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Steam Marble Works.

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Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-04-19
ANOTHER BOOK MUTILATED.

Another act of mutilation by the Publishing
Committee of the American Tract Society has lust
been brought to light. The act was committed
upon that celebrated work, Mdmmon; o., Corefoas-
ness lie Sin Of tie Church, by Rev. John Harris
author Of The Great Teacher and other religious
works. For years the religious public in the Uni.
ted States has been circulating the Tract Society's
edition of that work without the slightest suspicion
that q was not = complete copy, as it purported to
be, of the original. Gould and Lincoln, of Bos-
ton, having published an edition OF the work ia
1887, some one took the pains to compare there
with the edition issued bS the Tract Society, when
the following discoveries were made, viz:
On p. 7S Of the Tract Society's edition, the au-
thor says Of COyetousness, Its history is the
history Of oppression in all ages. For centuries,
Afriea-one quarter Of the globe-has been set
apart to supply the monster with ~yictins-thou
sands At a meal"
IN the Boston edition, p. SO, we read. Its his
tory Is die history Ut SLAVERY and oppression in
all ages. For &c centuries" &c.
Could anything be Reaner than the omission Of
the word slavery" in 4 case like thisg The Atri.
can slave trade the Tract Society could afford to
denonuce, nut slavery, the eourGeO Of that and every
other traffic in human flesh, they s,sared i'm Gsfer.
ence to the feelings of the evan gelical slsvebreed-
ers OF the South But this is not al.
On p. 78 OF the Tract SocietySs edition the au-
thor proceeds 70 describe Ine empire Of s~oyetoas-
ness "And, at this RSment, what a P~opuious and
gigantic Ell pire eIn it boast. tbs mine, with its
unnaterai dradgery; the Eaaaafaetory, with ats
swnrms az sqnalid tsiselys the plantation, the mar
kct, and the exeAansn, with their furrowed and
care worn CONFERENCE.-The are only specimen
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-04-19

Dut. being unsuccessful there, he returned to Vir
however, behind him TIE slave.
woman's daughter (whom we shall call llannnh).
because ct his second wife's extreme jealousy OF
her lie gave free papers at the time to Hannah.
and to a child of which she was the mother. him.
set ueing the father. Hannah thereupon snnyor.
tea herself aud child, was married, and her hus.
bnhd llcd, leaving her q widow with two girls
one ui Item the lawyers child and the other that
OF the deceased. For six years thei eafter she
again supported herself, as well as these two chill
dien, respectably-considering herself and her of.
spring Tree, although aware of an iurormality in
the Tree papers, which were not recorded. Her
former master, visiting st. Louis, was met by her
in the street, and asked to make her papers valid.
which he promised TO do on her calling ON him the
next day. She did SO; bat refusing there to sub.
nit to his infamous desires, he tore up the rapers
and threw her into the slave pen of the CITY To he
sold at auction. Her friends, learning this. cot
out a habeas corpas; and, on the strength of n
written acknowledgement of her freedom in the
masters handwriting, which had been sent her
some years before, and which she had retained.
they were enabled to institute n suit against him
for her frcedUm-a suit yet undecided. The Vir.
glnia master now being affected with an incurable
disease, and his family being in want, his counsel,
as above stated, is willing to compromises: and
hence 500 is asked for the purpose from the be.
nevolent. We have the best assurance that this
is the only safe means of rendering the woman
and children free again, rs the decision Of The
Court will, probably, be against them; and we
earnestly hope that the generosity of this commu
NIFTY may oe prompt and active in her behalf"
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-04-19
HAEPDEN AND-BUCHANAN.

