The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-03-19
DAILY PRESS.
PORTLAND.
Friday Morning, March 10, 1869.


In the Quebec Legislature, a few days since,
Mr.. Forth, in moving for correspondence
touching certain fires in the Gaspe districts
and ST. Lawrence Gulf coast, called atten-
tion to the immense annual destruction of
timber by fire throughout the Province, and
the necessity of adopting some measure of
prevention. Most of this destruction, he
said, originated in the criminal negligence of
individuals. He also commented on the
reckless waste of timber committed on all
sides without the slightest regard for the fu-
ture; and said the wholesale stripping of the
country, if allowed to continue, would not
only injure the revenue, but the climate and
soil. As it was, inundations and drouths
could be traced to it. Referring to ship
building and manufacturing, he stated that
though Lower Canada once boasted OF hav-
ing splendid forests of oak, rock-elm, black
walnut, and butternut, it was now forced to
draw its supply OF those woods from Ontario
Accounts from Nova Scotia regarding Mr..
Howe's election still continue very contra
dictory. Both sides appear confident of sue
cess. The day of election is rot yet fixed
Mr.. Howe is still unable to resume the can
vass, and no meetings have been held in
Hants since his illness.
There is a political crisis in New Brun-
swick. A motion of want of confidence has
been introduced iuto the Legislature, and is
the subject of excited and protracted debate.
The Attorney General has announced that,
should the opposition get majority, the gov
eminent will resign. Immense efforts are,
however, making to secure votes in support
of the ministry. The discomfort among the
people is deep. The st. John Globe says:
"The vote will be close one, and, we have
good reasons to believe that the government
will be defeated, despite the A.toi ney Gen.
erals secret negotiations and threats of dis
solution. The country would unquestionably
rejoice at such a consummation."
A Nova Scotia paper, chronicling the de-
parture from New Glasgow of about twenty
stalwart young men for California, adds:
They go to swell the ranks of Nova Sco-
tians already in the great republic, to add
their quota to the wealth and to assist IN
developing the resources OF the United States.
~ HSSSAAS \oS ehVit aStOA dilCduy SuOWSl
advocates tor annexation. Since confedera-
tlon was consummatsd we venture to say
that more OF our young population have gone
to the United States than in any previous
ten years OF our history. The semi-monarch-
ical institutions under which we are retrograd-
ing afford no encouragement to our young
men to remain at home, consequently they
60 where enterprise is encouraged labor re-
numerated and merit rewarded. The only
remedy ig QnnQYafion fO ha TT,sfaI tate -
The statement made sometime ago that
Prince Arthur, of England, is coming to
Canada and will join the Royal Artillery,
seems not a little to fuster our neghbors OF
the Dominion. Loyalty is prepared to make
great fuss. over the royal boy. The Prince
will be attached to Capt. Turner's Battery,
stationed at Montreal; and the residence of
Hon. John Rose, in Montreal, has been en-
gagged for him during the time of his military
service in Canada. p d
A public meeting, very largely attended,
was held at Yarmouth, N. s., day or two
since, when a resolution in favor of the con-
.tinuance of the agitation for Repeal was
passed by large majority.
Mr.. G. r. Halliburton, who was yery ac-
tive Confederate in Nova Scotia, is publish
ing some letters in the Canadian papers. In
one of them is the following:
Pr To show how large were the profits ON No
va Scotia coal, before the repeal of the treaty,
may mention that a gentleman who took
interest in coal property, in payment of bad
debt OF 81 700, drew in one year, as his share
OF the profits, S5,000 Before the Recipro-
city Treaty the Canadian farmer found that
want OF home market made the barrel of
flour one-fifth less than the same articles on
the American side of the boundary line
and it was urged that either home market;
must be secured in the Lower Provinces, OF
the American market must be thrown open,
and it neither of these remedies could be ap-
piled, that the only alternative would be-
however loyal the Canadians might bean
nexatlon Had the barrel of -four become
not only deprecated but unsaleable in Can
ada, and had wheat fields, however exten-
sive and productive, if offered for sale. prov
ed valueless, the language then used would
have been stronger, and the results might
have been more serious. That Nova Scotia
coal owners have rot sympathized in the an
nexation cry in Nova Scotia, is not little
creditable to them. But there is limit to
everything; and starvation, or at least ruin
GUS loss, may tempt even loyal Nova Sco-
tlans to think ofthe same rash remedy for the
repeal of the treaty, which equally loyal Can
adams talked of, when the treaty was ne
cessity to them.