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—— | getting ws wees joy labour £2 per day. Tue Kexo oy Beto ano Ths Grarery. | would leave the meeting to guess, then, what Evasecis —An interesting ceremony took the lueky ones got (laughter). He stood by! place wt Qetend on Saturday, that duy hay & wan who was working there hast year, aud jug been appointed for laying the fisst stone) who was engaged in picking rock with a knife ofa palnee, to be presented by the aiklate ite like an oyster knife, The rock of ¥ est Flanders to the King of the Belgians | was of @ soft, slaty character, and im the) us a senside residence. The King, who had crevices he kept picking out nuggets of from wonsented to officrate at the oceatiun, arrived | the grace of a Pea bo about am iuch in Leangrtla wt four o'clock, accompanied by the Dake! Alter tem minutes he (the Bishop) said to this aod Duchess de Brabant, aud was received) man, ** Let us see what you have done in ten hy M. Vambout, the goveruor of the province,|minutes,”’ and be found thet im that short wi the head of all the provineial and muni: | time be had obtamed £70 worth. lo) pal authorities, amid the most enthusiastic | another case a man who had been a miner inj As soon ag the Calitornum, and who was a partner with some |

cheering of the wultitude. King aad the Royal fawily bad ascended the | otbers in a claim, asked to bave a try ata eairade constructed for the purpose, M. Vam-| particular crevice, Aceurdingly he was let) bowt read an address expressing the gratitude duwn about eight fect beluw the surface inte | vl the Belgians to bis Majesty for thus ailow- | the claim, and iv a very short time he filled jog them to offer him uw testimonial of the} pan ot gold which when washed yielded high estimation in whieh they held the im- ledoz., worth something hke £300 or £400 wenpse services be had rendered to their) On another oceasion he stood by when ten country. la reply, the King expressed his| miners were washing out their day's work, affection for the Belgian peuple, and forj/and it came to L£boUU0; otf these ten men, | the town of Oxtend in particular, and con-| however, only three were owners of the elaim. | eluded with avying :—A reign of thirty-two | but they paid wages at the rate of twelve years is alrevuy long; Lb shall continue tode-| dollars per day to the seven others, lie vote myseli to sceuring the national iodepeu-| also visited a place called Barker's Claim. denee, the free institutions, and the happimess| Barker was a wherryiaaa who used to ply of the country.”’ His Majesty then descended | between Wisheach and Lynn. He (the from the estrade, and went through the usual | Dishop) bad known him ever since he bad formalities ot jaying the stone, which bore | been i the colony, and bis claim was one vi | the toliowing ins riplion :—*on the Sth of | the richest in the Cariboo district =A youn: August, 1s00, bis Majesty Leopold L., wccom- | man Nau d Travers, # Gloucestershire man, pamed by bis august tamily, laid the first | jomed # party who sunk a shait. and after gtone of this edifice, a testimonial of venera- | sume difheulty obtained gold. He made a

tion and gratitude from a people tu its beloved | resolution as Suu as be got u competency to king ” lreturn to Enghind, and alter stopping at the

spot for ten days he tovk out for his share

Parriceunars or rue Caprure oF Nana 4400, besides selling his ‘nterest in the claim Sauts.—-The following are extracts from a) tor £2 000 more. fe then got billson England private lester :—"* Parroquct Bungalow, Eas: | to the amount of 22,000, and carrying with indies, Ajmere, June 50.— You have by this | iia some of his gold to meet his beecasaries trme beard of the capture ol Napa suhib. | returned pam. Miners must be fed, and) am glad the villian is at last caught 1 was | how was this to be done? Apparently they were | wesent at his capture and bad a tull view of | ted upon the pack-horee pian, and goods were | Shs J will give you a few interesting par- carried so up to Cariboo. Fivur cost last year, | ticalars of bis appesrance, &c-. In the alter-| wut Cariboo, 6s per ib. ; and even now it cost noun I had oceasive tc pass near the Tem} Je of | vs per Ib. Of course this was a very heavy Adjmere, while surveying & new road in the | eapense, and although some reduction might) Uistrict, aud Was Hol & lite surprised to vb- | be effected by better roads aud Waggons, stall serve a crowd of Datives and others eagerly What the culuny wanted was a farming | Jabbering together, and with violent geeticn- population. Last yeur some lew farmers! Jations pulnting tuwarus the temple. As this; Who had settled were Colning noney oul ol is usually such a very quiet place I coud not | the farming wme, which proved a more conceive the cause. I requested my interpre: | certain aftuir than the gold. One Oregon ter to ascertain the cause of the coumiouon,

