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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1891-02-04, Page 2The Huron News -Record ¢7.50 a Year -----sl. n Advance. Cg' 17te m e.t d....cot d) jast.ea CO his Dttaitteae . who 8pcads dens to adios, Using than he does in ae47WAti'r, the natio. stairs merchant Vsw York. Weltincatla y. Feb. 4111, 1St 1. T. B. MACAULAY ON A J1 Elt1CA. HIS OP1NLUN OF AML'RtcAN PUBLIC IN81'I rUTIONe. HIS Lerre,lts '1'J DISTORIAN RA\DALL, 0I1'ING 1118 VIEWS OF '1'11E INSL'I- TU LIONS t% THE GREAT RE PUBLIC—SOME REMARK- ABLE PROPHETIC UTrE11AN0Eii. The 'ruled() Blade reprints the following letters from the lainuus Eugli.11 histuriau, '1'uulu is 11 tbing- tun Macaulay. 11. S. Rtudall sent to Mi'. Macaulay it preseutat iuu copy of his Colouial History of Ne%v York, null the first is the letter of ackuuwledgmeut ; the eecuud a reply to Mr. l'eudall's re• joinder. Both are eutiuently irul th reading and preservatiou : • dolly Lodge, Kensiugtou, Loudon, May 23, 1857. .Dere' Sir—The four volumes of the Colonial history of New Yurk reached• me safely. I assure you that 1 shall value them highly, they Contain 80 much to Iuterest 8n Englishman as well as an American reader, Pray accept my thauks, and convey then) to the regents of the university. You ate surprised to )barn that I have not a high opinion of Mg. Jefferson, and 1 am su'pltsed sit your surprise. I ant eortaiu that I never wrote a line, and that I never iu parliament, in conversa- tion, or even ou the hustings, n place where it is the fashion to court the populace, uttered a word indicating au opinion that the supreme authority iu a state ought to be entrusted to the majority of the citizens told by the head—in other words to the poorest and most ignorant part of society. I have long beou conviuced that institu- tions purely Democratic roust soon- - er or late: destroy liberty or civili• zat.ion, or both. In Europe, where the population is douse. the effect of such institutions %vould be al- most instantaneous. What happeu- ed lately iu France is au example. In 1848 a pure democracy was established there. During a short time there was reasuu to expect. a general spolia,ion, a national bank- ruptcy, a new partition of the soil, a maximum of prices, a ruinous load of taxation laid on the rich for the purpose of sepportiug the poor in idleness Such a system would in twenty years have made France a„ poor a11t1 barbarous its the France of the C111'10V111gi8118. Happily, the danger is averted ; and now there is a despotism, a silent tribute, an enslaved press. Liberty is gone, yet civilization has been saved. I have not the slightest doubt that if we had a purely Democratic governtnent here the effect %vould be the same. Either the poor would plunder the rich, and civili- zation would perish, or order and prosperity would be saved by a strong military government, and liberty would perish. You may think that your country enjoys an exemption from those evils. I frankly own to you that I am of very different opinion. Your tate I believe to bo certain, though it is deferred by a physical cause, As long as you have a boundloss extent of fertile and unoccupied land your laboring population will be far more at ease than the labor• ing population of the old world, and while that is the case the JefTersonian politics may continuo to exist without causing any fatal calamity. But the time will surely come when New England will be as thickly peopled as Old England; wages will be as lo'", and will fluctuate as much with you as with us. You will have your Manches- ters and P)iriinghams, and in those Manchesters and Birnlinghame hundreds of thousands of artisans will assuredly be sometimes out of work. Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the test. Dis- tress everywhere makes the laborer mutinous and discontented, and in- clines him to lieten with eagerness to agitators, who tell him that it is a monstrous iniquity that one man should have a million while another cannot get a full meal. In bad years there is plenty of grumbling hero, and sometitnes a little rioting. But it matters little, for here the sufferers are not the rulers. The supreme power is in the hands of a class, numerous indeed, but select; of an educated class ; of a class whibh is, and knows itself to be, deeply interested in the security of property and the maintenance of order. Accordingly the malcontents are firmly but gently restrained. Tho bad time