* + en Remarks on Canadain 18067, BY HUCH GRAY. Canada and the other British colonies in North America, have of late acquired an additional degree of importance to the mother country, from the existing differen ces with the United States; and assuredly neither our West India planters nor our | timber mereéliants, can trust to the | States! for supplies as confidently as they have | done heretofore; they must look elsewhere, | and to no quarter so naturally as to our own colonies, The obvious question for | our consideration is, can our West India; planters, our timber merchants and our | dock-yards ect the necessary supplies from ow North American colonies? or to what extent can they be supplied? The West Indies require to be supplied | with dried cod-fish} barrel or pickled fish, salmon, herrings of ditterent species, mack- erel and oily Luinber, viz: squared timber, seantlings, | planks and boards, shiugles, clapboards, | oak staves, and hoops. Biscuit and flour, Indian corn and meal, pork, béef, butter, cheese, potatoes and onions. * Liye stock, horses, oxen, hogs, sheep and poultry Our timber merchants and dock-yards, require lumber of all softs: masts, yards, squared oak timber, plank, staves, pine timber, deals, hemp &c. Upon reference | to the list of exports from Canada, it will) appear that a supply of the whole of the preceding articles can be procured, but pro- bably not to the extent necessary, except fish, Which can be got in any quantity in Nova Scotia and New Bruuswick, if not in Canada; andin the Gulf and river St. Lawrence. Thave now my worthy friend been a sojourner in Canada, for a considerable length of time. It is nota Jand abounding in all the luxuries and elegancies of life; if undeniably is aland of peace and plen- ty. : By the act of partiament, passed in 1791, it is enacte] :-- "That there shall be within each of the provinces of Upper aud Lower Canada, a Legislative Council, aid a House of Assem- bly, who, with the consent of the Gover-| nor, appointed by the ing, shall have power to make laws." Bills though they have passed both the Assembly and Council, may, by the Goy- ernor, be referred to the King, and do not become laws till his assent is' procured:i-- When the Governor assents for Elis Majes- ty, the Lill becomes a law; but copies of such laws are sent home to the Secretary of State, and His Majesty may declare his dissatisfaction at any time' within two years. , : "The Legislative Council is to consist. of not less than, seven members for Upper Ca- nada, and fifteen for Lower, Canada; to be summoned by the Governor. , Vhe members are to hold their seats for life unless forfeited by four years continued absence, or by swearing allegiance to some foreien power. The King may grant he- reditary titles, by letters patent; with a right of sitting as legislative counsellors.-- But this riwht of creating a Canadian no- bility has not as yet been exercised, _ The House of Assembly is to consist of | not less than sixteen members for Upper Canada ; and not less than fifty members for Lower Canada;to be chosen by the freeholdeders in the several towns and) counties. 'The members for the counties are chosen by those who possess real pro- perty of the yearly yalue of 40s, The voters for the towns must possess a house or land of the yearly value of £5 sterling ; or have been residents a year, and paid £10 a year rent. The Council and Assembly are to be called together at least once a year, and every Assembly is to continue four years, unless sooner dissolved, which it is in the power of the Governor to do, as soon, and as often, as he pleases. Every voter niust, if called upon, take an oath that he is qualitied to vote according to law. The Govemors of the two provinces are perfuct- ly independent of each other in their civil capacity. In military offairs the Goyernor of Lower Canada tukes precedence, as he is usually created Captain General of His Majesty's forces in North America. By an act passed in. the parliament of Great Britain, in the eighteenth year of Geo, ILI, instituted ;-- * An act for removing all doubts and apprehensions concerning taxations by the parliament of Great Britain, in the colonies, provinces and plantations in North Ameri- ea and the West Indies." Parliament. re- 'strained itself forever, from imposing taxes or duties in the colonies except for the regulation of trade; the produce of such taxes or duties to be disposed of by the provincial legishiture. Whether the British Government did right in giving Canada a provincial Assem- bly, has been frequently a subject of dis- cussion here, Much of course may be said on both sites: for my own part, I have no hesitation iu saying, that, in my opinion at was premature. An infiunt colony is like an infant child, and should be treated in the same manner. Tt