The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-10-17
OUR LETTER FROM BRoADBRlM.

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OUR LETTER FROM BROADBRlM
Ferdinand Wards Stolen NIillions-Dit
Mayor Grace get a share of the Swag ?
Shocking Crimes Brooklyn Slandered
Death of Cardinal McC,osky, Etc.
... New YORK, Oct. 10, 1855.
E1ToR CHEF:
For many months the question has bee,
asked by the public and the press, VIII!
has not Ferdinand Ward been punished p
Fish is wearing convict's suit dozens o
other notorious rascals have been punished
the great soldier whom he brought to ruiz
and shame is in his grave, bat the arcl
swindler still remains unwhippcd of justice
What mysterious power clogs the wheels O.
| Justice That there is something behin6
not yet fully known, is apparent to ever,
one. For weeks past there have been mys
terious rumors and whisperings con
cerning almost five millions of the fund:
supposed to have been stolen by Ward. Mr.
Wards living does not account for it; none
Of the sequesterea property remains il
sight; Mr.. Wards brother is said to have
| told a reporter that the bills of Ferdinand
| Ward at Ludlow street Jail were footed by
MS unfortunate family. great cry has
been made at Mr.. Wards style of living
Why should he not live well Is it not q
principle Of our Jurisprudence. that every
man small be esteemed innocent until his
guilt is proven And what have we proven
against Ferdinand Ward ? He may have
champagne and his 1,at6s, his jolly good feI
lows around him, and an occasional run to
the theatre or the opera bouife, and if his
friends can pay the SHOT, all right.
But III the disposition of the five millions.
Mr. Grace, the Mayor Of New York, is said
to have proiited by the swindles Of this no.
toriOIs rascal to the tune OF many thousands
of dollars. MIR. Grace was intimate with
Marine Bank he was friendly with Ferdi-
nand Ward he was director in the de-
funct Marine Bank, by which the city lost
a million. The scandal caused by this dis
public awaits with anxiety the promised
revelation of Mr.. Ward, which is to give US
the disposition of the missing five millions.
1t is the hope of every man who has the
honor of our city at heart, that Mayor Grace
may be able to show that whatever transac-
tions he may have had with Ward were
strictly mercantile, and within the strictest
line of honor. But S147 900 is large sum
to be made in IL few months by any honest
speculation. We have been running loose
man got money in any way. without crack
ing safe or picking a pocket, he was con-
sidered smart, he might sell d stock, or
piece of property to his neighhor, and rep
resent it to be worth ten times its value, and
if his neighbor had the misfortune to be-
lieve him, he was fool, and the other was
considered smart. This miserable rule is
prevailing here to-day. You see it in the
streets, in the stores, in the banks, and on
Change. The whole drift of business seems
to be to corner somebody, or get the better
of somebody, and to rob them of their
money by giving them the very smallest
equivalent. Mayor Grace has been very
successful business man. The greater part
of his life has been spent in South America,
where he laid the foundation of his fortune.
This is the second time he has been elected
Mayor of New York, and he is more indie
pendent i'll his Office than the President of
the United States is in his. New York has
had many violent revolutions. In the last
twenty years, she has seen three Judges of
the Supreme Court dragged from their ex-
alted seats, and with the brand of disgrace
upon their foreheads, driven from public
life. She has seen her Comptroller, brand
ed as fe!on, flying fugitive from justice.
She has seen her Treasurer in banishment,
and her Mayor Gisgraced exile; and-last
of all-she has seen the man who sat for
years as an autocrat, squandering her hard
earned millions, lying in prison with a con-
vict's stripes upon his back. "
We hope that the period of our worst dis
grace is passed, and that the threat of Mr..
Ward against our Mayor is only the effort
of a blind Samson to engulf his friends and
enemies alike in the ruins of the building
he pulls down. But if it shall appear that
Mr.. Grace or any other public officer has
been implicated with this rascal in his rob-
berry of the people, | sincerely hope that
such an example will be made of him as will
make the recurrence of such an offense i'm
possible for many years to come.
The evil effect Of bad example was never
more powerfully illustrated than in the
events of the past week. It is just year
ago since brute in Chicago shot and killed
a woman whom he professed to love, then
making the only reparation he could make