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THE )ONALDSONYILLE CHIEF. VOLUME L DONALDSONVILLE, LA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1871. NUMBER II Ionatbsgnbi1ic Obief. Office in Crescent Place. d'ublished Eretly atatray Morniag, -AT DonaldutioUville, Ta., -or LINDEN E. B.E TLEV, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS OF SU KSC RIPTIO: no copy, one year.. . 4)uecopy. sax m onths.. -----. - 1A) .Single copice ... ... .. . . ... . 140 Payablh invariably in advance. AD V1ERTISING RATES: [A aquare is seven lines Minion type.1 Space. I wk. 1 mo. 3 nioa. 6 jos. I yr. * 1:quare.... '$1 )0 $310 $:a $9 2 s q u a r e s .. . 2 4 9 0 0 1 5 `5 0 0 35 0 0 ti coltumn... 7 00 25 00 10004) 50500 column. 14 0(. 10 60 00 70 00 I column. . I 280O 404 55 75 100)00 Transient advertisements..$1 per aquage first insertion; 75 ets. each subsequent iwaertion. Communications may be addressed simply CHIEF, Donaldsonville, La.," or to.the edi tor and proprietor personally. Our every life is a sermon.---E.c. How many lives have you, for good ness' sake The Jackson, Miss., Leader tes that General Emory has been pla ed in command of the Military Depa4t ment comprising the States of Louisi nun, Mississippi, Alabama and Fldri Ala. The last number of the Marksville Republican Era received, contains nine lines of editorial. 'The editor is doing as well as could be expecved under the circumstances, but thel 4C tition of such an effort might cos 4i his reason. A call has been issued by the se1#e tary of the National Republican 1.x ecutive Commnittee for i1a meeting? of that body, to be held at Washington on the eleventh of January next. The object of the meeting will be to decide when and where the next Republican Presidential Convention shall be hld4d. It is thought a majority of the euim bers favor New York city. The editor of a Ne xV Orleans journal, commenting upon Henry Ward Beeeh er's new theory that the chestnut w rni would doubtless make a choice aje of diet, inasmuch as it eats noting but the richest and cleanest food, re marks: Mr. Beecher is only a worm luimnelf, " a poor worn of the dust," and the doctrine of dog eat dog is too enthely unnatural and repulsive to be enter tained for a moment. H1w that editor must hate pork. The Tew VarietiesTheatre just c'mnj pleted in New Orleans, will he opened On the night of the fourth of Decen, her, with Mr. Lawrence Barrett as the leading actor. This gentleman has been selected as manager of the ne w institution, and there is no doubt but that under his control it will become the favorite theatre of the amusement loving people of New Orleans. Its central locality on the principal thor oughfitre of the city-Canal street-is also greatly in its favor. It senms to us that the New Orleans Magnolia grows prettier and more in teresting with each succeeding issue. In addition to many other reasons why it should receive a generous pub lic support is the fact that it is mak ing war upon a great public evil by crying " Down with the Louisiana State Lottery swindle!" Let the en tire press of the State take up this ,cry, and their united demand will se cure-aye, compel-the repeal of the obnoxious lottery company's charter. New Orleans Republican and St. James Sentinel, join in the chorus! We learn from the New Orleans Re publicast that Mr. James L. Belden has withdrawn from proprietary and edi torial connection with the Terrebonne Banner, leaving Hon. Patrick O'Hare pole editor and owner. Although we have regularly mailed the CHIEF to the Banner and repeat edly written " Please X" on the wrap per, that journal has as yet failed to make its appearance in our ofi We don't know whether this is owi g to neglec .ue the part of the who attends to the mailing, or to the villful intent of the editer. If the fohmer, let the person who makes upthe Baa ser's mail mend his ways; if the lat ter, the paper and its quillrlrirer may depart to Hades for all we care, An exchange .says that ex-United States Lttorney General Stanberry, of Ohio, and Hon. Reverdy Johnson, of Baltimvre, have been engaged to de 'fend men to be tried under the Ku Klux a t of Congress, at the approach ing session af the U lited States Court, to be held in Columbia, South Car Iolina. Politicaland Loral Incendiarism. Fron. the New 'trleansn Repeblican we tak" this artice: The San Frntwisco igilance com iuittee will always firnish evidence against such move-meits, because it is constantly brought forward to justify violence. Good people who do not understand what the cedition of Cal ifornia was in 1+354, rashly conclude that the remedy which was applicable to cure the disorders of that extraor dinary societ3 may be safely adopted in every community to extirpute evil, and they wickedly invoke a tempestu ous disturbance without considering the elements that will rule it or the .rinds which it might be made to sub serve. San Francisco did not over .throw the civil government and set at .defiance all the constituted