is got over without rob- bing the wealthy to relieve the indigent ; the springs of national prosperity soon begin to flow ; work is plentiful, wages glee, and all is trauquility and cheerfulness. I have seen England pass three or four .times through such critical Seasons us J; have described.. Through ouch seasone the United States will have to prise in the course ut' the next century, if not in this. How will you pass through them 1 I heartily wish you a good deliverance, but wy reason aud wy wishes are at war, and I cannot help forebodiug the worst. It is quite plain that your government will never be able to restrain a distressed aud dieeouteut- ed tuajority, for with you the major- ity is the government, and has the rich who are ,always a wiuority absolutely at ite mercy. The day will come when, in the state of New York, a multitude of people, none of whom hus had wore than half a breakfast, or expects to have more than halfa dinner, will Chooe a legislature. Is it possible to doubt what soit of a legislature will be chosen? 011 01.16 side i8.1 atateeinau preach- ing patience, respect for vested rights, and strict observance of public faith. On the other hand is a demagogue ranting about the tyrauuy of capitalists and usurers, and asking why anybody should be permitted to ride in a carriage while thouaauds of- honest folks are in want of necessaries. Which of the two caudidatea is likely to be pro- ferred by a workiugtnau who hears his children cry fur more bread? I' seriously apprehend that you will in sante such season of adversity as I have described du thiuga which will prevent prosperity from return- ing, and that you will act like people who should iu a year of scarcity devour all the seed corn, and thus make the next 'oar, nut nue of scarcity, but of absolute famine. There will be, I fear, spoliation. The spoliation will iutrease the dis- tress. The distress will produce fresh spoliation. '!'hero is nothing to stop you. Your constitution fa all sail and no anchor. As I said before, when a society has entered on this downward progress, either civilization or liberty must perish. Either some Causer or Napoleon %till seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your repub• tic will be as fearfully laid waste by barbarians' in the twentieth century as the Roman empire was in the lifth, with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman empire came from with- out, and that yours Huns and Van- dals will have been engendered within your own country by your own institutions. Thinking thus, of course Icannot reckon Jefferson among the bene- factors of Mankind. I readily admit that his iutentious were good and his ability considerable. Odi- ious stories have been circulated about his private life, but I do not know on what evidence those stories rest, and I think it probable that they aro false or notoriously exaggerated. I have no doubt that I shall derive both pleasure and information from your account of hint. I have the honor to be, dear sir, your obedient servant, T. 13. MACAULAY. To 1I. S. Randall. HOLLY LODGE, Oct. 9. 1858. SIR—I beg you to acocept 01y thanks for your volumes, which have just reached me, and which as far ae I can judge from the firkt hasty inspection, will prove both in- teresting and instructive. Your book was preceded by a let- ter, for which I have also to thank you. In that letter you expressed, without the smallest discourtesy, a very decided dissent from some opinions which I have held firmly, but which I should never have ob- truded on you except at your earn• est request, and which I have no wish to defend against your objec- tions. If you can derive any com- fort as to the futuie,from your con- viction that a benevolent Creator will never suffer more human beings to be born than can live in plenty, it is a comfort of which I should•be sorry to deprive you. By the eaihle process of reasoning one may arrive at many very agree- able conclusions, such as that there is no cholera, no malaria, no yellow fever, no negro slavery in t,to world. Unfortunately for nye, perhape, I learned from Lord Bacon a method of investigating truth diametrically opposed to that which you appear to follow. 