Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-12-21


The prospeots of Col, Benton in Missouri
have Improved Of late, and it is thought that he
tantls pretty good chance of a reelection to
The U, S Senate.
William G.. Allen, colored young man. law
stsdent in the Office of Ellis Gray Loring, ESQ.,,
Boston, has been appointed to the Professor
ship of Greek and Rhetoric in Central College,
McGrawville, N. Y.
TJames the Novelist declares in recent
letter that the only periodical in this country
for which he writes is Graham's Magazine. His
admirers will know where to go for his latest
productions,
The corporate authorities Of Washington
have under consideration some measures bearing
very oppressively upon the free eolored popula-
sion of the city. The pro-slavery spirit is ram
pant just now.
The Indiana Yearly Meeting of Orthodox
Friends mcmorialiEed the Constitutional Con-
vcntion Of that State against the scheme for
preventing tho settlement of oolored people
within its limits.
Mr.. NJ. r. Delsny, full bloodcd negro, has
been admitted to the medical school of Harvard
University. He is the third Of his color sd-
mitted there this season.
HENRY Box BRowS arrived at Liverpool
Oct. soth, with his panorama Of Slavery. lie
/. accompanied by James Boxer Smith. the
man who aided in putting him into the box in
which he made his escape from Richmond.
willis's Home Journal says the Knockings'
are now heard in many houses in New York
by persons who carefully conceal the fact from
dread of notoriety. They are also heard in
several families of the highest respcetability in
Providence.
The Texas Legislature has accepted the terms
Of the Pierce boundary bill, (SlO ,OOO, ,Oo0) unan
imously, save only one vote in the Senate. The
wry face she put or while the bill was before
Congress was assumed only for the purpose oil
helping Cass and Webster moro cifeetually to
knead the Northern Dough.
Hangman Foote has suddenly become great
man. As = saint in the Hunkcr calender he
ranks second only to Cass and Webster. The
Union Committee of Safety IN New York
ionired him the other day. The Cottonocracy
Of the city was vastly edited and delighted by
his presence.
FRxpEnIcx DOUGLASS is engaged in deliver
ing course of Anti-Slavery Lectures in Ro-
chester. From the reports in the North Star
VIC perceive that he has felt called upon to pro-
sent to his audiences the elementary principles
Of the cause-a wise course, and one that should
eftencr be pursued by anti-slavcry lecturers.
II Congress owes allegiance to no 'higher
law than the Constitution, VIC should like to
know why they elect Chaplains and go through
,ho farce of public prayer every mornirg' Can
any body tell If the Constitution is indeed
TO be exalted above God, we submit that the
Chaplains ought to address their suPplications
10 the Great E1pouuder,' for light to compre-
hsnd its provisions.
Two men were hung some time ago in Cali
fornia for murder. 1t has since turned out that
both we're innocent, and the real murderer has
since been arrested. This case offers q strong
argument against capital punishment. If the
men had only been imprisoned, the injustice
done them would not have been irreparable.
The Nep York Tribune, in an article upon
the threats of the unionists of the South and
the penitencc of their associates at the North,
says; AN this injured innocence at the South
and pcnitential sorrow at the North point plain
ly to new cxactions on the one side and new
concessions on the other. lie who watches will
not wait long to see new guarantees for Slavery,
new restrictions on the spirit of Liberty, de-
manded and insisted on"
The Ne,o York Journal Of Commerce is moi
At all pleased with the law recently enacted by
the Legislature of Vermont for the protection
Of persons claimed as fugitives. The Journa
has as instructive alovc of knavcry as q duck ha'
Tor water, and is in favor of the kidnapping
law of Congress ito the fullest extent w,
hardly think its diatribcs will frghten the Greer
%ountain Boys.
The Pittsburgh Gazette thinks "if the Soutf
would only consent to trial by jury in thu
State where the fugitive is arrested, all excite
mcnt would be allayed, and impartial justice
would be awarded" Impartial justice why
Mr. Gazette. that is just what tho South, like
ahe trembling paddy when he came into court
is most afraid of! Have you yet to learn tha
impartial justice would free the slave and send
che master homo with flea in his car
FATHER MATHEW, while at st. Louis lately
wrote accommodation of his respected
friend and fellow-countryman, Mr.. DAME
O'lsoman,' who sin addition to his other Ggen