The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-02-22

Efforts that nave been expended upon
him only demonstrated the impossi-
bility OF reconstructing him upon an
industrial pattern. In fact, he refuses
to be born again. To support a few
such expensive animals whole con-
tinent must be converted into hunt
ing park. Population must not grow
so'fast as to exceed the natural growth
of the spontaneous fruits of the earth.
Cultivation, by leveling the forest,
restricts this natural exuberance of
production and narrows the fund of
subsistence for the inelastic, stereo-
typed barbarian. His savage hatred
is primarily kindled against civilized
industry in the abstract, and then
against all civilized people. The
spirit Of civilization is as yet imper-
fectly developed in even the most pro-
gressive races. Enough Of barbarism
is still left in civilized men to incite
them to rivalry Of the most savage
cruelties. Add to this diabolical intri-
CUES of whisky smugglers, land grab
bers, and outlaws generally, and we
find upon our frontier a combination
Of causes which will forever prevent
the peaceful settlement of the ques-
ton. The poor Indian must die. Such
is the fat of progress which no phi
lanthrophy can avert.
The reduction of our permanent
military force at the South is a signif-
icant evidence Of the rapid growth OF
loyal sentiment in that distracted re-
gion. The projected visit of the Presi-
dent and members of the Cabinet will
be of very great benefit to the national
cause, and will tend very greatly to
ameliorate the sectional bitterness
which still survives the great civil
war. 1t seems so strange that a sec
ton Of our Union enjoying such Won
derful material resources should have
these held i'll entire uselessness by the
bad spirit Of an uneducated people.
The day of Southern prosperity, how
ever, is dawning.
The syndicate figures indicate that
already two-thirds of the per cent.
loan Of $3oo,Ooo,oo0 has been sub
scribed. This will enable the gov
eminent to call in a large amount of
the $50 bonds that have matured, and
reduce the annual expense for interest
by $3,OO0,O0O. The A per cents. will,
with the prestige of the 5 per cent.
loan, be readily put on the market,
and then our financial authorities will
essay the still more difficult problem
of funding at 4 Per cent. The diff
culties that have embarrassed our
funding operations hitherto have been
of a temporary character. The enor-
nous influx of capital and the increase
of wealth from home enterprise are
it possible to fund at as low
rates as in Europe. The final CONVEX
sion Of the bonds, according to the
late legislation, will reduce our annual
interest payments $13, 100000. At
the close of General Grants second
term the interest account will have
been reduced $5O,OOO,O 900 per annum.
The British Admiralty is about to
send out a ship of scientific discovery,
carrying all the instruments of scien-
tific observation and manned with a
corps of first-class scientists. The
course of the voyage will be round the
Cape of Good Hope, and thence south
ward as far as the ice on the Antartic
continent will admit. Special atten-
ton will be given to the islands of the
Pacific. With the improved appli-
ances of discovery now enjoyed by
scientific observers it is to be expected
that this enterprise will result in the
highest benefit to civilization.
Among the tricks of the Credit Mo-
bilier organization was motion in
the Philadelphia Court of Common
Pleas to declare it dissolved on the
ground that it had done no business
since July, 1868. The court, however,
stated that the government had bust
ness with it and that it could not so
easily stink out of existence to avoid
The payment of its just dues to the
public.
It is the serious intention of the
here to have another Car