The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-08-08
s45- The New York Epaing Posi-, which

s1~ The New York Epaing Posi-, which
sneered at the insignifcance of the tailors strike
in that city, has the following:
TAILoRs' RIoT-Ttco Men Killed Others
seriously Observation-Disclosures of those riots,
more fatal, however, in its consequences, than
any Of the previous affrays, took place yesterday
afternoon, about two o'clock, in Thirty-eighth
street, near the Ninth avenue. The German
tailors, who have been on strike for the last
two weeks, proceeded in body Of about two
hundred to the house of some workmen who
had taken work from the shops for less than
| the prices demanded by those the strike.
| A fight ensued, when the police of the Sixteenth
ward, under command Of Captain Freeman
hearing of the disturbance, proceeded to the
ground and endeavored to quell it, by arresting
the rng-leader and four or five Others, who
were taken to the station-house and locked up.
4 The matter did not end here, however for 4
still larger party of Germans, numbering about
three hundred, not deferred by what had already
occurred, proceeded about two hours after, to
the scene of the previous riot, and, attacking an
obnoxious store, destroyed all the clothing and
furniture they could find in it, The police,
again called upon, made their way to the spot,
accompanied by Justice Mountfort, and force
of the Eighteenth ward police. A desperate
fight took place, during which, knfes and clubs
were freely used and it is said two pistol shots
were fired Justice Mountfort was severely
injured, and a number of policemen were seri-
ously wounded, one Of whom was stabbed in
the abdomen by knife, in the hand Of Ger
man. The fight which lasted about half an
hour, resulted in the arrest Of about forty of
the tailors, several of whom had their pocket
filled with stones. A number of the wounded
were carried home by their friends, two have
since died, and others are not expected to sur
vive their wounds.
The foregoing is the account given by the
police, which will be found to differ very mate
rally from the following statement, made by
the taiors. A committee, consisting of large
number of those out of employment, were, it
appears, on their way to Bloomingdale, to OBJ
tain members for the society lately formed in
that city, when the police, without provocation.
made an attack upon them with their clubs,
killing the two above mentioned and wounding
Others seriously. None of the tailors were
armed as the police have asserted, and to this it
appears, may be attributed their having escaped
with very little injury. The clothes alleged to
have been destroyed, consisting OF one hundred
and fifty coats, were taken from the store by a
number of firemen who had assembled upon an
alarm of fire. It is the intention of the tailors'
foot, that the true cause of the riot may by as
certained and laid before the public
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! A SOUTHERN STATE-The following sketch
or the State of Georgia is from speech of Mr.
Stephens, of that State 1t will be read with
interest 1t shows what Southern State is,
and what the South may be:
"Georga has her beds Of coal and iron, her
lime, gypsum and mari, her quarries of granite
and marble. She has nexhaustible treasures of
minerals, including gold, the most precious Of
metals She has soil and climate suitable
for the growth and culture of almost every pro-
duct known to husbandry and agriculture A
better country for wheat and corn and all the
cereal plants, to say nothing of cotton and to-
bacco, is not to be found in any equal space on
this continent. There, too, grow the orange,
the olive, the vine and the fig, with forrest of
oak and pine sufficient to build aud mast the
navies of the world. She has mountains for
grazing rivers for commerce, ETC.. waterfalls for
machinery of all kinds without number Nor
have these great natural advantages and resources
been neglected Young as she is, she is now
the first cotton growing State in the Union
Her last years crop will not fall far short of six
hundred thousand bales, if it does not exceed it.
She has believe, thirty-six cotton factories in
operation, and great many more Fastening to
completion-one of them has, or soon will have,
ten thousand spindlcs, with two hundred looms
, capable Of turning out eight thousand yards of
cloth per day. Her yarns are already finding
their way to the markets of the North and foreign
countries and the day is not distant when she
will take the lead in the manufacture, as well as
the production Of this great staple. She has
also her flour mills and paper mills--her forges,
foundries and furnaces, not with their fires ex-
| tinguished, as the gentleman from Pennsylvania
said of some in his State; but in full blast
Her ports last year were not less than thirty
millions of dollars, equal to, if not greater than
those of all New England together aa "-a
:. She has six hundred and forty miles of rail-
road in operation, at q cost Of fifteen millions
Of dollars, and two hundred more in progress
Of construction. BY her energy and enterprise,
she has scaled the mountain barriers and opened
, the way for the steam car, from the southern
Atlantic ports to the waters of the great valley
of the west But this is not all She has -four
chartered universities-nay five, for she has one
devoted exclusively to the education of her
, daughters. She was the first State, believe
, to establish female college, which is now in a
fourishing condition, and one of the brightest
, ornaments of her character. She has four hun
dred young men pursuing collegiate course
. greater number, | believe, than any State in
the Union, in proportion to her white population.
You will find out not only these things to be so,
but tell you also what youwill notfind. You will
not find anybody in the State begging bread or
asking aims. You will find but few paupers
You will not find forty thousand beings, pinched
with cold and hunger, demanding the right of
labor, as saw it stated to be the case not long
since in the city of New York. ..... -
Mr.. Sweetzer interrupted, and asked if the
factories in Georgia had not been erected by the
northern capital Er s
Mr. Stephens said No, sir, they were built by
Georgia capital. The six hundred and fifty miles
Of railroad now in operation, to which have
alluded, were built by Georgia capital One
hundred aud thirty-six miles, from Atlanta to
Chattanooga, on the Tennessee river, which is