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THE HURON
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
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each line, denotes the page uf the paper on whieh
the advertisement will ha found.
New Goods—james McLoughlin. (5)
Plows -0. C. Willson. (5)
Auction Sale— A. Davidson. (5)
Notice—james C. MoLean, (5)
Farm for Sale—F. Oliver. (5)
Seed Wheat—D. D. Wilson. (8)
School Books—Weir's Book Store. (8)
Voters' Lists Court—Wm. Elliott. (5)
Pound -keepers' Sale ----R. Clark. (5)
Cider Mills—G. & H. Jackson. (5)
Property for SaIe—W. W. Ferran. (5)
Cow Lost—George Ewing. (5)
Booths to be Sold—Thos. Lapslie. (5)
Blacksmiths Wanted—Jno. Doreey. (5)
New Fall Goods—E. Maar& .(1)
Worth Knowing—Duncan & Duncan (8)
Wheat—Pearce, Weld & Co. (5)
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ittort expooiter.
SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, Sept. 1,1882.
Reform Convention.
We are requested to state that a Re-
feree, Convention for the East .Riding of
Huron, will be held at the town
Brussels, on Tuesday, the 19th of Sep-.
tenaber, for the purpoee of selecting a
candidate to contest the constituency
in the Reform interests at the approach-
ing election for the Local Legislature.
We need scarcely at& the Reforraers of
South Huron to have, their delegates
appointed at once, and to make sure
that every polling subAivision is folly
represented at the coevention, as our
friends in this riding are always alive to
their duty, and we confidently look
forward to a large, influential, har-
monious and successful convention.
Let each man be at his post, and a
candidate will he selected who will
carry the Reform banaer triumphantly
to victory in this riding.
The Freethielkere' Convention.
The present is the season for &Inven-
tions among our American. neighbors.
All sorts of associatioies have been hold-
ing meetings for the past week or two,
and. diseussing questions of more or less
public. interest. Among the rest, the
Freethinkers' Association. of New York
State have been holding their annual
meeting. The Association met at
Watkins, N. Y., on the 25th ult., and
was largely attended. A. brief report of
the froceedinge was 'published in the
NeseYork Sure of Saturday last. One
of the speakers was a Mr. Charles
Bright, of Australia, who has for eight
years been engaged in that part of the
world. in what freethinkers call the
work of reform, that is to say, in teach-
ing infidelity. This gentleman "made
a plea for human nature, saying that
the teachings of all ; religions in time
past had been that lit was depraved;
that to be good and each heaven you
must crucify it, crush it; but that now
on the contrary science taught us that
it was not depraved; that it was a good
thing, not an evil one—our teacher not
our devil.' This 'speaker's idea of
what is good in hunean nature and in
raoraIs, ie shown by the fact that he
spoke in earnest praiee of Annie Besant
and Charles Bradlaugh, and offered, to
the meeting resolutions with regard to
the latter, approving of his course and
his sentiments, and 'wishing him suc-
cess in his gigantic struggle with aristo-
cratic usurption of power and religious
persecution. It be scarcely necessary
to say that these repolutions were very
heartily received aeld adopted by the
convention. Another speaker gave an
account of the establishment by him-
self and others of a town in South-
western Missouri oailed Liberal Mis-
souri. This town yea4 begun twenty
months ago, and haft now a population
of 300, and. is growieg fast. It is a sort
of freethinkers' paradise. If the speak-
er was to be believed they have no God
there, no devil, and to hell. ' They have
no preachers, no churches, no saloons,
no drunkenness, and no brawling e but
they have schools, and an orphan aey-
lum has been founded, where the chil-
dren are not to be taught any sectarian
or supernatural religion. Hon. A. B.
Bradford, a former Presbyterian minis-
ter, addressed the meeting. This gen-
tleman's views are very advanced. He
denies that we are indebted to the
Church for the many benefits we enjoy
in these days. Oar reverence he at-
tributed to science,, our honesty of
dealing to commerce, our honor to the
military spirit. The Church, he said,
has given to the world no manly quali-
ties; instead of a help it has been a
great burden, grievous to be borne. By
church we presume he meant the
Christian Church in its collective capa-
city, that is, Chrietianity itself. U so,
we must confess der amazement that
ea man who was oace a minister of a
Christi= denomination, even if he have
turned infidel, should deny the debt
which civilization owes to Christianity.
