The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-10-06
OUR eoosEQulLL LETTERS.


Local Fo1itics-Democratic Insanity-Ar-
rest of Connterfeiters-fmmi and
Smuggling--Ben Butler-Abuses In In
sane Asylttms and Hospitals, Etc.
PHILADELPHIA, September 22, 1888.
EDITOR CHIEF:
The local Republican conventions were
held this week and candidates were nomi-
mated: E. Harper Jeffries for City Comp
troller, Thomas Powers for Coroner, Geo.
s. Graham for District Attorney and VIII
liam e, Littleton for Clerk of Quarter Ses-
sions. The two latter were re-nominated
by acclamation, so good is their record,
but there was q good deal of excitement
over the nomination of the Comptroller
and Coroner. The nomination of JeHrles
for Comptroller gives great dissatistactlon
to the majority of his party and particular
ly to the Committee of One Hundred: sim
ply because he was nominated by the old
Riugsters, is called Rowan's candidate,
and it is believed, can not go into otnee
free and untrammeled. The Committee of
One Hundred claims that it organized for
the purpose of working reform and they
want no man i'll SO important an Office,
with hands tied, unable to lend personal
aid and give the help of his assistants in
the investigation of city officials. They say
that. they prefer to support MIR. Page, the
present incumbent, or TO put forward an
other man, and that to elect Mr.. Jeffries
would advance the ring power, which they
decline to do. Mr.. Jeffries has been trying
for Office for fifteen years-a chronic office
seeker-but, other tl,an that, nothing can
be said against him, and if the Committee
of One Hundred withdraws opposition he
will stand good chance of election tie
is we'll established merchant, has fine
business capacity, understands city affairs
and is honest There is no doubt but that
he would fill the Office creditably. Pity that
a man should ever allow himself to be the
candidate of q ring-every man who Goes
it deserves to be sacrificed. Mr.. Page, is
an old time Democrat and, it is said, was a
rebel. He is as staunch as they ever get to
be and if he is re-nominated, of which there
is no doubt, he will be difficult to defeat.
SO much for local politics. III the different
States the Democrats continue to exhibit
signs of insanity. In Ohio they are deliberate
ly putting the halter around their necks and
in October will dangle in the air while the
Republicans carry the banner OF victory.
Such good chances as they had. too. All
for want oflwisdom enough to avoid dissen-
sion and division. Even to an Indepen-
dent, like myself. it is positively sickening
mn.shi,.k mtt.h,.k of. In New Jersey they have nom
;e.aa TO ,..l Yye4a yer for Governor who is very
mated nfSt ~ ~ corA just as well have
doubtful, when thft5s, thfts las' ,lty. As it is, the
made the election a certa1. 80. if they
Republicans will have New Jersey i'o2' ' =, -
choose. s...-s s4,,,: -
It is said that Brazil is full @f counterfeit
money notes made. ins this dc,antry.. and
that the Government currency has 'depre-
ciated to one-half its face value. The de-
tectives III this city have been watching Il
certain house for some time-saw {. print
ing press 90 into it and concluded what
was going on-but, waited, thinking to give
the scamps time to get well on with their
work. They made the raid two nights ago
and captured two men, Tony Hale and J..
". Edmundson, with lot OF counterfeiting
material, such as bales of bank note paper,
a heavy, hand press, rollers, printing ink,
drying pins etc, but they were too soon for
the printed. notes. The plates were not yet
finished. Hale confessed that, just as soon
as the plates were finished. they intended
printing S1,O00, 900 worth of notes. These
arrests nre considered the most important
that have been made among the counter
felter5 for years, because these men are
supposed to belong to q gang of counter
feiters in New York who for two years have
been engaged in the neiarious work of
printing Brazil notes by the barrel full.
Hale is notorious chafacter-has served
two Or three terms in prison and escaped
q number of times when he should have
served. He was concerned i'll the Christ
man whisky case in New York. He was at
L1it.L liD1c uSSOCititGu Wltu t"c ctiiCl IiSll
q commission house. A whisky dealer in
the South sent $3.50 worth of whisky to
the firm to be sold on commission and was
cheated out of every cent. The firm was
arrested. Hale procured bail and to es-
cape trial wont off with Edmundson to
Brazi! in the employ of the Collins expadi-
ton. Dishonest, crazy and trifling by
nature, the two soon gave up their position
rs engineers and returning to this country
began working their way to the peniten-
tiary.
Tho steamship Indiana, OF the American
Line, came in on Monday with about three
hundred immigrants aboard. Among the lot
were two Jewa who attracted thekeen, well
practised eyesof the Custom-House Inapec-
tors and were recorded at once as suspi-
cious. They were III q great harry to have
their luggage examined. Every body is sick
of a ship even after the shortest and most
pleasant voyage and restless under deten-
ton, so, to an ordinary locker on, that sort
of impatience was nothing remarkable.
the Inspectors discerned more, what other
mortai5 could not understand no.
ticed an undue NERVOUSNESS, and uneasi-
ness in the men and concluding their lug
gage was pretty safe, took their time: pos
sibly, too, to watch the effect. Finally the
would be poverty stricken seekers OF q new
home, were honored by an invitation to u
seat in private room. Their trunks
were opened, garment after garment taken
out and examined very carefully-boxes
opened, but nothing wrong. Perhaps the