Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 29, 1877, Page 4

4 atct de <t THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JULY 29, 1877—-SIXTEEN PAGES, Communists, who the day before had de- 4 done to the mobocrats, whose votes he might ! when the mob went home to bed. There tg no Y he Sribune. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. BY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID. Daily Edition, une sear... Partsof a year. per month. led to apy uddress four w i iterary ond ‘kly Turteof 3) Weel One copy, per year. fone year... ear, per 2101 Y EDr on Temitaacces Muy ty draft, express, ‘Poot-Utlice order. of in registered leiters, at Our risk. TERMS TO CITY SUUSCLIDERS. Pally, detivcred, sun 25 conte per week. Laity, delivered, Sunda; ents ber week. “Autres Wt COMPANY, Comer Bladivon Chica iGHTS TEMP- APOLLO COMMAND! Aly ‘conterred by ~The Ord: re this Commander tL. Juay Sh, at 6 Cook, prompt, Apnoint- ms of importance ment of conn: pertaining to the piixrimage to Cleveland, will be an- hhuuueed doting the eveniug, and it Is urzed that every Meniber who can make 1 conventent will be present, ‘The Council will close at hulf-nast 10 o'clock. On the fuliowing day (Wednesday), commenctag at) o'ctuck in the afternu pecial will be convened, and the Order of the Temple conferred. _A cold cola: Yon will be served sm the banquet bail at 6 o'clock, Sor ‘Mose Who aesist in ibe work wuring the aiternoun. A fpecial will azain be convened at 7 o'clock, when the Grucr ot the Temple will be conferred. Visitors wel- come. By order of the E. C. ‘J.'R. DUNLOP, Recorder. Four y OD, Thurs. sree." My xt. Work on the 14th DY haatihas DUN O'NEILL, De ED GOODALE, Grand CORINTHIAN CHAPTER, NO. 69, Te pecial Convocation Monday’ evening, July 30. on the Mark Degtve. “by urder CRAWFORD, I. P. SUNDAY, JULY 1877. 29, GHICASO MARKET SUMMARY. The Chicazo produce markets wete generally easier Saturday. Mess pork closed 10c per Url lower, at 17) for Angust and $13,37!¢ for Sepiember. Lard ciosed Se per 100 ts lower, at £8.8° for August and $9.02% for September. Meats were a shade firmer, at Sc per D for love shoulders and Ze for do ehort ribs, Leke freizhts were quiet und stronger, at 4c for corn to Buffalo. Highwines were steady, at $1.03 pergalion. Flour wasquictand steady. Wheat closed 1@1!s¢ lower, at $1.27 cash and $1.12 seller Auzust. Corn closed 1:@Je lower, at 48!5¢ cash and 471 seller August. Qats closed easier, at 28c cash and 26%c for August. Itye-was firmer, at S5ize. Varley sold at 7Uc for new No. 2 selter September. Hogs were active on shipping account ard 10c¢ higher, seliing at $5.00G Cattié were firm, with eales on a basis of $3.00GU.50 for poor to exira grades. Sheep were 15@25¢ lngher, at $3.50@5.75. One hundred dollars in gold would Luy €105.50 in xreenbacks at the close. In New York on Saturday greenbacks were steady at 94}. % Significant; The first freight delivered at tho Alton depot yesterday was a wagon-load of coffins. With the exception of a miniature mob in the brick-making district on the North Side, there was nothing in the city yesterday to show the existence of a riotous element. The brick-yard. band were dispersed by a few police, and supreme quiet reigned the rest of the day. Fort Wayne is still under the infliction. Twice the Sheriff, assis ed by a posse of two or three men, attempted to start an engine, and twice were he and his force beaten back. So far the mob seems to be a little ahead, and there is danger that trouble willbe in- volved before the affair is over. Gen. Barston has gone back to Pittsburg with the identical troops who were besieged in the femous “ round-house,” and who had the arsenal gates slammed in their faces, but who now propose taking summary yen- geance for the treatment they received, if another uprising shell afford them an op. portunity. —_—_—_ There is au impression among the regulars now stationed in the city that mob-fighting presents aspects far preferable to those of Indisn warfare. Over $2,000 were sub. scribed yesterday to purchase creature com- forts for the troops, who, for the first time in a year, revel in butter, potatoes, and “ soft tack.” Great credit is taken by the Pittsburg strikers to themselves for throwing the re- sponsibility of running trains upon the rail- roadcompanies, They chuckle with delight as they reflect that they have nothing to do with the iniquitous locomotives, and wander around alternately crowing in their glec and rubbing their hungry stomachs and won. dering where the next meal is to come from. The people of Pittsburg look on admiring. ly while their pet strikers march up toa spring, like a Sunday-school procession, and drink long, hearty, satisfactory draughts from the crystal pool. Great enthusiasm pre- vails in the city because ilie strikers are sober. intense delight over its mob, and Jooks with regret to the time when it will be hacked to pieces. ee In fact, Pittsburg is in a state of interests they profess to operate. Under the circumstances, it is better that werking- men who are not willing to return to their Tabor should refrain from meeting, and re- main quietly at their homes until affairs are in a quieter state and business more set- tled. A few regulars on guard at the rollmg- mills," gas-works, and the Garden City Dis- tillery, and a number of special policemen patrolling South Halsted street, presented rather a tame sight yesterday upon the bat- tle-field of Thursday. There were no crowds and no aisturbances, to the intense disgust of a few cavalrymen, who perambulated about, anxious for a chance for some high- line firing. Some weeks ago a bill was filed by the heirs of the Newnegey estate to secure the immediate division of the property, on the ground that all the life-interests had expired. ‘The executors demurred, holding that it could not be partitioned until after the death of the widow, who had relinquished all be- quests mide to her, taking therefor her dower rights. Yesterday Jndge Wiorrasms decided in favor of the plaintiffs. Oue sec- tion of the will provides that one- half of the estate should be devoted to the establishment’ of a public library on the North Side. Should the executors remain couteut with the decision of the Court, and it is understood that the suit was a friendly one, it is likely that in a short time steps will ‘be taken to secure to the North Division the noble legacy to which it is heii There is a gratifying prospect at last that the Braidwood rioters will cither immediate- ly quiet down of their own accord, or receive their quietus at the pointof the bayonet