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txpooitor.
The Official Taper of the County,
FRIDAY AIMITST 6, 1869.- .
I
THE TOTAL ABSTINENCE QUES-
TION AND ITS ADVOCATES.
Ix speaking of a late teMperance de-
monstration held in Toronto, a city
journal gives a rather fiippent account
of its proceedings ; and the style of the
journalist appears to be animated more
by the spirit of hosti.
temperance than b
out the impeacticale
PrHE SEAFORTH- EXPOSITOR*
rather odd, we do not cere to contest;
but if the church be, as it clainis to be,
salt of the earth—"a diine
U11' very
system," whose mission is, to mould
the character after a perfect model," to
"check the passions and iestrain the
lusts," to' correct the habits and exalt
the sentiments, taste an emotions, etc.,"
it does appear to us to be odd enough
tbat an institution with such pretenti-
. .
ons of its mission should refuse the co-
operation of any practical scheme in the
prosecution ef this mission. No doubt
our journalist believes that the sacred
ity to the cause of
a desire_ to point
ity of the measures
proposed by the temperance demonstrae
precincts of its jurisdiction woula be
•
THE C.O#LITION.
THE Hamilton Times, in an able ale
tiole reviews the gradual decline of the
Coalition of 1867, showing clearly that
We are in the eve of e new ministry of
a pure Tory complexion. When this
coalition whose regime is just closing
came into power, the B,eform party was
nominally represented by Ferguson
Blair, Howland, and Mpougall. Fer-
guson Blair is now dead, Howland is
shelved and veryglikely Mr. McDougall
will soon take his departure td the
North West And what will their re-
main I Only Mr. Howe, held in. "fee
simple" by Sir John because bought at a
certain price. This will be a renewal of
the old• Party lines by the force of cir-
cumstances, which the most sanguine
Reformers did not expect -would so soon
take place.
Sir John must have seen Whither
his ministry was drifting for spine time,
and in order to nieet contigencies he has
made repeated efforts to° fill his vacant
cabinet offices with members from the
Reform ranks. Hitherto he has failed.
No man could be found to incur the re-
sponsibility. of a new election in order
to perpetuate such a notations impositi-
on upon the Dominion as was the Co-
alition of 1867. And what must next
follow We think the result is evident,
without a coalition. Sir John can
never command a roajority. When the
Coalition thus expires, the power of ite
originator must also expire. The Re-
form element is certainly in the ascend-
ant, and ere long we trust that power
will be exhibited by expelling the pres-
ent -wily Premier from officer and as-
suming to itself the reins of govern-
ment. If Reformers would now stand
firm and true, such an issue would soon
be brought about, and men who long
contended for those principles of go-
vernment which strengthen the institu-
tions of their country would be placed
in a position to exert all their
powers for the development of our re-
souires and the consolidation of the
Dominion.
polluted, and the justice of its claims to
be the true regenerator of humanity
would be tarnished by the tread -and
contact of any aid to be derived from
secular agency; and that the great cause
of human regeneiation can. beaccom-
plished not at all by an induction of
the great facts of life, but by the si-
lent operation of that rairaeulous power
• derived from vicarious, ritualistic, or
dogmatic christianity alone.
tors for the suppression ot an evi,\1 which
.everyone should feel morally bound to
denounce. Without being the defend-
ers- ot the ,illogical reasoning which
temperance advocates too Often press
into the service of their cause to its no
small detriment, we cannot subscribe
to • the equally false reasoning which
our joumaliet has brought to bear on
the legislative enacaments for the sup-
pression of intemperance, with the ob-
ject apparently, of bringing the temper-
ance movement into contempt We do
not think that the Views entertain.ed
by our journalist of these enactments
when speaking of them as "an experi-
ment' of making men moral by force of
law," is a tree representatiofl of, the
case. It is not fair to speak of temper-
ance legislation as an "experiment of
ma,king men moral by force of law,"
'when the real and immediate object oe
it is to deal with, and ° regulate,
or suppress those institutions which in-
vestigation and experience have proved
to • be the promoter, and the prolific
source of vice awl crime. We think it
would be equal folly to talk of making
men honest, healthy, virtuous. and re-
=
1
gardful of lite end property by force
of law," ae toitalk of making men tem-
perate "-by force of law t' and yet law.
does not 'hesitate to interfere with the
sacred rights of individual acacm when
itIrFor No. 1 homemade Boots and
Shoes go to Coventry's. 87 -if.
• THE HOUSE OF PEERS.
