New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-11-17
EAST rEL1cIANA CORRESPONDENCE.

f,onfarenca If the methodist Episcopal Church
Is holding Its thirtyeghth annual session bnop hsy
openea The Conference on Wednesday morning iast.
About one hundred ministers are on the ground anu
they arr ploughing it up, you may depend on ~ mee
;ny tIree tmss 4 day-morning afternoon and night
,arre Conference in session from NJ. to
lpm This is much the largest ecclesiastical body in
sssiupiuumbering last year twenty-our thousand
members There has been considerable increase
figure from the abors Of the year just closing which is
reported as prosperous They say yellow fever and short
cropsare good for religion.
The Bible doctrine is true Of al--fat and saucy:
Jeshurun waved fat and kicked against his Maker HUI
man nature cannot be trusted with too much health and
prosperity In an old Daptist Hymn Book OF my grand
mother remember to have read the following poetic
version Of that affair. Pardon its introduction:
aJeshurun wax-ed fat,
And down his belly hung
He kicked against his God,
And up his buttocks flung y
anonos / once saw a lean brother 7 who had been
working hard and living hard and keeping oil the fast
DAVIS confront another weighing about TWO nunarea anu
thirty All my dear brother,n said the hrst, 700 Iae
for godlinesstoo fat for gonessa hope these hnss
win not be taken as personal to any reverend gentlemen
4 my city.
own nothing but horse and saddle bags They I'VE 70
work and die at It They follow up the squntter and the
penetrate the darkest corners of the land ana
nreac, ey in the poorest settlements If they get their
SALARY II i not nuchoniy $50; If they don't get it
! well No back accounts are kept Inose #no hase
worked in more liberal and wealthy regions bring up any
overpus they may receive and special collection oesde
n divide out among these deficient ones BY Tins system
Of light expenses and mutual compensation and ASSIST
the whole body lives goes actively on This brings
abont strong ESPRIT u corps among them. They love
pe another and stand by each other as they stand py
itha;r Chm ch to the death.
n strike YOU as odd thatthe Mississippi Conference
should hold its session in Louisiana The reason IS oon
ferences are not strictly confined to state bounds ou
natural ones This place is the edge OF the Mississippi
4 Conference, near the louisiana
MANY of YOUR citizens remember the early Methodist
preachers who were the pastors and guests OF tner
narents long ego Few held in greater Venera-
ton By their efforts the foundations Of Christianity and
of their own denomination especially we're laid broad and
deep il the developing territory Their churches rise up
every wherein town. village and cross-roau and tne
great mass of wealthy and intelligent citizens are in Their
communion.
Several young men have just Joined the itinerant min
istry They promise usefulness Two of them were edu
Gated for the Presbyterian ministry at DanEiile, NY
Seventeen, in ALL have joined-some Of them miaoe
aged ninrant is common word, and applicable The,
take appointments annually from the Bishop and 60 al
he Directs from the river.swamp to the sea-ooast am
: from Pearl River to the regions above the Yazoo
The collections for Missions this year are about S7ooe
/ Ore Of the members, Rev. Mr Sawbuth, hiss son
ghina who went out missionary year ago
These old parsons tell amusing stories touching the boy
hood Of some great men heard good one OF an abb
and eminent Senator well-known in your city-now
!, California. (. Billy Gwin,n said he; "0h, knew n
father and family and Billy too His father, james Civil
was good old Methodist preacher Billy WIS partic1
lar boy lie had the thickest skull again Omen hal
seen Billy GHn, for good big red apple, ms al
fours butt against stump like RAM and hit
/ his heels would fly up
Put that down Messrs Editors for the National Patr
. Gallery Men but grown-up boys wonder polit
clans not every day doing about the same thin
n for e golden apple, Oh, for thick skulls!
CENTENARY CoLEGE, long established here doing vel
In it's various departments hundred and sixty sts
dents in attendance in the College classes proper
one hundred The professors able and faithful educ
tors This College growing in public favor and is
ibutng more to Southern education than any nttutio
Of the South Doctor Deems who had been elected Pres
dent sends unwelcome message the Board of Tru
tees that he cannot to that post The occasion
overflow Of yellow fever makes scary post Dr. Deem
lg is in North Carolina. The Board will meet tomorrow
ID elect in his stead 1t demands the highest talent
sh and viii doubtless secure them
81 Yesterday Bishop Early preached at IL o'clock in IL
Is College chse to immense congregation, following
n sermon with ordinations Rev. Mr.. McTyere, of Ne
Orleans preached at the hour in the Presbyter
NJ Church Dr. Keener, in the afternoon in the chap
Bedford county, Virginia is the native place Bishop
The county has also produced Bishop otey Of Te
~ nessee and Bishop Cobb of Automatically preates
~ the Protestant Episcopal Church
Mr. McTyeire is here, representing the interests of
% New Orleans Christian Advocate, religious weekly
which he is editor under the patronage of the Method
" Church, and extensively circulated in Louisiana Al
ue bama Mississippi East Texas and South Arkansas.
has thousand subscribers and they aim to have
thousand which can easily be done, the paper il n
only in its fourth year Ibeeve the Christian Advocf
has the largest weekly circulation Of any newspaper
Nav Orleans They say that the challenge of the Weel
Delta and the bet offered by its proprieors of having
largest weekly circulation in peril of being accept
Il by the Christian Advocate, when it was withdrawn
~ would have looked ugly for c1sr folks to be sweep
off stakes Did tho Delta get the wind OF any thing IL
' tia challenge withdrawn Such being the facts
singular that your keen commission merchants, groe,
drygoods and Others seeking for country custom,
not take advantage of advertising in its columns
advertisement in the Christian airocae would bring
business to house than The amount of adverts
in any other wo weekly papers Issued from New orea
Mark that.
not omit to mention the funeral sermon of
D, >. Fluker, by DR.. Lacey, yesterday. 1t
emn Service and well attended. Col. Fuker died on
inst Of yellow fever at his residence In this pari
ii very wealthy man and noble citizen was Col. F.
was hopefully spoken of by his ellowcitizens for fut
Governor Of Louisianaa capital he would have
How fast the Democratic party Of this State is losing
death, great and leading men Downs, tower
", strength, dead; Farmer dead; John r. Grymes-
aea Webster of the souththreatened with paralysis;
md Porter of the noblest Romans of ALL in feeble hea
lies Not long ago the Colonel at his high post
his the Qusomhous polite in and ingenious
ind in mind and social too but marked with Sadness
,o he Rugged his cloak about him with invalid ANXIETY
nee windy and chilly currents repassed around May
cry Colonel live thousand years No guinea in that
box of Uncle Sam that he keeps is of purer gold III
will soon be room for and new measures. 81
Of their successors buttipg their heads aga
stumps Let them be careful for the skulls soft
md Col Rluker had begun grinding and at that cris
the crop stayed day and night at his house
md die of blankets lately arrived for his negroes from
Orleans The Colonel had opened and slept under tn
ler- He caught the fever and died Of it. understand Il
do no other about Does not this show the
ear, instability of yellow feyers
feel Last night had first class frost. This mornil
broke ice eighth of inch thick 1t is said cold
tracts. but it has heightened the countenances of p
behind hand in their grinding. They felt too pool
ON take sugar in their coffee at this mornings breakfast
are Very respectfully errREs
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~ Amusements This Evening.
the ST.. CHARLES THEATER. IS hakspeare's celeb
line ted tragedy Julius Caesar will b. performed this
ing at the st. Charles with Mr.. HELD as B4tus, Mr.