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Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-04-14

The C1vn R1aHrs BnL.-C atechet'catyy
enposion.-The New York papers puts
the Objectionable features of the civil
rights bill in the following form:
Shall negroes sit in Congress, in the
Cabinet and other high stations side by
side with the white men? The civil rights
bill says that they may.
Is a negro fve times better than a
white man that the former should, vote
immediately, while the other has to un-
dergo Eve years. probation it he brings
his skill, labor and money to this coun:
try from abroad ? The civil rights bill
declares that the negro is five times bet
ter. .,~ ....t ..f a.
Shall the negro intermarry with our
daughters, and take an equal place in our
households? The civil rights bill says
that they shall.
Are we to have negroes filling the posi-
ton Of post captain in the United States
Navy2 The civil rights bill says that
they are 81 "
Shall the farms of the great West and
the whole country be owned by negroes,
and white labor belpade subservient to
negro proprietorship2 The civil rights
bill provides for this condition of things.
Shall negroes interminglc with our re.
fined ladies in steaming hot theatres, ball
rooms and opera houses !! The civil rights
bill declares that they must.
Shall a negro supersede Grant as Gen.
eral-ii Chief Of the United States army !!
The civil rights bill says that he can do
SO.
Shall u children see a negro in the
Presidential chair2 The civil rights bill
provides for such a contingency.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-04-14
AY...............APRIL IA, 1866.
& NOTICE.
Office Bureau Refugees, &C..

s NOTICE.. &gE
Office Bureau Refugees, &c.,
Plaquemipe, La, Jan. %, 1856.
HENRY J. HYAMS. Justice of the Peace in
and for the parish Of West Baton Rouge, La, is
hereby authorised to make and fill up contracts
furnished in blank from Head Quarters, Bureau
Refugees, &C., State Of Louisiana, in compliance
with Circular No. 90, Of said Bureau, subject to
my approval. J.. c. STIMMEL,
...T ~ Capt. Sc Ohio Vet. Vols.
Agent parishes Iberville and West Baton Rouge.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-04-14

- At the election held in Bator
Rouge or Monday last, Hon. J. Z. ELAN
was reelected Mayor by a large majority
We congratulate the good people of ou'
sister city upon their choice, while biz
Honor has reason to feel proud at the tri
butte paid him by his fellow-citizens, Al
the ADVOCATE justly remarks, " there is t
be no respite for evil doors for the mex
year to come" fe.A -
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-04-14

PlKE's HALL.-We are gratifed to learn
that this splendid hall is to be entirely
finished throughout, thus making it one
of the most desirable buildings for balls,
exhibitions, &C., in the State. A stage
will be put up at the real end Of the
room which will be large enough for any
thestrical company honoring the Capitol
with it's presence. The work is in the
hands of MI. JAMES McVAY, the architec,
and builder, who fully understands al
that is required to perfect the hall in all
its necessary furnishings.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-04-14


The Eribune's Washington special
says Alexander H. Stevens continues to
receive many calls from the admirers of
his course the past five years. He has
become very much disheartened as to an
early admission to the Senate, and says
he shall go back Wednesday. p,
He has not the slightest doubt but
that be will have his seat given him in
the Senate. Mr.. Stephens estimates the
coming crop Of the South at theree mil
lion bales.
What are we to understand from the
above? If Mr.. STEPHENS has =" not the
slightest doubt but that he will have his
seat given him. why should he return
home ! It is evident that the Tribune.
correspondent wanted to get at the truth
of the matter, so lie tells two stories
The concluding part Of the last paragraph
is a "whopper." How any person could
put such a lieing statement in the mouth
Of Mr.. STEPHENS, surpasses our compre'
tension, unless it be that the Radicals,
and their "whippers ill.," had a quarrel
with truth and honesty and parted com.
pany with them long ago. If any man
can show the figures for three million
bales this year, he can do something
heretofore considered impossible.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-04-14

T1eHr PApERs.-The Police Jury It its
session last Monday. adopted the follow
ING resolutions. We advise our. readers
throughout the parish, to cut these reso-
~lutions out Of the paper, and>sput them
in their hats, so that they a be read con-
tinually-and remembered. We q as
sure them that all delinquents will be
fined if they don't come up and "face
the music :"
Reso1ved,AThat when any repairs are
to he done on any levee within q certain
ward, the Road and Levee Inspector is
hereby authorized and empowered to call
out all the male residents, irrespective OF
color, to make said repairs. Should the
force thus called for be not sufficient for the
required purpose, then said Inspector shall
call upon the Inspectors of tie adjoin-
ing wards tor assistance. .u7f
Resolued-Should any one fail to report
when notified, be shall be subjected to q
fine Of not less than IS and not more
than $40. q 4st.5 1.
Resoluea-Should any inspector fail to
perform his duties when called upon by
two citizens, residents Of bis ward, he
shall be subjected to . foe of not less
than $50 and not more tbnn 500, recov-
cradle before any Justice of the Peace.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-04-14

