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SCARCITY CT AMERICAN sEAMxN-Tvo articles recently
gnsd j. g. Of Maine" and the other Mariners; but
evidently from and the source. They speak oi
the Naval Apprenticeship System an exploded one;
and show much the ignorance as tho rreudices oi
the writer This wise-acre asks why the Navy Depart.
nent should be taxed to raise its sailors to its
vessels; and insists that the buhcn of raising
men for ofwar should fall our merchants and
their vessels As well might insist in this free
try that our BARRIERS, shoemakers, and dry goods msr
chants should be compelled to raise for
ofwar Already the merchants and merchant vessels
taxed heavily their imports &C. that they actually
the United ststes Navy and L is preposterous to ask
them TO further and raise for vessels OF
The same writer says that the Naval Apprenticeship
System has had fair trial. This is not truc shall
hereafter show BY accurate data He also denies the
rata of American born in the service given in
recep pamphlet; and takes his data for the rest Of
the union the number furnished by the State of Maine
Now, it ia well known that Maine and Massachusetts
States put together therefore, this part OF his argument
falls TO the ground AT the same time, from Bath and
Boston, the principal seapots in those two States the
proportion OF foreign sailors ranges from one halt to two
thirds OF all that shipped thence and Ia notorious
fact that from oil the Eastern ports large proportion Of
thst our merchantmen should be compelled to raise
sailors for our vessels Of war; may simply observe
that this notion was exploded as long since 1895 g
when II was put before the people, and all aeapors
with the solitary exception of Baltimore were found op
posed in toto to such pap We have not space TO day
to further into the details Of this subject but shall
fer to it fully in day two exposing ignorance Of
the writer In the 7ibune and fully maintaining the posi-
ton which we have slways assumed in this paper IN re-
la.on to the Naval Apprenticeship system.


MANY MARINERS.


MURDER.-We are informed that a woman by
the name OF Van Valkenburgh residing in the
town of Perth Fulton county, murdered her husband
few days since by administering poison to him in his tea
other drink. All the reliable particulars Of this foul
deed we have been unable to obtain The woman, how.
ever has been arrested but previous to arrest and in
her efforts TO escape (which desperately she fell from
the lett Of barn where she fought copceament, and
broke her thigh bone, dslocsted shoulder and was
otherwise severely Injured II s said she has made full
confession Of the murder.-Fonda Sentinel