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FfURON tXP65ITOR.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
By-lay—Township cif Grey.
14-law—TOWilship of Turuberry.
Teaetter wanted—C. -Bauer, Zurich.
Insolvent iNotice—J. Baldan.
ISrote Loet Holland.
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ivron• exproitor. •
FR1D-2e17, AUGUST 18, 1871.
The Railway Situation.
Railway matters in this County
have assumed a new and unlooke
fa& phase. The Councils of tIi
Townships of 0 rey, Morris, an,
Tureberry, have each passed resolt
tions to submit a By -Law to: th
ratepayers, for the purpoie of grant
irig aid to the Wellington, Grey an
Bruce Southern extension.. Th
promoters of the Loadon scheme, ta
idg umbrage at the mine pursuid
by these municipalities, have again
tnrned their attentioli to the Centre
lioute,eand declare their willingness
to construct their road ey that route
itatead of by the Eastern, providing
they can obtain, the necessary assis-
tance to enable them to do so.• As
to the wisdom a the course taken
Ly the Councils of Grey, Morris, and
Trartiberry, in abandoning the Lou-
dOn scheme and taking.. up that of
the -Southern Extension of the Wel-
lington, Grey and Bruce, we are
willing to leave time to determine.
While we admit that the London
people have good reason to feel a,g-
rieved with the Councils of these
municipalities, for the manner in
which they have been tteated, we
cannot but deprecate the suicidal
and foolish course they ate now about
to pursue in taking up the Central
llimite. It Ell ust be evident to every
reereon who knows any -thing of the
eapabilitiea and resources Of Our
Northern conntry, that two railroads
' can not be built through, both hav-
ing the same terminus ; and even if
• built, they cannot be supported after
tbey are built. Either of them must
withdraw.
•4 Now, what are th' London pe
gOing to gain by adopting the c
trial route?. They will not gait
bonuses, as by either route No
feel Turirherry isshut out from th
for the present, that is if they
tend to make Kincardine their
minus. If they intend to tert+
at -Clinton, they will not gain a
thing more in the way of bonus t,
if they were to terminate at beafer
arid will certainly /ose iu.. tra
Rut., either Clinton or Seaforth fo
termin ie out Of the question,
ir their road does not run throu
the Northern county, it will ne
pay Lo inn it at ell,
instead of changing their ron
we would earnestly advise our Lo
(16,11 friends to- maintain the' ro
which they have already cieeided
pon, as likely to be the mcst pro
table and most easily conetitiete
end go to •work vigorously in t
townships of Gvey, Morris, a
Titre berry, and fight their opponen
;ice to face. Let them present the
aelieme f;iirly and before t
pewA Of these townships,—a- du
-which they have itS yet left undon
show them the superior a
tentages over the Ifamilton schen'
alich their scheme. will atterd,
treey can easily 40, and we have Ji
t le doitbt but that success ill crow
tlieir efforts. If, bo'weNer, after d
Jg this, Cley aho•ed rbe defeated,
/fa eveut• whieli we much deubt,—
1 ley would hita-e-to quietly:wait th
tenrse of: ieleits, as ..hee will
cempellod to do, even1'though the
choose the On Route. • in th
event of the Hamilton sebetne pro%
ing a failitr, as we still believe i
will, their position itt the Nort
would be very turn:h strongerjf dm:
has ever yet been, and ',hey word(
egain have these Township Colincil
hive gone over to the Hama
t eche-me seeking after them fin
taeir road, and offering greater in
ducewents than ever. By selectine
•
ople
en -
in
rris
em
in-
ter -
ate
ny-
hap
r a
for
gh
ver
Le,
n-
hte
d,
he
nd
ts
ir
he
ty_
(If
d -
as
0 -
be
•
Cie Central R eite now, they net on
le lo e the chin e of defeating the
Welliugt,m, Grey and lirnee itt the
•
North, tit this latter also, and gain
nothing.vv e await with
ia,
consialora ole interest tiald an xietv
• the determinatit el they will ultimate-
.
-17-a; ive at. The sue -cess or failure
of their scheme depends upen the
eaurse they 1401Y pursue in this mat-
• ter, auci weeincerely tru-t they- %, ill
r.ot uIunlit thr )w- away the only
chance of succaas which is left; them,
1*.e- the sake of proapect of gitiuiug
temporary revenge.
_Nommosse•Neumoutina.
The klissOuri Murder.
NO DOW developments have tran
epited iu relation to thei Nissouri
tuurder eiuce our laat issufl. Tee
prisoeer John AIe \Vain, who w isI
rr, stet!. on the information' of 1
inicetia autip(o-11, clialged with the 1,
murder, has been releneed• from jail 1
on hie OWIt rec, ee la: nce to a Toile
ipenia to -d ty. It is the genera: I
spit:tau that Sia:Wain baa had no
eimnectien -whatevee with the thur-
(Dee and' the impression seems ;
&Liu_ strciigtll that Clie womalt Utuut.
bell is the ohl real ty person.
