Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 26, 1877, Page 4

acyethplish, Ae St searcely comphmentary tothe citizons THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, JULY 26. 1877-—TE PAGES, ‘TH-Weekly, one Varteof a year, WREKLY EDT + Ope cany, per sen Chi ot ten J th eAmen cup cvent delay nnd mistakes, b ore and a full, Ineduding State and County, tay be made cither by draft, express, Onice order, oF in regiatered ietters, Rt oUF F16K. : 3 RIMES, Dally, delivered, 8 venta per week, Daily, delivercit, ceula per week. Auilree TH Corner Martizen and f AM + Maotey’s Theatres Randotph wtreet, between Clark aod La! Fecement of the Union-Squate Company. Abene” Messrs, Thorne, O'Neil, Stoddart, ete.5 Mes- danies Fauny Moraat, bara dewett, Katharine lox: eth, ete. Adetonh Thentre. nitcer. corner of Dearborn, Haverly’s Add Hyman, Mily tle, Billy Carter, etc. Monroe Miuatrels. Exposition Bullding. Lake Shore, foot af Adaine street, Summer-Night Fontivat by the Thoms Orchestra. THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1877. Ns CHICAGO MARKET SUMMARY, The Chicago produce markets were qulet and rteatier yesterday, with an almost complete block- ade on transportation by rail, Meas pork closed at $1 jor Anaietand $1.45 for September, Lard cloned at $8.(r2% for Amguat and $2,075 for September. Meats wera ntendy, athe per th for Toone shoulders and Ge for do short rhs, Lake fretghts were moderately actico and ateady, at ie forcorn to Buffalo. Hizhwines were nominal, at $1.08 per gallon. Flour waa dull and weak. Wheat closed firmer, at $1.30 cash und $1,113, for August. Corn cured 46@ ee higher, at Avge cash and 48t¢0 for August, Unte closed at cath and 28 for Auzust. Kye wae nominal, at S3e. Marley was quiet, at 70'9@7 le for new No.2 eller September. Hogs were dull and ite lower, closing at $4,759 B.p, Cate were firm, at 20@25e advance over Tuesday's pricey with sales of butchers’ stock at. : 30, No sheep were recetved. One hnn- dred dollars In gold would buy $103.75 in green- Vacks al the clone, Greenbacks at the Now York Stock Ex- thango yesterday at O48, The Communists’ meeting in New York Jnst night was as mild and innocnons as spring lamb nnd peas, Dotter counsels pro- vaiied ainong the speakers ond tho crowd, und after the orators bud gratified their am- Lition the assemblage quietly dispersed, A beautiful illustration of the uo of judg- ment under pressuro is furnished by tha vessel Captains, who readily acceded to the demand of their sailors, aud promptly paid the $1.50 asked for, They control almost all the freight trade since tho railroad strike, and until the elevators sint down will reap a tino harvest froin tho troubles, Every manufacturing extablishmont por. foxsing « boiler should seo that @ boso at- sachment is wade thereto. A dose of boiling ‘water or ustream of steam would produce an effect ona mob measurable only by tho aumerical strength thereof. A rioter has a wholesome distrust of water in ony shapo, and there is not mobster on tho earth who would quietly stand and be parboiled in the defense of any principle or tho protection of avy supposed right. = =— This scheme of holding meotings for the purpose of ‘raising a crowd to be subsequent. ly turned into a mob received a sudden and salutary check lust evening. A few ragged Communists advertised for people to voma and hear them blow about the laboring man and bis rights, but before half a thousand Thad assembled the police charged and routed tho outfit, A dozen or two heads wore cracked and the Communistio rabble dispersed. ‘The polico force are entitled to all praiso for their action. A few such charges willde more to break up the nob than temporizing aud argumont can ovor of Chicago, but it is nono the less a fact, that in many instances they have been badly Gightened by roaming gangs of small boys, ‘These eggs of the worst classes of the com- snunity, armed with laths and inspired by o love of deviltry, lave been treated like mobs, und dignified with consideration, when they were entitled to nothing but aspanking, In one instance a 12-year-old youngster stopped wl the cars {on Clybourn avenue until tho police, by a brave and vigorous charge, dia- persed him, ‘The best plan would be to order out a few fire-engines and squirt on these chaps whenevor they assemble, A few applications of stream of cold water would soon relieve tho streets of tho nuisance, Tho policemen,of this city are doing their duty faithfully, intolligently, and manfully, in this trying emergoncy, In evory ‘instance where they encountered violent mobs yester- day, they dispersed them by thoir sudden and resolute charges, aud, althongh mauy of the rioters have uching heads today as gou- venirs of their yestorday’s folly, the police accomplished their duty without taking life, ‘The result is an eloquent testimonial to their drill, discipline, and caprit de corpa. ‘Their splendid work will commend them to the law-abiding people of Chicago as faithful servants, who did their duty not only fenr- lessly, but vith intelligence and discretion, where the temptation was strong enough to ind them to act rashly and needlessly gacritice life, Chicago has reason to be proud of her police. ‘The Conmunistio mobs who have been roaming our streets aud Soterfering with industrial occupations were yesterday pratty thoroughly broken‘up, runin, and smashed by the police. ‘Thoy will hereafter be kept down, wud if they attempt any more of their lowles# villainy the intention is to haudle them roughly. ‘The Communists aud the vagabonds will not hereafter be al- Jowed to drive men away from their work. dbut now comes the more serious question of raising the blockade on trausportation, A nuitlion dollure' worth of business is lout svery day the trains aro prevented from run. uing. ‘Iliv railroad commerey of Chicago is a million dollars a day. How long will the cttizeux, whose business is interrupted aud broken up, allow the embargo to remain in force? ‘That in just exactly the question to be next taken in baud and settled, ‘fhe Ohio Democratic Convention yester- dsy nominated 1. M. Bisuor, of Hamilton Cuunty, for Governor, and Gen. Japyz W. Vireu, of Cuyahoga County, for Lieutenant Governor, ‘The platfurm adopted denounces the inauguration of President Hares, bat commends bis policy