New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-05-04
DAILY CRESCENT.

A STOPPER FOR THE BOTTLE.-The Senate and
General Assembly for the State Of New Jersey
have just passed rather stringent act, having
for its object the deprivation of habitual drunk
ards of certain social and legal rights, and ope.
rating to the same extent as the act entitled
/" An act concerning idiots and lunatics" BY
this enactment it is permissible for the Court Of
Chancery, ON receiving representation from
parties interested that citizen is incapable of
managing his temporal affairs from habitual
drunkenness, to issue q writ similar In power
and action to writ "de lunatico inquirendo,"
appointing commission for the purpose Of as
certaining the truth Of the allegation. If the
commission decide on the incapacity and habit
ual drunkenness Of the individual, he is imme-
personal estate; guardians are appointed by
law to manage his affairs will executed by
him after or pending such decision Of the COM
mittee is of no effect. While every innkeeper,
distiller or grocer who shall sell liquor to any
individual under such restriction is liable to O
fine of ten dollars each time the offence is COM
mitted. In short, the habitual drunkard in
New Jersey henceforward may be treated as an
imbecile or lunatic on the strength Of proper
representations. IN. Y. Times.
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COMPULSORY EDUCATION.-In many of the
European States parents are compelled to send
their children to school. In Prussia absentees
are liable to full school fees, and q fine or o
days labor in compensation. In Saxony moth
ing is an excuse for absence from school but
sickness, and attendance is compelled by fines
and imprisonment. In Hanover the eccesias-
teal authorities are charged with the inspection
of schools, where every child from the age of six
is required to attend, unless sufficiently in
structed elsewhere. In Bavaria no child is
allowed to leave school till it has arrived Mt the
age of twelve years, and then not without an
examination and certificate, which is neces-
sary to apprenticeship and marriage. In Aus
tria all the children, from the age Of six years,
must go to school till they are twelve years Of
age. A commissioner from the French Govern
ment, who had been examining the school sys-
TENS Of Germany, urged the necessity Of com
pulsory instruction-of some system which shall
compel the attendance upon instruction of some
kind of all the children of the State. If it is
wise in the State taking authority out of paren-
| tai hands, it is in such a case as this Educa-
ton makes the citizen, and the evils ofignorance
or instructed education, do not fall simply
upon individuals, but are entailed upon society
WHAT ARE CoNsoLs.-Every one who read.
the European money markets, and does not un.
derstand what is meant by 's Consols" no doub
desires to know what they are. We give thu
explanation, from the London Bankers Maya
| zine:
'They are three per cent. English stock
which had its origin in an act of British Par.
Lament, consolidating the name--sever
| al separate government stocks, called in the &C
i" Consolidated Annuities," and commonly callet
for brevity Consols.' When consolidation
took place, the principals of the several fund
thus merged amounted to G6523,72l, but BY
the blending of additional and subsequent loan
and parts of loans into the stock. it amounts
on the 9Th of January, 1886, to 1886, 25S, 600
Since that period, only one has been raised
that for compensation to the West India plant
ers, on the emancipation Of slaves (f2O, O00, 900
and few millions have been paid off. The tota
at the present time is between $40 and e375,
100000, This stock, from its amount, and tn
immense number of its holders, is more sensitiy
|: to financial influence than any other and il
therefore, the favorite stock for the operation
of spectators and jobbers. Its dividends ar
) payable semi annually"