ee ce

WP.

-

te ¥ . + at. oe Tyee ae oem adi or ; , , ghee oom ee ene , ‘= > —— —_- oe - . . manave t scramble WM abranch. Theelephona Treaty, Dec % he'Coart has cone? to mourn: Viv hold © ith Seipin, Tp eo an ale eau diewedy ty the tree, and attempted to force it ing for hiv kite Royal Hichteva the Prince Conort. the purpere of Cie cite Lok! Romar ee be 4 or fe down, which be would wut. He first coiled bie/ The LiTedia states that the megotintions for the ‘thie. A héstile or @bellious city, destreved by or-

tee

en,

STEAMSHIP CAHAWBA, OFF CHARLESTON,

varbour hae been destroved hutke, piaeed chect

lew pe water, }Us

trwuk reuud the stem, and pulled it with all hia| antey of Signor de Martine into ties Mini cry have

might, but with po effect. He then applied his) satlen through —Halfar Heemmy Express, Jan. 6.

head to the tree, and pushed it for aeveral minutes, |

_ a ae succest, Tle them trampled wy ; Y oma rpg wa feet the prejectiag roots, moving, as he dic Iiriwwa wW ‘ vr TY

=, nee Unica round oa round the tare Lastly N EW 5 I ROM | if i » PA Ks,

failing in all thia, aud eeeing a pile of timber, which ——-

1 bad lately cut, at a short hates from ua, he re | THE SUNKEN FLEET,

moved ital, (thirty-aix pieces) one af a time, to the | oe

rset of the tree, ard piled them up in a regular qi7e WAIN CHANNEL TO CHARLESTON

renneee Ete manzer; then placing bis bind feut of] HARBOR DESTROYEN—SIXTEEN OF THE

thie, hp raised the fere part of his body, and reached | ‘ONE FLEET SUNK ‘Oss :

wut his eenk ; bet etill he could nat touch us, as we | BOONE FLEET Bt <a ACROSS IT.

Were too far above him. The FEuglishman ¢t

fired, and the ball wok effect somewhere on the Dre. 21. 1861 elephant’s head, but did nox kiN him. Jt made bin ‘ ; oe , :

ely the more furious. The next shet, however, The main Chanue! of the approach to Charleston levelled him to the vround. I afterwards broaght Sixteen Stone tilled tve sbadl of che animal to Colombo, and it is etill to ssage in the be seen at the house of Mr Armitage

the + the 1

IFWwise Across

it the inner and outer edges of

the bar, arc the medinma throagh which this right 8 - eous retribution bus been measured out Thaa an TH? BURIED PRINCE other strong blew has fallen upon the headstrong

people of South Carolina hupiiliating ceived Taev

a , } . } the eflect of Which muat The last end solemn rites have beew performed, | be jor thun any they have yet-re aod Albert, the Prince Consert, rests in the gor- 1 mtingz it, and geous tomb-bouse ot Royalty at Windser, with | their haurlity rebellions spirite must fret and chafe

have no menns of rer

the illustrious dead, Over the open vault the hene Hh the weight of the heavy h a h bas iast preelamation of his style and tithes haa been | O°" lab Tupon them. The vewets which have been | : sunk Yett Port Roval last Tuesday, noder the direc

pewde, and there remains but a memery for love, aad bope and faith te rest upon and cherish | They were nearly al] condemned whalers-— In thie case there is no fear ot the memory) go W6 of them sixty aud seventy vears of ac heing atraesientone. This at least cannot perish. queerest, quaintest specimens of slip building atloat The Prince is “vue, but his ineiwery Canet pass | Laazily one by ona, uuder the iulluance of away. It is aot alene ia the widewed chamber,| ebb-tide, tropped out toward heyo ud whose thresheld we dare uct pass te con. | Hie bar, each anchoring where et e huppened to be template, even in imagination, the tears and sobs We" the Hood tide set in wf one te wher this is life's greatest bereavement, , pet. an es aad wpun Whom the blow has fallen with a severity OOS’ Se es a look tl our glusnes male more fearfal by the recollections of past sowed us its ruins on the ground. The fact ex happiness—happiness closed for ever—il is not plained a loud explosion which had been heard in there alone that the Joss is ft, and the voice of shore soon after dark Supposing that our whalers grief is heard. We cannot put the vation’s ser-| Were firwt class frignies come to bombard the city, rew in comparison with the grief of those who) the rebels had blown the light house up, that the look around in vain for the beloved tace, and > Pt of the chanue! might be aos. Phe trick vainly listen for the accents which have been fa- ; me BaP de — itt a pew but wwe S light- uiiliar household things tor many years; but where Oy) ey yas ote Ba a hs Seinen a there a a heart Taat bis known serrow, and Upon the channel had been buey ed, and the “old Penedos which the weands of Death's victory are still un-) was soon afterward towed to her final moorings Jwaled, or the acars remain, it can appreciate and) The position chosen for her was ut the ——— with the serruw Which has no language, edye of the passage, and she grounded where there

