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SEAFO' TH, FRIDAY,, April 17,1885.
European Affiairs.
The dispatches concernini the difficul-
ty between England paid, Russia, are so
very eoritradickwy that it is impossible
to gauge the situation with f,•ny degreeof
certainty. •After the •engagement be-
tween the Russians and Afghans, which
'we reported la,st week, war seemed im-
minent, and at that time every person
appeared to think that ere this hostili-
ties would have commenced: The latest
• news, however, is of a more pacific na-
ture, and the situation is now represent-
ed as follows: "England and Russia -
have agreed upon a basis of delimitaticin
of the Afghan frontieresubject to a satis-
factory ex -planation by Ressia of the
recent attack of the Afghans."_ If war
should not take place, a good many of
the grain and stock speculators will be
badly left, as the recent warlihe appear-
ances had the effect of materially in-
creasing the price of all kinds of cereals,
and especially of wheat.
• ,There is no partieular change in affairs
in EOpt. Both Wolseley- and Graham
seein to be inactive, while the forces of
the Mandl and Osman Dignia are report-
ed to be falling to pieces item_ internal
dissensions.
The Northwest Toe
The only, incident of - importance
, which has been reportedfro
west during the Past week
rible massacre by Indians,
place'at Frog Lake, in th
dietriet. At this place tom
sons were killed. The pa,
*ill be found in another col
*the North -
is• the ter -
which took
:Battleford
eleven per -
of these
n. These
,
parties were invited by the Indians- to
their camp, for the pi:repose] of having a
friendly parley - with them, and no
sooner had they %implied with the in-
vitation then they were treacherously
shot. It is onry in thia district that the
Indians have become insubordinate, Al-
though those of several other part & are
very uneasy, and none of them are con-
sidered relia,ble.. BattIeford is still ber
.sieege_c1, and the inhabitants of the place
and settlera of the couretry immediately
surrounding have been forced to retain
their position *in the flirt, and will Xer-
Main there until assistance arrives from
without.- The Indians have sea -et' the
-
houses of the _Settlers in the immediate
• vieinity, as well as many of those in the
village, and. have robbed the stores, be-
sides hiving burned many ti ilclings. Se.
fir as is yet known, how ver, the in-
stance already mentioned lis the onlY
ease in which they have destroyed life.
- Colonel Otter, with the Queen's Own
• Rifles of Toronto, and other forces
numbering in all ever 800, are now on
their way to the relief of Battlefordo
end if they meet with no unforeseenim-
• pediments by the way, will likely reach
there early next :irele, when it is •' ex-
• pected they -will relieve the beleagttred
citizens and disperse the Indians
. Prince Albert is the other point con_
sidered most in danger. As yet, how-
ever, this piece has not been, molested,
• and the principal trouble of the people
• is a scarcity of provisions, the rebels
• having gobbled up everything eatable
either for man or beast they could find
in the neighborhood. This is near-R,iel's
headquarters, and the e principal_ danger
hereis from the half-breeds, the Indians
• ,
not yet having beeorne troublesome.
General Middleton, with another large
• force, is pushing forward for the relief
of Prime Albert. .At last accounts
General MiddIeton's forces were withln
a few miles of where it is supposed the
rebels are entrenched, and as they are
'cletermined to make straight for Be-
•' tooche's Crossing, the headquarters of
- Mel,it is likely that before this reaches
the eye of many of our readers, the
e stronghold .of the rebels will be broken
up, and Mousieur Riel will either have
been captured or have skedaddled.
.• Another detachment leaves Calgary
• fort Edmonton. ,. It will thus be seen
that the army in the Northwest in to be
• come:a/sea of three main bodies, one
having Prince Albert for the objective 1
point ; the\ second, BattlefOrd,• and the
third. Edenton. It will thus be 'observed
• that with scattering cletachinexrts for a
few- ot er minor points, which have
been pr vicled for, the whole country
1
Will. be Peetty generally bovered•Of eourse
• events may turn out differentlylfrom
what is now expected, bat at present it
is thought that no serious _ engagement
will take place between the troops and
insurgents It ie the ge eral _opinion'
that Riel, and his. folk era ban anee
speedily and easily disposed of, and that
it will lee -a deal more difficult to cap-
ture himself and his leaders than to
eoequer them. The main fear is from,
the Indiai. s. If there should be , a
'general u rising of /these' the conse.
• quences will, undoubtedly, be serious.
This, however, is not antici aled,•as it
-
is thought hatthosewho h ve already
been giving trouble will e speedily
• subdued by the appearimee oflthe troops
on thescene, and that the. dispersing of
. these will be the means of Ifzeeping the
- •
others quiet. Should this rove , to be
the case, the volunteers i will • have
,
•
already overcome the thirst trying' of
their difficolties and the most serious*
part of the rebellion will have passed. '
Even shouldthese favorable eu in's.
