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Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1868-08-22
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Wholesale Druggists.

Vro1os71c DFHtSIsts
Il r. DUCONGE. Importer and Dealer in
L. French, American and English Drugs and
ferfumery, Patent Medicines, Surgi-
cal Instruments. Trusses, Brushes, and Druggists
No. SO Charities street. Established
in 1929. nov3
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1868-08-22
ST. LOUIS MUTUAL Egk'E
INSURANCE COMPANY.
iHOnaes0ffice, NO.r5l3 Div. Street,
ST. LOUIS.

ID. \. JANUARY. President,
JAS. "a. LUCAS. Wee President.
WIN. =. SEILBs. secretary,
WIN. u. DENIGs, General Agent,
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1868-08-22
Assets, Jan. /, 1853, over So 500 900

THIS COMPANY issues policies on lives on all
the digerent plans, and at rs favorable rates as any
ether, while it has no restrictions in regard to res
ideace or haOel, and all lis profits are dipaIed an
nudHy among It's policy holders. Its policies are
all issued on the FORGETTING PLAN. 1t is
prompt in the payment Of losses, no company
having a better reputation for promptness or
libcrality.
The amount received for premiums
alone in tie year 1867, was........ 81 ,4O5J O49 SO
interest received same time. ...... II6 035 20
Losses by death for the same period 255 $50 90
his Company al its last Annual Meeting, held
IL January, declared a dividend of Forty per cent,
payable In cash, and
Resolved, :" That all dividends previous to, and in
cludlng that OF January, 1867. will be paid during the
current year, at the period OF fine renewal of the re-
spectlve policies, and from and after January 1868,
they Will be paid at The periods Of their first renewal"
Agency Office:
JAMES MCVAY'S HARDW ARE STORE,
Baton Rouge, La.
Medical Examiners:
I. J. Burlington, NJ. u. J. Duchein, NJ. D..
JOSEPH s. WILLIAMS,
Agent
JAMES McVAY, Sub-Agent.
Baton Rouge Board Of Reference:
Prof. ". II. n. Magruder, John A. Dougherty,
Hart u Hebert, r. D. Day. N. W. Pope, W. L.
Chamberlin, J.. '. Duralde, George A. Pike,
Henry Jones, D.. c.. Moutan, j. E.. Elan, II. J.
Hyams, r. II. Day, M.D.,-W. F. Tunnard.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1868-08-22

DIRECTORS:
James Il. Lucas, Samuel Will, Theodore La
vellle, Chas. II. Peck, Rob-. K. Woods, Jules
Vale, Geo. r. Robinson, Eobt. E. Carr, John F..
Ihornton, David X. Ferguson, Hon. John Hogan,
Henry Overstolz, Nictolas Schaeffer, William T.
Gay. VIM. c. Jamison, r. P. Honenkamp, L. H.
baker, D, \. January, WIN. j. Lewis, T.. Rozier,
Jr, Jacob Tamm.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1868-08-22
New Orleans.

