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THE DONALDSONYILLE CHIEF. Official Journal of the State of Louisiana, Parish of Ascension and Town of Donaldsonville. VOLUME VI. DONALDSONVILLE, LA., SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1877. NUMBER 26. lenabsonnbi1le Q1bidf. Amicus Ilninani Generis. A Wide-Awake Home Newspaper, Published Every Saturday, at Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, La., -HiY LIDI)E¶ E. BENTLEY, EDITOR .AS PROIRIETOIR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: )ne copy, one year,..................$2 00 One copy, six mouths... .. 1 23 Six copies, one year.................10 00 Twelve copies, one yeal........ 18 00 Payable invariably in advance. AD FERTLSIG RATES: [One inch of space constitutes a "square."J sel ARES. I ioti. 21s. :3 mos. (uwos. 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J. 1B. Heuert, New River. Aler. u Mvyers. Manclac and Port Vincent. It. 11. ltlhoonficld. Bauyou Ouula. La. .1. Curtis Waldo, New Orleans. La. Geo. 1'. Rowell & Co.. New YVrk. Rowell & Chesmian. St. Louis. Misas'ori. C. A. (uook & Co.. Chicaao, Illinois. Ilates & Locke, New York. IT Baton Runge A droeate, Feb. 23: A negro deek hand employed on tte steamer Frank Puergeod fell into the river, bet ween the boat. a1d it coal bamge Tuesday night, and was drowned. t?' Morgan City Register : A little child of John Bigler drank some coal oil from a can and died front the ef fects of the tluid..- Morgan City has me loy seven years old, son of Wmee. ,Jones, who weighs 120 pounds. t?' St. James Sentinel: Gen. E" 1lovee, Tax Collector of this parish, ¶eatt made his settlement with the Parish Treasurer. His collections since the 20th of eNovember amount to 2887 24, leaving at delinquent list of 2143 46. iT 'WVest Baton Rouge Sugar -Planter: An inquest was held Fri 15ay evening of last week on the hody Alf Thos. Berdoes, a levee lahorer. at the railroad depot. The jury pro noinced a verdict of '' asphyxiated alcoholism." I° Shreveport T'fnmes: Jno. Agurs ,shot and killed a negro man named John Waelcr at Greenwood..-. Mr. I'. H. Pitts was thrown from his horse Lnul drowned while crossing a slough in Sabine hottom, a few miles beyond Logansport. tr- Madismen Journal, Feb. 20 : One day hast week, while the steamer Kate Dickson was lying at Milliken's Bend, a quarrel took place between Mike Gallagher, the mate, and one of the deck hands. and the deck hand was shot and killed by Gallagher, who afterwards took the yawl of the I)ick sqn and made his escapie. Kam leerville South : All the levees of this parish that were down are now in fair way of construction and will Soon be fin ished...-. T'he preliminary trial of the four colored men who killed George Washington on the 10th inst., was concluded on Tuesday. Judge Crowell decided it was a ease of murder and sent the four accused before the District Court. Lr Lafayette Advertiser: Mr. E, F. Delannay, general agent for the int Mutual and La. Equitable Insir aiet Companties of New I)rleans, died very suddenly of alpoplexy. at this place..--A serious altercation took place between Israel Thibodeaux and Joseph Meeaux, in which the former received a mortal wound with a knife, in the left side above the hip. Thibo deanux aeknowledged that lee was in the wrong and desired that Meaux should not be prosecuted. g' Thibodaux &'ntinel: On the morning tof the 15th instant, as the passengers were getting abroad the cars at Algiers, a number of them were robbed of their purses. watches, chains, etc...-Statistical reports of the products of Assumption, La feerche and Terreeotne parishes for the last year show, as compared with the crop of 1875, a gain of 3618 hhds. tef sugar, a decrease of 4471 bies. of molasses, and a decrease of 26,647 bies. of rice. 