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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1878-09-06, Page 4N eseeee 4, smite • r1,. THE HURON EXPOSITOR. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. New Fall Goods—Thomas Kidd. New Dry Goods—R. Jamieson. Central Grocery—Laidlaw & Fairley. Great Redaction—Grieve & Music—Mrs. C. M. Dunlop. Ladies' Watches----Hiekson & Bleasdell. Estray Colt --.L. Murphy. - New Cider Mill at Staffer -J. Sadler. Note Lost—I. Bowerman. - Farm to Rent—john Cuthill. Teacher Wanted—Hartwell Speiran. Western Fair--Williaan McBride. Auction Sale—James H. Benson. Servant Girl Wanted. no* txpoOfiriv, SEA_FORTH, SEPTEMBER 6, 1878. _ The Coming Struggle. The election, which takes place on the 17th of this month, is the\ most im- portant, ill. every respect, that las taken ,place since Confederation. It is not on account of the question of "Protection," which has been imported into the 'con- troversy that the present • contest assumes its importance. This ques- Uwe is simply. a snare used in the meantime to deceive and delude the unwary, and to be thrown aside so soon as it has served its purpose. The question has been raised by the Opposition, as we have frequently shown for the sole and only purpose of distract- ing the attention of the elector- ate from the black political crimes and nelsdeeds of which they have been prayer( guilty, and of keeping out of sight the honesty and 'economy which has beep practised by the Govexument. We do not wish it to be understood that we claim all Oppositionists and all Op- po_sitiolaist candidates to be insincere on th's question. We believe there are sortie w ce in advocating Protection, advocate w at they horiestly believe to be for the bet intereets of the country. But We- sh 11 not insult the gocid sense and in - tel igence of such by saying that they be- lie e their 7,arty leaders are sinner°. We do ot believe there is a man in the coun- t to -day, who has Paid the, slightest att ntion to the utterances of our pub- lic men for the peat six months, who be 'eves in his heart that Sir John and th other leaders of ',the Conservative pa ty are _honest and sincere.' in their ad °cozy of Protection, or -that they wo ld or could give us that which they pr • mise us, even were. they in power. If here are any such -they must be cred- al us in the extreme. This being. the ca e, behooves the electors to eschew tin', question so far as its merits are. con- ce 4 sed, and to record their votes-ebitire- ly pon the fitness and honesty of the go erning parties. Both parties have no had a fair trial.. The record of ea h is before the people, and all who re d know what these records have ben. We shall briefly contrast the re- ap ds of the two parties. On the inaug- ur tion of Confederalion, Sir John Mace do ald and his friends assumed the _ rei a of power under the most favorable cir umstances. The country was, at the tio 0, passing through. a period. of almost un0aralleled prosperity, he had a clean ah et before him and the entire people of he country were anxious to aid him in moulding and cementing into one • • t nationality the integral parts of this Dominion. But what was the re- s ? Instead of faithfully and honor - ab y parrying out the noble work before h' ,he took advantage of the confidence w a too confiding people reposed in . By his dishonest and unpatriotic col duct he set creed against creed, na- tio a [1,14 against nationality, and Prey- inoe against Province, and. in six short yet rs, brought his career, to a clese by pe etratieg a erim.e, the equal of -which ha never disgraced the history of any co ntry. The people who had reposed tie ir confidence in hire, arid who had tr ated him so' generouely were, for a e, and. paralyzed at the at ocity—at the immensity of this pea-, ica crime, but they soon recovered th mselves end with: just indignation th:y arose in their might, and hurled fro go place and power him who had so fully delin_ eeted the situation, has been proven ov4 and over again in these -columns. • If there are any who have been be- guiled and led. astray by this Protection - cry, we would ask them to pause and consider before they record their votes. Even Kipp' Sing the Opposition party ii were hone. t in iheir .pretensions, and Protection would-be the great boon to our country they tell -as, would it be safe, wouldit be wise, or prudent on the n strength of this, to.pat the same men in power who we had driven from office 'only five years ago? Would. it be wise to go back a ourselves andby our votes now say, w were wrong then, and they were right Would it be in the interests of this cou try to turn from office men against W om n� act of wrong -doing has been e can be proven, and put in their place the very same men whom we camels, s declared at the polls were dishonest nd corrupt? Would it pay, we say, to do this, even supposing all they promi e- us from Protection would be realize ? How much , less then • , should we knew . the t policy is the sole an. This is the the 17th. peeple sho they cast t lei" votes. If, after mature COI siderati u, they are prepared to con7 do e and 'ustify the Pacific Scandal, CI , Northe n Railway, Secret Service, and a hu dred other fraudulent and 4 dishonest as which have been proven , - against Si John! Macd.onald and his late collea es, then they should by all means vot for the so-called " National Policy" C ndidates. But if, on ' the other han ,they think these acts wrong and disgra eful Lids, if they do not wish to Sancti° and appreve of them, and do not desi e the perpetrators of them , to be re -in tated in those places where they can di will , repeat those same acts, then hey shoelcl Vote against the " National (dice, " gild those who have Adopted it s a cloak .for the misdeeds of their lea ers, and to deceive the peo- , phi We gain repeat, this is the issue to be decid d, and we leave it with our readers. 