New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-04-30

The METHODIST CHURCH AND SLAvERY.-The
'rovidence Conference of the Methodist Episco-
al Church, at present in session at New Bed
ord, Masachusetta, passed, on the 18th inst,
series Of resoluti5As strongly denouncing sla-
cry and the Fugitive Slave Law. These were
adopted. They declare slavery TO |
% contrary to the laws Of God, Man and Ma |
ure that +" the Church Of Christ should Keep |
lersef pure from oil sinful connection with it,,
While they sympathize with those friends who
ind themselves in such position that they can
,ot emaninipate their slaves without commit. 4
ing moral wrong, and inAicting upon the poor
Dondman a greater evil than slavery itself.
The Fugitive Slave Law was also denounced
rs " most barbarous, cruel, unjust, and wicked.
BANKING AND RAILROAD MAKING.-lt has been
seriously contemplated in the NewYork Legis-
lature to make railroad bonds basis for bank
ing. No additional privilege to the business OF
free banking could more aggravate the evii con-
sequences Of the great break up that is sure to
attend it than this The business OF railroad
making is certainly now at or near the highest
prudent point, with bonds at from seven TO zen
per cent for loans. With the additional credit
that will follow making them a base for bank
ing it will be difficult to estimate their increase
or to measure the evil should disastrous end
be brought on by too great extension. New
York banking, the Philadelphia Ledger says, is
now perfect powder magazine, and as soon as
the match is applied, will astonish the country
by one of the most terrific shocks that paper
credit has ever experienced
COMMON Schools IN OHIo-From the report
Of the Ohio Secretary Of State, on the condition
Of common schools for the past year, we learn
that the whole number of youths in the Statesis
1888 $3.50 The entire number Of pupils enrolled,
male and female, is 437 ,412. The average daily
attendance during the year has been but 1885,
29S. There are nearly 100000 children who
are entitled to attend these schools, but who DO
not The difference between the number of pu-
pills enrolled and the average attendance is a
still more painful one. Either parents or teach
ers are in fault when less than fve-eighths OF
the scholars of all the schools in the State are
present. 1t is significant fact that the enroll
ed number of boys exceeds that of the girls by
more than 10000 There are 9916 schools,
with 10 AGA teachers in the state to the latter
of whom $771 ,l45 are paid as wages. One hun
bred and seventy-one school houses have been
built during the year at a cost of $61 1887.
AUSTRIAN REvENGE.-Our Paris correspon-
dent says that "the news from Vienna is, that
the process now going on against Madame Mes
selanyi, sister Of Kossuth, will terminate in a
sentence of DEATH" Fortunately, the lady in
question is in Brussels, beyond the reach of the
Amounted butchers who rule over the Austrian
people, and there is good reason to believe that
she, with an elder sister and their children, will
soon join third sister, already established In
the United States Mainly through the efforts
of one or two ladies in this city, a sum Of money
has been recently raised, sufficient to pay the
passage of both these sisters of the gifted ano
heroic Hungarian exile, with their six children
under the reduced prices very kindly fixed by
| the Bremen Steam Navigation Company and thu
house of Grinnell, Minturn & Co. MADAME
Rutgay, the elder of the two, probably now il
the Hermann. Madame Messelanyi, who i
younger, and in delicate health, will come late
in the season by London packet Both ar
highly accomplished ladies, as remarkable fo
their genius and virtues as for the misfortune
which have fallen upon their house. - Times
| An exchange paper states that about nineteel
years ago o Mr.. Halt, of Wilton, in Fairfield
county, Conn, then a remarkably good studen
| in his collegiate course, was suddenly deprived
| of his reason and memory Under these circum
| stances, his father, Rev. Mr.. Halt, sent him tt
Hartford, but finding no relief, he sent him tt
DR.. Chaplain, of Cambridge, Massachusetts,
The doctor said there was no present relief fol
him, but at the age of thirty six or thirty sever
there would be change; that the brain wal
too much expanded for the Uranium, and ther'
would at that age be contraction, which woult
enable it to act healthily. His anxious fathel
and family saw their hope peremptorily deferred
for nineteen years. That time has recently ex
pired, and, to their great joy, the prophecy i
fulfilled. The man began to inquire for hi
books, if he had just laid them down, an
resumed his mathematical studies where he LEI
them There was no trace on his mind of thi
long blank in his life, of any thing which ha
occurred in it, and hs did not know that he wa
almost forty years of age.
The IRISH ExoDUs.-A letter received in Ne,
York, dated Parsonstown, Ireland, March &c
says:
| "All Ireland is in motion. left Dublin 70
this place eighteen days ago. On my route
met the people in gangs of 40 to 60, in all direc
tons, vending their way to the coast to emf
CRATE for America. The emigration is terrible
If it continues few years longer at this rate
Old Ireland will be depopulated. Our bes
farmers and mechanics, servants and ci-devar
soldiers, and policemen out of employ, have a
ing to emigrate. Our wonder here is how 20
find employ for all these people,
The Huntsville Advocate, in commenting o
some of the recent removals in North Alabamt
says
"Our old friend, Sam Cruise, after % year
hard service, is turned out to grass and his cri
is occupied by gentleman heretofore classe
with the secession wing of the party. Fare
we'll, long farewell to all our greatness fo
we never more shall meet again to examin
maps, books, etc. Good by, and let it be you
boast in future. that during the Van Bure
reign, out of 81 Receivers, all were defaulter
except three, and you were one of the three !
THE LOST RECOVERED. The $1748 in gol
drawn on a check which was lost short tim
since, by Mr.. Altemus, has been returned t
the loser, less $500 which the finder Of tn
check retained as a compensation for hmsel
The $40 gold pieces received from the Banl
were placed in paste-board box, and droppe
into the letter box at the Post office, directed
Mr.. Altemus. The clerks in the Office suspecte
the contents of the package from its weight an
} appearance, and from the jingling of its COZ
tents, and hurried out after the depositor, b,
he was out of their reach before they could oil
tain sight of him. philadelphia Bulletin
| DEBUTANT.--Miss Annette Ince recent