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

ADVERTISING o HELp.-The following
advertisement for q girl to do general
housework is q capital hit at the extrsv-
agant demands of those who apply for
situations, and will be appreciated by
every house keeper:
WAS7ED.-A respectable family, hav-
ing good reference; desires to offer the
accommodation of their residence to :
young lady of transatlantic descent
House has all the modern improvements
range. hot and cold water, stationary
washtubs, patent clothes wringer, etc
Wasberwoman engaged to do all the
washing and ironing. Cooking and all
upstairs work done BY the ladies Of the
family. Front basement for the exclus.
i've use of help, and piano DURING! the ab.
sence Of the family. Handkerchiefs,
gloves and all under clothing supplied
" nnbeknownst" to employers. To one
having . large circle of cousins and other
relations. q good opportunity is afforded,
OF supplying them with their winters
provisions.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

The NEw s~ovERE1eNs N H CIRCUS.
The Norfolk Day Book tells the follow
ing story
A party Of gentleman Of that city
started on a fishing excursion OF some
length, and, when their provisions gave
out, put IN at Hampton for a fresh sup
ply, a town not many miles from Norfolk.
1t happened that, on that very day, the
population were all agog in expectation
of the arrival Of a circus company. The
fishing party, while walking leisurely up
the street, observed that they we're at
tracing unusual attention, and soon dis
covered that they we're followed by a
large crowd of idle boys and negroes
1t leaked out that they were mistaken
for circus performers and one gentle.
man, a wag, determined to amuse himself
and his friends at the expense of the Gu
rious crowd. He accordingly drew from
his pocket q lot of business cards, and
commenced giving them away as tickets,
one to each individual, until they were
nearly exhausted. One colored youth,
who had received one of the cards, re.
turned and said
"Looke heah, massa, amt you got nuf-
fin l kin do, when de cirkis comes ? Case
pse got a sister would like to see de
show, and I wants another ticket
"Well, yes" replied the wag. [ would
like to get you to ride the pony, here's
another ticket, and you must be on hand
when the time comes"
The success Of this applicant caused a
large number to apply for " sumfn to
do" all of whom were furnished with
" tickets and assigned to various duties:
The crowd was perfectly delighted, and
had the i" tickets" held out would have
gathered and increased to thousands
But the gentleman finding that the ne
groes in all that neighborhood had got
wind Of the presence and liberality OF
the "%circus men," and were hocking
around in great numbers, thought it time
to retire, which they did amid the cheers
and huzzas of the delighted recipients Of
the "tickets )" not however, until n
had been detailed to bring water for the
elephant, and ten or a dozen engaged &c
furnish cats at ten to fifteen cents a piece
for the lion.
The disciples of Isaac Walton then
returned to their craft in Hampton Roads
and did not venture to ehore again, but
heard the next day that the water.boy
bad filled several barrels and was still
f." toting" from the well. while about
twenty boys with bags Of cats we're seat
ed in various localities anxiousiy await
ing the arrival of the show. About two
hundred cats had been bagged; were
spluttering and scratching in their con-
fined quarters, and every minute was ad-
ding to the arrival of other negroes from
the neighborhood, all loaded with feIines
for the lion. The circus did not stop
there, and Of course a large number Of
negroes were disappointed, and at least q
thousand strange cats were turned loose
in Hampton.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21
SOUTHERN CH1NA.-This is what a cor
correspondent says of Southern China:

SOUTHERN CH1NA.-Tbis is what a cor
correspondent says of Southern China:
Dreary and depressing in the extreme
is the early summer Of southern China
The groans of thunder, the fierce blaze of
lightning, and the monotonous splash of
rain are forever accompanied by a harsh
din of countless circadm, which from
every twig assail the nerves With auer.
elous saws and files. During the inter
walls, rain clouds of hot vapor are exbaled
by the earth. When the evening
lamps are lighted we are assailed by
countless insects. Sometimes q flight of
ants enter at the windows, and the eve
rests on conglomerated black bodies strug-
ging to throw aside their unwieldy wings.
and become even more revolving in the
form Of reptiles. Anon, some half a
dozen c~ockroaches extinguish the lamps.
When you retire to bed the whole earth
seems peopled With d~iminutive watchmep
perpetoally springing their ~rattles. The
effect of the close, steaming atmosphere
is to bleach the complexion, and to i'm.
part to it a boiled appearance. Appetite
fails. and one detects himself frequently
drawing . deep, longing breath, a. tho
the elasticity of the air had succumbed
to its weight.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

