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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSemi-Weekly Signal, 1865-05-16, Page 2• a ft 11 • THE SEMI-WEEKLY SIGNAL.' Tax Stemmer OF STATE. -The condition 'Whither -are we Drifting ef Secretary Seward is such that there is every prospect of his resuming his official duties THE RAD TIMES AND SCARCITY OF LABOR IN within a week or ten days. Already he su pervises the important work done in the State Department. Stini-hletklyn Signal. GODiRICH, MAY 161 1865. wz believe the article on the labor and money question, published else- whire, will " be popular, because, unfortunatelA as our oorrespondent intimates„three out Of every four readers Of the Signal have a feeling interest in the subjeei,. , The remark, also, _ that a wholesaleprodue has set in- from Canada to the States is ton 'sadly - true. Hundreds of fine, prinitising young nien lave already forsaken -Huron and Bruce • this Spring. The coasting steamers have conveyed fifty or sixty- of them to Port 1 . Hureiton • each trip -the propellor lr-to-.' garamn her first trip to Chicago took over . about fifty mid scores more, to - our -own- personal -knowledge; have deterMinedi _ upon Starting just ae _peon as they can muster -up enough to pay their passage., And yet, in the face. of the moit positive' evidence of the abject prostration of the country, the Signal is,sev,erely censured by some because in the discharge of a most important duty it,proeltrims the fact and. „ endeavors to search out the canses, leadiiig . to this sad state of affairs-Nayr we have I been ,most unjustly. accused of holding -; Annexation views . because we have not chosen to call a spade..a useful implement for disintegrating' the partichs of soil so that they may be--- exposed to - solar and atmospheric influences, -be., .4:-.e. - We., have never advised a soul to leave' us,. but: .i % have ratherleplored the stern -necessities that compel men to forsake the institutions • • - of their .forefathers to seek bread for themselves and their little ones -'under the CANADA, AND THE CAUSE -IMPORTANT FOR MORTGAGERS AND MONEY -LENDERS -A DAY OF RECKONING CLOSE AT HAND FOR THE LATTER AND 23031E HOPE FOR THE FORMER T� DUTY OF THE PEOPLE TO SCPPORF THE COUNTY PAPER -THE SIUNAL,' &C., &C.- •••••••• BLYTnn, May 12th, 1865. To -the Editor of thc limn; StoNAL : Some time ago 1 have read two admir- able articles in the Signal on the scarcity of money and the hard- times, and. in the :Niglio/ of the 5th int. I have read with deep interest an article on " Labor" - These three articles have the same ten- dency, and the Huron Signal deserves general -credit for being the first paper in Canada to point public attention prom- inently to the evils which threaten us, and under which we are suffering and likely still to suffer more. Wheu evils threaten ,it is better te look them sqearely and fairly in the face, and, if possible, devise. sorae means to avert them, than to. close our eye..s until they .-come upon us and crush us -cltiwn. Undoubtedly: " Canada is now laboring under a cloud " heavier, and denser than any that passed oyer it since the Rebellion of '313 and '38; and how it nil emerge from thiscloud is, a problem wbich tune alone can solve. Thb articks in the Signal are Well cabulated to draw public attention to our situation, nnd soeperson, perhaps, may be able _to. show us the bright side of our position s& as to re -engender pnblie confidence and hope, and to indUce people to stick to the Canadian ship until better times occur. At present the times are hard -money is scarce,.." and labor not to be had. From those new tosvnshipsi and, I believe, from • stars and stripes: We have just tie much X-- faith in Canadian resources as our Ilowick friend.. In Spite of frosts we can raise on the qttarter-acre df British...American soil that we ovia better plums_ apples, small fruits, and vegetable's than most of the . Americans on their patches; and our farmers can produce :wheat that stands * A. 1 in the world's Market, as well as the. very best of cordwood.. But there is something wrong somewhere, else, with -our fine agricultural resources, we sleuth not be steeped to the lips in -pecuniary embarrassment and Miseryas we are at thit moment, and we hold that it le the bounden day of every rover of the country and its institutions to enquire into and - remove, if possible, the source of all this trouble and danger. _ do- not wish it to be -Understood_ that we are entering upon a Wholesale indiecriminate Campaign against the lend: sirs of money. Many of these men live amongst us and knowing the condition of the people refrain from either 'exacting a cent beyond their -ten or twelve per cent or distressing their mortgagors when they can with any degree oteafety dose. - The -sorestpressure is feltby these ivho borrow money meat from Britain, as it would be sent to India, to bring -a good, stiff per- centage and thus enable the possessors to parade the'streets and parks Of the old land in a.style that could net be afforded • on the modeit three per cent. which their 'aorplus funds would...command at home._ To constitute an element of wealth, money " must remain in the country, and it is ::.equally as true that noman can. borrow limself out Of debt Large. suing' of 1-softey have came into this country, but • they baize rile to pay for dead hories. The necessities of -the Peoplehave- compelled them :to borrow largely, 'and if we measure those necessities by the high rates of interest, we -can well understand that ourfinancial disease is a most aggra- vated One. _ If the money lent out could remain.. in the country to 'develop its . resources the case would not appear so