The Huron Expositor, 1878-07-19, Page 4, •
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THE HURON E
POSETOR.
NEW AD V...beRTISEMENTS.
Reaping Match—john A. Young. .
Propeir y for Sale—William Ashdown.
The B st Value—Smith tit West.
two 'I eachas Wanted—John Shaw.
Teach r Wented—George Sproat.
Town Property for „Sale—Robert Jooes.
Parcc:, ,Lost—Owen Reilly.
Farm for Sale—D. Campbell. •
Shaw Foulicl—Expositor Offiee.
Tewn Views—C. W. Papst.
01011. 61pooi0t,
SEA:FORTH,. JULY 19, 1878
The Twelfth in, Montreal
Contrary to general expectation th
twelfth of July passed over in Mon
' tread without serious riot or blood lied_
There were a few skirmishes, but noth
ing of a terious Or geueral character.
. .
On the evening of the 10th a legal
opinioe was made public by one 61 t4
Catholic societies tp the effect thai ow
ing to the extstence of an old Statute of
the Province of Quebec, which. had ecu
,.
passed durnigthe me of the rebe iu
o,
1.
prohibiting the et istence of secli ious
and. all other societes, .the membe a of
-which were bound by oath, orebliga ion,
and declaring them illegal e" thee fore
an assemblage of Orangeimen in. fon-
treat would be an illegal as em-
blage, and that it would, 'cense out-
tly be the duty of the legalguar lams
•tif the city to prevent gny such as-
semblage, the only exceptien to this
rule being the Order of Free Maons.
This opinion was given by four pr mi-
nent lawyers of Montreal, three of w oin
are Protestants. The Mayor of Mon ireal
and those who sympathized 'with ira
determined to act -upon their a,dviceeand
prevent at all hazards the Orange leo-
cession. With this object in view, arcl
• as they stated, for the purpose of ire -
!serving order, the Mayor had on Thurs-
day 600 special policemen sworn in.
The Mayor aleceissued a proclama ion
forbidding the assembling of peop e in
crowds on tbe street, and stating hat
_ all such assemblagea would be br ken
up by the authorities. In the ean
time, at the request of six magistrat e of
Mac city, Sir Selby Smythe, COMM£11 dee
of the Forces in Canada, had sev ral
military detachments in the city r ady
for duty. 'About nine o'clock `on the '
Morning of the Twelfth a large nun her
of Orangemen assembled in their 1 all,
preparatory to forming in processio to
mareh to ehurch. The hall was sp ed-
ily surrounded by a.n immense or wa.
The Mayor's kecial_ policemen 1 ere
also on hand, and the military *1 ere
stationecl at prominent pellets thro gli:
ont the city. Notwithstanding the
Mayor's proclamation no attempt as
made to disperse the mob assem led
arotmd the Oettiage Hall, the princ'pal
obtect of that functionary being, evi-
dently, to keep the Orangemen f om
carrying out their intentions of ma, oh-
ing in proCession. As seine of thel ed-
ers of the Orangemen apPeared in fi out
of their hall on the street they wer ar-
rested and conveyed . to p *lice
headgaarters. These arrests ere
'.made for the purpose of tes ing
t legality of the Orange orgauizat on.
The remainder of the Orengemen ere
forced to coutinee in the hall all ay.
There was no procession and no deg on-
stration of any kind. In the ,eve g
Mao Orangemen were Conveyed froin the
hall to -their homes in Public con ey-
ances, guarded by the police. With the
exception of a few skirmithes this ride
ed the proceedings of the Twelft of
July iu Montreal in the ineantime. or
the present Mayor Beaudry- and his as-
sociate § have gained a vietory, and t ey
seem to gloat and glory over it gg ore
than they should. That no disturbat ce
took place was not dee to any good go an -
agement en the parted the Mayor, ut
to the presence of the ,military and he
forbearance of the Oraaigernen. .. ' he.
Mae -or has throughout acted the par of
,
a iserable partizan bigot. ' He • as
eho‘vn that his desire was not so m ch
to preserve order as to stamp out he
Orange organization. He seemed, iot
to Care & particle at v, -hat sacrifice of
life and. property he accomplished his
purposes so long as he succeeded. T at
there was not a fearful massacre in.
Moutreal ou Friday was not in .tny
measure due to the good managera nt
of Mr. Beam -tree but to the foresigh of
others. He permitted a mob of thou-
sands of the most dangerous charac ers
in the city to assemble ia th.e stre Is,
land made no attempt to disperse it. On
ithecontrary he seeined rather plea ed,
as the presence of suCh a 'mob 'at ed
-I
ihina to cow the Ore./loam:en. He,on eV ry
!public occasion that offered-, protested
1agaiust the niilitary, and thotigh he car-
• ried in his pockets for week 4 the legal
opinion on which he agted in the nod;
Ihe failed to make it public until thelast
imement, when the strife between the
1 two parties had risen to the highest
pitch.. "While, therefore, we cannot but
condemn the conduct of Mayor Beau-
dryinthe strongestpossible term. Es,as well
as that of the leading citizens of Montt dal
who acted, with •and seemed to encour-
Iage him, we cannot approve of the Coll -
!duct of the Orangemen in thus annual-
ily aggravating their fellow -.citizens by
Imaking offensive shows -and parades on
ithe public streets. Even granting their
i organization to be a perfectly legal one,
i and their right to march on the public
,
,
1 street in any Manner and cletheO as
,
they • ease; is it judiCious on their part,
. ,
or le it necessary for •them to make
Kith display? .Their parad.e on,- the
•12th . f July and the tunes they play on
that cccasion are ,, in ensely offeneive to
Rom n Catholics. . They know that
they re, and koowin r this do they dis-
play Christian, spi it in, doiitg that
N.VhiG tiggriVilltkR,H,C hurt the feelings
of th ir felloiv titiz s ?' It may be said.
