Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-03-04

IMPORTANT TEsTIMOSY-lIon Samuel Houston
U. 5. Senator from Texas, in lecture in Proyi-
dence says:
From early boyhood," said the lecturer, al
have lived on the borders of civilization, and have
seen much Of Indian life and character, and never
knew an Indian treaty violated but what, when
sited to its bottom it was found that its first yio-
lators were the white men," Allusion was made,
in detail to the Cherokees to their advanced state
Of civilization, in agricultural and in the comforts
OF domestic life. The Greeks Choctaws, and Chick
asaws, were also instanced as powerful evidences
Of the susceptibility of the Indian to Improvement
advancement and refinement The perfdy of Gov
ernment agents, in their transactions with the In
dians with whom we have treaties, was commented
upon with unusual serverty. As single instance
OF the gigantic frauds practised npOn the aborigine
that recently occurring in the Territory Of Min
nessota was pointed out $780, 900 was appropriated
by Congress, in accordance with treaty stipula-
tons, for the Indians Of that Territory; vet the
startling fact had come to light that they had re-
ceived only 100000, the balance having been stolen
by the vampires, retainers and thieves who fatten
upon that confidence which the Indian placed in
the integrity OF the white man and they 1.-THE In
dians( were now suffering from pinching hunger
and blighting want
EDUCATION IN TURKEY Boston Atlas states
on the authority of recent English work, that
since 1916 a law of tho Turkish Empire requires
cNciy CihHch, hs SOON rs MS cnldren have reached
their sixth year, to inscribe their names in one of
the public schools, unless he can prove his ability
to educate them at home. At Constantinople il il
reported that there are now 1896 free schools fire.
quented by %, 700 children of both sexes. There
are also six secondary schools, with about 1000
pupils. In order to gain an entrance 10 these, five
years must have been spent in the free schools
There is also high school for young men who are
intended for public emplOyments, college for the
same object, normal school for the education of
professors, an imperial college of medicine, a mill
tary naval and an agricultural school, OF these
SC hools the Sultan is the Superintendent, and he
attends their examinations. The public libraries of
Constantinople contain $4,000 volumes
STuoK.--This is a newsboy's term. They under
stand 1t, because il is sometimes more than thew
can stand under. 1t often happens that a green
specimen of the genus newsboy gets stuck with
more papers than he can sell, and then his fellows
laugh rather than cry over his misfortu ne. lie
gets but little sympathy, and he is not allowed to
sell out at "prices below cost" as some of the
merchants do as that would injure trade.
Yesterday we saw one of the most disconsoate-
looking chaps we have lately noticed, with big
bundle of papers under his arm, apparently tired
Of looking for customer, and night coming on
One OF his cronies came along, and stopped a mo-
ment to inquire "what luck 2"
+" "LuckY blast the thing; nobody will have il at
half price. I'm stuck"
What have you gotH What paper is itH Why,
you fool, did MT you know better than buy a dead
Citizen. Good enough for you if you are stuck"
"Go back" said he, ito your Citizen Office, and
put bill on the door, Closed on account of death
n Tie family Your paper is Beechered, Tribune