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the eve of the sailing of his wife and
step-daughters for Europe, by way of
Panama, and coolly advised him to
think no more of persons who, having
been once deceived and now no more
than fairly compensated therefor by
him, preferred future life and associa-
tions in their former English home to
a longer connection with one whom
they could esteem only at that dis
tanee. The desertion came upon the
man like a thunderbolt in the midst
of his new prosperity, and fairly struck
him to the earth. At this time he was
found by an old Wall street associate,
drawn to the Pacific coast by the min
ing stock fever, and to him he said,
after relating his misery, 81 have no
heart left for anything more in this
world" The friend urged him to
overlive his great misfortune to be a
man, and save himself for something
better than the heartless revenge of q
female robber; hut his only answer
was, tell you have no heart left
for any thing more.n Within month
he had scattered his $4,000 to the
winds, lost all his valuable mining
stock in reckless gambling, and was a
beggar. His New York friend and
other well-wishers would have helped
him thereafter, but, without word
of warning or farewell to them, he
disappeared abruptly from Virginia
City, and was supposed to have died
subsequently in vtgrancy at a place
called Unionville. Death, however,
it appears, was not for him, and, as
described above, his old associate of
Wall street days was to see him once
more, in the grizzly bearded, footsore,
hungry old Wayf;.rer begging q meal
III White Pine. Concluding his rem
iniscenees in the restaurant, that
friend explained that it would have
been utterly useless for him to have
undertaken any further Office for the
wanderer than the volunteered pay
mention his meal. ga complete wreck
i'll body and mind. No heart left for
anything. fused to know him in Wall
street, New York, years ago.
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sending him to the United States Sen
ate; but it is very probable that his
candidacy would be the signal for a
grand rally to the McEnery ticket
throughout the State and consequent
division of the conservative strength
in many of the parishes. This will be
the grave question to be decided by
the approaching convention. Ifwisely
disposed of, the Liberal party will
sweep the State like whirlwind, car
rying everything before it. Otherwise
the result will be a division of the
Conservative vote and the probable
triumph of the ultra Radical party
and four years more of corruption and
misrule.
The formation of the balance of the
ticket will not be difficult. 1t is un-
derstood that Mr.. Pinchback will de-
cline any nomination for a State Office,
and will be satisfied with the candi-
dacy.,for Congress, State at large, which
will no doubt be eheerflllly conceded
to him.
We look forward to the action of
the August convention with much So
licitude, and hope that the delegations
will be composed of calm and thought
full men who viii solve the only prob
lesl which remains to give a triumph
ant victory to the Liberal party.
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The Political Situation.
[From the Natcllitoches Times. ]

