Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-02-17
The PRIME DIFFICULTY AT LAST.

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Gen. Tilson Of the Georgia Freedman S
Bureau issues an order requiring ex-mas
tiers to support superannuated and help
less negroes until the State may provide
for them This is the first official recog-
milton OF the evils of sudden emancipa
tion. Gen Tilson states truthfully that
no ex-master, who has the means. would
be- wanting in generosity but it happens
unfortunately that the army, railways
attractions Of city life and delights Of
country villages have drawn, off from
plantations the great body of colored
men Since there is no organized action
among land owners, spectators intervene
who hle1 none but men. Families are
broken up. aud the farmer has "none SO
so poor as TO do him reverance," save the
aged, women and children. Planters have
lost their cotton. Armies have plunder-
ed them. Their fences have been burned.
State treasures are empty. The bayon-
ct decreed immediate freedom, which
was the bayonet's accustomed work. 1t
was death to the blacks.
Forseeing this, in revised Southern
State Constitutions it is declared that
African freedom was consumated by war,
and not by volition Of the people. The
pupose Of thus fixing the responsibility
on the Union was that tue Union might
provide against necessary results OF It's
philanthrophy. Will the Chairman Of the
Committee Oh Finances, i'll the House Of
Representatives, please take notice.
Just to the extent that it is possible, ex
masters will maintain ex-slaves. Nv hen
they must fail, where rests the bnruen ?
Did States escape it by the verbiage OF
amended Constitutions And States
bankrupt, what becomes the duty of
Congress Has not the South, since it
contributed two, thousand millons-the
value Of its property in negroes--to the
grand scheme of benevolence, done
enough How happened that the grey
headed freedmen, who Just left Us, to be
born in Pennsylvania 2 Who brought
i the race to this country 81, t.r .ut.
J"PArENr BEER."-The drinkers Of lager
beer have been a little puzzled, and per-
haps bewildered, of late, by contest
concerning the relative merits Of different
brewiDgs Of lager beer, some time since,
number Of leading brewers, having de-
sired process by which the defects of the
old system Of brewing would be over
come, aud the amount of starch wasted
would be saved, tested the system propos'
ed by an eminent practical chemist
They found they were thus enabled to
convert th6 entire starch into sugar, to
improve beer in its strength, and its keep
ing qualities, and to brew regardless OF
the Season. The new beer found favor
in al respects. and was rapidly super
ceeding the old, when those who adhered
to the ancient process, cast about them
for a mode to keep breweries open. They
raised the cry of "Patent Beer" and il.
timated that the pleasant beverage was
compounded of something else besides
malt and hops, that it ought to be spel'
bier il English as well as IN German
being a device for carrying people te
their graves. So persistant was the cry
THAT many honest people fancied they
could taste every thing terrible in the
new drink, aud complained accordingly
It is alleged, indeed, with what warrant
: we know not, that man was often callee
to pass jugement as" Patent Beer /" upor
some pf the beer specimens edoctored fo
the octasion. The brewers under the new
procesb, after submitting to their attacks
in silence, have at length chosen to repl.
to them in allegitirnate way. They hav'
submitted their beer to the analysis OF EN-
ineut chemists, in comparison, with tn
beer made by thaold process, and the re
suit was a triumphant demonstration il
their favor. Nevertheless, if any prefe
the old beer, he, has only to add a littl
water in which starch has been dissolve'
to the new beer, to reprodhte the old an
suit his palate exactly.-N Y Coarae'
w The, Citizen says that Bayard Lay
lor who is spending the winter in New
5 York, gives the most delicious chit-cha
parties over lemons and wine and cake
every Sunday evening: :,oa4l ~
5 p% The Worlds Havana correspond
eDt says Secretary Seward had an inte
a view at Havana with an aid-de-camp
! Macmillan, but does not know wha
e transpired. afi Lfia 7AAi 1. x ''"'..
n Alaborer digging on a city lot in Sar
: Francisco unearthed an oyester can fo
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