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THE NEW ORLEANS DAILY DEMOCRAT.
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA AND OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANB.
VOL. II---NO. 22(;. NEW ORLEANS, SA tT RDAY, AlUGUST 4, 1877---QUA I)IDRUPLE 81H EET. PRICE, FIVE CENTS.
S DOMESTIC NEWS.
THU UG ATRIKE.
'he I'slultlon of Athlirr in the Mliing;
tRerlon.
IM4ecital to the Democrat.l
New VORn, Aug. 3.-Dispatches recelved
here by the President say that the Delaware,
La kawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad got
trains through by guarding each one with
troops. Obstructions are put on the track.
and wires are cut at night. Things are not
yet quiet at Plymouth. The wires are cut at
that place. About 4900 troops are here and
along the lackawanna and UIlknmsburg Rail
road.
The Rountahnouts at Cairo.
Special to the Democrat.]
CAIRo, Aug. 3. -A number of levee negroo.s.
last night, attempted to prvent hands from
coaling the towboat Norton, and assaulted
. tn with stones. Mr. Anderson, the mate,
the rioters to Ilight by a few shots from
his revolver, and no further interruption .c
t urred.,
Afrival of . M. Troops at Mantt (Chunk.
I[nciial to the Demtnoral.1
MAUc'R CRHUK, Pa., Aug. 3--Three hiun
dred regulars arrived here tils morning.
T'he Verdlet of the Oreoner's Jury in the
Dalttinere Riot Case.
[(Special to the Democrat.]
2ALTrrMORI, Aug. 3.--The coroner's jury in
the case of the persons killed in the late riots
by members of the Sixth Regiment, after
three and a half hours' deliberation, conclude
that the soldiers being demoralized, a great
deal of unneceesary firing was done oil Balti
more street, especially west of lGay street.
The responsibility for killing rests with the
rioters who attacked the soldiers. The au
torities are censured for not having a police
folce at the armory, sufficiently large to pro
teeot the assembling of the soldiers from as
saults, which forced them to use their wea
pons In self-defense.
Trains Mtepped.
"BrrmrtrA.ant Aug. 3.-No trains wore al
owed to pass Penn Haven Junction Woednes
day, There are three hundred regulars with
artillery In the vicinity to support Itce io ver
Lathrop In working his road.
The Lake Mhore Road.
C(t ,t..AND, Aug. 3.---The tratip men of the
Lake Shore Road resume work to>lay. (Gen
eral Manager Newell made some t&echnical
aed+Od sio to to the men. Shopmen awl
=fz ht-h.e hands continue the strike.
Federal Appointments In the soullh.
[Sptcial to the Democrat.1
CI.NOftNATI, Aug. 3.-A G(Jt'tc Washington
special says the tendency of the Administra
tIon now is to appoint new officers in place of
most of (kant's appointees In the South.
VctllMtS Ot the Custer Massacre.
(Special to the Democrat.]
ST. LOUrn, Aug. 3.--The remains of ('apts.
Yates and Custer, and Lieuts. Smith, McIn
tosh and Calhoun, killed in the Custer mnassa
cre, were buried at Fort Leavenworth. this
afternoon.
A Texas Loan.
ISpecial to the Democrat.l
Nnw YORK, Aug. 3.-The controller of
Texas, now here, has called in five hundred
thousand dollars of the pension bonds of that
State, having negotiated a six per cent loan
here.
A Fatal Conflagratlon.
[Spelal to the Demoernt.l
CLnCINNATI, Aug. 4. - Pelstrlng's cigar
box factory, corner of Eighth and Broad
way, was burned this morning. The em
ployes, mostly girls, were at work in
the third and fourth stories. Some es
caped through windows to the roofs
of other buildings, but it is feared eight or
ten perished in the flames. Four bodies have
been recovered; bits of clothing still remain
ing led to the identification of the bodies.
Jahn Blanchard, engineer in the factory,
died from injuries received and two girls and
one man were so badly lbrned that they will
prolnbly die.
The Nathan Murderers tgain.
[Special to the Democrat.l
BALTIMORE, Aug. 3.-James T. Huff, ar
rested on a charge of swindling, says in the
statement found with him that Col. E. Garri
son, Johnny Irving and Billy Forrester, all now
in the State Prison, murdered Benjiamin
Nathan in New York some years ago.
A Texas Murderer.
[Speelal to the Democrat.]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-Ex-Deteetive C. S.
Bell, a witness in the safe burglary cases, has
been arrested on the requisition of the Gov
ernor of Texas, charged with the murder of
Wm. Morris in 1869.
A Call for 5-2Os.
