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Semi-Weekly Signal, 1864-12-09, Page 27 • • • ...wwwwilMOmmgdnimMillimW eirailleesemeelverweemems, a T E SEM ••• • . • he was not allowed "forsa moment to exec-, . -hew 4 ittolt c$Igitn. . cise his awn jiedgment,- he 'was snubbed • • *la- • . and abused ns no man of less equaninsity • - of tetuper weuld heve submitted to, and I • • . h , yet none! of thesehfacts -were , ponsid-ered - *GODERIVIL 0.:- W., DEC. 1$fi4, when . it beeame known ' that be wae . , . . i-' - - . iinsaccessfiti.t.: His rival, Pope, hewever,, .., ."''''.------ ' . fared worsee , Goine forth in thesstren-gtle T••••=•••••••••••••••••,..•••••••.1 . :, : , ••••no...••••• : ' . . GE NE R At ' et Et) . B. MeoLVI4N. 'of his vanity:he attacked the Confederatee • • ... . _ i. . . . . : - 1 • - under Lee a &Jackson and was ignomitn- . , --er'"7". ' , It -eeres.- to be one of oe ineeholible dusly -s-defeatih a hie broken forces being • 0 decrees, that,. en order to gain for litniself hurled back 'Upon' Washington itself.- In *name whie4 shell be iieseribett. upett. the the etnergencY 6f the snot:tient:all eyes were. scroll of fame sin imperishebIe hharhhters, turned upon. AheOlellan.. If he Could not a marilnust be seceeseful. To - commend: 'turn the tide all` Wei lost. e'alieerfully- the •respeet of a vast majority ofeeroilis fel- undertook:0i ttiskiiinct havingreotganized , low -men, whether, your sphere lit Re -be hhe- army, et Lee at Antietam. His . of 4, pablic or private capacity, yoal Must planehof attac ''', according toan able writer needs be suceeasful. Become knetelata-S a in Blaikwoo 4 to whore -we- are indebted 0 - • rising merchant, and all experience ireAchei _for an excellent article on the gefieral'e 'that .yott - will be borne along upen the eareer-wesinothfie best that could have zephyrs of popular applause, .!,but';Ict it, beenAevised, but it is certain- thatehe once he -hinted hvith any sholi of Feason er„ainerghinee advaiitage over 'his enemy, thahyou. are likelyto figure in the agzetke, and thath - Lhe, . in Yiew - of app-roaching . ' And at once -yen begin to experiethie the reinforceinereft " for • the federals thonght . meaning or the phrases manhi iglu:hell,: it necessary to reeross the Pototiaac with ity to inen..7 -The tongue of filthily lies his rich boot ;) 'rather than yisk -.. another . dormant-rfrientis fty as da *the rata frOM Ibattle. An thus it was that the much- , 'a sinkinghhip-prope which were offered Labused Mchlellan sahel -the • 'federal • . . h, hafreely once when_ they. were tot receetred't capital, anti cleared the ceuntry_ NOrth. are withdrawn hastily, if not rudely, 'and -of the , Po enua.0 of - :the ineaders.2- . cast out of the hood ehip Prosplwity,- yon The ehoat tl at greeted his -'qualified such 1 are left to strues4e god, ie the dirk end-, cess was - ra tunaue "Little Men " nets . - _stormy waters, 'within :ea•-sher Or efee the here, Of t re metnent evith the masses, , eounels of 'merriment en boarl Ji.ist SO ai--3 hie was al ioat adored by %the army. - is it With the leaders of great einae. ' If Bat the. jet ihitiou Was shoehlihed. He they are forthnate eneugh to he sieeeesAl, was )aecemint too popular, and (While he. - men hie with each, other in 063614 thdr wee hepefully:planning . the circumvention • praises., and historians reeonat with pride of his wily fie., he wes deposed sunimarily their gloriadlis• deeds, While humbler bio. and- unhear,', a general wint-of suchess be- graphers piek hure- thankfully - wiateher jog. tbs1 hilthes el eauie. We 'believed at the - erumba of ineidene or persona/ Air -after- tian?,,and stil belicve,that if Geo.B. Meelelh . . , . istic Ply be left. - A few afproitit* tan had posseesed einhition end: daring' : seuli there:I:Few-list would recognize gehius enouglelie need never have eubmitted to the ' in the most succesefal warriors Of aaeient '1171'11"guty helped upon him:. . - Idolized -by -; or modern tfines, everah thodeli Misforeane the _soldiery, a Stirring eppeal would -have. should- hive shora them of hex their lets- 'gathered them everyone aroaud him, end • _ rele,heet we -feel conscious that • eice ei le.'t he mieht hece ejected the President frain ; . . _ t . .selii,...ii ell the W Intel euse„, tolasestune the posttion after all. 'the great - etandard by e" ire measeired. . II ho sles11 say- flat -Nee- .1-1tnise..11;,Of,Dietetorp, Bat he either lacked the ionbitioti, or was too good a citizen 'to ' °legal, Wellineton, or Washingtont ivienld _ . _ I Undertake the experunent, and therefore - occupy sneh a 1.11.0-e pIaCe: in the est -Min 0 e -en retired with digpified Calmness, - Apd new, ' of the werld at lathe if they had n t h .2 ' . — driven from tge artily end rejected at the so- successfoL? • Oen. Lee Oite of the" ore - most eomstuandees of the: age, if 40„ei tke pollec he innet sink quietly Into insignia- indeneseasiSe i came amongst :the world's niarewariled) if foreinoste will, if .-Southern - i .11 not -irnertecesefid men. --We rive in con: is achieved throw+ his inStritmentnlity, 0 : . -, o ,. • Claiion, a, shaft extract froin'the_artiole to be placed no hiigh on the glorious hist pf - heroes as Washington h . imself; ,beti, eeide -which we have alladedhee- _. noblest efforts end in defeat, ahd if he:is ‘.. Ltut there is'one-its2et in which MeCiel lan-siiiiies with ahaolthe lustee wheu compat.ed compelled eVentually ,to liy into exile he a.. with other eenerals of the North. The spirit . Will. be known in histery only as • a ma- - in, whieh heamakeiewetr is hurnene add honor- * sueeessintiebet leader, and his -me its be ehl_h-" , The grisly -f.anaticisan ef ShertiTen-- , who lars waite a broad belt • of cultivated -appreciated only by the Very few w %are . . . , country.' -ition4; his line of march,: as if some utagwiTimeue eflotigh to recognize ge •iue poieonoue evilid had -Swept over it, aud who ' indepentient of the fdettitous eiretiengt0ne_ depopulates eities acid chariots ah a eacrifice To the Editor of the itSirtat ; Ste, -You will Save merchants some anneyairce and the communitiat large: some disappointment, perhaps, by -giving a place to the follosvibg letter -contained in the. 