The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-06-30

lin fact his gigantic frauds could not
have been carried out without help
from the Republican party-and they
are shaking in their shoes. There are
plenty of Democrats whom the public
esteem and who are spotted with it,
and there is widespread uneasiness
that Tweed, when he does get ON the
stand, will prove bull in china shop
and kick over great many very
pretty kettles of fish. No one knows
| whom the old man will strike when
he gets within striking distance, and
there are hundreds who do not want
him to have the chance to hit. AS it
stands, the prosecution has been an
absurd farce. No one has been pun
ished but Tweed, and he is no worse
than the rest of them. Sweeney gets
off by paying back about twentieth
of what he stole, and Ingersoll was
out Within a few weeks of the time he
went in, and the rest Of the gang have
never been hurt particle. The pros
ecutions have cost the city four times
as much as was ever realized from the
thieves by restitution, and SO absurd
has it become that the moral effect
of Tweed's imprisonment is gone, for,
owing to Fairchild's treatment of the
case and the skillful manipulation of
his attorneys, Tweed is now looked
| upon as martyr, and is more pitied
than blamed. It is a sorry ending.
New York is i'm as bad hands to day
as it was when Tweed reigned, aud is
entering upon another term of fraud
and corruption.
The city is stirred up on the silver
question. New York is infiexibly OPP
posed to the Iemonetizing of silver,
and the businesss world stigmatizes
the making silver Il legal tender as
only another form of imitation.
Debts due other countries can no
} more be paid in silver, than they can
!. in greenbacks, and the production is
so enormous that still further de-
/ cline is considered certain. Thefcity
, will fight it to the death, and gold is
| the only standard that is acceptable
every member from the city wiilbe
instructed to favorno financial sche me
: that looks to making any thing but
gold the standard of values.
3 The cleansing of the Custom House
: is going on satisfactorily. The old
. suckers are mostly cleaned out anf
A a class of men who are willing tt
4 work for the government are in theii
\ places. The Post-O Office, never so bad
8 as the Custom House, for skilled meI
< were necessary there, is also being
: sllorn of many men, and a stricte
J. discipline aud more efficiency in th,
d service is being had. In short, ther,
a is cleaning up all round, which is a
II gratifying as it was unexpected. Th,
q people have discovered that Presiden
d HAYES was in dead earnest in th
: matter of civil service reform, ant
It they rejoice exceedingly. But
: strikes the old bummers with awfal
!, force Those who have already los
o their heads fill the bar-roons wit
IS their lamentations. 1t is a bad tim
g for office holders, who depend upo
II the strength of 6 our member" " On
Is member isn't as great man as h
Ie was once.
n The merchants report a better fee
IS ing among the business neil of tn
X South. As absurd as was the how
G. about military occupation, the n
Y, moval of the troops from the Sout
y did have some effect in stimulatin
d, trade in that section. The Southel
le people have now certainty OF
t, policy, and they can make their ca
i culations accordingly. The sentimel
in the city is overwhelmingly III Il
D. vor of the President among men
of all parties who have any thing to ris
Il. and he is growing in strength ever
q. day. PEI ho'
ct A CURE For LoyE.-Take a gra1
III of sense, half grain a patience, OF
n drachm of understanding, one oun
lisdain, a pound of resolution, and
d. handful of dislike; mix them togethe
tie fold them up in the penetralia OF t
ht brain for twenty -four hours; strain
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