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     event eere eae 
     
    
   
   
    
     oe 
     
     nee 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘came out of meal, as they wan 
     
     some bread. If I found something better than 
     
     siftings | ordered it; [ spent omens, of 
     
     : my time in writing orders; the meat ration 
     
     der of three ae — m Bave — on cooked in « different part of the hospital ; 
     
     + a 7 one : = 7m nd we ee ‘the men would gather — me - = for) 
     
    

    
     ee er ee ot ee : t had pone, the livirg| 
     
     ard on the following day the murJerer added Siae teaser with "che elothing of those 
     
     to the already appalling aaa” by murdering who died; there was a ptolific crop of ver- 
     
     bis Wi and o uth che. @ cireu@= | nin and lice ; | understeod the term lousy 
     
    
   
   
    
     RE eases 
     
    
   
   
    
     A SITOCKING CRIMP. 
     
     MURDER OF A WOMAN AND POUR CUILDREN, 
     
     On the 10th of August a most cruel mur- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ted to make 
     
    
   
   
    
     he declares, to pay 0 
     
    
   
   
    
     | ry have no 
     
    
   
   
    
           
     
         
     
    
   
   
    
     : 
     
    
   
   
    
     * as he says—ure about four mil- 
     
     Ile would have found it easy, 
     
     ff an indebtedness of two 
     
     ‘The sum found with him 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     |* liabilities, 
     
     ‘lion dollars. 
     
    
   
   
    
     and a half millions. 
     
     was $48,000." 
     
     a 
     
    

    
     More Kipnarprixne.— We are told that there 
     
    

    
     is a reason to believe the attempts to kidnap 
     
     Southern gentlemen residing in our territo- 
     
     t ceased with the discomfiture ol 
     
    
   
   
    
     stances of this extraordinary case are as fol- 
     
     lows: On Satarday @ respectably dressed | 
     
     man called at the above named hotel, and in- | 
     
    
   
   
    
     quired if three children could be cecommo- | 
     
    
   
   
    
     dated with a bed for a few nights. Being 
     
     informed that one room would be unoccupied, 
     
     he said that the children were aged respec- 
     
     tively six, eight, and ten years, and that the 
     
     accommodation would be suitable. He called 
     
    
   
   
    
     again on Monday evening with the three | 
     
    
   
   
    
     children, and saw them to bed. He told the 
     
     proprietor of the house that they were about 
     
     to proceed to Australia, and the accommda- 
     
    
   
   
    
     tion, kind!y afforded would only be for a) 
     
    
   
   
    
     few days. The next morning the children 
     
     were down stairs by 6.30 in the most cheer- 
     
     fal mood, and stayed in the coffee-room 
     
     wotil the arrival of the person who had 
     
     brought them, which was before 8 o'clock 
     
     After breakfast he left, but returned at 1 
     
     o’elock, when the childeen dined, and again 
     
     departed, saying he would see them in the 
     
     evening. About 6 o'clock he came again, 
     
     nod the children partook of tea and bread 
     
     and batter. Their supposed guardian then 
     
     suid that as they might be tiresome he would 
     
    
   
   
    
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     take them tu bed, first, however, inquiring if | 
     
    
   
   
    
     another room could be provided. This was 
     
    
   
   
    
     aceorded, when he went up stairs and put) 
     
    
   
   
    
     the children to bed, the two younger in the 
     
     room formerly occupied by them, and the 
     
     eldest in the newly-a pointed chamber. 
     
     then went oat, saying he would shortly be 
     
     back and he made his appearance at 9 o'clock. 
     
     He asked for a candle, to see 
     
     - ehildren were all right, and after remaining 
     
     up stairs a short time, be left the louse, say- 
     
     jag that he would return on the following 
     
     (Wednesday) morning. Le did not, bow- 
     
     ever, make his appearance; and, 4s the 
     
     children were down stairs early the previous 
     
     morning, some doubt existed ag to whether 
     
     they should be awakened. Half past eight ar- 
     
     rived, when one of the chambermaids entered 
     
     the first room in which the two younger 
     
     children had been placed in the bed; and, 
     
     to her extreme horror, found they were dead 
     
     She immediately raised an alarm, whea the 
     
     proprietor of the hotel and others entered the 
     
     room in whieh the eldest child 
     
     placed, and there found that he sleo was in 
     
     the sleep of death. Medical aseistance and 
     
     the police were instantly summoned, the 
     
     surgeon first arriving, and upon the examin- 
     
     ation of the bodies, pronounced |. fe to have 
     
     becn extinct for some hours, the limbs being 
     
     perfectly rigid and cold. Tho children, 
     
     when brought to the hotel, were not well 
     
     dressed, but their manners were open and 
     
     effable. They conversed with a waiting-doy, 
     
     and during the conversation said that the 
     
     person who broaght them was not ther father 
     
     ‘They added that they were taken from their 
     
     father either to go to school or abroad. On 
     
     each occasion when the suspected’ murderer 
     
     lett be apologised for the trouble the child- 
     
     ren might cause, but was assured that they 
     
     were pot at all in the way, whicl: appeared 
     
     to satisfy him. On each occasion be paid 
     
     for their several requirements, and appeared 
     
     te have some silver in his possession. The 
     
     eldest child told the waiting boy that their 
     
     futher believed they were dead, bat gave no 
     
     reason for such an expression. ‘hey all ran 
     
     vn in simple unconcern and childish ehatter- 
     
     ing, even up to the time they were taken to 
     
     bed. A painful scene took place with the 
     
     reputed father of the deveased chidren. He 
     
     is a school master, named White, living in 
     
     London, and was fetched in a cab to the 
     
     hotel. After looking at the deceased, one of 
     
     whom hada smile on his countenance, his 
     
     feelings gave way, and with difficulty he was 
     
     led down stairs. Jt has been learned that 
     
     for some considerable period the husband 
     
     and wife had been separated, owing to the 
     
     wife's cohabitation with the now suspected 
     
     murderer, a billiard marker and betting man, 
     
     named Ernest Southey. On the separation 
     
     the children were given up to the mother, 
     
     but ultimately they were returned to the 
     
     husband. From some unexplained cause the 
     
     three deceased were again given up by the 
     
     sanction of the husband, under the impression 
     
    
   
   
    
     that the absent wife, her paramour, and the | 
     
    
   
   
    
     children were going to Australia. The ap- 
     
     pearance of the bodies clearly slowed that 
     
     they had expired without much struggling, 
     
     ifany. That is borne out to a great extent 
     
     from the fact that the youngest child has 
     
     fiimly elesebed in his hand a lhalf-penny. 
     
     ‘Che police began at once to search for the 
     
     murderer, for whose apprehension the Home 
     
     Department offered a reward of £100; and 
     
     police officers in plain clothes were placed in 
     
     nearly all the London railway stations. The 
     
     inquiries which they institated at the hotel 
     
    
   
   
    
     led to the discovery that the three childeen | 
     
    
   
   
    
     were respectively named Heary W hite, aged 
     
     ten years; Thomas White, aged eight years, 
     
     and Alexander White, aged six years. On 
     
     the dressing table neur the eldest boy was 
     
     found a silk neckeloth erampled up, and 
     
     having the appearance as if it har been used 
     
     to wipe up @ little fluid. Near the neck- 
     
     cloth was a small bottle, which it is believed | 
     
     contained poison, with which there is every 
     
     reason to suspect the children were deprived | 
     
     of life’ The children were met in good 
     
     physical condition ; indeed, the body of | 
     
     Thomas was almost emaciated. ‘Chey were | 
     
     nll three handsome and intelligent looking, | 
     
     their fair complexions and auburn hair giv- 
     
     ing them an innocentand joyous a; pearance. 
     
     From the fuet of the bottle being found in 
     
     the eldest boy's room, it is inferred that the | 
     
     two younger ebildren were poisoned first, | 
     
     and that the murderer then completed his | 
     
     diubolical crime by getting the eldest boy tu 
     
     drink off the remainder of the dru, 
     
    

    
     On the day following the murder of these 
     
     children, Southéy went to the residence of 
     
     his own wife, from whom he had been se- | 
     
     psrated for several years, and deliberately 
     
     murdered her and their daughter. Ile was 
     
     immediately arrested. Southey had been 
     
     long known to the police #8 a Sad character 
     
     He ws the same who a short time ago brought 
     
     an action, in conjunction with Mra. White, | 
     
     against the Farl of Dudley for assault. The | 
     
     a@sault was said to have been committed in| 
     
     the noble Earl's house, where Mrs. White | 
     
     had come with a begging petition for money | 
     
     for Southey, who she said at the time was | 
     
     ** wore than her husband,’ and had been | 
     
     her saviour from starvation alter she had | 
     
     heen deserted by the Earl of Dudley’s 
     
     brother at Brighton. Besides the particulars 
     
     of the trial, which were published at the| 
     
     time, a long statement by Southey appeared 
     
     in the newspapers of the day, respecting bis | 
     
     wrongs and the sufferings of Mrs White, | 
     
     whom he had felt it his duty to reseue from | 
     
     en erring husband and a life of shame.— 
     
     Lenglish paper. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     eS ' 
     
     THE TRIAL OF WIRZ 
     
    
   
   
    
     He | 
     
    
   
   
    
     that the | 
     
    
   
   
    
     had been | 
     
    
   
   
    
     | was arrested. 
     
