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'^ (WRITTKS mil THK MANITOIIA, ) .OTH before and after tlie Con- federation of the eastern provinces, tlie (lovernnients of Upper and Lowei" Canada, as well as that of Ccjnfederatioii, repeatedly sent delej^ates to En,ifland to negotiate witli tlie Hudson's Bay Company and fniperial Uoverninent forthe annexation of Iiu))erts Land and the North West Territories. The last delegation sent w.s composed of Sir George E. Cartier and the Hon. William McDougall, who sailed in October, 18fiS. They succeeded in pur- cliasing the right, title and interest of the Company under a lease given to Prince Kupert in 1(570 by Charle.s II. for trading purposes. The amount paid to the }Iud- soii's Bay Company was 8:500,000, it (the Company) to retain one-twentieth of tlie lands, and certain reservations around each fort or trading place, varying from Un\ acres around lJp|)er Fort Carry, now Winnipeg, to r)U,000 around other forts, Tn the Session of ISIil) the Parliament of C/'aiiada passed an Act to jji'ovide for the territorial government of the coun- try, lately ac'|uired from the Company. As soon as it was fully known through- out Uuperts liand, tli(^ populattnl ])ortion of the territory, that Canada was about accjuiring possession of the country, gr(>at discontent pn^vailed am(ni.;st the Freiu'li element of the population, as well as a considerable numljer of the Hudson's Bay servants and employees. The form • class feared that under the new order of tilings their religion and liberties might be interfered v.ith and the latter were dissatisficul because they felt that their individual interests had not been pro- vided for by the directors in London. Their dissatisfaction was intensified when they discovered that in the distriliution of the purchase money their claim to participate th(>rein was not rei'ognised. Tlu! French began to iiold meetings, and directed by the priests and ch'i'gy, formed an organized opposition tvt Can- ada taking possession of the country. Col. Dennis, with a stall' of surveyors was sent Ijy Canada, in advance, to lay out the plan of survey best adapted to the territory. On the 11th of October, IHOO, a party of surveyors under Mr, Webb were stepped at their work by a party of French half-breeds, iieaded by Louis Kiel. Ap))lication was made to (Jovernor McTavish for assistance, but such was not granted l)y the T:iudson's Bay Co. government of Assirilioia. Hon. William McDougall naving Ijeen a]ipointcd first governor of .Manitolia and the Territories started from Ottawa in October, 1S<50, and reached P«Mnliina with his staff on the ;50th of same month. A !)arrier had i)een erected by the French half-l)reeds at River Salle, some nine miles south of Winniix^g, to prevent his reaching I'ort Garry, behind which were an arnind force of forty French half- breeds, and twenty more undei- command of Louis Kiel stationed at St. Agathe for the pur[)Oso of turning the Lieutenant- (Jovernor back should he attempt to enter the province. On the L*nd of November Mr. McDougall was driven out of the Hudson's Bay fort at PiMubina and was com})elled to retrace his steps to Ottawa. On the afternoon of 3nd \o\ember, lii(>l and his followers of 100 men, took pi'.aci'nble possession of Fort Garry. What is meant by peaceabh; possession is, that no resistances wasotfennl by the Hudson's Bay Company, which was the recognised and lawful government of the province at the time, they having inside the large stone walls of the Fort thirteen six pounders', gun.s, Kniield ritles and large ((uantities of ammunition, provisions and clothing After having manned the artillery guns, exchanged tluMr old brown bess(;s for Fntield retles, envelojied the .selves iu Hudson's I >ay company rfia/mps, and more than sampled for a week or ten days, Hudson's Bay rum, ]{iel, with ecclesias- tical aid and advice, proceeded to the formation of a provisional government. On the tenrli of Hecember following, tiie rag of tiie j)rovisional government was unfurled over the walls of Fort Garry, on the same pole on which iloated for over one hundred years the grand old I'nion .lack. 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Af,..,. d.n.oa- a. .!,.■ tiaaa-an ' a,a,..| W. .h.v.a ihit i>l, ..lli.o,' ho,,l, h. .a. int..,.H.wo. hy th.an ono si.o il.looxMTionoo, and ahhon^h aft..- th,. otl,..,', and tol.l ol th.. -foa 't , " v'v I^n n. nlan, had ,li..in da: ,.■,. an,l .litli.nl. i.. t. h.. .n,;n,onn,od :3;KiLs;.lfonn,,u,yahattl,li..ld. on land an.l wa„.,, an.l t hna,.h .nt,.,.,n,n- n The Manftomax. 19 able forests ; tliat sueli a difficult and daiijicrous o.xppditioii was nover experi- onccd in the i)ii'-':ary annals of (Jreat I'.ritain, and that Xapoieon's crossing the Alps, and liis campaign to Moscow wero insignilieant in comparison : that accord- ing to the most carcfid calculations de- rived from previous similar expeditions, if resistance were otlered by Kiel and liis force, only one man out of four was ever expected to return to Ontario again, and that having a wife and family behind, de- dendent on him, it w,as not doing them justice to run such a risk. All this dis- intei'.'sted advice was Ijacked up in one case ')y an offer of !?.'500, and in another case, $400, if deponent would return home and allow either of these philan- thropic veterans to hesacriticedii. his stead The oU'er, however, was declined for the following reasons : 1st. That the persons desiring to go, were so much tlcc younger men, and it would be too bad to deprive tlic world of their philanthropy. 2nd. That as for wife and family, I begged to inform them tliat my life Was very lieavily insured. .'b'd. That my medical adviser stated to me mat if 1 did not take a change of cli- mate, T would be dead insid(! of a year, anyway. Tiiese reasons appearing sutHcient, ne- gotiations were broken otY. Tiit; writer was with the expedition through all its dangers and difficulties to Fort Gariy, and, although not returning to Ontario, is in the land of the living yet, thanks to Providence and the climate of Manitoba. Ho hus also gone through two military expeditions since, without claiming a pen- sion, or reducing tlie assets of life insur- ance companies. AM preliminaries having l)een arranged and tlu^ organi/ati(jn and equipment of the force completed, on the evening of the l;3th of May, 1S70, regimental orders of the Ontario Hifles were issued for Nos. 1 and i C(m\panies under command of Capt. Cook and Capt. McMillan, to hold themselves in readiness to emb.ark at the depot of the Northern Railroad at -' p.m. next day for Collingwood, thence l)y steamer Ohicora to 8ault St, Marie. The=e companies being selected as the advance guard of the expedition, and Tuunber four being compo.sed mai'dv of Toronto boys, large crowds assembled at the depot to see them off. "While seatetl in the train the members of the Young Men's Christian A.ssociation of Toronto went around and presented each officer and man with a pocket edition of ths bible. Every man, with only one ex- ception, accepted the gift with deep gratitude and this one I had the mis- fortune to have in my Ijtjat all through the expedition, and have no hesitation in saying tliat he was the worst conducted man on the force, and it was only fear of being left alone on a hniely island of Kainy Lake with a barrel of hard tack where he might not possibly see the face of a human being for years that com- pelled sui)ordination on his part. The train moved otl' amidst enthusiastic cheers and the weeping and tears of wives, mothers, children, si.ster.s, brothers and sweethearts. All along the route to Collingwood jieople, had gathered at the ditl'erent stations to clieer the volunteers for lied River as the train glided past. We arrived at Collingwood at 7.30 p.m. and went aboard the iJhicora which was in waiting. Here we met Ool. Rolton, commisariat officer, who took command of the two companies. The boat was already laden with military stores and provisions, with hoi-.ses, wagons and laborers, going up to work on the Daw.son Road lietween Prince Arthur's Landing and Shebandowan Lake. At eight o'clock on a beautiful summer .May evening the Cliicora moved off from the dock amidst the ringing cheers of the loyal peopl(> of the town of Collingwood. The evening was calm ; the waters of tlie Georgian Bay were as smooth as glass ; the moon was at its full, and here ancl there upon the deck were small crowds of oflicers and men discussing the prob- abilities of the 1,300 miles of unknown and unbroken forests, unnavigated and unnavigable rivers.undiscovercd lakes and insurmountable cataracts which lay before us. The intervening territory between Lake Superior and Red River was as little known to the people of Canada as wen^ the wilds of Abyssinia to British troops marching on Magdala afewyears previous. So little was known of the Northwest, that in 18()7 an application from one ir.avJi ?(> The M^nitohax. (Hngras, of l'\irt (Larry, was nuidc to Col. Doiinisoii to he admittod a cadet to iUo Military School, Toronto. The Colonel look tlie ap{)lic'ation before a class of li' cadets to find out wliere Fort (iarry was. In this class were two lawyeis, tliree doctor.s and one .scliool teacher, and the nearest approach to a correct answ(!r was ^'iven hy the lattei' who hesitatingly statcnl that Fort Carry was situated in thermit Canadian vessels carry- ing troops, stores or nuniitions of war to pass thi'ough tht; I'anal, although indeed, it was urged that during the .southern re- bellion the Canadian (if)vernment had al- lowed American vessels to transpoi't troojisas well as warlike materials through our canals. The Covernnient of Canada, howmer, anticipating such an emergency, took the commendableprecaution of earlyin thesea- son sending the Algoma through the canal into Lake Superior with instructions to remain then' at anchor on the Canadian side. The wisdom of this arrangemenl was soon manifest, for when the Chicora arrived at the Sault with troops, she was not iiermitted by the American authori- ties to pass through the canal. The sym- ))athy of the American people at the Sault with l\iel and the rebellion was so great tli;it they ojienly boasted of ha\ing blocked the expedition atr tlie start, but the writer had tlu^ satis- faction of jirovnig tc some of them that thiy knew little of the military history of England, and less of British exploits. Indeed every one believed that this un fiiendly act of the American peoi)le would have no oth(>r alternati\(; than tliC retm-n of the expedition to Canada, but wlien they were pointed out the Chicora on the one side oi the rajiids and the Algoma in jjake Superior on the oth'^r side they became! terrilily exas})erated and pro- nounced it another of Sir John A.'s old tricks. Sutiice it to say that although putting us to considei'able incon\(>ni(>nce and delay, we set lo work next morning to make a military road from the landing to Lake Superior, a. distance of about one and a half miles. We pitched i amp mid- way on a nice lawn in front of th(> old Hudson's Ray C'o. fort at the foot of the St. Marie rapids. Next morning at tin," 1 The Maxitoran. 21 Kourid of the hiiLd*' tlic \ ((luiitct'is iiaiiidcd iiiul jit'tcc bciiiff served witli pickaxe-, sliovels and wlieell)ai'i'((\v.s and a pound nt' hard: tack eacli man, the iirst liaid day's woik of the caiiij)aiifM eniiiineM''e(I. ( To III- (■/iii/hui'-il. J fresh., o| Tf2e Idol of OuF fipeat Western Jiome. in' c. M. coimox. Ol'l! visitors wliether, tliey come via tli(!(.'re;it Lakes, or round tlie i-oek ,1,'ii-t north sliore of I^ake ^upi'rior, will find I'ort Arthur siiiilinn- iuid I'osy, always lliei'e to ipeu tlie dooi' and welcome (hem, and in due (oursi) pass them on. and into the front parloi-, wliere sits Winnipeg- l)lythlv enlertainiiii,' her many suitors, tlios^e who come via Duluth. ( 'lii( aL'.o and St. Paul, find much to interest them on the way, and were our idol less fascin- ating', interesting and wealthy in nature's l)le.ssinj,'s that! she is, her cjiances of re- tainiiii,' all her heau.x would i)e coiiNider ably reduced. {''fom the west they come too. The ])asses of tlu^ l!o^•i^y Miiuntams are lieini;- made to echo with the word Winnipeg, as her many old friiMids return to tlunr Iirst love. And yet, it is not long since sh" made her debut, oidy ten years since the fame of her attractions was noised al)road, and the first cariiage diawii by the snorting iron race horses of the aij;e, came galh p- iug up th(> valley of the lied, ;uid pull 'd u\) at her door. Since then the \irgin prairi(! has been ma(h> to tremble under the clattering footfalls and the thundering impetuosity of these el)on chargers hurry- ing with their living burden.s, and loads of treasure to the home of this fair dam- sel. When she took up her abodi; on the rim of th(> wide, wide western world, (if which sh(! has ever since li:M'n and ever will be the champion, she was not with- out d(>lractors. Sisti c towns, envious of her growing prestige, spoke unkindly of her. How clamorously they jxiinted to their own merits, and talked .and talked among themselves, and to whoever would listen, al)out the (latness and nastine.ss and the impudence of this young thing that had set up an establishment at the juiH'tion of the Ited !ind the Assinniboine. I>ut she had come to stay. Her friends ;ind lo\-ers Hocked in thousands to her liortaj s, till she w,is comjielled ro eida-ge her rfomicile. ~-^ _ She bfgaii to .-ippi-ecii^^te her own great ness and call herself the '^' (latew.ay of the (ireat and Crowing (ii;in;\ry of the (iold en Wfst," -The Heart City," 'The Hull's Kye," etc., etc. Infac^tslie now deems herself the unapproachable but unap |>roa(hal>lc in (uie scn.se oidl. for her doz- en railways render her apprfiachable from every point of the compassi She is not put out by anything that/ may now be lie .said of her. She thrives jdikc on cal umny, persecution or praise. Like l\ T. Harnum, she •' does not c;ire' what thev say of her so long as tluiyf.say something. How majestically she wejirs her coronet, and how gorgeous the ghus th.at adorn the Hashing cor.selet of \Vinnipei;-. Insofar.as she is dependent for her sjilendor on the de\-elopmcnt .ind wealth of the keystone j)r()vin(ie .M;initol);i, of which she is the cajiital, sdie has attained to it in spite of the dreaniy do nothing- ness of Canada's iimnigration department: in spite of the isolation of .Manitolia with r(|ference to all Eastern Can.ada :, in spite of the imaginary line drawn across~s4ic American coi\tinent, shutting her ))eople^ out from theii- wealthy, friendly and clos- est nciirhboi's : in spite of the" ridiculous ami falaciotis opinions still tenaciously held by ten(lerfeetrcgar(lingthe"strengtii" of the ozone ch.irged prairie atniosplieiv. I say that -in spite of these and unnamed diKadv;intages,\Vinni])eghas, by her inate power and liy sheei' tore c of fa\oriiig cir- cumstances forged far .ahead of .