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my country, and rid the place of those cowardly blue-bellied

\ nkees thiat + what | ve @¢ t to co, | shoul 1 lia to kn \V what they’ve to do in this here place, with their snarling, sneaking ways. IL tell you there’s not a man amongst them

Ss knows how to fieht. l shou] | like to see the fi; t one as )

will open his mouth here,—that’s what I should like to see. J tell you I'm a ce-urious customer—my deg knows that,’ pointing to a large dog which seemed prepared to stay by its master for better or worse. Then, ‘I should like to sve the man that would touch that ‘ere dog of mine. I'd lay him dead in a moment, ¢hat L would. Just see me.’ “None of us felt inclined to touch the dog, and the respectable merchaut returned to his politics and patriotisin. «“*No Northern nigger-stealers here. Ill fix ’em up mighty smart, I will. “1 ain’t here for nothing, and that you'll see, just about as soon as anything. 1 only want to : ' L’ll drop the first one of you

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see the first Freesoiler here. - that opens his mouth for abolition cusses ; if L don’t.’ And thus this valiant patroit went on for about a half-hour, ringing the changes on these few forms of express- ion, and giving every one an opportunity to accept his challanges and take the consequences,

“T remained no longer in this Western merchant's wumediate presence than was necessary to prevent my becoming an objeet of his suspicion. s0me intormation as to the hotels or other places of stay im Leavenworth, L weut on to the hurricane-deck, having been tuld [ should there meet with some who could answer my inquiries. IL there found the more gentlemanly party to whom L have referred, bat whom until this moment L had not seen. One or two appeared to be United States officers, men of education and refinement. Another, a gentleman more advaneed in years, held himself somewhat apart, and appeared engaged in anxious thought. He had an eye full of bright intelligence, and more the aspect of one who was superior to those about him. I gained the information I sought from ene of the officers, and took his recommendation to go to McCarty’s hotel at Leavenworth, where he himself was about to stop. I did not know, as yet, however, who

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score; and ina town where ration were wanting in the furnish- e was no lack of'such costly indulgences er fles which reminded one of Baden-Baden | or Ilamburg. Every species of shameless wickedness and ‘unchecked outrage met one’s gaze at every turn.” Mr. Gladstone thus concludes :—-* Among all the scenes of violence L witnessed, the offending parties were invariably 'on the Pro-slavery side. ‘The I'ree-State men appeared to me tobe intimidated and overawed, in consequence, not merely of the determination and defiant boldness of their throuch the sanction given to these nets by the Federal government. ‘Their latter conduct ap- pears by the reports we have received to have been more

opponents, but still more

determined in the way of resistance.

liny visit, they seemed scarcely to venture to open their mouths |

or confess the party to which they belonged.”

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Correspondence. BEAL DDO LBL LOL LOLOL LLL OLS LOLA NLL LALO LOLA Oe [FOR THE EXAMINER. ]

Cnarnoam, Canava West, Nov. 18, 1856.

Dean Examiver,—The following advertisemeut of free erants Of public lands to actual and continuous settlers, appears in many of the leading journals of the country, by order of the Hon. Joseph Cauchon, Commissioner of Crown Lands, for the time being :—

“CROWN LAND DEPARTMENT.

“Toronto, July 12th, 1856. ** Notice is hereby given to emigrants and others, that the under- mentioned lines of Road in Upper Canada are open for settlement, upon | which Free Grants (limited to one hundred acres) are to be obtained upon application to the respeetive Agents, subject to actual and con- tinuous residence thereon:—The Addington Koad, running from the Township of Kaladar,to the River Madawaska, 25 miles in length. Agent, EK. Perry, Esq., Flint’s Mills, Kaladar, The Hastings Road, running from the Tewnship of Madoc, in a Northerly direction 74 miles. Agent, M. P. Hayes, Esq , residing in the Township of Madoc. Also— The Ottawa and Opeongo Road, 80 miles, opened for settlement in

September last. Agent, T. P. French, Esq., Township of Grattan. * JOSEPH CAUCHON.”

rhe policy of our present rulers in bestowing free grants poar, in order to the permanent erection and maintenance of

| tremendous fury.

