if ner a a ler ey, or Ce, DI- nT Oe ky mse eut ion8 om- uho piic LON /OBs amp Vol. X v. DAWSON'S BUILDING, CORNER OF GREAT GEORGES AND KENT STREE ts. WILLIAM H. WILSON Vf AS JUST OPENED A LARGE STOCK OF General Merchandise, : CONSISTING IN PART OF—— LAINE, DRESS GOODS, in all the latest styles; Coburgs, Alpacas, Luatres, Delaies, d Delaines. ted COTTONS. irgs, Drills, Jeans, Wincies, French Merinos a Grey, White, Striped and Pri SHIRTINGS, Tickings, Osna Sheetings 10 Grey and White. White, Red, Blue, and Fancy Bread Cloths, Doeskina, ‘Tweeds, &c., FLANNELS; &¢. Superior Meltons, very ches); Mantles, and Ready-made (C LOTHING FEATHERS, Hats, Shawls. Bonnets, Gloves, Hos ery, &G., a&ec. HARDWARE, Shovels, Hoes, Plough Mounting, Weavers’ Reeds, Nails, &c., &e. TABLE CUTLERY, Sheath Kuives, Powder, Shet, Caps, Blister Steel, &c., Ke. BOOTS and SHOES, Ladies’ Wellington RUB- BERS, Rabber Shoes, &c., Xe. ;ROCERIES; TEA, superior quality; Sugar, Molasses, Raisins, Tobacco, &c., Ke. HOOP SKIRTS, in great variety. il attention to his direct trom the {--- W. H. W. begs to call spec Stock of FURS, imported Montreal Factory, consisting BOAS, in Mountain Martin, Stone Martin, Fitch, Mock Fitch, Lustred, Opossusns and Minesota A few Prineess Royal BOAS, very superior; CAPS, in Hair Otter, Plucked Otter, Grey Piushed Alfred, and a lot of otber styles. Dawsen’s Buildings, Nov. 7, 1564. COM.PLETED © T THE BRITISH WAREHOUSE. QUEEN SQUARE, IMPORTATIONS FOR FALL Bor THE SUPPLY OF British& Foreign Merchandize, COMPRISING STOCK IN WILL BE Second to IN THE CITY, For Variety, Quality, Style or Value. our TRADE, FOU D None elected with the greatest care, purchased on the best terme, and aold at tie lowe rewuauerative prices We Solicit Inspection. W. & A. BROWN. N 1, 1564 GEORGETOWN, P. EL vg Blour Depot YEMOVED from Hed of Queen’s Wherf to JOSEPTE MCDONALD'S NEW BLOCK in RICHMOND STR T. mwext to the ‘ tom House, aud directly oppo-ite the extensive esta die li of CHABLES UWRES, ing, where w | de toad ‘ ve Canada & New York FLOUR, in every brand fresh and g d. ALSO, 100 sides best Naw York Sole LEATHER ) Kegs TOBACCO, pure aud goad, 10 Boxes Cavendish Do-, 20 Casks Kerosene OLL, iW0 Boxes LUZENGES, a du SOAP. 20 do CANDLES, 10 Dogen BROOMS 19 do PAILE 200 Grows MAPCRKES, 5) Pairs BOWS & SHOFS 150 Bbls. Beime HERRING? with a large variety of other GOODE, «heiesale | [> Cash paid for 50,000 Lusheis OATS ¥. P. NORTON. Georgetown, Feb. 6. 1865. fin Furniture Warerooms, Corner Kent Street & Eing Square. Tr you wish to buy FURNITURE, CALL AT DOUGLASS’S WAREROOMS. Me has the iargest and best assortment of Ready-made Furniture, of the lateat and moat fashix nable from in the Island. at EXTREMELY LOW PRICES, consisting of :— Drawing-Room, Dinivg and Cha Also, Side Beards, Book Cases What-Nots, Centre Yaubles, Exter iuiltet do, Bureans, Bedsteads, crudles, Feather be ls, Luir, Bx Wardrobes and ion do, Hall and Cribs, Cots and lsior and Straw Mattrassee. Cane and W ood-Chaics, Olice Chairs id Cushine, Cornices, Polea, Roilers, Shades and Tussels. A lurve assortment of Sofas and Lounges. GRE PIANG. [PY Please cal! and examine. Corner Kent Street and ling Sguare. | GEORGE DOUGLASS. Charlottetown, Feb 20, 1S0b. tf dash Provision Store ! W. S. SMITH, Great George Street. pee ests & TEAS, VINES, SPIRITS, and GENERAL GROCERIES, ‘ | ? _w . = 4 “ +e atte < 5 ~. ge N. B.—W. 8. 8. would call the attention f Re | On reference toa return made to Par liament, and Commons to be printed, 7th | Dealere to hia Stock of Wines, Spirits, &e. Ch toww, May 23, 1364. isl « rw tf Mantle Cloths, iTLYKS, to select | | Tyo ry wT ww . + | BA ABWDe WINTER ARRANGEMENT. YVHE Mails for the UNITED STATES, CANADAand the neighbouring Provinces will, until further notice, be made up and forwarded from the General Post ¢ Vilice, Charlotietown, every TUBSDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY even ings, at 8 o’clo¢ek. Mails for Great Britain, Newfoundland and the West Indies, will be forwarded every alternate THURSDAY and SATURDAY evenings, at 8 o clock, as follows, viz :— lharsday 29th December, Thursday 23d February, Saturday, Jl st do Satarday, 25th do Thursday, 12th Janaary, Thursday, 9th March, Saterday, 4th do — Saturday, llth do Thursday. 26th do Tharsday, 23d = do Saturday, 23th do Saturday, 25th do hursaay, 9th February, Tharsday, 6th April, Saturday, ith do Saturday, Sth do L. C. OWEN, Postinaster General. General Post Office, Charlottetown, Dee. 26, 184 Square Rod Tobacco. ISLAND MANUFACTURE, | "PXHE Subscribers having purchased the i Tobacco Stock of the late Geo. F. C. Lowden, Fsq., have entered into a co-partnership for the purpose of manufacturing Tobacco, and are now | : repared to offer for sale, under the sty le and firm of LOWDEN & RICHARDSON, at their Store in Queen's Street, next door to the Bank of P. E. Is | land, the best quality of Square Rod—Island Manu ‘facture. Strict attention paid to orders from the eountry. MORIN LOWDEN. D. J. RICHARDSON. Oct. 10, 1864 | ‘FLOUR. ‘Pue Subscriber offers for sale, for Cash cr approved paper— 700 Bblis. Extra FLOUR, Alse a quantity of Raisins, Apples, Onions, Sole Leather and Codfish . ©. HALL, | Peake’s Buildings, Water-st. January 2, 1869, Labrador Herring for Saie. —_ 122 BBLS. No. 1 HERRING, | Raa 13 Half Bbls. do do i 40 Bbis. No. 2, do | JOHN S. PURDIE. | Charlottetown, Jan 30, 1869. tf vi = ny rea $ heii: bey as = - wes fe en aN Pg Lm Wy | “4 > 1, oo al. ait » 1 Ss “ en] ° | a so A Cad