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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Expositor, 1869-04-30, Page 4• '4 HIldson.Bay i Company. IT3QItrnjN, PROORES;410 DEVEtomr-P;NT —VALVE OF THE TRiti,ToRY ITtit)ER ITS ColNITROL. , A. writer in the Ottawa Times, gives the following interesting summary of the history of the great landed mono's°. lists who stand itt the way of opening up the un oundecl regions of the North- west to civilization. . Now that our Parliament will soon be called uPon to discuss the terms of .. Lord Granville's proposal—accepted by the new Hodson's Bay Company --if will be of scene interest to manv if we may briefly, sketch the history of the .11ndson Bay Companies fran their smallbeginingsto the. present time. . . The Hudson's Bay Company was in- corporated ion the2ndday of May, -16- 60. Thefirst Governor was Prince Rupert.. -Tho original Capital subscribed amounted to 110,500 stg. Se success- ful had their operations been at the end of twenty years, that, in order to make their yearly dividends appear smaller than: they really were, the Directors passed a resolution deelaring the cap- ital of the company to be trebled. It was accordingly entered in their books at £31-,500s each holder of £100 stook becoming by that arrangement.a pro- prietcr to theamountof £300 • Thirty years after that date a similar nroceeding- yeas adopted, and by a stroke. of the pen the •Conipany's capital was made £94,5000, each original £900. Subsequently a further subscription of 10 percent, raised in each, and. nomin- ally- treblede so as to amount to 9,450/ was added to- the previous capital ac- -count in the company's *Sooks, Which thn stood at 103.d0 e/ Of which, hosie .. ? ever, only 13,6501 sv',as really subscribed by the shareholclers• In the middle of the last century the company ' a.ppeara to have realized 6,364/ a year in het profits, which on a capital, anparently, a 103,950/ is 'small' enough. for A mon- opoly, trade, but take as a dividend up- .- on their real capital of 13,600/, ammo - ted in fact to no less than 50 per cent per annum. , pe . - The knowledge of these large profits -an soon stimulated Canadians to struggle an for a •share of the gains—and they : Int interfered seriously with the.Hudson's fin Bay Company. ,A fierce rivalry quick- nio ly- sprung up betWeen the conteading" mo . traders, until in 1783, the - Canadians ab found it neccessary to form them- qui selves into a party for mutual self -de lea &nee. , _ are • They enrolled themselves un ler the name of the Northwest Conspany,,chvi- ere cling their -interea in future undei's new _ takings into tw-Inty shares or parts. rna but Without laying clown any money i:ed . capital. - . , app The operation§ of this new, Comrany exa _unprotected oy charter; exterded i t - Y rapidly on all sides—until itt a le* dm years; their sbiptnents Of furs to Ete: full rope exceeded those of the godson's wet Bay Company; while the Lumber of fort their employees' doubled those attatched• dire to the 'factories of their rivals. At ot d length after some fifty years of bitter• wou opposition, the two companys were am- iiigarfilted ; and in the year 1821, the wit whores trade meegeel ouce moref into the of it hands of the. Hudson. Bay factel•s. The eitov c i paid of of the two Companies. i was at that period made up to a liothinal am- ar.08 ount of 20u,000/ each, so that 490,0001 T , re the "imaginary- capital"—said to be ',die), invested in the trade of :3,000,000 square miles, about "onethird" of that ;J)leiectit sum being really the _total subscribed our capital employments c O III ' Aboutwo years ago this valuable a do property changed hands —still retain,- thoiie ing. the title however of the 'Hudson's I By Company." The_i consideration re- eeived by the old