Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-09-28

tho donations received through Mrs. Foster
and from other sources, the whole amount
paid into the treasury during the same pc
Rod appears to be S350e,36. of this sum
$2,509,0l has been expended in the publi-
cation of The Bugle, or applied TO the pay
ment of other current expenses; $675, 10 has
heen applied toward the extinction of the
Society's debt; and there is now in the tree-
sury a balance of S324,9O.
1t affords us great pleasure TO add, that
during the last Winter the Society became
the recipient of donation Of forty acres OF
land, lying near the center Of Hardin Coun-
~, aud in the vicinity of the Sandushy and
Cincinnati Railroad. The donors are per-
sonally unknown TO the Committee, and have
not left us at liberty to publish their names
in connection with this record of their muni-
ficence. The land is timbered, Of an excel
lent quality, and supposed to be worth about
5000. The Committee have received the
proper evidences Of title, and they or their
successors can dispose of it as the interest OF
the Society may dictate.
The number of subscribers TO The Bugle
at the time of the last Anniversary was ,060 ;
the present number is l,270; showing net
gain in fifteen months of 2I0. The receipts
from subscribers during the same period, as
seen above, amount to 81 ,225. The expen-
ses Of publication, including the Editors sa-
larry, are $2,395,00. Excess of expenditure
over receipts, $l,17000. The amount of ar
rearages now due from subscribers is esti-
mated at 81 800; n sum nearly sufficient, ifit
could be collected, to meet all the expenses
of publication, including the salary of the
Editor for one year. The causes of this de-
lnquency are various. Some doubtless are
poor, but many more we fear are wanting in
that nice sense of obligation which is requi-
site to secure the prompt payment of news
paper debts. At times the Committee have
seriously entertained the proposition TO re-
leve this difficulty by demanding payment
in all cases IN adp,:nce; hut on the whole,
they have not been convinced that this would
be wise measure, and they know Of no re-
medy for the evil, save in ,hat higher develop
ment of conscience, and that abiding attach
rnent to the cause, which an anti-slsve.y pc
per is so well calculated to promote.
In view Of the disparity between the ex-
penses Of the paper and the receipts from
subscribers, the Committee, after mature de-
liberation, on the first of May last, changed
the terms from 81 to 1850 in advance; and
although this enhancement of price has led
to a few discontinuances, and may perhaps
lead TO more, we believe the result will on
the whole be favorable TO the prosperity of
the paper. The former price, considering
the size and circulation Of the paper, was
certainly too small, while the present terms
cannot be reasonably complained of as too
high. It is right, of course, that every anti
slavery paper should be put at such price
as will be most likely TO equalize its receipts
aud expenditures; for it is in this way alone
that the burden of its support can be made
to rest, with any approach to equality, upon
all those who are interested in sustaining it.
So far us we know, this change has met the
cordial appreciation of the friends of the
cause as both just and expedient.
Encouraged by the promise of the aid al
ready spoken of from tho American Anti
Slavery Society, the Executive Committee
engaged the services Of OLIVER JOHNSON as
Editor of The Bugle for the term of one
year, commencing at the close Of the period
for which his salary had been puid by the
Parent Society, viz: on the first of June last.
They also effected an arrangement with
SAMUEL BRooKE to spend a portion of his
time in the service of the Society as its Gen
eral Agent; and at subsequent period they
appointed JAMES w. WALKER a lecturing
Agent to attend the series of Conventions
which have just closed. Mr.. Brooke has
served the Society for the term of three
months. Mr.. Walker, after two months OF
severe labor, was suddenly taken i'll and
compelled TO leave the field at the very mo.
ment when his efficient help was most desi.
rable. These are the only lecturing agents
who have been employed by the Committee
since the last Anniversary. Thomas Wick
ersham, however, has spent some time in
an effort to collect the arrearages due on The
Bugle and 10 the treasury, and in obtaining
subscribers. He has been compensated by a
fixed per centage on the amount of bis col
lections.
But Notwithstanding the inability of the
Committee to employ Agents, the Western
field has not, since our last Anniversary,
been so much neglected as that fact would
seem to indicate. Our lack of service has
boen in some degree supplied through anoth-
er agency. SAMUEL BRooKE, acting as Agent
of the Parent Society for the West, by his