    
   
   
    
     }wequainted, and it is reported that he spoke 
     
    
   
   
    
     from prison experience ; on retiring from the 
     
    
   
   
    
     hospital { examined myself ; it was impossi- 
     
     ble for a surgeon to leave there without 
     
     bringing some with him; as for medical atren- 
     
     dence, | found the men destitute, and of 
     
     clothing, and bedding, and fuel there was a 
     
     partial supply; as the ofheer of the day, 
     
     ishortly after | arrived there | was in supreme 
     
     command, and it was my business to rectily 
     
     anything wrong; | found the men as 
     
     ‘general thing destitute, partly naked, sick, 
     
     and diseased ; their disposition only was to 
     
     get something to eat; they asked me for or-| 
     
     ders for potatoes, biscuits, siftings of meal | 
     
     and other things. ‘The following morning | 
     
     sat down and made a report on the condition | 
     
     of things | found at the bospitai, The report 
     
     was sent up. Being a novice, for some of the 
     
     i things I said L received a written reprimand 
     
     sifved by Dr. Diilard tor Dr. R. R. Steven- 
     
     son. Medicines being scarce | gathered up 
     
     ‘a lurge quantity of what were the best at- 
     
     tainable, anti-scorbuties, as well as to soothe 
     
     the alimentary canal, and to cure complaints 
     
     of gangrene. I think the reports were net 
     
     heeded. My attention was called to a patient 
     
     ‘in my ward who was only 15 or 16 years ol 
     
     ‘age; | took much interest in him owing to 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ihis youth ; he weuld esk me to bring him a 
     
     potato. bread or biseuit, which I did; | pat 
     
     them in my pocket; he bad the scurvy and 
     
     gangrene; I advised him not to covuk the 
     
     ‘potato, but to eat it raw; ho became mors 
     
     ‘and more emaciated, his sores gangrened 
     
     and for want of food and from lice, he died ; 
     
    
   
   
    
     ("the scoundeel who attempted to 
     
    
   
   
    
     the plans o 
     
     I It may be well 
     
    
   
   
    
     carry off Mr. Sanders. y | 
     
     for persons enguged in these nefarious = 
     
     ploits to know that they are watched, an 
     
     have little chance of obtaining the reward 
     
     for their atrocious crimes. We may udd, it 
     
     appears to us that the authorities at Wash- 
     
     ington might and ougat to do something for 
     
     their own honor’s sake, to withdraw from 
     
     them anything like an appearance ot official 
     
     countenance. ‘The proclamation, offering a 
     
     reward for the apprehension of men who 
     
     were notoriously residing permanently out- 
     
     side of the United States territory, we always 
     
     regard as a mistake made in a moment of ex- 
     
     citement, and only excusable on that ground. 
     
     We do the American Government the injus- 
     
     tice of supposing them to be foolish enough 
     
     to imagine that if any refugees on our soil 
     
     were kidnapped, they could be held except, 
     
     at the expense of war, which, if it be desired 
     
     as we do not believe, might certainly be 
     
     brought about in ao less disgraceful way. 
     
     Nevertheless, till the proclamation is with- 
     
     drawn, the American Government stands in 
     
     the position of inviting the commission of an 
     
     odious crime upon the territory of a frivndly 
     
     neighbour. We think that some of our 
     
     American contemporaries, who must be 
     
     aware that we speak in no spirit of hostility 
     
     to the United States or their Government, 
     
     should take this matter up, and we hope 
     
     they will do so with good effect. Whether 
     
     there be anything or not in the stories of re- 
     
     newed plots, we thiak the proclamation 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     iL understood that jt was against the order to 
     
     ‘take anything into the prisoners, and hence 
     
     1 was shy in slipping food into my pockets : 
     
     jothers in my ward came to their deaths from 
     
     | the same cause; when l went there there 
     
     'were 2,000 or 2,500 sick; I judge 2,000 or 
     
     '2,500 prisoners were crowded together; 
     
    
   
   
    
     a 
     
    
   
   
    
     - | some had made holes and burrows in the 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘earth; those under the sheds were doing 
     
     ‘comparatively well; 1 saw but little shelter 
     
     lexcepting what ingenuity had devised; 1 
     
     found them suffering with scurvy, dropsy, 
     
     diarrlcea, gangrene, pneumonia and other 
     
     diseases. When prisoners died they were 
     
     laid in a waggon, head foremost, to be car- 
     
     lried off. 1 don’t know how they were 
     
     | The efllavia from the hospital was offensive 
     
     If by accident my hands were abraded, | 
     
     | would not go inte the hospital Without put- 
     
     \ting a plaster over the affee’ed part; if per 
     
     sons whose systems were reduced by inanition 
     
     should perchance stump 4% toe or scratch the 
     
     hand, the next report to me was gangrene, 
     
     |s0 potent was the regular hospital] gangrene ; 
     
     | the prisoners were more thickly confined in 
     
     the stockade, like ants and bees; the dogs 
     
     |referred to were to hunt the prisoners who 
     
     escaped ; filty per cent of those who died 
     
     might have been saved ; I felt safe in saying 
     
     |75 might have been saved had the patients 
     
     ‘been properly cared fur; the effeet of the 
     
     treatment of the prisoners was morally as 
     
     weil as physically injurivas : there was mucl 
     
     stealing umeng them ; all lived each for him- 
     
     self: L suppose this was sup2rinduced by 
     
     | their condition; seeing the dying condition 
     
     of some of them, | remarked to my student : 
     
     j**f can't resuscitate them: the weather is 
     
     chilling; it 13 a small matter of impoasi- 
     
     bility ;'’ L found persons lying dead some- 
     
     | times among the living ; thinking they merely 
     
     slept 1 went to wake them up, but found 
     
     | they bad taken their everlasting sleep: this 
     
     |was in the hospital: I jadge it wasabout the 
     
     }gume in the stockade ; 
     
     | house, I erected a tent for that purpose; but 
     
     | { svon found that a blanket or quilt had been 
     
     clipped off of the canvas ; and as the material 
     
     }evuld not be readily supplied for repairs, the 
     
     |dead-house had to be abandoned. I don't 
     
     |think any more dead-houses were erected ; 
     
     |the daily ration was less in September, Oc- 
     
     tober, November and December, than it was 
     
     from the Ist January to the 26th of March 
     
     | the men had nut over 20 ounces of food for 
     
     34 hours. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     — SS 
     
     | Aragst or Kercucu, tar Forcer. — The 
     
     New York Evening Post bas the following 
     
     account of the arrest ot young Ketchum, tne 
     
    
   
   
    
     |guld cheek forger, on Friday, and of his con- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘gave of his manner of proceeding alter his 
     
     |reported flight : 
     
    

    
     *» Edward B. Ketchum, of the firm of Morris 
     
     Ketchum, Son & Co., whose abstraction of 
     
     bonds and other securities from the house o! 
     
     which he was a member, and whose forgeries 
     
    
   
   
    
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     of gold certificates have made him s80 uoto- | 
     
    
   
   
    
     rious, was arrested at five o'clock Jast even- | 
     
    
   
   
    
     ing in Twentieth street, between Fifth and | 
     
     Sixth avenues, in this city, neur a house | 
     
     where he had his lodgings. The arrest was 
     
     mude by detective officer Gilmore, who had 
     
     | been * working up’ the case with detective 
     
     | MeDougal, under the direction of Superin- 
     
     itendent Kennedy and Sergt. Young, of the 
     
     | detective force. 
     
    

    
     ** Information had been conveyed to the 
     
     police that young Ketchum could be found 
     
     io Twentieth street, and officer Gilmore pro- 
     
     ceeded thither on Friday afternoon. The 
     
    
   
   
    
     |arrest was made near the place where Ket-| 
     
    
   
   
    
     chum was stopping. It appears that he was 
     
     walking homeward, and the officer, recog 
     
     nizing him from the description that hed| 
     
     been furnished the police, took him into cus- | 
     
     tody. Ketchum made no resistance what- | 
     
     ever. lle did not seem to be even surprised ; | 
     
     but saying it was ‘all right,’ he accompanied | 
     
     the officer to police headquarters in Mulberry 
     
     street. Under arrest, Ketchum did not ex- 
     
     hibit any concern. Le spoke uf the subject 
     
     as the end of a rather wild career, but did 
     
     not @pparentiy apprehead any unpleasant 
     
     consequences. 
     
