Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-02-04

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with feelings indescribab!e, and make pal
~.icular mention thereof that the circulation
of our columns shall assist in spreading the
news to the people. We have no disposl-
ton to rake up an old ''quarrei' relative to
the sugar crop of 5000 in which the uny
precise and far-seeing Change writer Of the
Crescent saw from the decks # a steamer
while making a passage from New Orleans
to Bayou Sara, that the crop Ct that year
would reach 100000 hhds, proui1ed certain
meteorological changes did not interfere.
In vain did we call upon the always accu-
rate Change writer to give us something
more substantial for his figures than what he
saw from the deck of "a river steamer. but
all to no purpose-he promised, however, to
do so after refreshing his lacerated health
across the Lake. This old dispute we do
not want to rake up as we said before, but
merely mention it in order to refresh oar
memory nFon the subject.
What effect that statement OF the C,esceut's
Change writer had upon the sugar market
we will leave tor persons more directly IT.
terested than ourselves to say hut we are
slightly Of opinion that such a hap-Lazari
way Of guessing aud then publishing the
guess work 10 the world through the columns
of an influential AMI widely circulated jour
nal, is rather calculated to injnre and greatly
annoy a class Of producers, who should
be protected and assisted more by the press
of the State, than any other branch of agri-
culture. SO much forso much.
Now we may perSsps. be doing an inius-
tice to the 'Change writer in question by
urging our planters to hold on to thei, mo-
lasses. despite the warning contained in this
lextract:
~There was some talk Of an arrival of mo-
lasses from Cuba, and the inquiry was made
what effect Will it have on the value OF mo-
lasses at the sugar ,!efot?" Some Of the
Bears in the article say that the large plan.
te.s (wl.o are able to hold: by-the-by) will
nave more or less competition in the molas.
ses line for the balance Of fhe season. It
appears that thefeceipts of th., article since
the first d September are lS2,55O barrels
against l95.500 for the same time last year, or
about 81 per cent decrease. which indicates
a large proportion of molasses for the season.
From the returns Of the port Of Franklin for
the quarter ending the 3lst Of December
last, there were shipped from the Bayou
Te.he for distant ports, not including New
Orleans, 1899 hogshead sugar and 1923 bar
rels molasses, against $3.50 hogsheads sugar
and IL ,l6l barrels m%olasses for the same time
last We. r., which shows considerable excess
above a halt a crop.
There was some talk OF the many vessels
which are now under charter and clearing
for Cuba with empty barrels and hogsheads
TO be flied with the liquid tIiolasses) tol
account OF the Atlantic ports or New Or
leans. (u,en sabe Tie talk was. that the
cargo OF moIasses arrived yesterday from
and yield a handsome proht.-C,esceni, 27M
ut.
"Wo'f. wolf!' has been shouted in oul
ears SO often that the wolf must now come i.
propria personas before we can or will be.
lieve that such an ANNA! in reality exists
the bears and Luiis of New Orleans sugardou
10 the contrary Notwithstanding. Hold OF
to your sugars and mo:asses, planters, a;
long as you can. 1t is 10. Often you get {
hoil on the market. Realize every cent yot
can upon your produce. People born in The
woods are not easily scared by an owl.
ORIGIN OF LYNCH Aw.--The New Yori
Datehnaan says: The Camden Antiquaria;
Society after several years of patien, invest
CATION, have discovered that Col. Charlie:
Lynch. brother of the founder of the city o
~Lynchburg, Va. was the first to inauguratt
tins feature of what is now considered thu
the common law. The Society has trace
the practice Of iynching this side OF the war!
OF '76. In 1922 says Wirts life OF Henry
there were many suits on The South side o
James river for inhicting Lynch Law"
From the report o! the Society we are no
self lynched or not but there is a h.nt thi
way bread enough for the Society to come i,
and claim the honor of this discovery. shoul,
it ever be needful to do so. We do not Xix.
to differ from so learned a body as that OF tn,
Camden Society, bat think the custom O
Iynchlng was the common law of England d
, the conquest. Modern refinement has givel
the custom a very fine polish it did not hav'
in the days of the Troj III. If Col. Lynch
deserves any credit for the discovery, he ma
claim the tar and teathers-no more. VII
not the committee have a minority report
We are unwilling to give Col. Lynch an,
more than the ter and feathers.
The above paragraphs are floating arouut
and seem to be generally endorsed as correct
But we think there must be some mistak Re i
regard to tho antiquity Of Lynch law. as Sc
forth above. 81: Walter Scott in his romano,
OF Count Robert o. Paris thus speaks ola sim
liar punishment among the Crusaders:
Persons among the Crusaders found guilt,
of certain offences, did penance in a coat G
tar and feathers, though it is supposed a pun
ishment of modern invention.
EDITORIAL Fatality. - Spea king OF til,
death of Mr. Rar ia4o .d;4or &c 4Aa N;.I.