Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-08-31
Mems of the iurrk .
Domestic InteIligence.

ticed into the woods, under the pretenco OF PICK
ing bluc-berries. In struggle, says our in
formant, the rufiians horribly mangled the body
of the young lady, and from the effects of their
ruffianism in short time she expired. The
Williams are under arrest, and, in all probability,
they will suffer tho highest penalty Of the law.
Great Fails Skctcher, l5th.
OHro.-Reports from so counties show that
l0,564 chanccry suits are pending in that State,
and 1921 at law-and only half the causes arc
disposed of yearly, and the balance continued at
an expense of $S5,O0O year The loss by
time, witnesses, interest &c. not included
But the new cases average more than 1900 year
ly over the cases disposed Of and the dockets
are horribly overrun, to the detriment OF mems
pockets, characters, erosion Of heart and mind.
We happened at the Capitol, yesterday, to
meet the venerable Geo. w. z. Gusts, of Vir-
ginia, who had just been to pay his respects to
the thirteenth President Of the United States,
all OF whom he has personally known and been
known to. This venerable gentleman, though
stricken in years, is we arc happy to say, still
hale and hearty. We presume there are very
few other men living who have shaken hands
with every President of the United Sates.--Nat.
I,1teligencer.
STATE OF SupEnIoR.-A now State in the
Northwest. Such is the suggestion of a men,
bcr Of the Michigan Constitutional Convention
A Territorial Government is proposed for the
Upper Peninsula, Lake SupeTior,) or, in other
words, division OF Michigan, which probably
the people would assent to without hesitation.
Only don't call it State of Superior, as one of
our ncighbors suggests. Give US q noun sub
stantivc for the namc.-True Dem.
REouIsrrIoN ron CnAPLIS.--A requisition
from Gov Thomas, directing the delivery Of
Chaplin, charged with an assault with intent to
kill Mr. Richard Butt and Mr.. VIM. Smithid,
in Montgomery County, was placed ON We'd
nesday in the hands of officer Handy. We learn
however, that Chaplin will have first to be tried
in our Criminal Court for abducting Allen and
Garland, the two runaway slaves found in
Chaplin's carriage on the night of the Sth inst.
National Hntoaigencer.
POPULATION OF PrrTsBURoH.-"The Pitts
btvgh Gd-otte, on data furnished by the census
takers, estimates the population OF Pittsburgh
and surrounding towns at S7,760 persons, and
of the country ll2,730. This is an increase of
some $4,000 in ten years for the whole county.
1t says it will no doubt be seen, when the re-
suits are finally settled, that the increase of the
city and environs will be at least one hundred
per cent in ten years-or, in other words, the
population has doubled since the census of 1910.
Hon. Il. B. RuETr.--' 1t may not be known
says the Mobile Herald aud Tribune, that this
gentleman is descended, on the paternal side,
from an ancestor of the late John Quincy Ad-
ans, on the maternal side. a correspondent
informs us that the family name of Mr.. Rhett
is Smith, and that the mother of Mr.. Adams
bore the same name. Two brothers cmigratcd
to the United States. Tho one fixed his abode
in Massachusetts,, the other in South Carolina.
These were the ancestors Of Messrs. Adams and
Rhctt."
FoRRRsT DIVORCE CAsE.-SIr. Forrest made
his declaration or complaint on Monday of last
week before the Judges of the Court of Com
mon Pleas for the City and County of Philadel-
phia In this document he charges his wife
with adultery with seven persons whom he
Names There is nothing in the affidavit which
has not been heretofore published. Mr.. Forrest
swears that the said complaint is made in sim
cerity and truth.
IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC DIscovERY.-Mr. So
lomon Shutter, highly respectable mechanic
of Allegheny City has, we understand, discov-
cred method of dccomposing water by me-
chanical means and without the use of gal
vanic battery, at merely nominal expense. He
made this discovery by mere accident, in the
pursuit of his business as a blacksmith, and was
nfhJ muuc aware Oh inc lhcI ny thc h.UObch
evolved from the water, exploding, though tor-
tunately without doing much damage.
FATAL DIsRAsR AMONG Cows.-A corTespon
dent of the Tribune writes from Onieda Co., N.
Y. as follows: "a new and fatal disease has
lately appeared among the mich cows belong
ing to the farmers and dairy men Of this vicini-
ty. The first indication which shows itself, is
the failure of the milk of the COW, decreasing in
In N s,nala daw from pnilfull Z n
quart or pint A weakness and trembling
then seize the animal and she soon dies"
RAspBIRRIEs. IIallock Of Milton,
Ulster county, N. Y, has sent to New York,
tho present season, ten thousand baskets OF
Antwerp Raspbcrrics, each basket holding one
pint. He gathered seven thousand baskets from
one acre, and three thousand from lot of two
acres, which has just began to bear. The pri-
ccs obtained wero from eighteen pence to two
shillings basket.-N T. Journal Of Commerce
The wheat crop of four of the largest grain
growing States in the Union-lndiana, Michi-
gan, Ohio, and Iowa-is said to bo equal in
quantity and quality to that of any preceding
year. 1t is said that the surplus crop Of Michi-
gan will more than double the largest yield
| ever produced in that State.
IowA-George G. Wright (Whig) has boen
elected TO Congress from the LIST District ms
is tho District from which Thompson was last
time returned by theft of poll-book, his op-
ponent having had majority. The Democrats
have carried the other Districts and have cleo
ted their State ticket
A PRoIIF1c woMAN.-We are informed that
tho wife of man named John P, residing
near Little Falls, was on Monday, July %,
safely delivered of fec children at one birth, all
boys, and that they, with the mother, are doing
well.-- Utiea Ga=etfe.
Ono STATE FAIR PosTPoNED.-The time for
holding the State Fair at Cincinnati has been
changed to the I'd, Sd and 4th days of October
next.
President Fillmore, by the advice of his ply
siclan, has taken apartments for the night in
Georgetown, in consequence Of the unhealthy
condition OF the White House.
THE FLORIDA WAR against the Indians has