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IE WAR IN THE STATES.

THE FALL OF ATLANTA.

SENERAL SHERMAN'S OFFICIAL REPOLT,

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We are indebted to Turner's Expres for! che Weldom and Southside railroads, the Ro- |

ae joston papers of Monday last, from which

we make the fullowing extracts — {orrictat } Wan Derartweyt, ? Washington, Sept. 4,5 r.™ § Mason Gexwaat Dix | Gen. Sherman's ofgcial report of the cap-| ture of Atlanta has just been received by this) Department. It is dated 26 miles seuth ot Atiaata, 6 o’cluck yesterday morning, but was detained by the breaking of the tele- graph lives, mentioned in my despatch vt | jast night. : | \: Ag already reported, the army withdrew | from about Atlanta, and on the 30th bad | wade @ break on the West Point road and | reached a good position from which to strike the Macon road, the right (Howard) near Juneaboro, the left (Scofield) near Rough and Ready. and the centre (Thomas) at Coach's jioward found the enemy in force at J ones- bore,’ and entrenched his troops, the salient within halt @ vile of the railroad. The ene- my attacked him at 3 P.M, and was easily | repuised, leaving his dead and wounded Findjng strong opposition on the road, L ad- vanced the left and eentre rapidly to the raiitruad, and made a good lodgment and broke it all the way from Rough and Ready | down to Howard's left, near Jonesdoro,’ and | by the same movement | interposed my whole urmy detween Atlanta and the part of the epemy eatrenched in and around Jonesboro.’ We made a general attack on the enemy a Jonesboro’ en the Ist of September, the 15th corps, Gen. Jeff U. Davis, carrying the works bundsome!ly with ten guns aud about a thua- and prisoners. In the night the enemy re- treated south, and we have followed him to another of his hastily constructed limes near Lovejoy Stetion. é : lived, at Atianga, finding me on his road —the only one that could supply him-——and between him and a considerable part of bis | army, blew wp his magazines in Atlanta and lets im the night time, when the 20th corps Gen. Slocum, took possession of the place So Attunta w ours and fairly won. Since the 5th of May we have been in one constent batde or skirmish, and need rest. Our josece will not exeeed 1200, and we have powsession of over 300 rebel dead, 250 wounded and over 1500 well. W. TP. Suseuan, Major Genera). A late despatch from Gen. Slocum, dated at Atlanta, Sept, 3d. 9 P. M., states that the enemy on evacuating Atlanta, destroyed 7 jucomotives, 8! ears, loaded with ammun:tion, pwall arwe apd s'ores, and left 14 pieces o! artillery, most of them uninjured, and a large pumber of sewall arms. Deserters ure cun- stantly coming into our lines.

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Epwix M. dranton, Secy. of War.

The Boston Post says:—We are officially informed taat Grant requires only 100,000 more mec 40 igeure the tall of Richmond.

The same paper says :—The rebel Genere| Llood, whe commanded ax Atlacts, is describ- ed by @ persu who has recently seen him asa “ Wiese belied. homely, spindle-ehanked fel- low, about thurty- two years of age, and over iz feet tall; had been pretty well racked t jieces ; oe leg gone, an arm useless, w lot o! Cio ribs, aud a broken collar-bune

FROM THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC

W asaixctox, Sept. 3 —The 1 **** new from the Army of the Potomac 1s thar no- thing bas transpires for sume days. Picket pring is indulged in during the bight, bu: cenees during the day.

Puusnuiensa, Sept 2 —A special despatch to the Press from the Army of the Potomac, dated the ]st inet., suys : the enemy were re- ported to be moving their artillery to their right ia the afternvon. Slight skirmishing began alung the Weidon Railroad.

The 5th corps were placed under arms and marel:ed into the breastworks. Some ceser- ters came wto the breustworks during the day and said that we were to be attacked at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, With the excep- tion of the slight skirmusbing along the rai- road there was no disturbance. The quiet along ovr entire front is wondertul, itis unaccount- able—there is something oppressive about it. We seem to be continually expecting @ fight, and kpow not the time or place of ite oveur- fens.

New Yous, Sept 3—The Commercial's Washington despatch says 4 despatch from the front states that an attack on Grant's po- sition on the Weldon railroad is moment arily expected, with all of Lee's available force. There are jadications that the rebels are

inched for supplies.

FROM THE suENANDOAH VALLEY.

