ng wr desperate in porseval apr i they are eegatded as ul bad

was fad iat? ilae

ce vothing at ri theta lh

pre

he pearance, yopule paved of thetr Setiny ; . P Baas beide nd diapoent ties fer visi a d *f : eo rthy frent the frendeet the Coutederaie able #7 abit gle *} 1. consequent ged piratical iiaattis ot Later:

abl h pps tate- handed over to bie Federal,

ererts Consider-

! mmm Bil pause ; ai : : atic » princi j red at 1 bie ¥ a re Law bave aadergone more Lian ordinary “0 — ny our fagal trateruity, but, as usual, “ gutagomistic views @Qoad resuiis—-some lisist- we nts

A Si.

that (acer opition OF The principal poiut tm that ‘ ; © emovetay a0 te vend dispute; while others, with ae . ; waa frmress, maintar a contrary interpretation

mal ‘ ye ntrariety rat the profession, tTwonld ach contr < ~ | be dilficuly te und rstaod What is their generai e ait , . en the question, Wii er orhel piraes aratl i : . co@mitted Mm fine instance; vor ia it at i

haus beer : much Lape ance &) ths

rtainty exist the minds af a tew lawyers rnert a -

peuple 3) sarge that this

te concur in the Opiion

Li, however, appea: that tad Brae and his accomplices authority ten the See fo atletapt or he t the semmnre, strech anh export eandet be eon etec

( eniledera

atracd intos piratical erhue, bat must be accepied né a jusiifiable ower agrinet te arwic d apy vent.

Og the part of The eutiplaiiants and proseen- tron, two 5 Joba Barristers are employed, while the Hon. Joba ti. Gray is recained —as he him. ail fermally aml sotnew hat grandly anneunced oa the first morning of the investigaion ~ as

Counsel tor the Contederate Slates of America.” What a distingnisied capacity! How clear and promising i the preapect of becoming Consul-

procesding by one belligerent

General or Plenipotentiary in those Colonies to the Confederate States of America When they siall have been adiwitted inte the Family of Nd tians, la twenty-tobr hours after their capture the culprits were brenght before the Court and arraigned, and yet within thal short Space «ot time getliewman received jis briet from Riehweud to defend the Rebel Government iui 1 suspect that Mri Gray's eugageuent did net originate with Jetl, Davis ov any ot tis Cabi wet, bat more provably with a tew prowineni citizens of St Jolin, whose proclivities in regard ty the American war are decidedly secessiona! ‘This, 1 presume, woul) be designated a consiru tice velamer, aud, thervtore, a reiainer

Ne evidence on beliali of the defence bas yet been offered. It has generally thet o-mitissions under the sea! of the Coutede- rate States would be produced to establish thy fight of Braine and his subordinates to perpetrate the set complained of; and, en the preanction of such decuments, the release of the would deubiless follow. but po Such evidenec bae lithertu been and ail the tacts whieh have been revealed in Court tell strougly agitst the accused

the learned

Hrere* hy sirperareed!

prisoners

stubunitted

da ihe eariiest partet the preliminaries, objee ties was taken te the jurisdetion of the Pone Magistrate te adjudeau upon the ease. The eyection Was based dpor the tact that tie Chesa- peake Was (taken Possesshoi of and surrendered to rave io American Walk rs, of WHiel matters our Courts have no cognizance. When eloquently urged by Mr. Gray, this pomt etieeted consider abie hesitation in the wind of the Magis! but Was, after consideration, overruled. There aise appears the newative feet that ao register, shewing the Steamer to be Federal property, WM eVideuce ; but this detect is promised to ve remedied in the course of a tew days. A nove} aud extcaordisaty application was made to the Court at its last sitiings by the prisoners’ Coun- eel. It has been currently reported that Brain: was, aud stil! is. ia pessessionu of the proper ere dentiais to trade in piracy and privateenng: and fet, wetwithstanding this stute ot iguanuits rein prosecution. he bas had the baseness ty abseoud aad conceal bineelf trom the oficers oft public jastice, and the treachery to leave iis untortunats and deluded companions Without the benefit of the beneted comirission Lista conduct, ict <utis- fagtort! accounted fox, certain), strengthens the presumption of his guilt Yesterday Mr applied ty the Court ier permission te bi wg Brain jerward delence, aud tor a giaranter that he would be ex: tpt igus cru hal pfotess guoad the matter in hand: but the Magistrate stiumariy disinissed the request, and aeemmpanied bis relusal wiih the *S pression of a hope that tie Police officials would use their ut- host wudeavours to capture Braine, so that he Sieuld tuke lis trial, ter weal or wor, with thos: dreads in cGetedy Mr. Gray turther announced fis intention to demand from the Provincial Se- cretary a copy of the offilavits and requisitior bpen whieh the Lieut. Governer’s warrant wa bewed; aud, ow failure of their reduction, the learned Counse! siated that be would insist upe a saoprae dace) treme ver ig issved tor Lis Ex- eeliency to attend 4¢ a Tie further euting of the case je au) urned efer unti