that t o Catholics ')i uld..4 allow their
feelin e to overcome hem on „witieSs.-
I
iiit.; si ch displaeS. ' his may be so, but
the p evocation, is vier - great. Xis also
said:i extenuation! e thit practice of
1 trlie 0 -angemen that he datholios enjoy
e ! pheir, ublic precessions unmolested by
_ Ippon ernen, a id t uit consequently
. i ;they .: h uld not mole .t those • -Who do
_ • not molest then. This would bel
1 true v re the even s -which these cel-'
1
ebrati s commemme te similar in char•
e
meter, b it they are i et. •, ThOlAebra-
1
- , tions if the twelfth g
memC a tion of a vi
one p: r y over the
blood. )attle, and
.
were ih tunes which
Mao v
while
are ii
event ,
cherc
ghoul
or •Or
thEit g od ca,u. poSsibl„
anima twelfth of Jul
we do see that they c
by en
al 'stri
()mug
I let th
and iu
feelin(
have
Wein
ration
memo
Etre su
aband(
er not
()Heusi
Mao B
doing
servic
celehrl
this s
tioent
Rome.
tifY or
men
street t of a, Cathol e
treat, vith a displ y
n the. anui ,er
battle oainecl over
,
orious solclie y -on to el
qe -celebra,tione of the C' tholict
coinmet coat on of uo
ut .are , , imp y the exer
eites,- and as such are
not be oifenti -e• to Prot
Fgemen eith.er We fail
result fro
celebratio
f July are iu coin:
tory achieved by
het after a most
he tunes [played
urged an heered
Glory •
endering and. c
es whichtshoul
men wish .o o
m do so -by th
•ffensive w
s of none, t
y- tl
nd
ublic -perad,es they, should have
n some 9ccasioit the oommemo-
,
of which does 'tot 'harrow up old
ies flied open a w old sores. We
.e that if the Oiangemen were to ,
n the right, if iiehtit be, or tatta
such;
Ise of
lot or
sten te
o see
these
s, but
lase -much :heart,
ntineing s ction-
be forgotten. If.1
lebeate the day,'
mselvesin a quiet,
atevould hurt the
ifl they wish to
Laborer." TJnder such circ
I must confes4 I felt very offi
position that•
for thein to
isehief, hence
achine for me,'
forme
of t
won
empl
ing myself in
fer,any pretex
my property i
not keep -the
It is apity , hat the
weaken befork, threats
though hardly to 'be
There .ale s ' Imany ut
ingmen in th 'United ,Itates
connected wth all ca lings,
seeni to pose Ss Complete swa
is no authorifr ' that ca cont
1
and haviug 1 ecome r ckles
want and. dies -tation, tie na
comitauts of ilileness, nione a
as to dare op ese : them. T
tion 'low (Ale 'ea to self -bin
checked, Will Soon extend t
mowers and all other a,' bor-
plemente. - Secietetin u any p
Uni ted: States_ .seems to have
terly demorali edeind if a cha
better does no soon set in, tl
will be undei eiobrule. And
axe peoplein 'Iticlacla who pqii
prosperity of t'
cleaver to ma
with , their lot
mstances
Li in pla,c-
vould f
l me or
I say, do
•4
•
he United Stet s, and en
-e Canadians dissatisfie
and think dittie of thei
country by un uly extolling the imagin
ed prosperity of our neighbers. An
-who may•be Ifoolish enough to be 16d
astra by these agitators, wo ld . not b
long provin their as
sertic is, were their ad
vice kind take e in the
Unit ',eon have
their that they
had
a should
is kind,
ered at.
ed work -
just now,
hat .they
. Tliere
ol them,
thr8ugh
ural con-
e so bola
e opposi-
as, if" not
reapers,
eying im-
trts of the
ecome ut-
ge for the
e country
still there
t to the
y.
• the falsity 9
they. to :follow
up their: aboc
d States They would
yds opened 4o the fact
pen sad13,-
_ —
-
Tu Europe u Peace Congr ss closed
their a,bdrs on Saturday last when the
treat3 „ was duly signed,. all pltrties ex-
pressi eg the highest . satisfac iOn with
the r inte. _Thus .ends the threatened
Baste n War. ;• By the provisi es of the
treat England has lied co' ceded to
her all she !contended for, c ncesSiond
which she would not have se urea had
she not stood out so firrIaly an -so bold -
y in demanding her rights:
take advent
e display
•ttle of the
heir counta
which • th
don \rill n
bject .we qu
remarks .fr
Journal: "
excuse the
n und.ertal
go
t
o3
an
,
continuance( of the
,
ver accomplish. On
te he following pee -
1
in the t. Thomas
ITli it is t leee to jus -
CO 3.duct of Orange -
0g
to arade the
ity su h as Mon-
t 'ens gns and re=
err o a decisive
411o1i king? Oen
they— minority ho,
0 to emin1the
strong majority of efeat over -brow
.
and hi miliation with 'n-ipu ity ? Letus
bring t ie matter near r ho ie. In. this
town • St. Thoinaes li e have a considt
erable American peen tali° , but insig-
eaifica, t as ‘comparect wit those of
Britisl, atizetisliip.
think, or say, or do, Sup osing those
Ameri Etna should ei dert te to cele -
of .it, to make an
te anniversary- of
e, they would he
1 their religion sA
What would We
brate
vianto
Would.
