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The Official Paper of the County.
FRIDAY APRIL =9, 1869.•
THEeHVDSON'S BAY CIOMPANY.
It: another column will be found the
tin.made by Lord tiranville to the
.,
-II-ndsonli Bay Co., which -were accept-
ed at a' meeting of the 'shareholders,
held in Landow on the 2ft1i ult. The
only *step now to be taken for the final
ratification of. this contract is.'to give it
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the sanction of the Dorainion Parlia-
ment, and then, this vist tract of land,
so long a in the bards Ottlose fisted mo-
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1101)01 iStS, will be opened up for settle-
ment.
By the terms, extorted from our
'delegatea we would suppose that Sir
Stefford Northcote, Governor of the
Co., thinks Canadians are willing to
pay anyoprice for this vast territory.
The demand for X300,000 is bad enough,
but the' reservations made are a thou-
sand times worse. To be able to hold
blocks of land around their trading
post, not excecding.50;000 acres in the
41 agtregate, is something extremely un-
fair. Haying' held possession ,of. the
. , •
countrylor about 100 years, and hav-
ing taken possession of its best' port4
and commercial centi.es, they netv,l'•pro-
, .
pose to relinquish the , country, and
maintain possession of what,: for .putt
poses of Settlem en t, will he the most
importitat perk, .. To accept s=uch terms
Would- be. absurd. What advantage
would it be to us to assist in the settle-
ment of a cluttetty of which a foreign
Company fiteially held. the .keys 1
,With their citiet cat the head of navi-
gation, they could command the whole
Commerce of the countey, and without
being ' directly hottile, could ,thrOW
countless obstacles in the way of local
and foreign traffic. If Quiebec, Mon=
tree], 'Kingston, Totonto and Hamilton-
werebeyonestite control of the •Cana:
than Government, could they not ruin
theWhole country? True,. other outlet
of rade could be found, but we know
?
thet good ports are the exception, no r.
it
t -
the rule, and that to allow foreigner
in any ease to control the seaports of
aetietey, would be damaging to th
best interests ()1' that country.
Another very unreasonable conces
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siou is, to give the Company the privi
lege of claiming one -twentieth of th'
lands surveyed, within- what is known
,
as the "Fertile Belt." _, This simpl
means, that Canada is to incur the ex
pense of opening up the country, mak
ing roads and other public improve-
ments -to enhance the value of the
Company's lands. We believe in fir' st
being just, and then., generous. We
s, •
consider Canadians' have enough to do
with their lei/phis resources, without. . -
• expending them 3n this way. It is
trbe that we want wider scope • for the
,
,
expansion of our population, but we
ehould aveid buying it too dear. . We
know hew the Canada Company made
large dividends siniply by holding their
lands beck,a short time. till the coun-
try was somewhat _settled; and if the
Hudson's Bay Company • would adopt
the same plan, they couldin many
cases retard settlement, and baulk our
Government to a certain extent in their
s
effortaat Colonization.
,
The terms made by our delegates will
be discussed when, Parliament Meets,
when we will probably make Fmoine fur-
ther remarks on this 'subject. in the
meantime we disagree entirely with the
eoncessions made. , We think thy are
unreasbattble, and that to take posses -
Rion of the country.. withsuch restric-
tion; would be no real advantage to the
Dominion.'
T1-1 StAFORTI-1 EXPOSITOR.
,OUR GRAMMAR lEOPIOOLS.-
Aff, we are flOW .on the eve of
great'ee in. air educational system,
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it ntiglieb'e well tt4latice.. briefiyat
coataini11 in bra
. .
new Grammar. Sal -tool ;Bilk
_ _
The Only vital elianoeestiggested
thetfeAllOwing t11,0:Boarcksof
more advanced priviliges of education.
The duties they have to perform,
hough of a comparitively private na-
tere, ate by tip means unintporta
eittittfluencein reeAtlintitliatue
to f. theu
t'yonee'Mintlest
0nnhe comfort and retin ent
tat -
the,, Cid 'eirc.;1e is certaint tivorthy
f,the very best andthighesiteducation.
And any system which does not afford
them equal facilities with the opposite
sex is, both anomalous •and imperfect;
and unworthy of such e• coantry as
ours, whose educatfonal institutions
have received the eulogies of both Ame-
rican and Continenti tl writers.
