The canadian gleaner, 24 février 1876, jeudi 24 février 1876

[" co ORT E Tr.Erra's Co00a~~GRATRFUL axp Couvonrme.\u2014By al thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern ' the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a eareful application of the fine properties of well-select- ed cocoa, Mr Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavored beverage which may save us many heavy doctors\u2019 bills, Itis by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be built up until strong enougli to resist every tendency to disease.Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around u- ready to attack wherever there is a weak point.We may scape many a fatal shaft by keep ing ourselves well fortified with pure blood and a pro perly nourished frame.«Civil Service Gazette.1d only in packets labelled-\u2014#Jauxs Errs & Co, Homwæo- pathic Chemists, 48, Threaduvedle Street, aud 170, Piccadilly, London.\u201d GRAIN WANTED.HE subscriber has arranged to buy Grain during the winter at Port Lewis, where Jumes C.Cluff will always be in attendance, and where dclivery of the Grain will be taken.The highest price will be paid for Pease and Oats, There is no toll on the Plank Road, and farmers may depend on always selling and getting their money.JAMES KERR.M\" A quantity of Salt aud No.1 Labrador Herrings on hand, and will be sold cheap.Jan.13.Canada Life Assurance Company.ESTABLISHED 1847.PursmweEnt\u2014A.G.Tausay, Esg.Vice-PrespenT\u2014 James Masiron, Esç., M.D, Inoome \u2014 $675,000.Assurances in force\u2014%13,422,011, HE large bonus of 24 per cent.per annum upon assurances on the Life System having again been declared by this company, profit certificates havo now been issued for each policy-holder, and copies of the recent reports, showing the profits on other classes of Assurances, may be had on application at the Head Office or Agencics.THE ADVANTAGES of joiuing an old and successful Company like the CanapA Lirp May Le judged of Ly the following facts : 1st\u2014The Profit Bonuses added to Life Policies are larger than given Ly any other Company in Canada.2nd\u2014It has occurred that Profits not orly altogether extinguish all premivm payments, but in addition yield the holder an annual surplus.7 R.ILILLS, Svcretary, Offices in Montreal, 182 St.Jumes street.R.POWNALL, General Agent, Agent at Huntingdon : Wm, W.Corbett.September 4.HUNTINGDON MARBLE & GRANITE WORKS.ALE & HALL, Manufacturers aud Dealers in Monuments, Headstones, Tablets, Mantles, &c., from the best American & Italian Marble, New Jersey Brown Stone, Quincy & Scotch Granite, in Shanks\u2019s Block, next door to A.Chalmers, confectioner, Hunt- ingdon, Q.We beg leave to inform the public that we have stock selected by us from the quarry, in which will be found the three most necessary elements required= DuramiLiry, Cugarness and Braury.Ourex- perieny s warrants us in saying that we can, in work, satisfy the most fastidious taste, Be sure and call before ordering elsewhere.pa We shall make Scotch Granite, of Gray, Red and Blue colors, and well executed Marble Work a speciality.Tewrus Easy.ArTuvr E.HALE, Romerr G.Hart, } Proprietors.Hnutingdon, Jan.20, 1876.The Trout River Carriage Shop.A.DALZLLL, Proprietor.\u2014 Er Having secured the best of P en workmen I am now pre- SERS pared to furnish the \" AS trade with all kinds of %: Open Buggies und Top y Carriages of all styles.Also, Express and Lumber Wagons constantly on hand.Patent wheels used when ordered, A.DALZELL.Trout River March 18.PUBLIC NOTICE.BEWARE OF IMPOSITION I! 30 YEARS\u2019 experience in Sewing Machine manufacture enableg the HOWE Sewing Machine Company to give a reliable family Sewing Machine that can be warranted for Five Years, aml no machine will be sold by me until they are tried and found to give satisfaction on my own work.PRICE $45 and $50.Get the best when you are buying a machine, If they are a little dearer at first, it pays in the long run.TERMS EASY.\u2014 Sold on instalments by the month to Dressmakers and Tailoresses.As proof that these Machines are strong, and I have the greatest confidence in them, I will pay the expense of repairing any that I sell for three years free of charge, if broken by fair means.Every Machine is warranted to me for five years by the Company.EIGHT PER CENT OFF FOR CASH.J.NEVILL, Agent.B&F As this Company has agents in all parts of Americr and Europe, this is no small affair to shave the public, J Dominion Marble & Granite Works.DREW & GRANT, A ANUFACTURERS and dealers in all kinds of foreign and American Marble and Granites.The celebrated Granites of Scotland constantly on hand.We call especial attention to our new importation of SUTHERLAND FALLS Marble, For CIIEAPNESS, DURABILITY, and BEAUTY, it has been pronounced Ly all dealers to bo The best marble sn the world, .We are constantly receiving new and clegant de- rigns of Monuments, Tombstones, &c., and shall continue to make our establishment in the future what it has been in the past, the HEADQUARTERS for the best Marble and Granite work in this section, and cheaper than can be purchased elsewhere.For elegance of design, beauty of workmanship and finish, and variety of stock to sclect from, we defy competition.Buying in large quantities at the different quarries enables us tu place none but the best And most durable grades in tbe market.All kinds of produce and livo stock taken in exchange.Terms to suit purchasers.Satisfaction ject of \u201cFancy cheeso making.\u201d he Can Van \u2018amet NO.536.curing process.This aroma from the ossen- tial oils was entirely distinct from the cheesy flavor which was communicated __, through the rennet in curing, henco it was yard that skim milk cheese had (ho cheesy but not the nutty flavor.Cheese curing wan AMERICAN GREY COTTONS Ly the yard or piece Simply a digestivo process.(urd should be at reduced prices , used just before being dissolved, as the di- ° gestion of tho cheese was far advanced be- AMERICAN CLOUDS, COTTON YARNS, PRINTS, fore it was taken into the human stomach.HORSE-BLANKETS, &e, all at low prices, Nothing but tho bost and purest milk would aLso\u2014 make fancy cheese.All the foreign taints \u2019 of impure milk would bring themselves into Canadian and English Cottons, Flanncls, Winceys, prominence and go in advance of tho curing Tweeds, Wale.proof Cloth, Clouds, Scarfs, Mufflers, process.Othor things being equal the Ladies\u2019 Winter Jackets, Felt Skirts and Kid Gloves, , chango which occurred in cheese ouring would be rapid in proportion tothe quantity \u201cof rennet used.It should not bo in oxcoss, a complete stock of Boots and Shoes, Rubbers, Over-| hyt sufficiently liboral to keep the action of sLocs and Moccasins at {the rennot ahead of the tendency to sour.So long as improper taints were in tho milk there must be acidity employed to hido there \u2018taints, and just so long would the cheese [Want its finest flavor.The nocessity of carrying milk to the factories in vontilated VETERINARY SURGEON.cans was underrated altogother too much.RCHD.McCORMICK, acting aud consulting 110 8dVised the uso of a cover for milk cans, Surgeon for the Agricultural Societies of Beau.| ® portion of the Lop of which was covered harnois and Huntingdon No.I, begs to inform the with coarsely perforated tin or fino wire farmers of this District that he can be consulted with | cloth, Curds were too often cured in rooms nt the following places, viz.: at Bryson's, Howick, on ! which were altogether toodry, Tho curing- Mondays ; at Lemay's, Durham, on Wednesdays ; at | & ; y.IN Moits, Huntingdon, on Friaays of every week, begin- { FOOUR should be moist enough to dev olop ning January 10th.The other days of the week at mould to a cunsiderable oxtent, as this would his father's residence, $t Louis de Gonzague, givo tho best quality to cheese, though the N.B.\u2014Prepares Condition Powders and keeps con- | external appearance would not be so pleas- stantly on hand all medicines necessary for his pro- | ing.A basement should be used as uw cur- : ing-room.Ho summarized tho conditions 5 \u2026 .« necessary for the manufacture of first class HE ET \u2014 sting bet A | cheese as follows: \u2014(1.) None but the milk 4 co-partnetship heretofore existing between À.| of healthy and well-fed cows should bo used Wilson & P.C.McGinnis, Merchants, will be | 5 J RO ; : A dissolved by mutual consent by the first of April | (2), 1t should Lo free from all taintsand Im next, and we would respectfully invite our numerous | ps cithor inherited or acquired.(3) customers that have hook accounts to call and settle Nono but clean and hoalthy rennet should the same without further delay, either by cash or| be used.(4.) The action of the rennet note, and in order to reduce our large stock of should take precedence of acidity by the Tweeds, Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes we have reduced ho ] once of y by th our prices 15 per cent.for cash sales.Customers early removal of tho curd from the whey will find our terms so casy that we expect no diffi- and the warm curd well before sulting.(5.) culty, and wish prompt settlement of accounts, and The curd should be cured in un even atmos hope that the good fecling at present existing will phere, not too dry.continue.a In answer to à question Mr Arnold said Jun.20.ee W ILSON & McGINXIS.i that to recure che best possible flavor the MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COM- curding process should, as a rule, begin at a PANY OF THE COUNTY temperature of from G3 to 70 degrees, if the OF BEAUILARNOIS.milk was unskimmed.Inferior milk would .\u2014 require the higher temperature.For early Insu$ng only Farm and Isolated property.cheese a continuous temperature of about 75 degrees was the best.To make hay cheese ta high temperaturo was required ; the heat Directors\u2014George Cross, Esq., Francis W.Shirrin *bould Le applied only gradually, and sufli- Exq., M.B., John Symons, Bs, Colonel James Reid cient rennet should bo applied to make the Alexander McNaughton, Esq.and Daniel Macfarlane curd coagulate and cut in about tweuty Esq, i .minutes.Secretaryand Trcasurer\u2014Andrew Somerville, Hun- Mr Thos.R.BALLANTYNE, M.P.I., said mo William Edwards, Franklin; Robert that the practical lessons for the making of Middlemiss, Hinchiubrooke : Thomas Clarke, Ste good carly cheese seemed to be that a larger Philomène ; Robert Smaill, Elgin: PF.Clney, quantity of rennet should be used than they N.P,and J.A, V, Amirault, N.I',, Hemmingford; had beon accustomed to: they should be Wm.Gebbie, Wowick; John Davideen, Dundes 1.1 | carefal not to allow acidity to develop too Crevier, N.P., St Anicet; J, C.Manning, Franklin ; far arly et hould be marketed at Arthur Herdman, Herdman's Corners; Shanks & fe.Jiarly cheese shou 1e rketet Milne, Huntingdon ; J.B.Gilison, Dewittville; and [ONCE, 18 delay in this respect generally Dr Maclaren, Durham, meant Joss, Ilo would like to know from BGF Parties wishing to insure their property, are! Mr Arnold what proportion of salt he allow- requested to apply to the agents or Sceretury.ped to cach 1,000 pounds of milk in making ç : early cheoso.NOTION ; Mr ARNOLD said ho Helieved 28 pounds FAVLE undersigned being about to give up hix busi- | of «alt when grinding was about the right Li ps Athelstan, requests ull rome indebted oe | proportion.In reply 10 questions hy mem.I 10 side costs \"The business from lat Pers he stated that the quantity of cheesedid not depend upon tho timo required in coagu- Februaty will be carried on by Damase Lurche, .; ; ; Athelstan, Jan.25, THOMAS PURSE.lation.Milk slightly acid should be warmed A sufficient quantity Canada, A *Esstos of the Con | to about 70 degrees.AMERICAN GOODS.MERICAN BLEACHED COTTONS Ly the or picee at reduced prices.\u2014ALBO,\u2014 JOIIN GILMORE'S.Huntingdon, Jan.20.IMPORTANT NOTICE.PRESIDENT Architaid Henderson, Ex, Province of Quebec, of Queen's Bench in of pure rennet should be applied to congu- District of Beauharnois.Criminal Jurisdiction for late it in twenty orthirty minutes ; it should Lower Canada shall be held in the Court House in the be worked at a low temperature, and there town of Beauharnois, in the said District, on Thurs-| would thon bo no difficulty in making good day, the Second day of March next, at Nine o'clock in cheese of milk slightly acid.the morning.In consequence I notify all those who Ÿ .shall have to sue any person now\u2019 detained in the Mr BALLANTYNE said ho had an idea for Common Jail of this District, and all Justices of the some time back that cheese was very much Peace, Coroner, Constables, Builiffs, and Ministers of | injured from careless cooking, by allowing Justice in the sid District, and other persons con- the curd to come in contact with tho heated cerned, to be then and there with all their necessary bottom of the pan.He had found checre a capacities, be ordered to them fn th n very strong odor, resembling at first Beauharnois, this 26th January, 1876.toasted cheese, which he attributed to this L.HAINAULT, .cane instead of to any taint in the milk, Sheriff.Mr ArNoLD and several members agreed ARCHIBALD & McCORMICK, in this theory.ADVOCATES, | À member suggested a plan which le No.2 Barron's Building, 162 St.James Street, | thought would be successful in obviating MONTREAL.1 .this difficulty, that was the placing of a nar- 5 ARCHIBALD, L D- McCORMICK, now board over the pipe, ening the steam « dh.LS .wl 0 .tnt NB\u2014Mr MeCormick will folles the Courts in the to jet out some distanco before striking.District of Beanharnois, Mr BALLANTYNE said that the curd should To à k s y agitated until tho tem- Wanted, be ! opt constantly ait a 1 ! Y the undersigned, a good reliable working perature Decame equatizel.; B Farmer, to hire by the year, who understands | In reply to a question Mr Arnold enid taking care of stock, milking, &- A married man | there was no orcasion for using any alkali in preferred, whose wif would be willing to board 2or3 | the milk, unless for the purpose of neutral: working lands.Good references required.i ie Apply personally, or by mail, to N.MANNING, i the acidity.f co afectly Maritana, P.Q.\u2018 10 necessity of using perfectly pure \u2014 water for soaking rennet having been urged by Mr Arnold, Prof.BELL said that the difficulty of get ting porfectly pure water was a great one.ONTARIO DAIRYMENS ASSOCIATION.INGERsoLL, Feb, 10 \u2014Mr Arnold, of Rochester addressed the Convention on the sub- HUNTINGDON, Q.THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, ever, of this flavor was doveloped in the | cows without close breading.1876.31.50 A-YEAR.The bost au- ! in favor of having the best cunng-rooms.thorities claimed that the short-horns gave, There Was great room for improvement in tho largest returns in proportion to tho ox- this respect.Buildings should not bo so penso of keoping them.Tho Aldorneys, or constructod as to be subject to every atmos- old unimproved short-horn breed, gave à re-\u201d pheric change.Thoro had been a very great Holstein or Duteh breed gave some Iargore- keeping up a propor degree of heat in the turns, somo as high as 12,700 pounds of early purt of tho season.The rays of the milk per annum; other herds an averago of sun should bo kept from coming in at the 9,597 pounds per cow per annum.The windows of the curing-room, as this made a averago of croam was about 16 per cent.matorinl difference in tho temperature.It careful comparison botweon thiy and the ately cool curing-rooms for a considerable nativo breed had shown that the lolstoin time before shipment.tlo believed a great brood produced considerably largor roturns, | donl of choose had gol out of condition last about ?5 or 30 por cent, and the native cows season from boing undor-salted.During the consumed a much lurger average of food.hot weather 23 pounds of salt to 1,000; turn of about 36 quarts of milk daily.Tho | Carolessnoss on tho part of dairymon in not; der.EE Mr FarauxeroN eaid that Mr Lewis might preach his theory with to corn food successfully in other latitudes, but it would not work here.He had known cows fed on corn fodder which kept up in condition, and * held thoir own in milk.He admitted that 1 good grass was better, but if they could not ie it, corn was a good substitute.He be- | leved tho common northern corn was the best.In the absence of oats, he had found that a mixture of wheat, oat, and barley re\u2014\u2014\u2014 straw, along with oat or pea meal, kept the cows in good condition, and was a good producer of milk.Mr ArxoLD said that an ordinary growth of corn, sown in drilts, would undoubtedly give à greater amount of nutriment to tho ; cro than grass.Mr Lewis\u2019 farm was particularly woll situated for the growth cf ' grass, which, porhaps, would account for ; his predilection in favor of that kind of fud- He had made a careful experiment by analysing tho milk of cows fod on rowed corn aud those on vory poor pasture, and had found 6} por veut.of dry solids in the milk of the cows fod on grass, and 84 por cont.in that of the cows fed on sowed corn.amon somo examples of Holstein cows, À was woll to koep tho carly cheoso in moder- | Tho cows wore all of the xamo brood.Mr L.8.Haron, of Kentucky, spoke on hia modification of\u2019 Swedish doop-setting of milk, giving the result of his experiments as to the best modo of setting milk, and claiming that under every test of good but- Ilo gnvo the results of a number of such comparisons, saying that, on the whale, they gavo large roturns, Ile noxt reforred to the pounds of milk was not too much, and the salt should bo of the vory best quality.Another cauxe of injury to last scason\u2019s chooso Swiss breod, saying that the quality of but- was a failure to keop up during the Fall an ter from theso cows hud beon found equalto oven temperaturo of about 65 degrees in the that from tho best Jorseys and Guornsoys.curing-room, Tho Ayrshires bo did not consider an ad-| On the question of the comparative morits vantagoous breed for this country when the of Canadian and foreign salts Mr Fraser said land was good, though in Scotland they | that ho was having samples of salt from the wore esteemed good milkers.The excels | various Canadian factorion analysed, so that lence of the Jersey broed was in furni: hing! its excollonco as compared with Amorican a maximum of rich cream upon a minimum and Kuropenn sult could bo satisfactorily de- of food.Tho Guernsey, contrary io tho be- tormingl.\u2018Tho result would be sont to the lief of somo dairymen, was an entirely dis- ; Association, tinet breed, being larger in size than the! Mr FAURINAGTON said ho was convincod Jerseys, and quite difforent in nther partieu- that it they had proper curing-rooms, and lars.By some they were considered superior used swoot instond of sour milk, they would milkers to tho Jerseys.