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The Daily News' correspondent gives an amusing account of the

baggage train. Only the women, it appears, are of real use ; but they, habituated to obedience and to toil, make capital carriers, crowding to enlist ; and each, though carrying a box of ammunition on her head and a baby on her hip, keeping well up with the line of march. They also claim the right of whipping the men who ought to have gone to battle but did not, and their conduct altogether suggests that the Kings of Dahomey were right in forming a body-guard of women. We hope they will be formed into a regular coolie corps, and would suggest that any ladies in England desirous to show how thoroughly inferior men are, should be appointed officers. Their success would be an irresistible argument for the suffrage.

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