Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-03-07

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play about his olhGe aud dance ia his kitchen. so
grave an offence could not luss UNI finished,
and he was accordingly indicted under the law
which iorbids unlawful assemblagcs of negroes'l
MIR: Bailey was confronted with the Common
wealth. witnesses swore both to the fact Of dan.
cling ano OF MIR. BIS evident qualification. A
clear case seemed inevitable. Mr.. b. was begin
ming to be anxious lest the Daily N,ps might suf.
fer while he was paying the penalty of the viola.
ted law AT this stage OF the case it was discovered
that tho Indictment was defective, inaslmuch us the
offence was charged to have been committed in Nov.
1900 jour months gtter the date Of indictment,
which was in the preceding Juno. The Proseou-
ting Attorney vainly urged that it way only a''eler.
lear error, and could be easily amended; but the
jury thought otherwise and returned n verdict for
delendent, without leaving their seae.-Boston
Telegraph.
The SECTIONAL QuEsrIoN.-The New York Her
aid OF February Is, i'll an article on THE Signs Of
the llmes-theD isuninon Convention at Utica, "
says: what then do these signs moar2 they mean
that, wlthout some astounding and unexpected
change, such as Il war with Er gland, we shall have
in 1861, the most terrible sectional contest that
the Contederacy has ever endurel-that the past
old parties will disappear from the contest ~altogeth-
er, and make way Tor new ones, the triumph If CT.
Their of which will and must be the ruin of the
Union"
The body of the late Preston S. Brooks was bur-
led at Edgeheld, ). g., on the 18th. 1t was atten-
ded to the grave by an immense concourse Of PEG
pie, with a military cortege, attended by music &c,
NC. The face was exhibited to the view Of the
people, and was still natural and undecayed. The
Edgefeld Adr e1t,Sc,' says that thousands came to
look, for a moment, upon the strong man = tricken
down by the hand of death in the mad car eer Of
his earthly exertions. Not the least affecting part
Of this scene was the number Of servants who came
crowding in, by permission, to see the face Of the
dead once more before it went down into the grave:
among them an old woman, who had nursed the
deceased in his childhood"
The Houston Telegraph Of the 30th ult. says:
1--WE understand that an Abolitionist from Boston
or that vicinity, has been circulating incendiary pm.
pers and documents III this city for two or three
days past. The boys have taken him in hand to-.
day, and at last accounts he was in considerable
fear that something was going to happen"
PUNISHMENT OF SLAVES The Mississippi Leg
has Just passed q bill prohibiting any
owner of slaves from Furnishing them with more
than mine and thirty lashes' at any one time, or
for any offence. under penalty of hne and impris-
onment. All other unnecessary cruelty to slaves
is also made indictabio and punishable by fine and
Imprisonment.
Here is another illustration of the tendency Of
the Ant.Slavery movement to ameliorate the con-
ditlon OF the slaves, by putting Shareholders on
their good behavior before a watchful public opin.
ion.
REVOLUTION GoING BAcKwARDs~-A better time
is coming and women will soon be again approach.
able. The special foreign correspondent of the
New-Iork Tribune chronicles an event of the very
highest i'm portance ut the French court. 9TH
Empress Eugene made her appearance last week
without any CrlDOlInp or bOups. and Looked the bpt-
tel for it." Now look for q gradual contraction Of
and by the time the first frost is out OF
the grOud, boys and girls will be rolling the hoops
about the streets.
The Pittsburgh JournGl gives the following
particulars relative to the arrest of thieves along
the line Of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chi
cago Railroad. Within the year the Company
has had to pay $4,000 for lost goods, and final.
ly officer Pickerton, of Chicago, was employed
to ferret out the rascality. The rogues were
caught by means of goods on which was placed
private marks, and thus dispatched over the
road and were then traced to u Buffalo Auction
eer, who was one of the gang, and whose store
has been the depot for all the plumber.
Nineteen were arrested, AID are in custody
at different places in Ohio. They inclrde EN-.
of the company, lawyers, doctors, consta-
and merchants-men heretofore of good
standing. some residing in Pittsburgh and Allie
City.
The CAMELs AT WoRK.-The San Antonio TEX.
as) Times says:
twenty-five camels have Just passed through
our city, loaded with about 600 pounds each, re-
turning to their place Of rendezvous, which is
seventy miles from here. There are dromedaries
also with them, and seated on top of these cam
els and dromedaries are Arabs and Turks, dres.
ed in the costume of their own country"
Three negroes were executed at Dum(ries.
Prince William, Co., Va. on the 18th ulr., for the
murder of their master, Mr.. Green. Ono was an
old woman, aged about 20. another was her d lugh.
ter, and the third her grandson. Two smaller
boys, convicted Of the same crime, were respited.
They confessed the crime some time ago.
The Victoria (Texus) Advocate says that the
winter in that vicinity has been rather mild, and
that the grass is springing up luxuriantiy.
VI 5. Ludwig, formerly editor of n German pa
per in Baltimore, has been arrested on suspicion
of being an abolition agent, and notified to leave
the city, or he would be tarred and feathered
Iowa CoLLEGE.-We learn from the Davenport
Gazette, of the Goth inst, that Mr.. Charles Hen.
drie, of Burlington, has donated SIS, 900 to the
Iowa College, for the ultimate purpose of estab.
fishing ard %endowing a Scientific School in that
institution.
A new counterfeit Twenty on the State Bank of
Ohio, Po itage county branch, Ravenna. is in cir
%culation. The figures ''20' on either end are pale,
but otherwise the note is well executed.
a GIGANTIC LAND SPEcULATIoN.-The Licking
ton Express of 18th States that it has reliable in.
formation that a large company has been formed
in the East for the purpose of entering all the va.
cant lands in the State of Missouri. Hon. James
H., Birch, formerly of Missouri, but now OF phila-
delphia, is at the head of this movement. lie is
to act as agent for the company and make the en-
tries.
The SUSPENSION BRIDGE AT ST.. LoUIs.-Mr. Bis
sell, the engineer appointed to devise plans and es-
innate the cost Of a railroad suspension bridge at
st. Louis, presented his report. The plan is con-
sldered perfectly feasible-the Cost estimated at
81, 100000.