From Portland to Montreal, 292 miles, Grand Trank Railway. | wane are : Tomi Ties +s , ‘0 ace. From Montreal to Toronto, 333 miles, Grand Trunk Rail- | that distance from this place

way. rom Toronto to Hamilton, Railway.

° ye . ‘ fo > .e ? 'From Hamilton to London, 76 miles, Great Western Rail

way.

From London to Chatham, 66 miles, Great Western Railway. From Chatham to Detroit, U. 8., 45 miles, Great Western

Railway. Total, 850 miles of 54 feet guage.

By the Michigan Central Railroad—

'From Detroit to Chicago, 290 miles, commencing narrow. | From Chicago to Rock Island, 182 miles, at the Mississipp1

River.

But at the time of) Prom Rock Island to Towa City, 50 miles, beyond the

Mississippi River.

| Grand total, 1,372 miles, from Portland to Iowa City. From the City of Quebec to Richmond, en route to Mon-

treal, the length of that part of the Grand Trunk is 100 miles. ‘unite, forming one line to Montreal.

The entire works throughout the whole course of this rail-

way are of the most solid and durable character—are equal

‘to the best railways in Europe, and surpass anything of the 30 Two of the bridges over which the | jn 1851, and its estimated population of 1856 is 2,500,000,

sort on this Continent. ‘Grand Trunk now passes are of the most magnificent and ‘substantial description, and call forth our admiration as great ‘and desided triumphs of mechanical skill. The one across ‘the Chaudiere, nine miles above Quebec, was the first tubular bridge constructed in Canada; while that across the Ottawa, near its mouth, the St. Aune’s Bridge, is of nearly equal ex- ‘tent and importance to the Victoria Tubular Bridge, now in course of erection at Montreal, which, when finished, will assuredly be one of the wonders of the world. The contract ‘for this vast bridge is £1,400,000 sterling, or $7,000,000, 'It is being constructed across the St. Lawrence, ata place ‘where that river attains a breadth of two miles and dashes wildly on, forming a rapid of considerable magnitude—where ‘immense quantities of ice every year are dashed up with [t is required, consequently, that every exertion of engineering and mechanical skill be brought to

upon parties who may choose to locate on lands in the par- | ¢hig great work. But the abilities of Mr. Robert Stevenson,

ticular portions of Canada above designated; and of | simultaneously forcing upon the market, by public auction, other sections at high upset figures, and permitting them to be purchased by non-residents and speculators, without re- striction or conditions binding them to the immediate settle-

j i order.

‘of Britain, the first engineer of his time, are fully adequate ito the task, while his superintendence is equally a guarantee | that it shall be done.

The Great Western Railway demands our notice next in It extends from Windsor, C. W., opposite the City

At Lichmond the Quebec and Portland branches

were my companions, and could only get evasive replies to |

| ment and occupation of these lands—is imbecile, trifling and | of Petroit on the Detroit River, the western boundary of | highly detrimental to the present interests and future ad-| (ynada to Hamilton, 187 miles, thence along the shore of the | vancement of our country. It is impolitic, unstatesmanlike |poad of Lake Ontario, 43 miles, to the Falls of Niagara, javd unpatriotic. It is beneath men who have a high and | passing entirely through the Canadian territory, and connects

my inquiries on the subject from the clerk of the boat.

