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tioualibboubbik Lbic{. Otfhu is ('n'-runt I'Iaoat Official Journal of Parish of Asoension. Official Journal Town of Donaldsonville. LINDEN E. BENTLEY, Liuro1it AND) PluPRItEToli. HORACE GREELEY, (H' NEW7 YORK. FOI VI('E-1'ICESt1)EN'1'. R. GRATZ B ROW N.~ Alu IV.G.ýýu.o- S ,rorito o tihe .ljw suin Vrc (r Jepot. ix at(/mari~ e In o t VIS .1 yell; ofI Phr ('titt F /ir" til jwiyros.. o so r("e'iriii'/ ptyntii viii I/,c"ifo,". (r' sopies of' Ii C(IIIp :pist olrr (VI be hod ait te P'ox-f)lice ri n! Il ilXt,1rrosos xcirr lh)epst. i)oiealddsos rifle. Auuouuvcelfleft of 4'aiuididatce. [A tptpgitppctttitt 1 nptde r this healP~ing will Is 111.4."tedl it tipi fotloweipg rates. payablie itt sriat ill) V IPPI SPl'.nr" Fort atr)It cehis, t20 (' 'tit.;elt Iiita 'ti~ tpliriia] lDi trimt otiers, X I5: Piupislt ofiters, gill. FOR ('ON((I1ESS. I reipebctfulhly titttitt nliE ttvsehlf ais in Inl dlp("itu"ltt 4ptpidrlirpte for ('otagtiss frontt the Thpird ContgessiouaisP D)istrict. St. Mary Parishl. La. FOR I )STRI'kTL( JUDGE~. 31RK. EDITOr i :-Please atpnountce thappt .1. K. (IA U! )ET', of St. .Ja tiles lots epn,(tpvptd to he :t cptutp'j1ti for tit offiite of .titdge of the Fourtlh Judicial IDistrict. Compot lsetd iof the tlte Bapttist atud St. Charles, toil thast he will he .stpltotltid at tip. ntext Ntmvemltvr election,. 5tjtittot list itttin ott halput V, raei or color, 1by the P'EOIPLE. FOIL PARIiSH IIECOIIDER. I Iher'eby annlounce mInyself aM a catndididate for the pifii"ot II Reorder of tip. P'airish of Asctppsjopp. pipid ask Lhe support of tihe voters of tiht patish for that positintp. GV. (I. WILKINSON. NATIRUI)AV-, .11EVY (1, 1 t372. Minnesota claims more water pow e's than any otlher State. The Nalional 'republicaot tells this lie : "We learn from the CumEI that the delegates from its parish to the P'inchlback Convention returned with sick bodies and unhealthy minds." We are glad to find that the Op elousas Courier, a journal that exerted itself in 188& to encourage and uphold the mob that destroyed the office of the St. Landry PIroyress, now speaks .of that act as "reprehensible." Kellogg has magnanimously con sented to live in Louisiana provided tihe people will elect him Govenor, but on no other condition will he honor us with his presence. If we mistake inot, the people will tender this pre suumptious interloper an unmistakable invitation in November to pack his aerpet-bag and go home to Illinois. We have received No. 1 of a little Ajourual entitled Sunu(m Leares, edited and published by the ladies of the Feliciauna Female Collegiate Institute of Jackson, La. It is neatly printed, and judging from the first number, will prove an interesting publication. Whether it is to be published weekly or monthly, or what its subscription price is, we have been unable to ascer tain after a carefiul examination of. its columns. There was a large and ethusiastic meeting of Republicans favoring the election of President Grant held in Lafayette Square, New Orleans last Saturday evening, at which resolu tions were passed deno~uncing the fed eral officials who manipulated the Baton Rouge Convention and declar ing opposition to the Kellogg-Antoine ticket. Amiong the speakers were .Col. G. W. Carter, Dr. R. I. Cromwell and Jos. H. Wilson. .It is said Mr. Geo. E. Bovee is to be compensated for declining the nom ination for Secretary of State tendered hied by the Packard Convention, by being appointed to a fat position in the Internal Revenue Department. It was probaly a promise of this posi tion that induced his declination. We hesitate to ascribe it to the sensille reason that he knew he could not be ,elected to the office of Secretary of State if le did accept the nomination. Some of the very journals that have Jhenceforth delighted in denouncing ,Irvenor Warmothl jas an "Illinois -Ts et-bagger," are now supporting eleogg, the prince of carpet-baggers, and from Illinois at tflint, for election as Govenor of this State. While Warmnoth had lived in the State sev enal years before his election, engaged -in' the practice of law, Kellogg only came here becaus lie he was appointed I'ollector of Customs for New Orleans, and has not spent over twenty days in the State since his election to the IUnited States Senatet through Custom House patronage in 18ti , Which is bthe carpet-bagger ? THE DUTY OF A PUBLIC JOURNAL, Several of ou1r Republican friieds in this parish have approached us re cently and asked us to abandon the cause of Lilwral Repullicanism and support the nominees of the Philadel phia Convention. Thile reasons given for urging us to adopt such a course have been these: 1. That nearly all the colored voters of the parish will cast their hlllots for G;rant and Wil sonl and lthe colored voters being largely in the nmajority. will of course (alry the parish againsh t the Libe al I:epnblican ticket. 