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}farwer started from bis tarm last year wit!) and to my utter astomshment he imiormed | bity horses laden with bacon—eaeh Horse | me that that veritable scoundrei nud buteber | curried 2oUib. of bacon—and the enterprisiag | of the innocent at Cawapore— Nana Salib— | man lett Uregon May 13, ted his horses on was koown to be lurking with some con-| the maguilicent pastures which lay along the federates in the neighbourtvod of the temple. | route, and reavied Caribou duty i, Bk 1 immediately gave up all thonghts ol work; there sold his _Dreduce, which cost hin, for the day und dismissed my cuvlies, and! perbaps, 2d or Sd per 1b., for 4s 2d per Ib, lusied myselt in collecting information. i / clearing at least £1,000 by the venture. | hastily returned to my tungalow to partake | lis name was Brown, and he was ealled, to! of a light dinner, or rather lunch, when one | distinguial him from other Browns, ** Bacon | uf my native Servants Came running ia with. brown —(lsughter)—while his) trair wan eyes and wouth wide open, tomtorm me that | &ty led the ** bacon train, He (the bishop) | Nana Sahib bad at that moment been cap- | ment med this tu show that if a man foamed | tured by Major Davidson and his colleagues. | it to bis advan age tu travel SOU miles to} I hastened up to the tewple. end there in/supply the minors with the produce vf bis) the eustodyot the military, aod encireled by | farm, what enormous profits would he made | @ crowd o! spectators, who intimated their by farmers if they were tu go and settle upon desire to tens him to pieces, by loud yellsand the lands of the colony. This was going on) savage looks, i for the first time betield the | this year to a considerable extent, and severa! | yafisa, and part instigator of the late dis-) young men hud settled downo—several from estrous ftebeliion. Le is of middie height, Norlolk among the number—resisting the | and I should think about 40 years of age. | essing temptation of the gold mines, and MMe had a calm, determined, bat vengeful ex- | adupting the more steady couree of cultivating | pression of countenance. | pushed myseif/the Jand. He (the bishop) was quite sure | as near as poesible to the prisoner, in order! that they would prosper, for they were steady | to obtain a good view ot him. He surveyed | men, and not ashamed of bard work | the huoting crowd with proud disdain, and a ; Auother resource of the colony was the ewile of derixion, as mach usto say, *Ah, you! #bundance of fish it possessed. Salnion were | feared me once !’ But, every dug has bis day,’ | im ouch plenty that they lay thick upon exeh as the seying is—aod the Nana bas had his | other in shoa.s—fine, big fish, such as might | day. Now the day of retribution has come be seen in the shops in Loudon. Wien ulier the lapse ul six long yeats. Murdered traveiling up the rivers in a canve they had | husbands, wiles, and children will be aveng- viten struck against the boat, and sometimes | ed! When led away, strongly guarded, be} bis men had knocked one on the head and walked with a firm step and upright demea-| dragged itin. One of our ships the Satellite, nor. lis dou cusembie (Lor w sepoy) is rather | letdown the net lor a draugit, off San Juan, | dignified. The disguise he wore was that of and took 600 salmon at once; whiie cn wn ordinary sepoy. The military appe srea | another occasion the crew of the same ship_ to be exceeding y jrajous of any person close- | touk over GUO He had noticed, tov, as wany ly approaching the:r valoable prisoner, ard | as fifty salmon all Jesping and juwping out

eseur Lim away to prison with a strong) of the water at ose time. Aga, herring guard. ‘There is not & shadow of doubt astu | Were very wbundant, although at present

Lis identity, from papers ubsut his person, | there was @ want of enterprise, and only and unmistakabie warks about bis body. A small fish along the shore were taken. So little civeumstance occured us be was being | abundant, bowever, were fish generally that led away which illustrates bis disposition ,/ om one cccasiva, when he was at a settler’s| une ot the soldiers just pasted hin forward | bouse and something was wanted for a meal, | when they started, the prisoner instantly }@ little girl was sentdown to obtain a supply