Bind | + © oe A OH ,. —— eH a B = 139 - = . Cah ‘2 Y be EOM | = ww 53S > pp 6z> “4 | “ail ll mal 24 ie eS Ba oo = 9 > H = Go = Y LS } ~~ S _— Os oe ees oak il OF soy a %™@ co =~ ins § Pe a TF ee’ des | ©2606 ch G3 2 Ss | “ | MB ap wv e we bw amore K i @& - , —_ —_ | 2 7 4 Ch S . ! aa > a i > te —_ a | 03 2 =a ‘ = fr nt ow wa 2) Ce Pat @ \s a 4 ‘Life Assurance Company of Glasgow. i ESTABLISHED IN 18338. Incorporated by Act of Parliament. GOVERNOR: The Right Honorable The Earl ef Glasgow. ay.F. Birekyyre, Esqr, Manager. Subscribed Capital, - - - £600,000 | Accumulated Funds, = - e ‘ 480,000 | |} Anwual Revenue, - - . ° 95,000 | Subgisting Assurances, - ° 2,500,000 Henry Dunvop, Esqr, Chairman. ‘ | Distinctive Features in, the Company’s Business System— | Annual Bivision ef Prefits, Policy -Holders Participate in Profits from First Year of Entry, | Bonus Assurance at the Smallest Qutlay, Seven Years Haif Cretiit Assurance. Exemptions = Foreign Travel pnd Fureign | | Residenee. Rates of Assurance, and ail ether information, , may be learned from the Agent for this Island, at GEORGETOWN. WM. SANDERSON. Georgetawn, June 27, 1364. ly ner Furniture. Marine Insurance Company]! OF | PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. ‘Incerporated 14th April, 1863. | - ~ PRESIDENT: . } WILLIAM HEARD, Fsquimg. DIRECTORS: | (ON. DANL. DAVIES, | HON, JOS. HENSLEY, |HON. W. W. LORD, | HON. GEO. BEER, | JAMES DUNCAN,Esq. | HENRY HASZARD,Esg. | SECRETARY: DANIEL J. ROBERTS. ‘= Risks taken daily at the Office in Water-street. May 4. in cadalthnsan a deseo, tye Queen Insurance Company OF LIVERPOOL. | FIRS AND LIFE! ‘Capital, - = - €1,000,000 Sterling. | FENUE Subseriber, having beer appointed agent for the abeve “rst-class Insurance Com- any, is peepared to take risks on all dese: iptions of mish, ' J. 8. CARVELL. Charlottetown, Feb. 19, uf [Extracts From Newsrarers.] | ordered by the House of J UST RECEIVED from ENGLAND, | o: of beat quality, and for sule at a low price— llotizoutal Watches in Silver Cases, A dnehds SOOTHING os oo cc ccce cscs £310 0 Ee. te Te CON... «. ens) - ede , Kaliod.Lauem, iit -dsice odsss -Sbb'ct 9°¢ © by 7 A. PURCHASE, Watchmaker, Sma rdon’s Corner. Charlottetown, Oct. 31, 1864. Photo S , fw bote 7 ’ | t for its solidity, as well as for its success, ‘the | Photographs 7 Ph otographs e Queen Insurance Company,’’ which last week held | SAKES DAILY Ut its annual meeting of proprietors in Liverpool. BR. BR. MACLELLAN. | peferenee to the ample report in another page will mpue Best aud Obeapest in the Colony Photographs 208. per doz. ‘whole length) other Card Pictures, suitable for the Album, only | at once the ex« Is. 6d. each. N. B.—The weather makes not the slightest difference by our formula. R. R McLELLAYN, Feb. 6, 1865. Great George St. Charlottetown, Jan. 23, 1865. Library Books! 200 VOLUMES NEW BOOKS, suit able for School and Club Libraries, for sale very cheap.” Apply to A, MeNEILL, Ch'town, Jan. 16, 1965. Supt. Readiv . tities to their dnancial ability aud the care and * ~. deen whieh marked vhe investment of these fu bejng upware et ‘ th From Gore's General Advertiser, Oct. 24, 1861.| ice ever yet established in this City. | ** Indeed, we believe that we are pertectly just- | who bas, by arriv: ls from ENGLAND and the | fied in saying that no other Company, W ithin the | UNITED STATES, received a very large supply, |same peniod, exer attained so large an income 1M | which, added to the stock .on hand, forms the | pon eitherthe Fire or Life Departments az the Queen | farvest Watch Chains and Keys, Finger Rings, Steel Ear} yy) oirance Company Ringsand Brooehes, Geuts’ Pia in gueat variety, | make no exception even in favor of our older local | compares, namely, the Liverpool and London, the | —— | BARTHENWARB! Royal, and the Lancashire Insurance Companies.’ | " . . ‘ . ‘ . {From the Civil Service Gazette, Nov. 2, 1861.] “ Among these important institutions stands emi -| made by this association since its foundation. ; snecess is, indeed, publie contidence jn its constitation.”’ [From the Liverpool Mereury, Nov. 2, 1861.] * It must come ithe rate of £20,000 per aynam. We no other Compaay, Within the same short period, ever attained so large un mcrease either in the Fire This speaks highly for the) — a Ma , ; * activity geal of the management, while the [37 Constantly on hand, at prices cheaper than can ' , ' pein, ei Which all the claims, arising out. be purchased in the murket,the best of Ram,Brandy,| The Edinburgh Revie, in an article on My cleo late disastrous fire in London were met, test: Gin, Whiskey, and a saperior article of Malt or Life Department. . ¢ & I pe Weekly Ho nena . — POETRY. June, 1861, it will be seen that the increase of Duty WATCHES and JEWELLERY. |f» the year, paid by the“ QUEEN,” was £ 2507, s of £1000 more than paid by any a January 2, 1865. i fully sutisfy every reader of thé signal progress | i Sach | rarely attaived, and it attests | ellence of its management, and the } be gratifying to the public generally, | | and especially to the proprietors, to tind that its in- Abrisig ‘the past <hree years has increased at | } ei 8.’ Charlottetown, Jane 20, 1864. . as sae tree rte a et ee a —— OSE Monday, March 13, 1865. | Prince Edward Island, : Charlottetown, of Lolitics, Literature, and ** This is true Liberty, when Freeborn Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free.’’