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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Expositor, 1869-07-23, Page 2sma TO ADVERTISERS. "r New advertisementi-inust be given in by Vfednesda.y noon.. - Changes of Advertisements, which are spe- ently arranged for weekly ,,changes, by 'Tuesday noon. e*nges of Advertisements, -which are not bk specially arranged for weekly changes, by Saturday night. We cannot guarantee insertion, unless the above be complied, with. BuswEss Noricz.--All. accounts for .a,d- vertising and Jobbing must positively be set- tled Quarterly, on the 15th days of March, June, September and December, tilt txpooitot. The Official Paper of the Conn y. FRIDAY, JU Li -NZ -23, /869. A SECOND CHAMBER. A city contemporary manifests a pru- rient desire of monarchial tendeneies in his attempt to argue the necessity of adding another Whee_ to our already too cumbrous and expensive machinery of government by tl e addition of a 4, Second chamber to o Local Legisla- tur. 2 His Appeal to the 2 testimony of De Toqueyille end of John S. Mills is not however, exceedinglysatisfactory for the case of a second chamber of le - „e AUDITOR GE EIL4. ...-- The recent appointment by Sohn Sandfield of Wm. Cayley awl Auditor General iseme deserving the uninitigat- ing condemnation of the Dominion. It is of the first importance to the country that in no case pa3rraents be lade out gislature, whoSe constitution world *i.,te Cie cre thire of rqyal fa-voi, and whose function would be exercised_ irrespect- ive of We national -wills ; for both_ De Toquiville and Mills :iad in view snob a chamber very diffetent from the one . contemplated by , our contemporary, which the says shotild, Ite in: harmon -with that of our Federal eovernment. , Whatever may be the policy Of a secetts1 chamber,and the goodresults spring- ing from its existence.' Such a country as the United States, *hen all the le- gislative power speings -directly, from the national the fact can be no argument in support of a second chera- ber for an integral_ portion of a country, whose functions Would, depend on royal ' favour only The strongeet arguMent for a second hamber in the United States is the feet ofits strength to op - of the pubic treasury without parliae raentary sanction. Lest suoh payment - he made surrepititiously it IS also im- portant 2 that the Auditor General through whom they are made be a man of unimpeachable integrity, In this respect the 2 antecedents of Wm. Ca;Yley are b3ano means assuring. Numerous instances can be cited in which be, re- gardless of all obligations of duty, paid over 2 the publie funds to parties who had no right to receive them,. Such altion should forever set the brand of disquaAification upon him and prevent his getting an opportunity of doing in - jury to the public interest, Iu the face of all this we have him again hoist- ed upon the people of Canada, and that at a time too when public confidence is by no means very strong in the effici- ency of the financial department of the Government. If Reffeinstein could ap- propriate, $19,000 without. detection for three years, how very nicely a man like 0a,yley, who was never -very sem- i pulotis could laugh and grow fat at the public expence, Such appointments are a positive premium upon dishonesty. They are a public sanction of official irascality, and should prove 2 another theme” in that torrent of condemnation which mat soon fall on the head of the Premier of Ontario:. FACTS AND SCRAPS. On Thursday week, a woman named Kean shot herself at Waterloo. In Montreal: a brick building three stories high, fell on Friday last. A lad named Brown -was drowned at Walla cebutgh on. Fridity(t. A lad named Robinson was drowned at Waterford on Friday last Harvesting has commenced in some Tarts of Middlesex county. • - Two Cuban Generals are at the Clif- ton House, Niagara. Aldwell Co.,, Toronto purpose er- ecting a sugar refinery. The mayor of Quebec has been called upon to resign but he'cleclines. Father McMahon is to be released from the Penitentiery. Several robberies have taken plebe 'in Montreal lately. In Caledonia, a boy named Scott was drowned on the Grand River OD. Fri- day. A woman named Kennedy died a few days since in Toronto,,at the age of 102 years. pese the erbitary will of the