tion of Fleet Captain Charles H. Davis, of the Wa tenis *? . iit ua alrong

there anliqhaled cralt

r. the light-house, which had

the haze the evening before,

was not to be seen; but rough

northeastern

wee that is the more terrible because it has is eighteen feet of water at nigh tide Probably she is anchored as firmly as her island name-sake of the Al®gean Sea. The Leoni-las was next sunk, in

Ro speech, wherewith the highest personages in tus land are now afflicted. Although our serrow * aT ee Ci ake ame eli of maale dahant ie uot ae their sorrow, there is uo insincerity in it, | (ee eee nee tvs wenwels formed the right ev alfvctation. The outward sigus of mourning teil te ft flanks of the barricading column, and the re

are no “ mere trappings and suits of woe,” for maining fourteen settled comfortably do between they betoken a Se A nation mourns he- | them. The wrecks are not ranged ina straight line cause @ Quena is beret of what was given to her across the channel. That arrangemput might prove Sor its greatest charm, and has been to her life its 2 pe bloc ry eee © Trane, SOs Hes Pare aness Dighvst blessing; there is a still deeper eanse for) ‘Y Phe the xry of Capt. Davis was, that thes in

waters about Charleston must havea channel to th:

tuvuruing in the reflection that the wisdoim, the am cet it the uenel dae wee saliiedalis - lineal witten, the dmacetic fidelity, and the pulitical self- nether wo id naturally form. His « jentifie mind amy ig Madey rity which have been exercised for | devised another plan. “The hulksare placed check tue pubic quod, are lustand gone, There are ine erwise. This arrangement not only does not prevent

wochwte mai ks of graudeur wn the charucter of the the passage of the water but forms a series of slioals aeparted, for futurity to admire and make an ex- around wii h the tide will whit land eddy, taking ample et; but uv move than that is lett to us. an intricate labyrinth wich no vesse}] could navi : fule

ft is certain that the Prince Consort was never Lhe vessels were not scuttled until Friday morn

with « certain class of the aristocracy, jing, as it was necessary to work at full tide. They alibougd they willingly admit his virtues now that. looked desolate enough, is they tay upon their | il be ia po more §=Tuey thought him stiff and cold, ges, masts and rigging still standing, sate listed to

but it was nly the duller and more pretentious of ss and others to « oa prs ie a re —= ‘ i au. “ . hig be “n Tused ap pe snce, ¢ mnpara: »tlo m Sng mut a Me et The aristueracy who found b mM sv He aad , at anehor i left aereund ny the tide All otf the

a 7 “ . ’ bronght up.” says the Saturday Recieve, “at sual seattis qweekgtequned tan quick: wetting Welete German Courts, the worst possible school of man) jeoving the North. Nothing was required but to oere for one wi was to make himself popular geiye out a plug and the water rushed ih with force wa the Kughsh, and thus contracted a certain enous to fill them in an hour etufness winch, combined with a reserve winch The Charlestonians have felt was tue odspruag of genuine, though misconstrued, chagrined beyond 1