It is said that she has les much of
her a n fin al piatif s . tL.P peat% more
gl only and. tt itge lesporlde t, and,
th eotor far ing f •oni•her cheeks.
T
'-• TINA. h1413a drai lig:en fs i!'br3fftte8rE:k. on the
ita tway pronio rs have at las proved
Li
peat of the W,!ell igton, grey ai d Bruce
that professed at ent frii:lidahii for the
j
WO strong fur he 'ijoalf inent f many
London. scheme nd it Ilpy be ai 1 in a
few words that hey haye gbn bodily
will be evident. Insteat of the le ndon,
i
ova. to the ene . ' Th Off c f this
Huron and I3ru e takir g ; an e storly
direetion to inleyvil ef-- ,h el the
Directors avereai luced V 'San ft. n at the
earnest solicitath i 00 th ie' who are pow
abandoning the —thel Iiie i w 11 1 e run
nearer to the len e Of th cam 4, 1taking
Clinton ratheeth n tiea,f rth i its; route.
By -this meamelth length of the ihe Will
be reduced neziaLl seven titles, ile the
beinuaes that will eel -stained. ill e aug-
mented by at leas $0,000: Alt arties
will be, perhapa, etter satiafied, nd the -
object of the rail a ay promoted e
The above is- f-etni 00 ndon.
Free Press of Satu!rdaY l• We
' 1.1
would like, very much le ou con-
,
lij
s t.
temporary wain
arrives at the ,
bonuses will be
by the selection raf
in preference te, t
That "all part
satisfied, and ,t h
wey promoted"'
the Centre]. ro
clap -trap, andl th
don ress aba don
style of argun ent t
be for the eat rpris
which they seek
will requite ome
gtble than a n ere b
suelLas the a ve,
people whose assist
li
to construct t e ro•
the case. •
founds ty be,
(inclusion Ili the
mented 5,000
the Cent -al route
he Eas ri • one.
ea: b better
o iect of mil -
1 the eei cion of
it is tile erest
ooner,' t Lon-
hisito sensicel
ie better will it
the cess of
to promote. It
hing more tah-
tseless statement
o convince • the
nce is required
d, that aatCh is
"Clinton
The Loudon
the Clinton
• busiest and most pr
• Lake'Huron mac
Trunk. In or er to
tnent it quotes . be re
s Importance."
Adviiirti.ser says that
tatioh is one of the
fltal+a on the -
of the Grand
prove this state -
urns for freight
and passengers at that station for
the*morith of July, its given the
Cliritoti paper. We wouldi COIL Mend
the atteetion of our con'temporary
the fol lowing cOmparativelstatement
of tlie,returns of the Seaforth and
Clinton stations for e battle month :
• C1?ton, • Sectforth,,‘
po 7414. pounds.
-Freight, .exports.... 4,00 ,000 6,297,879
Freight, import... 65 ,000 1,0'55;605
- 4,6 ,000 7,353,484
•1,6,50,000
Excess of Seaforth. 2,703,48
Mt ton. 0S'aelforth
Receipts for exports.85,000 00 S8,198 00
Iteceipta for iinpoits. 1,100 00 1,606 8
. Total SG,100 oo! t)----,801 8
116,1000
;
.$3, to4 80
-umber.
940 $976 00
1,27.J548 65
3173/4 $572 65
SYI 076 00
Total
4
Excess of Seiforth.
A
Tickets Id at Clinton.
Tickets a Id at Seaforth.
,
Excess- Of Seafarth...
Total receipts, Clinton
Total receipts, Soaforith .....-1 1,353 45
" ExCC89 of $eaforthe..,. ..... 4,.`!:?1 45
t will -be seen from the abOve
that in every item the excess of Sea -
forth over GJititon is v ry eonsOer-
)1 e. It m s t be rem m leered, also,.
that the month quoted is abent the
-dullest mouth during t
at the Seaford' statirm
•
doubt, however, bt Russia is mak,
ing active warlike iireparations, and
is arming for a igaltitic struggle
With collie, as yet unknoivn, foe.
What her intentioi s may be, it is
difficult to couject Ire, but - short
time Rill doubtles reveal blie secret.
So far as France d Germany are
concern d, Nye should suppose', that
they ha e reiently. . had sufficient
expetie ce Of the horror's of war to
induce t em to remain quiet for a
consider time to come.
A Subservie t Press.
. " Ther are five tho isanal journals in
Amei•ica. • They ought to be, 'ever _one,
'.oy
a tOngue of fire—inst ad of whi la. for
the most ait, their pa?es are a handful
Of ashes. Subeervien.c to party is the
canker of the press'. An editor %-v1.1ose
sheet is 1 ortgaged to the. State -Conven-
• tion, or whose conscience is lodged in an
envelope , lid Wed away in a pigeon -hole
of the Vhite House, has abdicated
jou malls i . "—Golden. Age. 1
The foregoing pithy sentences are
addressed to the Press of the United
States, but apply with equal _ force
, le
and fitness to the Press of our own
country. Subserviency to piety. is
the canker of . the Canadian Press
i, .
as well- as that of the 'United States.
