Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-05-02
Letter from New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, April IS, 1885.

shooting in the streets of the Queer City, and four times out of five 'tis tho policeman who violates the law in thii respect. Yesterday a lit le boy was sho
 by n policeman - not purposely, 'tIi true, but with a criminal disregard o life and of the law. It appears the DO hcemGn tried to nrrest some fellow, ana as the fellow did not walk quietly up tC the "cop" and meekly submit, the DO liceman out with his gun and bangs away with the usual result-misses hi intended victim but successfully per foratOs m innocent party.
 The number of societies in the city are legion. There are three, however that run the state and municipal gov ernments, viz: the Louisiana State Lot tery Company, the volunteer fire com
 panies and the green cloth" fraterni ties. A tacit understanding seems tC exist between the Louisiana State Lot tery Company and the knights of tho green cloth" the former to run tho state government while the latter is al lowed to run the city government, and no one doubts but they do #. It is mol generally known outside of New Orleans that the Louisiana State Lottery Com pany maintains and runs daily draw ing, with tickets at 9 cents, % cents and $l each. A short time prior to the death of Charles de Young, the San Francisco Chronicle waged bitter war against California street; asserting, and rightly, too, that the institution located on Cali fornia street was demoralizing and pauperizing the State of California, and was fur worse than any "green cloth" In- stItution then Tn the city of San Fran CISCO. The manIpulators of California street managed to gobble up almost everything worth gobbling; but, bless you, that institution did not compare in its capacity to gobble-with that great benevolent and charitable institu- tion known as the Louisiana State Lot tery Company. The California scheme required some cash wherewith to pur- chase stocks, but the La. $. l.. Go. makes daily grand scoop of all the nickels snd loose change in the city; 1t not only takes in the wealthy mans cash, but gets down to the bootblacks, wharf rats, and any and all able to raise five nickels
 The whole ann of life amongst the lower classes here IS to scrape together five nickels, enough to buy a ticket m a g.. n ..F ha | T. aa needless to say that these deluded "chumps" have about one chance in one million of drawing the coveted prize, and that 9 per cent of these daily scoopings find their way into that large brown-stOne building on the corner of St. Charles and Union streets.
 The fire cOmp1nies-too numerous Co men:lon-hOld in their hands the bal ance of political power, not alone in the city of New Orleans, but in the State of Louisiana also, and they dictate h sand-lOt gang in Frisco, who shall hold office, in both the state and city govern ments; hence, the acme of citizens ambition IS to be chased as member of one of these fire companies. Some will say I have written a wicked libel, but most of these facts were obtained indl- rectly from citizens here, and from what l have seen in a two months resi- dence am sure they told the truth, but put 1t mildly, very mildly, indeed. There Is one paper here, the Daily City Item, which seems to have backbone enough to "speak right out in meetin' and 1t handles the city government without gloves. I would write word or two more abut the police, were there enough of them to swear by, but what few there are and they are devIlish few, one IS never seen where they should be and the other one IS stationed in some "iive' to assist the proprietor to rob some un- wary stranger out of two dollars and a half for bottle of beer. Have the times changed, or was the late war the cause, or have l deen deceived these many years! My impression of the Southern people of thirty years ago was of a gen. erOus, chivalrOus, whole-souled and hos pitable people; but alasl if the people, generally, of this city are a criterion, a more selfish and more claDIsh people nowhere exists to my knowledge. I write of the people, generally, of course there are some, perhaps many citizens ot the city, who are not hide bound and who entertain liberal views, but the general mass indicate the general senti- ment. The newspaper fraternity are liberal and highmInded enough, but these do not represent that true inward ness; that latent feeling of "we-dont- want-you" which crops cut in your daily intercourse with the citizens. The pos session of 8 certain amount of intelli- gence Is necessary to edit a newspaper, Yof alfnra4har IanapT,p1 upo, tIa af -sot grammatical formation of & sentence, but good deal Tn possessing horse sense, which Is only the press Of the city, IS what it is. Selfish and clanish as 1t IS, yet the people wonder why New Orleans does not rival New York; until the present generations or else the peo- pie take a very large-sized tumble, the Crescent City never will be anything but 10th or 12th-rate city. The citizen says, "invlte capital" just SO. The al- ligator effers inducements, too. The business men here are in my opinion a parcel of fogies, with no dream of ex- tending their trade into the interior, but are more than satisfied SO long as New Orleans remains port of entry. Let us compare this city with one fur ther north-say Chicago. Yes, Chicago, with half the water facilities nor half the age. What contrast there isl Chi cago transacts more business in one day than is done here in twenty. Get aboard one of the trains leading in or out of Chicago or any of their connections and you will meet on every hand men rep nesenting Chicago houses, it makes no material difference how fGr you travel one mile or two thousand miles-still you meet wide-awake Chicaro men. Through the States of Michigan, Hi uois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, Kansas, Colorado. Nebraska, Arizona and the Republic of Mexico you meet the Chica- go people. On the other hand you never meet Q single person representing New Orleans firm on any of the trains run ming iu and out of this city. I spoke to several wholesale liquor merchants on Magazine street, asking them why the business men did not try for the trade, and the invariable answer was, Don't know.lwe tried it three or four years ago; didn't pay" There's enterprise for you. TRAVELLER.
 Mir. s. W. Foreman, of the Gila River Canal Company, arrived here Tuesday, and has cor,a f, rap,ain Dfbor ,,,a,,, b.,-,