, 1869-12-11


rem6er II.
AMERICAN GIRLS AS AN AID TO
EMIGRATIoN.-A European letter.
writer says of American girls 10
Europe | do not wish to under
value English beauty, which is most
satisfactory and enduring, and most
Of which will wash. But confess
that American beauty from New
York TO New Orleans has spoiled my
eyes for any other. | fear you do
not half appreciate them at home.
Here they admire and envy them
that is, the men admire, and the
women envy. On the Continent they
rave about them. Half a dozen
American bells send whole German
town distracted. 1t is not only their
beauty and grace, but their wit,
spirit and happy audacity. The
continental customs favor their
triumphs. No girl over there ever
dares to say her soul is her own
let alone her body. An American
girl, on the contrary, asserts her
freedom, goes wherever che pleases,
talks with eVerv-nna shn cares In
talk with, says da TO a German at
the first introduction, and orders him
about just-just as she would at
home. He is overwhelmed and
astouuded, but all the more delighted.
He tells lis friends that the beauti.
ful girl he waltzed with said du to
him, and told him to bring her glass
of water, which sets them all crazy
to be introduced to her, hear her say
clu to them, aud be made water>
carriers likewise. Next day the
whole town is talking about her, and
staring at her The women are in
rage; but the result is the conviction
that American must be great coun-
try, increased emigration, and the
consequent progress of civilization.
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IMPORTANT DIsCovERY.-Some
of the New York papers note an im>
pottant discovery by Professor Bell,
at the head of a Canadian surveying
party the past Summer, on the lii /
of the projected railway from the
Dominion to British Columbia. 1t
is that the lake marked on the maps
about thirty miles north of Superior,
latitude 500, longitude 900, known
as Neepigon, is body of water as
large as Ontario or Erie, and that it
connects with Superior aud other
lakes and straits to the north west, so
as to afford a continuous water com.
munication from Lake Superior to
Winnipeg, and so with the Saskst'
chsWan river. This river has two
great branches, both rising in the
Rocky Mountains, one is latitude
500 north, the other is about So,
the two uniting on the l05th degree
of longitude, and from that point to
Lake Winnipeg forming a river Of
immense volume, and navigable the
greater part of the year-that is,
all the time it is not frozen up. The
country watered by the Saskatchewan
and these linked lakes, from Su-
perior to the Rocky Mountains, is
as large as the whole of Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Dakota and Montana,
and we have long ago had the testi
uony of that intrepid explorer,
Father De Smet, that it abounds in
AGRICULTURAL resources and is capable
of maintaining a very large and
wealthy population. Shortly after
the placer gold discoveries were
made in Montana, some Californian
sdyenturers pushed a prospecting
expedition as far north as the head
vates of the southern branch Of the
Saskatchewan, and sent back to this
country reports of rich discoveries.
What ultimately came Of them we
are not advised; but since then there
have been several expeditions TO the
Saskatchewan, from all Of which
came reports of gold discovery. If
Professor Bells statement is correct
bis explorations deserve to rank
among the most important of the age;
and We may rely upon it that it
will not be long till American steam
ers shall echo through the silence
TIA, has brooded over Lake Winnipeg
for ages and plant 6ourishing colo
nies 10 the valley Of the Saskatcha.