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Steamboat Combination

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
June
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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- We learn tímtie proprietors of slenmboata ave at lengt h brmed an association for the season. All ilie articulara of the arrangement have not yet ranspiref1, but it is understood to be general, ay universal. Even the Julia Palmer comes to it, and is to be dismantled and laid up. 'he St. Clair and probably 6ome others are Isoto be laid up, it is said. Some arrangement8 are nlso in progresa with the London, running on the Canada eide. 'I'he fare from Cuffulo to Detroit is to be $3 for cabin anü 85 for deck passage; from Buffalo to Chicago. &c. $12 for cabi and $6 for deck passage. The proportion is not quite just to Detroit. Thetrue ratio according to time and distauce is aa 1 to 3 instead of 1 to 2. We trust that we shall now have regular arrivals 8nd above all punctual and prompt mails. Det. Adv.flC?3 General Militia trainings were abolished in Massachusetts in 1839, but a fundof $50,000 was appropriated for the payment in sumsof f.ve dollars each, of such of the militia not exceeding 10,000, as should volunlarily train a certain number of times in each year. But with this encouragement, not more than 7,000 in any year havo ever assembled, and the number is suid to 6d annually diminishing. Maine, in 1844, repealed so much of her laws as required trainings, but retainedthe enrolment. Vermont has followed the example of Maine.CCFrederick Douglas, #ho wtrs formerly a slave in Ma ry land, in referring to the sons oftbeslaves says: "I have often been utterly astonished, 6ince l came to the North, to find persona wlio cöuld 6peak of the singing, among slaves. as evidence of their contehtment and happiness. lt is impossible lo conceive of a greater mistake. SJáves sing mo.t when they are most unhappy. The songs of the elave represent the sorrowsof hia heart; and he is relirved by his tears. At least, such is my experience. - I liave oficn sung to drown my sorrow, bnt seldom to express my happiness. Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were oiiJtê uncommon to me while in the jaws of slavery. The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as nppropriately considercd as evidence of content ment and happiness. as the singing of a slaveí tire songs of the one und of the other are prumpicd by the same emotior."

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Signal of Liberty
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