IN an article on "The House of
Peers," the Toronto /le/egret-ph takes
special pains to inform its. readers of
what it supposes to be an evidence of
the immense ignorance prevailing a-
mong radicals on this side of the Atlan-
tic as to the great wealth of the British
Pe( r3, with a, view obviously as.= argue-
ment with which to bolster up his hob-
by of a Second °clamber of Legislature
for Ontario,. We can assure (-itir retro-
grade friend of tfie city that the radi-
cals of Canada elre not so immensely
green on this head as it supposes ; and
at this same time we can assure it no
intelligent radical ever thinks of offer-
ing any objections to the constitution
off the House , of Peers, or of any sim-
ilar institution, on the grounds of the
imaginery wealth which the British
Peersare supposed to possess. The
.1, •
British Peers niay, or may not,, be
THAT .ARBITRATION.
A_ very nice piece of the humbug of
our practical politicians can be seen in
the way the arbitration between Ontario
and Quebec is managed. It is now a.
full year since Col. Grey, a, member of
Parliament, was appointed to look aft-
er the inteiests of Ontario. During all
this time he has peen payed for perform-
ing duties on which be has only enter;
ii, few days ago. This indemnityto-
gthet with his pay as M. P., must be a
nice thing for Mr. Grei, but not 0 nice
for the country. The wouderful econo-
my which actuates Jan. Sattdfield to
practice a cheese paring policy at eleetion
times, while at other timee he is per-
fectly reckless of the public funds, is in
keeping with his erratic course since be
became Pre- mier of Ontorio. 11 eeems,
however, that after this long and unne-
cessary delay, the arbitrators have one
to work, meeting for convenience at
Montreal instead of Otttawa. Doubt-
less the respective indebtedness of the
Provinees to the Dominion will be soon
settled and a Bill of several thousand
dollars brought against the country for
doing what should have been done long
ago.
FACTS AND :SCRAPS.
:A 'velocipede rink was veiled oa
Sunday last in Mentreal,
Provincial one-doller notee, altered
to fours; are being passed in *ntreal.
such action ie directed to the'perpetra-
tioniot theft, robber, swindling, ferge-
ry; and aduleration of food, to tne diss-
emination of unhealthy odours, to esta-
blishment of -houses of illfanae, and to
the conducting, of employments which
may endanger life and property. And
because law has proved itself to be an
experimental failurd by its not having
entirely suppressed murder and rbbery
not having exterminated disease
and debaeichery, are we to abrogate the
laws as having failed to make nen mor-
al. If law should modify and subdue
the various forms which vice a,nd crime
assume, it does all that is expected of it
on this side of the millenium. Hence
the proper point to be considered in
temperance legislation is ndt whether
The Teronto cabmen. are on a strike
on acconnt of a heavy city license.
Refferstein is staying in New -York
with bis etho is a broker in Wall
street.
Mr J Chevalier, a farmer, All hp Eyed
near Three Rivers, is eaid to have died
of Cholera last Friday.
The potato disease bas aiipeared ni
somelocalities near the coast of New
Brunswick.
• The Rev. John Potts, of Hamilton,
will spend August at the sea -Side. The
expense is borne by his coiligregation.
The Hon. Mr. Rose has r turned to
Ottewo and .resumed the discharge of
his official functions as M. ister of
Fi-
nance. •
A. burglar entered -the s ore of Mr.
John Haisley, of lixbridee, a few
nights since, ,and carried off a Cosh hex
containing ov,er $100 in silv r.
The meeting of the Don inion Par- ,
liament is prorogued until the 27th of
.Septemner and not then to meet fur the
despatch of business.
A Pullman bleeping
through Hamilton on Mond -
New York for San Francis
is expected it will arrive to
Those who are well ad
Washington, conclude that
ters are very slow in their
movements.
•
• THE ECLIPSE.
Tne eclipse of the sun, which will be
visible in this country on the 7th (to-
morrow) can be witnessed in its total-
ity only within. certain limits. It will
commence in Siberia, and its course
will traverse a portion of Alaska, Bri-
tish America, thenee passing through
Molanta, Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa
Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky,
and North Carolina, ending in the At-
lantic Ocean off the coast of the latter.
A straight line, drawn on the "nap
through Springfield Illinois, and thence.
directly on and through Newbern,
North Carolina, Will be within the
limits of the total phase. The path of
the eclipse will be about 6,600 miles in
length, and 140 in width, and all places
situated on the track, or line, above re-
ferred to, or about 70 miles on either
side of it, will have the sun totally
obscured for more or less time, the dur-
• ation. of totality being, of course, the
greater by how much the place is near-
er to the central line, its longest due--
rtion on the latter being 3 min., 47 a,
and its shortest 2 min.„ 23 s, accord-
ing to the geographical position.. The
time allowed for observations- te be
mule, by the,scientific gentlemen who
will be located at different points; *ill
be about three -minutes and a half less,
than that offered ley the memorable to-
tal eclipse in India last year, when the
sun WM obscured for nearly seven min-
utes. No total eclipse of the sun -will
be visible in this country after this -year
during the present century.
