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Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20

THE DELAWARE PEACE CONVENTION.
A correspondent of the Baltimore San
has the following in regard to the feel
ing for peace in Delaware:
The peace convention held at Dover,
Delaware, was a g%lorious one, attended
by five thousand Delewareans, with 4
slight sprinkIing Of Cecil county men
from Maryland. ! have attended many
political gatherings, and haSe never yet
seen such an orderly and quietly conduc-
ted meeting-no ~intoxication, no loud
talking or excitement, but quiet deter
mination Of . people Who knsw their
and will maintain them.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20

CANDID ADx1ss1oN.-That the great
great city Of New York has "gone to
grass" because Of the wal, il thus nd.
mitted BY the New York World and
Courier and Enquirer, abolition organ /:
The city Of New York has suffered hv
Southern rebellion and reputation little
it any, short Of one hundred and 6ity
millions Of dollars. It continues to lose
every day BY stagnation and inaction.-
Whole classes Of merchants have failed.
Credit has fallen to the lowest ebb. The
great body Of commerce Is pa.alysed.J
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20

WEEDS GROWING IN THE STREETS or
NEW YoRk.-Oh yesterday we had ex-
hibited to US a weed which was plucked
up from one Of the principal streets Of
New York City. The gentleman who
sent it, enclosed in a letter, to 3 relative
10 this city, says such q thing has not
been seen before in the vicinity where it
wa plucked in forty years. He repre-
sents the city rs being on the brink Of
ruin-a|most every branch Of business
is %stagnated, while curses are being heap
ed by the sufferers upon the heads of
the fanatics who have brought the pres
ent war upon the country. New York
seer her brightest day. Gotham
must fall Selma (Ah.) Reporter.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20
~ Peace meetings have been held
in Maine, Connecticut, Iowa, Michigan.
Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.

APPLYING THE ScREws--Ths Lon;..
vile Journal, Of the 18th says: WI .ts
informed that the Chief Of Police n.
issued an order requiring the police to
suppress all unusual and Unnecessary M.
litical demonstrations 10 the streets at
night. IL obedience TO that order. cor.
snadipg parties have been deferred bv
the police from singing political song, Or
even national airs.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20

ONE OF THE War PARsoSs.-Tha
Hartford, Conn, Courier says III at the
chaplain Of the Fifth Regiment Of that
State has been lately drummed out Of
camp. The difficulty with MI. B. ap-
pears to have been 4 want Of 6 the rea
dy," and an inclination to board at no
tells without settling that little BILL"
and . propensity for taking things that
didn't belong to him. His waiter boy
suffered to the amount of 4 cost which
brought a dollar at . paxn.broksr's.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20

IMPORTANT ARRIvAL.-The complac-
ent citizens Of San Michel and Baton
Rouge were much astonished on Monday
morning at seeing a fine ship-ofwar an.
ehorsd 10 the river about midway be.
tween tho two cities. She is named the
AeRae, and visits Baton Rouge for am.
munition. The report that Capt. Joe,
Of the Sss'y South, fearing the block
ads Of San Michel had commenced. de-.
manded an unconditional surrender of
the man-ofwar, we r happy to say is
without foundation. Capt. Joe merely
intimated that any interference With his
privileges, would produce immediate &C.
t''ity in the neighborhood Of his one
FOUNDER. He Gays he is prepared for
~ Emergencies, having taken q reef in
n'' )aek*taf. pumped out his bilge-water,
ksslhaalsd The rudder and ete.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20

r. One Of the most significant signs
of the times, says the Louisville Courier,
is the fact that the last two or three Eu.
ropean steamers have brought over no
orders from European capitalists for Uni
ted States stocks, while there been large
orders.for the stocks of the confederate
States. Two merchants Of tlIis city have
at this moment orders for $4,000 and
100000 respectively Of soushern. stocks.
Under the orders received, there has
been, within the last week or two, quite =
considerable advance 10 the New York
market.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20

