Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-02-18

'th Is the place and time where the Wing
National Convention is 10 be held.
lhere are but three pin manufactures in
'he United States, and these furnish nearly
all the pins used in this country. One Of
them turns of weekly about 80, $4,000, done
up IN papers ready Tor store sale.
The English Pos, Office CHARGES but two
cents postage on a letter, aud yet its yearly
revenue is 5 $1,000, OO0.
The Panl Jones steamer, says the Lonis-
VILE Courier, ran into the Major Barbour and
injured her so much that she sunk belofe thew
could run her ashore. Ouly from five 10 eioht
persons were lost by this disaster. The riv-
er was vide and straight where the accident
occurred, and ii must have required cousidera.
Bile skill to bring the boats in collision. No
one OF course was to blame
1t is rumored that General Butler. the Off
Ger who succeeds Scott in command. has b..,
directed To arrest n. p. Tris,, the former n.
S. Commissioner Ii this be true the peace
talked Of as the probable result Of Trist's la
bors, is mere moonshir
The Erie canal cost Zen millions of dol
lars, has been completed tweuty-seven years,
and has paid to its stockholders thirty.seven
millions of dollars.
1t is said that a pint of Stacked lime TO each
hill of poiatoes-iho lime being covered ia
with the potatoes-will prevent the rot, and
greatly improve the quality Of the vegetable.
The Duke of Wellington sleeps on a mar
row, hard bed, which scarcely affords room
to turn over. He says when "a man in bed
wishes 10 turn, he should turn out.
BY a law of Russia, no Emperor can occu-
ny lis throne more than twenty-five years.
Nicholas has completed the wenty-second
year Of his reign. and will accordingly have
to abdicate in three years. We shouldn't
be surprised il, after all, d~espotic Russia
proves more democratic than republican A.
merica.
A patent has been applied for in Paris for
making artificial stone of any and every quail
lty. If Nature does not look sharp, Art will
monopoli2e a good share of the business she
has been doing for some thousands of years.
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GEORGE HUNNEwELL, who was convicted
law of Massachusetts, has had his sentence
commulcd by lhe Governor. it was clearly
proven TO the Executive that IIunnewell was
a poor imbecile man-one whose mental de-
iiclency undoubtedly placed him beyond the
pale Of moral accountability.
DIR. A. Comstock, Of Philadelphia, has pub
lished Il Phonetic Testament.
Shakespeare's autograph, written on the
fly leaf OF a dirty, water-slained book. was
recently sold in England for 60. The writ
ing was so nearly illegible that a strong mag
niiying glass had 10 be used TO discover it.
The weekly births in London average
twelve hundred-the deaths one thousand.
The Assessors of Ohio report the value of
real and personal property in the State to be
within 4 fraction of Sll0,0 OO, 0OO-enough
to carry on the war with Mexico some two or
three years longer.
A bill has been introduced into the Senate
of his State, allowing every man of good
moral character 10 practice at the bar.
In Sweden, water is used for blasting rocks
in winter time. A hole is drilled, the water
poured in, and the expansion caused by its
freezing splits the rock. A globe of water
one inch in diameter is said TO be able to
overcome all the resistance that thirteen and
d half tons weight can present.
GENERAL SAM HoUsToN, the fitting repre-
sentative of Texan Republicanism, lately
made a speech to the unterriiied democracy
OF New York, in which he asserted,
"There is not an American upor earth hut
what loves land. 1t is the fact, though | say
so in my coarse and vulgar way. (Great ap-
planse.) Your ancestors, when they landed
at Plymouth, upon that famous rock, were
not contonted with that barren spot, but pro-
ceeded in their might, and went on progress
sing at jamestown as well as at Plymouth,
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