~ According to adjournment the Police
Jury met at the Court House of West
Baton Rouge on Monday the 9th Sept,
1867. Present, N. w. Pope, B. f. CHM.
Fergus Allan, T. P. Vaughn, Raphael
Hebert, Hubert Hebert, Judeou Doiron,
and D. A. Landry. Absent, j. B. Nurdin
The President having stated the object
of the meeting. Mr.. Chinn offered the
following resolution which was adopted (:
/, Resolved, That the sum Of Five thousand two
hundred dollars be and the same is hereby ordered 10
Be aseessed upon the property Of the parish As parish
Mr.. Chinn offered the petition Of Messrs
Arbour & Delahaye, lessees Of the Ferry,
was received and ordered to be
spread on the minutes. e ss "3r
The President aud members Of the Police jury Of
West Baton Rouge -:-Your petitioners respectfully
represent. that the business OF the Ferry, Of which
tney are the leeeees, has diminished to such an ex'ent
rom the numerous %crevasses winch have inundated
the parish, as veil a. disseminating the regular rail-
road connnan alton with the Crosse Tote country,
that the daily receipts Of the ferry 90 not NEE, the sx.
penses necessary ia conducting the same. while your
petitioners Suffered no actual loss ia their business.
and conditions OF heir lease. but the loss being 90
great that II ~tnrea.ens the entire means II your pet,
loners. The books Of your petitioners wifi q, w I'D
% sbe present time q lose Of over fifteen huudrst dol
Iars since they assamed the iease Of ,te ia Try. Your
petnloaefs. relying upon your Justice liz the premises,
re sans BE- a%nnuiled, or for such other relief Is your
body may grant. 1<g@&9 2G3
Asn duty bound your petitioners well ever pray &c
signed ARBOR 4 DELAHzYlE.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

Gen. Holt is credited with this "a
principle of public policy leads Govern
ments to encourage by all honorable
means, those charged with crime to make
disclosures which may. and often do, re-
suit in unmasking even greater offenders
than those who make them.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

An insane German gunsmith in Michi-
gan, swallowed q silver watch chain
about . foot long and three-eighths Of an
inch across the links, under the Impress
ion that he was commanded to do so by
the Saviour. al
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21
Mr.. CHM offered the fol1o=;-~s
ton which was adoota5 'o""lhg resolu.