@ Our friend, Mccormick, the eff
cient postmaster At Baton Rouge, has
had . quantity Of postage stamps printed
Of 2, s and 10 cents, for the convenience
Of the public. These stamps will save
a world Of trouble. They are quite neat
and We may add, handsome, and are the
work Of our contemporary, the Comet.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20

A BAD PRAcT1cB.-Under this head
ing the Savannah Republican has the
annexed well-timed remarks:
A custom is coming very much in
vogue in the South Of politicians raising
regiments and placing themselves at the
head-or with the understanding that
they will be placed tbere-and taking
thoroughly educated officers from the
regular army for Lieutenant Colonies,
Majors and other subordinate positions.
We know Colonies in the Southern ar
my, who six weeks ago were profoundly
ignorant Of the mystery of shoulder
arms!" and yet are ambitious of leading
the armies Of the Republic.
This is all wrong, and public senti-
ment, if nothing else, should put a stqt!
to it. UnskiIled civilians who place
themselves, or allow Others to place them
in responsible military positions, Of whose
duties they know nothing, do injustice
to professional soldiers, to the service and
to themselves. Nor can We see how we'll
educated military men can. consistently
with a proper respect for their profession,
consent to be placed 10 these subordinate
positions with ~superiors in authority who
are perfect dwarfs to them in under
standing. What estimates mus! they
place on their regulations when they are
willing to peril them 10 time Of battle
upon the blunders of an incompetent
leader.
There is no reason why the rules of
common sense should not apply to the
affairs of war as well as to the affairs of
peace. Every man should be in the
right place, aud no man in a place for
which he is nn6t. W. are decidedly OPP
posed to catering to unreasonable ambit-
ion by jeopardiziug the result Of this
important war upon the contingencies
Of a different philosophy, or no phi!oso-
ply at all.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20

A Rrllc.-Our friend, Major Alfred
Hsbert laid on our table yesterday, a
fragment Of . she'll, thrown from the
Federal steamer, Massaehasetss, st the
Confederate forces on Ship Island. This
shell exploded near Capt Rauhmau's
company Of National Guards, but with
out injury to any one. Judging from
the piece before u, a bursting shell would
be likely to produce unpleasant sensa-
tons in the human form divine "shauld
they come in contact.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20

~ The remains of the much lament.
ed Col. Chas. D. Dreux were consigned
to their Last resting place in New Orleans
on Monday last. The funeral pageant
is represented to have been one Of the
most imposing ever seer in that city
Poor Charley! loved and honored by all
who knew him, his death creates a va
cancy in the hearts of Thousands which
will take years to fll.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20

The time for which a number of the
New York regiments enlisted is rapidly
expiring. The Sixth Regiment, Col.
P'nkney, will leave Washington on the
10th inst, the S%ixty-ninlh, Col. Corco-
ran, on tie 18th, aud the seventy-ir.t,
Col. Martin, on the 28th. Others in or
der will return, including the Twelfth,
etc., very soon.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20

S1R4Ha8, VERY.-The Nashville Ron.
ner, of the 10th inst, says:
W. were told a few days since that
at Camp T~rousdale, in drawing aru..
soldier received the identical musnna,
which he bore through the Mexican VA.
bearing his name, which he inscribed
upon It when he was in the servica ~
bis country.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20

.Ous O1F1cI RULES FOR Y1s1roRs.
l. Enter the Office and-be quiet
2. Read the papers and-be quiet.
3. AK no questions, but-be quiet.
4. Don't ask for papers, and the edi-
tor will-be quiet.
s. Having read the news, leave, and
the Office wiA-be quiet.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20

~The Red River Constitutional
says tS News6oy and Sugar Planter,
two very little papers As be calls them,
have bsen trying their hands at wit
We wouldn't advise the Constitutional
man 10 try his hand at witt would be
like Old Abe's government, = Constitu.
h0nal failure.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20

