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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-12-23
ADVERTISEMENTS.
WANTED
100 LabO1.e7-S :

To work on the Levees. Apply to V. Z. NJ.
Anderson, at the Acadia Store, right bank,
st. James parish, or at Lacroix's levee, three
miles below Donaldsonville
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Thanks to Mr.. John d. Cant; y
Clerk of the Court, for a Kindness
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people. It is not because we love a
lord, but because we like to enjoy
ourselves, that we welcome the Rus
sian with such enthusiasm.
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Attention is called to the advertise
ment IF the Town Treasurer giving
notice that he viii award at public
auctioe, on the End day of january
next, 20 the last and highest bidder,
the faI1a of the Mississippi River ferry,
right ,.ank; the farm of the Market
house nd market dues and the farm
of the Wharf and landing dues.
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There is probably by this time a
force If two hundred men at work
on th@New River levee, in the upper
portion of the parish, and under the
direction OF the energetic contractor,
Mr.. A. ). barrow, there is every guar
antee that the work at this point
will bR completed in the very short
est possible time. The extent of the
levee 10 be built is about mile and
q quarGer.
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vile.
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ter
Especial attention will be given to the de-
partment OF home news, and among the
LOCAL JOTTINGS"
will always be found an account of transpir-
lrg events in the Town of Donaldsonyille and
Parish of Ascension
Besides the Local Jottings," there will
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EST. JAMES ITEMS
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joining parish of st. James, transmitted us
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TERMS FOR 1871,

Harper's Magazine, one year ..... 81 90
Harper's Weekly, one year 90
Harper's Bazaar, one year 90
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DONALDsONVILLE, La,
Saturday, December %, 1871.
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CORPORATION OF DoNALDsoNvILLE,
Arnor..l,.a.. 1 Z
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-05-11
CURIOSITY

Silver Springs, Florida, is one OF the
greatest curiosilies in the South. 1t
bursts forth ia the midst of the most
fertile country in the State. 1t bubbles
no in basin near one hundred feet deep
and about an acre in extent, and sending
from is a deep stream sixty to one hun
dred feet wide, and extending six to
eight miles TO the Ocktawaha river. In
the spring itself fifty boats may lie at an
chor-quite fleet. The spring thus
forms natural inland port, to which
large steamers now run regularly from
the st. Johns, making close connections
with the ocean steamers az Pilstka. The
clearness of the water is truly wonderful.
1t seems even more transparent than air /;
YOU see the bottom eighty feet below the
bottom of your boat, the exact form OF
the smallest pebble, the outline and color
of the leaf that has sunk, and all the
prismatic colors of the rainbow are re-
flected. Large fish swim IN II every
scale visible and every movement ciss
tinctly seen. If you go over the spring
in boat you viii see the fssures in the
rocks. from which the river pours up
ward like an inverted cataract.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-05-11
BOSTON.
Gen Iogan,s Grand Army.

Gen LORan'S 6T6kbO
BosToN, May l0.-The National Con
yention of the Grand Army of the Re
public assembled at noon, Gen. Logan in
the chair. One hundred and fifty dele
gates were present from nearly every
Northern State. The proceedings were
held with closed doors.
General Logsn in his speech denied
that the organization is political one,
aud advocated open sessions, and pos
itively declined reelection. The annual
election is postponed till Thursday.
"Pcace al Any Price.1
To dispatch received from the Peace
Union of New York reply was voted that
the Grand Army of the Republic are de-
termined to have peace if they have to
fight for it.
Washington and Grant THE Bat
tie above the Clouds.
There was q grand reception at Faneuil
Hall tonight. The Hall was profusely
decorated. The names of Washington
and Grant were lrominently displayed.
Music, toasts and responses comprised the
exercises. The "Bsttle above tue clouds"
called up Gen. Hooker, who said the
battle of Lookout Mountain had never
been fully understood, bat he had sub
mitted the leading features to an artist,
who would present it to the public in q
true light in about year.
magisteriaI Danes.
Gov. Clafin has appointed Julia Ward
Howe, and Mrs. Stevens, Of Cambridge,
Justices of the Peace for Suffolk county.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-05-11
PLAYING a TRICK ON THE PEDA.
GOGCE.