authorities of the city and State bl cause her pe .litical government was distrusted as dishonest, but her people set in mo tion tthe higher law of self-defense, in order to secure the inimediate punish ment of certain outlawM who had be come dangerous to life aind property. Robberies, burglaries and thefts had become so common that business men were no safer in their otlices ta:un their property was secure in their vaults and stores. A merchant was killed and robbed at his desk in the heart of the city; and an editor, who exposed a piece of otihcial rascalitý , was shot down in the midst of his friends. The courts were mistrusted. The authori ties confessed that the jury system left criminals to go free as that as they were indicted. Well-known burglars walked the streets umblushingly. Rob bers paraded themselves as though their calling was one of the a omitted professions of the rite. It was against these classes that the vigilance com mnittee was organized, and it was only against these classes that it proceee el to operate. It never for a momtut pretended to be a political movement, ngr (lid it in a single instance molest a public officer fon any supposed dishon esty in his public conduct. It even respected Jadge Terry, although he assaulted with a deadly weapon one of its otficers. The committee soluuinly declared that the people themselves were respousiblde ior political malad ministration, and they had a better renedy for tsuch evil at oe ballot-box thun could is effected b, a violent as sault upmn the otficers. Nevertheless, there are men win to-day abuse the action of the Sun Francisco vigilance committee by proposing to imitate what it had too much sense to attempt. A writer in the Tines of yesterday, who furnishes hi the violence of his language the best evidence of his own unfitness to be a mnenmber of any vigi lance committee. proposcs to imitatg the people of Sui Francisco by hang ing one hundred of the highest officers in New Orleans to the lamp posts. Our California frieindi will be sorely tempt ed to regret that they ever formed a vigilance committee if their well or ganized and moderately conducted movement is to is made the excuse for a murderous midnight assault upon the entire lot of oflicers who have been elected in Louisiana ; for after " Mer chant has organized his mob and ex ecuted his victims, there will not be a proinment officer left to carry on the government in any of its departments. The good and the bad will all have been destroyed by one sweeping and indiscriminate net of madness. 'Merchant" is quad, and Saut Hous ton said that runtiness is more to bw avoided than rascality for the fool would rush into extravaga nees which the knave would avoid as ruinous. Men who rashly prooose vigilance conmmittees as the remedy for evils which may be cured with ease at the ballot-box, are like those inconsiderate people who offer a taste of blood to the hungra wolf to stop its appetite for slaughter. Violence destroys the reason and overthrows the judgment. It educates the weak to believe in something besides anrguinent and hon esty. It sets np the sword and the bayonet as the arbiter of our liberties and our fortunes. It arrests fret speech, imprisons criticism, and is thb author of theft. If it was here to-day, " Mer chant" would be in prison to-night. And what is still worse, the young and blooming generation, which is grow ing up around us to make the countc better, would be dwarfed in their ed ucation and whetted to become the spoilers of each other. If "Merchant" knows of dishonesty, he knows the instance and the man. There are two ways for him to pro ceed -first, by laying his information before the Grand Jury, and secondly, by publishing the name and the facts. Let us have something to go upon be sides this vulgar and incendiary de nunciation, and the REPUBLICAN will lend a helping hand to uproot the knave. There are some people a ho flippantly challenge the chastity of all women, the honesty of all men, and the integrity of every officer. For these characters we have no respect, as they are generally unsuccesfdul lib ertines. unsafe traders or unpurchased politicians. And their exhortations are seldom treated with respect enough to command publication. Bismarck and Benedetti. The Prussian Premier's Reply to The French Ambassador's Letter. Prince Bismarek has just given in the official Rsiehs-Anreiger at Berlin, a reply to some of the accusations of M. Benedetti, in his recently published account of his mission to Berlin in 1866, when he acted as the ambassa dor of France, and endeavored to open the way for the annexation of Belgium to France. Bismarek sharply reminds the ex-ambassador of the disadvant age he is under in making representa tions, as follows: " Count Benedetti evidently does not know what portions of the French secret archives have, in the course of the war, fallen into the hands of our troops, or he would have been more circumspect in his exertions. Above all, he would not have attempted to reiterate the denial with which the Imperial Government met the German communications respecting the acqui sition of Belgium by France. Mixing up the demand for German territory preferred on the 5th and 7th of August,. 