-ill I'om- jietitors in t\w. race for prominence and power. The fav,)ring circumstances that have in the past supported her, continue to exist ;ind must multiply as the infant empire of which she is the liead develops more .and more towaids a lusy m.aturity. Jler little sisters and cousins wliowen; somewhat pi(|ued at her in the comim nce- meiitof her citrer, have sensibly sul)sided and .some are graceful enough to join in the long and loud refrain Of .adul.ition that is now filling th(> world with her praises. Portage la Prairie long ago made up her mind that to be a suburb of Win- «)!) TlIK M.WrTOMAN. o "A H ■r. r. a t) Y TitE Manitodax. 51 " You shall lie olieyerl," answered tlie girl calmly. The Marchioness, upon receivini,' tlw money whi.-h slie left wiih Pascalin ■ the clay before, iitistened to the i,'Hadiii for tlie purpos 1 of learniiif^ \sliy tlie rose liad -not been sent. H\w. was informed that Mile. IJenoit had just ji^fnie out with a while rose in herliand. The Marchioiie-is turned and saw her walkini,' down the street. Prompted liy curiosity to see vvliere she was going to, she resolved i) follow her. Pascaline entered a cemetery. She knelt at the grave of her niotiier ; and after planting the rose upon it she ex- claimed : "Oh my mother! accept this pledge of my remembrance ; receive this flower whiclitlioulovestso much, and which my own Ininds have eul'.ivated for thee;, intercede for thy poor child, who is this day without pi-otecfion or hope!" and with her tears slie bechnved the wooden cross, which was the only monument that mark- ed the resting place of that beloved mother. The Mafchione.ss moved to tears retired unperceived. Ntxt day Pascaline was preparing to leave. "Where are you going.'" emjuired her companions. "I must leave you," was the reply. "Why .'" "I'.ecause ! can't pay my rent." "But your rent is paid for two years." "Is it possil)le .'" "Yes: here is your receipt." Pascaline was astoumh d : but .she soon comprehended the pleasant truth. That evening a well dressed servant delivered her the following note, inclosing two hun dred Louis : " Mademoisellk : I know all. I know you have given to your motlier the tlower with which 1 wished to adorn my wedding robe. I have a mother whom I ailoie, and can aj.prcci- ate your itiateinul devotion. 1 theiefore take this opportimity of expressing my sympathy with you, in such hi^anfflt proof of filial afTt-c- tion. Please accept of the enolosfd as a pledtje of my remembrance. I hops you will not refuse me this privelnge of cotnmepoiug my nianied life by hon'^ring lilial piety. Your sincere friend, A.MENAinE-UK-KBiiENiAL.'' Undkrt.vker (to youth who is lighting a cigHrette) ; "That's right. You smoke the ci'.'arettes ; we do the rest." — .Vciu York Presti. Red Km? Expedition ef 1870. m .\N oFi'.cKii or riiK kukck. ( CouttDjied. ) \,'l Y last connnunication left the -i^ T I ^^ arlvanco guard of the ex- V:^ jjcdition nicamjied in front of the Hudson's Bay fore at Sault St ]\rarie. midway between the landing and Lake Superior, and armed not with ril'.es or bayonets or ammunition but with pickaxes, spades ami shovels to make about three (|U-.trters of a mile of wagon road through the bush from the old fort to Lake Superior. The troops commencefl their work, but for several days could make but little headway owing to the want of scrapers and wheel barrow.s. There were no scrapers and about one wheelbarrow to every twenty men .so that while one man wheel d his load about one hundred yards and returned, the twenty men stood waiting. The supplies of material to work with were wanting : the arrangements throughout were bad, both on the Dawson road and on the portaijes, but as the Minister of Works was from a certain pi'ovince it was im- material to him whether the expedition reached Fort (iarry in three months or in three years. On May 2.'b'd the Ohicoraai'rived, bring- ing with her Col. ^Volsley and stall" and the gieater part (.f the OOth liitle.s, the remaining companies liavmg ai'rived on the Francis Smith the same afternoon. The day was very warm, and the first of the season on which the mo.s(|uitocs turned out in vast myriads. .*"ome()f the regulars experienced the attacks of this Canadian pest for the first time, and it was extremely amusing to hear their comments on the little animal Just at sundown and while on parade the follow- ing might be heard :-- "Jack what in ii 11 are these little insects tint come to whistle a jig in your ear before attacking your jugular !" " P.'shaw ', replies Jack, "these are the Canadian mus-ka-toes, placing the accent on the first and last syllable." " B — y my eyes if they're so savag,^ iu 32 'I'he Mamtoi'.an. I I ^ TiiK Maxitohan IS I o ■ hiiifuncy what brutes they must l)c w lieu nine or ton years old !" A littlo f .rtlici- down tlic tiinks is jin IrisliMiiin I'vidciitly, wlio |)in|iu>cs ilic following' conundru;u : " Why is the nios(|uito Ilk.' tlic Iculcr of tlic ('onscrvativi' jiaily .'' " Tim, I don't know." " iVcausc he likes to have I'.iifish hlood in Ills \fi;rs. " No d.iuht this regiment leniifd the truth (if the ennundrum, for before ihey reached Sludiandowan Lake, des|iiie tiie mosquito nets and the mos(|uito lu' lof oil supplied them by tlie Dominion (iovern nient, their own ollieers orneaiest r jiitives could not identify some of tliem, tiicy re- ceived such iiiark'-il attcntiou paid them by the moscpiito family. (Jn this evenii i,' the fWJth Holies, No. 1 <'onipany, under Cajit Cook, witii Col. Wolseiey and stall \v<'nt on ijoard the rihicora and with two seiiooneis in tow, heavily laden with military ston s, started for Prince Arthur's landing,' amidst the clieers of a larj.;e nundKsr of citizens and Xo. l^ (yonpany wlio escoi ted them to liie Lake, 'iliey readied I'rince A'tlmr's landina; on the west coast of Lake Su- perior on the 2.")th, which place was cluistened after Prince Arthur, third son of Queen \'ictoria, now known as thi; Duke of Coniiaui,dit. No. 1 Company had ins' ru( tions to remain and |msli ,)ii with rapidity (he completion of the mad to Lake Superior. I'-rom this date eveiv boat that arrived from (^ollin^'wood l)roUi;ht a contuiifent of the First Ontario Rifles and the Second Quebec. These corps only remained long eiiou'.di ;it the Sault to catch the lirst Ijoat departing for Foi^ William. ^>i\ the evening of the 'J.'bd of June a t.dl and supper was given to the otlicirs of the Ontario Kitles and (^)iiebec IJattalion by Mi-s. Simiison, the esteemed wife of Mr. Simjison, M.P. for Algoma, to which the hading citizens and the American otHcers aeros.s the river were invited. There were some tw(Mity-(ive couples [)resent and dancing W!is kept up until the 'wee sma' liour.s. Everybody stiemed to enjoy themselves exceedingly when aliout one o'clock a.m., and when all had been harely seated at supper. a messenger arrived in iio:- ! haste bearing a letter for Col. Bolton, which on being opeiieil, coiiijiunicated the intdligence that oOO Fenians fully armed and equipped liad landed in the canal and were .aliout to attack the camp. No doulit this intelligence created lonsiderablo commotion, and amongst the olHcers there wee eons der.tble clashing of swords and hurrying to and fro, aiicl sonit; female checks a little pale, hut it was decided tint on should go tic dance and that the Ainer can ollieers, (as there wen? very few citizens jireseiit), should remain and wind up tlie ba'l. The ladies with the e.\ceptioii of the wife of the commanding olKcer were eon- sideralily alarmed, and as her hiisl and and liisollicirs emerged into the dark n^-s-s, S'le stood pliickily at the ball room d • and eulleit nfK-r them not to retui n until they made the Fenian s-cally-wags smell liritish ])o\vder The nigh, was extremely dark and we had considerabi"' dilliculty in lir.(bng our way back to cam]). Walking side by side with Colonel IJulton, I was not a little surjiri.sed to lind that instead of advising Ins subordinate ollieers how best to post themseUes in iiatth; array to rep 1 tlu; in vader-, he would every now and then, al'' 'r a silence of many minutes, break out, into viohmt imprecations on tin; head of Col. O — , followed by language not generally taught in S.bbaih Scho'il.s, and all thi.s illwill because he, in carving the liam, cut tlie slices too thick. We reached camp, however, to find it utterly deserted, as the troops had already tuiiu'd out and took uji position in a cor- ner of the woods on the Canadian side aliout three hundred yards from and fac- ing the ca'ial. Entering the woods we hand to grope our way ihrouuli the dark- ness to discover (he position of our men ; every moment expecting to be welcomed by a stray bullet from some of our sen- tries who might po.ssibly mistake us for til. enemy. At that particular moment, bang goe.s a rille followed by anotlnr and another, and then n, dead silence. From tlie.se we learned the e.xaet location of our force, and 1 niu»t s>iy of our .. .adian non-com- missioned ofliceis, that wlier . . ached 54 The Manttorax. tliPiii we found tlioiii in as cHective posi- tion as if thoy were placed by Col. Wols- loy himself After remaining; for some f;:!!', and dayl k'"^ approachirij,', ami no si^us of the ajipearinco of an en.aiy (save a harmless (iuadru[.ed lired at \<\ the afore- said sentry, and who sutl'i'red for his t' m- eritv, of bourse, not i he sentry, but the pigf, the main body returned to camp, to discover that the cause of alarm was a body of live hundred w«4«s armed with pickaxes, sjiades and shovels, passing up to work in the mines at MaKjuette. Mo matter how luifriemby tiie relations between ti'H two governments at that date it is only due to Col. Artl-y and the orticers and men under his connnand to say liiat a m -re liospi ab e bod v of men could raiely be found. Nothing that they could do was left unlone to c 'ntril)Ute to the wants of our lit'le force while at Sadt '^t. Miirie They crowned their hospit.lity by giving a ball on the even- ing of tlie 7th of June in honor of the Canadian otUcers, at which all those sta- tioned at the Sault attended, and a more enjoyable entertainment could not be desire 1. it was indeed a most magnitl- eent atFair and a credit to tlie American town of 8ault St. Marie. The troops, st-.res, voyigeurs, etc . having beiii pushed ahe ul, the time caine for the last comi>any of ti»e l''irst Ontario stationed at the 8ault to report at h' ad ([U irters at Prince Arthurs Landing, con sequent ly on Hunday, June I'Jtli, lS7(t, the last company boarded the Chicjfii, in Lake Superior. ILtving remaineil so long at the Siult from the Kith May to the TJlh of dune, neiily a month, quitci an aci|U lintmu'c sprung up between the troops and the citizens, and the whole town turned out en m isse to see them otl'. At 1 I o'cKn k a.m., the Chicoa got uji -team and moy.-d out into tiie lilue wa'ersof Like Superior, while, on th^^ shore, there were cheering and waving of iiaitdkevcldefs as long as the Chicora remained in view. Thunder Cajje appeared in view at m\ e\rlv hour in the morning of June lIHh, and at •-' l» m. sam(! d ly w(^ landed at Prince .Arthur's Liiulmg, and found onr wmh awaiting us. The laiuUng, now Port Arthur, contained then two houses and a s'ore, one of the former bei g a stopping pi ice for the suner.ntendent of the D,i«son lload, a. d the othe-- a small grocery, containing more agate specimens for sale than groceries. ( To he Continued) Jlumopous Tit-Bit8. Ok (ioon TJki'UTi:.— "your husband," said the .aller, sympathizm^ly, _" was a man of manv e.\celleiit ([ualities. "Ye.-,'" sighed the wi.U)w, "he was a good .nan. Ever) b .dy says so. 1 w..sn'b mueh actpiainted witli hiin myself. H- be- longed to six lodges."— C7(ic-'«i/o Tribune. Insuuaxck a.«;d Assiraxce. — Life insurance men reaiiud ua We can make our wives subhme, And ilepaituig leave behiaii ua Widows worthy of our time. We can give them such a send off Oil th J life insurance plan, Thar, when we, aeparling, end ott, Thev can hook some other man. ■' -Si'hctm, TiiK following is said to be true:— A preacher "out West," Mr. H., was a good man, but very rough m his v.'ay, and very much given to chewing tol)acco, One time lie was rid ill a on horseback through the country, when there cime up a shower. Kiuing up to a c.ibm he hast ly hitched hi- iiorse, and knocked at the (ioor. A sharp looki.ig old lady answerid the summons. The pre;iclier asked for slielter. "1 don't tdu' in strangers -I don t know you," replied the old lady sus- piciou-ly. " l',at you know what the Bible savs, s-iid the preicher : " Be not forgettol to entertain slr,inger.«, for thereby sou>e have entertained ang-ls unawares. " You needn't ([UJle Bible/' said the old lady, quickly. "No angel would come down from h.aven with a quid of tobacco in !iis mouth, as you have!" The door was shut, and the preacher uiihitelied his hor.se und rode away in tlie rain. .A'.'', The Manitobax. 85 come to pass within tlie last 2n years that young Methodist professor-s read papers on Biblical criticism, that not Ions; a^o would have lead to their classification with Qolenso, if jiotj_ Tom -Paine. The hereticI~or~a quarter of a century ago are tlie leaders of to-day. Say.s Prof. Simon, " Few things are more significant than the fact that Tennyson's lines, the quotation of which in niy student days was almost enough to stamp a man a heretic : "Our little systems have their day, They have their day and cease to be, Tliey are but broken lights of Thee, And thou, oh Lord, art more than they." Now form part of the " New Congrega- tional Hymnal." Still, underneath this appearance of audacious criticism there is a good deal of healthy conservatisni and common sense. A man's view 0f English religious thought will depend largely on the point from which he ma^es his appnach. Let him go to it fiom Princeton or Jlartford Seminary, aiUl he will hold up his hands in horror saying, " (Jood heavens, is nothing left ? '* Let him come to it from some of the g(>ats of (jerman scholarship, and he wil) throw up his hands in ecstasy aiid say "Thank God, there is nothin:^ lost." Passing on to look for a few moments at the men who come under the second divi- sion as leaders in the application of leli- gion, to the cjuestions of the time I shall confine our attention mainly to u i;roup composed of the following meti : W. T. Stead, Hugh Price Hughes and (ieneral Hooth. These stand for the Gospel of Social Jleform, by means of the applica- tion of religious truth to th(! actual life of the people. They an; often found to- gether on platforms where the moral side of social and political (|uestions is under discussion. \V. T. Stead was famous as editor of the VallMall (>''i:''t/r, and is now more famous as the projector and editor of the lier'ipn^ of Hi'vieii-K. He is a man to whom journ.ilis)n is a passion. If you accept him as a sincere man ht^ has cer- tainly a very lofty purpose in life. \\\ his sketch of Lowell in the; ^i^ptemher number of the licviiir of /frvirjrs, he tells of his early ambition and of its threatened blight through blindness. Then he goes on to speak of the influence that a certain poem "Kxtreme Unction," had exerted upon his career. "This poem changed my life," he wrote on the margin, so changed it that in his own words " The idea that everything wrongin the world was a divine call to use your life in righting it, sank deep into my soul, and then in the darkness and the gloom of that time of weakness apd trial, I put awayfrom me as of the Evil one all dreams of fame and literary ambi- tions on which I had fed my boyhood, ajnd resolutely set myself there and then tio do whut little I could, when T was iimong those that surroundad me to fulfil the trust for such high uses given. It was one of the decisive monents in my life. Since then I can hardly say that I have never regarded literary or journalis- tic success as worth a straw, excepting in so far as it enabled me to strike a heavier blow in the cause of those for whom I was called upon to fight, " Now the man who possessing unciuestionable abilities writes in that vein, is either a noble or a scamp, either one of God's elect souls or a magnificent humbug. He leaves you no alt(>rnative. f had the pleasure of hearing him speak at asocial purity meeting, and must confess that I would rather read his articles than listen to his speeches. His style is some- what labored. He gives you an idea of striving after an etl'ect, as posing in the attitude of an Elijah or Isaiah of the 19tli century. But, from what I liave learned from men who know .something of his inner life, he is thoroughly lionest, a genuine man ; and being that he must wield an influence in E.igland both uni- , (lueand mighty, In almo-t (svery liius of "ItffM.lu're have been cases of divinely con- seL'rated gfmius. Po-Hry has had its Lowell and Whittier; the pulpit its Heecher ; music has had its Haydn atid Jenny Lind: the army has had it:^ Stonewall Jackson and General Gordon.