    

    
     ** Ketchum spoke freely of the manner in 
     
     which he has lived since his flight. He has, 
     
     not been out of the city. He had lodgings 
     
     in Twentieth street—thbere are rumors in re- 
     
     gard to this matter it is not proper to print 
     
     now—and at onee retired to his rooms when 
     
     he left Wall street. Every day. except one 
     
     —Tuesday, nearly two weeks ago, the day 
     
     on which the disclosures were made—he h 
     
     been in the etreet, and has not once been 
     
     of New York. During his walks ha has often 
     
     seen persons whom he knew, including brokers 
     
     and others, who were involved by his for- 
     
     geries, but he apparently avoided them, so 
     
     that they should not observe him, and it is 
     
     not known that he was recognized until he 
     
     On Thursday fast Ketchum 
     
     rode to the Central Park and remained there 
     
     for a considerable time. Ile saw there a 
     
     number of persons with whom he had been 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     with some of them. 
     
     mere rumor. 
     
    

    
     Atter Ketchum was taken to police head- 
     
     quarters, his father and other memoers of his 
     
    
   
   
    
     This, however, is a 
     
    
   
   
    
     there being no dead- | 
     
    
   
   
    
     ;|} on te the Emperor Napoleon at Chalons, who in 
     
    
   
   
    
     iduct and demeanor, with the description he | 
     
    
   
   
    
     jiamily, with the officers of one of the banks 
     
     al the which had received a part of the forged 
     
     evidence of a Confederate doctor, which af- | paper, and persons who have been chosen as 
     
    
   
   
    
     fords « frightful accoant of the miseries en- | bis counsel, were notified of his arrest. In 
     
    
   
   
    
     We copy from the report of this tri 
     
    
   
   
    
     should be withdrawn.— Montreal Herald. 
     
     ll Aim — 
     
    
   
   
    
     A Maw witht Tes Wives.—The Cedar Falls 
     
     Gazette gives an account of the arrest, examin- 
     
     ation and conviction of a life insurance agent 
     
     named Frank N. Case, trom Wisconsin, ou a 
     
     charge of bigamy It was ascertained that the 
     
     scamp had warried no lees than ten different 
     
     wives, all of whom are now living. Five of these 
     
     marriages occurred in the East, and the rest in 
     
     various parts of the West. His last victim was 
     
     a respectable lady in Cedar Falls, whom he war- 
     
     ried clandestinely, in opposition to the wishes of 
     
     her parents, last April. He bas lately been 
     
     courting another lady iu that vicinity, whom ly 
     
     intended te marry shortly. Ou Friday morning 
     
     Case hanged himself in bis cell at the jail, at 
     
     Cedar Falls. He did a good thing by se doing. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     he Examiner. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Charlottetown, September 11, 1865. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE. 
     
    
   
   
    
     By the steamship St Lawrence, which arrived 
     
     at Halifux on the 5tb inst., we are in receipt of 
     
     London papers to the 23rd ult. They contain but 
     
     little news of importance. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     The cattle disease continues to make great 
     
     havoe among the stock in several localities in 
     
     England. In the neighbourhood of Windser, 
     
     during the fortnight preceeding the 23rd, cattle 
     
     tu the value of £940 had been carried off. 
     
    

    
     The privy council have published a letter ad- 
     
     dressed to them by Professor Symonds, in which 
     
     he states there is no duninution of the spread of 
     
     the cattle plague, and recommends various regu- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ond 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ACKNOWLEDG EMENTS.— We desire toacknow- 
     
     ledge with thanks the receipt from the Hon ble. 
     
     U. J. Tessier, Speaker of the Legislative Council 
     
     of Canada, of several draught Bills, Minutes of 
     
     Proceedings and Estimates for 1566 of the Pro- 
     
     vinee of Canada. ' 
     
    

    
     We have also to acknowledge with thanks the 
     
     receipt from the Honble. William MeDougall, 
     
     | Secretary of Canada, of Sandford 
     
    
   
   
    
     port on the, Intercolonial Railway 
     
    
   
   
    
     Provineia 
     
     Fleming's Re 
     
     Exploratory Survey, together with a large and 
     
     finely colored Map of the several routes proposed 
     
     fur the Railway. 
     
    

    
     We have hkewise to return our thanks te the 
     
     Hon. George Brown, President of the Executive 
     
     Council of Canada, for Correspondence and 
     
     other papers relating to the recent reconstruction 
     
     of the Canadian Governinent 
     
     ——-- 
     
    
   
   
    
     Masor Gexerat DoyLe, Commander of the 
     
     Forces of British North America, arrived here in 
     
     the Steamer Heather Belle, on Thursday evening 
     
     last. The General was accompanied by Major 
     
     Ansell and other officers of his staff. ‘The General 
     
     is, we understand, the guest of his Honor the 
     
     Adwinistrator of the Government. 
     
     glial 
     
    
   
   
    
     We were presented last week with a superior 
     
     specimen of the peach, equal in flavor and growth 
     
     to the bestof its kind which we remember to have 
     
     met. This fruit was grown in the City of Hali- 
     
     fax, in the fine Conservatory of W. B. Hamilton, 
     
     Eag., merchant of that place, who now has in the 
     
     Conservatory and on his open grounds some 160 
     
     peach trees full of superb fruit. Here, too, the 
     
     fig tree is bearing bountifully ; and in season the 
     
     apricot presents its delicious gifts; and extensive 
     
     grape vines—cultivated to perfection—haag seduc- 
     
     tively out their graceful and generous clusters. 
     
     And here we must not omit a brief line in admi- 
     
     ration of Mr. Hamilton's floral department, where- 
     
     inthe Goddess is well represented in a thousand 
     
     glowing tints and fairest forms of her rich and 
     
     rare domain. This meagre sketch may show, 
     
     that, in our northern clime, under proper eare and 
     
     culture, we ean, during a short-lived summer, 
     
     produce in the open air products like the fervid 
     
     South brings forth. And here it is pleasant to 
     
     observe, that Mr. Hamilton, having, by mercan- 
     
     tile skill and integrity, built up a fortune, is di- 
     
     recting some portion of his well earned store to 
     
     those pure and genial pursuits which are gratify- 
     
     ing to himself and his fellows, and evuive his ele- 
     
     vated tustes.— Com, 
     
    

    
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     We had the pleasure of meeting with the Rev. 
     
     A. MeDouald, Rector of St. Dunstan's College, 
     
     Charlottetown, P. E. 1., who is now on a visit to 
     
     this city, and is the guest of Hie Lordship the 
     
     Archbishop. ‘The institution of which this talent- 
     
     ed and much esteemed clergyman is Reetor, 
     
     possesses superior advantages for obtaining a 
     
     first class collegiate education, and is second to 
     
     none in the Lower Provinces for its profound 
     
     erudition. ‘Phe College is pleasantly situated 
     
     and all its professors, from the worthy Rector 
     
     himself down, possess that culture which at once 
     
     mark the gentleman and scholar.— Halifax Even- 
     
     ing Express. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     INVITATION TO THE SIARITIME PROVINCES.— 
     
     Yesterday, says the St. John Telegraph of a late 
     
    
   
   
    
     date, we received the following telegram from an 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     tions for the more perfect isolation of the infeet- 
     
     ed cattle on the farms or in the sheds where they 
     
     may be found. 
     
    
   
   
    
     It will very soon be apparent whether the Suez 
     
     Canal is to justify the anticipations of its promo- 
     
     ters, or fulfil the prediction of the late Robert 
     
     | Stephenson, that it would turn out a mere ditch. 
     
     | On the 15th inst. the flood-gates at the Medi- 
     
     jteranean teminus having been opened, a vessel 
     
     jladen with coal passed direct to the Red Sea 
     
    
   
   
    
     The news of the event was at once telegraphed 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     | reply sent the company a message congratulating 
     
     them on their success. 
     
    

    
     itis new generally understood that no further 
     
     attempt te lay the cable will be made this year. 
     
     | The singular adaptation of the Great Eastern for 
     
     | the purpose of laying cables is uow recognized. 
     
     | THe Visir Or rue Frexcu Fieer to 
     
     | Sprrueap.—The inhabitants of Portsmouth and 
     
    
   
   
    
     | its neighbourhead are palpably evineing their de- 
     
     | termination to give to their distinguished guests 
     
     fromm across the Channel a reception never sur- 
     
     passed for cordiality, and such as becomes the first 
     
     naval port of Great Britain. Gosport, also, is at 
     
     lust bestirring itself in the good work. A public 
     
     meeting, vumerously attended, was held yester- 
     
     day at the Star Uotel, Captain Purvis, R. N., J. 
     
