Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-02-09
Domestic Intelligence.
Tremendous EIplOsiOn.--lOO Lives lost !

Early this morning, and explosion Of the
boiler took place in Taylor's Machine Shop and
Printing Press Establishment, by which, it is
supposed, not less than one hundred lives were
lost.
The engine was in the cellar st. John, Burr
Co., Hat Manufacturers, occupied the first
hoor, the second and third stories being occu-
pied by Taylor; and four power presses and 9TH
or heavy work were in the rooms. The fourth
story was occupied as q book bindcry. There
were about 100 persons employed in the build
ing, at least 100 of whom arc supposed to have
been killed.
instantaneous with the explosion, the whole
building was raised some six feet from its foun-
datlon, and fell with n terrible crash. Thirty
dead bodies were taken out up TO noon to-day,
and sixty or seventy arc still buried beneath the
| ruins.
Voices are still heard amid the ruins, and the
cries arc most distressing and art-renJling.-
Many of the bodies were mauglcd in the most
terrible manner, making II almost impossible to
recognize them.
SUIT TO ASHUL FRRE PAPERs.-We find the
following in the n. .. Delta =. In all the South
ern States, suits for freedom, as they arc term
cd, are common. and excite remark. Nu-
merous cases occur in tho books where ne
grocs and colorcd persons, held in slavery, have
claimed and recovered their freedom in the
courts Of justice But suits to cnslavc, to re-
ducc TO bondage negro, or colored person,
who has been living Us n free person, are some
what rare. A case of the latter kind occurred
day or two ago, in the Fifth District Court,
before Jury, and occupied several days. 1t was
the suit Of a. +. Dunbar, Syndic of Theophi-
lus Freeman, IS. Thcophilus Freeman and Sa-
rah Conner The plaintiff, as Syndc, sues for
the purpose of annulling the act Of emancipa-
ton made by Freeman to Sarah Conner, on va
rious grounds of alleged fraud and collusior.-
| verdict q N NVnq ,,lai
which practically reduces Sarah TO slavery, so
that she may be sold with the other property
surrendered by Freeman TO his creditors, unless
the Supreme Court reverse the verdict.
LADY MINERS IN CALIroRSIA.-A young man
from Maine, writing to his friends from Califor-
MIA, says that his party found near the Sacra-
mento, and almost thirty miles from any other
digging, two intelligent and beautiful young la
dies, with no attendant except an old grcy-head-
cd negro, whom they had cnticcd to accompany
them, and who is the servant of the father of
one of them. The eldest of these girls was not
twenty. 1t seems their imagination had become
excited by the gold stories which they had
heard, and they had determined to try their
hands at making fortune. The old negro was
past work, and was left in the camp during the
day to look after the household affairs and keep
: watch, while the girls pursued their mining
4 operations. When the party reached their
camp, the old man was alone in it, but the
girls came in during the day, and received their
visitors Hospitality They expressed no fear Of
being molestcd or robbed, and said that they
should leave for home when they had accumu-
lated $70,0oo they had already gathered
$1,000. They wcrc from Florida, and the
youngest ran away from school to enter upon
the expedition.
DESPERATION OF SLAvE.-Thc Cumberland
(Md.) Civilian says: A gentleman of this place,
having N hplinyn hat nna ~ lie
would soon set up shop" in Pittsburgh, de-
tcrmincd very properly to sell him. The negro
was accordingly sold but resisted the agent Of
his new master, knocking him down with a bar
of iron and doing him serious injury. When he
found at length that his plans of escape were
+ frustrated, he deliberately took hatchct and
+ attempted to sever his hand from the arm. The
blow was not quite successful, and it is suppo-
sed he may recover without amputation of tho
hand.
A CLERGYMAN KnLED.--Rcv. Moses Morris
was shot dead recently near Decatur, Alabama,
} by DIR. Delany. A letter says: "Parson M.
was met on the road by DR.. ID. Parson NJ. OBJ
serving him approaching with gun, on horse
back, stopped his horse, threw aside his blanket,
and barred his breast DIR. ID. supposing he was
searching for pistol, shot him dead on the spot.
Parson Morris was universally beloved. No de-
fcnsivc weapon was found on his body when the
inquest was held. The difficulty, as far as as
certained, appears to have been in consequence
of family discords. Dclany was committed to
: take his trial."-N. Y. Journal Of Commerce.
J Mr. WEnsrERs proposition to give 100
acres of land to actual settlers, says the WASH
ington correspondent of the Journal of Com
mercc, is denounced as a thousand times worse
than the Wilmot proviso. hear it asserted by
Southern men that Mr.. Wcbsters project would
8 accomplish what Abolitionsm would not ac-
,l,gh Nl.uN q = -.
coup de etat that could possibly be conceived
They say that it will, il carried out, ultimately
, render the North west the great ruling power
; of the Union and what is more, it will put the
power of the Union into the hands of foreign
crs.
CLEVELAND AND TwINsBURGH PLASK RoAD.
. The Cleveland and Twinsburgh Plank Road
is now steadily progressing. 1t is expected that
5 during the next summer and fall, continuous
= line Of Plank Road will extend from Cleveland
to Aurora, in Portage thence through Thalers-
} vile to Warren. 1t is also in contemplation TO
c construct a road from Akron through Suyahoga
Falls and Hudson, to intcrscct this road at
Twinsburgh. There arc already six miles Of
this road from the centre OF Twinsburgh to-
wards Cleveland under contract, to be finished
= in July, lS50.- Cleveland Herald
The Tribune correspondent, from Washing
ton, says, he understands that the Democratic
Senators have formally agreed upon a system
by which they will not confirm any Of Gen. Tay-
lor's appointments until he answers Mr. Brad
bury's Resolution. have it from the best of
all authority that they resolved to confirm his
! nominations only on this one condition--that
he confess that his appointments and removals
have been made on party grounds. If he docs
not that, the determination is to reject every
! nomination made without proof of incapacity
or dishonesty in the one removed.
t Tho trustees of tho Gerrit Smith Donation to
! temperate. landless and poor persons, have al
y ready distributed two thousand four hundred