The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-06-27
NEWS SUMMARY.
PERsONAL AND POLITICAL.


carry on or experiment in the so-called Civil
service reform, in the manner in which it has
been carried on. Those voting aye on the
resolution were Messrs. Butler (of Mass.),
Luttrell, Sheats and Whitehouse-4; the noes
were Messrs. Kellogg, Willard (of Mich.),
and Willard (of Vt.)-3.
James A. Weston has been elected Cover
nor of New Hampshire on joint ballot by
the State Legislature. The vote stood
Weston, 1872 McCutchins, 151. He was in
augurated ON the 4th.
Rear Admiral Fabins Stanley of the Uni
ted States Navy has retired, and Commodore
Mulany is thereby promoted to be Rear Ad-
miral on the active list.
Mons Rochefort sailed from New York for
Europe on the 9th. 1t is understood that
funds have been raised for the purpose of es-
tablishing a Communist paper at Brussels,
with Rochefort as editor.
Felix R. Brunot, Robert Campbell, Nathan
Bishop, William E. Dodge, John V. Farwell
and George III. Stuart, the remaining men,
bers of the Indian Commissioners originally
appointed, have united in letter to President
Grant, resigning the office. Dissatisfaction
with the existing laws in regard to the man.
agement of Indian affairs is said to be the
cause. The Commissioners, in their letter OF
resignation, congratulate the President upon
his adherence to the Indian policy announced
in his inaugural address, and express hope
that the present success of the policy may
make it permanent. They conclude with the
expression of conviction of the capacity of
the Indians to receive all the civilization nee
essary for the welfare and safety of the from
tier settlements, and all the Christianity need
| full to their salvation.
The bulk of the estate of the late John Ed
gar Thomson, President of the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad Company, which is valued at
s., 900 900, is left to trustees to be devoted to
the education and maintenance of female or
phans of railway employees whose fathers
may have been killed while in the discharge
of their duties. Preference is to be given,
first to orphans or employees engaged upon
the Pennsylvania Railroad; second, to those
| of the Georgia Railroad between Augusta and
| Atlanta, Ca; third, to those of lines con-
trolled by the Pennsylvania Railroad, by lease
or otherwise; fourth, to those of employees of
anv other railroad company of the United
States of America.
The Democratic Central Committee of Ohio
have postponed the State, Convention to the
| 26th of August.
Henri Rochefort Iectured in New York on
| the evening of the 9th.
A Washington dispatch states that soon
after the adjournment of Congress, the Presi-
dent will visit his family relatives in Kama
wha, West Va, then return to Washington,
and will resume his summer residence at
Long Branch about July 4.
An Associated Press dispatch from Wash
ington says that the opinion among the Re-
publican members of the House of Represen-
tatives, so far as it can be gathered, is, with
very few exceptions, adverse to the policy
recommended by the President in his recent
ly published memorandum in reference to
the finances.
The trial of Senator Pomeroy of Kansas,
upon the charge of bribery, has been fixed
for July 81.
The annual reunion of the original anti
slavery advocates, or Abolitionists, was held
at Chicago, commencing on the 9th. Hon.
Henry Wilson was elected President, but did
not arrive to take part in the opening exer-
cises of the meeting.
The District of Columbia Investigating
|
thorizing the President, by and with the ad-
vice and consent of the Senate, to appoint a
commission of three persons, who shall ex-
ercise all the powers of the Government now
vested in the Governor or Board of Public
| Works.
i COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
Gold closed in New York on the Sth at
| 110 1-2.
The bill for deepening the channel at the
mouth of the Mississippi River by dredging
or otherwise, reported to the House from the
Committee of Commerce, and which passed
without division, provides for having the
work done by contract, proposals to specify
the rates for securing twenty feet depth and
not less than 200 feet width through the chan
mel of one of the passes or outlets of the Mis-
sissippi River into the Gulf OF Mexico at or
binary food-tide. Also the price per month
of maintaining such depth for five years; also
the rates for every additional foot in depth uI
to and including twenty-seven feet. The Sec
retary of War is to contract with the lowest
responsible bidder, the amount not to exceed
$3.50, 900 for thirty feet or more than $15, ,90(
per month for maintaining that depth, OF
more than $4,000 per month for each addi
tional foot.
The House Post-ofice Committee have
agreed to report bill providing that on al
| newspaper and periodical publications mail
ed from known office of publication or new
agency, and addressed to regular subscriber
or news agents, postage shall be charged q
the following rates:
, Newspapers and periodical publications issue'
weekly and more frequently than oBce week
one cent and half; if issued less frequently thai
1 once week, three cents for each pound or frac
: ton thereof. On receipt of such newspaper
and periodical publications at the office of mall
!, ing, they are to be weighed in bulk and postag
!, paid thereon by special adhesive stamp. News
s papers, one copy to each actual subscriber reslo
e ing tlin the county where the came are printed
= in whole or in part, and published, go ire
: through the mails, but the same shall not b
r delivered at the carrier-offees or distribute
q by carriers, unless postage is PAID thereo
!, as by law provided; and newspapers an ms ,