Thursday of next week

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The coriesity and ex-iicwent which this oc- entrence has created is ripidts g. Peop Gre getiiw satiafed with its details: and ati) the hoert we—thie NVes perbaps—ol the Hite belies ~—staiwart SuGng i ‘ are itl jen N j bnpossibie, al the present time, te auiicipate thi ual isaue, tor al) is delist and eoufua on bin

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is} Bidet HEtCE PLU: be Lint wuservey ia, fiat whoever ulers by tie eveut, the lawyersengaged will be the guwers, Five guineas a day fee cack of these gettieawen, without the Sy kledh Fespeet ow their part ter the ter hours *ysiem, a fealure Oy LO ieee Unwerluy of huliee, AUG i4 al ali limes an ite

‘aes of

ui ire ly adinissible Lo iis Feeipient’s puree, Whether deirayed by Waskingivn Cabinet or by the : t Diates vi Awericu.”

Mra. Eveicth is again before the Supreme Coart ou as indictment tor Abortion. Lis otfenes is wade felovious by the Provincial Statutes, and 8 punishable with fourteen years imprisonment bn the Penitentiary. tbout three years age, this Woman was tried and acquitted in St. John on a ewarge of enrbezzleme preterred agaiast ber by Messrs. Evins and Gardner. On that eceasio: the verdict whieh, legally established her innocene

tue

* Cunicderale

Was Commonly supposed to have beep preseunged through the toree of almost overwheiming svin- paliy,aad the persdusion ut her advocates. Now, huwerer, i is believed that she will be entirely Wilhent these accidental atvantages. ‘I hough: the evidence to be adduced in the present pro- feculion can be ouly of a circumstautia! nature Jet the probalilities af acquittal ars against ler. Besides, I believe she has disdained the assistance ot Coumseli—cther that, or Counsel have relused their Miterpesition, buat this latter BY aprprere Lied: thinst be Wholly unfounded, and I only give it as One ot the strange rumers of the day. .

Mr. Spinney, whe came here some twelve houths age, and set np as a medical practitioner lis ewereign renedy in all cases bei ig tie Kivetric battery —is jowuily indicted with Mrs. E for the crime imputed to ber. Mr. Spiusey will be ably defended by 3. KR. Chowan, E q+ one of Me cleverest members of the Bar. while the Monble. he Solicitor fyeneral will be the Counsel we the Crown. A day next week ia set apart to: the tral of these Ul-fated persons; the principal Miltens aceiusd Berg will be a German paysician, between whem and Spinney some disagreement aad professional jealousy took place last autuun, aod wineh 16 thougit tu have, in no small degree, Mettated the accuser iu giving the intormation that Jed te Spinuey ‘ys ineareerativa. Tais in- former, wheiier his’ moiuves be selfish or dis- Werested in the matter, may look out for a} Seathing denunciation from Mr. Tiomson. |

Business iw the store< and warehouses is quite

Ship-building, shipprug and the requisition |

" wainen, are exceedingly active. Ordinary | manviers are receiving froni se-venty-ive to uinety dollars fur the rap te Great Bittain, aud there is / ? Mint lively danand for them at that high rate Christnas gud New Year's passed off in a re-! Markably qQaiet manner. ‘Phe custom of“ making calla” was attended to, though not se extensively i previous years, owing, ne doubt, te the Magrevable state of the weather.

A course ot tree lectures has heen inaugurated | Mt the Mechanic's Lustitute, intended chieily for, be whouring and arlizan classes, but from which hue bigh and low, learned or aliterate, wight de- | Nis pienaure and advantage. Wehave had littl; bo «now as yet, aod the seasou sv far bas been Very maid. P. B04.

