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The Red River Country.
So much is said of this region, that a
brief sketch of it will be interesting.
There is abundant evidence that the Red
River territory is no inhospitable desert.
Mr. Blodgett in his work on,the 'Climatol-
ogy of North _America,' has pointed out the
existence of a vast tract extending from
75 to 60° of Northern lattitude, which
may be denominated the Winnepeg basin.
It contains 500,000 miles of habitable land,
-and is subject to few and inconsiderable
variations of climate. This author gives a
Summer ofninety-five days to Toronto, and
of ninety days to the Cumberland House on
the ,Saskatchewan river, in latitude 54°. A
Canadian Engineer, .Mr. Simpson Dawson,
from personal observation compares the cli-
mate of Fort Garry to that of Kingston.
Professor Hinde, -in a report to the Canadi-
an Government, places the mean temper-
ature of'Red River for the three •Summer
months at fir, 76 min, nearly three de-
grees of heat more than is necessary for corn,
while 'July has four degrees more than is
required for its best development. Blod-
gett claims that the whole Saskatchewan
Valley has a chi -nate -very nearly as mild in
in its annual averse as that of St. Paul,
which would give it a Winter mean Of fif-
teen degrees and an annual mean of forty-
four degree -4, representing the climate of
Wisconsin, Northern Iowa, Michigan,
Western Canada; Northern New York, and
Southern New England.
In a report of the Treasuary Department
on the- "Foreign and Domestic Comtnerce
of the United States," Senate document,
June 29, 1864, occurs the following sum-
mary :—The country North-west of Min-
nesota, reaching from the Selkirk settle-
ment to the Rocky Mountains, and . from
lattitude forty-nine to fifty-three degrees on
the longitude of ninety-four degrees and to
lattitude of fifty-five degrees oniphe Pacific
coast, is as favorable to grain and animal
production as any of the Northern States.
The mean temperature for Spring, stint -tiler,
and autumn, observed on the forty-second
and forty-third parallels in New . York,
Mischigan, and Wisconsin, has been accur-
ately traced through Fort Snelling and the
Valley of - the Saskatchewan to lattitude
fifty-five degrees on the Pacific coast ; and
from the- north-weseboundary of Minnesota
this whole district of British America is
threaded in all directions by navigable wa-
ter lines, which converge to Lake Winne -
peg,
"Our soil," to repeat the languatre'of an
intelligent settler at ;Red River, Mi. Don-
ald Gunn, who is a valued correspondent to
the Smithsonion Institution, "is extremely
fertile, and, when cultivated, yields large
crops of the finest wheat weighing from
sixty-four to seventy-four pounds per im-
perial bushel. The yield per acre is often
as high as sixty bushels, and has been cc-
casionely known .to exceed that; and when
the average return falls beiow forty bush-
els per acre, we are ready to complain of
small returns. Some patches have 'been
known to produce twenty successive crops
of wheat without fallow or manure.", Bar-
ley, oats, potatoes, grasses and vegetables
are cultivated with equal success.'
The above statement almost exceeds be --
lief, Hon. Joseph Howe, of •the Canadian
Ministry, who yisited Selkirk since the
harvest of 1869. attests that one rfarmer
gathered 15,000 bushels of wheat from 300
acres, while the growth of the vegetables
was a roatte'et of constant surprise. Mr.
Howe added that the land in Belgium is
not more productive than the Red River
farms.
In a report made a few years ago by
Governor, now Senator Ramsay, of his tour
of observation in this region, he expressed
himself satisfied- that wheat, barley, rye,
and oats, and esculent roots, were cultivated
.as successively as in Minnesota; that Indian
corn was precarious; that the country was
especially favorable to stock raising, and
that the interior districts, even to lattitude
sixty degrees, near the Rocky Mountains,
were no less adapted to agriculture. His
language on the latter is as follows:
Without casting more than a passing
glance on the agricultural capacity of re-
mote Pease River, we may comedown to
the tertile valley and plain of the Saskat6he
wan, the Mississippi of the North, which
pours its waters from the Rocky Moun-
tains over more than 1000 miles . of
agricultural territory, teaming with coal
.nd other mineral treasures, into Lake
Winnepeg; and we may note the still more
fertile and desirable lands of. the South or
Bear River Branch, the winter home, in its
wooded valleys, of the buffalo a-ndmyriads
of other game; as far north as there re-
gions are actual experiuent has shown them
to be capable of raising successfully neailv
• every cereal, hardly excepting corn, and
every vegetable that can be produced in our
lands of the temperate zone further south.
