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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Expositor, 1869-08-06, Page 2't 2 NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. New advertisements must be, given in by Wednesday noon. • Changes of Advertisements, which are spe- cially arranoecl for weekly changes, by Tuesday noon. Ohanges of Advertisements, which are not specially arranged for weekly changes, by Saturday night. -We cannot guaxantee insertion unless the v above be complied with. BilSLNESS NoTicE.—All accounts for ad.- vertising and jobbing must positively be set- tled. Quarterly, on the 15th days of March, Jane, September and December._ 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,