New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-05-09

The African trade (the kind Of trade Mrs.
Beecher Stowe Is engaged in) in England seems
to nav exceedingly we'll No sooner was our
Yankee authoress landed in Liverpool, it ap-
pears, than she was presented with Gl3O ster-
ling. What for, as she is not understood to be
in necessitous circumstances, we cannot imagine
John Bull would seem to think Uncle Tom has
come Alleging
GlSO is just $3.50. Mrs. Stowe is certainly
not much in need Of the money, if the reports be
true touching the enormous income she has
received from the sale Of her romance. II we
could persuade her, we should see 1t approprl-
ated something after this fashion;
$500 (say) to buy the freedom OF one slaves
| 100 to send him to Liberia;
100 to the Negro Orphan Asylum here;
100 to learn one little negro to read and write
30 to enable him to emigrate.
$3.50
| Now, if Mrs Stowe were not professional
| Abolitionist, she would certainly spend the
money she is making and is going to make in
the African slave trade, the year to come, in
Great Britain, as we have suggested But, be-
ing an Abolitionist, and the real comfort of the
negro, therefore, not being at all in her way,
| the following appropriations are more likely to
| be made:
|, 800 to entice slaves to run away, South;
100 to rescue them, North;
100 to pay expenses of ditto
100 to send him to Canada;
so for subscriptions to woolly" newspapers;
so for lectures on the Higher Law;
$50 for grand amalgamation dinner;
600 for the relief of the sick and distressed
Uncle Toms in the Northern cities.
The next bag of gold Mrs. Stowe is presented
with ought to be paid into the fund for the sup.
port of Abolition editors and lecturers the firs
to keep on denouncing the Constitution as al
accursed bargain, and the other to execrate thu
else that don't o ISSUE 1 shiRRS t ana
to be hoped that Cousin John will hurry up TIN
funds. my. Express.
RoBBERY-Singular De,ecfso9.-Mr. Sam
q B. Parmelee, of Wellingford Sun Of the Sherit
of this county, had $3.50 in %oney, watcl
worth $3.50, and considerable amount of jew
elry, stolen from his residence on Wednesda.
night. Being unable to gain any clue to tn
thief, he was induced to consult g medium,
or clairvoyant, living between Wallingford O.
Durham.
She stated that the property was stolen by
servant girl, about 16 years of age; that sh
had secreted the jewelry under stone, and tn
remainder of the money in another place. The.
returned and made search, but were unable t.
find any of the lost property. The girl, how
ever, was watched, and finally they concludes
, to revisit the clairyoyant. On being put int
the mesmeric state, she said the rest of tn
money had been burned since their previou
! visit, and that the jewelry was then throw
into well, which she described with great par
ticularity, and also mentioned other circum
! stances tending to convince her hearers of til
!, truth of her statements.
On returning, the well was searched, and tn
: jewery found in it precisely as it had been de
scribed. The girl was then induced to comics:
: when she acknowledged that she had stolen tn
property, that she had burned half the money
and after the first search she had burned th
! remainder. She also said the jewelry wa
= under the stone when the first search was mad'
In fact, she confessed all the clairvoyant ~ha
= stated In corroboration of her confessions,
= slip of paper which was around portion of tn
, bills, was found in the ashes, partly consumed
= The girl was arrested, and is now confined
the county jail.
, The circumstances of this case are most sill
= gular, and go great way to substantiate Il
!, = truth of Psychology. New Haven Journal al
T Courier