Inge prove correct,. which seems . ore
than probable at present, the rebe lion,
Will have been productive of great hard-.
ship and suffering. To say nething of
the lamentable loss . of life that • has
'already taken place, hundreds of poor
settlers ha,vebeen driven from their --
homes and have lost their all. Many '
who, a few iweeks ago, had tie brightest
prospects before them i. hav4 now only
gloom and starvation .stait* • them in
the face. They•have esc.pe4 with t eh.'
lives and that is all. 5, It is, Iviewiu it:
even . in the most --faverab e poss ble
aspeet) a miiserable business, nd thro
it many will, be led to bitterl . curse tie
•
day they Went to .the Sri' katchew n
district. The 'only •bright spot' Jin .
connection with the whole a air is the '
conduct of our own. noble wolunte rs. ,
They have acqUittedthernsaires, bey nd i
praise. • They have endared hardships '
Which would severely try the most
experienced eoldiers and they have, t us
far, e come 'through the oijdeal se th
scarcely the loss of a man. 1 March g
through slush and mud al day nd
-
sleeping on the wet earth at ight w th
no covering Save the canopy ef Hea;v n,
,
and the thermometeresever!al - degr• es
below zero, ip no. child'splaY, and • et
.1
this hap beei the daily experienced ur
volunteers, aid they have not even m r -
inured or complained: ihey ' h ve
already earned their ' (31111 ry's b st
,
thanks.
/
A Friendly Critic.
-it j.? Clay by clay becoming more ebrin-
clantly manifest that , the Caare,d* n
authorities ' corr&nitted andther very.
grave error in sending the troops for the
Northwest by the Canada Pacific Rail- ,
way instead of by the more expeditious
route through the United St1ates.. En-
tirely aside from the hardshi and Suf-
fering which the volunteers vv re forced,
we think, needlessly, to ,enduie the ina,t
ter of time i was a consideraltion of the
most vital importance. ' On. t is subject .
• 1
the Winnipeg Times, a strong supporter
of the 0 tawa Government is coestrain-
ed to say: I _ •
" We believe with our .C1 icago con-
temporary that it would have becn better .
if greater iimPortance•had beeattached •
to the necessity of being gide ly onithe '
'ground, and the forces so pro- ided hat-'
,
active and speedy , moveine ts' of all
kinds -would he possible; Unqu stiona ly, •
celerity is of the first consequCnce in an
outbreak of this kind. Inste4d of mak-
ing their way rip through the wilds. of
northern Ontario, the Queen's Own and
Fusiliers should be beyond Fort ' Qu'Ap-
pelle, on the march to the Touchwood
Hills. There may have lee* excellent
State reasons why perrniseicin to send
the troops through United 'Stites terri-
tory was net ;asked, although; if our
advices are to be relied on, the fearof a
refusal ought not to have been one of
them. If the -Queen's Owir and Fusiliers
• had been dispatched through the United
States they would be now ell advanced
on their march to Prince Albert—they
would at least be two days beyond Qu'-.
Appelle station, and the full import of
that may be felt if we can place any
esides, eleiry daY's deley in striking, a
l
eredence in Ithe reports pb lished of the
sitnation at the scene Of the troubles:
B
l
decisive blew adds to the danger of a
,
general Indian unriaing.'
--
WHEN' tlfe _McCarthy or Dominion
Liquor tiering Act was bein. g dismiss- '
ed, thoselia• favored it urged as a
reason- for its becoming law, that the
Onto*Acti Was being admipistered in a
partizan spirit and for partia1N purposes,
e
and '•conseqiiently its friends , declared
that this power should be taken from.
the Provincial and vested in the Dom --
inion authoritiesein order that no such
abuses vvauld be permitted. Well, the
lt_IcCarthy Act- was passed, by Paella-.
Tent, and eile; in this county, hevere-
,
cently had spine experience of how -fairly
'and impartially -it would have been ad-
• ministered Ihed it not been declared
unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
The Commissioners .appointed by the
Dominion Government und7 the Dom-
inion Act, have the granting of the
licenses authorized by the Seott Act.
These appointments have now been made
for this county, and in the entire list we
do not notice the name of one single '
Reformer. Under the Proaincial Acte as
edministered by a Reform Government,
three-fourths of thelicensebolders were
Tories; under the Dominion Act, as ad-
ministered ley. a Conservative Govern-
ment, not a eingle licensee it a Reformer,
_ _ ,
but. the whole list, without one excep-
tion to reliefre the • monotony of ' the
, _
thing; is composed* of geed, square -toed
Tories of the strictest sect. • And yet,
according to Tory authority, the Grits
administered their lawefor the advance-
ment of partizan purposes, although
three-fourths of those. to whom they
granted licenses were Tories; while the
Torg law is being administered fairly
and -impartially, although not one Grit
'
^
. - .
is granted a license -under it Enough
said; This circumstance, however, will
afford a very fair index of how the gen-
ral law would have been,administered had
t not been deClered unconstitutional.
/There would not be many Grit hotel-
!keepe1rs or•liquor dealers. So far as the
Grit hotel -keepers are concerned, the
McC. rthy Act under Tory administra,
tion ould be as powerful a deterent as
the S ott Act can possibly be. • •
,
• W NOTICE a strong •lispesition on the
part f Conservative joternclls and , Con-
serve, ive politicians generally, to use
3
the p esent disturbances in the North-
west for the purpose of looming the -
1
Cana a Pricifie Railwa and justifying
the p lieyrof the Gov rnment in con-
strue 'rig the road ar und the north
shore of Lake:Superior nd through the:
Rock Mountains to B itish: Columbia.
They say ;that had tha portion of the
Cana a Pacific along th • shore of Lake
Supe 'cai not been cons 'eted, the Gov-
-men ntlwould not nOw have the means
of co veying the' troop • to the North-
westtoquell the d* turbance there.
