Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-08-22

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all statements declare that this esculent during the
present year is more than ordinarily good and
prOnising-a fact, the importance of which can
hardly be o%yerrated. The Improvement in the
physical condition of Ireland within the last few
years is highly gratifying,dnd the progress towards
material prosperity continues to be uninterrupted
The Chicago Democrat states that eight hundred
persons and firms in that city have paid the liquor
license at $50 each, making 4 revenue Of $4,000.
And the city ia reaping a bountiful harvest of
crime, as the result of this Internal way of filling
the treasury. Great is rum, and drunkards are its
profits.
1t is stated that 1900 people assembled at Brad
shaw Crag, England, to hear Neal Dow advocate
prohibition.
More MISSISSIPPI SLAVES MANuMIrrED.-Jeau
Il, Sheddin, of Natchez, Miss, yesterday manu-
mitied by his attorney, Thos. NJ. Key Esq, at the
Probate Court, Cherry, a mulatto woman aged
~foty.two. and Daniel and Richard. her children,
aged respectively nineteen and seventeen years.
AS usual, they are largely tinctured with Anglo
Saxon blOod.--Cin Ga. dug. Is.
The PoTATo CRoP IN IRELAND.--The new potato
crop is causing some anxiety in Ireland. Froui
All the midland counties the reports are decidedly
favorable, both with respect to the yield of the
crop and the absence OF disease, and even from the
interior portion Of the country the accounts are
comparatively satisfactory. But there is said to be
no doubt whatever that the rot has appeared in
marked and yirulent form throughout an extensive
district along the coast of the south. The accounts
from! other parts Of the country concur in present
ing the crop as healthy and Avurishing.
FATAL EXPLOSION OF A POWDER MAGAzINE.-
HALIFAX, Friday, Aug. Ii, 1S57.-The Merchants
Powder Magazine, containing the whole stock Of
powder in Halifax, exploded with a terrific con-
cusslon shortly after midnight last night. One
man was killed and fifteen others were seriously
injured. Five houses were demolished and several
damaged. The Government Magazine and the
new Barracks were much shattered, and nearly
all the windows in the northern part OF the city
were broken. The damage is estimated at $780,
900. The magazine is supposed to have beer fired
by an incendiary. For hours the excitement was
Intense. Many persons had been thrown from
their beds, and others 6ewildered, rushed to the
streets for safety, believing an earthquake had &C.
Cured.
A JEST WORTH THE TELLING. 1T is we'll known
10 our readers that there appeared in the Sunday
Itmes some two months since a very full report of
Gen. Walkers speech, delivered the previous eve
Mug on the neutral ground. The editor OF a jour
nal that shall he nameless, not having printers in
his pay sufficient to set up material to fill his PAPER
called upon us u day Or two afterwards, and asked
us AS a favor to loan him my Of our undistributed
matter that would occupy his uuatenanted columns.
We readily acceded to his request, and furnished
him with Gen. Walkers speech, and the Rev. DR..
SCOTS article on the Efficacy of Prayer, which he
had been kind enough to send Us from San Fran.
cisco.
By some strange accident the political speech
and prayer became welded together in the pages
of our contemporary, SO that the readers were led
to infer that Gen. Walker, in the midst Of his frey
address, became suddenly pious, and held forth i'll
%prayertul tones worthy of the Rev. DR.. Scott
The one was SO beautifully dovetailed into the 9th.
err, that an ordinary person might be easily de,
ceiyed.
Yesterday morning we received, among our ex-
changes, a religious paper Of great authority
with u certain religious sect, which copies the
interpolated prayer. and supplies its readers with
an editorial on the subject. The editor avows his
r conversion to Walkers Nicaraguan doctrines, as
ne gathers from the hero's speech unmistakable ev-
idence that the Generals peculiar mission is to
Protestantize Central America. This is not the
first time that men have been supposed to SOW with
grapeshot the seeds of the gospel.-M. o. Sunday
Times.
There is no longer room to doubt that the New
Constitution Of Iowa has been ratified and adopt
ed by alarge majority of the voters, in spite of
the desperate efforts Of the Slave Democracy to
defeat it by raising the cry OF Niger" The
vote was light-the people being intensely busy
with their harvest-and we presume the Dem
ocrats have carried their County Officers in a
majority af the Counties.
bEAD1lEADs.-l Hc hIle anu SeElTul nhltEuh
Companies have lately paid a very high compli-
ment 70 the press by disseminating all free passes
to editors, while they continue those to members
Of the New York Legislature, The railroad com
panies have found that they cannot make tools Of
editors, even by the dead-head system but that
nothing more is necessary to subsidise their Legis-
latures than to grant passes to the members
Hartford COuraRk.
BosToN, Aug. IA.
A tornado passed through Reading and vicinity
yesterday, destroying orchards, dwellings, out
buildings, &C., and doing great damage to the
crops. No lives lost.
GREE SUFrRAGE."-The people of the State of
North Carolina HAYS voted by a large majority in
favor of the proposed amendment of the c%onstitu-
ton, allowing qualified voters for members of the
. House Of Commons to vote also for Senators.
A NEGRO IN JAIL BURNT To DEATH.-We
learn says The Columbus Sun, that the Jail at
y Crawfordyille, Tallinferro County, Ga, was de-
a stroyed by fire, on Sunday night la st. 1t was a
= strong wooden structure, built mostly with logs.
A negro confined in one of the rooms of the pris-
on, was burnt to death. Opinion is divided as to
the cause Of the fire. Some persons believe the
c negro Nho was burnt up set fire to the Jail, and
others think that the fire was communicated by
some incendiary outside the prison walls.
y Effort was made to rescue the negro from the
9 flames, but the fire was so rapid in Its progress,
and the building so strong, that bars and axes
S could not force an opening soon enough. The Jail
er, with the keys of the jail, was in a remote part
of the village.
e The Knoxville Wing is confident that East Ten
> nesssee will be able to sell two millions of bushels
s of wheat the present season. The farmers in the
u counties tributary to Hickman are likely to real
a ize a million of dollars from their wheat crop
alone.
The Chicago Tribune says there is an unusal
mortality among the children of that city at the
present time.
d Miss II. G. Hosmer arrived in the Canada, from
y Liverpool. She has been absent in Rome the last
J five years, pursuing the study of the art of sculp-
ture.