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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-11-04
yTha Canvass.

The jackson Pilot gives the follow
ing hopeful account of the campaign
in our neighboring State of Missis-
sippi:
The canvass is progressing very
satisfactorily. From all parts of the
State we hear the most cheering news
OF the work being performed by our
Republican friends. The people turn
out in great numbers to hear our
speakers, and among them it is noted
the increase of the white people who,
at last, have become willing to hear
Republican doctrines from the lips of
Republican teachers, and not from
the misrepresentation of their oppo-
nents. In many cases, white men
have frankly came forward and as
sured our speakers that they perfectly
conceded with them in their political
views, and if that was Republieanism,
they were Republicans. They had
been accustomed to hear nothing but
abuse and misrepresentation of the
Republican principles and Republic
cans; but they were now assured
that the party in pewersWas in favor
OF building up the State in all those
things which make people great.
They were in favor of free schools for
their children. In favor of immigra-
ton, enterprise and capital coming to
the State, and know that only that
sort OF policy would recuscitate the
State and place it. on equal footing
with other States of the Union. Many
evidences of this kind reach us of the
change in political opinion and action
going on among the white inhabitants
of the State. We may lose few
colored votes some viii be deferred
from voting by fear of the Ku-Klux
Lash and double barrelled shot guns;
a few may be deceived into voting the
Democratic ticket, not knowing the
danger to their own rights which
such step insures; but we are now
very much inclined to believe that all
those losses to the Republican party
will be more than made up by the
white votes that will, in the coming
election, be cast, for the first time, for
the Republican ticket. Our friends
we think, have much to encourage
them in the work before them. The
State is undoubtedly safe for the Re
publican cause.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-11-04

semblage; have aroused the popular
Indignation throughout the country !;
have damaged the national admins
tration; have wronged and injured
the whole Republican party, and have
forfeited the confidence of the people
in the official integrity and the politi-
cal fidelity of these men.
Twelfth-Tnat as these outrages
were committed by the appointees of
President Grant, and in his name and
ostensibly (see their resolutions) for
his political advancement, he, as priin-
cipal, is responsible for the acts Of his
agents until he disavows them, and re-
vokes their powers by their removal.
We only desire to add that our own
investigations have convinced us of
substantial accuracy of the foregoing
statements, and lead us to reiterate
our opinion that the matter is one
which the administration should, for
its own sake and for the sake of the
Republican party at large, interfere
to punish its unworthy servants.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-11-04
The Famine i'm Persia.

Later accounts from Persia repre-
sent the devastations from the famine
to be more widely spread and de-
structive than ever. At Mesched, a
town of 100000 inhabitants, $4,000
have fled for their lives, and the feeble
remainder have been carried into
captivity by Afghan banditti. Mean
while the shah. after the fashion of
the eastern rulers, has wholly disre-
garded the sufferings of his subjects,
and ruthlessly left them to the wretch
edness and death which his own inca
pacity has brought upon them. While
his people have been dying by thou
sands under pestilence and famine, his
royal Majesty has been taking his
usual hunting expeditions, and lived
as richly and reeklessly as ever. A
mob of several thousand starving men
and women, who assembled before his
palace gates, conducting themselves
in very riotous manner, and coup
ling his name with opprobrious and
disrespectful epithets, awoke that wor-
thy magistrate to realizing sense of
the situation. He therefore issued an
edict that bread should be sold at a
certain fixed price, but as there was
no bread to be had at any price this
was not wholly satisfactory. After
this he imprisoned the vizier of the
town and the bakers baked in their
own ovens. And still his people are
not happy
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-11-04
The COlOred Convention.
We copy the following from the
New Orleans Semi Weekly Loaisi-

