The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1876-10-14
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.

EDITOR CHIEF:
This being the last week of the
campaign in Ohio and Indiana, will
be one of unparalleled activity, espe-
cially in the latter State. Among the
Republican speakers now actively en-
gagged in the canvass are Senator Nor
ton, Gen. Ben. Harrison, Hon. Roht.
G. Ipgersoll, Senator Newton Booth,
Carl Schurz, Frye and Hale of Maine,
Kasson of Iowa, Cragin of New
Hampshire Gov. kirkwood of Iowa,
Fred. Douglas, and about thirty five
others. This State has never been so
thoroughly canvassed as in the pres
ent campaign. Preparations have
been made for eightythree grand
county rallies and more than nine
hundred Republican meetings. The
Democrats are not less active, aud
during the closing days of the contest
the people will devote all their time
aud attention to their public duties.
And how will all this mighty gather
ing of clans on the 10th of October
end 1t is safe to predict that if the
vigilance of the Republicans should be
equal to the task of preventing the
State from being overrun by repeaters
aud ballot-box suffers from Baltimore,
New York, Louisville and Chicago,
Gen. Harrison will be the next Cover
nor of Indiana. All Republican voters
temporarily residing i'll this city, from
both Ohio and Indiana, have left for
their homes to attend the election.
There are thousands of Republican
voters now absent from the State at
tending the Centennial and visiting
their friends in the East. Knowing
the Importance of this election, it is
hoped all will return in time to vote.
They should permit no personal con-
sideration to interfere with this duty.
They owe it to their couHtry-they
owe it to posterity crush this cop
perhead sectional party, before it
gathers greater strength. The Octo
Der elections are of national impor-
tance, and every Republican vote
east Tuesday NEXT may count fer ten
in moral effect in November. Every
vote is needed, if not to secure the
State certainly for its effect on the
Presidential election, and no one who
desires the election of Rutherford B.
Hayes can afford to stay away from
the polls at this critical moment.
Ahont one hundred so-called veterans
left Baltimore this morning, via the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, to attend
the indianapolis Convention Of Union
soldiers who support Tilden aud Hen
dricks. With them will be couple
of hundred roughs, plug uglys and
blood tabs who distinguished them
selves last November in Baltimore by
driving negroes away from the polls
at the point of the pistol. OF these
one hundred veterans, fifty at least
wore gray instead of blue and are
frauds of the first water. They were
joined in passing through Washington
by IL few old fossils of the Democratic
Jackson Association,
Three hundred experienced re-
peaters aud ballot box suffers are en-
route for indiana to do the " reform !"
work of Tilden.
A dispatch has been received at the
Post Office Department. saying that
there is no mail communication with
Texas via Morgan City on account of
quarantine. The New Orleans office
has been instructed to send Texas
mail via Memphis and Little Rock.
1t is understood that the yellow fever
in New Orleans has caused Galveston
to establish quarantine. The yell
low fever seems to be spreading over
the SOath.
Peter Cooper, the greenback candi-
date for President, has started on a
stumping tour through portions of
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana, go
ing by way of Harrisburg and Cleve-
land TO Indianapolis.
The payments made from the q. S.
Treasury by warrants during the
month of September, 1876, were as
follows: Civil and miscellaneous,
s4, SCI 1924 81 War, S3,553,205 25
Navy, S2,214,867 So; Interior Gndi-