would be considered extremely wnyvise to put a very young man of large fortune, in possession of his estates, and allow him to bave maniyement of them. The most, LE OIE > OED ' promising youth would not be trusted to such an extent: butif he was known to possess strong passions, and, instead of being well grounded in his education, he had been nealected--his mind uncultivated, bad habits acquired, strong prejudices and antipathies against his guardians imbibed, with every wish to'be troublesome to them;)the Journals, and which attracts a fair} eyary desire to throw off theiv superintend- | share of the public attention. Considered | in care, and ejtherto take the reins: into his | per se, as Jolin 'yler would say, the an- own unsteady, teeble hands, or to invite to his aid the greatest enemies the guar- dians have; would not the gnardians be justly accused of acting a foolish part, were they, notwithstanding all this, to put it in the power of the young man to accomplish his wishes either in whole or in part? Selling Chickens. While the Legislature of Missouri was in session a few years ago, a green fellow from the country came to Jefiérson to sell | bands of slavery in the Union, is a ques-| He had about two dozen, | tion worthy of consideration. some chickens. all of which he had tied by the legs toa string, and this, being divided equally, and thrown across his horse or his shoulder, | y,,;,, formed his Mode of conveyance, leaving the fowls with their heads hanging down, with little else of them visible except their naked legs, and a promiscuous pile of outstreatch- ed wings and ruffled feathers. After sev- eral ineilectual eflorts to dispose of his load, a wag to whom he had made an offer of sale, told him that he did not waut chick- ens himself, but that perhaps he could sell them at that large stone house over there, (the capitol.) that there was aman over there buying, on speculation. for the St. Louis market, and no doubt but he could find ready sale. The delighted countryman started, when his informer stopped bin, «Look here, says he, when you get over there, go up stairs, and then turn to the left, 'The man stops in that large room. You will find him sitting up at the other end of the room, and is now cngaged with a lot of fellows buying chickens. If a man at the door should stop you, don't mind him, He has got chickens himself for sale, and tries to prevent others 'from selling theivs----Don't mind him, but. go right ahead." Following the directions, our friend soon found himself at the door of the hall of re- presentatiyes. To open it and enter was the work of a moment, 'Taking from his shoulders the string of chickens, and giv- ing them a shake, to freshen them he com- menced his journey towards the speaker's chair, the foryls, im the meantime, express- ing, from the half-formed crow tothe harsh quaark, their bodily presence aud tieis sense of bodily pain. "Tsay, sir Here he had advanced about half down the aisle, when he was seized by Major Jackson, the doorkeeper, who happened to be returning from the clerks's desk. : "What are you doing here with these chickens? get out, sir, get out," whisper- ed the doorkeeper, "No you don't though; you don't come that game over me. You've got chickens yourself for sale, get out yourself, and let me sell mine. I say, sir, (in a loud tone to the Speaker,) are you buying chickens here to-day? I've got some prime ones here. And he/held up his string, and shook his fowls wntil their music made the walls echo. : «Tet me go, sir, (to the doorkeeper,) let me go, I say. Fine large chickens, (to thie Speaker;) only six bits a dozen." "Where's the Sergeant at-Arms ?" roar- ed the Speaker. "Luke that man out. « Now don't, will you? I ain't hard to trade with. You let me go, (to the Door- keeper;) you've 'sold' your chickens, now iet me have a chance, 1 sity, sir, (to the speaker, in a louder tone,) are you buying chickens to" -- " Go ahead," "At him again," "That's right," whispered some of the opposition members, who could command gravity enough to'speak; "at him again," «Tsay, sir, (iw a louder tone, to' the Speaker,)--hang your picture--let me go --tair play--two to one ain't fair--(to the doorkeeper and Sergeant-at-Avms)--let me go; I say, sir, you up-there, (to the Speaker,) you can have 'em for six bits | won't take a ceut less 'Take' "em home and eat 'em myself before Vl take--Diat your hides don't shove so hard, will you! you'll huré them chickens; and they have hada travel of it to day any-how. I say, you sir, up there"-- Tere the voice was lost by the closing of the door. An adjournment was moved and carried, aud the members, almost frantic with mirth, rushed out to find our friend in hizh altercation with the Dovr- keeper, about the meavaess of selling bis own chi¢kens, an letting nobody else sell theirs, adding that 'if he could just see that man up there by himself, he'd be bound they could make a trade, and that no man could afford to raise chickens for less than six bits,' The members bought his ifowls by a pony purse, aud our triend left the capitol, saying as he went down the stairs: 'Well, this is the darndest, roughest place for selling chickens that ever 1 come across, sure."