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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25

In the Feliciana Republican of last
Saturday we find the prospectus of q
new journal about to be started at
Clinton, East Feiciana parish, I.a.,
under the proprietarial and editorial
management of Messrs. D. A. Weber
and E. w. Mason, the former editor of
the Felicisna Republican, the latter
Judge of the Parish Court of this par
ISL and Mayor of Donaldsonyille. The
new paper is to be called {. The Felic-
lana Times, and viii support the Lib
eral Republican candidates. From the
known ability and journalistic exper-
fence of the two gentlemen projecting
this newspaper enterprise we cannot
'sts.::t tair.as !. VII nrcxe . ee~eess.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25

The composition of the recent State
Convention of the Custom House fac.
ton is being discussed by several Of
our exchanges, and it has been re-
vealed that a decided majority of the
delegates virtually elected themselves
while quite number were not resi-
dents of the parishes they claimed and
were allowed by Boss Packard to rep
resent. Among the latter class the
Terrebonne Patriot mentions the fol-
lowing: John Ray, who resides in the
parish of Ouachita, represented the
parish of Jackson; Internal Revenue
Collector I. S. Johnson, also resident
of Ouachita, represented the parish of
Bienville; Claiborne was represented
by VIM. Roy, a resident of New Or
leans; DeSoto by j. HI. McVean. of
Caddo; Richland by f. H. Riddel, of
Iberia; Sabine by L. H. Burdick. of
and Washington by w.
f. Loan, a deputy u. S. Marshal of
New Orleans.
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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25
Republican State Central Exec
utiye Committee.

p. B. S. PINCHBACK, President.
WILLIAM VIGERs, Recording Secretary.
j. w. FAIRFAX, Corresponding Secretary
Members for the State at Large.
Edward Butler, s. s. Schmidt.
Thompson Coakley, Ebert CAN'T.
John Parsons, A. w. Smythe.
III. Raby, James MeCleery,
David Young, +. j. Heron.
First Congressional District.
Hugh J. Campbell II. Mahoney.
Second Congressional District
A. E. Barber, James L. Belden.
Third Congressional District.
Thomas H. holland, Geo. Washington.
Fourth Congressional District.
E. 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 Z. Laloire, Pierre Landry,
Clark III. Remiek.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25

We have received from New Or
leans, under the frank of U. S. Sena-
tor VIM. Pitt Kellogg, several copies
OF the official proceedings of the late
State Confab of the Disorderly Crew
OF Custom House Cusses, published in
pamphlet form. To what base uses
has the Thanking privilege come at
last.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25

Mr.. Geo. j. Ryder, formerly an en-
ployee of the CHIEF office, now occu-
pies the position of foreman of the At
fakapds Register, published at Frank
lin, La. George, besides being good
typo, possesses no inconsiderable edi-
torial ability, and we recognize occa-
sionally some of his characteristic eff
fusions in the columns of the Register.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25
THE REPUBLICAN OoNvBNTToN

j
The eyes of the entire people of the
State will be turned upon the Repub-
liean Convention to meet in New Or
leans next Tuesday, pursuant to call
OF the regular State Central Commit
tee of which Lieut.. Gov. Pinchback is
president, for the deliberations of that
body will undoubtedly do much to de-
termine the attitudes that will be as
sumed by the different political fac
lions during the coming campaign.
1t would be useless waste of time
on our part to expatiate at length on
our views of what the Convention
should and should not do, for it will
be composed of the representative
men of the Republican party, men
whose devotion to the interests of the
State and principles of Republicanism
are evidently sincere, and whose SUI
perior craftsmanship and intelligence
will doubtless lead them to take wiser
action for the advancement of the
public and party veal than we could
advise.
We anticipate the nomination of
able and upright candidates for State
offices and the adoption of a platform
OF principles upon which all honest
men can unite, and if this anticipation
is realized We cannot but think the
ticket nominated will receive the sup
port Of majority of the voters of the
State.
That there win be as great a con-
trast between the Convention of next
Tuesday and that disorderly gathering
at the National Theatre on the Both
ultimo as there is between black and
white, we cannot for moment doubt
and that the contrast will be unfavor-
able to the latter is a foregene con-
clusion.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25
SATURDAY, MAY rs, 1874.