* ~ ritist themselves

measure at the mischief which

jsudesty, somewoat detracted trom the effect of had been doue oe. _ Tue wrecks were sunk about ; 5 cu . j ont 1 . two miles and a half from shore, in plain sight from * sletiing Vurlues and aceymplisiinents on the ; , 0 “

n= Y : »/ the batteries on Morris Isjund, Forts Sumter and

1inds of those with whom he came iy contact.’ Meuttele: Crime the Guastidle of a Wut thoes whe approached Prince Albert person- joo ore ee ea ally, and were entitied to respect. found him attentive, amiable and considerate. is admitied (by those who object to the moved as it

ich the rebels’ co also made seve behind Fort Sumter, where aut when men-of-war

Realiz

visible \ small steamer

we ral TECOUNG sen nces ir The proba- | she would

quickly our jee . ir

to chare f her he tpless

}

Princes maaaer ou account et its partaking ef ness she did not give us a shot, though it

has been Vessels tnow Wea returned

y,in order ‘o sea; for it was int of our this property should fall into the

blockading

the stifuess of Gerusan etiquette) “that he was Usual for ber tr hire toward the always couscivus of an embarrassing contrast a. 4 re eee betwees the real power which he execcived and ©)” aie saa his sommal position. No doubt the Prince, thet Pearse ty ‘drift where he mot with pretewsva, put forth preteusion pian that and overpowered it; but the probability above hands of rebels. 1s was 2 timaular daht to eee suggested may convey a truth which the Prince | the big spars topple over with a crash and a crenk hunsell Was Luptessed with. but which has not as seon as the nyying was seve red b> a fe w blows eecurre? to writers who.in the course of their oO! 2m axe i would have drivena y - York junk

; F . . » «* r nan mad to have seen the quantitv of vaiuabie ropes, panegy rics, trons ot the pewer of the ( pererrlve poe c a ee ae eh ate pe re oo ta advise gad direct im privai, as an inherent right. ee er, whalehoata and some of the best The Constitution does not recognive a power of eee ee ae eee

stance than she ventured t

r

m Fridav the ships’ ere their masts and rigs

7 Del : | were all that could

: 2 ails The Robin Hood that kusd it cennection with the Trrene, and y as the last vessel Sie had been used as a we parate from it; and ot tis tact no one becawe storehouse for the valuables which were taken from mete seusiole than we late Queen Adelaide, when the ether ‘his ship hailed from New London, the advice which ahe uniortunately gave the King Coun ow! imst hyve been a waggish fel was found te be uncong-nial te the wishes and in- low. fe vi iphony, he had absurdly compatible with the interests of the couytry, © aa if - Path unos A ae old citer ay Comerts are jealvusly excluded from private ae on inaianee ; mee ph cconiadi. qe romantomedes poly coum ls, and arthongh it would be idle to expect ae > i. of thee ‘I set - 2, and shall probably

