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THE DONALDSONVILLE CHIEF. OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE PARISH OF ASCENSION AND TOWN OF DONALDSONVILLE. VOLUME IX. DONALDSONVILLE, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1879. NUMBER 6. gan~atb5Dubille @tidf. Amicus Humani Generis. A Wide-Awake Home Newspaper Published Every Saturday, at Donalduonville, Amoenion Parish,La., 2 ILIN DEN E. BENTLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. f TERM8' OP SUBSCRIPTION: One copy, one year ..................$2 00 'One copy, six months............... 1 25 Six copies, one year,..................10 00 Twelve copies, one year .............18 00 Payable invariably in advance. ADVERTISING RATES: One Inch of space constitutes a "square." sQUtARis L mo. I2imos. 3 mos. nmos. Iyear I square.. $ 3 0 $ 5 00 $650 $1100 $1500 - 1 squares. 5 10) 8 00 9 50 15 00 20 00 3 squares. 7 00 i1 00 1250 1900 2500 4 squares. 8 50 14 00 15 00 23 00 30 00 6 squcares. 10 00 16 00 17 00 27 00 35 00 - 6 squaoes. Ii 50 18 00 19 00 30 00 40 00 a 7 salatros. 13 53 20 20 21 00 33 00 44 00 a 8 sanares. IS 90 22 00 24 00 36 00 48 00 - j column.. 20 00 30 00 35 00 45 00 460 00 I column . 30 00 40 00 45 00 55 00 75 00 1 column . 40 00 50 00 55 00 65 006100 00 1 Transient advertisements $1 per square first insertion; each subsequent insertion, 7.i cents per saquare. Otlicial advertisements $1 per uquare first insertion; each subsequent publication 50 1 cents per square. a Editorial notices, first insertion, 20 cents per line; subsequently, 10 cents per line. Cards of six lines or less in Business Di rectory, five dollars per annumn. Brief communications upon subjects of public interest solicited. No attention paid to anonymous letters. 'the editor is not responsible forthe views ,of correspondents. Address: CHIEF, Donaldsonville. La. DONALDSONVILLE BUSINESS DIRECTORY. DRtY GOODIS, GRIOCERIIES, Etc. A ). VEGA, Agent, dealer in Dry Goods, " Notions, Clothing, Ioots andt Slaes, fIsts, Groceries, Liqueors, Ftrniture, Hard ware, Tobacco. Paints, Oils, Glass, Lumber, I Bricks, Carts and Wagons; Looh's corner, a Railroad Avenue and Mississippi street. BEILNARD LEMANN. dealer in Western Proadce, fancy and staple Groceries, Liquors, Hardware, Iron, Paints, Oils. Carts, Plaws, Saddicry, Stoves anai Tinware, Fur niture. Crockery. Wall Paper and House Furnishing Goods, Mississippi street, corner Crescent Place. TOSEPHi GON IºRAN. dealer in Clothing, " Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Groceries, Wines, Liquors. Boots, Shoes. Hardware, Paints, Oils, Saddlery, Crockery, Furniture and all kinds of House Furnishing Goods, No. 14 Mississippi street. M TOBIAS, dealer in Groceries, Dry M Goods, Clothing, Notions, Boots and Shoes, flats, Furniture, Hardware, Crock ery, Trunks, etc., corner Mississippi and St. j Patrick streets and No. 24 Railroad Avenue. Everything at lowest figures. C KLINE, corner Crescent Place and l *e Honumas street, dealer in Dry Goods, Notions, Boots and Slaes, Groceries, Pro isioans, Corn, Oats and Bran. M ISRAEL & CO., deales in Dry Goods, M . Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Saddlery, Iluggiei, etc., corner Mississippi street and Railroad A venue. d FEITEL, dealer in Dry Goods, Cloth * ing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Groceries, Furniture, Hardaware and Plantation Sup. plies, at the old Post-office stand, Mississippi street. T MAURIN, dealer in Groceries, Wines, V Liquors, Paints, Oils, Saddlery. Fur niture. Crockery, Oats, Corn, Bran and Hay, Mississippi street. S WEINSCHENCK, dealer in Dry Goods, " Notions, Clothing, Groceries, Hard ware, Hats, Boots and Shoes, and general 'Plantation Supplies. Railroad Avenue, be tween Ibervillo and Attakapas streets. P T. BABIN, dealer in Choice Family I. Groceries,Wines and Liquors. Lamps, Oils, etc. DarrowViUe, near ferry landing, and opposite Donaldson: ille. LIQUOR AND BILLIARD SALOONS. T ILE PLACE, Gus. Israel, manager, Corner Lessard and Mississippi streets. Billiards, Lager Beer, Best Wines and Liquors, Fine Cigars, etc. B UTCHERS' EXCHANGE, P. Mollere, proprietor, Crescent Place, opposite the Market-House. Beat of Wines, Liquors and Cigars always kept at the bar. HOTELS AND BOARDING-HOUSES. RORT. E. LEE HOTEL, at Marx Israel's old stand, corner Mississippi. and Les sard streets. Jos. Lafargue, proprietor. Bar and billiard room attached. First-class en tertainment and accommodations. 