and the mouti of the cannon. A brief statement of the circumstances that have led to the savagery of these Braidwood miners will be of interest under the circumstances. Braid- wood is the centre of coal-mining district a short distance below. Wilmington, and or- dinarily the scen. of busy industry. About a month ago, a few of the miners struck for higher wages, and, their demands not being agreed to, they quit work. The owners, rather than have their mines lie idle, em- ployed about 400 colored miners, some from this city and others from various narts of the State, and set them.to work, The men were willing to work at the wages offered them. The Company was willing to have them work. It is to be presumed by every one, except a white Braidwood miner, | that these negroes haye a right to work, that they have stomachs to fill, and their families to care for. As they wee in danger of attack from stragglers, they were armed for their ‘own defense, and have taken good care of themselves and performed their duties faithfully. Every- thing was peaceful until the present strike commenced, when, taking advantage of the general confusion, a force of over 1,500 strik- ing white miners overpowered them, seized their arms, and drove them out of the mines. They appealed to the Sherif for help, but he could uot furnish it, aud, in danger of starvation, they appealed to the county for food. The Braidwood savages thereupon prevented the county authorities from fur- nishing it, and drove them out 1uto the country, where they, with their wives and children, gui.ty of no offense but the desire to work, are compelled to subsist upon private charity. In this emergency the Gov- ernor has issued an order that these men shall be replaced in their situations, if they are willing to work; that they shall be pro- tected in tueir labor; and that the property of the Company shall not suffer damage. ‘t’o this end the First Regiment of this city and the Third Regiment from Rockford have already gone to Braidwood, and. if necessary the Governor will employ the whole power of the State to protect the colored miners. If the striking miners resist, the troops will make short work of them. Thoy have shown. themselves as brutal, cruel, and inhuman as savages in their treatment -f the colored men, who have.as much rigut to work and earn a living as they; and if they make any resistante to the Governor's orders they should be accorded the same punishment that is meted out to savages. There should be no temporizing with them. Let it be instant submission or instant buliets. A DAY FOR REFLECTION. Sunday is a good day for retrospection and introspection, Looking back over the week, there is reason to be thankful that Chicago escaped the pillage, and fire, and destruction that threatened it and swept Pittsburg. But this escape was through no forbearauce of the mob nor with the assistance of the rail- way strikers. It was in spite of both, The railway strikers inaugurated the Inwlessness by laying violent hands on other men's prop: erty, preventing other men from working, and violating the statute by obstructing the operation of commerce. It was tueir exam- ple which brought the depraved classes to the front and eucouraged them to still grent- er lawlessness and violence. ‘There is not a A dispatch from Gen. Ducat, command- ing the militia who went from this city to Braidwood yesterday morning, announces at the riotous coal-miners have succumbed <0 the moral influence of rifle and bayonet in the hands of men determined to use them wher ordered. ‘The surrender of the strikers is unconditional. ‘he negro miners who were driven away by mob violence, will re- sume work, aud will bé protected from fur- ther intimidation. ly th Johnstown, Pa., applies for admission into the union of riotous cities, As a train on the Pennsylvania Road passed through there yesterday, londed with State troops, a mob opened fire with sticks and pieces of metal, breaking the windows snd ‘severely in: juzing some of the troops. A signal was given to stop the train, and it was slowed up in time to save unmerciful disaster. The switch had been misplaced and. a car loaded with fire-brick left standing on the siding, The locomotive dashed against -it, turning end up and bruising some of the troops. A stand was made after a Bod deal of dilly. Gallying, and 100 rioters arrested, It will be gratifying to the friends of Gov. Hanr- BaNFT, who was on the train and in com. mand of the soldiers, that he did not risk the loss of any votes by ordering a volley. _ re sal in of to as th their employes who have shown: themselves > It may seem a little hard to honest work- -gmen that they should be deprived of the wrivilege of meeting and talking over their Ztievances, but the more sensible among them will see thi the position of the anthor.. ities is right, and will counsel the rest to wait patiently. That the meetings of working- men have been used by the Communist _Icaders to assist them in carrying out the xiotous aims of their Order cannot be denied. These sharks swim around the working element, using it to their own ends, basing upon it their so called “party,” and, hiding behind its mame, encourage and direct insurrections and rob- bery, without a care for the men in whose | re fo: lie of employes? man among them all who can sit down quiet- to-day and discover a solitary compensa tion for all the turmoil, the terrorism, and the damage they have occasioned. Are the railroad strikers any better off than ey Were One week ago? Let the wife and mother of a family of children answer, whose allowance is short at the best, and must now be reduced by at least one week's The railroad strike in the West was largely a matter of sentimental sympathy. the Western ruilroads had not joined in the whole pay. Many of cent reductions made by the Eastern roads, and the émployes were at least moderately tisfied with their pay. By joining the strike or submitting to the dictation that all should quit. work, ont of sympathy for the Eastern strikers, these men have lost a week's pay and reduced the chances for an increase the near future. Much of the complaint poor pay on the railroads arose from: the well-intentioned efforts of the: Superintendents retain as large anu-uber of their elaployes possible, on account of the hard times, and divide up the reduced business- among em. It was a generons if nota wise policy ; but are the managers likely to be influenced by similar considerations in the future? Will they not prefer to get rid of that portion of evil-minded and lawless, and retrench by a duction of the number