SINGULAR ATrA1R.-On Monday eve
ming last, a resident Of oafs parish while
crossing the levee, opposite the village,
in order to reach the river, discovered 9
man Icing upon the floor of one of the
old buildings. entirely destitute Of cloth
ing and apparently in the agonies Of
death. Entering the building, lie waa
assailed by a stencil almost overpower-
ing. Breaking down . door which open.
ed into an adjoining room, he there be-
held a ghastly, sickeuing spectacle
man, Icing across the top Of q barrel,
dead, and much decomposed, SO much
so Al to render his burial no easy or
agreeable task. The neighbors were i'm
mediately summoned. a physician sent
for, and all possible relief wa admins.
tered to tie sick man, but without ef
fect-he died at one o'clock next morning.
Both men were seen about the village
on the Saturday previous, and stated that
they had been sick for some time, but
they believed the worst had passed.
They were not seen afterw.rd until found
As above described. Both must have
been taken sick again at the same time
on Saturday evening. Occupying diff
erent rooms, the man found dead, evident
" from his position, was unable to open
the door to get out, while his comrade
in the next apartment, unable to help
himself or call for relief, died from expo
sure and neglect. The physician pro-
nouuced the last case one of p~erncious
fever. One Of the men was named Jerry
White and the other John Nolan. They
were we'll known in the parish as levse
builders and ditchers, and bore the repu-
tation Of being honest, hard working
men. They had an abundance of food
in the building, besides being we'll provi-
ded with other comforts.
Well might the feelings Of our little
be. shocked at so horrible an
affair occurring within their limits. Two
men to be taken sick and die within
sound Of human voices and not be able
10 call for that assistance which would
have cheerfully been given them, is hor-
rible in the extreme.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20

Il is sisted that, in consequence Of the
difficulties and discouragemeuts thrown
in bis way the Hon. Daniel E. Sickles
has rsliuquished the plan of forming a
brigade, and now resumes the Colonel
cy Of the regiment previously command
ed by Col. Williamson, who retires from
the position.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20

An! HA!!-A man "a. recsntlv ~.
eeaesd in Alabama for murder. On the
scsaod he confessed that he eosnmano.a
M ea'ssr Of crime By cheating . print
'sF' I'D aiesr that everything seemed 10
come sakY to him.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20

~ W. are pleased to notice in the
Baton Rouge papers that a meeting is
called tonight to form a Confederate
League for that parish. Good! All the
other parishes should get to work at once
and do the same.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20

CASp1D.-One Of the New York Po.s.
correspondents, writing on tho lst ssy..
Thef moment that Beauregard can
plant : battery on Arlington heights.
Washington is doomed Tor he can NJ
terly destroy it from that point.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20

~ The amended estimate of the
parish taxes for the ensuing year, will be
found in the Police Jury proceedings on
first page.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20


Arms FOR KENruKY.-From a source
entitled to full credit, we have advices
that the Secessionists Of Kentucky are
receiving daily, from this city, supplies
Of Colts navy revolvers, and that in this
way they are being pretty tho,ougly a.
med With effective weapons. They are
purchased mainly, We are told, singly or
in pairs, by 2rofessed Union men. In
most cases mere tools are employed 10
make the purchases, who are willing to
take any oath that may be required, if
they can oily get the pistols. In this
way the disuuioaists are preparing them
selves for a fight, and in many districts
they have a decided advantage over the
Uuiooists, in this respect. Our inform
ant, who resides in Central Kentucky.
is anxious to have attention called. TO
this matter, with a view to stopping this
traffic: lie apprebends a fight 10 that
State between the Uniouists and Disuu
ionists. The latter are, be says, expect
ing and preparing for the issue.-.C;in-
cinnah Gazette.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20
THE CONFEDERATE LEAauE.-We

EAGUE W.
have again to report that our League
committees hsvs been successful a. will
be seen by the list Of subscriptions in an
other column. According to our valua-
ton Of corn, sugar, molasses and cotton,
these new subscriptions, with the cash,
amount to nearly twenty-five thousand
dollars. We here state for the infor
nation Of our friends hat we estimate
sugar at forty dollars a bogshead ; cot
ton at forty dollars a bale ; molasses
at eight dollars a barrel and corn at
fifty cents a bushel. Of course these
estimates may be reduced 70 increas-
ed before the time stated for the de-
livery Of the produce. Asst is, we now
place the subscriptions in this parish to
the League At oyer hundred and thirty
thousand dollars, without some fifteen Or
twenty Of our largest planters having
subscribed. W. are still confident. of
reaching two hundred thousand dollars.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20

