Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-04-03
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Oar Large Cities "A season CT short crop,
would make sad times indeed. in the Iarp,
cities Of the United States, as the experience
IN New York of the partial failure of the las
seasons crops shows We have in all our
cities Of considerable numbers manv mora
Idle people than are to be found in European
cities OF like population. This is owing 10 tuo
oauses-tO the greater ease with which the ns.
cenaries Of life are procurable in this country
and to the failure of the Government (nunic;.
pal or state) to compel the Idle to labor. as i,
don' throughout Europe 10 greater or less OK.
tent there every mans business and mean:
OF living are known to the authorities, and if
there is a fair presumption that ones mean.
or ways OF living will make him sooner or
later chargeabls 10 the State or city, or if i,
Is judged that he lives dishonsstly. he 1, a,
once compelled to work or IL punished for his
oontunacy-otherwise the half.stsrvsd mobs
OF the cities of Europe would soon disposs Of
all matters to suit their whims OF the moment
Dunbs tee past winter the American public
had fOretsste Of what such mobs would do.
II they dared, in the never.to. be forgotten
speeches made in the New York Park.
We are free to confess that what occurred
then and there, shook our faith in the capacitv
OF our great cities to be relied on properly to
govern themselves, as the people of the conn.
Try at large are to be relied on. If the COM
Ing season prove only as disastrous as the last
10 the agricultural interest, we will undou OF.
edly have terrible times indeed among the
population Of the cities which cannot be said
70 nave yet recovered from the effect of that
season OF scarcity. So far, it has not been
found necessary to incorporate into our sys
tenn much more than persuasive Ine ans of ORA.
serving the peace and the observance of tbe
rights Of ali, but the occurrences in Nav
YORK daring the season to which We refer
above convey a Warnings very strong warn.
ing, indeed-that the day is approaching
when the authorities will be compelled to have
means at hand to supply the lack of proper In.
tsntion, and true 10y atty to our institutions
on the part Of the idle, unthinking, and ire.
sponsibie of the large cities, the lack of which
those occurrences made manifest
Napoleon Iu's Purpose in Proposing to 20
70 the East.-The following extract from q
letter written from Paris, by the accomplished
M eainardst, on the Sth uIt., and published
IN me CFrsnch) COurris, de, Etats Unis. of
New York, on Saturday last, which il trans.
lated for the Star, Is full of meaning and
strikes u, as afording the true solution m m =.
proposed act Of Louis Napoleon, which in Enc.
land is pronounced by some as a scheme Of
madness, and is received by the majority of
those active in puolie affairs there with no
little Jealousy. The ideas are all in keeping
with the EssnSh Empsror's character, and az
the Eastern and European world u now
nodded mentally, there is method and genius
In IL, If 1t Is quite srratic:
The Emperor Of the French, still con.
uneed OF The decisive importance that the
Ains OF this town canslone have, persists, Ii