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7.7 Atnthe beginning of last mm‘ntli epopnlat-ion of Memphis was between 000 and 65,000, «'but now it dons not med 3,000 whites and about 12,000l gured people. Very many have left ' risky to es'cape the plague, but vest bars have been stricken down ere 'uld do so, while many more are "O destibution that ~they cannot ‘ir may oue'of [the city. The \“PP‘V silent and deserted fvom ‘ WW0" fight, save by the waggona ‘ The ‘oorps hurrying swiftly bodiapeuK-‘ghufly freight. It is I 'TIptcrgrove,“ to .m ,twengy of .1 .lodgors,‘of A\ | Donald, of Com ---------------- I, l for £116 present week the mo» .ty has not fallen “short of 2001):: PM Dominion. The ' immense public Forks and other responsibilities reaming ipon 'tlie country require men of reaSOn Ind gooiI common sense to manage and levelop'them to the best advantage.â€" l‘lmse are'tlie-men that Canada is most It need of to-duy. We would ask our *eaders to carefully study their camli ‘ tea and tlreirzcapacities, and give the at man-«the -or.e likely to do them (l-tl':e benefit of their votes. he present state of Dominiun‘politica it comes the people to give the matter kareful thought; mud use the sacred British subjects in the franchise, in a ‘ighfa which are bestowed upon 4.1mm s gnreful and conscientious manner.~â€" Party should be no object at a time like this, duty to Olll‘ country should be the fil‘st'comideration. and in no way can we show it so fuvombly (w by electing l representative above the paltry party Feelings of the day, and who would do Iis utmost to further the prosperity of litics.. Standing as We are on the eve f a general election everyone is inter~ sted in the issue. The contest, We are orced to say, will he a purely party [)0 and will be fiercely contested. Al- 7 the country is filled with speak» 8, defending the interests of their reâ€" pectivepsrties, and stoutly denouncing and often alsndering those in opposition 0 them. In the midst of all this the Freat object of the-election is lost sight 9- f‘, namely to choose the best men. It l 3 wrong to elect amen who is totally . lmfit for the position merely because he ‘ happens to belong to a certain party. A man who has not the interests of the bOnstituency he wishes to represent at heart is no fit person to represent them it the Pnnliamont of the country. Alt At the present time there is nothing In which so deep an interest. is taken as ’ Nozth Victorih-â€"James Maciennan, Refotm; Hector Cameron, Conservative. x South Victoriuâ€" John Connolly, Be- :onn'; Arthur McQuade, Conservative. LNorth Ontario-Gemge \Vheler, Re- rm; W. H. Gibbs, Conservative. South Ontarioâ€"F. W. Glen, Reform; Hon. T. N. Gibbs, Conservative. RI THE SOUTHERN PLAGUE. caribibfiséToa ELEFaniI 0‘“ W001) nabs. SEPT. 15, ms H .Pro Bono Publiao." {Advoeatoa POLITICS. Exmnsxon or am: “NmsmNG.-â€"At a meeting oftlie'Connty Council ol Hali. burton held on the 281%] ult.. u petition requesting the Council (to submit a by- law granting nid rto'tho Nipissing Rail- ioad on extension to Minden was laid before it, and the motion carried unan- imously. The people favor the project and the bynlaw will be voted on as soon .u legally ‘pnctioablo. a Tm: M'IDLKND RAILWAY.â€"-â€"-.\Ii; A. Huge], sent in his resignation as presi- dent (If the Midland Railway, last Fri~ day. A special meeting of the Bnaui was held, when M120. A. Cox, 0! Pat- orhoro’, was elected ’Presidanc, and Mr. Charles Percy, Mnnngm'. i; fever, and the more violent symptoms ; I in other cases, however, the patient 8 - - . m complains of no clull, but .only a slight l d pull) 1n the back part or side of the head, _ in half an hour he is delirious, and of- “ ten in five hours more he is a. corpse. n- The body, instead of turning yellow L _ afterrdeath as in ordinary cases, heâ€" m comes spotted and «very dark, as if cow. 1) l ered with severe '-bruises,-that portion; of the slain not coVered with spots be. inguof :a very dark yellow. Old and ' experienced physicians any that this plague has veny many of the characteru i . istics of the ordinary yellow fever, the ' East Indian jungle fever, and that ter~ 1" rible disease known in the swampy and f. malarious sections of the Lower Mississ- 1 ippi as black jaundice. A telegram _ was sent from Memphis to ‘Iyr. \Vood~ f ward at Washington asking him to send down a 'force of scientific men to make investigations and experiments for the punpose of learning, if possible, how to cope with the plague; but at the , time Mafior 'Rhea and Capt. McDermott 4 left Memphis nothing had resulted from the message. 