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It is useful in more than one | way, for the history of the past has always | ae influence on the present. There are many persons who have the idea that the **good old times”? were something far su- perior to the present, and young people, listening to the tales of their seniors, are uaconsciously imbibed with a spirit of dis- content. Now, the fact is thatthe ‘told times” were not good times by any means ; but the people were a cheerful, resolute, industrious and thrifty race, who, with the sma!! means at their disposal, made the best of their day and generation. lt has been told by two of the pioneers of King’s Gounty, who built for themselves log heuses at the edge of the forest, that when the roof of the first cabin was completed, that one of them took his fiddle and play- ed,while the others danced alternately with their wives, until nearly midnight. Just ‘imagine the cheerfulness that couid prompt such lightheartedness qnder circumstances

caloulated to awaken the most gloomy re- fleetions. They had just arriv odin a new country. Their frieuds and acquaintances

were thousands of miles away, «and all their surroundings were strikingly new and strange, hut they had obtained a rvof to jshelter them and they had the hope of making a free home for themselves and theirchildren. Little thought they of the hardships or discomforts they were called om to endure, ‘They complained not that they had had to travel cvertwenty miles to Fortune to get provisions for their

ily wants and seed to sow for next year's and had to carry these supplies on cha own shoulders to their homes. They only remembered that they had health and strength, and were living on free land ; and their thankfulness expressed itself in the joyous mazes ot the Scottish reels of their aimtountrie so far away. ‘ By detailing the hardships endured by the early settlers, the present generation

following facts are learned: James Douglas had bought the possession of a tract of land leased to William Aitken by Willam Lownsend, Esq., consisting, it was stated, of 150 acres. The lease was for 40 years, at the rate of one shilling cur- rency per acre, or £7 10s. for the whole. For upwards of twenty years Douglas held this farm, and paid his rent regularly. On the death of Mr. Townsend, Douglas con- tracted with Mrs. Townsend for a lease of 999 years at the same rate per year, agree-— ing, in consideration of the extension of time given, topay her £35. Nine years after this transaction Douglas found out’ that Mrs. Townsend had not power, under | the willof her husband, to grant a lease for a longer period than her own life. On obtaining this knowledge, and finding out | by a survey made about. the same time>

that his farm only contained 102 acres, | paying his rent, |

Douglas discontinued claiming that he should get a reduction in

the rent in proportion to the amount he had |

overpaid for so many years. Mrs. Town- send then took summary proceedings to recover the rent due ; but before these pro- ceedings were brought to a close his farm was sold for £20 to the Rev. Mr. Wiggins,

send. Mr. Wiggins, in 1833, began an action of ejectment against Douglas ; but

Chancery, and proceedings were finally stopped by an injunction issued from that Court in 1839. ‘The petition then goes on

to show that on avcount of those proceed- | ings the petitioner, Douglas, was compelled | to pay heavy costs on both sides ; that fur- | ther law proceedings were also taken by) Mr. Wiggins against the petitioner, which | resulted in further loss to the latter ; until | finally the petitioner covenanted with Mr. |

Wiggins for the absolute purchase of the land, and paid £42 on account of the pur- chase money. After this had been done,

ferred to Charles Worrell, Esq. In virtue |

will have forcibly brought before theta the very different circumstances under which their forefathers lived and struggled, which will, no doubt, cause us to appre- ciate more fully the many comforts an and jn that way

is so prevalent a feeling in the human mind.

There is another reason why an effort should be made to preserve the most in- teresting stories and legends of the different settlements. A history of the people of this Island has not yet been written. We} have histories of the different measures passed by the Legislature, of the land ques- tion—and it is not by any means a true picture of that great struggle—and of the public doings generally ; but we have no work that gives an account of the trials and triumphs of the people.

Whea such a work is undertaken, valu- able material for its author will be these **stories of the settlements,” some of which are incorporated in these sketches.

**Canadiana,” ina late number of ‘‘Qpin- ionettes,” advocates the depicting of our Island scenery by the brush of the artist or the camera of the photographer. The asser- tion that written description is soon forgot- ten, is true, no doubt; but, into your written picture incorporate some tales of the lives of the people, and the story will recall to mind the features of the locality.

From Abel’s Cape to the Head of Roilo Bay is but a short distance, if you have a. good horse on a fine summer day. This is one of the old, old settlements, —

‘*Firmly builded with rafters of oak, the house of the farmer

Stood on the side of a hill commanding the the sea; and a shady

Sycamore grew by the door, with a woodbine wreathing around it.

Rudely carved was the porch, with seats be- neath; and a footpath

Led through an orchard wide, and disappeared | in the meadow. * * *

Further down, on the slope of the hill, was the moss-grown

sucket, fastened with iron, and near it a

‘trough for the horses.

Shielding the houses from storms, on the nor th,

Were the barns and the farmyard.

There stood the broad-wheeléd wains, and the antique plough and the harrows.”

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Such is the poetic description—given by Longfellow of the homes at Grand Pre—of the tellow-countrymen of the Acadian set- tlers at Rollo Bay; and although due allow- ance must be made for the license claimed iby writers of his class, yet many of the fea- tures of life so artistically described in ‘“‘Evangeline” could with equal truth be

Mr. Worrell and again agree to pay rent.

