Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-03-20
raw Orleans Correspondence
New ORLEANS, March 18th, 1853.

New ORLEANS. MareI 14th, 1908.
Editor Sugar Planter: Fully approaching
the intense astonishfsent aud rsgret= which
yous ninety eight Thousand Two hundred
readers uf1ayoidab1y experienced incursas
| quence>of my non.appearancem t1e faafAer
of last week, ! had rrepareda small octave
| volume ofexplanatioas and apologies which
| was 10 haze been forwarded for publication,
simultaneously with this, but learning that
your book establishment had from some cause
suspended operations, after the issue OF one
| work. ! have been forced into q mental conf
| bat with my original resolution, and the re
| suit is pending. BY the way, | am pleased
to learn that your first edition was very 'nucf@
reed, and that the letter press is sufficient t1
establish the reputation Of the firm. I!
New Orleans has been excessively prolifid
il, :'iterns;' during the last week. The most
startling piece OF intelligence We have hal
from the press, was that the hippopotamas
pianist and the Herciliean fiddler had gone
somewhere, and the public mind having pas|
TALLY recovered from this excitement, it mai
since been soothed INTO d very aulcscenl
state BY eighty-nine notices per day Of Free
z%ollini, R~otzani, the Marsh children, Cham
frau and the coraing Misc Jones who is to ret
yive the legitimate drama al the st, Charles
One opens It New Orleans newspaper i1 the
morning. provid ID he arises at that diurnel
period, and has q paper to open, and he binds
to his magnificent satisfaction that there are
seventeen dry-goods establishment in the
same block, each having Il much larger and
finer stock, and each selling goods at much
lower rates than the other. J say this is
largely satisfactory to the patriotic c]:tIzea.
Tor the reaso1 that it demonstrates the prog
rsss of the country. aud that the spirit u.
pufEer Hopkins still Hsoges il our midst. Bat
from dry-goods on shelves, / will slightly
d!verge to tbs same articles which seem to
be animated by muscles md otherwise, and
arrive at Miss Jones, Who is to appear at the
St, Charles Tomorrow night She ia. the
daughter Of 8 really talented actress, and Il
most accomplished lady, Mrs. Melinda Jones,
and comes to lis with a reputation which
promises much pleasure to the dra1na-loying
frequenters Of the St. Charles, But, as the
i%earfully tfuth~tel|ing theatrical critic of the |
Ds}ta remarks. who ever came to New Or |
leans professionally, who did not come her~ |
aided for all the excciiencies pertaining, eth |
er to & corn doctor, OF AZ artist direct from
the Court of the Grand Duke YIN Swaipsen- |
hausan. | often wonder when I see it an
nouncea that excessive artists Oh the Jews
harp and otherwise, have just arrived from
Mi!aT, Naples, Berlin. etc, iwhen. their de-
nartare vas loudly lamented, why the ID
they didn't stay at some one Of those Ell
chanting places and accumulate the necessary
aznount Of ~lucre?
The engagement OF Chanfrau at the St.
Charles, has been Investigated ~ the Coro-
ner, and nothing profitable has been estab-
Eishcd, either against him OF the manager.
| went to see Nose in California" one night.
and after SEEING, until I wished : Mose'' was
in California, my astta! philosophy prevailed,
and | retired to SANS Charley ChesIey
is the best made up star the St. Charles has
aad toz years, and the onIy complaint | have
aver heard agaAust him, is, that be sdeposits"
than what he 'draws.n \ court Of
has been called, on this question, and
fit comes. Mcclure will probably be Judge
Advocate.
AS ! am compelled to 20 out Of town by
he afternoon train, in about a month, I am
creed to conclude this interesting epissle
going into all the ~gniaut;a Of city
zescs, and am able only to state, for the
'eneht Of yotFr sensitive reader that we have
ateIy had some Of the most diaboiical cases f
murder, and otherwise, that were ever :.
seafd Of The beating to death of a niger
y 4 German shoemaker, when he owned
he niger, and had q lap-stone to beat, at the
anne time, should he regarded is 4 sad case
{ moral depravity.. The circumstances will {
g Looked into by a legally constituted inves- !
committee. -@, :
The markets remain much about The same. T,
, small quantity Of St, Louis flour has been I
AIKEN, On the Levee, when nobody was I
Yours,
VlCI-
4 FAMILY SUPPORTED BY EAetEs.-Luc- !,
in his "Tour through Ireland in 177e,n I