|: MT. CHM offered the follov;e.~==
ton which was adopted. Asr esolu.
Resolved That a comn; -. &c
Go,n -. . Ivy , appointed TO confa, vi. mIennbess Of
49, :. le CITY VI tstoe Res,a =. ~ ne Town
IDl0 oIsh ~ mo MALE Of the perNion Of Me axe so1ae &c.
meeting Of IL, H., ., Inc Ferry, and report ~ ;A ,Se 4
The President appointed Me..,, ~
waugh" and Landry 90 said c"nA oa'nn,
Va motion Of Mr.. Chinn it ~. .u,nl.tee.
mat in obedience to Special o,d., :.
nn;a.J,- ~ III ens1'oan: commanding tha ~! = from
pm,,ae', tnal the offices Of Inspectors =, la Military
cIared vaea ~. a podII h. .; % ta aas he .ane ~ hs.S, =, 70
Resolved. That The Police J,,v
inspectors for the ensuing year. 70 s."esea to appoiu,
VISIONS OF this Order. cary out To pro.
The Jury made the following
ments: appoint.
list ward, Hubert Hebert % ,,,a y.
mogene Babin /; Sd ward. E1on.,i ne''
ray; 4th ward, Guy Labauve !. sth IL
Soho M: Brooks; 9Th ward, VT Al M;.o'
11h ward a =. M. Dubroca ; 9Th ward WI
entln Trahan; 9th ward. ]. R ~. VA
ioth ward, G. j. Smith ; llth vs sy11 :
The following appointment. Yer, ,e,a
TOR commissioners of lst and ID I. saoe
Districts in this parish -s''ee
LIST District, Raphael Hebeert. !. W
Bird and VALERIE Landry. w.
% District, valentin bubroca. R;ch.,a
Hanrahan and John R Buhler 'u
On motion the following resolution -,
nesoi.ed' That a committse Of three n.r,,,
dents OF The parish Of Vest Baton Rouos s hen na'
q oy the President Of the Police jurv s1 10 c - appolot'
I Q board OF Leves Commissioners. ana ,Sa ~. Jiln
lures OF tnt different parishes subject To o,. ~
ION :. =; s"e water Q! the hieky crevasse. and Win III
ing the necessary funds fr the building =" y ~ ns.
across Sad crevasse. "As VI = loveo
Further Resolved, That all fun Is 50 ,a;,.a .h.u !.
PAD over TO the President OF the Poles la su = H. =
parish OF West Baton Rouge. and IN rim :! y le
70 the contractor when the levee Is comns,sl v w
received by the Inspector Of tie Wsm' '' s0o
turner RESOLVED, That in cate a sufficient ,nor,.
OF money snoa d be raised, or Other satss.a. smouos
Judgements made for building said Ievaa sha ~;%y "
mstt. IN conf elton with the President, sb.II n,o @s.d
to advertise said levee and contract fr ,hs bnxS;sa
thereof IN such q manner as to them NAV sesm A, maa;
advisable. "~J 'oetn mos'
The Finance Committee made the tol.
lowing report:
We the Finance COMMITTEES, hat. s,sm;n.a II.
lowing acts and find them correct: ~"
sugar r 'ant.r offlee IA salafv.... ......, Slls 80
iieoe,';' 'i1es IN criminal prosecutions q Is
: n n ~I t"o lnqoests-:."..".. 40 90
5 NJ D: Clark, Two lnqsests. 49, ~
Jas. K. Devall, Inspector 9Th Ward. $500. m
Total - ~
signed HUBERT HEBERT,
JUDEON DOlHON.
FEnCT2 AfI AIW
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21
The Bewitched Terrier.
BY ARKANSAS NIGHTINGALE.

Sam johnson was a culled man,
Who lived down by the sea
He owned i rat tan terrier $780,
That stood bout one foot three
And the way that creature chawed up a Is
Was glorious for to see.
One day the dorg was slumberiu'
Behind the Kitchen stove,
When suddenly a wicked flea
A ugly little cove
Commenced upon his faithful back
With many jumps to rove.
Then up rose the terrier,
With frenzy 10 his eye,
And waitin' only long enough
To make a touchio' cry.
Commenced to twist himself around
Most wonderfully spry.
But all in vain, his shape was such
So awful short and thick
That though he doubled up hisself,
And strained hisselfat that,
His mouth was half an inch away
From where the varmint sat.
The dorg sat up an awful howl.
And twisted like an eel,
Emitting cries OF misery
At every nip he'd feel,
And tumbIin' down and jumpin' up,
And turnin' like Z wheel.
But still that most awdacious flea
Kept up a a chaw
Just where he couldn't be scratched out
By any reach Of paw,
And always halt an inch beyond
His victims snappin' jaw.
Sam johnson heard the noise. and came
To save his animile;
But when he seen the critter spin
A barkin' all the while,
He dreaded hideraforbia
And then began to Tile.
"The pup is mad enough" says he,
And lugein' in his axe.
He gave the rech'd terrier
A pair OF awful cracks,
Then stretched him out upon the floor
As dead as carpet tacks.
MORAL.
Take warnin' by the terrier,
Now turned to sassidQe-.neat;
And when misfortune's flea shall come
Upon your back 70 eat,
Beware. or you may die because
You can't make both ends meat.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

While a child was eating candy at
Bridgeport, Conn, the other day, it got a
torpedo in its mouth, which exploded and
blew out three Of its teeth and tore its
lips.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

There is good reason why a little man
should never marry q bouncing widow.
He might be called q widows mite.'
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

The report was read and on motion Il
Resolved, Tha, the report Of the Finance Com.
mi'tee be amended BY striking out that portion allow.
Cons,abies. and As thus amended, same b adopted'
The minutes having been read and o..
proved, on motion Of Dr.. Vaughn, the
Jury adjourned to the 23d day Of Sept,
1861.
A. D. BARROW. N. W. POPE,
Clerk. President.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

Ladies who have a disposition to pun
ish their husbands should recollect that q
little sun will melt an icicle much sooner
than a northeastern. .cr
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

Poultices made of stewed pumpkins are
said to be an excellent remedy for ihAa-
matory rheumatism.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21
POLICE JURY PROCEEDINGS.

