St. Landry democrat., 1882-05-13
Especial Correspondence
NEW ORLEANS, May 6,

NEW ORLEANS, May ., 1867.
The Mascot people are not to. be
bulldozed, and Mr.. Vanbenthuysen the
enterprising railloadman OF the Cres-
cent City ought to understand It,. Inc
public are not to be hoodwinked by le--
gal proceedings, nor will the editors OF
the Mascot be swayed from their duty
by Imprisonment, no matter how often
Mr.. Vanbenthuysen may "win his case
in Court 1t seems to us that an intel
iigent man like Mr.. Nanbenthuysen
ought to readily understand all that
and instead of raising such fuss ought
to submit with grace to the inevitable,
or follow the example of gallant young
Eagan, son of the Attorney General, by
challenging the irrepressible qulll-drl-
vers to mortal combat. Mr.. Vanben-
thuysen could easily spare few OF his
sons and ar the same time re-estabIIsh
hisaMar record. He would save law
yers fees by this procedure to which
the military war department. OF the
Mascot would cheerfully acqulesce. q
brief sketch of the responsible editors OF
the Mascot may not be unlnterestlng.
Joseph S. Bossier is a native OF Louis
lana and halls from the parish OF st.
Tammany, where he was parish Judge
for many years. He served under Gen
and lost a leg at the battle of Shiloh. A
few wears ago he shot Laresche in a
duel. Laresche challenged Bossier who
chose double barrell shot guns for the
weapons, with the stated result. JO-
seph Levessie is also a Louisianan and
was formerly a solicitor OF advertise
ments for the Times-Democrat. He is
piqatant writer and wields a ready pen.
His last meeting on the field OF honor
took place last week when he ex
changed shots with J. C. Eagan, Jr:
He is a man about 35 years of age, tall
and slim. Geo. Osmond is an English
man by birth and about twenty-s SIX
years Of age. He is a fluent writer,
probably the ablest of the Mascot staff:
He can strike off poetry "like lightning"
and is in fact ''an original genius" lie
was for long time the leading mind OF
the St. Bernard Eagle. He is also bus
mess manager OF the Mascot and ls as
game" as his associates. Gov. Mich,
oils has been retained as their counsel
and will no doubt see his clients
through their troubles without much
ado. The belligerent editors have
been sent to the Superior Criminal
Court for trial on the charge OF libel,
or at least they have asked to be sent
to the Criminal Court, in order that
a jury of their conntrymen may judge
their case. The public evinces the ut
most interest in the Mascot war.
The public is just now being regaled
with surfeit of defamatory state
.ments hurled against the Luzenberg
Hospital and it's management, and aid
ed and abetted by certain designing
parties who are not at all disinterested
in the issue at stake the ghonls expect
to achieve their cherished object, il not
by fair means then by foul means. The
attempt, however, to strike blow at
the Gutenberg Hospital either by pri-
vate individuals or by constituted au-
,fhorities, is not the first effort in that
for if the intelligent reader
will only take a retrospective peep into
the not very remote past he VIII see
that the predecessors OF our present
City Council have also "tried their
hands at the same game" and encount-
cred the same success which awaits the
present city administration, ignomin-
GUS defeat. Have the people of New
Orleans forgotten the outrages apd
atrocities that were committed in their
midst only few years ago, by the san
itarf police attached to the charnel
houses designated Smallpox hospi-
tall conducted by the city council and
the Board of Health? Will the people
of this city be again regaled with a re-
petition of similar outrages upon man
kind, because it pleases a few jealous
disciples Of Escnlapius who are aided
and abetted in their nefarions schemes |
by an imbeciie municipal government, |
to resuscitate those internal charnel |
houses, where sin, dark deeds and death |
vie for precedence? Let us hope for
the sake Of humanity. for the sake Of
the fair name of our city that we will be
spared from such dire calamity and
that the conspirators against the public
health of the Crescent City will be vis- /
ted with fate as cruel as that OF Ly-
.oan who doubted the contents of the
1recian horses. 1t is a notorious fact
hat the management OF the Luzenberg
Hospital courts investigation by the
proper authorities and the doors OF the
losuital are always open to all who de-
ire to satisfy themselves that the Luz
,enberg Hospital is one Of the best con-
Inetad hospitals in the State. The en-
nent physician in charge will satisfy
he most skeptical that safety, humanl-
=. and science await all patients who
inter the portals Of the Luzenberg
Iosnital. and that unlike the quandam
'smalI-pox hospitals he who enters it's
,recincts does not leave hope behind.
The admirers of DR.. Jones, no doubt
aust have been astonnded when they
cad in the papers that he advocates
he establishment Of shanties as small
OK hospitals which are to be destroy i