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ahd had Mr. Gibbs' importation price held) | of Canadian interests in fisheries and navi: | - oo - pp D TRUNK TIME TABLE. or from what le does now. OSHAWA STATION, OSHAWA TIME. ES -- -------- L-- ki "A CHANGE OF BASE," AND WHY, GOING WEST, Accommodan, S00a.m. Woks, + + <0S aa. | GOING RAST. Mall, « - - -T@Sam. | | Accommoda'n, 7:40 p.m. Express, « - 0:05 pom. | Express, - 8:37 pm, Mixed, « - - «430 pan. | Mixed, - - WHITBY STATION. | tention just, now, Oshawa sees to by attracting some at- | up tohisnoseas often.ays the farmors of thig | gation has been agreed to by the Premier | and adjoining Townships have he would | of the Dominion, without a corresponding be able to see matters very differently | benefit socured from any other quarter, { The United States Senate met on Wednes- day, and are now discussing the trpaty, Lwhich is expected to meet with approval Tho Amoricwn press has already cqmmenced to crow over the by that bo ly. If its manifacturers victory achieved by their High Jointers-- -250 pm: | fail to indvico the farmers of Ontario to | and well they ayy if the rosult is as in- belicve that they should be taxed for | dicated in published statement regarding Trains going Fast leave Whitby Station fifteen | their especial benefit, and that ninetymine the treaty. minutes earlier, and those going West fifteen minutes later than the above: Onl Oshawa ing them have entered into a tion" on the subject of protection. THE " VINDICATOR™ AND MR. GInms, | its issue of Monday last it gives these gentlemen the follgwiug- conrplimentary The: Vindicator is still invested with ex- citement over that "unforfunate paper," more particularly - because. of the *'un- fortunate paper's" articles relating to duty on wheat, coal, ete. : notice : ** A CHANGE OF BASE. "The Oshawa manufac somuch so, infact, | *¢ the subject of protection. is; and when -and where he spoke on the cultural works in that place, "has been subject of duty. wonder st the igmorance displayediby the | followed up by ot ¥indi ater in reference to Mr, Gibby' con- "nection with the duty upon flour, wheat, ete. temporary asks the indentification of the have applied to useful branches of Hon. John Young is somewhat refreshing. will furnish a pretext forfescaping the real | developing our manufaétures. matter at issue. No doubt it hopes by nisfortune is that whea thoy apay from the statement made. about Mr. Gibbs loosing through Lis vote. After 'man nature that they should be tempted considerable twisting and turning it at- | to consider tehir own interests as-manufac- 'tempts, what it calls a gecapitulation of its turers as identical with the interests of former statements, as- follows: "We | the country at large. "Mr. Cowan, for in- assert that the motion which "Mr. Gibbs gtance--and we do not say it by way of of the from paying a duty of 3.000, and for evi- manner'in + which [men's opinions are dence of 'this we rufer to the Customs ploulded by their |immediate interests. officials." Cur contemporary must think | Some years ago he was a merchant in To- 'his readers supremly stupid if he hopes to | ponto, apd condycted his business. here palm off the above as the statement and with the same prudence, forethought and meaning conveyed by the Fiadicator at the energy that he has since applied to the time Mr. Gibbs voted to retain the dufy ; management of his| factory at Oshawa. or that it will serve the purpose of support- At that" time he was a. firm believer in ing the statement which we then showed | the doctrine of freg trade, and politically was intentionally mado to deceive, acted with a party that has always been Every one knovs that all importations very decided in its |sapport of free trade in bond 'and Huty unpaid at the time of principles. spoke and voted against saved his firm | disparagement--is an' example Now, however, he is just the its repeal would be free. other way. = He believes protection to be We know of no one, so far, who ever a heaven-born doctritie for the general pretended to deny that fact." It is quite good of mankind and of Canadians in # clear, therefore, that Mr. Gibbs made the particular, not to speak of the inannfac- $3,000 his organ says he did ; but the or- turers, gan as yet has not undertaken to show, in | actuated solely by an exalted love for their the event of the measure for the repeal of 'fellow-men. the duty being defeated, that Mr. Gibbs views, they appear to be influenced solely would not find compensation in the very | by considerations growing out of a high --_wote through which it is pretended he sac- | ora low tariff. Ina letter which Mr. | rificed so much. Cows=n has lately addressed to the Oshawa Mr. Gibbs knew well when he voted against ths repeal of the duty that he 'was | Toronto papers, whose *'seliisho position" perpetrating a deliberate injustice against | to protection, he says, is the greatest ob- those who voted and assisted in placing him | stacle in the way of the advoeates of pro- in his present position.. He mo soomer | tection. gave the vote than he began to fear the presenting the intgrests of large masses of result ; he, therefore, thought it best that consumers by the Findicetor should say something to | whose patronage they subsist, everything forestall the afair by the, way of pitifv] favorable to free trade finds admission lamentations about his loss ; self-sacrificing act he had been compelled it is ridiculéd or| overlooked." o performs and all beeause his unselfish | far as this may be re ed as a thrust at natare prompted him to lake that course ' the Leader, we ily to say that frof which was for his constituents good and to | #ts first pulilicalion this. journal has stefl- his own disadvant ily adhered to principles of What an imconve: it thing it mast pe commerce as in jolities and religion, be- to be aBistsd with a feeling so neighborly | cause it has believed that such principles that it actuates one ty, injure 'himself ' were best calenlated to promote the com- for the good of his neighbor! fort and well-being of those large nfsses OK or two questions might bo asked of consumers whe form about ninety-fiine- with | p.opriety, in relation to the knowl. hundredths of the population of this coun- edge/ Mr. Gibbs posscssed of the effect of try. Are we t5/ be accoynted the duty when voting. . Was Mr. Gibbs becatse we have, faidhi ily represented aware when he voted to retain the duty, the interest of these **larde masses" rather re than the interest of a small class of manu- who, of course, in preaching it, are And fpr Lis present political Mr. Cowan observes that * re- ard. the importing class, Now, as lave oO freedom 'in " gelfish " that under the daty the importations were increasing ;. 