we copy the following from the
New Orleans Semi Weekly Loaisi-
Gniaa: f
This gathering of Representative
| ColOred men from the Southern States,
to effect "a more practical under
standing and mutual co-operation, and
to the end thata more thorough union
OF effort, action, and organization may
exist" have held protracted meeting
in Columbia, South Carolina, and
ranged over the expansive field of
questions, most materially affecting
the colored race in this country, and
they have said and doue such things
as in tLIeir Judgment are best calcu-
lated to promote mere directly the in
terests they assembled to advocate.
The magnanimity, patriotism and
intelligent loyalty which characterized
theig proceedings cannot but impress
the unpreludiced reader with admira-
ton, it not respect for class of eiti-
zens who have been so long and so
ruthlessly regarded, by many, as the
"offscOuring" of America
Their catalogue of wrongs is grie-
vous one, and the exceedingly tardy,
imperfect, and half hearted measures
which have been generally adopted
for their relief and Mobilization are
well calulated to stir their nature to
its profoundest depth. Yet in the
discussions over them, in their address,
in their speeches, and in their resolu-
tiOns we find no bitterness. no acri-
mony, nothing but open, manly, truth
full statements of their wrongs and
honest dignifed appeals for redress.
And Notwithstanding the carpings
of Democratic organs to whom obs
viously republican utterances, and
especially negro claims for civil
and political equality are exceeding
ly distateful, the Convention will not
fail of favorably impressing the peo-
pie and the government of the United
States.
The Daily Union summarizes the
work of the Convention in these
words: a 3
"The Convention adjourned yes
terday sine de. The principal work
accomplished has already gone forth
to the world in the admirable address
adopted during the early sitting of the
Convention"
If nomore had been done than this
the Convention might well be proud
of its work. Ithas shown conclusive
ly the fallacy of the oft repeated
charges of the Democratic press, that
the colored men were graspingly am-
bilious. They have met like men,
discussed the questions brought be-
fore them, sometimes with warmth,
and have gone to their homes wiser
and perhaps better men for having
conferred togetl er. The Convention
has met and adjourned, and yet the
country is safe. If any Democratic
babies were troubled with the night
mare of a "war ofraces, we trust they
will now be comtorted.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-11-04
A Heartless Act.

The following incident is youched
for by Washington journal:
The circumstances of most aggra-
waited and heartless piece of cruelty
have just reached us. Itsappears that
lady, who had been burned out of
house and home during the recent
disastrous fire in Chicago, secured
from General Sheridan a pass for her
self and two children, from that city
to Washington and started for this
city to place herself under the care of
friends residing here. Having lost
everything by the fire, she was utterly
destitute of money, and, consequently,
was anxious for her own and chill
dren's sake to reach Washington.
Her pass was hOnored by every con-
ductor on the route, with but one
exception. Characteristic of the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad, she was
refused conveyance from Baltimore to
this city, without purchasing a ticket.
Her pass on this road was dishonored,
and herself threatened with expulsion
from the cars. A humane gentleman
who had listened to her story as
related to the conductor, had the
manliness to advance the funds neces-
sary for her transportation, and the
lady was therefore enabled to COM
plete her journey and arrived in this
city yesterday. Her name is Mrs.
Evans, and she is now stopping at the
corner of E and Tenth streets, north
west, at which place those interested
in her story, may have the chance Of
hearing it verified. The Washington
branch of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, for this piece of cruelty,
should be " shown up" by the press,
from one end Of the Union to the
other.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-11-04

Commenting npon the statement of
the Attdkapds Register that g The Re-
Rublieans of Donaldsonville have no
sympathy with the Custom house
clique and support the Turner Hall
yConvention,p the st. James Sentinel
says:
The Republicans of Ascension par-
ish are in full sympathy with the Re-
publican party of Louisiana, with the
exception of about a dozen Office hold
ers-.
You hit the right nail on the head
that time, Mr., Sentinel. The dozen
Office holders who form the Custom
hoase clique and attempt to dictate
to the Republican party what it mast
and must not do, San look for no sym
pathy from the Republicans of this
parish.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-11-04
I have expenled INV money, a

