Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-01-08

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StT pears. An obituary of her Gays:
nhe was the FIRST white woman who settled IN tue
Vaiiey OF the Buckhannon river, coming TO west
ern ' lrginia when quite young, and living WIN
her husband in n hollow tree, at the mouth OF
turkey run, in what is now Upshur county. Inc
deceased retained all her faculties in vigor untii
the close o! her long and evcntful life, and on the
morning of her decease was caressing one oil her
great children, when, feeling weary sue
requested the child ito be quiet, while granny
would lie down and eleep." The venerable old
lady then lay down upon her bed and "slept the
sleep that knows no waking" Her descendants
number between four and Eve hundred.
Col. Albert Pike, os Arkansas. is in Washing
ton, and stronuously denies that be is dead.
The AFRioANs.-The following extraordinary
communication we find in the Edgefeld Is. w.
Advertiser
MIR. EDIToR-Plcase insert this rs an authoriz
ed announcement that the cargo of slaves brought
by the Wanderer from Africa have been landed In
Edgefeld district, and that most of them are no"
within it's confines. This act has been done by u
combination Of many Of the first families in Geor'
GA and South Carolina, from purely patriotic mo-
tives. They ask for suspension OF public opin'
ION until their motives can be explained and their
arguments heard in defence of it.
Coop SroRY.-The following story is told OF
Jenny Mohar, who has so long been the garden
er of the Presidential mansion in Washington.
The President had heard rumors that Jenny
was accustomed to get drunk, and be unciyil to
the visitors at the White House, so one bright
morning he summoned him into his presence to
receive his dismissal. Jenny" said the Presi'
dent, 81 hear bad stories about you. 1t is said
you are constantly drunk and uncivil to visitors. )"
Jenny was puzzled 10 reply-atlast he said: "Mr.
President, | hear much worse stories about you,
but do you think | believe them?"
The BELL CREvAssE AT New ORLEANs-We
have been permitted to examine sketches of the
Bell crevasse, presenting the direction and depth
ot,the current from the levee back about a quarter
OF a mile, made at the instance of the govern
ment. According to the soundings marked upon
the sketch, the deepest water was fifty four feet.
The average depth of three hundred yards from
the river was twenty feet
These soundings exhibit the great power Of the
Mississippi river in cutting a channel for itself in
our alluvial soil. Flowing out without being COM
pressed by banks, but having freedom to spread
iaterally the current of the crevasse commenced to
dig for itself a water way through the level fields,
aud succeeded beyond all our ideas of its power
to effect suck an object.-NeW Orleans Picdyune.
Mr. BEEcHER ON TIE YIoLIN.-Master MALTA
trait, the Brooklyn boy who was sent to Europe by
the members Of Henry Ward Beecher's Sunday
school, to obtain a con- plete musical education, is
doing well. AT a concor! lately given under the
auspices of Mr.. II. w. Hill, Of the royal Italian
Opera, he performed a very diff suit solo on the
violin, 10th air with variations, Da Beriot.) of
which the London Musical Critic says 1T was
played in o style that augurs a brilliant future for
this interesting boy, now only thirteen years Of
age. lie was encored." 1t appears that some of
Mr., Beecher's congregation were shocked at the
idea of tile boy playing the fiddle" Mr. Beech
~ h,roro, -, n arr,Ao ,,Il;,1-
ed the fact of the boys success and iudulged in a
fine peroration upon the heavenly music that could
be produced from a violin, an instrument which
was alluded to by some eminent hymn.writer,
whose name escapes us, in the following couplet
"0h, may my heart be tuned within,
Like David's solemn violin.
WASHINGTON CRY, Dec. 23.-Father Boyle, of
St. Patrick's Church, of Washington, opened the
Senate this morning with prayer. in full priests
dress, the ~surplice and cassock. This is the first
occasion since the foundation of the government
that the entire vestments Of the Romish clergy
have been worn in either chamber of Congress.
THE Coolies IN CUBA.-A Virginia gentleman
of intelligence, who recently visited Cuba, gives a
sad picture of the tolls and suferings to which
the Collie slaves are subjected. They have moth
ing like the capacity of the negro for labor and
VI hnCO, anu Z tho SdhC o aO IipOotu
upon them. When not engaged in the field, they
herd Observation-Disclosures, VIC men and children
in huts, with no semblance of family tie or OBJ
Suicide is common among them, some.
times ten or a dozen hanging themselves at a
time. No provision is made for their return to
their native land, from which they have been be.
guiled, and their masters having no interest in
them, except to get the greatest amount of work
possible out of them during their period Of APP
premiership, heap upon them an amount of labor
soon breaks them down, and often carries
hem to the grave.
DEPARTURE OF A NoToRIErY.-The somewhat no.
toriol Is Captain Townsend OF the alleged SLAYER
barque Echo who has been confined iu the Stuff.
six County Jail for several months, awaiting de-.
,ision as to the juris fiction Of his case, left Bos.
on on Monday in charge of two Government
from the South, to be carried before the
at Key West, that being the judicial
District which the U, S. brig Dolphin first entered
lfter the capture. Deputy U. S. Marshals Free
nan and Carleton are the off GERS who accompany
1patain Townsend.
TIE THEATRE IN UrAu.-A recent letter from
Camp Floyd, Utah, dated November 18th, says:
Last night was the first opening of our Thea
re : for you must know we have some 'Theatri'
amongst the troops. The theatre building
vas crowded 70 its utmost by officers and their la
and the enlisted men of the past. The com.
,any is made up CT enlisted men, and the feminine
is from the Great Salt Lake City, 1t was
,pened last night with the comedy called Used Up,
md concluded with The Dead Shot"
The side scenes were painted with indigo, for
he blue, chalk for the white, and mustard for the
Fellow, and altogether were not lily done. Gen.
Johnson was present on the opening night.
Across the face Of Prussian bank notes is print
ID some fifty times in very small type, the penalty
or counterleiting, which is from five to fifteen
ears imprisonment. so that convicted counterfeit
RS cannot plead ignorance of the Law.
A singular case is before the Campbell County
)ourt, now in session at Alexandria, KY, in which
free negro sues a firm for the value OF services
by his brother, as a slave. This plaintiff
Fields, aged thirty-dve, formerly held in
had by his industry purchased his free,
ON. and some time after bought the brother then
nder age. Elijah held his brother in s~ervitude
nd hired his labor to others.