No other country, probably, has furnished 80
many peculiarly ridiculous associations Of names
as our own. The last instance of tho kind that
has come to our knowledge is that which we have
taken as a heading for this article.
Among the very large batch CT Statesmen"
still surviving for our comfort and consolation,
there are few who have made more perseycrinr
efforts to attain that "bad eminence" the presi-
dency Of the United States than the Hon. James
Buchanan eff Pennsylvania. Knowing that an
other presidential election wa, approaching and
that his great merits would be less likely to be-
overlooked if he were at homo than il he remained
in London, he very properly resigned his post to
the Hon. George NJ. Dallas; "they are aH honor
able men,"
But he performed an act even more patriotic than
this;-he found somewhere in England, in the DOS
session Of a private gentleman, zone of the onlg
two original portraits OF IIampden in EXISTENCE
as the newspapers have it. and knowing the una
bated admiration of the American people for oil
who have struck q good blow for freedom ("nig-
gers" excepted he presents it, not to his natiyc
State, Pennsylvania, as almost any other public
spirited individual would have done, but to tho
Congress of the United States, thereby proving.
anew his fealty to this glorious Union" and nc.
curing another claim to the gratitude of the
loyal American people.
Let no one suppose all this was done, at this
particular time without design. The sooner the
American people learn that others besides Louis
Napoleon in the present generation, have read
and profted by the reading of Macchiavelli, and
look upon the mass of mankind as n mob to be
governed, in a despotism by force and fear, in a
Republic-Heaven save the mark!-by fraud and
fattery, the better it will be for them.
The man who priding himself upon his gentle.
manly breeding, can stoOp lew enough to invite.
the professional DULLES of Lancaster, to n drunken
carousal at Wheatland, and who is hale fellow we'll
met with every Tom, Dick and Harry while The,
nomination and election are pending, who visits
the Catholic chapel with his family, in form, and
listens to mass quite like one of the faithful. is
altogether capable IF just such scheming as We
have supposed and is therein not a whit worse than
a vast majority of those personages who are yul.
carly dubbed Statesmen in this country where
the statesman's sole path to power is through SER
Witty to "the hard listed mechanic and sturdy yeo.
many"
Let us be thankful for the portrait Of IIampden,
however, though the means through which it WAS
obtained were unworthy. T..
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-04-19
Gbe Anti glaprrp Bnalr,
SALEM, ONO, AI,RIL 10, 1856.
NOT FANATICAL.

The Cincinnati Gazette has exhibited the mast
season a thorough passion for proving the
Republican Legislature mot fanatical." While
the Democrats have labored most assiduously
and not over truthfuily, to prove that it was
disposed to do nothing but l~egislato for the
ringers" and that at the expense of white men
so far as concerns the large majority of the Legis,
%laturo, the Gazette and its conservative Repnbli.
cans sympathisers are individually right; whatever
OF fana;icism individuals have exhibited, has
been promptly checked and suppressed by staid
Republicans in connection with pro-slavery Demo-
Gratis. Hence the habeas corpus act was shorn of
the vitality and efficiency which the times require
in an act FOR the protection of personal liberty. All
the outrages perpetrated by the Federal Court and
the commissioner in the Cincinnati Slave Case
All the outrages and indignities heaped upon the
the State by Kentucky and through the fugitive
slave law could not rouse the Ohio Legislature to
adopt any measures above the plane of doughfaced
Union saviours. And Of course Mr.. Browns bills
which we published last week were never enacted
INTO laws, and Mr.. Brown never had any expecta-
ton they would be. Nevertheless il was well
they were presented On the whole therefore the
Legislature as a body merits the following damn.
ing praise from the Gazette. 1t says:
Our democratic contemporaries have been busy
predicting that all sorts of ultra and radical laws
would be passed by the present Legislature. In
tins they have been disagreeably disappointed
may be the objectional features of the
laws In the list we publish, we think it will be
found that they are nothing like what it was
predicted they would be. A few days ago the
enquirer said there was nothing but ~"nigger" in
the proceedings of the Legislature; but if it can
discover the distinguished gentleman from Africa.
whose wont 1t is to secrete himself in the fuel, Turk
ing anywhere in these enactments, it must have
very sharp vision.
1t is too true that it will require unusually sharp
optics to find anything in the titles of tho one hun.
area and hity-seven acts passed by the Legislature
which gives any comfort or hope to the colored
man, free or enslaved. Whether the body Of the
passed are different from or better in this par
Iicular than their titles indicate we cannot say.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-04-19

oil It's more mental Offices and subjects" The
passages, as MIR. Harris wrote it, stoed thus: "The
nlne, with its natural drudgery; the mandatory,
with its forms Of squolid misery; the plantation,
WIN ITS iNBRUrED GANGS aud the market and OK
change, with their furrowed and careworn coun-
tenances."
"Ihe plantation with its im6ruted gangs' was a
phrase too rugged for tho delicate stomachs of the
evangelical thimble.riggers of the Tract Society.
IL would offend their masters, the Shareholders,
and 50 it must be omitted
The Independent, while it exposes this vallaiDy
OF the Tract Society, stulti6es itself by admitting
them to be true Christians, worthy to DC reelected
to the Offices they now hold! If orc Of them had
been caught in any variation from the evangelical
creed, it would call for his prompt exclusion from
inc management; but this outrage upon the lawslof
morality, 60 justify which they have covered them
selves with lies as with q garment, it regards as a
iault SO venlal as to constitute no good reason for
them of oficcl We may learn from this
how much worse it is, in evangelical estimation, to
lmbibe heresy of doctrine than to DO guilty of the
neanest piece of k%navery in practice.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-04-19
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.

