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Year: 1865

The authorities in Canada are getting
somewhat uneasy at the growth of popular
sentiment in that Province in favor Of an
nexation to the United States 1t would
seem that they anticipate trouble with US
relative to this question, and are making
preparations for defending their territory
against aggressions from this side the bor-
der. This is all well enough perhaps, be-
cause if any considerable number Of the
Canucks should declare in favor of joining
Uncle Sam, and difficulties arise between
them and the authorities, all creation
couldn't keep the chronic fillibusters OF
this country out of Canada. They would
90 there in spite of all difficulties, to take
hand in the settlement Of the affairs OF
our northern brethren.


a Canadian correspondent of an Eng
lish journal writing from Montreal relative
to the future of that Province says:


':Thc future OF Canada, is, indeed, very
pfODicludtlOdi ~ plCoChI- hO cOuhti
like the government 4 few months ago, is
brought to dead lock. 1t cannot contin
ue long in its existing condition. a change
of some sort is inevitable; and In wha
that change IS to consist shrewd politica
observers find some unmistakable indica
tons. Independence or incorporation
with the United States cannot, L think
but constitute the upshot; or as public
man remarked to me, the other day, in
Gependence first and annexation after
wardsp One or both of these courses i
assuredly marked out for Canada. Which
ever of these changes is to take place vii
doubtless be rrecipitated by circumstan
ces"


We have no idea that this government
as such, will interfere in tbs slightest de
gree with the domestic affairs of our north
ern neighbor; it ought not to do so. l
Canada is tired Of her provincial relation
to England and desires independence, w
say let her seek the change, and when sh
becomes her own mistress, ii brother Jon
athan desires to wed her, and she consents
let the union be entered into; but until the
We think, in justice and good faith to Eng
Year: 1865

QUDDTIEs-For the La9ies.-A tea-party
without scandal is like knife without han
dle.-Wo ords without deeds are like the husks
without the seeds-Features without grace are
like clock without face-A land without
the laws is like cat without her claws.--Life
without cheer is like cellar without beer.-A
master without cane is like rider without
the rein. Marriage without means is like a
horse without his beans.-A man without a
wife is like a fork without knile.-A quarrel
without fighting is like thunder without light
ming.
Year: 1865

Mr.. Benjamin C. Harris whose trial for trea-
son has been going on at Washington reminds
Us of the celebrated Irish Tutor who Wa, mas
te" OF slX-and twenty languages, including the
protane. Whether this swect-mouthcd NJ
{. swears by note or by ca We are not inform
ed. lie may have nattHdl genius for the
lingo of blasp phcmy, or he may have toiied for
it as other men have tolled to acquire Greek
We have heard OF an habituaIy profane per
son who declined to swear when his load of hay
was overthrown, because he 1rlt. as he modest
iy admitted to the crowd. that he could not do
Justice to the subject. Harris, NJ. c., would
have proved equal IL that emergency In the
course OF his many conversations he id the
United States the Black Abolitioni,ts. Gen
t'rant; and after swearing TO perfectly in
definite extent, he wound up by bcstowing a
dollar and drink upon pair Of Confederate
soldiers, with the friendly advice that they
should not take the oath of allegiance but 90
somewhere and fight somebody, by Cd,
like h.


Harris, it is perfectly clear, should have been
in the Confederate army. How he would have
basphemcd the battallons into bravery how
he would have cursed the towards into shame !
Placed in judicously selected position in the
front, with powerful trumpet, and with di-
rectionS to con,ign the advancing Yankee hosts
to place where everybody is supposed to be
quite warm enough, Harris might have done
frghtful execution. Many of our soldiers
would Instantly have fallen stone dead with
horror and amazement and the rest would have
ANONYMOUSLY fled from Benjamin the Dcnoun-
GER


This profound Professor of Profanity will
hardly figure again in Congress. Ncithcris he
likely to be sent to any more Democratic Con
vcntions Of Chicago or elsewhere. If he cs-
capcs the Provost Marshal's rope, We advise
him to go into retirement. He is good, but he
is too strong in his expressions. The world
can stand him let him wait until he is dead
and then he can swear at his leisure without
offending anybody In the place prepared for
him they may be more accustomed to his style
OF cOnversation.-TriJ
Year: 1865

