The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-07-21
THE DOMINION OF CANADA.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF the HERALD.


~Big Plums OF Omce''-Local Cabinets and
"Hot COMMUNICATIONS Disse nsions-(,on.
federation Failure the Day Of Annexatisn-
American visitOvs-The Now York Herald
Amongst the People and NewsbOys.
hoSrRHAL. Quebec July Is. 1857.
This heading somewhat psradoxical and exceedingly
mixed. st you what confederation has brought
into II confused other things besides our geograph
cal nomenclature.
Political matters arc decidedly stagnanG Tho wire-
pulling cabinet being ever there lie very
little noise about tho locals Our heads turned
completely with governors at $780, o0 lieutenant govern
nors at $4,000 and privy councillors at $40 900 for
their highly respectable not say easy bsrths
little interest local cabinets Of hitherto
heard Of celebrities at g. 500 year. After all this en-
thusiasc doubling OF salaries and treblng OF Offices
Canada will be apt suffer with political and financial
hot copper" which all the Settlers Of retrenchment
will have considerable difficulty in overcoming
The unfortunate people who have undertaken TO form
local cabinets have had Lively Time and arc acting
'shys" for oil the political brokbats which DO flung.
In Quebec the task entrusted to the Hon. Joseph
Cauchon, next Cartier the most able and popular
member Of the conservative party. He undertook the
task. declining to receive any emolumenI This gene
roity would be touching II Is remarkable in poll
trojan not for the fact that this noble conduct
to prevent himself from being disqualified for seat in
the general Legislature Mr. Cauchon had succeeded In
getting together pretty fair ministry. when, through
the righteousness Of the Protestans no obliged
throw up the sponge These gentlemen wished qua
rantee the protection Of their the school
and religious questions The Premier declining 70
init anything OF the kind t0-wrtng-on which the Pro-
testants insised-the negotiations cl through This s
many fear, only the Inauguration Of new order OF
things In which the long cherished hatred to the Eng
Iisd and their religion will have full swing
cannot say that 10 Ontario the prospect IL much
brighter That Sir John Macdonald "a clever tact.
especially his last In appointing John Sandneid Mao
DoGad to the position OF Premier 10 the local govern
ment for Ontario he has made deadly breach between
tho refcrmers and the liberals. George Brown has not
been consulted 10 the NATTER and will undoubtedly pull
aga,ns, John Sandfed in the local nous, And II lib
erals and grs oppose each other in the local Legsa-
ture thew not at all likely to cooperate in the
raj If they do. their action will not DO as harmoni
as il otherwise would have been.
The politically weatherwse look out for squalls ahead
and even the most sangune are little doubtful Of how
rights indices Of the difficulty of having
perid tmperio IL Ia impossible to have the respective
powers and Jurisdiction OF local and general govern
ments 90 distinctly laid down as not to leave room for
cases wherein the cambrous machinery will clash.
When conservative general government egslates over
province governed still more directly BY liberal local
cabinet some trouble must be looked for. For such
case the opposition will only look too closely.
government and Opposition unite in one belief which n
gwen TO BY the press OF both sectons the issue
now between confederation and annexation the fall
Tho city Is gay with American visitors who are
"doing" Caledonia Springs the Rapids, tho Thousand
Islands and the sagusnay The arrivals average seventy
per day.
Montreal II ripe for cholera. The back streets
snkiedeep with slime and filth, and IN many OF
the best and most fashionable dwelling streets dead
dogs and similar bouquets permitted 70 lie for days
smelling in the nostfis Of the popuacs The ratio Of
mortality already high is increasing every week. and
has gone up twenty seven per cont In . fortnight
The elections being distant there is very little public
zeal in the city council just nov.
Eighteen Indiana under the chaperonage OF two men,
bers Of Montreal La Crosse Club leave here this week
for England. via New York. 70 introduce there the
tional Indian game Of La Crosse. II is still
more exciting than base ball. The white mon In
Canada have ADOPTED 1t recently and proficient in
II "a 10 defeat the Indians Il WILL think, take well
In New York II affords splendid exercise Is brilliant
and exciting and only requires two or three hours TO
decide match.
The NEW YORK HERALD IL now sale BY newsboys In
the streets OF Montrealthe first instance In which
foreign newspaper has been offered fer sale along with
our morning daies. The demand for them is very
good The newsboys we'll posted on the HERALD
bot don't seem 70 know the other New York Journals