“I again deseended to the cabin. The respectable merchant from Weston was still continuing his challenges, | by their habits be a valuable acquisition to the couutry, and, pistol in hand. with a view to that end, by at once establishing an efficient

««[ should like to see the first one that opens his mouth. | staff of able and qualified emigrant agents in Europe, at our I reckon he’d have to take change mighty smart. Lead’s | }ower ports on the St. Lawrence and elsewhere; and by the best argument for these infernal white-livered Yankees. | adopting such an equitable system of granting the Crown Let me alone for taming them down ; let me alone for that, | lands as would not only commend itself to the common sense I reckon they wou’t be a tryin’ on this game again of the community, but by the very reduced rates and ex- a little whiles. That's just about what J think.’ And s0| tended terms of payment for lands, induce emigrants and in- on, without intermission. At my side stood a young man} tending settlers to give Canada the preference to the neigh- who had lived for some years in the Kansas territory, trading) houring Union, when seeking a home in the West, knowing, wiih the Indians. We had travelled in company during | as js generally known, and being informed by our emigrant four or five days in coming up the Missouri, and our| agents (a duty which would devolve upon them), that our intercourse had led to a certain degree of mutual confidevee. | Jands for any and for all useful and practical purposes are

| say.

important mission to fulfil—the developement of the vast resources of this noble country—by secking for and en-

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He was a thorough Western man, and at the same time a junsurpassed ; nay, unequalled on the Continent of America. |

favourable specimen of his class, possessing in a large degree} Qyn we afford to continue the free grant system of Cauchon the better traits which mark the Western character, and} and his confreres to the detriment of our revenue? Are we

displaying few of the worst. As we should soon have to} to give four millions of acres of land en bioc to a Railway! pai} . . > , . .. Y ee . - j c part, he inquired of me what part of the Union [ came from!| Gompany, unconditionally—they only being competent to say |

{ replied, in a tone which 1 hoped would not catch the ear | when, at what prices and on what terms they shall dispose of the noisy patroit in arms, that he had mistaken me as a!of them? Are we to continue to hand over to hungry non- native of the Union, and that I belonged to the old country, | resident speculators, land jobbers and greedy mouopolizers, my home being London. ‘ Indeed,’ said my friend the | the fairest and best lands in the Province? Then if so, the Indian trader, ‘I had guessed you were a Northern man. ! effect will be, the rise in the price of lands to such an Your dress and looks aren’t like our people’s out west.’| enormous extent that emigration, as formerly, will be driven ‘ That is probable,’ I replied. ‘ Yes, that’s so,’ he proceeded, into the Western States,—that the sons of the soil as here- ‘and there’s several abroad who've been talking about you, | tofore will be forced to seck a home among strangers in the and they’ve all set you down fora Northerner,’ [| hinted, | neighbouring Union. in reply, that I had no desire to excite remark on board, | Where exists the necessity of broaching a policy that glanced suggestively at our neighbour who was threatening | cannot judiciously be coutinued—that would be foily to ad- to blow the brains out of the first Northern man who MOU Tee on shit weal’ Ke aed anit ie din eet At injustice and open his mouth. My friend saw my meaning immediately, robbery to the former pioneers of our forests, who have paid and, dropping his voice to a whisper, said :— dearly for their lands into the revenues of the country for «« Tot mo, as one that knows the ways of the people here, | the general benefit’? Can it be that a special class is to be give you a word of caution, which you may find useful aow | benefitted? Or has not this system of free grants been made that you’re setting foot in those parts. Don’t let a soul of|a cloak for bribery and corruption Who knows whether them know that you're an Englishman. Should it get out,|or not that unprincipled members of the Legislative As- it’s just as much as your life is worth, mind that. That’s sembly have not each received 100 acres a piece for their the state we're in just now, all alongside of that cursed] friends and family connections, in consideration of votes, slavery question. If you say you're an Englishman, it’s all sundry and unaccountable, given Jast session of Parliament the same as being a Yankee: not a bit better. And you! to prop and sustain a weak, decaying, falling, detested and know the law there—a Yankee is a nuisance, and nuisances execrated ministry . 2 quite possible that such transac- must be abolished. TThat’s what they all say there. So} tions may have oceurred and others similar, and that a you mind; and don’t forget what I say.’ ministry whose chief aim and policy appears only to be the retention of their offices and salaries, to the sacrifice of every principle (if they ever had any) might wink at, if not aid and abet such frauds. This is no matter of mere conjecture ; for Assembly-men here do sometimes grow suddenly rich; with them the golden stream has been known to be quick and voilent—our Government having a large public domain under their control, and may have numerous ways of bleeding it not dreamt of in the philosophy of the uninitiated. Has that Government ever been above suspicion? Las not that Go- vernment of late sunk beneath contempt ?