proprietors being the Nee e 'lore -nous sum °rune million five bur- jute' died thousand bounds • sterling;.o• i seboo which 1,023,5691 was for landed prop • and t erties -.in British Columbia ; A claim Grade against theep-raited States Governinent 1 lustier the Oregon, treaty, ; siti'ps , , goods, .1iiisslesis pelts,, and onsiness premises in England )le lancee and the remainer 100,431,1 C we. this It to aild ganaclai 3-50,000/ was a cash ba- that i may take as the outside value placed for fif lin h • • - • Boys Learn a Trade' ....._. • James Parton, says the follow a late number of Packard'S M ly. - , Few persons have looked into lives .of 80 many remarkable menl as I have, yet I cannot -call to mind oins o the acknowledged kinga of business •who clid not in early life serve a long rigetous apprnticeship to some occ't,ipa- tion akin to that which he aftersOrds exercised, and in Which his great suc- cess was made. All my acquaintance with business men teaches me that the foundamental seereS of success in- bus- iness is knowledge:a-real knowled 'e— such knowledge as is only-a,cquire by becoming pratically familar with m th-: ods and processes—such knowledge • in fact, as a man gets by taking hol I of work and doirg it until he can d it easily and perfectly. - s=, THE SEAFORTH:EXPOSITOR, • g the The knosvledge which a clerk ac- quires -is part of the indispensible e ni- pment of a man of lousiness ; but it is far from bells°. so vital to a grand Sine - cess as that which cOmes of a tine •apprenticeship. "Gibbon says that o- ing out with the militia on training d Lys was of material • assistance to him in •writing the history of the great Ro an war. Just giving the word • of c m- -mand to aTew ,companies' •of coun ry milita, led him into .the secret of co n - plicated battles and great campaigns. Learn a trade, then, lads, you w o _aspire to do something. creditable a id substantial, during your life. • Wo* Id you beanarchitect,. and build the n w capital wet ' the Mississippi? W 11 then, go apprentice to the best carp xi - ter or mason within_ your reach. • o you wish to be a sculpter, and cann t -pay a master's feel Instead .of pini in your mother's chimney corner, go o. the ndareat stone -cutter and cut, tom stones. - The eaucating effect of learning' a gcod trale haa,never •been sufficiently eonsidered. Why have .we, now a days, so many slaw; ring, silly girls at out, who know nothing. They ha e been at ol , long enough to get a little -knowledge, and., they • do not a ) ar to be wantuag, itt hatiral capacit d yet, so empty axe they of sen. e d reflection thtt ft.n. a In n T lo o their expe.Sss-oele, s coon teriences d it difficult to believe in the i rality of theit souls. It seerrk re reasonable to think thitt such oritive effects of Nature would hth etly absorbed or dissieated, like 1-1$-, ves which flutter to the gi oancl, an4 no more seen. What is the matter with these poo atures7 Toe matter ,is, they hay er boiled potatoes, ironed clothe de puddings, cleaned paint, mad s, nor in any other way serionelr. lied their mind and hands to th et and 41eilfull performance of hotael asks. They have missed the pie - is education which comes of u ic- y done work. If any good sou ild take half a dozen of these un- unate beiegs and give them a good e years' in the WO1* of a well - e red house, the edo eating effect Id astonish all who knew them. 