The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-26

clique OF vulgar Iammany politicians
whose demands have been constant and ex
cessive, and which could only have beer
complied with at the loss of ali self respect
Governor Cleveland is a proud man, anc
would not lower his dignity for his Office
The bulldozing of former years, when Gov
ernors went down on their knees before the
cry of party defeat, is past, and it now looks
as though there was a permanent division
in the camp. The immediate cause of the
quarrel was the nomination of Senator
Murther as Commissioner of Emigration
Tammany wanted the plum. In the hands
Of Tammany ''there's millions in it," Sen
ator Murther is supposed to be henchmar
of Boss Mclaughlin of Brooklyn, and Boss
Mclaughlin is the man who beat join
Kelly, at Syracuse, four years ago. Tha
beat left Hancock out of the White House
and put Garfield in and John Kelly does
not forget it. Whether the war will be tc
the knife and the knife to the hilt, time
alone will tell but we must have an extra
session, and if we do somebody must back
down. Tammany says it wont, and the
Governor says he can't; but we shall see
what we shall see.
The two great cities of New York and
Brooklyn breathe again, and am happy tC
report after the dynamite scare OF last
week, that our great bridge is safe. After
the New York Aldermen had sent in then
remonstrance to the Bridge Trustees, re-
questing that some other day be selected
for the opening of that mighty structure
than the 24th of May, some happy patriot
discovered that besides being the birthday
of Queen Victoria, it was also the birthday
of Judge Walsh Of the Police Court, and
furthermore that Judge Walsh was once
treasurer of the Land League. This straight
ened out matters at once; so we wish it dis
tinctly understood that whatever compli-
ment there is to any one about the opening,
is not to any foreign Dotentate or ruler; but
to Judge Walsh of the Police Court of
Brooklyn.
A new horror breaks upon US this week.
Not far from the Five Points, which for
seventy years has been the hot bed of crime,
right in the heart of the city, stands the
Catholic Church of the TRANSPORTATION.
The worshipers are mostly poor, and the
worthy priest who ministers there-Father
Barry-has little but meagre fare and
ceaseless toll to compensate him for his
labor. Crime and sin are on every side of
him, and the good Father, like Watchful
shepherd, has to exercise constant vigilance
to preserve the lambs of his flock. Within
the past two Or three years the Chinese have
congregated in the immediate vicinity Of
his church, and for year past he has been
forced to observe the horrid practices of
these Chinese wretches, till at last an asso-
citation has been formed in his church to
model priest: man of earnest piety and
courage; lie is the right man in the right
place. He asserts that these Chinese vii
lians make a regular business of prostitu-
ting little girls, and that hundreds have
been ruined by them in the past two years.
The victims are first tempted with opium,
and once under its influence all power of
IGSlSlttliSS StEiilS W Dt SJIC' LiiC HliolN
story is a chapter of sin that do not wish
to put in this weeks letter. The regela-
tons have sent thrill of horror through
out the community, and we now begin to
feel that California was right in resisting
their encroachments. They are g curse and
leprosy in any community, and the sooner
we get rid of them the better. God speed
Father Barry and the brave young men of
his congregation. hope they may succeed
in roofing the ai1nond-eyed villains from
the vicinity of their church, and of saving
from ruin the poor little street waits, who
might just as well have no souls for all that
is done for them by the Board of Foreign
Missions.
The speech of Roscoe Conkling at the
Saturday Night Club caused most pro-
found rafting among the political dry
bones The ex-senator is evidently not
dead nor even sleeping; but if any thing is
to be gathered from the gist of his speech,
it is that he will fly no gonfalon for the
next Republican nominee for the pres
idency.
The sale of the New York World was a
sort of mild surprise. Though the leading
/ Democratic organ of the metropolis of the
United States, for a number of years past
it has only been regarded as a second-c class
newspaper of small influence and indiffer-
ent circulation. Since it became public
that Jay Gould was part owner of the prop
erty it has sunk in public estimation, till it
becomes evident that an entire change of
front alone could save the wreck of what
was once one Of the most powerful journals
of New York. The purchase of the paper
by Mr.. Joseph Pulitzer of st. Louis, one of
the most successful newspaper men in the
West, will doubtless infuse into it new life,
of which it stands so much in need.
We have broken ground for the pedestal
of Bartholdis magnificent statue, and in a
couple of years we may expect to see Liberty
Enlightening the World from Bedloe's Is
land. This is the place to get enlighten-
ment. We have plenty and to spare, and
would Just as soon give little to the world
as not.
We had a small touch of hurricane here,
and don't like it.
Truly yours, BROADBRIM.
| A record of American earthquakes in
1882, prepared by Prof. G. G. lockwood,
Jr., includes seventy-two items, of which
thirteen are given as doubtful. The sew
enty-two earthquakes are classified geogra-
/ phically as follows: Canada, six; New Eng