Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1856-02-23

oh-> ttos A haiRiMOAIALsA "A ADVER
rIsER-A correspondence arising out O
an advertisement for a wife, which ap
Peared III morning paper of the 9th
ult'mo, signed "Barvlle," is given Ia the
London Morning Advertiser. The re.
suit was an engagement TO meet on Sa,
turday week, 1T the railway station,
Taunton. or, if the means of recognition
should fail, at the Great Western ter.
minus, PaddIntou, where additional pre-
cautions against mistake would be taken
by the writer, who protessed an intention
to travel from the west to London on
that day.
The supposed lady, however, was a
misch'eFons young man, who had got
up the correspondence along with his
companions, and who invited a large
number of them to witness the end OF the
affair, which the above paper quoted
thus describes:
'.Some time before five o'clock, on Sat
urday> evening last, IL gentleman, in Il
black dress coat, vest, and combinations,
with his hat set jauuliy on his head,
and his wristbands in all the glory and
starch Of hensaI Green descending to Il
moderate length down his Iigits, might
have been seen pacing the platform Of
the Great Western Railway ternipus,
Paddirgton.
Exactly as the electric dial pointed to
five ocIock, from all parts Of the station
young men issued, and took up positions
about the premises, 1t was as evident
that fun Iurked in the eyes Of the one
hundred and fifty who had collected to
trounce "A fortune hunter, AS that agitation
and nervous excitement clearly indicated
To them Barvilie of the advertisements
He electric bell rang, and presently at-
Ter the train dragged its snaty length
into tie station. a lady in deep mourn
ing advanced 10 the trysting~ g~pEaee, and
"Barvll.e, enjoying the IDEAL Boatman,"
in a weekly periodical, sat himself beside
her. She takes book from her pocket;
'Barri!e" letter.
Oh, ecstasy . here was to he the end
of his weary bacielorhood. tie takes
her by the hand, and in the mean time
Il line OF senLr!es, communicating with
the main body stationed in the Wharf
Road, is established 10 convey inforna-
ton. "Barrile" rises, his fair correspon-
dent takes his arm, and c|everly decoys
him into the tolls laid by his enenlIrs.-
"i'avilIe' excrts himself to be affection
ate, and in the midst of a mHgniloqueUt
period the enemy advances. What tol-
lows almost bsggars description. The
advertiser Of vile finds himself the cen-
Ter Of Il crowd Of youug men. lie Is in
formed that they wrote the letters, and
that he, who thought TO entrap lair
one, with two hundred pounds sterling
a year, is himself caught in his own net;
from all quarters bags Of flour were
thrown at him, and his jet black clothes
were soon transformed into suit OF white
he rushed off to lhe shelter OF cab in
side the railway yard but here he was
III fault, FOR the prosecutors were await
ing him iii Praed street and on his ap-
pearance more flour was cast at him, and
the "cllaffs' # from four to five hundred
Z Paddiug;onians. The last that was seen
Of him was meteor.like figure running
with all his force along the New Road,
followed by several Of the indigenous
youth Of the metropolis"