St. J ha, N. B. Jany. 16, 1364. 2 +00

Tae Reviews anp BLACK WouD.—We desire | to direct the attention of our readers to the adver. | tiemment, another column, from the American a adee of the standard British Reviews and | flack wond's Magazine. It will be seen that the

velage on these works is very considerably les | oe and a new jadu ement is thus offered to *heribers to forward their orders forthe, We |

we Feeceived Blackwood {or December, and the North British for the

Mtuirabie Numbers,

last Quarter, and both are} ’

THECIVIL WARIN THESTATES,

THE SITUATION,

: Cold prevaitsin the quarters of the | Potomac arm + Tendering the sleeping ar | able. Ie the wen somewhat uncomfurt- | ie hopefat sen that whilethe Union ary seuprndie ~ cheériul, the rebels are cor.) inte Gen z despondent, and are deserting | _— 8 lines by hundreds. [¢ is | esident’s \proclamation ot! duciog & wonderful effect in!

| golng out soon after to the baro, was sit

' people have expressed @ strung desire tu iynet ) York.

| with fifteen fathoms of water on it, extends

| great nestsiance ig shipwmarters, baving, we

| ing was the state of the warket at New York | }and at Richmond, reapectively :— papers

‘one whole famity, who had lived in affluence

Gien. Lee's army, and that whole brigades) Wan iy tae Serinc.—The letter, of which would come over to Meade's lines if they had the following is a copy, has fonnd its way the opportunity, into print through the German Press. Con-

Despatetes trom Cumberland Gap say that, on Sanday, 3rd instant, an overwhelming foree of rebels, under Sam Jones, made a deseent upon # small body of our troops, | stationed near Jonesb rough, Va., Consisting of about 230 men of an [llinois regiment, commanded by Major Beers, and 18 men of! spring, and it is my father-in-law who will Well’s Ohio battery. A desperate cesistance, commence. ‘Lhe position of King Vieror was made hy our troops continuing [rom seven Emanuel ia not tenable. The national deht in the morning to three in the afternoon, | is Mereasing every day, and there must be an when the Union tro pS Surrendered. The end put to that. The King has written enemy numbered four thousand wen. Thej several times to the Emperor that’ there forces Were guarding « portion of | must be a solution, and tuut he woud rather country from which tue army relied for the be plain Chevalier Carignan than play the supply of forage. part of a soverviga who fuds bimself pasted

Loe reeent attempt of Gon. Early, with the forward toa precipice. Lrepeat, my father- wigades of Lee, Walker and Rosser, under | in-law has appriacd my cousin ttat he well the immediate command of Puzbargh Lee, to | attack the Austrian lineg in the spring.

the produetion of po Jess a person than Prince Napoleon, eousin to the Emperor ;—

“You ask me if I believe in war. Yes, I believe in it. How will it breuk out? 1 will tell you. War will break out in the

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®apture the Union garrison at Petersburg leve me, it is thos the struggle will and take possession of Cunmberiand and New | couwence. The King does not laboar under |

Creek, bas proved a complete failure. A Ile 1s aware lew waggons—thirty-five in all—of Thorburn’e force, were cu ptured by the rebels on their route from Peters’ urg. but they were. fur the most partempty. Gon Kelty 1 gives w brief account of tie dises inGture of the enemy, ‘he a despaten to Governor Bb reman

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is perfectly sale, and the trams are running | reguiarly. Anvilctal document of the rebels laying dawn the plans of Gent. Barty in eal sulation, the Haiperor 3 ould aba doo my West Virginia, fas fallen into the hands of father-in-law, the latter would prefer tw be- oar troops. It appears trom this paper that | come Kang of Piedmont again in order to be fren Barly was to eut the Baltemore and! Ohio Rattroad at Martinsburg, and by a combipation of movements attempt the | capture of such Union torces as were between |

| Martinsburg and New Creek. At the latter

place Gen. Kurly having heard that we were! concentrating troops a¢ Martinsburg, and South.”’ having been tofeormed that Gen. Averill) was! there with a strong cavalry foree, deterumned ; to alter’bis plan. die therelure de Grenerals Piizhagh Lee and Rosser to wttem pt | the capture of the garrison at Petershore | hosser was ty try and get into Cumberland

und eupture or destroy the stores there.

They both failed, becauee Genera! Barly | could not reinforce th a with artill ry and | Sup pin 6.— N: w York fl ra d.

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Cotornen Son.pisns Murperep ry roe Reners —In June iast a company of colored suldiers, com) rising & captain, first lieutenant amd eighty men, were ¢ iptured at Miliken’s Bend, during the siege at Vicksburg. after a} Orave Presisliance ** Since their Captivity,” | sags the New York Just, ** their fate bag been invelved inp rulound mvatery.— Nothing ficial could be learned of them, and from the well known vindictiven:ss of military authorities the worst was a; pre- | bended Information has !

wny delusion on the subject.

