New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-08

men who are making for the ssuehter'pen ana mount
;,r the stage and Issuing from The bui'dns' W. nv
.,,d birds eve view of the whole prospect arouhu.
Whew what tainted atmosphere assaiis our ou'".'"
ros,r;ls, Cologne the city OF stnks, Is roseatueH
in compari-on immediately beneath the eye
maze of pens OF this momept containing some SIN
,hou.apd hogs cooped up for slaughter, ami te ouo'
,holed from them and the dcaienng discordHnt d'n
q. borne upward to our ear, render cur posi'on
rerf.ctly painful one. Beneath rs 10 the rS' "'S d"
,nmense accumulation Of refuse animal Inatter-'he
entrails and waste parts OF the hog who" has oeoh
onthering since the commencement ct the sn"s"c'"s
and this az il lies alternately freezing IN te VIVA an"
fostering in the run, could not AVOID, anna any V'ne
human community, spreading some dr'i"i h''e'"N'
The ptn We are standing in as we make tins rapo sur
ycv Is alive with squeang wrctehe', and the advent o.
us bpeds among them gives concentration 70 then voc"
exercises The two men are provided WIN a haii'iie'
each made expressly for their deah-dea'ng purPo'''
ha, ;n face about the circumference of yrape-shot,
and a handle the length of an ax-helve. They plant
Themselves at opposite sides Of the pen, and each
singing his victim, aims blow and bures MS
hammer in the Uranium of hog The poor ANIMALS
fall ,utstrrtched and whitening. This onslaught Is
cop,inued until the whole holocaust Is made, ana ~
lost t,yaptv ,yretch.s lie senseless around. Laying
aside their hammers, the men draw their iohS u'A-
hIadod knives and with thrust, made with sur
gcal precson penetrate the hearts OF their v'tin''
The door 4 opened. men bearing hog-hooks present
themselves and the twenty lfeless pOcci are Wuh-
drawn toward the scading tub. Laborers then pro-
ceed TO fill the fatal pen by driving in another small
herd and the process of rcplenlshment and depopa'
ton i continued without pause through the entire dav
We learned that these clubbing ilercueses, together
with the gutter are the best men in the corps since
their task il an extremely arduOus one and attended
with great danger it being by no means an unequeh'
occurrence for hog to turn ON them ana attack Vle
with his tusks, and their only resource IN their
readiness and skill protect themselves IRON severe
wounds.
Reeptering the slsughter-house we watch the de-
fruct porkeH delivered into fresh hands by the sue
Of the scadg tub stands pOrty friend, the negro
as imperiOus as Commodore on foreign stations
he is captain or, more correctly, foreman Oh tue
>cad His authority is absolute and his palerNsaged
attendants obey lis behess with unesitatlng alacrty'
The hogs are raised in succession and plunged INTO the
tub: men stationed at each side keep them constantly
in motion and gradually progressing toward the other
eud Of the tub Scaldng water and the negro seem 10
be on terms of aty, for he keeps ms hands, without
any apparent inconvenience, dalyins about the sur
face and puckng at the dorsai bnssles of the hog'
After an immersion Of about five minutes the bristes
are disoged with facility, and with one deMcrons
wiring he clears the feet of their hairy covering ana
orders the hog to be withdrawn. man at each
side raises it on the bench with hooks,
and az the animal lies bis side, two men placed
opposite to each other hastily scrape off the brises
and rolling the hog over, deliver it to two Others,
who dpillate the opposite side, while the former par
commence upon another hog. The seraping per-
formed the hog makes another seml-revolutlon, and
row falls into the hands of the shavers These are
men of rather higher artistic attainment than the
scrapcrs-being generally selection of the et@e OF
their ranks. Their pay is a trife higher and their
performances require more practice and Skill these
shavers again 90 over the surface OF the hog with
keen knives, and remove by shaving all obstinate
hairs that refused dsodgement before the persuasive
edge Of the scraper. With freer motion than
aber their knives glance over the whitened skin OF
the subject; with dexterous turn they hand him over
10 their brother operators who subject the other side
to the process; and, giving him yet another turn
fresh artist sezes upon him, and clearing his gambr
strings in the hind houghs relnquishes him to another
who inserts wooden gambrl in the sinews, and
with the assistance of second, HOSTS the faccid
animal upon the broad back of stalwart negro, who
hangs him upon of a row of hooks 10 await the
process of disemboweing.
Having thus accompanied the hog along the length
of the bench during this hasy process we look back
TO contemplate the gang of busy operators. Scarcely
three minutes have elapsed since the first hog left the
scalding-tub, and already the bench is filed with
steaming subjects, and every man is working away at
the top OF his speed. There il room for lettering
here each must keep pace with his fellow in the
performance of his work. or he reards the whole com
pany. And among packing-houses generally there il
such rivalry existing in regard to the number of hogs
turned out - at each establishment daily, which
subject is untrngly cayassed over the tavern stoves
where the men assemble of an evening, that the esprit
Gu corps existing among them affords sufficient IN
centive 10 urge their work with the utmost dis
patch and emulate each other in the CELEBRITY of their
movements. These men do not impress us so favor
ably as the beef-butchers whom we have previously
noticed their work is of less scientific character;
there is less of unnatural slapdash and individual ex
peItne-s in tltir performance; and we remark that
the larger proportion are Germans and Irish.
Following the hog, come to the Agamcmnon Of
the teld-thc gutter" par ercelfeace. This mans
task is herculean but here at least is the right man
in the right place-for have perfect Hercules to
perform it. He is a New-0reans negro of gigantic
mold, with great physical energy depicted on his
counterance his arms, which Of the girth of
many mans body, are bare, and he has strip of
cloth bound around his right wrist to sustain it. The
average number slaughtered daily in the establish
ment we are now looking through is 200 occasionally
reaching 5Oo and to dsembowel this immense herd
one man is found sufficient. To disembowel seven
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