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to 1878, one of the 21141 101100, 41. 8001011 Re.
felt, and his victory was an overwhelming , 1 'Bey, l'eter H. L. Liongeviii, .1.
I one. 11 thus Imeame a Me/nber of the ellapais, A, (1, Archibald, ledwitati Kew
Canadian Aesembly ot 1844, in whieh Mr. nee.
' Ogle It swatt and Mr, loseph Eclotuira. %TY or 01 ts111•IrroN,
ettuellon also made their enter into political , .
Ilnd ill W111011 the Tories lad a majority : .."1:;ht "",11"14"t, 000" ,n1 P,,,erY,"1
; waien imiciweo, was tee met cement te tee
of but three. Washington treaty, 'rhe Reeiproei t y treaty
E 31:1.1 rol.rVle XI. F' SEER. 1111L1 0 >Tired. RIO varhme important totes.
tif tlw Duns between Great, briutin and the veitea
. 1. • , 1, • • , stet.. imvieg arken, in cieetain of which
federation leek. of bows(' forbids leo' :cement an"a was d"PkY 11tc."8".11' orators can gain end hold the al tention of
former, Who had been disposed to interrupt
Sir .1 01»1, stole around to him after he had
finished him speeeli awl hurriedly shook his
evidently anxious mit tu be eaught in
this art. of harinlees treason to his owl,
party, In Mr. Leine H. 'reeliee. ad mir:11,13
portrait Atelier), of Canadian " Alen 3•1 tie•
mr. F. 'Waters thus \vrites of Sir
John 25 IL speaker -" The veteran Jere:Mee
eauziot be classed toupee matinee yet few
here This 1811,11 the ere, ot the anal struggle .ara warn arlIninta4 "n b1'111 thellonso so sueeessfully and ,nagtietieitily as
between tile older order of theme end the " l'reat•Y' 1 n")`.1n0It IVaabingtnn in 187 1' lie. eitteli of this ie deubtless due to the
the Joint High Commissioners
new, whee the battle for " rep. by pop," was 'and amang. feet that it is ' Sir John' Who 8 l' 1
VOIl. y8, 11.0t
el Plenipetentiaries reprmeetting tbe
' being fought, when the eeat of iltiVurlinlelit
was itioerimi, mid when is, rot ions perial loverement wee Ser .101in M avdonald,
short limes and sternly ones. It would be wh"gc 8,1ch while at the 1"111110
Mit 111 ow question to attempt even te "1 Canada wae "" "1 Pa""liar
here the Requiem° ef events.. Suite* •t•:ie'en";ee• 81,08iting this efterwatels he
, to say that debit A. elactionald's inflnenee, '; I had continually before me not speakeng, adopts that stVlo and Intemer
:omy the inperialquestion, interest, of 100,0 11., e„.0„,. le 11,0 Impereei peetet,,teee
' quietly exerted at Met, givelnally made it.
. , f than in the Paeliament of (Swede, that is
thy pesiiiim was, Hutt if 1 gave molne pro•
' his rise was kill 111ore vapid, In I 854, cimy
naturelly every:me wants to know what the
tiret num In Cnneda has to say ; but not 0,
tle is due to the matter of Sir John's speed),
which is uneennuonly eharacteristie of him
Itim-is, indeed, sei ,e 3,341 The Premier,
self f011. end it was not long hefore lie left !the Dominion of Catitolto, whith I W118 there
• the ranks, 111100 ill a pos111011 .,1 prenunence , ' •
1
Cpper Canada in the lleeNaleelorin Ad- purely colonial anti a selfish view, regardless
tl lie held in lengland to he taking a
to the intereets of Canada, I might
teu. years after his entry into the political ' ',Innen"
emelt, he beeame At torney-t Ieneral of ' J" --V
c;,,,if th,e interests of Canada as a para.': of the
tnimetisttion, am) seen ttfter sueeeeded Sir
Au= ee„,,eete ee 1,,,me efthiete, A erief eAntere 1 mul, on the other haed, if I keep
"an In' ni01n."1 the n.11,,ii",?. Inight be held a,e neglecting my e /growl duty
10. ti led 11 armg thri,per:011, alio up to i. h..
' toward my own t•ounte , Au inetitable
SKETCH OF HIS CAREER, reetortultotihe only s Illy (veil solely on Imperial considerations
am Early Home Life -First Appearanee 10
Poti s -Earls P411111851 l'areerr- a s
Prime .11in iste,-.110.,Part In Co refedera,
L1011, 1.110., Ott'.
Of the story an life so full of incident as
-was diet of the deceased statesman, and so
boned up with the hit tory of Canticle during
the past forty years, it is possible only to
give but the briefest out'ine at this time.
The biographer and the historian can alone
juistese to the sill:Ito). Jelin Alexander
Macdonald wee t f s each pateetage, his
father being Hugh elaelenald, of Slither-
laedeldre, who married Helen Shaw, of
Barlenoeh, Ieverne-s shire. The former
Mul moved 01 early lite to Glasgow
where, 011 Jannary I I, Isle), his seeme
son, John Alexantit r, was bet n. When the
futtwe Premier of C111111412 WES ill his WO
year the family joined the emigration
movement and came out to Cal:tele, gettlir g
at Kingston, then the meet important town
of what is 11000 Ontario. .A1 ter four years
iesit enne 1.110.1 10W11 eIr. Hugh Maselonahl
moved to Adolphustown, tin the Bad' 01
Quinte, leaving his son.1 elm A lexand er untie'
the tuition el Dr, Wi6on, a fellow of Oxford
Univeesity, at the Royal ilrammar School,
where he remained in hie sixteenth
year. The father kept a store a ebort dis-
tance to the east of the Quaker meeting-
• house 011 Hay Bay on the third eonceesion.