of pacification ond local self-government in the Southern States ; dcuuuds thy remonetization of silver, the xepeal of the Kexamption act, the retention of grvenback currency, with no further con- traction, and the issue of paper mgney by Stand in the way of the public interest will +} pearance of thoso notional troops had an the Government onl: and condemns the sending of Federal troops into Lonisiana and South Carolina upon the call of the Gov. ernors of those Statex,—ignoring, with char- acteristic Bourbon inconsiatency, the fact that within a week past several Democratic Governors liave implored the assistance of Federal troops to put down domestic violence. Dispatches fron alt parts of the country indiente the commencement of restoration and an organized effort to move freight trains, Tho only rerions disorder exists in Chicago, but it should existno longer. Chi- engo isthe great distributing point for tho Enet, and it is of the utmost importance that she should resume the moving of the crops and other produce as speedily as possible, Lt is not only a mitter of commercial necessity, but it will bo'an act of charity to theso misgnidod men, who are now producing all this violence nnd disorder and blocking the wheela of commerce. Tho grent system of exchange must be sel in mo- tion again before it becomes so embntrassed. and confused a4 to do permanent damnge. It will save rioters ond strikers and Inborers of all sorle great misory nnd suffering through the coming fall and winter, first, to put down inob violence, and then to sot produce in motion as speedily ns it can be done. ‘The most seriona episode thus far of the tronbles in Chicago occurred Inst evening in tho vicinity of Halsted and Sixteenth streets, A mob organized solely for plunder and da- struction had gathered hore early in the ove ing, and for a time were miecessful in beating back the atnall platoons of police which wero sent to tho scene. With botter facilities for dispatching reinforcemonts a wost whole- somo lesson might have been enforced, and the rabble dispersed in bad order, bnt it bappened, unfortunately, that. tho police for along timo wero not concertrated in force sutlicient to evercomo tho mob, anil a valuable opportunity was lost. Eventually the mob dispersed and quiet was restored, Int the victory was not ane thatthe police officials strould be satisfied with, ‘Choy must do better next timo in the mutter of rapid concentration aud perfect communication ; it will not do to have the machinery of the Department in bad working order at this time, A dispatch from Pittsburg states that the Jaw-and-order classes are organizing vigi- lance comumittees, who are holding secret meetings to devise speedy and summary mothods of starting tho trains. The whole city is suffering fron the complete interrup. tion of traflic, Famine begins to atare the quarter of a million of iububitants in the face. Tho imilk-trains ara not coming in, and there is a weeping and wailing in tens of thousands of housvholds for thy precions Jacteal fluid. ‘Lhe revolution of popular syinpathy ia described ns sudden and sweep, ing. Arrests by the score aro being made of tho leadora of tho villains who burned up the six millions of property Inst Sunday, What tho Vigilance Committees intend dolng is not yet divulged, but the exasperation against the moboerats is yrowing imure gene eral and bitter every hour, ‘Lhe goneral feeling is that the blockade must be broken and trade and travel resumed, and those who get hurt. 'Thore should bo 4 broad distinction always made between the railroad workmen who have struck for Ligher wages, and are sock- ing arrangements with their employers, aud the Commmuuistio rabblo which aro intent upon disorder, robbery, arsou, murder, and plunder. ‘There is o third class of mon who should not bo identified with the raving, reckless mob, ‘here aro several thousaud mechanics and workmen, including many employes of railroads, who have'not struck, who do not want to strike, but who have been compelled by foreo to quit work. ‘They lave been driven from thor shops and places of businesa by the mob, and thus deprived of their wages, on which they depend for end for themselves and families, ‘Chexo persons aro not rioters; they ure not revulu- tionista; they have no share or part in the mob, aud ara great,wufferers, One of the first steps that should bo tuken on the re- establishment of authority isto reopen the workshops, lumber-yards, amills, and fae. torios, aud these people put at work from which thoy have heen driven by the murdur- ous Communistio rabble, When Unelo Sans two companies of wonther-beaten regulars, whohad just return- od from chasing aud fighting Indians, march- eu olong Madison strevt yesterday ufternoon, thowands of persous lined the sidewalks and cheered thein at overy step. ‘The ap. electric effect on Ue crowds who saw and hurrahed them. ‘They were representatives, of the irresistible power of the National Government, which can snash mobs as ensi- ly as au individual con crushegysuells, ‘They belonged to thy class of men who have nei- ther. ‘* politics nor religion,” sympathies nor selfishness, in the presence of obstructora of the law; they simply obey lawful ordurs without questions, whys, or wherefores, If mob ig found rioting, setting the constituted authorities al defiance, destroying property,or obstructing the channels of travel, trade, aud commoerce, they disperse that mob; they quake short work of the obstructors, When they strike, they striko hard; when they shoot, they shoot to kill. «They have only one code of ethics, aud that ia, the taw must be supreme; {he authorities must be obeyed ; order inust be restored aud pre- served. ‘This is West Polnt’s code of poli- tics, ‘Those two companics are merely a small detachment to protect public property hero; but if needed, regiments will speedily follow thom, Wherever these national po- lice go, they mean busincss if they find mobs. Do the workingmen of Chicago know that they are committing o feorful mistake in theie present misguided course? A week nyo there was undoubtedly much popular sympathy with them agalust the reduction of their wage Do they now kuow that they Lave lost that sympathy by the violent course they Lave’ pursuud? - When they took the Jaws iuto their own hands, gripped