The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-08-18
FROM QUE OLD 00RRBsP0HDEET.
LzRAYsvrLrz. Pa, Aug. Sd, 1865.

OeCa Otc43ss aUoAb month ago..
We took passage July Sd, from tfere
on the steamship "LadY Head, I" bound
for Picton. N. s., 1000 miles. and had 4
pretty good voyage to Shediac, N. 3.
where We arrived Saturday, July 7th, and
the same day went by the steamer "Prince
of Wales" across the strait of Northum-
berland to Summerside, Prince Edward
Island. The steamergruns TO Charlotte
Town. the capital of the province of P.
E. l., and that place was our intended
destination. but on arriving at Summer
side We concluded to get of there and
stay over Sabbath. Il is only So miles
from Shediac to Summerside. Charlotte
Town is 40 miles further. 80
The little village of Summerside, view
ed from the sea, and bathed in the bright
glow of the afternoon SUI as the uncloud
cd orb lowered toward the horizon, looked
very pretty and inviting That eircum-
stance had weight in determining US 10
stop there. But appearances are some
times deceptive. They wsre in-this case,
for we found the village to be small hud-
die of wooden houses, and the-.inhabi-
tants set of dirty, lazy, ingnorant seal
lawags, for the most part, with scarcely
life enough to chew tobacco. This is a
rather hard description of the people of
her Majesty g provinces, but it is correct.
have no hard feelings against them.
Far from it. They treated us with moth
ing but kindness, and our emotions to-
ward them are not unmixed with graft
tude, but l do sincerely pity them for
their general ignora1ce and stupidity.
A couple of daysWe we're aRaiting the
arrival of the boat, and took our baggage
up town to the only hotel in the place
the Crabb House.. ThissWss story and
q half wooden buNaing, q good deal the
worse for wear, and lacking cleanliness
and everything else essential to comfort.
The bar room seemed to be the. m ost
prominent feature of it. The citizens
there patronize. bar rooms. They drink
prodigiously. believe there are no
temperance men there at ALL -.,-'.-ls
The inhabitants are mostly of short
stature and thick set. A majority are
from England, and there is plentiful
sprinkling of Scotch and Irish, and some
French settlements The Island does
not appear to have developed that zeal
GUS spirit of enterprise and thriftiness
common among our adopted citizeus,la
Failing to find any means of convey
auce, We took stroll out of the village
just at night. The air was cool and in
Yigorating. We. had the good luck to
meet a farmer going to the village in a
buggy from whom We learned where. we
could find place to stay in the country
| So We left the Crabb House and the viii
Iage and found comfortable quarters at a
farm house two miles out. We tarried
there till Tuesday. Miss Emma Ed.
! monds, author of "The Nurse and Spy
! boarded there while writing her book.
Have you ever read it? 1t has had an
extensive sale, and is strange il true. -
Sunday July 9th, ~e attended divine
service at Mt. Elenor, one mile north, and
in the afternoon walked across the north
side of the Island. That is one of til,
narIowest places of the Island. 1t i.
four miles wide there.
Prince Edward Island is $50 miles
long and from two and half to twenty
miles wide, and has a population of 80,
600 inhabitants. It produced once, a
large amount of timber for ships, bu
the best of the forests are gone. Fir anC
pine are the principal kinds of trees.
The soil is Very loose red loan anc
needs a good deal of fertilizing to bring
good crops. Oats, potatoes and buck.
weat grow pretty we'll. Wheat dosn't.
heard that Prince Edward Island was
perfect garden" agriculturally, but l
couldn't see it. There is a good deal o.
low, wet, DOGGY land, and that which it
arabic is not a perfect garden. The farm
ers don't seem 10 have much thrift about
them anyhow. They cannot boast Of
their intelligence either, They think a
| good deal of the mother country, and in
their prayers never forget to ask blessings
upon Her most gracious Majesty, the
Queen" and the Nobility. The Church
of England, and the Roman Catholic
largely predominant. The French settle
ments are almost exclusively Catholic
I So far as I could ascertain. the grea
majority of the people of tie provinces
are opposed to confederation with othe
provinces. They declare the "Qaebet
scheme" to be an Intended fraud on them
They think the benefits TO them of con:
federation will be small when compared
i with the burtht as imposed. The same
is tru e Of Nova Scotia. and partly so o
New Brunswick In The last named ther,
is q large party in favor of an Bexstion to
the United States, hut ii strikes me, from
what I learned among the people, thai
New Brunswick really prefers bel, present
form of goveinmsnt. Prince EtwaE
Island certainly does
Tuesday morning, July 1Oth.,we re
turned to Shediao and took the cars to ST
JohnsSN.B. Il, 7e-tgs
New Brunswick is a timber country
and along The coasts ship building is thu
chief occupation. Fishing is next in i'm
portance to that. ~ IN .zr-
We sailed for Boston, 470 miles from
st. Johns. on thsyexcelIent steamer '.CitJ
of New Tork, = of the International LiOe
+ Had pleasant Jripand arrived in Boston
Thursday I2th 'ultimo, Found the wealth
er very hot IN Boste1s We bad had COO
comfortable weather on the sea and tbs
contrast on reaching Boston vas rather
enervating. l1'7' = ..79g
;. In Boston We found our old friend
Wal er S. Conant,, who spent three years
in Chase county, and left there in--1860
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