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

There is such an exquisite blending Of the true
and the beautiful in the following passage from
John Ruskin, that we cannot well resist our incli-
nation TO reprint it.
The UNAPPRECIATED SKr.-1t is n strange tbinp
how little, in general, people know about the sky.
1t is the part of creation in which Nature has dome
more for the sake of pleasing man-more for the
sole and evident purpose Of talking to him, and
teaching him, than in any ether of her works: and
it is just the part in which we least attend to her
There are not many of her other works in which
some more material or essential purpose than the
mere pleasing OF men, is not answered by every
part of their organization but a very essential
purpose of the sky might, SO far as we know, be
ans Tered, ii, once in three DAYS or Whereabouts. n
great ugly, black rain cloud were brought over the
blue, and everything well watered, and so all left
blue again, till next time, with perhaps Il film of
morning and evening mist for dew. And instead
of this, there is not "a day of any of our lives when
Nature is not producing scene after scene, picture
after picture, glory after glory, and working still
upon such exquisite and constant principles of the
most perfect beauty, that it is quite certain that il
1t IL all done for us, and intended for our perpetuaI
pleasure. And every man, wherever placed. how.
ever far from other sources of interest or of beauty
has this done for him constantly. The nobIes,
scenes OF the earth can be seen and known bv few
but 1t is not intended that man should live ALWAYS
in the midst of them he Injuries them by his pres.
ence, he ceases to feel them, if he be always with
them but the sky is for all; bright as it is, il i
not too bright for human natures daily food !,
Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, some.
times awful; never the same for two moments TO-
gether; almost human in its passions-spirituali in
its tenderness-almCst divine in its infnity--its
appeal to what is immortal in us is as distinct as its
ministry OF chastisement or Of blessing to what is
mortal, is essential.
And yet we never attend to tive rever make il
a subject Of thought but as it has to do with our
animal sensation we look upon all by which Il
speaks to US more clearly than brutes-upon all
which bears witness to the intention of the Su.
preme. that we are to receive from the COVERING
vault than the light and the dew which we share
with the weed and the ~worm-only as o succession
OF meaningless and mopOtonous accidents, too
common and too painfnl to DO worthy of a moments
watchfalnese or aglanre Of admiration.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-28
PRoHIBITORY LIQUOR LAW.

In the article on prohibition, the N. Y. Tribune
says;
Maine pioneered the way to Legal Prohibition,
and Maine has just stifened her Law by a vote of
90 20 90 in the House and all to nothing in the
Senate. MASSACHUSETTS soon followed, but not
stringently enough to cut off the tap in some of
the larger cities, especially Boston so Massa-
chusetts has just driven the hoops on her Law by
the strong vote of 25S to42--Bos,on, for the first
time, giving a majority for Prohibition. Rhode
Island likewise prohibited her Judges broke
down the Law; but the People remodeled and
re-enacted it. Connecticut failed twice in her
efforts for such II Law-the first time by means
of a Veto-but the People rallied again, car.
ried the Maine, Law last year, and have Just
ustaineG it. New HAMPSHIRE has just decided
for it. for the first time. Vermont has it without
further dispute. New JERSEY has just lost it, by
one majority in the Senate, after carrying it in the
House. DELAWARE her just carried it. Ono
adopted a modification of it last year, which ID
popular and working well. MICHIGAN passed il
two years ago, but four (half) OF her Supreme
Judges held it invalid because it WAS submitted tC
the People; So her new Legislature has just pass
ed it again toih0Wt submission. INDIANA, ILLINOIS
and Iowa have each enacted Prohibition, and Iowa
it is reported, has ratified hers by a popular vote,
And WISCONSIN, has twice passed such an act, but
lost it through the Governor Veto, for which the
People will veto him.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-28
SPARE Ii BIRDS.

