Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1857-09-19

purchase Of these lands.
The expenditures by Commissioner
Nil cr for retaining these lands. By
~Ieyees, etc AMI tbs expenditures made
Ly his successor, az exhibited III his an
nnal report, for making dltches,eic., TO
| drain these lanls, aud which viii have
this Effect, SAY s47,o92 "a are GOT less
than $4,000, or oTtf 80 per acre.
showing i loss to TIC State Of Louisiana
d about $4,000 ii this sal. Of hand
10 John oHjeli.
The report Of Gen. SHINES and w.
W. King exhibited such a mass Of ms.
| conduct and venatlty in this branch Of
lie State government as to prevent an
appropriation being made from the
SWAMI Laual Fund IN 1855. Yeratty
WAS So rampant that 2 Democratic Leg
stature dared not hfaye public opinion
b making lie aPfrapf alton. Thomas
CTeen Davidson 0tsn d.aoapce7 tie bill
Tor the appropriation fer this service.
| TITS /, sufficient commentary.
This waste at the peoples money has
become 50 motor oas-so inE4fHaas-that
the chiet organ Of tie Democracy Of
| Louisiana has leu forced by a decent
| respect f0fthe opinions Of the tax paters,
| to take notice Of II. and am p!ceased
| to see in its issue of the Stu Of August.
it has IL tite following anequiyocai IAN
| rts4ge eat.eI public attention 10 the ue
c ssisy Of reform n 1ur State sf1a5rs.
The Courier says, speaking oft5e tex
LegisIatut. II NJ the whole machinery
Of cur State Government will receive a
good oyerl1auIing, Our Public School
.vst III must cease 10 be tfhe shadom 81
a ara7e," Our Swamp Land funds
must lie devoted viii. greater efficacy to
tie purpose of their grant. State &C
coualablIity of Tax-Collectofs, Shifts
Esd assessors must be exacteI, etc, etc ;;
aud in order that these reforms nay be
mad, the Coariel recommends, | may
say commands, ''titat every Democrat {
Convention pause before it ueminates
and reflect on its duty to the 1arty, to
the Stoteand to tie South. Lot the
best captains standlsl lie ltoad Of our
columns, and tie best leaders control our
movements This is no time for bats
and ou1s. Let noue but men Of brains
and honesty represent Us. The hope OF
the land is in the rural districts. Send
10 ASSES IN Tor skias 10 dectire and DIS
appoint u.s.
This admission Of The Courier IS i'll
unequ5voca. language. It sieaks ca
catheara. 1t knows that the Dtmocra-
~ has ruled tue State sfnce January,
l543-the Inauguration Of It's rule IN the
person Of is most abe accom,iised lead
er, Alexander Mouton. 1t knows that,
with the exception 81 a single session Of
the Legislature that Of 1882 Their op
poneuts have been in a minority, and
they well know that no increase Of the
State debt was made In 1852.
Having all the knowledge Of tie work
ing Of the State government for fifteen
years past, they tell rs, III the pltinesl
language that they could command.
that every branel, (rxcepl the Executive
of The State ge:e,nlnent require" Il good
oye'hanIlng-tl.at our public school
system is mockery that our swamp
land funds have not been devoted, with
proper efficacy, to the purpose OF the
grant-tlat State officers, COLLECTORS,
SdefiIs etc, are not held to q proper
accountability. etc., and urges tie send.
ing men Of honesty, OF brains, and not
bats and owls. aud asses i'll Lon skins, to
the coming Legislature.
None are more cUmptt ut to Judge OF tn
men-of the representatives to our State
Legisla,nre-ot their want of qualitica-
tion-of their want of honesty of The ma
and of the perversion Of trust or
special funds to the uses of the Treasury
generally, and Of the waste Of these funds
BY their party-than are the gentlemen
of the Courier; and the good paternal ad,
vice which they have given, should be
we'll received by the honest voters Of the
rural districts.
Your correspondent could swell this
to an almost indefinite length in expo.
sing the v~enality Of our State govern
lneut. We could show how regardless
all the great officers have been Of the
interests of the State how thousands
have been paid out of the Treasury
without any authority of law how our
Governors are assuming to be, as Louis
XIV did, Tie State, and assuming pow
ets not delegated them by tue laws.
A TAX PAYER.
Col. WIN. Il. SpARKs.-We learn
the O%peIou.as Patriot Of the 18th
inst that Col SpApRa uaud adII ess