Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-09-07

| remit, cigar stores, 8nd SOFA water shops,
and outside stands and inside showcases
like the Meme Ishel for the destruction
of B~abyion-is all the all-typed variety
of F" Lottery |" Tables inside Of store
doors, at which shirt-sleeved clerks sit,
with ready package and ready pen to re-
cord the adventurous hopeful who wants
q fortune for q t~rifle, are numerous. Boys
and girls cluster around, and the folded
billets in their hands prove they are not
merely gazers. Young ladies, even, are
not ashamed TO buy publicly, All other
business seems to give way to this. The
gambler, the Snowman, the gift enter
prise and the lottery man are the only
ones here who show any signs of thriv-
ing.
Another city mystery which | noticed
but cannot solve is this: Ten dollar City
bills have no chance here. A man who
is dropsicaNy inclined can drink from the
stock landing to the Stone Jug on Louisa
street, and treat his friends all the
time 70 man with ten dollar bill can
have friends), and yet they would rather
trust the dropsy patient than change his
bill. Now, if tens have so small a chance
to be changed, how will it be with twen-
ties? What will corporation and police
men and their families do who get paid
off in those bills and no other?
Newspapers are flying around the
same as ever, and public opinion, as usual,
like the motto re pluribus unum," is
amusing, when looked into. Happening
to meet a jehu who once drove us, off
cially, we whispered confdentialIy, how
do the pubic seem to feel about the re-
moval Of Sheridan I" he answered as he
thought, and that you know is always the
publlc) Oh, delightful /" The
same question to another further up ST.
Charles street, elected the answer "Well
never mind they'll be sorry for PILLS
removal yet. | hear a great many that
are Johnson men say it will gain i'll feel
ing fer the President" Another sail
" I'm down an him for wan thing-he put
nagers in the Common Council an the
Boord av Perleeee but may be he done it
to make little az the mayer, becase the
Common Council we used to have was
as common as ditch wather, an the Boord
av Perleece was notbin' bnt an ould slab
but | wisht yed gwan about yer bizzy-
ness, an don't bother me. What the
divil do | care about any av thin ! Tn
maxim an honest Twin, shnre." and be
drove his pickaxe up to the handle in the
soil of PerdIdo street, where, with many
others, be vas exoavating for the sinking
Of water pipes. should have told you
the latter was no jehu.
went to see bis excellency, the Gov.
erf5r, and found him in his Office. Ny
visit WIS short on account Of many COM
ing IN and going out all the time on bu-
%siness, to which he always gives his per-
sonal attention, although just getting
over an attack Of sickness. The front
efice seems cleared of a great deal of
aseIeless encunlbrance and is more cool
and airy. Mr.. Sneethen, the Governors
private secretary, occupies the same SOON
as lis Excellency, and is always at hand
without beli-finging or official airs, and
everything goes on In earnest, simple
style, as become the officers of u State
whose government is the people. Gov
Flanders seems to be well liked, and az
for Mr. sneethen, the many hearty saluta-
tons rendered and received by him, re.
mind one of the friendship of "auld lang
syne.' | hope you will not think I'm
going to play jenkins, for it is neither
my nature nor my style. | very seldom
say anything about ~ohce.holders, except
they are remiss in duty, and then they
may find the point of my pen very sharp.
II they act right. it is only what their
country, what humanity, what posterity
requires Of them, and they will have their
Although there are here and there
cases Of yellow fever and cholera, still
there pervades all classes of citizens an
easy, hopeful manner-a sort Of undis-
turbed confidence that very little more
the usual number of deaths is TAX
ing place, and that we hare no reason
whatever to dread an epidemic.
There is one thing We cannot see, ex-
cept IN a flnanciering light, why It is that
bad accounts are given in the newspapers
about crops. You know there is very
little ground for such reports.
REASONER.
Our correspondent falls into q very
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