2. That the old Saest and most bitter I)einocrats of the State are supporting the Liberal Imove menit. ill the hope that its success will give them the political ascendency in Louisiana and thus enable them to expnlge frolm the statute books the laws that have been passed by a Re publican Legislature granting equal public rights and privileges to all men, without distinction of race or color. Our friends very plroperly as sulied that we would not join ill a movement if we coull ie convinced its success would achieve such a re sult. The answer we have uniformly re turned to to te behest and argnllent; given above is this s: That we are sat isfied the triumph of Liberal Republ`. can principles and candidates at the coming election will mark the com enlceullellt of a new era of prosperity for tile State and nation by securing thle inauguration of honest and eco nolmical government; that, therefore, when we espoused the Liberal cause we did not pause to consider whether it was likely to prove triumphant in the United States, State of Louisiana or Parish of Ascension ; that, having joined the movement from a sincere devotion to, and determination to up hold, its enunciated principles, we are willing to ascribe the samle pure mo tives to our co-workers in the cause, whether they have heretofore been classed as D)emocrats or Republicans. There miay be a few men who would be base enough to stultify themsehlves by assuming a belief in Liberal Relnb lican principles which they do not feel in order to attain power to enable t them to violate those very principles, bulit we can not and will not believe that this class of men form even a re spectable minority of that portion of the people of this State or nation who are striving for the election of Greeley and Brown. We are pursuing the course which we deem it the duty of every public journal to do; that is, advocating what we deem to be just and right, º and endeavoring to instruct ignorance rather than follow in its wake because it is the ruling power at the ballot box. WVe are not working for office, and our friends may as well make up their minds to that fact now as any time, and not ask us, because a ma Sjority of the uninstructed voters of Ascension parish are supposed to hold views ditferent from our own, to de sert the glorious cause of Liberal Re publicanuism alnd its standard-bearer, honest Horace Greeley, a man whose ability, whose honesty, whose sincere devotion to the welfare of his country we have been taugh taught to respect and admire from earliest childhood. The New Orleans ltlioual Republi can says this: ''I'he DONLXI.SONVII.LE ('IIIEF is the best printed and worst edited country paper sustained by by plunder in the State. It belongs to the Warmonth clique." Gratified, as we are, by the compliments paid to the typographic and editorial departments of our journal, we have not the heart to take the National to task for the little characteristic inaccuracies con tained in the foregoing extract. The CIIEF is neither sustained by plunder nor owned by "the Warmoth clique"' -whatever corporation that may be but how could we expecct the Xt tional Republican to say anything about. us, or about any body or any thing else, without telling a lie or two just from sheer force of habit ? The Natchitoches, La., Times has this to say : We have received in exchange the Donaldsouville CIIEF, published by Mr. Linden E. Bentley-the only Lib eral paper in the State, we believe, which has come over squarely into the new movemelnt from the Repub lican side. It is handsomely printed and ably edited. We feel highly complimented by our contemporary's good opinion ; but would suggest that, though one of the first, the CHIEF is not the only paper in the State " which has coime over squarely into the new movement from the Republican side." An eight hundred dollar bull under took to stop a locomotive the other