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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-24

Northern industry and enterprise are
checked and embarrassed as well. No one,
North or South, feels certain of the future
while State can be held by federal
bayonets; while violence takes the place Of
law and the popular will; while the country
lives outside of the constitution and in o
condition of quasi war; while, any day. I'M
scrupulous' demagogues may goad an exas-
perated people to an outbreak in order to
provoke new military occupation.
The HERALD approves and means to de-
fend the Presidents policy. We should
lament to have to defend it against its
author. Nor dove apprehend that we shall
have SO melancholy task for we believe
Mr. Hayes to be a sincere man, neither self
seeking nor weak. But we speak only the
sentiments of his best friends and most
earnest supporters, of the very men on
whom, by and by, he will have to rely for
support in his policy of reform, when we
warn him that this delay in the settlement
of the Southern question exposes not only
the country but the policy to which he is
devoted to many needless perils; that action
is necessary for his own salvation, and that
he cannot hope to succeed against the ele-
ments which are arraying themselves for his
overthrow and humiliation, unless he is
prompt as we'll as determined. Beyond all
his predecessors he is bound to fulfil his
promises, for he has voluntarily made very
definite engagements; he has appealed to
the best and wisest men of both parties to
help him; he is under no obligations to any
party which can tie his hands; he is in q
peculiar and solemn manner bound to be
the President of the whole people and to
seek only the good of all. But when he de-
cided to send commission to Louisiana
instead of Withdrawing the troops he did
not act on the advice of the men who believe
in his policy, but on that of men who are
secretly or openly hostile to it and deter
mined to defeat it; and the same is true
of the proposition now made with regard to
South Carolina. That in itself ought to put
him on his guard.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-24

life in barbarous countries and in countries
governed unders fixed systems of law. II
thirty men may 60 out and kill murderer
summarily they will sometimes fall into
grievous errors as to his guilt they will kill
on grounds of suspicion, and ultimately on
mere opinion. and the end of that is mutual
massacre, as the world has often seen. No
measure likely to bring the lynchers to JUS
tice should be neglected.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-24

WALL STREET YEsrERDAY.-The stock market
was active and strong, there being general adj
vance in prices. This improvement began early
in the morning and lasted throughout the day,
the closing prices being as rule some of the
highest Of the day. Gold opened ut 1O47s and
declined to 1O434. Government and railroad
bonds were quiet and firm. Money was easy ON
call at gig a per cent.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-24
The Exeou.ion OF Lee.

Yesterday at eleven o'clock, Utah time, and
just as clerks in New York were hurrying to
the banks to make deposits before the hour of
closing, John D. Lee, the convicted MUIR
derer, sat on his coffin at Mountain Meadows
awaiting the death volley that was to
consummate the vengeance of the law.
The time and place of his execution
were we'll selected. It was ut eleven
o'clock on a Friday morning, twenty
years ago, that Lee stained his hands
with innocent blood, and his eye closed
in death yesterday on the very scene of
his crime. Thus the brutal massacre
has been partly avenged. We say partly,
because it cannot be fully SO until
every living actor or abettor in and
of that frightful atrocity meets the
same fate on the same ground. If the
dreadful charges made by Lee against
Brigham Young and the high dignitaries of
the Mormon Church are true not day
should be lost in commencing the legal pro-
ceedings that should end only in the con-
viction and punishment of every partici-
pator in the Mountain Meadows massacre.
count of the last moments of Lee, from the
pen of our special correspondent who ac-
companied the party, composed of the law
officers. the executloners and the con-
demned, from Beaver City to the place of
the massacre and the execution. This will
be read with deep interest, for it gives
the details of most impressive scene.
We publish also what is represented
to be another confession by Lee intrusted
to District Attorney Howard by the prisoner
soon after the death sentence was
passed upon him at Salt Lake City.
curious document and differs SO
widely in some important points from
the confession intrusted by Lee to his
confidential friend and lawyer, Mr..
W. w. Bishop, of Phoebe, New, that
we feel compelled to doubt that it is
genuine. On the authority of Lee himself
we are enabled to state that Mr. Bishop was
charged by him with the preparation of his
biography, and that his statement,
in connection with his share in
the Mountain Meadows massacre, was
handed by him to that gentleman.
It is not supposed that anything conflicting
with the points given to Mr.. Bishop
can have emanated from Lee. This
second confession reads more like
story constructed on speculation out of
the points Of Lees defence, and pre-
pared by officials who mediate the publica-
ton of book on the subject. However,
we give it for what it is worth. Lee
felt embittered against the Church author
tiles for their desertion of him during
his trial. 1t is possible he may have
given some paper to the District Attorney
calculated to implicate the Mormon priest
hood; but the story, or second confession,
as presented to-day, does not bear the stamp
of reliability. 1t is n matter worthy Of the
investigation of the government whether the
officials are or are not specializing on this
matter. They certainly took pains to ex-
clude representatives Of the press from all
communication with the prisoner, in order.
probably, that no other statement but their
own should receive currency. Between the
two confessions the authorities must choose,
and may select either as it suits their pur-
poses.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-24