instead of the pay ‘The men who have been the remost in the attacks on the railroad busi- ness and the commerce of the country are confronted to-day with the reflection that their own folly may lead to [out of employment altogether. ter than partial employment with pay enough to live on until the new, big crop comes for- ward? throwing them Is this bet- ‘The country was poor enough before, De- vastating ‘war, great fires, exploded specula- tion, unremunerative investments, faithless officials, extravagant administration of pub- and private affairs, high local taxation, disturbance of the financés, bankruptcy,—all had contributed to a universal depression in this country, andit affected other lands. Ever sinc 1878 the lines have beon drawing closer. Shock has followed upon shock. Tie miners, tho manufacturers, the navigators, the pro- ducers, the middlemen, the transportation interests, had all suffered. Capital was ina chronic state of distrust, and feared to reach out for improvement. And it was at this crisis that the railroad employes rose up en masse and declared that all business should stop! Their decree has been enforced for a week. Where is the improvement ? ‘ Wuere can any benefit come from it? The loss we can degin to count up, It includes the mill- ions.of property that have been swept from the face of the earth by fire, and the greater millions that have been squandered in the loss of time and the idleness of the steam- power that were engaged in producing or transporting. : The cost of all this falls more heavily upon the workingmen than any other class. ‘Chose whom they call capitalists, whatever the toss may be, can count with reasonable certainty on having enough to eat and drink. But there are families in this city to-day, de- pendent on the earnings of men who have abandoned their work and pay for a week, that are hungry. Can they turn for money to the men whose property has been de- stroyed or whose business has been stopped by violent and unlawful tuterference ? Those who’ threw the stones cannot now ask for bread, The effects of the interrup- tion of business will uot uisappear with the cessation of the strike. The hard times will be harder than ever, and the lack of coutidence grester, and the hope of improvement still further postponed. The country must carry the losses incident to the strike and the mob in addition to the losses it had already suffered, Capital will be more distrustful than ever. Taxes will not be lighter. ‘Lhere will be less remuneration for the employer and proportionately less for the workman. And this is the result, not of a strike, but of a deliberate and lawless at- tack upon society and business, which is the form the railroad strike assumed from the first: The crime has been committed, and the social and commercial penalties cannot be averted. ‘ THE DANGEROUS CLASSES. It.is time that we fully realized the fact that we have in this couniry those who may properly be called by this name. Too long have we applied it only to a certain part of the population of Great Britain and of the countries of Europe. We have thought of the crowded inhabitants of those lands, of their ignorant peasantry, of their densely- populated cities, of their revolutionary pro- pensities and Communistic doctrines, and of the grinding poverty which was at one end of society, while tempting wealth and luxury were at the other, aud wo have’ said that in Europe they had cause to fear the dangerous classes. But of our own land we have said: ‘* Here is freedom ; here isintelligence ; here is abundant land for cultivation anc owner- ship; here is a sparse population; here food is cheap, and wages are good; here self-support is easy, and there are no permanent paupers, We have no dangerous classes in America, With rare exceptions, we have only the law-abiding citizen, the honest farmer,.the industrious mechanic,’ This is a pleasing theory, a fond conception 3 aud once it was fact, thongh it is such no longer. Circumstances have meterially altered, and the character of a portion of our people has largely changed. We have become a great nation of. over forty millions, and although our territory is immense, yet the fertile por- tions are principally occupied, and the States east of the Mississippi are even coming to have, in many cases, a dense population. Not. few number a million, while others run up to two, three, ond four millions, For cheap land one mmst go west of the first tier of States beyond the Mississippi. Our large cities uow approach in size those of Europe. New York, Phila- delphia, Boston, Chicago, Baltimore, Cin- cinnati, and St. Louis may fairly be enumer- ated with London, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg, Liverpool, and Glasgow. We, too, have our crowded tenement houses, and our entire streets and neighborhoods occupied by paupers and thieves. Immigration has brought to our shores crowds of the worst as well as of the better classes of foreignors, with their ignorance, their prejudices, their hatred of the rich, aad theirrevolutionary doctrines, We now have the Communists on our own soil, and can listen to their revilings of capi- tal and their exhortations to violence in Saloons, on the street corners, and at occa- sional meetings on the public squares and in dingy halls. ‘Lhe War also bequeathed to us & multitude of rongh characters, who became enamored of violence, inured to bloody. scenes, and fond of a roving, adventurous life. ‘The hard times have deprived many of regu- jar employmcnt, and mado them despondent, gloomy, and desperate. ‘The city and the coun- try abound in tramps who have become ac- customed ‘to an idie life of beggary, and who, after a year or two of such experience, now actually prefer it tosteady and remu- nerative industry. They are ever on hand, ready for theft, or rape, or incendiarism, and sometimes for murder. In ‘the city they swell the mobs, and in the country they make the fields and woods, and even the roads, unsafe for females, whom they often attack also in the farm-houses when the men are absent. Then, too, we have a rough, brutal class of laborers, colliers, miners, and railroad strikers, who organize as “ Molly Bloguires,” and iu various “ leagues” and “‘ unions,” to intimidate capital, and to com- pel employers to submit to the terms dic tated by their employes. And, finally, tho extrémes of wealth and povorty ‘are now to be seen here as abroad ;_ the rich growing richer and the poor poorer,—a fact to tempt disorder. All these may be termed with Propriety the dangerous classes. They are governed by their passions; they are coarse in tastes and vicious in habits; they are ignorant and revengeful ; they are readily influenced by the worst class of demagogues and revolu- tionists, and are easily maddened by liquor, Having nothing to lose themselves, they are just-the material for mobs, and are teady to join in any outbreak which gives them a sense of power over the decent part of the community, and an Opportunity to pillage and destroy. The whole country has had suck an experience during the last week ag to show that a common danger lurks in all parts, Wherever the railroad men made a “strike,” whether on the Atlantic or Pacific seaboard, or in the interior, they were at once joined by thousands of loafers, pau. Pers, tramps, and roughs, ready for the most desperate measures.