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Joint Resolution

Submitting an amendment to the constitu-
ton of the State to limit the debt of New
Orleans, and the issue of warrnts by the
officers and prescribing certain penalties.
Section |. BE it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened
{two-thirds of the members elected to each
House agreeing theretol That at the gen
eral election for members of the General
Assembly, which will take place in Novem-
Der, 1874, an amendment to the constitution
OF the State shall be submitted to the quail
fed electors of the State for their rat;tea-
tion or rejection in the words following:
Article The city of New Orleans shall
not hereafter increase her debt in any man
ner or form. or under any pretext After
the first day ofJanuary, 1875, no evidence
OF indebtedness or warrant for payment of
money shall be issued by any officer of said
city, except against cash actually in the
treasury; but this shall not be so construed
as to prevent renewal of matured bonds
at par, or the issue of new bonds in exchange
for other bonds; provided the city debt be
not thereby increased, nor to prevent the is
sue OF drainage warrants to the transferee of
contract, under act No 30 of 1871, payable
only from drainage taxes, and not otherwise;
any person violating the prohibitions (pro-
Visions OF t'ds article shall, on conviction
he punished BY imprisonment for not less
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than two nor more than ten years, and by
fine Of not less than three dollars nor more
than ten thousand dollrrs.
See 9 Be it further enacted, etc. Thas
at said next general election, the wishes CT
the electors in the premises, shall be ex-
pressed by printed or written ballots, as
follows:
For the amendment limiting the debt of
New Orleans or Against the amendment
limiting the debt Of New Orleans and the
said ballots shall be counted and returns
made and the result declared as IL the
ease of election of State officers.
(Signed} CHARLES w. LOWELL,
Speaker OF the House Of Representatives..
fSfgnedl c. c. ANTOINE,
Lieutenant Governor and President OF the
Senate.
Approved February "a, 1874.
(Signedl WILLIAM T. kELLOGG,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
p. G. DEsLoNDE, Secretary of State.
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THE BLACKLIST OUTRAGE YET.

THE BLACKLIST OUTRAGE YET.
By far the most atrocious of the
many deeds of blood that have been
committed by the White Leagues of
this State since the opening of the
present campaign, is the inhuman
butchery of the officials of Red River
parish, which was perpetrated last
sunday morning, in the vicinity of
Shreveport. The circumstances of the
blood-curdling affair are these:
During the latter part of August a
band of armed men assembled in the
town of Coushatta and demanded the
designations of the parish officers.
This Illegal procedure was resisted,
the Sheriff summoning posse COM
itatus to protect himself and brother
officials from the Leaguers, who re-.
tired for the time, but soon returned
with heavy reinforcements from neigh
boring parishes. A collision occurred
which resulted in the killing of sew
eral members of the Sherifi7s posse,
whereupon tho remainder surren-
dered, with the stipulation that the
lives of all would be spared pro
vided the designations sought should
be given and certain white Repuh-
lican leaders would leave the parish.
These terms were accepted by the
officials as choice between life and
death, and they were locked up in
the parish Jail until next morning,
when, securely bound, they set out
under conduct of an armed guard for
Shreveport.
The prisoners were, Homer j.
Twitcllell, planter aud Tax Collector
of Red River parish and deputy post
master at Coushatta; Robert A. Dew
ees, Supervisor of Registration for
DeSoto parish Clark Holland, mer-
chant and Supervisor of Registration
for Red River parish; w. j. Howell,
parhh attorney and U. S. Commits
Frank S. Edgerton, Sheriff
of Red River parish NJ. c. Willis,
merchant and justice of the peace
all white men of property aud good
character in The community, their
sole offense being that they We're Re-
pabiieans.
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RADICAL. REFoRM.-The former parish
Judge of Eatchitoches parish having resign
ed, Kellogg has appointed E. L. Pierson to
I'LL the vacancy. As so much as been said
by Radical papers on the question of reform,
we are glad to be able to refer to this an
pointment as a frllfillment of the promises
This gentleman viii be remembered by
many of our citizens as occupying apart
ments in our parish Jail q few years ago,
charged with the light offense of getting
away with letters containing money, which
he had in charge as clerk of steamer on
Red River. To go further back, in the
early part of the war, he was courtmartialed
and sentenced to be shot, and was saved by
the intercession Of his family And still
later, he was under guard at Atlanta,
charged with some serious crime, and es-
capped by jumping from the second floor of
the building. This is reform with a ven
geanee.-- Shreveport Times.
This E. L. Pierson is either Dem,
ocrat, Conservative, Reformer or a
White Man he is the law partner of
Col. VIM. NJ. Levy, nominee of the
nondeseript nomenclaturists for Con-
gross in the Fifth District was the
Democratic candidate for Represen-
tative from Natchitoches in 1872,
and prominent member of the Flu
sion Legislature takes his whiskey
straight and his politics mixed, a la
Baton Rouge pot-pomTi.
The Shreveport Times will now
take the back trail and acknowledge
that it has given utterance to the
truth under a misapprehension.
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ments therei