A LOGICAL OUTCOME of the great Erie Ring
of other years is reported to-day. The profits
may not have been 80 large in the case of the
lions, compared with whom the present culprits
ore mere jackals, but the animating spirit shows
how prompt men are to follow the example of
successful teachers.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-24

THE Idea OF THE BROOKLYN TEMPERANCE
people To have q convention composed of pastors
and delegates from all the churches is good
one, but il would be better if an equal number
of physicians and custodians Of the unfortunate
were to be invited. Drunkards have bodies as
we'll "a so,lls--a fact which is most persstently
s1;srcgartled everywhere.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-24

THE CoMPTRoLLERs STATEMENT of the con-
dition of tho ferry leases and the ferries, which
should at least make n pretence of payment for
privileges enjoyed will teach the overburdcned
taxpayer that in city finances rs in the manage
ment of criminals the many must suffer for the
few.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-24

THERE CAN BE No DOUBT Of the insanity of
the Brooklyn Banks bookkeeper who was yes
terday arrested for peculiar operations with the
banks property. A lottery ticket was found in
his possession
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-24
TRIPLE SH d e Il !.
-
NEW YORK. SATURDAY, MARCH "a. 1877
NOTICE TO COUNTRY DEALERS.

Tho Adams Express Company special newspaper
train Pennsylvania Railroad and its
leaving Jersey City at past four daily and
Sunday carrying the regular edition OF the HERALD far
West Harrisburg and South Washington reaching
Philadelphia at quarter past six NJ and Washington at
one T.. NJ
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-24

The LATEST IMPORTANT COMPLAINT against
the Post Office employees resulted in the usual
way-the thief was an empfoy6 of the COM
Dlainant
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-24

THE Loss OF LIFE at the Brooklyn Shelterng
Arms Nursery prompts considerable curiosity as
to what the physicians of that institution are
paid to do. Defective sewers and poisonous cx-
halations should certainly be discovered before
death calls attention to them.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-24

ANOTHER MAN HAS BEEN FOUND who does
not read the papers The brother of Mr.. Noyes,
Of New Jersey Mutual fame, testified before
o referee yesterday that he did not know of the
whereabouts of the custodian of that elusive tin
box full of securities.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-24

DIR. HALLS DEFINITION of the word "cap-
ita!st" should be carefully read by the working
NAH and every one else who imagines that the
word is of limited application.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-24

From oar reports this morning the probabilities
are that The ,ccattcr in Nc,c York totiay ,ciH be
colder and cloudy or partly cloudy, possibly wiab
Hght rain, or Sn0iu.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-24

THE WINTERS Work of the Connecticut
Legislature makes a handsome appearance on
paper. To have established the right of married
women to their own property and earnings and
to nvcprovidcd for general investigation of tho
affairs of life insurance companies is TO have pro-
yidcd misery for u great many scamps.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-24

THE SORROWS OF THE Pooh are bad enough,
but those of the rich are sometimes the more ex-
pensive of the two, as our leading court report
will explain.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-24

THE Show OF VIRTUE which the Order of Cari-
casians is making in California will forcibly re-
mind readers of some similar attempts on tho
part of the Molly Maguires. No religious society
can ever succeed in assuming virtue so speedily
and enthusiastically as a gang of cowardly muir
derers
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-24

PHILANTHRoPIsTs who believe that suffering
is decreasing among the poor of New York will
find in our Scranton letter some information of
promising new field for bencvolence.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-24

AT LAST WE HAVE Cor the Russians just
where we want them, as they themselves will
speedily learn.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-24

case of Peter B. Sweeny are given in tull il
another column.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-28
What the Bilious Require.

Since torpidity of the liver is the chief
cause of its disorder, it is evident that what
liant which will arouse it to activity, an ef-
feet that is followed by the disappearance of
the various symptoms indicative of its de-
rangement. Hostctter's Stomach Bitters
invariably achieve the primary result men
toned. besides removing the constipation.
fiatulence, heartburn, yellowness of the skin
and whites of the eyes, pain in the right
side and under the right shoulder nau sea,
vertigo and sick headache, to which bilious
invalids are peculiarly subject. As rem
edy for chronic indigestion. mental despond-
ency and nervousness the Bitters are equally
etficacious, and as a renOvant of lost vigor, a
means OF arresting premature decay, and a
source of relief frouI the infirmities to which
the gentler sex is peculiarly subject, the Y
may be shor0ughly relied upon.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-28
THOSE BOOKS,