& loving wit, coutident:m the wisdow and integ- oon. jt te Beraum, to serve the double purpose of 3 rity of ner husbami, ty abstain trom turmng te yemento of Ure blockade and a speciuen of quict Jive tor advive, the giving of it can be excused wir alone by its gooduess nud auecess, The advices! It is not ofion that person? are permitted to des : ve Kive William was neither: tor valuable property, wud feel at the sune time tier hte. Pene® Albert's mitd was “at they are doing right. ie the oecasion, Low differmntly constituted to that wf the last Queen €Ye% *eh @ sentiueal could be properly entertain Consort, whose personal smiahility, thongh it re- me aes Meee Tete yf “ry wlenss commended her to the affections of the peopl», Ae ger denies. Fo the o vil: was her chiei, if net ber only recommendation... pyugiiv Srweah hive The real er Whiek tie Prince exercised, and and the inclination found thetcis an enivarrasing contrast to his Without stint. After everrthingthat could be beminal position. was wisely regulated; for he Ws taken from the Robin Hood, her rigui had ® bunself waster of Constitutional law, © und * frapped, or secured to the mi and held by a fine resolution to allow no considera. ‘2 UASS AY a : and rer. he tion o€ pernoust pride ot umition to divert hix ON, ¢ tne naceeecil kaye of Zhe eapettion. She atepe femn the course to which that study had led gored a novel and oka r ti, him. Debarred trom the tieid of political action, who wimessed it Phe blockading squadron was he could net renounce political duties, tor was he especially entertained. Their lives are such a dull wet the partuer, the guardian, and the natural ard tedious round of monotony that a far less mag gue of the Queen! His responsibilities were Miticent spectacle would have afiorded them a topic uamense. And it iv a greni thumg tu be said now of conversa! m fora — 2 weather during ihat he is ne more, that not one serious fault jx Me Whole time yr pee en oe ne imputed to him. His sagacity was sufficient te gh arg wa ‘- aor — poe a 4 pint devect au error, and his patriotism was resvlute uccomplinhed with sat "yea he 3 ntive for its correction. His political acquirements arrangement retlecta alike the yvreatest praise upon were great, but they were necessarily dormant; | Captain Davis for the prudence and wisdom of his he would bave made a popular statesman in a plans, and upon his able asristante for the musterly station below the throne: fur his life and conduct | @anner in which they were executed, were dedica od te the * enuxe of progress ;" there | is no standing still with lite, and the lite of nations, | iv . upeu aetivity. The dull, pomps aud formaiities of a Court had no other re- | cOummeudation te hin than as tiey were connected | with respectable traditious aud the feelings Of 8) furnished by the deliberate preparation and sinking ; a Prince's lassen, he believed, of what is known us the “Stone Fleet,” “the Rat has higher vbjecis than the upholding of state tra-| Hole Fleet,” &e., by meuns of which the Federal ditions, and tae fosteriag of the pleasures of noble Government pragnen not merely to shut for a time. frivolity-anvagers; art and science found in him | but if possible to destroy for ever the ports of the therefore a stendfast promoter, and philanthropy Southern States. So determined iat malignant is its firmaest friend. The ried of politieal quiet nee that, finding eee the inland waters hit. ded been all je ids ceuite> aie . ou make their wily, ane that when they sink ; - tT a - * the stone laden vessels ina line a new channel wes Irinee Albert's connection with it may be attri- out in another direction, they udupted the plan of buted in part lo his wise counsels, whereby the sinking the Vessels in three lines, xO a8, While striies of political jactious have been mitigated, allowing the water to pass out, to make an impars- the passious of public men subdued; there js able maze of crooked windings and sand-banks. » duubt at all of the rapid progress in the artsof The London Examiner, of December Ith, says of peace, euntoris of Lome, aad the proprieties this utterly barbarous aud indetensjble proceediag : #f domestic life, having been advanced by his con-| “But supposing reparation to be made forthe Trent duct: These are the reasons why the nation outrage, and the prisoners to be restored sate from swourne for Prince Albert's loss, ‘luey are facts dispute, whiew whilst they cause a gratetiy!

inck tars dis nelined to think

ve one to he tho

things wasa luxury

> wt Was

CORSE rel

iy enjoyed

to in

beautiful sight to mox#t of those

an accident,

>

THE STONE FLURT.

¥

One of the strongest proofs of the demoralizing

E

Wilkes law, will it not be forthe powers of oe

cherish the memory ae “+, to consider whether the measures the North ix tak- & ry of the Prince, will ing against the South are consistent with the inte-

embalu —— and ewaracter in history tor ad- rest of civilization? Is it to be endured that the baie thou, ami au example tv future geuerations, | Federal Goverument «bail cke out the inefficacy of ~—~News of the World, Des. 29. °

--——- ~4»a oe - - LATE FROM EUROPE. oe “The main ship channel leading to Savannah is

