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The Expositor, 1869-03-26, Page 442 4: - HE SEAFORTH EXPOSITOR. Ttv-O Pictures- - Kt; ateeter00 Itit TIM myna - , , _ .. :The partY'clebate over, Housegoes lia to 'Committee. It is late, the Etouseie hot.; members -are weary- and awey ; but one man is at post,. and that man is Ma Oladstone.-, I Not a critic:ions ut- tered- but he Makes a note of it. With his knees crossed so as to serve as atable, with a Pencil tn his hand, with his bead bent forward --in the direction Of the speakerethete he sits hour *after hour, save *I -141i he rises to defend, or enforce or explain the Measure of which he has the charge. - I telieVe be .may .make a dozen speeches in the -course of a -single - nig4 on diffirent , subjects,,, and so sil- very is hiS voice, so ready in his' lang- uage, so, acute; -tio seeiChing, 'andcom- prehet siVe his - ctiticism, that the entire you. hey, of him the more- you. are mi- I : - ift , pressed with' acrtairation. . In his intelt ,t11- rxeChanceller of the *Ekchequer led, strength and flexibility are cern. came out of the Rouge at half-pa4t 5 bined, and thni it is he is so fella and Diego ity - elastic and effecti-ve'alien oa:his legs. •t hien. anc3r ' in • The more difficult the theme the more ye ; put animate/ the debate, end More solemn: e,s hard - .the criSia the more does he shine rra ivas some Of his more Serious efforts- itai3: Worthy of the best' days of parlia- ars thlun- Mentary listory. When seine national unriehtheusness has been dene, when some f011Ytof the hour ed out and dePlored, that Gladatone, with and high," Will speak ast-did "who shook the sere laves from the wood • "As if a storm passe'd by." Mr. Gladstone is one, of the few men hi the House who rise to elotplence of the stateliest. order. He is 'seldOin, if e Ter hittoridal and lost ip. preceedent. He seems simply • to -.rely . iipen his knowledge of the subject,. ,end Iiie ab- ility to place. it beftire theillouse in a commanding; and attractive manner.. How- great is his Merits we can best learn by• contrast:- When. Gladstone bileuelit forward his first budget,the House expected a, treat, the pressure was enormous ; strangers' bad taken places, -waiting for the opening of the gallery, as early as noon, and though the Chancellor of •the Excliectoee spoke nearly free hours, though his speech had tc?„ clO exclitsively • with three dry thines, facts and fignies the House Was . carCded to the last, and not -a stranger leftthe oiellerte When Sir Oornewell ; Lewis, a pod man, but a poor speaker ----a, spea er; however, who amazingly improved before his death—opened his • budget, the very reverse wasthe case, J believetthere were ten- strangeis in the Speaker's Gallery, certainly there were not:more than a.hundred members in the House. Yet the tIccasion was an eventful One Peece had just been proclaimed, but the extra ;expenditure -of the wer had not ceasekand had Mr. Gladstone been the Chancellor the at- tention. of the _ country aed of the House woUld have been.excited. As it was, the humdrum -speakeie perf04-rna.ed histinties in a' humdrum manner, and Lot' even money matters could arouse e dumb House into eloquence and. life. On the intreduotion of hia last and 'memo- rable budget, the desire tp hear Mr. Glad- amazine Steangers With te . - 6. . - ' orders took their places as a. m., and for the '-first tiine since he left .it, Lord Brougham occu- pied a seat in the -House of COMMODS. tau cipl few „ _ „ does d and prompted by any great Hit' t yon feel *king an ..orettio,r.he has ilYalst- -: Whenlle Seat* tee lie' ttan ., a -.., . ,' ) yen treitible lest he should - beak down ; but Disraeli never atte pts more than he can achieve, Ind when nearest to. pethoe he saves, himself:by a happy flight. , , But in his high. st,t rts he ainie at a .doggedly cool a d 