'cannot boil an egg precisely right "hout getting a little education Out 10 ornpare the mechanics- in the Noy - Works with the clerks id- Stev s4re. he 'clerks are exeelleat fellows ; look well, dress -well, unelerstand • business, and are in every res Nvorthy members of society, but best mechanic's have a certain force athood. a weight of 01 a steter, ends pee of /eflection rarely seen in who only buy and sell. should be sorry to say anything to rage our institutions of learning. rtheless, I feel Confident that an ligent youth, who remains • at 1 until he is siateen or seventeeu. hen apprentices himself to a good , can get a better education out o; sop (with an honr's study of prin- . -1 111 the evenikjg) than it is possi- get in any .college ill existen te 8 tiO say, a better education for eW- and formiug eoun try, where, ty`years at least to el ,trie, no man ope to play a leading rat, ex'eept . in wie ding material for. 'es. 1 sey, then, lads of eixteen. if yen would.lay a foundation for ,-.. ,,o re I'm ts- perity, begin by learning a t r.,de. If yoU ‘+ould escape the perdition of f.eing a fool, learn a trade. If you %you'd de a. man's part for youitcountry, begin the work of preparation by learning a trade, e......• The Rev. Newman Halt told the following old but good story ill the eourse of a lecture on his recent visiu to America.. Au illiterate negro preacher said to his congregation: 'My bredren, w1en de •fast man Adam was made, he was made, ob wet clay, and set up again the balings tl) dry.' .f Do you say, said, one of the on territorial rights by .both • the old and the new Hudson's Bay Compan- ies. For these territorial rights, the Hud- son's By Company, at the suggestion of Lord Granville, are willing to take the sum'of300,000, together with their present sta.V.ons-20,000 acres of land —and one twentieth of the lands that may be surveyed for settlement during the next -fifty years. • We do not intend to offer any opin- ion now on the advisiability of the • bargain, having so recently expreseed our views. We have merely goue back to the inception of the Olu corn- paniee, thinking it might interest the public, and draw attention to the im- inence iralue of a territory of 200,000,- 000 square relies, whence by the ju- dicious and timely aittlay of a few thousands nearly two millions sterling wili probilly be realized—leaving the farseeing and sagacious promoters with their business intact and their sources of future profit undisturbed. • THE PALLS OF IDAHO. • In its decent over the elevated phi* of Idaho about 400 mike from when4" it takes its rise in the sRocky Mamie tains, Snake river forms the great Shos- hone Falls, The river here runs through a narrow, rocky gorge, which widens and terminates abruptly in pre- cipitous cliffs, the stuns -nits of which are about 1,000 feet above the level of • the rapids and so steep that the trav- eller can descend at only' one point— an old Indian trail, its numerous wind- ings making it about a mile in length. The rapids form a series of cascades, ranging from thirty to sixty feet each in height, and just below them the riv- eri in one •unbroken mass, leaps two hundred and ten feet into the bottom- less pit below. The course of the river at this point is almose due east and west; the contour of the falls is that of an irregular horseshoe, and their width followieg the cour•se of the water, is at least four hundred yards. Although he river is not quite as wide at this oint as the. Niagara river, the falls are higher and quite as beautiful. The most complete view of the falls; includ- ing the river above and below the raa picis, cliffs, and su.rrounding scenery, .is obtained au Lookout Point, a narrow cap ft. of rocks projecting from the main blu about three' hundred yards lower doWt on the river than the falls, so nar- row that two persons -cannot walk abreast. The first object which attracts 'attention is Eagle Rock, a perpendi- cular pilled. of rock about cne hundred feet in height, rising from the midst of the rapid fifty yards from the South bank of the riVer, and almost over- hanging the main cataract. • *Upon the topmost; peak of this rock an American eagle has -built his eyrie, a fitting home for our