Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-01-21
THE ANTI-SLAvERY BUGLE.

2 broom the former saying ~ take this woman TO
be my welded wife, aud the latter take this man
70 be my woddel husband and 90 to housokeep-
ing, they arc legally marricd-hn,ing entered into
q Uond Of union which cannot be annulled 50 long
Us they both live.
CoNGRrssIoNAL--In the Senate Mr.. Chase said
] ask leave TO present the memorial of Edward
a. Stanebury, and others, Of the city of Now York
praying for the pr, hibiion Of Slavery in tho Terri
tories, and wherever the General Government has
constitutional power 10 do So
recognise among the signatures ofthis petition
the names Of not a few among the prominent buis-
mess men of New York. | observe also the name
Of John JAY, worthy grandson Of the FIRST Chief
Justice of the United States, and that Of John p
Hale, recently one Of our associates in this Cham
Der. The character of the mcmorialists, and in
my judgement. also the objects which they seek.
commend this memorial to our favorable consdera-
ton | am aware however, that the Committee on
Territories, to which memorials Of this description
would perhaps be most appropriately referred j.
opposed to the prayer of these mcmorialists.
shall therefore that the petition be received
and, for the present laid on the table. give no.
tice, however, that shall, hereafter, submit mo
ton that this memorial, and others on the same
and similar subjects, be taken up and referred to o
select committee.
DECLINE or MgrujDIsu.- TIE Christian I'D ocate
and Journal Of this week gives a table showig the
total number Of members OF the Methodist Churches
in this City to have been, in lSl3. 9,7S0, in 1915,
9jt2 1877, 1926 1919, $500 1851, 9,2S9, 1853,
9,3l9-and showing decrease in ten years Of 400
members, while the population has nearly double.
] EDycArIoN ~ IvDiANA.-An exchange gives the
following statistics Of persons in Indiana who can
neither road nor write:
! "0f whites there arc 56.l32 males, A, lO9 ro-
males; making total Of 100, $40 who cannot read
| or write. Ofcolorod there are 1924 males ], lG
iemales--total 2,l70. OF whites 90, Ilj are ma
| uves and 32,25j foreigners that cannot read or
WRITE or there nre 20 natives 70 one foreigner that
cannot read The free schools are generally need
ed in Indiana
! The following is the number of pupils attending
schools in Indiana during tho year 1850 Whites,
25OO3si colored, Q27 total 22q, ,95l. OF these,
2lS,227 are natives and 2,73i are foreigners.
There are icw States in the Union that have more
persons in them who cannot read or write than
Indiana.
SYRACUSE TnETY-roUR YEARS AGo.-somc one
has eShumod the following. 1t originally appear
cd in The PIoTboy, paper once published at Al
bany:
"A Post Office has been established by the
name of Syarcuse in the own Of Salna and County
of Onondaga, az the place formerly called Cornth,
situated on the Great Western Canal, at its june
ton with the North Turnpike one mile from the
Salt Springs, in said County.
JOHN WILKINSON. p NJ
"Swocgse March 8, ls2Oo
This John Wilkinson is somewhat extensively
known as the great railroad man" Of Central New
York. The letter bearing his signature is dated
the Sth Of March, and as an illustration of ancient
expedition, it should be stated arrived nt Albany
the lst ofAprl. 1t was probably the only letter in
the bag from Syracuse for Albany
All tho pastors Of Colorel Churches in the North
and in Canada, and all editors Of abolition panero,
are requested to copy the following, and so aid q
mother in finding her son:
If the young man known as Frank Walker,
| Tor CamcrOn,) who escaped from the neighborhood
Of Raleigh ~ c., in August, 1852, will send in
formation of his whereabouts to William Still,
Anti-Slaycry Office, Phila., he will be instructed
and enabled to find his mother.