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

Governor Warmoth's action in try
ing to prevent the consummation of
the Wiekliffe warrant swindle, by
which the State treasury would be
mulcted to the tune of a hundred and
fifty thousand dollars, has not as yet
been turned to his injury by any of
our contemporaries. No matter how
proper his acts and commendable his
motives, we are so accustomed to see
his official deeds distorted into frauds
and rascality that wenaturally looked
for it in this case. 1t is true no
praise has been accorded for his earn
est desire to protect the public inter
ests, but the failure to misconstrue
his purposes must be taken as a most
encouraging sign of reformation in
certain quarters.--F, o. Republican.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25
A Just Law.

The following act, entitled San Act
to amend article six hundred and
forty four of the Code of Practice"
was passed at the last session of the
General Assembly and approved by
Governor Warmoth April %, 1872:
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the
Senate and House of Representative
of the State of Louisiana in General
Assembly convened, That article six
hundred and forty -four of the Code of
Practice be amended so as to cores
pond with article one thousand nine
hundred and ninety-two Of the Civil
Code, and so as TO read as follows ::
The sheriff cannot seize the linen and
clothes belonging to the debtor or his
wife nor his bed, nor those of his
family; nor his arms and military ac-
coutrements; nor the tools and in
struments and books necessary forthe
exercise of the calling, trade or pro
fession by which he makes living !;
nor shall he in any case seize the
rights of personal servitude. of use
and liabitation, of uspfruct to the es-
tate of a minor child; nor the income
of dotal property nor money Gsrge for
the salary of an officer; nor wages /;
nor reeonlpense for personal services ];
nor house or kitchen furniture to the
value of six hundred dollars.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25

The Prussians are melting large
numbers of the captured cannons, aad
making bells for the various catha-
drals of the large cities. Ii the tralIs-
formed cannon do not make as much
noise as heretofore, their melody wall
be more pleasing. The note of a
Titied gun is not pleasant thing to
hear, if you are in front of it, as oar
substitute can testify --ErchGnge.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25

If the liberal movement meets with
as much favor in all parts of the coJn
try as it does in this immediate vicihi
ty, Greeley's prospects are certaialy
favorable. A large number of replb-
Tcans hereabouts have expressed til Fir
determination to give the liberal md I've
their hearty support. This numb Der
includes the leading men of the paFty
here, and they are evidently in dad
earnest. The Grant administrat ion
has but few adherents among the sre
publicans of this town.-Jefelson
(His.) Banner.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25

A Western editor, during the sate
frozen period, thus accounts for the
,learth of local news in his paper:
+" Our reporter started out this afE fer
noon in search of local items. After
an unusually long absence he returh ed:
but, alas! in a most deplorable coadi-
tion-frozen stiff as poker and mi-
nus one ear. We stood HING up
against the wall behind the stove, and
ordered the devil to pile Oh the fuel.
We finally succeeded in pryings his
mouth open with the ash shovel,
when dozen or so of words fells out
upon the floor and broke into pieces.
We set the devil at work putting
them together, and hefinally repdrted
the following as the result of his lSbor:
Coolest day of the seas n; every
thing froze stiff; saloon keepers SELL
ing hot whiskies by the brick"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25

Senator Trurubuli was waited upon
the other day by delegation of Lib
eral Republicans from Illinois, who
Ce ,ired to use his name as the Libefal
candidate for Governor of Illinois, ito
which he assentt d. Gen. Oglespy
will probably be the regular Reprb
lican candidate. The Democrats say
they win make no nomination, hut
vote for TrumbuiI.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25
DoNALDsoNyILIE, LA, SATURDAY, MAY a5 1872 IS

States forget the past, seize the oeca-
sion and accomplish certain good
for the present, and make the ascend
eley of Democratic principles possible
in the future.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25

Two good natured Irishmen, ones a
certain occasion, occupied the same
bed. In the morning one said to fhe
other: !" Dennis did you hear thUn-
der?" No, Pat-did it really thun-
,ler2" 9 Yes, it thundered as if heav-
en- and earth would come together
i" Why in the divil, thin, didu't aye
wake me, for ye know | can't sl4pe
when it thunders ?"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25

