Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-05-15

the aId OF tila State TO the ENTERPRISE,
and burned powder without any = gard
to expense IN celebrating the eveut.~~
Surveys and estimates L4ve been made.
/ believe, and nov tho scheme 8eeuls lo
have been well nigh forgotten. II oflea
occurs 10 me that u I{p Van. 'Wi1kls
mighttak All occasional nap Of ffty or
a hundred years IN Louisiana, wtlhout
being al al shocked, Oh avak,ny ~
chauges thai Lad taken place during his
On Sunday last, one Of tie MoYzt
b]ailoonists started on an aerial excursion
from the Pavilion, Aigier5, which SILL
denly terminated in an aquatic adyeu-
ture not mentioned 10 the bills. The
balloon having amused the crowd Lv
going up a reasonable distance, varied
the entertainment by coming down
plump into the river. Tie navigator ct
the air was not at all home in another
element, but he mana Ell to keep his
aerial head above the muddy water, and
was finally saved from an involuntary
trip 10 the BaIize by sorne sailors. who
put OF to him 10 q skiG. 4 Lroxk O.
Cured IN the A'gjeTs jevee. opposite the
foot Of Canal street, On Saturday after
noon, and vast was the excitement
among the Alger1nes. Delay Was nv
auinonslg voted dangerous, il this par
l|eu|ar case, and energetic measured s9ou
resulted IN stopping The flood. All al
tesnpts to stop tile Bell crevasse having
been abandoned, the immense torrent
nov about thirty feet deep, and between
three and four hundred feet in width.
pours through witI.ousinterruptjon, and
CONTINUES to spread destruction over tie
country.
The general assembly Of tho Preshy-
Church, and the Stale Protestant
conventions are now 10 session
this city, and the papers deyo,e a
share Of their space t, the pre-
cevdingga, I take it for granted thai
everything is going on right, and there
not devote much attention H.
what is going m. The Southern Com.
Convention met in Montgomery
Ala, yesterday, and thithcr nas Gcu.
VIZ. F~lLL'BUaTEK WAlsGH gone, to 10
What lie shall see. II il possible TIA,
he Convention may, by Restitution, place
IN charge Of the General, with
Instructions 10 strai&hten up things in
hat distracted country.
Lx-Cor nor Oliver, q creole Of tho
and for matT Fears~2 resident 81
h's city. died on Saturday Iast, from
sss0 4ss4as&as a NJ aErr-1ose Of morphine.
There WAS a time, as VIC 54 Sorme"
~. historians, when ~sereuades If n var,
! Questionable harmonious character vere
frequently rendered to newly married
and they generally resaI2 I'd ~
more serious han "cakas atii
but the nation had then naad4 tnf |
LILLE progress, ahd young America
rs unknown as All element IN the polu-t
But all things have changed |
md | have made the above remarks with
!. visw OF lntsoducing a circumstance
Which occurred a !av evenings since, A.
,roof Of The correctness Of the last az
ertion. 4 loving pair hsr}ug become
Of one bone, etc, q cheerful band
boysaud "chilt!ren ofa larger growth
oncla1ed To- entertain them With a BIZ
f a chauaaa. The mother OF the bride1
Commanded the musicians to disperse,
nd was making ON retnafks to enforce
be command, when out rushed III
American Of The promising age Of eight
ears, with an cid shotgun, epd dispens
og with the fogyisi' ~forrna''ty ~ofreadlng
as riot act, he banged away at tbs
rowd, some ivs Or six Of whom got
aora OF less injured. That ball was
raken without ;uvther announcement,