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ae a gh 550s En a = Er ------ a me pte' - "-~ Sf EL 158 2388588 LL A inch guage, therely involving a direct los" '0 the country of §1,000,000, solely for the purpose of ratifying theif ows wilful stinacy. That the country should be bled to the tune of nine or ten millions of Jdols lars for the purpose of gratifying the obs stinacy of theso unifed progréssionists, is a burhipg shame; ho while system of their railway policy is as rotten as can well be conceived ; look st their fudgeliing and fiddleing in reference to .delaying the progress into the investigation of the Pacis fic railway scandal, and ask yourself the question, is this the course that innocent men would pursue ugder such a grave ac- cusation 1 "In this miter, wo doubt not, there will ba brought to light, cireum- stances that will make the most hardent criminal stand aghast, : HER --- - _-- hi -- + Grand T Time Table. OPHWA STATION. Z08 HAWA TIME. QOING hs 1 Sm. 2.5% p.m 7.10 p.m. i WHITBY STATION. Trains going East loave Whitly Station ten nates catlior, and those going West fifteen antes later than the above. --- "REFORM MADE EASY" "As stated nt the close of our last week's examination of the article in the Mail of : OANAWA i ---- GOING EAST. GOING WEST, The Northen malls are closed immediately' forthe The Tagiah mint], via. Quebec, Is closed at 7.30 slased at 13.3 o'clock every Tuesday and Friday. the 2nd instant, under the above caption, Ti The mallsare closed at thisoftice, by Post Office Momning mak, 10 Morning mail, 7.00 wl of the Train from the West, at Solorhan Thar y Evening. andvia. New York Regist Letter should be Mailed 15 minutes Ime as follows: Rvening ma . | Evening mail, 8.00 Wa m, y, Sundays excepted. vening. ; The Mail for Enfield, Foley, and Taunton, is before the hour of closing & mail. Perr gt OFFICE HOURS. From 8 o'clock a. m. until | ip m Outnis Reformer, + AN WWWYL AVAL AABALLAAL LWA, Oshawa, Wedresday, May 14, 1873. THE PARTY OF UNION AND PRO- PARTY Coniss. : we shall this week consider the Tth, Sth, Oth, and 10th allegations of the said ar ticle. Seventh The Mailsays "Sir John Mac- donald has reduced the Dominiun expen- diture for the year." From the recent discussion between the lobe and Mail upon the subject of the Dominion expenditure; we suppose the Mail in this proposilion" has reference to | the year's exponditard which wll end on {IEFERLE "direction of the Government, for the con- | LEE Fo Ih FIR wil ha if. & 1; Li { the 30th day of June, 1873, and ¢» the es- | timated expenditure for 18734 to end on | tha 30th June, 1874. "That this party dre united in plundering the country and that they have made con- A a Se. gress, ay Bo seus inuthei | - Im replying to the strictures cf the Globe polieyin hel en lomiakaailw | upon the Dominion expenditure, the Mui! shofes of soute af | a as Tal a | of the 2nd inst. admits the ease against it, M will be Feuelesed t ¥ " *® | and as its testimony ought to b# satisfac. History of the date oh a A | tory to itself, we call the first wituess to Pareed a pe and | disprove its seventh allegation. In that commisionc struction of, this railway. The act also { . provided specially the method upon which | Whe euntricts for in castsuetion sheild be the enormous sam of $£31,008.423, and et by the commissioners ; the commission- : ers, as will_be, seen, are thus completely | "unier the control of the Government. The object of this was, if any dirty transactions took place, the Government could shuffle | out of the disgrace and saddle it upon the commissioners, whose masters they were. Aftér this comes the choice of the route, | chargeable against revenue of $4085] that the Government were divided in opin- | ion upon this question admits of no doubt, but instead of carrying out their honest | "convictions of what they thonght to be right, they yielded to the political exigen- | «les of the hour, and consequently had to ination. of thei ) ; ai nt a. | The rh td the io an whd pe | of tie ordinary expenditure of the Domin- = hed than he a" ag oy Shi Geol: | ion having increased seven and a half mil- Son, amarding dy ' ye © pr a lions of dollars in seven years. It us quite pp Wf Sus a Ty | true that the ordinary expenditures of the MecDo 38, they managed 1othiew ora | Ottawa Government have largely increased oo ju he soa. The Srilchde o* in gen | but it must be borne ia mind that we have 4 J dnl ust he ws i era | two Provinces more. apon the Govern- ho ee gr | Te ge. In consequence a EE arm had been a large inerense in the ordinary travelling frow dle western to the eastern | e-penditure of the Dowision. y end of fhe Dominion could reach their | be suid that in the Mail allegation No. 7 d stiration by travelling apon' another the intention was to include in the state- Tine, which trawereed partly a foreign coun- | ment, uot only the ordinary expinliturey try in Tess time:fhan they could hy taking | but the expenditure forall purposes. Asi this mischosen route. This shows the | 8 admitted thera wag a large increase in necessity of a Hhoveuzh survey being made | the ordinary expenditure, it is but fair to before the contracts were let, had this | conclude the eatire. espendifure for the been dome, the disastrcns results above | year, was intended. Let us see how the | alluded to might have been av ided. The | entire account stands. - The published es- chief eungineer remesistrated time and again | timates for *he year ending the 30th June upon this point, bat his remonstrances | 1673, show the contemplated disburse- were unheeded, and the. result was, that | ents to be $31,050,173, while those for they went it blind from tho beginning; : the year cnding the 20th June 1874, are the system upon which this road was eon. $31,008,4%4, less for the year, to the structed, was ons that was continually in- | amount of $11,748." Deduct this balance volving the engineer and all concerned in | from thy supplementary estimates of ex- endless disputes. Instead of the principle penditure presented to the Housy on the being adopted that tlie contractors should | 2nd inst, which are $1,336,183, Jess the be paid for their "work Rt fixed renumer- | above $41,743, and a balance is left against stive prices, that no work should be done | the statement of the Muil amounting" to He ¢ . % I & on = or paid for excert what the Government | $1,204,435, paper of the 