Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-07-13

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there by accident.
When the officers came to arrest him, he was
in doubt as TO their object, whether il was, as
alleged, to again search the College, which was
equally dreadful with fears Of the facts having
already been discovered. When they reached
the jail, his fears of being detected were con-
frmed, and before leaving the carriage he took
alargc dose of strychnia, sufficient to have caus
cd death, had it not been for the excited state
of his mind. To this he attributed his after
strange appearance.
lie states that he wrote but one Of the anony-
nous letters from East Cambridge. The letter
from Jail, ho again asserts, contained only a
caution against q bottle Of nitric acid. Aftcr
he had made the statement DIR. Putnam adjur-
ed him to state, as for n man at the point of
death, whether, previously TO the occurrence,
| the thought had not occurred to him that DIR.
parkman's death would benefit him. He re-
piled in an impressive manner,-No, as l live l
never dreampt of any such thing. My passions
have been my besetting siI. never had thought
of injuring DIR. parkmar1
This is the substance If DR.. Webster's state
ment. There were some additional documents
relative to tho minor matters. The Rev. DIR.
| Putnam then followed in an argument to the
Council on the truthfulncss of the statement
and in favor Of granting communication of pur-
ishment, in which he stated his firm belief that
! Prof. Webster had told the truth in the matter.
lie further stated that if the Committee could
come TO favorable decision, the sooner that il
was announced the better--but if the decision
should be unfavorable, he wishes for further
time to allow Of petitions in his favor.
VALLEY OF THE SALT LAKB.-Capt. Stansbury,
| who is engaged in scientific cxploraon of the
Great Salt Lake Valley, after being completely
/ isolated for period Of six months by SHOWS of
| the surrounding mountains, wrote under date of
| Feb. 26th, "lhe mountains arc white with snow,
and in many of the canons it is upwards of ffty
| feet deep, reaching to the tops of the tallest
trees" And on the 10th Of March, he says !:
"Tho mountain passes are fuller of snow than
ever" The plains in the vicinity of the lake
arc bare Of vegetation, and in crossing one of
them the party came upon feHo solid sat,
which lay cncrustcd upon the level mud plain,
so thick that it bore up the mules loaded with
their packs so perfectly that they walked upon
it as il it had been sheet of solid ice slightly
covered with snow. The whole plain was as
level ns floor. They estimated this field to be
at the least ten miles in length, by seven in
width, and the thickness of tho salt at from one
! half to three-quarters of an inch. The salt in
the solid field was perfectly crystalized, and
where it had not become mixed with the soil
was as white and fine rs the best specimens of
Salina table salt. Some Of it was collected and
preserved.
The OVERLAND EMGRANTs.-A gentleman
who arrived in Town on Tuesday, from Fort
Laramie, estimate the number of wagons that
passed over that route to California, at $4,000
pack animalB at 5000; footmen 900; wheclbar-
row men ga Scotchman, German and an
Irishman The health of the emigrants was
good. lie counted but six graves by the way
side, while coming in, and of their occupants
four had been killed accidentally. If this esti-
mate of wagons is correct, the number of emf.
| Io ~ fol ahort Of
, There arc probably now on the plains, ell route
for California, between 10000 and $4,000 per-
sons.--S. Louis Union.
GAMBLING.-Who is there among the staid
inhabitants of this City that can realize the OK
traortlinary fact that VIC arc surrounded by q
band Of moro than 6,000 gambling houses p
The statistics of this vice, recently collected,
show that this is tho fact--a fact known and
suffered by our Police. Six thousand houses de-
voted to such an object must require vast po-
| pulation, as we'll as a vast fund of money, for
their support from whom docs it come and
where does it gos We learn that incipicnt steps
arc taking to form association which shall
have this subject especially in view.-N. Y.
Tribune.
The PUBLIC LANDs.-If the public lands are
to be given away to everybody who has ever
been concerned in any Of the wars of the coun-
try, VIC shall be in favor of extending the libcr-
ality to those who staid at home and paid the
taxes. If this legislation is to prevail it is plain
that no further revenue can be derived from the
public lands; and as we cannot see why a man
who has been engaged in war is any better enti-
tied to q gratuity Of this kind than q man who
has been engaged in peaceful occupations, we
think it best TO put them all upon level and
to give the land in suitable quantities to all who
will settle upon it.-Propidence Jovr'la!.
Strawberries. four days OF last
week l72,OO0 baskets of notwithstanding
an aggregate weight of ttoenty-ono and ha!f
tups-arrived in this City by the Erie Railroad.
They. were mostly grown in Rockland Coun-
ty. Taking cents basket as the average
price, their value amounts to $6,SSO. Taking
into the calculation the Strawberries received
from other sourcos,l our City probably spends
about $4,000 per day for this fruit-and proba-
bly, about $4,000 during the Strawberry sea-
son.-N. Y. Tribune.
GoLD has been found in different places for a
distance of seventy miles, commencing at q
point 200 miles above Fort Gibson ARK in the
bed of tho Arkansas river.