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] uted to a _---- low state of the rinks » 5) _ ae = A EEE E----------mman ject should take place, and' that laws Grand Trunk Time Table. OSHAWA STATION.~OSHAWA TIME. 'GOING WEST, swenger coves 4.30PM, . was BBP | : WHITBY STATION. Tria sping East leave Whitby Station ten qatlier, and those going West fifteen Whtes later than the above. Spe EI GANAWA POLT OITICR. _ The mails are closed at thisoffice, by Post Office me a¥ follows: OQING EAST. GOING WEST. orang mail, 6.00 | Morning mail, 7.00 Frese mail, 8.00 | Evening mail, 8.00 The Northern mails are closed immediately the arrival of the Train from the West, at "Ma. m., daily, Sundays excepted. 3 via. Quebec. is closed at 7.30 oi on re Mek, . and via. New York Rhy Terie The Mall for Enfield, Foley, and Taunton, is elosed at 12.9 o'clock every Tuesday and Friday. Registered Letter should be Mailed 15 minutes weletwthe Lonr of closing a mail. ' Orpicz HOURS.--From § o'clock a. m. until LL WR. JANES BANKS 45 Jinn stuns, won All ewntractsmade ty him will be carried ouldy * Ny H Outario Refornier. AMAL HRA LIAARAVIARAL TAWA Oshawa, Friday, Jan: 81, 1873. DOMINION PARLIAMENT. The Offic! Gazette of the 29th instant ecrtaing ihe announcement that the Do- '| evidence that a large proportion of the ' ONTARIO REFORMER, OSHAWA, FRIDAY, JANU should be made more simple, nniform and stringent, --this being the more i large towns snd populous districts, the great evil of dramkenness is on the in- crease, which is to be attributed in some | n.easare to the higher wages aud shorfen- ed hours of labor. This does hot appesr to be equally true of the agricultural dis- | tricts and populations." | We give one more quotation frem that report, which is important enming ftom that high source. It say's : 3 { *' That drunkenness is the prolific parent of crime, disease and poverty. has received much additional confirmation. Tt is in | criminals passed ttrough our gaols attri- | buted their fall to drink, one witness hav- | ing stated the amount »s equal to 75 per | cent. to a cular gaol ; abouts 20 per | cent. of the imsanity regorded in Great | Britain, and about 14 per cent. in the United States of America, arc placed lo] the same canse ; and nearly 50 per cent. of the idiots in the latter country ave | stated to be the offsprings of intemperate parents." . There are ten Inebriate Asyulms in the United States, and the grand total of ad- | missivns into nine of them since their | opening is 5,959, of whom 1,305, or nearly | 23 per cemt., were admitted once ; 227, or | nearly 4 per cent., were admitted twice ; | and 94, or nearly 2 per cent., were ad | mitted thrice. Of such admissions, 5,615, or 94 per cent., were voluntary ; 144, or | between 2 and 3 per eent., were admitted by the intervention of friends ; and 217, or nearly 4 per cent., were committed by Justices, the result being that of the 5,959 who were under treatment, 2,018,0r nearly 34 per cent., were cured aud discharged ; 318, or nearly 5 per cent., received bene- fit; 11 died, and 3 became insane ; and winion Parliament will mect for the dis- patch of business, on the 5th of March. | Sir Jobn is putting it off as long as he | can, in order that he may be able to buy | up all the support he ean; but Le meets with very little success. - Amother "" rat " | has left the sinking ship. Receiver-Gene- | ral Chapais has resigned. Alas! poor | 378, or between 6 and 7 per ceat., were returned as ingurable. TT ---- COUNTY COUNCIL. Jumes 0 Guy, Esq, Elected Warden. The County Commeil met at Whitby on | Tuesday last. All she members present. | Mr. White moved, seconded by Mr. | Teguise L : " fe aa there tv much evidevce to show that in Longe, as ouly & limited 'number are be- { pom.; on Tuesday, the 4th of February | send two delegates to the Convention. Faruers who \want one of Esterlie's Cultivators should léhve their orders at ing made, We direct yours attention to the advertisement headed, 'A timely § warning to the famners of Oniario." The testimonials in favor: of this eul- tivater loaves no doubts but that it is the best in the market, and no farmer should be without one, Brpre Sociery [Mrering.--On Friday evening last the amnwal meeting of the Bible Society was held in the Bible Chris- tian Church. The motice had good publi- city, But to the shame of the 'Bible read- ing, professing Christian public--in_ this town with a population of net less than three thousand, cor taining not less than nine different professed branches of the church of Christ, --there was not an at- tendance of three dozen! The Rev. Dr. Thornton occupied the chair. The agent, Rer. Mr. Manley, delivered a very fine address. $124.23 were collected by the Oshawa Society during the past year. The following are the officers elected for the presctit year : President, Rav. Dr. Thorn ton ; Vice-Presidents, Messrs. A. Fare- well; T. N. Gibbs, W. H. Gibbs, Thomas Eck'and Dr. McGill ; Secretary, John Steele ; Treasurer, Richard Wellington ; Members of Committee, J. Boyd, J. P. Luke, J. Gould, A. Annis, A. Henderson, W. Doidge, G. Edwards, W. Glenney, M. Martin, W. King, C. B. Pike, W. J. Ritsén ; Depository, «Dr. W. Caster Deans. Wz seo that it is announced tbat a meeting of the South Ontario Sabbath School Association will be held in the lecture room of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Oslawa, commencing at 2 o'clock next. Ministers of 1eligion and superin- teudents of Sabbath Schools are ex-officio members of the Association, and in addi- tion each Sabbath Scliool is requested to To the Editor of th: Ontario Reformer: strong, if not *' unjust" ecnsure is bestow- | ed on Judge Burnham. jority think his sentence too light. extent, at least, by this feeling. " just " notify all Overseers of highways and Aa Wt, at Sevtence. | aosits ant on for 1872, who have not made their returns, that if 'such re urs i i icle | r¢ not made by the 3rd of February next, 1 notice in your Inst issuo an article | go gefaulters will 'bs prosecuted as the ith the above heading, relating to the | J, 4ivects, os Siig), iu Whit seuiv pretty The following accounts were presented and ordered to be paid, viz :--Trustess of _ | School Section Ne. 6, arrears of non-resi- Phat the doa { dent lands, 857 ; Thos. Conlin, for wood | supplied to Wim. Greenley, an indigent, 1 ghite agree with you, maurice kiew the feeling well when