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     stitev Mr- Wiley aml two other clergymen entered 
     
    
   
   
    
     , organist, then striking up a lively stram, the au- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     the agony of mind she must have endured 
     
     duting this cleomy voyage, but probably ro 
     
     human heing ever suffered greater. For 
     
     during several years after her arrival, she | 
     
    
   
   
    
     was the inuate of a dungeon in the Russian | the pantaloous were of fine black cloth, 
     
    
   
   
    
     capital. Catherine triumphed inthe euccees| 
     
     of her plan, and amply rewarded those who| 
     
     had too suceessially ¢ irried it out. Earope 
     
     ieht exclaim agaenst her, bat her object} 
     
     was gained, and the Princess Eeveadint 
     
     was in her power 
     
     the unhappy young woman spent, it is said, 
     
     six years, and her deliverance came in a 
     
     dreadfal fashion The autumnal equinox 
     
     was ot hand, and a furious gaie raged in St 
     
     Petersburg. The angry waves of the Neva 
     
     lashed the sides of the prison in which she 
     
     was confined. Absorbed in sorrowful recol- 
     
     leetions, she searcely heeded the etorm, un- 
     
     til she noticed that the floor of her dungeon 
     
     was wot; then tho horriblo thought crossed 
     
     her mind, that the river was rising.. Per- 
     
     ceiving that the water gained in height, she 
     
     shrieked aloud ; she strove, by every means 
     
     wm her power, to attract the attention of her 
     
     jailor. But no human aid was at hand. She 
     
    
   
   
    
     raised herself as high as possible by means 
     
    
   
   
    
     of the articles of furniture in her cell, but 
     
     still the water purseed her. The whole of 
     
     the grount-toor of the prison was laid ander 
     
     water. When the gale had ad over, and 
     
     the impetuous Neva retur _ to its ordinary 
     
     course, her jailor found only the corpse of 
     
     wheat had been the vietim of Count Alexey 
     
     Orletf's treachery, and the jealoas hatred of 
     
     Catherine Alexiewna. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     (From a New York Paper.) 
     
     THE GREAT LITTLE WEDDING, 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE CEREMONY AT GRACE CHURCH. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The event which has elicited so much anticipa- 
     
     tory cossip, and will be talked of and quoted in 
     
     new <papers all ever the world, actually took place 
     
    

    
     “teeday, at the heur of noon, or soon enough there- 
     
     after te satiaty all eo.erned, and Tom Thumb 
     
     and Lavinia Warren are now man and wife. 
     
    

    
     Although an eflort was made to keep the name 
     
     of the eureh from the public, it was early dix 
     
     covered that Grace Church was the place selected, 
     
     aud by tea o'clock this morning the stoops on the 
     
     opposite side of the street aud the sidewalks were 
     
     thronged with etirious spectators, these of the 
     
     fi'rmale sex naturally prependerating. ~ From that 
     
     time till the ceremonies were over, the multitude 
     
     jnvreased in numbers, indulging in good-natured 
     
     vetarks about the visitors, the bridal party and 
     
     the police. These latter were out in strong force, 
     
     and under the management of Captain Cattrey, ot 
     
     te Pitteenth Peeeinet, did theic duty admirably. 
     
     A cordon of police guarded the sidewalk to the 
     
     netth and south of the ¢hurch, preventing the 
     
     crowd from gaining other glimpses than could be 
     
     obtained over their shoulders. The omnibusses 
     
     were tdreed out ef Broadway for this block, and 
     
    
   
   
    
     the movements of the carriages were dictated by | 
     
    
   
   
    
     it ¥ornble order, enforced by all the majesty of 
     
     otficiai authority. 
     
     THE SCENE IN TLE CHURCH. 
     
    

    
     ‘The invitations requested the invited to attend 
     
     in full dress; but the request was bat partially 
     
     emaptied with. With the exception of friends of 
     
     the tittle bride and bridegroom and some others, 
     
     who probably wished they had tollowed the ex- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ample ot ‘the majority, there was little display ie 
     
    

    
     Ladies were their bonnets, and though | 
     
     there were many elegant sireet toileta and walk: | 
     
     ing dresses, the congregation was searcely more | 
     
    
   
   
    
     dress 
     
    
   
   
    
     brilliant than usually assembles at Grace Church 
     
     on pleasant Sundays. ‘The presence of numbers 
     
    
   
   
    
     of ctdFen did vot snggest that great scarcity of | begging them not to be too much elated by 
     
    
   
   
    
     ane ‘ > “ni , . | thi ictory, but to prepare for many) | 
     
     ee lepaicman Waradoomnen Lok nett ood i: ree bs 7 | leston Mercury says French bankers have 
     
    
   
   
    
     tieket 
     
     elite for cards of admission. Yet, notwithstand- 
     
     ing. there is no deubt that *he sterices afloat «f 
     
     larwe sues having been offered for tickets are, to 
     
     a great measure, true. 
     
    

    
     THE MUSIC. 
     
    

    
     While waiting for the bridal party, the guests | 
     
     entertained themselves by looking at, commenting | 
     
     upen each other, and listening to the excellent | 
     
     orgaw music of Mr. Morgan, the organist of the 
     
     ehwrch, who pertyrmed the following 
     
    

    
     PROGRAMME, 
     
    
   
   
    
     }. Overture, “ William Teil,” Rossini. 
     
    
   
   
    
     2. Overture; “ Oberon,” Weber. 
     
     3. Mareh, “ Taonhauser,” Wagner. 
     
     4. Aur,“ Robert toi que j'aime,” Meyerbeer. 
     
    
   
   
    
     5, Extemporancous performances, 
     
     THE DEPECTIONS. 
     
    

    
     Tt had been anueunced that Bishop Potter 
     
     would officiagje, but that Right Reverend Prelate 
     
     yesterday carne to the conclusion that the interests 
     
     of Christianity would be better served by his ab- 
     
     staining from active participation in the matter. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In her dark prison hoase, | 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE @GROOMESMAN, 
     
    
   
   
    
     Commodore Nutt was attired in a dress eoat 
     
     similar to that of the bridegroom ; his vest was of 
     
     plain white silk, with a rose-colored transparent ; 
     
     ‘The 
     
     amount of cloth used in the suits was enormous, 
     
     Kach gentleman required a yard and a quarter 
     
     for coat and pantaleous, aud at least a little less 
     
     than a halt yard of silk, 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE BRIDE, 
     
     Miss Lavinia Warren was arrayed jiu a dress ot 
     
     livery rich white satin made decollette, the skirt 
     
    
   
   
    
     trailing halla yard, snd trimmed with boudlon 
     
     nes, of satin tulle aud applique, the lace flounces 
     
     ) tren nnagg nearly the dept h af half a yard The cor 
     
     jsage and bridal veil was to thateh Her hair was 
     
     larranged ondele in front and releve in double 
     
     | rolls, the back hair forming the outspread wings 
     
     jof a butterfly, so lenthened as to alinost toueh the 
     
     leare. In the centre of these was placed the chule 
     
     | dean, 
     
    

    
     The point lace bridal veil was tastefully entwin- 
     
     ed in three elaborate bandeaux, and was sur- 
     
     mounted in front by a diamoud areas 
     
     with the set of diamonds worn by the bride, over 
     
     which was a creseent (or half) wreath of vatural 
     
    
   
   
    
     gatural flowers in star design, a8 war also the 
     
     bride's bouquet. ‘The bouquet differed from mest 
     
     star bouquets from the fact that the spaces were 
     
     left open between the points and edges, gracefully 
     
     tinged. White «atin slippers with rosettes of 
     
     white satin trimmed with seed pearls and lace, 
     
     and a point lace handkerchief, completed the 
     
     bride's petite and tasteful costume. 
     
     THE DEPARTURE. 
     
    

    
     After the cermony, the little creatures marched 
     
     down the middle aisle, entered a carriage and 
     
     were driven down Broadway to the Metropolitan 
     
     Hotel. The carriage was surrounded at once by 
     
     the eager crowd—now numbering about five thou- 
     
     sand persons—but by the aid of the police was 
     
     vot detained, At the hotel, during the afternoon, 
     
     Mr. and Mrs. Stratton held a reception, and ex- 
     
     hibited their bridal presents. 
     
    

    
     THE CROWD 
     
    

    
     about the church was a very noticeable feature. 
     
     It was #o great as to completely prevewt traffic 
     
     on that part of the thereughfare between Bighth 
     
     and Tweltth streets. The windows looking upon 
     
     the church were filled with eager faces, those of 
     
     Siewart’s new store presenting a very attractive 
     
     sight, with the array of pretty ladies. 
     
     busses were driven along the side streets. 
     
    

    
     Altogether, the wedding inside of the church 
     
     was well attended; but the public would have 
     
     had more respect for all concerued had it taken 
     
     place m the village chureh where the little bride- 
     
     groom is said to be an attendant, and where he 
     
     | undoubtedly has many a friends. As it is, 
     
     | Grace Church and the ¥ 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     | other. 
     
     THE WAR IN THE STATES. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     ENGLISH OPINION UPON TUE WAR. 
     