1 et them act as their don- _ sciences d*ctate to them is, under the circu stances, right, and for the beet intere. ts of our Common country. - • dis ra,ced, eceived. and. wronged them. 'hie is, in brief, a true and correct history of oue of the parties, which,is no v before the people seeking for a re- ne el of their confidence. We shall no refer tial that of the other. When Sir John wais deposed, he was replaced by Mr. Alexander Mackenzie. Now, let us see how he has fulfilled the trust reposed in him. In the short space of five yeaa:s, by dint of steady persever- ance and a strong and unerring will and judgment, be has succeeded in bringing order out of\chaos ; he has subdued. and satisfied the rebellious Previuces ; he hila safely and successfully tided the country through a period of almost uu- preoedented depression; he has satisfac- torily settled. the just claims of all die- ; coetents, and has only eisplea.sed a few huberry office seekers, rapacious con- ; ei - traotors, jobbing hangers-on, and. bank. rut politcians ; has, as we have shOwn, carefully husbanded the re- soexces of the country; he has reduced th i13 public expenditure to the lowest poesible mitimuneand not the slightest fonudation for a charge of corruption can be found against him. We would a4 ()fix readers of every shade of polit- ics, to dispassionately and without pre- judice look at those two pictures. and say upon which side they should vote onthe 17th inst. That we have faith- , hink of doing so when we r war pry of ‘,` National fraud, got' up for only purpose of deceiving. real issue to be decided on hese are the queetioras the Id put to themselves before 11 I" Coll The Op • ital again they say i the expens the revenu this aeons if the incr aim.). of Customs. osition attempt to make cap - t the Government because the department of customs s have been increased, w'hile • has been decreased. Now, ion would .be -well founded se under the present Gov- errtnient w re greater 'than under their predecease 8, or if no good reason could belassigne for the increase. We shall shew from the public 'documents thee the incre e has not been nearly so greet as ncler the late Government, an that f r every doller of increase the a• country has received substantial beuefit. In the firs place, then, as will be seen by referrin to page 19 of the public ac- coants, th cost ofcollecting customs in 18 6-7 w s 6477,503. This had in- er esed to 500,441 in 1870-1. • For the sal e of .a f ir comparison, we will take th last t ree years of each Govern- m.ht. In three years the late Govern- ment ince- ased the cost of collecting cuetoms ern 1.5.0cf,e441 in 1870-1 to 0658,299 i 1873-4, being an increase of 097,858 i three years, or en annual increase of 052,619. TJnder the present Goveinme it this amount was further in4reased o -0721,604, being an increase of 063,305 n three years, or an annual inarease of $21,102. It will be seen, therefore, that. even in this depart-, naent the anuuel inc,rease • under .Mr. Mackenzie Was $31,517 less than under Sir John, That ther is to be re of the cau ander Mr creases can shown to public in Prince Ed office :s wer as pcstmas previously t changed to melee no di formerly th the. receipts as 'evenue. the, receipt and the sal under its w14 is sin of keeping t hen taken for three years. should. be increase at all retted ; but let us see pome es which led to the .increase Mackenzie. All these, in - be accoeutecl for and- can be ave been necessary in the erestse For instance, in &rd. Custom' House peid principally by fees, ers in Ontario were paid 1873. This system was regular salary system., It eiance to the country, as se fees were deducted. from and . the balance returned At present, the whole of are returned as revenue ry now appeal's as a charge roper, head. This charge, ply a change in the mode e accounts, represents the sum of $7, 00. • Alas, there arere 'old. accbunts Menitoba settled under the pre, ent Gov rnment which come in as a charge up( n. the • revenue amonnting to 61,000. hen there were Commis- sioners to tl lice ameunt flues hi the border or e more. Ince- Toronto an was found working go houses at M curred to eorabe, who Custom Ho lected $45 0( e North West Mounted Po- ne/ to $850. Then new of.. Stickeen ceuntry the leeks., representing 03,600 ased rent fer building': in Montreal $2,000. hen it under the old system of ds out of bonded ware- utreal that great loss oc- he Revenue. Mee Dum- as appointed Inspeetor of se Offices, states he col- t) from goods that had been taken Ifrom these warehouses without previously paying duties. The only remedy for this -was to appoint what is called "lockers," and to adopt a new system of entries. This entailed 