he | A > i i ; 84 50; James Ross, to relieve Wm. Shuse § 10 decline She ral bya jury Greenly, $4; A. G.' Smith, for spruce whe-Suuld have ns Bat if | trees for Town Hall and cedar timber for such is their feeling, does it follow that bridge, $4 : their view is the most correct one? What | The Council then adjourned to Monday, is it expected wil be obtained by | the oy of February next, to meet at 1 inflicting punishment by imprisonment in | o'clock a.m. : any oar Jurists tell us a two-fold ob- W. Beaws, Tp. Clerk. ject is sought. First: The-effect Spot el § eb society, by the warning given "to all | vi waship Council. others "in the like case offending ; and, The Pickering Tov 4 } Monday, Jan. 20th, 1873. The first meeting of the Pickering second, the benefit to the person, in sep- arating him from the oo restraining | kis liberty, and giving him the time for | o 1 leas held in the town Hall, pur- reflecting upon the enermity of-his crime, | suant to Statute. Present, T. P. White, and the consequences of violating the Reeve : [John Miller and Stephen K. | laws of the land. . .. v.o | Brown, Deputy Reeves; and Samual J. When the criminal has his civil life | roo, afl James Lo Palmer, Councillors ; shortened by three years, a pretty strong | and nade and Subscribed the declarations warifing has been given toall who might | ¢ . lication and of office according to be diapused to commit the like crime ; |, J and certainly no one will be encouraged | = _ .. a i to commit phy because the penalty my ¥ etitiont roseited of Fame Meliuey be * only three years imprisonment in the | 80d others for a He 3 : A » " : | John Toollgnd others for aid to Moses penitentiary. Experience has shown | li bv =. Groen : of 'Gesrge Lang that, certainty of punishment has a great- | * oY gC Te "Mrs MeGintv: be er effect in preventing crime than the ex- | MN; iy reffor J Ba Hu! hs 1 Fb the tent of punishment. Mr. Palmes; o nes David Gildl be In this ce, no ons saw the prisoner | office of SHO 3 Oo San commit the-crine ; he had arranged mat. | for the off HO dase ters ingeniously to throw suspicion upon | Mr. Green moves that 8. K. Brown, Jas. others ; and yet he is found guilty, not- | L. Palmer gtd the mover, be a Standing witlstanding his. precautions. Surely | Committee jon petitions and accounts. here was a warning, whatever the sentence | Carried. ; might happen to be. Mr. Brown introduced a by law, which | As to Fitzmaurice himself, none ean | was read t gee several times and' passed, well argue that he would likely be more | appointing [David Gilchrist Assessor ; benefitted by giving him fourteeu years | Joseph Mdukhouse and John Macnab, instead of three. | Auditors ; find John Phillips Inspector of This was, perhaps, the most important | licenses. | and serions case that had been tried since | Mr Green moved that T. P. White ind the Aet of 1869 compelled Conaty Judges, | John Miller bs a standing Committee | the people were scattered, delivered into | and in a very few minates was laden with from meres must have seen the prairie alive with teams. The far- mers were: all at the nearest settliment. The, {getting shart of fuel ; there was ['Y full of flour at the bottom of the not a scrap of meat was left. But the snows had , their shaggy little horses were well again, so every farmer hi d his team for the town, In the littld cottages of wood were women and children ; the schoolhouses were full of little opes. Such was the country, thus its dwellers, when the blow fell. Nature would seem to have. arrogated to herself all the savage attributes which had warked her first' children there, care- full and patient watch for an easy oppor- tunity and their sudden and relentless on- slaught. § : TIE STORM WAS TURNED SIOUX. At Winnebagn City there were sixty teams assembled ; scores were at New Ul. All slong from Albert Lea and Blue Earth, by Windom, Mankato, clear up, to Breckinridge Bell Prairie and Duluth, the hands of tha storm. Between twelve and two o'clock on Tues- day the sky turned livid, the son became merely a dull brazen ring, the south wind chopped round rapidly and begame cold, fine frozen snowdrift that stung like a shower of needles. So utterly undrap- ared were the people for the change in the weather, and so suddenly did it come upon them, that one man at Wimebago city decribes it as 'if a man elapped his hands--so, and the snow came in our facés." Knowing what this hurricans boded, men leaped into their sleighs, and with voice and lash urged their cowering hordes ont into the storm. Then the | os of death began. For more that fifty hours, till late on Thursday, the freez- ing wind and falling, snow continued. It was not a steady fall of snow, but, A HOWLING HURRICANE, the wind sometimes attaining a speed of twenty-eight, thirty or twenty-two miles. | The snow came in fitful flurries, with a wild screech (and a stinging whiz. The upon a prisoner's request, to decide the {on Claims for Sheep Killed by dogs. question of a J without a ory, and then Carried, to sentence int." That the judge fearlessly | qy.. Standing Committee on patitions | and in 8 most careful and painstaking | \o 4 nceounts presented their report re- | manner discharged the first of these du- | commending aid to the following indigent | ties, all who were present at the three | parties, John Cairns 65cts, per week from | days trial must admit. ' | 1st January to 1st June, James McQuay, Your accusation is, that he did not Commissioner ; Margaret McGinty, $1 per | dare to inflict such a sentence wpon the | The following, among oth:r subjects, will I week from lst Jan. to lst April, Geurge thermometer fell steadily, till at Cham- plain it registered fifty tour degrees below zero. At other places the mercury or spirit marked from eight to forty - two degrees below zero. Some of the farm- | ers who set out soon found that if they valu- ed life they must turn back. They were enveloped in theets of suow, that blind- ed them. The wind came so fiercely that they were fain to stop and turn round nearer settlements and it will be fully ; ; ¥ week ere these iso complete as to be T RL jAcH AND ba trustworthy Many of the missing will not | the most of the Chrome ing bsfoand till shring ; bat it issafe to set, | Ww down all the missing as dead; After care- fully collating the various reports re- evived thus far, and making all allowance for the remaining parts of the