Morning chronicle and commercial and shipping gazette, 2 octobre 1862, jeudi 2 octobre 1862

[" ÜIIIVS HulEL LIVERPOOL.A CENTRAL POSITION.ADJOISIRO ST.GEORGE\u2019S HALL, ¦SAS Ta* Lime Street Railway Station, Banks and Post Office.First rates.class accotnoiodA'ion at moderate OfUtlemen from Qnabec and neighbourhood are invited to give os s call JAMES TISSOT, Proprietor.8-pt.i, ÎW1.3mc British and North American Royrl Mail S.P.Corny., Appointed by the Admiralty to tail BIT*-SI* L VKUPOOL â*D AKW VIA CORK HARBOR, YORK, ATO »±TWS*X LIVERPOOL AND BOSTON, tia cork harbor.The Boston ships only cailiog at HALIFAX to Und and receive Passengers and Her Hajestj\u2019s Mails.Scotia, C.H.E.Judkima, Pbrsia, E.O.Lott.Arabia, James Stone.Asia.Thomas Small.Africa, X.Shannon.Chiva, Jas.Anderson.Australasian, T.Cook.C a van a, fc.R.Moodle.X'iaoara, J.Mnir.Ecropa.J.Leiteh.America, Ales.Ryrie.Tae nndernoted or other vessels are appointed to sail : FROM AMERICA.Persia.\t\u2022 from N.York, Wednesday.Sept 10\t\t\t Asia\t\t\u2022 from Boston,\t>C\t1»\t17 Australasia! from N.York,\t\tu\tft\t24 Arabia.\t.from Boston,\tc«\tOct.\t1 Scotia.\t.from N York,\tcl\tIt\t8 Kcs fa .\t.from Bcstoa, .frotr N York,\tM\tIf\t15 PsRilA.\t\tCf\tfr wa8hinK Charped Chafed and Rough skin are with prevented.It is strongly recommended to Gentleman, to rub over the chin after the use of the razor, a* it at once allays the irritation produced by shaving.-\tr\t1 The PESTACHIO NUTS being an edible ruit, this Powder, which is prepared from them, can be relied on for its absolute icno-cenoe and simplicity of composition.Spanish Oil of Pestachio Nuts.\u201cThe beauty of the Raven Tresses of the Spanish Ladies has excited tho admiration of every visitor to Madrid.No other hair dres^ tog fluid is used but the expressed Oil of es acblo Nat, which is a.* common here with the Mono tain Peasant as :he Court Beauty.\u201d\u2014 Gordon s Month tn Spain.Agent for Qnebec : JOHN S.BOWEN, Chemist and Druggist, _\t14 Buade Street.Quebec, Jane 21, 1862.Houses to Let, Comfortable Fire Brick «iJîÎ HCLSES, In St.Joseph Street, .\" I* 80011 ®.contait ing n^ne Rooms each, with water, gas, Ac.Possession 1st May next.Apply to E.G.CANNON, Notary.Quebec, April 30.1862\tgaw tf QUEEN\u2019S HOTEL, LATE\u2014REVERE HOUSE, TORONTO.THOS.DICK, Pbopbistob, Quebec, May 24, 1862.\t12m North Sriti FIRE Insurance Incorporated and & LIFE Company, Charter.by Royal Es ablished in 1809* Capita! - - Two Millions Sterling* prssidbnt: Hia Grace the Duke of Roxburgh, K.I.v « c F.-r rtESiPENTs: Thr Most Nohlr the Marquis of Abercorn, K.G., The Right Hon.The Earl of Stair.HEAD CIFFICt : G4 Princes Street, Edinburgh, manager:\tsecretary: David Smith Esq.| John Ogilvie, Esq.\u2022'I'tUi'J!* Grand Trunk Il A II.IVA Y.CANADA CENTRAL BRANCH: 4 33uildings*s MONTREAL, BEG to inform the mercantile community that tbev hive commenced business as SHIPPING AGENTS and COMMISSION MERCHANTS; and, having had Ung fxpe-rience as masurj of sea-going ships, they are prepared to survey ships and cargoes, procure freights, or ship goods and grain, on owners\u2019 account.Seasoned lumber, for lining vessels, always en hand.Sept.6, 1862.\tImc L.DE VA NY, ^ IT a T I O ÜNT E H, rt COMMISSION .MCRC2I4 4T, 159 Cathedral Block.JA\u2019ofre Dame Street, MONTREAL, C.E.Advances mass on Con* N.B.\u2014Liberal SIGNMEJITS.Sept.5, 1862.12mc Coals and CoTce./ V h a l d ro ns best new- lt) \\y CASTLE HOUSSCOALS 410 Chaldrons Best Double Screened Nut Coals, 120 do do Coke, For Sale ia lots to suit purchasers.Jt\u2019HN BAILS, Prince of Wales rureet.Quebec, Sept.16, 1862.\t*w 3aw on record tne treasures of wholesome food 1 which a kind Providence has hidden in the streams, in the rivers, in the forests of this magnificent country, for the benefit, for the daily use of the million as well ns of the millionnaire.Few some through interested motives have suppressed the fact\u2014few have published to the world, that Canada, withoul the ttriment game laws of England, without scarcely any expense, but by the mere consent of the people aud the fostering care of the government, can be made what it was formerly, one of the most favored localities on earth for ¦ game - a veritable Onnann\u2014a laud of promise\u2014 \u201c of milk and honey\u201d for all those who rejoice in the manly, in tho exhilarating pleasures of tho chase.