THE PAroor SHoorlNa.-The bad wealth
er Of last week prevented the exhibition
OF this fine sport on Sunday. From pres.
ent appearances, there will be nothing to
interfere with the arrangements to-mor-
row.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-04-14

FagL.#
The charlottesville, Va, Cronick does
not appreciate the sympathy expressed
by certain politicians in the North in be.
half Of the South. Il says Mr.. vallan'
bingham, Mr.. Pendleton and such men,
and the party they represent cannot be.
come ascendant in the country. We ore
obliged to make great many concessions
The old Democratic party cannot recover
power, and the maintenance of il merely
p~erpetuates the unsettled condition of the
South. We must have q party that can
live both North and South to contend
With the Radical Representatives.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-04-14

A good many errors must have occur
red in the transmission of the Presidents
Peace Proclamation to the different pa
pers Of the South and West. The 6rst
brief synopsis announced that all the
States were included in the terms Of the
proclamation except Texas +; but in the
text Of the proclamation, as sent to US
from Washington by telegraph, Texas
was included but Alabama was omitted.
We felt sure that the omission Of Alabama
was q telegraphic error. In the report Of
the proclamation to be found 10 the Gin
cinnati Commercial Of the Sd instant.
Texas and Alabama are both included
among the States in which the insurrrec.
ton is declared to be at an end, but in
some other paper Texas is ommitted.
The Charleston Courier Of the 9th inst,
complains that South Carolina is not to
be found in the list Of States enumerat.
ed in the Proclamation, though in all the
copies which we have seen the Palmetto
State figures as prominently as any other.
With the lights before as, We think Ill
the Southern States were included in the
Proclamation.-N. O. Times. sas
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SUGAR

Communication intended for this paper should
be directed to Baton Rouge, not Vest Baton
Rouge.
Our Exchanges will confer a favor upon US by
directing as shove.
Any Of our Baton Rouge friends having com
munications, g., for the SUGAR PLANTER, by
leaving them with Mr.. ARBoR, on board the Fer
ry-boat, they viii be promptly received and at
tended to.
Our Baton Rouge patrons must send over their
advertisements on or before Thursday, to secure
their i~neertion the same week.
Ma Oscar Holt Esq, is our authorized
agent in Baton Rouge.
% Messrs WHARTON & SANDcLIFP are our
duly authorized agents in New Orleans.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-04-14

~ The report Of the Grand Jury will
be found Of interest to our parishionels.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-12-27
MURDER WILL OUT.

Hanson Bumgardner has been con-
victed at Marietta for the murder OF
John Thomas Euhank. Bumgardner
resided in Gallia county, Ohio, and in
September last he went to Virginia and
hired Eubank to come to Ohio and
move him TO Virginia. They crossed
the river at ParkerSburgh and started
down on this side. At night Bum
gardner borrowed skiff, saying that
he wished to go out into the river to
take a wash. Next morning it was no.
ticed that Eubank was missing, and
when the man who resided near where
they had camped inquired for him,
Bumgardner remarked: "Oh, he has
gone" b. then went on and took bis
family in the wagon and came on through
Centreville and Jackson, and through
Chilicothe, and had arrived near Frank
fort, where he was arrested and taken
back to Marietta
When Eubank was missing, search
was made, and his body was found
floating in the Ohio river, with the
head cut of, and a stone weighing SO
pounds attached to the body with a
trace chain. The body raised the Stone
with it.
Suspicion fell upon Bumgardner. and
he was pursued and arrested, and at
the time of his arrest had on the muir
dered mans boots.
Judge Guthrie presided at the trial
and David Alban Esq, formerly of this
county, was prosecuting attorney, and
conducted the prosecution.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-12-27
COLVJNHnUs JOURNAL.

This week we publish the prospectus
of this paper. The Journal is now ac-
knowledged by all, to be the best paper
ever published at Columbus. 1t is
printed on new type, ably edited, and in
its management exhibits great ability.
BY an arrangement with the publish
ers, we are enabled to send the Standard
and the Weekly Journal one year for
three dollars. This is decidedly the
best offer that has yet been made.
Here you can get your county paper
aud a first class city weekly for only
three dollars.
Send us the money, soon, If you accept
this offer, as it will ouly be continued
for limited time.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-12-27