• .a, straining of th caae Which the
illnot justify. n the first place, l
e Government attended to their
e grievances of
asketchewen as.
there !would .be
est just now to .
cond, place, had
y that has been
nstructing the North•Shore
• Mountain portions of the
in eonstructing branch roads
r
h t e „fertile po tions of Mimi- _
would now be a sufficient
Manitoba quell any dis-
t might ari e in the Noeth-
ly indepen ent of any as• -
m the _E tern ,- Provinces.
vent of trouble,
use, the defense
be as efficiently
1 less expense
and the peopl both of Mani -
the Northw• st would be a
better off ii every respect
an possibly, e u. rider existing
ces. The co t of honstruet-
•
o . sections n med would be
c vide the pr hie portions of
and the N6 thweot with a
d profikebleally* system.
This i
feats
,hael ti
busin ss and settled t
the h 1f -breeds of the
they houl4 have •done,
no trouble in the North
harass the • In the s
they expe ded the mon
spent c
and Rock
road
throu
toba, there
population:
thrbit ce th
west, 'entir
sist•ance fr
In thisway,I even in th•
for which there is no ex
Of the Northwest would
secured at a great de
than now,
toba, and
greet deal
than they
circumsta
ing the tt
ample to
Manitoba
coMplete-a
IT WOU
Governme
• their Fran
during the
seem as i
-0 had deter
hise Bill thro
present Lsessi,
ere heti be xi brought up
ceding -ses lona, and aft
l
first readii g was " hart& ly ' withdrawn:
This led o the hope t at the Govern-
ment wo I finally a, andon- it alto
gether and :Ileve each p cri4iece 'o regu-
late its *0 - t
i - franchise as. at resent-
•
Such wise souiisels, ho ever, are not
likely to p dvail. I tis measure be-
comes law twill ent4,it . great dea1. of
unnecessar onfusion ea d additional ex-
pense. E er since ,co federation the
some franchi e existedfor the dominion
that was in v one in the several prvinces
'for the local ,legislatures laid consequent-
,
ly the same otee's lists and the same
machinery f r preparing them did for
both parliam fits. Under this new bill,
however, a different qualification will be
fixed and different lists, ill berequited.
In this way confusion will be created
and people will be conti ually at a loss
to distinguish between t e qualifications
,necessery for theefranch e for the - two
parlianients, , while the additional- ex-
pense of piciparing two, sets of 'voters
lists fat each municipality will be in-
curred: -This will be a very - consider-
-able item an should be sufficient at the.
present timel, to deter he Government
from inakin the chane. It is said,
however, th t., party ex,?.• encies 1 require
..
the change 4
• be made; Ei Sir John con-
siders 't the advatages" • hich. the _ new
franchise, together °wit the control
of the vo . rs' lists wi ich the new
law will giv-4 him, - neces arv 'to secure
the return of his party a the next elec-
tion. If this is the case, we may rest
assured that the new Feat chise Bill will.
be passed, and that no co , siderations of
inconvenience or expense to the people,
will be permitted to stan in the way.
the Dominion
ined to force
gh „parliament
m This meas -
at several. pre -
r receiving its
+News of the eek.
,. pima—Edward Sulliv n, Lord Chan-
cellor Of Ireland, is dead, aged sixty-two
years.
E
IIQUARE AT Ro E.—A sharp
shock �f ear hquake was 1 elt at Rome,
N. Y., on Saturday. No damage.
.,
REPORTED KILLED.— resident °Bar-
rios, the Guatemalan fi e -eater; is re-
ported to havb been def ted and killed
'by the allied prmies of th other Central
American Sta es.
zi AN EDITOR Surcinesee-Colonel S. C.
Mower, editoil of the Milwaukee Daily
Telegraph, cornmitted suicide on ,Sun-
day by shooing. Financial troubles
was the supposed cause.
TRO PS FR M THE ouri,or.-- The
Morning Post tates Wolseley has been
ordered te withdraw one-third of his
entire force from. the Soudan for service
elsewhere. '
• —DesrnucTre H RRIC E.—A terrible
hurricane occ re c at Tanative, on the
-east coest of M daigascar, on the 25th of
Febru ha bor.
ry. Te el e vessel foundered in
8aCo., of New itunswick, New. Jersey,
'the •
REA. D GES WANT D:—.Janeway
whose paper ctory was burned by
blazing oil fro a wrecked train on the
Pennsylvania allwey, have sued the
company for $
' HORRIBLE A CIDENT.—
.cident occurre at Osco
last Monday. ' tile a nu
were clearing b *ek out o
stack of a mill he bottom
,000 damages.
horrible ac-
e Michigan,
ter ofe men
the smoke -
tier gave way
A
. and haven men were buried under 50,000
brick. Five men were killed outright,
Hardwick, Biddle, Mitchell, Maynard
and an Unknown man. Fulton was
severely but not fatally wounded.
'CHAR* BALL.—The ball given. on
Saturday night by the press of Paris for
the poor of the city was an immense
success. There were : -close on eight
thousand guests, and . nearly 300,000
francs were realized for the object of
charity. ,
A SLUGGING MATCH. --John L. Sul-
livan and Paddy Ryan, of New York, have
•_ agreed to engage in a contest with small
gloves at Butte City, Montana, on June
16th, for the championship belt, a purse
of $2,500; and two-thirds of the excur-
sion money. • , .
