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TIHE SUGAR\ PLANTER.
HINHIY J. HYAMl.
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOt.
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paid for In .*vAxcAa.
NOTICE.
CnmmaunIcations intended for thbi paper should be
directed to Naton Iouge. err IN'et Baton Rouoce.
Our exchanges will confer a Iavor upon nl by direct
ag as above.
.1.Any of our Baton Rouge friends hav
ing communications, kc., for the Sugar PlIm
tar, by leaving them with Mr. Bruce Hueston,
on board the ferryboat Byrona, will be promt
ly received and attended to.
FORI PRESIDENT,
MILLARD FILLMORE.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
A. J. DONEISON.
SATURDAY, XARCH 16, 18566.
D7'Thanks to the Hon. Jouer SLt..ID t. for
late favors; also to Hon. J. P. BE:NJAms.
a'A. J. DeLaporte, (American) has been
elected Recorder of the parish of Terrebonne
over J. B. Dunn, (Anti) by a majority of
14"2 votes.
upWe are requested to inform the world
antI the rest of mankind, including the good
citizens of Baton Rouge, that JoNys has got a
new pair of "trowsers!" Don 't ask which
Jones; you can tell him by the smell of ure
dcloth.
'PI"f our parish authorities don't believe
that the dead horse lying in the rear of our of
fiae smells most 'villainously vile," let them
come and take a "sniff" for themselves.
Have it removed at once-it's excruciating,
soit is!
07"Gnldman's going to Nicaragua 1-s8 he
says-and now's your time to get Jewelry
cheap. You can buy Gold watches for noth.
ing and get paid for taking them away-Call
and see.
WEAT's Is rTa WIND ?-Strolling through
Baton Rouge on Wednesday last, we encoun
tered the "Grand High Priest of the Ousel
Owls." The prelate appeared in good health
and spirits, but we were unable to worm out
the secret of his mission there. Any designs
upon Cat Island, Doctor 1 Look out for the
'man with the white hat and carpet beg I"
(' The Baton Rouge doocarte of the 11th
inst.. in speaking of the Democratic Conven
tion held the lay previous, says :
"Yesterday will be remembered among
those gifts of time that have a claim immor
tality."
Don't tear your shirt; you did nothing
towards ranking it amongst those "gifts that
have a claim to immortality."
g"We are often annoyed with anonymous
communications. generally upon that theme
which love-sick swains are partial to, port.
ry, until we are h.artily tired of reading their
eluasions. Some luckless ",wight," who seems
to have scared up an idea, addresses a few
pathetic lines to Happiness, and being earful
eof immortalising himself, signs "Lorenzo" to
his "efort," and sends them to us for publics.
tion. While we are willing at all times to
assist in the cultivation of any attempt at
genius, we are decidedly opposed tqrecieving
their communications anonymously. A wri
ter who fears to sign his name to his own
articles or give them to the editor, must be
afraid of himself, and so Mr. "Lorenzo," your
poetry is laid on the table indefinitely.
Youvo Man's LYcsxu.-The lecture on
Monday night, was notas well attended as
we would have wished, but the exciteseat at
the State house and the preaching of Rev.
Mr. BaLsR at the Presbyterian Church took
a4ray a great many who would other.
wise have attended. The lecturer, Mr. 8. S.
Hau.t true to his appointment, was present
and for a time entertained his audience with
a subject he seemed peculiarly adapted to.
Unfortunately, before he reached the pith of
his argument, he was seized with faintness,
which compelled him to discontinue the lec
ture and dismiss his anilience, This was cer
tainly to be regretted, and it is but justice to
Mr. HALL to state that he held out as long as
he could. Mr. HALL, we understand holds
himself in readiness to supply the absence of
any of the regularly appointed lecturers.
We hope we may soon have a chance to hear
his able lecture upon Jadie eand aodem
&Scice.
HUaaacAnE.-On Saturday, says the Ope
lousas Courier, a hurricane passed a little to
the south of Washington, doing considerable
damage. Large trees were tern up by the
roots, fences blown down, and their materials
scattered in every direction.
The sugar-house of Offutt Brothers, a very
large and substantial brick building, together
with the Purgery and negro cabins, were
blown down, and snow present a shapeless
mass of ruin. There were 130 hhds. of su
gar in the building. 25 of which were des
troyed by the rain, and the balance is in a
damaged condition. The loss of Messrs.
Oflutt is estimated at $10,000.
TMa Paonsorao, Ran.ouA To Nuw Oa
rsAua.-The Police fury of this parish pass
.C a resolutin at its session yesterday to
submit to the people, .the question of the
rish taking stock in the road; to ascertain
the willin; es of the people to submit a tax
on anal estate for this purpose.