ptoces
DOedl
civil o
bittern
public
bretio
won in
religioi
what t
withf
en,ein
bear: s
power
The
a
The
-be the
the mo
ing me
This
chided
veutiv
reepin
into sli
the .ma
qiired
tiOn of
3
n our streets ti e bat le of Mora -
or the sackif g of '1 ittleYor -
net we make el ort ori of th ir
d. Yanl ee
tOo—of Yaaike
?1 Yet everybe
religious war h
ss far more int
wr,andthe 1
s ommemorat
a war whieh w
s There are
•e profession's
u uimity the
end they at
clh taunts --tvlt
re on their ow
a
ykns thastl a
eedta feeling of
nse hal' doea1
th o July 00110.;
gr triumph
ts bo hicivil and
_
none no matter
e, w o can bear
aunt of an old
lea, t likely to
re t ie odds t of
Wig "
S elf- Bin diat
d the Lab
itede States
e -binding ha
a.rticu1ar o jec
-el ignorant lid
ef the Un ted
rer
veste
-of t
fanatical work -
Stet a just now
arvester,
of the
• seems t
ite, among
achine lias ee geo rally intro -
his year, end is a „in rvel of in -
genius, c m Ming ...• with the
of . the . grant • 6 hi" iding of it
•ayes, and t us •disp using with
ual labor • aleeita iitherto re -
Or this purpose., ,T e intkoduc-
this machine
ri
has caused the
most ii tense exeitemei t among the la-
,
boring Classes. _area, ly one machine
.1
has be n burned in 01 io, and threaten-
ing let as have been . but broadcast to
farmer in that and ot er States, warn-
ing then that if they purchase or, at-
tempt ,to use the bated implement
their biildings wiIbe estroyed. These
th'reate ng missives 11 ve given rise to
much a arm,- and have caused farmers
who ?h. d. ordered thi. particular ma-
chine nd other lab o • saving Maple -
/petits o countermand. their orders. A
rhachi e agent in Oh of writes to his
fitm in Ne' ' York as f011ows : "The
" Math' ie trade is like v to stop. Sev-
eral idn who have ought machines
" refu§ to take the • , on the ground.
" that they have rece ved notice that
"their machines and barns will • be
" burn d. One mac me has already
"been
farmer
as folio
" Up
hande
pinne4.
use or
Salring
if 1 ai
also
11
urned iD. the ne'ghborhood." A
at Hanover,. 0 o, tells his story
•
s :
n ray return ho
me a notice
on my barn not
miff& to be u
ny of my gra
they would ,d
y grain with
e nay hired man
which he found
tying me not to
ed a binder in
lois year, stating
stroy the same,
igned " Man3
•
New of the Weelt.
,
THE TIVELFTII IN IRELAND-. 1, The an-
niversary of the Battle of tie Boyne
S VS MI ti CR. --A. Warwick, ippresent-
ing A. T. IStewaat ct Co., of N w York,
fell deact from the heat on Sattrday, in
Little 116 Kt -Arkansas. .
• THE GI EAT HEA.T.—Sunday I was the
hottest. d y of the season in St. Louis.
Thirty ea es of sunstroke werereported
it the eter dispensary and hospital
during th day. Sixteen deat s occurr-
ed from ti is cause aloe melt enty two
burials.
Trio HE T.—A despatch from St. Louis
on July 1 th, 'says ; The 'intetse heat
of the pas few weeks still e ntinues,
in fact, i creases one or tw degrees
daily, and hasbecome eeally iglitful.
The num er of prostatipns t day will
reach full. 150, between '40 znd 50 of
which ha e been fatal. d1he e tra force
provided . t• the city djispensiry have
been hard at work all d y, an the skill
and. energ of ali have 1 been -axed- to
the efttmoe . The large numbe of cases
to -day has been of perso s overcome in
their own epees or plac s, of • usiness,
and inclu es people of a elas 2 ' of sec -
1
iety, embr ucing men, w men a cl chilcl-
reu. Theee are no eigns Of a abate- .
meth of the heat; and most s rious op-
ult. i
1.
prehensions are felt for the re
THE WOOD INDIA iS
• THE NORTIEW
HOW THE AUDSON'S BAY COMP. "Y DEAtiS
WITH THEM—THE krs:$TER1E''' OF THE
WHITE ittEDICINE MEN—Til. DING DE-
, VICES—PRESENTS, PRIGES,I 'WOODEN
MONEY AND DEBT. -
WIVEXPEG, Manitoba', May 10, 1878i.
The spring trade in -furs at , the ih-
terior posts of the Hudson's ay Coth-
pauy is reported -to be more th ,n usual-
ly large, and under its reviving 'nfluenee
the country is slowly waking Iromxix tts
winter sleep. From the let* pert of
October,when the hunters take El-
va,nces for the winter hunt, to the lat r
part of March, when the season's cath
of fur begins slowly to come ini, but f
indications of life are visible about the
trading poste of the company. eThrough
the deep snows, drifted within the
stockades in fanta tic outline, narrow
paths erecut. Occ sionally a shivering
figure hurries from ue building to an-
other, but for the ost part they are
deserted; _and, ex ept for the light
smoke cerling teem the a palmy tops,
one niigltt fancy th small collection of
houses •but a see es of snowdrifts,
shaped by the shifti g winds into weird
but temporarylikenesses of human hab-
itations. ' As the spring- approaches,
however, the hiberrial torpor which has
influenced: a large part of the trading
population gives way to the active life
generated by title vitorous prosecution of
Mac fur trade.
' THE ronese JOURNEY.
Tower(' the la.tte4 end of March and
'the beginning of Aril the Indian trap-
per d leave their hinting -grounds and
make a journey to the forts with the
produce of -their winter's toil. Here
they come, marching through the forest,
a motley throng; oot men Oily, but
women and childr n. and dogs, of all
l
ages and e condition, ach dragging hand -
sleds or tobogans, b aring the precious
freight of fur to the trading -post. The
braves march in front, too proud and
lazy to carry anything but the guns,
and not always doing even -lat. After
them come the squaws, bending under
loads, driting dogs dr hauling handsleds
laden with meats, furs, tanned. der -
skins and infants. The puppy dog an.d
the inevitable baby never fail in Indian
lodge or procession. ' •The chee ngspec-
tecle of the two peeked toebeth r upon
the back of a woman is not o unfre-
quent occurrence, for in th north
wretched woman often bears in nts bur-
den of toil as well as her own.
Fifty or one hundred mites away
from the nearest fort the minks a,nd
martens pf the Indian trappers have
been ca,pteired. Half a dozen. Ifatailies
ha-ve, perhaps, wintered. together, and
they all set out for the fort in cOrapany.
