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INTERESTING RI TENANTS or

The question is as to the value Of q
single grave with dead mems bones ?
It was asked when the city council
Of Gotham concluded to straiglten
out Dnckman street because d por
ton of the ground belonging TO an
old church in that street, had to be
cut Oft, ard in this strip lay the
bones Of many a good man Of the
former time: who never thought at
the day of their exit that they should
he called ~ and ordered to move
out of the way ''ris hard case is
it, and humiliating thought that a
man who has owned acres in his
life, and commanded thousands can
not be permitted to rest in the earth
until his lease thereon expires.
We live to pay taxes, and when
we die it is hard cuse--indeed it
is, when man has receipt in full
FOR all claims against him, and has
paid grave rent to the end Of time,
that he should be made to move his
bones elsewhere to make way for a
strseh And here il Beckham street
where good men and true have slept
quietly this past half century, and
all their friends and acquaintance
have gone off and lain down else
where, to wait the judg cement; aee
say it is wrong to move them, be-
cause of their silence because. ST.
lence does not always give consent.
Where is their attorney in fact ?
Where are their heirs : Where is
the immense landed estates they left
behind ! Where are the people who
said "these are the great men of
The age and sled tears ut their bu-
rial ? Are they all gone 1t would
seem SO, there's not a man in Goth
am to answer the question.
Insult must be added to injury.
and a newspaper editor gets ups clap
trap article healed Interesting to
tenants of Graves How are these
silent people interested il the streigbt-
ening Of Beekham street And how
is it, when they are still possessed of a
local habitation," that they are push
ed out to make way for a street p
These are serious questions. Well
might we exclaim with the poet.
'lmperoua Caesar, dead aud gene to clay,
Might stop hole to Keep the wind away.
oh that that earth which kept the world In
Should stop hole. espel the winters thav."
WAu-A-liou.-I'his is the name
Of another medicine to cure Ague and
Fever. Mr.. Hawks is the gentleman
% whom the world stands indebted
Tor the discovery. lie says, it has
ong been known that Wau-a-hoo, the
he Indian medicine. had the powor
o cure the Ague and fever; but until
he discovery of a mode Of extracting
is peculiar medical properties, it was
of little use. We can
1ow assure all those inflicted. chat we
re enabled to concentrate its virtues
II a safe and convenient form for
,rice rs cents" ...
May we ask Mr.. Hawks how long
has been known, and to what tribe
We owe our debt Of gratitude. We do
lot feel surprised that he has sue
'eeded in concentrating its virtues in
o two bits box, and doubt not that
he medicine is a "cheap medicine
It that money. We are kindly infor-
ned by the advertisement, that "no
amily should be without box
10 From Messrs. Leonard Scott
| Co, 70 Fulton street New York,
re receive the April Number of the
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'TIIF Town Constable will commence S.
l on Monday 9Th instant to shoot All sSg-,sN
Dogs running Mt large, pursuant 10 an ordinance
of the Corporation. All persons ha wing good and
valuable dogs are therefore advised to keep them
in their premises.
june 9 1854 J. n. DUFRUCG, Maeer
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T Bill Smith. the Mormon proph.

