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Hon. Dr. JOHNSON, on rising to meve the}
third reading of the Bill to further alter and)
amend the Act for the sale by heonse of spirituens
liquor, said—A Lill is alse before fue Legislature
for the pumsiment of viee pad immorality—for
the punishment of prostitution ; and I de not}
think it is a greater vice than that which you are |
going te license, Vice is viee, and why should
vou punisi ene vice while you license another ’
“la France, hoases kept for the purposes of pros-|
titation, are liceased, and they are contaminating |
their neigabours. I would say the same of houses
for selling spirituous liquor. | speak more par-|
ticularly of those places which are specially |
adap... } to the promehon of drunkenness, i,
think, thes, that you are acting inconsistently, for
as long as you license such houses you encourage

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poor people"of honest intentions, for a large pro
portion of the trade of the country is carried on
by small accounts under £10; and T ean very
well imagine thaf poor people are prevented from
obtaining eredit by this Act; and they are so far
behind that it is with therm a matter of necessity
to he supplied in advance of their means,

Hon Dr JIOUNSON—Ii appears to me that this
Act, which was intended to be a benetit, has the ef
feet of shielding the dishonest, at the oxpense of the
honest man. The state of soc iety is auc h that it is
not prepared to receive itsownadvantuges. Ihave
been in conversation with seme persons who men-
tiened some of the injurious effects of this Act, one
of which was that Auctioneers would not sell on
credit for smaller sums than £10, and the man who
is not able to pay at the time, has to buy more than
be would otherwise do, or than he really requires
Phis places the honest poor man in an unfavorable
waition; and, in order to give bim an ony rtanity,
| it is necessary to repeal the Aet; while those who
jure not honest will have to abide by the conse

; quences

fon. Mr. RAMSAY-—I am of opinion, Mr. Chair-

them It may appear very Inconsistent im me to h
/ | wan, that we have not given the Act a suilicient

prove the Ward seading of this Bil, but I do so as .
’ sty. | trial.

a matter oi a , wii : _ yy | long enough to find out the rogues, und now we re
Hon. the PRESIDEN r'—My views are so well peal it to punish the honest man. . 1 consider that
known on this sabject that it is hardly worth | we are now testing the character of the inhabitants
while te occupy the time af the House expressing) of Prince Edward !sland; and if they are so dis

It has only been ene year in operation, just |

wagain. 1 believe the license system is bad |
ae shoule be abolished; and 1 would go further,

honest—if they are so devoid of orinciple that they
cannot be trasted the paltry sum of £10 unless their

4 men not to drink, for {| do not under- creditors have it in their sas ee imprison them at

stand why men shonld argue in fyvour of tempe-
vance, and yet take their glass of wine.

Hea. Mr. PORGAN—Name them.

Hon. the PRESIDENT—No, I will not name
thea; perhaps I mean his honor, Mr. Forgan. 1
believe the only remedy is total prohibition; but
jn the present atate of society it would be a
tailure. In England 60,000 persons die the drunk-
erd’s death annually, Where will those 60,000

their will and pleasure, then * tell it not in Gath,
publish it not in the streets of Askalon.” But Lam
afraid, sir, that very unfair means have been re
sorted to jn fitting up those petitions. Lam aware
that they bave lain on the counters in merchants’
shops for months, and when 2 poor man came in to

| buy a poand of tea or a yard of cotton, this petition

waa the firet thing pnt into his hand, and he must
either sign it or go without the articles. I believe
itis a maxim in law that it is better to allow 99
rowves to ve free than that one hguest man should

ewme Ceo, next year t They must came trom the | sutter.

ranks of the moderate drinkers,

Hon. Mr. SIMPSON—I do not think it is ia- “sett now.

consistent with temperance principles to take a,
glasa of wine, Temperance is one thing, total |
abstainance another. I am notan abstainer; but)
I trust thet I am temperate. The license system}
does not restrict the sale of liquor, because it is|
defvetive. Lt is a great hardship for men ta have |
to pay for Jiceuses when, tor every one who pays,
there are probably ten who sell without license. |
I would go tor abolishing the system altogether. |

Hon. Mr. RAMSAY—I cansider the Act de-| have never heard a complaint in Lot IS agaiast the] ., men of Gotham" to have perpetrated.

fective in allowmg so many taverns w the coun: |
try. I know some school districts where there |
are three or four. I think one is quite sufficient, |
and more than that should not be allowed.

Hon. Mr, HUTCHINSON—That js a matter)
of opinion. There may be a person who has set- |
tled down and obtained license, and who does not)
keep a proper house, People would net like te)
go to that house, and why should another man be
prohibited from opening a better! IT think it is)

uite right to leave it te the decision of the people |
themselves.

Hoa. Mr, DINGWELL—J think the people
should be the best judges. If one man takes
heeuse and does not keep vy and house, | do
not think the people shoald be prohibited from
having another.

The Bill was then read the third time and)

The Bill “to authorize the Government to pro-|
hibit the exportation of Naval and Military Stores:
aud Provisions,” apd the Bill * for the prevention |
of vice and immorality in the City of Charlotte-
town,” were also read the third time and passed. |

A Bill to further alter and amend the Act for the |
transfer of the Island Posts was then comuuitted |
aud agreed to without any amendwent.

‘The House then went inte committee of the |
whele ona Lill to further alter and amend the
Act fer the recovery of Small Debts, Tlon. Mr.
Forgan in the ekair.

Hoa. the PRESIDENT—This Bill repeals the
Act passed in 1560, as far as it prohibited im-|
prisonment for debt for sums under £10, and 1)
must say that I am sorry tosee such a Bill betore |
us, It is taking 2 step in the wrong direction—
itis reirograding. Our legislation should be ad-)
vaneing; bat if the non-imprisonment of persons |
for sums under € 1) has worked injuriously, then |
that Act is a failure on this Island, though else-|
where it has worked well, When aman owes a)
debt to pat hiv in jail evly makes matters worse. |
J did hope to see the day wheu imprisonment for |
debt would be abolished altogether. I would like|
to hear the opinions of your heners as to wheter |
the Act has worked injuriously or net.

who supported the Bul tode away with imprison-|
ment to a certain extent. I thought I was right)
in doing so, aud when petitions came in last ses-|
sion from different parts of the country I was still |
willing to leave the Act to its operation. The}
incipa! ebjection urged against imprisonment for |
was, that it kept men away from their
families, and they could net obtain the benefit of!
the Inselvent Debtor's Act unless the debt ex-|

Hen. Mr. HUTCHINSON — There is a remedy
A man can iake the benefit of the
nsolvent Debtors’ Act, and he is allowed te retain

£15 worth of property by that Act. Formerly he

could keep nothing ; und, besides, be can only be

kept in jail for a limited time ; so it is better than it
was betore.

Hon. Mr. RAMSAY—It has been stated that the
poor exnnot get credit now as they did formerly —
that they cannot get seedgrain. Now, [know that
in Lot 18, where I reside, they can get credit anc
get seed grain just as well as they coald before.

Act, and vet I see a petition here from that Lot,
signed. I believe, by almost every man in it; but
the names have all been written by one person.
That looks very suspicious.

Hen. Mr. DINGWELL—What can the eountry
expect of legislation such as ours ? The law which
you are now going to repeal has only been one year
in operation; we have experienced the eviis con-
nected wiih it, and now, just when we are avout to
reap the henelits of it, you repeal it. If we have
to pass lows in this way we cannot place any de-
pendence on legislation. Men will hardly know
what they are about, I think we should pause be-
fore we legislate in this way.