On arriving at Leavenworth, sick of hearing the vilest oaths, I went into the office of the hotel and sat down on a vacant chair to meditate and observe. In the corner of the room, in place of trunks and travelling-bags, were rifles and double barrels, dirks and sticks, of that weight and calibre which only a Western American thinks of carrying. The clerk and the persons passing in and out had nothing to speak of but ‘the fighting.’ On the counter were papers, heading their columns with the words—‘ War to the knife.’ Everything around was suggestive of warfare and bloodshed. I had sat for a few minutes, when there entered a man—a sy the close of the present year, 1856, we will have fully Southerner by his very looks. ‘ Hand me a pair out of them } 2,000 miles of Canadian Nailway in full operation, and com-

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by a gigantic suspension bridge across the River Niagara, about two miles below the falls, with the New York State

couraging, and obtaining the emigration of parties who would | Railroad to the scaboard. It has enjoyed a suceess beyond

the expectation of its most sanguine friends, and is said to be one of the best railway investments in America. Its length is 230 miles. Its western feeders are the Michigan Central and Michigan Southern Railroads, bringing to it the immense and increasing traflic of the West. Passing, as the Great Western Railway does, through a rich and fertile peninsula, the very garden of Canada, and forming the con- necting link between the seaboard and the great west, by the extensive system of New York Railroads on the one hand, east, and on the other, west, that of those great American arteries issuing from the City of Detroit, the Michigan Cen- tral and Michigan Southern Railroads: its ultimate success as an investment was always beyond the shadow of a doubt —its much shorter route also commends it to our favorable

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1 shall refer next to the Buffalo, Brantford and Goderich way. It runs from Buffalo along the foot of Lake Erie to Brantford, parallel to the Great Western, along the head of Lake Ontario to Hamilton. From Brantford it stretches away north-westwardly to Goderich on Lake Huron, intersecting

ithe Great Western at Paris, C. W., 30 miles west of Hamil-

ton, and the Grand Trank at Stratford, C. W.,90 miles west of Toronto. Its length when completed will be 160 miles. This road shortens the distance from Buffalo to Lake Huron, (as compared with the circuitous lake route, via Detroit), a distance of 400 miles, and must command a great portion of the western traffic on its completion, which is expected to take place the ensuing summer.

The Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Railway, extends from Toronto away north to Collingwood, with a branch to Pene- tanguishene, both on bays of Lake Huron. The distance irom Toronto to Collingwood is 95 miles. From Colling- wood it is intended to coutinue this railway to Owen Sound, thence to Saugeen on Lake Huron, proper. Time only can shew the vast importance of this extensive line.

The Cobourg and Peterborough Railway, half way down on Lake Ontario, extends from Cobourg on the lake, back into the country to Peterborough, about 36 miles.

Seven miles further up the lake the Port Hope and Lind- sey Railway reaches from Port Hope on the lake to Lindsey, 86 miles back in the country, running parallel with the Cobourg and Peterborough Railway. These are destined to develope one of the finest portions of Canada.

One hundred and twenty-five miles west of Montreal the Ottawa and Brockville Railway connects with the Grand Trunk, This is 130 miles in length.

One hundred and twelve miles west of Montreal, a railway from the City of Ottawa to Prescot, on the St. Lawrence, opposite Ogdensburgh, U. 8., is being pushed on towards completion with vigour.

The Montreal and Bytown (City of Ottawa) Railway reaches from Montreal to the City of Ottawa. This line is 130 miles in length, and has a considerable portion of it open for traffic.

