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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-08
Governor Warmoth's Reyilers.
[From the N. o. Republican

FROM the N. ". RepuOllcan-I
1t would be amusing, if not danger
Gus, to hear the youngsters who have
mounted the political rostrum during
the last three years air their notions
of g the policy to be pursued to save
the State" Slimkins pops up and
rants about the "gloliotls record and
the "ancient traditions, as if he knew
all about the making of the record and
the fixing up of the traditions. Wig
gins replies that the decrepid past,
with its miserable fixtures, is out of
place, and that the future alone de-
mands attention. Slimkins flies off
the handle, and accuses Virgins of
being an emissary of the devil and u
hireling of the enemy. Then the hub
hub commences. Slimkins sweats,
Virgins blusters, and what was i'll
tended to be public meeting becomes
a private scandal. We have had a
series of these episodes within the
past six months. OF all the speeches
we have read during that time, as it
was our unpleasant duty to do, we
have not met with a real, earnest,
practical effort since Messrs. Fenner,
Marks and Ogden quit the field. The
balance consisted in mere froth and
bad language. The speakers had read
the 4 icayune, Bee and Citizens Guard,
and caught their information from
such scandalmongering organs. We
have been told a thousand times that
Warmoth created the State debt, which
is a falsehood. We have been told that
he piled the city debt upon us, which
is another. We have been told that
he passed all the obnoxious leg
islation, which is another. The State
debt and the city debt were in exist
ence before Warmoth was elected.
The Legislature passed the bad laws
over the Governors veto. Aad what
is worse than all, the very enemies
that he has created in his own party
were created by his refusal to sign bad
laws, and his success III defeating the
measures. Who defeated Casey's bri-
berry bill but Warmoth Who vetoed
the warehouse bill but Warmoth /?
Who cut off the country papers from
the public printing but Warmoth ?
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-08
Proceedings of the Police Jury,
Parish of Ascension.

Regular meeting of the Police Jury held
ON the 3rd day of Juue, 1872.
Members present-C. n. Lewis. President;
?. Landry, L. w. Mason, S. II. Fields, II.
Rice
On motion of E. w. Mason, duly seconded,
the reading of the minutes was dispensed
with.
The following report was accepted and
ordered to be placed on file:
ASCENSION, June 3, 1872
To the members Of The Police Jury.
I respectfully make this my report, that on
tho Goth of April last, in pursuance to orders
from the Police Jury to sell the Parish fer
ries to the highest bidder, did SELL
The Mississippi river ferry, at Donaldson
vile, was soldto Raphael Mousse, for the
sum of four hundred and five t$405) dollars.
The Manning's ferry was sold to A. s. Lam
dry for the sum of fifteen $50 dollars.
[sIGNEDl G. n. LEWIS,
Prest. Police jury
L. w. Mason rendered his resignation as
Police Juror, said resignation to take effect
after the present meeting, which was ae
cepted.
The election of officers was declared to be
in order
Z. w. Mason nominated c. N. Lewis, fol
President Of the Police Jury. He being the
only candidate was unanimously elected
L. w. Mason nominated Rodolphe Braud
as Secretary of the JuryB there being no op
posing candidate he received four votes riro
coce; but on motion, duly seconded, that the
election should he made by ballot, the Sec
rotary. proceeded TO count the votes; result
ing in the unanimous election of the candi
date.
p. Landry nominated DR.. G.. A. Franklin
as Jail Physician. There being no opposins
candidate, he received four votes and wa.
declared unanimously elected.
On motion of S. H. Fields, duly seconded
the election of Treasurer was postponed I'm
til Monday, the 10th instant.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-08

A new weekly journal called the
National Party, has been established
in New Orleans by Mr.. L. Philippon, a
man who acquired considerable local
nutoliety in this town two years ago
as a political acrobat, eemiRg here as
an out-and-out, uncompronising Re-
publican, but developing in the course
of few weeks into wide-meuthed,
sed-hot Democrat. The National Party
supports Grant and the Custom House
clique, and we arc not sorry for it.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-08

In endeavoring to prove Grant as
able man as Greeley, the Header
says, " to be good tanner requires
rs much genius as to be an editor"
1t requires deal more genius to be
even q third-class tanner than is dis
played in the editorial conduct of the
Leader, but it must be taken into con-
sideratior that there is vast differ
ence between such journals as the
Leader and the New York Tribune.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-08
AN EXAsPERATING BLUNDER,