New Yous, Sept. 4.—The Herald's corres- pendent with Sheridan's army, writing on- der date of the lstinst., says of Wednesday's figlt pear Martinsburg: *‘* We attacked the enewy s outposts to wake him show bis lind wiieh he did, much to oursatiefuction’ We then pet our trains in motion and deployed in hwe of battle, opening from the high ground tour pieces of artillery, which planted sheir shells with mash precisjon amony the rebela —The enemy, expegting an enzage- merit, opened with two sections of artillery, but with little purpose. Heavy ekirmishiog ensued, the enemy pushing forward heavy columns aed our furge gradually giving ground. They made severs) efforts to flank us, but failed each time. Oar force thus teil back, or rather drew on the rebels sume three wilse from Martinsburg towards flarri- sonville and Falling Waters, when there was aloil. The falling back was im accordance with Gen. Sherijan's orders, and why, 13 not for me to teli and thus inform the enemy.

Bexcxr Uist, Va., Sept. 2, P. M.—Geo Averiil’s division attacked the enemy this morning & short distance south of Martins- burg rapidly following him up. We captur- ed 2 battie on nearly one train of waggons anda herd of cattle, ard by 4P M. came yn Rhode’s digizion of rebel infantry and

» : . aaa it. Gur loss so far is light. We went within six miles of Winchester. The

engagement is not yet euded.

Cuanteston, Va., Sept. 2.—The situ stion of Sheridan's army af thie place ie unc! ang- ed. We are encamped in line of battle ina pemi-cirele with both flanks proteoted trom jneursions by the eaemy. There is wn ubun- dance of good water, and our troops are 6uy- pled with plenty ot wholeseme tuod. Our cavalry under Torbett, Custer, Averiil, Mer ritt and Wilson kept strict wateb of th» ene- mys movements. When he moves he will have to meet our army on a field pot of lis gwa ehuice.

A Cairo despatel vf the oth sys that since Gen. Sherman auptured Atlan'a, the order for the movement ol Gen. Smith # force from Memphis up phe river has been oountermand ed. A pertiun vf Gen. Smiths tyoups are already orgauimng for & new egpedition Ali up-bownd vessel aye pressed into service wt Memphis. Whise iver, Ark., is pre- sumed to be the destination, thuugh this isa mere cunjectuse, baged upon the lygt ther the rebels ure peported to be yery bysy in Ark- ansas, interieging with Gen. Steele's commu- nications. oad tbregtening Jyitue Rock.

Che Heralds City Pojat ouizespunilent, writing on the Sth, says :-—

Degerters report that Lee hee phigoged hia headquarters to near Kesms’ Ste cin, with the avowed intention of giving byttle. Uur tivns are 2.

+ Inteitigence from the frunt and the She-

ah Valley, lead tw the conclusicn that aan Lee. It is quite vertain

that paaee troops in trunt of the Weldon 4 .

" «The lp attacked and-droye ip our gd- vance picket pasts i day beluse, wourding

and ceppuriog 3 +-

on Gen. Creat vigited the front line o! the Oth up the 7th, inspecting phe woz ks.

* ne railroad of that w Cipy Point,

will bo in operatwa in a tew dgys, bo every pert of the line, shup dispensing with the

dithcult . ' «Phe Tribune's ‘s Ferry despatol pf the Qib instant, says our cavalry is en-

constantly jn skirmishing

| Rariy manifests no desire to attack, bat|

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seems only anxious to retire. Though Ave- tinaburg, he met with no disaster.”

are industriously building a junction between chester Union says :—** This explains why

the enemy was satisfied with possession o! the roud ut and in the vicinity of Reams’s

Station after obtaining it in the last heavy

tight. Our position on the road now is be-

leween the station and Petersburg, und by

forming the juaction above described, the rebels render it practically useless °’

Advices from New Orleans to the 3d of September state that the Confederates had

| made a demonstration on Berwick City, but! bushy beard and face like a midsummer full

accomplished nothing. ‘They are report d to be preparing @ formidable expedition to at- tack Brashear City or some other point General Banks will probably leave for the North on the i5th.

The Herald's Key West correspondent re- ports several expeditions into Florida, in which horses, cattle and valuable property were captured.

It is said that a Confederate plot was dis- covered last week for the destruction of the steamers running oa Long Island Sound Chere was great excitement for atime at the various offices of the limes from Boston to

| New York.