noble bird—long may he live to occupyahis unique and romantic abode. Just above, the centre ,of /the cataract, is Ballard Island, a small rocky island covered with cedar and juniper trees. Several smaller islands. t ) the right and left of the large one or Ballard Island, add to the beanty and picturesqUeness of the scene. The Two Sentinels two huge rocky pillars, are a one on the north, the other on the south side, overlooking the falls, and remind- • ing one of grim sentinels at their post. The Shone Falls, as a, whole, will compare favourably with Mager& In beauty and., wildness of scenery, the Shoshone cannot be surpassed. Nia- gara excels itt magnitude only. ---Oregon AS'tatesman. A BOY SWALLOVIS A SNAKE.—NeWS paper steries seake-swadowing, says the Newark "Courier," of the 1 9th, are common enough, . but can seldom be traced to any positive source. A caee of this kind recently occurred .at Mar- tineville. Somerset County, concerning the truth of which there can be .no doubt, its actual occiorence • beieg vouched for by perfectly reliable people in the vicinity. It appears that a son of ' Mr. F. Burr, of that place while coming from. school, stepped to take a driiiic of water from a trough by the roadside. The bid was exeeedingly thirsty and dr;ink deeply. During the time he eXperienced a momentary epasin of the tins at but thought noth- ing of it • For sever al days afterwards ne symptoms; were Manifested of any i regularities in the boy's stomach, but tv, the end of a .wee ;c his appetite in- preaed eLormously. There was dev- eloped a craving for food which no abundance could satisfy, and everything eatable that came inhis way he devour- ed ravenously.. • This. singular exhibi- hition of gluttony -continued with in - teasing violence, until his parents be - c me alarmed, and solicited medical etd vice. The doetors disagreed widely en the diognois of the case, and finally pope- te the conelusion that the boy rn s be aflu e' with tape -worms. On h0;, f(eling a chooking sensa- tion in ltis th•oat, he ran his finger w -hen a water snake two feet long e,ound itse1f:1.1)mA it, and was drawn feetli, to the estonishment and terror )f the family, who witnessed the opera - ion. The boy fainted at the sight and for some time afterward in convel- Stens. He is, howe-ver, rapidly recov- , A :7111:311 the h glohe sinc tO co envel of an • press congregation,. 'dat Adam was made of nsinut wet • clay, an set up again- the fence to ja th job ilt•teer, in a little town the forests of Maine, advertises evs : My new and highly po'- exeehior press has printed in ist tbree months handbills of all s, suffi ieut,f pasted together, to a paper ribbon, seven inches wide f a length to encircle the whole . The _whole 'amount of paper in my office, on various- esses, it was started, .would be suflicient mpletely cover the earth in an ope of paper mache thee eights inch in. thickness My excelsior will run off more bills in five es than any other four Dresses e States will it. honr. There to kn down, € such , system Yes sar, I do.' Den I'd lik ow who built de fence?' it sir,' said the preacher sternly'; questions as d,at would upset any of theology.' are but two presses of this kind in. the world—one is in my effice, and the other 1 have stowed away in my cellar. The inventor is d- ad, so that no new ones can be built. SIM /DIP • oe %-4 0 0 4.1 bb .cr 0 i k 1 n A PF7 -t 0 _, ' ,,:t I- •.0 ..a) 1; , pi v ;Di 4 0 ao a. g ...._. 1 i 0 . -40 W PI tcj i• l:01 0 0 g i:.•.) - ow )4- ,14 '4 — A i -,,,i lu ..!* ti ci) .. ..,.., ©3 . gg -...,. 0 A... . (-• 0 C...) TP V. I.•0 1:1 4430 rd . I w Z 4 I 14 p....4 E -i f..