     P., in the chair, when the following resolutions 
     
     were passed unanimously, “ That the inhabitants 
     
     of Gosport and the parish of Alverstoke are desi- 
     
     rous of showing their high appreciation of the 
     
     friendly relations whieh have so long subsisted be 
     
     | tween France aud England by giving a cordial 
     
     reception to the French fleet on its expected arri- 
     
     val at the port of Portsmouth. “ ‘That a eomunt- 
     
     tee be now tormed to collect subscriptions for the 
     
     | furtherance of that object, and to co-operate with 
     
     jthe Portsmouth committee.” “ That it 18 desir- 
     
     able to unite our exertions with those of the in- 
     
     | habitants of the borough of Portsmouth in giving 
     
     the French fleet such a reception as shall be wor- 
     
     thy of the occasion.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE QUEEN IN GERMANY. 
     
    

    
     Tue Rosenav.—The Coburg Choral Society 
     
     had the honor of singing before Her Majesty yes- 
     
     terday afternoon, at the Resenau. 
     
    

    
     Her Majesty has visited the Duke and Duchess 
     
     of Coburg at the Kallenberg, and received the 
     
     Duchess at dinner on Wednesday 
     
    

    
     General Baren von Alyansleben (Master of the 
     
     Horse), Baron Vou Wagenheim (Chamberlain to 
     
     the Duke of Saxe-Cobury), have also been honor- 
     
     ed with invitations. 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE ENGLISH SQUADRON AT BREST. 
     
     Brest, Aug. 21.—The English squadron ar- 
     
     rived bere at 1] a. m. to-day, after lying off Jer- 
     
     sey on account of damayes sustained by two ves- 
     
     sels of the fleet. 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE PAPAL ARMY. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Rome, Aug. 21.—The official Giornale di 
     
     Roma denies the statement that has appeared in 
     
     several journals to the effect that an extraordina- 
     
     cy recruitinent of the Papal army is taking place, 
     
    

    
     fact being that the reeraitrsent is merely for 
     
     the purpose of filling up the ranks of already exist- 
     
     lig regiments. 
     
     COMMERCIAL. 
     
    

    
     LonpDon, Tuesday evening, 22nd ~The mar- 
     
     kets for stocks and shares have presented a very 
     
     inanimate appearance, and prices im many instan- 
     
     evs have tended downwards. This heaviness has 
     
     chiefly resulted from a few sales induced by the 
     
     recent improvement in values, and as there has 
     
     been a very small amount of business negociated, 
     
     quotations have been easily affected. Consols 
     
     have deelined 1-8 per cent. Foreign stocks, with 
     
     few exceptions, have been steadily supported, 
     
     and English Railway Shares have closed with 
     
     firinness. 
     
    

    
     An easier tone has prevailed in discount eircles. 
     
     The capital on offer has been abundant, while 
     
     the demand for accommodation at the Bank and 
     
     in the open market has been very moderate. The 
     
     quotation for the best bills has ranged trom 3 7-8 
     
     to four per cent. In the Stock Exchange the en- 
     
     quiry for short loans was very limited, and the 
     
    
   
   
    
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     dured by the Federal prisoners in te Ander- 
     
     sonville prison ;— 
     
    

    
     Dr. Jolin UC. Bates testified substuntigily ag | 
     
     follows :-—Llave resided 4 or 5 years in Geor- | 
     
     gic; have been a practitioner of medicine | 
     
    
   
   
    
     since 1250; was an Acting Assistant Surgeon, | not acknowledge the fact by his demeanor. | Yeutien will take place at Quebec, we understand, 
     
     called a **Contract Surgeon ,”’ at the Ander-| The persons who called spoke to him with | in the course of the prevent month. The Hon. 
     
    
   
   
    
     eonville prison. Reported for duty there, | 
     
     Sept. 22, 1864, and !eft there March 26. 
     
    

    
     The vitness here was aworn and idertified 
     
     a pass given by Capt. Witz, Get. 17, 1864, 
     
     to Savitant-Surgeon Bates. Twas ordered 
     
     to repart to J. H. White. the surgeon in 
     
     charge, hut hearing he was injured by e rail- | 
     
     ruad accident | reperted to Rh. R. Stevenson ; 
     
     en going into ward No. 15 of the hospital | 
     
     saw @ number of men and was rater shock- 
     
     ed ; wany of them were lying partially nak- 
     
     ed, dirty, and lousy, in the sand; others| 
     
     were crowded together in small tents, the 
     
     lasier unserviceable at best. 1 ex mined all 
     
     who were placed in my charge. : 
     
    

    
     On further investigation of matters to 
     
     make myself acquainted with the mode of 
     
     doing business, the disagreeable j:y pressions | 
     
     at first made on me wore off me more or less 
     
     ne 4 was becoming more familiar with the ef- 
     
     tests of misiry. | enquired into the rations, 
     
     end | t them. 1 felt disposed to 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     do mz duty and wid all the eufferers I could josses began with the decline in the premium ™Y; 10 consequence, be disposed to drive a hard 
     
     They frequently asked me for # teaspoonful on gold. He says that the amount which if not impracticable bargain in the framing of a 
     
     Uf walt, or for orders for a littie sifting that) was involved in lis yarious transactions—his | new treaty. 
     
    
   
   
    
     the course of the evening several of them 
     
     came to see him. Le wet them all, except 
     
     his father, with singular coolness, and spoke 
     
     with them as though he had been tewporarily 
     
     absent on business. He did not evidently 
     
     consider himself a criminal, or at least did 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     kindnese, and nove uf them showed any dis-| 
     
     position whatever to prosecute him flor his | 
     
     crimes. 
     
    

    
     The interview of Ketchum and hie father 
     
     was deeply affecting. ‘The father bad had 
     
     no knowledge whatever that his sun had re- 
     
     maiped in the city, and the announcement of 
     
     the arrest naturally caused him the greatest 
     
     surprise, while the safety of young Ketchum 
     
     not unnaturally gave him pleasure. ‘The 
     
     meeting cannot be fully described. The fa- 
     
     ther clasped his son, and said to him, * My 
     
     son! wy son! you have ruined me, but | 
     
     furgive you!’ During the interview, which 
     
     was protracted, great mutual affection was 
     
     manifested, and the two were reconciled. 
     
     Edward Ketehum's wife also saw hin. The 
     
     particulars of this interview have not come 
     
     to light. 
     
    

    
     Ketchum epeaks with entire freedom of his. 
     
     operations. He says that one time he owned 
     
     operty worth six millions of dollars. His 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     rate from day to day was 2 and 2} per cent. 
     
     There were no operations of iaportance in the 
     
     bullion department of the Bank. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ee 
     
     Trade CONVENTION AT QuEBEC.—This Con- 
     
    
   
   
    
     J.C. Pope, President of the Exeeutive Council, 
     
     proceeded ¢n route for Quebec on Friday morn- 
     
     ing, a8 & Delegate from the Government of this 
     
     Island. The declared object of the Convention 
     
     is to frame the basia of negotiations with the Go- 
     
     vernment of the United States, for the purpose 
     
     of renewing the Reciprocity Treaty, or some si- 
     
     milar measure. It may be premature to pase an 
     
     opinion oa this Quebec Conyeution, but it seems 
     
     to us at present that, so recently after the Detroit 
     
     Convention, which did not augur yery well for a 
     
     renewal of the Treaty, but which, nevertheless, 
     
     reserved the whole question for Congress — the 
     
     Provincial Governments are displaying somewhat 
     
     too much eagerness in the matter. Brother 
     
     Jonathan will be apt to think that the British 
     
     Colonists regard free trade with the United States 
     
     as absvlutely cssential te their existence, aud 
     
    
   
   
    
     influential source at Quebee :— 
     
    

    
     “Quebec, Sept. 4.—Exstensive arrangements 
     
     are making at Londen, Cannda West, and in 
     
     | Montreal, te have Maritime Province guests at 
     
    
   
   
    
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     THE TENANT LEAGUE. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Mr. Evrror:— 
     
    

    
     People now-a-days talk of little else beside the 
     
     Tenant League. It is, at least in this Island, the 
     
     most interesting and exciting topic that one can 
     
     broach. It is atnusing to hear how differently 
     
     people express themselves on this questivn. 1 
     
     want no better test of a man’s intellectual capa- 
     
     city and his political integrity, than to hear him 
     
     hold forth on the Tenant League—its past doings 
     
     and its future prospects. Is he young, ardent 
     
     aud unthinking, then he speaks of the League ax 
     
     if it were the most perfect organization that the 
     
    
   
   
    
     combined wisdom and patriotism of mankind had 
     
    
   
   
    
     ever established—its leaders paragons of wisdom 
     
     and disinterestedness, and its principles pure and 
     
     practicable. Is he old, cautious but unenlight- 
     
     ened, then he is willing to admit that there may 
     
     be a few flaws in the constitution of the League, 
     
     and that its originatora are vot the wisest and > 
     
    
   
   
    
     good, and that its principles in the main are 
     
     sound. If the Leaguers were a little more 
     
     canny —if they would say less and do more—he 
     
     thinks they would, in a short time, bring the pro 
     
    

    
     prietora to their senses. Is he a small politician, 
     
     anxious for distinction aud impatient to enjoy the 
     
     sweets of office, he then strongly upholds every 
     
    

    
     act, and advocates every principle of the League 
     
     and ite framers. He abuses in the roundest terins 
     
     every one who dares call in question the wisdom 
     
     of the one and the purity of the other. He serib- 
     
     bles letters to the Weekly, filled with bad gram- 
     
     mar and worse argument. He wisely imagines 
     
     that an over-bearing tone and a hi-faluting style 
     
     will cover all deficiences. The League, he im- 
     
     agines, is bound to succeed, and he is determined, 
     
     right or wrong, to swim with the popular tide. 
     