~ FiAy-one prizes in all have been
taken by Southern privateers, whose q
gregats value is computed to amount 70
& 100000.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20

: TURNING OUT WAR MArERIAL.-A cor
respondent Of the Georgia Citizen from
Richmond, says there are something
over 900 hundred men employed in the
Tredeger iron works, where they turn off
over 10 cannon per day, from 5 to 1874
pounders-columbiads, howitzers, field
pieces, rif1ed cannon and shells, shot and
balls enough to supply an army Of 500
900 men. The musket stock is also
msde in a novel way The piece Of wood
is put into the machine and comes out
a finished stock; 500 are turned out in
day. The manufacture of cartridges is
another show. They are made by NO.
men and girls. Between 800 and 400
are employed; about 10000 are turned
of per day. There are 1900 mules con-
stantly employed, conveying war muni-
tions, stores, etc.
Tie democrats Of Appanoose county,
Iowa, have held a grand mass corven-
ton, at which strong anti-war resolutions
were passed.
Never, for q half century at least, will
mechanical and industrial prosperity re-
turn to the North if this wal goes on
Shall a war which has for its object the
enforcement Of the Chicago Platform,
and for its inevitable consequences The
dissolution and obstruction of the Union,
be allowed to consummate all its horron
and its wrongs in the face of a starving
and protesting populationl The people
first lent their countenance to the war
I ecause they were made 10 believe that
it would preserve the Union. Already
begin to see that in this way they
were deceived. They begin to realise
truth Of the awful words of the la
mented Douglas that " . Is disun;om."
Every step Ahey have taken after the
lead Of the traitorous abolition party
has been in delusion aud woe. But there
is no delus;ou in the hunger and want
now presses upon them aud upon
their wives aud children. Alas! these
are too palpably real. And never will
wronged and suffering see plenty un-
til they rise in the omnipotence of their
moral power against the Chicago Plat
Form and the bloody madmeu who are
to drive it forward at the point
Of the bayonet.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20

Fer Assessor.

" In. SUGAR PIAN1ER:-You will please announce Or
s6n I.efeunc, - / candidate for Assessor Of thii
parish. He will be supported for that once bv hi
many FRIENDS.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20
Fer Auditor q Public Aeesanss.

~ We are authorised to announce the name o
n. RBDALTA, Esq, IS . candidate1or Audi
tor Of Public Accounts, 1t the election In Noyembe,
next.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20
Meeting Of the Confederate
League.

At meeting Of the Confederate League
Of this parish, held pursuant to not
ice on Monday July 18th 1861, at the
Court House at o'clock, a. m, Judge w.
B. Robertson was called to the chair and
II. J. Hyams appointed Secretary.
The following subscriptions We're re-
ported by Committees No. l, 3,,4 and 6.
]. c. Woods, so hhds sugar, rs barrels
molasses; Guy Labauye, 5 bales cotton ;
SEVERN Lejeune, 2 hhds sugar; Raphael
Hebert, 10 hhds sugar, 10 bbls molasses ;
Adams Hebert, 8 bales cotton ; Alfred
Heber., S hhds sugar. S bbls moIasses ;
Landry Landry, 2 bids sugar Joassiu
Allet, s bids suga:, s bbls molassss ;
sosthene Allan, 100 bids sugar, 200
bbls molasses; ]. A. Levecque, Is bids
sugar, rs bbls molasses; lsidor Daigle,
SO bids sugar; Widow Rossmond he
bert, 2 bales cotton ; Josine Tuillier, 2
hbds sugar; Widow, Pierre Cassie, Is
bashels corn +; Widow Ursin Landry, 8
hbds sugar, 8 bbls molasses; Widow Be-
chad, 8 bids sugar, 8 tbls molasses; E.
White, so bushels corn; Widow J. B.
Doiron, l bale cotton ; Jesse Penn, l bale
cotton ; valliere Landry, 2 bales cotton ;
Edouard Leray, 3 bales cotton ; Joseph
Dougherty, 100 hhds sugar, 200 bbls
molasses; Ferdinand Weber, 81 bales
moss /; Valentin Trahau, 2 bales cotton.
Cash-Wm. White, 5000; Virginia
A. Woods, 500; Tbeo. Bergeron, 500;
Dr.. 7. P. Vaughn, 5000; W. M. Boswell,
$25 ; Ulysse Ferbos, $o5 I. W. COL
well, $500, and the same amount annu-
ally during the war ; d. VIM. Reynaud,
$500; LeBai! & Hanrahan, $500; B.
Stevens, $500; Marcel Lejeune, 500;
James Huey, $780,
After disposiDg Of the above reports,
Mr.. W. w. Lennon offered the follow
ing resolution which was adopted:
Resolved, That this meeting do now
adjourn to LIST Monday in August next,
ool %boA ALo o.ro.oI
labors and make further report at
next meeting.
A full attendance Of the League is
solicited at t6V meeting.
On motion the League adjourned.
H. ]. HYAMs, w. B. ROBERTSON,
Secretary. President.
ApAGc TOD X rNTvYuv - E,o,o n .o,.no
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-07-20
The Sugar $lanter.

