Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-09-05

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not been 50 severe. Yet it is acknowledged
that the quality is uncommonly fine.
Potatoes are of an excellent quality, and
though here and there may be a failure, we |
shall hav9 our usual abundance of one of the |
finest and most wholesome vegetables ever
cultivated for man. The rot has got into it
in some sections, but this is not SO general
as it was last year,
Our survey would not be complete unless
we added a few words about the great crop
of the South, cotton, rice, Tobacco and sugar.
The cotton crop will be a heavy one-pro-
badly reach $500, 900 bales. In South Ca
rolina and Georgia.the intense droughthas re-
duced it some, but this deficiency will be
more then supplied by Mississippi and Ar
kansas,
The tobacco crop is light in Virginia, and
in North and South Carolina, but heavy in
Kentucky and Missouri, and we think the
whole supply will be a full average.
Rice, which is mostly raised in South Ca
%rolina, will not be a full crop. If we are to
believe the papers of that State, the drought
has burnt up every thing almost like a blast
of fire, but these effects are probably exag-
geratod, as the suflerings of heat makeit seem
more intolerable than it really is,
The sugar crop will be a splendid one
The culture in Louisiana is extending beyond
all former example. 1t is so much more pro-
htable than raising cotton that tina cotton plan
tiers are rushing into it. The last years crop
was 200 900, 1000 of pounds, by far the largest
ever before raised in this country. The next
may reach 250,O00,000 pounds. There is
yet a large room for increase, as the consump-
ton in the United States is about 500, O00,-
900.
In this connection we can very properly
speak of the crops of Texas, which are UNI
commonly good. Cotton, sugar, corn and
wheat are all fine. There is IA glorious album
dance of every thing for sustenancc or com-
fort. As that country may now be consider
ed a part of our Union, its prosperity will be
chronicled with as much interest as that of
its sister States.
In taking a survey of the crops of our coun-
try, the mind must be struck at once with
their wonderful variety. All climates and
all productions seem contained within our
borders. Asia, Europe and Africa seem to
have thrown their treasure from the st. Law
renee on the North to the Rio del Norte on
the South, and while we cannot but feel a
grateful reverence to our Maker for the boun-
tltul harvest which blesses our land, we can
not but mingle a just pride that we have so
noble a continent to subdue to the uses of ci-
vilized man. May we be worthy of our coun-
try, should be the aspiration of every Ameri-
can, from the cradle tothe grave.
A ScYrHE M~ANUFACToRY is now in course
of erection at Dayton, Ohio. The building
will be $50 feet long, will contain eight trip
hammers, and give employment to a large
number of hands. This is the first attempt
at manufacturing this article, to any cons;d
cradle extent; west of the mountains. There
is a small establishment in Miami County,
which supplies the neighborhood in part, but
its sales extend no further.
AMERICAN WHALERs.-The Americans have
six hundred whale-ships in the Pacific ocean
valued at more than twenty millions of dol
lars. The whole world besides has but half
as many whale-ships as we.
In CHIHuHUA there is a plain about one
hundred miles across, that separates the nor
thern from the southern part of the State
1t is known by the name of the "JOurnnI Of
Death." 1t contains no water, and travellers
90 over it by forced marches, knowing that
they will get no water till they get across.
1t is four days journey from the town of Chi
huahua. The other parts of the State are
generally finely supplied with water.
OREGoN Ann CALIFoRNIA.-The Montreal
Herald notices the arrival of Sir George Simp-
son on the Odd of July, from the interior OF
Hudson's Bay. He stltcs that the United
States citizens who had emigrated to Oregon
were dissatisfied with the character of the
country, and that of six thousand who had
arrived there from time to time mp to the
month of March last, one thousand had pro.
ceeded to California.
ATTEMPTED ESCAPE OF SLAvEs.--The
watch detected on Saturday a plan of escape
of several slaves, and three ofthem have beer
t apprehendcd and committed to Jail. A YES
sci which had dropped down below Towr
Point was suspected to have been engaged
3 as the medium of their escape, and a stric
examination was made on board of her, blu
: there was no evidence of the fact. The i'll
g dividuals in custody are servants in situa
tons which are TO be envied by thousands o.
!, whites, in the so-called free States; and ont
of them no doubt would have rued the change
, to such freedom, if they had succeeded
The master-spirit of the enterprise, however
, who possesses an intelligence beyond hi
2 station, for which he is indebted to the kind
ness of his owners, might have Jared bette
: than his dupes.-No5oM Herald, Aug. 9Th.
u Mn. RUSH, in his "reminiscences, states tina
! two servants of the Persian Ambassador hav
ing offended him lately in London, he appli
= = ed to the British Government for permlssio
u to cut off their heads. On learning that
: could not be granted, he gravely remonstr
J ted! In the sequel he was i'll able to con
y prehend how the laws of England could de-
> ny his request. Finding, however, that hi
y hands were tied up, he told his servants, Sc
u was all one; for off they would come whe
7 he got them back to Persia"
n MURDER AT A MILITIA MUsTER.-We lear
from the Cleveland Herald that on the els
ult., a murder was committed in Burton
o Geaura county. Ohio by ruffian named Brii