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The semi-weekly Republican. (St. Francisville, La.) 1872-1872, 1872-05-03
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and adjoining parishes ,s.ntip,ert ri M
keeps On hand a good ass and ior ~
Baskets always on haliu "D
prices for cash Cnfg. uoarse vitas1
A new and elegant e,a,@lsratsn
horses can be secured a',"pe
FOR EAI.E..10U.tG hwu,saua;;
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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-30
- DONAIDsoNvIILE, LA, SATURDAY,

progress and final ratification, are en-
tirely due to the principles and policy
OF the Republican party. Having
conquered the Shareholders Rebellion
it then determined that these right
eous fruits of victory should not be
lost. Equal civil and political rights
are the law of the land to-day be-
cause Republicans have ruled the
land for the last ten years. So long
as they shall remain in power the law
will be vigorously applied for>the de-
Tense of all men, whether black OF
white. Their liberty record consti-
tutes the very brightest page of their
political history. General Grant, the
Republican President, has been abso-
lutely true to the principles upon
which he was elected and for this he
deserves the recommendation and thanks
of all who love justice, and especially
the warmest gratitude of the coloretl
people. The law in his hands has
been made a terror to evil-doers.
Congratulating cOlored men upon
the boon which they have received at
a great price, and reminding them
that they have nearly a million of
votes to cast at the next Presidential
election, we exhort them for the sake
of their own interests, and on account
OF the principles involved, to buckle
on the armor for the approaching
struggle; and do valiant service in
helping to elect the Republican ticket.
There will be really but two parties
in the feld-the one Republican and
the other Democratic; and between
these they must make their choice.
The one they can trust, as its record
amply proves; and the other they can
not, as its record equally proves. The
success of the Democratic party at the
next Presidential election would be IL
great disaster to the colOred race, es-
to the freedmen at the South.
The constitutional amendments are
not self-executing and, hence, they
need to be committed not to those
who reluctantly accept them as a po-
litical necessity, but to those who be-
heve in them, and will see to it that
they are armed with all the legisla-
ton necessary to make them oper-
ative. All the friends of liberty and
all the victims of former oppression
should unite i'm defeating a party
whose record will go to history as the
permanent evidence of it's iniquity.
Its past treachery to the principles of
equal justice is IN abundant reason
why its professions for the future
should not be trusted.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-30
NUMBER 90
BlackmaiIed to His Death.
From the Buffalo Commercial.l

From the Buffalo Commercially
A few months ago a man died in a
little town on the Canada side, who
in early life was one of the most
promising clergymen in the city of
New York. He died a broken hearted
man, and the victim to merciless at
tempt to biacknail, which had been
tried upon him soon after his entrance
upon parochial duties. He was sum-
moned one day to perform Christian
clergymen's offices in a house where
he had no previous acquaintance.
The story told by the parties who
summoned him was very plausible
one, and he went without hesitation
into the trap prepared for him. As
soon as he arrived at the sick chamber
he was confronted by two men, who
maintained that he had visited the
house with impure motives, and
threatened to expose him unless he
paid over a certain sum of "hush-
money" The man in his bewilder-
ment took precisely the wrong course.
He felt that he could better submit to
pecuniary extortion than to allow his
disgraceful affair, no matter how in
nocent he might have been of the
charges brought against him. He
therefore paid the sum demanded.
From that hour he was doomed man.
AT regular intervals his prosecutors
called for more money. If he refused
to pay they held the old threat over
him, and it was doubly strong from
the fact that he had once paid to keep
the matter secret. His life became a
torture to him. He resigned his par
isli in the metropolis and tried to be
concealed in a more humble parish in
another part of the country; but go
where he would the relentless black
mailers were ON his track. Finally he
told his friends the terrible secret of
his life. This thwarted his persecu-
tors, to be sure, but their victim was
already ruined man /; as we have
said, he died a few months ago in a
quiet, out-of-the-way Canadian town.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-30
Animals Understand Language.

The Spirit of the Times says: Mules
seem to possess superiority over
horses in learning language. Moth
ing is more common on the levee in
New Orleans that to see stalwart
mules harnessed in drays, that under
stand both French and English. If
the driver speaks Spanish, OF German,
or French, and the animal has been
long enough with him, it is quite evil
dent he understands when told to do
this or that in either tongue, by in
slant obedience. Even donkeys man.
ifest a peculiar aptitude for accom-
plis1ing themselves in the same way,
ifreared with drivers speaking two or
three dialects. A splendid opportu-
nifty offers for instituting experiments
to determine how much horse might
be taught of language--no severity
would be necessary. Their innate ap-
probativeness affords an unerring key
note to their cerebral powers. A gen
tleman of New York, two years ago,
was in the habit of talking with his
beautiful horse as he did with his
friends, and promised lump of SUI
gar if he travelled well when he rode
out, which was invariably given on
returning to the stable. When the
sagacious quadruped had exerted HIM
self in a particularly satisfactory man
ner, he had a way of expressing his
consciousness of it to his owner, who
acknowledged the hint by giving him
two humps. - 1
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-30
Home, Wife and Saturday Night.