'a -cost of $9,000. Then night watch- men were required, as goods must be received at all hours of the night as well as the day. This cost $6,000. Then the merchants of Montreal and Toronto icomplained that they were eharged fees for tile delivery of goods, while no uch tat was laid upon the merchan of other cities and towns. Idjustic to them this - system was abolished. This COSt $10.000. Then several new Ports were established at a _ - cost of $3,500. Any reasonable person can see that all these changes and in- creases were in the interests of the pub- lic service and quite justifiable. . But what of the inCreases made by Sir John in 1873? Will any person justify the appointment of 111 new Custom House officers during the " dying hours" , of the old Government, and an increase of the salaries of 636, by which, were it not that the pruning knife was vigor- ously used by Mr. Mo.ckenzie, the in- crease to the burden of the country would have been 0125;262. We fancy the less our Opposition friends Bey abeut the increased exPenditure in, -the custotns or any other department the better. We care not what department they may Wee, an equally satisfactory ,record Gen be shown. Ministers' and Members' , • . Salaries. As an instance of extravagance it is charged against the present Govern- hnent,that in view of the "hard times," they should have reduced. their Own salaries and the indemnity of members of Parliament. In order to show the inconsistency of the Opposition in new making this charge, we have only to say that the salaries of the members of Governruent were fixed by statute, not by the present Government, but by the Government of Sir John Macdonald, during the last year of their reign. Sp that for the increase. Sir John, and not Mr. Mackenzie, is responsible.- As for the ccintinuance of tke salaries at the increased rate, we have to say that we do not know whether or not the sums paid are too great. We do know, however, that during the five years which these salaries have beeu paid, not one single member of the Opposi- tion ever complained in Parliament of their being extravagant, nor was there ever a proposition made to reduce them. This being the case, we are justified in concluding that the leaders of the Op- poeition were perfectly satisfied that the galaxies were not too large, and that the Governmennwould not have been justi- fied in reducing them. When they fail- e,d in Parliament to object to the large salaries, it is unfair and ungentleraanly now, when out of Parliament, to raise the objection. It is only done in the absence of a better cry, and should. not be heed.ed by the people. I The depres- sion in Canada has not been nearly so severe as in the United States and Eng- land. and yet in those countries no de- crease has been made in ministers' sal- aries, and none have found. fault with the Goyernnients of either country for ' not rnaking a reduction. EMS. How to Vote. As the elections on the Seventeenth - will be by ballot we give below for . the guidance of eletors, a representaition of the ballot paper and. the way which it should be marked. We adopt the ballot for South. Huron, and the same will apply to the other ridings: :Election: for • the Electoral District of South Ihron, 1878; I. M. C. CAMERON. II. 'ROBERT PORTER. ear 1 In the above we have supposed that I the elector shall have marked his bal- lot thus- X in favor of M. C. Cameron, The mark as above represented mast be made opposite one lianze only, for if more than one is marked, the ballot will be destroyed. August 21st, Sir George E. Cextier caused k fatal accident,athey are ignor- cars have killed and maimed dozens o people and are continuing to do so month by month. Niseofe•Wme —The Will of the late William Niblo of New York, gives 030,000 to his nurse and $10,000 to each of her children, also $10,- 000 each to his three nieces and to Rev. W. S. Walker, of Calvary Chapel. The balance of the estate, valued at $100,000, is left to the Young Men's Christien Association library. Gloser, wife of a respectable old farmer, Munra.--Last SundaY morning Mrs. residing in Detroit. went into her hus- band's room to awaken him and found him murdered.. The skull was broken, loody axe near by. Christopher einbach, aged 17, a grandson pt in the same room, but is now Wrote for thirty thousand dollars more, of which ten thousand were additional for the Premier, Sir John A. Macdonald. The money was paid and receipts given. Vie% days afterwar/I s Sir John A. Mac - clonal& telegraphs for "another ten thousand,"- and got it, as follows: , -" Toronto, August 26, 1872. 'To the Hon. J. J. C. Abbot, St. Anne's: .