Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-01-01
miscellaneous 5%tsmmorp.

Post-ofices and Postroads are assigned to Mr..
Yulee, of Florida, who gets his letters by Bride
paths through swamps. The Federal Capitol to
Mr.. Brown of Mississippi, which threatens to dis.
solve the Unionl The Library to Mr.. pearce. of
Maryland, which makes it a crime to teach the
Bible.
Gen. Davis, the other representative Of the war
on the Union," Mississippian, is made Chairman
of Military Affairs. Mr.. Green, who was elected
Ivy the Border-Ruffans, 10 made Chairman Of Ter
%ritories albany Eceaing journal, l6h.
Mr.. Bingham, Of Ohio, introduced a bill to re-
peal the English act for the admission Of Kansas
into the Union. Referred to the Committee on Ter.
ritories.
Mr.. Letter, Of Ohio, introduced o bill authori-
zing the people Of the Territories to elect all their
ofhcers,. Referred to the same committee.
MIR Blair, Of Mo-, asked but did not receive the
consent OF the House, to introduce u resolution
declaring the Supreme Court decision in the bred
Scott case extra;judicial, illegal and void, aad as
serting that Congress should viudicate its right to
iegisiate Gu slavery in the Territories.
Mr.. Bingham, Of Ohio, introduced a bill provi'
Ding that the present mileage system be abolish
cd alter the present Congress, and that the menu
bers be allowed only their actual travelling expen'
ses. Referred to the Committee on mileage.
TIE French SLAVE TRADE.-The official returne
CT the French Colonial Office show that l6, 800
negroes have been obtained Ivy French agents
from the eastern coast of Arricl, and conveyed
to the island Of Bourbon, or Reunion. French
Guiana has received eight hundred and seventy
two Africans, Martinique five hundred and fifteen,
and Gauda!oupe six hundred and ninety eight.
These latter are presumed to have been brought
from the west coast. The signal abuses and
horrors which have attended this disguised slave
4 tra1p q Q illpctr,ta1 - Il H., Cy,U, py,p,po
CGti and tho Charles Ct Georges, have doubtless
reached the ears and received tho attention of the
Emperor Of tho French, and there is reason to
hope the new system will be abolished. The de-
cided stand taken by Liberia, and the earnest re.
nonstrlnces oil that young and vigorous nation
respecting the cargo ~forcibly, aud in violation OF
her laws, attempted to be made up within her ter
ritoriGl Jurisdiction, has had no little influence in
producing this very desirable result.
GOVERNOR OF SOUTH CARoLINA.-The SouthCar
Gilman Legislature elected on joint ballot, Col.
William A. Gist, of Union district, Governor for
The succeeding term of two years. Col. Gist was
fo- many years q member of the Senate, and il
lS4S was Lieutenant'G Governor. during the term Of
Gov. Seabrook.
The Japanese officials have undertaken to learn
English in five Yeas, after which time all commu-
~nications with that court are to be in our mother
tongue. 1t is to be hoped that the authorities q,
the State Office in Washington, will understand
this to be q reciprocal duty, and that they will i'm
m~edintely apply themselves to the pleasant and
useful task of mastering the Niphon dialect.
TAsso's PAWS T1cKEr.-An incorrigible book,
worm turning over some old manuscript the other
day at the Imperial Library in Paris, fumbled out
Il strange musty piece Of paper, which proved to
be q pawn ticket of Torquato Tasso-a real curl
osity Of literature. II shows that the author of
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waistcoat with "Signor Abraham Levi" for 'yen.
ticinque liyres, on the I'd Of March, 1870.
RAsCALLY.-We learn from the Steubenville pa.
pers thar Jacob s.. Shoman, a railroad contractor
went from that place about the 25th of last March
to ia ksonport, Arkansas, to railroad there, and
decoyed away with him, as his body servant, O
mulatto boy Of Steubenville, named George M'Pher
son. Shoman was not very successful in Arkau.
sas, and finally sold George to his creditors for 81,
SEQ. Georges parents live in S;eubenvi!le.
New York is certainly O great city. They
have now Il Dog Boarding House" and one is nd
yer,ised at the corner Of Broadway and Forty
fifth streets, The keeper will board dogs al 81
per week, and train for 81 80.
The New York tax. levy for 1859, will amount to
nearly eight millions Of dollars. Here are tie
principal items:-a million for the police, o mill
ion for water, eight hundred thousand for the
poor, q million and a quarter for the schools, o
million and 4 half for streets, half a million for
light, thirteen hundred thousand for the State, six
hundred thousand Gor salariee.
ATTACHING CUBA. Senator JEFF. Davis has q
way Of his own for taking Cuba. His project is
las the Uuion states) ITO proceed by attachment
against Spain, as an absent. abscOnding or fraud
ulent debtor" The Government says that lin
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think Spain.wil! be found to be present, and her
next friends" England and France also.
QCEER PLACE FOR AN EDIToR. The Editor of
the Kinds County Gazette, who lost his Office by
the late destructive fire in Raymond, Miss having
collected his traps together, thus announces his
position
"Iiaving passed through the publication Of fire,
we have gone, where the pure should ever he
found-in the Church. Those of our friends who
may have business with US, can find us in the
Episcopal Church, where we are ready for every
good word and work"
A mob at Huntsville, Ala, last week, took a
criminal named Carter, arrested on = requisition
from the Governor Of Pennsylvania, from the hands
Of the sheriff, and the Philadelphia officers were
obliged to make a hasty retreat. The mob said
they were paying the fugitive slave rescuers of the
North in their own coin. If they will make he,
roes Of our criminals and keep them fiom coming
back, the North will not find fault with the ar
rangement.
FREEDOM.-We copy the following item from the
Richmond South
"On Wednesday evening a resident Of Prince
William County, named Crawford, wos committed
TO Jail ty Justice kankey, charged with declaring
that he was an aboiitionist: that he believed a me-
gro as good as he was, if he behaved himself; and
maintaining, by speaking. that persons have moi
the right OF property in slaves under the law"
DOUGLAS SLAyEs.-Senator Slidell Of Louisiana
writes to Tho Union to deny that he ever said that
the slaves of the Hon. S. A. Douglas in Louisiana
we're overworked and underled. The whole story
to that effect Mr.. Slidell pronounces a deliberate
and malicious falsehood. la fact, according to
My. Slidell, the slaves Of Mr.. Douglas are, if any
thing. rather overfed and underworld than other
wise, being employed in cotton planting on the