Conversation with the leading
Democrats in the H0use show THAT
out of the los members belonging to
that party, not more than twenty-five
are in favor of the Baltimore
convention making a nomination,
or against the ratification of the
nomination of Greeley and Bnown.
Of the number are the followinga viz !:
Voorhees, and Kerr, of Indiana q amp
bell, Lamison and Van Trunb, of
Ohio; Mcneil, of Illinois; Slater, of
Oregon; Bird, of New Jersey kcker,
of Pennsylvania Young and D4 Bose,
of Georgia; Grassland, Winchester
and Lewis, of Kentucky. Amokg the
Republican Senators who are known
to favor Mr.. Gfealey's electie'. are
Trumbull, Schurz, Fenton, Yrton,
Sprague, Alcorn, Hill, Ferry Off Con-
necticut, West and Robertson.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25

The Louisville Journal
says: Greeley holds the pen, GRAFT
holds the sword. And is it not wriS-
ten, The pen is mightier than the
sword s'n
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25

A party Of gypsies were in DanbuFy
recently. The Netcs says: "These
people appear to think a good deal Df
their native land; they carry Sit
around with them.n
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25

How IT WoRks.-Mr. Lewis Nc
Kenzie, Republican delegate atlarge
for Virginia to the Philadelphia Con-
ventiou, has returned his credentials,
and declines attending that conven-
tion. He has pronounced for Greeley
and Brown.-Sumnait Times.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25

The two delegates from this Stafe
that supported Greeley from first 20
last in the Cincinnati Convention,
were Delassize and Lewis both Ca
ored men.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25

Communications may be addressed simply
CHIEF, Donaldsonville, La or to the eli
tor and proprietor personally.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-25

Four thousand dollars in gold and
greenbaeks were found under the bed
Of an old Albany rag picker, who
died sulIfenk The ctller dav. ..-...f -
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Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-04-27


We think there are stronger rea-
sons than any yet suggested in favor
of a pOstponement of our Demo-
cratic State Convention. On the
first day of May the Cincinnati Con-
vention viii assemble. What its &C
ton will be, and 10 what extent il
may affect the political situation,
cannot now be known. 1t may or
may not nominate a President tial
ticket. II it shall, il is not settled
as to what the action of the Democ-
racy will be. With three candidates
in the field, it would become a ques-
ton as to the course the rank and
file Of the Democrats should pursue.
They would inevitably divide as be-
tween the Democratic and Liberal
Presidential candidates, part think
ing il best, in order to defeat Grant,
to vote for the Democrat, and others
thinking il best to vote for the Lib
eral. If, before the national forces
adjust themselves and the heat Of
the contest comes on, we bring out
a gubernatorsal candidate, may not
he and the people who brought him
out, possibly find themselves in an
tagonism? y Democratic candidate
supporting the nominee OF the Ma
tional Democracy, might find him.
self confronting another Democrat,
but one advocating the Cincinnati
nominee. Whether there is force or
not in these suggestions, we cannot
too strongly advise the postpone
ment of our State convention. Let
US nominate our candidate for Gov
ernOr when the national contest has
assumed definite shape Memphis
Ledger.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-04-27
THE GIRL WITH THE CALICO
DRESS.

A f. for your upper ten girls,
With their velyets, and satins, and aces
Their diamonds, and rubies, and pearls,
And their milliner figures and faces;
They may shine at party or ball,
Emblazoned with half they possess;
But give me, in place Of them all,
The girl with the calico dress.
She is plump as a partridge, and fair
As the rose in its earliest bloom;
Her teeth VIII with ivory compare,
And her breath like the clover perfume
Her step is as free and as light
As the fawns whom the hunter hare press
And her eve is as soft and as bright
My girl with the calico dress.
She Is cheel ful, warn-hearted and true,
And is kind to her father and motheri
She studies how much she can do
For her sweet little sister and brother
If you want companion for life,
To comfort, enliyen and bless,
She is the right sort of wife
My girl with the calico dress.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-04-27
now to overcome Evil.