II BII Smith, the Mormon proph-
ct and brother OF Joe Smith, the re-
nowned founder Of the Mormon
church, is now closely confined in Jail
at Dixon, Illinois, He has escaped
once, but was retaken at ST. Louis, on
lis way to Salt Lake City.
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Eureka
TFMrEphNcE. There should he
temperance il temperance This is
rather paradosieal, but past action in
reference to the matter, fully iustties
and warrants the alnoniton The
world Is taught by the past--lf it
were not for dearly bought experience,
what could we count ON for the pres
ent monaent' Nothing man has
CROPPED his way from darkness to light,
and then spurns the road over which
he has travelled. The spasmodie tenn
peranre movement il now SOLDERING
into common sense and reason OH the
subject. The ranting lecturers have
disappeared---the interdicting laws
have been rerealed--and Father
Mathew, who made so many converts,
and done 80 much good every where,
has gone home contented with The re-
ward of virtue.
But little noise is now made about
the "'Scns Of Temperance" they have
done much temporary good, and have
had an influence on society, which Is
felt to this hour. Their days. howev-
cr. are numbered, because the society
was not baised upon such principles
rs knowledge of human nature
would have suggested. No man can
he governed by an obligation, to ab-
stain from what his appetite Graves:
because the physical man is swavel
hy higher laws than those unstable
ordinances that are attributed to the
mind. Hence It is, that out of the vast
number that have taken the pledge.
there are so many who have violated
it. The world will never be made
temperate by temperance societies
nor will The prohibi'cry laws, prevent
The use Of Intoxicating drink. This
is fully proven in the history of the
Temperance movement.
u A posthumous tragedy, by the
late Mr.. Justice Talfourd, has come to
light 1t was printed year since. for
private circulation. with the request
that no public notice should be taken
Of it during the authors life. or his
continuance in judicial office. The
drama is founded on the Instruction
of the Commons Of CASTLE against
the Regency Of the Cardinal Adri-
an, to whom Charles 7, committed
the government of his Spanish do
minions during his long absence in
Germany, England and France. The
copicus extracts given in the London
Critic" are said to show that the
performance is worthy Of the author
If Ion
E Bill Smith, the Mormon proph-
"a an brntbar ~ T. S,.,..l A. - |
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THOR SALE.-The house and. lot lately
+ occupied by Philip Burg situated On
Third street. Apply to
may-,6.tl. TIfcS. PRTNDACAsT.
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1,AKEN up by Mr.. J. D. Baker on the
J. Sd of May "a, about seven miles east
of Baton Rouge. mouse colored mare Mule.
No brand or other distinguishing mark.
Is very much gear marked.
WILL be sold on Wednesday the 14th
Of June at 10 o'clock M at the Rangers
Office. Baton Rouge Gazette building, at
public sale to the highest bidder, the above
described mule taken up by Mr.. J. D. b.
ker. unless legally claimed before that
time. M. q. BRYAN,
iune-3.td. Ranger
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Die0.

Die0.
On Friday evening, end inst, MARY
ANN ELIZA, daughter Of LuctsE LEGEs-
pEE, aged about II years.
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ETAT DE LA LOUISIANA.

EIAT DE LA IUUIOIANE.
Couy du S1nieme Dist. Judiciairc,
Payotsse dEst Baton Rouge.
4 TTENDU que Joseph Hunter, fat ap-
IL plication 4 Ia dit Cour pour 6tre NOM
mes administration de Ia succession de
Samuc. Mount, dernierement de Get Pa
roisse, decide
Avis est par la presente dome a toutes
personnes inferesses de faire SAVIOR leur
raison dams dix jours de Ia premiere publ
cation de Get avis, pourquo la dit demande
ne serat pas accordee.
iuin2-2s. M. MORENO, Creffier.
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10 From Messrs. Leonard Scott
q Co, 70 Fulton street New York,
we receive the April Number of the
Edinburgh Review. Tho April num-
Der is unusually interesting in the lit
erary feast it offers. It contains an
excellent article 'on the History of
Mormonism' John Locke--bis char
acter and Philosophy History Of
French Protestant Refugees "Me.
moirs of Moore" 1.-The National Gal
lery Report Recent Italian Autobi-
ographies' &c.
"The Edinburgh can be had for
the very small figure of So, and it to.
gether with "Blackwood" furnishes
about as much Review reading as a
man in this fast age and country can
do. The two together are only SIS.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-09-23
ANOTHER PLAN.