bad, but it does no so remain; it flows! , out again in a torrent that only exhausts itself when the last Maris spent, leaving behind the 12 or 15 per cent ef interest, as the ease may be,. and -it is one of the primary axioms of political economy that ry cart prosper whose necessities the' payment of more thasn- four . of interest. We have no wish to appear unjust in .the, eyes of any one elms, and we know that a Atariety of senses beveled to our Monetary difficiilties, but we deyrish to - impress the lessons- of .the times on those Who -may be in a - position now Or hereafter to profit by them. In the Meantime, we shall throw our eoliains open to any gentleman- who May • - think that wehave gone - estray in our treatment of this important subject. • Capture et Jefferson Balls, - The telegraph:brings us the anticipated iatelligenee that Jeff. Davis, his fatuity and staff were captured at hwinsiille. Georg/Non the 10th inst. Sorry as we are that the ex -president of the Southern Confederacy has fallen into the hands of - the Federal!, we have haclbut little hope • °this escaper end now that he is a prison- er, we hope, for the Mie of humanity that Ib. Executive will not abuse its power _ • sad bnag delft upon itself the merited - snood°, of Christeadom.. Thai it, of 006111‘ Preilabg that Mr. Davis is • . • egaillY iinatact Cr the *rime, _of assasana: gisitisitIre hope and trust will prose lib* *amis. ?tare are bit few Bute's' fa Ilia Werth salable of impeaehing this bar of the !Ufa= sod or tati :every part of Canada, there is now, ag you describe in the Signaka continued stream emiaration to the United States. Either- , this must be put a stop to ia some way or Canada must suffer. Canada is in no -way behind the generality of the States -either- in position, climate or esources. .How, then, is it that the States progress while Canada retrogrades'? ' How, then, - 'is it that there is plenty of remunerative employment for all in the States while there's none in Canada? The cause is that the vast resources of Canada ere not developed as those of the States are. The cause is that there are more men of public spirit there than here. The unparalleled resources -of Canada are allowed to lie dormant while the resources of the States . are turned to -good account - While- our politicianare dreaming and planning and • wrangling about new constitutions they are neglecting the internal improvements of the country -grasping at the shadow fad throwing away the substance.. We -ltave too many theories, and too much politics in Canada- for the good of the conatry. We have the fineit water privi- leges in the world, in most cases these waters are -allowed to flow -uselessly into the -lakes. Our fertile virgin soil likewise is comparatively -neglected for want of pram . to cultivate it as it should be: - Millions. of dollars could be profitably ,eniployed in agricultural improvements in Huron. How much splendid land , now lies *este in Huron alone for want of means to drain. . The Crown sold their lands too high in the first place. As for :those of the Canada Company,- they are out or the question'. All those things combine to keep "Canada under a cloud." , _But there is another evil - at which you. lint that is dolma- more to keep this srltn- did country under a cloud than anything, -else.. It is that we have too many non- predacers 1- :toe many lazy drones, who think it, asthey did in the old country, a -degradation to do physical labor, Some "of these drones are unfortunately in a position. to tura usurers. They take acivaetage of the dire necessities of the people. Theyadvertise to lend money from 8 to 12 per -cent People in dim- Oulties are forced to take the bait, and in 1 an evil hour they mortgage their farm and harrow the money, but instead , of 10 or .12 they often find -that all .told they have - . to pay nearly 20 per cent.' This class of piood-suckers, and their -name is Legion in Canada, are getting -rich by t -he sweat nd toil of the hard-working farmer.- At is expense they are able to build fashion- _ ble brick houses in *Toronto and :to --fare Sumptuously every day, in purple and fine inen, while their victims are • writhing in agonies and stinting theniselves and belt- families to try to meet the heavy half yearly payments of interest But how can a , armor work while he feels the finger of one f those blood suckers, as It were, on is treat? His energies muse in a measure, be aralyzed. And _then conceive the fearful tate the country must be in when I tell you, end I do not overstate the fact, that three out .af every Tour farmers iethose new towuships oney vampirea. They Shall have their day, , tre utortgaged,and thus in is the,power of those tit depend upon it, a day of bitter reckoning or them :is close at hand. How will thiy get back their money ? The borrower has not at. and can never pay it. Thep ferules, the Mortgages -eject the Mortgagers. Hew can they eject three foinils of a township ?-nay, Perhaps, of a county -7 1 wonder the insurers clicknot think of this before they lent so exe tensivelY. The thing. *ejecting could net be tolerate&The Government could hot permit it. In it.. 