85 mach "so that under the facturers--inte "duty the iinportations, for the Province of grail byt only a Ontario, of whet alons probably regard it portation of all gr tins, exce to aid this cl: for the year imumsdhately it makes from duty by 1,105,027 buslills ! not | kind' of a doubt bul T> was fully eo nizing of [the | particular y fact. He had co which we 'have no'desire to assume as a ing himself of tie information which we virtue. But while the Leader has thus have been furnishing in these columns, -- | consistently throughout advocated those The office of the Commissioner of Trade trade measures which it believed would and Navigation was under liis nose every confer the greatest good upon thegreatest day he visited théhonse- It was his duty, , number," it i$ not open to the charge of nt and deserving, we Mr. Cowan would as geadrous if we were 1 wle 1 the im enforcing the demands e to time, but that js a h is without any t as far as we can see, and ¢ Indian corn, preceding the Ther 7 Incility for possess therefore, as a public mah. to make sure having excluded from its columns those what he was about when casting' a vote | Views from which it has spen fit to differ. upon such an impertant cutter. 1s The change of base noticeable in the con- should "have considered it: of sufficient | duct of our protectionist friends to whom importance to lock up the official re- | We have alluded, scems to us to be the --reports, and become pos itive that the imn- | Strongest possible proof of the justness of portatioris were not on the increase before | the course which the Leader has steadily instructing his brother to prosupt the fami- pursued in it4 advocacy of trade views, and |. ily bulletin to hazard such reckless stute- of 'the hollowness of the pretensions so ments. 'We dare say Mr. Gibbs hoped by ! persistently advanced by the advogates of the aid of the Vindic for to swindle'a be- { special interests." ; 4 lief into the minds of the farming com. : Was Mr. Glen always a protectionist! munity, that he sustained a serious loss Did le advocate this * heaven-born prin- through defending their interests ky pre- | ciple" when lie was in the nursery busi- venting the Americans from deluging us ness in Rochester, and was desirous of with wheat from their markets. supplying the Canadian farmer with fruit But will Mr. Gibbs' organ: pretend to trees at the lowest possible rate Did he argne that the imposition of 4 cents por then think protection was the best system bushel dpon American wheat was neces for Canadian farmers to adopt! sary to protect the farmers of the County -of Ontario against competition ! If 80, we ask, how is it that the farmers never had | opposition in the Oshawa market until the ,duty was imposed ! And then that oppo. MWissioners at Washington have been sition was from the firm of Mr. Gibbs, -- brought to a close for the present, and the How many farmers have been told, * We treaty has lleen signed by them and re- éan buy, laid down at Oshawa station, whoat | ferred for approval to- their respective from the United States quite as good as Governments. The details of the treaty yours for 81.07 ; we cannot, therefore, | have not yet been made public, but it' is \ give you $1.20,7or £1.25; we cannot al- understood that the following are the Jow you more than £1.12}." | principal points of the agreement :--A And thus: Mir. Gibbs' Sema has been | tribunal of arbitration to be constituted, found timin and again jplacing the American to consist of five members, and to have wheat: (which is quite inferior to ours, but | POVeF to award damages eithir in detail +does very well to/mix and soll:as flour of | °F IN gross HE nixed commission to sit at Canadian growth) in cempetition. Plenty Washington and adjust claims that have of instances can be recalled by farmers of arisen from 1861 0.1865 ; the three mile this neighborhood where Mr. Gibbs' firm | fishery limit done away with, and U. 8. has brought the American whea' and prices | fishermen to have almost as free use of "into competition with their ;iéin ; where our fisherics as have the people of our own they would but offer 81.12%, and same | COUR, in exchange for a permit. to farmers, same day, for same wheat realized { Canadian fishermen to fish ona portion of "at Mr. Smalls' mill £1.20, rst bid. But | the U. 8S, sea evast--a sum of mney to be anothér secret remains to be told. The dif- | given fo- Canada, should it Kereafter be ference in the American and Canadian | decided by the contracting parties that the JOINT HIGH COMMISSION, The labors of the Infernational Com- wrency was used as additional levarhgo | fisheries of the latter are most valuable + farmars in Ozhawe. markets, r. | the lakes, canals and river St. Lawrence 1 would state, ""' We can buy 'excel. | forever free to the citizens of bath coun- 'ality * i1 American markets at so | tries ; the Ban Juan Boundary question out of the hundred should pay tribute for the benefit of the &dd fellow, they will attract attention to [their manufactures. i, Even the Toronto Leailer hasbecome aware of the fact that thore fare manufactories in | 1 Oshawa, and that thy gentlemen conduct- ** new agita- In | of a large number of Reform voters from Irers have ap- ** parently catered into a new agitation on Mr. Glen, it lias