- " Immediate, private. • , "I must have another ten thousand dollars. Will be the last time of calling. Do not fail me. swer to -day, , 4 JOI111 A. MionoNALD.!' "" MomTitEAL, August vete, 1872. "Sir John A. Macdonald, Toronto: • "Draw on me for ten thousand. "J. J. C. ABBOTT." Sir Hugh- Allan ' says that he paid 'over 0300,000 to the Governmeat, on the understanding that it wonld be re- couped by giving him the Pacific Rail- way charter, with its bonus.of 130,000,- 000 of public money, and its 150,00p,000 acres of piiblic land, together .with the monopoly of its working for all time. It is but five years since this exposure, and now this • Macdonald comes again to the front, seeking to carry the elections, and again get the power to squeeze the public contractors. What has become of one Credit Mobilier theives, whose guilt was innocence com- pared with Macdonald's ? • • Outside Opinion,. The New York Independent, one of the most ably conduceed American journals, says: Nothing in current pol- itics -of the United States exceeds in audacity the determination of Sir John A. Macd.oueld t ask his Canadian electors to reinst te him. The Can - adieu Pacific R ilroa,d scandal was nic\tre atrocious i its character than anything with which we cancompare_ it oa this side f th.e herder. The members of the t anadian Government in. 1872 simply so d. themselves out, and put themselves o kecord'asbribe-takers. from that compa v; not. waiting to be bought, but offeri a to sell themselves. Sir Hiteh Allan s as at the head of the company. Sir G orge E. Cartier wrote him: (rivate and Confidenk Pi1.) "1116NTREAL, 60th July, 1872. "BEAR 'Stu Ilt-Git,—The friends of the Govern- ment will expect to be assisted with funds in the, . pending elections, and any amounts which you or your company shall advance for that purpose shall bo recouped to you. A memorandum for jump - disk requirements below. "Very 'truly yours, G. E. CARTIER. " Now w‘atitiSteigill:Ittli' Sir John A. Macdonald c:',2250:000000 Hon. Mr. .. ... . 15,000 • Sir Geo. E. Cartier Sir John L. (additional) 10,000 Hon. Mr. Langerin (additional)10,000 Sir Geo. E. Cartier (additional).— 80,000." Receipts for the payment of these sums were duly given; and there was no dis- g the fot that the money went into the handa of the parties named in the memorandum. • Under the date of News ofthe Week. ANOTHER Rom ,Ham.—The Duch- ess of Edinburgh ha e: a young daugh- ter. A COSTLY STEED.41t is reported that James Goedon Benatett brought from France a 'steeple el*" ser, which has made extraordinary time. Cost, 610,- 060. A CLERICAL INSOLVENT.—Rev. Alva H. Wismall, pastor- otathee St. John's Guild., New York,- is bankrupt, witli debts amounting to 025,000, and assets $164. WHOLESA.LE BANKRUPTCY.—Ninety-six petitions in bankruptcy were filed in Chicago the other day, and 135 in New York, where 200 more are expected to follow directly.. . UNFORTUNATE. -- John Hilderbraud was found dead from consumption in a miserable tenement in New York on Son) eth in Every- Elector Sunday. He was an educated gentle - • ing al gether the fact that the street and. a Briens who al enissing with $13 which the old. man heel • is suspected. • DISORDERLY 8.A.L00N KEEPERS.—Last ,Sabbath. the saloon keepers in Detroit united. ;to resist the Sunday Liquor LaWal assembling in 1 rge numbers at the hall where Ibeer flo vied like water. Four prominent salo n keepers, officiating as waitere were a rested. .500 Germans, headed by a br ss band, marched to the police etation i mended their r TRADE WITH an consul at D urges the estab line of teamsh says t e Government has expressed a waling ess to grant $240,000 subsidy in its fa r. Mrchauts are purchasing American cottons, boots and shoes,harde ware, &c., and iany would like to send their children tlo American schools. STEAMERs.—There are. r steamship lines en - tit trade between New editerranean. The An- • the Phelps Brothers r every ten days. The ts Assoeiskion twice a st spring a prominent ad a vessel, the Pow - this trade especially, nether built. the evem-ng and de - lease in vain. EMARARA.—The Americ- arara, British Guiana, -shment of an American ps to that country, and FRU T TRAD nefev folir regal gaged. ijn the fr York aid the chor Iine an seud oite steam Fruit ercha month and I fruit importer hatan, built fo is now having Sh uld Wu ow. man, with wealthy relatives in Han- over. • The record IntercOlonial manage - 0I • ANOTHER DEF4LTER. —Frank A. ment under th George, Superinteadent at the Money hardly less su Order Department in the Post Office at its constructio 1 St. Louis, absconded three weeks ago a Ameri an Act Domin on ass realms., s and Nova Scotia which were bei rise in the price of quinine is caused. by with the gradu the falling Off in the supply of bark, tercolo ial pr owing to Wars between South American part o the In Indians. assumingoffice • CRIMSON PATHWAY — When Lord Mr. Budges t ion into defaulter to the lextent of 05,000 or 06,000. ; - CAUSE IN OF THE QUININE RISE.—The New York Times states. that the steady Beaconsfield made his late visit to the amilka Queen., at Osborne, crimson cloth was these laid from the train, to the royal yacht covery which conveyed- him from Portsmouth i 1 SERIOU, to Isle -of -Wight: ! Laxge sums UNION OF IRISH MW Vi from private Carrie Cohen, the handsome Jewess of meet f Baxter street, New York, eloped with was a Thomas Fallow, of Trishparentage, and was eatirrieci by a Catholic prieet on Monday night. • CHRISTINA'S WILL.—The late Queen ines. of man of Spain left all her property valued at eight million francs to her. children by r freigh ost im and a very clerks • while enily in hand cash, Ino exp be adven. Of quired quentit the Duke of Riankares, having in her stock, via in lifetime given their portions to Queen were jerious Isabella and the Duchess of Montpen- plate t,tiero wa sier. M cast3 steel a FAILURE or- THE SUGAR CROP.