Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-12-04

tins NEw ENGLAND EARTHouLKB.-Oer
readers will all remember or rather the fact
will be brought TO their minds, that on the
morning of the 25th Of August, an earthquake
was very sensibly felt in various parts Of
New England. Such unusual phenomena
in our country caused considerable comment
and much distrust of their actual existence.
Other persons, however, stated shat in the
course of time we should hear Of volcanic ac-
ton in SJuth America. II would seem, how
ever, from recent accounts that the matter
must be referred to a CONFUSION OF Mount
Hecla in Iceland. A letter dated Copenba-
gen, September 21st. which has been pub
lished among other items of European intel
~ligonce, says:
Toward noon on The 23d uIt., there was a.
sudden aud violent eruption of Mount Hecla,
The commencement Of which was accompa-
MED by several shocks Of earthquake, extend-
ing to a radius Of about three miles, (seven
French leagues.) The eruption lasted about
10 minutes the flames rose 10 an immense
height, and all the country round the volcano
was covered With a thick layer of ashes.
There can he little doubt that the earth
quake on the morning Of the 25th August,
felt in Massachusetts, proceeded from dhe
eruption Of Hecla, at noon on the 22d. The
distance, We presume, is about % geogTaph-
ical degrees, so that the vibration OF ~pulsation
NIdNtltu at lut Idlt " 81 lii ~
Phiiddephia .3nericdo.
Bread STUFrs.-Nlile famine is raging
in Ireland and threatens other portions OF Eu-
rope, so that doubts are expressed, in the
las; English papers, whether enough grain
can be found in this country and elsewhere
to supply the deficiency, immense quantities
Of corn and rye are constantly being used by
the distillers, we presume in Europe as well
as in this country. Few people have any
idea Of the quantity Of grain which is thus
converted from the 'stah Of life" into a most
potent instrument of death. In the New
York sales, as reported in the Journal Of
Commerce. we notice eight thousand bushels
of rye taken in one day by tisli!lers. This
would be sufficient for lie consumption of
more than a thousand persons, till the early
crops Of next year will afford them susten-
ance. Every person who is in the habit Of
using intoxicating drinks should recollect,
every time he puts the inebriating cup 10 his
lips, that, in addition to all the other evils Of
such indulgence, he is dcpriving some poor
half furnished wretch of the means of sus-
tenance-that he is, literally, taking the
bread from the mouth of the poor, for the
qualification of a d~epraved appetite, the result
of a disgusting and degrading habit.
IIonRlaLE.-The trial of Peres Hitchcock,
for the murder Of his father, at the Greene
On. W Circuit, week before last, disclosed
some horrid effects of drunkenness. We see
ii stated that it appeared in evidence before
the court that when the ~neighbors went TO
the house, after the murder, they found the
wife of the deceased sitting intoxicated by
the body Of her dead husband, plunging her
fingers into his eyes. almost if not quite tear-
ing them from their sockets, exclaiming,
with horrid oaths, that it was Just what he
deserved, and he ought to have been killed
long since.
MARyLAND.-Clagett, Of Prince George,
and Hope Of Carroll, were defeated at the
late election I! 1t will be borne in mind that
these two men exerted themselves to stop all
liberty Of speech on the subject Of slavery,
in Maryland, as members Of the last legisla-
ture. The Baltimore Saturday Visiter, and
It's editor DR.. Snodgrass, were their special
u objects of hate. Verify, the people can be
trusted.-BaHimOre .2mericaH.
n - Lovely INDEED.-It is stated that when
the wounded bully-duelist, Col. McClung,
= of Mississippi, heard Of the appointed duel
which was to take place at Camargo on the
/ l2th inst, he sent word to Tom Marshal
who is his cousin, that if,after getting through
with Pcyton, he would wait until he could
get upon his legs himself, another opportu-
nifty should be afforded 10 atone for the abuse
Of General Taylor! A pretty set they must
be-but of course all the better as ''warriors''
for their rowdyism Bail. Pisiter.
FREDERIcK DouGLAss.-The Salem Oh
scrrer learns that the friends of the fugitive
slave in England have raised the sum OF
$3.50, which has been brought TO this coun-.
try in the - Acadia" 10 be sent to his former
master, that he may not be iorcibly taken
back to bondage by the slave holders.