From whati have seen of the lands in that
section, and from what I learned of its ca-
pacity, and making every allowance for its
climate. and for .its extraordinary fertility
also, I hesitate not to ascribe to the whole
of the upper plains of both branches of the
Saskatchewan River, an agricultural value -
superior naturally to the fields of our New
England'in their primitive condition, and
though lack of timber might be an objecti-
on to some portions of the Saskatchewan
territory, yet it has mineral coal' in abun-
dance, which may be easily mined to supply
fuel for a population of the densest charac-
ter.—N. Y. Advertiser.
Revolution -in Telegraphy.
The poles of Mr. Little's new system of
telegraphing are now being erected between
New York and Washington. On the Wash-
ington road the poles are lying at -regular
intervals, and the erecting parties, under
le
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THE I-IVRON EXPOSITOR.
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the charge of Mr. Westervelt, will be along
in a few days to put them up and suspend
the wires. It is anticipated that the Na-
tional Telegraph line will be in operation
by the lst of March.
We examined the instruements of this
new system, invented by Mr. Little, some
six months since, and, it wili be remem-
bered, gave a detailed account of its oper-
ation. It is entirely different from the
Morse vstem, and will be able to transmit
200 words per minute ever one wire. Tw3n-
ty words is as much as the most rapid oper-
ator by the More system can transmit, so
that one wire under the Little system will
be able to do as much work as ten of the
wires now in use. President Orton, of the'
Western -Union Company, in his annual re
port, ridicules the claim- of Mr. Little, but
we assure him and all interested in tele-
graphing, that we witnessed the operation .of
this instruement in company with two of
the most experienced telegraphic experts in
the country, and that by actual count, it
transmitted ten hundred and forty letters
per minute. The Morse alphabet was used,
and the transmission was as perfect and ac-
curate as was ever before transmitted on
any instruement running at one-tenth of its
speed.
The fact that the line is tieing built
should be satisfactory evidence to all, doubt-
less, that it is a reality. Those who have con-
trol of it have had as much experience in
the telegraphic business as President Orton,
and would not invest several hundred
thousand dollars on a 'mere experiment. Mr
Little anticipates to be able to at once re-
duce the rateoF telegraphing to one-half of
present prices, and ultimately to make a
Uniform tariff of one cent peraword to all
distances. This would draw all business
correspondence from the mails, and multi-
ply the amount of telegraphing to tenfold
what it now is.—Baltimore American.
Giasgow,
Glasgow- is an extremely prosperous and
busy place. It has grown faster than any
city in Great Biitain; having increased its
population from about .300,000 in 1861 to
550,000 at the present time. Its citizens
now claim that it is the largesticity in the
United Kingdom, after London, having
more people than Liverpool to -day. It 'is
growing more rapidly than ever, and will
soon have its millions. Some of the sangu-
ine Scotch even predict that it will yet out-
strip the British metropolis itself. a, Its
ma.nufacturies are very varied and exten-
sive, as is evident from the pall of smoke in
oned. The
-all the
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oiv is
which the-cityis constantly en
houseti"--TOplt.-,ap*breSittid blat'o,
a -1
striae is;'' hvinmu-.Dneafl
does ‘atit'4tficiti their beaut0;!''
famous tor its tall chimneys, flo--0*.of them
being 430 and 435 feet, which is -consider-
ably above any tower or spire in Europe.
The lofty chimneys belong to chemical
works, and are required to carry off ob-
noxious va,pors and. gases, which would
otherwise settle down upon the city and
prove vely deleterious to health. They can
be seen for miles, and are the landmarks of
the city.—Cor. Chicago Tribune.
The Premier Peer ofEngland.
The Duke of Norfolk, on -whom Mr. Glad-
stone intends to confer the garter vacant
by the- Death of Loid- DerbyJa -Premier
Peer of England, and Hereditary Earl Mar-
shal. Hisancestor was :the first Roman
Catholic who took his seat in the 'House of
Lords after the Emancipation Act of'1829.