~ With next issue of the CHIEF
opens Volume No. ", and thence
forward the cooperative or "patent
outside" publishing system will be
abandoned, and the paper printed en-
tirely at home. This will give us in
creased advertising space, and We
respectfully solicit from every mer-
chant, every tradesnan, every doctor
and lawyer of Donaldsonyille and Vi
cinity an advertisement of his bust
ness, however small, for the ensuing
year. Cards occupying one "square"
in space THAT is, about one inch) will
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with responsible parties We propose
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OFFICIAL.
ITO THE QUALIFIED ELECTORS OF
Il THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
STATE OF LOUISIANA
Office Of the Secretary Of State, Z
New Orleans, July Filth, 1874.

STATE OF LOUISIANA. }
Office Of the Secretary OF State, 7
New Orleans, July FIFTH, 1874. }
TN conformity to article l47, title nine of
4 the constitution of 1868, publication Is
hereby made to the voters of the State OF
Louisiana, of the proposed amendments to
the constitution of the State agreed to by
tyo-thirds of the members elected to each
house of the regular session of the General
Assembly of the year 1874, and required to
be published three months before the next
general election for Representatives to the
General Assembly, in at least one newspaper
in every parish of the State, in which news
paper shall be published. Said amendments
appear fully in acts Nos, a, q and "a OF said
session of the General Assembly, which are
herewith officially published for the intor-
nation of voters, and will be submitted to
the people at the general election, Monday.
November 9, 1874, in such manner and form
that the people may vote for or against such
amendments separately; and if majority
of the voters shall approve and ratify all or
either of said amendments, the same shall
become a part Of the constitution.
P. G. DESL0NDE,
Secretary of State.
NO. A.
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A Cardiff the writer Of the eommuni-
cation in yesterdays issue of the Ascension
Leader signing himself "a Citizen" will
communicate his name to the undersigned,
any explanation of my conduct as an official
will be publicly given which is desired, pro-
vided this critic is an interested party by
reason of being a property holder and tax
payer or can demonstrate that any owners
of property in this parish share in his m
terred belief that am neglecting the duties
or exceeding the powers of my position. MY
official department is always subject to the
inspection of the sureties on my bond or any
other persons whose interests are involved,
but can not permit myself to be drawn into
discussion with or be held accountable to
any individual who chooses TO assail me I'M
der cover OF a nom dc plume. l am ready to
meet honest and open criticism at all times,
either as Tax Collector, editor or individual,
but until charges are brought.against me in
proper and responsible manner, shall
pass them by as the fruit of malice and un-
worthy of notice. L. E. BENTLEY.
Tax Collector, parish Of Ascension.
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licdn says /:

We are pleased to learn that Mr..
John E. Breaux of Pointe Coupee has
received the Republican nomination
for State Senator from the district
comprising the parishes of East and
West Feliciana and Pointe Coupee.
Mr.. Breaux, staunch and capable
white Republican, is brother of Jos.
R. Breaux, Esq. of Iberia, the gen
tleman who has been designated by
/" we, the white people," as the can
didate to be defeated by Hon. C. B.
Darrall in the Third Congressional
District. Success to Mr.. John E.
Breaux! Confusion to Jos. R,
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PROCLAMATION.
Five Hundred Dollars Reward.
STATE OF LOUISIANA, !,


4
Executive Department,
New Orleans, May 10, 1874.
Whereas, information has reached me that
on the night of Saturday, the second OF May.
1874. DAVID BARLAND, q merchant of
Ascension parish, was assassinated i'll the
store of Mr.. John Burnside. in that parish,
and whereas, all efforts to discover and ar
rest his murderer or murderers have failed !;
Now, therefore, l, William Pitt Kellogg,
Governor of the State of Louisiana. do issue
this my proclamation Offering FIVE HUN
DRED DOLLARS for sneh information as
shall lead to the arrest and conviction of
the murderer or murders of tie said David
Barland as aforesaid.
Given under my hand, and the seal of tho
State hereunto attached, this nineteenth day
of May, in the year of our Lord eighteen
hundred and seventy-four, and of the indie
pendence of the United States the ninety
eighth.
WILLIAM P. KELLOGG.
BY the Governor:
z. 6. DEsLoNDE,
Secretary of State.
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nrLa o;4iaon,s RanL of NOM nr.leans

