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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-16
Advancement Of the Negro.

The blacks have never raised themselves
above the savage state.-Er.
This is gross injustice to the negro.
We know that in the past he has been
debarred of privileges which would
have enabled him to display the ex-
tent of his ability for Improvement.
1t is true, that laboring under the re-
strictions of the past, he has played a
very Insignificant part, other than a
labOrer, but it must be admitted that
since his freedom, and the many adj
vantages he now enjoys, that he has
made greater progress in mental inn
provement than was expected of him.
He has improved rapidly, and if he
continues to improve i'll the future at
the same ratio he has done the past
five years, he will become as a race a
useful and enterprising class of citi-
zens.
The colored man is now citizen.
He has voice in the affairs of State !;
such being the case, it is the interest
of the country, and to such citizen
thereof, that all legitimate chances for
mental and moral development should
be offered him. It is to be expected
that many of the grown ones, owing
to ignorance and their early training,
will be thriftless, worthless, and, in
many instances, vicious, and continue
to be deyotees at the shrine of super
stition; but that the race will relapse
into savage state is not warranted
by their acts and demeanor since hav-
ing been freed by combination of
circumstances.
1t must be admitted that we of the
white race have been disappointed in
our estimation of his mental ability
and contiding nature. We are conf
dent that if the proper influences are
thrown around the colored people of
the South, that they will never be-
come an impediment. in the way of
our national prosperity. As Chris
tan people, we should do all in our
power to elevate him.-Corinth (Miss.y
Neacs.
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little technicadities better than our
self, but we believe we know the peo-
pie here better than the Doctor pos
sibly can, and doubtless two-t thirds OF
the Dr.'s constituents would not un-
derstand his idea of the liberty of the
press. The press with all its retinue
of liberties and licenses, is too new to
many of them as yet, and we would
advise the doctor not to press his
idea of press liberty too heavily, be-
cause it might conflict with the ideas
of his constituents.
The worthy Doctor will doubtless
agree with us that the liberty accord
ed the press is often taken advantage
of by dishonorable and INSCRIPTIONS
persons as means of venting their
petty malice upon individuals. We
do not think for one moment that DIR.
Worrall would be guilty of anything
SO contemplate, but the DR.. knows
that these licenses and liberties are
oftener abused than used for the in
terests and instruction of the public.
1t is wise, it is well for politicians to
try and gain the public favor-carica-
turing constituents in cartoons is not
press license, but public insult to the
kind-hearted men who helped DIR.
Worrall into office.-N. o. Maqaolid.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-16
The Wealth of IberYille.

The assessed value of taxable prop
erty of the Parish of Iberville for the
year 1871 is S4,O27, ,8O5 90, which
places her at the head of all the coun-
try parishes. The city parishes OF
Orleans, Jefferson and Caddo being
the only ones ahead of her.
What a calamity The richest par
ish ofthe State without city. Moth
ing but the little town of Plaquemine,
old, dilapidated, ugly and muddy, to
grace this handsome, wealthy, giant
and banner parish of our State.
Have our people no pride, no enter
prise, no thrift, no daring? Are our
capitalists such poor prophets that
they cannotsee through good thing
Are our merchants such poor specula-
tors that they fear to invest i'm an un-
dertaking? Are our people so timid
that they will venture nothing? Or
are we so lazy that we can't do any
thingf The wealthiest parish, with
people too poor to help themselves,
is a singular anomaly. Plaquemine
has already lost a golden opportunity
by allowing the Railroad to go
SO far to the West. Inducements
should have been offered to the Com
pany to run the road by our very
doors. AS it is, Plaquemine will find
q formidable rival in the young City
of Grand River and her only hope
Pfauuemine. Pa 1a WITH fhis measure @ n ef
fected we will control the lumber bus
mess of the State, and hold the head
waters of navigation of the immense
net work of bayous in our rear.-Iber-
uilIe South. t4
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-16
The Cincinnati Convention.
; Correspondence St.. Louis Times.]

