincial government and at ence issue letters of marque to scores of swift-winged privateers to go forth aud deal des- truction to English merchantmen. The same parties alae state that it would be Impossible fur the English vessels of war to thoroughly blockade the month of the river St. Lawrence, which is ninety miles wide, or the Bay of Fundy, the two great outlets to the commerce of Canada, for the fogs which prevail in these waters at certain sea- It is understood that President Roberts is in favor of such a campaign, and it is more than probable that if the movement were to be inaugurated, a truce would be declared be- tween the contending factions, fur the purpise of a unien against the common enemy.

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Whosoever shall declare for such a campaign, will, no doubt, possess the affections as well as the warm sup port of the entire Brotherhood, regardless of all petty bickerings.

GREAT FIRE IN PHILADELPHIA. PulLapecenta, Jan, 2.— A very destructive fire broke out at 1 o'clock this worning in Chest- Buildings No. 607 Chestuut street, eceupied by Haruden’s Express Company, 603 and 605, by Rockhill & Wilson, wholesale clothiers, and 609 by Perry & Co., clothiers, were almost entirely desiroyed. The walls fell inte the street, aud some firemen were injured, The loss will certainly not fall short of $1,000,- 0U0. The buildings destroyed were of brown stone, five stories high, and the most ornamental in Chestnut street.

Last night was the 15th anniversary of the im- menee fire on the same spot, when two men were killed. The building in which the fire originated had reeently been purchased by the Evening Bul- letin Association, who were preparing to make it their publishing house. Their jogs is fully in- sured. The other parties losing by fire and water are Herman, Destree and Bauer, trimmings; John F. Simmons, photographers’ waterials ; Bird’s billiard saluon, and Maguage & Co., paper

nut street.

sorted eargoes of three plundered mercbantmen in bie beld; or the negro, whe, baying backed, wetia ed, and hited ail the helpless beings he could toy hands upon, bursts into a Baptiet frenzy, and clauns the bevetit of the Universal Hymn. | There is, as the phrase goes, little accretion of airength or chacacter to philauthropy thus pro- feasioually practised. Ayain, we have not for- gotten the tremendous promises of punishment during @ weries of bitterly controversial

pressing the Indian ioutiny. And tasfly. the who have sett wmeselves tu the task, are haf strong enough to create a public opinion for themselves; they may be capable as the attorneys of aw but they must wait for the blue books; aud there is little peril in predicting, that, when their case is ready, they will find that, ‘all, fair play is the favourite game in Eug- and that they are toe late in demanding to werner Fyre. because, in the violence of artisanshiy, thy allowed their sectarian ste convict ln before he had been al-

v utter a ayllall« of seif-detence, v. Many Yeans —Mrs. Winslow's Sooth- Pp. for children teething, hus stood the ‘oy years, and newer known to fail, I reliable ard harmiees. It regulates 1 ord bewels, cures wind colic aud ie bowels, softens the gums, reduces vu aud alle\e all pain. VPerfeetly safe

13 milliom of mothers cay testily.

dealers.

Some twenty persons were arrested for robbing the stores in the vieivity of the tire. One store ju no danger from fire was completely gutted. Among the goods taken to the station House was an old pair of pantaloons, which the owner wust have changed for a new pair, but forgot to remove his poecket-book, containing six dollars = From the extensive rebberies, it is now believed that the place was set on fire for that purpose.

Allthe money packages from Harndeu'’s Ex- press safe and the greater part of the freight in the building were removed. It is now supposed thut the total loss will be about $250,000; but the insurance is large, and will probably nearly cover the loss. The firemen worked waufully,

and at one time were pouring fifty-eight streaus of water on the buildings, The site of the fire was formerly vceupied by the vld Chestuut street Theatre.