The development of the political
situation i'm this State during the past
few weeks has been favorable to the
Liberal movement, which has now
assumed proportions which give it the
front rank, in numbers and intelli-
gence, among all parties in opposition
to extreme Radicalism. The endorse
ment of Greeley and Brown at Balti-
more, which is confidently expected,
will add to its strength and the en-
thusiasm of its supporters in the State,
and give it an impetus which will be
irresistible and force the absorption
by it of all ether conservative parties
i'm the State.
While this is true as far as mere po-
litical development is concerned, yet
there remains a delicate duty to be
performed at the approaching conven-
tion of 5th August, which, if not wise
.ly done, may impair the strength and
unity of the Liberal movement, and
thus reduce it to the level of a mere
faction, dividing the conservative vote
of the State and assisting the Demo-
cratic and Reform parties i'll opening
the way for the triumph of the Baton
Rouge Radical ticket and the detested
principles and policy of the party
supporting it. This delicate duty is
the nomination of an acceptable State
ticket, combining the strongest and
best men of the two elements from
which the Liberals will draw their
strength, and preserving at the same
time that just equilibrium between
them which will command the appr0
bation of both.
It is generally conceded that the
first place on the ticket is due to q
Republican-and that Gov. Warmoth
is the choice of his party friends for
that position cannot be doubted.
Yet, while he would command a
larger vote from those Liberals who
come from the Republican side, it Is a
grave question whether this gain
would not be lost by the falling off in
the vote from the Democratic side,
the people having been persistently
educated to look upon him as the
"arch enemy" of the State and the
author of their woes. There is a grow
ing disposition to accept him as the
candidate for Governor, the prejudiees
of many being overcome with the
prospect of 'tgetting ridh Of him by
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consequences which might otherwise
result from the bad faith or irrational
prejudices of the Democratic leaders.
They do not believe that the people
will permit the State to be sacrificed
at the dictation of men who have
shown themselves utterly incompe-
tent to understand the necessities of
the times, and incapable of achieving
anything but defeat.
The Liberal party appeals to all cit
izens who are opposed to Grants adj
ministration; to all who are sincerely
in favor of Greeley and Brown; to
all who wish to defeat the machina-
tions of the corrupt and wicked fac
ton represented by the Baton Rouge
ticket. Their convention, TO be held
on the fifth of August. will represent
a vast majority of the Liberal and
Democratic voters of the State, and
their ticket will be supported by an
array of numerical force, backed by
an amount of moral influence, which
will reduce the Democratic Bolt to
insignificant proportions. The people
understand that in this election the
State must go either for the Liberal
or for the Custom House party. The
success of the one insures our vote for
Greeley and Brown, and will give us
that practical reform in State affairs
which we SO much need. The success
of the other, with Mr.. Kellogg as Gov
ernOr, and reversion of the execu-
tive Office to the notorious G. C.. An
tome, will entail ON us a perpetuation
OF corrupt and yenal legislation and
all the horrors of a government re-
mitted to the hands of the ignorant,
the vicious and the degraded. For
any useful purpose the present Demo-
cratic organization is. powerless. 1t
repels rather than attracts popular
sympathy. 1t appeals only to a name
which has become an empty word +; to
memories which recall the divisions
and resentments of IL bitter past; to
prejudiees and passions which are the
legacy of an era of strife and blood
to issues which have been settled, and
to controversies which are closed.
The Liberal party turns from the
past to the future it seeks to heal the
wounds which years of sectional hate
and angry conflict have inflicted ON
the country; it strives to release the
people from the CALLING fetters of party
tyranny, and to combine in one great
movement all the opposition to the
corrupt and despotic government at
Washington and to the equally cor
rupt and despotic faction which rep
resents the national administration in
this State.
Representing a great popular move
ment and q great popular impulse, it
yields to the dictipn of no cliques and
is subservient to no Individual. 1t in
vites to its councils all who sympa-
thize with its effort to redeem the
State and to cooperate in the re-
dcmption of the nation. 1t is essen
TALLY party OF principle and tolera-
tion, and its action will be influenced
solely by the intelligent public opin-
ion to which it owes its origin, and in
which alone it confides. 1t Itappeals to
the common sense, the yirtue and the
judgment of the people; and to this
appeal the responses are SO general
and so emphatic that it has no longer
any fear of the result.
By order OF the State Central Com
mittee. d. b. PENN, President,
A. HERO, yr., Secretary.
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"No colored man will go dor Gree.
ley" is the constant burden Ct the add
ministration press song. /" Sing low
sweet charmers, till we give the fole
lowing little extract from tia Marys>
vile (Tenn.) Repablicaa, a paper thai,
is owned, edited and read by. coloref.
men:
"After the most careful, mature d1
liberation, we have concluded to ul5
furl our standard and hoist at ol3
masthead the only candidate|for Pres
ident who represents the krinciples
for which we have battled- -HoratK,
Greeley.n
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-07-20

The committee of New Orleans gers-
tlemen who arrogated to {. themselves
the privilege of undoing tll9 work Ct
the Democratic State Convection ana.
choosing another ticket to their OWL
liking has also seen tit to take tink'
by the forelock, as very smart gentiH
men usually do, and name in electT
raj ticket. On that elect0fal tick3t
there is not the name of a single Re-
publican, and, if we mistakeInot, noEe
of the parties named have e}er idenA-
fed themselves with the Liberal Sta.e
movement. Now, We ask the ques-
tion, why was this discrimination
made! Did the committee really ia
tend to ignore the Republicans who
are supporting Mr.. Greeley and the
Liberals of his party, purp9sely with
a view to keep up useless cqntentioEs,
animosities and jealonsiea between
the parties about to unite II; the calAe
of reform? If that was thei. view AID
their hope they reckon without thiir
host. The people have this move
ment in hand, ard they enlphatlcasly
denythe right of the Democratic cen
veution, or any part of it, 10 say whQ
shall or who shall not ceihpose that
electoral ticket.--Bat. Roage Gdsek ke-
Comet
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The nomination of Senator Wilson

