Lynchburg Virginian

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LETTER FROM NOVA SCOTIA.

From the Correspondent of the Portland Advertiser.

The cholera (Oct ish) has just finished its career of destruction at Halifax, where it has never a fatal case, srs kopg out particularly for its victims the poor, the miserable, the suffering, and intemperate, and with some few exceptions, sparing it oth t. The military it first seized, and they were us y cum t the y broke up their campment in the town, ad pitched their tents to the country. The 1 p4tm of Halifax n 182s was 11,439 Probably it w s not so great when the Cholera broke out. From the faes, hst sts trade has not been very pros etods the year past, and that the other towes in Nova Scotia mad fr-e poris, have mnt rf red with us trade, a trade whuch it for a long time exclusively cnjoyed. The populailon many now say is not more Io ooo. and of these, the B. ard of Health hav reported over God dratha, and many con- end that a thousand have died If thus be so, the pestilence nas indced carried death on its wings II Halifax is situated on the Western declivity of a hill fronting the Bedford Basin. Across this Basin, on the Dartmouth side, it has a very pleasant and showy appearance The streets are regularly laid out, and cross cach other at right angles All of them have been McAdamised, or covered over with hard and durable materials. The houses and stores are built chiefly of brick, though there are many of wood. The government house, guarded by a soldier armed cap a pie, is a building erected by the Province for the use of the Government, and is now occupied by Sir A. Campbell, who is the present Governor of Nova Scotia. The Admiral's house was built by the Province for the use of the Admiral of the station, and is now occupied by Sir George Cockburn, whose command reaches from Bermuda to Newfoundland t. By the way, I believe he is the same Admiral that played such villainous pranks on our shores during the last war. -In polucs he is a tory, n i it is said that the British Whig-notnisters gave him the most lucrative o n val station is mn order to get hhn out of the way asb had b cn in :he Admiralty, and is a man of uch ex rience m naval matteis. But the most showy building of all is the Province House, the Capitol, as we should call it, truly an elegant structure, hd fae handsomer than any of the State Houses I have seen in any of the States. It is built of brown Free Stone-140 feet long. 70 wit and 12 high Intt oreull the vatous Provincial offices, avd there thr Assembly aad the Council mert. The Asaembly room extends the whole wit h of the buldug.The members of the. As- mbly sit r one conthnousseat, with no d sh, no a Ies, no pen and mk Lefore them, and hcr.co with ro fa ilites for note takeng. and suboequent sptn uong oat of long speeches. "There is nothing eise very remukable in the Assmoly Rooon, but th Corin i Charaberisa very showy roon -wuhteh caipeis,a throne, or if that is too tig a word. with a chare, dlevated on a plstforn for the Gover no where he sits wuth his Councit; and thcn the w Isare eosered with porraits of wigged &ermin- ad Judges, and rob d kings and que n. The pre. sent King Willtvn has latoly sent over a full por- trait of hi nself in his coronation robe, and this 1 remembranee, ds I undgrstand, of lis station here whon an oflicer in the Royal Navy. The king's dock yardis the next thing worthy of atiention. Ths is the largest establishment the British Iaye in Amc.ica. A hgh waliseparates H from the town. I did not no'e any thing remarka ble in i. Lut workshops and warehouses, buildings for ofli-ers and servants, &c. Off'n the barbor, were tirree or four British men of war, as bluck as thu. er clouds ; and why is it that the Britsh paint every vesssi se hudrouely dlack, even thcir steam boats ?-and th n there is Fort George, on which they are now erealing an immense, and, to mg, i seems, though I am not versed in such maiters, a mosteostly fortification, of granite chieflv,-with Jitches deep, and wel guarded. And what on e uth ean ali this be for ? Why this expenditure ftreasure ? Is n to teriify the poor col msts in- to cverlasting subj cn n, to s cure a perpctual foot- Lol t in Ameri'a for Butsh tocls, or to kecp us Yankecs in awe ? Bethis as it may, most lusiily do th y ply their work, and a fortress as strong I shouid thank as that of Gibraltar,its crowning a hill that overlooks the city, and coumstds the har- bor.--The Nova Scotians will have hard work to capture it by and by,. when they set u, for them selves, tor I presume they will be thiuking of this by and by, though they prctend to say it is treason now. Nothing can strike an Amcrican, that is n yan kee, in Ilahifax. more od liy than thre mum sr o! red coats he mcets to the s recis, and the ponp and parade of war all around him. Troogs are marel- thg through the strcets bere aad shere. The bugle sound, at this end or that end of the etty. Officers avd their dogs are numerous, for be it known, a dog secms to be a part of the parapberublia of every Braush offieer. The red coats of the infantry, and .he grern coats of the uflemen, mect one at every turn ol the strect. What a strange spectacle, too, is hat of an aumed sentinel guirding the gates of he Governor,-and then ofa sentiy or two, or three or more, by every Barrack, by the King's Dock, by the Oidnunce Department, &c. &c. These things are v ry new to our eyes. What isthe usc of them in America? T'hey may be nccessary a- mong tno starving and infuriated population of Eu- rope- but who would injure Sir A. Campb Il pro- vided he slept o'nights without keeping a man to waik up and duwn his gate-way. Won't locks gonrd the dock yard? In a miluary station all thi p rhaps is well. But when mingled with civil af faus it oeems very odd. The beet roups in the British army, it is said, are s'atloned at Finlifax, or if not the best, some of the best. Three Regiments are there at present and a company of Arull ry. Wnst a power this of England, with her many faults, and yot her many virtues! Ilow wwle her dominion I -HIer army is s'ationed in cvery quarter of the Globn, and well is it said, that the morn- ing drum of her soldiery welcomes the sun- rise, in one continuous round, so wide spread is her Empire, so vast her power, so nuinerous her pos- sessions. 'Think of one little island excrcising thi vast domain, one lit'le sland hardly large enough in territory tomake an Amnerican State, and yet thundering in her fleels on every seu, unfurling her flag on every continent, on soil that is her owa But Eogland lives on the Past and tho Present. We live upon the Futare,ond what a I'urure it will be, if our Uuion is ncver dissolved! B.