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em mes ace ea 9 ma NYU LA [ EST FROM Th KE S TAT ES. W bilst thas engaged they were forced to wit- ness a sight which fairly curdled the blood jin their veine, and towarde the recital of which the pen denies ite office. The mail jagent, George W. Millen, of Port Huron, was found to be jammed in between the bag- gage and forward qaesenger car. His leg

NEWS FROM SOUTHERN SOURCES. SHERMAN’S POSITION. The Whig of Dee. 6 says:—** We have reason to beliewe, for all we bave heard, that

A etic an

To rue Evrror or Tue EXAMINER.

To van Eprrom or rue Examtver. Sin :—About as silly a thing as I have | Sim :— ae seen in print this long time was ushered into! Should you deign to insert this brief eom-

. | . 2 2 , ’ public view by the Herald of Wednesday) munication in your journal, | trust the pub- string does not always produce the sound | over the increased prosperity to this Copony |

observed, ina number of his Spectator, that ‘in newspaper discussions on questions of ‘state a good deal of indulgence is due to cer- ‘tain faults of writing, for Ilorace says, ‘The

eee een ain a aS aS

‘subjects im the other Provinces; and we hope we all —-even the opponents of

| 29. The General Parliament shall have power to make Laws for the peace, welfare and good Government of the Federated Provinces (saving

Confederation here — will live to rejoice! the Sovereignty of England) and especially Laws

last, over the signature of + Joseph Marphy.”” | lie will grant mé an abundant show of sheir which the artist’s hand and thought designs,’ | ahich Wie be date of things canmet fail to

It purperts to be a report of the proceedings] kind indulgence and pass over, if possible, |

of a meeting held recently somewhere among | unnoticed all violations of the rules of gram-

provided that the beauties shine forth more | conspicuously than the faults.’’ In the case

inaugurate.

lel A

respecting the following subjects :— 1. The Public Debt and Property. 2. The Regulation of Trade and Commerce. 3. The imposition er regulation of Duties of

Sherman's army has anited and is marebing with measered pace toward the “Atlantic cvast, south er suvuth-west of Millen. We have reason to anticipate a battle at some point north or northwest of Savannah ere the close of the present week.’’

.

The Washington correspondentof the New

) was firmly held betweea two pieces of broken | timber, and all efforts to rescue him before {the devouring flames engulphed him in their folds proved futile. The most herculean efforts to extricate his crushed and bleeding | duemtial men’ of said Lot and vicinity. at} limbs from its tearful embrace were used,| (1, mecting alluded to, expressed themselves

j the Culonies.’’

We are informed by this) sary to make this premise, because how"! most brilliantly in the literary world. My report that some of ‘*the intelligent and in- days there is such a vast piunber of siily, critie accuses mé of one great crime — the witless and superficial eritics, who make it

jan avocation to attack and cut up every

{but the rapidly spreading flames drove the by a series of resolutions opposed tu Confe-! communication that appears in our Island

|Iabourers from their work, and they were |

the begs and barrens of Lot 10, to take ** into) mar, style and the other ingredients of cor- |of Georgicuin, 1 will leave the public to dis- ‘THE GONSTITUTION OF THE

' consideration the projeeted Confederation of | rect composition I deem it altogether neees-

‘cern and proclaim whose effusion figures

COLONIAL FEDERATION.

REPORT Of Resolutions adopted at a Conference of Delegates from the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and

‘frequent use of big words and florid figures. | Betore my opponent alleges this as a crime, I would bring to his mind the old proverb:

York World, writing on Dee. 3th, says :-~

From information derived from rebel de-| eyes, his heart-rending shrieks piercing their serters and gpher sources, it ia now certein| ears for help. until stifled amid the smoke thagithe Richarend and) Savsanhah jooreals| ond flames of the devouring element. After Lave suceeeded in concealing some of the | the fire bad burnet down his charred trunk most important and interresting facts in con-| was taken from the ruins, the head, arms nection wath the great expedition of Gen ral and legs eompletely devoured, and tle body Sherman. From varwus quarters J jearp the | rousted to @ cinder. iullowing facts: ** As we have stated, it is not known how

{. That Geaeral Sherman's march up, to| many persoas perished. We can, therefore, the time he reached Millen was practicully! only ag yet surmise the number sacrificed to unopposed, the only fixiting being cavilry) the eatastrophe.. Some persons, in working skirmishes between Flilpatrick and Wheeler Kamotig the ruins, discovered a portion of a Thas fact accounts for Sherman's slow move} fewale’s hoop skirt, and shortly afterwards monte, he hating made thorough work in| the bones of a human being among the ashes. Javing wate the country.

