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THE DONALDSON VILLE CHIEF.
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE PARI$H OF A CESION ADD TOW¶ OF DONALDMO'TILLE.
VOLUME i. DONALDSONVILLE, LA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1872. NUMBER 6
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thanks for files of Mobile papers.
The State debt of Vermont is but a
slight sum over $500,000, and is still
undergoing reduction.
Hon. John R. Lynch, a colored man,
has been elected Speaker of the Mis
sissippi House of Representatives.
1 -0
James Fisk, Jr., was shot and killed
by Edmund Stokes in New York, two
weeks ago. The quarrel between the
men arose from a love affair.
According to the decision of the Na
tional Republican Executive Commit
tee, the Republican Convention for
the nomination of a President and
Vice-President will meet at Philadel
phia on the fifth day of June next.
An exchange says: " Chicago is re
assuming her old progressive tenden
cies. The city now boasts a man who
has had the small-pox twice in eight
years, and remarks casually, in giv
ing the information, that it hasn't
been a good time for small-pox either.
The man is not proud, however."
The New Orleans Magnolia has
changed its form from a four-page to
an eight-page paper, and its appear
ance is much improved thereby. The
Magnolia still keeps up its battle cry
of "Down with the State Lottery
swindle," and we hope its efforts to
induce the Legislature to repeal the
obnoxious law creating the swindle
will not prove in vain.
The remarks of the press of the
country upon the political trouble's in
this State have been widespread and
general. The large majority of the
journals condemn the federal officials
for their interference with the State
Government, and urge the President
to demonstrate his disapproval of
of their action by removing them from
office.
That scurrilous little sheet the New
Orlearis Patriot has " gone glimmer
ing as the things that were," and been
" gathered to the tombs of its fore
fathers." One by one the abusive,
demoralizing journals of the State that
have been a disgrace to the profession
succumnb to that wholesome public
opinion, which exists to a greater or
less extent in all communities, dis
countenancing abuse of the liberty of
tiae press, and failing to recognize
personal vilification of officials as ar
guments against th4ir public honesty.
Good-bye, little Patriot, you have
gone where you will not be lonely,
for the dominious of Satan abound
with myriads of just such nasty
papers.
The New Orleans Mitrailleuse has
made its appearance in all the gor
geousness of a beautiful heading,
much improved typographically and
enlarged in size. We have had no
time as yet to peruse its columns,
hence shall withhold our judgment of
its editorial department for a future
tiwe. The remarkable, wavering
part which its editor has played in
the pilitical arena during the last
month or so has somewhat shaken our
faith in his judgment and stability,
but we hope he may retrieve himself
by a more consistent future, arrayed
upon the side of the right, in which
ease, all success 4q tlhe llansusognp Mi
ThJ Political Situation.
The following pithy paragraps are
copied fr' m the Carrollton State Reg
ister, on ýf the most able Republican
journals I the State :
JUDGE A ELL AND THE GRAND JURY.
Judge bell took a hand in the de
filement f public affairs on Thursday,
and manuged to deface the enemies
of his ofli e with more dirt. Because
the grand jury acted in the case of
Whliýla , where a murder had been
comnmittl , and which it was warran
ted in i estigating by virtue of the
coroner' inquest, and did not act in
the case 4f Chester, which was a mere
scrimmage between a body of excited
partisans; he charged it with dishones
ty, and then dismissed it. The mem
bers of t.e grand jury, sixteen in num
ber, are npeached by a judge upon
a simple Illegation of a partisan news
paper, the sole excuse which Judge
Abell male for his rash and prejudiced
action Was the article which he read
from the sntiosal Republican accusing
the gran jury of acting in the Whey
land ct and of neglecting to act in
the Chester case. As Wheyland is
dead and Chester is running around
loose sti ng up trouble, the two cases
are very iferent, and the grand jury
was the Fit judge of what its duties
were in the matter. This whole
matter sifts itself down to a sim
ple question whether Judge Abell
who is t one man, and a partisan at
that, i to form the opinions of the
grand j ry, or whether the citizens,
who co stitute the body, are to do
their own thinking.
TIIE PRESIDENT'S GOOD SENSE.
