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Semi-Weekly Signal, 1865-03-24, Page 2Int THE SEMI-WEEKLY SIGNAL. :pron igiiaL the particulars of which have been given in detail in formereIssues of the Signal. 'rhe jury brought in a verdict of guilty with a recommenditim to mercy. .Eitiell; G. IV., MIIRCH 24, His -Lordship after laying before the prisoner in an impressive manner the MING ASSIZES. enormity of the crime` tif which he hal * been convicted, sentenced him to =three years' imprisonment in the Penitentiary at Lan]. labor,. Smith went off with a constable in very bad humor, gruinbling that ho was an innocent victim. The spectators did not appear to waste much sympathy upon hint. • BEFORE' Milt. JUSTICE. 40IIN WILSON. *Bank .of Montreal 'es, ce Cleawes.- Ver4ict for PHE $682.6T. Levrie for Off. Schofield 'vs. Staurake et ett-Ejecte tient. 'Verdict for plff. Totes for plff. Wilkie vs. Cartere-Verdict for plff. Cameron for plf.. - ' - Commercial Beak is luilach et Verdict - for plff $40S 15 McDermott for plff. omeaerme an LS. a man e a - Verdict for et $1731.19. McDermott for-plff. _ ., _ Sinclair for plff. Cameron for deft. rin his wife, and others went to show that Ilibbert es. Scott -'Verdict for plff, tbrilome time 'past a family quarrel has Gooding for plff: • _ . subsisted between the Perrins and Mrs. Beecher vs. Woods. -Verdict rue. Finkle, the mother of Mrs:Perrin- They for ' Bairdvs. Storey. -Verdict of non • ARSON. The Queen vs John Finkle. -This was - case arising out of the burning of' the house arid Store of TM.. W. II. Perrin, of Clinton, in November last, the particulars of which nee published in our columns • . , . . at the Uwe: snit. - The evidence of Mr. Perrin, Mrs. Per subject: to the opinion of- the Court. Beecher for plff. Sinclair for deft. . Horne es. Ruthvin.L-LVerdict- by con- sent for Of. 8500. Shaw for pill.* - Cain.. eron for deft. Ruthvin vs. Horne. -Verdict by con- sent for plff. $50e,left to- award. Camer- on for plff. Shaw for deft; • Dickson vs. Crabb. -This was an action brought by pIff. to recover damages for • false fmprisonment, under a _warrant issued by the deft. authorizing. his- incid. eeration for 3a days in default' of paying a certain sunrof money and costs. After lived about a quarter of a mile apart.. On the 4th of November Ur. Perrin started for Brantford, leaving his wife at home. Next day Mrs. Finkle persuaded her daughter to leave her own home aud tome and stop with her. It appears that Mrse Perrin's sus,...icions became aroused while at her mother's house that night. Mrs. Finkle was up and dressed nearly all night, and her son John' Finkle, the: prisoner, went out and in repeatedly, stating- by way ot excuse that he was fraid of fire at Terrin's house: Mrs. Perrin, as she lay in bed beard whispered . lying in jail for eighteen Dickson was oner. Ftconversations between her mother and . nally, - John Finkle went pris discharged on a writ of habeas corpus. Deft's counsel submittel that there alvaa-es_emetime near inorninir milkg a little dog with him soon afterward was prima 'facie evidence on the face -of the warrant that Ahe migistrate kad he returned, saying he - smelt fiie.- • money, saying, "if' you owe him anything pay him out ottLat," he handed the money back to •Griffin and said, " I'll pay you some other way." He then struck me on the forehead. I tried to keep him off, and Giif fin came between us." I shoved Griffin's' hand off and backed out. of the door. As I was doing .so I tripped over a stick, which 1 picked up to defend myself with. J. Griffin, one of his ions, and McQueen fellowed me. Griffin presacd.me as I iried toseize the lints In the cutter andtook hold of me. „isletleeme just then struck me again in • the face. Grif- fin still:held me by the neekhis b-iYa came at me behind and McQueen in front. Edward ariffin. I think, took the club frem me and struck me on the eye. McQueen continued to -strike at me while I remaiued sensible. - McGregor came to my :reseue; and 'John Grzffin took the whip away.frem hiin. Griffin kieked me in the thighr became insensible and when I recovered Glriffin's:- boys were kicking me in the, head. The-. old man had taken. McGregor into ehe. hotie1 asked' thein what it Was for and did they want to murder me. They asked "me if I didn't know -I said no. They said they wbuld let - me know, for they had been watchinefor me . all day. .Dr Woods:attended to 'me after I g3t home. Robert MaeGregor sworn, -.said he was coining froin Barfield to Goderich on the 8th of-Mareh: ;Oa going. back . we stopped_ at- Griffisi'm We were asked by John Geiffinto stop went in first. I went in with the intention ta light my pipe, and wis fastened in. there. Bolton was standing outside. -1 got out at the front door. When Itwent out Bolton was down and all were poiinding- him. .When 1 got up ter them tasked, them if they :were going to natirder the man, when they seized me. They then backed off and John Gritfin, sen., pressed me back in the bar ,again. I.. saw Themes McQueen. John Griffin, jr., and Edward Griffin- striking Bolton. Thos. McQueen gave him 'several blows, the :rest were ..kicking him. John Griffin the elder,. took' the whip from me, The old roan said he diet not want. to touch me. McQneen was not at n11 intoxicated: Saw no blows while was in thekitchen - Dr. Woods sworn. I was called to attend J. Boiton on 8th March. I found him with several cuts on his heid and his body _much bruised. I would not. have known hirn if I had not been called' to see him. His left eye brow was laid-oyen, and could not open his eyes as they were so swollen - found a small deep wound on the left temple . . , , . as st it haa been eut with some instrument. - Several wounds on the and neck. One . • . • side of Ins head remained black for.a sveek in consequence -of the blows he receieed: sewed up- the cirabove his eye-founira very bad sy,ound ou his thigh, as if done- by some blunt instrument - He was in. a very imiate state until recently.