    
   
   
    
     idon Times, ander date December 22nd, afte 
     
     referring tu the 
     
    
   
   
    
     | burg, says: 
     
    

    
     | Sull, in Richmond the opinion seems to be 
     
     | universal that, undeterred by all the warn- 
     
     ‘ings of the past, the Federals will persevere 
     
    
   
   
    
     \in this hopeless strugzle, if only with the lature have passed resolutions urging Congress 
     
     hopes that, befure they are compelled toto repeal or reduce the duty on imported 
     
     desist, they may inflict a good deal more | printed paper. 
     
    

    
     anguish and suffering upon their foc, Earnest | 
     
     jane impassioned appeals are being addressed | 
     
    
   
   
    
     by the Richmond journals to the people, 
     
    
   
   
    
     and weary months of warfare before their 
     
     independence is secured.—They are remind- 
     
     ed that the Christmas of 1861 was passed in 
     
     universal exultation by reason of the news 
     
    
   
   
    
     fident anticipation than they should shortly 
     
     have Eng'and for anally. These hopes were 
     
     blasted ; the darkest months of the Con- 
     
     federaey were Mareh apd April of 1862. — 
     
     They are cautioned against despising their 
     
     enemy, and holding him tov cheap, and wit- 
     
     nessing a repetition in 1863 of the darkest 
     
     moments of 1862. 
     
    

    
     The Times of late date contains the fol- 
     
    
   
   
    
     orange flowers. The bouquet de corsage was of 
     
    
   
   
    
     Theomni- | 
     
    
   
   
    
     useum have met together ; 
     
     the clergy and the showman have kissed eaeh | 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Richmond correspondent of the Lon-| to look on yet awhile, and to bope that de- 
     
     r/liverance for this people, 
     
     disorganized state of the | because most entirely handed over to itsowu 
     
     Northern army after the battle of Fredericks-| devices, will come from some quarter of whieh 
     
    
   
   
    
     just received of the Trent affsir, aud in con- rate steamer Patrick Henry will soon en- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     lowing able article on the horrors of the 
     
     American war, and its probable continuance. 
     
    

    
     There a few who in cold blood, and with- 
     
     out any exciting motive to overcome the 
     
     natural aversion of danger, would wish to go 
     
     through the excitements and perils of a) 
     
     great battle.—Buc what is a great battle, | 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Hie was reluctant to share im the vetorivty ot the | 
     
     great little wedding. 
     
    

    
     Se also was Mr. Brown, 
     
     church, who wishes te be distinctly understood, | 
     
     that he had*vothing to do with the arrangements | 
     
     and management of the wedding as far as the 
     
     interior of the church was concerned. 
     
    

    
     We also learn that President and Mrs. Lineoln, 
     
     with various members of the Cabinet, were unable | 
     
    

    
     ‘to decept the invitation tendered to them. It is! 
     
     suid that important business at Washington de- | 
     
     tained them; for there are aiter all greater affairs | 
     
    

    
     . in the world than this dwarf wedding. 
     
    

    
     ‘~~ + THE Vistrons. 
     
    

    
     Perhaps the most notable of the guests was 
     
     General Burnside, who was dressed in citizen's | 
     
     clethes, aud vecupied a pew near the chancel. | 
     
     A vawber of other uetabilities were present. | 
     
    

    
     THE NUPTIAL DIAS. | 
     
    

    
     To the diminutive Strattoa-Warren bridal pair | 
     
     the ordinary arrangements of the chauee] would | 
     
     have been tar too Brobdignagian The chancel | 
     
     rail would have towered above their heads and 
     
     the chancel steps would have proved heights be-! 
     
     yond their powers te seale. Therefore a neat | 
     
     plattiirm was erected in front of the chancel, to 
     
     tee right of the pulpit, carpeted liks the aisles, | 
     
     six steps leading te it and spanning the three or-| 
     
     divary atepa which suffice for ordinary-sized mor- 
     
    

    
     “tuls. ‘The platform: was prettily bordered with | 
     
     gaided satan and the surface of it-was at 
     
     about the height.of the chancel rail. 
     
    

    
     POPUUAR AGITATION. 
     
    

    
     The arrival at the church of the Rev. Mr. 
     
     Wik-y, one of the officiating clergymeh, caused a 
     
     great excitement in the congregation, and every- 
     
     body rose to get a better view of the expected 
     
     couple. Dut-the alarm proved false. The flutter} 
     
    

    
     was, however, renewed when Rev. Dr. Taylor, | 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     *the thateet if clerical robes and took their seats, 
     
     *uwaitihg iife arrival of the mau aod woman soon 
     
     ‘to ‘be jolned jn the bonds of matrimony. ‘The 
     
    
   
   
    
     - dwnee, like the individual spoken of by the ancient 
     
     warner, became eXcited ; 
     
     * The wedding guest here beat his breast, 
     
     And heard the loud busseon.”’ 
     
    

    
     Miew: 3 THE ARRIVAL. 
     
    

    
     But now the excitement beeame more decided, 
     
     -Tiwy bad actually arrived, Ladies mounted on 
     
     the sents of the pews, and geutlemen stood on 
     
     tiptoe. of eourse the little bridal party were so 
     
     sipall, that they could not be seen excepting by 
     
     those whe oceupied the end seats of the middle 
     
     ‘yitle; but as they emerged into the open chancel, 
     
     exelamations of delight and astonishment filled 
     
     the house, as when one of Edge’s most brilliaut 
     
     picees of pyrotechnic art bursts in ite full efful- 
     
     gence upon the admiring spectators’ gaze. 
     
    

    
     Commodore Nutt led the way, gallantly escort- 
     
     ing @ most tiny bitof lemininity—httle Miss War- 
     
     rev, the sister of the bride. Next came Tom 
     
     ‘Thumb, gallant aud gay, with his little bride apo 
     
     his arm; and then came the relatives and friends, 
     
     who were seated in the front pews. 
     
    

    
     ' _ TEE CEREMONY. 
     
    

    
     Jn the meaytime, the Tour tiny specimens of 
     
     humanity; aseeyded tie Tittle plationm, while, 
     
     without any delay, the officiating clergyman, Rey. 
     
    

    
     “Mr. Willy, began-to read the marriage ceremony. 
     
    

    
     And here be it known, that however farcieal and 
     
     absurd the whole affair may have appeared hi- 
     
     therté,‘frotw thie morent that the werds, “ Dearly 
     
     beloved, we are gathered togéther bere in the 
     
     sight of God and in the face of this company, to 
     
     join tegether thie man and this woman iu holy 
     
     matrimony” froin the moment that these words 
     
     Were said, everything was quiet and reverent, and 
     
    

    
     * Pie entire aervice was listened to amid the most 
     
     protuund attention, 
     
    

    
     Tha bridegroom repeated with clearness and 
     
    
   
   
    
     distineiness the words set apart for nim, and the | PY 
     
    
   
   
    
     fride—who was “ given away” by her father, a 
     
     tall. and very respectable looking old gentheman— 
     
     also appeared to be perieetly tamiliar with her 
     
     part of she routine. Poth bride and groom went 
     
     througl: the ceremony with perfect ease and self- 
     
     peescesion, bat yet manifested an earnest serious- 
     
     pews, Which showed that to them, at least, it was 
     
     no favee. The slightest levity on their part would 
     
     have made the affair repulsive; but this was 
     
     carefully avoided. 
     
     4 , THE PRIDEGROOM. 
     
     Mr. Stratton was attired in a black dresa coat, 
     
     lined throughout with black silk, the veet was of 
     
     White corded silk, with an undervest of blue silk. 
     
     Hix #hirt was of embrvidered cambric, elegantly 
     
     ruffled; the cravat was of black silk, embreidered 
     
     at the cade; a pair_of fine black cloth pants, com- 
     
     pleted the attire of the bridegroom. 
     
     Commodore Natt, by the way, were a very 
     
     golema expression of counteuapee daring the 
     
     service, but perturmed his part in a very elegant 
     
     style. None af the paotinantens in thia novel 
     
     allair appeared at allalarmed or agitated. There 
     
    
   
   
    
     was no weeping, no fainting, none of the senti- 
     
    
   
   
    
     with all its tamalt, its smoke, and ite car- | 
     
     nage, compared with the morning that suc-| 
     
    
   
   
    
     burning courage which hurled men upo 
     
    
   
   
    
     they were scarcely 
     
    
   
   
    
     War has lost all those natural ornaments Cargoes of cotton were 
     
     whieh, if they do not make ambition virtue, fur Englund in December. 
     
    
   
   
    
     conceal and ennoble the dreadful work of car- 
     
    
   
   
    
     e, and the battle-field appears what it Consul at Monterey, says that a million 
     
     really is—a human shambles. Squalid and/ dollars’ worth of cotton was suld there re- 
     
     hideous, full of agonising and piteous en- cently, the pay for which was sent back to 
     
     treaties from men who yesterday dreamt not the Confederates in the shape of powder, 
     
    
   
   
    
     of either giving or asking for mercy, full of 
     
     death and slow lingering agony worse than) 
     
     death, who can read wi:hout a shudder the- 
     
     a given of the battle-field of Fred. 
     