willing to do so, and am rum n
organ at my own expense, bu le
face of all this, men have Il u
hood and unparalleled audae s.
| sert here that / am against G II
seems to me they must have n in
the company of his distingui bro
ther-in-law in Louisiana, of ..hom
am told the first thing he says when
he meets a gentleman is Are you
against Grant ~
No, sir / am not against Grant. i
the country through this convention
wishes to know where I stand, | viii
tell them am not against Grant. II
the Republican party thinks that un-
der his leadership it can secure vic
tory in 1872, by all means take him up.
But while I am thus uncompromia-
ing in favor of Grant, / am SO inde-
pendent as a citizen as to say that
whenever General Grant does that
which I think is wrong, or an injury
to republicanism, l viii offer my pro-
test and opposition to it, whatever or
wherever it may be. When / see sew
eral States of ours passing out of the
hands of the Republican party, through
the iniudicious distribution of public
patronage, it becomes my duty as well
as that of all other Republicans, to do
our best against it. The great State
of Missouri has passed out of our
hands from this cause. The State of
Tennessee Las been lost from the same
cause. Texas has gone almost over
whelmingly for the opposition from
this self-same cause. Alabama has, /
hear, hopelessly gone from the same
cause. North Carolina, / hear, can be
added to the number. How many
more will be addedf
say whether it be- General Grant
or anybody else, if their acts tend to
disrupt the Republican party, or to
put this government iii tie hands Of
our SWORN enemies, it becomes our
solemn duty, and the duty of every
Republican, to enter u protest. against
any such action.
From the time | entered the nolitl-
cal arena down to this day, / have
discharged the duties of Republican
according to the dictates of my con-
science. No reward has ever swerved
me even so much as hair. Principle
has been my star has been my hope
from the commencement down to the
present time and when I prove false
to that principle, or the principles of
the Republican party, may / sink SO
deep in the grave of political oblivion
that no time shall ever helm me to a
resurrection.
The Union goes on to says
Mr.. Pinchback, the chairman of the
committee on civil rights, reported.
Long and exciting debate followed,.
extending into the evening session.
The principal points made were that
generally the law was quite ample but
the colored people were to blame for
not seeing it properly enforced. Also,
it was offered as an excuse by Price,
of North Carolina, that the race was
so poor in his State that they were un-
able to seek redress through the prop
er courts, even if they would grant it.
The subject was thoroughly discus
sed by Messrs. Pinchback, Of Louisi-
ana, Price, of North Carolina, and
Belcher, of Georgia. The report, as
it was, then adopted, urges the passage
of the supplementary civil rights bill,
as proposed by Hon. Charles Summer.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-11-04

As we might have expected, the N,
o. Patriot declines to act upon, our
suggestion and drop from it's list OF
charges against the Governor those
items which have been proven to pos
sess no foundation in truth. The nat
ural conclusion we arrive at is that
the Patriot has not the least regard for
truth or decency. H.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-11-04

If the Republicans of Mississippi
fail to carry their State in the coming
election, it win not be for the want Of
good newspapers to advocate their
cause. The Leader and Pilot, of jack
son, and the Ne,o South, of Natchek,
are among the best Journals on oar
exchange list, and they are pouring
shot and shell into the ranks of De-
mocracy that must prove of great ser
vice to the Republican cause. @
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-11-04
A New York exchange relates the

V = S~~uAr S-A~A-SsAASsO AO4uOVo UllC
following:
Mr.. w. d. Bancker has brought
from Chicago a curious memorial of
the great fire. Among the ruins ofthe
Western News Company's establish
ment, where an immense stock of
periodicals and books was reduced to
ashes, there was found single leaf
of a quarto Bible, charred around the
edges. 1t contained the first chapter
OF the Lamentations of jeremiah,
which openswith the following words |:
+" How doth the city sit solitary that
was full of people! how is she become
as a widow I! she that was great among
the nations and princess among the
provinces, how is she become tri-
butary She weepeth sore in the night,
and her tears are on her cheeks ;
among all her levers she hath none to
comfort her. And that was the only
fragment of literature saved from the
News Company's great depot.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-11-04

