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Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21
EFFECT OF THE AMNESTY Psoc, w.,

EFFECT or THE AMNESTY Paoc1.x.,,ov
During the deliberations Of the C.h;0at
yesterday, it is understood that il hcca"s
evident that in the opinion Of every mem.
Der present, the legal effect Of thc con.
templated amnesty proclamation Womb
be to relieve all persons included within
its terms from all disqualification. :.
we'll as all penalties incurred ~ the;r
completely in the late rebellion. and #
course. ESQ far as the action Of the Cen.
era! Government is concerned from dis.
ability as to the right Of suffrage. W.
may. therefore, congratulate the count,v
upon the prospect Of speedy settlement
Of all our difficulties upon principles con.
formable to the Coustitutioo, and Il b.r.
mony With our Republican form Of ooy.
eminent. That such will be ito effect m
sound lawyer entertains : doubt. nor il
1t to be presumed that it will be seriouslv
denled by any considerable number Of
respectable men Of the Radical party in
or out Of Congress- National htsA;o,r.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

CoLoRsD JuDGEs--The %pretensions O
our colored fellow-citizens rise with theil
elevation. First we saw them aspiring
to appointments on the police force and
minor municipal offices /; then they de
manded a large share in the higher posi-
tions of the City Government, such as
members of the Council, and now they
occupy magisterial position and sit in
judgement upon their superiors of the
white race. We shall next see them
claiming seats in our State Legislature,
and representation in the higher execu.
tive Offices. There is no limit to their
demands, and perhaps the sooner they
are yielded the better, for there is some
hope that shame may overtake the wick
ed men who have pushed them forward
and are Turing them to their destruction,
Argument is useless with such men,
They ought to be surfeited with the nau
seous medicine they have prepared for
others. The City Council Of New Or
leans, let it be known, have elected three
men of color-no doubt worthy persons
in their sphere, and perhaps fit for tue
p%osition-as Assistant Recorders of this
metropolis. These officers have criminal
Jurisdiction similar to that exercised by
Justices Of the Peace. That these color.
ed men conduct themselves creditably in
this judicial capacity, and in the other
public stations to which they have been
appointed, will never reconcile US to the
degradation of our own people, and is no
argument in favor their being permitted
to exercise rule wei men of the white
race.--N. O. Bee.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

No. The Radical majority in Maine ha.
been reduced by the late elections in tina,
State, from $4,000 to 5000. Anothe,
pull will relieve that State from Radical
misrule and corruption. The recent sue
sesses of the Democracy, and the heavy
losses sustained by the Radical party, is
cheering to the country at large. There
is strong hope that the Democracy will
carry the elections h New York, Iowa
Pennsylvania and Ohio, in the fall. II
will do more to restore life and energy to
the South than q dozen Presidential am
nesty proclamations.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

CONFEDERATE BONDS WANrED.-Messrs
Avegno &:Willoz, corner of Common and
Carondelet streets, advertise that they
want to purchase from $500, 900 to ST..
OOO, 900 of these Bonds.-N. o. Bee.
What's in the wind, now? Won't
Confederate illegal tender" answer as
we'll? We have a quantity on hand,
easily disposible at current market rates,
always provided, there's q demand for it
Perhaps the same enterprising firm will
buy individual issues" with which the
late "~so-called /" was, at one time. flooded
If they are wanted to adorn a scrap-book
we a furnish an unlimited amount
At n time during the late =" scrimmaees
anything that looked like money was as
good as gold. We once bought our hat
full of peaches with an old label from a
sweet oil bottle.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

MA man named James W. Pogue, a
resident of this parish, committed suicide
on Sunday night last. by taking laudun.
um. He had been drinking heavily for
some days previous, and while in a fit of
i%ntoxication, shufled of bis mortaLco;l.'
He was we'll known in the community as
q good mechanic and had been employed
a. An engineer on the Grosse-Tete rail
road before the war He leaves a wife
and several children.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

A RARE V1s1roR.-We recrossed the
river too late, on Saturday evening last,
to meet our old friend Jos. G.. Charlotte,
Esq, Of the Gazette q Comet, who visited
our parish for the first time in sixteen
years, although living Immediately oppo-
site. Luckily for him, perhaps, that
some Of the San Michel tigers" didn't
get hold of him, or several bottles of
"Krug" might have been called into re-
QUESTION to properly celebrate the event.
Come over again, Joe +; but don't wait
another sixteen years ; it's too long be-
tween "smiles."
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

P1L1Se II OMIT will be seen by our
report Of the proceedings of the City
Council, that our daily reconstructed city
fathers are rather !" piling II on IN the
way Of foisting the colored element into
Office. Why is it that endurance has to
be made such q virtue in Louisiana above
all other States in the Unionl What is
our peculiar popularity? Why have ne
been so strangely S~heridanized Z Ii it
on tina: good old plan that he should
keep who gets, and be should get who
cam? Oh, if we could but lift the
veil Of futurity Nv o. Bee.
And if you could, you would see nothing
but black obscu,ity.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

