Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-11-09

III A@FS - i1sA'N~ $500 ~ e
women have also registered, and, as a
Consequence, the list is out Of all proper
ton to the actual population.
The negroes ct BenaetvilIe, Va, who
had been chosen as jurors i'll civil cases,
ran away from the court, swearing they
had 10 wish to mix with white men. -
The chief registrar in Marion county,
Miss. is a candidate for Congress, and
tells them if they do not vote for him be
will have a Law passed to send them all
TO Africa.
There seems to be but one opinion
among the planters Of VIM parish as to
the course they will pursue next year
They all agree that nothing can be made
by employing black labor, under present
circumstances, aud they intend to aban
don It.. They intend to plant no more
than they can make themselves.
The period is rapidly passing away
within which insolvent debtors Of past
years may avail themselves Of the bene
fit of the national bankrupt law, with
such advantages as they uow possess
After the I'd of March, 1868, no debtor
will be able to obtain a discharge in
Bankruptcy unless his assets shall pay
fifty per cent. Of his Indebtedness, or by
assent IN writing OF a majority, IN num-
Der and value, Of bis creditors.
The Charleston Mercury says the dis
tress and restitution among the negroes
IN Edlsto Island is SO great that they
are leaving the island and crossing to
the mainland by hundreds in search Of
employment. We learn that a large rice
planter. a few DAYS ago. employed thirty
able-bodied men at thirty cents per day,
and they find themselves, and received
one hundred additional applications from
other able-bodiej negroes willing to work
on tbs same terms.
Com ADVICE TO CoSeREss FRoM A RAD
IcAL.-Fhe Charlottesville Va, Chronicle,
which up the recent Northern elections
has advocated reconstruction. 0 chan
ges its course, and delares for a united
and determined effurt to defeat a conven
ton in Virginia. This is the general
effect Oh the white men of the South, and
it makes reconstruction a failure in sub
stance, ever if the motions are gone
through with. A reconstruction in which
only the Southern negroes take part, is
not real, and cannot last. 1t will only
be military government perpetnated and
aggravated by hostility beween the regn
ant negroes and their white subjects.
Not 10 a single State can such a govern
ment stand without a large standing
army to back it up, By the necessity OF
the case, and the alarming consequences
pending, Congress will be compelled to
reconsider the whole matter at once, and
devise a bold and statssmanl;ke policy
TO meet the new emergency.
The Republican Journals are circulating
with great applause, the curious dispatch
from Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens, saying =
j" Sick as | am, | take this occasion to
thank God for our late defeat the Re
publicans have been acting cowardly
9art, and have met a towards fate p
We have bee puzzling ourselves for
some days to find out what this means.
Is the general feeling among the Repub-
licans one Of gratitude and rejoicing
over their defeat2 In what respect have
the Republicans been acting a coward
ly part p What did Mr.. Stevens de
aand at their hands which they didn't
give? Was it impeachment thashe in-
sisted on, of-hand-or was it confsca,-
ion, the disfranchisement of all the whites.
and the. election Of colored men to every
office every time? Or did he insist on
conquering the Northern States also, and
forcing negro suffrage upon them by act
of Congress 7 We should understand the
ground of Mr.. Stevens rejoicing over
Republican defeats a little better if he
would take the trouble to be a little more
explicit.-N Y. Times.
AN ELOQUENT IMAGE.-The following
e was used by that st~rong.hearted
patriot, Hon. Daniel w. VOORHEES,, in one
of his political speeches:
God made both the eagle and the
owl. He gave to both plumage and
wings. 10 the same class of large birds
of the air ranged He them. The same
atmosphere And the various seasons we're
common to both. God created the Cau-
casian and the African. With muscle.
brain and nerve endowed He them. With
blood and soul aud the erect posture they
are distinguishable as members Of q gen
eral family. There was for both the
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