Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-03-20
miscellaneous GummarD.

Senator Douglas is prescribing .he Washing.
ton Union. The Peoria Transcript publishes the
following:
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-Dear Sir: Accompa.
nIying this please find a prospectus Of the Was.
ington States, the only Democratic paper nop pub.
!ished in the District Of Columbia. I should
esteem it a particular favor if you would exert
Yourself 20 obtain Us large a list of subscribers in
Peoria AZ possible. Yours truly,
STEPHEN A DOUGLAS.
The Transcript says between twenty five and
thirty subscribers were Immediately obtained 70,
the States ON the strength Of the above comm
dation.
Mr.. Joseph II. Harris, formerly of Richmond
Va, was recently murdered at New Providence,
Tenn, by a slave of VIM. Gray. Mr.. ii. was
sitting in his office reading, when the fellow ap.
preached and buried an axe in his head. After
repeating the blow and th~rust:ng his victims head
into the fire, he set fire to the Office, but the flames
were soon discovered and suppressed. The muir
derer was arrested by the Sheriff. from whom he
was Immediately taken by the citizens of Clarks'
vile. A committee of twelve having been ap.
pointed to try him, found him guilty. and he was
hung on the spot, after confessing his guilt.
PLEASANT VARIETY !-One of the Sunday papers,
The Illus, in its last issue, records in one column
its approval OF the Religious Revivals now so ex.
tensively prevailing, in another it's joyful acqui-
essence in the revival of the slave trade at the
South, and in another its pleasure in anticipation
of the success Of the Lecompton villany The
editor probably imbibsd his ideas of religion from
the Nep York Observer, or from the pu,pits of
which that paper is a fit echo.-A. S. Standard,
The Passage by the Texas Legislature, just
adjourned, of an act calling for q Southern Con.
vention to dissolve the Union, and appropriating
$40. 900 out of any money in the Treasury to de-
fray expenses. in the event of the rejection of the
| X npsaa vrinHla hy nnra 10 a rinh i,Ea mhan
il is considered that the State is compromising
with her creditors. The Treasury Of Texas don't
contain ten thousand dollars. or ten thousand
cents. These are the fellows who want the Union
dissnlved, if Kansas is not forced into the Union
under a repudiated swindle for a constitution.
BARON MuNcHAusEN.-Miss Brewster (daugh-
ter of Sir David,) in her Letters from Cannes
and Nice" says: Baron Munchausen is at Nice!
My father mot him at q c-nic the other day, and
heard from him the history of his celebrated
namesake. One of his ancestors had q chaplain
who was famous for drawing a long bow told. in
fact, the most false and extravaganza stories. His
patron, the Baron of those days, wrote a book
out Heroding Herod, being a collection of still
more marvellous adventures for the purpose Of
~shaming the priest. for which laudable design he
was punished. by having his own name held up to
%posterity as the story.teller par erceuence." This
shows that it is very dangerous to lie, even in lest.
The Munchausens are a Hanoverian family.
j. B. Cough. the great Temperance lecturer,
has commenced legal proceedings against DR..
Lees, of Leeds, England. for an alleged defama.
tion of character; and the trial il is expected,
will shortly come on in the Law Courts in Lon.
don.
MIssoURI-Old Murphy. as he calls himself,
a wealthy planter of Platte County, said that be
had always done his work by slave labor until the
last year, and that slavery was all right; but it
cost more than free labor, and therefore he had
sold his slaves, and many of his neighbors were
doing the same. He also said that every week
two or three runaways were arrested in his neigh
borhood.
The FLORIDA WAR.-George CONWAY. the Glib.
way chief, and eleven other red men now in
Washington, have recently proposed to the Gov.
.ernment to send a deputation of three of their
number to Billy Bowlegs, for the purpose of con-
vincing him of the folly Of resisting the United
States, and inducing him and his followers to emi.
CRATE peacefully to a new home in the West.
Advices from Tampa, Florida. state that Billy
Bowlegs had sent his negroes to the fort there,
to say that the Indians were willing to emigrate.-
Bowlegs had sent for Jumper to hold a talk. ri
this proposition is acre pted il will most seriously
affect the prosperity of Florida. which has four
ished for years on the patronage and expenditure
of the Billy Bowleg' war.
UNITED STATES TRooPs.-Army recruits arc
being sen. of from the depot at Governors Island
in considerable numbers About 800 left last
week for Jefferson Barracks, Mo-. and about as
many more will leave In the course Of the present.
month, probably direct for For, Lsavsnwcrtb.