Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-05-31

The Provincial Parliament Of Canada was
opened at Toranto on the % inst.
Mr.. Webster has been invited to speak before
tho Virginia Convention.
From sixteen to twenty fugitive slaves arc
said to pass through Oswcgo weekly.
The Cherokee population in all amounts to
near 10000 souls.
The enlargement of the Capitol at Washing
ton, is to be commenced on the first of June.
A new railroad route has been surveyed from
st. Louis to vincenes, Ill. 1t is designed event.
ually to extend It to Cincinnati.
A Texan kidnapper on his return from the
capture of a fugitive was shot through the heart
by Mexican. The slave returned to Mexico.
We notice by the English papers that the ex-
pcctcd addition to tho Royal family of England
has been postponed sine die.
A despatch from Washington says; The let
ter of Chas. Sumner. in which ho avows him
self in favor of the Union, has created consid-
cradle surprise here, and is greatly admired.
The second Sunday of May is tho day fixed
! by the Constitution of France, for the election
of President and members of the National AS
sembly
Board at the Worlds Fair varies from $50 to
$50 per week. The number Of visitors is con-
stantly increasing 10000 persons have OBJ
taincd passports from France alone for this pur-
pose.
A suit is now pending in N. Y, between tho
Methodist Episcopal Church North, and the
Church South, on a claim for tho Book estab-
lishmonts in New York and Cincinnati.
Rev. II. S. Gordon has been excluded from
the Baptist Church in Georgetown, for inviting
Christians of all denominations to the commun-
ion Table. That will do for evangelical slave
holders.
Samuel r. Thurston, delegate to Congress
from Oregon, died at Acapalco on the 9th of
April. lie had under his charge the five ladies
sent out by the National board of popular cdu-
cation as teachers to Oregon.
Tho receipts of the Am. Board of Com, for
Foreign Mission, during the nine months of the !
current financial year, have been $lS6,500 being |
an advance Of $l7, ,3O4 upon the corresponding
months Of the previous year.
In the Legislature of Massachusetts, the bill,
to abolish capital punishment was rejected
Yeas 81, Nays liz. The proposition to remove
the scat Of Government from Boston has passed
the House to a third reading
The American Temperance Union reported |
at its recent anniversary, 1000 liquor shops in
tho cities of the State of New York, selling IL
quor annually to the amount of $25, 900, 900
this exclusive of the villages and country.
Amongst the curiositcs at the Great Exhibi-
ton is coat of Irish friczc from the establish
mcnt of AIessrs. Kcarso & Co., which may be |
altered into nine different shapes We hope |
after it is shown, it will be presented to some of
our politicians, say Mr.. Webster.
We understand that the surrender of Sims
cost the General Government over ten thousand
dollars, the city of Boston, about the same
amount, and the claimant about twenty-four
hundred dollars, making an aggregate of more
than twenty thousand dollars.
The Free Soil party appears just now to have
a strong appetite for slippery politicians.-Atlas.
1t does seem to have an appetite for politicians
who slip into Congress, vide, Sumner, Allen,
Mann, Fowler and Co., and, by and by, Palfrcy
and Rantoul. A majority of the People seem
to have similar nppctitc.-EsSer Freeman.
The Virginia Convention concurred in the de-
cision of the Committee of the Whole on the
basis question. Bills were presented embrace
ing propositions to base the representation in
both Houses on the federal numbers and white
population. which would give tho East and West
an equal number. They were ordered to be
printed. The Compromise is safe.
The Constitutional Convention of Maryland.
has recently adjourned, providing for the cleo
ton of judges by the peoples homestead ex-
cmption to the amount of S5OO-and abolishing
lotteries and imprisonment for debt, and Clergy
men are incligiable to seat in the legislature.
During the thirty four years since its organi-
zation, the Colonization Society has expended
one million and quarter of dollars. The Ma
tional Society has removed Q, ,ll6 emigrants at n
cost of $l49,Ss per head. A miserable expen-
diture, to crafty the prejudice of the North and
the ayarice of the South.
Ne'O but hopefia; The Bishop of London has
extended an invitation to the distinguished min
isters who may visit the worlds Fair-to preach
in the houses of the established church. Ar
rogating to herself the character of the true