Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-08-01

GREAT THEOLOGICAL NsT1ToFfO&-- the las
Southern Convention of Baptists. ihe establish
.ment Of n Theological Institution for all the SJutl
was urged, and on II broad foundation. South CiroII
ma Baptists have offered $780, eco toward the enter
prise, if the denomination in other State will iaiSC
"a much more. The proposition has been accept
ed, and the institution located ut Grocnyillc, y. o.
is expected to 90 into operation about a year hence,
1t is intended to be n first class institution IN all
respects.
OREGON TO RE A SLAVE STATE.-A writer in the
New Orleans Delta says:
Oregon will be the next slave state. was In
the whole political campaign, and nothing but
slavery seemed to be the go. Mark my word, her
constitution will DO adopted with the slave clause,
1t is a ono.sided question. The inhabitants are all
Missourians or Kentuckians, and 60 their death on
the old issues"
WEALTHY CoLoRED PEorLE.-Thc New Orleans
Crescent says, that the free colored population Of
that city are possessed Of property to the amount
OF S 10000 900. Professor Monroe calculates that
there are. 1000 colored people in Ohio, and that
they have SG,OOO,O0O worth of property, on which
they pay annually 100000,
Among the acts Of the Southern Commcrcinl
Convention, held in Savannah last year, was The
appointment Of n committee of learned men to
meet together to prepare text books for the use OF
students in Southern Schools and Colleges. The
President Of the Convention, the Hon. James
Lyons, of Richmond. promptly and seasonably
published n card, which was copied in all the
Southern papers, converting tho members in Co.
lumbus, S. c., on the 18th of May last; but the
Norfolk Argus says, tive feel mortified to have to
record that not a single member of the committee
attended"
IT Is stated by the Alta Californian. on the au-
thority of miners, that more than SIS, 100000 Of
gold now lie buried beneath the earth OF that
State, secreted solely for safe keeping.
The Lehigh, Pa, Register says tho first engine
used in the United States is in the neighboring
town Of Bethlehem, and still in working order.
1t was built in London, in 1859, and shipped to
Philadelphia, where it was in service many years.
AN ABoLlTroNIsT Press REMOVED FROM Texas
The citizens of Wood county, in the northern
part of Texas, being disguised with the course of
a paper published in Quitman, called the Free
Press, held q meeting, and passed resolutions re-
the reports in circulation that they were
abolltionists, and calling a mass meeting to decide
whether the Free Press should continue to be pub
llshed, or removed. as n nuisance. They decided
to destroy the office, and gave Winston Banks, its
editor, aud his friend Mr.. Lemon, twenty.four
hours to leave. The citizens carried out the reso-
luton, aud Banks and Lemon left in less than the
time specified.
In Hancock, Berkshire County there was not a
single marriage during the years 1854 and 1855.
The town numbers SIS inhabitants.
Col. Titus is again to she'd his bonignant infu-
ence in Kansas. The New Orleans Delta says
by a private letter we learn that Col. Titus is
about to depart for Kansas. lie complains bit
terly of the injustice done him by the Nicaraguan
correspondents, and declares his intention to make
good his reputation for bravery, if occasion arises,
in that territory. "The northern abolition papers"
he says, will have enough to do to keep track of
me-"
PiTTsDURGH, Fort WAYNE & CHICAGO Road
The first year of the consolidated road is drawing
to a close, and the gross revenue of the year will
reach 1900, 900, considerably more that was esti-
The estimate for next year was fixed
some time since at two millions but the receipts
Tor the present year having been SO lattering, this
estimate will prove too low.
The Company will, on and after August 18th,
pay 6 per cent. in stock, on all its stock for the
year ending July 1st.
Rev. T. A. Ross, pastor of the Presbyterian
church in Huntsville, Alabama, has published a
counterblast to the "Declaration of Independence"
in a york from his pen, entitled slavery Ordained
of God" The Boston Transcript says that if the
public reports respecting DR.. Ross are correct, and
like the offspring of other slaves he had followed
the civil condition Of his mother, he would have
been o bondman himself.
HUNTING FUGITIvE SLAVES AT CAIRo.-On Sun
day morning q party of Missourians, supposed to
be near fifty in number, came over from the Mis-
souri, shore to search for fugitive slaves-some ten
or fifteen chattles having recently escaped from
that part of the State. They surrounded and
searched several negro cabins, but at length the
free negro residents, excited by their threats and
insulting language. determined to permit no fur
Their search, without n warrant, and offered deter
mined resistance. | could not ascertain which
party fired first, but a number of shots were ex-
changed, and a Missourian by the name of Wilson,
had his jaw blown off. Three of the Missourians
have been arrested-among whom is the ferry
man who brought them over. They will be tried
here this afternoon. There is great excitement in
town about it--a large number of citizens taking
sides with the Missouri slave hunters. The slaves
but had passed through there on their way North,
Gin. GazeHe. July 9Th
SOUTHERN VIsIToRs.-The travel from the South
this summer is almost unprecedented. In oppo-
sition to the resolves of conventions and action of
politicians down South, their sensible people will
come North in pursuit of enjoyment. The hotel
books show great numbers of our best Broadway
hotels are almost mOnopolized by Southern fami-
lies. One reason is that they encounter fewer bed
bugs than at the Virginia Springs.-M. T. hde-
pendent.