_toened round, and with w dewon’s nok ut-| with a pail and a rake, the former being |

tered ap oath, and tried to Jilt bis arm to) ova filled hy the use of the latter (laughter). | strike the wan but he was bound. Hedropp- Phe right rev. prelate then addressed himseil | ed his partly raised arm, and with a deject-| to the special work in which he was engaged, | ed Jook proceeded on his way amid the hisses relerring to the difficulties experienced trow | ef hundred-, even of his own countrymen. | the reckiess, defiant character of the miners, | ‘The papers are once more teeming with | even the better disposed among them cursing | anecdutes of bis atrocities, aud traits of his| others when they invited them to join iu | character, details of his capture, &e.; hie) religious service. same forms the subject of leading articles | ——_—_-<-_ --—- | aad gossip. What t have written you may) Arratine Disaster CN THE Mississtprt | rely upon, seeing L was an eye-witness to —Teeatic Exetosion of Amucsirion on las capture.” Bosgp tue Sreawer City oF Mapison— |

;}Gver two Huxprep Soupigrs, Crrizens | anv Neakves Kitten, Wouxpep on Drownen.

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Barrisy Cotvwura, rvs Posrrion anp Pros-

OREIGN MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. work there, and that the unlucky ones were carried the ammunition to the hatch, and the oa Sones : Ue other in the hold, deposited it ia its proper:

| above.

! iyresistable power within. ithe flas than followed the report. instant, as if the first were merely the pro-

jand there on the levee, dead, dyiug or su ffer-

‘lust time sink to rise no

place. At the time of the fatal slip a negro

was expected, to the entire satist cerned,

an

action of ete) improvement of Her

in the arts | There were

and the great Mafjesty’s loyal subjcets of Monectoti cu steries of inartial scelence.

wasstandingin the hatch to receive the armmu- about five hundred good and true men on the

micen aad pas it to ene below, being too much for one man, A-shell was) Heimg passed,

iu the train of many others preceeding, who | orderly conduct of the men.

were returning to bring 4 tresh Joad,. ad the same time pressing along the gungway was a crowd of the laden hastenimg bo dele | ver their loads inte the hands of those below

In the hold the wen were no less achive, | and quickly disposed of the crowding atid |

accumulation of Dusiness in sture for them

| Unfortunately the megro Standing below | and ouly helps to prove what a burlesque aud a

fuiled to properly secure ian his hands the; shell banded him from the one in the hate | It slipped, be made an efiort to re- gain his grasp, bat i had already struck. |

The shock sustained by the full ignited the No svoner came | lo aa!

monitions of the great terrors to succeed, the |

very city shovk to its foundation, window |

pines tell in by the terrible foree of the con: | cussion with w deafening crash, the river | boiled violently and spasiodically, and dis} very bottum was ploughed up by the im- mense rush of the element. Now followed all the borrors which ever mutilated the bu | man form and wound it in the writhings 0: | most partal and shocking tortures

boat in the explosion bad parted; the bull) who passes along aid speaks of soldierly cen

lortunately was forced tumediately to the | bottom of the river, going down bow first. | thus somewhat lessening the tmatmensiby ol power involved in the large quantity of aa | munition on board, tor the rushing in of the | water na measure checked the violence of a | greater explosion which utherwise vuid have } tullowed.

As the hull of the boat went down, the | cabin, taxes, pilot house, chimneys and every- | thing above the deck, shut ty the wir, over ope hundred feet, in one confusion of tuaher |

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furniture, machinery and bodies, and tell inte the serging, hissing ruins below, with a crash that seemed in tts awful majesty of ap- pearance and sound ty stop the pulsations of | the heart; tu free the blood of lite; to chain | one numovably to the earth te one wild auc reeling coutlict of the tearstriken, cowering | tucalties of the human trame.

‘The coneusstons and reverberations had al- | most caused their fierce notes, and nething but the distant licgering sound, as it was wafted far off on the waves of the atimos-

i phere, to tell in its own language the tale |

of horror, could be heard, and rayidiy even | these expiring evidences were quieted inte | serene calmness uf evening. Now come that most appalling of all momentsofaeceident. As if to bide the scene from the smiling, the | quiet heavens above, a dull curtain of leaden | smoke intervened the Lavoe below and the placid biue above.