^ Now what these weie in their respective spiieies. Stead seems to be in liis owti sphere of action -a man whose geniub is given of tJod sitting on that throne pf modern civiliza- tion the editors chairj Uelonging dimominaticmally to Mel lio- dism but becoming mpre and more the property of the Iiritisl| people at laige is Hugh Price Hughes. He is a compara- 86 The Manitoban. tive young man, not much over forty. He isslenflerof l)uild, has a full beard, the removal of which would. I im!i!»inp, re veal a very detHruiined mouth and chin, and dark eyes that have a certain tigerish glitter in them when he is roused by op- position. Some tenor twelve years a;,'0 the onward march of Methodism in Eng- land .st'emed to have s'oppi'd Tlic ranks had apparently come to a halt and there were even whispers of a fa!linj» liack. But now there is a forward movement, and of that movement Price Hughes is the white plumed leader. What liis theo- logy is 1 don't know. So far as I can learn he is en the liberal side, a man with a born distaste and contempt for things that claim attention simply l)ecause they are old. Hut if he is broad he is not latitudiiiarian. Whatever hebelievesabout hea%in or hell, he acts as if they were tremendous realities. Realities , how- ever, of an ethical rather than a topo- graphical character. He looks upon them both as beginning here and now. He preaches with direct reference to the present life. Salvation is salvation fi'om present rascality, cruelty and misery. On all pul)lic questions he keeps himself well informed. Wlien Parnell's immorality was brought to light, he was among the first, if not the first, to turn upon the offender the scorching fires of the "Non-conformist Conscience." Of the Dilke case he seems to know quite as much as the lawyers themselves, and has no iiesitation in declaring with passionate zeal that Sir Charles must either clear himself or clear out of political life. There is a cartoon somewhere which re- presents Gen. Booth saying to Leo XIII, " I'm a bit of a Pope myself," and there is truth in the cartoon. Ger.. Booth is to be counted in as one of the great forces in tht^ field of practical Christianity. There is no single man in all Britain, unless it be Gladstone, that can call out such a hurricane of enthusiasm and loyal devotion as Booth. I was in the Crystal Palace at the anniversary of the Salvation Army. Between G0,006 and 70,000 peo- ple passed the turnstile that day. Four hundred bands were gathered from dill'er ent parts of England. About !>,000 in- struments were crowded into the Handel orchestra, and yet they seemed only as i large choir to the vast multitude that had gathered undnr the roundtd roof. Theie was bustle and confusion for a time; then a growing quieinf'es; then, when on the platform that "good gray head that all men knew" appeared, the myriad eyes were lighted with joyous fire, and from .'),000 instruments and 50,000 human throtts, there roiled out a volume of sound com- pared with which the thunder of Niagara was hushed to a whisper No doubt this Peter the Hermit of a new crusade against the Turks and Infidels of modern sin and wretchedness, this Gen. Booth is one of the leaders of applied religious thought in England, I must now close, sorry to seem by my silence contemptuous in reference to other names. In all the unrest and discon- tent of the old land, all the shifting of old theological land marks, in all the novelty of method that is elbowing out old customs, a hopeful eye can see hope- ful things, and a hopeful heart can be- lieve that He who has come again and again through the centuries with glor- ious gifts for mankind is drawing near once more with some fresh and startling display of His inexhaustible grace. Red Rm? Expedition of 1870. (WRITTBX KOIl TlIK M \N' ITOIIAN. ) BY AN OFKICEU OF TlIK FOIJCK. (Continued.) r'^^HE morning of the 1 tth June, 1870, found the 1st Ontario Ritie.s, 2nd Quebec Battallion and the ( Jth Rifles, encamped on a nice gr»!eii plot sloping down to the water's edge, on the shore of the lake, and now the most settled portion of the town of Port Ar- thur. The morning was beautiful, with a hot sun and clear blue sky. Away across an arn> of the lake could be seen Thunder Cape, a large precipice, rising l,3r)0 feet above the water, and on tlu^ southwest, McKay's Mountain, rising majestically above the surrounding country and whicli appeared to be a few miles distant, but before it could l)e reached one would have to travel at least seven. The coun- try around Prince Arthur's La.iding ap- peared one scene of desolation, no gieen The Manitoran. 87 tree appearing in view, nothing 'out rocks, everlasting rock, and a foresit of pine trees burned black by a fire which de- vastated the whole country some days previously. The Fenians at that time were giving no little trouble to the Cana- dian Government, and on account of a reported Fenian cruiser on Lake Superior, it was considered necessary to provide against a sudden attack. A stockade for the prot ction of ammunition and stores was consequently erected on the shore of the lake, and at high water mark. Some 100 men were employed at this work for nine or ten days, and a more nonsensical employment could not be found. Whoever was the author of this work doserves little credit for his judg ment and still less for his generalship, for in case of attack, it o.'reied a premium to the enemy to come and take possfssion. W&i it been built .500 yards further up from the water's edge, on the slope of the hill, a few men could iiave protected it against as many hundreds. The waste of labor of so many men for so many days was apparent to every private in the ranks, and created great dissatisfaction amongst the troops, because every one be- lieved the time and labor wasted on build- ing such a stockade, if used on the Daw- son road, would hasten the expedition on its march some eight or ten days. Here on the Dawson road commenced the first great difficulty of the expedition. The commanding otUcer, before he left Ottawa, was led to believe that the 40 miles of road between Prince Arthur's Landing and Shebandowan Lake would be ready for the conveyance of troops, stores and bo its, but to his great astonish- ment, when he arrived on I'Gth of May, he found only Bome ten or twelve miles pasmble for horses or wagons, and the bridges of this distance burned down by a lire which niged a short tinu? previous- ly. For the first week the weather was tine. Two companies of the OOtii were Bent forward to work an the road. On the 'JSth of May the first wagons lo.ided with stores were started for Iviministiciuia llridge, and some boats a'so forwarded liy road. S ) far all was going well until early in June it commenced to rain, and continued rainy for some ten or twelve days. The road became impassable to empty wagons, the horses began to play out, and to such an extent that before the end of the first week, out of 130 horses only 60 were able to work. There were some 30 miles of road and bridgesto be made through the wilderness of rocks and swamps ; the horses figged out and the rain poured down day after day almost incessantly. All of the l»ridges that wereleft by the late fire were carried away by the rapidly swollen tor- rents. This was rather a blue outlook, seeing that al! our stores, ammunition and 120 boats were lying at Prince Arthur's Laiiding, and no immediate prospect of being able to transfer them to Sheban- dowan Lake. Rumor has it that at this time Col. Wolseley seriously contemplat- ed advising the Canadian Government to abandon the expedition fur the season. After consultation with some of the Hud- son's Bay officers and Indians, who had navigated the Kaministiquia in birch bark canoes, it was determined to try the experi- ment of hauling the beats up that river. Tiie Kaministiquia is about one hundred miles in length, and runs from Sheban- dowan L^ike into Lake Superior at Fort William. It has a fall of some 1,000 feet between the two lakes : and one fall, known as the Kakabeka Brails, is 1?.') feet in height. At this place the first portaging of boats occurred. They were taken out of the water on the lower side of the falls, dragged up the precipice on stringers, and again launched in the river at the liead of the rapids. The cut on the next page is from a sketch taken at the time by Sergeant Douglass, late of the Depart- ment of the Interior, Ottawa, and pre- sented to the editor of the Manmtohan by tJapt. Swinford, of the Northern Pacific freight department in this city. Capt. Young of the GOth.with his com- pany and ii sulfieieiit numberof voyageurs, was ordereu to try the experiment, nud after being supplied with a sufficient quantity of provisions for two weeks started on the perilous task. After eight days work of the hardest labor ever ex- perienced by Briti-ih or Canadian troops, he succeeded in landing safely at the Mat- tawaii bridge his six boats, a distance of forty-five miles by river from the landing and twenty-five miles by road. The ex- 88 The Manitoban. pcnnicnt of transferring the boats by river proving; successful, the troops were mainly enj^aged in tlie wearisome task of tracking, liauling, carrying and portaging up the Kaministi(|uia, until the last of the I'iO boats were landed on the Gth of July with comparatise safety on the watei's of Shebandowan Like, there to undergo the necessary repairs before em- barkation on the amphibious march on- ward to Fort (liirry. All the ))oats which left Fort William did not reiich tlieir destination, for many came to grief on ed all got a shore, with the exception of tiie voyageur who steereo the boat. The crew took the tow line block and tackle ashore and walked on the river's brink, through brambles and thorny brake, liauling the boat after them. Whenever the strength of the men was insuthcient to haul the boat over the ra})ids, tiie block was attached to a large tree, and by nieins of pulleys the boat was hauled to the head of the rapids. As a general thing where rapids exist- ed the banks of the river were very steep. Maki.m; TiiK Pout the rapids, and it is said at their relics may be seen at this day o the banks of the Kaministi(^uia nme of the boats bringing up the rear. VVht re the water was-- sliallow and no danger of drowning,it was very amusing to st-esi mo careless young fellow picked up by the 5^ mi % The Manitohan. 89 rope and thrown into the river. After the pluna;e and he appeared at the suiface again, it was laughable to per- ceive the astonished look on his counten- ance. Scarcely a day passed without a dozen of some such ludicrous disasters, some of which may be related further on. From tlie first portage at Kakabeka Fr.Us until Hhebandowan was reached, the men and oHicers were most of the time up to their necks in water. After the boats had been landed at the lake the troops again returned to Prince Arthur's Landing to be distributed along the l)aw.son road to aid in its construction, There were '1\ miles west of the Muttawan bridge on which the trees were not even cut down, but the woods in their natural state Towards thf end of June thr Indians around Fort Willinin paid a v'.sit to our camp. As usual, tli»'y were accompanied by their band, composed of some seven or eight instruments, including a couple of sn)all drums, a tom-tom and some penny whistles After entertaining our men with their martial music and grotesque dancing, Col. WoLseley, in response, call- ed out the beautifulijand of OOth ilithis, composed of some .'