It was a small clap-tmardel building paint -
10 say, 110 18 1114 rennoltably emelt, hesontete
inked, almost on purpose, is inetter-of-fact
rather than rhetoric:al, and le withal never
enthereassed, Johnhs disceurses ttre,
however, spiced with mit as well as with
wisdom, occasionally varied, too, by it brief
anecdote of that humorous, kind whieh
tweet' fails to • bring down the House.' He
18 very happy, also, In 1001:1»g 0, running
e 01 24 2 Ines) ot the Lemutit e -ounce ennimentary on the speeeli of anothes inte
of Canada from May 1 1 th, 1 7, to Mandl tieosnutlt wag that Sir .1 nlin was foreee to aban. leetiii„ mini, of wit 0, men into" 31.11'en„,..01.
' 1848 tl 1 t tire of the late o some estent the interest, of Cionada, „)„tee i„e• roe •• On t • 1 10 titous
1, on le m s re . . et 1 me
and for this he W118 severely taken to task
lion. W. elorrisl ; from September 1 1th, orti,rwai,", 1)00.og
the 110001011 01 1 H72,
1 85 30 July 2tn11` 138 (h1 the 'N1 however, he defended Iffinffilf and hiszmnis.
Morin, tl o TacheeMacclontdd, and 1 he Mae- ; see m iipeeeh h., room:dia.:1 to hove
donaltblartier Administrations) ; from Ails,' "'" '
been one of the ablest weals of his life.
nst Oth, same yenee to 'May 23111, 1 862 ;
t he (tart ier. toeclonald Administration) ; I • le: OPPI/SITION.
from Mere!' 13001, 1804, until the 'Union (in
eve yeto•s of Reform I lovernment follow.
the Teche-elacelonahl and the Belleau -Mae. . •
et t le appeal to the country in 1 872, and
donald. Ad ini nistretionsi ; and he was, due
Sir •Joho found himself in Opposition, lie
(eg these several sPee10(10. 'Receiver -Gene' hail wished to resit c from the leadership of
al from :May 2let to December 7 111, 1,417 1 ,
tile party he had 10 Often lea to victory at
C"'""sal03'00 "1 Cm"'" 'Ands (ram 'he the polls 11.11.1 ill 1181110.111411t, btlt, his friends
latter date to March 100, 1'43 1 eklimeInq' would »01 hear of it. ler. elaekenzie took
, General for Upper 1 antela. Nein September
office with oul to nominel majority at his
1 I th 1S:0 to •.2.1th duly 1 858 when
,
easions his deliverances so far excelled his
ordintory efforts as to be worthy of pseservas
tiOn in hietory. leoth were speeehes made in
the House -the first a masterly argument of
ME hours in length with reference to the
Washington Treaty, the second the Pre-
mier's defence of himself on the Pacific rail-
way cheeps, when 110 spoke for five hours,
IN PRIVATE LAVE,
In private life Sir :John electIonahl was
one of the most genial aud approachable of
men, lie Wfl...5 most efeective ill personal
can vase, and his cordeolity seemed him hosts
of friends even among eilitical 0 ponents
, anc , iie int; not tarty on t lc He wag the life and soni of any festivity i»
1 AS 1-111 11 11 1 1;180E13 10N -eminent enecessfully under the circum- whieh he joined, and being singularly well
stances, dissolved Parliament. .kt the elec.
he and bie Cabinet resigued, being defeat 81 li011 that took place early in 1874 the " Pa. itiformed on all subjects, he wag a, brilliant
on the seat of Governmeet question, Ile re- scandal o wits oe muti the Gove„, nonversatimudise He WaS11.11 excellent at ter
: mimed 00 (dee ell Anlenat 'nun" ment was endorsed by good meelorite. This full ef rePmffilseences of Feet days and pas(
dinner s either, and au in i ini Wilde story•teller
ekini 13'1`1'raLL'i'laistit'',1';itg1atIon30,a,10' indieated that for five years at leest the eteteeme„
eltteclonald element, would be in Opposition.
