Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-18

CiNcfNNAri, April ia dispatch from Jack.
son, mississippi, states that 6 inches Of snow fell
there yesterday. The Missouri river is so bigl
that it overdowed at Weston, Lexington and othei
towns, The ice is still solid in Lake Pepin. The
river is open above to St. Paul.
Preparations are making to send 1000 men from
Charleston to the relief of Walker Charleston
and New Orleans contribute $4,000.
The wife Of Horace Mann announces q new work
under the title of Christianity in ne kitchen.
FREE Lovers CONVERTED TO CArnoLrcrsM.-we
learn from tho Catholic Telegraph and Advocate
of the 4th inst, that DIR. I. L. Nicholas and Mary
Cove Nicholas, of Free. Love notoriety, were bap'
tized on last Sunday afternoon, in St. Xavier
Church, Sycamore street, Cincinnati, by the Rev.
Father Oakley, Rector Of the College, having been
duly converted to the Catholic faith. With them
were also baptized n daughter of Mrs. Nichols by
a former husband, and q Miss Hopkins, of the
Yellow Springs institution.
From the following paragraph in the Telegraph
it appears that the spirits were the instruments
that effected these wonderful conversions
at is not a little remarkable shat on either side
of the Atlantic, at the same time, the spirits have
advised their mediums, Mr.. Hume, at Paris, and
DR.. Nicholas and family here, to seek salvation
through the Church. II they are good spirits, we
can easily see the motives of this advice If bad
ones, they are like those who went out of the
possessed, as we read in the Gospel, confessing
Jesus Christ"
DR.. Nichols, in the lame of himself and wife,
has written n retraction of his Free. Love and
Infdel teachings,i in q letter written to Archbishop
Purcell, which is printed. The pith Of the docu.
ment is in the paragraph following:
"In the infinite mercy of Almighty God, we
have been led, by what has seemed to us the direct
and miraculous interposition Of the Holy Spirit
and by the blessed teachings of st. Ignatius 10y
ola and st. Francis Xavier, to the remuneration of
of infdelity, and to the humble acceptance of the
faith and guidance of the Church. In deep humil.
ity and contritlon, we submit ourselves to her
divine order we accept what she teaches, and we
repudiate and condemn what she condemns.
Whatever, in our writings and teachings, and in
our lives, has been contrary to the doctrines,
morality and discipline Of the Holy Catholic
Church, We wish to retract and repudiate, and were
it possible to atone for"
Mr.. SUMNER.-A passenger on the ship which
bore Mr.. Sumner to England, thus writes abou
that distinguished gentleman, from the Oh Coun
try:
The sea.air, and the sea.sickness, Of which las
Mr.. Sumner has had more than his fair share
coupled with the complete rest, have begun theiI
goood work. For seven days he was confined tt
his stateroom, feeble and without appetite. Since
then he has been constantly growing stronger
The abnormal sensation in the brain, spoken oil
Of above, seems to II have entirely disappeared; and
the general nervous system is recovering its natur
al vigor. lie rises from a seat without difficulty,
and walks the deck for ho~urs-sometimes still,
putting his hand to his back-but that, he tells me
is partly from habit acquired during the long time
when the sensibility Of the spinal cord was painful.
This morn o. | was glad to see him appear on
deck without his staff.
Mr.. Sumner has been from tho beginning less
anxious about himself than his friends hat
been. The morale has throughout upheld tho
physique and to this strength of his moral
constitution, as | believe, he and we, under God
owe his life to-day and tho good work which
we trust, he is yet to do.
The great fear has been of congestion of the
brain, which would be brought on if he applied
himself to affairs before the injured organ was
perfectly restored.
Mr.. Sumner tells me that he "now considers
his complete restoration at hand" He looks
forward to much enjoyment in renewing his
early impressions of European scenes. lie will
first 60 to Paris, when his course will be de-
termined by the state of his health, but he con-
fdently trusts that he may be so well that this
consideration will be banished from his thoughts.