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THI DONALI)SONVILLE CHIEF.
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" ('nIi:E. Il)iumalmonvilleo. I:A.,' or to the cdl
tofr and prolricetor p]rsnua4lly.
The New York Sun hoists the name
of Horacee Greeley, " our later Frank
lin," as its choice for neit President.
Interesting extracts are very well in
their way, but we miss the spicy edi
torials with which the Louisiana State
RIegister was once wont to fill its col
uncus. Where is the editor ?
A Representative from Mississippi,
who lhas been interviewed by a re
porter at W\ashington, says that Sen
-ator Amces made a good military of
ficer, hut has mistaken ris vocation as
cuellnator.
A I)Denlocratic joulltnl llnuoulnces as
refreslhing the discovery of six of Gen.
Grant's relatives who are not in office.
W\e arrant there would he no room
for suc'h a discoveiry in that editor's
fimlily if he were President of these
Unitcd States.
The fast time of Mr. Rolbrt Bonner's
fatmous horse, Dexter, was beaten by
Goldsmith Maid in it trotting match at
('coldc Springs, 1Wiceu cwiu, cccewt woeek$
ago. '1'The cMaid trotted a mile in 2:17,
which is ai quarter of a tsecond ahead
of D)exter's time.
A quettion1 agitating caulong the op
plnents of (.en. Benu Butler, in M[as
s:cehusetts, is: Waits Ben Hutler's father
a pirate, ;ucd was that pirate htug ?
As yet there is nothing but rumor to
ijustify tlihe query, and it is likely the
)cmatter was engenldered by nalice.
(; e. Ii. PI'dleton is promiinently
wc ntioued as )Denocratic candidate
fir the next Presidency. Mr. Pendle
ton will vet'vry likely make as good a
run as anv c'andidate of Democratic
selection can, though there is no prob
ability of his election over the Repub
licti lOllittee.
The VWar )epaortinent having or
dered two batteries of artillery to Hail
eiglh, North Carolina, the New York I
a,'un pertinently asks if there is albut
to be a Republican Convention held in
that State froom which it is deemed
nevessary to exclude all anti-Grant
I:eplubliceans
The gratuitous New Orlteans corre
t.lotndent of ltitl of the D)unn-Carter
country journals, dubs l;. S. Marshal
Packard as " Colonel Packard." We
surmise that the Marshal has earned
this title by the military genius he
displayed in manipulating a squad of
soldiers to assist him in packing a
Convention.
The Republicans of Kentucky de
rive additional tope of carnrying that
,tate n:xt, year fromn the fact that the
),e.,ttc!a.tij side of the house is di
vided agu.ust, it.elf. I'pon one side
are arraye4. the oh1 fogies, yelept the
lBourbons, wlile opposed to theum ar..
the ltmore ropgrl;psiye t' It;Hw departur
ists." Both factions qYe vigorous and
determined, and the breachl bils fair
to widen.
Th'l Caustotmhouse ortgans t|re revlv
ing the old slander of emlbezzlhnlent
t4" public funds in Muscatine, Iowa,
against Hon. Hlugh J. Caiplpbell. We
distinctly remember thqt Mr. Canipbell
proved this slander to be a false and
malicious one when the Democrats
sought to use it against Ihim in 18ti8.
But the disruptionists must have cap
ital, and when the truth does not serve
their plurpose they neceisarily resort
to lies and misrepresentation.
L\ arge and enthusiastic meeting of
Ittipubllicans il Grant parish the other
la i, endorsed the Turners Hall ('on
veition and Goveilnor W1armoth's ad
Illiºnsttation, denounced the Custonm
Il mwe gathering, and declared that all
th bir old love for Grant would return
if ihe would delnonstlnate hit respect
fox the true 1lepublicans of Louisiana
lbi removing the federal officials who
ialnilpulated the Customhouse Con
veition.
fl'he lberville News is ever as ready
wiih a cheering word to bestow upon
its. friends as with so(und and telling
argument to hurl at its political en
emuies. The .hNews of the 14th instant
contains the following in relation to
ourself and the CHIEF:
O)ur young friend Linden E. Bentley
will shortly commence the publication
of a weekly journal in Donaldsonville,
to be called the C'hie/ which will sup
port the State government and advo
t' e the cause of true flepullicanism.
heartily wish full success may
re.vard your efforts, Linden. ,'lightly
cllnging the words of the poet, we
eaclail :
HAil to the Chief which in triumnph advances.
