Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-01-23
Correspondence Of the Sugar Planter
New ORLEANS, Jan. 10, 1858.

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week. was the storm Of Friday, which
stirred up matters and things in general,
and willie it caused a very considerable
amount of damage to property, regret
10 state that several liyes ere lost. The
heaviest part Of tho BIZ lasted but
about eight or ten minutes, but III that
brief period OF time, states and window"
shutters danced and capered through the
air-uu,nberiess signs ceased TO be any
thing but signs of destruction, and the
pedestrian Who had the audac'ty to raise
an umbrella, with the vain hope of shell
teriug himself from the 'pe!ting rain,
va, only saved from al aerial excursion
provided lie proposed TO hold on by the
suddenness with which the article IN
du|ged in the elegant feat Of turning
itself inside-ouG. Steamboat cllimnies
seemed to be regarded by the vigorous
clerk of the elderly Mr.. Borsas, who was
on duty at the time, as useIes. apperGa-
ges, and be knocked down a good sized
bundle Of them without waiting for
people to get out of the way Owing to
the latter circumstance, two or three
beads were broken SO badly, that repairs
were out Of the question.
Among the shipping, the storm did q
decidedly driving business, and not less
than Fifty or sixty crafts were started sea-
wards, without the slightest regard to
Custom House regulations. Owing so
the hurry Of leaving their moorings. an
immense amount Of confusion prevailed;
"cntwaters" became the tavagest kind
Of cut-ships ; there was a grand CRASH
of spars, booms, ETC., and several sailors
lost their lives.
There is au immensely Of amusement
iu town, but it does not seem that our
citizens appreciate that sort Of thing for
proprietors generally, complain of max
ing fortunes not very fast by upwards OF
considerable. Edwin Booth is "doing'
an engagement AT the Gaiety, and he is
himself being highly "done" BY the
stock company. Mr.. Booth is one Of the
finest actors on the American stage, and
it is we'll fur him that he is enabled to |
play an entire piece by himself. ! saw
him AS Brutus" in the play of that |
name, a few nights since, and | could not
diyest myself Of the idea tina, the stock
company had entered iuto a deadly COLI
splracy against him. They continued to
murder him thronghoutthe performance,
The celebrated Bob johnson whose
name has been in all men S mouths, and
his fists in a large number Of faces, has
recently been sentenced to eigIs: months
imprisonment for Il savage assault and
battery on Mr.. Lyttle. Tbs weather is
fine, and, the cry Of hard times lifts itself
up throughout the city. VICl.
A MEMBER BAGGAGE.-Seated, Sun
day morning last in q members room, in
Baton Rouge. chatting of matters and
things IN general, a darkey poked his
bead into the room and announced the
of the member's-aforesaid-
baggage. "Bring it ill.," said the mem
ber with a majestic wave of the hand.
The operation of bringing it in imn,edi-
ely commenced. First entered two
suspicious looking demijohns, then three
half emljohus, third, a mysterious box
marked Isl. Julien" fourth an extremely
corpulent Champagne basket, fresh from
importers, fifth, another box, bearing
imprint of Udolpho Wolfe, sixth, a
cedar box, with blue paper pasted around
edges and aslaheI on top notifying
world that it contained q thousand
prime Havanss, seveuthly, and last-a /,
The member smiled at the bao- :,
gage as it was brought in-so did vel (
. demijohn was uncorked-and We both !
Our readers may guess whether {
member aforesaid was a SIidell DEM $
'crat, Sigur Democrat, or, p Know Moth /
ng. We won't tell. i