[Special to the Democrat.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-The Secretary of the
Treasury to-dayf issued his fifty-fourth call
'gr the redemption of ten millions of five
twenty bonds of 1865.
A Decision Touching the Late Confedl
Seracy.
RICHarooD, Aug. 3.-Judge Hughes, of the
United States District Court, decided that the
gold from the Virginia,treasury, which the
State officials distributed among themselves
on the evening of the evacuation of Rich
mond, was the property of the United States
Government, and that the action brought
against said officials by the United States
Government can be maintained in his court.
The amount involved is twenty-five thou
sand dollars.
WAR NOTES.
The Battle of Plevna.
[Special to the Democrat.)
LONDON, Aug. 3.-A Times special from
Bucharest says that persons of high stand
ing, arriving from Simnitza, state that the
Russians occupied Plevna August 1 and rout
ed Osman Pasha's army. This is thesame
correspondent who recently announced the
defeat of Ahmed Eyoub Pasha, which proved
ThiNeras' narrative of the battle of Plerna
on July 31 gives the Russian forces as thirty
two thousand infantry, sixty field guns and
three brigadesof cavalry. It says this defeat a
makes the Russlan hohl on Bulgaria exltrem.e
ly precarious.
More Rulfsann Troops for the Danube.
[Hpeelal to tho e Demorrat.]
BRlr.trN, Aug. :.- The Russian Minister of
War directs all army corps not yet mobill
ized to furnish a division each to thed fighting
army, to he immediately dispat.lhed to the
Danube.
Sweden Armning.
Iveelal to th Denmocrat.]
VlINNA, Aug.3.--The I'olitlirl (drrrrspm
dren'estatAes in view of the piolitical aituatlon
that Hwedtin eontenipiants some millitry prte
parations.
''he War Il Atla.
SHoecial to the D)emocrat.J
EnzaoRStlt, Aug. ':.--The IRusslan col'ntre.
havinig beeot reinforced, has resumed the
oflensive. Tho'er, has bte'n continuous light
ing on the alvaneed lintes before Enrs. T'he
lRussian right Is imarching on l'erek.
The Iluslan Dlnatcerq.
([sp.ioal to the Democrat.]
LiONDO(N, Aug. 3.--A 'o.respnldent sends
frlom Poredin, near Plevnait. agraphic account
of Tuesday's light, from which it uaplars
that the Russians were completely roul anlld
their army demortlized. The corrtespondent
adds that on this side of the Balkans there re
maini hut the Ninth Corps. already roughly
handled - once at Nikopolls and once at Plev
na- one division of the Eleventh Corps antd
the Rustehuk army. Now, if the lfustchuk
army is marched to the west against Plvna,
then the Turkish army of ltustchuk is let
loose on the Russelan coummunieattons to Tir
nova, one cannot avoid the cone'lusion that
the Russian advance over the Balkans is so
riously impeded.
A special is pujlilshed giving an aounti of
another defeat of the Russlanis before 1'levna
Wednesday.
Mnoblllitllti of the Mervlan Army.
(Hpeclal to the Democrat.]
LONDoN, Aug. 3.--A Belgrade speial 'says
that there are strong signs of an appronahing
moilllzatmon of the Mervian army.
Turklal Victorles.
1Speclal to the Democrat.]
LONoIoN. Aug. .--A .Shumnla dispatch re
ports that Mehemot All is ntatcking .the
Russians neoar Rasgrad.
Thi Turks are reported meeting with ,mti'
es( illn several engagement.ll
Telegrams confirm tle Torki|lI tic' eupt ito
of Es1ki Saghm'.
The Dattle of Plevna.
LiNDON, Aug. i:.--The \.tr.i. in its deta.ibh
narrative of timt Iatti~ of Plovna. gives lthe
Russian forces an :32, 000 infantry. 160 lihId
guns and threi, brigades of cavalry', and says :
'Tils defeat makes the Russians' ]hoi in iful
garia extronmely pll a'ioul, and must compel
the withdrawal of trioops fronl somelll other
point where they are neurly as hailly needed
to boat the Turks at Pleovna. Beaten they
must Ie, and that spneedily if the lRussian
airnty is not forthwith to retire ingl oriously
into tihe Danubian principali[tics.
Movenents of the Two Arnlles.
LONDON Aug. 3.--The K'we ' iltulhlro't
corriesLnrident, tolegraphing omin Thursdaly,
says: Bthe troops recently engaged ait 1'levn\1t
have retired behind OsLna river. The Six
teenth lDivision of the Fourth ('orps is cross
ing at Simnitza and will probably reinforce
them. All the seatttert pHRossian troops now
In the principalities have heen summondt into
Bulgaria,
I understand the Turks are not advancing
eastward fromn their Plevna position, but,
are passing strong forces froml'ol Plla north
ward toward Looca.