fle R. M. Steamer Canada arrived at half-past 9 but 250 yards acroxs jn the narrowest place, and can frow Liverpoul. Dutes are to the 2eth. | be perfectly barred by half adozen of these vessels. The Canadas brongiot F ; “<< mh ree of we Koyal Arullery, ied: pitase: Mr. Tilley, of New Delegeee. We learn that up to the time of his carry back. de porire, no delinie anewer bud been received | ports to form obstructions, and all we have to do is, frum Government relative to the great undertaking, | as the physicians say, “to assist nature.” bat the = ; War still open for wegociation. Mz.| ing thoroughly imbedded in the sand, these acewmn- Howe wiéiued in Loudon, in order, if posible, to | lations but advance with time forming unconqnerable Freecive a Gaal auswer betore leaving, | obstacles to re-opening the harbors, und establish Phe mourning on the 23d, while the fane-| ing a blockade which the highest pressure diplo ral ries of the Priaee Consort w ere £05 on wt | macy of the world will be utterly powerless to Win deur, Was ont of the moet remarkable siyhta|‘raive.”’ It must be confessed there ix something ever teen. Throuygt all the principal tor azghfares, } wonderfully gratifying in this silent, resistless piece ne denat, the i alin Fetes o4ct as ou Suncay. very one kuowethat method is fine, and achef d’a@nvre in its way; ho Iker jewions of business in Londou are so few and | further theatrical vengeance, yo laying of the city e Ween, that most busy men seize every such | in ashes, as those heated braggarts of Charleston day, WowWever ijournful iin vccasion, tor a holiduy,| threatened, but asilent blight falling on them as bus theme was uething of the kind on that day.| though out of the uight—deadly, inevitable—and The sky woe dull and heavy, the air chill and an-! leaving those pertidions cities in a petriiied death in Menial. che gust wind iadert with smoke wud haze ;/ life, to“ point a moral er adorn a tale.’'—New York MWe chureh byile tofled slawly, and the guus echoed | Times. wt meavored jniaevale. London secmed to have! .... hho el : ebunyed ite whole aapect. | Willthe civilized Christian world anffer a warfare ihe accuusts of. aicvcities at Warsaw are daily | cartied to this fiendish pitch of destructiveness, ore feyuling. A Loudon paper remarks that it fs | choking up forever nature's channels of lite, inter- jag & question between the Greek and Roman | Curse and plenty? A blockade is an injurious in- Churehes. ia tuis there is great trath, only the | terference with the business of nations, but it is thing “amotuew. Tue extension of the Emperor's |temporary, and when the purpose is effected, or urch is alwayathe means for extending the power abandoned as impracticable, there is a return of the of the kimperor. By this mail we hear of 12 Parish | “tts quo ante ; but this infernal expedient of the Priests besuy seut ty Siberia. The Caar is inore and) “uanmel choking is resorted to us permanently were determined to do for the Poles what Caligula | destructive, depriving a whole region of one of its did for the Jews when they boasted that he bad | "tral outlets of prodaction, and ruining ite cities wesailed Saberad da euch wu mauuer us * to put God on | more efleetually tnan by fire and sword, whose Sueir side, | ravages nay be repaired, not so those of this hellish The Mopiteur annonners the appointment of two| device of malice, uecording to the calculation of ite he three roar wiuiruis, bea cuptaine, forty authors. Rivers are the highways of the world, ‘tenants of weu-of-war, and fourteen captains of and to destroy one of these means of communication

.. ; is an injury to ali, which shuuld not be permitted to le Bee Paris correspondent writes that jt js | the malice of any power. = lee neeeariat hee a orders to | On this the Boston Coarier remarks :— ships w reinturce the French culate olf the ccan * We may find the carrying out of this delenda est of Mexiew wad ww Northwestern oom of Ameries | Carthago policy a much were seriows cause of bos- Jt in Jikeowine wai thas & syuwiron of obmervationi » | Wity, aud even of hatred. towards us, among all te be vent to toe coast of Reveien 7 tas ees civilized nations, than a deviation from a doubtful mand of ¥ nee Acdural Pema. a principle of interngtional law. We had supposed The” Mailrid jonrnsis of the 17th announce that! WH" ¥e have glanced at the accounts of prepara- om receiving the wews of ine deh of “0 tor this expedientand until quite recently, that bor Kayclyn),reut by telegraph iu | W48 intended tor a taupe effectual, but still’ tem- condolence w Queen” Victoria, aii) POMS blockudle, thay eould weil be pat in force by anders thut i. © Cuuet aanuld ,» other means ; but we did not jmagine that the object bWeuty-tuur daye~half of the | was to ebunge the very hy of nature, in a hig, Lie uae s lighs. was - essential, a ean only put on record ' | sydtiuet it our unavailing remonstsance. The ae pow Fuplon sate that | ix wore thun heathen, “Weu old Cito repeated at uring the end of every speech his perpetan! formula, even ary curried int

u

‘ed severely,

| oat. Once ‘ ose ol ks become |“~ : : : treatment. Once sunk, these old hulks become of Druineville, more than we did.

ers for this place, is the Hon. | points for the yecumujution of alluyvials which the

| ern ports ?— regiment, Capt. John Desha, with a Jarge number |

: : 4 i A 7 vg : -erw he] o force fur this garrison (Halifax,)| Charleston harbour is equally eligible to the same | #8 OVerwhelziing force.

