The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-09-16
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Jeweiry-I they know how to deal with the
somewhat unscrupulous saIesmen-at much
lower rates @ than such things can be bought
al IN tne States But in dealing with stran-l
obey the scriptural Injunction of .tak;no Nm
IN, by asking just double what he win take
| saw man fall quarter by quarter. and tben
penny by penny, more than one hundred mar
cent in the price of a fur over coat ibe
MONTREAL tradesman forms very noor on;n.
ion of your wisdom if you give him what be
asks.
The great CATHEDRAL OF NoTRE DAME. Is
the only very remarkable and curious thing
in Montreal 1t is an enormous pile-ffteen
thousand people can find seats in it, and its
towers are more than two hundred and twen-
ty feet high The bell of the Cathedral cost
thirty thousand dollars, and twenty men can
sit comfortably under it. Although the labor
and fatigue of ascending to the top of one of
the towers is prodigious, yet when once on
the top, magnificent panorama of city and
country, mountain and water scenery rewards
the labors of the visitor
Yours, de-, SENEX.
CONDITION OF THE FUGIrrvE SLAVES IN CANA
DA.-The editor of the Dundee On " Record has
Lately been making tour through Canada, in the
course of which he visited large number of fugi-
tive slaves at their residences and conyersed free
~ with them on their position and prospects, The
tone OF their remarks generally was that of disap-
pointment at the reception with which they had
met and the estimation in which they were held in
the country where they were sojourning. They
had been led to suppose by the abolition instigators
OF their escape from servitude that in the British
provinces, they would find home in which they
would be regarded as citizens, witifthe same rights
and advantages social and political as were enioy.
ed by the other inhabitants This they found not
to be the case but on the contrary they experience
ed indignties greater than any they had ever met
with in the States whence they had fed Besides,
the climate was ungenal to their tropical tastes and
habits, and their neighbors neglected no opportu-
nifty of taking advantage of their ignorance for
purposes of fraud and Imposition. Altogether their
situation was reverse of desirable. The editor OF
the Record adduces the following as instances OF
the general feeling of regret at the unsatisfactory
change that their escape from Canada had wrought
in their condition:
"Three declared that were it not fear of punish.
nlent, by being sold to Texas and Mississippi slave
dealers, they would gladly return to their old
plantations, and spend the remainder of their days
with their old masters. where they were more hap
py and lived easier than they do now. Two others
had been in Canada from five to ten years-had
bought land and were doing well in raising truck
for market. One expressed his determination to
return to his miss in North Carolina as soon as he
could get money to do so, and the risk of pun
ishment; but he had got friend to write to his
mistress asking pardon and begging for passage
ticket home, he felt in hopes he should get back 10
the old North State before cold weather SET in All
expressed preference for New York or Pennsyl-
vania for residence many of the old country
men IN Canada were passionate and did not SYM
pathize with understand their habits and man
ners and consequently provoked quarreIs by call
ing them damned black Yankees time thieves,
&c"