WASHINGTON, March 6, 1872
Th.re is considerable discussion here
amonS earnest men as to what the
Cincinnati convention should do. A
few are IN favor of nominating right
then and there, and forcing the Dem
ocrats to abandon the contest as a
party and fall into sub selections as
may have been made. Prudent pol-
iticians-the men who reah:s desire to
defeat Grant, because they believe
him to be q dangerous man, and who,
although desirous of electing a DEM
ocrat, are yet fearful that if they at
tempt it they may fail-are strongly
of the opinion that the Cincinnati con-
vention should be conference, as
originally proposed. I do not think
there has been any serious intention
on the bart of the managers to change
the plan.
Mr.. Grosvenor, who may be con-
sidered as in possession OF all the facts,
and fully posted as to the opinions Of
the different prominent managers, as
sures me that there has not been any
intention of changing the originally
adopted programme.
Senator Trumbull has been much
more outspoken since the French
arms debate than previously, and it
is known that he is advising allof his
friends to participate in the move
ment. He said few days ago that
he has no doubt the Cincinnati con-
vention would include 1000 of the more
active aud influential politicians in
the Republican party, whose efforts
alone in the last canvass were suffi-
ciently powerful to have elected Sey-
mour and Blair if they had been di-
rected in their behalf and against
Grant.
| Hon. T. A. Hendricks has lately
been here, and considering the fact
that he was the most prominent can
didate for the Democratic nomination,
his views are of more than ordinary
interest. He admits that the unex-
pected condition of affairs in the Re-
publican ranks has rendered it un-
wise for him to allow his own name
to be used in connection with the office
and freely states his preference al
this time to be in favor of Judge Da-
Wis. The Indiana Democratic mem
bers say that he will shortly formally
withdraw from the Presidential can
yass by allowing his name to be USED
as the candidate for Governor of Indi
ana, in opposition to Brown, tht
Grant, nominee.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-16

To REMOVE CoRNs.-Wearers of
tight boots will, no doubt, find the
following interesting reading: "Hard
corns are caused by too much pressure
of the shoe, or by its being so loose
as to slide. back and forth on the spot
where the corn afterward shows itself
Medical books record several cases
where pairing hard corn caused bleed
ing which no means could arrest, and
death ensued. Nothing harder than
the finger nail ought ever be allowed
to touch the corn, which can always
be cured or kept from causing incon-
venience by simply bathing the part
in warm water for half an hour for
several days in succession; often a
single bathing viii accomplish the OBJ
.ject of softening the part adjacent to
the actual corn so that it can be
picked out with the finger nail, and
the shoe can be instantly worn with
out discomfort, which an hour before
gave great pain. 1t maysreturn in a
week, or a month, Or year, but the
same treatment will always prevail.
PAIRING causes them to spread and take
deeper root.n
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-16
NUMBER %.
Governor Warmoth.
[From the Madison Journal. !

However much the people of the
State may differ with Gov. Warmoth
politically, and whatever may be
their feelings towards him personally,
there is no citizen deserving the
name and rights of citizenship, that
would not feel humiliated had one. of
the numerous charges which have
been Sc freely made against him, af-
fecting his official integrity, been sub
stantiated. All these charges have
been traversed by courts, legislative
and congressional committees, and
we are sure that the people of Louisi-
ana are gratified by the finding of
each of these tribunals of their utter
falsity. The answers of Gov. War
moth to the Congressional Committee
were frank and unequiyocal. There
was no attempt to conceal or disguise
anything, and they must be taken as
conclusive evidence against the
charges of corruption and malfeasance.
That the Governor has committed
some grave errors is not to be denied;
that he has been unfortunate some
times in the selection of his counsel
lors, and that he has made some very
injudicious appointments to office, are
facts patent to every one. But when
we consider the circumstances which
have surrounded him since his inaug-
uration, and especially the vile and
corrupt Legislature with which he has
had to deal, the wonder is, not that
he has made mistakes, but that he
has made so few. Had the wisest
and purest man that ever lived been
Governor of Louisiana for the last
three years, he would have met with
as much abuse and denuneiation as has
been given to Gov. Warmoth. There
was fixed determination on the part
OF the intelligent, educated class of the
citizens OF the State from the moment
of his election, not only to be dissat-
isfied with his ADMINISTRATION, but to
thwart and embarrass it and to bring
it into contempt by every means in
their power. 1t would have been the
same with any man elected under the
same circumstances. 1t is no small
credit to his tact and Judgment that
he has succeeded in winning the con-
tidenee and good will of many of this
class, and the respect of all who are
not utterly blinded by passion or pref
udice. r Hh#
The Governor has now before him
a clear field. If he is now embarrass-
ed or thwarted by the corrupt and
infamous Legislature which has just
adjourned, it will be his own fault.
For the next ten months there is none
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ample time to cut loose from the
thieves and swindlers and adventurers
who are sucking his life blood, and
who will desert or betray him the mo-
ment his political fortunes waver.
For the first time in his political life
his hands are united, his will and
Judgment free. We hope he will
make good use of his new born free
dom. sf
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-16