o. crime, which is robbihg the Savior of his glory,
and without a word Of explanation send forth the
book thus mutllated as genuine Can anything
exceed such conduct in baseness2 1t Is q grievous
wrong inflicted on the whole body of Christians.
1t is wounding the Savior in the house Of his
friends.
1t must not be supposed that the managers Of
the Tract Society have any special love for slavery,
and that their limitations of books will he confined
to that one sui icct. They expunge anti slavery
sentiments simply because slavery is popular, ami
Is tellowshipped 10y the churches.-TLey will pur-
sue the same course toward any other system Of
crime, just as soon rs it becomes fashionable to
justify IT from the Bible, and to receive it to the
Of the churches. Let Utah come into
the Union, and let the churches Of this country
follow the example Of their mission Churches il
receiving polygamists to communion, aud the
Tract Society will purge their issues Of every word
in condemnation Of polygamy just as carefully MS
they now expunge them OF all opposition to slavery.
Let Thuggery or Devil worship become organic
and popular, and be pronounced no bar to chris
tian communion, and men will after that look in
vain into publications of the American Tract SUci-
ETY. for one syllable of dissent from the divinity Of
these denominations. We would not trust the Bible
itself to tho hands Of such publishers, for they
have no principle to restrain them from expurgat-
ing its pages of all their glowing denunciations Of
If they thought they could expurga,e
the Bible without detection, so as better to fit it
for Southern circulation, they would do it in n
If the members Of the Tract Society
sanction the reckless course of their managers,
will be a burlesque on Christianity to speak Of
Society as q Christian Institution.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-04-19
From the Free Presbyterian.
MORE CONTEMPLATING.

The professional coanterfeiters who preside over
the issues of the American Tract Society, have
been &etecied in putting out moro base coin. For
information ON ttais paint see the article from the
Independent on the first page The turpitude Of
these men as far transoends that of the counter
feiter Of money, as the interests of eternity tran =
scend those of time. Yet the one class of counter
feiters Gze sent TO the Penitentiary, while tn other
class sit in the high seats Of the popular churches,
as the very chief Rabbis of the Synagogue. TO
make the slightest alteration 10 the face of n
paary one dollar note is a crime that consigus men
to the dungeon but tohaake the snest serious altera.
ti0as in books of religious instruction, and then
send 'Out the mutilated copy as genuine, is
ne bar to dhr.stian communion" in any large
denomination Of protesting christians in this
land.
We know of nothing more mean and ubiquitous
than this conduct, and ne words OF aeprobation Ser
it are too strong. Look at 1T. A .ehrietian writer
deeply III sympathy s7jth Jesue, doging Whist Ale
leVes, snd hating he hases .so1rs ont his heart
0u the Flowing pagesOf diis Msrks. His words pol
instruction, Of ETgument, Of aexhmtakion. df Sarn.
ing, Of senrregty. Of eunsolsfior and OF strong
chrssSien love, become Che property of an .cLris.
l9ns- Tf,ey eRea s~piratnea oarnsney which, aeircl-
lat1nr aron hsSrt DC aHlut, Gifuss asunl hee1fh to
az and csIsy hope ans cog 70 Ghnnsaanaa, perhaps
tb urlEa JBE- 4 ss@eyEs angxnIasa and Largely
~ds5twSst hY fSse h5slzhtY ID cinssaans iw the
.gTxToe df publishing asadn wuFls. Bet ghose ssn,
urnstssS wiijh rSiD management eli T*e s~dfgigs. adsEb-
isEssdy casassss s0s Nm1s ~ wsaas z @rrcsf, wtnm
lusTrr sssaEsFaN safsGngTloe # 8 gIeaptic system
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-04-19
AN INTERESTING SLAVE CASE.

