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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1872-12-27, Page 4s THE HURON EXPOSITOR. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS; Mechanics'., Instittite—Wm. O'Connor. Horses and Wornen-0. C. Wilson. Seaforth Packing House—T. Stephens. Dissolution of Partnership. _ Harpers Bazar—Harper & Brothers. Mee W:ented—Grey, Young & Spelling. Holiday Suits—T. K. Anderson. Estray Steer—Joseph Hudson. Estray 8teer Wm. Dynes. Toys—C. Armstrong. Just Received—J. R. Grant, Brussels. into' xpoitor. FRIDAY, DEC. 27, 1872. The Market Fees. As we announced a 'short time ago, a -resolution was passed at a largely attended 1.) /3 'olio meeting, requesting the Council to abolish the practice of'collectiee fees upon= e produce sold in aur*Market for the year 1873. The Council, however, it seems, did not like to take en themselves the responsibility of com- plying- with the request of the meet- ing, and, in order to obtain a more fall and decisivelexpression from the ratepayers on the subject, resolved to take a vote. . This vote, as will • be seen by the following resolution passed at a late meetieg ef the Council, will be taken. on Monday, the 6th of Jan nary, the day of the -Municipal eleetioes. The following is the resolution referred to:: Moved by CoUncilor Strong, seconded by Councilor Broadfoot,- That the ques- tion of the abolition of Market Fees, be left to a vote of the ratepayers, said vote to be taken on the first Monday in Jan nary, 1873, and that the Clerk prepare the Poll book for the said vote... It will be obseived by the above resolution that the question thus to be deciled at the Polls is not : Shall the market be abolished? but shall the market fees he abolished ? We' believe it is the general desire of the people to retaiin the located market, if such can bei done without collect- ing fees. The farming community ida- not completer of being earn polled to sell on the market. What they -do coniplain of is being compelled to pay fees for the privilege of selling on the market. If the alai ket can be retaiaed without the collection of fees, no person desires it to be abol- ished. That the Council have the power to retain an established mar- ket without collecting fees thereou, hs been clearly and distinctly shown in the epinionreceived on the sub: jeet from iSir. Hartison„of Teronto, a gentlemen who is acknowledged* to be_the 'best authority on Munici- pal law in the Province. The ques- tion, Oleo, as to the retention of the located market has been settled, so that -the only question remaining for the electors to decide is:. Shall the collection of market fees be telyel, ished ? • .,, What the decision of the ,rate- payers on this point will be,. NYe, of ,couree, cannot inertia. There is one thin! e however, of whichi we a are sure, and that is, if they do not vote to have them abolished, they will yet have cause to regret their hetion. We have already discussed the folly of the principle of levying a tax an trade. Let us now look ' at some of the results which will eureIy- fallow if this principle be continued. No one can deny that the farming community, whose trade we desire to. get, and upon which ,our village mainly depends , for sup- Iport, is. dissatisfied at belag cow -1 N pelled to -pay this he. This being c the case, what will be the ;lateral -6 remit if thie grievance be not lee iel moved ? The farmers will go to t other pheces to trade, where this 1 grievance does not ex*. Hitherto the villages to the rearof is have , not had the same facilities f* doing 1 'easiness that we have had, apd con.- A sequenaly, the danger of thei-----re- ceiving, our trade did not exist. This is now no longer the case. The villages of Listowel, .Wroxeter, 1 Brussels. .B luev ale, Win:eh:an and others, before another year passes round, will have nearly as good facilities for reaehing the great mar- kets of the world as we have., They a will, therefore, be able to pay nearly c - as high a price for produce as we A will. These villages place no bar- riers in the Way of trade. Farmers m can deal in these villages as I favor- ly ably as they car with. us, altel not m eider an impositioa in the shape jof at be compelled to face what thy can- e a market fee every time they go p there to. trade.. The result Will be $ that they will go to these villages ag _where this grievance does not exist tn • and we will lose their trade., But remove this grievance, and the in- 0u:cement to g� elsewhere is remov- edond farmers who have long been in the habit of .dealing in Seaforth will be most likely to continue to do SO; when this absurd barrier of mar - et feesdoes not stand In the way. te As it is now in the North, so it sh will be in the South, if the ta London, Huron and Bruce Rail- way be constructed.