- - Messrs. M'Dermott and McKenzie defended the prisoner with indch ability • - . --Verdict-Guilty with a recommendation to • alarm' was tlia.t -Pernn's - • . 'a An • kit -mantle; and furtherhat-the or _ - e 'house wason firP-. At the investigation by a cr se.•• .. had not been quashed. - • orenees jury into the erigin of the fi there it The counsel for plff. held -that at • twee- • .., • • . _was proved, that a peculiar track, correspond - rant was illegal: arid cited stattitOry -au • ing with one Ot Priioner's hoots, had been thority to prove that .no perste' in such traced te the neigrhborhood 'of the 4. •1 case -could be imprisened. for mere costs. 'track was by theirack of a dog, - Damages were laid at *2000: e dog was burned in the house, a couple of Ilia Lordship ruled e non -tut, with •-basket e were thrown meerea fence, as if to leave to move.: Toils and Rebinson for cast su-spieion -ad a, neighbor. Putting all - plfr., Cameron and K. McKenzie for 'deft:. these circumstances together it became Bennet vs. Morgan et al.: -This was an action iirtaally against' the - township of - Hallett for trespass. It appears that some twelve or fourteen years ago the Winship authorities were authorized to, involving as it did the evidence, of a -thingliter against the family of her `mother, presented many points "calculated to call Hp feelings- of painfulness. The prisoner was defended by Mr. J. G. Millar, of Woodstock; . SLANDER. < Grahiim es. Henry: -This. was an action brought by. Mr. Wm. Grahani to- recover dantagel from Wm, Henry for an.'alleged slender. Ile-tiry's stacks were burned some menthe too and. was charred by Graham° I .0 with having spread a report that hte(Graham) hadset fire to them. Hence the present actipn. Verdict f9r deft. Shiclair for plff: B 6i -for -deft SHEEP STEALING. The Queen rt. Wm, ltellmalPrisener, was charged with having stollen a sherp :be- longio; to one .7:m. Garrett, of ..COlborne. There was evidence that erisonerhad worked for Mr. Grundy, that he had reeelved orders t) kill the sheep, alle-ged to have been stolen, that being 'half blind he made a mistake ad killed an -animal belonging Id- Mr. Gerrett. AlthOugli. the mistake was uelreowleagert" no Steps were taken to make the matter right. Grundy himself taid 'nothing about it in, the way of taking -proceedings entil• 'recently, although the atra;r took 1-tiste-e in November- *last. The •prisoner was: ably clefendeet by Mr. Milinr: - Verdict not guilty', upon which rendering, a demonstration of applause arose, but it was - • syedily -suppressed._ McDonald. was then discharged. . • -LA RCENT. The Qeeeit vs. Robert, Anderson. -The prismter, a very black - negro boy, about 15 leant °rage, pleaded guilty: to a chstrge 'of having stolen the stun of *30.00 front a stoke - keeper in Arran during. the present month. Sentenced to two 'years' initiriseument in the- , morally certain that...16bn Finkle; prompted by some motive not fell).- eiplained, had fired his brother-in-low/3 house. -The jury brought „ in a. verdict of guitty. SJyteneed to five years imprisonment in Penitentiary. This case, open a road through oblock of land which. - has since come into the possession of Me. Bennett. The statute labor of the section was performed and public inoney expen- ded on the road. Bennett now claimed tbe land as his and therefore, instituted the present action. As His Lordship re- marked, it would have been...better to let a sleeping dog lie, for,. whereas' his deed covers exactly 32 acres, tbe evidence of two -surveyors proved that the Property claimed embraced 5E --acres 'dins .giving him his 32 acres without. taking in the Treadway in question at all. It was also submitted hy defendant's counsel i that, _ melding to, statute in *tease made and provided, a roadway could not te-recovered • k this manner after the public had used it for eome sconsiderable length of time Verdict for deft. Lewis and, Moss for plff., Cameron and Robinson for, deft. LARCENY. • TheQuteen v:.K. Haacke and Williatri -Armstrong, larceny. This was . a case arising out of a fa.nily fend. The partic- ulars, as 'nearly as we could. glean thein, were these: • Some two years ago Mr. Hanker according to- the-, evidence ofhis son, Arthur Heat:Ike, when Starting away to Torontotoldthe latter that he might save as much of hiirthe fatIteresi proper- ty as possible by selling and 'otheritrisc. disposing of it, at there were a number of mantle= against him. Arthur Haaelre traded wagons with cine Shanahan, and at la sale aubseqttenely &Spoiled .of thevragon se obtained to Dr, WOodsof.Stanley. Ide„ afterwards, bought back the wagon froni the Dr. and sold it to Sohn Bolton; it taverukeeper in. Bayfield. On. the 3rd Of December fast Bolton missed.the wagon; and on search being made, traced it to the shop (Tone Warren. The prisoner, Henry Macke, admitted that he- bad hid the Ara of tilk wagon. Geo. Warred proved - that On the ard December ESunday2 he saaw Huck. and. Armstrong sawing -up and burning the wood work of the wagon. They lattried the irons under some coals, &o. Believing afterwards that the wagon lied not been stolen honestlys he let the est out of the bag. H. B. O'Connor, En.; testified that the eider Mi. -H. „aapke bad ipplied to hint to obtain 'a -warrant Iltainst his win to recover a number of orsirtieles which he claimed as his proper. t7 but :believing it to be purely a family quarrel; he refusist to have., anything to do with it. Bia Lordship =said it, would he -unsafe ilierinvitt Elia* the aircumstaiicas, and a verfliet end guilty was entered - accor- ilingly. In discharging Haacke His Lordship -said he wasahraye in ilillictilty, auk "(a keneral rule, neopIc of -that kind Wiell nearly always in the wrong. [Laugh- ter.' It would have beep far better to brie &INNS up everything than to bide bis $110411- front «editors in an underhand aae the result ofithieli was an Mt- . leadrellat estrangement from :hit ten. :The Ilehndenta Wei* thee 4Thoharged. *Geller tot. tOO-._ ffektees F.,11Marittri.' _ no Queen vs. .John Smith. ---This is thetale ofsUegs1 crimping. in May last, Ref?rmatory prison. ' ASSAULT.. The Queen vs. Thomas Alelaueen.