II, Lcck Box, sos:
~ All orders for Job Printing, Blank Books,
Ruinr, ETC., promptly executed, and at lowest
market rates. Lawyers Briefs printed with
dispatch.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-10-31
Particulars OF the Great Earth
quake In California.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 23.-Details Of
the destruction Of property in the inter
ior of the State by earthquake. of the
2ls inst, have been received. Alameda
county suffered the most damage to pro-
perty. Extending in all directions back
from San Leandro there were numerous
I assures in the earth, from some of which
came clouds of dust, and from others
volumes Of water. San Leandro creek,
for some months dry, is now running,
rapid stream of water In some places
hot water and steamed gushed forth. The
villages Of San Leandro and Haywards
are almost in ruins Brick buildings are
thrown down; hundreds uninhabitable,
and numerous wooden structures consid-
erably damaged. At Haywards only ons
land and Brooklyn all suffered severely.
The destruction is great at San Jose aud
Redwood City. The great brick and
adobe mission house at San Jose is u
mass Of ruins. At Sacramento, Stock
ton ami Marysyille the injury to build
ings was slight, and the loss small Pc
taluma, Healthsburg, Santa Rosa, Val
lejo aud Martinez felt the full force of
the shock. Chimneys and fire walls were
thrown down. The damage to property
is considerable. At Los Angeles and
Visila the shock was slight No damage
at Santa Cruz. Monterey and Watson
Vile suffered little loss.
In the State of Nevada the earthquake
was scarcely felt.
In San Francisco the committee OF
architects, appointed by the Board of Su-
peryisors, report the city hall unsafe.
The building will be taken down. Mean
while the city officials and courts will
find other buildings Other city build
ings not injured to any great extent, and
officers will find temporary quarters else
where. The damage to school houses is
trifing. cThe schools open as usual ON
Monday next.
The United States Marine Hospital
building is condemned by the proper au-
thorities, and will be demolished The
patients are at present encamped on the
grounds adjoining the hospital, no proper
accommodations as yet having been pro-
vided. The Custom House is wrecked
to such an extent that it probably will
not be occupied again The officials have
removed, temporarily, to Haywood's
building on California street.
An army of laborers are at work to-
day on the shattered buildings, and rcS
moving debris from streets. The mer-
chants are showing no disposition To-
abandon their property or location.-
Some structures are being taken down,
andGjthers repaired. The vicinity of the
wrecked buildings presents busy scene.
The shock at 2:15 this morning has
done more damage to the injured build
ruEys. sumo crrfnruuys or ftrle uIrrefess-
manufactures. which suffered considera-
bly, by the first shock, now have to be
demQlished and rebuilt M
V definite estimate Of damaged prop
erty can be made. Some place the loss
at five million. Quite number of build
ings have been thrown down, and will
have to be reconstructed, and extensive
repairs made to many more.
Another dispatch says the damage will
exceed three million dollars, aud there is
hardly structure or buildings in San
Francisco but is more or less strained.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-10-31
MEETINGS ON EEecfIons.

The Court of Appeals of this State
few days since decided that property de-
livered by one on condition that if he
wins, the loser must pay for it, is bet.
This was upon case from the Shelby
Circuit Court. In August, 1869, Todd
sold and delivered to Caplinger horse
at 1928, to be paid when Bell and Everett
should carry the electoral vote of Ken
tucky, they then being candidates for
President and Vice President. They did
carry the electoral vote of Kentucky at
that election, and the horse not being
paid for, in 1867, sued on said obliga-
ton.
Caplinger set up fA defense tha i
was bet on an election within the de
funeiations Of our State laws; after
which Todd fled an amended petition
claiming recovery on theimplied promise
to pay a reasonable price for the horse
:
The court below instructed the Jury
to find for Capiinger, which they did.
and judgment was rendered accordingly.
Hel2-Tbat the Judgment was right.
The forfeiture provided in the act Of
March 6, 1851, l StaSon, Revised Sta
tutes, sos, is upon condition that the
winner shall receive the thing bet, and
such was the case in Love vs. Harris, IS
B. NJ, 122 but here it is the loser who
has received the thing, and the winner
has received nothing. The statute does
not forfeit the money or thing bet if so,
the property or money of both parties
would be forfeited as soon as bet without
regard to the determination as to which
should be winner
The policy of the statute is to fine
each party for its violation without re-
gard to which be winner or loser, and
hen, in order to take all motive of its
from the winner, to forfeit
whatever he may have received as win
Ter.
When party deliberately enters into
ontract or transaction forbidden by law,
ie can neither recover upon the express
ontract, nor viii the law imply one for
i'm. It would be singularly inconsist-
Mt for the law to denounce the express
cntract as illegal and vicious and then
nply one for the parties.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-10-31
Prince Napoleon and the Span
fsEs Throne.

1t seems that Prince Napoleon has his
eye on the throne of the deposed Isabel
la. 1t is limited that his well known lib
eral principles are a guaranty that he
would execute the DEGREES of the provis-
ional government and some people i'm
agine that the renown of the family
name, and his resemblance to the First
Napoleon, would insure him the affections
of the Spanish people.
If the people of Spain are in earnest
about their freedom they should N1er
ent Emperor of the French would be
glad to put the Prince upon themS11e
is, also, as princes often are, a chief OF
the reds, and is reputed to own one of
the liberal journals of Paris. But those
liberals who know him best would fear
to trust the destinies of nation in his
hands. To win the affection OF the peo-
pie by liberal policy is the policy of
many princes, from which the Bonapartes
are not excepted. Napoleon III, as Louis
Bonaparte, professed sentiments Sc liber-
al that Henri Rochefort is now banished
for reprinting them. The present King
of Prussia, who does not propose to let a
sheet of paper stand in his way, was
one Of the most advanced liberals as
Crown Prince. French Republicans be-
lieve that Prince Napoleon is liberal be-
cause liberalism seems to him the surest
way to the throne. 1t is probe that
Spanish Liberals will not think differ
emily.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-10-31