Hon. the PRESIDENT—I shall vote against re-
pealing the Act, because it was an experiment and
it has not had a fair trial. Some complain that par
ties have taken advantage of the Act by making
over thgir property, and thus defrauding their cre-
ditors; and I believe it isthe general opinion through-
out the country that if a man makeover his proper-
ty by a bill of sule it is secure; but if the man has
given his property without any consideration—if the
bill of sale is not founded on a bona fide transaction,
it can be set aside. I have been told that there
have been from 150 to 250 bills of sale filed since
the Act cume into operation; but doubtless many of
them are not bona fide. His honor Mr. Hutehiuson
formerly supported the Bill to abolish imprisonment
for debt, but now he has worked himself up to the
idea that it must be altered, becaase, I sappose,
some poor aman has laughed at his bonor in bis ca-

maucity us Magistrate. I would like to see the Act
Fees a fair trial; for if we cannot abolish imprison-

ment for sums under £10 there is little prospect of | characters of honest men; and when in office
abolishing it altogether, whieh I fondly hoped| wasted our City funds, and would do so again,

would be the cuse ut no distant day.

Hon. Mr. ANDEKSON— Many have taken advan-
tage of the Act, and, judging from his honor’s state-
ments about the Bills of Sale, many more are pre-
paring to do so.

The question of concurrence was then put on the
first clause, and the commitice divided :

Coxtests—-llons. Messrs. Palmer, Johnsen, An-
derson, McLaren and Hatchinson—.

Nos-Coxtests — Hon. the President, Hons.
Messrs. Kamsay and Dingwell—3.

On thre third clause being read—

Hon. Mr. HUTCHINSON observed that it was
very hard that if a poor man were imprisoned for 2 -

debt, and should take the benetit of the Lusolvent

re intense Debtors’ Act, or remain in jail till he paid the debi,
Hon. Mr. HU'TCHINSON—I was one of those! that any little property he might acquire afterwards

would be liable for that debt.

Hon. Mr. RAMSAY thought it was a hard case if | ing a few remarks on a letter published by a mene |

aman had to pay the same debt twice.

After some th debate, the House was re
sumed, wad the Bill reported agreed to.

The standing rule of the House, requiring twenty

fore any new matter can be introduced, having bee:
suspende |—

evededa certain amount, and se there was no| Steam Navigation iu this Island, and on doing s

alternative but to stop in jail. But this Bil! pro-
vides that all persons may have the benetit of the |
Insolvent Debtor's Act; and if they do so they
will be discharged. So then it will not be so se-|
vere upon the debtor as it was formerly. He will)

the capias clause, I had no ideathat parties would |
take advantage of it as they do; but when a man |
is brought betore a istrate he will frankly ac-!
knowledge the debt. The magistrate will say, |
well, I suppose you will pay it? No!

Ah, there is an Act that will not allow you to im-
prison me, So the man will walk off, and at the
same time have the money in his pocket te pay
the debt. They will now be liable to be put in

jail, but eay take the benefit of the Insolvent |
Debtor's Aci, and therefore there will not be any | ~~~~~ee

great hardalap ix it,

lion. Mr. ANDERSON—J believe that many
take advantage wf the Act. Their property cau-
not be found, aud they caunet be put te jail. It
is seldum that au honest peor man is put to jail.

It is only men who endeayour to keep their pro-| Frost, snow and storm have pass’d with their alloy,

perty out of the way, and thus evade the jaw,that
are Loprisoued.

Tlon. Mr. DINGWELI-~I hope this Act will
be more adyantageous than the last Sunall Debt{
Act we pasted. Your bouwrs uiay remember that)
When the Act was passed to abolish imprisonment
for debt, mame wished to allow a lunger tine to.
elapse before it sheald go fate operation ; and if
we had done ae, 1 do not think we weuld be’
ae tow to repeal that pF Many were!
sued for purpose of getting judgment agalust
them before the Act went pe Spits tha
atherwise would pet have been sued to this day: |
it has therefore beew an injury to them. As to!
imprisoning &@ poor man, When he has ve means |
of paying bis debt, 1 cousider it a barbarous prace |
tee. “Tt is bad etiough fora man to be without
property without being deprived of lis liberty, J)

said—I have leng deemed it necessary to have some

yey ision Taade for the proper security of Steurmbout
Snch regulations exist

Navigation in this Colony.

l for City Councillors, who will not be so under the
influence of the Bank or Gas Company's ledger as
lt) submit to taxation for any useless public
articles.
| Under the influence of these scribblers, also,
lthere was quite an excitement created against
some useless City machinery, and retrenchinent
has been considered as the inevitable result; but
when is this * consummation so devoutly wished”
to make its debet inthe Corporation? Why ean-
not our “ City Fathers’ use the pruning kuife at
once t Why wait tillafter the Civie Elections ere
attempt te make a saving in our City ex-
pens@s? It iswell known that our City Treasury
is empty, why then not lop off the City Surveyor,
the Marshal, the Collector, and the Treasurer!
If we have no money to expend iy street liaprove- |
ment, why keep a Surveyor at £60 a-year who |
has nothing tade? Lf the police are sufliciently
drilled to do their duty without a Marshal, why
keep such an officer as a fifth wheel to the City
coach, 2t some 65 or 70 pounds per annum? It
there are no taxes to collect, or if it is morally
impossible to collect those due, why keep a Col-
Hector at £30 a year? And if there are no funds
in hand, and not the least possible chance of get-
ting any before the election,why keep a ‘Treasurer
on pay for some four months, or why have one at
all, when the City Clerk might do the business?
Then, as it is admitted on all hands that a Re-
corder is a useless City appendage, why not make
the salary equivalent to the duty performed ! instead
of “ forking out” so lavish a sum as £75 per an-
yum?) These are matters, Sir, worth looking to
immediately, because between this and the Ist of
August next asaving of some £65 might positi
be made! As it must be evident to the C
Coune!l that the water tanks will turn out of as
much importance to the City as the far famed
water carts did, why net abandon the project of
making the third one? Lf this were done it would
also prove a saving; there islittle use retrenching
on one hand and wasting on the other; such un-
necessary things as these tanks should not have
| been taken in hand by the City. If the Mutual
Fire Insurance Company, or some of ita officers
wanted reservoirs, why did they nat jnvest the
Company's surplus money in the project? or why
did not the wiseacres have them properly built
where the surplus water of Spring Park could be
made to fill them and keep them full?) Sueh an
| objeet would have been too self-sustaining fer onr
No dis-
creet merchant, who designed to pay his way,and
have something to lay up for a stermy day, would
be guilty of spending £1500 per annum, if he had
only £1000 coming in; yet indiscretion seems to
have been the guiding genius as well of a majority
of the present City Council as of their immediate
predecessors. Some of the latter gentlemen now
| appear religiously anxious to “shut the door when
| the horse is gone;” therefore they come out inthe
Debating Club against the City with the ery,
“ Retrench! retrench!! when they know very
well they can do nothing more than shout; where-
as when they were in office, and had the power
to curtail useless expense, they were among the
foremost to waste the City funds! Why did they
not retrench then? Now their apparent zeal for
the welfare of the City comes with a very bad
grace from them, and shows they have some sin-
ister motive in view. Indeed it is whispered that
two of them have the Mayorship “in their eye,”
and think by making a shout about “ retrenehinent.
in City expenses” they will * blind the eyes of the
flats,” and get the cluef office of the City; but if
they would oiler te act as Mayor for nothing, and
to pay the City £500 a yearfor allowing them the
honor, | for one would be very sorry to accept
their services or their mouey, being assured that
a eurse instead of a blessing would t result.
What did they do before they got office !
They tried privately and publicly to tradace the

and “much more abundantly,” if ever they get
the chance. Therefore, beware of tlgfm, ye citi-
zens, who have the right to seleet a Mayor; be
sure to put the “right man in the right place.”

Trusting that the Corporation will see the pro-
priety of immediate action with respect to cur-
tailing the cost of our City machinery, and do it
instead of talking about doing so,

I remain, yours truly,
ONE OF THE CLUB.
Charlottetown, May J, 2862.