- These turned up as if by magic. They swarmed 8s if from the ground. They poured forth from cellar and garret, from field and Jane. In wambers, and omnipresence, and loath- someness they were like the frogs and lice of Egypt. We know now of their existence from actual vision, and we have had a taste of their quality. Nobody wants to see them again, ‘ But we shall see them, in force ond at their mischief, unless we resort to repressive measures such as are called for by the exi- gency. Our authorities missed a grand op- portunity to make a neeful impression. ‘They showed such lack of energy and firm. ness, they seemed 60 afraid of hurting the rascals, that precious time’ was lost, great damage was done, and a very slight rebuke was administered. These dangerous classes need to be mst promptly and severely, and at every point. We must act with our eyes open. .A good beginning was made in the hanging of the “‘ Molly Maguire” murderers. Excellent legisintion has been commenced in a fewof the States looking to asuppression of tramp life, and of violent proceedings and conspiracies on the part of laborers to in- timidate employers and fellow-workmen, and to the prevention’ of interference with rail- roadtrains, These laws must not be allowed to remain a dead letter. Brakemen and switchmen, engineers and firemen, are not the only persons concerned in railroads, that they should undertake their forcible con- trol, Farmers and merchants, all who pro- dues, trade, or travel, are interested in hav- ing the roads unmolested, and they should consequently insist upon the firm execution of law at whatever cost. A few lives taken at the first saves human life in the end. We have no bloodthirsty disposition to gratify ; but we have a strong conviction of the neces- sity of preserving order and enforcing law. A little powder, used to teach the dangerous classes a needful lesson, is well burned, pro- vided there are bullets in front of it. We have no faith in blank cartridges, or in muskets pointed upward. When ariot can be subdued. in one day, why allow it to linger for a week? When it can be put down in an hour, why indulge it foraday? When it can be so direfully ended as not to be re- newed for ten or twenty years, why treat it so mildly as to secure its return possibly in 8 few months? Nor should we forget milder and precau- tiona1y measures, which operate gradually, anu appeal to the better susceptibilities of even the worst classes. Education and relig- ion must be a strong reliance for preventive and permanent cure. These will accompany a firm rule, and insure a final success, Whatever promises moral reform ; whatever overcomes intemperance, idleness, gam- bling, and licentiousness ; whatever tends to industry, sobriety, and economy ; what- ever destroys bratal habits and refines coarse tastes and teaches self-restraint; whatever inculeates the love of Gon and of one’s neighbor, and regard for law and the com. mon good, should be encouraged. So let the common schools and Sunday-schools, the temperance societies, missions, and churches, do their work in all parts of our land. §T. LOUIS COMMUNISM. The cool audacity and impudent effrontery of the Commuuists have nowhere shown so conspicuously as'in St. Louis; In that city ‘ey counted upon the sympathy of the Mayor, who ran into office between the two regular candidates mainly through-the votes of the Communists and the general rabble, and they relied upon him to fulfill his oblign- tions to them by giving them a free rein in the pursuance of their schemes. Down toa certain point the Mayor did not interfere, and they were thus emboldened to. com- mence their work of pillage and destruction of property and their war upon society, which is the legitimate aim of this Order, Then the Mayor made his first protest by issuing a proclamation warn ng them of the consequences of their course. Tie as- tounded Communists, evidently only half comprehending the proclamation, and not being able fo believe that the Mayor would desert them, issued counter-proclamations, which curiously enongh give an inner glimpse of the motives which inspire these malcontents. In their first note to the Mayor, they say: ‘In order to saves use- less waste of your time, it is necessary that we at once say that all offers of work during this national strike cannot be considered by us as @ remedy under the present circum- stances.” This is the essence of Commu- nism, the foundation upon which it rests, the animus that inspires its every ‘effort. We put this point to honest workingmen, to those who may have been misled by the sophistries of these enemies of Iabor,—these lazzaroni who would filch a living from the world which the world does not owe them. Here is their declaration in plain black and white: ‘No offer of work is a remedy.” ‘The element of Iabor does pot enter into the calculation of these lazy louts. They will do anything else but work. They want evory- thing else but labor. Ratherthan carn an hon- est living by honest toil they will burn, stcal, ravage, and plunder. After laying down the broad fact that they will not work, they notify the Mayor that “the scarcity of food is already being felt,” and make the im. pudent proposition that the people of St, Lonis who work for a living shall be levied upon to supply them with food! Who made this scarcity of food? Who have cut off the supplies of produce? Who isolated St. Louis from her country ‘communications? Who blocked up the roads and stopped trains so that the farmers cannot send their prod- uce tothe city? Who have suppressed the very means of transportation, burned cars and depots,and destroyed railroad material, so that food has become scarce? Has it not been done by mobs organized and directed by these very men who will not work themselves, who declare that they will not entertain any offer of