—The „hand. Of car sugar crop of British Guiana will, ply ad quate t through drouth, be forty thousand hogs- • mand. [See heads short this year. The Domini- port tq Ministe can Government has reduced the export, duty on raw sugar in order to Detract AP foreign capital. - made BENEVOLENT LADIE,S.—The ladies of how s Port Huron have started a" Flower There Mission," ,that is i distributing flowers Fraser, Reyn amongst the -sick and miserably poor in Fraser or Mr the town, and have already done a noble railway clerk, work among the s ck and wketched of clerk in a reta the city. . •Co." Isvas Mr. Fent, RAILWAY AcOIDENT.—LaSt 'Sat- the Br:tisli. Co/ Macd�naid reigme is estive than the story of . By the British North he Government of the mea possession of the other public works_in and. New Brunswick g operated concurrently 1 completion of the In - per. They all formed ercolonial system. On Mr. Mackenzie directed. • makea thorough. ex - the management of all he result was the -dis- very IRREGULARITIES. vere found to be due arties to the Govern - demurrage, &c.; there erfect audit of accounts, ncornplete check upon f some o.moants, a,ppar- ut not represented. by motion whatever could stores, double the re - was found. to be in the stock books there • eficiencies. In boiler a four years' supply; two years' supply on prings there was a sup - a five ,or six years' de- • . J. BrYdges' official re- ' of Pablic Works. POLITIC. L HARDWARE STORE. rliamentary CoMmittee in 1875 an in.-ve tigation which showed me of t ese abuies came about. vas a in H lifax known as lds & o. Either Mr. Reync4de had been a the other had been, a 1 hard axe store. The Alpin rant, editor of nit, Dr. Tupper's organ urday a cheap fast train crowded with • in Ha fax, a c ose political ally of that passengers near Sittingbourne Junction, gentlei an, and. on one or two occasions England, ran int some freight cars. Queen p Printer under Conservative The train waa ompletely wrecked; Administrations. The firm was a mere eight persons wer4 killed and thirty se_ reushr verely injured. ota an DISCHARGE OF LERKS.—A discharge fax. of sixty or severltty male and female • of sup' clerks has been made from the office of DR. the Commissioner of the Land. office at Mr. SEPTEMBER 6, 188 '!imsomm=Nommm=mmo gallon, they charged the Goverlitclent -• 92* cents. They were commissioned to buy a quantity of car springs, e and should: have charged, as agents, only invoice rates. They produced ian' in- voiceepurporting to show the cost, but on enquiry it was found that this was fraudulent. For what should have been invoiced. at $2,138 they dishonestly charged $1,533.33. When the collapse of the Macdonald Government oc- curred, and these transactions were stopped and exposed, the firm broke up, and this ingenious agency forremuuerae ting political supporters and prrividing election funds at, the public expense came to an end.—[See Report Public Accounts Journals, 1875. • BROTHER-IN-IAW HAWS. • John,Haws was a ship chandler in Liverpool. But he was also brother-in- law to Mr. Peter Mitchell, then Minister of Marine and Fisheries, and Mr. Car- vell,. Raperintendent of Goverment Rail- ways. In 1872 Mr. Carvell determined On his own responsibility to buy 6,000 . tons of steel rails for renewals. He Made no reference to Ottawa, but ap- plied for the money and got bills on England for the amount he required. He then employed John Haws, brother- inelaw and shfp chandler to buy the ra.ils at -commission of 2-a- per cent., or per cent. more than he need have paid to any respectable and. competent broker, and 21 per cent. more than he need have paid if he had dealt directly With the manufacturers: NO .TENDERS" ANRED. No tenders were invited, all was left to private negotiation and settled be- tween John Haws and the parties sup - Plying the rails. DEFRAUDING HIS PRINCIPALS. It is a fraud. in law for any agent or broker to charge a profit on goods he buys as agent. John Haws `abused. his trust to the extent of some $40,000 charged by him. in excess of the sum • actually paid. The whole of these tran- iatetions came to light in the course of en inquiry before - the Public Ac - ?bunts Committee.—See Report H. of C. Journals, 1875. 1 PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCER. Proceedings in Chancery have since Y been taken in England against John 0 00 Washington. Th , by a lack of fu there is not work. om atta well es ut it go lying th 1.7PPER' rant h.t his evi ir compared with many tablished houses in Hali- the exclusive business o Intercolonial Railway. FRIEND'S CONFESSION. ence said: reduction is forced. "W ea business I ds . and not because made e railway bush ROSS. based my „ Hneve FEE.—D. Joseph Kidd, the app1icc uperintendent) homeeopathic physician who was sum- onetitgtical position, not named from London to Berlin to attend at all ciz accoin t of my acquaintctnce with, Lord Beaconsfield, charged. 100 (minces the hardware businesst * *• * * a day for the period •of his absence Mr. Maser col tributed to the election from his patients. His practice. is said in Hal fax. I urged oik them (my part - to be worth more than that. ners) d ing all they cotild at that time. ALL FOR Love.