the throats of the railroak companies and stop. ped the great lines of communication, they struck at the personal rights of willions of men, They have stopped not alone the transportation of commercial freight, but they are cutting off the supplies of food from cities aud towns, and already prices are ris- ing. ‘They are stopping weat, dour, butter, eggs, vegelables, fruit, fish, and provisions of ull sorts from com. ing juto Chicago and every other city, Take the article of milk alone, which niust speedily disappear if this embargo con. ‘tinues much longer. Its absence must be followed by disease and death. It isa ucces- sary element of life. Do they not kuow, can they not ave, hare they mot leaders of aiufficient intelligence to tell them, that if they continue this inethod of blockading the rail- roads and laying an embargo upon freights, they will reduce themselves to the starvation point? The public appreciates it if they do not, and they will soon discover that the public rentinent Which they hava suppored waa backing them ny has cissipnted like 6 morning mist before the sun, ‘They have strickat the homesandtherights of every man in Chicago, and they will find, if they do not slop, that the wholo community will riso and crush them if they do not get ont of the way. ‘Tho people will no longor suffer their rights to be racrificed by a mob, ed Tha “strikers” may be properly divided into three classes. One class consiats of tho strikers proper. They aren certain number of railrond employes who have made com- mon caitse with the Eastern railroad strikers; have quit work more from sympathy than anything elso, and have taken tho ground that the freight traMlc of the railronda of Chicago must be’ suspended till the Enstern demands, ax well as thosa they mny set up, shall be satisfied. 'Thoso men, as n class, will not undertake to interforo with other lines of business, though soma of the indi- viduals were nndoubtedly found with tho mob that prowled through the strects. Tho second class called strikers are not atrikers atall, but men who want to work if they can do so unmolested. There aro n good many railroad employes among the number, bnt the bulk of them are the workingmen of the machine-shops, the planing-mills, the lumber-yards, the foundries, and faetoriea of all ‘kinds whore business has been interrupt- ed. Tho third class is tho mob, which is made np mainly of inex who ara noither railroad strikers nor the workinginen who have quit work nndor intimidation, but who are lonfers, gutter-snipes, Communists, and, destructiomats. It is agninat the third class that the'pdlico employed their cinbs yester- day. ‘The mob proper mnst bo squelehed guickly and summarily. Something has al- ready bewn donv in this direction, ‘The ranks of this clas were largely swelled by reckless ond half-drunken boys. It is‘ridicnlons and pnsillanimons to permit the business of this great city to be prostrated and the poacenble inhnbitants terrified hy so insignificant a group of worthless scoundrels, It is only dangerous in the possibility that theso lonf- ers may add to their number, growing by own scoming success, nud betraying workingmon who have no uatural sympathy with them into joining thoir depredntions, ‘Thera ronghs must be corraled, or im- pounded, xo to epenk, If the slation- houses are not IJarge enough to hold them, new places of detention must be im- provised where thoy can be guarded, after being disarmed, by special police, When this khall have been done, their comrades will quickly’ scatter and disappear. With the auppression of the mob proper (and the elimination of 1,000 or 1,600 of tha ronghs will necomplish this) the unnger of conflict, of plunder, and of arson will beover. ‘The men who have quit work not voluntarily, but undor pressure of threats, will return to their avocations, and their employers will do everything that stagnation and hard times will permit to mako them coutonted. ‘Thon there will be nothing to deal with bunt the strike proper,—that ix, with the railroad employes who have quit work and say the (rains shall not ron, and that all commerce shall come tonn ond. ‘This is the only issue that lias the xemblanco of substance, and the extrancons protuberances must be sloughed. olf inorder to deal with it fairly and: intel- ligontly. CONSEQUENCES (OF onsTRUCTING RAIL- It is well for all persons engaged in tho railroad strike to understand the legal effect of some of their proceedings, ailroad op- orntives und all other persons participating in the proceedings to stop railroad trans- portation will do well to read aud under. ataud the following sections of the law of this Stato, enneted by the last Legislature: 1, if any locomotive cnyincer, in furtherance of any combination of agreement, eliall willfully and talicrously ubandon his locomotive upon any rall- road at any other point than the regular schedule destination of such locomotive, tio shall be fined not less than 820 nor more than $100, and consned. fn the Connty Jail not lesa than twenty days noe 1 han ninety days. Mgpny pereon or pereons hall willfully and maliciously, by any actor by means of futimida- ton, impede or abstract, excopt by due process of low, the regulir operation and conduct of the buriness uf any ratiroud company or other corpora. tion, tiem, oF nvtividual in this State, or of tie regular running of any locomotive, engine, freight, or paseenger train of any much company, or the labor und baslnera of any mich corporation, frm, or individual, tw or they sbull, un conviction be punished by a fine not less than $20 Hl nd coniined inthe County dall not bees than twenty days nor more than ninety days, . ss. If two or more persons enall willfully and maliciously combine ur cunspire together to ob- struct ur Impede, any act, or by means of in- timldatiun, the regular operation ond conduct of the guatawes of any railroad company, or any other corporation, drut, ur individual in this State, or to impede, litnder, or obstruct, except by duc process of law, the regular running of any loco. motive, engine, freight, oF passenzer train on any vailruad, ur the labor or business of any such curs poration, drm, of individual, such persuns shall, ‘on conviction thereuf, ba punlehed by Ane not Joes than 60 vor more than $2U0, and coniiaed in tho County Jail nob leas than twenty daye nor more thau ninety days, ‘this law was enacted by the farmers of this State for their own protection. ‘They wero unwilling to trust thelr interests and their property to the mercy of auy body or orgamization of meu, whether engineors, firemen, conductors, brakemen, or switch auun. ‘Cho agricultural producers must have . 