Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-02-26

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and speechmaking to kill it have been transferred to
the House, but the present session Mr.. Seward
and other leading Republican Senators had pre-.
pared themselves to exhibit the character of the
claim and give it a death blow whenever MI. Ma.
son should call it up, 1t is stated that the speech
Mr.. Seward had prepared has been in type in
Washington for a month. Mr.. Dixon, Of Conn.
also has an elaborate argument against the claim,
ready Tor delivery, but he must rest cOntert with.
out the honors of delivery this winter ere1aad
Leader.
The First African Baptist Church of louisville,
Ky. have recently erected a new. elegant and ca.
pacious house of worship. The body of tue
church will hold about seven hundred persons.
The cost of the church is about SIS, 900, of which
some So 600 remain unpaid. The pastor is Rev.
Henry Adams, said to be a scholar, and a
colored man of considerable reputation as a pulpit
orator.-Fred. Douglass Paper.
Horace Greedy has addressed a letter to Mr..
Bonner of The New York Ledger, begging not 10
be included in the list of poets whose productions
the latter has announced his intention of publish.
ing in a volume. Mr.. G. says:
"Mr. Bonner, be good enough-you must-to
exclude me from your poetic Pantheon. have
no business therein-no right and no desire to Re
installed there. l am no poet never was tin
expressiOn), and never shall be. True. | wrote
some verses in my callow days, as | presume most
persons who can make ineligible penmarks have
Idone-but l never was a poet, even in the mists OF
~deluding fancy. All my verses, | trust. would no,
fill one of your pages they we've mainly written
under the spur of some local or personal incite.
ment, which long ago passed away. Though in
structure metrical, they were in essence prosaic-
they were read by few, and those few have kindly
forgotten them. Within the last ten years. | have
been accused of all possible and some impossible
offences against good taste, good morals and the
common weai-I have been branded aristocrat
comuuionist, infdel, bypocrit, demasogue. disun
ionist, traitor, CORFU psionist, &C., &c.-but | can,
not rememember that any one has flung in my face
my youthful transgressiOns in the way Of thyme.
Do not then, accord to the malice OF my enemies
this forgotten means of annoyance. Let the dead
rest and let me enjoy the reputation which |
covet and deserve, of knowing poetry from prose,
would subvert, since the undiscerning majority
would blindly infer that / considered them poetry.
Let me up !"
DID NOT RELISH "DowN EAST" LlFE.-Among
the matters before the Mayor On Yesterday was
the case of a fine looking mullatto girl, named
Harriet Hall, a manumitted slave. She, on being
made "free," went off to the State of Massachu.
sets, thinking that there she would enjoy the
luxury of being as good as the best of them. AT.
ter being 'down East" for a while, she found that
all Northern freedom talk and higher law decla.
nation are nothing more than a bogus gold that
%glitters. Harriet soon began to sigh for her "Old
Virginia home" which, with all its faults. she low
ed still. Consequently, she returned to this citv,
but as the law forbids m%anumitted slaves to re,
main here, she was arrested and made TO give Sc.
curity in $500 that she would leave the State in
ten days and not return again.-Richmond En-,
puirer, Feb. 3.
This is Virginia chivalry 1! Prosecuting and
banishing a poor colored woman who came into
State to visit her relations
ToBACco.-Dr, Harlow. the Superintendent of tie
Maine Insane Asylum, in his annual report of that
institution for 1858 says:
The use OF tobacco, now so general, is one OF
the most powerful agents that can be employed ia
impair the functions of he stomach and digestive
organs. and prevent the healthy exercise of the
mental powers. Its pernicious effect upon the
brain and nervous system is obvious to all who
are called to treat the insane. A large class OF
our patients have been addicted to it's l~nveterate
use, and in many cases it has been q prominent
cause in developing the disease"
During the past year Lynn has manufactured
more than 10000 600 pairs Of shoes. The shoe
business of Massachusetts Is valued at $40, 900, DOC
a year, ard one half the shoes made in that State
are manufactured in Lynn so the thriving city
of Lynn annually manufactures $50, 600, 600 worth
of shoes.
THE SLAVE TRADE. "A private letter from Jack
sonville, Florida, states that a bark left there a
few weeks ago for Africa, to take in a cargo OF
negroes tortbat State and Georgia, and tha. a brig
loft port the previous day to meet the vessel, and
transport the cargo at sea. The letter states that
it is firmly believed, at Jacksonville, that the
slave trade has been re.opened.
The New Brighton Times says the statement in
the Pittsburgh Gazette that twenty,three runaway
slaves crossed the river at New Brighton a few
nights since, is news to the people there. Very
likely. We did not learn that their entry into
New Brighton was generally known, or publicly
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