'Calomel and'quinine used in extraordinary doses appear to be about the best remedies yet discovered, but even where this is used it is only in exceptional cases that the patient re- covers. In 'the meantime the state of affairs in Memphis is most deplorable. Refugees from the city have carried the . disease into the suburbs and neighbour- 7mg towns, and ail these places have to draw their supplies of medicine, food, and other necessaries from Memphis. The city papers are all more or less crippled by the ravages of the plague, and one is suspended altogether. The plague has gone out of *the city along the railways and turnpikes, as well as by the great valley of the Mississippi. In former years the small towns all escaped a visitation; but now, not only townsand villages, but isolated farm houses are raviahed by the plague.â€" About eight miles south of the city a large encampment of 3.000 indigent “ people was established by the Relief on Committee. Since its establishment, m however, the fever has ”broken out in it, and what is to become of the unfortun- atcs huddled together there, sick, dying and lying unburied, no one can tell. Valley of the Mississippi can be real yellow femr after all. The best physi~ cians in Memphis, New Orleans, and other cities it has ravaged, say that it is in many respects unlike any type of yellow fever that has ever come under their notice. Fully eighty per cent. of those attacked by it die within a few darya, while many do not live more than six hours from the time of the first pro- monitory symptoms. At times it hex gins with a slight chill, which is gone. rally followed some hours later with ~ It Is doubted by many if the acoulge now canying misely and death up the ‘T 1". to the cemetery, where they frequently have to lie awaiting their turn for burial till the stench arising from them is n - [willingly sickening. These are t e only vehicles in the street, and they go from door to door like milk waggons, the drivefh halting at every house with the horrible cry, “ Bring out your dead." if no answer comes the mem- bers of the burial corps open the door, when it is not unusual to iind a whole family lying dead in the house, with not One left to tell the pitiful story 0! how unaided they sunk one by one, the dying beside the dead, till only a few brief days had changed at cheerful hep, py home to a horrid charnel-house, T cumbered with corpses decomposed past recognition Until about two weeks ago the plague was not known to attack the negroes exceptin very rare instances. The visitations of ’67 and ’73 scarcely effected this portion of the population, and they made useful nurses, butynow the horrible disease rages amongst blacks and whites with equal virulence. .Among the more ignorant of the ne~ groes it is almost impossible to induce them to do anything for the suffering-of their own race. They will nurse white men through the fave: to death or con- vnlescence, but they will shun n plague- smitten negro on they would u poison~ ous reptile, and it seems to he almost impossible to cure the more ignorant among them (which there constitute by far the greater part of the colored popu' lation) of this absurd and unnatural prejudice. the” wuggonu in a “ring, «oh bearing {my eight to fourteen owned ~boJiu 'We have got rid of mnd~dog scare, and of the cab strike. Only ten days ago, any dog found umnuzzled Would be heated as the Russians and Bulgarian christians do the Turks; now a law menuces with sack and cord any dog found with muzzle. The