2. Bis merch has treated a tremendous\ tion of the bottom of a silk diess, and a panic. Ue has swept all Central Georgia/ ticket upon which was the address, * Miss clear Of grain, forage, horses, mules, and) Mary Boorlingam, Oneida, N, Y.,’ but whe- It is supposed he will reach the| ther this belonged to any one who perished tea-coast with t#u able-bodied negroes fori tas not been disedvered. It is said that a every white suldier ia bie canks. It ie wn-| lady and two children were in the car, who derstood that General Sherman will allow} have not turned up, and that a physician ouly able-bodied males to accompany his| who was in the city awaiting the arrival of army, a8 women aedchildren would ne¢cessa-} a sister or some temale relative, or both, rily impede hig marek, }mourns their absence. Lt is probable that

2. Noe having foeght any battles in Cen-| five or six, have perished. Beyond the me-

neYTOES.

tral Georgie, and having kept his army wel | lancholy death of Mr. Millen, no names have |

together, (fer the tebels do not claim to lave | transpired. made any capteres of men) Gen, Sherman, sll reach the cwast wilh his army in splendid | Sighting trim aad an abundance of ammunitian | and shat. This is w tact of immense im por- | : oT ; Py tance, in view of the battle which 18 ir SA FROM OUR GOWN CORRESPONDENT A‘ . = ALIFAX. able befere coming in sight of blue water. | - e se outivaled Hatirsx, N.S, Dee. 23, 1864.

| Dear Exasutner— ee | slist ie perveive that you have no regular corres-

very house in Griswoldyille was burned | pon

CORRESPODENCE.

SHERMAN’S SWATHE OF DEVASTATION.

'From the Augusta Constitution

ing occupied by one of the operatives o! they your permission, take upon myself the task enill. **special,’’ in the hope of whiling away We have, from several reliable sources. | leisure hours. accounts of the outrages committed by Sher- man’s men. The most dreadful thing was) of Confederatin is engrossing the minds o! their violence to the ladies. Af Jeast sir or| the people of Nova Scotia, tu the exclusion seven suffered ihe last extremity. One y nung | almost of every other topic. Confederation girl became crazeed in consequence, and has\is the pass-word among friends meeting each been sent to the asylum. Other ladies were} other mm the daily paths of business, and in stript af their garments, and, m such @ plight, every place of reaurt you are certarn to see made to play on the piana, and, in the « vent! partes busily engaged in commenting on the of a refusal, switched anmercifully. One| merits and demerits of the scheme. The Jady, the wife of a Confederate offlcer, was| opposition in the metropolis is feeble, al- jefta maniac. But we gicken at the rehear- | though a large proportion of the populace sal of such atrocities, and we only put them; studiausly retrain from passing any decided

on record to heighten, if possibie, the indig-| opinion on the matter, preterring rather to |

nation of our suldiers, and unite our people! watch the progress of events. If an appeal in obtaining our independence. Let Goeorg- i to the people was had, however, 1 think there isns remember this in the day of battle jean be no doubt but that the decision would | be almost unanimous in favor of the proposed THE SPIRIT OF TUR PEOGPLE } Union of the Colonies. At the meeting held

Oar people are more defiant and more uni-}%¥ te Delegates, when the details of the ted than ever. Some admitted of a taint of} Plan were unfolded and explained in a mas- reconstruction heretofere, but now they raise | terly. masner by the representatives of this the’ cry af independence or death, Qar wo-| Province, it was agreed that a subsequent men, especiaily, are wore nerved than ever | Meeting should be held, at to.work, to suifer, and to pray for our cause, | 99'S of the measure were to have an oppor- In this senge, the march of Sherman through | tunity of refuting the doctrines propounded Georgia will accomplish good. Another | by Doetor Tapper and bis colleagues, and a good sign: the people are not repressed ss | distinct underst \nding was entered inio to the when Donelson or Viekshurg fell, but more| “Mect that & free discussion should take place hopeful of final results than they have lere-| 0" the occasion. Monday night last was to tofore beea under reverses. be the *field-day.’’ On that occasion, Tem-

| forced to witnesa him perish . before their captive by the eloquence and

Another person drew from the ruinsa por-|

haciiadichoneatcnemmndaettaiaesaamammarareaaraans 1 ee tu Mr. J. Cailiaghan ** dwelling elo-

eutin thia latitude; and as events some- | by the enemy, except Mr. Griswold’s bouse,| times take plice here which may prove of a few negro houses and a small frame build-| interest to some of-your readers, [ will, with |