1 anh perfectly aware of the immense progrees which yeur coun- try hes made and is making in pop- ulation and wealth. I know that with you the laborer has large wages, abundant food, and the tneane of giving some education to hie chil- dren. But I see no reason for attri- buting these things to the policy of Jefferson. I see no reason to be- lieve that your progress would have been less rapid, that your working population would have been worse fed, or clothed, or taught, if your government had been conducted on the principles of Washington and and Hamilton. Nay, I am sure you will acknowledge that the pro- gress you are now making is only a continuation of the progress which you have been making ever since the middle of the seveuteeuth cen- tury, and that the bleesings which you now enjoy worn eujoyed by your forefothers, who 'were luy'al ,subjeots of the hiugs of Eugland. The eentrast bstwoeu the laborer of New York and the laborer of Europe is not stronger now than it was when New Yotk was governed by noblemen and geutlomeu coul- miseioned under the Euglish great seal. There are at this woweut de peudencies of the English crowu iu which ill the phenomena which you attribute to purly democratic insti- tutions may be seen in the highest perfection. The colony of Victoria, in Austr'alia,was planted only twen- ty years ago. fire population is now, I suppose, nearly a Inillion. The revenue is enormous, nearly tive million sterliug, and raised without mu'muriug. The wages of labor are higher than they are even with you. Immense sums are expended on education. And this is a province governed by a delegate of oir hereditary sovereign. It, therefore, seems to 1118 quite clear that the facts which you cite to prove the excellence of purely dem- ocratic inetittttione ought nut to be r scribed to those institutions, but to eaves which operated in America lung before your indepoudeuce,and which are still operating in many pelts of the British Empire. You will .perceive, therefore, that P du not propose, as you thought, to roc- rifice the interests of tho present generation to those of remote goner• aliens. It would, indeed, be absurd in a nation to part with institutions to which it is indebted for immEnse present prosperity, from au appre- hension that, after the lapse of a ceutury, those institutions will he found to produce mischief. But I du nut. admit that the prosperity which your country enjoys arises front those parts of your policy which may he called Jeffersonian. Thome parts of your policy already produce bad effects, and will, un- less 1 ate greatly mistaken, produce fatal effects if they shall last till North America has 200 inhabitants to the square utile. With repeated thanks for your present, 1 have the honor to be, sir, your faithful servant, T. B. MACAULT, To H. S. Randall. SHOT BY BURGLARS. JOHN HESLOJ', TREASURER OF AN— CASTER,KILLED BY THIEVES. Ancaster, Jan. '27.—At an early hour this morning three burglars entered the house of John Heslop, Townehip Treasurer of Ancaster, who lived about a mile from the village, near the sulphur springs, and were making a search for money and other valuables when the old man heard them and arose from hie bed. One of the burglars, who was armed with a revolver, ehot Mr. Heslop in the heart, killing hint in- stantly. Deceased was aged about 75, and lived on the homestead with his daughter. The burglars left the premises immediately after the shooting.. Miss lleslop was aroused by the noise, and alarmed the neighbors. The Hamilton po- lice have been notified of the affair, but as yet no trace of the burglars has been found, ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. Later particulars of the murder show that when Mr.•Heslop was awakened by the noise made by the robbers he went out and found the men ascending the back stairs, on which there is a landing part of the way up. He asked who was there, and they said, "Go back to bed." He thereupon seized a chair and met the burglars ou the` landing. Ho must have used the chair pretty freely, as it was found this morning broken to pieces. The robbers, 11ot to be frustrated, idiot Mr. lleslop through the heart. IIe must have died immediately, for he was found sitting against the step of the land- ing. During the few minutes that the struggle lasted Mrs. I-leslop and her daughter could do nothing, but as soon as the shot was fired both ran forward, when they got to the head of the stairs, they saw the murderers just a little way iu frout of them, on tho stairs, and coming towards thorn. One of them, a tall- ish fellow who wore dark clothes and had a white cloud tied over his face, had a revolver in his hand,t.he instrument that had brought death to the vic'im lying on the landing