The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-03-29
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH &c. 1879.
The Dominion.


nation.-we saw nation, for really the connec-
tions between it and Great Britain are so
slight that it is practically Independent. Rail-
road and manufacturing enterprises are being
actively pushed. Our interests are so close
ly allied with those of Canada that we watch
all movements there with great interest. We
learn that the directors of the Montreal &
Ottawa Junction Railway, by which line is
proposed to be built connecting with the
Grand Trunk Railway, some twenty miles
from Montreal on the south side OF the
Ottawa river, have petitioned the city OF
Montreal for aid to the amount OF 100000,
representing that that sum, with the amount
already raised, will complete the road, and
that it may be opened for traffic by July l,
1873. They say that it will be connected
with the Canada Central road which will be
opened from Ottawa to Pembroke ION the
Upper Ottawa) within fifteen months. No
railroad can be built in Canada leading
to Montreal which will not help Portland.
The Grand Trunk Railway gives notice of
an application to the Dominion Parliament
for authority to raise money to complete the
purchase of the entire lines and property of
the Montreal q Champlain Railway.
We obtain from recent number of the
Montreal Herald some facts in regard to new
railroads in Canada. The proposed Northern
Colonization Railway will extend from Mon
treal to Ottawa on the north side of the riv-
er, and will there be connected with the Can
ada Pacific road, with road to the Sault st.
Marie and the Northern Pacific road and
with road to Toronto and thence to Detroit,
Chicago and the Western cities by lines en-
tirely Independent of the Grand Trunk.
These movements are of the deepest interest
to Portland, as the shortest outlet for this
vast network of roads to the sea will be via
the Ogdensburg Railroad to this city. The
city council of Montreal voted on the Doth
inst. 81, 100000 in aid of the Northern Col
onization Railway. The interest which Port
land from her Montreal connections, has in
this road will be seen from the following re-
marks made at the meeting by Councillor
Kay: ie
'The present head-Sir Hugh Allan-of
that road, is man of high position undoubted
talent and indomitable energy. He has worked
with the greatest zeal and perseverance to pro-
mote its success and secure for Montreal the
immense trade which will soon exist not only
with the great North West, but also with the
Pacific. On looking at the map it will be seen
at glance that the natural highway from the
Pacific and from the North West to Europe is
by the Sault st. Marie, Lake Npissing, and
Ottawa to Montreal 1 have no doubt myself
that a road will in a short time be built from
Ottawa to Sault St. Marie. All the roads in
rtnxu For trof4 30 &c
this road, and | am therefore convinced that it
is of incalculable Importance to Montreal that
we should secure Immediately this trade
Toronto correspondents report that many
new vessels have been built for the Lake ser
vice during the past winter.
In the Legislature of Prince Edwards
Island Mr.. Hooper rose and said that one
thousand dollars had been given him, which
amount he placed on the clerks desk, and
which he said was given him for the purpose
OF securing his support to the construction
OF branch railway to Souris Great ex-
element prevailed. Our rascals don't have
the grace to return the brides.
The fifth of April is the day fixed for the
election of members of the Provincial Par
lament in Prince Edwards Island.
The Canada papers are praising the Chica-
60 Tribune for taking the British view of the I
Alabama treaty. The Toronto Globe, which
seems to think that party success in Canada
depends upon hitting the Yankees, makes
fierce war upon the ''Washington capitula-
tion," as it calls the Alabama Treaty. 1t is
curious to notice that while in Nova Scotia
and the other maritime provinces where
alone they catch fish, the people are anxious
for the ratification of the treaty, for the sake
OF the fishery clauses, the politicians of
Ontario, which province has no interest in
them, are terribly indignant that such proyis-
ions should have been made. Mr. Clay used
to relate with great gee the circumstance of
his meeting in the year 1S47 party of Ken
tuckians on horseback travelling South, and
that upon inquiring where they were going,
he was answered, ''to Texas to fight for our
rights" These roaring patriots of Toronto
are as deeply interested in the rights of New
foundland as were Mr.. Clay's Kentuckians in
those of Texas. The Globe has also been
made quite unhappy by a statement in pa
per which it says has Every intimate rela-
tions with Sir John A. MacDonald's govern
ment'-the statement is: SIT is resolued to
let Canada take her Independence so soon as
she can possibly be prepared for it, The
Globes article is headed: FIRST THE TREATY.
THEN ANNEXATION. ~ .slg 5.-
The Montreal Herald informs us that Gen.
Grant is likely to meet a good deal of oppo-
sition in the Philadelphia Convention. This
will be news on this side of the line. Our
Canadian cousins never did like Gen. Grant.