Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-01-20

some Of them, ~excitedly opposing him, fearing that
he is more Of a Free Soiler, than one Of their
class.
KNowNoTnINofsM IN CALIFoRNiA.-T Superior
Court of California has refused to naturalize q
Chinaman who applied for papers, on the ground
that the Chinese were not 'Ohite persons, within the
meaning Of the naturalization laws.
THE ROCHESTER ANrI-SLAvETY FAIR received
twelve hundred dollars as the result Of its
sales.
The SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL Convention assem-
bled in New Orleans on the 10th inst. Gen Lamar
of Texas was appointed President
SENATOR N oRRis of New Hampshire, died at
Washington last week Of disease of the heart.
Mr.. Norris was one of the northern s%ervile politi-
sions. Freedom has sustained no loss in his 6e-
p%arture.
ALABAMA.-A meeting was called at Montgom-
cry, Ala, on the 10Th inst, to form q state Agri-
cultural Society.
MAssAcnUsErTs ANTI SLAVERY SocIETY.-The
Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts, Anti-Sla-
very Society takes place on the 25th and Goth inst.
Powers statue Of Washington, executed for the
new Louisiana State House, arrived at New
Orleans from Leghorn on the I'd inst.
gS5~ Mr.. Mason, American Minister at Paris, is
reported to have had a stroke of paralysis.
Six hundred and eighty-two murders were COM
mitted in the United Statea in 1854, and sixty-four
executions took place.
Resolves have been introduced into the Illinois
Legislature, instr ucting the Senators from that
State to vote for the restoration Of the Missouri
Compromise. We hope they may pass.
George Sand, for the History Of her Life" now
in course of publication in a Paris paper, has been
aid G5, 200.
The immense frame of the line of battle ship
New York, has been in the ship house at the Cos
port navy yard for thirty years, and is likely to
stay there for 30 years longer.
1t is said that Gertrude, the original of Camp
BELLS - Gertrude of Wyoming" is alive and still
beautiful.
DEATH OF Mr.. SicoUkNEY.-Mr Charles Sigour-
ncy, the husband of Mrs. l.. Ii. Sigourney, the po-
etess, and an old and highly respectable citizen Of
Hartford, died in that city ON Saturday afternoon,
very suddenly OF a%poplexy.
The Rockingham (Va.l Register says, "Our old
friend frederick Keister, OF PendletOn county, has
devoted much of his time to hunting in the NOUN
tains Of his native county. He is now in his SSth
year, and has killed during his life one thousand
deer, ten elk, three hundred bears, thirty ~panthers
and t~tty-three wolves"
"TnE Army OF VANITY."-Such is the very I'M
gallant term applied, in the 'llousenold Words, y
to the two hundred and sixty-seyen thousand and
ninety-one milliners and dressmakers. reported in
the English census,
George, a slave, and sentenced to be hung for
arson, committed suicide in the Louisville jail by
hanging himself. Though heavily ironed and
handcuticd he cuntrivcd to tear up his blanket,
and make a rope by which lie put an end to his
life.
Rev. JAMES HARLAN, Wing Free Soiler, has been
elected United States Senator from Iowa, to sue.
coed \. e.. Dodge, whose term of service will ex-
pire with the present Congress. This is another
Nebraska settler.
TIE UNITARIAN SEcT.-From the Unitarian Reg
lister for the year 1854. we learn that there are IN
the United States 53l Unitarian minister, of whom
~ are without settled ministry. There are 352
Unitarian congregations, OF which l64 are in Mas
sachusetts, IL IN Maine, 10 in New Hampshire, Is
in New York, 9 in Illinois, 3 in Connecticut, 4 in
Ohio, 4 in Rhode Island, ) in Pennsylvania, and 3
in Vermont.
Mr.. Eames, the member of the Massachusetts,
Legislature who, in Il recent debate, said that to
elect Theodore Parker Chaplain to the Leg isla-
ture would disgrace the State" has published a
card in the Boston papers, in which he says that
he did not oppose the election Of Mr.. Parker be-
cause Of his opposition to the Fugitive Slave Law,
for in regard To that law he agrees with Mr.. Par
ker; but he opposes him because the religious
feeling of the State would be outraged 'by elect
ing rs Chaplain II man who Is not recognised by
any denomination Us n minister OF Jesus Christ"
NEGRo-HIRING IN VIRGINIA.-Negroes, for this
year, says The Richmond Penny Post, have, as
usual, commanded high prices. Men reached
Sl25, and, III some places, higher rates. Women
OF the best qualifications have brought as much rs
so. Boys and girls at proportlonally high rates.
The TirginiaH says: "Slaye labor is not cquGl to
the demand III this portion Of the valley, and its
value has increased with the price OF produce and
its constant drain to the plantations of the
South"
ELIHu B%uRRIrr, the well-known philanthropist,
has issued the first number Ut Il magazine, called
The Citizen Of tie World, of which he has assum-
ed the editorial charge. The periodical is devoted
to the principles with which the name Of the edit
or is identified, and will aim at an impartial view,
in the light of human brotherhood, OF the institu-
tons and enterprises which affect the common wei
fare of nations rs individual being. 1t is to be
published monthly by George W.. Taylor, Philadel-
phia.
The business of giving away public lands was
pursued last year with unusual activity. The
whole amount disposed of was % 5000, 900 acres, OF
which no more than 900, 0OO acres were sold tol
cash, and about 100000 acres were entered with
t bounty land warrants, leaving as the absolutely
given away without consideration, 100000 acres
This is simply robbery, under the disguise of do
nations for public purposes. We may or may moi
believe that the general government is the bes'
custodian of the public lands for the general gooc
: Of the Union, hut no man can doubt that, if they
l. are to be given away, they ought to be distributed
upon some honest system protesting the real OBJ
Iiect in view, and securing to each State its proper
tionate share.
:. PErRIrIED WHEAr.-Mr. Park, of the Luminary
SAYS he picked up on the Blue river, in Kansas