~ From the advocate We learn. that
Gen. Hancock will make his headquarters
At Baton Rouge for the present, until
which time, Gen. Mower will be the rank.
ing officer Of the District. This is done
We suppose, in consequence of the chi
denlc in New Orleans. Baton Rouge
VIII be on stills :" at q live Major General
having bis headquarters there
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

@ telegram from Washington Of
the 14th inst, says the President has pos.
itive1y determined to appoint Gen. Steed'
man Secretary Of War, and Gen. Gordon
Granger Commissioner of the Freedmen's
Bureau in place Of Gen. Howard. The
appointments will not be made until after
the elections in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

No The silly report in circulation that
SAM Michel has been quarantiued, is
without foundation. The ferryboat is.
permitted to make her trips as regularly
as usual. Neither are people arriving
from up OF down the coast interfered with
Our worthy Mayor contemplates making
this a port of entry, and inviting all Bat.
on Rouge freight to be landed here from
steamboats, and other water craft."-
Philip says he has a sovereign remedy for
yellow fever at his saloon, so that all
scary folk can feel comforted.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

WHAT wAs BEFORE THE PEOPLE OF CALI
FoRNlA.--To show the Importance of the
late election in California, it may be stat
ed that the newly elected Gov. Haight,
in 1860, voted for Mr.. Lincoln for Presi.
dent, but in 1852, he left the Republican
party and attached himself to the Demo.
cratic party. The principles of Federal
and State politics on which Mr.. Haight
and the party conducted the canvass are
included in the following platform:
l. Opposition to the Congressional plan
Of reconstruction, that regards the South
as Territories.
2. In favor of the reunion of all the
States on the basis of the Federal Cons,i.
tuition, with slavery abolished.
3. Opposition to negro, Chinese and
Indian suffrage.
4. Affirming the right to regulate suff
rage to belong to the States exclusively.
5. All taxes should be equal and uni.
form.
6. Opposition to an increase of State
indebtedness, and in favor of retrench
ment and economy in the administration
of the Government.
I. Opposition to immigration of any
people other than the white race.
8. The encouragement of labor, and in
in favor Of the eight hour law
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21
Saturday, Sep......21, 1862.

nnL Gen. Griffin died in Galveston on
the 10th inst, of yellow fever. This
fearful scourge is rapidly spreading into
the interior towns of Texas. In Houston
it is particularly fatal.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

SECRET CIRCULAR. The letter oil Gen
Grant, saying that Gen. Sheridan hac
discharged all of his delicate and ardu
GUS duties with fidelity, has brought te
light certain secret orders which had beer
issued to Registrars in Louisiana and
Texas. By these secret instructions
thousands were excluded who were quail
fled voters under the reconstruction act
One clause Of this secret circular direct
ed the exclusion of every Administra tor
Of the Charity Hospital and member of
the Board Of Health, Commissioner of
Elections and his clerks, Chief of Police,
Lieutenant of Police, and Town or City
Marshal, and all who have served on the
force. Wardens and Under Wardens of
County Prisons or Warehouses, Board of
School Directors, City Surveyors and Dep
uties, Street Commissioners and Depu,
ties, City Attorneys and Assistant Attor-
neys, Superintendent of Public Schools,
Inspectors Of tobacco, -four, beef aud
PORK, and Weighers and Measurers, Su-
perintendauts or Directors of the Asy-
Iums for the Deaf and Dumb, Blind aud
LuDatic, and Sections of cemeteries. The
reconstruction acts do not ~disqualify a
single individual named above, vet it
was deemed essential to secure negro
supremacy in Louisiana and Texas.-Bos
ton Post.
1t must have occurred to nearly every
one during the time allowed for registra-
ton, that the orders issued by the sever
al District Commanders in regard
to registering, were very nearly the
same. No one knew why certain
parties were excluded from the benefit of
the registry, when their disqualification
was never mentioned in the reconstruct
ion bills. 1t seemed as if some one had
taken upon himself to dissect the bill.
and decide who should and who should
not vote. No wonder people were amaz-
ed, when for having held the most triAing
and unimportant civil positions, they were
disfranchised. In vain did they pore
over and closely examine the reconstruct
ion acts to find out what part thereof
referred to their particular cases. When
appealing to the registrars for Information
upon those points, they invariably
answered, they were obeying orders 10
refusing to register such and such persons
1t appears from recent revelations that
Mr.. Edwin NJ. Stanton was the function
airy who dissected the reconstruct.
ion acts. and issued private orders
to the District Commanders to exclude
whites enough from the registry to en-.
sure the success of the Radical party in
the Southern States. What can be
thought of the District Commanders who
obeyed and acted under these secret in
structions :?
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21
SUGAR PLANTER.

