Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1859-04-16
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M. Sugar Ptanter:-zAre your readers acquainted
with st. Michel, or the immortal town of St. Michel
Vile. in West Ba ton Rougef II they are not, I vii
tell them that. st. Michel was built SO very long age
that rs not even in the recollection Of man when II
was commenced. You hear Of Roman antiquities, E0
railroads, of great men, even of Franklin Pierce and
other curiosities ; but is there anything now, or was
there ever anything to be compared to the great and
immortal city Of st. Michelville? l say there is not.
Its houses were of a struct1re only adapted to itseli
its trainers having died Immediately after ITS com
pletion, and the plans thereof having been buried with
them. The people residing therein were always noted
for their kindness and generosity. St. Michel had a
constitution of her own. and her motto was {" fight
Before you:pa your debts - and they never did pay
them until Che sheriff was at hand with a bench war
rant, OF a sharp stick. Az: f. Ts -: u.
The lower part of said town.was Inhabited, fifty
years ago, by a Toulouse, a gentlemen Of great re-
nown, whose name can be traced in seventy-6ve diff
fenent suits on file in the archives of this parish, for
petit larceny, assault and battery, &C., &C.. His sue
SCISSORS were all people as highly recommendable
The middleaor center of said town, was Inhabited for
the last three centuries by a mixed race, composed
Of free negroes, mulattoes, Indians, spaniaris, Yam
KEGS, and white people-all people of great-veracity
and wit. Eating was palatab'e-drinking was unpal--
atable, for there never was anything but drugs SOLD aud
drank the rern.* 1t ~wasalway y known and
ed for its stables, which were .alwaysA MOL. Corn
was put in. the trough, and hay in the racks, right
before you, when yourhorse was put up but ~ soon
as you turned. your back on them. the corn was put
hack in the lott, As also the hay, and a newspaper,
newly printed in the upper part Of the town, spread
before the eyes Of your Arabian; who got fat and sleek
on reading the news therein 4
! The-upper part of 1.-THE town was always noted for
ITS appeavance-,ts finish, it style, and It's grandeur.
seat Of Justice was there, and there you could
get justice nigh aud day and at all hours the last
mayor Of the town being q Frenchman, = genuine for
eigner,, a man Nnown tor his abilities, his impartiality,
his good sense, and good behaviour: Yes, General
Lacombe was the last mayor Of the immortal town Of
st. Michelv,lle ; but. pressing business calling him to
parts unknown, he was obliged to leave his numerous
friends, and left them in condition difficult to define,
they well knowing that it would be long before St.
Michel would be represented by any one Us worthy
and as commendable as General Lacombe. Although
a foreigner, General Lacombe was. always elected
mayor of said great immortal town, and do you know
why, because the greater part Of the population of
said town were foreigners, and they stuck to hum
like sick kittens to q hot brick.
In the extreme upper part of said town was once a
very great hotel, which bore the name Of Amaze
Mosaison, where all the dclicacies of thu season could
be had, and SO cheap, that when you had no funds to
pay for your dinner, the landlord generally gave you
3 penny to get Dime: elsewhere , but that hotel, yes
1~a<olZfc.d II1ma. xl..3 - = x l. .%.<
the members Of the firm being defunct, and the other
samooseds to parts unknown. ell, readers, ID thatEE
very otel-inz e very diinins 8 rooms, xoald.Syoo bssssH
ieve !, taersaslPsapg u q psintaahsg(aeAA ~ Yes. IL
Is very diaing#@roems a printing O4SsgSwhere you
could always get the news, twenty-tour hours ahead
If the houuns; a pape-* once called the Vis-a- Tis. I
Ind now the Sugar Planter, where the interests of
sugar planters are SO. mixed up that it would take a
lawyer to tell head from tail. Well, SO
tue world; for. one have alwaJ IS been q strong
of the Sugar Planter, and Of is editor. !
ike any place Or pint whe3S good brandy can be had,
Well, readers; st. Michelville is no more. The Po-
ice Jury Of West Baton Rouge have thought proper
o convert said great and immortal town into q lake,
MI as a token Of respect to one OF its citizens, have
allied it the Lake st. Bernard. They have, under the
of one Of their Inspectors erected a new
nd large levee in front. of said St. MIchelyille. |
preventing its waters. from running at large,
hereby converting it into a real lake, where geese
nd ducks, rats and cats, and in fact. every
else, can be seen swimming from morning Till
ight.z Would you be1ieye it-but you can take my
ord for it, as a fact-tley have taught even the
hickensshow to swim, so that you CO uh not distin,
them from tne other waterfowl therein, even
tier the closest exa n,~ina;ion. In order to create
lid hkc, it was necessary to buy the property Of
le Inhabitants Of said great CITY, and the Police Jury
its almighty provisions, and magnan i'm: ty of soul,
ave actually raioed the sum of seve nty-fve cents
nong all its taxpayers, to be paid in pro rata to SAID -
habitants for their said property. But st. Michel
lie Isl at present, certainly a very desirable place
live. just imagine to yourself, that when seated I
pom your steps you can enjoy the luxury of a foot.
Ith, and that from your bed in the morn;ug, through
Ie window, you can catch enough perch and trout
serve your family the whole day. Is, it not a
farming placer I say it is. ZoRsE-ELS.
Our DIFFICULTIES WITH PARAGUAY AT AM !,
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erald Of Yesterday morning, publishes the !
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