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The Expositor, 1869-04-02, Page 2••• • f 4•0••• ADVEIT1SEliS. .ifew Advertisemente must be given in by Wednes4rnoin. ohancies of A.clvertisements, which are ePe- 'wally arranged for weekly : dhoges, by Tues -day noon: - Changes of Ailvertisements, Witten:are: net • specialty arrantred for weekly--clianges ay -Saturday night;- . • We cannot euararitee,"inserti,. rifilesi the above be complied! With, '1311SINEAS 'Norict.,-:-.A.11 accounts for ad- . vertising and Jobbing mast, positively be set- _ tled Quarterly, on the 1Ih days of "March, june, September and December.. J • -tX110...-5itOt. The 'Official Pape l• of the. County. FRIDAY :APRIL 2 18•69, TR Americans are waxing. Eloquent over-, he abrogation of the Reciprocity T -eaty. It not only failed to coerce Canada, into annexation, but it also failed to benefit the commerce- -w-hieh it as supposed to injure. The taxes im- posed upon Canadian exports press most heavily upon _the' -American themselves, Without any great eornpen7 satioir in the way or revenue. A Hai., risburg paper makes the followinti humble cOnfeSsion: "The opposition -to a just reciprocity with Canada is_ founded in greed and rapacity. • "The present .syStepi. rewards a fa- vored few- at the expense 'of the. great mass of the people. It lays burthen- some charges on the necesSities of lite, under \the pretence yr encouraging &lineindustry. It fosters monoply, And .diseOurages trade, and the people, who are oppressed by it should Cleinand' its repeal in tones of thunder." ' We suppose the . model "Proteetion - ists" Who called -so loudly for the repear • cf this Treaty, vi11 feel, tliat _they have f dlen*.nto-the pit which they; dug for others, and that instead of injuring the eomme -ee tat Canada, they have really inter& ed with their own,', This age is - . too 411,1 li'enlightened to entertain with- - ..out re ronstrance, any polfey Which sacrik .general,,to individual -interest. Canadian opponens. of Free Track ghoul(' study ilmerican legislation in' ragard to_this Matter. • TIIE COUNTY OP ITU:RON AND EMIGRATION. * ME,;County of Victoria :has taken the lead in making low& efforts to se - 1 _ cure the services of some Of those who . . may •..einigrate to Canada the '‘ email* season. An ' estimate Of thR, 'kind of laborersl.required'and the number of . , -- each, has been made and forwarded to the proper- authorities, so that emi- .. ' 1 grante an know Where to apply at once for a situation suited 'to their va- tions ca HagsCould not the Couaity. . - Council of Huron take similar action at its' thee sitting in May? Is' theee room in this County for • moretfarm la- loceeert o - tradesmen? If so, % let ,our County orincil at once enquire what are the 4ature and eatent of such de- inands, •rid make it known- at onceto the prop r officials. We should by all means ei courage the settlement in our midst of he hardy, industrious. popula- tion f lhe -British isle; and secure the aid or their superibr skill to devel- ope our • aricultural resources, arid to cultivate thoSe manufacture's for which _our' court ry i pecu liartr ada,pted. ...• THE t tal voteiin Great Britain at the last lection was 1,2 r 8,534,.divi- ded betw en the. parties s follows: Liberal, 155,-371 ; Conservative, 523,- 163. The _aggregate population is about 28,000,000. , The a-verage is, therefore, les than one .voter to every twenty-onednhabitanta. :In the -United .. States the voters are to -late-whole num- , . bete of the inhabitants - about as one to , . six and three-fourths. The - English Liberals, therefore,. have something to _ do yet in the way of reform. anorimiumiek. PORTUGA,14 Which, like Spain, still tolerates Slavery in its colonies, has also taken a steporwa,rd toward emancipation,, The Official journal of the king. doin announces that. the Min- istry hive submitted to theJing a de- cree declarii` ag the slaves of the Transoceanic colonies free, but requir- ilia them to work as freedmen for their former masters' until 1878. 