below. Mrs. and Miss lleslop were roughly ordered to stand hick, the man who had shot husband and father pointing his revolver at them. They had nothing to do but to retire into the room in which Mr. and Mrs. Heslop had been quietly sleep- ing but a few minutes before. The extreme heartlessness of the cow- ards may he judged from the fact that they walked over the dead body of' their victim to get to the roosts above. Mrs Heslop hogged to ne allowed to go to her husband. The than kept his revolver pointed at her and ordered her to go back into the room with the gruff answer, "lie is all'right ; he 1.3 not dead." With the door of the room' open, in view of the two women, he stood, revol- ver in hand, and ordered them not to move of snake any noise. Tho other wau, who was put fully eeeu by the ladies, woe shorter than the fellow who held the revolver, and was also disguised with something like a cloud around his head. The open work of the clouds allowed the men to coo while their fees could not be eeeu. The second wan could be heard to go along the hall and enter the room which had been va- cated by Mies Ileslo7. Ile could be heard to open two drawers iu the bureau and then leave the room and approach his comrade, and hold a consultation with him. After a whispered conversation one of the Inert made a demand for money. tars. Heslop replied alit there • Was none in the house, but one of the elan, the fellow hold- ing the revolver said,"Yes, there is." "Then go and get it," said Mrs. Heslop, and the aecond man went away. ')'hey eould hear hint go .town by the fruut stairs. In the hall at the side of those stairs stood the +.rte and secreIlll'y. They could hear the burglar et the sire and knew he had got it open. They knots', 100, that there W88 no muuoy in 111e safe. Jiroul the safe the roan could be heard to go the secretary, which stood by ire side. 1'1118 was quickly toru open and it couteuts pulled out. It contained many papers, most of them of more or less valve to Mr. Heslop, but of 11111•' value to others. Awoug then) were boucle to the extent of $25,- 000, records of the township trees ury and other papers connected therewith. "!'hese wero found strewn about th•, top and front of the secretary afterwards, and Mi'. J. 1I. S'nith, School Inspector for the county, ascertained that the bowie were nut Missing. Having satisfied themselves that there Was no whiney to be got the murderers left. FROM T[IE GRAVE'S EDGE. Frank Kline, a New York drum- mer, is to day en route for home its fast as the New York Central limit- ed can take him. Two days ago he occupied a cold marble slab in Klauer's morgue, Chicago, to all outward appearance a corpse. Ilia experience equals the hideous hor- ror of eotlle Parisian romances. Ile had unusual success this trip in Chicago, and, highly elated, he stepped into a saloou ou Illirtisou street, not far from State street, to obtain liquid refreshment. That is about all the drummer can remem- ber of that afternoon's events, for a few moments later he was lying stiff and stalk on the floor. A girl in the saloon, under the pretence of a caress, had thrown her shapely arm about 1>Ir. Kline's neck and deftly drugged hint. She then took $75 from his pocket, together with a New Yolk oilt Central mileage ticket, and quickly removed the big diamond from his shirt bosom. She was working on a handsome diamond ring which the travelling man wore when he showed signs of reviving. Then ho was promptly thrust out into the street, where he sank down in a stupor, which was mistaken for several hours for death. This was about dusk. Some passersby saw the man and called the patrol wagon. Ile was taken to Khmer's morgue and laid out there for dealt, but no inquest W1'18 hold, for an attendant, observing what he thought were signs of life, called in a physician, ,who advised the removal of the 'supposed corpse to the County IIospital. Tho physi- cian in attendance said : "I immediately saw that some thing would have to be Clone right away, and I applied the stomach pump, which showed clearly that Kline had been drugged with snuff. An electric battery of twelve cells was frequently used, producing no result save muscular cont) -actions. Finally, )however, Kline gave dis- tinct evidence of life, and in a few minutes was able to move and talk. An awful dose must have born given hire, as at least a tablesf•oon- ful was removed from his stomach." II[G[I SCHOOL EXAM[NA- '1'10MS. Tho Belleville Intelligences