2ad inst, we find an article copied from the Globe which says, *' the estimates of the Pablic Expenditure of the Dominion for the year 1373'4 amodints to shows an increase on. ondinry exvendilure, | upon the absence of Fenian raids and other causes that ied to a largely enhanced ex- penditure in previous years. The estimates i for the ensuing year exceed, for ordinary ex- penditure and exclusive of outlay on cayital To this statement of the Globe the Mail Thas the Mail frankly admitsthat there | But it may | roquired. the conrse pursued was one that | gave the cantractor every advantage and | enabled him towaske demands upon the | commissioners at will. "All those who have | had any experience with contractors must | see the absolute necessity in this case were a wor such magnitude, and where the jinterests weve so important, tho necessity of carefully guarding against the greed and | sapacity of wuserupulous contractors, more | Then there is Mr. Tilley's scheme for distributing better terms all round, which will make a direct'charge upon the Domin- ion exclieqner of about $3,500,000, and cancel a good claim, upon which the mter- est has always boen régularly paitl, swhich will effect the Dominion finances the same amount.of which is $10,608,088, showing a burthen of $15,300,523 heaped on the as though the transaction were cash ; the "JA a_balf inch guage, which 'wis the guage open which 'mist rows were then being B sition - namely, four feet especially as some of those were said to be | Dominion the eoming year over tha current bers of Parli t, and had votes to | oue, anil yet the Dominion Government give or withuld. The want of a proper | organ in' Toronto has the recklessness to \ instrmmental survey is farther shown in | publish to the world that Sir John has re -\section 5, where, liad a proper survey been 'duced the expenditure. for the year. Dut made prior to the contractor being 1st the { we have still more #0 add to.the above . enormous amonnt might have been saved | See Sir John Macdonald's proposition to the country; but this is only the case | (which no doubt will pass, for in the pre- of one section. It is difficult to estimate | sent Hopse his will is law) for 'increasing the amount' that might have been saved | official salaries :--- ; to the country, had the Government ex-| First--The Lieatenant Governor of On- ercised that judgment and prudence that | tari, Quebec, Nova Seotia, New Bruns. | they should have done under the cirum- | wick, Manitoba and British Columbix, to stances, the Government should have act- | hava an increase of $2000 a year-each 6x ed in' this matter simply as guardians of | 2000---312,000. The entire host of Semators #ho public exchequer, and the above is but | and Commonérs of Cattada to hate an in- one sample of the guardianship exercised crease of $10 each 276x400--%110,400. over one section of this road by them, and | Then there is to be an increase of the 3 is fair to-prestime that the same jealons | salaries of the judges throughont the De- ~ rega~d for the public interest pervaded | winion ay follows : Adil fwenty.five por every other section of this importantwork, | cent to those judges of the superior courts be.it remembered that this particular sec- | in the Provinecs of Ontario, Quebec, Nova tion is not singled out as difering from the | Scotia, and Naw Brunswick whose salaries Test in any particular.: What socurity is are now-not under §3,000 a year, ° there that any coutract entered intoby a | Add fwenty-five per gout to tid present contractor. with the Government will ever | year salaries of thos: judges of the Superi- be faithfully completed whils the Gover-_ ' wont has the power to set aside, alter, or sanul the contract wholly to suit their own | sallisn purposes "This is but snother in. stance of the folly of Paflismeiit abnegat. | ing its functionsand placing'ih the Gov. | crament the pywer it should always scyu- | nm to th presiding jndzé of the Conrt putoualy retain: Hud Parliament retained | of Error and appeal for Outario, 'provide its Sowassstgidibgrotet itinciomiseniaton. for paying six now pusitie'judges in Quebec | megtion with this important public enter- | 8400 onc', and an incroasy of salary to prise wonld never have had to be penned, | other 19 pusine judgos for the same Pro. and yet these are the very men who are | vines, aud an inzroased salary also of sworn faithfully and with rigid hoadsty to | county jadges® which increase to the carry out the duties that devolve upon | judges will jrybably add £100,000 » year them as guardians of the public purse, | to the tax burthoos of the Dominion, - and the fwtbiul ddininistration of the Then comes in, an "alter clap of the Governweat according to constitutional | scandalous Washingtgh Treaty which practice, | About fwn" years ajo the Gov- | saddics anutlier $150,000, a year upon the egument, eafus very near being defeated patient Domini nites. fr all tims to come, upon-the question of guage for this line, | It is dune in this' way. ' Sir J ol says, "being ouly sustainad by « wajoity of two | 4 It is therefore dosirablo that sich ar. fireonstracting it upon Bao five feet Six | rangements should be made with the Pro gogo, tie Opposition contending for its | vinwe of New Brunswick respecting the emstrugtion upon the four feel eight and said sexpord duty ou lumber, as will pre- vent the suspension of the said privilége, (the privilege of (arrying goods through the States in bond) and with that view to offer to thie said Provinve such inir inden nity, not exceeding the sum of $150,000 per aunumn as would compensate the present and prospeeive loss it would sus- Nova Seotia, New Brinsy'ek, Manitoba, and British Colnmbia, Whose salaries are now under £7,000 a yenr, excopt one judgo in' British Columbia, alrendy sufiici ently proviled for. AAA $1507 per an- built, bas no; tiiey would ndfjgicld to the Opposition, dud 'How, 'just as th vos is' | completed, they are going to alter the) i goage to that contended for by the Oppo- cight and a half' or Courts in the Provinces of Outario, | | before sending your money from howe, to UNTARIVU RENFUKMEK, USHAWA, sustain by the total repeal of the exports {duty op thy lumber A y of the state Gf Mala whish St. John river andl by it § ; soa." o bia 5 Then if is Piped ol to Cape Breton at a crab OPED, 0 | portion of. whith will probably be splat this year --and