Thb " subeervient" journals are
plenty enough, and the worst of it
is, that not content with . their ciwn
"subservienci," . they endeavorito
bring honest and truthful and nein
ly journals Which are net eubservient
under the same yoke ea themselves ;
—failing in this, they lie about, and
slanderthem. An excellent speci-
men of the subservient journal is
the Goderich Signal. That paper,
in its decadence,i has become a model
of subserviency. • But tune was
when the Huron *nal was not of
the sebservient class. That was in
the days of Thomas McQueen.
Then indeed, it was a tongue of
fire. From Saugeen to Stratford,
• and from Goderich back to Owen
Sound, the _Huron ,Signal was read
at nearly every {fireside, and it was
a power iu the land. But now,
alas, in its subservient and degene-
rate days, the Signal is but the
shadow • of its • former self. • Its
circulation gone, its influence and
patronage gone, all that is left to it
is it a name, and it should give up
that aleo, and spare it further • dis-
grece. If poor McQueen's ghost
could peruse the smudgy oolumns of
the decayed Iluron Signal, he would
not be surprised (if ghosts can-- be
surprised) at its vaaning influence
end curtailed circulation. The few
s ibscribers that are left the fioor old
IJ
when was manly and indepe
and when its conductor•Was a
Who' cOtild not be made the ju
rigna/ take it merely as a SG1't o.ts a
emento of former days,—daya
Oent,
man
jack of a feN.V local •.politiciana, but
0 • had a mind and a will of his
1
0 own, and ,knecv • how to make them
o known and felt.
For our part, we are subservient
to no man or party of men. Our
aim is and will be to tell the truth
and to stand by the right, ' We are
Reformers, not for the empty name,
but, because we believe the balance
of truth and right is on Qat side.
Irt pursuing this eourse, we may be
sebjected to the slanderk- and re-
proaches of jout•nals like the Signal,
in i's decadence, but -tley cannot
hurt us, and will ouly recoil on the
heads of their au thors.
The Matter with t
That Ambitious purr
eriell aid, again de
•portion of its valualA
partieular benefit. We
time nor inclination to
he column of verbita
contemporary Mutts
we consider that
be tutiuti •more
cupied than lit clias'e
rci V i II (r4 of" the Sig)
.
Stated in the first view
Farrow possessed giea
under t•he. cireuni-ta
cio
abilities thin Ill, % h
lioaved Ri formers.. t
ruorcestreneous elfin
election of : the tate
still, and are (pito NI il os
. .
Our patrons to juilge a. t thr eorreet
ite:4; of lour \Jews it his te.1/41;pL•tt
Se far as our couree, politioaily is
concerned, we are not at swore )1 to
the Signal for that, but iii• quite
prepat•ed to fleet pt th,. erdit of e
intelligent publiei Th us *f n, We
t 1 inch reaeon
a
nil .r in winch
1 their a ip e-
11. the 1 g I mil.
Ct.1 Illiht of pa
it it 11 edse
t
ettellipt to
etieLi. n f ir
r ex .111. e.
01
e
Ll, tl'e God-
otes a large
spite to our
have neither,
ade I rough
wheLril our
• sides,
'space. can
fitably oc-
ti g. the angre
al. • Whet we
as, th- t Mr.
er p soual
tehea anu
ices I w-
t foet s he
s, t secu e the
e say so
ng t9 ill
11.
must say,- we have nt
• to complain of diet lin
the public have show
ciatieu of our cultist!.
had as little cause for
this score, probably
weuid not prompt it
• earn I dish for i so If a.
political 01 thocioxv at
to
el"
o
REpowr, has beoi
the twit few days
baiween Russia aud 'an
Germany and .austria,
he; as yet been eolithr
d et'atless a (wizard.
curret t f
n lliaii
,e, aga1 L1
. Iljttilt1011S 11011tSf f
0 I t sev no more. We !Jere caraestly
Government Bonus to the W. G.
• and .B. Raxlway.:
The report has been diligent!
and consciJitiously warned the peo-
ple of tlie• North against them, and
if they peraist in placing confidence
in' them, and by so doieg are ulti-
mately left out in the%cd1d, without
a railway et all, Lhey will have but
themselves to blame. If; however,
hey do sueceed in getting the South-
rie Extension of-• the Wellington,
•
l'il.e.el:: saunc(c10:ntliceetnitwaei7aTY:ewfeolsliol'wd-1
t
e most age eably,disappointed, and
one will 1 r juice more heartily:at
• ng are tht liernarks of Mr. liurdon,
•
:Mr. Hurillon informed the meeting
tbove refeteH to :— f
•
I
that he h1t. had • an nsterview with
upon by the 1,eputation from Hamilton,
Ili
Mr. John Se (Weld McDonald a day or
two after t c Premier had been waited
• for the Welli4d-on, Grey & Bruce RA-
I
to whom ho had partially promised aia
waseout of Vie Surplus Fund. Mr. Hur-
don inquired- if the Attorney .0 eneral
was aware that the W. 0.- and B. Co.
had already Uotained a bonus of $250,-
000—all they had asked by way of sub-
sidy --prior tq the passage of the Surplus
!addressed a let er to Col.McGiverin& Co.,
1
,assured that tl is was the case he at once
jof Hamilton, Ii3ii which he stated that 11,8
the W. G. & I. Co. had already received
1188.1.1841Y froM1Bruce, he would consider
the question Of Government aid, so far
as that Company was concerned, as un-
affected by his I interview with them. He
:deo diatinctly informed Mr. Hurdon that,
under these circumstances the Govern-
ment would grant n a assistance whatever
to the Sonthern extension of the W. 0.