The young misses of 3 certain institu-
ton of learning in this city, a few days
ago, sought relaxation from tie care of
study, by concocting scheme to surprise
one of the gentlemen connected Herewith.
The design was speedily followed by ex-
ecutiOn, and in few minutes u pile OF
books, two or three shawls, q veil, hat,
a pair of gloves and two remnants of
chignons, were magically transformed in
to the semblance of a woman, occupying
chair in the teacher room, Ostensively
awaiting his arrival The teacher lifted
bis hat as he entered, bowed and blushed
little as he spoke pleasantly to the lady,
doubtless wondering who she was and
Whist her mission. But the lady q spoke
not in reply, neither moved, which
astOnished not little the polite peda
gogue. A second bow, and vigorous
"ahem," tended to somewhat increase
his embarrassment, particularly as his
visitor remained St0tu quo in severe mill
tary rigidity. Then the janitOr was found,
and induced TO make inquiry of the
strange visitor the nature of hsrvisit, but
falling to elicit response, suspected the
genuineness of the article, and immediate
ly thereafter discovered the ''sell, which
intelligence he promulgated to the mingled
Joy and chsgrin of the dumbfounded
knight of the rod. The effigy was re-
moved to closet aud there put under
lock; some of the girls fingered for some
time after dismissal, hut at last sauntered
homeward, two or three of them without
sbaWls, one bare e-headed, and several
partially shorn of their hirsute ad0rn-
ments.-DoytOl (OhiO) Journal.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-05-11
THE TRUTH IN a FEW WORDS

The Lynchburg Va.) Ne10s says :
What Radicalism wauls us to do is TO
vote the Radical ticket. If we will do
that, and re elect the Grant administra
ton, we might drive the whole negro
race into the Atlsniic, without incurring
the displeaure of the party in power.
We rather think that in that event they
would like to see us do it. If we choose
to have peace We can have it by sur
rendering the power OF the general gov
eminent to Radicslism without resis.
tance. Ii the Southern States will go for
Grant they will be left TO manage their
local affairs as they please. Whether
that on the whole, would be the wisest
policy is question which those who see
fl, to entertain it, may ponder at their
leisure. But nothing short of that viii
be satisfactory.
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a FORTY THOUSAND DOLLAR
HORSE,

We learn that Mr.. Smith, Of the firm
of Smith, Gould IS Martin, of New
York, the owner of the famous trotters,
Lady Thorn, Goldsmith, Maid, Idol,
Tammany, aud many others of grest
speed, purchased the young stallion Soc
rates few days ago, paying $4,000 for
him. Socrates is most promising high
bred horse, being by HanDiCtOnian out Of
q Star mare. 1t will be remembered
that he won the f0ur-yesr O,d
colt stakes al Prospect Park fair grounds
last autumn, beating several very fast
colts. He has greatly improved since
then, and it is said that he can now trot
very low down in the tTcniies. He will
be a valuable horse both for the track and
the stud. Socrates is one of the finest
looking horses in the country, being d
bright bay, fifteen hands three inches
high, powerfully yet gracefully proper
lioned, and his style OF trotting is unex
ceptionsble.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-05-11
THE PENNSYLVANIA KU-KLU


THE PENNSYLVANIA KU-KLUN'
When President Grant issued his Ku-
Klux proclamation one week ago, he
stated therein that the law ''applies to all
parts of the United States and will be en-
forced every where" For the sake of
humanity, we hope he will have to wait
many years before he finds any where in
the country such an excuse for the appl-
cation of the law, as now exists in Penn
sylvania. Midnight raids on property,
men beaten 10 death and their bodies cast
into swsmps, the industries of large
section of country brought TO standstill
by wide spread terrorism, peaceful labor
ers working for their wives and little
ones with a halter round their necks-
and all this the direct result of secret and
unlawful combinations-such is the stu
alton in Eastern Pennsylvania The fact
that this frightful condition of affairs has
now continued for months, with no pros
pect of abatement, may be taken as evil
dence that the authorities are either un-
able or unwilling to sustain law and order.
The fact that the State militia are largely
miners and sympathise with their brethren
presents an additional excuse tx the in
terference of Federal soldiery. WY then
is not the law applied Is Gen. Grant
afraid of Gov. GesryG Or was the Pres
ident sincere when he formally announced
only week ago, that he would exhaust
the powers vested in the Executive by
the hu-Klux law, "whenever and
wherever it shall become necessary to do
So" He will wait long while before
he viii fnd such an opportunity in the
South as Pennsylvania presents. The
victims, it would appear, aremainly Irish.
and probably Democrats. Does this ex.
plain the apparent apathy of the Exeeu.
uve2
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-05-11