'The decrease in the culture of rice will be large the pres ent year, as but few planters will plant it at all, and many small grow ers will abandon its culture. The ex celleet seed cane and ratoons indicati a tine yield of suajr next Fall. FOR TIE CHIaE.] A RAINY DAY. LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN AT HOT siIRINGS TO 1IIS WIFE. Well, this is a rainy day, dear Pet, Dark, dismal and cheerless, and dreary and wet, And nothing I hear save the sad refrain Of the moauing wind and the pelting rain. The eaves are all yielding their drippity drop, The hillsides and paths are all slippity slop, While the geese with their cackle, the ducks with their quacks, Roll the bright crystal globules right off froni their backs; To them 'tis the jolliest, liveliest fun That ever was known since creation begunA And yen hellowing bullfrog just down on the creek Has been singing this deluge for more than a week. But yonder sad rooster and liens, I ween, With dripping plumage and solemn mien, Are waiting, perhaps, for the man with the wire, Who wooes them with chaff, but who cooks them with fire In truth, 'tis against all the rules of good breeding, And is altogether a niost. foul prooerding. But 'tis thus that our landlord supplies hies full board, By serving ' the best that the markets af ford." In the midst of this raining the dinner bell rings. When at once to his feet every hungry soul springs, From euchre or draughts, or casino or chess, Some lounging, soeie dozing, in dress or un dress. Where's my hat I " " Where's my shoes 1 " " Where's my vest and my coat I" "Will the lIandlord not send us a hiack or a boat f " Or spread some tarpaulins f-or send an umbrella, Or parasul only to help out a feller I ViEn araat, mses CSa aunas." for the bell rings a charge, RIight on through the treas without carriage or harge. Dinner to right of them, Dinner to left of them. Diaeiain front of them, Val ued and huadled! 'theirs aaot to win aa or whine, Tha' tha y will get no wine, 'l'eir's aibut to do or dine, Onward they trundled! And they captured that dinner in apita of the rain. And are ready faor service augain and again. Some palsied, some limaping, some hobbling on crutchesi; All heedless they rushed on to dinner, for such is The nature of boarders, to bring all their mauladies Where are beef and potatoes. anud ek the bent salad is. Thiaus many shall part , where maiay did meet," And the white table-cloth he their sole wind ing sheet. And such, Pet, is life at the faiuied Sulphur Springs, When, in midst of a rainstorm, the dinner bell rings. C. W. II. Salpauhr Sierinurs. Ark., Aug. 10, 1871;. Greatness flows out of Ohio, ns Mark Twain would say, " as sponta ieously as the otter of roses out of trie otter." When Gen. Grant, an Ohio ian, resigned the countiiaid of the army to assume presidential dignities, he was sucreded by Gen. Sherman, another Ohio man. Gen. Shernan's promotion caused a vacancy which was filled by the promotion of Gen. Sher ida, also an Ohio man. When Chief Justice Chase, who was an Ohio man, died, another Ohioan iin the per son of Judge Waite was placed at the head of the Supreme Court. And now that Gen. Giant is about to retire from the Presidency, another son of this much favored State, R. B. Hayes, is to be his successor.-N. 0. Pica yune. Our contemporary has given the glorious old Buckeye State a little more credit than she is entitled to, inasmuch as President Grant is not an Ohioan but an Illinoisan. Perhaps this detraction is compensated for, however, by a little circumstance which the Picayune has overlooked: ahem-ah-excuse these blushes-the editor of the CtIEF is a native of Ohio. The views of Gov. Hampton of $outli Carolina relative to the proper course for the Democrats in Congress to pursue ate thus stated I.think it not advisable to throw obstacles ili the way of the decision of the commission. We submitted our case to that tribunal, and if we have been deceived or betrayed, we can better ai$tod to sunfer defeat, which brings no dishonor to our ptrty, than to incur the imputation of acting in bad faith. Other legitimate means of redress are still open to us, without resorting to parliamentary taootics, which may imperil the peace of the country, and would surely phzee us in a false position. The interests of the whole country demand a peaceful settlement of the pending question. Talks from Gov. Hayes. Governor Hayes made a flying visit to the town of Fremont, Ohio, on Monday, and was tendered an im promptu reception by the citizens and an organization known as the Pioneers. He was introduced by Gen. Buckland, who said : " Friends, I have the pleasure of introducing our President elect, as we believe." Gov. Hayes said : " Friends and neighbors, the manner in which I am introduced makes it ra&tlier easy for me to speak without much embarrassment, but we had better stick to the old title until we are sure of something new. In these times of uncertainty we are often disappointed. The good news of to day is often dispelled by the evil news of to-morrow. During the few months since