The Tribune of Wednesday calls the attention
Of the benevolent 70 the following facts, Tue su-
the@ticity Of which It says is Hadoubted. The
Story may weil excite the pnblic indignation against
a system which authorizes and sanctions such in
Justice as it describes.
*'1here are at st. Louis a young colored woman
and her children claimed as slaves-tle case hay-
ing been before the Courts Cor thaee wears. The
counsel fer the claimant, however, now offers 10
surrender them to their friends for a mueh hess
sum Of money than they would bring in the mar
ken, and $50 is wanted therefor. The history Of
this affair is Sc extraordinary frat a brief state
mont OF it mag iHdace the friends Of the oppres-
SET TO raise the Deoossary sum; and any money
sent 10 tie Office ef tie Tribune for tue purpose
wSA be forwarded to the proper parties.
"Ch woman claimed MS a slave came, along
with her mother and some other children, igte the
hands Of t. SirginiG lawyer through 1is wife. The
latter died, having previously given them all Their
~frsedlr; bnt, thrCagh technical irregulnrity in the
aet'Sf frseiRg ahem. the lawyer was enabled to
keep tiiem nc slaves. 4 port sd the family he
sod as slaves and cent to AewU Orleans; bst he kept
the GhOaber lwho IVES the narso Of has cihdrcu)
t dSagitT and a soe- He then wcut to St. Louis,
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-04-19
From the A. S. Standard.
RICHMOND AGRIC ULTURAL FAIR.
To the Editors Of the Standard

have long thought that an Agricultural Fair
in Virginia, which should take due notice Of their
chief crop, Negro Slaves, would be the richest
thing that could be got up. As the Nirginians.
however, totally neglect all reports touching this
great staple, ! have concluded to send you the re-
port which one Of the Committee on Slaves should
have made. The other Committees have not vet
reported. ! do not exactly know whether they
will report. Yours truly, u.s.. c.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-04-19
ASggYxxzT waxE- EIAgEAY RRRRIE-
E58E.

Ens4 az aIfret8- 4knaeasT REsf wzsiE to Tire
4fsns1f,d ID rIie C,Gi~sa If G1-stea1aE. 3sEsr Gnrs-
Lars hy H. q. TfsEExErs Ars Esq., wf xssiRs rm
Ekhrxng remark sals cxlnLd=
HIT. Ssr. we live in a ta1E wtsu< sus s9hd EEs
p~iiilSstl 80 Ellis IL IA t~s greEtslSsie,as aIs mEs
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-04-19

Sohn Little, a fugitive SLAVE, who went iatc the
Canadian woods without a dollar, raised crops the
last year that WILL bring him 50. 400! lie things
he will be able 10 take care Of himself"
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-04-19

PiTrsBURG WATER CuRE.-Our readers are refer.
ed to the advertisement Of the the Doctor Frease,
in our columns, Several of our friends who have
visited the Institution, speak in the highest terms
of the care, attention and'skill with which the ia.
stitutiVH is conducted.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1856-04-25

A learned writer, Deudy, says: DRY
len, to ensue his brillient visions Of poesy
ate raw flesh; and Mrs. Radcliffe adopt
ed the same plan. Green tea and coffee
if we do sleep, induse dreaming. Ba2-
t,s,a Por,a for procureing quiet rest and
pleasing dreams, swallowed horse tongue
after supper. Indigestion. and that cond'-
ton which is termed weak or irritable
stomach, constitute mos, fruitful source
of visions. The intermediate or direct
influence of repletion. in totally altering
the sensa ,ions and the disposition IN va.
king moments, is proof Of il power to
derange the circulation of the brain and
the mental faculties in sleep. People
who are troubled Mi,h Indigestion, may
surely get relief from Hoofand's German
Bit,ers," sold exclusively in this country
by Dr.. C. NJ. Jackson, 100 Arch Street,
Philadelphia, and by his agents. See
advertisement. W IL
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1856-04-25
ssIr THIS IL Political MEETING

.IF THIS Is A PoLITIcAL MEETI NC
LET US ORGANIZE" Said the straight
Wing at church, Fast-day. ''If this is n
political meeting let us organize said the
pag in the Court House on Tuesday, on
seeing the large number of "Mickies" un-
der the direction of member of the Bar
not of Congress-flling up the ante
rooms and good share of the Court room
while being made into Am crican citizens.
What farce One Irishman swearing to
the good character of another and swear
ing that his bro. Irishman is ''well dispos-
ed to our laws and that he is of ''temper-
ate habits and Of "good moral charac-
ter! An officer remarked, while these
worshippers at the shrine of Bacchus and
of spurious democracy, were in "tran-
sition state" that he had in his hands
during the year Warrants against num-
bers of them for violations of the law of
the land.
Let American citizens ask these qncs
tons. of the prime movers in this mat
ural naturalization farce Are these per-
sons intelligent: Are they men of good hab-
its7 Dothcy understand what it is to be an
American citizen, and feel its response
bili,ies and know its duties! Did these men
of their own free will ask for this boon
Can they exercise the privilege of voters
intclligen,ly: Who furnished the money
to pay the fees. And can they read a
vote when put into their hands next fall
by the officials of corrupt and debased
party.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1856-04-25
April 22d. l $50.