The Richmond Eraminer of Sept. 5th re- marks as fullows on the fall of Atlunta :—

** The abandonment of Atlanta ander the circumstances is not a good thing ; but go far from being dispirited by it our people ought reverently thank God that it is not worse Chere wre many persons who have bad a great weight of anxiety raised from their souls by thisnews. They have been fearing for the last month, not only that Atlanta would be abandoned, but that some great and irretrievable disaster would overtake the army of Tennessee. Atlanta i# gone, but the army is still a unit and is safe. The loss o!

Atlanta is nothing, the loss of the army would |

have been without a remedy.”’

The Enguirer says :—

** The loss of the place is otherwise with- out meterial importance. Asa oulitary post it had no value whatever. It was once im- portant us the junction of railroads, but has ceased to be so since the railroads to the North were lost. Sherman could not hold it for a week if the Confederate army in the neig!borhood was in proper hands.

* But the moral effect of its losses, thouy) | Ic will!

it may be temporary, will be great. render incalculable assistance to the party o! Linevln and obscure the prospect of peace. lately so bright. It may enable him to ex ecute the draft. Ic will also diffuse gloow over the South. This depression, however,

may be speedily relieved, if the Administra- |

tion has a grain of real sense or a spark o! unselfiish patriotieu. The reinstatement o! Jubostou or the appointment of Beauregard would at once resture the contidence of the country and of the army ; and the genius ol either would suon prove Sherman's advantage to be an illusion and an abortion.’’

THE BELFAST RIOTs.

It has never fallen to the lot of the journal- ist tO Comment Upon proceedings so utterly discreditable to both sides ax the reeent rivt- ous proceedings in [relund. The duke o! Wellingcon used to say, with an emphasis somewhat unusual to him, that the Irish peo- ple were only balf conquered, and thereture regardless of all such considerations as duty and obedience to the law. If we regard the authority of the Duke ag tainted by polities! disappointment, it is not easy to find a hypu- thesis tu account tor the present mots. They are not caused by want, and even in-harde: times the Irish people have borne their sul- ferings in @ manner which commanded the respect of their English friends. Nor are the riots iounded upon any form of dispute be tween landiord und tenant, or io a passion of revenge fur the eviction of cottiers. For the cause of these riots we are driven to purely political and theological causes. ia Dublin the fellow-cisizens of Daniel O Connell! thought the time had arrived to pay the ho- nours of his mewury which, had he been an Englishwan or @ Scotchman, would have been rendered st least a dozen years ago. It was a reproach tu lreland that the nam: o! ber last great son should be almost forgotten in his own country. It is the fashien of this material age to commemorate our great an- cestors in stone, and the chisel of the seul,- tor is made to do that which hearts colder than marbie itself might be unable to teach. & monument to O'Connell had long been talked of, and subscribed for; and, indeed, everything decent had been done except pay- ing up the subseriptions. Nevertheless, good men and true in Dublin resolved upon the execution of the design; and on Munday week the citizens of Dublin assembled to in- augurate the foundation of the pedestal upon which the monument is to stand. A mre in- nocent and harmless proceeding, under any circumstances, it is impossible to conceive. [on view of the fact that [riahmen suught in their own demoustraiive way to pay homage to the memory of 4 great wan gone, ot least the sympathy of O'Connell's surviving oppo- nents might baye been silently rendered Chere was guch in O'Connell's life to which English interests and English feeling was op- posed; but even then we never denied his merits ag un orator, & humourist, or a patriot. He might be mistaken in his latter policy ; but when he foughe the buttle of Ca- tholie Ewangipation, he not only released bis co-religionists trom disabilities, but he raised Englaad in the scale of natioas, and enabled her to remonstrate effectually with foreign Powers, whose policy imilicted wrong upvo suffering Protestanta We have av reason wo regret that great act, for it enables us to

punt to our own example in gangession, and |

tu the loyalty of our peuple to the Purone as our reward. Some silly people in Belfast took it into