    

    
     erieksburg, on which the wounded” were 
     
     doomed to lie for three long days untended, | 
     
     ancared for, a prey to the dews of night, and | 
     
     sweltering in the hot sun of noon, because | 
     
     the Federal Commander could not bring 
     
     himself at first to ask from hs enemy leave 
     
     to remove them? What can be more mourn- | 
     
     ful than the sound of those voices, repeating, | 
     
     in tones that grew fainter and fainter, the 
     
    

    
     name and number of their regiment, as if 
     
     despairing of all human succour, unless they 
     
    

    
     could summon one of their comrades to their | 
     
     ussistance ? We read these things and shud- | 
     
     der ; but we require no such lessun as every. 
     
     day affords, in sume quarter or agother of | 
     
     the Uuited States, againet the folly and | 
     
     wickedness of civil war. We only wish that 
     
     the narratives which appear in our columns) 
     
     could find entrance into the newspapers of | 
     
     the North. There itis only read that so 
     
     many had been killed and so many have 
     
     been wounded. 
     
     which excite no sym)athy or pity, and 
     
     leave those who bear them without any clear 
     
     cones ption of the unutterable misery which 
     
    

    
     they indicate. People who would shrink in 
     
     horror and dismay from the spectacle of a 
     
     single individual suffering the least of the 
     
     horrors which thousands endured after the 
     
     battle of Fredericksburg, sum the loss with 
     
     indifference when it is expressed to them 
     
     only through the cold and impassible medium 
     
     of the Arabic numerals. The sight of that 
     
     hill-side at Fredericksburg might well induce 
     
     the most fiery zealot of the Northern tribune, 
     
     pulpit, or printing-press to 
     
     the whole question between North and 
     
     South, and to ask himself what prospec’ thie 
     
     war affords which can compensate fur the 
     
     extraordinary misery it has thus wantonly 
     
     called into existence. Is this the manner in 
     
     whieh the North means to consummate the 
     
     re-entrance of the South into the Union? Are 
     
     these the memories which are to bring back 
     
     alienated friends, and heal the wounds which 
     
     civil discord has left behind her? But while 
     
     the Northern soldiers see and suffer from all 
     
     the realities of war, the Northern people in 
     
     no way interrupt the avocations of daily life, 
     
     nor strain their imaginations to picture to 
     
     themselves what ig passing on innumerable 
     
     battle-fields, nor task their consciences with 
     
     questions as to the amount of their respon- 
     
     sibility. They are determined to win back 
     
     by whatever means at whatever cost, that 
     
     mighty Union which enabled them to defy 
     
     the remonstrances and trample on the rights 
     
     of so many European nations. Rather than 
     
     give up the pleasure of insulting with im- 
     
     nity by turnsevery Power of the European 
     
     Continent, they are cuntent to offer up 
     
     themselves, their Union, their freedom, to 
     
     thie deceptive dream of national elevation 
     
     and glory. Nor is Fredericksburg alone 
     
     famous for the slaughter that it witnessed. 
     
     The battle for the possession of Nashville and 
     
     the battle for the possesion of Vicksburg, are 
     
     only arepetition of the same monotonous tra- 
     
     one inone of which the fortune of war seemed 
     
     to favour the Federals, and in the other the 
     
     Confederates. Five days of blood in either 
     
     ease led to the witdrawal of the attacking 
     
     foree, but, as to any influence the event is 
     
     likely to have on the termination of the war, 
     
     these dreadful struggles might as well have 
     
     remained unattempted. Is, then, the con- 
     
     flict to be renewed as fast as fresh men can 
     
     be brought up; and is the end of one battle 
     
     still to be the prelude to another, until men, 
     
     worn out by the bloody orgies through which 
     
     they reoh and stagger, shal Jose even the 
     
     thread of a history which connects them with 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     menfal exeitement customary on such ocensions, 
     
    

    
     fev. Dr. Taylor pronounced the benedietion. 
     
     ‘The rerviee wae ptherwise ellvetively ead by Kev. 
     
     Mr Wiley 
     
    
   
   
    
     ful times, when they were content to 
     
     S governed by law, and to obey gentler 
     
     | Permuasions than those of mugketry and ar- 
     
     tillery? Woe fear that there is nothing in 
     
    
   
   
    
     | Alabama and Florida. 
     
    
   
   
    
     the sexton of the|eceds ? The excitement is gone, the | meek with 700 bales of cottun goods from 
     
     n| Mpa, 
     
     mortal dangere, of the existence of which | market will hereafter be liberally supplied 
     
     conscious, is chilled.| With these goods from that quarter. Three 
     
    
   
   
    
     iw 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘naval stores and ammunition in abundance, 
     
     _and 109 prisoners. 
     
    
   
   
    
     These are abstract figures, | ther orders. 
     
    
   
   
    
     reconsider | 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
           
     
    
   
   
    
     the tono of the American people to give us| 
     
     any very confident hope that the miseries of 
     
     the nation are as yet drawing to anend. All 
     
     the ordinary motives that can act on man- 
     
     kind has been tried upon them in vain. The 
     
     ruin of a flourishing Commerce has threat- 
     
     ened a people who used to be considered as 
     
     among those most devoted tu the seqaisition 
     
     of money of any nation on the face of the globe : 
     
     but a currency morbidly abundant, and the 
     
     ower of investing it as soon as issued in 
     
     ucrative government contracts, or In a thou- 
     
     sand other ways which the necessity of this 
     
     hard time points out, seem to have stifled in 
     
     the breast of the Americans all anxiety as to 
     
     their finances. The prospect of retaining 
     
     power on the one side, and the fear of losing 
     
     it by a premature and ill-concerted declara- 
     
     tion of opinion on the other, have made the 
     
     Republicans firm in the proseeution of the 
     
     war, and the Democrats unwilling to advo- 
     
     cate with sufficient vigour the propriety of 
     
     an armistice, with the view to a general 
     
     peace. Ifany one hoped that the Democrats, 
     
     who are as yet irresponsible for the war, 
     
     would avail themselves of the recent elections 
     
     to spoak their minds freely and openly, we 
     
     fear that he is doomed, for some time at 
     
     least, to be disappointed. The more the 
     
     Union vanishes out of the sight of all reason- 
     
     able men, the more do the two parties of the 
     
     State vie with each other in their frantic 
     
     promises to renew it. Governor Seymour 
     
     can find in the policy of Mr. Lincoln many 
     
     things most justly reprehensible, but the 
     
     one thing which above all others, to an 
     
     European eye draws upon the President the 
     
     reprehension of all good men — his resolu- 
     
     tion to persist in the war—is now imitated 
     
     by men who disapprove the cause of the 
     
     war, who disapprove of the manner in which 
     
     it is carried on, and who believe in their 
     
     heart of hearts that the only chance to avert 
     
     the ruin of their country is to do the very 
     
     thing that they are most sedulous in denounc- 
     
     ing. Winter, which used to be looked upon 
     
     as, for a time at least.preventing the possibi- 
     
     lity of hostilities, seems to have been the 
     
     | signal for renewing them on a seale at. cnee | 
     
     larger, more bloody, and more bitter than) 
     
     ever. Where shall we look for an end te | 
     
     this fratricidal madness? America will 
     
     not acecpt the remedy from without, not if 
     
     ean she work it out for herself from within. 
     
     We are sometimes appealed to, as if an im- 
     
     perative duty called upon us to join France 
     
     in intervention ; bat no duty can bind us to 
     
     pash ourselves into the councils of men who 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     and who would see in any endeavour to put 
     
     an end to it only provocation to be treasured 
     
     up for future use, and a new ground for an 
     
     epmity which there is no occasion for us by 
     
     any means to increase. We must be content 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     most sorely tried 
     
    
   
   
    
     | present cireumstances afford us no indication. 
     
     ——.64 > o——— 
     
     LATE WAR NEWS. 
     
     Both branches of the Pennsylvania Legis- 
     
    
   
   
    
     A Richmond paper of the 3d, says the Yan- 
     
     kee iron-clad New ironsides is lying in the 
     
     offing. near Charlestvo bar. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Richmond correspondent of the Char- 
     
    
   
   
    
     tendered the Confederacy aluan of 75 millions, 
     
     france. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A Fortress Monroe letter says the Confede- 
     
    
   
   
    
     entered into this war without consulting us, | 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     deavor to get to sea as u privateer. She 
     
     mounts eight heavy guns, and is strongly | 
     
    
   
   
    
     iron-plated. She was formerly the Yorktown. | 
     
     The Washington Star says that Gen. Burn- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘side, after giving evidence before the Coart | 
     
    
   
   
    
     Martial which summoned him there, will go. 
     
     to Chicage and thence to Providence, where | 
     
     he will remain until the expiration of his | 
     
     leave of absence, when he will take the field. 
     
    
   
   
    
     There is nothiog reliable reiative to the | 
     
     It was rumoured that | 
     
     the Alabama received four shots from the | 
     
     Ilatteras, and that she arrived at Port Royal, | 
     
     Jamaica, to which place she took her prisun- | 
     
     ets, and where she would stop three days tu 
     
     repair. 
     