The Citizens Bank cf New Orleans
has suspended payments, and so
great are the liabilities no hopes OF
its resumption are entertained. Time
was when this bank was considered
the soundest institution in the South.
Under the control of men who have
been reckoned by the common null
titude as possessing great wealth
who have been looked upon rs among
the +" eldest and best citizens of the
State, a title that indicates the acme
of human perfection in all things,
monetary and otherwise, to the av
erage Southern mind-yet has the
concern proven a very whited sep
ulchre, which, with outward preten-
sion that enchants the eye, reveals
naught but rottenness within when
it's portals are thrown open to the
public gaze. In the course of an ar
ticle referring to the failure of the
Citizens Bank, the New Orleans
Banking Association and Crescent
City Bank, the New Orleans RepHb-
lican says:
How far our newspapers, who have been
ever ready to bolster up tottering reputa-
tons, are to blame for such misfortunes, we
will not now undertake TO say. But We
| feel it our duty to notify the public that
| when the White League journals make u
special business of parading the transcen-
dent virtues of q public officer, or leading
merchant, for no better reason than that he
has lived here several hundred years, and
| is wonderfully identified with the interests
of this people, the time has come to shorten
| sail
We hope the misbaps of these first class
| kite flying concerns will teach the people of
| New Orleans that collaterals are safer than
Wanted responsibility, and portable prop
erty more solid than orthodox politics. 1t
is a poor consolation to know that one has
been ruined by people of the very best class.
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The New Rebellion viii Be Suppressed
New Orleans, Shreveport, Alex
audrisi, Coushatta, Monroe
and st. MartinsViIIe 10
be Occupied by u. y.
Bows i'm Blue !'

be occupied by a. ..
Boys in, E8Iue!''
The armed instruction against the
constituted authorities of Louisiana
and other Southern States Inaugural
ted by the organization known as the
White League-the banding together
of one class of men to deprive others
of the free exercise of the rights and
privileges guaranteed by the consti-
tuition and laws-the inhuman muir
dering of peaceable American citizens
for dating to be Republicans-have
borne legitimate fruit.
Acting under the direction of Pres
ident Grant and Attorney General
Williams, the Secretary of War will
at once dispatch U. S. troops to such
points in the South where their pres
ence is necessary to preserve peace,
suppress illegal interference with the
local civil authorities and protect the
lives and liberties of citizens from
lawless mobs of White Leaguers.
Troops have been ordered to Lou
isiana and will arrive ere another is
sue of the CHIEF is before our read
ers. New Orleans, st. Martinsville,
Alexandria, Shreveport, Coushatta,
Monroe and other points will be occu-
pied at once, and all required assist
ance will be rendered Marshal Pack
ard and his deputies In arresting and
bringing to trial persons engaged in
the numerous outrages that have dis
graced humanity and blackened the
fame of Louisiana among all civilized
peoples.
1t required no prophetic vision to
foretell the fate of the new rebellion
of the Leagues. In common with all
candid and sensible men, here and
elsewhere, We predicted that the at
tempt to carry thu, approaching cleo
ton by driving away, intimitlating
and numbering Republicans would
result in ignominious failure, and the
verification is at hand.
The boys in blue !" will not intim-
idate any law abiding citizen or seek
to abridge the untrammeled exercise
of his inalienable rights. They will
be here to give equal protection to all
men, and their presence will guaran-
tee the fair election in November
which all our people have protested
to desire.
Hide your shot guns and rcvolvers,
ye bloody minded Acadians of Attak-
apas! hunt your holes, we red handed
Leaguers of Red River! for your reign
of terror is nipped in the bud and ret
ribution is at hand.
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The New Orleans Rake must be
named after its editor. That festive
scribbler, with an assurance that is
colossal, attempts to convince cred
ulous world that the lawyers nomi-
mated at the Baton Rouge picnic will
receive the support of the agricultur-
alists OF Louisiana. Four -ffths Of the
men who till the soil of this State
vote the Republican ticket. Scratch
gravel, Mr.. Rake.
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$1,000 Reward.