ite A t tornev•t teemed of U iper Canticle, we,t2t FAR I 1.0 RELAT2
Looking Bewail, therefore, Sir John took ad-
otfiee he eont hilted to holt until the defeat of vantage of the well-known free trade prin. Sir John was twice married, ;lest to Igoe
the Admielstration on t he Militia bill, May, ci des of the leading member, Of tete ;see. belle, daughter of the late Alexander Clark,
from °thee. l'lle late Sir George'le, Cartier: le ICIlme ee,i.l't:' ' and developed his " National Fleq., of Dainavert, I»verness-shire, Scot•
' I 8112, when he and his eel leagues e oltill retired
He and the leadieg men of his land ; and in 18(17 to Snsan A ones daughter
and he led Om Opposition in the Aseeinbl) ;
Arty took the stump 011 this platform, an'l of the late Hon, T. J. Bernard, a member of
until the defeat ot the Smollield Macdonald. I
i " 1 i'l• Iiilii t
nanguratet to see es o po t ea p cm os it Her Majeste's Privy Council of the Island of
Dorton Government, v n t » 1 ach el
doneld(lovernmetit 1111.0 funned, a ) h
0 he- i• ' ---- e"--a".•WhiC11 L110 polio,v was developed with good Jamaica. 91e latter survives him, with
1 864, end he returned to his old office of,
M 'eh 31 I' '' etreee, When Parlitoment expired in Sep. , two childena daughter, and a son by the
tember, 1878, the election took. place, and , lisst marriage, who at present represents
Attornere I eneral, end was Government the corme„.ittives were the via1003 by „ winiepez j„ the House ef es,„,0101,,e,
the union of the British North American
House of Commons before. But Sir John
provinces in 1 8117. He held the office cif Sir 301111 :Macdonald watt the reeipient
himself, for the fleet time in thirty-four
Minister of el ellen Affairs jointly With that • duringthis lifetime of many honoers. In
years.. was left without a seat, Elected i»
of Attorney•General from Jenuary to May, 1 865 he received the degree of D. (_'. L.
1 803, mail the 1844, he had been chosen for Kingston at
. 1 86'2, and front August,
oleetion until 1 878. This;time he wan (hem) from Oxford Univermity, He was
' U01011. He W118 requested to take the place , averY
of Sir le. 1'. Titehe os prime -.minister on the defeated, but he subsequently secured the air an IsteD. of Queen's University
K ngston, and McGill University, Montree.1,
death of that gentleman in 1 065, but waived; aaat' 1nr Vi''''taria' 11' e• and a D. C. L, of Trinity College, Toronto.
Ins claim in novelle of eir es. I. Belleau. 10 POWER. :WAIN. He was created le. Gt. 13. in July, I 807, luld
, Dmine six years of this period he lied been • C C B • et' • Is e 1,484 I I i ',
I a member of all Opposition which had only leetunung to power, then, in 1 87S, Sir e hoe freatleei:
1 nineteen members in a House of eighty•four, ' John :Macdonald Mot since remained there, ele7o2ss, elltal;enitigadoefr le.ouglt,,,tierltnIclu,
, lint the experieeee was a valuable one, as, , whoring three general elections 411100 that Catalina of Speen. He 11114 noniinated a
indeed, WILS his whole politicalcaseer during tune, in every instatice, save the last, por• member of her :Majesty's Most Honourable
the stormy quarter of a century which pre -:haps, by sure micjeri ty, 9 1
- -Ie lea( mg Privy Council in July. 11472 tond wits sworn
' ceded the formation of this Dominiou 111s' olitical and semi•political events of this in August, 1879. lie also held' the rank
ot I ast Grand Senior 11 melon of the Order
of All'Aelit, F1,30, and Accepted 'Masons of
ed red, and SLOOd 1.0r many years. \ nicer
to Adolphustown recently wrote " Stand.
ing at the old Methodist 01100011 at Hey Bay
the visitor can see the modest rain. It
mimeo the dwelling -piece of the parents of
Sir John ellectIonald. The house was
'bathed long gime, and the celler and its
walls alone leads the spot."
01/1 .30111I'S EARLY neme
tn his book "Country Lite in Canada
ty ears ago, Dr. t. am 11 Ha ight saye
" I remember being at a nomination in the
village of Betli, on which occa.eion there
were several speakers from Kingston, among
them John A. Macdonald, then 2 young
lawyer just feeling his way into political
life. lie made a, speeee, and began some-
thingin this *ay Yeomen of the Count
nem. _ c zngten, I remember we 1
when I ran about in this district a bare-
footed boy,' etc."
In 1886 Mr. Hugh Macdonald returned to
Kingston, where he leased the Kingston
Mills, a few lodes out of the city, and tie the
same time carried 011 business on Princess
street. Young Macdonald hos been de.
scribed as having in his scbool clays " very
intelligent and pleasing face, straege, fezzy•
looking hair that curled in a &lark mass, and
a still:Mg nose," His father had al war:
intended him for the ltgal protetelon, and
upon leaving school in HIV he
ENTERED TRE LAW 00011E.
of Mr. George MacKenzie, where he applied
himself diligently to his studies. He epent
eix years here, areil proved a most exemplary
strident. Before he was quite twenty•one he
was called to the bar of Tepper emporia, and
opened an office in Kingston. 11 a short
thee ho had worked up a good business, 21111
had become solioitor fey the Cenneercial
Bank, and also for the Trust and Loom Com-
pany, with which latter corporation this re.
lationship continent' up to the time of his
death. These were the days of the Re-
bellion, 211t1 iL \vae in 001111001 1011 With 0110
of the incidents followieg that outbreak that
young :Macdonald earned his tirst legal
lanrels. He Was engaged to defend Von
Shoultz and others of the 1100 hundred
" Hunters" tylin invaded Canada at Prescott
from the United States in November,. 1838,
and were taken prisoners by Col, 1 oung.
The trial at Kingston °tweed Intense excite.
ment, and the yeung barrieter's brilliant
defence of his clients, though fruitless, WW1
acknowledged to be a masterly one, From
thet time forth John A. Macdonald',
abilities were receguized by all, and his
future greatness was oftenpredioted. It eves
seen that lie was a, MILD peculiarly fitted to
to take a prominent pare 'in the stormy
politics of the Canadaeof Mat day, and, es a
pre iminary step, lie was e/ected a member cle
leader ill the Assembly from that thne nntil.
greater majority than ever the,v lied in the reset NOTRIES,
powers eidetic:1e werestrengthened, his ?one- atter Period of his rule are fresh in the
ened, enable naterel lea developed, eo that may be mentioned the eensteuotiou of the Caneda, and was a GranO Representative
he was thoroughly schooled for lug long reign, Canadian Pacifie Railway, the passage of in Conatia of the Grand Lodge of lengland.