work, and who will not allow others to work who are willing? Never was the controlling ele- ment of Communism and all its purposes and motives more clearly developed than in these Communistic mauifestoes. “We will not work, we want to be fed,” is the rallying cry of these lazy Communistic hounds. Why should they not work? If they will not work, why should they be fed? If they are to be fed without work, when, in the name of common sense, will they ever commence to labor? Another characteristic of the Communist isshown in subsequent proceedings. Not content with issuing their bombastic folmi- nations, and finding that no one was likely to pay any attention to them, they called a meeting for the purpose of taking further steps. The Mayor at once determined to suppress it, and sent o sufficient force of police to effect his purpose. Before the police made an en- trance, these valiant- Communist leaders had disappeared out of windows and made their escape on adjacent roofs. This is character- istic of these blustering lazzaroni, who in time of danger take precious care of their own lazy carcasses, and leave their innocent and deluded victims to suffer. The victims in this case were a delegation of men from Bexcnex’s sugar-refinery, who had come to the hall not for purposes of striking or Violence, but to ask permission of these clared that uo offer of Iabor was’ a remedy, to rasume work. .Iustead of asking protec- tion from tho anthorities, they came to the men who had declared that no work should be dove, and of course, get- ting into such bad company, found them- selves under arrest. They were subsequently released, however, and it is to be presumed will not apply to Communists again with reference to the resumption -of labor. The manifestoes of these Communists and their action at the meeting reveal so clearly the real animus that actuates them, namely, the determination to stop labor and quarter themselves upon the community, sponging a living without work, and inciting mobs to burn, and plunder, ought to be sufficient ground for the prompt action of the authori- ties against them as public pests and enemies of society. The Communist anywhere is a lazy, dissolute, sneaking, dangerous vaga- bond, and tae St. Louis Communist scems to be the worst of the whole worthless class. TO WHOM DOES THE WORLD OWE A 5 LIVING? Of the many fallacies that have encouraged the strikers, the rabble, and the Communists in their recent assanlts on society, capital, and labor alike, one of the most dangerous and delusive is that ‘‘ The world owes us a living.” The assumption is utterly false. There are only two classes to whom ‘the world may be said to owe a living in any sense of the term, viz.: Io childven before they grow out of the helpless and dependent condition of infancy, and to the old, deerepit, infirm, who have been worn out in the world’s service. The most liberal philan- thropy cannot go much beyond this. The world owes nothing to the able-bodied man ond woman beyond what they work for and earn, The ‘‘world” is nota debtor, but an outraged creditor and loser, in the case of every loafer and vagabond who lives upon it in idleness, dissipation, or crime. The “world,” at best, is a sort of co-operative institution upon which every one draws according to his investment. The moment a man able to labor ceases to work and stops his contribution'to the com- mon fund, he has nothing to draw against. ‘The laborer who throws away his tool and lifts his voice for “bread” is a sort of con- fidence-man who seeks to swindle the com- munity out of a livelihood which he is not willing to earn. He has the right to strike for higher wages ; he has the right to quit work if he thinks he can do better; but he has no right to throw himself upon the com- munity either to beg, bully, or plunder the living he has voluntarily abandoned. Least of all does the world owe a living to the dead-beats, vagrants, drankurds, thieves, gutter-snipes, Communists, and vicious loafers who came to the front and de- manded it in the recent riots. The world owes these classes rather extermination than alivelihood. Tho ‘ world” will be better off in the degree that such wrutches cease tc exist. They degrade and cripple the “world,” disgrace the wprkingmen of whom they claim to be a part, und render capital timid, distrustful, and unprodactive. How much is owing to the men who destroyed millions of dollars’ worth of other people's property in Pittsburg? How much to the men who have driven thousands of working- men from their piaces during the past week, and brought suffering and dismay on their families? How much to the men who have violently and unlawfully throttled the busi- ness of the country for a week, and made it poorer by tens of millions of dollars? How much to thosa who have burned cars and locomotives, ditched trains. and plundered snd. destroyed freight ? How much to the men who have increased the public expenditures of the United States, the States, the counties, the cities, and the towns, in order to quell distn~bauces and restore public order ? How much to the men who have acted as in- cendinries and highway robbers in plunder- ing communities of their accumulated sav- ings and their vaulable time? In settling this account it isthe thieves, and ruffians, ana incendiary Communists who are the debtors, and they can only discharge their obligation. to society in the jails and penitentiaries, The brawler who claims that the ‘ world” owes him a living may be set down as & rascal or a dead-beat. In one of the Chi- cago mobs of the first few days there was a conspicuous figure carrying a banner on which was inscribed ‘‘ Bread! Brend! Bread!” The fellow that carried that banner was 1 professional thief, well known to the police, and had been familiar with tho interiors o1 several penitentiarics. He was toting this epigrammatic transparency for the purpose o: gathering acrowd upon which his fellow- thieves and pickpockets could operate. While holding aloft a luminous appeal for “Bread! Bread!” he was looking forward to the tenderloins, frogs’ legs, and champagne he proposed to enjoy on the proceeds of the night’s plunder. This is the sort of fellow who believes the ‘‘ world owes him a living,” To such men the reply should be made that Dr. Jounsoy, or Spey Sara, of some other wise old fellow, made to the able-bodied beg- gar who said “ he must live.” It isn’t at ali necessary. In fact, it would be no serious loss for that kind of cattle to die. Mr. W. F. Storer, whose sheet is a perfect changing weather-cock on all subjects, isin the habit of criticisiag his