HoHonays Pills. the most celebrated
Remedy in the Union for the cure OF DIS
eases of the Liver and Stomach Ed
mund A ga, Of Cooperstown, New York,
was for the period Of nineteen years
complete misery to himself, and burden
10 hi, friends he Suffered so severely and
continuously from liver complaint, and
a disordered stomach. that he was con-
s,auty Tor weeks together confined to his
he'd. The doc,ers did him no good. aud
he therefore loft off consulting them.
Nine weeks ago he commenced using
IIolIoway's Pills, and his wife called last
week nj the sore Of Professor Holloway S
pills. to acknowledge most gratefully
that her husband is quite cured. Protes'
or Holloway hopes that the thouaand
others IN she Union who have been bene-
fitted will now come forward.
VIRGINIA ENroRcING THE RiGHr OF
Sg,rcH.-The schooner Maryland OF
New York. on Monday, was seized IN
Hampton Roads and brought into Nor
folk with the officers and crew. The
master of the Maryland refused to pefmi,
the authorities to search his vessel for
slaves, in compliance with the statute
lately enacted. A company OF military
were sent after her, and the master and
crew are IN prison. 'Grea, excI.emen.
exists hero" says the despatch from | AT
las.
NJ the Committee on Commerce IN
the U. S House Of Representatives, have
reported bill for steamer 10 be sta.
toned at New York as a revenue cuttur
aud for the purpose Of af>rdlng relief to
distressed vessels.
The new liquor bill wen, into operation
on Tuesday, the 18th, at the same time
that the act declares the repeal OF the
previous law. No licenses can be grant
ed uu,ll the FIRST Monday in May. OF
course no liquor will be sold ui'hout IL
ceaSe.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1856-04-25

Ev We received by the c ali'o-nia
mail letter from our friend Jordan from
which we make the following extract:
am here among the Mountains IN
Calaveras County, Cal. where have bat
little chance 10 mtng'e III political warfare
and on this account, much regre. my alb
sense from home where the aid Of one,
aad all IS so much needed. Business IS
quite dull here; not for want Of u chance
TO work however, but for labor thai Will
pay. The g1lches have ben pretty
thoroughly worked over aud It's only III
she Mountains by means Of SHIFTS sunk
deep, or tunnels run into them that the
Majority uf Americans are looking for
the richs deposit. A vas! amount OF
labor is thus lost, and the man with small
means is broken, prospecting them al so
great an expense. SO far as | have be-
come acquainted with the doings of Miners
in this locality, "and it is considered a
good one they are no. as body Of men
averaging one dollar per day, net gain.
Still the big strikes made OCCASIONAL! BY
some lucky wight, prompts his fellows to
persevere in the hope Of being equally
successful
The raising of wheat aud bafioy on the
plans is being engaged into great extent
and promises the surest return, for the la.
Dor and capital employed of any business
The ease with which land can be prepare
and sowed, the certainty of crop OF from
30 10 40 bushels to the acre and the lie
lighlful weather which they are sure to
have to harvest in, makes IL a pleasant as
well as -emuneratng business. Eight
cen hundred bushels Of barley were
raised from 63 acres Of land adjoining YIN
brothers Rauch and this too, from the
seed which fell from the crop Of :he year
before They merely harrow the ground
over aud cali it, volunteer crop. OF these
things perhaps you are as well acquainted
as myself.
With best wishes for your success and
The cause III which you are engaged.
lam Yours Truly.
l.. D. JORDAN.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1856-04-25
SPECIAL NOTICES.

DIR. STONES LIQUID CATHARTIc.-
Somebody says that the Americans "con-
sumo" more medicine than any other ma
ton in the world and the assertion is un-
doutedly true; for, besides supporting an
army of physicians-''regulars" and
"quacks we swallow every kind ofnos-
trum that is put into the market, no mat
ter whether it comes from a wise man o
fool There are, however, several stan
dard medicines, which, the longer they
are used, the more popular they become
and among this number. we know ofnonc
that so well enjoys the confidence of the
public as DR.. Stones Liquid Cathartic.
1t is particularly recommended for rheu-
matism, neuralgia, pains in the head. side
tomach and the various prevalent diseases
of the summer and autumn months; and
especially is it used for the eradication OF
humors from the blood. American Cit
izen, lowell. 2m6