8 free aud unobstructed road to market, and they do not intend that any body of men shall blockade that road or play the part of highwaynien thereon, This law iy ono of the Granger laws, and its enforcement will be insisted on not only by the entire com- nuerclal, but the entire agricultural, grazing, horticultural, and rural population of this Blate, . It should be remembered that railronds are public corporatioux, ‘Ihe Supreme Court haw in all the modern decisions atirmed the octrinu that railroads aro public corpora, tions to the extent that they are within the control of State Governments, This pnblic character vests the wholy peo. ple with cerlain rights = and privi- leges; the roads are public highways which the State cau compel the companies to keep open to tho public; they are public highways over which the publio have the right of transportation for persons and prop- erty, and, being corporations, the State has a tigut to determine the rates to be charged for transportation, Of courve, being public institutions sybject to the control of the State, they are uuder the protection of the laws. No mau may obstruct the operation and running of trains on railways any moro than he may interfere with Gov. CuLtom or the Stato officers in the management of the State Goverument, or of the maragement of thu State's Prison, or of tho Insane Asylum, or upy other public institution. ‘This low is iutuuded for the protection of the public,—for tho protection of the threo millions and ahalf of people living and doing business in this State, aa well as for tho protection of the railroad companies, ‘There are fifteen or twenty public highways built to enable the people of thia State to travel ta and from Chicago, and on which to transport their merchandine and products. No combination of any kind can be per- initted to deprive the public of this right of highway. ‘Cho railrond companies cannot legally do so: wor can the engineers, fire. men, awitchmen, or other operntors of tho road. The people in tho interior of this State have now, and will have for many months to come, property to move over theao roada equal to a million of dollara a day, ‘They find theso ronds seized and held; they find themselves deprived of the right to transport their products to market; thoy find their grain, their flour, their potatoes, their butter, milk, cheese, their live stock and their ponltry, all denied transportation, and, being denied transportation, accumulat- ing and valneless on their hands, Those farmers of Illinois mado this law for their own protection, and they will take pains, and immediately, to enforced this law, and rid the highways of Illinois of ail obstructions, , Mon must not decoive themsolves with the momentary success which has attended their efforts, On Sunday Inst they ruled ‘Pitts- bnrg with unquestioned authority. ‘To-day they havo become odions. ‘They are now arrosted in that city ag criminals, ‘the jails are filling up, and before a week they will bo regarded na public malefactors,—enomics of their class and their race. As in Pittsburg so elsewhere, Tho Grangers of Illinois will see to it that the railroads they have built and paid.for aro kept freo and open to the THE VAGRANT LAW. Tho Communistic gentry in this city in- yoke popular wrath against the Vagrant law, on the ground that it was ao law got up by tho capitalists in order to arrest workingmen who may make application for work, Never wns there a gronter mistake, ‘That Vagrant lnw was mado by tho farmers in the Leyislo- ture for the protection of their homes aud thoir familios against the depredations of the Commnnista who aro tramping through the country and rendering life and personal safety go insecure, ‘hose tramps, who claim that soolety owen them a support, go through the interior of tho Stato, calling at farm- houses when tho mon are aot work in tho flelds, and, robbing and plundering thé prom- ives, outraging the women and children, movo on to other like villainy, It was these men who nover work, who do not want to work, who would not work if thoy could; the Commmunixts who insist that they be sup- ported ont of the pnblie troasury from moncy raised by taxation, these citizens of the great international family of idle, revo- Intionary dend-beats,—these aro the people, against whom tha people of Hlinols havo songht protection by this Inw to punish vagraney, ‘Chey have enacted this Inw to enable them to arrest these idle, dissolute thieves aud plandorers, and Jock them up in honses of correction, where they will bo compelled to work, ‘The Communists de. mand that this Inw bo repealed. ‘That law was intended to incet a great crime and ovil, and will not bo ropeated so long as there aro enough honest poople in Winois who make an honest living to have avoico in legisla. tion or in governing the State. ‘The law is effectual as against those por- fons covered by its terms; no decont, honest ‘citizen ling aver been, or is likely to.bo, aub- Jected to nny incouvenioned by the law. It ia, wo admit, a standing menace to the whole horde of Communists, Ax a class they are largely in peril of thnt law, besides being obtoxious to all other Inwa against seditious conspiracies against the peace of society, and ogainst the sanctity of life aud proparty. CREASE THE NATIONAL ARMY. If the disastrous aud sanguinary results of mob-rulo in thin country during the past week havo no other effect, thoy will nt least show tho insensate folly of that class of State-Sovervignty demagognes who have been porvistently howling that tho Federal Gov. ernment should never interpose its power in Btote mutters, but that tho States should take care of themselves, ‘Ihe utter slallow- ness. of this policy, and its disastrous, almost ludicrous, failnre, aro shown by the action of Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and. other States, So long as tho strikers wore peaceablo, the States took caro of thomuelver, and everything