& B. R. He • further stated that aid
would be give], to both the London and
Toronto Imes, as soon as the bonumes had
ben voted. by the municipalities along
tho&lines. That this letter to the Ham-
ilton men had beeu written was corro-
borated by Mr. Purvis, who had. seen it
in Hamilton and heard it read:"
The meeting passed a resolution
calling upon the several .municipan-
. ..
• ties to petition the Governmeut not
to grant any portion of the 'Surplus
.
Fund to the W. G. & B. Co., inas
much as that Company had been
already subsidised by --this County.
A resolution was also passed by the
meeting expressing. its • approval of
the proposed junction of the Lon-
don, Huron and Bruce with the To-
ronto, Grey and. Blum.
Clinton and the Railway.
At a meeting of the ratepeyers
of Clinton, 1 held on Monday
last, resolution were passed favor-
able to the granting of a S10,000
bonds to the London, Huron and
Brice Railway. We tiotice that I
the Council of Hallett, have also
• passed a resolution giving their as- sual:.
sent to submit 13y -Law for ten or of t
fifteen thoiteond dollars. visi
bro
AucusT 18, 1871.
Silas WATER COTT.
We learn from aistory that great cities
have, at various periods, sprung into ex -
proportions, borne fruit u momentous
In
ex-
istence,: gradually develo ied into vast
even* and finally, like -a 1-)1 nt, decayed
and flunk back into the • ust. Some
1
such are saved from utter f tfularess
by hiving been the birth of ?some
great liman, whose name, thus linked with
theirs, has preserved them IP m the 'wit -
moil lot Should history re eat itself in
- this pa ticular, the city of 1 'Edinburgh
• will lon , retain its hold on tie memory
of rem That grand old city on
Fri h h s been the scene o wonde
ever ta, f xnost distressful rageclies
mir li p ovoking comedies ; 1 as been
nat 1 ho e of troop a of brilh. nt warn°
stet sin n, philosophers am bark A
hay bo ne the, name ef old I Dun Ed
insc ibet oit their victorious banners,
to e ery clime. thundered it. from th
cop tiering cannon, proclainied it in
hall of Iva:him,. engrossed_ 'tin the
• nals of every land, and sung it in dea
less ong ; but if, notwithsa nding th
clait s on iinmortality, the i•aves of ob-
livio should ever threaten to engulf its
mas ive walls, and submerge its lofty
tow re, the imperishable glory of her
mos illustrious son, will hang like a
star bove the waters and mark the spot
fore er. As the place of his birth, the
scen of his principal triumphs, the
hom of many of his friends, the. capital
of hi literary empire where he held his
leve . as monarch or the realms of poesy
and ction, Ii;dinburgh is entwinad with
the name of Scott in a perennial wreath
of far e. He calls it his " own romantic
town " without thinking, perhaps, how
truly it was his own more than that of
any other man, and how mach of its ro-
mantic interest was owing to himself.
One hundred years have :rolled away
since his birth, and for something more
than half of that time, he has stood be-
fore the world as an author; andthough
much of the illusive splendor of his ris-
• ing has departed, he now occupies. a per-
manent place sn the northern constella-
tion of genius, as a star of the first
magnitude. In his peculiar field he has
• had, properly speaking, no successor, and
probably never will.. llis " Minstrel
Harp" still hangs on the " witch elm
that shades S. Fillan's Spring" and
seems destined to motalder there forever;
none has appeared to den the mantle of
the " mighty wizard ;" his rod of magic
anil the knowledge of his potent spells
are Ixtried with* him. It is not iii the
nat-nre of the present age to produce a
man of Similar charaeterand powers; and
the current of events appears to drift us
further and further from the possibility.
The best and truest delineator of the
day e of chivalry and romance, he. has
written their epitaph ; the last and great-
est of the "Minstrels," he has chanted
their funeral hymn.
"For welb-a-dak, there date is fled,"
His tnneful brethren all are dead."
_
Born ata time when the glaznonr of
eratition still lingered in the deep.
the
rful
, of
the to
vho
eir
tlic
an-
th-
ese
lib e 'better than when involvedin the
• me hes of superstition • bat the leaven
s lently at work whic'h will ultimately
effect the desired improvement,
• "For I doubt not through the ages
One increasing purpose runs,
And the thoughts of men are widene4
With the process the suns.