{(J instruments. When the band struck up the first tune, really the Indians jumped some 12 inches from the ground, and as it was a calm evening and the loud music of the band reverber- at<;d from hill to hill, and died away echo- ing in the vallt^y.s, the Indians gazed around in astonishment, uncertain as to wh(!thei' it was th(( music of one band or of many. Judging from their fallen and astonished countenances, never in the his- tory of Indian viilor and Indian greatness did their band and its mcMubers feel so much their own insignificance, as they did on this occasion. Suflict^ it to say that after the usual presents of tobacco, pork and black tea were dispensed, the In- dians took their departure, fully satistied *'"at the band of GUth Rifles would com- pare favoiably with their own, and if beaten in martial music they certainly came olV victorious in the war dance. First of July, 1870, found the troops and voyatjiHirs scatUTiul along the Daw- son road, between the Landing and the Maitawan bridge. Some were engaged in road niMking, some in the conveyance of stores and some in trackin;j boats, Tl»e company of the Ontario Rifles, to which the writer belonged, left Prince Arthur's Landing at 3 o'clock a.m., on the morning of Dominion Day. The company was in heavy marching order. Each man carried his knapsack, overcoat, blankets, water bottle and canteen, rifle accoutrements, together with 60 rounds of ammunition and one da_,''s provisions, in all about 70 lbs weight. The day was exceedingly hot, the thermometer ranging about 100' in the shade, and the rays of the sun beaming down perpendicularly upon us. The perspiration rolled oft the men to such an extent that the dusty road over which we travelled looked very much as if a small shower had fallen. Having reached our destination for the day (20 mi'es) at 4 o'clock in the afternoon the bugle sounded its welcome notes for the halt. We unburdened ourselves of our trap«, and as the wagons were a long way in the rear with our tents and camp equipage, we stretched ourselves at fuH length on the roadside to rest our wearied limbs, and some of ths more tender to examine their i)listered feet and sore shoulders, caused by the chafing of that cumberson)e and oft cursed knapsack with which British troops on the march and in the field are uselessly encumbered. It - deed, the following description of the Duke of York's army in Flanders would be very applical)le ; "They were over- loaded with head-gear and heavy accou- trements, and thfiir uniforms were .so ill- fitting, tight and stifl", that one might have fancied that they had been dressed on purpose to check all easy motion and to injure health, if not to give the men at- tacks of apoplexy." In the neighborhood of Thunder Bay heavy showers are frequent at any houi' of the day, and seldom, if ever, give any warning of approach. So we were scarce- ly seated enjoying a hard earned repose on the road side when suddenly the thun- der rolled from hill to hill above our heads, the lightning Hashed from rock to rock and the rain pouivd down in tor- rents, drenching us completely through to such an extent that the water poured out of our boots. It is no unusual thing in this region of hills and rocks and thunder and desolation to see the sun shining brilliantly around you, and on the nex^ !)0 The Manitohan. hundred acres behind the hill, the rain keeps pouring down incessantly. How- ever, far in the night the rain ceased, we lit a fire, made a hot cup of b'ack tea, which was eagerly drank without su!?ar, wrappui!? ourselves in wet blanks s and on the wet ground for a mattress, and a knapsack for a pillow, we retired not to sleep, but to tight the beastly mosquitoes for the rest of the night. Next morning, at an early hour, we awoke from our dis- agreeable slumbers, lit a huge tire, made some black tea, dried our clothes and blankets. and started in to work on the road. Each company was divided into two wo king parties, commanded by the sub- altern otKcers. The ntvd was made by drawing logs aVmut «ixr,een feet in length and averaging from eight to twelve inches in di inieter, out of the woods close by, and di^po-iting them crosswise on the road bed. Antither party was engaged in wheeling clay and gravel and depositing it over the logs. Wlien this was done a very fine passable corduroy road was built, aurl one which became very useful to the (Jovernment afterwards, for the conveyance of immigrants to Red River, through what was knosvn as the D iwson route. Sunday, July 3rd, was ushered in a most beautiful morning, and after break- fast we were ordered to parade for work on the roads. Perhaps, during the whole campaign no order was more relucta-itly obeyed than this one, to work on the Sab- bath day. In the company which the writer had under commaud, th-re were no less than three Sabbath school superintendents and six Sabbath school teachers. Owing to the logs they \v4're drawing being late'y burned, the faces and hands of the men were so blackened that, like the woman of a ceitain village in Connemara, who had to wash the faces of all the children in town, before she could find her own ; non corn's could not be distinguished fr.)m full privates, until all were washed. While hard at work the conversation generally turned on Sabbath schiol work, and the propriety of keeping the Lord's day, even on a uilit iry conipaign. and that the expedition would reach Fort Garry just a^ soon, if the fourth com- mandment were scrupulously observed. Some wondered how the Rev'd Chap- lains of the dirterent regiments were en- gaged, when a religiously disposed non- commissioned orticer from Toronto, one of the Sabbath school superintendents above ref(;rred to, confidently stated that he had observed two of then) early that morning fishing in a lonely bend of the Kaministi- quia river. Indeed, salmon trout were so numerous in the rivei^s and streams sur- rounding Port Arthur twenty years ago, that it is no wonder that preachers of the gospel should be tempted to be- come fishermen, even on the Lord's day, when in a lonely place. The nnscjuitues and black-tlies were terribly bad the whole of the afternoon and evening. Several mosquito stories were told around the camp fire. One told by the correipoudent of the Hamil- ton Specfa/or overshadows them all. He said that while writing a correspondence this afternoon for his paper, in an arbor made of green boughs, situated on the edge of a large swamp, an able bodied mos(juito lit upon a vein of his left hand, he laid down his pen and watched its movements. There it remained until it had gorged itself to three tin.its its natur- al size, when it took its departure to- wards the swamp. In less than three minutes deponent affirms that the same mosquito returned, followed by about ten millions of others, which completely filled to sullbcation the said arbor. This man is a firm believer to this day, that among the mo-^quito tribes in the neighborhood of the Mattawan, there is some kind of entomological language by which they can communicate, to each other the pre- sence of an intended victims, particularly that of newspaper corre pondents. On the r)th July the headcpiarters were removed to the Mattawan river, to which place the stores were being removed by teams. The road west being still impass- able and many miles not even under- brushed, it was considered necessary to make a detour of some seven or eight miles to a place called Brown's f-anding, on the Mattawan river, where the stores were 'oeing conveyed, filled into boats and ti-acked up the river to a place 14 miles distant, called Oskondego HriHge. The troops at the time were chieHy employed II The Manitoban. 01 in making the road west of Mattawan. in trailing the boats laden with store? up the river to the bridj^e and openins; the road from thence to Shebandowan Ltke. The troops were btatioiied at Brown's or Cal- der's Landing for several days, during which time we experienced some of the most terrible thunder storms imaginable. We were encamped in a corner of the woods, in the midst of liucje f)ine trees, and about 12 o'clock on the nii^ht of July 17th, it rtf.ined and thundered incessantly, the lightning shattered the the trees in all directions, the crash of falling of which awoke the troops wiio hurriedlydressed and vacated their tents for places of greater security. Next morning found the river strewn over with fallen trees, and naviga- tion considerably impeded, the woods for miles seemed as if struck with a Dakota cyclone. Luckily, however, no one was injured, and next morning found all en- gaged in removing the obstacles to navi- gation of the river, and before 1 2 o'clock noon the boats were loaded, and the shouts of the men and voyageurs were heard towing them over the dangerous cataract, some miles above the landing. Wliile in camp at Toronto, Thunder J!ay and Prince A'thur's Landing the daily rations allowed the troops were not nearly consumed, but when they settled down to hard work on I'ihay river, portaging the boats; kept .drenching wet during the whole 24 hours of the day : up at 3 o'clock a.m., and working liard sometimes until 12 p.m., the allowance of rations, viz ; 1 lb of biscuit, 1 lb of salt pork, 2 oz. of sugar, 1 oz. of tea, .', pint of beans and one-thirty-sixth oz. of pepper, were con- sumed by some strong and healthy men be- fore 12 o'clock in the day, and who then had to work and fast until the issue of rations on tin; following day. .Many a time 1 have known otlicers to violate the regulations, break in the heads of barrels to procure a biscuit each for some hungry men. I think one of the mistakes of the expedition was the smallness of th' rations allowed. It appears *^he .scale allowed to IW'itish troops on field service was the one adopted, while those in authority failed to recognise that seldom, if ever, in the his- tory of military expeditions, were men compelled like those on the Hed River expedition to work like beasts of burden, carrying heavy loads, and working by land and water, some'iraes twenty hours out of twenty-four. When the horses reached Thunder Bay they were allowed the rations of horses in the British service, with tlie result that in less than two weeks, as before stated, one half the number was laid up, unfit for work. There is no doubt where men and horses work 20 hours a day, they will re- quire afar greater quantity of food than when working half the time, and the long hours and hard work seemed to be over- looked, when the military authorities in Toronto, on 14th of May, 1870, after din- ner, adopted the diily rations of the men and voyiigeurs of the Red River expedi- tion. The first detaclunent or brigade of boats left McNeill's Landing, Shebandowan Lake, on Kith of July, and frori this date up to the 4th of August, einbarkation was pushed rapidly aheid day by day, under the command of Col. McNeill, Y. 0., chief commissariat oihcer, until the latter date, at 8 o'clock in the evening, the last boat was launched on the placid waters of Shebandowan Lake. The great delay of the e.xpedition took place be- tween Lake Superior and Shebandowan Lake. The men worked willingly and cheerfully during five weeks of as hard labor as was ever performed by British troops : not a solitary case of insubordina- tion during all this time, and no wonder they hailed the arrival at the lake with pleasure, believing, justly, that it was the real starting point of the exjiedition. The whole number of men embarked at Sheb- andowan Lake, according to the returns of Depuly Commissary Meyer, was 1,431: including !)2 officers, 1,0") 1 non-commis- sioned officers and men, • 274 voyageurs and 14 guides, (To lie contiiuiwl i-i April luiiiiber.^ In former coiiiinunieation, on pajtu Til, !2tli lino from top, In some sl(M).'lit of hund known to compositor*, "fi(K' miners" in the nianiiscript was ))rinteil " .'iOii mules," whiih clianse oonsiderablv affeotuil the sense of the narriitive. At the The.xtuK;— Youny husidnd (be- tween the acts) — "Kxcuse me just a few moments, my dear,! want to go out and see a man.' Young Wife (rising) -"I believe I will do the same." Young husband sits down. 02 The Manitohaij. Jin Jlpctic Landscape. nv ZAX TirOKNK. (Conrliul/'d.) '^^ ace iLlE was accoirpanied by a l)rotlier and sister, pleasing "^.^^ acquaintances, and such as would be well received in any drawing room in New England. But in my opinion they were in no res- pect so distinguished as in being closely connected with Nellie (! rattan. How the memory of that evening moves nie 1 Blessitjgs on the rare Nellie Grattan. Jjlessiri^s on thy real loving heart, with warmth enough in its depths to set aglow the Houl of the veriest cynic that-J*v«»r" sneered at hulila»^Lflectimh — tTuring that evening Helen Harper gave herself up to gayety with child-like abandon. Her rippling laughter thrilled me through and through, like a strain of strange music from a master hand, heard unexpectedly, where neither instrument or player is visil>le. 1 had never heard her laugh be- fore. I began to comprehend how all this might b?, while her heart must have been starving for companionship, for love. Oould Sir, (iilroy ever ui)ply this need ? lie was away from home that day, and 1 saw the cloud come back upon Helens face only once ; that was when Nellie (jl rattan in(juired when he was expected to return. He reappeared next morning at the breakfast table, and so did the icy repose of Helen's manner. But Nellie Grattan v.as not there to see it. Would the change have come if she had b^en? I think it would. Some days later I was waiting up town for the sorting of the evening mail, and stood before a cheap engraving in the gentleman's parlor of the hotel, when a pair of arms were thrust around ma with a bearish grip, and before 1 could utter a word 1 was lifted from the floor and placed standing upon a tall otKce stool, facing my assailant. "Lieutenant Citlerton I"' I surprised. " How are you, said the cheery voice of my friend. You know me I suppose, as one would a bear, by the peculiar force of my initiatory hug. exclaimed, my boy '" Can you find room in your den to stow away a brother cub for a day or two ?" '■For a score of days if you like. Come along and see." He took my arm, and we went out together. As we walked along, talking tumultuously as old friends will, he stopped, with the abruptness that characterized all his movements and said. "St. Joyeuse, I am going to be married." " Very likely. I wonder you never thought of it before." " Perhaps I did. I may have had my romance in real life, and my heart tragedy as well. But now if God wills, I shall be the happiest man alive." "And who will be the happiest woman alive ! Who will be Mrs. Carter- ton i' "Nellie Grattan." "(lod bless you, ray friend : you would be the veriest in- gratc-living, if you had won rare Nellie Grattan, and wsj-e not the happiest man alive." r had to'^explain then, of course, how 1 came to know Nellie Grattan, and with mutual explanations and confidences we prolonged our Walk until a late hour. Tiiere was a liglvt in the parlor of Mr. Harper's wiien wp returned, and as we stood in the frontdoor a moment, looking out upon the glory of the moonlit night, we iteard the indistinct murnmr of voices. Presently the parlor door was opened, and Mr. Gilroy's voice, liarsh and angry, ar- lested Helen /Harper as she was about to leave the DOom. ''You shall consent, Helen Harper," said Mr. (Ulroy "You think if you refuse me, that Mark St. Joyeuse v/i\\ take you for the sake of your property. But f know him better. He has told me himself that T am welcome to you if i like. it would tike more than twenty^ thousand dollars, he said, to recon- cile him to union with a snow bank."" "Yoii do well to guard your friends confi- dence with such chivalric honor, Mr. Gil- roy," replied Helen, coldly. "Be as sar- castic as you please, Helen Harper, but I tell you you shall consent, Refuse me, and before one week all whom you value most, Mark 8t. Joyeuse, Nellie Grattan, your father, proud in the unsfotted purity of your family name, sh ill know that Lucy Harper, later Mrs Gilroy, was a false .■ife." " Scoundrel !' cried Callerton striding ii to the roam hurriedly, "unsay that ol Lucy Harper, or never speak again." ^ "Did you know Lucy Harper 1" asked Helen, without showing any sur- / 1 so )f r ' S{ fTJ O The Manitoban. 