day, on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago, railroad, and sunik his entire capital in the enterprise. touching poem, ill which the hero is represMnted as devoured by alligators ui:der a palm-tree on the shore of Lake Erie, inl America. The heroine hears of the ldreadtfll fate of her lover down in the everglades of Florida, near the banks of Lake Superior. where site is living, and rushes down South to Lake Erie and lays wait for that crocodile, c: latures'hin,. cuts him open, extracts the hones of her dead lover, pturchltOseº a rich coffin, and has him interred in magnificent style in G(reenwood ('emetery, in New York, in the State of St. Louis. The poem is too af etctinll. .I erc]h:ts in Pittsburg keep, can non in front ,o their doors to keep the lit.ston drumiters away. But Yankee ingenuity will overcome al nmost.very dillicuilty. Oe dark night one of these druimiersJrawled down and loaded one of thl~se cantnon with his goods. The next morning he stood opposite and yelled '" ya ya ! " at the man who o-wned the store until he got mad and fired the cannon off, sending the drumuer's sample into a store opposite. That was his little game. lie entered and demanded his I samples, and actually sold the man a bill of goods from those samiplles be fore he left the store. A littl boy of Newark, New Jersey, a few days ago, who did not want to go to school, deliberately laid his arm on the car track and held it there un till a passing train severed it just be low the elbow. It is needless to say lie will have ai long and painful va cation. Three young Chinese, who have been studying in Paris only threec months, have applied for a patent for a new system of telegraphy, invented by them. It is describedl as sinplei and ingenious, and likely to obtain great success, as its cost is very small. The principle of always keeping your n (ame' anid business before the public will insure success-and he who proclaims to the public that lihe is not afraid of competition and anx ious to do business, must and will Young folks grow most when in love. It increases their sighs won dcerfully. List of Letters. Remaining in Donaldsonville Post-Office. July 1st, 1872. A--lB Allain, Mrs V F lturden. Charles lBrown, Rev John Braud, 11 ]ireaud. Miss l'v\inia tI ll, Miss Rolsealine Bush. ('aipt John \V lliryv. Miss Shiarlot Billy. Mrs Cecelia C ('la.rktan, Mrs ('urr.y Stepto Curtis. Edward Coroner 1) I)esiorde. L.eopold D avis. Williamn 1)i(iregorio, ('apt Luciano E-i Edwards, Levi Fisher, Johll Frenzel. II L Fleter. IIMrs Lizzie (lirden. Step (Ientiy. F (lrein, % illiain loridon,. Mrs V" F Inillory. Joseph It liahe. ('Casimtir Heart. (felt A Htopkilns, HentVry liftl f llllht, \Iltn. Hlantilton, lThomas II Howard, J W\ Howard, Hetnry Landry. Achlille Lanldry, L 1 .I| Lawrence, L A Landry, Moe Isidore Landry, S A LeBlane. L A Muddl, Mrs Louisa Muller, Francis Maustield, A S McKnight lMailanso, Mliss Ellen Muller, Frnneis Mollere, RIodolpli Na mes. W\Vlhlltan J Nichols, lhn-on Nellon, C Neelev, Jalites NeTley. J 11 O'Conor. Thlos B Osglon., Nacytt t)tlie, Expiress P--u P'ortmloltth..1 11 Ports;uonlh, J 11 lhines. lizehell R1.ey.. Jea.i li.z, .ei Ricks. Simton lRotiiso, Ransoti. John Salvador, Edgar Sihll, Miss Slpratt. Elizia Smith. Martin L .Satnkston, M Seymour, Frank M T Tucker. Johnl Triuxillo, L I) Truxillo,. Itenis T, ylhor, Miss Mittie Taylor, WVillimis Tlrester, Williamn V-W Vantien Wlhaley. Mrs Margaret Weber, F Wools, Jessie Walsh, M P. LANDIY., Postmaster. FRiEDERICK ItIFFIL, Rt. 'lRoi'Elt LA.LINDRY. Dillfcl & Luandry, LAW ANDI NO'TARIAL OFFICE, Opposite thie ('.ttrt-lttolse, Donnaldjnville, La. Will attend promptly to all rolfssionall busieisst. Noi charges milade for recording notarial lets. tiaprt1 I Till: PILRAIRlIE FAR.MER. PIONEER A(IIII('U'LTUIIhAL NEWSP'A PElt OF THE GREAT WEST. The Prairie Farmer has nltw boon pub lished for over thirty viears. and hdtelu lthe towuii io tl of the great inidustial llmasses of the West. Its Varied C 'ontents, Devoted to Sitocek-(irowing. (heneral Agricul tur tl d limprovement. Orehailriiig. Ir' ligation anld I)ruinaige. Edutatiott, Manuflcturinig, Building, etc.. imake it ijust the palttr that should he il the hands of every agri'iltturist in the linld. The tprice is so low that every farmer can afford to have it. Being publtlished Weekly, its matter is al Ways t'W aitl tiimet'lyv. Tictar--Two idollars iper ear. ill adlvyant'. A