very day that the honors, sv long due to hie memory, were tardily paid in Dublin. Why such a proceeding was allowed by the mazis- trates and the police dues not appear; but the successiul execution of such an exploit was tulerably sure to lead to further distur- bances. it does not surprise any one to learn that retaliatory measures on both sides sueceeded each other, and that Presbyterian Churehes, Wesleyan Chap-ls, Nunneries, and the residences of Catholic Bishops were ‘+ wrecked,’’ in order to satisly the mistaken and useless zeal of the devotees of a spurious religion. ‘The people who eo far gave way to their passions were neither good Catholics nor sound Pr testants, and the utmost they can expect is to be treated a8 mere rioters, whose proceedings have not the shadow ol & pretence for justification. Meanwhile, the military powers have been called in, and lives, we fear not in every case the lives of rioters, bave been sacrificed to the Moloch of mobocracy. We are not writing of [rish riuta in New York, which were respectable in comparison, because they arore out of a fear of the conscription, but of riots in the thriving city of Bellast, where industry fluurishes, and the peo; lo are supposed to be luyal subjects of her Majesty. [1 is certainly frightfyl to contemplate what may happen alter an appeal to the mob-like passions oi muscular Chrietiang of the Beifust sort, We had hoped that the days tor Arms and Pro- cessiuns Acts were gone, never to return io Ireland, but these Jute proceedings in Bel- tast, the least likely gorner in all lreland, will tend to awaken us from sugh a delusion, If it cannot be permitted ty the citizens of Dublin to assemble, i order to honor the oume of a great ornament of the brish bar und of the Koglish senate, without having the complement of a riot elwewhere, we can only ask the Legislature to prohibit Pro. cession in order tu prohibit the necessary sequence of riots. But in the meanwhile we can have the ringleaders on both sides brought to justice, and compel them to pay in person ww, ie merase and loss they have ca to others in purse.— London New

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_A most disgraceful fray ocourred in the City Council, Toronto, recently. Some ol- fensive remarks were made by Ald. Sterling in reference to Ald. Vance, whereupon the latter rushed at the former and knocked him over by a blow of his fist. (reat csstusion followed. Vance was after much paricying

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: FRAGMENTARY NOTES OF A TRAVELLER. Noticing a statement that the ( onfederates |

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Mr. Birch, said L, you have not yet made 'me acquainted with the Speaker, who is ge |nerally considered the most important per- 'sonuge in the House. Then, if such be the case in the present instance, replied Mr. Birch, the Lord save the good name of us all who belong to the House. While we are in committee, sir, you must know the Speaker lie not in **the Chair’’; there he is, yonder | just coming out of his **refreshment’’ room, | (some call it bis liquor stady,) with his large

moon. He is the dryest man in the House ; 'L mean thirsty, sir, whea I say dry. He was once, | believe, a parson or minister of sume church or other; | forget now the name of it. But whether that church was ¢oo dry for him or be éoo wet for the chureh, I don’t know; but I believe the managers, after some years of difficulty with him, managed to stop his pay, and his Gospel being, ** no pay, no work,’’ be turned politician, and there you see him, cramming that large ‘*quid of honey-dew’’ into his craving **po- tatoe trap.” Yes craving, indeed it is, for { believe if the grand Falls of Niagara were composed of nectar, he would swallow it, and yet not be satisfied. Indeed, the most plau- |sible excuse that I have as yet heard his | triends attempt to make for him, in extenu- ation of his most d sgraceful conduct in as- | sisting to turn his culleague and patron out of ** the Chair’’ — that he might occupy it himself—is, that bis thirst was so great that he wanted to have as perfeet an approach to | Col. Gray's Spring as possible, which at pre- |sent people presame to suspect is not voly |the spring in ‘* Spring Park ’’ bat also the reasury spring, which lately has been found to contain more of the Nectar than ‘Spring Park’’ ; so that you see, sil. if he abandoned the Gospel. he still adberes to tae choice of the gods." A more melancholy ree wd of human depravity is searcely to be found, even of the **Jackal,’’ than his base perfidy in cvo- spiring against the late Speaker, throug! whose means on/y he was elected at the two last general elections. No, not even the limping **Grand Master,” wnd all the infernai imps’ under his sway, could have got him elected for the old and respectable boroagh of Georgetown without the aid of the ex- Speaker, and yet many people think itis a reward partially merited on the part of the ex-Speaker, inasmuch as Ae well knew the hullow-hearted, worthless, greedy selfisliness of the creature whom he cherished as a cdl- league, and that with such fellows ** eaten bread is soon forgotten.’’. Tuo you, sir. said Mr. Bireh, who is a stranger bere, what | bave said respecting the present Speaker and ex. Speaker may be somewhat mysterious, and [ therefore deem it necessary to enlighten | you on that subject. About the merits or) demerits of the ex-Speaker, | am not now called on to speak as he deserves a chapter for himself ; bat at present | must say, mrre- spective of his political views, that a better choice of Speaker could not be made, not only in this, but, perhaps, in any of the Bri- tis) North American Colonies—well read in parliamentary rules and practices, stern, per- haps severe, in maintaining those rules, but