'un, on -- copied appearance, and will stop to suck an orange, .o actually, as he did in his -great Budget speech, cut his pails. It is true, there are timeswhenhe 1 oks iaore etnotienal. On that' memor, bie Deeetuber ,morning when lw, Nvlas ousted flop his Chancellorship, whenpis la rty- •wete ingloriously driven from the *len in which they had hoped long 1 "To live and. lie recline( 1 On the bills like gods together, in elesS of mankind,!' I i - back into thebleak •and dese wold a. m., gay and fresh is if the had been with., him, not aga There was art unwonted lam his. wall, and sparkle in his the excitement of the contest fy over—the swell of the .st there still—still rang in his e ders of applause, audible in the lobby, which greeted his daring retorts1 and audacious personalities. Even when, as oceasionally, he leads his 'phrty into cul de tac,and listens to their inurinnts reats, you cannotper- of disappointment or Iressive face. No stone re indifference.----_Poii- T. E. Ritchie. was to be peint: you know then dauntless, words - stone member • early as elit • yonc his graep, standing on the floor of it waf extinguifhed. the House, his eyes flashing- defiance, Clifton Hovfe,- Bofton. his lip curled ,witli sarcasm,- his arm. pointed to the,object of attack, and his . voice alternately expressing in,dietet- tion ancreoutempt. As I have already hinted, at an orator, Pieraeli stands by • himself. It is not English—that elabo- rately dressed form' ; that pale Hebitew flee., shaded with ceiling • hair, once luxuriant and dark ; that style, so melo- dramatic, yet so effectiye • that power of individuality which inas- you hate the object of his hate; that passion which y you scarce know whether tocall neelignant cr sabliree. When he rises , it is, needless for. the Speake to Jan- nounce'his name. A glanee tthe orae_ tor, with his glistening vest, tells you that the great advocate of the pure Se- mitic race is on .his legs'. • You have .seeu - that face in .Piencia You have imagined `Coninesby' just as attentive- ly listened to, or Vivian_grey looking just as cool. It is not every mern that, • can play a losing-aine.. To speak from the Treasary benches -vith a whipper -in to make a House and secure you a cor- dial welcome, to feel that a triumphant • speeeli will be succeeded by a trimn; • pliant vote, are privileges granted but to a few—to Disraeli seldom indeed. • So far as- tlae opposition are concerned, the debate generally-languithes till the ' Speaker. announces the name of. the member for Buckinghamshire. Imme- diately yen lean forward. In bis 'face -there is a dazzrmg, saucy look, which at mite excites your interest. • You see that if not a great manahe is an in- tensely clever one, and thongh on re- flection you see more of a display than reality in his performance, and are not slim that 'he is in earnest, or that he means what he says, ,or that he is SUZ- DISRAELI IN DEBATE. a grand field night you see Dis- perfectly aware that victory is be - and hears -their ceive any feeling regret on his im could display ID lima• Sketches by Ben. Franklin' , ' At the inaugu Statue, in. Bosto ber, some fac si land Currant, th Franklin, were 1 •Used by 'hiat. ,T dated Februaty on a half sheet It containse all t des. The leade cOMposition, abo humor of "Poor leader conies the liament, deliver eious to the dat or two London i matter, consistin two advertiserne notice to the pub much like the or enable us -to 'do: Boft Last week the Minifter of the Thiftol, cam,e fro don from twelv are imprifoned fo to the Pref byter to the Lieut. Go Advice of the Orum to ufe hi lief at the nex 'Affembly, the .11' Vertrie of the L We halie Advice frOm the - Eeft- len, under the coin - Harmon, are gone to ueft of the India2uf, and 170 to Peinfcot, under comue nd ) of Coi1. tWeftbroila ''Tif faid anotlier party ate to