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From Sbs New York Tribune.
We are td bave Presidential cleo
tioG in 1872 $50 much is inevitable.
Yo may regret or deprecate this, yet
thdSfaet will a:emain.
An electioA implies competition.
Once only lul 1920 has President
be1n chosen with practical unanimity /;
he Monroel was good man, but not
81 Eong one. We are not likely to
have another such election in the
next century,.
4an electibn in earnest involves not
on1 rival candidates but clashing
pu1 poses. Ifa party or clique were
to 5ropose h Presidential canvass on
the platform of adherence to our sep
ration from Great Britain or to a
reIe elbliean fern of government, it
vol lid probably find it difficult to
make an Issue on that proposition
and find ain antagonist ready and
eagbr for the fray.
Thus we regard the question which,
tel years ago shook our Union to it's
certer. Slavery and Secession were
thta treme entluous facts, which you
APPROVE or EcJndemn, but could by no
meAns ignore. You might be for or
against thesns indifferent to them you
co4ld not nationally be. But, now
thaA they are dead beyond the hope of
resurrection, what use in debating
thes merits or fighting over their life
less remainsa
"Shall the Blacks-nine-tenths of
th6n just freed by the sword-be at
onde endowed with all tho rights and
fral lchises of American citizensf'
Ba1ely six years ago, this was the
palhmountI Question. No thoughtful
peibon denieH that there were much
to be said on either side. That those
Blacks were fn the main grossly illit-
crsA q and ignorant, was undeniable.
That they ;yduld be duped and mis-
led by crafty, selfish, unprineipled
adventurerB,1 Was obvious. That they
might be corrupted by bribery or de-
luded by shen sympathy, constituted
a rs,al and grave public peril. If the
coIntry could have chosen to educate
them first, then enfranchise them, it
would have taken that course. But
it's .only choice was, Now or never
Tdhave reconstructed. and restored
th4 States on q White basis was to
doJm the Blacks to perpetual vassai-
age and impotence. If they were not
to be enfaanohised until educated, ,and
the Whites sof the South were en-
poSyered To decide when they had at
tanned the proper standard OF intel
lieence, good care would have been
tasen that they should never be
tatght. oitlle temporary peril was
widely preferred to the perpetual in
Justice and degradation, and the
Blacks were not merely enfranehised
their equal rights were secured ana
er.aranteed by Constitutional
Amendment which is practically IRE
peElable.
There are doubtless some men and
more women who deplore the changes
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-04
The BrOther-in-Iaw Question.
[From &c. New York Snnl

n L.
Some of the Presidents friends are
demanding of him a sacrifice which
would lacerate his sensibilities in their
tenferest point They insist that he
shall give over Brother-in-law Casey
to the wrath of his enemies.
Itisswel known that the New Or
leans investigation was begun at the
personal request of the President.
who wrote note to Mr.. Dawes. ask
ing that committee might be ap-
pointed to examine affairs in that CITY.
The truth is that the odor of
corruption was so f1agrant there
that the Administration desired
the applica'iC of liberal coat of
whiSewash 10 seutralize it. But there
are jobs too uIisavory to be covered
up even by Congressional Committee
OF investigation, and the New Orleans
bussness proved too rank for the in
vesEgators.
ltwas proved that Collector Casey
had been grelty of an attempt to bribe
the Louisiasla Legislature; that he
paid some the lobby money; that
he las the custodian of a corruption
fun{ poreiotl of which was found in
his hands. Other testimony was
taken which places the Presidential
bro5her-in-laW in most unenyiable
liglt and IS q natural consequence
they most strenuous exertions have
been made To- suppress the evidence
which was elected by the committee.
1t has been asserted that the reason
that the report of the committee has
notaoeen published is that it has been
delayed IN tho Government printing
ofi4e; but inquiry has shown that but
a small part q fhe testimony has ever
bee sent thease. Now, other excuses
aresotfered for keeping the facts from
thepeople, bnt there is every reason
to ffelieye that the true cause for the
delay is that the report of the COM
mittee will show a degree of corrup-
ton existing ih the New Orleans Gus
tonk House which would render the
disd osures relating to the general or
derirobbery id this city insignificant
in compalisoI. Under these cireum-
stances some of the Presidents friends
area beseeching him to let Casey go.
'Tht say tbafslf the bad brother-in-
laNfis kept in! office after this investi-
CATION, the whole history will come
out during the campaign, and cost
Gr'.nt thousands of votes; and, what
is tyorse, will deeply grieye many
fridhds who with stand by the office
holFer party and its candidates in
spite of the faults. 1t is possible this
appeal may he needed. The Presi-
deBtsmigals npt mind the predicted
grief; but the loss of votes is matter
which viii bel likely to commend itself
to his serious consideration.
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paid the money, all that l had,
and we dined together. It was a
modest meal, but good, and after we
had finished he said:
This is my first meal for twenty
four hours. Strother, don't be an ar
tist. 1t means beggary. Your life is
dependent upon people who know
nothing of your art, and care nothing
for you. A house dog lives better,
and the very sensitiveness that stim-
ulates him to work keeps him alive to
suffering"
l remained with Professor Morse
three years, and then we separated.
Some years after met him on Broad
way one day. He was about the same
as before, a trife older, and perhaps
somewhat ruddier. | asked him how
he was getting on with his painting,
and he told me that he had abandoned
it; that he had something better, he
believed, and told me about his pro-
posed telegraph. I accompanied him
to his room, and there found several
miles of wire twisted about, and the
battery, which he explained to ME.
His pictures, finished and unfinished,
were lying about covered with dust.
Shortly after Congress made an ap-
preparation, and Morse was on the
high road to wealth and Immortality.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-04
The Dolly Warden Dress.

