Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-02-16
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WAsnINGrnN. Feb. IL.

WASHINGTON, Feb. IL.
SeNArE.-On motion OF Mr.. Thompson, of Ky, n
resolution was adopted instructihg the committee
ON military affairs to inquire into TIE e5pedieny Of
abol!shing the military asylum at lfarodslurg.
KY, Mr.. Thompson said the old soldiers were not
5 'tisilcd 20 he so far from salt water. where they
could not get Schidam Sclnapps and Irish Whisky.
Mr.. Wilson will speak tomorrow against British
clans in Central America, and will oppose the
Ulnyton-Bulwer treaty, lie opposes Mr.. Stewards
plans as leading to war, and he will offer in conclu-
sion a joint resolution abrogatipg the Claytcn-Brl-
wet treaty.
Mr.. Douglas has arrived, and will oppose the
Administration in its policy upon Central Amer
lea. He advises an alliance, offensive and defen.
siv, with General Walker, rs preliminary TO the
war with Great Brita:i, witch Is about to take place
upon the recommendation Of the President, with
the concurrence of Messrs: Seward, FOoto and VII,
son.
GGADATIoNs or PUNIsnMEHT.-An old friend
writes us from Charleston, South Carolina. on the
3lst utl. lie says that on the day previous there
wsrc four notable cases of drunkenness and disturb
ance in that city. The first was the son and heir of
Il very wealthy man; NJ notice was taken Of his Of
fence. The second was a man in moderate circum-
stances; fined ten dollars and costs. The third VAS
"A poor white man, named James O'Brlen: sent to-
the puor house for one week. Tho fourth was II
Negro rt:med Brutus; sentenced to receive fifteen
Pq1dtes, which, we suppose, means fifteen strokes
with It paddle. In each case, the offence was about
equal. except that the hopeful heir beat a muiatto
wos7an, and broke all the mirrors in the sitting
room. Good for South Carolina justice!
IIrNRT B.. STANTON delivered one IF the regular
Course Of Lectures on Slavery; in Boston, last week.
He reviewed tie Presidents Kansas Message with
that caustic severity which he sc well knows how
to use. 1t does nut appcar from tho reports that
he made any allusion to his former CONNECTION with
the anti-slavery cause; and vet the place and the oc-
ca>ion must have suggested To his mind vivid rem
iniscences Of the scenes Of lS35-G-7-S, when he
was the fnyorite orator Of the AbUlitionists.-A
S. Standard.
KILLED Br \ SLAvE,-On the 10Th inst, Capt.
James II. Robinson, of Bedford county. Va. had
just punished a negro, belonging to him, for neg,
lcct of duty, when the negro struck him on the
head with a hoe, causing his death next morning.
The murderer had not been arrested at the last ac-
counts.
EpucArIoN Is MApYLAND.-Th Baltimore Patri-
OF, speaking Of Education in Maryland says:
The head of every third family through out the
State can neither read nor write. More than ten
thousand men exercises the right of suffrage in
Maryland who are utterly unable even 80 read the
names vi the candidates for whom they vote.
A bill has passed the House, in the Tennessee
Legislature, authorizing that State to purchase five
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of jackson ami thu o~uildings-of the Hermitage,
for $780, 900.
The n. Y. Tribune states that there are, in that
city anumber of bogus Sunday Schools" with a
lar &C number of collectors, who raise from 81 900
to 81 500 each, annually, about ten per centof which
goes to support the schools, and the rest to sustain
II Sc. Of scoundrelly religious operators"
Three men died suddenly at Council Bluffs, Iowa
f-u - 1850 1900. ,rL,l l.-, I'LL .-.A.
the oysters or liquor. OF both, are supposed
to have teen poisoned.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says the Know Nothing
Legislature Of Kentucky have elected to the Office of
q Roman Catholic Priest.
A FALSE REPoRr.-We are glad to learn from the
Washington City american Organ, that the story
set afoat by n correspondent OF the New York Times
President Pierce had insulungly "thrned his =
upon Senator Hale, is fatty contradicted. {
The correspondent Of the Albany 4Has says nc was
present.
The Governor Of Louisiana in his Message recent
y delivered. speaks of the slavery question and an
iciualing continual aggressions, considers the time
or compromise as past, and advises preparations
or the issue. g
The income Of the Ohio State Treasury for 1855, c
ras 1926, 1874, its expenses So ,5l2,484; the State L
indebted $l4,000,000; has coo miles Of navignble :,
ivers, and 800 miles Of canals;-2,I25 miles Of a
railroad, and nearly that number of miles i
rejected and in course Of constructions; and its +
heat crop of the last year is estimated at 30,000,- =
20 bushels, and the corn at $4,000, 900 bushels. =
a resolution asserting that the Missouri Com I
romise ought not to have been submitted to even +
save the Union, has passed the popular branch y
{ the Alabama Legislatuse, by a vote of GO to 26, =
he author of the resolution is the son of the Uni
ID States Senator, who represented Alabama when
10 compromise was passed In 1890, who voted b
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