THE TRIAL OF Mr.. DAvIs--The N.
Y Sun. edited by Mr.. Charles A. Dana,
formerly Assistant Secretary of War,
argues that Mr. Davis will not be tried
at the approaching session of the United
States Circuit Court in Richmond, and
never w&l be tried. The Sun says :
The indictment against JEFF Davis
might as well be sold to the paper max
ers for three cents pound. They will
never be tried The eloquence of Alr.
Evarts will never be wasted on the living
skeleton of defunot Confederacy, with
a stroug probability of a Disagreement
of the jury, and a pardon virtually
promished beforehand in case of con-
viction."
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-10-31
HAndy All Right.
Executive MANSION,
NAsHISGToN, Oct. -, 1868.

NAsHiSeToS, Oct ~ l90o.
To Hon. Horatio Seymour
[ see 1t announced in the papers OF
this meruing that you win enter the
Presidential canvass in person. [ trust
this may be so, as the present position Of
public affairs justifes and demands it.
1t is hoped and believed by your friends
that all the enemies of constitutional
government, whether secret or avowed,
will not be spared, aud that heir arbi-
trary and unjust suspicious, together with
their wasteful prohigate and corrupt
use Of the peoples treasure, will be regu-
larry exposed and rebuked. The mass
of the people should be aroused and
warned against the encroaehmeuts of the
desperate power now ready to enter the
very gates Of the citadel of liberty.
l trust that you may speak with an in
spired tongue, and that your voice may
penetrate every good and patriotic heart
throughout the land, aud let the living
principles of violated Constitution be
proclaimed and restored that peace, pros
perity and fraterual feeling may return
TO divided and oppressed nation
ANDREW JOHNSON
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-10-31

KEEPING CoRN.@A great deal of
corn is wofully wasted after all the trou-
bic and expense of plowiug, planting
and harvesting. This waste is absolute
lu1usizl.aa aud with trihing- care may be
easily remedied In the first place, in
husking a yigilant lookout should be
kept that no unripe, unsound ear or
half-made ''nubbin" goes in with the
pile that is to go intothe crib The pig
pen is the better place for all such mate
rial. One unsound ear may, and often
does, damage bushel of sound corn.
Next, wherever you are going to put
corn to keep, put coal or gas tar about
the premises pretty literally first. 1t is
an utter abomination to rats and mice.
They will not board in a corn crib favor
ed pretty strongly with gas tar. Half
dollars worth will likely save tea dol
lars worth of corn. Very many people
seem to suppose that corn may be kept
in any sort of crib, as open as Jack
Straw's house-neither wind nor water
tight-so that it is housed under a toler-
able roof. So it can, but never long in
marketable condition. While corn
cribs ought always afford free ventilla-
ton, they should be SO constructed as to
shut out all storms, either rain or snow.
Better grow less corn and keep it sound
than prize crops and-sell it spoiled.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-10-31

MCCLELLAN ON TIE ISSUE OF THE
DAY.-A restored union of States and
hearts an invigorated constitution, to
be firmly and faithfully supported; the
maintenance of the national credit invio-
late re-establishment of national aud
State rights in all their integrity, and
thus true harmony and lasting peace
these are the objects for which every cit
izen should now strive; and believing
these to rest in the success of the Demo-
cratic cause, by the election of the emf
nent statesmen selected to represent the
party, it is my intention to sustain that
cause as private citizen.-McCiellan s
New York Letter.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-10-31

