MAIMED AND DISABLED SOLDIERS.
Some provision on the part of the State, seems to be de-
manded, for the maintenance and support, of the maimed and
disabled soldiers, who have returned to their homes, from the
bloody strife in which they have so bravely upheld the credit
of their native State, during the four years of this rebellion.
From the Potomac to the Rio Grande—upon every field which
this conflict has made memorable, the blood of these gallant
men has been poured out in defence ofa government which they
prized more than their lives. Maryland has just cause to be
proud of her returned veterans. They are the cherished records
of a conflict, which in the magnitude of its proportions, stands
without a parallel in the world's history, and which in the
probabilities of the future, giving all due weight to the ex-
cesses of human madness, can never be repeated in our own.
At a time when the perils of war looked most portentous and
threatening—when the fate of Republican government trem-
bled in the balance—amidst the sneers and discouragement,
with profbund sorrow be it said, of a large class of our own
citizens—these brave and patriotic men, flocked to the stan-
dard of their country. A bordet' State, with the capital of
the Union identified with its destiny, Maryland had her sym-
pathies so indicated—could not have provoked the certain
destruction of an encounter with twenty millions of freemen.
But a nobler impulse governed her action. She loved the
Union, because of the countless blessings which it had con-
ferred upon her; she loved it as the oniy successful check
upon the unbridled march of despotic power; she loved it as
the home and centering point of that principle of universal
freedom, which caused us to seek a home on this continent.
When the old flag, glittering with the proud symbols of a
nationality to which she was indissolubly bound, received the
first shock of the brooding storm, the true sons of Maryland
were among the first who rushed to its rescue; and these are
the men fbr whom your sympathies are invoked. Without
the ability to be any longer useful to themselves or their
country—shattered and disabled by the toils and hardships
of war, they throw themselves upon the protecting arm of
their native State. The reference of their claim to a select
committee of your body, may lead to the maturing of plans,
which may do justice to the great services they have rendered,
and show by your liberality, the appreciation in which they
are held by a grateful and admiring people.

THE NAVAL ACADEMY — ITS REMOVAL FROM
ANNAPOLIS.
In the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy objections
are urged to the present location of'the Naval Academy at An-
napolis, chiefly upon the ground of the inconvenience arising