' over Canadian attain which was to rollow, the Frenchiee Act, the Riel rebelliert, the I
:
nre PART I I 00.IFRDERATI 'I Vtlri0118 1001.1 fight8 with the proviece, the i _
tration hoe 1000 and then. motives s tarp. minds of Canadians. Chief among them
, O.. dispute over t he fisheries question end sub-
' When in I ett4 Messrs. jobn A, Macdonald sequent proceedings in coeneutioe therewith,
' and A. T. Galt met Mr, George Bream for and lastly the events immediately prior to
:the purpose of discussing the formation of a am! thirieg the reasilt campaign. To the
coalition Government, which the letlence of • nervous strain ceused by this great struggle,
' perties rendered necessary to stable a,01,0P11- coupled with old age and sessional cares and
• ment, Mr. Brown asked them how they pro. anxieties, greatly aggravated by a elinis.
, posed to settle the sectional difficulties be. (Relit] "scandal "is undoubtedly to be tittle.
tween Upper and Lower Canada, and they! betted the Premier's collapse and subeequent
replied that their remedy was " a federal' death. He had iffirived ttt an age when body
onion c t all the British North -America') pro. and mind are illtitted to cope with extract,
offices." Of this scheme Conservatives fyo- (Unary worries and exhausting efforts.
: sett their tato leerier to have been the parent, I ACIf IR VEY( RSV .tS A eimiet„yron,
while Liberals claim the houout• for Mr.
Brown. Both 1/1011, et all events, were elr John Macdonald's greatest nehieve•
leaders in the negotiittions for earrying it Ments 110 IL lewonitker are thee set foteh in
into effect, and by virtue of his (Mice 1E5 the " Parliamentary Companion ": "
Attorney -General, if for no other reason,' eecnlarization of the clergy reeerves ; the
.Mr. Macdonald was looked upon as the' improventent of the criminal law ; the pro -
elder spirit. Ile WES head re. the " Can -I nuttion of public instruction ; the extension
adieu "tielegetioil at the Charlottetown Con- I of the municipal system ; the reorgailization
fel (nice of 1 864, 'convened for the purpose of of the militie, ; the settlenisnt of the seat of
• effecting, a union of the Maritime l'rovinees, ( to vernment question ; the establishment of
and at, the subsequent (etiebee Conference to direct steam mail communication with
arrange to basis of union for all the British ; Europe ; the establishment of additional
American celonies. At the London Confer., penitentiaries, eriminal, lennele nee -Innis,
once in 1866 67 lie was unanimously ehoeen end reformatoey prisons, 0,11t1 providing for
chairman, tool his share ie the momentous, the internee. economy of the H0080 01. C0111-
-work of that gathering hos thns been. mons ; the reorgtonizetion of the Civil Ser.
deecribed by 0110 of his biographers :- vice on a permanent basis ; the construction
" Though some of the aulest men our, of the Intereolonial railway ; the enlarge -
colonies have eeer produced weve instru-Hnent of the canals; the enactment 01 n.
tnental in framing the new constiteational stringent election law ; the ratification of
character, Mr. Macdonald, it was readily: the Washington treaty ; the Confederation
admitted, W25 the masterdieed, Many el of British North America ; the extension
time during the progress of the negotiations and consolidation of the statues," 'rho cle•
conflicting interests arose whiele but, for ceased statesman's former political oppo-
caref hendling, might have wrecked the nents /rely take exception to this recerd,
scheme ; and here the matchless ttlAlt Of Cie j It represents what the Conservative
Atiorney•General of Canatle Weet pree party regtord as his chief Maims to the
eminently asserted itself," Another writer gratitmle of his country apart from his
has said 1-. His perfect knowledee of all general services as its political rules for
tails, has marvellous teat, and nyesist. manyYears.
of the Kingston Council in 1 853. ib
lie
111S FIRST APPEARANCE; IN POLITICS. y,
In the following year, 'after a most' excite Se
ing contest, lie WILE elected to represent his sc
city in the .Assemblyt which then held its ju
sessions there. In his reply to the requiei- In
tion asking him to be a eatolidate-which, ed
1 by the wee', was signed by the father of the fo
, Hon. Oliver elowat -he eneil that in coin- ea
1 plying he had no personal ambition to grittify
' exeepe a desireto advance the interests of the
town and " to maintain those principles of of
public policy which you justly style Bolted be
and liberal, and which have always acteat• ist
ed our loyal old town," " In a young coml. ad
try likeCanada " he continued, " I am of 18
'opinion that it' IS of more consequence rio
'to endeavour to develop its resourees
and improve its physimel advantages then Th
to waste the time of the Legislature, seal me
the money of the people in fruitless ou
;discussions on abstraot arid theoretical fel
questions of government. One great ob. 000
Jed of my exertions, if elected, will pre
be to direct the attention of the Legiele.