Rockhill & Wilson's lose is estimated at $50, 000; the grealer portion of their stock was re- moved, No. 600 Chestiut street was owned by parties who reside in New England. Perry & Co.'s (clothiers) lose is $60,0UU ; insured $45,000.

him therein, We all know what a war ia, and | we are nat te be drawn inte it except upon solewn grounds of national necessity, atter the failure of all reasonable pacifie efforts. France is bound to M. Fould, ber finance minister, has compelled the Goverr- went to reirench its expenditures from absolute necessities, and a reduction of the French aruies

has been agreed npon.

| the same cautious aud rational course.

Franee, therefore, is in no condition te renew the Mexican war upon a scale fifty-fold greater than ever before. Besides, if we can believe testimony frow all sources, the French people are almost unanimously opposed to any further military operations in suvport of Maximilian, as neither honor nor profit has yet accrued from this ill-advised project.

While, however, we see no ground of anxiety at present on account of affuirs in Mexico, we do consider that the existing basis of our relations with that ceuntry and its pretended imperial dy- nasty is one of general msecurity, which impera- The whole attempt of these foreign interlopers in Mexieo is essentially hostile to our settled policy and ex- tremely annoying to our people. We ought to have a plain understanding on the subject. It Napoleon is going to withdraw his troops, we ought to kuow when, and in what manner. If Maximilian is trying an experiment he ought to avow its conditions aud limits, for thus far he is only keeping the country in commotion, mstead of securing order and the return of commerce, as he promised.

tively demands some improvement.

THE SITUATION OF MEXICO.

We had the pleasure yesterday of an mterview with a gentleman who has lately been in Mon- terey, and was in Matamoras during pari of the siege. He is a man whose judgment is clear and hnpartial, even when his duty or his interest make bin an advocate of a party, as he is well ac- quainted with the Mexican people and their af fairs. Possibly no American, within our know- ledge, 18 better able to give a correct view of the state of affairs, on the Northern frontier especial: ly.—Oihers may be acquainted with more facts ; but none, who have personal knowledge, are so little :Kely to be influenced im their conclusions by their preferences.

This gentleman tells us that between Monterey and the capital the country is free from all uppo- sition to the Imperial Government.

The country is prosperous and contented. Not all are pleased with the existing Government or is chiefs; but all preferring to live quietly under it rather than unquietly under such as they pre- viously had. A large majority do prefer the ex- isting Imperial Government, especia'ly with the prospect before them that, their civil war ended, Mexicans will exert superior influence in the eou- duet of affairs.

Monterey, which six years ago was a flourish- ing city of 30,000 inhabitants, is now a still more flourishing ove of 60,000, aratioof growth whieh even our own cities, especially interior ones like Monterey could hardly reach. The whole country from Monterey westward will doubtless improv

if stability is given to the Government.

The region from Monterey tothe Rio Grande is poor and sparsely inhabited. It is now deserted, except by the disintegrated Liberai forces, the chiefs of which are gradually returning to their homes in Mataworas, Monterey and elsewhere. and “ accepting the amnesty aad the situation.”

A large Imperial force was expected svon to ar- rive at Monterey, from the capital city, under the command of Gen. Lopez, second in command to Gen. Mejia, which, with that at Matamoras, will suffice to put down all associated opposition and keep open the routes of communication. The in- termediate regivn being peor, will not receive much care.

The respeetable people, it is thought, will all soon make their peace with the Government, and ne qaarter will be shown to the cut-throats and robbers associated with Cortinas and Canales. Unless there should be a war with the United States, Mexico will seon be prosperous and useful to “oll the world and the rest of maukind."— Orleans Picayune.

RECIPROCITY. In his report to Corgress, Mr. MeCulloch, United States Secretary of the Treasury, makes the following remarks respecting the Reciprocity Treaty :— * The Reciprocity Treaty with Great Britain will expire on the 17th of Mareh next, ana due notice of this fact has been giveu, by cireulars, to the officers of the custome ou the Northern frontier. “ There are grave doubts whether treaties of this character do not intertere with the legislative power of Congress, and especiall

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to originate revenue bills; and whether such treats, if they yield anything not granted by our general revenue lawe, are yot in conflict with the spirit of the usual clause containedin most of our commercial treaties, to treat each vation on the sane footing as the most favoured vation, aud uot to grant, without an equivalent, any particular favour to one nation not coueeded to another im respect to Commerce and navigation.

