Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-02-22


The True Democrat says that one colored
man shot another dead in Oberln last Thurs.
day week No names given. The murder was
the fruit OF personal quarrel. sh,
The Cleveland University is to be opened for
the reception of students on the second Of
April, under the direction of President Mahan,
formerly of Oberlin. 'a
The Wings have majority in the Legisla-
turc of California, and expect to elect U.vs.
Senator of their own faith to succeed Col. Frs-
mont. 1rFyt
Tho Free Presbyterian, the organ Of the Free
Presbyterian Church, is in favor of the sboli-
ton of the U. s. Army and Navy. We re,
ioce to sec that excellent paper taking such
ground. o.b
Thomas Paine was the author of the Oft
quoted saying, There is but one step from Tho
sublime to the Ridiculous 1t has often, but
erroneously, been attributed to Napoleon.
man named George Thompson, from Mass
achusetts, being in Southern State lately, mar.
rowly escaped being lynched on account Of his
incendiary name,
A bill for the abolition of Capital Punishs
ment has passed the Senate of Wisconsin, and Ia
now before the House. A bill for the same OBJ
iect wes lost by one majority while Wisconsin
was q Territory. 45 saaas6s
Chancellor Walworth has made his report 10
the Supreme Court against the Wheeling Bridge.
declaring it to be an obstruction to Navigation
as it now stands, and recommending that IL bo
raised 1wENTY-EIoHT FEET.
The prices of slaves range high at the present
time in tho South, which makes many masters
eager to catch their runaways. Likely negro
men command in Alabama from 5000 to $1,000
women and boys in the same proportion,---
Hail Columbia!
FREDRIKA BREMER, we are sorry to perceive,
has lent the influence of her name and opinion
to tho scheme of Colonization. How rarely do
we see a foreigner travelling in this country un-
contaminated by the influences which Slavery
has at its command. ..-...-. .,.,.....s
The Ravenna Star says it is in contemplation
to run line Of Packet Boats the coming season,
on the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal from Rs-
VIENNA to Beavcr-the design being to accom-
modatc passengers, arriving from Cleveland on
the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Rail Road.
A correspondent Of the Free Prcsbyterian,
(Rev. A. D. Bradford Of Darlington, We sup.
pose it ISL doubts if there is not as much Afhe-
ism ane Infdelity in the Church as out Of il.
and says, "thc world will soon have to institute
missionary societies to cvangelize the preach
crs." i9r hes asaa ii t'at ',i,trsr so.anNl0
Samuel Hairston, of Pittsylvanis, Va, 10
supposed to be the wealthiest man in the United
States. He holds between sixteen and seven
teen hundred slaves, and has prospective
claim to about one thousand more. "Woe un-
} to him that useth his neighbor's service with
! out wagcs--that giveth him not for his work"
depend upon it, says correspondent Of
the Free Presbyterian, that whom we are dead
and gone, the historian of the Church will
mark the year 1850 as an era when blank, un-
vanished infdclity was taught in Christian
pulpts--when tho Government commanded
the citizen to trsmple humanity and the law Of
God in the dust, and the Clergy stood by con-
senting and cooperating" -..,.. fss IA
/, Judge Vance, who resigned his seat in the
s Constitutional Convention on account of the
: rumpus made by his Democratic constituents
: because he would not vote to give tho Lcgisla-
G ture power to repeal charters, and then offered
himself as a candidate to fill the vacancy, has
been reelected by a majority Of 1900. He re-
n presents the Warren District. - s-.r.i-a
" Tho Lowell American says of Daniel Web
stcr that "if he were punished, as Pat is pun
i ished in the Police Courts, with six months in
= the House of Correction for each offence he has
10 committed against the law of God rc-enacted
s. by the statutes of man, he would never leave
: the walls of that Institution, where he better
~ deserves to be- than in the high place of power.
The Wings of New Hampshire repudiate tn,
y Fugitive Slave Law and the Compromises. Ii
~ the first Congressional District they have nom
= mated Amos Tuck for Congress, and in tn
ie third, Jared Perkins. Both these gentlemen
u are members of tho Free Soil party In tn
=" second District they have nominated Anthon
u' Colby, who at the Baptist State Convention las
u October, offered resolutions denouncing the Flu
al gtivo Law. af sai44
of
John Hoge, the man who recently moved fc
the repeal of the seventh section of the amt
n kidnapping law of Pennsylvania, passed
~ lS47, is the Senator from the Mercer Distric
- and member Of the old School Presbytsria
70 Church. So says the Free Presbyterian. II
o" man and tho church are worthy of each othe
"a 1t takes member of some popular church
re- be guilty of such wickedness. r..
to Hal Haa
OF In the Senate of the United States petition