As in pour little [sland, the great subject |

which the Oppo- |

SHERMANS TROOPS WELL APPOINTED The Yankees were admirably cluthed and appointed.

ammunition, while their wagons contained | Meetings. Rations for

fixed material without stint.

perance Hall was crowded with the wealth

and intelligence of the city—I eannot say the |

** peauty ’’ in the sense it is generally used,

Bech mon hed eighty rounds 4 + as the ladies have so far held ajlvof from the

Mr. A. M. Uniacke bas hitherto been regarded as the leader of the ++ Anti-

forty days had been prepared, aud they saf.| Union party," while some other gentlemen,

fered tur nothing.

WHEELE® REDEEMING HLS REPUTA-

TION AS A RAIDER, {From the Richmond Dispatch, December 7.)

as yet unknown to fame, were expected to advance arguments showing the injury which would result to the maritime Provinces in the

federation, On the meeting being declared | open, the question immediately arose as to |

event of their being induced to enter the Con- |

¢ ° ie . . deration, haying, it appears, been carried | journals, that we, farmers, hesitate to de- argumentative | clare openly our opinions on the grand topics | powers of the several speakers. | have not] of the day, being ever in dread of those }the honor of being acquainted with these scribbling **fire-brunds,”’? who, although in- ‘new lights that have risea in this unfayored capable of hurting, may nevertheless annoy and hitherto obseure part of the Isiandynor) ys to a considerable extent. Now, to retarn jdo I think they are juuch known to fame; | more to the point, as far as | am able to as- }hut really, considering the ignorance that! oortain, the ‘Confederation Scheme”’ engros- prevails among the DASSeS regarding the | ses the attention and assiduous study not only | nacure and tendeney of the Union scheme, 18} of the inhabitants of St. Peter's Bay, but, | jit nota pity that ssch lJaminaries should ‘be presume, of the whole Island ; so great are | kept under a halt bushel? That extem pora- | the interests at stake, in fact, they are the |. deoas leetare, clothed in eloquent Jan-/ advancement or degradation, prosperity or guage,’’ and ‘delivered with much ease and | ruin, happiness or misery of 80,000 souls jability,’’ and thoge **witty, uppropriate, | Editors and politicians, ever hitherto known | ‘instructive’ and ‘eloquent speeches given} t, have acquiesed in their views in all the ‘on the occasion referred to, must tell, where- | political question that have engaged their at- ever delivered, with wonderful effect in} tention, now balance and seperate, embrace | Creating opposition to the nefarious measure, | and‘upbold opposite sides of the great ques- hand in frustrating the machinations of un- tion, whose sulation will prove either benefi . ; : | - . . . ¥ i | principled and ambitious politicians. It! cial or prejudicial to the people of this is- | would, of course, convince the most sceptical land. The politicians, ! may add, are nof, in to hear the learned ae | Lo : rat this moment of genial excitement amt ewbar- rhan—‘* showing very clearly’? that ** the) pscement, inactive, bat each, fearful of any scheme was nothing bat moonshine’ ’—**that | unhappy result that way accrue to him from }nothing contained in the Report was going | gig Union, exerts himself to make his voice | to benefit this Island, but, on the eontrary, | heard among his friends and acquaintances— | wovid materially injure and place the people) ihe one through an inordinate desire of dis-