* Tt appears to bé weil catublished that the ad- vantages of this treaty have nol been tmutual, but have been in favour of the Canadas. Our warkets have been strong, extensive, aud valu- able; theirs have been weak, limited, aud gener- ally far less profitable to our citizens. The peo- ple of the Canadas and the Provinees have been sellers aud we buyers of the same productions for which we are often foreed ty seek a foreign war- ket. It is queationable, jn fact, whether any ac- tual reciprocity, embraging many of the articles vow in the treaty, can be maintained between the two countries. Even ih fegard to the fisheries, it is by ne means ceruin tat instead of equiva- lents having been acquired under the treaty, more than equal advantages were not surrendered by it. But, whatever the facts may be, this subject, as well as that of intercommunication through rivers and lakes, and possibly cauals and railroads, are proper subjects of negociation, and their iu- portance should secure early consideration.

“Tt is certain that in the arrangement of out complex system of revenue through the tariff and internal duties, the freaty has been the cause of no little embarrassment. ‘The subject of the re- venue should not be embarrassed by treaty stipu- lations, but Congress should be left to act upon it freely and independent!y. Any arrangement be- tween the United States and the Canadas and Provinces, that may be considered mutually bene- ficial, cau as readily be perfected and carried out by reciprocal legisiation as by any other means. No complaint would then arise as to subsequent changes of lews, fur each party would be free to act at all times according to its direction.

“ However desirable stability may be, an irre- pealable revenue law, even in ordinary times, is open to grave objections, aud in any extraordi- nary crisis is bikely to be pernicious. The people of the United States cannot causent to be taxed as pre ducers While those outside of our bounda- ries, exempt from our burdeus, shall be permitted, as competitors, to have free access to our markets. It is desirable to diminish the temptations now ex- i-ting for smuggling, and if the course suggested, of mutual legislation, should be adopted, a revenue system, both internal aud external, more in bar- mony with our own, might justly be anticipated from the ac ien of our neighbours, by which this result would be most likely to be obtained.”

THE DYING NEGROES — AWFUL MOR- TALITY IN GEORGIA. (From the Macon (Geo ) Telegraph.)

Tne population of this city, all told, is about 16,000 seuls—one half white and the same num- ver black. The monthly average of the mortality in this city, before aud during the war, when the negroes were taken care of, was about forty, pro- portioned according to the population. The mor- tality among the negroes in this eity during the past month, was, as uearly as can be ascertained, about five hundred, while the number of deaths among the white population remained substan- tially the same as before the war.

The cause of this difference in the mortality of the blacks needs explanation. Wher the U. 8. forces took possession of Macon, the negroes were all declared free. It was in vain that it was urged that neither would the state of the growing crops justify the laboreys in deaving the fields, nor would humanity suffer Women and girls to go at will in the streeta in midst of such excitement as was then exi-ting, aurestrained by any influences to defend thew fram ruin. Nothing availed. The fiat had gone forth and was maintained. whether for the weal or the woe of the negroes. The fields were deserted by the laborers, and almost in a bedy, the women and ehildren einployed as ser vants in the city Ieft comfortable homes, seized with a sudden passion for freedom, and indepen- dently setting up for themselves. Instigated by an insane desire for city lite, and under the ap- prehension that their freedom would not be ecm- plete if they did not leave their former homes, nor perinanent tnless under the eyes of the United States soldiery, the negroes flucked from the country into the city, ard the result is,—W hat is it?