MAINE'8 NEW LIQUOR LA.W.—The
- amended liquor law for the State of
Maine went into operation on the 7th
inst. A despatch flare Portland says
for the 44 tiine in many years all
. drinking :places. are effectually closed,
tauidesttsh.e h_otels refuse to serve liquors to
LORD MAYOR OF LONDON DEAD.—
George Samuel Nottage, Lord Mayor of
London, died Saturday morning of
pleurisy'. Dunbar J. Douglass, Earl of
Selkirk, it also dead. He was born in
1800, and 'during his public career held
the offices of keeper of the great seal of
Scotland and Lord Lieutenant of Kirk-
cudbright ' ' •
IINEMP GYM/ WORKMEN. --A meet-
ing, was held in Hyde Park, Lon-
don, on Sunday, of twenty thousand un-
employed workmen. Resolutions were
.adopted.asking the Government' to re-
duce the Working :day to eight hours,
and to p o.vide . public work for the
unemployed.
RIGHT UL ' COLLAPSE. —A row of
eight five -storey tenement houses in
course of iLirection on 62nd street, New
.Yo k, collapsed Monday afternoon -with-
out a mo ent's warning, burying iri the
ruins all t e Workmen employed, forty-
fivelin number, the •majority of whom
were eith r crushcd to death or fatally
injured. ,
SKATEDi To DEATH.--:-WIII. Donovan,
Of Elinira,1 the winner • of the recent six
day %eller skating filet& in Madison
Square go, den, New York, died from a
relapse w IA:followed a severe attack
of pneuinonia, contracted at Elmira,
shortly after the termination of his per-
formance.! The death scene wasaffect
g• -
ended his manager, Davis,
the diamoiid medal he had won, asking
him to ke p it in remembrance of him.
Donovan is the second participant in the
late contest who has died, , but the doc-
tors Say his death woe, in nowise clue to
his exertio s -at that time.
FF
IRS AT OTTAWA.
Fronzl Our own Correspondent.)
OrrAwa, April 13tht 1885.
Reiimiiig its sittings after recess, the
House of 1onnrions at once came gown
to busine s. The Gevernment moved
that the 9 ouse go into Committee of
Supply to onsider the estimates of ex-
penditure qr next year, the motion was
granted • *thout discussion and this,
which is a ways the main • work of the
session, w s begine in earnest. -More
satistacto4 progressbas been made
the work Which the people send, the`
representa ives :to do than in any formai-
,
-tf
week of th Pession. It will require at
least four Week. s for the estimates, if
theyeere pi1operiy 'discussed, and at least
two weeks or other business,: unless it
is unduly Iiurried, so that there is cveijy
reason wh , the loyal Canadian legis
torashould look forward to celebrath
Her Majesty's birthday in Ottawa.
THE NORTHWEST TROUBLES.
Since the Easter adjou•rnment tIie
leader of -11.e Opposition has adopte
apparently, a new policy in reference , o
the Northwest. Ile leaves the matter
entirely in the hands of the Government
and by so doing throws all the responti-
bility upon! thein. He has not asked
any euestiOns or expressed any vie vs
on the position of affairs. The result is
to his advantage and may be to that of the
Government leaving their hands_ fr e,
but decidedly the result is. not to the
advantage of the country in the way he
GOvernmenit deal& with the mat r.
Only two announcements respecting the
state of affairs have been made siace
Easter. One was a brief denial of 1he
ensational reports current in the ea ler
art of the week that the Gros Ventres
iegon and Blood Indians had crowd
he boundary: from the United States
nd were rna,kin their way northwArd
o join_ •Riel. bo far, so good. id
here was no information in this as to
he position of affairs among the Cr ela-
nd other Indians on: our own side of -.
the line. The next day the House as
informed in the curtest possible • way of
the terrible massacre at Frog La e;
There is every reason to .believe t at
this is but thc first of a series Of dims rs
that are to 3ome upon us through he
ferocious C ets, and the gravest poisi Ile
anxiety' is felt here as it must be el e- '
where. The people's representati es.
and the pe ple are left with their ho p es
and fears as their only solace, ,the G iv-
ernment lie ping to itself whateverinf r-
mation it has respecting the Indians t at
are on the rarpath, the hopes of deferid.ing threatened places and the pres nt
position a.nkl condition of the troops.
The feeling grows _stronger here t1at
• we have heard the last' of the Rini
rebellion and that the great danger new
is from the 1 ndians.who, hawing tasjed
blood, will Continue. their maraiidiig,
plundering, and butchering until 1-th y
are overco e by a stronger force. It 1is
to be hope, that the Government , ill
not send e i e volunteers from the Est
to face Wes blood -thirsty savages. The
brave men ho have gone to the frDI t
will be , o ly too anxious to m et
any foe, s ut it is impossible tiikt
those who come from the older' Pro-
vinces 4n be sufficiently . acquaint..
ed with the warfare of the plains to be
a match m: ii for man with well -armed
Indians, an, it Would be A shame t run
sa.rlly in th s unhappy businese. There
nnte
the risk • o losing a single life u ces-
are men *s the Northwest who kn w
the plains and the Indian mode of
warfare, menwhoare a match for fiire
times their number of Indians. All
that is wanted for these men is arms,
-
ammunition and a° base of supplies mid
they willquiet the Indians in short
order. No question has been raised in
Parliament of the•policy to be persued
in the fabe of this new danger, but, .its
there canndt be the slightest suspicion
on either ide of sympathy with the
Indians, t e Government could well
afford to take the Opposition into its
confidence in this matter and arrange a
policy in concert,which.would put down
Big Bear and his crew with the greatest
possible celerity and with the least. pos-
sible loss of life. It may be mentioned
here that the Government has a propos-
ition before the House to increase the
Mounted Police force to a thousand men
or four hundred more than at present.
