Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-07-10
miscellaneous Summary.

ADMISSION OF FEMALES TO THE UNIVERSITY OF
IcHiGAN.--Ihis question came before the meet.
ing 81 the Board o Regents of the State un,ver.
SHY at their April Meeting. in tue shape of Il
memorial from certain young ladies' asking to be
admitted as students. The immortal was referred
to II SPECIAL COMMITTEE consisting of McsSIs. Luke
IL. Parsons II, Corunna, b. l.. Raxter Of Tecum.
sch, and b. Mcintyre Of Ann ArOor.
AT tue meeting of the Board held last week,
this committee made "A report. Messrs. Parsons
and Baxter reunrrinG in favor Of granting the
petition and Mr.. Mcintyre Opposing. After IA
lengthy discussion, on request of the committee,
the matter was to them to re port at
their September meeting.--DetrOH iOune 2SM.
We learn from Sierra Leone that the British
cruisers on the coast Of Africa, seized seven sus.
pected slayers, six of them Americans. ia April
and Mas last. One of these ca ptured vessels was
discharged, as there was not sufficient proof
against her; the Others would appear 10 he either
Condemned or still in custody. How long i, it
slice an American cruiser has captured 4 British
SLAYER, or a SLAYER under any other lag,-N, y.
Tribune.
More amusement than was consistent with the
sulemnty of the occasion. was created by the clos,
ing prayer in the House OF Representatives. when
the minister prayed the divine mercy to ''oyer rule
all The doings" OF the session.
LAD s' DREEssEs IN PARIs.-A letter from Par.
IS, of late date, says:
There is no diminution in the circumference of
the jupons and flounces of the fair sex, Through
out the winter the macadinized streets are a vel
low pool. Nothing can exceed the ridiculous fg.
ure of our small d ,mes of the hautton in the pro.
tuberance of their coats and robes. rs they endeav,
or 10 their walks to defend themselves from the
mud In summer the mud becomes a fle dust.
which the trailing Dresses of the present fashion.
ahles gather in quantities. as our fine ladies sweep
through the Blulevards and Champs Elysees.--
We see magnificent materials, costing many hun
drei francs, answering the purpose Of street cleans.
es and carrying into gilded halls and on to moquet
carpets, the dirt with which the thoroughfares of
a great city must abound.
Hon. Schuyler Colfax has been nominated by
the Republicans Of the Ninth Indiana District, for
re election to Congress. The vote was unanimous.
CAMBRIDGE "SENIoR WRANoLER' AN AMERICAN.
The highest honor al the University of Cam
bridge, England--that of "Senior Wrang,er"--
was taken this year by NJ. B. Pell, an American
student.
MISS Cow, THE CRAYoN ARrrsr.--At the Ar
lists, Exhibition in New York recently. the Crayon
Drawings of Miss Cove, OF Cincinnati, attracted
particular attention, Her "Prodigal Sun" was
pToilnlnt u ny NH' ith'inE NcW IpTh php6E5, as
superior to anything of the kind exhibited.
WEALTHY CoLoRED PEoPLE.-The Plaquemine
La Gazette Of the l2th, ult., says the planta-
ton of the late Samuel I. HARRISON some three or
four miles from Bayon Goula. was purchased on
the 9Th. by the sun Of gprien Ricari, a free wo
man of color, for $240 600 at sherif's sals. The
mother of the purchaser owns a large plantation
in the neigEborhood.
President Nam, Of Antioch College; has baen
elected President Of the Faculty and Professor of
Ethics in the North Western Christian University
at Indianapolis.
%Longwood, the place on St. Helena where Ma.
poleon spent his exile, and the scence of his death,
has been purchased by the French Government
Reports Of crops are everywhere most promis'
ing,