cab men un- ahle to suggest any practical way of controlling ttbeir earnings, other than that in vogue by the companies that employ them, have had to knuckle down; the decision was rendered more prompt , as there were supplies of young men ‘ from the country rapidly filling up the ' A000 vacancies. The horses under the cabs want not so much more food, as mere repose. The public was ignored in the dispute-â€"only good for fleecings. Few collections amongst those which are now arranged on the Champ do “are are so interesting as the Japanese, and the reason, is, probably, the curious combination of Oriental charactesietics and Western enterprise and energy which distinguishes the nohjects d‘ the Mikado. During thetlast few yeam‘the advance and progress of no peoIie have been watched with so much attention in Europe, and the indefatigable energy 1 which the Japanese have displayed in I their competitions at mniversal exhihiu ' tions has peculiarly made them a centre i 1 ofiuterest at such gatherings. Their 1 section in Paris is always a lively spot, C and is daily tln-ongw‘l w'it'h 'Vitfitt)r8,\\’ilo t are always delightefi. sometimes even a amazed. The first lie thattis reached, '1 upon passing throu the portion. con" tains on the right uh exhibition of silks ores, though all they sought was gold and silver. ll‘ho show of wheat; and borley, of beans, pens, .o., of textile, and color plants, is excellent ; but. what a miserable exhibit of wool ; Spain, that supplied France, Saxony, England, the Caps and Australia, With merino», has only a single case of wool exposed. Spanish sheep LhriVe overywhevo but. in Spain. ""J -‘vvv-v\- “I, as the Crown diamonds, and that an anti-tobacconist might be forgiven for tasting. in the annex beside Monaco, Spain has a nick display of minerals. of iron, lead, tin,‘copper, and also of coals. [n (his réspeoc sllnleflx'ecalls the fat col- lections of the Australian colonies. The ancients attes_b_ Spain was famous for The remark is common, that if (yes desire to judge .Spaiu, content yourself with a visit to the, agricultural shunt , beside the Monaco Kiosque. Spain has nothing to show under the glass roof of the Champ de Mars, in an industrial point of View; her picture section is ex- ceptionally good, but this artistic talent is nowhere to be found in her industry save the beautifully designed and print-'- ed cottons of Barcelona, which with the splendid cloths from Verviers, in the Belgian section, are worthy the seriom attention of all cotton and woollen lords. Catalonia is the Lancashire of. Spain, and were it not tor her monopolies or prohibitions, Spain might here compete with any country. Monopolies have been the curse and the ruin of Spain ; i the mother-country went so far as to prohibit her own colonists from cultia vnting or manufacturing anything that would damage the home trade. It is thus that at one time Spain forced her Indian subjects to dress in silks, when they preferred matting, and to ornament their cabins with mirrors, to force a consumption of goods; though they used no snufl‘, she compelled them not the ‘ less to buy tobacco-boxes ; though they ‘ had no beards, the Indians had to pnr~ rehase razors. Under the influence of want the beards ought to have grown, according to the Darwinian theory.â€"â€"- .Spaiu displays splendid cannons, and other weapons ; the msnihin models of soldiers" costumes have a ginger~breud air, but oh, the naked-beauties of her Havanavcigars, as carefully locked up A- AL- 1“. Ham M t’ Arusztss, Paris, August 23, 1878. j ‘ Qpinion is here half engry at Austria having bungled the Bosnian occupation. She dilly~dallied after the Congress, with Turkey, instead of displaying 1: Cyprus alsouty to enter with posss8~ sion. Austria must do for European, What England has undertaken for Asia- tic Turkeyâ€"uooldly confront Russia ; say plainly, “ hitherto shall thou come, but no fartherg” she aims at two im- possibilities :: to suppress the Slave agi- tation and remain on good terms with Russia, At home politics are as dull as ditch Water; the