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Sanalbsonibillle Qlidf. Published Every Saturday. LINDEN E. BENTLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOt. Q Job printing in the highest style n the art at New Orleans prices ! L~eIave you orders at the CHIEF office. W Postmasters are authlcrize anid re quested to act as agents for the Cu·EF. ( The Clit'E is received by all subscri bers POSTAGE IFREE. Saturday, June 22, 1878 The European Conference progress. es deliberately. 5 A communistic riot occnred in Que bee two weeks ago. Wm. Cullen Bryant, the poet-ed tor, died in New York on the 12th inst. Sabine parish falls into line with a Sunday law, and the Southron de mands in advance that it shall be strictly enforced. Ex-Gov. Pinchback has moved the Fifth District to run for Congress. His carpet-bag has been unpacked at Delta, Madison parish. A sub-committee of the Potter body is coming to Louisiana to investigate us specially and at short range. Con gressmen Blackburn, Stringer, Morri son and Reed are the subbers. The St. Mary Enterprise has heard the news from Ouachita and now con cludes that the necessity for an immediate constitutional conven tion isn't so awful imperative, after all. lon. Albert H. Leonard was con firmed as U. S. District Attorney for Louisiana by an almost unanimous vote of the Senate. His appointment is highly spoken of by the press gen erally. Tho last number of the Franklin Sun on our table is dated June 14 on the first page, May 31 on the sec ond, and June 8 on the third. And yet the Sun is a strong advocate of the cause of temperance. According to the apportionment adopted by the Democratic-Conser vative Committee, the State Conven tion to be held at Baton Rouge in August will be composed of 422 dele gates. Of this number Orleans will elect 125 and the coun try parishes 297. Mrs. Jenks is to take the witness stand before the Potter smelling cornm mittee to-day. Sensational develop ments are expected. It is believed Mrs. J. is prepiuned to whitewash Secretary Shernitu and lampblack red-headed Jimmy Auderson ad libi *trn. ---- --- For next President, Thos. A. HIen dri;ks ; for Vice President, John B. Gordon ; for Governor, Robert C. Wickliffe of West Feliciana, is the ticket hoisted by the Feliciana Pa triot-Democrat for the campaign of 1880. Not a bad selection of names, by any means, but entirely .'' too pre vious." Every wardl in the parish will be in line tor a eonstitutional conveutionJ bcfore next baturday, and Certain men who consider theinselves the parish of Ouachita will be politically at rest, to the peaIc and well be ing of her iuha.bitants.-0uarhita Telegraph. Since the above was indited and printed the Ouachita parish conven tion has assembled, declared in favor of the amendments and against a cou stitutional convention by a decided majority ; and the men lrematurely consigned to political graves have shown themselves truer representa tives of public sentiment than the Telegraph and its die-in-the-couven tion-ditch allies. The Frank Nicholls U(iuarls have elected R. E. Metz president of the olganization. VYew Orkeons paper. Governor Nicholls is not compli mented ly the head of the organiza tion which has adopted his name, whatever may be the merit of the rank and file. This Metz is a saddle colored dead-beat who came to D)onaldsonvillo hast year and on the strength of a certifi cate as to his soundness on the Dens ocratic goose, signed by Lieut. Gov. Wiltz and other prominent public of ficials, euchred several of our citizens out of sundry small sums of money, falsely plomising to repay them out of the proceeds of a minstrel entertainment of which he was to be chief cook and bottle washer, but which never came off. le represen ted himself as the light bowecr of Au ditor.Junael and intimated that that gettleman would not attempt to mas- I ter ti0 intricacies of tlie Auditor:ial o1'e*itioat hIs advieoand assist ance- DIetz is a momal wre~k, but of coi re thids does not necessarily imr pait his usefulness as a " piker " in election times. t FIRST GUN FOR THE AMEND MENTS, Accepting the tone of the Onachit Te(legraph as an indication of the sen timent of the people of that paris] relative to the question of a constitu tional convention, we were. wholl: unprepared for the announcement ii a recent telegraphic dispatch fron Monroe that the Democratic parisl convention had, by a decided majori ty, adopted a resolution favoring tlh proposed constitutional amendmenti and deprecatiqg the agitation of thi convention project at this time. This significant occurrence shouli be specially noted by those journaL which, in their zealous advocacy of t convention, have arrogated to them. selves a superior right to speak foi the people, and have scoffed at the pretensions of the papers whict elected to take the negative of the question. We believe the preponderance ol sentiment in nearly every section oi the State is in harmony with the action of the Ouachi.ta. convention, and that this is the case in Ascensibn and contiguous parishes, there seems no room to doubt. A little more circumspection and toleration' on the part of the convention organs is now in order. Opponents of a constitutional con vention may as well throw up the sponge. Two ward clubs in Ouachita have declared that nothing short of an early convention will satisfy the yearnings of their troubled souls. Again has the Washington Enter prise given up the ghost, but quickly following in its wake comet the Wash ington N1ews, with Mr. Willis Prescott as its quill-driver, bravely announc ing its determination to do or die in the journalistic field of St. Landry. May its life be long and prosperous. Baton Rouge is to have a big fourth of July celebration, of a combined civil and military character. The Caunoucers of Donaldson have ac cepted an invitation to swell the throng which will assemble in our sister town to do honor to the nation's natal day. The Perique Plant is the title of a neat little four-page monthly paper established at Convent, St. James parish, by the Perique Plant Com pany. As the name of the publication indicates, it will be devoted entirely to the perique tobacco interest. We could not fail to recognize in the sprightly editorials the solid wisdom and ready wit of Mr. George E.lBovee, the boss cigarette manufacturer of the South. The first round of the political bat tle to be fought this year took place iA Oregon two weeks ago, and the result shows first blood for the Demo crats. A Democrat was elected to Congress and a Legislature with a Democratic majority chosen, thus insuring the retirement of Senator Mitchell from the National Senate and the selection of an anti-Republi can to occupy his seat. The Itepub licans elected their candidate for Sec retary of State, which is small conso lation compared with the loss of the Congressman and Legislature. Several farmers in the parish of Franklin planted patches of wheat this year and were hopeful of eucour aging results, but their experiment has proved a failure and no yield to speak of will be realized. This may have been 'due to special influences and conditions which do not always prevail, and we hope another effort to cultivate this grain will be made next season. Wheat is successfully grown in Texas, and we see no reason why it should not also thrive in the hill parishes of Northeru and Western 4 Louisiana. I Ii 1 lten. Taylor, a colored citizen of Rosedale, Miss., has applied for a pat- * e.t for a steam engine which, if it proves as successful as the inventor anticipates, will revolutionize the present application of steam power. The Rosedale- Journal thus briefly describes the invention: c The engine is rotary, having the steam ipplied at the circumferenuce of a wheel, j tiing this treble the force of ordinary en ýines, with no distinguishing of power at he various stages of the revolution of the "heel. This invention dispenses with all b he mia:hinery .xecept the one wheel, which b luswers at once the purpose (tf c.liuder and Iriving wheel, and two steam boxes H brought which the steam is applied. It is Itimatcd that engines on this plan can Ihe nanjifatured at one-fourth, or less, the cost I ,f those now in use, ahd their simplhicity and ht .ossibility if making them of extremely v ig-ht weight will extend the use of stea nu agaes t-youd thie pres·tut limit. The success of this ingenious machine will give Ben. l'aylor's awe a place among the first inven. ors of ancient and modern times. o THE RYAN MURDER CASE. The Motion for a New Trial Overruled Text of Judge Duffel's Decision. - Od Monday last District Judge Duffel rendered his decision on the motion for a new trial filed by coun sel for prisoner in thd' case of the ' State vs. Thomas Ryan, convicted of t the murder of John Evans, at Wiese's I coffee-house, in Donaldsonville, on the 21st day of June, 1877. As we anticipated, the motion was over ruled, and the reasons set forth by the Judge for this ruling embrace such a fiithful and succinct statement of the circumstances of the case, and of the only just and rational conclu sions to be deduced therefrom, that I we publish the decision in full, as follows: Accused filed his motion for a new trial, with affttidavit, and was heard through his counsel, who argued in support thereof; the State replying through the District At torney. The mover, T. Ryan, did not state with aecuracy the evidence adduced on the trial of this case. With the aid of our notes, taken down at the trial, and recollection of the evidence, we will sum up the material facts proved upon the points raised by the mover. Accused was not warned by the officers of justice against deceased, but was merely told not to commit further acts of breach of the peace. No threats were made by deceased on the day of the shooting. The day before the shooting deceased pulled accused out of bed and assaulted him. The same day he punched him with his fist, threatened to punch him again, and they afterwards had a scuffle and officer St. Martin arrested ac cused, who was then beastly drunk, and locked him up in jail. Next morning he was released from jail entirely sober. Shortly after, he and de ceasad appeared before Justice Evans to settle some money