-The -indictment charged the prisoner with havidg committed in assault on Robert itleGrerron on tha 8th of March inst.' Robert McGregor swOrn, said that on the day 'mentioned he was called. into John Griffin'a. plae.e u be wits passing. A fight was om n g g oMcQueen s.d otheri were beating a man. I told them -to let him alone, when the piisoner kicked me ia the thigh, cawing me pain for several- days. The ,parties tried to keep we in by hotting the door. Simply asked were they going' to murder -the man. . • A verdict ofguilty was recorded. AGGitiTATED ASSAULT. The Queen vs. John Griffin and Thomas MeQueen. • The indictment Charged priion- Ars with having, on the 8th day of March, inst., committed an aggravated assault upon the person ot one John Bolton. The accused wavered in "their defence, and McQueen was first put neon his trial. • . e" - John Bolton aware -Lives in Bayfield - was coming up -to-Goderich ow. the 8th of March, with Robt McGregor. When we came to Griffin's tavern John Griffin called to us to go in We drove on, and when returning, McGregor wishedto go- into Griffin*, I stopped, and Griffin and Thos McQueen came out of the house. - Griffin put his arms around Me, and urged me to enter the boon. . We _went in together. I threw down a quarter to treat at the bar. McQueen_ soon after proposed to treat, and we drank all round. He then came to the fire and began to rod up his sleeves and aslied me -how -much he owed me. I said I. had.totd before: He Asia Iliad told himed--d saucily teo. I saideuelfdie tVish to pay he might keep it. I hadn't asked him for it then. - joint Griflitepulled eut a har.dful `of paper mercy. . _ (Concluded inour next.) _ St. 'Albans, Raiders. , RECOVERY OF JUDGE saturn-nts EivEsTial- TION RECoMMENGED. Morrnesi., -March 20 1865. - His Elonor Judge'Smith having recovered from his recent sickness, the inveitigation in the SL Al' ans raiders case was resumed this morning., TI.e Court was "somewhat less crowded than fornierly and Opened at 11 o'clock. - Mr; Laflamme, Q. C. continued his address from the last sitting of ihe Court. After as that he had established that the offence was -a -political one, he referred to Lord J. Russell's despatch to 'Mr. Adams, which laid down that the production of a commission by the accused ae_r.n authorized officer of a belligerent government was n sufhinent justiii- canoe of any net of war. He a!set reterred to the trial of Beall, a 'companion of Burley in the Lake -Erie affair, who was arrested in the United States for a political offence, thu giving the be on the part of the United State authorities for the application for extradition in the case of Burley. The rest of the address, which- lasted fill one , o'clock p. m., was erincipally devoted to cootencling for th military character of the prisoners: and that consequently their offence did not come within the provistons of the treaty. As for the alleged breach ot neutrality, he (Mr. L) statedthathe had nothing to do with the acts as -committed towards the United States government. _ Hon. Mr. Monk, Who was to follow on the part of • the_defenee, having stated that -he thought it unnecessary, it was arranged that Mr. 13. D.wlin sheiad °pee the Case for the prosecution to-inorrbw. - The court adjourned at p. m. until 10:30 to morrow (Tuesday). MONTREAL, March 21,1865. The poen opened at the usual hour toelsv. alr. Devlin oecupied the whole of the day with his opening -address on the part of the prosecution, and after some preliminary re- marks, based bis argument on three proposi. tions :--Ist. That the offence was committed at the tune and place alleged. 2ad: That it was one of the crimes mentioned iu the treaty. 3rd. That the prisoners whose extradition - - was demauded'had participated in the offence. Mr. Devlin then' went on to review the -evi- dence adduced by the defence, contending that the documents brought from Richmond were of no value. He also adverted to, the case of Burley at some length, and concluded with an earnest and eloquent appeal fee the extradition of the risoners, strong! support- Tbe Militia Department has advertised for gift or not • public demonstrations are against tenders up to the 30th min., for the delivery before the 20th April, of two thousand pairs of boots. The .question of the commutation of the sentence of Poulin and Turcotte, to be hanged here on Friday, it is understood will be eon- sidered by the Government to day We have high wiud aud rain here to day. Arrival of the. 66 CiNt el ' Lon- don • NEW Your, March 21. The steamship C ly of London, from. Lite eirpOol on the ath rid Queenstowieecne the 9th, arrived hero this mornink. It was reported that the Emperor Louis Napoleon was firmly resolved maintaimeg the'Empire of Merlcorand the honor:ef the French flag:- The Lendon Star repudiated the rumors of a pos Sible war between -En gland awl Alludes. The French Minister ot Pub ic. Instruction had teuderad his reeignaticitehut Napoleon refueed to aecept it. . In the sbaence ot • later news from America, which was anxiously expect - el, the result ofthe fall -of Charreston con- tinued to be largely: cativased, The Times