The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-23 00:00:00

THE NEW TERRITORY.

Manitobah, which in the Indian tongue signifies the
" Speaking God," is the name decided upon by the Cana-
dian Ministry as the official title for the territory just
acqufred from the Hudson's Bay Company, and popularly
known as Winnepeg or the Red River Country. In intro-
ducing the bill for the government of that region, Sir
John A. Macdonald remarked that the appellation terri-
tory was unknown in the British Colonial system, and
that the Cabinet had resolved to adopt the usual term
" province," had availing themselves of the euphonious
Indian dialect, and called the!new acquisition the prdvince
of Manitobah, or " Speaking God." The boundary line of
the province runs along the 'U.S. frontier, between 96
degrees west, and 98 degrees west from Greenwich, and
along the 49th parallel on the south, and the parallel at a
distance of 50i degrees north of the equator. The pro-
vince contains an area of 11,000 square miles, and includes
all the settlements on the Assinboin and Red Rivers, and
between Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitobah.
The local Legislature of the Province is to
consist of two Chambers, a Council of seven
members, ultimately to be increased to twelve,
-and an assembly of twenty-four members, to be
elected by as many districts, and their qualifications are
the possession of a house and residence for one year. The
executive department is to be composed of a Lieutenant-
Governor, with an executive council of seven persons. The
Province will be represented in the Dominion Parliament
—in the Senate by two members, and in the House of
Commons by four members, one to be chosen in each of
four separate electoral districts. When the population
amounts to 50,000, the Senators will be three in number,
and when 75,000, be four. The same qualifications are
required for electors as at the Provincial and Dominion
elections. The Province has the power of amending its
own constitution. The public lands not specially allotted
belong to the Dominion, and for the purpose of extin-
guishing the Indian title, 120,000 acres ;are reserved for
occupancy by the Indians. The Dominion Parliament is
to grant a subsidy of eighty cents a head, and also
$390,000 for other purposes. In the public proceedings'
either the English or French language may be used, and
the public records are kept in both.—Philadelphia Ledger.

SAD SEQUENCE OF THE LOUISIANA
VENDETTA.

The concluding- chapter in the recent Catahoula- ven-
detta, wherein G-eneral Liddell, Colonel Jones and son
were killed, has yet to be related. 4. few days ago Mrs.
Charles Jones, with her two daughters and a young son,
reached the mouth of the river in the German steamer.
She had hurried from Heidelberg, Germany, where she
had been residing for some time superintending the
education of her children, expecting to meet her
husband • and two sons in the city, entirely
unconscious of their `sad fate. When the steamer
crossed the bar, the pilot who came aboard was
asked by Mrs. Jones if he knew Colonel Charles Jones,
of Catahoula. The reply was that he had heard of him,
but declining or evading any further conversation, the
lady's curiosity was excited, and she was filled with
gloomy apprehensions of impending calamity. These ap-
prehensions were very natural to a lady, who had been
for so many years cognizant of the bitter feud which had
so long existed between her husband and General Liddell,
and who more than twenty years ago had witnessed the
cruel and nearly mortal wounding of her husband in the
incident which gave rise to this feud. The kindly pilot,
who could not bear to communicate to Mrs. Jones
directly the sad intelligence of her husband's
fate, whispered it to some of the passengers,
wno informed Mrs. Jones that skg must pre-
pare herself for some sorrowful ne s on reach-
ing the city. She retired to her state-room, and
there remained in a state of distressing grief and anxiety
until the steamer reached the city. On the arrival at the
wharf, almost the first person who boarded the steamer
was young Jones, the survivor of the awful tragedy at
Harrisonburgh. He rushed into his mother's room, and
was the first to communicate the terrible truth to his
mother. We shall not attempt to describe the scene
followed. Kind friends took charge of the afflicted lady.
After remaining here but a few days, she left to return
to Germany with her family, and devote the remainder of
her life to the education of her children. May time
assuage the great sorrows of this afflicted lady, and may
her remaining' days, though ever so sorrowful, be undis-
turbed by further griefs and afflictions.—New Orleans
Times, April 29.