the end of the long list of increased and incrersing burthens is not | yot reached ; but we have gone far enongh | to show that no sane mar Waving proper | appreciation of the virtue of statingf could say thas ** Sir John Madonald 'reduced the expenditure for the year." (To be continued want week.) | | A MERCIFUL EDITOR. Nothing could be meaner, or more cowardly than the remarks of owe neigh bor, of the Viadicator,in last week's issue, | touching the character of the condemned | mau Johuston. . He lends the nnfortunate wan, about to step into: eternity-and for whom a petition is in civenlation for com- mutation of sentence, assistance after the following fashion; *' He was a man of vio- lent temper and quarre'same disposition, and got himself into trouble when here." Tha facts of the case prove quite.the re- verse. . The circumstances to 'which our cote bas reference was a dispute about certain rights he (Johnston) claimed as tenant,and one in which he was subjected to mo small amonrt of persecution; and any pember of the brigade semt at the | time to administer mob law say that his | conduct on 'that occasion displayed any- | thing but a "violent tewper," or *' quar- relsome dispesition ;" aud these for whom { he has worked for a number of years | testify that he was an *' honest] faithiul | and peaceful: sevadmt," and consider the 1 :nguage of the Vindiedlor under: present circumstances indicative of a seul as cold aud heartless as the ome who hires him- sclf to draw the halt, Presentation and Address. On Tuesday evening, May 6th inst., the { motwi hstanding a decrease of more than | pjckering German class presénted their | $650,000 on Militia dervice, consequent | teachet, the Rev. A. Shwsler, with five volumes of Cange's critical doctrinaldud Scriptures, with the following ADDRESS. | Rev. and Dear Sir ;-- . We the members of your German class {in this village, desirouf of making sewe return for the kindness, the industry, 'he unceasing perseverance you have lavished apon us, aud being well aware of thé gen- @osity of your character; have adopted this means of giving a slight expression to | our seritiments. You have guided us on | through the first stages, you have given i our footsteps the first impetus in a direc- | tion that we have ne doubt will lead us on to a mine of no small value. We have long heard of, the fame of the | German nation, long been desirous of ac: | quainting ourselves more fully with the { wanners, laws and Janguage, «f that land a~otnd which history --especially lates his- tory--has cast such a ronsmtic halo, The place that gave birth to such men as Lmther, Schiller and Favst is ce: tainly for us 'nvested with no ordimary charms, and we hope soon to open for our minds an inexhaustable store in tracing the learning of her scholars and the painotism of her | sons, To the verge of this knowledge then | have you conducted us, and the exertions you have made in doing so certainly calls for no small amount of gravitude on our part. And here allow us to_state, th8agh not account ho less a sum than seven and a half millions of dollars more than the aétusl ex- penditure the first year after confedera- tion," ! author.zed by the puliie, we feel that an | injusti je would bé done to the sentiments of the community did'we allow: such au occasion to pass without so deing, 'that we have watched with no small interest and | pleasure your course since you have been among us, and we do not hesitate to say that such a lme of conduct embracing as it does liberality of spirit] bruad brotherly | christianity and, generosity 'of wind and | sentiment is wurthy of all praise, In conclusion, we can only hope that | your amiable lzdy and yourself will long | be spared to the performance of those | duties, that by your fulfilling you have | made so attragtive to vthers. Sigued on behalf of the.class, Gy W, Frzuog T. B. Buxuxo, W. G. CorngLL, Pickering, May 12th; 1873. |™ &rasvEp.--A 'Brown and White Spaniel ; | partiesieaving Him vr information 'of his where- | abouts at the Reroiuss Otiice, will obiige. Gro. Youxo A Lobeor of Orange Young Britons was organized in Whitby last night. Me. Kvox shipped yestarday, evening another fine lot cattle for the Montreal wiarket., Bors and. youths, Ready made Cloth- ing, cheap at, Hodders, one door West of the Post Odfica. : { Mz, Wightman offers Thres Cases of splendid Prints, the Finest in the Market, at a York Shilling per yard, Dont fail to give him a call, Tue Messrs. May's we believe have an opportunity of 'levelling up™ with some of their friends (1) who talked about the Baptigt Church recen'ly, | Taroriya'st Win, DIE" a largs as | sortment of New and Fashionable Clothes, Now Hats, Collars, Ties, &c. Boots and Shoes, a speciality, "French Calf Boots, very cheap. Call early and leave your orders. Taz Orleans M astrols give ono of thsir entertaipients in the Music Hall, on the 21st iust.,. The public press speak of them in hizh terms, and doubtless they will meet, with a fair measure of sucoess on their visit here, Sex, Bez --"Tis a positive fact that Rus. sell's celebrated watch is sold as cheap,and a litdle cheaper In Oshaws than. Toronto { men wdvertisn to do. Be, sure then see those goods and learn the prices going at Hepiostall's Jewelry Store, King St. Eest Oshawa, SB Tux Teanperance Meeting on Sabbath last was addressed by the Rev. Dr. Thomton. © The Rev. géntlenan deliver od a very able and interesting address, Mr. E. Carswell, presided. The Rev. Mr. Belt, will address the Meeting on Sunday mext. A collection will be taken up at the close of the meeting, $18, will buy that desirable Silver Hunting, *! Invested Patent Lever Watch," full Jewelled, aul tims ganrani~ed, 'at wef homlitical Commentary on the Holy, "Sule are up in such quaiititics at | time during the day. owiyo v the crowded state of our co- progeasime. in this issue arranged for the 24th inst. The following Indy and geritle- men professionals have been engaged for the oceasion : Miss Hillery, Miss Brokovs- ka, Mise Pool, Mrs. White ; Prof's White, k Wilmot, Faint, and Wilcox. Tie Lost Founo.