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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1878-12-19, Page 1Vol. VI. Exeter, Ontario, Thursday, 11?TII ,ell COLOa'1:2IA. wr%p the 1s'Rlti,ar of f:".e-rter• 'lintel. . :All SEII,- -'Irwin ,r been v. sub er or t r y e r nest little!super Irene ills "infancy, es, ,nal bawling received many anteteeting home cows items thong its colratal;ae, 1 naturally 'looked upon .tri eclitoa„ a1 staff'' as old friensie ; and e i” urit,r; to treat them to a tt. to of our aareert°rtt leitereatlue, handed iii a f,•w Claaiih , Ciat t; ttpealetI 'La ha to Illy Nen eb,el, without new ilea. (sf being drawn tater print. But there sera is flew re - the yea melte ire your iastre of the it tilt., which 1 bore YOU will ialhrw Ifo a eplaitt. YOU Male oto Say that ensue U*tv, rtltliongh voritaainiug*.trot '1 ttahaabisuiit:a, cuarnuttae'N its much iC .re saris adage in ( oterin of eteetil'. lrreaecin would naturally infer f of l thne if correct, that the iambi - 11,14,, if Bet e.tpPuib-its, were e rtraierly 0 waiv. Foos in the extreme, rami 1 think it is raft' to claas 'them with the Inter. Bat when we arty that Vtctotia o wens!. s!. n perilaetion of between 5.if08 and 0,021,1. w,5 d r n't take into eonilti- errootet the tr ossietate, which,, 1 Unlit;. uxet i l the fined. hour tua,tatnee*, the 1raCah, :Veil S.'S. (neat eteutneers leasee VI •ostia f er 8:1u Ie'raailei'crr fikry teen ihtya, moil vice versa. carrying 11.11. X. midi astral from 50 to loci) paoa+;ioiaew,. erre: trip. lee --isles 75 to DV of crew. (trawled, 1.'erl;ilee & Oar. aiSil run (lire• atl atluc• a rte month to and faint they szaut,, bort. There are also four rataa,nt- ers per weer to and frame New West *Wester to the Fraser riser, tushing ()Jutttid' me with: light redraft Steamer, to Yale, ctarryine mita and ptssengers; one steamer onto a week to and from Nanaimo, A cmal•minu g town on ti' a let tented, of Vancouver Leland, 90 -Idles from Victoria ; three steamer, lilt r month to and frr,nn Wrangle, it:e,l;aa, a port of transfer, tothe north a mines of BritishColumbia, nod 400 or G00 miles to the north - w; three eteatuets per week each wearto Dirt 'r'owuseud, 5oaattle met Tacoma, Washington Territory, con- n 'ating with the Northern Pacific Rail- way fir Portland, ©rag rn, &c,. To Has list might be added quite a fleet of shipping front Naannimo with omal, and I3urrnrd Inlet with lumbar, to all al- most rill ports on. the Pacific Ocean of tally importance. These all. receive supplies at Victoria. Besides the mor. cautilo trade we have quite a NAVAL TRADE, ii quilnalt being a neva station. Re- g moat nod 1, are almost synon- ymous tering, the former being only a port for the latter, and cousi.ta of noth- ing more than three or four hotels, as malty very good wharves, nud the uavy y std and buildings. The number of war vessels on the station vary from two to six or eight, carrying from 200 to 1,000 men earth, aeeording to ton - sego, There is quite en array of those jolly tale on shore every dray, and they generally make things lively iu town. T1ie firth who get the contract of sup- plying the navy with beef, vegetables and hard tack are considered fortunate. THE INDIANS. The Indian populatiou of British Co- Iumbia, is set down at about 100,000. 'r m fifteen to twenty thousand of t ' sons of the soil visit the city dor- in a summer with their wives arid faun iea, at different times, and Make trade lively in firs, fish oil, tobacco, whiskey and dry goods. Although the • Jaw is very severe against selling liquor to Indians, they have some fearfur or- gies at' times. Of course there are many families who never leave the dif- ferent reservations in the immediate vicinity, while others return to their tribal territories, varying from 50 to .500 miles distant. To this may be added a CHINESE POPULATION of 1,500 to 2,000' in the city and sub orbs, who fill 'every position from the merchant prince to the meanest donees - tic. They make very good nooks, waiters, &'c,, for hotels and private bowies, do laundry or any work that eerveut girls might do, even to nursing the baby. Many are growing ride from the proceeds of their laundries and vegetable gardens. Most of the bands also employed. in ,the boot and shoe factories are Ccinese. VALUE OF