Dolly Warden, the fortunate young
lady after whom the fashionable dress
for next summer is named, was the
charming daughter of London lock-
smith, Gabriel Warden by name, and
lived in the reign of George III. She
afterward became Mrs. Joseph Will
lett. For further information we
would refer inquiries to a certain book
of reference called "Barnaby Rudge, y
written by one Charles Dickens, an
author Fof some local reputation.
Whether the lady in question was
given to wearing material of start
ling loud character in color or pat
tern, this deponent has no knowledge
nor information sufficient to form a
belief. About year ago, however,
some inspired modiste reehristened
what were then known as /" ere
tonnesn and called them " Dolly Var
dens.n The name was first confined
to chintzes, but it spread to other ma
terials. At a late dry goods e1posi-
tion Dolly Warden " silks we're exhi-
bited. and now whole costumes the
like of which were never seen on sea
or shore, are named after the charm
ing and coquettish little daughter Of
a London locksnlith.
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Professor Morse.
From the Washington Capitol ]

FROM the Washington Capitol.
We happened to meet Colonel
Strother, the famous Porte Crayon,
and the talk turning as usual upon
Morse, the Colonel said:
/ knew him well. | took lessons
under him in drawing and painting.
| first saw him when he was compet-
itor for the remaining panel in the ro-
tunda of the Capitol. l thought then
he ought to have had it. l think so
yet. He was not great artist, but
he was enough of one to save us from
ridicule. The job was given to Mr..
Powell. General Schenck did that.
The General probably did not know
one picture from another, but Mr..
Powell was his constituent, and he
believed, did Schenck, that some
thing in the way of art should be
done for the Miami bottoms, SO he
worked at it till he got the commits
sion.
And one day, said we, Congress
will give General Scheuck permis-
sion to remove that terrible product of
the Miami bottoms. But about
Morse.
Well, 1 engaged to become his pu-
pill, and subsequently went to New
York and found him in q room on
University Place. He had three
other pupils, and l soon found that
our Professor had very little patron
age. paid my fifty dollars that set
tied for one quarters instruction.
Morse was faithful teacher, and
took as much interest in our progress,
more, indeed, than we did ourselves.
But he was very poor. remember
that when my second quarters pay
was due him it did not come as soon
as expected, and one day the Profes-
sor came in, and said courteously:
"Well, Strother, my boy, how are
we off for money!"
"Why, Professor" l answered, |
am sorry to say / have been disap-
pointed, but l expect remittance
next week"
"Next week. he repeated sadly ;
81 shall be dead by that time"
Dead, sir I y
!" Yes, dead of starvation
was distressed and horrifed. I
said hurriedly, "Would ten dollars be
of any service go.
" Ten dollars would save my life
that is all it would dc. .
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-04
DONALDsONVHLE, LA, SATURDAY, 4, 1872

of the last twelve years. They would
gladly return to what seems to them
the golden age of the republic, when
ladies needed not to parley with and
humor their nurses and chamber
maids, and when every gentleman's
right to larrup his own niggern was
beyond question. But even these are
fully conscious that the shadow will
never recede ON the dial-that what
has been can never return. Pride of
opinion and reluctance to confess de-
feat may sometimes impel them to
talk foolishly; but their idle vaporing
is OF just as much consequence as that
OF the maiden sisters who died few
years since in their native New Jersey,
proud to the last that they had ever
been faithful subjects of His Majesty
George III. (under whose reign they
were born) and his lawful successors
on the British throne. If "The Lost
Cause shall ever be seriously re-
vlved by the losers, the winners will
be compelled to fight their battles DER
again. Until then, it were absurd on
our part to renew the contests of
1o6O-64-68. Let the dead rest, un-
less they should insist on rattling
their bones in their coffins so as to
annoy and impede the workers above
ground. For the present, we decline
to admit that what has been well done
during the last ten years can possibly
be undone.
The issues of 1872 will soon be
commandingly set forth by the Ma
tlonal Conventions about to be held.
Let every good citizen regard them
without prejudice and decide upon
them as he shall deem most conducive
to our country's well-being.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-04
Party Names and Principles.
[From the Charleston Republican,