- The vil- lages of Exeter, Rodgerville, Kip pen and Brucefield will all be competitors with Seaforth for the trade which nome-eorries here. If market fees are chargedinSea- forth, and not in thaw places, they will have an ,,,advantage over us. The wisest policy for Seaforth Would certainly be to remove' that advan- tage; and place iteelf at least `tea n equal footing with its ..ivals. . This can be done by aholishitig the mar- ket. fees. : It may- be said that this is ook- ing too far into the future. This we do not believe. t is always better to provide against an ' evil than to set about ren edying that evil after it has been committe . We desire to impress upon the people of Seaforth the import nee of 'this -I.question. We feel that every day, the system Of colle dug much trade drive aa ay from our v fees is Prolonged, there is just so doors. 4, is [nue , easier to drive trade from a place than to bring it back after it has been driven away, and becOne divetted into other ehannels. But, altho gli we feel this, we are anxious that the ques- tion sliould b7 thoroughly discussed, and shall be most happy to place who may differ from us. our columns at the- disoosal of 'any. 'TUE Quebec Legislature cliised its sessioa on Monailay last. There were. but few measures beneficial t�:' the Province carried during -the ses- sion. The bill abelishing dual rep- resentation, passed by the Lower House in the 6ady part of the ses- sion was thrown ont by the mem- bers of the Upper Chamber. NEWS OF THE WEEK. The Fall fleet of vessels from Montreal and Quebec experienced very rough weather, many arriving. at their .destination in a disabled condition, while, sad to say, not a small number have been loSt at -sea. Among the latter were five fine steamships front the former city. A duty of ten per cent. has been imposed on tea and coffee im- ported from- the United States into Canada, in accordance with -an Act of last session. of Parliament, w he by the Governor-General in Corm was empowered te impuee ditties tea and- coffee coming from the U ted States equivalent to those levir . on tea and coffee imported by th country from Cenada. A ,cluty, of ten per cent. has been impased by the United States since 1st October. The Montreal ffera/c/ Wedees- day last says: "From a cable des- patch received by Messrs., Allan this forenoon, we regret to learn. the lops of the fine eteamship Germanly. The telegram stenaly announces the lo ,of the vessel on he- coast of Fran while on her voyage from Live pool to New Orleans. The erew nt passengers, it is oelieved were lan of two passengeacars, also :baggage • and express cars, and on crossing a trestle bridge, was, with the' excep- tion of the enaine, overturned off the bridge into ehe ravine, a distance of thirty five feet. It is estimated that between -70 'and 80 pessongers were in,the two cars, and of this number, not halteadozim escaped death or serious injury. The wreck, taking fire from the passenger car stoves, literally roasted alive many that were wounded before they could be removed. The death list, includ- ing thoie killed outright and those burned to de:Atli, will exceed 45. The bridge from which the 'wain fell was about 40 feet long, and was utterly consumed, together with the cars and the baggage and nails, ere the Barnes '3onld be quenched. The accident is ,thought to have. been caused by the breaking of a wheel of one of the cars. The Municipal Loan Fund. The refusal -of the municipalities to ac- t quit their indebtedtiess to the 'Municipal p DEC. 27, 1872, LISTOWEL RAILWAY CELEBRATION. Fornanl Opening of the .110irst eetion of th C SOH t hens Exteughto—A: Great Gathering and Groat itejoicings. Thursday of last week long be re- membered. by the people of Listowel as a day which marked e most iMportent.era 111 the history of their thriving village. Hitherto; Listowel has had .to contend with the disadvantages and difficulties pertaining to a , far inland town., But, with the entrance :to within its bounds of the first locomotive on the Southern Extension of the Wellington, Gey and • Bruce Ra• ilway,. these difficulties lave been all swept% away, and its inhabitants may now took forward to more rapid progress and inoreated prosperity. At an early hour in the forenoon the people of the surrounding eountry Ceme floc.kiug into town in large numbers, all eager to get a view of the first locomotive and train of cars entering the village. About 1 o'clock, the shrill whistle of the engine was heard, and was greeted with. loud, nd prolonged cheering. In a few min- tes the iron horse came snorting into lie•station, and attached. to it were two assenger cars, containing the offiders of he road, and a large number of gentl nee who had got on the teainat th arious stations between Harrisburg an istowel. A procession Meat; at OW pinned, consisting of betweene forty an fty well filled sleighs, and.headed by th xcellent brass band of Listowel. 