says the- next operations are expected with I rather than for confederation, and the Gov- • ernment bas therefore resolved not to recom- mend the scheme to the present House, as it was not eleeted with reference to any sueb contingency. ' - In view of this attainment -refusal of the maritime provinces to join the 'Confederacy, it is somewhat singular that the Canadian Government should -persist in reconimending I the adoption of the Quebec resolutions by the present Legislature and that . the latter should adopt the plan -as it did en Friday, March 10 -by the large majority of 91 to 33. . A member of the Canadian Government is to leave at once for England, to confer with the Home Government about the execution of the plan. . ' ' On the -Pacific side of the Britidi demi- , nious the union -ie progreseinz somewhat more rapidly, nred the House or Assembly of Veocouver !eland has passed resolittions in favor of being united with British Columbia. All this, however, • is no compensation ler the, failure of the plan in theataritime Pro- vinces. -The . people have evidently no faith yet in the "new nationality" which it was the intends:oh to establish, and they by fax prefer the hope of beiug _protected by the Euelish Crown to the pride of heifer members e , 0 of a new and independent nation. , sin gular interest. The Feclerals have recov- ered- their military reputeton, but if the &oath stilteesolved to stead eat till the -end, they have made - but little Progress towards the conclusion Of the -war. In another editorial the Times says the slims nt confederete ex- heuetion have brought us to Ihni turning point which placee_us within sigh: of the final scene' *Tithe part we shall be called On to play to it. As the Federal Government mainia.'ee _ the quarrel with England in the shape of claims which she does not aelineviledge, the question we have to adiress -ourselves to is sirnply whether they can to war with us with flair prospects of success. If they can, - they certialy will. The TimeS, argues that the Washington Government will- show its AlIERIOAN WAR.. Junction of Sherntan and Schou. SHERMAN'S ititten stmt.- ErNorPosED. nia PRESENT _ Washington), March 22. -The Republican has received intelligence that on Sunday last Gen Sherman's army entered Goldsboro, N. C. - His inarchavas ueopposed. The two armies of Sherman and Schofield have formed a junction. - - The report further _says • that Sherman's . present Command is -sufficiently formidable to confront Lee's whole army in the open field, without the assistaude of Grant, and no force that the rebels may rake can impede Sher., man's triumphant march northwatd. The story in the Riclunond Sentinel which we published yesterday, that four of Sher - man's divisions were repulsed at Fayetteville, turn out to be a rebel lie, as was stated. Washington, March 22 -From information received -this- morning, it appears that the rebels have erected• a new battery to fire on wisdom by not attacking immediately on the conclusion of peace, but it will be for English statesmen at the,proper time to see -that the quarrel is tiot allowed to hang over Until it suits A Merman conYenience and opportunity. The Times' city dlicle- nlludes .to the probable shihMents of lino New York; owing to thOdulltiess iii exchange consequent on the heavy Supplies' of Federal. bonds to the =con- tinent and the Arrival of Slivainiah. cotton at Nei's: York. The-bonse Of Commons coin- menced the debate of the - navy estimates. Sir F. Kelly's propgsition in favour of the repeal of the malt duty, was defeittpd byn Government majority of80,- -DeMontholon has been appointed French Minister to Wash- ington, and E.Dano to -Mexico. The 4,raft, of an address to the Einperor in response ;to the speech .from the Thrope Was "reitlitt the Senate._It ,merely a paraphrase of the speech, and rpatitic in • tone. The Minister of:Public Instruction has issued a report re- cernifiending gratuitous lied compulsory= pri- mary instruction. It is asserted that the Austriau reply to the Prussiau note on the Duchies, declared the proposals of -Prussia entirely unfitted to be is bilis for further negotiation. Bowler, March 1.--Bustness Suspended here and at Calcutta, awaiting later news than .February 15, reporting a pan- ic) at leiverpoel, and _pending. -the American peace negOttations; Liverpool, March 9. -Cotton sales for the two days, 10,000 bales, of which 3;000 were speculators and ezPorters ; -market flat.' The Manehester -market was quiet butLsteade.-- Breadstuffs quiet and steady. Provniont dull. L tirm. , Confederation in Nova -Scotia. In the Nova Scotia Heese of Assembly on the 7th inst, - - Mr. Bourinot as there was nothing before the House, be was desirous of *skin.. she government a quastien in reference to the union of the colonies. That question was agitatin4 the country to ,perhaps a greater extent. than any other question for years, and the people Kere naturally anxious to hear th' views of the -House on the subjects,' He - was therefore desirous of learning none. the Pro- vincial Secretary, as. the leader of the gov- ernment, when it. was proposed to discuss this Al important topic. Hon. Provincial Secretary replied tine the House was now in possession of all the tor - respondence relative to the -subject, and the policy of the government relative to it would be submitted at an early day: - I Mr. Bourinet said this was not the "answer he expected. He tad hoped that the governrnent would have been prepared to .name the day when ehey_wonld be ready to lay that question fully before the House. - When. the prorogation was close at hand, was not the proper titne for the discussion of a question which required so much deliberation on ths pare or every ene in the Legislature.. The 'Confederation of British' America. -- From the New York , , • - The prospects of a confederation of the British Prnvinces of North America haaeof, late, become highly unfav_orable. The ex- pectation that the remarkable unanimity exhibited at the Quebec Conference, by the leading men of beth thee great political par- ties in theCanadira-end ioeach of the Lower Provinces, Wouldbarry the bulk of the. voters an each ,province, . has not beeu_fulffiled.