     Others, again, in their hearts dislike the League, 
     
     and disapprove of its principles; but not wishing 
     
     to offend its members, and to lose their custom, 
     
     say very little about it, and that litle the most 
     
     silly and contradictory stuff that ever miserable 
     
     half eeared trimmer was known to utter. There 
     
     are those, however, who do not scruple to de- 
     
     nounce the League, both in principle and prac- 
     
     tice — those who believe honesty to be the best 
     
     policy, and who will not bow the knee to the 
     
     idola, Self-Interest and Expediency. There are. 
     
     Sir, 1 asrure you, more of this class on the Island 
     
     than the Weekly and its correspondents would 
     
     have us believe. ‘Though the Leaguers have suc- 
     
     ceeded pretty effectually in muzzling the press 
     
     in Charlottetown, there are many good men 
     
     aud true men in the country who are not 
     
     afraid to speak out. They, in their plain 
     
     terme, tell the Leaguera that they have made a 
     
    
   
   
    
     ple. 
     
    
   
   
    
     of the Island? 
     
    
   
   
    
     divine right of resistance. 
     
    
   
   
    
     and his officers were no better than raiders. 
     
    
   
   
    
     the teachings of Adams, Stewart, Ross and Co., 
     
     got themselves into a serape—when they did ex- 
     
     er cise “the divine right of resistance,” aud treated 
     
    
   
   
    
     liant and consistent Leaguers had the ineffable 
     
     meanness to leave the poor fellows in the lurch, 
     
     and publicly to censure them for carrying out into 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     | their Annual Provinewl Agricultural Exhibition. 
     
     The former commences on the ieth, the latter on 
     
     the 26th of September. Tuvitations will probably 
     
    

    
     be telegraphed to save time. Uncertainty as to 
     
     duration of our summer Session caused the delay. 
     
     An agent will be despatched tu St. John tu super- 
     
     | iutend details.”’ 
     
    

    
     A telegram from Quebee to the Montreal 
     
     Gazette says :— It is expected a sum is ty be in- 
     
     serted in the estimates to meet the expeuse of the 
     
     reception of the visitors from the Maritune Pro- 
     
     vinces to the Provincial Exhibition,”’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     a — 
     
     Coroner's Inquest. — An inquest was held 
     
     on Saturday last before John MeNeill, Esq., one 
     
     of the Coroner's of Queen's County, on view of 
     
     the body of William Brigham, who was tound 
     
     suspended to an apple tree on Belvidere Farm, 
     
     in the possession of the IIon. George Coles. The 
     
     jury having no evidence befure them os to the 
     
     state of the mind of the unfortunate deceased, 
     
     returned a verdict of “ Hanged himself.’ Brig- 
     
     ham had been an old soldier, and was of late years 
     
     un agricultural labourer of steady habits. 
     
     - ibe 
     
     Tur INTERCOLONIAL RatLway.— On the 
     
     22nd of July last, the Colonial Secretary wrote 
     
     to Lord Mouck a despateh, in which he “ thinks 
     
     it right to apprize the Canadian Government that 
     
     he received communications which lead to the 
     
     conclusion that more positive assurances from 
     
     Canada than have yet been given to the Maritime 
     
     Provinces on the subject of the readiness of Ca- 
     
     nada to ensure the prompt completion of the 
     
     Intereolonial Railway, in the event of Confeder- 
     
     ation being adopted, would be very satisfactory 
     
     to the friends of the measure in those Provinces, 
     
     and encourage their efforts to recommend the 
     
     scheme of Confederation to those of their country- 
     
     men by whom it has not hitherto been supported.” 
     
     In reply, the Government of Canada say “ they 
     
     can only reiterate the declarations of the Govern- 
     
     ment and Parliament of Canada, that they regard 
     
     the construction of the Intercelonial Railway as 
     
     A& necessary accompaniment and condition of 
     
     Confederation, and that net a day will be un- 
     
     necessarily lost after the accomplishment of Con- 
     
     federation in commencimg the work and prose- 
     
     cuting it to completion.” 
     
     ——— - + ——_— 
     
     We understand that the people of Banger are 
     
     making an effort to subscribe $00,000 wore to- 
     
     wards Western Extension. This, with what has 
     
     already been done there, will give to the City of 
     
     Bangor an interest of $1,000,000 in the road. 
     
     This is indeed creditable to the enterprise of 
     
     Banger, whose population numbers only 15.790 
     
     inhabitants, especially when we consider that 
     
     they have alinost a like amount of money invest- 
     
     ed in the Maine Central road, and a large sum in 
     
     the Oldtown read aheady. In enterprise and 
     
     publie spirit Bangor is a pattern for some more 
     
     pretentious cities than St. Juhn, and the efforts 
     
     she has put forth and is still putting forth to 
     
     secure railway commuuication with the Provinces 
     
     should shame our men of means into activity. — 
     
     St. John News. 
     
    
   
   
    
     dade csinica=sigRAee 
     
     The New York Herald says that Senor Dego- 
     
     nada, an agent or commissioner of the Emperor 
     
     of Mexico, recently arrived in Washington, and 
     
     made his application for an audience of the Pre- 
     
     sident and Secretary Seward, who were asked 
     
     te receive a letter from the Emperor of Mexico. 
     
     Their reply is reported to have been that they 
     
     knew no such person, and would not receive the 
     
     letter. This shows, the Jerald says, that the 
     
     Federal Government is firm onthe matter of the 
     
     Monroe doctrine, however much, owing to its 
     
     preoccupation in subduing the rebellion, it may 
     
     have been suspected of losing sight of this car- 
     
     dinal point in American policy. 
     
     George N. Sanders now goes armed by per- 
     
     mission of the authoritics of Montreal, and wears 
     
     a belt or girdle, in which are slung his revolvers 
     
     and bowie knife, while in his side pockets he car- 
     
     ries his small revolvers, making his persou quite 
     
     an arsenal.— Boston papers. 
     
     — —_-- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Captain Anderson of the Great Fastern, has 
     
     written a letter stating that it will take ten 
     
     months te manufacture new liiting apparatus for 
     
     grappling the Atlantie Cable, and repairing the 
     
     manmoth ship, but is hopeful the enterprise ean 
     
     be consummated in the month of May, 1866. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Forty thousand visitors at Saratoga this season 
     
     —tmore than ever before. In a single morning 
     
     lust week, nine thousand glasses of water were 
     
     dipped trun Congress Spring alone. 
     
    
   
   
    
     sr sioti tela Tia, 
     
     _ Colt’s factory is to be run twenty hours a day, 
     
     In couseguence of the inereased demand tor 
     
    
   
   
    
     pistols, Many of the orders, it is said, come 
     
     trom Southern negrves. 
     
    
   
   
    
     —_— ——— 
     
    
   
   
    
     A “Dea 
     
     The city fathers of Bangor, Maine, are 
     
     model parents. They have ordered to be 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     practice doctrines which, a few months ago, they 
     
     | themselves had been so industrious in teaching 
     
     | They have sown the seeds of demoralization 
     
     | among the people, and when the first bitter fruits 
     
     | of the harvest are gatiered, they declare that 
     
     |they are not of their cultivating. Then, again, 
     
     owing to tumults, which are but the logical and 
     
     inevitable results of the teachings of the League 
     
     Cabal, the country is disgraced by the appearance 
     
     of troops to uphold the laws, and to keep the 
     
     peace, these preachers of sedition have the au- 
     
     dacity to proclaim themselves grossly insulted. 
     
     They, with a grimace which is irresistibly ridi- 
     
     culous in its effect, face their features to assume 
     
    
   
   
    
     fact, if the people had been as apt to learn as 
     
     they were eager to teach, it would to-day have 
     
    
   
   
    
     soldiers ta keep the peace in this little island of 
     
     ours. Then, again, before those great barracks 
     
     in Charlottetown are built and furnished, many 
     
     thousands of the people's money will be speut. 
     
