Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-11-13
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.

steam fire engines, one Of which was tired on
Friday, and worked to the satisfaction OF the
Mayor, several other city officials, and n number
Of iremeu. Steam fire engines in other cities
have to be dragged to fires, but the New YORK
"masheen," according to the Post, OF Saturday,
goes itself. That paper says:
at steored its way through the streets yester'
day with the skill of a Broadway omnibus driver.
Ii is ex pocted, when the thing goes into commis'
sion, that steam will DO kept up all the time, day
and night, which would be about equivalent to a
: fire coripany's sleeping at night with the long
rope in their hands, ready to start at the first tap
of the bell. When the machine reaches the fire
a couple Of rods are disconnected, and instantly
the same power which brought it there goes to
work throwing water through big or little pipes at
a tremendous rate-say GOO or 700 gallons a min
ute. The power is furnished by an annulnr steam
!oIler. with ia vertical tubes. The whole CON
Germ weighs only some five tons, is about six feet
high, and passing through the streets looks like a
drunken ocomotive broke loose. The streams
thrown yesterday were not accurately measured,
but hose was carried to the top Of n five story
building opposite Bowling Green. from which .
stream was thrown from a II inch nozzle about
70 feet higher. Other trials were equally salts
factory.
CHATTLEs.-If there are any Shaws running at
large in the city they will learn to their great re-
greet that n goodly number of bipedal chattles have
recently been within the boundaries of this mu
nicipal corporation without being caught. We
published, yesterday morning, a statement from
the Morgantown (Va) Star, Of ten "niggers,"
three women. two children and five men, who,
in utter disregard of the Bible doctrine, the Anne,
rican Tract Society or Jimmy Buchanan, had run
away. In addition to that fact, we also publish
from the Wheeling Iateit'gencerl the account of an
attempt to re steal them at Bachelor Farm, in
Fayette county, Pa. They-the niggers-fought
like good ones for those glittering generalities call
ed life and liberty" and succeeded in getting
away from IS men who were after them with all
sorts Of deadly in Implements, too numerous to men.
ton. We are now prepared to add that at some
distance from this city these persons, who are no
/ persons, these creatures, which are the same as
horses, asses, ETC., have been placed in q condi-
ton of rest and safety, They were passing along
through some mysterious and to us unknown
agency, under friendly shelter of the night, and
are beyond the immediate reach of their pursuers.
1t may. in fact, be said that they are SO safe that
it would be more dangerous for the pursuers than
it would be for the ohattles if the former should
attempt to follow on and capture the runaways.-
PutsJRryh Gazette, Nov. on.
. Mr.. Longfellow's new poem, Miles Standish.
being criticised rather ceverely in a literary circle,
Q q we'll known critic, Shakespeare scholar"
who was present, obsei we'd that 'evel if the Cam
bridge poet had failed in this last effort to equal
= the merit of his previous works. he had certainly
5 shown great power ind skill in giving the poem
t the interest which it undoubtedly possesses. For
e Priscilla prattles all through the tale and where
could Longfellow have found a subject dryer than
.. Mullin's'talk."
The Washington Union OF Saturday, has o lead
err on 1.-The distracting question of 1913 revived in
. the Democratic party in 1858" and loreshadowing
the exclusion Of Douglas ard all his adherents,
from the Charleston Convention in 1850.
The Reading Journal says that j. Clancy Jones
has resigned his seat in Congress and that the
special election to choose his successor will be held
during the first week in December.
EDUCATION IN ALABAMA.-From the report Of
the Superintendent of Schools in Alabama, we
learn that the aggregate number of schools taught
during the last year, was 22G2; number of pupils,
G9, Ol3. average humber of months taught, q 10
average number in daily attendance, S9,8S7 total
8 Cost of schools, 500, SS9.
n Tho Governor of Missouri is a beautiful r,pre.
9 sentative of the Border Rufian Chivalry. Twice
since he filed the Gubornatorial Chair, he has
n been whipped when drunk. A few days ago he
n was found drunk at a negro wedding. Upon this
the Jefferson City Inquirer says; 'If frolicking
with negroes, drinking with negroes, eating with
u negroes-isn't establishing negro equality" we
9 would like to know what is."
e IF any but good Democrats were found drunk
at negro weddings, the excitement of those op
posed to amalgan,ation would be dreadful. The
u 4 a pNNiNN1 nun hhNo'Nhi ibO DO
mocracy reserve for themselves Cincinnati Com
= me'etas.
= The Gallatin, Tenn, Examiner of the 30th ult.
says that during the past week q great many emf
u grants to the far " est have passed through that
place. among them a large party from Anderson
5 county, East Tennessee. and another fOm Lincoln
l county, North Carolina, the former bound for Kan
sas, the latter for Arkansas. The North Caroliuians
y numbered six. families with sixty.nine souls.
. CABBAGEs AND DIsuNIoN.-We have found a
new bond of union for our republic. The Atlanta
Georgian acknowledges tho receipt Of ~cabbages
s from the New! York market, which sell readily
y at 400 per cent advance on cost, and says the idea
Of a people who will not raise their own ~cabbageS
:. being bored to death by asitatocs about ~indepen'
= dence and urged to disunlOn is preposterous, III
they will not raise cabbages now they will not
E raise them then, and the South would have to i'm
Y port them from a foreign country with a tariff Of
two or three cents per head tackled on to help to de-
r fray the expenses OF the the Government, or for in.
cideRtal protection to encourage the home pruduc-
ton Dissolve the Union and import cabbages--
preposterous !-LouiSUiHe Journal.
The Chester countyi(Pa J Times says it is report
ed that Thaddeus Stevens, after being assured of
a his election to Congress from the Lancaster dis
e in spite of all the efforts of the President to secure
his defeat, went to the Telegraph Office and des.
, patched the following message: 'I0 HIS Ercetleh'
cy James Buchanan PM COMING"
HIGH Prices FOR SLAvEs,-On Thursday last the
personal estate of Ex-Governor Thomas in Peters
Vile district, Frederick county, Maryland, was
sold at public sale, when fourteen slaves brought
an aggregate of Sl3,257. One sold for Sl,455
another for 81 Ais, and a third for $500.
Hon, Joshua r. Giddings has been lecturing at
St. Louis, on The Laws that Govern U.s."
A malignant cholera broke out among the slaves
OF a Jefferson parish planter, and in one day
eighty, out of about one hundred on the place,
died of the pesrilence, says the New OrleaDs Delta
of the 23d.
Elk Gov. GEARY SPLICFD.-Jobn w. Geary, Elk.
Governor Of Kansas, was married on Tuesday
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