The propoeed vieit of the English
plailosopher, Herbert Spencer, to Am-
erica, was referredito, and a vote passed
tendering him a hearty welcome at
hands of the Freethinkers of this oon-
tinent. The convention declared they
appreciated his noble serviceto free
thought, science and philosophy. It
is sometimes denied, we believe, that
Herbert Spencier's.philosophY is neces-
sarily infidel in its tendency. This vote
of the New York Freethinkers' Asso-
ciation at all events serves to show
what infidels thinle of it. They claim
Herbert Spencer as their own. The
only other subject of mutile interest re-
ferred to in the meeting was the pro-
posed to found a Liberal University,
wherein the teaching would. e free
from leaden of Christian thought.
and be thoroughly, infidel and ficentillo.
It is not stated vhat funds the Asso-
ciation have at their disposal for the
founding of such an institution; but it
is probable that all the money needed
will be forthcoming; there ar plenty
of wealthyinfidels in the State to con-
tribute to it. A Toronto mute porary
suggests that Col. Robert Ingersoll be
appointed professor of Biblical ee.egesis
in the new university. We should say
the appointroent would be an erninently
suitable one. Straws show the waythe
wind blows; so with this Freethinkers'
meeting, and the fact that one of the
leading American papers has seen fit to
report its proceedings at considerable
length. There is no doubt that infidel-
ity is rapidly spreading in the United
States. This is shown by many signs
such as the decline of Sabbath observ-
ance araoeg our neighbors, and the
turning of the day of rest, to a very
great extent, into one of mingled busi-
ness , and amusement. Trains and
steamboat e running on a Sunday, retail
shops kept open for the sale of goods,
street cars running and crowded with
passengers, public gardens and pleasure
resorts all open, saloons in full blast,
newspaper boys in the streets crying
both mornipg and evening editions of
Sunday papets—these are now most
noticeable features of American cities
on -the Sabbath day. It is only in the
wholesale establiehments, and in manu-
factures that can be closed for a day
without lose to the proprietors, that
there is ceesation of business on Sun-
days in the cities and towns of the
United States at present. For good or
ill the Puritan Sunday of New England
is a thing of the past. The church no
longer exercises the influence it former-
ly possessed. Ministers are still listen-
ed to, and treated with decent respect;
bet their influence is declining.
Spiritual censures, even thoee of the
Vatican, have lost their terrors for the
Americans of our day. Did any eccle-
siastical authority venture to have re-
course to them; it would be laughed at.
Religious associations seem to hold
their ground inthe States more by force
of custom than by conviction on the
part of their adherents. Se great has
been the progress of infidelity in the
United States of late years, that it lies
been openly asserted by the New York
press that if things go on for another
fifty years as they have been going for
the past twenty-five, the American will
cease to be a Christian nation, and will
have become infidel. We do not think
that things will reach this pass; for
Christianity possesses a vitality which
is not easily destroyed, and a reaction
will probably setin when the full effect
of infidel teachingbegins to make itself
felt. That its effect will be evil no one
who has dialled history can for a mo-
ment doubt. The French Revolution
showed long ago the fruits which unbe-
lief yields. We see it demonstrated to-
day in Rneeia,n Nihilism. Infidelity.
means destruction of the family tie and
of all morality; it means the hum=
rade given over to utter sensuality and
materialism; it means commercial dis-
honesty and fraud, and crime ofevere
sort in the mad race for wealth; it
means the debasement of art and litera-
ture and science; it means the abroga-
tion of all law, hum= and divine, and
the ruin of civilization. These are the
" reforms " which the Freethinkers of
Europe and America will accomplish,
if they have their way. The abuses of
society are not to be remedied by in-
fidelity ; it may increase the evils from
which mankind seffers, but it lam never
cure them.
The Egyptian Campaigia.
The recent movements of the British
troops in Egypt have phown what the
British plan of the campaign is. It is
obviously the intention of Gee. Weise -
ley if possible to cut off Arabi Pasha
and his army from all communication
with middle and upper Egypt, and to
shut him up in the Delta, where_ his
overthrow in the open field, or his
forced surrender by starvation if his
earthworks be found too strong for
direct assault, would only be a question
of a few weeks' time. The seizing of
the Suez canal, and turning it into a
base of operations by the British com-
mander, was an able movement ably
executed. By this move Arabi Pasha's
strong lines at Kair-el.Dwar, to which
he seems to have devoted his energies
and his resources for week's, are ren-
dered nearly useless. They are com-
pletely turned by the movements from
Ismailia westward in the direction of
Cairo by the main British force ender
Gen. Wolseley in person. To resist
Wohieley's advance Arabi Paeha has
been forced to draw off the greater
part of his men from Kafr-el-Dwar,
and it is probable that had the British
ten thousand men in Alexandria these
lines could now be carried by storm, if
Gen. Wolseley so desired. But the
British force in Alexandria seems to be
too weak to undertake an enterprise of
this kind, and it will probably not be
necessary. - If General Wolseley can
succeed in defeating the force now
before him at Tel-el-Kebir and Tagazig,
under Arabi Pasha in person, the sur -
render of illafr-el.Dwar lines will follow,
without it being necessary to fire a
All depends on Wolseley's
sue ess; On the other hand the repulse
sus ained by the British on Saturday
shows that the Egyptian e will offer a
etotit resistance. The English have
not yet been able to bring pp many guns
to he front,and are greatly overmatched
by the Egyptian artillery both in
weight and number of their guns. It
seems evident at this writing that till
the British can bring a larger force to
the froet, and organize a better trans-
port service both for artillery and the
necessary supplies of ammunition and
provisions, they will not be able to
make ,much impression on Arabi's
earthworks: In the carrying on of the
campaign, whether it may prove long
or short, the Suez canal will form an
admirable base of operations for the.
