lis NEW BRUNSWICK. 
Taxes Kiver, followed the course of tlie larger stream, till, 
nearly opposite a beautiful spring, where they had 
stopped to water their horses, they turned into a barway, 
and in a moment more reached Wilson's, their prospec- 
tive head-quarters. 
Wilson's habitation was a quaint-looking log house, 
perched on the edge of a bank overhanging what is 
called the interval, or fruitful stretch of level land lying 
between the river and the hills, and its evident antiquity 
bore testimony that it had belonged to one of the earliest 
settlers. 
A well-stocked garden, an extensive barn, a large 
drove of sheep and cows, suggested what an industrious 
and comely wife and daughter confirmed, that Wilson's 
was a well-to-do family. 
As a general thing, the people of this region are of the 
most short-sighted possible character ; they live for the 
present, and an easy way of making a dollar is irresistible, 
though it may entail the final loss of ten. The country 
is slowly going back to a savage condition; farmers, 
instead of attending to their farms, speculate in lumber, 
because it enriches one man in fifty; mortgage their 
farms, which are sold under foreclosures to strangers and 
allowed to grow up with weeds and bushes. Tens of 
thousands of acres are in this condition, and are being 
fast rendered irreclaimable. Instead of encouraging fish- 
ermen to come and spend money among them, although 
they admit it is about the only money they see, they 
annoy and overcharge at such a rate that they have 
driven away all but a few from Fredericton. Instead 
of preserving and increasing the fish, they obstruct the 