Chief Ma- . gistrate ; but how 'would this tact tell in favour of a brach of this legislature whose power was a creature of the exe- cutive, and whose ectioris.tneste t ere - fore be controlled by it I The 2 t eory of "cheeks and counterehecks" is more visionary than 'real,' for the eiperience derived fromthe history 2 of the Brstish Legislatare would go to. pro -ire that ob- struction and deferCee of classpriVelege against the inroads of the national well- being were but the legitimate friiits of irresponsible 2 legis ation. Moreover there does not in this age Of pcipular education, and pri ting presses- and • civil liberty, -• where measures of legisla- tion are eiscussed beyOnd, as 'ell as within its wells, exist the sa,me necess- ity for a second tchaniber to. eiercise the power of " checks and counter- checks." Why then burden the bblic revenue and clog the already to cum - THE Scottish, American draws a com- parison between the newspaper litera- ture of Britain and the United States, in which it maintains that the latter is by far inferior to the former. In Bri- tain matter's are discussed with a calm- ness and aflignity becoming the • expo- nents ofpublic opinioo. Opprobrious epithets are never gratuitously banded and a 'manly respect is always paid to the opinions of an opponent. In the United States their is. far too rcatch of the bre-eating, Brick Pomroy style of newspaper literature. A man. named Wa,ggwier, at New - stead, county of Grey., a few clays ago was cut in two 'ay a circular saw. The forms of the Spirit of the Age, Toronto, were seized while on their way to press, last Thursday for -wages. The police in Montreal are into busi- ness "big," in the way of poisoning dogs. . The commissioners -have left Quebec tp inspect the Intercolenial Railway works. LAND natitEIRE. Wr;ttenjor the BopOsitoi: The reform recently effected in the constitution of the British Muie of .^ Commons, and the result of the Irish Dis-establishment Bill are but the Pre- cursors of an agitatioli of the ..national mind upon a _questiofl more intimately related- to the intereste- and feelings of the great mast of the:people than any country. Land Tenure is. the question o0er that has ever been before the now looming up in the potiticitl horizon, that will, at no distant day, be the nu- cleus around which will agloinerete ear- nest strife between, class privilege end the natural'rights of the people ; and it was no doubt this very question which was hinted at by-faiseeing con- servatism, . as the probable eesult of parlianaentaty reform, and which in- stigated a resistence to a, further intro- duction of the deinocratic element into the House of Commons. .In spite of the popular prejudice—we might call it a superstition ---which, invests the question of Land Tenure witb the sacred rights of property, and of that popular sophistry which confuses the idea attached to the eights of property, with that of individuel ownership of the. soil. The subject of Lend. Tenure is alreadibegining to assume an impor- tance in the minds of some of the ablest and most philosopliciet thinkers on political subjects; and no doubt their energies are exerting; an influence on the minds of the most intelligent of fhe working classes of society,. The cry Of wanting to destroy the rights of proper- ty, and to establish a system of Fourier - and Socialism no longer avails to quash en-quiii into the nature and jus- tice of individual proprietorship in the soil; and the 2 popular mind is now ri- penin=g into the conviction that the ri hts of property as applicable to goods and of indviduaal, roprietorship in the soil rest on very different grounds. By the advanced intellects among the working daSses it is now being under- stood that the embodyment of hunaan effort, skill and ingenuity, which ai:e the true origin and foundation of the , rights of property is an attribute which does not belong to the soil;- and that therefore whelevey argueraent may be raised to maintain the inviolability of the rights of the individual to hold pro- perty in goods cannot be enforced in fever of the individual proprietorship in land. Furthermore - it is acknow- ledged that the soil like the air we breathe, and the water we drink, being a spontaneous gift of nature ;and,. like those elements also being