Maryland free press., 1866-06-21


DEMOCRATS |! look at your children. The ready
pens of thousands of writer's are now busy inus-
ing f,lsehood into their minds concerning late
events and their cause. All the channels OF liter
uture and filed with their perversions, prejudice
and malignty. five expect to preserve free
Government, We must watch the influences that
are brought to bear upon the minds Of the young
while their principles are forming. Discard en-
tirely all partisan histories of the war, by radical
writers, unless you adobt the better course OF
placing the truth by the side of them Take care
that through the false teachings of many schools
presses and pulpits your children be not indoc-
trina.ed with the love of centralized governments,
admiration of military and contempt of civil pow
er, and thoroughly imbued with other radical
heresics- West Chester Pa.) J.6ersonidn.
A short time since young man, clerk in
one of our wholesale stores, was afflicted with
painful breaking out of the neck, which he had ss
first attributed to boils but the matter getting
serious he applied to physician, who informed
his patient that he was suffering from the poison
Gus properties of articles used in the preparation
of his enameled paper collars which by the sweat
ing process or otherwise was absorbed into the
system, that be had another similar case, &C.
Upon inquiring it was found that some half dozen
other clerks, all of whom wore these collars, were
affected in similar manncr.-BoSton 1rareller.
DIR. Billows, one of the ablest men Of the Re-
publican party in the American political pulpit,
two years ago told the people thai-"To rally
round the President wihout question or dipme-is
the first and most sacred duty Of loyal citizens,
phen he announces that the national life is in peril
He is the Official judge ofthis and zoe do not accept
his testimony IRE hare nothing to trust to- Ten
thousand copies ofthese words were distributed
at the order of the U. S. Sanitary Commission
during the war. Andrew johnson has declared
that tine national life is in danger-does DR.. Bel
lows, asks an exchange, and the men of his class
now give the same support to the President that
they demanded of Mr.. Lincolns opponents two
years ago?
1t is proposed by the admirers of William
Lloyd Garrison to present him e ty th"usand dol
lars. Chief Justice Chase heads the list wi q
handsome subscription. Garris@ is chiefly
memorable as the author of the sentiment ''The
Constitution Of the United States is a covenant
with Death and an agreement with He'll" MIR.
Chase's subscription may therefore be regarded ms
betokening appreciation of the sacredness and
value Of the supreme law. lie talks Of trying
Jefferson Davis for treason We suspect that the
jury will be bewildercd to decide whether there is
most of it on the bench or in the dock.
A proposition is pending in Congress to-
place sixty thousand dollars in the hands of Gen.
b. r. Butler, to be held in trust for the purchase Of
National Asylum. IfButler is to hold the mon
ey, who will hold hims We opine that BY the time
the site is purchased will be able to obtain
a sight of the gimlet-cyed old wretch. -;
The Nashville Union says that Thad Stevens
is one of the men who, in the famous Pennsylva-
MIA 'Buckshot War;" illustrated his courage py
jumping from the window of the Capitol, back of
the Speakers chair. He is desperately valiant
where there is no danger-full of fight when the
enemy is absent. s-. .f
The largest salary paid any one man in New
England is received by the agent of the Salisbury
Woolen Mills, Newburybort, who has fifteen
thousand dollars year. The lowest salery was
probably received by that Methodist Clergyman
who asserted at the Boston convention last week
that his remuneration for the first years preach
Ing consisted of a new hatand bushel of apples,
while at present he was more Fortunate his salary
amounting to about twenty-five dollars year.
MIR. Moses Strauss, of Brooklyn, New York,
on Monday morning forgot his pistol, which he
usually keeps under the head of his bed at night,
and his wife on making the bed tossed the pistol
on the floor, causing it to explode, and instantly
killing their little child, who was sitting near at
the time, iiI t'lSe
-Thad Stevens is very Ill. Serious apprehen-
sions are entertained ofthe result. He may get
to the "hell' he had predicted for the ''rebels'"
in advance of the train. r.Ibosti -
1t is said there is negro in Virginia turning