LAND. Improved agricultural land within a radius of eight oaten miles of Victor - ie is worth from $100to $150 per acre, aocordiug to locality. Next/nee DivistONS. British Columbia is divided into two great natural divisions by the Ossoude v►, December 19 187. - No 1 as east of the Cascades or west, as the eerie may be, and Bare no means of ir communication, except through the can. curs of the Prance riser, East of the C.ta:catdee is the great grain growing end graven;• portion of the country, thinly populated eeeept in the vatting dietr'icts. HE le:m emo's or l'ITE SOIL. Cereals, v e;,etaablee and fruits coats -a Freon to Ontario grow, and mature well, even to Indlen corn, melons, putup. bins, &a., over an extent or CtUItitry sotteatiuug like 200 miles by 130. Per- ' haps a:to-fourth or oue.fiftlt of this may be Fret down as agricultural laude, and the 'Wave!) as grazing. The in- liald puts here have nocommunication with the outside world exe.elrt through , the Creee flee to the in—award. or over ,'he .Y'toky Mount:tina with Itlauitoba. Torreene.ently the mead for grain, ve;;etaahtt s and flour is confined to horn° consumption. Bat here heel has been raaleaeti for the Ohmage market, oust shipped by 11twper Bros., with what, profit 1 c,luuot say. Cattle, liaises alatll eheepilive rend grow fat ihioegalont wen, ulsrnuttun rangers alt the year round. harry of taro early r<ett'rt•re Nitre grown rich with thteir illiwn o lrer.10 of cattle stud horses, pini if ever the Canadian Pacific Lail , wily is completed it will be quite tiostet- t lei and 1 rrietieiable to asapply Liver - shoe with the liipr;t and jucieet beef in the kn',wn world frr,u tine section of lit itieu Clulumbiro i:,tt>l. i'1tF.NTa. Tlla farmers ate supplied with their agriei Mural implemetrts meetly from L3atTnlrp, N. Y. Oar- plows, harrows, horse rakes, pitelif'rrxs, threshing Mao chines, dour ,rills, &o., down to plait'+, s ipivels and sten, come from the iJnit• ie`(. States. Au ordinary 10.1iorrie power separator, with 21 -inch cylinder. costa, lauded at Vieturite, between $800 and $000, and in order .to place it il, the interior, it would he necessary to add one-quarter to one-half more to said charges, aceordiug to the looality to bo delivered at. Tito WAGON ROAD. The deep gorge or canon of the Fra- ser river which citta its way to the ooaet through tl o Cascade range of mountains is HOMO 80 miles in length. Through this vast gaateway the Govern- ment have built or tither hewn out an excellent wagon road at a ;reran ex - pause, which fortes a 'connecting link between the eastern and western por. tions of the country. WEST of THE CASCADES camsists of a strip varying from a few miles to 60, and running parallel with the coast ; :alae Vancouver I*laud, which is of itself some 280 miles in length and an average width of about 40, lying wen of and parallel with the mainland, and washed on its western shores by the Pacifio Oeoan. Between Vancouver and the mainland are quite a number of islands, such as Sauna, Mayne, Gabriolaa, Salt Spring, or Admiralty Wend,Peuder, itor3ley ' and many others. Beyond this group is the Gulr of Georgia, into which the Fraser river empties from the east, stud about fifty miles to the northwest kends out in bold relief the celebrated Texada, or iron Islam d. THE ARABLE LAND Of this seotiou may be set down at pro- bably one-tenth of the whole, the greater portion of which is on either sidle of the Fraser, and extending inland some GO or 70 miles. The river which forms the great highway through this portion is about a mile wide at New Westminster, ten miles from its mouth, and deep enough to receive vessels draeeing 20 feet of water. The soil is a doh alluvial deposit, with here anal there patches of crab apple, cottou- woad or alder, and a plentiful growth of wild grasses, where cattle and hisses live the year round with nn•other shel- ter or food thau that provided by nat. ure. Government laud can be had here by going four or five miles back at one dollar per acre, or located lands at from $4 to $50 per acre. There are several good farms on the various islands along the Gulf of Georgia, also about Vic- toria and along the east 'coast of Van- couver Island, THE WESTERN DIVISION of Britian Columbia contains probably three-fourths of the population