--It was suspected on Wednesday morning last that a man, boarding with Mrs, Dewar, had destroyed himself, For a short time before, ho was suffering from un attack of erysipelas ih the face, which was accompanied by con- mentioned, it was found that he jumped from the window of his bedroom bn tha second story, and had made off, no ono appeared to know where. Search was made in different parts, but in vain. All efforts of finding him appearing to be fruitless, the hunt was for the tiwe abandoned. To the astonishment of all-- considering his condition--he re-appeared at his old quarters iu the evening. He had made his way north to a farm house, where they provided him with' food, and clothing (for be was almost nude when he left) and aided Lim on his way homeward flis midnight tramp had rather an un- since rendered his and troublesome. Poor. Korner, of Lindsay, paid Oshawa \ visit on Monday and Tuesday last. The spection and introduction an instrument of which he is the inventor. " Kieber'sGrand Reed Orchestral Organ." |@he instrument is a novelty, and as exhi- bited is in three parts, is composed of 2} octaves, and the other stops. The powerful, clear in tone, and possesses the quality of furnishing each note distinet in itself. The principle ®f construction at- those interested in musical instruments, and in every instance met with approval. he trouble hitherto with all reed instro- ments has been in the operation of the stops uponthere dsi many i s ancesblen- ding moreorless the upperand lower notes, and invariably producing a muddle of in- congruous sounds, The arrangement of the stops in Prof. Koeber's instrument overcomes this difficulty, so that you can have the most distinct note from vox celes- tiae while basso is in full operation. . The lustre tion of the principle of construction, cabinet form. Prof. Keober is an experi- enced teacher of music, and possessed in a | { and has given the arrangement employed | § ¥ | | : proposes their manufacture hire in @on- in his organ considérable attention. | nection with the Oshawa Organ Compeny. | We hope his proposition will meet the ap- proval of the Company, and that the | Oshawa Organ Company will be able in o short time to favor the public with 4 | sample of Prof. ' Koeber's Grand Reed { Orchestralorgan.® Coyrespondence. Pu 3 3 To the Editor of the Ontario Reformer! Sir,--Mr. A. Honderson has raplied to my letter published in the Workman two weeks since in the local papers here, and | pregame he will als> rly in the Work. man. 1 bez leave to answer his letter, and I can only state that I am prepared to statements. Mr. Hendgeson distinctly told me in Glasgow, that carpenters re- ceived from 8s. £5 9s. sterling por day in the Joseph Hall Works, Oshawa. Mr. Hender: on states that I was employed as a labourer in the s'iop of A. & W. Sith, of Glasgow. In aaswer to that I beg to give a copy of the character I rocdived from Messrs. A. & W. Smith & Co.. Grasiow, 8th Jaly 1872, The. bearer, William Ruymsy, has been mn ouf employment for saveral years as a journeyman in ths Joinar and Millright department of onr busiaass. Ho is a very strady man and a gool tradssman. (Signed) A.& W. Burra & Co ti ficate from the foreman of the shop, in which I served my time, but do not .cou- sider it nacasawy to trouble vou with it. With regard to the workmanin A. & W. Smiths not knowing anything about the Joseph Hall Works, 1 leas itto your readers to de.ide whather Mr. Hauderson cati vouch for any oa2 of thy 370 men in tha employ of A. & W. Smith, knowing anything regarding the above Worksn Mr. Henderson states in his letter, that I informed him I wasa Pattern Maker, [bes most emphatically to state that I nove: mentioned to M:. Hn erson or any othor porson, either in Glasgow or here, that I was a Pattern Miler. Mr. Henderson left Glasgow a month béfors me t> coms to Canada, as he "old mo. Mr. Hendorson stalas that he advis- ed me to try the Cabinet Factory, so far from doing so, he. ndvised me not to go to work at the Cabi et Factory, but fo go with him, t> Me. Dingle, and he would get maa job fron him. With ragard to my not eraplaining about thy vats of wages, I beg to state that I told him in his own house, that I did not raesive the wages which ha [x1 mo 9 expect, when he told 'me that hy would endeavour to ms more. A fow woeks afterwards, w, iy st werk in the pattoen shop, he to we and askad m> how I was get. ting «n, 1 answered him, * Weil enough Oe got mo the raiss of wagés Yon pro- migsl to get me," ho answered * Just ho'd on for 3 day or two." T held on for a short (ime longer, when I was dischar. oged, With ragaed $5 his prom sing me twelve months work, I may state, [ dis- tiretly asked him what would become of my family if I wore discharged in the ba- gining of thy wintar, his auswor was ; "1 will assure you of twelve months wock,. what more do yon want." M+. Henderson uses the worl: falsehin d's an } landarons, 1 leave it fo impartial readeri'to judgs betweon Mr. Headorson an lmysalf, ag to which of us dessrve: the terms mast, An conclusion, I may state that I have other Bepinstall's, Jewelry Store King Sirect, Nshawa, ? the dath of the Cedar Dale Works that | thiy ean Le eaught in hundreds at any | { asked wm» lumng, we will not be able to give tho | concerts of O. Y. B.'s to be held on the | siderable delipium, Early in the morning had - --_-- above, which I willbe happy to show ta any party who inay wish to see them, Although Mr. Henderson is an elder in'a church tnd although I have boen in his company on many oseusions, he never yet whethe I' went to chareh or not, 80 nich for hifprofession of @hristi- anity. Should Mr. Henderson fav al y a Tv ataon (avor me | Oshawa. May, 18th 1873, with a reply, I beg to reserve anything further at present. ~ Yours respectfully, WiLuiax Raxsay, Oshawa May Cth, 1878. | To the Editor of the Ontario Reformer : Dian - 8in,~In Saturday's: Globe we have an .able. report of the Parliamentary Committee in the Dominion Parliament, ment of a Prohibitory Liquor law. 