The an poposed to be raised by taxation
is 100o00, and the time axed for the elec
tion isthe firt Mooday in May.-Ceugal.
The Sugar Prospect for '66-7.
We ha ve before on several occasions made
reference to the prospect of the forthcoming
crop, and expressed our fears as to the result.,
We have become firmer in our convictions,
that but little sugar will be made in Louis
ianabid year. Our coiuntry exchaages from
all parts of the State unite in the same dread
ful cry of the almost total destructidn of the
cane in their vicinities. We have conversed
with planters from the different sugar grow
ing sections of the State, and they mournfully
confirm all previous accounts. Accounts from
the West Indies report short crops, from the
inability to procure wood, and the condition
of the weather being such as to prevent the
drying of baggasse for that purpose.
We know our city papers are loathe to be
lieve these reports of short crops, for reasons
best known to themselves, but when we as
sure them we write from knowledge that
knows no refutation, we trust some credit
may be awarded our assertions. We have
seen acres upon acres of fall plant, ploughed
up, fields of stubble, rotten and decaying-cart
loads of mnt-laid, soft and pithy-actually not
worth the t-ouble ofhauling away. On Mon
day last, some ten or fifteen cart loads of mat
laid cane passed our office on its way to a
neighboring plantation to be planted with
the faint hope of raising enough seed for
next year; curiosity prompted us to examine
it, and we found upon some twenty-five or
thirty, an average of one good eye to eves y five
stalks! One of the planters in our immedi
ate vicinity, planted for eight hundred hogs
headls, and the probability is, he will not
make one hundred; and another who has
been accustomed to make from five to six
hundred hogsheads, does not expect to make
enough to plant for next year; and thus we
might continue citing instances until the read
ergrew tired of the recital. Lucky is indeed
he who can make a full crop this coming
season.
Competent judges assures us that we will
not make one half of the, crop of last year.
Below will be found a letter from "Anacon
da," who gives a true picture of the prospect
for the ensuing season; it is well worth a
perusal and may be implicitly relied upon.
war Baro Roeos, Mxace 9, 1.66.
Mr. Editor :
You have doubtless heard much of late in
regard to the prospect of the next Sugar crop.
I deem it my duty as one of the unfortunate
growers of sugar cane to give you a few facts.
Facts are said to be stubborn things and 'igures
we are told will not lie. Last year we
told the speculators that the crop would be
short, they did not believe us, but said it was
the old cry of wolf--wolf-when too late they
find it to be fact. This year we tell them
that our seed Cane is frozen and our ratoons
are dead. The coming crop (that is if any
comes) will be one half of the last. I speak
not only "-from the book," but from the field.
I have seen acres of plant-cane in this Parish,
with but few sounds stalks in them. We ex
pect nothing at all from our ratoons, andl
many are already ploughing them up. On Red
River I am told, many Sugar Planters are
abandoning the culture of cane and going
back to cotton. Thii is certainly a melan
choly, but true picture of the sugar crop. I
have 300 acres in plant-cane, which ought to
make me 600 hhds. If any man will give me
100 hhds, he may take my crop. J know of
others who will make the same bargain. I
do not cry weof now, because "I hear tell of
him," or because "I smelt him," but because
I see him every day-on'all occasions-every
where. He is in my field and my neighbors,
field. His horrid howl is not only heard on
the back concessions, on the Lake and Bayous
but his ruthless tracks are seen on the high
sandy lands of the front proprietors. The
cold long rains, the severe, biting, killing
frosts-these have ruined, us. Unless we
can by some means run up the latitudes a few
degrees, or run down the State within the
Tropics, I fear the days of the Sugar Planters
of Louisiana will soon be numbered.
Truly yodr friend,
0 ANACONDA.
Tax DExOCATrrC CONVENTION.-The bar
moesie Democracy of the State-or rather
their delegates-met at the State House on
Monday last, for the purpose of electing
delegates to the Cincinnatti Convention.
We had thought the meeting would have
been in accordance with their soubriquet of
"harmonious," but such an other scene of
disorder and confusion we never before wit
nessed. It seemed as if Pandemonium had
broken loose, and every man present was
trying to yell the loudest. He who was fortu
nate enough to possess lungs that rivalled
Stentor's, was sure to secure the ftoor and
those whom nature had not blessed with the
same wind-like propensities had to wait un
til they had a chance. Buchananites and
Douglassites contended for the mastery, and
the palm was finally awarded to the triends
of "the Douglass." After a great deal of
storming and fuming they succeeded in ch'oos
ing their delegates. If that convention was
a specimen of "the pure and incorruptible.")