'iyHt DOMINIONTEI.A3Ct APE 9,03V.A.14TY. In short lanotit'ffe we believe his en- terprise to be a_lkutcf,)swindle We are not unawat:e of ihe evih o moho- poly, but we a. not think the" 1 °min - in viroi.oaishe ng. natol.eogrveani.:INymPce believe ri rthatts the very thing thati will dista ce the day of rival telagraphy in this 4ountry. in proportion its it is. sustainec. The conduct of those who have the nstitu- tion in tow jnst now, must cll.' elan it in the eyes of sensible and discre t men. We, to -day, -read reports of meetings held at which confidence has heen re- stored, and retired dircaors r ,sumed their positions, only, for to-moriow, to read that the whole thing was a ,gros:-, fabrication, vide, St. Catharines. Why cannot the representatives of this, coin- / pany at those meetings clear tfp• the charges which have been made aeainst it 7 They 'don't do it, and if they can . i it s certainly passing strange.tht miss the opportunity-. The "lon , Company has unquestionably ev a good, as we verily believe that its announcement which led th treal Company to reduce its This, howevor, does not add th virtme to the concern, for it -is n mor tnan the ordinary result bat)] competition in business. - • t they . • inion" ought it was Mon - least thing f pro- s above stated, that, the "Domin- ion elegraph Company," instead of be- ing the harbinger -of rivalry in thii busi- ness, it is the bull dog, which if nur- tured, will drive it from our dbors therefore, we give it an unqualified dis- ceuntenance. To talk further, Would be useless, as an artiele on the ighth page, -deals with the matter in. terms. CUBA.- *_Tini reports from Cuba do no/ indi- cate that much progress, if any, has been made in quelling thea Cuban re- bellion. But as these reeorts come ,thi-cugh the medium, of the ,Ain41-ican press, which is in active sympathy with the revolutionists, they Must; be.Sakeye , with some grarn of alloWanceTt ay.- peats,' hOweVer, that the, reaolutiomay ,BIWA is far more 'extensive that `.‘ as at 6rst supposed, and it has reachedt per- sons :holding high positiohs in tile; Js - land. It is a sienificant fact that charges of dislovalty have been Made against the Governors of two Diet icts, Trinidad and yillaCla ra, and egeinet the commander of the Spanish forces near Remedios; And four companies in one battalion of the Spanish troops hhve ac- tually joined the insurrectionists. It was in consequence of their desertion that the Spanish troops lattly mat with a severe repulse near Cienfeuges. A large mejority of the ,native Cuban peer to favor the. movement for th en- tire- independence of the Wand. Tt would probably have been better for the Spanish nation had the questio separation been left for the pe pie themselves to decide by a popular mote. It is too late now, however, to do tat; and the power of the SWO/•d Call alone tilecide the ise:;ie.---elfamilton- TriE news ••from Japan, which jhas just .reached San Francisco does not confirm the announcement rece tly rnade bee the diplomatic agents of he Foreign Powers, that the civil war is at an end. On the- contrary, it. is itee ported that the Admiral of the Tete Tycoon now holds possession Of the whole of the island of Yesso, the se- cond largest and northermost island of Japan, that his forces are rapidly in- creasing, and that the Mikado will find it difficult to overcome him unless the exiled princes be allowed to return and the Tycoon be sent to them as their ruler. The Mikado 114d recently been at Kioto, where he was married, but a difficulty occurred between the two. most powerful of his partisans, 'in con- sequence of which several streets oi the city were burhed, and the Mikado fted to Osaka. -XPOSITOR. „ THE HUDSON'S:BAY:QUESTION. 