Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-01-24
Menus Of the hOerk.
Columns. Jan. 12-M.

There is current here q shocking story OF out
committed in the Penitentiary. One oil the
it seems, was flicted with weakness or
Of the eyes, and after being urgently i'm
allowed 4 physician Of the institution to
operate on one Of them. Blindness OF the organ
,nsued and when, some time ago, the physician
desired to experiment upon the remaining eye, the
convict refused to permit him, believing that he
would destroy that also. Thereupon the physi.
ordered his refractory patient to be held, and
against his will performed an operation on both
eyes. The result is that both eyes are now blind ;
the convict whose term of imprisonment ex-
expired about three months ago, is still in the Pen.
without friends or money, and deprived
OF sight forever. Inquiry into this atroc'ous at
is to be made Immediately, and justice done
alike to the physician and the patient.
Members have already taken the matter in hand,
il will probably come before the Legislature
early in the week. The unfortunate victim of this
instance of professional and official violence, had
been sentenced to one years Imprisonment for
manslaughter, under circumstances somewhat pc
culiar. lie had protected a poor %emigrant girl on
a steamboat, from the insults of some wretch, and
was followed to his room by the bafhed william,
who threatened his life, menacing him with a
knife, till he, in self-defence, struck the
man upon the head with a bar of iron, and killed
him. lie was arrested on the charge of man
slaughter, and through the stupidity Of his attor-
ney, ind uced to plead guilty and WINS according
ly, sentenced to the shortest term of imprisonment
for that offence known to the law.-Cin. Gaz.
FuoIrIvE SLAVES IN BosroN.-The Boston
of Saturday says:
1--WE are informed that two ~fugitives. who had
in making their escape from their mas.
in the South, have arrived in this city the
present week. One of the slaves was from the
State of Mississippi, and escaped in a vessel.
lie arrived here night before last, and states that
yesterday he saw his master, accompanied by a
we'll known slave catcher, in the streets of our
city. Once before, the fugitive states, he made an
to escape, but was then captured and car
ried back, when his master told him If he was
ever caught again in the act of running off, he
should be shot. The other fugitive was from the
State of Virginia, and made his escape by land.
The Vigilance Committee of this city Immediately
took pormpt and effectual measures to put them
in q place of safety, and they are now beyond the
reach Of their pursuers."
The kidnapping excitement still continues
among the negroes at Salem, N. j., and the Stand
ard says that last week one of the city officers was
compelled to take under his charge a strange me-
gro and lock him in Jail to protect him from a mob
of his own color. They had conceived the i'm
preston that ne was a spy sent there by kidnap-
pers fer the purpose of ascertaining the locality Of
certain f~ugitives. When taken by the officer, he
was in the hands of the mob, who were determin-
ed to disqualify him from carrying out what they
supposed to be his mission. The Jail was watched
the entire night by the negroes and had the dar-
key been caught, his fate would have been hard.
FREE Moro BILL DEFEArED.-We learn from
the Little Rock Gazette aud Democrat, of the Doth
Dec, that the bill lately pending before the Ark
ansas Legislature, known as the Free Negro Bill,
which had for its object the removal of all free
negroes from the State, and provided the means of
their going into servitude if they remained-has
teen defeated,
Among the five iicentiatesI in law who came for
ward lately in Paris to take the usual oath requir-
ed for q member of the French bar, one wore q
moustache, net Of any great size, but still quite
apparent. The first President Delangle, observ-
ing it, said 1.-The l~icentiate wearing al moustache.
cannot be admitted to take the OATH" The
young man, on hearing this, Immediately with
drew.
RErRoGRApE.--A few weeks since we had &C.
casion to contrast the instruction Above in the
colored Sabbath schools of Memphis, and other
places in Tennessee, with the intolerance display
ed in other parts Of the South, where it is q peni-
Tertiary offence to teach a colored child to read
and that vigorously enforced. But since the in
surrection panic, all these cities have stopped
the instruction of colored persons in reading the
Bible, by a severe and summary ordinance
Examiner.
FUNERAL OF FATHER MATHEw.-The funeral of
the Rev. Father Mathew. 'the apostle of temper
ance," took place in Cork on tho 18th December,
and was perhaps the most remarkable one ever
witnessed in that city. The cortege was more
than three miles long. 1t was attended by the
corporation and city officers in mourning, by sew
eral dignitaries and clergymen of the established
church, as well as by q vast number of the Ro-
man. Catholic clergy, with their bishop at their
head, and by all the Roman Catholic and a great
many Of the Protestant gentry of the surrounding
country. Ii was estimated that not fewer than
fifty thousand people were assembled in and
around the cemetery on the occasion and the
deepest sympathy was expressed by the greater
number of those present, many of them shedding
tears. The Roman Catholic bishop and seventy
priests oficiated at the o~bsequies in the Catholic
Church of the Holy Trinity.
An UNPLEASANT TAsK.-Two negroes convicted
in the Circuit Court yesterday of manslaughter
were ordered to receive two hundred lashss "well
laid on" their bare backs. 1t is illegal to conn.,
nit slaves to the Penitentiary hence the SEN
tence. Captain Mcgowan is entrusted with the
unpleasant task Of executing the decree of the
Court.-LouispiM Journal.
THE MAILS IN IowA.-A Nebraska paper gives
the following account of the Mails out West:
We received a letter two days ago from Chicago,
informing US that its author would be in Nebraska
last September. And since it was written he has
been here, remained a month, made a thousand
in cash, had two fights and had gone back and got
married. And the lsst bundle of New York Trib-
une, that were received at Nebrasca City, had a
mouse's nest in it and five young ones alive, be-
sides several dead ones, supposed to have been
posoned by eating one of Greely's leaders,
We wish somebody would hang a few ~post-mas-
tiers in Iowa.
A SoUTHERN OPINIoN.-The following remark
occurs in q speech delivered by VIM. B.. Gaulden
of Georgia, in a recent Southern Convention =
"Away with this can't for one am willing to
take this world as the Almighty has made it, with
his DEGREES and ordinances, and if there be one
decree which stands out in holder relief than any
other on the book Of nature, it is that one part Of
the human race must be the slaves of The other,
and that all men are not born free and equal.
Thomas Jefferson to the contrary notwithstand.
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