was lovely; but when tho mob broke out in open violence and com- menced its carcer of murder and jncendin- rism, aud the Stato militia had in some cases showed ita incompetency to deal with a mob, and in other cases showod ita sympathy by atilinting with the daugerous classes uf the community, deserting their posts, and in some cases handing their arma over to the rioters, then theso States, through their Gov. ernors,—in some instances these very Demo- cratic State-Sovereignty Governors who hail been howling the loudest against the Federal Government,—implored it to send troops to help them, States might take care of themnelves if thoy had standiug armies, but they have nono, ‘The State of Niinols has just one soldier, the Adjutant-Genoral, If it had 6,000 or 10,000 wellalrilled, disciplined, and seasoned troops, it could take care of itself in any omeute or uprising of o mob, and would never have to call upon the Federal Government for aid. In place of this we have about 2,600 uni. formed militin, who met at certain times for drill, but who are not available for the dofense of the State, or of any part of the Btate outside the immediate vicinity where they happen to be, and in some cases, au has bucn shown in other States, they are not availablo even for Jocal assiatance in pre- serving the peace, Tho main reliance of the targer cities where these ementes occur is upon the police, but the police forces ara small, however’ effective they may be. In Chicago, for instance, they are in tho proportion of one to every 1,000 of the pop- ulation, Asomatter of necessary economy, the force has been reduced to the minimum required to protect people against thieving and ordinary disorders, Lut for a general up. rising of o mob they are uot suilicient of themselves to Landle it, ¥ tis well enough to talk of State Sover- eiguty when States can take care of then. solves aud protect the peace, but it is not well fora Statw to turn up ite nose at the Federal Government until it has made such preparations against tho outbreaks of the criminal ond idle classes in the large towns that no danger to life or property exists. That preparation hos not been made in any Btato which this strike has penctrated, and it bas not and cannot be mude in any other Btate. It is idlv to talk of local militia. Local mobs bnve little fear of mili. tia, because they know the sol- diors are not trained and disciplined, and have not the cooluess und firmuess of regular, Every Federal regiment ixa ma chine, Th dividual is sunk in tho regi- mont, Tho regiment is a devil-fish,—one body with £00 arms. The men have no sym- pathy with any class. ‘Thoy aro colortess in sentiment, They aro police armed with muskets. They are officered for life. They havo no politics and naver vote. They aro not excited by the passions of the day. Dem- Agognes cannot control them or even gain nccesa to them. War ia thoir trade and they shoot to kill, If the Federal Govornment Rad sven 10,000 more men, so that it contd scatter them in squads of 1,000 ench within immediate call of Chicago, St. Lonis, Pittsburg, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Ciucin- nati, and other important centres, to act as arallying point for the forces of the State anthorities, it would be worth moro than all tho militia of all the Btates combined, If wo hnd 400 rogulars in this city, for instance, to reinforce the city authorities in taking care of mobs and stamping them ont, it wonld quadruple the effectiveness of tho militia and police. It would give confidence to law-abiding cities that their side would sueceed, and it would give roughs and row. dics, tramps and vagabonds, tho same confi. dence that they would bo beaten. And yot, with the knowledge that such a condition of violence and mob-rule 15 now cxists might arleo any day, and with the knowledge that tho States wera unable to take caro of themselves, these howling Dgmo- cratic State-Sovercignty demngogues in Con- groas and out of it havo siteceedad in reduc- the Fedoral army down to 25,000 men, seat- tered all over the Western frontier, and when the State authorities, Lreaking nt tho very first strain, call upon the Federal Govorn- ment to help them, it has not enough sol- diors to supply the demand, although a mero handful would only bs needed for onch city. Itis a shameful condition of things, aud ho responsibility for it, the responsibility for tho lives that have beon lost aud the millions of property that have beon destroyed, rests upon the Democratic mn- jority of tho House, who for partisan pur- poses have virtually disbanded the national army, aud aro now attempting to starvo the remnant that has been protecting the frontier sottlons from Indian butchers. Had there beon a regiment of troops within call of Pittaburg and Baltimore, the appalling calamity. that has happoned would nover have occurred. From the manner in which these very demagogues have howled to tho Government for holp, it is to bo presumed that the murder, massacro, incondinrism, and pillage resultiug from their State-Sover- cignty doctrines hava oponed their eyes. Whether this be so or not, it will-bo the first duty of Congress, when it assembles in oxtra session, instund of starving .the army any longer, to increase it sulliciently to enable the Goverument to help tho States jn main- taining order and protecting citizens, PUBLIC INTERESTS VS. PUBLIC SYMPA- THY There aro two thiugs which the railroad strikera have relied upon as favorable to their present attitude, but which ara now spocdily failing thom, Ono was tho natural non-intorvention disposition of Americans to hold nloof in case of dis- pute, nud lot tho contending partica sottlo thelr differences for themsclyos. Tho othor wasn wide-spread improssion that tho rail- road conspanies, especially in tRo East, were too hard upon their employos in the moro recent reductions, and therefore ought to concede the strikers’ demands in part at deast, Both thoso«things como tnder: tho head of public sympathy, which tho strikers have confideutly regarded as with them. But it is evident that. this public sympathy has beon largely ationated from tho strikers since the scencs of Sunday, in Chicago and every- whore vlso, and for various reasons, 'Yo begin with, the mob has forfcited all claim to public forbearance