    

    
     A vessel arrived at Sun Francisco on Friday | 
     
    
   
   
    
     It is expected that the California 
     
    
   
   
    
     shipped from Japan 
     
    
   
   
    
     A letier to Gen. Llamiiton from the U.S. 
     
    
   
   
    
     lead, blankets, shoes—in fact, everything 
     
     that can be used in their army. An order 
     
     was then there for 600,000 blankets. J. R. 
     
     Baylor, says the letter, is getting up another 
     
     expedition fur the invasion of Arizona and 
     
     New Mexico, and intends to start svvn, 
     
    
   
   
    
     The British gunboat Rinaldo has arrived 
     
     at Havana from Galveston; bringing one 
     
     extra of the Ilouston Telegraph of Jan. 23d, 
     
     containing the account of the capture off Su- 
     
     bine Pass, of the Federal brig Morning Light, 
     
     and one unknown schooner on the 2ist by an 
     
     expedition from the Magruder fleet. The 
     
     fullowing are the Conlederate despatches 
     
     contained therein : 
     
    
   
   
    
     **Sanive Pass, Texas, on board C. S. gun- 
     
     boat Bell, Jun. 21.—Captain: We met the 
     
     enemy this morning in the Gulf of Mexico, 
     
     whipped them, brought everything to Sabine 
     
     Pass. I fought him ten guns to our one, 
     
    

    
     e have captured 2 vessels, one a full-rigged | 
     
     ship the other a schooner, and 12 guns, 
     
    
   
   
    
     I am here waiting fur- 
     
    
   
   
    
     O. M. Warkiys, Major-Commanding. 
     
     To Capt. E. P. Turner, A. A. G.”’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     ** Official Despatch—Sabine Pass, Jan. 21. 
     
     To Capt. E. P. Turner, A. A. G. IL engaged 
     
     the enemy to-day, captured 13 guns, about 
     
     $1,000,000 worth of property and 109 pri- 
     
     soners. 
     
    

    
     O. M. Warxins, Major-Commanding.’’ 
     
     Magruder on the 4th proclaimed Galveston 
     
     open to commerce, but Commodore Bell issued 
     
     & proclamation on the 20th, declaring Gal- 
     
     veston, Sabine Pass, and the whole coast of 
     
     Texas under actual blockade,’ and warnin 
     
     all vessels frum trading under the penaity o 
     
     capture. 
     
    

    
     Forrress Monroz, Feb, 4. — Richmond 
     
     a of the 2ad and 3rd contain accounts 
     
     rom Charleston, already published. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ricuwonp, Jan. 31.—The Secretary of 
     
     State has notified the British and French 
     
     Consuls in this city that he has received 
     
     oar of the opening of the blockade off Char- 
     
     eston. 
     
    
   
   
    
     We also learn, says the editor, that a 
     
     steamer was despatched from Charleston to 
     
     Nassau, conveying to the British authorities 
     
     there the same announcement. It is under- 
     
     stoed that an official notice having been given 
     
     at the opening of the blockade, it cannot be 
     
     renewed by enemy until after 60 days 
     
     previous notice has been given to neutral 
     
     maritime governments. 
     
    

    
     Cuarieston, Feb, 3.—The British ship 
     
     Cadmus touched off Charleston bar this noon. 
     
     An officer with a boat's crew came up to the 
     
     city, passing by the Yankeo iron-clad lying 
     
     in the offing. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Macniricent Action or 158 faisn Baicape 
     
     at Frepericxssurc.—The special correspon- 
     
     dent of the London Times, writing from Gen. 
     
     Lee's Headquarters at Fredericksburg, pays 
     
     the fellowing compliment tothe Irish Brigade, 
     
     in his aceount of that memorable battle : 
     
    

    
     The impression that the Confederate bat- 
     
     teries would not fire heavily upon the Fede- 
     
     rals advaneing in this quarter, for fear of in- 
     
     juring the town of Fredericksburg, is believed 
     
     to have prevailed among the Northern gene- 
     
     rals. low bitterly they deevived themselves 
     
     subsequeat events served to show. ‘To the 
     
     Irish division, camanded by Gen. Meagher, 
     
     was principally committed the desperate task 
     
     of bursting out of the town of F ic 
     
     and forming ander the withering fire of the 
     
     Confederate batteries, to attack Marye's 
     
     leights, towering immediately in their front. 
     
     Never at Funtenoy, Albuera or at Waterloo 
     
     was moro undou courage displayed by 
     
     the sons of Erin than during those six frantic 
     
     dashes whieh they directed against the almost 
     
     impregnable position of their fue. There arc 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     storice that Gonoral Meagher lardngued his 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     troops in impassioned language on the morn- 
     
     ing of the 13th, and plied them extensively 
     
     with whiskey found in the cellars of Frede- 
     
     ricksburg. [This is a vile slander. The sol- 
     
     diers wanted no stimulant to do their daty. 
     
     We have heard the same reports about the 
     
     rebel soldiers. —Ed. N. Y.'T'.} After witness- 
     
     ing the gallantry and devotion exhibited by 
     
     his troops, and viewing the hillside for acres 
     
     strewn with their corpses thick as autumnal 
     
     leaves, the spectator can remember nothing 
     
     but their desperate courage, and regret that 
     
     it was not exhibited in ® holier cause. That 
     
     any mortal men could have earried the post- 
     
     tion before which they were wantonly sacri- 
     
     fieed, defended as it was, it seems to me idle 
     
     for a moment to believe. But the bodies 
     
     which lie in dense masses within forty yards 
     
     of the muzzles of Col. Walton's guns are the 
     
     best evidence what manner of men they were 
     
     who pressed on to death with the dauntless- 
     
     ness of a race which had gained glory on 
     
     thousand battle-fields, and never more richly 
     
     deserved it than at the foot of Marye’s 
     
     Heights, on the 13th day of December, 1502. 
     
     ei Las 
     
    

    
     Tux Brockape or Cuarieston. — The 
     
     blockading squadron off Charleston on the 
     
     23d ult. comprised about thirty vessels, all 
     
     under steam. “They are stationed along the 
     
     entire outlet from Charleston, guarding every 
     
     channel or inlet. So complete now is the 
     
     blockade that it will be a difficult matter for 
     
     any craft to enter the harbour day or night, 
     
     as the strictest look-out is kept. The fleet is 
     
     in charge of Capt. Gordun of the frigate 
     
     Pobatan, who is second in command. The 
     
     health of the officers and crews of the various 
     
     ships and gunboats is remarkably good. A 
     
     letter from an officer of the United States 
     
     steamer Bibb, off Charleston, says that Fort 
     
     Sumpter is plated with railroad iron. 
     
    

    
     _Aitigiiphtee ines 
     
    

    
     New Yor, Mth—lIt is rumored in military 
     
     circles that a plan will be adopted authorizing the 
     
     commanding Generals to transfer their eutire 
     
     regiments tothe regular army for bravery in battle. 
     
    

    
     A letter from Murfreesboro’ of the 6th, says the 
     
    
   
   
    
     reason the army there does net advance, is, that 
     
    
   
   
    
     they are windbound. ‘The army is in excellent 
     
     condition, but has suffered considerable by deser- 
     
     tien. 
     
    

    
     A Memphis letter mentions the probability of 
     
     reinforemy Farragut by a portion of Porter's 
     
     leet which will ruu the Vicksburg and Port tud- 
     
     son batteries. 
     
    

    
     The Ties’ Washington despatch says the rebel 
     
     forces which were sent to Sexton’s Junction, have 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘been sent back to the Rappahannock. There are 
     
    
   
   
    
     some reasons for suspecting that Geu. Llooker is 
     
     vither at Suffolk, Va.. or is soon going there. 
     
    

    
     Gen. Butler has stated that it is probable he 
     
     will return to New Orleans, unless present plans 
     
     are changed. . . 
     
    

    
     Bills have been prepared, and only await an 
     
     opportunity to be reported from the select Com- 
     
     mittee on Emancipation, appropriating ten mil- 
     
     lion dollars for the abolishment of slavery in 
     
     Maryland, and one million and a half tor West 
     
     Virginia, and $450,000 for Delaware tor similar 
     
     purposes. ea 
     
    

    
     The Richmond’ Whig says: “Robert Bunch, 
     
     the British Cornsil, sailed trom Charleston ou the 
     
     7th inat., in the Cadmus. 
     
     that steamer, We learn that the result of the late 
     
     Naval engagement was inuch Jess substantially 
     
     than supposed. No Yankee vessel was sunk. 
     
    

    
     A despatch from Port Hudson, Louisiana, Feb. 
     
     6, to a Richmoud paper, announces that a report 
     
     had reached Baton Rouge declaring the U. 3. 
     
     sloop-of-war Brooklyn to have been sunk by the 
     
     steamers Alabama, Flurida, and Harriet Lane, in 
     
     pursuit of which latter vessel the Brooklyn was 
     
     sent. Neither the locality por date is given.— 
     
     The sonree of the statement renders it, of course, 
     
     unreliable. 
     
    

    
     Cato, Lith. — Memphis papers of the 11th 
     
     have been reeeived. 
     
