Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1851-06-19
THE TIMES


in New Wills q. Forrest
Crime in the Empire City-Seduc.
tion in High Life, &C., Sc.
New YORK, May 30, 1851.
EDITOR OF THE TIMEs:-The British
mail steamship Canada, arrived at Hall.
fax, from Liverpool, the night before
last. Her European News is not at all
important. The Worlds Fair is going
on as usual, and the Chrystal Palace
"draws good houses" al $I,25 a day
season tickets, Sl5,75. In a week or
so the tickets of admission will be re-
duced 10 one shilling sterling, which
will, it is thought, so increase the de-
mand for tickets that the daily issue
will have to be vigorously restricted TO
limited number, as every important
town in Great Britain and on the Con.
tinent will send its thousands TO the
"Great Show" which might cause a
"jam," if some precautionary measures
were not adopted. England will make
as much out Of the Worlds Fair, as
Barnum will make out of his engage
ment with Jenny Lind.
You will have heard, of course, of
the great riot at Hoboken, on Monday
last, before this letter reaches you. l,
was sad affair, and engrosses complete.
ly the attention of all parties. Be.
tween ten and twenty thousand per-
sons we're engaged in it, and several
persons were seriously injured, some
of whom are not expected to live. A
few were killed on the spot. The riot
ers were, on one side, Germans, who
had assembled at Hoboken to hold their
annual festival, and, on the other side,
Rock Boys" and "Short Boys" from
our goodly city, who, it is said, COM
menced the disturbance by seizng and
devouring and drinking the sausages
and "loger bier" of The holiday keep.
ing Germans. The battle ragged from
early in the afternoon till midnight, and
the windows and doors of many houses
in Hoboken bear witness to the fierce,
ness Of the encounter. Special Con,
stables we're at length sworn in, and a
company of military arrived from Jer-
sey City, and peace was restored to the
neighborhood. About sixty of the RI
oters are in Jail, mos. of wnom were
drunk when they were arrested
Among the wounded is Justice Of the
Peace who is not expected to survive.
New York has for some weeks pre-.
sen,ed the appearance ofa beleaguered
city. Interminable troops of country
merchants still continue to crowd upon
US; and, considering the lateness of the
season, great activity prevails through.
out the mercantile portion of the EN-.
pire City. A great and unavoidable
tendency to Capitalization, is percepti-
bic in all branches Of commerce.
Money, trade and power are rapidly
accumulating in the hands of the feto;
and, before another decade shall have
passed away, both city and country. SO
far as commerce is concerned, will be,
| think, under the despotic sway of a
score, or less, Of merchant monarchs,
whose immense resources will enable
them 10 seriously injure, if not to who'll
Iy annihilate all minor traders.
This prediction is already partially
verified. Stewart, the owner of the
Marble Palace" for example, is mo.
nopolizing the whole of The city retail
trade, in the manner above alluded TO-
He sells every thing necessary, fol
family, hotel, or steamboat use, includ.
ing furniture &c, and thus cuts under
the small retailers who cannot keeI
! such large ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS gen
orally prefering to make as many pur
chases as they can at one place, espe
cially when they can get them cheape
! there. Among the wholesale traders
the same tendency to the Capitalization
of Power. or, which is the same thing
Wealth. is observable. Wilson & Co
are among importers and jobbers.
This firm is eating up all the sma
4 men in their line. and they are directl
assisted by city jobbers and countr
merchants, who have discovered tha
v it is both unnecessary and unproftabl
for them to 60, as in times past. to on
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