matters. and it was then and there that deceased remarked that in stead of having gone to law he should have taken it out of him. They had separated apparently appeased and satisfied, if not friendly, each one departing in a separate and opposite direction. At the scuitle the evening before officer St. Martin found ac cused with an oyster knife in nis hand, ar rested him, searched him, found no weapon on hlis per.sou and incarcerated hinm, as has already been stated. Mr. Summerville" tes tifies that accused endeavored to borrow a pistol from him to shoot deceased, as he, accused, told witness, but witness could not recollect whether this was the day of the shooting or the day before. But on the day of shooting and after the separation at the Justice's, accused went in at Israel's saloon, took a drink, then as he was stepping out, drew forth a pistol and walked in the direction of Wiese's saloon, some sixty paces distant, and in a few sec onds after a shot was heard in Wiese's saloon and people were seen rushing there. This was between 3 and 4 P. M. It is proved that deceased was seated at Wiese's saloon quietly reading at between 3 and 4 o'clock P. M., when accused en tered, walked to the bar, turned around, invited deceased to take a drink, which be ing refused, accused cursed deceased, said he w-as no friend of his, had no more use for himn; anl as deceased was about to rise to go oat of the house, as Miss Wiese, the bar tender, declares, accused being about eighteen feet distant from deceased, delib erately shot him with a pistol. The theory of accused is that deceased was rising from his chair, not to leave the house, hut to commit an assault and battery on him. Admitting this to be true, still there were eighteen feet separating them when accused fired. The mere rising from the chair did not show the animus of deceased. Had lie advanced on accused, or in rising turned towards accused, he would have received the shot full in the chest. Being shot while in a sitting position, or while rising, and his body slightly turned towards the door, he would have been struck, where in fact he was actually struck, in the left breast. The position of the bar, the door near which de ceased sat and the place where accused stood all tend to prove this undoubtedly, as was eviuenceeu. After being shot docoqsed walked to the counter, took therefrom a tumbler and knocked accused down. St. Martin soon ar rited on the spot, searched deceased and found no weapon on him. Deceased then and there told St. Martin that he had the life of acoased in his hands, after the shoot ing, but as he himself had received his death wound he would not kill accused. He de clared to St. Martin that he knew he was mortally wounded, that his hour had come and was near, begged of him to send for a priest ; told St. Martin that accused had shot him, and detailed to him the circumstances of the shooting. The priest came soon after and administered to hun the last sacraments of the Catholic Church. Dr. J. E. Duffel about the same time examined the wound of deceased and declared that internal hemsor rhage was going en. Deceased was taken on hoard a boat next morning, reached the hospital in the evening and died there the next nieht of internal hemorrhage produced by a pistol or gunshdt wound in the left breast--so Dr. Board testified. From the mortal nature of the wound and the speedy death which followed its infliction, the de ceased must have felt and known that he was in extresmis and his dying declaration to St. Martin comes within the rule laid down by law and was clearly admissible. We do not see why the dying declaration of the husband made to a wife should be ex eluded. Death h as severed the. identity of their legal rights and interests and had plut an end to the happiness and contidence which subsisted between them, which the law so studiously protects and cherishes while the relations of husband and wife continue to exist. Were the declarant living he would be a competent witness. He is now dead, consequently not a party to nor interested in the suit of the State rs. Thos. Ryan, and his dying declaration to his wife, we think, may be received. Should the dying declaration made by de ceased to his wife be rejected, still we have the declaration made to Mr. Dugan and the other made to Mr. Horegan, in the hospital in New Orleans, and they are substantially similar to his declaration in Donaldsonville made to St.Martin; and the evidence of Miss Wiese, who witnessed the whole transaction, corroborates these dyilng declarations in every respect. Her testimony proves most conclusively that deceased was reading in the saloon when accused walked in, tendered the invitation to drinlk, then abused and cursed deceased and then deliberateiy shot him. As to the allegel discovery by accused of sew evidence we will say: That Dr. Beard was on the stand at the trial and was in terrogated by accused, who thus had ample )pportunity of eliciting all the facts within the knowledge of the Doctor. It is strange hat the Doctor should have withheld evi lence when on the stand, and should retail t after the