The latest novelty in Paris is a new style o
dress which may be said to be wardrobe ii
itself, the same garment being capable OF pre-
The dress is readily transformed by folding lap
pets, buttoned or looped, according to the for
nation of the pattern.
Year: 1865

President Lincoln, before leaving Washing,
ton on his last visit to the army, wrote a call
for an extra session of Congress, which was
signed by both himself and Secretary Seward,
to be issued in case anything happened to hlm
The document is now on file at the State De-
n nartmpnt
Year: 1865

The "temse'' is sieve used over the barrel
of -four, and one active fellow long ago set fire
several times to the wood by violence OF his
friction; this led the milers to say to those WHO
were dull, you never can set the tense on
fire." which grew to the proverb about the
Thames with which the world is familiar
Year: 1865

INTERESTING TO LADIEs.-Why is 1t that
the moment Of popping the question is SO ter
rblc to young fellows that they frequently cali
not utter word? Because just then, they
love the fair one beyond expression.


Why is an accepted sutor like person gull
ty Of crime? He ought to be transported.


When people are crazy to marry they attach
no consequence to consequences.


What is the greatest curiosity i'll the world?
\ woman :.


When does a man die for love? When he
dies his red whiskcrs brown.


Why is love like ducks foot? Because it
often lies hidden in the breast.
Why is a girl like noun? Because alas
(a-laS) is an interjectiOn.


Why is a marriage certificate like an article
the public could not do without ?-Becausel 1t
Il moose paper


What fruit does newly married couple
resemble? y green pear.
Why is lemon like an old maid who has
been pretty? Because it was made to be
squeesed and wasn't.
Year: 1865

OUR MILITARY AND NAVAL PowHR.-The gov
Srnment Of the United States has now In tho
Geld an army Of not less than Eve hundred and
dfty thousand effective men-wen equipped
and supplied, oficered well, and commanded
by generals Of first rate ability. This Is the
best military organization that the sun shines
upon. The same government has navy Of
i've hundred armed vessels-many Of them Of
very great power-and manned by eighty or
ninety thousand sailors. The only enemy that
al this power is at present to be used against,
is the already broken down rebellion, which
has no navy, and no other power ct all but it's
army, and that, at the utmost limit, does not
number more than one hundred and ten thou
sand men.


Every one who has the use Of his reason can,
therefore, see that the complete triumph Of the
national army is only question Of time; and
of very short time, too; and that the United
,States government will soon be In position,
with the greater part of this power still In its
hands. to settle with other enemies beside do
;mestic ones. Is it any wonder, then, that in
England and France the relations Of these coun-
tries with the United States is now subject Of
much question-that member Of the French
government should express the wish that our
war might continue till both sides were COM
pletely exhausted, and that the London Times
should argue upon England's power to fight us
Already they feel the future.
Year: 1865

produce unsurpassed leap that would clear ditch i'm
passable in any other way And by most remarkable
engineering and unequaled honsnanshp, although the
dangers encountered were frghfu succeeded in get
ting safely through the absynth and had the honor 10
be the nyYt Yankee civilian to enter the city.
Year: 1865

With he present issue. we complete the
publication e all the laws past at the last
session cf thc Maryland Legislature which
went into cF.ct by the 1t ul'imo We
shall hereafter. therefore, be able to de-
vote much more of our space to literary
contributions and selections, anl to the
current news Of the day. We trust such
Of our leaders who have not Eel. an inter
terest in TIE pcrusal of these laws will at
least appreciate the Importance of their
publication. In The sudlen and radical
innovations which had been made upon our
old institutions and laws, such a step was
not only necessary. but imperative. The
light Thus shed upon US may be the pre-
cursor of evil, but II protects US from the
danger Of being stabbed in the dark.
Year: 1865

The cost of keeping NJ s;lch large
standing army rs that will not be less than
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY.
FIVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AN
NUALLY. The people will not submit
to be taxed to raise that amount Tor sin
Gle day longer than they believe it 20 be
absolutely necessary. Indeed, it will be
hard TO convince them tina, any such bur-
then on the industry and the wealth of
the country is at all nee, s>ary now. They
know very we'll that our volunteer system
will supply any needed number of soldiers
at ten days notice if The emergency should
demand it. Would i, not be wise then to
reduce the proposed standing army one
half, r even NOR md at the sane time
arrange for reduciu G it further at the ear
lest period possible. The people Of this
country will never support large stand
ing army il time Of peace. Lu,raster In.
teHiye"cer.
Year: 1865

