Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-06-11

Making the entire sum of 81 1856 81 .
Thus it will be seen, that for the period in
,ervening between August, lS4S, (wben this
paper was started,) and April, 1852, We re.
ceived for printing Parish proceedings as per
contract, and including al extra work, the
amount Of SS77 5!-being at the rate of
$2l9 IS per year; and for the whole period
up to the present date, nearly five years, the
sum of 81 1856 81; averaging for the five years.
Notwithstanding the last extraordinary year,
only the sum of about S27o per annum And
this same description Of work, the present De-
mocratic Police Jury, carrying out the Demo-
cratic motto of "reform and retrenchment," and
regardless of all legal and moral obligations
or contracts previously entered into, takes the
printing from US and gives it to the proprietor
of their organ, and pays him fer his ~iayalua.
be services for performing the same work
that we performed, the sum of fire hundred
dollars per annum (which is one hundred
dollars more than is paid in the parish Of East
Baton Rouge, three hundred dollars more than
is paid in the parish of st. Landry, and more
than double the regular contract for this parish,
when the work was divided between two
papers! Do not believe by this showing, that
we are an advocate of low prices on the con-
trary, we believe that publishers generally are
poorly paid for their services. We make this
statement, the better to prove that the act
| of resembling the sale made to US, and giving
the printing to our contemporary for the sum
of $500, was one Influenced by the strongest
party considerations, irrespective of justice or
right, and solely for the purpose of making to
the proprietor of the Democratic organ a pre-
sent of a few hundred dollars of the paople's
money to help him along in his arduous ca.
reer in advocating the democracy Of economy,
and of good faith on the part of the parish au-
thorities.
And it will be seen, too, among the above
| figures, that while there was a Wing Police
Jury, the Democrat newspaper, (owned as we
have stated by the present proprietor of the
Gazete,) received more money for Parish
| printing while it was in existence than did this
paper!-that is, from April, lS49, to April'
1850, it received $206, just NINE DOLLARS
MORE than the. amount paid ust Is not this
a startling fact, taken in connection with the
almost weekly cry of '"Whig persecution! -
which has characterized our contemporary E
Had the Democrat not been discontinued, it
would, without doubt, have continued to receive
an equal share with this journal of Parish pa.
tronage (and perhaps more, as shown above,)
under a Wing administration
IF any of the above figures are doubted, we
only request that the Treasurer's Record will
be examined.
And now for the parochial act, which, for
perfect recklessness of all good faith-of all
law and iustice-we will venture TO assert there
is not its equal on the parish or county records
of any State in the Union. Although but six
weeks have elapsed since we purchased the
Parish printing, cried off to the lowest bidder
by authority Of public ordinance, a resolution
was offered and carried at the sitting of the
Police Jury last Monday, which. ANNULLED-
ruthlessly ANNULLED-this sale, and gave the
printing to the Gazette Gas previously intima-
ted for the sum of fre hundred dollars per
annum' While Right and Equity condemn
this hcinous act, we must beg to congratulate