\u2018Tho principle of | be ablo to turn out a far bottor quality of brooding was that animals of opposite cheeso than now.He ndvocatod tho use of charactoristies deteriorated ; while in ani- |drying-rooms with two wots of studs, the mals of similar characteristics breeding in- {inner half of tho spaco between them being crensed the hereditary transmission of good tilled with sawdust.qualities, Dairymen should bo content toy Myr 11.8.Lose, of Norwich, was in favor fet the fattening qualitios wo if they could fof planting trees of about 20 foot in hoight secure the best machine for turning food on tho south and west sidos of curing-rooms.into milk.\u2018Tho transmission of those quali- He also thought a layer of sawdust on the ties favorable to tho production of milk inside of tho walls was of great benefit.could be controlled by the breeder.They Mr James ITARRIH, of Ingersol|, was in fa- should breed from none but animals of a!vor of a three-story curing-room, as the two tixed and ascortained type, bred in a tine for uppor stories had the effect of keeping tho years.Anothor great object was to give basement cool, the best of caro tocattle, Herocommended} Tho PrEsibeNT was of opinion that a short-horn bulls as preferable in eross.propor ventilation of a ono story curing- broudingg to any other, but the particular ' room was ns good as aud loss oxponsive than breed was of less importance than proper three-story ones, selection of individuals, Good blood shouid Mr 1 R.Ricnarnson, Koerwood, strongly bo had ou both sides to produce good stock.favored early salos of choose na boing gener- A great point to bo observed was the gelee- fully the most advantageous, In July ho tion of bulls from herds of good milking | kept all the choeso ho possibly could in the qualitios.Canadians were, he feared, nk.lower stores of the drying-room, as those ing the great mistake of trying to cure the kept up stairs doteriorated in the warm ovils of tainted and interior milk, instead of wenther.Ho was in favor of grinding all preventing those evils by going to the bot the curds, Factory men should have piping tom of the matter, and that was to ho done! by which they could regulate the tompera- by good and careful breeding.He wits | tire exactly, Ho preferred Liverpool salt.\u201cad, however, to notico the vust improve-} Me BALLANTYNE gave an account of his ments Canadians wero making in dairy \\experimonts with tho gang pross, oxprossing farming in general.Ho acknowledged, nnn \"himsolt as vory much in favor of them.genuine Yankee, that Amoricans had hard Hon.ans Lewis delivered an address work to hold their own with the people of Imiry Cows, their caro and food.Io ter his plan had proved botter than tho ordinary ono.Ho gave explanations of his method, saying that he took the warm milk from the cow, and placed it in four-gallon cans, oight inches in diamotor.Those ho put in a box in the upper part of which was a quantity of ice.Ho took tho ground that milk, when it camo from a healthy cow, was a porfoctly pure fluid, and that this von.tilating process was all a midtake, inasmuch as it was the means of conveying impuritios to what was originally a puro fluid.The water from the ice in the upper portion of tho box dripped down upon the caus of milk, keoping it at a low temporature.Ilogave the results of a number of tosts of this plan, in which it was admitted to bo altogether su.porior to the ordinary shallow rotting method in producing a Iarge quantity ot butter of tho best quality, 1le bolieved to got porfoctly sweet and woll grained buttor it should be mado from porfectly wwoot croam.Prof.BELL said that it had boon stated that buttor made by tho Swedish mothod pf sotting commanded a much larger price in the London market than the best of other butters.lle thought that tho manufacture of butter should be more oxtensively engaged in than it was in Canada, and in viow of tho desires of tho (Government that it should bo so Mr Harden's explanations woro very valuable.Feb.11.\u2014Mr Unrford Ashley opened an discussion upon Dairy Apparatus.The first thing to bo considered was the factory itaolf.1t should not be built on land lying too low, but rather on level ground, where a free circulation of air could be obtained.Ho bo- lioved in making the floor porfuctly close with Portland coment, and in arranging overything about the factory so nu to avoid tho slightest stench, Ilo had given up the solf-heuter and adopted wtenm.Ho found that the difficulty of having the curd burned in tho vats was obviated by placing boards across the steam jet ro ns to distribute it to a groater extent.Heo bhalioved all choere- makors would soon have to como down to 15 or 144 inch hoops.Ho strongly approved this country in entering tothe tastes of John gy (it it had boon ostimated that a cow Bull in the atte: chiooo.taconcludod | requirel two per cont, of her weight in good | with a vigorous proltest ayguinst oicoMArgar- hay or its oquivalent per day to koep her in ine and skimmed milk cheese, Kay ing that existones without increasing or falling off in! the manufacture of inferior cheese was doing weight, and as tho amount of her food in.| 5 , : , more to injure the market than all other (papel so did her productiveness.A moan, | CANNES combined.\u2018 ; j close-fisted man should never own a cow.! Mr J.M.l\u2019ETEns, editor of the New York! [Herkimer county only about one-third of Grocer, read a paper on \u201cChoose, its produc: ho cows paid any profit, Gross was the | tion, consumption, future supply, And com- natural food of the dairy cow, the perfection mercial aspect of tho Dairy Trade, Ho af eattlo food.It Wns also to he observed jointed out that within the pust fow yours\u201d that tho shorter He distance to the pasturo the advancement of Canadians in dairy farm-\u2018 the botter.Tho cow should be turned out ing had been proportionately greater than\u2019 ju the spring us soon ns tho ground was that on the other side of tho line.Forboth (ju) and the wenther warm enough for countries, however, thoro Was sullatundant her comfort.Pastures upon which cows work before perfection was arrived at.The wero turned early in the spring would sup- crowth of the butter trade was becoming so port more stock than those upon which large that the natural outlets woro being! they wero turned Into in Juno.Sudden «logged, and the constantly accumulating\" changes from dry to speculent food wore surplus was hecnming every year a greater\u2019 dangerous to tho cow, Food should be lib- burden.Tho tendency was to hold on to\" cral, and tho land should bo seoded with stocks too long, making the evil constantls \u2018 gome of the bost grasses, which should be increase; but the great object should ho to cut early and stored, thus allowing a second clear out stocks as early as possible, even if! cutting: Corn fodder was altogether infe- prices hal to bo reduced.Western dairy- rior to grars for the food of dairy cows.men had adopted the practice of welling out This had been established beyond dispute.their butter immediatoly at whatever price\u2019 Wien the first shrinkage in the quantity of they could got for it.Tho value of wuch! pik way discovered, the food of the pasturo articles should not be regarded ns prospee-|should bo supplemented with well-cured tive, but just what they would bring at the pgs.Proper food and the caro of cows time.The botter and the aweotor tho butter wore the bout prevontatives of bad milk.was the larger would bo the market for it,! He had fed wowed corn of the boat kinds for enlarging the market.In choeso the past fn] trial that it was altogether inferior to seaxon\u2019s oporations hal not been on the! pay.\u2018Tho groen-corn fodder contained al- whole very profitable.ties of the article had been very inferior this cent, season.sumption was at present comparatively was gras, small.Ho belioved this was owing to the\u2018 or a little before, ns it then contained the inferiority in the quality oftomoutic choëse.most nutrition.The best roots to feed the of cheeso wero placed in thehands of the re- snd mangold wurtzels.The cows should be tail grocers al fair prices, =0 8s to cnltivate \u2018given as much hay as they could eat, with the home trade, which he believed way yet just enough of these roots to restore to the After some The only plan by which pure water could bo introductory romarks he said that what he, procured was by catching it in a largo glass called a fancy clicese was one that suited vessel as it foll from the clouds.the majority of people, though, as in every-| Mr ArNoLD said that for the purpose of thing clse, tastes varied to a considerable soaking rennots cold boiled water was used, , extent, A fancy cheese was not ono which as boiling destroyed the organic germs.the uninitiated appetite had to learn to like.| Prof.WETHERALT, editor of the Boston Cheeso with tho toughness of half-dried curd | Cultivator, addressed the Convention on| could not be called fancy.The curing pro- dairy stock and how to breed it.He ox- cess should be well advanced.\u201cSalvy\u201d or! preseed his high opinion of the value of an pasty cheeso was palatable, nutritious, and | interchange of idess and co-operation by! digestible; it dissolved readily in the mouth | American and Canadian dairymen, It would | and stomach.Soluble and insoluble casein not do for dairymen to recline on what they bore about the same relation to cach other had attained; they should continually ad.| as sugar and sawdust.They had the samo\u2019 vance.Ho pointed out from statistics of the: chemical composition, but differed entirely short-lorn eales in tho United States and in their effects upon the palateand stomach.Canada the great and growing attention Soluble casein and insoluble casein would be | which was being given to breeding for other cheese and fancy clicose respectively.Tho lakes.Ie mentioned a number of caxes in, public taste was very just in its discrimina- ' which large returns of butter had been made.guaranteed, in Le Shop next door to J.C.Bruce's store, Hunt.on.W.Ww, : ° wv SES } Proprictors.Huntingdon, Feb.8, 1876.\u2014_\u2014 The arrangements for the defenso of Malla matic flavor, derived from the essential oils tocracy of the cattle tribe.It wns as im- of vegetables.Tho most essential point in; portant that they should look to the manu- making good cheese was perfect curing.facture of the cows that gave the milk as The milk should be of good quality; it.to the manufacture of the milk afterward.should come from cows in good health and Short-horna should be selected by dairymen properly cared for, and should be manufac with large farms.It was said that in-and-in tured with scrupulous care and cleanliness.brecding was dangerous, yet both the are said to bo so complete that, if occasion The cream should never be removed, as a Duchess and Princess families bad been required, every ship-of-war could be with rawn from the station with perfect safoty.portion of the characteristic aroma of fancy largely produced by close breeding.le did cheoso would thus be lost.A portion, how-| not think they could get a good herd of destined to be much more important than hay the succulonce it had lost, Straw was it now was.Ile pointed outthe injury done pot fit food for the dairy cow\u2014it should be to the whole market, home and foreign, by given to the most uscless animal on the the manufacture ot skimmed milk cheese.fyrm, and that was the fast horse between Even partially skimined milk cheese hind in trotting timed.Jf hay could not be given, the end provel « groat «ourco of loss tn the oats cut just when they wero beginning to whole dairy trade.Lato reports from the color wero the next best, or a mixture of London market showed! that there was an\u2018 nats and pons.In seceding down pastures ineroasing demand for a moderately bright' you should mix tho seeds of all the best color of choese, or all white ; tho straw color grasses, being careful not to omit Kentucky having fallen considerably from its former or blue grass, orchard grass, and mediam demand.The.best sizo and form was & clover.The grass for winter food should cherry-shaped cheese weighing about 55 bo cut in season, before the seeds dro ped pounds.Ho closed with à reference to the and the stock becamo more woody re.increusing interost taken by New York Even good feeding was unavailing if com- | merchants in~tho question of reciprocsl bined with bad treatment.Cows should be trale between Canada and the United foi only twice a day\u2014noither more nor less.States, kayinz that they were taking every They should also be kept perfoctly clean ; found well ropresented in hard, skinny than dairy purposes on both sides of the opportunity of urging upon Congress the jt made them happy and healthy.They necessity of renewing tho treaty.should bo carded once a.day, and always Mr H.FARRINOTON urgod the great necos- treated with kindness and gentleness, The breeding in dairy farming, Succulent food dono at regular intervals by the clock.They was especially required.ing Was good, but thorough feeding | most important.without uneasiness.A short discussion took place on white done in a cleanly manner.Dairymen should sce that the best qualities cow upon wero the largest kinds of boots | of tho gang pros, and found that thoy wero continually increasing in favor among dairymen.Thoy coffected a groat saving in Inbor, He could take ton or twelve cheoso and got the whey running out of them more quickly than out of two by the ordinary method, Mr Webn, of Ridgotown, asked how the pressure was regulatod, nome cheeseos requiring more than others, Mr Asti.ky raid that chieoso requiring additional prossuro could be allowed to romain longer in the pross than the others, Mr E, SWITZER said that if the ordinary pressure of tho gang press would not expel tho whoy tho fuult was in the curd, and nothing but fermantation would remove it.Mr FARRINGTON gave 1 verbal report of tho Committee nn Dairy Apparatus, saying that they cordially recommended the gang press as the most valuable to manufacturers.Choy thought, howovor, they should be mado stronger than thoy now are.They also ntrongly recommonded to the attention of Canadian dairymon Mr L.3.Hardin's method of making butter, ns it seemed to them to be one which would prove of great value to butter-makors.Mr Cuapwick reforrod to the state of the chooso interest ton years ago, and tho vast strides mado in this branch of manufacture since that time.Even tho host Amoiican makers of cheese honestly acknowledged that we were approaching their standard and the greater chance would there he of tivo years, but had fount on the most care.{ with groat rapidily, and that the timo was not very distant when wo could compote evonly with them or even excel thom.Ilo The keeping quali-\u2018togethor too much water\u2014about 92 per | touched upon the peculiaritios of tho past ho \u2018uiry cow required a good don! \u2018 #0880N, its commercial and financial aspect, He alvocated the greater develop- ! of food in tho winter, and that food should : 88YINK that, in his opinion, tho unusual ment of the home market, as the home ron- bo tho highest type of cattle food, and that | charactor of the weather had bad a good = It should bo cut in thé blossom, | deal with the inferior quality of the soason\u2019s cheese.lle deprecated the plan of some roducers of holding their goods at pricos Pigher than the market would warrant.This caused dolay in sales and consequent deterioration, and was especially true of the past season.; Mr LLARRINGTON movod\u2014\u201cThat this Con- ( vention recommend that clubs be formed in every dairy contre to discuss questions that may arise in connection with the practical work of dairy manufacturo, and that each club appoint delegates tn the Annual Convention to impart the results of their oxperi- once and conclusions.\u201d Mr AsuLky seconded the resolution.Soveral members of the Association spoke in favor of the motion, espocially na a means of educating tho patrons of factories.The motion was carried ananimonely.A discussion took place upon the causes of the late dailness in the cheese trade, among those assigned being tho general stringency in trade, the unfavorable season, and the tendency of producers to hold on to their cheese too long, and to demand prices unwarranted by the general state of the mar- tion between good and bad chceso.A pecu- by cows of there breeds, claiming that the sity of careful treatment and liberal feeding law of kindness was as applicable to cows ket.The sending through of cheese in hot | ; Ar i or the liarity of the good article was its nutty aro- short-horns were in covery respect the aris.[of cows as tho proper supplement to good as to human beings.Milking should be weather was also assigned as a cause f small demand, inasmuch as it had glutéed .; : ; id that producers, Thorough breod- should always be mifked in the sare order, the market.Others said 4 in was alg and no faster than tho: cow would endure finding a partial depression in the market, nor.rg a eXpenses in a mistaken idea of economising, | bogan by cutting off tbeir most necessary cheese vorana colored, the general opinion question, ho said that dry bran was a good \"thus making an inferior quality.being that tho demand for white cheeso was material to supply a deficiency in phos-| Votes of thanks were © the incresso.a peck of mangolds ring President, to the American visitors, to on the increa-e.phates.He fed a Mr BALLANTYNE, M.P.P., said the experi- day, and found that it improved the quality | ence of the past season was pre-eminently |of the milk.passed to the retir- Mr Fraser, and Prof.Bell, after which the Convention closed.peux à 1 7 ro pes AE gro wm.i oil poy PLATFORM OF PRINCIPLES oP TUR LOYAL REFORMERS LEAGUE.Tux Reform Convention of the County of Huntingdon, in meeting assembled, after due consideration, feel it their duty to take the initiative in the formation of a political association to be known as Tuz Loyar Reronmeus\u2019 LEAQUE.In reviewing the legislation of the (Quebec Parliament during the past nine years the mem: THE CANADIAN GLEANER is publish.| troduced, while the Fatimates havo been ed every Thursday at noon.Subscription, taken in hand.Tho Government is so well 81,50 a-year in advance, postage free.Single prepared, that, unless the opposition ie poi te h.One dollar pays ; ; do oreht monts\" subecripti on, two ona or culiarly factious, the Session should close by à year and four months.Advertisements are Easter.Tbe time of the House last week charged soven cents per line for the first wag taken up by a dull debate on a motion insertion and threo conta for each subsequent | of Mr Mills, that a committee bo appointed insortion.Advertisements of Parma for Sale, to consider tho causo of tho present tinancial if not over 10 lines, are inserted three times ; À nt IL due Prot for $1.No advortisement inserted for less depression.This broug t a the ro ce- than fifty cents.