Another Rutslan Defeat at Plevna.
LONDON, Au. :1.--The )anily Thlrgraph has
a sptxeial dllspatch purporting to give an ae
count of another defeat of the Russians ibforo
Plvina on Wednesday.
The Russian Mituatlon Yerloaus.
LoNismN, Aug. .--A Tirnova dispatch says:
rhe situation is serious. As long as the Turks
hold Pl'oina the army c( cps here cannot be
further weakenel to rilnfiorceo Gen. Gaurko.
There are some doubts whether he will be able
to retain the advanced position beyond the
Balkans.
The Battle of Eski Mag hara.
LONDON, Aug. :..-The Tcle'raphl,'. special
from Karabunar says: The Russians lost live
guns at Eski Saghara.
Gernan Views.
LoNION. Aug. 3 -Berlin papers consider
that the battle of Plevna puts an end to all
hope of terminating the war this year, and
lessens the chances of intervention by Austria
or England.
The Irish Hmine Rule Party.
[Spocial to the Democrat.l
LONDON, Aug. 3.-The recent scenes in the
House of Commons have c(aused a serious
split in the Home Rule party, and Parnell is
proposed for the position of honorary presi
dent of the Home Rule Confederation of Great
Britain, in place of Butts. A meeting of the
party has been called to consider future ac
tion in regard to obstruction.
The Pope's Audiences.
LONDON, Aug. 3.-A Rome dispatch to the
Times says the Pope continues his audiences.
MONEY AND STOCKS.
[Special to the Democrat.l
NEW YORK, Aug. 3.--Gold 105%; IU. S. G's
of 1881, 111%; do coupons 112%@112.4; new
4%'s, 108'@4108%; coupons. 108%@108%;
5-20's, 1865, new issue. 106?s@107; 1867, 109; 1868
coupons, 111; 10-40's, 109%1~ 109%'; coupons,
112i;,; currency 6's, 124'~@126; new 5's, 1093%
@110.
LONDON, Aug. 3.-Consols for money 95 1-16;
U. S. new 4.%'s, 1061.; 5-20's of 1867, 106%; 10
40's 110,:; new 5's 107,; Erie, 8'4.
DOMIESTIC MARKETS.
[Special to the Democrat.[
CINCINNATI, Aug. 3.-Flour quiet. Grain
quiet and unchanged. Whisky steady. $1 08.
Pork and lard are held firm.. Bulk meats,
514,7l/ Bacon quiet. Iý
ST. Louls, Aug. 3.-Flour is very dull
Wheat is lower; No. ,2 red $1 30 bid cash
No. 3 do $1 20 bid cash; sales $1 174...l 175/
August. Corn lower; 43% cash, 43?r43>
August, 4414@44 September. Oats easier'
261. bid cash for August. Whisky unchanged.
Pok firmer; job lots $13 60. Bulk meats
nothing doing. Bacon is unchanged. Lard
steady; summer 8,'4.
CHICAGO, Aug.3.-Wheat steady at $1 111
for August' $1 04' for September. Corni
quiet at 47 4714 for August; 4..- 44674 for
September. Pork dull at $13 57%/ for Septem
ber. Lard dull; offered at 9 for September.
Whiskey quiet at $1 08.
WarsKr, WmsKY.-bee D. E. MorI hy & Son's
anotiul advertiement.
TIlE BIG STRIKE.
TIlE NORTH TIIRE TENED WVITll A
IREAL CIVIL WAR BETWEEN
POOR AND RICH.
The GJrowtil of C'ommuaunlnm, A.rarrianltm
and M.oriallmn In tias Country, ani the
tlme ntrenwth tand Power of
the lnboring Classes.
Iop-ialu C(,rrioponh,'nel, oe f the N. 0. Denorrnt.I
NEw YontK, July :0.
Tihe great strlike hlas now reached a
stage at wlhich thosme, at least, who
have nothiilng to lone or to gain bly it mn ay
view It v.itlhl alnmness, and survey it with rel
spect to its hearing upon sodtal and political
questions. At all evenlts we haviseon to what
an extenIt an uplheaval of certain classes of
laborers may nffsct the welfare of socloty at
large, and wee have also Csoon to what, extent
the "'legal aulthorities" are able or powerless,
whichever phrase you may prefer, to deal
with insurrectionrs of such character. View
ing the' affair fromn these standpoints, two
conclusions are irresistIbln. First, that what
is cnalie "law and order" is a condition that
exists by c'ommnon consent of the body politic,
if not indeed by sufferance of the mob: that
is to say, the substratum of soelet.y.