„ s
Trustees shall be identical with the
Connion School Boards, 2. That no
High Schools Shall be entitled te a
Shai`in*-the*ftink*Unless if 'lia§"aii. (vie-
rage'of twenty pupils. 3. That t a sum
at least equal to that apportioned from
the school fund be supplied by lccal
sources. 4. Thlat the preliminary ex-
the.High Schools he Itlade
by the Ceunty or City Supermtendent.
That our Grammar Schools .were de-
signed to be a step in advance of our
Common Schools, and yet to be part
of a system of education which we
find its Completion in the •University,
no one will deny, To make 'them ef-
fective for the purpose, has been the
efforts of all leading ectucatmoalists
since they were first instituted. But
owing to the transition state of the
Denary, and the vast business demands
upon our growing population, we have
failed from sheer want of time, to de
vote that attention to' higher education
which it naturally and necessarily de-
mands. The desire in this country so
far,' has not been so much to get a
classical education. as it has been to
get a good businees education, that is,
an education which consists more in the
practical than the accomplished. And
as our Grammar Sehools directed their
energies to the attainment of %,yliitt was
not in reality demanded ; as they
guarded themselves with certain re-
strictions designed to sacrifice the prac-
tical.to the classical and the accompligh-
ed. They have to a certain extent
failed in their original design. Re-
cently, this fail are was confirmed by
the obnoxione restricticns laid upon
female education. To debar our Oen-
adieu girls. frora our grammar schools
iieless they studied c1assi4s or French,
and to exempt them from legally claim -
in any part of the Goverment funds,
has very materially lowered the gram-,
mar school sm public estimation, and
When to this is added the disclosures
,made by Professor Ycung in his last
offiicial account, the tide was complete-
ly turned against them as they are
now constituted.
In order to raect the wants of the
public in, regard to higher education, a
new Bill has ,been drafted and submit-
ted in Convention to the people of On-
tario. That it might establieh a eio?'e
regular system of kradatiou from the
Common School upwards, is to be sin-
cerely desired. Every teacher of =a
common school knows, that there are
certain limits, beyond which on account
of his duties he is quite unable to ad-
vance his pupil. To have schools
Where the studies thus broken off
should be again taken up is very de-
siable. And as the wants of the
country are such . that those studies •
_
shsould be practical, our High Schools
ahould also be constituted with a View
to this object. We have no desire to
'find fault . with a classic:d education.
We 'believe when thorough, it is very
valuable. But still we agree with Pro-
fessor Young's report, that a mere
smattering such as is 'got in our Gram-
mar Schools generally, is of little or
no advantage. The pupil's time is on-
ly wasted' in ,ineeting a legal necessity,
instead of being employed in that which
might be. of more lasting benefit. If
we get High Soho ls, in
supe-
rior. English etluca, ion is imparted, uni-
ted with the Study of the natural sci-
ences, composition etc., we believe the
result would be far more beneficial to
the youth °frame:dee than wandering
'among the vagaries of ancient mytho-
logy, or thumbing tattered lexicons to
discover the inflections of an absolete
Greek verb.,
On such schools there sliduld be no
invidious restrictions, A good educa-
tion° is just as necessary in forming
the character and in directing the ener-
gies of our girls, as in that of the ster-
ner sexIt should be the glory of our
educational system to discord those cob-
webbed' prejudices of former times by
which females were excluded from the and Ino other.
e Text of Lord ranvilrs Propo-
sal to the Hud on Bay Co.
The following appe
journals, as the prop()
rs in the London
al made by Lord
Granville to the HOdson's Bay Com-
pany, through theit Go-vernor, Sir
Stafford Northcote. 'We comment 'on
-1 the eubject in another celunint
"1. The Hudson's Bay Company to
• surrender to Her Majesty, all the rights
of Government, property. eta., in Rn -
per's Lard, • which are specified in the
3- t.ed 32 Vict., c. 105, sec. 4 ;:and
al o of similar rights in any other part
of British North A merica, not Pm -
pr sed in Rupert's Land, Canada, or
Btitish America.
• i" 2. Canada i§ to p y to the Com-
pany £300,000 when Rupert's Land is
transferred to the Dominion of Canade.
"3. The Coicapany may, -.within
twelve months ci! t ie surrender, sele t t
blbck of land adjoining each of its
stations within the limits specified in
article 1. • •
• "4. The size of the blocks is not to
exceed acres in the Red River
territory, not 3,000 acres beyond that
territory, and the figgregate extent of
the blocks is not to exceed 50,000
acres.
, 4‘ 5. So far as the configuration of
the country ad -nits, the blocks are to be
iu the shape of parallelograms, of which
the length is hot more than double the
adth.