by its awfully- lawless course, nud the strikers have had to share the consequent indignation of the gon- eral public. It may notin all cases have jon the fant of tho railroad strikers tuat tho mob took up their battle, and extended it to siraon and an invasion of all other busi- nees anda breach of public order; but the fact remaina that tho burning of property, and Inwlesuncss, and highway robbery, and intimidation have been the outgrowth of tho strike, and the public in condemning the mob have abandoned much of the sympathy they might otherwise havo folt for the rail- road strikers, In the next place, whilo it is truo that the people, asa rule, are inclined to hold off and allow employers aud employes to xcttle thelr own differences au to wagos, the railway service ja necessarily an exception, The tailronds are quasi-public inustitntions, ‘The highest Court in ‘the nation has sodefined thom, ‘ho States havo been judi- cially accorded the right to fix the rates of faro and freight and regulate the roads in the interest of the public, The presout strike las demonstrated the intimate rela- Hons between the railroads and tho public interest. If, ag in other labor disputes (such as house-building, coal mines, factorica of different kinds, ctc.), the sueponsion of work affected only tho individual em. ployers and employes, the public would not undertake any active interference, and its sympathy with the strikers might asuivt them materially in securing their demands, But it has been demon- strated that the stoppage of the railroads fin- plics a stoppage of the entire commerceof the uation, aud involves not only serious loss to all kinds of business, but a menace of starva- tion to the cities. Self-intorest ix stronger than sy;npathy, as human nature is consti- tuted, and the great mass will soon conclude that oven real wages grievances of aclass of employes will not justify an infilotion of general suffering of the whole community, In the third place, the strikers aro over- reaching themselves in many ways, In sey- eral of the citics they havo stopped the pas- senger-traing as well as the freight-trains, In many cases thoy havo compollod railroadu to suspoud by forcing the employes to quit work when it 1s admitted that there had been no recont reductions of wages on these roads, and that the employes do not com. plain, ‘They havo also begun in certain quar- ters to make demands that aro notoriously and unreasonably exorbitant. On the tive of some of the roads tho strikers now de. mand that wages shall be restored at the rates ruling prior to the pan- to oof §= 1873, involving an jnorcase of from 25 to 80 per cent; this is preposterous in view of the gencral business prostration, decline in cost of living, and the enhancement in the purchasing power of monvy, to say nothing of the hardships en- dured by the railroads. On other roads tho des and is made that not only shall the re- cont reductions be rescinded as to tho fulure, but that the roads make up tho déticiency of the back pay during the time when the em- ployes accepted the reduction; this is equul- jy unreasonable and preposterous, ‘These are some of the circumstances that havo been rapidly uudyrmining public sym. pathy with tho atrikers. Every day tho in- { sail with the schooner Florence from New London terosts and necessities of the public will nsnert | yerterday, Several Yale scientific atudents want to themsolves still more emphatically, Already | 8ccompany the expedition, . the price of ment, and vegetables, and pout- Ay Mowe nee lng Bib ent install. try lino gona up in Chicago, under the cor. | mentor nmen anpenrs tn ina Ailantie Monthly, t tainty that the supply will give out in a fow Barrett. days under tho Drosont blockaide enforced by Gon. Sherman remnrked a fow weeks ago, the atrikers. Flour will kecomo scarce and | in an cary, off-hand, after-dinner apcech, that contly inashort time. Tho growers havo | without an army the American people would be- lost their marketa for fruitand vegetables, and | come a mob. There ts soma sigaificanco in there these ato perishing on their hands atotal loss. words at preaont, Tho loss to the business community | ‘Tho best abused man in Russia at pronent of the ontiro country ean only bo counted ingaid tobe Col, Wellesley, the Enylish military atliche. MMe ta nald to have misrepresented the by tens of snillions of doltars daily, No set | sate of affaira in Kutsa to the English ‘tovern, of strikera cau depend on public sympathy | ment, and to have furniahed sceret information to or countenance under such circtimatanoes, | tho Turks. From now on it will become a question of The Hon. John Morrissey enjoys to tho public forbearance meroly ; nnd it cannot be | fall tho extra session of the New York Stato Sen. doubted thnt the millions df people who are | %¢ At Saratoga. Ifo sometimes entertains tie fel. z low-legisiators by inviting them to the race track, a dlont on th: ltural, industrial, and ; lepondont on thongricultural, industrial, ard | sehere he sella pools fo dedunce of the jaw which mercantile pursuits—all stopped by tho | thoy all paeecd Jaat spring. strikers—will soon demand n resumption of | ‘The report as boen cirentated since the business, and they will enforce that demand | death of Robert Dalo Owen that his faith tn Spirit and crush resistance to it, ‘They will com. | ualiem had been shaken by the Katy King expusure, pol the strikers to compromise their wages | Df. Crowel!, of Mrouklyn, offers in evidence 4 fe - Ictter weltten by Me. Owen last May to prove that disputes, or step aside and lot other mon take their places. ‘Tho public who sre suffering tha report referred to was Incorrect, « An i r are rapidly coming to thia determination. ze digane sroraie rosé: tbs, Cohgreigas, tional Chireh at West Meriden, Cona., last Sun. ~Sa acroamed out at the tup uf her voice to the THE STRIKERS AND THE MOB. Thore is now little question that the grent city of Chicago, with its 600,000 people, was bullied and terrifled on Wednerday into the abandonment of its business by n vagabond. mob thut did not number altogether moro than 1,000 men and boys, The realization of this fact is somewhat humiliating, The railroad strike was separated enrly in the day front tho lawless demonstrations of the va- grants and Communists, Large