British. They can land_ men and
material at any point upon its banks,
and by meanstif the railways west from
IsMailia and Suez can readily transport
their supplies to the interior. It is
tree that the direct line of railway' from,
Suez to Cairo has been dismantled, and
that as yet the British. haye no locomo-
tives on the line from Ismailia.; but
these deficiencies will soon be supplied.
The Suez and Cairo can be readily
relaid with rails if require& and already
l000rrotives are on their way to Ismai-
lia from Bombay. In not blocking the
Suez canal, and so rendering it uselees
fora time, Arabi Pasha has committed
a great mistake. For this he has pro-
bably to thank M. de Lesseps, whji
seems to have gone to Egypt expressly
to oirsuad.e Arabi not to touch the
canal. Lesseps seems also to have told
Arabi that the English would not dare
to violate the neutrality of the canal
. -
No doubt Leseeps -was quite sincere in
promising to Arabi that the canal would
bakept neutral; and he certainly did.
hiB best to prevent the Englieh frora
using it, but they were not to be fright-
ened by his bluster. Now Arabi thinks
he was deceived, and accuees Lesseps
of treachery. The latter, assured of
thk presept safety of the canal, has
q*tly returned to France, leaving the
English and Arabi to settle the matter
between them as they please. The
usual contradictory reports are current
about the attitude of the Porte. One
day it is reported that the Sultan has
thrown himself into the arms of Rusaia,
th,e neikt that he has agreed to all the
demandsof England. , At this writing
the latter report is in the ascendant. It
. -
is stated that Turkish troops will at
one be sent to Egypt, and Arabi Pasha
praclaimed a rebel. The only thing
certain about the whole matter is that
England need expect 110 real assistance
from the: Turks in this campaign ; on
the contrary the Turk( will most pro-
bably be found opposing the English
and thwarting them in every way they
can. It may even be that they will join
the enemy, should the English encoun-
ter any serious reverse. It would be
far better, as well -as safer, were the
British Government to tell the Sultan
plainly they will not let him send. troops
to Egypt &ming the present campaign
under any circumstances. In adopting
this courke Mr. Gladstone would be
supported; for the whole British peo-
ple are thoroughly disgusted with the
vacillation and duplicity shown by the
Porte in its negotiations on the subject
from first to fast.
mseeiteemat
Decay of the American Mer-
chant Marines.
The condition of the American mer-
chant marines under the protective
system is steadily going from bad to
worse. American shipping has almost
vanished from the high seas, and has
shrunk into a wasting trade, which
maintains itself against foreign compe-
tition only by the strong protectien of
the Ameridan navigation - laws. e buch,
accoraing to the confeesion ef the
Ainericans themselves, made in one of
their leadittg journals, is the present
cOnditiod of the American merchant
marine. It was not always so. In
11861 American tonage stood at 5,539,-
813 against5,895,393 in Great Britain
and her dependencies, and 5,800,767
in all the rest of the world. In 1881 it
had declined to 1,335,586 tons. In 1880
the ?deem tonnage of Great Britain
amounted to 2,273,000 tons; in the
same year the steam tonnage of the
United States employed in the foreign
trade amounted to only 146,604 tons.
In 1855 the Americans carried 75.6 per
cent of the value of their imports and
enports in their own bottoms; in 1881
the percentage so carried had shrunk to
16.2 per 'cent., while foreign ships car-
ried the remaining 83.8 per cent. Dar-
ing the year 1881 there were shipped
from theiport of New York 72,276,000
bushels of grain, but not one bushel of
it all went in an American ship.