Seconld, that,
c(ullt (t V EIINMa.ENTA iL HYiTIt
is entirelly inadequate to the protection of tlhe
tenormious aggregations of property that have
drifted Into the ihands of individuals during
late years, against turbulonene on the part of
the equally vast masses of men who hlave
ceen, during the same time and biy the same
iprocisses, reduced to a sort of sorfdom.
It is not my purposeto load your columns
with turgid moralizing, or to repel your read
ere with dull processeA of login. But I may
instancee facts which are on all men's tongues
without dlipping into the metaphysical and
therebhy Incurring rliclule all the way from
the composing roonm of tie IDEMOCRiAT to the
breakfawt tables of Its readers.
The nimost, striking fact developed by this
mov'lement is the therrible antipathy which has
growIfn up amlolng tilhe poor and laioroing
classes aeaiiinst tthcse who possess grleat
wc'alth. If this were ia more antagonismn in
tihe aiestr'act .on the part of
tAilltRl AAINST ('APT'rAL,
intangible tnnd without ,ethtir resplonsiblc
4 tlrc'le' cr ' cr dfllncld clbjec't it would not anmoulnt
to neilch. Buhtt t, lhas p.sseulI far be-ycond that
stage' anld lhas re'acheld a point where', for ex
alphle'. ,ohll Jone's and William Smith, labor
o'rs, re'garcd Williamn H. Vanilderlilt, Jay (louldi
and 'I'Toi Scott, eapitalisIts, as t'heir natural
encecices, wheo.e welfare means their loss and
whosel dicownfall wolild rediound teo their
gain. Pl'er'itieps yoe u can better
utndirstantild what I nat driving at
If I sal thait. the indivilduals nanmed have
are'fully keptl their pec'rsonlls (outi. of sighlt of
the mliobt-s, andI for lthe c'S t of ote(asons. I veon
c lrc tbo assert that to-day, qulliet as the sitiun -
tion hal.s b'ecome, and thoeroughly as, the strik
ors thniemselves hleaver supprdesMed the incilpient
vielnites of thleir mloveelncoit. Toeirn Scott ceoldl
nlt, get, throu'lgh I'ittecsbc:rg. o, r ""anclderhilt
thirough Buffal, alive'!
If 'you ctiak one of tihe tu'bullont, working
mnon why he 'ich'rishes steleuh oelnlity towards
thllose individuals who have never (lone him
anyll pecrsonal harm, ihe will reply thnt, he
"hates. tlhem lbecause they Itre richeer titan
anybody lia a. right to Ie in this country;"
and "becaucse tithe timnes nover will be good in
thlis country so long as there are individual
mnien in it, worth enough to make a hundred
thousand imen comfortatable!"
Tlhese two lprotpositions may ee hquoted as
emibodying the fundamental mnaxiris of the'
worloingmlen's rced, to wit: That certain
men are "richer than any matln has a right to
be in this country," and that "the tinmps n ever
will be goxl in this countrly so long as there
are individual lmcn in it worth enotgih to
maken hundraed thousand men comfortalble."
Now, then, I may not be an acute observer
and may wrongly intllerret overything I
hear; but so far as I am capable of judging
thosentimcnts of masses by the expressions
of individuals, and by the tenor of the, com
mon converse anti acts of the whole body, the
above is what I gather. To nmy mind it is
perfectly clear that great changes have taken
place in the tone and scope of thought among
I the laboring and non-property owning classes
in our country during recent years. You may
call it by whatsoever name you please
COMMUNISM, AGRARIIANISM, SOCIALISM--
or anything els,--I know from the evidence
Sof facts which to me are indisputable, that in
Sthe estimation of the vast majority of the
SAmerican people, the mill)ionaire has come
Ste be looked upon as a public enemy! This
Sgreat fact must be met and considered in all
legislative efforts to deal with the problems
Swhich the events of the last few days have
forced foremost into public attention.
Some years ago the mass of the Northern
people came to the conclusion that the South
ern slaveholder was a public enemy-and we
all know what was the practical end of that
reasoning process. Now the enmity of the
populace has a new object-the millionaire;
and for my part I amu ready to hazard the
prediction that his ultimatq fate will be simi
lar to that which has overtaken the slave
holder, unless-well, unless what ? Unless
the millionaire can speedily organize a gov
ernmental systemn adequate to the protection
of his interests and to the constant repres
sion of the turbulent masses, who see them
selves growing poorer and more wretehed as
he grows richer and more luxurious. The
attempts of the State authorities to handle
the mobs have resulted very muc like Mrs.
Partington's historic effort to repel the At
lantic tides with her venerable mop.
