Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-05-09

ulaiion Of the minutes of the Conference of til
NJ; Il. Church, South, given in the Nashville I
Auv"cate, No sec that there is reported. Tor tn
past year, a considerable falling of in the nupbc
c'lntcd members and Of Indian memhers,-
FOR The entire Connection for the year, mn in
crease OF 5,1l5 is given, which the Advocate re
MARKS, ls in fact n falling off when compared
with the advance in population"
May not the above fact be accounted for, on thu
principle of repulsion. as increasingly character
iaing the negro mind, relative to the religious
teachings enjoyed by him at the South 2 rs teach
that their enslaved condition IL one rf Divine
aPpolntment-and to resent and seem to escape il
are sins. equal in magnitude, to the rebellion oil
horah' Datham and Abiram, is enough to make
small and beautifully less all desire to belong to
such associations,
The lobster trade OF Provincotown, last year.
S92s0.
LIN stated that Col. John Preston, of Louisiana
has lately made 100000 from the years crop of
moiasses, at GO cents per gallon.
EMIGRATION FROM NoRTu CARoLISA.-A company
OF emigrants from North Carolina, consisting OF
~ persons, passed through Madison IN, c. last
thursday, on their way West in search of homes.
They contemplate settling in Iowa, where most Of
theni VIII pursue their former business as farmers.
1t is said that 10, ~, and even Is dollars per
month are paid to females for doing housework in
New York City.
The Supreme Court Of Iowa, on the hearing Of.
a ha0eas corpus case, decided that q slave who was
permitted by his master to leave Missouri and set.
te Ia Iowa, became free thereby. The case was
mat OF a man who sold freedom to his slave in
Missouri for the consideration of $3.50, and per-
mitted him to move to Iowa to earn the money!
Alter q residence of many years in Iowa, the me-
gro vas seized as n fugitive slave and was about
ing delivered up as such when the writ Of hdbeas
corpus brought him before the Supreme Court and
he was released. The decision Of the Court is di-
rectly in the teeth Of Judge Taney's decision in
the Dred Scott case. but the courts Vt the country
ike the people, seem to treat the opinion of Judge
fancy in that case with the contempt it deserves.
PROGRESS OF RoaAN1sM ~ TIE UNITED SrATRs.-l
1t is only a lit.lo less than half d century ago that
the Roman Catholic Church in the United States
had n regular organization. There were 10 1863
one diocese, two bishops, sixty-eight priests, eighty
two ecclesiastical institutions, one col.
lege, and two female academies. Ia 1857 there
are f~orty-one diocc es, two apostolic yicarires, two
eight hundred and eighty.two churches
stations, nineteen hundred and two priests.
thirty five ecclesiastical institutions, s~ixty.two male
and one hundred and seventeen female religious
institutions, fity'eight literary institutions, &c. &c.
There are no exact statistics rs to the Roman Cath
population of the country, but three and q
half millions is tho best estimate that can be made.
Australia is getting ahead o: California in nor
product Of gold. The entire yell Of the latter for
1856 was SAL 0 5000. For the first three months
of 1857 the gold fields CT Australia produced seven
hundred ounces or about Sl2, 200, 900, at the rate of
fifty millions per onum.
The official report Of railway casualties in Eng
land, for the last year. states she number to be 28l
killed, 394 injured. The calculation is that one
passenger in every l62 millions carried was killed
the other accidents having occurred to persons OF.
Their tie servants ofthe companies or neither pass
engers nor servants.
CoNET STRucK.-Al lady in Owen County, Iowa,
has become deranged from dwelling with morbid
apprehensions upon the predicted collision with
the comet.