1866, with the subsequent demand for Belgium, he strives to refer the letters which have been found in the Tuileries, exclusively to the former. But the Emperor's letter to the Marluis de Lafayette, qpoted by M. Bendetti, on page 108, proves the demand for German territory to have been abandoned before Belgium was mentioned. That these two phases of. the negotiations were re garded by M. Benedetti himself as entirely distinct, is moreover proved by his own reports to his Government, which the war has. thrown into our hands." lie then quotes Benedetti's own account of the early part of the nego tions, which he sent home at the time, and then proceeds: " This written communication was succeeded by an interview, which Count Benedetti has lightly touched uponi in his lxok. Had he gone into details, he could not have avoided telling us that he warmly and reso futely pressed the Frenchl demand. On the Russian Prime Minister ob serving that such a demand iil eiant war, and that Count Benedetti had better go to Paris to prevent a rupture, the latter replied that he would indeed return home, but only in order to recommend to the Emperor to maintain a proposition the abandon ment of which would imperil the existence of the dynasty. Public opinion, he added, insisted upon some such concession on the part of Ger nuuiy.. The parting words of hie Prussian Prime Minister to Count Henedetti before he set out for Paris were, as nearly as can be renieni hered, these : ' Please to call his Majesty's attention to this. Should a war arise out of this complication it might be attended with a revohi tiouary crisis. . In such a case the Germany's dynasties are likely to prove more solid than that of the Emperor Napoleon.' " Eh'l'e Prince then gives "aan accurate and precise abstract ' of the initruc tions brought to Benedetti from Paris by M. Chaum'oy, in August, 1866, of which the latter part contains the fol lowing: "3. In proportion to the chance of success, our demands will have to be graduated as follows: Ini the first place, you have to combine into one proposition the recovery of the fron tiers of 1814 and the annexation of Belgium. You have, therefore, to ask for the extradition, by formal treaty, of Lnndeau, Saanlouis, Saar bruck and the Duchy of Luxembourg; and you have to aim at the annexa tion of Belgium by the conclusion of an offensive and defensive treaty which is to be kept secret. Secondly, should this basis appear to promise no result, you wvill resign Saarlouis, Saarbruck and even Landeau, which after all is but a dilapidated nest of a place, the occupation of which might excite German national feeling against us. In this eventuality, your public agreement will be confined to the Duchy of Luxembourg,and your secret treaty to the reunion of Belgium with France. Thirdly, supposinga clear and unmistakable reference to the incor poration of Belgium is found unpalata ble, you are authorized to assent to a clause in which, to obviate the inter vention of England, Antwerp is de clared a free city. In no case, how ever, are you to permit the reunion of Antwerp with Holland, or the incor poration of Maestricht with Prussia. "Should Herr Von Bismarck put the question, what advantage would accrue to him from such a treaty, the simple reply would be that he would thereby secure a powerful ally, that he would consolidate his recent acqui sitions, that he was only desired to consent to the cession of what does not belong to him, and that he makes no sacrifice at all to be compared to his gains. To sum up, the minimum we require is an ostensible treaty which gives us Luxembourg, and a secret treaty which, stimulating for an offensive and defensive alliance, I leaves us the chance of anmiexing Belgium at the right moment, Prussia engaging to assist as, if necessary, by force of arms in carrying out the pur pore." The reply of Benedetti to these instructions is also in the possession of Bismarck, and he quotes freely therefrom to show that the ambassa. dor had conformed cheerfully to the instructions and expressed his doubts about the possibility of gaining the I object desired. He quotes also from other parts of the correspondence, and ;e-t th't the acquisition of Luxemu. bourg is repeatedly represented as the immediate object of the convention, the annexation of Belgium as its ulterior aim. " The latter point, as well as the alliance, offensive and defensive, is to be kept secret." The following is.a passage from an official letter to the ambassador during the negotiations referring to this same arrangement : "This combination reconciles all parties. By giving us an immediate satisfaction, and setting people on the right track concerning the disposal of Belgium, it quiets public opinion in France. It