Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-02-25

O]RprNEpro LEAvE.-For more than "A year
past, a man named MASON, with his wife,
have been living at the Ferry Landing, en-
gagged in what outwarlly appeared to be a
| legitimate business in the grocery line. HE
petty dcpredativns committed upon the
neighboring plantations, and the number OF
intoxicated negroes in that time, led to. the
suprositIou that a CONVENIENT institution tor
the committal of the one, and the cause OF
the other, existed somewhere about. Inves-
]tigations of the matter all pointed to the
Ferry Landing, and Mr.. Mason was respect
fully solicited with his plumber, to vacate the
settle up his business and emigtate, This he
did not think proper TO do, at the time speci-
fed; and on Wednesday a committee Of
planters waited once more upon him and
forty-eight hours given him, with the
distinct understanding that if he didn't go
voluntarily, the proper means o: exit would
he provided. This last =" hint was sufic lent
and he left bag and baggage for across the
river. This same fellow is we'll known in
the city of Baton Ronge, as also his wife.
who occasionally figures as a fortune teller,
and we cannot but congratulate our fellow
citizens of the Capital upon so valuable All
acquisition to ttcir number. Testing aside,
they are both dangerous persons, in a slave
holding community, and if the proper author
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We were compelled to do, they will be doing
an act Of justice to themselves, besides pre-
serving many little articles about a house,
which can be Transformed into whisky by
the magical hands Of such skilIful operators.
MOVEMENTS OF ABoLlTtoNlsTsI IN IL BRIT
ISL PARL,AMENr.-If the following extract
from the New York Herald in reference to
slavery in the United States, is to b. relied
upon, matters are assuming a threatening as
poets. 1t is but too we'll tnowu that British
gold has been ased more than once in our
country to create disturbances and to carry
out such measures as were likely to promote
British interests. Should the statement of
the Herald prove true, it is a matter for i'm
mediate action on the part of our government:
to deter 7 ire at once whether an institution
Of our people shall form a subject of legisIa-
ton by the British Parliament. To say the
least oft, it Is an act Of the most unparal-
eled impudence on the part Of Lord BRouc-
HAM and his confederates.
We were some time since informed that a
combined effort was to be made by the Brit.
ish and American AboIitionists against the
existing institution of slavery in our Southern
Several Of John Browns principal
tools were Enslishmen; he is said to have
sent agents to England, and to have received
money from there; and the fugitive revolu-
t,onary abolitlonists from here are now en-
deavoring to stir up the sympatbies ard bleed
the pockets of their British cousins. At a
recent meeting in Wakefield. England, which
was addressed by the nulatto Fred Douglass
and Miss Redmond, the former announced
the British people" were to have a very
i'm portant subject brought before them for
consideration and that was the propriety of
forming an anti-s!avery society. which should
assist in the work Of the abolition of slavery
in the United States. AS a part of this move
ment. no doubt. Lord Brou.ham. who is one
Of the cd original abolition leaders, moved,
on the 27th. in the British House Of Lords,
the government should lay before the
House information IN regard TO slavery, and
the amount of cotton imported from the Uni
ted States, Lo,d Normandy promised on the
part OF the government, that what informa-
an early day.