    

    
     The rebel advance in Mississippi ms said to be at 
     
     Okoloua trying te repair the railroad destroyed 
     
     by Gen. Grant. The inelemency of the weather 
     
     delays their movewents by the way of Tuscumbia. 
     
    

    
     It is reported that the enemy have moved a 
     
     large part of the army of Virginia to Vicksburg, 
     
     and also tuken alb the garrison of Mobile except 
     
     400 for police duty. The railroad trom Salem to 
     
     Meriden is completed, thus enabling the rebels to 
     
     rapidly concentrate their force at Vicksburg. 
     
    

    
     The enforcement of the conscription act is 
     
     driving many fram. Alabama and Mississippi to 
     
     the North. , 
     
    

    
     In consequenes of the frequent violation of re- 
     
     gulations agaiist carrying contraband articles 
     
     South, more vigetous measures have been resolved 
     
     upon. All downwurd boats are stopped at Island 
     
     No. 10, and the garge and. passengers examined. 
     
    

    
     The steamer fron Vicksburg on Mouday reports 
     
     that a barge, Joaded with coal ran the blockade 
     
     on Monday. , 
     
    

    
     BALTIMORE, i3th. —A despatch from Brig. 
     
     Gen. Kelley, dated Harper's Ferry to-day, to 
     
     Lieut. Col. Cheseboro, Asistant Adjutant Gene- 
     
     ral, says :—About } o'clock a squad of Bayler's 
     
     cavalry attacked a small scouting party ef 12 men 
     
     of the 12th Pa. cavalry from Kerneysville, near 
     
     Smithfield, killing 1, wounding 2, and capturing 
     
     4 met and several horses. 
     
    

    
     About 4 o'clock, pan., my scouts from here fell 
     
     in with the same party a few miles south of 
     
    
   
   
    
     | Charleston, and after a running fight of several 
     
    
   
   
    
     tuiles we captured our men and horses, and cap- 
     
     tured Lieut. Baylor, two of his men and several 
     
     horses. 4 
     
    

    
     A letter from Liverpool says the steamer Geor- 
     
     gianna had sailed thence for Nassau, and it is be- 
     
     lived she is intended to be made a pirate, as she 
     
     had guns, ports, &e, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     a 
     
    
   
   
    
     CORRESPONDENCE, 
     
    
   
   
    
     RRR ee 
     
     LIGHT, MORE LIGHT. 
     
    

    
     Mr. WHELAN; 
     
    

    
     Sin, — A “Rate Payer” in the last Islander, 
     
     “ sitting in darkness,” would invoke some of the 
     
     Charlottetown Company's Gas, but some stiff 
     
     necked sinners in our city will not submit to his 
     
     eall. Poor fellow! If the farthing rush-light that 
     
     illumines his last article goes out, he will be in a 
     
     meas, He labours hard to make it appear that 
     
     gas is lower here than in Halifax, Montreal, 
     
     Quebec, Toronto, Hamilton, Kingston, Point Levi, 
     
     Port Hope, and St. John, N.B.; but he does not 
     
     give any guide by which to ascertain whether the 
     
    
   
   
    
     | quality is worse livre than in either of the above 
     
    
   
   
    
     places. Many hete believe that such is the case ; 
     
     no thanks then to its being cheaper, or rather 
     
     lower priced, because virtually cheaper it is not, 
     
     as any person may prove by paying two-pence for 
     
     a candle composed of tallow and lard, and three- 
     
     peuce for one made of tallow alone. Let them 
     
     beth be burned, and see which is really the cheap- 
     
     est! “Rate Payer” whines a great deal about 
     
     the wise men of the Gas Company being so silly 
     
     as to spend a large amount of dollars in lying 
     
     down Gas pipes on the flimey security of verbal 
     
     promise! Serve them right—they knew very well 
     
     that a majority of the Council, who imprudently 
     
     wademena pee, 7 "ot 
     
     and did not cares chew of tobacco which way 
     
     they got parts of the city lighted, so long as the 
     
     hard-working, honest portion of the citizens could 
     
     be made pay for it; but they found the latter too 
     
     determined to prefer the light, aye and even the 
     
     glimmer, of the “ parish lamp” which they were 
     
     used to from their infancy, and for which they pay 
     
     nothing, to paying high for a few hours glare of 
     
     bad gas! Success to our citizens; and if they 
     
     would always act with such determination, inno- 
     
    
   
   
    
     vation aud imposition would have to look for 
     
    
   
   
    
     lodgings some where else. But “-Rate Payer” 
     
     asks, if it will be believed in Halifax, or any other 
     
     city having gas, that after the Charlottetown Gas 
     
     Company bad 0 condescendingly laid out so much 
     
     money on pipes, and are giving their gas cheaper 
     
     than other Companies, the inhabitants of Char- 
     
     lottetown should repudiate the grand bargain made 
     
     with the City Council and refuse it? Alas, for the 
     
     Company, that such is the naked fact! Now, it 
     
     might be asked if it will be believed in Bosten, 
     
     Halifax or any other city, that good Gas is worse 
     
     for the sight than bad Gas?) The Manager of our 
     
     Cempany has made such an assertion! but our 
     
     citizens could not swallow this doctrine, and re- 
     
     fused his as. * * * * * * * * * 
     
     T have it from the best authority that the Manager 
     
     was extremely anxious to fist his gas en the first 
     
     City Council; but that bedy replied, the City is 
     
     too much in want of improvement for ua to spend 
     
     the little money we have on Gas, consequently 
     
     they would not take hold of the offer; and this, no 
     
     doubt, has proved one of the reasons why they 
     
     have been charged with running the city in debt 
     
     over head and ears. Had they taken hold of the 
     
     gas, and wasted our money as the present race 
     
     have, it is probable there would have been as little 
     
     charged against them as against those in power, 
     
     whe have not only thrown away our funds, but 
     
     basa wot publish their accounts, “according to 
     
     Ww , 
     
    
   
   
    
     “Rate Payer” winds up his melancholy epistle 
     
     by saying the citizens wight, with as much pro- 
     
     privty, refuse to pay the City Debentures, or refund 
     
     the money which may be loaned to build a Market 
     
     House, as to set aside the contract made with the 
     
     Company fer Gas! Now, nothing can be more 
     
     shallow, except that writer's mind. Does he not 
     
     kuow that the City actualy received money for 
     
     the Debentures given? And in the event of a 
     
     Market Hetise being built, and debentures given 
     
     for any funds received, that actual value will be 
     
     first obtained by the city. But what value had 
     
     the City in the pipes laid down through itt The 
     
     fact is, the Gas Company thought they had made 
     
     an excellent bargain, which would last for all time 
     
     to come, proving in their brilliant fancy an “ ever- 
     
     lasting. good milch cow; henee the great haste 
     
     they were in to get the pipes laid, believing that 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     From the officers of 
     
    
   
   
    
     Col. Gray. The filling of the four beats thus va- 
     
     cated cannot fail to lead te a good deal of heart- 
     
     burning and jealousy anionget the ambitious men 
     
     in the majorities of both Houses. As matters 
     
     stand now, there is virtually ve Government in ex} 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
       
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ————— 
     
    
   
   
    
     when once down 
     
     hia tongue” against their scheme; 
     
     “ reckoned without their host!’ 
     
     Yours, 
     
     TAX PAYER. 
     
    

    
     Charlottetown, 12th February, 1563. 
     
    

    
     [ We have made some alterations in the above 
     
     letter, omitting passages which appeared to us 
     
     unnecessarily personal. We regret that our cor- 
     
     respondents will oblige us to do this. We have, 
     
     no alternative, but to exclude their com- 
     
     munications altogether. This, in some cases at 
     
     loast, we have no wish to do. As regards the 
     
     atutemonta of “Tax Payer,” they may or may 
     
     not be correct, for aught we know to the contrary. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ not a dog would dare to move 
     
     but they 
     
    
   
   
    
     however, 
     
    
   
   
    
     We take no interest now in our Corporation affairs 
     
     —we feel that the incorporation of the City, to 
     
     which we gave an effective helping hand in the 
     
     Legislature, has not been followed by the good 
     
     results we anticipated; but we are content to let 
     
     the hand of ‘Time eure the evils it has generated. 
     
     —Epr. Exr.] 
     
    
   
   
    
     Che Examiner. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Charlottetown, February 23rd, 1863 
     
    
   
   
    
     LLL LD 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. 
     