WHAT AN Ex-REBEL GENERAL SAYs.-Ma.
jor General b. Frank Cheatham received a
grand reception from his personal friends at
Louisville, Kentucky, few days ago. 1t
seems that in his interview with President
Johnson recently he did not ask or receive a
pardon, but said he would rather go to work
without it and prove his sincerity and repent
ance. In conversation with Northern gentle
man, on the consequences OF the war, Cheat.
ham said that it was the hight of absurdity to
preach treason or rebellion now. That is
"played out" lie sad ave have been de-
cent and badly whipped, and l think that
every sensible man of the Confederate army is
ready to acknowledge it. Slavery, the sole
cause of the war;" said he sis gone up, and
therefore we of the South have nothing to con-
tend or quarrel over. The war settled the
question in dispute"
Year: 1865

Warren of old.


At the time ofthe freshet, the bridge over
the Amonoosuck had indeed been swept
away, but Mark, impelled by an uncontrol-
liable fcar-almost presentiment-had eros
sed the river at the risk of his life, on a
log raft, and reached home only to find it
vacant


The descendants of Mark Warren and
his wife still dwell among the fertile val
leys of Amonoosuck, and the old men still
tell their grandchildren the story Of Martha
Warren and her child.
Year: 1865

WASTE OF AMUNITIoN-How much ammu-
milton is wasted in battle, and how many
muskets in the hands of incompetent or
cowardly men are actually useless, the fol-
lowing official report of the condition of
the small arms picked up on the field Of
Gettysburg strikingly illustrates. The
statement has been published before, but
we give it again as one Of the strongest
arguments in favor Of a change to breeeh-
loading guns. With breech-loaders it
would be impossible to get in more than
one charge at time, and man could tell
at a glance whether his piece was dis
charged or not


OF the whole number received (2T,574
we found at least 1900 of these loaded
about one-half Of these contained two loads
each, One-fourth from three to fen loads
each, and the balance one load each. In
many of these guns from two to six balls
have been found, with only one charge OF
powder In some the balls have been found
at the bottom of the bore, with the charge
of powder on top of the ball In some as
many as six paper regulation caliPrc d
cartridges have been found, the cartridges
having been put in the guns without being
torn or broken Twenty three loads were
found in one Springfield rife-musket, each
load in regular order twenty-five balls
and sixty-two buckshot with conespon-
ding quantity of powder, all mixed up to-
gether, were found in one percussion smooth
bore musket. lnmany of the smooth-borr
guns, model of 1912, rebel make we have
found wad of loose paper between the
powder and ball. and another wad of the
same kind on top of the ball, the bail hav-
ing been put into the gun naked. About
six thousand of the arms were found load
ed with Johnson X Dow's cartridges many
Of these cartridges were >about halfway
down in the barrels of the guns, and III
many cases the ball end of the cartridge
had been put into the gun first. These car
tridges were found mostly in the Enfield
! rifle musket
Year: 1865

tive service in Missouri and die1 at his post from
excessive application to business. Col. Thorpe
was only reporter to Col. Sanderson and was
never chief of the secret service there, as stated
in the Tribune. The correction is due TO the
memory of a faithful officer who literally sac
Tificed his life in the service of his country.


The Worlds special says it may be safely as
serted that nothing positively definite has been
determined relative to the trial of jeff Davis
The new rumor, that it is to take place in Rich
mond about the middle of October, is merely
gratuitous. The Presidenthas only gone so far,
it is believed, as to declare that when it does
come off, that it shall be before civil tribunal.


There is very excellent authority for declar-
ing that two, if not three, members of the Cab
met are opposed to giving jeff Davis any trial
whatever. They prefer, it is intimated, tina,
he should leave the country forever.
Year: 1865

VIZ publish today detailed Aorthern account OF
the capture OF Fort Fisher We have reason to believe
that is much nearer the truth than such accounts
usually The account In saying that that the gar
rison SURRENDERED. An officer guarding the stookade
at the northern entrance OF the Fort did surrender his
post uecesstatng the fall of the Fort
Year: 1865

The Richmond Dispatch eays that there has been
quite heavy foil in the price OF gold in Richmond, and
We know that since the date of the last Richmond pa
per8 received here gold has rapidly fallen there and at
Other points.