0110.1111, OBITUARY-, This 'Ong cetiestiOn iinow about to be -defiite1y Settled. latest telegranis fronci:Ehttati, weare informed that the ,:proposal l of ceiling over the whole of this teri:iterylet'VaimA da 'for X300,009 isthe best offer which the Company will likelittnake. The settlement of detai1s-4i11 Of• course be a subject of future' legislatimi. it is certainly a Pity that- Canada should not rebetve a blear' title, to a 30untry to which shethasthe best claim Without being obligedeo pay a gratui- ty to a con pally whose charter is said • to have long ago e.xpired. But as the testing of this Dein* Would' iniToIvii te`• dious e xpensive litigation, it was thought best to accept the offer made by the Governor of the territory and have it ceded to Canada at once. That we will be the.gainers by such an arrange- ment there is little room for doubt, for we will be unmediste13r ,put in posses- sion_ of a territory (fit for 'Cultivation) larger than the whole arable territory of Ontario and Quebeq3.. incltilding-fthat now occdPiecl, and whicti' is Stiil wild. There are in the heart Of it seve- ral .1alies as large as „Oataatoe and . a iriever running nearly direct from west to east which is navigable from Lake Winniaeg to within a hundi•ed miles of the rRocky Mountains. The climate is salubricks, and as mild in latitude 54°, as is our in latitude 44°. At. the west boundary of the great basin in the latitedefirst named, is b, natural pass .near the sources of the Frazesr river, and connecting „Rupert's Land with - British Columbia by a highw ay wLich hardly needs improvement to make it available tolclay jor .ordinary Wagon traffic. Beside i the vast field which Will dins be.opened up for _emigration, a .;c:. - . connecting link will be . establi:shed be- tween diiiiiida, Real River and British bolumbiarnsad the way- eleered for a grand Cenfederation'of alIthe British Pro vin.4.` Of Affrefica.N.7., !We431,46 th t will b'es',iiiiited mider-a*"6-at:un' on bond .acknowleelging allegiimee. rio , ,Beteete, place, and that all the 'Colonies now such' a e4ifedeiatioa w.i..11, soon take t t• - ,, of citize ithip, and anim tied by a -cone - L neon 'spirit to promorethe civilization oF mankitd. ,. 'T 1.% -, : . .1 THE 9U14BEO .S.,10.HOOL Baal, The subject of education is becoming the great topic. of th daY. In Scotland the D like of Argyle is framing , a natio- . nal system .designed th. supe cede the old parocluat• schools. Ontario is also .engaged discussing. Dr. Ryerson's pro- pOsals, -and Quebec has tinder 'conside: ration the Ron. Mr: Chaveaa's scheme, which contains pi ovations of a nature calculated to do justice to a ministry which for niany years has laboured mit der peculiar disadvantages. Those acquainted with. the school system of 'Quebec are aware -that', the Protestants of • that Province have al- ways been obliged to coutriute to the support of the estapliShed schools; whether thoso schools were under the Ramish Clerffy or not. .Non -se. cierian 1 • education. vas a thing .entirely un- • -known. The new bill proposes to re- medy thie, by providing, diet the taxes, imposed ori Protestants, will in no case be used for the support of Ro- mish education, thus giving each sect entire control over its .own school. Although ° this measure ig far in ad- vance of any yet preposed in Quebec, it will in all probability semi . become law, The Press supports it vigorous- ly, and both the,Government and the members of the 'House .seern anxious that it should not miscarry. Its s•ic- cess will not only be a great beton. to those for whose benefit iteie; specially intended, but it will 'also be a noble step in the direction of that non -sec- tarianism fer which Quebec is not par- ticularly' noted. .1•TEWFOUNDLAN---1160011ditiOnS up -- on which this island is willing to enter nto the Confederation, are published; From which . we shculd, infer that it would not lose much by such trmove- men.t, and that we would gain less. Whether or not the terms are accepted, epends in a great measure, we suppose, upon the amount of support John A. Co. may require to run the "ma- hine," according to their own liking. MR, P. E. W. MOYER late of the e Waterloo Chronicl e . is about starting a new "Daily" in Toronto, to be called the Daily Tr ,ibune. It is to be inde- pendent in politics, and decidedly of the "Moral Suasion,' similar to the d Montreal Witness. At present, we do not know of a more favorable einder• - 1 taking for a failure. . HARPER.