'United .States the trovetn- ent had to step in toprotect the anti-rentem i Van Bengali:be County,in the State of New ‘ mkt sal elsewhere, Ilere in Canada; also, id not ,our own government Come to the relief of the cenetaires ? Are not the people tif:Upper Canada at this eiessert,- and shall ey not as long as OTT -live, be paying' the seipoun for giving the land fret -of rent to the ersasitairest Are illit people 'af-lipier Canada, atlas consideration in the eyes of our Government than the people' of Lower I Canada ? I should hope not. But apart from the government, I think the Court of Chancery, which is one of the best Courts in the Province, will afford relief -to the mort- gagers. Ido not think the Court of Chancery will allow the usurers to charge such exor- bitant rates of interest as they do and such outrageous commissions" and legal ex penses as they or their jackals exast. I shall here give you a hill of the expenses that a neighbor ot mine had lately to one ot your Cioderich lawyers for effecting a loan tor bim on mortgage di about $700 at 12 per cent. iuterest, payable half yearly hi advaace Bank Exthange do • $1 62 • 25, Commission... . 25 00 Legal Expenses . -- -10 00 Expenses of W—, 7 00 My own expenses,Reaistry Office, • • • • 17 50 ' WiIl any Court of &laity allow such a Bit; as thi ?Emphatically I . think not. There a no egility in such a charge.sss-I, can give names -if desired.. I think_ the Court of Chan eery will decide that the excess. of interest and the gross charge- of expenses' shall be taken as so much of the prinehnil sum, anti have high legal authority for saying ao; T he usurers themselves are beginning to fear - something of this:kind.-. -At firat they:lent, on mortgage in the usual way, stipulating for the payment of the principal in a eiven tune, and of the interest, whatever it might bei at stat- ed periods. But they do not do business in ties old-fashioned Way now. Now when they [mid they take an absolute deed of the bor- rowers' .farm, giving him a bond to resell to him on payment of a certain fixed price,heing the amount borrowed, and M the mean tune they leave the borrower his farm at se much a year rent, being in lieu of interest: This, certeinly, is the more artistic aftd_retined way oficluieg_the thin, but I doubt if. Equity will allew.itself to be blindfolded by such a shuffle. In another way still the mortgagees will be apt to suffer. Some farms that..1 could name are mortgaged for mote thari their value, and the mortgagees will either have to take them or get nothing, so that ie- different senses- the usurer Cannot .be eolisidered on e bed of roses. He can hardly escape loBS for. his cupidity, ----and few Will pity him: He Might have invested his money iia , More honorable ways, and thereby benefit not only him -self but the country at. large. If- monied -men pursued the latter course, our young men' would not require to leave ye now to seek employment elsewhere. I have -great faith in Canada. 1tmtybe . under a cloud just now, but the cloud _will soon _pass away and we shall again enjoy the sunshine of prosperity. Land is new _cheap, but I think it wilt net be Tong so. We in Huron -bare soil raid advantages that cannot be surpassed in Canade ; and if we_are Only true to ourselves and can tideover our pres- ent difficulties, this part Of the country might he made the garden of Canada- West arid eaual to any part of theSiates. • In justice to. mYself I may Say that. I have no personal interese:ie an) thing I have said about mortgages. My twin is not mortgaged and I never borrowed a cent on mertgage in my life. I merely wnte what I conceive to he for the publiegood. I do not desire that the mortgagees should lose by what is already done, but I want that the bad business should be stopped, for nicing,aging is: driving the country to utter ruin. I know also that it is •til contending for people who- will not raise fiend to aid thentselve.s, and Who will prefer :any day te barrow and spend- rather than to -Week. For instinee, many- of our people prefer spending money on whiskey and teliace co than to subscribe to a, :useful paper like the -Signal that would always stand -up far justice and fair play whenneeded. Lt Mem take a hint and support the press._ If not, for one, wilt wash my hands of them. , I have often shown that it is the duty and the inter- est of the people of Huron to support -their owe County paper, the Signal. I expect taat this letter will cerise a'large addition to your ;circulation. If -the reop'...e show a dis- positiceito act manfully and help themselves, I, in- my humble way, shall help them further, although the task is not an easy one to come in from the plough and write for -the press until the rain is ever. .Yours, &c., 1E. _ . . What they. say in England. We give here some remarks, from -the Liver- pool Mercury on the question of the defence of this colony, The Mercury represents the feeling of the extreme liberal party: and- is an influential ;journal :- We take it to .bel tolerably piinn:. that thiistiefition will not be allowed to remain where it is.. If the Came - diens do not think their country worth de- fending at their own expense, they cannot be too soon disabused of the delusion that the- Eirglish people are goieg to defend it for them. It is only in the capacity of an ally that England can accept- any responsibility for the protection of a community which dis- claims the authority of the English legisla• cure, and which pays not a farthing to the English Exchequer and alliance implies reciprocal obligations, accurately defiued by compaet between the allied Powers. The soil of Canada is not ours;- the revenues of Canada is not ours; and it is an outrage on common sense that we should be expected to -defend 'Canada as we would -defend -Cornwall - or the Ise' of Wight, where every acre, every -man, and every ahillingesf property are at the uncontrolled disposal of our own Peri*. meet. If it is said that Canada is responsible to foreign powers for the policy and the acts of ties British government, it is only neces- sary to reply that that responsibility is -the condition on which Canada retains the alli- ance of the British government, and that, if, it be an unacceptable condition, Canada weuld find little difficulty .in releasing herself from it at the simple cost of renouncing the British alliance. It -nmy be added by the way, that, as the affair of the -Vermont raid- ers suggests, the respopsibily is MIIIAlals and the British government may possibly become answerable to foreign powers for •the acts or defaults of Canadian nuthorities,_ It • would be a curious comment of the familiar fallacy that Canadian exposure to invasion exclusive- ly arises from her British connection, if Big- hted were dragged into a quarrel with the United States in cousequence of the •semno- lence of. the Canadiau police and the partisan violences of Canadian judges.. lAayhow.p.,, tue Parliament and people of Canada think they lose more than they gain by having . . - . . 