maintains secrecy con cerning the alliance as well as the contemplated annexation. If you think that the cession of Luxembourg had better be concealed the moment 'e lay hands on Belgium, I should be obliged by you giving me your reasons in detail. You will perceive that to suspend the beginning of operatiwa, for an indefinite time might result ini briTiging the Belgian question to a premature close." The following concludes the reply: " Count Benedetti's reply to this Paris comnmunication is dated August 2). In it he, for the first time, ex presses a doubt whether France can count upon the sincerity of Prussia. Observing that Count Bismarck seems to suspect France of an intention to sow discord between Prussia and. England, he says: ' What confidence can we repose in statesmen who allow themselves to he disturbed by such considerations as these ?' He refers to the mission of General Manteuffel at St. Petersburg, and is afraid that Prussia has received assurances from another quarter ' which will enable her to dispense with the countenance of France.' Prussia, as Herr Von Bismarck professes to have told the king, requires the assistance of one great power. Should the co-operation of France be declined, it will only be because people in Berlin are already provided, or are about to be so." To await for further intelligence upon this head Count Benedetti determined to go to Carlsbad, whence he will return the moment he receives a tele grain from Count Bismarck. During his absence the Prussian Prime Minis ter left Berlin, to return, if we recol lect aright, only in the month "of December. Secret negotiations were thus necessarily suspended for several months. This did not, however, pre vent their being subsequently resumed I at various times; and if Count Bene detti, on page 185, charges Her Von Bismarck with erroneously placing the Belgian negotiations in 1867, when, in reality, they took place in 1866, the only inference to be deduced from this is that the French Ambassador reverted in 1867 to the conversation cut short the year lwfore. After what had been said ahove, the peculiar atti tude of France during the Belgian rail way controversy, renders it perfectly credible that the Paris government had even then not abandoned all hopesof gaining the consent of North ern Germany for their favorite pro-. ject. But we have no wish to indulge in disclosures beyond those impera tively required for defensive purposes. We accordingly confine ourselves to the correcting of statements which might occasion erroneous ideas on German politics. Until forced to re sume this task we shall resist the temptation to make a more unreserved use of the copious materials at our disposal. Singular Indian Tradition. Among the Seminole Indians there is a singular tradition regarding the white man's origin and superiority. They say that when the Great Spirit made the earth he also made three men. All of the men had fair com plexions; and that after making them he led them to the margin of a small lake, and bade them leap in and wash. One obeyed, and came out purer and fairer than before; the second lbes itated a moment, during which the water, agitated by the first, had be come muddied, and when he bathed he came out copper-colored ; the third did not leap until the water was black with mud, and he came out black with its own color. The Great Spirit lait before them three packages, and out of pity for his misfortune in color gave the black man the first choice. He took hold of each package, and having felt the weight, chose the heaviest. TIhe Indian then close the next heaviest, leaving the white man the lightest. When the packages were opened, the first was found to contain spades, hoes and implements of labor; the second enwrapped hun ting, fishing and war-like apparatus. es ; the third gave the white man pens, Ink and paper, the engines of the mind-the means of mutual mental improvement, the social link of hu inanity, the foundation of the white man's superiority. BISMARCK: Ox THE ASPECT FOR WAR IC ECROPEm.-Prince Bismarck's speech to the Prussian Legislature on the subject of the National War Fund bill, is one of the most open enuncia tioms which the world has had from the famous German statesman in a long time past. Bismarck tells the Prussians to make ready for war. He avers that such a preparation is abso lutely necessary by the existing con dition of affairs in the Old World. When Prince Bismarck makes such an assertion, he knows full well the grounds upon whicb he makes it, so I that we are forced to accept the con-:; elusion that Eumpe is approaching another and grand convulsion by war.