The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-20
GREAT EXCTTEMENT IN NEW YORK.


York papers contain full accounts of large
meetings of the unemployed poor" of that
city, whom the pressure Of the times has
thrown out of employment, which seems to
have produced intepse excitement and no lit
tie alarm in the goodly city Of Gotham. On
the 18th instant, large meeting was held in
the Park, at which several speeches were
made, marked by violent tone and a me-
nacing purpose. A petition, prepared by a
committee appointed at the meeting, was sent
into the Common Council, demanding en-
ployment upon the public works, and the
adoption of Mayor Woods plan for selling
flour, coal, &C., at wholesale prices. The
Common Council were warned, as "guar-
dams of the peace and good order of society,""
that "they must find t0ork for the people, if
individual exertion prove not sufficient" and
that if one of their number "dies by starva-
ton or exposure to the elements" they will
be held responsible for not "doing their duty
after being earned" They also had an in
terview with Mayor Wood, who cautioned
them against any violation of the laws and
urged them not to disturb in any way the
public peace.
The "Courier and Enquirer" says:
Another Demonstration by the Unemployed
Another meeting OF the unemployed, con-
sisting mostly of Germans, mingled with a
few Others of the foreign population of the
city, was held yesterday at 'rompkns Square
Resolutions were passed, an address to the
Common Council was read, speeches we're
made, and then procession was formed
which moved down to the City Hall. Ar
irving there, petition to the Mayor was read
from the steps, and then committee, APP
pointed for the purpose, proceeded to wait
upon the Mayor. The committee having
gained admission to the Mayors office, pre-
sented their petition. The Mayor read it,
and said he would bring the Memorial of the
TompkiDs Square meeting before the Com
mon Council next week. Whereupon Mr..
Beeler said:
"Mr. Wood: You propose to communicate
our memorial only next week to the Common
Council, against which intention we must
protest with all our power. The people out
side are hungry, and myself the only protector
of my family, Nth sic children, being since
sic ,0eeks ,0ithout ,oorking. We cannot Vah
so long in our present misery. Why has the
Report on your Message not yet been pub
lished? The Common Council appointed
long ago committee of five, and gave them
orders to make ther report on or before the
first of November. Now, Mister Wood, to
day we are on the noon of the 18th, and no
report has yet been given. The people can
not wait any longer. Their sufferings
are cruel, and we cannot warrant that the
people-ther patience exhausted power
with its unavoidable brutalities. He and
his comrades, the Committee, had done all
they could to keep the peace, but now the
people ask for WORK OR DEATH"
After this speech, the Mayor answered he
would bring the memorial before the Com
mon Council Immediately. The Committee
then left and the meeting in front of the
City Hall was adjourned to meet at the same
place next Monday. Another meeting, how
ever, was soon after held in the Park, at
which blacksmith named VIM. Bowles, in
his speech, said
"They we're no doubt many would help
them, but some one was needed to show the
rich that the poor were in want. Well then,
to Wall street-they should 60 and proclaim
their situation. The moneyed men must
shell out to the poor; and if they would not
the musket must be their resort"
The Express says that at the meeting on
Thursday there was crowd Of some four or
five thousand, growing and clamoring for
"work," "fourr or sbread." The Express
continues:
The sight was awful. Several fierce Dutch
and Irish orators addressed the assemblage
to the effect that they must procure or devise
some means for the relief OF their starving
families, urging the crowd to assemble every
day and march every day to the City Hall,
and their petition the sGovernment" for en-
ployment, for relief, and finally, if necessary,
to compel them 10 give it, asserting that they
had perfect right to do so, as every work.
ing man, who was willing to work, had a
right to living.
They said they would now assemble every
day, and thus increase their strength, and
render their movement popular; and that the
number participating in this movement hav-
ing already doubled since the beginning, they
hoped that the movement before long would
not be less than 10000, and living in land
of plenty, they will have the power to better
their terrible situations.
The Irishmen expressed themselves pretty
freely, in their peculiar dialect, their excite
ment against those for whom they have been
working; they talked of "killing of" "blg
bugs" the "arstocracy," and of numerous
other things.
The "1imes" remarks:
These movements, at this early season, are
certainly indicative of serious and periious
experiences during the coming winter. Inc
leaders in these demonstrations, as their
names show, are Foreigners, and their ac-
ton, besides alarming the whole community
will be very likely to arouse the special nos
tility of the Native American sentiment, which
however il may seem to have fallen oil IN It's
political strength, is still very earnest and
very wide spread In the public mind.
NEGROES DBoLINING.-The following ac-
count of sales of slaves, which we clip from
the Charleston Mercury, indicates decline in
negroes:
Messrs. Levy and Bowers sold a seam
stress and house servant, from Georgetown,
for 5000; and two girls, aged sixteen and
fourteen, from Conbahee, for $500 each.
Alessrs. 7. Ryan and Son sold a girl, eight
years of age, for $500; washer, lroner and
cook, forty-two wears Of uge, for 1855; boy