cabinet has fortified itself by some recent judicial changes 1 which will lesson the number of the Republic’s enemies, on and about the Bench. The axe, however, must still be laid to the root of the tree. Mme. ‘ 'l‘hiors is making extensive preparations that the anniversary of her husband’s death shall be litly honored, asuuutone- ment for the miserable conduct of the coalition cabinet last year-at his funeral. Notre Dame will be too small to accom- modate his friends on the 3rd of Sept, and the Liberals intend to honour that date, as the Legitimists and Bonapsrtists do the mortuary annivemaries of Louis: XVI. and Napoleon III. But what a.’ difference. . '8 3‘3”. The general inspection will take 1plmm on the camp grmm 1: tomorrow, We: nesdny, when a large crowd of apectatnrs is expected. The camp wln'brelk up on'Thnrsday. vvvvvvv vuuvw Ill uuv Unlllll. leFe in; {Promenade Concert iven m the Drill She Monday outing, for l; 1e bene- fit of the Run , but it was not '0 well attend. cd_n_a it should have been. The weather since we came into camp wheat 1'. nonld not have been muro favorable. No PPM“ 0‘ 1 min, but on the contrary very ‘hot with 000] Several evenings. There is no sickness in the camp. éfoom for Thom: an. ‘ h--...---.I_ r. , . I must say here that the bread supplied by Mr. Fee. lmker. Lindsay. is oVerythinq that could he desired; M also the beef. which is sent up every morning by Mt. Sawey. 'I‘lie rations are the boat ever served to this But.» tallion; and the Quarter-Masher, Mr. H nglws of Lindsay. is a general favorite. M he sorvos all the c mummies «like. not making “ flash of one and fowl of another,” as is too often the case. Today: Tuesday, the Bdttdllion marches to the Union Sclnul ground for Grill, and at 1 o‘clock they have) an exoursinn on board the steamer Guiana to Sturgeon Point to me the great onramnn. Monday the Lindsay company marched to the targets for ball practicw. as they wore the only company served with ammunition. The other companies did Baflnlliun drill at tthtgmp. _ ‘ 8mm. In. anxsox. Linda”, qut. ”mam. . .. ..... unusuvu ‘10] â€"which is Well knowu by the Battallion~ expressed himself highly pleased with the way the men drilled, and told them he had seen Guards drill better, but before he was done with them he would make them lit for any active service. In the eVening the Col. treated the whole of the camp, which was well responded to, some of the men drinking the gallant Colonel’s health more than once. Saturday morning the men were at their places sharp on time and put in an hour’s Company drill, under their commandin‘ ser eants. At 10 o'clock the bugle sounded for attallion drill, when they went through ‘ forming equam and skirmishing with a ven- ‘ geance, every man striving to do his be t. the ground is very unlevel and not fit for drilling on, but the men did remarkably well. ‘In the afternoon the men were fur- nished with fifteen rounds of blank ammuni. tion, and marched to the' town. headed Ly the Band. The line of March was along \Villiam to Cambridge Street thence along Kent Street to the Union School ground. where they went through Battallion drill and a sham light. before a large crowd of epectators. They were then formed into quarter columns. with the hand in front, and ‘ a picture taken by Mr. Johnson. photogra- pher. Then back through the Town to camp in time for tea which they had a pretty good relish for. On Sunday. the Battallion paraded for Church. at 10.30, making a vorv brilliat ap- pearance. Headed by the Band they pro- ceeded to the English Church. where the Rev. Mr. Smithctt preached an excellent sermon. In the afternoon a large crowd of visitors camp up to the camp ground. where thev wore entertained by excellent music by the Band. .---- .â€".