    
   
   
    
     IN order to moet the wishes of a large number 
     
     of our Subseribers in the western parts of the Is- 
     
     land, we have concluded to publish an Edition of 
     
     Tue Examtner for the Monday morning Mails, 
     
     as we did two or three years ago. ‘Thiv will en- 
     
     tail considerable additional expense and labour, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     as we shall have to re-arrange our form for Mon- 
     
     day evening's edition. We trust, however, our 
     
     subscribers will indemnify us for the outlay, by 
     
     not only paying their own subscriptions punctually 
     
     and to the last shilling, but that they will use 
     
     their best exertions to get others to subscribe and 
     
     pay likewise. There is a very large amount of 
     
     money due to us in the shape of old arrears, ex- 
     
     tending over periods of from one to twelve years 
     
     These arrears, we assure the delinquents, must 
     
     be speedily collected — if not by gentle entreaty, 
     
     by some other means. Our only resoures is our 
     
     | private business: if those who take our paper, 
     
     which costa us a very large amount of money in 
     
     the year to publish — money which must be dis- 
     
     bursed—if parties who. proclaim themselves to be 
     
     our friends will really and truly act as such by 
     
     paying us what they houestly owe — we shall be 
     
     able to make ‘THe EXAMINER far mere influential 
     
     than it is, a8 an organ of public opinion—(and we 
     
     believe it will be admitted that it has well main- 
     
     tained its ground as such an organ.) As a purely 
     
     secular and political journal, we believe it is 
     
     indispensable to the Liberal cause. If it be 
     
     desirable to sustain that cause, its friends must 
     
     sustain THE EXaMINER. We want no subsidies 
     
     — no hot-house pursing. We merely ask to 
     
     be paid our honest dues, as we are required to 
     
     pay dues to others. If our subscribers will 
     
     take these plain hints, and act upon them promptly 
     
     and effectually, we shall take great pride in 
     
     makmg The EXAMINER eminently worthy of 
     
     their support — feeling better pleased with, and 
     
     better rewarded for our labour by, their patronage 
     
     than that which any Government office could 
     
     supply. 
     
     > - — 
     
    
   
   
    
     MEETING OF TILE LEGISLATURE. 
     
    
   
   
    
     WE observe by the Royal Gazette that the 
     
     Legislature of this Island is summoned to meet 
     
     for the despateh of business on the 3d March, (to- 
     
     morrow week.) We cannot, of course, conjecture 
     
     what measures, if any, will be recommended to the 
     
     collective wisdom in the Guvernor’s Speech | The 
     
     Executive will have their bands full of work, at 
     
     the beginning of the Session, in listening to, and 
     
     adjusting the claims of, office-seekere, who will be 
     
     in shoals at the heels of members in the majority, 
     
     demanding the wages of corruption for their inde- 
     
     pendent services at the late election; and numerous 
     
     will be the caucus meetings to be held in conse- 
     
     quence thereof. Rumour states that Mr. Haviland 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     gomery President of the Council. 
     
    
   
   
    
     | 
     
     | 
     
    
   
   
    
     will be Speaker of the Assembly, and Mr. Mont-| Commissioner: under the Crown. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     istence. i 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE GOVERNMENT CONDEMNED 
     
     ONE OF THEIR OWN SUPPORTERS. 
     
    
   
   
    
     signed “ Pro Beno Publico,” avewedly an enemy 
     
    
   
   
    
     vernment, ia which the most damaging testimony 
     
    
   
   
    
     and that “intolerance and fierceness” characterise 
     
    
   
   
    
     ment that have been guilty of all these sins. 
     
     say we have been surprised to read such testimony 
     
    
   
   
    
     Islander’s corvespondent, we give as follows the 
     
     exact words he has used :— 
     
    
   
   
    
     carry out a system of rRee Education, whicl 
     
    
   
   
    
     threatens to swallow the whole. 
     
    
   
   
    
     neglected; our youth, meanwhile, 
     
     amongst the most ignorant and least informed in 
     
     Her Majesty's dowinions. 
     
    
   
   
    
     extinguished in blood. 
     
    
   
   
    
     most required ; yet we try ao plan ef improvement. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “Our commerce languishes, and gives symp- 
     
    
   
   
    
     toms of decay, and we leave it #0, 
     
    
   
   
    
     to the world that public bumanity has departed 
     
     from the Island. Public works and improvements 
     
     have long been at a stand still, and general con- 
     
     fideuce much impaired — yet suck must continue 
     
     to be the case, while unscrupulous demagogues 
     
     have the post of honour and leadership of party— 
     
     whilst the statesmanship of men is measured by 
     
     the amount of their vindictive viluperation—and 
     
     when the degrees of piety and usefuluess of a 
     
     clergyman are counted by his intolerance and 
     
     fierceness, or subtlety as a partizan.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     7 - 
     
     MEETING OF COLONIAL LEGISLATURES. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tuk Legislatures ofthe three adjoining Pro- 
     
     vinces of Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Seetia 
     
     met on the 12th inst. The speeches of the three 
     
     Governors contain nething that would be particu- 
     
     larly interesting to the people of this Island. The 
     
     mueh-talked of Intercolonial Railway is the topic 
     
     most prominently introduced in all—the several 
     
     Governors leaving their respective Legislatures to 
     
     dispose of it as they may deem meet.—In the 
     
     House of Assembly, at Halifax, there was a very 
     
     sharp contest on the first day of the Session. 
     
     Messrs. Tupper and Johnston, of the Opposition, 
     
     wartly disputed Mr. Howe's right to remain in 
     
     the Legislature and in the Provincial Seeretary’s 
     
     Office, while holding the appointment of Fishery 
     
     Mr. Howe 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     We have no contended that be violated no local statute or con- 
     
     \doubt that Mr. Haviland will make a very good | stitutional principle in holding the Imperial com- 
     
    
   
   
    
     | Speaker, if he can manage to keep his somewhat wission with his Provincial one, and his seat in 
     
    
   
   
    
     | irascible temper under control, aud will not allow | 
     
     | his strong political prejudices to bias bis judgment. 
     
     |He has a thorough kuowledge of the rules aud 
     
     | practices of Parliament; and, on the whole, he is, 
     
     | perhaps, the most eligible person for the Speaker- 
     
     ship in the ranks of the Conservative party ; 
     
     besides, it will be a god-send to him to have such 
     
     an opportunity for evading 2 vote, as the Speaker's 
     
     chair will afford, on the obnoxious Land Commis- 
     
     sion, when the Government will bring forward 
     
     their new dodge on that question—Mr. Haviland 
     
     having been obliged to leave the Government a 
     
     few mouths ago, because he could not, with a due 
     
     regard for his agency business, support the delusion 
     
     any longer. — As regards the Presidency of the- 
     
     Council? Mr. Montgomery is certainly the most 
     
     eligible and the beet entitled to the post, of all the 
     
     Conservative party,except Mr. Palmer; but while 
     
     the latter holds a salaried office, as he now does, 
     
     it would be a violation of a well understood con- | 
     
     stitutions! principle to make him the head of a 
     
     representative body. 
     
    

    
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     COL. GRAY'S RETIREMENT FROM THE 
     
     GOVERNMENT. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     WE learn from the Monitor of Wednesday last, 
     
     that the Hon. Col. Gray, second Leader of the 
     
     Government, has resigned his seat in the Execu- 
     
     tive Council. This announcement, which was 
     
     not accompanied by one word of explanation as 
     
     to the cause of the event, took us by surprise, and 
     
     we certainly expected to see in the Islander of 
     
     Friday some comments upon it; but the Islander 
     
     is as barren of information on that subject as the 
     
     Monitor. Tudeed, the former dues not even con- 
     
     descend to notiee the bare fact of Col. Gray's 
     
     resignation. That he has resigned, cannot be 
     
     doubted, for a statement to that effect, i” untrue, 
     
     would not be made by a paper which is a servile 
     
     tool of the Government, and which is under the 
     
     control of a Clerk of the Executive Council. We 
     
     are, therefore, left to vague conjecture as to the 
     
     cause of the Colonel's retirement. 
     
    

    
     When a great man retires from a Government, 
     
     as in this case, numerous reports are pretty sure 
     
     to be circulated about him. We have heard of 
     
     two, neither of which is improbable — both are 
     
     probably true. The first is, that the Colonel is 
     
     very much dissatisfied with the position assamed 
     
     and held by Secretary Pope, who has smuggled 
     
     himself into the Assembly ostensibly under the 
     
     Colonel’s wing, and who, on account of private 
     
     affairs, is not considered to reflect any credit or 
     
     honour on the Government. The second report 
     
     is, that Col. Gray wanted to be sole leader of the 
     
     Government, and as such, President of the Exe- 
     
     cutive Council, leaving Mr. Palmer the chair of 
     
     President in the Legislative Council. The Col., 
     
     we suppose, has grown tired of playing second 
     
     fiddle as “ the other McNab,” and considers that 
     
     one fiddler is enough for our diminutive Govern- 
     
     ment. Mr. Palmer, it is said, does not consider 
     
     this arrangement satisfactory, because it would 
     
     alienate Mr. Montgomery from the Government, 
     
     and perhaps other couutry members. Whatever 
     
     the cause of Mr. Gray's retirement may be, it is 
     
     evidently the sign of weakness and contention in 
     
     the Administration, and his influence and active 
     
     services thus withdrawn must tend te embarrass 
     
     it considerably. 
     
    

    
     The Executive Council consisted of only eight 
     
     members, and within a few weeks, four of them, 
     
     and the best four— have gone out of the way ; 
     
     first, Mr. Haviland, who resigned to please his 
     
     employers in England; next, Dr. Johnson and 
     
     Mr. Simpson, who have not succeeded in obtaining 
     
     places in the Legislature, and must therefore be 
     
     regarded as out of the Government; and lastly, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     the Legixlature. He said he intended to resign his 
     
     place in the latter aud in the Government early in 
     
     the Spring, until which time his duties ax Fishery 
     
     Commissioner would not begin. On hie Railway 
     
     policy and other subjects, Mr. Howe defended 
     
     himself with his nwual spirit and eloquence against 
     
     his opponents. The debat:, as far as we can learn 
     
     fromour Halifax papers, led to no practical result. 
     