\u2018ELLAR.Propristor tionists to thoir foet, who aired thoir hobbies pers of the Convention see plainly how cxtrava- RE EL et ; to their hearts\u2019 content.The motion was gauce, not altogether unmingled with dishonesty, x carried and tho committee is now at work has characterized the administration of the to discover what is apparent to overybody\u2014 l\u2019roviuce's affairs, and, with deeper feelings of \"that tho cause of the present bad limos ix, indignation and graver apprehensions for the that our people for tho last ten years havo future, they also trace à persistent, though most been apending a great deal more than they insidious, movement to place the government of carnod.its affairs under ecclesiastical control.To keep - these evils in check, if not to provide a remedy Father Chiniquy has published another for them, shall be the main purpose of the list of 400 new converts from Romanism, League.whose names aro given.Ie makes à most During the nine years of the existence of the TT TS separ argent appeal fur assistance, saying ho noeds Provincial House we have seen the | annual ex-; HUNTINGDON, THURSDAY, FEBY 24, 1876.money for two new churches in addition to penditure advance one-fourth, and this without a = - \u201c7 what he daily requires for relieving the corresponding increase in the revenue.1 he sure IT will be fresh in tho memory of our.orp brethren.Only lack of space pre- - prospeet now before the people of the l\u2019rovincu readers that last May a draft of a Platform vonts our ropublishing his lotter, The is, that, a few years hence, direct taxation will bmitted to Convention of Liberals movement among the French-Canadians of have to be resorted to.If this contingency is to was submitted to a ; \"Montreal is & truly marvellous one.be averted it can ouly be by an immediate change in this county.The Convention, aftor long: = ofpohcy.In comparison with the sister l\u2019ro- deliberation, declined then to take action.Open-Mexrivc.\u2014Tuo Sons of Tomperance Vince of Ontario we perceive that, with a smaller No subsequent meeting was found practi jold an open-mecting on Tuesday evening, population, and a revenue little inferior, our ex 3 ; ; ) en .sus Lirvely attonded.Mr McCallum | penditure, especially for civil government, is much cable until Monday, when it ro-assemblod in ; which was Luzely uded un greater, and that, though doing less for railroads sa qi , a wo.OCCUpied the Chair, and a diversitied i at, à : this village.There were 24 dologaios Mm > grammo was prosonted.The Rev.J.A at- oud other public iuprovement, our financial posi munici y in\u2019 : .ready to 1 \u201ction is comparable to theirs.ie Ontar sent, representing overy pass IA on, who is always so ready t respond to over ment por the pact nine years.bas the county, and comprising many of its the call of the Division, made a very son-|\"* ] 4 gt Md y hy 0 most prominent men.The Platform was sible and pointed speech.After enforcing EVER uearly three millions o ollars to rai pute by clause, considered and, the view that it was advisablo for all tem., and the draining of swampy lands and distribute taken up, clause y 50, 'perato people to co-operate, despite any a surplus among the municipalities of three mil votedupon.Some immaterial changeswere \\right differences in opition, ho wont on to lions, while our resources bave been frittered made, and finally it was adopted almost consider the practicability of enforcing Pro- away with little permanent base, and 8, unanimously, there being only four who hibition, ot which bo had doubts.Ln the page extent consumed by a horde of oflice- i -absonce of such a law wo were not to con.$.voted nay.The adoption of the Platform À ; ; ill: \u2018irave as these consideratio » to a com- : qe .sider ourselves at liberty to indulge at will ; | $ these considerations are to ol under such circumstances is highly gratifs- sider our ory should do for us munity mainly composed of farmers, whose in.ing.The delegates were not acting under 8 whut Prohibition would effect materi- Fr Is barely sulticient for the wants of their : ; ; .ostrai i cithi \u2018families, and to whom direct taxation, to which assing impulso of entbusiasm ; thoy were ally.The rostraint from within should be Ot ë , he P 8 OP bat th had not maturely 88 vflectual to individuals as that from with- such extravagance is leading, would be the great not ralifying what they Yi out.Ho pressed this point strongly upon {est of calamities, the character of the enact- considered.For over eight months they had £ho young peoplo present.Mr Standforth ments of the Legislature and the spirit shown by as young people ] r : [those wl all been acquainted with its contents and came jof Lachute gave a number of details re.those who control it are, in another way, equally together calmly and resolutely to take their , garding the progress of the Temperance disquicting and ominous of coming trouble.it.Tho disadvantare to the: Movement in Argenteuil.The remainder In view of this state of aflairs the members stand upon it.The disadvantage of the ontertainment consisted of music and ©f the Convention consider it to be high time Liberals of this county of not having a de- readings, while Mr S.(i.Dunsmore recited | that all who are in favor of a pure and economi- finite rallying-ground is now romoved ; along and pathetic poem, with a temper- cal adininistration of the provincial moneys, aud what principles they hold, what reforms ance moral to it.The playing of the string jo Hom the principle of ceil and religious liberty ; .arin and reed quartette, accompanied by Miss is dear should band themselves together for mu- they seek, are now ombodied in definite Boyd on th melodeon, was Lo good.A].tual protection and, by combined effort, seek to ee ere hl gather, a very agiéctle éréning a Ele the reo ny ne at bar y de atform is not of us ; ho is against us.\u201capent.) à prope e remains yot, to completo the organiz-; On Monday evening a meeting for the frees and the moulding of public Wimp In the ation, to have branches established ini{support of the Methodist educational insti.| ve.Thesmembers of the Convention.u re ; nds hote _ jwe., trus every township, and when that is done the i held in re a.de.rallying-ground will be found, and we now pro- + : \u2018 : avy ss * > \\ ; i hi Liberals of the county will act as one man, i; (ho chair.Addresses were delivered by | ceed to embody those priuciplex and aims which and make their influence felt.Is it too the Rev.Messrs Watson, Muir, Porter, and VE Venture to set torth as its prat'orm., m We are opposed alike to whatever tends to sanguine a hope, to look for the extension Winter.There was a respectable attend.; ; peel HE g pe, lance.Tho collection, inelaitins that ot the | \\Mexation, and to all laws and institutions con- of the samo organization throughout the, receding day.amounted to 840.i flicting with the British constitution.\\s Dritish Province ?The llierarchy may exult in P ; go CL ye ; subjects and living in a Dritish dependency, we hat they h \u2018omplished, but th A Pauveur Case \u2014This community was] conceive we have the same rights as if we lived what they have accomplished, but they may | ocked upon Saturday by the report of al the motherland, and that, therefore, we are find that resistance to their attempts to'child being found among the snow and under not bound to submit to laws and customs which make Quebec a State of their Church will circumstances which Joule tiko infanticide.{have been, in times past, repudiated, at much .il * Ds \u20ac « A ay r not hereafter Lo so orratic and divided as to Àt the coroner's inquest CR oh SONY gout of blood and treasure, by the peoples of Ire- \u2018the following facts were established © That 1304 Neotl c be futile.but that the friends of iusti di [ ing : and, Scotland.and England, and which would © futile, bul that tho Iriends of justice and! Marie Millejours, a young single won, | poy now be tolerated there for a moment.We liberty will resist them in ranks unsorried left Boyd Settlement on W elnesday to goto fail to see why, in its government, the Province and unflinching.Let the movement spread.her home at Dewittville, accompanied by of Quebec should differ from the rest of the Do.Tho Platform is, unlike the constitution of hor little girl, of threo years old.510 minion, or why we should have a less measure the Protestant Alliance Iv sari n | Stayed at the lower end of this village, At lof constitutional rights than is cujuyeU LY Our 10 rotestan lance, purely unsectarian | Widow Chambers's, overnight, and next, fellow subjects throughout the rest of the Con- \u2014men of all creeds and origins, who are {day proving wo stormy for her to resume federation.(EY TA \u20ac exists IN) - \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Che a dian Gleaner, agreed in their own minds that all connec- | her journey she remained.In the evening, tion between Church and State should be severed, can here anite\u2014while it supplies, what the Alliance does not, a basis for political action.The Alliance will be useful in its sphere, the carrying on of legal pre- ceedings against the infringers of religious and civil rights, so that neither organization clashes with the other.We are fast approaching a crisis which will decide whether this Province is to be ruled in the spirit of the British constitution or in that of Papal ecclesiasticism.It is, therefore, no time for half-measures, for a milk-and-water policy.There is no compromise possible botween us and those who adhere to the views expounded by Bishop Bourget\u2014no concession can reconcile us, no middle course is practicable.Either ovr opponents will win the day and reduce us to subjection, or those who take their stand on the principles embodied in the Platform shall see them prevail.It is a struggle between darkness and light, between despotism and liberty, and it now behoves cvery man to make his choice of | the side on which he will enroll himself.We beseech overy one who reads the Platform and agrees with it, not to hold black, but throw his influence on its side, and thereby strengthen the hands of the Convention.So soon as a sufficient number of members are obtained, township associations will be formed, who, at once, will elect Delegates to the Convention.The Convention, in addition to adopting the Platform, talked over the course it should pursue at the coming election, and, with Wm.B.Johnson, Esq., of Hemming- ford, in the chair, passed the following resolution :\u2014 Moved by Poter Gardiner, Esq., of Dundee, seconded by J.Curran, Eaq., of Have- lock : That this Convention seize the pre- sont opportunity, the first they have had, to record their high appreciation of the manner in which Andrew Oliver, .y CAP- ried out the contest consequent upon his acceptance of their nomination as their can- didato, regarding the honest, straightforward and Jerevering way in which he conducted the canvass as redounding to his own credit and that of the party ; and also to thank him for his spirited action in instituting the law-case and bringing it to an honorable termination, \u2014 Carried unanimously.Wa give no separate column to Parliamentary proceedings this week, for the very good reason that there is really nothing worthy of record.The House has hardly yol got into working-trim, the committees, which have been only lately organized, not transmitting much business.A great number of private and public bills have been in.she went ont with the little girl behind the house and remained absent about fitteen minutes.She returned, carrying her girl, and looking ill, and went to bed, where she remained very siek.On Saturday, Mrs Chambers, while about the stable, discover ed the corpse ot\u2019 a new born babe in the | snow, frozen stiff.On taxing Marie Mille [jours with the prrentago she admitted it, ;wheroupon Mrs Chambers made the facts known and the coroner was notified.The jury took the deposition of the young woman, Who was very ill, and that of Mrs the post-mortem examination.Tho result of their enquiry is ¢mbodied in their verdict.The jury say that the new-born temale infant, on whose body this inquest has been \\beld, was born very suddenty and by surprise, on Thursday night, the 17th instant, whilst her mother was out of doors.That the said mother, Mario Millejours, had gone out of doors with a little girl, her daughter.three years of ago; that she had slipped and fallen ; that labor-pains had suddenly set in, and that the child was suddenly born; that dropping in the snow the extremo cold chilled the child so us to stop rospiration, {and that the child died naturally before the mother recovered 0 Rs to resort to means to save the child.The Jury would strongly censure the said Marie Millejours for not giving due notice to the people of tho house where she was staying of the occurrence of the event, and thus have the body properly cared for.TEMPERANCE RE-UNION.\u2014 Yesterday evening a number of tho members of the Huntingdon Division of the Sons of Temperance drove out to Port Lewis on a visit to the sister Division, \u201cHope Ever,\u201d there.They expected to meet the Valloyeld Division also, but, doubtless for some good reason, its deputation did not come.Mr Mec.Callum was called to tho chair and a plea: sant evening was spent.Misa Maggio Brown gave two recitations and Miss Me- Callam a reading, and thero was no lack of vocal and instramental music.The (lec Club and String and Reed Band of Hunting.don Division contributed largely to the evening\u2019s entertainment.The Port lewis Di vision acted most hospitably and after partaking of the repast provided by them, the visitors started for homo.Mr Emberson, Special Inapector of Protestant Academies and Model Schools, in- spectod the now Model School at Iemming- ford, on Monday, the 14th instant.Ile expressed himself as well satisfied and comparing it with other Academies and Model hools, the Hernmingtord school stands as follows : \u2014In Religious knowledgo\u2014above average; in Arithmetic\u2014a little bolow avor- age; in Writing\u2014fair avorago ; in History \u2014above averago; in Composition\u2014vory fair ; in spelling\u2014vory good ; in Grammar \u2014very good.After this 8 non-Catholic Committee is to have full power over tho grant for unsectn- rian schools, and, as a consequence, fairer times may bo looked for\u2014whon right and not favor will be the rule.A new building the inspector demands, even though the school has to remain classed as only an Elementary school, Chambers, and of the physician who made: I We shall strive, by all legitimate means, to have the tiovernment of the Province conducted in future on the basis of equal rights and equal laws ; demanding the extinction of all distinctions {and privileges on account of nationality or reli gion.We protest against the exceptional legis- ilaton of the late and former sessions of the i House, as an invasion of our rights as British subjects and as subversive of constitutional government.Until all its people and organizations are placed on a perfect equality in the eye of the law we consider the Province cannot enjoy the prosperity it ought or that its peace rests on se- I cure ground.We disclaim all manner of intolerance, and will resent all interference with the due rights and privileges of all inhabitants of the | Province, and all we seek to dv away with is the granting to any class, body, or organization bene fits, immunities, or privileges which conilict with those of their fellow subjects.All we seek is a fair and open field to all, but none to be enriched or cxalted at the expense of the rest.\u2018The extension of the parish system into the Townships we hold to be illegal and unjust.Those municipalities were formed by Inglish- speaking settlers, in the belief that their lands should be free from ecclesiastical liens.Ihe bringing them within the network of tithes, fabri: que taxes, and canon law is an outrage on their inhabitants and a hindrance to their pros perity, causing the emigration of many of the best and oldest farmers.We hold that whatever virtue there may be in ancient statutes, be it less .| or more, the Hierarchy of the l\u2019rovince has gone beyond their warrant in assuming to have a like lien over those lands that they have claimed over such parishes as were in existence at the time of the (\u2018onquest.\u2018The hypothecating of these lands for ecclosias- tical dues is not all.We have to contemplate j the diversion of no small portion of the public funds to the support of sectarian institutions.Last year over one bundred thousand dollars were distributed among some fifty conventual and monastic institutions under the name of charitable and reformatory purposes, while a vastly larger number of similar institutions drew sums, : varying from a hundred to two thousand dollars, in the name of education.In al probability one- tenth of the expenditure of the l\u2019rovince goes to sueh institutions.Living in a country where Church and State are professedly separate we cannot regard this state of affairs as other than a gross violation of the constitution and a grave invasion of the rights of those who do not belong te the (\u2018hurch of Rome, and who thus see that body, under various pretences, endowed at their expense.In those few remaining countries where (I system of Church and State still exists the State has a certain control over the organization and action of the Church within its bounds, but in this Prov ince we have a Church Iistablishment which draws largely every year from the ordinary revenues of the public ehest, and is supported by the legal processes of our courts in collecting tithes to maintain its clergy, and taxes to erect and keep in repair its churehes and buildings, yet which is perfectly independent of our tiovern- ment.We suffer from all the drawbacks of a State Church without baving one of its compensations.The existence of this State within a State is injurious to the material welfare of the whole Province, à dead- weight on all enterprise, a discouragement to emigrants settling in our midst, and an outrage on the consciences of many, As a remedy for the evils thus indicated we seek \u2014 1.The repcal of a!l laws which confer rights on others.) ! ask for the League the support of ali who approve \"of the platform kere laid down.Deeply im- ' pressed themselves with the gravity of the exist- avy religious body that are not enjoyed by ing state of affairs in the Province they call upon aff who love their country, irrespective of creed 2.The abolition of grants to any religious insti- or race, to unite with them in making a stand on tution, whether Catholie or Protestant, under bebalf of constitutional government and the eco any pretence whatever.nomical administration of our resources.Should 3.The repeal of the law of mortmain and the the present effort fail, should the concessions and limiting the extent of land to be held by ecclesiastical bodies.1.The repeal of the laws exempting ecclesiastical property from taxation.In the distribution of the Education fund we protest against any public money going to any school, academy, or college wherein any sectarian instruction is given.We condemn the Burial Act of last session as destructive of the privilege which is the right of every British subject, that of appeal to the courts when an act of injustice is perpetrated.We ask to have the reading of legal notices at church doors on Sunday dispensed with in the Towuships, such a proceeding being grievous to tender consciences, We emphatically express our defestation of such legislation as that of the session of 1874-5, by which Parliament wrested the property belonging to the congregation of St.Patrick's Church, Quebec, from them and handed it over to a few ceclesiasties.With such a precedent the rights of property, the great bond of social order, are endangered.