the 7th of November, I have schooled myself so as not to be very much down, nor very much up, but to try and keep as near the even line as possible. This kindly meeting this evening I do not take so much as hon oring me, as a congratulation upon the manner in which the strange and peculiar question is now being settled. No other country in the world could have endured such a struggle without suffering lasting calamities. In the event of remaining among you for the next two or three years, I will attend the next Pioneer meeting, and bring a bundle of letters and notes, many' of which I am constantly receiving, such as curiously drawn sketches of knives, daggers and revolvers, but I have not lost iouch of my sleep from any of them yet. One of the most amusing wits received this week. It was a knife abont two feet. long, one edge hacked like a saw, probably for sawing the bone, the other side for cutting the flesh; his was wrapped iin several thicknesses of paper, nod in side was a note as follows This is the knife with which the editor of the ('upiliI was to assassinate you, as you went froit the White Hoouse to the Capitol. It was taken froms his pants leg while he was lshep. Well, triends, I think I have talked long enough ; as I .nam in the business of shaking hanlds, I w ould say that I ani in exeelleiit Jhlysiial health, idil if any of you wish to shake hands, I will le glad to do so." Those present then eongrat wlateal the Governor, and the assemblage dispei sed. Hitring the Samne diay Gov. Haves also mastse a bI let speech at. Sillingtit-lzl, Ohio. He hoped the people would acquiesce quietly whoever might be the, person declared elected;" believes the country desires peace and security, and thought. this idea shoudhil e the expression of the people to their rep reeen tativ yes at WVashington. Realiz ing his lack of special fitness for the perforiza nte- of whichi he iniglht lie called, he placed his trust in Almighty God, wt lii iles the destinies of na tiolis. Bayou Lafourche. The Thibodaux Sentinel of February 17 gives some interesting statistics, demonstrating the fertility and pri ductive wealth of the country tray ersed by the Bayou Lafourche. Our contemporary also embraces the op portunity to give another dig at the virtually defunct proposition to block ade the bayou at Donaldsonville. The Sentinel says: In 1861 there was raised and shipped from Bayou Lafourche between Thib odaux and Donaldsouville 76,3a hogs heads of sugar and 100,0IX) to 150,0($) barrels of molasses, all of which found exit by that stream, without estimaut ing the anion ts shipped via this bayou from plantations below Thibo daux and fro0m the Terreboune coun try by means of the canal connecting lower Terrebonue and Lafourche at Lockport. Estimating this crop at $1S$ per hogshead and the molasses at $50 per barrel, it will show a value of over $10,000,($). Bayou Latourche furnished a navi gable inlet for the immense supplies necessarily consumed in the cultiva tion and manufacture of such a crop, consisting of provisions for man, for age for animals, stone coal, lime, hoop poles, fire brick, agricultural imple ments, machinery, etc. It is now proposed to shut off this stream, to remove all means of trans portation from the plantations a dis tance ranging from twenty miles and less, hermetically sealing any entrance by which stone coal could be brought to the planters' front, deprive the peo ple and animals of water in dry weather, and cause the loss of millions of dollars worth of sugar cane in a season such as the last one has been, because water could not be had to make the steam requisite to grind the cane, or stup~ply those plantations which boil their cane juice by steam. If this Lafourche country is to be destroyed and turned into a desert waste there is no surer r more effec tual method of doing so ran to close the bayou at Donaldsonvi le. An agreement betweer the Porte and the Servian envoys was concluded. Prince Milan will address a letter to the Sultan accepting the Turkish con ditions, except those claiming equality for the Jews in Service and the right of the Porte to be diplomatically rep resented at Belgrade. The Sultan will grant Prince Milan a new tirtuan deteriyining the further relations of Servia and Turkey. Our Washington Letter. A Seditious Editor-Impending Democratic Split-Pr.grees of the Count-Cabinet Muaors. WASHINGTON, D. C., Foeb. 22, 1877. EDITOR CHIEF : A more