neighbors’ alleged in- consistencies of opinion. People who indulge ‘In this sort of recreation ought not to live in glass houses. To illustrate: Tux Tripoye of Eniday uad an article praising tne police for the able manner in which they seattered the mobs on Thursday last, and a paragrapi in the same issue relecting on the Mayor for not dealing with the rioters earlier and more vigorously. aud saying to nim that it was “no time tor the tempering of duty with the fire of political aspirations.” Storey, who imagined that he had detected some lack of harmony or incon- sistency in the two articles, immediately set up war whoop, and began to fling mud, as usual. Tnis was in yesterday’s Zimes. In the same issue in which he makes his grand discovery public, he was guilty of a most outrageous and flagrant contradiction, which the following ex- tracts will show: ". It increases the general regret that the ‘Mayor did not send the poice and soluters ont on ‘Tuesday with the simple command, *-Quell the riot." “They would have done 11, ‘and Caicago Would have « ditterent story to tell to-day. Tae Mayor's tenger-heartedness was wholly on the wrong side. The Vimies will not accept the cou- ardly theinustions of Tux Taieuse that the May- or's conduct has been motired by political ames toa. Toe seneral sentiment in the community does not include ¢o unwarranted an imputation ‘The Mayor bas been simoly timid. He has in- dulged the hope that the rioters would fing their reason and disperse, and that, by avolding the taking of life, the trouble would be kept at a min- imum, To expect rioters to find reason was ex. pecting what never was. never can oe. and never willbe. The Mayor mast now make up for his week's mistake by such an enforcement of the law as will partially compensate for the delay in 1:3 entorcement. The 2bore soft, tender, and apologetic extract, with its ferce denunciation of Tuz Trisoxz’s intimation, is taken. from the third-column article of the editorial page of Saturday's Times. On the fourth or next column of the same issue ts a blood-and-thunder,. truculent diatribe against Mayor Hearn, charging him with having ordered only blank cartridges to be fired at the rioters, lest “fatal injury might be Want at the next election.” Not satisfied with making this “cowardly insinuation,’’ he repeats the unwarranted imnpatation three times in the same article in close conticuity. That the reader may not suppose we misstate STOREY’s cowardly inusinuation that “the Mayor’s conduct may have been motived by political ambition,” we reproduce the charge in the Times: The police bad orders to forthwith disperse any riotous assemoly, but not todisperse itin a way that wonld give'to the rivter» a realizing senve of tue danger of reassembling five minutes later in another place. ‘hey were to frighten the moters by shooting b ank curtridges, but not .o hurt any of tnem. by tiring bullets. They were to ciear the streets of moos, but not by ding sutal injury to the mobocrate, whose voles Jr. Heatu might want at the next election. As for the militia, they were toenter In full uniform, L. U. &. (as tite stage direction is), and co a great deal of portentous pa- Tading and shouldering of muskets, oud they were not to reduce the number of tr. tteatn’s colers by shouting rioters. ‘heir commanders were to ride bravely at the head of the culunin to the tield Of war, aad post their men i= battle array where their gay uniforms would show to the Lest advan- tage; but instead of annihilating a villa.nous mob of thieves, ourglure, and cut-throats with a few discharses of musketry. they were to stand idle until the rioters disappeared to sclect some new field of operatious. Lut some policenien, regard- fess of oyicial unthority at the Cily-Hall. com- mitted the mistake of killing a few rivters. and the Insurrection, at the ficst sight of blvod, broke down, ‘ce anniluiation of u dozea worthless Tultians in the iret riotous crowd that appeared would have saved enormous luss of property, and would also have euved the local Government from a record of pitiable imbecility,—due it would have been at the sacryice of so many of Heatu's voters! In the slang. plirase of the strect, would it not be well for Witborto “dry up”. on the subject of fucousistencies until he can publish an issue in which what he says in one column is not contradicted by wnat he says in the next? nt THE ABT OF DINING-OUT. A few days ago.we printed an extract from an article in the Saturday deview vouerning the perplexities in sture for dinner-givers. ‘There is another brauci of the subject generally neg- lected by students of social phenomena, aud that is, the woes of the diners-out. Not to speak of the smal! uncertainties as to table-etiquette, which no diner-out of ex- Perience need take into the account, there are the grave doubts asto the menu, the company, and the electrical condition of the atmosphere, —all of which are essential elements of comfort or discom{fort, as the case may be. The genu- ine diner-out, in wnose soul no small envy has founda place, is not above enjoymg, in the fullest sense, the culinary succceses of bis hostess; while he reprehends with just severity, though with mental reservations, the dishes that have failed to tickle his palate or minister to his artistic sense of propriety. Like a wise Judge, und a learned Judge, and a Judge who “has two gowns and everything Landsome about him,” he dors not dehver his opinion on the iastant;- ie reserves jusgment, and gives it inchambers to the wie of his bosom or the contidential advisers of his houschuld. He recognizes—none so well as be—the fact that there can be no vicarious atonement fora bad dinner. The offeuse cannot be charged on the cook. Thecouk is a creature nut known to the unwritten law of the dinuer-table; the diplo- macy of society does not assume the existence of so ordinary an agent. It is true, os Owen MEREDITH so cloyuently says, that civi- lized men cannot live without cooks, but it is also true that civilized men can and do pretend todosv. No social fiction has taken a ormer hold on the rmagination of the masses tnan that which supposes tae mistress of the housebuld to be alsu the mistress of her own kitchen. How painful then is the position oi the uprigut diner- out Who finds himself at the same time yblied toeat the bad messes of his hostess and to award her a retribution equal to her dessert! The person so situated must advance with- out funching through the Gulgotha before him, and add to the horrors of a diseased digestion a serious injury to his fiver sensibilities, Ycars of abstinence and