1IAMROCK HOUSE, L. Wiese, proprie S tor. Mississippi street, opposite Lem ann's old store. Board and Lodging at the lowest rates. Best Wines, Liquor and Beer. ST. LOUIS HOTEL, Lucy Butler, pro I rietor. Crescent Place, near the wharf. First-lais Board and Lodging at reasonable rates. ' I'1 Y HOTEL. P. Lefevre, Proprietor, J Railroad Avenue. cor. Iberville street. Bar supplied wit& best Liquors. CONFECTIOEIIUES. P HILIP GEIGE'S Comfeetioaery and I ruit Store. Mississippi street, i4joining Leuaanu's old stand. Cakes, Soda Water, ý!ats. teve and Fakncy Articles. D ONALDSONV'LE CONFECTIONERY. by A. Grilhe, Mississippi street. near St, Patrick. Branch on Railroad Avenue, near Opelousas street. Cakes. Fruite, Nuts, soda Water. tee Cream. Cakes. Lee Cream and Syrups for weddings and parties tur nished on short notice. CIGAR DEAlER. JOSE REBEItT. Dealer in Havana & Domestic Cigars. Tobacco, Snuff, Pipes, etc., cor. Mississippi and St. Patrick streets. JOS. THOMPSON, Railrosd Avenue. seat door to corner of Conway street, near the depot, dealer in Havana and Domestic Cigars, Tobacco. Sug. Pipes, etc. MILI4WERY. BKRS. M. BLUM. Milliner, Mississi pi I street. between Lessard and f#. P rick. Latest styles of Bonnets, Ijat, Vrnshok Flowers, etc.; also, all kinds of Ladies' Un derwear. RS. J. FEVRIER, Milliner; all kinds of R Hats, Bonnets. Trimmings. Artiicial Flowers and Fancy Articles, corner Missie sippi and Lessard streets. SEWING MACHINES. ginger Sewing Machine DEPOT, A orner Mississippi and Lessard streets. 3. H. Keyser ............. Agent, C irs. Octavia Ialey ..............Saleslady. CASVASSERs: A J F. Bourgeois, Herman Bernard, A. P. Hebert, J. W. Guthrie, C. L. Brand. 1. O. Rivet,................Plaquemine. IOUTHERN SEWING MACHINE DE POT, No. 155 Rai;road Avenue. Agents S or the " White," " Wilson," " New Home," ` Wheeler and Wilson." " Victor," " New )avis," and "Sigwalt." Also manufac urers' agents for all kinds of Sewing Ma- A shine Needles, Attachments, Silks, Flax. 3atterns Oil, etc. Repairing of all kinds lone anti warranted. LIVERY STABLES * UNDERTAKING. CHONBERG'S Livery, Feed and Sale Stable and Undertaker's Establishment, tailroad Avenue, between Iberville and At- l akapas streets. Competition defied. A DRUGS AND MEDICINES. B RYBISKI, Apothecary and Druggist, " Mississippi street, between St. Patrick I md St. Vincent streets, adjoining Gondran's tore. CENTRAL DRUG STORE, corner Rail road Avenue and Iberville street, L. Blanchard, poaprietor. Fresh Drugs and Medicines. SADDLERY..-HARNESS-MAKING. J OSEPH HISS, Saddler and Harness Maker, 15J Railroad Avenue, Saddles mnd harness of all styles and prices made to j irder. All orders for repairing and paint ug of Carriages and Buggles promptly ex- A icuted. HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING. R J. GREEN, House, Sign and Ornamen R tal Painter, Railroad Avenue, near Claiborne street. Paper-hanging and Calci- I wining in superior style. CABINET MAKING---UPHOLSTERING. C e. GRUBE, Cabinet Maker and Up * bolsterer. Railroad Avenue, near Mis aissippi street. Furniture repaired and var jished, Moss. Hair and Spring Mattresses -e ,aired and made over, Cane-seat Chairs ecottomed. Orders for country work re (pondled to promptly. BARBER SHOP. L L. FERNANDEZ. Barber Sbop, Mis s sissippi Street, near corner Lessard. Shaving, hair-cutting, shampooing, etc., in I n ost natistic style. BOOT AND SHOE MAKING. GOETTE, Boot and Shoemaker, Mis L. * sissippi street, opposite Maurin's store. 4,ll work in best style at bottom prices. TINSMITH. OUIS J. RACKE, Tinsmith, Mississippi L street, at Leumnn's old stand. Orders attended to with dispatch and satisfaction nsured. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Frederick Duffel, R. Prosper Landry. DUFFEL d- LANDRY, Attorneys at I Law. Office on Chetimaches street, nat back of the Court-House. EDWARD N. PUGH, Attorney at Law, Attakapas street, opposite Louisiana Square. Visiti Napoleonville on Mondays. PHOTOGRAPHY. EW PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY, on N Railroad Avenue, opposite Post-oflice; Renry Gart7, proprietor; new rooms and improved facilities for doing fine work ; all tyles and sizes of pictures from 50 cents up ward; copying and enlarging from old and Faded pictures a specialty. ward; copying anti eniarging arouni uu uuu faded pictures a specialty. MUSICAL INSTRUCTION. LAUIIENT L. COMES, Professor of Mu tic, residence one mile below town. My prices