Communication intended for this paper should
be directed to Baton Rouge, not West Baton
Rouge. Exchanges will confer q favor by direct
ing as above.
ANY of our Baton Ronge friends having COM
munications, ETC., for this paper, by leaving
them Oh the Ferry-boat, they will be promptly
recieyed and attended to.
Our Baton Rouge patrons must send over their
advertisements on or before Thursdas to secure
their insertion the same week.
Messrs. E. E. Overall & Co., are our duly au-
tborized agents for the city of New Orleans.
Messrs Cheatham & Walter are our duly au-
thorizsd agents for the city of Baton Rouge.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

sgL Baton Rouge has been placed I'm
der quarantine. No steamboat, or other
water craft, ascending the river is per-
mitted to land in front of the city, or
within three miles of the corporate limits
thereof, before 6 o'clock a. m, or after 5
o'clock p. m. Proper regulations have
been adopted in regard to freight, and
persons going on board or leaving such
boats. All persons arriving from infect
ed places, either by land or water, must
undergo full quarantine of ten days with.
out the city limits. If proper attention
be paid to this matter, and rigidly enforc.
ed without respect to person or position
Baton Rouge may escape the yellow fever.
Quarantine is great inconvenience at
81 times, but the general safety must
not be jeopardised on that account.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

Va The Registry having been reopen.
ed in this parish for five days, resulted in
admitting to the shepherds fold, four
plain persons and thirty-one colored gen.
tlemen. We heard of no erasure The
vote now stands, white 24s i; colored 80l
Total 1850.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

The Dubuque, Iowa, Herald, in speak.
ing OF the election in Montana, SAYS -
" and in Montana, James M. Cavanauph
Is SAID to have been handsomely elected
to Congress: Old Ben Butler will prob
ably move bis expulsion. C~avanaueb
slapped the Brute's face at the Charles.
ton Convention and told him he was a
dirty dog" ~' =
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

re- We have little to say this week in
regard to crops. Planters are busy gath.
ering corn and picking cotton as fast as
the hollis open. When the leaves are
stript from the plant by the caterpillar.
as is the case this year, the bolls open
with great rapidity, rendering the task
Of picking a difficult one with tie labor
ers. We have heard of no estimate up
to the present time as to number Of bales
we will make. but it cannot be large
Sugar cane looks remarkably we'll, hav-
ing improved greatly within the last two
or three weeks. But few will grind, the
seed being mostly saved to increase next
years crop. If we can be spared an
overflow next season, our showing of
cane will be quite respectable. There is
quite q demand in the parish for seed this
year. Small farmers can make more
money c~ultivating cane for sale than by
planting cotton. I tsells readily here, by
retail, for eating, at FIVE and ten cents a
stalk. When our mills get regularly In
to operation it will be an easy matter
then to sell their crops entire to the larger
planters. or have them ground on shares.
We would like to see this plan generally
adopted by u small planters--there is
sure money in it--a ready market, and
no danger Of caterpillars or boll.worms.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21
II Nero SurrRAcs.-The Cincinnati En-

u NDoRo SurrRAeE.-The Cincinnati En-
quirer says: sra oil pa h..
Every State in the North to which it
has been submitted has voted il down
Connecticut voted it down last year by
5000 majority ; Ne. York voted It down
in 1860 BY 100000 majority Illinois
voted it downin 1862 by l9O.0OO MAORI
ty. In Pennsylvania and Indian. no
party has the courage to submit i unio
will vote it down BY . large majority TINS
fall, l2H$
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21
A CLEAN OF HopE.-Since the last

A CLEAN OF HOPE.-Olnce Tue last
meeting of the Police Jury Of this parish,
its President, N. W. POPE, Esq, has been
untiring in his exertions to have the
levees put in tho best order limited
means will permit. In company with
Mr.. A. V. DuBRocA, a competent civil en-
gineer of the parish, he visited the Hick-
ey crevaese, had the line of a new levee
surveyed, and the estimate made of its
probable expense in building. He is of
opinion that it can be built for twepty-
o%ne-thousand dollars. Mr.. Pope then ap-
Piled to the Board of Directors of the
State P%enitentiary at Baton Rouge, to
ascertain whether the convicts could not
be employed on the work. His interview
with the Board was very gratifying--a
willingness being expressed to engage 10
the undertaking provided the assent of
Gov. Flanders could be obtained thereto.
If correctly informed, the Governor has
given his consent, and the Board is will
ing and ready to put IL hundred hands
upon the work, under a strong guard, pro.
vided the sum of three thousand dollars
be raised by our parish to feed the labor
ers--the Board looking to the State for
further compensation. Mr.. Pore left
home yesterday on a collecting tour, un-
der the full impression that the amount
will be subscribed and that no difficulty
will be experienced in arranging terms
with the Board. If successful, it will be
the most cheering news we have had to
offer our readers for many a day.
This crevasse closed, we are relieved of
our greatest fears, for it is one where the
lands are scarcely worth the money ex.
pended. The Citizens Bank will have to
close the breaks in the levees of Capt. D.
P. Cain, Courtney & Woods and P. P.
Babin, or, as the lands are fully worth
the amounts required to be expended,
they will be sold by the parish at public
auction. AS for the other work upon our
%levees, we must do the best we can and
patch them up strong enough to resist
the next high water, and perhaps " some
thing will turn up before any great out
lay will be required to build new ones.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