\u2019Tis true that for two centuries back the people have struggled hard to extirpate its fish and game, and that, had the voice of the sportsmen not been heard in time, every estuary in the Province would have been depopulated ; the forests, the sea shores, tbe whole country instead of harboring quantities of luscious game, myriads of insect devouring birds, would soon have become a kind of howling wilderness.Much harm has been done; but the curing of the evil is fortunately still within our reach.Intending to notice elsewhere the glorious results which have crowned the protective policy of successive administrations towards fish and game, I shall now confine myself to mentioning, suc- I cintely, the chief hunting-grounds in the Province.Old writers, one and all, have spoken with astonishment, nay, with rapture, of the abundance and varities of sea fowl and birds frequenting the shores of the St.Lawrence, and have repeatedly told us how thousands of the aboriginal races have subsisted on the produce of the chase, exclusively, fercenturies, through the boundless forests of Canada.The Jesuits, general y accurate in their statements in describing, in 1G32, the Bird Rocks, at the entrance of the Gulf, say that a boat might be easily loaded with the eggs of the sea fowl, who build on these desolate islands, and that so numerous are the birds, that human beings ! ascending these rocks are in danger of being prostrated to the ground by the flapping of the wings of these feathered denizens.Although eggs-stealers (a bad sett, by the by, whose operations Audubon graphically describes) have considerably thinned their numbers, Dr.Hy.Bry-aut, who, iu 1860, made au ornithological survey of these Islands for the Smithsonian Institution, found them still tenanted by large numbers of gannets, puffins guillemots, auks and kitliwukes.In the fall of the year, tbe shores of the St.Lawrence are literally swarming with ducks, leal and other sea fowl.I have myself counted thousands busy gobliug up the shell-fish, barnacles and sea weed which cling to the shelving rocks round Plateau and Bona-venture Islands, at Gaspé.I have watched the gamier, the herring-gull, the cormorant, hovering in clouds over Perce Rock, on whose verdant summit they found a secure asylum against the great destroyer, man! I have heard their discordant voices above the roar of the surf, miles away.I have seen their young shot by hundreds in the month of August.It is notan uncommon thing in the fall of the year for the Gaspé fishermen to kill as innny ns twenty ducks at one shot, in the air holes, amongst the ice, where the birds crowded down by hundreds to feed.Where is the Canadian sportsman who would not give tho world for \u2022« week on the Mille Vache shoals in September ?Where is the fowler who has not beard of the sport Jnpiter River, on Anticodi, affords, over and above the chance of putting an occasional bullet througn a bear, attracted to the sea shore for his morning meal of kelp and seaweed, in the absence of green oats and young mutton, his favorite provender.It would be unfair, however, to lead sportsmen to believe that one lias to go all the way to Anticosti to get a crack at \u201c Bruin,\u201d when snipe-shooters occasionally bag bears on the beaches close to Quebec.One recent occur-renee : a sporting member of the Quebec Bar, whom the summer vacation had seduced away from the Pandects and Blackstone, to the swampy Chateau Richer flats, was busy bagging, as usual, a few dozen of snipe before breakfast : on firing his first shot, a rustling was heard in some tall rushes, and out stepped leisurely a\u2014snipe?no a bear.Sympathy for ft fellow-sportsman ought to iiavc saved Brain\u2019s life.Not so; ids presence on the swamp was construed by the disciple of St.Hubert into a clear case of trespass.Nothing could be more inconvenant, one will admit, than for a bear to take possession of the feeding grounds of teal and snipe.Qu'allait il faire dans cettt galere ?A heavy charge at close quarters and Bruin\u2019s spirit was wafted to where all good good hears go.What clouds of sand-pipers, curlews and plover, September brings forth from their breeding places, the barren wilds of Labrador, the secluded lakes and islands of the north, up to the frozen ocean ?Look, friend, look at that dense vapor which hovers over that long sandy bar, La lint hire aux Alouettes on the North Shore of the Saint Lawrence ; from afar, you might take it for a squall oChai! or rain ; wait a minute until the sun\u2019s rays lights up tbe picture.Now, see the snowy breast of myriads of chubby little northern strangers, the ring plovers ; look out for them us they settle by thousands on the sand ; now is your time.Enfilade their serried ranks, tire low ; bang ! one shot suffices, you have one hundred victims; to fire again would only cause unnecessary carnage.You can either continue to beat the shore or cross over with me to Seal Rocks, in the Traverse, a delightful small game preserve, so bountifully stocked with ducks, teal aud plover, that a club of chasseurs of St.Jean Port Joiy, have leased it