Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-02-20
N.uv fs,.snx re and the Sugar Planters.

@&DIuEt, ti-ls b[ea'1
rnupication over the name OF JOHN HALL III
the Planters Bannfr Of the 4th inst g paper
published at Franklin parish of St. Mary
fMr. Hall we take it is Il merchant OF New
EOrleans. In his essay to defend the ave"
Orleans merchants. it has pleased HIM to deai
,,t sorue-as we think-yery harsh and IN
kind remarks upon the sugar planters OF TINS
State-haau because We do Lot think W.T..
HALL has properly Informed himself upon
the subject matter of his communication, ana;
uukiiad, because we do n think the sugar
planters of this State, or any portion OF them
prefer buying pork of a Cincinnati house 70
on. il, Louisville, or would be likely to
make a shipment Of sugar to either Horaes
G, eelv or Gerrsft Smith! II Mr.. HALL be a
sugar merchant. Of any kind Of merchant; he.
in our iuJ is not doing himself any
good IN dealing such unkiud filings; but as he
has undertaken to defend the very nice ar
rangenaet,t for receiving and selling sugar IN
New Orleans, it is but proper that We III de-
fence Of the charges made in several pieVi~
vious numbers OF this paper. Join issue with
him.
He says in defending this nice arrange
~u1ent," or outrageous system Of forced sales,
| : the necessity 0: forcing sales l deny IN
tofo,''-"that the forced sales complained Of
is consequent alone upon either the necessl-
ty OF the merchants to place themselves III
funds, or the planters own necessities, and
not because that awful joEty~eigh5 hour ordI-
nance forces it, But to the contra1y-and
he says he can prove it-that sugar and mo-
lasses can and does lay on the ~l-vee, ten
twenty. and thi. ty days!> That Mr., HALL
can prove this, We vii! not undertake TO de-
ny, nor are we disposed to deny his assertion
that sugar and molasses are permitted to lay
on the levee at less than one-halt the expense
that the same produce could remain IN baltl-
more. New York or Charleston. Such asseT-
tons, though truthful ir themselves, fail far
short Of the real condition Of matters and
things, as every ntslIjgent sugar planter
knows. We know, and those who have in
formed themselves know, that the piece o.
ground on which sugar and moia>ses are sold
in New Orleans; is ia charge Of the Iessees o.
the wharves, and that & promise to keep this
in order, is all the revenue the city derives
therefrom and the l~essees have a right to
permit it to remain Tor an indefinite period
OF time upon the payment OF a reasonable
price. Dealers in sugar on the levee are *pe-
ciaAy privileged to appropriate whatever por-
tlou of this space their wants may require.
So it is as Mr.. HALL says sugar ard no!ass-
cs can does lay on the Ieyee, ten. twenty and
thirty days"-not however as a matter Of
right, but as mere snferQnrs; and if not re-
moved when ordered by the levee~master
it is taken into 'durance vile end calaboos'l
goes into a dungeon Of a warehouse where
purchasers will not look at it except at d re-
duction from the Icvee price. Bnt admitting,
for argument sake: that sugar and u,olasseS
could lay on the |evee. ten. twenty, or thirty
days and at a charge Of one-ha!f less than 1T
could remain in the cites mentioned, the dil-
between these places IS so great that
an attempt 10 draw a parallel would only
serve to turn j! into rldicule. The receivers
oil sugar and moIasses in these cities have ap- |
propriate places to store the articIe-dry
plauks for it to lay on and rail- proof roofs 10
protect it from both rain and sun. The nice
a~rraugementn in n. Orleans is what? Yes!
what shall we call it i've did say in a pre-
vlous article that it was more of a hog-lltter
-slush and filthy mud, than anything else
a place SO miserably kept UP that a person
wishing to pass from the pavement on Front
Leyee street, is often compelled to walk a
considerable distance out Of his way TO get
on a narrow plank or gunwale, in order to
reach the wharves, and this is the place Of
accommodation for the staple Of our Stats
Why what would Mr.. HALL think ifhe were
visiting a planters sugar house and saw IT,
ing on the ground even dry ground, a guam
Hty OF the planters sugar covered though
it might be with a tarpaulin-what would he
think of the carelessness of the planter &
We will not do Mr.. HALL the injustice to say
that he censured the planter not for build
ding a Sugar house large CROUCH to hold his
crop-bu~t proposing to occupy all ont Of doors,
because 1t was Il cheaper kind of storage!-
Then it is just as sensible to think a planter
would recommend the holding Of sugar on
the levee at New Or)edns-a place certainly
not as we'll fitted for it as the ground around
and about his Sugar house, knowing as he
does, that the sugar is being damaged every
hour tits delayed, or, If you will, permitted
remain on the wet ground. Sugar, it is
we'll known, attracts moisture, not only from
the damp and wet ground, but being placed