In view of the feet that it Will take a
long time for the turmoil in the North-
west to cease, even after the rebels and-
, grnraiervauandeeerss hreadvree sbseel: tpkuisu is hpe dr baanbdi y a lal
wise move. If it is accompanied by a
policy of greater fairness toward the
half-breeds and greater honesty on the
part of Government agents towards t
ie
• indians it drill doubtless have. a good
effect. .
TkE TE'MPERANCE MEN'S BILL.
From Inclian
amendments may seein a 'rather sudt,e
Act
upriphigs to Scott Acn
change of subject, but the foes that t
Government is trying to suppress in the
Northwest never have done so much
harm as that egainst which the friends o.
membered t,
the Scott Act and all other lovers of th
country are:
the Dominion Prohibibattling. It will be re
tion Alliance *posed a bill 'embodying
i
certain amendments to the i Scott Act
..
which, in their opinion, were necessary
in order to Make the Act more work
able than it is at present. The friends
of the Alliance he the House allege that
they asked the Government to take
charge of this bill and put it through
the 11, ouee, anda that the Government
delayed giving _their answer, and then
refused to grant the request made. The
bill Was, therefore, placed in the hands
of a Conimittee, of members of the
Alliance, who are also members Of the
House the nominal promoter of the bill
being iqr. Jamieson, of Lanark. Being
introduced tete, the hill, of course, took
on the order paper.
its place low 'do
The Government ad a resolution permed
about two weeks ago, that business in
*the hands of minsters should have pre-
cedence overthat in the hands of • pri-
vate memberseno only on Tuesday and
Friday, which is. airovided for by the
:standing 'rule of the House, but on
'Thursday as Well. Early lest week the.
Premier gave notice of his intention to
move that Wednesday also be added to
thedist of Government days. The carry-
ing Of this niotion Would practically cut
off all the bilis in the hands .of private
members, anl would make it impossible
'for any of them to carry. Anticipating
something of this kind, Dr. Bergin gain-
ed -the, consent of the House to put his
bill for the regulation of labor in fac-
tories at the head of thelist. The meas-
ure was discissed for one evening, and
the debate !upon was adjourned.
When it came up again on Wednesday
evening, Mr.,Jamieson moved that the
Scott Act amendment bill prepared:by
the ,Alliance Should be at once taken up
in
place of the Factory Act. This as
may be imagined, roused a lively This,
for there are several members
who hate the Scott Act and all that
appertains thereto, and among these
none is More earnest in his hatred than
Dr. Bergin, Whose bill would be. killed •
by this motion if it carried. Opposition
was in erain,1, however, for the temper-
ance men have a good working majority
in this Parliament. Mr.- M. C. Cam-
eron magnanimiously fevered the consid-
eration of the Scott Act measure, not-
withstanding that he had two very im-
portant bills, one giving representation
to the Northwest • Territories, the other
making more stringent regulations to
secure purity of elections, which would;
in the regular order, have come up be-
fore Mr. Jamieson's_ bill. , He took the
ground that the people of the country
evidently desired, that the Scott Act
should be tried: _ Whatever views a:
inan might have on the subject, it was
his duty not to stand in the way of the
free expression of the people's will. If
the Scott Act, in its present shape, was
unworkable through • some technical de-
fects, it was the duty of Parliament, as
representing the people,: to remove those
technical defects, and let the peeple
have a fair trial of the Act of which
they have declared themselves in fever.
The resolution to enter upon considera-
tion •of Mr..Jemieson's bill, was tarried
by a fair majority. Sir John Ma,cdon-
old and one or two other ministers voted
against it, but the niajority of the mem-
bers of tile Cabinet present favored it.
The opposition to the bill then took the
shape of amendments calculated, to im-
• pair the, efficiency of the Scott Act
itself. The first and most important of
these was a resolution declaring that
a majority of the voters on the list
should be requiredto carry the Act.
This caused a lively discussion and an
interesting vote, resulting in the defeat
of •the amendment. : Then it was pro-
posed to extend the _provisions of the
Scott Act, enabling the liquor manufac-
turer outside the Scott .Act county to
sell in quantities of ten gallons for con-
sumption within the Scott Act county,
by giving the liquor maker within the
county theteatne, privilege. This is the
substance of a bill Which is .already be -
fere the House, fathered by Mr. Mc-
Carthy, the father of, ever so many bills
that never carry. On this occasion the
measure was voted down. Then the
doctors came to the front:- Some of
them asked that an exception be. made
in favor of the•profeesion, which would
enable doctors to keep any „quantity of
licipor and sell it ''straight or mixed,
as they pleased, to their patients. Some
of the doctors themselves, however, ob-
jected to this as. opening too wide a
door. In connection with this a few
lines may be given to one of the best
retorts of the aession. Mr. Landry, of
New Brunswick, in opposing • the mo-
tion, said that e lawyer friend of his
went into a Scott Act county, leaving
his pocket flask at 'home. Growing
thirsty, he spoke to a medical' friend
whom he met on the' street, and asked
for a "prescription." The doctor look-
ed at the lawyer's tongue, assumed a
grave air, and told him to go to his
hotel and wait Mr the'medicine. Short-
ly after he reached his room, a• gallon
jug of excellent spirits was brought in
by a, thessenger from the doctor. This,
Me. Landry argued, showed that even
doctors could not be trusted to deal in
liquors. Dr. Ferguson, of Leeds, at
once rose andtold the House that it
must not be, overlooked that the man
with the bad tongue who got a .gallon of
medicine was a lawyer. The Joke was
all the better because Mr. Landry is a
The House laughed.
ted down the amend -
necessary for doctors
uor to give a certificate,
f which liquor will be
drug atom. The doc-
oner been disposed of
of Caldwell, rose to
lawyer himself.