ture to the settlement of the back townships iss
of the dietriet, hithertoso tztterly neglected, rcq
end to press for the construction of the long me
projectecIplank road to Perth and the Ottawa, ma
and thus melte Kingetort the market for a
/mem and fertile though hitherto valueless
eountry. Th ie desirableobjeat once attained
the prosperity of our town will be eetablish.
ed on et firmer basis." Tho young politician
who thus mado the otoustruction of a plank
`road one of his first cares lived to become, HA
"eremier of oountry, the chief inetroment
to building ono of the greatest railwaye in
the world.
t On the hustinge Mr, lelacclorrald's
ffi a popular speaker made itself etrongly
•
le persuasive powers proved egeal to the
ets 3+0141111 AN
rculean task of reconciling the vast told
ried interests; which at times seemed so no public man was over more bitterly end
riousle conflicting (oe to menace the whole unforgivingly abused by his political oppo.
heme. Confederation may, indeed, be nente, on the one hand, or more Fondly end
stly regarded as Sir John Meedonald's unceesingly eulogized by his politictol friends,
agaum opus." Confederation tethomplish. on the other, than Sir John A, el endoneld.
, end the new censtitution brought into' 13001 facts bear thstimony to the wonderful
roe on July 1, 1867, Mr. Macdonald was extent of his Brimless as 2 politician. 'That
lled upon to form lanai:ON was in part due, no doubt, to his
I reinarlEablo power of drawing men to him
TIM FIRST L1OVERMIENT end holding them -to his exeraordinary
•
the new Dominion, and was sworn &mein- "peteonal inagnetistn," a eift which his
e of the Privy 'Council and appointed Min. rivals for popular favour heve always been
et of jestice and AtIorney.tioneral of Can. commictiouely lecking. But, beyond tide, he
a, which' office he filled until November, united in himself, MS few men do 1111 1111..
73! One of the first acts of the fit'st GCVO), usual limber of those qualities wIlich are
taGeneral, Lord Monelt, was to oonfertinvaluable to the successful politichon and
011 the Premier the honour of Knighthood. i !statesman. He had a marvelloos knowledge
e new Ministry eves composed of gentle•I of human nature: a rare insight into men
11 representing the majorities in the 011Ad• and their motives ; an inflexible will, ad.
a eerovinces. " do not W1111 it LO bet mirebly united to a remarkable power of
Sir John Macdonald said, " by any . adeptehility to circumstances: ; gift of
lion in the country that they hat o no re, featlership which had been likened to the
sentative in the (Jabieet and no influence feat of the juggler in keeping half deem
the Government. ,And there are 110W 110, I/0118 111 1110 RIF at once 1 041 extraordinary
lffis to divide parties, and es all that is ability for holding together diverse elemente
ufred 10 to have in the Government the and interest& He posseesecl the uncommon
n who are hest toclapted to put L110 110W faculty of being able to evolve sumiese out
chinery in motion, desire to ask those of defeat ; his greatest digester wee soon
to join mo have the confidence of, and followed by Ins greateet triumph.
represent the majorities in, the various see- As a public 'meeker Sir John Macdonald
Mons, of those who were in favor of the was by no means great, from ttn oratorical
adoption of this system of government and point of view, but he was always effective.
who wish to seo it setisfactorily tarried out," Although he never voice rapidiy, his ideas,
Of the thirteen members of this first Govern- tyfter he heel feirly begun flowed freely and
merit of the Dominion Sir Hectrie Lazigovin eteadily, and the happy inzmour with which
fic todlay the only oneatill in office at ()thieve,. hie specchea to the people aboueded always
Its compesition 1825 28 101101FH Fiehti A, kept lite audience nt good spirits, Even
Miteclonald, A. T, Galt, Alexander Clew. those who had been ttought to hate him often
bell, ,A, FerguesomBleir, W. P. Howland, failed to resist, his platforin " mem:teen,"
George le. Cartier, Wm. MoDouga,11, IL 18 related that at a pionie meeting prior
i ---
A. Mittilz, Incitte old Ilan who C'annot kits
Indoors.
1 Leslie Buchanan, of Lexingtou, Va., has
rece»tly bedtime insione through grief for
the death of his eldest son and has develop.
ea iteraze tvhich 15 greatly distreseing and
: annoying to 1114 friendS, 1110, Buelutuan 15
an old man in his seventy•ninth year and
though peculiar in his actions, is still so
mild and inoffensive that his relatives 01111 -
not brieg them, elves to plum him in an
asylum. His latest vagary is that he is suf-
foctoted whenever in the house, so that he
has taken up his alenle in a hirge apple tree
in an oreliarel 'tette his home, and out of
which he canton. be pereutoled to come. Jt
is now two or three weeks since he establish.
ed himself in hie singular dwelling place,
and strenge es it may seem the old gentle-
man's health lies not only not suffered, but
actually seams improved under the ex-
posure tuol physicians have advised hie
family not to interfere with him as long as
this is so.
Mr. Buchanan sits smiling and happy in
Ills perele tv111011 has been, rendered as come e
fortahle an possible by means of a suspend, 1,1
ed. platform. His food is carefully hoisted 1
to Inin by his directions, thongh it
could be as easily hencled, as his treo 15 1101
OVOI. eight feet in height. Crowds from all
over the county have come to pee the old
man, who seems pleased at the attention
tend will discourse to them by the liner of
the advantioges of na outdoor life. At night
lie is guarded from molestation by a servant
who sleeps tot the foot of the Dee.
