THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam" DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 1016, 22 March 1865, Page 4

THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam" DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22.

Thk American news brought by the January mail Li of a more decisive character than we have for a long time pust been accustomed to receive. The Northern arms have achieved a succession of triumphs, which cannot fail to have a very important bearing upon the issue of the war. General Sh crman has succeeded in the object of his movement towards the coast, and Savannah is in the hands of the Federals. A large number of prisoners, great storea of military material, and an enormous quantity of cotton., have been captured. Other victories gained over tbe Confederates appear to give a more hopeless aspect to the Southern cause than it lias assumed at any period since the first outbreak of hostilities; and unless some very unexpected turn ifi given to the course of events, this most unnatural and destructive war may be regarded as approaching its close. It ha» iong boon evident that unless the North tired of the conflict, its superiority in material resources would, in the end, overmaster the Confederate forces. Without, any reference to the merits of the quarrel between the two sections of tbe old Republic, it is impossible not to admire the spirit and perseverance with which the South has contended apainst vast odds. Should the anticipation be realised, that the successes ot j Generals Sherman and Thomas will lead to negotiations for pence, it is to be hoped j that the bastes on- which that peace is concluded will be those of moderation and equity, and that some residuum of good to the world will be left from a struggle which ha.9 occasioned a sacrifice of human life and property, perhaps unexampled in history. The hour of Northern triumph will be the test of the honesty of thoise profes4ons of anti-slavery principles which have constituted the only claim the Federal cause has had to the sympathy of any section of Englishmen. It is, how ever, premature to speculate on the immediate termination of the war. Commissioners have been despatched from Richmond to arrange terms of peace, but simultaneously war preparations on a large scale are being pressed forward. Everything appears to depend on the temper displayed by the North. Beaten in the field, and conscious of fast failing resources as the South may be, it may be taken for granted that the spirit of the people is not yet broken, and that no humiliating conditions will lie accepted.

In Earppe, the Italian qacsCion appears to be again forcing itaelf into the fonsground. The support of the French arms haß ever since the outbreak of the revolution been the mainstay of the temporal power of the Pope, and the last bull issued by His Holiness has done much to alienate tbe eldtflt son of tbe Church from his allegiance. Louis Napoleon has forbidden the reading of the Enc3'clical letter in the Churches of France, and indeed the arrogance of its tone seems to have diseusted, with scarcely an exception, the Catholic powers of Europe. The effect will probably be an .earlier withdrawal than was originally designed, of the army of occupation from Rome, and the abandonment of the Pope to fight his own battle single-banded with the Italian people. No political news of any importance reaches us from England. Parliament was in recess, and general tranquility prevailed. The story of the month im, however, fraught with painfal incidentci. A sad succession of C4tastrop>hes on sea and land has resulted in a-great loss of life, and more than one of the accidents recorded are surrounded by circumstances of an unusually distressing and harrowing character. To-morrow will be the-seventeenth Aunirerzay of the foundation of the Province. It ml} be observed as a Bank Holiday ; the Volunteers are to parade j a fete at Yanxhnl), an excursion by the Golden Age to the Head*, and other arrangements for holiday making are announced. We have already mentioned that the Exhibition Bailclio? will be thrown open during tbe day and evening at b shilling admission fee, and that at night, gas will lie used for the first time. A meeting of the General Road Board wius 1 belcl at tbe Government offices yesterday--his Honor the Superintendent in tbe chair. [ There were also present:—Mr Jiis. Patersaii, Provincial Secretary; Mr Mllkr,, Secretary ntf