0 he main street of the village a triumpha tell was erected, decorated with ever reens, under. which the processio 'arched, amid the enthusiaem of th rowd. The procession - over, the part tired to the Commercial...Hotel, an t three o'clock were escorted to the sta on house, Where a splendid dinner lite be prepared for them. The interior o e building was- profusely decorate ith evergreens, artistically :festooned au presenting- a very beautiful appear ce. At the end opposite the entranc or; in large letters, was the wort Welcome," and the walls were hand mely decorated with, appropriate mot es in both English and Latin. Ther re probably a hundred and fifty sa wn to table, and the ladies of -Listo el and neighborhood adorned the scene th. their, presence. -- Besides all the a ling men of Listowel,. there were a rge number' of the old campaigners fron e surrounding townships. The cheir was ably tilled by Mr. R. . Ifernian, ol ,Listowel, and the vice - chairs byMessrs; D. D. Campbell and George Draper. " The Queen '' was the first toast, and s drank right loyally --the band play- wa ing the National Anthem. "The President of the United States " was next' given, and responded to by Hon. F. N. Blake, United States Con- sul, in a very neat speech, He spoke of the .rapid- growth of Canada,. and the . benefits which ratlways were conferring '"opening up new settlements—enhanc- the wealth of the nation. In speak - of the trade of the country, the hon- ble gentleman said the certificates of oices of export's which passed through hands at Hamitton in one year, ounted to $2,800,000. 'The Parliament of Cenada and Lobel islature of Ontario was then pro - ed. • Stirton, M. P., responded for tbe use of Commons. • Ile adverted to struggles which had taken place with .reference to the construction of the .Wel- lingtou, Grey and Bruce .Railway, and Southern Extension particularly. He had taken a prominent part, in his .plain unassumino way, and done all he could ea Loan itund, and even to make an effort t to pay a portion otit, involves the moral 1 guilt of repudiation, and sets a contamin- ating and corrupting example to private 1, persons. If the disgrace of the transac- 1 between the creditor and the defaulting f tion has not been tr mpeted through the fi world, it is because tile Gov.ernment stands e debtor. If the Government had nbt in- a tervened' ; if the municipalities had gone g into the London money market, on the n strength of their unaided, credit, and if e they had been so careless about payil re as they have been, the defaulters woul a long : g� have been consigned to infamy. ti Thwhich some of these debtors talk of their.. th ilir e c reless and almost insolvent way in , iadebteduess, shows how utterly the w moral sense has been blunted and the a degree of demoralization that has.been an produced, in the defaulting municipali- do ties. From punishinent they know they a are ' secure; from the consequences of so the liability they !know that theirpro- to . perty is practicallY free.. This feeling of we security, coupled with i determination do not to pay, contains the Worst 'elements w of repudiation, as discreditable at any wi that ever disgraced at repudiating State le of the American Union. , , la The great error was, in allowing muni- th cipolities to contract More ,debt on the credit of_this Fund than -they had a rea- -w sonalele prospect of being able to pay. The policy of, allowing muncipalities to incur , debts for purposes outside their re- limits was originally adopted in favor of oil railroads, in the face of some adverse. on , experience in the State of New York. and . e.: in opposition to the resistance. of Mr. tnt B ld. ' ed ' whose somewhat gloomy mind the antici- at pated consequences made so deep an ime a win, then.: Attorney General, on pression that he was affected to tears on therannouncement of the division in fa- vor of the measure, while some of his mg colleagues were jubilant at the seccess of mg their scheme. The Municipal Loan Fund ore Act- followed soon after. At first the mv Goeernment merely undertook to ad min- his. ister the Fund, without guaranteeing the am bonds issued on its credit. Investors did not always note the distinction Leg pos Ho the they sometimes' looked on the issue as. SS one for which the Government was -ress ce ponsible. To save ito honor the Gov: r-eminent had eventually to ;incur 111, °b- id ligation on which it had not counted at d_ the outeet ; and the time came when the ed in safety. The 'Germany was, a fine -vessel of 3,250 tons register, and. commanded by Captain Trocks, an able and experienced officet. General Sickles telegraphs fro Madrid that, both Houses of tl Cortes have accepted bY deciaiv holders of Municipal_Loan Fund- deben- tures were permitted to exchange them for Ge vernmen t securities. This act of the Government ought to have quickened the indebted. municipalities ireto makine associate their names with a great enter- prise which would, confer untold advan- tages upon hundreds of thousands. He need not tell them that fernaidable dif- culties and a plentiful supply of dis- couragements strewed their path. In pushing forward the Southern Exinnsion they were met by the great rise in price of every kind of railway material, and by the disappointing refusal df the Govern- ment to grant a subsidy over the whole line. He still bad faith that the justice of their claim would ultimately prevail. But however that might be, there would be no faltering on the part of the Direc- tors. 