are moderate and can but prove satisfactory to all those who are desirous of receiving a sound musical educati.'n. SODA WATER MANUFACTORY. SODA WATER MANUFACTORY, H. Hlether, proprietor, No. 11 Mississippi street. Soda, Mineral, Seltzer and all kinds of aerated waters manufactured, and sold at lowest prices. DR. J. B. VANDEGRIFF OFFICE : 4ttak::pas street, near the Court-House, .IDh aldsonvIlle, La. DR. W. IL. McGALIJARD Ottice in Crescsn.t Place, Deon.lduonvilie, EU. LAWr AND NOTARIAL OFFICE. R. N. Sims, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Donaldsonville, La. Practice in Ascension, Assumption and St. I James. c ch22-ly 1 EDIIUND MAURIN, ATTODNUT AT LAW, Office: Opposite the Court-House, t Donaldsonville, La. Practices in the Fourth Judicial District, -comprising the parishes of Ascension, St. James, St. Charles and St. John Baptist- I and the parish of Assumption. apr19 t PAUL LECRE, ATTORUNT AT L.AW, Donaldsonville, La., Office: One block below the Court House, on Attakapas street. my24-ly fi S. LANG, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Donaldsonvifle, La.*, Odice: On Claiborne street, pear corner Railroad Avenue, formerly occupied by Morris Marks. mylO-ly John H. Ialey, Jr., F. B. Earhart. ILSLEY & EARHART, ATTOR.NTS AT LAW, Otfice: Opposite the Court House, Donaldsonville, La. Practice in the Fourth Judicial District (comprising Sr. Charles, St. John. St. James sad Ascension parishes), and in the Supreme and United States Courts. my31-79 RA, OBERRAMP, Jr., Barber and Hairdresser, Crescent PInes, adjoining St. Louis Hotel, ponaJdpouville, La. Shaving, Hair Cuttipg, Dyeing. Shampoo gin. etc., in egaunt sty at pod rate * auge THE WIFE'S PRAYER AND THE DRUNKARD'S RESOLVE. Hush, my dear! the winds are moaning Through the ragged window pane, And the rotten roof is groaning 'Neath the torrent-failing rain; Close thine eyes and let them alumber Through the darkness of this night, And hear not the awful thunder That will roll before the light. Hark ! seems now I hear a footfall; Ah! twas but that hingeless gate Dashed again by storm-king's fury, Dealing out its due of fate. Sleep my child! the lightning's flashes a May but calm thy sweet repose; But tiny mother's tired lashes When they'll rest but heaven knows. v Al I upon my eyesight painted, a Holy scenes of long ago, With the sparks of radiance tainted, Sweet as clearest sunset's glow; t When, within the harvest garnered, I a blushing bride was seen, With a youth whose brow was tarnished Not with sin's dark, loathsome screen. But the change I oh, tearful wailing! 0 My poor heart can scarce contain 5 All the woe that lies there railing, - In its bitter, sad refrain; When the tempter, vile and sullen, ti Tore the splendor from that brow Swept the luster from those eyeballs- ' Darkened orbs of misery now. a Yes, he comes! I hear him stumble; a Oh, my God, but bear me up! 'Mid the thunder's pealing rumble, t Help me dreg this bitter cup; Help ae still the wail of anguish That seems bursting from my breast; a Blessed Jesus, waft me heavenward Let me on Thy bosom rest! Ahli the door behind him closes; Seemns he walks with firmer tread, t And those eyes seem not as burning As when tinged with Satan's rod; t As before the grate he's standing, In the firelight's fading glow, Seems I see a manly picture, One I'd seen long years ago. "Wife!" he turns, and o'er his feature Gleamings of angelic light Seem to feat in waves of splendor, Driving ebut the horrid night. Sifting from my care-worn bosom All the loads of sorrow there, Filling up that hour with gladness, Banishing all thoughts of care. "Ere to-night you hushed the sobbings t Of our boy in yonder bed; Ere you'd brushed the golden ringlets That are shrouding his young head; ; While you were with tears bemoaning That this home should be his fate; When thou saidet the winds are roaring, And the night is dark and late; "I beneath the eve was listening Listening to your ouffered prayer; Heard you sobbing o'er our offspring, Heard and trembled standing there; As I heard the cold rain pattering 2 On the roof above my head, I resolved to shun the tempter, 'Ere another tear was shed. e "There I kneeled beneath the window, Gazing toward the clouded heave, Asking God, if e'er his aid Unto mortal man was given, ( That He'd let it strengthen me, Through this scene, my hour of need; C Help ne to save my labor's worth, The mouths of wife and child to feed. "And he heard me, wife* I've