Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-04-24
lew Orleans Correspondence.

the snail amount Of gossip which | propose
! to compress, and arrange in the shape 0! a
ietter for your columns, I will iatoTS1 you
that illness has prevented me from writing Iol
nearly four weeks past. / have, III the mean
tsuI had the pleasure Of seeing two mum
bers OF the Sugar Planter, and am told that
its bold advocacy Of the establishment Of 4
sugar platform OF the opposite or the river
caused it to be sought after with consjdera-
bic 5%uterest. / know not how much your
subH ription list has increased in the city, but
I am sure that your pa per has been reud here
by il 7re persons, within tfe last four or five
tnoasas, than ever it was before Why do
not your planters organize upon a substantial
basis, as they might easily do, and build the
PROPOSED platform themselves. From? all the
information / have been enabled to gather on
the subject, | am convinced that the invest
raeht would prove . paying Que, apart. FROM
th":> 4neEous other advantages that would
acc:ge to sugar growers. III my opinion. 1t
onlt' requires that some decided End ensrgetic
man Should take the lead in the matter. to
secure a cohsuE1matiou Of the i'm rortant ell
t~erE1rtsc. From what ! know Of the ctarac-
terry your chiva}rous Representative, Capt.
HEsST W. ALLEN, / should paint to lin as
tho very man who could do what is nccessa.
ry e be 4, ne in this case.
New Orleans is still gay ard lively, altto'
the amusement season fingers only in small
ren7nants. lying loose around The Ron
ZanE Troupe has returned to New York, after
rather a lean campaign at the Gaiety. The
hilft1sey and hewcomb itiF4rant nagser Sing
ers have left the st. Charles and carried
their n1nH'11yfed jokes and songs t, Mobile.
Hal each and every individual mern!4ar ot
this party been, as artists, what Henry CLAW.
Daniel Webster, and John c. Calhoun w re.
as statesmen and orators, they could not have
received higher Iaudatioas than were show
cred aEon them by II. /. Fa}utin, ESQ. an
attache OF one Of ctr daily papers. / have
looked over a file Of That particular paper ex-
tending back about five months. and / am aot
only astonnIed at the amount of taIn It that
Unsupported before our citizens, but at the
u'taEaFd-ot circumstance that not a single
star, actor, actress. dancer, fiddler, singer. or
pl1E'tHt who was not on the top roun5 of the
iat!a4er Of fame, and clearly entitled BY genius,
artistic merit, private riltues. &c. T., to have
the ladder aforesaid extended upwards with
cut any regard to height, SO tha' they could
Climb entirely ont Of sight Of the gross ma
t~e!Tlallty Of the world.
The Gaines case, which OCCUPIED the T.
). Circuit Court SO long, last winter, has been
decided against the peFserering and seeming
iy 'ndeiat'gable little widow, by Judge Nc
Caleb, and she has appealed to the S,Drefne
toaIt OF the United States. So far as the
Ia a flyers are concerned, this is alphabetically a
great gar" case. In the matter OF politics,
There seems TO be more q~uietu1ie than nr+-
vailed a month since, bot as tf,e cauldrn1 |
poais and bubbles as quietly as can be eyper-
ted "l the NEST respectable political cauldronz, |
ch2,ges d pear on the surface, n
- Ro" confidently stated that Mayor WAR;
FEAAN will not 50 before the convention Of
haS party as a candidate for denomination 70
ne Mayoralty, but that the present Treasu-
W.T. ADAM G1EFis, will be pitted against
zHKARn STETH in the conventional ,or+es4
DEN HARRISON Is already out as an indie
pendent candidate, but I am inclined h the
'e51e! that there is a pretty good understand
nss between him and Recorder SrTrH. ~ +,
'peFal1ons after the regular nominations are
The contest between the extension ami IN
'~extensIon parties having control Of the New
'fleans and jackson Railroad, which. has
lied the papers Of late, was terminated YES
zfday by the complete triumph of the far
scr and the immense disgust Of I.s. RopR
nd his clique. Dir, CALHouN was r~e-eIec-
Ell President by a large majority over Mr..
'oEH, and the result seems to meet with peo-
raj r. satisfaction. The road wl1h nav be-
aat 5in1ed, as originally contemplated as rap-
'!!y aAa1nea1s can be concentrated. and some
R1efp'isans gentlemen who are said to.haye
'oight up stock at a remarkablyaow 6rure
tay not Tor a considerable length of time .
enabled to sell out as advan.a.eouslv - :
could do, If the road never stopped at
anton.
Inc creTasse on the Opposite side Of the ?
yer above CEetna, CONTINUES to let out an -.
:'ffiense volume Of water. and there are we'll
fears that all efforts to stop it, will .
ore uHaTaIiing, until The river falls. The /;
lace is rendered gay and picturesque by the .
sonsands OF men. wonen ard children, who j.
My visit it, and the food having been =,
Niagara Falls, the Canada and .
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