Tie Dispatch attributes this state OF things to the
Operation of eTsnt causas among Others to the close
ing of ths port which has had the effect stopping the
demand for gold TO be cut for foreign goods The
Dispatch says that from twenty to hundred thou
sand dollars IN gold were required to meet the weekly
demands OF the buyers, and nearly all the gold with
drawn from the market flowed out through that chan
pel.
Year: 1865

New Born LOVE FOR THE SOLD
Recently the members of the Seth
Illinois Regiment held their anniversary
at Peoria. Colonel R. G. Ingersoll, the
commandant, made a speech, and paid
bis respects to the men now protesting to
be the best friend OF the soldiers. He
said


This is not a political meeting, and yet
can not forbear saying a word or two
concerning the soldiers' friends. There
are men here in our midst pretending to
be your dearest and best friends. They
belong to a party, some of whom, / will
not say all, were not your friends when
you were fighting the battles of your
country. They laughed at your wounds
they sneered at your scars---they
Knocked the corpse of your comrades
they prophesied your defeat-they hoped
for your disgrace-they prayed for your
overthrow and desth--they despised the
cause for which you were battling-they
were the allies of your murderers.


Now you have reached home covered
with glory; you are welcomed by the
true people of the North /; you are radi-
ant with success, and the very men OF
whom have been speaking crowd around
you and say they were your friends
Beware of them all ! They do not want
to help you; they want you to help them.
When they come, tell them that you can
have no confidence in their sincerity till
they bring back the thirty pieces of silver,
the price of your blood tell them to go
and follow to the bitter end the example
of their illustrious leader.
Year: 1865

KEEFINo ouT TUE DEvIL.-Brigham
Young lately said in sermon: "a
gentleman said to me, Il would like to
establish drinking saloon in your
city, by-and by, anyhow Maybe We
will and maybe we will mott We will see
whether God Almighty will reign
among his people, or whether the devil
will. l shall keep such Christian ins.
titutions out of the city as long as !
can"
Year: 1865

The Southern wing of these churches prob
ably had as much to do in fomenting the spir-
it of rebellion in behalf of slavery, as the pol
iticians who inaugurated the rebellion by open
war against the Union, and it is hardly to be
expected that they should thank God very
heartily, that He has sent confusion on their
counsels and overthrown the cause in which
their sympathies were enlisted.
Year: 1865

LAST winter the Legislature of Massa
chusetts passed law fining every land
lord who refused to allow his .colored-
boarlers to sit at the table with his white
guests the sum of fifty dollars. 1t is said
that several negroes have been making
small fortunes in Boston by taking ad-
vantage of this law. They put up at
certain hotels, demand places at the pub
lie table, and wAen they are refused they
remind the landlords of the penalty, and
offer to compromise for five or ten dol
lars
Year: 1865

Too MUcH RESPECT FOR HIMsELF-
Geasral Sherman in speech the other
day said he had too much respect for his
own comfort TO desire to be President =
twenty-five thousand dollars a year
wouldn't pay him for the performances of
the civil duties of that Office, NOE hun
dred thousand. BE had all the military
reputation he cared about, and it was
enough for him to do to take care of that
Year: 1865

GENERAL EwELL.-The Rebel General
Ewell is in his usual good health, and
was much gratifed on Friday last by 4
visit from his family By permission Of
The military authorities his wife and
step-daughter went down in the morning
from Boston TO Fort Warren on the Gov
ernment boat, Wm Stroud,
Year: 1865

1t is to be hoped that the claims Of
Justice and humanity, in behalf Of the
Government clerks in this city, will not
be much longer disregarded. If members
of Congress will make a very brief calcu.
lation, they will be able to decide how
far the present pay goes towards the
support of family. The whole monthly
pay of one Of these public servants
would scarcely buy half a barrel of -four,
If he INDUCED in such luxuries. But
we viii mention articles which are used.
The whole monthly salary of clerk will
not buy five bushels Of corn meal. IT.


in q frantic fit Of hunger, he should
choose to invest his whole salary in corn
meal, he would have no means Of pro-
Year: 1865