from Government a rare thing in Canada, when the natives pay for the privileges to shoot, game is so plenti ful every where.Here we are now at Crane Island; Quantum mutata ab ilia! Where is the time when a Crane Island rAriMewr thought he had had a poor season, if he had bagged le-s than one hundred Outardes ^Canada geese) together with a few dozen snow-geese ; wild in the extreme, yen, as hard to bag as Southern Generals, are those noisy swamp feeders, who spend the summer months, winging every alternate day their triangular flight from the fet.Joachim beaches, to the Crane Island flats, where they congregate at low water mark, some 3,000 feeding beyond a riffe\u2019s range.I know of a hunting ground not one hundred miles from Quebec, in which the protection of game has been strikingly illustrated : none but the proprietors have access to this preserve; in which Outardes and ducks assemble in astonishing multitudes.Recently two men shot there fifty wild geese in two days.The place is a source of revenue to its owners, and those birds which are not sent to market are salted and preserved for the farm servant\u2019s daily use.It would be impossible for me, in this short sketch, to name all Ihc localities where game is to be had in Canada.Tb-* two shores of the St.Lawrence, from Gaspé to the Upper Lakes, niul the greater number of tbe tributaries of the great river, especially in the Ottawa district^ such are onr chief shooting grounds\u2014some seven or eight hundred leagues\u2014pleuty of elbow-room, as you may see.The Chateau Richer swamp, in spite of the indiscriminate slaughter of birds, still furnishes some 3,060 or 4,000 snipe per season.The Bijou, formerly the grouse, flushed from its cover by ray dog.Grouse is not the only game which a Canadian sportsman meets in the wooda during a September ramble; perhaps you may be lucky enough to have a shot at the king of birds, the golden eagle, or bis pilfering compeer, the bald eagle, soaring high above yoar bead amongst the craggs.Do not be alarmed, if in crossing a mountain gorge, the hoarse croak of the raven should catch your ear.And, if perchance camped for tbe night on tbe mountain slope in a deserted sugar-lmt, you should hear the horrible booting of the Virginian owl, fear nothing ; it is not the evil one : wait until the nocturnal marauder lights on the large tree next .0 your resting place, and, by the light of the moon, your faithful MAnton will soon add to yonr museum, if yon have such a f-ney, one of the noblest and finest birds of the Canadian Fauna.If there should be any of the Jules Gerard or the Mayne Reid in yonr composition, and that yon should have a hankering for larger game, just go and ask that peasant in tbe market place the particulars of the raid whieh bears have recently made in his oat-field, after decimating bis flock.Go in quest of the sheep-slayer; your guide will take you where Bruin and her cobs hold their nightly revels.Take care not to miss your intended victim^ if you do, and wound her, she won\u2019t miss yon ! When you are tired of shooting bears, Canada geese, ducks, snipe, woodcock, pigeon and grouse, take the train for the Western prairies, and three or four days will bring you to where countless herds of buffalo browse 5 you can occasionally vary your sport by looking after wild turkeys and prairie liens, reserving deer and caribo hunting for the winter season.But, before we part, let me give you a solemn piece of advice.By tbe mighty shades of Hawker \u2014by the ramrod of the great Saint Hubert, I adjure you not to waste powder and «bot in the neighborhood of large cities.Sunday loiterers and pot-hunters have mostly extirpated the game in such localities.Go to Sorel, Deschambault, Mille Vaches, Lancaster for ducks ; to Chateau Richer, Grondines, La Baie du Febvre for anipe If you wish for sport in earnest go west to the 8t.Clair Flats*, where you will find swans, geese, ducks, teal, snipe, even eagles'; in fact, all the game of Canada combined- Rely for success on good dogs, a good guide, a sure aim, and then 1 can vouch for a plethoric game bag in return.J.M.L.\u2022We read in the Toronto Leader of November, 1800\t\u201c Captain Strachan and Mr.Ken- nedy returned last evening from a fortnight's shooting in the St.Clair marshes, where they had excellent sport, bagging, to the two guns, two swans,, three snipe, fire wild geese and 570 ducks, black, mallard and grey ducks \u2014 weight 1,860 lbs.\u201d We take the following items of the latest English and foreign news from the telegraphic summaries in tbe papers by tbe Anglo-Saxon\u2019s mad, which arrived vn Tuggday SMcniog*^^ VISIT OF THE PRINCE OF WALES BELGIUM.DARING ASCENT IN A BALOON.(From the Loudon Tunes.Sept- l