The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-10-04


trouble will yet reach them, though,
let US hope, not until it has become
sufficiently diffused to make it less
heavy upon that, or any other, par
ticular business. All classes will feel
the effect, and in the end the burden
must be borne by those who labor
with their hands, who till the soil,
who build our roads and our dwell
ings, who pave our streets and who
navigate our vessels. Let them be
thankful, and let us all share in the
feeling, that they are just now in their
best condition for standing erect be-
meath the burden. The cotton crop,
we are informed, will be one of the
best ever produced. Corn we will
have in abundance, and there will be
millions of bushels of wheat to spare
to less favored countries. Our mines
were never more productive and were
never worked with more energy than
to-day, and singular and most for
tunate coincidence is the fact that a
demand for American iron is begin
ming to spring up in Europe.
1t is impossible for Secretary Rich
ardson to even read, much less heed,
all the kilograms received. They are
constantly coming, coming by the.
score, by the hundred daily. They
contain all sorts of advice. Some
plead for further purchase of bonds
and issue of currency /; some ask the
reverse. They are mostly from bank
ers and dealers in stocks. Some rep
resent the panic as subsiding some
prophesy that the trouble has but just
begun. All this is enough to confuse
most men, but Mr.. Richardson ap-
pears to be in no wise Hurried.
Professor John NJ. Langston, a
colored man and amember of the fac
ulty of Howard University of this
city, has taken the trouble to look up
the records to discover the number
of eolored persons employed in the
government departments here. Mr..
Langston is a native of the State of
Ohio and q finely educated gentle
man. The reported disaffection
among the colored voters of Ohio with
the manner in which federal patron
age has been distributed has elected
from him this action.
The colored employees of the gov
eminent in this city alone he finds to
be as follows: In the Treasury De-
partment, 3l5; in the Interior De-
partment, Sd in the Navy Depart
ment, II; in the War Department
SO; in the Department of Justice, 8,
and in the Department of State, 10.
In the Post-Offiee Department there
are eight colored postmasters, 1.-TWO
first-class) three special agents five
route agents; two first class clerks,
and eighteen messengers. The total
number of colored persons employed
in the different departments in this
city is $50. Thus it seems that the
colored people, of this locality at least,
have no cause for complaint of being
neglected by the present administra-
ton.
The Department of Agriculture
has just completed the September es-
innate of the wheat crop, and, on the
whole it is very favorable estimate.
Taking one hunnred as full crop,
the crop of 1873 is estimated at nine
ty-fve, about equal to the last years
crop. There was a larger area har-
vested, so that the aggregate yield
may be expected to be somewhat lar
ger. In some of the States the yield
per acre will be larger, in some,
smaller. In New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, Missouri, Kansas, Wis
consin and Minnesota there has been
diseernible improvement. In the
Southern States, without exception,
there has been a rather marked fail
ing off in the yield per acre. Taking
the country at large it is found that
the quality of the grain is superior to
to that of last years harvest, and it
yields better in threshing than was
anticipated. The Department is of
the opinion that in all cases where
there has been a falling off in the
yield or a deterioration in the quality
of the wheat of the recent harvest