According to law, the Police Jury met
at the Court House in West Baton Rouge,
on Monday. September I'd, 1867. A quo
rum not being being present, the Jury
adjourned to Monday, the 9th day Of
September, 1867.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

When a TELLER gets a goin down hill,
it does seem - tho everything had been
CREASED the okashun Josh Billings.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

A merchants advice in selecting a
wife was get q piece of calico that will
wash" What an economical old gentle
man he must have been.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21

The facility with which divorces are
obtained in Indiana, is illustrated by the
fact that q man residing there boasts that
he obtains a new divorce every quarter.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-21
MORAL.

Take warnin' by the terrier,
Now turned to saseidge-.neat; -
And when mi%stortune's flea shall come
Upon your back 10 eat,
Beware. or you may die because -
You can't make both ends meat.
The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-09
Enormous Taxation.

We have not examined the bill; but we
learn from members of the Legislature who
are we'll informed on the subject, that the
revenue or tax bill before that body,nwil1
raise some .tf0e hundred thousand dollars more
than qoiU be neezed for the neat tao gears en-.
ding October, 1868, for the ordinary expense,
Of the State government!
Now, what is wanted with this large
amount of money! Why shouldt the people
in their present Impoverished condition, be
taxed to raise this large surplus Is it not
better that this money should be in the peo
Piles pockets than in the Treasury2
And what are the extraordinary objects fol
which this large amount is wanted2 Arc
preparations to be made with a view to
another civil ware Is it the purpos of the
present de .facto, semi-civil governments Of
the Southern States to attempt to perpetuate
themselves by forcee ....... ..
In connection with this subject, which il
one of vital interest to our people at this
time we invite attention to the remarks Of
Gen. Logan, in the Standard to-day,
The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-09
The New Measure before Congress.

We publish below a Geographic summary
of the bill introduced in the House by Mr.
Stevens, from the reconstruction committee,
providing military governments for the
Southern States.
This summary is, of course, quite defec-
tive. We shall no doubt be able to lay the
bill in full before our readers in our next.
We take it for granted that this measure,
emanating as it does from the reconstruction
committee after full discussion and delibera-
ton, will become law. 1t is thought more
than probable that the vote was taken on
this bill yesterday in the House. The sum-
mary of the bill is as follows:
Mr.. Stevens, from the Reconstruction Commit
tee, reported a bill for the more efficient gov
eminent of the insurrectionary States The
preamble reiterates the nullity of the present
governments, and the necessity of new ones for
the protection Of the rights of tOyaliSs. The bill
divides the State into military DISTRICTS as fol-
lows: Virginia, first, North and South Carolina,
second, Georgia, Alabama and Florida, third,
Mississippi and Arkansas, fourth, Louisiana and
Texas, fifth.
An officer not under the rank of Brigadier Gen.
eral, appointed from the general army, shall
command each district The district comman-
der when in his judgment it is necessary shall
organize military commissions United States
courts may issue writs of habeas corpus on certain
endorsements of commissioned officer. SEN
fences affecting life and liberty to be approved by
the commander of the district. Indications are
that Mr. Stevens will press the bill to vote
tomorrow
The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-09

LIFE IN A GERMAN V1LLAGE.-A
letter written from Germany says
Walk through the poor quarters of Eng
lish or American villages and the fe-
male population is crowded in dens of
filth and wretchedness, passing the
time in brawling with one another and
screaming after their children. They
are pale and diseased from the effects
ofpoverty and crime, and two-thirds of
their offspring find an early grave.
Here the health and blooming vitality
of the poorer classes is wonderful; their
children begin to work almost as soon
as they can walk, and before that time
they are no trouble to their parents, as
each town of any size has a" child gar
den," where by paying two cents, a
peasant can have his child washed, fed
and kept in a comfortable manner the
whole day. IF he has ten children, as
most poor men have, he can send them
all away for reduced price. When
he and his grown-up children come
home, there are the little ones all clean,
and not hungry. Now, it seems to me,
such an institution ought to flourish at
home
The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-09
Subiugated I!