\u2018To sum up on this head, all we seek is that the fiovernment be freed from all entanglements with religious bodies: that the civil and the spiritual functions be exercised apart, and without interfering with each other in their respective domains.Turning to the administration of the I\u2019rovince\u2019s finances, we are satisfied that nothing short of a radical change, involving, among other reforms, the consolidation of departments, the discharge of superfluous and incompetent officials, and the reconstruction of our judicial system can prove effectual.The Lieutenant-Governor has been provided by L'arhament with a palatial residence, which is maintained at the expen-e ot the Province and much of his current expenditure, which ought to be borne by himself, also taken from the pockets of a longsuffering people.We contend that such a lavish expenditure is not only beyond the means of the l\u2019rovince, but hurtful, from setting to its people an example of ostentation and extravagance.lis salary of ten thousand dollars a-year we consider ample without perquisites.We favor the movement to abolish the Legis lative Council, which costs over forty thousand dollars a-year, without conferring adequate advantage in return, and the reduction of the number of Ministers.The Administration of Justice costs close upon half a million a-year, being equal to forty cents for every man, woman, and elild in the Province, and this for a peaceable and law-ob- serving people.Despite this enormous sum no country has, to suitors, dearer law or worse served courts.Their intricacy, delay and bigh costs are such that many choose to submit to injustice rather than appeal to them.Amon the reforms that should be instituted 1s the doing- away with the office of Solicitor-General, the revoking of the appointment of Stipendiary Magistrates, and the reconstruction of the courts and of their procedure.\u2018The railroad policy of the former À dministra- tion we regarded as objectionable, but that of the present, as developed at last session, we unequivocally condemmn.While regarding the extension of the railroad system as one in which our Government are justilied in co-operating we consider that the mode in which it should do so isto give assistance in propurtion tu What the people along the projected linea themselves subscribe.If the ratepayers in any section do not feel that the value to them of a railway justifies their granting a bonus or taking stock we think it is the best of proof that a railroad 1s not called for, and that the Government is not justified in giving at a subsidy.In every case, save where the railroad, pass through Crown lands.the amount of (iovernment aid should be regulated by the extent of the sacrifice the ratepayers to be immediately benefitted make.To not do so, to allot the aid in an arbitrary manner, is to convert the railroad fund into one for purposes of political favoritism, and so enatling the M inistry to purchase their continuance in office at the expense of the country.\u2018The Province sees the larger share of the tund going to railroads, to wards which the municipalities to be benefitted by their construction give little, and in some instances nothing, while railroads for which the ratepayers have sacrificed much have had their claims ignored or been allotted the lowest subsidies.L'hie act of last session.securing the construction of a trunk line from Quebec to the Upper Ottawa, we denounce as being not alone in flagrant violation of such an equitable mode of dealing, but as involving an expenditure altogether beyond the ability of the Province.To get railroads on the south side of the St.Lawrence the people have undertaken heavy burdens in the shape of municipal and private aid to them, but those of the North Shore are to be provided with a railroad almost wholly at the expense of the l\u2019rovince, none of the parishes between Quebec and Montreal contributing a dollar.We draw a distinction between the Government granting assistance towards railroads and its assuming them as public works.The magnitude of the outlay involved in the railroad in question, and of the possible liabilities it may lead to, render it in our estimation an imperative duty to use every effort to defeat its being carried out.We advocate the repeal of the present colonization and emizration enactments.Last year over fifty thousand dollars were absorbed for these purposes, while there is a fund to provide farms and homes for, among others, Canadians who have gone to the United States.No ad vantage has been reaped for the large sums devoted yearly to emigration, colonization, and repatriation, and there i+ good reason to believe that an enquiry would demonstrate that a large share of them has gone to unworthy purposes.As the nearest and most accessible part of the continent to Lurope no special inducements ought to be necessary to attract emigrants, while it is unjust te those who have remained in the l\u2019rovince, and a premium offered to shiftlessness, to take any portion of the public money to bring back people who left it voluntarily.By the adoption of these and other minor reforms, which it is unnecessary to here enumerate, the annual expenditure would be so far reduced that, as in Ontario, a balance would, at intervals, be available to distribute among the municipalities for local improvements.\u2018Po whatever tends to economy the league shall lend its aid, and set its face against all laxity and dishonesty, and insist, in particular, on the driving from power and office of those implicated in the Tanneries Land Exchange.While theso shall be the main objects of the League, it will also seek to exercise its influence in Dommion politics.Ît will stand, however, independent of ail existing political parties, whether Dominion or Provincial, and will cooperate only with such, and in so far, as they further its objects.In concluding, the members of the Convention reforms we seek be refused, we can plainly perceive that the present uneasiness and discontent which prevaile among no small section of our people will grow until the peace not only of the \u2019rovince but of the Dominion is threatened, and when no sacrifice of the present dominant party will be accepted.ANpw.OLIVER, resident.Robt.KELLY, Vice-President.W.S.MACLAREN, Secy.Huntingdon, Q., Feb.21, 1876.BY-LAWS.1.The League for the County of Huntingdon shall be composed of township associations and a juiut body to be known as the Convention, 2.The qualification of membership shall bo the signing of the Declaration, 3.Townships may be subdivided a8 found convenient, 4.Lach association shall meet ou tho first Monday | of Jauuary and elect a Chairman, Secretary, and the number of delegates to the Convention to which their numbers entitle them, the basis belog one delegate for every 25 electors who are members, | 5, \"I'he Convention is to bs composed of the dele.untes thus chosen, who shall clect yearly a President, Vice-President, Secretary and Trensurer.The Cons | vention\u2019s annual mecting shall be held ou the second | day of the Show of Huntingdon Society No.1, iu the village of Huntingdon, G.The Convention way be culled at any time Ly order of the President, or on a requisition by any three of the Association chairmen.; 7.The Convention shall Lavo tho Liinging out of candidates, to be chosen by ballot, the amending of the Declaration and by-laws, and the goncral shaping of the League's course and policy.8.The League shall adopt no can:lidate who refuses to sign its Declaration, and when no suitable candidate can be obtained, the members to be left to vote for whoever they may individually consider comes nearest to the League's standard.9.Young men, though not clectors at the time of joiniux, shall be eligible to be members, 10.The rules of order shall be those commonly adopted at public meetings, the presiding officer have ing a vote only when there is a tie.11, Any officer may be removed, or any member may be suspended or expelled by a three-fourths vote, provided due notice is given the accused.[Copies of the foregoing Platform may be obtained free on application, or will be sent by mail on receipt of stamps to pay postage.(\u2018opies will be placed at different public places in the County for all who desire to append their signature, and thereby become members of the League.All letters to be addressed to the Secretary, Huntingdon P.0.] On Sunday evening, while people were going to church, thoreflection ot a great five wis seen south-enst of this place.Tho five was at Chatoauguay, N.Y., and, starting in a drug-store, consumed three large buildings, two of them brick.The total loss is esti mated at $15,000.From lack of appliances the inhabitants could do little to stop the ravages of the fire, and had to send for the Malono fire companies.The Ladies\u2019 Aid Society of St, John's Lipiscopal Church bog to acknowledge the unsolicited donation of 825 to their funds from Julius Seriver, Esq., M.P.SPECIAL SESSION OF THE DISTRICT MAGISTRATE COURT.Present : J.O.Joseph.Esq., District Magis trate.February 12th, 1876.THE first case hoard was an accusation for gricvous assault by Louis Préjont upon Ar- sono Logor, n barber of\u2019 Beauharuois.M.N.Rapin was accused of being an accomplice and incitor in tho assault, lt appears from, the evidence that the plaintilf went, on the 29th January last,\u2014being tho evening of the Municipal elections\u2019 day,\u2014to the Rapin Hotel, and there took several glasses of liquor, after which, being somewhat oxcited through the influence of alcohol, ho com- mencod walking to and fro in tho bar-room, speaking loud and saying \u201che was notafraid of any man,\u201d and striking on the counter.M.Rapin told him that he was making too much noise, and that ho had better go away, and upon his refusing to leave, he asked L.Préjent to put him out.\u2018Tho plaintiff alleged that he took hold of him by the throat, choked him and broke his jaw bone, but all tho other witnesses declared that Préjent only took bold of his coat.Dr Pri- meau, who attended the plaintiff, stated that, being called for him on the evening of the 29th of January, he examined the frac- tare which he boro on his lower jaw, and that his opinion was that tho wound could not be but the result of a fall or a contraction of the muscles.'Tho dofondants were, in consequence, acquitted.M.John K.Elliott was acting for said defendants, The notorious Charles Roy dit Guénette appoared for the fourth or fifth time before the court, 'I'his timo it was a tub of butter stolen by him from JM.McFee, which was the cause of his troubles.Charles, the cream of the Beauharnois drunkards, the incorrigible drinker, mado a show of ro- pentanco, and for tho purpose of obtaining moro mercy, he confessed his fault and begged to bo judged at onco.The Magis- trato gavo him some useful advice and then condemned him to an imprisonment of six months with hard labor, and formally promised him that should he como again before the court, he would surely be sent to the ponitontiary for somo ycars\u2014L'Avenir de cauharnois.Tho lato Rev.Joseph Olivier Archam- bault, Parish Priost of St.Timothé, whose funeral took place on tho 15th instant, leaves by his will 81,000 for the purchase of an organ for tho church, 84,000 to the Montreal cathdral, 81,000 to the Jesuit Fathors, and $1,000 to tho Oblat lathors.Ile institutes tho Reverend Sisters Marie Joseph his universal logatoes.Thoy will draw from the fabrique of St.Timothé, during the 80 years following his death, an aunual sum of 8600 for money lent by him to said fabriquo and amounting to 848,000.\u2014Ibid.mn ere WEATHER REPORT.Temperature Wind, miles in Snow in Highest Lowest 24 hours inches 16 Feby.25 19 .00 .4.00 17 « \u2026 16 8.00 \u2026\u2026 0.00 18 « \u2026.24 14 LL 00 .0.00 19 « \u2026 3b 20 « \u2026 15 21 « \u2026 28 22 « \u201c3b A NEWS BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.London, Feb, 17.\u2014The steamer Strath- Clyde, which sailed from London for Bombay, had been into Dover Bay to land her pilot.As sho was shooring out again about % mile from the Admiralty Pier she was caught by the strong tide, which turned her D.00 .0,00 9 .00 .0.00 4 «eee 00.0.00 18 .OV .G00 bow toward the south-east.The steamer Franconia, which was coming down the Channel, ran into her with great force on her port quarter.\u2018Tho collision occurred at 4:30 pan.Two minutes afterward the boilers of the Strath-Clyde exploded and the steamer went to the bottom.The Fray.conia was badly damaged, but kept afloat, It is thought that all hor fore-compartment plates wero carried away.Two tugs imme.dintely took her in tow.Tho weather wag clear and the ses calm at tho time of the disaster.The Dover lifo-boat was launchod but was unable to reach the scone in time to rescuo any of the Strath-Clyde's passengers OF Crow.\u201c London, Fob.18.\u2014Of the twenty-nine persons landed at Deal from the unfortunate steamer Strath-Clyde many were greatly exhausted, and threo havo since died.The accounts of the number on board the Strath- Ctyde are conflicting.The afternoon papors give the number of passengers at twenty- three and the crow forty-seven, of whom eleven wero saved at Dover.\"Two ladies and threo gontlemen are reported to have Leen picked up by a passing vessel bound for London.The steamer Franconia, which belongs to tho Hamburg-American Went Lundin line, was outward bound for tho West Indies.She anchored in the Downs, off Deal, lust night, and steamed eastward gt daylight, coming to London to repair.She has sinco hoen reported as passing Thames.haven.Tho Strath-Clyde lies in the Fairway, about two miles off Dover, her masts standing twenty feet above the water.Of tho forty known to be rescued, only six were passengers, one of whom is among tho four who have since died.London, Feb.21.\u2014The Corporation of London have decided to give a grand foto of welcome in honor of the Pritico of Wiles on his return from India.Now York, Feb.21,\u2014Thero is no longer any reason to doubt that the Carlist movement has finally como to a disastrous end, \"The full of Estolla, which was roported yos- terday, is followed by the announcement of soveral other important victories, which render further resistunco by the Carlists hopeless.Don Carlos has disbanded the last pretense of a civil government which Lie maintained, and the members of his Cus- tile junta have fled across tho Pyrences, where they have been \u201cinterned,\u201d with a large number of Carlist fugitives, by tho French anthorities.This is practically the conclusion of a long war.Tho manifesto of the pretender, protesting against the elce- tions to the Cortes, was published in April, 1872.A rising in Guipuzeoa and several adjacent Northern provinces took place at once, and Don Carlos himself crossed the frontier and appeared in the field about the Ist of May, 1872.With many fluctuations, tho war Las continued without intermission over since.Don Carlos has once or twice been driven into France, but, occupying the mountainous regions of the North, his causo has maintained itself with surprising tenacity of life until now.tome, Fob, 22.\u2014It is announced that the Vatican has informed Don Carlos that ho ought to stop fighting, now that success is hopeless, London, Feb.22,\u2014In answoring a question with regard to fisheries, Mr J.Lowther, one of tho under Secrotaries for the Colonial Department, said the Government was cer- tuinly not recognizing tho exclusive right of Franco to fishing at Newfoundland, The question was now before a joint commission, and he had strong hopes that an amicable scltlement would be reached.CIVIL LIBERTY IN LOWER CANADA.UNDER this titlo Sir A.T, Galt has issued a small pamphlet, The causo of its having been written is explained in the first paragraph : In tho recont debate upon Mr Huntington\u2019s Argenteuil speech, Mr Masson rofozred to the part 1 had taken in regard to the measure of Confederation, and to the safo- guards which L insisted on, as roprosenting the Protestant minority in Quebee,\u2014argu- ing that theso precautions were unealled for in themsolves, and almost humiliating to them (tho French Roman Catholies) to grant, The position was also taken by himself «nd other speakers that the attitude recontly assumed by the Roman Catholic Hierarchy concerned the members of their communion only, and afforded no just grounds for apprehension or animadversion on the part of any l\u2019rotestant.Sir A.T.Galt goes on to explain that since tho timo ho secured thoso safeguards the Church of Rome in this Province has assumed a new attitude.He says : The status thus croated might, I think, have lasted for generations, had it not been for the extraordinary claims recontly advanced by the Roman Catholic Ilierarehy of Quebec, based ns they allego upon the authority of the Vatican Decrees and the celebrated Syllabus, though unsupported by Archbishop Lynch, of Ontario, and certuinly unclaimed by His Eminence Cardinal Manning, in his recont controversy with Mr Gladstone.These claims, 1 confess, filled my mind with uneasiness many months ago; they pointed to tho oxtinction of all freo thought and action on the part of our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, ultimately tended to the noutrnlization of tho rafe- guards held by the Protestants, espeoially in tho matter of representation.So much was I disturbed by these reflections that in May last, immediately after tho publication of Monscignour Bishop Bourgot's, pastoral, and boforo tho Quobec olections, I addrossed a lotter to tho lon.Joseph Robertson, then Treasurer.