Frederick Douglass suggests a new plan to shut
Slavery out of Kansas. lie proposes to colonize
it with free colored people,. 1t is the best of the
inadequate plans we have seen for this purpose.
Our fusionists are going to rote it out, though OH
what they base their hope of success, we could
never guess and they have never told us, though
we have often suggested, that light would be ac-
ceptable. The Kansas emigration Companies arc
going to crowd it out with their settlers. Perhaps
they will, but we should like an assurance that
some at least of their emigrants will not decide for
the introduction of slavery when they got there.
But the free colore1 people we don't believe will
become Shareholders. Not that we suppose them
proof against temptation, but they are of nccessi-
ty identified with the slave and not with his OPP
pressor.
Mr.. Douglass says:
But how shall we begin, (the South has already
begun.) Let an association Of wealthy men be at
once formed, having for its object the emigration
Of respectable free colored people to Kansas. Let
them appoint two agents for each of the large cities
namcd-menc capable Of inspiring confdence-and
let the latter lay the subject of emigration to Kan
sas before the colored people, assuring such are
disposed to improve their fortunes by emigration;
that they will be aided and protected in their rights
in the territory. Let n fund be raised-say forty
thousand uoilars-(lt VIII De u Srahu, Dencvolcnt
investment)-to aid such as are too poor to under
take the journey upon their own means. The first
hundred families could soon be raised and put Oh
their way and the second and third would soon
follow, and SO on to the end of the chapter. Let
the press of the North take hold Of this idea and
press it upon the public mind, and Kansas need not
be a slave State, and your cities need not have an
unequal share of the free colored people of the
North. Meanwhile, let white free working men
flock into the territory 10y thousands. There is
room and work for all. Will the people of the
North aid such a movement as is here contempla-
ted? We believe they will, and will do SO joy
fully.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-09-23
ANOTHER MAN BURNED TO DEATH.

The prominence Of the Anti.Slavery enterprise
somewhat put the Shareholders upon their good
behavior and there have in consequence, occurred
far fewer exhibitions of the excessive savageism
which are the necessary result of the savage sys-
tenn of slavcholding. Butin spite of al, 1.-The legiti-
mate fruits of the system will sometimes uPpearin
their most revolving forms. Such a case occurred
on the 30th ult.in Alabama, when a colorcd man was
roasted aiire after savage fashion. His offence,
was the killing of his master, An act which had
it occurred in Africa and the relations Of the black
and white men been reversed, would have been
doomed an heroic virtue. And for ought we know
Of the circumstances such was its true charac-
ter now. No man for his own sake or for that of
others, may r~ightfully submit to slavery, and the
legitimate consequences of slaycholding, must
ever be upon the head of the master, who outrages
the rights of the slave and goads him to despera-
ton. The killing of masters is the legitimate
fruit of Slaveholding. The marvel is that it does
not produce this bloody harvest with far more
Righteousness than it does. This is the fruit it
produces with the slavc-with the master we see
its effects, in that wanton cruelty which will con-
sumo and torture a human being with n slow fire
at the stake to crafty revenge and to make his hold
upon the slaves more secure.
In noticing this affair the New York Tribune
marks another feature Of the case as follows:
There is n separate phenomenon attending this
last ncgro-burning which deserves notice. 1t is
thus detailed in The 4ugusta Geo. Consta,aion-
aiiSt:
"The negro who committed this murder at Mount
Meigs, for which he was burnt, confessed that he
had on n previous occasion murdered his then own
al IN * apt,.1 npl N1y D., ,,,, ,n, g.. yL.x
State, and dttcrtcdrds SOLD IN 1iuJama. Thosd
much Of the arsons, rapcs and murders perpetrated
by our slaves. The sordid love of money, rising
superior to Indignation for outrageous viliiany and
foul murder, has been the means Of the escape of
many u guilty negro from the g%allows. The own
or preferred to assist his escape, in order to save
his value in dollars and cents, to the discharge of
his duty to the community, by delivering him up
to condign punishment"
Here is a new phase of chivalry. Like a horse
who has thrown and killed his owner, and is jock
led OFF to distant parts, so the negro who commits
a murder in one State is traded off for profit to
another. How UNNECESSARILY monstrous is a
system whose every rising from the dead level of
ordinary inertia reveals some complicated terror,
wrong, and crime, The very fountain Of barbar-
ism, it must render our national name q by-word
OF contempt, and to keep our tellow-citizens at tho
South in a condition Of political grangreen-soci-
ally retarded and dcgraded-personally in fear of
blood and fire, and driven periodically in their
practice of self-defence to cruelties 50 enormous
as even to overtop the daily brutalIties of the Pc
culiar institution.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-09-23

