The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-23


if she did so, the performance
would he all the greater. Co
lionel MDaniels tilly cooled out
we'll and when called for the second heat she
was in superb condition. She got a good
start, and ran so gsmely that she could not
be headed. To the great surprise of Mr..
Bolts she won the heat. He watched the
finish in blank amazement; his confidence in
his mare was shaken, and he ordered that the
extra weight be taken off. Colonel M'Daniels
and Mr.. Bolts, when the horses were being
s8ddled for the third heat, met on the quarter
stretch, when the former said, in ieering
tone:-'Mr. Bolts, you have heard the story
of the hawk and the blue jay?' mo; tell it
TO me, won't you? ?" 'Briefy, then, the hawk
set upon the blue jay, and pursued the fright
ened bird with great swiftpess. When almost
within clutch of the deadly talons, the blue
jay darted into a brush-heap, where the hawk
could not follow. The bird, so badly
frightened a moment before, now turned,
in its safe retreat, upon the disap-
pointed hawk with its mocking cry of
c-teT-gLd, c-teT-gL-d. The application is easy,
MIR. Botts You are too late in taking
the extra weight off your mare" The man.
ner in which this was said, and the circum-
stances which gave rise to the speech, so ex-
asperated Mr.. Bolts that he quarrelled with
his old friend. Colonel MDaniels won the
race; and after what had passed, MIR. Bolts
refused to be reconciled to him. Years
passed, and the enlargement grew wider.
The war swept over Virginia. and there was
an end to turf sports. The outspoken
Unionism of Mr.. Bolts was not pleasing to
the Confederate Government. In 1861 he was
arrested, and, for short time confined as a
political prisoner in Castle Goodwin, Rich
mond This prison was the property of
Colonel M'Daniels and at his door the two
old turfmen met, after an estrangement of
years, a tear in each eye, and a clasp of
hands that plainly said, ''Forgive and forget"
and they remained firm friends until the one
had crossed the far, fowery banks of the
silent river, to be soon followed by the
other.
Mr. Randolph B. Marcy, in his description
of ''Ruperts Land and'its People, has the fol-
lowing upon the British occupation of the
territory
When the Hudson Bay Companys factors
entered Rupert's Land, they found it peopled
with numerous tribes of vigorous, manly
natives, who were strangers to the effects of
alcoholic drinks, and, in the primitive SIM
plicity of their untutored natures, were
prosperous and happy. But the advent of
the Englishman upon their domain inaugu-
rated new era in their history. They were
speedily inducted into the diabolical mystic
lies of the intoxicating cup and these credu-
lous children of the forest, with the instinc-
tive proclivity of their race, eagerly imbibed
the seductive fire. water, and soon became
slaves to its pernicious influences; and from
that day to this, spirituous liquor has con-
stituted one of the chief articles of their
traffic. To such an alarming extent have the
Indians become addicted to the use of this
poisonous ant and it has wrought SO
rapid diminution in their numbers that now
there are but few miserable remnants left
of what were once Powerful tribes. They
have degenerated into the very decrepitude
of barbarism. All this has been brought
about with the knowledge and sanction of the
very people who now have the audacity to
charge us with cruelty and injustice to the
red man. Bah! Such barefaced hypocrisy
only serves to delude those who are ignorant
of the history of English civilization-or,
more properly speaking, English dpnihilatton
in India, in China, and in British North
America.
The British authorities, in opposing immi-
grafton into the territory of the Hudson. Bay
Company, have been actuated by different
motive from that of any special regard they
entertain for the welfare of the aboriginal
race; and that motive is nothing more or less
than the perpetuation of the trade of a pow-
erful monopoly, which thereby has been
enabled to barter its wares for few paltry
beaver and musk-rat skins; while we on the
other side of the boundary line in the brief
period of five years, have not only populated
several adjacent new territories, but have
spanned the continent with one railroad, and
have several others in rapid progress toward
completion.
That the ponderous optics of our lethargic
cousin, John Bull, are at last beginning slow
| ly to open upon the Importance of this sub
| ject the following quotation from a sensible
pamphlet, published at London, in 1866, by
| Thomas Rawlins, +. r. G. S., author of
''America from the Atlantic to the Pacific u
| most pointedly indicates. He says: ''To
the directors and stockholders of the Hudson
Bay Company we would say: The emigrant
is even now laundering at your doors he
demands passage he asks by what right
you exclude him. Why have you not bor-
rowed a lesson from the progress of the
country adjoining? Are you blind to your
own interest? +? for, if you continue to pursue
your present policy, you assuredly will be.
Brother Jonathan possesses q cGpGciOuS mGa0.
He as Snubi7sg tie Sa0O1y noOrSel Of tie Fertat
Bet; but once let him get few Squatters
Rights, and there will soon be no necessity
for any action on the part of the Board OF
Directors Their power will have slipped
from their grasp, and the road to the Pacific
be shut out to them forever. We must not
we cen not, permit such suicidal lethargy tC
continue. We are all interested that unless
something is done soon, the connection be
tween the Atlantic and Pacific coasts il
English interests Is irretrievably severed, anC
the supremacy of British power in NORTH
America will be greatly endangered.
The somewhat equivocal compliment paid
us in the gastronomic figure above quoted il
eminently characteristic of the nationality o.
the writer, and exhibits the true measure OF