The following 18 the full text of the amendment to the Constitution of the United States, recently mntreduced inte the Senate:— :

* Paramount sovereignty shall reside in the United States, and every citizen thereof, or of any State or territory therein, shall be bound and primarily owe faith, loyalry and allegiance to the United States, anything in the Constitution, laws, er ‘he ordinances of any State to thefcontrary notwithstandiug: and every State heretofore in the Union, or whieh may hereafter be admitted as a member thereof, shall forever remain and eon- stitute a part of the United States, and shall not under any Cireumsiances whatsoever have any right tu secede or withdraw therefrom.”

Horace Greely strennously urges upen the American Government the resump ion of specie payments. He affirins that the issue of an ineon- vertible curreney was nee ssary to the national existence, but considers that necessity to have passed away with the war,and declares a further persistence in national insolveney not enly unne- cessary, but eriminal. He acknowledges that resumption new would result in great eommer- cial depression, but holds that appreciation of the currency aud the consequent enhancement of working people's wages, would more than eom- pensate for a temporary derangement in a trade already radically unsound.

Che Gxraniner,

Charlottetown, January 15, 1866.

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NEWS FROM. ABROAD.

Tue papers received by the several Mails of the past week, if not filled with important, are certainly not devoid of interesting, notices of various subjects. — The English. Mail reached here on Thursday night. The Fenian trials in Ireland were progressing, and seemed to be the absorbing topic of interest. All the unfortunate men charged with conspiracy, instigated by the infamous “ Brotherheed”’ on this side of the Atlantic—were found gui'ty of the offence, and have been severally sentenced to penay servitude. The vizour and promptitude of the Government of Great Britain have effectually crushed out the insane organization before it could effect much mischief. — The diplomatic correspondence between the English Foreign Secretary and the Minister of the United States at the Court of St. James, respecting the claims of the United States for loss through Confede- rate raiders — has been brought to a eluse at the instance of the British Minister, he per- ceiving that no good could arise from coutinu- ing the controversy, but that possibly the friendly relations of the two countries mizht be embittered by a protracted discussion. Great Britain yields nething to the demands of the United States Government; and we suppose the latter preserve this little affair, as a sort of rod in pickle, to be used over the back of the former whenever a good occasion may seem to arise for that purpose.— The Jamaica Rebellion continues to excite great attention in Eaglaud. The sympathisers with the blacks—and they are by no means a small or uninduential number of people—are furious in their assaults upon the conduct of Governor Eyre. They seem incapable of see ing only one side of the dark picture, and on that side nothing appears but the awful guilt of the Jamaica authorities for the terrible pun- ishment they dea!t out to the rebellious blacks. The mode adopted for suppressing the rebe!- lion was, no doubt, summary, terrible, and it would seem to us at thij distance, cruel; but it is hard to tell how deep-laid were the ramifica- tions of the conspiraey—which had been fear- fully stained with the blood of the innocent at the first outbreak — and it 1s not at all impro- bable that the whole white population of the Island would have been remorselessly butchered, if the hand of the savage black had not been promptly stayed in its horrible work of slau ghter. It will be some considerable time before we can be put in possession of authentic infor- mation respecting the rebellion—not, perhaps, until the Royal Commission now engazed in investigating all the facts of the case, shall have made their report. In the meantime—ab-

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time, the views of other journalists, who may have access to more reliable data for forming an opinion than is yet at our disposal. An ar- ticle in our present No. from the London Standard gives a pretty full view of the case, but not exactly from the negro stand-point.— European continental news is unimportant, and even not interesting. The ravages of the chol- lera seem to diminish—perhaps a sharp winter is entitled to praise for the abatement of the evil ; but the cattle distemper in Great Britain con- tinues its deadly course—hbaffling every effort scientific skill has put forth to arrest its pro- rress.