167 Conducting her to her home in almost absolute silence, broken only by her at- tempts to awaken him to his usual brilliancy of speech, hn early absented bifTtself from her company on reaching the city Next morninfj on sitting down to breakfast aIik found on the plate a letter, which she instantly recognized to be in the handwriting of Mr. Helmore. Perceiving his absence, and concluding that the letter contained the old, old story, with a prayer for hope, she hasten- ed through her breakfast, and retired to her room there to peruse her note. Imagine her feeliiiijs when instead of the expected prayer she read the follow- To Miss Beatrice Cameroo, Wiuoipeg. Miss Cameron : — lam depkrtin^^ or Brandon this morning and leave the fol'owing for your earnest consideration. Your father id acquainted with the business I go to transact, and will give you my address if you so desire. Yours trulv, Yan'ji Helmork. Three weeks a no I fought for you When VDu were pointed out to me An a lo\ ir of coipietiy Because I thou^jht you pure and true. But .still the Sforner would persist In sayin|{ you were one of those, With Itindly look who alway chose To lead poor fellows by the wrist. I lonKtd to know the truth of this, And with anxious footsteps soujfht The friendship nosv.so deirly boujrht — The very opposite of hliss. It was not lon^' before yo;i tried To draw nie in your deadly net, That oft hath been so surely set To catch the victim of your pride. Di-yes in the distance dim, And waitH for the moinilain to conw io him ! Bad Luck reckons without his host. And will miss forever his br.ttered toast. While his voice keupi ringing that helpless note, He will see it go down some happier throat. Good Luck speeds by, whistling a tune ; Accepts he life; .is a grateful boon ; His strong, rude muiules are brown and bare, And shows what ihdir owner can do and dare. With sleeves rolled up, cornea he down the road, His s'loulders ready for any load ; And kini; of a wide doniam in he. Nor afraid of the gauat wolf — Poverty. B-id Luck is a fellow one hates to meet ; HiH inert moiniugs cloud the street ; Hut Good Luck sweetens the air we draw — Renews our faith in the wellkuokva law. That "God helps him who helps himself," Who lays his grievance on the shelf. Nor stops o'ei' a humble task to flout it, But braces up, and sets about it. And thus one winneth respect and bread. While the other gets scorn and a crust instead; And B^d Luck storms at thn world's ill handle. And damns the light from Good Luck's caudle ! — 7'Ar Gifat Divide. 70 The Manitoiun. ' v.- 1 fficilitatt! the transport of stores to Fort Francis. When a brigade arrived at a portiii^H and deposited its cargoi^s, the instructions were to return again across thti lake to the nearest portage the reur, and again load eacli boat with three tons of stores or fifteen tons for each hri'rade and return to the portage whii h they left. After reaching Kasha- bow ie Portage tliis return trip was considered unnecessary on account of some information received by the commanding otKcor that the expedition would be " one of peace," the Hishop of St. IJonifa-e b^i.ig at Ottawa urgi. -» on the Govern- ment the necessity of granting a general amnesty to Kiel and his followers, who were interested in the niui'der of Scott. The following are a few of the orders issued, and to bo observed after startin.; from Siiebandowan Lake : (a.) As a rule the reveille will sound at 3 a.m. every morning, and the boats will start as soon after that as possible, the men to have some hot tea before starting. The boats of each brigade must keep as near together as possible, the captain with his bugler being in the leading boat, the senior subalteru and a se'geant in the rear boat, (h.) A halt of one hour to be made at S a.m. for breakfast and another halt of an hour at 1 p in. for dinner. Otilcers commanding compan- i-» may of course depart a little from these hours for meals, but under no circumstances is nio-e than an hour to be allowed for each meal. I'hf y will always lialt for the night at least one full hour before dark, so that vhere may be ample time to establish the camp for the night. When on the move ic is not advisable to pitch teutB except when it rains. (('. ) Otilcers commanding detachments from the time of their embarkation at Shebandowan will keep a journal of their route, entering the eX'tct hour they start each moruing, the hours tlic-y halt for meals and start again, the time tiicy reach their halting place for the night, ^iwng the name of the place, the state of the wfitther, whether they used oars or sails during the day, and all irregularities committed by the (iir-i) CO be recorded. The expedition from Shebandowan Lake must have been spread over a di-itance of at least one hundred and fifty miles, so that it is impossible f()r one writer to give a true record of the sayings and doings of otiier lh".n the brigade with which he was connectid. After having embarked at Shebandow- au Lake on the evening of Sunday, 2 tth ..1 uly, we rowed along the north shore of the lake. Night came on but we could not find a suitable camping place, tlie shores being swampy and full of bullrush- es for miles. We kept on rowing until 12 o'clock at night we discovered some tall willows ahead of us ; at this time it commenced to rain heavily, and thunder and lightning set in. We pulled ashore, and each man found a bush of green willows, into which he threw himself rolled up in his waterproof sheet, and rested the best way he could for the night. Early next morning the bugle sounded, at three a.m., took to the boat, and Bt eight o'clock found a good camping place where we made a tire, had some hot black tea and hatdtack for breakfast, and reached Kashabowie Portage about 10 o'clock p.m. Here we met Captain Mac- Lene's and Captain Scott's companies, which had arrived the previous day. As soon as the boats were unloaded we commenced to carry the cargoes over the Portage, which, to our astonishment, we found to be l,8o0 yards in length, or a little over a mile. This being the first portage, here it was arranged the division of labor amongst the men. It was agreed that each man in the boat should carry abirrelof pork, a b.^rrel of hard-tack, a barrel of tlour, a bag of beans, and that the weaker men of the crew and ofHcers should carry the smaller pack- ages of ammuniiion, tea and sundry other things. Here we first found the use of the portage straps. These were large strips of upper leather, about ten feet long, four inches wide in the mi(Ml«, and tapering to a point at both ends. The portage strap was tied round the ends of the barrel between the hoops, and the package was then raised horizontally on a man's back, the wide portion of the leather band was placed on the forehead, and in a stooping postureeach man trudged otl' with his load across the portage. The pork l)arrels were made ot heavy ouk staves, about an inch and a half in thickne-is, which with the pork and brine must have weighed over two hundred pounds, a pretty heavy load to carry a mile and a quarter. This carrying of htjavy loads tneJ the mettle of our men to the utmost. It did not take long to distinguish the muscle and endurance of the man brought up to manual labor and on the farm, from the school master, book- h i •:;fc Ty.vCi { Cifj W! rr 'j^ •u. Vw K^: n IV^ '- VI o The Maxitouax. 17> 1 keeper unci the bank clerk In pfissin^ through the bush, oft tiinos the load struck against a tree, when load and man came to grief. Indt^ed, I have nwiny a time seen such a calamity occur on the brow of a steej) hill, wiien barrel and man rolled alternately over each other until they reached the base. Such a spectacle could not help provokinj^ th(i risabilities of the most sober and taciturn, but there was no little danger in indulging freely in too much laughter if the i>arty in distress happened to be stronger than the on- looker. It was at the west end of Kasha- bowie portajie that the writer was follow- ing Major McLeod, who was groaning under a barrel of hard-tack, when the end of the barrel .struck the stuinp of a tree and sent llie Major and his load into an eatanglement, which if assistance had not V)een (]uickly forthcoming in all proltabil- ity the bench of the North- West Territo- ries would have been deprived of one of its ornaments. Seeing that he was Brigade Major of the Red River E.vpedi- tion, it would have been dangeious, par- ticularly in subordinates, to indulge in too much fun at his expense. After the stores had all been transfer- red to the west end of the portage the ditt'erent crews returned and doubled-up for the purpose of taking over the boats. Tliey were pulled out of the water, placed on stringers, and drawn by the aid of several men, on each side, to steady her, while a goodly number pulled on the tow- line. It took 24 hours on this portage to carry across the stores and boats. On Tuesday morning at 4 a.m., loaded or.e boat and rowed out on Kashabowi ' Lake, after a few hours, the wind being favoraV)le, we put up sails and steered northwest, entered a narrow pass or straight about eight or ten feet wide into a smaller lake. The water was so shallow that all hands had to get out and haul the boat with its load along through rushes and mud. We arrived at the Height of Land portage at 12.30 in the afternoon. The boats being numbered there was one of unusual size, under the control of Major McLeod, and as her num- ber was 100, she was afterwards known throughout the expedition as the " old hundred." She was steered to the wrong place on the poitage, and it was sjme time ere her crew proper landing placf di.scovered the The Height of Land portage was 18r)0 yards long, and is situated between Kashabowie Lake and Lac de Mille Lac. It is 1000 feet above the level of Lake Superior, and is the highest point of land between the Rocky .Mauntains and the Atlantic Ocean. Up to this point it was up hill and up stream, but after crossing the portage we had the current with us all the way to the mouth of Red River. Half way across this portage might i)e observed, in the space of 100 yards, the water running in twa opposite directions, one portion emptying itself throaiih the mighty St. Lawrence to the Atlantic, and the western through Rainy River and W nnipeg, into Lake Win- nipeg, and thence through the Nelson into the Hudson's Ray. It took our brigade eighteen hours to carry across this portage 45 barrels of pork, 30 barrels of tlour, 46 barrels of hard tack, Hi chests of tea, ") barrels of sugar, 5 a^m chests, (> boxes of potatoes, 9 bags of beans, lO boxes of ammunition, six large boats with all the other paraphernalia belonging to a company or brigade. After passing this portage it was found a great relief to us all to know that we would have no more rowing or tugging up stream although, indeed, wediscovered afterwards, that there was far more danger in running rapids than in surmounting them. After moving out from the Height of Land we put up sail and steered due west amongst countles-i multitudes of islands, which Lao de Mille Lac contains. Tlie scenery was grand, and it was delightful to perceive such a large number of boats under sail gliding over the smooth waters of the picturesque lake. After several hours we steered northwest, and must have touched the northern shore or near where Savanne on the C P. R. now stands. Here we camped or rather bivouacked for the night, and the rising sun next morning found our brigade wending its way westward until towards noon, we entered Baril Bay, which is an arm of Lac de Mille Lac, when the brigade bugle sounded the li.iiding for dinner. We reached Bruile Portage ^t 8.30 p.m. On either side of the narrow approach to the portage could be seen some pine, maple and some cedar trees, This< ^r- 174 Thk Manitobax. to the dutourd made by the expedition, another 100 miles can safely lie added, making the distance traversed iiOS n'iles in 17 days, or oii an averngB of a little over 18 miles a day. In this distance there were 17 portages, aggregating nearly four miles, or an average of one portage for each day, over which boats and stores had to be carried or hauled for an average distance of 400 yards. No wonder that our men were tired and chrononifcter had been invented, and Mary had had as good a watch as some of the Marys of our time have, she would have found it was about liah past tive o'clock, a. u). Matthew sa^s it was the dawn ; Mark says it was at the sunrising; Luk^e says it was very ei r y in the morning ; John says it was v^nile it was yet dark. In other words it was twilight. That was the o'clock at which Mary Magdalene mistook Christ for the gardener. What • i TiiK Latb Hon. A. (i. li. Bax.iatvnk's Kesidexik, WmxipEii. weary, and witli good fresh food for the evening meal, and a fine night's rest, the bugler forgot to sound the reveille until the sun was 30* above the horizon on the following morning. ( To he Continued. ) Tlje First Bastep Mern. Another thihg that the world and the church have not observed in regard to this resurrection, and that is, it was the morn- ing twilight, writes Dr. Talmage in the April Ladies^ Iloim Journal^ - If the n-\ 'Ac-., r .J docs th.at mekn 1 It means there are shadows over the grave unlifted, shadows of mystery that are hoveling. Mary stooped down .ind tried to looK to the other end of the crypc. She gav^ hysteric out- cry ; she could not see to the other end Neither can you see to the other end of tl.ie grave of your dead ; neither can we see to the other end of our own grave. Oh ! if there were shawdows over -the family plot belonging to Joseph of Aritnathba, is it strange that thert chould be some shadows over our fahiily lot ? Easter dawn, not Easter noon. ... u I \SSo 1 Thk Mamtohax. ''h'^, f^'' 180 i '■ i Red River Expedi'u.on of 1870. (WRITTUX FOR TIIK M »NIT0I1AX. ) IIY AN OFKICKK OK THK FOIICK. _(Coiitirmecl from April miiiilifi'.) ? i " i- "<»' AKIN(; into foiisidcratioii (li>- tiiiicr tr.'i versed, time ciiffaj^od and lalior iici'lbrnicd. tlic router from 'rontiitc to Kort (iarry uiij^lit be prdpiTly divided into four sections, nauiely, from Toronto to I'ort Artliui- (ITO miles, from Port Arthur to Siie- bandowan I^ake Id miles, from Slie- liandowan liake to Fort Francis l)y rout(! travelled ;]()8 miles, from Kort. Francis to Kort (iarry by way of the "Winniiiej^- i^lver .'ISO miles, uv a total distance from Toronto to "Winnipej;' 1,100 miles. As before stated the sun was lii^h \\\)\\\ the heavenswhen we launched our lioats below the falls on K'ainy K'ivei' on its whirlinj'-, eddyinj^', foaniinii' waters. The banks of tiie river ai'e hif,^h at this point, with j;-ravelly briidvs, and the bed lined with huji'e boulders, which no doubt j^j-ives the water this whirlinji', rotary motion. Sometimes for 2iK) yards or so the boats would ylitle alon^' rapidly and then all of a sudden they would come to a standstill, and for some minutes it would re(|uire all the united exei-tions of the crew to extricate them from the whirlpool in wliicii they found their boat. K'ainy Kiver contains a very lar;-etal)les. It bein^ the middle of .\ii<;ust these crops seenU'd to be farther advanced in maturity tlijin the croi)s in Manitoba. There are also some circular mounds ot earth on the Canada side used ;is Indian houses and which seemed to be Imt recently inhabited. 'Wlien the decaying;' loj^'s which apiiarcntly siip- l)orti'd the heavy clay roof jrivcs way. and that the latter falls in tilling- up the deep excavation even Avith the surface ar..i buryiiiy' the contents, it would not be suri)risiii<;' if in a hundred years hence a fann"r from Iluroii and liriice dij;'}^in<>- his cellar would come across some Indian tomahawk, clay l)ipe or nu'tal pot and would corres- poml with the Historical Society of AVinnipej;' when we would hav<' tin; members of that body hasteninility when the sciences of yeoloyy and the investifi'ations of antiquated anti(iuarians are brou{>!it to bear the relics will be iironouiiced as belonfi'iiifi' to a race Avhich existed aiiti'i'ior to the time when Adam and Kve seated under their favorite shade trees first be}>an to throw sheep's eyes at each other. Some will even ^'O' fartiiei' back and by the science of yeoloyy endeavor to prove that the race must have existed about the time when the anf>-el mentioned in the ei)istle of I'eter, with Napoleonic ambition aspired for universal empiric and was jmnished by bein}>' cast out and compelled to take that ethereal 190 The Manitohax. 