flagrant outrage against the sentiments of civilized humanity, to say nothing of Christianity and decency, has not occurred for many a year than that perpetrated by Don Piatt, audiappearing ibis :paper, the Capital, on Sunday, the 18th inst., and no single incident of the past decade has produced such univbrsal indigna tion as his murderous utterances of that (late have done. The feeling against him is one amounting to ab solute detestation and abhorrence. For years he has allowed his paper to be made the vehicle for gross per sonalities and alleged libelous state ments against those who have pro voked his hostility by personal or po. litical differences of opinion. For some months after he commenced its publication, it played the role of an indepeudent political and social news paper ; but it rapidly drifted into Democracy of a kind typifledby Brick Pomeroy's Democrat. Republican of ficials, particularly President Grant, have been pursued with a purpose as malignant as it was indecent, and Mrs. Grant has not alwaysescaped the kind of distiiiction lie sought to force on tier husb~and. It was for some unfeel ing strictures upon the propriety of her conduct, when she was motrning the death Apt her father, that Fred Grant sought to inflict corporeal pun ishment Piatt's attempt to turn that circuinstance to account to extricate himself from his ugly position, by In timeting that young Grant intended to assassinate him, provokes a smile of dciision with those conversant with iill the taits. The Giand Jury of this District has indicted Piatt, and the feeling is no intense against hint that there is little roomi fit sympathy. The article in quest 1ihti was a long ono of the samii general tenor as is indicated by the extract in his card, wh ich ap petare in the Ereaing Star of the 20th inst., and is as follows: Editor .SZar:-As muy pasnr is not ismued until next Sunday periit re to say a word in response to the turrent of abune that las fallen tin ly hiead. To those who know me it is not necessary for ine to any that nothing was further from my thoughts in penning the editorial of last Sunday than the horrible crime of assanssi nation. Open resistance to a revolutionary I wrong, for which there seams no other re Cistance, is one thing; assassination is an ither. In the sentence so strongly-cow niented upon and denounced, it will appear, when taken in connection with what pnr cedes and follows, that my appeal is made to the people and not to the assassin. The American people are not assassins, nor will I they submit tamely to wrong. Hero is what I said and again repeat: -As we said a week since, this is not law; it is revolution, and if the people tamely submit we may hid a long farewell to eon- 1 atitutional government. Fraud no longer I vitiates, a corrupt antmiinistration has only, by its bayonets, to hold la State usurpation long enough in lower for a corrupt returning board to do its vile task, and the work is J done. If a mnan thus returned to power cant ride in safety from the Executive Mansion to the Capitol, to he inaugurated, we are fitted for the slavery that will tollow the inauguration. We do not believe the people I of the United States are of this servile sort. We do not believe that they are prepared, without a blow, to part with their hard earned blond-staiued possessions." When the time comes that any other sen timtent than the above can be felt and ut tered. I1 for one. shall feel ashamed of my country. Rob the people of the ballot, as these conspirators in power intend, and what have we lefts In the above, however, I have only put in words what the President has embodied in acts. In gathering troopls at the National Capital for the first time in the history of the Republic to anforce an in auguration, he indicated the danger. Then, to make the act the more significant, when ! it was apparent that Tilden was to be in stalled he ordered his troops away. Mr. Tilden, it seems, would need no armed sup pIrt. Then after Justice Davis declined and Bradlly's appointment revived the hopes of Hayes, the order was countermanled and additional troops summoned to Washington. if there is assassimnation in mny suggestion, there is assassination in the liresident's acts. Hle appeals to his anny, I appeal to the peo ple. Let nie in this snggestion, recall to the hor ror stricken minds of these gentlemen an event they sen-t to have forgotten. When the President's son and brother-in-law