The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-09-12
ALL ABOUT OURSELVES.

ALL ABOUT OURSELVES.
The "Ohief" a. it Was, Is and viii Be-
An Egotistica Treatise for Which VI
Gan Give no Excuse, and Wouldn't j,
We Gould.
We hattcr ourselves with JUNCTION
that the present issue Of the CHIEF
will be recognized by its readers as an
improvement upon preceding mum
bers. We have dissolved partnership
with the st. Louis auxiliary man, and
our paper is now the product Of home
labor, inside, outside and all through.
We have nought but satisfaction to
express in regard to the partnership
aforesaid as far as business considera-
tions 60, but after fourteen months
Of experience we have formed the
opinion that the patent outside sys-
tenn, despite many advantages, is not
so desirable as that Of local produc-
tion, more especially when the pub
lishing houses are twelve hundred
miles apart. The General News Sum
mary which has long graced the first
page was feature that won our heart
when we adopted the ready printed
outside plan, but as the months wore
and the novelty wore off, we became
weary Of perusing intelligence in that
Summary that had reached us several
weeks before through other channels,
and tired Of poring over items that
were SO musty with age as to produce
an efauvia which could be detected
by the nasal organ at a distance of
eighty-two feet, more or less. When
the outside of the CHIEF was just
signing the death warrants Of one
white man, two octoroons, one mulat-
to and one negro convicted Of murder
ing Elisha Eastwood, the inside was
hanging white man, three mulattoes
and negro for that self same crime !;
and this is but one of many inaccura-
cjes Of statement for which our St.
Louis editor was responsible-one of
the numerous instances of contradic-
tory opinion upon matters Of fact that
arose between that parsonage and
ourselves. Far be it from Us to tax
him with wilful error; his mistakes
arose not from his heart, which is free
from guile, but from the botched ac-
counts g events transpiring abroad,
which the fallible telegraph aud more
fallible newspapers detailed to the
goedly people Of the Mound City. Of
course, it is not to be supposed story
can travel a thousand miles and retain
its pristine correctness, for all human
demonstrates the extreme
rarity Of such an occurrence and,
again, it is not surprising that a pat
ent outside which is printed in St.
Louis, say on the. 1st of August, and
issued to readers in Louisiana three
weeks later, should contain matter
and decomposed with age.
So, while deeming it a duty we owe
to our patrons to correct the evil
which was fast undermining the repu-
tation Of this journal for reliability
and challenging its right to the title
Of "a Wide-Awake Home Newspa-
per-" yet do we forgive our far-away
for his frequent infelicities
Of assertion, and part from him with
the best Of feelings and sincere wishes
for his future prosperity. He has
treated us like a gentleman during
our business association, and if ever
we feel sneaking desire to go back
Oh all this pretty talk aud don anoth-
sr clam shell outside, there is no in
stitution in the land we would rather
patronize than Mr.. A. N. Kellogg's
publishing house.
The discontinuance OF the co opera
tive publishing plan is not the only
we have projected for
,he CHIEF. Before the lapse Of many
lays we shall have regular weekly
etters from special correspondents in
New Orleans and Washington, while |
a gentleman in the railroad centre of
Texas-the fourishing city of Hous
promised to drop us an oc-
line, treating of affairs in the |
Lone Star State. These letters will |
'e spicy and.readable, as our cores
,nndantr oro M rroon hands of Tho |