jof this Island in a worse position than they | Gassion, the other through a fear of loss or even could fall into under the present form) pone of gain ; while a third party ~the true of Government.”” And { am sure it would! ang sincere patriot—endeavours to impress be particularly interesting and instructive to apon the minds of his antagonists the practi- bility or impraotibility of a Union, aceord- iquently on our situation, showing, wath ing as he deems it beneficial or prejudicial to much sirewdness and natural ability, that | the interests of the people Do not, however, instead of going to gain anything by a Con-| jgaeine that | purpose precipitating myseli | federation of the Colonies, we were going to! into the midst of this confusion of opinions | place ourselves in the capacity of serfs, and / put my sole design is to endeayour to remove ilose furever the protection of the Mother} ,oy,¢ false ideas that have crept into the miads Country; or avcordiag to Mr. Callagban’s! of grout portion of the public. The readers ‘very eloquent and argumentative style,’’| of the +*Examiner’’ are, no doubt, all con which showed very conelusively that no mate- vinced that you, Mr. Editor, are direetly and rial benefit would be derived by entering the explicitly favouratle to the Confederation | Confederation.” of the Colonies. For this alone the editors | Such ridiculous bombast and pretension as| of the /He rald and Protestant—the organs 01 l this is certainly very amusing. The Hon.! Palmer, and consequently of inconsistency — | Mr. Coles, who has got the eredit of being a/de not hesitate to stigmatize you, Sir, * " | far-seeing politician, acknowledges he cannot | despailer of our rights and peirinees and a {see his way clearly yet in régurd to the mo-} traitor and disgrace to the Island. 3 ow, = | mentous project of Confederation ; but cer-} 1 am nota unionist, nor are Tai zt | tain humble mdividuals in the far west, we} many among your electors, eek aa - are toid, can clearly s.e and eloquently pic- }feel ita duty to come forward on this ocea- ture out the doom which awaits us if we | sion, as a representative of popular sentiment iccept its terms. Verily wonders will never | in this locality, to express our great displea- } Cease, when uncultivated farmers, with more sure and dissatisfaction at the ungentlemanl)y pretension than brains, ean furesce and fore-/ and uncharitable manner in which you hav itell the calamitoas results of the great and| been treated by the editors, or as you faney jintrieate question of Colonial Union, which} to dovignate them, the ~seribhlers ’ of - jean seareely be mastered by the most expe-| Hera/d ‘The writers of this journal ought j rience 2 stutesmen. Af the report had said | not soon to cast in oblivion the remembrance that those whom it puffed up ty such an ex-j of the manifold services rendered to them by traordinary degree had made some remarks} Mr. Whelan in withdrawing them from many lon Confederation without much sense or! polemical difficulties with the opponents of lweight in them, I dare say it would have the * Vindicator.”’ Let not Mr. Reilly fora ibeen mach nearer the truth. These would-| moment suppose that by disparazing im any | be oracles cannot be much superior in point| manner whatsoever the conduct and eharac- of intelligenee to the majority of their fellow | ter of the ** Editor of the Examiner, that he | colomsts, whose hostility to Union, it 18 well | will more easily thereby ingratiate himsel | known ,is based upon ignorance and prejudice, | with the electors of St Peter's Bay ; on the ' strengthened by the sophistry, wiid denun- ‘euntrary, the more he will impugn his mo- feiatiuns and mazy figuring of anti-Union| tives as dishonest, the greater detriment he writers. The lucubrations of the latter can-| will bear to his own honour and reputation |not be said to be very enlightening or per-| Although we are but (town folks will say ig- }suusive, consisting as they do, for the most} norant) farmers, yet we have inherited, not- | part, of reckless conjecture, and conclasions withstanding the primevol fall of our first | drawn from the most ridiculous assumptivas ;| parents, sufficient Common sense not to judge \and itis therefure unreasonable to suppose | of anything until we hear and understand it. | for & moment that the eloquence of the pre-| Let Mr. Reilly. then understand that we do ' tentious heroes of the Lot 10 meeting would | not pay much heed to his effusions, nor shall

| impress any intelligent mind unfavorably to| we reject the man who has so long and so |

| Union. The opposition to the measure, suid | faithfully served our interests. without first |to have been manifested on the oceasion,| being thoroughly convinced from the futility larose, no doubt, from prejudice and inability | of bis arguwents of his having wan ered from to comprehend the subject, and not from the | the true path with regard to the Union. ‘convietion that it would injure this Island ;| But, as | said before, we shall not jadge Mr and if the speechifying of the Callaghans, | Whelan until we hear him, for we are fully

‘s Better fearlessly to soar im the air than cowardly to lie flat, (like Georgicum), and creep along the ground.” i