to ask who the Hon. John Young | *¢ the very encrgetiz juraager of the' agri: writing letters to thp newspapers on the After the above inquiries wo cannot | subject ; and hig /argumcents Imve [been rs, from Mr. W. F. Cowan, another enterprising manufacturer. Both of these gentldmen are deserving of The simplicity with which cur con-'| gredit for the activity and intelligence they Caga- dian industry, and| are entitled to be : Doubtless it enjoys tlis opportunity of heard with respect when they enter into a queryiig for knowledge, as it expects it | discussion as to the best means of further But the lend them- this questioning to dras_ocur altention selves to' controversy on commercial mat- ters, they are tempted--and it is only hu- Vindicator he takes occasion to attack the ' I ------------------ REFORMERS BEWARE! ~ Look after the chiscling which is being wractised by the agents of J. N. Gibbs throughoit South Ontario. Already an effort has been made to strike tho names assessment -rolls--and the game will be continued by those hirelings as their only | chance Like | drowning men, they cateh at. the ** cooked roll" dodge as the last straw within reach. of success next "election. I -------------------- FLECTORS BEWARE! It is the duty of any Elector, whose vote and influence may be solicited, to look carefully to the past political career of the party for whom the. same is asked, and sce if his political views are in accord- ance with the best interests of his country. Let us look at a few of the political acts of our present member for the Commons and see how they accord with the well-being | of the country. Itisa well known fact that Mr. Gibbs aids the Government who supports such men as Gray, Tupper, and Howe, and birds of that stripe. Electors, if you endorse the political conduct of Mr. Gibbs you cin also endorse the conduct of those other worthies mentioned here, whose reputation as bribers, traitors, and corruptionists, stands unparalled in the history of civilization. It has been stated through the press that Mr. Gibbs says that he carries South Ontario in his pocket. If he has been so unfortunate as' to thus" wantonly insult those that have upon two occasions elevated him to so important a trust, he has forfeited all right to the con- fidence of the electors of South Ontario, and should be driven from his present position by an overwhelming majority, and remembered only as a relict of the past. Few men have succeeded in piling up so foul a record in so short 'a time as There are two ways to get into Parliament, one by an open straight- and the other , some of which d ont at" Col- umbuson Monday last; but, unfortunately he has done. forward honorable course, trict by- mean despicable was attempted to-he prac for its author, will recoil with unusual geverity upon himself. as they ought to be, for the man who re- These things are sorts to such mean and uncalled for acts ought not nor cannot go unwhipt of justice. What a pity it is thus to see talents em- . ployed for such bass and vile purposes. rn ------ PEDICATION OF ODDFELLOWS' HALL. A larg: gathering of the members of the Order of Oddfellows assembled on Wed- nesday evening last, to witness the dedica- tion of the Hall lately fitted up by the Corinthian Lodge of this town. The hall itself has undergone a thorough renovation, he walls have been neatly papered and about what a their columns while everything opposed fo, panelled, over the seat of the Noble Grand is eractad a canopy of scarlet trimmed with Linitation gold, cornice and silver lace, directly opposite is another canopy of the scarlet also trimm>d with gold imitation, The floor is beau: tifully carpeted, sand the wall between cornice and silver lace. the pancls exhibits a picture, among which ard conspicuous the Queen, Queen and family, showing at least while being odd in some respect they are with the mass in attachment tj the Queen. Precisely at nine o'clock the Grand Master and assist- ants were announced. By this time the hall was crowded to suffocation. W. R. N. Ferd, Grand Master, took charge of the proceedings. Dr. Rae in' handing the keys of the Corintlfian Lodge, said that they had raised in all $100) in a little over i twelve months, and that on the opening | of the hall they held in the Treasury £500, with a membership now of over 60 mem- | bers, which a year ago numbered but 23. The dedication ceremony occupied exactly | half-an-hour ; after which the evening was | ! spent in a most agreeable manner, with speeclies, songs, recitations, etc., in which the visiting and resident brethren took part, and also some ladies of the village. At midnight proceedings were terminated | by singing the National Anthem. Between the hours of .8 and 12 o'clock a capital dinner was served at Mr. Hindes' | hotel, of which about 240 partook. The whole proceedings passed off in the most successful and agreerble manner. Axp now 'the Whithy Chronicle man He's mad terrible Poor man, his craft is in danger, and he has commenced performing in com- pany 'with the rest of the *' low and lofty political tumblers " of the riding, who pale at the appearance of the ReroruEi, and make common, cause in abuse thereof. | Pray on, brothers! *' While it pleaseth | thee it' don't hurt I." The Chronicle's fling at the Reroryes is simply a collec- tion of untruths. In one of the editor's moods he has evidently been brooding over his own position; and putting the Rerony- er in place of his own paper, and Mr: Farewell in the pamition of the | "rises to explain." mad ! owner of | | the ("hronicle : the unfortunate man has lurted out his own experience. Perhaps he knows who owns him now --perhaps he he don't: at least we defy any one to tell | | who will be his master or where he will | be found: when the next election comes | , round. We pity the sorrows of the poor | litle man whose tortuous course hath | | brought him under our notice ; but if the | REvorMER has "driven another nail into his coffin" it is his own fault. The viru- { lence with which the