'They set out with a determination to carry this railway to Kincardine, that determination was as strong to- es ever it was. In conclusion he w reiterate his thanks for their friendle ception. He hoped, and he had no th that the cordial feeling between the C pany and the people of Listowel wo continue. He hoped, and here als had no doubt, that their most sangu expectations of the advantages of railway would be fully. realized. • Col. McGiverin again said that he ways felt it his duty at evtellathei connected with the Wellington Grey Bruce, to propose the health cit his deceseortMr. Adam Brown. Whate honors others might receive in he sa service, his name must never b forgot - ton. Drank with all the honors •The first Vice -Chairman proposed "Prosperity to the Great Western Rail- way." Mr. Penington responded. He said he thought that he was the oldest railway officer in the world, at least he had been connected with railways for 44 years, and at ! a time wheh the trains were drawn by horses instead of by locomot- ives. Ele was glad to see that that there were indications already in their station grounds of business for this 'road. He hoped and believed it would be plentiful. No road gave so much satisfaction to the people as tate which at* the same time paid the proprietors. The toast of "The Engineers of the Wellington Grey and Bruce R.ailway," brought forth excellent speeches from Mr. Ridout and Mi. McKeown. The next toast was "The Contractors of the First Section of the Wellington. Grey aml Bruce Reilway, associated wi the name of Mr. D. Hay. Mr. 1) D. Hay, in reply, extended a hearty welcome to our guests, and would assure them that the people of Listowel felt favored in having their company to- day. He had taken a deep interest in the road, and if it should be that the completion of it would close his public career, he would feel that it had. received. a very fitthig close. We had fought a good fight and had W01). We always had to deal with kind and efficient Directors --men of the right spirit --men who would net accept defeat. There had been a time when he was an active op- ponent of this Company; when he be- . . lieved it to be a inyth, and, as its opp Bent, then called it a bogus concern ; an he remembered. the night when he w convinced of the contrary ; it was in th township of Maryborough and he wet to a meeting to give all the opposition 1 could. There Ile heard a speech from Co cGi verin, and as he stated fact, after fa and produced document after documen he (Mr. H.) yielded to evidence whie could not be disputed, and there an then frankly renounced his opposition He censured severely the conduct of th Government in refusing the subsid which this en terpriee was juttly entitle to • but though the GOvernment ha al;andoned the Directors hadrenaained. true as steel to us, and there.by earne the gratitude of this community. He hoped the Great Western Company would put regular trains on this section. as speedily as possible. We have staff now reaoy to ship and will have abundance ore as soon as they are ready to tak Already we felt the stimulating Mr Ise of this railway through our hulas al system, and the results, he felt cer in, would be far beyond their mos nguine expectations. Sundry other toasts were proposed an sponded to, after which the tableawer ared, and the rooin prepared for • THE BALL Inch was to follow. About iiine o'clock e quadrilleband, under the leadership Mr. R. W. Collins, of Seaforth, struck ort its gay and invegorating strains, and the youth and beauty of Listowel and surrounding country were speedily immersed in the whirling figures of- the 'giddy dance." The festive proceed- ings were kept up unceasingly until about four o'clock Friday morhing, when e pleasant company separated, without ingle event having occurred to mai e pleasure of the occasion. At half -past '8 in the morning the ins wieh the visitors from a distance, rtecl on the return trip. The snow d fallen heavily during the night, and the engine had to go backward.e until the in line was reached there eves consider - e delay, but with so jolly a crowd, we cy,there was no lack of enjoyment. eoula be no doubt but that the subject of domestic ceonomy was one of very great importance, particularly they •should, the young ladies, study how to make their future husbands comfortable." We believe there are few who will not echo the practical lesson here given by the 'Govern or -General. 1.11110.-- • Arbitrar,- Legislation. The Government of the Province of Quebec seem to be carrying things with a high hand. In speaking of their man- agement, or rather nms-managtoment of the Crown Lands of the Province the end Montreal MO/me remarks : " The reso- day lution setting aside lands for pablic wor- ship hasbeen passed by the Quebec Par - there was but one denomination a .!iament in an amended. form, so that if Om_ township only 50 Acres would. be given, via while if there were several, 100 acres O be would be divided among them, propor- irie tionately. It would have been better had the resolution been amended out of the existence, the principal is so vicious. Its al_ companion resolution for the cancella- tion of settlers' titles at the discretion of and the Crown Lamle Commissioner for ar- ire- rears of payment, etc., was carried with ver an amendment by the Government pro- • nee viding for the giving of notice to the set ler after the cancelment, amendments by the Opposition requiring the notice to be previous. to that aeriod being lost. It is true the resolution as amended gives the disposseseed patty a delay of execution and power of ; but there might be little good in that, especially if the sufferer was an opponent oftheGovern- ment and his expectant successor a favor- ed party. It is an illustration of the old_ Jeddart style of justice- hanging a man and trying hien afterwards. DISTRICT MATTERS. 