The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-11-04

of the houses fires have been started i,
the furnaces.
| Trade still continues brisk, and one o
tue gladstone tidings Of the week ha.
been the tumble il, beef A Chicago
house has come to our rescue, for whici
p Allah be praised, and once more We hope
to get our porter-honse steaks for20 or q
cents pound; for the past eighteen
months, since the butchers got up tht
! corner on beef, we have been cutting oul
| tenderloiBs from between the horns and
near the hoofs. Perhaps the day Of on,
redemption is near--at least, hope So
when the butcher man may be compelled
to repent of his misdeeds.
Money plenty, but tight, paradox for
| the solution of which offer your readers
| the Broadbrim medal.
| Our Russian Jews-Their Riot on Wards
Island-Divisfon Of Political Spoils-A
etc., etc.
NEW YORK. October %, 1882.
EDITOR CHIEF:
We had almost forgotten that there
was such thing as Russian Jew in
New York. The motley crowd that filed
Castle Garden two months ago has disap-
peared like Roderick Dhn's men, or like
Shakespeare's baseless fabric of vision
they had left not wreck behind.
They We're an unsavory lot, and we were
net sorry to get rid of them, when it
suddenly transpires that we have not got
rid of them, and are not likely to get rid
of them, unless indeed that we can pet
mp another Judenhetzc, and massacre the
whole lot, horse, foot aud. dragons.
Our friends, the English, American and
German Jews, who constitute goodly
portion of the wealth and intelligence of
New York, do not seem at all proud Of
their Russian relations, and it is CURRENT
ly reported that the New York Israelites
have sent secret circular to the Emper-
or Of Russia that they will consider
themselves under a personal obligation
to his magnificent highness if he will
massacre two or three millions of them
OH the occasion Of his coming coronation.
1t would solve 4 NEST difficult problem
and solve the Russo Jewish question for
the present at least. But to return. We
were wondering what had become of the
Russian jews, when we were startled
FROM our propriety by the news Of a
terrible fiot on Wards Island Now you
may want to know where Wards Island
is and what it is. Well, Wards Island
is one of three islands which are in the
East river, between New York and Long
Island. The first of the three is Black
wells Island. This is tue island Oh
which we keep all the nice young men
and women, and for matter of that, all
the old men and women who never do
anything, but who are prosecuted by
society in fact, it is wonderful how all
these large buildings ever got filled up
with sach nice, innocent people. Iu
brief, it is the place where we keep all
the people we don't want to send to
States prison, and in addition to these
we keep most of our iunatics there, or
that portion of them who have neither
money nor friends. Beyond this paradise
is Ra1daff's Island, wf1ere we keep tire
city's juvenile wards, about as hard lot
as any city in the world can furnish.
These are the children of crime and sin;
hundreds of then, never knew the sight
of father or heard the sound of
mothers voice; they never knew what
home was, nor brother, nor sister, nor
God. They were the fotsam and jetsam
OIL the great ocean Of crime and sin; they
owed nothing to society, for society had
never done anything for them. No won
der that the hands Of these pigmy Isl,-
maels We're raised against every man, for
oSClJ uidh HHhu Was lGiotl dSiillSb
them. 1t is u terrible thing to see hum
dreds of hardened criminals crowded
iii their cells of stone but it is
simply horrible to sec boys from eight to
twelve and fifteen years old with faces
inst as hard rs stone or steel, all scared
and Scared with crime. Close to Ran
dall's Island is Wards Island, and it is
here that the city keeps its pauper wards
who have elnigrated to this country. A
tax is collected on all passengers landed
in New York, and this tax is devoted to
the expenses OF those who are n,l;ibie
to sustain themselves. The Russian Jews
have been led to believe-like tho darkies
down South after the war-that every
one of them, OF, arriving in New York,
would get forty dollars aud a mule.
Many OF them did not expect to~werk,
and openly declared that if they had to
work in the United States they might
just as we'll have remained in Russia.
Men of their own persuasion were put in
charge of them, buts every concession
made to them only served to make them
more inso!ent and exacting. Their de-
nand for money was incessant, aud they
appeared to think that some rich treasury
existed, on which they were entitled to
draw. The matter eliminated the other
day, when they broke ont aud attacked
the agents i'll charge of them, aud if it
had not been for tho police they would