The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-03-21


bury watches, leaving their own valuable
tiokers in charge of " Ny Uncle, =" who had
advanced money to most Of them to make
the excursion to the National Capital, ex-
pectine redemption three days after con-
yenience. Amid tremendous excitement
they got of, and for three days all the great
political centres in the city looked as though
a cyclone had swept over them. Barkeep-
ers hung idly over their bars, yet sadly re-
decting that when the boys came home
every one of them would be dead broke for
a couple Of months at feast. They were
gay and gallant body when they departed,
but az they returned in scattered detach-
ments, it was evident that some of them
had encountered hard weather. The shiny
hats looked as though they had been struck
by Manitoba blizzard, and the swell ulsters
which were the Distinguishing mark OF the
Brooklyn contingent looked like the wrap
pings of an Egyptian mummy, just ex-
humed at Thebes, after 5000 years of solid
wear. Many of the boys declared that they
we're glad that Presidents were chosen only
once in four years, and one old greyheaded
Democrat, out of whom all enthusiasm had
been knocked by four days. bitter expe-
rience at the Capital, during two nights of
which he walked the streets till morning,
swore that it was thirty years since he at
tended presidential inauguration, and If
the Lord spared his life it would be thirty
years before he went to another.
Art circles are moved to their centres by
the coming sale of the Seney collection of
pictures, which was taken by city bank
for Mr.. seney's obligation of $3.50 The
collection is variously estimated to be worth
from 100000 to a million, and it is ex-
pected that notwithstanding the hard times,
they will fetch under the hummer at least
100000. The gentleman who preceded
Mr.. Seney az President of the MetropoE-
tan Bank, Mr.. Williams, was a discrimi-
mating lover of art, and had small but
beautiful collection In his palatial resi-
dence on the Hudson. He never ventured
into the lavish outlay which distinguished
his successor, Mr.. Seney, nor did he, dur
ing his long and honorable life, ever sane
ton any of the wild schemes or question
able methods which lured Mr.. Seney to
ruin. In few weeks the Saney collection,
which was one of the finest in the country,
will be thing of the past. It will be an
interesting souvenir of the evil time when
the firm of Grant l. Ward precipitated the
terrible financial collapse which dragged
down to headlong ruin some of the oldest
houses in the city. Speaking OF Grant &
Ward, reminds me that while the great com
mander, whose life in going ont in dark
ness and sorrow, stands wavering at the
gates of death, Ferdinand Ward, the author
of his ruin, smokes his fifty cents Ren6f
in Ludlow street Jail, aud enjoys every lux
ury that money can procure, instead o1
working in striped suit in Sing Sing OF
Donnemara.
The news of General Grants deadly peri
has awakened a response deep and heart
felt, such as could have been called fortf
! by no other citizen In this land. Past en-
| mites are buried and forgotten in the fact
of his terrible sufferings and sorrow
| Among the press, save with one single ex
ception, there has been an unqualified out
burst of grief, Not even from his deares
and lifelong friends has he received NOR
cordial or heartfelt sympathy than from
the men he met in the death -grapple on th'
most tremendous battle fields that tn
world has ever seen. The men of the Soutl
do not forget his generous conduct to thei
great commander ut Appomatox, nor vii
the scared veterans from Mississippi O
Louisiana forget the man who in the dar]
and painful hour of surrender bade then
take their horses home as they would nee'
them for their spring plowing. Ever sine
the announcement of the Generals ex
treme peril, all classes of our citizens, il
respective of politics, have evinced tn
most painful anxiety for bis recovery, an
heartfelt prayers arc given daily for hi
speedy restoration to health. coupled wit
the hope that the years that yet remai
may be among the happiest of his life.
Business has not been lively ir the Stoc
Board or in either of the Exchanges, !
respectable delegation, if not a majority Q
the Board, for the last five days could hap
been found in the city Of Washington.
all of them there are enthusiastic Demo
Gratis, and as business vas dull about ele<
%ho 1itf1o Auor r,
Grover. The Blaine men gave heavy ode
of course the Democrats won new clothes
shiny hats and grand cash, which last wee
they exhibited at the Capital.
It required money to carry you throqe
the perils of Washington this week. Sc,
enty-fiye cents for Goldfish ball, and pig
feet dollar and quarter each. It is r,
mored that the liquid supplies of the Ne
York delegation gave out on the mornir
of the Inauguration. If this ie true it mu
have entailed terrible suffering, and th
accounts for the speedy ratErn Of many
the braves to New York.
) The news that the great and pious ph
; lanthropist George seney has been call,
on to account for S5,oeO,0oo, Neaester'
from pool of Southern roads, has taxi
l few by surprise. Mr.. Seney, few yea
since, was poor man; all of sudden
blossomed out as a millionaire. like Fl
and Hatch and Ward. Be collected pi
: lures and stataary, he built churches, su
scribed largely to missionary funds ci
a Young Mems Christian Associations;
: was powerful in prayer, too, and IVES I
: garded as one of the pillars of the churc
t He even started hospital in Brook
T which was to perpetuate his fame to aft
!, ages. Then came the collapse. He b.