—A sensation has been I thrn1 they w re a good. dealinfluenced by me n this. I think Mr. Fraser con - caused at East Boston by the elopement ea I pplicati * * tion to round o ommen n for ti * * • him (th my pol of a beautiful and wealthy young widow' tribute1 before with a penniless but dashing and haud b,atcotivaen some milkman, the woman leaving her touotknal 16 -months -old. belay to teke care of it- self. • PREDICTION .—C 1. Hogg, a large land- owner of Omaba,1 just returned from Europe, predicts s inamigration to the United States the coming year ow - les and labor difficul- authorities are par- , preventing emigre', „Low Fevee. — The mists of Detroit an- ! ry of a neW remedy d offer to forward physicians to afflicted cities fiee. .The remedy is fluid. extract of leaves of bal- do, a shrub fount upou the Andes in Chili. Beecher's first leclure in San Francisco BEECHER IN SA.'„•; FRANCISCO. — MT. 4 was attended byeti large and brilliant audience. 'Marl+ every seat: in the house had been reserved., although :the price charged. was 51.50 fde a single lecture, or 1$.5 for tie coarse Of four lec- : above iiamed ing, to Indian trout 'ties. The Germai ticularly active i tion. , REMEDY FOR YIE manufacturing ch nounce the discov for yellow fever, a he became my partner, impottaut extent. I art in all the elections down there, a id would know pretty nearly' howgg uch each . man gave. * * * * We contributed pretty f well 4 round o the elections."— 'Ike - port P iblic Ac ounts ommittee, jour- nals House of onmoiis, 18475. THE IR 'LITTLE I -MN G S . The loss to tie coun ry by the favor shown to thesc personil was, in proper= tion tb their Itransacti0ns, enormous. From Tanuaryf 1872, until the new Goverement sopped their operations, Fraser Reyno ds & Co. supplied goods to the amount were ever invi the anSwer W Co. ars" not to the overcharge impossible th 8. plainti ! were ee d.erstood they comparison Grand Trunk firms, it app tures. than $18,413, A Wnoee Tow t Desrnoyen. — The ded the privile town. of Miskalor, capital of the circle entries', for dut cif Borsod, in Hungers-, was almost en- made On thes tirely laid waste storm. A thous stroyed by the rail dred persons kille the place was esti 000. SCPPRESSING Till troit City Council an ordinance praCtically suppressing the bicycle. The Detroit News directs the attention of the Council to the fact that while they are di -cussing proscrip- tive measures in regard to the voloci- pede, which, up to this time, has never i For lard oil, c of Seri:: s7e'd . "N•°A Although d. To all remonstrances " Fraser, Reynolds •& kel we e so large it was verloo e'; them, no com- er made, for it was un- vould le useless. By a ith prides paid by the t Mont eal to respectable !axed that ou the sum he exass was not less nd. to a is was to be ad - accorded of free as. • The profits ale transactions e often able go whole a Friday night by a ranged from 4( to 140 Per cent. On bar lad houses were de- iron they made on one invoice 69 per fall, and. four huu- cent. profit. For spikes, bolts, and The population of tuts, for which they paid $1,222.66 ated at about 10,- they charged. the Government $2,295.88 For brass tubes costing them $2,219.0- BICYCLE.—The De- 1 they made the Goverameut pay $4, eas under discussion 805.50, or 120 per cent. profit. For plates and. bare, costing them $753,they charged the GovernMent $1,189.26 For loeomotive plates,' costing $121.50 they charged. 0287.65. For engine axles, costing 860, they got $1,442.91 sting them 58 cents per • Haws,and he has beeu ordered. to dis- gorge a large portion of his plunder as well as several thousand dollars also fraudulently pocketed as profits on a light ship he was conamissioned to buy by brother-in-law Mitchell. But he has left the country and will probably retain his ill-gotten money. . Simic in the Sea. An Excursion Steamer -Rio?. Down by • Another Steamer—Between Six and yearsof settled residence in Rum ee. ables me to speak distinctly on this stile ject.- This, Mr. Editor, is as much , ought to be said in reply to ma. leeetZ Ben, perhaps more. Andnow I promise you that neither the EXPOSITOR nor readers will be troubled with anything, farther from me on this subject in ite present aspect. Yours, Asc., R. THOMPSON. ITAnnoWsmITH, August 28; 1878. Huron Notes. A young Men's Conservative Asse. ciation has been formed in Exeter. --The tax rate in the village of Blyth this year has been fixed at one cent and, 7 mills on the -dollar assess. 111ent —he Council of Exeter have feeee the rate of taxation at n cents on the . Blyth is now in thorough operatioxesed dollar, which will furnish the sura of rCoow—u,niyaeu- daughter is considered. one of the best en the 47-,9-0M4it P. KellY'a new saw nem ia fit; yi asthither nee ea0sWectiontaheerseledofiuptehaes tspiXisiegsetiansTaletee Bl_ueTvahloes, bas been clEansesqe..,roonesIyeilnit.ralhet14 Division Court Clerk, has purehased a ea era to ripen, and then sowed the is, however, slowly recovering. sanee peas. —Mr. William Drew, of Exeter, has we_eatanloot:ot the 4 regret to hear that Mise pare in Ewxitehterh,jasndfainer, in real); of Mr. Thomas,Farroya —Messrs. Wm. Donnelly and Robert Diiihion, Jr., of Brussels, last week • pulled. seven acres of peas for Mr. Wee White in two clays. The peas were a he_a*TYwc7ePa.rms of 100 acres oath be- . longing to the Murray estate, in the township of Hay, near Exeter, Were sold by public auction a few days age. One of the farms, Lot 5, 2d concessicee - was purchased by Mr. Pavia. Wanless, of Exeter, for $6,000, and the adjoining Jot soona fort he 04am,000e .c°31TcheesstinttewraWae,s' Pie; oldest settlers be The townshiri 4,,f Ushorne died in the neigh- borhood. of Farquhar on Saturday, the 17th inst., in -the person of Airs. Car- michael. he was a-ged. 85 years-,- and had resided in USborne since before the - roads in this section were , Openea up, and when only a blaze marked the lin Sh di d. hi present es. e e ghl y respec- tea by all who knew her, • James Lynn's store, Formosa, was burned. on Monday morning last week about 2 o'clock. Nothing was Seveu Bund-i'ed Lives Lost —.7. The erable headwa,y before they Were no- SayeA., as the flames had. Made col:mid- Oczia)vtaei.n. and '1-ezo Find a, ate??