Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-08-15

the Fair Ground at Salem on the 9th, 10Th and
llth of September next. X. II. Patterson, Of
Pittsburgh, has been elected President Of the
Board of Managers.
CALL FOR A NATIONAL EMANCIPATION
CONVENTION.
The call for q National Convention to meet at
Cleveland on the 25th inst. to consider the subject
Of Compensated Emancipation. has at length been
issued. The signers are two hundred and eighty
five in number, residents of sixteen different States
including Missouri, Delaware and Georgia. We
reprint the call
The undersigned, belonging to different political
parties, being persuaded that it is very desirable
that some practical and equitable plan should be
brought forward, and by which the people OF the
North may cooperate, in q generous and ~brotherly
spirit, with the people of the South, and share
with them the expense necessary to the extinction
of Slavery, would respectfully and earnestly invite
those of all parties and sections of the Union, who
entertain the same opinion, to meet in National
Convention, personally or by delegation, in the city
of Cleveland, Ohio, on The 25th, Goth, and 9th of
August next there to discuss and develope some
plan of Emancipation which shall fully recognize
the principle and policy of a fair and honorable
compensation to the shareholders for the manumis-
sion Of their slaves.
As no Society has yet been organized in con-
nection with this movement, those desiring any
additional information in reference to the Conven-
ton, may address their communication to Elihu
Burritt, New Britain, Conn.,, up to the Goth Of
August,
ST. LOUIS. Aug. S.-Kansas advices state that
Walker evacuated Lawrence on the Sd, with all
the troops except forty. Fear of Indian attacks
on Fort Riley is given as the ostensible reason for
this step, though it is regarded here as merely q
ruSe to get the troops away:
The vote on the Topeka Constitution stood 652
for, to 2 against.
HORACE MANN, in o recent address, said "We
who live at the West boast of our great rivers of
water. | would much prefer that we should
boast Of using q tubfull of it every day."
The EMANCIPATION FEELING IN Missouri
The majority for ROLLINS in st. Louis, city and
county, where the Emancipation feeling is strong
est, was 1913. The Democrat say:
about thirty-five hundred votes we're not polled,
nine.tenths of which are ultra free soil. Upon n
direct emancipation issue, unembarrassed by any
party antecedents, we may, therefore, in the future,
calculate upon a clear working majority OF four
thousand votes. This is very significant and very
cheering. At the last April election, Mayor
Winner failed of obtaining a clear majority over
both competitors by two or three hundred now
we have carried the city by fourteen hundred and
hrtyJour. This shows the rapidity Of the growth
Of the free soil sentiment within the last four
months and the triumph SO far as it involves q
mere local victory is glory enough for one day."
The Independence Beige of the 11th July says
Madame Fremont has arrived in Paris. Col. Ere
mont is to rejoin her on his return from California,
/, where he is called to superintend the development
of his Mariposa gold lands.
The Hon. William Ballard Preston, of Virginia,
has gone to Europe on his mission to secure the
establishment of a line of steamers from England
to the waters of the Chesapeake. 1t is stated that
: all the railroad companies in Virginia and some in
Kentucky and Tennessee have Joined the move
ment, and that the parties now pledged to the en-
terprise represent a capital of S5O,OO0,OOO
Tue RUSSIAN MILLENIUM.-In five years from
the present date Russia will have attained the age
of one thousand years, an event to be celebrated
by the erection of a monument, for which a SUBJ
s~cription has just been set on foot. The monu-
ment is to be built in the city of Novgorod. and
voluntary contributions in aid of its erection will
be received by government officials throughout the
empire until 1862.
The Paris correspondent of the London Court
Journal, writes as follows
Ellis Excellency Plenipotentiary Mason, having
been reprimanded for throwing his arm round the
back of the Empress Eugenie's chair, is making up
his pack to Hy to some retirement. where he means,
SO says report, to study the afhnities, in order to be-
have better next time"
FUGITIVE SLAVE CASE IN ILLINoIs.-A letter
from Springfield gives the following account of
the rendition of a fugitive slave by United States
Commissioner Cornean:
at seems that Frederick Clements was a slave
belonging to Hiram McElroy, living in Union
County. Kentucky. Frederick had a wife and chill
dren living in Illinois, just opposite Union and
being rather a favored Niger, had and took the
privilege now and then, whenever he felt like it,
of just stepping over into Illinois to see his family,
generally staying as long as he pleased. Tho ne
gro came over on such a visit during the frst part
of June last his family had in the meanwhile
moved up to Atlanta, some fifty miles north of
Springfield, whittier Fred followed them. This
time he made a longer visit, staying until arrested
last week by the marshal.
The Commissioner to-day decided that Fred
must so back to his, master, and has delivered
him into the custody of the agent. The trial went
off quietly; although the negro has been confined
here several days, there has been no excitement
whatever, and scarcely any interest in the case
none except that created by the novelty OF the
thing. Those persons in this and other States who
have The nightmare about Illinois Abohtionists
} will please make q motto of tho fact. Mr.. L. B.
Herndon, one of the claimants attorneys, took the
very strange and extraordinary ground that the
negro had no right to appear in court by counsel,
but it was overruled by tho court"
3 Boston has given up her steam fire engine, the
"Miles Greenwood" as Il failure. Thereupon the
halfway lines proposes u propiem ior tno ih'en-
tors of Boston. Printing presses are driven by
steam. A tea kettle on wheels runs all about to
drive piles. Any body knows that a furnace,
. boiler, cylinder, and cross-head, in a workman
like arrangement, are moro compact than forty
men, easier to wake up, not so soon worked out
of breath, and a great deal cheaper in terms OF
working. The unfortunate 'Miles Greenwood"
worked well, only too well, but alas! it could not
vote. With a steam fire engine, Boston would
need only 100 fremen; and the great political
. advantages of the old system would have been
lost. SO the "Miles Greenwood" is sold. Now
. what is wanting is a steam fire engine which, in
addition to throwing water well, can cast more
f ballots than any hand company. The inventor
who can solve that problem will receive the cor