'Daily Witness' of Thursday last. There is no doebt that the imPression has become very general -arid it is ts consummation most devoutly to be wished fer-----that Cetton will be mete lower in the Spring; but if there is really no. touedation tor the belief etre- tomier the im- pression •ie removed the better. The paper has been sent to the writer byes nienibiteofotte Of the largest impeding firms iu Montreal, end who. ie himself -one 9f the ehrewdest observers of tatelEeglish Marketa; and he haSevery reason to believe that the cominuoication tho:oughly reliable. ANornEit ' . : - NoNTReAL, _Noy. 30, 1864-. " - Sta,-There hai been for acme time pasf a . eeneral impresston that Cotton and. cotten leods were likely to be very much eheapee in the spring of 1865. 'the Toronto IGinbe,'• about a montleaerewrote twneleading articlese in referenceto this question, endeavoring 'tu shoe? that cotton had fallen ih price very Inas wittily in Enelaud, en t a corresponding re- duction must take place here;while the actual :facts were, that, Bethune „from the time wheel' Canadian merchants' purchased their stock& ia MaveJune, 'and the early part of Jelly, licotton goods rose rapidly tutu] about the 10th of September ; and nearly all the leading tab ries, suitable fur Canada, -advanced fully ten iper cent. As soon as -money became dear in England; cotton, as well -as other articles, be - •ran to decline, and continued to decline until abetitahe 20th of Oetober, Jesing all the ad- vance frained • and in some low cloths- the n ) . • ' price weni belbw that:paid ie June and Jely ; but Siam the 20th Of Oct'eber, Pricea became first 'steady, then firm, then an advance, and the .two east weeks tel*es have heen -of •a contederalee advauct, making the price of. cotton titiw rie-arly as'high tiOn June. Yoe will find at foot -a statement respecting. ihe Liverpoul -Cotton Market.of Nov. lith, taken from the London 77(ne$ of- .siov. 19th • seeeee t - I ing an adi'atice in a very' feiv days of front a . half -penny to three pence per lb. in theffstrious Ides.cAptionee anti the evident expeetation iii. a; trade opens foe the spring, both cotton and eoods will farther advalice._ 17-nder these eircumstatic!is. there islitt e hope - fur elower , . prices, et lest fer ttic present. _ t . ' I recirtp) yOUrS truly, - - A Mimi- itA icr. In Atnerican -ati extensive buaineis hes . been done includine large purchases- for ex - , 0 . export to New. Yo'rk, and. priceshave advanced about I d per lb: 6.' ' ' _. - Sea Island is in fair -rerfuest-and •pricet are ld highee in the, common qualities, .and 2d net. lb in the better-. .' ''-'... hich I is h d d d te that exti4t Uniop, a belief in which he eeS w t t warte an • els Jr . In forming, _an estimate of the Military capacity of General McClellan, it neces- sary to keep these considerations ill T He was noti match for Lee, bat no o federal Commander, in our opinion, ca cOmpared with hint in ability, or t noble qualities which tend to ren vtaf- fare honorable; and which, In greet measure ameliorate the horrors inflicted nition qountry in a state of civil strife. When in August, 1861, he wa eailed -"upon by the President to give h` ws , win the military affairs of the dritry, we had.that his was the only mini capa.- ; ale 0/correctly estiniating-the g attess ew.. her be ose of the Struggle upon which_ the nat on ad entered. • While Secretarl Sewald iwed by the disaster of Ball's Ruin: :as proclaiming his celebrated opt,inen: as! to the probable duration of the wt, Clellan saw that elaborate preparation tin _ s necessary, ina that at tbe very least 0-09 men would be- reqtaired for the , rst Important campaign. His. opinkn, as given at that- time, may not ha4e- en . - correct in every respect, but it it 1 ast proved that lie possessed more soult Coln - mon sense than any other of the Pre i eptie many advisers. In the month of &nth- ber, 1864, General-'31cClellau was pined ia command of the Federal armiest and in. s has erected hit° a religious principle_ not to he -denied wilhout blasphemy -finds no coun- tenance fromtMeCiellan. Of that ceion he has always p ofessedhimself a line ud herein e but he -bas n eer proclaimed that "-it is to be maintained ti the cost of the destruction of the Souther* people, and the devieetatioir of- , their territorfr. 1 - BLACKW Op' S MAGAZINE. 2 1 . - . . . .: 1 In Bzwottan a large fls: :less has been done at air advanee of 2d to ad per lb. in the coin l mon qualities. and 'A to; Id in ' the better due - 1 criptimis: Which are chiefly of the new crop: - . Stnyrita is beaoming scaree, . and liaa ad - 1 vaneedabout ld per lb: The demattd for Surat has her:eine -Very I extensive, many perchases heve been made 1 by speculators, -es.pectairy in- cotton ot the higher grades. Prices are advanced generally Id per lb, and in schne cases to the ektent uf 1.1 i. - _ In cotton (to arrife'•and for futtire delivery several cuntrisets have been made for Egypte an, aed . the . last quotations were ee-• For . , Egyptian -rood. fair nes open, ship named, 251 -; , Noveidber shipment, 25; fair new open, Ship named, i and November shipment 24-1- and fur Maecaioe. fair -averag•e, ship -.named. 