Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-01-15

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The Buffalo Courier says as fol.
lows Of 4 certain class of people
who claInor for admission within
the broad folds Of this great and
glorious Union
The symptoms Of a tenden.
cy 10 annexation are much stron-
germ Nova Scotia and New Bruins
wick, than in the region formerly
Distinguished As being Canada.
None Of them can be said 10 be
really possessions Of the Crown,
although they are so in name. The
maIeria. interest Of the lirst two
mentioned provinces, with their
coal and lisA are even more le-
cidedly IN unison with our own,
than those u the latter, and the
cha;tels the Dominion seemed
about 70 acquire in the northwest
are tic mos. recalcitrant Of all.
We believe the masses Of the
people have a very strong tendon.
cy 70 democracy, although as yet
little trained 10 the Use OF their
privileges, But in,eyery province
Of the dominion there are scions
or sets OF an order which, if it is
not are!ic Of the old noblesse, is
at leas, c pretendcc 10 It's airs and
assumption Of superiority to the
masses Of he people, even to the
intelligent and well educated part
OF them. Lord Sandon, son Of
the Earl OF narrowly, lately drop
ped IN expression, such as indi.
Gates tho kind Of things the sham
and shabby geateel gentry like to
initiate when he said, mot only the
higher classes, but even the men
who write articles for news pa.
pers, know what is meant by the
sweat Vi tie brain"
Yet this ny no means implies
that wealth is the criterion of ad.
mattance into colonial good SO.
ciety" OF the kind we are describ.
ing, ana which consists chiefly of
the Governor, the officials, great
and small, lawyers in general, some
physicians, Episcopal clergymen
and officers OF the army. Some Of
the wealthiest merchants are adj
mitted, especially if their daush-
tiers are pretty in addition to being
prospectiye,y rich, hut in the main
merchants are regarded as Of Il
different caste, and that almost
means OF another race. A little
story is told OF an incident that
took place about three years ago,
and it Is a very fair Indication Of
the way good society" is arrang-
ed in many parts of her majesty's
New Dominion. An officer Of the
army, a gentleman according to
the rules and regulations prevalent
in the highest colonial circles,
though by no means universally
approved in the colonies, when
taking . walk in the street met two
pretty girls, and without more
ado went up to and kissed them,
and then passed on. Some talk
naturally arose on the subject in
the town where it happened, and
some excuses we're made, the best
Of them being that the gentleman
was young, and that, in colonial
garrison towns, youths Of his sta.
tus are sometimes, even when not
asleep, in q condition where they
cannot be absolutely perfect in OBJ.
serving the proprieties. But tho
point is, that when the story was
told 10 the wife Of 8 gentleman
holding q petty office under the
government. her feminine instincts
and sense Of decorum led her no
further than to remark: "0h !
well, they were only a merchants
daughters Thus she dismissed
the case.
Another irolicsome instance OF
q similar kind occurred at one OF
the hotels at the falls of Niagara,
where a very young lady from
this city was at the table with her
brother, and a set Of British Off
GERS, very young and full Of life,
and evidently giving great lati-
tude to the opinion that, they
might do as they chose in a free
country, occupied neighboring