'heartily, but v
ment, leaving i
who prescribe li
on the strength
purchasedat th
tors had no s
than Mr. Whit
call attention to the position of the
veterinely surgebos. When - whisky
or beer is prescribed for a horse or cow,
it must- he given in larger , quantities
than it is customary • to prescribe for a
man.lif If this larger quentitY is to be
purchased at a drug store as medicine,
it will :cost about as much as an or lindrY
animal is worth, Therefore, MT. White
argued, veterinary surgeons ought to be
allowed to keep and .801 the liquor they
prescribe. The Rollie decided, lidwe
ever, that it would not be wise to trust
the veterinary surgeon with a power it
denied to medical men. Through all
these. difficulties the Bill was steered to
the satisfaction of the committeewho
have it in •Charge. It was passed
through all but itsi last stage and now it
la,
stands for the third reading.
Mr. Davies, of Prince Edwarci I
Tndai
TIIE RECIPROCITY QUESTION..
renewed on \Friday his motion ,o la
year in fewer of the immediate opening
of negotiations with the United States
for closertrade relations. Those ela,uses
of the Washington Treaty -under whicie
American fishermen have the right to
fish in Canadian waters ev:hile Canadian
fish are admitted free of duty into the
United States will expire on the 1st of
July next. Air: Davies holds that this
fact itself makes this a good time for
entering upon such negotiations. - The
British Government is especially anxious
that the fishery clauses should be re-
newed, ' because without some such
treaty, there will be constantly un-
pleasant disputes between Britain and
the United States owing to depredations
of the American fishermen, and besides
an expensive service will have to be em-
ployed to 'keep the Yankee fishing
vessels out of Canadian -waters. •Mr.
Pavia pointed out this fact as shown in
the correspondence on the subject, and
dwelt also upon the great advantages
which would be reaped by the Dominion
generally and especially by the Mari-
time Provinces if a reciprocity treaty
were arranged. He quotedexpressions
of ()Pinion in the United. States favor-
able to reciprocity from the President's
message and* other public documents
andfrom newspapers. The fact that
there was a Democratic administration
in power, he regarded as a reason to
hope for success if negotiations were
opened: When this motion was up
last year he Was met .bY the argil/tient
that Canada had several times moved in
the direction of Reciprocity, and her
overtures had not been well received by
the United States; and that it was be-
neath the - dignity of the Dominion again i
to put herself n a position to be snub-
bed. He- -contended that this was a
business matter. Canada and the United
States were two trading nations, and
the opening of negotiations in a proper
spirit and in a proper way, could not
place Canada in a• false position. He
was told last year that in the same Act
which carried the protective policy into
effect there was a declaration that as
soon as. the United States threw the
duties off any natural products Canada
would do the same. This, he believed,
was a bar to reciprocity rather than
something calculated to help it, for it
referred only to that class of goods
which, as a general thing, the Americans
do not sell in Canada. In his arguments
Mr.. Davies was strongly supported by
Mr. Burpee, Mr. Weldon'and other
Maritime Province Liberals,butopposed
by the Conservatives. The result was, `
of course, that thetesolution was•voted
down, but there were a number of Mari-
time Province Conservatives,who, know-
ing how strong was the feeling in favor
of reciprocity, _ chose to remain away.
The Government's majority on the ques
tion was only 40, instead of the 60 and
70 that they are accustomed to find at
their backs.
.TIIE CA-NADIA:N. PACIFIC.
It is an ill wind that blows nobody
good. The rebellion will cost the people
of Canada from: two to five millions of
dollars, but it will give the Canadian
Pacific about five millions in hard cash.
The troops. were sent to the Northwest
by the Caneelian Pacific route, and the
Govdinment and the Syndicate will, of
course, laud the constructiOn of the road
for that reason. The question of further
aid'which it has taken so long to settle'
has-been settled, it is said, in favor of
the Canadian Pacific through the (for
them) fortunate accident Of the rebellion,
thus making the rebellion a double dis-
aster to the Dominion. It is stated on
good authority that the Government
has agreed to give the company an-
other tete millions in cash, and to wipe
out the mortgage held on accoimt of
• last session's loan of thirty Millions. In
return the Government is to receive ten
-million dollars of first mortgage bonds
(of •which thirty-five millions • 'are to
he issued by the company) and the pro-
ceeds of the sales of lands. The difficul-
ty about raising the necessary ready
cash has been Overcome by Sir Leonard
Tilley having effected another short loan
of $5,060,000 in New York. The heinsubpjeacrt
of this loan can hardly .
liament for some time yet. -The proba-
bility is that it will be proposed and
rushed through at the last moment.
1 A. B. J.
•
• Huron Notes.
Robert • Thompsdh, of Goderich, has
bought the Andrews farm, on- the 4th
concession, at a reasonable figure.
—Messrs. Chadds and Henry Young
left Goderich township last week for
Michigan. They took with them two
imported horses to travel in that sec-
tion. •a
—Messrs. J. A. McEwen, of Morris,
..
and Walter Allison of Belgrave, left
lei* week on a trip Allison,
the old country.
We wish them a pleasant visit and a
safe return. •
* —Mr. Henderson, for ;some time
principal of the Zuricl public school,
has returnedto that vill ge after having
spent several months lin the United
States, and is now stud mg medicine in
Dr. Buchanan's office. •
—That showy coach horse "Barney
V." has been bought by A. R. Smith,
of Brussels; from John ,. cott, of Listo-
wel.l This horse succ eded: in taking
1st Trim in Brantford ai d. Guelph where
he was exhibited. Price paid $250.
e -A man named J. G. Field of Wing -
ham was fined $8 a few days ago by the
Mayor of that town for interfering with
the Salvation Army procession when it
was marching on the street.