> Bee

To THE Eprrok oF THE EXAMINER.

phy of the Magdalen Islands he will minute ly point
out the best places for catening cod fish and her-
riag, and the vest time and mauner for setting the
nets, &e., of all which things they say he has a
wonderful knowledge. A very excellent idea said
I. and one whieh Lhighly appreciate. Since the
Rev. ventleman has done so well by the geography
of the Island, why should he not write one of the
Macdaley Islands,since there ise very reason to hope
that he will be handsomely rewarded not only by
our government but also by those of Nova Seotia,
New Brunswick and Canada, which take an in

crest in the successful prosecution of the fisheries
at these Islands? All honor to native talent and Is
lund literary enterprise, so conspicuous in our @s
teemed and learned friend the Rey. George Sather
land. The pedhur said that whatever honor was
connected with the Rey. gentleman's literary works,
his geography of the Magdalen Islands was waited
for with much anxiety by all classes, particularly

by fishermen, é
4 A COUNTRY TEACHER.

LATE NEWS FROM EUROPE.

Tne following are a few items of news brought
by the last English Steamer, the “ America,”
which arrived at Halifax on the Ist inst. :

The naval defences of England appear to be
among the principal subjects engaging attention
at home,—and the future exploits of the Merri-
mac on this side of the Atlantic is looked forwaid
to with much anxiousness.

Money is so abundant in England that nearly
all the needy powers ot Europe are seeking loans
there, There’s the Moorish, the Turkish, the
Egyptian, and the Russian loan, all before the
publie, “Nothing ean demonstrate more ‘clearly
the levelling power of capital than the fact, that
the Goyernmeut of the Sublime Porte and the
Autocrat of all the Rassias, are both compelled
to come to London, eight years after the struggle
in the Crimea, for those “ sinews of war” whieh
are to be expended this time in the quiet pursuits
of peace, With money in the City seeking invest-
ment at 2 per cert., the wolf and the lamb are
found in immediate proximity, and the sight seems
to confirm the prophetic remark of Mr, Cobden,
that if our arms destroyed every city in Russia,
she would come to London and borrow money to
rebuild them.”

Preparations for the opening of the Interna-
tional Exhibition are making with rapidity, The
strueture of the building is said to be far inferior
to that of F851. The delay in exhibitors sending
forward their products causes the Commissioners
much trouble, and it is probable many articles
will be shut out on that account. The Exhibi-
tion was to open on the Ist of May. A list of the
Officers of State, who are to take part in the
ceremony, is published. The Emperor of the
Freneh and the King of Prussia will be among
the visitors.

The Great Eastern was to leaye for New Yerk
about the 10th of May. :

The completion of the iron eased frigates in
France is being hastened, and others as well as
ceveral floating batteries are to be at once con-
structed,

Lord Elgin was installed Vicerey of India on
3th Mareh. Lord Canning, the late Governor
General, has been highly complimented for his ad-
ministration of Indian aifairs.

Sir John West, Admiral of the Fleet, died in
London onthe 18th.

The steamer Saxonia arrived at Southampton,
from New York, on the 16th inst. : ¢

A deputation of the British and Foreign Anti-
slavery Society recently waited on the American
Minister at the Court of St. James with an Ad-
dress, expressive of welcome to “an Ambassador
from the United States who holds principles
on the subject of slavery in harmony with their
own.”

Consols 93% to 94. Flour and wheat were firm
and a good business doing.
er, With some demaad for Nutmegs and Pepper.
For Coffee previous high rates were sustained.
Tea was raising. Business more active in Cotton
and Tobacco.

ting Nauplia.
taking their countrymen on board.

ed through our outer pickets. Letters have been
received from them to the effect that they are
safe and well, aud seemed to be much plea é
with the cordial reception they received. i
sentry told them he was the onter guard. The|
affair will undergo an investigation.

Everything is remarkably quiet. i
During Friday the enemy constructed a rifle
pit in front of the lines of Gen. Hamilten, with a
view of picking off the men working our field
pieces, whieh had been posted in a position to pre-
vent them from strengthening their works. At
daylight yesterday merning 3 companies of the Ist
Mass. and 2 of the Lith were sent out to endeavor
to capture those who might occupy it, by getting
between them and their reserve, :
The result was in every way successful, with
the loss of 3 killed and 13 wounded. Thenumber

bels must have been equal, if not more than ours. |
Fourteen of the enemy were taken prisoners and
brought to headquarters, and were to-day taken
on board the prison boat John R. Thomson.

The boat from Old Point las? night brought up
about twenty Paymasters. Their arrival will be
hailed with much joy by the troops.

Paymaster Cameron was attacked with conges-
tion of the brain yesterday on the way up trom
Yortress Monroe, Tle is better to-day.

About 10 o'clock to day the enemy opened a
brisk fire on our mea near York Qiver without
doing any damage. ——

One of the gunboats shelled the rebel works near

Yorktown this afternoon tor about an hour. The
enemy responded, but without dojng any barm.
The rain has ceased and everything indicates
pleasant weather once more.
New York, April 27.—The Mercury states,
on the anthority of officers of the steamer Bos-
ton, that Fort Jackson, six miles below Savannah,
is in possession of our troops, and our pickets are
within four miles of Savannah.

The steamer Atlantic, from Port Royal 24th,
brings 85 of the Fort Pulaski prisoners, 1957 bags
unginned cotton, and 36 bags ginned, No news.

CaicaGo, April 27. —A special despatch from
Cairo to the Punes says—* Passengers from Pitts-
burg report that on ‘Thursday over 30 deserters
from the rebel army entered our camps and beg-
ged to be enrolled among our troops. They all
corroborated the statement received the day be-
fore relating to the evacuation by the rebels of
their present position, and asserted that Beaure-
gard had withdrawn a considerable portion of his
torce tor Meniphis.”

PrrrssurGc LANDING, April 27.
Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War:

Major Gen, C. F. Smith died at 4 P.M. on the
25th.
where they will be buried wich inilitary honors.
He is a great loss to this army. 1 have not di-
reeted military honors to be paid to his memory
bere, but wait your order,

The enemy has been strongly reinforced since
the last battle.

(Signed) HW. W. HALveck, Maj. Gen.

Caio, April 27.—The river is still rising, and
in some places gradually making its way over the
levee.

The steamer M‘Clellan, from Pittsburg Land-
ing at 4 o’elock on Saturday, has arrived. The
rebels are Inangurating a system of guerHla war-
fare along the ‘Tennesse river. Boats were fired
on yesterday a short distance above Fort ileury.

The roads have been improving, but the rainon
Friday rendered them again impassible.

Gea, Buell and Beauregard have effected an ar-
rangement for an exchange of wounded prisoners,

Passengers by the M‘Clellan bring further aer
counts of Cormth being evacuated by the rebels,
who will make their next stand at Columbus, Miss.

The Memphis Avalanche of the 23rd says that
a raft upon which was a large field piece, a 13-

Sugar and Rice low-! inch mortar and 16 of our men, was captured by

the rebels near Fort Wright and taken down the
river. The Avalanche sul! insists that the battle
at Shiloh was a rebel victory.

Curtcaco, April 27.—The Memphis Avalanche

Arnens, April 11.—The inhabitants are quit-| of the 23rd says that on the 11th, 80 Federal ea-
English and French steamers are valry took possession of Pocahontas, Arkansas.

There are 10,000 Federal troops at Dauphin,

Smyrna, April 11.—A disturbance took place Missouri, engaged in building flat boats on Current
on Sunday in the Greek Church, on account of River, with which to deseend Black and White
the clerical authorities refusing to allow a funeral
service to be performed for tle rebels who have the Federals from marching on Corinth for some |

Rivers. The condition of the roads will prevent

fallen in Syria.
Garibaldi has gone te Boercia.

Dear Str,—As a member ofthe Charlottetown

ber of our Club, in the * Moniter’s’ last issue.