The evils of the world are not to
be overcome by thinking at them
out of the windows Of a comforts
BILE and costly mansion, nor by sigh
ing over them as you feel the fever
ish throb of the worlds pulse in
your mornings paper, but by pour
ing broadside of justice into every
stronghold Of oppression, and lay
ing the healing hand of charity up
on every Wronged and wounded
heart. The velvet-footed sentimen-
talist, who sheds tears over reports
of crime and Wretehedness as he sips
his coffee from giided china, and
then orders three tickets at the
opera, and drives q bargain like 9
piowshare through a widows home
is the DEVILS own.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-04-27
L,berARePubIioan movement.

The Mobile Register, one of the
straightest Of the straight Southern
papers, in speaking of the Liberal
Republican movement, says:
The Liberal Republican Conven-
tion'-born in Missouri last winter
and already a young giant in growth
we have constantly commented on
In it we fully recognize dignified
and most strongly endorsed conven.
tion of the real Republican party
It's principles, as first enuncIated il
Missouri aud as since published witt
authority IN every State of the
Union make a platform broad
enough for all truepmen-of what
ever name or creed-to stand upon
= il &sy be endorsed IA contention.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-04-27
rnE CurLp AsLEEP.

sweet babe! true portrait Of thy father,
face,
pressed
sleep, little one: and closely, gently place
Thy drOwsy eyelid on thy mothers breast
Upon that tender eye, my little friend,
son sleep shall come, that cometh not
TO me!
[ watch 10 see thee, Houri-h thee, defend
'Tis sweet 10 watch for thee; alone for thee
HIS arms fall down; sleep sits upon his brow
His eycs are elosedi he sleeps, nor dream
oil harm.
Wore not his cheek the apples rudy glow
Would you not say he slept On Dcath'i
cold arm'
Awake. my boy. tremblo with Alright
Awake. and chase this fatal thought
Uuclose thine eye but for one moment OF
the light,
Even at the priceof thine, give me repOse
sweet errorl he but slept breathe again
Come, gentle dreams, the hour Of sleeI
beguile.
o! when shall he. for whom 1 Sigh in vain
Beside me watch TO see thy waking smile
ICloulde de surulle. (Freneh.) Transla
tioE or u. W. LOugiellow.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-04-27
ErrAcrn AfuI.Es.-

ENRAGED MULEs.-Out in Mari
on county, lows, recently, q farmer
butchered hog and got some blood
on his coat sleeve, and when he vent
into the stable to hitch up his mulesp
they smeIled the blood and became
furious, raving and snorting, and at
tackled him with violence like wild
animals, striking and kicking and
biting with all their might. They
inflicted a severe wound on his head !,
and doubtless would have killed
him. had he not crawled under the
mapger, where they could not reach
him He was finally rescued from
his dangerous situation but the
mules continued so enrAged that feI
a number of days no person vsntur'
ed to attempt to unharness them
The mules had always been perfect
ly gentle and docile before.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-04-27

No SUCH WORD AS FAIL.-One
of the finest passages in Bulwer's
play of Richelieu, is the following:
Richilieu.-YouRg man, be blithe,
for note me, from the hour l grasp
that packet, think your guardian
stars rain fortune on you.
Franciseo.-If fail!
Enthusiastically! Faill In the
bright lexicon of youth, which fate
reserves for glorious manhood
there is no such word as fail.
A why should young man fail
If he be honest, if he be honorable
if he be ardent, if he be energetic
if he be gifted with moderate intel
leetuaI power, if he be right il
| heart and strong in virtue, he viii
not fail. The youth is father o
man, and if he has in himself tn
elements of glorious manhood, b
can smile at the darkest frowns o
fortune and the bitterest opposition
of men,
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-04-27
Pathological CurIosities.

There are a number of words in
the English language each Of which
contains all the five regular vowels,
but it would puzzle almost any one
to think of more than one or
two at short notice. The follow
ing may be given as examples: Ed
ucation, Regulation, Emulation,
Perturbation, Mensuration, Repudi-
alton. Besides these there are sew
eral words each containing all the
yowels, including the 'Ey." OF these
we may mention Revolutionary,
Evolutionary and Unquestionably.
The word IndiVisibility may be no.
ted as a peculiar word, fer it con-
tains the letter ''i'' six times. Mis-
sisslppi and Tennessee are each
spelled with only four different let
tiers of the alphabet, although one
contains eleven letters and the other
nine. Schnapps, a word of one syl,
liable and eight letters, contains but
one vowel. There are no words IL
| the English language of more thar
eight syllables, of those containing
that number we may mention In
comprehensibility.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-04-27
EncOurars The1n to Come.


