Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-12-05
THE, ANTI-SLAVER BUGLE


HE ANTI-SL J..
DISASTER UPoN DtsAsrER-A FEARFUL Gaia
LoGuE.-We do not believe that, in the entire MS
tory Of newspaper printing, the gross has ever
been called upon to record q weeks chapter OF
tragedies, disasters, and fatal results, that can
compare with the one just passed. 10 wave an
comment upon the Incredible number OF murders
and fatal assaults that have transpired in this
city and ~elsewhere, and which seem to be viewed
more in the light Of mntter.of.cours occurrence
than otherwise. we will only allude to what
may be classed as serious disasters. We have,
then, in this one weeks catalogue the unpreccden'
ted freshets in this State, in Canada; and on the
Western rivers, involving the loss Of n million
dollars worth of property and a large number Of
lives, gales on the lakes, in which some thirty
vessels are known to have been foundered or
stranded, With the probable loss of q still larger
number.-The amount of property thus destroyed
can be estimated only by hundreds of thousands
of dollars, to say nothing of many sailors and
others who persisted. Gales on tho Ohio and Mis-
sissippi rivers. in which q large number Of coal
boats were sunk, involving the loss of $4,000,
and upwards of 100 lives. Boiler explosions
in Grifintown, Canada, with one man killed ana
many wounded Rainbow, loss of life and many
wounded, n. p. Sprague, eight lives lost, and
several wounded. Collision. on the coast of Texas,
with loss of steamer Opelousas and twenty-five
lives. besides many wounded. Firos in Roches-
ter, two lives lost and 500. 900 worth Of proporty;
Baltimore, loss, $4,000 Columbus, Ohio. loss
heavy Louisville. $50. 900, Mobile. $780, 900,
Clean, N. Y. $4,000; Jamaica. N. Y, $50, 600;
L%ockport, 500, 600; steamer Henry y. Beach Mt
Baltimore, $4,000; also in this city $4,000.
All the disasters occurred during the week just
passed, The record for the previous was scarcely
less appalling. The old proverb that "misfortunes
never come singly," seems to be often verified,
and particularly in the present nstant.--Journa
Of Commerce.
a New DfsPENsAT'oN.-The Dayton Empire is
one of your true'blue, up and down, right and
left Democratic" newspaper. such rs a State
like Ohio can prodnce-a State where there is so
much truth abroad that only those who obsti-
nately close their eyes, do not see and accept it.
This Dayton Empire, in a recent issue, is partic'
ularly hard on another trouble which the present
administration has to deal with, to wit the
bother Of free speech. We make the following
extract.
Churches FOR free speech, halls for free speech.
schools for free speech, newspapers for free
speech-free speech we now use in its popular
sense, as meaning any kind Of speeeh-are I'M
mi;igated curses, and lead directly to the utter
unbridling of tongue and pen"
This is democracy according to the new dispen-
sation.
JOHN MlTcHELLEoK SOUTHERN LITERATURE -
John Mitchell. in His Citizen, Tidicules the idea
Of forming a Southern Literature By drumming
a textbook here and Giscarding one there-you
must revolt against and resist the entire course
and conduct of English Literature for two cen.
turies." He Gays truly that Slavery in the South
bears to Southern Literature the relation CT
roots to flowers.
T., looL;nr tbo .aloJnIo oe o,Js-1a, O., -
presented to the different Indian tribes, for which
the Secretary of the Interior invites proposals, we
observe the item, Two hundred dozen s~calping
knives
THE KANSAS CoNsTIruTGoN.-Only twenty siA
persons voted for the Kansas Constitution on the
final vote, which is not a majority of the whole
number and next day it received but tw enty-two
signatures, one more than n majority, and some
of those who signed 1t are persons who had pre-.
viously resigned their seats. Thus fraud and
villainy follow tHis outrage at every step,
AN IMPORTANT OMrssIoN.-It appears that in
the schedule of the Kansas Constitution, as re-
Gently published three sections Uere omiHed-one
of which contains a provision requiring the voters,
if challenged, to snppo1t tile Constitution i adj
opted, on penalty Of prosecution for perjury. As
the question of adoption Of the Constitution it.
self is not to be submitted to the voters at all, it
follows that every man who wishes to vote upon
the slavery clause, must swear to support a Con,
%stitution which is made for him, however odious
its provisions.
Observation-Disclosures has been received nj
Washington Of the ccnfscatioE, by the Austrian
government, of all the property Of Louis Kossuth
within its reach.
DR.. MERLE D'AuBIGNE, the Genevese historian
of the Reformation, took IN active part in the
late Berlin Convention, discoursing in three Ian
guages. According to descriptions of him he has
grown gray with age and labor, and would hardly
lie recognized from the current portraits.
RE-ELrcTIoN OF SENATOR CLAY.-A telegraph
dispatch announces that the two branches of the
legislature of Alabama met in convention OF
Saturday last, and on the first ballot elected Hon
c. G. Clay, Jr., to the Senate of the United
States for six years from the 4.h of March 1859,
when his present term of Office axpires.
CoLoRED BAPrIsTs IN OuIo.-Most Of the col
ored Baptist churches in this State are collected
into two association by themselves. having no con-
~nection or correspondence with the white associ
alton. Total in both bodies ~forty-one churches
two thousand and twenty-one members.
The New Orleans Data, in speaking Of the col
ony Of free laborers recently settled in Virginia
offers the following suggestion
The first Abolition gun has been fred ia Vir
ginia, and it remains to be seen whether or no
the friends of slavery. both in the interior anC
along the borders, will hear its reverberation,
without feeling that n deadly enemy is in thei
midst. What Louisiana would do with Eli Thay
er is not at all OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Virginia vii
do with him the after time will tell.
HYMENEAL.