The New Orleans National RepnOa-
can, the unreliable daily hand-organ
of the sweet-scented Custom House
clique, perpetrated Il blunder in its
issue of last Sunday that will proba-
blv drive the editor who wrote it to
the verge of hydrophobia when he
discovers his mistake; in his exasper-
alton he will not unlikely attempt sui
eide, or, at the least calculation, de-
nude his added craniam of its capil
larry covering" snatch himself bald
headed, as our devil v1llgarly puts it.
The article in which the blunder re-
ferred to was committed is headed,
"a Warmoth Editor in q Ku-klux
Role" 1t opens by saying that " VIM.
E. Kerr is the editor of paper pub
lished in the parish of Lafourche in
the interest of II. c. Warmoth," then
goes on to relate that Kerr, having
abused and libelled colored man
named Alfred Crosier through the
columns of his paper, became the re-
eipient of a sound thrashing from said
Crosier, and smarting under this in
dignity to his person, Kerr went be-
| fore U. S. Commissioner Weller, New
Orleans, and swore out an affidavit
charging Alfred Crosier, Oscar Crosier,
VIM. Murrell, L. Comeaux, j. b. Green,
and Monroe Josey with conspiracy in
violation of the Ku-Klux Act. The
case was tried and accused dismissed,
the charge of conspiracy being Who'll
ly unsustained by the testimony" the
Commissionerinforming the complain
ant that when man calls another q
liar, scoundrel, and the like, he must
expect to get thrashed.
Now, instead of being the editor of
a paper published in the interest OF
II. G. Warmoth," Kerr is editor of a
sheet than which none other in this
State heaps more low-lived abuse and
foul SANDER upon Gov. Warmoth and
his friends-the Lafourche Reformer.
Kerr is a disciple of the Custom House
faction, and the man who gave him Il
wellmerited thrashing is u political
supporter of Gov. Warmoth, as were
the other persons arrested also. What
a golden opportunity was here lost by
the National Republican Had it not
been for the unfortunate blunder in
installing the political attitude of the
whipped Kerr (no pun intended) il
might have treated its readers to a
blood thunder article, depicting
in most glowing language the chase
attack of Warmoth's hired ku-KluS
upon a peaceable, inoffensive citizen,
" attempt to overthrow the liberty OF
| tic press, elc', eeC.j Due do thc HIT
ter now stands it has inadvertently
told the truth to the detriment of one
of its friends and the justification Of
its enemies. We do not envy the ed
itor of the National Repablictm his
frame of mind when he discovers that
by an exasperating error he has com
mitted the Ito bim) novel act of writ
ing a correct account of an affair in
which some of Gov. Warmoth's friends
were concerned, and in which they
gained IL complete victory over petty
fugleman of Custom House doctrine,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-08

Since the Houston Union has so
confidently asserted that Governor
Warmoth is thief, the next thing in
order will be for it to prove that it
has not uttered a base lie.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-08

As the Leader is so solicitous that
our articles should be always truth
full, it is wonder it never occurs to
the editor of that paper to set US an
example of truthfulness.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-08

James Gordon Bennett, the veneer
able founder of the most successful
daily newspaper in America, the New
York Herald, died at his home in New
York on the LIST instant, aged seventy
seven years.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-08

The Leader intimates that our COM
parison of the records of Greeley and
Grant was devoid of the merit of
truthfulness which we claimed for it,
yet our contemporary fails to point
out u single instance where we
wandered from the truth.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-08

Senator John Scott, of Pennsylva-
mia, has favored us with a copy of his
speech in the United States Senate,
upon the " Extension of the Ku-Klux
Act.n
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-08

We are indebted to L. 5. Senator
Kellogg fora copy of the testimony TAX
en- by the New Orleans Congressional
Investigating Committee, printed in
book form. There is much interesting
reading matter contained in this
yolitne, and we shall keep the book
by us for future reference.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-08

The 4ttakapas Register has the kind
ness to say that the CHEF is I'M
tloubtedly one of the best conducted
wceklies in Louisiana" It's our am
hi tion to deserve that compliment.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-08

1t is a notorious fact that Horace
Greeley has been lifelong advocate
of the one-term principle as applied
to Presidents of the United States,
therefore those who charge him with
inconsistency in advising against the
denomination of Lincoln in 1864 dis
play either ignorance or unwarrant-
able injustice.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-08
SATURDAY. JUNE $, 1872.