-- The ippoisition-- ,to the scheme has grown stronger and stronger, and evert its most san- guine champions now admit that for the present 11 18 hopeleisly defeated in each of the misritime provinCes. ingehe decision o the Upper Can a Judges. The first province in -winch public opinion • • • LATEST FROM UE B EC. By Special Telegraph to Globe. QuEBEo Menu 22 All the members of tbe Cabinet were pre sent at the -sitting today. The Council did not break up till after six o'clock. The am pression prevails that the subjects to engage discussion in England still occupy their atten- tion... The following shows the stations of the several companies of the Active Force at the frontier •_ veryeniphatically declared itself againstcon- federatton, is little Prince Edward's Island. -Financially, this has been the most prosper- ous of the British provinceslend the opponents of confederation found • it therefore conima . ratively easy to represent 'a IlpiOu with the other provinces its detrimental to the best_ interests ot the Island. 1118 generally ad- . mittea that the scheme- of coufederetion stands,. for the present, not the" slightest chance of adoption. Mr...Ha.fland, one ot the delegates of the , blend to the Quebec Conference, "mull', admitted.; it a public meeting, that eine tenths of . the population are °prorated to confederation.: OnV two embers of the Government- now favor it, and the scherne*ill therefore not hebetteght forward at all for the preitents . Ne wtBruhswiek is this- far the only perte wince in which the lie* have had la chance chance to -pronounce- their 20Pifliotvoi the plan agreed upon by , the, Conferenceof Quebec. The result_ ot this vote is entirely advents to confederation.- Thechief chain. pions ot :the plan have been defeated, and -a new4c0eisiment mill_ be formed -which will be, of emtrue hostile to* As New Brunswick separates Nova Scotia fremtheganadas, Nova Japoela cannot think of entering tits Omit-MIMI/don is Keit Wick stays • out. We. are therefore best„ sure: prised to learn from the ..Halifax Morning Chronicle (anti-COnfitration) that "tbe table of tbe Reese :roue With .Pititioni-igitinst the Messina, while fin one has been presented in -its favor.” .* 3.he delegates froma Newfoundland at the Qpebec-Conterenceshad in their, report pre, noted the.subjectinthe mosttemptinguspect possible, endeavoring to show that their Colony had made thi:bettdiargaie. Stilt -the People hesitate as to whether to accept ths t Firitrur Western Battation.-Brantford and York companies at Sarnia; St. Catharines and Danville company at Chatham; Quebec and Montreal companies at Windsor; tit) Montreal companies at Sandwich; Belleville auttl3rocktrilte cempaniea ittAntherathure. Central Battalion -Two Toronto compa- nies, one Kingston, one Coiling:weed, • one Barrie,: one Whitby, one bcetboro", One Lae and one Shame, stationed: at Niagara; Hedimingferd cotnpany at Clifton. Detachments of the:Third or Eastern 46 d- ministrative Battalion are stationed as fol- lows :-Woodstock company at Philipsburg Beaehville company at Hemmiegford; Corn- wall and one Quebec company at -Lepatrie; one Quebec • company at ,Huntingddric" two Montreal companies at Prescott;' one Mon treat coinpany at Frelighsburg; 3fegantie- cOmpany at Sherbrooke; St. John rampant, at Lacolle. The.following numbers of candidates joined, the military schooltin Upper -Canada yester- dayi--gingston, If; Toronto. 9; Hamilton', 14; in all 31.!lhe ntiotner in each school •ii as follows --Kingston $6, Toronto 71 ;gots!. el the three schools 25. our 'railroad trains between City Point and Hateher's Run On Monday it opened, but - the shells fell far short. •,_ The winds are rapidly drying the roads. Our troops are ready in case of emergency . to move at 'any hour. It is sa..d that several -day&ago a party of Sliericlan's scouts were driven in from White • Oak -Swamp. . - As the mail steamer for Washington was -a he J i " ; coming own t James r ver yesterdssy, .m mense columns of smoke were seen about 10 mutes below Jamestown Island, on rebel soil, and appeared to be a conflagration of timber. Newbern, March a rge numbers of 6La :-.- refugees came ioto- Our lines this afternoon. They say the enemy have evacuated both Goldsboro and Raleigh,andhave fallen back to 'Hillsboro, with the view, they think, -joining Lee. • They -report' that the enemy areedemoralized end panic strickeneand are improving every ,opportunity presented to desert. The rebel soldiers agree a ith,the citizens generally, in the belief that there is no chance for the Confederacyto succeed, and that they are fighting against hope. - Rebel officers are giving their opinions, open- ly, tb the same effect, and in Many cases they abandon the field With their men. These desertions are in such formidable bodies, and so • open and frequent, that the, enemy are powerlms to oppose this state of things, which threatens te result in a general stain pede of their entire army. Blockade -Running at mingloats._ An official statement ef the results -1:1 lilsclindeounnine at the port of Wilmington from January, 1863, to December. 