'The report is a most able, one, setting forth thut the traflic in intoxicating liquors is an unmitigated evil, wide spread in its effects, blighting with its baneful infu- - f WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1873 states he does" wh be sla roull ab « T'beg #8 sirtiscrib@amy 4 i g | ¥ AT Yotirs roapocthifly Janes Browy | ab 4 C--O I ---- The West Peterboro Election Fraud, 4 [From the Globe. ] Let us trace this case from its origin to | the "present moment, "On the 10th of " ' { August the nomination for West Peter. | the nomination, made upon hig for one. It has been dis- | mated whether thero was or was not.any bor took plroe, the pandidates bying Mr. | Begtraa jh thd @ppaosition, and Mr. Clux- ton in the Ministerial interest. Mr, Ber- nor was any demand such demand made in general terms, Neither Mr. Bertram nor any of Nis friends ' -- BRERIZITORY LIQUOR THE PARLEQMENTARY COM- MITTEE. --a- pb wing is the report of Mr. Dod. | ibitory Lignor Law Committee, id to the House on Friday last: -- Your committee, to whomo were referr- | ed the petitions presented in favor of al Prohibitory Liquor Law, beg leave in Ling their 4 | i report, to call the | v | attention of your honourable Hotuse to! er | the following considerations, the result | fhereon the based uporstho fucts to which thay have had access so far, i I, That the traffic in virulence, every class of - the community, destroying and blighting with its bane- ful influence the existence of many of the most useful and promising members of society, producing untold domestic wisery and destitution, and leading to the for- LAW. |, of their most careful: deliberations, and | house and- gaol, such intoxicating | fiquors isan unmitigated evil, wide-spread | in its effects, reaching with -more or less on Mr, Bodwett's Bill, asking the enact. | tram did not put in any qualification at { ) ences every class of the community, pro- | heffrd it. But that is really of no impo ducing untold misery and destitution, and | ance. It is conceded on all hands that | & great hinderance to the moral and intel- | such a demand to have any force must Le | lectual advancement and prosperity of the | personal and spegific, and ao 4 4 pretends country. This committee, by their report | that any such procceding tookigplace. On gathered from reliable sources, -showed [ the 20th polling was held, and Mr. Ber- that feur-fifths of the crimes committed tram was glicted by & jin javity ofthis 10 | were eitlier directly or indireetly trzceable | votes above lis opponent Mr, Cluxton. No | to the use of intoxicating liquors as a | one had pny doubt as to the result of the pbeverage, and although a large amount of | contest; no one believed. but that Mr. rovénne was raised by its iraflie, | Bertram would take tho seat he had fairly wholesome effect on his disease, and has | case somewhat serious | object of his" visit was to submit for in- | It is styled | One of the parts | two each two octaves, having in all ten | instrument is wonderfully ! tracted a great deel of atteution among | instrument is presented in portsas an il- | ; : : | and will be manufactured in the ordinary | marked degree the great taste and musical | conception peculiar to his native country, | wake oath as to the correctness of my | In addition to tha above, I have a cer- | yet the expense of the administration of hospitals and penitentaries consequent on | the use of intoxicating liquors, far ont- | weighs the amount of revenue collected from this and the committee strongly nrged on the Government the of speedily removing the evil complained of by the enactment of a Pro- hibitory Liquor Law, prohibiting tie im- portation, manufacture and sale of intoxi- eating tiquors into the Dominion. Now, Mr. Editor, this is so far all very good, | but to leave this matter to rest where it is is madness in the extrome. While the number of petitions were numerous, and | signed by a large number to both the Do- minivn and Provincial Lo sislatures, yet they were far short of what they would have been had the various temperance organizations done their duty and had a souree, tmportanee more thorough canvase in procurmyg signa- | the prop tares ; and I would adyise that a complete organization be gone inio for the purpose of increasing the number of nanies by petition asking for a Prohibitory Lignor Law. Afid I think it would be wel that the Sons of Temperance and the Good Templars cf this place would unite in taking some steps showing the Parliamen- | tary Committee who had so ably reported their high appreciation of their labours so far and engaging to sustain them in renewed efforts in this their good and o glorious werk of reformation. Yous truly, TEETCTALER. Oshawa, 12th May, 1873. To the Editor of the Outario Reformer : Caution. Dear Sir,--Whereas, some mean, con- temptible, dog-in-the-m wger sort of per- son who is é€itlier too lazy to work or too mean to be employed and is envious at | thers who is willing to work is cowardly and sneakingly tearing down and destroy. ing my advertising cards. 1 warn such persons to beware and not be caught at this jean practice; we have a place in Kingaton for snch persons to learn a trade | I hgve my suspicions on parties and will have ny eye to them. Yours respee fully, Daxier Hozumay. | | Oshawa, 13th May, 1873. { To the Editor of the Oatario Reformer: Sir,--Having been wader the necessity | of moving from place, while still tenant of it, an appeal | was made by C. W. Siith, that [ was not | tenant of it, accordingly I recoived notice | | to appear at the court of Revision on | Thursday last, regarding the appeal. | On the case being called, I objected that | the appeal had been made, and the notice | served upon me while still in possession of the house. F. W. Glen, the Deputy Reeve, said ""he did not see that it and wanted to know from we when I had received the notice. I declin- ed toanswer, believing that it was . the | business of thy court to see that the law | had been complial with, He then moved, { seconded by P. Wall, that my name b struck of the assesmant roll, that F. W. Glen, in the absence of W. H. Gibbs, takes it upon. himself to ran the Council as matters," | The appeal of C. W. Smith had been wade afiwr the time fixed bylaw, but that { did not matter," as F. W. Glea had to | gratify his Such conduet is | quite in keeping with his character, when { we consider the action he took with gard th the man he discharged for bing connested with the nif® hours movement ast year, when he black him throughout the country. When wo eon- "sider tilt F. WV. Glea has to thank a for, tunate conjugal alliwnes for raising him reveags. itera l would not try to crush thy working mien a hp does, but it _oaly veriiss the oll adage "Seta Begsiron horsa-back" &e., { Better this engenious appellant of 'mine, | that his abilitios should cMminata in the pe J | | invention of some applisnes for securing the hands bshind the back while asleop, than in playing the tool to Glen & Co'y., as ho does. Bat such is their system of vote making and destroying, In