The swallows are The natural enemies of the
swarming insects, living almost entirely upon them,
taking their food upon the wing. The common
martin devOurs great quantities of wasps, beetles,
and goldsmiths. A single birds will devour five
thousand butterflies in a week. The moral of this
is that the husbandman should cultivate the soci-
ETY. of swallows and martins about his land and
out. buildings.
The sparrows and wrens feed upon the crawling
insects which Turk within the buds, foliage. and
flowers of plants. The wrens are pugnacious, and
q little box in u cherry tree will soon be appropri-
ated by them, and they will drive away other Dir Is
that feed upon the fruit, a hint that cherry grow
ers should %remember this spring and act upon.
The t~hrushes, blue birds, jays and crows prey
upon butterflies, grasshoppers, %crickets. loeusts, and
the larger beetles. A single family of jays will
consume 10000 of these in a season Of three
months.
The wood peckers are armed with a stout, long
bill, to penetrate the wood Of trees. where the borers
deposit their larvae. They live almost entirely upon
these worms.
For the insects which come abroad only during
the night, nature has provided a check in the
nocturnal birds, of the whippcrwill tribe and
the little barn owl, which take their food upon the
wing.
How wonderful is this provision of Povid ,nce
Ger the restraint of the depredators that live upon
the labors of man and how careful we should be
not to dispute that beneficial law of compensation
by which all things are preserved in their just rela
tons and proportions.-America Agrieulturist.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-28
NEWS BOYS.

The report Of the superintendent Of the News
boys Lodging House contains several curious
anecdotes, some of which seem to show that the
tone Of moral feeling among the newsboys is not
lower, but higher than that OF many of boys who en-
Joy what are called the advantages" of educa-
ton. The following are amusing stories life
illustrated.
"a little negro boy lately applied for lodging,
but with no money. The question was, whether
to trust him after some delay, one of the large
boys, Mick, spoke up, i say, MI. Tracy, there's
three cents to Simmy's lodging! Mr.. L. thanked
him; and the evening passed quietly, but when the
time for settling came, just before b%ed-hour, Mick
repented, Mr.. Tracy! l amt agoln' to pay that
nigger's lodgin."
"'yery well,' said Mr.. T. and then told him, of
course, he could do as he chose with his money
but, said he, this little colored boy Isl respectable,
well behaved boy, as much as you-and you have
no right to speak about him in that way. / have
taken you in, a good many of you, when you were
much worse off than he-some of you were ragged
and dirty and hungry-and you hadn't any one to
care for you, and | was a father to you-and now
yon will talk in this way at the boy, because his
skin is not so white as yours
Zone tall boy, who had been once a regular loaf
ing, hard boy, was seen to wipe his eyes at this.
Mick looked terribly ashamed. And, Here's a
cent, Mr.. Tracy, for Jimmy 4? came from one of the
boys, and Here's another! and Here's another,
until the six cents were made out. Yen have
bad luck 7 said the boys, pointing at Mick, as they
NeHt ~ Deu. IL Will, cause you ulun I give
nothin' to Jimmy's lodgin." \
NJ Tracy says he lately had occasion to give
something Of a le, ture to one of the ~sharpest boys
for cheating and 'blufing one of the younger boys
and strangers. "It's all wrong, Thomas! Did you
ever hear the golden ruler No, sir, | hav'nt.'
'.Well, its in the Bible, "Do unto others as you
would have Others do unto you" What do you
think Of that, ThjmasP
"fhomas thought of il n moment as a new
revelation, and seemed staggered, but recovered
with Spo'se you're short, sir, and couldatp \
These boys always live well when they have
the money. This evening, while a number of them
were telling each other what they had for supper, |
undertook TO reasSp with them about their diet
that they should avoid some Of the nice things
which they had mentioned. and live more upon
palmer food, as that was healthier and cheaper
that they should allow their reason instead Of theil
appetite to control them in the selection Of theiI
food. tAh. sir said one boy, when q TELLER i,
hungry and has a good hot dinner smokin' before
him, it's no time to reason /; and | have made uI
my mind that them rufled shirt 'quills" CLERKS
phan't eat up all the good things. no how = con
eluded to drop the matter for the present, and tool
another subject"
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-28
JAMES BARNABY,
THE EMPIRE,