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tholic Party as Religious parties, hhnply religious questions? Now, the writer deties the editor ol the Islander to state one single religious Isste be- tween parties in this Island. ‘The questions that divide parties here are simply and purely politi- eal. It is absurd te ereate religious: parties, to discuss and decide upon political questions. The writer does nut feign ignorance of the fagt, that one of the political parties un the Island baa en- deavoured to drag something that goes Rader name of religion into politics ; but this bas al- ways been protested against by the opposite party. Liberals have regarded this proceeding

power. The Protestants of the Liberal Party laugh at the pretensions of their co-religionists of the Conservative party to superior soundness and sanctity. They know aud feel thut they are fo the full as sound Protestants as their opponents. Chey never, ter a moment, cousidered themselves compromised as Protestants by their connexion with the Liberal Party: neither is their religious status, in the various churches to which they be- long, at all affeeted by such connexion. They are Liberals solely for political reasons; aud whatever the Jslander may say to the coutrary, they are too intelligent and toe independent to be duped or coerced either by Catholic priests or pscudo-religious politicians. ;

If the Conservative Party has thought fit te drive from its ranks, by msult aud petty persecu- tion, its Catholic supporters, the Liberal Party has not been so foolish as to refuse to benefit by the vicious policy of their opponents. The Ca- tholics, as Catholics, have made no terms with the Liberal Party—they bave required ne sacri- fice of principle—they have demanded no favours as the price of their assistance. If the political influence of the Catholic clergy is greacer now than it has hitherto been, it is entirely owing to the wanton attacks that have been made on the Catholic religion and priesthood by the officia’s of the Government. If the Catholic clergy are covetous of political power they must feel grate- ful to the Government for placing so much of it in their hands. I can think of no surer means ot investing the clergy of any denomination of churches with political power than the course pursued by the Government with regard tu the Catholics. What is more natural than that the laity should look to their Feligious teachers for couusel and guidance, when their religion war attacked by those whose duty it is to respect the religious feelings and convictions of every deno- mination of christians in the community? Sup- pose the Coloutal Secretary and a bost of under- lings in the pay of the Government thought i) good policy to ridicule in the newspapers the pe- culiar tenets, say of the Presbyterian body—sup- pose unmeasured abuse to be poured out by these officials upon Presbyterran ecclesiastics, past and present — suppose it were slyly insinuated by some, and broadly asserted by others, that Pres- byterians were not fit to be trusted with the pri- vileges of British citizens—I ask, how many Pres- byterians would be found to support tie Govern- ment who employed and countenanced these officials at the next general election? Wou!'d there be fifty? Would there bea dozen? Wou!d there beone?) What better plan could be devised for throwing political power into the hands of Ministers, whose political Gpinions, in ordinary tines, were regarded with pertect indifference, and who would be opposed at the bustings witheut a scruple, would tien be listened to as oracles, and tullowed tu the pulling booths by their entire eon- gregations. Opposition to the Government would become a polut of honour aud of conscience ; and he who, for power or gain, sided with the eneanes of his church, would be regarded as the basest aod most venial of the slaves of Mammon. Ate Catholies to be called grasping and designing, and I know uot what else besides, for doing what, in like circumstances, and with equal provocation, any other denomination of Christians would have deve? Are they who, for their own selfish pur-

honest, straightforward and gentlemanly, ever courteous th his mode of exacting due observance of them—unyielding alike to hes) triends (political) aud enemies, he Lecame |

cause he was too impurtial not to court them when in error, and make the Chair, which he so ably and so honourably filled, a pruotec- tion to all alike while they kept within **the | rules of the House.’’ Bat you reevileet the old proverb, ‘set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride to the d—-l.’’ And if, in the| present case, the beggar on horseback (im po-| lities) did not ride to the d—-l, he rode to! the ** nearest of kir,’’ the *,Jackal,’’ and made known his complaint, ‘*that while he was crossing the floor of the House where he had a servile majority, be was ordered to *+ uncover’ (his bead), which he considered quite incompatible with the dignity \*+Leaper.”’ Lehall easily fix that, said the jJackal. I shall summon all that have been fed at your Leadership’s well- |