The New York Standard gives the
following ravishing description of one
of the great orators of the New Jersey
Legislature: /" Mark Anthony Hercu-
les Ryder is a splendid looking man.
He is the model of DR.. Greeley, and
dresses in rusty black. He is six feet
tall, and is as stout as an OK. He
winds couple of yards of black silk
round his neck and ties it under his
left ear. He wears q patent shirt
bosom, which is pulled one side so as
to display the nice red shirt under
reath' He sports high, patent col
lar. Che strings of it are loosely tied
and fSll down on his manly bosom.
A black cord attached to his eye glas-
ses meander over his heaving chest.
He has bald spot on the top of his
head, full beard and an eye like bull
let. He is portly and very handsome,
and his garments have a soapy look.
His constituents call him the Pam
pered Child of Fiddleville.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-16
Small Deceits.

Men at first deceive, knowing it !;
but by the constant use of deception
they cease to even know that they are
doing it. Gradually it blinds the
moral sense. And it is in this direc-
tion that great lies are less harmful
than little ones; Men think that
great black lie is very culpable. I
suppose it is. But when an armorer
wishes, by securing, to cut the very
surface of metal down, what does he
do? Take bar of iron and rub it7
No; he takes emery. Its particles
are as small ASA pins uoint apd
these he puts on, and by securing he
cuts down the surface-takes off the
enamel. You think that great lie is
a great sin, and a great shame to man;
but after all, these little lies are more
dangerous, because there are SO many
of them and because each of them is
diamond-pointed. And these little
petty untruths which are so small
that you do not notice them, and SO
numerous that you cannot estimate
them, are the ones that take off the
very enamel of the moral sense-cut
away it's surface. And men become
so accustomed to it, that they do not
recognize that they are putting things
in false lights, when, by word, by
deed. by indirections, by exaggera-
troAs. by shifting the emphasis, by
various dynamical means, they pre-
sent things, not as they see them, but
as they want to see them.
This phantasmagoric process by
which men are throwing false lights
upon action and motive upon what is
happening and going to happen the
ten thousand little modes by which
men are seeking to pervert things,
and make them seem different from
what they really are; the petty false
nesses to which men resort in order
that they may realize their vain am
bilious life-these are pernicious and
demoralizing in the extreme. And
the habit of employing them wears
the character more than a great rous-
ing lie told six times a year would do.
Yet there are men, who, if they are
convicted of falsehood in great
transaction, would lose their char
acter forever. Their neighbors would
say of them, !" We cannot trust such
men as they are" And those very
persons who say they would not trust
them, do not hesitate to indulge them
selves in five million petty falsehoods,
little midgets of lies, in the course OF
year. A lion is to be dreaded, to be
sure; but deliver me from those
blood sucking insects which make me
smart and suffer! A single mosquito
is not much but multitude of them,
myriads of them, amount to great
deal. And it is this falseness in little
things that tends to dim, to obscure,
to almost obliterate, sense of truth
There are men who have almost en-
tirely lost their sense of proportion,
their appreciation of magnitude, and
their understandings of the eonnec-
ton between cause and effect. They
look at everything in the light Of
what they want, SO much that they
think that is true which they desire
| to have true,-H. W. Beecher.
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| DoNALDsoNynLE, LA, SATURDAY MARCH le 1872

