The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-05-24

of the 9Th ward, and if anybody disputed
it, he was Immediately knocked out.
Neither the poiice nor the magistrates
questioned Mr.. Irving's right to knock
anybody out till he tackled the keeper of q
whiskey saloon, named Tim Darling, who
had formerly been Negro minstrel, and
tried to kill him. If it had been a minis
ter, or a mechanic or merchant, he
might have escaped with reprimand. but
Mr.. Darling was the keeper Of saloon
where the police got free drinks, and prob
ably paid q handsome toll to some of our
distinguished commissioners; besides, he
controlled large vote in his ward, and
such man must be protected. Mr.. Irving
was arrested, tried and convicted. He
fought the case from court to court for
nearly three years, but his last appeal was
exhausted this week. He was surrendered
by his bondsmen, carried over on Monday
to Blackwell's Island, cropped like any
common felon, and will have to serve his
two years and half.
which has been occupying the attention of
the courts for over month.fsr n dissolnte
lawyer by the name of W. R. Hinsdale
abandoned beautiful wife and lovely
young daughter for woman by the name
of CARL. His infatuation became SO COM
plete that he abandoned his family to live
with her. When his brother found out
what he had done, he went to him and
begged and implored him not to disgrace
himself, his wife and daughter. Then the
infamous scoundrel turned around and
accused his own brother of criminal con-
nection with his wife. His brother, who
was an honest, generous gentleman, re-
solved to protect his sister-in-law and her
daughter. Mrs. Hinsdale sued for di-
vorce. Mr.. Hinsdale entered cross suit,
making his brothers g correspondent in the
case, and boy named Willie CARL, the son
of the woman for whom he had abandoned
his wife. Lies were piled on lies, and per-
juries on perjuries, but all would not do.
The villains infamy was SO apparent that
the jury Immediately returned verdict,
finding him guilty OF all the crimes alleged
and completely generating Mrs. Hinsdale
from every charge. When the verdict was
announced, the whole audience rose to
their feet, flung up their hats and cheered,
and it was some minutes before order could
be restored. General Tracy, the counsel
for defense, who besides being first class
lawyer aud gallant soldier, is one of the
handsomest men at the Kings County bar,
in the excitment of the moment, caught
Hinsdals's young and beautiful daughter
in his arms and gave her kiss that sounded
like the report of Parrott gun. Every
body said it was just the right thing to do,
and half of our young lawyers are butting
their heads against the wall to think that
they were not associate counsel in the case,
The storm which has been threatening all
the week gathered to hurricane, and the
financial crash of Wednesday will be re-
memberei as black letter day in the his
tory of Wall street. It is i'll vain that the
faithful heralds of the press have proclaimed
from week to week the utter worthlessness
and rottenness of the stocks ON which great
financial regulations were bolstered up. The
gulis would rush in and buy at whatever
price the thieves saw fit to set, and the re-
suit has at last become manifest in vide
spread and universal ruin and disaster
Men, after working for long and honest
life, depriving themselves of every comfort
and denying themselves almost the ordinary
necessaries of life, have saved few hun
dred or few thousand dollars, aud tempted
by this devil have ventured all and lost.
They have toiled and suffered, that the
Keenes, and the Goulds, and the Seneys,
and the Fishs, aud the Wards, can live in
fine houses, keep fast horses, sail magnif-
cent yachts, and amaze the world by their
rascality and impudence. Lots of wretched
women went down in the blind pool-for
Wall street is blind pool. When you go
in there you go it blind. Many of the
women were school teachers, to whom some
kind friend had given confidential point
on stocks, and in the wild and fierce COM
motion of Wednesdays fight it was pitiable
to see them ring their hands and cry, as
they watched the tape to see the last hope
swept ruthlessly away. Old men were
there who had been lured into the fatal
whirlpool, as foolish flies are lured into the
fame. 1t was wild scene as the living
mass of excited men and women struggled
ferent banks, brokers' Offices and exchanges,
where their little all was deposited.
Neither age, nor station, nor sex received
the slightest consideration. Men fought
with women, and women with men, and the
weakest always had to give way. In such
a crowd all the baser characteristics of men
and women come out, and we saw enough
and more than enough of it on Wednesday.
We have prohibited the lottery; We have
placed the seal of public condemnation on
the faro table; we have made gaming for
money at poker penitentiary offense; but
we welcome to our hearthstones the robbers
of Wall street. We entrust them with our
money. We herald their villainous sue
cesses, and condole with them when the
devil catches them by the heels. The most
gigantic gambling that the world has ever
seen is carried on in the New York Stock
Exchange. 1taeosts forty thousand dollars
to-day to be admitted to the companionship
of this band of pirates. They have secured
their plunder so that you can't attach it or
reach it by any process known to the law,
though they secure themselves by holding
perfect control of it from the inside. There
is no member of the board but can be
kickad into the street nannileas hu their