The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1857-11-09
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towards the settlement of an important
and vexed question of international law
The basis of the treaty is that the property
of neutrals on board of the enemy's YES
sells shall not be liable to confscation or
detention, unless the same be contraband
of war.
Gov Walker, of Kansas, was expected
soon to arrive in Washington, having left
Lecompton.
Terrible hurricanes have taken place in
4 Ohio, Frustrating dwellings, and barns,
destroying fences and doing other dam
age.
Cotton has advanced fully ! of a cent
at New Orleans, with an active demand in
part on specultions. Money market cas-
ier
A bread demonstration was made in
Philadelphia on Friday.
Money matters are more cheering in
Boston.
A clergyman was knocked down and
stabbed in four places, last Thursday
evening, at Bridgeport, Maine.
100000 bushels of wheat are now ahoat
from the upper lake ports of Oswego.
The New York markets, on Saturday,
were: Flour dull; corn heavy; in wheat
declme-sales of $4,000 bushels; pork
firm; beef and lard steady; whiskey I'M
changed.
Sales of Virginia 6's in New York, at
first board, Saturday, at Sac.
aks@ A hundred thousand people are
out of work and bread in the city Of New
York. Already they have made immense
and menacing demonstrations in the streets
ofthat metropolis, at broad noon; and
with every indication of the most deter
mined earnestness. This is no frothy polit-
ical ferment, no mere effervescence of rant
and mounting, no holiday agrarianism,
no ebultion of revolutionary sentiment,
heated by prosperous times to an inso-
itself. 1t is no Partisan terrorism, but
something fraught with intellectually more
peril and disaster-the beginning of a Sc
ries Of fearful riots and disturbances of the
social order, next winter, wherein the &C
tors will engage, not in spirit of wanton-
ness and rowdyism, but at the compulso-
ny instigation of the most miserable want
There is gregarious instinct which
brings men threatened by the same dam
ger into fraternity and counsel. A COM
munity of neediness and apprehension is
stronger bond of union than any avow-
ed and formal organization, Or any oath Of
mutual fidelity. Old associations may
be disintegrated under the action of this
sentiment, but new guild springs
straightway from the elements as they
fall asunder; and, forgetting the claims Of
. State or Church, those who dread the
same dire calamity and have the same
torebodings, gravitate inevitably toward
each other, and stand ready for any deed
however desperate or illegal.
All this is verified in what is now &C
tually taking place in the city of New
York. Great multitudes of persons COL
lect in her streets and squares, who are
gathered by the single sympathy ola COM
mon want of work. The other day near
ly ten thousand unemployed working
men assembled in the Park in front of the
City Hall for consultation. They raised
no bosterous shouts, they were led by nc
bands of music, they bore no banners save
a solitary flag of white muslin with tn,
meaning inscription: We "WANT Work
upon it, In all that vast and slowly NOV
ing procession there was not a joyous face
They moved from Tompkin's square
through the streets in funereal silence
silence more eloquent in its terrible sug
gestions than any words or cries.
These men are not yet beggars for bread
They ask with an honest firmness fol
work, They seem resolute in their pur-
pose to obtain a satisfaction of their de-
mand, as who would not be under the ex-
igent impulse of hunger and forlorn dis
tress-if not present yet hard at hand
and already hinging moumful shadows
forward upon their path.