The dogs end women are heavily laden,
and the metal' through the melting snow
is slow and. toilsome. All the household,
.goods have to be taken alo g; theblack
. -
and battered. kettles, the i atherp lodge,
the axe, the - pappOote str pped \ if his
mop -bag, the two .puppy dogs not yet
able to care 'for themselv e, the snow-
shoes for hunting, the rush mats,
the dried meat; ltogethe it makes a
big load, and sqa . and - ddg toil along
with difficulty en ler it. Day after day
the mongrel mongrel part journeyis on until the
fort is reached. Then comes. h
trade. .
. . THE ONE- 'RICE SYSTEM.
The trapping o wood Ipdian not be-
ing considered a dangerons custonier,
the gates are free y throwp open to him.
AccOmpanie, by his female followers
- bearing the bend es of full he marches
boldly into the tr idingrroo . Here the
titader receives 1 im, and proceeds to
separate his fur into lot, placing the
• standard valuatio upon e ch. -
Tho compa,nfr 1 aye one fixed, invari-
able price for all roods in each district,
and there is .m deviation from the
schedule.. An I idian to whom partic-
ular favor is e nt receiyes a suitable
present, but n itl er gets More for his
tura nor p ys 1 ss for buislapplies than
Mao tariff lirects. Li the touthern part
of the ter itor «hioh forms the great
battle gr und b tween the fur traders
and the c mpt n3; the Indians receive
many pe emits o keep them true to
their tale itnice. Especially is this true
with the nost ex gert trappers, who of-
ten get arl.iclos to the value of MO or
sixty skies (mar than 03-5 in \mine),
and the o dinary hunterreceive large
presents g so.
The tree or -hay ng separated the furs,
ancl value each t the standard valua-
tion, 11 OW dda th; amounttogether; ttud
iuforms tie Ind'an, who ' has beei a
deeply -int rested epectator Of all ljhis
strange pr, ceduro,- that he has got si ty I
or seveut " sk ns." At the salme i
time he ' lands his customer si ty
or seventy little its of wood to re re-
sent the ni raber of skins,so that lie
latter may knew, byreturning thes in
paymei t for the goods tole which he
really arters hi ,furs, hew :fast his
funds c ecrease.. ,
; t
en,tpree. j:
The rst get of the -indi4i is to can-
celthe debt of la t, year. jThis is for
advanc s made h m at the eginning of
Mao sea 'on; for t e compa .3egenerally
issue to the India, s such gcfods as they
-need u to a cert in amount, when the
summe • supplies eriee at the trading
pests, s ich adVan Eie to be returned. at
the end of the se spn. After) that, he
looks ie mid. upoi the bal. s of cloth,
guns, blankets, ives, beai s, • ribbotes,
etc., wh`ch cons& ute the st ples, of /the
trade, alnd after a long '-i-Vhile concludes
to hay a_ sma, 'white capote. The
trader t lls himt i e prices, but he has a
great d al of di i culty in understand,
ing thali eight or en skins only eqni4l
one cap te, He • elieves he the singl
standar of valu .13—one-skin, for one
capote.
When, the little white capote has been
handed. to the. • than - the trader tells
him the price iseit skins. The pur-
chaser Lands . bac ' ten lit4e pieces of
tl
wood, en looks about for something
else; ii1 squaw stinding at his elbew,
and suggesting ell h things as theyneed.
Everything is ca efully examined, and
with eaeli purcha e the conteet over -the
apparent inequ lity between -the
amount received id that giyen is • lee-
newed. In the adieu's opinion one
skin should pay f one article of mer-
chandise, no ma ter what the value
of the letter may e. And he insists,
too, upon selectin the 'skin. Like his
savage brethren o ' the plaints, al o, he
has never solved t ie ctinundrem o the -
steelyard and w ighmg balanc —he
does no know wiltat medicine thlat is.
That hi tea and 1 sugar shoi..td bdi bal-
,.a.nced a ainst a bit of iron conveys no
idea of the relati e values ef peltries.
and inc chandise to him. He insists
upon m king the balance swing even
between the trade •'s goods and his own
fine mit 1 a new ghti is thrown upon
Mao que tion of st lyards and scales by
Mao aceptence of is pi2Opositioo. Then,
when he finds hi fine furs balanced
against heavy bla, tete, he concludes to,
abide by the old. iiethod of letting the
white trader decidle the weight in his
own way; for it isi clearthat the steel-
yard is a very .gre t medicineewhich Bei
• brave can enders and,. and which can
only be mauipulatjedr by a white Medi-
cine -man.
THE WILES OF THE WHITE MEDICINEkIAN.
The white med eine-map. was, in the
fur trade of fifty years ago, a terrible
demon in the eyes of the Indian. His
p wer was unlim ted, and reached fax
o t upon the ,p mins. He possessed
m dicines the very highest order;
hi heart coul4 ing, demons sprang
fr tn. the light o is ca,ndle, and he heel
a, Itle box str n er than the strong -
es Indian. Wh n the savage Plainl
tr be§ proved re.reetory around i the
C repany's tradin -posts the trader in
O arge would win up his inusictbox,
go his rnagilait ern ready and take
o t his galvanic_ attery. Placing the
h ndle of the hat r instrument in. the
grg sp of seine -stal vart chief he Would
administer a teeri c shock- to his per-
son, and warn hi g that fax out upon
th plains he co id inflict the ettiate
m clicine upon h na If the doeiglity
c ieftain: proved 1 euitent and tractable
thlereafter, the spr fig of the musiq box,
co cealed under his coat wonijl be
to ichedeand lo t e heart of the lvhite
tr der would sing just the streng h of
hiji Jove for the Indian. " Loci " he
W uld say, "ho eay heart bea s for
y !" and the be ildered savage would.
st lik away in don It of his own identity.