In the course of the discussion in the
German Parliament on the I'd inst, on
the annexation of Alssce and Lorraine,
Prince Bismarck is reported as saying,
Gas for the inhabitants still sverse to
their fatherland, we shall strive to win
them back" The sentiment is worthy of
a true statesmen. There are two ways
of winning back people; one, by the
sword; the other, by Cancellation and
kindness. Despots and demogogues usual
ly choose the former; statesmen aud pa
triois the latter. If there had been any
body in the Grant administration with
half the brains and common sense of the
German Prince, we should never have
heard Of a Ku-Klux bill for our Alsace
aud Lorraine.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-05-11
RAILROAD MENTION.

Both travel and passengers on the Edge
field and Kentucky Railroad are incEeas-
inc. and the Evansville, Henderson and
Nashville Railroad is doing large busi-
ness.
Day before yesterday The passengers on
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad had
considerable amusement II regard to two
twins who were being carried on the road.
Theil mother took charge Of one, AID
asked the conductor to attend to the other,
and be acceded to her request and carried
the Young infant 10 basket, for tne ac-
cornrnodaiion of the mother.
The Memphis Appsd5 Of May q sAys.
ssGt ,oeetino of the Board OF director
- shs Mississippi Central railroad, neid
water valley. last Tuesday, the plans 81
,..o;Ias If the extension Of the road rom
Jackson to Mckenzie to 1rezsVans Ano -
MiIan. we're sub.nittsd, bat no location
vas made. The project Of extending tins
road to the Mississippi river OF to the Ono
-;var or TO some distant northern point, Is
st;lI nudsr consideration BY the Board.
On and after the 18th instant, there viii
ba a change in the schedule time Of the
louisville and Nashville railroad No. .
will arrive at 2:25 p. m, No. z, 12:20a- M
Nos, s:3Op. m. No. 3 8 a. m, No. I, p
m. Trains will depart "a follows: No. z,
$50 D. m; No. 4 2:i5 p. M 10. Q, 5;So 2.
m. No. 8 q m. Gallatin accommodation
train viii leave at 4:45 p. N.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-05-11
FASHION NOTES.

The most admired shades of brown
used in combination are cafe al LdH ct
care ou tGit force, coffee and milk and
strong coffee and milk.
The matinee standing collar, with the
front corners turned down, is the latest
style, and very becoming to slender
gentlemen with long necks.
Putty color is becoming very fashionable
for silks and satins. Mrs. George Law
wore gros grain silk of this shade at
her daughters wedding reception last
Tuesday.
A disposition to lengthen the skirts of
walking dresses is shown by our foreign
modistes resident in New York, but it is
steadily opposed by cur native fashion
artists.
The Adams seamless edge, a low
turned-dOwn collar, with wide space
left between the points to show the
scarf tie, Is late novelty designed fer
gentlemen with large necks.
An effective style of trimming black
silks and satins when they are worn for
full, evening, or dinner dress, is to f0unce
and ruffie them with black Chantilly lace,
over plaitings of Mechlin or Illusion.
Among the imported novelties in ladies,
hats and bOnDets are two Just from Lon
don-the LOrne bonnet and the Glengary
cap; and six from Paris--the Jura,
Celeste, leedau, gypsy, Pamela ferDle, or
close gypsy, and clidpedu reGctiO1anoiTe.
Among the new dress fabrics brought
into the London market, ramie cloths are
attracting favorable attention They are
made from the fbers of the Rhea grass,
and resemble silk in fneness, brilliancy,
end strength. The manufacturer of these
goods is developing a new agricultural in
dustTy III our Southern States.
Some of the rames given the new cOlOrs
in dress fabrics during !he last few
months by the Psrisians are very express
sive of their feelings. For instance
girls d'eTiL exile gray; G77t7ae tsTye Il
etr0ngeye, strangers brown earth
ldrnle de Ia France, q pale, pearly blue,
the color of tear; eSpOiT de 10 l10trie,
q bright green; SOUVENIR deS G6Se7ltS, q
vivid violet; and rouge dc 60t0iUe, d
deep red, which was first called sang de
PrUsSe.
Silks are cheaper now than they will be
some time hence. The stock of French
goods now il the foreign and American
markets was manufactured before the
Franc0-German war. All the silk looms
on the RhOne, Loire, and Seine et- Disc
have been stopped for months. The
Lyonnais six industry has been suspend
ed, while Alsace and Lorraine, both silk
producing provinces, have been deVastst-
ed. With all the recuperatiVe powers OF
the elastic French nation, it must be
months before this branch of industry
can be resumed at least to the extent if
was carried on before the var. Nov is
the time to purchase silks.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-05-11
THE CITY.
FriyOIOus and TrifIing PrOSeeu-