1 voyMji'c so j;T;iiiliic;il!y (IcsiTilicd i)y ^lillou ill liis I'jii'.'idisc Lost. At III' iic.'ir tin- I'Miiids ofii.'iiiiy i>'ivci' srvcr.'il liidiiiii fjiiiiilics wvw caiiiprd. As it scciucd tiles ■ Mi'c l;iv;ii'licui;ii"Iy in tiie winter tilllCMS tile \v;iler seldom it'ever tVeexes tliere. Suild;iy, Atlji'llst 1 Itil. tile revel! ie soiiiKied riii'lit e.'U'iy Miid nl'ter lire;ii<- liisl ;il .') ;i.m. we were oil tile W;iter jiiiii witli tlie ;ii(i of ;i stroiiy current ;nid (i;irs we were Imsteiiiii^' r; |>idiy tf)W;ir(is tiie I/ii;e of tile Wouiis. 'I'lie (i;i\- turned out invely ;md "wjiriii, ;in(i wlieii tired rowiiii;-. tiie men witil tiie eX('e)ition of tiie nillll at tlie lieiiii iay .") niiies wlieii tile liii^-Ie soiiiuied tiie Welcome and faiiiiiiar notes to ^o ashore for dinner. ■\Ve started ajU'aiii at L*.:>() p.m. and towards evenin.;' r<';icli(d an Intlian caiii|iiiij;' .li'roiiiid two miies from tiie nioutli of tlie ri\-er. 'i'iie place lias lieeii known liv tlie iiiiiiii;irants wlio jtassed o\-er tile Dawson route as '■Ilmii;r\ iiaii.' Here wo iiad our Sunday eveninu's me;ii. We were only a sliort distance IVoiii tiie lai^e. and iieinii' surrounded i)y swamiis.tiie mostjuitoes and Hies proved an intoiei'aliie nuisance. Here is a description li'iveii liy one wIkj Iiad <'Xperi<'iiced tiieir attacdvs a few days afterwards : ••.Vs tiie sun went down a dense mass "ofciirioiis lookinji' Hies came >tream- •■ iiii!' ami liiizzin;^' ii)) witii the j^entle, "cooiiny easterly wind, 'i'liey were ■' ol'dilVereut size>. larye. smali, and l\'aiiiy Iviver dis(diar^''es its waters into tiic Laki' of tile \Voods is a distance of 70 miies. it runs in a westerly direction, and witii almost uninter- rupted navi^'ation, .'iiid its jiark-liko (dea ranees, its l)eaiitiful siiade trees on the ('ana' strong'" from tiie soiitli-east and knowing- tiiat we had a. liroai and stormy expanse, of water between Its ami tile iiortli-west aiifjfle of the i.ake of liie Woods, we stai'ted wilhoiit hreakl'ast, put up s;iiis and took advaiit:,^'e of tlie favoraltle j^'ale. liike iniKt other lakes in tlie. North- west, the aiiproacdies were low and maivliy, and from small ponds and liullruslies on either side of tlie river, rose up clouds of wild diud<, wliiidi had lieeii disiiirlied ill their moriiini;'"s meal wliile feeding- oil the wild rice, with which tlii- neiiilihoi'liood aiionnds. 'middle aii'cd. 'i'liey Hew in regular This seeim'il to lie a paradise for sports- • column cliHely formed up witlioiit men. .\lter runniiiy over a stonny ' aii>- strayj^'lers to die rij^iit or to the arm of the Lake with waves as hiji'li ■ lel't. 'I'lie only time they seemed to and more daiiji'd'oiis than on tiie Atlan- ■hi'eak ranks was when they met tic. in a iiortliwesterly direction for a Mitli the smoke of the camp fire. distance ol' tliirfy-live miles, we landed Their attack upon us seemed to on a rocky island in tiie Laki' of the drive ail hands into the perl'ormance Woods, where we partook of the first of extension motions - a drill wiiitdi meal for the day, ami liie last also, ;is was performed witiiout the aid of a nil Iieinj;' tired and iiunji-ry, the whole d.'iy's rations of eaidi man wasconsum- on ' *W\ drill serii'eant. 'I'om Fort l''raiicis to where ed, and iiotiiini;' left liiit the consolati TuE Manitobax. ]!)! of lK'inj>' told tliiit Ave miylit iio liuiifjry until the irtfueh >niali Iniats and >o l)a at re^'ular intervals, no s[^\i whatever of man's handy- work anywhere. The surface nfiiir water aiiiiearetl to l)e covered over with a decomposed veyetalile suhstance of a dark li'reen color <>\' conxcrvoid j;'rowili, and which sceimd to aliound everywhere. When lioiied it resem- l)led |iea soup. Hefoi'e u.-e we had to strain it throuj^'h towels and such as had no towels used ixjcket hander- chiefs. \otwitlistanrocess, the water was totally until tor use and Jeopardised the health ol' the troojis to siudi an extent that its etfects were felt for several days. Sever.'ii of the lioais jti'ot lost ihouji'h the islands, and it took some linn-. Iiefore all Avei'e l)rou;!'ht toyi'thcr at K'ar l'orta;;e. On the route from Sheliandowan Lakt- the trees in the ditferent islands, c/ipes aiul ])rojeclions were ''eprived of their hark, so that it was an easy matter even if there was ud ^iiiide. fur any one witis a Held ii'lass \n discover the the proi)er route, liiii as it was urifj-in- ally inl'udeil tu disemliark at the mirthwesi ;in^le and march to Winni- peji'. a di-ianc(- i>\' 1 10 mile> tiiis ])rt'caution was neglected. On the northern portion of thi' Lake of the "Woods, it is prohahle that the harkiuji;' of till' trees was considei'ed unneces- sary. On account, liowi'ver. of the Lake (if the Woods road hejni;' impas- sable, the trooi-'s had no allernaiive but to make the detour by Kat Por- tage and the Wiuinpey river. The Lake of the Wooils drains an iinnu'iise area ef c()untr\ and its waters flow into Lake Winniix'^', tlirouj^h Winnipeg;' river, who.se outlet is scmie three nules from Hat I'orta.ii'e, a Hud- son's Hay Company post, of some ini- portam-eaiiil nninafi'ed by i\ Mr. Mc- j'herson. W'r were some tinn; before we could discover the entrance from the Lake of the Wi)ods into Winnipeg*' river. After considcn'abh^ explora- tions, we came to a very hifi'h ridj^e ol' ro(dvs. through a (deft of which, about r»i) feet wide, water was ruiiiuii^' withj^M'eat velocity. Throuuii this nar- row pass we projielled our boats and soon found ourselves in a broad ex- ]ianse of lake or river about one mile and a half wide. Soinoiut. By a ylitncc at the map. it will be per- ceived that here communication may be maintaineil, or connection cut off between the eastern and western pro- viiu'cs of Canada, Whether peace continues to prttvail, or war ensues, the write" pre(licts that liefore many years our military authorities will sei- the nece>>iiy of >pendin^' some money on iortitit'ations and makiuy Kat I'ortay'c a military stronj;'hold. In case of an invasion of eastern Canada, possession of Kat Portaji'c by the enemy woidd cut olV communication with the great jii'anaries of the prairie provinces. 1!)2 The MANn"Oj' doiii's imajjfinabli". al- Avays quarrel lin<>' amoii: wolHsh coun- tenance. AVe learned, iiowever, that those Avere the camels of lie nortliern deserts, ])nrticularly iiiAvinter, in con- veyiiiji" the mails and supplies from one fort or trading place to another, and Avhcre horses could be of no earthly use for want of roads and sup- plies. In winter Avhile travellinj^- they are fed upon fish, and in summer they are let loose and live in vaj'-rancv. From my iliary. " Hat Poi-taji'i-. " August 17. Out of bed this morning " at .") a.m.; put on wet clothes, and '• still raining, ])roceeded to load up '• the boats befon; breakfast. We •' procured milk, i)otatoes and corn at " the fort and had a comfortable '• breakfast. In lifting a barrel of '' Hour into the lioat, it fell into the " river and I fell in after it. It was " only six feet dee)) at this i)lace. I " sank but the flour did not. Hotli '• wer(> hauled out of tiie water, tlif '• Hour less injured than I was. .\ " good glass of brandy procured at " the fort, lent great relied' to my " damp(nied and tlroopiiif spirits. " Here we met a few men from the l\'ed " Kiv((r settlement to act as guides " down tlii^ Winnipeg Kiver. He- •' iiig tohl that Winnipeg Wiver was •' IM miles in length with 17 portages •' 'iiid that it would le necessary to •• unload 17 times and load as manv •• more, making '.U changes of stores. •• together with the carriag^e across ••the portagr-s was ratherdiseourag'ing. •• We Avere inforiiied that if avc reach- • Fort -Vlexaiider at tiie mouth of the " river in iM days avc would be doing •• good Avork. We Avould have to run " cMutes and rapids Avithout end, in '• some i)laces exceedingly dangeroits '• and in others plea-^ant. For the first " ;")() miles A\'e Avill meet numerous " islands, so mucii so, that it Avill be " difficult to distinguish it from a siic- " cession of lakes. Sometimes divid- " iiig ir-iclf into two or tliree rivers " running parallel Avith each other, '• and uniting again at the Hrst catar- •• act so as to in'csent to the eye of the •■ voyageur a more majestic ai)pear- •• ance. AVe Avere told that greatdan- " ger threatened us upon this danger- " ous and deceitful river, that the Hrst •' false inovemeiit of an oar in the '• hands of an inexperienced man. " wotUd send boat and crcAvover faIN " of gre;it magnitude, to l)e engulfed '• in whiipools from Avhich there Ava ^ " no jiossibility of escajjc. These and " similar narratives of the difficulties " to be met Avith on the Winnipeg. " niad(^ many of the more nervous feel " not a littU' uncomfortable. During •■ the day avc run a rapid ai)out one " mile in lengtii.'' The nearest approach to the l>leasure ot running a rapid is that expi'rienced in a tobog^gan run- ning down the slide on the .\ssini- lioine near Main street bridge. The lioMfs in running the rapids AA'ere kept .")()!) yards apart, and as soon as they aiiproached the head AA'aters the rowers Avere ordered to pull Avith all their might and the man at the stern kept constantly shouting "pull, boys, pull," and not a whisper made or Avord spoken by the crew until after running at the rate of 20 or 2') miles an hour Ave rtnd ourselves again in smooth waters below tiie rapids, Aviiere after rowing a mile or two avc pulled ashore and c.impi'd for the night. (7W he Cniithnu'd.) ;« IV-, The Manitohan. 233 face, jind restored once more its haiul- soiue color. " I must delay no loufjer," slu; mut- tered, "but to tlie hateful ceremony. Ktiquefte liiis sonic virtue, it teaches us to iiioe our feeliufjs." 'IMie iie()])h^ in tiie eiiureli were meanwin'le ji^rowiiifif restless. Tiie or- jfanist Avas almost tired of traiisniittinj>- melody to the wind. 'I'Ih' minister was wandering to and from the door with clouded countenance. By turns the menihers of the clioir uttered a f>-rowl at tiie lonin' [)rotracted al^sence of the coui)le. " I wondei" wliat's keei)in^ tlicMU." ijUeritMl one. '• Delirious iiair." exclaimed another. •' Vou l)et. I wouldn't he so slow if I were to he married to-day." remarked a third. •• iinrrrii'd life is too short. " But listen, is that the sound of carri- age wheels ? The general turning of heads announce that it is. The prin- cipals of the ceremony !iave at length arrived. A solemn silence now per- vades tiie church, broken only hy a ili- rection Irom the idioir-master, who with Ills suiujrdinates stand at the door, j)utfed with wind, with music, destiiK'd ere long to enrapture the he^trers and trans|)ort them to the sev- enth heaven ofdeliglit. ov Itliss, Now they come 1 First the groom and his men. two. four, six, seven, eight in numl)er. But the liride. who is following with her father. Oh! .Vh ! How pretty llow iovelv I Chai'ininj'- 1 Stich are the exclamations which hurst spontaneously from the lii)s of the on- gazers and Hoated aiidilil\- through the church. And no wonder. Beatrice was rohed in a dress of spotless texture: silklt\ nature; cream- like in color; magniticent in nianii- facture. Iler neck was snrrounded with a hand of lace of priceless value, old. so old, that its counterpart conhl scarcely Ih' ohtained. Weaved in tiie looms of India from the well of the renowned silk spider, only by the greatest care could its delicate beauty liavi' been preserved. lief t r«'ss<'s of ra v<'n line hung curling down her back, while tinier ringh'ts adorned her forehead : the jiride of herself; the admiration of all beholders. Xor must the brides- maids be forgotten. They were all rolled in white, the dazzling bright- ness of whicii I if a sju^ctator Ih to be believed I rcmindtHJ him of angels of Jleaven, clothed in their spoth-ss rybes of Innocence. Tin' perfume of roses, a (duster of which was borne by each and every one. tilled the air with sweetest fragrance. Now they are liefore the altar. The bridegroom is at the right hand of his bride. -Mr. Cameron stands behind ready to deliver over his daughter. ('los<- by also is the principal brich's- maid in a position of perplexity, wait- ing to withdraw her lady's glove at tlic proper moment. Tlien did the clergyman begin "Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here in the sight of (Jod, and in the face of this congregation, to join together this Man aiul this Woman in Holy .Alatrimony'" —AH proceeded well. Charles presented the ring; lieatriee received it upon the finger : their hands were joined together, the priest had come to the words, •' Those wliom (iod — ^" whi'ii there rang through tlu' church the one word stoj). Then up the aisle came a corpulent constalile, followed by a worthy gen- tleman in black : up, up to the very altar he advanced, then laying fhis hand upon the shoulder of the bride- groom he exclaimed in a deep roaring tone .1 (lines liii.vton, counterfeiter a ud fon/cr, I arrest ijoii for i/oitr crimes. A deadly silence tilled the atmos- pliere for one brief moment, then a scream like the I'ligine's whistle as it approaches a tunnel resounded and resoiind<'d again, the thrilling words, •']'nne. o/i Vnne, indeed J' in io.^t for- erer." wvrv heard i)y the excited con- gregation, and Beatrice Cameron fell before the earthly sanctuary of the -Mmighty .Maker, broken in heart and in life. ' 'f'ti lie ('nntinued. ) Those in want of Hrat-clas,s articles will do well to watch our advertising pages ill future. 2;{4 The Manitouax. Red Km? Expedition of 1870. (WRITTBN KOH TIIK JUMTOHAN.) IIV AN OKFICKU OF TIIK FOKCK. (Continual from May miiiibti-.) KX'P moniiiig we wiTc ii<;- iiiii oil wjitt-r at -1 oVIocIv '^-^^ a.m., and in alioiit Dno liour from start we roaclicd a trc- mendons rapid, Avliii'ii was aiii)i'oai'in'd witli fejir and tn'mi)lin;;" on tiic jiart of onr voyageurs. wiio knew Ix'ttcr tiian Avc, the da njicrs attendant on I'un- ningtiiis rai)id. tiu- river boing tilled with luij>e rocks in plaees ten feetai)0ve tiie water. AVe reaelied Pine I'ortage in time for breakfast. Tliis portage is 110 yards in lengtii, and after going tlirougli tht' eeremony of portaging stores and Itoats for tlie (iftietli time since we left Sheltandowan T^ake, we launched our craft below the falls and the wind being I'avor- able we hoisted sail and made great headway down the river. Captain MacIiCm, of No. .'