Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-10-23
MlistcIlaneous 5unlmarD.

Laatolllluittui5 SuUtIluIU.
A SECOND COMET IN SIGuT.-Another comet has
made its appearances. Tuttle's comet can now be
ssen in the constellation Pegasus, without the aid
of a telescope. This group is in d direct range
with a line drawn from the two pointers in the
Great Dipper' through the North star, and liz
about as far from that tody as Arcturus.
FINANCES OF VIRGINIA.-During the fiscal year
ending the Both ult, the receipts of the Treasurer
of the State of Virginia amounted Including a
previous balance of S370,97l) to the sum Of 80
5lS,9O7, and the disbursements to 80 ,364, 900, lcav'
ing II balance Of Sl24,0 07.
The Rev. John Sawyer, OF Maine, completed his
l03d year on the 9th inst. He is still in fair health,
and occasionally performs his duties as a Congre.
gational clergyman.
The President has appointed DR.. James Mellow
ell, of Missouri, Consul'General to Constantinonle
This gentleman is the Oldest son Of the late Gov.
Mcdowell, of Virginia.
FINDING HIS LEvEL.-John Mitchell, editor of the
Southern Citizen" announces that after the 18th
of November, the place Of its publication will be
changed from Knoxville, Tenn, to Washington
city, the center of political vagabondism.
Judge Bowlin, tho Commissioner to Paraguay,
is n lawyer Of St. Louis, who was sent to Congress
from 1913 to 1850, and was a warm supporter of
tie Fugitive Slave law and other pro,slavery fea.
lures of the Compromise Of 1850. St. Louis has
become disinclined to support his sort of politics.
The President rewards what the people condemn.
Orr WITH MS IIEAD!-The work of decapitation
has begun ut the custom house. Yesterday Mr..
W. a. Eagle, inspector, vas dismissed. He lived
in Delaware county, and voted the regular Lecomp.
ION ticket but he was UpDU1jujpJ with Jthp Hi.L-
man. The sad fact was sufficient t. mark him as
IN object of vengeance. 81. b." will not permit
his officers to even speak to anybody not in favor Of
Lecoh. pton. Alas for the republic. Philadelphia
Dispatch.
Punch says, "the comet rejoices in n tail, which
strangely enough, has been denied to the dog star"
The Cincinnati Gazette states that not less than
$3.50, 600 in bets have changed hands in that city
in consequence of the late elections. Several per.
sons have been nearly made bankrupt by the loss
of the money they have staked. OF tho hats, coats,
lager, oysters. etc, which have been won and lost,
the number is
The sway of fashion has no limits. All yield
to its influence. Some of the refractory females
in the Dutlia poor house were lately seen in the
full bow of the present mode. Inquiry was made
and it was found they had abstrac ted the wire
fences Of the garden and formed hoops, which they
attached to their dress to ape the m ode which now
RACES.
ExrRAvAGANCE IN uIdu LIFE IN IRELAND.--The
Limerick Chronicle mentions the following case Of
extravagance: "a landed proprietor, who came of
age TWO years ago, has been obliged to leave the
country in consequence of his embarrassment. On
attaining the age of 81, he had ESQ, 900 in bank,
which he has got rid of and accumulated debts
since to the amount of f400,0 600. lie kept open
house for high and low"
The Hon. Jefferson Davis has spent most of the
summer in New England, principally in Maine,
and it is reported that. though he has made
speeches on several public occasions, he has not
uttered a single disunion sentiment. On the con-
trary, he has been uniformly lavish in praise of
Yankee institutions. lie will have ia explain
when he goes back to Mississippi. His pro.slave.
ry orthodoxy is already called in question by sew.
eral Southern journals.
AN ANCIENT CHURcH,-The "First Church in
Hartford" Connecticut Congregational, mnst b.
a model of it's kind. 1t has been in existence two
hundred and twenty-five years, and has never dis,
missed a pastor. 1t has had ten in all. nine Of
whom have lived and died among their people,
AID the tenth. the venerable DR.. Hawes, has now
been in charge of it for forty years, and seems
likely to remain, as his predecessors did, till death.
Charles Francis Adams, in his late letter &C.
cepting a nomination to Congress in the Third
District Of Massachusetts, well says that the
questions at present dividing the country, touch
the very essence of free government; :" and that
two centuries of labors and suferings to uphold
every liberal movement for the advancement Of
mankind" are involved in the contest.
Keitt has been making another speech in South
Carolina, breathing the warmest devotion to Bu'
Chanan. Occasional" writes to the Press that
this fact shows that Buchanan has succeeded in
accomplishing what Old Hickory never could do
-adopting a policy exactly suited to the tastes of
the nullifiers OF that State! This is one of the few
things in which Buchanan has surpassed jackson!
The QUAKER VoTE.-An exchange thinks that
the Quakers in Philadelphia very generally voted
on Tuesday. 1t is not often they go to the polls or
mingle in politics in any way but they couldn't
restrain their wholesome indignation on account
of the recusancy Of Mr.. Buchanan.