THE FEDEEAL GOVERNMENT HAS INTERVENED
here and there with handsful of regulars, but
what have they done? Why, they have
guarded the property of the United States!
which the strikers never had any intention
of troubling. As to the mob it has been de
fensive, and, when unassailed, quiet. But
in the single instance when it has been at
tacked by the forces the States called out for
its repression, it has rended those forces limb
from limb-though little better armed than
with the fingers and teeth of nature. We
have seen that the mob already has
the rude organization of quick sympathy in
a common cause, and that it fights admirably
under no better tactics than those suggested
by the Instincts of self-prservation and re
venge. But we are not permittAed to suppose
that the mob will ever be again so badly or
ganized, so poorly armed or so inefficiently
led as it was upon this, its first demonstra
tion. On the other hand, the prolongation
of the causes which led to so much of organ
zatlion and lleiciency as we have already seeoon
will inevitably produce constantly Improving
organization, and the next move will be just
as much more formidable than this one, as
this one was more formidable than the latent
condition that preceded it.
This "strike," as it is called, will soon end,
the men will go to work again or permit oth
ers to take their places, and the machinery of
society will be set running. When this has
been accomplished the average American citi
zen will draw a long breimth, say that "it is all
over now,thank (Gis," take a drink and be tran
quil as to his mind. We have often remarked
that peculiar goodt-natured cynicism of the
average citizen. But "it will not be all over.'
On the other hand there will be
HIMPLY AN AIIMI5TIC'E.
The bogrinied millions who tail have
made a. show of force and are satisfied.
Among other things they have,eonclusively
shown that they are not to be "put down" by
any dandy militia companies made up of
dapper clerks and counter skippers, law
students, et cetera, from Philadelphia. They
have admonished tile "legal authorities" how
frail and flimsy is the "authority of gov
ernment" under our system- which seems
to be represented mainly by dlemagog
ucry and stupidity. And they have
warned their employers that even the
worm may turn. Let it not be presumed
that the enormous and daily growing mass
of men whose wages would not pay for the
cigar stubs their nabob employers throw
away, are going to abandon their organiza
tion or abate their struggles. In short, this
is an irrepressble conflict, and that's the sum
and substance of meaning in this whole
business.
Well, I have lately read in some of the sa
pient newspapers of the North, perhaps a hun
dretd times reiterated, the grave statement
that "this is the ancient conflict between cap.
ital and labor, and labor ought to know that
('AI'ITAL ALWAYH ( 'SrTHn EDE T OF THE F TlIIT
in the long run."
l)eas. it?
Well, yes, it, always has in the past. But
stb p a molnint. Where anrl undelr hat, con
ditions have lad 'or and capital struggled hero
tofore when capital has "nlways had the hcst
of the fight in the long run?" In England?
Yes; where it is the custom to ride labor mobs
down with squil.irons of regular cavalry-
Dragoon (Guards-the most, perfect horse sol
diery in the world --men who never ldisobey
an order andl who think as their horses think
by th, bugle. In France? Yes; whore in flf
ten minutes the entire Faubourg St. Antoine
can be swept with the giuns of regular hat
tories from six directions, and where an arrmy
corps of trained infantry can be sulmmoncel at
ihl' drum tarp within any t'fty-mile radius in
the country. And .o of e very other nation in
Ch rist.cndlo but U n .
Men talk about the' "repre..si'v power of
the government" just as if our system were
like' those of the Old World; devised express
ly for the protectin of the rich and privi
leged. few against the toilling and wretched
mass. We have been tried in foreign war
and, like other Republics, have been grandly
successful. We have been tested in a section
al struggle and the cohesive force of the na
tion has been found all-sulficient. We' have
just now had a
FORETASTE (OF REAL CIVIL WAI:;
of that conflict or classes, which is the most
terrible of all species of war. And, so fur as
force. has been called In requisition for pur
poses of "repression," it has aggravated the
evil instead of curing it.
Pi'ttsburg would have bIen quit had not
the Philadelphia militia firedtl the first shot.
And even after all the turbulence provoked by
the rashness and aggravated by the subse
quent cowardice of the Philadelphia Furiosoos,
it was the imobl) itself that checked the de
struction; not the "legal authorities." After
that Pittsburg affair, the venerable governor
of New York got his back up and declared he
would suppress the strike in this State if it
took a hundred thousand men ! He called out
his militia. HIe announced his intention of
beginning at Albany and "opening the block
ade in all directions." Had he adhered to his
sanguinary declarations New York city
would undoubtedly have been in flames within
twelve hours after the firing of the first shot
in the Central yards at West Albany. Butwe
have oblserved that the venerable Gov
ernor of New York did not turn his
bloodthirsty militia loose after all. Simply
because the railroad managers rushed fran
tically to him--personally and by telegraph
shouting, "Don't! for God's sake, don't! Do
you want all our propertydestroyed ? All we
want you to do is to make a show of force
while we make a treaty with the insurgents!