\u2018 In this letter ho oxpresses his apprensions as to tho course of tho llicrarchy, saying\u2014 What wo havo to dread is tho action ot tho formidable Church party, after it bas brought into harmony with itself all the members of its own Church\u2014all those of Fronch-Canadian origin.Our turn will then como, and, having under their control tho whole machinery of legislative and ex- ccutive power, the rights wo onjoy and the safeguards wo possess will bo one by one attacked, until our position will be so in tolerablo as to induce us to become, as their organs already torm us, aliens or strangers, or forco on us such a physical contest as must bo most doplorablo.To say that I had any tear of the ultimate result of tho resont attompt to make Lower Canada a Province ot Ecclosiastical Rome, would bo untrue.Tho strength of tho Protestant Church in tho Dominion, and on this Continent, rondera it boyond all doubt whero tho final victory must rest, but grovous injury must arise, not the least of which will the blight that will full on the prosperity of tho pooplo by tho mental subjugation of so large à part of our Roman Catholic fellow- subjects.Lo Ordinary party politics lose all their sig nificance in the presence of a contest which involves the right of holding any opinions at all hostile to the Roman Catholic hierar- chy\u2014and much reflection has convinced me that we shall bo fulse to our-own immedinto and future interests if wo hesitate in now ropudiating in the most decided manner the threatened encroachments upon the rights of our Îoman Catholic follow-citizens, equally as if our own were at this moment attacked.As the represontatives in the Government of the British Protostant element, I address you and Dr Church and ask you to obtain from Mr De Boucherville and your Roman Catholic colleagues a public and explicit declaration that thoy roject and refuse to acknowledge the authority claimed for his Church by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal in all matters pertaining to public law and the government of tho country, and that roligious belief shall nover be made the ground for interference by tho Roman Catholic majority, but that Catholic and Protestant, French-Canadian and British, shall ever bo maintained in their equal and co-ordinate rights.Without such a declaration for the reassurance of our minds, and which will place your Government equally with your opponents on a footing of decided independence of tho Church, I think you should not obtain tho support of the Protestants of Lower Canada, To this lettor Mr Robertson returned a soothing answer.Ile had laid tho matter be- foro the Cabinet, all the Cutholic members of which disclaimed any intention such was imputed and would resist any infringement on tho rights of Protestants.Sir A.T.Galt was not satisfiod with the reply and recent evonts havo confirmed him in his ap- prohensions.Ifo statos\u2014 Tho legislation of last session at Quobec, on tho school question, placing that of Roman Catholics wholly under the control of the clergy, was not ro-assuring,\u2014but the repeated and arrogant interference of bishops and clergy in elections has seemed to me to threaten the civil rights of all, both Catholic and Protestant, and to require united and vigorous offorts to repress it.Thero is no quastions of religious faith involved\u2014let any one worship God as bis conscience dictates, but the clergy, whether Protestant or Catholic, must be forbidden to interfere with secular affairs in any other character than as ordinary citizens.Tt is repugnant to all proper feeling that the tremendous woapons of religions anathema should be lightly used in mere secular warfare, or that the hold over tho human conscience entrusted to the minister of God should be exercised for any other purposes than those of piety and moral purity.Nor can it be believed that such a sovero and cruel pressure is put upon the consciences of our Roman Catholic fol- low-subjects for the paltry object of securing the ephemeral triumph of a temporary political party.The conclusion is inevitable, from tho nature of the means employed, that a deep laid plan exists for the complete subjugation of Lower Canada to ecclesiastical rule, with tho view of extending tho same baneful influence, hereafter, to the whole Dominion.In this view the importance of carly and stern opposition to the schemes now being gradually disclosed becomes the duty of good citizens, be thoy Catholic or Protestant.After quoting from Bishop Bourget\u2019s last pastoral ho points out that it ix tantamount to reducing Catholic electors to a state of bondage, that thoy are to voto as directed by their priests.On this he declares: It is not consistent with the good government, tho peace, and prosperity of the country thatany portion of our population should bo held in such bondage, and though, as a Protestant, it does not reach me, still as a citizen my rights are impugned, and my civil liberty impaired.Our constitution provides for government by the majority ;\u2014 if that majority be clected in obedience to the dictum of the Hierarchy, what possible hope will thero be for the Protestant minority to preserve theirdearest interests?One of our cherished safeguards is the possession of certain speciticd constituencies which cannot be changed, except by their own votes; but thero are many {oman Catholics in evory one of theso constituencies, and our safety hitherto bas lain in the political divisions among thom ; if these are to vanish at tho commands of tho Hierarchy our secur- ily is at once and forever gone.1 do not hesitato to say that I think our thanks are duo to Mr Huntington for his outspoken remarks in the County of Argenteuil.They wero, perhaps, politically distasteful to some of his frionds, But they embodied a most sorious truth in declaring that the attitude of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is antagonistic to the principles of civil liberty, and involves issues of a magnitude fur transcending tho ordinary political questions which low separate men, Other Conservative Protestants may per- ceivo somo different and yet safe course, but for my own part, acting under the senso of responsibility for my past acts, I find but one line of duty open to me, and that is to give my hearty support and sympathy to the Liberal Catholics of Quebec.With a plain and unmistakablo declaration on tho part of the Protestants that they will, equally for their Roman Catholic fellow-citizons, as for themselves, resist tho encroachments of the Church upon the State, it may be possible to arrest the arrogant course of Bishop Bourgot and his confreres, If not it requires no prophetic vision to predict an early agitation for the separation of tho Montreal, Ottawa and Eastern Townships districts from the ecclesiastical tyranny of Quebec.ith very great respect for tho gontle- men who have organized the Protestant Defence Association [ vonture to think that it Would bo wisor lo abandon an organization Which must necessarily repel conscientious Catholics, and considering that it is tho civil rights of froe speech, a {reo press, and free political action, and not in any way roligion itself which aro endangered, I would suggest that a moro goneral name might bo adopted and a much widor scopo given to its action, 80 as to include within its sphero all those who desire the action of tho State to be untrammelled by ecclosiastical influence and interference.À.T.GALT.Montreal, 17th Feb., 1876.FL MEETING OF THE GRAND ORANGE LODGE.ONB of tho signs of the times consequent, he doubt, upon the aggressions of the Rom- th Hierarchy in this Province is the re- markablo growth of the Orange Association during the past year.The 27th annual meoting of the Quebec Provincial Lodge was held on Tuesday in this city, and proved a greater success than any previous meeting held for fifteen years.Delegates were us semblod from overy county in the Province \u2014some mombers from tho back country having driven in their own teams distances from sixty to eighty miles.Tho usual rou.tino of ritual began the order of business, after which the Grand Master, Mr Breadner, addrossed the members as follows: Brethren, \u2014In meeting you again in annual session I fool gratitied and pleased to sco the interest which is taken by you in assembling from the various counties, not only from Quebec in the Kast, but from Pontiac in the Western extremity of the Province, and it augurs well for the future prosperity of the order in this soction of the Dominion.The Grand Secretary's report will show you the increase and prosperity of the order, and the Grand Treasurer's report tho healthy aud satisfactory state of the finances.In this Province we have a mighty foe to contend against\u2014one which is making itself felt not only amongst us but throughout the Dominion.It behooves you then, my brethren, to arise and quit yourselves like men when you see the men uf both political parties tondying to this wily and insidious enemy Ultramontanism, Of what use is it to you to meot in your lodge-rooms from mouth to month aud transact the mere routine business of the order if you do not by your votes and influence make your representatives in the halls of legislation feel that you have rights to uphold and interests to rotect, and if they permit those rights and interests to be infringed upon they shall not have your support?Let the bond of union which binds us for our common Protestant ism bo drawn more closely, and thereby mako our power folt not only for good to ourselvos but for those who are bound by the yoke of a religious system which we consider is a burden and an oppression upon them, Desirous of living at peace with all men let us cultivato more and more that love which inspires us with kindly feelings to our Roman Catholic citizens, thus showing to them that we are not their encmies, but their frionds ; and, above all, let us bo of that band of freemen whom the truth makes freo.Allow mo to bring to your notice the papers in this Province which have been put under the ban for the Protestant principles enunciated by them, and recommend them for your support, and then there is the Orango Sentinel, published in Toronto by Bro.Bailey, a paper connected with no political party, but the exponent of Orange auld Protestant principles.A great work is going on for the evangelization of our French-Canadian fellow-subjects.In cach of the Protestant churches to which we belong thoro is a French mission work carried on.uive these missions your support by your prayers and contributions, and this; way, in my opinion, is tho best and most | efluctual to overthrow the enemy 1 formerly \u2018 alluded to.The various committees on credentials, correspondence, finance, ete., were appointed, and tho Grand Secretary read his report, writer of this communication.What is the threatened evil which he expocts toavert by means of that Alliance?Here it is in his very words: \u201cOne thing appears evident.At the next Local and Dominion clections tho Jaberals in the Province of Quebec will be swept from the polls as they havo been in Bellechasse and Charlovoix, and the Church party will reign supreme.\u201d Liberal party swept away from the polls! This is a political and not a religious issue.Every Canadian who sincerely loves his country ought to exhaust every coustitu.tional means of socuring for it what he deems the bost form of government before plunging it into a religious war.Have the Protestants of the Province of Quebec dono that?Have those who origi nated the Protestant Defence \u2018Alliance done that?They mourn the approaching defeat of the Liberal party at tho polls, but what have they done at the polls for the Liberal party ?For tho last twenty years, inthe Province of Quebec, the Fronch-Canadians havo been ~o nearly equally divided in the Legislature botween Conservatives and Liberals that the English-speaking Protestants, with their fourtesn or fifteon votes, hold the balance of power.They invariably threw their weight In favor of the same party which the Protestant Defence Alliance is now denouncing.Look at the votes taken in Parliament dur ing that long period.How many will you find that have not been decided in favor of the Conservatives, what your correspondont calls the Church Party, hy the English Protestant vote?Do you want the opinion lately expressed by tho Toronto Globe, which you will scarcely recuse for its Roman Catholic ten- dencios?Iero it is: \u201cThat the Protestants of Quebce havo anything very specially to complain of wo can scarcely bring our minds to believe.Tu days pust tho great majority of them have, in political matters, co-operated with the French-Canadian Conservatives.In anti.Confedoration times they eagerly and oner- gotically did their best to build up that sys tem of French domination, of which some of them are now bitterly complaining.Since our present political system went into oper ation theso very persons have in general supported those politicians and statesmen who have been most keonly Conservative, both in political and ecclesiastical matters.\u2018The French Liberal and progressive party has received but little countenance from the Linglish Protestants of the Provinces of Que- bee, and even yet the past state of feoling and action does not appear to be groatly changed.That à change is now coming round scems possible.\u201d \u201cThat a change is Now coming round seems possible! What a mockery! with the Hon.Mr Baker appealing to the County of Missisquoi, after his acceptance of office in Mr De Boucherville's Government, and being unanimously returned last week ! Let the Protestants of the Province of Quebec begin by doing their duty as citizens, Let them show that they can take an inter est in public affairs, looking a little less after the loaves and fishes, and a little more after good government.If they think that tersts.Of the right of Parliament to prohibit the importation of liquor there could bo no doubt ; in regard to the manufkcture it was doubtful.The position of tho local legislatures had to be considered.As an article of commerce, it was questionable ns to the right of any legislature to prohibit its manufacture.He would, however refrain from giving any opinion of these matters.As to the recommendation of Plobis- vito, ho did not think it was a constitutional courwo, and it would not bo acceptable to Parliament.It might be possible by & short act to authorize the senso of the people by a direct vote, perhaps at the time of'a general election, apart from the political issues, voting you or nay on prohibition.The Pre mior c¢ntered somewhat largely into the consideration of the genoral practical diffi - cultios which presented themselves to many minds honestly dosirous, us ho himself was, to diminish the ovil of intemperance.Ho rogrettod that the offorts of the temperance people had not resulted moro satisfactorily, a tact which was domonstratod by the in- croasod consumption of ardont spirits in the Dominion, If the traflic was increasing it wits but reasonable to suppose that the peo- plo of the Dominion wore opposed to prohibition.Alluding to tho commission appointed to visit thoso States of the neighboring Republic whore such laws wore in force, he thought there was a defoct in their instructions in not instructing thom to inquire into tho subject of tho consumption of chloral, absinthe, und other substitutes for liquor.Ile stated that he did uot see his way cloar to introduce a prohibitory measure ut prosent, but that ho was ready at any time to rendor all practical aid in the promotion of tempor- ance.Hon Me Vidal, on behalf of tho deputation, thanked tho Promier fer his enn- did and frank expressions of opinion, lt was a satisfaction to know just what we had to do, or to ascertain what woull bo the aim vf à prohibitory alliance.Hamilton, Feb, 17.\u2014Yesterday the Provincial Orange Lodge of Western Ontario transacted important business.Tho following resolution wns adopted : \u201cThat in the opinion of the Grand Lodge the time has ar rived when tho Orangemen of Canada, without reference to polities or political partion, must unite in one grand political phalanx in order to stop the encronchments of tho Ho- man Hierarchy upon the body politic of the country, and that tho following platform te adoptod :\u20141st.Unswerving and untiring allegiance to the Mother Country und tho British connection.2nd.No grants of money from the public puro for sectarian purposes.drd.No Separate Schools, bat treo secular olueation for all.4th, Taxation for all property held by religious bodies upon its full assossed value.Oth.The opening of all public institutions in the land, religious or otherwise, to public inspection by government officials, ith, That it shall be the duty -of tho County Master in every Oranzge county in the event of a general election or other election taking placo cither for tho Local or Dominion Par- lintnents to submit Lhis platform to the ean- didate or candidates to ascertain it\u2019 thoy will support it or not, and then to call a county meeting before the day of polling ; and if as the wife of a wealthy man.A moath age she countod carefully her horse-car tickets, and now she has her carriage and pair like tho wife of the British Minister.A rather absurd marriage took place lutely between Mr Sterling Crawford, a woalthy Scotchman about seventy years of ago, and the Duchess Dowager Montrose, who is also old.The Grahamos, however ull want money badly, but the rage of Mr Crawford's nephew and heir is amusing.The Prince of Wales\u2019 rocoption at Gwalior appears to have boon exceptionally grand.The Maharajah Scindia mot his Royal Highness soveral milos trom the city, and accom: panied him to the Old Palace, the route to which waa lined by 14,000 ot Scindia's pickod troops.The Prince aflerwards mountod an elephant wearing gold-embroid- vred velvet trappings, and followed by a procession of olephants and Scindia\u2019s in- funtry, proceeded through the crowded Lazaar to the new l\u2019hoobagh Palace, which is commanded by tho British fortress of Morar.Gwalior was brilliantly illuminated in the evening in honor of the Prince's visit, The population, though not warmly demonstrative, manifestod great ourioeity to seo the Prince.On his entry, thousands crowded the windows and housetops, and ucked the beautifully picturosquo bazaars.\u2018ho Maharaja's hospitality towards tho l'rince and the gontlemon accompanying him is unbounded.Cunious DIsPUTE ABOUT AN Kpitars.\u2014 The Drogheda (lreland) Guardians havo «pont some time in discussing an opitaph which had beon on a tombstone in the man Catholic Comotery ot Mayne, and which was as follows :\u2014 \u201c Beneath this stone here lieth one That till his friends did please To heaven | hope he's surely gone To enjoy eternal cas lle drank, he sang whilst hero on earth Lived happy as a Lord And now hie hath resigned his breath God rest him Paddy Wand\u201d Tho inscription was gradually becoming effaced by timo, whon it was re touched and restored by the direction of Mr Owen Markey.Tho attention of the Rov James Powderly, I.I\u2019.of tho parish in which tho churchyard is situate, was thon directed ty tho subject, and he, believing tho epitaph to bo of an unseemly and immoral charactor, caused it to bo offaced, with the excoption of the last line.A lotter was rend from the Most Rev.Dr Gottigan, Roman Catholic primate, in which the epitaph was donounced \u201cprofane, immoral, and scundalons.\u201d On the other hand, a letter was road, signed by threo purish priests who had been curates in the parish, express ing tho opinion that the epitaph had never hind a domoralising effect on tho parishion- ors.Mier a long discussion Mr W.Whit- worth, M.l., moved that the board should order Father l\u2019owderly to efface tho objectionable epitaph.Mr Chadwick seconded the motion.Mr Mangan moved and Mr M'Geown seconded an amondment, \u201cThat tho epitaph should not be effaced.