of the Province, and aside front -agricultural pursuits the principal occupations are `lumbering, fishing and mining, ad THE WINDS. The prevailing whits in summer are from the westward, bringing a cool air from the Pacific Ucean, and S. Re in range of mountains, and is spoken of winter, bearing the heated atmosphere from the equator; cousequently the temperature is route evade all aloug the oast Seldom, except in a seclud- ed nook, will the thermometer mark abovo 70 o in the summer or below 24 ° or 80 ° in winter, and this only itt extreme cases. AI,'yloN FI';IIING and canning are eatertsiveiy carried on In the Fraser river and other points along the coast, giving touploymetat to sent+ral thousand then. It would, rar• quire a whole column of your paper to give a proper desotiption of a good can - eery. Each one is conducted by a company, and the net profits of a can• very s'nnetimear exceed ;;50,000 a year, The fish are put up itt (tire or two pound tins ; a dozen of "these tins tirc+ put iu a case and .dripped to Loudou by the vessel load. THE INIIAitXTANTY tare made up of all the nationalities under the suer, Ilere the traveller. meets with the shrewd descendant of Abraham, the Greek, the Turk, the Italie') and the Spaniard from the ann- ny out a of Europe, the Itusitian, the Swede and Norwegian from the north, the stead[ going German and the dep. per IC'araehtna et from titp avant of nee old world; also from the west comes the 11oufolian of various hues, together with the cannibal Sandwich Wander. 'Phere is quite a number Wee from the British Wee, ivitit a smattering from viarsuus parte of the Ountineut of Mer- ica, especially Canada; but the Cruttadi- aaus are held generally to bttdt repute, rriul ly,I eupp'.eree, from the feat that tiro people breve been misled by the frequent quihblittg of the Douuetion Government at Ottawa, TIIE LOCAL ELECTIONS. vS. To the Editor;!,f the Tines. Site, --I notice in the Seaforth, Ex- positor an .'r-positor.an article relative to the time when the Local House Wilt be dissolved. As the eriter is no doubt iu the coufi- deneo of the Governmeut, his views, a, there expressed, will be in accordance with their intet.tions, and if carried ant will be a dis_rraceful violation of the laws and an assumption of power on the part of Itfr. Mowat for which he has 113 precedent, except in those days when we had no responsible Government. Foul years is the utmost extent which as Parliament (Local) can last. Now thin Parliament WAS elected the writs returnable on the 2nd February, 1875, and the first sessiou called by prods• enatiou to meet on that date. How, tiiten, cam ;they postpone the elections until July ? One thing is certain. All Acts passed and all actions performed by the Government after that date will be illegal. aid an atnonnt of confusion and loss will be susta.itted by the Prov- ince of which we will be unable to con- ceive. Why should this be allowed ? Ale the party exigencies of )1r. M.pwat to override the Constitution of this country ?—a party who have proved themselves most crrrupt, extravagant and incapable. Is the British North America Act to be treated with con- tempt, and its most important enact- ments thrown aside by these then ? Surely there is some method for cellir'g them to account. Hunter. BAYFIELD ENGINEERING. To Editor Exeter Tinges. Sir;—In my rambler the other day 'hauled up iu the village of Bayfield, and during my stay there, I learned, to my great surprise, that they have in the village two or three gentlemen with J. P. attached to their u,rmos, sud one with M. D., and a school- master practising surveying and civil engineering, regardless of the right of the public co.mtnons and streets. I was slaked if they could do so with im- punity or if there is no law to restrain these gentlemen in the matter. Now sir, as I was uuable to answersuch questions, I beg; leave to refer the mat- ter to you, and request you for their benefit to let them know through 'your widely circulating columns what is the penalty, if atty. for such 'surveying. 