In the eloquent speeches at the great
meeting at the African Church, the
distinguished gentlemen present spoke
with emphasis of the wonderful re-
vival of patriotic spirit which had fol-
lowed the humiliatins demands of
the Federal Government at Fortress
Monroe. Evidences Of this change arc
multiplying every day. Men who had
begun to talk in no undertone of recon-
struction now frankly acknowledge their
folly. If the President of the United
States really desired the consolidation Of
the Confcderacy, and the indefinite pro~
longation Of the war, he could not have
adopted more effectual means than his
answer to the peace commission. 1t
looks as if he was raised up for no other
purpose than to render impossible the
restoration of the Union.
Year: 1865

viding q roof over his head, rag of
clothing, stick of wood, q bed atnight,
unless his whole family crept into the
meal bag, making bed and board thereof


Five bushels Of corn meal month;
or five bushels of potatoes, which, being
the same price, are the monthly salary
Of Government clerk in this city. A
good many q these clerks have families
some of them large families, a crime
which they perpetrated in better days
in iact, before it was considered a crime at
all. A bushel of corn meal week for a
large family which eats nothing but corn
bread and water is no very large allow
ance, and this would leave one bushel to
invess%in fircwood, which will yield them
at t1ut cord month, not an enormous
estimate, as they must live out doors,
unless they can find landlord who will
give them their rent for nothing, Not a
rag to protect them from the cold, not a
shoe for their chillren's feet, not a roof
over their heads-nothing on the face Of
the earth will the salary of clerk pay
for except bread and water for his
fami


We submit to Congress whether this
is just compensation Of class of pub
lie officers who, as a class, arc as labo-
rious. as faithful, as intelligent, as eff
cient, and as valuable, as any other body
of officers in the service of the country.
That there are exceptional cases of idle
ness and incfficiency is only what is true
of every branch of the public service
But, as whole, they have devoted them
selves, both with pen and musket, to the
service Of the cause, and have deserved
better of the nation they serve than neg
lect and starvation.
Year: 1865

The Bogus Democracy appear to be-
greatly exercised in their minds, these
times, lest the colored men will, by some
means, be allowed to vote, and thereby
become their equals; for it would seem
to be an admitted fact with them that
voting would make the dreaded "nigger
equality" Possibly they are right. It
may be that it is necessary to hold them
down by legal restrictions to keep them
from equaling, or exceliug such Demo-
Gratis; but do not their fears on the
subject give the lie to the doctrine of
the 9Th resolution of their Columb bus
platform, lately adopted, which reads as
follows:


Resolved, That the 6xpericrce Of
four thousand years has demon
strsted that negroes are not equal TO
white men, and all attempts to place
the mon footing of equality, politically
and socially with the whites, ever have
proved and ever will prove injurious
to both races.


1t appears TO us that, if they take
this declaration of their platform to be
true, and of course they do, their fears
of "nigger equality" are groundTess
even if all legal restrictions were taken
away, and the black man given ar
equal chance with his white ueighbol


to rise if he can. We would modestly sug


gest to those Of our Democratic breth


rem, who are so soreIy afflicted with ne


grophobia, that II looks both cowardl,
and inconsistent to resolve in soIemr


convention that the negroes care no


equal to white men" and then cry lust
lily to the Constitution 10 continue {
, hold them down, lest, perchance, the
might rise to an equality with then
i selves rClinton Republican.
Year: 1865

The Peoples Journal of Health has
an article with this fearful title, which
is an attack on double layers Of wall
paper. The writer says : A good
clean paper is certainly more pleasant
to the eye than fssured and smutty
wall, whose scales of lime are continu.
ally peeling off, and soiling every gar
ment that comes in contact with it,.
And if a proper selection of paper is
made and there be no other lining Of
similar stuff beneath it, it is not only
more pleasant to the sense, but it is al
N ost equal to the whitened wall. But
here is the difficulty. AS a general
rule, o ne coat of paper is put on over
another, as the last gets too much soiled
to look well, until several layers cover
the original surface, thus often pro
ducing an actual cause Of disease.


1t is a safe rule to choose patterns OIL
wall paper without green Colors, especi.
ally those heavy greens which so please
the eye for they contain an active
poison, inimical to life, and it is Away
highly improper to place one paper ovel
another. Better submit to the dirt anC
annoyance of haVipg the last and soilet


paper removed, than to expose your


selves TO ths chances Of disease an


death through its retention"
Year: 1865

Lord Bacon beautifully said-=HIf q
man be gracious to strangers, it shOwa
he is citizen Of the world, and that
his heart is no island cut off from
other lands, but a continent that joins
them.