1 Grey. THE NEW COUN TY BUSINESS. —At the last meeting of the Grey township COun- cil, a Mr. Halsted, Listowel, appeared before the Council as a deputation from that municipality for the purpese of urg- ing the -utility and desirability of the th council using their influence M the mat- ter of havnig a junior county formed with a Registry office at Listowel, &C. The Council gave Mr. Halsted a patient hear- ing, but were uumoved by his address, as followina resolution very plainly shows : "Moved by A. McDonald, sec- onded by S. Sleminon, that the Council take no action- in the matter, as we are satisfied. with our present County con- nection, and we believe that these are al- so the seritiments of a large majority of the ratepayers of this township"—Car- • lied, unanimously. SCHOOL DIFFICULTY SETTLED. —At the lase meeting of the County council a petition w presented from. Hugh ce, Stewart and ther of School Section No. d 2, Grey, praying that body to appoint a as' committee to investigate and set at rest e a dispute which had arisen =between the it trustees and the Council regarding the le boundaries of this school section. The 1. prayer of the petition was granted,and ct a committee appointed. This committee t, met at Seaforth, on Thursday of ' last h week. The following is a report of the d evidence taken before the comnnttee, . end the decisiou arrived at by them : e Hugh Stewart, the petitioner was heard y in support of his -petition to have 7 lets d taken from School. Section -No. 1, and an- d nexed to No. 2, and 8 lots be taken from - No. 2, and annexed to section No. 8, a which they previously belonged to. Mr. Stewart also stated that the assessed. value of No. 2 section was only $47,051, while the assessed. value of No. 1 was $58,713. ' Adam Turnbull stated that the Cowi- e cil had in 1870 and other years passed by-laws takinglone lot after another from No. 2 section, and ann.lxing them to No. • 1. Thomas Broodfoot stated. that he t corroborated the statement that Mr. Stewart had made. d. John Sellars wondered that the Come - e after promising to grant $600 to • open the road to allow the children liv- ing on the lots now annexed to section - No. 2, to go to section No. 8, had not carried out their promise. Mt. Leckie, Reeve of Grey. stated that the reason for making the changes com- plained of, was that various parties in section No. complained of having to pay taxes for the support of the school - in their sectiou, and could not send their children to school on account of the roads being impassable, but could do eo if they were annexed to No. 2. lo justice to the parties the Council annexed those:8 lots from section No. 8 to No. 2. - • Malcolm Morrison, Trustee of School Section No. 2. stated that Mr. Leckie had already made a very truthful state- ment about the matter under considera- tion, and he further said that the 8, lots takenffrom section No. 8, were annexed to No. 2, upon the request of the settlers on these lots,: so as they would not be en- tirely debarred the privilege of a school, as II was utterly impossible for the children lie -hi& on these 8 lots to go to the school in section No. 8. Wm. McAllis- ter staled that he corrobored the state- ment of Mr. Leckie, as he gave an un- varnished statement of the matter. James Williamson stated that we have been in No. 8 section for 14 years, and for 11 years were never rble to send. our children to school section No. 13, and he now wished to be -continued in No. 2. Thomas Williamson stated. that the Reeve, 1Mr. Leckie had honestly and truthfully stated the facts of the case, Owl be corroborated his statements. Walter Richardson stated that sec- tion No. 2, as it is now laid out,is ascon- venient for all_parties as it is possible to make it, taking all thMgs into considera- tion and he wished the by-law ocnfirmed. Resolved by the Committee, That the by-law complained of be confirmed—Car- ried. • Messrs. Dewar and Benson dis- sented. That we respectfully recoup - mend. to the township Council, that the lots taken from section No. 2 and an- nexed to No. I be re -annexed to No. 2, as soon as the Now School House is erect- ed in No. 2- Carried unaniniously. for, the success of the enterprise. He It. every effort to meetatheir obligations was convinced. from the first that the lei sclieme was feasible, and, having tie tu but, to their everlastiog discredit, it had ie the contrary effect. A law was passed honesty and right on their side, they ta e to relieve them by diminishing the anon- could not help but succeed. The result sa was seenda the auspicious opening of the meiorities the colonial policy of the Ministry for Porto Rico, which i volves the separation t f the civil from the military government, the extension in Port Rico of the same provincial form of government which exists in ,Spain -with munieipal -gov- ernment and to.wn_ and 'opal officee. Two of the ministers resigned, andi • their