New Orleans Republican., 1872-11-30
HORSE TALK ABOUT TOWN
THE EPIzGoTIc III FULL BLAST
SIX STREET CAB LINES DRAW OFF

| AA5CIL hHOWu Ala all quarters VI thO lily
and add TO the number Of horses and mules
already ginned out from the streets and
street railways. OF course the first class
of business TO feel this is cotton, which is
the pabulun of our commercial enterprise.
The presses usually depended on drays to
transport it from the press TO the ship, but
the epizootio has since Tuesday swept the
horses and mules from the shafts and
stalled them, leaving thS merchants but
one thing to de-proyide for some means of
conveyance where the least horse that be-
longed 10 it the better.
At meeting held IN che Cotton E&-
change it was arranged shat in order to pro
vide for transportation, the Jackson rail
road depot on the levee should be joined to
the Mobile and Texas by the laying Of a
track, thus making line Of track from the
head Of Elysian Fields street to the Bulls
Head, ct St. Mary street, in yhich vicinity
1 there are acres Of cotton presses and dray
yards From fhis track along the river
Rwitches will padiate to bring the cotton to
and from the presses lying between the
| river side and Annunctation street, while it
is ili&ended one switch gill connect with
the presses out on Common and pogdras
streets, near the gas works.
7 This meeting yes made up OF . commits
tee from the Cotton Press Association, the
Cotton Exchange and delegations from the
railroads. But this arrangement acquires
the approval Of the City Council.
I Upon every side arrangements sre
J male 10 do vithoub horses. Bedes-
trians are seen footing it bome who
have noS walked % step dn years,
except uD and down stairs or from the
! front to the back office. Walking parties
are formed of business men who live IN
| Jefferson, and such one came down this
| morning, seventeen gentlemen finding they
| could get no car at the came moment Of
time, and all joining in foot59ck side, go
? saving a nickel. Such parties were acci-
| dentaly and incidentally combined on the
| Magazine, Brytania, Annunci8tion and up
| per levee line, Gil OF which have sus-
pended. Ihe peculiar look of things will
| at once be realized when it is said that dur
! ing the day time and for ten years, the
tinkle Of the bell suspended to the street.
ear mule has been heard every five minutes
F.! Of sunlight, and yesterday Sas not heard
/ 8t all. yhB streets suddenly become quiet
as those of "a country. #n, and is is learned
by interviews and searching iaQuiries that
the Canal Jine and all the pemaining lines
| Of the city railroad SnsasYen9e6 will save
in before Monday.
| The people vho vent home up Camp
| street fesembled procession divided Of in
I irregular squads, and by Sunday residents
| who live In any direction will have to go
| tootback or not 60 af all, if the disease does
not abate, and there is no sign of it as yet.
| In his travels the reporter ran up against
q good natured gentleman in the produce
business whose xords weSe Sutteyy and
smiles frequona.
What know said che good-humored
looking gentleman, ''is this; e. T. Hart &
Co have elk disabled ont Of fifteen mules;
Schmidt & Ziegler hnSe thirty Or forty, and, J,
l think, ten of duty; Smith Gs McKennB
have thirteen sick, and the thing is spread
ing Eapidly-every Sew minutes you leaE of
another case.@
'JIow about tAe bosa draynenR"
'Heard that one of them lost ten mules
in oae night. Probable they'll all knock
off work before tho week is out and start
doetoring theft eat5le.''
From your standpoint What d'yoS tlinR
| about the type Of the iiInesss"
"Os mild, very mild.''
The reporter now FUN up against one OF
those men ybo live from tho shipping in
port and derive profbfro loading vessels
principally with cotton.
"Well." inquired the reporteRs "has the
epizoot interfercd with you7"
"Yoa bet; ships are lying idlo es all the
upper posts waiting for gre:ght."
about how many 2"
80, couldn't tell; the only thing Z know
is.there's not a dra3man in the cotton bust
ress but what is short Of horees and mules
not one that haen't laid up some of his cattle
and put EN- away for potGe y Physic."
"And the steyedoresl"
"Weil, they work donkey vhere shey
don't work horses
IA donkey3" inquired che sepoytes iubi-
ously,
ayes, donkey engine, there are two
ships lying oveP in Algiers that have been
obliged 70 stop unloading-the donkey
hasn't the power and tho hsrses are all laid
up"
Whats your opinion OF the diseaeeF
Surely lts nothing bSt bad cold at the
worst"
"Hare yoR Hsap3 Of any deaths snong
the stocks
Very few; heard OF one dzaynneB !osiag
ten" (Same story, but improbable1
"How will it affect levae business in youp
Eae3'
"ItH DO az dead ameng che shipping By
Saturday night as a church where they
hadn't had meeting for o month"
Proceeding TO the livery stables, the Pc
porter found them nu full OF horses, in
most cases covered With sweat blankets,
and their limbs, from the knee and elbow,
swathed in red flannel, while the closed
doors and the buggies aud harness put out
Of the way, gave the stables q gloomy ap-
pearEnoe. 1t must be said that the sun
never sets at livery stable-their business
is always lively, their doors always open.
The days of rest are to them the days Of
the greatest activity, aad they are machines
that are always kept in running gear, ex-
eept on race days, when their stock is all
tout" Hence the look Of these horse hotels
was especially gloomy, the stalls Tiled with
the noble animals" all with their heads |