The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-02-08
competency; that he was not practi-
cal. How is this for the Civil Service

competency that he was not practi-
cal. How is this for the Civil Service
SYSTEM
The purchase of SANTANA Bay with
its adjacent public lands, by q COM
pany of American capitalists, from
the Baez government, is but a flank
ing Of difficulties in a great expansive
movement, which, sooner Or later,
must have taken place. The Amer
lean interests now planted in San Do
mingo will necessitate the watchful
care Of our government, and will
probably lead Ito complications and
ultimate annexation. Our manifest
ing" as an "ocean bound republic"
is thus again looming up in the polit-
ical and social developments of the
age.
Among the remarkable revelations
of the late census, is the decadal in
crease of population i'll Pennsylvania,
second only to the increase of Illinois,
and nearly equal to the increment of
Ohio and Indiana combined. This
fact shows the advantage of developed
and diversified industry opening up a
greater variety of remuneratiye en-
ployment. The coal and iron indus
tries are the leading elements in this
progressive movement. Philadelphia
alone produces an aggregate of domes-
tic manufacture equal to the whole
foreign commerce Of New York.
The British Government has at
tempted more fully to anglicise India
by correcting the pronunciation of the
English language by the natives.
When it is remembered that but 2O0,-
600 Englishmen are scattered amid
$50, 600, 900 Hindoos, it is not at all
surprising that the Hindoo English is
not much better than the "pigeon "
English of China. 1t is now proposed
to establish colleges and common
schools in which thorough knowledge
Of the language shall be taught. Amer
leans are, meanwhile, charging the
scope Of Anglo Saxon speech by ex-
tending the area of civilization west
ward. Japan is contemplating gen
eral use of the English language
throughout the Pacific and South Sea
Islands, it is everywhere extending
itself by immigration.
The Philadelphia n. american finds
that while in fifty years we have
planted population of 6,97s, 545
west of the Mississippi, Russia has, in
the same time, raised the population
Of Siberia to 100000. The N. Amer
ic0n does not state, however, that the
increase of Siberia has been by the
addition Of its more populous territory
in the south won by conquest. A
large portion Of this population has
been by forced expectation Of politi-
cal prisoners from Russia in Europe.
This latter element has become some
what formidable. Composed of the
freest blood of Muscovite manhood, it
has grown up amid the inhospitable
cline of Siberia, a powerful and prom
Using stock Of new nationality.
Serfdom with it's debarring influences
was never known here. As our de-
mocracy develops increasing strength
on the Pacific, so will young Russia,
transplanted to Siberia reject the ira
ditions and superstitions of imperial
ism and join hands with us in the So
cial regeneration of mankind.
The French population statistics
show an enormous decline. In Paris
during 1871, the number Of deaths
was almost double the ordinary rate,
not including the victims of the for
eign and civil war. Meanwhile the
average of births has decreased about
four-ffths. In many rural districts
the annual increase has long been on
~ sufficient to balance the loss. At
this rate, this great people stand a
poor chance of prevailing against its
late antagonist, Germany, where, in
spite of emigration, the population
shows very healthy increase.
There was only one Republican
Senator, (unless Upton and Trumbull
are Republicans,) who voted against
the Appropriation Bill, increa sing the
appropriation for the Educational Bu-