1 wonder if these gentlemen hal any- thing to do with the extensive bailor works and new bridge there,which'are, by the sway, models of perfection so far as outward appearances go, yet it has been staid that legerdemain or blank art to some extent was practised in their oouatruction. Tlie streets, side- walks and drainage of the village speak for themselves,and say the engineering of them gentlemen is laughable—any- thing but correct. It is somewhat strange that these gentlemen should descend to such low employment fot the lucre of a few feet ot the public commons or street atluwance, Per- haps it is only on exhibit of the spirit of the times ; thegeneral desire to ptae- eess other men's coorls. I aloe learned that Bayfield is at length an the war- path for a railway to Exeter, Truce. field or Clinton, or some otLer place, yours, with reieeet Lemma:. Iittleefteld, Ow., Dee 7, 1878. HUGH LOVE, Sit., TO " THE Suns -.--Your slaslaiug, pungent politi ea criticisms are cel'tair,ly very amus and, to some, no doubt instructive. Bot believing, as 1 do, Wet the drift to t•lic whole matter is a lculeted to en- courage and perpernate that bane of Ganrtrliran politica, bitter eL urartyi»rn,"1 r>,rxr sorry that you a•ltutll1 prostitute Four time and taleeate to such a pur- pose. Itt your last issue, you snake a raid into the eaatnp of your oppoltents, dirt, with appare•irt gusto, slrtrit right mut left -here, ititial ng in pen -and -ink oertrait and character sket41uttt— there, giving a,eviee, ssIdol* will, nu doubt, he considered quite disinterest- ed ; and sshid up with dragging the framer] of sante into the metes who are taking reO part in the fray who would not dip the poiut of their boat in tlree present dirty peddle of Srrutlt Huron pol:tics ; and who wieb to ha felt se- verely alone in NUch a connection. If it suits your putppee, pitch into M. C. Cntnaron, Esq., of Goderich ; he iN politically public property, and I lravtt no objections. I voted' for hitt mato, before he was tried --that was salflicieut ftir glee for a lifetime, Go for ---right. through him, if you will-- 'fhr tuetst'iJreeuway,I sq. He is an old political friend of yours, and you ouobt to !mow him well ; ba is :rot, ever was, and never will be apolitical friend of mine. T would rather like you to give us a picture or two more of your bre,ther ot the quill, M. Y. I1:oLeatn, Esq., of Seafurth. As you are both partizans, acrd as l; read both of your papers, I ata sure to enjoy the fun, '..growing all the time that iliac. will give as good as he gets. But I demur altogether to your right to conjure up dreams for me in counection with the reform party of South Huron, and their representation ; and, after haviug done so, to dismiss the imaginary claim with such a contemptuous sniff. Before you sharpen a stick to go after me, would it not be at least courteous to wait dill put iu a claim or have even presumed to do so ? I beg to inform yon that I have no claims upon the Reformers of South Huron, or upon any party whatever, and that I owe allegiance to no party. I am proud to say that during 30 years, and at 17 different elections for members of Parliatnont, previous to the now famous " election by pr0.lama- tion" at Varna, I had been ideutified with the great Reform party iu this any adopted country. But I am free to say. that at no lime during all those years would I have preferred the interests of party to the best interests of my coun- try. I was with the Reform party simply because I considered it most conducive to the best interests of the country. Bntmthe"bny and sell,"—or rather, begging patdun from the few so-called' leaders of the Reform party in South Huron who helped to perpetrate the " sell arrangement," I believe they prefer to call it—which oulmiut.ted in that election by proclamation," took place. It was too much for me. I Lave not attended a political meeting, nor have I voted since. It is irksome, and perhaps cowardly, toonly look on while the battle rages but it bas its mitigation. One sees men, on both sides, worltiug themselves up to a blind fury, and saying and doing what they weuid be ashamed to do or say in con - motion with anything else hut party politics. This spell ofneutrali'y has convinced me that Curran, the great Irish orator, spoke the very truth when he saicl that "party was the•maduess: of the many' for the grain of the few.'' Still, withal, my sympathies are with the) rank and file of the Reformers of South Huron. The party h ` time b.ng in zeal lo ` a aba the sr th led astray for the