The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1873-01-04
THE R4MPARrs OF QUEBEC.

The AinerUe de Montreal announces
and comments upon fact which every
one that has visited the picturesque old
world city of Quebec Will learn with a
feeling of regret. The ramparts are to
be removed, and with them a great deal
of the attractiveness of the place. The
MinerUe says:
1--WE have town in Canada, unique
of its kind, possessing a physiognomy
of its own very fascinating to strangers.
With its belt of old walls, bastions, and
redoubts, and it's stately citadel worthy
of image reflected in the river that
bathes her feet. Quebec looks like an
old French town transplanted into
America, and has a stamp of antiquity
not to be found at either Montreal or
New York, nor in any of the multitude
of American cities that seem all to be
reproduction of each other. From it's
old streets and old Notifications arise a
perfume of the past that we, cooped up
in modern architecture, and used to the
straight lines and right angles of our
streets, and living in familiarity with
monuments of yesterday, ..inhale with
pure delight.
% 1t is the stamp of antiquity that TO
strangers make the charm of Quebec,
and still it seems that the city of Cham
plain, which we are tempted to call
'cette bonne vile de Qubec' as Henry
W = =, oI
walled crown into the river, and rob
itself of it's old attire in order to dress
itself in modern costume, and to re-
semble-what? Montreal, Toronto, Gin
cinnatil
90 1t will pain us to see the destroyers
pickaxe attack the stones that speak of
the past; tat recall so many historical
remembrances. Henry Ward Beecher
said that Quebec seemed history book
to him, in which each street formed q
naf Nothing is truer. You cannot
ep without Stumbling against
ssnspt .recczs;,,s 60. !. :. = =:
enir of tif5 g sZ1veryth
Ii the time of the colony of the
novelle France, of our skirmishes and
Sur wars; here are the first forts built
by the French; here foated the flag
bearing the image of the feur de lyse;
here, through this door, the soldiers
went to fight the enemy. Montcaim,
de Vaudreui1, Lewis, Murray, Charlie
ton, have appeared one after the other
on these walls that will soon be made
into wings for dwelling-houses. It is
not difficult to see that motive In the
age of utility.
;" After ali, Quebec is at liberty to do
all she pleases, for we will be at least
permitted to express one regret. We
shall not fight because it wants to imi-
tate MS. The city of Champlaln Will
always possess the amiabiity, the charm
of its inhabitants, and their politeness
TO attract us. These will not disappear
with their walls and bulwarks.
AUSTRALIA.
Australia is quite a country. 1t is p
400 miles in length and 1900 miles IN
width. The first settlement was made
there in 1789-6O0 male and $50 convlcts,
100 soldiers, 40 women (their wives
and 81 officers. It is now divided into
seven States. OF three, Victoria is the
most remarkable. 1t has three-quarteri
of a million of inhaitants; Melbourne
the capital, has 10000. Victoria hal
80. 900 square miles of territory he
savings banks contain 5000, 900, ant
| the assets of her various building asso
c1at1ons are over $4,000, 900. A goo
many of the laws of Victoria are mouide'
after those of the United States, an
her people are sometimes styled Tn
Yankees of Australia Mining Is til
principal industry, and the proceeds
the mines are increasing yearly.