It is just as well to keep a clear ac
count a we go along, and in doing so
we find at President Grant has to be
credi with a great deal of prudence
in conn tion with our rather tumul
tuous condition during the last two
weeks. He has kept his hands off
with atriotism singularly at vari
ance 11th the report that he always
lends a fist in favor of his own part
isans. the rowdies and the lobby
who thought to make Grant useful in
the way of letting them kick up a
shindy and plunder folks have been
disapp fnteL He has respected the
streija right of the State to make a
July o herself with a fairness that
nothing could exceed.
A ALLEN CARPET-BAGGER.
An 'ihman named J. Chester
Morris y arrtred in New Orleans,
is nu gr a small sore which he was
paid c with last week for engaging
in a free fight among the sovereign
Americans of the State of Louisiana.
J. Chester Morris hopes to make some
money, or other good thing, out his
hurt, but he will probably miss his
object since the free fight business is
an in itution wherein each one has
to pay is own expenses in this coun
try. hese John Bulls always have
to undergo the process of a licking in
the U' ited States, whether they in
vade s in the shape of armies, or in
single file. Each blarsted Britisher
think he can come to America and
rectify the fight that Cornwallis lost,
and tills gets his head into chancery.
J. Chester Morris is the latest ex
ample, but somehow he seems to have,
some ing mean in his disposition, for
he rses to acknowledge the corn,
as hi predecessors have done, but in
sists hiding himself as a Iaartyr to
something else besides English pluck
and'obstinacy. He must be a fraud.
REFO M MEASURES RECOMMENDED BY
T COMMITTEE OF FIFrY-ONE.
Th Committee of Fifty-one have
made hree recommendations, and on
ly thui , after a session of three weeks,
and 1e must say that the country can
not I saved by either one of these
sugg tions. The reinstatement of
SpeaW or Carter cannot be made by
Gove nor Warmoth, since that is the
right if the House of Representatives;
the I hase of a tract of land for an
insa asylum can be deferred with
perf t safety until the city can pay
her 1 gitimate expenses, and the proc
lama ion of martial law is wholly un
nece ry, since order been maintained
and eace now smiles upon us with
mild eyed beneficence from every
quar er. The self-constituted Aerop
ague ad better disband, us it is get
ting to hands tarred with sticks that
g sense has east aside.
GO '. WARMOTH PRESERVES PEACE.
G, vernor Warmnoth, whatever may
be rtid of him in other matters, has
done what was never done in New
Orleans before. He kept the peace at
the late election. For once the peo
ple went peacably and voted; no rows,
no fights, no insults. This is one
thing the Democrats and the Gem
Legislature have forgotten to charge
hin with. How can the Democracy
so in measures of reform if we
are have peacable elections, such
as e last one t These " obnoxious
laws" giving Warmoth the power to
keep the peace on election days, to
gether with the school bill, must be
rep aled, or we must have martial law
at ce.
FREE SPEECH.
one thing we are certain, that
during Governor Warmoth's adminis
tra~on of affairs in Louisiana the
puic press, or rather the right of free
sp h, has been freer than it ever
w before; and this is our idea p1
whAt good government means in one
res et, at least. We have seen the
Go ernor abused without measure,
an we have seen his enemies abused,
ny yet never an attempt has been
made to suppress this by either party,
because both were free to do what ei
ther did. If the Governor had been
the despot that he was represented to
be, and had had at his control the
thugs who were said to be his to do
his bidding, this thing might not have
been as clear as it has beenr; and
though we do not approve of slander
ous abuse, still we prefer to see it tol
erated for those who do like it rather
than that the freedom of speech should
be suppressed when the truth is nec
essary to be told. As has been said,
error is never dangerous so long as
virtue is left free to combat it; and
the speech that is wicked can do but
little hurt while the voice of honesty
is allowed to meet and destroy it. is
it not better, then, to have free speech
under Warmoth, than to be muzzled
under another man whose popularity
might be the result of a suppression
of the truth ?
Graphic Picture of a Senator.
We extract the following from the
St. Louis Democrat of recent date :
The telegraph informs vs that ex
Senator McCreery has been nominated
by the Democrats of the Kentucky
Legislature to succeed Garret Davis
in the United States Senate on the
4th of March. McCreery is a jolly
old soul, and personally, one of the
cleverest of men. You would take
him, from his dress and appearance in
the Senate, to be a well-to-do farmer,
fresh from his barn-yard, who had
just dropped in to see with what little
wisdom the world was governed. He
was elected a few years ago to fill the
unexpired term of Mr. Guthrie, and
served until the 4th of March last.