Debating Society, allow me the privilege of offer-| National Guards had been decided upon.

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| That Stephen Swabey, as appears in this anony- | The Civil War in the States.

1 | false—the word Legislature never passed Stephen
i

| Swabey’s lips, on the evening ia question; and the
Hon. Mr. PALMER presented a Bill relating to! ouly allusions made by him to ay member of the
’) House of Assembly were direeted to Col. Grav
jand Mr. Beer, as members of constituencies whom
Mr. Swabey considered had been insulted by the

in all the neighbouring Colonies, and it is ecrtainly | TePFesentatives offering to protect the native talent

necessary for the safety of passengers to see that | Of this Island and its own bred-born aspirants to |
ha e Steambo: ts are property equipped, and that their | Senatorial honors, &¢., &e., during a debate in
have a chance to get out of jail- With respect to} boilers ave in a safe und efficient state. We have | the House of Assembly last Session on the J

tion with this Island ; but ca

Why? | their periodical inspection.
lt | The sad Bill was received aud read the first time
j

Ilouse adjourned for one hour.

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slanderous.

CORRESPONDENCE,

FOR THE EXAMINER,
SPRING.

All nature smiles—her heart is full of joy ;

That made her sad;
And Spring, on aerial tides in skies of balm,
Comes sunny-wing'd, mellitluous aud ealin,
Youthful and glad.
To mect her, infant leaves in freshness flow,
Aud tribute flowers and berry blossoms blow,
Tu sanbeams elad.
The gorgeons Butterfly to greet her comes,
And the wild Bee among the tlow’rets hums,
And honey steals.
Zephyrus perfam’d fies on fanning wing,
And warliers in the tassel'd alders ring
Sweet homage pends.
Gay in the noon day howr the Locust sings,
And wheels the Dragon-fly on goss’mer wings,

oo nmmmewrne | Johnstone, is, I fear, worthy of its author,

hope to see the day when there will be no im-|
oo for debt. é . On lakelet's besem berne ‘mid flags and reeds,

. wn. Mr. HAKZARD—I think the Aet has) Kiss 'd by the sunbeam where the troutiet feeds,
operated against the bogest poor men more thai | ‘i "Neath opening flower:
against avy others; tar when a mau aska for ere... 4 : — hah Pip ade
ait you canuet tell whether he is an honest man | The bubbling fountains and the rolling streams,
or net, you can only julge of his honesty by his| Gushing and clear, are sounding springly themes
looks ; you are afray to trust bi with a small On pebbly wry.
ainount, a3 you canuot jmprisoy him uuless the| The joeand west wind comes from fur, and breathes
debt is over £10, :

‘Mong lily bowers—

Hon. Mr. SIMPSON—Mr. Chairman, tie
clause relating to capias turus ont to be a law J

did not know it was, becayse it ix inoperative, | Sweet's the wild musie of his aerial lyre,
he put in| Mingling its softness with the feather'd choir

Formerly, a man taken by capias might bx
jail; but, as the law now stands, his case may be
tried, but uuless the debt exceed £10 he cannot

town, aad get credit to the amount of eight
OF ine pounds, aud then go ou board the steamer

and you could not detain him. J did vote for the) The mounds, the hills, and solemn mountains high,
clause to abwlini tuprixounent fog debt for euros) Whase proud cones sternly pierce the distant sky,

uuder Liu, hoping it would kave the effect of
limiting the credit eystew; but as 6 many poor

people have petitioned fur the repeal of thatelause, | 0%*, Plain. and wead, of wondrous fertile store,
or in other words, to be allowed to go to jai, 1 Iu pride of fruitful power their welcome pour

Lusk We should graut them their dewre. J amof
opinion that vo couatry can prosper bile
is so inneh busjuexs dove on the eredit systen.
Jowever, it is not altogether without reason that
this Ace iw compiained of; tor it has been shown

that parties Imes taken advancaye of it, by mak-| Reeambeut nature wakes in vital pride,
erty alter contracting the) Aud tecus with fruits and song nubounded wide,

lug over their
debts, and thus defrauding their creditors. The
present Aet provides a remedy; fer a wav's pro-

rty will be halle for hia debts, even though it
oe made ever, if the trauster is subsequent

to the contraction of the debts. J believe this

will be @ benefit, though debtors will still be liable} The season's parent, yivitying power,
Karth’s germs obey thy fructifying hour,

to suifer impriieuwecut.

Hon. Mr. PALMER—~J also snpported the Bill
to abvliah tuprisooient tor debt to a certain ex-
tent, aud 1 did su

between debtor aud creditor. 1 suid at the time

that it might producea great deal of inconvericnce | With vove-buds writ, and flowers of sunny prime,

the first year or two, but that it would gradually :

wear away, and would enable poor people ta be- On the bright tablet of recorded Time,

cone more seli-roliant. And if people had waited

a few years, and given the Act a fair trial, 1 am | Stirring the heart with memocy’s golden cares—
tual 1¢ would be found to operate to the Ficating iv vistas green of other years,

advautage of buth parties. But that does: not ap-
pear lo be the opmion of the large number of pe- I
Utioners, and f a to see that they lave prayed
for the repeal of t

remain, 1 would be the basis of future legistation

abolishing inapeisonment fer debt altogeiber. J) Ln simple grandeur robed, sod, lower, and tree,

did hope to aee the time when the law which
authorizes such a privation would be erased from

en te be allowed to go to jail, but asthe
ave done so, L see no vther course for us but Pf I
eve them ther own way, aud I s
uni ie ronclusion tbat our legislation bas| 5
yr premature, Theretore, | give a reluctan
went to repeal the Act; but I uope the day is
when our trade will have a new

ne ye When our farmers will geta ready marke:
aud & higher price tor their produce, and whew
the trade of our eomutry will become wore healthy
Pett, shops Which draw them into debt, and then |:
we cau reenact such a law as that whieh so are

now repealing — No donbtit bears hard ou many m4 tax Sh Anguet next, when it in hoped the

His melody o'er glowing virgin leaves,

Waving their tender leaves in welcome sigh

be put in jail, A stranger might cume inte Char-| .

there The ravine’s joyful lisp, from tongueful cells
And glad wild whisperiugs of the bosky dells,

Array'd in glowing gard of new-born life—
With goodness full, in bulin and beuuty rife,

because | thought the alteration Welcome, sweet welcome, lovely penerous Sprivg—
would have @ salutary efleet on the transactions! Ly joyful voices fond memeutos bring

Act. Had they allowed it to The heavens smile on thee, aed grateful earth

Aud sougs of birds on mountain sides and lea,

our Statute Book. Lt is rather novel to see people And rills aud rivers rolling far and free,

se we must} Owuipotent and kind, ruling the sprinstide hour,

* will Keep cloar of thane titre | quill or steel-pen drivers in your

Ilarps of bis lay;

*Mong forest trees-—
To the Aolian minstrel passing by,

In taneful breeze.

Mutely rejoice.

In verdure’s voice.

Attune the air.

Greeting Spring here.

Intensely fair;

Sire of the year!

On thy chaste lyre;

du youthful fire ;

Where I respire.

sland Spring, with joy we hail thy gracious birth :

Unfolds her page.

With maa engage
n different tonges, owning exhaustless power—

a breeze and calm, in sanshine, dow wud shower,
On nature's stage.
May, 1862. WERAND.
Por ‘tue Examiner.
Mk. Wiiktan—Sin——Thavks to these goowe-

| peper aud the
J votesiant’ tor being the incans of iidding us of

on the probable political prospects of Mr. W. A.

locally speaking, as any of its members; but surely

clined to make on the acts of our local Legislature,
while we enlarge to any extent on questions ot
foreign politics, and any of the subjects udmissable
by our Club regulations.