:Not in vain the distance beckons ;
Forward, hirward let us range,
t the great world spin forever
Down the zinging f., -rooves of change."
'I bat NV:titer Scott took little interest
these great principles, and was a
ch conservative in politics, may be
rded as a defect in hharacter,
in
sta
reg
it a as by no means owing to a want of
of I ve forhis fellow -men, iv- a :narrow -
nes of mental vision, MO *as the
nee seary• result of that entire absorp-
tion in the past lot whieh he was so Ta-
mar -able, and to whieh we owe his ad-
• ble writings. He turned his back
he future, with all its marvels of
ress, all its glorious possibilities, and
his eyes fixed lovingly on the
" light of other days;" but, in so doing,
there a -ere painted on the &ultra of his
great mind those pictures of the manners,
customs, morals, dress and language of
our forefathers, -with which he hal de-
lighted ,the world, and which, for minute
accuracy of delineation and wonderful
power and beauty of executiun, are ut-
• equalled in English literatute. A pro
fon n t 10 -ire and veneration for every-
• thin, old, for everything relateatto the
past, was perhaps the leading trait in Sir
Wal er's character. As an ilinstration
of th $ it is related that, as he and Jef-
frey -ere walking down a certain etreet
in Et mburgh, they observsal that a por-
tion • f the old wall of -A btriMingpossess-
ing me historieal iuterest, had barna
• torn town ta give place to some modern
impr vement, at which •sight Scott waa
so mi ch affected that he actnally shed
• tears, as he muttered in a oroken voice
" Sol n there will not be a 'enigle stone of
the old place left. These 'Vandals are
makialig the w-arld unfit to live M." Such
was S•icett's idiosyncracy—in this lay hia
mitig*ted evil. This feeling may not
i
powe and his weakness. Ile appeared
to be entirely blind' to the benefits of
progitess ; channie seemed to him an una
have laeen an element ofsouud sense, but
it wa genius. An excesaive, unreason-
cannoi take a saanmon Sense view of tho
a
able liere for their theme, is a character- •
istio cif all meet of- true genius. They
• darling subjeet of their pen or pencil. .
Why NV34 Byron so great anion the
ocean Why, in any of his longer
Ptliieeces
may , does he no *comer touch itpon
Ioneerer tedious or cynical he
timn, shaking off the mocking -
spirit hat attends him and :spreading,
the b oad wings of his iata.ginetion, he
-soars the topmost heights a sublimity
Becau he loved the ocean, because in
it lay his chief delight. This- is why he.
describes the sea, in storm or shine, with
such transcend:tut power; this. is what
gives his language the sweeping energy
of the Mountain wave, and his concep-
tions t le impressive majesty of tale greats -
deep. As he say3 of himself :—
a For 1 ave laved thee. Ocean, and my joy
hf
BonfieY,°1111 e a lan hie, onward .;. from n boy,
I v.•autIoned witia thy breakers, they to me
Were a elight„ mid if the freshening sea
If Burns' "Lines to a Mountaita
/1,,
Made hem a terror, 'twas a pleasing fear,
For 1 wa • as it were, a child of thee,
-And triiated -to thy, billows."
Da:sy "'tare inimitable in pathos, it is be-
cause he was weak eatough or great
enough, to shed warm, heart felt tears
over itsi untimely fate. 'Nor need we
ask whY his love songs are the best in
the wo
that We
admirer
knew hi
_another Somersault.
As we predicted a short time ago,
our exceedingly variable contempor-
ary, the Clintonl New Era, has mai-le
another wheel -about on the railway
question. We not considet that,
this sudden fever on the part of our
coutemporitry ie/ favor of the Lon-
don scheme, will be of long duratien.
SEVERAL of the Conservative p3 -
pets have seen rit to copy the re-
marks we felt called upon to make n.
week or two ago relative to the res- bah
pective personal ability and qualiti- I 8"
The
cations of the bandidates for the Hig
North Riding i]f 'Huron, and to the
make much of them. • The Ooderich NV,
Star and Toronqo Te/egraph, toss tip taaeea
d k glens, and ander the shaggy brows
he mountaina of his native Caledonia,
Mug the ,hatints of the faries and
wines, the warlocks and witches,
when a susceptible youths hearing " auld
warl"' tales from the aged lips of those
who had actually ' encountered the
spirits of the fountain and the fell, and
grasping the sinewy hands of veterans
who had fought the battles of " Bonnie
Prince Charlie," Scutt was surrounded
by just such influenees as were calculat-
ed to produce, in one of his peenliar
!sifts. those wonderful effects tnat are
manifested in his life and works. Jai
these eirmanatances_ he found his in-
spiration and also his materials. •
But no -a-.days such conditions are
non-existent, nor need we look for such
another product.- The spirit of modern
innovation has broken the spell of super-
stition, and exorcised the goblins from
their ancient haunts. The "banshee's
ng eam " has given place to the
wilder shriek of the railroad engine.