He was a candidate for re-election,
and indications were decidedly in his
favor. He felt so contident of success
that he declined to go home to take
Bart in the canvass. Finally his
friends persuaded him that le must
be present at least to receive the con
gratulations of his friends when the
thing was done. So he started for
Frankfurt. He l hd got as far as Lex
ington when he received an invitation
to a big wedding party in that city,
commemorative of the iuptials of two
members of the first families. He
accepted, and presented himself in
homespun and tobacco juice. At the
supper table that evening lie met his
political death in this way: Right in
the presence of the elite, under the
blaze of the big chandeliers, he trans
ferred an unwashed soup spoon, yet
rmoist with mock-turtle, into the bow
els of a formidable pyramid of ice
cream and so mixed up his courses as
to chagrin and disgust all the first
families represented at the festal
board. He was doomed. No man who
who so thoroughly disregard the pro
prieties was fit to represent Kentucky
in ,the Senate. A delegation went
frotib Lexington next day intent uporn
his defeat, and they worked so assid
uously in the name of all that was
respectable in Kentucky, that they
shelved him effectually. John W.
Stephenson, then Governor of the
State, was elected in his stead. Me
Creery went back to finish out his
term in the Senate, swearing ven
geance against the "shoddyites of
the Blue Glass region," as he styled
them. He wss Flchm, and the masses
rather liked him because he wasn't
Turveydropsical; he has spent a year
in hard wsrk among his friends, and
has now redeemed the blunder of the
soup spoon. He is a man of unusual
ability in his way, and there is in
him,- as a public speaker, a vein of
humor that often recalls the best days
of Tom Corwin.
Woodhulil and Claflin in the Bos
sel Funeral Procession.
[St. Louis Republican's New York Letter.]
If Victoria and Tennessee were not
amused, they must be difficult ere
tures to entertain. The boys in
vited then to speak, and were partic
ularly happy in their remarks on their
personal appearance. A big tow
headed boy sung out: " Which is the
old cat they calls the next President ?
Oh! my, ain't she ugly ! Say, old gal,
give us a song and dance. Is that
your own hair or a scatch ? Open yer
mouth-yer 'fraid to, for fear the hoss
cars'l think it's the depot and drive in."
" Jehu! what a nose," says a lad with
in a foot of Victoria; " I hain't seen
such a nose since I had the Measles,
and then the doctor had it to prick at
bile with." The nasty little nuisances
stood in solid masses about the women.
Col. Blood and Stephen Pearl An
drews manfully strove to protect the
brokeresses; but the boys seemed to
know all about matters, and said :
" Now his blood's up"-" Say, Capt'n
-it's all right-we're all free lovers."
When a cheap transparency made its
appearance with a delegation, bearing
inscription, "And they had all things
in common," then the crowd shouted,
"Fetch that banner over here!"
" Give it to Woodlhull!" " Here's the
gal for that motto!" Finally the pro
cession started, and those unhappy
women, footsore and insulted, walked
miles through the mud which covered
everything, supported by the greatest
rabble that ever paraded, one weak
band, thirty or forty lower-class
French women, and thousands of wild,
hungry-looking men. It was ridicu
lous on the part of the police to inter
fere with the Communists, as they did
on the preceding Sunday, since that
act was the only one that gave any
sort of consequence to the whole
agffdr,
Opinions of a Democrat.
