The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-06-30

The MEAT QUESTION IN NEW oRLhANs.-H ha' %
called the Slaughter-hous monopoly Is creating tue
most intense excitement in New Orleans Our feadefs
will remember that Joint stock company, oy prloefy'
engineered through the last Legislature Dill giving
them the exclusive right Of selling meat III 'he Guy
This of course. throws out OF employment huiu cue
of butchers who have heretofore snppiiea Tue
On the 18th they held IA meeting at when some III
| taan hundred men were present When the adverse
| ! ;;on of the couri was announced to them their
e short Of exe,ration SAYS the Picayune, twas such
+bot had the seventeen monoposts heard them they
would have trembled for the future" Though, I'M
less goaded to DESPERATION they will prooapy commit
m acts of violence. They have asserted determha-
ton to sell no more meat until they can butcher their
own and so the Picayune of the 18th says; " To-Day
we have no meat, perhaps not tomorrow. suffering
and distress has already begun and the cry mas gone
through the city that the people must nave meal
| What are we to do9 Rich and poor, except III 1e"
instances, were compelled to go without meat and the
question which continually recnrs is, how long Will the
neope stand the outrage? There is Il limit to human
forbearance-the multitude clamor for meat and VIII
have it."
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fair The Picayune says it learns that the Governor
holds stock 20 very large amount, and that several
members of the Legislature also heavily Interested
Among the names of stockholders published We notice
those of " our own" Mudgett and Benton, the last a
fellow who figured in these parts though not quite so
prominently the illustrous General And 1t pains
us to say that also the name OF John Wharton
the inmitabe ",Jack," man for whom we, in COM
mon with all who knew him, had most decided weak
ness-Jack, the prince of good fellows of bon vvans
and of moderately good drinkers. Ah Jack, you
might have known that you would have fallen among
thieves when you put your foot within the lobby of
our sweet.scented Legislature.
To give both sides of this meat question append
paragraph from the Times Of the 10th:
The Picayune, frothing with indignation, paints the
following Victor Hugoan picture of the meat question:
"The butchers and people on one side, and the
ISlaughterhouse monopoly on the other. The former
demand meat, and the latter, holding in their right
hands an Ubiquitous law, which could have its birth
only in a venal and corrupt Legislature, point with
their left to the ncosure over the river, and say l
pay tax, or starve. Buy your meat from us, or
you shall have none"
As the tax referred to- which an outraged people
called upon pay, consists in reduction in the cost
of to the people Of fully ten cents per pound on
the old butchers prices, the fearful eervescence Of
this sop-over will not fail to every reader to
shudder.
THE TERN NEGRo.-Since their emancipation we
have frequently been asked by the colored population
what the word negro meant, they having an intense
disgust for the appellaen, by the way by referring
to the American Cyclopaeda that it is name
properly applied to the inhabtng the African
continent, principally between latitude 10 degrees
north and 30 degrees SOUTH and to their descendants
in the old and new world it does include the North
Africans Qke the Egyptians, Berbers, Abyssinians
Nubians &c } though in popular language, especially
in the older writings, it comprises these and other
dark skinned nation, who not however character
ised by the crisp hair of the true negro In some of
the border countries there has been considerable inter-
mixture of negro blood and dialects. The Hottenots
in the South do not belong to the negro race. The
negro therefore, does not seem to be synonymous
with African and it is not national appellaton, but
denotes an ideal type constituted by certain physical
characteristics, such in the people OF the
coast of Guinea, namely " black skin, wooy hair, fiat
nose, thick everted lips, and prognahous form of
skull" Negroes occupy about one half of Africa, ex-
Guiding the northern and southern extremes, but in
Guiding is said its most fertile portions. 1t is the
common idea believe, that all Africans negroes,
and there intelligent people who think that the
Carthagenans were black and had wooly heads. A
single fact of history dsproves that belief in the most
conclusive manner possible. If not mistaken,
it was when Scipio Africanus made the attack upon
Carthage which resulted insits destruction that the
women assisted in the defense of the city by cutting off
their hair for the soldiers for the of their bows
caaputs or other barbarous weapons. Now, it is evil
dent that " wool" could not have been made available
for such purposes That matter is settled to our en-
tire satisfaction but we far from feeling satisfied
with either the encyclopedias or our own explana-
ton of the origin of the term negro. The coiored
population when asked why they are so called, must
answer as the small boy did when asked why they called
him Joab, they call me Joab my names Joab. ,
There is no help for it.
CoMFoRTING.-Th New Orleans Bee is right in think.
ing it of graduation that the most formidable
riot made by the negroes since their freedom occurred
in Washington This is "eminenty fit and appropri-
ate" The Federal capital is the very locality where
the savage propensity of the negro should exhibit
itself. There gathered persons from all parts Of
the country many of whom only know the negro
by the false and maadlin delineaon of him in such
books as Uncle Toms Cabin. 1t was fitting that in
the very place where the negro's freedom was pro.