'England for an 'ally on condaton oftaking the, consequences or the foreign policy of Englited, it is very *desirable„,both for their own sake and ours, that they _should -say do. Nothing but present irritation and future dis aster Calicome of a state of -things in which each party throws on the other burdens and liabities which they caunot agree on. dividing: There is no more urgent duty at this moment resting on the Imperial government and Par- liament than to make the Canadiaus disthict- ly understand that England. recognizes only a limited and condieoual "responsibility for the ,defince of 'a iself-governed coniarrietty which is quite rich enough to have an army and fortifications of itik ovnt: the United States well,have very little anxiety on the subject, and believe, with Judge Drum- • mend, that the,_best armament tor Canada is no armament at all, andthat the -millions spent on volunteers -the millions to be speut, and the *hole farago about defences is a halucination • the money had better be em- ployed in deepening our canals,and consti uct- ing rew railroads. The Americans have had war enough, they know it is a costly thing, and that time is now necessary to recuperate their own finances, and that the trade of Canada, the pine ot Canada, the ingenuities, labor, and the minerels of Canada, are neces- sary to be. gut in exchange for the cotton of the States, and the neighs of all kinds that find so .ready a market from Halifax to Fort Wilham ; and we all know that if:England's' millions, and Canada's- millions were laid out in defences, and 50,000 troops came out, and 50,000 Canadians volunteered and fought over.the fair fielda of Canada West, till, every ,county was reeking with blood, every'. home -- steed razed, and even. fences and boundaries gone forever, as in Virginiicand though& ory followed- British courage; rind, the enemy was driven off, and the people safe iu Point Henry or Quebec, the thing would be only the genie of a seemly and another Spring- svotild enable the thirty millions in the United Statesto send new armiei, inaue neW devaitations, and renioisten the soil With -the ,blotid of 10,0,00 or 20,000 of our youth-thatlyearafter year till English -treasure:and Canadian bloat- becanfeAoo mice to eentinue the madness would such a war last. It is the most perfect niaditess to think ot it. If England really. wants.' to be quit ot us, letusforin a ccinfeder- ation and become an. indepeudent-.-countrr-. "British America" or " Canada "-4have a :treaty. Of peace and free trade with Englaud, Franee arid the -United States, .und be first ;people on, earth that niade such an arrange - went, and coupled with a bond of peace that, in case of Misunderstanding or diffleutty about right's, sueh difficulty should! be settled- by a j reference ; if the diffieulty were With Eng- land, to the Governments..of France and the :United.States--; if with the United States, to the Governments of France riticl whose decision Should be final and biuchng on each:- This is an idea the Eriiperor has --em- braced, and would be glad to second. Thus a new thing would be under the sun. .- ..A full, tree, unconditional reciprocity With the tree greatest -nations on earth guara•utees against, oppression :or wrong in the bond of submission, and the- beacon of eternal 'peace, auid free trade held opt to all the world: Such a nation -would be the envy' of all eationi, and unto- it Would the. best of all douutriesrun, and w_ouldensure a course of prosperity suck RS no otheiv nation. ever en- joyed. Brine this view before the people.-.-- itlinploy your mind and your pen in extend in, developing, t explaining, and . bringing pubtieopioien. up to this -question, and you will have done -a greater service- to Canada, inere I ir the prouidtion of _human freedorn. but it was possible that any other member of the family might have entered the room and made away with him while she slept. Early in the morning the nurse, according to her own statement, missed the child, but thought that his mother, might have come in and taken him away to her own room, especially as he had been unwell and had taken soine medicine the night before. About half past seven o'clock she knocked at her mistress's door and inquired about the child, and when it appeared that he was not there the alarm was given and search was made. As the child was not to be found in the house or the shrubbery, Mr. Kent drove river to Trow. bridge to give notice to the police, ordering the servants to contieue theirsearch. While he was gone, some people from the village camein to- help in the search, and the end of it was that the child's body, with its night-- gown on and wrappedin a blanket, was found in the soil of the pdvy. There were, aecorc17, ing to the subsequent evidence, marks of strangulation; there Was a stab -in the side, a wound in the breast, and the throat was cut from ear to ear. A piece of paper, 'bloody as if a knife 'bad