Chronicle and kind ced | | sheets assail the RerorMEr shows that they fear its power. Poor souls, we pity | them ; but saltpetre won't save either them or their master when next voling day | comes round. | | | attached to the Express wagon took French | | leave, and started off without a driver. | He didn't go far, however, as Mr. Granger, | the Express agent, who had left the horse standing in front of the office while he cela ONTARIO REFORMER, OSHAWA, FRIDAY, MAY 12 1871. GENEROUS DONATION. Mr. aud Mrs. Cade, of this village, re- cently donated to the Oshawa Christian Church that beautiful lot on Centre street, lying just. south of the corner. The an- nouncoment. was mule at the church meet- ing on Satarday last, and a resolution passed tendering them the. thanks of the Church for their liberal gift. Mr. and Mrs. Cade are well known in the village as being among the oldest and most re- speeted of its inhabitants. Being in pos. session bf a find property, they ave in- clined to use it for the benefit of those around them ; and how could they better do so than by aiding in the erection of a house of worship! We know it is more blessed to give than to receive, and feel feel assured that they will be blessed in the deed. rich in the blessing of God, and when the shadows of age shall deepen around them | may Heaven's gentlest breezes waft them out on the ebbing tide of life towards the haven of cternal rest. 3 J. AH. IN last week's issue, We called attention to the beautiful display of goods in Mr. Chisholn's Millinery show window. Crowds went to see it, at which--judging from a little item which appeared in its last issue --the Vindicator is indignant, snd wishes | the Council to prevent Mr. Chisholm from dressing his windows as he does, (most beautifully), or order Constable Gurley to ! Oh, no, Mr. Fin- dicator, it can't be done. Mr. Chisholm has beautiful goods, shows them freely, and keeps obliging clerks to sell them, -- Again wo would say to all, don't ful to sec Mr: Chisholm's Millinery Shore Window, for the goods there displayed are really beautiful. Don't be afraid of Mr. Gurley, 'or any other man." keep the crowds away. Ox Thursday morning, 4th inst., a bag- gage hand named Dan Callagar, on No. 6, going west, had a narrow escape from be- ing killed while the train was passing on It oc- curred as follows :--A quantity of shingles lying"too close té the rail caught the door the siding at the Oshawa station. of the baggage car, closing it upon Galla- gher's head --who was looking out at the time-- inflicting deep wounds on both ears, a deep wound on the left cheek, and sev- eral bruises on the side of the face and neck. Dr. Coburn, local surgeon, dressed the wounds, and forwarded him to" the Corpany's surgeon in Toronto. rr -- © -- A rannway from Bowmanville to Bob- caygeon is sure to be built. Fouxp, a slate-colored kid glove. Owner can get it by calling at this Office. Sir Joux and Lady Macdonald will return to Ottawa about the 25th inst. We understand that Hewett, the brakes- mai who was injured in the hand a few days ago, is, so far, doing well. " Tue St. Catherines refers are doing Sandfield good."--Ex. Ah, yes --change of diet, you know! Way is the Editor of' the Vindicator's hat like the notorious Sampson! Because it is generally on a Larke ! } Tue Lacrosse club have adopted a grey uniform. An approprirte naine for the club would be "Lively Fleas." Tue Lonflon (England) Telegraph claims the largest circulation of any paper in the world. It issues 190,000 copies daily. A. Farewerr, Esq, has gone to the We understand that he has no intention of investing money either Vestern States. in land or cheap Milwaukee wheat. Sick the Editor of the Whitby Chroni- read that the price of admission to Salt Lake Theatre was a pumpkin, he has resolved to go in on the strength of his ead. Ir is expected that a new election will shortly take place in West Durham, and that Mr. John McLeod will be returned by acclamation to represent that constitu- ency in the local legislature. TrE article from a "farmer " which ap- peared in last weck's Rerormer, had the effect of causing a simpleton to make an exhibition of*his buffonery in this week's Vindicator--not one argument of our cor- respondent has been fairly met. Tur Oshawa lodge of Orange Young Britons intend giving a concert in the Town Hall, on the evening of the 24th inst. Some of the principal "vocalists of the town, together with some from To- ronto, will take- part in the entertainment. Oxr - Kansas editor has been calling an other man an * eighteen carat fraud." And so John Sandfield has heen away to Kansas while all the time we imagined he was confined to his home with rhéumatism. | Well, that Kansas editor was right. To CorresroxprNTs.-- "8. E. P.," your communication received, but without sig- nature in full. The newspaper rule is, that all correspondence, to:insure inser- tion, must be accompanied by -the name of the author--not necessarily for publica- cation, but as a guarantee of its reliability. Port Hore, Port Perry, and Peterboro i people proceed to patriotic Lindsay on the 24th inst., to celebrate the day. The fire- men of the above named places will take part in the celebration. Tickets from Port (Perry to Lindsyy and. back, for lady and gent, $1 00. Every one is giving his version of the National Policy, and shaping it to meet his peculiar views,' nevertheless leaving the question somewhat in obscurity. Steele Brothers, however, announce a large Stock of Whitewash Brushes which are of great public utility at this season of the year. Me. Wu. THoMAS' livery stable is one of the most extensive establishments of the | kind between Toronto and Kingston. He keeps 25 good horses, has buggies and car- | riages fit for any man to ride in. Stages leave his place every morning for Beaver- ton and Lindsay, earrying niails to all the back towns. Stables on Simcoe St., South. Tue much talked of fight between Mace and Coburn came off yesterday, between Port Dover and Port Ryerse, and proved a huge