—Mr. Henry Reynolds, of Howick,
died on the 2nd 'inst., of inflammation.
He was 52 years' of age. • For a few days
before his death deceased had not been
in very good health, but feeling better
on Wednesday he went out to do some
chores and it appears he took cold, and
becoming much worse he returned to
the house and to bed, and before next
morning he was dead. He was a highly
•
•
APRIL 17, 1-445
diMMENilla
bor and an active worker
respected
npheeeerro annigserieetaeteir fo nut le countenance,,
er cnha naete pe ale asr le
ant smile and kind words winning the
lov_emofett4118rsn.rhoGkennerwgehimm..ew7ponrospeaan:
Archibald Fisher of -Wingham, started
mlausti.week for Callander, in the Nip*.
sing
with •
AnatisvMtirieeswetst w.silter•rteSinntghelealy &laSrigiolensi'l-rmeirciel7t
sale th.e sum
because the price was not bid sincefthe
upset priceiv
i e8ot efe efaksei 11H3000'whne va has
hi ei tbethe'el: a!fnuwo not Bed tofhleder
sale of
Bingham, Hudett, was one of those who
th—e SMairTi.eNanelisnionaLBingham, on of Mr4., Wthe.
forti t 'ets t :in t tel eo fn-eirreilanioenw N%ari tph°I the of
98riltehil-
several years ago assisted in buibline.
weltTuhPel:ioll3hger" • day Mrs. W. Smithson of
Clinton, was standing on top ate, high
step ladder doing sow house cleaning,
wiVahsenthtrhoeiwna(ae
florcribblyr6tko e :ohe titowo(,
r); nd she
o rtd uu_
at—elyTnhoe liiivonizielitaenrleelerruonkcen•
na, tbutti:hseelLas.
olafkethnelicpiare going
citizens to Balk
ta.batatdeielsyntssallt vvell in that tern, thinking ie
salt is found it willtaibe‘elat tahie,eatirt,riifiricne)agndnee
ii itii.
Cittooewinlintivirrtno.y,c tothhaecrioenCssa
Carter, of Kellett, has
113;ihm-thYe
rented the Melville farm, on h
concession of the same township, far a
tn
term of years. It contains 00. acres.
Mr. Melville has lived on the farm for
over 32 years and retires to the villageof
fiHvar ti)ohreedx.
—There
ea
erne iyireaGroarroief age,
e5h3scheas9th
olars from .
from 16 to 21 years old, 95 scholars
from 7 to 13 years oltL The total pope.
latiOn of the village is 627. These
figures were obtained by Mr. Wm. Rue:
sell Tir. EF.
BaekofWing
ere7toifficialcanwvass.kani. has
sold his high -bred brood mare and filly
to Messrs. Ingleman & Fields of Dan-
wv iel leek, be
epnutrueekkaerreed forfrom700a „„ party and niasj
Montreal a fine French stallion for which
-
we understand, he paid $2,000.
—The other day, Mr. John Heywood,
of • the 3rd concession of Usborne, was
removing a pea stack from the end of
his barn, and 1 when the bottom NM
reached a swarth of very large rats,
which had been feeding there all winter,
wag found. Mr. Heywood's dog made
short work of them, succeeding in kill-
ing6t• —uring the parade of No. 4 volun-
teer companyin Clinton last week, Major
Murray referred to the rumored retire-
ment of Col. Itoss, and said that if it was
necessary for the 33rd Battalion to go to
the front, there was no man he would
soonqr have in conmiand, or fight under,
than ol. A. M. Ross, withwhom helm./
been intimately associated 'for years.
—Alt. Wm. Mullen, _a merchant of
Wingham, met with a very peculiar
accidept a few days ago. He was using
a largd knife for opening a paakage of
paper, when it slipped through the cord
rather easier than he expected and
struck him on the leg juzt below_ the
knee, making an ugly gash. Next
morning he was unable to get out of
,bed"
—The •
D.E.
GodreGoderich Signal of last week
says:
Cameron, of Lucknow,
and D. 0. Cameron, of Goderich, came
down by rail from Lucknow, to attend
the debate on Tuesday night. t. At Clin-
ton they could get no livery rig, and at
4:20 p. m, left for Goderich •I on foot.
They arrived here in good time for D.
R Cameron to take the chair, and D. a
to take up the notes of his'speech. The
roads were rough for tramping.
—The Signal is glad to hear that Rev.
A. D. Meldrum, step -son of Captain.
Gibson, of Goderich, hag received a gall
to the pastorate of St John's Presbyter-
ian church, Sari Francisco. Mr. Mel-
drum for some time past acte& as assiit-
• ant to the late Dr. Scott, and upon -the
decease of the: pastor has been unani-
mously called to the full pastorate,/ at
an advance of $800 on his present
salary. '
• —The congregation of St. Paul's Epis-
copal church, Wingliam, have placed in
the church a very handsome tablet in
grateful remembrance of their faithful
and loving pastor, the late Rev. Wm.
Murphy, who 4alored amonst thera for
eight years. The tablet is nearly four
feet high, of the very best of white mar-
ble, beautifullY engraved. The inscrip-
tion, which was nicely arranged by Rev.
R. McCosh, the present Rector, is done
in gold letters.