been wiped _upon it, was found, but no knife or other weapon. : ' . Salomon at first fell_ on the young lady who has now confessed. The circumstances that the child had been taken up, wrapped in the blanket which was between the quilt and the sheet, and that the. clothes were after- wards arranged, seemed to indicate that a woman's hand- had been concerned in the work. The nurse gave her evidence with calmness and*apparent'truth, describing, how she had placed the child's bedclothes _ the night before, giving her reason's tor not alarming the household when she first missed him, and declaring that she had heard and seen nothing froti the time of going to bed till about 5 o'clock in the morning, when she awoke and found the cot empty. From th appearance of the body, it was probable that the child had been killed' about 3 o'clock in the raornine. The evidence of the other members of the_family was entirely negative. They had heard and seen nothingl, and were unable to -give any clue to 08 mystery. As there was an outcry against Constance and William mainly on acconut, of some supposed dislike of these young people 15 their -infant half-brother, the iuvestigation- of the. detec- tive Whicuer were mainly directed against them. William was soon absolved, but %'v hicher thoueht that he. had discovered an a • important- piece, of evidence against Con, stance. The laundress asserted that one of this -young lades 'nightdresses was missing; that a day Or two after the murder she ha received it with the rept Id the linen for the wash; that she had put It into the basket, that Constance had sent her out cid, the way for a moment, and that .hen she gots home with the basket the nigh deem was missing' This story was- in itself is lame °eel for the laaudress said she remembered seeing the garment, and diet there was nothing unusual about it -a circumstande: which, if true, would take away from Constance any motive for concealing it, Since the only reason for concealment would be that it was stained frith blood. But on this sta:ement Inspectoi • Whicher applied for a warrant to apprehend Constance, and publicly charge her with the 'The following is the confession , "I, Constance Emilie Kent, aloae,' and unaided, on the night of -the 29th of June, 1860, murdered at Road -hill -house, Wilt- shire, one Francis Saville Kent. Before the deed was done no one knew of my intectionl. -nor afterwards of my guilt. No one assis- ted me in4he-crirne, nor in the eeasion of discovery." - I - and universal peace, than any inan has One in thepresent generation. You have had the sense alreadyto peiet thisout. Believe me, it is -deeply ,impresaed on the minds of thousauds, and if a grand independent con- ventien. of the people were caned, and the delegate's named to go to England and Wash-- ell:eon, the men, who prorogued. Parliament to go to England, on Coutederation, Reci- procity, and the: Defences, that they-, might gain longer liiel,havi a trip to .-Itigland as the people's expense, and stave off the coining exposure -of the most miserable 'series of the tinencial blunders,. would lied themselves .just where they are ito* here. . • - The lipad Hill Murder.. - FWE-YEARS' SECRECY, alm•••••11M YOLUNTABY CONFESSION AND SURRENDER OF CONSTANCE RENT. The circumstances of this mysterious mei.- der have never been forgotten, --now, nearly five yearsa6o, the budy of a male child, which had been : missed from its cot, WAS found in a privy outside the house, and how-, suspicion baving been directed towards Miss Kent, the' eldest daughter Of Mr, Kent by a former wife, she WWI examined before the local magistrates, at the instigation ofInspec tors Whicher and Williamson, of the London betective-Police, and negnitted of thscharge. - It is hardly a secret that nearly a year atter a A Gliar..ititteit Against War. Th.Moua1Wui,e, contaas the follawd angerticIe, which; it says,-Wia famished 14 - one of *. mese experienced statesmen of Canada West :-- Wols-01"/bt1iTrorn thiri Eng14.- -ptiperie o6 but irat,-.41te •-itaminence of war—war before our defisecce can be ready, whilst we, here on the spot, knowing both Canada and ,—asur. werds, in consequence of ate- atieged con- fession of the crime by Miss Rent to one .of her relatives; another attempt to investigate the matter Was Made by the detective officers,. who had incurred the eensure Of a large pro portien of the preSsand the publie. for their proceedings in the case. They toned Alined- visable, however, to -act upon the fresh in- formation which had reached them, and it suls'eguently. transpired that Miss Kent had been sent to a Convent in France. Nothini,- Mayo of a reliable character misheard of the cage until Tuesday, . -April 25th, when the startling information was conveyed to the chief magistrate that Miss -Kent- was in custody upon her own confession upon the terrible cimege) having been accompanied to L6ndon by the ReV. $1r, Wagner,- of. St. Paula, Brighton, to wheat she had revealed her guilt. , Tne Times- says :4 -Although the- einem- stances were so long discu,ssed and were -ex. tunieed with suCh intuuteness at the time, yet as five years have 'elepsed: ashoit summary .of them may be acceptable. At Road -house, iu VS iltahtte, lived Mr. Kent, en inspector ot tactories." He had --been twice married. His fairtily by thi first wife consisted. of three daughters and a don: the two elderdaughters being grown up young women, and the third-Cottitencee-a girl of 16.; the son William wag about 15, By the second Wife he had three children; a daughterfive years -old,. , a son -Francis Sayilie-Kent--nearly toutyears'old;, and another daughter mitt younger. On the night of the 29th of June, 1860, the' inmates of the louse were Mr. and Mrs. Kent, 'the sevenchildren we have mentioeed, _ and three servants -a cook, a housemaid; and Etizebeth Gough, the nurse. During that night the child was taken out of his cot, strangled, stabbed, hiethreat Was -cut, and his body wrapped iu a blanketrielnch had been drawn out trom over him: was thrown dime a privy belonging to the.house,- Fiore that time Until Yesterday it has been te• pro foundmyetery who committed the deed: All' Melanie perseverance, a,nd acuteness which justice could employ for -the detection of the crime, were bellied -completely. 