Happy is the man who has q little
home and a little angel in it on
Saturday night-a house, no matter
how little, provided it will hold two
or so no matter how humbly fur
nished, provided there is hope in it.
Let the winds blow-close the cur
tains. What if they are plain calico,
without border, tassel or any such
thing Let the. rain come down
heap up the fire. No matter if you
havn't q candle to bless yourself with,
for what beautiful light glowing
coal makes, rendering cloudless,
shedding sunset through the room
just light enough to talk by, not loud,
as in the highways; not rapid as in
the hurrying world but softly, slow
ly, whisperingly, with pauses between.
for the storm without and the thoughts
within to fill up with. Then wheel
the sofa around close by the fire no
matter if the sofa is a settee, uncush-
ioned at that; if so it be, it is just
long enough for two and half in it.
How sweetly the music of silver bells
from the time to come falls on the
listening heart then. How mourn
fully swell the chimes of " the days
that are no more" Under spch cir
cumstances, and at such a time, one
at least can get sixty mine and a half
miles nearer "kingdom come than
any other point<in this world laid
down in g Matte Brun.p Maybe you
may smile at this picture but it is q
picture rudely done, bnt true as tho
Pentateuch of an original in every
human heart.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-30
A Couple of Her0ines.

Says an exchange: 1t is of impor-
tance for the unities how the heroine
of II story is described. One author
paints n heroine i'll such q way as to
make the reader, if masculine, wish
he was her'n while another sketches
her in a style to make the most des-
perate better ON a small hand cry
"pass n-in fact he'd sooner g go it
alone" than in that kind of company.
We give below specimens of the diff
ferent styles. The first is by Miss
Braddon, and the last by an anony-
nous cuss-probably one of those
newspaper wretches who has not the
slightest respect for "the holiest feel
ings which underlie our nature" as
the learned poet Fusby says when in
his towering moods:
She was by no means striking
beauty, this farmers daughter, who
had been educated beyond her sta
tion, the little world of Kingsbury,
and Mrs. James Redmayne in partic-
ular, protested. She was not a wo-
man to take mankind by storm under
any circumstances, but fair and lovi.ble
Notwithstanding; a figure very pleas
ant to watch fitting about house or
garden, tall and slender like the lilies
in the long borders, and with flower
like grace that made her seem akin to
them-a sweet, fair Young face,
framed in reddish brown hair, with
touches of red gold here and there
among the waving tresses: face
whose chiefest charm was its COM
plexion, a milk white skin, with only
the faintest hiush-rose bloom to warm
it into life.
Here is the one from the newspaper
wretch: r..
She was q striking beauty, this girl
who had jerked lager from the day in
which she was first able to yell " Come
down with the stamps" She was wo-
man who took mankind by storm, and
any one who went back on her she'd
4" put head on to him." Her figure
was not ETHEREAL. She could drink
more lager than the man who swore
he drank sixty glasses without taking
his mouth from the faucet, and on
sausages she was acknowledged a
champion. Her grace wasn't of the
willowy sort. There wasn't the slight
est sway to her. When her hands
were filed with larger glasses, and
her mind was racked with the thought
of how much she could knock down."
she was q sight terribly beautiful to
behold. Her face had the elegant
outlines of a boxing-gloye, and her
skin rivaled in whiteness the spotless
snowiness, seemingly as it were, of a
decayed dish cloth. How could l gaze
upon her and not love her !? She was
the one OF whom had dreamed in the
midsummer day hours, whose pres
ence my nightly hours had made lln-
easy, and whose absence had rendered
my life miserable. Imade love to her
at once. In a few hours my uHgoy-
ernable passion had been declared,
and / had asked her to say that she
but loved me. Her reply was, Now
look a-here, young feller, amt onto
it. I've got my feller, and | sticks
to him, Z does. I amt much fat, /
guess not muchly. Go sling yourself
after some other gal. You amt my
stvle. You look like duffer. you do"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-30
Did the boy leave herr

Never-he is with her still; Wig
orous. manly, promising youth. The
low character of his countenance has
given place to an open, pleasing ex-
preston, with depth enough to make
it an interesting study. His foster
father is dead, his good foster mother
aged and sickly, but she knows no
want. The once poor outeast is her
only dependence, and nobly does he
repay the trust.
g He that saveth a sonl from death
hideth a multitude of SINS"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-30

