New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-17
THE GROWTH or GAMBIA.
Correspondence of The N. Y. Tribune
BERLIN, Waterloo Co, Canada West.
Tuesday Sent IL 1865.

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Tuesday, Sept. II, 1855.
This country is progressing at railway speet
in wealth, population, e5acation and industry.
As sweet toned sud as elegant rosewood piaaos
as any in New-YorS or Boston are manufactured
here and in the German village of Preston near
by. on the Grand River. The railway from Buf-
fslo to Goderch will pass within sixteen miles
of us, south. The Great Western has branch
to the thriving town Of Calf, ten miles below
this city, on the Grand River, where visited
Dates edge-tool mandatory this morning aud
saw large variety of CaDada-made carpenters.
coopers' and other mechanics tools OF the most
elegant workmanship, similar TO those he has sent
to Paris and which have attracted so much atten-
tion at the Exhibition A third railway the
Grand Trunk, runs through Berlin toward Lake
Huron The rails are laid, but it is Rot yet open.
Berlin is the county town OF pennsylvania.
Dutch county, where there are OF English aud
Dutch newspapers as many as SIX or seven Hma
capital country for Fall wheat, and the farmers
are realizing fortunes General education is cared
for the aristocracy priced is that Of mind, morals.
intellect talent the feeling Of the country Is mast
be. Republican. Wheat, butter, flour pork, are
the leaving exports. A Yankee has come in and
sown SEQ acres in flax, which he is to dress and
send over to you. =,
Under the old system, all the duties paid
70 our Government on all the imports from parts
abroad, in 1886, for the whole country round tho
head OF Lake Ontario, was S2,16c at one office,
Burlington. In 1854 it was S750,OOO, Of which
s6164eS were collected at the port Of Hamilton.
on the little lake above Lake Ontario
When entered the Great Western cars yester-
day morning found four OF FIVE cars in the train.
all of them crowded with passengers. They do a
large business, much of it being Canadian, but we
pay credit price in cash for much of our railway
making. -,
Upper Canada exports this year will exceed
fourteen million dollars. Our exports to the United
States. in The quarter ended last June were over
ak and a half million dollars of which about
S!O0.OCO were Lower Canada produce, and the
rest from Western Canada. In the half year ended
June lsst, as compared with the same period OF
IsJ4 the falling OF in the customs revenue Is
S600,g24 In 1855 and 1856 the revenue from i'm
ports into Toronto, from ports abroad, was about
$4,000; in 1853 and 1854 it was 81 ,456. For
every dollar Lower Canada contributes TO the gen
eral revenue in any form, Upper Cansda pays four
Dundas, placed exactly at the head of Lake On
tario, ia reached by a canal Of a nile or two, aud
is the seat of considerable manufactures. Ii may
contain 5000 people, and has many good stores.
Lectures on Woman's rights are quite popular,
but never attended any Of them. Steam engines
are manufactured at Gait locomotives at Toronto,
and the country is filled with telegraph stations.
The dwellings, grst mills barns, saw mills, and
farms here indicate an opulent people, Yet re-
member all this country comparative DESERT Q
wilderness. when not newspaper could be met
with from Toronto to the Pacific and where nine
stores, none Of them very heavy, served all Upper
Canada from Lake Ontario TO Detroit.
p S-Bri6gepoyt, p. M have just met
with an excellent Touring mill, with fine run Of
stones, new and handsone also lns. ed oil: mill.
There was large establishment here for distillng
whisky, but a tee totaler bought and shut it up.
Waterloo, however, repudiates the Name Law.
The intelligent community around the seat OF
Government, which ia now again TO be at Toronto,
will exercise a very wholesome influence upon tho
! legislature and the Government The railways
will enable our go ahead community to look after
their stray representatives far better than when
they were buried away down in that ontof tho
way place, Quebec. From Berlin Bridgeport.
Prest n, or Gait the distance to Toronto is about
three hours per rail- and where you find one press
in Lower Canada, you find perhaps ten above that
line. Money, / see, lie rather scarce, though the
why know not for wheat is very abundant.