7 Scr wholly did every clue that aiightlead to the truth fail, that the public was reduced to deal in vague suspicious which it nes-Iv-seems Were most unjust and Cruel.' But ,when the details of the mutter are &tendered,: we Cannot wonder either thaftke..-eePuresselin441-ent in :the neighborhood should have reached almost to frenzy, or that both the unhappy father 407115111Teesernuirge:land4°i:elflatib-)laikY° bite:slate POsobilibeli: to believe ,beethat the murder was cornuittmd by some Oue in the -hues& Evidence, wale • indeed; given respecting the opening Of 'iv drawing -room window, but what ,possible induceineetcould there be for a stranger topenetrate imo a dwelling -house merely for the sake of destroying an unoffending infant? 01 these twelve persona then,'"who were in the house,- which was -the murderer! The on the first floor slept Mr, and Mrs. Kent, disposition of the bed -rooms was follows with the eldest of -the Want childreu adjoining -room the name " 'Elizabeth- Gout. b • with Francs and the other child, y Francis being in a Cot by hinisieff on the second Soo, the two. grown up ttughters slept togetheriCaditiiisen tool& by hemeiti- Wtliamin a room by :himself, and the conk mid housemaid together in another rain: The nurse, then, _wee in the detest relation with the murdered child tiering the !tight; t instead of immediate emancipation.' Thie request was respectfully declined. If a new election is ordered, Gov. Vance's friends. who cotepose the wealth and aristocracy of the State, say that they will run Mm against Mr. Holden on the gradual emancipation plat, form, ate] are confident of seccess. New Yon, May 13. -The stea-mer Liberty briuge Havana dates of the 8th instant, and Vera Cruz of the 2ad, which confirm the re- ported capture of Saltille and Monterey by the Liberals. It is reported that Juarez would establish his capital at Monterey. Maximilian, on reaching Crizaba, heard of the fall of Richmond and the capitulation.of Lee, where upon he hastened back to Meeico, and despatched his Chief of Cabinet, M. Eloins to the United States, who arrived•at Elevena in time to take the Corded. There are vari- ous reports as to hismission. Don Jose Ramon Pachico, exeninister_ of State, died in Mexico on the 18th ule - TheEnglishRailroad Comyany.lave sub- let a portion of their road from Vera -Cruz to Mexico to a French company., thus giving France another claim on Mexico combining English and French interests. . . The -jacker fraud iii accepted by Maxie milian, and the five million dollars are'1, o be paid in one million annual instalments. _ The Prarists had entered Palizada, and seized all the war munitions held by the mer- chants. . . • The infamous Colonel Duple is en route for the State. of Tobasco with 200 of his villains. A naval expeditions is also on the way. Several ot Maximilian's governors have pronounced against him. - It . is said that rebel deserters are joining Cortmas. . . . *There Was a large fire in Matamoras ein the &h. T.111C, FIRST SPREE..-NiVer vos drank but vunce in the_whole enrse o' my life; Diver means to be again.. The street seemed to be very. steep, and flitted my leg at ewery step_ as I vos gettin' up stairs, seweral cart veels vos Makin' conwolutions in my_brain, and at one time 1 fancied my head vos a large carv- in' and -turnin' establishment, the lathes -of vech I vos keepie' in motion- with my feet. I couldn't conceive rot vos the reason the town vos turned into sieh- an enormous high hill, and vet made it vorserer vos thatit scent'd all the time growin' higher, and threatenue to pitch over upon me. Stop, stop, tho't I, and I'll head this oid hill yet, or atleast it shan't head me, so I turned to go round, and go to the bottom, and hang meif the- town didn't turn round with me, headin' me all the time and presenfire the high bluff right in front on me. Well, sure enough, the ground Noon flew up and struck me in the forehead; and as soon as the stars cleared away I commenc- ed slimbin' up with my hands and knees:. The next thing I saw ties a big brick house tome full split round • the corner, and I &neve it went right over me, but I don't remember any moie.--[Old Newspaper. MENTAL ItmcPriosatoz.-Every man and woman is brought up from The cradle with a bias. The mind is never sent out into the world's life -unfettered. It garden with it the heavy chain of habit. The politics of the father are usually the politics ofthe son; the religious character of the household is the saed of many more households of like faith. his a strong and admirable mind indeed, which, nursed in error, has the courage and heroism to begin its OWII emancipation. It requires more courage to think differently from the multitude than it does to fight them. The first hero, therefore, was not be who made the first conquest, but he who uttered . the first doubt. - United States; Ke; A. young woman ia England, aged 22 - born I- stone Wind," was recently restored to Capture of Jells. Davis. -Perfect vision in four days y .a surgical - • - operation. The effect of her new sense was • His WholeStall Secured. most mime- She hal :at first no idea, Of perspective. She put her hand to the window WWI In Chicago empty wbiskey barrels now ea at fire dollars each. They are bought, of' conrse. to defraud the government. • Thel are refilled with whiskey which has paid no - duty, and thus. under the old stamp, are - smuggled. Whiskey is now selling in that market at $2.02. The tax is $2-.