conquered; I no more will touch tine cup, 1 That with bell's dark doom is mantled, That has burnt my earnings upi! I no more on earth will cause thee In thy loneliness to shed Tears of anguish o'er our offspring, That now lies on yonder bed. "But while heaven is all aglowing, And all earth's a bounteous store, I will try to be more grateful Than I've ever been before; I will try to heal the rupture That has torn thy heart in twain; I will try to soothe thy sorrow, And receive thy smile again." -Chicago Ledger. WAITING. I have waited for thy coming Till the moon has sunk to rest, Far behind the distant mountaine, In the gorgeous, blushing west I And the stars look down upon me, Wondering why I linger here; But I shall not tell the story. I will keep it many a year. At the sound of each faint footstep, Made by gentle, fairy trend, I start up. with hope returning Of a vision that has ged. E'en the stars will not betray me, Tell the secret to thy ear; So I wait, alternate hoping. For the voice I fain would hear. But the one light, merry footfall Will not coume, it seems to mee; And I fail to hear the music Of that voice of richest glee. Yet I wait, as I have waited, Though the grass is moist with dew, For thy light and fairy footstep. Hoping still that thou art true! Justice to Nicholls. Claiborne Guardian. The most honorable act that was performed by the convention was the resolution laudatory of Gov. Nicholls. It was proper that the Demuo- racy of Louisiana should place upon the rec ords an acknowledgement of the debt they owed our Governor. And it was besides a stern rebuke to those jour nals and politicians who have growled at him persistently for some months past. We have every confidence in the ability of Mr. Wiltz. but we have grave doubts as to his filling the posi tion of Governor so acceptably to the umasses as did Gov. Nicholls. Our present executive will soon retire into private life. He will cal ry with him the reverence of the people and the gratitude of the State. His fame needs no vindication except that that will lae given him by the sober thought of the people when they in after days when they institute their own comparisons. We assert again, as we have heretolore, that Gov. Nicholls is the best of all the govern ors that Louisiana has had for many years. It is a source of pleasure for us to remember that we have taken no part in the abuse that has been heaped on him. YELLOW FEVER.-In Morgan City and Bayou Bosuf this plague cor tinues its fatal work. In Assumption it appears to have died out. At La fourche Crossing it still lingers, two deaths being reported during the week. On Thursday, Mr. J. S. Per kin's daughter, near Raceland, died under circumatances that indicated that yellow fever was the cause. In Thibodaux there is not now, nor has there been, any fever of any kind this summer.-Thibodasa Sentinel. Our Broadbrim Letters. Degenerated Ohurohee-Pedestrian Pho bia-Attempted Murder and Sui cide-Politics, Produce sad Gold. NEW Yoas, Oct. 11, 1879. EDITOR CHaF : A stranger taking a stroll through New York, would at once put it down as a very ungodly city, and if lie did, I am not quite sure that he would be very far out of the way. On Grand street, and Prince street, and Ninth street and Broadway, stand churches, the names of which are historical. Here, as late as ten years ago the dis ciples of Christ dispensed the bread of life alike to the lambs and the sheep. Grand old apostles were these same priests; and I have one now in my mind's eye, who preached the Word of God from an old pulpit for more than fifty years. He came among his people, a young man of thirty, and they laid him away to rest at the age of eighty-four. It is only ten years ago, since, under that sacred roof, hundreds of old Knicker backers gathered around the coffin of that aged minister of Christ; and to day, negro minstrels kick op their heels above the spot where once his holy altar stood, and brazen women, scantily clad, display their faded charms, almost minus the fig-leaf which distinguished our mother Eve a few days after the fall. No less than twenty prominent chutches in this city are occnpied as theatres, auction rooms or stables, while many have been swept out of sight entirely by the insatiable de mands of trade. On the corner of William and Ful ton streets stood old St. George's Church, which, in revolutionary times, was one of the great centres of ortho dox faith, as understood by the