From all parts of the city crowds of of-| ficers, suldiers and civilians, ealled forth by | the terrific explosion, came crowding eagerly down to the scene of destruction. Officers stretehed their limhs to most unmartial lengths to keep up with the wave ot curious Lutmanity us it poured along,

Little can be imagined of the revulsion of feeling when the spectacle barst into view. hvery sentiment of the human heart, every function of tie Guman frame received a check, the reeoil of which stunned men—-into almost fainting awe. The picture that now pre- sented itself may now be briefly summed up. | Pie boat was a total wreck, Tbe buildings | in the vietnity were wrenched almost from | their toundations. The steamer Ed Walsh |

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lay with ber whole side tera from ber, Men and aninais were dying sca‘ tered here

ing, powder burnt or internally injured by | the intense force of the coneussion. The! water could be seen presenting spots ol | earthy subsiance upon its surface, or here | and there small cretes of blood, which plain- | ly marked the end of some falleu victim Chen again floating bodies could be seen| amidst the rubbish of the catastrophe, oc-| casionally one popping oat of the water. | bluckened and bivated, remaining poised on | the suriace tor &@ moment aod ten for the wore In other! places it seemed as if some sull breathing | body might be seen in its last paroxysm ol | death gasp, throw out its arias for help and then fall back into the watery depths, its) couch and ite grave. ‘The scene was beyond | ali powers of description. Ln pidichalibatiitall inched FROM MEXICO.

Latest accounts from Mexico state that the | French bad occupied the town of Menitallan, | vo the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and had | sent an expedition against Tampico. Juarez! was reported as being about to take refuge | in Texas. The Mexican paper La Lstafette recocnizes the danger of a war with the | United States, and thinks the only way ot) avoiding it 8 to hurry up and dispose of the | remaihs of the Juarist army.

It is ramored amoung politieans in Rich- mond that Robert I. Ho hunter, will be sent

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j ‘ 1 Colouiel Defences’ generally, the Tunes tells

| aust Lave their cileet.

}Jienden Tones of the 2d. jis the policy ef the South simply te act on the}

lie ended by the sword.

| North themselves.

| rupepetlaer.

yuts —The Bishop ot British Columbia, who, ae the Rev. G. Lillis, was long identifiea with Great Yarmouth, vieted bis old} parishioners ov Sunday and Monday for the purpose of recounting bis experiences of. his distant diocese. Un Monday 4 meeting was beld ip the Corn Exchange, when the Bishop of British Colambia said ;-- British Colambia | wae destined at no distant date to occupy a remarkable position among the dependencies

York Herald, under date of 17th August,/ ern Confederacy, in order to prepare the writes :—~ }way foran off-nsive and defensive alirance |

‘The stillness of this beauti‘ul evening) between the Emperor of that country and | was, but a few moments since, broken by one | the government of Richmond. 1s is sard that | of the most appalling and stunning explosions gentleman bas received instructions tor the ever recorded amoug the nuw-rous and|iuimediate recognition ot the future Ein- various disasters that have belulien men peror uf Mexico, ip return for which, 36 is while im pursuit, carefully, of a dangerous hoped, his Majesty will be led tu reeogniz: but necessary duty. Men who had calmly | the Southern Contederacy.

} —The Vicksburg correspoudent of the New | to Mexico as the representative of the Suuth- ; |