swindle. They spent an hour and thirty minutes, both on the def , and, May their. remaining years be | | Ar Pawtucket; R.1., there lives » certain i | young gentlemen, aged 18 months. The | gther day this youth kept quiet an un- Correspondence. | To the Editor of the Ontario R former Sir,-- I do not agree with some people | usual time, and his Mother, suspecting all { | who think that-Mr." Gibbs dil wrong in visiting this constituency during the late political contest, for two roasons: the | first is, that while here having his portly | terror. | form denzged through the mud, he was not | drawer sat this " precocious youth," with | toadying to the Government at Ottawa, ith | 4 loaded and capped and self-cocked re- the hope of getting a place in the Minis- | volver in his hand,. apd he was amusing | try as the reward of his servile following ; | himself by ramming the muzzle of the Land the second is ; that he was engaged | piece down his throat, working at the | in the laudable enterprise of - digging his | trigger, and hammering it upon the floor. own grave, politically ; and I hope at the | As soon as the mother recovered from her fright, she took the weapon from her child and administered a remembrance which will doubtless deter him from another such | exposure of his precious sclf to instant an- nihilation. | child had not killed itself upon the spot, hut strange to say not a barrel was dis- to look him up. Upon the floor by an open burean | close of the coming contest we will have to perform the solemn duty of burying him, politically, with all the honors due a departed corruplionist. A Wurrey Vorer. --- © -- BREAKERS (HEAD, 5 V wid ae] We seem to be drifting recklessly down charged. | the easy incline of reckless expenditure Teer is on exhibition in*New York .a | and extravagance, toa gulf-of financial solid scction cut from one of the original | trouble. | taxation, and annual deficits that scem to threaten us in the future. Our taxes and | Specimen on exhibition was cut from the | expenses have increased nearly fifty per | tree at a distance of twenty feet from its cent. in four years, and our debt is in- | base, and a fair idea may be obtained of creasing at an alarming rate. While the | what the tree originally was when it is said | Americans are steadily and rapidly improv- that the stump is covered over and' is now ing their position in relation to debt and | taxation, we arc as steadily and rapidly | making our position in these respects worse, and at the rate things are now going very | fow years will pass before the debt and | taxation of the United States will be less in proportion to population than our own. A gigantic debt, burdensome | ' Big trees' of Calaveras county, Cal., which used as a ball room, being so large that thirty-two persons ¢an dance a double cot- illon on it, and then leave room for the band and spectators. If one has suflicient patience the age of the tree may be deter- mined by countingthe annular rings, but to save any one the trouble we will say that there are more than 2,500 of them, and that each one represents a year. In cutting down this huge specimen of the vegetable king- The terms upon which British Columbia has been annexed to the Dominion. are such as to ensure beyond a doubt an ad- dition of eighty million to our debt, with "a fair prospect of swelling the same to one | days, and from a comparatively small por- tion of its wood enoughwas obtained to build an hotel. The original height of the tree hundred millions. We have bound our- selves to build a railroad through 2,500 miles of wilderness and in # region of | © qu. gtrike of the cabmen in Montreal has had the effect of starting a Cab Com- pany into existance. The new company have issued their prospectus. The capital stock is $200,000 at £100 a share. It is proposed to supply the public, through which very little is known, in order that we might secure the aunexatiomof a coun- try with not more than 20,000 white in- habitants. The attempt to build this road will be certain tof iuvolye us in great diffi- culties, among which will be costly Indian wars with the powerful tribes who occupy hid with a class of carriages such as are com- the conatry through which it will pass, and + mon in the principal cities and towns in who will fight with the desperation born of Europe y . The drivers are to be dressed in despair, for the only hunting grounds left them on this continent. = If the Govern- ment should take charge of the construc- gion of the proposed railway, after the a livery becoming to their avoeation. The company has secured the exclusive right of stationing their cabs and omnibuses op- posite the Grand Trunk depot., The Pro- visional Directors are : Hugh Allan, Hou. Thomas Ryan, George Stephen, C. J. Brydges, Thomas Workman, and E. A. Prentice. The Managing Director is Mr. John Shedden. "manner of the Intercolonial, then Heaven Messrs. save the country, as in that case it would be impossible to settle the question as to whether the rililway runs the Government, or the® Government run the failway, or whether a select ring of political rascals run both.-- New Domiition. ! failure around Goderich. The opening of potato heaps in these days revedls a very vexing state of things, tif issue of dry rot and the other prevalent blights. Some THE PACIFIC RAILROAD, We have yet to learn that the route for such a road has been so surveyed as to | warrant any estimate of its cost beyond a bascless guess. If such a survey has been made, it would have been well for the Government to have laid it before, the If it has not been made, their stock a complete mass of rottenness; and others have lost gnantities, varying from fifty to a hundred bushels, which will doubtless seriously afféct the public bothnow country. proposal cannot be deemed otherwise thah | 4,04 will of necessity be very high in price, andr in many instances not to be found on Early varieties seem .indieative of more hopefulness than prud- dence. From the observations of travel- any consideration. to