Casey came to my house in the night time to assault me, in presence of my family, under circun stances that mnnado the attempt, had I been at home, simply atrocious, assassination was regarded in a very cheerful light. It afforded ground for jesting to the very journaln that are now so indignant. However, I only seek to protest the mis counstruction put upon my words. None other than an insane man, Or one desperately wicked, would ever think of assassination, let alone publicly advocate the commission of so horrible a crime. Beyond this I have nothing to say. I ask no odds of these peo ple. They are playing with a dangerous ele ment when they openly innovate upon right sanctioned by time and sanctifled by the blood of the people. They will have enough tQed*in caring for tbenselves, without troub ling me. DONN PIATT. I have devoted considerable of my limited space to this matter on account of the great local disturbance it has occasioned and because of its general intelest. After two caucuses in which the revolutionary copperheads in Congress were defeated by Southern Democrats who presented a virtually united front against them, a decisive vote was reached in the House yesterday upon a filibustering expedient, which ap pears to have rent Democracy in twain, and all the signs seems to point to a large accession to the great national party of progresslve Southern men, heretofore acting with the foreign copperhead Democracy, which dra goosed them into rebellion and then deserted them to their fate. The un natural alliance appears shattered forever. Among Cabinet rumors which are rife is one to the effect that the South will have in it one or wore of its rep resentative men, and that the great West beyond the Missouri is to have a representative. Mr. Morrill by his exceptional successful management of the Treasury Department, has made hosts of friends among the business men and capitalists at home, and amongathose abioad who have a direct interest in the stability and honest administration of that Department, and his retention will probably be strongly urged. The names of Blaine and Morton are also often heard in connection with the new Cabinet. It is thought probable that the count may be concluded by next Tuesday at farthest. Committees are struggling with the appropriation bills in order to get them through before the dlose of the session, which is barely within the range of possibility. Six out of the small circle of rear admirals living at the beginning of the new year, have succumbed to dis ease or old age, or both combined, since that date. Among their names are several which often electrified the nation by their deeds of daring during the late war. Lent with its spare meals and its penance of church going is upon us, and the " society season " is practi cally ended, after a very unenjoyable and unprofitable campaign. SENTINEL. The Marksville Bulletin thus sets forth the advantages which the good parish of Avoyelles offers to itnui grants : We lack in this parish at least 1000 laborers. Few planters have as many hands as they can employ. There is a golden opportunity for the emigrant in search of a home where he will en joy peace, plenty and contentment. Our lands are inferior to none in the State, our climate is all that could be desired, and our people are noted for their kind and hospitable disposition. In the river and the bayous, the soil is inexhaustible, producing wonderful yields, and the prairies are peculiarly adapted to stock raising, fruit grow ing and many other occupations. Ex-Gov. Pinchback thus defends his course, in a letter recently written to a friend at Indianapolis: Knowing that the present pretending Packard government is a monstrous iniquity and its success would entail still futher debauchery and demorali zation upon the race, I resolved to destroy it if possible. 