The Erie and Ontario Railway, about eighteen miles long,

handred pistols I left with you, Captain,’ were the words | plete running order. These have cost in the aggregate the | TS down to the town of Niagara from Chippewa, and in its

which, with a slow drawling voice, he addressed to the clerk | sum of £20,000,000 sterling or $100,000,000, including ‘course descends as much as 250 feet in about 4 miles. It ' ‘ © ® } | . . A i. ‘ - ° : . - i: sl

at the counter. Then, glancing his coo! eye at me and ‘rolling stock, ‘Three years since we had no railways of avy | runs parallel with the Niagara River, and is of singular con-

another in the room, and feeling probably that we might | considerable length or importance comparatively. Now the | Struction.

desire an explanation, he slowly added— I’ve just had a| Grand Trunk Railway extends from St. Thomas, 50 miles turn down here with ad

From the city of London, C. W.—an interior town, by

d Free-soiler.’ Westill looked | below the City of Quebee, along the St. Lawrence via! the way, to Port Stanley, on the shore of Lake Erie—a line

inquiringly, as he adjusted his pistols in hisbelt he proceeded | Montreal, Kingston and Toronto, thence to Stratford, 20 of railway of over twenty-two miles has just been completed,

for our satisfaction‘ I'd got nothing with me. ought to have left these here tools behind this morning, of 292 miles from Montreal to Portland, in the State of anvhow. I didn’t leave him till I made him give in. He} Maine. From St. Thomas below Quebee the company are came out with his cursed abolitionism. I settled him, though, mighty quick.

I didn’t | miles from London, Canada West, and has besides a branch | 29d opened for business.

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The enterprising Londoners, with the example and successful trial trip of the Chicago vessel,

lthe Rende Eau, a harbour of great capacity on Lake Erie, This line, when completed, ‘will be to Chatham what the London and Port Stanley rai).

38 miles, Hamilton and Toronto | way is to London, Chatham having the additional advanta

‘of a river navigation connecting with the lakes. These two last have been already chartered.

A charter was, last session of Parliament, granted to the Great Southern railway, a rival of the Great Western. This line, as surveyed and now partly contracted for, and in course of construction, diverges from Hamilton, and approachin | Lake Erie, passes along near the shores of that lake, through the southern border cf our fertile and beautiful western pen. insulr, parallel to the Great Western, which passes through the centre. This line will either terminate at Amherst, being the extreme western point of Canada, or a little above it, at Windsor, opposite Detroit, in the west, with a branch reaching to some point on Niagara river, on the east. ,

Time would fail me to give fuli details of our railway enterprise. I call this but a synopsis,

When we calmly contemplate the growth and prosperity of Canada for the past fifteen or twenty years, as well as the material advancement of the Provinces generally, we eannot help observing a young empire of great dimensions risin ‘and Jooming in the distant future, Canada East and West

‘increased in population from 700,000 in 1830 to 1,843,000

| Upper Canada increased from 77,000 in 1811 to 952,000 in 1851; eleven hundred per cent. in forty years! Britain has the last ten years increased in population 13} per cent., and at the same time the United States 35} per cent., while Upper Canada has increased 104 per cent. in the last ten vears!! In 1838 Canada exported nearly 300,000 bushels wheat; and in 1852, about 5,500,000 bushels wheat!! The total value of the entire crop or vegetable production of Canada in 1851, was $40,000,000; grain being $24,000,000 ; ‘other production $16,000,000. The wheat produce in Upper ‘Canada in 1851 war about 13,000,000 bushels—above 13} bushels for each inhabitant, U. C.’s population being in that year 952,000, as before given. During that year the United States produced only 44 bushels to each inhabitant. The increase in the growth of wheat in Canada for the last ten: years has been 400 per ceut.!! while the increase in that of the United States was but 48 per cent. or the last nine’ years the increase in the growth of oats in Lower Canada was 70 per cent.! at the same time in Upper Canada 330 per cent.! while in the United States, the same period, it was but 20 per cent. Canada’s increase in Indian corn was 160 per cent.! against 56 per cent. in the United States for the ten i years preceding 1851. Canada possessed, in 1551, 600,000 milch cows; nearly 2 toevery 6} inhabitants; being 47,000: more than the State of Ohio, the population of which at that time was nearly equal to ours. Canada has nine sheep to every ten inhabitants; the States about the same preportion, Upper Canada has 10 sheep to every 100 acres of oceupied land; Lower Canada, 8; United States, 74; the increase in the market of sheep in ten years in Canada was 35 per cent.! and in the weight of fleeee 60 per cent.! against that of the States for the same time, in sheep, 12 per cent. ; and im fleece 30 per cent.; while our Canadian wool is uearly equal to any known, as we possess the finest breeds to be had in Britain. and Kurope. Canada has one horse to every five inhabitants ; increase in ten years 50 per cent. According to the census of 1851, the total live stock of Canada was 4,250,000 head. | In six years the increase in the best grades, 60 per cent.