have stood the winter much better than 1 kL lers we are able to gather that any route possible will be one of singular difficulty. It must start north of Ottawa, and for -.. . . enorinous_ distances before reaching Mani- toba will run through a wilderness of rock or swamp, and be threatened every spring the cups, which latter indeed, fur some years past, have béen showing strong indi- cations of becoming speedily extinct. was 302, and its largest diameter thirty- two feet. { : A Great Cu ----- ~There is, on_the farm of Mr. Secord A, 15 Mile Creek, one of the greatest curiositics in this part of Canada, viz :--A spring of the clearest: by freshets of tremendous violence, rang- ing over whole districts. This section of the road is more urgently needed, in order to bring the Province of Manitoba within reach, so as to. obtain for it the population needed for dts develop- ment. well have been decided upon before hasten- and best water gushing out of the centre of a pine tree. Some three or four years ago, Mr. Smith tapped the tree for the purpose of getting resin; and was surprised on The completion of this might very ing to engage in building the remaining 2,000 miles, one-third at least of which will be found to present obstacles of ex- treme difficulty. securing a stream of clear, cool water; about half an inch thick, which has con- tinued to flow ever since. The phenomenon cannot be explained by those 'about here. Ptobably there are some at a distaiice who can tell why this pine tree gives fe wth water in the place of resin.-- St. Catherines Jowrnal, . : informed that all the water found fag a stretch of hundreds of miles between Manitoba and the Rocky Mountains is too salt to drink. If that is 80, it will not only add much to cost of construction, but cause a heavy deduction ! from the estimate of lands along the route capable of being settled upon. We repeat | that the country was entitled to the mest [ cotirplete information respecting the physi- | cal features of th : a which the proposed ling, | % ., Juse ih i ISH, CODFI. ana | prestige had it deci. « entertain the resolutions in question efore having in its possession all the evidence on which the | Government estimates for this vast ex- penditure were based. -- Montreal Witness, -- -- THEPETITION AGAINST MR. MACKENZIE. We 'have been A SOMEWHAT curious circumstance oc- curred in Greenville, Ill, a short time since. A man there killed a hog which, when alive, weighed 250 pounds--a most portly porker. On cutting his throat he began to bleed, and continued bleeding until nearly the whole substance of his | body raii*eway, izasmuch as there were mer took up the carcase and threw it away. The blood, for the most part, appeared nautural, but, towards the last, the color became greenish. Here is'a problem for | pounds of blood. ProfrssioNal bank burglars have per- It seems from the Toronto Telegraph that fected and are using both in England and | a petition having been filed almost at the '| last moment against the return of Mr. M. C. Cameron, the Government people in | | their indignation at once concocted and filed petitions against Mr. Crooks and Mr. | Mackenzie. A very plain admission that | thepetitions against these two latter gentle-' | men have no other foundation than a little spite, or, at least, a determination that 'it shall not be said that.Axe-grinders were | figure of the combination. The failure was : the only people against whom petitions | due to a catch in the recording paper. were filed. This sort of thing does not | amount to much: . This view has been confirmed by the fol- lowing note from Toronto. The writer is | » member of the Legishature : | "The young man petitioning against Mackenzie is just one day too late, as we | are all of opinion. 1 examined. the peti- {tion myself. A more badly drawn one is not on the files. * It is full of erasures, | o, Mr Jinkens' farm, Lot No. 9, 11th Con- | alterations and interlineations, and had | cession, and can be seen there at any time { we the old system of election committees, | : | by the curious. --Seaforth Examiner. | would be thrown out instanter. -- Advertiser. | | the safe to which it is attached is opened. | One of these instruments was recently found on a safe in one of the large financial institutions of New York, and when ex- amined had already recorded all but ome | of the township of Hullet, that he has an ox which is now giving milk, and has been since last fall. | cow,and can easily bemilked with the hand. A FIGHT between a rat and two snakes, Tre " Parlor Album" -advertisement is | a fraud. A rroMINENT dry goods merchant of | Boston worked half an hour on the follow- | ing proposition, and failed to give the an- swer: "If fourteen mon build a stone i wall in nine days, how long will _it take f five'men to build a like wall in six days!" umph of the rat. The copperhead was killed, and the rattlesnake would have moved. | generalship in the - encounter, and every | time he was bitten would retire to the | corner of the cage and bite out the piece | from his body. Mg. Greeley on his farm, keeps a run- | DurmNe the time of a great religious ex- | citement, an honest Dutch .farmer on the | Mohawk was asked his opinion as to which ld tion of 'Christi was on the | J like another fancy man in the States, seem- ed inclined to fight it Si on that line if it took all summer. But the appéarance of { the Sheriff, with a company of Simcoe | right way to heaven. * Vell, deh," said | ning account with his hens, double entry. Lhe, "ven we ride our wheat to 'Athany, | When a hen lays an egg. the book-keeper | purpose of being candied ; and also the | ° for her | rinds of these fruits when imported in | some say dish road is de best, and some | gives her credit, and charges her ; | say dat; but it don't make much difference | meals. In this way Horace can tell what - . Pra sisten- ke was not right, went into an adjoining room | Here she looked upon a | sight which almost curdled her blood with | It is almost a mirical that the | is