Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-04-07

The "Liberty Street Presbyterian Chutch
OF Troy, New York. at a late meeting re-
pudiated all Sectarianism and declared their
regret tina, they sever gave countenance to
that destructive device Of Satan" They ac-
knowledge no creed but the Bible, and no
head but God and they desire hereafter to
be known as THE Church in Liberty Street,
Troy, n. y"
On the 1st Of June next, or aboutthat time,
the banks Of Ohio will be prohibited ny a re-
Gently enacted law, from paying out the notes
of any bank without the bounds Of this State.
The effect of this operation will probably
make considerable business for note bro
kers.
Some writer says "Love is an idea, beefa
reality The latter is quite as much of an
idea and as little Of a reality with some, as
the former can possibly be-.
The New York Herald asserts that the
national debt of France is So, OOO, 600, 0OO.-
The annual amount Of tlXes is $500, GOO, 900;
this has not been sufficient 10 defray the en-
penses of the government, so tie nation has
been running in debt every day.
Pope Plus is sitting for his portrait TO Mr..
Ames, an American artist.
The Governor Of Connecticut has appoint
ed the 2lst of April to be observed throughout
the State as a day of fasting and prayer
AIS not this the fast that ! have chosen =
TO loose the bands of wickedness, to undo
the heavy burdens and let the oppressed go
free; and that ye break every yoke"
The Wheeling Times says that the bridge
being built over the Ohio at Wheeling will
last as long as the earth itself. Wonde if
the editor is a Millerite
While tens of thousands of landless men
are to be found in Great Britain, one hundred
thousand acres of forest in Scotland are re-
served as a deer park. Royalty and nobility
care more for preserving the red deer of A.
thol forest, than giving the peristing, means
by which they may acquire bread.
The Jail at Burlington n. ]. being tenant
less, has been converted into a butcher shop.
This is not the first time butcheringh has been
done in Jail or Jail yards. The public senti-
ment has of late years spoken SO strongly a.
gainst public executions, that the legal butch
cry of convicted criminals generally takes
place'wiIhin the precincts of the prison.
1t is stated that in the island of Bornoo,
they have grasshoppers as large as sparrows
some of them measuring four inches in
length. Wonder if the sparrews there are
as big as geese!
The Ashtabula Sentinel has changed pro-
p%rietors and editors-it will hereafter he con-
Quoted by ]. A. Giddings, a son of the Con-
gresham.
Peter Hubbel, of Charleston, Mass, has
the largest brick-yard in the world. lie has
thirty moulding machines in operation, and
makes with each from ten TO twelve thousand
bricks daily.
Gen. Taylor has at last avowed his poll
ties. He declares himself with ''great sat.
isfaction" a Democrat, and with ''great pride
and pleasure a Wing.
The Congressional COMMITTEES who ac.
companied the remains OF John Q iincy Al
ans to Mass. were RECALLED by the city au-
,horities of Boston by a sumptuous dinner
at which intoxicating liquors were furnished
without stint. The Mayor of the city, ant
the Governor of the State both refused TO at
tend because of the rum features of the enter
tainment. Some of the Ilonorables partooL
very freely, and became much excited, if not
absolutely drunk.
MINERAL WEALTH or ALAnAMA.-ThC
editor of the State Guard, at Weiumpka
says he has been shown, during the last six
month, some of the finest specimens of gold
dust and bars obtained from any mines il
the world. lie also says there is a large
capital now,invested at Silver Hill, Tallapoo
sa county, in the digging Of gold, which il
yielding an excellent per cent to its owners
And in our opinion (says the editor) all lha
is required TO make that mineral region Of
country become as famous as any part of The
world is the investment of the proper quaint
ty Of capital. Metals of all kinds have been
discovered, in instances in large bodies sui
as lead, iron, silver and gold and no coun
try affords more and better water facilities
for the purpose of carrying the rock through
the process Of separdtion.-PitS. Commercial
Journal.
Yet Alabama lacks the one Thing needfu
to the Development of its mineral wealth
free labor. Though lead, and iron, and sill
yer, and gold may underlie the whole State
yet slave labor can never make lis mine;
profitable. 1t will require the nerve and en-
arrv of communicated toll. tho irJouit,bl,