-M-issi..ippi Pilot. The New Wonderland. The Upper Yellowstone Country. The following are extracts from a letter recieved by Professor Henry, of the Smithsonian Institution, from H. W. Elliott, artist of Hayden's explor ing expedition, who writes from Fort' Ellis: Fort Ellis is about twenty-five miles North-west by North from the Yellow stone River, and ole of the branches of the East fork of the Galiatin River; the country beyodd this place would not admit of wagons, so that we fitted, up a pack train of horses and mules the only efficient mode of transporta tion that can be employed in this wild and unexplored country. Soon after we had passed over the divide and as cended a grassy hill slope, which fell away gently to the river head, we came in view of one of the greatest chains of lava peaks that can be found{ on this continent. From right to left, as far as the eye could reach, it rested upon a serried front of ragged, pindacled summits, so sharp and keen as to shed the snow away down upon their torn and ragged . flanks, leaving the bare rocks pointing upward like needles, minarets, anti gothic . roofs. The snow beneath seemed to depend upon the straggling and stunted pines for supports whiles these timber lines in turn fall away down the mountain sides to grassy benches and plateaus; the whole form-' ing one of the most perfect pictures of lava upheaval and overflow that the world affords. In this chain there are a hundred peaks that are over 11, 1000 feet above the level of the sea, and 6000 feet above the liver, and eight or ten that will easily reach the, altitude of 12,000 or 13,0(M0 feet. Near the mouth of the lower canyon, where the river conies out from ab rupt mountain gorges, a small stream flows in from the west, and bears the name, on 1)oane's map, of " Gardinekr River." We ascended it some three miles, and came into camp at the base of A MOST WONDERFUI. HOT SPRING. Up here on the rolling, semi-woodrd slopes of a high mountain, one sees at first what appears to be a huge bank of snow covering a "ery large area, with the strange phenomenon of steamyeciouds of vapor rising from it approaching nearer, it is found to be,, in reality, a little mountain made up by the precipitation and deposition of soda and carbonate of lime, which are held in solution by the hot water of the springs, which come up through basaltic fissures from some great depth, as the water is always at the boili point. The deposition of the niater ial held in solution is made in delicate layers over lapping, and in beaded rows, the whole being in appearance not unlike the coral reef. 'T'hie spring in this way is constantly shutting itself up and breaking out afresh in soipie other place not far distant. By this closing up and breaking out again of (he springs a large area of country is (overed with their deposit, and the spot I am describing cannot be less than five hundred acres in extent, over which, here and there, are THIRTY OR FORTY BOILING SPRINGS, the depth of the precipation in many places being over two hundred feet. The water itself is a beautiful blue, and transparent to a great depth-at least to depths that seem fathomless -and in many places, in flowing over its deposits of soda and lime, it shows tints of the most exquistie delicacy, such as rose, creamy yellow, and faint purple. We gave two days to the sur vey of this system of springs and the adjacent country; thence proceeded to the . MOUTH OF THE GREAT CANYON, three miles above the head of the Low-' er, and camped at the beautiful falls of Lower Creek. At the junction of this stream with the Yellowstone ahove and below, fora mile or so, are a unn ber of sulphur and sulphuretted hy drogen springs; while high up on the basaltic walls of the canyon opposite the yellow stain of " dead " or "cold" sulphur springs is very marked. The structure of the basaltic column just above the staining is very perfect, and beautifully regular. Rows of pillars from twenty to thirty feet stand with out flaw or crack in regular tiers, and above the other. THE GREA'T CANYON may be said to end at Tower Creek, and rise at the foot of the Lower Falls, giving it a length of twenty-five or thirty miles. It is a great basaltic, fissure or rather rent, in the earth,: vairyibg in depth frym one to two thousand feet, along down which the river seems delighted to fairly whirl, foam, and fly, now a blue and then a snowy ribbon. The work of erosiont has left tdwers, points and pinnacles barely. standing out from its almost vertical walls at and for several miles below the falls. These perpendicular walls are gaily painted by the water of the numberless warm and hot springs which flow, seep and ooze out from the fissures into a variety of tints and tones, dazzling white, intense red, purple, saffron, yellow, etc., and fairly bewildering the eye at first sight witIl their singularity and grandeur. Says the New Orleans 'semi- Weekly Louiniasiaa of the 10th: A contt mptible rumor was circu lated, from an equally contemptible souvee, to the effect that Governor Warmoth obtruded himself uninvited upon the Congressional Committee which inspected the levees below the city a few days ago. The truth is] that the revenue cutter 'was placed at the disposal of :the Committee, whose Chairman took the pains to personally urge the attendance of his Excellency. To