God help the party they represent, and the
State they inhabit.
Sc.rrrua. Taxoaamv.-We were some
what astonished yesterday, says.the N. O.
Crscsmt, by a startling piece of chronological
information given us in the form of a query
by one of our office-ials. It was-Who was
the first Thug Answer--David, the father
of Soloman, who slung-shotted the Philistine
Golish, for emigrating intohis territory, and
trying to eat up the original and legal land
r holders. We believe there is some style of
sling mentioned in the chronicles of those
- times, from which the foreign Philistine was
slug pretty severely,
r. Danellson's Spoech.
The following address of Mr. Dort..so.
was delivered in New York. at the American
Ratification Mass Meeting, held there on the
29th ult.
Mr. DonerLsox beiing loudly called for,
arose, amid the most enthusiastic cheering,
which lasted several ninutes. When the
applause had subsided, thespeaker poc eeded
as folows :
G(entlemen: I return you my most uco*ere thanks
for this cordial reception. The delegates, at the late
convention of the American Party have thought pro
p'ar to pIlace teo on the American ticket for tile slonlld
office in the gilt of the people, and a dl.tinguiLhed and
tried stateostmnan or your Iatriotic Mtato tor the first
oflfice. I deemln it a high or to tiI c IIought worthy
or an uioenlation with Millard k'illmore in the ellort to
carry forward the principles of the American PIarty
a party which has L.en formed out of the necessity of
the times, to correct the abuses whiclh have grown out
of the errors of the old urganizations of party, and
which have brnught the country to the very verge
of nocial diu.nption and anarchy. It was hateal,
gentlotmen, that the people of this great conlieder
acy of States should turn their eyes to Mltllarrd Fill.
luore, who, in his personal qualities, and in all the
chararcteristie of a statesman in justly rankld with
the great men wbohave contribtced to the honor and
glory nf our emnmon country. It is different with niy
elf, gentlemen. I have hleld but humble situationu
In the public service, and can, theretfir, attribute nmy
nomination to no other circumstances than my earn
eat devotion to the conservative aln sound doctrines
which form the tbsis of the American creed.
According to any unoerstanding, gentleman, of the
causes which have constituted us a new party, they
have but little reference to our antecedents as old
Whigs uroll Democrats. Under such desiguatlono we
have each pursued ih other ilays our own views. We
have entertained opposite opinions in regarsbto the
necensity of a Hank, and other measnres of national
interest. But however we dilfered on such questions,
whenever those arose of a purely sectiomnal and dis
organizing character, the leading patriots of our coun
try wore always united. Clay and Jackson united u,
motltfy the tariff of 1.8i, in order to give quiet to the
country; and secure the execution of the lawn.
They united to disarm the lorce of sentiments which
were calculated to array one isectiou of the Union
against another; and if they were now alive, they
could not be g.atherwicse than participants in the
great Ameridan movemut whileh is intended to, check
the current of the wate sentimenuts. You nce niou at
the North proposing to nutlify the lawn of the landl.
You have seen men at the .outh doinggthe same thing.
What would Waahington, Jefferson, Madison and Jack
son eay to men engaged in such attempts to diamem
her our Union? Gentleipen it would be a waste of
words to answer in detail this question. Alt who are
acquainted with the public history of those great lean,
know that they would be with uson laboring to check
sectional agitation, and rebuking the heresy that a
State or portion of the people can enforce a construc
tion cif the laws, contrary to the course pouted out in
tht Constitution.
To restore harmony to the various sections of our
Union-to brighten the links which bind us together
as novereign Staten-to purity the ballot box-to cut
off the dangers to which we ate expomit by thie hn
migrants to our shores from foreign land--and to re
Iudiate all the higher law influenee ablroad anl at
holme which have contributed to obicure the land
marks of our old revolutionary forefather----thee,
gentlemen, are the objects of the American Party.
t'hee are the considerations which have brought us
together. no matter what we lay have been heretofore.
And these are the cosialeratilns which will bind us
together until our Government is brought back to its
original purity, said truthfuln'si in returned to tihe re
lations of public men to public measures. We hiave
seen the present administration of the government
employ its patronage to cement a party without reier
ence to any legitimate standard of poiey or principle.