---Euripides. ‘LATEST NEWS FROM BUROPE. —— ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA AT HALIFAX. HALirax, 3rd March. \ Hockley, left Liverpool at noon, Isth, Negyd areived at Halifax at 8.30 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. CONCERT! A ews" ST. PATRICK'S DAY! “s EVENING of the DAY above —SP AY NEXT, the 17h “SOCIETY will give a New Series.---No. 1. SEA-MIST..... .. | The New York Tribune says, ‘The reason why | My well-beloved friend, at noon to-day | Drake’s Plantation Bitters are so universally used and have such an immense sale, is that they are al- | ways made up to the original standard, of highly invigorating material and of pure quality, although the prices have so largely advanced,” &c. | The Jribune just hits the nail on the head The Plantation Bitters are not only made cf pure | | material, but the people are told what it is. The | | Recipe is published around each Bottle, and the | And here and there green tufts of grass peered through Soft lavender, and sea-thrift: then behold The mist, subsiding over, bared to view A beast of giant mould. Over our cliffs a white mist Jay unfurled, So thick, one standing on the brink might say, Lo! here doth end the world. A white abyes beneath, and nought beside ; Yet, hark! a crooping sounds not ten feet dovem. Soon I could trace some browing lambs that bide Through roek-paths cleft and brown. | bottles are not reduced in size, Atleast twenty | imitations and counterfeits have sprun up. They impose upon the people once and that’s the last of | them. | The Plantaticn Bitters are now used in all the She seemed a great sea-monster lying at leugth | Government Hospitals, are recommended by the | With all her cubs about her: but deep—deep— The subtile mist went floating: its descent Showed the world’s end was steep. | best physicians, and are warranted to produce an | |immediate beneficial effect. Facts are stubborn things. ; : eT It shook, it melted, shaking more, till lo! The sprawling monster was a rock, her brood Were boulders, whereon sea mews white as snow Sat watching for their food. * * Towe much to you, for I verily be- | lieve the Plantation Bitters have saved my life. REV. W. HW. WAGGONER, Madrid, N. Y.” } eo 9 Thou wilt send me two bottles more oY ‘ | ; : : Then once again it sank, its day was done: | of thy Plantation Bitters. My wife has been greatly : | benefitted Ly their use. | Thy friend, ASA CURRIN, Philadelphia, Pa,” Part rolled away, part vanished utterly, And, glimmering softly under the white sun, Behold a great white sea. Se ea — ~ PBACE. s* * * T have been a great sufferer from | Dyspepsia, and had to abandon preaching. * * * Lhe Plantation Bitters have cured me. | Oh, that the bells in all-these silent spires REV. J.S5. CATHORN, Rochester, N. Y.”’ Would clash their clangour on the sleeping air; | \ ie ss Has ‘ “ : ; «“* * * Send us twenty-four dozen more of, Ring their wild music out with throbbing choirs, | >e ‘ 2 i wary uw -_ your Plantation Bitters, the popularity of which are | Ring Peace in everywhere. | daily increasing with the guests of our house. | Oh, that this wave of sorrow, sarging o'er SYKES, CHADWICK & CO., | The red, red land, would wash away its stain— Proprietors Willards’s Hotel, Washington, D.C.” | Draw out the angry fire from shore to shore, ‘ : And give it peace again ! “* * * Thave given the Plantation Bitters | omer Aa _ : : ; ; | to hundreds of our disabled soldiers with the most | On last year’s blossoming graves, with summer calm, astonishing effect. G. W.D. ANDREWS, Loud in its happy tangle bums the bee ; Nature forgets her hurt aud finds her balm— Superintendent Soldier’s Home, Cincinnati, 0. Alas! and why not we? | | | «* * © ‘The Plantation Bitters have cured me | Spirit of God! that moved upon the face of liver complaint, with which I was laid up pros Of the waters, and bade ancient chaos cease. | trate and had to abandon my business. li. B. KINGSLEY, Cleveland, 0. Shine, shine again o’er this tumultuous space, ' ~ : . Thou that art Prince of Peace. «* #® # The Plantatioa Bitters have cured me LORD DERBY ON CONFEDERATION. of a derangement of the kideys and the urinary er- oan Itacts like! Qur exchanges from the United States | bring us later vews than we had by the | Cunard steamer from England. We are enabled now to produce some extracts from speeches delivered at the opening of Parlia- inent, and the views of the Goverument being already known, we prefer to select from ‘that of Lord Derby as the leader of the op- position in the House of Lords. liaving had ample means of becoming |}menced with a small wine-glassful after dinner. fully acquainted with the views and feel- | Feeling better by degrees, in a few days I was as- | ings of the Ministers, their anxiety about jour position, and their recummendations in favor of Union, and the opinions also of that gans that has distressed me for years. a charm, C. C. MOORE, 254 Broadway.”’ New-Beprorp, Mass., Nov. 24, 1863. Dear Sir :—I have been afflicted many years With severe prostrating cramps in my limbs, cold feet and hands, and a general disordered system Physicians and medicines failed to relieve me. Some friends in New York, who were using Plantation | Bitters, prevailed upon me to try them. I com-| | tonished to find the coldness and cramps had en- tirely left me, and I could sleep the night through, , ! which I had not done for years. portion of the House of Lords and Com- My appetite and strength have also greatly | MOUS, they are supposed constitutionally to represent, it is, therefore, with the greatest auxiety and the very deepest interest that we have been waiting and looking forward to the enune’ation of the views und opinions of the leaders of Opposition. Loid Derby selects two prominent dis- tinctive features of American policy, to each of which we have, again and again, in our humble way, called attention, as most sig- uificant and suggestive of hostile intention — namely, the Reciprocity Treaty, aod the treaty for dispensing with armed ships upon }the Canadian lakes. He then prceeveds to remark as follows :-— I feel like another being. improved by the use of the Plantation Bitters. Respectfully, SUDITH RUSSEL.” If the ladies but knew what thousands of them are constantly relating to us, we candidly believe | one half of the weakness, prostration and distress | experienced by them would vanish. James Marsh, | Esq., of 159 West 14th St. N. Y, says, ‘he has | three children, the first two are weak and puny, his wife having been unable to nurse or attend them, } but that she has taken Plantation Bitters for the last two years, and has a child now eighteen | } months old which she Las nursed and reared her- self, and both are hearty, saucyand well. The ar- es : : »e i i ‘ . “ | ticle is invaluable to mothers,” &c. ‘¢ Of these two measures it is impossible ‘not to say that they are adopted in a spirit of bostility to this country. (llear, hear.) /One of them tkrows open questions of the ‘most delicate and difficult character. The American people have derived, as they do not deny, great commercial advantages from the Reciprocity Treaty, and its termination is advocated only on the avowed ground that , Canada derives still greater advantages. One effect of the termination of that treaty would be, if | am not mistaken, that the whole of Sach evidence might be continued for a volume The best evidence isto trythem. They speak for | themselves. Persons of sedentary habits, troubled | with weakness, lassitude, palpitation of the heart, lack of appetite, distress after eating, torpid liver, | constipation, diabetes, &c., will find speedy relief through these bitters. Everg bottle for exportation and sale out of the | United States bas a metal cap and green label | around the neck. | Beware of re-filled bottles. not been mutilated. Ay person pretending to sell | See that the cap has States have derived incalculable advantage, ;would at once be thrown open. a : _ |hear.) Lam old enough to remember what - we principal dealers throughout the habita- | serious complications and difficult questions po oe ’ connected with the fisheries were occasioned, BP. . mre re ee and how near to the point of war they led this country and the United States; and __-_—.. | now all these questions are gratuitously, and ; apparently without the slightest reasun, Consulate of tho United States | thrown open at the risk and danger of war | Plantation Bitters in bulk or by tne gallon is an im- | postor. We seil it only in bottles. Oct. 10, 1864. ém i January 5, 1865. ~ . . , OAT lo . 4 : | WrOTIGE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that |States. (Hear, hear.) It is not a little by the following Order of the President, uo | significant, too, that at the same time, when person will be allowed to,enter the United States | the abrogation of tiis commercial treaty lays Fy Sw SiaDieas a Pussvort iasued bv the : | ¢rom this Island, w ithout a Passport issued by the open to all the points of danger and difficulty, | nudersiguod, er anthenticated by him. | 2 J. H. SHERMAN, | there is another step taken to abrogate an- Congn) for P. K.Asland.}other treaty. Fora long period the lakes pitonane : bave served as the means of peaceful and a ae een Dee 17 age4, | Profitable commerce between the two coun- as ton, oe 27 . . . ° s tt ee ee oe 2 ARG | tries lying alongside each other; but L can | _ The President directs that, except immigrant pas- | reeoflect a period in the late American war | sengers divecaly entering an American port by sea, | ' ‘ : : hi iNdi henceforth no traveller shall be allowed to enter | When t vere Was & race in 8 ip-building on the Uxited States from a foreign country, without | the two sides of the lakes, but when the japassport. Ifa citizen, the passport must be from | party obtaining the supremacy in that mat- | this department, or from some United States Min- | top gained the control of the lakes. (Llear, }ister or Consul abroad, and if an alien from the | competent authority of his own country; the pas- | hear.) That state of things was pat an end | Couver’s [sland are azreed in recommending i distant. | port to be covntersizned by a diplomatic Agent or | to by the treaty ; bat now America is the 'Qonsnl of the United States. This regulation is | purty who, without the slightest prevocation | inteuded to apply especially to pr pre propesing jor ground, breaks through that treaty, and ito come to the United States frem the neighbouring | ws . oe . is | ritish Provinces. dts observance will be strictly {4¢elares an intention of increasing its force lenfarced by all officers, civil, ntilitary and naval, | 00 the lakes, thus rendering if necessary on lin the service of the United States, and the State | the part of this country to take correspond- land muani¢ipal unthorities are requested to aid in (jp v It is expected, however, that no im- | ,)° its execution. jtiigrant passenger, coming in manner aforesaid, will be obstracted, or any other pergque avhoe may this regulation