Messrs. I unn , Packard, Ingraham,
aud others of the Customhouse clique
weant to Houmna, Terrebonune Parish, a
short time ago, to attend a mass meet
ing in which they anticipated the Cus
toimhouse buzzard would soar triumph
antly over the Republican eagle. But,
alas for human expectations, the buz
zard wouldn't soar. In lieu of this,
t e gentlemen above iantmed went
I1 me sore, sadder if not wiser men;
fea a true and tried Republican, James
I;. Belden, who is a. firm friend of the
State administration, was tel(cted pres
ident of the meeting, and reatolutions
ob4red sustaining the Customhouse
Convention and the bogus Executive
Co'mmittee were voted down with at
Im. Hurrah for Terreboune!
T1he " smart Aleck " who does the
s.ribbling for the Iberville Pioneer is
in a fair way to hurt himself if bad
ul-utalre injiqrious. here is his httest :
'IThe late young editor of the St.
'unes Senutinel, L. E. Bentley, must
wlave had a severe attack of the pap
tftver, or he would not have been bent
on going to his pap-imaster, HI. C.W'ar
Ihoth.
5We repel the charge of tardiness
iplied in the first line of the above.
Sat what respect are we a ''" late young
tlitor" I The pun intended in the
tluurth line is almost too obscure to be
iscolvered by ordinary intellects, and
1s obtuseness is only exceeded by the
ulhecility of the paragraph as a whole.
'i Smart Aleck ".continues:
Bent or not bent, he has taken noth
i't but his carpet-bag with him. The
old rSntinel, as usual, is at its post,
jutchking over the interests of true Re
*blicans.
Tl'ook nothing but our carpet-bag,
llch 'Then we must have a prolific
out, for from it we hi:e produced a
newspaller which we think will com
pare favorably with the crawfish Pio
reer or the buzzard-like Sentinel which
watches with great assiduity over the
carrion of dead politicians. We are
fain to believe oru carpet-bag consti
tuted the heft of the concern.
A genuine fraud, signing himself
' A. L. Close, Louisiana," some time
ago wrote a letter to the Cincinnati
C(ommercial, in which he denounces
the supporters of the State admninis
~ration as " an oligarchy, headed by
the nervous, unscrupulous adventurer,
Warmoth," and among other things
equally as truthful, says :
On the 20th of July, I was Acting
lary's larish) Convention. The at
ndance was large and enthusiastic.
'his convention heartily indorsed Os
bar J. )nn. D and censured Governor
Warumoth, and after regularly electing
Ilelegates to the State convention, ad
ourned.
To which the Attakapas Register,
published at Franklin, St. Mary Par
ish, responds:
The truth is, that Mr. Close was
never a secretary at any conventiot ;
e never was pre.mlt at any meeting
for the election of delegates; and no
meeting was held in the ward on the
day named.
Will thie jo'rnals that reproduced
he letter in question make a note of
* is, or will they take stock in the
.lae representations of A. L. Close by
refgaing to correct them ' This cir
cunlstance affords an excellent oppor
tunity for testing the honesty of some
of the editors who use their journals
to denounce Governor .Warmoth and
the State administration.
The Next President.
ThIe question of who is to he the
next President has been a leading one
for some tine, and will coitinue to
grow in interest until the Presidential
election of 1872 determlines it. It is
possible the polular vote may not
decide who is to be President for the
four years commencing on the fourth
of March, 1873. In that case the
House of Representatives will make
a choice of a President. It has seldom
occurred, however, that the choice of
a President has devolved upon the
lower branch of Congress, and it is to
be hoped that the people may succeed
in electing the next President, thus
avoiding the excitement that a choice
in the House of Representatives will
necessarily create. With the excep
tion of Thomas Jefferson and John
Quincy Adams, the Presidents, com
mencing with Washington, have been
chosen by the Presidential electors
elected by the people of the several
States colmposing the American Union.