\u201d A division was then taken, when there «pponrod 13 for tho amendment and only 5 tor the motion, but it is not likely that tho matter from which we cull the following: Public | the Liberal party deserves their support let interest in the principles and worth of the them, in tho constituencies where they are Association has increased tenfold, as shown by large accessions to its ranks during the year, and by moro active sympathy shown it by the clergy and leading laymen, Now lodges have been organized in districts in the Eastern Townships where there never ; The unity of action, when was a lodge.necessary, has been proved during the year.and rigorous measures are being doveloped to make the order a daily sentinel upon the usurpation of the Romish Ilierarchy everywhere throughout the Dominion.while desiring to live amicably with, and even pro- teet their Roman Catholic fellow-citizens, The clection of officers for tho cnsuing year resulted as follows: Grand Master, Major Joshua Breadner; Deputy Grand Masters, Captain John Woodward and John Clawson; Grand Chaplains, Rev, Mr Doudict and Rev.Isaac Thompson; Grand Treasurer, £.T.Scott; Grand Secretary, James Barr; Deputy Grand Secretary, Isanc Kingsbury ; Grand Lecturer, William Johnston; Diree- tor of Ceremonies, Dr Wells, It was decided to hold the next Grand Lodge meoting in Waterloo.A vole recommending the Orange Sentinel, a weekly paper published in Toronto, was unanimously passed.The following resolutions were unani-, mously carried : No.1.Resolved,\u2014\u201cThat tho members of this Grand Lodgo have much pleasure in bearing testimony to the manly and straicht- forward course pursued by Messrs John Dougall & Son, of the Montreal Witness, in tho struggle now going on in the Province of Quebec between Ultramontanism and civil and religious liberty, and that the sum of in a majority, return Liberal members, and, | without endangering the peace of the Pro- ; vinco, they will obtain à Government which \u2018will secure to every church and every religious bLeliof equal rights and equal libertios.1 remain, my dear Sir, Yours truly, Quebec, l\u2019ob, 18, 1846.IL.G.Jory, CANADA.The (lobe, referring to the trade and the navigation returns of Canada for the past, says : \u201cThe volumo of trade has been every year increasing, but the part of that \u2018volume which tells of increased extravagance and lavish expenditure has increased in na i far higher ratio than the other part has, i The exports which, in 1868 >> THE PROTESTANTS OF LOWER CANADA AND THE FRENCH LIBERALS.(To the Editor àf th» Quebec Chronicle.) Srr,\u2014I notice in your 1ssuo of to-day al correspondence ontitled \u201cWhither aro we | dritting ?\"' which concludes in tho following | Atthe in session at Ottawa last week and appoint- next Local and Dominion clections the Lib-| words: \u201cOne thing appears evident.erals in the Province ot Quebec will bo swept from the polis ns they have been in! federatioh, imported about two hundred millions of dollars worth of goods above the value of our total exports.\u2018These goods, of course, had to be paid for, and whilo they imply an amount of expenditure which sponks well for the money power of the Dominion, they tell of a rate in living, clothing, and luxuries, which could not be permanently maintained.\u201d In the case of the Oka Indian outrage the Protestant Defence Alliance are pu-h- ing the legal prosccation of the authors thereof, and Judge Johnson has granted the petition setting aside the judgment and ordering & new trial.St John, N.B., Feb.17.\u2014This evening between seven and eight o'clock, threo men in a sleigh drove along Prince William streot and stopped in front of tho offico of (roorge Pbillipe, banker.One man remained in the rleigh, the sacond secured Phillips\u2019 door 80 that no one could pass out, while the third broke in the show window with a stick in the.and bagged the gold and notes lyin window, to the value of $1,176.The trio then made off in the sloigh down Prince William street towards Reed's Point.The lice have since arrested two men named evine and Seale, supposed to be the robbers, but there was no money on the prison- era.The Dominion Prohibitory Council was ed a deputation to wait on tho Premier.Mr Mackenzio received the deputation with great pleasure, and was gratified with the Bellechasse and Charievoix, and the Church: fair and moderate tone of tho remarks made arty will reign supreme.man under the circumstances say thero is no Perhaps it is! on the subject of prohibition\u2014for himself, at that it should bo so, as the remody, if any, will bo sooner applied; but will any | he was known to many present to be favorable to tho object in view\u2014the suppression of intemperance.With the responsibilitien need of a Protestant Defence Alliance?\u201d [+ office there was a necessity for caro and Yes, I will, on tho authority of tho judgment, as tho mattor involved many in- | ton society, not only as a Senator's wifo but were very fine animals.: conversion of England aud the independence I to her own ruin, .pretty and young, while he is rich, rather neither of the candidatos will support the! will end thus, an the Rov Mr Powdorly, it said platform, thon it shall bo the duty of|seems, claims the legal right to offuco the the County Lodge to bring out a candidate.epitaph or remove the tombstone altogotber \u2018 if MINES, Quebec, Feb, 18.\u2014 Reports come from the; if_ho ro phouves teachers of Protestant national sche ols that the Roman Catholie clergy are visiting their! schoolrooms and taking down the names of iy \u20ac SICAL the Catholie scholars attending thore.This! proceeding is found in several instancou to considerably interfero with tho school WILL AR GIVEN BY THE duties.\"Members of the Huntingdon Brags Band Quebec, Feb, 21,\u2014Tho Roman Cathalie x THe priest spoken of on Saturday as having ad pow HALL, (formerly the American Presbyterian dressed the children was not Father Burke, Church), Huntingdon, but Father O'Connor.It is understoml that: on FRIDAY EVENING, the 26th Inst.a meeting of tenstees of the national school was held on this matter on Saturday after.TPE PROGRAMME will he entirely new, com- noon, alo that the Bishop of Queber haw L PrivoK Souk Ducts, Solow, aud Choruses, with written a formal letter to Archbishop Tasch.| rn, widessplitinie Farces, « ntôtherl oreau on tho matter ts ascertain whether \u201cTHE STUFID SERVANTS the priest acted or not on his own responsi.CC STHE HUNGRY MAN AND THE SACKS\" bility.The proceedings are conducted very And \u201cWANTED A NURSES carefully and privately, however, and no «ij be presented with now Socnery and Cortumes by newspaper men wero presont at the mect- | a first-class Company, na.1 here is much excitement among THE BRASS BAND Protestants on the subject as they consider | wii play à number of nes Selcctions.it an infringement of their educational | IB 8 rights and directly opposed to what Mr! Bar\u201d The feature of the Evening \u201c6a Langevin laa said in Parlinment as to Pro.\u201cTHB ENNISKILLEN DRAGOONS.\" testants in Quobec being accorded nll the: Oysters, Fee Cream, and Refreshments will be sold righta thoy require.A general donunci- during the evening.fo an ) ,, drnission 25 cents, ation of city newspapers was launched from Drors open at 6 30 tho pulpit of St.Patrick's Church, Quebec, | - on Sunday, for publishing articles inimical to the ope and the Catholic religion, Quebec, Feb 27.\u2014 Archbishop Tasche- reau\u2019s letter in reply to Bishop Williams ; anent the National School case, has been received and although not made public it in understood, it censures the Rov Father O'Connor for his unseemly conduct in the matter.Tho letter is understood to be entirely satisfuctory to the aggrieved parties, They have had sumo very questionable\u2019 lecturers in Montreal of late, prominent among whom havo been Mr Powors, a Homo Rule member of Parliament, and Father O'flielly who loetured to a large audience on Monday evening, Among other things he said: Ireland was destined some day to! be a nation, Three things had to take place, tho universal power of the Romish See, the A GRAND AND VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT Business at 7.30 p.m.VALLEYFIELD MARKETS, (Dy telegraph to the (ileaner.) Peas, per 70 pounds, 80 to 00 cents.Oats, per 40 pounds, 35 to 00 conta, Barley, per 50 pounds, 40 to 00 cents, Beans.per 70 pounds, 70 to 00 cents.Linseed, por 60 pounds, 81.00.Oatmeal, per 100 pounds, $1.50 to 80.00, hatter, per pound, 18 to 19 cents.Pork, per 100 Ihe, 83.50 to 80.00.Wirriay Tonn.BEAUHARNOIS MARKETS.(Nsw telegraph to the (ileansr.) Peas, per 70 pounds, 80 to 00 cents.Oats, per 40 pounds, 35 to 00 cents, Barley, per 50 pounds, 45 to 00 conta.Beans, per 70 pounds, 70 to 00 cents.Jutter choico 18 to #0 cents per pound.Linseed, per 60 pounds, 00¢ to 81.Oatmeal per 100 Iba.$1.80 to 80.00, Butter, per pound, 18 cents.K.N.McFeg, Grain Buyer, Caverhill's Building.of Ireland.If Ireland was to be denied her freedom not all the cannon and munitions of war that lngland could land on her shores would prevent the expression of her | national sentiment.England, in refusing to Irelond Home Rule was paving the way Huntingdon.\u2014(reenbacks bought at 87 No one could telf exactly to 90 rente.what was to be the future destiny of Ireland, }- __-7 Co but certain it was that when the green flag Montreal, Wednesday \u2014Gold 1144.(7reen- of Ireland will wave over the prostrate form backs bought at 874 to 00 cents.Silver 10 of Brittania and tel! her to rise and repent, to 15.the great tableau of history would be pro- scnted.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 VIGER CATTLE MARKET.\u2014 .Tursbay, Feb, 22.\u2014There wns a very A Washington correspondent says: Society | small namber of cattle on this market to- has boen struck to its profoundest depths day and none of them of good quality.Two this week by the marriage of Senator Chris- | mich cows were sold at 835 cach, two at tianey, of Michigan, to Miss Lugabeel, of, 830, and one small ove at $22.There was the Bureau of Engraving.That is, she was 15 good deal of enquiry for good cows, and a temalo Treasury clerk.She was poor,\u2019 prevy high figures would be paid for them, ! ut thero were none on the market.There homely, and old, It was tho union of spring\u2019 were two protty good looking \u2018a pringers,\u201d and winter, youth and age, and of course the for which $35 and $40 was asked, but they gr==ips will talk.Some of our clderly ladies were not sold in the forenoon.There were hold that a man of sixty-four has no busi-' three \u201cbeef critters\u201d on the market, two ness to marry a girl of nineteen, and that bulls and a small heifer; one of the bulls due respect to the lato Mrs Christiancy | was sold for 835, the others remained an.should have kept him out of a second mar- sold, as the prices asked were considered to riage 80 soon as this, but the young lady : be rather high.There were a few small was protty and willing, and tho Senator is a, sized calves that were sold at from 6340 95 good deal of an \u201cindependent,\u201d and got each.There were oleven head of sheep married as he votes\u2014to suit himself and his | and lambs on tho market ; they belonged to own convenience.Miss Lugabecl ateps from Mr Joseph Latham, of Hemmingford, and a clerk\u2019s desk into the forefront of Washing.were sold in one lot for $6.50 each; they MONTREAL WHOLBSALE MARKET.¢ (late rentre A nt Marre à Ce 98 Foundling st.Montreal) > Merchants, &c, BUTTER\u2014Good to Prime.33 Dairy, Yair to Good?t = 7 Ftore packed.\u2026.\u2026.19 @ 30 CHEESE-\u2014Factory, good to Prime Il @ 14 Fair to teresa, Aj 3 LARD, in tubs, &#B.A3 @ .13} Pails .00 A 00 PORK-\u2014Meas, Inepected.2150 ® 21.00 Thin \u201c \u201ces vere 31.00 D31.80 HAMB-\u2014-Smoked ¥B.\u2026.3 @ 13 Canvasaed ., de @ 14 TALLOW, ¥ B®.0.o0 v000u0000.OY @ 08 KGS, perdosen.+000.20 @ 22 FLOUR\u2014 barrel, Saprrior Extra.5.10 © 5.20 Kxtra Buperfine.490 @ 595 Fancy.s\u2026\u2026., 000 @ 000 Spring Extra.4.50 né &A5 Buperfine.@ 4.20 Strong Bakers\u2019 @ 480 Fine.Ma 000 OATMEAL, & 2008a.460 @ 000 WHKAT\u2014Canads Spring SUB.1160 @ 112 PEAS, # 66b.+000 00000010 85 @ 0 OATS, PP 3I0M LL.Lee vere.A0 @ 37 BARLEY, @ 48th.@ 44 REANS, aob.\u2018a 0.00 FLAXSKED, § 560, @ 120 CORN, # 56b.D> 60 BIRTH.On the 16th instant, the wife of Juseph W.Wilson Hinchiabrook, of & daughter.DRUG HALL.VHE HUNTINGDON DRUG HALL, formerly carried on by MR.JAMES TULLY, has just undergone a thorough renovation and ro.plenishment, and is now re-opened to the patronage of the public, whose orders aro respectfully solicited, with the assurance that punctuality and precaution In thelr preparation will bo carefully adhered to.All communications may be addressed to James O.Bhanks, Huntingdon, PQ.Francia W.Surrey, M.D, Ausx.Camznon, MD), ARBBR'S SHOP .\u2014Jnst opened at Moira Hotel a Barber's Shop, wheres hair-cutting, shay.ing, ke, in done in good style.Give me a trial.Huntingdon, Fel.24.W.0.HEARN.I.0.A.A\" the invitation of Loyal Orango Lodge No.44 Mr Sellar will deliver a Lecture to the Brethren, in thelr Hall, in the village of Huntingdon, on tho evening of TOKSDA Y, 29th February.Subject : \u201c1088 and 1876: Then and Now\u201d Daors open nt 7 ; chalrto be taken punctually at hatf-past 7.In response to Brotlier Chiniquy's appeal for help an admission foo of 15 cents will be charged, the whole amount realised to be ment to him, Well wishers, both Ladies and Gentlemen, are cor.dislly invited, NOTICE.LL parties indebted to R.A.Cowan are herely notifledl to call and aettle thele accounts on or before the 15th day of March, ne after that date the book will be handed over to a lawyer, Huntingdon, Feb, 34, 1878, Huntingdon Horse Importing Comp'y.FIVE celebrated stallions \u201cBritish Splendor,\u201d (iad.stone\u201d and \u201cDerby,\u201d together with all the other property belonging to the Huntingdon Horse [mport.ing Company, will ba sold without reserve to the highest bidder in the Village of Huntingdon, at the Company's Stables, On WEDNESDAY, the 16th March Noxt, At TWO o'clock PM, sarFor pedigrees, terme and other particular apply to the undersigned WM.W.CORBETT, SecFrens H.HTC.PEDIGREE STOCK.HF SALE three pure-bred year old Ayrshire L Bulls.DAVID BENNING.AUCTION SALE.Feb.23.V ILL be sold by Public Auction on MONDAY, 28th February, 35 acres of Standing Bush in lots to suit purchasers, the property of Me John Patterson, fe.The timber fa on Lot No.18, 2nd coucession of Elgin, PH.\u2014The timber only to be nold and thee: years given to remove it TERMS \u2014Eleven montha credit on furnishing approved joint notes, or seven cents off the dollar for Cash payment Bale at 10 o'dock am.D Suaxks, Aus tioncer.IN THE CIRCUIT COURT, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF HUNTINGDON.Province of Quebec, Present: The Honor District of Besubarnole table Mr Justice Bélanger, Tuesday, the Eighth day of February, One Thousand Kight Hundred and Neventy-cix.Samuel Cottingham, of the Parish of St, Malachie de Ormstown, in the County of Chatenuguay, Trader, a l'laintiff.James Foster, of the Township of Godmanchester, in the County of Huntingdon, Farmer, Defendant.AND Abraham Saddler, of the Pariah of 56.Malachie do Ormstown, in the County of Chateaugnay, Farmer, Tiers saisie.I* is ordered on mation of Mr John J.Maclaren, Counsel for Plaintiff, inasmuch as it appears by the return of James Feeny, one of the Bailifis of the Superior Court lor Lower Canada, acting in the District of Beauhamoin, on the writ of attachment after jndgment In thin cause Issued written, that the Defendant, James Foster, han left his domicile In the Province nf Quebec, and cannot be found in the Dis trict of Beauharnois, that the said Defendant by an advertisement, to be twice Inserted in the Knglish Innguage in the newspaper of the Village of Hunting.don called the Canadian Gleaner, and twice in the French language in the newspaper of the Town of Benuharnois called L'Avenir de Brauharnais, be noti- fir to appear before this Court and there to answer the demand of the Plaintiff within two month after the last insertion of such advertisement, and upon the neglect of the raid Defendant to appear and to answer to such demand within tha period aforesaid the mid Pinintiff will be permitted to proceed to trial and judgment as in a case by default, By the Court, JOHN MORRISON, ce In the Circuit Court in and for the County of Huntingdon, Present :\u2014The Hon.Mr Justice BaLaxoen.FAVUESDAY the eighth day of February, one thousand cight hundred and seventy-six, Province of Quebec, District of Beauharnois, f SAMUEL.MONTGOMERY, of the village of Huntingdon, in said County and District, trader, ve Plaintif.JAMES GRANT, of the Township of Hinchin- brook, in said County and District, and now io parts unknown, farmer, Defendant.WALTER WELSH, farmer, and JOHN FEENY, farmer, both of the Township of Hinchinbrook aforesaid Tiers Saisie.It is ordered on motion of Me John J.MacLanes, counsel for the Plaintiff, inasmuch as it appears by the return of James Feeny, one of the Bailifla «f the Superior Court for Lower Canada, acting in the District of Beauharnois on the writ of attachment before judgment in this cause issued, written, that the Defendant, JAMES GRANT, has left his domicile in the Province of Quebec and cannot be found in the District of Beauharnois ; that the said Defendant, by sn advertisement to be twice Joserted in the Eoglish language in the newspaper e village of Hunting.don called The Canadian Gleaner, and twice in the French language in the newspaper of the town of Beauharnois, called L'Avenir de Beauharnois, be notie fied to appear before this Court, and there to answer the demand of the Plaintiff within two months after the last insertion of such advertisement, and upon the neglect of the said Defcodant to appear and to answer to such demand within the period aforesaid, the said Plaintiff will be permitted to proceed to trial and jadgment as in a case by default, By the Court, J.MORBISON, CCC.; Pi * z- Tie av = ATR am \u201cpen mesa 1 0 So + ; + re ell ae, yor TO = anki le OLD WISDOM.Tus environs of Molsheim are amongst the fairest in the rich aud fertile Province of Alsace.The verdant pasturagos which surround this littlo town are watered by the rivor Bruche, and scattored hamlets and highly cultivated fields diversify the scone, whilst the bold mountain-range of the Vos.os lends a certain grandeur to its aspect.