The above reward of ONE TH0US-
AND DOLLARS will be paid by the
undersigned to any person who will
furnish such information as shall@ead
to the arrest and conviction of the
murderer or murderers of the late
David Barland.
WIDOW DAVID BARLAND.
Parish OF Ascension, May 81, 1871.
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~ Mr.. Charles o. Donnaud is invested
with full authority to solicit advertisements
and subscriptions for the CHIEF, in New Or
leans and elsewhere, and to receipt for pay
ments therefor.
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No. Ca.
An Act

Proposing an amendment to the constitu-
ton of the State of Louisiana, changing
the day for holding the general election.
Section l. Be ii enacted by the Senate
and House OF Representatives of the State
of Louisiana in General Assembly convened
ttwo-thirds of the members elected to each
house agreeing theretol, That the following
amendment to the constitution of the State
of Louisiana shall be submitted to the quail
flied electors of the State at the next GIN
eral election for Representatives of the Gen
eral Assembly That the words first Mon
day" in article seventeen OF the constitution,
be stricken out, and the worls q first Tues
day after the first Monday" be substituted
in lieu thereof and if approved by ma
jority of the voters at saiG election, the
same shall become a part of said article
seventeen.
Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, etc., That
this act shall take effect from and after its
passage.
tSigned) CHARLES w. LOWELL,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(Signed1 C. C. ANTOINE,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate.
Approved March 21st 1874.
tSignedl WILLIAM p. KELLOGG,
Governor of the State of Louisiana
true copy:
P. G. DEsLoNDE. Secretary of State.
N
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A new Lafourclo Republicans has
been established at Thibodaux under
the proprictorship of Mr.. j. NJ. Rieard.
1t supports the Republican candidates,
sports a patent outside, enunciates
good principle in questionable syntax,
and sends us badly printed copy in
exchange. We wish the Republican
improvement and success.
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STANDARD TIME KEEPER.
J. F. PARK.
Chronometer & Watch Maker
DonaIdsOnviIIe. La.

Watches, Jewelry, Spcetacles and Clocks.
Se.' for sale Particular attention paid to
The repairing Of Fine Watches. Ali work
Warranted. decl373
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Brief communications upon subjects of
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of correspondents.
Address CHIEF, Donaldsonville, La.
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$1,000 Is r. W a II d.

$500 by the Governor and $1,000 by
Widow Barland, for information that
will lead to the arrest aud conviction
of the murderer or murderers of
DAVID BARLAND.
pRfsl,E
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Mr. Thomas Lynne has been forced
by failing health toIesign the position
of State Registrar of Voters, and Gov
ernor Kellogg has appointed Colonel
VIM. Wright to fill the vacancy. Col.
Wright is spoken of as ca sincere,
honest and intelligent man-one
whose high sense of the proprieties
will never permit him to de foolish
or oisreputable thing If this be
frne, he is the proper man for State
Registrar Of Voters.
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The Peace and Order committee
appointed by the president of the re-
cent Republican State Convention is
collecting evidence of White League
outrages committed in various par
ishes of the State, and will publish
tho result of their labors at an early
day. Hon. Ebert CAN'T of st. Ian
dry is chairman of the committee.
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Gervais Gauthreaux, Esq. is authorized to
solicit and collect subscriptions to the CHIEF
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Every man should subscribe for the
local paper. Take the CHlEr.
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All official notices 81 90 per square each
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List of Letters
Remaining in Donaldsonyille Post-Ofice
po1%o,ohor E+h 1914

~FsS1AHS4 So33
Adam, Ben Hampleton, Scott
Alvarez, Celestin Julien, Miss j
Aucoin, j + Lauden, Matthew
Breaux, Miss Mary E Landry, Paul
Braux, T Lewis, Miss Mary
Bruce, James Lewis, Alfred
Brooks, Marcelin Leblanc. Marcelin r
Baptist, Mrs Caroline Molair, Mrs Alex
Brunson, A L Materre, ] I,
Chapm n, Miss Julia Marchant. Mrs Rose
Chapman, Miss fannie Nash. Miss Matilda
Dix, WIN Owens, Mrs Louisa
Dolan, Mrs Kate Powell, John
Euhl, j 5 Price, Miss Emilia
Falcon, Mrs Manuel Porter, William
Gilbert Mrs Paulin Porter. Thos G.
Graham, Moses Rice, Doctor
Guigou, Ring, Lizzie
Herald, Joseph Samuel A
Horton, + Sulas, Harry
Howell, John Smith, Isham
P. LANDRY, P. NJ.
F. FoRB, ASST. P. NJ.
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TROOPS TO THE RESCUE /!

TO YOUR HOLES, OH LEAGUBRs I!
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No More Political Murders !!