Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-07-06
THE ANTI-SLAvERY BUGLE.

WEBSTER HAS Confessed telegraphic dis
patch to the Pittsburgh Gazette OF Monday
from Boston says:
II is stated here, on the best authority, that
Professor Webster has written a letter TO the
Governor and Council, confessing himself gull
tv of the murder Of DIR. Parkman-that 1t
was not murder-and praying that his sem
| tencc may be commuted.
The letter, though lengthy, Il is said, docs
not give the details Of tho fatal Transaction IL
will probably come up before the Council next
Tuesday.
Another Steamboat the Swallow, was burnt
AZ New York on Saturday. She was bound to
Dobbs Ferry with some seventy passengers
aboard and the CONSERVATION for few minutes
was dreadful. Two other steamboats, and q
yawl went TO her relief and took off the passen-
gers. One woman threw her child overheard
and jumped over herself. The child was
drowned but the mother was saved.
The work upon the extension of the Mans
field and Sandusky City Railroad from Mans
field to Newark, is going on with great rapidi-
| ty. They are now laying the iron at each end
Of the route at tho rate Of about half mile per
day. The road is to be completed to Belleville,
| 13 miles south of Mansfield, by the 4th Of Ju-
ly, and by the LIST of September the company
expect to meet the other division at Mt. Vcr-
!
Newark in time for the Fall trade.
| PRoF WEBSTER is said to be in good spirits (;
he has his meals from Parker's as usual, and
enjoys excellent health and appetite. He is
firmly Of the opinion that he never will be
hanged. lie reads good part of his time in
the Bible, and takes particular pains to mark,
as he goes along all passages referring to false
witnesses and prosecutors of innocent men,
His family visit him twice q week.
Per. Contra.-Profcssor Webster has appear
cd quite gloomy for the past few days. He
seems to realize his unfortunate situation more
now than at any previous period. IL is said
that his counsel have endeavorcd to prepare his
mind for the decision Of the Court respecting
new trial-thc general opinion being that new
trial will not be grantcd.-Boston Bee.
THE friends of water as a remedial agent,
met in Convention at Hope Chapel, Now York,
recently for the purpose of organizing dis
tinct association. About twenty lIydropathic
practitioners wcro present, and the formation of
tho new association was speedily consummatcd,
under the title of the " American Hygionic and
Hydropathic Association of Physicians and
Surgeons"
CuoLERA.--Thcro woro twelve deaths from
cholera, in Cincinnati, Wednesday.
ms nccQ buTpTlSc no Onc. DOulS COullnb
up from New Orleans crowded with cmigrants
these cmigrants breathing a new atmosphere
and living in a now way-exposed continually
it is not strange, that they should be attacked
with disease.
The San Francisco California; Watchman
Of the 1st May, says On the 30th March, the
Rev. o. G. Wheeler, pastor Of the first Bap-
tist Society of San Francisco, asked the trus-
tees of the Society to reduce his salary from
the lst of April to the rate of five thousand dol
lars per annum, being just one half the sum
generously rendered him"
UP SYRACUSE, they are ining and confining
Rumsellcrs for dealing out liquor to Indians
That is quite right, so far as it goes hut VIC
can't sec what white folks have done that they
shouldn't receive as much protection from tho
laws as Indians. They certainly need it--a
good many of them.-N. Y. Tribune.
ACCIDENT AT NIAGARA FALLs.-On the Goth
ult., at 20 minutes past o'clock, p. NJ, the Ia
bic Rock, mt the Falls fell with a tremendous
crash, which was heard for miles around. A car
riage and six persons were passing over it at the
time, and they just had time to escape. The
carriage was carried away with the rock. II is
stated that the guide and some visitors were un-
der the rock at the time of its falling.
n lOTRANGE INEAh VI ChliOuo
freak of nature may be seen ON an apple tree in
Mcdford, in the yard of Mr. Nathan Childs.-
Upon branch OF this tree there are three large |
toiitc roses. Originally there were five, and
what is still moro singular is that they are all
upon new sprout Of this years growth
Portland AdUertiser.
The adultcration of Coffee in Great Britain,
by the use of chicory which is itself grossly
adulteratcd, is said to be almost UNIVERSAL
Out of ten thousand dealers in coffee, nine
thousand five hundred arc said TO resort to tho
adulterating process.
SUIT AGAINST Mr.. FoRREsr-Mr. Edwin For
rest has been held to bail in the sum of $4,000,
under an order of arrest issued by Justice Camp
bell, of the Superior Court, in an action for as
sault and battery, brought by Mr.. N. p. Willis,
in which the damages are laid at $4,000.
INvADERs OF CUBA.--A telegraphic dispatch
from New Orleans, dated June 2lst, states that
the Grand Jury have found true bills against
Lopez, Mr.. Sigur of Del, Gov. Quitman, Judge
G. Pinkncy Smith of Miss, ex-Gov. Henderson,
Mr.. O'Sullivan, and ten others of the Cuba in
vadcrs.
The recent sale of $4,000 900 of Ohio State
Bonds was for the purpose of liquidating that
amount of the State debt falling due. The
premium on the new issue realized by the State
is $337 900, and reduces the debt to that a.
mount.
DIR. G. II. Merryman, of Illinois, has in
vented a machine which converts strong, rancid
butter into an article as fresh as that Just
churncd from fresh cream Great country
this
Rev. G.. w. Bethunc, d. D., has been elect
cd Chancellor of the University of New York,
in place of Hon. Theo. Frelinghuysen.
The CHOLERA has made its appearance at
Nashville, though only few cases had occur
red at the latest date.
SUICIDE OF A SLAvE.-Just before the arri
val of the mail boat yesterday, colored
man was discovered on board, under circnm-
stances which induced the Captain to believe
that he was runaway slave. Upon ques-
tioning him, the Captain became confirmed
in his suspicious, and had him conveyed