Men who have preached nece.sion awl dilualon have
been given thie prominent offices, and ihae tren made
strong when it was most Iumportaut that they sholuld
be weak. ellt fashiinect men have been vilified and
tlandered, merely because they adhered to the maxims
which governed our wisne men In the beat days ot our
republie. Yes, gentlemen, we have been proscribed
throughout this land Ior daring to say that we main
tained tile d mctritnes inculcated by out4reatest states
menu. Iresident Pierce, profesuiug to tBllow the toot
steps of Jackson, has ptlced himself in direct antago
nism to the leading sentiments of that great man.
Jackson said that the patronage iof the Feder. t;or
ernment ought tnot to be I'ought to bear against tile
freedom of electiens, and that it was time we were
more1 Amkericanized,. Mr. Pierce says directly the con
trary. lie proscribes from office large masses of his
fellow citizens for daring to exercise the privilege of
uttering their opinions. He has o*tracised national
men, in order to build up the agitator; and no man
can besurpricat to see that under his funtering care
the country is threatened with geographical Iarties
far more dangerous to the integrity of tihe Union thatn
they have ever eren in any rlnner periol ol olir Ihito
ry. He hay introduced tile doctrine of '. wlutter Sv.
e\aignty" in a form awhich, a- recent e enits have
shown, is but another naone tir civil war. anlil thoogh
digniulsed by tie profession of respectl fr the sentimcent
which recognizes tile right of tile petple to ;;ote-n
themselves, is in oubstaunc nothing but an alb.ndon
ment of tlhe constitutional duty of C.ugress to guard
the rights of the territorial inhlbitatits until they are
competent to foirm a State Goverunment. ad tke take their
rank under the provsions iof the Constit ution ill the
CurT.cleracy of States a..eqlunl and sovereign mnenmb.rs.
Against such abuses we have Irotested, at'l :a mean
hers of the American party we feelr that it is not only
our right to protest, tbut t, claim the vupll.rt of
our countrymen in giving us the power to correct
them.
One more remark, gentlen.tn. and I am done. Our
enemies have asserteil that our organization culd not
be maintained because our rnnks are consi)wl lof
those who have belonged to the one or the other of the
parties, and that we cannot escape the ilnduence of
former divisions. Those who thus assail us seem to
forget that there is a country to rerve which is above
all parties, anli there are principles ;which cannot be
assailed without weakening the pillars o( the Union.
and in the defence of whichi all patriots ought to rally.
irrespective of the desigNatioe by which they may
have been known as party men. As in time of war,
when the foreign foe invades our soil, every true
hearted citizen should rally to the flag of his country
so when doctrines are put forward by party leaders
which are calculatedl to render inoperative the checks
and balances of the Constitution, every patriot should
throw off party shackles aml do what he can to render
harmless such doctrines.
It is on such grounds that we are constituted an Amer
lean party. Let us be true to the spirit of such a
party, and let nos forget there were ever any difference
between us as Democrats and whigs. Let our triumph
be that of our country measuring our claims to the
public confidence by no standard but that of honest
devotion to the principles of our caunoe, which is no
other than that of the Constitution and the Union, If
we succeed, it will be mainly through the exertions of
the hardy and manly energies of our young and middle
aged men, who are carrying on the great enterprises
necessary to the developementof our country, and who
cannot be tempted by old party watchwords from com
pleting the reform which they have commenced under
the flag of the stars and stripes, and in defence of the
sentiment which prociaims ,that, Americass ought to
rule America. Such patriotic devotionmustmeet with
its corresponding reward.
Gentlemen: I was educated on the banks of your
noble river and have always felt a pride in the pros
perity of this great emporium of our cousmýry. You
have always shown a justsense of the impi. tanee of
maintaining the Constitution, by a strict adherence to
the principles it was intended to perpetuate. You
have always been national meo, unwilling to disturb
the harmony of those feelings which are necessary to
the safety of our progress as a nation. It is flattering
and encouraging, therefore to the friends of the Ameri.
can cause, in other parts of our country, when they
hear that the great city of New York is with them. I
could not doubt that I was right when your approving
voice was heard in the formation of a party aiming to
heal the dissensions of our land.
It was in this city, in 1819, that I frst learned to
discriminate between the mere party man and the pa
triot. It was here that Gen. Jackson, though the guest
of the Tammany men, toasted DeWitt Olinton. who
was then considered by that ancient and venerable so
ciety as an orthodox on the subject of State rights.
The old Hero of the Hermitage said that parties were
not always right, and thi public men ought not to be
rejectel. because they wed.beyond the spirit of their
party in support of their country's interests. This,
gentlemen is our doctrine. We have left the old parties
who were unable to tranquilise the land, and standout
on a platform national from beginning, to end, and
american in every feature ofit.