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them how very seriously your Mightiness has been shown up by ‘the Chair,’’ and that ti your position does not protect you, no mater

for any of the ‘‘small try,’’ and therefore we must turn the Chair upside down, and place one therein who will be goverved hy the leader, instead of attempting to govern him or order him to **uncover’ while he desires himself to be covered. Yes, said the Jackal, [, too, have been snubbed by him, and | don’t or can't forget it, Lehall manage the business, and, as usual, [ shall prompt your leadership to move in the matter as evon as | shall have the plot ready. 1 shall get the ex-Parson Rory into the Chair, who shall always look at your leadership with such a squint, that be never will discern whether your head or feet be **uncovered.’’

as we have a majority, fed not only at your l-aderebip’s well regulated stalls, but alsu on the Government pastures? And strange enough (said Mr. Birch), as if to publicly make known the ex Parson's disgrace, they

| bis apostacy or vile conduct towards the |

late Speaker, or his former oocypation at} | the pulpit, for previously he wore grey, bat

jnow the Jackal would have him appear in} | Grey livery no longer; and whether the| ‘decent mourning’’ be had from the public} plunder of a Bank, or the Treasury, it mat- | ters not a tittle to the Jackal or to ‘*Rory.”’| each having accomplished his casire, the one | to serve his leader, the better to keep him in| leading strings, the other to eppear in his | sable robes, to remind him of hfs former sa cred calling, while it aleu gives him double | allowance at the }'reasury fountain, and free) |evurse on all o@easions to the nourishment | rooin.—— {Jo be cantinaued )

(FOR THE EXAMINER)

THE UNION QUESTION CONSIDERED IN RELATION TO DENOMINATIONAL PRETENSIONS,

Me. Eorror;

The Unien of the Colonies ia now the principal | topic of discussion, both public aad private. The | arguments beth for aud against the Union are! numerous and weighty. We find honest men and sincere patriets, on this question as well as en} every other question of publie importance, array- ing themselves againateachother. The disputants deserve 6 patient acd a fair hearing, in order that the audieyee way ses clearly the various advan- tages or disadvantages that may gevrus trom a federal or legislative union of the North American Colomes of Great Britain. Party politics, local interests, or sectarian jealousies should not be al. luwed to blind wen to the real merits of this im portant question, The ullimate decision of the people in this matter should be arrived at by a process of careful enquiry and” pafieut thought. Passion or prejudice should not be allowed to cloud their minds or away their judgment. ‘The public writer Who appeals to the sectarian ani, wosities unfortunately existing among us, in order to prejudice his readers either for or against Co- lontal Union, insults their judgment by practising upen their fears, instead of appealing to their reason. This is the course pursued by the editor of the Islander. Being an advocate tor Colonial Union, be attempts to frighten his readers into an unintelligent agreement with bim by pointing to the old byghear, Catholic Ascendaney, newly painted, to syjt the occasion, im the most frightful colours, He tries to prove that Catholics have, at this momeut, @ greater share of power than they ever before possessed on the Island, and that by a alight change in one or two of the elee- toral districta the Catholies weuld be able to re- turn such a uumber of representatives to the House of Assembly as would bring the trausac- tion of public business to a stand still. How a Union of the Colonies ts to remedy the evils that the edjtor uf the /slender has conjured up, he has not told ya. “The people ot Prince Edward Island, I presuine, in the event of an Vuien uf the Colo- nies, will uot be wholly divested of the power ot selt-government, Jt is not af all likely that de- siguing politisians and unreasouing fanatics will, by the constitution of the Unian, be debarred from exercising the elective franchise, or hindered trom publishing the productions of their cunning brains or their heated imaginations, For al} that the Islander has shown Ww the coutrary, the sane aimless strugyle will be carried on with aa much gcrimpny and violence after as before the | consummation of the Uuion. Buti of thie, a fatal _—- underlies the regsoning (!) of the Islander, that is, that there du yout, iv

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obnoxious to the Leader and his Jackal, be-|

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supplied stables, and shall make known to} | spirit is tostered by the Cathohes aud Protestants

whether right or wrong, there can be ne bope |

What | care we for any parliamentary rules, 80 long |

put him im ‘decent mourning’? by dressing | him in black, as if be or they were sorry for |

