The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-10-06
Our New York Letter.
The State COnyenaiOn-.-BOOk
Sales-..Rfver rAccidents---The he
CIairmOnt Bank.-.LOw Prices
Fashions.
NEW YORK, September %, 1876.

.--FaShiOns.
NEW YORK, September %, 1876.
EDITOR CHIEF:
The New York State convention
opened yesterday with what sanguine
Republicans are pleased to term
slap at the administration-the adop-
ton of most moderate and just plat
form, advising resumption, denounc-
ing subsidies, insisting on the rights
of labor and capital to an equal hear
ing, and expressing no opinion on the
Administration policy, while hoping
it will result in peace at the South,
and promising that no act of the Re-
publicans of New York shall be with
held for it's success. Ex-Copgressman
Ward made the strongest possible
answer to all fault finding in the pithy
| declaration that if the announcement
of Republican principles be the con-
demnation of the administration, let
| that condemnation fall.
The trade sale of books held las1
week and this has exceeded the hopes
of dealers, and million dollars worth
of books will he upon the market in
the next ten days. That means that
people have money once more, and
begin to buy books and surround
themselves with comforts and indul-
gences again. A bookseller who at
tended the sale from Illinois said the
great harvest was no sooner gathered
in August than he began to sell more
books than he had done before for a
year. Books will be cheaper than
they have been since the war, as auc-
ton prices ruled twenty per cent.
below the usual wholesale rates.
The sunny afternoons tempt small
J craft out on the river, and one of the
worst forms of town Bavagery is the
recklessness with which larger vessels
wreck those that come in their way.
Hardly day passes without an nc
count of row boat run down and
her crew sunk by q tug or lighter,
out of pnre wantonness. The river
pilots are utterly careless of human
life, and laugh at it as fine sport to
run down a pleasure boat with two
: or three boys and girls aboard. Two
, weeks ago party of two boys and a
t girl in their teens, living in the same
tenement house, went out from the
a foot of Canal street about sunset for @
4 row, and found small steamer hear
s ing down on them. They changed
!, their course, when the boat changed
r hers so as to bring them exactly ir
), her path, ran them down, aud KEEP
. on her way, never paying attention
to the screams of the creatures strug
J, Cling in the water. The girl wal
II drowned; ; one of the boys succeeded
y in swimming ashore with the other
. though his own leg was broken in tw'
r. places and his shoulder CT ushed. Th
s officers of the flag ship Minnesot
, have made complaint to the pilo
# commissioner that one of their boat
G going ashore made sigual of DANCE
!, to tug coming its way, to which n
# attention was paid, and an apprentie
d boy from the ship was drowned in tn
= collision. Peoples lives are LITERAL
- - in the hands of the coarse and dc
le moniac set who fill the posts of cal
ut drivers and river pilots.
The Clairmont Savings Bank faile
lr for only 100000, but the history
as it's defalcations reads very much lik
r. the practice of many similar institu
es eU tions outside the city, where ruri
ID virtue is supposed to flourish. DO
st many country banks are there whie
or refuse to lend their funds to frient
ho m of the officers, or which do not ha'
re little outside affairs in which the he
,e. of the bank comes handy7 Ho
~ ~ many presidents there are who COZ
in slider themselves mere fgurehead
ho and take the word of the people
TN the bank that every thing is rlgf
,is when they spare time from their 9th
,es pressing business to look into
us doors. How many trustees there q
~ who don't know much how thin
are going on in their bank, but ia
!. it for granted that all Is right, j.
like the trustees of the Clairno
X Bank, one of whoIp did not know
In, name was on the list, while anoti