     — ~e————— 
     
     OPINION OF A CONTEMPORARY JOUR- 
     
     NAL ON OUR LATE ELECTIONS. 
     
    
   
   
    
     We take the following short article from the 
     
     St. John Freeman, of the 1th inet. There isa 
     
     slight mistake in the statement as te there being 
     
     only one Catholic in any Government of this Is- 
     
     land. We believe the Liberals had two in their 
     
     Government at one time, and so had the Couser- 
     
     vatives two Catholics at another time. In all 
     
     other respects our contemporary’s statement is 
     
     quite correct, and is written with considerable 
     
     point :—- 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Church Witness, of this city, was not 
     
     ashamed to publish the following approvingly — 
     
    

    
     A_ Charlottetown, P. E. 1. correspondent of 
     
     the Hahfax Witness says, “It is with feelings of 
     
     no ordinary pleasure that I inform your readers 
     
     that Protestants are again victorious imour Island. 
     
     The General Election tor our House of Assembly 
     
     took place on Wednesday, the 21st instant, and 
     
     resulted in the thorough defeat of the Romish 
     
     party. Our exclusively Protestant government is 
     
     again sustained by the large majority of 38 te 12.” 
     
    

    
     Strife, ill-will, uncharitabieness, and sectarian 
     
     frenzy such papers astho Witness are ever striving 
     
     to excite. Whatever the result of this election, 
     
     the Government would have been in no sense 
     
     Romish. The population of the Island is seven- 
     
     aixteentias Catholic ;> but we believe there was 
     
     never more than one Catholic in any Government, 
     
     and that Catholie — the Hon. Mr: Whelan — has 
     
     been re-elected. The Government did indeed re- 
     
     sort to the usual artifices, in order to excite an 
     
     anti-Popery feeling, and their suecess may be in 
     
     rome measure attributable to this; but if the 
     
     ae of Pope & Co. be a Protestant victory, 
     
     it is ike the victory of Pyrrhus, and a few more 
     
     such victories must be the ruin ef the victors. 
     
     What service the former Government rendered to 
     
     Catholicity in the Island we never learned, nor 
     
     can we perecive what harm the present Govern- 
     
     meut can doit. ‘They may indeed insult Catholics, 
     
     and proclaim proseription and intolerance as their 
     
     doctrine; but proscription of Catholics is rather 
     
     the rule than the exception in fact, if not in theory, 
     
     with all Governments; and Catholics, individually 
     
     or collectively, can ouly be injured by measures 
     
     which must injure all their neighbours. Catholics, 
     
     we think, would feel neither pride nor pleasure in 
     
     calling some of the men who compose t resent 
     
     Government of Prince Edward Island Catholic or 
     
     Romish; and we know that respectable, intelli- 
     
     gent Protestants are not at all disposed to recognize 
     
     them a8 representative Protestants. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     A P. E. ISLAND CLERGYMAN ABROAD. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A Canadian paper, sent to us by the last Mail, 
     
     furnishes the following account of the ‘zealous 
     
     labours of a Catholic Missionary in Canada, which 
     
     account, though somewhat old in point of date, is 
     
     nevertheless interesting to us, and will be to very 
     
     many of our readers, who cherish a pleasant re- 
     
     collection of the Reverend Gentleman mentioned 
     
     in it. Dr. Melutyre is, we believe, a native of 
     
     the East Point of this Island, where he has bro- 
     
     thers and other family connexions now living. 
     
     He was stationed as Missionary Priest at St. 
     
     Andrew's for several years, where he was distin- | 
     
     guished fur his varied acquirements and talents :— 
     
    
   
   
    
     INTERESTING INCIDENTS AND CERE-, 
     
    
   
   
    
     MONIES CONNECTED WITH THE 
     
     CATHOLIC CHURCH OF CENTRE- 
     
    
   
   
    
     VILLE, CAMDEN EAST, C. W. 
     
     CENTREVILLE, Nov. 19, 1862. 
     
     Mr. Eprror—Dear Sir ; Before proceeding 
     
     to give a detail of the highly interesting and im- 
     
     reasive ceremonies of which I was a witness to- 
     
     day, and which seldom oceur in this prosperous 
     
     but comparatively rempte district —1 mean the 
     
    
   
   
    
     BY 
     
    
   
   
    
     WE have been very much surprised to read in 
     
     the Islander of Friday last, a eoumunication 
     
    
   
   
    
     . . » : 
     
     to the Liberal cause and a supporter of the Go- 
     
    
   
   
    
     is given with regard to the neglect of our public 
     
     affairs by the present Administration. The writer 
     
     says, what is very true, that the money given for 
     
     education is nearly thrown away, because the daty 
     
     of inspecting the public schools is shamefully ne- 
     
     gleeted—that they—(meaning the Tory party )p— 
     
     have managed to raise the demon of sectarian 
     
     discord — that there is no improvement on our 
     
     publie highways, and that eur prineipal lines of 
     
     road are “almost inpassible”—that our commerce 
     
     is guing to decay—that the lives of our mariners 
     
     are imperilled for the want of lights on our coasts 
     
     —that public improvements of all hinds are shame- 
     
     fully negleeted —that public confidence in the 
     
     management ef our affairs ia greatly weakened— 
     
     that these Who are in posts of bonewr (under the 
     
     Government) are “ unscrupulous demagognes "— 
     
    
   
   
    
     some clergymen — meaning, we suppose, George 
     
     Sutherland, aud others who support the Govern- 
     
    
   
   
    
     We 
     
    
   
   
    
     as this froma correspondent of the Islander. If 
     
     we had written anything so strong we should be 
     
     vielently denounced for it, and told that we had 
     
     not written the truth; but when statements such 
     
     as we refer to, come froman enemy of the Liberal 
     
     party, we should think they ought to be believed 
     
    
   
   
    
     our readers that we have pot misrepresented the 
     
    
   
   
    
     “We have introduced, and are endeavouring to 
     
    
   
   
    
     takes about one balf of oar clear revenue; and 
     
     Yet this great 
     
     amount of public money is allowed to be spent 
     
     with but avery futile surveillance, and even that 
     
     rendered almost nugatory, by the duty of imvestiga- 
     
     ting the performance of Teachers being so sadly 
     
     remaining 
     
    
   
   
    
     “We have managed to raise the demon of see- 
     
     tarian discord, so that it may yet have to be 
     
    
   
   
    
     “Our principal lines of road beeome regularly 
     
     almost impassable, season after season, when 
     
    
   
   
    
     * Our coasts remain uplighted, while the wail 
     
     of the perishing mariner passes unheeded ; proving 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ceremonies of Confirmation and the Conreeration 
     
     of a Choreh—1 think it right te say a few wordg 
     
     in connection with the worthy and universally os. 
     
     teereed Paster, under whose vigilant, zealour, and 
     
     persevering eflorte, most, if net all, of them hare 
     
     been organized and consummated, 
     
    

    
     The Rev. Dr. Melotyre succeeded to his pre- 
     
     sent position about three years sneer, and found 
     
     his spiritual charge pretty much in the same state 
     
     of ordinary discipline, d&ec., which it to be townd 
     
     among similar Cathotie congregations thronghout 
     
     the varions rural districts of thie wide-spread 
     
     country, with a substantial stone built church, then 
     
     sufficiently large for his congregation and their 
     
     religious wants and convenience. But, being a 
     
     man of the right sort in the right place, bis mature 
     
     judgment at once suggested to him that both 
     
     might be considerably enlarged and improved 
     
     with the advantage to the surrounding population 
     
     and peighberkoed. He, therefore, determinedly 
     
     set to work to effect his purpowe—first by faith. 
     
     fully impressing upon bis flock the necessity of 
     
     cital personal religion, and when by his faithful 
     
     exhortations and tervid eloqnence he bad * wep 
     
     their hearts as the beart of ene man,” be trank 
     
     told them of his purpose te enla an rye 
     
     so that every man, woman, and hi of h 
     
     should bave ample accommodation in God’ 
     
     tuary, to have the Rread of Tite? broken Ne 
     
     them. Jie was mere surprised than di 
     
     to find with what a Sorts conen fons we 
     
     promptitude the hardy sons of the sol? responded 
     
     to his appeal for funds to enlarge the in 
     
     which he so faithfully administered the 
     
     and elevating truths of religion te their 
     
    

    
     le ; 
     
    
   
   
    
             
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     souls. rainitiee 
     
    

    
     The original structure was stri of its-rost, 
     
     the walls raised five feet, with an ienal beng te 
     
     of eighteen feet, making its present dimensions 
     
     60% AU inside, and adding a new aud convenient 
     
     sacrety. A new root rephierd the former one, a 
     
     » | gablery over the entrance stretches, from side to 
     
     xide, together with a handsome and 
     
     sterply and spire, the latter covered with tim, 
     
     which z)istens m the rays of the glorious > 
     
     evening, and noon-lay «nn, while its apex 
     
     to that Heaven where the “ Son of Righteousmess” 
     
     sets in approving majesty, beholding the faithful 
     
     labors of Hig servant, te whem be will at seme 
     
     future period (which it i hoped divine wisdom 
     
     aud infinite mercy may long defer) mee the 
     
     irrevocable and happy declaration, ” done 
     
     thew good and faithtul servant, enter then imte the 
     
     joy of thy Lord.” ee. 
     