There is now conviction amount
ing almost to a certainty, that the
shoe boxes tracked by the Auditorial
investigating committee from the
Capitol building to the third story of
the Custom House do not contain the
books missing from the office of the
State Auditor. The committee arrived
at this conclusion some days ago, and
it has doubtless been greatly strength
ened by a dispatch from Marshal
Pitkin authorizing the Attorney Gen
eral to open the boxes and examine
the contents in the presence of wit
nesses.
Information is said to be in posses
sion of the committee indicating that
the books were packed in a hogshead
and transported outside the State, but
where or in what direction remains a
profound mystery.
1t is evident that the parties who
instigated the theft of these books
we're determined to do their work
thoroughly and had a deep-seated
motive in the accomplishment OF their
nefarious purpose. That it was dis
,.edituhle can not he doubted, hnt
that it. las succeeded seems ut this
time equally certain.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-28

In the list of defaulting Tax Col
lectors reported by Mr.. Brainerd, ok
pert of the Auditorial committee, were
the names of Messrs. John Kerriastn
OF st. james and f. j. Larliin of Mid
ison. Upon further examination Mr.
Brainera discovered that these gen
tlemen had paid the amounts into The
treasury for which they were reported
delinquent. We felt confident 6ul
friend Jack would be found " right
side up with care"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-28

The Crescent City Rifle Clubs of
New Orleans will send team to COM
pete for tho championship in the com
ing Interstate contest at Creedmeor,
and in order to procure funds for de-
fraying the expenses of the team, an
entertainment will be given at Milne
burg, on Lake Pontchartrain, August
2. There will be a theatrical per
Torrance, boat racing and other
amusements. In view of the splendid
score made by the Crescent City team
on the 10th inst, their chance for
carrying off the hs,~os's in the utter
State match is q geo, tte.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-28

The damaged cargo of the sunken
ship Gov. Morton, consisting OF 44oO
bales of cotton, was sold at public
auction at New Orleans, bringing
SII7,856, an average of 500 n bale.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-28

Smallpox is at last definitely de-
creasing in New Orleans, after hold
1ng even sway for several months.
There were only fifteen deaths from
the disease in the city last week, out
g. a total mortUary list of l24 from
all causes. Consumption was the
leading destroyer of life, its victims
numbering twenty.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-28

The Georgia Constitutional Con
sention began its sessions at Angus
= n the 18th inst. Mr.. Charles j.
snkins was elected chairman, and
the course of his address upon as
suming the chair he said
1t is unnecessary to caution You against
doing any thing that would infringe upon
the rights Of the negro race.
The remark elected applause from
tle convention.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-28

The annu;tj demons sesan oI iCr-
angemen at Montreal, OIL the 18TH
inst, was attended by the regular
annual disturbance. Several liots
occurred during the day, but the cas-
ualties were fewer than usual, only
three or four lives being sacrificed.
This was due to the conclusion of the
efangtmen to abandon their usual
node Of celebration by paradins the
streets. and eonine themselves to
simple attendance at their churches.
Even his concession was inadequate,
howev5I, TO secure the@ entire i'm
ngEiity from the outrageous and dealt
II a5.uSecutioa If thei" iiginns oppo
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-28
Saturday, July 20, 1871

The old Abbeville MeridiOnat has
been revived by Mr.. I. |. Addison.
1t is published in French and Eng
Ash. @ Ia +" 'alf and 'alf."
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-28

The Georgia constitutional conVen-
sion refused, by vote of ll9 to %,
to expunge the provision which for
bids dueling. Gen. Bob Toomhs III
PRODUCED the resolution intended to
repeal the prohibition.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-28

The st. Mary Enterprise has been
revived at Franklin under the man
agement of Messrs. l.. +. johnson g.
Co., and gives promise of becoming a
lively Journal, wisely devoting liberal
space to the consideration of home
affairs. In the matter of politics the
paper announces itself independents
We Y with pleasure and wish the
managers success.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-28
THE LEVBB QUESTION.