The Ohio Legislature stands as fol-
lows: Senate, Republicans, 10; Dem
ocrats, 18, with a Republican presi-
dent. House, Republicans, 81; Dem-
ocrats, As; giving nine Republican
majority on joint ballot, and insuling
the election of a Republican United
States Senator. The last Legislature
stood thus: Senate, Republicans, I9;
Democrats, Is. House, Republicans,
So; Democrats, 81. The Legislature
elected in 1867 was Democratic in
both branches, and elected a Demo-
cratic United States Senator. These
figures show very decided Republican
gains in the past four years. The
Republicans win have all the votes
they viii require for redistricting the
State for members of Congress, and
securing almost the entire delegation
to their party for the next ten years.
This question entered largely into the
canvass, and was made an issue by
both parties. The Democrats lost,
and they can now do no better than
eat the crumbs that fan from the
Republican table.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-11-04
The American Idea.

We heard story the other day OIL
the rise of a little city in the far west
which illustrates better than anything
else could, the remarkably progressive
spirit which characterizes Americans
over other nationalities, and which in
itself is true index of American
character. 4s-ss, s-es---.9
A party of men and women, weary
of great cities and crowded neighbor-
hoods, went out in April of last year
to find q home in the far west. They
were near thousand strong, and Just
one-fourth were children of tender
age. They crossed the Mississippi
and Missouri rivers into Kansas kept
the Indian trail, and chasing the buff
falo and black tailed deer, they crossed
the unmarked lines into Colorado,
where they pitched their. corrals on an
open plain. A hiss of, rattlesnakes
was heard among the sun-howers, and
the prairie dogs were chattering on
hundred little mounds. Near by they
saw huge grey wolf. Some antelopes
We're browsing in the distance, and
the sweet bunch grass suggested Buff
fal0 runs and -prowling Cheyenne
braves. They liked the spot; unyoked
their teams, and ran up hasty sheds
for shelter and defence. They called
their city Greeley in May they pitched
their camp, and. in June they bailt a
school. At. first the task was rather
hard. These settlers came from twenty
seven different States. They were
strangersto to each other, and the school
books they brought along were not
the same. To fifty different pupils
who were mustered, there were fifty
different kinds of books. But they
began in earnest with the school and
ere these settlers staked the ground
and built their shanties, they surveyed
the lands around them-roughly-
and reserved not only city sites for
public schools and semincries, bat es
tttes to serve as maintenance forever
Eight classes were at work in few
days, and when the wise men of the
Educational Bureau in Washington
first heard of this new city i'll the prai
rie, it was not q cry for help, in either
money or advice, but simply report
of what these energetic people had
done.-EdacatiOaa5 Reporter.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-11-04

The yellow fever is still raging at
Vicksbnrg, Natchez and Vidalia, but
the existing cold weather will doubt
less put an end to the epidemic, withal
the present mortality will be increased.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-11-04

The New Orleans Patriot says that
certain Democrats have "sold ought
to H. C. Warmoth.n The Patriot APP
parently bases its photography upon
the same principle as that man did
who spelled potatoes "poughteight-
ealix.r
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-11-04

The Madison journal is compelled
to issue only half sheet since the
great fire in Chicago played the deuce
with its "patent outside" publishing
house. Better print your whole paper
at home, Mr.. Towne.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-11-04
The editorials Of the Rapides Ca

The editorials of the Rapides Ga
=ette are fearfully and wonderfully
punctuated. The Red Rirer Ne,c|
speaks of one a column long which ID
" without punctuation, save commas, j
and exclaims, In the name of tho
whole editorial fraternity, whose fault
was it, the publishers orthe typos /
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-11-04

The biflingsgate Lafourche Repub-
licam has suspended publication y
in other words, died. We know of
nothing good to say of it, and as we
never speak i'll of the dead, we pass
the old carcass by without further
comment. -.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-11-04

Michael Phelan, the noted billiard
player and manufacturer of tables up
onwhich to play that interesting game,
died at his residence in New York,
two weeks ago.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-11-04