The St. Louis Times, an ultra Dem
ocratie journal, publishes a letter from
a New Orleans correspondent, dated
January 6th, from which we make the
following extracts. The correspon
dent was an eye-witness to the excit
ing political events which had occur
red up to the date of his letter, and
his opinions as those of a non-partisan
looker-on must possess no inconsider
able weight. His picture of Carter is
true to the life. After stating that
President Grant had turned his back
upon the Carter faction, the writer
goes on to say :
This is the death blow of the anti
Warmotli faction, for it was on this
very same federal assistance that they
chiefly relied, and without it they are
as harmless as Falstaff's men in buck
ram. They get little sympathy or
encouragement from the Democracy,
although a few injudicious Democrats
have encouraged them; but the more
prudent and thoughtful men of the
party have, so far, stood aloof entire
ly, animated by pretty much the same
feelinge as possessed the old woman
when Bruin and her husband were
locked in deadly emibrace. If, indeed,
they have any sympathy with either,
they lean toward the Warmoth fac
tion. *
The action of Grant in disowning
the revolutionary and high-handed
measures of the Carter and Custom
house clique surprised them no less
than it did the opposition and the
general public. There is no doubt
that the Washington administration
was in full accord with them until
it was discovered that they were in a
hopeless minority, and that the War
moth party could not be ousted with
out open and palpable revolution,
without possibly bloodshed. Grant's
brother-in-law, Casey, the collector
of this port, has been the chief leader
and wire-puller of the anti-Warmoth
party, and every federal office holder
in this city and State has worked like
a beaver against Warmnoth. The
United States revenue cutter Wilder
ness was, and is now, used as a refuge
for the absconding Senators, in order
to break a quorum in the Senate.
Everything points disreputably to the
fact that Mr. Grant has been aiding,
abetting and encouraging the opposi
tion in their course, and the curses
and maledictions that are heaped upon
his head by the Carterites for his
recreancy are both loud and deep.
George W. Carter, leader of the
Custom-House clique in the House, is
the Speaker of that body. He is an
ex-Confederate army officer, having
served in the latter part of the war as
Colonel of a cavalry regiment. He is
likewise an ex-minister of the gospel,
having at one time in his checkered
career been an itinerant Methodist
preacher. Army associations, how
ever, knocked all the religious spirit
out of him, if he ever possessed any.
Now he swears like a trooper, and it
is said lie can hold his own with the
best at draw poker. He is a fair spe
cimen of the bold Western politician
rough, off-hand in style and manner,
and possesses the courage and daring
to execute. He is, however, lacking
in discretion and judgmhnt. With a
moiety of Warmoth's tact, skill and
generalship, there, is no doubt that
he would have wob an easy victory
over the latter. Carter is a represen
tative from Cameron parish, whither
he went as a registrar a few weeks
before the last election. The whole
term of his residence in the parish
does not exceed thirty days, nor has
he been in the parish since lie has
been returned. He holds some sub
ordinate position in the New Orleaiis
Custom-House. He is a genuine type
of the exrebel, radical, carpet-bagger,
without principle, honor, honesty or
other commendable trait. An ex
federal carpet-bagger is bad enough,
God knows; but those miserable,
sneaking, recreant, peijured ex-Con
federates, whlo have crept iInt4 the
Radical fold to prey upon thle Southl
era, people, from such, good Lord,
deliver us!
A Remarkable Career of Crime.
Charles D. Hilderbrand, the noto
rious burglar and jail-breaker, now
in prison at St. Joseph, Mo., tells the
story of his life, an unbroken succes
sion of crimes, beginining in his early
childhood. He was born in 1840, and
at the age of three months he was
stolen from his parents, and it would
seem that this act had some influence
upon his ch.aracter, for his favorite
crime has always been robbery. When
only eight years old he was detected
in robbinga money drawer in St. Louis,
but on account of his age he was not
imprisoned. Only a year afterward
he appeared in Paris, where he was
convicted of robbery and sentenced to
one year's imprisonment, but after
three months confinement he was par
doned. Immediately upon his release
he went to London, where he was de
tected in attempting a heavy robbery
with two notorious burglars. Both of
his companions were transported to
Van Dieman's Land for 30 years, and
after six months imprisonment in the
Old Bailey, Hilderbrand, now only 10
years of age, was banished to America.
He went from England to Montreal,
where he was soon detected in another
robbery, and sentenced to six months
imprisonment, but managed to obtain
his liberty At the end of three days.
Appearing shortly after this in Kings
ton, Canada West, he was again ar
rested for robbery, and imprisoned for
one year, serving out his full term.
In 1852 he returned again to the
United States, and almost immediate
ly made his appearance in a bold rob
bery at Alleghany City, Penn., which
shut him up again for two years.