In the Presidential election of 1800,
John Adams and General Pinckney
were the candidates of the Federal
party for President and Vice Presi
dent, and Thomas Jetferson and Col
onel Burr were the candldates of the
Republican party of that day, for the
saule offices. There was a clear
defeat of the candidates of tile Federal
party by the pelople, but a defect in
the constitution, as it then existed,
rendered a choice of President by the
House of Representatives necessary.
According to the constitution of that
day, each elector voted for two men
without designating which was to be
President, and lie who received the
greatest number of votes was to be
President, and the one receiving the
next highest number of votes was to
be Vice President. Mr. Jetferson and
Colonel Burr, running on the same
ticket, received the same number of
votes, and the election, according to
the constitution, had to be decided by
the House of Representatives. The
votes are here given by the States,
the majority of the Congressional dele
gation determining the vote of the
State. When the election was enter
ed upon by the House of lepresenta
tives it singularly occurred that the
States were, for a long time, equally
divided between Mr. Jefferson and
Colonel Burr; and it began to be
feared that a man miliht be elected
President who had n4t received'for
that purpose a solitary vote of the
people. For nmany wejeks the people
were kept in intense excitement while
Congress was ballotir g for a Presi
dent between two pe sons who had
been clearly elected 1y the peoplle,
but in consequence of mL defective con
stitution, a further el.ction was ren
idered necessary by thd House of Rep
resentatives. At leligth, after the
public patience had 1become almost
exhausted. Colonel Burr withdrew
firom the contest, and Mr. Jefferson
was chosen President, and Colonel
Burr Vice President. The contest
was ntt without its lesson. The con
stitution was changed so as to render
it necessary to name the man in con
nection withll tle office which he was
running for.
The next and only election of this
kind that has been carried into the
House of Representatives, occurred in
1824. The candidates were John
Quincy Adams and General Jackson.
As a matter of coiuse, there was a
good deal of excitement and political
maneuvering in Congress before a
choice of President was made. But
finally, Mr. Adams was selected, and
country became more composed. Mr.
Clay, the sage of Ashland, as he was
styled during his lifetime, took a
prominent part in this contest and as
sisted in electing Mr. Adams, though
they had differed in politics pre
vionily.
A Presidential election in the ordin
ar- way is always attended with con
siderable excitement; but when a
c(hoice is rendered necessary by the
House of Representati'-4s, it is pro
longed and increased. It has already
been asserted by those who pretend
to see into the future, that it is highly
probable the coming Presidential elec
tion may have to be detenninect in
the 'House of Representatives; thiut
the chndition of parties will be such
as to render this highly probable. It
is supposed by some, there will be
three parties in the field, and that in
that case a choice by the people will
be defeated.
It is now quite apparent that a good
many Republicans take the liberty of
disagreeing upon the subject of the
next presidency. Such distinguished
Republicans as Horace Greeley, Cas
sius M. Clay, have already spoken out
in favor of the one term doctrine. If
this doctrine should become popular
with the Republicans, as it is with
the I)eniocrats, it will injure the
chances of President Grant for a re
nomination. Senator Iorton, one of
President Grant's firm st and ablest
supporters, in a speech lade recently
in St. Louis, dwelt upon the trou
that at present exist in the party.
urged Republicans to cone togetl r
and heal up their differences, pled -
ing himself to support the nomin
whoever he might be. He said !
I pledge myself to support bhti,
whether he be Greeley, Sumne ,
Trunmbll or Grant.
As this is the only way that t
party can hope to achieve a vic
in 1572, let us hope, for the sake of
Republican principles, it will dn to
and' elect the next President.-1
Orleans Republican.
Charles Paul de Kock, the no
French novelist, is dead.
General F. J. Herron.
The San Antonio (Texas) Express
pays this handsome compliment to the
new Secretary hf State:
The New Orleans Republican of Sep
tember 1, contains a highly laudatory
article on the appointment of this
gentleman to succed 1Mr. Bovee to the
honorable and important office of Sec
retary of State.
Without assuming to pass upon the
alleged improper and illegal conduct
of his predecessor, we cannot refrain
fiom uniting with the Republican, in
congratulating the Governor and peo
ple of Louisiana upon the acquisition
of so worthy a person as General Her
ron, to the administration of the re
sponsible duties of Secretary of State.
It was our good fortune to have
known General Herron in the zenith
of his military fame, when he com
manded one of the finest divisions of
General Grant's army at Vicksburg.