successor, who are lin accord with the rest of the Ministry and vith Congress, • were cordially r eived by the Cortes. The polic f the Ministry is understood to lave approved by a vote ef 60 sena- ors against 6, and by 214 against 2 in the Lower House. The mail feorn. the Cape of Good 11-Ope has arrived at Loudon, and wings intelligence that the first linistry tinder the 'Jew system.of responsible government has ueen formed at the Cape. The Russian, World newspaper n its issue of the 23d ult.; says the . . trash Ambaesador at S. Peters- urgh has notified ,Prince Gortscha- off that if the Russian troops pene- rate the-countties between KhiVa nd Afghanistan, England will be ompellcd to intervene in support of fghan independeuce. Barnum's cireas, museum and enagerie, in New York, were tetal- destroyed by fire- on Tuesday orning last. The only animals say - d ficin the menegerie are a camel id elephant, all the ()diets having erished. The loss i estimated at 300,000. It is on a few years • since this menagerie with all e animals was burned before. During the early partof this week a fearful snow storm raged through many of the Western States. , In the states of Michigan and Indiaaa, railway engines are frozen up. and the trains almost buried in snow on the track. The cold was most in- nse. A large number of cattle, eep and hags, on the snowed -up 'ins, have been frozen. Such a storm has not been known for many years. , A. shocking accident occurred on WednEsday fast on an American railway neat a place' called Prospect Station. The train waS composed al payments ; bat its necessary arid fatal effect was to increase the amount of the debt. There sprung up a sort of ta,cit was glad to exchange congratulations ou eie the-occ ion of the/ 'tt f that first se .t f th th •• • re understandwg not. to pay ; not openly • to repudiate, but to. do .so practically. section 42 ary of progress, the loComotive; to this The effect was to throw upon the whole of the country. , He hoped, to _ be r country the burthen of the debts:of par- -present next year, when' the road wopld th ticular municipalities ; which was the be opened to Kincardine,. .• - _ - • of M. McKim, M.- P. P. replied, for the same' as making the eon -borrowing muni- cipatities or those which had borrowed metheir own credit, _bear a full :propor- tion of debts which they never incurred. Matters cannot be allowed to :temein t ch__ longer in this .con di tion ' 'If the e- scandal of this practical repudititioo con- y not be Wetted out, some sort of justice can..be done tonearts of the country which are not indebted to this Food.. The longer' the evil is allowed to go •on. the worse. it becomes. If there be any meant of compelling the.defaulti4thuni- cipalitieato pay wbat they can pay, they molt. to be brought into requisitien ; but CY if 04 be bankrupt in honor and are • ready to defeat an execution. against theme let their dishonor be remembeted againgt them in all comine time. -. If the country is to assume these debts tee even the greater part of them, the non-iridebted municipalities. must be, in- demnified out of the public Treasury of Ontario. To this complexion we fear it must come. The necessity is exceeding • regretable • for the dissipation of a large. capitatire the shape of a surplus accumu- lating year after year, by hand ingl it over to the municipalities, is the same thing as its destruction --it will cease to exist as a capital—and in its geueral effect will not be vety far different from throwing it into the lake. We admit the neces- sity ; but we ommot help seeing how deplorable. end how undesirable it is.'.a- thonetery Timex. Jay Gould and the Erie Railway' The suits brought by the Erie Rail- road Company against the former twesie dent, Mr. Jay Gould, have been amica- bly settled, Mr, • Gould turning over to the company property to the value of the full amount claimed to have been used in , a manner unauthorized by the !Dowers of . a president and a board of directors, and hence improperly taken from the steck- - holders. Mr. Gould te said to have as- signed to the. company sixty thousand shares of Erie- stock, the Grand Opera House property aed other securities, valued in all at nine million dollars.The settlement is a good thing for all parties. The powers of a president and board of. directors are large, and are too' loosely defined to render the -result of the suite pertain. The amount paid over. and. the ! t fact that the payment does not interfere I t for e day with the business transactions - t of the party making it, stow the enor. - o mous nature of the eperations engineer- a ed by the magnates of the railway rings s and stock exchange in New York. I i Ontario Legislature. Ire gave the pro- moters of the road great praise for their 'enterprise, ancl congratulated them upon the success which had attended tbeir ef- forts. He spoke Of the immense traffic which • was already done on the Weihne- ton, Grey and Bruce road which would th undoubtedly increase lir the future. a 8 • In responding to the toast of the PS87 th ident and Directors of the Wellington, Oreand- Bruce Railway, which was re, tra eeived with prolonged and enthusiastic • tta epplause, CoL Mativerin