The nomination of Senator Wilson
as the tail of the Grant ticket recalls
an incident in his history, whicl, oe-
cured IN Georgia. During the deliv-
cry of rampant Radical speech in
Atlanta, in 1866, this same Senator
Wilson spoke of Gen. Toombs as
q the bold and arrogant Toombs, who
sought other elimes, as did other lead
ing men of the South after the surren-
der" A Outstanding freedman, said
to have been il former slave of Gen.
Toombs, replied at this juncture: "If
Massa Bob was here he'd knock the
scalp off ur you in five minutes The
laugh was with the negro.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-07-20

It should he generally knswn that
water standing over night inthe Lead
or copper pipes in houses acc4mulates
enough poison to become dangerous
for drinking or cooking Iaurposes.
Cases of poison have been tra heed also
to water that had remained i considh
cradle time in an ordinary icS -pitchet
"a most alarming discovety wheIe
one considers how general tlss use of
metallic iee-pitchers has become.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-07-20

A number of New York capitalists
have just formed an associsyion for
the manufacture of paper ftOm the
fibre OF rice grass. AmpleI expert
ments have, it is said, been made to
show the adaptability of this material
for paper-making, and the persons in
terested in the scheme are confident
Of success.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-07-20

Honest Uncle Horace received q!
small package through the alail. 1t
was wrapped in brown paper, bearing
the printed words: "0ng ounce.
Horace Greeley chewing TOBACCO. Ad?
Ter & Co., proprietors, lao West Lake
street, Chicago, Illinois, DTGreeley.
looked at the paper of tobacco, anG,
handed it to Orange Stevens. saying
"There, Stevens, you may have that i
that's my first bull pup I
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-07-20

The editor of the Boston Herald
says we spoke of him as Sackass.
We have no recollection of ever hav-
ing done any thing of the sorts but if
we did, it was a wholly unPsemedi-
tated unkindness to the jahkass.-
Couriey-sJoaraai.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-07-20

The cadets ut West Point are said
to be under greater restrictions this
year than ever, and consequently their
lady friends are miserable. Gen. Ru-
ger, the Superintendent, is a very sen
sible and practical man, believing
that military discipline and Irritation
do not go well together.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-07-20

A poor little Sunday school scholar
in Wisconsin was deluded intt learn
ing $3.50 verses of the Bible in il month
by the promise book They gave
him Hitchcock's Analysis Ofs the BIZ
ble." He snapped it off f,sr two
bladed' knife aud q peck of hickory
iluts.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-07-20

In an article on a recent fair in
that city, the editor of a Macoh paper
SAYS brother editor took a valuable
premium, but an nnkind Policeman
made him put it right back vi aere he
took it from.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-07-20

We must confess onr inability to
unrayel the tangled skein of Louisiana
politics. The nominations of the
Democratic Convention met with
great disf;avor from the public. See
ing this. the Democratic Central
Committee assumes the power to fuse
with the petty faction called Reform
ers and, without any authority, they
give up to the Reformers one half the
ticket. These ReforIners could con-
troll perhaps n thousand votes, not
more. And, moreover, those thon-
sand intend to vote for Grant. The
union ticket being thus formed, how
is it possible to unite all the anti Grant
men. The Liberal Republicans are
a power i'll the State, and without
them the Greeley ticket has but small
chance for success. We had thought
IL ticket could be fixed up and one
half the Democratic nominees re-
tanned; but this late union, and the
abuse MeEnery has seen proper so
lately to heap on the State admins
tration seems to us to have made that
impossible. The Liberals and Demo-
erats then must fuse regardless of the
Reformers and what has been done,
and make an entire new ticket, and
that ticket must be strong. Then
only could they hope for success. Ii
the Democracy would call another
convention then the Liberals might
effect terms with them. But other
wise the Democrats may simply have
to give up their organization and go
into. that of the Liberals. We have
strong hopes that Il ticket to please
the great majority of opponents to
Grant can be gotten up, composed Of
such men az sandidge, Sheridan,
semmes, Graham, Jumel and our
friend, G. j. G. Puckette. Bossier
Banner.
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NUMBER As.

