New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-05-24
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SHOWS before morning.
A lengthy debate occurred yesterday in the senai
on the private bill for the relief OF Messrs DeBsser au
Villamlia, merchants Of New Orleans, whose partnt
perpefrated frauds on the customs for over pero
Of four years. BY means Of Inaccurate invoices of in
portations Of sugar from Havana They ask to B
relieved from the penalties incurred. nsmendmer
offered BY Mr. Iyefson, that the act do not take eet
until $4,000, the amount Of duties ftandulentl
evaded be paid to the Government, was carried an
the bill as amended then passed.
John Bull is at his old outrages again, and we al
glad to learn by telegraph that the citizens Of Ne
Orleans are promptly resenting them. The Senate
no less prompt. Senator Biggs on yesterday submit
ted resolution which was unanimously adopted. r,
questing the President, as far as compatible with III
public interest to communicate to the Senate any il
formation concerning the recent search or seizure
American vessels by foreign armed cruisers in th
Gulf Of Mexico, or adjacent seas aud also, wha
measures II any, have been taken in relation thereto
We shall see how Old Buck viii respond, and lean
how much Of truth there is in the report, lately rife
that he has ceased to be an Ostend Manifesto mar
and turned into second Elihu Burritt-an advocate
Of universal peace and submission.
What does these outrages mean Does John Bull
want to fghts Hasn't be his hands full and toe
many irons in the fire already 2 are questions In
everybodys mouth. Some think be wants to raise a
row because the Yrissarri treaty has been ratified
Others assert that he anxious to show his contempt
for the present old fogy Administration, and some
gay that bis successes in India and China have turned
his head. Conjecture is lost in conjecture.
Meantime, 1t is enough for us Of the South to know
that the Representatives Of John Bull near the White
House are very good disnnion men, with decided
Southern leaning. 1t was remarked that at Lord
Napier's concert, some few nights ago, only one
Northern man of prominence was visible. But that
man was Seward-the whole North embodied. One
can readily understand why John Boil should favor
dsunion, and why. in the ease of dissolution, he
should court the friendship OF the South but it was
hardly supposable that his natural caution and Gun.
ming had been far laid aside as to make his South
ern pFoclivities subject Of common remark. Per-
haps he thought, when Seward threw off bis mask
and announced the subjugation of the South, the
time was come for him to show his hand. But how
does all this tally with his increased exertions to
suppress the slave trade and his recent outages in
the Cuff Wiser heads than mine must solve the
problem. There is a wheel within wheel.
We get very meagre accounts Of the Commercial
Convention at Montgomery. Not little surprise
has been manifested at the number and ability Of
the opponents Of the revival Of the slave trade 1t
was foreseen that opposition would come not from
the sanity fanatics Of the North, but from the
propertyholders of the South, yet it had not been
supposed that this opposition would have been ex-
hibited 80 stfenuously at early day. The tele
graph tells Us that strong disunion spirit pervades
the Convention and it is known here that the Ala
bama delegation have been made sick with fear in
Of the resolutions denunsiatory of the
English bill, offered by Yaneey.
The sumptuary laws recently enacted by California
against free negroes and the existence Of similar
siactments in the Consultation OF Oregon, have been
made the themes Of much discussion in the newspa-
pers This Pariahizing Ql may coin the word) Of
he poor negro, is touching commentary upon
Freesoil philanthropy Since the free States are I'M
willing to admit negroes bond or Free within their
borders, one might suppose they were about to abate
heir opposition to slavery. The conclusion would
,e tenatde, perhaps, If we did not know that the
Methodist Church At the North had no longer than
week ago denounced slavery as sin that ought to
De extrpated. What people, what a people
Northern people are. II you carry slave into their
territory, they steal him from you to make him free
Il you make him free and send him there, they kick
him out. The most cheering sign of returning com
non sense on this subject is the fact that anfsayerv
were voted down by large majority AZ
he late meeting of the Tract Society in New York.
An ATTEMPT will be made 10 raise nosage on lettars
o five and ten cents. 1t is said that we are losing
laIf million year by the present postage system.
I the projected Increase OF rates should become law
event not very probable, is almost certain that
he revenue would not be enhanced. Fewer letters
would be written Better bear the ills we have than
iy to those we know not of better bear the present
AK until the density OF population. with propor
donate increase OF correspondence cures the evil
Knock the Thanking privilege on the head, and await
he results of that experiment.
Mr.. Doorkeeper Hackney has raised very large
'ow and brought himself to the door OF dismissal.
lie has peculated grandiy, and swears he can prove
~ Innocence. rev agree with him on this point
bis successor will be German of Maryland, or Cav
.hen of Virginia.
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y 49, sisas oouts iia'sia' seems 70 nave
eie zen. iwggs precisely where he was before The
Of the business has been viewed so much
Il matter of course that fav Of tho nnho ,,r;n,s
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-"'e 'AAsu suo 'soup.e " Volnincunhs upon II
~ u now thought the session will be prolonged to