eluit of five itnmes, with $10. will entitle thet Selder to a copy fre foiir one year. Sautil' copie. stelt free, on appllication. Aildrt ss. .IhOlI.IE F.AIIMEIR ('(.. Chlicag'o, Illinotis. Address to the Republicans --AND- People of Louiliana. HII:.i )Q'n - H I:El; Vt.R RI': iiP iI IC AN P ARTY I of Loulisiati . No. Ii; l)rviilh s stl rc .t. 1 New (Irleans. .June, 1872. A eouvlention of the regular IRepulicimu 1pr.ty hus"u'!joullrnel'd to mll'eet oil tihet nlillth of ' Aiuluit nixt in the Mechaniies' In-titute. in the oity of New Orlhaiis. By a rieolution of this convention, the basis of repruseutation ill the sana has beten doulded, aiil Ian le tioll hls been ordtred for an additional num-i tcr of dthl.gates to, the smine, equal ill unI i1r toi ttu wvhol: d·tlgation oilhady v elctild. l' he ,ijetct in this is to atilird anll opirtunilty to all t ,he petiopli of this State who approvc of t li prhi'illcs herein set irthi to tlake part inll thne tllheatlions of the colventtion, aindt in the inoiiictlion o1 cip;tile, hionest aiii repirle 5enthtit it11ln, 'it lo huav their houiiii.s and tle il¶iterests ii Loui. i ia. ntlpon i. ticiket ailil I 1lila form of prinit iiltes which .hall securl'e lthe sunilort of all tithe goodl petople of this State. Ih the present eoiifslll.iei nod trausiti on state of lilliticl uparties we tiecoinize tlhr le muiversatl and owerfiiul stntiients, which I rul tinouih the heina rts iof ii iarge lajioritV of the helptille of this State, without ditstiiction i"ii party. These are: First--A desire for nl honest, economical anid stable gover'hn iient, iidlninistered. byli iilriprlitult;tiv meiill of 'liatelrl andlll rihia city, whlo.i shall he ihoste wi thout distie - tion front aiy official ring. Second--A. conviction that the interests of all the p)opl. oi" this State are iudeiitica , and at desire for ai growtlh of new politicalt rla tiions, wlhihi shall oblitterate ipast chlass and. sectional unimosities, anid cultivati that inu tmln cineliaiton aind giood wII ill which iu is Militial tio oilr ictilOni plrospelrity, antd to the lperlmtltuleLt sucltcess otf aily Iiohtiral ltlrty; anld Th'rd--A gr wing reco.gnitiun of lhe good ipolicy al!nd necessity otf Ia closer alliance hce twOlin the voters if the Republican party and tlhat portiton tlit iltive o ulOliUhitiiin oft ilt State which lhats hitherto aibstlaciled frolm poliietil ahlairs ,on aecount of dihterenlcs icriate(l bly thiu late civil war. With suLi h a partl, lased itupon siuch lihieral eaL d heonefi cent tprhiciples, we believe that the rights of the colred leoilve ullil le sulter aitnl letter trtti tl, tile Iiherti iV o itl' utniliil liiliu tihe o0 iticuil intcrtists of thI, ,x-Union soldier, the Northe'u settlir, and the old Uoniiii citizen, mliuue cordially ai iid completely secured and the intelligence antd hroperty of the State, -':tu the rights ,ot thit laltive Confeilerate SouthlerllTr le htetter reltres-lutt-td hlan is ossibldte tdcer any othcr lractiicable political cmbin laintlion. l, theiit preomises, we say tio tlm liepulli cis ii tfhe Sate that in the orgalizatiion lld upon the iuasis prcsiinti-i liy us. is their sole hliptlfr telecting any Itepublicaln ollicers in the State. anld bor tprtservillg their partt. The tcci ss of the Cll,.tolli-hine Statuit ticket liiitiuilleld ath Batoi IRuillge is lhollless, andll if th'le ftunts of the Rlepuolianll plluily ivtre aittaiched io it. its defliat is certain. To ldemnoi.istralte thi~u, we call their atten tioll to thle history of thle Pac-katrd-Custom House couurntioi a-t ll iuton lotige. which .lhas assoxoti-ud lti lurest-nt iaiuilidtes ti tint Iti-li(ll if this State i the nameo of tIhe Republihcan lartl. Messrs. l'ackarl,, Cuie.ey. Herwig. Stock lale & tCio. siti uit tt i control tlih ntplljubli',li inuvelItioni calleid tr August 9, 171, in lih interest iif their Cuiistomiii-Holust ring, with view of gitting cotutrot of the State govern :llt 01it thiu clectiou ohr h l'tllltttsiI iil th.ir asutcriates . To tils the ctollnldlcl to t con trol that conielition. W'ith this tIsie-n thhux soutight ulnd ohtuinedl ,erlie tolli usi tllhe Cutstom-ilouse buiiiLling, th l, o iarshals of the Uuited States courts, and the forces of the Unlited States aruriy. Ii defiiance iof all de c -ney iand rislu e t o.'r hubli, t lupinion, nult t'i thei great stan al ot the national goveri I ntit tl l cu- oi voikiud lthe tensunlltiol