Scarcely had he gained his liberty
when he was detected in a robbery
and murder, and transported to Cuba
for 20 years. One of his companions
was imprisoned for life. Hilderbrand
contrived to obtain a release at the
end of three months, and soon after
was sentenced to 10 years imprison
ment in Mexico for indulging again in
his favorite crime. He escaped after
six weeks imprisonment, and returned
again to the United States. Convicted
of robbery soon after in Nashville,
Tenn., he was sentenced to the peni
tentiary for eight years, but was re
leased through legal interference at
the end of a month.. In 1855 he ap
peared in San Francisco, and was an
inmate ofthe city prison for one month.
Going to Europe again. he next served
a term of seven months at Birming
ham, England; five months in a dun
geon at Lyons, France, and two
months in Berlin, Prussia. Return
ing to America, he served one month
in jail at Pittsburgh, Penn; two
months in Cincinnati; was sentenced
for four years at Baton Rouge, La.,
but escaped at the end of fifteen days;
six months at St. Louis; bought him
self out in three days ; served two
years in Illinois for two distinct
charges, and escaped a third by flight
to Europe. Returning to the United
States in 1865 he was recognized and
imprisoned in Illinois for one year.
At the expiration of his term he at
once entered into a conspiracy to rob
an express company in Indiana, but
was exposed by his associates, taken
to Milwaukee, and sent up for five
years. He served four years and four
months, and was then discharged for
good behavior. He has served four
teen years in various prisons, a part
of the time closely confined in dun
geons. He has been in ten different
State prisons, four city prisons,
twenty police stations, and seven
county calabooses. He declares that
he intends now to reform, and devote
himself to the publication of a book
of crime, exposing the manner in
which burglers operate, illustrating
it by scenes from his own experience.
-N. Y. Tribuse.
Critical Periods of Human Life.
From the age of forty to that of
siaty, a man who properly regulates
himself may lie considered in the
prime of life. His matured strength
of constitution renders him almost
impervious to the attacks of disease,
and his functions are in the highest
order. Having gone a year or two
past sixty, however, he arrives at
a critical period of existence, the
river of death tiows before him, and
he remains at a stand-still. But
athwart this river is a viaduct called
" The Turn of Life," which, if crossed
in safety, leads to the valley of " Old 1
Age," round which the river winds 1
and then flows beyond without a boat
or causeway to effect its passage.
The bridge is, however, constructed
of fragile materials, and it depends
upon how it is trodden, whether it
bend or break. Gout, apoplexy and
other bad characters are also in the
vicinity to waylay the traveler and
thrust him from the pass; but let hip
gird up his loins, and provide himself
with perfect composure. To quote a
metaphor, " the turn of life " has
a turn either into a prolonged walk
or into the grave. The system and
power, having reached their utmost
expansion, now begin either to close,
like flowers at sunset. or break down
at once. One injudicious stimulant,
a single excitement, may force it
beyond its strength; whilst a careful
supply of props, and the withdrawal
of all that tends to force a plant, will
sustain it in beauty and vigor until
night has nearly set in.
GRuMmBL.ERS AT NEWSPAPERS.
Horace Greeley hits the nail on the
head when he says: " It is strange
how closely the men read the papers.
We never say anything that anybody
don't like but we soon hear of it, and
everybody tells us about it. If, how
ever, once in a while we happen to
say a good thing, we never hear of
that-nobody seems to notice it. We
may pay some man a hundred com
pliments and give him a dozen puffs,
and lie takes it as a tribute to his
greatness, and never thinks of it
never thinks it does him any good.
But if we happen to say anything
this man don't like, or something that
he imagines is a reflection on him.
or his character, see how quick he
flares up and gets excited about it.
All our evils are duly charged to us,
but we never, apparently, get any
credit for what good we do."
A man died the other day from
habitual drunkenness. A post-mortem
examination of his internal organs
showed that his blood was largely
mixed with alcohol. The coroner testi
fied that the heart smelled as though
it had been steeped in alcohol. Peo
ple who are in the habit of keeping
themselves saturated with the vile
alcoholic compounds under the name
of ruin, gin, bourbon, etc., should
take warning from such an example.
We may talk of soft hearts, noble
hearts and true hearts but how can a
heart " steeped in alcohol " be any of
these ?
Address of Speaker Brewster.
