Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-02-01


the Washington Monument.
A State Anti Fugitive law Convention was
to have been held at Winthrop, Me-, on We'd
nesday last.
Fifteen States have adopted the measure of
Homestead Exemption, and others will no
doubt follow the example.
A Stockholm paper announces that Jenny
Lind had sent to that city twenty thousand dol
lars, to be distributed among the poor.
A railroad from Sandusky City to Toledo,
through Ottawa County, is in contemplation.
The route is very favorable.
Sir David Brewster. the eminent Scotch sa-
van, has given in his adhesion to what is called
Electro Biology.
The French Ministry recently resigned in
body and the President encountered great dif-
Hculty in forming new Cabinet.
Judson Hutchinson has so far recovered from
his mental alteration as to be able to sing in
public, and the Family arc now giving Con-
certs in Boston.
A schoolmaster named Morrow was brutally
murdered in Wayne Township, Clermont Co.,
recently, by the elder brother of a scholar whom
he had punished.
The Portland (Me.) Inquirer speaks very
highly of Parker Pillsbury's lecture on the
French Revolution of 1903, lately delivered in
that city.
The Ashtabula Sentinel of Jan. 25 says the
lake was clear of ice as far as could be seen
from that harbor, and that the steamer Hen
drick Hudson had passed up from Buffalo.
The steamer Atlantic, which has been out
York at our last adviccs. There arc fears for
her safety.
The New York Union Committee are said
to be cxpcnding large sums Of money in dis
tributing tho sermons of celebrated Divines in
favor of the Fugitive law.
A writer in the New York Journal Of Com
mercc pronounccs Gov. Seward " the most po- |
tent man. at this moment, Of all the public men |
OF this country He is . man, says the same
writer. who will stand up to his principles
Mr.. Bancroft, the Historian, has estimated
that at least one third Of tho white population
of the United States are directly descended
from the twenty-five thousand Puritan cmi-
grants who frs: settled New England.
Mas. Coz has been lccturing on the subject
of Woman's Rights and Duties during the
present week in Cleveland. The Michigan pa
pcrs speak of her and her lectures in very high
terms. We wish she would come to Salem.
The Northern Wings arc in utter despair Of
cffecting any alteration of the Tariff in the pres
cnt Congress. This is the reward Of merit
which their Southern brethren give them for
their subscrviency to slavery. We hope they
will appreciate it
The Virginia Legislature, on the 18th ult.,
indefinitely postponed resolutions containing
the declaration that the State would insist on
the faithful observance of the Compromise. in
all its parts.
The judiciary Committee Of the Pennsylva-
MIA Senate have reported against the passage of
bill to repeal the Anti kidnapping law of
that State. The Senate refused to proceed to
the consideration Of the subject by vote Of II
to lo.
In Canada, women have been admitted, by
an act of the local Parliament to some of the
franchises. In Toronto recently, according to
a correspondent of The Tribune, at the cleo
ton of School Trustees, several women exer-
ciscd their right to vote.
The Cape To,sn (South African) Mail
hazards the prediction, that, before another
quarter Of a century shall have elapsed, the
whole interior Of South Africa, to the Equator,
will be occupied by civilized communities of
tho European race, and probably under hs do
rinion Of Great Britain.
Henry Ward Beocher has been lecturing and
preaching lately in several places in Massuchu-
sets. In one of his lectures on the subject of
Character he spoke with great energy against
the Fugitive law and rcprehended those clergy
men who have apologized for it.
Not long since, a Stakeholder named Rose,
from Wellsburgh, Va, went to Pittsburgh,
where he recognised mulatto boy. an ap-
prentice for the last two years to Mr.. ]. b.
Vashon, as his slave, and claimed him. Rather
than consign the child to bondage, Mr. v. by
means of his own and the contributions of
others, paid the owner $500, and the boy was
set free.
Mr.. Chaplin, in his Boston speech, said he
thought what was called NEGRO Stealing"
was the most effective mode of promoting the
abolition Of slavery. 1t created discussion and