LIVES IN AN APPLE TREE.
1111.ST AUDIENCE
PEROR.
Tito 14011 of 11011.1.0 Atl0.11 11 1111 SIMItell With
by the "Porclum Devils."
The audience of the Foreign 'Minh:time
with the Etripeenti in Peking took piece el.
mom exaetly 00 the thirtieth anniversavy of
the establishment of the British tuul French
Legit t ion ill Pok lug, The elioistere, at taelfes.
seermaries, and interpretera tanned foe the
great ceremony of meeting the " ;eon of
Heaven" at 10 o'clock 00 the mornitig of the
etth inst„ all the suites leaving their Lege.
dons sfintiltanectusly. The Corpg Diploma.
tit; tteall rode 1 n lose( ecelan cheire, eaell pilaw
0111111 being borne by four coolies, with reliefe
of mold numbere of be:vers. wearing oflichol
livery, and ettch elinieter being followed by
four mounted memos ill resplentlene
forms. A mettle of mounted Chinese ollieers
also accompanied the procession in the
capacity ef guides to the place of audience.
The Tee Knang-ko, where 1110 audience took
pIttce, ie situated close epee the ehores of
the Middle Lake, whiell suns through the
palace grounds, end ia croesed in its nar•
rower parts by magnificent bridges of white
stone or marble. The groinole are entered
from the Tartar city by the len Hum Man
(Gate of "Flower Prosperity") and on
the Ministess rem iing this point they were
met by 1110 high officials of the Tstingell
Yemen, who joined the peocossion, 1011011
wits else ungirented vaet crowds of '1'itts,
ter cavalry. Tho " vorbidden City" wa
curionsly still, though it is inhabited by
about 500 woinen and 4,000 ounnehs-but
only one man, his Imperial Majesty the
young Emperor. In en inner room th
Corps Diploinittemo were regaled with
sorts of
out.: DELWAVIES
as well as tv.th eltampagne anti pigs re 2 a 11,
Prince Ch'ing, the President ef the Tirangel
Yemen, and several high metropolitan ten
eialsactect as hosts foe an hour or niore. T111
wait, no doubt, was part of the programme
'lite room in m•hich the elinisters were OD
*retained was handsomely furnished tool the
floor was (levered moth a foreign carpet.
tile title Early banquet 30114 progres
the eluties in whiell the ethlisters had releho
et•ere earried out of sight, when the Print:
announced that it was time to go to lb
Audience Hell.
The Gerainn Minister, lien' von Brendt
wasthe te he summoned, Two Minister
of the Tsung•ii Yemen coeducted him too
his interpreter, Baron von der Celia, to th
Audietice Hall 1 but they hod scarcely gon
before they were Intel; again, en brief we
the first interview between the representa-
tive of the Kaiser and his Majesty of the
Middle Kingdom. Then followed the Amer-
ican Minieter, Cel, Dozily 1 the Mash Min-
ister, Sir John Waltham ; the ,Japanese
ireder, M. Mori ; the Hellen :Minister,
Chevalies Panza, and the Netherlands Min-
ister, Mr. Forgusoe ; each Minister being
accompanied by Ins interpreter, 211 CI, 25 it
the first instance, escorted t wo :Minister
cf the Yemen. The actual 010 enmity WIL8very
eimple, The Emperor teas seated on a throne
raised on a claire at the north en et of 01011411 2
handsome bannister ami n flight of steps lor
up to t estrade, in front of which stood a
couple of carved, ormonental stands, while a
table was placed immediately in front of the
throne, which was, therefore, with its occu-
pant, partly concealed 11'01/1 11008 at least
the lower past. 13,1tind the throne was
raised a huge siab of black marble, cevered
with Chinese and Manchu inseriptions•-the
114111105 of 200 distinguished officers who had
compered the Mohammed Ins in the reign
of Keen Lung (1 700) and others who hall
taken part in the war of 1776. The Iwo
Prinves known as the Pao Mine and Ko
\ ang -the " iron-cepped princee"-stood
one on each side of his erlajosty. Ono of the
stands before mentioned supported a magni-
ficent vase of eloisorins, anil the other a
curiously carved wooden cover in which
rested
A N-1/181) mono,
temperer, mid Molded Lis oredentiele to
Prince Ch'ing, who ricescentled the ileie Slid
laid them on the table in front of the Bin.
perm., kinv.towing AY/ 110 d141 80, The Em-
peror merely bowed in aeknowhelenlene,
and did not speak till the Miniater hod re
mimed his former place between the " Dra.g
pillers." His ;Majesty then, speaking ut
\ '00, low voice in Manchu, addressed a.
ehore seeech to Prince Clique who lietened
kneeling. The Prince then (mem and the
wending Hie steps with his arms outspread
like wings (which is in aceordance with the
eboasi Confncian style), echoed it altnel,
the net being repeated in lenglish hy the.
Minister'e interpreter. When the fettee
Moil finished his Majoety that Hit: -
separate toudienee was minelncleil, and dis-
missed the MillifILOP WWI FY slight bow, the
Minimter retiring beckwited, making tbree
0110i82.11008 as on entering. When the hole
autfiences with the Ministers wore
over, the entire diplomatic corps was 00.
eeivetl, the thirty-one persone from she
varioes legetions being lunged in them -
*ewe belope he throne and each one mak.
iog throe obei 8111000 24110 eame and retired.