--u v vulvulua The principal drill for the first three days was Company drill, by the respective oflicere. We have one hour’s drill in the morning. commencing at half-pest six; then breakfast; armle from H) to 12 o'clock; then .diuner, allowed by two hours fun, and drill ’egain from 3 till 5. when the men get their tea, and do as they like afterwards; the time be- in spent in shorts, and the Band playing. Al seem to enjoy themselves. Friday, at 10 o’clock. the camp went into Battallion (lrill nn ler the command of Col. Deacon, who put them through pretty lively for about two hours ; and the same in the at 1 tcmoom Alter the nfte noon drill wnsi through, the Colonel. in his "If-hamlet}. way } â€"wl|inh in urn" Ln“..._ I.-- u, A gamde from H) to 12 o'clock; allowed by two hours fun, tum from 3 till 5. when the men g and do as they like afterwards in spent in agorts', and-the] Al fin-.. LA -â€" w w. -.. vv‘l Ul‘I'Jln .. v '0 D Officers in camp :-Lieut.-Col.‘\ Deacon, Lindsay; Cnpt.Cottiugham and Lient. Evans, Omemee; Capt. Hughes, Cart night; Capt. Thirkell, Lindsay. Total strength in camp, including band: 30 nun and 5 officers. - (Com'eepomlence of The Advocate.) The annual drill of thewth Batt. corn- menced on Wednesday lest. Three cengpen- ies put in an appearence-0ertwight, Ome- mee and Lindsay. The ground selected for the comp is situated north of the Town. close to the river. where their is plenty of water, which is one of the principal necessaries for camp life. After everything seemed to be in readiness, and the men assembled at the Drill Shed, it Was found that no camp equi- page had been sent from headquarters, owing to the neglect of Col. Cnbitt in not transmit- ting the required requisition to the proper authorities, M furnished him by Llelll‘uâ€"COl. Deacon. The consequence was no tents. Nevertheless the olicers concluded to go on with the drill, and the first night all the l men slept in the Drill Shed, where they were provided with blankets and overcoats, and put in a lively time. Thursday things were getting more into shape. Lumber was sent to the camp ground and men told out to build shantiee. By night everything was in good order. A\le-,,. very well known. Its history is traced as for back as the third century, and it has often been made the subject of pro tective legislation by the advisers ol' the Mikado. The goods of the old and rich firm of Mitsui, of Tokis. principally «to tract attention by their beauty and dur- ‘ ability. Being little charged with ool~ oring matter, it is claimed for them that they will no: grease in use; their put~ terns and dyes are tasteful, and their prices are low enough to make them powerful competitors with the products of Lyons factories. The dyed staffs are also very beautiful, the patterns exhibit a rich boldness of execution, and the details are finished with such delicacy that they appear as it' painted by hand. The goods to which I am alluding ure not made a la piece, but in the shape of long shawls for women, or squares to serve as ornamental coverings for pre- sents. T‘m‘m" -â€".. o a 'm 7'“ .305! «Main.J The anthmty of the sill: luv.“ "WWI? “WWII. u.) "my I: spun would alone be sufii- . . "“" ganc'ftl'altfa“ iiu itqaporunoo were the D6233" 3:33:11: 3"! 0“ Alisa“. A. amou utu o in manila not no " . ° . "”n ‘ ‘ very well known. It. biuory in traced fimutf':t 1‘!" “mm“ '0'“ '"d uppmvod :1- l'nn: buolr u the third century, and it. am y 3" édmt T‘E‘M’dml by M'- ‘l_._l_ Al ,A A‘ n m 0AM? A? LINDSAY. Battallion-Z- a ' for pro- LIONEL. Om- vilage has been, with the exception vcf alight disturbances, unusually quiet this -aummer. No doubt this is owing: m a grout ; measure to tho gnod order 3nd strict mica ' (if our Imte‘l kqopers. Tho comang'fim show as 0 interest imthm ugiighbonthood. Several farmer: have thrashed to main :toom for .tho overflowing abundance, and have no reason to com lam of the ‘proouods. but people are not at" yutiafied and com- :plaints are general. «From our own Correspondent.) Business rather dull in this vicinity this moason, although farmers are busy harvosto ing. Grain prospects are not so flattering on (they were some weeks ago, but We believe wheat is much better here than in many mart: of .1110 country. Moved by Mr. Broad, seconded by Mr. Mark, that this council adjuurntomeot on the 30th September. Carried. Jonx F. Commas, Clerk. Moved by Mr. Broad, seconded hy Mr. Adam, that the Reeve give his order on thc Treasurer in favor of the following indigom persons. John Rodd, 8‘2 ; Mrs. Swot-thud, 32 ; Richard Lowes, in care of R. Irwin, .4. Carried. , -v, u. ”Lu-«u ouuuun 1‘0. 