But for Heaven's sake, don't spill any blood !"
Thus the venerable and well meaning coun
try politician who finds himself to his great
astonishment in the gubernatorial chair of
New York was prevented from being the in
nocent cause of possibly the greatest calami
ty that ever befell any community. For I
know indisputably that the torch was ready,
and that the first shot fired by the militia at
the striking workingmen was to have been
the signal for its application to well nigh
everything combustible in New York. The
shot was not fired and will not be, ypu may
depend upon that. Moreover the bulk of the
militia has been ordered to disband.
When you know these things you can form
an idea of the meaning of a phrase hereinbe
fore employed, that
"LAW AND ORDER EXIST FEERE BY SUFFER
ANCE OF THE MOB."
When I heard of the exploits of
HARTRANFT' MILITIA
in Pittsburg I wondered if they were part of
that fifty thousand whom the hangman of
Mrs. Surratt was going to send down to mash
the White League and restore the 2arpet-bag
dynasty! If this, I thought, is their behavior
when matched against a mob of women and
children armed with nothing but cobble stones
and coupling pins, what would be their fate
when confronted by the veterans of Chancel
lorsville and Chickamauga, armed with Win
chester rifles ! But this is not to the Doint.
There is another phase of the situation
here to whichl I must not fall to call your at
tontion. The key notoA was given out last
week by
HENIY WARD InEEI !IEIt
and Bishop Simpson, and to-day in every
Methodist and Congregational Church in the
North the burden of the Aermon is to charge
the' responsibility of the strikes upon the
Catholic Church! 1 presume there are a
great many intelligent readers of the DEMO
c.|AT who will doubt this statement, unwill
ing to belloeve that any pulpit anywhere could
possibly be defiled with such idiotic sacrilege.
But It is a solemn fact that the North Metho
dist and Congregational Churches have seized
upon even this agony to use for ammunition
in their crusade against Catholicism.
And this in fa.o of the fact that Bishop
Taigg did more with his single voice to cheek
the dievastation at Pittsburg than all the
other influenFes that wereat work there com
bined. Homltilme I thinlk that a people who
tolerate [such an religionism, and suffer them
selves to be glluidedl andi controlled by such
idliotic knaves as the men who preach such
doctrine, do not deserve anything better than
the fury of the mob or the torch of the incen
diary.
Whatever may be the present Ilnancial and
commercial effects of this movement upbn
the country at large, I can say to my
friends, the people of the South, that the
politica.l results will be beneficial to them,
in that it will tend to divert the attention of
the New England domagogues to something
else thin their recent task of inciting hate
and suspicion between the North and the
Mouth. You will got a long rest and respte from
political persecution. while our sapient law
makers thevise ways and means of protecting
their own homes from the torch and their
own persons from the stray bullets and the
cobble stones of striking mobs.
But to return to our mutton. The exle
rience of the last two weeks has set
THE MEN WHO OWN THE COUNTRY
to thinking as they have never thought be
fore, or, at least, to talking as they have never
been heard to talk heretofore. The inale
quacy of the presenmt governmental system to
combat servile insurrections has been forced
home upon the capitalist classes as a fact
that can no longer be evaded.
"'TIlE RE(OIbAl ARMY MUST BE INCIEAHED
to a hundred thousandl men, and It must be
donie by thll nerxt Congress!" exclaimed a
banker in my hearing the other day, in ex
citild colnversaltion upon the all-absorbing
topic. lie uttered the senntiment of his class
exactly. "There is no dependince on the
militia," he saidl; "we nmi.st have soldiers
that we can depend on'."
You will hoar his words repeated often
enough belfore the next session of Congress is
at an end. And, mark you. the next session
will see a tremnendous lobby marshaled in
Wnshington to push with all the power of
the combined capital of iho country a mcas
uret to Increase the lregular army; possibly to
the proportions suggesteId by my friend the
excitcd banker; certainly to donble its pres
ent lroportions. You must know that the
capitalist classes of the North are alarmed as
they never were before. The average citizen
may forget the danger as soon 1as it is past,
but not tlh maln of millions. He has lsn
TIlE (H(OST OF TIII COMMUNE,
and it will stalk through his dreams every
nitght until he can fool with hisprototype of
the. old world the security of mercenary bay
onlets; enough to garrison every considerable
town. Whelt do you think of the prospect ?
fHow will the South stand on the question of
increasing the regular army to the propor
tions required to quiet the apprehensions of
the panic-stricken millionaires of the North?