uf great Britain. Britints Caulumbia oceu pied surveyed the carnuge ot some hotly contested | somewhat the same position upon the western) huttle field, witnessed the puroxyms of suf- evast of North Awerica as England did apon | tering in whioh the mangled torms of their the westero cuast uo! hurope, aud the culouists comrades were writhing, or cheerfully obeyed felt as to climate complete ly ut home| the * charge,’ and smid the fierce borrors Population, tov, was continaal’y spreading | of onslaught marched unterrified amid a over the western side of the American con-| sleet of death straightforward to the breach tinent. The American war bad increased | or the cannon’s mouth, now quailed betore | this movement. At this very time 100,000) the horrors ul the awful scene which burst! Je were engaged im one great exodus, upon them. The unexpected oceurrenc ue with ther waggous. their lamiles and thew | well as ite completeness was its pulliating | househulde, and were passing over to the! feature. tiad the accident been foreseen or | western side, bidding adieu lorever to the even foreshadowed, the stoutest heart would | eastern side. A few years since, whew he have rushed im terror out of reach of the! first went out to Vancouver, San Praneisco | termble ageney ; but 4 quick, piercing, red-) was the great place upon which Vancouver dened flash, a report, as if all the batteries! de pended tor everything her population uf heaven were bleavhing forth the wild wanted. Franciseu was now besinmiog to be! notes of thunder, and all was over. Des-! supplied from British territery, in con-|truection, pain and death lay roond m one) cman of the increased quantity of Britis: mass of mangled, singed “and blackened | elaippeng attracted tu Sa toe — year budies, shattered timbers and the debris of | one of our largest shipowners, Mr. Lindsay, huildings, vehicles and vessels. The water! ind round four barge steamers to ply between surged aad lashed its agitated waves, lke | the western coast of America and China and , angry masses, bigh upon the land. The! dJapan—vast countries now opened to our! earth trembled as if moved hy the force of ») trade and oqeemner, Jn ee ” all) mighty ce quake, and, as 4 elosing seene, | these circumstances there Was gold, and we) overshadowing the spot hung a lowering: know how potent an influence of gold was in| cioud. a leaden pall of smoke, #8 if to Wrap drawing population to @ country. As was | in eee to cover up in obseurity, & epee: | he case, however, with wost new countries, | tacle tou agunizing for the gaze of human| British Colombia was a very rough land, te- | ayes. quiring bard-handed wen tu enter upow the} Thus briefly in outline the main featurce work before them. He bad olter been struck of the catastrophe bave been noueed, its gn witnessing the hurdslips which men would | panoramic effect in a manner set forth. Let! vidergo lor the sake ol ge: "ea, ali us turn to the particulars of the aveident. | rhs they never realized, e bad seen! The stemboat City of Madison, apon which | ae ‘ull v! life, energy, and tt and) the explosion took alan. Wig a oes side) he bad met thew retormng bro en-down, | wheel steamer, a little above the average weary, haggard, ; et Ik Seeine hen topnage of river crafts. During the time of oung men bad called upon him im Victoria | peace, this vessel ran in the St. Louis and with lettersof introduction, he had frequently | New Orleans trade. Since the outbreak of given them advice whiel liad rather astuaished | the war she has been engaged principally as them. be had reoous mended them, belore!a transport for troops ; and more recently they started for the mines, to go and work) her services vere called into requisition for, u the roads fur two wants that they | the transportation: of ammunitien. On the’ might harden their bands, and find out what 19th it was ordered that the City of Madison) eort of lite they woule have to lead. The | should take on board a certain quantity of | geld of British Columbia required men v! fixed and unfixed amunition, together with | guud perye and enterprise to work it; steady ‘an additional namber of projectiles. The | woole of this kind woald do well, but no! boat was lying atthe wharf immediately in sott-handed idiers were wanted, The first | front of the city, ready to receive the cargo diseuvery of guid towk place in 1850, in the in order to expedite the loading a heavy de- | lower part of the Frazer, at a place called tail of soldiers, numbering one hundred and Yale, just above New “ estwiuster. People sixty, was made at noon from one of the re-, yashed im trom Caliornis, and w good many | giments in the city, the members of which, wiade their fortanes there ont of the dust, owing to the contasion now raging and the! bat it was nothing to ull that was alterwards speedy departure of the boat to bear this. 1

discovered. Neer the mouth of the river! have not yet been able to learn. Asan aug. twenty

guid was found im cust like bran, but higher) mentation of this number about

up it appeared in nuggets from the size of a) negroes were ulsu engaged in the work. pea to an meh long. The reason of this was| During the entire afternoon the work went. that gold came out of quar ia whieb lay in the, on with unabating vigor. One continuous, mountains of Cariboo. The action of water | train of men could be seen, like so many in-| upon the quarts disintegrated and loosened dustrioug ants, moving to and from the bout the gold from it. The heavier fragments of | laden or returning unladen, as then happen- | gold sunk at once wear where the disintegra-|e4. It was early in the evening. One| tion tovk place, but the smaller particles,' hundred and fifty tone of the terrific bat. wich resewbited bran, floated down for a slumbering agent were alredy on board. The! considerable distance. It was in ‘Cariboo! men were pressing their energies to complete | where the greatest amount of mining was their task and retura te the then quiet aud now being carried on, and in @ letter whieh. less laborious ayocat ons of oa p. he reedived from British Columbia he was’ In order to hasten the work, the party, told that avast viuwbor of miners were wt was divided into two bodies, one of whieh

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-—Tbhe valuation of this year shows Boston

San Francisco, Aug. 29.— The steamer Constitution's dates trom the City of Mexico are only up to July 25 A portion of the Mexican and Freneb troops have moved sixty wiles westward from the capital to Cuernavacca. The intentions of the Triumyerate to recognize the Confederate States were continually toreshadowed by the imperial press, the recognition to take place as soon as the news Tteached Mexicu that Maximilian accepts tae crown.