--WV, J. Spirit. Fortune sometimes fayours those whom she*afterwards destroys. | | | 1 | | | pendence of the Island'; for Spain will re- Slavery in Cuba. The following from the New York TZri- bune, will give the reader a clear view of | the condition of the slave trade, and the circumstances of slavery in Cuba. The question of the annexation of Ouba to the United States, is one much discussed in j/nexation of Cuba would be desirable. It | would give completeness to the Geography and jurisdiction of our Empire--it would be highly beneficial in respect to the mul- | liplied interests of trade--it would, how- | ever be more beneficial still, as an effectual means of abolishing the African slave trade, to an extent measured by the de- mand of the Cuba market. Whether that | great good would not be conterpoised by the evil it would do in strengthening the | Tt seems to us that the friends of Cuban annexation are so far transported with the oht pictures painted by the imagination, as to over look divers and sundry little dif ficulties in the way of the full fruition of their schemes. It is quite plain, that mere fillibustering will not achieve the inde- sist it with a will, and our government is! Buenos Ayres. The freedom of an unborn ebild can be bought for twenty-five dollars, and fathers often adopt this way of emancipating their chidren. Many slayes escape into the mountains 5 such are exposed to the pursuit of blood hounds--the four-legged tribe--and are also betrayed by vultures hovering over their place of refuge. Many, hang themselves, wih the idea that after death they will find themselves, with the same bodies as before in Attica. By way of stopping this practice, the own- ers have the vemains of the suicides cut to pieces; rather than return to their na- tive country thus mutilated, they prefer to jive and suffer in Cuba. Such is the condition of a great propor- tion of the inhabitants of that lovely Is- land--W hat effect the independence of the island would have upon the peculiar insti- tution is a question. 'There is no doubt, however, that it would stop the introdue- tion of negroes from abroad. . Prayer and Slavery» There are many men professing the Chris- tian religion. who also profess to believe sla- very a Divine institution! Now we have lived thus long and never yet have heard a prayer offered up to God in its behalf! | bound equally to interpose to put a stop to! Here is one prepared by Cassius M. Clay | it. Cuban Patriots from the United States, without the aid of the local population, | cannot be expected to conquer both Spain | and the United' States. If the Creoles, should take the matter in hand and at- tempt to overthrow the Spanish authority, they would find that before Spain would be beaten she would free and arm the slaves.; or, the Creoles themselves would be driven to the same measure. If that should be done, the motive which spurs on our Southern fillibusters, would at. once cease; for Cuba free would loose all its attractions. Under the circumstances, we do not expect annexation to occur, except after Cuba shall have passed through a preliminary state of Independence of the Spanish crown. That we do not believe can happen without a manumission of the slaves, and when that occurs, the apnex- tionists will repel her ardently as they now desire to embrace her. Accordingly to our views, annexation of Cuba is a long ways off. Mexico, Canada and the Sand- which Islands must first be absorbed.-- Bufalo Kepress. "In spite of treaties and prohibitions, the slave trade still flourishes in Cuba, and forms a rich source of income for the Span- ish officials who share indirectly in its pro- fits--We learn by a private letter from a trustworthy person, that some six weeks since 500 negroes were disembarked at 'Ortigosa, and that Canedo, the Captain General, pocketed $34 per head for con- niving at the act. No wonder the Cubans desire to be freed from a Government which adds to perfect despotism such cor- ruption as this. The character of slaves in Cuba is in some respect worse than in our own South- ern States. Of its main features an intelli- gent German, who recently visited the Is- land, gives an interesting account. He says that slayes there ave taken care of a- bout as well as work horses in Europe. Marriage is unknown among them, They are without all religious or mental instrue- tion. Every year a priest baptizes the whole lot of children born