Immediately after the election of
Hon. 0. H. Brewster, of Ouachita, as
Speaker of the House of Representa
tatives, at the session of January 4th,
he addressed the members as follows:
Gentlemen of the House of Repre
sentatives-You will not think it
strange if I express surprise at thus
being elevated to the responsible
position of Speaker of the House of
Repiesentaves. You know as well as
myself that it is not fifteen minutes
since my name was first mentioned as
a candidate, and, consequently, I now
take the chair without having made
a promise to any member of this
House. I am untrammelled and free,
and will give you but one pledge at
this time, and that is, that I will
recommend and practice the most
rigid economy in every branch of our
expenditures.
We have been extravagant and
wasteful in the extreme, and, while
I know that certain individuals are
far more criminal than others, yet
I cannot and will not deny that we
are all most shamefully to blame for
the manner in which we have allowed
the people's money to be used in the
past. Then let us cease to attempt to
throw the blame of our former mis
deeds upon any one man, or faction,
or party-in short, let us cease to look
to. the past except with the determin
ation of discovering our own mistakes
for the purpose of avoiding, them it
the future.
Let us unite with a firm resolve
that we will pass such resolutions
and laws, or if necessary, recommend
to the voters of the State such amend
ments to the constitution as shall for
ever prevent the plundering of the
people hereafter.
I know that it is customary on occa
sions like this for the recipients of
office to return thanks to those who
have elected them. This I shall not
do. I shall wait until the close of the
session, and then if I find that you
have stood by me in my firm deter
initiation to carry out the great prin
ciples of reform and retrenchment
which are so earnestly demanded by
the people throughout the State, then
I shall thank you a thousand times
from my inmost heart for the proud
position in which you have placed
me. Let us keep the necessity of
reform constantly in view, and make
a record to which we can look back at
the end of the session with feelings
of satisfaction and approval-a record
which we can point our constituents
on our return home, and justly clainm
that we have done our duty as the
representatives of the people-a rec
orde to which our children after us will
turn with the proud satisfaction that
their father proved true and faithful
in one of the most critical periods of
the history of Louisiana. No class of
men ever had a better opportunity to
establish a good name and to gain
the confidence of the people. I hope
and trust, and I can say from indica
tions which I already see, that I
believe that this opportunity will not
be allowed to pase unjmproved.
Thanking you most heartily for your
attention, I shall now enter upon the
duties of the office to which you havo
called me,
A Farewell to Geo. W. Carter.
Farewell G. W. Carter. You save
played a big hand in the game of Leu
isiana politics, you have. That blue
Spanish mantle flung loosely over
your shoulders, and concealing under
neath every imaginable weapon that
goes off with powder, must now he
taken to other fields than these. But
don't take it to Washington, G. W.,
principally because it don,t look well.
Chivalry does not set well on the. Na
tional stomach. When political lead
ers there surround themselves with
ruffians, who make quorums of dead
men, they somehow do not get along.
It is surprising but it is true. The
new parliamentary code of yours won't
work in that country. By no stretch
of logic can a dead man make a quo
rum. even of a legislative body. You
are " busted "-played out. Your rum
mill is closed. Not even the Marshal's
private office is secure for you now.
It is a. pity, but it is so. We know
you wanted " Refirm,"-you needed
it:-no man more. We know you had
a nice little job to turn the State over
to the Democrats, but it didn't go
through. We are sorry for the Dem
ocrats; they meant well in their way,
but they are " busted" too. You
won't be Governor, G. W. Sorry are
we, but you must work for your liv.
iug hereafter, and not have the State
to support you. Paddle your own
canoe, for now you will And out no
Democrat will paddle it for you. Tex
as customs don't get aloug here any
more. It is a great misfortune but it
is a fact. The Digger Indiana (not
taxed) might afford you shelter-they
believe in a quorum of dead men-we
don't, G. W., more's the pity. Go
with you, Records generally keep
where you will,your record will go with
company with a high-toned gentle
men like yourself and the Fays whom
you lead. It is astonishing how reec
ords stick to a man; yours isn't a
good one. You believe inf cutting
down the majority of your opponents
by " hook or by crook," but it won't
pay. Civilization don't permit it; it
may be unfortunate but it is so. Wrn ja
yourself in your mantle, you wunm't
have much chance to put it to a onre
becoming use. Good-bye.-N. 0.
I Semi- Weekly Loeisieanians.