     Next summer mauy a poor fellow, who will want 
     
     a few shillings to buy a barrel of flour to feed his 
     
     hungry children, will have cause to bless the vir- 
     
     tuous gentry who filled the pockets of the Char- 
     
     lottetewn mechanics at the expense of the poor 
     
     men in the country, who, every summer, keep 
     
     the wolf from the door by repairing our roads and 
     
     bridges. We cannot have our cake and eat it 
     
     too; and if Government spend five or six thou- 
     
     sand pounds in building barracks, and in fitting 
     
     them up, there will be so much the less to spend 
     
     upon our roads and bridges. I fearlessly assert, 
     
     that had it not been for the pernicious teachings 
     
     of Adams, Stewart, Ross and Co., there would 
     
     tave been no disturbances in the country—the 
     
     Government would have no pretext in sending 
     
     for soldiers, and consequently soldiers in comfort- 
     
     able quarters in Halifax would not require bar- 
     
     rack accommodation Charlottetown. But 
     
     besides being answerable for the sufferings of the 
     
     rioters and the expense connected with the 
     
     troops, I contend that this same firm of political 
     
     schemers, Adams, Stewart, Russ and Co., are te 
     
     be held accountable for much of the suffering 
     
     and misery that exist inthe country. The foolish 
     
     pledge to withhold the payment of rent, is of 
     
     their framing. When the proprietor finds that 
     
     his tenant openly refuses to pay rent, is he likely 
     
     to exercise that forbearance which he would do 
     
     if he considered the non-payment of rent the re- 
     
     sult of inability on the part of the tenant to meet 
     
     the many demands upon his scanty crop? Cer- 
     
     tainly not. To fail to pay a debt through inabil- 
     
     ity, is one thing —to refuse to pay it, quite an 
     
    

    
     other. In the one case the debtor deserves kind- 
     
     ness and leniency; and to do the proprietor 
     
     justice, they are in such case often shown him ; 
     
     but in the other, the debtor must expect to be 
     
     treated with the utmost rigour. Many a poor 
     
     tenant, who would be allowed to iive on unmolest- 
     
     ed if he kept a eivil tongue in his head,is now, 
     
     owing to his connection with the Tenant League, 
     
    

    
     visited by the Sheriff's deputy. He, poor man, 
     
     with debts and troubles enough already, must be 
     
     worried by legal proceedings. His hard earn- 
     
     ings, and his little steck, must at one swoop be 
     
     taken frem him to pay his back rent and heavy 
     
     law expenses; and all this because he, at the 
     
     bidding of a pack of rogues and fouls, needlessly 
     
     ineurred the anger of the land proprietor or his 
     
     agent. And what have Adams & Co. to offer him 
     
     for the anxious days and sleepless nights he has 
     
     to pass?) What have they to offer as a compen- 
     
     sation for the tears his poor wife sheds as she 
     
     thinks of the sufferings that are in store for herselt 
     
     and her little ones! Nothing, positively nothing. | 
     
     They will lead the poor fellow into trouble, as they | 
     
     did Dickieson and the others, and they neither 
     
     have the will nor the ability to take them out of 
     
    
   
   
    
     it. To imagine that the proprietors will give 
     
     them their lands for a low price is simply ridicu- 
     
     lous. ‘Tie way they have gone to work is to ex- 
     
     asperate the proprietors, without eflecting any 
     
     corresponding amount ef good. All their * pur- 
     
     chases” will end in the same manner as the 
     
     “purchase” of the Melville estate. Johnny's 
     
     story of that purchase was, to use his own classi- 
     
     cal expression, A STUPENDOUS COD. It is 
     
     yet to be seen how his readers will relish the joke. 
     
     Let the tenantry be on their guard. The Tenant 
     
     League is a humbug, capable of doing any quan- 
     
    
   
   
    
     in 
     
    
   
   
    
     best men that ever were, but that its policy is) 
     
    
   
   
    
     mess of it — that their mode of treating the 
     
     Land Question proves them to be the merest po- 
     
     litical quacks that ever deceived a confiding peo- 
     
     They ask what good has the Leaguers 
     
     done, and what good wiil it ever do to the people 
     
     You, say they, speaking to the 
     
     leaders of the League, at first openly advocated 
     
     resistance to the law. Adams prated about the 
     
     Stewart publicly 
     
     threatened to make a martyr of a bailiff, and 
     
     John Ross got some rascai to say that the Sheriff 
     
    
   
   
    
     Well, when some poor fellows in obedience to 
     
    
   
   
    
     the Sheriffs officer as a highwayman, these va- 
     
    
   
   
    
     the expression of injured innocence, when, in | 
     
    
   
   
    
     required one thousand instead of one hundred | 
     
    
   
   
    
     ees ? 
     
    
   
   
    
     _ — ened ——— 
     
    
   
   
    
     Desertions. — The svldiers stationed here 
     
     seem to be “enticed” away — by what agency 
     
     we will not presume to say, leet we should be 
     
     abused and vilified —to a somewhat alarming 
     
     extent. Fifleen soldiers have deserted from the 
     
     small force detailed here, in the epace of about a 
     
     month, The Governmeut say, through their 
     
     organ, the Islander, that this wholesale desertion 
     
     will not deter the keeping of troops here—but that 
     
     other troops will be brought from Halifax to sup- 
     
     ply the place of the deserters. If thia be the 
     
     case, the Colony is incurring a large outlay daily 
     
     for the maintenance of the military force, and no 
     
     doubt a heavy liability for the loss of the deserted 
     
     suldiers. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Who rendered the presence of troops 
     
     necessary, and whe now encourage desertion ! 
     
     The Government charge the disloyal Society 
     
     known by the name of the ‘Tenant League with 
     
     these grave offences—the League retort, and say 
     
     that they are the most law-abiding people in the 
     
     world, and that the Government are the only 
     
     enemies to law and order in the Colony. 
     
     It seema to be a very pretty quarrel as it 
     
     stands. We are merely a looker-on — not 
     
     disposed to take sides with either belligerant. 
     
     If we hint at the disloyalty and illegality of 
     
     the League — if we whisper a word about their 
     
     dishonesty in repudiating their hovest obligations 
     
     —if we say that the tenantry who have enrolled 
     
     themselves under the League are duped by knaves, 
     
     whose only object is te get money out of the poor 
     
     tenantry—if we make the least observation to this 
     
     effect, we are denounced as an enemy of the peo- 
     
     ple and a supporter of the Government ; whilst 
     
     the Government censures ua fer complaining 
     
     about the brivging of troopa here, and the ereec- 
     
     tion of Barracks for their accommodation. — Ih 
     
     would be a very hard matter to please both par- 
     
     ties—the League and the Government; and we 
     
     are determined not to try to do it with either. 
     
     ++ 
     
     INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. 
     
    
   
   
    
     CANADIAN 
     
    
   
   
    
     We received the following telegram from 
     
     Quebec on Friday night :— 
     
    

    
     “ Quesec, Sept. 8, 1865. 
     
     “To Hon. E. WHELAN. 
     
    

    
     “Invitations will be despatched to-morrow to 
     
     the public men of the Maritime Provinces by the 
     
     Agricultural Societies and Mayors of Moutreal 
     
     and London, C. W., to attend the approaching 
     
     Exhibition in those Cities. Please assist in dis- 
     
     seminating this information. 
     
    

    
     T. D. McGee.” 
     
    

    
     The “ invitations " above referred to, were not, 
     
     we understand, received up to Monday noon, at 
     
     the time we write. If not received by telegraph 
     
     sooner, they may be expected here by Wednesday 
     
     mght’s mail. The Patriot, of Saturday last, in 
     
     copying from the Reading Room desk the fore- 
     
     going telegram, has exhibited its usual excessively 
     
     bad taste by meinuating that the invitation from 
     
     Canada is prompted by a desire to inveigle the 
     
     Maritime Previnees into Confederation. So 
     
     overcome are the writers for the Patriot by the 
     
     ghost of Confederation, which they said they had 
     
     killed long ago, that the least allusion to Canada, 
     
     or a proposed visit to that country on the part 
     
     of any pubhe man whose sentiments are not in 
     
     accordance with their own, seems to occasion 
     
     them much distress, and to excite their darkest 
     
     suspicions. Itiea hard case that a man cannot 
     
     make a friendly visit to a neighbouring country 
     
     without having the worst motives ascribed to 
     
     him; but minds inherently mean and naturally 
     
     small, are incapable of cherishing generous and 
     
     manly impulses. We should be glad to see all 
     
     the pullic men whe are opponents to Confedera- 
     
     tion gu to Canada — their visit would enable then: 
     
     ta judge for themselves whether it is the poor, 
     
     begearly place they have so often described it 
     
     to be. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. 
     
    

    
     WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.— Wirtz appeared in 
     
     court to-day, very much eare-worn and depressed 
     
     in spirits. He buried his head in his hands all 
     
     day. The evidence taken was very severe agains! 
     
     him. Some of it was of such a nature that 
     
     one witness asked lady spectators to retire... . 
     
     Gold 1443. 
     