| Fhe landscape, alternately rural and wild, arrests our attention each moment by some fresh contrast.Beyond theso meadows spangled with flowors, these golden cornfields and blooming orchards, the mountains appear in the distanco, covered with their dark pine-woods, which cast a gloomy eha- dow over the valley beneath; and yet this sombre background sorves only as a setting to tho landscape\u2014a cheerful character predominates throughout.The bamleta are white and glistening, the little gardens carefully kept, and the roads shady and plea sant.Ifere and there may be seen little wayside inns, used, not so much as resting- places for the wayfarer, as points of rendez vous for tho neighboring peasantry, where the young men meet to form plans for amusoment, the middle-aged to escape from somo domestic caro, and the more advanced in years to renow the remembrance of their youth.Several guests wero sented on a bonch at tho door of one of these rustic taverns, and their boisterous merriment proved that the glass had not circulated in vain.The entertainer, who might easily be recognised by the care he took duly to replenish the glasses of his companions, was a young man in the heyday of life, but whose furrowed countenance indicated the indalgence of violent passions.Ilis dress marked him out as being less of a peasant than of a workman.He had just called for a bottle of cher _-brandy with which to regale his companions, when ono of tho party, looking up the road, exclaimod : \u2018Bring another glass here, my friends ; here is Father Solomon !\u2019 \u2018The Old Anabaptist!\" was re-cchoed on every side.\u2018Oh, let us make room for him by all moans,\u2019 said the giver of the treat: \u2018I must have a glass with Old Wisdom.\u2019 \"The new-comer, whose approach had been thus hailed, was a man far advanced in lite, wearing the grave and antique garb which is peculiar in those parts to the sect of Ana- baptists.He walked with a firm step, which denoted neithor hasto nor slotbful- ness, leaning the while on a staff formed from a knotted vine.His countenance was venerable, and yet full of cheerfulness.Ax soon as he came within hearing, all the guests began to call to him to join them, and tho master of the entertainment rose and advanced to moet him.\u2018Good-day to you, Andrew,\u2019 said the old man in à friendly tone ; \u2018and good-day to you, Stephen, and all of you.Is it here, then, my friends, that you pray to God on tho Sabbath-day ?\u2018And you, Fathor Solomon,\u2019 inquired Stephen, \u2018from what church are you coming here through the meadows ?\u2019 \u2018I am coming from tho groatest of all earthly temples, my children ; even from that whose incense is the perfume of the meadows, and whose music is the harmonious voico of all creation.\u2019 \u2018That is to say, you are coming from your fields,\u2019 replied Andrew.\u2018Well, sit down there now, good father, and tell us whether your wheat looks well.\u2019 \u2018Tell mo first of all how you happen to be in the country now,\u2019 replied the old man as ho seated himself at the place which had been left vacant for him.\u2018How long has Ar Ritter's mill been able to get along without you ?\u2019 \u2018What are Ritter and his mill to me ?' exclaimed Andrew, whose countenance darkened at this quostion.\u2018I care about as much for them as 1 do about what is passing in tho moon.\u2019 \u2018Have you quarrelled with your master, my son ?\u2019 inquired the Anabaptist.\u2018I have no longer any master, Father Solomon,\u2019 hastily replied the young workman.\u2018I left the mill yosterday, and may it henceforth have nothing to grind, unless it be old Ritter himself! Never will it have crushed worse grain.\u2019 He then began to recount to the old man the long list of grievances which had finally led to his leaving the mill, of which he had been for ten years the director, mingling his narrative with imprecations against the owner, whom he accused of the basest ingratitude, The old Anabaptist listened tranquilly to tbe whole recital, and then calmly replied : \u2018You have drunk the wine of anger, Andrew, and you see all your master's faults double.All you have now said only acquaints me with one fact\u2014that you are out of place.\u2018And do you think I am the one most em- barrassod by that ?\u2019 inquired Andrew.\u2018Ask old Ritter what he thinks about it ; see half his mills stopped, and every day that they stand atill robe him of fifty crowns\u2014that is, of fifty pieces of his flesh, The old miser will fall sick of vexation even before ho is ruined.And this is what makes me so jovial to-day, Father Solomon; because what causes grief to old skin-flinta, rejoices the heart of all good fellows.\u2014Here, more glasses, my frionds, and let us drink to the discomfture of the Jew of Molsheim.The Anabaptist took no notice of this challenge, and asked Andrew what he thought of doing.I?exclaimed the young miller.\u2018Why, 1 mean to live like a bourgeois.Ritter was obliged to clear off all scores, and to line my pouch well before we parted.So long as any broad pieces remain to me, I mean to have a merry time of it.\u2019 \u2018And you have begun to-day to put this plan in execution ?\u2019 inquired the old man.\u2018As you may perceive,\u2019 roplied Andrew, whose utterance was becoming somewhat indistinct, \u2018we are trying the taste of all the casks in the inn.\u2014Hollo | mine host, hast thou nothing new to bring us! Let us have some little liqueur here quickly that may soften the heart of Old Wisdom.at the old man prepared to 5° on his way.Andrew, however, seemed resolved to detain him.\u2018Stay, good father,\u2019 he exclaimed; \u2018there is always both pleasure and profitin hearing you talk.\u2019 J \u2018Yes,\u2019 said another, \u2018you must sing us some of the old German hymns.\u2019 \u2018Or you will tell us stories out of the Bible,\u2019 added a third.The old Anabaptist made some attempts at resistance, but they would not listen to which was offered him.\u2018Everything must give way to youth,\u2019 said he cheerfully ; \u2018but sinco you will keep me in spite of myself, you must tako tho consequence, and put up with one of my scrmons, \u2018Preach away\u2014proach away, then, Father Solomon,\u2019 oxclaimed the merry group with - and thirst.The old woman clad in rags quickly perceived it.] \u2018You are becoming gloomy, my lad,\u2019 said she.*When the stomach is ompty, discour- agoment is not far distant ; but 1 possess a suro remody against want and despair.\u2019 \u2018What is it, then ?inquired tho young one voice ; \u2018we aro all roady to listen.\u2019 ; man.This willing acquiesconco was oasilytobe \u2018You sce this flagon which I carry often accounted for by the knowledge possossed to my lips ?' she replied.\u2018It.contains for- by Andrew and his companionsof tho nature gotfulness of pain, joy, and the brightest of the old man's genorul modo of instruc.visions of hope : whoever drinks of it be.tion.What ho called his sormona were for | comes happy ; and 1 will notdrive with you the most part histories or parables taken a hardor bargain than my sisters, fur I only from the Sacred Writings, whence hoalways require in exchungo one half of your brain.drew somo usoful lesson; and oven those \u2018This time the young man rejected the who made but small count of this latter offer.Ile began to feel a sort of terror at part of his discourses, liked to listen to tho thoso successive bargains.But the old hag old man's narratives, evon as thoy would induced him to taste tho liquor contained in have done to some fireside logond.Father the flagon, and when ho hud ence dono so, Solomon was in their eyes à sort of roman.it appeared to him so delicious, thut his re- cer, whose inventions amused their imugin- : solution gave way, and he acceded to the ation, even if they did not onlighton their bargain.\u2018Tho promised effect was not long reason.Andrew filled tho glasses once, in making itself felt, Scarcely had he moro, and tho whole party, each resting his | quatled the tempting beverage, when he felt folded arms upon the table, bent forward to his strength revive, his heart become joyous, listen with the deopestattontion, cand full of confidenco; and when he had The old man proceeded.\u2018I will not rolato | sung all the songs ho could remember, he to you,\u2019 said he, \u2018this day cithor any legend fell quietly asleep in his chariot, perfectly of our country or any stories drawn from\u2019 inditlorent as to what might, become ot him.the Sacred Volume; either ono or tho other | When he awoke, his three companions had would be too grave for your prosent mood.disappeared, and he found himself alone at I will rathor treat you as children, Ly toll- the entrance of a village.Lo attempted to ing you a nursery talo as it is related on the rise, but one side of his body scomed pura- other side of tho Rhine.\u2018In olden times, thon, when overything was different from what it is now-a-days, thero lived at Mannheim a young man namod Otto, who was intelligent and daring, but who novor know how to accomplish one important foat\u2014that of bridling his own assions.When he desired a thing, nothing could provent him from attaining it; and his passions rosombled those stormy blasts which sweep across rivers, valleys, and mountains, destroying all that opposes their progress.Being wearied of the tranquil life he led at Mannheim, he took it into his head ono fine day to sot out on a long journey, with the hopo that he might discover fortune and happiness in its course.He accordingly swung upon his shoulder a packet containing his best clothes, placed in a belt around his waist all the money he possessed, and started on his way without knowing whither ho was Louud.\u2018After journeying on for some days, he! found himself at the entramece of a forest, which seomed to stretch on all sides as far as tho eye could reach.He here oncounter- od three other travellers, who seomed to bave paused like himself, to repose themselves before plunging into its depths.Ono was a tall, proud-looking woman, with a threatening aspect, who held in her hand a javelin; the other a young girl, who lay half asleep in a chariot drawn by four bullocks; and the third was an old woman elad in rags, and with a rugged mien.Otto saluted thom, and inquired whothor they were acquainted with the road through the forest; and on their replying in the aftirm- ative, he requested permission to follow them, lest he should loso his way.\u2018They all three consented, and proceeded on their way in company with the young man.Tho latter soon perceived that his companions woro endued with [pers which tiod has not bestowed on all lis creatures, but this discovery awakened no uneasiness in Lis mind, and he pursued his journey, chatting the whilo with his threo tellow-tra-, vellers.\u2018They had alroady gone on thus for somo hours togethor, when they heard a horse's tread approaching.Otto turned round to see who it was, and recognized a bourgeois from Mannheim, whom he had hated for many a long year, and whom ho looked upon as his greatest enemy.The bourgeois soon gained on the pedestrians, glanced at Otto with a scornful smile, and passed on.All the young man\u2019s ire was roused to tho, utmost.\u2018Ah! he exclaimed, \u2018I would give all I possess now, and the best part of my future inberitance to boot, if I could only revengo myself on that man for his pride and his malice.\u2018Do not distress yourself about that, for ! can easily satisfy your wish,\u2019 said the tall woman with the javelin.\u2018Shall I transform him into a blind and infirm beggar for you?You have only to pay me tho price of the transformation.\u2019 \u2018And what would tho price be ?\u2019 cagerly inquired Otto.\u201cThe right eye.\u2019 ! \u2018Gladly would I give it to be really avenged.\u2019 \u2018The young man had hardly uttered tho words, when the promised change was effected in the rich bourgeois, and Otto found himself at the same moment blind of an eye.lle folt at first somewhat dismayed | but he soon consoled himself for bis loss by remembering that his remaining cye sufficed | to give him the enjoyment of witnessing the sight of his enemy's misery.\u2018In the meantime they continued to walk on for several hours without seeing any ond to the gloomy forest ; the road was each\u2019 moment becoming more hilly and rugged.: Otto, who was beginning to feel somewhat fatigued, looked with an anxious cye upon the chariot 1n which the youngest female of the party lay half reclining at her ease.It was 80 ingeniously constructed, that tho; deepest ruts hardly gave it more thana gentle swing.\u2018All roads must appear short and good in this chariot,\u2019 he said, approaching it with a wistful look : \u2018I would give a great deal to have one like it.\u2019 \u2018Is that all you want ?\u2019 rejoined tho second of his companions.\u2018I can satisfy your desire in a moment.\u2019 She struck with her foot the chariot which bore hor.It seemed to unfold itself, and a second, chariot, of ox- actly tho same ceful and easy proportions, and drawn by two fino black ballogke, resented itself to his astonished viow.hen he had somewhat recovered from his amazement, he thanked the young girl, and was about to step into his newly acquired vehicle, when she motioned to him to stop.\u20181 have,\u2019 eaid she, \u2018fulfilled your desire, but I do not intend to make a worse bargain than my sister ; you gave her one of your eyes, I require one of your arms.\u2019 \u2018Otto was at first somowhat disconcorted by this request ; but he was beginning to! foel very weary ; the ohariot seemed waiting most invitingly to receive him ; and, as I before told you, he had never been accus tomed to resist the impulse of the moment.So, after some slight hesitation, he agreed to the bargain, and found himself seated in his new equipage, but at the samo time depriv.: any excuse : first his hat was carried off, ed of his right arm, They now proceeded ' then his staff, and finally he was forced to for some time on thoir journey without in.\u2019 resume his seat by the side of Andrew.The old man showed no symptoms of ill humor at this species of friendly violence itself out to an interminable length.otto.soon began to feel the cravings of hunger | lyzed ; he triod to look about him, but the one oyo which now alone remained to him was dim ani! uncortain; ho tried to speak, but bis tongue faltered, and his ideas were confused.Now, at length, hoe began to com- prohond how great were the sacrifices to which he had so lightly consented.Ilix threo fullow-travellers bad degraded him from tho level of humanity\u2014a crippled idiot, no other resource remained for him than to bog his daily bread from door to door during tho romainder of his days.\u2019 tere the Old Anabaptist coused.Andrew struck his fist upon the table, and burst into a noisy laugh.\u2018Ma foi,\u2019 said he, \u20181 think your friend Otto was a fool, Father Solomon, and that ho only got what he deserved.Ax to his three companions, thoy wero thorough sharpers, wnoso names I should be glad to know, that I may take care to avoid them.\u2019 \u2018Ît is ousy to tell you that said the old man, \u2018for their names are well known to all.Tho name of tho tall woman with the javelin is Ilatred ; that of the young girl reclining in tho chariot is Sloth ; and that of the old hag with tho flagon is Intompor- anco.\u2019 \u2018Well, I can quite understand that when one has to deal with such customers, one wots the worst of the bargain,\u2019 replied the young miller ; \u2018but still I abide by my old opinion, Otto deserved no better.\u2019 \u2018Alas I\u2019 replied the old man gravely, 'l know some other peoplo in the world who are no wiser than he wax.What should you say, for instance, to a lad who, for the sako of ruining a master with whom ho had «quarrelled, exposes himself to the misfortune of boing left without employment?Do you think he is blessed with his full gight 7\u2014or has he not rather sold one of his eyes to Hatred?Add to this, that he wishes to give himself what he calls «4 merry timo of it'\u2014that is to say, to taste tho pleasures of idleness, without reflecting that, onco unaccustomed to labor, and encrvated by idleness, ho will no longer tind it so easy to regnin the use of the two stout arms which in former days constituted his wealth, Finally, to console himself under his vexations, ho has already lost in the tavern one halt of his senses, and ho will, before long, be deprived of tho use of them altogether.It Otto was a fool, what opinion can Andrew have of one who is imitating his ox- ample # The group began to laugh; Andrew alone remained grave and silent.Ie did not seek any longer to detain tho Old Anabaptist, but suffered him to depart without even saying farewell.Evidently the lesson had wounded him, as lessons which come home to our consciences generally do.But such counsels are often liko those bitter draughts which at first are not only distasteful to our palate, but seem even to increase our malady ; yot afterwards they prove a means of restoring us to health.Andrew reflected all night on Otto's history, and next morning ho returned to Mr Ritter\u2019s mill, where he resumed the duties which ho ought never to havo abandoned.Sir George Elliot who has been successfully negotiating the purchase of the l£gyptian railways for English capitalists, is member f Parliamont for North Durham.Ile was originally a pit boy in the coal mines, and ho has worked his way up till he has become the largest coal proprietor in the world as well as a partner in tho great wire cablo works of Glass & Elliot, a county member, and a Baronet.Mgr.Tiros.CARLYLE oN TeacuiNag.\u2014 Theo following letter was addressed many years ago by Mr Carlyle to a youth engaged in educational work who had requested his counsel : Chelsea, February, 1859.Sir: I can givo no advico or precept about tho matters you write of except this ono remark: The grand secret (worth all tho others togother, and without which all the otliers are worth nothing nnd less,) for inculcating and teaching virtues and\u201d gracos is that a man honestly, and with more and j more of silent sincerity, have them himself, lodged there in the silent deeps of his being; they will not fail to shine through and be not only visible but undeniable in whatever ho is led to say or to do, and every hour of tho day, ho will, consciously and unconsciously, find good means of teaching them.This is the grand indispensable requisito ; this present, tho rest is very certain to follow ; tho rest is mere matter of dotail, do- pending on speciality of circumstances, which a man\u2019s own common senso, if he is in earnest towards his aim, will better and better instruct him, The businoss, I am li, = WILLIAM AUGUSTUS MORALIZES.\u201cWay is it\u2014for it is so\u2014that women are 80 much less inclined to order and even to neatness than mon?* William Augustus was reading tho Gleaner last Thursday nicht, but when ho reached that paragraph ho\u2014 but dare not say it, and he went on reading, | \u201cTho sight of confusion gives his mind a wronch.Even if he docs not want this that ; or the othor it is a comfort to him to know that it is in its place, and that should ho need it bo can put his hand upon it.\u201d And further on, \u201cit is tho easiest thing in the world to koep a house in order.\u201d My faike, says 1, the editor is unco crabbit.[t's not the editor, says W.A., it's n selection, Weel, weol, I retorted, tho man wha wrote that wadna be a leofsum guidmon, Pil guar- antec.