23. - -- . . Ttie'saleS of the week-imount to • 72,080 balee, incieding 19,690 ots speculation., and 12,950 defflared:for export, leavine 39 440 e i. bales to the trade. ,e --; - There has been a large bitsiness transacted in cotieri ngain to -day, itud the sales reach fully 15,080 bale's, ineludiag, 600 on. specu- letiou and tor export. No changes -in prices _from yesterday's'extreme rates.. - . - •,-4- ,. ••••••11k. • • :The curre t number:of Maga has been for +carded to -ids office by the enterprising pub- lishers Mess.; Scott & Co:, N: Y. ' .We need only say tha it is just as good its hs prede- cessors, and -that -every article in it any be read third story of a middle b brick stores on the west - between Adelaide and K spacious tooni eapable et hundred 'persons. It is tiding In a block of ide of Yonge street, ng streets. It is a , resting about four *ell furnished the manner ecual to such apertmente, with ben." ners and ether insienia .e.f the order -on the wails: The lodge concluded its sitting about twelve o'elock when the oors- were all care. lly loeked and the keys placed in the keep- ing. etf the outside, tyler, r. William March, The twat, oceaseen for us ng the lodge room Was last night, when todg No.- 4, of- which Mr. James Berns is mas , r,' held its regular monthly meeting. When MaA,aceompanied by Mr. .Burns and Mr. Gowan, past Master of the lodge, wen :to the hall about 7 the evening te prepar 'it for_the nieetine, a most extraordinary sp4tacle was- pieseuted tO their' astonished alsio TJpoti tke floor,. strewn in pieces in every parliainent warrants ot 'meeting in the reoin,teg Iffirection, Were the be different liedge_s iher with the papers and beoks- of tbe -loigee torn and niutilsted and covered ,with mud. : Oh the walls the silk batmers 4 were all c t, apparently - With sharp kitiees-, and one of hem had beed torn • down, rent to pieces and eittered in all direr: - dotal: These beiiners.w e all costly-articies, ranging trons 8100. to.$3 b lit value. A strik- ing objeet upon the &tor was the Bible of the' ledge,e, ittege and handso ' e volume,its leaves torn and* bearinimirks f wed as if Lhey had been viciously 'trampled upon. The desks and.chests of the various lociees had all been forced open endthele co tents strewn iibout semi of nieney., averaging perhaps 20 Or theapartinent. Most of hem containl small $30.each. This -money i was all ,goire. Tee sekrlet robes of 'the airier! which were iti drawers belonging to the ociges, were hauled .1) mit and torn in pteees. ne banner, bearing a portrait of Her Majesty, was cut -but not removed from its place on the wall. : -The breatt of the picture was elinieed through by a piece of wood resemblinei a pike -an a.ctdOne prebably to indicate the Icontempt in which ihe eerpetrators held, the illustrious. lady re presented by the paintini. Io short, all sotts of de predatio LIS Were [committed, lifithing being lefthundoee which malice and devilish ineeduity could suggeit. The ehairs Uf the officers end the henches or ordisiary members Were broken; several dr Me in an ante -room were cut and deitroyed, and hardiv a thing dontatined in the •Iodge-r mu escaped injury in cf some form: And to er wn theraseally deed, the wretches who conim tted it left on nearlyl r, everythiee the sidence of their odious and unclean presenc „ causing last_night a stench which penetrate cer bea ondalle preeinets of Abe hall. ' • . • 'Upon the dis ovety f. the ..crim.- e it was s immediately re orted o the police,- and Sergeant in'ajorseliastin, s and McDawell pro. ceeded to make Ian exat triation of the pretn- 1 ises. They feand ---tha the- olfendeas . had I entered the hall thro tit the roof. ot the . 1 baildingovinch is gaine by a ladder easily accefsibl4 rrom e laee n the rear. In .-the roof there is a treip-door and a taunter one in the ceiling uf thp lefige- -004 just below. By - removing tnese raps, w icn-were not secured . . .. y locks, tte leeuse-brelakers -eould drop te the floor of. the lodge•roons, and after corn- pletitig their evil Work, by thesame apartuies. the outrage wits done e ing, when elie7e 'was th the partit.s being disturl others. The 1 n Odn of Of COOMe hareie , was and the value f the destroyed Will lot fel/ I Thece was no insuranc froni fire. Ai the members,of tl ,e lodge assenibled tbe greatest excitenient pretailed ainongstethein, ahd soMe of -the -more hotheaded amongst them wanted le 'make ,prisals :at Once„ but were restrained hytheir mere prudent bred': e wimidered at that a tiation prevatiled -and ere denouneed in the owevere all saw that peal to anything but process will be quick- ie by all the •aid the Minnesot Selkirk a and front loneitude . . a the: country reachiurfrow the dement to the Rocky -Mountains, latitude 49 deg te 53 deg, on the of 94 deg, and to latitude 5.5.deg ma the Paci c coast, is at favorable to graiu and animal -production as• any of the N'orthern State4 that -the ineart temperature for spring,. Surname and autumn obseeSed Oh the42nd and 43rd parallels, ite'New York. Michigan, :ind Wisconsin,: has been ftecurately traced through_ Fort Snelling 'and the vette)? cif' the Saskiitcheivan, to latitude 55 deg ea the-. Pacific coist;.•anch that from the 'northwest boundary of Minnesote, this *hole district of British America is theeided in - directions by the navigable water lines whiel cOnverge to Lake Winnipeg. -; - . I - , "These facts howeieelavorable - to gni.- , . Cultural_ settlement, woirld have failed to reeblutiopize the policy of the Hudion Bay. Company, except for .the violent eXcitemeat ef gold discevery.- The yea,r 1858 directed a coleinn of .adveatutere. to the channel and sources of Frazer Rivere the Organization or British Columbia followed, and -it was soon ascertained that -the richest and Mosteetensive gold:fields of riorthWest Batish America -Oa Cariboo•mines--are se :far within the Roaky Meentains, so'far up to the :utmost ,sources ot Frazer River, as td be praetically nio-re-acces- sible from. Selkirk then from tie ceast of Puget's Sound. .At - lengthy in 1862, the tributaries of- the. Saskatehewan and Peace. 'Rivers, on the easteen -tient of the -Rocky Mountains...were,discovered-to be auriferous.; while eastward stretched, towards Canada..and Lake Superior, not less than 180,000,800 acres 'of fertile lands destined fer cereal ctifti vation, whenever reached by einigration. Eno. lish-a-nd Canadian exploration -alio estalfist. ed. in favor at this district, that its average elevation above the sea.was far .less than tin. American territory; thet tho.