Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-25
miscellaneous Summary.

KENTUCKY CivILzArIoN.-Kcntucky not only
in her peculiar domestic institution, but also in
her penal laws still adheres to old barbarian usa
ses. Even white mem ars sold by law as slaves.
The following are among the items OF Covington.
XIV, nows in o late number Of the Cincinnati
Gazette:
So,p INTO SERyIrupr.-An Irishman named
Thomas Hughes. whose wife WINS a house and
lot in Coyington, and with whom be lives, was
found guilty of vagrancy at the special term, and
ordered, agreeably to the statute. to be sold into
seryitude.for FIVE months. Mr.. Uerrod, the Jail
or, we understand, will buy him.
LA~suEs.-Thomas Hand was found guilty by
a jury, Of stealing ; the punishment fixed was
ten lashes on the back.
THE AUTHORITY OF JUDICIAL Decisions.
Platt Of New York gives his view on tho authority
of Judicial decisions in the following language:
1.-THE decisions Of Courts are not law-they are
onlv ,ridence of the law. Aud this evidence is
stronger or weaker according TO the number and
uniformity of I'D Quotations. the union or diSSen-
fion Of the Judges, the solidity of the reasons on
which the decisions are founded, and the perspl'
cuity and precision with which those reasons are
expressed, The weight and authority of Judicial
decisions depends also ON the character and temper
of the times in which they are pronounced. An
adjudication Mt a moment when turbulent pass
ions or revolutionary Irenzies prevail, deserves
much less respect than if it were made at a season
p-opitious to impartial inquiry and calm de.ibera-
tlon.
Our Southern friends have a hard time Of it in
their attempts to keep all the Objectionable works
in their iader erpurgdtorious out of their territory.
Do what they will, now and then an abolition ms
sic will find its way among them. A gre t excite'
ment was recently caused in Pedee, ). u, by a
bookseller, who sold II volume entitled Ltces %
Eminent Methodist Ministers, but which proved on
examination, to contain the biographies of lenry
Ward Bsecher, Friedrich Douglass. and William
Lloyd Garrison. The CONSERVATION and indigna-
ton which the discovery created may very easily
be imagined.
The publishers of the deceitful book were a firm
in Auburn, in this Strte, who have sen. n letter to
ehe South Carolinian Times, explaining the cause
Of the strange discrepancy between the title ana
and the contents Of the book. 1t seems that the
covers were put upon the wrong DOCKS, anu thus
those fearful Abolition agi'ators-B eecher, Doug
lass and Garrison-were struggled into the very
heart of South Carolina as eminent Methodist MIN
listers. We do not wonder that the people OF re-
dee thought that this was adding injury to insult.
The only safety for the South is to exclude all
prsnted matter that comes to them from anywhere
north of the Potomac.-N. J. Times.
TnE MANUFACTURE OF BoNNETs.-"What be.
comes of all the pinsY IS u question ot'en asked
and-seldom answered. Some facts that we learn.
ed the other day led us to ask, what becomes OF
ali the bonnets ~ At the ia tory Of Messrs. Car
penter. in Fuxburgh MASS. !, more than ten thou
sand n day are made and thrown into the market
For.more than twenty miles round a1out' Inc
peoSle are engaged in the work, anu they nave
eserts all ever the world collecting materials and
aispes;ag z of their s.-IorHand paper
Jrpel tWniroY, the Republican candidate fol
Chief Judge of the Su preme Couit OF Wisconsin
is said to be elected by 10000 majority; lie Is
one of the ~ Judges who pronounced the Fugitive
Slave lrwae neon Institution, AND his election Is a con
frmation of that Judgement by the people oil WIS
oonsin,as a high Court of Appeals.
The baltimore Wrecker contends that it is by
no means sufficient to show the slaveholder s the
ADVANTAGES of free labor, in order to induce
them to abolish their peculiar institution. IL Il
not ~avarice alone, 1T is imperiousness also, which
makes the Shareholders cherish an institution
de.ssted by the majority of mankind: Ih'
batttual power over the bodies and minds O.
others, creatures a desire for its continuance which
cannot always be compensated for by exchanging
1t for. seum OF money.
IIsfoRaAr1oN WAIVED A CORRESPONDENT says
"a case of discipline, in which the Gaiena fresoy
terry found an Elder guilty OF h.!dins ana seli'nI
slaves according to the laws of Missouri, was re
.ferred for action to the Synod which met in Chicago
,iastAutump. Wbat.did. they do with III Carried
ont. IL will Aring the ASSEMBLY to a constitutions
and direct decision, or the momentous 'Dr. Ross
alternative. Did the Synod act upon the subject
or will they?"-C Chicago Cong. Herald.
Rpv. THEODORE PARKER.-At the annual meet
ing of the ...Twenty-eighth Congregations Socie
tyH OF, Boston, held on the 5th inst, II was vote
10 increase the yearly salary of the pastor, Tn
Rev Theodore Parker, from 1000 to S2,5oO. l
was also voted to give Mr.. Parker a vacation, 0
six months on account of his i'll health, and {
supply the pulpit during that time
The CASE OF PAssNoEE WILLIAMSON, Tho nc
ton for damages brought against Judge Kane II
the Court Of Common Pleas of Delaware county
was some time since argued upon demurrer; L
the declaration claiming damages, Judge nan
nut in five special pleas settiag forth his ONCE tn
proceedings which occurred, aud Just'iying. ~
entire conduct. The plaintiff replied de ,nJur'
10 these pleas, that the defendant had commits
ed the acts of his own will, and withou
cause, The Judges'counsel 1demurred specially :
the replication on three pleas, and )oineu lssu
in two os them. The. argument in demurrer wa
hold in December. On Saturday Judge Hayne
cave notice that he decided against Judge Kane
so that the replication stands, and the case Will z
,o trial on the general Issue. and VIII be trle
some time during the Prssent-snmmer.-f""aaS
phia Bulletin.
Tho following extraordinary notice appears !
tho Nantucket Enquirer Il, inc onIy 'am.u, W.
of John. p. Gardner, hersbytToroiu an 9nrsym.,
or justices Of the peace from marrying Gnmdnar
ra,s a divoree from me-Louisia i. daruner'
M. STANTON IygKANsss,-Ihe new secretar
If Kansas Territory arrived at leavonHerth o
"a ,l,o 18Th inst