0. U100; fifiion $283.51 Section, No. 1, Eldon and M ari posa. 3273 ; School Section No. 12,8630 also on the Mnnicipofity of whinyipqu for ”LA. Cl..L...J _,_, A-.. ‘ ' Moved by Mr. Lownabrongll, seconded by Mr. Mmrk, that the Clark place on the Collector’s Roll the following sums to he collected for school rposcs: School Sec~ tion No. 3. the mm 836') ; School Section No. 18, $30!) : School Suction No. 5. 8460 : Movéd byVME "AERHJ'IQESSZ’M by Mr. Lownsbrough, that By-lnw N o. 229 be now read a third time and puaed. Carried. . By-law No. 229 now read a third time And payed. r nownsbrough. that By-lavr No. 228 be now read a third time and passed. Carried. Bylaw No. 228 read a third tlme sud passed Mowed by Mr. Broad, seconded by Mr. Mark, that By-luw No. 229 be now and i first time. Curied. By~lnw No. 229 road a first time. Moved by Mr. Mark seconded by Mr. Broad that By-law No. 229 he now [read a second time in committee of the whole: Carried. Council Went into committee thereon, Mr. Adam in the chitin Committee rose and reported By-lnw No. 229 to pug without amendments. Council Went into committee than Blond in the chair. . _,.‘.. fl Colnmittfieurosé mid roported’fiiu} 223_bo p33; without amendments. .--.._..-u Movéd by will”, ”Eda: by Mr. Lownsbroug that @y-lavr‘No. 228 be now n...) - LL2._,I L3 V 7-..- --â€" wmvuunuvllvn. Moved by Mr. Lownabrougb. seconded by Mr. Broad, that By-law No. 227 be now read a third time and passed. Carriod. ., By~law No. 227 read 3 third time sud passed. ' Momd by Mr. Mark, seconded by Mr. Broad, than By-law No. 228 be now read a first time. Carried. Byelaw No. 2'28 read a. first time. Moved by Mr. Broad, seconded by Mr. Lowusbrough. that By-law No. 2'28 be mw readasecoud time in committee of tho whole. Carried. -.â€"_. --v Avon: a 51 time in committee of the whole. Carri Council Went into committee then-«onJ Mark in the chair: Committee rose and [sported By-lav 227 to pass withoutgmendmeuts. Moved by Mr. Adam, seconded by Mr. Broad, that By-law No. 227 being a By-lnw to provide for the closing of a certain part of the side line now travelled, between lots 15 and 16, in the l5tli Concession of the Township of Mariposa,and opening the name on the original allowance for road, be now read a first time. Carried. By-law No. 227 read a first time. Moved by Mr. Mark, seconded by Mr. Adorn, that Byjlaw 139.227. be rem! a second ‘Movcd by Mr. Broad, seconded by Mr. Mark, that By-iaw No. 226, being a Byolnw [hr the purpose of raising the sum of 314,. 631.50 be now read a first time. Carried.- .- By~law No. 226 read a first time. Moved. by Mr. Broad, seconded by Mr. Mark. Ot'lhait Byolnw N o. 226 lie road a seuoiid time in committee of the whole. Carried. Council went into committee thereon, Mr. Lownabrongh in the chaiv. Uommittao rose and reported By-iaw No. 226 be ‘uow read It third time and passeti. Carried. Bylaw N0. 226 wall a‘ third time and. passed. I Moved by Mr. Mark, ' amended by Mr. Lownsbrough, that the petition of J. Weldon and eighteen others be recoiVed, and that Mr. McIntyre be instructed to defuml the action taken to clone curtain streets in tho Viilago of Oakwood, against the interest of said petitioners and this Municipality. Untied. drain in accordenoe with the plans and specification; dram: by Mr. M. Demo. ML, 8., be accepted, and tint William Jock. Dina: Olouglim and Alex. Ross be accepted an auction, and tint Maura. McIntyre Whiteaide be instructed to draw up the agreement for the completion of the work in accordance with the plans. And that the Reeve and Clerk be and are hereby author izul to execute the said agreement on behalf of the Municipality. Carried. Mark, that thovtondor of M}. film; Gimloyrfor the construction: of Goose GLENARM. ‘uciting muck Carried. Jaw} Bro: law No. r. m, M I, Air. M00