repentance—a whule wiider- ness of Sabbath-Schoul Conventions and prayer- mectings—may not repair the mora! havoc of a single night. The man who, with a full con- sciousness of the consequences, eucounters bravely a fate like this 1s a nero in comparison with whom Casazianca is insix. icant. Weak men, of confiding dispositions, have forgiven iriends who have betrayed them with bad dinners; but history records no instance of forgivencss for one wuo has imposed upon an unprotected man an uncongenial companion at table. The cruelty of matiog a timid old bach- vlor with u Woman of advanced views, or a self- assured youth with a modest and inexperienced girl, can never be condoned. And if it is an vifense to put together a boy and girl who, after a six muntus’ engagement, have for- tunately discovered that they never, never were uy cpded for euch other, bow much more mon- strous is it to separate a similar pair who, under the same conditions, have arrived at ex- actly the opposite couclusiua! Either arrange- ment provides sullicently for tue misery of two persons, whuse only crime in the eye of Heaven may be a deflcicucy of guod sense and character. But of ull tue arrangements for an unpleasant dinuer-party tuat can be conceived, the most complete, to our mind. is that which provides an equal ouinber of datl and brilliant gueste. One clement or the other is discordant. The dull are terruic. and overpowe-ed, or, far Worse, they are spa.red by example to attempt achievements for whi 1 Nature never qualitied them. The effect upon the brilliant is quite us disastrous. Teupted oy tae love of display, they assault impregaavle heights, and insult Providence w.ti spurious and profane sallies of fancy, taste and prejudice. fhe dull dinner-party. on the whole, is the safest and most comiortable. Eiforts of mind are at war with organ.zed aud fatelligent efforts of stomach. ‘Ihe gastric juices will udimit no di- vided empire; wncu they are at play, all the microcosm of puny man should munister to their wants; dulluess, the plilosopaer tells us, isa breeder of quiet and content. Conversa- tion has gone out of fashivn at tue best dinner- tables; and the gr-at conversers bave been by wise humanity voted the greatest bores. Tie model conversation was epitomized by Mother Goose long ago in those never-to-be-forgotten fines: As Tommy Snooks and Bessy Brooks Were walking vut one Sunday, Says ‘Yummy Suouks to Bessy Brooks, ‘Yo-morrow will be Monday. ‘The nicest care in the selection of guests, and the most complete success in : cooking, will not serve if the atmospheric conditions be not favorable. Areas of low bardmeter hover over the most splendiuly-appointed tables. There are critics who set up as their standard of excel- lence the presence of “magnetism” in any company to a greater or less degree. “ Magnet- ism” is aconuvenient word to describe that oc- cult something which nobody can define or realize, but which everybody feels. Where it is not, real merriment cannot enter. Forced hilarity may be raised for the ion; but its hollow laugh, feverish excitement, and consumptivejself-delusion make but @ poor substitue for genuine good-iellow- ship. “Magnetism” is banisned by circum- stances over which frail humanity has no con- trol. No hostess can provide it with her wines and cigars. Business cares, disappointed loves, illness, and weariness dispel it cifectually, and no magician’s wand known to modern times can summon it back. Where it comes with good eating and congenial companions, the true con- ditions of social enjoyment are present in the highest degree. Who shall say that a dinner thus provided is not the most rational pleasure known tosociety? It gratines the eye with the sight of fair women‘and brave men; the ear with the murmur of well-modulated conversation; the nostrils with the scent of Aowers; and the palate with the flavor of meats and wines. It satisfies the appetites for food. and drink, the craving of the mind for exercise, and of the imaginatiug for gentie stimulants. When these are provided for, the mora! nature is at rest and at peace, and the whole mau on a higher plane of existence. © This is the modern symposiuin. 3 or It is well to see ourselves as others see us. Chicago was undoubtedly’ disgraced fast Tues- day by the imbecile timidity of the City Au- thorines, who hited not atinger in defense of thecitizens, but allowed the mob to domineer over the town from morning until midnight, runbing out Tuestay’s surreader to the cangii ‘With the Associated Press reports before the editor of the moderate, conservative New York Times felt constrained to make these ments on that pusillanimous day's doings: Chicago [on Tuesday] fell without a at the hanus of the etnizers, oetween whom are ae riotony element outede of their uwa ranka th isin this, agin most other ca-es, no distinene Fhatever. Nearly every impoctant worsehoy sot factory in the city were empticu of their occy by the Caicago mob, the employers acguiescing es svoiu the risk uf the destruction of their Property, Amore perfect illustrat on of the helplessness Our jmanicipal governments in the face or popuine tumult could bardiy be Imagined. ‘Theat thuritles of Clear dtu uvzolutely”nofiing on tke eve of impendins tronole, and when it came thes seem to have been absolutely incapabte of devisi any remcdy. save that of waiting for the revencs: of Unites States tenops to pcutect the Eves ‘aad property which it is their chief business to defend. t will stmply be due to the moderation of the wap If there vc not a serious Joss of both in the cours of the next twenty-four hours. - Inthe meant Chicayo 1s aclty withouta rovernment. and pret Senta a most inviting Geld fur that numerous cla of tts population whicu is ready to take advan of auy Opportunity to correct the inequaliti which exist in the distribution of personal wet Portable property. a ‘The Revised Statutes provide as follows: Src. 46—Cruuxat Cope: If any two or more persgus conupire und agree together, with randulent or malicious intent wroastuliy ang wickedly . . . . todoany illest act, Injuzi- - ous to the pnblic trade, health, morals, potice, or administration of public justico .. «arte induce any person . . . . to commits felony, they shall be deemed guilty of conspiracy; amt every such offender, und every person cunsicted ot conspiracy at common law. stall be imprisofed jn the Fenitentiary not exceeding three years, or fined not exceeding $1, 000, Puuip Van Patzey, Jons Scniwurse, ang a fellow named STOZULE were appointed on the H Executive Comunttee of strikers. Scartusg and SToeuLe heaied branches