•
Accontee.a to the New York World,
it seems that Mr. King of the Bank of
Montreal, is speculating largely in
Gold. It saysi
that n one day Mr.
King sold $2,500,000 tn the expect-
tation of working up -the whole market,
ar passed
y last from
so, where it
orrow.
ised from
Minis-
eciprocity,
On Monday last, a man ramed King
of Richmond Hill, was cho _d to death
in Toronto by a piece of ieat while
eating hi3 dinner. •
The Dominion notes in
on the 7th of July, arnoun
791,000, specie, $1i175,0,00
held by Receiver General
The -Amin saw and grist
Kay's Corners, County of
by Mr. Demetrius Hclines,
wealthy, ; that has nothing whatever SERIOUS complaints some from Mile -
to do with the question of an indepen- koka, regarding the conduct of the
dent branch of legislature who are re- Stipendiary Magistrate, gr. I.,ount.
sponsible to themselves only, and who He was appointed to that office 4
may have derived their legisletive eighteen months ago, by John
privileges and functions from the ac- Donald, and in addition to his du
cident of birth, or from royal favor, A magistrate, be is also Crown Land
more instructive lesson the Telegraph, Agent, Coroner, District Registrar,
would have given its readers, if it etc. The naultitude of his duties pre -
had pointed oat the logical connection 'vent him attending properly to the
between the imaginer!' pdverty of the, crown 'Land business, and as a conse-
Peers and the political necessity ot quence the settlement of the country
their existence as an independent
is retarded: It is also said, that. lie
branch of legislature,. and of engrafting discourages immigration, and has al-
a similar institution into our Confeder-
ready driven away several wealthy set-
ation scheme. The histolical fancies
of the brillia,nt writer referred to by tiers by speaking disparagingly of the
our confrere are far from Offering a country. A petition is in circulation
satisfactory solution of the problem. praying for his immediate removal, and
for the appointment of Thos McMurray,
t
Mc -
es as
legislation has beeii effectual in the ex-
termination of drunkenness, but, wheth-
er it has modified and eubdued elle vice,
and reduced the crinieS to which if eh-
evitebly leads. The extract from the
44 Boston, Post," how -ever plauseble it
may read fails, to estztblish this peint:
Nay, we would even infer from the vi-
gilence and rigour with which the law
appears to .be Mom d in referenceto
• the poor laboring man whose wife sold
a Tew -glasses . of lager to their farm
hand acquaintances, that tete interests
of the families who are most likely to
saffer injury 'from the drunken habits
of their parents are protected, where,
.otherwise, they are too often trodden
• upon iij. deflauce of the voice of parent-
• al duty. It is perhaps possible for
legislation to be armecessarily rigour -
ons or clefectiv-e in attaining/ the object
• in view, 1 but this would only argue for
arneeilment upon the -plresent law;
and cannot establish the logic of the ab-
rogation of temperance legiSlalion.
I.
Again, our journalist) s. -mew of the riff'For the cheapest Boots in Sea -
proposal to create temperance societies forth according to quality go to Coven--
ie
within the church as seeinit g to himltry's. • 87-tf. , will la suceess.
THE -French Cable is announced to
be in working order, but -will not be
opened for public set vice untilthe 15th
inst. Meantime, how i3 it about the
concessions promised by the company
to the urgent demands of the American
Government'? If the -French Govern-
ment is to have precedence in the trans-
mission of despatches, we do not see
how the United States are to be accoe
rnodated in precisely the same way,
yet, this is what pest be insisted on by
the latter according to die resoluticns
passed in Congrelss. It is to be hoped
that no arbitrary obstruction '33T the
high contracting powers" will be suf-
fered to prevent or postpone the full
benefits prooured to the world by , this
new accession to our telegraphic sys-
• tem.
Esq,, in his stead. • Should the:charge
against Mr. Lount be true, it would be
weli to secure his dismissal, no new
counrty or settlement can thrive if the
agents appointed to attend to its
interests are treacherous.
circulation
ed to, $4,-
debentures
3,000,060.
mill at Me-
ent,owned
was totally
destroyed. by fire on Illion.clay tight .
last.