trial outside of the Court. But admitting that the Doctor did say that Re order Smith told him that deQeased was sot able when he called on him or disposed .o make a dying declaration, still this does lot disprove that deceased was able, dis uosed and did make the the dying declara ions to his wife, Dugan and Horegan before tecorder Smith called on him. Non costat, ut that Smith called after three dying dec arations had been made, and that deceased ras then so far onue that he may not have ecn disposed flurther to speak. The affi wavit of accused on this head is loose, agi.e, uncertain and contradictory, and ails to convince us that the hearsay Ileged reamarks of Smitº are inconsistent ~th the dying declarataons or tend to dis rove that these declarations were made at II. Upon a review of our charge to the jury 'e are satisfied that it is in accord with the iw and favorable to accused. The motion for a new trial is therefore verruled. HENRY L. DUFFEL, Judge. UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION! Over Half a Million DISTRIB UTED. LOUISIANA State Lottery Company. This Institution was regularly incorpora tod by the Legislature of the State for Edu cational and Charitable purposes, in 1868, with a Capital of $1,000,000, to which it has since added a reserve fund of $350,000. Its Grand Single INuaber Draw. ings will take place monthly. It never eales or postpones. Look at the following t Distribution : .,rand Promenade Concert, a during which will take place the EXTRAORDINARY SEMI-ANNUAL DRAWING, -AT New Orleans, Tuesday, Aug., 9, Under the personal supervision and man agement of Gen. G. T. BEAUREGARD, Of Louisiana, and Gen. JUBAL A. EARLY, Of Virginia, Capital Prize, $30,000. 8100,000 Tickets-at $2 Each Half Tickets 81. LIST OF PRIZES. 1 Capital Prize of $30,000......... $30,000 1 do do 10,00............ 10,00) 1 do do 5,900.............5,000 2 Prizes of 2,500............2,000 5 do 1,000............5,000 20 do 500...........10,000 100 .. 50...........10,000 500 .. 20...........10,000 1000 .. 10...........10,000 APROXIIATION PRIZES. 9 Approximation Prizes of $300......2.700 9 do. do. 300......1,800 9 do. do. 100........900 1857 Prizes, amounting to........... $110,400 Gen. G. T. BEAUREGARD, of La., Gen. JUBAL A. EARLY, of Va., Commissioners. Write for circulars or send to M. A. DAUVE!Z, P. O. Box 692, New Orleans, La. Dr to B. RYBISKI, lDBnarldseWeae. REGIULAR MONTHLY DRAWING, Tuesday, July 9, Class G. Dapital Prize, . . - ,0®, Whole tiekets, $2. Halves, $1. Ho ! for the Cheap Cash RY Qoots PALAc .-OF M. ISRAEL & Co., Corner Mississippi Street and Railroad Avenue, Donaldsonville. A Grand Display of Goods -AND EXTRAORDINARY BARGAINS FOR CASH. DRY GOOD , C TOLOTI-ISTG-, Boots and Shoes, Buggies, Saddlery, Fancy Goods and Notions, At Prices never before offered in D)onaldsonville. It must not be presumed that because we have occupied the largest ,and finest store on the Mississippi river between Vicksburg and New Orleans, our prices have undergone a corresponding in crease. On the contrary, having enlarged our facilities for purchasing by wholesale the best goods at the lowest rates, we are better prepared than ever to afford good bargains to our customers. In fact, we can and will Undersell any New Orleans Establishment. 12 yards Lonsdale Cotton for 1.-16 and 20 yds. Calico (Best American Prints), $1 ; and other Goods in like proportion. We invite inspection of the Mammoth Stock in our elegant new store, and comparison of goods and prices with those of other dealers. CMER ANA 3E3 utTS, and look at our Stock, whether you wish to purchase or not Respectfully, M. ISRAEL & CO. GO TO TIIE CHEAP CASH CORNER FOR BARGAINS! THERE WILL BE FOUND AT HENRY LOEB'S NEW IBRICK STORE, Corner Mississippi St. and R. B. Avenue Donaldsonville, La., A Mammoth and carefully selected Stock of DRY GOODS, READY-MADE CLOTHING, HATS AND CAPS, BOOTS AND SHOES, GROCERIES, PLANTATION SUPPLIES, WINES AND LIQUORS, CHINAWARE, CROCKERY, LADIES' FANCY WEAR, NOTIONS, PERFUMERIES, TRIMMINGS, -All Marked Down to LOWEST CASH PRICES T Comparison of Goods and Prices with those of other dealers always challenged and invited, and the determination Not to be Undersold1 strictly adhered to. The.Cheap Cash Cor ner is also a headquarters for sale of MoeNabb's Carts and Wagons, Manufactured at Pittsburg, Pa., and justly celebrated for durability and cheapness. DON'T FORGET THE PLACE ! Loeb's Cheap Cash Corner, d23 ON THE FRONT STREET. ly GOODS HAVE IIC IllI0 TOE -AT G. FEITEL'S, Old Post-office Stand, on Front 8treet. SPRING AND SUMMERR Goods, LINEN LAWNS, EMBROIDERIES, TRIMMINGS, PERFUMERIES, ETC. Gentlemen's' Clothing, BRITISH AND LISLE THREAD HOSE, WHITE LINENo SHIRTS. BOOTM, SHOES & HATS a specialty, in which I defy competition. LADIES' AND GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS. NOTIONS, PERFUN ERY, -AND FANCY ARTICLES. HARDWARE, CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, TRUNKS, AND SADDLERY, Also a large and fresh supply of FLOUR & PROVISIONS GROCERIES, WINES AND LIQUORS. G. FEITEi. Mississippi St., (Old Post-Office), DONALDSOI1VJLL. t