Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-03-08

A census Of the city Of st. Louis 70 now nearly
completed. The MteiigenceT says the population
is about one hundred and twenty thousand.
Mr.. Hagan. Of the Kentucky Senate, has called
the attention Of that body to the fact that slaves
are constantly escaping from that State, and he
advocates the establishment Of q police force along
the border c0uhtiea.
The y. Y. Tribune learns TINT Col kinney's ex.
petition is horelessly demoralized. There are
about twenty men left, and the majority Of these
are Frustrated with fever. The Colonel himself
gave way to unrestrained intemperance, and only
for the kindness of residents Of Graytown, would
often lack the commonest necessaries oflife. Being
constantly drunk, tie men are always fighting
Wiley Marshal, q notorious Texan bully, murdered
a man named White, and succeeded in escaping to
New Orleans.
TEXAS IrEss.-The Galveston He,old, in men.
tiouing the return Of Col. j. d. Grain, to Lavacca.
from an overland trip to Missipri, Gays he reports
the tide of emigration as truly astonishing, all d-
rected to Western Texas. 500
The Legislature adopted the I'LL donating 10 Mrs
Elizabeth Crockett one league of land--Mrs. {. is
the widow of the hero and martyr Of Texas indie
pendence, Davy Crockett.
According to the returns made from the agen-
cies in Texas, and on Gle in the Indian Bureau at
Washington. the number Of Indians in Texas
amounts to rs 500.
In the year 1854, (says a Russian Journal, SCI
works in the Russian language we're printed in
Russia, ard 45l written in foreign languages
1910 contributions, treating of science and litera-
ture, appeared in the Russian journals. OF print
ing offices there are 10 at st. Petersburg lie at
Moscow and "a in the other cities Of Russia.
Hon. Gerrit Smith was in the city several days
during the last and the present week. He told us
that, on his way hither, lie stopped for q time at
Albany. where he was gratifed on being told that
Mr.. Garrison had recently spoken twice in that
city, to large Audiences, in the Representatives
Hall, and that he made q strong and highly favor
able impression upon members of the Legislature
and citizens who heard him. Much establishment
expressed by many who lad never seen him
before, and whose impressions OF him had been
from newspaper dcnunciation, in view of
his calm, logical and dispassionate treatment of
the slavery question, his entire freedom from every
thing like rant, and the earnestly religious spirit
exhibited in his discourscs-Anh-Si areJy Standard
March Isl.
CovINGToS, KY.-A meeting OF the citizens of
Covington was held on Saturday, at which the in
famous assault on Mr.. Bab5, the reporter Of the
Cincinnati Gazette, was condemned in proper terms,
and a resolution passed that no efforts should be
spared to punish his assailants.
Mr.. Babb is still confined by his wounds.
Female Medical Colleges appear to succeed we'll.
More than q hundred pupils have been educated at
one in Boston, since lS48.
The assessed value Of property in California is!
five millions less than last year. Of this decrease
three millions is in the valuation of property in the
city of San Francisco. .'
S~andusky Bay is entirely frozen over. Last
week Wednesday, a double team and sleigh with
ten fugitive slaves in it, passed over to. Canada
from that point on the ice.
WASHINGTON, March l..
The u. S. Treasurer reports the amountin Treas
ury, subject to draft, at upwards of 500, zoe, 900.
The New Jersey Legislature adds to its peruui-
sites this year, for each member a leather valise,
containing a brace of razors. shoe brushes, fine
tooth combs, needles, bodkin, &c and all the ct
ceteras to furnish a gentleman'q dressing room.
Col. Fremont is now probably the richest man in
the world. The President has signed, with his
own hand, the patent confirming his title to his
rgeat Mariposas land claim-a nice little estate sit
uated about two hundred and fifty miles eastward
~ from San Francisco, containing upwards of sew.
enty square miles. Messrs. Palmer, Cook & Co.,
the California bankers. own one half and Col. Free
mont the other half OF the undivided tract. Col.
Fremont bought this immense gold district in 1876.
for 50 1000, and was laughed at for the recklessness
Of his investment. 1t has already yielded some
S35, 900, 900, and its esources-both mineral and
ngricultural-are said to be nexhaustable.
A New KIND OF SLAVE TRADE,-A letter from
Callao PERU says
The only business transacted at present is the
selling or Chinese slaves, landing from American
and EnoliSl ghiDs. InOuuope ia ino6aouoto col