The Clinton (In.) Register makes
the following sensible remarks,
which we most heartily endorse, and
as they fit our case exactly, we give
them place in our columns with the
hope that they may serve to awaken
an interest in the building up of our
city;
Now is the time we will have peo-
pie coming into our community 10
look for business locations. To all
such you should bid hearty well
come. If they wish to buy lots to
build or erect manufactures on.
don't drive them away by asking q
fabulous price for your land. We
have many advantages, butw must
not presume upon them aud hope to
make fortunes out of a few feet OF
land that we perhaps inherited from
our grandfathers. Such policy as
this has given the death blow to
many rising place. Land is plen-
ty in this country, and unless we
sell at reasonable rates, we drive
men of means and enterprise away
o other points. The true plan is
to sell cheap 10 those who will i'm
prove, as it builds up our town and
increases business for every body
To those who wish to buy for spec,
ulation you may ask as much as you
please, for such people are not nee
| ded here, we have too many already
| But to all such as will improve
| lend q helping hand and a cheering
word; we want something here L
wake up the fossils, and new, widt
awake, enterprising men who meal
business are the kind to do it,
Give all such hearty welcome, ant
encourage them every way in you
power.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-04-27
Helpful life.

The helpful life is the holy life.
Holiness is help; sin is hindrance.
At whatever point we touch life to
help 1t, in whatever way we help
the world aud do not hinder 1t;
whether oy our praye1rs, Snu SonS, ~
church, or by the creation of loco
motive, or the construction of q
railroad, or the painting of q picture
or the writing OF a book, or the dig
ging of drain, or the forging OF 9
horseshoe, or the fighting of a bat
tIe-in whatsoever thing we do, il
we really help and do not hinder
then that is a holy life. And in
whatsoever way we hinder the
world, and stand in the way Of iti
life, its healthy, heartily growth, by
i'm the largest sense, then that, being
the reverse of helpfulis is sinful life
Robert COIycr.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-04-27
The simple Issue.

Those who prate of principles
and the integrity of parties seem, to
us at least, 70 misunderstood the is
sue that is upon the country. We
have not taken the troubled TO de-
termine whether we edit a Demo
cratic paper. Nor shall we take
that trouble. We see a great issue,
a tremendous problem to be solved,
and we are ready TO cooperate with
any man who wishes to drive the
Grant party from power. We have
passed the issues that once divided
parties. They have become the
smouldering fires that mark the
places where the old patriotic par
ties use to encamp. We have been
hurried far beyond them, and TO at
tempt to warm ourselves IN their
dying embers is madness. The
simple question is how to beat
Grant. When he is beaten his
whole progeny of corruptionists are
beaten and turned out TO shift them
selves. The great rings are beaten,
nepotism is beaten, the brothers-in-
law, the forty-ninth cousins and the
Dents are beaten. The wild voy-
age of the ship of State is arrested
and brought back. The Constitu-
ton that has been trampled under
unhalloWed hoofs springs back with
elastic bound into full force. No
matter by what combinations this
great work is accomplished. No
matter if the Democracy go for the
Republican nominee of the Cincin-
natl Convention. No matter if old
Democratic platforms are pushed
aside for the present. So much the
better. When the victory is gained,
when the corruptionists and all the
rest are driven from place, though
the Democracy may not be in pow
er, they will have achieved the gran
dest feat of our age. Such an event
will mark q point for q new depar-
ture, and parties will divide, not
upon national hates, but upon prin-
cfple. The Liberal Republicans are
sound on most of the material ten
cts of the Democracy. As 1t is, the
Democracy, acting for itself, has no
hope Of beating Grant. Its only
hope is an alliance, platform or no
platform, with liberal Republicans.
Memphis Ledger.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-04-27
TIRED L AN.
TKASTLArED FROM THE GERMAN ET A c.