march to Pejepcot. Yeftetday Morning about 6 of, the clock, a j.Fire 'broke out at Mr. Bli-Ifh's Work-houfe in Gambill, - which burnt a confiderable part of the Roof before First Newspaper. ation ofl the Franklin on the '17th I Septem- iiles of the ./Irto Eng- -first paper issuedby rinted on a -press oiace ej copy before • us , is 1, 1723, and is printed f very dingy foolscap. lcl, tett thirteen' arti- • is a curious piece of nding in the qiia.nt Richard." After the hies speech to Per - d fotIr months p'' - of the the paper,, and one ems. The rest of the of five news items, ts, and 'le publisher's ILC, we print below, as inal as our types will Feb. Reverend Mr. Orlin; Epifcopal Church at n thence with. a peti- of hif Hearerf, (iy-ho • Refufing to pay Rates n Minifter of Briftol) amour, wno, with the Jouncil, proinif'd Mr. interft for. their re- eeting of I Gelieral en being, inapaifonld by wf of the Province. ward, that 200 mand •of Capt: Norigiwock, in WaTd f. - Entered -In- , /- Daniel Jackfon, from Nett' Hampl fhire, Jonathan Chafe from Newport, John. Dafkins from, North Carolina, Jofliva, Benjamin for South Carolina, Charles *Whitfield from MartinOce, John Bonner, Ship Sarah from London. Cleared Out. None. 074twarcl BOU91d. Amos Breed Nev Eondon, 'William Fletcher for 'Maryland, James 131in, for Anopolfi Royal, John Trobridge for 'North Carolina, S. Pompey for Antigua, Ja- cob Pinhorae for London. _ g 8 S. al (9#A9'9 for HE beft new Philadelphia, ToWn- boulted Flower, to be fold ' lips which be had so often in love and • • Mr. William Clark in Merchants affection, and then resolutely turning Row, at Twenty -Eight Shillings per away, after bidding her adieu forever, hundredrelapsed.into a dreadful paroxyism and Servant Boy's Time for 4 Years to died. be difpofed of. He is about 16 Years of age, and can keep Accounts. En- quire at the Blue Ball in -Union Street and know further. *t* This Paper having met with fo general an instance in TOWIZ and Court - 1 ,q, as to requi9-e after greater EUmber of them to be printed than the7.e if of the other publick .Paderf ; and it being be - fides 971,09*e generally read by a vaft 122017,_ ..b74* of BorroweV, wit? do not take it in the .13,ablr; filer thinhf proper to give thi' pnblick Xotice fin• the enCOVragenient o thgfe who would have Advertisementf . ' ,., .f• .• " ' 4 A Vhinderfnl'Experinien.t.' - - As pi evioesly announ,cedby us, the United State t (toad 'Stitvey- 9flicett; have been, engaed for, some time past , a.. . . - in making-- astoinomkal obseivations, by the aid of telegraph between the citnieivseorfttlir.le'f„ar West: and; '. 9.iimbri.dg usiq For the puiTose of al -riving at the difference in, the mean time between San Francisco -and Botton, the -wires of the ;Western Union Telegraph.* Comp- any have nightly been : connected, fcr nearly a. month pest, from one side of the continent to the other, and the tick- Ingoa chronometer in Cautbridge Uni- ,-versity has been observed and recorded in San Francisco .with a most remark- able degree , of accuraey.• This is done bytconnecting the pendu- lum of -the chronometet at Camliridge with the wire, in such a manner‘that the main circuit. is broken and instantly closed again at every beat or tick of the time piece, ancl the result is that eate,h second of time) .as marked by the chronometer at Cambridge, ...goes _forth from the University on the Atlantic oria,st, and 1- vitt almost the speed of light itself, hurries on over the magic wire, patsiag through intermediate ,cities, towns and villages, across rivers, over mountans and along the open country, until it finally reaches the recording 1 coast, in all don. Thin clock- in Bo in San Pre instant that observer in Any time Past month, rooms of the offiice in thi city, might have hemd , one of the l'ittle instruments beating the e of the sixtieth part d a 'the monotontrand regularoineter itself. 