Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-28
THE ANTI-SLAyERY BUGLE.

was the author Of the popular arithmetic, now so
generally used in our common schools, rs also of
other text books for mathematical studies.
A coon rosfTioS.-Ghe politics Of the Erie True
American are capital. The editor defines them as
follows, in Answer to the question. "Where are
we:"
Some one wants to know just what our political
position is. For the present we will say-eternal
and incorporating hostility to all forms Of pop.
ular.dcsp tism--partieularly to the slave and rum
powers in this country-but independent to the
last.
Frsr FionT IN Hon LrrE.-A Geographic dis
patch frpm Washington to q Cincinnati papo~,
dated April 20, says:
Lieut.. Beale, formerly Indian Agent in Califor-
mia, and whose accounts have Just been allowed
bv the Treasury Department, inflicted a severe cas-
tigation with his fists, on q Colonel Mannypenny.
the Commissioner of Indian affairs at Wizards
Hotel, this nfternoou.-Mr Beale attributes the
temporary disallowance of his accounts, to the hos
,ility Of Mr.. Mannypenny.
The MEruoD1sTs AND THE REMOVAL OF Jup0E
LoRiNo.-Boston Telegraph is told that when the
news reached the Methodist Conference, in session
at Chelsea, on Saturday, that the address for the
removal of Judge Loring had passed the House of
Representatives, the whole body, some three hun
dred strong, rose to their feet and gave three
cheers.
Mrs. SrowE's new work, entitled the May Flow
or, consisting of her miscellaneous fugitive writ.
ings, is published by Phillips, Sampson & Co.. Of
Boston, accompanied by n portrait of the authoress,
with which she should be better satisfied than
with the popular likenesses in our shop windows,
of which she has complained in her Sunny Mem
cries"
During the month of January no less than TWEEN
ty persons we're lynched in the State of California.
A large majority of them were for theft.
The people Of Louisville have voted by n large
majority that no more licenses shall be issued to
drinking houses in that city. The Journal has no
doubt, that, in consequence of this vote, Louisville
will become a better and more prosperous city.
THE DEArn PENALrY IN Wfscovs1Y.-Thc House
of Representatives Of Wisconsin by q vote Of
Al to 81 have restored the death penalty in that
State. The Senate have yet to act upon the mat
ter.
Colonel yorrRs.-A resolution was passed by
the Assembly of New York, proposing to amend
the Constitution Of the State so rs to abolish the
property qualification for colored voters. The res
olution was carried by ayes &C, noes 30.
The Mi ssachusetts House Of Representatives
have refused to endorse the acton o. the senate
nroscr;bino nersons o: foreign birth from holding
offices in that State.
They have new potatoes in Charleston, IS. CT
and Cucumbers in Indianapolis.
AppoINrMENT.-The Executive Committee of the
American Anti-Slavery Society, having learned
that Mr.. WILLIAM III. FISH, Of Hopedale, Mass,
designs passing some months in the State OF New
York, rs q lecturer on various subjects OF prac-
teal reform, have appointed him their agent, for
SO much time as he may be able to devote to anti
slavery labors. They cordially commend him to
all friends of tho cause, and solicit their co-opcra-
ton with him.-Sandard.
How MILWAUKEE GRows.-Milwaukie, the big
town of Wisconsin, is only trenty years old, and
it has u population this day of 10000. 1t was laid
ont in 1895; in 1888 the population was 700; in
1913, 1900; in 1850, 10000; in 1855, 10000.
Banking capital amounts to S750,OOO, but they say
the business requires $ 1900, 900. The nanu!ac-
lures last wear amounted in value to $1,000. 900.
against So, 100, 900 in 1858; showing that the
amount has doubled in two years. The imports
we're Sll 900, 600 the exports 81 ,7O9,O 900.
The owners Of negroes Mt Jefersontown Ky,
have held q meeting to assert some of the preroga-
tiyes of slave-drivers which the freemen of the
Northern States do not sufficiently respect. The
following is one Of their resolves:
"our right of transit through the free States with our slavesis
q perfect right under the Constitution Of the Union"
Possibly the authors Of this believed it to be
true, but still we advise them to exercise this right
of transit with no slaves but those they have de-
TRIMMED to emancipate.-7ribune
SIZE OF THE WEsT.-Illinois would make forty
states as large as Rhode Island, and Minnesota sixty,
Missouri is larger than all New England. Ohio
is larger than ireland, or Scotland, or Portugal
and anunls Rplpium. Scotland and Switzerland
together. Missouri is more than half as large a;
Italy, and larger than Denmark, Holland, Belgl
UNI and Switzerland. Missouri and Illinois arc
larger than England Scotland, Ireland and Wales
The population of Cleveland, according to a re
cent enumeration, is 1910.
The unpre ,entedly large number of three thou
sand four hundred appli ANTS, under the bounty
land act of March 3, 1855, were received at the
Pension Office in Washington, on the 4th inst
Total number Of applications under the act, ~
to the present time, forty thousand three hundred.
CHURCuEs IN THE UNITED STATEs.-It is q singu
lar fact, SAYS the Boston Transcript, that there are
more Lutheran churches in the United States thar
) there are of the Roman Catholic faith. The Lu
theran ministers, in point of numbers, come up t.
within two hundred of the priests of the Catholic
Church in this country and yet there is but on,
Lutheran Church in New England.
SPANISH OUTRAGEs.--There nre now on file, il
the State Department at Washington. no less thai
thirty.nine applications praying the government
to redress outrages committed by the auIhoritic
. of Cuba.
Tie Macon ga Journal says that John Mitch
ell, the Irish exile has been selected to delive
the Commencement address before the two Liter
AIRY Societies of the Mississippi University a
Oxford.
We think that the Americans have a great pas
sion for statistics. Here is the latest exploit il
that line. We have not examined into the cor
rectness of the estimate, prelerring that our read
ers shall ''cast it up" for themselves:
A FORMIDABLE UNDERrAKING.-A contemporary
puts the tobacco question into the following shape
Suppose a tobacco chcwer is addicted to the habi
of chewing tobacco fifty years of his life, and tina
each dny Of that time he consumes two inches o
SnliG nlnn. il amnunts to six thousand four hundreC