• 1:44 I III rh, Z i.4 E 04 c3 1.' Ei z El , .... .....,- - 2e 0 . h *4 '0 Fi e..) r* = '..) id co -,4 um' ..... = 1— IF YOU WANT A PLOUC 1 ETA f"Victor" or Improved "Yocum' Steel Mouldboard, • From JOHNSON 13R0* • . TAKE NOTICE THAT JOAN HA LDAN, has heal appointed Official Assignee for the Cann ' of Huron. Office at SEAFORT11,—J. S. PORTER'S. Office at GODERICH, --Directly opposite thie Post Office.. • Goclerich, March- 5th, 1868. • 13-tf. M 1LLINE.RY • DRESS, AND MANTLE MAKING. MISS MINTOSH. WISHES to announce . to the ladies Seaforth and vicinity, that she is pret pared to execute all orders with neatness an despatch, and inthe latest style and fashion' of the season, From her experience in theabovebusiness, she hopes, by unremitting attention to tho AGENTS :WANTEE: prp� take orders for Fruit Trees, &e. during the coining sumnier, for a Fixt4-01a4id Rochester Nursery, at present doineY a 1,inse, btufmess in this County. Liberal tionninsg- ion allowed, References required, Apply - by letter, post-paid, to • WM. CAMPBELL. Gen. A (Yea G oderi eh, April 9th, 1869. 70-3i , BRUSSELS -CARPETS. Also some very choice Gunpowder, and 1../ A. S I • Sugars, Syrups, Coal Oil. &c. GLOVER AND TIMMY -SEEDS. A large stock of BOOTS' & SHOES ex- pected in a few days, 41P -Highest price paid. for Butter, Eggs -&c. ARCHICALD McDOTTGA.LL. Seaforth, April 1869. •53-ly • More of Those 12 Dollar Suits t AT GLEGHORN9 S 5 ALSO A Choice Selection of Silk -mixed tfint West of England TWEEDS! AT ASTO/V/SHITL.Y, LOW PRICES P ,. few sewing Machines for . •. that been.'" ran for a short time. Just the thdia• kr Tailors or Dress- makers. Call and see them woriting6m . • Seaforth, March 18. 7-3 FRANK PALTRIDGE• 'S Old Established • PHOTOCRAPH GALLERY -• REMOVED! Y numerous customers and the public- enerally please not forget that.' haveemoved. from the Old Stand to thia. OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE STREET, wants and tastes of those who may favor her with a call, to nierit a liberal share of public, 1 Into Scott's New 3 story Brie k Bink. nexv patronage. . .. to Kidd & M'Mulkin's store, and directly le -ROOMS over Corby's Store. Entrane4 south of Eickson ' w ' r s new sto e, Nsdu re 1 harts Second Door North of the Telegraph Office.:: built the best Gallery in the County eapeci- Seaforth, April 2, 1869.- ' ally for my own work, being large and corn- . 69-3nii modious, and with the proper actenie light ; ' being the only Gallery in Seaforth construct - El ed on true photographic principles. ' only light that can reflect the true lileatUrts: I. flatter myself that I 'calk satisfy all who may call. liemember, I don't want your money ., for nothing; I am bound. to please or 110 pay, Lf t As, many have had pictures in Seaforth, but .:- were dissatisfied, havina confounded my "CANADA WAREHOUSE In Scott's' Brick Block, SEAFORTH, THE Subscriber has received stalmento PRIM GO his first in-: name with another, I *Dad request if you ', want a good. picture, properly made ana . durable, that you ask for Frank. Paltridge. S-1: PaltridI am thus explicit, because many ;..Don't ask for Paltridge's, only, but Frank- • LADIES & MISSES' Brown, Black, Colored- and White SUNDOWNS. GENTLEMEN'S Straw, Canton, 'Panama, Felt, All -Wool •and Merino HATS' Decided Bargains in Union, All -Wool and GO TO T. -J. SIMONS' FRITIT OYSTER For Fresh Oysters, Sardines, Lobsters, Pies, Cakes, and Sweets of every detcription. CALL AND SEE His Fresh Stock! • Opposite McCANN'S Old Stand. Saforth, Feb. 12, 1869. 6341 300 KEGS JAMES' NO. 1, AND GENUINE. • BEST QUALITY LINSEED •OIL! BOILED AND RAW. TURPENTINE, VARNISHES, • GLASS, • PUTTY, tie„, At Johnson 13roEs. Seaforth, April Oth. 70 think they are acing to get a.-pieture wage I -by Frank Paltrid'ie; but by a mistake, in ,not going to Frank P. 