Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-11-26

tSCft%tOf LSCIDuUGtt.-- III IltlIlDcIS Ul Lit
Boston Club, says the Bee, gave adinnert to SEN
ator J. j. Benjamin ON Monday evening, at the
st. Charles Hotel. We received a invitation
but were unable to attend. Mr.. BENJAMIN in
response to toast, spoke at some length.--
The Picayune's report says:
He very gracefully and f~eelingly acknow-
ledged the honor done him in inviting him to
this brilliant feast, and spoke in warm and clio.
quent language of the happy associations which
all that he had seen and heard this evening had
awakened in his mind. He adverted f%eeiingly
to the time when, q poor and friendless boy, he
came to this city, twenty-six years ago; and
expressed with much emotion the gratitude he
felt to his fellow citizens here for the %uninter-
rupted kindness, encouragement and confidence
with which they had ever treated him. In all
that time he had never made, a friend who had
been alienated, or asked a favor,,public or pri-
vite, that had not been granted. lie said, after
acknowledging the highhonor paid him o~fselect-
ING HIM to Till the position he was about to en-
ter upon, that there were some topics Of q pub
lie nature that it would not be improper for
him to allude to upon this occasion, involving as
they did no political or party differences. He
saw around him friends of both political parties,
and he would touch upon no subject wherein
all might not agree.
Mr.. Benjamin then proceeded to touch upon
some of the measures demanded by the inter-
ests of New Orleans and of Louisiana, and
which must occupy the attention, and prompt
the action of their representatives in Congress.
In doing this, Mr.. Benjamin congratulated his
fellow citizens, that to SUCH men as SlidelI, in
the Senate, and Dunbar, Hunt, Perkins and
bones, in the House, a delegation stronger than
Louisiana eyer had before 10 Congress, were
those interest confded. There was hope for
the advancement of those interests in the fact
that a such representation was secured. He
alluded TO the neglect with WHICH the General
Government had treated the iclaims of NewOr-
leans for appropriations to remove those OBJ
structions from the mouth of the Mississippi,
that retarded the Development of the rich re-
sources of the State; he spoke of the demands
which the State had a right to insist on for such
grants of the public lands rs other States had
received, for the extension of railroads within
its territory, and dwelt with peculiar empha-
sis on the great results that must flow from the
carrying on the Tehuantepec Railroad project.
These great measures, he urged, had only fail
ed, or had not been as greatly promoted as they
might have been, for LACK of energetic applica-
ton and persistence on the part of the Repre>
sentatives of Louisiana in Congress. Among
the means for enforcing the demands, Mr..
Benjamin suggested that a strong delegation of
men of influence and ability should be sent to
Washington from this city to back up the efforts
of the Congressional delegation.
In that part of bis speech devoted to the in
ternal improvement OF the State, Mr.. BENJAMIN
paid a high compliment to Mr.. Robb for his en-
ergy in advancing the Northern Railroad, call
ing him the 'srailroad Napoleon of louisiana"
and to Judge Oyerton, fer tire success with
which he is pushing on the Opelousas Railroad,
$50 he calls it" said Mr.. Benjamin, but in fact
the Pacific road, of which it is destined to be
the trunk.
Cruelty to q Horse.-A wager of $4,000 to
$1,000 having been laid by some sporting men,
that no horse in the Northern part of the United
States could be produced within l year that
could trot one hundred miles in nine hours, the
bet was decided on Saturday last on the Cen
t~reville course. The wager was won by a
horse driven by George Spicer. The first mile
was made in A minutes SO seconds, and the 9th
mile in 5 minutes 81 seconds. The whole
time being s hours, IS minutas and5S seconds
At the confusion of the hundred miles the
horse was very feeble, and was led off the track
by the hostlers, who took him into a stable in
the immediate vicinity, where everything was
done by veterinary surgeons to relieve his pros
trate condition, but all to no avail-he died
during the night. 1t is supposed that those
having the care of him done TOO much inasmuch
as he was bled, and then covered with six or
eight thick blankets. 1t is the opinion of
horsemen that this superabundance discovering,
while in an exhausted state, caused the death
of the noble animal. The celebrated PAGER,
Hero, is very low, and it is feared that he also
will die.
MATT. f. WARD.--We take the following
from a letter in the Charleston Courier respect
ing this unhappy young man: