Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-03-17
General Items.

Seven buildings were destroyed by a re-
,cnt fire in Oberlin, among them the esiab-
ishment Of J. NJ. Fitch, the printer of the
Evangelist and the Review. The subscrip-
lion and account books Of both these papers
were destroyed.
The Ohio Legislature at It's recent session,
two new counties, making the whole
number in The State eighty-fve. AUdLAizE
county, which is formed out of parts OF Meri
Ger, Van Vert and Alleni and MoRRow coun-
ty, which is formed out of parts of Crawfordi
knox, Richland, Delaware and Marion, are
the names of the new counties.
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The Commissioner Of Patents says that
the present population Of the United States
Is 20,7I6,400. As no census has been taken
since 1910, w suppose he guesses at the
number; if he is a genuine Yankee he pro-
badly comes pretty near the mark.
New USE ron CHLoRoFeRM.-The Chris
,ian Citizen tells Of a druggist who had a
porker hich he wished to have killed. Hay-
ing but little ear for the music of a hogs
voice, he silenced itby a dose of Chloroform,
and had the pig killed, scalded, cut up and
sailed without his porkship being conscious
that any thing unusual was the matter with
him.
During the Revolutionary war, Massachu-
sets furnished 49, G2 soldiers, and the six
slave States, with a free population three
times as numerous, could only spare 60, 459.
The people Of Long Island are claiming
the right to build up "A State government OF
their own. And why not? The island is
big enough and has enough inhabitants.
Tho duty collected on Tobacco imported
into England amounts annually to Gfteen mil
lions of dollars The consumption must be
immense, and argues but little for the clean
illness OF good taste of the people.
Doonton, New Jersey. a village containing
800 inhabitants, has not a single drunkard in
the town, nor a place where intoxicating Ii
quors are sold.
In lS47, there were 1883 emigrants left
Liverpool for North America, more than
threc-fourtiIs of whom were bound for the u
nited States.
The Cincinnati Horticultural Society has
awarded a prize of a silver cup for the best
specimen of Wine made in that vicinity from
grapes of the last season. Are not such pre-
miums a premium on incompetence!
England has expended in wars since the
Conquest, EI,437, 000, 900, and 100000
lives. What a waste of Blood and Gold!
A Lieutenant in Mexico says that the only
law known there is : martial law and that
it consists of but two articles-'I order-yot
obey
Commodore Stockton seems determined tc
give civil and religious liberty TO the people
of Mexico, by means OF a United States ar
my, and says it shall be done although j
costs a fifty years war, and taxes every mar
in the country one haB his possessions. The
Commodore is very benevolent, and very Law
ish of other mems lives and property.
G-We have received the sixteenth annu
al report of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery
Society, a valuable document, and aboundin!
in interesting facts connected with the pro
gress Of the anti-slavery cause. The reports
Of that society comprise in themselves, ;
complete, though necessarily a condensed
history of the movement from year to year
and are well worthy of careful preservation
pure mind by way Of remembrance"
SLAVES IN TEXAs.-The slaves in Texa
constitute over one fifth Of the taxable pr
perty of the inhabitants, and are rated al
bout eleven millions Of dollars. The annex
; alton Of that State was "extending the area c
freedom" with a vengeance.
: G-Our thanks to J. X. GIDDrNGs for
| copy of the minority report Of the Committ'
to whom was referred the claim of Anton
Pacheco, asking for compensation for a sla'
lost TO him by government carelessness,
he alledges.
@Will our readers give particular ate
a ton to the contents of the first column on Il
first page!
n GTThe following letter was addresst
h by the relict of John Quincy Adams to t
Speaker OF the House of Representatives, a
i. knowledging the reception of a copy of t
!. resolutions passed by that body on the occ
sion OF her husbands death.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 90, 1913.