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

At the last, Mr.. Banks Of Massachusetts the Re.
publican candidate, had los votes, and Richardson
"A. The proposition was made on Monday to elect
by plurality. 1t created considerable excitement
and the mover finally withdrew it. In the Senate
nothing has been dore Of importance. Committees
have been appointed and some preliminary business
attended to.
Some of the Southern members of Congress
threaten to withdraw if Reeder is admitted to a
seat in Congress. IF Congress can get rid Of them
so cbeaply we hope it will not fail to secure so good
q radiance.
GEORGIA. MAJoRs."-A bill has been Introduced
into the Georgia Legislature to suspend militia
musters in time of peace, and to make sherifs er-
o6icjo colonels, their deputies majors, and consta-
bles captains. Even if no new counties are crca.
ted, this would give, in addition to the present
abundant supply, one hundred and twelve colonies,
and ut least that many majors, and on indefinite
number Of captains every two years.
Miss Catherine Hays, it is said, has realized n
fortune by singing, of 100000. She has visited
California. Australia, China and IIindostan.
The Times says that no less than two hundred
astrologers, clairvoyants, and fortune. tellers exist
in New York City.
"WnAr SUNDAY School IS THAT put is pref
ty generally known that Elizur Wright is at the
head of a large family of children. While walk
ing with them upon the Common, the other day, q
gentleman stepped up and thus accosted Mr..
Wright: "Sir, what Sunday School is this that
follow you 2" Mr.. Wright laughed, and then re-
piled, "the Hard Shell Baptists. "-Boston Courier.
and ~sixty-iyo men were hung in theUpited States
for murder. OF this number only seven could read
and write.
Tue SUGAR CRop.-The crop of Louisiana sugar
for 1855 is estimated at 275 GOO hogsheads against
4G,635 h%Ogshead last year. If this estimate is
correct, high prices will prevail, unless foreign
countries furnish large supplies.
The wife of Gov. Wright, of Indiana, died at
her fathers residence in Scott county, Kentucky,
on Saturday last.
Elder Knapp, formerly a famous revival preach
er,is a farmer in the neighborhood Of Rockford, ILL.,,
with a farm of l 200 acres stocked with cattle, hogs,
horses, &c,
Keyon college seems to be in a prosperous con-
dition under the Presidency of LoRIN ANDREWS.
THE GRAVE OF MADIsoN.-A correspondent of
the FredericksburGh NerS in Culpepper Co., Va,
gives a melancholy picture of the last resting place
- Wv iOuS Abtbhl OIs ~ Will IIS lun-
lily in Il graveyard a short distance from his house,
upon his estate Of Montpelier; the family cemetery
Is surrounded by a brick wall, and the gate is en-
tirely down. The correspondent says that not n
stone marks the great mans resting place dark,
running green box wraps it with vendure, and the
tracery Of branches from an old lcafess chestnut
tree, relieving itself against the warm azure sky,
rod and wave over the dark mountain. IT'S q
solemn, calm, and peaceful spot. The correspon-
dent adds that Mrs. MadisOn's remains are in the
vault of the Congressional burial ground in Wash
ington, her direction was to be inferred by the
side of her husband, but her son has never fulfilled
her request.
A prospectus is out, announcing the publication
of a North Carolina Christian Adcocate, with the
significant statement that at is intended to pub
lish a family newspaper, which, while it shall be
religious in tone and sentiment and maintain the
doctrines and usages of the Methodist Church, shall
be devoted to all tie interests Of No1fh Carolina"
That, of course means slavery Wesleyan.
Gov. REEDER.-The Washington correspondent
of the New York Courier and Enquirer, after hav-
ing had an interview with this gentlemen, says:
Ellis views are exceedingly moderate there is
nothing extreme, fanatical or proscripve about him.
lie does not regard the Nebraska law and the prin-
ciples which it embraced as The origin of the
troubles in Kansas. The real cause of the distur-
bauces, he thinks, Is the active and criminal inter-
leTcHCO VI tIe ADMINISTRATION ana lS Salafleu
agents, to defeat the will of the people. This in
tervention he hopes will be counteracted by the
decisive action of Congress. He admits that the
duty thrown upon the House requires great firm
ness and nerve, but as the peace of the country
clearly depends upon the exercise Of those quail
tiles, he relies urUn finding them"
A friend in Kentucky writes us that the slave
trade is already initiated between that State and
Kansas. An ex-know Nothing orator and Metho-
dist preacher took u gang Of slaves to Leayen-
worth City a few weeks since, and they will be
followed by another gang about the LIST of Janu-
airy. So our correspondent was informed by a
brother church member Of said preacher, without
note Of surprise or WONDER Tribune.
congregational Home Missionary at Leaven.
worth, Kansas. entrusted letters for the post-ufice
to Il saveholding %neighbor, who carried them to
the Office of the pro.slavery paper, where they
were opened and read in search of unti.slavery
sentiments. The missionary afterwards upbraided
the stakeholder when the latter knocked him down,
bruised him severely, and was attempting to gouge
out his eyes, when some neighbors came to the
rescue and saved him from so great a calamity.
The wounded missionary writes: w live without
arms, and our door is only fastened by a small
wooden pin, but the Lord is on our side-I will not
fear"
The Governments of San Salvador, Honduras
dhu WA plotcot dSdlhet ne ItOoPnltlOu ny
Mr.. Charge Wheeler, of Walkers Government in
Nicaragua.
The Central American governments are all in a
state of excitement, growing out of Walkers pro-
ceedings in Nicaragua. The Washington MteLA-
gencer learns that the Costa Rica militia have been
called forth, being more than five thousand strong.
1t is stated that the Republics of Guatemala, Sal
vador, and Honduras are still in arms, deeming it
necessary for their own safety to go and oppose the
invaders, who evidently threaten all the Central
American States. The President of Costa Rica
has issued a decree against the occupancy of the
national lands on the Atlantic shore.
Francis P. Blair has written a letter to the Re-
publican Association Of Washington, in response
to an invitation to preside over that organization,
taking strong grounds against the extension of
slavery, and urging the Republicans to unite firmly
in an effort to secure the freedom of Kansas.
7. :, eo;I thot hr Whaalarie raoonnition IF tho