The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-07-17

collided, aud no one was killed tut q
little boy, a cOlOred lnsfl,er, aud a
Newfoundland dog. The whole con-
gregatioD of Plymouth Church, Mr.
Beeci.er included, we're on board the
Grand Republic only fifteen minutes
before the collision, SD that l am not
able this week to indulge in, an obit-
nary notice of the great Plymouth
pastor.
New York is jubilant over the Gin.
cinnati nominations, and John Kelly
swears by Tammapy's buried hatchet,
that in the ides of November, Gen.
Garfield will have a hard road to
travel.
The weather is hot, and getting
hotter. Yours truly.
The Intense Heat and its Fatal Effects
Another River Disaster The Tide Of
Immigration, Etc.
New Work, July 10, $780,
EDITOR CHIEF:
The intense heat Of the week just
closed has affected unfavorably all
kinds of business, except that Of the
adjacent watering places, illustrating
most beautifully that excellent an
eient axiom, "wol's wun mans mea.
is another mans pizen." The fright
full caloric increase, which has served
to make millions miserable, has been
perfect god-send to the Bonifaces
of Long Branch, Coney Island and
Rockaway. 1t has been very hot,
awfully hot, terribly hot; and if you
doubt it, just look at the list Of
deaths in ans Of the great New York
dailies. On Tuesday the deaths by
heat alone filed nearly . column; for,
unfortunately, it is not every enc
who can run off to a watering place
when the thermometer strikes 95 in
the shade. To a stranger the exodus
would be alarming; from morning
till night express wagons, loaded
three stories high with trunks ard
hand boxes, go tearing through the
streets, while railroad trains and
steamboats, are taxed to their utmost
capacity to accommodate the flying
islanders-it looks as if the city was
being depopulated.
Calamity and disaster has been
the !:istery of the week, and, as
usual, marked by the aoblest bravery
and the basest cowardice. The devil
seems to have been on rampage
among the steamboatmen, and, all
his OVID way. The burning of the
steamboat Seawanhaka was especial
ly terrible, because it occurred right
at our own doors, and it was within
the corporate limits of New York
that she was beached, and the fire
began while she lay between the
cities of New York and Brooklyn. 1t
was more particularly sad, from the
number Of well-knoRn people who
we're OIL board, who, if they had had
a director or guide, might have
been saved. The bravery of the
Captain meets universal and unquali-
fed appreciation, while the supreme
selfishness Of others is reprobated on
every hand. They, having secured
their own safety, do not appear to
have troubled themselves about the
women and children who were per-
! isLing around them. A fishing
; smack was passing Wards Island at
the time Of the fire, and she was
hailed by couple Of resident physi-
clans, who were anxious to reach the
burning boat. The miserable wretcl,
, replied with curses, and kept on his
way. 1t seems almost impossible to
believe such inl,omanity; but, alas, it
is too true. No punishment is equal
to such a crime as this, and hope
that the screams of those dying
women aud perisling children may
haunt him to his dying day.
The narrow escape Of Mr.. Beecher
! and the Plymouth congregation last
week, found its parallel this week in
| the escape of the Rev. H. NJ. Gala
her and the congregation of the Han
son Place Baptist Church, 700 in
number, who we're nearly sent to
eternity by a collision with a passing
barge.
Tie cry is It'll they come. June
foets up about $4,000 enigrants
added to our population from abroad,
| making, witt, May, not far from s5,-
600. The streets swarm with them.
Ti,ongl, hardy looking men and wo-
men, who appear as If they were not
| afraid to work. Many Of them move
!, from Castle Garden to the various
cheap boarding houses in the vicinity.
i 1t is hopeful for future thrift and
economy to see q man and his wife
] take up huge trunk and march of
with it, followed by half a score of
carts, altering to do the job for TWEEN
ty-five cents. Sometimes they will