Show AN OLD CANADIAN TOWN Inte interesting etelle s in american landmarks ni arlis EDITOR JOURNAL did you ott ever on oil ft A calm calin surn bummers mers night listen to lie doleful nud and prophetic prophet ic battle cry ol of two feline warriors as they awaited with will impatience and rail fall whopping I 1 t the il hour of it mortal voin b bat ae t ard ald lei in that pensive mood so common nn in steel occa occasions siong have you oil eler been able t to 0 d is in the aforesaid battle CI cry r 3 th the 0 0 face ol of isolda which seemed to capro sa particular or angels I 1 of your soul I 1 think you leave linao lit ill all events it is a fact act pace tholly tuoi igl 1 it he be yet new to tie the wol id itt kirbt I 1 eat neild the fc oil F foit oft osiss align a the fill ull mogu had bid just began to look the rini of tile 0 astern horizon lit up tip lie ilc d aik recesses 0 tile hie dismal old bastle pouring bars ot of vi voird eird light out ti through hie elie fairow aiu and thudding lier her pale alcain away across tile lest losi I 1 like he liusa N lio e lives fives iilo the pulsations of some troubled bosom beat with a anuil led 11 laush husli bush liu sli ott on the beach below what more was needed to produce eve even tile roll of a stoic tile mood ceita loly lint but elie voices nt if tile llie bellue LIT bights baeb soon camo came in ill it cries of ion dhawn howls cot co chinin inin nit it glo bloomy my corpor all i hie old lot foil t As I 1 liar have 0 said mid wore before A oat cat iy ay jy Is a wonderful lan language na 0 of 0 emotions it thris a halo of solace the lonely watch of a des deith bet it Is 1 I bilin lor for ness less and dds ten tell per cent e to the romance ol of toy any lose loe scene but IT as I 1 mused among the ruins of the old loit foit I 1 w was is heltberg lead dead homesick nor lovesick mil imil I 1 was only 0 elie sad fail I y ot of tills poor old N Sla giro so bo that ll it was tile iho cat light sait bald to inn ine poor N 1 antar a ant and all day loll 1011 long as be I 1 hive have bacu w wandering aderin amon adion ita desolate old ruins as seemed to say tonic to me I toor poor old ill in tho Ino monta litti ol of december 1813 tile the village which was then hen called Ne newark was but ned by tile american at abuy toy and it seems aliverti ale uever verti tp have itam front the ashes the old rott foil ilass 1 which I blell is now go sol ng to decay wits was built fi aiom the iho be blacks aels ot oi lite chimneys neyland and toles mius of the town after the conf conflagration lazration ilie early history lil story of tile place is strangely obscured although it is known n that front from the time lime of the farat fiedor ficai oli up tip to its destruction it in 1813 it wivi was the most town of canada and should bo be today to lo day daiy for baing the advantage ufa ul a line imbor tied and bring abeln surrounded bv brail all of tho lie resources necessary for the grove growth ill of it a city thee 0 seems to be no I 1 cason why at tills this day she should be 10 caught vali nap dju but such is tin the case and like most of me canadian toi jouna kilis I 1 two baio visited along the old niagara seems to leave iva settled dos don as to a quiet jest icat ca leless of the dutille fu linc tille bud and contented with dreadin dreaming over the eventful days of 0 the r past a s t turn rn m where 1 ire you may lei in tills this old vil liec and you stumble on oil to somo scene ln in celestin gielle just a little yay out fi from the town on alie bauk of the liver IF 16 the lie rani alas ol of old foit feet geoege it lias has been becu title ot of a warlike aspect left led nothing but 1 1 I few slender bogs who be look its it if they land had been besle besieged P cil licie since abo evolution ire are loft left I 1 to gaii laon the places but beat the heavy eat this ol 01 hs surround it will ivill for or ages halt a mile away across iacross tile blond biond parade ground round stal stands di tile the of old barracks and quart ert which were acl occupied t tl wd by the famous fadious IC of butler 1 I t 1 hangers t all gers tied 91 t alio llio to anade ol of tile the old st laiks Clim imich t cli is the follon following ili luc ine I 1 inot ial of 0 their leader got HONOR till KINO 1 bol john under butler bis big Maje it Ind indgin itai affairs nt furs burn born lu in new niev Kina london ol of I 1 1728 Ill llis lite was ivas spent in ill oi of in ili ilia war with france 1 tor for tile hie conquest lie he wa wis S cicil at the ilia battle of 1 lake george silt sept 1733 1755 antl RE at lie siege of 0 I 1 fort und its capita I 1 lati lill july in it tile isair of 1776 lie toul ook ailiin it ills ill tile tho defence of lite unity malty ol of tile he empire and raised mil and I 11 the he loval adlet lean regiment of bit builds 1 1 cco kaaa hangers z Is died here asoo I 1 and W 1 1 OH MI another giblet in tile fame ell 1 I el I 1 Is ills lene lenerd Bla JB linck tick decca deceased C it august among tile miny many ic act cullar old olles it in I 1 the atel nen licar the be viburch tire anre see eeck s