to sseilsulubl i a L'itite' States tcotuirtloiail in tilt (lutoi Ilonse. Tliiv rtjctitel all iprotes. ofi th-ir lrepuit lictni tmellow-citizes i with thet impe' l - insiulehu(,luitl liaughlti nessiof Einstrin sltrapls. lto luakl e sute f (iltrtllullin the |ur r)l'iinl l- i giniztttiol ofi th, conventin, iati d, ini d1lianch t otill knoliwin rules tir tie irgantizition tft uthi Itbodies. Messri'.. Packard, Cas.ey ilnd thlir no conspirators iiuitix-took tii hteluur ill the dthl gates excelit .such as they uuhmitted f'om-ii a voi(.e in the elhctioun of the telipoart presi dent. Not satishti-d with this, tliex closed inll Iuarred all the thiors itt the ininnneuse (ius tomo-ituse building agaiiist the liubhli, tor one whole day in i;rder that the lobby. as well as the floor of the contvention. shahuld b 1tackil by their own partisans. To further iitituidatei nilil eiierce the dihlegates, the, tilled the ibuihling with spet-iial deluty u'nited States mlarsha"ls armed tor the o'cesitun. To coipiujulti" these extruiordiniuav plruiqartiosls ior a 1oliticll convention anui to emnphasize the inaugurationi of the miew shtyle oft ons.tlt ing the wishts of the hli¢te, thy olbtanti ed thie necessary orittr frolii tila niilitary iiuth iiritie.s anil fortiiced the chlsed ('ustii-Hllousi with Gitling guns iintl garrisolli'd it with United States soldhtrs unt.er a.t'ii. (tin. hiiili dreit mid ten delegates to the conveutxit . be ing a unajority., tisgutsteit and indignant it these t V'annical t .ldaiguroiuit liroclteeediugs. ts-uriied at Wi-ia thit Cuttoiin-hiuise iiid ils senib~le the regular icounveition it uiirner Ilall. The Stitle Centrnil (onuliittei lll)|tiliteit by that etiuvention hits lhv its unthur'ty uinvtOkted the 1).'eseint tue. On the nineteenth of June Mr. P'i(ckarlrd on ltRougeto ,tonminatte c;ltndid;ates ,r tlhe chief Sttte offices. 'lThe (ustoni-Hiouse ( :ltl could not keep good Ithit even wit Il their outn coiifd'l'atest. In ortit" to sicte the l itomllitlationof the favotes of i'their own ring. and to obey instruitions from a " hilgher atu thuoity," they expelled fronm tlheir rooii wen tiou ll il''presentative andt inldepetndel t unt, and seated stran.gers, utrulers, carpet-,.ggers and pl'oxles of their own clrea;tion, until their conuventoll consisted of' Cul'otom-llousce of ficials, inlternal reveilue tax collectors andl postmalters. . Custoium-louse employes, who were elected as delegates to tthe lBton ltoRl ge tcvllventionl were olasuly threatened with dismuissal f'roit oftice by United States Marshal Pactkard if they failed to vote as he dictated. The lists of delegates elected as furnished to the State Central C'oniunittee by the parish and ward clubs wore suppressed by Mr. Pac'kard for four weeks .previous to the ineiting of the convcllltio, and thle nallllles fdelegates were not allowed to be made known to nlembers of the cunmmittee. Lists of delegates pledged to the ring canrddatesc were manutfatured in the United States mairshrl's offteei and tihisted upon the counvention as the regularly' elected delegates. Lobby tickets we.re issued, so that ;all access even to the lolbby was delied to any Iut thle partisans of Mrn. Packard. Mr. Ca..sy refused, in the presence of seu eral well kno]wn genllthiemen, to assure his ('ustom-llHonsi employes that their pil;ate.. should not bI( imlperiled if they vo-ted inde peindenltly of Mr. Packarl's dictation. Mr. t'aekard and his instruenuts, when tthey dii coverL tl that a ajority of the con vention ftar cltd a union with the regular leplu li ;llts. .ubstitutled frinuduletut ireolnution in p1 ;I of the one really ottihred, by which siteh insultiug co(yditionus were imtposed tlhat uionl was mnte iiilpussible. They refindl all lion oraile ottters of union with the regular IRe publicaus for the sole reason that such eion promise would interfre with the Custoun touse slate for nominations. The presidebnt and secretary of the convention were con victed ill oplen .session of fraudulently alter ing their own rolls. Credentials were with hiitd from legaldlv elected delegates unless they would pledge themtuselves to vote as lMr. Packard ordered them. Finally, by a series of fruidulent, corrupt and tyranluical nmeasures, they rattuned the choice o a small st'uostom-io:se ring down the throats of the convention in the llace of able andt well knuown iRepublicans, who were re:all their choice, drove away ever 1ti-nti hlf of thbir own member..i and cut tlheiselv-es toff front the whotle body of regular lHlpuhlirans. so that success undier their letad, and with their tic-ket, is imupossible. 