have proved anything u crime, you have proved
its bad, its ruinous economy. 1t conscience
has no power, however, in man, then to cotton let.
the appeal be made. But let not dcvout, earnest,
Christian men, who reverence n law above all hu-.
man economies, ever suppose that or this, is the
grand question to lie determined. Render to Caesar
and to cotton the things which belong to them, but
to God aud to conscience, also, the things which be-
long to them.
1t seems to me, in England, rather more than in
our country, arc moral questions mixed with the
multiplication table. | never before saw so many
Statistical Socictics and 50 many Libraries Of mere
figures and arithmc,ical results. One might think
that Manchester and Birmingham had ciphcrcd out
the question, "What shall Il man give in exchange
for his soul?' and found by plain figures, that
the cheap raised cotton. 10y slave labor or free, and
dear sold calicoes, would fully pay the barter, the
blood, brains, bodies and souls of untold %myriads
of slaves being embroidered in bold relief on every
web and yard that constitute the traffic. And when
religious men, and even editors and ministers, vol
untecr to become clerks and calculatcrs in such
speculations, it is time for us to watch well the
more divine arithmetic To keep the inner citadel
Of principle and right, that so the cause of human
ity may not be sacrificed, however those breast
works of cotton bales may survive the shock or be
carried by the foe.
But, dear Marius, ] am interrupted here. Let.
tors are Just laid on my table, informing me OF
serious illness in my family. So must drop all,
and think and write about them. | hope not al
ways to neglect you as | have done. No matte,
where | roam--no matter whom | scc-you and
your readers, my ever dear western friends, will
have and hold n sacred sanctuary in my deepest
heart. To you and them | tender q faithful bro
theirs love, and subscribe in haste and suddenncss
Ever theirs and yours,
PARKER PILLBURY.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-09-23
FUSION IN RHODE ISLAND.

The following is from the Rhode Island Free
man
FusioN Whatever may be the intention or the
policy Of the Free Democracy in some Of the
States, in regard to throwing up their organization
and fusing with the Anti-Nebraska Wings and
Democrats for the election Of members Of Congress
and State officers, the party in his State, will main
tain it's organization and nominate its own indie
pendant candidates, unless there shall be more Of
Anti Slavery in the Wing party here, than has re.
Gently been manifested. Judging from the tone OF
its organ and the movements of some 0f Its lead
ing men, the Wing party of Rhode Island, cares
less this day, for the cause Of freedom in the State
and the nation. than they do for party interests
and party success. The Wing party in this com
ssa as well as everywhere else, has an ex-
ceeSiagiy bad reputation among Anti7Siavery peo
pe AID Free Sellers. and until that party brings
1iorth fruit meet for Repentance ], il nust'ntespress
any surprise, that those who value liberty above
all NJ aterial interests, and who have laboied long
and arduons,y It its behalf, should doubt the gen
uineness of Wing conversions to the cause OF Free
dom. and question the sincerity Of their deDuncia-
ii0Rs Of America Slavery.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-09-23
SLAVE HUNTERS FOILED.

