Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-11-21
From the Washington Star.
The Times in New York.

The Times in New York.
, Clouds portentious are gatheringin.thick
or and darker momentarily, around the
condition no less of those who can find 10
work and are without the means of buying
bread, in New York, than those who have
bread and all the comforts and luxuries of
Iite ospare. While gaunt hunger impels
lhe aforementioned class to deeds of vio-
,lence, the timidity incident to possessions
shakes the nerves of the class we mention
last above The newspapers of New York
are already busily and earnestly DISCUSSING
the chances Of bread riots to come off there
wiillp perhaps the first freeze ofwinLer. The
unemployed and hungry are holding open
air NEE ings, demanding what. they call
their rights-thauk God, no nativeborn
Americans are yet of the Same opinion as
10 their rights, because to be of that opin-
ion argues one 10 hold to the doctrines of
Danton, Robespicre and the quite as dan
gerous Socialists Of later times. They talk
IN their fierce appeals of governing class
es" in this country, which proves that they
are persons wholly incapable of apprecat
ing the theory and practice of our Govern.
ment' That they are among us, but not
of us.
The trouble lies, in the main, in tho in
terminablc propensity of the improvident
10 insist oil continuing 10 work in large
cities like New York, instead of locating
themselves in rural districts where less work
will produce more wages, and where all
surroundings induce one not to spend all
one makes, as in New York city, but TO
save as much as one can, as in every rural
district in the United States Ten to QUO
nne.tenths of the present hungry crowd in
New York at this moment are unimprov-
dent people, who, had they been working
in villages instead of in such a seductive
city, would have had 10y them the means
OF living comfortably throughout the win
ter without either begging or threatening
to procure bread, without the loss of self
respect, or virtually proclai'ning themselves
enemies TO society. That the reader may
comprehend thestate of things among them,
wo quote first the Courier and Enquirer OF
the day before yesterday, aud next, the N.
York correspondence of the Pcnnsyyanian:
"THE UNEMrLoYED.-The threats of per.
sonal violence uttered by a number of un-
employed workingmen at their meeting on
Monday, do not appear to have been idle
OF unmeaning. Yesterday morning a squa-
ld troop ofmen, old women, boys and girls
tore down the wooden railing that surroun
ded Tompkins Square, and carried them
Off for trewood. Hammers and axes were
vigorously applied, to root up the posts
which remained fast in the ground, and so
successfully was the work accomplished
that, were it not for the trees, the Square
would now present the appearance of a vast
vacant lot. Even the benches were carried
OFT Another party encountering bakers
wagon in avenue b, made IN attack upon
it, and seized some fifty loaves. Many ar.
licies were stolen from stores whore they
were placed upon the sidewalk for show,
and q general closing of stores Of all kinds
was the necessary consequence throughout
that quarter ofthe city. Deputy Superin,
tendeut Carpenter instructed the command.
ing officers of the different precincts not to
withdraw the men stationed at the polls on
any account whatsoever, and to keep the
rest Of their force in the station houses, u
readiness TO be dispatched to any quarter
where their services might be needed. The
rowdyism which prevailed to some extent
in some portions OF the city, was looked
upon as a feint TO draw the police away
from the polls, and in consequence the spr.
it of lawlcsuess spent itself for the want of
opposition to give zcst to its enjoyment"
Correspondence of the Pennsylvanian.
NEW YORK, Nov.}2, lS57.--There have
been omiuous doipgs in our streets to day.
AT O'clock this morning, humorous body
OF workingmen, Between 800 and 900
strong, assembled in Tompkips Square, in
obedience to a call published in the Ger
man newspapers, to deliberate upon the