The Leader of last Saturday bears
the date of April 1st upon its first
page. Two months behind the times,
as usual.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-08

The following resignation was presented
and accepted:
to the Hon. President and members of the
Police Jury of the Parish Of ascension:
i have the honor to herewith tender to your
honorable body my resignation Road
Master of the 5rd road district of the parish
q 1 TsIGNrpi H.T. BROWN,
DoNALDsoNvILLE, La, June Bird, 1872
On motion of s. H. Fields:
Bejtresolred. That the resolution creating
| Road Masters be anil the same is hereby re-
pealed and the offices be declared annulled
| Carried
On motion of S. II. Fields:
| Re II resolced. That the widow Wakin
Grow be placed on the list of paupers of thjs
/ parish at a salary of four 81 00) dollars per
month
This resolution was accepted with the fol-
lowing amendment: That the President
of the Police Jury be appointed committee
of one to investigate the condition of said
widow, aud if the report is in favor, that the
amount be allowed.
: On motion of E. w Mason Henry Carter
be placed on the list of paupers to receive
81 90 per month.
Carried.
On motion of S. Fl Fields:
Be il resolced, That committee be APP
pointed to report at the next meeting, the
hest system to work roads.
Carried.
The President appointed P. Landry on said
committee, and on motion of +. Mason, the
President was added to said committee.
On motion of s. Z. Fields;
Resolred, The Parish Treasurer be and he
is hereby ordered to proceed To sell accord
. ing to law, every sixteenth section OF land as
provided for by law, for the benefit of pnb-
lie schools and to appropriate the proceeds
of the same according to law.
Carried.
On motion of P. Landry:
Resolped. That E. w. Mason be requested
to act AS Police Juror and retain his resigna-
! ton till the adjournment OF the sitting of
Monday the 10th instant
The request was accepted.
On motion of Z. w. Mason:
! Resoired That the Secretary of the Police
| Jury be allowed the sum of S25 90 per month
for additional services rendered the parish;
this resolution to take effect from the date OF
his appointment to said duties.
Carried.
On motion of P. Landry:
Resoired, That there shall be established
!. in the parish Of Ascension, about three miles
II frem the town of Dohaldsonville on the ba-
You Lafourche, one ferry, aud that the Presi-
dent of this body III accordance with ordi-
nances relative to ferries, proceed to sell the
1 same
Carried.
On motion of s. II. Fields:
BE it resotred, That the Treasurer be al
lowed 500 per year, said resolution to take
effect from and after its passage.
This resolution having been put to a vote,
f. w. Mason, Fl. Rice and p. Landry voted
nay, S. H. Fields voted yea.
The resolution was lost.
The following bills were approved:
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-08
(,oppressional Committee. Third District.
Parish Executive Committee.

PIERRE LANDRY, President.
JNo. ID. CASTEY, Secretary.
First Ward.
Charles n. Lewis, Samuel IL. Mullen,
Louis Butler.
Second Ward.
VIM. Burlcy. Alliyidses Harrison
Peter A. Jones.
Third Ward.
Manuel johnson, John jackson,
Patrick Morris.
Fourth Ward.
James McCray, Charles Gccks,
Edward Cantey.
Torn of DomeldsoariHe.
Pierre Landry, Morris Marks.
Fifth Ward.
c. II. Hill, Hillary Rice,
Israel Mitchell.
Sirth Hard.
Randall Cole, Henry Hayman,
Milton Morris.
Seceath Ward.
Henry Kennedy, Robert Allerson,
Arthur Burnett.
Eighth Ward
Gustave Diggs, w. +. Hebert,
Eli Clay.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-08

Our exchanges from all parts of the
State report a gratifying improve
nient in the appearance of the grow
ing crops.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-08

6 On motion duly seconded the Police Jury
adjourned until the 10th instant, at 10 o'clock
A. NJ. IsIGNEDl
A true copy. G. n. LEWIS,
RoIs Braun, President
Secretary Police Jury.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-08
Republican State Central Exec
utiye Committee.