Epis copal Church. At its altar both rebel and royalist knelt to receive the Holy Sacraments. Just previous to the evacuation of the city, Sir Henry Clinton, surrounded by his staff, re ceived the blessing of the attendant minister and partook of the bread and wine; and a few weeks after, Washington and his staff knelt in the same place and after partaking the Sacred Elements, heard prayers offem ed up for the safety and protection of !U Utº to, 1 t e º - masco ass p www.w n.... , uis Moat Gracious Majesty, our be- kno oved Sovereign, by the Grace of God, the Cing George the Third. As late as Wer .840, St. George's Chapel had still an lmnp iristocratic congregation, and divided sum with Trinity, the patronage of the with letter sort of people, who clung to A' he old church and the old time faith. see Vhen the glory of St. George's was sulhj ading, an Evaigilist appeared, who gree itruck the key-note of a new revels- hal ion, and the Fulton-street noon-day and jrayer-meeting was inaugurated. It diffe a difficult, sometimes, to trace the eart cause of the inspiration, but on these all I Meetings descended a Pentacostal they shower, such as the old church had all 1 never known, even in the zeniih of and ta gloiy. Merchants left their offices to s mnd ledgers, and bankers their dis- pub :ounts and exchanges, and, in comn- ducs pany with prize-fighters and harlots, eat i knelt at its altar and asked forgive- for Mess for their sins. That was a quar- am :er of a century ago, and for years like ifter, the walls of old St. George's re are sounded with the jubilant henms of like ransomed sinners, who had been the3 matched as brands from the burning. goos Then the devil began to get a foot- becu toid, jind the cupidity of trustees de- gu toted the old church to destruction. becf First, the old grave-yard was invaded the3 mnd the bones of old christians which me[ sad lain there a hundred years, were I di lug up from their honored resting dhe ,ace and rudely carried away. Over day heir graves huge buildings were of t rected, which at once became a great F source of revenue; foot after foot was diet taken from its grounds, and finally still he old church itself was pulled down. to ti But, inasmuch as the ground on which D the church stood was granted by the of a isiginal donor exclusively for church a re purposes, in order to keep it from re- of ti rerting to the heirs, the wily Presby- the ters devoted a little room in the cei- the tre of the building to be used for gos- stre peh purposes, and by this adroit trick, of tI have cheated the dead man's descend- pro' rnts of their rights, suc trad The Fulton street gospel prayer mteeting which started twenty-five years ago goes nominally on to-day, but it is only the ghost of its former self, or like Sampson, it is shorn of its A locks. The few pious old gentlemen out who have charge of the church funds self which they treat as their own private Thi property, gather every day at twelve the o'clock, and offer a short prayer for soi the heathen in foreign lands, and for the speedy conversion of the Jews. -ue! In a few years even these will have eve passed away, the gospel room will be wil given to the money changers, and the antiquarious will search in vain for the site of old St. George's chapel. We are still suffering from the pe destrian phobia, the virus has taken a deep hold and keeps breaking out in new and unexpected spots. The disgrace with which the so-called champion Weston has covered him self, culminated las4 Tunsday with the Astley Belt. A persistent credi tor who sticks to him like a leech, has filed a lieu on the British trophy, and It would be a new phrase in pedestri anism if a legal process helped as to do that which Weston's legs failed to do, to wit: to keep the champion's belt from going across the water. For once our smart reporters for all the dailies have been thrown off the track. The wife of the great Colonel Sellers last week applied for a divorce. Various causes were assigned for the application,, but Broadbrim was the only newspaper man who was able to penetrate the secret. Some people thought that there was a woman in the case, but those who know the Colonel best, immediately dismissed the slander, for it is well known to his friends west, he would not look at a woman through a telescope. The truth of the matter is, that he has been devoting himself for many months past, to perfecting a double back-action trap for the extermina tion