If the red man I, ade medicine to his
Manitou, and dan ed before all his gods,
Mao white mediei eenen. tevould paint
gi iberieg demons on the skins of his
lo ge, and send fiery goblins riding
th ough the midni let air, until; in. sheer
te Tor, the superst tious savage hid his
p hated face in th4 dank grasses of the
pr irie.
THE INDIAN ‘.AS DEBTORS.
en the Indi n trapper has paid
hi debt and. purc1iased all needful sup -
p1 es, if he has any skins remaining he
ti els his attention to the luxuries of
lit . The luxuri s of life with this
pa ted child of t e forest a,nd stream
co sist of fancy ne kties, colored beads, .
co ton handkerc efs, red and. yellone
oc re, and. cheap and tawdry jewelry.
F r articles such s these he hands over
hi remaining ch ps, amid childlike
nifestations of • elight on the part of
hi expectant squ w. Then he turns
hi attention to t e last and to him
most important fe ture • of the trade—
th g t of getting inlis debt again; for a
graat majority] of he Indian and hall
br-ed hunters and trappers really live
in a state of serfdom or peonage to the
company. Like the Mexican or Bra-
ig
iiliau peon, tlie Indian trapper is so
eonstantly and, for him, largely in debt
to the fur trade as to be practically its
servant. Twice during the year pee-
ps he is free from debt and. hie own
i asteit; but such freedomis only of
inomentary duration, continuing but
for such tiroe as he can geWnto debt
again. In fact, the trapper seems to be
ill &Cease when fce from pecuniary
obligation, and plt4iges into it with a
facility and to an xtent only limited
by his ability to co tract it. By, this
system of a vances the Company rule'
its vast territories, and. is as much a
monarch of the rozen latitudes as
Crusoe was monarciof his island. ,The
continuance of lJhi system has been
caused by the neces Ries of the hunters
and trappera; and b the fact that the
company, like the N ise corporation that
it is, does not kill the goose that lays
Mac golden eggs, but carefully cares for
the game aud its unters on its vast
preserves. •
• THE COMPANY'S TUE TMENT OF INDIANS.
Contrary to the g neral rule in civil-
ized life a debt is. se dom lost except iu
• the event of the de th of the trapper.
He may change- h s place of abode
hundreds of miles, int he still has only
a Company'post a which to trade;
and. it is impossible for him so to con-
ceal his identity as i ot to be found out
sooner or later. But the trapper seldom
attemitts to evade 1ho payment of his
debts; he is not y t civilized to that
degree whichpracti. es rehypothecatiou.
The company has always been a good
'friend to him and hs, supplied his ne-
• cessities, ministered to his wants, and
he pays wheo he can. He knows that
when he ligeidates his old debt he can
contract a Pew one just as big. He
knows, too, that when the company
promises hini anything he will get it,
and that he will always pay just so
much for his goods and no more. , No
attempt was ever made to cheat him,
and there never wi 1 be. When he is
ill he goes 00 the •earest fort and is
cared for and attende until herecovers.
When he does , his uty welt he gets a
present; and, he - n ver performs any
labors for his empl yers -without re-
.ceiving a fair con pensation. This
humane treatment binds the Indian or
half-breed to the co pany in a bond
not easily beoken. So, whebhe has
speut all his little pi ces of wood. and
asks for further adva ces, he is allowed
f
to draw any reasona e amount. Qare-
fully looking over the purchases alr etely
made, counting up is supply of/am-
munition, al thing,. gewgaws, /tee he
concludes to iake more tea and tobacco;
for the tra,pPer is a very Asiatic in his
love of soothing stimulants.
With this - thetrade terminates.
After going in debt to the extent of his
ability, he- w irds his way in the forest
again. • The furs he has traded are
thrown carel1
essly behind. the counter
to be afterwards carried to the fur -
H. M. R.
room. .....
Mr. Jackson's Reply.
To the Editor of the Huron Expositor.
Suzi—I did not expect, when asking
for a space in your columns for my
former letter, to be drawn into a con-
troversy with the talented Editor of the
Seaforth Exetsieolt. It is strange news
to me that the enlargement i of the
(I
canals and a ditions to the Parliament
buildings at Ottawa are partsl of the
creed of the Conservative party which
must be received with unquestioned
faith, and still. more surprising is it to
learn that th great Reform _party are
obliged to c rry out that particular
policy. HoW ver, I am still uncon-
vinced that St ch is the fact, your able
editorial to t1ue contrary notwithstand-
ing, and I stil believe that the prosecu-
tion pf those vorks at Et time of severe
commercial d pressiop was most inju-
dicious. Thi • opinion is merely the ex-
pression of my views as a, private mem-
ber of the Conservative party.
SuFely something more is expected of a
man aspiring to the position of member
of Parliament than to be only a voting
machine wound up to order. The Con-
servative party do not desire it, and I
am very Tella mistaken if you do not
err in assuming that the temper of the
Reform party requires only such a.
qualification at the present time either.
But the discussion of these subjects by
me is entirely foreign to my candida-
ture as a member of the Local House.
Such questions cannot be decided there.
Criticism, so far as I am concerued,
ought to be confined to the acts of Hon.
Mr. Mowat's Government. Yours, gtc.,
G. E. JACKSON.
___Ittrettett.. ettattirirettettoe
"A Free Trade Farmer" Again
. Speaks.
DEAR EXPOSITOR,—I see Mr. G-. E.
Jackson, of Egmouclyille, purports to'
be the gentleman who addressed the
meeting at Farquhar 'in behalf cif Mr.
Porter, nd claimed to be the Conser-
vative 4omineo for the Local House,
Of eour e I am unacquainted with Mr.