Hon. c. B. Darrall, Mute Congress
man from this District, will accept our
thanks for copy of the speech of
Hon. Ellis H. Roberts, of New York,
upon 1.-THE Revenue of American La
bor-Necessity and Growth of Home
Production"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25

We cannot avoid reprehending the
vulgar and scurrilous manner in which
DR.. Cromwell sees fit to all,lde to gen
tlemen who dare to differ with him in
their choice of Republicans. The
Doctor, and others like him, are ever
lastingly crying out against proscrip-
ton of the black man, and manifest a
constituencies on this score outriyalline
that of the mi,nosa and ret this self
constituted champion rppudiates a
number of colored men as unfit to be
his I" public associates " for the high
crime of not having skin "eolored
like his own" We can assure orr
friend of the Negro Gazette that there
is no course in the world more likely to.
produce the disgracefnl and lament
able results he pretends to deprecate,
than that which he is pursuing, and
we therefore urge the doctor to dis
continue so silly and injurious a
course. Louisianian.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25
Parish Executive Committee.

TdFISu Executive OOIllEillGt6Gs
PIERRE LANDRY, President.
JSo. ID. CANTEY, Secretary.
First Ward
Charles n Lewis. Samuel HI. Mullen,
Louis Butler.
Second Ward
VIM. Burnley, Allividges Harrison
Peter A. Jones'
Third Ward.
Manuel johnson, John jackson,
Patrick Morris.
Fourth Ward.
james McCray, Charles Gecks,
Edward Cantey.
Toaca of DoealdsonriHe.
Pierre Landry, Morris Marks
Fifth Yard
G. H. Hill, Hillary Rice, :,
Israel Mitchell
Sirth Yard
Randall Cole, Henry Hayinan,
Milton Morris.
Henry Kennedy, Robert Allerson,
Arthur Burnett.
Eighth Ward. =
Gustave Digs, WE. Hebert.
Eli Clay,
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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25

We expect to hear very soon that it was
Horace Greeley and not Mrs. OLeary's COW
that kicked over the lamp that set fire to
Chlcago.-Ouachito Telegraph.
Upon the same principle, we sup
pose, and with fully as much reason,
as you and your ilk have displayed in
charging the responsibility for nearly
every untoward incident that has
occurred in this State for. two years
past upon Governor Warmoth, who
is no more responsible for them than
is Horace Greeley for the burning of
Chicago.
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The Shreveport Republican utters a
truism when it says that the Cincin
natl platform contains all the princi-
pies of the Democratic party but omits
its preiudices.
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than the fragmentary telegraphic dispatches
TO the dailies throughout the country
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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25

recognizing the will and interests Of
the people as the proper compass by
which to direct his course, he will
make President whose superior this
country has never seen; and after his
days OF usefulness upon earth are
numbered, men will speak of " The
Father of His Country Honest old
Abe" and " Honest old Horace " in
the same breath, blessing them all and
revering their memories as the incor-
ruptibfe patriots they were. Washing
ton, Lincoln and Greeley! Three
bright names destined to live in the
pages of history and the hearts of
their countrymen for ages to come.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25

During the session of the recent
Custom House Convention, when it
was proposed to make Lieut.. Gov.
Pinehback one of the alternate dele
gates to Philadelphia, Boss Packard
flew around among the members of
the Convention in great trepidation,
asking them, EDO sou want to take
Warmoth back? Do you want to vote
for Warmoth ~ One of the delegates
from st. Charles answered him very
sharply, We want to harmenize the
Republican party" The spirit OF this
rejoinder spread through the Conven-
ton, Pinchback was elected, and Boss
Packard sat down with the air of d
selfish politician who had been de-
feated. He retrieved this defeat sub
sequently, however, much to his own
satisfaction, but to the intense disap-
pointment of all who wished to see
harmony restored in the Republican
camp.
tt Is sa1u tnat Horace Greeley VIII
next year devote portion of his time
not occupied in the performance of
the duties of President to writing a
book to be entitled "What | know
about beets." A portrait OF Grant
will be given as Specimen beat.''
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-31
WHO is THE BEST FRIEND TO THE
SOUTH