A FIRST-CLASS BRITISH JOURNAL, Ed
tied by George Thorn pson, late NJ. p. This Eng
lish Newspaper is peculiarly SUITED to such Ameri-
can readers as desire to become familiar with the
policy, the politics, and the institutions of England,
and with European affairs generally. 1t will be a
faithful exponent Of popular progress, and tho
chronicler of all the important reformatory move
ments of the age. Constant and ample notice will
be taken of the state of the anti-slavery question
on both sides of the Atlantic. The following ex-
tract from the Editorial Address embooies the fun
~damental principles of the Empire:-
"JVhat Ihare been during the whole course of
my public life, that / shall inferibly remain,--the
ardent friend and supporter of F1ee-trade and the
rights of industry-of the absolute and perfect
equality of all religious sects-of the largest prac-
ticable increase of the independent political power
of the people-of Justice to our colonies, and es-
pecially to the conquered subjects of our vast In.
dian Empire-of the exercise of the moral infu-
ence of this nation in favor of the total and uni
versal extinction of slavery and the slave trade;
and, finally, of the Christian principle of peace
especially the substitution of pacific arbitration
in all international disputes, for the present sense
less, absurd, and bloody appeal to the sword: and
the gradual overthrow of those gigantic military
institutions of Europe, which menace the tranquil
ty of the world, are the strongest bulwarks Of
despotism, and the most formidable obstacles to
the advancement of civilization, and the triumphs
of pure and undefled religion"
The terms to American Subscribers are Five
Dollars per Annum, to be paid in advance. Sub
scriptions will be received by the Editor Of the
Bugle. Salem, Ohio.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-28
LIGHTFOOT & SMEDLEY'S
OHIO CULTlVAT0R FOR 1855.
4 REMEDY For LIZARD TINES"

The Eleventh Volume of the Ohio Cultirator,
will Jan. LIST, 1855. The editors are
resolved to spare no pains to maintain the reputa-
ton and usefulness of the paper; and with the
benefit of ten years experience, and much travel
among the farmers of the West, they believe that
they can make the Cultivator for the coming year
of more value to it's readers than ever before, and
better adapted for the soil and climate, and pro-
ductions of the region for which it is designed
than any other paper of the kind.
AS A REMEDY FOR 'UARD TINES"
The Ohio Cultivator will aim to impart knowledge
of improved methods of cultivation, how to avoid
losses by drouth, injurious insects, &C., the mos
profitable kinds of crops, best breeds of stock
condition and prospects of the markets, &c. In
short, the paper will be devoted to the interests O.
the FARM, the SHOP, and the FIREsIpE, and seel
the elevation of Labor in all its legitimate inter
ests; opposing q~uackery and humbug in all theil
forms, and filling the noble station of a true
HOME PAPER OF THE WEST.
The Ohio Cultivator is published on the LIST and
10Th of every month-l6 large octave pages, with
title page and index at the end of the year, max
ing a volume of 1884 pages for binding.
TERMs.-Single subscriptions 81 a year. -Four
copies for So. Nine copies for Sc; and the sac,t
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subscriptions to be paid in advance. and to com
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choose: and these having sent a smaller number
may afterwards increase TO nine, or more, Mt thu
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previous year, IN paper cover. Address
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Columbus, Ohio.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-28
COCHINEAL.

The cochineal is said to he native to Florida
this insect hovers about several varieties of the
cactus, but prefers that known as the prickly pear,
where it weaves its web and deposits its eggs. In
G%autumala it is cultivated to support the insect,
being planted in rows on rich lands and kept free
from weeds. When twenty months old it is said
to be Gt to receive the insect. The seed insect is
small, and is preserved in boxes, twenty-five
pounds being sufficient for one thousand plants
The manner of placing them on the plants is to put
a small quantity on a peice of gauze and attach
it to a thorn from this they distribute themselves
over the plant, and when come to muturity, which
is in about two months, are scraped off gently
and exposed to the sun on a polished peice of metal
for some twenty days, and then carefully packed
in mats.-FlOrida Neus.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-28
THE COURTIN'.
BY JAMES Russell LOWELL.

