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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Expositor, 1869-08-13, Page 22 THE SEAFORTH EXPOSITOR. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. 14'ew advertisements must be = given iu by Wednesday noon Changes i of Advertisements, which . are a - cially arranged, for weekly changes, by Tuesday noon. , Changes of Advertisements, • which are not -specially arranged for weekly changes, by Saturday night. Wto cannot guarantee insertion` unless . the ' ' above be complied With. BUSINESS NoTrtL—All accounts for ad- vertising and Jobbing must positively be set- tled Quarterly, on the 16th days of 1Ms;_rch, June, Sept tuber and December. ghe $poMtor. The Official Paper of the County. FRIDAY, AUGUST 13,1869. THE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. One of the most important. resoluti- ons adopted py the Teachers' Associa- tion of Ontario at its late. meeting oras that demanding a representative on the Beard of Public Instruction. It has always been a grievance int the censti- tution of this Board that the actual, practical, every day teacher was entire- ly ignored, and the whole control: of ° educational Matters placed in the hands of men, wire no matter what their abili- ties, could not . fullysympathize with the teacher. We do not for a moment question° the efficiency of such men as Dr. Ormiste,n, Dr. Jennings, Bishop Lynch, Chief Justice Morrison, etc., to legislate in educational matters gener- ally, but we do question thel wisdom of excluding from the Council of Instruc- tion the men whose acquaintance with the actual work of our Common Schools would enable them to point out weak- ness with which none but themselves come in contact. Legislation should al- ways eminate from the people, and 'it was to meet their wants in this matter that representative government; was SIR `FRANC1S HINCKS. .This distinguished gentleman is now Making a tour of the Province reviving his forbmer acgaintanceship, and visit - fang tl`' a different centres of interest endp ogress. Notwithstanding the "feeling" that once existed between him and Sir John A., he was kindly enter- tained by the latter and no doubt treated to the best " old Maderia" that Canada could produce. At Montreal he made a strong effort to justify his Coalition . proclivities and thus vindi- cate his political career. . In order to do this he read a letter from 11r. Bald- win approving of the Coalition of 1854. If M. Hincks had visited Canada to seethe progress the country is making, we would most gladly extend to him or any other man a cordial welcome: We have consciousness of prosperity which makes us cherish feelings of honest pride, when our cities, . railways, and public works are inspected by foreign- ers; and particularly by -nen who saw them in their infancy. But when a political complexionris given to a fiiend- ly visit, when men whose record is by -no means the purest, come to us and .make a public entertainment the oppor- tunity of fastening upon UR political 'compacts which we detest, then we lose all sympathy .for the visitor as such, and at once claim the privilege of crit ticising his career. Such criticism would not be very favourable to Mr. Hincks, nor would it show his coadju- tors in a very honorable light. Cana- dians have not yet forgotton nice little jobs which were continually hushed up, nice little somersaults necessary to avoid exposure. We would like the noted gentleman -to think well, of us on his present tour, but we would also like him much bet- ter if he would, just now, at least, let bygone be • bygone." first devised. Then why not let them be represented ed.ucat;ovally as well as -politically 7 Why not solicit the assist- ance of those who know their griev- ances, if they have any? What does Bishop Lynch or Dr. Jennings know about a Common School I How often is Justice Morrison in contact with the people who are so much affected by the ordinory facilities for education I True, their experience as learned men is in- valuabte, but -why not always get they claim of practical nielil We f P ' , is� that it due to the �.,ac� cis of Ontario, as a profession, that they ' be represent- ed in the. educational Council of the County. Their influence and import- ance entitle them to this. The knowl- edge which they acquire from experi- ence, in tbs-use of certain school books -- the success or failure of certain school laws which they witness, would be of great service in framing school. legisla- tion. And we hope the teachers of On- tario will press the matter energetical- ly, and snake the Council of Instruction more practical, active and representa- tive, than it now is. WIT you want good volae for your money in Boots and Shoes go to T. Coventry's. 87-tf. ON page 4 will be found an article on the Grand Trunk Railway, from the Berlin Telegraph, "'which we commend to the perusal ofour readers, as we be- lieve it does the institution, not one tit- tle beyond what is justice, 1 otwithstand- • ryagainst it. xrsts r Ing, the prejudice that e in some