/ ticed. The fire is supposed to be the Advices from London, England, fur- work of an incendiary. Loss, stock, nish the particulars of a terrible catas- 5,500,$store, 1,100,6insurance, stock, trophe which c;ccurred on the night of 62,100; stere, 6700. Mr. Lynn was the 3rd. inst. The excursion steamer, Princess Alice, returning 'froth Graves- end to London with about 800 passen- gers, was run down off Barking, about 8 o'clock, by a- screw steamer. The Princess Alice was struck ainidship and. slink almost iminediately. The num- On awaking - next morning they her' of persons drowned is variously es- found the child dead, it having timeted at 500 to 650. The higher ee- been smothered. under the bed clothes., timate is the latest aukeven by the This was the only child of Mr. and London Steamboat Come:mule, owners of Mrs. Coward, and. they are naturally the Princess Alice. The CoraPauy's greatly afflicted. Wharf is besieged by crowds anxious to —About 4.30 a. m., on Wednesday hp,aesa:enagerrelattiveotnthsaneilld2fafriteedndbsee 'who were t einvhibrcuhindgesatrofiyreed tliceellprraiela aitud Ht tub frfacum1 - •••• i The steamer which sunk the Princess tory of Messrs. Fox & Macdonaa Alice is supposed to be the BYwell. Cas- When first seen the flames were burst- tle, screw collier, bound north in hal- nag out through the roof, but were be - last. The steward. of the PrinCess yond hope. A stock of 300 butter tubs Mice states that after the collision the and 300 pails were in tke. build-hi.-')be- eides machinery and tools, all of 1,vinch were completely destroyed, nothing be - inn, saved but 5 butter tubs. Loss ant $2,500, insured for $1,000. The fire was evidently the work of an another excursion steamer renderd eenataty, in - what assistance was possible. —The days of quick workinanshipare e not yet over, and aniong the youth. of the present generation are some who can show a record for workmanship un- excelled by any we have heard of among the elders of the age. On Wed.nesaay last week Mr. Charles Vanvolkingburg„ of Ilensell, performed a feat, the equal of 'which we have seldom heard, bind- ing 6,400 sheaves of spring wheatin the almost incredilly short time of two hours and a quarter:: The wheat Was CIA with a reaper on the farna. of Mr. J. Stewart in Tuckersanith, formerly a resident of Brussels. —On Sunday night* Mr. Coward. and bis - wife living near the railway sta- tion in wife, retired to rest, having their infant, which was only three or . four weeks old, with thern in the bed. Zyther steamer proceeded. without at- tempting to render aid. He estimates 700 persons ou board the Princess Alice. She -sunk bow first in five minutes after she was struck. Some small boats and - The drowned include an extrieordi- nary proportion of women Aria' child- ren. Several of the survivors epeak of having lost as many as .three, live and six children. They describe the water as covered with hundreds of shrieking 1 people. The Captain and nearly all the crew of the Princess Alice were drown- • ed. They had no time to lower boats and there were but few life buoys on 1 the steamer. All the police of Woolwich town and arsenal were engaged all night in label- ling' the corpses, chiefly of women and children, which completely fill the Board room at the Steamboat Co-m- pany's office at Woolwich. A passenger 1 who scrambled on boaed the ByWell Cas- tle says she threw ropes to the people ; struggling in the water. , The Princess Alice was a paddle - Wheel steamer with raised saloon. Her gross tonnage was 251, and. that of the Bywell Castle 1,316. emeneeigessememee Processions. EDITOR EXPOSITOR—Sir: Under the above heading I found a letter from Mr. Morrison, purporting to be a reply to a communication from me, which appear- ed in your piper of the 9th inst. Mr. Morrison begins, continues and. ends on the assumption that I had written against Orangemen and Orangeisni. I think, however, he would find himself greatly puzziea to find one word in nay letter either on one of these subjects or the other. You, Mr. Editor, understood the matter Letter, when you headed the article with the intelligentcaption "An old Hurouite on the procession busi- ness." `I supposed that I had placed myself so squarely before your readers, , that it would hardly be possible for any mistake` to arise, when 1 enquired "Is it judicious for Orangemen or any oth- ers to adopt means or indulge in .prac- tices that tend to perpetuate strife?" I still repeat the question, Is it judicious? And. while I admitted that most likely I him a -serenade, Jae having -a Ebert time it would be the means