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No UndOing.

A little girl sat trying to pick
out q seam that she had sewed to-
gether wrong. Her chubby fin
gers picked ut the thread that
would break, leaving the end hid
den somewhere among the stitches
that she had labored so YEARLY TO
make short and close; and though
the thread came ont, yet the needle
holes remained, showing inst how
the seam had been sewed; and,
with tears in her eyes, she cried :
80. mamma, | cannot undo it
Poor little girl she was learning
one of the saddest lessons there
is. The desire of undoing what
can never be undone gives us more
trouble than all the doings of a
busy life; and, because we know
this so well, orr hearts often ache
for the boys and girls we see doing
the things they will wish so earn
estly by and by to undo.
Is there any of you old enough
to read this who never laid your
bead on your pillow at night with
a weary ache all through you, as
you could not shut ont the unkind
words you have spoken to father.
mother, brother or sister? Older
boys and girls have felt keener
eart-aches for graver faults, and
you all know something of this
desire to to undo, aud sorrow that
you cannot.
Iii q very sad picture: and now
where is the bright side? Right
here, little boys and girls. big boys
and girls. Let us try TO do things
the first time so we will never wish
to undo them We don't care to
undo the words of kindness that
we spoke TO our classmate when
they failed in spelling, or cried be-
cause they could not remember
how many seven times eight were
nor would we take back the apple
we gave poor beggar boy, nor
unsaw the wood We sawed DR. our
mother this morning, though our
arn.i may have ached all day, for
it was nice kind of ache that we
enjoyed. - Si@ sit
No; we never wish to undo any
thing that is done right. Then
how much better it is, and how
much trouble we save ourselves. il
We do thing right at first Some
times we don't know what is right;
but we can always ask. If the lit
tie girl had asked her mother
about the seam she was sewing
and done it as she was told, she
would have saved the trouble OF
picking it out. We can ask our
friends; and, above all, we can ask
our heavenly Father. He never
leads Us wrong; and anything we
do under his guidance we shall
never wish to undo-The Myrtle.
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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-16
Town Of Donaldsonville.
Abandon the Old Way.
Franklin Enterprise.l

The people of Louisiana have be-
come, by long experience and practice,
so welded to agriculture that they
seem to believe that no other enter
Prise or business will prosper but that
appertaining to the culture of the
soil; thrift and riches can alone be
dug out of the grouDd-that the risk
is too great, the venture too hazard :
Ons, to establish other kinds of bust
ness-it may vary the monotony =
and thus they go on in the old way.
digging and plodding, and delving,
producing that which enricles other
markets and other people, and which
leaves them poor, still going around
in the same old circle of Flooding,
ttie the horse in the tread mill, and
the country keeps pace with them. 1t
is this ruinous, old-fogy idea that
oauses rs to produce inferior sugar,
which must be sold at half its cost to
90 into the hands of the refiner who
tattens and prospers on our labor by
reason of the high rariff on the finer
article he produces from the result of
our toll with only nominal addition
nj cost. 1t is high time, now that e.
nancial ruin has well nigh reached our
doors in only one years reverses, for
oar dormant energies to be aroused,
and they must be aroused. We must
pull ont of the old rut and take new
departure towards prosperity. Why
should not we have the benefit of the
rich tariff on the finer article7 The
government seems determined to pro-
tect bUuntifully the reiner. Then,
we say, let the planter produce sugars
not for Northern manufactures, but
for home manufactures. Let Central
Refineries go up in every community
in the sugar sections of the State,
where the common article can be re-
fined at small cost, and the planter
get the benefit of the high tariff, and
the money which he gets viii then
remain here to enrich his own home
and country, and not that of strang-
ers. The two branches of business
should be run together here, where
they can be so easily joined, as far as
the production of sugar is concerned.
Then the planter would he indepen-
dent of those who speculate on his
industry, and those who are not plant
ers wnuitl with the planter feel the
beneficial result of the wise undertake
ing.
A jeiut stock company is being
formed now for the purpose of erect
ing refinery in the vicinity of Frank
lin. We bid it God speed, and we
sincerely hope that other sections of
the parish and State will follow in its
lead.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-16

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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-16
A Gentle Hint.