could reasonably be expected to|jn which the country is placed by these two | reach the country fiom which they may have acts of the American Goveramen:, fellowed | |up by an intention to employ a preponder- | ae " het furee can which we expressed concerning it when it ression ; for to speak of anjwas first started. The British Provinces, ! Thut the very Lest pluce to purchase al by Canada upon the United States is during the few months which have since | left his horse and buggy, he chased away to speak of a physica: im possibility. Canada | elepsed, have bad an experience which has _bas a long frontier, peculiarly epen to ag- | |gression, being accessible by water as by ‘land, and unless you Lave a preponderating \ started, WILLIAM H. SEWARD. — ——————— | ating force on the lakes. jonly be for ag a eP REMEMBER | HARDWARE IS AT WwW. KE. DAWSON’S, | power on the lakes, but, above all, if you Great George Street, Dec. 5, 1864. la contemplated important step. J mean the federationof the British American Provinces, ' FOR SALE by the Subseribers— 10 (Hear, hear.) CRATES of the above. G. & S. DAVIES. MOLASSES! “ OR SALE by the Subseribers — 83 | obtain. Puucheons Retailing MOLASSES. & G. & 8. DAVIES. January 2, 1865. (Hear, heer.) Grain! Grain! Grain’ ——_-—+41 and OATS, at Coles’s Brewery and Distillery, ON CONFEDERATION Also— X, XX, and XXX Ale. the complicated question of the fisheries, | Yeo from the settlement of which the United] regarding it as a treaty between tke seve- bat 1 do say this, thatthey wHi be deeply | Con ;set out on their way hicher’before intelligence of |sesponsibdle if they eze mot awake to the peril) | 4 ¢ | allow the neighbouring power to have a pre- | couniry 5 aud the eonseicusness derating tovee there, you place Canada versity is manifestly growing ; , yet offered by hiw, and at his panal LOW | at the dieposal of the United States. (Hear, in waking this etateauent,we | PRICES rer .casu. sich hanetanal Prenat satisfaction the announcement of [ hope | may regard that | federation as a measure tending to constitute (a power strong enongh, with tlie aid of this —_—— | country, which | trust may never be with- drown from these Provinces, to acquire an |importance which separately they could not If [ saw in this |federation a desire tu separate from this | country, I should think it a matter of much |] gih says:— —-—— more doubtful policy and advantage ; but 1 | perceive, with satisfaction, that no such believe that PVUE highest price given for BARLEY aes is entertained.” ‘PUBLIC OPINION UN GREAT BRITAIN Whis- the Confederation Scheme now being model- {Jed in the Colonies, speaks of the tidings falling “ yot more welcome on our ears as the harbinger of the future and complete independence of British North America.”’ The London correspondent of the New York News presents the Confederation ques- tion in a new aspect. It says :— * The address of the Governor General at the opening of the Canadian Parliament could not have escaped your attention, You will perceive that the idea of a Con- The Governor General also remarks that the circumstances are favorable for the for- matié@ “of a new vationality.” This is, it must be admitted, a remarkable expression, but I think I can explain its motive. From the time whea your war first broke out Ca- nada became a source cof unusual anxiety. England would not consent to Canada be- coming independent, but she would object to her or any part of her joining the United States. It was then suggested that the Provinces should be welded together so that a part could not be taken without the whole being conquered, and it is this poliey which the Governor General is to foster. The Kwperor of the French is pleased with the plan—for it tends to favor his idea of Ame- rica being divided imto powers in close alliance with, and to some extent, under the jurisdiction of Europeampowers, His wish is that treaties should be entered into by which England and France eonjointly enter into offensive and defensive alliances with Mexico, with Canada and with the Confe- derate States,” Lord Houghton in the British House of Lords, has expressed his warm approbation of the Scheme of Confederation, in the fol- lowing language: —* ] heartily concur with all that has been said Ly my noble friend of that project. It is, my lords, a most in- teresting contemplation that that project has arisen and has beea approved by Her Ma- jesty’s Government. * * * We do still believe that though thus banded to- gether they will recognize the value of Brit'sh connection, and that while they wil! be safer in this amalgamation we shall be as safe in their fealty,” Lord Granville, one of the greatest of Kngland’s great men, said last month in the House of Lords:—* What ought to make us still more proud of the good Government which must undoubtedly have prevailed among us is to find that our North American Colonies, in expressing their wish to con- tinue their connection with this country, and in adopting the new institutions they have been considering with such calm and pru- able to keep as close as possible to the con-| stitution and institutions under which we so happily live.’’ iiepiiainaiiiiiiiasinrcuinsie THE CONFEDERATION OF BRITISH AMERICA. —_—_— [From the New York Tribune.] When the scheme of uniting all the provinces of British America in one con- federacy was first matured at the Uonference of Charlottetown and Quebec, it seemed to be so popular as to silence all opposition. With