pokes fun at the questions prepared under direction of Mr. Ross for high school entrance examinations. Those under the heading "Geography" come particularly under this sar• castic criticism. The first question is— NattO and describe the circles upon the globe connected with the measurement (or limitation) of time, of seasons, of zones, of hemispheres, of ocean travel. Tho descriptive faculty of chil- dren entering high schools may by be pretty well developed. But our Belleville contemporary wants to know if these aro practical questions. They a' a not only not practical, but they are stupid. How can a circle upon a globe be connected with the rnoasurment of a hemisphere? What meaning can any person out— side a l'tnatic asylum attach to such a question ? What idea can any sane person attach to a request to describe a circle connected with the measurement of ocean travel? Tho other questions are of like nature. Ono of the geographical quoetiogs requires the pupil to "explain the Thc Great Blood Purillcr. A Word to the People. "Truth is Mighty, and will prevail." THE remarkable effeete and most satisfactory results, in every varietyy'of disease arising from IMPURITIES OF THE BLOOD, which are experienced and made manifest from day to da , byy_those who have taken NORTHROP & LYMAN'S VEGETABLE DISCOVERY, for complaints which were pro- nounced incurable, are surprising to all. In many of these cases, theersone say their pain and sufferings cannot be expressed, as in cases of Scrofula, where apparently the whole body was one plass of corruption. This celebrated medicine will relieve pain, cleanse and purify the blood, and cure such diseases, restoring the patient to perfect health after trying many remedies, and having suffered for years. 1s it not conclusive proof that if you are a sufferer you can be cured ? Why is this medicine performing such great cures 2 It works in the BLOOD, the Circulating Fluid. It can truly be called the 3EiF.®���Q .3ELLVX17�r. The greatsource of disease originates in the BLOOD, and no medicine that does not act directly upon it, to purify and renovate, has any just claim} upon publio attention. When the blood becomes lifeless and stagnant, either from change of weather or of climate, want of exercise, irregular diet, or from any other cause, NORTHROP & LYMAN'S VEGETABLE DISCOVERY will renew the Blood, carry off the putrid humors, cleanse the stomach, regulate the bowels, and impart a tone of vigor to the whole body. The conviction is, in the public mind as well as the medical profession, that the remedies supplied by the VEGETABLE KINGDOM are more safe and more effec- tual in the cure of disease than mineral medicines. The Vegetable Discovery is composed of the juice of most remarkable roots, barks snd herbs. It is pleasant to take, and is perfectly safe to give an infant. Allow us to ask you a candid ques- tion :—Do you need it? Do not hesitate to try it. You will never regret it. All druggists have it for sale. MR. JOHN C. Fox, Olinda, writes :—" Northrop & Lyman's Vegetable Dis- covery is giving good satisfaction. Those who have used it say it has done them more good than anything they have ever taken." IN ITS WORST FORM.—Miss Juue A. Prrswoaru, 'Toronto, writes :— " I had Dyspepsia in its worst form for over a year, but after taking three bottles of Northrop & Lyman's Vegetable Discovery, a perfect cure followed. I take great pleasure in recommending it to anyone suffering from Dyspepsia." M. W. THAYER, Wright, Y.Q., had DYSPEPSIA FOR TWENTY YEARS. Tried many remedies and doctors, but got no relief. His appetite was very poor, had a distressing pain in his side and stomach, and gradual wasting away of flesh, when i.e.. heard of. and immediately commenced taking Northrop & Lyman's Vegetable I);& :very. The pains have left, and he rejoices in the enjoyment of excellent 1,L:.lth ; in fact he is quite a new man. Sold by all Medicine Dealers at $1.00 per Bottle. !