'6. The Hudson's Bay Company
ma for fifty years after the surrender,
claim in any township or distriiif aith-
•in the Fertile Belt, in which land is set
out for settlement, greets of land not
ceding oue-twentieth part of the
1 so set out. The blocks so granted
e determined by lot, and the Hud -
s Bay,Comparny to -pay a rateable
e of the survey expenses,' not ex-
cee ing-- an acre.
'17, For the. purpose of the. present
agreement, the Fertile , Belt is to be
ifounded as follows On the south by
the United States boundary. on the.
west by the Rocky Mountains, on the
north by the northern braneh of the
Saskatchewan„on the east by Lake
Winnipeg, the Lake of the Woods,
andthe waters- eonnecting them.
-":8. Alt titles to land upto the 8th
March,. 1869, conferred by the Com-
pany, are to be confirmed. :
".9. The Company is to be atliberty
to carry on its trade without hindrance,
in its corporate capacity, and no excep-
tional tax is to be placed on the Cow-
pany.'s land; trade, or servants, nor ay
import on goods introduced by them
pet lours to the surrender.
",10. Canada is to take over the ma-
terials of the eleetric telegraph at cost
pric-b, such price including transport
eut rot including interest for money,
and subject to a deduction for ascer-
tained deterioration.
"11. The Company's claim, to land,
under agreement of Messrs. Vankough-
net and Hopkins to be withdrawn.
"12. The detail of this arr
iange-
ment, including the filling -up the
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blanks in articles 4 and 6, to be settled
at once by mutual agreement.
ex
lan
to
SOD
Aft,
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THE SALT. QUBSTION tf the avowed; patriotic spirit of the
Nappears to consider ti
"da sndkan argument agsinst
tee,
a date; pitAtmelijam. salt, as .that, "sue])
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n poli4-tends •'W:enrich the -few salt
koduderti; at thetteost of the many con-
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eiuneit. "Fort, s•eys "there are; no
less than EIGHT (I) compa,niei in God,
, -
erich, ONE (I I) in Clinton, and ONE
(I I) in Kincardine." Thus aeling by
Canadian salt inaelit_and their intereets -
8,
teelzers. As 'abort -.stated, thsy
tlleiTeyte
sel,*-75onlv `a§ nlati
asking
lt):foDtee;
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manner, if not by wort] "Is -that -i fe
w
To wh:ch we most unhesitatinely say,
,
ree *tido'', tit .thea•tt S., end go so
'Much further oils to,declare that they
yould, prefer ,the fatter .., by all odds.
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'!NOW this all very well since it is .
1. thing that will not be probably se -
'oared, just now ; but supposing it
go would the
1111- V in bettei
• if
fltnadian -
Yes! comparatively speaking. _And.
salt man be ia the Ameri-
as tor the exclusion of foreign salt ever
itedian to -day .Need we atiswer,
n market then, than he le in the Ca -
creatintr a monopoly, in view of this
one at all, but much woreel for of
p p rst .
considers the thing•preposteroua We
woul d,h ere, beg to Offer as a reminder,of
what might take place, - the coal. oil
la tie (I) nu e
r of home r dnce
budnees of Canada,
than ten companies
True, the present
their willingness of
and there are more
in this coinbinetion.
producers express
-binding themselves
from over selling salt at' a hither rate,
if this protection be given_thein ; but 1flited States?
we certainly think the people have too et with such fudge, under the name
Oeliurse, now, the American has to pay
-transit Of his salt to the door of the
anufactory of the Canadian, whereas,
it(de other case, the tables would be
exactly turned.. .Then if the Canadian
sOt producer cannot compute with
the American in. Canada (et;teb et,
sttisle cannot); how in the nine of
citninon senses could he do so- in the
lively an idea of the Comparative obli-
gations of an .Act of Parliament, and
an instrument subscribed to by a few
eculators, to ascribe the least import-
ence to such a document. It Might
hold for week, and it might not hold
for a day.
13u t, the burthen of th 'e prayer for
protection, is based upon the assump-
tion, that, ibis not fair competiion, they
ask to be shielded from; but, that sys-
tem of business, which induces the sale
of American salt, at, or near the places
of production of• Canadirn salt, at
much lower prices than at places in
greater proximity to +he former, and
more -remote friem the former, in-
ferring, naturally enough too, that the
object of the foreign manufacturers, is
to crush the Canadian interest.- "And,"
say the petitiorers, "we can make salt
is cheap as they can; but we have not
the capital that they lihve to wage this
war of Competition, hence we seek
legislative protection," at the same time
also saying, "if we had free access to
the American market, we would not
ask any protection af home"
We will treat it as a matter of poli
ical econerny, and will nou endeavor to
;sprove the inference, as to the desired
1:tject of the Americans ; but, if ne-
essery, admit it, -at least for argument
ake.