FriyOIOus and TrifIing PrOSeeu-
tions.
A certain Virginia Magistrate was in the
habit of sending up" parties accused,
when pretty we'll satisfied Of their guilt by
the merest suspicion that they were ''not
careful enough to warrant the suspicion
of their innocence. In Tennessee the
practice is somewhat different, a stronger
presumption of guilt than meIe careless
ness being necessary TO warrant Courts
and Justices In committing parties for fur
Their hsariDg. Here the ownership of pc
culiar dogs ami the habit of i9iGing in tae
wild hunt after the beasts and birds of the
forest, will not exclusively answer as evi-
dence of indisc,eet or criminal inirusions
Something more tangible In the
shape OF proof is required, and dus
attention paid to couuterbalsucing proof,
eEpecially when supported by very prob
able and well connected state Of facts.
The remark that Just and viTtuous judi
ciary is the surest safeguard of peoples
Liberties, while in the main strictly true,
may not have been intended as q direct
reflection upon the official integrity or
lega! il diligence of tbe old Virginia Mag
istrats, who was determined to ''ssnd on"
fast youth Just because he was fast, TINS
presuming him guilty ca general princi-
pies This remark is in fact a great
and salutary truth, worthy 10 be
cherished in the recollection of a free
people, and especially deserving atten-
Iion at tho bands of those officially
Interested in the administration of
public justice. In this connection we msy
remark that our people have but seldom
reason &c complain Of a lack Of ability,
Judgment. or virtue on the part of those
We may consider cur primary Judiciary
the magistrates OF the county. Before
them commence many if not most Of the
criminal prosecutions which are thsre f.
nslly disposed of or ultimately reach the
higher courts. Hero lately, especially
within the jurisdiction Of the city magis-
trates, instances Of frivolous and malici us
prosecution have become so frequent as 10
excite remark and make necessary the ut
most care to prevent private grudge and
personal malevOlence from obtaining
veneeGace through This channel Such
cases are more numerous now than ever
before, and it is fortunate for the people
and the wroDgfulIy accused parties that
these cbargss have most generally to bear
the scrutiny of justices well known to
their fsllow citizens as men OF sound dis
cretion aud mature Judgment.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-05-11
SLAPPING GRANTS FACE.
The Republican General Commit
tees Funeral Services Over the
Bead SantO Domingo JOb-WeI-
come TO General Palmer.

