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PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, FRIDAY, MARCI 8, 1878

! Mr. McKenzie’s Postmaster General

(From the Toronto Mail. )

For such a paragon of perfection as he | would make himself o1t to be, Mr. Lucius }Seth Huntington is « very ill-used man. It is hard, no doubt, when one has closed a | bargain and pocketed the money, to be |compelled to purchase silence and remove damaging documentary evidence out of the way by disgorging a large portion of the money received. It is harder still, when one has begun to grow virtuously brave on the strength of one’s achievements in this line, to find that the end is not yet. The suits against Mr. Huntington and his as- sociates would appear to be well-nigh in- terminable. Elsewhere we give a condensed | statement of what in Scotch legal phrase- ology is called a ‘‘condescendence” in the jsuit of the Huntington Copper Company

against these gentlemen. It is only a few jdays since Mr. Huntington assured the | House of Commons that he had never had | the slightest difficulty with this Company; and he had hardly uttered the words when the Glasgow Herald arrived with the con- descendence in full. Brought to book for a declaration which so clearly seemed to bear untruth upon the face of it, the Postmaster General says he knew nothing of the suit until mention was made of it in the Can- adian papers. There isa bare possibility that Mr. Huntingtou may have been igno- rant of the institution of the suit, but it is hard, indeed, to believe that he was; and as we proceed we shall offer some evidence on another point incidental to this subject, which will show very clearly, we think, that our virtuous Postmaster General is not very exact in his statements.

‘‘Fraud” and ‘‘deception” stud this con- condescendence like plums in a pudding ; and as a grand consequence of such alleged ‘*fraud” and ‘‘deception,” the pursuers say that they have suffered loss to the extent of $750,000. Mr. Huntington, it is alleged, joined with himself in the transaction the famous McEwen, who also figured in the suits of the other company ; and they paid Mr. William Henderson, of Glasgow, it is alleged, $56,000 to become a director, and several other gentlemen smaller amounts, One would almost fancy one’s self reading the plea in the case of Huntington vs. the Montreal Gazette—a suit which Mr. Hunt- ington was ready enough to enter upon the records, but has not: had hardihood enough to proceed with. Doubtless he knows some- thing of the sort of evidence possessed by the defendants. Having had to purchase his way out of his troubles thus far, he is not ready ‘to run the risk of the exposure | which the-presecution of the suit would in- volve. And yet what a position for a man holding the office of Cabinet-Minister in the Government of the Dominion to be placed in! What confidence can the people of this country have that their affairs will be prop- erly administered when men like Mr. Hunt- ington control their direction and execution ? It will remain an everlasting blot-—not upon him only, but upon the Government of which he is a member—that he has allowed to remain for over a twelvemonth upon the records of the courts a plea so damaging in every respect. It is enough to bring Re- sponsible Government into contempt.

Let us now put to the test Mr. Hunting- ton’s veracity In a matter out of which he has sought to extract personal and political capital, and which has formed his text on many a platform. Time and again he has said that these accusations and charges against him were the consequence of the prominent part which he took in the Pacitie Scandal matter. In his speech in the House of Commons the other evening, he said— and we give him the benefit of the Hansard report :—‘‘He sold these properties and came back to this country. Unfortunstely there came to his knowledge circumstances which induced him to make grave charges against the right hon. member for Kings- ton. HHehad never until that time heard a word of complaint about these mines. * * After his return to this country, the first information he had that there was any dif- ficulty was from the right hon. gentleman (Sir John McDonald.) Months passed and no demands were made upon him until Par- liament met in November.’ Thus Mr. Huntington poses as the victim of the per- secution of Sir Jolin McDonald. To the presentation of his charges against Sir John he attributes all the misfortunes which have befallen him since with respect to his ex- | traordinary mining lands operations. He had never heard a word of complaint even, be it borne in mind, until Parliament met in the Fall Session of 1873; and his charges, it will be remembered, were made in the early session of that year. Up to this time, he declares, all had been serene ; his speculatioos were turning out charm- ingly ; there was ndta word of complaint from anybody. Well, that would be a pretty effective ‘‘cry’ for Mr. Huntington and the Tadpoles and Tapers of the Grit Party if it were trne; but documentary evidence shows that it is not true. Many months before his charges were broached in Parliament, he was engaged in defending his operations in England. Does Mr. Hunt- ington recognize this letter |; —

Montreal, 14th Nov., 1872. ‘J. R. Cunningham, Jr.; Esq.:

Dear Sirr,—I have the honour to ac- knowledge your letter of the 2nd inst., enclosing extracts from Mr. Taylor’s letter, and I note the request of the directors that they may hear from me (first) as to the Am- erican tariff ; (secondly) as to my represen- tations as under, and discrepancies suggest- ed by Mr. Taylor's report. As to the Am- erican tariff in phosphates, I did not at the

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time of the sale know what it was; and there is, I think, strong reason to hope tha® it will soon be modified both as to phos» phates and copper. copper smelting in the Eastern States hag been almost abandoned, but in former years [sent large quantities to Baltimore, ong which the pnrchasers paid half the Unite’ States duties as value for the sulphur in the ores.