of cock-roaches. The experi ments have consumed a good deal of money, and during the time he has been compelled to feed Miss Marie Gordon nee Mrs. Col. Sellers on tur nips and water. The lady objected to the diet, the Col. swore it was fit for kings *nmd emperors. The case was referred to Judge Davis, who, seeing no probability of a compro mise, very judiciously granted a di- vorce. I beg, however, you will not mention this, as in case the author should be discovered, I might possi. hily be imprisoned for contempt of co r.....f court. al On Wednesday, Clinton Market a' was thrown into a state of intense ex citement at the attempted assassina- g; tion of a German butcher by a jealous i husband, who closed the drama by 3 blowing his own brains out. The n butcher swears that he is innocent of 'o offense, and the wife swears that she cI knows nothing of the bu -her. What b. the dead man wonld wear to if he- c were in swearing co ition, it is quite it impossible to tell, i#ut it is fair to pre- f sume that his i h would not agree ti with either thF'womean or the butcher. As the eleution approaches, politics it seems to 'gross almost every other a subject. The Democrats, of both de- It grees, and the Republicans also, have a had their grand ratification meetings, 13 and after carefully listening to their c' different statements, I cannot see any a earthly reason why they should not ne all be victorious,-they ought to be, they all deserve it, -because they are ti all going to stop all sorts of stealing, i and they are each, individually, going c to supervise the expenditure of the tI public funds; they ate going to re- V duce taxation, and put none but hou- " est men in office, so I look hopefully h forward to the good time coming. I rI am going to vote for all of them. I t like the Greenbackers, because they u are going to give us plenty; and I like the Hard-money mn:^ becauset they are going to tmake gaeethaciis as d good as gold; I like the Republicans, C because they are in favor of honest t government, and I like the Democrats b because they can watch them, and rt they are in favor of honest govern- e ment, too. They are all so good that 6 I don't feel that I can spare any of t them, ind therefore, next election j day, I am going to vote for the whole d of them. t Flour, wheat, cotton, wool, cotn, 0 cheese, butter, cattle and sheep, are a still going from us in a mighty stream t to the starving millions of Europe. t During the present year, thirty totes t of solid gold have so fatr come back as rt a reward to the farmers and planters of the United States. Here we feel e the beating of the nation's pulse in S the mighty crowds !hat throng our streets from the risieg to the setting of the sun. Times have certainly im proved; it is years since I have seen i such activity in every department of trade, and hoping that the tidal wave is felt by you, I am, Yours truly, BROADBRIM. A New Jerseay girl will not marry unless her husband will pledge him- t self in adva, ce to lick thirteen dif ferent men who have aroused her ire. The thirteen weigh 2,280 pounds, and the girl won't And a husband for some time to come. ; Love is sentiment-marriage is bus iness, says the Boston Transcript, and every employe of a cradle factory is I willing to back it up in the assertion. Our Washington Letter. sa 84 A Glut of Gold-Water Wanted-Oheaper 1,1 Whiskey Wanted-A.Xonumental V Fraud, etd. WAsINToroN. D. U., Oct. 8, 1879. EDITOR CIEF : No one bas yet seen the Treasury beleagured by crowds of hungry ap- I plicants for gold as was predicted by at the anti-resumptionists if specie pay. ti ments became a fixed fact. The ques. be tion that confronts the Secretary is how to dispose of the vast aggregation ti of the precious metals that now gorge t1 the vaults of the Treasury. Every M effort to scatter this accumulation di among the people is met by a greater el flow Treasury ward. Any party bav- in iug pay ments dore from the Govern- b meat can have legal tenders in gold, Is eilver or greenbacks at his option. T There is no necessity for this hoard. ti ing of gold and the Secretary intends sl to exhaust all his power under the it law to put it into circulation. Every ti dollar paid out as well as every dollar m brought to our shores to buy bread- gi stuffs, is a healthful inflation of the b currency, as the Secretary is now pre. P vented by law from reducing the vol. m ume of legal tenders by their destruc- tr tion. Gold