These facts are gleaned froeli a
review in last week's issue of the New
tork independent of a book just pub-
lished by the Hon. David A. Wells, on
the rise, decline and decay of the
American merchant marines. We quote
as follows the conclusions at which
the reviewer has arrived, after a
somewhat elaborate examination of
the whole subject:
"This disgraceful and. alarming de-
cadent* it has been the fashion to at-
tribute t& the war. Without much
thought, we have soothed our pride by
saying that, amid those gigantic strug-
SITOR.
glee we lost our position o the sea and
that it has not been peek 10 to regain
it 'IltiTlice.
his flattering tilmitio Mr. Wells
sternly tears from I our -ound. He
shows that the declin had already
begun in 1855, though the niaxiriaum of
our tonnage was not ached until
1861. 11p to 1855 Our 1181 gation laws
and (air whole SyStein ha worked in
our favor; but at that ti e iron vessels
made their competi don Mt, and steam
hope to dive the s iling vessels from
the Bea. Thie was bra oh of naval
construction in which ngland was
superior to us. We mig very easily
and. quickly have obtaine for ourselves
every advantage she pc massed, but
instead of doing thiis we threw away
those we already had. e loaded our-
selves with the heady disorimination of
an enormous tariff ; we el hered to our
navigation laws; we load:d our ship-
masters with increased • urdenp, and
drove our own ships hone the sea by
making it impossible for merican skill
and enterprise to compet with the car-
riers of other nations.
'We had. our enorm s prosperity
under the nayigatioe law:, and under a
tariff more or less protect, ve: How is
it then, that these stand. so much in
our way now Mr. We is replies to
this question, though e thins he
might have made his ar* itter plainer.
Our navigation lawe were g�bd eaough
policy for a nation , whic could beat
the world in building ship-. We liter-
ally outbuilt and 01.1tBai ed the 'mild.
Our frigates were 1etter etter
manned, and carried heaeier ordnance
than the -.same class in the Eoglish
navy. There were no ucl. ships afloat
as the American clippers They paid
higher wages to their me ; but they
could afford to do so, for te ey were so
well equipped that they r quired fewer
men.
"Iran ships and stea e ships have
changed all this. The di advantages of
our natural positimi in th s new compe-
tition might have leeen overcome but
for the national policy, w filch has added
40 per cent. to the east o building in
oar dockyards."
The cure for this state if things, Mr.
Wells and his reviewer al'ke find in a
radical change of the tra.d policy of the
United State, which wit relieve their
ship -builders of the 40 pai cent. import
above mentioned. This can oily be
brought about by discussion, to le fol-
lowed in due tiroe hey su'table 1 gisla-
tion. The canditicin of ihe me chant
marine and ship-beilding n the
States, is the remarkable instar
record of the two great so rces of
al wealth destroyed by th opera
a protective systere.
News of
the eek.
JEWS PERSECUTED.—A r
outrages against the Je
from the interior Of Pole
ROBBERY.—The residen
Mason, Hoboken, New
robbed of articles valued.
Thursday night.
A NiSITOR.— Mr. M.
home rule member of parliam
Meath, will visit tie Uni ed S
September.
BICYCLING.—Sta. dish, oersm
bicyclist, has beerl electe Chi f Con-
sul of the league ef Am rican wheel -
men, for Michigan.
YELLOW JACK.— allow ever
ly sprea ding he BrciwnsviUe, Tex
doctors say that in Mat mora
patients have been fright ned t
newel
• is r
d.
e of
nited
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ation-
tion of
of the
ported
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Jersey,
t 03, 00 on
A. S llivan,
nt for
ates in
n and
RUSSIAN ROBBEDI.i—A w althy
named Iavitch wa robbe of iel
his interpretee, M vitzky,, who a
ed. The funds re in Russi
Italian bonds. ,
FATAL DISEASE. A tett ble e
of the nature of r d. thin, h, is
ing at Malmo, S veden. Du
past week of 617 ases 45 prove
ltinaioNeme DEAD.—G- rdner
a prominent citizen of N vir Yor
at Green Brier, W. Va,, on
aged 65. He left an est te of
000.
REPINED COPPE .—The e wer
tons of refined coPper t en fr
mines at Houghton, K ween
Royal and Ontonagon o untie
gan during the year 1881
VNION PAOIFIO.i--
FOr t
e fi st nine-
teen days of August the lirnio Pacific
show a an increase in es imat d earn-
ings of $59,000 oder the s me eriod of
la
st year.
rapid-
s. The
: many
• death.
ussian
,800000nbdy.
.
n and
nd
idemic,
reveli-
ng the
fatal.
Sda igeed,
riesday,
1.2,500,-
•
27,275
m the
w, Isle
Michi-
GOOD CRICKET1NG. nrd oh, the
Austialian cricketer, has tote, led up-
ward of -1,000 runs in his several
matches. Once he mad 286 not out,
and once 107 not out; f is a rage is
now Over 42.
Too Mum Strooenee —In Austria
the Upper House, by a majo ity vote
of ten, renders an eight s ears attend-
ance at school obligatory. The House
of Representatives had v ted s x years'
schooling as eno gh.
Fen BICYCLIN .—H.
