Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-12-26

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A. NJ, till 4 O'Clock p. NJ.
The Washington correspondent Of tho Ereninq
Post says that Senator Summers nervous condi-
ton was such that he felt himself unable to en-.
dure the excitement of listening to Douglass's
rebollious speech. and therefore retired from the
Senate chamber Immediately after the Senator
from Illinois took the floor.
John c. Fremont and wife visited Boston re-
Gently. They were the guests for one evening of
the venerable Josiah Quincy, at whose house
they met "a large circle of friends. Mr.. Fremont
had the good sense to decline an invitation TO a
public dinner with which some of bis political
friends sought to homer him.-A. S. Standard.
BRIDGEPORT. Ct, Dec. IS.h.-Irastan the SPLEEN
did country seat of Mr., Barnum, was destroyed
by fire last night about midnight. 1t is supposed
to have been set on fire. Mr.. Barnum had com.
menced refurnishing it, proposing to reside there.
New HAVEN, Conn, Dec. l9th.-Last winter. a
boy named Charles Z. Sagi, about nineteen years
Of age. was missing from his home in Crom well.
near Middle'op. in this State, and an freshman
named Patrick Nugent was charged with murder.
ing him and putting his body under the ice in
Connecticut river. In a few months afterwards a
body was found in the river without a head. This
body was believed to be that OF the missing bow.
from several marks upon it, as well as from a
portion Of the clothing. Soon afterwards the lin.
ing of an overcoat was found, answering to the
description of that worn by the missing person.
Some months after, u sailor. named Benson, di.
rectly charged Nugent, the Irishman, with the
murder. lie said he saw The deed done, and as
sisted Nugent in putting the corpse under a hay-
NOW. He described his dress, the color of his
hair, &c.-declared that he had not had any peace
of mind since the murder, and shat he had come
to Cromwell especially to divulge all he knew
about it. He confronted Nugent, and charged the
deed upon him. The accused denied it, but trem.
bled from head to feet.
A true bill was found against Nueent, and he
was to have been tried this month. Within a few
days, however, the missing boy has been discover
ed in the interior of Pennsylvania by his uncle.
a special court was Immediately held, and Nugent
liberated.
The sailor has been arrested for perjury, with
intent to take life. and acknowledged his guilt.
The crime will send him to States Prison for
life.
Mr.. BucnANAN's DOMESTIC RELArIoN."-
Great allowances ought unquestionably to be made
for the ignorance of q man who, at the age of
seventy or Whereabouts, has never been a father
OF Il husband; buG when Mr.. Buchanan takes up.
on himself to assert in q message to Congress.
that slavery is the only domestic relation about
which the people Of a new State ought to be con.
suited, it ia high time that position be taken
against electing old bachelors to the presidency.
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JENNY LIND GoLDscnMIDT does not, it is said,
intend to close her professional career until after
u final visit to the United States" We are graft.
fed to hear il.
The Mormon WAR.-The war department is
said to be crowded with applicants from every Sec
tlon OF the country for commission in the army
for Utah. a number of young men in Harrisburg,
Pa, are endeaVoring to raise n company and ten
der its service to fight Brother Brigham"
The Gentleman who is to marry LOLA MoNTEz
is Prince SnULLosKI, Duke of Bealla, and Duke
of Bletz in Austrian Poland. He is said to be
one of the richest noblemen in Silesia, with an
income of nearly three hundred thousand a year.
The marriage Will take place in Paris next month,
and the parties will return to the United States
where, it is said, tho Duke has invested large
sums of money.
A GENTLEMAN in Terra Haute has map of
Mexico drafted bv Aron Burr himself, in con.
temptation Of his expedition against tina: country,
when he was arrested for treason. The different
on the gulf, and the location of the princi,
pal places in the interior, are delineated with a
minuteness and fidelity seldom met with in pro.
ductions Of this character.
INDEFTNITELY PosTPoNED.-The Senate of the
State of South Carolina. on the 9Th inst. without
lebate, disposed VI the report and resolutions In
of reopening the slave.trade by indefinite
postponement. We cannot but express satisfaction
with the removal from the council of the State of
, proposition fraught with so much danger to
union aud harmony at a period require
ng every influence to promote them.
The NATION (Ill.) Gazette, which came out q
hort time since in favor of Slavery in that State,
has changed hands. and now advocates a different
Even Egypt could not sustain such a
paper. |,
THRorrLING. 1t will be remembered that some G
ime since Senator Brown stated. in a public
peech, that Mr.. Buchanan had told him that q
sovereignty was a p~estilent heresy, and
hat he woold throttle it,"
II seems to be pretty evident that he will
hrottle squatter sovereignty, or squstter soyer. Q
ignty will throttle him. Il