The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-12-08
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NEED OF FUNDS The peculiar condition in which we
find ourselves now placed induces to make ap-
peal 10 81 friends and benevolent public generally
or assistance Or last annual report closed with the follow,
the indispensable to meet present engagements
70 prosecute vigorously and with advantage operations
during the year upon which we enter and not incur
o. the above estimates was based upon the fact that
then $3.50 in debt and had engaged 80 emgants
to Liberia the last upon the probability that many Others
would want to 60 and ought TO be sent Since that time
deceived application TO send from Baltimore IS more and
ION NewOreans 452m more IL wehad the means TO dispatch
these 5oI now waiting for passage, it would make the
number sent within this 1910 II therefore appears that
the estimate which ade at the beginning of the year
was mHh 700 fo Allowing s5O 10 pay for the traDspOTta
uon andsuppolt SIX months IN Liberia of each emigrant il
800 OO therefore, does simply the transportation
add support of emgran leaving Of view entirely the
Let rs now look moment at our receipts thus far. Ten
raens 81 eaa are P6E paeche toa amount Of our
ton Of the estimated s50O30 Unless therefore our receipts
greatly increased during The remaining TWO months we
shall at The close of the year fail short Of that estimate
which itself falls immensely short of real demands The
relative condition Of our Treasury is better than il
IN the Eegnnng ohe year that osav we then esm aed
that $42 so would the liabilities Of the Society that
e dpe ana the expenses OF 80 emgTaD We have paid
these debts, sent out 43 emigans and liabilities are now
S594l ~ winch Is only fraction above what they at
below the estimated $40 500.
This we think is sufficient show that the affairs of the
some energy and with great eceRomg Our friends who
nave contributed 10 funds, NAV therefore feel assured
that lheir gifts have not been vested quandered in vain
We now come to the burden Of this appeal From vari
Gus sources we mad been assured that would be raised
m 70 ua9spof a the entrants who would desire to
emgrahon and requested all who anxious the sub
sent this 43, there now so waiting for passage
We are under pledges to furnish them one They all
IN Liberia. They ought to be detained in this country
~ l7e haue MOI ne means D. send them Unless therefore
onT ends come Immediately to help what do
Ire present debts Of the Society must be met Allow $50
Mako s AZ Of efeh q the 5S 9mlgan ana ~
these persons ISL free Of whom reside in Connecticut
D. IN New York, In this city. in Virginia, Is in South
in Ohio and in Illinois
te 70 assume the ronsbily Of sending the emigans
from their own State The remaining as slaves the
lena Here field for the exercise Of benevoence and
phanhrcpy uRon the largest scale Great and important
as u week s we cannot forward in it without
we therefore present This statement of the case friends
% s pnof gengay PRAYING them 10 come al once and
III tei geat 1bealy to our assistance Whatever funds
a!e cqntnbuted or can be raised should be mme
In behalf Of the Society. ''''' W. MoLAIs. seq.
A RoBBER's STRATAGEM-A freebooter taking
an evening walk on a highway in Scotland. over
took and robbed a wealthy merchant traveller
His purpose was not achieved without severe
struggle, in which the thief lost his bonnet and
was obliged to escape, leaving it on the road A
respectable farmer happening be the next passer
and seeing the bonnet, alighted took il up and ra-
Their imprudently put it on his own head. At this
instant the robbed man came up with some assist
ance, and recognizing the bonnet, charged the far
mer with having robbed him, and took him into
custody. There being some likeness between the
two parties, the erchant persisted in the charge,
and though the Tespeetablify of the farmer was adj
miited he was indicted and placed at the bar Of q
Superior Court for trial. The Government wit
ness, the merchant swore positively as TO the iden-
uty OF his bonnet and deposed likewise TO the iden-
THY Of the farmer. The case was made out by this
and other evidence, apparently against the prisoner.
But there was a man in Court, who well knew
both who did and who did not commit Che crime.
1his was the real.robber, who advanced from the
crowd, and sezing the fatal bonnet, which laid on
the table before the witness, placed it his own
head, and looking him full in the face, said to him
m volee Of thunder, look at me sir, and tell me
ON the oath you have sworn. am not | the man who
robbed you on the highway 2" The merchant re-
Piled IN very great establishment, +" By heavens
you are the very man ~ 9. Yon see y said the
robber, : what sort Of memory the gentleman has
he swears 10 the bonnet, whatever features are
under it. Il the Hon. Judge were to put il on his
Gown head, dare say that he would testify that he
robbed him. The innocent prisoner was on this
evidence at once acquitted because no reliance
could be placed on such testimony, and yet it wa,
positive evidence,