. C rtis, re-
cently, at the Cr stal P lace, London
England, rode t enty m es in 59 min-
utes, 31 4-5 seco ds. T is eats all
previothe record. Relays if riders
made the pace f r him.
Rochel Blair , of Col-
umbia, South Carolina da ghter of
Col. Blair, the 1 ading Creen oak poli-
tician, recently killed Ca lit den by
Capt. Hart, ommitte 1 suicide on
Thursday by ta *rig stry hnin
ICELANDIC F rem— 1 rof. Fisk, of
Cornell University, N. V., an Erikur
Magi:11180n, an I elander, ind ne of the
librarians in the univers ty brary of
Cambridge, Eng and, are app aling for
aid for the f ol ine-stric en eople of
Iceland.
TLLINOIB SPOR SMEN.— he f urth an-
nual convention and tour tam nt of the
Central Illinois Sports an's associa-
tion for the pro • ogation tnd preserva-
tion of fish and ame wil be held at
teemrsbeeYvir 1121eti• ois, co
la an, continu g f ur days.
rn en ing Sep -
ROYAL VOYAG 1111.—Pri ice Henry of
Prussia, will at rt on a Voyag around
:the world next Sotober. He will pro-
bably be away a year aiid a half, and
spend most of to time ruis ng in the
West Indies nd roun t -e South
American was,.
BETTER FREI e HT Cens.+Th feasibil-
ity of construct ng frieight oai s to carry
the enormous weight of 3 1. tons of
freight was favorably disarm d at the
master oar -buil; ers' conventi n, and a
practical reaped.' ent has alre tdy been
made on the U • ion Paz' c B ad, a car
containing 1,111 bushels f w Leat hav-
ing been run fro.. Solometn C ty, Kan-
sas, to Kansas 1 ity. The pec iliarity of
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this ear is a central track, by means of
Which it is claimed that all freight cars
can oarry from 50 to 100 per cent. ad-
ditional weight.
'AIME Smr.—The largest sailing ship
that ever was built has just dispatched
from Belfast, Ireland. She is -made of
steel, 299 feet long, will carry 9,600 tons
dead. weight, has four masts, and is
called the Lorn Downshire. She will
make her first voyage to San Francisco.
SONR TREASURE. IA New Jersey
mine locator, named Captain D.Chipin,
has discovered the wreck of a vessel
loaded with copper, warth 0150,000, and
is taking steps to reco4er the precious
cargo. It was sunk outside Erie har-
bour fifty years ago.
SMART YOUTH.—A bright pupil in an
English public school edified - the -
examiners at a recent scholarship
examination with the information that
"the treaty of Utrecht was fought
between the Zulus and the English,"
and that "the Triennial Act was to
try thieves."
RIVALLING. Geeesecale.—Gladstone is
not more eloquent than Lord Chief
Justice Coleridge, who will visit the
United States in the autumn. The
London Figaro hopes that during his
visit he may have an opportunity of
doing justice to the great oratorical
gifts he possesses.
SWIMmING MATOIL—The inile Swim-
ming match for the championship of
America for $50. a side was contested
on the Susquehanna River on Thureday
by Harry Monroe, Corning, and G-eorge
H. Woode, of Brooklyn. There were
about 2,000 spectators. Mrinroe won,
the time being 28 minutes, 45 seconds.
OLD HICKORY.—The Michigan Demo-
crats have adopted e plank in their
platform denouncing; political assess-
ments for the raising al campaign funds.
Political assessments ere a natural mit-
come of the theory formulated by Old
Hickory Jackson, that "to the -victors
belong the spoils," and Old. Hickory
WaB somewhat of a Democrat.
THE COMING LEADES.—Sir Algernon
Boothwick is likely to be a leader some
day in English politics. He has the
wit of Beaconsfield and the earnestness
of John Bright. He Married a niece of
Earl Clarendon, and to the accomplish-
ments of Lady Boothwick her husband
owes some of his popularity. Their
two children are supposed to be the
originals of Lord Beaconfield's Myr()
and E ndymion.
TRADE IN WATER= ONS,—The water-
melon trade is a livel one in New York
city during the teason. It is estimated
that the city can cioneuro.e 200,000 mel-
ons in a week, wh1ile fully 300,000
melons a week are shipped to the
watering place's and o New England
from the metropolis. The firat supply
came from Florida, and the Florida
melons command an average price of
one dollar apiece.
NEW INVENTION.—A new brake, the
invention of Mr. Treinaine, a conduc-
tor' has, after careful trial, been adop-
tedby the Chicago, Milwaukee, and
and St. Paul Railway Company. The
brake is an ingenious contrivance, of
such conetruction as tb make it unneces-
sary to remove the wheels upon which
the brake acts more than once during
six or eight months 1 It is reported
that Tremaine has been offered by
G-eorge M. Pullman $40,000 for the
right to use the patent on his sleeping
care.