same time they are to be given in &
way which will quicken and strengthen
local efforts.
There may be some minor points il
the bill which require modification
but in its main features we are conf.
dent that it ought to pass as a Just
and philanthropic measure for the
rescue of the Southern States from the
horrid blight of popular ignorance
which is now so threatening. The
facts brought out by Mr.. Hoar in his
support of the bill, by General Eaton
IN his report as Commissioner of Edu-
cation, by the census of 1870, and by
intelligent private observers, all point
one way. Anarchy and barbarism
are impending dangers in vast regions
of the South in some localities they
are actual curses. What better can
we do with that portion of our income
which comes from the sale of lands
than to direct it to popular instruction
in the reconstructed States
The disposition of the public lands
is a constant and growing subject of
controversy. There are, probably,
few things, if any, which give so
much impetus to what is called the
labor movement as the widespread
belief among the workingmen of the
country that the national domain is
being divided among unscrupulous
spectators without reference to the
interests or aspirations of the poor.
There is no way in which this. delu-
sion-if delusion it be, and we fear it
is not-can be so well dissipated as
by the appropriation of the public
lands to educational purposes, be-
cause there is no other use of them on
which there is nearly the same chance
OF agreement. Moreover, there is no
use of them which is likely to con-
duce one-quarter as much to the poll
tical security and prosperity of the
country. Whatever falling off there
has been of late years in the efficiency
of the administration, in the tone Of
public life and the character of public
men has been largely due to the
growing weight in politics of ignorant
people. There is no use in saying
they are foreign born or bred in slav-
cry that does not mend the matter.
The important fact is that they vote,
and produce children that will one
day vote, also, and that ordinary eff
forts, such as have hitherto sufficed to
educate the children of the educated,
will no longer suffice. Something not
unlike medieval night is settling on
some parts of the country through
want of schools, and in others the
healthy and intelligent public spirit
which has built the government up,
and without which it cannot exist, is
seriously declining from the same
cause. 1t is high time that this de-
scent were arrested, and we know of
no nobler way of doing it than this
bill offers.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-16

If Vice President Colfax should be
renominated and reelected, it viii be
the first time, with single exception,
that Vice President has been his
own successor in the history of our
Government. The exception was that
of Daniel D. Tompkins, of New York,
who served as Vice President under
the two terms of President Monroe,
one of which terms occurred in what
is historically known as the :" era of
good feeling from 1921 to 1926.
The instances in which Vice presi-
dent has stepped from that position
to the Presidency, are six, to7wit:-
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Mar
tin Van Buren, John Tyler, Millard
Fillmore and Andrew Johnson-the
three latter succeeded to the Presi-
dency on account of the demise of the
regularly elected incumbents while
holding of1ce.-N. I. Herald.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-16


VALUABLE MoRTUARY LIsT.-The
Boston Bulletin has the following val
liable mortuary list:
Methuselah died of liver complaint.
Lots wife of salt-rheum. Absalom
fell wig-time to hairysipelas. Co
Hath died of the stone. Haman of the
drop-sy. Nebuchadnezzar of too much
vegetable diet, leaving Mrs. N. a grass
widow. John Bunyan, troubled by
corns, took his pill grimly, and pro-
gressed. Desdemona also took pill
ow. Samson was killed by pillar
too. Montgolfer was (s)pilled out of
balloon. Julius Caesar was (s)killed
in war. John Rogers died of an over
done steak. Romeo died of heart dis
ease. Governor Hoffman dyed his
moustache. Artemus Ward was .ioked
to death. Napoleon the Great was
crushed by rock. Napoleon the Less
from a Sedan. Montezuma died oi
taking arrow-root. Louis XVI died
under an amputation (of the head)
Old Parr died of paralasis. Joe Mil
Ter of light tumor. Red Jacket died
of Whooping cough. Tecumseh Of
scalp disease.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-16


