Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-01-12
Domestic Intelligence.

n SEieoh1 ANEMHfAfEh lyOo.-h puUnsncu
few days since notice of a dog belonging to
Mr.. Hawes, of Boston, which goes regularly
every afternoon 70 the Office of the Traveller for
his masters paper. The Patterson Guardian
makes us acquainted with q faithful Jersey dog
even more remarkable than his sagacious Yam
kce compecr "He belongs to John Ankcr-
son, ESD. of the Hackcnsack, and is daily in
the habit of obtaining his masters paper. A
few minutes previous to tho regular time of
the arrival of the Hobokcn stage, he takes his
station on his owners stoop, and on the passing
oil the stage goes out to meet 10. If the driver
neglects to throw il of, the faithful dog follows
the stage, barking the meanwhile, until the
driver performs his duty Having obtained the
paper, he hastens to deliver il to his Master
Though the Fort Lee stage passes the premises
at or about the same time, and resembles TO a
considerable extent the Hobokcn stage in ap-
pearance, it is permitted to go on without be-
ing molcstcd. ."-Nepark advertiser.
TELEGRAPH THROUGH THE OcEAN.-The |
Scientific American is authorized to state that
one of our Gutta Percha manufacturers stands
ready to lay down, and guaranty its integrity
Tor ten years, line of perfectly insulated wires,
covered with Gutta Pcrcha across the ocean.
for sum not to exceed $4,000, ,O0O to be COM
plotcd in twenty months from date of contract,
(undcr any forfeiture that may by required. y
This grand scheme will receive the attention of
Congress at an carly day. He is ready to lay
down similar line on the under ground plan,
from the Mississippi, to the Pacific, to be com
plctod within three years from the date of con-
tract.
CALFoRSA.--Wo have Just conversed with
very intelligent man, just returned from Cali
fornia on the Emssre City. We learn from him
the gold is plenty enough but hard to be got
with any comfort. He tells us, that the reports
Of big Jumps and great fortunes are to be ia
ken as decoy stories in the main. The spccula-
tors must sell what they have and they set
them ahoat. From his picture, California is no
El Dorado. Indeed he says, al have succeed
cd better than ninty-nine out of a hundred who !
go there, but would not endure what have
for double the amount. Sickness prevails at |
the mines to a great extent in San Francisco |
it is unhealthy. True Dem.
Two IMPORTANT CoNrRoMsEs.-Mr. C2ay and !
The Iarif-Mr. Cass and SlauerV.-The New |
York Dry Goods Reporter says, and repeats |
that Mr.. Clay is about TO introduce compro-
misc tariff bill, to stand for twenty years, |
wherein specific and ad valorem duties are |
combined. 1t is not acquainted with the de-
tails, but understands that he does not.proposc
to raise tho scale Of duties but only to sub
stitutc the specific for the ad valorcm, where it
can be done.
Mr.. Forney, Of the Pcnnsylvanian, writes
from Washington, that he has every reason to
anticipate that General Cass will carly take
occasion to bring forward a compromise propo-
sition upon the exciting slavery issue.--Baki-
more Sml.
| VnLASY.-The beautiful and accomplished
operate singer, Todesco, has boon made the
victim of piece Of villainy-unexampled in
the records of crime. A fellow by the name of
Thomas representing himself as q wealthy citi- |
zen of Central America, and as being Charge |
de Affaires from Nicaragua to England, sue
cecdcd in winning the confidence and subse- |
quently the affections of the beautiful Prima |
Donna and few months since they were mar |
ried. 1t now turns out that the follow is worth |
less in character and purse, and that he has |
succeeded in escaping from the country with |
the last dollar of Tcdcsco's earnings as an Opc-
ra Singer.
The PRoFIrs OF QUAcK MEDIcNEs.-Samucl
Z. Townsend, the founder of "Townscnd's
Sarsaparilla," has sold out his good will and
interest in the stuff. The price paid is one hun
drod thousand dollars for the good will, and
twenty thousand for the raw materials. Five
years ago Townsend went to New York with
less than one hundred dollars in his pocket
lie rctres on the lst of January with fortune
of about five hundred thousand dollars.
HAsTY AccUsArIoN.-A girl, at service in a
wealthy family in New-Nork, was accused of
stealing two winc-coolers which had been miss
cd. She was committed to prison, where she
contracted a sickness which caused her death
Recently, the family being about TO repair to
Europe, commenced packing their plate, when
tho wine-coolcrs wcro found undisturbed.-
Home Journal
The BoBo.-The mysterious sickness hithcr-
to unknown in the annals of medicine-which
first was reported to have appeared at Havana,
and which since then has been raging at Vera
Cruz, has created great alarm at the city of
Mexico Its arrival there was greatly apprc-
hcndcd. Nine hundred persons were said to be
attacked with this disease at Vera Cruz.
Faith or Mathew has been invited by the Of
iccrs of the State Temperance Society to visit
Kentucky, with an intimation by authority that
the Kentuckians do not desire TO interfere with
his views respecting Slavery, and want him as
counselor and guest in spite of them.
A new colony of Mormons has been formed,
and they have made n settlement 25O miles south
of Salt Lake City. Twenty-Five Mormon preach
ers have como to st. Louis. Ii is their i'ten-
ton to preach Momonism over the whole
world.
The n. Y. Herald says some Southern |
Wings have been consulting the President on |
the question of Slavery. 1t is thought if ncccs-
sary, he will veto tho territorial bill for Now
Mexico, If it contains the Wilmot provso, and
approve tho admission of California, with the
proviso included.
CAssIUs NJ CLAY.-The kentucky Chronicle
states that the Grand Jury of Madison county, |
after an investigation of the Foxtown rcncontrc |
in which Cyrus Taylor was killed by Cassius
M. Clay, failed TO find an indictment against
Mr. Clay.
Several Jewish families have cmigrated TO
tho United States from Bohemia, with the view
of founding n Jewish settlement in the State of
Wisconsin. II