‘“ Secondly, as to the discrepaneies be- tween the discriptions of the prospectus and the facts, I do not think Mr. Taylor intend< ed to convey the idea that any existed. He wrote at the first flush, and (as I know frome the first time from your letter) I did not take a sanguine view of what he said. Mr. Taylor is now in the west, and I think 1& would be unseemly for meto enter into con- troversial discussion of his statement at this early stage. Ihave no hesitation in sta« ting that there will be found ne serious dis crepancies between the representations of the vendors and existing facts, and [ hava no doubt that Mr. ‘Taylor’s report fronge time to time will prove this amply.

‘* The Directors will observe that Mr. McEwen and myself were only nominally vendors. We merely undertook to convey to the company the property for which we had taken options at the prices we ha® agreed to pay ; not because we were making money by it, but because somebody had 1@ take the position of venders in the contract. We gave you, moreover, all the knowledge we had ourselves, viz., that acquired frorg skilled and reliable engineers. You hav@ thus acquired a vast property worth immeas surably more than you had paid for it, core sisting of, as you had stated in your prote pectus, ‘ some well developed, and othe:@ having indications of great promise.’

Very truly yours, L. 8S. Hunrinerton.”

We have quoted this letter to show thet when Mr. Huntington says he had had ne difficulty with the purchasers of the propere ties in question until after he had brough® his charges against Sir John McDonald, ke says simply what is not true. In this ree spect the mask is now stripped from off him, and he can no longer play the part of the injured innocent. But the letter calls fc@ an observation or two, which are mecessarp to prevent the reader being deceived by Mr, Huntingoon’s apparent plausibility. He speaks of the probability of Mr. Taylog modifying his reports ; he did modify therg after he had been largely fed todo so. Mr, Huntington speaks of himself and Mr. Mce Ewen appearing merely as vendors ; he fore gets to say that a report of the Company shows that they received, as ‘‘vendors,” foe services rendered—or a bonus, in fact—« nearly a quarter of a million of dollarag and defending himself, a few year ago, i the Montreal Herald, Mr. Huntington ad- mitted the report to be correct. He speaks, too, of the immense value of the properties. In January, 1874, the stock had declined ta the extent of one million and three quarters of dollars.

And this is the man who now talks of his bpurity, and his honor, and his honesty ; and isa Cabinet Minister in a ‘‘ pure Re- form” Government, the chief-coll e of the standard elevator, Alexander McKenzie. Well, we de live in a strange time, truly !

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A California Cloud-Burst.

A cloud-burst struck the town of Caman- che, Cal.glast Sunday afternoon, ca the death of ten Chinese. Four f - shaped clouds, apparently about five hun- dred yards apart, with their apex trailing the ground, were observed passing in @ north-easterly direction, and it was apparent that there was a very heavy precipitation of rain. Soon the slopes of the hills were cov- ered with torrents of water, which carried with it brush, fences, and even rocks, to the guiches below. In a few minutes Camanche Creek, already carrying its maximum of water, was vastly increased in volume, ao aa to overspread the flats on either side, and fences, hen-coops and the litter about the houses in Chinatown began to move. While I was speculating upon the area of water- way it would require to pass this amount of water beneath the aqueduct to be construct- ed across Camanche Creek by the Molukel- umne Ditch and Irrigating Co., we were startled by a horseman who rapidly rode into town shouting that the reservoir had broken. Almost at the same time a bank of murky water several feet in height, bear- ing brush, fences, debris of all kinds, cattle, horses and pigs, was hurled forward with fearful momentnm. As it struck China- town, built on the creek, the low, shabby tenements gave way with a crash. A China- man, with his wife and child, who had mounted the roof, were borne past, vainly appealing for aid it was imposaible to give. In a few minutes another house yielded ts the mad torrent. As it fell and parted I had a momentary gaze of its half-dozen in- mates, including a woman and her new-born babe, when the roof closed down, burying all beneath the flood ; only one man arose to clamber upon the roof, where he re- tained his position until out of sight. He was finally rescued by seizing a bush, and dragging himself eut.—Virginia City Enter- prise.

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