There is a natural tendency im such |

Becom- |

slays Were early, if pot quite as uni- of Rhadamanthean justice. The calmness of the |

dinary gwrans, may be rebdild aod be te @ther gene mations, if not now, the seutof couWort, prosperity | | aaa happiness. [ut this “choking up farever na- | \ture’s am a of life, intercourse and plenty’ is a} | moisune dictated neither by wiedom nor any feeling | with which Christianprineiple could have any sym- lonthy. It will make us expressly execrated, as it locates known, by all Uie civilized world. Nor is litte be overlocked, that other nations may allege, | with w reneon which we shall find it dilteult to auewer. You can blockade your ports and ex lude ua for atime, from vour ndvantage, or trom your) necegsities, from commerce benelits ordinarily free | ltoa)l] mankind. But vou have no right to change | the ordinance of nature, so as to deprive us pud all |

mankind forever of thone benefits f you do, we

ean no longer of putions |

revard you ask of the family but rather like some savage beast retiring to his| den, whom those who are able have a right to aeaail and destroy-——after your own example. As for the article quoted from the New York limes, there is a depth of unearthly malignity about 1 We do net remem any composition. Even were the d iteelfto perpetrate it with such feel

it, whiel ecessary in ind motives iivest re

would be to surpass the barbarity of the moracless suvaye |

| ee -

FROM TRE SOUTH.

THE FIGHT AT DRAINSVILLE.

a heavy skirmish occured at Draiusville, which resulted dixastrously to us. foraging party waa rent ou by Gen. Stuart, conrist ing of about two hundred wagons, escorted by the Eleventh Virginia, Col. Garland; the Sixth South Carolina, under Lieut. Col. A.J. Secrest; the Tent Alabuma, € Jobn LW. Forney ; the Firet Rentucky, Col. ‘Tom Taylor; the Sumter Flying Artillery, Capt. Cutts; and detachments fpou’ Ramsonu’s and Radford’s Cavalry. Our whole force amounted to nearly twenty-five hundred men. They started ot early in the morning, and, before day, were distance on the journey. Soonafter leaving, a rocket

Yeaterday morning,

sume

Wis eeen to shoot up in the direction of Drainsville, which, un Was afterwards ascertained, wasa signal from the enemy.and indicated that our approach was known. It isabout fifteen miles from here to Drains ville. twe or three regimeuts of Yankees were seen de ploved ax skirmishers in the skirts of apine thicket, which stretched out on eitherside of the road. Gen. Stuart drew up bis force and prepared to muxe an uttick. On either side the woods were very thick, and it was difficult to make through them, but our force was pushed forward in the following order ; ~The Eleventh Virginia being in the advance, was deployed on the right of the road with the Tenth Alubautaa, while the Sixth Seuth Carolina and the First Koutucky were sent to the left. On account of the dense thicket on either side, the artillery was forced to advance down the road jn order to gain a position tomake the guns¢tiective. As we approach ed he Yankees, the Eleveuth Virginia eba red them

k to their line with-

i drove them 7 he seen ed Fome

tC WK

with a vell,

in sicht of Drainsville

ehemy

what confused, but soon formed again in line of battle. The advanced positions were held by ihe Eleventh and the Sixth South Carolima, the former

ou the rightand latteron the left of the road. While Waiting to vet sight of the enemy the Sixth South Carolina was drawn up, and the First Kentucky ad vanced upon them, and, mistaking them for the cue: my, a portion of the regiment fired without orders, ij ve of the South Carolinians The error Pavlor advanced can

illing fi n discovere : and Or | tiously to the left, and svon after came in sight of another regiment buta few yards away. there was vo mistake, Colonel Taylor shouted to the Colonel, and asked who he was. ‘‘ The Colonel of the Ninth,” was the reply “Of what Ninth?’ “Don’t shoot!’ said the Yankees, “we are friends —South Carolinians.” “On which side are you !

asked Col. Taylor. “ For the Union,’ and inuine

Was SOK

diately after the Colonel gave the command to fire, bition of imsolence and cowardice could sink him |

| battle fonyht between the two nations,

; COust.

