The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-03-01


bes;tated not at wholesale assassl''a-
ton. reckless perjury and nameless
villainv should not find coye1t from
.nublic indignation even in Hades. a
had character has no claims to puDiic
indulgence even after its owner mas :
passed away. The moral power u
virtue can not be upheld If this saul
tary discipline of great criminals IS
relaxed. !.
The protection which the law Of
libel affords to private character ID
this country is likely to be subjected
to /, more thorough test than has ever
vet been applied to it. Whether any
appeal will be made to the law III
behalf of the reputation OF eminent
public men who have been slandered,
as connected with any corporations,
in any investigation in Congress, re-
mains to be seen. But an example
has been set by one of the most noted
CORPORATIONS in New York, which
promises to be q brilliant success, and
may therefore tempt other corpora
tions and men similarly injured to
nrosecnte the same course for their
protection. A noted insurance writer,
named English, who, until recently,
was known to everybody as a subser-
Went agent and supporter Of the lead
ing insurance men of New York, re-
Gently, for reasons best known to him
self, saw fit to publish an attack upon
the Mutual Life Insurance Company
and upon its officers. This company
has long stood higher in public conf
dence and esteem than, perhaps, any
other financial trust of the country
and general surprise was expressed
that any one should be bold enough
to insinuate that its management was
not at least perfectly honest, whether
in all respects free from errors of judg-
ment or not. The president of the
company, MI. Winston, Immediately
took the most efficient measures to
silence the libel. In the first place,
Mr.. English was arrested under the
New York law of SANDER, and being
unable to find bail was placed in Lud-
low street Jail, where he now remains.
In the second place, the company
made their annual statement for the
year 1873, laying all their business
interests out before the world, making
an exhibit Of financial soundness.
strength and economy unparalleled
in the history of life insurance. Up
to this time the company seems to
have much the best of the contest. IF
it should result in the somewhat per-
manent Incarceration of Mr.. English,
the case will become an encouraging
precedent for all trustees of great pub
Tic interests, whose characters are
likely to be made the sport of unprin-
cipled libelers.
There is justly some complaint
among the artists who have submitted
models in competition for the Farraeut
statue. The models are different sizes
and styles, of different proportions and
in different positions.
Your correspondent can imagine an
artist in fire-heat for getting up a
model, dumbfounded when he at
temptsa design. These different STYLES
and positions are perhaps equally
credible and perhaps might be exc
cuted comparatively well by, most of
the competitors. None can afford to
spend time and money in getting up
numerous designs, and the result is
they get up only one or two, and take
chances. The best artists, whose time
is too valuable to work on uncertain
ties, present simply miniature model
roughly sketched which is generally
complained of because the likeness ia
and the chances seem in
variably in favor Of the poor artist
who has nothing to do but get up a
large model and exaggerated likeness
The fact that the likeness is to be
recognized at glance, or in hurried
rush around tpe models, seems to. be
the test of merit.
/ am not sure if in this country of
Judges of art. comnat;