The Republican General Commit.
tees FmneraI Services Over the
Bead SantO Domingo JOb-WcI-
come TO General Palmer.
From the New York World, Mays.
At the meeting of the Republican Gen
eral Committee last evening, Mr.. Coch-
rane's resolutions denouncing the dead
Santo Domingo scheme of President
Grant came up for discussion and final
vote. Ii was well known that only one
delegate had offered any serious objec-
tions to the resolutions, but they were
kept before the committee in order to give
General COchrane and ore or two others
an opportunity to deliver more speeches on
the subject, thus advertising their OppO-
sition to the declining portion of the Re
publican party, and putting in their bids
for the fsvors of the coming leaders. Mr..
Fitch first spoke On the resolutions. His
speech was q remarkable production of
words whose meaning could not be un-
derstood. He thought the United States
needed Santo Domingo for a COaling sta
tioD, and that snip canal ought 10 be
dug across some part of this continent,
possibly to make the coal come in handy
for the vessels that would sail through.
But then he would just as soon see all
this deferred till some other time, stree
Grant had rendered himself so unpop-
ular.
Gen. Cochrane followed in a long,
flowery speech, denOunciDg Santo Domin-
90 and lauding Sumner and Fenton, the
two men who have just been discovered
to be ''the greatest champions of freedom
in this republican country" Gen. Coch-
rane spoke in the same strain as his reso-
lulions were written in. His rhetorical
flights were at times so far above the scope
of sll ordinary imaginations that his lis
teners, giving up all hope of compre-
hending him, looked at one another and
winked and chuckled. Then, when the
speaker mentioned the name of Sumner or
Fenton, the whole assembly would break
out into wild hurrahs, mingled with shouts
of laughter. He said that the government
had better secure freedom for the colored
man and Unionists in the Southern States
before adding more territory to the Union.
Wber Gen. Cochrane sat down, the meet
inc oave unanimous sigh of relief, and
the vote was Immediately taken. Not
more than half the delegates voted in q
voice loud enough to be heard, but there
was no negatives.
A communication was received from
the Twenty-frst Assembly District, stat.
ing that Gen. Palmer, ex-sppraiser, had
been appointed a delegate to the general
committee from that district. This was
received with loud applause, and Gen.
Palmer being present, was called on for
q speech. He simply said he should do
ali he could for the Republican party as
lopg as he was member of thu COM
mittee.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-05-11
denomination

AT recent meeting of the London
Republican Association, it was resolved,
THAT republicanism be taken to mean
reputation of the hereditary principle as
found in monarchical and aristOcratic in
stitutions, and of all artificial distinctions
and privilege depending upon birth. "
The association has large membership,
and branches are being started in all parts
of the kingdom.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-05-11

UNDER the head of "Another Ku Klux
Assassination, the New York Tribune
of May 6, says:
''Senator Osborne, now in Brooklyn,
has received information by several pri-
vate letters from Florida that MIR. Ma
honey, a Republican member of the
Lower House of the Florida Legislature,
was killed 10 Lake City on the 26th of
April. The reports are that a quarrel
was provoked to secure an apology for
killing him."
The Jacksonville Fla.) Courier stated
Immediately after the occurrence, thai
Mahoney made the attack, and that the
difficulty had its origin in matters of 6
private nature, which had nothing what
ever to do with politics or Ku-Klux,
This shows how Ku-Klux stories arr
manufactured and circulated in th'
North.
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CONNECTICUT.
The Election Count in the Leg
iSlature.
The Canvass Committee Re
port Jewell Elected.
A Resolution TO that Effect Under
DebaIe.

A RESOLUTION TO that Effect Under
Debate.
HARTFORD, May 10 The Legislature
convened at 2 o'clock this evening. In
the House the Committee on the Canvass
of votes reported Marshall Jewell elected
Governor by Sc majority, and also de,
Clared the election of the other Republi-
can State officers. The resolution de-
claring Jewell elected is now being de,
bated.
The Senate passed upon some unim-
portaut business and took recess 20 await
the action of the House of Representa-
tives. The hall was crowded with spec
tatorS to its fullest extent.
The House Declare Jewell Cover
nor
HARTFORD, May 10.-The House this
evening passed resolution declaring the
election of Jewell by vote of 123 to
100, strict party vote, II members be-
ing absent or not voting. The resolu.
tons declaring the Republican candidates
elected to the other State Offices all
passed.
The Senate will pass the resolutions to,
morrow. Gov. Jewell and the other off.
GERS will take the oath of office as soon as
officially notified, and Gov. Jewell will
send a message TO the Legislature on
Tuesday next. The public inauguration
ceremonies and parade will take place
Tuesday.