Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-07-25
miscellaneous Summary.

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VALUE OF THE SoUrm.-The New Orleans Delta
estimates the number Of slaves at the South at
over three and O half millions, and their aggre.
gate value, at present prices, Mt fully sixteen hun
dred millions Of dollars. The cotton plantations
in the South it estimates at about eighty thousand,
and the aggregate value of their annual product at
the present price of cotton is fully one hundred
and twenty-five millions of dollars. There are
over fifteen thousand tobacco plantations, and their
annual produce may be valued at fourteen millions
of dollars. There are two thousand six hundred
sugar plantations, the products of which average
annually more than twelve millions. There arc
five hundred and ~ffty-one rice plantations which
yield an annual revenue of four millions Of dollars.
Church Action ON THE SLAVERY QuEsTioN.-At
a meeting of Hanover Ptesbytery, held at Liberty,
Va, on The LIST instant, the committee to whom was
referred the circular address of the Southern dele
CATION in the late Presbyterian General Assembly,
IN. s. held at Cleveland, Ohio, containing an ac-
count Of the action of said Assembly on the sub
|ject of slavery, and a call for a convention to be
held in Washington, on the 9th of August next,
with the view to the organization of an assembly
on n clearly defined basis, precluding all agitation
of the subject of slavery, submitted resolutions,
which were unanimously adopted, approving of the
course oil the uelegateS Wnlcn Withdrew lrOm the
Cleveland Convention. declaring that n separation
of the Southern Presbyterians from the General
Assembly should take place, and appointing dele
gates to the Washington Convention.
Knowing ones at Washington believe there is an
intrigue maturing for the purchase OF Cuba through
the agency of Mr., Slidell as Minister to Paris, and
Mr.. Belmont at Madrid.
Twenty.four passengers have been brought
through on the Underground railroad within the
past two weeks, all of whom passed the Syracuse
station. One man sent his wife in a box( "a la BOX
Brown,"l and she arrived safely at Rev. Mr.. Lo-
guen's, in advance of her husband.-Fred Doug
lass Paper.
SOUTHERN CoNvENTIoN.-The committee up.
pointed at the last Southern Convention (held at
Savannah, Ga.,) have called another to assemble
in Knoxville, Tenn., on the second Monday 1.-THE
10th in August.
DIR. KANE's NARArIvE.-The Philadelphia Eeve.
ming Journal is authorized to say that the publish.
ers of DR.. Kane's Narrative of his Arctic Exploring
observation-disclosures. Child & PeteIson-have paid
upwards of sixty thousand dollars to the estate of
the lamented author, which is merely the copyright
money for nine months sales of the work The
for this wonderfully interesting narrative
continues undated, and it is almost certain that
the copyright money will reach one hundred
thousand dollars before many months have elapsed.
Messrs. Childs and Peterson will shortly issue
the Explorations of Colonel Fremont, in a style
similar to that in which they gave Kane's Nara
tive to the world.
BAYARD TAYLoR.-The N. Y. Tribune states that
Bayard Taylor is about to be married to Miss Ma
ria Hansen, q daughter of the eminent German as
tronomer of that name. The wedding will take
place at Gotha, the residence of the brides family
in the autumn, after Mr.. Taylor's return from the
North Cape. The happy couple will spend the
q ext winter at Moscow. This event will not pre-
vent the execution of Mr.. Taylor's plan of an ex
~ploration of Central Asia previous to his return to
this country.
The little town of Southington, Conn. with a
population Of about one thousand inhabitants, con-
tains twelve manufactures, in which is invested q
stock capital of nearly a million of dollars.
PURsUir OF SLAvERs,--A letter from Saguale
Gfan1e, Cuba, of the 9th ult.; says:
Two barques from the west coast of Africa sue
ceeded in landing off this place, on the night Of
the Oath inst, nine hundred and fifty slaves, and
both vessels we're under canvass the following
morning before sunrise for Brazil. The British
Consul forwarded a letter stating the occurrences
to the Governor of Jamaica, who ordered a British
frigate to go in pursuit of the slayers.'
SLAVES L1BERATED.-CO tnOmaS lllte, a.ued
by other philanthropically disposed citizens of
Jefferson county, Va, set free eighty Of their slaves
on Thursday last. The Colonel, as agent of the
owners, accompanied them to Middleburg, Pa,
when, handing each individua Ia $40 in money, and
equipping them all with suitable clothing, they
were set at liberty.
DEATH OF FIsH-THE QUESTION SETTLED.-Dur-
ing the drouth of last year great numbers of fish
died in the Little Miami river. especially below
the great distilleries below Deerfeld and Morrow.
1t was said they were killed by the poison from
the distilleries. This was denied. and the fact at.
tributed to the unusual drouth. The fOllewingI
paragraph from the Lebanon Stdr, however, seems
to settle the question
During the recent freshets in Dry Run, at Deer
field, the poisonous matter from the Distilery
north of the village, was washed into the Miami
River, and caused the death of tens of thousands
of fish. Two tons, it is calculated, were thus de-
stroyed. The mill-race of Mr.. Isaac Stubs. a
mile below, was literally chOked up with dead
fish. Is there no remedy for this wholesale slaugh-
ter of the fnny tribes?
Why should we stop the slaughter of fish till
we have stopped the slaughter of men? The Star
also states the death of Jour men in the north part
of Warren County, attributed to drinking whisky
with strychnine in it!
There are in New Orleans fourteen Lodges of
the order of Free and Accepted Masons, and forty
two OF the Independent Order OF Odd Fellows.
The HEAT AT ST.. LoUIs.-On Friday the Cor
oner of st. Louis held thirteen inquests on the
bodies of persons who had died from exposure to
the sun.
A Baltimore correspondent calls our attention to
the fact that Il free colored man named Sam Green
was recently convicted of the crime of having
"Uncle TOMS Cabin" and other Abolition publ
cations" in his possessiOn(O, and sentenced to ten
years Imprisonment among thieves and other I'M
doubted criminals We thank our correspondent.
But we happen to remember a case in the same
State in which one of the same nominally free class
was condemned to a still longer term for having in
his possession a hymn-book which-published, as
it was, without the aid of an expurgatory commit
tee from the Tract Society or other body of like
faithfulness to the interests of Slavery-happened