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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, August 6, 1867

—The report that negotiations are in progress for the acquisition of British Columbia is discredited by those Washington reporters who did not get the first chance at the item. It is a way they have. The probability is that the subject has been broached in some shape. The inhabitants of Vancouver’s Island, which is the most important part of the British Pacific possessions, express themselves strongly in favor of annexation to the United States, since our purchase of Russian America, and especially since the consolidation of the other British provinces in the kingdom of Canada has left them “out in the cold.” They complain of neglect from the home government, and what little attachment they have had to it has mostly disappeared. So far as the people of British Columbia are concerned we can take possession at any time, and it is believed that the government of Great Britain can be readily persuaded to part with a domain now less than ever of any material or political value.

A SAD TRUTH.—The Macon Telegraph is informed that the statistics at Milledgeville show the alarming aggregate of seventy thousand paupers in the State of Georgia.

Be guarded in discourse, attentive and slow to speak.