tent ez the good Of society will permit. We shel
give EN- qualih ID suffrage fXin, Nv course, wich
Is lust the qualifications ourselves and bein val
yo0able members of society," hereafter we she care
fur EN-, SO long eztheyare healthy y--good Lord why
will them cusses persist In hnagn up able bodied
niggers when there's % many old ones around
good for. nothin but to celebrate with ?" and to
save another wun Nv his former servants, the
Deekin closed abruptly.
1t is unnecessary to recount the further doins NV
the mite. There wuz a skool-house and church,
recently erected, burnd, with some skore or sich
q matter NV young niggers in EN- wich wuz too
young to be Nv any yoose, save one girl, wlch wuz
neerly white and almost fifteen, which ought to
hev bin reskood, and five, ef counted correctly,
able-bodied men and wimmin wuz hung. Bascom
sold out his stock entirely, and by three A. NJ the
entire inhabltance NV the Corners wuz layin
around the square, in festoons.
There wuz bitter awakenin to this scene NV
frstivity. At a little after 7, while the Deekin,
the Elder, and myself wuz in Bascom's irving TO
get an assuager, and the best we Good do wuz to
pour quart NV water into barrel which had bin
emptied and roll it around and thus flavor it.
Capt McPeter, late Nv Morgan's cavalry, cum in
from Louisville. Eagerly we asked him the con-
firmaton NV the tidins, when he informed us that
it wuz q hOax--that no such thing he'd been done,
nor wuz Congris in auy sich noshen. Pollock
dropped in, and when reproached him with his
dooplicity, he ansered that 1t wuz hoax but he
hoped we'd excoose him. He he'd cravin desire
to see whether ef Amnesty and Suffrage should be
He wuz satisfied, and honestly hoped we'd for
give him the pleasure and jest. He'd made the
Corners lively one mite anyhow. ] wuz too
profoundly disguised to reply to the wretch.
PETROLEUM v. Massey P. NJ,
(wich is Postmaster)
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-12-27
MIR. BlINDY.

Our worthy Member of Congress has
been sending us numerous documents
and papers. Mr.. Bundy voted last win
ter in the House for free suffrage in the
District Of Columbia. The Standard
was the only paper in his District, Of
either party, that boldly sustained him
in that vote. He went before the peo-
pie last fall, justifying that vote, and
Mr.. Wilson justified Mr., Bundy's
course. The result was that the people
indorsed this action. Now we see Mr.
Bundy's name once more recorded upon
this question on the side Of truth and
justice. The people will, to use ia
miliar phrase, "more than sustain him"
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-12-27
State News.

On last Friday drunken man named
William Burgess fell off car in Gin
cinnati, and the wheels passed over his
leg, crushing it so badly that he will
probably die.
Great frauds upon the Government
have been discovered among the dis
tillers in Cincinnati, as we'll as in New
York.
SO great has become the nuisance
of the benevolent gift enterprise lottery
swindles in Cincinnati, that the City
Council have taken action to have the
State laws enforced against these scoun-
drels
The Portsmouth Republican says
that on last Thursday the horses attach
ed to the carriage Of o. B. Gould became
frightened and ran away. When near
fifth street, the end of the tongue
struck the head of lad aged sixteen
years, killing him. He and his father
were in a wagon, going home. He lived
near Slocum's Station, and his name
was Duvendaugh.
The Circleville Union says that the
hog cholera is still prevailing in that
region of the State to fearful extent.
"A man in the Ohio Penitentiary a
few days ago climbed over the wall and
ran for some distance before he was
caught.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-12-27
Hours with the Newspnpers-NO.9
ny PllIpELTA.

The newspapers come to Us every week with
terribly enlarged records of crime During the
past five wears crimes have increased In magni-
lude In number and variety. No one needs u
be Informed that the late wdr Is the occasion OF
all this.
The DEVILS harvest Is durnga great war; though
II NAV he the secd.tlme OF good for the age the
state prisons aro lull but thirty millions oil people
are stepping to higher life.
IL is difficult for generation educated III war
tunes to keep the peace. Let the nnwhOlesonlr
impressions of angry war fade as rapidly as posi-
bic from the minds of the children
To burn school houses md churches Is Indicative
Of rather a low condition of Intelligence and
morals. 1t is the blindness Of intense hatred and
Ignorance. But this 10 u sectional crime. MOI
many school houses nor churches are burned In
the Northern StItea Not many negroes are
brutally murdered. Not many captlves OF war
were cruelty starved. North of certain parallel
| Of latitude certain crimes almost cease. The
newspapers have not been without their lessons
of the geography OF crime as well as the statistics
While the war has increased the number COM
mltted In oil sections Of our country, II has
almost ohllteraLed some species OF crime. Men
and women ore no longer bought and sold-hu-
man law regards the sacredness of the marriage
contract &c.
The politics Of the country somewhat obscures
-7sn's perception of what 10, and what 10 moi
crime. the meaning Of the Constitution IL moi
quite definitely settled. We trust that when the
government shall be reconstructed treason may
b more clearly defined. Il occurs to us too, that
II Ia not quite safe to trust this matter to rebel
generals. This, however, is not the opinion ex
pressed by some OF the newspapers, Some o.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-12-27
CONGRESS-.