Pnblic Works j and Mr James Adum. The minutes of tbo lrnst meeting were ttml and approved. After consideration, it wus resolved to divide the Green Island Ekwd District, and not to sanction the levying cif the road rate ontil the division had b«n ciwricd ont. A letter was read from the Brighton Rosd District applying for a grant in Vid of the formation of their district road. It wa» resolve* to rccomm«ad the application to the favorable consideration of the Govern:tncri. The Commissioner of Boads recommended ti'w formation of the Mornington, HosJyn, and Balmaeewan rood, districts. It was agreed to sanction the formation of these districts, and also to sanction the formation of a new road district near Scroggs's Creelc, at tlie southern part of the East Taieri District. It wm remitted to the Commissioner on Roads to recommend to tire Bor.rd a consolidated Boads Ordinance, embodying such proifiatons of the existing Ordinance as it may be ckmrublc to keep in force, with, auuh new clauses an may be necessary to meet the present ciream--stances of rond districts. After disposing of several unimportant matters, the Board adjourned. After occupying the Court six days, the eridence for the Crown, and tho speech for the defence in the trio] of William Andrew Jarvey, were concluded last evening ; and this morning, His Honor, Mr Justice Obnpman, will commence to sum up the ease. During the last two or three days, the prisoner has looked much less blanched than diaritig the earlier part of the trial. He ia evidently suffering from bodily weakness and from anxiety ; but his dcmeanir ihronghoui: has been calm, and he has not manifested any marked interest in the evidence of any or the witnesses. A rather novel ealo by auction iii announced for Friday next, viz : that of Hi collection of English and Australian sang birds magpies, cockatoos, &c. The nominations for the first day's lundi - caps, at the forthcoming Dunedin Race*, were received yesterday, and no less than thirteen horses were entered, whilst others ara expected by post. The Committee express themselves satisfied with the list already on the books, and there is every prospect of a good meeting. The weights are to be made on Friday evening next. At the rcquett of some of tho Taieri farmers, a special race (which will be found in tho advertised programme) has been added to tho third day's sport, for horses belonging to any farmers, und to be ridden by farmers or farmers' sons. The booths, gates, stand, &c, are to be sold by auction on this day week. The following aro lato items of New South Wales news :—Extensive fires have taken place at Maitland and Sydney. The Gold Escort was attacked by Ben Hall's gnn^ at Major's Creek ; the Bushrangers were beaten off and the gold saved, bnt a trooper wus wounded. Mr Thomas Holt, formerly member of tho Legislative Assembly and Colonial Treasurer, has been committed to take his trial for personation at election!!. Castor, one of the Christy Minstrels, died suddenly. ( By a typographical error, tho name of Mr Moss was substituted for that of Mr Morse, in oar report yesterday, of the cross examination of Dr Macadam, in the trial of Capt. Jarvey. By tho passenger list of the s.s. Hero it will be seen that those well-known and talented artistca the Leopold Brothers, accompanied by the favorite danscuse Frawlein Fannie, with those ditring flying trapeziums and acrobats the Wieland Brothers, lliave arrived in Now Zealand for the flr»t time. They intend in a short time giving the inhabitants of Dunedin a series of entertainments, and we doubt not but that they will bo as well patronised here as they nlirays have been in tho sister colonies which they have previously viuitcd. At tho Resident Jlagißtrate'B Court yeiiterday, Andrew Scott and Frederick Ffieflfcr, the ; one a shepherd, and the other a general ser- ] vant, in tho employ of Messrs Holmes and , Gleeson, ranuoldcrs at Moeru&si, were com- j mitted to take their trial tieforo the next Criminal' Session of the Supreme Court, on a charge of fraudulently and felonion,sly cmI bczzling two sheep, the property of their insistent. On Monday, a few of the inhabitant! of Waikouaitf presented to Mr E, Devioe, gone- , rally known as " Cabbage-tree Ned," a >rery , handsome gold watch, as a mark of cetcem to him previous to his departure for tho West < Coast. - i Oor London correspondent writes:—lioud 1 complaints aro justly urged reapecfing ihe I delivery of your mail via Southampton ; it is due about the 16th, but is seldom delivered nntit some days after; and as letters and > papers for the oatward mail mast be posted ! on the 19th, this route is rendered practically i useless ; for unless the extra overland fee be J paid on entire month is lost. The grievance ( is being agitated in hopes of quickening our ] homeward-bound mail; and meantime your 1 readers will understand the cause of that do- f fay in correspondence which so often occurs. { The usual weekly meeting of tbci T<t>wn \ Board took place yesterday, when a quantity of ordinary business was transasted. The £ Town Clerk was instructed to make arrange- j rnent* for tho election, on the 3rd of Aprils t of a member for Bell Wturd, in room of Mi- G* j" E. Howard, who has become d*iq.uali.fied . from holding hia seat. c At the Melbourne Aatnmn Kaces, the j Trial Stakes were woa by Falcon ; the Sfc , Leger, by Illumination $ the Australian Jtires > Produce Stakes, by Frolic ; the Australian j Cap, by Woodman; tho Hurdle Bace,, by . Ivanhoe j the Grand Stand Stakes, by , Falcon; the Mures Produco Stakes, by Gwendoline ; the Steeple Chase, by Beaufort; \ the Town Plate, by Illumination ; nnd tho Helter-Skelter, by Frolic. ; ; The death, aays the " Home Newa," ix on- ' Bounced of the Bar. George Harper, M.A., | j formerly & clergyman of the Churcbi of England, bat of late years a priest of the