State, I am Isd to conelude that the loss of life in Min- nesola will range from two hundred and fifty to three hundred. It is just possible, though not probable, that the higher { fignre may be reached. Almost all of these are men, and the very large propor- tion of them fathers of families in straiten- ed circumstances. The surviving widows and children will thus be left withont means of support of any description. The charitable of the East will hear find an ob- ject for their sympathies, The Bpittoon Searcher Identified. " Sere Toes" Repudiates the Revolting Aet-- M.C.Cameron Owns Up to the Impuintion, | . Ad . * Phosphates and Cal reliability, being harmies e Jrompt and permanent in ity (From the Toronto Globe.) The motion to go into Committce of Supply, is, in Parlinmentary, practice, a notice that every one may talk upon what- ever he pleases without fear of a call to order from the chair, A vote of supply is, practically, a vote of confidence in the Administration of the day, and the license accorded to members when such motion is | Rye chee made, is, no doubt, intended to allow of | Barley... any individual or colléctive expression 9 Blue Peas Si opwnion on particular acts or the general | Black-ey arrow{at Peas . + of the Government. [It is evident, Sew Potatoes, ¥ bushel, Dw cor, that such a privilege may be | Lard, @m,.. "7 abused ; and that it was yesterday abused | by the opposition there eannot be- the | least doubt. Whois not fairly sick and disgusted with the sorry libel familiarly known 'as the " Speak Now " affair? And yet a large portion of yesterday's sitting was absorbed in the'resuscitation and re- ventilation of tae stale and stupid topic. It will be recbllected that the gravamen a 5 of the charge made last year by Mr. Came- | Oats, 0. LL, ron was, that Mr. Blake had held ont a ad. bushel "" corrupt inducement" to Mr. E. B. Wood | Butter, ¥0,.." ...... to leave Mr. Sandfield Macdonald's Cab- inet. and he gave the House to under- stand that he (M. C. C.) had evideneothat, | before the late Treasurer's resignation com- munications had outside and across the | floor of the: House passed between Messrs, | Blake and Wood on the subject of the | latter's resignation. At Ottawa Mr. | Ferguson, bringing up this scandal which his leader at Toronto had declined to substantiate before a Committe, told how the evidence on which the chargg had Flour, Bewt,...... whe LY bt Vheat, Spring, . Oats, ¥ mashed, vere" John * your doom is sealed. Robinson, --That James O. Guy. Eaq., | be discussed at the Convention :--1lst. | Prisoner as was imposed in the Hambly Lang, Com.; Moses Allen, 81 per week | . fs 4 Reeve of East Whitby, be Warden for the | * The selation of the children of fhe Sa { A ve was this differance, - however, in | Jrom 1st i Bg Compl ®: Suga why, the level prairie was ail road now, | » private note sent across the House on present year. day Schoul to the charch." sw. Dr. / ' , 5 PS " ithout one track of wheal runner to | the day of Mr. Woods resignation to Mr. the latter of these cases tho prisoner was | wo = oo 0 ah yo "to Jet June, John | iH { the day r a atic 2 Mer. Gillespie moved, seconded by Mr. | Thornton to 'introduce it. 2ad. *' The { found guiity ty twelve jurors, whose | Bn a Widow Chapman, "5 py indicate the path of safety. . Wherever | Wood on which was written * Speak now O'Donovan, --That Philip Rae, Reeve of | best method of keeping and distributing | tili a momentary lull came. The road-- | been founded was a scrap of paper, part of -- TEE INEBRIATE ASYLUM BILL | A. Farewell, ALP.P., has kindly ol warded us a copy of " An Act fo provide | 3 FYE PANT, THREE VEST, AND | TWO COAT MAKERS, | there was a slight knoll or! a trée the foyment.. nd are | It was not believed that anyone im the driving snow-glect curied round it and minds were as diirent as their counte- | 1 wy £00 100 Jan oto 1st June, Mrs | House. bok Me. Fe n himself was a vi ™ a da > RENN I NDS ALT TUR it Mai: SAR \ for the establishment of an Hospital for On a vote bring taken, it was declared a | nagces: and when the proof was such as | {¥ood, Com.; Widdow McKetrick, TU cts, libraries." Rev. W. Scott to mtreduce it. | to convince twelve jurors, a judge could 3rd. *'Tq what extent and by what meacs. hardly have that doubt as to the justice the reclamation and the surg of Habitual | tie, but Mr. White, Reeve nf Pickering, { Pronkards." The Hospital, according to | being the represemtativo of the largest | the reading of the Act, is to be known as number of ratepayers on the asscasment | the "'Omtario Hospital for Inebriates." The preamble reads thus : -- | * Whezeas the prevalenee, and, in macy | roll; was called upon to give the casting | vote, which he did, in favor of Mr. Guy, | who was then declared elected. | should total abstainence be advocated in the Sunday School I" introduce it. h. '" Have the Conven- | tions of the South Ontirio Salbath School i Association answered the expectations of | of x verdict that he would have had had | Mr. J. 8. Larke to | but one person pronounced the manguilty. | Com,; he judge could, in a trial as to the | | per week from Ist Jan. to 1st June, Mr. | | Meena Coin.; Robert Middelton £1 per week from 1st Jan. to 1st June, H. Beaton, Widow Young $1 per week from 1st Jan.to 1sé June,J. & D. Macnab, Com; Widow Pallister, $1 [per week from 1st Jan. to 1st June, :N. Wilson | Com.; Widow Smith $1 per feck from | ownerslip of a ghose, have had the 'assist- | ance of a jury, but here, wlea a than's | liberty is at stake, ha was without that, communities of this Province, the increase | 3 9 of dromkenness is directly causing the ruin The Warden was then c : fucted to his of many persons addicted to the vice, and | seat, and returmed thanks For "the Lenor of thar families, wifi ing Sniticting | conferred om him.: He was then sworn in | 'grievous injury upon r ations | is honor Jwdge ham | society at large ; and wheréas it is clearly | by wa odiba Puen at pablished in | shown that drunkenmess, directly or in- procesdmngm wii, oo pro n directly, is the canss of much of the | ourmext issue. J disease, insanity and idiotic, as ei as of » the crime and erism in the Province, ! eo - aud wliich evils it is most desiratle to | FIVE DO, nS REWARD. semredy or ameliorate'; and whereas ex- - 54 perience lias shown that the plan of treat. | Lost on the evening of Thurday laat, ing drunkenness as a disease im Hospital | (yesterday) a sinall satchel, {with a long especiall established for that purpose has | strap attached. * It is suppopel to lave! du very beneficial results . There- | beenlost while thel canes twas drivin Sore, Her Majesty, hy a-.d with the advice | . Ee an : x : - and coment of the Legislative Assembly | into Hinds Hotel sleds. 