desperate straits, indeed, are the the opponents of the Governor re duced, when such petty mendacity as employed to-discredit him. Our President. The Baton Rouge State-Jourealsays: Without playing the part eo the toady and sycophant as the National Republican does in its issue number one, (Monday), upon this subject, we at the same time mean to say a few words about our President, sad give him his just dues and not one iota more. To begin, General Grant has our profoundest respect, but ciandor com pels us to admit that for the rest of this quite numerous family, which sh 'and have its branches all over th nd, our respect is not quite so p rfund. General Grant is undoubt edly a very great chieftain. He per formed hereulean feats during the war. But, at the same time, we must not forget one who has passed away, and who it was that kept Grant sup plied with all the men, money and munitions of war, just as they were required; and if it had not have Men for this great and good man, we doubt -muchly, if out present President would have been occupying the lofty position he is to-day. The great and good man who kept Grant supplied with all he needed was Hon. Edwin M. Stanton. It was Stanton who never refused to gratify each and every demand of the General of the armies. Grant had all- he asked for, and all that remained for him to do, was to employ the menus granted to him in a right way aid go ahead and do the fighting, and General Grant did fight. No going hack upon that. But ift eneral Grant had not have had the liberal hand of the Secretary of War supporting him, we think that with all his bull dog tenacity, things with him might have gone altogether different, and 'Jeems,' the supposed-to-be boss of the New Orleans Custom-house, with his native --Feltr-would not have mounted the ladder of notoriety and wealth quite as fast as they have done. Amidst the multitudinous cares of the high and responsible position General Grant occupies, as the head of this great nation, the trivial affair of a part and parcel of his office ?holders, including his brother-in-law " Jeems," attempting to break up and disrupt entirely. in this State, the great party that elected Grant Presi dent, is of too triviali a nature for us Louisianians to expect Grant to take any action in the matter what ever, or expect him to offer us protec tion from the assaults of his office rnmpires upon our- political rights. It really seems to us that it is only with himn who has stood amid the strife and carnage of battle, and remained so passive, who could now when a battle is raging, wherein the aggressors are his own appointees, and who are attempting to break up the very party that made the General what he is, in this instance, remain calm, indifferent and passive too. Reiterating our profound respect for the General himself, but not for his numerous family, wk must, never theless, say that although utterly indifferent as he appears to be to the interests of the great Republican party in this State, he, at the same time. should not be so entirely negleetful of the other desires of the people of the Southern States. Now our President finds time, amid the arduous duties of his odice, - to perambulate East and West, but never South. Why make Portland and cities East and Wset, the only blessed spots that are favored by~the presence of our President, and the opportunity to listen to the wise words that fall from his lips during his brief speeches I Give us South the same opportuni ties of listening to the wonderful speeches, and consequently the oppor tunity of increasing our admiration for our worthy President. Unless General 'Irant does favor us South with his presenc', the able truths he gave utterance to in his Portland effort will prove true indeed. He says, speaking of his not visiting the city very often: " Unless - come oftener, I shall be an old man by the next time 1 come," and so it will be with us, for we fear that he will be an old man unless he puts in his appear ance soon amongst us. A reception worthy of the occasion of such a visit, could easily be gotten up. " Jeems " has his C. H. B. B., and Felix could do the same as he did convention day, draw at sight upon the appraiser's department for all the wines, liquors and cigars needed. If the gatlin-gunners are to be sus tained by our President, then uir President should take a trip this way, and see how things here are for him self. It is our opinion that if pre. vailed upon to make its a visit, and after seeing the exact situation of afluirs, he'd mighty soon throw the stump of his cigar away and prepare for business, by laying Packard, Lowell ard the whole thmnt-Carter crew aci ss his knee and give them what P.Addy gave the drum. Do not wait till you are an old man, Mr. President, bat thvor 115 with a visit now. and grant us a few words of wisdom trom your lips. Gen. Gorloff, of the Russian army, has inveuted a mitrailleuse which fires 300 to 400 rounds per m ante, range kextending to 4(0) paces.