1 have not abandoned the national Republican party, but if to denoucce the thieves in Louisiana, who are fast destroying the manhood and integrity of my peo pie, renders mue ineligible to member ship in it, I shall have to seek shelter elsewhere and continue my struggle for justice and equality for the race. Pettingill says that the first " re turning board " of which he has any recollection was a shingle in the hands of his father. The three-father, son and shingle-used to hold frequent committee meetings in the lback shed, but the returns came in so swiftly that a fair count was impracticable. -Boston advertiser. Never go into a store where you are not wanted. If a man wants you to come to his room lie will invite you to do so, and if a merchant wants you to visit his place of business he will invite you through your home paper. It is very wrong in any one to intrude upon privacy, so don't do it. Weekly News Summary. Foreign. The Sultan's health is good. Russian war preparations continue, The German Reichstag convened on the 22nd ultimo. Russia has placed torpedoes on the Black Sea coast, Austria and Hungary have Oinally arranged the bank question. The tariff over the Anglo-American cable has been fixed at a shilling a word. It is reported that the Cretans re fuse to elect deputies to the Ottoman parliament. A royal decree has been published in Spain permitting the return of Car list refugees. Du Verdier, an Extremist, has been elected President of the Municipal Council of Paris. One English and two French ships are reported lost off the coast of Spain with all on board. Several dock yards will shortly be opened for the relief of the unem ployed of Marseilles. The schooner M. E. Donner was ran down and sunk by the brig Mar iposa. No lives lost. The steamer Franconia, reported wrecked at Cape San Blas, got off, and is safe at Aspinwall. The Montenegrin ambassadors reached Constantinople, and the ar mistice was prolonged by mutual con sent. Th'l'e bark Krouprinzen, from New Orleans for Liverpool. was lost on San Bayetano reefs. The crew were saved. The steamship Ohio ran into the schooner Geo. H. Twibill and cut her in two. The Ohio's boats picked up the crew of the schooner. Adeline Patti has instituted suit at Paris for separation from her husband, the Marquis of Caux. The parties find their tempers incompatible. A violent storm in England and northern France produced much de vastation. Thirty vessels with their crews were lost on the English coast, Domestic. Five business houses burned at Mexia, Texas. Gen. Andrew W. Dennison, poet master at Baltimore, was found dead in his bed. The Opera House, Baptist church and a private residence burned at Waco, Texas. The President has issued a procla mation ratifying the extradition trea ty with Spain. Francisco Viacent Agnilera, Vice President of the Cuban Republic, died in New York on Sunday. The Columbia Life Insurance Com pany of St. Louis has been enjoined from continuing business. A band of Indiaas attacked Sijeriff City, Dakota. One hundred shot were fired; no damage to miners. Ex President Iglesais of Mexico ar rived at San Francisco and is now en route East, via Niagara Falls. Dr. John L. Temple, the founder of the Homeopatic Medical College of Missouri, is dead, aged 70 years. Ford's New American Theatre, Philadelphia, was destroyed by fire; loss $150,000, insurance $75,000. The Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Council Bluffs, Iown, was destroyed by fire. The inmates all escaped. Cardinal Cullen refused to allow the remains of John O'Mahoney to lie in state in the cathedral at Dublin. The Norwegian bark Lief, from Liverpool for Savannah, stranded on Hunting Island, S. C. The crew wpre saved. Revenue officers captured ten dis tilleries and nine men in tre moun tains of South Carolina. No resistance was offered. Henry Rebberger, a workman in Maginnis' Oil Works, New Orleans, shot and killed himself during a fit of temporary insanity. Gen. McArthur, po tmaster of Chi cago, is short $38.000 in his accounts. Mr. Frank W. Palmer has been ap pointed to the position. The St. Louis, Lawrence and West ern Railroad was sold at auction at Lawrence, Kansas, for $200,000, to the mortgage bondholders. A scaffolding gave way at Bethel hem, Pa.. precipitating six men sev enty feet, killing two outright and severely injuring the other four. Mr. Cochran of New Orleans had two ribs broken by a railroad ac cident at Brood's station, on the Lou isville and Cincinnati short line. M. Outrey, the new French minis ter, presented his credentials to the President on the 23rd ult., when the customary addresses were wade. Fonr persoibs named Hurd have been arrested charged with being ima plicated in the killing of Lient. Mo-. Intyre, in the Georgia mountains. Edward Americus, a colored labor, or, was thrown from a gravel train eq the St. Lonis and Chicago railroad, near New Orleans, by men who at tempted to rob him. Americus was discovered twenty-four hours after, waid, unsencible and nearly 4eny 1.