| As regards lumber, Canada exported of white wood (not unlike pine), walnut oak, rel and white pine, &c., in 1853, to the value of $9,424,000; add to this, fur ships built prin- cipally at Quebee, $2,451,000. Of furs, in 1853, Canada exported nearly $150,000; aud pot and pearl ashes to the value of $640,000; 218,500,000 fect of sawed lumber in 1553, against 120,000,000 in 1851; 89,000,000 cubie feet of squared timber in 1853; aud 8,000,000 planks and deals, [n L845 the revenue of Canada was $1,752,300; expenditure, $3,547,000. In 1853 the revenue amounted to $6,857,400, having quadrupled in ten years; expenditure, $3,320,000, about the same as that ten years previous. In 1834 Canada’s imports were $4,254,580; exports of 1834, $4,075,700; total commerce of 1534, $8,330,280; in 1852 the total value of both imports and exports had inereased to $35,594,096 ; in 1£55 imports and exports, $55,782,736, being an increase in one year of nearly 60 per cent., or $20,188,638, in our commerce, ‘The imports of 1853 into Canada were in pro- portion of about $15 to each inhabitant, for the same period ; the imports into the States were $04 to each person, nearly. The exports of 1853 from Canada were $11 to each iadivi- dual; same year, from the States about $94. The imports into Canada in 1853 were $31,981,436; the exports for the same period, $23,801,500. Of the imports there were of

Cotton goods, - ° - $5,262,740 Woollen goods, - - - 5,017,020 Silk, - - - - 1,441,320 Linen, - - - 533,656 Iron, manufactured and unmanufactured, = - 5,542,504 |Tea, - ° - - 1,560,420 | Sugar, - : “ : 1,188,232 | Karthenware, - - - 146,316

These form the largest items; the balance being 11,286,228

being variously distributed among other sorts of merehandize. Of the above we imported from—

Great Britain, . . - $18,489,120 B. N. A. Provinces, - - 636,140 United States of America, - - 11,782,148 Other Countries, foreign, - - 1,074,028 Total, $31,981,435

Our exports for 1853 were as follows :— Produce of mines, - - ° $109,356 Produce of the waters, - - 340,005 Produce of the forest, - - “ 9 421,020 Animals and their produce, - - 1,370,528 Agricultural products, - - 8,086,855 | Manufactures, - . - 140,424 Ships built at Quebee, ” - 2,480,752

Other exports variously distributed, including

undervaluation of inland ports, - 1,852,362 Total, $23,801,300 I might continue giving instances and comparisons of our

he “Dean Richmond,” before them, contemplates establishing | prosperity, but forbear for the present.

bound to complete the line to ‘Trois Pisteles (150 miles below |a line of freight-vessels, of steam or of sailing craft, to Liver- I just pat my hand behind me, like | Quechee) the ensuing ve: Q5 , ies ; ! pool, fi Port Stan) losel sted hem by | twelve have been triumphantly decided against th t

jus P at may 1a ening me, : | Quebee) the ensuing year, 1857. From Str atford, near Lon-} poo » Irom Port Stan ey, so closely connected to them Dy |; gel Pp y aec gains © presen this, pretending {had got my pistols with me; and so with) don, Canada West, it is contemplated to extend the line to|Tailway, to convey our superabundant surplus produce via | ministry.