romantic lakes, far up • among the
hlaud hills, where the kelpies and
water wraiths once held high carni ----
are now haunted by fussy little
mships, panting and puffing faommoileigr
ruists, as if in mocking of
rthly occupanta. Every , fountain
their hats as gle fully and shout as Alpe.%
1
has 10St its genius, every ,itit3 its ghost.
joyfully over tiis candid admis-
sion from an hongst Reform journal, teuant.
as if a great paety triumph had been
achieved. Well, they are welcome
to all the capi4al they can makteof
not , men," is the
,rs, and they 'can
cireulated for some time, by the i
friends of the Southern Extension
scheme of the Wellington, Grey e
1
t. "Meastires,
motto of Reform
leet it candidlit even of inferior
iersonal merits f r the sake of the
peinciples he wi I support. But
with the Consery tcives the personal
qualifications cf the candidate are
the greatr:st consisleration. Having
no principles s�4t- the principleiof
expediency, and DO measures but
those of liarty agg Itudizernent, it be-
comes with them • matter of necessi-
Land Bruce Company, that the Pres
Ident of the Corup,auy, MreMcGivern
and Mr. Hay of • Lista% el, had re-
ceived a promise frorn the 'Attorney
General, to .the effect t,litt if the
people of the Northern !townships
decided in favor of their gelieme, he
would give them their d !portion of
the Govern nient bonus. 'We enticli
doubted the eorrectness of this stat0-
Ment, at the time we beArd it len
could not liethentically contradic
it. At a meetina of the Reeves and
Deputy Iteeves of that[ seetion o
the County of _Bruce int _rested ie
obtaining railway accomodation for
the Southern and Wesfern portiions
ty that their can lidates should be
leen whose poled; rity and personal
t ability wide so far P.S. these qualitea-
I) -• .
t times can, make n what is wanting
of the County, Mr. Hutdoln M. 1.),
!•"
in hie address to the meeting, niade
the fullowieg statement, which we
copy.as repUrted in the Kincardine
Ryorter, and which speak for itaelf
aa plainly as words cau se k. From
:it our readers will be able to judg!
what pmspeet there is t le South -
11 Extension scheme rece'ving anY
support feoni the CI -overtire( nt. If
.the people are able and %•illing te
build the road without Go eaument.
aid, then of course -they arif perfect- I
ly p tssing their By-laws fir
By-laws
tation of i
.
; . U ;
nt, then .
•
that, purpose. But if theee
ere passed with the expe
receiving the Covernmen
complete the reqeired am()
r we fear the people will be n ;
'0 amioiuted. -
•rI Withreaerd to the sincerity of the
1.
re
. a o p irpose of
iied,it `j I tile liamiltou gel tle.iiien intend I
is 11
. t
4
IT Is SAID that Mr. Sandfle'd
Macdonald has. Ii
• •
ady entered the
" The lovely mounts iria o'or,
Anti the resounding altore . .
A. voice of weeping heard and loud lament ;
!
From hunted spring and dale -
Edged with poplar pale, .
Tho parting genius is with sighing sent."
,
e must acknowledge to a 'feeling of
regret that these drea.d and lovely
creatures of imasination ha-ve faded
from human consciousness. Supersti- .
tions they were, but in them there• was
much of moral significance, of weird iu-
terest, of enchanting lyveliness ; they
formed the matter of many an absorbing
tale wherewith to while away the long
winter nights in the rude hats of our an-
cestors, before the book aad the news-
paper had found a place in the family
circle, and they Were an expression • of
that regard for the beautiful. and terrible
in natural scenery which adds so much
to the pleasure of esistence. They kep
ul • ort, was on thy breast to be
Id ;—a.lae ! the answer betrava
• nes s in his character which his
deplore, though knowing, as he
self, that
" Even. the light that led astray
Was light frotu Ileaven."
1.
Bt
that is
nature?
read Se
with th
men, an
lands.
them, a
with th
days, t
Border,
Highlan
pears to
hy multiply examples of a truth
atent to every stndent of human
In' this light, there we inuet
tt's apparent want of sympathy
struggling massesof his country-.
I the oppressed peoples of other
mong them, he was not of
d did not understand them ; but
mail -clad knights of the feudal
e stark moss troopers of the.
nd the bold clansmen uf this
s, he was at home. He ap-
ave been raised up for the ex-
press pu se of writing that page at
history before it was finally turned over.
He had a speeial task to pe.rform, and he
did perform it to the wonder and ad-
miration of the world. • That task a
a g) eat one, it formed the labor of 1
lifea,and laad no time for other thing
'38
133
nor had the world a right to expect in 're
front him. •
Like al great men, &tett has his detrac-
tors. To one --of his supposed defects we
have airaady referred, but there Is ana
other charge brought against him on
which a few remarks nia - be made.
only ,negl !cted to urge the practice of.
..)
He is .ac used of impiety— f coldneas,
and indil orence -in matters of religion• .
. .