—Dr. McDonald, Of Wingara, who
has been in Texas since last fall for the
benefit of his health, returned homelast
Friday. evening, and was accorded a
right hearty welcome. • The bandeend a
large number of friends . were at the
station to meethim and escort him to
his residence. The band played "Home, .
sweet home" in fine style. • The doctor
looks twice as natural as ever, and evi-
dently the climate out west agreed with
him first rate, as he weighs more than
he has at any time ire the past 25 years:
and was compelled to sew a strip three
inches wide in the back of his vest before
he could make it rneet in front. He
was rather unfOrtunite, however, in one
respect having hada broken leg to nurse
-a,11 winter. It appears that on Decem-
ber 17th while he was travelling in a.
Texas stage from San Antonio to Boerne
the horses ran away and he was thrown
out, breaking his left leg near the ankle.
The leg bothers him considerably yet,
and he limps painfully in walking.
--Shortly before one e'clock Sunday
morning last a fire broke out in the
woodshed attached to a frame cottage in
Wingham, occupied by Mr. A. J. Ander-
son. The first intimation the family
received of it was when the flames had
reached the kitchen, when Mr. Ander-
son's son was awakened by the noise
and saw the reflection through his bed-
room window. An alarm was immedi-
ately sounded, 'and in an, incredibly
short time the firemen were on the spot
and had a stream playing on the flames.
All the furniture was safely removed on
to the street. The firemen succeeded in
confining the fire to the kitchen, ale
though a heavy wind was blowing in the
direction of the main building, and after
some hard wole it was extinguished.
The end and roof of the kitchen and
woodshed Were destroyed, causing a
loss of about '$200. The building is
&ivied by Mr. Wm. Isbifiter, of Morris,
and was fully insured. Mr. Anderson
had no insurance on his furnitur, , his
lent
losa is trifling. It is a myster as te5
the origin of the fire, as no ashes ehad
been set in the woodshed since the prey -
bus Friday.
APRIL
140rthW
'MX FROG
In the House%
John Macdonald
th
wh
riaanntilFe:ruonngocittahtkehaoit
ba been who comtuarnectLesi%
tb
-Fort Pitt. Ile sayl
at Frog Lake, an
were killed :—The
agent, a Ilalf-bril
farm mstruetor ;
is a miller,. -and hi
Fafard, a priest;
-a priest ; and two
believe they wen
Delaney, is a
nephew
nd
wd aofQaurrilli:
e '
day. The fate of
BOR Bay Company
are under InOpect
25Mwhich°11Indl
rteecei-:1
::/1.1
—Are there any 1'
• Sir John Macdona
There are very fev
It is a mere po
that
tlIkn
eforod,:nao
and1dt:Irt
gr•oFr°giaketl
upofjreserves
quarters -of the
ent. The name of
given to'the viil
formed in the vicir
parldnent bnfldiug
residences for the
and the interprete
storehouses, imple
other buildings.
formerly used as a:
supplies,- which th
There were also -
ment_of police har
-barrack.
FROM GEIMR4t.
A despatch -
under eommand
dated Iluniboldt;
This command, ail
ing, in which over
coveredthrough 1.
here to -morrow at
of reinforcements
Major Branton, at
diers under Colon,
• arrival the comb
sw :tent galon. uddri: nue 11 jet; inp4i
withallforward• not:prob4-1'
the front in tin
which cannot takc
part of this week,
from the rebel
from Prince Alber
• Colonel, Irvine 11-
Mountetl Police, z
• the women and et
astatte• °f:lbjeCra,t-t
remhftio
• taking the Carrot.
culty is experienci
Albert, from herc
S.L.
officer„oza Mr. N
• owner, left for P
-by the rout nom
• eight hundred
•Sioux Indians.
every da,y, Big I,
to join him- Wel
he has will fight -t4
eraI Middleton 4
smell powder abra
Middleton, it is sa
conSolidating the
to inunediatelYad
ir ttr
ite7aot
oops hat
ttlismheetamet:yebeeestesferro%nual4y
Courier from Prine
brought news up t
• - rlasePrtsonlyPtir7o,Ni::el
the transportation.
;PaneirdtYCotel.. tatttteird:1
his instructions,
• -to that pointas;
arrangernentS are
is termed termed in nnht
column.," and ever
to accomplish t*..
'43etimthulleitstireiiesda;.esIvilniallsiiitik'Leee-n;
•
• Communication w;
• had, thela!st intelli
"No news froni
• sent to that place
bN:inoincigistone Fit'rsti
• brigade is to-nigh.1
-the, Saskatehew
• Over 400 teams
• a transport corps.
FROM GEXERAI.
• A despatch fro
• lr4onica
th,oaySta: The
f
t atakrlr ovkna itolr oCo
lottel
am
troops were form
• aimed, they co
from Edmonton
lidantry could fol
The opinion here
ters is that the:
year, that :many
• Indians will, aft
depredations they
where they.eau
The Hird-fion's
furnishing ,transp
Strange's
rerdayforioeacreeek
nke_iu addition.
TOE
• Latest advices
ton state that his.
63da-yudlniesgkotf anBaatoetkl
to that point, whe
• Rial and his fore
nottaketimedie,rhe
• leas been fa,llina f
• awn. The whole
etrietturaffisiiipepirs:ealiagernfbvreTdmre:sbefev
gone from Batt e
are cheerful but
and burnt all the
tweet' Pitt and
l'itt). There we
dfedsoenttlerstther
coieiote
miles on Mon
reached the