On last Thursday Congress adjourned
until the Sd of January. The bill for
the admission of Nebraska as a State
was debated at length in the Senate.
Mr.. Sumner opposed the admission, be-
cause the word white was used in the
State constitution. Mr.. Wade favored
the admission 1t is probable that Ne
braska will not get in while she dis
franchises her negroes
Much preliminary work was done by
both Houses before the adjournment
and disposition was shown to work
and not to talk.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-12-27

them have added new name TO the catalogue Of
crimes, "aboltlon"--however. we pass to the
consideration of those that are not in dispute.
Men who have passed through the dangers Of
war--who have many hairbreadth escapes may be
inclined to risk the penalty for crime. Gratitude
for the services of the soldier has overlooked
some grave ofenses. To have done service
never confers the right TO do an injury.
1t is not strange that murder is now common
crime. Thousands recently have been habituated
to scenes of death. We do not suppose that men
value their OWn EUes at less than heretofore; the
number Of suicides has not increased proportion
ally with the increase Of the number OF murders.
These figures go to show that men set less value
on the lives of Others than they did before the
war. We see less reason now than ever before
for abolishing the death-penalty for murder 10
remove it at present. with the moral principle
respecting the crime of murder would be q costly
experiment We protest against the practice Of
hanging negroes without judge or jury for crimes
which no one has seen them commit and acqut-
ting white men by judge and jury because only
negroes have seen the act which deserves punish
ment
The newspapers in many instances exhibit
wisdom in omitting the particulars OF atrocious
crimes. 1t Is sad enough that there should be
part Of q column under the heading, "Crilnes.
The masses do not need the literature of crime
The news Of the capture in Egypt of Surrat one
of the murderers Of the President is certainly an
uncomfortable suggestion to evil doers. One Of
them might reason in this way: IF the lightning
goes before me as rapidly as thought. half way
round the globe with the story Of my crime; 1;
yea, if with the recent advance OF science, the
light OF electricity performs the Office OF the light
Of the sun-phOtCgfaphs my features and places
the copy in the hands Of the police Of the old
world if an iron-clad ship in few hours be on
the way to bring me TO justice; ii the sympathy
Of thousands with my crime will not avail,
whittier shall hee from the presence Of aveng-
ing Law? If | take the wings of the morning,
and dwell in the uttermOst parts OF the sea; even
there thy strong hand shall hold me. >"
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-12-27
RANDOM THOUGHTS No. 50.
BY THE EDITOR.

Here we are again at No. So, the end Of another
year. One year ago wrote to you that was
confined to my room with fever Since that
have enjoyed some good health, and reasonable
degree of prosperity. The Standard is in fine,
healthy condition, and has been enlarged during
the year. 1t will live as long as do, and hope
much longer.
How rapidly time flies! year Is now as a day
when was boy. Reader, do you ever think,
after you retire to bed and the lights are out, how
your life Is speeding on, and how near and sure
death Isl Do you think of the friends of your
youth, where they are, and how few now remnin7
am not old, but few weeks ago found it nee
essary to get glasses as at night had to hold my
book or paper at arms length tosee TO read This
is o warning that have gained the eminence and
have started down the other side. 1t is slow, te-
dious and aborious going up the hill; when the
summit is passed, how rapid the descent
NY kind reader. who has reached the meridian
of life do you sometimes dream of the scenes Of
your youth, and then get those dreams SO mixed
up with the reality that you cannot tell which is
the dream and which the reality3 do, often.
Many times am o boy, in the woods along
Symmes Creek near Jefferson Furnace. In a
few minutes Of time in dream, | pass q whole
year. will gather the early wild pansies to color
the Easter eggs, make sugar at McNeels sugar.
camp as did in the Spring Of 1886. Then hear
the wild birds sing-gOther the service berries in
June, and fish in the creek Then | eat the fox
grapes in the Upper Pond, aud gather the wal
nuts and hull them on the great rock where the
marks indicate that the Indians did the same when
they were boys. The red apples taste in my
dream as apples only taste to boys. All this and
thousand other things pass in dreams, and then
awake, and here am, only poor editor, and
all the ambitious plans of my youth gone, aud my
life passing swifter than wcavers shuttle. But
now is the time for enjoyment, and can tell my
Young friends that ! see and enjoy more real hap.
pincs5 now than did when boy. | attribute
this to my temperate habits and quiet conscience
Now friends, for the New Year just about to be-
gin with us, let us be better, wiser and happier
than We have been during the year about TO close.
D. NJ.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-12-27
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