&@ very extensive pucy ex

poses, have prescribed Catholics, aud driven then ite oppusition tu the Guverument, to be allowed tu say that parties in Prince Edward Isluud bave lust theiy political aspeet, and bave assumed a re- ligious character?) The Conservative Party can- net be considered in any sepse nw reliyious party Phe wen who now form the Government were placed iu power by thase who believed that they ud the ability aud the inclination te settle the Land Questlon tavourably for the tenantry Lheir promises and protestatious were believed by a torcontiding people. On the strength ot these they Were elevated lo power. Had the Gu- vernwent thrown over the Award, and depended

solely on What they are pleased to call the reli- | | gious question, they would have found themselves iu & Wolul miuerity,

Should the Protestants of this Island hsten to the counsels of the fanatie taction, and fall out with their Catholic fellow Colonists, they kiow

|} Hot why, greater evils than a tnere “ dead lock ” jiu political matters woald befall them. [It matters

litthe Whethe: we are compected jederally or le- gislatively with the neigfibouring Colonies, on Whether we continue isolated as we are at pre- sent, so long asa captions, jealous, and intolerant

that form this coumunity—so loog will there be jpelitical and svcial disturbances among us ) Where one party is insolent and the ether irn- jtable, there never will be wanting something to ;quarrel about, Aud coutests are ot the bitter and vivlent because the matter in dispute ix the snerest trifle. A’ petty municipal squabble may be productive of much more ul feeling and violence than, in other cireumstanees and in a wore peaceably disposed coumfnity, would attend the most important and botly coutested geveral election. Nor will this spirit of strife coufine it- self to disputes conceruing public interests — it will destroy the peace uf neighbourhoods — 1t will even cause divisions aud heart-burnings in families,

The remedy for the evils arising out of the see- tarian jealousies of the people is net Colonial Univu of any kind,—it consists in a complete se- paration of denominational religion trom politics. ‘This, and this alone, can effect a thorgugh and a } radical cure of those evils, To this cemplexion we must come at last, whether vow betvre the evil has attained any very formidable dimensions, or some tune henee, when bitter experience shall | have taught our people the folly and wickeduess of any one denomination of Christians in these days attempting to lurd it over any other deno- wination. A PROTESTANT.

Prince County, Sept. 12th, 1364.

Che Examiner,

Charlottetown, September 19, 1864.

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LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE.

Tue English Mail, via the R. M. S. Arabia to Halifax, arrived here from Brule on Thursday night. ‘The news, either Foreign or British, is vot ef much impertanee; but such as itis, it wil be found duly noticed in the selections which we make below from our latest papers,

PRUSSIAN AND AUSPRIAN ALLIANCE.

Bertin, Sept. 1—The Provinrial Correspon- denz of today, in an article on the visit of the King of Prussja to Vienua, says ;—' The Austrian and Prussian Sovereigns are des.rous of main- taining true friendship towards each other as allies, being couvineed that not ouly their own States, but the whele of Germany, will thereby be benefitted. While on the one haud Austria will have uo cause to regard with jealousy the increase of power obtajued by Prussia through her future relations with Schleswig-Holstein, on the other band it will require no effurttor Prussia to support Austria in the fulfilment of bey mission as a German Power in the South and South East of Karepe.”” “The writer concludes by observing that the settlement of the future commercial re- lations between Austria and- Prussia cannot be supposed to depend upon the fulfilment of certain political conditions.

RECEPTION OF THE MEXICAN ENVOY

BY THE KING GF TPALY,

The euvey sent ta the Italian Court by the Emperor Maxinulian was received. by the King vn Tuesday. He expressed a hope that he might strengthen the understanding existing between two peoples of the same raee, whose Government was based on the national will, the basis of every tree country. The King, im reply, expressed his satisfaction at receiving the Minister of the new Monarch, whom be had long esteemed. His Ma- jesty further said he was confident that the Em- peror Maximilian would secure the happiness of h.s eubjects by tollowing liberal principles, and had no doubt that Italian subjects would fjud se- curity and protection under the wew reign.

VISIT OF THE GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS TO COPENHAGEN.

The Grand Duke Nicholas was expected at Copenhagen on Thursday. The steamer Schleswig had left for Lubeck to convey his Royal Highness

trom that place to Copenhagen.

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INSULTING LETTER TO THE KING OF GREECE.

An insulting letter addressed to the King by member of the Opposition, gave rise tu an pd A, sitting of the Assembly. Exasperation prevailed iv the capital, aud protests were signed by large numbers of persons. The Assembly expressed its iidignation at the letter by a majority of 193 to 27; 28 meubera abstained from voting.

