The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-02-13

made against his life, Or, by fears OF
the terrible White League, Of which
Port Vincent is said to 6e the head
quarters for the parish, this depOnent
can not say, 4: ~ 5aa. .,t..s,.......
The Port Vincent newspaper, too,
the "official paper" as it claims to be,
l can not overlook for newspaper
| is an institution Of itselfe Owned by
one or two, persons interested in the
town, there is also a little second hand
and 0ne horse printing office, from
wllicli1has issued occasionally, !, aud by
spasmodic jerks, 4 few printed sheets,
numbered 50 as to make them look AS
if they had been both regular and
continuous, as we'll as a prominent
part of that great power in the land
the g periodical press" =. r.....
In these sheets, the place has been
talked Of as tile prospective centre OF
commerce and civilization, not only
for the swa,npy region in. which it is
placed, but also for the parish Of Liv-
1pgston; not only for the parish Of
Livingston, but also. for the State Of
Louisiana, and SO Oh, ascending, that
a reader at a distance, who had seen
nothing to the contrary, would sup
pose the town destined soon to exceed
in size and importance the Eternal
City itself. -.-...> ~. ....t...
The courthouse will refer to again,
for Instead Of being, as every court
house should be, tire-proof building,
OF at least brick building, is alto
gether Of wood. Indeed, it is a mere
she'll, weatherboarded, it is true, with
| thin plank on the outside but within
ceiled only in spots, and only with
plank equally thin. The outer doors
Of it, too, and possibly occasionally
the inner doors also, have been and
remain without t;sstenings;' and so
that hogs, dogs and drunkards coulI
at night find quarters therein.
Port'Vincent, l have forgotten to
say, can NOT boast OF u jail but it has,
nevertheless, II building erected and
intended as IA Jail, which the parish
judge, very properly, refused to re-
cogiliz, as such. He regarded it as
OF toO trail- a character to keep people
in: Time however,, proved it to he
still worse calculated to keep people
ont of it; for IL month or two ago when
a negro was therein introduced for
protection from violence, unti he
could be tried, his enemies broke it
open, took out the poor wretch and
sent him to Kingdom come," at the
end of u rope--or rather Of u CLAIM
that happened to be more conveniently
at hand. The records, too, deserve
some little notice beyond what have
already given them, for since they
We're iwrcsted, OF rather. raided,. from
Springfield they IIayc been hitller aud
! thither hid in the swamps, aud have
been $50 far reduced III ntimber iffaf
not half Of them now reuains-a fact
which, has been told Tue by q man
once legally in possession Of most of
them,l and who, DECLARED that he. him
self was possessed Of a considerable
pile Of them now f"4aszs
The judicial proceedings, too, for the
last period OF eighteen months Of the
parish court may not be found here
utter exactly to "hold water" Nor
will thut fact create much surprise
wheIl it il. known tbat We have had
within tlat time five installments Of
judges and five also OF clerks of the
court. Then, again, it has sometimes
happened ta,st two Of the rival Judges
have been operating in chambers 81
mnltaneously, each claiming to he the
one and only simon pure, aud in de-
fiance of each other !; SO also of the
clerks, who have issued marriage IL
censes and done; many other things
which, when done cOncurrently and
in rivalry and defiance Of each other
can.hardiy have been done 1T ;.n times
g according to law" ...s4
The illiteracy and incompetency of
some oithese conflicting tunctioDaries
ID hardly worth talking about; foi.
that has always been a crying evil in
this parish so much SO, indeed, that
sometimes it was moot point which
could spell best, the finctionary him :
self or the horse he rode. And this
is NC absnrdity, for there have been
learned horses in the world, as well
az learned pigs! !.s T. s'''=3 s 7
Strange to soy, this very great town
Of Port Vincent, whefe, every now
and then they raise Q tempest in a
teapot might at any time have been
bought out flock, stock and barrel, y
Or tospeak without slang, land, stores,
goods, houses, and everything else for
$40, 900, and just now it is question
able whether, with the new courthouse
included, it would bring one-half of
that sum. That this losser amount
would also buy the good people them
selves l will neither assert nor deny.
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE state
ment Of the incomes Of the two great
universities of Oxford and Cambridge
will, in this day of college endow-
ments, we doubt not, be read with in-
I terest. The University Of Oxford has
4 an income of E47 coo; the colleges
and halls, f336, 900; the University
Of Cambridge, f34 900; the colleges
and halls, 93O6, 600. For the yea,
1871, Exeter College, at Cambridge
| with ar in.uYna nf e Ii 0fN0 hnd frnm