—Died. at New YOk, on Saturday last, 27th March, James Har- Per,' of Harper Bros. He was born in 1795. His li4ory As 'one well worthy of being an eL4mp1e. When a hid he set himself tol learn printing, and by his assiduity 4on an enviable reputation amongst th el craft. Almost immediately on the tenni-elation of his -apprenticeship, he aSsociat -*' with r himself his brother John, who p to a few days since did business as iEtaipei Bre's. At first their office was iagte, •but from it, aided by unflagging 'indus- try, and most scrupulous integrie4 geew that mammoth institution, w 4ch is the pride of Franklin Square, afrd-'the He at one time filled the high --.% pb- (lb popularity of which is world wide. eition his city' could confer tiiii'on 6. citizen. His business, benovelOt and reformatory movements, and, ino444: than all, his home filled ,up the mea. ere of his days. In boyhood be bect;,hie• a member of the Methodist Church and for three • score years no ma ! ever , breathed that he had done art act unworthy of his Chrietian 'rofission. With. the common "Press," at join = II issue,_in sympathy with the frierls of our exemplary- and departed biltit er. ' ' h Regaiescat.. apeeees by the cable telega u, as printed in the New York paper. 4 that the proposition made by Earl p.n._ vill aud recornmended by Sir Stafford - Northcote to the Hudson By Co41tany for ith-aeceptance, was the paymero for the surrender of the territorial tights of the Company of the sum Of 4300,- 000. If the CompanY really doeisipoe- sess territorial rights, -X300,000 2s by - no means a large sum to pay for the transfer Of those rights to the Dean, biz on of Canada ; bat if the Coreteany possess no right in the soil, as has JeeII • very generally contended in this un - try, then not one farthing 511041 be given to them. The settlement okithis point has been repeatedly attehilitt d within the last tWenty years, latitl al- ways _without ee QCOSS:. -re might;ave been. (Imp oy,brieging the queetio*1 h.& fore the high est j n clicial authority in ossession. could not be expectgd. to Enithmd, but the iCouri any bei4 in p • initiate th• e legal proceedings, • andt iCa- nada refused to incur the expen of contesting the alleged 'lights of the Cemperty. It appears, however, lhat the Canadian delegates, no v in , land, have proposed to sett the ole matter by the payment of 1,500Lt00 in liquidation of the Company's pia s ; and as the...Chairman of the Boar sal Directors has recommended the ep- tance of this offer, it is probable [that it will be :finally accepted, and that all the vast territory .extending from ihe western boundary of Ontarioto tilt- ish Columbia, will beconte part of the -Dominion.----litimiaton Times. •AxoriiiR important step has ite:' ,en taken in the Coleus() case. The Oe- tropolitan of the Anglican dioceseq_ South Africa, after excommunicaitint, Colons() and deposing him from spate, has now consecrated another bishop; for Colenso's diocese. This is probably ithe first instance of a bishop of the ChuilTh of England within the British doneea- ions having been appointed by the ec- clesiastical instead ea the secular ittu- thority. It is clearly a serious bloet to. the principle of. State churchism. M high and low churchmen, though stre onsly opposed to the thealogieal vi rS of Dr. Colenso, lime therefore ta, eii the alarm and, petitioned the Ho e aeoverement against the recognition I oi the new Bishop. The controve , ets present shape, is likely to give nab