An attempt was made last week to arrest an al
legged fugitive slave. The attempt proved a failure,
and the slave hunters themselves were arrested.
They showed fight. The following is the account
of the case given by the Chicago Tribune:
About II o'clock yesterday Sunday an attempt
was made in the vicinity of the Rock Island Rail
road Depot to take q fugitive slave. Three men,
named John and George Buchanan,a and VIM. Grant
all from st. Louis-seized the negro as he was
walking in the street. lie instantly discovered
them, and made efforts to release himself, in which
he succeeded. During the s%cuf1e, the slave had
his coat torn nearly of, and one of the Bucharans
lost out of his pocket a revolver, which the negro
picked up. and told the others to 'stand off," 1t
is asserted that John Buchanan then fired Mt tho
slave but did not hit him. During this time, q
crowd had collected, but as soon as the pistol was
fred, John Buchanan vas seized by the police and
others, and escorted by a large crowd down Clark,
street TO the Watch House, where he was locked
up. TIC other Buchanan and Grant ran to Young
Americas saloon, in front Of which an immense
crowd quickly collected.
Marshal Knight went to the saloon and escorted
the two over to Jail.
What has become of the negro, we cannot state.
The occurrence drew together crowds OF people
during the early part of the forenoon, in the vicin-
ity of the Young America ana Court House square.
There was no demonstration attempted, and the,
excitement was wholly confined to the knots of
persons discussing the subject.
An examination will probably be had this fores
noon.
The slave catchers of Chicago, after being in Jail
for a short time, found bail and were of. The
slave they had seized has gone to Canada.
On Wednesday Of last week, toenty fugitives
left Chicago for Canada by the Under Ground
Railroad. That is comfort for Douglass.
THAT IS RIGHT.-Many of the papers are urging
that, in view of the deficiency of grain this year,
the distillerics should shut up. Certainly they
should. But it is not likely the suggestion will
have much weight with the heartless men who deal
out pestilence and death to the people. Though
doubtless the lovers of whiskey will have to pay
higher prices for their indulgence,
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-09-23

Car. HoLLINs.-The Government at Washington
is deeply grateful to its tools. Capt. Hollin's ship of
Grcytown fame, is hauled up for repairs, and the
Captain is appointed to some office at New York.
with the assurance Of the undiminished confidence
Of the Government and of its pledge to stand be.
tween him and all consequences of the lombard
ment of Greytown.
By the way, the papers say that the British
Government looks upon that outrage as of serious
consequence to some Of its citizens, and has 80 in
Iimated u the powers at Washington,
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-09-23
Tbc Antt- 5lourrp Buolc.
Salem, Ohio, September 2a, 1854.
EMIGRATION OF TIE coLoRED PEOPLE
Marlboro o. Sept. 10Th.

Certainly it is not wonderful that the free color
ed people of this county should be seriously agitat-
ing the question of emigration. The evils that
overwhelm them are of so serious q character, that
the hope Of their removal or essential mitigation
is a object, even with the most hopeful, go far in
the future, that to us, the marvel is, that they do
not at all fee from them. Almost any other land
would offer more of promise than this.
Though the mass of this people pertinaciously and
Indignantly refuse to look upon the p%rofers of the
Colonization Society, yet the question is one of
absorbing interests to them and one that they are
considering. Though they have not as yet fixed
upon any principles or measures which promise any
extensive or general results. That any such results
will be soon attained is not among the very proba-
bic events.
Near a year ago, a call was issued for an emf.
grafton Convention to be held in Cleveland. The
convention was held some three weeks since and
we have been told was quite exclusive in its or
ganization refusing to admit any who would not
before hand give in their adhesion to the particu-
lar scheme proposed. This of necessity excluded
many of the most talented and thinking of the
colored people ard decided the character of the
meeting as in favor Of a particular plan rather
than for n comparison of views and general
inquiry. DR.. NJ. r. Delany of Pittsburgh, was
most prominent in calling, as we'll as in con-
Quoting the meeting. lie is a man of mark
ed talent. We have seen no detailed account
of the proceedings, but have been informed thai
the principal action consisted in an elaborate ant
able report by DR.. Delany, on "the political desti
ny cf the colored people" and its adoption hy thu
convention. The report gives no countenance t.
Liberia, and sets aside Canada, because of the pre-
pondcrating number of its white inhabitants, anc
the probability OF its future annexation to tn
United States. 1t however, recommended tn
purchase of lands in Canada as it would be o
present benefit to the fugitive as we'll as to tn
purchaser. 1t recommended Central Amcric
or the West Indies as the most desirable resor
for emigrants. The former especially was regard
ed as offering the greatest advantages to the color
ed people for a permanent home.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-09-23

Eucebius and William Bernard from Pennsylva-
MIA, prominent speakers in the Society of Friends,
will attend the Yearly Meeting of Progressive
Friends, to be held in Salem, the last Seventh day
of the present month.