Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-07-18

FRuGALtTY AMONG rnE NEGRots.-In The found
cry OF Gaty, McCune & Co, Mt 81. Louis, among
its two hundred and seventy operatives are tvs,
negroes who began life at the establishment in
lSly as slaves. by dint of %un1agging industry
IN que course vt time one of them bought him.
sell. vile and five children, paying for himself
SIlOo, ana on an average for wife and children
SoVU ehc,, This negro is now supposed to be
worth IN his own right more than S., 900 in real
estate in that city. Another negro entering the
factory about the same time, amassed sufficient
money ny his attention to duty to purchase him
sell at The price of 81 500, his wife ut $500, and
Tour children at $500 each, and is now worth
So'OOV IN real estate. These negroes were bought
from their masters by Nh. GRAY. with the under
standing that they should work themselves free.
ana gu. OF his own pockets he gave two per cent
interest on the deferred payments. The children
oil poth are receiving an excellent education at the
pu bile schools of st. Louis.
Liberla in commercial Importance is rapidly ad
vanclnS' The expectation of Palm oil had risen
IN INC remembrance o? President Benson,
from i y than 200 barrels per year to more than
i,uVu'VVV' Natives in tho interior manufacture
miiiions Of pounds Of native cotton into cloth,
ana IT'S thought that a few years suitable en-
couragement would bring it to the coast for sale.
Large tracts of land on the st. paui's river have
Deen Plattcd with sugar cane, and n steam sugar
m''i is IN operation, which cost about $4,000, and
announcer large one worth Sc, 600 is on the way out,
both me property of black planters.
McEll brothers (colored) Of MonrOvia, have re-
mit'ea nearly $4,000 to Baltimore for the purpose
OF building u schooner of 100 tons for the African
coast trade. and purchasing her cargo. She was
named the Moses Sheppard, and recently safely ar
rived out, after a pleasant and rapid run. By the
annexation of the colony at Cape Palmss to tho
hepuollc oil Liberia, The latter has now d sea coast
equalah length to that from Portsmouth N. H., to
Noriolk' Va, and contains about % 400 square
mics : amply sufficient to produce tho necessaries
OF i,,e 10 the whole colored population of the Unit
New ScnooL GENERAL AssENpLY.-Tl1e Due
,'est Telescope, of $. c., "a telescope that looks
que south rather than due West,) has cspied u
great ueal more than some Of its Northern Presby-
terrain cotempo1arics in the recent action of the
New school Assembly. 1t says:
mus the agitation goes on and thus another
OF the chains that bind together the states of the
Union has been severed . and Tins link after l;nk
VIII DC broken, until the Union will be dissolved
by mutual consent Of the North and Of the South"
Inc Bdhncr Of Peace Cumberland Presbyterian
invites the Southern Sccessionists into its own de-
nomination. 1t says:
III they could put up with our free grace, why
Dot JON the Cumberland Presbyterians? They
could thus quiet themselves of slayery-the mael.
strom IN their seas-and sail with us on our placid
ana hopeful voyage, laden with the bread of life
for the destitute and furnishing overywhere."-
Free Presbyterian.
RELIGIOUS DEsrITUTIoN, but NO PoLITIcAL
PREACnING.-A Southern correspondent of a re.
ligious newspaper published in New York, writ
ing from Texas, says that the state of religion in
that region is very low, like q tide that has eJbed.
The correspondent remarks
MOT more than one.sixth of the inhabitants of
Austin and its vicinity ever 90 to a place of wor-
ship INT arc hare no political 1Jcaching."
One would be apt to think that the Gospel, with
the omission of the offensive part here indicated,
would be so attractive to the people of Austin that
they would flock one and all to church every Sun
day. But can it be possible that the Gospel may
be too closely pruned and trimmed to flourish even
in the soil OF the sunny South Free / Presbyterian.
A BEAUTIFUL SLAVE DooMED.-A slave woman
is advertised for sale in St. Louis so beautiful that
$4,000 have been offered for her and refused
Wherefore this extraordinary price? Is this, in
deed, a civilized, "a christian country?
Gsr. Marcy leaves n widow, q daughter, ant
two sons. Mrs. Marcy was at her sisters in Roch
ester when Mr.. NJ. died. The daughter was will
friends in Troy; and one of the sons in ,he Navy
and the other in California.
Judgement for s., $500 has been rendered in
the Superior Court of New York against Fernando
Wood Mayor of New York, on a charge of forgery,
Justification of accounts.
BY the year two thousand, it is probable that
labor will have utterly ceased under the
sun, and the occupation Of the ad~ Elective hard fist
ed" will have gone forever. They have now a po-
ta~to-digging machine, which drawn by horses down
the rows, digs the potatoes, separates them from
thp dirt and lOQls them into tho cart wlila tho
owner walks alongside. whistling, with his hands
in his pockets.
Mr.. FoRNEY, the Democratic Editor, not having
in purchasing the Philadelphia Penn-
will issue a new Democratic paper in
that city before the close of the present month.