The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-08-14
NEW ORLEANS CORRESPONDENCE

EDITOR CHIEF:
The Times and Picayune both claim
the "largest daily circulation in the
The Picayune challenges
a comparison, and intimates that the
Times is sailing under false colors.
The Times gives the Picayune the re-
tort courteous. Tho Republican sug-
gests referee and that one of these
journals is defrauding its advertisers,
who desire the best advertising me-
dunn, or the one with the largest cir
culation. 1t is a lamentable fact that
not one of our dailies has circula-
ton to brag of or commensurate with
the reading public of New Orleans
and it's dependent trade territory.
There is a grievous lack of enterprise
manifested. 1t is the universally ex-
pressed opinion Of experienced jour
nalists that the daily which soonest
appreciates this field will reap a har-
vest. Five weeks ago the public
we're under the impression that the
Times fell behind its contemporaries
in point of patronage and circulation.
It was not savory in political circles,
and newsboys eagerly exchanged a
Times for either Picayune or Bulletin.
But the Times evidently has been
making an effort. Its columns are
daily filed with readable local news,
and it's editorials are pungent. The
newsboy is ready to swap the Pica-
yune or Bulletin for a T;aees. Here is
a perceptible reward of enterprise.
The public want a readable daily,
and will buy it, no matter what its
politics may be, or who owns it and
when it indisputably establishes its
claims as a leader Of public opinion,
the advertiser is quick to perceive the
propriety of extending to it his pat
ronage. While do not admire the
politics of the Times, do hope that,
by continued labor in it's news depart
ment, it will teach its indolent con-
temporaries a valuable newspaper
lesson, and thereby become public
benefactor.
Look out for a new White League
Bourbon daily, ready for blood and
thunder campaign. The wiseacres of
the Committee of Seventy: etc., seem
determined to have one, and since
they have the money it can not be
prevented. The country editors want
toning up little. There is too much
discordanee. When it is born there
will be tinkling Of cymbals and a
sounding of brass in all the country
shops equal to that heard in New
Jerusalem or Orleans.
On Sunday evening Governor Kel-
logg left for the North, leaving Lieu
tenant Governor Antoine in charge
of the executive department. He will
be absent about a month.
The Governor is in receipt of a
number of complaints of outlawry in
North Louisiana, from private and
official sources. Black men are gen.
orally killed and white murderers es-
cape. Sheriffs ask him to offer re-
ward for their apprehension, and the
Governor does not favor the reward
business under ordinary circumstan-
ces. He has written a general letter
to interested officers in murderous
localities, urging them to a faithful
discharge of their duty, and to call
upon citizens of we'll known character
to assist them as posse comitatus in
pursuing and capturing criminals.
The responsibility for crime must rest
upon the communities where it oc-
ours, and title to responsibility can
only be obtained by an impartial,
complete enforcem ent of the law.
President Wbeelock of the New Or
leans Pacific Railway has returned
from canyassing tour along the line
of the proposed road, quite encour-
aged and confident of success. He
conferred with leading citizens, and
attended railroad mass-meetings, and
found the people ready to give prac-
teal aid to the enterprise. Ground
will be broken on the fifteenth and
the contract for grading to Natchito-
ches is nearly completed. 1t is as
serted that trains will be running to
Marshall within six months. In a
letter to the Board of Underwriters