The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1857-11-05

wife, apparently in i'll health, was darker than
h mself the children somewhat darker, too,
thtn the father, consise | of well-buit lad oi
10, slender girl of II AMI a boy OF IL, who /
was busy at the table writing school exercise
The elder boy was studying medicine, and at
the same time preparing himself to pass the clas-
steal examination, which in Upper CAnada. is
Necessary preliminary tn taking h gre of Doc
tor of Meicine AMI had advanced 50 lar as TO
rea Cicero D Sanectute. The language OF the
yonng people was correct anil well chosen and
both in manner and conversation they would BE-
looked upon as good examples OF the youth of
the middle class Of any natnn. In the course
Of the evening the young man played several
piecrs on the piano, ind he anl his sister sang
duets with skill and taste.
The physician, Dr. A. 7. A.. is mulatto,
native of Virginia, but for long time resident
in Philadel phi. Finding that he was unable TO
obtain access to the medical schc1ls in that city,
he came to Toronto and eutered there upon the
study o! medicine. attending the lectures of the
faculty Of medicine of Trinity College. He
ius not yet obtainad degree, since, though he
passed creditable examination in medicine,
he failed in the classical examination, which is
necessary preliminary to graduation. He is
now prepared for this ordeal, and alter baing eX-
aminrd again upon the prescribed books OF Plato
and C.csro, and translating the necessary |
amount of good English into ba latin, will be-
come an NJ. D. He, however, is already en-
gagged in practice, and hal received the appoint
ment of Physician 10 the Pnor-house, which,
as it is in the gift of medical men, is proof
Of the Advancement he has made. He both
talks and writes and well, is generally respected
throughout the city.
The livery stable keeper is a fine example, phys |
lcay of the pure black man in countenance
gOod-humorsd, open and sensible, stout in figure
aud inclined to obesity, in m inner equally free
a.,fI
that wonderful polish which in negroes accus-
toned to good society is apt to produce smile
He is a Canadian born. his parents having been
brought to the country from New York BY one
OF the Herkimer family more than fifty years
ago. At sixteen he was left the eldest of eleven
children, with an old an widowed mother, anl
| labored manlully in the fields for their support
Four only of the eleven, all men, all residents
of Canada, and all possessed of property.
One of the master builders wasa ight-colored
muatlo-a slight, active, wiry-looking man
shrewh ready aud enterprising. He talked well
and flupnuy, but with a trace OF his Southern
origin in his pronunciation.
Weinstance these individuals not as the most
remarkable m"n among the colored population
| Of Toronto, but because in the few days of our
say there we came in contact with them, and
because they struck us as instances of shreSd
sense industry, energy and we believe integrity.
In any population OF 1909 or 1900 souls, they
would, we think, have baen marked men,
They all, while denying that anything like pau
persm beggary exist ID among their fellows
unless as a rare exception, acknowledged and
regretted the, faults Of their countfymen their
mprovidence, their love of finery, their disposi-
ton to shirk hard work. The builder, employ
ing both white and colored men, said that it was
his interest to employ the former alone they
required, as a rule, less looking after. The cap
! talists found the colored men too apt 10 neglec
| to discharge their pecundry obligations prompt
| y and punctually They all said that while
| there was little grave crime found the among ne
groes there werebad men of all compilations, and
that the colored men had their share of them
The public schools of Canada are open alike
| to all, without distinction OF color. The ne
grues as a general rule, are anxious for educa-
ton, and many indeed attach more value to
school education than perhaps it deserves
/ About one half of all the colored children of
/ Toronto attend the public sch ools. OF the re-
main1pr, many attend private schools. We
saw several colored children at the Model
School, which is attached to the Normal School
at Toronto. The teachers informed me- that they
! found them equally docile and intelligent with
the whites Some allowance had to be made
for their con iuct on account of the annoyance
and teasing they suffered from the white chill
I dren.
The negroes have four churches at Toronto
two belonging to the Biptist and two 10 the
Methodist persuasion. re former pay their
clrrgymen 300 year, and the latter from $3.50
to 1900 A number attend the Church of Eng
land, anl there are some few Consregai gaional SITS
and Roman Catholics. The only colored clrr-
gyman met left n1 favorable impression either
of his ability or his learning.
/ On first entering Canada, we repeatedly heard
| it asserted that the colored population was Civ
,,. th, md us.ntl anna pnt,
, nected with the press told me that he believed
; the Jail at Toronto was filled with colored peo-
pie. On inquiry at the Jail itself we found but
three colored persons in it the reminder OF
the inmates, AMI they were numerous. were
whites The rerorts of the Chief of Police and
the Keeper Of the Prison, however put this mat
tr. SO far as Toronto is concerned, finally at
rest In his annual statistical report to the
Council, Mr. Samuel Sherwood, Chief of the
! Police at Toronto, returns 1916 persons as ar
rested BY the police force during the year end
, ing December 81, 1856. OF these, as only were
colored-nol one and half per cent. Now, as the
colored people constitute at the lowest compu'
tation Between two or three per cent of tht
total population of Toronto, this is high and
, | may add an unexpected evidence OF lhe gen
eral good conduct Of the cOOrpd people and
the value of it is increased when We remember
that they all originally belonged to the class in
which crimes against order and property arc
the most rife. Of the whole number of per-
sons arrested, 1895 were males and l,05l, OF
p nearly o.e fourth were females; while Of tho
= coored people 10 we're males, and 8 only, no
1 quite one-ninth, were females.
D The printed report of Mr., Sherwood refers, as
e was stated, to the total number Of arrests. o.
these, ,922 were summary punished by fin" N
273 cases the charges were withdrawn, and 23l
= the cases were dismissed. Thinking that posi-
b blv the actual commitments to Jail might set a
I different face upon the matter, we obtained from
/ Mr. Georgr L. Allan, the intelligent keeper o
u the Jail at Toronto, the monthly return OF com
g mitmpnrs 20 the prison from October l, 1888
a to July 81, 1887. p.riod of twenty two months
, transcrbng them from the books of the Jail il
: his presence The total commitments amount
= ed in that period to 1870, of whom 60, no
e quite two per cent. were colored. lmmediatel!
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