We are always pleased to have our
editorial articles copied by our con-
temporaries, but must insist upon
the proper credit being given us. The
st. James Sentinel viii please make a
note of this.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-11-04

An exchange wishing to speak of the
lostheir 7 was surprised to see that the
eompositor made it the "lOst hem
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-11-04
Transient advertisements, 81 per square first
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Communications may be addressed simply
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The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-08-01
J U r U 3 Z q A.,

sent as special commission TO that country to
procure 1t In its native purity, and having found
its wonderful curative properties to even exceed
has concluded to offer it to the public, and is
happy to state that he has perfect arrangement
for regular monthly supply OF this wonderful
plant. He has spent much time experimentng
and investigating as to the most efficient prepara
ton from 10, for popular use and has for some
time-used In his own practice with the most happy
results, the effectual medicine now presented to
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-08-01
.F9f,ii Duke and Sentinel.

HNHE late Duke of Brunswick used to
Il relate the following anecdote with
great glee:TAH alI~iT5WY0A
Ion certain occasion, one of the heav-
lest OF German soldiers had the duty of
mounting guard at one of the ducal hunt
ing seats and, not to perplex the poor
fellow with more ideas than he could
conveniently carry, one single g notion
was, with some. difficulty, rammed into
his noddle-viz, that he mast present
arms to the Duke, should his Highness
pass that way. He was left to his cogita-
tions, which, we need hardly say, were
of that class described by the renowned
author of Knickerbocker's History of
New York" as appertaining to the pilot
of the Good Vrow, who, we were inform
ed, sat the helm, thinking Of nothing
either past, present, Or to come. Tired
at last of this transcendental moRotony,
our sentinel had recourse to the universal
German solace-his sausage and schnapps.
While thus agreeably employed, he saw
an unpretending-looking person approach
the place where he was seated, dressed in
the common German hunting-dress-a sort
Of queer smock-frock, leather breeches,
and combinations. '.i'i -
Good appetite to you said the new
comer.' "What is that you're eating y
"Guess !" gruffiy answered the.peasant
soldier. .gI .et'. taia h...tip. '-'-
Oil perhaps rothwurst," said the
Duke, for it was no less parsonage. s.
No; something better than that"
"Then | suppose that it is lebber-
wurst 2" ...-' ....''.. ''7.
+" No something better than that"
qo " Probably then it is metterwurst 2"
Yes" '''' ''.
(The three terms, rothwurst, lebber-
wurst, and metterwurst, are the positive,
compare tive, and superlative degrees Of
the German sausage,) % ru .rn4.
I" And now that you know all about my
sausage, pray who are youW w
"Guess," ," said the Duke. 10 f l-.r l,.-
ooh perhaps you're one of the Dukes
pages 2" - 'r.an .u ,o+,.
Z" MOI, something better than that"
/" Then you're probably one Of the
Dukes aids-de-camp 7" ,..
r {" No something better than that"
10. Perhaps you're the Duke himself?"
"Der teufel Hold that sausage, for my
orders are to present arms to you n' '''i
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-08-01
Gbe Gintes, Nen Bloontffelo, 11d.

,l,ilyfRaE ruyUf gol 4arn.1
AS for Guy he went straight for Liza.
elisa" he said, "I have written you a
letter that you will probably receive TO-
morrow morning, but | cannot wait for it
to come now. have learned this even.
ing whose hand lifted mo from the depth
of poverty and discouragemcnt-whose
hidden bounty carved out a new path for
me. Lisa, there is but one way to pay
you--to give you my whole heart if you
will deign to accept the poor return"
Lisa had grown pale and quiet. tr..
h mo-" she said accept no mere
tribute of gratitude d ~ of. ~.
" But, Lisa, the letter that wrote you
before l heard these tidings--the letter
asking you to be my wife-you must an
swer that now," he pleaded, refusing to
let go her trembling hand You have
said no to my second offer, what do you
say to my first ?" ..j r,. .r.'...
The roses had returned to Liza's cheek,
the soft light to her eyes, as she put the
other hand in Kirkwood's and answered !:
" Yes" '" '.