“common sense at all times” as our nameless wem

ber, I will shew as much manliness, at least, as

should be common between us now and always, by

subscribing myself, ’
Yours very truly,

STEPHEN SWABEY.,

Charlottetown, May 9th, 1562.

P.S. Feeling that none of our Club, from the
President to myself, have any possible right to par-
tienlarise Mr. H. Havilaud’s withdrawal of his
patronage from onr musical entertainment as any
thing but a proper exhibition of bis innate modesty,
common sense and heroic magnanimity, as well as
a characteristic exercise of his private judgment,
allow me to claim my right to enter my humble pro-
test against any encroachment ou our Club's
exercise of free discussion by any of its members.

A CLERICAL PEDLAR.

To THe Epiror or tHe Examiner.

Sm—A few evenings ago having met a pedlar
from Charlottetown, Tasked him what news from
the City? He said not much, except that it is ge-
nerally auderstoed through the City that a Revd.
gentleman has turned pedlar, at Which some are
utnused and others indignant. Said I, yon must feel
very much complimented from the fuet of a elerzy-
man embracing your profession; and as I presume
that the gentleman to whom you allude is the Rev.
George Sutherland, I think you pedlars are very
highly honered, as this clergyman is very talented,
and I think it would be just to make him your
Patrou. The pediar after reterring to the means
which Mr. Sutherland enployed to sell his books,
continued thas— I feel ashamed that a minister of
the Gospel should demean himself s0 much. I do
not consider it any honor that this gentleman has
become a pedlar J ama licensed pedlar, I paid for
my license, L go honestly te werk to sell tea and to-
baceo and the other little necessaries that wople in
the country require. 1 don’t use any ek at infln-
ence to induce people to buy my goods, I don’t sell
worthless books, 1 dou’t cheat the government by
pedlingon the sly; Tam not a member of the Board
of Education to recommend the government to buy
my goods; and if L were 1 would not be so mean as
to do it. Those who hawk goods without a license
are not entitled tothe maine of pedlars, they are
rather impostors like Yankee book-sellers;° they
are smugglers that I would be ashamed to class
with lawful pedlars. Come, come, seid I, this is
enough in that direction. Do you presume to call
a distinguished clergyman, a member of the Board
of Education, a smuggler? Are you aware. that
this gentleman is very distinguished, and although
he js small in the animal part—I mean in that phy-
sical conglomeration of carnal, oxssial. tissual and
membraneous parts which, in their ensemble, con-
stitute corporeal magnitude — yet he is big in the
desire and influence to promote the reorganization
of primeval society. The pedlar said that I might
talk Greek and Latin till morning if I wished, but
for his part he did not cousider it honest or honour-
able oo hawking books or anything else about
without license. I said that Me. Sutherland was
esteemed by some, and that I and some others had
the evening before debated the following subject,
* Who has conferred the zreatest benetit on modern
civilization—the Kev. George Sutherland or Hum
boli!” "The debate was & warm one, and was kept
up tilla late hour. The cubject to be next debated
by us is, “* Which does the most honor to a clergy
wan, to be an Oraugemai or to be a Pedlar?”’ "1
siid, has not that geutienan done great service to
the Island by making known to us that our Island
is surrounded by water, in which swim “ snany of
the richest and most palatable fish to be foaud in
any quarter of the globe 1’ Has he not given the
gener and species of numerous fishes, such as the
dog-tish, the smelt, the torsk, the tom-cod, the tloun
der, the halibut, which is nota very “ mild species’
of the plearonectide, the mummacliog, Xe., and of
some replilos, such us the yxreen frog, the pond
frog, the bull froy, &e., all bariwless “ species 2"
By the bye, said the pedlar, your wention of fish
reininds me of a report quite current in town to the
effect that Mr. Sutherland is employed in writing a
geography of the Maudaten Islands, which will be
very servieeuble to the fishermen of those lonely
shores. "They say, coutinued he, that the Revd.

ices Will Make cheice of “ good men and trac’ |

} mous production, indulged in any abuse whatever
four hours notice to be given in the Order Book be-| 2gaiust the Legislature of this Colony, is totally

lective
not, Lam sorry to say, many steamboats in connee-| Legislative Council Bill. The strictures on our |

‘ *reetpe it¢ M4 9
bul ptital is incre asiiiy, and i fellow townsman, Mr. Sloggett
perhaps steamboats will increase too, and itis there-| 4,
fore necessary to have some provision made for

if polities are included among our subjects for dis-
cussion, as appears by the rules of our Society's
constitution, 1t would seem senseless to debar our-
selves from passing any remarks we may feel in-

News by Telegraph.

Sr. Joun, N. B., May 5.

tion, and cainp equipage.

pursuit ot the enemy.

j ere greatly demoralized.

a.

army.
sand Coufederate troops, taking many prisoners.
Sr. Jonny, May 5, P. M.
The Federals in pursuit of Confederate army

liamsburg.
Confederates planted murderous torpedoes about

If Lam not blessed with as large a share of parts of evacuated works.

Over seventy heavy guns captured ; rest remoy-
ed or thrown into the river.

Deserters represent condition of Confederate
army most squalid. Dense woods enabled them
to leave unperceived.

Large part of Magruder’s command threatened
mutiny.

Richinond people panie-stricken. The wealthy
sending off their effects.

to commerce,
Sr. Joun, May 6.
General MeClellan’s advance of cavalry and
light artillery overtook rear-guard of the Confede-
rates near Williamsburg, and had hand to hand
encounter with their artillery, taking 25 prisoners.
Confederates were driven from their position,
but the Federals, for want of infantry, did not ad-
vanee on the enemy’s works, which opened fire.
‘Lhe latter were expected to occupy Williamsburg
yesterday.
Information has been received that the enemy
are still on retreat beyond Williamsburg ; their
rear-guard 18 very strong.
Baton Rouge (Louisiana) was oeeupied by the
Federals, the enemy fleeing on approach of the
Federal fleet. Gunboats had passed up the river.
General Butler’s army had ianded at New Or-
leans. An immense amount of cotton discovered
and seized.
Unionists in the city held meetings, and indul-
ged in joyful demonstrations.

oe

CAPTURE OF NEW ORLEANS.

FortTRESS Monroe, April 27.
To Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War:

A fugitive black, just arrived from Portsmouth,
brings the Petersburg Express of yesterday, which
contains the following despateh :—

“Mobi.e, April 25.—The enemy passed Fort
Jackson at 4 o clock yesterday morning. When
the news reached New Orleans the excitement
was boundless. Martial law was put in iull force
and business was completely suspended. All the
cotton and steamboats (excepting such as were
necessary to transport coin, ammunition, &e.,)
were destroyed. At one o'clock to-day the ope-
rator bade us good bye, saying that the enemy had
appeared before the city. This is the last we
know regarding the fall. Will send particulars
as soon as they ean be had.”

The negro bringing the above, reports that the
rebels have two iron-clad steamers nearly com-
pleted, and that it is believed the Merrimae will
come out to-morrow.

(Signed) J. E. Woo.”

Head Quarters Department of the 2
Rappahannock, April2. 4

Hon, E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War:

f have just returned from the camp opposite
Frederickburg. 1 was told the Richmond Exami-
ner of the 26th has been received in tewn, an-
nouncing as follows :—

‘New Orleans taken! Great destruction of
property, cotton and steamboats! Steamboats
enough saved to take away the ammunition.
Great consternation of the inhabitants.”
(Signed) Inving MceDowr8.t, Maj. Gen.