Revenge is sweet. A widow won
$50, 900 from a German gambler at
Baden Baden, and French General,
whose hatred for Germany is undying,
married the avenger of his country
and the $4,000.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-30

Mr.. Greeley neglected to say in his
never-to-be-fsrgotten /" What Know
Abodt Farming that those who sow
syrup may expect to reap sap. An
agricultural mem which politicians
inclined TO oversweetness would do
well to make note off, Golden Age.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-30

One of the jurors in the Mayor Hall
case in New York is dead. We have
been apprehensive from the start that
death from old age would overtake
the whole of them before the thing is
done with,--LoaisuiIe Courier Jour.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-30

An Indiana maiden suing for breach,
of promise, has put in evidence not
only the letters of the faithless one,
but also her own, to show the depth
of her ruined affections.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-30

One Of the best temperance sermons
ever delivered is this sentence by the
late Rev. Samuel j. May: " If it is a
small sacrifice for you to give up
drinking wine, do it for the sake of
Others; if it is great sacrifice, do it
for your own sake"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-30


FIsTULA IN HoRsEs.-A correspon-
dent of the Cincinnati Gazette says
that fistula can be cured on a horse
after it has opened, and tells how to
do it 9 Take two gallons of ley, boil
it down to the thickness of common
soft soap; put as much in the open
ing as YOU can, apply every two or
three weeks Wash the diseased part
and the shoulders, every week with
strong white oak bark. The disease
may come again two or three times.
Treat every time in the same way.
The writer adds:
l have known the above used by
two of my neighbors, and a perfect
cure was the result. Toured my mare
and worked her part of the time. My
neighbor with the worst case, worked
his horse also when he had work to
do, although the fistula was SO bad
that instead of collar, breast straps
had to be used: No one should feel
discouraged if it takes two or three
months to effect cure, but continue
the above as often as the disease
shows itself. 1t took my mare about
six months to get well.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-30

A Yankee in England, being annoyed
by the constant boasting as to the
superiority of English girls, finally
silenced laudation by declaring that
" they'd gal in Boston only eleven
years old, who gould chew gum In
seven different languages, with her
eyes shut.S
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-30

DINNERS AT PoMPEII.-The POM
peiian dinners usually comprised
three courses, olives, oysters, salad,
pickles, etc.; the second of made
dishes, fish, and roasts the third of
pastry, confectionery, and fruits.
From u painting discovered at POM
peii We have the representation of a
large feast in those DAYS. An inn
mense dish containing four peacocks
stood in the centre of the table, sur
rounded by Holsters, one holding u
blue egg in its claws, another stuffed
rat, another an oyster, and the fourth
a basketfuI of grasshoppers, At the
bottom of the table We're four dishes
of fish, and above them partridges,
hares and squirrels. each holding its
head between its paws. This was
all encircled by sort of German sau-
sage, apparently; and then came 0
row of yolks of eggs; q arow Of ofpeaches,
melons and cherries and, lastly, by
row of vegetables of different sprts.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-30

Gypsies have lately been coming to
America in considerable numbers,
and it is said that their king had his
headquarters in New Jersey. 1t is es-
timated that there are over 5000in the
United States, $4,000 in England, 4O,-
600 in Spain, 81, 900 in Austria, and
200, 900 in Moldavia and Wallachia.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-30

Profanity never did any man the
least good. No man is the richer, or
happier, or wiser for it. 1t commends
ne one to society. Its disgusting to
the refined abominahle to the good !;
Insulting to those with whom we as
sociate degrading to the mind un-
prohtable, needless and injurious to
society. nak
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-30

The State Superintendent of Edu-
csaon has notified Mr.. Samuel Peters,
oL shreveport, that his appointment
oy Lieutenant Governor Pinchbaek
% the ofhce efdivision superintendent
O1 education for the fourth division
was Illegal, and that until it can be
ascertained that be is qualified for the
ealce, and Nominated and appointed
according to law, he had better not
Ieag9 his office as cashier. of the
q Tnr!eedmen,s Bank of Shreveport.-N.
y. Republican " 'e.s,,.s.a. s i
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-30

Hamlet is believed to have belonged
to the National Typographical Union.
He killed Polonius because he thought
the latter was a "rat.''
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-30

The boy who hired himself to have
his teeth whitened every day for
month by one of those mountebanks
who sell dentrifiees OH the sidewalk,
now comfortably situated with an
eminent dentist, in the capacity of a
frlghtful example, without tooth in
ms head, and with hardly a socket
left in which to put one,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-30

