The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-08-20

curiosity OF the sight seer must be confined
almost altogether to the city. A drive
along the lake shore of pleasant morning
or evening would repay the trouble From
Toronto there is beautiful view of Lake
Ontario and the shipping upon it. The
city contains sixty thousand inhabitants
and is so thickly set with trees that parts
of it might almost be called city in a
wilderness.
Like every other city, Toronto has hotels
and restaurants of every grade; but the
principal and finest hotels are the Queens
Holel on Front street and the Rossin House
on York steet. These are we'll kept and
are irst-class houses. They charge $3.50
per day, in Canada money, and $3.50 in oul
currency, and this is about the rate at
which you can use our currency, all over
the Province. King, York, Bay and Queen
streets are the principal business thorough
fares in the city, on each ofwhich there arc
many extensive and elegant stores. AT
first it would strike one that goods gener-
ally can be bought in Toronto much below
what they can be had for in our cities, il
he notices the price marked upon them as
he passes the store windows; but he should
remember that those prices mean Canada
money or gold, so that when he comes to
calculate the difference between this and
our currency, he will find that the real diff
ference between the prices of goods in the
two countries is but trifing. Just now the
market is well stocked with strawberries
and other fruit of like nature, and this
is the case generally throughout the north
em American States. have often heard
it said that if we would commence far
enough south and continue our journey I'M
til we arrived at the same point again, we
could have this kind of fruit all the wear
round and this looks very like it.
Corn in the northern part of our own
country and throughout Upper Canada
promises but very small yield, while
wheat, oats, rye, barley, &C., give 81 gns of
heavy crop. The harvest here has not
yet commenced, and will not for about two
weeks. Wheat is yet very green, and oats
not in head, with rare exceptions.
While there is much finer farming land
in Upper Canada, there is also great deal
of rough, broken and worthless ground,
valued only for its timber, when it has any
on 1t. Paint seems not to be fashionable
in this country, and hence you do not meet
with the same neat farm houses that are
every where found among us. This is said
to be mainly attributable to the fact that
England never changes" and Canada adj
heres to her customs. This tenacity to
stick to English customs is seen everywhere
and in everything. The old English cab,
and the awkward and ungainly vehicle, are
met with everywhere, all of which seem to
be a century behind the times. TO this,
however, there is a single exception in their
hacks, which certainly are the best and
most convenient | have ever met WITH
They are so constructed that they can in
the space Of three minutes be turned into
fine barouche, when desirable and in the
same time be reconverted into close hack.
But to return to the city ofToronto. Here
one Of the curiosities which had forgotten
| is what is called the emigrant Sheds
These are long wooden buildings, not al
| together uncomfortable, but still no very
desirable places of abode. These are gem
orally full of emigrants, which the British
Government are sending over to Canada
by the thousand. These people, who are
made up of all ages and sexes, go directly
on their arrival to these sheds, where they
are taken care of until they get employment,
which they obtain by scattering through
the country. Generally the emigrant agents
here obtain employment for such as do not
leave Canada, or are unable to find it for
themselves.
One of the Royal Mail steamers leaves
here every day at 10 o'clock, A. NJ, for
Montreal. These are fine boats, and car
ry larger number of passengers than the
Grand Trunk Railway, in consequence of
the Lake route being generally the most
pleasant Nothing, it is said, "can be
more delightful than sailing on Lake Onta-
rio on a beautiful summer night; but when
the storm arises, its placid character is
gone, and we are made to feel that it is
sea in power, and may be so in swift de.
struction ; for in these land locked basins,
shipwrecks often occur, not merely of the
trail barks of commerce, but even of the
stout built man of-war, should she, when
in one of the fierce gales which so suddenly
sweep the lake, be unable to run for her
harbor." Lake Ontario is wonderful
sheet of fresh water, 235 feet above the level
OF the sea, 100 tathoms deep, 200 miles long
and sixty miles wide, so that in crossing
it one loses sight of land. Directly in
front of Toronto, large sand bar about
seven miles long and perhaps half or
three quarters of a mile wide, makes out
in the Lake, and, upon this bar, which is
about three miles from the wharf at Toron-
to, three hotels are kept, each of which
has small steamer that makes constant
trips between the hotel for which it is run
ming and the city of Toronto, for the pur-
J pose of carrying pleasure parties to and
fro. During the course of the summer they
carry great number of passengers, as the
trip is remarkably pleasant one, when the
Lake is calm. A. w. B.
WHAT Is TO BE DONE IN HEAvEN.-The
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher ridicules the
popular idea that the inmates of heaven do
nothing but stand round o great white
throne, with harps in their hands and sing
psalms. Mr.. Beecher, it seems to us, has
the right of the matter. There is no scrip
tural ground for limiting the activities and
omployments of immortal beings TO n mo-
notonous physical exercise and it is a
wonder that the absurdity of doing so had
not been perceived long ago. 1t is much
more sensible to suppose that people in the
other life enjoy social and intellectual de.
lights, and have varying occupations, ac-
Al,