Head Quarters of the Army of the Po- 2
tomac, near Yorktown, April 26. 5
[t is still raining, making the roads next to im-
passible.
‘The rebels opened a battery at Yorktown this
morning on tiree canal boats, while they were
passing into Wormley’s Creek. The nineteenth
shot exploded in one of the boats without injur-
ing any one, when, apparently satistied, they
ceased,

gentleman hus a great love for fishermen—becanse,
perhaps, St. Peter was one—and that ia hie geogra.

entire lines, togetier with Gloucester, and are in

|
Jeff. Davis and Gen. Lee advised the movement |

from Yorktown overtook rear guard near Wil-

time to come.
Martiallew bas been de-

Corinth. Mr. De Bow, the solicitor for the Con-

| jarge body of Texians are in Memphis en route for
| federate cotton loans, wants 20,000 bales for spe-

i . . ‘ =
| cific purpose, in exchange for 5 per cent. Confede- |

| rate bonds.
A mutiny has broken out in Nashville in con-
sequence of the late abolition message of Presi-
| dent Lincoln. Eleven efficers resigned. A Ken-

of the killed and wounded on the part of the re-| piet its horrers.

His remains have been sent to St. Louis, |

They are making no move in the |
Tt is reported | direction of [fumboldt.
that his nomination as Commander-in-Chiet of the | elared at Vicksburg and five miles around. A

— P pibidaacih sine 7

Half a mile further on, and the more important | and St, Peter were sunk.

| features of the strugule were brought to view: | yesterday to be about Swabs
| . a: 4 . ° * . . . i r

sed | Dead bodies in the woods, the dead and dying in | must have inereased today. Ty...”

the fields, lying in every conceivable shape, met’
the gaze on either hand, Seme lay ontheir back
with their clenched hands raised at arm’s length
upright in the air. Others had fallen with their
guns fast in their grasp, as if they were in the act
of loading them when the fatal shaft struck them
dead. Others had reeeted the winged messen-
gor of death, and with their remaining. strength
had crawled away from further danger, and shel-
tering themselves behind old logs, had laid down
to die. Here were the bodies of those who had
fallen in the fight of yesterday, and mingled with
them were those from whese wounds the blood
was vet trickling away. The scene beggars all
description’, avd [ do not wish to attempt to de-
The fatality on the open space
Thave referred to as the open “ Battalion Drill
Ground,” was the greatest which came under my
observation. f

The canuister which had swept it over during
the morning had been terrible in ite results.
Strongly contested as its possession had been by
both sides, yet the dead were as five to one on the
side of the rebels. One man here Was in a bent
position, resting on his hauds and feet, with his
face downward, yet coldand rigid as marble. One
had crawled away to the border of the woods,
and ensconcing himself between two logs, had
spread his blanket above him to shield him, per-
haps, from the rain of the previous night. He
was a wounded rebel, and he pitifully asked * if
we could do anything for him?” At his feet lay
the body of one of those Union boys I have spoken
of as having his hair burned from his head. On
interrogating the rebel as to the cause of his being
in such a condition, his only reply was, “I do not
know; I did not do it.’ We assured him that an
ambulance would seon be at hand to take him to
better quarters, and we left him.

One ease I saw where the entire lower portion of
a man’s foot had been carried away, leaving two
toes and the upper portion remaining. Another
had been struck by a bullet ‘on the forehead, and
the missile had followed the eurve of the head en-
tirely around to the termination of the hair on the
back portion of his cranium. The case of the ce-
lebrated Kansas scout, Carson (not Kit) was hor-
| rifying. His face and the entire lower portion of
| his head were entirely gone, bis brain dabbling -in-
to the little pool of blood which had gathered in
the cavity below. . I could fili pages with such
cases, but it is useless to particularize. Suffice it
to say that the slaughter is immense. :

And old surgeon, who has been long in the ser-
vice, and who has just returned from the field tor
the first time since the battle began, said to me,
| as he sat down to-night on the river bank: “I
j have been present at both Bull Run. and. Fort
| Donelson, but they were skirmishes to what I
have seen since yesterday morning.” Such, it
| seems, is the testimony of all with whom I have
conversed in relation to this great contest.

The battle has now been over for, at least, ten

hours, yet so accustomed have [ become since yes-
terday to the rattle of musketry, that there lb a
constant “ erack,” “ craek,’?) “ crack,” ringing
through my ears as I sit down to write.

In my previons letters I have mentioned that
the diarrkoa had prevailed most extensively
among our troops, nene of whom were accustomed
to the soil, climate or water of this section of Ten-
nessee, This had weakened some ef the resiments
so far as numbers were concerned, the hospitals
having been tolerably well filled with the sick pre-
vious to the attack.

Though the health of the men was improving,
yet there were many who had not yet been dis-
charged as fit for duty. These were on the sick
list at the time the enemy so suddenly made their
appearance within the camps on the front lines.
Many of them left for the river, an order bemg
issued for the immediate evacuation of the hospi-
tals, and it was a pitiful sight to see the poor in-
valids, scarcely able to drag one foot after another,
wending their way to some place of safety. The
fire of the enemy was severe from behind them,
but some of them looked as though they would
welcome a friendly bullet, or at least receive it
with indifference. Those who were unable to
walk remained and awaited their fate. They saw
i their healthy comrades driven back amid a shower
lof balls, some of which pierced the tents wherein
they lay he’pless as though they were dead.

The tide of battle rolled on, and they were left
ito such treatment as the rebels might choose to
| bestew upon them. In some cases the hospital
| tents were burned, with the sick still within them.
| These, I believe, were isolated cases, for in others
fall the kindness which could be afforded in the
lexeitement of such an hour was awarded them.

In some cases | found that they had even filled
| the eanteens of the sick with water, and left them
| by their couches for future use. In others they
‘had been roughly treated, eursed as Yankees, but

| tueky regiment mutinied, and had a pitched bat-| Yet not outraged as they had been on former o¢

On Saturdey nigut the Confederate forces eva-) tle with two Indiaua regiments.
euated Yorktowa,abaudening heavy gunsammuni-| The Federal steamer Montgomery burned the
the Federals held the steamer Columbia, londed with cotton, inside the
}
|

St. Louis Pass, West of Galveston. ,
A despatch from Richmond, dated the 22nd,

Confederate deserters say the evacuation was | says that Gen. Fremont bas left Eastern Kentucky
caused by the near approach of the Federal paral-| with his whole force, numbering 20,000, and lad
jJels and siege works, and that the enemy’s torees | gone to Corinth.

It is supposed that the |

‘ Steg? ett's, presence at the | Confederates have fallen back to Chicahomine |
hate in question is as impertinent and con-} Cree} }
| ternptible as the falsehood that he, Mr. Sloggett, |
| am the slightest possible degree, applauded any abuse of evacuating Yorktown.
jot the preseat Government, 1s malicious and | "

-_—--—o ~
FROM THE STATES.
The capture of New Orleans by the Federal
forces is officially confirmed; but, it is said that

The steamer Bermuda, heavily loaded with} t,o port can net be opened to trade without
pond }arins and munitions of war, has been captured! breaking the blockade.
The ungenerous attack owr member makes on while attempting to run the blockade; also the | t
the former career and present position, as well as| Jeabel (alias) Ela Ware ye

Southern papers as-
sert that the surrender of the city and port was
the result of treason. Among the most expert

General Halleck’s army is approaching that of sharpshooters in the Confederate ranks are, If is
de Beauregard —the advance being within twe miles affirmed, some thousand negroes.
I assure you, dear Sir, I should be as sorry to! of the enemy's outer works,

see our Club become a “ political debating shop,” | mans deserted from the Confederate to the Federal negroeg show a good deal of ability in the use of

A eorrespon-

Four hundred Ger. dent of the New York Tribune writes:—* These |

the rifle; in fact, our pickets declare that the best

General Pope has assaulted and routed five thou-| shot among them is a stalwart darkey, who climbs

up inside the chimney of a recently burnt hoaigy
and, knocking out a brick fora port-hole, sits
perched inside, watching his chance for a shot at
our people. Our sharpshooters watch him very
closely.”

OUTRAGES ON TITE PRDERAL DEAD.

Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, in!
regard to the barbarous treatwent of the remains |
ot officers and soldiers: killed at Bull Kun, is very |
long. It states that the facts disclosed are of a
repulsive, shocking and painful character. Foreign
nations must with one accord consign to lasting |
oedinm the authors ot the crimes, which iu all de-,
| tails exceed the worst excesses of the Sepoys in |
India. Our dead were buried, in many cases |

Recovered Southern ports soon to be opened | naked with their faces downward, were left to, well deserve to be put down as among the best

decay in epen air, while therr bones were earried
off as trophies, sometimes for use as personal |

Wamneron, April 30.— The report of the | of every foot of the contested soil on which the

| casions, where the fortunes of war had made our
| men subjeet to their mercy.
| One singnlar feature was remarkable after the
| battle,
| with this department, | may mention here. Num-
| bers of our men were found, with the hair on the
' top of their head, their whiskers, and sometimes
}a portion of their upper clotuing, burned away.
| ‘They presented a strange and ghastly appearanee.
| Whether these were mere wanten:acts on the
| part of the enemy, er whether the-victims were
thoee who had been inmates of some of the burned
haspital tents, I cannot say. Lf the latter, they
jad made an attempt to escape, and had so far
succeeded that they had reached the woods, and
there, from sheer exhaustion, had laid them down
to die.
| As near asT can estimate of fthe entire force
| engaed in this conflict, I have set it down at the
/ opening of the battle as being about sixty thousand
jon the rebel side, with a somewhat smaller num-
‘r—-say over fifty thousand—on ours, This
; morning witnessed an addition to our troops of
j about twelve thousand men, while from the tes-
| tifmony of the rebel prisoners takea to-day, the
reinforcemeuts to the enemy were about eight
thousand men, more than half of whom had been
| lett at Corinth when the troops moved from that
point on Saturday evening last.
The intimate knowledge possessed by the enemy

battle was fought, gave them a greater advantage
than was awarded us by the trifling iInerease in
numbers; but on either side the battle was fought
with a desperation which I could not have believed
to exist in the minds of men, unless in cases of
strong personal grievance. The determination
appeared, even under the most galling fire, to be
victory or death. The Mississippians, on the side
of the enemy, were the ruling spirits, and they

fighting men of the day.
The ground, beyond the eminence, stretched

The larger guns had done some strange work. }'

The

los
Six the 7; wes

» bat *
again toon, rent

THREE River
The Inquirer of to-day hasthe followine »

still, but it will probably move a an

8; April 1g,

are sorry to learn that two houses — —W,
| tway by the ice on the river Desuneane Carr
Ferry, opposite the Church, last sete
ten persons lost theirlives, We wa y and that
lo ase pay particulars, Fiye borden Ale
cave 8 morning, an 7. “Te te
hold an inquest.” and the Coruner hide Veh ty

St. Hyacinryp A

The Yamaska has risen to a height wy pil 38,
known. For eight days the thawing in me
and accumulating of the iee had cansed hes
fo rise very much, but no one eX pected M Watery
ful calamity of yesterday, the Seay.

On Thursday morning all the
town was half submerged, ape! part
overflow reached alarming proport;
p- m., more than 50 hous em fad at 5
| flooded. J

| About six o’clock the Cardi wm by
t.

Marehesault were swept away, and the

In the afternn.

Mills of Jaques and Boivon, the wreck tolacey
Biron bridge immediately after, and Wetting,
of it away. r CAPTYing half

Tn five minutes more the ‘torrent bor:
with destructive force agai Gorm
aod dowolished it. naa,

All thé lower of the ci
is ooded. ne? HY SP to Preto ing

More than one hundred families :
houses. Enormous quantities p ae ~ trig
down the river, whieh adds force to hy fratng
of the accumulating waters, and leads toa)
sion of still greater damage. 'prehey

. Friday Morning

Four houses have been carried awar. jp. >.

the foundry of M. Soly and the i eet

Fitchets. x
The authorities are moving promptly in aj

the honseless people. m aid ot
/t Laprairie also the flood has covered

tire village, and many fives ey °
/t two different places near the raj.

roal culverts have been washed away, Hoy ping a)

reg ar communication,

icinhdinesieaeapeeiiine
The Examiner,

Charlottetown, May 12th, 189,

“ went,
WHEN the House of Assembly had under the
consideration, in the late Session, the Bill to chang,
the constitution of the Legislative Counedl,the Hon,
Mr. Coles read, in the course of debate, Aamne por.
tion ofa pamphlet written by Mr, William H.Pop,
and published in 1856, .in which he attempted to
shew that this Island was most injuriotsly go
veried, under the Responsible system, from 185]
down to 1256. Although we believe the extrac
read by Mr. Coles found its way into the debates
in the usual order of publication, we think it may
not be amiss to requote it again,for the porpose of
showing the kind feelings entertained by Mr. Pope
towards the people of this Island, who have, much
against their wili, been compelled to vee him snatch
the best office in the Colony, beeause there happens
to be a proprietary Louse of Assembly an existence,
and pocket a large salary for doing absolute);
notaing in his office but what relates to his ows
private pursuits.

The pamphlet is entitled: “Prince Edwart
Island under Responsible Government: Being
strictures on the Policy of the Provincial Legis.
lature, since the year 155]. By William HL. Pope,
Esqr., Barrister at Law,” &c. &c.

Mr. Pope was very indignant that, under the
Responsible system, none but the adherents of the
par'y in power were employed to fill public offices.
At page 10 he says:—

“ All offices in the disposal of the Government
are conferred upon those who support their poliey,
and as the officials are aware, that any opposition
to, or expression of disapprobation of that policy,
| would ensure dismissal trom office, they wre sub-
jected to an influence, which at once-destroys the
independence of, and demorulizes, all who come
under it.”

Nothing ean be more abenrd than this GQarge
agaiust tee late Government after the three year”
experience we have had of the present one. Who

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which, as it may have some counectio. | ever heard of their having appouted to offieeany

| others than those “who suppert their poliey!”

jand who can doubt that the most petty official
connected with the Government is subject “to an,
‘influence which at once demoralizes aud destroys.
his independence ?”

But the two conelading paragraphs of the
parr oblet are these only whieh desery: especial
notice. In these, Mr. Pope declares that Reapoo-
sible Government is a great evil-—that the exten-
sion of the Franchise, under which the full grown
mal: pypulation of the country have been enabled
to el set their own representatives, is a great evil,
—and he unblushingly intimates that despotic
power should be lodged in the hands of the Lieat.
Governor, who might disregard when he thinks fit
the advice of his Executive Couneil—ithat
shou d be at liberty to cram the Legislative Coun
cil with creatures of his own “ without consulting
his Ey eeutive Council,” and that each Legislative
Cour cillur should have a property qualification of
£500 sterling. (The Duke of Neweastle has r-
cently Scdarel th: Legislative Councillors should
not be required to have any property qualifics-
tion; and we think the Duke of Neweastleis a
far better authority than W. H. Pope.) And this
said William Hi. Pope, the paid servant ot the
people—but an unfaithful and ungrateful servant
—further deciares that if the people will not elect
a House of Assembly to carry out the despotic
views of a Governor thus rendered independent of

adornments, and one witness deliberately avers | away along a broad ridge, which was pierced at
that the head of one of our most gallant officers | intervals by deep ravines, running mostly in a
was cut off by a seeessionist to be used asa drink-| southwesterly direction, and covered with serub
ing cup on the occasion of his marriage. During | oak, growing 80 close together that it was im
the last two weeks the skull of a Unten soldier | sile tor either infantry or cavalry to press through
has been exhibited in the office of the Sergeant-| them and at the same time preserve any kind of
at-Arms of the House of Representatives, which | erder. In this serub oak, or “ blocie jack,” the
had been converted§to such a purpose. and which | enemy kept themselves as mnch hidden from sight
was found on the person of one of the rebel pri-/ a8 possible. From the river bank to the furthest
soners taken in a recent conflict.