of the mod, Van Patrex and the man Paxsons stafd at their headquarters directing the mob and send. ing instructions to and receiving news from the rioters. Let the enforcement of the taw be prompt, and the punishment exemplary. S$ Now that things are quieting down, some at- tention should be paid to the impudent Com. munists, VaN Parren and Parsoxs. Thety sneaking denials ‘of any copartnership with the, mob has won for them the coutempt of tho: rioters, and their action in originating and pe petrating the disturbances has rendered them amenable to the severest penalty of the law. <a Telegrams were pouring into the city yester. day from anxious people demanding intelligenca’ of friends, for whose safety fears were enter. tained. This anxiecy was causcd by reckless. special dispatches announcing an era of battle and carnage. Let up, boys; you'liget your pay: all the same. 2 $$ There is a question of veracity between 9 Times reporter and a rioter. . The reporter says he shot the rioter dead, and the latter stourly denies the stcry, and says he can prove tne peg- ative. It is manifest that the rioter lies. and we congratulate the reporter on his prowess and pluck. PERSONAL. A wealthy member of Parliament hay given Birket Foster orders for water-color draw. ings to the amounc of $1C0, 000. Gov. Van Zandt, of Rhode Island, presid. ed over the New England temperance mass-meet- ing which assembled at Rocky Hout Tharsday, ‘The New York Tribune says, w-ih reason and truth: ‘* This is a great time for the mild {dlot whore chief businces it is to predict the overthrow of the Republic.” Queen Victoria has been visiting Mz, Bagster, the widow of Samuel Bagster, the pub- lisber- of the Polyglot Blole. She is an ancient lady, 100 years old. Mr. Swiuburae is engaged in writing a study of the Bronte eisters—Charlotte and Emily —as puts. They left little verse, but it was very delicate, inished, and characteristic. The death is anuounced of Prof, Zoepii, Of the University of Heldelberz, where he occupied the chair of German Law for forty year. His works on the subject are nighly appreciated in Ger- many. During the coming season Mr. Edwin Booth will play a season of four weeks in the thea- tre im New York which was once his, and still beara bis name. Le once declared he would never put foot within its doors again. ‘The anthor of ‘ Festus” made Luc'fer re- mark that be wished to macadamize the world be- canse the road to hell needed mending: snd the New York orld sugzests that the leaders of thé late riots were engaged in this congeniui service. Mr. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., des res t sce the school system enbjected to a thorough an intelligent overbanl.ng. His experience is ths the scnolar vent up from tue grantnar to the big, schouls who can really read and wnite is the excep tion, and not the rule. George W. Matsell, whose death was re cently reported from New York, was the proprietor of a low sporting newspaper, bat it is generally ad- mitted by the oultuary-writers toat he deverves the credit of the present ¢ficient organization of the police force uf New York City... The London correspondent of the New York Times suspects the trath to be that Bismarck is fooling both Austna and enziand, playing with these two great nations as with batteuoor and énuttlecock, first in the interest of Russia, and afterwards for the beneiit of Germany. Richard Grant White says: ‘I wieh that there were four or five ‘Wallack's’ in New York, and two orthree in Boston und in Philadelphia, and one in every smaller city thronghont the coun- try. For there une not only aves good plays and good acting, but hears good English speech.” The Brooklyn Board of Police were noti- fled on Wednesday that a company of fifty men had agreed to lynch Henry Ward Beecher for his late utterances in regard to the strikers; out, inasmuch a6 Mr. Beecher was out Sf town- and his honse locked up, they were not terrided by tho informa- tion. Meissonier is very finical about his dress. On one occasion he Iabured long over his boots, without getting a satisfactory polish. A friend who was standing by Enally lost patience aad said: **Good heavens, Melssonier, if you want your boots to be so highly appreciated, why don’t you sign themr” “Phe story that Boucicault is writing a play for Brignolf fa not so extravazant after all,” remarks the Dramatic News, *-as the prolific adapter really has a piece on his hands in which one of the pro:inent parts is an Italian tenor with abroken accent. Negutiations have been entered jot between Goucicault and Brguoli for this role.” ‘The New York Post says: “Ex-Mayor Fitch. of New Haven, who died a few wecks s20, Jet an estate worth $200, 000, with a request that after the death of his wife it should all go to Yale Coliege. There are no children of Mr. Kiteh liv- ing.” The truth of this statement is questioned by New Haven reporters, who seem not to be ate to get access to the will. Rossini, walking one day in Passy witha friend. passed a stout street-musician singing tos guitag, in the most horrible fashion, the serenade from the **Barbier.” Tha composer stopped and gave tne vocalist a piece of money: ** What!" said his friend, astonished; ‘-you encourage this robust mendicant? He has no infirmity needing pity.” **Oh!” said Koasini, *-didn‘t you hear the voice with which he is aftlicted!” The New York Evening Express iclis 2 sad story of Thomas Day, the author of that goody- Roody book, ‘Sanford and Merton.” °*He thought that to aecure a wife after his own heart be would bring one up bimself. He accorzingly took from a charity school two orphan sisters, with 8 View of murrying tae one who turned oat tobe the oest, after he nad had them educated inythe way he thought proper. Bat alas! when the 6¢- lected one matured to beautifal. perfection, the disappointed Thomas had to endure the woe of #ee- ing the maiden of his choice carried off by some younger man who pleased her fancy more, Thomas aid not educate any more sirls, but a gentleman of New York City, who, perhups, had never heard of Day's defeated hopes, made a similar edort. Won by the childish yrace of his waeberwoman’s “little daugater, he provided facilities fur her education, Promising, as the rewara of patient study, to make the young student his wife upon ber graduation. Bat his pretty protege had a will of ‘her own, ard ranaway with her music master before her educa on was finivhed, uogratefully leaving her leas at tractive benefactor to ponder on the capricions D&- ture of ‘woman in our houre of ease,’ Tita Ca fOs RTE este NPE" Y é 1 anteeng? op eeangaet