my hand upon them, as he reckoned, he didn't stand out} Port Sarnia, at the foot of Lake Huron, thence to cross by our Lakes and St. Lawrence route, without trans-shipment to

Jong. But I felt mighty queer. 1 teil you. Still L wasn’t} steam ferry-boat the River St. Clair, a mile wide to Port | Liverpool direct. What may not result from an enter: rise

| In regard to our Upper House elections, nine out of the

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Yours very truly, MON PAYS.

|. P.S. In my communication of Ist September last, published

pt ‘ : ve . ane « : ‘ : i a j * oe = : is * , a : P a goin’ to stand his sarey talk, in course ; so IT just shut him | Huron, thence to proceed with the extension, now under con-|°f this deseription, vigorously carried into effect? ‘he! jp your issue of the 20th same month, there is an important

up mighty quick.’ By this time the pistols were adjusted, | tract, through Northern Michigan to Grand Haven on Lake and as he walked oat, their valiant wearer continuca a kind Michigan, where you meet the steamers to Milwaukie, and ’ soliloquy,‘ Well, L reckon I'm fixed now! They won't

L brought him down a kinder smart, I reckon. they woa't be sv sarey now. ‘above referred to, would then reach about 1.200 miles.

welve hours I have described—from ay to noon of the 24th——were b wth without e Cy 70-pos wh iskey 5. ; and when the Great Pacific Railway becomes a grand go “20 ime un- reality, the Grand Trank of Canada will form a connexion me, .gorner. | with it at the Mississippi. This route from Portland to the

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Read, in the first paragraph referring to the St.

of the ultimate establishment and entire success of a line of'| [awrence, “ discharging 4,300,000 méldions tons fresh water

crossing Lake Michigan, may proceed by railroad, already | steamers from Chicago to Liverpool, down the Lakes and via > sarcy with their talk, now that I've got these here | completed, through Wisconsin to Prairie du Chien, on the | Ur Canadian route through the Welland and St. Lawrence | tons, as published ; ; Mississippi River. The entire leugth of the Grand Trunk | cavals and river to the ocean. L’ll see just who through Canada, with its extension into the United States |

/anvually into the sea ’—not so small a quantity as 4,300,000 and by referring to your issue of 27th October, in the second paragraph of mine of 3d October,

[ have before referred to the Hamilton and Toronto rail-| read “25,000,000 cubic feet of timber, 900,000 deals and

these, there are many more contemplated railways already | with the defences of both Upper and Lower Canada.

», would | ach about 1: Of) way, which connects the Grand Trunk and Great Western | planks, &ec., are shipped hence (from the Ottawa river) to this, upwards of S06 miles, principaily in Canada, are now | at Hamilton, thirty-eight miles in length. The Montreal and | Europe annually. completed and have been opened for traffic, including that New York, and the St. Lawrence and Champlain railways, portion which extends from Montreal to Portland, Maine, U.| have been some time in operation, and are so well known that I forbear farther than merely mentioning them. Besides |

Yours, &e., 8.2.

A Canada paper says the imperial government is proceeding Quebec

| chartered and about to apply for charters. Among them the | is now undergoing the necessary alteration for stronger fortifi-

clubs, } Mississppi_ must be nearly 100 miles shorter than that from | St. Lawrence North Shore railway, from Quebec, via the cation; two towers are to be built at St. Lambert, near

the City of New York. At present and until it is fully | Ottawa river, to some point upon Lake Huron. Also,a line Montreal; and it is understood that Lieutenant General doin plete, 1 give below the following as the most expeditious | from Port Sarnia, or some other point on the river St. Clair, Kyre’s visit to Niagara was in connexion with certain plaus to Chatham; theuce in a south-cast course, twelve miles, to

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