1864 appearea in the Manchester Guardian. The tetal ventures ' made by English capitalist and speculators, countingthe value of ships and cargoea, amoneted to more than eixty- six. millions of dollars- (L13,241,800). The returns are made in six different tables, cover- ing various periods, the shortest being ten months. The general results are as fellows: The quantity of cotten exported from Wit: mington in - twenty-two months (January 1, 1863, to 'October 31, 1864,) was 137,937 bales, or 62,860,463 pounds,- of which the larger part was Sea Island. The closing of the port of Wilmingteti -thus cuts offs spurge of huge rebel profits. , The value of the expert nod import trade &Wilmington in one Year (July 1, 1863, to June 36, 1864,) was $65,185,000; the rebel government rating' exchange at five for one. blockade in fifteen months October 1, 1863, to December 31, 18640 WAS 367. - The total number of Vesselis which ran the 'The State of Affairs in Mexico. A Jalapa correspondent of the -World, elating front the headquarters of an Ausuian Prince, writes an inteeeiting accouut of the condition oraffaini, civil and military, in the new empire: The oppratition that etill exists in various quarters of the* new -regime, and military movements are rendered necessary to put down the adherents, -"of the Republiean cause. The !seines Where the various opera Cons of the opposing parties are carried foe wards are so widely apart, that a correct Idea of what °emirs On only be obtained by following the army. The writer says: "The French have suffered some very riee-e losses in the las* few weeks. One company. of ,Zpuaves, escorting a conducla of fody thousand dollars to Mazatlan, were recently routed And &emit:teal by the. liberals, -onlya fel- of the company escaping. Near 'Tulanlengo another fight had taken place in - Windt Uri) companies :ok Preach troops were defeated, and nearlst all of them killed: A6 Tbe news of the pait few days is stimmect up briefly "as &noire: Ojaca heat- -uri- c litionally surrendered.; .Gen Mound the ,wbote,garrison ars prisenerre. failure et water it preauined to bare been the moving cause cf the capitulation. 'General Retail the friend of Doblado, has been killed, and in him Mexico leat ber greatest felon. Romero, tdbisepellitresogauellrilit4ea. hwastabeekena p.rroingteoiderit by Col Poitiers, if the 801stieFrench infantry -7T, Major -Robert Baton -do Konig hat been assigned to theeineeelen iroops at Jeep!, by. erder of .the Emperor. Gen GalVor_es en route to Vera `Cru''. with three regiment', intending 'embark- forYiicataiiii" There are An*„. See thousand Six hundred Austrian troops in --Mexico, -oolnUmided by, young scions of Austria's/liability. tkose.of' the cavalry, without exception, belomg to the, highest andttcheat arietogriCypf Many orthel ithe ".oldeekeeerte-efe.Anell nehlemen the Courts of - lieberstein, and Lichtenstein, Whd have taken service under, Maximilian much .s.igainst the wishes of their lianiliese Who despmethem as reckless adventurers and democrats. - The Ernireiti, Archduke Of Austria, is very liberal; and is therefore hated- by ""the tetirt and the aristocracy Of Vienne. .So Bays this irrite5 Guerrilla fora* PPeral with - ma Miles -rif de nitY-of are easily die -posed Of hy intall-bodas of lilreach inivalry sent out against them. :_ Tkasisiland.pasecoi ger teaches are attended by **anted gum* o protect them =from. guttrillas; who ,watch every opportunity to depredate, and all the small town -live garrison* of foreign troops. Puebla, which island in the ruinous_condition to which it WAS reduced by 4he .long siege, has an Austrian garrison, tied in the pictu- resque'costume of Southern :Europe, and are very popular with the Mexicans. The city of -Perote, 90 . miles from Puebla, it held in like manner. 'I he correspondent rode with - the Emperor's troops to witness the attack upon twelve hundred Mexicans, under Gen Orteg,a, at Tezuitiane by Three hundred, who surprised the Mexicans • and won an easy yictory. The garrison had indulged in a grand festival the night before, and were completely Surprised by the arrival of .the Austrians. Many turned out in shirt and pan- taloons, tied some in even Jess clothing. The Austrian column advanced steadily, and after a brief but furious fight drove the Mexicans Out of their ftietilications and took pcissession- ef the city._ - Half -an hour littered° Imperial banner was flying from the government baild-, ings; and the Major had delivered .up the keya of the city. I helotis of the Austrians in the action was thirty killed and wounded and that of the Republicans one hundred and fifty killed and wounded. ,The captures coa- 1 sisted of forty five prisoners, two hundred 'stand of arms, one hundred horses and two' hundred knapsacks. During the -next day Prince (Albs arrived with four hundred rifle men and fifty engineers. A force of. three hundred was at oncedespitche•; in pursuit o the enemy. They came up -with them at San Diego, which place was e,vacuated without resistance.. Among the captures st Tezuitlau- Was 8250,000 in paper_money. Diameter. sa !Be Baum/Am, Mbreh 22.-Teday tise ice - in theMeira dyer gave -wig; tearing down) in its course, houses, barns, theas and out- buildingeoreboth. sides of the "river. '--The fine iron bridge has beentswept away, cairied „down the rivereand -crushed lo pieces: Over SO houses; anincipally on the *est Aide pC the river, are completely stirroundedltyr from 2 to4 feet deep. The -mouth of the init.