It is said that in las works, he has not
• piety 1111 the importance of Christian
math, as he should have clone, but that
he has, ii many instances, held up holy
men and cred things to the ridicule of
his reader . It is further averted that in
his own fa eily circle he failed to observe'
those rite: that are enjoined by the
Church 'a id sanctioned by the custom of
his -count y. Now. there is one thing,
t sutbeient the eyes of some, to justily
the charg and that is' the fact the t Scott
spoused Catholic for wife. Consids
ering the t me of this event, his marriage
took plae in li97, aud the -bigoted viewa
of mikny o the people of Scotland ill
those days ;it is not to he wondered at,
that, from this simple fact alene, -he wale
regarded b his neighbors as a sinful and
godless ma 1, • • baithoareless and fearlesa
of either h -aven or hell." his wife, too,
it appears, did not pay sufficient defer-
enee to th religious rscruples of the peo-
ple among whom she had come to dwell_
1he pious ieasantry, when mi their way
4 at ths. open window of her dwelling calm -
1 to church, on Sabbath mornings, were
often horri 'ed to tee Mrs. Scott sitting
•
be imagine l. This conduct a Airs. suott
-IlYliee)Aeleaegterdi weffitallethoeir ssn"eliinagsourecktilLi-itet:n‘gqi
the rigid 1 resbyterians of that day, may
was owing, of course. to defecte iii her
education, but it W41:18 qiiite. enoneii to
originate a rumor to the prejudice of her
husband, a hich the Most trivial ciretun-
stance nag it confirm, and whith waa
never entir ly allayed. Had the charge
against li. been that he was entirely
Wee from IngOtt y, it could have been
easily aubstautiatetL Wherevar, in hia
elevation of character and regard for
works, he has to deal with different
religious 8e tar he treats them all alike,
fairly and i npartially, appearing to en-
tertain no u ireesoneble prejudice m favor
or against any party. He had too much
truth to write as a partizan. au, with-
out malice, he portrayed the features1
eine.' end bitd, tef the taantendiug .fateta
. '-‘..
the minus of, the pecple alive to the
mystery and magic of their inouu- e
taut land. T4 forest was not merely se
much tiraher kir the use of man, but in
ta flowery glades was the enchanted
house of the fairies ; the mountain torrent
was sonsething more than, a valuable
mill privilege; it was the midnight
aunt of the water witch ; the crag and
he linn, the fen and the -fell, the °dark-
ume cave, the -desolate heath, the
amely shore—each had its unearthly ill-
abitant, each its guardian spirit that
ast a spell of awe. ,,f -wonder, or of ter -
or around the spot.
But wiiile mankind may have suffered
ov in bidding adieu to these pleasing
antasies, yet, in Girlie, so, we believe he
Ls ascended to a higher plant:. The
umau mind atlyauces from one stage of
cvelopment to another, generelly with
enething of loss, but invariably with
lore gain. The great gneations of
the present—the awe!' t. f nan's
hysical cendition, the uniaersal dif-
fusiontot knowledge, the estal lishment
o free and impartial government, the
breaking, down of national and social
barriers. and the spread of Christian
principle4 oatsr all the earth—are surely
questions;of sufficient importance to call
forth the Activity and powers of the best
11
whom to shower Governmental fev- 1
I political market., and is casting t
. around.for a few fot subjects upon •s
h
Ors, for which he sill receive as a c
4aid'pro gno tlwir sunport when the r
House m-eets, Th Speakership ia
said to, be the• tempting bait which If
Mr. Macdonald is dangling brfife h
tike faces of bis would be victims. h
1 d
-I's SS nartah,TED, but with what 8(
•. ! n
coarectness we canuot say, that the
County of Huron is shortly to be
,
divided for reaistration nit' .Y]see
. .
The divieiou is to be the same ;Is
that which now di‘lides it into eleet-
orel dIvismus. As the report goes,
the new Registry Office is to be
located at Blyth, triiL Mr. 1(..
Hays is the fortunate individual to • i
beel • .. . 1
tit
muds, and possessing enough of thrill -
g and romantio intereet to satisfy the
nost lively •lnlagilIatnuls. it is true,
e Masses .of the valid are yet cone.
pa
ratively inattentive to these great
obit:ins, being so ntuch engronsed itt ef-
ts to itectuetulate evealth -thee. they are
The latest styles of 11. -loots arid Shoes of pr
kill(18 tAleal4 At Ti
ate
: AV -GUST
tons, aiming only to prese
And 'chid pieture )f the tiniest
sequence was that he wrote w
enthusiast/Vet- seither cane;
edi8eeseidn8eidblee!'fi'ett please he eaeernst n 41
inr;
ilgainfit him oxt this head have
the c,,emp of the Prbeteri
allege that his -descriptien o
enters is a mere caricature, '
just, unworthy of him end et ,
we yield. to 11Cirte ill adroiree.