Jackson; but from his general appear -
,ince,, I would say he is a gentleman of
,eespectability, and I have no desire to
say one discreditable word against him
asa private individual. Nevertheless I.
feel justified in criticising what he sa,ys
were his utterances at Farquhar.. In I
his letter in your last week's .issue he !
says your Farquhar correspondent
"grossly misrepresented him." I beg !
to take issue -with him there. I did not
so fully -represent him as he has . done
himself, but I did not attribute any- 1
, thing to him he did not state. The
reason 1 did. not give a more detailed ,
account of his speech was that I con—,
sidered it lacked point and his quota-
tions of figures were garbled. I there-
fore gave my opinion of his remarks I
concisely, as I appreciated them. But
as he seems not to be contented with a I
•
passing netide, I will give a specimen or 1
two of his garbling, so that every un- ;
prejudiced mind can judge the point. i
So far as the opinions about the in-
fluence f Government on the trade of
the country is concerned, he fails to !
make a point where they could do so,
except at the expense f the country.
If that is fair, then every one 'has a .
right to have their efforts protected.
The outlay on our canals is, of course,
under the control of the Government of
the day, but Governments, like all
other corporations, are boond, if they
do not commit a breach of faith, to ful-
fil the pledges of their predecessors.
Such is the case with our canals, but
; we are not prepared to admit that
Mao enlargement of our canals for the
present and future requirements of our
growing country is an, unproductive
work. The present Government have
provided for and paid for contracts let
by the late Government the magnifi-
cent sum of $25,000,000, and yet to -day
their expenditure dews Oot exceed that
of their predecessors by a greater sum
than 0200,000, The improvements at
Ottawa being contracted for by foreign-
ers, I consider one of the . strongest
proofs of Mie evil lillfill, ts of - protection
he could. have Addeo€1d, proving eon -
elusively that protectio3., ' has • not only
paralyzed the industriele of the United
States, but has thrown the laboring
population out of employment, com-
pelling them to come twee here when
'contracts areletting, and take them at
prices contractors here could xiot af-
ford, as they coold not get the work;
men for starvation wages. The Local
Government is next alluded to, and here -
is where the garbling really commences.
Ile, in pretence of fairness, took the
Year 1870 and compared the expendi-
ture of •Sandfield. McDonald's Govern-
ment witk the present. { Now, from the
year 1868 up to the last, year of Sated
-
field's reign, the expellee of running the
Government increased from 01,183,-
852.79 tO 01,444,608.83 in 1869, -and in
this celebrated year off 870 the expen-
diture was 01,580,6(13.2 , and the su*:.
voted by Parliament fotj 1871 was
555.090.44. In 1872—t1e year the gen-
tleman chose foehis comparison against
1870 --the amQ11:11t WaS $2,368,772.86,
but this sum includee the sum of
$70,000, to pay up deficits not provided
fo • in the year 1870, as Well as the set-
tl ment of a large share of the Munici.
pull Loan Fund. It will be seen that
fr nu the time the Provincial Goviern-
m ut was established, the business as
w dl as the expense, was annual in-
ce tieing, even under the .econo ,ical
re gn of Sandleld ; and T will lewie it
to any one, Conservative or Reformer,
w ietherthere be any fairness in com-
p ring the expenses of the present with
t . se of the late Goverronent,seeingthey
h ve increased largely 'their work, by
se ding satisfactorily important ,ques-
ti ,ns that were beyond the ability of
th-ir predecessors.' Had the present
Gg e rnment allowed the Municipal
Loin fund 'to. stand in abeyance as the
fo inter Government' did, Ihow WOuldit
h ve been with the couni3). of Huron td -
da:
? rDid we not get the magnificent
su o $96,000 distributed in the
co rityi 1 have no doubt Mr. Jackson
is n upright and, henor ble man, and
I •hink, 'moreover, he ew s a tolerably
lot est and fair politiicia • ematil he went
to Ottawa and saw "Ta hereon." His
po vers of garbling and niisrepresenta-
tio have been largely e lthated since
th n. I will now leave this for the
pausal of his Reform. anl Conservative
friends. A FREE 1,11 APE FARMER.
USBORNE, Ally 8, 1878. .1. "-
[ED. NOTE.—The above was intended
'for insertion lastlwek, but was not re-
ceived in time.] i .
,
i te
• i
A .F.ONNT W. i oltdiesilifrar an 'Old'-
. ,
To the Editor of the Hiro4 Expositor.
i -
! DEAR San : ' As a gr, 'any of your
,sabscribers t wished t4 hear. from .me,
woutit, you kindly insr Ithis letter in
your paper. Myself ai4 amily arrived.
at our home here on tq th of May, af-
ter having altecliou,S aid, 'somewhat
teoublesome journey. Ifrom Seaforth
td, Duluth was all that a person could .
.Wish, butby ra• ilt from; It lath to Fish.-
er's Landing ,there WAS very poor ac-
. .
coramodatioot I* 'Then from 'Fishees
Landing to Winnipeg •on the Red. River
boats was somewhat •1i id, especially
for those who. had 2c1 c14ss 'tickets. 1
have found the country filly up to my
expeetatidne, -end wool Avise those 0
come out here who wan o firm. • Any
one doing well in Qatiaio should te-
main, but such as a Ma with a family
of boys who v4sh -to be timers, and if
they have not the Mean • to buy farms
there, by all ineanS Gem • to. Manitoba.
Another ,class„ a Ifarrare ' on 50 acres,
with sons, and net .abl to buy more, '
could do much betterle o; and a farm-
er on 100 acres and in ,debt, .could 'do
much better here. 1 consider that a .
farmer coming 'here with 2400 is better '
Off than in Ontario, co• 11 !should say
around Seaforth, with 1OQ epees, if he is
02,000 in debt.. There ar a great /may
drawbacks here, hat as I eame here foe
my health, 1 can put up -e 111 them for
a short time, as 1 am• feel eg velar much
better so fait - I would'i1t t adviee any.
one to bring either hoe es, stock, ire-
plements .or .ferniture,hey can • sell
toiny advantage . before leaving. Bed.