A simple and effective mode of kill,
ing ones creditors without fear of
detection has been invented in
New Hampshire. 1t consists in writ
ing to the intended victim letter
requiring an Immediate answer, and
inelosing powerfully poisoned stamp
Ior return postage. Agents who will
take the patent right for States or
counties where there are many
mothers-in-law may realize handsome
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-30

Communications may be addressed simply
aCHlEF, Donaldsonville, La" or to the edi-
tor and proprietor personally.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-30

During the past ten years the San
Francisco mint has coined nearly
e2O0, 900, 900 in gold and silver.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-30

Ladies who wear eOrsets and thin
shoes ought to be arrested for break
ing the Constitution.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-30

Transient advertisements, $l per square first
insertion; rs cts. each subsequent insertion.
All official advertisements 81 per square each
insertion. -.- 49,
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-26
FROM WASHINGTON.

Washington, March 2s.-Colonel Holmes
Colbert. the representative of the Chicka-
saw nation, died here this morning OF
pneumonia. His body will be taken home
for interment with Masonic obseauies,
The Supreme Court adjournes from
Thursday next to Monday, and from MAY
9th to October 28th.
The Supreme Court has rejected the
motion for mandamus in the Kentucky
war-claims case.
Governor Curtin, Minister to Russia, has
resigned.
1t is stated that the Secretary of State
sent an energetic note to Madrid against the
Spanish treatment of DIR. Howard.
Rear Admiral Lees report from Havana
on the 18th says there is nothing new to
report.
The British and American Claims Com
mission met, and without deciding any
cases, adjourned until Thursday next. 1t
is understood there will be very little
business of Importance before the commits
sion until next fall. They will meet oc-
casionally, but few cases will be heard
upon their merits before the adjournment
over for the summer.
: The National Democratic Committee will
meet early in May, after the meeting of
the Cincinnati Convention, to fix the time
and place for holding the National Demo-
cratic Convention. The time will probably
pc the 4th OF July and the place st.
Louis.
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RICHMOND, VA, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 26 1872 VIC

life and all that he held dear, he had stood
by the old flag, bis faith unwavering in the
darkest days of the civil war. His old
friends had fallen away from him, scorn
and contempt had pointed the finger at
him, the rebel mob had threatened
his life and thirsted for his blood,
yet he had stood nobly breasting
the storm, calm and unmoved a. a rock in
the raging sea. Since the war he alone, of
all the Southern men elected under the re-
construction measures, TO the Senate, had
proved wholly true to the Republican cause.
lie was therefore national man, and prop
erly deserved any complimentary recogni-
ton which we had to bestow. As several
conventions in Virginia had already brought
forward Mr.. Lewis name in this connection,
some confusion might be caused were a
new name introduced.
Mr.. Cornelius Harris followed, sustaining
the claims of Mr.. Lewis.
Lewis Lindsey supported Mr.. Porter in
q speech of some length, recounting his
long and faithful services. He was friendly
to Mr.. Lewis, but if we elected him Vice
President vacancy would occur in the
Senate sure to be filed by Democrat.
The question was then taken upon the
substitute of Mr.. Burgess, and the meeting
by an overwhelming majority voted to in
dorse Mr.. Porter for Yice-President. The
resolutions were then adopted. The audi
ence gave six rousing cheers for the Re-
publican party and adjourned.
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CITY CouNcIL.-The City Council was

CITY CoUNCIL.-The City Council was
In regular session last evening.
The annual statements of the auditor
and treasurer were presented, but they
were recommitted to those officers with in
structions to make the headings and figures
of their respective reports correspond, and
that they report at the Hext meeting of the
Council, whether stated or called,
The report on water recommends that
two public hydrants be purchased and
placed at the First and Second markets.
Adopted. eie7t
An ordinance defining the duties Of the
lanitor of the Police court building, and
fixing the salary at $50 month, was
adopted. Lewis Antellott, the present
incumbent, was reelected ianitor.
A report from the James River Investi-
eating Committee declares that in the
opinion of the committee the work has been
satisfactorily done and at less expendi-
turc than if it had been given out by con-
tract. The report was adopted.
An appropriation of $6,370 was made
for the purchase of stone-breaker and
steam road roller, for use in the streets of
the city. That's the way the money
goes.n
Mr.. lsaacs gave notice that as the Rich
mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac rail-
road company had not noticed the action of
the Council in relation to the removal of
the track from Broad street, that he would
at the next meeting of the Council present
an ordinance conforming to the statements
he had already made.
Mayor Keiley's annual message was pre-
sented. The document is quite lengthy,
and gives a generally favorable account Of
city affairs. 5sa