elovoted defenders of the '-teil
and coveeaPt," and the nehtl
fought and won ftir evii
freedom ; but 'while e bi
-their principles, and thtltr co
eral, we must notior t
after all, metre Otti1,, And-"a.Vsu
• the foibles and failiegs of hunt
alley admire, betenuet not we*
nor be bkna to their )111.11101
S anssidering their lintitecd opp
the compaeative rudenees aM
of their time, we hesitate not 'I
many individuals among thel
lived isi the present lig , woui)
unworthy of peretmal icspeetel
ranks, without donhtew , ma
kuk Muckleerrattits, anld7tel4
eigs not a few. Cam non an
-were men peofourelly ginitan
euperstitiont, Red insanely i
aiatained the tee
il
In repretsenting themsii plyat
i Scott has preserved the 'iteriein
bietery, and M
- of moderate views, while he h
..ea those whose mental a ikon, i
0
tine, -were his detract4i-s
In
pao
rdnable enthnsias , is
with the plant nrivarri•shed
little nf that eharity w
As greater than faith, and
-41imself posaessed so a nitalan
would. 1)3 •eliableir tO - meiyi
a faults with whiels they .hare-
*dated in verial matters i
outward form, and that bei
was anhatantiaily a grea. ,
religionaiinatt. He did n t
the prineiples of Chriaa ituty, .
tometbing infinitely be ter, he
them. In his numerou work
i mmoral at degrading e a be fi1
the -contrary, hie read. ra are
and improved, as -well a deli
instructed, -Of a pure a-, d heal
they 'Illzty be read by thit. 'moti
• children, by the father t4 lus 4
.141 them the most ex. . vi
are Mauls:Med t—eaura
honor, benevolence, el on,
eaial, charity and loe,1 all 't
mere, are instilled into Ithe nti
reader. Taking int. c 118idet
Vast number of his work and tl
'ispread popularity, it i.5 i up -ssil
tianate the amount of good hi
Idebt of gratitude to his memory
voinplished. He was oe. of th
tors of mankind„ and th 'werl
is imposeible to repay. '
- But he benefited theeteeld byt
.f.-8 well as by precept. His life i
for the young who aim at per
character, and venerate, the -4
- true. Though so great a Mara he
• pie in his manners, and kind a
to hi, inferiors. So plain eves lie
that he might easily be Miaksk
Lowland farmer. He was an
worker ; his Maestri- and per
Were sublinn. What Cecil. la
‘Valter Raleigh, might have be
Iteott : "I know that he eau t
lily." The courage he 4ispia3
- overtaken by 'calamity, su
valor of the heroes .whose bie I
loved to describe. The failure
table & Co. and. Ballantyne & t
liehers with -whom Scott waaes
left hint liable for the sem of
Yet he was undaunted 'before
1111 1 earl of debt. Gentletneee':
• to his creditors, " time and 1 a.g
two. Let tile take this good,
my company, and I believe
o,bie to pay- you every farthing.'
nit all his property, propoeed .
receipte of his literary labors itt
of trustee"; for the paynient of
tOrS, retired into modest' I
went resolutely to work to A
liabilities. This calamitous .
pened in 1820. Ile continued
culean labore till 1832, when he
terly worn out by hie Jee*atee
fore his death helmet mater - tty,t,
the load of debt. and after that -
event, the profits of )1i.3 writi
celled the whole. The ma min
he .acconee/isherl in lese than thir
la beyond •cfmeeption. A ca
his works forms a volume & itse
the puhlieation of the "Lay of
Minietrel, Iri 1805, tin his death
volume after volume •-wat pre
the publie, eaels bile Of which,
eient to ensure his fanw. Hist()
raphy, crititisue poetry, anit
pourei from his pen in such I
that the world, Jost in 4we
parcntly superhuman powere,
him the " Wizard Of the ;North.
to histaskliy a powerful wil-
ehown to us what Miracle* in
perform If the traveller et,ated
14efore the pyrbeniels of Egypt iti
understand how so stupend-ou
could be saceompliehed by, Ituni
no less ehould we be astoeindei
toesee all the works of Sir Wal
" piled deep and massy close an
in one vast eallection, and to Irrt
they were -the product of the in
4140 Man, Verily he had ireaeo
saying, " Time and. I. against A
for he a -as folly worthy of the
and giving,his words a meanh
tended to be tie -twee -ea, there ie 1
in predicting that tin te Will nee
him till the huge sentinels of t
Ito mingled with the desert sand.:
• Destructive Fires,
STRATFORD.
Aug. litIsh iire.s
near y all round Stratfor
7Nr11 hern gra-Vel road: thous*
acre of Ye.laable timber
1. ing destroyed There
1)01)1is of staying the flames
we et ram, So far I IlaV
of n damage to ,crops or b
GALT.
Ana. 14.--e-A tire nom
last evening1 bernirig •b
v two families, and
by Ir Walter •;oott. 'Ineq
tile Waterloo Matti I
Cen petty for 8800.
,a3equee
•
Aug. 14.--A iiarnwas ti •
by ire, owtted by Robert
abot t it mile mill it half fret
tit a iont three o'clock thie
13-trle, baypeas, blggY,
‘irsal Wele Wyatt .tioss