Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1859-10-08
From the Alton Courier.
rHE EVILS OF KNOWING, MORE THAN
ONES NEIGHBORS.

" iony furfonSit, sIlou'" JuuRe,) lhe
! people are quite remark bic for" the
amount o' their intelligence and thel,
striking equality upon the score Of eds'
cation. am cred;b'y informed that
nearly the whole population read" He;
>: brew, Chinese and Cloctaw with the
same facility that they do English. They
T are very moral people, ard we'll they may
be, for the stak*pears says there are
"sermons in trees, and they have lots
ofSthat kind OF, ,p'eac'ing.t M"u\ing rails
is, therefore, a very ehfying business.
When they get hold of.a Tree that: j a
real " hopper, they have a sermon "'fore-
noon and afternocn;;' - but from small
one- especially a hackherry---:it wonld
be unreasonable to expect anything more
than a short exhortat'on from The, dea-
con-. z.s ..yl sss 4.:,o+pst
Nosotber proof need .be given. that
they ere all equally and wonderfully en-
Iightened, than this single fact .t;t..
| j.. At the executing election in November
last, every vote Of the county was given
,for--, and not s:ngle. one for
bis opponent: .<,.. :, ....... -
Among The candidates to repesent that
county in the Legislature, was a very
popular young man. to whom I will loan
for he present. OCCASION, Tie name tof
Christophe, Columbus Spread Eagle Je-
nps. Tpat he was born, there was far from
being the sole cause Of his popularity.
Ie was universally. and very justly, re-
g*rded as a prodigy Of learning. He
had been for two Whole quarters. a stu
dent at the University al Cedarville, and
received the degree Of B. S:,(B&che'or
of science:) with i huge parchtment di
p1oma, for whicI, latter be epaid the Gus
tomery fee oftive dollars: I may As we'll re-
ma k en- passant, they have at Cedarvil|ea
very sit gulsr tut excellent custom. On
certain day e the year they never fail
to hunt up a large herd Of lame cattle,
and BRAND their launches with mark
that resembles double D. This brsnd--
ing has a very salu,ary effect upon those;
cattle. 1t releaves Them at, once Of their
|ameness, and ever after carry their horns
several pegs higher than they ventuted
to 'o previous to the operatin. 81.
Even before Jones went to Cedarvil|e,
in the estimation Of the people, he had
" heaps of Iarnin,' for he could read the
hardest kind of reading that could be-
scared up. 10 be sure, such Webster
Unabridged words "tran>ubstantition,"
"Nebuc adnezzar," "bre'l-and mik-pou!-
,tice," and tie like would have fairly
trippeI hun up, and fairly laid him fat
on his back, but for the ingenious way
he had Of Ieapiny over them and com
ing down safely on the other side.
His performance at the public exhibi.
ton on the night before Commencement
was sublime as a Kitchen poker. Il was
also as tea'ingy patriotic and eloquent
.s one Of the real irs-chop South Caro-
lima secession snorters. + His theme was
Manifest Destiny He nailed the stripes
and sars'' to the. North PoIe, and South
latitude ''6fty-four forty," ('or fight.
His speech was 'uI| OF 6re,: and there
was a smell over the house, as If some
thing was burning. To quote Homer
,sAs, when the faithful housewife hang
eth her husbands newly. washed red |
flannel shirt 40 dry: or The back ct a |.
1chair. within scorching distance of too
iatge "A hickory fire. See Homer's
Had, Book X, line 3eo] 2~,:r 49, ~
There WAS SO much rip ing and tear
ing done, up by the American Eagle
tvat every man feared gettinga scratch
orlwo himself" A young lady thought
that ea1nphene lamp hid 'exp'odrd one
of its boilers, and very nearly tainted
Sheewoults have done So entirely had
not her beauty supported her. s4a.s !" q
~ have said that Mr.. a G. Columbus
Spread Ksg|esJones WAS q candidate for
the Legislature On the Saturday be-.
fore the election he Lad made al appoint-
ment u address The prope, for< the last
time, before tie. 1rventfuf's day. !4n i'm
msnse gathering. for those >digglng<,
was collected ut 'he, Court Hpuse, for
Jones was popular, and vonld unhead
to them barrel If rred-tyee< ,''' IS
ii The young speaker~was unusually eIo-
q''ent. LIS Anadeaa tall and vehement
'''spread" upon nearly every1 subject III I
creation, To display learning, he ..lun-
cted At large upon, Socrats and, the bowl
of .hemock which <tht A,henians:. COM.
PEELED him to drink. The subject; was
new to him. Not one in the whole au-
dience had ever before heard a syllable
about Athe"ians, Socf@te- Or liemlock III
the course Of their lives, and they listen
I'd with open-,nouthed interest. lone ofI