[r7"An editor out in Texas thus lets off his
troubles in a mournful comic manner:
A WEEK's MISwAPs.--Somebody stole our
axe-the hogs smashed our gate into kindling
-wood "gin Cout" the coldest day, and the
chimney hearth fell in-the smallest young
'un mashed his tee, and the biggest tore his
breeches-had 15 duns forsums of ifty cents
to a dollar--got sued, judgement against us
no money to pay it-note for $100 fell due
same ix-finally we lost our temper I Oh!
ye dillateoy patrons ye have much to answer
tbr!
The American Ratification Meeting.
D)ont forget the ratificatio, meeting to
night at Baton Rouge, The (azette says :
"The Legislature having, unanimously,
granted tle Hall of Representatives. for that
purpose, the meeting will be held at the State
House. We take pleasure in making this an
nouncement, as the ladies, who form the at
traction and inspitation of every assemblage
will be able to attend the meeting, without
inconvenience. We hope our eitizens, gen
erally, irrespective of party, will be pres
ent. WALKER, POND, ALEX\NDER,
DUCROS and other distinguished speakers
will address the meeting in English and
French."
In an other column wil be found the re
port of "The Meeting of the American
Members of the Legislature," calling upon
the party throughout the State to hold con
ventions for appointing delegates to a State
convention to be held in the city of Baton
Rouge on the first Monday in June next, to
select electoral candidates. We heartily
join in the call, and we hope the "Sugar
Parish" will at once take steps to be represen
ted in the electoral convention. We hope
the members of the party in every parish of
the State will without liarther delay get to
work, organise and prepare for the c6ming
contest, in which. if we are united and de
termined, we are destined to conquer and tri
umph, and upon thorough organization alone
depends our success or our failure.
The people of Louisiana have spoken in
tones that cannot be mistaken; thay have
shown by themr vote in the Gubernatorial
canvass that our principles are the precepts
of right and justice, and they are bound to
succeed. ¶'he time is fast approaching when
we will show our Democratic adversaries,
that we are mighty in our strength, and that
we feel deeply the vile and slanderous insinu
ations against our fidelity to' this glorious
Union of States, and that the American party
is not tily the fast adherent to the perpetui
ty of the Union, but that woe will not tread
upon a fa4len the.
Under such a leader as M:L.manD F4{LsOa1,
a staunch and unflinching friend of the Union,
supported by A. J. Dosvr.SON, a man, upon
whose bright escutcheon, not one blemish or
stairbcan be found, a true Southerner in feel
ing as well as principle, we will give our op
ponents a defeat, such as gallant "Old Hick
ory" gave Packenham and his hirelings upon
the plains of Chalmette, and teach them that
the American party must and shall be re
slected. o
Complaints of the Know Nothings.
The Know Nothings of New Orleans are
complaining of the Democratic Governor and
the press for charging all the crime and
bloodshed upon their organiiation. The
Courier says that the Governor is also blamed
for relering to the outrages and lawlessness
which have disgraced the elections in New
Orleans. and leaving the inference that the
American party were the instigators and
chief actors in these scenes. Such an infer
ence i. pronounced 'cal%mnmious." We are
pleased to ser so much sensibility exhibited
in-that quarter, in reference to transiction:
which the Bulletin says are iot condemned
by the American party with suftlicient em
phlasis. hope inay now be indulged of the
co-operation of this party in I;'rrating out the
scoundreis w.To were engaged in these vil
lainies,-lbereille Ga:ette.
This candid acknowled;gement from one of
the most bitter opponents of the American
party, is highly gratifying to all. Had the
same frank spirit pervade.l the entire Demo
cratic press throughnou the slate, a better
state ol feeling woull exi-t. andl we should
have been spared the unmanly and dishonor
able epithets of "aiders and alhettors" in
those outrages. The attempt to affiliate the
American party with these ruffians is not in
thespirit th it should actuate the minds oft
high-minded and honorable men, and we feel
convinced that the Democratic press will ul
timately come to their better reason and ex
onerate us from any such charge; or at least
if it is clearly shown that these men do be
long to the rabble of our party-and what
political party has ever been free from them r
-that we neither control them, nor are we
responsible for their acts.
Davos AND MEDacINEs.-BOGEL the "med
icine man" of Baton Rouge has on hand one
of the largest and best selected stocks of
Drugs ever offered for sale in the Southern
r Country. BOGEL is indefat igable in his en
deavors to procure the very best that can be
had and his arrangements with Northern
manufacturers and first importers enables him
to keep a full and complete assortment of
Drugs, Chemicals &c, on hand as well as all
the principle Patent Medicines which he
offers for sale at New Orleans prices.