First,' then, if we permit a tariff on
oreign salt, when rna,y we expect it to
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ie taken off? We say, never (I) in
iew of the reason for which it is asked
o be put on, for, it is said to be an ac-
umnlated capital that makes the de -
parity tetween Canadian and Arreri-
an 'producers, for which reason we have
()light to expect the relative positions
o be changed by time, or at least, not
o the advantage of the Canadians, in-
smuch, as the natural rule of the corn-
ercial world is, for rivalinterests to
ake dollar for dollar, proportionately
o the capital invested, due regard, of
ourse, being had to other ciecum-
tances, which, though they be riot equal
.
n the case before us, are most decided -
x in &Vox. of the Americans. If, then,
ye give our salt producers protection
o
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r any length of time, and then re-
ove is, they will be in no better posi-
ion to cope with their- rivals than to -
ay, nay, but worse.
Again, the advocates of a salt -tariff,
i-ge that, ,"if things continue as they
ow are, the Canadian wells will be
hut up, end then the Americans will
harg,e exorbitant priees." _Went sup-
osing such a surmise to be correct,
hat would be more certain to follow
n view of the large profits, than the
e -opening of the Canadian wells So
hat as far as a monoply goes, the pec -
le have nothing to fear; for just as
ng .as we have facilities within 'our -
Ives for the production of an article,
L. a reasonable price, it is a libel on
er common sense, to say that we will
o abrcad tor that same article, at an
nreaeonable price.
We bold that patriotism is no term
hereby to designate the spirit that
eks the gain of the few to the loss
ie many, which is precisely - the
se with the the matter in question,
feature so prominent, that no care-
ul observer can avoid seeing it.
One look, to determine the sinteritt
cl
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Tits OTTAWA CitiZelt is raising quite a u
"dust" in .its own way about rniniste11
-
rial residences for members of the Do- 8
minion Cabinet The principal argil- c
ment advanced isethat it would tend p
to keep them at home and about their e
bilsiess. This would no doubt be i
some advantage to the people of Ottawa, r
but it would very seriously curtail the t
" missionary" pioclivities M. P.'s. p
"Carpet bagging" is likuch a political lo
institution, nowadays that even jolly se
Knights with gold lace and knee buck- a
les, do not hesitate to follow it up with o
something1 of a professional air. To
think that men of such evangelizing u
propenti,s would stay at home? Htw
absurd' Josh Billings says "the only w
way to keep a 'mule in a pasture field, se
is to turn him iato a medder adjinina o
and Iet him jump in." Ministerial ea
residences erected on this Thilanthropi- a
041 krinciple, might be of some good f
9
—
Ibe for more sensible for the said Grand ,
iJurftl to recommend some method of in-
vestigation by which supposed lunatic*
cou14 be at once removed to the. .Asy-
, •
lurd ;and cared for as fellow -mortals
shoed be. Strait jackets are far
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ramfe suitable for men 'who pretsnd to
I i
haVettheir senses, but who fail to use
thei4
. .
ot patriotism, a few interested parties
e eivor to stuff the public, and de-
si ate all exponents of their shallow-
seshness "no lovers of their' coun-
trz" etc.
ammilmilloolliPimiummommum
'T4E11E-is quite; a rivalrY just /10IV
be't•Ween three of tier Canadian citieer
, -
for the honor of the Provincial
Dif and, Dumb I Asylum.Tney all,
DO doubt. have "axes :to grind„" and
thetrtible is to get his axe ground first.
T4 Belleville in,/re/enter hats a "that
rate' site, -veity cheap." London, the-
• •
',tesatcan boast of not a few romantic
hili$ on which such buildings could. be-
,
safWy erected; and Hamilton; so long
fa+ered with this peculiar Jastitution,
shed many tears if the Saint ot
.1-
Corntvall removes their "candlestick."
k." seeder if .Huron Count, has no
t. -
cla4ns at all. What is Isaac Carling
abSt, that he does not "speak 111) for
his! ':own censtituency ? Perhaps be
dos not read the nevispapers, and of
• •
ciett*e, cannot be -expected to ekurty
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tv144, is going on. -
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titE GRAND JURY in their Present-
ment to the Judge, at the Middlesex
A szes, last week, recommended
stiitt. m
jackets for those ill:lin:a hi-
,
natfils who my be confined in jail for
septa time previous to their trial. • We
64:fro this to be another illustration
of tie Old saying, "Few doctors like
to their dwn medicine." It would
. T4E Toronto Globe has been recent-
ly advising the Conservatives to unite
in protesting against the. north shore
!malt selected by the Government for
the 1 Intercolonial Railway. We be-
-
liev'the advice, like many others given
to the same Party, will be disregarded.