on, through that to dness themselves of am ssith their ringing forward loss;, ol.tiint upon a party, wunle condescend to ici.tiate the enquiry, Who ie the man whom the farmers of Seuth Huron have a claim upon, to represent them economically, honestly and faithfully iu the. !soca Legislature, titen I still be found with von, heart area soul, every time. Aad now to commence with, altogether reeitie from party, please tell ire what Mr. Jackson has done} to rtdva'rre cr neoura:ae the agricultttrel itrt,•retits of S' nth Ifurou, that at, r.irt till , beat leirrt, and if yon really yonr.elt believe that he is a fit and proper person to rio eo .Chorally, as you are quite free in giv- itrg advice, perhaps you would itret ob.. jest to take e bit. Don't be for hard Nem our nreeent representative, at. Bishop. If he has erred, and I believe Ila Lias to einne extent, hie errors, in rosy opiaiinu, are mostly traceable to the trnurinotoure of party. He ran a neck r'U a ad neck race with your party end your malt. He beat you, but why blame Irina for going through thick and thio with hie party, suing that party wag$ the alpha and omega of all aoacerned o 'These who live in glass houses should, t+• careful when throning stones." In conclusion please excuse me for asking you to occupy t o► rnnelt of your valuable Space with this e9mruunicia- lion. I can only plead, it) extenuation. that if you had not rneutiourd me 1 would not have troubled ou. 1 am, your ob't servant, H. LOW', Sia. Iliil'e Green, December 16, 1878. Death of the Princess Alice. Exceptiug the irrapar,able loss of the i'duce Consort the Queen has been very r fortunate in having had very few deaths in the Royal circle. 11;T•,thcr of a nu- ntoroaa family, she is now called upon, for the first time, to mourn the lose of a child. The Princess Alice died at 780 a. in. Saturday, at her home in Hesse-Darmstadt, a territory of Ger- many, having a population of 856,907. She was bora on the 15th April, 1843, and was consegnertly over thirty-five at the time of her death, She was married on 1st July,1362, to Frederiult William Louie Charles,, Prince of Hesse Darinstadt,who was bornou 12th Sept., 1887. On her marriage the Priarcess was voted, by the English Parliameut, an annual allowauce of ag6,000, which Will cease with her death, and a dowry of n30,000, and the Queers granted her husband the prefix of Ills Royal High - nese, and created him Knight of the Garter. The marriage of the royal pair has been blessed with seven ebildren, and has been a happy one. While the Prince was manly and affectionate, the Princess brought all her mother's ami- able qualities to adorn her position and make home happy, Loving and devo- ted to her husband and her children, she will be mourned with more than the ostentatious pageantry of (t.urt mourning., as a mother, a daughter and the wife of a ruler of an importatrt Ger- man principality. Her untitnely daath will interfere to some extent with anti- cipated festivities at Ottawa, as the Princess Louise will deeply tamest the death of a favorite sister. Famine in Morocco. Despatches from the American Con- sul at Tangierar givers deplorable account of the condition of affairs in Morocco. Cholera still ravages the country,, arid unless the outside world comes to the relief of the people starvation threatens the land. At Oassabienca there have been 1,369 deaths Ly cholera, smallpox, and typoid fever in thirty-eeven days. The 'misery at Tangiers caused by tho cessation of business as well as the epidemic is oei the increase. T:,e only communication with the outside world is by way of Gibraltar semi-monthly for food. Cholera tool famine are car- rying off hundreds in Morocco. At Saffi and blogador the epidemic still prevails, At a small village near Alca- zar cholera and fever swept off thirty- six out ofthirby-seven of the iubabitauts, Eau fell on. Sunday Must, and pros- pects have improved The War in Afghan. Lord Lytton on Tuesday reviewed the 3,000 auxiliaries furnished by the, native princes. The auxiliaries go to Peshawaur on Saturday. It is reported that Gen., MacPherson occupied' Jellalabad. A Dadur correspondent says General Stewart lies sent pressing orders for all troops to advance es speedily aa possible, This probably, worths en tole vance3 CU Crta,tdat,bar.,