Atter having enlightened my critic a little

in his own avocation, and given him reasons never again to come forward in print on a similar mission, | will now pass to analyse bis letter, and point out some of its defects, for as regards beauties, it possesses none. Ln the third sentence, he speaks of rofuting the arguments of his opponents. [willrelinquish to some more penetrating intelleet than mine the task of examining the signification and derivation of, opponents. Aguin, he asserts that the unionists are more fond of pompous declamation than sound reasoning in their ar- guments. Will Geergicum please inform the public who first declaimed in writing? Far- ther on he denominates the victim of his splenetic gas the object. 1 fear our scholar had here neglected to consult hia volume of Synonymes, vtherwise he would have sub- stituted some other word for object. In the third paragraph, he unblushingly admits that he has ne particular objections to @ union, bat that he is ready to support all the views set forth by Mr. Reilly, however erro- neous they maybe. Le bas then no opinion of his own — his own judgment and reason subserve menial like the editor of the derald Wishing, however, to enlighten me and gain me ta Mr. Reilly, he advises we to peruse the back numbers of that journal. In actord- ance with the proper acceptation of words, dack is not only incorrect but a word altege- ther unpardonable from such an egregious eritic. In the fourth paragraph, he says: If such a writer is a teacher, &e. What rela- tion in the present sentence is there between such a writer and Willocks. The other mis- take contained in this sentence, [ leave to Georgicum’s acateness of perception to di- vine. ** Jn the third sentence,’ says Geor- gicum, *twhich is diffuse, labored and concise * | would advise my critic to Open once mre his volame of Rhetoric and study the differ- ence between diffuse and concise. He states ..- particularly in the sentences where he speaks about, &c. Dues Lennie countenance the use of where? In the fifth paragrapl. he says: ** This person is anacquainted with | the subject on which he wrote, &c. ‘I allow ' Georgicum to have another exercise in guess- ‘ing the mistake in this elause.

Space, Mr. Editor, will not permit me to proceed farther in this criticism, bat 2 pre- sume enough has been adyaneed to convince Georgicum that he is not the profoundly in- telligent and diseerning scholar that Le pro- fesses to be. I should have heartily desired to have done as moch for Amicus, but time will not at present permit. I may, bowever, observe en passant that his composition con- | tains far move glaring faults than his friend's ; i twenty or thirty at least might be pointed Font, i would, in finishing with him, advise him to study a treatise on Tautology and the comparison of adjectives before he undertakes ito teach them. ‘These, then, are the swelling ‘ blustering characters that don’t blush to m-

dicule my grammar and style. Alas! I ex-

iclaim, for the literature of P. E. Island, if ; Georgicum and his friend are its champions and critics. It would not bere be out of place to recommend to them a precept Ho- ;race gave some eighteen hundred years ago | to the Pisus :— Et male larnatos incud: reddere | versus.’

j

the Colonies of Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island, held at the City of Quebec, 10th October, 1864, as the Basis of a proposed Confederation of those Provinces and Colonies.

1. The best interests and present and future prosperity of British North America will be pro- moted by a Federal Union under the Crown of Great Britain, provided such Union an be effectad 00 principles just to the several Provinees,

2. In the Federation of the British North American Provinces the System of Governutent best adapted under existing circumstances to protect the diversified interests of the several Pro- vinces and secure efficiency, barmeny aad per- manency in the working of the Union,—would be a general Government charged with matters of common interest to the whole Country, and Local Governments for each of the Canadas and for the Provinces of Nova Seotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, charged with the control of local matters in their respective sections,—- Provision bemg miade for the adinission into the Union on equitable terms of Newfoundland, the North-West Territery, British Columbia and Vancouver.

3. In fratning a Constitution for the General Government, the Conference, with a view to the perpetuation of our counection with the Motber Country, and to the promotion of the best interests of the people of these Provinces, desire to follow the model of the British Constitution, so far as our circutstances will permit.

4. Tbe Executive Authority or Government shall be vested in the Sovereign of the United Kingdom of Great Britain aud Ireland, and be administered according to the well understood principles of the British Constitution by the Sovereign personally er by the Representative of the Sovereign duly authorized.

5. The Sovereign or Representative of the Sovereign sball be Commander in Chief of the Land and Naval and Militia Forces.

6. ‘Ybere shall be a General Legislature er Parliament for the Federated Provinees, evm- posed of a Legislative Council auda House of Commons.

7. For the purpose of forming the Legislative Council, the Federated Provinces shalk be con- sidered as consisting of three dixisiens, Ist. Upper Canada, 2nd. Lower Canaska, 3rd. Nova

Scotia,

in the Legislative Comneil.

3. Upper Canada shall be represented in the Legislative Council by 24 Members, Lower Canada by 24 Members, and ‘the three Maritime Provinces by 24 Members, of whieh Nova Seotia /shall have Pen, New Brunswick, Vea, and Prince Edward Istand, Pour Menybers

tion in the Legislative Council of four Members.