'Tick ! Tick! , two, three, four, • five se, and the little' monitor ceases. Back comes the answer from San Francispo to Boston :—,'All right! your second •signals good, and have been recorded for five minutes. Go ahead five minute More !' Again, tick' tick ! tick ! for five minutes, and then San Francisco says again ..—'All right ; eat: you ready t4 take my signals?' And the answer ;rent Boston is, 'Yes ; go ahead.' • Tick! tick ! tick ! .says Sen rancisco for the allotted Ave minutes, Boston says in his :---cAll right. I' • But, notwithstanding the speed with which these, pulsations of a clock fly from one sidegpf our continent to the other, itis known that there is a loss, a very slight loss; of time . in the traria- -mission. How to arrive at this loss and measure it, is the next question Nothing easer , a second wire switched into place, a' 'repeater' added. at Boston, and, presto l' tis done. Now the Clock ticks made at San Francisco rush on the wines of light over three thousand miles of wire to Boston, and back agaio to San Francisco over the second wire and recordthemselves at the point of starting, in-sbuiething less than sixty teconds of time, having in. the interval, traveled six thosanci miles. Never befole in the world's history has such a wondeifut feat been attemp- ted, and that this has been brought to a successful conclusion) is due entirely to the beautiful working of the Western Union Company s wires, together 'with the assiduous attention andsupelior ability of its employees. Trace the route on the map, and mai'le the ina mense distances so lightly gnilded over byethe f•-ablet fluid..--.Bufficio Comme9.- czal Advertiser. • 0. - AN AFFECTING SCENE.—Mr. Ecker - sop, whodied of hydrophobia, at Sad- -dle River, had be held by five men, and during his. lucid intervals begged to kiss his wife, who was very ill in another peat of ' the- house. Just before his last dreadful fit he pleaded- so pite- ously to kiss. her once more before he died, that risking . the consequences, they took her to his bed. The dying man carefully wiped the froth from his face, and. compressing his teeth tightly to prevent any of the 'poisonous saliva exuding from . his mouth, kissed the strument on the. Pacific its original folfiess of puls; • c of it once ! The ticks of a, ton are beard a,nd recorded cisco ahimst at the same they reached the ear of the he first named place. durirg an evening of the a visitor to the operating Western Union Telegraph measured th minute, wit ity of a chro Ticket ! On minutes ela mjerted in the _Publwk 1 rtn4f, • witsch -they may have printed in this paper at a mOderate Price. • BOSTON: Printed and fold by BEN- JAMIN FRANKLIN, in Queen Street, where Advertisements are taken in. Dining the recent great stotm in Que- bec a large portioa of the roof of Cham- plain Market Hall was raised by the violence of the wind and carried to the opposite side of the street, causing con- siderable damage. to a private house. The _steeple of the Roman Catholic Church at Point Levi, and a hangard at the same place, were blown down, and four persons lost their lives by an • avalanche near the Grand Trunk ter- minus. •Further up, seven houses were crushed through a similar cause,- but fortunately without loss of life, One man was frozen to death, and another had his arms and legs so badly frozen that his life is -dispared of. On the whole, the storrai..% 4dniitted to have been the most "terri6 experienee'd here within recollection, 7rt" 41111..... • - C.3 e , , c.a• .1) i-411 • N "•"••I t<'• • • 1 TAKE NOTICE • THAT JOHN HALDAN, has appointed Official Assignee,for t of -Huron. Office at SEAFORTH,—J. S. F Office at Gonanione-tDirectly oppositelhe Post Office. Goderich, March 5th, 1868. ' 13- 3: A 'On ty UST RECEIVED, A CHOICE SELECTION OF RASPBERRY JAM, STRAWBERRY JAM, RED CURRANT JELLY, LACK DO DO r) • NNE APPLE JELLY, PEACH J ELLYv P EAR JELLY, AND ORANGE MARMALADE AT Scott Robertson's February 10th, 1809.. 