To eounteract this large majority,
the Administration depends upon
patronage. intimidation, and money.
This is a serious statement, but we
make it advisedly. Personal infu-
enee has exceptional weight in North
Carolina. Railways are few; mails
are infrequent; newspapers are not
much read; and there are extensive
districts where the United States mar
shal, or the revenue collector, exerts
q moral force very much like that
possessed by the rural maire or prefet
under the French empire. A threat
to prosecute for some technical or inn
aginary violation of the Internal Rev
enue laws, or to arrest ON suspicion of
completely in half-forgotten Ku-Klux
raids, or u promise to wink at illicit
whisky and be easy in the matter of
Federal taxes, is often enough to turn
the vote of a whole neighborhood.
And where this is not enough, it
should be remembered that the neo-
pie of North Carolina are very poor,
and q handful of greenbacks, Judi
ciollsly distril uted, either as fees to
supernulnerary inarshals for con-
structive services, or in the more vul-
gar form of direct bribery, may go Il
great ways.
Now the duty of the North Carolina
Liberals is plain and easy. They are
enough, with the Democrats, to beat
the Grant men, money bags, inarshals,
and all but they must do it now, and
not put off that desirable work till
November. If they want to show the
sincerity of the Cincinnati overtures
of friendship, let them go into this
Summer campaign with all their
might, and give the Democratic ticket
a generous and vigorous support. A
slavisii adhesion to old names, in the
presence of the new issues of this
year, can have no other tendency
than TO perpetuate disunion; and we
call upon all who mean to vote for
Mr.. Greeley in November to do their
best for the election of Merrimon i'll
August. North Carolina has a proud
place in American history. She took
the lead in seyering the allegiance of
the colonies to the mother country;
more than a year before the Declarl-
tien of Independence was signed at
Philadelphia the people of Mecklen-
burg County in North Carolina pro-
claimed a separation from Great
Britain and established Government
of their own, Let her now take the
lead in renewing the interrupted
union of the States; and as she repu-
dated English tyranny in 1775, SO lee
her rebuke centlalizatioh, corruption,
and partisan intolerance in 1872. A
people who where not afraid of the
whole British empire a hundred years
ago are not likely to be intiinidated
now by politicians and place-holders.
We look to North Carolina iOr the
first gun which shall herald the great
Liberal victory and inaugurate the
new era of peace and reconciliation.
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A Georgia editor refuses to support,
Greeley on the ground that is rs much|
as he can do to support himself.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-07-20

Communications may be addressed simply
"CHIEP, Doraldsonville. La" or to the edi-
tor and proprietor personally.
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Transient advertisements, 81 per square first
insertion; cts. each subsequent assertion.
An official advertisements 81 per sqrtre each
insertion.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-10-01
Tho Canvass In Sumter.