tore they yield. The conquerors will re-enter l nn ardy, and may, perhaps. oecupy Turin But the position will change. tlowever wreat the desire of the Emperor may be to preserve the peace, he cannot permit Austria to destroy woal krance bas accomplished m liaiy. If, nevertheless, contrary to ail

on him with regard to Italy. Le is

ment will interfere, and that after the war the King will possess the centre of Northern lialy, while the Kiaperor will dispose of the

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Prince Evwarp IsLaxp —The trade of this spatehed beautiful aad fertile isiand is represented to be in the most flourishing condition. This people of Nova Seotia. It wouid be altoge- ther impossible to over-estimate the irapor- tanee of Prince Kdward Island,in an agriculte- ral and commercial point of view ; and the in- timate nature of the relations existing between | this Province and the lesser Colony, which

rence, naturally induces no ordinary degree Of Sympathy on oar part as regards the pro- gress tad prosperity of the batier. One of the primary aims of the Nova Seotia legisla- ture would b* to draw more closely together these sympathies,the sequence of self-interest, and thus cement indissolubly the ties wh eh an extended intercourse has already fasvered into tangible results. Prince Edward Island has for many years past proved an excellent customer tq this Province; the Islinders

the rebel heen reeaived ac} the War Department, by way of ‘Texas, | stating that these apprehensions were too well founded, Lt appears that the prisoners were conveyed into the ¢ suntry several miles and pled in elose -oifinement. No inti-! mation of their fate was given them. Aiter several days the two officers were taken out at dead of night, aud the word given out that they bad escaped. 1. now appears that they were hanged without previous notice or even a semblance of trial, in obedience to a seeret | tke many years to develope its teeming re- order from the rebel Seeretray of War. A | 8verces in a ratio commensurate with the al- few days afterward the other prisoners also | Most fabatous fertility which is beginning to disappeared mysteriously, and there 1 no/| be accorded tu the **Granary of the St doubt that they also were seeretely mardered Lawrence.”’ A iveal journal furnishes some by direction of the Riehwond Authorities | Statistics of the export trade of Charlottetown What retaliation shall be inflicted for those | for the past year, which prove that the value barbarvus atrocities is yet to be determingd. | 0! ovis, potatoes, barley, turnips. oatmeal, ta aniiaa " ezgs, sheepskins, and woul, shipped at that

Anuest ov A Desperate Cuaractar—rox Port tlone daring IXG3, amounted to £107 ,-

their surplus produets ; and the interchange of commodities has long been mutually b- ne- ficial, Let us then seek by every legitimate means tO promoke and perpetuate a& Tec! pro- city of trade which bas yielded so mach in the past, and which promises, if practised with wise discretion, to increase ind finitely inthe future. The crade of the Island is now

72 e . - ; . . AuTHon yr six Muapess !— vo montis ago, 123, betr g ore thau duuble tie exports irom the public mind was agitated by an exeite- | t@ whole Island in the year 1830! In ad- ment the same in direction, if less in kind, | @!80n to the articles above enumerated,

to that caused by the exploits of Lueretia

Borgia. On the 26ch of Uctober the bod y ot Fredrick Fernoaber—a well-kuown citizen af Chieago, residing on Madisun street, near | Shee? y poultry, Leavict—was found lying about a mile from | Pat! barley, beet, pork, dry fish, mac«erel. the totl-gute on the Southwestern Plank | !¢rrings, oil, oysters, parsnips. carrots, hay,

Road ; he hal beea shot from behind. Ty.) &e

wood, borses, i sru-cattle

Toese, if added to the estimate, would

; murderer was pot known, and the people swell the total to av ry largeamount. Tue | were pacnfally auxsious to knuw who it was| Tecurns for tie whole land, during the past

that thus rendered life insecure. Larce or | Ye", bot now forthcoming, ein scarcely fail

tour days afterwards the body of an itiner-| to prove higitly interestiug, and it is safe to ’

ating vendor of watcles and clocks was | T4Y that they will abound sathy prove the ma- found en the canal bank uear Brighton, ander | (tial prosperity of Prince Edward Istand to

circdrastances uOb the must suspicious, but | *#¥e imu vasurably surpassed any correspond. | eheekered |

the cause vf death was unkauvwn; and the} '% period in some Wirt

fact that his pockets had been rifled, pointeo | “story —Halifar Reporter, J mn. 9.

towards violence, although no marks were ei =e r

found on ‘his person. No clue was ubtamed A Grear Warerraty.—A detachment of to his identity, and he was buried as an un-/! tro 8 recently scouting in the valleys of the known. [tis now aseertained. alinost beyond Snake or Lewis tork ot the Columbus, dis- juubt, that these two mea died at the hands | wered a waterfall which, i> is said, is en- ot ene aad the same person, who is also! citled tu the distinetion of being called the known to have comositted anovher must un- greatest in the world. The entire volume provoked murder, and by his own coaiession has killed three others, making six mdiv- duals who bave fallea by bis hand