10. The North-West Territory, British Colum- »bia and Vancouser shall be admitted inte the yUnion, on sueb temos and evéditmons as the )Parhament of the Federated Provinces shall deem, equitable, aud as shall receive the assent of Her Mayesty; and in the case ef the Province oi Britist: Colambia or Vancouver, as shall be agreed

ll. ‘Phe Members of the Legislative Cevneil shall be appointed by the Crown under the Great Seal of the General Government, amd shall hold

shall, for twe consecutive seseionsef Parliament,

seat shall thereby become vacant.

New Brunswick and Primee Edward } Island, each division with aa equal representation

'

to by the Legislature of such Province. hand powers and tor such purposes shal) be held Ito be Courts, dudges aud Offivers vi the Gemenad

Custouis on Imports and Exports, except on Exporis;6f Timber, Logs, Masta, Spars, Deals, and Sawn Lumber and of Coal and other Minerals.

4. The imposition or regulation of Excise puties.

5. The raising ef money by all or any other modes or systems of Taxation.

6. The Borrowing of Moncey on the Public Credit.

7. Postal Service.

8. Lines of Steam or other Ships, Railways,

Canals and other werks, connecting any twe or more of the Provinces together,or exteud- ing beyond thé limits of any Province. :

9. Lines of Steamships between the I'ederated

Provinces and other Conutries,

Telegrapbie Communication and the ineors

poration of Telegraph Companies. —

. All such works as shall, although lying wholly within. any Provinee, be ly declared by the Acts atthorzing them to be for the general advantage.

. The Census,

. Militia—Military and Naval Service and

Defence.

Gl4. Beacons, Buoys and Light Houses.

15. Navigation and Shipping.

16. Quaraptine.

17. Sea Coast and Inland Fisheries.

Is. Ferries between any Province and a Foreign

Country, or between any two Provinces.

Currency and Coinage.

Banking, ‘lucorporativn of Banks) and‘ the

issue of paper money.

21. Savings Banks.

. Weights and Measures.

_ 23. Bills of ExcBange and Promissory Notes. 24. luterest.

25. Legal Tender.

26. Lankruptey aud Insolveney.

27. Patents ot livention and Discovery.

23. Copy Rights.

29. Indians and Lands reserved for the Indians.

30. Naturalization and Alieas.

31. Marriage and Divorce.

32. The Criminal Law, excepting the Constita tion of Courts of Crammnal Jurisdietion, but including the proceedure in Criminal matters,

33. Rendering uniter aib or any of the laws relative to property amd ensi rights in Upper Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, New- fowndland and Prince Edward Island, and reudering uniform the procedure of all or)

10. 1

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19. 20.

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any Statute for this purpose shall have no force oy autheriry in avy Previnee until sanctioned by the Legislature thereof.

. The Establishment of a General Court of

35. 36.

37,

liumigratwa.

Agricubtuse.

Aud Generally respeeting all matters of a geperas character, met specially aud exclu- swely reserted tow the Local Gevervameuts and Legislatures.

30. The General Govermaest and Parliament shall have all pewers necessary or proper fer performing the obligations of the Federated Pro- vinees, as part et the British Empire, o Foreign

~

‘ ir She | Countries, arising vader Treatws belween Greats 9. The Colony of Newfoundianad shall he emt athed | Bwitaw and sweh Countries. to enter the proposed Wnion, with a represesta- )

21. The General Parbomest wax alo, frou thine to tine, establish additsonal Courts, and the Generas Government may appoint Judges and

Oificers thereot, when the same shall appeaw .

necessary or far the public advantage, in order to ‘tle duc execution of the lawset Parliament.

32. Alb Certs, Judges and Officers of the several Provinces shall aid, assist amd ebeg the General Government in the exercise of its rights

| Government.

| 33. She Genezal Gorermmen} shall appeimt and

Office durmy Life; if any Legislative Couticillor | pay the Judges of the Supervise Coutts in cack

Provines, and of the County Courts of Upper

fail to give his attendanee tn the said Cowacit, tis! nada, and Purliamostsball 6x their salaries.