The news from the Juarez Government is unimportant, Jucrez was understood to be busying himself in encouraging guerrilia ex peditions, some of which were led by Aweri-

culs. _ -s0¢e -—--—

A heavy gale raged along the const of the | United States trom the 19th to the 22nd Av- gust. Its yreatest fury appears to have been south of 40 degrees north latitude, and mw 72 to 74 degrees west lowgitude, In this gale the United Siates brig of war Dain- bridge, with about 160 men on board, foundered. only one man out of the whole thip’s company, being saved. In the same guie the New York steamer George Creek also foendered, but without loss of life ; and & great many otber casualties are reported.

ihe itaiiiaiionpaen

Svepesep Wreck or « Pincrim Sprp anp Loss or 400) Lives —It is feared that a most calamitous shipwreek has happened in the viemity of Aden, by the loss of the ship Boyne, with four bundred pilgrims on board. The Boyne lete Bombay bound tou Luddah and when near Uoodilah the ship is reported to have struck on a rock, and remained fast. The pilgrims were landed on an adjacent island, and soun afterwards the vessel was got off. leaking badiy, hut the passengers m spite of the warning of the Nacoda, im- mediately re-embarked, and the ship wag gor under way, but the water gained so rapidly ov them that they were compelled to abandon the vessel, and im the rush to escape nearly 400 of the pilgrims are said to have been drowned in the wreck.

—_——— Boston THE Ricurst City 1x tHe Country.

to have taxable property tu the amount of S502 000,000. Even this does not approxt- tate to the real value of the wealth of the city, but imperfect as this may be, it shows Boston to be one of the wealthiest erties in| the world, and per capita, much the richest m this country. New York city with ts po- pulation of nearly one million, bas a valua-, tion thia year of $594.000.000, while Boston | with a population of Jess than 200 000 has a) valuation of more than half that of New) York.

COLONIAL NEWS. | Po “Tur Miaria Farce.”— Under this title the | Westmorland Times irreverenily speaks as tolluws | of the Muster in that town on Wednesday :—

_* Muster-day is past, and the town is sate !—! Yesterday being the day appointed for mustering |

| the seeond division of the first battalion West-| category of couls te Newenstle,

moriand Militia, the great turn out took place | frout of Printing Mouse Square, and resulted, as

dof the South.

‘trade of the South has disappeared it has been

| not carry more than two cargoes a year, but, as

the weight ground, and their appearance was equal to any-| gr

thirg of the Kiad seen here for the last forty years. |

The soldier bad given 16 iN) Po deed we have vo right, aud certainly De desire, j trumpe the hands of the negro aud was walking &Way | ty say one werd except 1 coumendution of the | volee, e

The « tlieers are, for! the greater part, elderly gentlemen who be- longed to the last geveration, aud may at one tiie have had seme slight hnowledge of military matters, but with the exception of Adjutnut Botsford, we could net diseaver that a single oMeer belonging to the battalion aftenipied to display the slightest acquaintanee with any part of an officer's duty. All this: is natural eneugh

humbug the present law is.” In the course of some further remarlhs upen

seine heme truths :—

“But on looking at New Bruuswick, what de we find?) Nothing but a taree and a burlesque of the most contempoble Kind. Their is neither drill ner organization, nor aly attempt at such,

; : “ Lo | 500), took possessiott of the fair grounds of Vanalia,

will find a poorer market than ever fortheir corn. 2 biele they fortified and demanded the tathers of |

With the falling off of this trade, the New y ork merehanta will be no lounger able to pay off then British creditors in grain; they, wall —— have to part with their gold; it will go up, ane

the lower levels of society that will be t-tongued for peace. Yo smother that ven pow, Me. Lineoin has te keep au armed feree, vot only in New York and Kentucky, but in Obie, Indiana, and other States. He is even now marching ene up into Town, to put down there a ery for peace. He is likely to have vecupation for all the recruits his couscriplion will give in keeping down bis own people.

“Never were the prospects of the & brighter. AN that we have to do is te inaintam the defensive, watch our chanees, and strike whenever there isan opportunily tora good stroke either with the sword or with the peu.”

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- > 0° o- - MATTERS IN VIRGINIA.