Impressions of the Northwest -
It is said somewhere that a per-
son may as well be out of the world as
out of the fashion. Peeling this, and
desiring to be relieved from the tedium
of everyday labor, and as everybody
now desires to view , the great trade
centres and principal Aeata of the booms
as well ii;Ei the boundless and fertile
prairies of the Great Northwest,
resolved to follow the crowd, and for
once, at least, be in the fashion. With
this object in view I procured a round
trip ticket from Majackson, the affable
and efficient town agent of the Great
Western Railway, at 'Clinton, and in
company with some well behaved but
jolly companions, started for the happy
land of promise on Saturday, the 5th of
Angust.
ON BOARD THE STEAMER.
We boarded the steamer Quebec, one
of the Northern Transportation Com-
pany's boats plying between Sarnia and
Duluth, at the former place. We left
Sarnia with a fair wind and a pleasant
party of tourists on Sunday morning,
and, although a day behind time, had,
upon the whole, a pleasant voyage
upon the lakes. This trip has been so
frequently and so graphically deecribed
that there remains nothing new to say
about it. Suffice it to remaek that the
scenery is as grand as ever, and the
rocky shores and beautiful islands re-
main as they have been for ages. The
principal variation is caused by the
elements, and on our upward trip we
experienced such a variation: Our
'second day's experience on Lake
Superior was not so pleasant to some
as it might have been, All the way up
many of the passengers, and especially
the feminine portion, were wishing for,
a "blow." Well, - on Tuesday their'
wishes were gratified, even more fully
than many of them expected or desired.
In the early morning the sun rose
glorious in all its splendor,, and an
invigorating breeee, just sufficient to
make the boat vibrate pleasantly had
sprung up, and all were congratulating
themselves on the prospects of a pleas-
ant day. Soon after breakfast, how-
ever, a change took place. The wind
commenced to blow more freshly, and
the cold became so intense that out-
door amusements were not pleasant,and
the cabins had to be heated up with
death. The boat began to rock and
sway and the white -caps were becoming
numerous on the great deep. The
rocking continued to increase in inten-
sity nntil the good craft was dancing
around on the wavy billows peetty
lively. The wind grew louder and.
louder, and a heavy driving rain set in.
Not*ithstanding that things outside
had become about a unpleasant and
uncomfortable as they could be, all was
cosy and comfortable inside the cabia,
and barring the rocking and swaying ef
the boat, no inconvenience was at first
felt by the passengers. All were jolly,
and all -professed to enjoy the " blow '
immensely. But, soon one could be
seen changing color, and making a zig
zag course for the state -room, and then
another, and so on until the noon hoer
arrived, when out of a list of some 120
passengers only about 15 sat down -to
table, and only a few of those had raven-
ous appetites. Many, were wretchedly
sick, some were considerably indisposed
' and nearly all were more or less affect -
ed by saute disease of the stomach. The
boat proprietors had decidedly the ad-
vantage of the passengers for that day
at any rate. The wind calmed down
about midnight, and from that out all
was plain -sailing until the end of the
voyage. By noon the next day the
tables assumed their wonted appear-
ance, and the passengers appeared as if
the experience of the previous day had
been only pleasant, and a storm had
never taken pla,ce. I may here remark
that the Northern Transportation Com-
pany must needs look out for their
laurels if they wish to continue in favor
with the travelling public. The boats
are not nearly so well equipped as they
used to be, and much less attention
evidently, paid to providing for the
wants and comforts of passengers.
Competition has been limited and the
effect is not to the credit of the companyi
Having gone up on the Quebec and rca
turned by the Ontario, the two best and
favorite boats of the line, I can speak
from experience. The boat officersfrom
the captain downwards are all that
could be desired, so far as courtesy and
affability are concerned, end. do all he
their power to please the passengers,
but they seem to be greatly hampered
by the parsimony and bad manage1
ment of those higher in authority. The
interior of the boats is shabby and um
inviting. The furniture is dilapidated
atid shakey, the carpets worn and seedy
looking, and the crockery cracked and
scabby, while the bill of fare is execra,
ble. Another serious inconvenience
and annoyance to passengers is the un-
certainty of the arrival and departure
of boats and the lack of information te
be obtained at any of the way ports. Of
course it is not supposed that a line of
steaneers on such a route can arrive at
certain ports with the precision and
certainty of a railway train, but there
should, at least, be some means devised
whereby tourists could ascertain at cer•
tain points whether or not the boat is
on time and when it will likely arrive
and depart. For instance, the On-
tario, the boat iffion which we
retarned,was advertised to leave Duluth
on Wednesday at noon. It did. not
reach that port on until ThursclaY
noon, and did not leave until noon the
following day. As a consequence a
large member of passengers were kick-
ing their heels around that town for
several days in anxious suspense and at
considerable cost. This state of things,
which is not exceptional, is a vely good
thing for the. hotel keepers of that
enterprising town, but it is neither
agreeable nor profitable for tourists.
