Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-08-16

of each division of the service, the audience re-
spond "amen" in what sounds exactly like u sharp
quick cultural ugh % and rather s%tartles at first.
All the men wear blue elothing; all the women
blue clothing, with silk caps Of exactly the same
make and material as if moulded. The ceiling OF
The church is arched handsomely, and it also is
painted blue, bright blue. Blue is "tho rage" de-
cidedly.
estimated (pretty accurately the congregation
at 225; the balance Of the near 800 were confined
Mt home by their avocations or by ago and infirmi
ty. There were n few young people, and | even
saw one infant child, whose parents recently join
ed the community, but the average age Of the
members is computed to be now over sixty; and
some are over ninety; SO that death must soon bt
busy thinning out their ranks. | observed very
few lettering steps, but nine-tenths of the mer
were bald, and most Of the others gray; The wo
men look more fresh; some wear wigs.
The evidences OF decline and decay are mani
fest painfully, and teach a sad lesson of morality
Count Leon took away about $50 Of the origina
800, others left at other times, death has rolpcC
many, and less than three hundred remain. Tn,
advance of age and decrease Of numbers corr pel'
q curtailment of OCCUPATIONS. Silk manufacture
is therefore abandoned; cotton and wool manufac
lures ar! confined now to the little winter work
for their own wear; so of tanning and other EN-
Payments. The museum is gone long ago; thoil
music bands are no longer kept up; even in the
harvest fields they must hire help, and reduce the
amount of land in cultivation. They have fifty OF
the finest milch cows | ever saw, and even this
spring Mr.. Baker purchased n five hundred dollar
bull, and eight or nine COWS at two hundred each,
for improved stock: they have also the choicest va
rieties of shanghai and other fowls in thousands;
but of sheep only two hundred for mutton, none
for wool; of hogs about seventy.fvc, which are
bought for fattening and killing alone each year,
as they raise none; OF horses about forty head, for
ploughing, &c. Every dumb animal is kindly ten
ded; all arc as fat MS can be, and neither nah nor
bruit is oyertasked.
The people feel Independent, and care very little
For accumulation ut present; ience they labor reg
ularly, but never hurriedly, and the hotel is mere
ly kept up as a matter of public accommodations
They own some five thousand acres of land, worth
say 500 per acre; add value of town buildings
money, stock, &c they cannot be worth less than
two millions, | believe. They are kind to thu
poor; a house is set apart for INDECENT travellers
where beds are furnished, and supper and break
fast freely given to any ~wayfarer. They have alsC
kindly received several truants, who went abroad
in former times, did badly and returned, like tn,
prodiSal son. The society has some very activ,
members yet; some very ingenious mechanics too
The have within a few years purchased pine Ian,
up the Allegheny, and have a saw mill here, wher
all kinds of timber is sawed ard SOLD to the neigh
borhood. They have a cider mill and press, o
home invention, which will turn out forty barrel
of cider in II day. Grape, currant, and othc
wines are made in abundance, as also beer an
even w~liskey, but drunkenness is unknown anon
them. Tobacco is not used by a single individual
in any way. On the whole they are n happy an
con:ented, and think a really religious people.