In ourstyle of climate, with its sud-
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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-16
The DardanelleS.

This strait, anciently known as the
Hellespont, has taken its present
name from the four forts built at Its
entrance in the seventeenth century
two by Mahomet Ii and two by Maho-
met ". These were constructed to
prevent the approach of war ships to
Constantinople. Put in good condl-
ton and armed with the artillery OF
these days, they would trouble the
passage of any fleet, though they
have been repeatedly passed, and
might therefore make the pretense of
the Porte To close the strait rather
more than a diplomatic curiosity.
This pretense has been formally re-
cognized by treaties in 1909, III lo4l,
in 1856 and in 1871. In 1871 the Con
ference of London, called in conse-
quence of Russia's republication, IN
1870, of certain clauses of the Treaty
of Paris, decreed the continuation OF
this restriction as declared i'll the
Treaty of Paris, but conceded the
Sultan's authority to permit the pas
sage of the ships of friendly Powers
in time of peace. This concession of
the Sultan's authority" in his own
dominions indicates that the closure
of the Dardanelles had in course of
time become of greater interest to an
other Power than to Turkey, and it
wassthe consent of that Power-Eng-
land-that was thus given to the Pad
ishah. In the circular of 1868, in re-
gard to the passage of the Wabash,
the Sultan claimed to exercise this
restriction as territorial right. Ii
was in that sense that the Treaty of
Paris affirmed heright, as an ancient
one but that treaty even deprived
the Sultan of the right of consent in
regard to it. There are, therefore,
some rational and legal entangle-
ments that are rather queer. The
DaIdanelles are within the Sultan's
territory; but they are closed, not by
his will, but by the will of remote
naval Power, and yet that Power
does not exercise authority there as
it might by mere force on the high
seas, but constitutes the sovereign
Sultan the executive of its will and
though it is not ready to fight for the
maintenance of this right it calls out
on Europe to maintain it and not let
victorious Russia encroach therein,
because this would be a violation Of
the privileges of the poor old Sultan.
N V Herald
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DunaIosonblllc Gbief.
Two Dollars Year.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
Fourth Judicial District.

comprising the parishes of Ascension, st.
James, st. J ohm the Baptist and st. Charles
District Judge, Henry L. Duftel.
District Attorney, ----e---F- 3. Earhart.
Regular terms of Court in Ascension open
on the third Mondays of June and Deem
he
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-16
The Dreaded CONSUMPTION

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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-16
SeYonth Senatorial District.

Comprising the parishes of Ascension and
St. James.
State Senator, Pierre Landry.
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[To BE CONTINUED

II any one wants to see the immense
difference between State with rail-
roads, like Texas, aud a State with
none worth mentioning, like Louisi-
ana, let him compare the Texas coun-
try newspapers with those of our
State. The former are crowded with
advertisements of stores, mills, ma
chine shops, and all kinds of business
enterprises, aud with editorial notices
OF the rapid progress Texas is making
ali ever lfs immense domain, in edu,
eatIan, manufactures, mining, agri-
culture, and every thing else which
tends to make an enlightened and
prosperous population. Do you see
il Lake Charles Echo.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-16
DOnaldsOnviIle College,
Established 1872.
Rev. DR.. Sophar. Principal,

Cor. Railroad Avense and AHakapas Street,
All the branches of a finished education,
in both modern and ancient languages are
taught according to the most liberal and
solid methods. The facilities, character and
standing of this institute are sufficiently
known, and the patronage of its old friends
and of the public generally is respectfully
solicited.
The College, for both sexes and selfun-
derstood non sectarian, comprises Academic,
intermediate and Primary Departments.
There are day and evening sessions.
For terms of tuition or board apply as
above. o20
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-16
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Sale OF Ferries.

DUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that
Il shall proceed to sell to the highest
bidders, at the Court House in the town Of
Donaldsorville, on
Wednesday, February go, 1873,
at | o'clock A. NJ, the lease of ali the fel.
ries established by Law and subject to the
control OF the Police Jury of Ascension nan.
ish for the year 1873.
Terms of lease, in accordance with exist
ing ordinances and regulations, to be IA
nouneed on day of sale.
r. T. HANSON.
President Police jury of Ascension parish.
Donaldsonville, La, Jan. 10. 1873.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-16
Sugar Planters Contracts.
Louisiana sugar-Bowl.l


Mr.. james NJ. Putnam of New Or
}eans, who is one of our most practical
sugar merchants, made proposition
at the January meeting of the Sugar
Planters Association which deserves
mnch attention. He proposed that
labor contracts an sugar plantations
should begin and end on March in
stead OF January /, as now. He
gave us a reason for the proposed
change that planters are now conn
PEELED to hurry their sugar off to mar.
ket before properly drained, or when
the market was low, to raise funds TO
meet their allegations whereas. if
March ! WIS the end of the planting
year, planters would be able to over
come that great disadvantage, and to
plaut their cane with the old hands
before they become demolalized by
the payment of back wages. The
greatest drawback to the sugar piint-
,ers is in the delay attending II re.or-
ganization of his Iabarers, aud much
valuable time is Inst, when he stagld
he plnwing and planting. because la
borers are t;lrdy in making con-
TRACTS. II they had na money to
spent, they would lose not more than
the halliday week. and even if shey
lrefe disposed to loiter after that time.
l,lapters would be masters of the sit
aatinn. on account af back pay in
heir hands. Then, too, there is 40
.ime in tho year when plantation
work could better bear Stacking than |
II March, as it is between the plant I
ng and cnltivating season fot eane.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-16

Ex-Governor Young of Ohio and
Governor General Dufferin of Canada
met recently at reception in the
White House. The ex Governor was
born on the estates of Earl Dufferin's
father, in the North of Ireland. The
two gentlemen, who were boys to-
gether, passed a pleasant hour in Ie-
calling "reminiscences of their youth
full DAYS.
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N-AQ~@

y great deal of ebloqur has long
been attached in France to Gen. john
G. Fre'nont, for alleged crookcdness
IN the sale there Of bonds of the old
Memphis, Ell Paso and Pacific rail
road. 4 final trial in Paris, recently,
resulted in General Fremont's exoner-
ration from all blame or responsibility
III the nIttter.-Et.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-16

A large number of laborers are al
most daily passing through this city,
on their way to the river plantations.
The bulldozers in the lower part OF
the State have created what will prove
an aching void during the coming
season, numbers of the negroes from
that section having already been en-
gagged by Yazoo aud Sun flower river
planters icEbArq Herald.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-16

POLICEJURORs.--R.T. Hanson, President;
Henry Heyman, Hillery Rice, P. A. Alleman,
Arthur Burnett. Joseph Ferrier, Joseph l..
Brent, William King. Henry Mccall and
Bernard LeInapa.
BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECToRs.-Dr. E. R..
Council, President; E. N. Pugh. Secretary;
+. Vicknair, Treasurer II. ID. Minor, &. ID.
Biouin, Augustus Knight, B. Claverie, Louis
LefOrt, j. G. Warner and solomon Barmon.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-16
Parish of Ascension.

representative, . Frederick Fob5.
--.... Gloster II. Hill,
Parish Judge. --.---.-- Henry q. Maher
Parish Attorney. Frederick Duffel
Clerk of the Court, .------L L. Bentley.
Recorder. ..--W. w. Butord,
Secretary and Treasurer, +. Nicknair.
Assessor Felix Braud,
Tax Collector r. T. Landry.
Sheriff. ..P Peter A. Jones,
Coroner, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS J. Sullivan, Jr
Jail Physician. w NJ MeGalliard
Official Journal. Don vile CHIEF