6$4f. WAL•L P4PIE1:11-L PAP JUST RECEIVED, Gold. Medal, London, 1862, Paris, 1867. THE HOifiE SEWING -MACHINES rei Itatailies and Manufacturers. TlO 3e411, a:;sgolirieDoiClittob NSttrZt, ht JJbarmes. -Branch Ageney for Seaforth x. N. WATSON. THE HOWE LOCK STITCH, • 'au:mit A—Family Machine. LETTER 13—Family and Manufacturing Macliine LETTEB CI—Pest Leather and Cloth MaaTtrant facirinil_rcy Maalc./.inelin. (-ler Araehine. for Harness making, Boot and Shoe Fittings, and Saddlery Work where the form of the work must be retained while Stitching, is •the most complete and perfect ini the world, TIT.1,1,S1E WORLD RENO WeVED NEW. JVU 1fil(1117 YEAS' we -re award_cd. the High- est Premium at the World's Fair in London, 1862, and Gold Medal at Paris Exposition, 1867. They are celebrated for doing the best work, using a. muCh smaller needle for the same thread than any other machine, and by the ;introduction of •the most improved ma- • chinery, we -are DOW al)le to supply the very best machines' in the worla. THE Q UALITIE8 wHicir Byrom- .3111.41rD AWE : 1. Beauty and Ex. cellency of Stitch, alike on both sides of the fabric sewed. 2. Struigt1/, Fin/mess and Durability of Seam, that will not Rip or RaveL 3. Ecotiomy of thread.. 4, At- tachments and wide range of application to purposes and materials. The above can be had.at the Branch office • in Seaforth, from W. N- WATsoN:-. Who is also Agent for the celebrated WA .YZER NEiri-,ArG MA ES, whieh for facifity of management, neatness and durability of stitch, ami wide range of seams and unrivalled as a Family Sewing Alachiffe„ . Thread, Silk, Twist, Shuttles, Bobbins, Needles, Springa, Oil, and all machine ap. plianees for sale at the Branch Office at Sea- forth, where machines rriay be neatly re- paired. • -.W N. WATSON, Seiforth- April 16th 1868. • More of Those 12 Dollar Suits! AT GLEGHORN'S, ataso - A Choice Selection of Silk -mixed and West of England • TWEEDSI AT• ASTONISHINGLY LOW PRICES. • Seaforth, March 18. 67-3m CAME ASTRAY. /IAMB into the premises of the subscriber, ki sometime in November last, a yearling Heifer,nearly white. The owner is request- ed to prove property, pay expenses, and take her away. • HUGH LOVE, senr., Lot No. 10, N. Boundary, Tp. Ray. Ray, Feb. 19, 1868. NOTICE.. • 4- HEREBY notify and fora the Tniblie- against trusting my wife, or other mem- her or members- of my family, on my ac- count, as I will not be responsible for the same after the appearante of this notice HENRY KIEFFER. Hay, Feb. 24, 1869. 64-3 FRANK PALTRIDGE'S Pad Fetablislied AND FOR SALE CHEPOI PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY r. 1 --REmovEt) A Fresh Stock of Wall Paper. Also a splendid assortment of FAMILY AND POCKET •1-1 B L E S TESTAMENTS, • PRAYER BOOKS, - -&. HYMN BOOISS A CHEAP EDITION OF THE POE Byron, Burns, Scott, Shakespeare, sci-D4?ca.-4 i3oc:31K- SLATES, PENS, INK, PAPER, 1 • COPY BOO At LUMSDEN'&' Corner Drug Sii*e. 53- Seaforth. Jan. 8, S, er GO TO T. J. SIMONS' FROP..?4 OTY$TE' M 0 'II I For Fresh Oysters, Sardines, Lobsters, , Cakes, and Sweets of every descii.ptio CALL AND SEE His Fresh Stock Opposite Ivice.Altilsl'S Old Stand. Seaforth, Feb. 12, 1869. • 6taatt, OFFICES TO LET.' TIOUR excellea offices to let in -ctt's • New Brick Block. Apply at McOAUGHEY & H0LMSTED1. Seaforth, Jan. 27, 1869. 0)4 - nereerons customers and the ;public', generally =will please not forget thatl. have Removed from the Old Stand to the OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE STREET, - hito Scott's Ne* 3 story Brick Block, next to Kidd & IVP.Mnlkin's store, and directly south of Hickson's new store, whcre I have' built the best Gallery in the County especi- ally for my.own work, being large and com- modious, and. -with the proper actenic light, being, the only Gallery in Seaforth construct- ed on true photographic principle& The. ontylight that cam reflect the true Features. 