quarters, and the manufactured statements given currency to, for a mere matter of opposition, or other purposes equally, or' more, disreputable. Not long since, we recorded the fact of a large ,number of empty cars .being at this station, idle. We observe that the same is still the case—not less than sixty box carts are on the sidings at the present time ; and yet, we actually find men and journals,, in high position, de- claiming against the company, because it endeavors to seek employment for such by "Through traffic ;'� . and com- plaining, because every- bushel of a Year's. produce cannot be moved in a month or so. Evidently, none of such_. are stockholders to any considerable ex- tent, or their own justifiable interests, would deter them frcm always crying fur enough rolling stock to do a year's traffic in three months, and having it -lay idle the other- nine, rather than do anything besides the local business, ALEXANDER, the present 4peror of Russia, is iraking for himself a glorious historical record. The abo! tion sof serf- dom,/ a few years ago, was a Reform in itself, sufficient to'imnrortalize his name. Lately, he has again e‘ inced his zeal for the prosperity of his country, by dise-• stablishing the priesthood. According to the usages of the Greek Church, the priest -craft was heredjaary, and, as a consequence, they were yearlygrowing in importance. In order to maintir.in the vast number of priests that filled the country, it was necessary .to make a parish for each. This involved great expense, and in many . cases, grievous -burdens were imposed upon the people` for the support of the clergy. --Alexan- der has abolished the hereditary princi- ple, and relieved the people from sup- porting supernumeraries. _Verily, pro- gress is the order of the clay. OPERATIONS - On the Intercolonial Railway are now° fairly under way. Gangs of inen, -varying from 350ete 1- 000, are employed on the different c - tions ; and it is- expected that some o the heaviest work will be completed this fall. The bridge on the River du Loup and Trois Pistoles will not be commenc- ed till next season. The scenery around the eastern side of the railway is said to be the most, magnificent on this conti- nt ht. WHAT does . the Goderich ,Sc.gnal mean by saying that the belligerent Nova Scotians have been very ,much disposed to oppose it in asking " Free Trade in salt?" Is the Sig -nal awake- ing out of a dream"? Why ! has he forgotten that he has opposed, to the ut- most extent of his ability, "Free Trade in, salt.?" After having been baffled in his attempt to get -the governrnent to pur- sue a Protection" policy for salt, " he waiits, • now, to slide into the "Free Trcule," groove, and, like 'a dissappoint- ed child, to console himself with a forc- ed belief that he was its true knight- errant, because, perhaps, he finds out that the advocacy of the narrow anti selfish policy "Protection" will not pay in the long run. BANKING AND CURRENCY. To the Editor of tire Expoitor: DEAR SIR—In yours of the 30th ult.', " Ontario," int reply to my article on Banking, .accuses me 'of having aban- doned my position. This is but an- other- proof that he had perused my first article carelessly, as I showed in niy last article he had done. Instead of abandoning my position, it is evident on comparing the latter part of his last re- ply, where he admits the theoretica& soundness of the principle relative to Banking and Currency which I ad- vanced, with his efforts to combat that principle beth in hid first and last re- ply -that he has abandoned his posi- tion ; and now wants to slide into mine. It is not to the theoretical truth- fulness of the scheme which I advocate that he takes exception, but to its practical operation ; and the grounds on which he appears. to urge objection to it. are two, namely—That it will make money dearer; and •that money-- based oneybased on fixed capital will not be so safe, by reason of its inconvertibility in- to gold: With respect to the ground of the first objection, I would remark that it involves the assumption, that a banking institution, in executing bonds on the real estate to be lodged with the proper officers of the Government for the security of bill -holders, would be necessitated to pay a monied rate of in- terest on the amount of the - bond so lodged. If this is what " Ontario " means when speaking of locking -up capital, it is evident- that the thing is Pure nonsense ; for why should the Government require an interest, on these bonds which had been lodged with it for safe -keeping for the benefit of the public who held the paper promises -of the: Bank I Does any insurance com- pany require t to pay the government interest on the $50,000 deposited with it foe the safety of insurers. " Ontario" speaks as if government were requir- ed to make: an advance of money to the banks out of funds or capital which the government already possessed, in- stead of simply giving certain docu- ments, which might cost only a few cents, to the bank to be issued by it as‘ a legal tender and holding the bonds