P.B. $. PINCHBACk, President.
WILLIAM YIGERs, Recording Secretary.
J. w. FAIRFAX, Corresponding Secretary
Members for the State at Large.
Edward Butler, s. 5. Schmidt.
Tbon,uson Coakley, Ebert CAN'T.
John Parsons, A. w. Smythe
IL. Rally, James McCleefy,
David Young, F. d. Heron.
First Congressional District
Hugh j. Campbell, II. Mahoney.
Second Congressional District
A. E.. Barber, James l.. Belden'
Third Congressional District.
Thomas II. Noland, Geo. Washington
Fourth Congressional District
L. w. Devices, Raford Blunt.
Fifth Congressional District.
A. w. Faulkner, A. b. Harris.
Congressional Committee, Third District.
JOHN r. GALLUP, President.
EMERSON BENTLEY, Secretary.
Louis E. Laloire, Pierre Landry,
Clark H. Remick.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-08

FREDERICK pUFFEI, II. PROSPER LANDRY.
Duhel 81 Landry
LAW AND NoTARIAL OFFICE,
Opposite the Court House,
DomaIdsOmyiIIe,s La.
viii attend promptly to all professional
business. oapr'I
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-08

The National Republican Conven-
ton met at Philadelphia last Wednes-
day, effected permanent organiza-
ton and adjourned until Thursday,
when Grant was nominated for Presi
dent and Henry Wilson, of Massachu-
sets, for Vice-President. After the
adoption of a platform of principles,
the Convention adjourned sine die.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-08
Lacking for truthful argument to

Lacking for truthful argument to
use against Governor Warmoth, and
having been put to their wits ends for
the invention of new SANDERS, the
Custom House journals are reviving
that exploded charge of the Governor
having been dismissed from the army
by Grant for cowardice before Vicks-
burg. Setting aside the fact that 1t
has been proven that his dismissal
was the result of unfortunate circum-
stances over which he had no control,
and ignoring the other fact that he
was honorably re-instated us COM
mander of his regiment, it would be
difficult to convince those who know
Henry Clay Warmoth personally that
he had ever been guilty of cowardice.
There is not drop of cowardly blood
in the man, as his upright and fear
less administration of the executive
department of the State Government
in time of open revolution and threat
ening peril abundantly proved.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-08

Deriving its impression from the
lying charges of the enemies of the
chief executive of this State, the Holls-
ton tTexas) Union speaks of Cover
nor Warmoth as the greatest official
thief, for his age, now in the United
States.' This ungentlemanly, con-
temptible slandertlemonstrates clearly
that the conductors of the Union are
untitled to control public journal,
either because they are addicted to
the utterance of downright falsehoods,
OF because they accept the unproven
ISLANDERS of others as gospel truth and
re-assert them accordingly.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-08

The National Republican says it is
reported that Mr.. r. X. Diossy was
removed from the Superintendency of
the Third Educational Division and
Mr.. Emerson Bentley appointed in
his stead at the instance of Governor
Warmoth to secure the Democratic
vote of st. Landry parish. If this be
true, then we have additional evil
dence that the political prejudices of
our people are dying out, for if the
Democrats of st. Landry now look
with favor upon the elevation to of
fetal honor of man whom they-or,
rather, a portion of them-droye from
their midst and sought to murder
scarcely four years ago because of his
political opinions, it indicates a re-
markable change for the better on
their sentiments that augurs well for
the future peace and prosperity of the
State. We hope the report which the
National Republican speaks of is true.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-03-15
A History Of the Life 0f the ABB
sent Balitmsre Clergyman.