11 hi of the Province of Ont iy, enacts as fol- | large pocket book, im which were memor- | lows," etc., ete. | andums of Townships and County righ's The entire Bill consists of twenty-seven | for the Dominion Putent Churn. Also | «ses. The first three clanses relate to | the Deeds issued from the Patent Office for | tie necessity of such an institution, and | the Dominion Churn, and the self fastening giving power to the Lieut.-Governor to | reversible window lock, the first belonging | purchase a site, erect suitable buildings, | 4, Jas. Coch y of {Brightou, and the | ete. The fourth clause gives the Lieut.- | other to Dr. Massey, of Colborne ; and | Governor power to appoint a superiutend- a few other papers, all of which will be ent, Bursar, house-keeper, and other! of no value to any person but the | officers and servants for the hospital. The | owners. fifth section plans the hospital -under the | The finder will recvive the above re- | enthority and supervision of the Inspector | ward by returning the satchel'aad its ewn- of Prisons and Asylums. The next six | featsto A. Hindes, as soon as possible. | sections prescribe the duties and powers of | Jas. Coenraxe. | the inspector and superintendent. Clause cout | Greenwood, and Rev.,J. Fraser, of Whit- i ! by | Chu to be Hutton, of Oshawa, and a minister from | the friends of Sabbath Schools, and is it jond had to gentoues the man when he | H | aione sa a was gm ty. | To be oi Besides, those who were at the trial will ny remember that thers was no direct evi- | held on Tuesday | dence ; there was circumstantial evidance, | and epnflicting at that, as the County At. | torney Lad to admit. The Judge ex- plained, wt without) doubts " | as to the gnilt of the prisoner ;| yet, the tw Baptist » on the whole compelled him to addressed by Rev. BL. | give expression to the belief that he was . guilty, and he so recorded his judgment ; | ut he made e less because he had not had ice of a jury. I ean not Lut think, Mr. Editor, that fauds of the Association. The friends of | while yon expressed a foeling common to | the Sabbath School cause should take a | Your village, 'yon and they will see that, | putting yourself in his place, yéu would : have had some diffidduce in pronouncing sidering the number and strength of the | 3 more lengthened sentence than he did Sabbath Schools in this town, the Conven- i under the circumstances. i il 1 i | Truly yours, tion will doubtless bo one of no ordinary BARRISTER. mterest. to coutinoe them 1" troduced by Rev, 8. T. erciing wectings will be evening ia the Presbyterian Church, to be addrtied hy Rev. G. H. Cornish, of | desirabi Gibbs, Wediresday evening iu a distance. Collections will be taken up at the ciese of each meeting in aid of the | lively interest in these meetings, and con- "Taz Oxtanio Teacugr.""--A non. | politieal, non-sectarian, monthly journal, f tion reads more like a spsech of 'FA Dar- ! entirely devoted to the educational inte- | pigter™ defending a guilty person than like [Nore.--Surely the above communica- | Pallister, $26 ; HL. 1st Jan. to 1st Jane, L. Bentley, Com.; | Alex McGee, £10. to purchage supplies for ths winter, James Whitshn, Com.; Wiljw Stoner, 81 per weck from 1st | Jan. ito Ist June. Thos Tepp, Com; | Mrs Wrightman, 5) cts; per we for 1st Jan. fo 1st Jume. FP Moen. Ovin., | Your Commitee woul! recommend the granting of the sum of 2109), for graveling the sille road hetweey Lots'S } i S2& 33, in the 3 Concession, and that Edward Bradshaw } ard John Cober be Commissioners to } expend the sane. Your Committee would recommend that | S. K. Bfown be Commissioner to let a job for repairing or building a bridge on | the Base Line in front of lot No 6. | Aud your Committee would recommend | tha payment of the following accounts, ) viz :--Newrick Wilson, for aid to Mrs. | Beaton, for selecting | jnrorg, (£10, ; and to each of the Returning officers, $4 ; and to Jobn Phillips Salery | as Inspector of license £20, Report received and adopted. Mr. Mid:r moy d that this Council do | | many more whb held on stubbornly till it | drifts that grew deeper at every step and | weary of the contest, and, | deserted by their masters are said by some broke over it like yeasty billows over a | wreck, and fax to leeward grew up drifts | {of eccentric form. Then the snorting | {horses that toiled, along pressing with | | their heaving flanks closer to each other for warmth and dumb protection and | sympathy, refused to go forward : the | driver felt himself becoming listless, his | cold limbs wdre growing and, warned of the SWIFT|CONING OF DEATH, he turned and retraced his steps. they who did [so betimes! warm, Happy 'There were was too late. There were many more who, goaded on by a|dreadful fear of the fate of their wives and little ones, left alone, in their frail citadels, forced on through the cold that became more intense every mom- ent. And thers were others who grew lying dvi in robes, were lulled by the elemental rage into a slumber which knew noawakening. Sometimes the horses gave ont, and the unhappy driver, benumbed and chiiled, his movements impeded by his heavy clothing, had to abandon his team and take to the drifts. The morns and shrieks of the horses that found themselves thus few who survived such scenes to have'been agonizing to hear. And at their homes things were no better. There was per- haps a scanty supply of fuel in the ¢orner realy capable of an act so revolting as the appropriation of a private note or part of a STRAYED! | note and its use for a political object. J And Mr. Ferguson's * Spittoon party" CE N10 JHE PREMISES OF became famous on every hustings during | Whitby, on or about the 1st day of : the lato elections. Yesterday, however, | THREE-YEAR-OLD Heres Ee Mr. Ferguson repudiated the original -- mat novia io cull. prove theft. It is true, a= was reminded "es 308. " the receiver ir as bad as the thief ;" but | East Whitby, Joh. 23rd, 157% a | connected: with educational advancement, | | and but a day's food in the larder. Night | trod