of adding largely ' ago returned from a visit to Ireland., to the number of Orangemen, yet it and while the band was marching would. not add one single soul to the 1 through the village towards Mr. Strong's nunaber of true Protestants. Mr. residence, which is on the hill at the Morrison does not pretend. to find fault north end, and just as they were cross - with these positions. I think he very ing the bridge a gentleman drove on to correctly regards theen as unassailable. the other end with a fractious horse Mr. Morrison thinks it strange that 1 which became frightened at -the tallSiO, should want to go so far from my ipres- and suddenly turned round, cramping ent location for an opportunity to set the buggy and backing it against the forth my views. I have two reasons for railing, and then throwing itself down. this. The first is that the EXPOSITOR The driver, Mr. Joseph Young, managed has not ceased. to be my papea, notveith- to get out and get the horseby the head, standing MS' present locality; And the but a lady who was in the buggy, on. at - second is, a more intellectual class of tempting to get out was caught between readers than the EXPOSITOR supplies the box and wifeel where she was held mental pabulum for does not exist in and squeezed tightly for a few minutes our beloved. Canada, and to those who before she -. could be extricated. She intend to write comnion sense, no stronger reasons cetild exist in selecting 4 chamiel for their thoughts. Nearly 20 —On Tuesday last week a ha named Johnson had a narrow escape from serious.injury, or perhaps instant death, while working in the flax mill at Exeter. He was elimbing out on a plank, which rested on a beam in the upper part of the mill, when it overbalanced with his weight, preeipitating him with it to the lower floor among the machinery, then at work. By an almost miraculous chance he fell clear of the machinery, and the plank, grazinn one of the thresher's ilea& in its fall, harmlessly struck the floor. Johnson's injuries were less severe than his fright. —During the last few weeks a num- ber of small, vexatious robberies have been perpetrated in and around Exeter. Oue man had twenty pigeons stolen in one night. They were taken from their young which were left ahnost • feather- less, to perish; on another even- ing a hen roost was -visited and a number of the best fowl stolen from their roosts; a third person had his garden entered at night and all his potatoes were dug up anclearried away; another man in Exeter had half -a -doz- en pigeons which he valued. at a dollar I apiece stolen; others have had their I whips stolen from their buggies and wagons while standing under chureh sheds. —A few evenings ago, as the Gorrie brass band were on their way to the residence of Mr. James Strong to give was filially released, having received but little injury. The only damage of seay consequence done was the break - SEP Pge°11! orsethsetelr .ch thtits seb oot of Tucker 'riiiiailthiboaelabyawrt,eorwerlie . t leF411WeYneeacaln:slne gaat: to: --A gang plow eireWs, ontigueu - auspices of the cultural Soeiety. tries of gang go: Plow entered for littleovenarmker an thes Alia the oraer in1 .1st,3 B. Weir, 3rd, T. Tipling; Co.; 5th, Mi farst prize was -AV .sooma. to wly. 3. well spoken of the judges. The rts e4ye,o..BggsTi n.ssWp oira t' done, and were ot witht-ehxtoriaaal _onsn. y 'pole& on the farl -1j.ela Road, Goaer though not result .Mszkably rinSe and W. IL coo' gaged. in faxing s; ing the crib -wor hi e:ur et eenoisocoa nlockingtith crib ws.s pushed et rd. thi ne Josttoti sb w eni feet, there was theosiot pof . Cook jumped _were both assiste 000k, HMO the Hal the bloa &wiaward cony leave been -mile.) Thurs Gumvilln lasiroannc:gt Peteretiebutottat:- in car shunting,' 'cow -,catcher was 0sicbapo aughtfina. m:8rmelo domen was torn tines protraaea;-- on , tesjitt dar t vlast.ttenhaar sbi urg in attenaanee, '817:111Fesrtte:afgiteilretil: for, and throng dieposaSPi a 3.1 of peel iehri; Arrivea in tie =out and perfo , church for the after expired.. j young man Of a Mr. John turiata from his derably bronz -• less prairies,bul Re speaks highl full of hopes of ; - great Canadian! —While the driving to Fah • political nateti • with a passingl out, receiving • body and hes • tufa tiArna. his house for a, debent bearing 7 per 1 the town of St4 eehool truetees - new schools, v+2, ; par. This is tl bentures that I lurgedorce of schooleAna the toward complei naeetin •other evening t for:increasing t • ests of the town; ance present„ hie was aono, public attenti- subject, ma ' practical soh l rid. into effect --The theap • the one on Sat 'schools of Saar have aia excurs low tate of 75E eents for .chil • same ktin WI ford. Teen ford by the 7:15 arta raw bneaay astrates were C on.a very comt.l. ladies from . while ivin Tkursday cam mer's wagon siderable injq age Was done. • ladies were ari of order, and I.! the farmer eat of sand, and ail of the way,inel or giving the drove too -closi " the injury wal have reservea --- A mee:: 11 of No Was held and was alVointed b •lor the purpo feeling of the esal extended' tons for --.reabYteryWo TY1r. Maeleoa after which 111, given in as Tbote who o rixiAosted to srPoudea, out gr#gation, and 'wards withar fiPecial meeti. be halt/ - hoped the to the eutire ter and tongt.