-It is Hard for the Ethiopian to change
his !skin. A* party that has scarcely
aug14 else to -shew, than one long ro.
cord of extravagance will look upon
the !expenditure of a few million dol- '
lars .as a very light matter. It is far
better. to keep Cartier and the Frettela
Canidians . in good humor, than to
boater about a trifling .affair like *
railWay, which will not, at most, test
g
over .430,000,000.
Tam Operatives in the English cola
ton fills are now on a strike. A ree.
duction of ten per cent was to be made
in their wages, and not being dispose&
to Submit, they have struck work,
Great exeitement prevails, and miles&
I
some! terms mutually eatisfaetory aro
arrired at, great distress will soon pre-
111111.1.1.1.11.11"16111111111111MMINIMEN
The Irovincial Government has rea
quested that the late Prime Minister of*
Quetta Isabeila,' Gonzales Bravo, now
11vi4 in France, be examined by tlitt
Fretteli authorities in regard to a plot-
whittli has been discovered against tlat
o•
e if Admiral Lapete in which they-
l'havo reason to believe that Bravo.
was c1oncerd. •
Sot
,r's.
DISTRICT
BIZEVALE Templ*1
WHITNEY has son
mai oil left, to :whil
-week.
Tir, a a,
epring Show tomes:
nexteat Brneetield,
• ON Friday Uthzi
the 4...trey waiith
piing Show take'
ON -eve 2nd
Titan nanied TiI gh
dent] y killed while
falling on MM.
FRO251 an editmi
!Ceti; Era ett the "N
v,ppears that Kelloe!
strong depositions.
Messes.J DuN
'home ag;tinl and ha,
ties in their.,ita
it is a standing -curt(
We learn with
after the neat IttaiZ
County Jail
itrecau ti on Will NV
approved by- the pu.
Mtstae. Thump)
nounce by
their 4tbility to fill
pleeing, do..sash, dt
Titie siioiid COMMIJ
parties about to huil.
Tterfr, in. Si
Simms:, assisted by /
formers, will trite,
programme le an exi
ing-many very choi
Pro, Tar m
Mn. ik.ICGREGOR_
Popular, Haniorot
Concerts in Sharp's!
dey next. He iss-,
everywhere, We a
well worth hearine
e -
Ma $.5ignal, we
'lull report" of the -
eoltunne, hadwe to
been as inaceurete
point of fact. :Get1
take another rook at
-243CAPED.—A. 1)115
Healy, who \Nes
Aseiz•efe_., for steath
fr-nn the priffen yar
'Weanemlay last, an,
has in't peen foun
v.hout 18 years.- Tin
e- sea rch for him.
Soua
ly solar up arounti ti
stamils up the- i
itbou't a Camay "Ad
‘`vhi-Sli
Lon‘nt
rinted, ant'l,pee the
paper. 'We ¶i -are
for-tke
think i will do ayei
is true,,,the paper18p
:tsting three or four
is fully ;Is thick as t
;not quith so fine.
- TN Turnbury, on ti
mer mune'd J. Ceaso
in his 12ed. Having
where he had parte
toxicating his,
-ed to that cause.
Coroner, held isla
verdict ia aecordanc
was readered.
Siena
FrialAy morning last,
dropped dead while
fast table. Dr. Trao
ipe,t on the bb,
-was retirned of; "De
• ,causes.'e corpsel
the appearance which
/death, eousequently,
believe that life NVILS 3
Tom the buriar was d
time., but at length
,evidenres of deeay
themselves_ Quite
cauted *,y the doubt&
and nritny -people v]
The Jet:eased was in
her sudden death-
mela4thiSly in her ne
IT'S All A
Fergueou, the Blitel
Gotleri-h, eliVe 43,
he reportedhum
other lit-, Aloes
the "prtz,s"• do bina th
by shell .reports. _
him on his 'viva- •ions
puts to -the contrary,
live them all down.
been fully alive to i
teometing falee report
-the Globe, Hamilton
aittail sources. We
Bet have beets led trate