occasion, that the late General AS
sembly inaugurated measures of sub
stantial retrenchment and reform,
worthy of the latter term in its full,
true sense but it is equally the fact
that egrcgious blunders were made
and enactments placed among our
Statutes which are more pernicious
and faulty than those which they
were intended to improve. Among
these prominently stands the levee
law. Yielding to the popular cutlery
against the Louisiana Levee Compa-
undoubtedly justified ia many
| respects, as it was unreasonable in
others-the legislative assembly re-
pealed the laws under which the COZ
poration acted, and revised the whole
system of levee construction. Instead
of allowing the onerous burden OF the
vital and expensive work to rest
equally upon the various sections OF
| the State-difficult enough to bear,
even when imposed in that manner
our law makers have thrown it al
most entirely upon the people of the
river parishes, the assistance of other
sections, through the general State
government, being only vonchsafed
in cases where the utmost local re-
sources are inadequate to avert the
disaster of overflow. For years the
people of Louisiana have besought
the national government for aid in
the maintenance of the vast lines Of
earthwork which protect the most
productive lands of the Mississippi
valley from the devastating floods of
the mighty river which flows by our
doors; and the argument has been
that the work is one national in its
character, and too oppressive to be
wholly imposed upon a few individual
States. Now, forsooth, our own rep
resentatives with glazing iniustice
and inyidions distinction increase the
oppression by forcing the nearly in
} tolerable load upon a few individual
subdivisions of the State. 1t will not
do to say that the river parishes are
alone interested in the matter, for a
; similar answer might be returned us
, where we implore assistance from
States not bordering on the Missis
, sippi. Besides, the river parishes are
not alone interested, for number OF
the back parishes are equally subject
! to overflow, and all are benefited by
the productions of the rich alluvia'
lands bordering on ourlcveed streams
, | Paralyze these and Louisiana coult
never hope o.attain again the posi-
sition of prosperous and wealthy
, State.
M al I IT, ,,1,;
/ nc .i ,'n'enneu 10 -, "a" 1 M
parishes in which levees are situated
~ a"pei ,aaI :; t"ei; 49, II" r".n a. th
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p's, a,s, .a',,S ont t J'a' ~ Ill.,
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: t1 ~" ',is" 49, ~ t'oo' "Po'
.io ~ 'Js n"' -" ..iln NV w eS ~
- uS ~ S',';aot;a,, - ,"n
: to this measure! written from the Il.
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It cnncnrrinn in IFS caustic references f,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-28

Mr.. t. Is. Beauregard, a colored
man, late Collector of Internal Rev
enue for the district having Baton
Rouge as its headquarters, was placed
under arrest two weeks ago for TIE
alleged embezzlement of $556l gov
9rnment funds. He furnished $4,000
bond for appearance before the U. S.
Court at New Orleans in the Fall.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-28

Much excitement was created at
Rio Grande City, Texas, on the 2lst
inst, by the arrest of the ex- Mexican
General, Escobedo, and his staff, by
United States troops. Information
had been received that Escobedo in
tended to cross the river that day
with considerable force of men and
a large quantity of arms and ammu
milton,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-28

We were somewhat out of the way
in the data of the article published
in our last issue relative to the whip
ping to death of a man charged with
committing an outrage upon a white
girl in Iberville parish. The Assump-
ton Pioneer publishes a similar re-
port, but locates the affair in Iberia,
giving the name of the victim Sylvan
Barras, middle-aged man of family
instead of a young man, as we had it !;
stating the offense to have been mere
ly the making of improper proposals
to the young lady, whose father and
four brothers wreaked the terrible
vengeance of flashing the object of
their wrath to death after depriving
him Of the power of resistance by
binding him with cords. The Thibo-
daux Sentinel has, we understand, still
another version of the alleged occur
renee this is, that it did not take
place ut all. And we hope the Sentinel
is right.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-28
ID BEAUVAIS,
Attorney s. Counselor at Law.

W.T. ~ Z O'' " Q 't'''OOt ~
Practices in all the courts of the Fourth
judicial District-parishes of st. James, ST.
John the Baptist, St. Charles and Ascension
and in the Supreme Court Of this State in
New Orleans. l2G73
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-28

It seems that the CHIEF, in paying
a compliment to that excellent citizen
and workman, Capt. Peter Joseph,
misapprehended the position which
he occupied among the lahorers now
engaged in the construction of the
Lemann block on the front street.
We are pleasantly corrected 10y the
following communications, which ex-
plain themselves:
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-28

The CHEF finds it an agreeable task
to correct its error by the insertion of
these letters, and to express its opin-
ion that Mr.. Romain will, by the
style of work shown on the Lemann
block, fully vindieate his reputation
as slziiful director of competent Ia
borers.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-06-04

THE LATE SUICIDE.-At the inquest held
by the Coroner at the almshouse upon the
body of Adeline Jones, aged thirty-nine
years, the negro woman who cut her
throat with case-knife, and died from the
effects Of the injuries on Friday evening,
it was ascertained that she was not laboring
under religious excitement, as was at first
supposed, but was laboring under aberra-
ton of mind, and had an idea that the Off
GERS Of the law were after her with war
rant. To the physician at the almshouse
she stated that she killed herself on account
of the unfaithfulness Of her husband. He
testified, however, that there was not the
slightest occasion for her to have any such
impression. and it was brought out in evil
dence that for some weeks her mind had
shown signs Of disorder. The knife with
which she cut her throat was 80 dull that it
would hardly have been used by sane
person for any such purpose.