Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-07-21

" ifyrtfhic Tyugedy.-On wednesday last. n
negro woman belonging TO Mr.. Henry +. William
son, residing about FIVE miles from Grifi n took her
two children, one aged three, and the other about
six years-went to the woods hung her two children
and then hung herself"
A MONSTER REE.--California grows everything
on a gigantic scale, from gold boulders up to tall
timber" We have already Ind one or two speci.
mems of her "big trees" but there is now q sam
pie oil her productive powers at the Crystal Palace,
which transcends anything we have ever heard Of
in the wooden way 1t is q tree 81 feet in diam
eter at the base. and which stood, when it did stand,
3G3 feet in height No building in New York, ex-
cept the Crystal Palace, is large enough to contain
it, and it was there visited on the 4th inst by more
than 1000 persons.
PROCEEDINGS OF PROGRESSIVE FsiESps.-We have
been requested to state, for the information of many
OF our readers in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, that
the Proceedings of the Yearly Meeting Of Pro-
gressive Friends, held in Chester County in May
last, will soon be issued in pamphlet form. The
delay in the publication has been cadse ed by the
inability of Theodore Parker (whose engagements
have been very numerous and urgentl 70 prepare
for the press the Discourses which will form a
part Of the pamphlet. The copy is now, however
all in the hands of the printer, and the work will
be executed with all possible dispatch.-St0ndard
FoRAY on MExico.-The dustin (Texas) State
'"~e'ti June 80, says:
There is about $4,000 subscribed FOR n foray
upon Mexico, and we learn that some of the fill
busters are at present at the headquarters in San
Antonio. Rumour gives the names of several
and some from Austin. 1t is intended to raise
some 500 or 900 men in Texas to go over to
Mexico"
ANTIOCH ColLror.-This institution over which
Hon. Horace Mann ~presides, it appears, is S1j, 900
in debt. OF that sum $4,000 is due to the Con.
nectlcut Life Insurance and Trust Co. at per cent
interest. The ton of Unitarians, lately in
session at Buffalo, took measures to relieve the in
%stitutioh Of its load, and assist to nay the salaries
OF professors, tutors, &c. The Buffalo Democracy
says that, while but S24 a year is charged for tu-
ition at this noble institution, and young men are
boarded there for only Sl,25 per week, the Clark
County Bank, on a debt due it of $4,000. and
the Aenia Branch Bank, on a debt due it of "a 600
are each sucking II per cent. per annum interest
out of the staggering and impoverished Col
lege."
NEW YoRE July 1S.-We have adivces from
Kansas to the 10th. The annual message of Gov.
Reeder contends for the right of the people of the
Territory to settle their own affairs uninhuenced
by ether states. lie says the legislature has
: power to lcgislate on the question of Slavery to q
limited extent. lie recommends the passage of n
: stringent liquor law, on account Of the evil effects
of the traffic on the Indians. lie thinks q light
loan only will be required to carry the government
and contends for the right to tax ~pre-emptions.
He states the population of the territory at 1888
females and 5733 males.
The Governor vetoed the bill fixing on the
Shawnee Mission as the seat of government, but
the legislature passed it over his head, and ad.
journed to meet there.
WHAT a picture is here presented in al
item from a late number of The W heclinS
Times :
Two persons came out of one tavern on We'd
nesday, mania-a-potu-raving mad three 1rishmel
lay dead at the same time in the house, Will
twenty drunken men and women were dancin
and bowling around their bodies; at the same time
too, the clerk of the Circuit Court was issuin
fourteen writs of m%andamus on the Clerk of tn
City, by order of the Judge of the Court, to en-
quire why the said Clerk did not issue a license t.
fourteen persons to sell liquor.
The government of Rome has made an annua
appropriation of $4,000 for the encouragnmen t Of
tree planting in the Papal states. Premiums are
offered to all who will plant trees on their own
property, under the inspection of the officers in
their district. Provision is made to supply the
deficiency if the sum appropriated should prove
inadequate. The olive, orange, lemon, oak, elm,
chestnut, and almond are among the trees nam
ed.
A DEEP SrRlNG.-On Lake Prairie, Iowa, there i
a spring the bottom Of which no plummet has eve,
vet sounded. 1t has a false bottom ABBOTT tire,
} feet from its surface, through which if a twenty
} foot pole be thrust, it will sink under the sand com
posing this crust-like layer, and in a moment afte
its disappearance will bound up again on the sur
face.
CoLoNIzATIoy.-As we predicted some time ago
the Colonization meeting held in this city, last week
was a tame affair. 1t is worse than vain to attemp
anything of it in this State. The people rejec
it. life it seems to possess is mainly infused
into it by persons advanced in life, who were early
committed, and who entertain q strong prejudice
against anti=slavery societies. Tho young men
seek no connection with this dead carcass.-Iort
land Inquirer.
ONO RIvEk.-Several Indiana liquor.dcalcr'
have attempted to evade the prohibitory law by
selling liquor from boats on the Ohio river tied tt
the Kentucky shore. But some of them have beer
hauled up in Indiana. and the Justice decided tina
as in criminal cases, Kentucky and Indiana hac
concurrent jurisdiction on the Ohio river, the Of
| fence was punishable in Indiana, and the usua
punishment was inflicted.
Hon. John P. Hale, in a speech at the Stat
Temperance Convention, said that he had mol
tasted of ardent spirits or wine for the last tcent,
years.
Col. Benton is to deliver an address at the Hi
t nois Agricultural Fair, at Chicago, on the 2Stl
September.
3 Sagacious men now think that Atkinson viii
be reelected to the United States Senate by tn,
: next Legislature of Missouri. His bold villany il
t the Kansas matter has concentrated in his behal
the whole strength of the slavery i%ntercet.
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! record of all the steamboat disasters that have oc
Cured on the western waters during the last fort,
years. By these disasters, 100000 lives have beef
! lost.
= A prodigious quantity of drugs has been sen
to the Crimea and a medical writer remarks wit
some truth, that if the Russians would only tax
t the pills furnished to the army, the shot and shel
might lie spared.