He has also a ine assortment or Havana
Cigars and smoking tobacco. and as we oc
casionably indulge in the "weed," we speak
from experience, thatrequires no pufaing that
they are hard to beat.
0tc7The following letter from Hon. A. J.
DoNiELso the nominee of the American Par.
ty for Vice President, is going the rounds of
tpapers:
PHILADELPrIA, March 2, 1856.
To Editor .Asmricss Organ :
Sis: I am referred to in many places as the
adopted son of Gen. Jackpon. Permit me to
ask that you will give this note an insertion
m your colunms, m order that the mistake
may be corrected. The adopted pon of Gen.
Jackson bears his own name, and is now liv
ing at the Hermitage. The General was my
uncle, and my guardian and friend from my
infancy to his death.
The mistake has doubtless originated from
r the fact that the General was in the habit of
addressing me as his son, and that I was so
long and so intimately associated with him.
l 'vas his aid-de-camp from the time I enter.
i ed the army until he left it, and his Private
i Secretary throughout his Presidency, a con
Sfidential relation which was never interrupt
- ed as long as he lived.
!I am, very respectfull,
your obedient servanty.
A.J. DONELSON.
fthe Greeoslte Boundary silt.
Mr. DowNs introduced a Bill in the louse
to define the boundaries between the parishes
of Iberville and West Batpn Rouge. The
object of the Bill was to annex permanently
to the parish of Iberville, the territory situs
ted between Bayou Grosse-Tete and the
Atchafialay. Upon the introduction of this
Bill, Mr. Fvanor introduced a substitute, in
substance the same as the Bill pasosed by both
Houses of theGeneral Assembly at the ses
sion of 1855, submitting the boundary ques
tion to the vote of the people of the territory
il dispute. The Bill went before the Gov
ernor for his signature, in the last five days
of the session and instead of returning it to
the House with his veto before the close of
the session, kept it in his pocket until the
opening of the present session and then sent
it back with his veto, which in substance
amounted to this: That as the citizens of the
parish of lberville had always been taxed
for the benefit of Gross-Tete, the question
should have been submitted to the vote of
the whole parish of Iberville i
The Bill and substitute came ipin their
regular order during the evening session of
Wednesday 11th inst.,, when Mr. FAvao'r
spoke in favor of the substitute, and was re
plied to by Mr. Downs who made a motion
to lay the substitute on the table which was
refused by a vote of 19 yeas to 22 nays. T'he
House then adjourned, the members having
broken quorlum. On the evening session of
Thursday 23d, the Bill and substitute again
came up among the unfinished business of the
day previous, when Mr: Dowss made a
gseat Democratic speech in favor of his Bill,"
and showing clearly and demonstratively
that party spirit prompted his exertions.
Mr. D. finding that his efforts were of no
'avail, offered an amendment that the vote of
both parishes and Grosse-Tete should be tak
en on the subject, the yeas and nays were
called and the amendment was adopted.
Some fuithlr discussion ensuing, on motion
the whole matter was laid on the table, which
motion was unanimously carried.
In defence of his substitute, Mr. FvaoT
spoke as follows:
Mr. FAvaoT, said-That he rose to perform
a duty imposed uoon him by the constitution
and the solemn obligation he had taken to
support it-a duty that he owed to the State
at large as one of its Representatives upon
the door of the House--a duty that he owed
his constituents in vindicating and defending
their rights.
He said that in order to arrive at a full un
derstanding of the law and fact, he would beg
leave to refer to the arts of le26. 1827 and
1823. After reading the acts, he resumed as
follows :
In the first of the above Acts, it appears
that the Atchafalaya river in all its courses,
was made and constituted the western boun
dary of the Parish of West Baton Rouge, and
commissioners were appointed to survey the
limit as established in the act.
T'he same year (1810) another act was pass
ed. suspending the operation of the act above
referred to, until the commissio ners appoint
ed under said act should make their ieport.
In 1837. an act was passed, and commis
sioners were appointed to report upon the
practicability of opening a road from Gross
Tfete to the .lississippi river and as a matter
of convenience to the settlers on said Bayou,
that section of country was annexed to the
parish of I berville.
In 1b28 the Legislature annexed thesettle.
ment on Uayou Gross-'l'ete to the partsh of
Iberville until a good practicable road was
built from said Bayou to the Mississippi river,
the terminus of which, should be within three
miles above or below the court house of West
Baton Rouge.
