The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-06-24

close.
The parade exceeded anything of the
kind seen here for years, and everything
conspired to make it a celebration to be
long remembered.
Strolling through Greenwood Cemetery
while the soldiers were decorating the
graves, came to stately monument on
| which was Inscribed the name OF William
NJ. Tweed. Groups Of young men and
| maidons, loaded with the sweetest gifts
of spring, passed by, but no one cast a
flower on the grave of himsvho ten years
ago ruled, New York with power as
| absolute as that of the Gear Of Russia.
The lot in which he rests is in the
handsomest part of Green wood, and the
monument over his remains splendid and
costly. A modest regard for his memory
might have induced his family to give
him less imposing monument. Not tar
from Twecd's grave is the monument Of
Horace Greeley. While they were living
they were bitter foes, but after life's
fitful fever they sleep WE'LL" Horace
Greeley was not forgotten. Loving
hands spread flowers around his tomb,
and even the graves Of the Confederate
dead, and there are many in Greenwood,
were covered with the sweetest flowers.
The Blue and the Gray lie very near
together, bat I'LL we're remembered, and
it may crafty some Southern mother to
know that hands as loving and as tender
as her own strewed flowers over her
darling's grave, though he died stranger
in strange land. But while thousands
were celebrating the great mourning
holiday of the year, our German friends
subdued their grief with mountains of
pletzels and schwietzer kase and oceans
o. lager. Every available foot of ground
in the shape Of lager beer garden for
twenty miles around the city was filled
with jolly Deutschers, and how they did
enjoy themselves! 1t is III established
fact that IL German will get more enjoy
ment ont of y dollar than al American
will get out of ten-with this remarkable
difference, that the American, after
spending his ten dollars, will come home
drunk-that is, if he has had any kind Of
good time, while the German, having
taken his wife and his fourteen children
along with him, come homo sober. Tho
has been Hoboken. 1t would be III
possible to give an account of the enter
tainments afforded, but there is one
noticeable fact in connection with their
immense gatherings, and that is, that
though not less than fifty Or stssy
thousand people took part iVD1 heir late
festival, there was saatSSa disturbance
among them tlk1sc wonld call for i. fifty
esnfeShne in the police court, and ii
there was unplcasantness Of any kind it
was Invariably kicked up by the repre-
sentatives of some other nationality who
had hoisted :. lot of bad whiskey aboard
before they started for Hoboken.
While the procession Of Tuesday was
passing Madison Square, while drums
We're beating, colors were flying and the
air was rent with tho shouts of tllou-
sands, not hundred feet from The stand |
On which was the President of the United
States, General Grant and the principal
of the Cabinet, sat George
Francis Train gazing listlessly up at the
trees, watching the sparrows and talking
to the children just as undisturbed as if
there was not a creature within a thou
sand miles of him. Multitndes passed
by; hundreds gazed on the sunbrowned
man, wondering no doubt who he was,
but he needed them not, and yet l
the time; and that is not many
gears ago, when l heard thousands of
people entertained By his cloquence, and
it seemed probable that the highest
office in the gift of the people might he
within his reach. But there was screw
loose somewhere; with a splendid ply
siqne, aud an intellectual DEVELOPMENT
to but few men, he has
Irifted into hopeless ruin and wreck.
The week has been phenomenal in the
month Of this phenomenal
year. Almost one hundred Thousand
for the month of May; six
thousand down on us on the last day of
The month. Decoration Day brought in
nearly HOO Mormons, and a scalier. more
ignorant, nninviting lot it is impossible
to conceive. Now we are about getting
rid of the Cinnamon on account Of his
to cheap labor, we had better
keep an eye on the noble Roman; 175
slaves from Italy were shipped here last
week whose labor was mortgaeed for
three years ut twenty cents per day.
The pa,rone who shipped them had paid
SIS for their steerage passage, and re-
:eivcd nearly three hundred dollars in
return. We have many undesirable
bne We have nothing more
lebascd or brutal than. the Italian.
Welcome all tAa Tartar hordes from the
langtze kiang to the borders of the
great desert; welcome to the African,
The Australian, the FUiun or any other
savage, but deliver us from the noble
The week has been q holiday on the
stock market, where at present it is dog
aat dog. -, I, - -.
The weather has been mixed, streak
'f fat and a streak of lean, but the streak
IF lean was the thickest.