one of the sources where nature has decreed that man should derive the means ofhis -ex- istence, cannot be absolutely appropri- ated without doing violence to the great law of nature on whiieli rights to life and liberty rest. Admit the prin- ciple which gives the individual the right to appropriate the land, or any of the other of natures spontaneous gifts, and to use it according to his own un- controlable pleasure (for this is what the rights of property inplies) and you deprive all others of the rights of life and liberty, whiph would this depencl on his will and caprice. And it may further be argued that if we adinit the principle of individual proprietorship of ithe soil we .admit a principle by which- the whole land of the nation might become ultimately absorbed by a few individuals, who, by becoming pos- sessed of a power to act the part of the dog in the manger, might throw the land out of cultivation' reduces the nation' to aecondition ofmisery and necessi- tate the rest of the people to seek for refuge in compulsory ietnishment. We admit this is an extreme view of the results of Vie prii ciple of individual proprietorship ineland, but it is a state which is logically deduced frora that principle, which, consequently must be false as involving such an obvious ab- surdity.. But the acts of parliament 2 by -which land owners are compelled to re- . . linquish the rights of any portion of their estate in the public) interest to adieit a railway company to carry on its work, are a tacid recognitiun of the prineiple that the rights of the public to thb lend of the nation are paramount to the rights 'os the individual prop- rietor, and it is only by an extension of the same 2 principle that that '.great system of land monolpy and lantlocracy, the cause of extreme wealth and poverty in G-'reat Britain and the prolific source of destitution, profuse 2 waste, misery his ability. Few individuals axe aware that an adectuate appreciation and knowledge and crime, will be ultimately destroyed. the diseases of the feet, itis not fatal to Onee. This last 2 link of feudal power is doom- life, are certainly as annoying a can be lila ed to be snapped by the progress of po- the remedy is simple and. sura; the wave aim]. dem.ocracy. bunion or inverted nailraust be skilfully sna et brous Wheels of letmlation that. te may ape to effect the liower of aeristocra- tic institutions, and redecorate 2 our con- stitution with‘the *ern 2 out ba ges of royal favor planatory of tiie several branches of physical sciences which -are comprised within thelimitsof the first volume, and one on the eubject, of Geograelty# ph,ysiccil and :political as additional to, and ithisteative of the several depart - melts of natural sceences which are comprised within this branch ot the sec- ond vitlume. We do not know of any work that has ever been issued from elle press that is of each sterling value, Comprehensive -in its treatment of the several subjecte and agreeable in Its •style, the various authors appear to have bestowed great pains in making it •a work suitable to the earnest student of science. Going beyond a mere pillar exposition of the great principles of science, and givin„0- in a clear Snd lucid manner an explanation of the grounds On -which the fundamental doe - trines Of science rest, it -cannot fail to be a favourite in the library of the young scientist who, in his fret start On his career of scient Jc enquiries, seeks in vain in popular works on science for A clear proof or demonstration of those doctrines, which otherwise do -not rise above the rank of fanciful dogma. Every. lover of scientific enquirie.t., while he can obtain from the Circle of the Seienees a pleasing and popular ex- position of the leading truths of physic and Acience, will at the same time find it to give him a philosophical vieNV of thefundamental doctrines of the several sciences embraced in its range, and to form an admirable introduction to any one of them which maybemade by him a special object of study.. We advise every one• of literary and scien- tific proclivities. to establish a copy of it in his library. The,-, introduction to the work on the objects and pleasures of the study of science by the late Lord Brougham we recommend every one to. peruse.