I 1 two wo ancient it looking 0 english bolling alle dallice vt 0 7 chas is SIo nison laid and georgr firulli ha vadell by file ani I 1 ill 1812 tor for meat Is block blo IZILLA tk aill lill arear the hie will ui hs of tile tho they had been cut clit there but yesterday in this to it the ill llast t 11 ot of canada met on alie of of Sept 1792 year of 0 ot of kill kins geoage but the interest Int elest ing and important spot lei in tile the vic vicinity hilty ol of this alii place Is foo 1 or ij gaia a stan standing dlug on of the ills Ame licau point bilut across elie baer A pal t of tin tile lath U US S infantry intini ry bee stationed hei caud one would suspect from roin tile good condition of 0 the tills this was w as oneff one ot the ilie oldest fees tints is on oil the continent within the elie main are lite strong stone buildings the foundational of 0 blitch wc vre probably pio bably bollt by the he jesuits early luthe ceu cell tury Ameal tran history tellaus telli chatas aliat liat as eat tally ly as wg bad been at Xia niagara garn at the ot of mackinaw Mackl naw and on oil the illinois river and by some of the robi dews bere it is claimed that the building callett called tile the castle Is the oldest fren french j eh stratum e ill ili Aln america elica I 1 think it hardly safe to consider ibis ns its authentic alto history but wo we 11 need ced not depend on le legendary ren 2 ag state monts for the proof of 0 I olt Nia garas antiquity in the building now use also ins 1 as it a magazine Is seen the cell where the masonic ti altor morgan was coull ned before being drowned lei in elie alio liver beneath all of tile the older calder buildings are found these strange locally altin geong anti and air a I 1 groped grope d acut about through their daik and kullby VIle vaults elas all H of the fen fell f en ell dillons which N bleb I 1 felt wheat 1 n I boy bov lei in leading the oil old legends ut Vest pina cante back to tile me the most prominent defect 1 I the oscar wilde found in tile beautiful of america was the absence 0 Butti ally give us the ilai daileg ing muse of a scott or byron to turn lonio among these modern haunts rt I 1 clio read nl by tile an lie c will reveal to the world new but eu ell during classic ground aanon the of the tort fort I 1 found letters and streets signed by winfield scott during tile the war of also betteis front froni commodore perly peny in the burying ground of the tort fort are very coiny tan ancient clent whose quaint in french fri ali gennan gelman and within wi thill volumes of the following though of no great antiquity or rhetorical tie de galineas gali ceAs 1 very expressive of b sold icil y x erected to tilt the mamorv of sir aneisa naf he departed tills this life at fort niagara ag darathe the of april 1823 by bi brother soldiers ert co 1 aid till hegt V U S infantry iacre liatis lie brave arav below I 1 full dix alx lx feet beet dee deep I 1 whose decarl would meta when caused to mcp though vi inteer bi t may iday freeze iaci hohlt his J lonii r 1 acx let cana chut chan his bl time tame near this grave crave Is a very old stone w with ilia the iho simple inscription rani ran norris LT S army aud another to the memory ol of a veteran ot of gatei too at ala a very cally caily hour yesterday morning my attention mas islas attracted by the acar clear at dag voice of 0 all old Scot scotchman coman in the rooms below seventy two yeal deais mgt abt said lie he 1 1 I is went cut with the be ariti british il ifa to burn bura buffa buffalo Bul falo boand today to day I 1 am going up tip there suplia agato r I 1 down low n to the iho room a mal was introduced to col duncan mac little fiji finland I 1 all ft a old gold soldier ler of 0 eighty six years but beat habu the appearance of a man ol of fifty t 1 n i espouse to my hasty questions I 1 1 0 1 1 11 1 1 1 lite a beavy calle chith lie C 1 1 1 C 1 1 1 alef a right there Is s a relie for you 0 a ait was 1 presented r resented to tc file 1110 by 4 e be r IT IN cloy where lie came liero here to iu iu in to quiet tile the fenian Fen ians a llo was ans only colonel then but I 1 suppose haa I 1 lie greatest man in englund now ye yet lt that cane is if a chabi aled IX olly and I 1 ill I 1 kill all th tile snakes gain ke 6 anti and toads toad lei in tile the province and heros hero 8 nother another relic lie he continued holding up lip ills his hall showed bowed the iho deep furrow of a musket hall ball is Ill cies a kankeo danlee tar car maik but I 1 got gol t three bree of their horses and so I 1 nl al ways railed called it about square fur for several hours I 1 listened to the jolly oldee old ct cran tea aa lie related tile the wild exploits ol of WS bs caily days silt and as lie he took ills his leave of me 1 with a soldierly flouris Ilou rih li ol of hi cane I 1 could think of bothin no sio thin thlu but gold I 1 alli nl li veteran who shouldered his MEI aarl slimed sOH CI how fields were won to olgat I 1 chaff take tile alic steamer tor for toronto 1 and in my next nest shall speak of that tb lie most rin america I 1 it 11 NEWTON NIAGARA ont july 20 1885 |