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etpice one hundred and ninety-eight teet high, thirty-eight feet higher tian Niagara. About two weeks ago a farmer named! Snake River is ful! as large as the Niagara, Crovk, residing in the town of Lecroy, Boone | and the cascade te one solid sheet or body County, Was Visried at nighttall by # teiluw| fue locality of this immense wateriall is who remained vatul late, then asked tu) near the point Leretofore designated as the bs allowed to stay all night, which was re-| Great Shoshone or Salmon Falls of that fused. ile left the house, and Crook, on River, but they bave always been enveloped inmystery. Almose a dozen years ago the from behind, and fell to the ground aecorpse. | writer passed along the Snake River road. Cue neigibouts turned out © ia posse,” but! For two days he heard the roaring of these could not find thé wurderer.” Sheriff Av- falls, but learsed ao more respecting them jrews of Belvidere, was pat upon his track! than if they had been in the moon. It was and succeeded in capturing him, the fellow | said that there were a series of falls and drawing a large horse pistol at his eaptor, | rapids, making a descent of seven hundred and being oniy prevented trom suvuling by | leet in seven miles, and the sound gave eolor getting a kuvck-down blow. | to the repors. Ile was subsequently ideatified as havin, | the great plain Snake River flows throagh a been seen on the day of the murder of Farn-| exnon, with vertical walls bua ireds of feet haber in the immedtaie viernity of the place,| high. Lt is only at long intervals thar and In possession of a horse pastel correspeond- | salient points are foaad by whieh the river ing ty tie one fuund on the prisoner. When! can be reuehed. The road erosses from point Captured the prisoper had also on his person | to point of the bends, only approaching close alot ul clockmaker’s touls, similar to those | to the river where there is a chance to de- which had been used by the one fouad dead | scend fur water. From these facts, very few, on the canal bank. in his pocket was also | if any. of the tens of thousands of adven- tound about @ pound of raisins, which on turers that lave crossed the plains ever looked deen cut open, were found ty be liberally | upon the great falls. The late disesverers charzed wits Cantharides or Spanish flies, a | r ‘port beside the main eataract many others well-known poison, and itis pussitle that the | of less height, varyins from twenty to filty clock-maker was polsuned by haviug eaten leet each, near by. Some day they will be them. visit-d by the tourist and pleasure-seeker, Lie prisoner’s naine is Leander Coffman, is! ind Jookad upon as frequently and familiarty ubout thirty-two years o/ age, unmarried, has! as Niagara is to-day, and it wiil be admitted lost the heftarm reimedatery beiew tueelbow, | t at, with the stupendous grandear of their —heing thus easy of identification. He is | <erroundings, they are tar beyord Niagara believed ty be an American by birth, and has us Mitgara now excels the bulauee of tie spent several years of hisiife in Boone and) world. McHeury counties ; be bas always been re- * yerded as a desperate character. The ex- The New York Post says that there are at elteinebt against him is very Sirong; the feast LUO O0V temporary residents in’ New fhe hutels are adi erowded. him and there is no doubt that an atiompt next to tinpossible to find a house to hire,

aud

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j to remove bin from the jan) would be the sig- | and just as dificult to secure ordinary sleeping nal for av effort to hang bim without trial

)apartments, All the hotels and boarding ile coulesses to having killed three men in) houscs have raised their Lowa. to turn applicants away

twee iE ds

_ The ree “eh official survey of the coastof| In Tr 'y, the other day, while a physician Newitound!and has proved the existences of a) was hunting up one of bis patients. be stun- shuaibitherta unknown. Captain Orlebar. | pied into tue apartment of & poor woman, Ki. N., conducting the survey, reports that a) and discovered that for lack of a bedstead

| shoul, fitteen miles long and five bread, aud) sie usea her bureau —each drawer being 5

, ; ; c propped up and converted intu a sleeping from about seven miles off Cape Race. The | bunk for her little ones.

depth of water oa the siwal geyes bat little 3 fear of vessels tovchiay the ground, bat m_ the ordinary course oi navigation it will bea) Indiana, or the night of the [7th uals.