- is blocked with „ice, and the Inter, from its -usual comues is -rushing down Front,. Coleman and • Everett streets, Bows are- tngaged in removing frmilies and ho d -- effects from the -most dangerous localif oar ibe 'west side of river, and many of, the' inhabitants ate_ piepering for farther Irk., AS the water still continues very Inglis: -pule' is the most destructive freshet which•has ever takenplace here. The damage done topro. - petty, including the iron bridge,. which almost new,.is estimated m from fiftecii tos twenty thousand dollars. Narro'Escape of -4111.0111* toria. • On Sunday last, says the _Court e• r Iler Majesty -had A most miraculous from becommg chrushecl to death by the' fai- ling of a huge elm tree in the irome Pirie. - Her Majesty - wu taking .aa airing oni_losr: favourite Ruh Scotch pony, and prouedine thro' the tall evolve of elms at Veneer known as Queen Elizabeth's ride, the *ar. led by a gillie, and a groom following * short distance, when forumately and etteevid- - entially, theiervene observedoneeit the liege_ trees falling immediately over Her Iltejorty.. The groom -calling out loudly And Her ?h&- j; tya f7ewadye isidswAroenijo.f the danger by this tiaely alarm escaped being crushed beneath the tree 4IP The Iiiaritinie Defence the • Coionles. (In the House of -Commons, on'the2nd.) Mi. Cardwell rose to ask leave to introduce a Bill to enable Her Majesty's -eolonial possessions to _make. better provision their marinate defences. No subject had of late years attracted greater interest with regard to the government of our colonies than the -development of_those qualitiet of self reliance which would enable them to 'make provision for their own defence, . aild thereby relieve this -country of the great bdrthen hitherto cast upon iL That interest had been _chiefly directed to the question of defence bj land, but the defence against an enemy by sea was of equal, if not greater impudence. Atter alluding to the desire of out:poi-omit-to take measures for their owe maritime defence, the righe hon. member said the 'conclusions- arrived:at by Suceessive governments in 185? -- 58, after consideringethesubject of a colonial navy; _Were that for 'local defence against sudden incursion by sea a local force, trained in and belonging to the -Colony, was the most natural and best, but, for general -defence against a great foreign- war, the defence Of the Queen's navy was the defence that would be the Most effedtive. With theSeconelusions he (the right hon. gentleman) did not disagree. but hi consequence of theme conclusions nothing had been done to secure the maritime defence of the colonies by theirown.exedionss After referring to the raising of the Naial *serve in 1859 as being a greet and iinpor tant acquisition to the maritime defence of . The Koickerhodeer tells is the ifole- lowing good story: -About sir months ago a mail named James Patigman, who forme.rly. worked as a laborer for Patrick 'Brandy ta Thos. Lynch, in this city, started for P yam to procure work. He left 'babied a wife and three childern, who were in cd circumstances. Ili fact, they . we so' wretched during the Tuba whiter that on or our city authorities took their ease in _ and hail relief extended to them from poor fund fund of the city. -Nothing was hued et Mr. Penman from the time of his Arrival ia Pennsylvania until Monday lag, -When 1111 returned home to his Wife and children a -beW man. Ikappears Abet he secured a •sitemeime as a borer for one of she companies. Beings man of intelligence, and somewhat -verseas an engineer and explorer, he made discoveries - that proved of the greatest table in him. - From the exaMmations hems& be became satisfied that's well coild be etruk piece of ground that had been overlooked. An association set a price On his Mealy in ease they -proved miccessfule andfurnishedlelne means for him to worker). He commenced, and AS be expected. struck o whit:breve ed to be of& inferior- quality. 13; this Ili' made $50,000. He ellen invested largely, and today hisestimated worth, frmn 'lilting in petroleum, is 'set down'st -Spites elate on *2001000. • - • this country, the right hon. -gentlemen said —seen. there was no reason why the mune principle, which was applies/hie with so much efficiency m this country, should not be equally *Folic - able to every British colony possessing a maritime population. The main provision of ARMING THE SOUTREILE SLATES. -••Thee _ negro Soldier panted by the Congrese the Confederate States, authorises Rresadent _Dovis to call upon each State for its qaota„of slaves. These men Mrallot be placed in be - the proposed Bill was to extend the principals field until late in•the summer, and even then of the Royal Naval Reserve of this country • have to be accompanied" by equal nam- bers of whites. The three hundred t rank and file tiles added to the Conf army will add tench to its strength, for, ae- - tiording to the 13latok likpublican papers,' *gip negro acquires a knowledge of thil with ear - prising facility,- and is superior in user respects to thewhiteman. . to all the. maritime colonies of the empire. The second purpose of the Bill was to enable any colony to place a ship 'ot- its own under the Adairality, and thereby to acquire all the nghts ofa ship of war._ The object of the Bill therefore was not only to enable the colonies to provide for their naval defence, but to ecimbinelor that purpose under the au• thority oldie Brit sh Admiralty. The Bill contemplated no expenditure but whatirm to be bourne by the colonies themselves. Leave was given, and the Bill was accord ingly brought hi and ?eau first dim. eeeseseeeneee— Mysterious Affair in Guelph. A TOUNG NAN FOUND DEAD. It becomes our painful duty. to day to record anotLer mysterious death In GecildL About halteset tour o'clock this morning, as Mr. Tyrrell, hotelkeeper, Moirison, was passing along 'McDonnell Street, and when nearly opposite the "Advertiser" office, he discovered what he tarok to boa roan= lying drunk on the side of the road. -"Before touching him he proceeded to the hotel and got the hostler :to accompany hine back whh VOLUNTEER t;OMPANE "ANDS& •••-• „ aGeerrAenraelhOierideuvr IlisbeeEnzcepleasecileney itotediCoeurectmane. Ibat Captain Hanson's Comperve No. 1 of