The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-06-05
NEW ORLEANS CORRESPONDENCE
New ORLEANS, June 3rd, 1875.

New ORLEANS, June 3rd, 1875.
EDITOR CHIEF:
There were some movements in
military circles this week worthy Of
chronicle. Eight companies of the
Thirteenth Infantry left ON Tuesday
-four for Baton Rouge, two for
Vicksburg and two for Holly Springs,
Mississippi. Colonel De Trobriand,
with regimental headquarters, band,
and two companies, remain in the
city. The evening parades in La
fayette square are ended, much to the
dissatisfaction of juveniles, but mo-
tiyes Of health and discipline have
prompted change Of station.
1t was announced on Sunday that
NJ. Chevalier Of Paris, had manufac-
tured here a balloon 100 feet high,
and would make an ascent on the
fourth Of July. 1t will contain gas
to sustain it four days-during which
time the aerial navigator proposes to
make number Of observations of a
scientific character. 1t will require
six inch main to supply it, and it is
asserted there are but two in the city,
one at the gaswOrks and the other at
Congo square, but it is expected that
the "Hope" will sarmoupt all OBJ
stacles.
The balloon is only one sensation.
The evangelical churches have united
to give Sunday evening performances
at the Academy of Music, and the
rattle Of bones and clogs and the Cir
Gus, gives way to recital of the "old,
old story" Of the fall Of man, and the
narrow path leading to redemption.
Rev. John Mathews of the Carondelet
street Methodist Church, was the first
to appear on the stage to smite the
hearts Of the wicked. On Sunday
evening last the Academy was filed
with them, and they all sang and
prayed and believed they were doing
a sayory thing in the sight Of the
Lord. Rev. Il. @. Mallard will have
something to say next Sunday even
ing. Seats free at the Academy re-
served seats in Heaven; tickets to
be had at the Christian box Office
" Suffer all little children to come,
and forbid them not"
The decoration ceremonies at Chal-
mette were satisfactory to the parties
participant, with the exception, that
more who had borne and loved the
gray" were not present to pay
homage to the boys in "blue," who
are buried hundreds of miles away
from vacant chairs and surrendered
ties. The attendance was equal to
any in former years. The freedmen,
grateful to the instruments of Ptovi-
dence who severed their chains, were
well represented as were also ex-
Federal soldiers resident here. But
the fact could not be dispelled, and
caused unpleasant reflections, that
ten years having lapsed between the
close of the war and this decoration
day-ten years of professed resump-
ton OF, allegiance to the old flag of
the united country-so few of the
!" first and best" of Southern birth
and society were there also, to give,
by their presence, a fresh inspira-
ton to the friends of the Union. The
dropping of little flower on the
grave Of brave, dead foe "a chris
tan act, humane one), would have
been a graceful testimony of that
chivalry and honor the people of the
South SO proudly lay claim to. There
were decorations on that same day in
other parts of the country where the
=" blue and the gray" met in fraternal
accord and joined in common OBJ
seryance-but at Chalmette, in sight
of the queen city of the South, city
boastiDg of Southern intelligence and
beauty, only a half-dozen Confeder-
ates thought it appropriate to be
present. Not a word of cheer from
their press, but it was alluded to as a
demonstration, a partisan
affair-something entirely repugnant
to the designers and participants in
these memorial services. Away with |
sectional bitterness--pity the fallen
aead-the blue and the gray-simple
acfOrs- in q great ira observation-disclosures tn