When within a short disiunce of the place, |

cea karate Benard at: Sed eee ie

their prev We san the coment aed Panny when. we henr of Mindker efi@rta, from dive riytionsd aaswer

— a ee = .———

eer foreign velations will make «till larger appre rimtior. ree «1% for the defences of the extended

sq

- = ———— le =

peatible rection of Catholics in th’ Provitites, any more thah Mr, W. H. Pope represents the options

anoe that they will anrive at pardlel culiabrophes. | sea honed @f Makar, thow eapored to successful ae of a majority of Protestants in this Colony, or that

The four that s@ime udade entertain af the Nor: | ther feet, and the consequences of ity operations in the South, are pot beat hont fewndution than the security or indifference which the first aceount of its sniling received were without justification. That Hleet ean do mischief tothe Villages of the const, but is Without power to imtlict a vital oreveu a disabling wound upon the Confederacy itself. It will cost } the Nerthern Union many millions of money, and | many @ fine ship; it will ravage a half dozen smrh towns and cause some good coiton tobe burnt. But | whenever the popular outery of the North forces | the venerals whe hutve charge of it to risk an ad- vance of the ‘smallest and mildest sort in any part of the integjor country we will have our revenge, and our enemies will’ get the reward of insolence und cowardice

The Examiner goes on to say that whenever the | untrained Volunteers of the South meet the untrain- | ed Volunteers of the North, with an equality of

numbers and commanders;the defeat of the latter) vernment has, in our opinion, placed itself in the | editors on political affairs. By the Secretary's | of the unfortunate class of facial self-| own showlng, it appears that he has been & very) We publish elsewhere an article des- | diligent reader ot the 6 dinhoyal” pritits tthdet #pn- | of letter written by % D. Melee, criptive of the sinking of sixteen stone laden ships in | sideration; and sureiy when it is proper fora quod tefetetve to the position lrishmen in

The repeated

may be considered as a certainty

ber ever to have rend in| trials and proots of this war leave no possible doubt | category

of the individual superiority of the Sonthern man | over the Northern man ia a personal combat ; and | thix superiority is still the only element in the ‘ ) : This ie the |

best security for the South against the fleet aud |

minit fiom auy horiile naptime power.

The Gxaminer.

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Charlottetown, January 20, 1862

THE STONE BLOCKADE.

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the Islaiitler can justly be regarded as a fair index

| of public opinion here. A writer in Blackwood's | Magazine, speaking of the New York Herald, rays ‘fet every person itt the States reads that paper, | but nw one believes it, and all classes despise the editor and his laeubrations, So it is, to some de- gree, the case with 4 large ptoportion of the read- \ers of the Pilot and Irish Amtican—Catholics in

British America may read thet for the sake of

prepite like wen for the trial thee india | datew yourselves into military COMPANIER, ot \ attivers in whom fot enh confice drill] Otten und ak ‘and ft the first of the vance othe ane te yon With a rtish that Il drive the Woeal sar aie a Catan 3 L 1° thron ws nas on the part of aoe _— pe attics Now, an regards the loyalty of the French Ca. | tholice-thongh not strictly pertinent te

| —it may net mot be arise to give ten rhurt en. (tracts bere, fur their attachment ty poltthen: Pins \ ciply ix gebetully the wame as that of thelp

and Seotel cvtcligioniats, We ate indeed fie

Tur conduct of a man who allows his temper| the home news, and as being the depositories of | these extracts to the Halifax “Evening ¥ " to blind him to the perception of his own interests | incidents and reminiscences connected with fami- whieb is under the control of an Ivieh Catholic has generally been described in metaphor as biting | liar places in their native land; but they can do/| and is considered the Organ of the Irish Catboligg

off his nose to spite his face.

wutilators.

The Federal Go-| this without endorsing the rabid opinions of the in Nova Scotia:

CANADA AND ENGLAND, We published in our last issae 4n cftract

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the channel leading to Charleston harbour, South | Protestant and a loya) man like him to read them, Wuld take, should war ia and Ca

army which operate this winter on the Southern | Carolina.

HUMILIATION OF THE NORTH. : . | The Richmond Despatch considers teat the |

North in succumbing to the English demand demon- | Nerthern press, who, » . 4 ? * + ‘ * r . A | strues that they haye no sense of national honor. the civil war, have “fulmined over Greece and | who owe no allegiance to the Lritwh Crown: and

| shook the arsenal” in the trae vein of King Cam- | they have just as good a tight te express their opi-

It evs i

Vis humiliating gurrender, so far from propiti ating the Kuropean world, will convince them the conscious Weakness, and paralyzing cowardice | of the blustering power that,

“| byses. The beroes of Bull's Run, it was natural,

This achievement js anuounced in the style of

self-laudation characteristic of the braggarts of the | cannot see how that charge can be proved. The¥ and day of England. We now since the first outbreak of are owned and conducted by American citizens, from the Freneh journals, which plainly show

with «ix hundred! should glorify the chivalrous Wilkes and his gal-

thotisand men in arins, permits its nose to be pulled | yy 44 band, who had so bravely faced the British

and its fuce to be spit upon without an effort at re secitiient t and France would demand thatthe Federal govern ment recognise the independence of the Southern

We believe thut to-morrow if Heyy land | Lion and Miss Slidell.

