Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-02-19
THE ANTI-sEAvER


Mn. GiDDINo's TESTIMONIAL Washington FEB.
Q, lS59.--Tho testimonial TO Joshua r.. GiddinEs,
now completed. is on exhibition at Messrs. Cali
u Brother, the manufacturers, of this city. IL
OF n solid silver tea set of six pieces, and
a highly ornamented waiter. The groundwork OF
its style of ornament is whit is technically known
as "engine turned" a style highly popular from
it's exceeding chasteness, and the advantage 1t pos
sesses over work entirely plain. in not showing
marks or scratches. This is relieved by engraved
approximation of the tea plant, water lilies. &c.
The handles and spouts are beautifully wrought
in scroll and leaf work, and on each piece is an
ornamented shield bearing the following inscriP'
ton
''IreSented Jy One Hundred and -Four Members of
Tie ThirtyJyh Congress, 10 Joshua Il. Giddings'
as o token Of respect for his moral ioorth and per-
sonat integrity"
Accom- panying the service Of silver is a walk.
ing cane, of rare and beautiful wood, mounted
with q massive gold head, which bears a similar
inscription to that on the service. In accordance
with Mr.. Giddings' wishes, no oremony has been
made in presenting the service. 1t has sirnpl
been notified to him that there are q few articles
at Messrs. Gait & Brother awaiting his order.
The whole cost of the testimonial vas five hundred
and twenty dollars Washington Republic,
AN UNJUST TAx.-The government of the Uni
TED states in the nineteenth century continues to
make an Englishman pay $500 whenever he solic.
its a patent for an invention in this country-all
other foreigners only paying 5000 for the same
privilege. This. in the estimation of oil liberal
men, is an indecent discriminat on "a disgrace to
our statute bookstore that ought to be wiped out
at once, 1t there was any gumption in the Con.
gressional Patent Committee, this disgrace would
not be tolerated another month. We despair Of
any change ut present there is no one to lobby it
through, therefore there is little or no chance Of
its success.
HUMBOLDT closes q note to DR.. Lieber, dated De.
cember II, 1858, as follows:
81 am ninety years old barrassed with CORES.
%pondence beyond ali bounds-twenty five hundred
letters a year. ..
with true friendship. yours,
AL. HUMBOLDT"
Miss Sarah p. Remond, Of Salem, Mass, has
delivered a strong anti slavery lecture in Liver.
pool, before a crowded audience. Rev. w. Ii.
Chanting presided. Miss II. was enthusiastically
received.
A WHITE Boy ARRESTED UNDER THE FUoIrIvE
SLAVE LAw.-Wednesday afternoon Philip Strick.
iemore. a ~shoemaker's apprentice, who ran away
from his employer, in Philadelphia, was brought
before United States Commissioners Bolts, to whom
an application was made under the Fugitive Slave
law OF 1858, to send the Ascending boy back
MIR. Belts held that the act of 1850 apr lied only
TO SfaUes escaping from another state, and not to
apprentice boys. lie accordingly ordered the boy
to be discharged. 1t appears that previous to this
the boy had been taken before Mayor Tiemann
and Justice Welsh, both of whom declined to in
terfere in the matter.
DEATH OF Mrs. WoRDswoRTn.-Mrs. Words.
worth, widow Of the poet, died on Monday night,
the l7ih ult, at IL O'clock.
The Daily Neps says:
"There was something moGrnful in tho linger'
ing Of this aged lady-blind, deaf and 6creaved
in her latter years but she was not m2urniui
any more than she was insensible. Age did moi
blunt her feelings, nor deaden her interest in the
events of the day. 1t seems not SO very long ago
that she said that the worst of living in such a
place las the Lake distTict) was its making one
unwilling to 60. 1t was too beautiful to let one
be ready to leave it. Within a few years the be-
loved daughter was gone. and then the devoted
friend, Mr.. wordsworth's publisher, Mr.. Mcxon,
who paid his duty occasionally by the side Of her
chair ; then she became blind and deaf. Still her
chcerfulness was indomitable."
A New PLANT.-The shrub introduced from
China by Mr.. Fortune, to the Horticulture Soci.
ETY. OF London, under the name of Spirpa qrandi-
flora, has proved itself quite hardy and o belong
to another genns-it is now called the ErOchorda
grandJaora. The flowers withstand the spring
irosts, and in the latitude of London begin to app
pear about the middle of April, and continue till
the end of May they form beautiful spikes of
pure white; which stand erect above the branches,
ana are as large as those of a Philadelphus."-
Michigan Farmer.
GENERAL Walkers CONVERSION TO RoMAN1sM.
The Mobile Mercury of the lst., publishes ar
extremely interesting account of the reception of
Gen. Walker OF fllibustering notoriety, into the
fold Of the roman Catholic Church. 1t is CRAFTY.
ing to know that the General has become a mem.
Der OF any church; but it is possible that there
may be some people uncharitable enough to i'm,
agine that his change of religion is emily a prelude
to another foray upon Central America, and that
he is preparing to render himself acceptable to
the people of that distracted country by embracing
their religion. The Mercury has no doubt that
Gen. Walker was induced to enter the fold Of the
Catholic Church from Overwhelming conviction, ;"
and we have no doubt such was the case. The
great fllibuster to do him no more than Justice, ap.
pears to have been influenced by an overwhelming
conviction in all his escapades.-N. Y. Times.
BURNING OF WILLIAM AND MARY CoLLEGE.-PE.
TERsBuRG, Va, FEBRUARY S.-The William and Ma.
ry College, al Williamsburg, including the library
and the laboratory, was destroyer by fire at three
O'Clock this morning. 1t was the oldest i%nstitu.
ton in the country. The students oil escaped.
Insurance S22.0 600.
New Issue IN LoUIsIANA.-The re.opening of
the Slave Trade is fast becoming an issue in the
South. In the Louisiana Senate q Bill has been
declaring in a preamble, that the
right OF tho people of Louisiana to purchase slave
property in any market" where negroes are for
sale, has never been alienated, and authorizing
the said people ito purchase negro slaves from
Cuba, Brazil, or Africa" and to hold the same
in Louisiana. After a spicy debate, the bill was