closely on | the heels of noon. | Per- | haps the mother was alone with her suck- { ling child, her husband ten miles away in oae directior, her children two miles | away in another. These hapless parents emiently the teschus® Juin shay | A Barrister > defending an {anocont | ow adjourn, and, stand, Miourned il ent! e teache ournal, --it | Saturday, Ht} - object Leing to elevate the profession and | Judge. | y : excite a wider imterest in general educa- | "A Barrister " admits that a majority | tion. While its columns will be always | think that the sentence was too light; and | : i I el open to the discussion of any question |. goes on with, what we consider, very | : = | suffered countless deaths. The wooden poor arguments indsed ; as, for instance, | The Terrible Tempest in Minnescta. : | buildings creaked and char: et r will be advocated :--1. The in- | " What good is it egpected will bel obtain- rr || ROUEED IN THE SWING OF THE STORM. troduction of the representative element | ed by iuflicting punishment by imprison. | BABIES FROZEN STARK AT THEIR MOTHERS' The | timbers cracked DRIFPTS OF DEATH. the 'f lowing measures of a islative i like ships at sen. into tite Council of Public Instruction. 2. | ¥ it seems that Mr. Ferguson, although he admits that he was the "receiver," still | declares that he was not thé thief." It does not matter much what odium at- taches to the member for South Simeoe --he has been utterly repudiated by one constituency, and will never again seek the confidence of the one he yet repres- ents: Dut his leader is a man who still proclaims his personal honor upon the house-tops. _ And Mr. Matthews C. Cam- eron confesses it was he who appropriated the note on which *' speak now" was writ- ten. He admits now that his firststate- ment, or the inference he songht to es- tablish, was false. He acknowledges that the note in question was mot written before, but three days after Mr. Wood's resignation. And, justifying the use he made of the note or scrap of paper, Mr. Cameron argued that, no matter how vile, how dastardly, how criminal how dis- honorable, how immoral, might be the means used in obtaining it, so long as the évidence itself be true it is lawful and proper-to use it. Mr. Cameron saw the paper sent across the House; he, or some- | one on his behalf, watched its final des tination; it was immediately afterwards in his keeping, and used by him for a party purpose in assailing the character of the former colleazue. It did not need the series of vigorous castigations Mr. Cameron received from Mr. Wood, Mr. Bethine, Mr. Hodgins, Mr. Pardee and others, to eonvinee the country of the atrocious charactor of 'Mr. Cameron's shameless avowal. As the first-named | Insolvent Act of 18601 Thomas Rattray M y - y 'Marshall, Plaintiff, =. Robert Fitchett, Defendant. A FrIT OF ATTACHMENT issued in this cause. ; - NELSON G. REYNOLDS, ; Sheriff C.0, Sheriff"s Office, Whitby, Jan. 16th, 1873. A Medical Hall. 4 | WASTED, A "YOUNG MAN 10 | learn the Drug Business. by Apply at once te § Oshaws, Jan. 16th] 1673. : g Em. Servant Wanted. GOOD GENERAL SERVANT. LX Applyuto Oshawa, Jan. 16th, 1872. NOTICE! A PARTIES INDEBTED TO THE Subscriber will please call at the store of Mr. W. Dickie and settle their accounts. > GEORGE HODDER. Oshawa, Jan. Mth, 1873. 3 Mrs. W. H. Bennett, = MRS. 8. WOOD: [4 32 provides that .he hospital shall be for = the reception and treatment of males only. | Bection 13 prescribes the terms of admis- | { The establishment of Township Boards of | ment in any case," etc. Certainly, not | BREASTS--A LAND OF SNOW STREWN { with the frost like rifles. Beads of frost Council meeting on Monday night. Trustees. 3. The payment of Teachers' | Much good can be expected from the im- salaries quarterly. 4. The erection of a | prisomment in Fitzmaurice's case.| If no | THICKLY wIiTH CORPSES (Correspondence of the New York Herald.) stood on every piece of woodwerk, the small panes of glass were so thick with ice that there was no chance that the | ' il A Farewers Esq, M. P. P., will please sion--on the voluntary application of any 4 Br bone fide résident of the Province--such | *°°Pt our thanks for Parliamentary Teacher's residence in every School Sec- | good is to be expeeted from imprisonment | lamp set in the casement could send its | to steal slylv bshind a mans back and gentleman ramarked, "to following the piece of paper and appropriate it secretly, was neicicr more nor less criminal than kinds of Dress promptly attended to. For further apply at this office. Oshawa, Jan. |16th, 1873. ot "met to be detained for a longer period than two years. The superintedent' having power to discharge a patient at any time for any one of the following reasons :-- | That sack a person is cured ; or that he is | incerable ; or for being able to pay for his | maintainance fails te do 30; or having | been guilty of vicious eonduet prejudical to the good order and discipline of the hospital. The amount of piyment by those possessing property, sufficient to vay | for their support, is to be fixed for which | thee are two clauses. Provision is made | for the comunitwent of Labitual drunkards b7 the county judge, on pMiition under oath of any of the relations of such alleged | -drunkard, and en proof being furrighed that the party complained {against is so given over to drunk wm to d him unable to control himself and is in- capable of managing his affairs ; or squand. i ers or mismanages his property; or places | his family in danger or distress ; or trans- acts Lis business prejudical to the interest of his family or his creditors ; or uses in- toxicating liquors to such an extent as to mender him dangerous to himself or others; | er incurs the danger of mining his health | or shortening his life thereby. Power is | given ta the inspector to administer to the, sffairs of a patient, undoes certain vestrie- \ons, Such is the general outline, of the mea- ! ure proposed. It iss g t mea- | sure, and there is little doubt but what | this Inehriate Asylum Bill will soon be passed. Since we have not,and there is not much probablity of getting just yet, 'Pro. hibition," we gladly weliome this Act, givo.it our honest support, and view it as ene of the "morning stars" betokening the approach of; a blessed teruperance re- | volution and reformation for this Province, | This proposed Insbriate Asylum is not an | experiment. They