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Two | young boys of Rushville were arrested for a zelle. | jail, where a crazy man was confined, pre-

wean Pp <p ow Tra. | "ious. te being sent to the Asylum. Next c+ wer > - - _—) . + ° eee eee foe eae | morning, when the jailor went to give lis

o i 863. tire Ki me , Un Monday, Vecawber 10, 1808, tire follow | prisoners their breakfast, the boys were fouad

weltering in blood their throats cut from car The (ndianapolis Journal says that Gold per dollar, $1 524 @ St 524, $19 50 @ | such excitement ensued that on Saturday some 220. Sterling Exchange, lof the people of Shelbyville took the madman

perdollar, 1 65 120 00. ‘from the jail, and were about to bang bim, Fleur, per bbl,

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The New York Cowwprecial estimates the ed bim. If they had heng the jailor it eumber ot Suuthera refugees abvuc that city | would have been more sensible. at 25,000. ‘They find it difficult to obtain | ———e8 means of subsistence. Some of the ladies| Thestar of fashion ia Chieago is a Cana- from the South have apened boarding houses, | dian ball-breed. She is said to be surpass- and.-sume bave dope fancy work. Dome | ingly beauteul, and is the petted and idol- bave suffered in poverty. It is stated tbat) ized wife of arich man, who took her when a little child from her wother’s lodge, had her in the South, passed the whole of last/ educated in a convent, and for a time set winter ina soali garret room of tencment all Chicago wild with bis lovely ‘* foreign’’ iuuse. | bride.

7 4 catetekt siderable importance is attached to it as it is

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Col, | that the Austrians will obtain the advantage, | but he knows likewise that his magnificent army will oppos: a formidable resistance be- |

freed from ths responsibility which presses | tore | probable, however, that the French govern. |

is orought to beexeeedingiv gratifying to the |

nevertheless holds the keys of the St. Law- |

have in turn supplied us bourtifally with |

progressing with giant strides, but it will |

there were alsy exported from Onarloste- | town In Considerable quantities, the vatue of | Which is pot aj pended, timber, deals, lath- i

the Suake River pours over a sheer pre- |

tt is,

pices, aud yet have |

A horribie affair occurred at Shelbyville, |

615 @ 675 10000 @119.' having actually fastened the rope about his’ - 'neek, but other citizens interfered and rescu-

M THE STATES.

BANGOR, Jan. 13.

LATEST FRO

cotton, tilleen thousand bales, remaming in certain distriets yet outside Federal fines, for Greenbacks. Che other is from Kirby Swith, offering to furnish every facility toe get out all the evtten fram Red iRiver and Washite districts in Contederate cou- | trol. Money tor same to be paid to that class of

i Ofhieers excepted trom President Liucelu’s Agn-| his views infavorol a Legislative | nioa of pat lenst, |

hesty, they to retire to Mexico.

oe are re ee

| ‘Phe Republican credits the authenticity of these |

\ propositions.

! ‘ , NY . 12 oO he close he debate, ] { Newbarn Times saya the people of North Care-; Ue Union. “At the close of the ciababe, Mr. Jo = “ ; hstoue intimated his intention of detiveriniva lecture | works por the subject dnring the conrse of the season.

jina are rife tor revolt vernment. Chattanooga despatch says affairs in East Ten- Hessee are assuming ab exciliug aspect. i Longstreet is heavily reintorceed trom Lee's and Johnston's arniues. Reaniorcements are on south side of Holston river, } Loagstreet has a splendid position, with river and mountain in trent. Jolnston maintains a Hitt. | Grant left Knoxville via Comberland Gap, mak- ) ing a complete civeuit of the Department.

agatnst Richmond Go-

bold front at Tunnel!

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)asan Art, with a glance at brish Eloquence, illus

Forrest has been badly handled in Kast and | tuiddle Dennessee, but managed 1 escape WALh |

ihest of his command,

Tribune's correspondence reports Confederates have decided to retuove Capitel fron: Richmond fo Columbia, S.C, Also that gunbeats and euclids ut Rachinoud are ready for service.

Seouts report Geueral Early is lalliug back up Slienandoah Valley.

JANUARY 14, a. mw.

Washington letter mentions rumors that Long- i street, joued by Ewell, is preparing tor fresh

assault on Knoxville, and Gen. Graut’s sudden departire tor that point was with a view te jthreatened attack. It is doubted, however, | Whether any assault is intended at present. Bermuda dates of Dee. 20, meution steamers

Flora, Coquet, Ranger, and another were Waluilg | Jatues Anderson, Esyr.; Sevietary, D. Currie, |

te ran the blockade. Gov. Parker, of New Jeraey, in message to Le- i vislature, disepproved of Government's policy on

Slavery question, dod argues that resioration ot |

old Unien and Constivation should be the object lined at. Naines of Bishops Bailev, Tymon, and Me-

| Closkey, have been sent to Kome tor successor ot |

Arcaoishop Hughes.