     ‘The cost of these improv 
     
    
   
   
    
     ements, &e., amounted 
     
     in the aggregate to over $2,000, exchusive of ma- 
     
     terials. A large proportion of this sum the hardy 
     
     aud hard-working members of Dei Meintyre’s 
     
     . | flock—though suffering pecuniary disad and 
     
     InconVenience in consequence of the strife at pre- 
     
     scat devastating ithe United States — chee 
     
     subscribed. ‘Their means cirewnmscribing 
     
     | wills, the Doctor, nething daunted, anid be 
     
    
   
   
    
     by the supporters of the Government. To convince 
     
    
   
   
    
     Lf 
     
    
   
   
    
     appeal to Protestant hberality to assist bie in 
     
     pres#ing necessity. Thank God, be found 
     
     sectarianism or party bigotry had not bhinted 
     
     common sense and geperous *ymmpathies of 
     
     good to the difficulties of a good sone shrecciong 
     
    
   
   
    
     a good canse: he fuand a generous an ify 
     
     response to his appeal, witeh in part Weicred hE 
     
     | present necessity, He stil, however,.is-in debt, 
     
     and needs further help. He “ee im te to 
     
     furnish the steeple with a bell to eall his Bock to 
     
     their spiritual repast. Will you Bot, Mr. “ditor, 
     
     help iv this good cause, by calling the attention of 
     
     those #0 disposed to the above tacts the 
     
     columns of your respectable and widely i i 
     
     jourval? ae er 
     
     Having already treepassed toe far on your ce- 
     
     lunes and your tine, I sball not further tax either, 
     
     than merely will suffice to state, that today was 
     
     appointed for the Coutirmation of such members 
     
     of Dr. Mclatyre’s charge as were prepared ty be 
     
     recipients of this solemn and imposing rite. -The 
     
     Bishop of the Diocese, together with the Deeter 
     
     and three others of the Clergy, celebrated Mass in 
     
     the enlarged building, after which about 160 cau- 
     
     didates for Confirmation came forward, some of 
     
     whom, both male and female, were of mature, if 
     
     not of advanced, age. The majority, however, 
     
     were of the ordinary youthtul cliss te whew Coa 
     
     firmation is wsually administered. It was highly 
     
     gratifying to ebserve the becoming demeanor, not 
     
     ouly of those about to be confinmed, bet of the 
     
     whole congregation, which I think sumbered at 
     
     least 1000, and which would ne deubs have been 
     
     larger bet for the unfavourable state of ‘the wea- 
     
     ther. After Confirmation, the Bi made a 
     
     suitable address to the recipients of this ‘ 
     
     and then addressed the congregation generally, 
     
     a most searching and practical lecture, on the ne- 
     
     cessity of brotherly love and Christian charity. 
     
     The impressive admonition, conveyed by his Lord 
     
     ship, it is to be hoped, may have its desired effet 
     
     in bauishing all strife and animosity trom the hearts 
     
     of his hearers, and of inculcating and implanting, 
     
     instead, a spirit of love and forbearance. 
     
    
   
   
    
     I should further. semark, that the pecentinee 
     
     were rendered stall mory attractive inte resting 
     
     by having seme excellent singing. Three young 
     
     ladivs and two gentlemen came from Kingston 
     
     fur the eecasian.. ~. iF o.8 FP. Lae 
     
     NEWS FROM EUROPE. 
     
     ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA AT NEW YORK. 
     
    
   
   
    
     New Yoru, Feb. 15. 
     
    

    
     Rumored that new diflicultivs bave arisen be- 
     
     tween British and Ubited States Governments, 
     
     owing to alleged seizure of British vessels too 
     
     near Bahamas. - 
     
     There had been a great demonstration in Exeter 
     
     Hall in faver of emancipation and the North. 
     
     Duke of Saxe Coburg has consented to be can- 
     
     didate for the Greek Throne. pw 
     
     ee of Lansdowne ix dead. 
     
    

    
     ish insurrection is said te be gaini igth. 
     
     Flour dali at 22s. te 27s. Wheat aaa 
     
     slightly lower, and very dull. Provisions quiet. 
     
     Consols 924 a 929. ; 
     
    
   
   
    
     if 
     
    
   
   
    
     rz 
     
    
   
   
    
     LATEST VIA QUEENSTOWN. © 
     
     The Obserrer says that in April Mr. GhidstOne 
     
     will oe able 9 ee an increase of income of 
     
     more than three millions nds, and a decrease 
     
     of expenditure of mere that twos uailbews pounds 
     
     Bert, Jan. 24.—The Nordeutsche Zritwng' of 
     
     to-day says from news received frow Phert' we 
     
     learu that an inaur has. broken out ia 
     
    
   
   
    
     Poland. This is bly caused by the i 
     
     tien which has taken place there. aos pan 
     
     wires round Warsaw have been destroyed. It is 
     
     expected that the first conflict between the insur- 
     
     gents and the military will take place near Plosck. 
     
     Sv Pererssure, Jan. 24.— ( Afiernoon.)-— 
     
     Three bands of insurgeuts have utes iu the 
     
     direction of Minsk, some milks from Warsaw, the 
     
     ae at > bear Sicroock, and the third at 
     
     tosk. first was dispersed. Flyi 
     
     are traversing the disaffected ae 
     
     A telegram fron Warsaw, dated the 2%rd, states 
     
     that the Blonic insurgents, numberiig 1000 then, 
     
     had crossed the Nistula, in order te join. the in- 
     
     surgents assembled in the forests of Nasielky . The 
     
     bands efiucted a junction on the right bavk; thes 
     
     were partly armed. A’ regiment had beeu seut 
     
     against thea, ’ , ' 
     
     Another telegram, dated Warsaw, 24th, says 
     
     that on the night of the 22nd, attacks were eyery- 
     
     where made on the detachments of troope sepa- 
     
     rately cantoned. ‘The insurgents killed all the 
     
     soldiers 2: found in the houses where they were 
     
     billetted. ‘he several detachments of milita 
     
     asing, however, afterwards united and re 
     
     the insurgents and tuok man idoners, 30 R 
     
     sians er killed and t foe: ber 
     
     wounded in the conflict.” Col. Ktigli 
     
     killed in the woods; Gen. Korb ees 
     
     More serious encounters have taken place at 
     
     en Ladziel, and in the environs of Sidlee.~ A 
     
     | general Coucentration of troops is taki b 
     
     The whole king of Poland has ap 
     
     in a state of siege. © 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE NEWS BY THE EUROPA. 
     
     _The substance of the news received by the 
     
     | Europa, touching the disturbed state of Poland, 
     
     will as prepared ule reader for the announce 
     
     men an meurreetion had broken out. 
     
     The gathering of ts, ois frou thw 
     
     Russian Army, and some thousands of escaped 
     
     conscripts, in the forests, seemed te furbede re- 
     
     sistance, and pow tlie object is unniistakbly  re- 
     
     vealed, The Poles are ence more about to stand 
     
     up for their rights: The chances of success ate 
     
     decidedly against them. They stand alone. 
     
     Neither France nor England is in a position to 
     
     come to their aid, singly, and an allianee for that 
     
     purpose is, just now, by ne weans probable. Aus- 
     
     tria’s heart, in such a contingency as this, is with 
     
     Kussia, whom she would aid, if she dare, as Rus- 
     
     sia aided her against Hungary. One good tura 
     
     deserves another. 
     
    

    
     England in the matter of finance—a very im- 
     
     portant matte , it woild seem, much cause 
     
     fur gratulation. Her Chancellor of the Exchequer, 
     
     it appears, will come down to Parliament, in due 
     
     season, and rejoice the hearts of the tax-payera 
     
     with the announcement that the national income 
     
     has increased by the sum of three millions, and 
     
     that a decrease of expenditure, tothe extent af two 
     
     millions, is contemplated by the Gusernment. It 
     
     augurs well for the fate of any Government when 
     
     it can face the country with such an anneunee- 
     
     ment as this.— Halifax Sun. 
     
    

    
     _— 7~—->- ~—- — 
     
     The Quebec Vindicator says that it is rumoured 
     
     that the resignation of Chief Justice Lafontaine i» 
     
     in the hands ot the Attorney General. 
     
    

    
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     During the month ending December 4th, 8,000 
     
     bales cotton rags were bought in the Liverpool 
     
     market, aud 3,000 bales in London, for shipment 
     
     to the United States. 
     
    
   
   
    
     There are 43 veasels now in course of construc- 
     
     tion at the city of Quebee, and the total t 
     
    

    
     is 40,580 tons. All these are building under 
     
     direction of Lioyd’s surveyor, aud all ave first clase 
     
     ships. :