Canada's Position in the British Empire,
One of the results of the disputes between
Cantela and the (Tufted letates-the North
A tient ic fishery trouble and the Hebrew, sea,
diltieulty-ie that our neighbors are there.
by gaining 0, clearer conception of the im-
portance of the Dominion and of her proper
position in the Beitish Empire, And in.
truth there was much 110011 for this leseen,
if some of the uttera»ces made by repre-
mentetive citizens of the republic aro 10 lie,
regarded as an index of the general opinion,
Thus, when the Fishery questien wag under
consideration in 1 809 President Grant ex-
pressed his surprise, in one of los messages
1 to Cengress, that the "Imperial Govern -
i meet should have delegated the whole, or to
• share, of its juriedieleon or control of ite
a shore fisheries to the Colonial authority
• known es the Dominion of Canada, and
• that the seini•ii itlepeziden t but h.:Tepee:elite,
agent has exermsed its delegeted powers Ill
uefelendly way," Ale. Hamilton Melt,
s when Secretary of State, " very slue ply
I rebuked the interposition of the Covert: -
e ment of Ctonatla"--to !mete the language of
e eta Maine, in his review of the correspond-
ence of which 11r. Fish's letters were part-
, because it had preesed ou the Imperial cot-
e thosities its right to bo consulted as to the
1 choice of C01111111:0(911000 appein Led to con-
e shier the value of the Canadian fisheries,
c opened up to the tishermen of the United
Slims on dcrthe Washington Treaty of 187 1.
Coming down to a later tune, when the
Belying sea difficulty 21.000 10 ereate some
feeling between Canada ancl the United
States, we find Mr. 1 leoine himself rosuming
the position that Cumatle, whatever might.
be her stake in the question at issue, should
be Kept quietly in the backgroued, whilst
the statesmen of England and the United
1 States settle matters with es little interim, -
s ence as possible from mere outeiders like the
I Canadians. Is it any wonder when theet.
, Headers exhibit, suell denee ignoraiffie of
Canada's constitutional righte am! privi.
leges that the people generally thould re-
gard the aution of our government ia con.
nection with these loneestanding disputes
115 811 interference unwarranted and imper-
tinent.
Now, though the means by which these
false impressions regarding the Domieion
are being removed are not such as good
neighborhood cereal 1120'0 deserved, and
should exist must be deplored
though the fact that these raid:1117
pray kr peace ammig natious, it is never.
tlh 01084 801110 consolation f knMe that the
authorities at Washington aro beginning
to recognixo that in all matters of Donne -
ion convene Canuele is a free &gent. This
fact clearly apprehended will tend to
prevent feiture misunderstandings and com-
plications. It is well for tho Americans and
all nations to kncey that, LEI the Quart,,r1)/
11, sit". puts it, while the Queen is
still the head of the eltecutive auth•
ority, and can alone initiate treatiee
with foreign nations -that being an act of
complete sovereignty -and appeale are still
(men to her Privy Cooncel from Canadian
courts within eerteoin limitations -it is an
nehnitted principle that, so far as Canada
has been granted legislative rights and
privileges by the Imperial Parliament -
rights and privileges set forth explicitly
111 the British North America A.ot of 186,
• the is practicidly sovereign in the exer-
cise of all those powers, RS long as they do
not temilict with trenty obligetions of the
parent State, or with impede] legislation
directly applicable to lice with her own
0011001/ L. lt is trim that the Queen in Coun-
cil can veto At:is of the 020;1.1i:on Parliament,
but that supreme power is only exercised
Under the conclitione just stated, and can
110 more be constitheionally used in the
ease of ordinary Canadian statutes affecting
the Domieion solely, than eten the sovereign
to -morrow veto the elots of the Imperial
Parliament -a prerogative of the Crown
still exietent, but not exercised in England
since thedaye ot Queen Anno, rood now in-
consistent with modern rules and Parlia.
mentery Government,
Benefits of Physical Development.
ie'Pin Wresting to note how one by one
the popnler fallacies which have long in.
financed the thought and action of men are
yielding before the irresistible logio of ftoot.
Of such esroneous views one is that the
mind toed body of the scholar are iti inverse
preportion and that physical development
18 not to favorable or at lease necessary
condition of suecess in echolttrship. That
this opinion is not woll founded the follow-
ing from President Hyde's contribution to
the Jnne .P0r1144 tyill show, Saya Presieene
Hyde :
" The 0,11111V151 of the Smyth mathematical
prize in Bowdoin College for the past ex
ukases present a remarkable, if not
a representatIve, phenomenon. Thie prize
of 4300 is based on to (ionise in mathe-
matics extending over two years, and is the
most importene oollege pence Of six con-
secutive recipients of this prize the first wee
the winner of the quartor•mile run ; the
seeend \Yee the pitcher of the college base.
ball nine ; the third wits the most brilliant
performer on the trapeze ; the fonrth was a
man of goocl physicel development without,
special athletic attainments ; the fifth was
the catcher of the college baseball nine and
the hest plumed athlete in college ; the
eixth ig & candidate for a poeition 011 the
oolloge boat crew, and will next year be 0,
member of tho foothell eleveffie
The inferettee from those facts, which do
not stand alone bot imoy be duplicated from
the records of many other oducationid
sietutIons, is plain, end is Viet other thiegs
being equal the odds tore all In favor of the
student with a good physical developmene,
Lot parents and geerdians take 0, note of
Ude and cease to devise the thitme whielt
vinigelotrooftotsrbotclifeelsmilding up of strong end
o Place for Little Boye,
Mother -"Johnny, leave the room, rny
ear ; your father has just: smelled hie
of which the bile, in the shape of a golden
dragon Wit 11 emerald eyes, alone was visible.