An irritating story of a bank teller
is now told in the newspapers. He
lived in Hartford, Connecticut, and,
having saved good deal of money,
retired, bought fine farm, stocked it,
and went to live upon it like a inan-
cial Diocletian. The directors of his
bank were so pleased that they voted
him thanks and a money gratuity /;
whereupon he went to their next
meeting, and calmly informed them
that he had made his little pile by
speculating with the funds of the bank ;
and he also cautioned them to keep a
good look out for his successor, who
might not SO successful as he had been.
lt-is not probable that the directors
considered these remarks to be either
grateful or complimentary. i
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-16

How TREES Observation-Disclosures in
hale air for the oxygen, which vital
ICES the blood. Leaves of plants are
lungs of a rudimental character, but
nevertheless very extraordinary in
struments. They absorb carbon from
the atmosphere, which is destructive
to animals, and expire oxygen, which
all organized breathing creatures
must have or die.
To perform that important function,
the breathing organs of "a large elm,
were its leaves placed side by side,
admitting it possible to arrange them
to represent a carpet, would be equal
to two acres of respiratory surface.
Where trees abound, there the atmo-
sphere is vitalizing, unless counteraet-
ed by decaying vegetation in wet or
low lands. Trees n.cities arc sani-
tary sentinels. ~ a
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-16
The Liberty of the Press.

In the last issue of DIR. Worrall's
paper, he comes out in a lengthy and
elaborate editorial upon the freedom
of the press. The course pursued re-
Gently by DR.. Worrall were he merely
an editor might prove very defensible,
but when it is taken into considera-
ton that DR.. Worrall is considered
or is, perhaps bona tide partisan
politician, maybe this would cast a
different coloring upon his conduct.
However, the Doctor is old enough
and wise enough to understand these
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-16

sfr. j. G.. Bennett, Jr., declines to
succeed Fisk, Jr., as Colonel of the
Ninth Regiment, because it is said to
cost $50, 900 a year to be "a liberal
and public-spipited Colonel" and he
doesn't love the military to that de-
gree.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-16

The Chicago Post claims to have on
its editorial staff a lady of extraordi-
nary abilities. The editor says he
" never knew any one who could
write with equal ease upon SO singular
a range of topics with information sc
exact in detail" An enyious contem,
porary asks the Post why it never
publishes any of her articles.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-16

An enthusiastic editor in presenting
the advantages of his journal as an
advertising medium, declares the peo-
pie of the South would find the Lost
Cause !" if they would only advertise
for it in his paper and offer q small
reward.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-16

SIMMER when Sanator Surar,

SUMNER. When Senator Sumner
pressed the Complementary Civil
Rights Bills" upon the Senate, he
said that the intelligent colored peo-
pie demanded such a measure for
their defence. Of course he was pooh
poohed, and his words were set down
as mere buncombe. But the South
Carolina House of Representatives,
composed largely of colored men, by
vote of 20 to 9, demanded the res
ignation of the Senators Of the State
for voting against the civil rights bill.
So swift the echo to the statesman's
truthful words
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-16

The Chicago Post claims to have
on its editorial staff lady of extra
ordinary abilities. The editor says
he never knew any one who could
write with equal ease upon so singular
a range of topics with information so
exact in detail.r An envious contem-
porary asks the Post why it never
publishes any of her articles.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-16

The New York Herald says that it
is given QUE that bill of damages in
connection with Cuban affairs is being
made out at the State Department
against Spain quite equal to that de-
manded of England.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-16

1t is a melancholy fact that Mrs.
Miriam NJ. Cole, the chairwoman of
the recent woman suffrage Conven-
tion at Columbus, grew SO hysterical
that she was obliged to resign her
function in favor of clergyman.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-16

The Massachusetts, woman women
say that there are 1860 American
and 81, 1913 foreign women in that
States who are ready to vote next fail
If the Legislature will permit them so
to do. These would-be voters pay
taxes on $I3l, ,000,0f0.