's, get sadly disap- pointed. CASK FOR, AND GO TO FRANK, flu the Brick Block, up one flight of stairs, and turn to the right hand. My specimens at the door are all my own 4:tiake, and are not bought or borrowed t• decoy the public, - COMe any day, Frank is always at home Goed Temper. Pictures of deceased Carefully copied into -4any kind of Picture desired. / Remeinber, it is to Irralln. fAitridge'S Volt 'thaw to go to get a good. Photograph. litw ;And rich Furniture Scenery, &e that will our picture look rich, anti worst' sending to your friends. Who does no 'know FRANK PALTRIDGE ? Seaforth, Jan. iith. 53-ly Note The THAT Fact • Paltri ge s • NEW GA-LLERY Is now complete with a new VOIGHT LAN DER IN STR U M ENT. --EW Backgrounds, Sc, &c. None bit first-class pictures taken, and satisfac.- film guaranteed. GALLERY over Dr. Smith's Mee, next door VF. Myer's.- - • Seaforth, Aug. 13, 1868. 36-6m. J. SEATTER EACITANGE- BROKER! And dpaler in Pure ps,* CHEMICALS & DYE STUFFS, e Drug Depaitment is.under the specid are of an experienced Cheuat, B. M. PEARSON. JaAuary 21st, 1869. sie-fry T.HIN SUED] As our, readers are farmers have of late yea ed considerably int the seedingpeeially the Mr.. Mechi. 110.,:8 long bee ado ;Lae of, the pra.ctizet the Ohnekirk and Smitd tural Society, recentlyr periment a this kind in Jed but a peek of wheat was dibbled in drills, adapted to the purpoee, half hours. Manure wl the wheat soon after it c ceived four d.ayi wor His retprn wae fo • half brishele of aixty-eigi 7sides about two bushel' !suitable for' feeding. TI • •er remarks 'as follows, .c pre:dike: "1 have beard it oh, :sowing that, from the at - ter of thickness, the crop • av-hich, itt ardinary seas important eonaiderati was one of the first ripe I am so tharSagly satisfl' suit =of this experiment t season sown one flew, \ a• very- fec,14 condition, • bushel per acre, .and with less than • bushel ,per acre. I bel $ySteITI reqaires only to . generally adopted. Jr -national importance, as strain now- wasted in enormous, as the followa will showe "By the. Board of Ti publiehed, the avrease u that Britain this year acre4, the average SOW• - woaid. be at least two an • els; aliowitg half a bus) mine) it Vi oidd gwet acre saved, or 7,295„5 bei -23,28L,434.' c POIATO CULTURE IN small farm-er ;, haV:e but land. 1 give my mode toes : I select a piece - a slight df4cent to the s it mellow by plowing, , 1 rolling, and furrow th and a half feet wide up slope. I haul my man laige.shovelful once in -t, furrows. This acCompr shovel, mow and herse itteackfurrow, mixing earth tegetber, ready asue my potatoes so- that •one. =cye on a plece, days before planting a on a floor to dry,. Nim tatoes two feet apart„fi Mil, and covci hgh t, -fetches of earth, arid wh sprouts are about,to sho go beksvern the roWs awl let the dirt roll on A. ip , they will come up- . a strong, thrifty :italic. they begin to feel the `mire. I 114,017 leave the tops are going to fai take a big shovel pIo% close to the io-v as 1 ca the potatoes out, if thi of the biBa little it Potestoes want loose thr ugh three times. third time 1eplit the r the dirt bail NV;lys. T _ in slit b a shape that t hurt them, and in whieh !stand the • &oath as other. When I give zn above-trezareent inev good 0 lea—D, Prardwe New -Yorker. Saaer Fon GARD 'Si.. salt as a fertilizer in gal be mixed with um',• in that. manner :or the sea at the rAte 4T1'' -to the aeri-. it garilen limns gf'Slittil 164 •j'a Ottde-*011.11; wiz maitoz in the soli Fa • not ) to r-• st:t. 4:t .. their in =iiie can:give them e's the ki smelly sandow weera • pleaty if iigbt.. Tal e plan s ar• -not too .ero cavil plenty of room. Ltntetre wortd! f Mtn' Icrig dray a, ;I:ARD PLANTING.- SAIIIS itt the orchard will the ground is well pre' ploughing' an thorough the trees ate planted, an that state of fertility a, p.00d crop of corn or such soil the trees will vii,/3 orous growth, but /rained soil their gras and many will die.