Notwithstanding that Mr, Worrell had laid |

claim to the land Douglas lived on, and had | got Douglas to attorn to him, Mr. Wiggins |

| demanded a further instalment.of the pur- |

chase money stipulated to be paid to him for said farm; and as Mr. Worrell would not indemnify Douglas against the conse- | quences of refusing this demand, the latter | made a further payment of £50 to Mr. Wiggins. Shortly after this Mr. Worrell. ‘warned Douglas against paying any more | money to Mr. Wiggins, and threatened to dispossess him by. virtue of the mortgage he held fram Mr. Townsend, or compel him to repurchase the land.

Harassed by demands from both parties, | the poor tenant was in a dilemma, and de- | sisted from further efforts to fulfil his agreement with Mr. Wiggins, who then put in force an execution obtained on his judgment in ejectment. To avoid the an- noyance of a forcible ejectment, Douglas removed his family from the premises, but not until the regulars] from Charlottetown | — had been summoned by Sheriff McCalluni toaid in the ejectment. Owing to the hardships Douglas had suffered, his neigh- |

bors had great sympathy for him; and as |

William Cooper, the -‘Apostle of Escheat,”

was at that time inciting the people to re- sist the demands of the landlords, when the Sheriff came to Douglas’ farm to carry out the writ of ejectment, he was met by a de- termined resistance, and narrowly escaped

serious injury. The soldiers were then'

summoned from Charlottetown to assist the sheriff ; but in the meantime Douglas had vacated the land.

The House of Assembly in 1840 recom- mended that the case of Douglas, then ia the courts, should be maintained at the public expense until finally settled; but no public money was expended for that pur- pose. by the House of Assembly to report on a

petition from James Douglas, of Township | 43, but before their report was presented | Douglas died. |

to the House in 1858, Mr From the report of the committee, of which Hon. Mr. Whelan was chairman we learn | that the mortgage to Waters and Birnie was executed by Wiiliam Townsend and Flora, his wife, on the 25th April, the consideration money being £335; and that after it had been reduced to £152 153 4d, the mortgage was assigned to Mr. Worrell, who subsequently conveyed it as part of his estate to the Government. On! this account and from, the hardships that Mr. Douglas had endured, and the serious loss he had suffered, the committee recom-

told of the French settlers in this Island. To-day their descendants have many of the traits of character depicted by the talented | American; and their thrift has not been! without its reward. A comfortable-looking : settlement stretches east from the bridge | near McDougall’s to Souris West. The; broad waters of the gulf, adding that | beauty to the scenery that the heaving, restless motion of the ocean always gives,— are in view, dotted here arid there with the _| white sails of fishing and trading schooners. That long sand-beach to the east of Rollo Bay, with the building at its end, marks the place where shipping was done, and it is a pity that better facilities for exporting produce were not provided both here and at Bay Fortune. A small expenditure would rebuild the wharves and breakwaterg re- juired; and ths Dominion Government ye ould be petitioned for a grant for this purpose. Rollo Bay has also an interesting history since its occupation by the British; and the story of the lives of many of its settlers would form an entertaining chapter. Among them, perhaps, there is none that 80 vividly sets forth the evils of the land- J ‘lord system and the hardships endured by the tenants than the experience of James Douglas, one of the pioneers of Township 43. ' From a petition presented by him to the House of Assembly in 1840 the

mended that an address should be present- ed to His Excellency the Lieut. Governor, | requesting that he would set apart for the benefit of the heirs of the said James Douglas, two hundred acres of the public land in the Island; which was agreed to and carried out by His Exceljency. So, after lung years, after James oogite had ceased to haye any use for the land, after many of his family had dispersed and wandered to foreign lands, this act of right was finally accomplished. And this case of hardship was not an exceptional one in those days. | The settlers lived day in and day out in their own neighborhood, A journey to any, of the towns was only undertaken at long intervals, and th¢ exactions of the unscru- pulous agents of the landlords were quietly endured.

But a change was rapidly approaching, and the hardships suffered by Mr. Douglas | were not without a beneficial effect. Wim. Cooper, who had formerly been an agent, having lost his position, had come out as a friend of the tenants, and an uncompromis- ing opponent of the landlords, who, he said, had forfeited their grants, and had no right to collect rentsfrom the people. Mr, Cooper lived at a place called Sailors Hope, near Little River, Lot 56, and was one of the most remarkable men of his day. An uncompromising, hard-hearted, cruel agent when his interest lay in oppressing the ten-

who had married a daughter of Mrs. Town- |

the case was brought into the Court of,

Douglas became aware of the fact that Wil- | liam Townsend, his former landlord, had, | during his lifetime, mortgaged his estate on | Lot 43 to Messrs. Waters and Birnie, and

that this mortgage was subsecjuently trans- |

of this mortgage Mr. Worrell sent his agent | to dispossess Douglass, who, to prevent fur- | ther harassing proceedings, had to attora to

j Scones, Rye Scones,

In 1857 a committee was appointed |

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ants, it cannot be denied that his advocacy of their cause did a great deal to call atten- ‘ion to the evils of the landlord system of the Island. But an account of his doings will have to be deferred to another issue. G. F. O.

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BR. E. J. HOVUSON 1 having no further - use for his Horses, Carriages and Sleighs, will sell them, together with Furs, Harness, &c., by private sale. They may be seen at any time at his Stables. oct23—tf

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llowing tine Cakes, Pastry and _ Rolls.

Knowing them to be of excellent quality, we

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Bath Buns, Scotch Perkins, Cheese Scotch Oat Cake, Louise Cakes, Scotela Coburg Cake, Eccles Cakes, Cookies, London Buns, Vienna Kolls, French Rolls, French Horns, Rose Puffs, Rock Biscuit, Scotch Short Bread or Cake.

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