Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-09-29

Man on tho balcony 7 900
Other colored man 10000
Our conductor, G.0O0
Two reporters $50 oents each).
Total, $l08O0l
Great wrangling here onsr ed, Everybody shool
hands with everybody else, and Mr.. Jinks rAul
the bell. When boy with white apron answer
ed the summons, Mr.. Jinks ordered champaign,
and cigars.
Then the fortunes Of the SOB 00l we're toasted
with wishes that the Sl0S,0 nj gbt never grow
less after which, the man on the Balcony put il
his head and said, spilling half his wine, 'Yars tt
our brethren in bondage This was hailed will
ovaions.
Mr.. Jinks, Mr.. Briggs, and Mr.. swips, ther
insisted, simultaneously, that we should review a
once each of their houses.
VISITS TO JINE1 AND BRIGGS.
We found in Mr.. Jipks' piano valued at $500
formerly owned by prominent actress. We saw
large engraving of John Brown, framed in gor
geous style, and were taken to q library, filled
with antslavery books. Everything was arrang
ed in style combining neatness with luxuriance
AT Mr.. Briggs we found studio, hung with rare
crayOn drawings. We learned tina, these were the
labors of Mr.. Briggs son, We have seldom me-
with finer pictures.
In this studio our reporters made speeches
which were hailed with acclamations. Mr. Brgg,
opened his sdeboard, disclosing tempting ARA,
of b. tiles. We were ordered up for a fnal toast
Each of the individuals enumerated gave senti
ments. Some of them were md--some fiery. Our
guide. with a degree of forbearance unexpected
suid lifting his glass:
Let drink to the social and intellectual ad
vancement of the colored man !
God grant it, said a chorus Of earnest voices
and the glasses were emptied with such enthusi
asm that the man who had taken seat on the
balcony partially choked himself, and threw tenn
porary shadow over the general good humor.
REFLECTIONS RESULTING FROM THE ABOVE oBsrRvA
TIoNs.
We have spoken lightly Of our final visit, simply
that variety may be infused into the narrative, foi
our most sanguine expectations Of the respectable
ity of the colored upper classes were overeaped
by their actual condition. We found, every W here
good order and good humor, pride in the city love
of the State, and strange as it may seem, rever-
ence for the nation Few of the families we visit
ed knew anything of our object their manner Of
life, we observed it, was not assumed nor coun-
terte.ted. In fact we shrewdly ubted that we
were not mistaken for descendants Of Ham, for, in
our visit, we saw many persons said to be Of ne.
gro blood who, by gas-ght, were identified as
whites.
! Nothing is moro common than to hear it said in
general and sweeping terms, that the free celored
people tf the city are in miserably degraded
condition constantly exposed to hunger and Geld
lazy. having no tendency to improve, no energy
honesty, industry. Such assertions are, indeed
made quite as commonly at the North as at the
South. Senator Brown, of Mississippi, only ven
q little way beyond the common opinion, ,wher
he remarked that the sldve is blest with sount
health, sleek skin, and Christian instruction
The free African is dwarfed by disease, scroGulou
from hunger. and is barbarian and a cannibal
1 What we have transcribed has indicated to tn
credit of Philadelphia, different order Of thng
But it may not be out of place to aludo, in equa
] ly truthful terms, to the
Q CONDITION OF THE LOWER CLASSES OF NEGROES.
This branch of the question needs little illumir
alton. 1t has furnished the staple for much abus
o. IhliauelpnlaI anu tue nueKy lOcalltes haunte
by degraded blacks have been described as tn
? sole resort of men Of color IN this city.
We made one day flying tour through Bedford
Baker. Lombard, and Spaford Streets but tn
! dangerous appearance of the denizens of the di
. vergipg courts deferred us from entering then
alone. By the kindly care of Sergeant Selby an
Officer Annie, of the Second dstri police station
we we're escorted through the most dingy local
ties in the whole city
None OF the cribs, courts, collars. or dwelling
! in the whole route was peopled exclusively b
! blacks. In some quarters of St. Mary street,
large proportion were negroes, but we found t.
dwengs of that avenue several degrees NOR
commodious, clearly, and cheerful than those O
Spahord Bedford and Baker streets. In the thre
latter avenues were people OF every hue-the pal
consumptive, white as leprosy, and the ebony nc
gro, with polished skin and crisp wool. In som
! dwellings we found both OF these.
I'VE would be glad to give this article entire
but want CT space compells us to omit a porto
which came in ere.-ED. BUGLE
$ SUMMARY OF wRETcHEDNEss.
It OF the scenes among the wreched we witnesss
we cannot speak at length. We saw ebony negr