The Warrington Examiner. — 1876-01-08 (Warrington, Cheshire, England)

PHILIP P. CARPENTER,  ON THE INDIANS OF LOWER CANADA.  Dr. Philip P. Carpenter, formerly resident in Warrington, but now of Montreal, Lower Canada, has wiitten a letter to the Daily Xews, calling public attention to the treatment of a settlement of Indians at a place called Brantford on the grand river. It appears that some time ago these Iroquois with their lands wet() handed over by the Government to the Sulpician priests. "Their chief settlement is at Oka, on the Lake of the Two Mountains. Things went on tolerably smoothly till some six years ago, when the Wesleyans thought proper to institute a mission amongt them. This proved very successful, and almost the whole remnant of the Ircquois nation left the Church of Rome. The cost of the mission was defrayed almost entirely by the Sunday scholars a one church in this city. From that time, the unfortunate Indians have been subjected to a series of petty persecutions, in which the police and county magistrates have acted as the tools of the priests. While the men have been out hunting, the bullies have insulted the women, trumped tip petty charges under which the defenceless people have been imprisoned, and even prevented them from cutting firewood on their own domains. As no justice could be got or expected where juries and judges are alike the tools of the priests, the good offices of the Aborigines Protection S)ciety were sought and gained. At their request Lord Carnarvon communicated with the Dominion Gevernmoat. hey practically said,'• We can do nothing for them where they are; but if they like to move, we will give them good lauds near Lake Nipissing." Of course they did not wish to leave the lands which their ancestors had enjoyed for many generations. A few years ago a neat chureh was erected by subscription at a cost of 1,200 dolls rs‘. This was crowded, while scarcely any Indians were found in the Catholic church. It was erected on land forming part of a garden, which Indian families had possessed unchallenged for many generations. But the priests, taking advantage of the temporary absence of the Indians lawyer, got a decision from the Court requiring the owners to pull it down. As the men were off hunting, a mob of French Catholics asseembled last week, and without any warning pulled down the church, tower and all, and carried the material over to the priest's property." The offer of the lands of Nipissing was afterwards withdrawn, as "being too good tor Indians," and a rocky tract in the Laurentian district has been offered instead. , Dr. Carpenter goes on to say that the Confederation Act has practically destroyed the political power of the Protestants in that province, and that the French Catholics of Canada are going far to make Protestantism penal. • The letter is somewhat too long to be reproduced [ verbatim.  A TEEIMBLE Husise2m.—Jame2 Gifford was charged , at Blackburn, on Monday, with attempting to murder his wife. The prisotnfeorrhaassdanesviuopuosnly his undergone The with case as one of aggravated assault, Bench dealt wi . 'Boner to twelve months' imprisonment,d sentenced the pr an imprisonm TELEGEAPII WI . RE An inquest has years' KILLED Wir A M'ddlesborough,, concerning a held at i just been most unusual description. On Wednesday with hard labour. fatality of a evening Henry A a railway bridge a mile and a half outside the town, Abbott was driving a dogcart through when he was caught by a telegraph or signal wire to cut his throat and going fast at the time, ua nn dd etrh tehseh occhki nw. He died *‘lowing day. The wire is supposknock bim backwards in the vehicle. e_. ~ ....„ ioi. asls.hoe eValoritewntasas ...el t 0 hslackened from expansion through heat. 'nu so fallen below the level of the bridge above, which is 0, low building.