Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-08-28

"a minority Of the Americans voting their
ticket are prutslavcry, and emancipation even IN
st Louis isns dead Ms II mackercl. Its advocates
III Missouri are as poor aud mean as mice upon
an empty shelf. Never was there a great party
more trium plant than the pro'slnvery party has
been in this August election, IL is w%ell--well for
the STATE, for its future good, and douSly well for
the negro. The American system of slavery Of
the black raco is one VI untold benevolcnce, and
its good results will never be known until face to
face we shall hear from the great Divine Ruler
what purpose of mercy he had to the Ethiopian
race in suffering their enslavement in this coun'
try"
The SulBDoLErn OF NArioNALITY.-Queen Vic
toria being a woman, her message had, OF course,
to have n postscript. She sent her congratulations
ono day, but thought of something more the next,
and made an addition twice as long as the origin
al. Mr. Buchanan, though of Irish descent, has
so much of the Yankee in him, that he could not
even send an ordinary formal reply without
"axiug a question:" and before he got through
was actually trying to make a bargain" with
John Bull.
1t may be regarded ne singular, too, that Victo'
ria, who is the head of the Observation-Disclosures OF
the Faith" and q really exemplary woman, made
no alluslon to the Deity, while Mr.. Buchanan,
who belongs to no church, has no conscience
keeper, and it is generally believed, no conscience
to keep, framed his reply in the most orthodox
and sanCtimonious strain.
The father.in.law of the Rev. Henry Garnet,
Tho colored clergyman, who was killed at the late
railroad accident at Sauuuit Creek, has received
from the Central Railroad Company the sum of
$1,000. The Rochester Union says they pay 49,.
900 for white men.
HUNTING SLAyEs.-A couple off. F. VS. from
Virginia were in Altoona, Penn, on Tuesday, in
pursuit Of five runaways. Several Of the citizens
OF the place interested themselves ia their behalf,
but the darkeys were not caught. The Nirginians
then lett for the borough of Indiana.
RrcHrs OF AN The Acadamy at Lyons,
France, has offered q prize of l.200f. for the
best work on tho means of opening fresh sources
OF labor for females, and for placing the wages of
women on q level with those of men, where equal
ity Of service is rendered.
INDrANA.--Hon. John NJ. Wilson Of New ALI
bany, is announced as an independent candidate
for Congress, against English in the Second Dis.
trict. The New Albany Tribune says that he il
zone of the most eloquent talented and popular
speakers in the State. lie will at once m
stamping the District.
PARTiALITY REBUKED.-The following story il
current in Virginia: The Baptists were baptizing
an old negro-a slave. The parson, not thinking
as much of his soul as of the white portion of his
converts, let him drop, and made his way to the
shore. Tho negro, blowing and putting. reached
the shore, and sitting on a stump, remarked that
some gentleman's niggers wouldget drowned yet,
by sich foolishness ~
HIGH PRICE FOR SLAvEs.--The New Orleans
P~icayune states that seven slaves were sold by the
Sheriff. on the Sth instant, under order Of court,
and without guarantee, at an average of Sl,53S.
the highest price paid was for Octave, aged about
~ years, $1,000; the lowest paid was for Olivia,
Sl,l4O. They were purchased for well known
prominent families. When snch prices rs these
Tor slaves are obtained at Sheriifs sale, two things
are clear-that they are in strong demand, and
that they are not, us is commonly supposed de-
preciated by being sold by the Sheriff. -Tuskegee
Republican.
The ALTERNATivE.-The Albany Evening Jour.
nal, a leading Republican paper, (Aug. 9th, pro-
tests strongly against the movements in progress,
for lowering down the platform of the party, by
the abandonment of its original object and pur-
pose its pledged hostility to slavery extension
Sink that distinctice principle. and the party sinks
waM IT, says the Journal. And yet adds the
Journal, there are those who counsel this se!fim.
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FORTY SLAVES YET.-Aaron Cornish, once the
slave of Rev. Levi d. Traverse, q worthy local
preacher in our Church, called at our office a few
daya since. lie Says MIR. Traverse has forty
slaves left. This will do pretty we'll for one
preacher in q Church that has almost entirely
1900 va oin'O'iOidihS' DOuptiCscy .hls IiaN-
erse holds all these slaves for their own good, as
we have no mercenary slaveholding among u.s.
Northern Independent.
200. 600. 0O0--two hundred millions of Africans
were carried to the British West Indies, before
emancipation. After It's years, not more than
1850, 1913 remained, in round numbers eight hundred
thousand 100000 negroes were brought to St.
Domingo from 1850 to 1776; only 800, 800 were to
hp fnnnH thnra ! N Shat l,tto, moo, TIo o...o
decrease in Cuba is from five to ten per cent. On
the other hand, Mr.. Adger, and we have no reason
to doubt the correctness Of his statement, afirms
that the whole number imported into the United
States, 40 tntto, was about four hundred thousand,
and the number, at the present day, is about ton1
miti0RS! Here IS a curious but interesting prob
lem.
About sixty of the prisoners in the Penitentiary
at 0lumbu have been attacked with the typhoid
fever. Two have already died, and about as many
moro cannot survive. In all, there are ONE
twenty cases that may be considered serious
in the others the disease has assumed u mild
type.
A LITERAL FAcT.-A day or two ago q liquor
selling firm near the corner of Columbia and Syc-
amore streets, received the following order from
a Roman Catholic institution, with which they
have dealings:
'Messrs---and-. Please send by
the bearer ten gallons of the best old bourbon
whisky, and charge the same to
HE CHURCH OF THE MOTHER OF GoD."
MIssIssIPPI.-John j. McRae, is to succeed
Gen. Qnitman in Congress, He was the Estate
Rights" or anti Compromise candidate for Govern.
OF in 1850. when Henry S. Foote headed the
Union" Ticket and beat him.
PARALLEL CUsroMs.-In England we expect
proof of a young husbands endurance and brave.
~. We look to see him tolerate, for a time, his
mother-in-law's invasion, and then to behold him
defeat and expell her. Curiously enough, DR..
says that in certain tribes in Africa
mo husband is regarded as a worthy member of
society until he has sustained q severe scourging,
and has killed q rhinocerous."
INDIANA YEARLY MEETING,
OF the Friends of Progress, will bo held in