> ("om- pany. had his boat injured. The writers boat was nearly tilled with water on account of running a r/iiifc some eight feet in height, she struck sideways and was very nearly cap- sized. Sergant Kraser's boat was touclied intlic stern by a falling tree, and boat and crew ha severe on boats, otticers and men. Towards evening, on the isth of August, while two brigades of boats. or some ten in num1)er, were sailing down theriver. thecrewof the tirst l)oat in turning a bend, aro^e and cheered vociferousl,\-, the cheer was taken up by each boat in succession, when it was discovered that Islington mission appeared in view and on the river's- bank was a white woman, waving her handkerchief, the tirst we had seen, with one exception, (the wife of the (i/ohe correspondcint), since leaving Fort William on the Kaniinsti(|ua. For several day's, on the Winnipeg, we were compelled in overcoming the numerous water falls, to load aiul iin- hiad and carry over our boats several times during the day. A little below the Junction of Knglish river into the Winnipeg is a portage called in Fri'nch Pointe aux Tres, about 2U() yards in length. At this place the tirst serious accident of the Aviiole expedition oc- curred. Private Mutcher, an English- man by 1)irth and a boat-buihler by trade, was one of the crew in the boat under the command of the writer, and as soon as the boat struck the rock, the latter jumped ashore, and Mutcher standing on the gunwale, threw his knapsack to one of his <'omrades on shore. The knapsack fell short and struck against the mck. an explo- sidii from a revolver took place, and the owner, standing on the gunwale, received the ball in the right breast, passing completely through his body and lodged alongside the backbone, completely dislodging th<' rib from the bone. He was carried ashore and a tent pitched over him, and every care possible bestowed on him. Private K'obinson, of Toronto, voluntered tO' remain with him anti see him buried, if wound i)r(»ved fatal, that is, if enough clay could be procured within a radius of ten miles to cover the liody, whicli was unlikely. After settling his worldly atfairs. a barrel of hard-tack, some jjork, tea and sugar, a pick axe and shovel wei'e left with the dvinjr man and his attendant, ("apt. McMil- lan, with that kindness of heart which has always characterized him through life, and to Avhose company he belonged, cjilled a meeting of th(^ officers, wIk'U it was decided that the cargo of the lightest boat should be divided amongst the live otliers, and that eight picked men of the brigade- should be sent back to bring up Dr, The Manitoban. 23;> Cocld, who w;is three diiys behind with anothtT hri{>ade()ftht'()nt;iri()l)attalion. Tiur returned men worked lil\«' beav- ers, and on the second day after start- ing. Dr. <'o(ld arrived, extraeted tlie J>all, had a bed nuuh' for him in the the bow of tiie boat : and these ei^ht heroes, sonic now living in this pro- vince carried sick man and boat, Avithout moving- liim. ovci- all tlw portages wiucli intervened between the place of tlie accident ;md Kort Alexander, lie overtook his company four miles above Kort Alexani-eatesr car<' of him, aiul a. few d;iys hefon' Christ- mas, ii(! arrived in \Viunipe<;- ;is sound and healthy iis he ever w.is. He after- wards i>uilt tlie second house on Ndrn- Dame street east, between .Main street and tiie river, where lie kept a bojirdiiij;- liouse, made money, and sold out to return to Kii<>'iaiid to take possession o\' a lejfacy of t'l.OOO h'ft him by a relative. After i»assiiif;' over several pi>rra' dan^'cr- ous nature, where miiny li!iir-l)rcadth escapes occurred, we reaclx (I the seven port;ij,''es at 7.:>i> p.m. On Sunda>. 2 1st Au^'ust. transfci'rcd our stores and rested on tite Hrst portaye for tiic night, jtrcparing for next day's work, wiiicll was expected U> he the tlie most ditlrtcult of the whole expedition. Winnipeg river has a f;ill oiabnut 100 feet between ].:\\n- of the Woods .•iild Lake Winnijieg, and the fall of waters at the seven portages must ll;ive Ifccn at Iciist one li;ilf of the whole distance. These falls must have occurred in the distance of 2^, miles. So that they re- sembled ii sfiiirway with the steps aliout a mile in width. We pnssed over the seven portim'es in one day whi(di involved the loading nf lair boats ;ind nnlo.iding seven times. The work w;is hard and wearing upon the men ;ind very severe on our bojits. (ireal d;iniage was done the latter , 'It these fill Is. .\boiit this time we were daily threatened with so many dangers that evcrylxKly began to look anxiously toward Kort Alex- ander, beliming that once there the expedition would be at an end and easy sailing from that point to Kort (iarry. .\t first running rai>ids on the Winnipeg appeared t'ljirt'onl an agree- al)le sensation, but as we contimied on from day to day. having many narr()W escapes, in being carried oyer the falls and engulfed in the fonming waters b(dow. men and voyageurs began to get more timid, and ;is we apia'oaclK'd the mouth of the river, we liegan to realize the dangers when all ple.isures ceased. No length of time can erase t'rtnn the memory of tiie writer the narrow escape of our boat being carried over one of the hirgest falls at the Seven portages. Running down the rapids at the rate of fifteen or twenty miles an hoiii', Just above the falls, through some fjilse paddle ofthemauat the helm the i»oat to, >k tlie right hand side of a little island in the r.-ipids instead lunge. when with cleiudied teeth the man at the bow iiided by the helmsman succeeded l)y some ju'dvidential stroke to send our lioat high and dry upon a rock in mid-watei-, on the other side of which was slijillow water. At this moment those on shore raised a deafening (dieer whi<'h w;is answei'cd from the ruck. .\t first thuught it would apjiear anomalous, when within .">0O yards of the brow of the rnging foiini- ing cat.'iraci the spray of wliich evidently darkened the sun to be told to ]iiill towards it with all one's strength : but this was afterwards explained l)y the voyageur that un- less the boat was rowed faster than the I'lirrent, his oar would have no control in the waters, and she must in such case have inevitably gone ov(^r into the yawning abyss below. In that infinitesimal fraction of time on«r^ 23G The Manitoban. minute jiiid a luilt' — ^bctwecn certain dentil and providential eseape. round tiie little island what multitudes ot tiioufflit must have erowded the l>raiii. AVhile tile nriter was divestinf»' him- self of a heavy oveivoat. and amniunitioii iioots, myriads of ideas of home and family and friends ehascd eaeli other Avith eleetrie rapidity, tlie memory of wliieh after 22 years is as fresli as on tiie atternoon of the day on wiiieli tlie tliiny- oeeurred. For a man to fall in stemmiiif^' and opposiiij;' tlie tide of battle would lie an Iuuku'- al)le deatli and his liody would l)e found : i)Ut f^'fttin;;' into tlie tide of Wiiinipejn' river Ix'tweeii the seven j;-reat eataraets. was inevitaliled«!striie- tion. no hope, no diseovery of the body and no funeral ol)se<|uies. For several days after passiiif^- tlie seven ])orta<{'es it rained eoiisideralily. Wliile on (JraiKl Honnet Porta^i'e, }>'ettiny' over our stores and boats, to our fjM'eat astonislinient, Ser^t. Doidfje. iitiw ('apt. Doidfic of the AViniiii)e;i' Field Battery and his brave little crew arrived with private Butcher who, it will lie reiiieiiibered j;ot aeeidentally shot throuf>ii tiie body l)y liis own re- volver, a few djiys after we entered the Winiiii»e^' U'iver. It att'orded us the ^-reatest satisfaetioii to find that he Avas still ill the land of the liviiiy, and his boat was carried over tlu' portaj^'e amidst the cheers of his comrades. Many a mother in Ontario and (Quebec woulil have sb'pt more soundly and many a sister would h;ive rested more content, had they known tliat those who were near and dear to them, many of whom left their homes for the first time. wer<' coiiiiiiitred to the cai'e of stu'li ("liristiaii and kind-hearted of- ficers as .McMillan, ScoM., Kennedy. Walker. Mulvey. McLe(Ml. McDonalil and the ;;'i'eat majority of the others. who were in coiiiniaiid of tii<; Ontario and <(|uebec bjitlalioiis. Imleed. from the rooplar. On ea(di side are huge granite I'ocks rising toa perpendi- eular height in some places of 100 feet. Several large-sized rivers Join the AVinnipeg, amongst them being' Kiig- lisii river, wliieh drains a large area of eounti'v. and AVhiteinoutli, running froni tiie south and rising near the west- ern 1 orti(»n of the Lake of the AVo(m1s. After crossiitg the portage at Silv<'r Falls we loaded up our boats for the lai^t time and at a rapid rate we gli(l<'d down the river, ran the rapids at Manitou. and after getting intosmootii Avater to our astonishment we botli saw and heard tlie first sign of civil- ization since we left Sault St. Marie, namely, five cows grazing on the river's brink, and tlie merry jingle, tingle of the cow-bells. Fort .Vle\- ander in a short time appeared in view, and after ten d;iys of as hard work as ever man or beast performed, .dnee leaving K'at Portage, we went ashore for the night and was hospit- al)ly «'ntertained by the oIUccm's of the |[uds(m's May Company. I To he Cniitiinied. i rT( )I!AN. ' C, iiiiil finiii iiott's iiiiil oliservntiims taki-ii tlieii, thf lu-cspiit aci'iiunt of i\ riice littli- kimwii is iri\ on. In coiiHeiiiu'iirf iif tliis. Iiunriiai.'i' niiiy iHTiisinnnlly lie used as If mienkiinf iif I lie lireseni time «l"ieii the Innita^'ii is lea'.ly liiilientpil.l W. I>. Oct of the waters. I'-ires were soon lighted, t he good things piirchiised at Fort .'\ iexaiider, were [otidiieetl aneg. we wailetj sexcrai lioii!- . i hiiik 111'.; I liat I he wind and w;ivc:. might al>ale. during wliitdi f iiiie we look a si roll inland I Ii loiigji ihe woods. 'I'lie laiMloii I lie eastern ^.|loi(' is rocky, and in jtiaces l liickly co\ cred witli iiircii and po|ii:ir. I'niike most oilier lakes in I ht; Noil invest , I lie siiores of Fa ke W'in- nipeg on lis easleni and wcsieni sides are iiigli ami gia\i'liy. willi a iK'aiil il'iil sandy apjiroaeh lo the waters edge, ami liie waters very I ian^ipareiit. 'I'lie wind kepi on in- creasing till hilc in I lie al'I'TiKion, and as there was no sign of a c,;liii oiii' guide would iiol peniiii lis to \ cut lire, as he said Winnipeg was a most dangeioiis ami I reaclieroiis laivc al t liis season of I lie year. Next iiiorniiig we made a star! at 8 a. 111., and rowed all day against stfoiig head w iiids ant' heavy waves, for a tlistance of I liii'ty miles lo i h(> iiioiilli of I'cd Ii'iver, where we reached at ;• p. m. H was agreed mall liaiids I hat I his was the most liniciilt rowing da\ of Ihe expo- lition. ! iie liiisters on the mens lands iicaring testimony to the datenient. Wlieii we reaclied Ihe soiillicrii )ndol'llie lake we round I lie waler n places very shallow, and as Ihe liglil was dark anil cloiidy.il look I Itiiiii iiiiie III di-cover Ihe channel ending into IJed Kiver. The lioals vent agroniiii in many places, miles tut in the lake, and gol se[)aialed rom each other. I he men having lo ,et on! into the waler. and up to he waist in slush and mud. and ".li.^ 33- ^36 The MANIToban. minuti' jiiul a lialf — betwetMi certain' death and providential cscaix'. ronnd tlic littir ifsland wliat nitiltitudcs of tiioajjlit must iiavc crowded tlu' brain. AVIiilc tlic writer was divcstinf? liini- siiif <»t' a In-avv ovcri'oat. and ammunition hoots, myriads of ideas of h(mn' and family and friends chased eaeli other Avith eleetrie rapidity, th*- memory of wiiicii after '22 years is as fresi) as on tiie afternoon of tlie day on wliieh tlie tliiny oeeurred. i''or a man to fail in stemnunj; and opposinji- tlie tide of hatth' would he an lionor- able death aiul liis hoes it rained consideral)ly. AVhile on (iniiid Hitnnet l'orta},''e. jfcttinji' over our stores and hoats. to our ffreat asti nisinneiit. Seryt. Doidfje, now ("apt. !)oi({^, iii ihe AViiiiiipef>' Field Mattery and his hrave little crew arrived with })rivatc Hutchcr who. it Avill he n'liiemhered jjot accidentally shot tlirouji'h the body by his own re- volver, a few days after we entered the Winnipeg- K'iver. It afforded us the greatest satisfaction to Hnd that he was still in the land of the liviiifj-. and his l>oat Avas carried over the ])orta;ie amidst tlu; cheers of his comrades. -Many ii morlier in Ontario and (Quebec would have slejit more soundly and many a sister would have rested more content, had they known that those wiio were near and dear to them, manv of whom left their homes for the Hrst time, were committed to the care of such ("hristiiin and kind-hearted of- ficers as McMillan, Scott, Kennedy. Walker. Mulvey. .McLe(Ml. McDonald and the -i-reat majority of the (tthers. who were in coinniand of th<; Ontario > and <^)ueliec battalions. Indeed, from the day that they first met at Toronto until the force was dislijiiided. the men , and olticers composing;' the first K'ed Hiver expedition were like members of af;reat family. The otMcers when • off parade treated the men as their > coat rejoices in two tails, one short' in front sha;>ed like a large flat- tened out taf)le si)oon reaching: !>early to the knee, the other tail, at the back, of the same shape reaches almost to tli<' ground, and wIh'U the wearer is Imsy at any stirring work or travel- ling, this latter tail is usually tied up in a neat \oo\> to the waist. The hood of the woman's coat is of an extraor- dinary size, and appears at Hrst sight as if fashion had in this instance run away with convenience, lait such is not the case, the IkxmI is i>ortmanteau, Avork Itasket, cradle and general rc- cei)taele for the odds and ends of Escpiimaux women's work or amuse- ment, and it is not a litth; interesting some times to to se«' what is brought out of this unique store room. A baby's head generally peejjs from the hood of a full grown Ksciuimaux wonnin, for this is l)aby's natural place of aliode with these people for tlu^ tirst two or three years of its life, and when the little one has been taken out, perliai)s several pairs of l)oots will be brought to light, then a Ijunch or two of sinews and several fox skins for trade, thi'ii powder horn and shot pouch, a knife, needles and sinew thrc.id. some moss, tinder l)ox and Hint and steel, fish hooks, a whale l)onc snaring net for diu-ks or the white grouse, and the inevitable pipe and tobacco, if the worthy matron is the hapi)y possessor of such inestiomable blessings, and other ef veterax jiast belief. The women spend much time and exhil>it a great (b-al of good taste in the making aiu I ornanientiiiL^ of these deerskin garments, sind when new and clean they are often very jtrctty. In summer Avlien the weather is warm the outer coats and trows<'rs are taken off, the deerskin hoots dis- carded for others of seal skin, and tlie summer attire is complete. Coats and trowsers are often made of sealskin for both suniiiK'r and winter use, l)Ut are neither so neat looking nor. at least for winter wear, so suitaliU; as tin" dry ami soft reindeer skin. Thr till' \v;itcis. I'"ircs wrrc soon li.i;lit(Ml. I lie u'lod tilings |iiircliiiscil III ImiiM .'\ Icxiiinlrr, were jn odiiccd ami ill ;i \('i\ short liiiic :iii cxccl- li'iit and liiMirioiis incal was jn'o vidcd. It was now piisi mid ilav. 1 lie wind increased and Itlcw iVoiii I lie soul li a heavy ,i;al<', and |)iit an icsl and eomroi laldesN'ep <'iidlothe use ]»roacli lo the erous eleaian.!.;s ;iiid iiie<' thalciied v/a!ers ed;.';e, and the waters \ cry col la!;es of I he 1 la 1 f IJieeds. it jire t rair-ipareiit . The wind kejil on in- seiils a \'eiy line a) pearaiiee. 