and. body -olothes, wit1. a few dishes
packed among thein,is p) 1 I would being
if I were comin.eO again. Farming here
is, very much easier than 4t home, and. I
would not like to farm to' re, after see-
ing the way the Y .get ops- here.. If
Mac .grasshoppers keep vay, . there is
everyappearanoe Of thul largest ,erops
ever seen here. ' Wheat i s beenselling
here for 60c for six wee ; - oats, 30 to
31c. Cattle. are about th same price
as in Ontario. We have 111a • the Most
beautiful weather e -ver a ce we areieed
here, .and• the ' prairie is
flowers of so many kinds; coveredtath
e 0 with
crops looking so far .ahes. of anything
I have seen before, makes me often:wish
that some of my friends n and about
Seaforth could just drop down in our
midst to enjoy'the beauti e of the land
while they last, 'without having the
journey we had to get here. •But for a
person coming merely to nee the agent
try, not haying family or luggage, the
trip is very pleasant. Tie truffle be-
tween Witipipeg and the jNdrthwestt is
immense. As it all goes llvithin sight of
our place, we count trains of carts hav-
ing from 25 to 150 in each and and from'? 6
to 12 trains a day, Tri Aril there were
150,000 acres of land. tali n up in tItis
one office; in May over 00,000 acre*
So you can judge of the r esh after land
this season. Land is ri ing in tattle
here, and. it is difficult to get a farm at
anything like the prices of last fall. I coh-
_
eider a trip out here is not lost rcionSer,
if a mat -wishes to change his quartets;
for there is a prospect of this being a
great country. , Yours, &c.,
, War. LOGAN.
PORTAGE LA Plume, Man., July 8, 1878.
The Bodies Fund.
The bodies of the tvdt young men
drowned in Lake Huron, at Goderich,
a short time ago, have alength been
feund. That of Robert1 D. -Carey, M.
A.; was found. by a fishe man, floating
ttearly eight miles from shiore, and, about
three miles north of Port Albert. The
body was so swollen and decayed that
it coind scarcely be recogoized. From
Mao fact that MOSS had. formed on the
clothing, it is probable that the body
had. been. floating for some days. The
poor fellow had evidently struggled very
hara for life; his boots- tvere off and
sleeves rolled. up, and. when foulaa the
limbswere drawn up as in the act of
utx 10, 1878
twotorIntiliee-sliffre Imin:Eovrt ththaeetefr°4
strong under current running up ite
lake, And from the fact that the
was found so far !rein the place eenet‘
on the 5t11 of j•une e drown, exit
sPulaceceeediteds 'altogethetigPra°1ab
-)eoluehe
siderlte
distance from the scene of the accidaitt
and sank in or, near theaurrent spate
of, by which the bedy was carried ee
th e Iake
OnSalurdaor about noon' the budiof
Mr. James F. Dickson was brought te
the harbor by Mr. John °retie, eilie
fouad it about an. hour before, abouteie
miles from shore, near the place whete -
It is suppose() the accident happened. .
The body was not cut or bruised, lea
woaussws°lirybr
ecelaude bierogknenizt but ldcauttarttbit
eiaticlaentriny jeoe Usn
e d otvhne aPt°eotle,
Hokithlhliiasialg n
clothes and. .boots were on, seta
't is well known he could not swim a
ntroke. His watch was loose in the
case and Would. fill with water at °toe
and. stop, and although the minute ha* a
was off the hour hanO was approachitg
hve wbicli would indicate1 .a is genie -
ally believed, that he Was drowned be-
fore 5 o'clock in the evening. At the
funeral hour, 7 o'clock in the evenieg,
an iffITIlerlS'e assemblage had gathered
at the harbor to pay the last tribute4 •
respect to the departed one. Having
been a member of the Masonic frater-
nity, the brethren of both lodges as-
sembled in regaliaand, with the band
leading, the mournful procession march-
ed. up West street to the Square, thence
up North street, around. the jail mid
along Vietoria , street and theHuron
Road to the cemetery where ,the re-
mains were buried with Masonic hon-
ors, Rev e Mr. Sieveright conducting
prayer and Rev. Dr. Tire pronouncing
the benediction. The services at the
cemetery were most solemn. The sky
was clear, the moon shining, and hard- •
ly a rustle could. be heardamong the
leaves, so still was the night, and
the grand, impressive Masonic wre-
n:lolly Was a fitting. dose to the seem.
The funeral was the largest, without
any exception, that ever left Goderiche
Perth Items.
Mr. Jae. Dow, of Mitchell, got an
ugly kick under the chin while shoeing
a horse the other day.
.—Georg e Hood, of Stratford. has been
fined $40 land costs fax selling liquor
without a license 013 DOMM01.1 Day.
—The Iistowei montkly cattle faiTh
are degei4eratiug, the _last one being
poorly att nclecl and few sales made.
— A golden eagle wasrecently captur-
ed iet the neighborhood of Stratford.
It ineesured 6 ft. 5 int from tip to tip of
Wines.
— Handsome silk flags beautifelly erne
broidered, have been, presented by the
ladies of Stratford to the lacrosse 'dela of
that town. „ e
--•-Miss Hepburn of the second de-
partment of the Mitchell public school,
was presented. by her pupils with a
purse at the late examination prior to
the holidays. - . .
—Mr. john Ingram, of Logan, knows
how to cater to the taste a an editor,.
He has just presented Mr. Race, ef the
Recorder, with a fine box. of honey '.in
the comb.
—The ordinary meeting, of Stratford.
Presbytery was heldat Stt. Andrew's
Church, on Tuesday of last week. Rev.
E. W. Waits was elected Moderator .for
the ensuing leer. ,..
—One day last week a young son of
Mr. A. Robertson, jr. 1st concession,
Blanshard, fell, breaking his arm. The
lad had. the misfortune to break the
same a,rm a short time since. i
--The Board of Ptiblic. School Trus-
tees in Listowel leave challenged Ian
equal nember of the members of the
Tewn Council to a match at- quotts.
The game is to dome off during the
present mouth. . •
t
—Mrs. Caswell, sr., of Palnlierston, is
just recovering from her illness occasion-
ed. by the late -accident which happened to
her a short time ago., near the Own of
Mitchell, by the running away of the
horses and upsetting the buggy..