E Thanks to the steamer 1berville
for late city papers. This boat will trans
port freight and passengers to the Baton
Rouge State Fair at half rates. All the
coast packets have agreed to the same
conditions.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

The New York Herald advises the Pres.
ident to resign and demand that a ".
vention OF all the States be called to take
measures against this 2olitica! ruin that
Congress is hurling against the republic, ;,
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

No. The yellow fever is still on the in.
crease in New Orleans. In the LIST and 5th
Districts it is spreading rapidly and is Of
very malignant type. Are we to have a
repetition of the scenes of SO I
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

The Columbus Sun is informed upou
good authority, that Joseph Williams, on
DIS recent speaking tour in Alabama, sue
ceeded in converting three thousand ne.
groes from ~radicalism to conservatism
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

Jay Cooke made over twelve millions
of dollars profits out Of Government sc.
c%urities during the a He pays no
taxes on this amount, but draws as inter:
est in gold each wear eight hundred and
forty thousand dollars! Quite q little
contribution from the taxpayers Of Amer
lea.
Sweat, you toiliug taxpayers Work
bard from one years end to the other
starve and stint yourselves and families
to pay your share Of the gold interest !!
Such men as Jay Cooke never fought the
enemy in the field Oh, mol They we're
fighting the people with bags Of green
backs and came out of the contest with
bags Of goldi / "a a4-tA1
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

Republicans are betting in Ohio that
negro suffrage will be beaten by 5000.
sumner proposes 20 cure this assertion ri
State rights by Congressional enactment
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

brownlow, says the Nashville Gazette.
wants to go to the United States Senate
as it is Immediately on his way to the
sulpherous kingdom, whittier he is bound,
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

Opposition at the North to the Nation
! Bank system is gaining ground every
day. The recent failures have develoned
a~condItion of affairs very unsatisfactory.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

Let us hope that the past seven
Of war, failures Of crops and political tur.
MOL are now to be succeeded bv seven
years of peace, plenty and politicrl quiet
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

Mr.. Hudson. for many years the man.
sging editor Of the Herald, is farming in
Massachusetts. .aaa s e ely5s Is 60
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

What will Gen. Sheridan say to the
charges Gov. Wells has made against
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21


The Ex-GovERsoR AND THE LEvEE BoNp
ENGRAvING.-Ex Gov. Wells comes down
like q" thousand Of brick" upon Acting
Attorney General Gutenberg for demand
ing a statement Of bis expenditures in
having the Levee Bonds engraved. The
Elk fires off his old FIVE hundred FOUNDER
at the head of the innocent oficial-gives
him particular fits for meddling in what
don't oncern him-wades heavily into
Gen. Sheridan, calling him " pet Names
and accusing him of divers and sundry
things to honesty unknown-makes a
clear and concise statement completely
~exhonorating his agent from any charge
OF peculation-wraps himself up in bis
Equatorial cloak-snuffs out the candle
of his v%illi6ers and retires with much
atfectation of offended modesty to his
calm and thoughtful solitude. Verify,
the Ex-Governor's letter was a specimen
OF combined sulphur. birthstone and aqua
FORTS. We hope he feels relieved.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21


sSr Dickens is coming All auuky.
dom North is furnishing up it's best bib
and tucker to render proper homage to
the great English novelist. Well, sup.
pose he does come, what then ? He comes
to receive the toadyism of the American
people and fll bis pockets with green.
backs by lecturing before very select an
d'ences. The country passed over and
the public mind ripe for a new excitement,
a flesh wonder. Mr.. Dickens returns home
to abuse the people who fawned upon
BIN and replenished his exchecquer.-
Then we shall have another, and perhaps
q more pointed work upon American
manners and customs to amuse the Eng.
l'sh publ;c-something in the style of
Martin C~huzz!ewit. Who doubts It p
Lowell has a volume of new poems in
HAl
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

A party of hunters last week captured
a fawn within a few miles of town. We
were threatened with it as q present, but
luckily escaped the responsibility.-Ad
cate Local.
Luckier fawni