exist in Great Britain znd the United States; and have been the t of plishing an told | amount of good. In Great Britain "the | average number of cures is stated to be | from 33 to 40 per cent. of the admissions, | the cures being as complete and per t | as in any other forms of disease mental or | physieal. Deunkenness isa disease, --and is eurablee The Select Committee of the | British House of Commons, after care- | ful and exhaustive investigation of the subject, sud after receiving evidence and information froni mere than thirty wit- nesses comprising eminent. physicians, ig- spectors of lunatics, managers of inebriate aaylagu, $1 utrence of all | I ere is entire conecu! she ra ihe absolute icadequaoy "of existing laws t> check drunkenness, whether casas! or gonstant, rendering it | esirabis that fresh legislation on this sub - | inst documents sent to us. Mg. Tampryy, head master of the Oshawa High School, will addrees the meeting on Sabbath afternoon next. Messrs. Marshall & Bescoby offer the highest cash price for any quantity of four- feet cordwood. Inquire at Neale' store, | Tuene will be ne meeting of the Oshawa Temple to-night, owing to the Temper. ance lecture by she Rev. J. in the Presbyterian Church. ts Tur annual anniversary in (connection with the Bible Christian Church of this | place will be held on the 9th and 10th of February, mext. Full particalars in bills. Reuruszz Wm. Dickiv's Auction Sale on day and M. y evenings, of Dry Goods, Clothirg, Boots and Shoes, Mink and other og Rak: Osmiwa Texrre visited Port Perry Temple on Tucsday evening last. There was a good time. The Port Perry brethern are expected to return fhe visit in the course of two or three weeks. Hopes' Hart has been | crowded | every night this week with | delighted | audiences. Reasong Martin, the Wizard has been exhibiting his wonderful fents | of legerdemain. He 'exhibits | to-night, | to-morrow afterncen and to-morrow night Don't fail to see him. Just War 18s WaNTED. By referring to our advertising columns it wii] tue scen | that Messrs. Marshail & Bescaby hace | started a Coal, Wood, Sali, Liu i Lumber yard in this place. When you | want a load of wood, coal, order at Mr. Neale's store, and if will punctually attended to, . Everyrarxa has boen arr holding of the Soiree im cis the C. P. Chureh" on Tho next. The Rv. F.Smith,of 5 veihans will deliver his celebrated 'ec' ire bin cial Talkers," Rev. JF. Tho «. if Perry; Rev. J. B. Edwinniser, Cf lamt and Rev. J. A. G. Caller, Oconp, the ministers cf the place, wi'l be fpr Tea at 6 o'clock. Admission 26:4). 3 sbim-------- Mzsszs. Alexander & Bryce jl op i their stack of new dry goods topo iw ths West end of Wilsons new © : nextdoor to W. Wigg & sous. | Their store is large, and thére will be ample ac- comodation for the crewda that are ex. pected tocall on thew. Dou'vfail to call and inspect the stock. : | | conntry, the publishers feel that any effort | Mattie May," and ** Give my Lowe to all at Tapon earth we might have around here if tion. 5 The appropriation by the Gov- ernwent toward the Superannuated Teach- ers' Fond of a snm equal to the contribu- tions of the Teachers. 6. The revision of | our School Readers and the addition to | each of a copious glossary containmg the meaning and pronounciation of all diffi- | cult words. Every measure that may tend to the efficiency of our Public Schools will 6nd in the Ontarig Teacher a hearty advo. cate. Believing the profession to be one of vital importance to the prosperity of the put forth to give weight, dignity and effici- ency to it will find its reflex in the general advancement and increased intelligence of all classes of the community. We have received the first number, published by Ross & McColl, Strathroy. It is credit- able and worthy of long life. We com- mend it to the hearty support of the Teachers inour Puhlie Schools--$§1.50 per annum, Perers Musrear. Movwrury, No 66, for February, comes promptly to 'hand, and is, as usual, overflowing with melody. This. magazine is furnished at the low price of §3 per year, and contains more music in a ae monthly nember than can be bought in sheet-form for double that sum, tains : " Owr Little Pet," a beautiful | ballad by the famous song-writer, Will Hays ; *' Gone to the Heavenly Garden," The number before us coun- | home * Two part Songs, *' Fold ie our Hands in Prayer" and '" Far fm my Thoughts." Together with the following Instrumental pieces : ""Clear the Track," Christ | jurors," ete. Just so; Hambly was sus. | | pected, arrested, tried, pronounced guilty in any case, why should the country be at | so great aa expense in building and keep- | ing np prisons of all kinds! "A Bar: | rister" must have a very poor case to de- | fend when he has to use such arguments as | these. Again. "A Barrister" says {-+-' Ex- | perience hasshown that certainty of pons. { ment has a greater effect in preventing | crime than the extent of punishment." | We beg to differ from "our learned | friend." If a man felt inclined to forge | another man's name to a check for $10,000 and the punishment for such a crime was | only six months in the common gaol | would he not be more apt to do it then | than if the punishment was to be ten or | twenty years in the penitentiary ? Again. "' Your accusation is, that he did not daro to inflict such a sentence upon the prisoner as was impozed lin the Hambly case. There was this difference, however ; in the latter of these cases, the prisoner was found guilty by twelve by twelve jurors, and sentenced by the Judge. Fitzmaurice was pfunounced guilty by fifteen men,--(the jury who sat at the investigation) --sent te Whitby, where he was tried before a Judge, and by this Judge again pronounced guilty, and sen- four hands, by Ed. St 3 Gift March," *' Sweet Thoughts," and * Silver Cloud Mazwrk1." As a trial Trip, the Piblisher offers to send, post-paid, three back numbers of MST2 for 60 cents, or six back humbers for $1. Send en your orders, and our word for it, you will get - ten times your money's worth of choice new music. Address, J. L. PETERS, 539 Broadway, New York. Correspondence, Vo the Editor of the Ontario Reformer : Dear Sin, -- What a little heaven some of our leading syirits (and some of ier fry as well) would decide to I the old man and follow the course loti by Mr. Goorgs Constable, of nto City, whose nave the daily Glube we 18th ipstant has