The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-03-10

| Speakers chair since the Florida de-
cision has probably cost the country
many millions of dollars, saying moth
ing of other deleterious effects. The
count should, and likely would, have
been completed at the end of last
week. 1t is interesting to note that a
large number of those engaged in the
conspiracy are from Republican dis
tricts il the North and West, who
were lifted into their present positions
and given this opportunity for mis-
| chief by the so called tidal wave y
of 1874. At the last fall elections
they were repudiated and Republicans
elected to replace them. Hence, un-
less they could succeed in forcing Til
den into the White House they must
retire at the end of this session to
the obscurity from which they
emerged two years ago by one of those
unaccOuntable freaks occasionally OBJ
served as among the exceptional phe-
nomena of our free political system of
government. Their only hope to re-
tain an accidental prominence was
through a national Democratic ad-
ministration. They staked heavily
and have lost. Those Southern men
nominally Democrats-who have
steadily resisted the pressure to be-
come recreant to their pledged word,
and to disregard the demands Of their
manhood, are worthy of and viii re-
ceive the most generous treatment.
Many Democratic papers reaching
this city express their opinions of Mr..
Tilden and his canvass with a charm
ing fsaukness and without much re-
gard to the sensibilities of their late
candidate. They generally agree that
another such load would undoubtedly
crush Democracy and their protest
against any further dictation from
Tammauy Hall, which has led them
to four successive defeats within the
past twelve years, is uniformly bitter
aud not unmixed with self reproaches
for their childlike credulity.
Nest of the appropriation bills are
before conference committees, and
their chances of getting through be-
fore Saturday evening are growing
beautifully less as day after day goes
by without material progress. Should
these bills fail it would of course ne
cessitate AN extra session. 1t is
thought the bill recently introduced
by Senator Sherman IN the interest of
an early resumption of specie pay
ments, may be reached, but l find . no
one very sanguine of its passage. A
large amount of miscellaneous mat
tsr las been disposed of, and the re-
manning hours will be iudustriously
devoted to getting through with the
most important business.
With the retirement of President
Grant, brother-in law Casey will be
NO longer available to Donn Piatt, who
has served him up hot in about every
other issue of his paper, the Capital,
for the past eight years, until his
readers have become nauseated with
the continual reiteration. But the Ie-
former Eph. Holland, foreseeing the
contingency, provides himself with
brother law Banning, who, rs ap-
pears from Hollands testimony, was
/" counted in" ON the fraudulent votes
east by witness aud his Democratic
pals, who received therefor 81 per
vote. But Donn, strangely enough to
those who know his repugranee to any
thing like tampering with the ballot
of free people, has refused mp to
date to avail himself of Ephraim's
thoughtfulBess.
Preparations for the Inauguration
are going actively forward, notwith
standing Piatt's threatened interfer
ence; and the planetary orbs that
have revclved about the Presidents
wife as the solar centre Of Society,"
as well as the remote sidereal bodies,
are each and all prepared 10 transfer
their allegiance TO Mrs. Hayes and the
ladies of the new Cabinet.
SENTINEL.