'Ti, eliun V I tlion. t t( ,It.l uteillt . ill o(.di incet t the will of' it., it;;:.tle. tal:nls F. Ca sy, and hIlis chief tool, S. It. p'nek'd. untni nated ail ex-l'nited States coll.etor of cu1s toms atdl a Jlohnson I)citoeratand a resident of llitnois for o\vernor, who was the deftiu dlcr of the mlassacre of 1816;. who refused to emplpoy at single colored sloan in the ('ustoltm I louse and who refused to vote for Mr. Sulll nicr' civil rights bill in the United States SenatI ni man who hasnever had a plernanu euit residtcllc in this Statit. l1has never been identified with the RepuIld:".nln party andl who is a subservient creature of the military ring at Wa sihingtoh. T"llwi" iaundidate for Lieutentlnt Goveriinor is a \\Willernst1 Senator, who last winter constpirit with Custon-Houtse men and I)em ocralts to overthirow the Republiean State iovernnment. We therefore say in all hones tv- uiand candor to the -whole bodl, of IRetpubli ("lln iin fiolore voters in Loutisltana, without re-garl to palst dituif.rtlteCs, that the only holp fotr the pemalilitt pre-servationi of their ri.ghts a1111 iit' colttilUur sn e.'.' of Itepuill licill 1rinciplhs rests in the thlroutgh refhiit, the bIroadur riormgaInization of the party antd tlh lmoire cordial rilations with the native people of th Stat, t tine n tie atiliul il he leadr slhip of this orgauizationu upon the basis abovet set forth. 'To the ex-Union soldier aind the native Uiiou Southerner we say that to preserve their interests froln the disastrous defeat which awaits tlh Custom-Houllse clique, andl also froml the inimicial reaction threatened by th,' restoration of old lnlok ,ratlic organiza tions and prejudices alnd to their part in wip iun out past uanimosities anlfnrthering closer and tll.l ore friendly alliance, with the older p. olle of tlhe State, as to keep faith with anld dl-eluarge their obligations to the colored people who have stood so lirmly tlnd fathfully It ilt-le. we have opened ti t nlyt sae tillnd honlest, road for them and at to follow. To that large portion of the native South ern lpeople who have not hitherto acted with the Republican party, but who have -arne.st ly desire a reorganization of political ptarties, to sculr an honest, stable and econllmical goverinuent, and who are willing to ixtend ian eanilnt, full anrd crdlial recognition of the newly acquired rights of the colored men, andtl also to accord them eqlal chances of ad valilnclent, 1man for maln, aecording to their chtaltter, ability. intelligence and intlutinee. we say, frankly and boltly, tlnat a new era has aririved, which, if lap]proached with the salme canldor anild liltirality on their side is on ours. will relllove the elonds that haive lowered over its since recoustruetion, conll elliate all classes of unr people, and restore our State to its ancient prosperity, dignity and idel ndtllence. We, therefore for the best interests of Louisiana. and all her people, with an hon est thdsire to save the just rights of all classes -to inaugurate an era of good feeling be tweenl her citizens, andtl to restore to our State Sat governmlent of the people, for the people, antld i the people," invite all who tagree with the pltinciples anutl sentiments above set forth to joi ill electing additional delegates to the convenltioln alttonurl(ned tot Atugust 9, and to assist ill tihere emhlodyinlg these. principles in iauthoritative form1 , :and selecting the best 11en11 to carry them into execution. By order of the columnittee. P. 1i. S. Pichblack, 0. F. Ilunsaker, A. EL. ] lahr. 11. L. Swords, Joll Paraons., 31. I. Twitchell, E. C. Murphy. 1I. C. Meyers, N. IUnlderwood, I. Mahoney, ). Rey, Patrick Creagh, J. C. Oliver, G. G. Fisk. A. Ri. Frani'ois. E. NW. l)ewces, It. Blntt, W. Jaspeur ilactkburn. A. u. HarrisT IIUGt ,I J. ('A3IPIHELL, P'resident. V'II.A 1. Mt (. I1n Iws. Secretlary. WIL.lIA.l 11t. (RIEl.EN, Assistant Secretary. The Donaldsonville Chief, A WEEKLY PAPER Devoted to Politics. News, Literature, and the )isseuiultiou of Liberal ice ti ll ienul Principles. Puilislhd Every Saturday Morning, AT Donaildsonville, La., MY Linden E. Bentley, Editor & Proprietor. SUBSC('IIPTION, TIIIEE DOLLARS PER ANNUM. 