The Richmond * Kaquirer” of the 29th ult., speaking of the demonstration at Bottom Bridge, says tliat it was made by a portion of Meade's army, and that Gren. Meade oeing afraid ot Lee's

Meu are called away trom their daily employments, they know not why: they stand for a tew hours looking at each other in the moat umueaning at- titude; they ask each other the question why they came here, but nobody knows anvthing about at, They did pot eome tor dial or military exereise, for ne one preseut has vuv knowledge of auch

advanee set it of toot with tee object ol diveMing men fron Lee's foree and prjrenting his advanee. | The “Enquirer says this scheme will prove a } failure, as plenty of troops cab be detaiied to pe: pulse any Pederal raid that may be made in the ucighberlevd ef Miehmond without detaching a man trom the army of Virginia, Dut tien are de- tached from ILec’s army for some purpose, as the

things. ‘The loss of a day's labor, however, is a

matter of certainty Wiihout a shadow of benetit |

of ns deseription, Perhaps fuey see seme one

Phe} on horseback with a sword dangling by his side, |

acee nad military display, bat he might as oe talk Greek or Hebrew. And all this is the efieet of having a law oon our Statute Book whieh ap- pears to be periectiy powerless ehecpl io tad people direetl) and indirectly some thousands ot dollars tor he good purpese whatever Tuai we have ye t been able te discover.” —- -

The Hanilton (C. W.) Spectator savs:—* The crops generally Grrotighout Wester Canada pro- mises to be the best we bave had for imany years.

} Both elusses of wheat, winter and Spring, are of

fhe tost ebeeriy character, exeept in parttentdar with midge and rusi, but woieh isa very suiall pereent-

localities, Where if has been affected

ye on ihe area sown.”

sinensis The last namber of the Halton Speetator quotes the tollowing trom the Beston Pdet of

|} Aug. Si—

“When we have the revelt put down we will

Liar our swords on Grilain, tle main cause and

extent of the duration of (he revolt. A saccessta! repression ot the rebellion bs Tipossible without

tials. Deceucy demands it; Jushee demands it;

}untional pride demands it; national malice de- inands if: our ewn future safety demands it; onr;

wideuse standing army and eur preat navy de- vand it. Wen causes ke these are waited (uey

Canada as the frigid, usecrable, begearly, inhospitable country it 1s

tibutsaeh aa it in, eur seldiers will ravage it,

desecrate Ut, drag Uhrough is berria unpeneirable surtace of lee aad shew the aecursed flag af Diug-

land, hold it in absolute gailitary despotisin tor a

time, and then fing it back to its orginal boary |

pussessors, eternal frost and spow.” - — 3 —

The Toronto Leader of the 26th ult, sare :— © Lotelligenee of a most startling character bas been received, te the effect that a correspondence has been discovered, the olyect a Which is to iivite the Federal Government to in-

vade Canada aud overthrow Beitish supremacy ! |

Mr. Archibald, the British Coenen! at New York, as communicated the facts tothe Gritish Goveru- ment.”

THE WAR IN TUE STATES.

COM. MAURY ON THE PROSPECTS OF THE SOUTH.

A long letter on * the prospects of the Confe-

} derates,” by Conumodore Maury, appears in the

He concludes that it

defensive, for it is fighting to be left alone, and

hot for conquest a8 is the case with the North. }

Lt ia obvious that asthe Uulou is goue, aud neither

fparty can subjiwate the other, the war is not te |

He theu cites as among

) the agencies that are te eed the war the dissen- | | sions that are arising among the people of the

All the esibarrassmeuts with

| whien the peace party can surrvund Me. Lineolu,

and all the difficulties that it cau throw in the way ef the war party in the North operate di- recily as so uiteh- aud and comtort io the South He points to the siots in New York, the conduct oft the Peunsyivauians during Lee's invasion, te the organized resistance to the war in Lowa, ete., as proof that the war is becoming more and more He turns to the military situation and shows thet the North is naable to follow up lis successes in the Seuth West. He then says:

“Phas the military tide which set in with se inuch Federal protiise on tie young food in July, aod whiel has se damped the spirit of our English friends and depr@seed Southern securities, appears suddenly to hate slackened, and to be on ihe pout of again turning ta our faveur, and that, tee, uider auspices Which seeu more propitious than ever. 7 : . " '

“ Jndeed, so straghtened is Mr. Lincoln at this moment that hie purfizans are reserting to a des- perate game, Tuey are endeavouring to raise the Was cry against France and England, hoping thereby to rally tae people to aru, and iatending, it snecessiul, to send the dupes to fight then brethren in the Seuth. :

“Nay, tnore; there are rumors of a prace party in bis Cabinet, ad of a proposition there to revoke the Emavetpatios Proclamation and pro- pose terms to the South. “Phe leading vewspapers oft the North mention this, and not with disappro- bation. ;

“ Nor are these all the agencies that time and events are bruigitig inte play en the side ut peace and the South.