On last Saturday the true Republicans
(bolters) held mass meeting at Me-
chanicsville. about the centre Of this
County, which was attended by ropre-
sentative men of both races. from nearly
every precinct, and was addressed by
Judge Green, T. j. Ooghlan, Samuel
Lee, J. johnson Knox, J. J. Fleming, J.
Wiley, W. W. Ramsay and others. The
meeting was harmonious and unanimous
against Moses.
Hon. T. J. Ooghlan in his speech said
that he had read the lives of many cele-
brated robbers, but mono of them could
equal F. j. Moses, Jr.; that even in the
one item of pay certificates, fraudulently
issued by him, he believed they would re-
quire millions to pay them; aud Mr..
Coghlan exhibited samples Of them
which had come into his hands as County
Treasurer for payment.
Judge Green presented long array of
proofs of Moses guilt, and closed by
saying that if they voted for Moses they
would knowingly vote for notorious
"thief and robber for Governor Of South
Carolina"
4no bp66Cu "a w. w IhauS8y, COlOTeu
member of the Legislature. and candi-
date for reelection on the Moses ticket,
was remarkable one. Being present,
he was invited to speak in reply. and
proceeded to furnish additional proofs
against Moses. but claimed that he
(Ramsay) was innocent through his ina
bility to penetrate the ring movements,
which he pronounced 'damnable."
ho tn
this meeting the Moses party had usod
their runners to summon the people to
Neason's Store, two miles off, to a
barbecue, speeches and brass band
performance; and alth ough they had the
band and their strikers from town. the
attempt was failure; and colored Sena-
tor johnson CAME over to the boilers
meeting and tried to persuade the people
to follow him to Neason's, but failed.
He was invited to remain and take part
in the discussion, but didn't like tho
looks of the crowd and bolted.
ONWARD.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-10-01

A letter from London, September II,
says: "We are favored here with the
presence Of ex-Gov. Bullock, of Georgia,
who WAS not long since notorious for
pocketing 7,000,O0 of the bonds Of
Georgia. Last week, two Washington
officials called on the Ex-Governor. Two
or three OF our eminent lawyers and O
magistrate were soon engaged. These
worthless are called commission, and
are holding sessions now. Privacy as
strict rs tho Geneva tribunal has 80 far
been maintained. Tho exigencies of the
great party seemed to have made u
white washing of Bullock and Blodgett
necessary. The Governor lives in one
Of the linost suburban residences about
this city. His house is furnished mag
nificently, his stud is of the finest stock,
his turn-outs unsurpassed. and ho says
he has concluded to make London his
residence for the FUTURE
Cincinnati Commercial.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-10-01

During Andy Johnson's recent discns-
sion with Maynard, the latter said that
any member of Congress who received u
bribo Of five dollars should bo sent to the
penitentiary and wear shaved head
and striped pants. andy replied that if
all who had been bribed were shaved
and striped, Congress would be sorry
spectacle, as OF least third of them were
bribed every year, and it was hard to say
just what ones wouldn't wear striped
pants and short hair.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-10-01

Since the publication Of his letter ac-
cepting the Liberal nomination for dele
gate ut largo, to the Constitutional Con-
yontion. tho Grant papers declare that
Gov. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, has "gone
over to the rebels"
The Corsicana (Texas) Observer tells of
young widow who was engaged to be
married on Thursday, but who married
another man on the preceding Sunday.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-10-01

The corruption in the navy yards un
der the Grant administration is very
thoroughly exposed in recent number
of the New York Tribune. It is shown
how these yards are utilized as political
machines; how only those are employed
who will vote the administration ticket;
how the surrender Of political rights is
preferred to all other qualifications in
those who apply for work. Thus, in
matters Of an entirely public character
and in which all Taxpayers arc equally
Interested, the wo-term traitors to their
public trusts endeavor to work out the
will Of their official master at tho ex-
pense of tho millions who pay them for
their services. 1t is shown that tho cx-
pense in the navy yards are kept up on
war scale, though peace traditionally
exists, aud that recently large numbers
Of men have been employed for reasons
exclusively political. Any mechanic
who would not openly avow his alle-
glance to the Grant dynasty was soon
discharged, and another was taken in
his stead, who was not troubled by any
qnalms of conscience. The case is in
stanced in the Kittery navy yard Of an
ex-soldier named Roberts, who had
served for three years in the army, and
had passed nine months in Andcrsonville
Prison. He applied; not long since, for
place, by means Of which he hoped to
support his family, and was told that he
could obtain employment upon the same
conditions accepted by the rest of the
workmen-namely, that he should vote
the administration ticket. He remon-
strated against the surrender of his pre-
rogatiVe Of citizenship, claiming that he
had repeatedly stakcd his life for his
liberties, and now refused to surrender
them to others. Ho found, however,
that there was no place for him in tho
hittery yard, and he was obliged to seek
position elsewhere. Such is the man
ner in which tho great renominated ex-
poets to secure new lease OF place and
power.