• Charch of Btwne, The reverend gentlraaa. I who wan a brother of the Right Rcr. Df jj . J. C. Harper, tbo Protestant Buhop <# Christclbnrcii, New Zealand, was educated v the University at Oxford, and was ordainej in 1843, shortly after which time he obtained i eccleaiaijtical preferment in Kent. I n \&q ■ howerer, bo abandoned the communion 0 £ . the Church of EngUnd arsd entered the ■ Catholic faith, allying himself with the Sodct» , of Jvisuu, and being ordained in duo course s i priest of the Church of Rome. Ire that cap*, city he went to Prescot, Lancashire, and cos, i tiuued to perform his ecclesiastical duties there until the time of his death, which w M caused by a severe illness contracted in ih c course of his ministrations amongst the poor. Last evening Miss Aitken gave an enter, tertainment consisting of readings nclected from well-known, authors, in the Odd Fellow,' Hal!. George street. The Hall wag well filled. Mr Mansford, RM., Port Chalmers, occupied' the chair, and, in a Htvr remarks, introduced Miss Aitken. The selection of readings^ made from S)iak«?pcre, Tennyson, Borne Mothcrwt'lj, Poe, Kwgnn, an f others, and were all given by Mi.«-s Ail ken with deop fetj. ing, and v full power and eloquence I bnt completely Hwnyed her audience, and fr«inentlj eal!i-ci forth the most rapturous plaudits, Th e readings of the garden scene from "Romio nnd Juliet," •' The Cotter's Saturday Xtght" anrl "The Cliargc o( tho Light Brigade" were paniclarly pood. Miss Mirian Dnna assisted Miss Aitken by singing a number of songs between the ruSKiings. She was in excellent voice, and snng "Constance," ''Anoie Lnurie, ■" "Kitty Tyrrdl," aad several other songs ver> sweetly, stie tr u encored several times. Mr. It. A 11. Owen presided, at the pinnofore, and throughout the evening performed several operatic selections very ably. Everything passed off smoothly, and the entertainment was a great success. From Adelaide, we learn that the position of the Ministry is doubtful. The Military IKw feisce Committee recommend batteries with revolving turrets on the coast, and an iron gun-boat. Mr Stow, tho Attorney General, defeated at the late elections, retires from political life. The steamer Hero lias brongfit another valuable addition to tho utock of the country, thf- property of John Harding, Kmj., of Najiier, who, notwithstanding ihe spirited competition lie had to contend with in Mulbourn?, outbid tlto whole of tho. buyers from tin? neighboring colonies. The stock consists of • ightmms and thrco- cwe<i from the celebrated Ncgrctti stock of Huron Karl yon Svthachk-u, and fifty rams, direct from the Genrgv the Third flock. They arrive in very fine eomiiucn, 0.-ing greatly to the attention given to them by Gtpuin L.gan and his officers, which Mr Harding desires to be acknowledged. A public meeting was held .it Port Clinlmers on Monday, for the purr..wo ""of considfring the injustice of Government enforcing jetly dues lit the port." Wo are eoinpelled to bold over any lengthened notice of the meeting. It reeulfal in the pissing of nevcro! resolutions strongly expressing the seiitiinente of the inbahitants as to tht: character of tha jctfynccomodation provided at Port Chahser', as to tfio manner in which it had In en afctemjited to collect thu dues, and tho cotitw which it was considered proper to take under the i ircumstnnccß. The course recommended, was a general resistance of pny m-.nl, it being held that the mode of collecting adopted liy the contractor, was neither legal nor officially authorities. It was ako resolved that n deputation should wait upon the Superinte.iidcn.t, for the purpose of representing to his Honor the matters referred to in the several resolutions. Our Melbourne news is to the 15th iiutanf. Tho Legislative Ansernbly have sanctioned the Ministerial »eherne of tacking oa the TarifT !o tho Appropriation Bill, in order to force it through the Upper House, by a ma- : j:>rity of 46 to 28. The Legislative Council had withdrawn several of their Land Law amendments, and in co»s«iuencc there sp pearcd a good prosp-ct of tho mesaare passing.