on the planta- tion, and Sunday afternoon they are made to say an Ava Maria, the creed and a pat- er noster. They always work with an overseer standing over them with a heavy whip. The lowest oyerseers are them- selves slaves, and have the right to inflict three blows. The white overseers have a right to inflict twenty fiye blows, a punish- ment which results in several days' illness. You find no slave who has not been punish- ed. and eyen men of four score are met with who still have to submit to the scourge, The women are whipped by their husbands, in the presence of the head overseer. At 10 in the morning the oxen of the plantation are driven under shelter from the heat. But the slaves continue to work without interruption through the day. They are also kept late at night. On some plantation they are highly favored if they are allowed to sleep two whole nights in a week, 'he master is not allowed to inflict the punishment of death, but in case of great crimes must hand the slave over to the authorities, when he may renounce his property in the negro, which' frees him from responsibility of costs of trial, food, &e, But this is almost neverdone. Use- less and incortigable negroes are got rid of "in a more simple way, without troubling | the authorities." Prostitution is universal | on the plantations, beginning at the ave of'| ten, Gut the woman who has a mulatto child is liable to fifty blows of the whip. At 9 in the evening all the slaves who| are not destined to night work, are slut up | by families in stalls, where they sléep on| boards. Hach family has a pig to fat, and | a little piece of land which is cultivated on | Sunday afternoons. yearly two suits of linen, a blanket and a woolen cap,--Brend they do not receive, but have three rations daily of bananas, mangoes, Sweet potatoes. corn, dried fish, and dried beef, which is imported from perhaps will suit your purpose ---Harpoon. "Oh thou omnipotent and benevolent God who has made all men of one flesh, thou Father of all nations, we do most de- voutly beseech thee to defend and strength- en thy institution, American Slavery ! Do thou, O Lord, tighten the chains of our black brethern, and cause slavery to increase and multiply throughout the world ! And whereas many nations of the earth have loved their nei@hbours as themselves, and have done unto others as they would that others should do unto them. and have bro- ken every bond and have let the oppressed go free. do thou, O God, turn their hearts from their evil ways and let them seize once more upon the weak and defenceless, and subject them to the eternal servitude ! "And O God! as thou' hast command: ed us not to muzzle even the poor ox that treadetly out corn ; let them Jabor uneeas- ingly without reward, and let their own husbands, and wives and children be sold into distantlands without crime, that thy name be glorified, and that unbelievers may be confounded, and forced to coufess that indeed Thou art a God of Justice and Mrerey! Stop; stop, O Lord, the escape from the prision house, by which thousands of "accursed" men flee into forcizn coun- tries, where nothing but tyranny reiens ; and compel them to enjoy the unequalled lessings of our own free Jand | Whereas our rulersin the Alabama Legis- lature have emancipated a black man, be- cause of some eminent publie service, thus bringino Thy holy name into shame : do thou, O God, change their hearts, melt them into merey, and into obedience to 'Thy will, and cause them speedily to restore the chain' to that unfortunate soul! And O God, Thou searcher of all hearts, secing that many of Thy own professed followers --when they come to lie down on the bed uf death, and enter upon that bourne whence no traveller returns, where every one shall be called to account for the deeds done in the body whether they be good or whether they be evil--emanvipate their fellow men, failing in faith, and given over to hardness of heart and -blindness' of per- ception of the truth, do: Thou, O God, be merciful to them and the poor recipients of their deceitful philanthropy, and let the chain enter in the flesh and the iron into the soul forever !"" Aqviculture sr, Cunrure or tHe Danperron.