The dukedom dates from the fifteenth century
and the Howards are a by -word, for noble
blood and lofty lineage. Pope wrote :
'What can ennoble fools, or sots, or cowards ?
Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards.'
The present Duke, a young man oLtwe
or three and twenty, is son of the.last Peer
by the sister of Lord Lyons, formerly Brit-
ish Minister at Washington, and now at
Paris.—His sister, Lady Victoria, is mar-
ried to Mr.' Hope -Scott. WhOse first wife
was grand -daughter of Sir Walter Scott,
being daughter of the great novelist's bio-
grapher, Lockhart.
Mr. Hope -Scott's daughter by Miss Lock-
hart is. the only direct representative of
Scott. Abbotsford now 'belongs. to Mr.
Hope -Scott' who has made a large fortune
at the parliamentary bar, the most lucra-
tive branch of the profession in England.
His earnings have, it is computed, • often
reached £15,000 and 20,000 a year. Some
years ago he joined the communion of the
Church of Rome, and in common with the
Duchess .of Norfolk, also originally a .Pro-
testant, is a very devoted supporter of that
faith. Sir Walter Scott's favorite 'den,' in
the mansion he created, is now, we believ.e,
an oratory.
- The Studeiit's Story.
To poor Tom this blow.was like tearing
his heart asunder -and leaving an agonising
void; from that time .he was an altered
man, and became the melancholY being he
was when I first knew hint. I was always
a favourite of his when a child, and used to
often wonder in a child like way, how it
was he was always sad when all around was
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gay. • •
I grew up and went to college, and after
the first -term I went home again to see my
friends, and was surprised tc find that the
character of Tom' was wholly changed ; he
was no longer'the moody man I had always
known him to be ; he was changed to one
who apparently laid his mind at ease,, and
although there was a certain amount of
seriousness about 'him, yet you could see
that he was calmly resigned t� his lot and
had raised himself as it were above his
In the village where I was born there
lived an old man named Tore Stokes, he was
very quiet. associated with no one, and sel-
dom or never smiled, but there were those
in the village who remembered when Tom
trouble.
It would take too long to - tell how I got
him to acquaint me With the- particulars of
his story, suffice to ;say thatl.did so. Tom
one night took me into his confidence and
told me the whole particulars, I should
have mentioned that he was sexton of the
church of St. Dunstan, an oid ivy mantled
building ' of early Norman design' in our
village, peopled with ghosts, and so forth,
from time immemorial. Well, one Christmas
Eve, when those free from affliction are
most gay, Tom went to bed in his cottage
more than usually melancholy, thinking
of his wife and child now angels in Heaven.
But sleep he could not, the more he tried
the further it appeared from 'Jim, till at
last he got up and went out with no par-
ticular object in view, towardsthe church,
when, what was his surprise to find the door
open. He walked in and found the place
deserted, but he had not been there long be. -
fore the organ. began to give forth most
beautiftiL Strains of music. Tom thought
he had never heard such harmony before,
and was enraptured by the sounds which
gradually became wilder and more unearthly
and_ in the midst Of it the bells rung out a
strange peal, and though, yet it apPeared: as
if he could see: them, as it were dimly
through semi -transparent glass, and what
was most strange the very bells seemed to
assume different shapes, gay, melancholy or
severe, skeet -ding to the. notes they.- gave
out. While this was going on the church
became suddenly filled with stran looking
beings, such as Tom had never seen before,
Only heard of, ant played up all sorts of an-
tics ; he was very frightened and at last
gave one great shout when they all vanish-
ed, the bells ceased theirclatter, and all was
silent except the organ, whose notes were
so low it appeared to have been carried t� a
distance Where it was giving forth -its strains
in melancholy sweetness, Tom rase to
leave when he became aware of !the bright
figure of archild standing in his path.
. 'Stop,' it said, 'tell me why you are so
sear .
Tom could not utter a word.
Follow me,' said the spirit.
- Tom followed him, filled with wonder to
one corner of the church, an unearthly light
pervaded the whole building, but here it.
was bright and glorious to behold.
'See,' said the spirit.