34. Untih the Consolidation of the Laws of

12. The Members of the Legislative Conneil | Upper Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia,

shall be British Subjects by Birth or Naturaliga [New fomndland and Prinee Edward Island, the tion, of the full age of Thirty Years, shall possess | Judges of these Provinces appointed by the a continuous real property qualification of four | General Governwet, suall be seleeted frous their

| Before dismissing my now acquaintanees, | L will, through charity, vouchsate to them a few words of advice, whieh may be of im- }mense service to them in future, viz: First | | — Better to never attempt ertticisms again ; | if you should, to stady the rales and endea- | vor to acquire the necessary agents to carry i them out; secund, to proeure the best edi-|

|

Island, the property may be cither real or per-

thousand dollars over and above all inewiubravees, respeetive Bars

and shall be and continue worth that sum ever] 25. The Judaes o€ the Conrts of Lower Canada and above their debts and liabilities, but in the | pall be eviveted from the Bar of Lower Canada. case of Newfoundland and Prince Edward} 26 The Judges ef the Court of Admiralty now reeenv ing salaries shall be paid by the General sonal. 5 Goverment.

13. Ifany question shall arise as to the quali-| 37. Phe Judges of the Suserior Courts shals fication of a Legislative Councillor, the ne [oer their offices duriaw geod Sehas tear, and shall

shall be determined by the Council. be removable euly em tae Address of both Llouses ld. ‘Phe first seleetion of the Members of the | of Parliament.

_ General Wheeler, since the setting out of| whether the discussion was to be un open | Sherman's expedition, has displayed distin. | one, Mr. Uniacke, from the stage, indig- | guished wbility and gallantry. He isa brave | nantly repudiated the idea, when a perfect | and accomplished officer, fully up to his pro-| storm arose — the Delegates and those who | feseiun in every respect, except in the matter! thought with them contending that the proper | pee es in the conduct of which it must be way was to place all the facts, pro and con, | admitted he bas not been very euccessful.{ before the audience, and allow them to judge | uring thia campaign he bas bang upon} for themselves. Various sugyestions were | Sherman's rear, cutting of stragglers, andj offered from the assemblage, some, as you, bevered on his flanks, driving in foraging | may suppose in view of the uproarious state ot | pertics, while one portion of his command | affairs at this juncture, not having any par- preceded theesemy, destroying bridges and| ticular bearing upon the subject in hand. ferries Aad gbstructing roads. Ln addition! The Delegates were adjured to ** go in and aaa a = pn Deen Z a win’? by sundry small boys in the front seats,

é of the enemy's cavalry in} » if i i Saline dlinaioaadbiene bets betes on who manifested a great interest in the pro-

‘ ceedings, and a perfect medicy of voices ly ia the saddle for now nearly @ montis. resounded throughout the Hall. ‘Lo Seolchiees THE INCENDIARY PLOY.

the confusion, a Mr. William Miller, who, I believe, reprerents Richmond county in the |

The following interesting advertisement | House of Assembly, and who boasts of be- operas in the colams of the Richmond Whig | longing to no political party, arose on the of December 7 : stage, and on being hissed frum the audience,

To ALL Wom IT MAY Coxcery.—The fail-| declared that he would ** let the people know ure of our employees to do their work re-| Ss Halifax mob was not the whole of cently, with skill, in the city of New York,| NO¥4 Scotia,’ a self-evident proposition wakes it necessary for the Brotherhood to! 88 gentleman you may perbaps have heard | meet and concert measures fora more de. | °! Defure. He is a seeker alter notoriety ; and cigive exeeution of the great retuliacory duty | * >4td in une of the Halifax papers some time they have taken upon themselves at this; %!™¢¢ immortalised him in lines beginaing— juneture. Our own lomes have been destroy- There was a Mr. Miller once ed in violation of all the rues of war, and pm gtr wy mappnct alee Weta ia ter Thadt’ see woe feel the id MP Miles”

1 var jus aroused vengeance j . che very dettets of te resources wad éulthi. = aa Seaateete sat. Totog tater We ext do it—do it effectually. Peon etal

You are therefore ordered tu meet in this}. To return to the subject. After a half- city by delegates from our several assvcia-| !°UT's wordy warfare, the meeting broke up tions in Virginia, North and South Carvlina,| ‘9 Confusion. The opponents of Confedera- |

&c., had any effect at all, it was in strength-| aware that he has,up to the present,been only ening the fears and prejudices of the!

multitude.

tion of Lennie’s Grammar, and acquire a} Legislative Council shall be made, except as!

parrying off the blows of his assailarts, but

; oe os little more than a superficial knowledge of ithe time is arriving when he will stand on

| its merits; and the one-sided speeches of in-

rt| the offensive, and thander down on the amti- ‘unionists with the full strength and weight

. ‘ ar; ents { zie. is strikingly Confederation scheme, seems to be delighted | st ~~ ee a a mete ane ia at the manifestation of hostility to that mea. | SUS 0. ORGEE SE See Ore YE