- On Saturday, at St. Marys, a young man. named Brown was drowned in the river -while swimming. A man named McIntosh, in the county .of Peterboro, killed two bears on the 9th inst. The society fqr the preventien of cruelty to animals, is energetic in Mon- treal A Watchman near Beecheille, on -the Great -Western was run over'hy atrain on Tuesday night and killed., It is rumored that Hon. Mr. Rose is about to retire to take a position in a large English Banking_ Institution. It is reported that Sir John A. Mc- Donaldis going to Washington to COM- plete negotiations for Reciprocity. An accident oceured on the Raeleau Canal, near Kingston on Saturday, whereby six gates were carried away aud three lives lost. 'THE Irish Church Bill now brings a final issue between the Lords and Corn.mons. All tire amendments pro- posed by the Lords have been rejected, with but trifling exCeptions: 2Glad- stone, who so fearlessly 2 carried the, measure during all its stages is no doubt prepered,for any emergency that may arise, ana unless the Lords succumb, new Peers will be created, and the pre- dilictions of Lord Derby edtirely 'set aside 2 Great expitement prevails throughout2 England and large meet, ings have been held framing both views of the question. Evidently the Irish Church 2 is doomed, and only a short time can now elapse till its fate is seal- ed, SO mote it be. 1 •Telk Nor Tester is opposed to the building of a railroad between titre na- vigable points ,of the route between Thunder Bay antl Fort Garrj. , It maintains that such a road .wou d only be available for si nionths in t eyear, and would absorb an amount o capital which could be far better expe ded in building the extension of the C. nadian Pacific road. It says that a waggon road world answer all the purnoses of transit ia the meantime.' Itis quite evident that the Britieh Coloilies can never be thoroughly consolidated until sortie such means of communic time is et- I established. lIf -we have a. re' wdy at all let, us, have a Continuous a d an vailable one. The sooner such is built the better for the country. I Nova Edotia is all excitement over Colchestd election. The repealers in- tend giving Mr. Archibald a strong op- position. London is to have the names of the streets painted on the corners, which will be done before the Exhi- bition, 2 2 2. The Great Wheat Producing States- . The following is the estimate made by a competent statistician of the pro- duct of the 2 great wheat 2 2 producing States in the American confederacy for the year 1869 : Tim Americans . are fast peopling their waste lands with Chinese. Fifteen hundred 'recently arrived by one steamer from China, and many thousand more will very soon ta,ke up their residence in that land of leberty. They are reported to be good 1 mechanics and will doubtless be quite , tilled the certificate and censured. the au. aixiinatiuu w tne western labour te* market. Illinois, In Wisconsin, Ohio, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Iowa, Michigan,. Kentucky, Maryland, California, Tennessee North Caraina, Missouri, Minnesota A man while mowing in a field near Weston, on Mondaywits attaceed bv a large "Blowing adder', _but the reptile was dispatched before doing injury. McClennigan of the Woodstock Times has preferred a charge of Ebel against MCWbinnie of the Sentinel, which is to be tried at the assizes. IntBrantford on Friday, a man nam- ed John Hunter,- saloon keeper shot his wife. He did not kill her, but her cendition is critical. Jealousy was the case. - A man named Cheamley in Toronto, while drawing a pail of water from an open well, last week, was seized with an epileptic fit, and fell into the well, front the effects of which he died. A fearful accident took place on the Erie Railroad; N. Y., on Friday last, by which about a dozen lives were lost. Oee train came into collision with another, all .through carelessness. Bushels. 