The character of the Presidential contest
is settled. There will be only two candi-
dates. They are both Republicans. The
record OF President Grant is one of consist
ency and uniformity. The record of Mr..
Greeley shows him to be a man of strong
impulses, and his readiness to write and
talk has led him into many strange incon-
sistencies. No act in the life of any public
man has presented so strange an inconsist-
ency as the browning act of Mr.. Greeley's
life, the acceptance of the leadership of a
party, in the opposition of which he has
acquired all the reputation he possesses.
The people will have to take their choice
between these men. Unpleasant as the
TACT may be, 1t is so. Southern Democrats
and ex-rebels will have to vote for Cen
eral Grant, brave, courageous determined
and open but honorable enemy in time of
war but friend in peace, or they must
vote for the man who, while living in COM
fort and ease at home, said that ORATORS
should not be allowed to return to peaceful
homes, but after having been overwheIm-
ed in the field, they must find desolation
and poverty at their firesides and see the
fruits of their crimes in the anxious ewes
of mothers and in the TuQs of children
General Grants bitterest enemy never
charged him with uttering sentiment so
atrocious
Take the lives of the two men, scrutin-
ize their conduct from the date of early
manhood down to the present, and Grants
life VIII prove him truer, steadier, and
more reliable friend to the Southern pco-
pie than Mr.. Greeley has ever been. If
! the voters of the South will Law aside all
prejudice, and think of the matter dispas-
solnately they are bound TO admit that
\ this is true.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-31
THE GREELEYrTEs AS REroRMERs.

! We have no doubt but that some men
have entered the Greeley movement be-
cause they honestly believed that he was.
at the head of a reform party. Whatever
may have once appeared as looking in the
| direction of reform, no well-informed man
will now honestly or seriously contend that
the leaders of the Greeley Democracy have
any such purpose in view. If anything
| were wanting to prove the hypocrisy of
the Greeley party as reform party, the
character of the leaders would furnish suf-
| ficient evidence of that fact. In New York
we see Fenton, Cochrane and the whole
ing Mr. Greeley. In PENNSYLVANIA
we find Mcclure and other we'll known
corruptionists joining in the fight and
acting as leaders of the Greeley move
ment In Missouri we find Frank Blair,
Grosvenor and other political prostitutes
acting as the champions of the new party
In Louisiana, that eminent reformer III
c. Warmoth, fastened te identify himself
with the Greeley party. If one-fourth
that Democratic papers have charged upon
him be true, he ought to have been i'm the
penitentiary some time ago.
And to come right down to our State
would any man who honestly desires re-
form in the civil service, select the leaders
of the Greeley party in Tennessee as the
men to effect such reform? Look at them!
What pledge does their past life offer that
they desire reform of any kind? Docs
their past history point them out as cham
pions of such a movement? Some of them
have been engaged in public life for years.
and have never given any very striking
evidences of political purity. Others. who
stand high with the party, who occupy the
station of leaders, have been guilty Of the
most degrading conduct while in official
position, while at the same time in their
private life, they have exhibited DISPOSE
ton TO take that which belonged to others.
The leaders of the party in Tennessee are
certainly a broad burlesque on all possible
that behalf in other localities by those
made in our own State. and by that stand
ard are justified in setting them down as
empty, unmeaning declarations.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-31
The Coalition,

A correspondent of the lines writing
from Binghampton, New York, July 23d
says:
The Republican reprints to-day the 2ri--
6lplc'S authorized statement concerning
MIR. Greeley alleged part in the negotia-
ton with the Democrats for the Presiden-
tial nomination ; and replies, with analy-
sis, that no assertion it has made is contra
dicted by the Tribune, but that the whole
is substantially admitted. 1t repeats with
greater emphasis its statements OF Mr.
Carmichael, of Unadilla, whom it has heard
from to-day, and pronounced him not only
the originator, by Seymour's help of Gree
ley at Cincinnati, but the author of the
tariff plank of the plantform that was
adopted. 1t reaflirms its statement that
Mr.. Greeley expressed himself by letter in
favor of paying pensions to disabled Con-
federate soldiers, and declares that Mr..
Greeley invited Mr.. carmichael, by letter
TO come to New York to talk over political
issues. That Mr.. Greeley then consented
to be Democratic candidate for President,
provided Mr. Seymour and the Democratic
leaders would support him.
1t reasserts that Mr.. Greeley proposed by
letter that Democrat should go to Cincin-
natl in his interest, and said also in a letter
that il was not yet time to get up the pro-
posed meeting in Otsego for him, 1t reaf-
firms its assertions of correspondence be-
tween Seymour and Hutchins, and propos-
Is to give such other and further vcrifca-
lions os may be required to set the ques-
ton at rest. 1t re-publshes prominently
the narrative, certified statements, synop-
sis of letters and theRffidayits, with an eX-
PLANTATION of the manner in which the
State of New York was carried by the
Democrats for Greeley in the Cincinnati
and Baltimore Conventions.
The Republican mentions the fact that
dispatch, forwarded by it as member of
the Associated Press, failed to appear in
the State journals for which it was intend
ed, which dispatch related to the nature of
the disclosures. A telegram of to-day pur-
ports 10 contradict it.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-31
Back Your Judgment.

