CORRESPONDENCE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 171, 14 June 1872, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

Wk do not. hold ourselves in. any way respon--jsible for the views ;iiui sentiments ex- '. pressed by correspondents. A.I.L eoiniiutiiicaUous must be accompanied by thecorreei name and u ddressof the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. HAMILTON.—.Tusk 4. ( To the Editor of the AtotTXT Ida. Cukoxicle.) JSir, —Having noticed in your issuo ofthe3Lstult an effusion purporting to be a sumii.ary of the proceedings at .what the writer calls a bail and concert, held at the I'iiiuii. Jlott-l on the evening of the 21rh ulr.. and observing therein s mie must scandalous, malignant, and unwarrantable at-eusarions against the people of-Hamilton, we claim, as a mutter of justi-e, that"; you should allow us to vindicate our eharjgu>sieter through, the sa'iie rhannel. Were there none but the people of Hamilton to read your paper we should treat the effusion 1 above mentioned.wtnh sili'iit contempt, but as your piper.has a wide circulation, strangers, without knowing the faets, might come to the erroneous conclusion that Jve are the pusilanimbus beings \vh<i sneered at the sanctum of tlu l[.auiilto!> conclave, and created wonder in that august • body>that we should he allowed to live. Were it not i'or the libellous scnteu-es incorporated in their little putf they might have had it all their own wav. We accord them all the honor th -ir incomparable talentsde:nand,espe«-ially the ** magnifico" whose name is so often mentioned. We know ./that he can play and sing everything, from the wriirsrliag of a lamb's tail down to the

little end of nothing. We also m ist Cordially with them that he excelled himself, front the fact that he was heard three, cjuirter of j. milo i'u - ther than ever before. We believe everyone at the bill did ail they could to make the aff dr an ovation, and ir, might have • as*ed od a< a triumph h id not their bilious . temperament caused them to t'.iuk that everyone who was n:t there were their enemies—hence the overflow of vituperative bile. 'Strangers are lei Jo believe, that nearly everyone in Hamilton are enemies of Mrs Barbers, v.-hvh w.»uld b:.t alt .•- ' gether a false i agression, an I -would injure her greatly in a pecuniary point of v"c*w. She is esteemed by the whole population as a'highly- respectable, intelligent, and energetic l.idv battling

hard for the position she occupies, an I she is w hotly exonerated from all blame in the affair oi' w ue.h we are

writing, and firmly belt" ve that hail

she announced \a b-.-ntrSr. for herself, witheut cloaking it with the Hospital, in the place uf only six who attended from Hamilton, there would have been a general turn'nut. The 1 rut* reason why. the Hamiltori'ans did not attend is not, as stated, because of i- je ilou-ies inherent in the jda.ee," for their i« nothing to be jealous of (except perhaps the smiles of the sweet lady), it* was because thev did not approve of the way in which the benefit, was got. up, nor the place it was got up at—not that Mi's. Barber's hotel is not as good as any house in the country of its kind —but because" we firmly believe that the practice of getting up Ifospital benefits in hotels, and associating such benefits with the over present rum, will have a tW.dency to brK,g all such cftorts in disrepute, and mike the very name of Hospital benefit stink in the nasal organs of the people. Another reason : it was in contemplation here lo get up a benefit on a large scale in a room where, 100. people might have assembled, to have procured talent to amuse them, and to have it entirely disconnected with grog selling; but, to our surprise, the day after. our intentions were made known the .tickets were issued from the hotel for the 24th —the projectors knowing that the large room would not be empty for several weeks. Further, the promoters, with the exception of one (who is a man of no bfluecce whatever), were all from a distance. No one here was spoken to regarding its propriety or management, and no one here knew, anything more of it than thar. tlsey would frequently see jsoine persons showing their tickets and boasting that they were given to them —as though getting the .people there

was the .only object.* -v-.TJnder.-.such what could be ..expected hut a and in consequence of such failure the sober and intelligent residents of Ham Hto \ are accused of " inherent jealousy," of poisoning dogs, and of polluting the earth. lb wants but little discernmenu to see where the jealousy lies. As for poor old Tlgly, who lost his life on that memorable night—the "valuable, and favorite dog"—whoever destroyed him conferred a favor on the .public and performed the act of: a friend to Mrs. Barber, for he was a treacherous and dangerous beast. He had severely bitten three different men, laying them up for several weeks; but as they were friends of Mrs. Rirber; a smile and a few glasses -of grog made it all right. Yet she might not have been so fortunate, on.-another occasion. It is quite evident v that some pue of the -bull party poisoned the. 'dot;, as more than one of them were heard to. say they would " cook him,".. It was not through any malice .to Mrs. Barber, or envy of the " great success." but because they had a. down on the dog ; and this is charged to our '• y-in-dietiveness:"

I have already extended my remarks too iar. and will conclude by roii-;ra,tu-lating our calumniator on. his happy choice of a word, descriptive ef -tho whole affair—" it was simply a caution."— lam, &c, .". . Trosmiomis.