-ttocky Moun- tains: were ..diminished in width, while the' passes were not difficult; that the supply of rain was more Abundant, and the carbeniferi, ous end .silurian. torrnatiOns were . of greater extent thaw furthei south.; andeowirtg to the. ereater influence of the Pacific_ winds through the muuntain gorges apd the material obsta die to eivilized occupation.' . • "-The Hudson Bay Company,- in 1863, -Was reorganized to meet the exigencies of inspe- rial and provincial Policy in Central British America,. 'In_aceorciancle .(io quote the,eiren tar of the new directory), •witli the industrial spirit of- the:age, And the rapid..advancernern which colonization has made in the countries adjacent to the H-udsou Bay territory.' While thepresent most effective cironi; zation of _the fur:trade will be tontinued end even extended,. the eonipany now 'proposei to avail itself of all 'possible agencies for the rapid colonization' of the SmIlittchewan basin and tbe ,gold dis riets at _the soutc•es of the Columble, Frazer, Sa.skateliewan, and Peace riVers., A telegraph line front. St Paul -to Pembina,. a..d thence throu.sh Selkirk and the Rocky Moentaits . to the Pacific uealt, is first ' announced m the...special -enterptise7 of 1864. Then at coneectige"-of the Selkirk settlement .eanigrant road -with Fort tirilliana on the Brie by reilroild with. St- Paul, and by 'a directs] tish cpast- of Lake Spiaetiorr- wi:1 receives effective aide concarrently with the :prosem tionof American and Canadian: enterprities. Steamboat navigation is to lie exteedcitupon bake Wmnieeg and the Saskatchewan river.. The eysiems ofeland survev and, eratultous r kl o inent.s Of land: to colonies -widen prevail in_the..ru'Ited, States, are propesed, the coal pany reserving ultereate -Weeks or sections to support future railroad conatrnetiOn, the "earliest practical •moment, a railroad will be undertaken reversion. the eo asides of Con. . 0 tral.British Anierice and- Belli& COlumbii.- It is in the. ,power Of the Modernized- Hedion Bay Company, and it is its well defined ptir- pose, te cohnect Lake Superior and the- Pa. cific coast hy a tordoe of eettlemeets, and. tay .carry forward the:construction -.if two then! sand mileiof reit-load simuleaneoesly with the adven( of, pointlition, end as the sure tneaue to encoerage the settlement Of Northwest British httneticti, 9r the interval . which "sepa- rates the lake cent- of Canada from ehe coast of the North Pacific -ocean, • " This- _internitional • railreid .etis it may preperly be Called, until the deyelopenient ot British Aentripawariatit* •direet commurils, calm! With Caliadelhill be the favorite ob- ject ofEttglish capitalists on this continent; as the Union Pacific railhead eomhine in: this behalf ehe energies ef Ade goveritinent and citizens- of the United States. Tit se tWo enterprises will theeefore -precede -the con - !ruction of _ ritilroads on' the gulf and lake roetes, but only -by a decade Of years, All, fnur roads will he demanded by the wants of 8e000,000 of people, which the next twenty-, .five yeate will witness permationtly seated on. the average latitudes of 35, 40, 45, and 50 de. grees, between longitude 95 degrees and the thicifieocean," • • „. ticare with eget, I ease It is surialsedithat ly on Sunday mem magi "likelihood of ed by ,passers•by pr estrut tion, although ost thoroughly done; roperty defaced and shed ot $1,200: upen it, nut- even ren. It was mit to strong feeling Of _Mei that the geilty- parties Most vigorous terms. it Would be wrong to -it law for redress, laud its ened as ranch aitypossi members of therilodgeeen !glee 4. The fads werc,conurfunicated to "the City. .1 Council then iteeessio , andthat body took took the attion h•luch i elsewhere reported. THE FEHIANS ItGAIN AT. WORK . It is to be hoped that t e large reward offered 1 I will lead eo the spec y detection of the offenders. The police we understand, IMO detection. - after the Council . ride number ot other od se,roorn and wet e admitted to view the d,gredations that had beeu committed, At. large assemblage, and by the Mayor, Ald. and othere, promishig Dastardly Outrage On an Oragge a toady some elee to th About ten d'e.ock, .4 • lIall la Toronto. .the Mayor an with interest and profit. Aa, ibis is the thne . , . . . - • ' . . . members visited . the of year for, renewing. Subscriptiene -fur the [ four British Reviews and Black:Wood, we - would urge upon those of ouy readers who can afford it the necessity of securing fair them: . . seaves a pereSal of those sterling. periodicals. To clergravi 1, lawyers, teachers, legislators; and thtakitie Ill'l 1 ettnerallyeley are' almost . . e - 0 . indiseensab'e: In fact we know of • no intel- ligent peeSon who free accustomed himself to .theni that would net. make any reasonable .. IT IS BROKE \IT; ANP11,OBBD February: following, reparationS made for' the .enaning active eamPaign, Ifis idea was then, ea it 'continued-- to, be t� the last, that Richnioncl was indie. ul- aerobic -by way of the. Lower Peto thaif by the direct route -from Wastiintiton: oi , In thiovietif he is supported by the h eat uillitaryauthority of the age,' ead he fearful &vitt r of the federal . troorps, subsecittently; under Popi, Hooker, turn, _ _ aide, eatillGraut-,°are so many awful 'es- . tationeof the facethat however "sagaci us othei respect; President Lincol a "-On to,Richniond" theory waa fallaci as in 0*-e:it-rinse. ,General McCiellaals p an was adopted. Ile priposed to make trees* llotiroW lus first basis, ot sup ly, the :line: 44..operations upon Richt)/ nd , being by,..Yorktowit 'end West Point,. he Jamite:gieer.to lie used for_the trans rt of su,pplies as well as general .co,oper# o on th`e of the. giinbdats. soo howaje;', had Ucelellane ntered ution 'is no)! i-ca,ntpaigti thaw: interferenca w t hitt incitements began. - First .BIen divisieit of len "thougalla Aden was e- tached Ar_id‘',_ sent to -the - :West, tlieu MODPierif-&itps was withdraWn,- and so witiLhe was depryed of t 0,600 of is - ' 'best ttlepek - ell knoW- the res t: bow tbOteet fagetl to co-operato and w he wasttoidett oil to strike a blow which bigtel-in SOUI-cotild-not hi &live' ;.a , . ;914- Iwo! leigt 1160310qt -Sukeided .!ithdrawinr, dispiritet army doiit 'the ol -101red by the triumphant legiOna of he Confodenay, Neelellan conipialue& ▪ terlithat his army had not been sapper ill sacrifice-rathei. than be without the the.ans they allbrd. him or keeping pace erith the age ia the'departaients of arisescietrce and literee titre. Tue. 