Diligent and repeated enquiries were
made of the company's agent at Win-
nipeg, but he either could not or would
not give the slightest information as to
whether the boats would leave on time
or not, and all the satisfaction that
could. be got from him was a reference
to the company's advertisement which
informed the public that the boats left
Duluth for Sarnia regularly on Sunday
and Wednesday of each week. OP
arriving at Duluth, however, on Wed-
nesday morning there was no boat, and
no person knew or seemed to care
when it would come or where it was.
The agent did not know whether it had
left Sarnia or anything at all concern-
ing its whereabouts, and the intending
passengers were left in suspense until
they saw their boat steaming into the
harbor at least 48 hours after the time
she should have been ready to go out.
If the officers of each boat were requir-
ed to telegraph ahead to the various
agents where telegraphic communica-
tion exists the time of arrival at arid
departure from certain points, parties
intending to travel by boats would have
some guide to go by and couldrregulate
tneir course accordingly. This might
entail a slight additional expense to the
company, but it would certainly, be a
very great convenience to the • public.
If the Northern Transportation Com-
pany are not more careful concerning
the general management of their boa s,
their passenger list will, year by ye r,
grow shorter, as complaints are univ r -
sal and well grounded.
THE LAKE TOWNS.
The first of the lake towns of i
portance after leaving Kincardine
Sault St. Marie. Before reaching t
point, however, we pass through p
bably the most beautiful and vari
scenery on the whole route, including
the pictured rocks. In Garden Riv1er
some four or five large governme t
dredges are at work widening and deejp
ening the channel, which at this poiit
is both narrow and shalkw, and the
most difficult navigation of the wh le
route is here. The expense of tjae
present works will be great, and tjie
progress slow, but the improvement 1iB
required, and the ultimate remunetia-
tion will, doubtless largely exceed the
cost. The Canadian town of Sault
Marie, is beautifully situated, and lj
improved in Size and appearance v
materially during the past fear yea
There are some handsome priv
residences and seven or eight very g
general stores. - A snug, comfort%
summer hotel is much teq,uired he
and if some suitable and enterprising
individual would only establish suob. an
hostelry he could scarcely fail to rea
rich reward, as a more charming s
fora quiet and retired summer res
could hardly be desired. The Am
can town is considerably larger
more pretentious than its sister on Ijhe
opposite shore, but it does not at llhel
present time present so healthy an.
appearance. It seems very dull andi
dilapidated, and looks as if its glory lad
departed, The Northern Pacific Rail-
way company have commenced the
erection of a branch along the Sout
Shore of Lake Superior to. this point
and it is in contemplation to bridge th
river here, and make a direct Canadia
connection to the seaboard. When thi
is done bah the American and Cana
dian towns will be places of mnc
greater importance than at present, an
already property is beginning to bodna
The next place of importance reecho
is Prince Arthur's Landing. This is
town of about 1,500 or 2,000 population
The good people of the Landing hav
long been subsisting principally upo
hopeful expectations, and as these hay
been frequently blasted their fare ha
often been not the most sumptuous. I
is, however, the present Eastern tero
minus of the Canada Pacific Railway.
When the road was being built west
ward the Landing furnished the bulk o
the supplies and was the head quarter
for the contractors and workmen, unt'l
a connection was made with Winnipe
This made business at this place som
what brisk fora few years, but lotted
stagnation reigned, and real estate i
the Landing was at a heavy discoun
Another draw back was that Fort
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William, a town on the - far temea
Kaministiquia river, and which
tadned the notorious Neebing hotel, was
at one time likely to be the terminus of
the railway. In order to OVerCOMC %la
difficulty the Landing people, with eon„
siderable enterprise, constructed a reel
frem Fort William to their town, It
distance of four miles, at their awn
expense. Since the present Government
came into power, the magnates of the
Landing succeeded in bringing sufficient
pressure to bear upon the powers that
be to induce them to assurae theit
railway and. transfer the terminus from
Fort Willliam to their town, and Be
matters now stand. As a consequeace
the glory and prestige of Fort Winiati
has departed and the star of the Laud.
ing is once more in the ascendant, ana
there is just new a very quiet eheenio
in town property. Lots that two years
ago were unsalable, will now being
thousands of dollars and although
business is still dull, the people atei
juibilant, and look forward to a great
ftiture when the population and infhal
once Of their town will be second only
to Winnipeg. The railway, although
completed. from this.point to Wieni
iM not yet in running order, and
not be open for freight and passenger
traffic) until next spring. When it is
open it will form a much more direct,
speedy and pleasant route from Ontario
to Manitoba than that at present teed
via Duluth, and as much of the passen-
ger and freight transfer business now
done at the latter place will then. be
done at the Landing the business an
prospects of that town will be emelt.
pondingly improved. But, although the i
Landing people -now feel certain that I
their town will be the lake terminus ef
the Canada Pacific it is not ' by any
inea,ns certain that their hopes -will be
realized. They have received every
possible pledge and. assurance from the
present Government that such will be
the case, but a greater power than -the
Government now controls this matter.