THE Union and american a few days,
since figured up the result of the Presiden-
tial election as follows:
For Greeley and Brown, go electoral
votes
For Grant and Wilson, So electoral votes.
Doubtful, "a.
In order to test the sincerity of the state
ment subscriber of the Tennessee Trubne
makes the following proposition:
LIST. To bet $500 that Greeley and Brown
don't get $50 electoral votes at the next
election.
I'd. To bet $500 that Pennsylvania goes
for Grant and Wilson in the next election.
Sd. To bet $500 that Grant is elected next
President.
The editors of the Union and american,
or any one else desiring to accept any or all
of thse propositions will be furnished with
the necessary information by applying at
the Office of the Tribune, IS! Deadericll
street, in this city.
Here's chance for some man to back
his judgment.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-31
WHO COMMITTED THE FORGERY !

Some days ago the Greeley organ of this
city published letter from General But
terfield to General Grant, acknowledging
the receipt of the New York donation of
one hundred thousand dollars. That letter
was dated February Il, eighteen hundred
and siXty-niae. We proved yesterday con-
clusively by a letter of General Horace
Porter's that the date of tina. letter was q
forgery. That it should have been 1866.
The question is, who committed the infa-
NOUS act? The Greeley organ purported
10 copy this letter from the Phila-
delphia Age. We demand now to
know the issue of the Age in which
this forgery appeared. We have seen no
notice whatever of the forgery in our Phil
adeIphiG exchanges, and it seems TO us if
such q Il 0nstrous charge had been made
there it Ssould have received prompt no.
tice. We therefore, demand Of the Press
and HeTC;l& the date of the Age in which
this forgery appeared. We want to know
who has beer guilty Of these infamous at
tempts to break down the President.
There was 10 simple typographical error in
it. The comments of the papers were bas-
ed on the GCte given. We demand the
proof. We propose to fasten the guilt where
il belongs.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-31
FOREIGN,

Cholera is abatng in Russia. President
Juarez, Of Mexico is dead. Three more com
munist leaders were shot in Paris last week..
Catacazy has been dismissed from the Russian
diplomatic corps. Butler, United States Con-
sui General at Alexandria, Egypt has been dis
missed by the President for engaging in row
with General LoriRg, Col. Reynolds and Maj,
Campbell. ex-Confederates, in the service of the
Khedive, who have been tried before mill
tary commission and also dismissed...... The i'm
portation of coolies in Cuba continues.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-31

SENATOR SCHURZ in his speech at St
Louis made the statement that he had been
offered by two of General Grants particu-
lar friends any patronage he desired in
consideration ofyielding a support to the
San Domingo scheme. A dispatch from
Washington Tuesday, in reference to this
matter, says
The charge made last evening by Senator
Schurz in his st. Louis speech, to the effect
that he had been offered the official patronage
by President Grant or his friends to vote against
his conviction of duty in regard to the annexa-
ton of San Domingo, was laid before the Pres-
dent by Secretary Belknap on Gen Grants ar
rival here this morning, the President pro-
nouncing the whole statement, as far as it at.
tempts to reflect upon him, as absolutely un-
founded in fact. In no way was any one even
authorized to tender to Schurz or any other
Senator the control or use of any patronage for
his approval Of the San Domingo annexation
policy or any other measure of this Administra-
ton. The President expresses his earnest desire
that Schurz will at once publish the letter which
he claims to have in relation to this pretended
profer in order that, if any one has so imposed
upon the Senator, it may lead to a full exposure
of the dishonest motives and character of such
person