*

“The fall of Vieksburg and Port Hudson was, | for the wholesale wrung of slaves.

according to thewe wie were stirring the North- Western people gp to war, fo open the way to warket for them, Every English house in’ the American trade Khews that the bread stuffs of Ghio and the North-West had, for years betore the war, nearly ceased to pass by New Orleans ou the way to markets abroad, They weut uy tue Lakes, ard se, via caunl and rail. to Boston vod New York for exportation to tereign coun- tries. Can any ene m the trade pretend that Ragland would have taken a shipload more of Awerican flour bad the Mississippi been open all the war!) Chieage and not New Orleans has tor years been the grand grain marker ot the West, aud exeept Louden it is the greatest in the world.

“There was en the lower Mississippi a large

Tie) |

Ii is to be lamented that | ice-benud, sleet-driven, |

treasonable |

same authority tells that ne mail was received frei | the front on the day of publicationenmeeonntor the | Central railroad being monopolized for the eon veyauee of troeps southward. Quoting seme I statements made in the Nerthern papers cob cerning an apprehended advaues by Lee, the }** Enquirer”? says;

| “When the advanee does take place, Meade will quickly betake himself to the fortifications ot Washington. There willbe ne batde at Mauasas, i Meade will make ne stand this sige ot Washington. Geo. Lee owill have toe eross the | Putianee, to get a fight out of the Army of the | Potouae The ‘decimated condition’ of thai harmy really invites an advance; but as they ean reaeh Washington betore Gen. Lee can possibly jintercept thean, such advances may bo useless j wuless we can enter Maryland.’.

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| CAPTURE OF GUNBOATS SATELLITE AND RELIANCE. The Baltimore “Sun” gives’ the following |

S particulars of the captave of the gunboats Satellite jand Rehanee, at the mouth of the Rappahannock : oe It appears that both vessels were captures lwith very litte resistance by these on board. 1: fhas beck Common for negroes escaping fron

Virginia to take refuge on the government vessels, jand on the night of the capture four boats, each | containing about 25 men, approached the steamers and get on board witheut exciting suspicion that they were other than negroes,

The crews of two boats boarded each steamer, when two or three pistol shots ouly were fired They approached from the direction of the Piankstauk, aud had no difficulty in reaching the As soon as the Reliance was captured, Mr. McCauley, the engineer, disabled the engine. und Chas. Clark, the coxwain of the Satellite, | jumped overboard and swam te Windmill Point, Where he was subsequently captured by Con- federate cavaiy. Alter the capture of the steamers the captors alse tock two ackooners whieh Lad made harbour in the mouth of the I river, and moved up the Rappahasneck, the | Satellite towing them and the Reliance as far as j {

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vessels,

Port Tobave,

The capture oecurred on Saturday night, the 22d iust., and on Mouday the gunboat Commodor Barney started ig pursuit. She proceeded uy the river about GU miles, and it is said heavy firiag was subsequently heard from that direction. The Reliance is a swall gunboat, and belonged to the | flotilla whieh cruises about the months of the

| Potowme and Reppahaunock. She carries a 32- pounder Parrett gun and 12-pounder howitzer, | BRAGG'S 4

NEWS FROM BRAGG’S ARMY. The Holston (Teun.) Journal, speaking of the | condition of affairs in East Tennessee, says :— |} “What of Bragg? We do not know the strength of his army, and if we did it would he | uppreper to make it known; but we may say i that, takiig the present status of bis antagonist jinte account, and bis well known segacity and adrvitness, he will find lis situation a mest has- }ardeus and perplexing one, unless there is greater energy and promptness shown than now seem te exist in this department. | “tis eppareut that Rosecrans intends to flank ; Lim upeuw betasides; that he will, no doubt, throw ;& thassive caluimn tute Nertiwestern Georgia, and janether inte Hast Tonnessee, hy way of Sparta | Suppose the tormer ensues, what other security | has Bragg than to fall back to Atlanta, and, if he dves this, what will becoune of Mast Teanessee 2"