said, he thank- 1?a ed them very kindly- for the flattethig as reception he and his friends met with to- Ina day, and in an espiecial manner he sabl thanked. them for the toast which they fall had just honored with so much enthusi- asm. It was certainly a splendid dis- Lo play that Listowel hadanade to -day. but it did not surprise him at all, for he knew the stuff'the men of Listowel were made of. He had. often seen their de- termined energy in Weightier matters uay than a demonstration, and he could have nu :no doubt that When they.' put their hands to an affair of that kind theywould put it through with the same thoroughness with which they did everything else. He 'would take leave to make special mention of Mr. D. D. Hay, who had been mire - rd Duflerin on Young Ladies' • Ean.cation. Lord and Lady Dufferin visited the Ottawa -Young Ladies' College on Mon- mitting in his exertions to. get the road to Listowel, while it was still in doubt- tut which route would be selected, in fact he , Dec. lh, where he was met by a tuber a those most interested in the management of the establishment. Dur- ing his visit he entered freely into con- versation with Rev. Mr. Moore, of the Presbyterian Church, which the Ottowa _Free Pre.N8 reports. Amoy,/ other things the following is reported: • Lord Dufferin--It is a mixed insti- ion, of French and English. 'Rev. Mr, Moore—No; we have no rich. - 'Lord Dufferin—I suppose it is some - ng on thesame principle as the schools ducted by the .ons. How many e you 011 the roll at present? Rev. Mr. Moore—About 200 on the rolls at present. We have fifty-two boarderrds. Lo Dufferin—f. didn't know that it was such a young institution. "Rev. Mr. Moores -We teach Latin French, end German. We havn e o Ital- ian. thoiight he might say that they had the Fre railway to -day because -Mr. Hay was one of their representative men. They thi owed not a little also to Mr. D. D. con Campbell, who had rendered very effi- hay cient services. The President here nam- ed a number of gentlemen along the route of the Soutnern..Extension who had done good- service and paid fitting compliments to each. He was glad_ to to see that their village was prose ering, and had no doubt that the prosperity would be immensely increased by the in- troduction of the railway. If, without ailw.ay facilities they had. accomplished o mach, what might be expected of hem now that_ the iren horse greeted .heneat their own door steps. It might be said that he and his direc- tors were animated by drily selfish mot- ives in what they had done -for this rail- way, and.. he Made no pretence that eel,. fish motiyes had. nothing to do with heir conduct, but at least they were hose broad selfish motiees which see heir own prosperity in the prosperity of thers. But, above all this, they were nimated by patriotic impulses --by a de. ire to see this country in the front rank lathe march of progease,—by a desire to His Excellency—Do you teach La- tin? - "Rev. Mr. Moore—We do. His Excellency (after a pause)—Do you teach cooking ? (Laughter.) kev. Mr. Moore—It is out intention to do so." There is a moral in. this last question, which it would be well for educationaltv ists to take home and consider. His Lordship did not stop at the mere ques- tion, but added, in his reply to an ad- dress which was presented to him, that -- gives me great pleasure, however, in looking over the progra.nune, that the science of cooking has not been overlook- ed. In a new country like this there Stanley. To the Editor of the Huron Expositor. SIR :—The annual meetiag for the • nomination of Reeve, Deputy Reeve and Councilors for this Towoship was held at Varna, on Monday last The day was very rough, and any amount of snow in the Concession, hence the number pres- ent was not very laree, yet notwithstand- ina a number of .e.ecet'llent nominations for - the office of Councilor were made. The Reeve and Deputy Reeve were not op- posed, Mr. Simpson the well known. Reeve has been allowed for some reason or other to walk the course for several years without opposition, Mr. Castle has DEC. 72. also been several years I)elMttV. A Councilori3 the nominatione on, the whole are superior to any former ye.ar for some oods tim-ialviotNI:leol,u) or tl Ihi;a1 1 v11 -):ir. al a' 11\1 1Vel 0°11::11°A1 gi et phi sei iS jeolrv; amnaanniiteivSetane fo!nlye,r117it naatineltt - part of the County,. He is an intelligent, active man. and Itithotild like to see him elected, Thos. Keys has been a feW years in the Council and I hear he is an excellent man. Geo.. Anderson is toweil and favorably known, leaving filled al- most every office in the municipality fir a number of years, besides other respon- sTioblweziidp laioundo.