New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-11-09
VOLUME XVI.

1862, and payable one year after date for S7O0. !
She now applies for an injunction against the
sheriff, to enjoin him from proceeding with the
sale of the property the grounds that the action
on which the writ of seizure was obtained is void
that the only consideration given by Broas was not
money, but the paper issue or currency OF the so
called Confederate States; that the note and act
of mortgage to secure its payment, were given for
500, which was handed to her in Confederate |
money by Broas, Oh the 10th of May, 1862, for the
express purpose Of paying note which she owed
in bank; that she went to bank to pay her debt,
but the clerk refused to receive the Confederate
money, account of the military order of Butler
just issued, forbdding all transactions in Confed-
crate money after the 9th of that month that the
next day she took back the Confederate notes to
Broas, who declined TO receive them; thatshe has
been unable to use these notes, and that the con-
sideration for which she gave her note and mort
gage having failed, the contract is void ID iniid
Judge Theard was of opinion that the facts
alleged by Mrs. Parker were fully made out by
the evidence adduced, and that the object of
Broas was to get rid of the Confederate money,
of which he had a superabnndance in his posses
sion and that Buffers order No. 20, issued the
10th of May, 1852, was intended to prevent any
transactions or contracts based upon Confederate
money after that date, although it allowed until
the 9th the exchange of that money for the pur-
poses of marketing, etc, which could not be.
stopped without serious suffering among the peo-
pie, and that consequently the note and act of
mortgage were null and void. He, therefore,
gave judgment for plaintiff, ordering that the in
junction be made perpetual.
Singular State of Church ATnirs---A Colored
Preacher Expelled for Holding to
Church Funds Declares Esis Elfe in Dan
| ger, bat Declines Surrenderins His Pulpit.
An application was yesterday made to Recorder
Letten by some fifty colored citizens, signing their
names with cross mark, to compel zone Paul
Jackson to deliver up the property Of the Seventh
Baptist church. consisting of lamps, hymn books,
license to hold church service, etc, which he
had carried away without law The petition was
signed by the members of the Irregular Ironsde
Baptist Society," whose church is on Moreau
street, near Esplanale, and the present imbroglio
is the consequence of condition OF affairs that
commenced a year ago.
At that time, the coIored pastor, whose name is
Rodgers. proposed to raise fund for building &
new church, where his congregation could shou
and pray and sing loud as they pleased, in the
language Of our colored informant. The noisy
provoked some complaints among the neighbors
who, being mostly of French descent, and of thu
Catholic faith, must have been not o little aston
ished at the liyer demonstrations which had beeI
introduced into their midst (The building ha
been seized about the time of Banks and con
yerted into a col0red Protestant Church) 1t was
therefore, proposed to obviate these complaint
by giving public dinner, and with the fund
which would arise from the sale of tickets, t
p build a new one This was done by Rodgers, an
$342 raised. At this point, Rodgers decline
either to pay over or build. He was then expelle
from the Ironsides, but was received as the hea
of the e Free Commission Society," and has eve
since held possession Of the church in their name
i. About two months ago he appeared before R
corder Letten, and made affidavit that his life VIZ
+ in danger from one or the whole of his form'
II congregation, and had all of it brought into cou
to give peace bonds. But the freedmen's buref
j. interfered, the church was assigned to one denor
10 nation during the day, and the other at nigh
ts Still there was always hostile feeling, and Il
N police of the neighborhood keep constant e!
" upon the sacred edifce upon Sundays, and list
,e coldly to any expressions Of feeling with
al whether religious or otherwise.
m The present difficulty arises from the fact tn
e. the sexton of the free association has obtain
is possession of the church for the purpose Of hol
O. ing his stated SERVICE and although he has 81
I'd emnly promised to do so, according to two "
sn nesses he refuses now to give up the property.
ad The case was dismissed from court for want
in Jurisdiction and will probably come up before
Yn Justice of the peace.