on the fixed capital to secure the redemp- tion of the currency. It is true this fixed capital is just locked up in such way as to rut it beyond the power of thelbank, or of its stockholders, to pur- loin Wand put it beyond the reach of innocent bill holders, who hold the bills representing that fixed capital, and who have therefore a just lean on the fixed capital. : This pledge of the fixed capital cf the stockholders of a bank, which . has to be lodged with the government, does not necessarily depri :,rive. the owers of that -capital from us- ing it and deriving from it a revenue ; but it simply puts it beyond their power to divert it into any • other channel by which bill holders would be cheated .out of their claims. Where are then the grounds of the assumption that the giv- ing of this pledge on fixed capital for the security of the bill holders would make_money dear I If such a pledge implied payment of a monied rate of interest on the amount of the bond, and a deprivation of die power to apply the • fixed capital to its proper use there `would be some grounds for the . o:sject- ion that it would make honey dear. With regard to the second objection urged against my scheme—namely, the `inconvertibility of the currency into gold, in consequence of its not having a gold basis, I would ask if that same objection does not tell with much more force against the present system of which he is the apologist Surely he ought to know that the pretended gold. basis of our present currency is a pure fiction, as I have already proved in my first article, when treating of the nature and use of money. If all the promis- ory notes now afloat as a. currency were required to be redeemed in gold, proba- bly not one fifth part of them could be so redeemed. Where is the mean- ing then of a gold basis? True, " On- tario" conceals this popular delusion under the common sophistry, of our present currency being "convertible into gold, 'or its equivalent ;" but is he able to show that the notes of a bank based on a fixed capital which has been pledged for their redemption, is less readily convertible into gold, or its equi- valent than notes based on an indefinite liability of the stockholdrrs of a bank I Does he not imagine that the very cir- cumstance which renders the notes is- sued under the present system _capable of beim convertible into the equivalent of gold—that is into something which all men are willing to give gold in ex- change for, would operate more power- *----- fully in conferring this convertible attri- On Monday last, while Mr. Wallace bute upon notes based on fixed capital White was superiniending some work which had been secured for their re - about Mr. Gordon's saw -mill in Arth- denption'? The state of public confi- ur•, his right hand came in contact with dente which is the true aource of a the circular saw. ` The four (4) fingers bank's solvency or insolvency would be were taken Off and the thumb badly established by a knowledge of the fact larcerated. 1 that the issues were oased on fixed ca- ptial which had been secured and pledg- ee with the government for their re- demption, and which possessed in atself the attribute of convertibility, or which was 'capable of producing that which did • possess this attribute ; and the pub- lic would by this very circumstance be deprived of the very motive which sti- mulated it to make a run on the bank for gold. Instead, therefore, of notes issued under the present system being safer it is evident they would not be so safe. In conclusion I would re- mark that a currency based on the fix- ed capital of the nation, on its public works and its public revenue, would su- percede entirely the requirements of gold and silver for the purpose of the internal commerce of the country ; and that the demand for gold would be con- fined to making remittances for the bal- ance of trade wish foreign countries. Instead of being the instrument .of spe- culation and 'gambling, gold would be- come an article of merchandise and be confined to the counters of brokers where it would be bought and sold to take abroad. :For No. 1 homemade Boots and Shoes go to Coventry's. 87-tf. 4) THE WEEKLY STAR, is a new paper published by Marshall & Co., Montreal, It has a spicy way of getting up news, and, we believe, contains the most of any weekly in the Dominion. The editorials are full of vigor, and the se- lections of the most readable kinds. The sheet is not large, which is not ne- cessary, for two reasons : first, nothing but the essenc `of things appear in it, and secondly, the subscription price is only fifty cents per year. "THE Kox0HA EDUCATIONAL." --This is a new monthly, .,published by Dr. Cross, Principal of the Middlesex Semi -i nary and Coiumercial College, at Ro- mokr. As its title indicates; it is pub- lished in the interest of Education. The first number contains ',good editor- ial and other practical matter. The mechanical execution is first-class, and as the subscription price is only 50 cis. v year, we expect that it will meet with a hearty and worthy support from