the exception of the French in Lower Canada, the leaders and the balk of all the! political parties in each Province seemed to agree upon the expedieacy of the measure. | | Subsequently there was a defeetion from | this unaaimity of some influential men in | the Maritime Provincesand Prince Edward | (sland, and the adoption of the scheme by | the present Legislature became doubtful. | On the whole, however, the progress of the plan has been satisfactory; and now that the | time for action bas come, its speedy realiz- | ation seems to be secured. The Govern- | meat of Canada has, apparently, no inten-| _tioa whatever of taking the popular vote on | | the subject. | j They insist on having the | plan of unien adopted without amendment, | ral Proviaess, every amendment to which | (Hear, | would of eourse require the assent of each | to arrest him as a deserter. | | ‘ of the Provinces, and therefore postpone ine) definitely its execution. The eoncurrence (of the majority of the Canadian Parliament with the views of the Government is regard- | ed as secured, though there wae at first a| | large party in favor of submitting the scheme to a vote of the people. The assent | | of America, Prince Edward Island. Pra which nothing could be more deplor- of the Legislatures of Nova Scotia, New was dumb. The officer took him in charge, able—betwren this country and the United’ prynewick and Newfoundland, is considered and before they reached this city last even- }as equally certain; and even as to Prince | ing on their way to Lenawee country, the Edward Isand, it is believed that the aavo- cacy of the plan by the two leading party! guilt. organs will represent the views of the popa-| | lar majority. | tis expected that the approval of the | mother country will be obtained during the | summer, and the Confederation accomplished | before the end of the present year. | On the Pacific side of the British domin- ions, meauwhile, | Provinces of British Columbia and Van ‘a union of these Provinces, and their opinion is shared by a majority of each of the two Legis'atures. This unanimity, we are as- sured by the press of those provinces, pro- | | { measures. (flear, hear.) Ido not ask and that achieved, the connection of the Pa- | hit her. : ' |the Government what steps they have taken, | cific Provinces with the great Canadian! shortly to give birth to a child, eprang to held at 7} o'clock. Before 5 every seat federation will be almost an accomplish- his side, and by the most endearing en- and position where a man could stand was act, jeatirely in accordance with the opinion largly added to their political education. | They bewe learned that their interests are ‘widely different from those of the mother of this di- among our northern neighbours. The more powerful more rapid is their tendency to become a new America. a LEGISLATURE. The Quebec Mercury. a singularly mo- federation was suggested and fostered by the | representative of the Imperial Government. | the mover of this addresses in his laudation dent statesmanship, have thought it desir- | derate political paper, ia its issue of the! the murderer himself, was this: that the intellect and patriotism of the country would prove equal to the peaceful solution of d fficulties as great as those which have plunged America into blood and havoe, or of the intelligent confidence of the Legislature in the only possible Ministry which caa grapple with the question. The Federation Scheme has the great merit of practical statesmanship, that not of proposing the best thing imaginable, but the best thing possiéle, Probably no Go- | vernment in Canada bas ever had so gigan- tic a task before them, or so completely ear- ried the Assembly in their favour as the present Ministry. The great fact, however, to rejoice at in the state of parties is that the work of a reconcilement of hitherto utterly unmanage- able differences is proceeding triumphantly and smoothly on.” —_—_—<+>o—_—__—__ Annexation or Canapa.— The Boston Courter of March 1, contains a startling paragraph :— A Montreal paper has the following ex- traordinary statement: * If the Provincial Government is as wel! served by its spies as it pretends to be, it ought to be aware that there bas been in this city for some weeks a Commissioner of the Federal Government negociating with the leaders of the Annex- ation party, and obtaining information as to the feeling of the people of this Province as to a union with the United States, And the probable amount of hostility they would show if this was attempted by invasion. This Commissioner professes to be authoriz- ed to pay $100,000.000 for the Canadas, with liberal commissions to those who will assist the project of annexation.’’ FRIGHTFUL DEED OF BLOOD. We have just learned the particulars of a fearfal deed of blood, which for horrid ma- lignity and demoniae coolnees, is almost without. paralle! ou the red pages of crime. Oupthe Sth of August last, David Frank Bivans a young man of 22, deserted from the army. His home was with his parents, who resided at Woodstook, Lenawee Coun- ty, Michigan. For a long period after his desertion, his whereabouts were unknown to his friends and to the provost Marshal of that district until very recently, when it was discovered that he was living at Graf- ton in this State. [On account of the en- treaties of his parents and young wife, who resided with them and who ranked among the most respected families atthe village, young Bivin’s arrest was delayed, and milder m@asures were iastituted to induce his return to the army. All of no avail, however. On Monday night last the quict of the little village of Woodstock was start led by the total destruction by fire of the house of the parents of young Bivins, and on Tueslay morning a strap and buffalo robe, known not to belong there, were found in an adjoining shed, which led to the sus- picion that the double crime of arson and murder had been perpetrated. lnvestigation was immediately instituted, which resulted in learning the fact that the robe belonged to a livery stable in Hudson, vine miles distant, and the further fact was aseertained from the keeper that on Mon- day night immediately after the arrival of the evening train from this city, a man had hired a horse and buggy with the recognized robe, and returned that night, taking the two o'clock night train for Toledo. Pro- vost martial F. A. Wilcox, of that district, had his suspicions immediately centred up- on young Bivins as the perpetrator of the deed, and in company with the Deputy- Sheriff of Lenawee Uo., proceeded yesterday morning to Grafton. Upon stepping from the cars at Grafton, about the first person he recognized was young Bivins, standing in the doorway of the hotel. He stepped up, and shaking bands with him, remarked, ‘You know what I have come for. You must go with me.’ The young man affected ignorance, and suggested that he had come The Provost Marshal eyed him keenly and told him that his father’s house had taken fire on Monday night, and that his parents and wile were burned up. ‘* My God! who killed them?” immediately exclaimed B vins in feigned sur- prise and consternation. ‘You did?’ instantly ejaculated the Provost Marshal. Bivins young fiend made a full confession of his flames would destroy all traces of crime, and the world would remain ignorant of the murder, or if suspicions were in, they could not fasten upon him. The culprit states that this was his fourth trip from Gra‘ton. On three oc- casions he mace the trip to Woodstock fore the consummation of this foul deed, and each time his }prata! heart failed him. “We have the dread result of his fourth trip. The unnatural! murderer who had thus im- brued his hancs in*the blood of three ties of relationship, the nearest and on God's earth, is an only son, but 22 years of age, slim, genteel in appearance, and hand- some in face and feature. His was neat, tasty and fastidious. With his rosy cheeks, daintily curled aad delicate black moustache, tegether with his ‘kid-gloved hand, he looked more like a dandy than-the finished murderer that he is, Théanna!s of crime furnish but few muftders that will equal this for cool premeditation and de- liberate caleulation, and by one who has scarcely passed his boyhood.— T'olédo ( Ohio) Commercial. ’ —_— THE CIVIL WAR IN THE STATES. The Commer:éal’s Savannah correspondenes states that th» stories of Union sentiment there are all besh, and that the cargoes of the steamers sent there from New York and Boston were one-sixth for free distribution, the remainder being sold on account of the owners of the ships and certain privileged mervhants. ' It is stated that the owners of the steam- ship Electric Spark, which was captured and destroyed by the Confederate privateer Flo- rida, are likely to recover the value of their vessel in an uaexpected manner. It — that, a short titae ago, Colonel Lewis is of Westchester county, New York, died, leaving an estate valued at eight hundred thousand dollars, and the commander ‘of the Florida is one of the heirs, and entitled to one-seventh of the property, The ownere of the Electric Spark have attached this interest, and brought an action for damages against Captain Niostis, commander of the Florida, as a non-resident, for the destruction oftheir property on the high seas. Eminent coun- sel have been employed, with every prospect of success, to # suit that has justice; and right on the side of the paee. iforace Greeley issaid to be not only writ- ing in favor of peace, but he is working in- dustriously aud hopefully at Washington for a renewal of negociations. He insists that the pride of the South must be consulted and an opportunity given for a graceful return to their allegiznce. These views are gaining strength every day, not only at W a, but all over ‘‘our common country.”’ en who voted for Mr. Lincoln are opening their eyes to the fact that Northern radicalism, equally with secessionism, is disunion; that the integrity of the nation cannot be secured by force alone; that it is folly to attempt the annihilation of the Southern people, and thateven if it were possible, it would be suicidal, The people more generally see that the destruction of the State Government of the South involves the prostration of the Northern States as well, and they wart the war closed now that it is possible to escape bankruptcy and preserve civil liberty aud in- dividual rights. A ft ARMING OF SOUTHERN NEGROES. The Richmond Enguirer has a long article on negro troops, which commences by saying :— The question of negro soldiers we con- sider as settled. Public opinion has defi- nitely declared in favor of arming the negroes. ‘The resolution introd into the Virginia Legislature, giving consent to arming the negroes, will pass, and may be followed, and should be, by instructions to Senators to vote for the measure, and thus set the matter at rest. As to giving the slaves their freedum, this should be their reward