Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-15

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The late ballotings for Speaker Of the House Of
Representatives, reveals tho fact that Messrs.
Caruthers and Oliver of Missouri, Bowie from
Maryland, Stephens from Georgia, Evans from
Texas, and Talbot from Kentucky, all elected to
Congress as Wings, and opposed to the Admins
tration, have voted for Richardson, the Admins.
tration candidate for Speaker.
BANKRUPT CITIEs.-San Francisco (says one Of
our ex:hanges) is burdened with n debt she cam
not pay, and her treasury is empty. New Orleans
has disposed Of the use Of her public wharves for
three years, SOFAS to raise money sufficient to pay
the salaries of her school teachers Philadelphia
has not a dollar in her treasury Chicago is in n
sorry financial condition-her treasury is entirely
empty, and those in the employ of the city 20 beg
ging for wages due thcm.-Ledder.
A bill has been presented to the Legislature of
Tennessee levying a tax of five dollars on every
gentleman who wears n moustachc, and n fine OF
five dollars upon bachelors over thirty years years
of ago, for the purpose of raising money to increase
the school fund.
Horace Mann thinks that Moses was the first
conductor on the underground railroad, as he took
out OF Egypt the biggest train on record, contain
ing two million of passengers.
AT Dayton, Ohio, last week. q baud Of women
made q decent on two grog shops, and riddled them
completely. The dealers showed fight, but were
soon brought to terms by the enroged Amazons,
The Postmaster General has appointed Mrs.
Elizabeth Stickley, the successor of her late hus-
band. in the post-ofics ut Stickleysvillc, Lee CO.,
Virginia.
Lieut.. Gov. Willard, Of Indiana, promises to
give up drink if his party dominates him for Gov
ernor.
One hundred ana forty-two, Or nearly two-thirds
of the present United States House Of Represents
tives are new members. Much the largest portion
Of them are from the Northern States.
RIcnMoND, VA, Dec. 8.
The Legislature Of Virginia to-day reelected
Hon. Jas. NJ. Mason United States Senator for six
years, over Summers, Know Nothing, Wy fity-cight
majority on joint vote.
Mr., GiddiEgs, of Ohio, is the oldest member of
the House of Representatives. lie entered Con
gress in 1886.
The Baptists have increased in Rhode Island in
%forty-two years, seventy per cent, and in Massa-
chusetts about eighty per- cent.
"WnAR DID YE CONE FRoM?"--This question
occasionally suggests itsel. to new Corners in Texas
on meeting with certain tattooed Africans, who
hear upon their faces the lines Of beauty traced by
fish bones in the jungles Of Africa. The compar
atively young look Of some of these sable sons of
tie third continent occasionally leads to surmises
that somebody has violated the laws of the United
States or the former Republic of Texas, declaring
the African slave trade to be piracy. Such a sus-
pion is uni ust, so far as we are informed. While
Texas was a part of Mexico, these strange people
are said to have dropped down on the coast occa-
sionally in a somewhat mysterious way, like frogs
in a shower. No statistics, however were pre-
served previous 10 1885. In that year it is shrewd-
ly suspected that the American schooner Shenan-
doah landed 1873, and the schooner Harriet 40 At
rican negroes from Cuba, at the mouth of San
Bernard. The next year it is surmised that an
unknown schooner landed 40 somewhere between
Velasco ad Caney, and another vessel 200 at the
Sabine the latter being carried into Louisiana.
All this was amid the confusion of the Texas revo-
luton. There was a suspicion that IL others were
landed in the neighborhood of the Brazos, in the
winter of 1878, hut this needs continuation
GalceSton (1eras) Cici3tan.
According to the late census, the population Of
Illinois is LII ,055. In 1850 it was ISL 40 /;
showing an increase in five years of 4l9,5S5--or
10 per cent.
Spain, with its ten or twelve millions of souls,
pays annually 10000, 600 of francs, or nearly eight
millions of dollars. to the support of the Roman
Catholic clergy; the objections of the present gov
Z ! liihNi u w thO VI ihio Nhbi TIA I
excites n strong sensation at Rome touch the
purse-strings of the church and at once she quivers
with rage.
ST.. LOUIS, Dec. s.
The steamers Parthenia. Twin City and Praire
City were burned ut the levec, between five and six
O'Clock this evening. Tie fire originated on the
Parthenia. which was heavily laden, and was Just
starting out. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Partially insured.
In Rockville, Canada West, there are two female
watclmakers and threo female painters. They are
said to he successful in their vocations.
Baltimore. Wednesday, Dec. s.
The Virginia House of Delegates has appointed
a Committee to provide for the adoption of more
efrcrual measures to prevent the escape of slaves,
and to inquire into the expediency of retaliatory
measures against the Northern States.
The New STATE UousE.-The Secretary of State
is now engaged in fitting up the Odeon Hall and
Ambas' Hall for the meeting of the Legislature.
New carpets will be laid down, and every arrange
ment made so as to renoer these halls as cOmfur-
table as possible for the use of the members
Thenew State House will not be in readiness for
a year to come, judging from the number of work
men at present employed about the building, and
the vast amount Of work yet to be done. The plas-
tering of the Hall of the House of Representatives
Is about nnlsneu, excepting the centre piece, and
the laying ofthe marble floors has been commenced.
The cost Of plastering this room alone will he about
eight thousand dollars. The State House Commits
sioners have run the State in debt over and above
the appropriation made, about 100000. Not q
dollar has been paid to the contractors for the iron
work, which amounts to seventy-iive thousand dol
lars: not n dollar to the contractors for the heating
and ventilation of the building, amounting to
twenty thousand dollars thirty thousand dollars
are due upon the marble contract; ten thousand
dollars for plate glass for the windows twenty
thousand dollars for chandeliers and gas fixtures
&c. and so on. The Republican Legislature will
find it an no hill business to pay these bills, con-
tracted for by LOcofocos, and at the same time re-
duce the taxes.-C Columbus Journal.
HORSES IN ENGLAND.-The following paragraph
from a late London paper, shows the great value
in England of horses of pure blood
"a great number of horses, the property of the