Upon the faith of this Legislative act of
1826, the citizens of West Baton Rouge. took
stock to a large amount in the Rail-Road
which is now in process of construction from
the M.ississippi river to Bayou Grosse-"Tite,
believing that as soon as the road was built. the
Gross-Tete settlement would revert back to
their parish.
i ne question now arises, whether West
Baton Rouge has not a vested right in the ter
ritory lying west of Bayou Gross-Tete, and
whether the legislature would not be passing
a law divesting that parish of those rights
and impairing the obligation of a contract,,
were they to adopt the bill introduced by the
member from lberville. If the permanent
annexationof the Grosse-Tete settlement de
pends upon a contingency established by Leg
islative enactment. can you deprive one of
the parties to the contract-the citizens of
West Baton Rouge-of the benefit of the same
when they have accomplished that which
the law requires them to do ? In other words
Gross-Tete is to belong to West Baton Rouge
as soon as a road is built; now that the road is
built, that the expense of the erection of the
same is incurred, can you rescind the contract
stipulated in the Act of 1828, and performed
in good faith by West Baton Rouge without
violating article 105 of the constitution ?
(Mr. F. here read the article.)
Mr. F. said that he would call the attention
of members to article 8 of the constitution.
because, if the bill before the House was
adopted, the parish of West Baton Rouge
without the Grosse-Tete country would
be left with an area of about two bun
dred and twenty square miles. when the spirit
if not the exact letter of the article requires
six hundred and twenty-five square miles to
each parish. (Mr. F read the article.)
Mr. F. said that when he looked, at the
geographical position of the Grosse-Tete ter
ritory, situated immediately back of West
Baton Rouge from its Northern tojts Suthern
extremity-at the protection it recieves from
the levees on the Mississippi River-for the
erection of which not a dollar of contribution
is levied uponiti inhabitants-when he took
into consideration the laws that were enact
ed on the subject, and the enterprise of the
citizens of a parish who have redeemed a
portion 'of their territory by fulfilling their
share of a contract-he could not refrain from
saying that it would be but an act of justice
for the Legislature to declare that Grosse
Tete no more belongs to Iberville, but by
operation of law, reverts permanently to West
Baton Rouge.
However the present question has been
before every Legislature since 1853, and a
subject of disagreement between the Repre
sentatives of both parishes interested until
the session of 1855. when a bill aig eed upon a
compromise was uqanimously passed by both
Hoses of the General Assembly sibmiting
the boundaries, to the vote ofithe people resid
ing in the ºdisputed territory, aud leaving
them to decide as to what parish they should
belong. The Governor for reasons that can
not be approved by any one whqo till read
the message, vetoed the bill, which is in sub.
stance, again offered as a subtitute to that
introduced by the member from Ibervillet
Mr. F. recoonWeled- the adoption o. the
substitute by the legislature, and . aid that
the people of thiteritory were better j.ed
of their own interht than the General
sembly, in all mattsan where their own wants
advantages and conveniences are involvsd,
In reply to the Imtrks of Mr. Dowm,
Mr. Favrot said, that he.thanked the memh
from Iberville for the light he had throwsen
the subject. He had plead the cause of West
Baton Rouge with eloquence and ahbilty, sad
had" no doubt that the Hon. gentlemaa's
speech would insure the passage of the Bsb.
atitute, and moved its adoption
Xeeting of the American a Iem rf
the . gimot.
At a meeting of the members of the Am..
rican party in the Legislalure of Louisiaa,
held on Tuesday the 1 th o4l Match, 1856...
(,en. W. M. Kidd, Senator from Jackson pr.
ish, was chosen President and H. M. Favrot
of WestBaton Rouge as Secretary.
The meeting being organized, the following
resolutions were unuanimoqsly adopted:
Int. Resouded, By the members of the Amne.
rican party in the General Assembly, that we
cordially endorse the nominations made by
tie late Philadelpnia Conventionof Millard
Fillmore and Andrew J. l)onelson, and that
we pledge ourselves to use all honorable ex
ertions to secure their election tothe respon.
sible positions for which they have been
chosen.
2d. Resolved. That we will join the Amer.
ican party of Baton Rouge, in a meeting to th
held on Saturday the 15th inst., for the pur.
pose of ratifying the above nominations.
3d. Resorvled, That the friends of Millard
Fillmore and Andrew J. Donelsonin each of
the six Electoral Districts in this State, be
requested to hold Dist rict Cdnventions on the
first Monday of June next, at the following
places, to wit:
For the First Electoral District, composed
of the parishes of Plaquemine and St dernard
the Third District, of thecity of New Or!eans
and Faubourg Treme in the city of New Or.
leans.