'I'liere ('leusiiii:;- I ill late in the afti-rnoon, isiilso a L'ood farm, helonuin^ to and as I here was no si^ii of a CiJm the II iidson's Huy Coiupaiiy, which o'li' .uuide would not permit us to is kept ilia lirsl clasN slate of eiil \ eiil u re. ;is hes.iid W'iniii pei;' was ti\ati;)ii. I'liehiiid is ^mkxI in llie a most dau_i;'er(tiis uiid lrea<'herons imme(liat<' \ iciiiit y o| I he ImhI, hut lake at this season (d' t he year, a few miles l)a j). m. il was a;;reed Noil h'Acsi , where the I la If- Lrced,-, on all liaiidsthat this was tin; most ami Indians re<'eive an excellent difliciilt rowing- day of I he e.xpo- reli,ii'ious and secular ediicat ion. dilio.i. the Misters lui the mens 'IMie morniiii;- was warm. Iiriuht hands heaiiiru- testimony to the and clear, the Inil sun lieamin^ sialement. down on our litt le lleel undersail. I; When we reaciii'd the southern priM'iiled indeed a pretty appear end of I he lake we found t hi' water ance. and was well worthy of a pre in plaees \ cry shallow, and as the --er\ ed photourapli. As we rounded nii;lil was dark and (doiidy.it took llie Point (d' ICIk Island, the wa\cs a Iimil; iime to discover thi^ (dianiud >eeiiied lo increasi' lo siudi a dcii'ri'e. leadim; into j{ed River. 'I'he boats thai il was ('. eiiu'd ad\ isalde lo pin w cut a.uidiiiid iii many places, miles into a nice little slielleied harbor. out in the lake, ami ji'ot sepai'ated Willi a beaiilifiil sandy beach, on from ea(di ot her, I he men haviiii.', to Ihe easi shore of (he lake, where we -el onl iiil o t he water, and up to had dinner and uwaited Ihe calmiiiLi the waist in slush and miuL and ^.••A\ \}^» h yj^\ )%>.Kt €v-«J, rO 0. "3.- 360 'I'lIK M AM'I'OI'.AN. Iliiou.uli iccds :iii(I hulnislics tliey were coiiiix'llcd to haul lliciii aloii^. Al last a deep clianiicl tliiKiiii'li tlic nislics was (lis('()vt'iT(l, wliicli was Jbllowcd, and brou/ilit iis to a liijili spol on tlic h'lt hankoltln- Kcd I'ivci- a|»i)ai('n(ly nscd as an Indian cani]) in.n uronnd. As soon as U'nts were l)it('li('d, scarcliinu,' i)arti('s wt'ic dis- palclicd to discoNcr and hi'inii- to camp tilt' niissinji' boats. Indians of St. lN't(;r"s Ifcscrvc met ns at the month oCthe river, and infoiined ns that it was i»etter to Inive all onr men landed, lor if the wind eliaii.i;('(I to tlie in)ith which was likely al any moment, i! wonld i)rove dan,n<'i'ous to men and hoats. as in a tew honis the water mifiht rise to a heiiiht of five or six feet. Ilowexcr, altont I'J o'clock mid- nij^ht, we fonnd all onr hoats and crews had heen piloted into cani]). when all i<'lii'e!». The hnnger, miseries ami hardships endured on that jonrney hy the doctor, laid IIh; seeds of sei'ious illness, IVom which he has never fully recovered. After ]»assin,!.;' tliron,t;h the i)0])n- lous S(f|tlement of St. Peter's, with its neat ly thatched and whiti'washed honses lining the Lett hank of Red Ivi\<'r, and a few chains apai't from each other, we icached Stone Vovi at 7:-'>(> p. m., where we wer<' heartily wtdcomcMl hy tli(^ oflicers iind t he loyal ]>eo]>le iVoni the snr- nniiulinfi c(nintry, who had assemb- led to extend a heaity ui cet inj;, and to intinnite th»^ Joy they felt at Iteinii' iilde to breathe the atmos- idiere (d" iVeedom ayain. Low<'i' Fort dairy or Stone lM)rt (socalleil, liccanse bnilt of stone) is sitnated on t he left bank of the licd IJivcr. ab(»iit •_'(» miles nortli of Winnipeji' and the same distance Irom the lake of the same name. Here was a steam gristmill, t he lirst and route, anil after an enjoyable niiilil's rest the brifiades started on their last day's march, and reached tlie SI. Amlrew's Rai)ids, which were overcome by )> p. m. W'c camped for dinner alonji the side (d' St. Paul's Chtirch, better kiKtwn as Middle ("hiiridi. After dinner we a^aiii started on the last tw(dve miles of the ront«>, ])assenebec Patt. which were ('(Hiiiiit;' on Ixdiind. No7('<»inpaiiv of the Isl Ontirio The 3IAKITOI1AX. 381 Rati. iiii(lt'icoiiii\iiiii(l ol'Ciii)t. Scntl, and wliicli was left al Toit I'raiicis, liiuiij;lit up (he rear, and reached Wiiuiil)e;;- over the Lake of tlu' ^^'^M)(ls road on .SepU'inlx'i' 1 Uli. Tliiis ended tlie Hcd River expe- dition, and one, whieli for endurance, for liai'd work of an unusual cliarac- tei' and Iiaidships sulfered will com- pare alon^' with any military e.\j)e- dition in wliieli liritain has been t'ngaji'ed duriujj,' the last quarter of a century. 'I'he following is an opinitui of a wi'iter in filnrhirooil.s Mdijd-iiw, supposed to he from (he pen of Col. Wolsley himself, an oflicer loved and inspected by (hose under him, and (han whom no living man, was better <]ualilie(l to com- mand an army of Canadian volun- tecTs : '• The exi)edition is an undertak- inj; that will lonj;- stand out in oui- military chronicles as possessin;.i- characteristics jteculiarly its own. The foice which landed at Masso- wah in JSi;; had to nnirch about 400 miles inland (hroujih an uninhabited count ly, where sui»plies were ob- taimible, (o relieve some ilritish prisoners, held capdves by a sovereign half (yrant half maflman, Europe was in prolound peace at the time, so all eyes were tuined upon its doings. Although (here can scarcely be said (o have been any fighdng as we had not even a man killed, still oui- ministry was glad to have an oppor(uni(y of at- tracting so much general attention to a milKary operadon, endiely Phiglish, and may think that for the millions spent upon it. we as a nation received an equivalent in proving l>efore the world, that we were still capable of mililary eu(er- prise. The force sent to Ked Kiver for the jiurpose of crushing out re- bellion theie, liad to advance from its poin( of disenvbarkatiou more than ()00 miles* through a wilder- ness of water, rocks and forests, •ShouUl have sntil TM mUes from Thunder Bay liy Wiinilpiii Hivur. where no sui)plies weic to be had, and where every pound weight of provisions and stoics had (o l»e (ranspor(e(l for miles, on (he backs ol (he soldiers. Happily i(s oi»je«t was acc(»mplishe(l. as in (lie expe- diiion (o Altyssina, withou( any loss of life. A great war was raging in JOurope. whilst the expedition was forcing i(s way over and through the immense iui(ural ol)stacles (hat lay in i(s patli. All thoughts were of alfairs upon tln' Khine : no one could spare a moment's icdection foi' the doings of this little Jiiitish .\rmy. No home newspapers ( or Canadian) cartel to r«'Cord its suc- cess, nor to sound one single note of praise in its honor. Hythe careful adminisl radon of (Jeneral Lindsay and the olUceis he had scdected to carry out his orders, th(^ total ex- ))ense t»f the whole expedidon, was under C1(>(»,U0(), ou(! (juarler of which only is (o be paid by Kngland. There was no reckless wasle, either in material or in money. Much a careful ectiuomy was exercised in its organization and in administring to its subse(iueiit wants, (ha( it may be safely asserted tliat no such dis- tanc<' has ever been traversed by an efiicient brigade, numbering about 1,400 souls in any of our numerous little wars at such a trying cost." Never in the military annals of any country was there a littlearmy, who worked harder in wending theii- way through rocks and moun- tains, forests, and lakes, for a dis- tance of nearly 2,000 miles, than the men of the (irst Red River expe- dition ; and never, did any country trea( (heir soldiers with more cold- ness and inditforence, not to say base ingratitude, than did tlie gov- ernment of Canada and the Can- adian people. Officers and men of that exi)edition Worked like beasts of burden, carrying loads upon their backs, from 3 o'clock a. m. until p. m., oftimes hungry and almost naked, their clothes torn from their backs through forests 3r._» Till-; MAMTOItAX. aiiritish and Canatliiin aiilhori- t ics t Ih'V (lid so. iiiid at'tt-r twenty- two years liave eliipsed. liistoiT in- qiiiri'S. what was their reward .' J^iriy in lS(i!». the iJiiti.-ii tia.u' that liad l>een lioatinji' t'oi' iiaif a cent ury over t he walls oi' {''ort < iarry. had Ix'i'n torn down, and a nhfl ra^'. that had heen specially worked for !iii-l, by the men ol St. Honitaee, who were atl raeteil {o 1 he eat lie hni^-haired soldiery, and in a lew days afterwards, nn- resisted. took possession (d' I'ort (iari'y. i''n,nii>h s])eakinji peo|)|e who deniuineed the oiilraue. and manifested a sympathy for llritish a.nd Camidian connections, weie comjadled to tiee. their }iomes and eonntry: ot hers were wrested from their families, and in Hie dead of niiiht. i»y men nnder ai'ins. and ofticers ot' Kr«'n(di llalf-lJreeds. and crammed into dirty. cold, vermin and ]»tdlnted. e(dls. inside tiie Koit, in the middle of a Manitoba winter, and there nnlawfnlly imjjrisoned, depri\ed of proper food or elotiiin.t;', while the t heinioinoler ranged IT) decrees btdow zero. Tiie ])roporty of Knj;lish -speaking,' peoph^ who rc;- fused to give adherence to theoii;an- ized robi)eiy, was confi.scated and their iives or lil)erties not safe for a day. The i)erpetratois of tliese <'riines Ixdieved that the inijjassilde l)ar- riers whi( h separated Ontario tVom Ked Kiver would l)e insurmountable by troops, and tliat a just punish- uieut or retribution couM not possi- bly o\eitake thein for years at least, bnt little did tJiey reckon the stulf that Ontario voliuitt'eis aiv made of or tlie daiiny ami inlrei»idit,\ of I'.ritisli and Canadian tioops. Only insult and indi-^nity that eonid be cast u]Min a i)eople. those htyal i»eopi(' of IJed Kiver who re- sisted, the tyrant K'icd and his poor mis^nidcd imlis were subjected to. The Hudson's IJay Com i>any people who were llie recognised i^-ovein- ment of the country at tlie time, turned a deal ear to the entreaties of the lOnn'lish ])eoplc. for the ])res- ervat ion of law and order. Tliere aif many who b(die\c(l that the Hn alford the Fenian element their o])- port unity to raid this country, but through the lapid ai)proach of the troops frcnu Ontario. sn(di was j»re- vented. The Fenian plans were not rijK- for action before the fall of isn.when they raid<'d the Hud- son Hay Company's JMirt at Pemldna, and when them)torious O'Domdiue the seci'etary of Kiel's rebel goveiii- ment. was taken j)risoner by Ameri- c;,'i troops fiom Fort Pembina. From tlie time that Kiel and his !>.:iiditti took possession of Fort Cany, down to \\\v arrival oj' the troo])s, in August. l.S7(l, it was not safe for an English-speaking resi- dent to pi'ofess loyalty to liis (^ueen or to Canada. Things grew worse ill the settlement fiom day to day. The attitude of the Canadian Gov- ernment, or ratlierly its masterly iuactivity emboldened tlie rebels to greater crimes, till on the 4th day of March, 1S7(I, Tlumias Scott was foully and biiitally murdered, for m L Tin; 31 A NIK > MAN. .•J.- IK* (»tli«-i' ( rime. tliMii liilty 1() liis iiiji' (if IficPs nu'ii iiii»I<'itu(il< to ])nl t^iUMii ;m(l coiiiit i\ . Ill' was tried :iii i-iid to his j;ii!:iiiiiij:, by cnttiiij; 1>\ ;i iiKick coiiil iiiarliiil. ami in open (lay (and in (lie picsouc*' oT t lie l{t'\ . (i('oi;;c \uiiii;;. W'cslcyaii .MftiiodisI niiiiistcr. wlm was (lit- only Ii'«'\ "d < lent ii-man who intcii's- tfd liiMiscH'iii tile savinj;; of his life >. Ih' was lirntallv >hnt ontsidc llic liislhroat with a .jack UnilV. Tlio (liU'stion nalmally arises wnc these men ever imnished lor t heii' crimes .' To the evei'iast iny discredit and nat nral shame of Canada and lirit ain, t lie peijx't rators were iillowed tn loam the cnnntry. inii)nnished, (^sSMm\w Ay M'--^ t-'\ Mi v:fc) "' '.h - - ' T v iJ!;,^>^*lx-f^ / Mil. Tin: 8iiooTiN(i (»K Scott. walls of Foi't Garry. He was then placed in a square box, inarpetrators of this horrilde nuu'der, stiange to say, with one (exception remiin unpunished. It is only a few days ago since we have seen the Ministei- of Militia, and the (Jeneral commanding the Ibrces in Canada, passing through Winnipeg to the west, with the ob- ject of erecting defences on the Pacific Coast. Let me urge on the Dominion (iovernment, not to squander too much money on stone and moitai' and contractors, that the most effect ive uefvnces of oui- coun- try rest iu the hearts and patriotism of youug Canadians, aud the proper treatment accorded to the ollicers and men of the vi>luuteer force of Canada. Arm stroiii^s arc oflilUo use, willioiil imii to iiuin llu'iii ; i;arlliiiuaki.s art- a wasU' oi' luoiRy, wilhout patriotic liiarls l)(.-liiM(l Ihciii. Shooting Prairie Chickens in Muni to hit. «^ AN INCIDKNT, () sportsmen, perhaps rlut most enjoyable time is that of spring and fall, when ducks, prairie chickens, gi'ousci, j)lo\ cr and other gauH^ are in seascui. In the fall, t^arly in the morning, several Ini."kboards with their occupants may be seen winding their way in and out over the nuaierous trails, that lead t o and from the city, accom- l)anied by theirdogs, and with their guns I'csting set \irely between their hgs or lying lightly in the hollow of I he left arm, leady lor any birds that might ris(> across their track. , It is on just such a day as we have in .September oi' October, that you cansalley forth and have a real (u f 3r.ti Tin; ,M AM TO HAN. ;'(»(i(i sliodl. not I'ctui'iiiiii; ill iiiglit .u»Mit IciiH'ii 'isitiill\ ciiii'v I licir cii 'ad with a (■<)iii)lf (»f crows iuul rt'd yiMi know \\'h\ , said ('. I don"l MHiiri'ols. like tlicy do in Ontarid, nsnally cai'iy my card w lim 1 i;o out bnt witli several Itracc ol' itlunip sliciot in^ or caMipiiii;. I Icaxc thcni prairie «liickcn and ^runse. wiiich home, ■•hnf " siiid he. in a tone oIM^t nnike yi.nr arm aclie tt> Ciiri'y them. isi(in. "as yon are sncli a uentieinaii .\ 11 one wants is a yood dou'. a i)erhn|>s yctn can produce yours." ji'ood donlde-haii'elled i;un and a In reply, the larmei'. lo the ama.'e quick siniit; as t he birds are nearly ment of t he others, slowly pnf his all killed on tiie wiiiff as they rise hand in his po(d. wlii(di liroiiiiht fort h a t. i : ;' ba.us ;ing' about their aiiventure. IJivvury A'oic.s niitl Reviews. 'I'lu' spcciiii cililiciii nil III' \/i>i/iliii y 7'iiiits. Ii'iiili' iiiiinuij. receiit- (aiiaitaV thicii \\ i"iils I'dnnnrc iIkXii passiii;.^ imt.iie. Il is |)riiilci| nil line j)a|M'i'. liaiiilsiiiiu'ly abii se frmii the proprietor K c words interposed with se\ cral 'ho epit hets were hurled back and lortli, iiimt. w liilc 'the roiitcni -mM |,.||, 'I'limniu. LI) l!\ll ■lllliOSSl 1 i.- t'DNcr with an a •reilll II lloiii ilrtliri' 11 I !•: piistiiii, l'.si|., IN nivpii away as a sniipli at anv rate csiici'ially the said the t'ariiier, iiiitt'saml lonmieuts nn the Icailui^: i|iir; s]>e;ikiii;.; to the leader, whom we sliall desi"iiate as .Mr. r. •• \(iu iire tiniw 111' Ihe ilav, are ailmiral well wril- lin. I'lie /'////< A' is to lie i miLirattilated iiii t he I'literprise nt lis iiiaiia'jciiieiit in t:i\ iiiy no orders. "Itiit" aid( I am I assure \iiii as much a gent leman as _\ou ;ire ofdisiiiist lit (he fain h a look -lot lle:Si. W'c liaVi iri .JNril a riipy nC .1. 'I'. Slml- aiiis faiiKiiis v if»vv.s aiiil "i:lini|ises ijl' the Well." said he of Ih, . ser.dh' if vou lire, w here's \our eji'iid wiii'M." ainl iniisl sav if ts .ThTI nilsiiiiie \Mirl Nr\l ^iiiiiiL;' ariiMiiil tlie wml is the icsi lliiiiij' Vim ran sec he \ lew s arc