The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-05-31
INTERESTING FROM CANADA.
Our Toronto Correspondence.

TORONTO, May 20, 1905
The General Election in Canada-7ne Siicr Susa In n.
Colonv-Samma'y of Canadian Happiness
Of Real British Soldirs-Hoso Long IL Takes to Make
Soidier-SeuAerm Traitors among the Blue Noses-TAei,
TAreadbaYs Opsnsons-7As Alleged Strength Of Bruge
at ASrfrsssboro-A SotaAsr~ Officers Opinion Of IL
Strength Of Vicksbuyg, de-, dc.
Canada 10 In the midst Of general election for repre-
sentatves. There Is, however, excitement IT,
and apparently the whole interest Ia confined 70 the
ddates and those who look for places Outside OF their
immediate circles the questions Of the not sub
ecs OF conversation. More said about silver and the
difficulty in respect TO that remarkable metal up here s
decide how many cents II shall be below par. Railroad
tickets that be for dollar In the provincial
paper worth one dollar and seven cents In specie.
Between this cents against you add the Our cents
that the brokers allow for you, the metal waivers.
There luxury Of travel in H. plenty
OF room in the There Ne disputes SPOUT
seats Every passenger may have average OF about
twelve for his personal Since crossed tho
Suspension Bridge have not seen Q anywhere
near full have ridden train Of three cars with less
than twenty persons on the whole tran This was on the
Great Western Railroad.
Last Tuesday went 10 the ct st. Catherine's
There announced handicap, o trot and . gentle
mans race for saddle aud Bride No entries were
made for the trot Horses named Don Juan Paermo
tue VI IN the nrBt
Don Juan could have beaten better horse than
Palermo. He easily. Time :5s. There were present.
counting Jockeys, stableboys trsckmen ticket takers
barkespers and gamblers, about hundred persons
Thus IL would that the Canadian OF this present
month Of May, $685. doesn't 60 TO tho races-doesnt
bother about the electionsdoesn travel In the cars
and has Pleaty Of silver: Happy man
Yesterday eaw battalion OF regular regularspositiye
and unmistakable British troops-n the 6eld six com.
panies Of her Maestys 1hrteb infantry regiment formed
the battalion IN question They were exercised in va
They went through the various movements well and no
more than that Any OF the old regiments Of the Army
OF the Potomac will perform the same with
the same precision and any Of regiments will march
better than the ThHtieth did Physically the men are
4ps rate PSs s young aud athletic
panaloons black shako, and white pipe cayed crosbes
Every man was tho perfection OF neatness In braucy
OF appearance they are ahead OF any troops that ever
But this briliancy cost imniensey IN bat,Ie
This regiment has been filed Up since the CrImcan war
and there are many mon In that have only been the
army three or four years sergean who had been in
the service "ony eight years." thought II would DO
good regiment in about two Such the sol
dier's idea Of the time required TO make n soldier
There arc some Southeners here, though very few and
they are also someN bat quiet Whatever the schemes
sary for their saceess that they should avoid public mo-
tce some few the other hand appear 10 be here for
no other purpose than to talk So they talk at an mes
range OF topics TO DO sure and with repe.
tition Of the words 10 all corners Perhaps these
words have become somewhat tedious by this time az
they have been heard necessarily since the war began
But this is what thoy say -
"Do what you will you can't subdue the South you
could not even the Northern government In the
hands OF able men, How ca9 you expect then with
the lmbeciles that now in powerS And who ever
heard that ten millions Of people subdued In coun
try OF the extent OF the Southern States Further con-
tinuance Of the is useless slaughter You cannot
win. You cannot whip us by exhaustion: for
though you have more men we kill three 70 your one "a
"Bui you expect to win by another kind or exhaustion
than that q humanlre Northern papers tell great deal Of
ala A. fha Amt Wall ta4 IL.
s,arve We will agreo 10 live ouy long a. we can live
the fruits OF soil We viii agree not 10 buy
dollars worth outside, not go much wooden nutmeS
TO raise and make every article that wantsnd see
n shall Devastation follows the footstaDe az
and In the frontier districts where the armies
have been there may he distress but tho south
teens with ali that man wants require To-day II in
land OF plenty In Middle Georgia you ID not suppose
that there ard this year tho South VIII mise
i've hundred thousand bushels OF wheat thanJt can
Every bale Of cotton Of former years Viii be
represented this year by eighty bushels OF grain.
Two.thrds Of an this labor In the cultivation Of the .o
10 done by the negroes
"stOck raissd also in abundance and plenty Of sal, 10
made.
Hesdes this the South s otherwise in progress Of do
veopment Manufactures flourish. since the var began
very high wages have been paid TO mechanic especially
TO all workers In iron. These wages have drawn mcn
from the North and from Europe. The latter ran the
S"s, We can build railroad bridge AZ ouIeSIy - ,hs
Yankees and did at Chattanooga. II M much harm
doue In the late raids as the papers say you will see
how every bridge and railroad will be rebuilt
"spicndd cannon made at half q dozen dlferent
places the South, and excellent small arms Also We
make all OF our own ammunition. We have mover used
one Of all the cannon We have taken from the Northern
armies They have been sent 10 different poins al ro
phes. Cotton mills are also In operaton IN great many
places, and they are on the increase. The Northeru
has done for the South than the Souh
could have done The conederacy has osnd strength IN
the struggle and has been buit UP by the war had
there been no war would have fallen 10 pieces b.rrs
this but two years OF war, with wars sacrifices and
trials have given the South government and army
equal 10 any the earth"
such tie material which the secesh sentiment, I'm
Toronto " at present fed.
An officer of the Southern army who lately ran tho
blockade that Bragg haf only twenty two Thousand
men Mufreesboro and that he took forty one pcces o
cannon, eleven thousand small arms aud six tbousand
prisoners.
tlaucd thus
Hvnat some q the socihcrn pansrs say about The
value of Nickstufg mporfIsne Ahe SUuth cont want