numbers of tho railrond men who quit work did so under intimidation from roving crowds not of their class, ‘Che mobs that paraded tho streets, visited the manufacturing establishmonts, | poned tis lecture on ‘Ultimate America" until dictated a auspension of business overy- | Au because, white the strikes were still In where, frightened the women and children a mearessy Me cai us aa aeunitely whut siuibaty j ‘ould be. Ime there scomei to with tholediowls, curses; and threats, nsannll | ait tirernce kelwoen ulticuate Anicewce and ule ed horse-cars, and bullied ovorybody they | timate afghanietan, came in contact with,—these follows wore Alma ‘Camedn hod to marry Miss Epps, highway robbers, robbing employers of the | the duughter of the colobrated London cocua inan, working part of the business, nnd robbing | for the sake of ocing able to paint from life the tho lnborors of their timo and pay. peculfar golden hus of her hair, Mo didnot count ‘Theso gangs of ruflans did not number Mor any iuing ean Wyaxqurai auule might have dono more than 1,000, though many thousands Tae we Inklng her paps's ‘cocoa ‘frec, were following them, partly from #ym- |“ aiore ins been a mistake nbont the atti. pathy and partly ont of curiosity. A large | tudo of Karl Benconslleld in the Migott affatr, part of tho mob consisted of Dblackguard | Even the Liberal newspapers now admit that Hea- boys and immature men; tho others wore | cunsticld ls personally unacquainted with Mr. for tho most part Communistio lonfers, ya« | Piott or his iT Su Se Spbolatmett of grants, and thioves, fee in the light of what | desire to increaso the eflcweney of tho uflee, the pollss mere dat oyna ino soe Lessin “Lurner iy etill pursued by her al. iat the mob could have been dispersed and | joged brother, who ia named McDermott and scattorad and smashed on tho first day, and | drivesn tack ut Long Branch, He has made asper- the ringleaders arrested, without any serious | salons on ber fair name, aud sho threatens to pro- loss of lifo. Huda mob of tho satno num- | ceed azainst hum at tow, and, if she failn to obtain ber assembled and undertaken the samo ntet, who had just begunty play: *'1 adjuro youTh the name of the Lord God Almighty to trot that nymn slow." It wae su trotted. Mr, William Astor, of New York, is having bullt.s ploasure-sacht which will to the largest in tho world, and will cust $250,000, Sho ts intended for svuthern cruising in the winter season, in addition to her worxlag salle, elie will have racing canvas for revattas aud match rucas, Dr. Foirfaux, of Maryland, is tho eleventh Baron of an ancient Scotch house, but rofurcs to his titla on republican ground. Me fs not, i Sr, Conway presumes, ontitied to a 0 House of Lords, and his self-abnega- not therefore a0 marveious as supposed. ‘Tho Rev. Joseph Cook prudently post. redress from thia quarter, to have blu cowhided % byafrieng. Sheaays he ts un idiotic and prepos+ high-handed proceedings in any — or- | tcrous pretender, and not her bruthor. dinary time, it is cortnin that the United States Senator Eaton, of Connecti- police would havo mare short work of thom. | ent, has consented tu act as atlornoy for all polley- They would not havo been permitted to | holacrsof the Chatter Oak Insurance Company, tramp and howl! through the streots an hour, | ft the purpore of protecting thei in thelr rights much less to compol tous of thousands of and lo urslst in saving the Company, and preeery> alats Induntilotg, ‘aud’, ‘dtepedlable ing the good name of the’ clty and State. No recs quict, iy ip Oper- | ompenso will bo demanded vy him for eny accy- atives to abandon their places, and shops, | Icce which ne many rendor the policy-holders. inills, and foundries to close their doors, Gambetta said, in cho course of an nddress Wherever the police havo mado an effort to | toa public meeting in Paris recontly: **8ince you disperse a disorderly rabble, the offort hog | have recalled the namo of M. Thiers, the man who been successful. But tho fuct is ovident pas aes ie mull reiders sich: Sern ccs to ils country, you may bo nxat: that his now that tho pooplo have allowed themselves | jouith, endangered only In tho reports of Interente to bo paralyzed by the extension of the | cd newepapers, nox uevor beon better, nor bis niind atrike throughout the country and the fright. | clearer and moro acute, and that his etrength and. ful experience whon conflivts Lavo occurred | forcelght are surprising, France knows this, and in some of the other cities, The rehction tarde what pute, oucitprearieg out of temper." from this spasmodio terrorism hos now set c Eyils se yontn Eicien te nee He oi a" ae fount Joannes, wrote a latter to een Victoria fa, ‘Tho inutinct of solf-presorvation is bo- | cn the uccasinn of tho royal bisthday, congeata, ginuing to assurt itself, aud thore is a fooling | juttrse that amiable ruler on huving lived #0 long of goneral disgust ax well ag revolt against | andso well. Inctosed in tho letter wero some oak tho very thougut of a great city being held | leaves plucked from the treo planted In Central down by tho throat by a small mob of | Patk by the Princo of Wales, ‘Tho Queen caused anote of acknowledgment to be rent to the en- vagrants and vagabond thoyiastle young weman4 but the Prince of Wales was not equally geaclous to the Count Joannes, who wrote a lettcrto hia Koyal Highness at tho same time, Already in mnany cities prices of food have be- gun to advance in consequence of. the strikes stopping the trains, Meats, poultry, fruit, and vegetables are becoming scarce and dear ina number of places. In sone lines of catables the Chicago markets begin to show the conse- quences of the cessation of transportation, The | umes, such os ‘*Robineon Crusoe,” Acaup's wages class of people of all ranks will be the | ‘Fables, ** Vikram, the Vampire," and pru- tirat to feel the effect of increased prices caused | duced countless drawings in grotesque of animals by the action of the strikers, A great revulsion | and human savages, sketches which wise collect- of popular feeling has svt in agains Che forclulo ara sotauul fae Arial sae an sally dtl interlcrence with the commerce of tho sodntry. tak br vive Thousands of citizess who sympathized wih oye nel ioke wily deat ley with wome day tana the strilsera on Monday were denouncing them | “8?! ns yesterday for stopping the traina and dlsorgan- The Poetry for Obildron” written by izing all, business, If the trains are prevented | Charles and Mary Lamb has been found, but from running fora fee days more, this com | Seruleanother of Lamb's books missing which inunity will organize in vigilance committees to | MY BUVer 90 recovered. “Ik te entitled ** Prince ‘kate, ‘The jp | Dorus, or Flattcry Put Oat of Countenanco,” and put anend to the blockade. ‘They are doing It Ie deserived us a pouin with *‘nine clugaut ongray- iu some cltles now, inge.” ‘Tho dlvsppesranco of theso buoks ie not en su remarkable os may attiret appear.’ They wore Tho Buston tot (Irish Democrat) believes | printed in sinall volumes, cuntaluing scarcely that the Democrats cau carry Massachusetts by | nore than 100 pages cach, and the paper waw thin inaking a goud wominution tls full, which it | and uf pour quality. Besides, children, for whom thinks that of Judve Amuotr would be. Mr, Anas! noininatiun “would split the party ae- riuusly,”” since thousands of Democrats who voted for liitn last year under pressure of the ational issue would vither voto agulost bin this | fn Oniv, A woman uf that state, awed Mury Hale, year or not yore at all. But the Springticld Ae | acnt to the sullerers in bt. duha, N. B., 8 package publican is of the oplnion, of course, that Avaas | of clotuing, including @ aute which had belonged Js Just the man to Lo run, notwithntandlug that | t0 cai ea at ane fais shay Yeon ree ‘cel a " ‘ Ne years beture, 0 cuuree of mall she recemes ho received zn Leas roles thai TatseeN _ | a letter from this samo eon, to whom the clothing Tho strikers lire Luyo not yet atopped tho | Wad been assigned by accident. Ie professed mili tralus on the Norlliwestern Tallrous, penitence, and exprewed « longing to be at nine Suppose the d—I should put ft into their heads Sry rare ate fecieatrractenernielenie to duit, what walilug there would be ainong = 8 t tho Mtely innocent, and. what discomfort fn | Wee form mum Of eles fe hep bled’ out every funily, bourding-house, and hotel! In hd ne protty pal oi wae Latacbed, Fittaburg and many other cities the supplies of bite) Pek ‘ it Ven, eaiee heat Aue ae , dente: milk have been cut off by the strikers. ‘They | 45 #9 a can du nothing chat witl make every household stho Musyule de Suldipeax wha Jaab his leg abbot ferino, Huds & stranger at the feet of bls dunce, curse them more bitterly than stopping the | ng Stranger draws lus sword, = *' No matter!" ex- aupply of milk, claime the Marquiy, **autno wan Jeft In the body of an Austrian Uenernl—no matter!" ‘and bo une seruwa Lis wouden leg, with which be strikes us advureury deag, crylug, ** Vivo la France!" while the orcheatra strikes up tho ** Marsciila: and tha dances, louched by this act of patrivtian,sab- athtutes the eupport of her arms fur that of the a miseing limb, und Jeads the Marquis buck to the ‘Tho futerference with the trains of the Chicago | chateau. ¢ & Alton Kuad is an outrage without causo or ‘Tom Placide, who committed suicide in justiilcation, How long do the peoplo futend | Now Yorks fow days ago, waea member of a celc- to permit itt Is it not about tine some uction | brated theatrical fauily, Use hud been off tho were taken to start the trains? wlago ten years. Mu played the range of low ——————— The public whose business is suffert ‘an take a houd In tho “striking busiues eho cumedy, being vory happy in such parteas Dromlo, Touchstone, and other bigbspestcan clowns and obstructions on raliroad trausportation be not suum removed, ‘ho London Atheneum reports tha recont death of M. Erncst Griset, an admiratjo and ap- parently Inexhaustiblodraughtsmin, who possessed, much satirical power, Mo illustrated many vuole Looks, A pretty romance, which may or may not be the cover to an ugly frand, lias been upturned a Tho strikers have given tho Stato-Sovereiraty thing a pretty severe biow; and if they keep on alittle longer urresting the dow of the com- mnerce of the country they will demonstrate It to be hollow humbuy. fouls, ‘The romantic Incident of bis life was bis inarclage in 1808 to hie Bret love, who he mets year vefuro for tho rat time In forty years, she eee ies, bag beon twice married in tho ineuntime, sud ‘The noxt thing in order is to raise the rallroad | Was wort: a pretly property, Bf suicide wus ever if 4 tee "4 Justified it was lo tue caso, liv wae sulering fren blockade, and allow commerce bu resume. cancer In an aggravated torm, aud it was well koown bis case was iucurabic. lls brother before hin uled of cuncer in tho most horrible agony, and Tom, luoklug forward to o similar fate, pror ae eae vath half way, * PERSONAL. Searoik Ua veut aeal y ! Judge Taft's chances for the Republican | wysnynus, NASHVILLE ITEMS. Merchants’ bomiuation as Governor uf Obto are sald to be good | Exchange hes adopted resolutions aud appointed a wad iupproviug. committee to invite President Hayes tu visit Nasb- Gvorge William Curtis was atthe White | ville, House last week, and the coseips bave revived the Gov, Porter bas received 4 dispatch from Comp- tory abvut bis taking tho Engliolt mission. troller psiare now in iad oek, stating thas she U ini Memphis & Cbaricston ttalros id ite entire Ex-Gov, Packard, of Louisiaua, has now | joie docu to br ftale of Tennessee, suivuutilt reached Maine, bis native State, sfter an abecoce tw $1,071,016; that tho bonds bad been cancelod Of Uftceu years iu the laud of the Philistines. aud (orwataed kai: i ib fhings whist ishey ecema, oy, Porter will bo unable to attend the meeting Is clvilizaiion a failure, of Governors owlng to thu asscinbhiog hero about Aud te thy Coucestan played oat? that tnne of the American Asauciativa for the Ad- Capt. Howgate writes to the Now London | vancement of Scicuce. Telegram tuot tho Secretary of the Navy's refusal ce OBITUARY, to allow Capt. Tyson tu gu un the prelumluary Arctic New Youx, July 25.—Ex-Police Commlssioncr expedition only referred to his being detailed with pay, and as Capt. Mowgato bas arranged to pay bis | Ocorge W. Mateell dicd thia morning, alter slong fanuly atized mentbly bug, Coot Tyson waste { aud salutul dines, The first thiug tu be resumed {6 railroad trunsportation. they weru written, aro proverblally not careful of '