your last 1ssue appears a letter from Mr. A. Henderson, in answer ¢a Mr. Ramsay's lottor in the On'arie Workman, Mr. Honderson, in order te please his Boss, no donb, wanders from the subject, on soma of the leading, citizen: through the Ouwbario Workman. Would Mr, A. Henderson bg kind enough to . specify, { what attacks aro" slaiderous, and which. of [ the lending citizdna, ho wishes to dafénd. I leliove Mr. Henderson has. staged that 1 is time thia writing to the Workman was stoppad, I -wonld redommend Me, 'A- Bondergon to make careful enquiries, into All thomssortions which have been made under the non d= plume of Heather J k, and will find that there ia, nothing slandersus ih them, J trust thag Me, 4, Hotderson will feolns mpch annofed ang Rreived 'when Lio tind that the leading testimonials as to my ability as 8% wagk- man, in wllition to those, 5 mantioned ible citizens &th be] wilty of 'such contempt. ickaas hasg bon detailed, as he '8 . $ PBI : » sal & ! courteous fiction, addfessed as the mem | dor;a similar Lreach of their {thie Government, {first question, of course, was my former dwelling | a | It appears | well as the Court of Revision. + Ail i 4 | witness came, 'the proof. was lear, #9d | that paint was settled. re- | from a goose-barry planter to the position | he now holds, one won d- expect, that he | and statesthat some individual ashamed' of hisname" &:., mikes standerons attacks | { Onco it was said tha 'ed to pass a law that would have allowed "won. It is very questionable whether any justice and the maintainence cf asylums, | difficulty would ever have btén raised, if, as & precaution, Mr. Dertram's agent had | not deemed it proper to put in the guali- | | fication 'Before the returping officer should { make his return to the Crown. Aecord- , ingly the qualification was, on the 22ad of { May, banded to the returning offic rand | |'n receipt taken, That fumgtionary, a par- tizan nomince of the Government, acting no doubt under advice, thereupon deter- | mined of Hisewn motion #2 disfratchise a | + 1antarel majority of the electors of West Petgrboro, and practically to elect the man they had rejected. - ME. Claxton is, of course, by'a ber for the riding, but beis veally the member for Dr. returning officer for the occasion by the Ministay of the day... a Accupding taithe well'establishod prece- dents of Canadian Perliamentary practice, George Burnham, jr., appointed have takers immediate amendment ou of the.-return, to have seated Mr. Bestraw, and called the returning officer to the bar to be admonish- ed Oy putiighed Aon hig'coptemph, Certain. Iy his conduct 'wad worse thiu that of the Muskoka offender; who received the . con- sure of the very same House of Commons privileges only Mr. Bertram to the tendet' wercies of his We aza willing tel believe that hail they forpseen all that was to persecutors. f-llow. several gentlemen "who had voted | in favar of the specious proposal to send Privileges would have pysed. "But by a majotiky ofisizteen, 'obtaised Only by the t most dtrenvons ellrts; the Government sucedaded. What folfowed 1 bility, and saved Mr. Cluxton's vute to by advising that the petition should be referred to an ordin- and this &dvice was adopted in the House/by 4 majority 25 votes. That committee whensfit ly appointed ary Election Committee, of { eoneisted of two Opposition members and dl urge far Pagliamentary tal have beew #6 order the | { death. Mr. Bertfam'S case to the Comittes of | Thy Gov-| | ernment partizans on that Gommittee did not dare to say Mr. Bertram was uot en' | titled, on the face of thg record, 5 UT seat, so they again shifted the TESpons- I" moral and intellectual advancement and progpority of the conntry. "72. That the petitions presented, 384 in frmber, t6 your honourable House, and signed by 89,223 individuals, as well as the Legislature of the Province of Ontario, that the people of the Dominion are very strongly impressed with the enormity of this strong wunqnivocal demand, Committee feel bound to urge the necessity 0' seme action on the part of y Yoar our honor- able House to mect the wishes of the petitioners and if possible remove the evils | comp ained of. That in exAmining the #@nswers re- od foomh the Sheriffs, Prison Inspect- ors, Coroners, and Police Magistrates, one | hundred and foufteen .of whom have y riven evidence, your Commit- | tee find that four-fifths of¥he crime com- | itted in the Province of Ontario (answers ! have Provinces) is directly or ifidirectly connect- ed with the manufactore, sale, 'and con- | sumption of intoxicating liquors, | 4. Your€ommiitee further find, on ex- | amining the reports of the Prison Inspec- | tors for the | Quebec, that out of 28,280 comimitments to fivt yet been recefved from The otter [ 236 + influence of drink thus corroborating the | statements of the magistrates and others above alluded ito. > 5. Your Committee find also, from the | 'reports of one hnndred and fifty-three | medical wen, as well as from statements 'Unitéd States and Great Britain, that the use of intoxicting lignors as beverage is not assential to. the health of well-being of the community, but vit, the ¢ mtrary it often leads to discas® and f premature 4 Et, |. , 6. Your, Committee have also to report { #hat they have made, as far as time would | permit, enquiry into the operation and | effeét of this Prohibitory Liquor Law there ag the fairest test of its success, and find that although there are violations of the law, in meay cases flagragt and glaring, yet from tle evidence received your Com-, | mittee is convinced that a Frohibitory | Liquor Baw would mitigate, if siot entirely | -ren.ove, the evil complained of. 7. In considering the imftadiaste Ful which the passage of a Prohibitorg LigWor, Law wonld hage upon the gevatigne of the country, your 'Committpe are' bound to | three Ministerinlists, 'the chairmas, Me, } admit that for some time at leas€athero Palmer, having already disfingnithed | himself by arguing against the very clair he was appointed: solemvily 'to fm7.0" Th matter of Parliamentary law re io | officer could take npon him:glf the'extra- erilinary powers he arcogated.: | cedent says he conld not. Fhe reading off { the statute is lear and plain. The louse | had declined taover Mdedad and precdent and 80 had .the committee of Priviloges, although both House and Committee had { for party parposes shirded