A gentlemen who has been acquain-
ted with DR.. H, thirty years writes
tire Courier Journal of him as follows:
Before his conversion, he was regar-
ded as one of the most talented of Gin
cinnati's " fast boys" In 1889, after
having studied sometime at Wood
ward College. he became an itinerant
Methodist preacer in connection with
the Ohio Conference, and was station
ed by that body on Summerville cir
cult in West Virginia. In l84O the
same Conference sent him to Point
Pleasant circuit in the same State. In
1S4l to Madison circuit in the State of
Ohio. In 1912 he removed to Lexing-
ton, Kentucky; and in 1843 was STA
toned by the Kentucky Conference in
Harrodsburg. That Conference sub
sequently appointed him to the follow
ing: Richmond. Winchester, Parkers-
burg, West Virginia, Shelbyville,
Lexington, Covington and Cincinnati.
In 1854 the General Conference of his
church elected him editor of The
Home Circle. This made his removal
to Nashville necessary, but his mem
bership was continued in the Ken
lucky Conference. In 1858 he was re-
elected to the editorship, and was liv-
ing in Nashville when General Buell's
army drove the Confederates out of that
city. He remained South of the Fed
eral army lines until 1865. Then re-
turning to Kentucky, he was station
ed in Newport until 1867, when he
was transferred to the Baltimore Con-
ference, and has been stationed in that
city ever since. -.. .
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-03-15
Prayer against Temptation.

Thou who for forty days and nights O'ermas-
tered all the might
OF Satan and the fercest paDgs of fsmished
appetite,
o Saviour, leave US not alone to wrestle with
our sin,
But aid us in these holy hours Of solemn
discipline.
Let not the tempter tempt US, Lord, beyond
our strength to bear,
Tho, in the desert of our woe, he wildly
shrieks /" Despair %
Let not our humble confidence be from thy
promise stirred,
Nor clouds of dark distrust spring up between
US and thy word. -
Nor let US yet be lifted up, by him, the prince
of air,
To scale presumption's dizzy height, and then
TO perish there:
Nor on the temples pinnacle, in our self
righ,e eous pride,
Be set, for thee to frown upon, and demons
TO deride.
And, oh wien pleasure, power, and pomp
around our vision swim,
And through their soft, enchanting mist he
bids us worship him,
Assist US from the revelling sense, the sor-
cerer's spell to break,
And tread the arch-apostate down, Redeem
er, for thy sake.
Rev. Vim. CToStreU.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-03-15
JOB WORK
FRIDAY. March 10, 1872.

Az effort has been made to have
the Va, Legislature, establish the
Office of general administrator" for
each County. 1t has been usual to
turn over to the Sheriffs, those estates
which have no special administrator,
but the work cannot be done by the
Sheriff. Certainly it is not done by
them. The Office would entail no ex-
pense upon the public, and is very
badly needed. Why there should
be any doubt about its being passed
by both Houses, is one Of those many
things which are only fully explained,
by bearing in mind the peculiar and
wholly anomalous charcter of the
present Legislature, which with few
exceptions, presents one more case
where a general administrator should
render himself eminently useful.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-03-15
Business.

Messrs. Armstrong, Gator & Co
again call attention to their magnifi'
cent Spring stock of Millinery trim
ings, and Silk Goods.
Geo. NJ. Rucker of Lynchburg, is
again before the public, and offers
superior inducements to those desi-
ring dry goods.
Mr.. w. p. Brewer has connected
himself with the Stove and Tinware
business, having formed partnership
with Mr.. VIM. n. Keller. Mr..
Brewer is a gentleman of fine bust
ness capacity, of very decided popu-
larity. The stock Of the new firm is
very large and complete. See the
new advertisement.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-03-15
4 Town Hall.

To the voters and tax payers of
Goodson, we desire to say word,
and-we mean business if they agree
with us, rs we believe they will. We
propose that Goodson shall build its
Town Hall during the coming season.
1t is not probable that the Council
will undertake the matter without
an expression of the popular assent
to it. The town of Goodson is out of
debt. and has a population of 1900
There is no one thing which would SO
quickly double the number of its tax
PAYERS, as the erection of a handsome
and commOdious Town Hall. 1t
would be an attraction to every stran-
ger who would use it, to speak favor
ably of our town wherever he might
find himself. Every public speaker
Bho you Id use it, would make it the
means Of advertising US. The present
bond arising from the Johnston Land,
will about extinguish the debt for its
purchase, and when the remaining
lots are sold, we will have their pro-
ceeds as surplus funds. OF course we
intend to build Town Hail, and we
think it should be done now, SO that
it will be exercising its favorable in
fuence upon the growth of our town.
1t would become speedily, q source
of both honor and profit to US. We
propose, that at our May election.
the voters be asked to pass upon the
measure OF erecting a Hall at once.