placed so promi- y before the public. It appears this fontleman was overtaken by the mis- fortunes of 1363, and was obliged to com- promisy with his creditors, giving them forty cents in the dollar. As time rolled mand ever Lind Providence smiled wpon sul he in retarn'gladdened tha heart | creditors, by handing them an ad- wl sixty cents in the dollar with in- to date. Ah, Mr. Editor, if w conld have a communi'y made up of such van | am sacisfied that opium and other sleeping drugs would decrease in value at least five hundred per cent. Traly yours, '3 . . JUSTICE. Oshawa, Jan 20th, 1673. ° the si LN HE t 1 to three years in the penitentiary. A fearful (1) warning, is it not, to other | parties. If Judge Burnham had any doubts whatever as to the guilt of Fitzmaurice he should have given him the benefit of 'he doubt. Bat, he prononnced him guilty, and, as we said before, and as we | still think, a very unjust sentence was passed on Fitzmaurice. --Ebp.] Corvypus, Jan. 20th, 1873. The Council of the Township of Kast Whithy, for the present year (except Mr. Mothersill) met at noon on the 20th inst. | The members took and subscribed the | several declarations of qualilication and office before the Clerk. | The Reeve took the chair and addressed the Council. Petitions were received from Mr. Jthn McGill aud Mr. James Burns, each asking | to be appointed Assessor for the present | year. A claim for arrcars of School taxes on non-resident lands in Schoul Section No. 6, was presented. " | The Deputy Reeve and Clerk reported | that thoy had entered into contrnets far a quantity of cedar simber for the Township, all the notices and papers connected there- with were presented to the Council. A by-law was then passed appointing | Messrs. 8, Roberts arid W, H. Scott [| auditors for the present year. . On the motion of Mr. Luke, seconded i. by Mr. Lick, the Clerk was instructed [to , Swans that clanged ozerhead once or twice L | some of which had seriously blockaded p suffering from searcity of fel Winona, Minn., Jan. 18, 1873. While our Eastern world on the verge of the Gulf Stream has been lifting the hands of despair and voice of protest over a snowfall which made locomotion on foot vnplensant and hy horse cars impossible fcr a day or two, and while the whole eountry has been thrilling with horror at the incremasion ofa few hapless work- méh in a tinder hox; up here, on the shadeless.and shelterless prairies, " there hath been wrought a deed of dresdinl note." Human safering which parallels that endured by the fated Frankiin>has bien of hourly occurauce, and lives have been taken as freely as in battle, but with attendant circumstances infinitly more tragic than wait on the parting of the soul which is rent from the. mangled flesh by shot or steel. 1 was. in Minesota after the awful massacres of 'ten years ago, when the red wave of Indian invasion swept over the smiling land and left it A WASTE OF ASHES SOAKED WITH BLOOD ; but the scalping knife ard bullét of the Sioux did not do such havoc as the snows have wronzht this veag: nor were all the tort: res of the red fiendsjorcdu tive of more agony than | have witucesed with: in the last ten days. What has been suf- fered and and show many have been slain has not yet been ascertained, for the set- tlements are far apart and communication is difficult ; but by every mail come par- ticulars that ehill the blood, and we can now fairly 'estimate the extent of, the calamity, and inasmuch as the history of this memorable Polar wave must, in a large measure, be derived from local sources afd backwoods journals that never reach the Eastern reader or editor, it may not be labor wasted on the part of the Herald's correspondent to prepare a succinet and intelligible account of the sad affair, to which are added such personal passages as may be most worthy of pre- servation. a Up to that fatal Tuesday, at' whose mention many a heart shall ache in Minnesota for years to eome, there had been winter weather of the usual sort, clear, cold, with occasional storms of snow, indnced considerable The epi- zootic had for some time laid an. embargo on travel. Our great' Northwestern country must not be considered to be like Canada, a land of hills, and valleys, thick- | ly clad with pine forests. A great tablé- land, of considerable altitude, lying open to the winds,that sweep down from the Northern Sea at intervals, ICY'AS THE BREATH OF DEATH, with an occasional tree, a semi-oceasianal clump of trees, or astill rarer belt of forest along a water conrse, and an atinosphere dry and ware--such isethe Northwest. At is largely settled by immigrants from Scandinavia, poor and thirsty folk, whose wooden houses stand singly or in little hamlets, marking the prairie at every fow - miles. The country is fertila, * and |m summer siniles as the garden of the Lord ; but in winter it presents a bleak face of snow to a cloudless, blue sky. Tuesday, the 7th, was a lovely and mild day. The sun was bright and the air balmy. Every pulse of the country was the railroads and s feeble light $0 the belated stragglers without. Ft Was impossible to open the doors, so high had the drifts become. The fire grew low, though it was replen- ished with the scanty furniture. Day succeeded to darkness, tut the day was as the night. Only the chimney of the house appeared | above the drifts. The. poor woman knew that her children lay dead, hand in hand on the prairie, and and that her husband's corps was shme- where entombed |in- a giant drift. The httle baby's blue lips were laid against her empty breast; the soul had sped from between-them in a little clond of fro ea -vapcr. She lay down and died, and the relenting winds wafted through the apar- ture of the room| a decent drift of dia- mand snow for her winding sheet. These pictures, terrible as they may appear to the readers of the Herald who sit | by warm fires and find the music of the snow, as it tinkles against the glass, a musical and a cheerful sound, are less. than the reality. |The advance of death was like that of atortarer, whocomes with all his horrid engines to the victim bound a the stake. Only they were tobe envied who met a swifter fate in the raging storm without, and were spared the sight of their children dying before their eyes of hunger as well as of cold. ON THE. RAILROADS thére was not absolute suffering. Of cours trains were snowed in for days in drifts