on its way to the European museum. The | dom, five men were employed twenty-five the medium of a Joint Stock Company, * AccorpiNG to the Signal potatoes are a neighbours have found alinost their entire | and at the planting scason, as seed pota- |' , them, whether of voide, foot ur eye."] not more than 40 pourids, when the far-{ | scientific men--an animal composed £210 |- | this country, a siall and delicate instru- | ment that registers the combination of the | | single and double bank safe lock whenever { Weare informed by Mr. Willam Jinkens, | The milk, in appearance, |" { could not be distinguished from that of a | cow. The teat from which the milk pro- | ceeds is as large as the teat of an ordinary | This wonderful animal is working every day | a copperhead and a rattlesnake, took place | | at McKeesport, Ohio, the other day, which | lasted seven hours and resulted in the tri- | suffered a like fate had he not been, re- | The rat showed considerable | rs ar re {a ou hk = se -------- " Ob, papa, 1 must go and | ar Nilsson. Yuu know I am so fond of | music." Juvenile brother, triamphantly: | "Then why don't you-let me play on my | dram?" ~ / A mopes farm has bren purchased "in | Cortipton, Eas ein Township, as the site of | an agricultural college, Which has received a grant of $300 from the Local Govern- | ment, and £1,800 from the Council of | Agriculture- Col. Pownroy, a practical far- | Ter, is President. +1 Wiig the Princess Frederica was arranging a Christmas tree Jor some | poor children at Vienna, for the 'hristmas of 1869, a burning green wax taper fell upon her arm, andl so poisoned her that she is dyinga painful death, at the residende of her father, the ex-King of Hanover. A cask of femininé daring is related of a Virginia belle who rode to the edge of a! | precipice, and -défied any man with whom she was riding to follow her. Not a man | accepted the challengp ; but a tantalizing youth stood on his head in his saddle, and | dared the lady to-do that. Coroxtl Pomroy, of Compton, has offered, in additionto £1,000 in* money, a plot of ground worth £1,000 in order ta; bring the proposed Methodist College to | Compton. He also offers to give 85,600 | towards. the education of eleven of his grand children at. that institation. | Tue Emperor William has pardoned ! most of the persons sentenced to death in Prussia, and whose fate was to be decided om his return to Berlin: Oaly thrée men and a middled-aged, wyman, ell of them convicted of murder dnder peculiarly atro- cious circumstances, will be beheaded. | A CORONER'S jury in Omaha returned a verdict thit the decemsed came to his death fromr exposure. * What do yout mean by that 7° asked a relative of the dead man. "There were two bullet holes in his skull." The coroner replied, with a wave of his magisterial hand. *' Just so: he died from exposure to bullets." Mg. Blake, who is usually very careful in his statements, in his recent speech at Bowmanville, said he was convinced that there had been such an accession of strength to the Opjosition-in the Ontario. Legisla- ture in numbers, talent, and ability, as gave assurance that the principles for which they had combatfed would prevail. AN army . of caterpillars is through Southern Illinois, devouring in its march, leaves, buds, and everything of Many gardens have been invested and attacked by them, and moving a succulent nature. much damage has resulted, leaves and | tender buds being in some instances. en- tirely stripped from pear and apple trees. Ox Thursday of last weck a heavy snow | storm prevailed on Lake Huron, lasting | nearly twenty-four hours, detaining steam- ers at different points. The steamers (ity of New York was detained some thirty, hours at Presque Isle, and the Lowell, up- ward bound, it the same length of At the of the storm the weather set in sharp and cold. abe time. close Loxpox has 316 newspapers, of which 21 are daily; 216 are weeklies, 100 of which are issued on Saturday, and only one'on | It has also 483 periodical publi- cations, such as magazines, reviews, etc., Sunday. of which 299 ave, religious, representing every shade of opinion. It has fifty juven- ile publications, nearly all of them illus- trated. BeecHER remembers seeing liis second | mother dance to his father's fiddling, and thinks : '¢If my mother had danced oftener and said the catechism a little less, it | would have been better for all of uns.| If | you have a talent for music cultivate it ; for dancing, cultivate it. - Whatever gifts | ALiod has given you, make the most 'of | Joy Morrissey makes lis New Or- leans trip pay. "He gave $10,000 for a horse. that had shown wonderful racing | speed and bottom. Then putting the/ ani- mal in a race, with a rider propetly in- structed, he bet against his own horse, winning £30,000. By. this ingenious pro- cess John came out with a fine horse that cost him $20,600 less than nothing. LaTeLy two countrymen rejoicing in the name of Campbell met, and one said to the other, " Well, Sandie, hae ye heard the ! neste!" "I dinng ken, what is't 1" |""Did | ye no hear that'the Queen's dochter is { gaun to be married 1" "Indeed, I didna," | says Sandie, *' an wha may she be gettin'l" | ¢' Ah, she's gaun to be married tae a son | | 0' the great Macallum More." Aye, man, dae yc say sae 1" said Sandie; ""an' | wanna she be a proud woman the day she's | married to a Campbell 1" 13 | ¢ Spy mirrors" attached to windows of houses are becoming quite tommon in the more fashionable neighbourhoods of New | Goop bargains are pickpockets, Cowp comfort esting ice cresm. Ax idle brain is the, devil's warkshop,: Greex grocers--Those who give tiust, Draw not thy bow before thy arrow Le - fixed. : Esvy is the baneful emission of self. inferiority. fo Ax old "dog cannot alter his way of barking. : A pENNY wort? of sorrow. 