'books- that cest only $10.00 in this country:Cannot be had -fer less than $30 . or .835: in Britein. f he.v are within the reaals ot thousandslof British ihteadians _who have hitherto dePhived Abernselves_ of a lasting pleasure„ Orders neey be. handed ha at this office. _ ' Babbontsht hte 4811119:d and WaWatosIt - , We give for what 'it is worth a rumor cur- rent in this li?Ciglibnerhood tbatseveral bodies of •Ribboitm0 •hatii -been foiraed in the towe: ships of Ashtield and Wawanesh, end that , • the memue -are Unaergoing a regular coiase e -of training-. Wehthoold be sorrY agitete Mrdlonnecesserily, bue we feel it . . to he -our y tte meatiim the story AS by eeverai i0a14tanti of. the townships iu queetion. They, at least, Seem to . believe that there is item good foundation for it. _rye-Thu.4.4ft canted/0a Maeda that the damage done to the OemigaTfall . Toronto Was greatly ever -estimated -by -daily papers, and that ia probablay breken- into by thieves far the ;sake Of pi -tinders- The faels soilotal:e °ever .hardly.warreat such a concis- e • ••• ••• ry , Q._..- 9iireehus.'0"Ikird,' sin: Biaihwood's Magazine, . slum ehapsodizes epon servants; 'Why ban mOdern mechanical genius 40 mit& . ing for es? Oh for a .Steam , bear, and a 'Seff-actieg heusemeidl Oh for a. coek that a man could wind iv. like ad tight -da a.. and never tbihk WI. the e n d eifthe week.' e Loss axe .1:eo'Cetteir '. or ail000,-e-i- few ts• , is . weeks sirfee, says ,a'Glits.„-oW pa er, as a Men ehant • waa 11 ing along the age: leading from Vieteeintage to; St. Vincent's-ealtme, Glasgow, h dropped a parcel contnining Aluahs-sielif „1,.60 -pouod'upteistr. the f.iiiiee Bank. fin edie.tely thereafter a "lad named Canningliadri,'‘e aerkin'the-iMploiliterit of "the Magnetie Telegraph Company, found the notes atethe foot of thestairaIeatlyig to the: superintenelenee depActetetite *hoe on disceiv;; ering that the notes' belonged' to the Union &ink,' proceeded - id the bank - and heeded Ahem orer to the secretary. • . Ina -short time '41,terwardet tit nierclunt, entered, ths..batik .fciethtepurparhoteitearialleinlese whether Or fiat itO:Itedittt or dropped the mo lief there, and was grailfied-On receivinghla "cash. • Oii.'heati, i . . . mg who the finder ef the notes was, he pro- .ceeded to, the telegraph, office, and presented -i the tad, Cunninzbam, with one -of the notese- 8109. ' . " 1 • 4,1Np DECORA- - TIONS DIUTIL&TED. rel,iit,Excvitietyrn.ent in the - _ _ The sensation createlcl a month it.go by the mysterious appearaece-in our -streets at mid- night of a body of armed ineri who have since been recoehised as _"'.Fenittits," or members of the -Hibaerniau Society allied 'to' that, plet ting and dangerenis body, was rapidly passing out of the public mind, when .lastevetting it was renewed and increased by • the discovery' 9f et!, overt ,act 'of lawlessnessand erime ou the part of some persona yet unknown, but _ who were at once set down in public 'chines Lion es belonging to the same secret, matig- - . mini band„. Hitherto the Fenians-rfor of the* exisience of stich a seeret society in Toronto there seems noW. to be. little 'douht..-_have 'committed-. no. oet Of violeede to -subject themselves to the penalties of the law. They have contentedethemselyee with a threatening midnight display, in which their. nuinhere were shown to be forinidable sand theirefiep- arations for offence careful and elaberate.- NO:force Was attemptecleeither because they . . , did not receive pruvocation or oecause In the opiniOn of scnne„ the time had not arrived for carryingreieut the sinister plan; they are sap. poited tehave in conteMplation. What these plans *Holm) one appeals te know, but popu- lar iuiseination associates them with all aorta of oittraees ie. which the Protestant portion o4liti commauity.:Will be hkechiefauffisters. Of bourse, in this as in Many other eases the p,ubliClears outran perhaps the -Sober Public- euelgthene, add people did hot -stop to reascn wotild have letting loose these horrore updn what objeeti the Fenians or anybody else 1 a community where religious toleration es an ,ective _principle,- and- where all classes and creeds have an eqoal fneting before i the law. Whea the firit apprehensmias were allayed,. and the cause of all the excitement inquired into,- there di.l...'net probably apoeor very niuch grourad for -further alarpr ; the -shit, was returnieg, to its former serenity, and ,people ouce again beein to hug- the' .conifortah:e thought Ahat eyerything was traociull„ and even to admit the idea that the Fentinatvere a myth, their treasonable desiges an illusion, the excitement they had eauied a pieee of stupid. folly. .;• _ ' - . Notwithstanding.this, happy „frame of' the -Oldie mind, the Fenian& were atilt Re much: - alive as ever they !tete, and, ithrouldeppears determined to let tithe* -ha*" it in esetne- what stalking sect -startling manner, It MO 'bet suffilient forthem to parade 'through the :otreets witliont a waking a tegn,”, -to be exe; -heated . for a moment without having some. sort of revenge,. They resolved ifpop action -seaction against 'the la*, 'and .against. the. peace -and welfare ot the Dalt le -rand they carried out their determittetionie thesonner ivbich'the followhigt4tement of facts will uoke plain 1 Ott -FriditY evening lalit, Orange Ledge -14i 136, of which Mr ROSS is Master ' meti'n-the Orange ball on _Youge street, tnied ia corn. mou by six lodges of the eider: It is milled. /h.. II IsTinsti Oranr Hall,". and . is in the " his tone there was a peeches were made eider, Coen. Spence hat every should be made to ferret out the guilty parties. The - Mayor urged that not hastily, which they mig but- to leave thetpunis offence to the legally co His remarks were res _cheers, The Lodge, h ness to admit the outing to its consideration af midnight the meeting 6th. ing should be done t afterwards regret, inent of this. odious istituted authorities. onded to with load viug suspended busi-- rs, Proceeded again - they left. Before djoorned.-eLeader, Biltieli .Centr Amends, ITS RESOURCES AN FUTPE PROS- - - PECTtil. - - - , From a recent report ade to the Secretary of the Treasurye on Abe object of -a Pacific railway, by Mr. Jas W. 'aylor., elf St. Paul, Miunesota, we take tile °Rowing remarkable passage in -relation to odr " out west '' :- _ . - - tf-T117E IETERNAT MEAL ROUTE. " Public se.dimeut in Canada -and England has long demanded rueairares for the twitted, ZetiOn of Central Britith America, as. that. fertile belt. of territoey o now called, which extends from Canada aud-Lake Saperiur to the Rocky Mountains. It icludes the valleys or the Red River of the NPrth and the Sasket- chewan River, which -b1 ong to the hydrogen- , sou's Bay, and are . 9f the _Hudson Bay . on the Red River of - in 1812,- and has a an industrious, morai unity. Fort Garry, the North American dson Bay dempany.- itny, mese ' thau fifty y commanding- ,situa, se area bounded by n Stuhpee,riwoersotin at hued e a salts, _ Arctic Ocean On tue orthe The fur trade of thii immerise ;ter Rory ;_cotieentri4et jki annual product dn the d -River of the North at Fort Gerry,4 from which point,* Ry- the . annualvoya yes I bri, &des of bateaux, mere . chandise and supplies re distributed to the - most distant post: P ior tit 1858 the iMportsi and exports of the tadion Bay- Company -were pnncipelly transperied,hy the . ditlieult and dangerous ronte f Hudson's :Bay and- Nelson'ilaiTer, 9r by rthe numereol. ebe-tr4 • . cies flameout* from ke Superior An Red, River, oh the-Britiehe ide of thesinterhalaordit line. In 1858, - ho shier, . materiali2 'Were trani!poited,from the avigable waters of the. Missusipi-River -o eoristruct witeamer on Abe ie Red Biler, end is 1862 two such _vessels navigat dihat st am' - Thetrade inievicnisly eiisting.:betwee St. Pinitland- 'Sella* has been greatly -him ase iti coiniegailiee. Ae. imports of Ciantral 13 'tislx-7Auteriek-for-..tbe ' use of theRudsoa Bit • Company.asid.the,Sel kirk siitlere inneunt te 6100,000 annually, - while the -average eli nal exports, almost ex- Olasively-furs,- aMoun to. 1,000,000. It is now well k own that northwest of phical system bf Hu dovered by the chart .C9mpany. • - ; .1 " Selkirk settlement, the North, was founde 'poputatiotrof 10,000 - and well ordered cum in this eettlement, is headquarters of he H i. The posts of thi emu in number, occu y ye tions -over , the imine Hudsou's Bay a d Lak the Rocky sMountains , a ..---41,a=• Dwritort, Deer 7.-Poznnve mutariaation nes ' ittbentstoatsfitt, t_ been received hire that araid epos- this city „. . - is being indeed by Confederate refuigies In I *nada. ol mil:tary commandertenl a notate- Mayor Barter, recommends that im- mediate measures be taken to organize and ann &regiment of militia for local piotection. Active measures are being takea to protect the city. erguscsfs' Coneert ON THE' IRISH UNION" ;HARMONIC IN THE COURT HOUSE ON TUESDAY ErG 13th MIT I/ BRAZIL -AND THE UNITED STATES. • • - -ASSISTED ST ANATECES. • The 'United States Minister tO Brazil, Gei. Webb, under date of Oet, 14th, sends a coin. mupieation to tho "13razilian Minister of foreign affairs in regard to the capture of the DOORS OPEN AT 7 1:O'CLOCK P.M. _Concert to commence at 8. 'TICKETS . -.25cts. FIctricits. Geh. Webb begins his commueica- . liar -Children Half Price. -glos - tion b a characteristic attack upon Great - Britton for recognizing the beliigerehey Of the Deeemberith„ 1864; sw28-tif Crinfederates, which With "ereat injustice' *as also sanctioned • hy- Brazil es " soon its RTRAY COW.. -,•Strayed away flint- Al* . possible." Gen. Webb 'declares that the -reh Subscriber, a small red and white COW, Cuited States have a kindly feeling toward nearly all' white over the back, with sMall Brazil and adds : . . white spots on -the font:male When last seen :. 'A Animateil hy such sentiments for Brazil, she was in Colborne. Aim peison giving _ - the government of the ,United States will feet. is0ch information ze shall lea'd tresher reeov- - - '' regret at learning that a commander in the ery, will be suitably rewardedby 'navy, without any inatructions or authority . 1). ADAMS Tailor. • i - whatever, took upon himself theresponsibility Goderich,-Dec. 81h, 186C w46 -3t to capture one of the piratical -cruisers of our , J011 rebels while eheyrse anchored in the port of Bahia; and the undersigned believes himself 1 to be autlitrized to assure your excellency . oF . . _ - ED that all- the reiteration which honor and • justice exact will be very freely offered, and L./INDS FOR TAXVS! much more freely and paomptly than if the • act had been committed by -an American cruiser fp the waters of the mixt powerful nation of -the world.. But, while making this. reparation, the governtrient of the United buttes will 'offer without doubt her .amende honorable wider protest,. Sh'e will say to Bnizil diet she denies toto teeny nation -or nations as soon,aerebellion breaks mit in the dentin -ions of any -friendly power and without , any examination or investigation 