Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-02-27

about the streets like wea1e]s in a
barn yard-wl1ar they i,aue cream
coIored horses, gilded carriages and
marble saloons, with brandy and
sugar IL 'eul~-wI,ar honest men are
scarcer than hens teeth, and a
strange woman once TUX in your
be!nved preacher, and ,bamb'uzIed
him out oftwo hundred and twenty
seven dollars in the twinkIing ot a
sheep's tail, but She can't 90 it agiu,
>Hallelujah! for ':they shall gnaw
a~hIe and fee unto the mountains
OF Ilepsidam. wlar t|1e lion roar
eth and the wangdoodle mournetb
.for. its first born.o
Ny hretlleren, ! am captain Of
Tint t1atboat you see tied up thar,
and I've got abord Of her flour,
bacon and oats, and potatoes and
apples, and as good Monon.ehalv V
whisky as You ever drank: and I'm
apt=to get a big pile for it all. But
what oh my bretlleren, would it all
be Wurth il ! hadn't relidgion e.
jhar's nothin, Ike reid gjon, ny
bretheren. Its better nor gold and
silver jimcrat ks, and you can no
more get to heaven without it than
q jay Dir can fly without a tail
Thank the Lord, I'm an uneddica-
ted man, my bretheren, but I've
sarciled the Scripters from Dan to
Bosorshebee, and found old Zion
right side up, and hardshell reIiti-
gion is the best of' reIidgions. And
its not like the Methodist what ex-
poets to get into heaven .by holler-
in hellhre nor like the Universal
ist what gifts upon the broad gage
and gees the whole hog; nor the
United Bretheren what takes each
other by the seats of the trovsers,
and tries to lift their selves into
heaven; nor the Cath ,!ics what
buys thur tickets froTn their preest
but it may be likened, my brcth-
eren, uuto man what had to cross
q river, and wien he got thar the
terry boat was gone, and he rolled
up his brooches and Wade1 over-
halleluIah for ''they silall gnav q
file and flee unto the mountains Of
HepsidaEn, wl,ar the lion roareth
and tie wangdoolle mourneth for
it's first born"
Pass the hat, brother Flint, and
let every }laresIse}fshell out, Amen.
4 LARGE CAVE ExpLoREn.-A
friend i'll Ohio county writes ms an
account Of the partial exploration
Of remarkable cave IN that coun-
ty. Reports made by some boys
who had ventured into the cave, |
known as Spring Cave, near Point
Pleasant, on Green river, prompted !
The writer and several other gentI. |
men to make an exploration Of it. |
An entrance to the cave was eiec- |
5ed=through narrow passage about |
thirty feet long, which opened into |
In egg=shaped room, -ss,'ne thirty |
eet long and fifteen high. The ex~
o]oring party visited, through Sari-
>us passages, five other rooms. in
)1le. Of which was a small set-of asl
+ made by man, and on it were
llree books and several letters,
1one Of which the gentlemen could !
make. out They also found i'll this
oon silyery-looking metal that bad
,een run into Jumps. In another
oom they found human bones. It
5 the intention Of the gentlemen
in this exploration to make
more thorough examination If fthis
ave: Onr correspondent thinks it
viii prove to be as sextensive a cave
sthe Mammoth .--Lo4asviIte Jour-
al" L.. s,
A Yankee boasting All inveterate
atred Of everything British, is
wing in neighboring city with a.