Well, this and kindred questions will absorb
the attention of the Yanke. demagogue for
some time come. In the meantime you plant
your sugar cane and hol) your cotton in
in peace. Whatever the North may be
able to do with its labor system, you at least
know that you can control yours, provided
the Federal government will keep its fingers
outl of the ile. The dlifference is that while
you ask the Federal governmenlt to keepits
hands off and let youl regulate your own
labor system, the North is frantically be
seeahilng the sarne powef r to intervene and
save it, from thel fury of its laboring c(lasesss.
That is to say, in the Smoth the lroperty
holdingr elemenIt is also the fighting elom ent;
but
IN TIE NORTH THE PRIIOPERTY IS OWNED BY
NON-COa IDAT1'ANT,
and the fighting classes are the laborers. It
will not e long bcefore these distinctions are
made still more patent to the casual observer
than they are now. Pretty soon they will be
made so plain that the wayfaring man, though
a fool, may read and understand them.
In conclusion, let me say a word. Perhaps'
some who read what I write on this subject
will imagine that my sympathies are with the
mob, and that my facts are colored thereby.
Not so. I have no sympathies. I am an ob
server of facts and Idoubt if a more utterly
disinterested, nay, apathetic, observer can be
found anywhere. I am satisfied, for my part,
with the
SEMI-ARISTOCRATIC, SEMI-ANARCHICAL FORM
OF GOVERNMENT,
whose blessings all now enjoy, and I wouldn't
sacrifice ten cents to save it from being con
verted into a commune in one direction or
into a monarchy in the other, as the case
might be. I see the facts because I can't
help seeing them, and I have stated them
bluntly because I do not see what is to be
gained by concealing them. But as for sym
pathy, I am absolutely devoid of it, and shall
submit to whatsoever one of these warring
interests may get the control of affairs. If
the labor mob wins in the long run I shall
submit to
THE COMMUNE.
If capital can hire mercenary soldiery
enough to crush the mob, as it would be
crushed in England or in France, I shall sub
mit to the strong central government which
will inevitably follow. There is only one
thing that I will not do: I won't fight for
either of them. I fought in the late war to
save the Union. And when I saw what sort
of a thing it was that I had helped to save, I
concluded I wouldn't fight any more. I saw
patriotism turned into Grantism, and that
was enough for me. It would have been
enough for a respectable dog !
A. C. BUELL.
FOREIGN MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, Aug. 3, 1:30 p. m.-.Sales of
American 1250 bales. Uplands, Low Middling
clause, September and October deliveries,
6 1-16d; new crop, shipped December and
January, by sail, 6 1-16d. Market for yarns
and fabrics at Manchester dull and tends
dowd. Breadstuffs quiet; new mixed West
ern corn 25s 9Gd@26s.
HAVANA, Aug. 2.-Sugar fiat; clayed No. 12
9./@I10. Spanish gold 228@228./% . Exchange
firm.
All the wayfarers on Cuseomhou@e street must
have noticed the beautiful new building which
has been erected at the corner of Old Levee and
Cnutomhoume. The Pt ople'e Bank is going to re
move there on the 6th instant, and continue in its
fresh l'cation the prosp-roua business that it has
here'ofore deasrvtd be its good management and
ire elicienruy of iat othier.
THE POSTAL CONVENTION.
OUR POSTAL AND TRADE COMMIUNICA.
TION WITH MPANIMH AMIRICA.
Lettrr from the non. William It. Burwell.
Nmrw O)nthANs, July 19, 1477.
Hon. C(has. E. Fenner, Delegate to the Postal
Convntilon :
Hir--I take pleasure in complying with
your request to furnish you with my views
and such facts as I have gather.ed touching
the subject of postal and trade communica
tion with Spanish America.
It will not be nocessary to occupy space in
tabulating the value of the foreign trade or
the States and Colonies upon this Continent
south of the United States. It will be as
sumed at a total of $580,000,000 annually, of
which the proportion enjoyed by the ports
of the United States east of the Rocky Moun
tains is perhaps ten per cent, or about fifty
millions. It will not be objected that we
claim for that portion of thi American peo
ple who dwell along the meridian of the Mis
sissippi Valley their ratable share of this
commerce, nor that the people of Canada
West, whose line of tropical trade coincides
with our own, should employ the same ports
and carrriers as to this trade with our own
citizens. Lot us assume, then, tie 921l parallel
of longitude as the axis of this inter
course. It ca)rresponds with and confirms
what Lieut. Manry longm since predlicted of
the complementary commerce of the Amnaon
and the Mississippi rivers.