He was then considered one of the
most skilful, reliable and bravest,
through youngest, major generals in
that large and victorious army. We
witnessed the ability displayed by
him as a soldier successfully transfer
red to civil life, in the capacity of one
of the leading merchants of New Or
leans, and subsequently, into the civ
il service as United States marshal of
Louisiana, in which capacity he won
the respect and confidence of the en
tire comnuunity, ofall parties, through
out the State, until unwisely removed
to give place to the present incompe
tent blunderer of the Customhouse
shame-Packard. General Herron
brings rare scholarly and executive
accomplishments into his new position,
which will be better appreciated the
longer they are exercised. Governor
Warmnoth, like General Grant, seems
to possess in an eninent degree the
important gift of judgment in the se
lection of good men.
.0 -wow O
Persecution of the Jews.
The powers of this world once more
turn their attention to the Jews.
They are to be re-regulated in Algeria,
that is, their liberties, due to M.
Crimieux, are to be restricted in de
ference to the noble savage of the
country, to whom Jewish industry and
Jewish peacefuliess are very offensive.
In a rather better spirit their affairs
are being taken up now also in Prus
sia, where, ever since 1847, the date
of that famous " lamdtag," they have
been divided into synagogal communi
ties with some sort of shadowy auton
omy. Several attempts to place their
affairs on a somewhat more statisfac
tory basis have hitlerto failed under
the auspices of the Cultus minister.
This time, however, some recognized
authorities belonging to their own
body have been invited to report and
to propose plans for the amelioration
of the status quo; and as Herr Von
Muhler will probably require a long
rest after his return from the waters,
some steps in advance may probably
be taken shortly.
At the same time Russian statesmen
are deliberating on the future position
of the Jews in the Russian empire.
Before 1861 no Jew was permitted to
domicile in Central Russia, nor was he
allowed to enter Russian territory with
out a special permit; and whenever
he wanted to stay more than twenty
four hours at a place, he had to pay a
heavy price for the indulgence. Since
1861 all Russia has been opened to
them, and-the question of finally re
gulating their position in the empire
proves to be one of no little difficulty.
A project of a law has already been
laid before the imperial council, but
no decision has been arrived at as yet.
The Schleische Zeitung tells a story
apropos of the debates there, which is
not only apocryphal, but has done
duty on at least a dozen occasions,
though it has never, perhaps, been
told so circumstantially. When in
1851, it became a question of existence
or non-existence with the Jews in Po
land, Count Bludow, the president of
the imperial council, received, the day
before the question was to comne on, a
deputation consisting of three Jewish
bankers from Warsaw.
The count had made it a condition
that the deputation was to speak as
lttle as possible. They arrived, put
a small parcel upon the table, and de
parted. Next day, at the council,
Bludou had the present emperor at
his right hand. The councillors for
two hours debated in the warmest
manner, but Bludow had not spoken
one word. His imperial neighbor then
said to him : 0 Well, Ivan Ivanowich,
have you nothing to say f" Where
no)n Bludow rose, showed the packet,
and pointed to an inscription upon it
to the following effect : " Fifteen thou
sand" (roubles) ; "take, and be silent."
'-This," he said, "I received that I
should hold my tongue." He then
rose and pleaded their cause in the
warniest manner, and succeded in pro
cuuing facilites for them which they
had never even hoped for. The par
cel, however, went back unopened,
and formed the fundamental capital for
a Jewish orphan asylum at Warsaw.
-Pall Mall Gazette.
Sandal-wood was formerly obtained
by the East India Company in large
quantities from the Fejee Islands. As
muany as seven large Indiamen have
been known to be lying at anchor in
one of the bays at once, waiting for
cargoes of the precious wood. The
trees have been felled with such reck
less improvidence that, on the shores
of this same bay, a solitary sapling,
planted by a missionary, is now the
only living sandal-tree for many miles
around.
Equal to Mark Twain.
Newspaper writers will thorougldy
appreciate the following o'er true tale,
which we take from the Philadelphia
Dispatch :
A week or two ago, one of our re
porters had occasion to refer to a cer
tain woman, whom we will call Han
nah Smith, as a denizen of the
eleventh ward. A day or two after
ward, a huge man entered the office
with his brow clothed with thunder.