The testimony |
of Governor Sprague of Reode Island conclusively |
roves that the body of ene of the bravest officers |
in. the volunteer service was burned, because the!
rebels believed it to be that of Col. Slocum.

These disclosures should inspire the people of
the loyal States to renewed exertions to protect
the country from restoration to the power of such
inen. They should, and we believe they will (say
the committee) arouse the disgust and horror of
foreign nations agaist this unholy rebellion,
The cominitiee have yet been unable to gather
any testimony whether Indian savages have been
employed by the rebels in the military serviee, and
how sueh wartare is conducted by said savages ;
but they have taken the proper steps to attend to
this important inquiry.
The New York World says it is understood that
the delay in attacking New Orleans was due to
the fact that time was required to fit an iren
prow to the Pensacola, to ran down the “ second
Merrimae.”

ADDITIONAL FROM NEW ORLEANS,
The newspapers speak ef the fall of New Or-
leans in the most dismal strain, and demand the
mystery of the surrender to be explained. The
Norfolk Day Book, in an editorial, says it is the
worst reverse of the war. It suggests future pri-
vations to all classes of society. But the most to
be lamented is, it threatens the army supplies.
‘The raising of meat and bread instead of cotton
and tobacco is recommended.
The Richmond Dispatch of yesterday says that
when the enemy's fleet arrived opposite the city
aud demanded its surrender, General Lovell fell
back to Camp Moore after destroying the cotton
aud stores. The iron-clad gunboat Mississippi
was burnt to prevent her falling into the hands of
the enemy. Nothing is said about the Louisiana,
but it is supposed that she was scuttled. It is
rumored that she was sunk at the first fire.
Camp Jackson is seventy-cight miles from New
Orleans, on the Jackson Railroad.
sonst

THE BATTLE OF PITTSBURG.

The correspondent of the Cincinnati ‘ ‘Times’
gives the following description of the field after
the fight:

A visit to the field immediately after the re-
treat of the rebels and the pursuit of our forces
exhibited a spectacle seldom to be witnessed, and
most horrible to contemplate. The first approaches
occupying the turther range of the enemy’s guns
showed at the first glance the work of devastation
made by those balls and shells whieh had overshot
the mark. Large trees were entirely eut off with-
in ten feet from the ground, heavy limbs lay strewn
in every direction, and pieves of exploded missiles
wore séattered all around, ‘The carcasses of dead
horses and the wrecks of wagons strewed all th.
woods, and other evidences of similar characte:

Vol. Crocker and Major Cassady, of the New
York (3d Reguuent, on Lhursday afternoon pass-

marked every step of the way.

line of the National camps there were but three
open fields, of from 15 to 25 acres cach, and it
was when the enemy endeavoured to cross these,
into the heavy forest on the top of the ridge, that |
our troops were enabled to do them the most da-
mage.

1 found, even at the end of the first day’s fight-
ing, that many of our surgeons were missing.
They were known to have becu at the hospital
tents at the period in which the battle opened,
but after that time they were not to be found.
After the retreat of the enemy had begun, and
those of the sick who had been left in the hospi-
tals were again under the protection of our troops,

his ecnstitutional advisers, they should be placed
at the mercy of fifty regular troops, to be slaugh-

P°™| tered by bayonet and bullet, if they or the House

of Assembly should attempt to resist the demands
of a tyrannical Governor. It may seem ineredible
that such views or principles as these should be
prom algated by an individual holding, or aspiring
to ho'd a publie office whose tewure depends oa
the wil of his fellow Colonists, whom he would
fain coerce at the point of the bayonet to obey
the mandates of an irresponsible and arbitrary
Govemor, and besides have the constitution ¢
their country wrested from them. But the par
grap! s referred to will speak for themselves. lie
says at pp. 30, 31, 32:— ®
“Responsible Government has been granted—
the aseut of Her Majesty to an universal auffrage

they stated that the rebels had foreed the sur-
geons away with them, in order that they miglit
attend to their own wounded.

The ground upon which this most bloody battle |
was fought is known as Pittsburg Landing, and is)
situated in Harding county, 240 miles trom the |
mouth of the ‘Tennessee river, and about 10 miles |
trom the Alabama border. It accupics an en-|
trance of some fifty feet above the river, and has
but two houses, both of which were riddled by the |
shells of the gunboats when the National troops
first arrived, several weeks sinee. It was the
main outlet, previous to the building of the Mez-
plis and Charleston Railway, for the transporta-
tion by steamer of all the produce raised in the
vicinity of Corinth and the more interior portions
of the State.

idling
CANADA.

Sorev, April 18.

Great havoc has been wrought here by the ice,
Little River began to move at 9 a. m. yesterday,
and last night at 10 was clear. The ice brought
down the Montreal, Napoleon, Unity, Castor,
Chambly, Dawn and Arabia. Ali the Lake dredges
and every sailing craft, together with the Castor,
Dawn, Unity Dredge, No. 2, another dredge, and
three barges, are all sunk. The ice is piled here
four to five feet high in some piaces, and the eur-
rent is running at the rate of fifteen miles an
hour,

Soret, April 18.

In addition to steamers sunk must be added
the Cultivateur. The Napoleon, which at one
time was in great danger, wassaved. ‘The Maska
and Lincola are being got ready to tow in vessels
from the outside. ‘The water is too high to allow
of the launching of the Terrebonne and Etoile.
The Montreal, the Victoria, and the Yamaska are
below the Church. The Napoleon and Chambly
are near. ‘The Europe is ali right. The Columbia
js at her whart, much damaged.

Bertrueir, April 19.

To-day the ice in the St. Lawrence commenced
moving, carrying aloag with it allthe! boats, crush -

bill has been by some meaus or other obiained-
and with both these evils, I suppose, we ~4

left to contend. The minister of the

has it in his power to remove at least taco wf dhe
chief evils nnder which the Coley labours, by
vising Her Majesty’s Governmeni to seud usager
tletain as Governor who is possessed of too
British feeling—too much indepeader
great a regard for justice — to ussent te Bille at
the request of his Council, whieh are
‘to transfer property im land from the owner
the tenant, and to inflict manifest wrongon § Pr
tion of Her Majesty’s subjects,’ — too
sespoet—ahould any Act to which he may =
be disallowed by Her Majesty’s Ministers, 02°"
ground of its being seuliicoes unjust—to acknow
ledge, in the language of compliment, an addres
trom the House of Assembly styling such law
just ond equitable, and assuring His Excellency
of their conviction that the failure of such =
was ‘ not attributable to any want of His Exeer
lency’s recommendation’ — a gentleman W? the
act us he considers just and right, and, in
event of his being opposed by his Couneil, willap
peal to Her Majesty’s Government te be sustaile d
iu his determination not to allow himself to de
justice to any portion of Her Majesty's

“ With an independeat Governor, let
have an independent Legislative Council nal 7
Members of which shall possess each a of
or Leasehold Estate in the Island, of the valve
£500 sterling—and be appointed by the sg
without consulting his Executive Couneil. ie
a Governor, and such a Counce, ' a
away with the feeling of insecurity waielt ‘
vades the minds of all whe possess property
the Island, — and prevent men of independe home
means from leaving our shores, to seek a 0"
where property is protected, and its sf insult
does not mark the owner as an sbere
and plunder. During the past five year at its
have been driven trom this Island by pone
Government, several genilemen W fam Her
spen’ nearly £10,000 a year in the Colony. two
Majesty’s Government may remedy wn

evils, without any vf . fat
between this Island and the Mother Coun es

company of fifty regular troops, Fappol™ tail,
rze numbers of pepalation,

ing and doing great damaye. The steamer Napo
Joon was'Saved by great cacrtious. The Uuity

would be, by the”
would suilice, at all times, to maintaie the

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