A population of more than twenty millious
lies along this line of least distance and in
suranee, north of Now Orleans. They pro
duce a surplus of manufactures and pro
visions only limited by the demand, d(omestle
and foreign. The Intercourse between these
natural customers has been perverted from
its original course by the superior facilities
offered at the East. A single Hhustration will
suffice. According to the American Minister
at Brazil, the American poop In consume more
coffee per capita than any others, and, he
adds, the Southern States more than any
other part of the Union. In 1574 Now Or
leans, the proper port for the supply of those
twenty millions of conXsumers, only Im
port~l six per cent of the whole supply Im
port4kl Into the United States. Setting aside
for the moment the true line which should
supply the flour of It. Lmouis and the hog
products of Cincinnati and Chicago in ex
change for the coffee of Brazil, we will
assume that the proportion of the trade val es
to which the population referred to is entitled
will justify the establishment of a regular
postal and mercantile service between the
port of New Orleans and those of Rio Jan
eiro and Aspinwall respectively. It will be
come proper, therefore, to inquire in what
manner this enterprise may be effected with
the most advantage to this country.
Ocean and overland transportation has
come to approximate navigation, in the direct
ness of transit between departure and des
tination. Aspinwall, on the Isthmus o(, Pana
ma, is in latitude lodogrees north, longitude
H2 degrees west (from Paris). New Orleans
is in latitude 29 degrees north, longitude 92
degrees west (from Paris). Thie diagonal
which connects these two ports will be, ac
cording to Berghaus, 1400 miles. At twelve
miles an hour, the steam time between these
two ports would be four days and twenty
hours running time. The papers to-day alver
tise a time of "sixty-two hours from New Or
leans to New York." This makes a total run
ning time between Aspinwall and New York,
via New Orleans, of seven days and ten hours.
We may state the distance between Aspin
wall and New York, via St. Thomas, upon the
same authority, at 2458 miles, which, at the
same rate, will make a running time of eight
days and eighteen hours. There would be
thus a saving of one day and eight hours,
mail time, on the New Orleans route, with
the advantage of the telegraph after the ar
rival of the steamer atthat port. The saving
of mail time and of traveling expenses of the
interior centres may be found by the differ
ence of mail time between New Orleans and
New York and such centres, respectively.
There would be the further consideration
with those centres that their tropical business
would be in part conducted by their own
railroads and river craft.
It is unnecessary to consider the competition
of these inboard with the coast lines of trans
portation. It is an established fact that
passengers, specie and other insurable goods
prefer the rail to the coast steamer. Our
Eastern coast steamer tonnage has diminished
within a few years past, and the railradls
from the North and West have brought to
New Orleans within the past few years more
than $60,000,000 of merchandise. It may be
inferred that these roads can as well stand
the competition of the steamers upon the
whole voyage as upon that between New Or
leans and New York. In estimating these
considerations of safety and rate of Insurance
which enter so much into the calculations of
commerce, we cannot forbear to reproduce an
important argument in favor of the voyage
through the Gulf of Mexico and the Carribean
Sea employed by Hon. E. G. Squier, in his ad
vocacy of a railroad across Honduras, from
Puerto Cabello4o the Bay of Fonseca. He
published a tabular list of fifty hurricanes,
occurring from the year 1675 to 18'8, and illus
trated their track by a chart. From this it
appears that within a century and a half but
one of these tropical hurricanes extended as
far west as the shores of Central America,
w.hile all the rest crossed the track of a voy
age between New York and San Domingo or
St. Thomas twice in the curve of its course.
It may be supposed that a proposal to be
stow the postal contract between the United
States and the ports stated would meet with
much opposition in Congress. It is very true
that the influence of the Pacific Railroad has
been cast against the Panama crossing, and
that New York single-handed, has been un
able to contend with that influence. The
present proposition has, however, much
stronger backers. It will be subsequently
shown that an inboard service will enlist a
large amount of railroad and representative
influence in Congress. The great strength of
the proposition, however, will consist in the
economy which it offers to the postoffice
service, which now falls so many millions
short of the national expenditu re for that ser
vice. We may not, indeed be very sanguine
that the government will again adopt the
system of establishing ocean mail srvice by
the appropriation of sabsidies. The Post
master General reported, last yearthat "a
new arrangementhad been put into ul
and satisfactory operation.' It is '
monthly the several steamers
European service" upon a compa of
their qualifications. The advantages rsul
ing from this competitive system are "more
frequent service, and greater rapidity of mail
communication,withont additional cost." The
only compensation given for "postal service
(onmlnuct en . i.uth r.ºge.