The Pacific Syndicate rule supreme
north and west of Lake Superior. They
have no material interest in the present
town site of the Landing, but they have
some distance further east, and Boracite
fluential friends hold a heavy stake atl
FortWilliam,and are offering them great
inducements to go there. It is purely1
and entirely a question of money with
the Syndicate. If they can make more
money by laying out a new town site
further east they will do so, and if the
Landing or Fort William inter* can
make it still more profitable to them to
select either place, the selection will be
made accordingly. Whichevero may
ultimately be the favored spot, will,
assuredly, grow to be a large town very
rapidly, as it will, for years at any rate,
be the eastern terminus of the Canadian
Pacific Railway, and the immense
traffic which will pass over that road
will all have to be transhipped and re -
handled here. Although not interested
M either point I cannot but hope Fort
William will win the day, as it is un-
questionably the most favorably situat-
ed. The harbor facilities afforded by
the Kaministiquia river are unequalled
ley any other place on the whole range
of lakes, or we might say on the Ameri-
can continent, and its advantages are
such that we do not think the Syndicate
will overlook them. Work has been
e,ommenced near Prince Arthur's Land -
nag on what is known as the Eastern or
North Shore section of the Canadian
Pacific, and it is said that over 2,000
workmen will be employed here during
the whole winter.
The next place reached is Duluth, at
the head of Laker Superior. This city
's situated in the State of Minnesota,
and is said to contain a permanent
population of 6,000, and a floating po-
pulation of 2,000 additional. The dock-
age here is extensive and good, and is
being continually added to. It is the
terminus of a branch of the Northern.
Pacific Railway, and also of a road
called the St. Paul and Duitith. It is
built at the base, and. on he eird.e of a
rocky precipice, and the principal inter-
est is lumbering and shipping. There
are two very large elevators,
*leveret extensive saw mills and
an iron smelting establishment;
The town, although somewhat strag-
gling and bare looking, has a pros-
perous appearance. At one time great
expectations were entertained of it, and
it was fondly hoped :by its founders and
others that itt a few years it would rival
Chicago. But upon what ground these
hopes rested I can neither say nor con-
jecture. At any rate they have not
been, and never will be reached. It
made quite a splurge for ,ft few years,
and then became so dead and dull that
the best properties in town could not
be rented for the taxes. With the re-
vival of the lumber trade a couple of
years ago it took a fresh start, and with-
in two years has nearly doubled in size,
while business property:is held :nearly
as high as in Winnipeg. A large num-
ber of good business blocks and many
private houses are now in course of
erection. A new hotel called the St.
Louis, has been opened within the past
three weeks. It is about the size and
capacity of the Rossin House, Toronto.
and is fully as well conducted. During
our stay there the place, although not
yet fully furnished, was crowded with
guests from all parts. One peculiarity
of the city is the large member of saloons
and small hotels to be seen everywhere.
On making inquiries I was informed
that there are no fewer than 85 hotele
and saloons. When it is considered
that the city license is 0225 per year,
and the Government license $25, mak-
ing a total license'fee of $250 a year for
each saloon ; add to this at least 100
per month for rent, besides fuel, light
and other expenses, and it will be seen
that the peopie of Duluth mug spend
very liberal sum for drinks. The re-
venue which the city treasury derivee
from this business annually will
amount to over $19,000, which should,
one would think, run a city of 6,000 in-
habitants pretty nicely without any ad-
ditional taxation. Connected with each
hotel -and saloon can invariably be found
three or fear billiard tables, and all ap-
parently liberally patronized. For the
privilege of keeping these, additional
municipal and Government taxes are
collected. The money which is spent
in whiskey and billiards in this town
must be appalling, and in this respect
we.ms,y say that Duluth is a fair faun-
ple of all the western towns we visited.
The pernicious and shockingly clamored'
izing influence which those plates hsve
upon the people, both morally and,
pecuniarily, can scarcely' be estimated.
On asking a respectable saloon keeper
how in the world so many drinktng
places could exist, he replied that the
saloon business was the most profitable
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