• It costs 40c to make the article. An order was issued by Secretarj Stanton on Sunday to release all priseners of War" except officers above the rank of colonel, wrho' before the capture of Riciftnond !Unified their desire to take the oath of allegmned to the United States and their unwillingness to be exchanged. In respect to all other prisonerie of war further orders -will be issued.- EittonATins rata( CANADA. -La iftiterce is endeavoring to discourage the exodus of youngFrench Canadians to the United State? by Rointing out that the disbanding of the armies will glut the labour market and bring down the rate or wages. From the paragraphs appearing in the, different newspapers of \Lower Canada It m _made known that great numbers of stalwart young inee are leavin - the different parishes for the linekfields of . - Massachusetts and the lumbering shanties of - the west. -VILEING TEES r"11111"-"am''....."—EASON:NOtTfitliEtanding- the unusual quiet, not say 'stagnation, are business matters which pervades all sectionit; of our country- at this time: -the effects -of which, as a matter of -COWS*, are most °beera veble in localities like this, where commercial „ transactions are carried on upon an extensive ,e• scale, there is an activity manifest, in this _ 'city in the -matter of building and impreve. meats decidedly, we are bound to say,beyond our anticipations. At least fifty,and probably twice as many divelliegs, many of them de- cided creditable iu point of style and extent' win be put up during the present seaseuiese [East Saginaw_ Courier, _.,_ Oes A young inan of family in England,- whose relatives have all died of an hereditary malady before thirty, recently addressed letter to W'yonrig lady of family, very pretty, and asked her to become hie sister of charity Lor two years, he being then twenty-eight, and worth half a tnillion. What rerasunect of his fortune at his death, at 'thirty, shoultt be hers. at least, such lathe odd report- AdvatilementS. THIS is to forbid tiny person negotiating a / Note liven by me subscriber la John , White for twenty two bushels of potatoes, • and bearing date March fitle 1865, as the .sead Note is over paid. JAMES SYMINGTON. Colborne, May leth, 1865. „yr16`.3t. PAPER': HANOINGg ritOli 4 ets. PER. Roma At the 'Signal' Office. - A LARGE SUPPLY OF Window -Shades!! - CHEAP FOR CAM AT THE SIGNAL OFFICE' 311117.11111.1VMEMMTE2- - You wAsT - SCHOOL BOOKS & STATIONERY .LT . REDUCED RATES: - to try to catch the trees on the other •side or WaShington, May 12. -Gen. Sherman re - the street, and was utterly ignorant also of fused to see Gen. Halleck when he called on 4" him though the latter called to •explain and , common things -what such things as a bunch apologise. for the language he had used in his of keyswere, or a watch, Or 11 COMMOU cup despatches to Mr. Stanton.: and saucer; but whon,she shut her eyes and ---. Gen Sherman has *heretofore been about was allowed to touch,them (the_ educated the oldest friend and defender Halleck had sense) she told them at OnEe• among the officers of the army. • lormri Istrnumeez 011 a room.•at the top Of one of the houses where _every icioni was the dwelling -of a family, there dwelt an. aged Women, whose scanty pittance of half a crown a week was scarcely enough for her bare livelihood. '1 he visitor observed, with- some surprise, a straw- berry plant growing „. and flourishing in a broken tespoethat stood on the window sill. „Be remarked from time to time how it grew, and with what care it was tended and watched. At length, one. day, he said to this poor woman, 'your plant does well; you'll soon have some strawberries on it.' . 4It's not for the sake of the fruit I do it,' replied the me man. 'Then, why duyou take such- care of it t' he asked. 'Well, sir,' the replied, !FM very poor, -too poor to keep any- living crea- ture;' but it's a great comfort to met° irave that Jiving plant, for I -know that it can only live by the power of God; and as I see it live and grow from day to day, it tells me that God is near.' Gen Grant said to -day he was in daily e. pectatit•ii ofhearing of thesurrenderof K. . - ' • . He has been officially notified that -Smith was negotiating with our. forces with a view to surrender. Gen Grant telegraphs that he will remain .vith'his troops and march with them to Alex- androia14 G.1301. -Exchange. 109i. Wishington, May 13. -The Chronicle of this morning, speaking of. the court engaged says niytsi_ the trial of the assassination conspirators, The only step which has been taken not in accordance with ordinary trials is, that thus far the- Court has sat with closed doors: - 119w long it may he -necessary to maintain this precaution cannot now be decided. As it Was adopted tenseertain the truth and the truth alone, it will not be abandoned if the complaints of the•New York press are swol- len into a torrentof:denunciation. 'Yester- day the evidence was of go Much importance as to convincingly establish the pro- Priety- of this alternative. The livesof the witnenes depend upon this regulation, and we feel free to say tlfat none were 'more conscious of its necessity than the witnesses themselves, most of Whom are honourable, intelligence and tiatriotiocitizens. - .