The last Sentinel contains doleful article
urging the plan published in our last, and
admitting that, in nearly every important
particular, it is substantially the Howard
amendment. "To this complexion has il
come at last" The Sentinel now sees and
feels the force of what we have been saying
for more than a year past on the subject Of
reconstruction.
But the Orr-Sharkey- Hanes- Boyden plan
comes too late. 1t is idle to suppose that
the Howard amendment, now we'll nigh q
part of the Constitution, will be withdrawn
or suspended to make room for this sickly
bantling. The last Washington Chronicle
says the Presidents organs in Washington
have taken ground for this new plan, and
adds:
"This plan is to be adopted by the Legis-
laturcs of the different seeded States and
presented to the Fortieth Congress. 1t is
valuable simply in that it recognizes the lea
ding features of the Howard amendment, and
to a certain extent the great principle of uni
versal suffrage but it is too late. 1t comes
at period when every original friend of the
Union in the South has taken radical ground,
and when every original traitor has exhaus-
ted every effort to bring the Government in
to disrepute, and to plunge the country into
a new rebellion"
Too late, too late, is the exclamation of all
lost sinners. The bill reported from the re-
construction committee will no doubt be
adopted by Congress, and the States, after re-
naming for time under military govern
ments, will be enabled by Congress to form
new governments on a loyal basis, and will
thus, i'll the end, be restored to the Union.
The Sentinel's subjugation comes too late.
That papN and its friends were first offered
the Presidents plan. They refused that.
Next the Howard amendment. They reiec-
ted that. Next Mr.. Stevens bill, which per-
mitted their de facto State governments to
continue until the work of reorganization
could be effected. They rejected that; and
now, when military governments are on the
eve of being established, they come forward,
after the eleventh hour, with an impractical
BILE proposition, which is, in substance, the
Howard amendment ooh most lame and
impotent conclusion %
The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-09
Total, IS.

Col. TEw.-The citizens of this place
were greatly surprised, though gratifed, to
learn that Col. Tew is probably yet alive A
young man, who gives his name as W. W.
Wallace, citizen of Little Rock, Ark, rep
resents himself to have been a prisoner IN
the government prison at the Dry Tortugas,
where he had been confined since June 1868,
and from which we was released on the 18th
of January last. He says among the prison
ers at present, confined at Dry Tortugas. is
Col G. G. Tew, who was wounded and cap
tured at the battle of Sharpsburg that he
was taken to Fort Delaware and afterwards
to Fort Clinch ON the Florida coast, that at
some point In his transfer, in an attempt to
escape, he killed Col. Turner of the Nor
them Army; for which he was tried by q
court martial, and sentenced to perpetual
Imprisonment at the Dry Tortugas; that he
had been severely wounded in his hip, proba-
bly, in the attempt to escape, from which he
was still suffering He says that Col. Tew
is passing under an assumed name, but that
he gave to him his real name; and though
protesting to no intimacy, or frequency of
intercourse, with Col Tew, is satisfied of
his identity It will be remembered that at
the first report of his death, it was stated
that he was shot in the head this man says
that he has still the marks of wound in his
head.-HiLlsIor0' Recorder.
The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-09

HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS" In the
new chapters of" The Guardian An
gel" in the FEBRUARY Atlantic, there is
the following statement of what must
have been the experience of thousands
of travellers
1t is a fine thing to be set down in a
great over-crowed hotel, where they do
not know you, looking dusty, and for
the moment shabby, with nothing but
a carpetbag in your hand, feeling tired,
and anything but clean, and hungry,
and worried, and very miserable and
mean, and to undergo the appraising
process of the gentleman in the office,
who, while he shoves the book round
to you for your name, is making has
ty calculation as to how high up he
can venture to room you. But Murray
Bradshaw's plain dress and carpet-bag
were more than made up for by the air
and tone which imply the habit of be-
ing attended to. The clerk saw that
in glance, and as he looked at the
name and address in the book, spoke
sharply in the explosive dialect Of his
tribe:
Jun! ta'tha'gelm'n'scarpetbag'n
show-him upt' thirty -one!"
When Cyprian Eyeleth reached the
same hotel late at night, he appeared
in his best clothes and with new va
Use; but his amiable countenance and
gentle voice and modest manner sent
him up two stories higher, where he
found himself in a room not much bet
ter than garrett, feeling lonely enough,
for he did not know he had an acquain-
lance in the same house.