The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-07-29

built in the province in 1861 =
ST. Johns. .............. go ships, 2s.s2s tees,
Mirsmichi. :...............H 5,60s
st. Andrews. .........6 los.
Total. :. 80. s7 ships. 1850 ton.
Being an average Of nearly 400 tons to each
vessel.
There is no portion Of our North America.
colonies, as we have already stated, which
affords finer field for the British emigrast
than New Brunswick, unless, perhaps, we except
the valley Of the river Getaway In Lower
Canada To the sturdy laborer, not possessed
of capital, It offers q home and IN iAde-
for his labor. The best woodmen are found -
be the Irish. After year or two Of locstieG
In this or any other portion of North Amefioa,
the native Of Ireland Is found to be most
valuable settler. Change of diet increases biz
ply sical powers; and change Of scene and oo-
cupation Transforms him into totally different
being from what he was vegetating upon the SOL
OF bis birth. His bearing is more manly, and
more worthy of his physical formation. He
may cling to his Roman Catholicism, but he Is
no longer the bigoted slave of his religions
priesthood. Parties who have visited British
America report emphatically upon the change
in the Celtic character. 1t cannot be coa-
ceived that the Scotsman is inferior to the Irish
man in adaptation to the business of a back
betake himself at once, on arrival, to purely
agricultural pursuits. The great fishing sta
tions of New Brunswick are located on the
islands Of Grand Manan, Camp0bello, and West
Isles, in st. Johns harbor, and in Cumberland
Boy. On these stations an aggregate Of FIVE
hundred vessels ore found fishing during the
season; and there are reared in the pursuit
some Of the hardest seamen to be found in the
world. Upon the subject Of the fisheries, the
Commissioners report, from which we have al
ready quoted, remarks =
The rivers, lakes and sea coast abound with Al.
Along the bay Of Chaleur it Is abundant that the
land smells Of it. 1t Is used manure; and While
the ofactory senses Of the traveller are offended BY
It on the land, he sees out at sea immense shoa6
darkening the surface Of the water.
Arapidly increasing internal trade is carried
on by means Of the rivers st. John, Petioodiac.
Richibucto Miramichi, and some lesser streams,
which are navigable for considerable distance
from their respective harb0rs on the Bay al
Fundy and the Gulf Of St Lawrence. The
st. John, which is four hundred and fifty miles
in length from its mouth, will accommodate
ships Of one hundred tons and large steamers
for ninety miles, to Fredericton, the seat Of
government; and small steamers ply farther
upward for sixty miles, to the thriving town Of
Woodstock. On all these rivers there Il an
abundant fall of water, the value of which In
incalculablc to the colonist. Every few miles
along their banks, small communities are being
formed, awaiting themselves of this power
for manufacturing and other purposes.
First in order generally rises saw mill, 70
aid the operations Of the lumberman. A -four,
or, as it is termed in the colonies, grist mill
rises next in order then st0re-w0oden in
general,-s few dwellings, and, when sman
body Of population has been drawn together,
o church or chapel and O school. house. Frou
the census Of 1851, we find that there had been
established in this way throughout the eaAise
province:-