(r.,,a0bullcit;;Ilijebeast, n ut olt that he has ?gain allowed liimself to be nominated and -consented to run the elec- tors to a man -should vote ferbhtiiifne.Ji Moffat is a -very intelligent looking u and do hiewfideaseyltii_ _;e0ehsaiti JUt 01 n. tgn):::uaeoNia; oWO tidt of trhis hallt best men, with the most experience, and - the "Greeteet allIOUnt of honPsty of pur- poise." Electors of Stanley, look to your own interests, and do your duty at the : Polls, ascertain the mind of these -oleo an the " 11ailicay BoDus," the 41 II.arhw- BOMM." and every other question of portance to (jll US ratel)„.7.NLterE,attyte - GreyvoaeednagnlYd- the Listowel Comity • heme - OliTX GREY, Dec 20, 1872. After all, the incorporation of AinIey- vseillsle,,, Ilisiladeirbttehde rideoLgilariafaincet,oaf nruneat: withstanding that a number of the in- habitants were displeased at the abrupt ! and " inapromptu way in which it vas toanaged. I believe that all are now zatis. = lied. So, let the hatchet be buried, and a united a.ssistance be given to promote ; the best interests of the village. No doubt one of the first things the new Council will do is to pass a ley -law, to .restrain within proper limits the long- winded. speechifying of its own members, and lay a large fine 031 any one of them who will repeat the same idea more than nine times cluring a harangue of fifteen i minutes. Last tine I was at the village I was careful not to encounter my -Celtic 1, -friend, and was preparing to start hone t -with a centented innicl, when -aecidentilly - I met with a copy of the Extostrent, and ! my eye rested (in an adveitisement, the ccntents of which gave my feeliim very rude shock. It was -a notilicaion that an application was to be inade to the Ontario Parliament at its next sit- t ting to set aside certain townships in the e County of Perth, with Grey and. Howl* t in the County of Huron, and said town- • ships to be formed into a new county. having Listowel as eonnty town. Now, e Sir, I feel strongly when an insult is of- t fered to the, township of Grey. I was present at its birth, and have watched ; its development with pride. lany of its intelligent yeomanry have been my i -companions when itt early days we thars- 4, ed all the horrrore of the middle passage. We have maintainel our financial honor t from the first till the last, and we stand in a position of being able to "say to our fellow-conntrymen "Wo don't owe a t farthing to your dunieipaI Loan Fund," We belong to a county whose officers were men of high moral perceptions, and who would not tolerate -any attempts at practical 'repudiation, such as lia.s been the order of the day in the County of Perth. Now, I look upon it as an insult of a very aggravated nature to attempt to force us into an incorporation with any part or parcel of the C-ounty of Perth, " Evil communication -corrupt good manners." and these northern townships of Perth will carry with them the moral stain of their early training in the school of meanness. -We saY, therefore; " hands off, gentlemen, cleanse your record!, pay up your debtt like honorable men. before you ask the township of Grey to enter into partnership," In vain I ask myself, what crime we have oommitted as a municipality—that Providence has • alloweti this dreadful humilieetion to coixie upon us.' 1 donot believe that any of OUT municipal officers from the Reeve downwards has ever connived at any e, such scheme of incorporation with any 1. part of the Connty of Perth, and if nit belief is correct. then the wretch that penned the notification must be the for- tunate possessor of a fund of eelf-eanfie dence ant hard cheek that would not dis- grace the Hon. William McDougall ex- -Governor of M-anita'a, SYLVAN; Elma. ORA NUE. -At a regular meeting o Loyal Orange Lodge, No. 607, held on Thursday evening lastat the Orange Hall, Elena, the following officers were appointed for the -ensuing year : W. M- -Brother Samuel Bothwell, re-elected ; D. M.—Brother John G. Alexander, re- elected ; Treasurer — Brother William Coghlan, re-elected ; Secretary—Brother E. M. Alexander; Chaplain—Brother R. L. Alexani er ; Direct;ir of Ceremen- ies—Brother T. 0-. Fennel: Standing Committee — Brothers Wm. Stevenson, Thomas Alexander, James Alexander, 11 Itid.dle, Hugh Dobson. Reenlar night of meeting, Thursday on or afore the full m000. Brethren of other Lodges cordially invited to visit us. The Breth- ern of Elms Distriet are hereby remind- ed by the District Master that the an- nual meeting of the Elmo, District Lodge' will be held on the secood Tuesday of January, in the Orange Hall, Moles- , worth, and further -that a Convocation of • the Royal S. C. may be held. Listowel. NOMINFAIION, —At the nonnnations, Messrs, D. D. Campbell, D. D. Hay, R NV. Hermon, and J. Aalstead, were" nominated for the Reeveship, Ten or ftvelte persons were nominated as Coun- cilors, all of whom go to the polls. Stir - ting times are anticipated im election day. Goderich Township. C 0 UN' CIL MEETING, he Council met Dec. 9, pursuant to adtoetement The members all present The minutes of last regular and special meeting, were read. and passed. It was moved by David Patton, seconded by George Mc- Kee. that the members of this Council cordially and deeply sympathise with Dr. Stokes, their respected clerk, in the sad bereavement which -he has sustained • in the loss by death of his affectionate Wife --Carried. The sum of $20 to be paid to C. Crabb, Esq., in payment for one acre of land, being part of lot 24in the 2d concession, which he purehaeed at tile sale of -lands for airears of taxes, it being a niistake of the Assessor's for the Year 1866. The sum of $9 63 -was re- funded Joseph Driver for wrong assess.