The Prince known 165 1'110 Wong 15 the
grtuulson of the geeat General emmko•lin-
slit, who was kilted 1 865, while Prince
leo is the Grand Chamberlain. The hall,
WI113 well lighted, owing to the large
doors being thrown wide open. "11'28 covered
with a flitting and tawdry foreign carpet of
cheap melse. One both sides, from tho en-
trance to the foot of the dais:, were ranged
numbers of military officials of high rank,
icedheoyeetscod silent an a motioblese, with avert -
'The nuegnitIcenco of the attire contrasted
strangely with the simplicity of the appear-
ance of the young Emperor, who rules ft
fourth of the human race, anti whoce felt.
titres have never before heen eeen Eave by
the highest of 11i5 OW11 subjects. Whatever
the impt•eseion the " barbarities" mole on
him, the idea which they carried away of
he Emperor Keane bleu was pleasing and
10ffied pathetic. His air is (me of exceed -
lig intelligence and gentlenese, somewhat
frightemed, and meleneholy looking. Hie
face is pale, and though it is dietingeishod
by refinement and quiet dignity, it hes none
of the force of his inertial ancestors, noth-
ing commandieg or imperial, 1101 is altogeth•
er mild, delicate, sad and kind. He is 08-
sontially Manchu in feettwes ; his skin is
etrangely pellid in hue, which is no doubt
accounted for by the confinement of his life
inside those foz•bidding walls, and the ab•
settee of the ordimory pleasures and pursuits
of yotzth, with the constant discharge of on.
erous, complicated, and difficult ditties of
State, which, it must be remembered, are
according to Imperial Chffiese etiquette,
ost, y trenszteted between the hours of 2
(i in the inclining. His face is oval
shaped, with a vevy lung, narrow chin, and
ft sensitive mouth, with thin, nervous lips ;
his hose is well shaped and straight, his eye-
brows replay and yety arched; while the
eyes am unusually largo and mournful in
expression. The forehead is well shaped
and broad, end the head is large beyond the
average, .He looked anxions, tvatchful,
somewhat nerVotts, and more overcome 1,111111
any present by
TIIE UNCSVAL 11.*XrnnullOit,
Ris &esti waS tt plain puee•colove eilken
robe with a goldee dragon embroidered on
the breast end shoulders. He sat croes•leg.
god like a 13unclha, in front of the table and
played nervously with his hands while the
ordeal lasted, Ho wore nothing in the
shape of a erown or other emblem of hie
high offiee, hie head covering being an ot•
dinary Chinese official lutt of felt, surmount.
ea by n, button of knotted orinison silk.
At tho foot of the theone knelt Prince
Ch'ing, who was also somewhat plainly at-
tired, On the Ministers entering according
to the ceremony agreed upon beforehand,
they ad ennead slowly to a point boeween two
pillars in front of the platform on which the
Emperors:at and made three low bows as
tbcy came forward, Each was then intro-
dueed by nn,me to his Majesty by Prime
Ch'ing. The German Minister Mont read
atIcirees of a few words in Illeglish, Me
hitorprotor repedting the text in CbilleSe,
and Prince still kneeling, translating
it into Manchu -tholangnage of the Peking
Court, The Minister then tolyencod few
eters to within 110/110 three y rds of the
Centipscle Poison.
A strangestory comes helm Baxter coenty,
in Western Arkensas. fluffily of eiv
persons left thole home 111 the ileighborhood
of 'Baldwin, "Genesee°, about tho beginning „d
of ,elaveli, tryine to remeh Texas in a tem» '
of their own, and one 1114111 casnped near a
way•side spring, where they wore found
dead or dying the next morning. All rem.
edies failed, anti the death of tho maim
family WWI at first ascribed to the contamin-
ated mutation of the spring, which shortly
before had formed the metre of to Clypsy
camp but a coroner's inquest revealed the
fitce thet tho thavellere had cooked
their coffee in a oan that coeteined the
remains of a large centipede. The plan of
pursuing and lynehing the Gypsies was then
at once tobandoeed, but itcould have dime go
harm to analyze, or at least to dear, the sus-
pected spring. The centipede hypotheeis, at
all events, is baited on the popular error which
eon founds theerfects of mineral and vegetable
pollens with Giotto of an animal virus.
&spent virus kills only by its direct inject.
Men into the efficeletion of the liumen body,
and en ounce of the virulent substemee
might he swellowed with impuniey, 001005
the experimenter should happen to he Millet.
ed with gastric tumors. Many birds and
animals, m fact, devour all sorts of venomous
reptiles; the Merops apinster, or Turkish
starling, kills and eats seores of wasps, and
in dry seasons when the herbage of the
parched hillsides' withers to the roots, the
Abyssinian baboons subsist largely on
scorpione. Tho Fmglisit natiffialist 131trklantl
swallowed with impunity the virus of throe
different: kinds of me/Tents. The bite of
venomous insects luts lindonbieelly, thong))
wiry rarely, led to Wel reeolts, but a quart
of ladled centipedee would not femnigh
poieon enough ter 111 11 1) child,