The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-02-14
Our BrOadbrinl Letters.

The Wolf in the Shepherds Fold Sick
ening Revelations Of Rev. Oowley's
Brutalities The Criminal Calendar
Talmadgss New Crusade Bishops
Palace, etc.
NEW YoRK, February I, 1880.
EDITOR CHIEF:
Rejecting on the subject Of this
weeks letter, could not help think
ing what stupid world this would
be if it were not for the sinners in it.
Where would fellow look for an
item worth reading if all the people
in the world were saints no mur-
ders, no robberies, no elopements, no
defalcations, in short, no nothing that
would induce an ordinary subscriber
to renew his subscription even at half
price. While violent assault, or an
ordinary highway robbery, may be
regarded by the respectable journalist
rs streak of good luck: any thing
like frightful murder, or a horrible
steamboat explosion, or terrific rail-
road disaster, is a bonanza, for which
they can never be sufficiently thank
full. No minister, or deacon, or SUR
day school superintendent ever fur
nished an interesting item for news
paper while in his normal condition
Of grace. 1t was not till he had tum-
bled down among the sinners that he
became valuable to the newspaper
men, and the greater his moral defal-
cation, the more he commended him
self to journalistic consideration.
| All the week the papers have been
booming with the revelations of the
Shepherds Fold, Of w6ch l spoke
last week. While Mr.. Cowley was
supposed to be saint, nobody thought
4 of Mr.. Cowley, but now it is discov-
cred that Mr.. Cowley is the very re-
verse of saint, he gets an amount Of
free advertising which he certainly
never expected, and for which he has
no reason to be specially thankful.
Few scenes were ever more dra-
matte than that enacted on Monday
in the Police Court. The miserable
little waits, who had been secluded
for a week, under the protection of
the Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Children, were produced,
according to the order of the Judge.
Cowley was OH hand, looking nervous
and hypocritical, the hard lines Of his
face, and his cruel mouth, giving the
lie to the black coat and the white
cravat, which were the tlinnest of all
thin disguises for the moral rottenness
and the savagery within. A little
girl was put upon the stand, who all
of her life, as far as She remembered,
had been in the power of this human
fend. From her earliest infancy, she
could recall nothing but cruelty and
abuse, days came and went, and with
them months and years, and in all
that bitter time, this wretched little
slave could remember no act of gen.
J tleness OF love. One would have
thought that the utter helplessuesa
: and misery of this poor, deserted or
phan, would have touched heart OF
stone, but the heart Of the Rev. Mr..
Cowley was great deal harder than
stone; in fact, the substance has never
yet been discovered in nature quite
SO hard as Mr.. Cowley's heart. On
the witness stand there stood the girl,
said to be fourteen years of age; she
might only have been seven, or she
might have been twenty; the face
was not uncomely, but oh how hard
) aud cold. Long years Of brutality
and unkindness had obliterated from
her countenance every gentle and
childish lineament, and she told l,el
tale of woe and suffering in tone
that melted the hard hearts Of the
stern Court officers, and brought tear!
to the eyes Of the Judge upon th'
), bench. The only point of discrepancy
in her evidence was where she testi
fed that the good and benevolent Mr.
Cowly always said grace before meat
$ but it appears ON investigation, tlIa
there was no meat to say grace for
/ that was for the poor orphans, thougl
one testified that they had meat twic
,, a year, and for the other ;363 day
they literally starved to death. Thel
the poor little wretch told of beating
: and maimings and kickings and starv
= ings, till the hearts of all presen
n grew sick at the recital, and the cas-
o had to he adjourned. 1t is strang
. that society owes the organization Q
the association that came to the rescu
e of these poor children, to the Societ.
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
: mails. On Monday night, the fift
n anniversary Of the organization of tb
d Society was celebrated, and durin