The Rev. Thomas Werclr pe, of Otta-
wa, has been unanimously called to be
their pastor by the members of the
congregation of Chalmels
Guelph.
tgr If you want good valne for your
money in Boots and -Shoes go to T,
Coventry's. 87-tt
& certain class oti dissapointed politi-
cans in Nova Scotia, are endeavouring
to raise an excitement in favour of
annexation among the pugnacious "Blue
noses." So far their success has been
very limited, and the probability that,
like the Fenian bubble, the whole affair
will soon burst; we have every confi-
dence in thelocality of our biethren to
the East knd eve believe they have nci
moor'
MR. SEWARto is making a tour along
the Pacific coast, and will, doubtless
visit his newly acquired territory
Ala,ska, before he returns. iHe w
enthueiastically reeeived at Br
Columbia,, and in reply to a serena
spoke in very complimentary terms of
Great Brithin. We think Mr. Sew -
aid's respect for Britain, is founded
more upon a desire to be on wie d
terms with a powerfulgnation, than up-
on any real respect for British insti-
tutions. In his capacity of Secretary
of State, he has more than once evinced
a species of splenetic opposition am -
minting to dislike if not hatred.
THE Buffalo- Daily Herald is
publication by : the " liereld Printing
Company." Mr. C. Penton, late pub-
lisher of the EXPOSITOR, manager. The
desire to change, This well tried mon:
6 _Herald is a lively sheet, its editorials
ish
• i
Eighteen deaths from ylellow fever
have -occurred on board the
E'clips,), on the passage from
to Halifax. . Among the
the commander and first li
Mr. Christian of the Bauk •of Mon-
treal, arrived at Mirami !hi on the -
Baisa
14th inst., with the, nee ry fueds,
2.ncl the branch of the went into
operation on the follo-wing;day.
i Tbe Rev. Archibald Cross, late of .
Ingersoll, was, on Wednesday, the 25th
inst., inducted to the charge of the Ga -
nada Presbyterian congregations of
NewtonTille and Newcastle.
• One of the convicts in tibe Peniten-
tiary was discovered on Monday -morn-
ing with a patternkeyconcealed in his
beiom. If made use of, it would cpen ,.
four -ranges of cells. He was punished i
for the offence. . -
man-of-war .
Rio Grande
aims were
utenan..
Symers who was convicted for Big-
amy at Hamilton last spring, is getting
good deal of public sympathy, as the
opinion is prevalent that; he was the
victim of his first wife's Machinatimis,
and a petition for the. commntation of,
his sentence is in circulation.
A little boy, the son Of Mr...Alex.
Snow, " tewnship of Grimsby, while
playing in a field: in whiCh Ms father
was mowing, got tired and fell asleep
in the grass. His father did not die
-
cover hint until the knives caffeine:0:e
tact with him, whereby h'e lost one tea
had hand nearly cut offend his side -
lacerated. He may recover with the
'Ts of the hand. • -
New York may very ,approptiately-
be called the "City of Strikes." At
the present moment there are "strikes"
among the tailors, the plate printers,
the piano forte makers, the 1101%,
thieves, and the gamblers. The cornet
makers were on a strike but have le-
tuilod to their work. The same re-.
mark is applica,ble to the cab drivera/
the brick makers, and the caipentete/
and several others pf the inechaiiical
clasees.
and buying again at a lower price. The
effect (3f this has been to depreciate
the bills of the Montreal •Bank in the
New York markets, and. to a. certain
extent injure tue credit and reein-
tation. of Canadian Banking institutions
e new
archical institutions for the republican-
ism notwithstanding all its boasted ad-
vantages.
at ON.:
manifest ability of its editors, and as a
piece of typography few papers on the
continent excel it In politics it pro-
fesses to, oe neutrel, Froin the apparent
patromiee it has, we doubt not that it
•
The Arbitration.
After a long and inexcusable delay,
the ,conference for the settlement of the
accounts as between the Domieion and
the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec
ha R been convened at Montreal. There
are present Messrs. John A., Cartier,
Rose, Howe McDougall, Cheauveau,
Dunkin, Wood and Sandfield. * The
most impiirtant points of difference
seem to have 'been arranged,- and only
a few minor details remain to be.a.djust-
ed. •We suppose it- was thought desir-
able to have the matter settled -before
Mr. Rose's exit, not only because of his
knewletage of the matters under discus-
sion, but because of hie ipossible useful-
ness as a future scapegoat. • We shall
be glad to learn ail the particulars of
the conference.—Advertiser.
