Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-12-15
Domestic Items.

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of mail rutcs, 1913 length of routes l67, 7O3.
On thes, routes mail transported 1854, O69
miles, dung the year at a cost of 5 cents and
6 mills pi mile. Cost of foreign mails and of
that to Cifornia, $255,692. The receipts of
the dcpam for the year (cnding June lst)
were, fo letter postage, $3,SS2. 1922 for
ncwspaps and pamphlets, $Sl9,OI6 20 mis-
cellancor, $8,397, 46 total, $4,7O5, l76, 2S.-
5000, 00Oyas also received from the treasury to
pay for transportation of matter from the Dc
partmcrn. The expenditures during the year
were S,479,049, 10. Excess Of revenue over
cxpenss $426, 555,55. Add to this the remain
der of ne appropriation not yet drawn from
the trdury, 1926, 555,5 5,) and the balance is
swell& to $691,G82.70 Thus it appears that
the syst6h of reduced rates of postage adopted
in 1916 t{as vindicated itself, the department
having a}urplus of over half n million of dol
lars N. Collamer estimates the revenue for
the next ear at So, 7s3, $3.50, and the expen-
scs at $3.50, 1885,, ID from which it appears
that thes will be a balance on hand Juno LIST,
1850, psi ,033, 1867. So much for cheap
postagdro bitterly opposed by the South
Mr.. (llamer proposes to reduce the postage
on ~lettco,to the uniform rate of 8 cents for all
distance even though the present system of
.frankinleshould be continued; and while he
proposepo change in the rate of newspaper
postage le suggests, in general terms, that it
may be Aell to proceed farther in the policy
of encoI aging the circulation of newspapers in
the viciyy of their publication.
CALrsRNIA.-Tho Crescent City arrived at
New Ygk on the 9TH with over 81 ZOO, 900 in
gold. INC tide of emigration continues. San
Franchp has a population of 10000. and the
numhttpf persons at the mines is estimated at
so, O0e.s The isthmus is free from sickness /;
l2,0O6 frsons there, waiting for passage up the
Pacific. Many will come back. Breadstuffs
and pf'bisions have risen 100 per cent. at San
Francs ). Two seamen, Peter and John Black,
were executed in the harbor of San Francisco
on tho BID Oct. by order of q Court Martial
All tn crews of the United States vessels in
port VIII compelled to witness tho barbarous
exocutiS.
The Constitution of the new State has been
adopted in Convention, and now comes the
scramble for the offices. Col. Fremont and L.
Butler ling are candidates for the U. s.. Senate.
TERRBIE.-The Helena (Ark.) Shield re-
cords tn, murder of Henry Ycrby, a respectable
citizen o. that county. -Four of his negroes were
suspected of having committed the murder and
a guard placed over them. The Shield says,
that tlp persons who had them in charge, be-
came satisfied by subsequent disclosures that on
ly two Of the negroes had been concerned in the
murder, and tied them to q tree and burned
them to death.
To A gentleman laid on our table last eve
ming some raspberry vines filed with fruit,
which were found in the pastures. They were
as fresh and fair as those grown in midsummer.
Flowers have also been found in our woods
within a week, as fair and fragrant as those
whichbloSsomed in June Gloucester Telegraph,
NOu. 18Th.
A meeting was recently held at Huntersville,
Texas, and resolutions accepted strongly CEN
suring Senators Houston and Rusk for the
course they pursued with regard to the South
ern Address and especially their vote on the Or
cgon Bill and the Wilmot Proviso. They aban-
doned he rights and interests of their constitu
ents, and violated the instructions given then
upon the subject by the Legislature.
The Marchioness of Ossoli, (best known al
S. Margaret Fuller has nearly completed al
elaborate History of the late Revolutionar!
Movements in Italy, in which will be included
extended observations upon the social, political
religious and esthetical condition of the country
notices of its most eminent persons, etc., etc.
1t will be published in New York and London
probably during the winter.
Miss Frederick Bremen paid a visit to tn
Fourierists in New Jersey last week-mixed
batch of bread, sewed hominy bags, and woul
have gone out to dig potatoes, if it had not rain
cd.