'Zeekle creep up, quito unbeknown
An peek'd in through the winder;
An there sot Hubby all alone,
18th no one nigh to hinder.
The walnut logs shot sparkles out
Towards the pootier-bless her =
An leetle fires danced all about
The chiny on the dresser.
Ag'in the wall the crooknecks hung,
An in among 'em rusted,
The old Queens arm that Gran'thcr Young
Brought back from Concord busted.
The very room, coz she was int,
Looked warm from floor to c%eilin',
An she looked full as rosy ag'in
As the apples she was peelin'.
She heard a foot, an know'd it, tn;
a raspin' on the scraper-
All ways tn once her f%eelin's flew,
Like sparks in burnt-up paper.
He kin O. Uttered on the mat,
Some doubtful O. the seekle;
His heart kept goin' pittypat,
But hern went pity 'Zeekle.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-28

TIE HANp.-Lavater told Goethe, that on q Ger
tain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the
church, as collector of the offerings, he tried to OBJ
serve only the hands and he satisfied himself that
in every individual, the shape of the hand and oil
the fngures, tie action and sentiment in dropping
the gift into the bag, were distinctly different, and
individually characteristic. . There tre
hands of various character the hand to catch,
and the hand to hold the hand to clasp, and the
hand to grasp the hand that has worked, or could
work, and the hand that has never done anything
but hold itself out to be kissed, like that of Joanna
Of Aragon, in Raphael's picture. Let any one
look at the hands in Titian's portrait of old Pau
" though cxquisitely modelled. they have an ex,
preston which reminds us of claws ; they belong
to the face of that g~rasping old man. and eonld be.
long to 10 other.-Mr. JamesOn's Commonplace
Book.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-28
PROSPECTUS OF THE UNA.

In announcing a new Volume of this periodical,
we deem it essential to call the attention Of the
reading public to the claims it may have upon
them for patronage.
The womans' rights movement having become
one of so much Importance as to enlist Almost
every variety Of character and shade of opinion,
it has been deemed needful that a correct history
of its progress might be preserved; its demands
truthfully presented and its philosophy thor
oughly treated that there should be one periodical
through which those most inte9ea.ea could hsys
uIterance, -" NNF'
Political papers or those devoted to special "a,
forms are alike pnsuited to present O question in.
v%olying so much OF truth as this, one which needs
the talrest the most candid and careful examina-
ton and consideration.
Our paper has been free in its character admit
ting almost every variety of opinion and upon all
subjects and this it will continue to be.
Arts, science, literature, philosophy both sp;ti.
ual and natural, the science of association or the
reorganization Of Society, and individual develop
men,, Will each receive their due share of alton
ton, 80
Our contributors a few of whose names. we give
will be warmly greeted by our readers Mrs. Dali,
Mrs. E. Cakes Smith, Mrs. E. j. Eames, Mrs. =.
D. Gage, Mrs. E. Cheney, now in Paris; Mrs.
Peter, Lizzie Linn whose story Of marriage the
only alternative" opens with me first number Of
the New Year and is quite worth the price of the
paper.
The business department Of the paper b, wing
passed into other hands with every prospect Of
permanence, we feel n confidence in pressing its
claims for support AID attention.
Its price is one dollar per annum, PAYABLE in.
|variably in advance. All business letters shonid
be addressed postpaid to 5. G.. Hewitt ID Franz.
lin St. Boston Mass.
Communications designed for the paper 10 its
Editor. r. W. DAVIS. "
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-28
THE DRIVE.
Br THOMAS NOEL.

Br THOMAS NOEL.
trot:
To the churchyard a pauper is going, / \ ot;
The road it is rough, and the herst has no springs,
And bark to the dirgo that tho sad driver sings.
Rattle his bones over the stones
IIe'e only a paupcr whom nobody owns.
Oh, whore arc tho mourners Alas! there are
none;
lie has left not a gap in the world now he's gone
Not a tear in the eye of child, woman or mani
To the grave with his carcaseas fast as you can.
Rattle, &c,
What n jolting and c~reaking, and splashing and
din! lspin,
The whip how it cracks, and the wheels how they
How the dirt right and left DER the hedges is
hurled
Tho poupcr at length makes a noise in tho world.
Rattle, &c.
p oor pauper defunct! he has made some approach
To ~gentility now that he's stretched in a coach
He's taking a drive in his carriage at last,
But it will not be long If he goes on so fast.
Rattle, Sc.
But a truce to this strain, for my soul it is sad,
To think that a heart in humanity clad,
Should make, like the brutos, such a doso'ate end,
And depart from the light without leaving a friend
Bea- softly his bones over the stones;
Though a pauper, he's one whom his Maker still
owns.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-28
TO A WATERFOWL.
BRYANT.