Communicates intended for this paper should %
directed to RATION ROUGE, mon West Baton Rouge.
Our Exchanges will confer . favor upon a. BY
directing ~ above.
n Any Of our Baton Rouge friends having COM
unications, &s., for the sUeAR PlASTEa, by leaving
chem with Mr.. Richard Markham, on board the
Ferry Boat, Ssssny Soul, viii be promptly received
~ Our Baton Rouge patrons must send over their
advertisements on or before Thursday, to secure their
Insertion the same week.
- Mr.. JANEs SfRAwBRDGB is our authorized agent
in New Orleans to receive and receipt for subscrip-
lions and advertising.
JULY -, 1851.
The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1861-12-13

Leave Camden, lO.20a. m.
Leave Boykin's, LOS p. IA
Leave Claremont 1.45
Leave Middleton 2.l0 "
Leave Manchester juno.
ton 2.2O, p. m.
Leave ClarkSon's 2.43 "
Arrive at Kingsville 800,
Nov. 8-tf III.
The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1861-12-13

his cavalry, three rifcd cannon and 400 in
fantry. Gen Carabejal is said to be outside of
the city of Matamoras at the distance of a
days march, witt 600 to 1000 men, and hea-
w artillery m proportion.
By private letter from Monterey, under
date Of November IL, we learn that President
Juarcz has made demand upon Gen. Vi
daurri, of Nucvo Leon, for the delivery of
Cen Comontort to the authorities in the city OF
Mexico, and that Gen. Nidaurri had refused to
deliver Comonfort up Comonfort has pub
lishcd a manifesto, declaring his intention to
remain in the country, despite "my lord car
dinal' Benito Juarez. The matter threatens
difficulty, if Juarez had any force, but he is
at present shut up in the city of Mexico, sur
rounded by Marquee, Meja, Zuloaga and Ca
jgas. If he sustans himself az home he will
do well.
The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1861-12-13
Virginia and South Carolina.

Governor Lctchcr in his recent able Mes
sage, says:
| avail myself of this, the first opportunity
that has presented ITSELF to rctnrn my cordial
thanks, individual and official, to his Excel
lcncv f. w. Pickcns, Governor of the State of
South Carolina, for his promptitudc in sending
troops to our aid Immediately after the passage
of the Ordinance of Scccs>ion-for the deep
interest he has uniformly exhibited in our be-
halt, and for his generous and ready response,
to every request ! have preferred. He was
the first Executive who protfcrcd us aid and
and support and hence the propricty of this
reference to him. x x
Very recently have furnished one thousand
muskets to South Carolina, and some heavy
guns and five hundred muskcts to North Car
olina. The Confederate and State authorities
have worked together for the advancement of
cause common to both, and the success of
which can only I've secured by united counsels
and concerted action.