Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-11-10

AbrLTERA1rr ASD corNTErrE!T Cas- tDtAN FLOR.
--Slne weeks ago tn .NJAAcR Cm-ib contained
The following statement made by a farmer.
There Is at least lalf a bu,hel Of plaster Of
lan' IN every lartel Of Upper Canada -four from
thc--m'lis, and thai inspected by Mr.
as second quality. Mr.-. n baker iu--,
n fortnight ago returned twelve barrels out Of
twenty to some Montreal merchant, that con.
tanned SO much plaster he could not make use Of
them"
a mile commenting IN this in the Toronto Cloie
tells q story Of fraud which we hope7cannot bo told
OF any -four dealer south Of the St. Lawrence and
the Lakes. lie says;
1T is, or n; least ought to be, generally known
that there are numerous dealers in -four and mill
ondl at Y icbe'. Kingston, Coburg. Toronto, aud
Hamilton. who,c business it is to buy up the empty
barrels OF such mills as are considered tie manu-
iacurers OF the best quality Of -four. Into these
barrels with the original mill.brnnd upon them,
is packed -four Of the most inferior quality they
can purchase and il il quite possible that these
same dealers, owing to the high price Of -four,
may have been tempted to adultorale the four.
lhe Wharhngers Of the port could, ] doubt not,
testify to the trnth of what | state, as large guam
ntics OF what Is known "a inferior farmers -four
is bought and packed up in storehouses, and no
doubt elsewhere throughout the city. ! have even
known the best quality Of -four made at
mills taken out Of the barrel and replaced with
hour little better than good shorts. This | have
known done in Toronto; and there are still
men III Toronto who practice and make q living
by such a course, and | have no doubt the same
thing is practised in oil the other places named"
NORFOLK NEWSPAPERS REsuurD.-Two of the
Norfolk ~papefs-the 1rgus and the H,ral1, have
re-apneHred after q suspension of several weeks.
Eacn has a review of the terrible scenes of Yellow
Fever through which the city has passed. The
Argus says:
We have seen our lately Furnishing mart reduced
to the scanty number of four thousand souls. In
the short space of less than ninety days, out Of an
average population of about six thousand, every
man, woman and child (almost without exception)
has been stricken with the fell fever, and about
two thousand have been buried, being not less
than two out Of three Of the whites, and one out
of the three Of the whole abiding community Of
Norfolk, white and black. One half of our own
physicians who continued here are in the grave,
and not less than t~hirty-six physicians, resident
and visitant, have fallen in Norfolk and Ports
mouth.
THE Works or Moan WrDsrER.-It is supposed
that with the exception Of the Bible, the lexico-
graphic works of Noah W ebster have the largest
circulation of any books in the English language.
Nearly twelve hundred thousand copies of Web
ster's Spelling Book were sold by one firm in this
city last year, and it is estimated that more than
ten times rs many are sold Of Webster's Diction-
aries as OF any other series in this country. Four
ffths of all the school books published in the L.
States are said to own Webster as their standard.
The State Of New York has placed 10000 copies
Of Webstcr's Unabridged in as many of her public
schools. Massachusetts has, in like manner, sup
piled 324S of her schools; and Wisconsin aud New
Jersey have provided for all their schools.-N. T..
Commercial Adre9tiScT.
IIo, FOR THE NoRTu SrAR!-On Thursday last
Il smart, active, intelligent. small black boy, made
his appearance in this meek of woods" lie had
in his possession a pistol, in which powder and
lead were deposited for safe keeping, perhaps
No man, white or black, could induce the smart,
wary boy, by coaxing, fattery or otherwise, to let
the pistol pass from his hands. And yet this boy
wns a sample of Georgia Property. His father,
guided by the North Star had passed out Of the
land of bondage, ard with other members of his
family had sought safety from Democratic freedom
i'll the United States, in the Monarchical realms of
QueenNictoria. This boy, was, for some unavoid-
able reason. left behind on the way. lie reached
RavenIfa in safety, and a gentleman, resident not
a thousand miles from Ravenna, taking the cars
on Thursday afternoon at this station, for Cleve-
land, on his way to Detroit, not having the fear Of
the Fugitive Slave Law before his eyes, took the
brave boy in charge, promising him safe convoy
to the ferry-boat plying between Detroit and Wind
sor.
In the paws of the Lion and the Unicorn, the
lad is now safe from the Democratic Bird of Lib
erty ~ ooh shame, where is thy blush ?'-I1r-
tNyt Dt"toCIut, 4NOC' T..
Eighteen newspapers are published in Minneso-
ia, though it contains hut G0,OC0 people. This is
an average of nearly one for every 5000 persons.
According to the same rate, Ohio should. have
about six hundred and eighty.
From the first of January to the first Of August
there were three hundred and twenty murders and
lynchings in California.
The Newark IN. j. Mercury credits the quota
tion-"A babe in the house is a weltspring Of
pleasure" to the Bible. What will MARTIN FAR
QUER TuPpER say to that?
The N. O. Delta says that in more than 5000
cases during the present season, innoculation for
the yellow fever has been tested, and with entire
success.
Thclosses on the Lakes, during the past month,
will not fall short of one million dollars.
A project has been started in Buffalo to con
struct a tunnel under the Niagra river.