/ a. sod0atefy uRb 11UrHeSS-
A. S. Anderson. -
Carriage Mangfactory.
kirkpatrick .S Bro.
Cfgal0 al0Hanyactprer.
Francis Miller
| Wagon Manufacturers.
Hertwick & Baltzer
Tutors
Louis Persons, f. Case.
BARRIERS.
E. MargraF & Co.
Fruit Tree Nursery.
George E. Rogers.
House and Sign Painter.
Thomas NJ Jones
E.cpress Companies.
Merchants Union Express; Southern
Express; 0verton, Steele & Co, Agents.
F,anifare Stores.
f. Bartoldus, Charles Oswald.
Marble Works.
B. c. RaUage.
j. II Davis
Insurance Agent
Samuel Landrum.
Lirery Stable.
w m. Is. RUNNER.
Matchmaker and Jc,eelyy.
John ID. Walker, A. PlGut
Boot and Shoe Shop.
George Wehman, Casper Sohm & Co,
Julius Frenz
Hotels.
Planters Hotel, by Parks & Co, on
Clinton Street; City Hotel, Young & Co,
City Oaicers.
Nayor.-Sam l. Landrum.
city Judge-J H Davis.
Clerk H. Morebead
NarsAal-Pat Cunningham.
County OHicers.
County Jadge-B r. Walker.
County 4aorney- A. Tyler.
Circuit Court Clcrk-John c. Gard
ner; Tapp. Bynum, Deputy.
C0uuty Court C2erk-Jno. \. Wilson
-SAesiH.-R. Il. Millet; Office in "
&. Walkers drug store.
DePaty SHeri6-R. S. Chapman.
Coroaer.-Thad. W Thomas.
Jailor-G W. Subblefeld.
Magistrates District No. |. f. G.
Jacob Bushart. Constable
G gorge Morris, District No :, Owen
Miles, and Joshua Naylor Constable
VIM. IL. Roper. District No. 3, j. w.
Mays and John Boyer. Constable
George II. Wilbourn District No. t,
j. n. Hawkins and r. Cross. Con
Everett.
County Assessor.-Wm Hubbard.
Z. s. Assessor.-T c. Buck.
L. S. Rec. CoHector-H G. Catlett.
Judges.-Court Of Common Pleas,
Ed Grassland. of Mayfeld Circuit
Jourt-A. Z. Boon, Mayfeld.
COmmonWealth's AHorney.-Chnt L.
aandle, Hickman.
Register os Bankruptcy-Charles S. |
Marshal, BIandville.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-10-31

PLANTING TREEs-The editor of the
SoSthern Farmer, published at Memphis,
saws he has been planting trees since
1S32, and has planted at all times, from
before the leaf was checked in growth
until eFen in May, and has found that the
best tine is as soon after frost comes IN
the fas as the land can be got in good
condition neither too wet nor too dry.
ThoseFho desire to plant fruit or shade
trees aould try fall planting.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-10-31
The Political struggle in Eng
Hand.

The leaders of the Tory and Liberal
parties in England, Mr. Disraeli and Mr..
Gladstone, have lately defined their re-
spective positions upon the issues pend
ing in the English electons-the former
in an address to his constituents in Buck
ingl mshise- and tle. latter. in ap address
70 the electors OF South Lancashire. Mr..
Disraeli asserts that the Irish Church
disendowment project of Mr. Gladstone,
which was passed by the House Of Com
mons, if carried into complete effect by
the new legislature, will unsettle prop
erty, and make confsoation contagious,
and worse than all give England over to
Popery and practically to the rule of
foreign power" The Tory papers, it is
reported do not place the emphasis upon
the no Popery outcry which is given to
it by the premier, but rely pricipally on
the successful foreign policy of the gov
ernment, including the Abyssinian war,
the danger Of the Church of England,
and the necessity of economy in the pub
lie expenditures. NJ Gladstone in his
address expresses his opposition to a gen
eral endowment of the churches in Ire
land, treats the established church there
as a mark of past oppression, and urges
that the case against it is aggravated by
the fact that it is the church of the rich,
and has yet accomplished such meagre
results. He insists that the true policy
is the policy of justice and to apply the
revenue to public and social works and
to religious establishments. The Lib
eral organs are emphatic in their praise
of the frank and positive tone of the ad
dress. Their own utterances are even
more decided than those of their leader,
and many of them look to the results
which he does not seem to contemplate.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-10-31

AN order of Queen Victoria's Privy
Council has been issued to prevent the
introduction into England Of the cattle
disease now prevailing ia the United
States, decreeing chat hay imported from
the United States into Great Britain
shall not be removed from the ships or
vessels in which the same had been trans
ported from the United States, or landed
in any place in the United Kingdom.
The order took effect September Is
Provision Is made for landing hay i'm
ported from the United States for the
use of horses, only on obtaining IL
tcense from the Lords of the Privy
Council.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-10-31

The corn crop in kentucky, the pres
ent season, will be prodigious. From
all quarters we hear of large yields Of
this most useful cereal, far exceeding for
uer returns.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-10-31
Is GsRe Bottom OF the Pacific
Ocean Failing OMIT