For the Second Electoral District, conpos.
ed of the Second Distractof thteityo oNew
Orleans, with the exception of Faubourg
Treme, and the First District of thp city of
New Orleans, in the city of New, ,l.
For the Third Electoral Distrieteypdeed
of the Fourth Distriectf the eityof. r
leans, that part of the parish of l n
on the right bank of the M' ispes. -
ishes of Jeferson, St. Charles, Ul an the
Baptist, St J mes. Assension, Assumption,
Lafourche and Terrehenne at the tov of
Thibodaaxvitle.
For the Fourth Eleetoral Distriet,eaupes
ed of the parishes of Tammany, Waph
Livir.gston, St- Helena. East and West
ciana, Point Coupee. East and West Batoe
Rouge. and Iberville. at Baton Rouge.
For the Fifth Electoral Diatriet, composed
of the parishes of St. Landry Caleseeat.
Martin, St. Mary, Lafayette, Vermillion. Ba
pides and Avoyelles, in the town of Opeles
sas.
For the Sixth Electoral District, coumped
of the parishes of Natchitoches,Sabine, Wias,
DeSoto, Caddo, Bossier, Bienvilte, Claiberse,
Ouachita, Caldwell, Jackson, Union. Mee.
house, Concordia, Temas, FtRaklin, Catbshe
Ia, Madison and Carroll, at the town of .tsi
den in the parish of Claiborne.
To select, each; one electoral coadlatead ,
one alternate, pledged to the upport od t
above distinguished names fot te oflesso
President and VYee-President of the Ubitd
States.
4th. Resoled. That we reeoname.ntp. he
American party of'td State of Louisiasaie
holding of a State Convertion in the totS of
Baton Rouge on the third Monday in iJbe,
and that every parish elect delegates tsam
Convention.
5th. Resolved, That this meeting see~
mend to the American party of Le sita
that the State Wigwam and all Suberdieikes
be dissolved and that open Americf C lhbs
be established in their stead.
6th. ResoeJd. That a eemmittee f 1si lie
appointed by the chair todraft an ads.sr to
the people of Louisiana as Eoosang Snh the
members of t h¶'Ameriean party ofthe .e
Assembly, setting forth the aneonstitautal.
illegal and unjust acts of the Deioaeitie;lle
ty in the present Legislature, with,4
to the contested seates of mmbe.bs -o
Houses, and their unprecedented and tylin
cal course it removing the Sherif of tL p
ish of Orleans without assigningls y,'f
mal-administration or malfeasance' i'...
The following gentlemen
committee : Messrs. Walker.
dere, Alexander, McDonol and Dapesyi
which the Chairman, on motion, wane rwa
Etorx'rnT ExraToatnar-AdsigV~S
Slave to Rmaea'y.--The Louisville C
of the 20th ult says :
Yesterday between the hours o
and dinner a runaway o tose rt..e sp
in New Albany by the arms oeb
officer and an assistant, ed Ibrt
ignominously curtailed by J gthem
our jail. One of them was . .
woman, the cook of Mr. Ne i
and the other a white gentlema f, y
Fast somewhere, bearing'the quil.5
Hillyear. It was a regular lo me
tive slave case, some might .ay.
where all are entitled to liberty and
matter what color, as the a
and the deepest sympathy is
them. now that they are made capti...
The particulars of this remastic ep
stealing affair are about these:
The white man was deeply enmouotll
the black cook, and, no doubt, persuaded'
to run away, having beforehand EovM S
co ple of tfoh tickets over the i5ew
ny lailroad to ichiag City, which
were subsequently found in hiso
The woman after getting break.st
master's anmily as amel, paced Ip
took the omnibus to Portlan,
ioined by the white man. and togtOlt*
crossed the riveron the f .rrybo. , :
The woman was closely veiled, i
ted the suspicion of Mr. Coner,t
who noticed her pretty closely, aed s.>
entered the ladies' room oats .
the man go up to her, raise her vi
print a sweet kis upon her poatla
when, to the great suIrpraseo oftbe y
ter, he discovered ~he woman to ti . a,.
He at once took her inqUm ag an
turn of the tarry, r b d r- t
Crowfoot, of the po. .".
The o1fiers ap. ha the r
New Albseiy, nl r a s earf
tho white man "4a acedlar, gapta
brought him back tol this, eity, a ndI
him in jail and he w4, now be
the sweet charge of negro steaalig.
there is another cua to excite the sympathi
and indignation of the freesoilers and f
lovers all over the North, and we e
them to forward funds in abundance to reeS
their brother's distress,