a decision. | amounting last year to $5,034,543: a8 Well -tirts question was argned, But did {the committee give judgement? Certain- ly not. The, fiest step takin to impede justiél was a-sugdestfon from the chairman that "¢Hie petifioner Might shave no ; stands before tha eam mitfee at [Bertram, the petitioner, was requ | prove he was Mr. Bertram, the candidate, | | or Mr. Byrtram, an elector of West | boro, or h. This preposterous demniag | might of itself 'well have ral 'a hi of shame on the chéeke even of those who were opposing him. Bul here occured a little incident, proving the sortofs : Tory generasity consists of. 4 | to save the expenses J PE a witness from Peter! ' ADP friend of Mr. Clixlon's pre i | néighbor of his ow, to.give the required evidence, and tl} 3 cor zequently he | and bring down the farce of proving"hise - ired to Every minute devoted to the past pro- ceedings had bean practically . wasjed every dollar thrown awhy, and inh the re- cess a Commission is to sit, and ; prepare evidence for the Committee néxt session to adjudieate wpon. But even now the Commissioner is not empowered to go into the whole case. He isonly to take evidence on the preliminary guestion of qualification. He is not to investigate charges of bribery, nor yet to collect the testimony adduced oh both sides, What may follow supposing that. the Commis- sioner gives judgement against Mr, Bértrami:as! ta! his-qualification §.. Why, that by applications for Commissioners, too, three or ir may be for, *seslions would pase, with Mr. Bertram, the. Mlect- ed member, still struggling with fate, nd xton, the ed Sn, SL siting and voting mons. . Ate wo not justified by this rocital in making the statements' with 'which we eommenced our comments on West Petorbor' election frauds! Is there .in that Riding, or elsewhere, a just and hon- orable man whoso feelings do not revolt at tho idoa #of any man, or of any party, taking advantage of transactions ee obviously unfRie in their inception, and characterized from first to last by pro. cewdings. 80. mean... and bible: ! bg th varie ed his advisors felt so far ashamed of their position that they offered to _bayo the election Bbolaredl ve a fight it owt fairly and squarely. over again. Mr. Bertram was willing to ageept.thase temps, but as no tore 'has been esl ot the matter, &e must suppose that some in. finence ox other 'hay over weighed an honest. judgment, Tre wen who refus- the whole q we have been dis- cussing to-he settled in a day, and whe is now proposipg te place the tire power of compelling. .the votets' Tits eon: ducting the raturns of. candidates in hands OF | Glove mia ior: om lose no chanes that an unscrupulous in- Fatkhogng af Fal hight be a falling off, yet iin the face bi -the vils arising from' thé. liquor {raflic al- jtided to in the first papagraph' of this re- course to your honourable House; than a reaqy conpliance with. the prayer of the petitoners. The reasons' on which' your Committee base this = recommendation | are the.followin, | arises from the traflic.is now yery larg) | yet the expense of the administraich : of justie, the maintenante of -asyulms; hos- | pitals, and penifentiaries, ; ngsqent uporrghe hahitual use of Sutoxicating liquors, would be largely dimjashed, thus furnishing a very considérable offset to he ginount lost to the revenus ; that the ital flow invested in the traffic, large as Comm ji lieve it to be, would jaf divirtod to other purposes of trade; add inAvery hort time to the general of the coqntry and open up new morg profitable sources of in- try, which, in their turn. would con- ribete to the revenue without those baneful associations which vitiate the accured from the liquor traffic ; effect upon the industrial 'pros of" who are now impover- : thelr. dissipated * habites would bosch as to enable them to consume other dutiable goods, the law of supply and 'demand being snch that wherever there is a surplus for capital it will find for'itself some fleld of investment ; that it isiclearly the duty of the Government," when the social, moral and civil standing of '{He subjects are imperilled by the oxistence of any traffic or trade, that, apartifrom all eonsiderations of the gain or profit, the interests of the subject should not be sacrificed even to the expension or maintenance of the revenue; that the principle of 'protection to the subject against evils which may be and which are sources of reverjue is already' conceded in Acta passed on former occasions in the Legislature of €anada; such as the Dunkin Aet, sanitary laws, and other laws of a #imilar nature. 8. In view of those facts, your Com- toe would most respectfully submit tolyonr hon. House the importance of spoedily removing the evil complained of, by; the enactment of a prohibitory liquor faw; that is, a' law prohibiting the im. importation, manufacture aud sale of all intoxicating 'Hauora, except for medical and mechanical purpeses, regulated by proper safeguards and checks. rr -- BI -- An Act respecting Municipal Iastitu: tions in the Province of Ontario. 3 ' (Continued. ) 335. The member so appointel shall pre- side in the-eouncil notil a provisional war- don has been elected by the council from among the members thereof. Sake 36, Every provisional council'shall from | time to timo appoint a provisional warden a provisional treasurer, and such other provisional cfficers for the county as the council deems neoegsary ;. the provisional warden whall hold office for the municipal year for which he is elected, and tho trea- surer and ofidr offiders so appointed shall hold office tnlil removed by the council. 