Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-01-22

GETTING WELL AoArv.--Mr. Sberrard Clemens,
the fiery Virginia gentleman. who paid rather
dearly for the luxury of fighting q duel, by be
ing shot in the leg, and lying afterwards for
months III imminent danger of death. is al last
nearly recovered. 1t is thought he will be able to
leave his room in q few weeks.
A PRopuEcY.-The Hon. Stephen A. Douglas
was once a cabinet maker. lie never will be
again, though he may dream that ho will.
DEAD LETTER OFrIcE.-The following exhibit
show the recovery Of money in the dead letters ro'
ceived at the General Post Office during the year
ust closed
Quarter endiag March 81, 2,472 Sl3.467 Is
Quarter ending June 80. 4,549 l,498 IS
Quarter ending September 80 1929 1901 70
Quarter ending December 81 2,74l l2,035 80
Total, S59,0l4 Il
Under tho prompt and efficient action of this
branch, about nine.tenths of the amount have been
safely restored to its rightful owners.
MrsrAKiNG A BLACK REPUBLICAN FOR A Red Re-
pUDLIcAN.--The Paris correspondent of the Boston
Traveller gives and amusing account Of the arrest
Of Mr.. William Lee Of Boston. He was walking
in the garden of the Tulleries, when he was seized
by two secret policemen aud taken before the Com
missary of Police. The correspondent writes
"Mr. Lee explained to the Commissary who he
was, and showed him his passport (which he for.
%tunatolY had in his ~pocket). The scene
instantly changed. The Commissary of Pc.
lice asked him ten thousand pardous for
the inconvenience to which he had been
subjected, and hoped he would forgive the
stupidity CT the policemen. The Commissary
soundly rated the officers. lie told Mr.. Lee they
were charged to arrest an Italion, a Red Republic,
an, who was supposed to be lurking in Paris with
the intent to assassinate Louis Napoleon, and |
am sure added the Commissary with a smile, that.
you are no Red Republican, No. said Mr.. Lee,
Il am a Black Republican. 'Voyez vous p exclaim.
ed the Commissary, turning to the policemen who
looked as though they could creep into some ole
'CeSt IN negres deS Estats Jnis,:--IIe is q negro
from the United States J"
The SALT QUESTION DEcfDED.-The pnckers of
pork and beef at Chicago, Illinois. have decided
that Syracuse salt ansH ers their purpose better
than imported salt. This decision agrees with the
result of some experiment made by order of the
general Increment, some years ago.
The records Of the weather at Montreal show
that the four days from January 9th to 18th, to-
gether form the coolest period for % wears. On
the llth, the mercury married. 80 degrees below
zero. At St. Martins, near Montreal. on the
10th, the spirit thermometer marked 1876 below
zero.
WILMINGTON. Thursday, Jan. 10, 1S59.-The
Hon. Willard Salisbury. of Sussex, has this day
been elected United States Senator for the State Of
Delaware, by the Legislature at Dover.
Lord Macauley has announced that he will con.
fine himself in future to his closet as a historian,
and take no further part in public life.
CuBA.-A rumor was recently circulated. of a
threatened revolution in Cuba, By the arrival at
New York OF the schooner Julia NJ. Iialleck,"
we learn that it was utterly unfounded. The
Times OF that city furnishes the following expla-
nation:
"She has brought back thirty tco Americans,
who had been induced to 60 out to Cuba as labor
ers upon the Railroad from San Jago de Cuba to
Trinidad. which is in the hands of on American
which has its head quarters in this city.
IL was their presence in Cuba that alarmed the
susceptible gentleman whose report was sent by
telegraph from New Orleans to our City press.
They found that they had been deceived by the
agent OF tho com pany, and on representing the
affair to the Cuban Government, were promptly
sent back to New York under its charge but at the
expense of the Company"
MORE HORSES FOR THE BRITIsH TuRF.-RobertI
Harlan. a colored man, an excellent Judge of hors.
es, and q first rate trainer, has purchased two of
h''o hOsSS0 40 ~ ~ blEh u G |
and will take them to England in the spring, to
contend for the honors of the turf. The names OF
the horses are 'Des Chiles' and Cincinnati
The London times, taking for its text Mr.. Blu
chanan's letter TO the meeting in celebration of the
capture OF Fort Duquesne, comments on the Ges-
ponding tone in which the President speaks OF the
future Of the Republic, and brings into contrast
the language OF public men on the future prospect
OF England, who deem that highlands evils are
passing away, while the tone of American socie.
~ indicates shat those Of the New World are in
crsasing.
WohEN's RIGnTs-SwEEDEN AHEAD,-Accord.
ing to a statement in the Stockholm 1fion6iad the
authorities of the old University town Of Upsal
having granted elective franchises TO so pomen
owning real estate, and to 81 doing bushes on
their own account. The representative that their
votes assist in eiecting will sit in the House of
Burghsrs, or Merchants.
WHITE NAN SoLD.-Charles Yates, who for
years past has been an exceedingly dissolute
IN this city. was sold on Saturday, in
'front.' OF the court house, under the vagrant act.
One dollar was oil that was paid for this %unfortu.
nate specimen Of the Caucasian race.-LouisriWe
I5h uh.
CHARLESTON. Jan. 1.-THE Isabel brought liza.
'ana dates to the 9th inst. The slave trade is car.
rled on with great activity in Cuba. Two thous.
ana negroes are reported as recently landed. An
system of smuggling lard in packages
represented as containing potatoes, has been die
An order will soon be issued rsqdiring
'srgoes 70 be certified by the Spanish Consuls,