3 A pecerreul man is more hurtful than open war. Wosax lost us one paradise, but makes us another. % : A rw drops of crescte will drive off insects. J A savoox in Chicago has been nemed "(Gough's Retreat." ; New reading of the quotation from Pope --* Loathe the poor: Indians." Expect nothing from him who promises a great deal. A rox sheuld not be on the jury ata goose's trial. Justice will not condemn even the devil wrongfully. GRAVITY is no more an evidence of wis- dom than a paper collar is of a shirt. Tur French Canadians are leaving the city of Quebec for the States in large num- ers. BrooMinatos, I1L., brags of a Diogenes. irth is worth Spound ; 'He gets drunk and then rents a sugar hogshead. THE cost of the new Grand Trunk Rail- way Pulman cars is between $24,000 and £30,000 each. A RoASTED bnion bound upon the wrist will stop the most inveterate toothache in a few minutes. £4 Tug quantity of lumber shipped from Ottawa last summer was 108,610,866 feet, value £1,116,356. Lorp Lisgar will leave Ottawa for Eng: land early in June. His servants and bag- gage precede him. Loxpox is going to plait over 200 more shade trees of silver maple, soft maple, and hard maple this year. A respectable lady at, Pittsburgh the other day was punped for poison, and yield ed an overdose of brandy. ! Tue Emperor of Russia has beco confirmed drunkard. All efforts to claim him have proved fruitless. - LI ie - HOROUGH INGS and able prices, Oshawa, April Soxk workmén near Troy, lately dugup "= a man with a knife in his back, and | they don't believe the weapon grew there. 'Ax alligator, some eightben inches in length, was among the mail matter re- ceived at Jersey City a day or two ago. A SsriLu oldlady in Memphis, when- ever she loses her scissors, rouses the family with, . * Where's them shears ap- peared-to." ] Ix New Yorkthere are 60,000 Jews and 20 synagogues ; and it is "estimated that the Jewish popflation of the United States numbers over 30,000. Tue Act to agimilate the currency comes | into force on thy 1st of July next, and after that date 81 Nara Scotia currency will be worth only 97 oints. men at Davenport' are One of them has out the following lifrary gem as » sign: -- * "Here lives al 'who never refuses To mend all sits of boots and shoeses." Iris said thai the Princess Louise, on hearing it was ible she might have no dowry, and beif{ asked what present she would prefer br way of compensation, replied with mucl modesty and spirit, "so. Tue busines » poetical g | lorgnette." Ax Tllinois man js under arrest for kill- ing a friend in Tazas. It/is alleged that after the murder h he returned to Illinois "N\ | and married his victim's sister, standing at the very moment of the ceremoney in the boots he had taken from the murdered man's feet. Commercial. Wheat, Fall, ¥ bushel. Oats, B32 Na,...... Barley, ¥ 48 bs, .. Peas, ¥ bushel, .. Butter, ¥ B, York. © They are suspended upon strong | - metal franies in such a way that a person can sit in the window out of view and see © the callers and passers-by. The fashion | orjginated in Hollannd, where they are so | | common that they are considered necessary | adjuncts to every Rouse, and are called | " spiegelen." | | Tneee has been a big snake hunt in| | Marion connty, Illinois. The reptiles had | | become troublesome, and the people turn- | ed out and drove them into a twenty acre patch, and then set fire to the long grass. The flames shot up ten feet and soon the whole was a black," burnt mass. "The | snakes made desperate efforts to jump the flames, but fell victims. It is stated that one blue racer measured nine feet four long, and seven inches in circumference. Tue testimony of a daughter of the par: | ties to a recent Indiana divorce suit seems | | ednclusive : "Father got mad because | | mother starched his stockings. . Mother | | picked up his stockings and hit father on the head with them, and it sounded as though they were sticks of woods. | Father | then stuffed a hot wheat cake down moth- | er's throat, and then mother set the dog | on father, and twisted the dog's tailto| make him bite harder." | cil of 5th May, the following articles used | as materials in Canadian manufactures are | transferred to thelist of goods which may | | be imported into Canada free of duty, riz: | | --Curled hair, oranges, citrons, and | | lemons, when imported in brine for the | | brine for the sane purpose; ivory nuts, | Peas, | Tue Free List.---~By an order in Coun- HF Wheat, ¥ bushel,.. ............00. 000 Rye, do .. Barley, do Peas, Oats, do Clover Seed, ¥ bushel, ... Timothy Seed, do Butter, ¥®,,........... Wheat, Fall, # bushel,........:. Wheat, Spring, do : Barley, ¥ bushel,.... Oats, do do Potatoes, do Butter, #B,.. .. foceninn | Wheat, Fall, ¥ bushel, .. | Wheat, Spring, ¥ bushel, Timothy Seed, ¥ bushel,.. Dried Apples, ¥®,...... CARD - OF THANKS. _ FYHE THANKS OF THE . Christian Church are hi Mr. and Mrs, CApK for of a site for HI AY TAPLIN, iV. it. STONE, D. CONANT EO. HENRY: Ochawa, May 11, 1571 Church Committee. --i-- - rr WANTED. od ER ll They are t PRICES ' Call and THE BEST of "NI OSHAWA | EAMS TO DRAW LUMBER |" A. my Mills in Podonk to Bowmanvil Oshawa. For further particulars and 'unless Mr. Farmor will 'accept | referred to {he Emperor of Germany for | Went in, gave chase, and in | volunteers, d the whole crowd of ruf- | which road wo dake, for when 'we get | hens are shirking, anil héw much hfmakes | cotton warp, not coarser than No. 40; | 3 arg? : | decision. | Awaiting full particulars of the stopping the "fiery steed " at the Corner | fians to; seek the congenial atmosphere of | dere dey never ask us which way we come | on each hen. He says roosters are a glar- | annato, rennet, union collar cloth, paper tor waa per: h- i treaty we withold comment, further than to | of King and Simcoe Streets. No damage | the United States as fast ns steam | --and it's none of their pizziness if our | ing fraud, putling on styles and never | and the following gums, vii; Bandara, | ERLE JA A jay that it reign os if a complete surrender done, {propel them thither, : ! © | wheat is good. ? laying an egg once in two weeks, | mastie, shellac, and Damgr, ¢ y \, Hag" enquire at Mill. AB. CANNEL Ba wranville, Mar 10, 15 » 4 bh /