•'WAR DEPARTMENT, "Wain's:Gime May 13. To Major General Dix The .follinving despatch, jest received from Gen. Wilson) announces the surprise and Of Jefferson Davis. and his stiff by Cot E. Pritchard and the ;Michigan Cavalry.,. on the morning of -the lilth testate, it Imes: vide:- in Irwin County, Ga. . • (Signed ) EDWIN M. STANT° N -. Secretary of -War. • MAces, GA., A. 11., - - • bitty T • - o Lieut. Gen. U. S. Grant and 31011 Secre- tary of War, Washington.. - I have the honour to report that at daylight of the 10th instant," Col, Pritchard, command- ing the 4th Michigan 'cavalry, captured Jeff. Davis and fatally, tittle Regan, Postmaster General; Col'. Harrison, Private Secretary Colonel Johnson, Aidstle-cama; Col, Morris, Co!. Tubhick, Lieut. girthawayl.iind others. Col. Pritehacd 'surprieedaheir camp sitIrwins. ville, in lrwin Couoty,i. Georgia, 75 _miles southeast of this place. :They will be here to- morrownightprind wilt be forwarded under a strong guardevithout delay. I will send further perneulars at once. . (Signed,). 4. H. WILSON, • Brevet Major Gen. NEW Deteiss,May.T. -The reheframVin- einnoti.;conveyed four steamers frank Se:ele to Mobile, having 25,000 balee of cotton on board, lien of it marked "C. S. A." Considerable cotter' replanted ete the river landing,'.1/uf inimeise• iittantithie were taken intie the interior sifm'i the sir of mobilo to prevent., it being bUrnt-hy_theiebeLiavitry. - GREENsBotto; May 5. -Gov. Vance left here yesterday for • his home ia Buncombe county, .having failed to obtain permissim from Gen. -Schofield to return to Raleigh to _ran)]* hit' functions aa-Otiverzeir of North `Carollea: . - ja0N• Grabens; Mon: John Ai - Gilmer and Hon. Bedford Brown waited on _Gen: Soho- - The IlemIock.., .1t is often objected when tree and ornamen- tal planting are urged, that these. objects though beautiful and desirable are costly,-a,nd that the money needed for them' is not at band. ° But many forget that for zoineof the choicest ornaments of the lawn.or shrubbery, no outlay whatever- is -required. In. many localities, they are _to be fouud in a wild mete, shrubs and trees fit to grace the garden of a Prinee.Among these may be named the hemlock, decidedly the handsomest of the Evergreen Family. Ito gracefulapperatreee the. delicate- ,greet of its foliage, it" viedee colours when the young shoot/push forth, and and its haitkress, commend 11 10 the attention otall who have a.ho me to beautify. It lookswell singly or in groups, and asitbeanibothshede and pruning well, it is an excellent tree for screens and hedges,. lt.trriletrs rather idowely when first transplanted, but blies established it iloarisliecluxuriantly. Removed -from a, MeV • IliVEMp to upland, it requires only ordinary care to make- it bear the alma& reniarkably well. Though it does best in moist Lind, it soon accomodates itself to or- dinal soil. We would say to .our zeilders try.the he,irdock.-=Farmer. . CufttvatlO*O1 the Strawiseiry. - • „ Natant; emu be • easier *than -itrawberey culture. It only rsclitires the knowledge and observance of a. few very simple rules., . The first is I Get oefel plants. It is folly to bestow care and 'culture on aweithlessberry. Many pereente to save a .little outlay, „beg a ,few plants without any item:ranee that they are worth .growing., The result, often-, m dis- appoinirnentv and a _prejtidimi,legaenst this fruit? There are some varieties -of -the atiawe berry that are good, but require fertilis- leg_ with other varieties. - But • there are enough perfect berries to reader it no• necessary to be trqui40 with any ofthis sort. We have tried a line number ofitratiberries but have banished from our garden all.. except thefollowing i4-Wilion7s Albany -Seeding. Triomphe de Greed, Vicountem Hericartt and Great Austin. The first named is, per- haps the bestioegerteral culture: It has only one fault, end -thetas aslight studity,„but liven this is liodly,perceptible, if thellercTe$ :left until dead ripe. TheGreatAusburstOtagreny tohen eptkreser:::: .yforsiritretorus"kaionAptuionlingoo!fabourlaitposaeestileast:seln01,11.1Mirlompt,:-"Ther: twat; and asked permission , to go •to 'Washington, - • Johason ;to continue Oor, Ir.suce and the present Legislature in power, and also .to Itee -Ire cannily speakinthe high. if they could not secure gradual emancipation iltaCtitioringer:iir. tilinal)6t4 "P•ciallY the isttsr' of Land IJN,DER and by virtite of a Power of Sale contained in a Mortgage -made by,Falies . Hart, of -the Township (if Waivanosb. la the -County of_Hurone Yeoman, to George/John, Gager, of the Township of McKillop, in said County of Huron, -Gentleman, (default having been made in the due .payment there- of,) will be sold by Auction on - .111/MINEMI Frldayi the' Twelfth atilt Nay, A. D. '18651 At twelve &dal*, scion; &tit* • Auction Mart of CEOR GEM. TRUMAN, On the Market -Square, in the Town of op& rich, the collowing property, that is to All and singular that ,ee rtain parceLar trace of land end premises situate lying,. and being in the Township ofWawstriosh, in the County of Huron, in the Province of Canada, being composed of the north eiat quartet of Los Number Forty-two in the Eleventh concession of byte,dheinisaiisd utre9wmuesinhtiPof Waw Fiftynerieanormbionlerainiat be *F same more or less. Toms cash.. Deed under Power of Sale. Vendor's solicitor. _ . JOHN DAVISOFf, w103 The above sale* is. Postponed till Friday* the 2nd day 01 June melt. (w16 CUNTON 111111T of REVISION; MLLE Court otnevisionfordeivrilageofeineme J. will hold itafirst sittings in the ' PREEILASONS WATF,, OLINT011e OM TUESDAY, THE 2Sia. MAY,,INST, at twelve o°c.loek, noon. All parties interested vitt take asks govern themselves aecorclingle, • . RITsspi, . Village Clerk. .Cliaton,May, 1865. vr16.1t- Yor Sale Obsap, r tf„litifcmse:trece 411. 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