The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-11-25

" AL fhoM OLANEHOLDlNG CONFER-
ENCEs.-Ihe Methodist Protestant Conference
at Springfield, Ohio, by vote of 10 to 2, has
adopted the following resolution
Resotred That indisputable facts the Undue
tons OF sound logic, the dictates of Christian
prudence and enlightened sense of our duty
to God and man, justify and warrant this con-
venton, In the name of the several annual con-
ferences herein represented, to now declare all
ofhclal connection, cooperation, and official
| fellowship, with and between said conferences
and such conferences and churches within the
Methodist Protestant Association, as practice
or tolerate slaveholding and slave-trading, as
specIhed In said memorial, to be now and for
| ever suspended"
! Provision was aferward made for the com
pilation OF new hymn book, in conjunction
with the Wesleyan denomination, and commit
tees appointed to take steps for union with
the Wesleyans, and to choose between Cincin-
natl and Pittsburgh, as location for the Meth
odtsf Protestant newspaper.
| The French LABOR SCHEME-A statement
IN late Paris paper to the effect that the En-
peror OF the French is about to abandon the
project OF free negro immigration, as it is called.
/ is generally denied by more recent accounts.
Mr.. Walsh thus notices it in his last letter to
the Journatcf Commerce:
| :" In the discussion of the Portuguese affair.
two or three of the Paris purveyors of the Lon
don press wrote, France has renowned all
| traffic IN black labor under any circumstances
whatever. The London Morning Post of the
goth uihmo begins very serious article on
the subject thus: we learn from our CORES
| pondent in Paris, that the French Government
have definitely resolved to put an end to the ex-
pertinent of free emigration from Africa The
Post purposes and unfolds the plan of formal
concert between France and England, for es-
tablishing regular system of free emigration
from China to the British and French West In
dia Islands. But We do not credit the allega-
ton of the REIMBURSEMENT of African immigra-
ton; the contracts are for long period; they
received the sanction and warrant of the Gov
eminent; the Antilles remain eager for perse-
verance in the scheme. The Pays Ministerial
holds this language:
I'VE do not believe that assertion to be
correct. The operations of the immigration
are thoroughly straightforward and correct.
| They have nothing whatever to do with the
| slave trade and If i'll practice, there sometimes
take place irregularities which it is easy to re-
move, that circumstance does not destroy the
principle on which they are based We believe
that the only reform in contemplation at pres
ent is to destroy as much as possible the trihing
abuses which take place in practice. AS to the inn
migration ITSELF France maintains its right to the
utmost extent. We may add, that not only the
immigration has not the Inconvenience men
toned by the English journal, but that it con-
! stitutes a positive progress when looked at from
| the point of view of humanity. 1t results in
fact, from the last reports of the French and
| English commanders of the squadrOns on the
coast of Africa, that at present the black Kings
! would put considerable number of their sub
jects to death, if, since the abolition of the slave
trade, they did not find means of employing
them in immigration. p"
/ ILLNESS OF HoN. T. l.. HARRIs-A Spring.
field (lll.) correspondent of the Times gives the
following gloomy account of this gentleman
health. The letter is dated November u:
| II have just returned from the bedside of the
Hon. Thomas l.. Harris probably the next let
ter you will receive must announce his death
| You remember that during the last session OF
Congress he was scarcely able to perform the
duties of his position on account of ill health
He returned home and partially recovered, but
was again Frustrated by the accidental use of "a
| poisonous drug Apparently he recovered from
| that also, but previous to the late election his
health again failed, and he was unable to take
| any active part in the canvass, beyond writing
| q letter to the friends who had again put him
in nomination. He insisted on being carried
to the polls to vote, but has not since that day
been able to leave his bed. Iii almost impos
| sible that he should ever leave it."
| MARYLAND Coal TRADE.-The quantity OF
| coal brought down from the mines in Allegheny
| county last week was 1863 tons, making for
the season 593, 04 tons. The quantity brought
down this season by the Georges Creek rail
road is lS6,576 tons; by the Hampshire road,
| 57,978 tons; by the Cumberland and Pennsyl-
vania road, l9S,0ll tons and by the Cumber-
land Coal and Iron Companys road l40, 537
tons. During the season, 2,l79 canal boats
have cleared at Cumberland, with 244, S86 tons
| Of coal.-BdH. Sun.
SENTENCE OF A SLAVE ABDUCToR. Hugh
Hazlitt, whits man, charged with enticing and
| persuading slaves to run away from Dorchester
| county, Md, was tried this week, at Cambridge,
| and found guilty on seven indictments He was
| sentenced by the court, on the first Indictment,
to the penitentiary till May, 1867, and on each
of the others for six years making, i'll the ag-
| gregate, torty-five years.
SECESSION The recent able union and con-
sentative speech of Senator Hammond, ofSouth
Carolina, has ELECTED reply, through the press,
| from the Hon. X. Barnwcll Rhett, of that State.
| He advocates resistance to the g usurpationS =
| of the General Government, and ntimates that
| it is his most ardent aspiration to live to wit
ness a secession of the South.
| Mobile, Nor. 20.-Scveral persons engaged
| in inducing emigrants to Nicaragua have been
| examined as witnesses before the grand jury at
New Orleans. The jury refused to find any
bill, and they thus declare the emigration legal,
and not against the neutrality act.
| THE LATE ABDUCTION IN ITALY-A large
meeting of the Israelites of Philadelphia was
| held on Thursday, to express their views in re-
lation to the abduction of the Mortara boy in
| Italy. Alfred Jones presided, and III. w. Ar
| mold acted as secretary. Rev. Mr.. Lesser
| offered series of resolutions (which were
| adopted) sympathizing with Mamola Mortara,
whose son, Edgar, had been abducted and
pledging the lsraelites of Philadelphia to unite
with all others of America and Europe, in any
| measure which may result in restoring the boy
to his parents.
| THE EMIGRANTs FOR NIcARACUA-It is now
| fully ascertained that the Administration will
| interpose no hindrance to emigrants bound for
| Nicaragua from Southern ports, as instructions
| have been forwarded so ambiguously wOrded
| that collectors of ports will have no other al
| tentative but grant vessels clearance. 1t may
| be regarded, therefore, as fixed fact that the
enigrants positively SAIL
| The REPUBLICAN AND ADMINISTRATIONS VOTE
| IN IlILINoIs.- Chicago, Noe l8.-The official
| plurality for Miller the Republican candidate
| for State Treasurer, is 1878 votes. The total
vote for Dougherty, the Administration candi-
| date for the same office, is only 5,02l.
| REcOvERING.-Th friends of the Hon. Sher-
| rard Clemens, of Va, are now sanguine of his