    
   
   
    
     New York, Sept. 2, Pp. ™.—Important Impe- 
     
    
   
   
    
     FG Re Hn a en 
     
    
   
   
    
     New York, Sept 8, p. m—The Tribune 
     
     special Washington duligniet say* the P 
     
     in a recent conversation with a Louvisianinn, a 
     
     those whe imagined that he was hostile ty 
     
     auffrage were mistaken. He urged thig oul 
     
     man te advocate liberal views in Louisiana, 
     
     aaid,—" Why cannot you do aa M = 
     
     dees? Tf a negro can read and write, let 43 
     
     vote. There are not five hundred jn Loven 
     
     be doing 
     
    
   
   
    
     —— 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
        
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
     .who ean stand the test; but it will 
     
     Justice, and stop Northern clamor. 
     
    
   
   
    
     EEE 
     
    
   
   
    
     To Tue Evrrok or THe Examiner 
     
     Sir: 
     
     Hutwble as Tam, I feel it due to m charact 
     
     to contradict the foul insinuations in ms Isl, 
     
     of Friday last, with respect to the tenders for 
     
     new Barracks, and tor that purpose J enelyee 
     
     affidavit containing the exact words which 
     
     between Mr. Morrison and myself, which conver. 
     
     sation was commenced by Mr. Morrison ; aud 
     
     trust those whe have known me during my 
     
     dence in Charlottetown will be able ty 
     
     which statement is the more truthful: bur 
     
     will not be accountable for anything Whies 
     
     has appeared or may appear in print, unlers 
     
     name be attached; and, indeed, it is with pa, 
     
     tance that I feel myselt compelled to Appeal to thy 
     
     press in the matter at all. 
     
     1 am, Sir, 
     
    

    
     Your ob’t, serv’t. - 
     
     WILLIAM Lowe 
     
    
   
   
    
     Lith Sept. 1865. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Queen's County. t 
     
    
   
   
    
     ERSONALLY came 
     
     To wit: 
     
    
   
   
    
     appeared before me, 
     
     McGowan, Exq., one of Her Majesty's 
     
    
   
   
    
     Pe 
     
    
   
   
    
     of the Peace for Queen’s County, and Ciiy en 
     
     of the City of Charlottetown, Winttam Les 
     
     of Charlottetown, who being duly sworg 
     
     Holy Evangelists, deposeth and saith, thay 
     
     deponent, on the 29th day of Angust last, 
     
    

    
     to J. W. Morrison, Esq., at the office of the Oa 
     
     lonial Secretary, iv the Colonial Buitding, g 
     
     Tender for building the new Barracks; that the 
     
     said Mr. Morrison suid to deponent, + Hoy 
     
     that you put it off to the last moment?” — 
     
     deponent said, “It is in good time, ag it 
     
     two minutes of 32 0’clock by the clock 
     
    

    
     meaning the clock in the Crureb tower, 
     
    

    
     Mr. Morrison then said, “I suppose the new 
     
     Barracks will cost five or six thousand pounds” 
     
     Deponent replied, “It will cost a large sum be 
     
     doubt” Mr. Morrison further stated, * The Go. 
     
     vernment have in funds between four and fy 
     
     thousand pounds from the sale ef the old Ba 
     
     which will be a good help. Vowr tender is the 
     
     one which Ihave received. and if any come ix efter 
     
     this I shall mark: on them the number of minutes afer 
     
     12 o'clock at which they may be received.” Deyo 
     
     nent asked, “ Js that the way?” Mr. M 
     
     said * Yer, so that ne blame can be attached tp 
     
     me, the Government may receive or rejeet as hey 
     
    
   
   
    
     please.” 
     
     WILLIAM LOWE. 
     
     Sworn before me this 11th day of November, 
     
    
   
   
    
     Perer McGowan, J. P., and City Clerk. 
     
    
   
   
    
     —_*$4boeo——_—__— 
     
     CITY COUNCIL. 
     
     Saturpay, Sept. 2, 1865.—In the absence of Ths 
     
     to the Chair, a8 presiding Conneillor 
     
     Minntes of the lust evening were rend gu 
     
     adopted. 
     
     His honor the Recorder directed the attention of 
     
     the Board to certain imy rovements contem rlaved by 
     
     1. C- Hall, Esq., the Lessee of Queen's Wharf, a 
     
     au site between exid wharf and Penke'’s W 
     
     and submitted a Draft of a lense of suid wharf, for 
     
     a term of years, to Mr. Hall. 
     
     Conncillor Breckew suid the nature and extent 
     
     the improvements contemplated should be 
     
     mitted to the Board, ik 
     
     Councillor Morris informed the Bonrd that he 
     
    
   
   
    
     had conversed with Mr. Hall on the oa 
     
     ty ei 
     
    
   
   
    
     told him that he intended to erect a 
     
     Scale, and a lurge building on the site adj 
     
     Queen's Wharf. A discussion then followed 
     
     tive to the right of the City Council to rent the 
     
     site, between the two Wharfs as aforesnid ; 
     
     which his honor the Recorder, having been 
     
    

    
     ed to for his opinion on the subject, stated that mp- 
     
     questionably that Board bad full power and contre) 
     
     over the site between suid Wharves, and contd de 
     
     vote it to whatever purpose they considered mot 
     
     conducive to the interests of the City. 
     
    

    
     A communication from the Lesskce of Queen's 
     
     Wharf, having been strbmitted and read, aski 
     
     permission to ereet a Weivh Bridge on the sitele 
     
     tween ssid Wharf and Peake’s Wharf, it was ep 
     
     dered to be referred to his honor the Recorder, to 
     
     report thereon at next meeting of Connecil, 
     
    

    
     it was also resolved that his honor the , 
     
     do, at the next meeting of Conpeil. give per 
     
     in writing, ue to the right of the City to permita 
     
     Weigh Lridge t be erected at the side of ‘s 
     
     Wharf, ax prayed for by the Lessee of rhe sithe. 
     
    

    
     The attention of the Board was then directed 
     
     ihe bad state of the Street Croasings at the ah 
     
     exst corner of Hillsborongh Park, by William Mar 
     
     phy, Esq., who appeared personally before the 
     
     Council, and strongly recommended that two Trank 
     
     ways be built at svid crossings, that being, in his 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     rial advantages in Northwest Mexicoare reported 
     
     by private despatches from San Francisco... . 
     
     The Post publishes a letter from Capt. Anderson, 
     
     lof the S S. Great Eastern, concerning the failure 
     
     ito lay the telegraph cable. He says he was at 
     
     | first a doubter; but seeing the means adopted, 
     
     he became bepeful; then with actual experience | 
     
     he has become sanguine. He then briefly details 
     
     his experience, which has already been made 
     
     public, and earnestly urges a new trial, first in 
     
     laying a new cable with additional machinery and 
     
     then picking up the old one....Gold 144. 
     
    

    
     New York, Sept. 4.—The steamship Perurian 
     
     passed Farther Point yesterday, with dates to 
     
     the 25th..... The Atlantic Telegraph Company 
     
     have resolved to lay a new cable in June next, 
     
     and pick up the old one..... The rebel agent, 
     
     Mason, has stated through the Times. that orders 
     
     had been forwarded to stop the Shenandoah cruise 
     
     on the termination of the war..... The cattle 
     
     plague still continued in England..... The Fe- 
     
     nians in [reland are represented to be very active. 
     
     ..-- The cholera was disappearing from Coustan 
     
     tinople, Gibraltar and Valencia... . The reported 
     
     passage of a vessel through the Suez Canal was re- 
     
     marked as a small affair... . Great preparations 
     
     are making at Portsmouth to give a fitting recep- 
     
     tion to the French fleet. Grand banquets, balls, 
     
     military parades and i!luminations are in’ the 
     
     programme. .... Breadstutlx continued firm, with 
     
     little change in price. Provisions quiet, but 
     
     firm. Consols 893 to 899. U.S. five-twenties 
     
     69 to G94..... Weather in England was more fa- 
     
     vorable to harvesting... .. Gold 143}. 
     
    
   
   
    
     New York, Sept. 4, p. m.—The Texas papers 
     
     are filled with articles discussing the situation iu 
     
     which the Southerners are left by the failure of 
     
     the rebellion, and counselling unreserved loyalty 
     
     to the old Government... . Accounts ef terrible 
     
     atrocities by Indians on the borders are given, 
     
     and the U.S. military force has been applied to 
     
     for protection. Gen. Merrit 18 uaing his cavalry. 
     
    

    
     New York, Sept. 5.—A Washington despatch 
     
    

    
     says it is not believed, as stated in English jour- 
     
     nals, that the President bas mvited John Bright 
     
     to visit the United States as the guest of the na- 
     
     tion, and certainly the Navy Depot has no know- 
     
     ledge that the Colorado or any other vessel has 
     
     been designated to bring him to this country... .. 
     