that towered to the telegraph wire, and passengers had to shiver and be scantily fed. But this was only a trifle. When Friday the 10th came, the sun rose upon a land of snow and silence. Drifts many feet deep and many square miles in extent were there. Nee and there the chimney of a house stocd up like a tombstone in a vast cemetery. The land | lay like a corpse under a winding-shect that had moulded itself into occasional | wrinkles over the dead limbs or set fea- | tures. Now came the giant labor of clear- | ing away the giant drifts and setting free the imprisoned trains, and the sadder task | of tracing through the prairies the steps of | the dead. * Everywhere they were found | lying still and sfatute-like in | THE ICE EMBRACE OF DEATH. Sometimes the searchers would find man and horses together, the former lying dead wrapped in his thbes with the whip in his hand, in the sl high, one horse down, the other standipg on the spot where he was fastened by his partner's fall till he shared his fate. Sometimes the sleigh was found overturned, with the traces cut. Then to right er left would be discovered the driver, who had wandered round in a pairing circle to die. Occasionally the asts showed in there dilated nostrils, widely spread lips and staring. eyes the | sign of mortal terror, And the men, too, were sometimes Laacoons of ice statues | of writhing despair. | But, as a rule, death | came quietly, as it generally does in these | cases, first robbing the victim of conscions- | ness of approaching death which begets an agonized struggle for life, and stilling him with a stupor said to|to be as delicious as | it is deadly. : | : THE DEATH ROLL | | cannot yet be made up with any reagon-, astir nnder the genial influence and wild able degree of | certainty. We are only now getting detailed reports' from the 'double barrelled gun and fetch it to him, | porter says they didn't talk mach on the steal his handkerchief." 'FOR SALE, HOUSE, BARN, STABLE, AND TEN A Surprise Party that was not a . Success. : ACRES of LAND. situated The following came to us from Monday's Guelph Herald, and we give it as we find it: One night last week ten Fergus couples with heads fullof fun and baskets full of fodce", drove over to Elora to *' surprise" a friend. They hadn't the leastdoubt of a cordial welcome, and they expected to wile awdy a good many hours, with the help of a fiddle or two, ag thn hospitable mansion of the Eloraite. They arrived there in good time, and burst in upon the peaceful family, laughing and shouting in the greatest glee. The provisions were dump- ed upon the table; overcoats and shawls and furs and gloves were thrown off at random snd without hesitation ; the fid dlers unboxed their instruments and began totune up. By this tite the party began to give somo attention to the master of the house. He was completely surprised, but only for a few moments, and 'then he was ready for emi. He enquired if they hadn't made a mistake, and got into the wron pew. He was answered that the cheerful occasion was intended for his benefit, and that the party expected to stay a while with him. They said this smilingly, ex- pecting to win over the old gent into wel- son. East Whitby, a RAM LA coming them. He called out to one of his | Jnq Fran Sul rave property, pay sons to put four-finger charges into his | 32-3w G. H. GRIERSON.. WESTWARD! HO} Farm for Salo in Grundy Go, Iowa. EO Tn som. ere is thereon a you! " n one mises there is a brick yard of first class 5, Terms liberal, &e. JOHN MAY. - Oshawa, Jan. 16th, 1873. wiwal Insolvent Act of 1869! In the matter of WILLIAM SHAW, es Insolvent. I THE UNDEBSIGNED THOMAS G. AWTHORN, of the Mags of Osha = . the County of Ontario, have Be cin Assignee in this matter. Creditors are requested to file their claims lore me within one month. ~ THOMAS G. HAWTHORN, Assignee, Oshawa, January 30th, A. D. 1873. : N.B.-- All ies indebted t Estate the said WILLTAM SHAW a a ed to up the same within one month, vise they will be placed in suit. - 422w THOMAS G. HAWTHORN, Assignee. "STRAYED. AME INTO THE PREMISES OF Subscriber, south half of Lot No. 10, &d LAMB, The owner '" and let the dog in out o' the wood-shed when I get ready to shoot." The old man's ire was up, and there was * busi- won in hiseye. The. lady of the honse reached the mop from behind the cellar ~ ARB door, AD on the fiddlers if they 1 0 PcRES, 70 OF WHICH whole '" highly valued them instruments." The | farm fenced, good house, and stable on the \ party begin to think they were getting too | Jijes. Possession at Any tile before ai " warm" a' welcome, and slid on their | buy and settle on it. y $1000 cash, balance is cloaks and overeoats as nimbly as if the | ten equal | instalments with & at. ; house was on fire. The genial farmer told G. FAREWELL, Oshaws, them not to hurry, as he'd have the other | January 29th, 1872, i . = twp barrel loaded in a minute, and then he'd NEW C OAL : help em off. { 34 didn't wait. They said aD. WOOD YARD they had deci not to have it here, and IN OSHAWA. | might just as well leave them as to stay longer, and so they rushed away. Our re- HE SUBSCRIBERS BEG TO IN M the inhabitants of Oshawa QUEEN VICTORIA sent a gold spitoon to | oi FOR ard for the King of Siam, who uses it on State | Saleaf" >t they have opened a y : occasions for an oyster tureen. } A stone which marks a little grave in the midst of a Western prairie, bears the single word * Polecatscentedem." A man had buried his clothes there. { CHRISTMAS day the new Lord Mayor of London sat down to dinner with 186 rela- tives, and none of tiem poor. A riveky little lady in Titusville, Penn. seized a burglar by the beard in her hous i Woon's Old Hotel. e on Saturday night and so as- tonished him that he fled precipitately-- ALL ORDERS LEFT AT and then she fainted. | MR. NEALES STORE, Si St, Mr. Reed, White Creek," Wisconsin, Will be punctually attended to.. ek his son, twelve years of age to eliver a letter to a lady. The little Marshall & Bescoby- price paid in cash fb fellowgot it soiled,and dreading to deliver M80 way home. The ladiessaid " it was men," and the men said " dammim," which is Hebrew for ghe same thing. SALT, LIME, : LUMBER,ETC, ON THE SITE OF it tore it up. Then fearing punishment, - be took off his hat -and mittens. and de- | Four get Cord Wo liberately jumped into the fiver and drowned Himself. O:haws, Jan. 34h, 187%: H WOOD, COAL,