Teachers and other Educationalists of the country, . FACTS AND ;SCRAPS. The oatmeal mill -of Mr. John Mc- Lean of Aberfoyle, was totally destroy- ed by fire on Monday. Loss $15,000. At Napanee on Friday last the Grand Trunk wood shed was burnt, together with several hundred cords of wood, Henry.Gould, of Meaford, has been committed for trial for shooting at st neighbour named Lorenzo Londry. An old sett ler named Snider, aged over a hundred years, diedat his resi- dence, township of York on Saturday night last. It is stated that J: G. Moylan will proceed to the south of Ireland next month, as Emigration Agent. He will make his headquarters at Dublin. ( By the upeutting of a boat on Sim, 1 day, opposite Prescott, two brothers named Holgetts were drowned. O of 'them was a resident of that town. ne and the other of St. Marys. On Monday, :xt Kinrdne, a isd named Sturgen, was drowned ,in a Mill Pond v hile returning from school-. While the parents were hastening to the scene of the d Saster, the horse ran away, injuring the mother severely. On Sunday night, in Port Hope, the following places were burnt : teas ries Hotel, E. A. Baker, Messrs, Currey, Miibiook, Martin, Griffin, Hawly, Lib- by and ,Stevenson: Loss about $35,- 000. 35,000. The Ontario Teachers Association was brought to a very pleasant termination by a trip to the Falls of iNirgara on Friday last. About two hundred mem- bers, their, wives children, &c., took advantage of the arrangement, and a very pleasant day was spent. A str=ange case of [somnambulism took place recently in Petei bort)* an old widow over 70 years of age, re- tired one evening locking the doors etc., and when she woke up found herself out doors some five miles from ;wine, and on returning . found the doom a,l secured, hence she must have got one of the window. She had no knowledge of any of the circumstances. The Cabinet have taken no ,seeps; to probe the extent of Reiffenstein'g defalcations in the Reciever General's Department. Hon. Mr.' Kenny the Minister in charge of that branch, left: Ottwa about two months ago and does not give himself the least concern over the wretched state of his depart- ment. A chime of 43 bells has been blessed in Buffalo, after the approved Roman Catholic style. The belle were bap- tised with holy water, anointed with, holy oil, and fumigated with holy in- cense. Three bishops and one hundred priests participated in the ceremony. This is the largest chime in the coun- try, and cost $50,000. The bells vary in weight from 25 to 4,300 pounds. The Elora Observer learns that a very unusual swarming of bees occured at Drayton about a month since. Mr, Wortley had only one Mire of bees Ia:st spring, the usual swarrri therefrom took place on the 25th of June; a second swarm occured on the 3rd of July, a third on the 5th, and- a fourth on the 7th, a day only intervening be ween each. On Monday afternoon a prisoner in the county .gaol at Hamilton, named Collyer, awaiting trial at the approach- ing Assizes, on the double charge of incest and murder, escaped from the prison yard and has not since been .ten. He had a ball and chain attached to his fcot,, but a itb a dexterious blow `vitt the. axe he was splitting wood with, he severed the chain, Ieaped the wall and disappeared before chase could be made. Samuel . Cadclen was nearly scald- ed to death in a quarrel. He had been boarding with Geo. Peck, 2nd - con- cession Whitchurch, and some difficulty between Mrs. Peck and theunfort nate Caddell took place, which resulted in the latter being knocked down and boiilng water poured on him. He has received such ir. juries as will prevent him from work for several weeks. This is a fearful warning to nen who don't know better than to quarrel with women! A terrible and fatal accident hap- pened on Tuesday last, near the Town Hall, in. -Pelham Township. A man named Caleb Dawdy, son-in-law of Mr. Jacob Crow, was , adjusting a reaping machine in a iield, when the horses star- ted. The Driver called out to Dawdy to catch them, and in attempting to do sohe was thrown in front of the reaper, and literally cut to pieces—all the fesn be- ing cut in slices from the body. He died' almost immediately afterwards. The unfortunate man was about thirty years of age, and leases a wife and fam- ily to mourn hip loss. One day last' week in Sarnia, the, Observer says :—A man named :John Watson fell off a foal of wood he was taking do-ain to the Custom House deck, by ,Lochiel street. He -"ens sitting up- on the top of the load, awl when going down the hill the sticks upon `which he was sitting slid forward, causing him to fall in front of the waggon, one of the fore aiicl.one of the hind wheels passing across his spine and killing him instant ly. When in the act of falling lie ut- On Monday as the early train was going towards London, it ran over a man at a point between Longwood and Glencoe. An awful murder took place in Mon- treal on Friday night last. A husband finding another man with his wife killed him on the spot. The town of Whitby passed the By - Law to take ten thousand