     A meeting of the Fenian Brotherhood was held 
     
     in Troy, N. Y., last night. Among the speakers 
     
     was John Morrisey, the ex-pugilist, who supple- 
     
     mented his argument by a contribution of one 
     
     thousand dollars. . . - - N. 'T. Curtis, late receiving 
     
     clerk of the Eastern Department of the American 
     
     Telegraph Company, at New York, died at his 
     
     residence, in Brooklyn, yesterday, after a short 
     
     illness. 
     
     New Yor, Sept. 5, p. M.—Steamship Scotia, 
     
     with dates to the 27th, arrived this afternvon, 
     
     News unimportant. ...- The Telegraph Construe- 
     
     tion Company have offered to make two cables 
     
     te be laid to America next year.... Breadstuffs 
     
     quiet and firm. Provisioas firm and upward. 
     
     Consols tor money 894 a 69. 
     
    
   
   
    
     New York, Sept. 6.— Additional news per 
     
     Scotia..... There was a report that the rebels 
     
     had captured Pekin....‘The London Times has 
     
     an editorial on the irritation of the Americans 
     
     towards England. and demes that there exists 
     
     any pretext for war, and seriously asks for a dis- 
     
     passionate consideration of affairs by Americans. 
     
     ---- The Emancipation Society has issued an 
     
     address announcing its dissolution. ...- Owing to 
     
     urgent demands from Ireland, ou account of the 
     
     cattle disease, the importation of cattle from 
     
     Great Britain inte Ireland is now prohibited... . 
     
     Late advices from Mexico state that the Frenen 
     
     had wecupied Chihuabau. Juarez aud his cabi- 
     
     net had fled to Elpasse, which at present is the 
     
     headquarters of the Mexican Government. The 
     
     indications are that Juraez will soon be driven 
     
     from this last footheld on Mexican soil, aud will 
     
     become a fugitive within the United States... .. | 
     
     Gold 1444. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Rocuester, N. Y., Sept. 7.—At the billiard 
     
     match for the championsiip of America, Derry 
     
     won by 36 points. Fox made a run of 296 points. 
     
     There was much excitement. Fox being the 
     
     favorite. ‘The winner's average waa 16-54... 
     
     Gold 144. 
     
    
   
   
    
     New York, Sept. 8.—The New York Com- 
     
     mercial’s Washington despatch says that late ad- 
     
     vices coufirm the previous reports of disasters to 
     
     the Mexican Liberals, after the retreat from 
     
     Chihuahua. Continued resistance te the French 
     
     without aid, it is said, cannot be looked for... . 
     
     Passengers from the city of Mexico state that 
     
     great relief was felt in that city on the disbanding 
     
     of Sheridan’s army in Texas. .... An ammuni- 
     
     tion car on a supply train, with a passenger car 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     tity of mischief, and causing any amount of 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     placed at several convenient points on the 
     
     public ctreets large tanks, t> be filled daily 
     
     with pure water, und supplied with ice, for 
     
     the benefit of thirsty people. 
     
    
   
   
    
     masery, but certainly not fitted to redress the | 
     
     smallest grievance. 
     
     A PLAIN MAN. | 
     
    
   
   
    
     attached, exploded yesterday in Tennessee, seat- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     opinion, the most effectual and econumien! means 
     
     repairing the said street crossings. The subject, 
     
     after some debute, was referred to the Street Com- 
     
     mittee te report thereon. 
     
    
   
   
    
     * 
     
    
   
   
    
     Worship the Mayor, JH Gates, Esq., Was culled ’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     A wistuke having ecenrred in publishing the 
     
    
   
   
    
     names of the Street Committee, in a previons re- 
     
     port of the proceedings of Conneil, it was ordered 
     
     that the names of suid Committee be re-published 
     
     correctly—they are us follows -— 
     
    

    
     Street Comsaittee—Counciliors J. TH. Gates, 
     
     Theophilus DesBrisay, John Morris, Mark Butcher, 
     
     and Richard Heartz, Esquires. 
     
    

    
     Councillor Morris then submitted te consideration 
     
     of the Council the necessity of the dedicution te 
     
     the City of the property known as the old Barrack 
     
    
   
   
    
     gronnd, which in the opinion of many wes still & 
     
     vested in the local Government. It was therefore, 
     
     he remarked, high time for the Board to say w 
     
     ther the streets vewly made throngh that property 
     
     were or were not under the coutrol and within the 
     
     jurisdiction of that Board. After some remarks 
     
     from several Connillors tonching that question— 
     
     his honor the Recorder stated, that when that pro- 
     
     perty was sold by Act of Parliament, the streets in 
     
     question were vested in the City. After the trans- 
     
     action of some routine business the Meeting was 
     
     adjourued until Satarday next, the 9th inst. 
     
     A. McNeitt, Reporter. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Lost IN THE Woops. — We learn fromm 
     
     obliging correspondent that the quiet iububitaime 
     
     of Eastville, Upper Stewiacke, were, on the eve 
     
     ing of the Ist inst., alarmed by the thrilling news 
     
     that Mrs. James Brown, with her child, about 
     
     six months wld, were lost. She left home with 
     
     the iutention of visiting a neighbour's hone, 7 
     
     which was but a short distance ; but, while pase 
     
     ing through a narrew piece of woods, she got 
     
     the path, and wandered about until she got into 
     
     L the vas: forest between the counties of Culcbeetet 
     
     mad Picton. The alarm being given, the neigh 
     
     boxs started in search of the lost ones; bul ne 
     
     trac@wot them was found that night. The news 
     
     was spread, far and near, and the people flocked 
     
     in from vat quarters, and searched all the 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
       
     
            
     
        
     
          
     
       
     
          
     
    
   
   
    
     next day, bat Without suceess. On the Sabbath, 
     
     there started for the woods men from Stewiache, 
     
     Pictou, Murqidodoboit and ‘Tratalgar, who searel 
     
     ed but found ody some fragments of the ora 
     
     of the lost wonmpan and child. The next @& 
     
     (Monday, 4th inst») the peuple accumulated it 
     
     g:eat numbers, vatul upwards of a thousand wert 
     
     rcouring the forest’, and it was not until abet 
     
     half-past two o'clock, P. M., of the same dafy 
     
     that the woman and child were discovered, aba 
     
     six miles down the St. \Mary's River. She wa 
     
     then conducted to Mr. Jiyhu Nelson's hotel, Ti 
     
     falgar, where she nows lie considerably enfe , 
     
     after her long and wearisomee journey. —Hal 
     
     Morniag Chronicle, Sept. 9. 
     
    
   
   
    
     4 
     
    
   
   
    
     7 
     
    
   
   
    
     ——-- Pea — ‘ 
     
    

    
     Wno are Tovonest ?—In® the army and | 
     
     among return soldiers I have 1boticed one 
     
     ip particular, somewhat at yari'ance with te 
     
     usual theories. It is that hight’ haired men, 
     
     of the nervous, sanguine type, stand cam 
     
     paigning better than the dark bairi@d men of 
     
     ilious temperament. Look throug ® a : 
     
     regiment on its way to the field, and y"0U"™ 
     
     find fully one half of its members to be” . 
     
     black-haired, dark-skinned, raw-boned b; 
     
     type. See that same regiment on ite re 
     
     for muster out, and you will find thar he 
     
     black-haired element has melted away, le: 
     
     ing at least two-thirds, or perbaps thre 
     
     fourths of the regiment to be represented by 
     
     red. brown, and flaxen hair. It is also no 
     
     ticed that men from the cities, slighter in 
     
     physique, and apparently at the outset wn 
     
     able to endure fatigue and privations, sta 
     
     % severe campaign much better than m 
     
     from the agricultural districte. A thin 
     
     pale-looking dry goods clerk wi:l do mor 
     
     murching and starving than many a braw® 
     
     plough-boy who looks muscular enough 
     
     take a bull by the tail and throw him ove 
     
     a staked and ridered fence —Army Letter. 
     
     Gone +00 oe 
     
    

    
     If families could be induced to substitute 
     
     the apple—sound, ripe and luscious—for the 
     
     pies, cakes, and candics, and other eweet 
     
     meats with which their children are too often 
     
     indiscreetly stuffed, there would bea diminu- 
     
     tion in the sum tutal of doctor's bills in a 
     
     single year sufficient to lay in a stock of this 
     
     delicious fruit for a whole season.— Hall's 
     
     Journal of Health. 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
       
     
        
     
        
     
          
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
         
     
        
     
         
     
        
     
       
     
         
     
    
   
   
    
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     - > ee —_ 
     
     We clip the following from a San Francisco 
     
     per :—** A minister took for his text—the 
     
     esh, the world, and the devil. He informed 
     
     his astonished audience that he would dwell 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     tering the train in fragments in every direction, briefly in the flesh, pass rapidly over the 
     
     and, it is believed, killing many persons... .. world, and hasten on best as he could to the 
     
     Gold 1443 a 1443. evil.’”