The news trom the United States does not afford a very charming picture of affairs in that country. With more than the usual catalogue of crime, in the haunts of a civilized democracy —a dark cloud looms up in the lately Con- federate States, where the negro, incapable of appreciating his freedom, seems to mistake li- The emancipation of the “nigser’’ is acquiring a new siznification in the fact, that while only sixty died per month in one State alone, while slavery ex- isted, five hundred are hurried in the same time to the realms of bliss, or somewhere else, since they have partaken of the joys of free- dom. This awful extermination—produced by begzary, improvidence, and the want of sct- tled homes— cannot fail to lead to discontent and crime; and we fear it may come to pass that the millions of coloured people thrown upon their undisciplined resources, as one of the results of the late war—is the very worst lezacy that that war should leave,

centiousness for liberty.

until, after the elapse of one or two generations, the African race may become nearly extinct on the American continent.—The Fenian squabble between the rival Chieftains of the so-called Irish Republic, occupies much atteution on the The

thing would be supremely contemptible were it

part of public journalists in the States.

not for the countenance given to it by men of influence and public journalists in the United States, and the enormous sum of money— amounting to at about two millions of dollars in hand—which the “ Brotherhood’ have filched from their victims throushout the lenzth and breadth of the United States. Such of the as are afflicted with Anglo-phobia, are spurring the Fenians

American journals

to commit raids upon British American terri- tory,—we give extracts from two of these We should not be sorry to hear of the scoundrels taking the ad-

papers in our present No.

vice tendered and setting out opon their quixotic expedition, because shortly after the remnant of such knaves and lunatics would seek shelter in haunts congenial to insiznifi_ eance and obscurity; but, in the meantime, it does seem strange that the American Govern- ment—keenly sensitive on matters relating to international law—should more than wink at a formidable conspiracy in their midst azainst a friendly power. The time may come when the countenance given by the Americans to the Fenian Brotherhood wili not be one of theii most interesting reminiscences.

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ARCHBISHOP CONNOLLY ON THE COMPARATIVE PROSPERITY OF CA- THOLICS IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE BRITISH PROVINCES, AND ON FENIANISM.

We are indebted to a New Brunswick paper, (the Globe) for the following excellent letter from his Grace the Archbishop of Halifax to his Excellency the Lieutenant Governor of New Branswick, in acknowled sment of the Gover- nor’s recent speeches at Woodstock and St Stephen’s, in which he very properly exonerat- ed the Catholics, as a body, from any compli- city in the Fenian movement, The Archbishop administers a severe rebuke—quietly but effee- tively—to all those who would seek for politi- cal connection with the United States.

Hatirax, 18th Dee., 1865.

Sir: — Allow me, on the part of Her Ma- jesty’s loyal Roman Catholic subjects in these Lower Provinces, emphatically to thank Your ixcellency for your recent speech, and the fearless and outspoken manner in which you have so effectively expressed the bare truth on our behalf.

From all the sources of information at my command, I am convinced, if the crisis come, that the whole Roman Catholic population in this country will yield to no other class in un- wavering loyalty and the unflinching perform- ance of duty in the day of trial. Apart from the allegiance which, as Churchmen, we owe t the constituted authorities, we have here every- thing to lose and nothing whatever to gain by a change, be it ever so luring in the distance. What can any Government give that we have not got? We have prosperity, law, order, peace, unmeasured liberty, the country secured arainst the foreign foe, trade and commerce protected all over the world at an expense one- sixth less per head than in the neighbouring re- public, and a mere fraction as compared with the expenditure of any other country we know of. To exchange this condition with any other would be suicidal madvess, and the thinking, leading portion of our people—the portion that have anything to lose—are aware of the fact. They, like myself, have visited the Umted States from time to time, and have had ample data to guide them to the same conclusion. Catholics, no doubt, enjoy many ady antages jn that country, (and it is a blessing for millions they have such a country as a refuze), but after the experience of twenty-four years in British America, it is my deep conviction that Catho- lies, taking into account their numbers and opportunities, are wea! thier and happier—better Christians —and socially and politically move elevated here than there.