Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-12-12
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hitkapoo. The former place has tho misfortune
~ admihlstration eyes, to be a free state town.
WINE the after Is notorious for its pro. slavery
frauds. This removal is pay in hand from Mr..
Buchanan Tor the spurious votes cast there at
the last election. 1t is evidently determined at
head quarters that Kansas shall be a slave state
II executive patronage and the control Of the
land system can effect its. Louis Dem.
CfNclNNATI, Dec. 5.-Charles Stotson publishes
q card in the papers this morning in which he
says that the affairs of the Trust Co are still so
confused that it will be impossible to tell how they
are, although they have been investigating dill.
gently Tor three months,
DouGLAs VERSUS D)uoLAss.-The colored men
oi Chlcago, SO roundly berated by the Illinois
Douglas in his lowllung karangue, have taken IN
cudgeIs IN their own behalf and, in a series OF
resolution call upon him to accept a challenge from
their hampton, the New York Douglass, for the
discussion OF the points at issue between them.
neir resolves are very pointed and explicit, and
viii attract attention, it they do not bring about
the proposed OratOrical duello. We are an xious
that the combat should come of. The parties are
well matched, though our Douglas has the advan'
tage IN being the most mendacious they are both
familiar with the subject. and are both ambitious
OF popular applause. When will they begin p
Chicago Tribune.
The UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. The Syracuse
Journal OF thursday SAYS, thirty-one Messengers
by thus road have arrived ut that city the present
month and have been provided for. Two arrived
on W Wednesday evening. Ono of them as white rs
anybody. and nobody could suspect his African
decent. Io was from Columbia. South Carolina.
lie teQ from a master who owned eight hundred
slaves, because his sister was whipped to death
by him. The other was a native of Alabama. who
had been sold to Virginia. where he escaped.
The drains upon the United States Treasury
lor the last few weeks has removed all appre-
hehs'ohs OF a surplus, and we may therefore ex.
pect Il comparatively short session, there being no
money to quarrel over. The new members Of
congress 1t is said, will probably draw nine
"oh'h $ pay on tie meeting Of the first session
next week. The members Of the House are sala-
RED at 5000 per AMIN. The term of the present
Congress dates frem the 4th March last, and the
CONSTRUCTION put upon the law is. that three
iOurths the fret year of the term will be payable,
II demanded on the commencement Of actual SER
wee, the first Monday in December. IL 80, the
treasury viii be drawn upon at once for $500,
uoo or 5000 600 for this object. One Of the earl
lest acts OF Congress, it is believed, will be to
authorize an issue OF treasury notes, bearing n
nominal interest of say one mill per annum, to
supply the deficiencies in the revenue,
INDIAN SLAVES IN NEDRAsKA.-The St. Louis
democrat says: We are informed by a gentleman
Just from Nebraska. that some Indians are now
held in slavery by a citizen of that place. The
holder OF them is recently from Utah, Were lie
purchased them from the Mormons, where
Indian slavery is one of thu adjuncta of the plu.
rality wife system, and now he continues to hold
mem. Doubtless in conformity with theDrcd Scott
decision.
Two Methodist ministers in North Carolina,
npg lNr,r1. - &c., 49, 49, ~
ciplincd" for indulgence in the game of ten-pins
at the Virginia Springs last Summer. They plea
ded guilty, expressed regret for the act, stated
that they were not conscious of intention to do
wrong, and promised not to dc so any more. The
Conference which tried them, in session at Eliza
beth CITY. accepted the Acknowledgements aud
permitted them to continue their functions.
This paragraph, which is going the rounds of
the press, affords a striking illustration of the
Spurious Christianity of the South, whose devo-
tees, like the Pharisees of old, ..strain at q gnat
and swalloS II camel" Think of a Church which
interposes no objection to the breeding, holding
and selling of slaves by its members, and vet
nrraigns its ministers and threatens to deprive
them of their credentials if thew Indulge in the
game OF ~ten-pins !" What q contrast between the
action OF the Church in the case of these two
and that taken in the case of Col.
Netherland, who had cruelty tortured two helplesr
slaves! Thus do American Christians, like the
H'S so NV tihlc VI L pay utneS oil mint,
anise and cummin. and omit the w~eightier matters
of the law.'---4. s. Standard.
The STERN DEchERs OF GEoRGIA.-Will some.
body please to tell us, and to tell us right Of. what
archie stern DEGREES of Gcorgia?" 1t is impor.
that the public should know, because Gov.
Brown has made up his mind to execute them. lie
SO in his message. He says that Georgia
knows her constitutional rights, and that if the
nggressions of Northern fanatjcism, such as sub.
hitting to the people of Kansas their own
Constitution. rejecting the votes out of the Gin.
;innati directory, in the Oxford district, and SINH.
lar outrageS, are persisted in, he shall put the
country through on the mode pointed out in the
stern DEGREES aforesaid. We have all heard of a
'Georgian costume" What is u Georgian stern
iecre ?"-PrOridehce Journal.
A "SteTn decree Of Georgia"is, we presume. Just.
he same as the "inrinciJie determination" of Mis-.
and both are synonymous with the
fixed reSOtre of Virginia. Jefferson Davis has
recently teen enlishtening the world, as to the
'inctnci6te determination" of his State, in the
went of this, that Or the other action on the part
If the Federal Government. while Governor Wise
has talked, written and dreamed of nothing but
he 'JLred resotce" of Virginia to do diverse and
'undry naughty things in retaliation for other di.
'erse and sundry naughty things expected or an
icipated, from some underlined and unknown
quarter. We think the 'sterh decrees," the ''in.
'lnclDle determinations, and the liked resolves"
erve mutually to ex plain and illustrate each other
as separately or conjointly, they give no very
,recise idea OF their dreadful intent, we are war.
ented in inierring, that they mean just nothing
It all-"sound and fury" signifying-gas.--Pon.
dpd AdCertSer.
REPLEvIN SutT-A WIFE RECOVERING Proper.
Y SOLD by A HUSBAND WHILE Drunk A suit
vas tried before Justice Lane on Monday which
involved the rights of Il husband and wila in the
natter of holding or disposing of property. The
ut was brought by Mrs. Hunt against an auc.
ioneer named John Seelsy to recover some prop
which the latter bought of her husband. while
le was under the Influence of liquor, for very
much less than the real value. The goods were
and a suit for trespass brought against
he auctioneer, in both cases a judgment being
in favor of the woman. The lawyer and
Unstable fees were presented TO the complainant
y the officials entitled to them.
This principle is involved in the Revised Stat.
ties, rage 81, section 26, subdivision 9, but is
ot generally understood. If wives were aware of
he fact that their property canno. be sold by |,
runken husbands. and carried off in spite Of
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