In his hand he carried a fearful club,
and at his side trotted a bull dog
whom hunger evidently had made
desperate. With that quick appre
ciation of the situation which is cred
itable to the superior intelligence of
educated men, the editor of this paper
and the proprietors darted to the win
dow, climbed outside, slid down the
lightning rod, and went across the
street to watch the bloody fray
through a spyglass. With the fear
lessness of conscious innocence, we
sat still, merely inserting our legs in
two sections of stovepipe to guard
against any misapprehension of facts
on the part of the bull dog. The man
with the club approached.
"Are you the editor ?" he asked,
spitting on his hand and grasping his
club. We told him that the editor
was out; that he had gone to the
North Pole with Captain Hall, and
that he would not return before 1876,
in time for the centennial celebration.
" Are you the proprietor ?" asked
the man.
We explained to him that we were
not; that the proprietors were also
out; that they had gone to South
America for the purpose of investi
gating the curative properties of cun
durango, and they expected to remain
there for several years.
" Well, whoever you are," exclaimed
the warrior, " my name is Smith !"
We told him we were glad, because
if there was one thing better than the
possession of the name Smith, it was
the privilege of knowing a man of
that name. "But, Smith," we said,
"why this battle array 1 It is ab
surd for a man to put on the panoply
of war, and frisk into editors' sanc
tums, fumbling a club and accom
panied by a disheartened bull dog,
simply because his name happens to
be Smith."
He said he called in to bust the
head of the man who had insulted his
sister.
"It is impossible, Smith. that such
a thing could have been done by any
one in this office."
"Is, but is wits though; and her
name was published., too. Miss
Smith--Miss Hanner Smith."
" May we be permitted to inquire
Mr. Smith, what was the precise char
acter of the affront offered to Han
nah ' "
" Well, you see," said Smith. " the
blackguard said she was a denizen.
And I want you to understand," ex- t
claimed Smith, becoming excited and
brandishing his club in a wild man
ner over our head, while the bull dog 1
advanced and commenced to sniff up
and down our stovepipe-" I want you
to understand that she is a decent 1
young woman, with a good character, I
and none of your denizens and such I
truck. The man who says she is a
denizen, is a blackguard and a thief, i
anti I'll smash him ovet the nose if I
get a chance. They may say what I
they want about me, but the man who
abuses may sister has got to suffer." 1
And Smith struck the table in a vio
lent manner with his club, while the a
bull dog put his forelegs up on the 1
back of our chair.
We pacified Smith with a diction
ary. We pointed out to that raging a
warrior that the Websterian definition 1
of the word "denizen" gives such a
person no offending character and I
deprives the term of everything like I
reproach. Smith said he was satis
fled, and he shook hands and kicked
the bull dog down stairs. The editor
and proprietors, seeing that all was
s fe, immediately climbed the light
ning rod and soon appeared at the
window where they were introduced
to Smith, with the remark that they
had returned from the North Pole and
the clime of the condurango, some
what unexpectedly, in order to sur
prise their relations.
And now we suppose Smith will be
mad because we have told this story
about him, and he will be .coming
down to interview us again, in war's
magnificent stern array, with a fresh
bull dog. But it will be in vain. We
have rented an office in the top of the
shot tower, and have planted torpe
does and spring guns all the way up
stairs. We warn this incendiary
Smith to beware.
The Austin Journal explains about
the tidal wave :
Professor Agassiz is said to have an
nounced that on the night of the fifth
or sixth of October a great tidal wave
will roll over the Atlantic and
gulf coast to the height of fifty feet.
There are fools enough to believe that
Agassiz made such a prediction, biut
he himself is not one. But about that
time a political tidal wave will roll
over the State of Texas, from the gulf
to the frontier, and leave the fraudu
lent Democracy stranded and treed.
Probably the scientist of Massachusetts
referred to that phenomenon.
A remarkable intermarriage of two
families recently took place in Potta
wattamie county, Iowa. One fiamnily,
consisting of three sons and a daughter,
married all of a neighbor's children,
three daughters and one son.
Business Stupidity.
The New Orleans Republican ad
dresses the following sensible remarks
to the business community of that
city :
As there are eighty thousand Re
publican voters in the State of Louisi
ana, it reasonably follows that there
are about seventy thousand of these
colored men, whose average earnings
may be set down at one dollar per
day. There are about sixty-five
thousand Democratic voters, and
these may be classified as white men.