for faithful services. At the end of the war, if desired by the slaves, to some it may be a reward; others may not even desire freedom. Negroes are divided in opinion as to whether they would prefer freedom to slavery ; but by all means leave the choice to them, let them decide the mat- ter. We do not expect to see the reward make soldiers of them. Discipline only will do that. It must be a discipline dif- fering very muca from that which holds to- gether with loosened hands the armies of the Confederated States. It must be a discip- line sharp, sevece, exacting, which first teaches them duty, and then compels them to perform it. There never has been dis- cipline in the armies of the Confederacy, but instead thereof a kind of universal suf- frage, which fights when it chooses, and fie stated that on Monday last he took | the cars from Grafton, for the express! purpose of going to the home of hig parents | and perpetrating the horrid dead which was, 'so fearfully and successfully accomplished. He passed through the city on Monday ‘evening, taking the train for Hudson. Ar- the Governors of the twoirived there, he hiced a horse and buggy, ‘and drove over to Woodstock, nine miles’ Reaching bis father’s house. he put his horse and buggy in a shed uear by, and entering the house, he first met his father, whom he shet through the head with struggles when it feels like it.” All this must be changed with the negro troops. They have not the motives which impel the white man to this fight, ..They must be kept up te the mark by fear of punishment mere than by the hope of reward.” — oo GREAT WAR MEETING IN RICHMOND. SPEROK OF JEFF DAViS. [From the Richmond Despatch, February 7.] In response to the eall of Governor Smith of Virginia, to meet him at the African Uburch, the greatest concourse of people as- ja revolver, killing him instantly. He next His young wife, who expected / treaties, pleaded he would do ber no harm. }and kissed her, then shot ber through the heart. He quickly set fire to the house, and upon going to the shed where he had some cattle which he supposed had taken the robe, and as he wished to reach Hudson in time for the 2 o'clock train east, he should make no delay in looking for the missing robe, and ieft without it. Arriving ‘at Hudson, be took the cars for this city the same night, reaching Grafton again in hear.) Under these eireumstanees, I see with ‘they become, the more inducements they | the morning. The night of blood had pass- ‘have to be guided in their policy by their ed by. The appalling dead was accom-| citizens, came uponthe stand. The p own rather than by English interests, and the. plished. | The age of the murdered father was 57, the mother 51, the young wife 20. They jare highly respected in the community in CONFEDERATION IN TUE CANADIAN | which they lived, moved in the best circles he was frequently interrupted of society, and were possessed of consider- able property. The motive that led to this terrible and uunatural crime, as stated by He had _ become enamored of a young lady at Graf- ‘The Opposition in the Assembly is now | ton, and he conceived the horrid idea that reduced to fourteen. This is a conelusive the most certain way to possess her would proof that the project of Federation eom- | be to murder his parents aod wife in the : ,mauds the independent opinion of the iegis- | manoer described, and thus fall beir to bis orable terms so jong as our cause was meet- lature, no jess than that of the country. | father's property, and obtain the object oi This fact: is gratifying, whether we regard his unboly love, He thought that by leaw- it asa proof of the event we long-prédicted iug Grafton in the evening, perpetrate bis and seem about to see accomplished, namely, 'heliish deed, and immediazely return, the sembled in that building last evening that ‘mises in a short time to secure their union; shot his mother, but cannot state where he! ever before were at one time collected under ‘its roof. The caceting was advertised to be \oceupied. It was gatifying to eee this im- The progress of this movement is thus far , The ficod sh wretch states that he embraced | mense attendance of a meeting whose object | was to huel back inte Lincoln’s teeth the in- sult put upon the Southern people to hia answer to the Confederate commissioners ‘sent to confer with him on the subject of a peace between the two countries. Never _ before has the spirit burned so fiercely and steadily. The firm resolve to resist to the very death the demands of the northern ty- raat that now animates the whole Southera | peuple was plainly visible in that meeting. ; | by President Davis and several distinguished ‘ings were opened with prayer by the Rev. Dr, Burroughs of the Baptist Church, The | Governor addressed the multitude in a patri- ‘otic and soul-stirring speech, during which by thanders of applause. He was followed by President Davis in an address of about three-quarters of an hour, duriag which he was frequently interrupted by the wildest outbursts of ap- lause. Upon the subject of the recent peace com- ee aneeee Davis said he himselfbad never entertaines much hope of effecting bon- iag with reverses; but, under the circum. stances, when semi-official representatives bad so frequent'y visited our goverament, intimating that negotiations might result ix -a About 7 o'clock Governor Smith, attended 2% i—_ & - ee ee bs ay CF aa is sata sat a i 4 i a oe ul dpheitl lc dceetdlendiiacsneac roe & Sea a