interest and strength to the movemdot which is now going on in the -Up* Kingdom in favor d separating Chu and State, • LAUDER, one of the immortal etiek met with a very serious examike fr his constituenth in South Grey. despicable desertion to the Governmeiet - - side, and. his betrayal of the trust iiee posed in him at his election, was saam ed with that disapprobation -which deserved. Weak-kneed Reforme had better take warning; now -a -day for it is quite apparent that electoia are becoming too well educated and toie independent, to be gulled by knaves Or sopped by sycophants with ilia -amity, LATEST FOREIGN. • EURC3PEAlit London, March 2&-•-j-The Pope hag :- invited the Severigns to send eocieeias- •ties to represent`them in the General Pm .of the Church of Beane. London; ..31tirch .25.---tair Stafford Northcote has advised the Hudeon By. Companyto accept the propeeition of &al Granville, the Colonial Seceetary, to cede their Territorial riahts in British North Arneriea, for X306,0a0-----consid- ering it the best offer they tan ob- tain. . , Neve York, March28.---The Herald' s Madrid special says that the committee, made a, report to the Cortes to -day. The, draft of the Constitution, made a proposal that the future fOrm of Gr ein. ment shall be monarchical, and ehall consist of a. Senate and Congress. Tue senatorial teren shall be thirteen .years. The senators are to be elepted by Pro- visional Councils, composed .1- f fourfor each Previnee. The sessions of Congress are to be triennial. and 1111iVersal suffrage is to be the rule in regard to voting. The reign of the Kieg shall be limited to eighteen years. . The majority ef the, Committee re- port -ed in- favour of a seperatiou of Church from State while a minority re- port advocated the Roman attholic the State creed, wilh toleration towards ail other religious professiena The liberty of the mess and the right of public meetings will be guaranteed. London, March 28,—Ad vices from Sp e ia reader it certe in that 1onrpensir will be proclaimed Iing. Ire will arr- ive in Spain within a fortheight on the iron -chid Victor:a, now at Lisbon.' AIVIERIOAN- Havanna, March 24.---Captian7Gen. Duke has issued a proelanaition declar- ing that all vessels captured in tea anish waters, or in the. seas neer the islaed, with menarms and munitions' ola:taes.b. r on. board, will e treated as i A Spanish man -of war has brought to this port the brig latry Lewd, froni Nuevitas. The value (Xthe ch:o•geof the prize brig is eitimated et =3200,000. lt consiets of caneon, small arms, eimme iieitien-, and either, small meteriel. New York.11arch 5.1.),---T1ie _Evening pul liehet letters frem merchants of -Matanzas, &deo 16th, w Idea give details of the tattle of the Cfnbitas. it Appears that the Spahieh General Lem was defeated ey Qua - aide; and driven ,4aelt to -Onamija, that he then made a detoar end attacked a smeller hotly ef inemegents under Gen letic:la, and after looeing 37 offivers and 800 men, larced his way through the defile and zetateted Puerto Prineipe. He is now, in the heart of the, regicni devoted to the Ce- lan cause, aud the letter:3 say be -can- not rernein there and live, . while hia latving it. will cosi him as (healer as his reaching it, New Yoile, Mereh:. 26.—The bune's special says that news COilleg rom NaSSua that .a Spanish war steam- er haS: oat -egad the British fuld Ameri- ran-flags. The Mary Lowe, was cap - tined oy her when under tlire eleuere of leritieh official. Both the Eng1iel7and Anti ican authorities are indigene. -Washington, Maieth 24th„, --In. the Honse Mr. Beaks, from the Commitee' On Foreign affaile, reported a joint re- solution( dec'aring the eympathy of the people of the United/ States with the people of Ceiba, in their patriotic efforts, -to:secure their .indepenthurce, and to - establish a republiCan, item of govern- ment, and guaranteeing the :persona 12iberty and the equal political rights of etll