The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1876-12-16


possible form of designation. There |
were pieces of bodi $, legs, arms trunks
altogether the most frigiltful sight
probably ever witnessed by human
ewes. There were parents trying to
identify children, friends searching
for the remains of friends, brothers
for brothers. The whole city is i'll
mourning, and "a general gloom over
spreads it.
saw the bodies at the Morgue, and
where there was enough left OF one to
show anything, it was noticeable that
they all died with their hands before
their faces, as if in effort to ward off
the fate that was oyertakiBg them.
A more CHASTITY sight--a more abso-
Lutte nightmare than the smoking ruins
of the theatre and the Morgue pre-
sentett-hun.;ln eyes never rested
upon.
Hayes is certainly elected, and the
people breathe treer. The relief from
the chance that the general govern
ment would be delivered over to un
repentant rebels of the South and the
plug uglies of the North, is immense,
aud will be followed by an immediate
revival of business. The Democratic
place hunters here in New York are
terribly demoralized and disgruntleJ,
and are as venomous as rattlesnakes.
They want to bite something, and
they don't care much what, They
talk of war and bloodshed, and rivers
of blood, and are generally CORY. l
was amused ut the New York Hotel
last night. A prominent Southern
colonel was conyersing with promi-
neat New York Democrat. Il sup
pose we are going to be counted out"
sighed the New Yorker. $ suppose
So" was the reply of the Southerner.
:. Rnt, Colonel, are we going to sub
nit 2" 81 guess we are" was the
quiet reply. Never! The South will
never submit; nor had she ought to.
The South will raise the standard of
revolt against this usurpation, and
the Democracy of the North will rally
to their aid, and" mo it won't
do anything Of the kind" was the Col
onel's reply. Judge, once before the
Democracy of the South revolted on
such just promises. In 1861 | re-
VOTED and did it because yon wrote
me. and you assured me in a letter
| that ii Massachusetts troops under
took to go through New York they
would have to march over your Dody
to cross to Jersey City. They did
pass through the city. aud if they all
tramped over your body You ale a
tough one. At times | thought there
was over a million of 'em. | think
saw your name as IA wee president OF
ii war meeting-I know you sent sub
stitutes to fight against US every time
you were drafted. No, Judge if you
want any war-yeu didn't See any oi
it and don't understand it you raise
the standard of revolt, and we viii
khelp you. As for me | have had
enough of it | can live under Hayes
he is pretty good mani know
he is a mighty good soldier, cause
tried him "a good many times. If you
want war you are entirely welcome
to start i'll have had enough of it,
thank you.'
/ The Southern men are more reason
able than the New York Democrats, ant
are much less ivfammatery in theiI
talk. What the hotspurs may do in the
South, of course no one can tell
but the class that come here are any
thing but fire-eaters Hayes is elected
he will be inaugurated, and he vii
give the country so good Il govern
ment that ii year tro,n now people vii
wonder that any one wanted any one
else. And the democracy, after they
have had their blustel, will aequiesce
like little men.
John Kelly. BOSS Kelly, has beer
appointed Comptroller in place of An
drew II. Green, and was promptly
confirmed by the Democratic Alder
men. Kelly is the head of that asso
citation of thieves, Tammany, aud il
also of the gin-mill faction. He i
a more dangerous man than Tweed
because, while just as INSCRIPTIONS
/ Il L., Al