'whatever, and withoui knowing, or pretending to know the tnertue of the contest, the right to declare that the rebels constitute a belligerent powere end by means of proclametioa open them all the ports of the world on terms- equal to those conCeded to. .the Dation against which they rebel. -She vat'. maintain that, hum - much as- the' nationality of . the -rebels vas not recognized they citenot clothe their ships with the nationality neeessari to eive them the character of men -of -wee: * • * Recognizipg the right of those pirates te enjoy the protectiOn. in the ports of England and .Fiance simply bezause she cannot resist' it, the govertunent of the UnitedStates will not whithold from Brazil 'one Iota of that FlOMMININVOI TILE AZIERIOANi WAR. :SFIERS.IfiN IN -A "TIGET. PL 'ACE " „ .2. New YORK; Dee. 7. -We -hays -to-day.some 'additional items .from Cenfederate sources. showing how thetrightatShermanhapproach: to the tesecoast spreadine Georeis and - South Carolina.- • - 0 AP the official* civil and military,. have issued fierce and feverish proclamations: call- ing on every mole,- old and young, able to shoulder a Musket te-repori immediately for duty. - The Meyer of' Savanneh and Charleseothies well as tlie Confederate _army officers coin - mending in those Pieces, have issued before their already_terrified communities documents ef thii „ character, - prObably by title 'means adding considerably to the pinic, . Governor Brown -of feeorgio has issued ifiree more I 4- preclamations on the crisis, bat in Charleetone a- cording to the Republic zn tha city,ev.en these stirrieg papere de .not brines out the eitizense for ie appears a military guard has -to go around tbe OITA and drim. t4etit cot Of their hidiag places.. . - GenDiek ifaylor has been assigeed to the coMmand of all, the Ala:maim tied Georgia reserves with :headquarters at 'Savannah. The Macon Telekraph of Nov. 25th seys "Sherman's,. eititaiou is -daily growing niese precatiowe and we may confidently tope for his complete oeertitrove and deetraction.,-. The centre! read iirtiaid to be entirely destroy- ed hetween Griawcildvilleeand•MeIntyre." . • • NASHVILLE-, DeC. her- Very little -of -interest ..tratustaredyeitteriaty.-,.' Ar4illery skirmishing coatiuued: thrOugit the dity. _ -Weeirsdros, Dec. 6. -.-The Savannah Re pub.lican-of Pee. 1st, lays that it mentiOned in a pre viOus issue that- a foree cif Ftidfirds had landed oalleond river; 'end WeettraSsiteo ing op the railroad in the tliection of Gres- Duhieg thenieht the'Oonfederates had transported': an effective fore*. to that peintewhichenoltieg with thatalready on`the ground; niarehed-forWard'air the 30tit under ermaneand ol:"Gen. Gustavite :Stnith,s of eGeorgia State -04)00, tO tikettlhe_EIL The Republieaseleyi the. Feaurifiroops nualtered 5,001hmetteetvith hit pieces -of areil lery: heSinithe was attlicked at, SI tibiae cane Honey three, Irani Grahantsvale. The Coufederatcs bad onlY 1,600 muskets and 7 pieces of The" $ght Jest..ad till clerk. We Olie,paper Lys) repidied isky attacks and finally droee the . etiemy's right and cantee,-,.but ,tjte left *Vaud iiionovedat t cee.:191:411°freiltrceaWn4ie°°1410-''::-T:Olilitat ''eti°0littittimit4inita4113adl4 their boastiogt they idtait,it wri-s 4ttle. -.-TostoOkt(thel90)thellOstgicas iiijs &Weis! ;or loaded with troops were rapidly tiling up 'Bread' rive:4' which gives assurance that the fight will be resumed today. The Repubhcas says Wheeler intoned Kilpatrick With all case. HE balance of Landsonsold, will he again , offered for saleon Wednesday, the Fourteenth fifty et DECEIWBETt NEXT, At the bour of 11 o'clacICA.X., in the C0Irt Room, in the Town of Goderich. •••• JOHN MACDONALD, lierff,H. 4 a. Sheriffs .Office, GSdelich, -30th Nov.,1864. 4 w44 -till • OF NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Tlikr Ce. M. TRUEMAII 'Mil SELL 31- atances, and in her present and etubarassed 1 ..t-- U . elle Auction T reparation which, -_under the same einem- a iri„i m Iaesition, she would he obliged to sconcede to - 41Neither the Untted States nor the under- TOWN OF. ODE signed are directly or indirectly- res onsible ea THE . tor this 'occurrence. It was noe or ered or " authorized either by the government of' the United States or by the undersigned, and it will be regarded by his governmeut ms it is by the undereigned, a source of sincere re- gret that, if retell .0 accident was necessarily to happen, it did not occur in the waters els power which, within fifteen day! after being inlormed Of _the _rebellion in the UnitedStates, eucouraged obr rebels by grouting thetn belli- gerent rights." - -Execution cf T he .thircl and Cilminating.11Ct of the North Lendon Railway tragedy was enacted in trout Newgate oti Mencley mornitep With the nsual accompaniments of revolting black- guardisin. Muller's laconic coisfesszon--4 --hreserved to the very lastmoment left him fo-F utterance before the hangman had drawn-tbe fetid " holt, is he, far satisfactory • that, •though ii adds ncthing to our hnowledge of the eircemstences-of the dreadful crime he Committed, it Conclusively settles the coutro versy "as tb his guilt which many weaktainded people have tarried oe since his Convittion, and which, but ter those four German words pronounced by' film, with -the ;noble Tound'his ,neck-"Ich habe es gethan "-h.