file people, and that_ Cong-rcss will give its constitutional suppoat to •the P esident of the 'United States where - ever he. May deem it expedient to re= cognize the independance and .,sevete- igiity of such republican- Government. Recommitted and ordered tap be ted.'W,rashingten, Marela`e9—in, 'House to -day - Judge ..taToeh o New -"Vatic, madea powerful 15 ute!, speech in.favonr of -the total repeal of the reten-ure-of-Oriee Act He was Fesiened to with the deepest 'ataeltion nd evidently ereated - a profoitud im- ression. Messers. Garfidd andl cheek& haie spoken on the other side; ainly striving to coMbat J udge Pavi4 arguements. New York, Marcle2G—James" Hap, per of thefirm of Harper & Bra, V40 was thrown from his can -lap a teir. days since, died on Saturday night - - New York; March HeraOH2 specid says it is stated that Rtesident Grant, last evening,, advised his friends in the House to retede from the Po- eition they have taken in opposition to the Senate. Ile says. that he is heartily tired of the present -Tar of the F o0ep„ and has been wottried by offce seekerla so severely -that he wouid r ot go thrcitigla the taoulale he has had since the 4theat March for $100,000. San Franciscio Meech 291, ----Arizona ad -vices state that the military are , -zenriess against the Indians, who are well armed and supplied with emmte Vt. W. A. Thoirip-so and Niegara Exterzeion- pany, end. the Erie and. -Company, gives notice to the Dori,ieion Paths -authorizieg b!cali or ei Railroad eom.etani,es to • 'eperate raillx)ad an it bridge Over or tune Bayer at ornearFort Er • ty of Wetland, to co -9 etructioh: ana. maulgent similar corporate' pitweas 211 0 t S_ et:euolig t.W, New ated.1treYss States. or Notice is given that al 1)0 ittatle at the ensaine• tlie Dominion tor fl AC amend bile to <lien and Brithth gbiTntheCo rogIaLi alkYrilitiig13;e ;; * on Bridge, e been -ati Government ; in etach -carriage or -vehicle] irri-Ses .t101.-i.dirig driver I for -ea,c1 isingieliorse carr. 35ets for eaeh other pt A tire t-ook Otte in the Rosin- 43....euee, on taste whi 1 eves extingu over\withont toneideaaa , A new SOCt- Called ti phiarie'' nialeieg as aity. On Saturday in- itifina, was Palma of a, girl named Mare; J servalit in :the .111.1114i Dobeite The girl *as' A new ;9 ire izt, being Church of Si. ..391ra thel I replat-e tn whien veal abouta year ago. HAMILTO James Srmers WAS s, - • .1 year e inipreeoned at te for Biganiyj The eae-el on tile plea, that the ed 11 i tiret wife NY -S it appears she designed lrim • Helms the syl I Arr impeselimen gainst the ii_freief of Iteliel missioeers liave detail - it as ti ev eav -thee the tatted, 1iike it ./criiun Sore time- last week the Aseeneien was secril dered, and elle nioney d yea miesionary therefrom Mae. Grimes, is elrea out of danger ; leizato tract the, belief; liasbeea The Ine etr that in tatefl sevietreisly,s, without I esey,i'Pott:ri31 has a lietofpieffesetoind 01 profeesihg to bei Bi 1gg's CAe na8 730 He has a lawyer feem look after it, who ,asser upon whieh, Bragg itilt cannot lie sustained, la the nature eif his -being h with a youv ladv aee Despateh Atom beteati Boston, states that he. h successful in procuring evidente neeessary ler ol er;ad1?eilk7 Tit'y s loeing nIt acconnt of Ile unsafe s Jarden's ?nal bridge, afraid to drive over it. entered an action nal Western.- Ruh- jr _on tJu the people outside the ‘kt done likeaiee The Timxs folks have' trichilia tink,ktr amiert eribe it ite lemma' 1 11L but hevis e a itcJi h tbt liiey on wail duodei ftv food for Worme of a dee kind beforatrit lane nad The niaw1a4zie-In--e uk Blake's pau:nt, imult ratiou bj B. II GI:era and Wo*Ii tiat444401'il On Wiie Men a fee striet bolue has - bob ht. `f om a -coi iie,. shortly rafter all who per eel the usual syinateme eiaiatileation of tb of triehium None ehow signs of iiprovui The' deputation treal foeettic purees-, 0 the gaetri's College en raised C2,500. ie