37. Every provisional council may ac- 'qire the nesses ry propar'y at the cour ty town of the junior ¢ranty on which to wrong. - genuity suggests to- perpetuate this great Ha erect a fourt house and gol, and may erect a court house and gaol j mation of habits alike opposed" to the | the petitions from 82 municipalities and | praying for a prohibi'ory liquor law, show | the evils alluded to, and thas in view of | Provinces of Ontario 'and | 'the gaol for the three previous years, 21,- | were committed either for drunken- | ness or for crimes perpetrated under the . | mhiade * by medigil practitioners in the | a few days after they had handed over | . in | the State of Main, accepting ifSoperations | port, they canmot recommend' any other | gz: Although the revenue: iticy p sopatatiofiiond ¥aken | commit daphel to the wants of {he od in comformity with an statutory roles and Tegulotiony buildings, and may pass-by.] purposes, 3 ; 38. The powers of a shall not intesfere "with the 1 eonneil of the union, and . ed by he provisional council iy « Tu county shall be ind endent of J raised therein wg a anion. Jy LM ba 30. Alter a provisional council has va wed the Necessary property, a hy proper bulking | council of the senior - | counties, may enter into an gg: their joint liabilities and the dish o their joint assets (other than real ; and for determining the balance. . that may be due Ly the one ad, to other, dnd the times of payment fi { and in détermining such bal bene or remaining counties assume union; and the junior oh nd with such pnt thereof as may be just a the value of the real estate, hs up the separation, becomes the nrovertear ey senior or junior county respect] ge also be taken into acconnb, and Dy in 5 { proventent effictéd by the unin whid either county gets the exclgain ofit of 40. No member of the i ous. = cil shall vote or take Puen 14 the e cil ol the vnion on any question such agreement, or the i for. + - ogotiation 41. In case the comneils, month after the pericd ments | tion thirty-nine, are unable to by agreement the several matters before memfioned with respect fo debts, assets, and property, such matt shall be settled between them by tion under this Act, and the | liable shall pay to the other balance or amount agreed or fe due by such county, and such | bear interest at six per eentom | from the day on which the union. { solved, and shall be provided for f other debts, by. the cuuneil of the v uf [ liable therefor. after separation. | 42. After the sum, if any, to emily been paidor the junior county to the seniorior | ascertained by agreement or | the Gevernga in Council shail ) |'the juniof eounty the appei 's judge, pnd' shall appuint a sheriff p 4 ing county Br conntics his v erk of the Pores eon ty court, a registrar, and mb least twelve justices of the: peace, ah | shall provide, In" the Fomine ion' or come missions, that the appointments ape take effect on the day the counties disunited. - : * 43. After such appointments ave | the Governor shall, ation, sepa. rate the junior county from the senioree - remaining coniity or counties, y declare such separation to take | first day of January next after the end threo months after the date of the procs mation ; and on that day the courts snd | officers of the union (including justices of | the peace) shall cease to have any j tion iin the junier county' and the real | property of the corporation of th | situate in the junior county shall 33 the property of the corporation of the { junior county, and the real pro rd situaté in the remaining connty ur counties shall ba the property of the cor | poration of the remaining county | counties and thy other assets belo ido the corpofation of the. uniun sh | long to and be.the priperty of the semier or junior county; or the uiion of respectively, as agreed 'upan wh | tion; and, if not otherfise dispésed { agreement or arbitration, they shall bel to and be the propefty of the 4 | @onnty, or union of conaties ; and, intl case of ,chnses in: action, théy : | recoyered in a_snit,. action, or other lg proceeding institefed or commenced in the name of the senfor county or counties. 8 | 44. When a junior ecotnty' | from a union of counties, the members of the provisioral council of | junior county, and she officers, b { conitracts, property, assets and I [of the provisional co on, shall 'head snd members of the colneil, and the officers, by-laws, pre perty, assets and: liabilities of the new poration. Rie 3 45. The dissolution of a nnion of 8 ties shall not prevent "the sheriff such senior county from \ 'an Sombleting the execution or within the jusior county of any 3 "mestie: or final progess in has hades he time of suchépawation, or of any al thereof, or of any subsequent or | 'mentary writin the same cause, 0 'case of exccutions lands doting all necessary deeds and y -relating to the same, and' the acts such sheriffs'in that behalf. in' the sime manner as to the same ex as if po asparation had taken place.but 5o further. | RB Ba '46. Tf upon the dissolution of a of counties, there is pendi other jndieial civil php venue is laid in a county of the court' in which the action, ! pending, or any judge who has to make orders therein, may, "of partien, or on hearing the aflidavit,order the venue to be ¢ the new connty,and all records] to be transmitted to the proper such county, fad iL 47.*In c1sé no suchichange be all such actions, and- Jutieit proceedings shall be carried on an in the senior county ; but nothing in Act con*ained_ shall be construed to 8 the provisions of sections Bfty-two, three, and fifty-five of the Act of ment of theProvince of Calida, the session held in the twenty-min thirtieth fears of the reign of Her Majesty, and chaptered fifty-one, so the same relates to erimingl proge : 48. All conrts of the junior county quired to be held at a place certain, shall be held in the county town of the junior county. 4 49. Any person arrested or held to. 18 under civil process, befére the sep of a junior from a senior connty, gné able to be imprisoned, shall he soned in the gaol of the cog he was arrested ; andfiall prodes any sujt or Action jn Rblch any was sh arrested or hell fo bail, proceedings Wfter judgisent fon the arrest br holding to bi ried on as if the armgst had taken'place.in such te cqunty ; add in case ate to he had ive a "jnior records and papeiy re be transmi more coroners,a ch | of the county ot (in manner hy the gaol" liars of a wpion the union by afterwards or mo nhties po , union, fhch wor or de IDA standingytravél and' runide' in any pos of the mil ivy EX OMFUGER. mitting a breach of afy Borg or the dition théredd, ora forfeiture of ¥ rity given fof the pip ise oly 44 benefit ofgauch. luits and jn eae such porson after the dissoliitioh union be sitrrendered or crlered to closg custoly, ho' -sirrend®ed or committed to thes the county in which he was arrested, 8 be imprisoned in the gaol thereof) + (Tobe continued next week.) - MARKIER. Comrie On the 7th inst, et Christ's Chm chien, by the Rev. Mr. Whitney, Woon, Esq, of Oshawa, to Miss ALKEL 85.1, Owasso, Michigan. BED. % Tp Oshawa, on the §ily ins', Anna Smith, TT Juans. + a RE 1 peErt