'TIANSIENT AI)VEIIRTISEMENTS. One dollar per square of s\eove lhes Minion .type. first iltnertion: wvellty-fl've cllts per sqiuany etnih subsequent inslrtion. Prltofessional or other atdll's of one squarel or less, fifteen dollars l'er anmtun. : Special Tcnlls to Liberal Advertisers. As tll C(IIEF llS lbeen lde.iglllted by thil proper authorities as the Offichil Journal of the Parish of Ascsllionll Iand the TowIn of I)oualdsonville. in its columns will be filuln all proceedings of the Police Jury, Sclhool Bo:ndl :rand the C('ommonu Council, and all otticial notices ndl advertisemeuntsI ertainiuitg to the Parish of AsHensioun and Corporation of I)onaldsonville. It will ,e a ronstant source of reliable po litical and tefernl information, and will al \-:r s ntainl a fair almllolultt of oeditorial mut ter. E.pee.ial attention will I, given to tlhe tie pl; melllt of lhome news, anl atlon.g the[! " !OCAL .JOTTIN(GS" will alw;:ys bo fLn' d an :rcount of trau pir ing \event in the Town of Dollnallsonville an1L Parish of Alscqusion. lBesides ft1a locnl Jottings,'" there will ll'appear e:ll week. nltdr thle lheadlling of :S ST. JAMES ITEMS," a lummarllry of the currellnt nelws of the aId jitkning parish of St. James, transmitted us by reliable t*orresloudentt; a111d these two ldl'partmenllts will serve to lllake the C'IIIEF e.mphatically The Representative Newspaper of the Seventh Senatorial District. Collluulli-atiolls shoulld be alddresseld to TIIE CHIEF, Donaldsonville. La. New Orleans Republican. DAILY AND WEEKLY. Otliheil J.loIurl of the Ilnitedl States. State of Louisiana, and City of New Orhvans. 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They are read with cilutal intiterst and satisfaction by boys of c\-t ry age, from eighteen to eighty. Its sci-ntifie papers, while sutieiently pra fountl to dtltatnd the atttcntiou of the learn id, are yet twluirally adapted to the popu li;r utderstatnding, and dthsigued as luttch to ditfulise correc t iltlbrln;atiolt coneelrinug enr riclt scientitic discovery as it couldL he if it was the organ of the ".ueiety tir the Di~fu sioni of Uetul Knlowledge." 'he great design of h[arlper' is to give cor rect iuttairuntion tlid ratioatal ;tanusIu-lent to thl great massis of pleopl. There a;le few int. lligent A ll ti cal fahl ilits ill w\hii H tilr per(- . 11t.;zitlt wttoultl not eit an appreciatetl and highly wtheletaite gtasat. 'T'hcre i i it no uottltly lagazin that anll in telligkclnt rtladinlg faiuttly altit ts a;,lrt-l to tll witlhout. lMany nlugaziu:es are lurnullatetl. H;lrlu1r's i. edited. ThIrce is not a cthealer amnagazine published. 'There is not conti't ltdly a uo0l" popular magazine in thie wtorid. : es.Et ,MhUtl lImiertead. The imtst. lopuptr in its ichemnto, the osat, oriziunal itt our nlagaziues.--u'tttioi. RIAR1'ER'S WEEKLY. lThe .est publitntion ofittstlassin Amnericna, antd so falr ahead of ail other weekly jour als as not to Jprmnit of any ctlIlparitlsot btween it andt11 any of their tllaltll)er. Its crohlunilt contain the finet tcolleetions ot reatling matter that tare printed. * * its illutstttiotn are nnluerouts and beauti ful, lillug furnished by the best artists in tile coutttlrv.- /loston Trareller. llairl)er's Weekly deserves its p)riImacy il this class of publication, alike for the vahlu of its tnittier as the exeellenie of its illht.tra titus. The spirited and telling pictorial sat ilrs oft Nast are a power in society, and are dictated in aid of a sotundt publie opinion, and against pubtlic wrongs atndl follies. The edi torials tilt public tffairs tile mlodels of diause sion, weighty and tenltlrate, sttpporting high prninciples in an elevated tone and a chasten ed literary styleh.-E:suiauiier and Chronilde. n IIIAJIER'S BAZAR. Free from ill political and sectariantdiseas sion, dcv\oted to fashion, pleasure, and inu structitn, it is just the .greetble, comlpan ionable, and intelresting talltr which evenry inotheir all wife anld saweethealrt will rtquirtt every son, hnusind,anmld ilouer e e ;e with theml every Saturday eveuing.--Phila delhila Ledler. This paper at the outtset occupied a plaeo tnot filled by any AmeriCan periodieal, and won lir itself at deserved popularity. It it really the only illustsattd chronicler of ilsh ions in thet country. Its supp.,enents anttne ;ri worth the sulserijptiou prine of the paper. Wxtile fully maintaining its position na a mir ror of fiashion, it alson ontaliltn stories. pomnts, Itrillhiut essays, besides general and laerton al gostsip. lTiit publishers apiear to have sparedl no laitbor or exltense necrssary to mlakeu the Baz;t;ur the ..toat attractive journal that can posihly be nuttde.