is now simply money, no N better than silver and greenbacks, the to other members of the trinity of values, h that is the best currency the world Y ever Paw. The bats and owls hold o high carnival where not long ago gold tI was sold as merchandise and the shy locks gloated and fed on the fruits of to this traitlic, a canker that ate the tI heart nearly out of our national life. g Water, water for the Capital is the ca topic that ab-orbs public attention a and is demanding the best thought it of the engineer department of the Government. The growth of the city, the increase in water takers, the draft made by fountains in parks and res ervations, exhausts the present sup ply and renders it absolutely necce C sarry that Congress should make anu appropriation for the construction of an immense conduit tapping the Po- tl tomac with its exhaustless resources C gathered from the, ten thousand cool- a ing springs awar the monuntains of Marylalnd and Vi inia. This is our e nation's Capital, the soon to be Paris ri of this larnd ad the most beautiful a city in the world. Let, then, water is be free as the air we breathe, while e cooling fountains, wate: jets and min iature lakes shall be air emblem of freedom to strangers, sojourners and f, residents. poste The patriots who were instrumental ccor to pre in reducimig the tax apon tobacco are State already marshaling their forces and tion hope to demonstrate conclusively to of jai a Congress made up of economical po a Bourbons the absolute necessity of civil cheaper whiskey. The people who electi are sober and temperate, and who do the n not help to swell the revenues by tme s making torch-light processions of levee themselves, it is urged, have little ease interest in the matter, but the other chant prote class known as consumers feel that and the imposition of so heavy a tax is of thi very onerous and tends to interfere ports with the drinker's personal liberty, 8, of hence the cmy of tIe Bouirboi is natmi- State rally for cheaper spirits regardless of the p the fact that the revenues were dime- oRe inished $9,000,000 by the reduction is e, of the tobacco tax. secur The equalization of bounties of sol- tion tion, diets will demand the attention of overn Congress this winter. Already a peopl strong interest is being awakened in their behalf of this just measure. The ar- ral rears of pensions came none too soon, away either as a measure of justice to the liviom soldiers or tie great good of the coun- ic of try. The scattering of $25,000,000 elect in payment of arrears of pensions has Ruth done much to revive slugglish imdus the tries everywhere. The equalization tWrio of bounties will nmtumally help many effect a poor soldier who passed through plots the war withiott incurring a disability odiml that enrolls his name among the bat- and a tie-scarred veterans on Lhe pension Cons rolls. peali now The President will vote at the Ohio the election on the 14th of this month. igain So will Secretary Sherman. for fello" Gen. Grant contines to receive the Re most cordia welcome from people of the 5 cu~rirmltives all parties, races and creeds wherever Stati lie appears in California. ackn Our first really National Fair begins the 2 on the 28th of this month on excellent grounds near the city. Every thinm milil is being done to make it attractive. hibit Of course next year's will be better, Fed( but simply because we shall know le more. There is plenty of money and tem. ! plenty of determination this year. Senmi I don't suppose the " regular" fiord Democrats of Maasachusetts, expect RA to elect John Quincy Adams Governor now of time State, but everybody here is of sled opinion that the choice of a candidate =is m was an excellent one. to IL The number of emigrants arriving mig in New York during the month of September was nearly double the number that sarived In September, 1878. An unusual proportion of them have gone or will soon go West to settle on farms. The "Army of the Cumberland" meets in this city in November. A statue of Gen. George H. Thomas, the noblest Roman of them all, will be unveiled. Of all the farces and humbugs in this country, one of the greatest is that of the so-called, " Washington Monumental Association," which un dertook the erection of a monument some twenty-five years ago, and dur ing the last twenty years it can not be discovered that any progress has been made looking to its completion. The action of the present board of trustees, or