Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-03-24
General Items.

A company Of French Communists, com
posed Of seventy-ive persons are now on
their passage TO New Orleans. They call
themselves the IcariGn Colony, and their
design is 10 settle on Red River, Texas,
where they have purchased 1000, 900 acres
of land. They have all things in common,
and come well provided with tools and im-
plenents to clear their land and build a thri-
wing village.
Rothschild, the great European banker,
said he acquired his fortune by buying when
every body was selling, and selling when
every body was buying.
There is said TO be not less than one thou
sand professional gamblers in Arkansaw-
the number Of the unpr9feSsionai is not sta
ted, but if the stock spectators, the gamblers
in merchandise, &C., &C., were counted, they
would be far more numerous than the profcs.
SIGNALS.
\ Pittsburg Judge has decided that an APP
prentice has sufficient ground to cl lin a cam
ceiling Of his indentures it, after he is bound
the master becomes an habitual drunkard.
J. j. LEHMAOwsKY, who was for " enty
years in the French army has recently been
lecturing in various parts of Ohio. He was
one of the 10000 who survived the perils Of
the Russian campaign, and one of The 1000
who returned from Egypt. In his lectures
upon the wars of Napoleon, he bears strong
testimony in favor of Temperance. The Ohio
ObSerrer, says,
"Next to the providence of God, he as
cribes his preservation of health and vigor to
his Temperance, and declares that although
he has marched in the Desert with the burn
ing sun over his head, and bIlstering sands
beneath his feet, with a thirst so tormenting
that he has opened the veins of his wrist and
sucked his own blood for relief-although he
has lived for thirty days on horse flesh with
the bark OF trees for bread, snow water for
drink, the canopy of heaven for his tent, with
ice and snow for his pillow, having no shoes
or stockings, and but rags for his clothing,
yet he has never drank a drop of spirituous
liquor in his life.
1t is asserted that john Quincy Adams has
left property amounting to not less than halt
a million of dollars.
There is a woman in the New York Lun-
attic Asylum whose insanity was brought on
by the extreme use of snuff. Some have
thought that none but insane people use
snuff.
Among the bills presented to the New
York Legislature, was one TO incorporate a
company TO improve the dwellings, Of the
poor. In our large cities the rent paid by
the poor is out Of all proportion to that which
the rich pay. A house not worth at the most
81, 200 will sometimes bring nearly or quite
one-iourth that amount of rent annually by
hiring it out to families and individuals in
small parcels.
A clock is being made in Great Britain for
the new Parliament House, the dials Of
which-and it is TO have four-will be thirty
feet in diameter. 1t will be an eight day
clock, and the four sets of hands with the
motion wheels will weigh twelve hundred
pounds, the head of the hammer two hundred,
the weights from two to three hundred, and
the pendulum bob, three hundred. 1t will
doubtless be a magnificent and striking spe-
men of the perfection to which clock making
has been brought.
One of the titles of the King of Ava, is
Lord OF Twenty-four Umbrellas" If his
subjects are such borrowers of the article as
some in this nation are, no will not be Lord
Of them very long.
There were 1000 suicides in France during
the last year. To what an extent of unhap-
piness, of des,itulion, or vice must these per.
sons have been reduced before they were
willing TO take their own Life. No peopls
appear more gay aus happy than the French.