--We are informed in the Prairie Farmer, that a man who supplies the Boston market with this early vegetable, obtains annually from one-fourth of an.acre the sum of $200. I Ravip Growin or appre Trees --The Massachusetts Ploughnian gives the mea- surement of four apple trees set five years ago, when three years from the bud,» The soil was of quite moderate fertility. Their present circumference one foot from the eround, fifteen inches each. This rapid srowth is owing to careful transplantin', mulching with strawey manure and peat, washing the stems with potash ley, and keepino the ground in good 'tillage, Erstoacy or. Corron iN Preservrye Frum--We haye been informed, (says an exchangg,) by a gentleman who has had practical proof of its success, of anew mode of keeping fruit fresh for the table, as grapes, plums, &c.; a long tine after thay been ga- thered. It is simply to alternate them in layers of cotton batting in clean. stone javs, and to place them in a chamber secure trom frost, A servantin the family of Wi. Morey, Uniou Village, Washinston County, about to visit her friends, secured a quanti- ty of plums inthis way, to preserve them until ber return. They. were found to have kept in cxeellent condition, lone atte the Every slave receives | fruit had disppeared from the garden, From the hint thus: atiorded, Mr. Morey, Mr. Holems, and one or two others, laid down erapes in this manner lagt fall, and they en- joyed the luxury of fresh, fine fruit during the winter, until the early part of March. a a = MRS. ALEXANDER'S BOARDING-~ HOUSE. Corner of Bates and Congress sts., Me. A. furnishes the best) accommoda= I tion on the most reasonable terms. Please give her a eall. FOSTER'S HOTEL. R.,LEVI FOSTER, of Amherstburg, \ Canada West, would inform his friends and the public generally, that he has neatly titted up a Hotel, on Market-street for the accommodation of such as may fayor him with their patronage. His' prices shall be liberal, and no time and pains spared to render satisfaction to his customers. He has also a variety of splendid carriages and horses to let, connected with the above esta~ blishment, for the accommodation of the public. ANTLSLAVERY, BOOKS O be had in Detroit, at McFarren's Book. Store Jefferson Avenue. The UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF SLAVERY, by Lysander Spooner. HENRY BIBB'S NARRATIVE OF SLAVIERY, Illustrated with Engravinos. This work will be sent to order by applying to the book agent of the True Wesleyan book concern, No, 8 Sprucest., N. Y. orto Wm. Harned at 61 Johnst., at the follow- ing prices : Paper covers - -, ~-, = 90874 Cloth binding - -, -,. - 050 Extra gilt bound - .-, - 100 For cash in hand one third will be taken off, UNIVERSAL HISTORY of the Coxor- ep and Inpran hace. By RK. B. Lewis. A VALUABLE LOT FOR SALE. A yaluable Lot, with a new frame store upon it, in the village of Dresden, ad- joining the Dawn Institute, on the River Sydenham, being at the head of the navi-- gation of that river, it is an excellent position for a country store. Price $400. JAMES DOUGALL, Windsor, Canada West. _ 5 : AVA BABY & O'CONNOR ' LAW, CHANCERY, AND CONVEYANCING: OFFICES, AT SANDWICH G WINDSOR: Chas. Baby, John O'Uonnor, Jr, Sundwich. Windsor. n 17. tt THE WINDSOR PRENGEMAG OPWPLCB. BIBB AND HOLLY ESPECTYULLY inform the inhabitants. of Windsor and vicinity, that they are low prepared to execute every description of work in their line with accuracy, neat- ness and despatch, Bovks, Pamphlets, Circulars, Handbills, &c., at Detroit Prices. Handbills struck off in one hour's notice. 'The patronage of the public is eanes tly solicited. ' H. BIBB, ; J.T. HOLLY. CHEAP BOSTON SPORE. Bae AND SHOES. The subscriber has on hand at all times a full and complete assortment of Boots and Shoes of! descriptions, of superior qualivy and. work- manship, which will be sold at extreme low prices, for READY PAY ONLY. The Citizens of Detroit and the surronnd+- ing country are respectfully inyited to eall' in and examine.our stock and prices before purchasing elswhere, as they cannot but be: suited. 1 keep on hand a constant supply: of my own manufacture, made from the best. materials the market here or the east 'will afford. This establishment keeps in constant - employment about seventy hauds, with an. experienced foreman to superintend, andall. work sold by me as my own manufacture,., will be warranted, and at about the same price that eastern work is sold, Also, always on hand, a general and com-- plete assortment of Ladies,' Gentlemen's. Misses' and Children's Boots and Shoes of alli. descriptions of EAsrmw munufacture, and of as good quality as can be purchased in, the eastern market, which. will be sold. cheaper than at any other establishment in. the state. All the above work was selected expressly- for the retail trade, and is of the yery best quality--any work purchased at this estab- lishment, proving diiferent from that repre- sented, may be returned and the money will be refunded. 5 " Boots and Shoes ofall descriptions made to order on the shortest notice. Repairing in all its branches done in a neat and durable manner, at prices to suit the times. i, Findings of all descriptions kept con stantly on hand. L. L. FARNSWORTH. £2 Dont forget the number and get into the wrong Shop, but remember the Gormic Srorn, 54, east side of Wood- ward Avenuesfive doors below the Presby- terian Church, and 2d store from Jefferson Ayenue, . ; nl4,