23,836,023 17,818,269 16,656,458 15,119,947 13,130,977 13,042,165 8,681,105 s 8,449,403 8,336,268 7,394,899 7,103,480 5,958,470 2,459,258 4,784,700 4,247,686 12,000,000 From the above figlires, based, in part upon the eomparitive prodnction of previous years, it will be seen that taking popmation into consideration, Minnesoto is by far the greatest wheat producing State in the Ueion. hateteetetaieeeeeeteeee. A school teacher named Ewen Cam- eron, in the -county of Elgin, 2 obtained a certificate by getting accese to the examination papers, some time ago, and in consequence thereof the Bord of Education at its recent session. an - .A. bear fight, and a struggle for life, aecompatied by severe injuries, oca curred on the 24th ult., in the woods back of Perth. The Courier says, Mr. Copeland, of the 1st[ concession of Denbigh; was in pursuit 'of a bear which he had 2 2 wounded the evening before, in company with a neighbour. - About a mile from the Missiesippi Road they came up with Bruin, and one of the men seet a ball through both shoul- ders which brought down the bear ap- parently dead. Mr, Copeland then ad- vanced to!give the " coup de grace," but his gulls missed fire, 2 and the bear sprang up and charged a dog that was with them The dog 2 iran behind hie master for protection, who was at once seized by the bear about mid-thigh. Then began. a struggle, in -which Mr. Copeland was horribly mangled about, the thigh, 2 hattnch, wrist, hand, and arm. His _comrade coining up with a club, the itear was beaten cff, and Made his escape till next day, when he was tracked and shot. Mr. Copeland was so exhausted with kss of blood, which 'flowed profuely from he thigh, that if it was many hours before he could be carried home, and many more before he rallied sufficiently to speak. He is an old man, 72 Yfars of age. We are in- formed by Dr. John Elkington, of Palmerston, who had charge of the case, that their is good ground to hope fcr the ultimate recovery of 2 the wounded man. The bear, a large male, weighed 400 pounds, including 'bide. Thrte other bears have been killed during the past fortnight in this bush—one of .enorralcue size. On Wednesday a sailor in Coburg came quite a joke over the citizens of that town. 2 While standing on the wharf he throw into the harbor, si- multaneously, a large piece of iron ore and an old hat; supposing it to have Leen a', person, needy a week's search was kept up for -the body, whea the "trick" leaked out, much to the dis- comfituae of numerous coroners. holder. • France being what it is, it is no had sign that Prince ' Islapeleon will, quite probably, become President 2 of the Ministry, The 2 Prince has beep: a prophet of liberalism in his day, and has labored to convert his countrymen to the belief that the great Napoleon deliberately sacrificed hecatombs of men to prepare the way for freedom 2 in France. Some 2 have the courage to believe that beneath theroyal flesh of Prince Pion -Pion is entombed the heart of a live Democrat, 2 and once, memorably, that heart has been guilty of resurrection. His call to the Min- istry will not, however, create enthus- iasm. 111.111m.• THE Beard of Instruction for the county of Huron will meet in Goderich on the llth and 12th prox., for the ex- amination of scheol teachers. A Vireecome REEDY. ---A brighter fame - to those ladies young and fair or old and frail, who have suffered patiently and. -uncomplain- ingly clay after day, with that miserable Saul prevailing complaint, sick headache or nearly as bad, the nerves headache 'W-Iiitch has, racked and tortured the weary brain until almost erased with the sickening pain. But, now ladies, you can get a 'bottle of Dr, j.Briggs' Allevantor will relieve at ono all headache. sick, nervous or billions. trial will convince you (it iti merits and enable you to he happy again. This remedy eau be tested, free at No. 6 King, Street, West, Ana is sold by "11 druggists. iorsale by Scatter, • GREAt SUCCESS. —It is needless to saythitt that success which Dr, Briggs Zhas achiev_e& in his profession as a surgeon chiropodist bat been enparalleled in this city; many of OUT most estitnable and worthy citizens, ladieli as well as gen+leman, have been reliend from corns, bunions, club and inverted nagil vr,fiout the slightest pain or4Leasin" and doubtless many more would, had they carefuily treated and the pain en Y Reviews. THE CIRCLE OF THE SCIENCES. The last part of this very excellent publication is now before US, ending with a, treatise upon the popular sci- ence of Geology. The work embraces, as its table implies, a complete range of treatises upon the several branches of physical and natural science, taking in the course of issue an excellent one on Mathematics as subsidiary to, and ex - ceases, The only way to obtain this relief is to apply to Dr. Briggs can be consulted 4et No, 6 King Street, Toronto, where all ais- l'ases of the feet are treated in the nub* as skilful ins.nnor, Dr, .1, Briggs' Modell% ° Curstive is sold by druggists and -;loontri merchanzs generally,—for sale by J, Scatter, I lit ENEY WATKINSON, Architect Builder. Plans, Specifications Details drawn correctly. Every dCSCIiPnOn of. Building Works measured And ot quantities prepared- - OFFICE.