-JAoafloat taturday Are itiny G'rttce. TERMS FOR 1872. Harpers Magazine, one year...........$4 00 Ilarl"er's Weekly. one year.. ......4 00 lariter's Bazar, one year...............4 00 HIarpers', Matagatzine, Ilariper's Weekly and lHarper's Bazar. to oIlei address, for tone year, olr). or lany two for $7. An extra tcoly otf ither the Magazine, WVeekly, or Bazar will he asqqdiedi gratts for ei\-ctry (llub of 'Five Suttlelril.s at $4 teach, in one Irctittance; or, Six Copies for $.20, with lout extr:l cipy. lthe P'otage within tle United States is, for thea M\lgazite, twtenty-tlor cents it year; for thl Weekly or linzar, twenty tents aI ytir, lpayable yearly se.lali-yt1 lyl , or quarter l at tlhe offi.ee where reieivedl. 8abscrip tiosn frota the Dominlon of Canada must be a;iconpianuiedt with twenty-four cents aitldition al ilt tlhe Magazine, or twenty cents for the W\ctklty r lBazalr, to prlpaty the' Uhit.edl States postage. Thte volunltmes of llltaguzine conmuent with the nuutlwrs of June anllt Deemuller of each year. SulhTscriiptions may atonlutoenct with tiny ; mltlt l n r.' When no time is ewaitciled, it -ill he undlerstoodl that the suhlsertlwr wishes to biegi with the first numlbr of the current yolutlmi, alln bitck lmunl.ra will be sent ae cordingly. The Vlounies of the Weekly and. Bazar loulnllltteltce with the year. Whten no tinle is alweiitfle, it will be unltlers' tod that tlw stile secitlsr wishes to tuntlnele with the Kanm her next aftter the receipt of the ort1r. When(t the subscrilhbr' address is to tlo changed, both the olt and now must be giv en. It is not necessary to give notice of dis olltinltuaneO. In remtitting by umail, a Poit-Of3iee Order or Draft pavable to the order of 11arper Iitrtluwra isplt fersithle to Bank Notes. 'Should, the Order or Dralft he lost it can be renewed without lots to the setnder. Atlddcas, HAIRPER & BROTHEIIR. tNew Yark News Froem The NATIONTAL CAPITAL. Everybody should have news froma the Cap ital in at clearer stnd more intelligpmt form thau the fragis entary telygraphic daimatchLs to the datilies thronughout the country. TIlE WIEEK LY CUliONICLE Cnamtains ca eul(Uete restuue of isrOfeedings in (Congress und the counts, of bstiness at the White lHouue, at the T'reasury deplarmenut. thei War. the Navy, and the Agricultaul die partunents, at the .elnsiojn otlie, and thl Pat ent iti.ir. at the ltlreau of Edutitiom andu tihe State nlpa:rtmeutr, with full details of so cial and general litL at our great natiiwsal and political center. TIIIS (GREAT NATIONAL WEEKLY Is also at fltst-el lsjoinurnal of choice Literta tlu'e. inlatrucl ivo inkmnuatiou, oft'nuestie anl fo'reigpR news, of tim arts, comeinwrce anl 3aelhanieu., and of rural, home, and publil affairs. Terms.: One year. $2; six montths, $1; flvo copies t'ia one year, $8 7.i; ten copies, $15 00. Address, DAILY AND WEEKLY CIIRONICLE, W1asltingtoal, D. C" TIlE IIOUINTON IUNION i'OWEl I'RE8SS Piritiun ; lr+tasblilthlnext. (Estallished in 1ti68.) Tracy & Quick, Editors and Proprietors. THiE UNION is printed ihaly and Weekly, And is t he leading organ of the pIrent State Administraation, which will rinnain in Iosses tiou lf the State (Goveranuant umtil the next election-in 187-I-anl probably hloger. It is also the' () ttici:al rgan of thel I'nitedr States." thr the publlicatiotn f thee Acts ou (ongress.., all Postal Matters, Mail Contin.ts, Unitdl States Marshal.aia iales,ltbnkruatpt No- tiees, etc. - 'ThIe I n'io, is t firmn. zeatlllnls, ilncoalapro hmisig lRepublican ialer, but lilwral anl fair in all things. It i. publlished inll the city to lhonston, which tas a ppoilation of ten thct sanld souls. and is sitluteld at thel hIad of navigationt from G(;nac eton, andll is thel rail road .enttre of the State. hlavhlg tive railroads ruminaig in difierent dir.eti.on's--in length ftia"m rit'ty to one hundred antld a.venuty-tivo Ternusa: 1) \tt.vy...... 24x3t...... 'Per Annum.. $1 2 0) WtEE.L...... ltdlie sheet, " .. 3, AI)VERTIlS Nt RATES: Santut nas utsual prices of first.lass S(ntlhern pilw s'. (Special a'atraots Made.) Pay ill adtvatnce equliled whln good refer' icu ( Y 4I:,lllll nl tt IeL givenl. T'rAC('Y a QVl(IC' , ilouston, Texas. "