Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-02-04
LAKE SUPERIOR MAIL.

Last Wednesday morning, the semi-monthly
mail, consisting Of six large, well filed closely
packed heavy bags, left the Post Office of this vii
lagc for their northern destination. From Men
omonee q widely different mode of transportation
must be employed, in order to get them to the
distant and isolated places to which they are di-
rected, and where their safe arrival is anxiously
looked for. For nearly two hundred miles, through
painless and uninhabited woods, over untrodden
and chilling snows with no shelter night or day.
to protect from storms winds or frosts these mall
bags are borne on the backs of frontier men and
Indians to the scattered Post Offices in the yet
thinly settled regions around the southern shores
tof Lake Superior These hardy and rugged mail
carriers are sometimes obliged to camp out for days
in the open air, with nothing but tree for COW
ering and huge snow-bank for bed by night
Day after day they wander on, without meeting
any stranger or receiving any aid but with an
energy andirregularty astonishing to all who are
not acquainted with the strength and self reliance
Of these rangers Of the winry forests they perform
their difficult and dangerous journeys. Such are
some Of the means that Uncle Sam uses to bring n
few Of his remote and secluded children within
the benefits Of the Post Office system, and give
these sturdy and self sacrificing pioneers occa-
sional glimpse of what is going on at homo and
abroad.-Green Bay Advocate, Jan. 5h.
Hiram Powers, the sculp or Of the Greek Slave,
says, in letter to friend, that it is impossible to
color las has been proposed) marble statute so as
to assmiate it to life unless some means can he
found OF inserting glass eyes and actual hair fol-
eyelashes and eyebrows. We see hair apparently
such) on the head of well-executed marble statue
but color the statute to resemble the natural coors
Of real life, and we directly expect to hairstc
look in among the locks and ringets, and find hem
light and floating like real hair. Now what is the
appearance Of marble hair colored? +? 1t is that oi
locks of hair or wig dipped in melted wax until
saturated, and then matted upon the head. Marble
can be colored to resemble the eyes in inferior
degree but the hair looks less like hair with color
than without it."
TnE LITERARY JOURNAL, edited by ELLA WENT.
WORTH is neat quarto weekly at ST so per annum
commenced with the new year at Cincinnati and
devoted to the interests Of Woman" 1t has lit
tie or nothing to say Of the Political Rights Of
Woman, but is urgent and forcible in its demands
that her sphere Of Education and Employment
shall be widened. 1t is printed by Women--"La
dies" the Editor says, with shocking bad taste
Notwithstanding which we heartily commend hei
enterprise to public favor Ella says she is print
| ing two other papers beside her own, and tha
thirteen ladies are earning in her Office from S4 L
Sc each per week, although they are all beginners
and that they make twice as much in eight hour
per day at printing as they could make in ifteer
hours at sewing and that she has already applica
tons from seren hundred young ladies, most o
whom proved by their letters to have been farl
educated, soliciting employment. 1t seems to us
sin and shame that so much talent and industria
capacity are thrown away in this country. wher
Labor is so greatly needed, by our foolish, coward
ly prejudices against the education of women 70
professional mercantile, artistic and the lighte
mechanical avocatons. We believe there are On
Million Women now idle and useless in this country
who would earn at least 500 each during the pres
ent year If they fully at liberty to do So add
ing SlOOO0O,OO0 to the National wealth, and en-
suring an independent competence to many thou
sands Of households now needy and beggarly
Heaven speed the good work Of enlarging th
allotted sphere and increasing the rewards Q
Womans Industry Tribune.