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It was equally natural 'that the American eagle should scream a scream

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Confederacy upon penalty of theirdispleasure, they | of triumph over an act of such intrepid valour as

would not only recouvuise it, but be glad of the | Certainly there can now be no longer apy |

chance

fear gf consequences on the part of those govern. | Cargoes of stone,

mente in theutwselves recogujring the Southern Con-

federacy, or even in opeujug the blockade.

A YEAR CLOSING UNDER GLOOMY AUSPICES.

“To lie in cold obstruction and to rot”

in those waters which erewhile bore the rich ar-

The Richmond Examiner of the 2nd has an ar- gosies of the world’s commerce.

ticle headed “ A yeur closing under gloomy auspices and opening with evil tidings.” surrender of Mason and Slidel] as destroying all hope

of an immediate alliance between the Southern |

Contederacy and Great Britain. [t then goes on to

way F

“ Never since the humiliation of the Doge and Senate of Genoa before the fgotsteol of Louis XIV., has any nation consented to a degradation so deep. If Lincoln and > ;ward intended to give them up at a menace, why, their people will ask, did they ever capture the ambassedora! Why the exultant hurrah over the event that went up from nineteen millions of throuts ? ty the glorification of Wilkes?) Why the cowardly insults to two un- armed gentlemen, their close imprisonment and the bloodthirsty movements of Congress in their regard?

But, most of all, why did the yoverument of Lincoln |

indulge a full Cabinet with an unanimous resolution that, under no ciremmstances, shonld the United States surrender Messrs. Mason and Slidell?) Wi djd they encourage the popular sentiment to a simi lar position? The United States Government and people swore the great oath to stand on the ground they had teken; the American eagle was brought

then

** Dropt, like a craven cock, his conquered wing’’ at the first grow] of the lion. This ix the attitude of the gnhemy. template him did we not know that no new exhi-

It looks upon the |

It would greatly console us to con- |

This, we should think, was not a very difficult or dangerous matter. There was no opposing force; but it seems that the event must be mag- nitied inte a glorious result of genius and valour, in order, we suppose, that the national eagle may

once more soar with his eyes to the sun,” the |

xauid optics being at length free from the tears consequent on previous disasters.

| We are strongly of opinion that this act will have an effect but little anticipated by its authors. In its moral and political aspects it is disgrace to all coneerned in its perpetration. In a moral point of view, it, as intended and hoped to be a | permanent closing of the harbour, admits of no excuse. Such an act is adding to the hardships and sufferings of war against.a particular power,

hostility towards the whole human race, and

To besure out’; he sereeched his loudest sereech of defiance—| manifests a spirit of which the red Indian would

| have been ashamed.

| Had the Federal forces gone where they would

| City of Charleston, and held it asa basis for future

and a volley was poured into the Kentuckians from | lower in the world’sextimation. ‘The United States | operations, and as a site from which their forees

S.A. The eagage-

the Ninth Infantry, regulars,

ment then became general, and our four regiments | as yet unknown ia the diplomacy of other nations. |

i Captain Cutt’s four guns, were svor actively

ured I ndvantage of po

The Yankees had every burg turnpike, and back of ita bill, upen which their battery was placed. Lower down, and oppo site the Eleventh, “was another battery, placed in position to cufilade the turnpike should we enter it

Che main batiery of six guns swept the road upon which we were advancing, and kept up an incessant fire of grape, eamnister and spherical case. The a

eurney of their alm was remarkable, considering the rapidity with which the guns were fired. Captain Cutts got three of his pieces in position and returned

mally

the ‘tire rapidly and suecessf encmy advanced several reg protected by the natare of the ground, came within a hundred yards of us, aud forming m Hne, fired fer ie, keeping the air full of minnie balls, and finally attempted to charge. Three times the off cers grve the order, and tried to vet their men for ward but failed. They could not be pushed inte the thicket Soot ; both sides