the et Psince of Wales Regiment tof Vole r - Rifles, be removed from the list of the Vol ft- teer officers and men Of this „ having been guilty of It gross act of inn r_,- dination in refusing to obey the orders of officer commanding the regiment when ed to equalize the battalion for inspection tether izpet. !tins Officers eetthe_ lab el Deeeii • 1 Tux &swat. pr Mixierie--The carol in Mexico this year is described es brilr The city has been HI afire:lent ofinasted, riding, visiting; ilinutinating,. feasting aaldi merrymaking geneiaily. A Iettliir 5&ii: that the Man was dead and immediately pro- • sEevdegi_)ctlaYthan, andtbeetherreenets libreb*ralte vs. a lantern. On reaching the.place they found ceeded to the 'Wellington Hotel for Dr. gala*. and fabl"'" 4fth aslant -"a* Phillips, who, with a number of others was Ages/ fame/ witainago Bashing anienrillit fiowers, bonfires.fireworlarandaoamme" soon on the spot. The body was then recoee nized by some of the persons to be that ofit eTer-Y diseriPti'n Ted!. TM thin young omfaangen7wmhedo hWadilliacommiVe out from ab°Sta2tI winds 11P wiarz grand haidted ban at Loper:al Theatre, where:the .piquet havia fordshire, Enzland, in September last, and beenraisedlc/ 41.1e,_441 will she sir areal TlikPachepte toWlianxe700:064.8.134"by41.w.....0.4comilitiibiPlwasnedaritefre, en,erPsia"Hiskasch Austrian band of more than *hundred had been learning_dentistry for the lain three the principal families of Mexico, who AS spectators of the revel. Not onlythe foe have prepared for a moors than display, but the poorest classes are sat is the ilipperymid tinsel that their hiabt means could *Mud. mouths wale Dr. Irotter. When found he -was- lying on his back, emit ten or twelve feet trom the sidewalk, amongst some water and ice. His coat, vest and tat were lying at short distances from him. He was then taken up and ',carried to the Great Western hotel. The knees and arms of thebody are slightly bruised and:scraped, and there are slight bruises or scratches on his forehead. In his pocket -were found a watch, a pocket book containing. $1 in silver, a lead pencil soute keys And a copy Of letters. The de- ceased. boarded at Platt's hotel, and bad left there about 11 o'clock last night, -slightly under the influence of liquor. ',This is Oxon the lest time io far as we are aware, he was eeen until fotinde It is said that lie wee -seen by some at the Wellington hotel: little later in the eveping; but at the' St. Paerick'si dinner took place there, in the colifusion they might have been mistakeu as to his identity. The prace where the body was 'build was slippery with ice, and it isthought by some that being the worse olliquor be fell and wu unable to get ap. This, perhaps, would account for the slight bruises on his knees and armi, which would likely be done in endeavor- ing to rinse himself ap. - How' hii. cost and vest came off,- however. -is hard to say, and at present the question cannot be: anawereo. It be bad 'ellen, u supposed by some, and been unable *0 get ups bow fad lel out and vest come where theyitem found? It is to be hoped that the case will , hare a-thoreugh sifting, and no DleAntl be left untried -to bring the -tuts eo 'light. The iaquest will take place on Monday, and in the inearitime a poetinortern_examinitioa'ofitse body will he made-IGuelPh Advertiser. • . Ta z Lows& Pitonscs AND Coirsotasviox -The ministers of Canada will notewe think; make any effort to get the British government -10' coerife the peopteldf these•proviacea into federation„Iunless, indeed,. they are sinterety desireutof fiannethe whole thing' dealltried Mauro AT liairocim. The Nor Herald says z -The conamders ofasvi /dein the Narrows ham it appears, firing at random lately. la their_serkity prevent Piratical vesels frogs - harbor, they fired cannon beliso. list and subjected the ialsalsitatilisofthat of the Iowa of New _Utrecht, midst on the Narrows, to the iscoareamace as as tbe dantere of hombardamast. house of Hon. Tilt& B. Congress elect, lora strack Aso, the home of'31r. Townsend, - dense of itr. Jaeiesle-Tin- &bet, sod other plays. Nobody wiakilled Igor me eat hurt I -bat it tsigittssee 4loss othetwokitsf4 - Mors mire *ill 'probably *Airlift beiliafts4 The Peafel4rata OM. Fermat Ia. publaahedan isoisqant .of the molts et Isle, guerillas warfamilazieg the pastiest. Be aajd hiatroops bate fought fifty battles, kdhdaade captured 16,000 of the ?tasty, aaptared1,1106% horses and mules, Ff-ppioss 14, transports, 20 barges..300 *ammo 66 bounces, les stand of artsik dahlerelthooerw destroyed 36 railroad railroad, 6 locomotives tingtosikeoomo of props:nye • 71-111” The Draft variontiNii4te The lucky attenareatot l!f40441141 1,4mtriag it lea $53.000 has boon itprOffriltsi for area; -If _they anake the satimpt, -their Canadian government far intact doing so wilLat once give color and sapience * joutotkia-of passtliss push chi to iitetemente aad, sifaestiono, Aide ;Dublin exubitiosthisimaser., during tbe lat political Campaign., oftlimada's - deaireto secure r onfederation to amain -bet, 4er,Tb. Reeliestor Thaws ettlit,,, tailing credit etid gc,tour reliffue, smell ee -monk siss it is, tosid his .io Ur: necentityr_ 11the test tot *prod, atlinupaiision sign oftlanida Attempting to bring any _.....A.A-Irork eel 4--dimiosod- for sore to bear von tati.or ot dieiesperist:gor-; maruu`w".—. - • - eminent attempting' to coerce us ia this- tinItelizeee' nigcrtligtedthitestffirrestederarinflimiliede" asedayestord1714711fraftto' ili157t111;40111ffitemalilienDeldiegliN.Wringsataw*A1171 articular, the province will in an untoistake. ,sooniautatid -bt 707:174i,n1314ketoe'kgrsicm:staitiadirrloSts.terminati", the Grei-- runniag." is at present lying intelestip theta- „. hot of Nassau. - • • w"' ""