1t viii be remembered that the recent
earthquake in South America began on
the 18th of August, aud on that day a
great ocean wave broke on the shores Of
Peru On the 10Th of August the same
49, reached Lower California on one
side of the PaC.Sc Ocean, and Japan on
the other On tie 14th, 18th and 10Th
of August, as the telegraph informs us,
this same disturbance of the ocean was
observed at the Sandwich Islands, the
sea rising and falling, for those three
days, three or four feet every ten minutes.
Taking all these facts together, it would
seem that the point of greatest intensity
in the commotion of the earth's crust
was somewhere in the Pacific Ocean mid
way between South America and the
Sandwich Islands, since the tidal wave
reacfS those islands sooner than it did
Califo, Ha and lasted longer, and was OBJ
served ii the latter place no sooner than
it was at Japan That the convulsion
was as near the Sandwich Islands as it
was in South America, if not nearer, is
confirmed by the sinking of the shore of
Hawaii, and the continuance Of earth
quakes in its neigh borhood. We are
= ~
ONE plit 5 was froom three to four, and
n others from six to seven feet, while at
1ilo the greatest subsidence noticed was
sight inches. In Hilo, Pura, Kaufroi,
one to fise earthquakes occurred daily.
When a get full accounts from all parts
Of the APyid of this terrible earthquake,
it lfobably be found to have been
one% wider extent than any which
has occurred in modern times.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-10-31

Broom corn was introduced into our
country by DR.. Franklin. While exam
ining corr whisk, (imported) he acci-
dentally discovered a single seed, which
he planted in his garden, and from which
the corn was progagated.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-10-31

- IL. beautiful incident may
- = 15n of trust to all, as we'll as
how VI loving reliance children have
n thossswho have never deceived them
Some time ago boy was discovered
in the street, evidently bright and intel
ligent. but sick. "What are you doing
hereg' inquired the gentleman who found
him.
waiting for God to come for me, :"
he said.
"What do you mean?" said the gen
tleman, touched by the pathetic tones of
the answer, and the condition of the boy
in whose eyes and flushed face he saw
the evidences of fever.
'sGod sent for mother aud father and
little brother" he said, '.and took them
away to his home up in the SKY; and
mother told me when she was sick that
God would take care of me. have ne
home; nobody to give me any thing
and so l came out here and have been
looking so long in the sky for God tt
come and take care of me as mother said
he would He will come, won't he,
| Mother never told lie"
YES, my lad said the gentleman
overcome with emotion; He has sen
me to take care of you"
The child's eye flashed, and smile 0
triumph breaking over his face, he said
Mother never told lie, Sir but yol
/ have been so long on the way.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-10-31

West. TCheers stand before you to
briefly allade to the conclusions | form
ed long since, not as a public officer but
as citizen of this nation | must nee
essarily be very brief, as my time is very
short. A few years ago the government
wiped out all our State bauks, and it
burdened them with such heavy taxation
that they could not live and took upon
itself to give to the people the currency
required for business The Government
destroyed our currency. 1t gave us a
new one, and it was the duty of that
Government to see that it was so appor-
toned that it would subserve the best
interests of the whole country. 1t gave
to Ma husetts $4,000 900, and we
frd upoi% mparison that New York,
Ohie.aQ.S - States received much Tess
- { gaye-eRhode Island
I'd trSat.deaI Of
I| ryshe people why is it
lhoie lslandfo? fIa~ad
- gen ia O -.
! - y es.or- c7ieveia, 5v a. : = l1as 7
lnt5es .'esestiings' They have Enterprise
aud ladgmAt, and Task whether the
true sentiment of these important oues-
tons as not vastly greater importance
than merely to win political victories !?
Cheers.a
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-10-31
The Spanish Dynasty-OrigIn OF
the EOurbOns.

The hoese of Bourbon, which has Civ
en- so many sovereigns to France, Spain,
and Italy, is of French origin, deriving
its name from the old lords of Bourbon,
a noble family which centuries ago held
very large landed possessions in the for
mer province of Bonrbannais, situated
in the centre of France. Through the
marriage OF member of the Capet fam
lily with a bourbon heiress, the noble
house became allied to royalty in the
thirteenth century, and about the middle
of the sixteenth we find the first of the
race on a throne, in the person of An
toine De Bourbon, king of Navarro. An
teine was the father of the gallant and
renowned Henry of Navarro, who after
wards became king of France under the
title of Henry ~.
To establishment of tie Spanish
Bourbon dynasty originated with Louis
XIV of France. who in the year 100
succeeded in placing his e5s-sl !.
liz, 1r,E Of mi <.-le DIEOl -