—Next door Borth of Mr, lila' son's old store, aeatoren. 7941 Seaforth, June UM, nib% -er , 1,eunc4 :!-The - Rev,. chest,'i this place V. WiT4.8 great Lee- s Hall to- :, Ora Board k'-.7 school tru-S- patting anotlia- teat' her in auelthe scil ndersfe;olt1131311sn:acesis, nsh eor. ---- , , F.1,111op, took a. _ rtlay: end fell 'netten *7- drawingfe ich he held in hi# hand, cutting ! knee emelt. , Drs, -Smith and Gonin- te in attendance, and thevfear i ., i --'atatiori will be necessary. - I 4 areTleased to receive intelli- oF any e..etrerdinary growth in . ay of grain grass etc., and we quest that a.1l'Such accona - with specimen as well as mime `eby eo ethich it may belong. „ , Benerit teanne of te atv- etanbsh, informs 'us that he has four acres of Barley averg,ing 4 feet Bine-bee, tua a goal part of it even going 5 feet, This is under date of the' 17th. Who tau go ahead of this? Send along your sPe;itene:nds. ersitand 'the; the Wingliam and Bluevalelpeople af'e moving in the matter of gettine an extension. of the 'Telegraph line from the Wroxeter road to -their villages. We hope that th Montreal CoMpanywill foster and eet the efforts of the people. Tu E Alleghanians gave an enter meat in Shea -Vs Hall, On Saturdv ev uing last, to a. well filled house The 'renditions *ere in. many cases exee lent, still the absence of those member Who were with. them on thek last toe was very manifest. BY referring to the advertising eo units it will be seen that Mis on is about opening a select school ; Seafortli. This lady is recently fro the old country, and in 'every sense eomplished,i hence we -anticipate th _ the liraited 'aurn her of pupils' she ieir pared to receive will be immediata forthcoming. MAXAtha have te acknowledge with thanks fte Mr. Jarvis of this place a quantity very fine seraw'aerfies, some of wh, measured 15.-aud inches in circr ferenee _They were of the Troupe Gabde variety, and decidedly the I gest and b ,st we have seen daring season. --Matt WkitaT.—We last week asli "who could send us a aixfooter • Behold I ta: hat. have -we in respor E Gaunt of. Wawanosh sena stalk measuring 6 feet 1 inch. (wed it is the -4 White Flint") and hemp it is a fair 'specimenvf the field in w .itwas plutked.. D. Dorrance, of Killop, also brings i* a stalk anet mg 6 feet3iinches,'"Tr ell." this be beaten 7 PHoTooitaPitY.--- ne enterplist Seaforth is manifested in almost e line of business—in which photegr occupies a prominent position. B. feeence to our advertising colaml will he seen that Mr. Paget ha. - opened the gallery near Robert liardware store. He pledges hi' to give entire satisfaction to All favour him with a call, and we eet ly believe he svi11, if the specinte exhibitio0ii are anv indication, an ether thnig we believe is, that meet with a fair patronaa-e, th. pleof tins section are of rithat clas love to welcome and eneourao comers. Frank Paltridge also out in the present issue with "an 0.,1 to his constituents ;" but Frank i to speak for himeelf, And everyong L111 too, so we need say but- litt yond-the .fact that he is still. about that excellent temper. ITAILVEST PROSPECTS.—Th wet. iS Very Drejliditial to the epee sOiliatttery prosecution. of From 'diligent enquiries _AA f from different parth of the -eom conclude that 1ai7e quantities however, been alr,i3dy housed, b an extensive areais still etanding,1 far. a gaol deal cut was 3..ind last ram. It is very desirab the weather would fair upin or the grois crop might be taken in time to connteriee the Fall harvest, which is speedily apPul Whether the recent storms ha, teriaily knocked. down the er difficult of a positive answer, enquiries lead u‘s to believe tL where they are extr,ernely it been dote The midge an appearance in a few sec we imagine that it is not ve Or general about here.