THE INSURRECTION IN THE TYROL. Letters from Trivit snnounes the discovery of

as a trick of their adversaries to gain place aad | po

Numerots arredts have taken place Pergine, Gles, Revered, Mori, Reva, and other places. At ‘Porhele chests filled with arms, am- munition, and uniforms have been discovered, and in Pergine ane filled with revolvers has been brought te ight. A great vumber of the conspi- raters have been brought into Inuapruck. ; ‘Tranquility is pot yet restored at Geneva. The people have not resuwed their occupations, and

the | arrests continue to be wide among the adherents

of buth parties, The Federal Commissioners have ordered the removal of the arsenal froin St. Gervas. The September fetes have been post- ned.

GeNEVA, Sept. 1.—Fresh arrests have been made, aud amongst them M. Fontanel, the former State Councillor.. The excitement still continues, and the Federal Coaneil hus desputebed & third battalion from Berne.

THE INSURRECTION IN TUNIS,

Advices from Tunis have been received to the 2st August. It is officially anuvunced that four teen of the tribes Lave made their submission. Private letters state, however, that forty tribes are still iv insurrectiov, and that several chiels who had manifested a wish for peace had been killed. A éhief who signed conditions of peace was obliged to take relage in ‘Tunis. Disturb- ances continued at Stax and Sousse. Most otf the tribes demanded the dismssal of the Kaeuadar. Advices from Algiers state that the expedition sent out against the assassins of M. Mollard Eyinelles has been justructed to drive the iisur- gent population from Tell. Fresh fires have taken place in the foreste’of the province ot Constantine,

Paris, Sept. 1.—La France of this evening states that a decree, appointing the Duke of Ma- genta Governor of Algeria, was signed this worn- ing at Chalons. It is stated that another decree provides for the re-organization of the adwiuis trative staff offthe colony.

SPAIN AND PERU.

The journals of Cadiz, Valencia, and Barce- lona advise the Government to erect a fortress in the Chincha Islands, saying that they are the legitimate property of Spain,

THE PRINCIPALITIES.

BUCHAREST, Sept. 1.—A law has been pub- lished authorising the purchase, by foreigners, of estates in Roumania. A rural law has also been published, dividing the peasants into three classes, proportionately to the number of cattle they pos- sess. They will receive acres of land according to the class‘to which they may belong. Great euthusiasm prevails throughout the couutry.

— —+<>--—__— GERMANY. LIFE AND DOINGS AT THE GAMBLING PLACES.

Baden-Baden is filling rapidly with strang- ers. ‘They have endeavoured to make Baden mure respectable by excluding a certain elass of wowen who go abvut withuut husbands or brothers, ond get a great number Of pedple into trouble, To pretend to morality, at giming establishments is a novelty at least. Toe mineral waters ut these places is an ex- cuse; the great attraction is rouge-et noir aud roulette. The gay Parisian ever finds Baden-Baden and Homburg tolerable. Here we are at ‘wicked and agreeable Homburg.”’ The gardens of the mineral springs Jook fresh and green, and there the other day the Paris Cricket Club pitched their tent and carried uff honors. M. Blane; the proprietor of all ** the establ.shments,” paid the emcketers’ expenses to aod from Homburg. Phere are quite a8 many Visitors as usa! here, aod a tuir sprinkling of Eoglish aristocracy. We hear many interesting stories about ladies and géntlémen who have lost large sams of money. Io fact, it is the vid history of cu p dity being too anxivueand greedy ev-r to be content with fortune’s favours. People will remain to lose, as well as win, their money, and jthas M.) Blane cao afford to give the public balls, concerts, gardens, a: d wineral waters, ull tor nothing, and thanks you for coming to them, The weather has turned very, very covl, and the ladies come out much in searlet ¢loth cloaks and jackets. M. is here with his wite and daughters in the | height of the Paris fashion ; the tiniest hats unaginable, with a large bouquet in front of nearly every fluwer that blooms, and about two pounds of additivnal hair put on at the back. They are pretty, ahd can afford to be looked at. Mdle. G. has just leit, hay- ing lost 50,000F. at the tables. A figure vin white glides along the terrace every evening, with a magnificent string of large diamonds un; she has plenty of movey now, but never piays with ber own, This is one of the most conspicuvus Of our Traviata company. Some ot the fair gamblers bave gone off to Baden- Baden. Our tables dre pretty well attended.