TRANTLATED FROM THE GERMAN EN A c.
Tired am, rest require,
Ny weary eyes now sleep require
Father, from Thy heavenly shrine
Guard this little bed Of mine,
II have done wrong this day,
Father, take my sins away.
Through Thy grace, Chrisrs blood 50 warm
Keep this little one from harm.
All who my relations be,
Father, trust them 10 Thee
All the world, small or large,
Father, take them to Thy charge.
Sickened hearts with peace, oh! bless,
fearful eyes with love earess.
Let Thy moon shine from above,
Another token OF Thy love.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-04-27
stockholders' Meeting.

TENHE Annual Meeting Of the e;I,aJ 20
f1- tbe Flaction Of Directors, viii be held IN
the city of Mobile ON the ,,,.,-.,
THIRD TUESDAY IN MAY NEAL
,rto u,Iection for Directors will take place
On THURSDAY following the 28d oil play Mayi
The stock Transfer Books Will De e'oseu
ten davs prior TO the election. .-.i-.oi,,,o
All Stockholders shall have the prlVehlege
of Free Transportation for them ne, ~
,,-.i,,esga1d children to and from mobile IOf
Threc Days before, aud Three Days aiter
the election. -..+ioy, N
Thi. privilege Of Free Transportation 10
ta confined strictly 10 stockholders
BY order OF the BoaTd; 60.
<. l.. WILLOUGHBH, sec'y'
ap'l 30 5w
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-04-27

NOTICE is herby given, that viii sell
~ at public auction, 10 the highest bidder
for cash, on Saturday April 2lth. lSI2,
within the legal hours, at Beech Bluff, Mad
ison county, tennessee, certain tract or
lot of land Twin in Range 3, North Survey
or's District. Recorded in Book nineteen
(I9), page 269, in Recorders Once, Madl-
SON county, and described as follows: Be
gining az hickory and sasafras pointer, OF
said one thousand acre tract, running thence
south one hundred and sixty l6O) poles TO
a stake, poplar and hickory pointers, west
eighty-fiye (S5) poles to stakes. thence
south taenty-three and one half l233
poles TO stake, white oak pointer, thence
west thirteen and one half l3J3 poles 70 a
stake, white oak and red oak pointers,
thence north one hundred and eighty
three and one half (1s31S) poles 70 a stake,
poplar ard hickory pointers, thence east
ninety-eigh and one half (0s4) poles TO
the beginning, containing one hundred
acres more or less, to satisfy l.. ). tax
assessed against r. NJ. Ballard on the April
list 1863. amounting 70 one hundred ard
nifty (Sl5O) dollars with cost, interest and
penalties in addition. ,.
R.F. PATTERSON.
Collector Sth DIST Tenn.
op.t 9O 0,v
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-04-27

The reported withdrawal Of Gov.
Palmer from the list of aspirants for
the Radical Gubernatorial nomina-
tion in Illinois viii doubtless prove
to be correct in every particular.
When Governor Palmer was Cen
eral Palmer, and a soldier serving
in this part of the country, he sig
nalized his devotion to free institu-
| tions and the civil law in many
ways. His administration OF the
executive department in Illinois has
proven him to be the friend OF local
self-government and civil service
reform. He and his friends have
been in unconcealed revolt against
the President for a long time
Therefore in arraying himself by
the side of Judge Trumbull as a
Liberal leader he carries out the
tendency and direction Of his whole
public career. He will be reelected
Goyernor OF Illinois by an over
whelming majority cast for him and
AGAINST the Radical consolidators.-
CIoyrier-,TOurRdL.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-04-27
A strong Movement.


Washington dispatches say that
"the intimations which have been
thrown out within a day or two
of the plan said to have been agreed
on by the Liberal Republicans OF
Pennsylvania to secure the political
control in that State have attracted
considerable attention here, where
it is conceded to be the most formi-
dable step yet proposed to prevent
the reelection of President Grant.
Colonel Alex. Mcclure is to be
nominated as the Liberal candidate
for Governor, which nomination
the leading Democrats of the State
agree to ratify. All the Republican
papers of Philadelphia, with a sim
Gle exception, stand ready to in
dorse this movement. 1t is said, Il
carried out, it is admitted that an
anti-grant victory can be won at the
October State election, and this vii
be followed by one at the Presiden
tial election in the succeeding
| month,