| was gnen a\u2019 thro\u2019 the house, but-an\u2019- ben, as L skirl't this, the ribbons 0\u2019 me mutch makin a rustlin\u2019 as I walkcet past, but William Augustus was too deep in his mor- ulizing ta min\u2019 ony thing o°t.\u201cOur housekcopors have diminished their vigilance and their solicitudo about the orderly appearance of things.\u201d l'vo thought that many\u2019s tho time, says he; then seeing me birsclin wi anger, he added, \u201cNo offence to you wife, for you have sustained the reputation you had when I married you, that I had the pick of five of the best housekeepers in the county, us you and your sistors wero known to Le.Dinna blaw in my lug, says I.I'm ashamed o\u2019 you mon ta wide wi sic a blin han ay clarket that, It's my opinion wimmen folk are o\u2019er particular, and sma thanks they get for't fra\u201d the lords o' creation, You're surely no judgin\u2019 fra the struggles o' an o'er worket farmer's wife.| dinna read poetry very aften, but 1 cut this weo bit out 0\u2019 an Auld Countrio paper yestorday, and it had been copied fra a Canadian in the Province, an I considered it wad gio our friens at hame a gran iden 0 our work an set them wunnerin, Up in the morn at the dawning of day, Then hardly time to her Maker to pray, Milking the cows with a co, boss, co, Under her feet no grass can grow, Busy s0 busy, and this her song, \u201cThe summer is short and the winter long,\u201d Old in her youth, often weary of life, Bless her, God help her, the farmer's: wife, Chickens to feed, such a hungry crowd ; Calves to be tended, of which she is proud ; Bread of the whitest and sweetest to bake, Butter, the golden and fragrant, to make, Honey like amber to strain and to clear, Fruit to preserve in its season each year, Cheeses to press and to turn every day, Bless bier, God help her, we sigh as we say.Washing aud ironing to do every week, Hundreds of things that my tongue cannot speak.Cook and coufectioner, seamstress is she, Dairy-maid, houscraid, and teacher to Le, Nurse, and physician, and preacher at home, City of refuge when crring ones roam, \u201cShe hath done what sbe could,\u201d short her life's little day Bless hor, God help ber, my friends\u2014let us pray.Tut, tut, wits, says William Augustus, the woman who wrote that (for it must be à woman) does not live so near a cheese factory as you do, and I think she would have done botter to be any of the things she mentions than to own such stuff and call it poetry.My tasto in literature being thus questioned 1 subsided, Mrs WiLLiay Avarstus.MISCELLANEOUS.The Maharajah of Cashmere has presented to tho Prince of Wales a sword valued, at the lowest calculation, at £10,000.Tt is studded with precious stones from hilt to point.The Major Domo of the Pontifical Palaco al Rome has just ordered 800 lightning-con- ductors for the Vatican and St Potor\u2019s.\u201d This ix rather inconsistent with the doctrine of Papal infallibility.Now York, Fub, 12 \u2014Rev.Father Adams, à Brooklyn clergy man, yosterday leaped into Eust River from a ferry-boat, encumbered as he was by his clerical garb, and rescued a woman who had attempted suicide by jumping from the samo boat.Both were nearly drowned whon picked up.The woman was respectable and well-to-do ; she ix supposed to be insane.There is another split in the camp of the Irish Home Rulers, this timo on the question whether Mr Butt or Mr Mitchell Henry shall lead tho party.At present thore scems to be no prospoct of an agreement.A Ladies\u2019 Pebating Club has been started in Loudon, to \u201cgive women practice in public speaking and debating.\u201d As a wise precaution tho promoters have decreed that meetings must not bo held oftoner than onco in threo weeks.There is a fine opening in Chili for all our strong-minded females.Chilian law males no distinction of sox, the only qualifications required for citizenship being the attainment of majority and the ability to read and write.It has therefore been decided to register women who will consequently vote at the coming election, A \u201cquack,\u201d who has flecced large numbors of tho Irish poasautry by bolding himself out as a skilled medical practitioner, was tried at Belfast the other day, and sentenced to imprisonment for a year.He had dealt largely in fulso cortificates of \u201camazing cures,\u201d and seems to have devoted much of his timo to porsunding country folk that thoy were aiflicted with a mysterious disease called \u201cwolf on the liver,\u201d Tho Japan Mail says : \u201cIt may bo doubt.od whether cheap law is an unmitigated blessing to a people.Last year an average of 3,500 cases à month were heard before tho courts of Yeddo.So laborious indeed has been the duty of adjudicating in these,and so incompotent tho staff of the establish- mont to deal with thom singly, that cases of bankruptcy wero considered in batches of twonty or thirty at a time, s0 as to prevent their undue accumulation, Signor Alberto Keller having left 50,000 francs for the construction in Milan Come- sorrowfully aware, is often enough undertaken without this indispensable prerequi- | site ; nay, in goneral there is a dim notion abroad that a man can teach such things b merely wishing to do it, and without having them himself ; but the fatal result inevi- | tably is, ho teaches, can teach, nothing but | hypocrisy and unblessed apery and mendacity.It is a kind of salvation to his poor pupi 8 if they, in a dim way, sce through im and refuse to imbibe the slow poison of | such teaching.I fancy you to be an ingenuous young man, aiming manfully to do your best in tho | vocation which has fallen to you; and 1 hang np far ahead (I hope) this ugly bat true warning upon a certain path which all mortals of us ought to avoid and abhor! ing you heartily well, I remain (in much haato) yours sincerely, T.CABLYLE.tery of a temple of cremation, in which his remains were to be burned, the rite was por- formed on the 22d ult., the first anniversary of his denth, the municipality having, after somo hesitation, given its consent.The pro cess occupied an hour, during which time spoeches were delivered on tho advantages of cremation.Tho remains of a lady are soon to undergo tho same treatment.Some leading manufacturers in England are uniting in an endeavor to check a practice which thoy affirm is doing much harm.They assert that their names and trade marks aro boing imitated by foreign manufacturers, chiofly Gorman and American, on goods of inferior quality which are exported to other foreign markets, thereby bringing idisroputo upon thomsolves.Tho custom terruption.The forest seemed to stretch much more than we do at present.Wish- ' has boon going on for sevoral years, and moralized.I've often thought that, says ho, ; KNOWN channol of the north passago, by (for military patrols or military posts to in- The uncertainty which surrounds the navigation of tho Straits of Megellan is l'about to be set at rest in the attempt which is ordered to be made by the British ship-of- war Opal, now going to join tho Pacific Squadron, to penetrate the hitherto little which tho passage through those dangerous straits may be shortened about two hundred miles, Should the Opal succeod in! her attempt to push her way through, sho will be the first vessel-of-war which will have achieved the foat, although it has boon accomplished by one or two stcameors.Washington, Feb, 12.\u2014Gen.Ord, com- mandor of the Military Department of Texas was examined to-day as a witness before the Seloct Committeo of tho louse on the Texas frontier troubles, and gavo to the committee a very full and intelligent account of the cattle raids to which the rancheros on the American side of the Rio Grande for 500 miles along tho river and for 150 miles buck from it, are subjected, as woll as of the remedy ho would recommend for them.According to the General's statement, the country which is the scene of these border forays is separated from tho river by a very extonsive bolt of undergrowth forest, or chapparral, which forms a screen and shelter for the cattle thioves who live by plunder, and which renders it next to impossible terfero with thom, Thoro ave two classes of Mexicans living on the Texas side; the one consisting of honest intelligent rancheros who are as much opposed to these raids as the American portion of the population, and the other consisting of worthless fellows, many of them outlaws or desorters from the Mexican Army, who work occasionally on the ranches, and who act as spies and in- formors for their cousins, or compadres, on the other side, when they cross the river on their cattle stealing expeditions.It is the intelligonce which they receive from these follows which enables them to avoid the routes by which they might Le intercepted on their return with their booty.On their own side of the river these bands, which somotimes number from 100 to 150 men, are in league with the local authorities, their rocognized chief being Cortina, so that all facilitios are given to them for disposing of their plunder, and such a thing as restoration of the stolen cattlo is never thought of.The National Government of Mexico is not tlo bo blamed, in Gen.Ord\u2019s opinion, for this | state of things ; first, because the system of { Government is to let each State tuke care of its own affairs; and second, because the Mexican soldiers have a strong tendency, whenever thoy get near enough to the Lor- der to desort their colors and cross into Texas.Tho Moxican Government is therefore powerless in tho matter, and tho State Government of Tamaulipas scems to regard theso frontier outrages as part of the established order of things essontial for the good of the community.~The only remedy, therefore, for the evil is\u2014and it is one which the Genoral is urging on the War i Dopartment\u2014to increase tho cavalry forco on the Rio Grande and give him authority, when his troops como on the trail of one of those thieving bands, to let the pursuit bo continued to the Mexican side of tho river, and let the troops deal out summary punishment on the robbers.Ile thinks that what.over opposition tho local authorities might malo to such a practical course, the (rencral Government of Mexico would not mako any.He says that now, in ono of the more northern States, Chihuahua, himself and the Mexican commandant have a mutual arrangement by which Indian expeditions aro followed on cither side of tho river, and that on somo occasions the American and Moxienn troops bave co-operated in their movements against the Indians, rations being supplied by his orders to the Mexicans, Ho is confident that the only foasiblo modo of putting down these troubles on the frontier is by following up the robbors in the way ho recommends.\"I'was EVER THUs.\u2014On the 8th of October, 1776, John Adams wrote to his wife, from Philadelphia : «The spirit of venality you mention is the most dreadful and alarming enemy America has to oppose.It isas rapacious and insatiable as the grave.\u2018This predominant avarico will ruin America, if sho is ever ruined.1f God Almighty does! not interfere by Lis grace to control this universal idolatry of the mammon of unrighteousness, wo shall be given up to the chastisements of [1is judgments: Iam ashamed of the age I live in.\u201d Thero is now at the Washington Navy Yard a new species of naval craft in the shape of a torpedo-boat, called the Alarm.Sho carries one gun forward, which comprises her entiro stock of ordnance.Below decks, however, is placed an invention in the line of torpedoes not to be found in use by the navy of any other Government thau ours, The design is to insert a shell in the side of tho onemy's ship by means of a mov- | ing rod and to explode the shell by electri! city.A huge water-spout lately caught the brig Drover \u201cright astern, and turned the | brig round and round repeatedly like a tp.\u201d | She was on hor voyage from Newcastle in, New South Wales to Now Zealand, and was | compelled to put into Sydney in distress, | In consideration of tho painful circum: stances under which the lato Commodore Goodenough, C.B., lost his lifo at Santa Cruz, while in the exccution of his duty, we are informed that tho Treasury has sanctioned the award of a special pension of £300 per annum to tho widow of this Ia- mented officer.The reception accorded to the Princo of Wales at Agra has been marked by oxceed- ing enthusiasm, The entry of his Royal Highness into tho city was brilliant, à procession having been formed, in which there woro several hundred elephants decked up in gorgeous trappings.I heard a story on Wednesday (says the London correspondent of the Scotsman) which I here toll to you.I am assured itis porfectly truce, It is that the authoritios nt the Admiralty have devised and partially executed a scheme for immediately converting the vessols of our grent steamship com.! panice into gunboats in the event of war! reaking out in Europo or America, As! soon as war is proclaimed, if so doplorable | an event should occur, the great ocean! steamers at London, Liverpool, Southampton, Glasgow, and other ports will be suddenly rondered useless for commercial purposes ; but they will at once be fitted n with guns and sent out to carry on hostili.| ties against tho enemy, tho oxisting crews: boing retained and augmented, if necessary, | sailors from our men of war; while! has beon most prevalent in the branches of dry goods and hardware, including cutlery, b tres or four officers of the Royal Navy will | be appointed to assume tbe command in \u2014\u2014 each ship.In thismanner economy, as we)] as efficiency, will, it is boasted, be secured If IT am rightly iuformed, this scheme does not exist mercly on paper or in the brain of departmontal officials.Already naval off.cors of experience havo actually boen employed to survey the large steamers at oup rincipal seaports, and elaborate reports ave been sont to tho Admiralty with refer.once to the number of guns and men which thoso shipy are capable of carrying, In a word, the schemo is ripo for execution tomorrow, if war should Le declared by any power against Great Britain, On the shore of Dublin County, Ireland, nearly opposite the islet known as Ireland's Eye, tho scono of a tragedy which oxcited extraordinary interest many years ago, is a village, noted for its races, called Baldoyle, On the 15th December the patrol of the Const Guard Service there observed at threo clock in the morning the body of a man which had been washed up by tho waves, Tho flesh had nearly disappoared from the head, and on the hands was hanging in strips, the fingers appearing as if they had been bruised to pieces.The body when found was without a cont, but the clothes were otherwise in perfect order.A watch and £3 wore found in tho pockets, but there was nothing wherewith to identify tho deceased.Howover, a fow days later the body was identified by à Mrs Stewart, from England, as that of her husband, John Stewart.From the evidence given by her and others it appeared that ho was personally interested in a Dublin will caso, which came on for trial in November, and with the view of opposing it took passago on board the St.Patrick fur Dublin, on the 4th of that month, carrying with him certain papers which he believed would have a great influence in deciding the cause.A short time before the vessol reached port Stowart was seen by his wife.lle was sitting on a cask, his arms on the bulwark, and his head on his arms.There was a height of only eighteen inches from the seat he occupied to tho top of the bulwark, and a movement in sleop might have caused him to lose his balance and fall over, but in that case what became of his coats?llo wore two when last seen, and the papers for the Probate Court were in tho pockets, lle was no swimmer, so could not have divested himself of his coats in tho water, and the fact that his watch and cash woro in his pocket when he was washed ashoro scoms an answer to any hypothesis of violence having been donc him for robbery.Tho jury could only return a verdict of \u201cfound drowned,\u201d and probably the circumstances of his fate will never be known, but his mysterious disappearance, together with that of important documents, will by many be attributed to something other than accident.It is quite a ease for such an un- ravelor as Edgar Poe describes to go to work upon.The fact of the fingers appearing as though bruised to pieces suggests tho case.of a man clinging to the side of a boat, and ruthlessly beaten away.Could the stoamer\u2014ho was seen just before the ship camo to anchor\u2014have been boarded by those intending to make away with him, who taking advantage of the darkness\u2014for it was 3 am.on a November morning\u2014 thrust him into a boat, got the papers, and then flung him ovorboard.Will cases pre- sont many dark features.This may be one of the number.Quebec, Feb.16\u2014A very violent snow storm sot in yesterday morning, and raged with great fury during the day and great part of last night, leaving tho streets and country roads blocked with snow, and almost impassable.No mails are likely to arrive or leave hero to-day.Whilst tho storm was at its worst two of\u2019 the chimneys and a portion ot the roof of the centre wing of the Parliamentary building were carried away.Two houses in Champlain street wore completely demolished.The inmates fortunately vacated the house in time to oscapo injury.Thero has been considerable havoc among window glass, chimney tops, and such like, during the day and night.The firemen wore called out eloven times in consequence of burning chimneys.The Royal Engineers have for some time past been cngaged in making surveys of tho country around London with a view of some more definite steps being taken for tho defense of the Metropolis.PE REMEMBER TIE STORE TO GO FOR A Supply of the Best and Cheapest TEAS, SUGARS, SPICES, FISH, FRUIT, FLOUR, &c.ITuntingdon, Dec.16.GEO.Q.O'NEILL.A FRESII SUPPLY GROCERIES JUST RECEIVED.All Winter Goods Greatly Reduced.pay Parties owing mo for Store Goods will ploaso take notice that unless thoy sottlo at once I will give their accounts to Mr Maclaren for collection.Some of these accounts are long standing, and I will wait no longer.W.A.DUNSMORE.Dominion Block, Huntingdon, Feb, 17, 1875.Howick Agricultural Works.us well known establishment has gained another acquisition to its list of improvements by the addition of A FOUNDRY and will now bo in a position to supply the public with all kinds of castings, The manufacture of Agricultural Implementa such as Threshing machines, Rakes, Rollers, Grubbers, Fanning Mille, Circular and Drag Saws, Metal Plougls for high lands, &c., will be carried on with the same dispatch and warranted to give the same satisfaction as they formerly have doue.would particularly call the attention of farmers having stony or gravelly land to our metal ploughs, as they aru an article of the greatest utility.A supply of plough points constantly on hand.Repairs of ail kinds done with neatncss and dispatch.ROBERT MAW.Howick, 8th Feb, 1876.WANTED, 1,000 BUSHELS OATS AT CURRENT RATES IN CASH.WILSON & McGINNIS.Atlelstan, Feb.3, 1876, "]