As he spoke a bright cloud iolle4 away,
and Tom saw a view of the sea beach with
a boat on the shore, and a ship rtding at
anchor in the distance, there was .youth
about to step into the boat, bidding'his par-
ents farewell, in them Tom recognized him-
self, 'his dead wife and child, the boy went
on board, the vessel seemed to sail away,
and there came .on a fearful storm. The
ship containing the boy was hurried with a
fearful crush on a barred rock, and the boy
bruised -and maimed was washed ashore to
die of hunger and thirst. The mystic spirit
waved his hand and the scene was changed.
A vessel rode gallant:y along in sight of
land, which it was evidently making. 'just
-as it touched the shore, savages poured down
upon it, and . murdei el all they found.
Among them was one solitary female, whom
they dragged ashore and - butchered with
the grossest barbarity.
Toui was fascinated by the horrible sight.
The spirit addressed him', •I am the .child
you so fondly loved, for whom you yet
mourn.' In what has beeh shown you,
you have seen what wonld have been my
fate, had 1 lived. I would have gone to
sea, been shipwrecked, and died a miserable
death. My mother, uncertain of my fate,
would -have gone in search of me, to the
part for which I was destined ; this she
never would have reached, but would have
met with a cruel death at the hands of sav-
ages, and you would never have known our
fates. Oh ! be reSigned.to the will of God
who doeth all things well, blame. not the
dispensations -of Providence, they. are wise
and good, myiways are not your ways, nor
my thOughts your thoughts; saith the Lord.'
1 As the bright spirit spoke he appeared to
melt away. Tom felt himself gently raised
front the ground, a calm repose- came upon
him, lie gradually became unconscious, and
when he mine to himself, he found he was
lying on his own ned with"the hot tears
still falling upon the pillow,—From that
time he was an altered man, and he never
Wind Vtnefit tro.:r
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• TO SUCH MEN
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Address,
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General Agent for Ontario.
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January, 21st, 1870.
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was a hearty jovial fellow, allays gay, al-
told another soul but me what he saw that
ways happy ; from them I heard that ia his night in the church of St Dunstan.
young days he had married an amiable girl
in his own station of life, who was much
respected. They !lived happily together
and had one child—a boy. Tom centered
all his hopes on this little one, and bright
pictures would rise in his mind of the little
fellow's future. But man proposes and God
,disposes ; just as the child became enjoying
and most loveable,, it wasittricken with a
fever, and in spite of -all care he gradually
sunk and died., The . poor .mother who
watched with such tender and anxious care
as only a Mother can exhibit, -by the bedside
of -her little one, took,the fever and being
weak from long watching -succumbed to the
disease. Hibbert, Jaey, 28, 1870. 112.
NOTICE TO
CHEESE MAKERS.
The Thames Road Cheese Factory, which is
situated in the Township of Hibbert, County of
Perth: 1Which is aituatedein a first-elass dairying
localityis for sale or rent'. !- Sealed Tenders -will
be taken up to the 15th Feb, next, 12 o'clock
noon. For further particulars apply on the
premises.
• ANDREW MALCOLM.
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Their Millinery Depart-
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Also a very choice stock of
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Be sure and call for their $1.00 Tea.
25 lbs. Rice for $1 ; 11 lbs. Raisins. and
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eaforth, Jan'y 5th, 1870.
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Bibles, Prayer Books, Psalm Books—and a
large assortment of miscellaneous books in splend-
did gilt bindings, suitable for Christmas and.
New Year's Gifts.
Sabbath School Books !
MHE subscriber begs to inform the public that
he has just received a great variety of Sad-
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TRUNKS
Reward Tickets, &c.
Plain and. Fancy Note'Paper and Envelopes,
Pens, Ink, Peneils, School Books, etc.
Musical Instruments-!
Accordeons, Concertinas, Violins, Violin Strings.
Rosin, Bridges, &c.
Briar and Mereschaum Pipes, and. Fancy
Goods of all kinds.
A large assortment of
Which he is prepared to sell
At Prices Almost Unparelleled.
TOYS
For Girls said Boys,
At LITMSDEN'S
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Seaforth, Jan'y. 21st, 1870. 53-tf.
of every description, warrant
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Quality of work and matetial, employed, indis-
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ikr SHOP OPPOSITE KIDD' &
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FARM PRODUCE
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