»-aalade ‘t ‘ i | terest Mr. Reilly takes in the welfare of the sure made at Lot 10, and counsels ** other} people, in general, throughout the whole Is-

peony - eee ot land, but in particular ol those of Mr, W he- unheeded by all sensible men. It may be| lan’s constituency, No doubt, Reine yore advisable to call public meetings to debate the | and but ise Enowa, . Der arene aria subject, for discussion, conducted ina proper | for himself a name and a standing in society.

spirit,as it would teud to open people's minds, | rae “ee , bk oat and lead them to thought and inquiry ; bat to| tends to succeed Mr. Whelan at St. 2 7

sald : in case of the rejection of the latter.

i bject in a manner similar to|'" S48° © J

cay eee a} he toils on from morn till eve over his pa- **with devotion’s visage and pious ac-

that in which it was taken up at Lot 10) pesb i s abe ty, i ee a : would, be ridiculous sheurdity., gnd,, would tion and would sugar over the devil himself.’ Let him then learn in time that he is not

only mislead people on this momentous ques- the most popular man in this part of the Is-

tion. Without speaking disparagingly of ‘ f eople, they are, at present, Bitty OF Banas cl aoe foe P jland ; and that a man capable of committing the same freaks of impudence and misde-

through déep-rooted prejudice — natural

ough under existing cireumstances—and : 5 Eade . p tates a meanor, es he did at the Souris Tea-Party, is not the person caleulated to represent this

want of information onthe matter, unable to see clearly throagh the seheme, or judge of capabidnedey'¢*wbe teat wadelga te ceneies among us such a candidate, even were we to reject you, Mr. Editor, on account of politi- cal differences. Mr. Reilly is welcome to come to our Union Meetings soon to be held, but I can assure him that if he be not killed with snow-balls, or something more unsavory, no one shall presume to outrage him with kindness.

Hoping, Mr. Editor, that you will soon

The editor of the /lerald, ever on the ale to grasp at every trifle antagonistic to the

dividuals as prejudiced and uninformed as themse:ves, as far as Confederation is con- cerned, instead of enlightening, would mis- lead them. The best advice to give the people, in the present erisis, is this: Inves- tigate the question with that earnestness, patience and impartiality which its impor- tance demands. Apply to all the sources of information within your reach, and weigh well and without bias the arguments on both| make your appearance among us, und that sides, refraining from taking either side till | the publie will profusely lavish on mea good you are fully convinced whether it would be | share of indulgence for all grammatical er- better to accept or reject the scheme. Do rors that may be interspersed throughout not have it said that you blindly opposed a) this piece,

It has been even intimated to ug that he in- |

it; third, to study the signification of the Susyuepedaha verha. for whieh end you will employ Worcester's Dictionary ; fourth, to study Quackenbos’s treat se in Punctuation, so that your sentences will not convey a sense different from the one intended. } trust that [ have now impressed on the minds of the public to what great corruption our

as Georgicum and Amicus. Lieaven, it is not. otherwise | would exclaim

Georgicwa again meet in print in any other line as argument, | will not deign to give him a reply, for [ presume to have opened his eyes sufficiently wide on this subject that he may see, as through a mirror, the shal- lowness of higown brain. Therefore, | trust to be no longer entitled to the appellation of ‘‘erazy,’” fur L opine the mad cap fits Geor-| gecum naturally, Wishing my new acquain- | tances a happy New Year, I now pass to the | more important part of my letter — tho)

Union Scheme defended, WILLOCKS.

(To be continued.)

Ghe Examiner,

nl eeeeeg tena ap pgeen amaenemamacmaamnal

Charlottetown, January 9, 1865.

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NINERS

. THE QUEBEC CONVENTION,

with Cicero: O Tempora tO Mores! Should |

tregaras. Prinee Edward tsiand, trom the Legis. | ‘lative Councils of the various Previnees, se tar as | fa sufficient number be found qualified sasd willing | jto serve; such Members shail be appointed by { | the Crown at the regonsinendafion of the General

| Executive Government, npop the nomination ot

the respeetive Local Govermnents, and in sneh | pnormination dive regard shall be bad te the claiuis | fof the Meisbers of the Legislative Cownet of the | ) Opposition peach Province, so that all political |

Island Literature would be exposed, were it | parties may as early as possible be fairly repre: | under the protection of such bright intellects | sented. Bust, thanks to |