Private letters irom Tlaly indicated agitation oo Venetian queshon to make Italy free in tact as well as in name.

Maryland House of Delegates definit« ly estab- ished Eanancipation pelicy. The preamble aud resolatwu declaring that the true interests of Maryland demand Bimancipation, should be im- mediately Innugurated, that a constiiutional con- vention be early called, te carry such policy inte effeet, and that efforts be made to secure trom Cougress reinibursements te loyal owners of lost slaves, passed'5] to 15.

Gen. Banks writes to the President, that he will soon Complete the organization of the State Go- verutient ot Louisiana.

Tribune despatch says, that North Carolina troops are not trusted en picket duty; also, that

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a Confederate torce was in Shenandoah Valley, |

| fo procure subsistence, and preparatory to plan ot aiptoerons for next campatga. By Telegraph to the Exaniiner and Reading Room Cu’rows, Jan. 25,9 p. m, sritish blockade running ship “ Silvanus,” from | Naseau, was captured in Doboy Suund, Georgia, by gunboat “ Huron.”

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Richmond Whig thinks fature of South is in-| volved in the next Spring cumpaign in Northern |

Weorgia Washington letter te New York “Times” sales co-operative movement will be made in Richmond mi spring by Coluan, ou Peninsuia or south of J mes River, under General Haneock, aided by Butler's forees, aud by the main columu in addition, Number of Confederate troops west of Missis- | sippl estimated at 36,000. | Siege of Cfarieston temporarily suspended | except trom fire of guns trom Morris Island. Admiral Daigreen on leok out fer Confederate ratus ib the harber known to be in cojutnission. Richmond Sentind of the Sth says Yankee troops being landed ut Morehead City, N.C. Wihiiugten Journal says recent presence ot Geu. Batler iu Newbern, and concentration of troops there as well as at Washington and Beau- ford Harbor, indicate advance of serivus charaeter

| lowny’s Ointment may be relied en for curing all

| moves scurvy, beals nleeratious, obliterates blem-

JUDSON'S MOUNTAIN HERB WORM TEA.

Richmond papers report passage of bil Con- |

reliplion of uli Couiederates beretojove lucnishiog Suter bilubes.

Gen. Hardy, Chatham and Breekenridge reeom-

mend couscription of saldicrs whose teruis shortly |

| expire, No word of the “ Canada.”

| lo $7.105. Gald, 158% to 1594.

| A Bazaar in aid of the Volunteer Band wae }held in the Temperance Hall on Wednesday, and | was a brilliant success. iully decoraied jor the occasion. The tables were amply supplied with fancy and useful articles in great variety, and the ladies who had charge of | them were vever mere zealous, or, we believe, taure successful in obiaining purchasers, tor their beautitul aud attractive wares. The Hall was

crowded with the beauty and fashion of the City |

throughout the day and evening. the Lieut. Governor and Mrs. Dundas were pre-

jof honor composed of the Volunteer Artillery, under the command of Capt. Morris. Many of

His Exeetlency |

sent, who were received at the door by a guard |

| Super. Flour, $6.60 to $6.70; Extra $6.9: | : ; | shoulders, take, on goiug to bed, two teaspoousful

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The Flall was very taste- |

| Dragyists.

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the Militia and Volunteer officers and men appear- |

ed in full regimentals, and the Volunteer Baad enlivened the proceedings with quite a number ot cbvice aad admirably executed compositions. Dr. Young, Chairuwan of the Band Comniittes, delivered an address on Musie, which contained

many beautiful aud eloguent passages, and WarPPns ie

listened to with appreciative attention.

the landsome sum of £130.—Mon. 20e-—__-_~

Por hundreds of miles across |

| The Hilary Term of the Supreme Conrt for

The pro-| aved 52 years. ceeds of the Bazaar amount, we understand, to | brother of Mr.

‘on the Sth Sept. last, Aun, his wile, aged 88 years

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} Queen’s Connty closed its sittings on Saturday |

lust, there having been, among others, severai luteresting cases, both civil and criminal, tried. The following are the criminal cases, with the sentences: —Thomas Lynch, Robbery, 24 months’ loprisoument, with hard labor. Thomas Fisher,