•ositiun" held by a reeve, a mayor, a warden, a speaker, n premier, a lieutenant governor and a governor- general. The idea of asking a schoolboy to describe the geography of Mayor McLel.an 01 Oliver Mowat hordors on the ridiculous. Stupid ns the questions aro, they are 11ot even expressed kg correct English. Fur example : A person goiug from Loudon (England) to Melbourne (Australia) might take one of three routes, Describe accurately the best and give your reasons for preferring it to the others. A person going from England to Australia may take ono of three (or more) routes; and one who prepares questions for school chil- dren should say so.. Then the boy who describes the best of these routes would probably give as hie reason for preferring it to the others that it is the hest. Again the peo- ple is asked to trace on a map the Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk railways, with their principal branches, "and on these locate and bathe all the Canadian cities situat- ed thereon." Slipshod and in- correct English of that sort should not be used in papers for school children. Such papers should be carefully prepared—,5peclator. CARTWRIGIIT'S OTLIER SELF. The colored orator and philoso- pher "Prof." C. A. Johnsing is de- livering a series of lectures a la Sir Richard Cartwright. He pre- dicts oven a more ruinous state of things in Ontario than does Sir Richard. "300,000 of the people of Ontario will die next November" ou account of astronomical revulsions Even Sir Richard does not predict such wholesale slaughter on account of the "fiscal revulsions" that the gallant knight is loaded with. The following is from the Mail : In the little church in Toronto known ns the Ilritieh Methodist Episcopal church,tho widely known colored natural philosopher,"Prof." C. A Johnson, the editor and pub- lisher of the British Lion, publish- ed in Hamilton, and the American Eagle, published in New York, lec- tured last evening to an audience of almost three score persons, about a dozen of whom were white people. itis lecture was a rambling and curi- ously, nonsensical discouiso upon a multitude of kubjocts which he de- nominated astronomical. IID prom- ised his hearers that he would expound to•them what thunder was, what the 'wind was composed of, how aerial navigation was to be made possible, and many other grave and mysterious matters. His explanations, however, singularly disjointed and oracular. Ile do Blared that ho was very greatly trou- bled by the recent disappearance of the rings around Jupiter and Saturn and that he had been anxiously searching for them through his tel- escope at Ifatnilton, which enabled hire to see plainly the inhabitants of the planets at their everyday oc- cupations, but which bro.;ght no trace of the missing rings within his ken, though he swept the heav- yens nightly. Iie declared that on account of this mysterious disappear- ance, and "tlio disturbances produe• ed by the excited condition of the astronomical i'evelsions of the earth," hundreds of people would bo frozen to death iu Toronto before next spring, and 300,000 of the in- habitants of the province of Ontario would die next November, when thore would be comets, hurricanes, SHINE your Shoes' hFF WOLwit'S ACME BLACKING ONCE A WEEK ! Other days wash them o can with SPONGE AND WATER. 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SPENCER CASE Chemist and Druggist, 00 King Street West, Hamilton, Ont. Sol by J. ff. COJIBE. shooting stars, and other amazing portents and prodigies. In ten years, tl.o lecturer declared, travel- ers would go from New York to Liverpool by "the aerial air route" in one day, fourteen hours and thirty-two "oconlls. In bit y•three yenta, he 8140 uu,'I;uod according to his "aatrO:I011lieal cttcutationa," the mints will be destroyed, .-'ever• al yr,us h1'furu tlu.t L 1 at collapse anti ruin of all 111:u_,s the sun will have disappeared from heaven, but its place, according to this modern searcher of the stars, will he taken by several sun., which are now straying in spice and invisible to all other aatrunotnnrs except him- self, Ile said In. 0 0 se.' them plain- ly through his teleseupe iu Hamil- 10n. A HBUNI)1tED YEARS I'O Coon':. Wouldn't you ❑ke ;., Lee until the year A. D. 2000, ju t t.• 1.1•-• the people and the We' 1.1 kr.,. r,J1; ? %Vhn kooWs but yl u m'ght. if 3', n "1 Srl VP the laws of health, .rid t t, p t hr 5 . nlbch, L ver and 13 w -Ls in full ' :'i-, . 1'ne hest medicine k tnw•1 f r this iH 0•. P.erce's Pleas/tub I'd 1 t, -r wy aro .,,,alt, ,u,Xar coated grtnul-•s, but 1„w••,fnl to cure produce no 04)008 or gr'pine ; easy to take, en 1 8 '11 0 cur,' f -•r biliousness, ooastipatton, headache, and diaeases pr.- duced by an inactive liver A o •nveni- ent vest po, k -t, remedy. —One hundred and seven bodies - had been taken from the ill•fated mine at Mammoth, Pennsylvania, up to 10 o'clock this morning. It is estimated that the rein tins of at least seventeen more victims aro still in the pit. f