lrFom the Chaf1eston republican.
The term Whig was first applied in
1879, to the members of great poll
teal party in England, who opposed
the cause of the royal family, and who
had previously been instrumental in
abolishing the Star Chamber Court
and in reviving and perfecting the
habeds corpus act. For more than a
century and a half, the English Wings
have represented the friends of re-
form, or change in the ancient consti-
tuition. They have been numerous
and powerful ever since the popular
element became active in the legisla-
tion of that country; and have rep
resented the reformers of the past
century and half, whether known as
Puritans, Nom -Conformists, Round
heads, Covenanters, Liberals or Re-
publicans. John Bright and John
Stuart Mill are perhaps the most con-
spicuous of the living representatives
of that party.
In American politics, nearly one
hundred years ago, a Whig was one
who, supported the revolutionary
movement in opposition to the policy
of the English government. After
ward the term was applied to those
who, like Washington, Edmund Ran
dolph and Alexander Hamilton, advo-
Gated "a consolidated Union," in op-
position to the estate Rights men
in 1850. The supporters of the
two first administrations of the gov
ernnent, although known as Federal
lists were, like the English reformers
generally included under the head of
Whig. Their principles were, that
National government was necessity,
in order to preserve the peace and
liberties of the people of the States
that the Federal constitution provided
for such government that the con-
stitutien was not formed by the
States, as the opposition now claim,
but, as the preamble declares, by the
people of the United States; and
hence, that the primary allegiance of
the citizen is due not to the State, but
the national government. The Oppo-
sition, or what afterward became
known as the Democratic party, de-
MED that we are nation; conse-
quently, that there is no such thing as
direct allegiance of the citizen to the
United States government, because,
by their construction of the eonstitu-
ton, that government is the creature
or agency not Of the people, but of
the States
Such being the fundamental princi-
pies of the two parties, one could not
be less than national, while the other
could not be more than sectional. Ac-
ceptiag, therefore, as final, the issue
of the Democratic war of secession,
and accepting, also, as valid, the
fourteenth and fifteenth articles of the
constitution, the Democratic party is
now obsolete, both as respects its
name and its principles. 1t is a thing
of memory only. The Wing party, as
an organization, ceased to exist at the
beginning of the last decade; but it's
theory of the constitution and its
principles were adopted by new or
ganization. That organization,
springing up upon the ruins of the
old Wing party, and, for the most
part, led by Whig politicians, has
succeeded in incorporating Wing
principles into the policy of the gov
ernment.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-04
How the Romans Lived.

IF auvtbiny rros uontod RI oiya II q
an ;.jas of Roman magn;f,eenea wn
would tnrn orr avas from, nnbl;c
| n,onu,anta danoraIigad oomas and
nrand nrocessiona. we would forget
fbe statues in brass and marble
which ontnunharad tba l;yino inba Ri,
tants 90 numerous that one hnndred
thousand. have been recovered. and
still embellish Italy: and wonld deg
Ecend into the lower sphere of material
life to ornaments dresses sl,mntuonx
l;ying and rich f,1r,;t,1re The art of
nsing metals and emitting nrecious
stones snrnassad anything known at
fbe present day.
In the decoration of bouses. in 40
Le;al entertain,nenfs in croekerv. the
Romans we're remarkabIa The Yao-
saics. signet rings. canoes, bracelets.
bronzes. chains. vases. couches, ban
oueting-tables. lamps. chariots. col
ored glass. gliding mirrors. mattress
ses. cosmetics. perfumes. hair dye.
silk robes. and posteries, attest great
elegance and beauty. The tables of
thuga root and Delian bronze were as
expensive as the sideboards of Span
| ish walnut. SO much admired in the
great exhibition at London. Wood
and ivory were carved as exquisitely
as in Japan or China. Mirrors were
made of polished silver. Glass cut
ters could initiate the colors of pre-
cious stones so well that the Portland
vase, from the grave of Alexander
Severus, was long considered as a
genuine sardonvx; brass could be-
hardened so as cut stone.
| The palace of Nero glittered with
gold and Jewels. Perfumes and flow
ers were showered from ivory ceilings.
The halls of Hehogabalus were hung
with cloth and gold, enriched with
| Jewels. His beds were silver, and bis
tables of gold. Tiberius gave mil
lion of sesterces for a picture for his
bedroom. A BANQUET dish of Dasillus
weighed five hundred pounds of silver.
| The cups of Drusus were of gold.
Tunies were embroidered with the
figures of various animals. Sandals
1
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Boyy st. Vincent states that the
time is coming when the Mediterrean
win be noting more than q chain of
lakes, and then mighty river. The
sea of Azof is already being converted
into a stream--its shores constantly
approaching nearer together. Tracts.
of water which extent from the.
mouth of the Don to the Straits of the
Dardanelles may now be compared to
Lakes Superior, Michigan and Huron
When the great Island Of Atlantis
went down, as Plato relates, covered
| with cities, it must hare changed the
sea boundaries exceedingly. Rivers
are forever in the process of changing
their channels aud Swallowing by the
debris they apread along tlleir bot
! toms.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-04