Perjury. 9 mouths’ imprisonment. Mabelle Gal-

labor, in addition to three mouths already passed in jul, Wain. Matthews, Lareeny, 4 mouths’ iu- prsomment, wilt hard labor. sault, 3 months, in addition. te the 3 months already passed in jail Mary Meinnis, Lareeuy, 12 months’ iprisonuent. | eee _ PEMPROOKE DocK.—As the steamer Malakoff, belonging lo kord XX dackson, Was proceeding ;on her vevage on Weduesday the 4th November, frau: Nayland ta Waterterd, she saw a large schooner about 10 aan, in dangerous proximity te ihe Chauaci Islauds, off Miltord Haven, with a j distress signal flyig, and making what seamen term very bad weather of it, Capt. Aylward, {with that promptitude in assisting a brother sea- inanin distress which, three years ayo, gained }him the medal ef the “ Humane Society,’ imme- diately changed his course, and bure down to her. The sea was runititig so tremendously tigi that | Capt. Aylward jound it quite impossible te board ‘her without risking the lives ot his men: se he signalled ber to tollow the steamer, whieh piloted j her under shelter of the land, and as soon as he ) was able, placed bis cuiet officer ou board, and | brought her safely to Nayland, where she was in satiety. The scene on board of the rescued craft, ; when Capt. Aylward went on board, almost beg- gars description Tiey had, as a dermer resort, coustructed ratts oi a very ingeuivus device, but ; Which would have availed them very little on our rocky bound coast.

;Capt. A. R. MeDonald, advanced to Cavtaiu

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| Strong, aged | years aud 9 month.

ant, Larceny, 6 montis’ unprisonment with hard | i scious subinissiou to the Divine appotutment, Plora

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Henry Capel, As- | ‘Teacher, aved 24 vears. She leaves a disconsolate

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janorning, (4th instant, after an illness of {7 days,

j ness and Christian resignation, dames Power, in | 5

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The master of the Schooner, |

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PRINCE STREET BOOK AWD STATIONERY STORE,

(Near the Temperance Hall.)

JOHN §. BREMNER

AS constantly for sale, ut the jowest prices, a geveral assortment of

Books and Stationery,

Catholic Young Men's Literary Institute.

On Wednesday evening Inst, the question of ap “Union of the British American Colonies” was | discussed before the above Inetinute. W. A. dol | stone, Maqr., opened the discussion with an eloquent | and elaborate address, in which he ably set forth | wil the Lower Colonies Several other geutiemen | took part in the disenssion whieh enaned, nearly all |

The! Arso— Bibles an] Committee of this Tustiture having engaged the | prayer Books services of the City Avaatenr Band for the session, | Psalm Books, &e the proceedings of each evening will be diversilied : P wih music. The doors will be open cach eve hy at 7! o'clock ; the Band will be in utteudance at a ho, quarter betere eight, and will play till 8 o'elock, | when the regular lecture will puactually commence.

After exch leeture the Band will aguiu play.

Vestaments, Commentaries,

in yurious bizes wid styles of | Binding. ‘ | English and American BOOKS and PERLODI- j ALS iporied to order, aud supplied on tavouravle terns, 4

“A LARGE VARIETY OF

NEW AND POPULAR MUSIC

On Wedneaday Evening next, the Vice President (Hon. Edward Whelan) will leeiare * Ou Lloqueuce

PRIZE EXHIBITION (1862)

SCHOOL ROOM MAPS. — ARTIS!’ MATERIALS.

Ce” All kinds of JOB PRINTING and BOOK- BINDING executed with neatness = soll s _, }and on moderate terms

rhe next lecture, on Thiunsday evening, the 28th Clurlottetown, Jun’ y 25, 1864. instant. in Pempermce Hall, at Se'clock. Lecturer | a -

trated by Passayer Che Chair will be taken at & o'clock

W. W. SULLIVAN, See’y. 9 a

‘ ' ; Ba from Grattun and Curran | January 25, 1864.

Young Men's Christian Association and Literary Institute.

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Admission Que Penny. [Dor subscribers would request IMME-

Mr. H. Barnard. Snbject—* Analogy between | TOPTOW TOD Respiration and Cheatnaaion ” "To beilustiauted by N 0 I IC Ki : NO? Ic K ! et Sil ae

an’y 20, J. DAVIS, Sec’y. DIATE PAYMENT trow all parties indebted | ——e re * }to them, as levnl proceedings will be taken againet |

At a meeting of the Subscribers of the Char- | all persons who Lave not paid by the Ist ot keb-

luitetown Reading Room, held last (Tuesday) | ary vext. wee & ROGERS,

Jan’y 25, 1864.

Pownal Street. FINAL NOTICE!

A LL PERSONS indebted to the sub- - scriber for Lime, due in November last, are requested to call and settle their respective accounts forthwith. THOMAS W. DODD, Brick Store, Pownal Street.

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evening, the tollowmg gentlemen were appointed | Office-bearers and Members of Committee for the present year: — President, Hon, George Beer; Vice President, Wm. Murphy, Esqr.: Treasurer,