dollars stock in the Peart Perry Railway by a vote of four to one. At Gananoque, on Thursday last, Mr. Jas Turner of Lansdown was carried overboard, from a scow, by a boom, and drowned. On Thursday a large Railway meet- ing took place -at Teeswater, when, by a vote, the Township of Culross=,declined giving the Wellington, Grey, and Bruce Railway a bonus, - On Saturday last, at Madoc, a young man named McLeod, was stabbed iii the side, the wound penetrating the lung. The assalint's name was Mc- Carrie. It is fully expected that the Hon. Mr. Rose- will take the position offered him, in England. _His continuance in his present position . as Finance Minis- ter is therefore only temporary. Mr. N. H. Latimer, of Howard Township, met with a fatal accident on Monday, by falling off a lour of bay upon a pitchfork ; one of the prongs tired an exclamation • but never` spoke running into his heart causing instant 1 �' a after the waggon passed over bin . Ho was an old resident of the county ,, lav- ing removed from ° near Lanark village to the township of Sarnia over thirty -ars ago. death. Muskoka invites the Nipissing dir- ectors to visit their district, ar d inti- mate that should they -extend the line to Bracebridge, will submit a by-law to the electors grantirg a bonus of $40,- 000. Some unknown miscreants a few nights ago placed a rail 24 feet long athwart the track of the Port Hape l We understand that a grand literal- entertainment iterarentertainment is ` on the ,taps, in tip Village. 'For the cheapest Boots in Sea - forth according to •quality go to Coven- try's. $ 7 -tf. Railway, with intent to throw the ; Lindsay train off the track over a 12 foot embankment gitt DISTRICT 1ATT alter Inglis preache presRey,g bytermn Church next Salt B; STs, Esq., brought to the finest stalk of oats that recollect seeing. The stem w le, large as a man's tittle finger MECHANICS' IriNSTITI'TE tee meeting will take place at en Tuesday evening next, for e fiction of business. By ordet President. The scholaIs,.teaclherr and o the, Baptist Sabbath Schcoi, with a nun ner of friends, hat sant picnic yesterday, in the Meadow_ LAST eyenirg the Egmont]) -favoured the citizens 01 Seafor ally, and Forme p:irtiealarly, serenade, the EXPOSITOR, ha' honor to be included in. the la are pleased to notice the ina, prove'neaht in their pefformt wisp. them continued pnosperit SUSPECTED HORSE THIEF.- day an Indian boy about 1 { age, giving his na-me as Jame from Brantford, offereda g -with saddle and bridle for the street.,, and as he could very straight- story he was t1 custody uutil enq ii es could At the tittle of ging to pressi developments had been made. "Ii:srer."---In the Mite her report of the laying of the f stone of St. Stephen Church, ville, it is said that uthe :stony to the memory of St. Stephei etitt Martyr," The wr'iter's z must be very~ great, when i him to use the term "Prot 'designating any form of r long anterior to Luther's er of St. Stephen. ; THE past week, with the of about one day, has been for harvest work, and we tl fully two-thirds of the Fall Barley crop is safely hou most sang nine hopes of the h Promise to be fully realize the exception of pring Wh is sorely infested with midge, age will be far eyelid tha. of We obeerve that the Gods ket Fees vizeze reeentlySold. fc for the sum of $996 ; only a Paid Less than what . is paidor th for forth ; hence the inference tl l ich does nearly half as inneh 1 Seafortie Well I Goderich i ;a fashionable 'watering place end cf course is above vu niielce, in the word_ of Ami \lushly s, Mit R. G oveginex bran office; a handful of excellent 1? There does not appear tei defect in the sample, and I the field froom which it was: to yield flow, forty to fifty t acre.. As he intends getting ed hi time for seed, we have but that many will avail thei the op.porttnnty of. securipg Fall sowi ag- •SERiOUS Ac of»ENT,----On erring a little girl, •aged abo 111 Egmondvtlle, -a dangh Denby, was kicked by a ho wordy bruised, as well as in g ured. , For several days ISF peered to be hopeless, butat has taken a better turn, and_ eca.nnot be pronounced to be ei of danger, she appears to be Dr. Vereoe in attendance. ANOTHER OLD SETTLES G Huron District is fast being ed of its pioneers. The sett ,g -an just Zang enough ago, for of life to b . running out a first inhabitants.This we to chronicle the demise of t the late James Townsend. ed, along with her husband, the -township of Tuckers thirty-five years ago, where' until her death, :last Wedn at the =advanced age of over e The respect in which she her neitshbours WAS nianifes large concourse that follow -grave- WE are pleased to learn pecten and truly, enter ,1nan, D. ..Sill's, Esq., s ted by the Board of Dirac Ontario ifutual Life Assu Vasty of Ca€etda, to take- Supervision and organizat e Company for the Province } i ons his well known 4- &5i business habit; and inclorni we feel satisfied that under anent, the,Ontario Mutual sume an important position: Life Companies in Can ;ratu]ate the Directors on wise selection We w Pithy eyery success.