At Yarmouth, England, 100000
oO0, herring have been landed at the
fsh wharf this season. Estimating
four herring to the pound, we have
6o,OOO, 900 pounds, or $4,000, tons of
fish, which is equivalent at the aver
age weight to seventy thousand bull
locks. The herring possessing more
nitrogen to the pound than beef, is
more valuable as producer of bone,
muscle and brain.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-04

A Boston girl, whose gallant on a
ride, contrary to her wish, insited on
stopping at tobbaeonist's for cigar,
took advantage of his leaving her
mistress of the situation and the We
hlcle to drive to her paternal abode,
In front of which the abandoned one
some hours afterward, found his con-
veyance.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-04

The New York Herald's Washing
ton special" says that the special
Senate committee on the levees OF the
Mississippi River have held meeting
and appointed a subcommittee, con-
sisting. Messrs. Alcorn. and Kellogg,
to whom all bills and petitions on the
subject were referred, and who will
report a bill at IN early day.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-04

A man having announced that he
wanted to marry a girl with plenty
Of snap in her. the La Crosse Leader
advises him to ego for the Wisconsin
girl who swallowed forty percussion
caps the other week.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-04

It seems that all the fools are not
dead yet. A miniature schooner, IL
feet long and IL inches deep, is being
built in New York, in which some
fool-hardy man proposes to cross the
Atlantic alone, this time without the
dog. Good for the dog.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-04

The first of the new civil service
rules, which are now being prepared
by the commissioners, will provide
that hereafter fidelity to the United
States shall be a prerequisite to any
appointment to office.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-04

In reference to the comet which was
to smash the earth on the first of next
August, the scientists, make three re-
markable statements. Firstly, it new
er existed; secondly, Prof. Planta-
mour never said it did, and comets
are only vaporous, harmless things at
any rate.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-04

The pork crop of the past season
has been immense. The number of
hogs packed in the Northwest was
1868, 448, against 3,695, PSI the year
previous.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-04

Colonel N. X. Mcclure, of Pennsyl-
vania, said to correspondent of the
New York Tribune / shall go to
Cincinnati and burn all the brigsed
behind me-"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-04

We hear great deal about labor
reform, but there seems to be great
need of reforming some of those fell
lows that don't labor.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-04

Calico, the well known cotton cloth,
is named from Calicot, a city in India,
from whence it first came. Calico
vas not known in England at all un-
til as late as the year 1851.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-04

Mrs. DR.. Mary Walker has visited
Fairfax Courthouse, Va, and says
she intends to settle there.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-04

Communications may be addressed simply
a CgIgr. Donaldsonville, La.," or to the edi-
tor and proprietor personally.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-04

A Toulouse priest has published q
oooX, IN which he tells us that "the
norid Will come to an end in the
5saf 1871 seven months, thirteen days,
a,ree minutes, thirty-one seconds,
pans thirteen times the seventeenth
part OF second after the creation of
1asm; which means in the month of
,ay saa.y thirteenth day, at three minutes,
ss .aslst5sone 1917 of a second past z
gssock ,ca, IN the morning, of the year
AsSl Of the Christian era.r
a. nhy, that's terrible! It's less than
=. Ivy years. Can't that priest be in
eh SaSed to put il off until after the Al
@osnaa difficulty is settled 2
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-04

The new hotel at Saratoga, not yet
named, has been letto parties in New
York, for ten years, for $27, 500 per
year. The Columbian is being re-
Quit, and will accommodate 900
guests. A Mr.. Adams, of New York,
mas purchased the Continental for
soO,0OO. The Circular Street House
aas mas been sold to John Palmer, of
saratoga. The Grand Union Hotel
tae largest in the world-was sold
at auction on the 10th of April.
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