Whittier midst falling dew,
While glow the heavens with the last stops Of day
Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue
Thy solitary way?
yainly the fowler's eve
Nigh mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong
As, darby painted on the crimson sky,
Thy figure floats along.
Seek'st thou the plashy brink
OF weedy lake, or marge of river wide,
Or where the rocking pillows rice and sink
On the chated ocean side'
There is a Power whose care
Teaches thy way along that painless coast
The desert and illimita5le air,-
Lone wandering. but not lost.
All day thy wings have famed,
At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere,
Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land,
Though the dark night is near.
And soon that toll shall end
Soon shall thou find a summer home, and rost,
And scream among thy fellows; reeds shall bend,
Soon Ger thy sheltered nest.
Thou'rt gone; the abyss of heaven
Hath swallowed up thy form yet, on my hart
Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given,
And shall not soon depart.
lie who from zcne to zone,
Guides through the boundless sky thy certain figh
In the long way that | must tread alone,
Will lead my steps Alright.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-28
H STREET MUSICIANS.

We cut the following from an article in the
Tribune on the Itinerant organists of that city:
"Signor." said an itinerant somewhat more cul-
tivated than the av erage of his fellows, in reply to
observation VIC had made, what can he expected
from these poor people, circumstance as they are?
Brought up in ignorance and idleness, physically
they become weak and enervate, and morally de-
graded. Even if they had the moral strength to
quit this v~agabond occupation, they would be un-
able to earn a livelihood by hard work. This eli
mate does not agree with the dollhouse nature of
the Italian and though our people are constantly
emigrating hither, they do not increase among
themselves. Their children are sickly and weak,
and rarely live long. And, after all, Sir, / be-
lieve our vocation is not a useless one. Even
among us there has been something like progress
sion. The old organ, with its coarse, discordant
sounds, has fallen into disUse, and the modern
futina organ often rivals the finest effect Of the
piano. Besides, it is an humble medium 20 make
popular the best works of the great Italian mas
ters for these instruments are usually adapted to
the gems from La Norma, Lucia, and others of
grand operas. And who will assert that this
music does not exert a refining influence upon the
uncultiyated classes of the people, sufficient
to com pensate for the cpopers they bestow for its
supp?rtT
This poor musician, so eloquent in the defense
of his vocation may be seen daily in our streets,
accompanied by his wife and little daughter. Do
not think that his performance is a merely mechan-
cal one-for he loves to think of his native coun.
try. While the instrument gives utterarce to the
melodious Fra poccO, or some. other sweet remem-
brancer of Bellini or Donizetti, you may be sure
ais thoughts are often in the bright land of his
birth, from which he was separated by iron poverty
and oppression.
DO you like America 2" we once asked him.
"Yes," he replied, sit is a fine place. But il
is Arrays America to me ali there is but ont
Italy !"
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-28

Mn. FrLLMoRE.-Mr Philip S. White, the tenn
perance advocate, in delivering a speech in Mobile
Il few evenings since, referred to ex President FILL
MORE MS that great and good man." The Adyer-
tiser says
''The mention of his name was received by that
immense con,ourse Of people with such Il tumult
of applause as we have seldom wit iessed even in
time of high political excitement. Repeated cheers.
enthusiastic ~clapping Of hands and stamping OF
feet drowned the voice of the speaker, and it was
some time before quiet was restored sufficiently to
allow him to proceed. What a pleasing evidence
was this of the abiding hold Willard Fillmore has
upou the Southern heartl Faithful to the Consti-
Triton and its guarantees to the South, her sons
will not soon forget his gallant and selfsacrifcing
efforts to preserve them. And then his visit to
this section last season did very much to ripen this
confidence and respect into admiration, esteem,
and affection. Few, very few of our people bur
wish long life and prosperity to Millard Fill
more"