rather non-action, plainly shows an entire want of efficiency and interest in the progress and comple tion of the work. This Washington monument business has become a Ais grace to all concerned, and it is a burning shame that the American people have no higher regard for the memory of the " Father of his Coun try " than to allow it to be trifled with as it has been by those assuming to have it in charge. It has been hoped at times during the last few years that the work would be pushed on with vigor. Congress should see that it is. Hon. John M. Langston, our Minis ter to Hayti, spoke last evening in this city on the subject of Negro emi gration. He is an enthusiastic advo cate of it, differing in that respect with the older and wiser Fred Doug lass. Yours, SENTINEL. Democratic-Conservative Plat form. The following is the text of the platform adopted by the Democratic Conservative convention at. Baton Rouge: Resolved, As heretofore declared, that our designation of Democratic Conservative party of Louisiana is significant of the power of the whole body of the people, and is used to ex press our 4dterminatioaJo: asesre, *every citizen of the State the equal rights guaranteed to him by the con stitution of the United States and its ameudmnets, and to promote reform r in every depanrtmeut of the State gov ernment. in every lepumtmiluL or trie .tale gov eminment. Resolved, That lhe Demmoeratic-Con f servative party of Louisiana has no other object in view than to preserve I for the present generation and for posterity the National government I according to the spirit of the framers; to protect and guard the rights of the States as determined by the constitu I tion and the decisions of the courts º of jm'atice; to promote and advance popular education; enforce a proper subordinate of the military power to civil authority; protect the purity of ) elections and encourage and develop the material resources of our peopie. Resolved, That the improvement of the Mississippi river, the building of f levees on the bank, so as to afford ease and safety for commerce, and a channel for navigation as well as to protect the valley from inundation, t and the keeping open of the mouth of the river, is a work of national im portance, evidently warranted by a just construction of article 1, section 8, of tle constitution of the United States, which confers upon Congress f the power to regulate commerce. Resolved, That the union and co operation of all citizens of Lonisiana is earnestly invited, in order to secure the adoption of the constitu tion now offered for their considers. tion, and to prove by a great and f overwhelming popular vote that the n people of the State have exercised their rightful power to ordain and es tabiush for themselves an organic in strument of government, and to do away with forever and consign to oh e livion the constitutioni of 1876 as a rel ic of wrong and military oppression. Resolved, That the counting of the D electoral vote of Louisiana in favor of s Rutherford B. Hayes for President of the United States, and Wrm. A. Wheeler for Vice President, was no toriously a fraud on popular rights, Y effected by evil machinations, the lj plots and conspiracies of the late odious Radical State administration 1 and their aiders and ahettors at home - and abroad ; and that the Democratic n Conservative party of Louisiani, ap pealing to the evidence of the case as now published by authority, arraign o time authors of this great crime a. against liberty and the constitution, for the just condemnation of their fellow-citizens. e Resolved, That the Democrats of i the Senate and House of Representa tives of the 'ungress of the United r States are entitled to the grateful aeknowledgmemts of the country for is the zeal, fidelity mind courage shown i by them in securing the passage of laws by which the interference of the umilitary at the polls has been prm p. I-hibited and the m ial by jury imi the Federal courts made: impartial. r Resolred, Thns the rights, liberties, w lhe interests and hoior of Louisiana d temand that ler rightfully chosen Senator in Congress, Henry M. Spof ~ ford, be' at last reongnized and duly seated. Lt Resolred, That Francis T. Nicholls, r now Governor of Louisiana, is endim Ssled ro mime graitefmil acknmwlcdgmsemnm of his filsow-ihizees for his .mtriot e ism anal pumlimi s1e, ic'eS, his devotion to Louisianm mind his success iim effect mg lag the redi multion of her liberties.