, A serious accident happened in the
village of Baden on Frida, by which
`Mr, Roscow, a miller in the employ of
jaceb Becke, Fickle was seriously *Or'
ed It appears that be ' was alone in
the mill when one of the mill-stene°
burst, throwing the pieces in eyery
di
rection. A small piece, struck his dog,
which ran home and alairmecl Mrs. Ws'
cow, who immediately suspected seines
thing was wrong. She went to to° -
mill and found the wheel running et s
fearful rate, but could see nothing of
her husband. • She gave the alarm -et
once, and search wes ccenmencat
They found him in the basement
appears that a large fragment struck
him on the chest, breaking his breast
Mr. 3. F. Robinson, formerly a Ca-
nadian contractor, • has established a
rope ferry across the A.ssiniboine rivet,
at uis place,. Where the cut off road
leads to Klynes on the Pembina track.
It is said to be a saving of many miles
of hard travelliug when the weather is I bone an1. knocking him down
sia
At last accounts he was very 10--•
Dis RICT MATTE
s 11 be seen by advertisP
reveuied3ibaiynt-stbereecot uinntSyrfort
JoaisToN 13p.'s of this piar,e,
vIgateiYc°17;.Pillleewdar.,, nijuThilved
tforAln.a
e°111:7el1G-illgod .t;i:hblitites.
;.gnai says
ews in the Wesleyan Church
sold Monday forenoon to the h
pidder, sorne of them .r
1411 2:oroS3m°411"11 ation from oar
respondent -on the Banking" tiu
in reply to the last article -of "
on the same subject. is -crowded
the present 'issue, but will apr
:csneilcav;iellpnrseexg.obto:lot----\sivn;,:me3aktir.h:g::e w-sinnoudenhli:.1
A young man, on the 'evening
11.acy dressed the Nvound and
fererQJ-1°.111-:on7i.ill
LEVI 's' 'thaetis visi
tovirri-O T_u_esday.. after:
I
bit 01 Zonawer::nasotoscoeuNtireted
forniance was not very exe
i patronized, but in the evehin
ly, but were skilful beyond tile o
el
AaLnYV1LLT. young
Clark, was drowned in the r
land, _near Ainleyville, on. S
It appears that he in con pa
some other young persons, w
bathe and it is supposed he
with cramps and sank befoe -
tame could be rendered.
• TEMPERANCE.- -Mr. Thos
one of the gents of the
adian Alliance for the tota
oi the Liquor Traffic, wf
Lectm-e on Temperance
perance Bail, Seaforth, on
gust 6. Chair to be taken
A collection eviirbe taken.
• close of the meeting: •
TIIE Clinton Kew Iiieb of t
ci(issitebteain
r,Asi.r.th..He Holmes, as,
oairsy
pectus" of its /future, nnder di
ment of the new projrietorl
eon.. 'While we regret thee
Mr Holmes from the.
World," we welcome his
his new field of labor, w
hand. at the businis.s, and ling
direction we hope to see th
continue in prosperity,
_...--
ROWDYISM.—On Wedn
lad of about 16, named D
brought before D. L. SillsE
by W. N. Watson, -fer eisie
ing language to the complain
streets, and VMS feted one ei
costs amounting to sometltini
.d.ollars. - The presiding magi
theyonngeowdy a most righte
on the impropriety of-"sti
loafing," which eontimtd
hints; that we hope will be
on, not only by -young, Ibi
individuale a the' same cl- se
-DinmsTG- the past we
-
through a good. 'Art of the
r
Huron, Perth, and Aliddi
observations everywhere, ei
conelnsion that the crops se
above those of average years
Middlesex haying-ianearly
and in some parts, quite s(
deal of fall wheat is also l)
good order, as *ell as bark,'
• as the wet weather. is tone(
not think the crops have Bti
.excepting peas on heeyci il
drained soils where in mien_
are half ruined, atet ia
large quantities of hay' .-‘t
"The weather now is most it
harvesting,- and farmers
esivierinryg witveallittasline.m* °sofe
t pleee
stand, is badly elavaagei
in• thilasgecrOhapiePsPirillYa-1-1.-11°NvIvoesrt
the wheat in seine seceioni
is not at all general. '
South liuron Reapin
This maech -came-off oe
en the farm :of Mr. Pope
ad, near .1Cippen. -
There were Six en_tries
follows; john Jackson, Li
agent, Ball's Ohio, Pod
san, Self Rake ; Verity
,eistown, Ball's Ohio, ljt
Rake; Glen& CO.-, 'OS
and. W. F. Bronx/boll,
Ohio, MA's Self IR;
Tate & -Co., Port Perry!,
er :Joseph Sharman.
Ohio Buckeye, johnOci
L D. Sawyer it C
_Cooper, agent, Ball's
Stevenson's Self Rake.
Acting Judges
Sniffle, and W. Ches
The prizes were -4s
Sharman ;. 2nd. Vezfit5
L. D. Sawyer; 4th,