—The average attendance during he
past six months' in the different de-
partments of Mac; Mitchell liulldic
School has been over '90 per -cent.
Some of * the - departments are -crier-
crowded, the average attendance in the
lowest being 118.
—A young son of Mr, John Porteoas,
of Fullerton, was unhitching a span of
colts from the wagon, a few days ago,
when _ one of the ammals became
frightened, and. rearing up, knocked the
-
boy under his feet and kicked hi, hi-
flictt3rng . M.
Ige3adlr, wounds. P
—iP.
,L, s„ ...La
staff, have been afheagelegekr soneeswamp
t
tir:
Mao'past iellassturovfMo
eYillgnoton. with. the view
of hayttg the same 'drained. If ear-
ned out, it will be a great improvement,
n. uch needed. in Lima both for health
a a appearance.
-t-Dr. Burns, of Fullerton village,
die, it will be remembered, was in-
jured by the late fire, has returned to
Fullerton after an absence of about fur
months. We onderstand-he has not te-
covered from the effects of his fall, and
it is probable that it will trouble him
for some eLt.iAmleexyae.
ntaer and.
Charles Mc-
Kenzie, members of the Township
Council of Elma,havelet a considera4ble '
amount of ditching- along the geatel
road from Monkton to Newry, which
was m-uci needed, as the water peer -
flows the gravel road i.e.' several places.
Some of the contractors have cOnte
Iacocca to do their work.
—On Wednesday, the 10th inst.e Mee
Thos. Waddell, cattle dealer, shipped
200 lambs from the Stratford and POrt
Dover Station, for the Buffalo market.
The average live weight of each was 70
lbs., and the average price paid was $3.
This was tne first consignment of lamps
shipped. by the Port Doverand. Strat-
ford line. _ .
,
--The Mitchell Recorder says: rsor
some weeks past an oia man has fre-
quented. our streets, apparently badly
affected. with St. Vitus' dance, selling
worm candies and asking alms. • It 0,p -
pears he has a family in town, oneof
whom is a boy of eleven or twelve years
of age, who likewise has an eye to bitsi-
nese and a willingness to turn his hand -
to it when, occasion offers. On AtonanY
morning, while Mr. W. James Was
taking his breakfast, this same yooth
entered his shoe shop and possessed
himself of a whole shoemaker's kit, a
small keg of pegs, and a,uantity of lip -
43
per leather, all of which. removea to
an adjoheing lot and. hid , eneath Seine
logs. A neighbor seeing the suspicitus
.110eatiyson-s .
, ' ee maate e
. :.traitaigte te-hie,:ee, ....Rieesnar12431:13.11:eisr\b,v.,
,„rtic ,
wjf
I,ptk i, c 4G- cxsti avote. falic—:ti ab, ,ikhilifi°1 iii,ve:x .b,ig' liwalip -g”hiti.sigoho lyte: ii 3ezhs dh,iyeeeiletyid rvha, ue 1
i' tier ieseir e4tio
. . . ri:mtuo: i ash efsefor h.wwe 4 aus h iLley: -
i::!Ilvisj1": jurs6e:ritntl:ba3:1-8'euellattu'':fil le°. '' e oalsullmead :
i ,brook was Arlin
' ihe huggY, and
.., aohules.1:ohia:sre;he
1' —One ino
., i:Ta. :hi tnehvi bag: estove,ki ef he
e
- iisngoVeor,asevle_ntv
. shock she sus
'was precipitate
Eton,. was prese
, zriseislashae4,,gis,raitc.
-
--On Domin-
i. r`, 4303 atif er, cittlii!t eriiist, b r i, .w: foundaenk srderer
1 ' cthanabotelardnadedi along
TnuMacrImkg1 lilciAc ph it :
.
heavy blows. t
.• the alarin to ti
. gustartesite.d. Atin pismt
. still , , • ' i°2- —Aboutni1n gl St I ' i
: cot2noatsailar toanrt
eamtied, letedit
Odell, a Clerk
, another enepie
, poliee have. be
AO, ,ecipeolltteevaeT, sini
hat: awa
i ti.i.i, 7, ,neiaeps.4t : i i ,:ar.bnbi_S: ejyreti t IT_ 0.zei.tcu: gi indeoetes4tttet :
llin
• hatI three tett
Putts _green
11*
: • ever, the two
killing potato
. a pail. The 1
.:aie;outrig: tho 7
Tn.
1 ; - . 1 C:: 1:: 106:::: 10 :Wol°;:r-li:tye,.t :re Eni 3 7
the harbor:
; 1 biz fis
-,idtstlina:t1,13:17:bta°71e8f
bil1 I -1F-The
06
ot,
,i
has
Gr:oleei
county,
ingly, he IS a
lea the lines
lation of the
teri to an iss
--Last F
treal, a we
street wealm
opposite the.
Sophia, lane;
undertook to,:
. 41a14444wedrew
.a s vhs rIts vh
°4 h
sidewalk.
facebert
settle
l:tdmria
house.of one
vas
uek
- 5011
ing
Mac
way home. -
.spected,
ton
,Tth .4e et el oa
of , last week;
party homes
the otbel be
0,ae.apru:
on board, bu
n.tietcilih COIIC
Qt a
ficlds
swarm: orho
rE111 swiftly f
s•frtilitiiStelsifen:htthef:ete:gei:aio:aeaeegmb) ig°711.114-0:
shortly after
taturdairi
Seafort
Ai. Rays, pr
tibneer.
PCRE Ln
Seatorth. 558
PARIS (+m-
at the mmikai
ciaz 8.11(1.
Ring, Jon Fr/
rktoLEY, Centr
Seaforth..
.BtITTER
prepared
ter, ee pees or
win he bought.
at Hickson B
WtasoN
test seleetad
tomwahd a.be
attY house In t
of sugar before,
-gdes glve their