The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-06-02

| and that sealed Dickerman's fate. The sue
cessful candidate, Mr.. Hatch, is well known
| in financial circles as member of the firm
| of Fisk & Hatch, which negotiated the grea
body of the Central Pacific bonds. Mr.
Diekerman, although the regular nominee
was beatenth three to one, and we begin tc
realize now that some good may possibly
come out of Nazareth after all.
New York reioices in an individual by the
name of jenkins, not the gentlemen, how.
ever, who figures frequently as feuilletonist
of fashionable life, but one of the chief
officers of the Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Children. This Jenkins is pc
culiar Jenkins. He appears to think that
the only children who stand in need of the
socisty's care are the little byciclists en-
ploysd by Barnun, or little waits like the
child actress, who board at the best hotels
and ride instheir own coaches. Children,
guarded by their parents, who could earn
forty or fifty dollars week by the exercise
of their peculiar talent, have frequently ex-
cited the deepest commiseration in the
heart of Jenkins; but when he is infomed
that hundreds of little girls have been ruined
by Chinese debauchees, the only sympathy
that Mr.. Jenkins expresses is, that he
guessed that the girls are about as bad as
the Cinnamon; SO he called off his forces
and left the little waits to their fate. Mr..
jenkins appears to be one of those hollow
shams whose hearts are wrung with pity at
the be1ighted condition of the tribes on the
banks Of the Congo, Or in Central Africa,
and who see the wretched and dying of their
own race, perishing upon their own door,
steps, aad never stretch out hand to save
them. The Chinese revelation has been a
horrible one. It has carried shame and dis
may into hundreds of families. Little girls,
ten, twelve and thirteen years of age, who
were supposed by their parents to be work
ing in facbries, in different parts of the
city, have spent their time through the day
In these Chinese dens, and at evening re-
turned to their homes as usual, receiving
from the keepers Of these dens every Satur-
day nightlthe exact sum that they would
have receied if they had been at work. One
little girl, oily fourteen years old, had led
nearly fiftsosher girls astray. Mr.. Jenkins
could see aothing in this to call for his
special effot, though hundreds of dollars
were spent 10 get the child-actress from her
mother, th'ugh she had every luxury and
every care tat could possibly be bestowed
upon chila Barnum may be good deal
of humbg. but there is no one who knows
him that void believe for an instant, that
he would fas any amount of gain allow
child to be bused in his service. He would
not allow th1abuse Of the humblest animal,
much less alluman being and jenkins was
one of tho Individuals who lately appeared
against 3akszn znss-s-sssEe+ have had quite
enough of such Chadbands, and if the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chill
dren can find 10 better conservators than
Jenkins, the soHer it disbands the better.
Jay Gould gG back last week, and the
boys who were ong on stocks were jubilant,
for they though he was going to bull the
market; but tie little man left it severely
alone, so the snail boyines came to grief.
All the big fishare unloading, and in stock
circles there isa sense Of impending disas-
ter. One pro1ounced Bear was heard to
say the other lay, that money would be
fifty per cent. lefore the summer is over
Cries of sho,t crop have sent thrill of
disnay to theIrophets of the new Produce
Exchange, aid the wise ones say, before the
autumnal equinox corn will be dollar and
half busht. Happy the holder of corn
in those days for he shall wax fat.
It appears o be the settled policy of most
of our great fnanciers to turn whatever
there is avaihtle into cash. It is not at all
improbable tl,t before the summer is past,
we shall haVel financial panic tike that of
ten years ago Double reef your topsails,
and get goo ofing in deep water.
The exciterent is on the increase about
the opening + our new bridge, and the de-
nunciations d the Dynamite Club found
vent in medng last Sunday, when few
blatherskites invited hundred thousand
working memo be present and greet with
Kisses the opning Of the grandest work of
the century. at the suggestion that dyna-
mite might n5sibly be used, there was loud
applause, an the meeting adjourned with
threatenings Of vengeance, because the
bridge was to1e opened on Queen Victoria's
birthday. So1e Brooklyn aldermen wanted
the figure of ae lion taken from the bridge,
but finally Vted five thousand dollars for
fireworks. /
Our new ohra house gets on apace, and
the next seasd will no doubt be one Of the
most memorable that New York has ever
seen. Mr.. A5bey is comparatively new in
the managehl field, OF at least the operate
portion of it, His theatrical ventures have
beyond whicino man can go. He is now
pitted on lf and death stake against one
Of the most 9perienced managers in the
world, and Vile there is little doubt that
he has goodfnanciai backing in his new
venture asiderom his own private fortune,
which is comfortable, the close Of the sea-
son will put Is bank balances to test they
have never h5 to bear before In point of
mighty expent this new undertaking dwarfs
everything tt has ever been undertaken
on the Ametan Continent OF elsewhere,
and I shall witch its development with in
terest.
The cool wather has prolonged the theat-
rical season this city, the theatres being
about as full they were three months ago.
can tell W nothing new about the Sui
Ivan -Mitcheleontest. The papers have all
been SO full its disgusting details that I
have not a lie to add. It is useless to as
sert that it ws.a congregation of gamblers
and thieves. It is true that every gambler
and thief in own who could raise dollar
was there; nt there were lawyers and
judges and st$esmen there too-men whose
social standig is equal to any in the land.
They took thsame interest i'll the contest
that Harry III or John Fox did. When
man receiIell blow that GaIiId have falleli