-would have been prolonged afterehis execution, and lett. on the ininde of some a painfat doubt as eto entering on the said line of road'hy their Ocia the justice of his sentence. • The deputitiee tractors andservants to unikeen& additions froanthe German Legal Protection Society; and .repors us they moyseerfitAt any isms, which his been AO enetgeticen the defence of daring the -Lease, free;of Ma ler, was received" at the Home Office on The Gates will beeold subject to The tile 'Seturrlity,when their petition for a resAte Wee ' l'olimgesntlahltieceinter 12lli; 4,18 .1 e Lem* of - 19 TOLL OITE811 -IN THE COUNTY OF IIURON VIZ., 1 5 Gates on the London Road .4 2 Oldest on the Bayfield Road ; Gate on the Mill Ike* 5 Gates on the Seaforth and Wroxeter Roede 4 Glues on Clinton and Wingham Road; and 2 Gates on the Ushorne Road. , These Oates will lie sold separately for the term of oneyear., each Lease dating from -the first ofdanuapy, 1865. The rent to be Taml in monthly instalments to thseatmLy Trta Jalirer. Each purchaser -Will have tp Aweigh teio solient freeholders ses secerity, froui whom Ceetiicate will have to be produced at elte time of sale. The County Council eeservielite tiglit or - declined. l'here is little doubt BOW thai the efforts of this Society were the cause of 'in: 'ducinsi Muller so withhold that full disclosure - _ • lowing BY-LAW. p• witdbaltich! °Pit):oltrItiollleitse°1dernt2ities le°• i:L:iinrited -c/relaiiedeerraatkimlft ilillGagul°10.1hetitLrok heti. the moreaerious erect of distracting his „, • Ithild from those solemn prepmstions far u`e v "`"l'Itin• "Ix‘ - Ilea" ther"*"'* whiuli our modern jarisarudenee has rnerci-. is extreme. 0 4;0 • filly provided. Icsimilar impression prevails wlf eain: rates of Tell at this -seteraleTeth amongeibme people,- that Muller may doi G• ates belonging_to the County of throe ' have confessed at all, and ;hall -in the excite- the County Roade within the istid eonnti. to - inept of the mciment, the worthy German- defray tbe expenses of making and repanttar Pastor many easily have „„been misled iuto , the same: ' _ , belseving that the convict said -that which he -1. Belt therefore enacted, That the aiter‘. was auxieusly expecting to hear. Itt'd Mullet mentioned rates of Toll be payable at welt - spoken ih Eiv,lish, a mistake could not easily and evEiry:Toll Gate uPen the County Roads have occurred, for; in tate he had said -hi did within theVounty of Heron, and the- -.uot it,? the accent would baVE4 been jilsced five Gatekee.pers are fietthy mittorlaed on the word 'not,' andoo one could have uth foyeand receive the seise at *soh than of derstood -to him to say "I Iu Germaqi piasit.kg140 gate upousbesaid- however, it LI -different, and in 40011 --ase- ntence tent to all legal exeMPtioni- VI 'Ich babe es tticht. gethanit this* need be alwayiesehat the oar team. hini't etir offsets - no accent on the negatiee anrit sajaud-of aalmit1(.041-fie idtori4 titua„ olio& tisily be thought. On the contrary, that arid pass thrOngli the same 'day: dm.}w'°nr beyverline"VihOerspiell 101a—Otherea pence.. For every 'additional horse Or ether -blest drawing such vehicle. two lience Ulf potty. For every horse and _rider, two pence 1,011 penny. For every horse, two pence lialftpettap Per every head dt neat -aide, twit posoo _ _ half -penny.--:- , 4 -34) natoberrteirttry seerepeneolesiltfeep.peastiary -rein. For *Very one 'hundred pounds over lag- aho.v. foursthousanttewhicii -leaded 'Owls ::2iireencripsicgal'hatilttP•tilebtin_and.rerever frovr.easit=titikeepieta said. -County .hereby authorise& atid,--veto ° every persotosswit&titspagh sAweiiiiessiirIeata C41:414Wst"frill.-or°6411-rthhee---lifittaidi -subject to Toll bead** stenlielelloirOblit and to use SR fittirfal.. Aneetasior ,tbeleecoliers., .of the same. the speaker said 'Ich ha'be es gethan." For -our part we have no doubt that Muller did cenfess, and that Dr.• Cappel was right. - Several pamphlets on -tbe murder of MA Briggs boveappearedlone of them-publislied previously to the execution- ..-fiont the pen of Dr. Jatnet Smith, the well known law writer, and, asseeting thet the evidence on Which the jury founded•their verdia was not satisfactory or coaelusive. Another .pamphlet was en- titled 'Frank Midler sThou sholt do ne f - murder," was an argument in favor ot the aholition of capital punishment, Ana exhorted Sir George Grey not to 'murder' Muller - Murder being the term -which the wooldhe repeaters ofthe lam apply to theexecution of crimiaals.--Lonrion cor. -Spectator. _ - fee°*cliTe°rartn9telirsit.:*stEyPIP-t4lelisCm4 44°oufreirLthouteml4roll:clilollit:ftew"?guirairl'94abli North Americtt, - New fitilith" Wales and Victoria.have had a dispete which, when the last mail left: had brought them almost to.the .vergarof -warzt, plazernmeat of New S O4th.. Wale -t ba4 deteraim0 to enfoice the oavinoot of its .dutiekupoo the frontiere_ and "Vicstogrreiaasti die4careease.164°f:41niqC911.tiettgaltiPmeg I r;hine tab; grieved colony threate kalay siert of embergeon fooiditaidatatti- allis_eized it uut as an earnest of its inten- tional ' -ictiotian "Sittlideitriee, ; on' Atee other liancdesPatehed atatit body of polite, [they fortupiately have-Aeoseiditirs,l.witli in, *unctions to resist force 'by -foreet and- they Uwe succeeded in enting their anthgon- sets from toiler:nog t e customs. It u pitiable that these colonies,. vr -linealizests ilrec.reit County Surveyor's Mee, tile" 1)ecernber fitli, 1864. 4 TITITB3GtottgBEIthiss veosived ---IaTMECIG11117" :*0140•40 in every departmest AlfUtersture, dupers of at s lihble' ter 'bri'in i'sled VTIF12 tunrivivir 111 mon tariffs, and be. leatning to regard one another 111111MMInuan Alvir I as separate and rival cow:nannies. It is- Fru:SUPPLY OF — hepet 7.--thiALEiglish"totunion sense will veil; and -wit *Min ,the'nresent difficelty Pat-Cbeeig4e101 atti0101/110tOrit. the practicability of uniting all the ioloiiiet of Ansteaha one ,,contitderatIon.. = °,It_It*.-statedr.,ttia Ms--,,Veorgie Itiirecfirkf:Alus.APkintneint -61 gineersinrChiet of the liome ilitadin New eat% witlivindary 011251 6 4 1 , §-N53 &Oath Spiel End iuvenni 4A -r -- 41, at Tates as low arshau ereisibly -lat ehe hmirsnee. :apt' -e-e4-00 elSyeests,esettit 000 iier - • -`" 41111e•idetiliellftt*I- A.snanitlit retain triettin New Fair- -sm- Lingelot• field, Gonsesticet, fovattpopting- to "ki441, .6* illr'""'144‘.1134 bug and tickle n -so- the indictment -read-a Signal OfIlicesaekhoh. t ceitain woman. ehov.Mh,1861. w21) • ,