1- 'flatt'er myself that I can satisfy all who may call. Remember, I don't want your money for nothing; I am bound to please or no pay. As many have had pictures in Seaforth, but ' were dissatisfied, havinu confounded iny name with another, 1 would ;request if yoir want a good. picture, properly - made and durable, that you ask for Frank 'Paltridge. . Don't ask for Paltridn's, only, but Frank: Paltridge. I am thus explicit, because many' think they are going to get a picture made by Frank Paltridge ; but by a mistake in not going to Frank P.'s, get sadly disap- ponited. t*" -ASK FOR, ANT) GO TO FRANK, In the Brick Block, up one flight of stairs, and turn to the right hand. My specimens at the door are all my own make, and are not bought or borrowed to decoy the public. '', • Come any day, Frank is alvi'rays at home and in Good Temper. Pictures of deceased carefully e.opied into any kind. of Picture desired. Remember, it is to frank Paltridges volt have to go to get a good Photograph. New , and rich Furniture, Scenery, &c., that will 1 T make your picture look rich, and worth sending to your friends. Who does not know FRANX PAttl'itIDGE/ Seaforth, Jan. Utlil 63-4. e-; 'ate It 1.Vas not mit the.first pa . , • per of .tie in • out bei Eleni7 soon ibliowed by tent of June 30, for cntting and • made.: Fourdm per machine, WI) vas tAgn bont in -was about thisti - •eon (whose death /*mimed) cowmen per manufacturer Apsley Mill, nee toewhieby in the • other ;• mills •in added,' two of the the, water power o his owt1 superinte 1807, before the_ reninetelar canapai, a new: cannon -cal Ly mixing% togetht • . I rags an certain pa the explosion, it i retainifig Sparks e patented machinct tare of paper by ously eonstructed covered witlrwire 'with an air pump - Which still remain followed by other facture of fin -el Taper by a bort 0 and for a machine; of whieh were su and the foriner esi to increase - hie. r he invented the pr colored threads int at the instant which Wat tegain ii This* preseeleitive have been noticed chequer bills,- and member it in the -which were issued ter the adoption system', m the in Mr. Dickinson had est. In 18272 we tenting,a knotter ing pulp from i years leter applyin inoval of -any porti happen to be in t pre vep,ting iron -mo In hirs,earl late at his stmlie years lit r•etirecl e Veloek,,andlay till and II* in the disposed to rise, he .at his bedside and r he rose -he had a ch, Bible ;read to breakfast, Studied ti dined, took some e:1 -generally in a, ehair! to swing himself, the organ or base -vi himself or request who, as he said, ha no ear. then: r 4111E1 tSik; from edl. he conversed With visit hini- Like nia, iton found the stilln ;cumbeney of bed fa sition ; and. his wife of a morning., - be of twenty or thirty posit -lona of his; verses we are told,. •with one leg over His wife:related thil, pose thiilly in ,evinte TarE tea plant is vation stane ten mile on the fiarnt of Cal -where it has been - ten years. It is sa /lessee tea xlrinlrs their oWn tea with 'trouble. The pJant ttreen shrub ;and ere , high. It it lardy, -tection ,frcen froste aminuant erop, with I floevem in October. zeason it matures a sembling the seed -and groWs up readily -hardiness of _thie plat tion to the climate, - 'The tea , produced ,of the . plant ver • bles in flavor the tea son plant. A &bp', Lrrnet, -tall girl, nameti. Shoi. tain big _Mr.'Litth3,eN ,of Short, !loved a littl was Long'. To make Little proposedto Lo tly longed to be even coming. So Short, n ened to marry Little caused Little) in a ell Long. Where upo slaintened her exist little rope, - Did tal Little less because Long?