Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-12-23
q Systematic Plantation and am En-
terprising

DOYLE. We found the Doctor busily engag,
ed experimenting his sugar kettles, which
were all in full operation, transforming The ricE
saccharine juice of the cane into crystalizec
sugar, The industrious proprietor seemed in
high spirits, and glad as he always is 10 see
his friends. He at once took charge of us "a
companion and o%urseIf,I to show us the pro.
eeeds of his industry and the improvements
which he had effected and was still making on
his place.
We were first conducted into his left wing
purgery, about a hundred feet in length by
forty in breadth, in which were about as MANY
hogsheads, filled with beautiful sugar, as ii
could contain. Indeed, bis sugar was as white
as any we have seen, put up in what seemed
10 us TO be exeeliently made hogsheads. The
opposite wing of his purgery was not yet fin.
Ished, but so far it appeared to be built with
great compactneSs and fitness for what it is
In'ended-we refer mainly to its cisterns.-
From here We visited the squctunn of the DR.
above, a neat little room with a window in.
front looking out upon the river, some bali a
mile of. Here WAS his bed where he could
rest when permitted to leave The sugar kettles
Qor the DR.. tells US be is his own sugar maker,
as well as engineer and overseer) his desk. &c.
besides a mysterious looking closet, from which
ne drew forth a mysterious looking black bots
tie labeled "Numbar Six" in which was an oily,
whjtish liquor that resembIed old uhiskeu,
which proved to be the fact on lasting, for we
had an innate desire to satisfy oar curiosity 10
that respect-our host, however, from some
strange hallucination, absolutely refusing TO
touch it. There was also another well fur
nished room adjoining,
The sugar house, including the two wings,
presents a very handsome front of about two
hundred and fifty feet, of a light slate color,
over the main door of which, in large capitals
is the word Eureka"
Our polite friend then invited us to walk
around and look at his outside improvements.
Close by he has just completed his Overseer's
House, (he has no 0verseer, however, a franz
ed building about thirty-six feet square, COM
posed of a basement, with two stories above,
The upper being an attic it ha~ some seven or
eight rooms, one in The basement being for a
kitchen, an appropriate closet handsomely ar.
for Keeping all the table filings, a fire
a porch in front and rear, grates-one
of brass--in the fre-ptaces, and mnch
that We forget, making it an extra house
the kind; and young trees are already set
ont to decorate the yard.
The negro quarters on a line with The front
# the overseer's house and at right angle from
he sugar house, some hundred yards of. The
were at work and The cabins were an
hut save that Of The nursery, where we found
ten or a dozen little darkies under The
are of a malronly looking nurse, who we're
laying about as happy and as fat as mud tur. c
Al right angle from the squarter," and a a
hort distance off, is the Plantation Kitchen. =
nllt Of brick, where we found the cook bust. n
engaged in her vocation. There was a larre !,
ven, with appropriate places for roasting and y
oiiing, adjoining which is The bake oven. the h
read from which we tasted and found TO be q
a very 6ne quality, being made of c~orn-meal j,
I'D yeast as we did SO, with our eyes resting h
? two or three smoking pieces Of bacon that V
ouid hll a half bushel, we thought Of the
'yerty and suffering of our Northern cities
ID Europe, and how much happier were our b
acks than the poor and bumbe classes in r
her parts Of the world. The kitchen, be, Il
des, was clean and neat, containing all the NJ
culinary implements, and looking in s.
cry respect like The cooking department N
we might imagine to belong to a large h.
tel. His slaves, the Doctor informed us. got :,
up and vegetables every day in the year, and b,
twice a day. NJ
On a line with the kitchen, at equal distao- A
!, were The lime house. cooper and black he
shops, all bniit Of brick, tie latter being &c
large and looking as complete in its fur, o.
as any village shop; a big stout felv pc
' was hannering away hard at work when th
entered.
This point we thought onr tour was end
hut the Doctor had his monster model sta. OF
yet to show as, and thither we went. We IN
nd what seemed TO us to be a most perfect ef,
one hundred feet in length by sixty in VI
adth; there are some thirty stalls on each pr
. with a raised platform in the rear about 81.
ee feet vide, where one can walk along and the
inside the troughs If the animals are fen. TO
is a partition in the middle. with steps
ling to an attic story, which is filled with
and fodder; both sides Of the interior be, thu
are filled with corn. i, addi,ion !. {. fire.