The trade of the colored people
belongs to New Orleans, because it is
too small in detail to hunt for distant
markets. And yet New Orleans mer
chants persistently refuse to cultivate
this immense business, and actually
frown upon any man who talks of
trading with negroes. The conse
quence is, that all this business that
can go elsewhere, seeks other mark
ets where it is treated with respect
and invited to come back. And the
white people instead of coming to
New Orleans, where their prejudices
are pandered to, go off to Cincinnati
and St. Louis, and trade alongside
of a " nigger," just because they can
get better bargains. We are running
our commercial machine on a basis of
three hundred and fifty thousand pee
pie, when we should be running it
upon a score of nine hundred thous
and customers. The negroes pro
duce most of the wealth of the State,
and they are driven out of our lines
to do their trading. Was there ever
a business community that knew so
little about business I
Murder and Robbery.
We reproduce this from the Plast
ers' Banner, published at New Iberia,
Louisiana:
Last Friday, at half-past six o'clock,
in the afternoon, the dead body of an
itinerant map and picture peddler,
was discovered in the road, near Dr.
McGuire's place, below Jeannerette,
in the parish of St. Mary. Our in,
formant saw the body, and says that
death was caused by a gunshot or
pistol woulnd, just behind the left ear,
and that it must have been instantas=
neous. A short time before the botl
was discovered, the peddler had been
seen in conversation with a negr'
man who wore gray clothes, and a
white hat, and it is supposed that this
negro is the murderer. The peddler
had been seen with a silver watch
and money, which were missing when
his body was found. His pockets
were turned inside out, and hkipersou
exposed as though search had been
made for a money belt, such as are
worn underneath the clothing, around
the body.
The dead man had on an iron grey
shirt, dark gray clothes, black felt hat,
and is supposed to have been about
thirty-five years old. Near the body
was found a brown overcoat, tied up
with a string, which disappeared dur
ing the night, while the body remain
ed lying in the road awaiting the arri
val of the coroner. An inquest was
held on Saturday, but no clue to the
perpetrator of the murder was ob
tained.
No papers or articles were found on
the person that gave any clue to the
name or residence of the murdered
man.
Considerable excitement exists be
low Jeannerette, in the neighborhood
where the map peddler was murdered
and robbed last Friday. It is thought
that a number of desperate men who
have escaped from different parish
prisons recently, are secreted in the
swamps in that vicinity, and a raid by
them is feared at any time.
Since the above was written, we
learn from a reliable gentleman that
last Sunday morning a negro boy was
stopped at the point where the mur
der of last Friday took place, and
robbed of fifteen cents by three negro
men, whom he recognized as Richard,
the murderer who escaped from the
Franklin jail; Charles, who escaped
from our jail, while under the sen
tence of five years in the Penitentiary
for burglary, and a one-armed negro,
who fornmerly belonged to M. Sorrel,
accompanied by a white man, sup
posed to be Ahbshire, who recently
escaped from the jail in this parish.
As soon as the boy was released he
gave the alarm, and immediately the
whole neighborhood was aroused, and
about two hundred citizens, white and
black, are hunting for this band of
desperadoes with the determination
to find and bring them to justice.
Waunkesha, near Milwaukee, is tihe
new Wisconsin watering place. A
great hotel is soon to go up there, of
which Chief Justice Chase laid the
corner stone the other day. A Mil
waukee paper, speaking of the place,
says " It is easy of access the, climate
is unsurpassed in salubrity, and the
inhabitants are hospitable to a fault.
Visitors here will iot 'be oppressed
with the frivolity or glitter which mar
_ak's enjoyment a~t the fashionable
oeeresiort; nor will the masses
b~e o.eptllrtby extortionate thargesm,
and the importunate hangersoanrlhich
infest Niagara and Saratoga."
Some ingenious Yankee has invent
ed a process by which msple sugar
can be made out of comqon New Or
leans mohassea, flavoring it by steam
ing maple wood. A contemporary
says : "The next thing we oae look
ing for from that land of protie ideas
is a process whereby they will make
honey from cod- liver oil, flavoring it
with beeswax."