Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-11-11

ly. 1t is said to be sublime spectacle, to see q
skillful angler elevate huge Norwegian from o
cellar every few minutes, and deposit him squeal.
ing in the middle of the street. ~ ~
Verify we may well regard the "Queen City
of the Mountains" with q covetous eye. Wien
does our reighbor of the Gazette" expect tc
start daily?
Agrarianism in New Y ork. < i y
Mayor Wood, OF New York City, lately I'D,
dressed q Message to the Common Council, re-
commencing the purchase of q large quantity o.
provisions to be distributed among laborers now
thrown out of employment, for working on the
streets and various public buildings. The re-
commentator is not 80 Objectionable as the rea'
sons assigned for (which directly tend to excite
the poor against the rich, and indirectly justify
acts of violence. After the publication of this
document it is not surprising that we read
of such Occurrences as the following, in New
York letter of the 4th inst:
s'The threats OF violence uttered by number
of unemployed working-men at their meeting on
Monday, do not appear to have been idle or I'M
meaning. Yesterday morning a squalid troop
of men, old women, boys and girls tore down the
wooden ratings which surrounded Tompklns
Square, and carried them off for frewood. Ham
mers and axes were vigorously piled to root up
the posts which remained fastin the ground and
so successfully was the work accomplished that,
were it not for the trees the Square would now
present tie appearanceof q vast vacant lot.-
Even the benches were carried Off Another
party encountered bakers wagon in avenue b,
made an attack upon it, and seized some hfty
loaves. Many articles were stolen from stores
where they were placed upon the sidewalk for
show, and general closing OF stores OF all kinds
was the necessary consequence throughout that
quarter of the city"
On Thursday, the 9th inst, q meeting OF sew
eral thousand principally Germans and
Irish-assemble in Tompkins square, and the
6ercest cries and harangues were INDUCED in
The right to bread and meat was asserted where.
ever they could find it-by work if they could
get it, if not, by force. The plan as developed
was to keep up their agitation meetings and pro-
cessions every day, with the view Of adding to
their numbers, until some thirty thousand are
cUgdSeu III Iu0 lHOfeuicii', anu tiSh w 81 ~
work. They subsequently marched through the
streets to the Park, where Mayor Wood himself
addressed them, and in style to encourage the
mob in their course, The substance of his re-
marks were, that he had the greatest sympathy
for the objects of their movement, that he would
do all in his power, and bring the subject before
the Common Council, and that he hoped the
committee would keep the masses quiet. 1t Is
reported that the Mayor rather changed conn-
tenance when one Of the German leaders replied
to him and told him the people could not and
would not wait, that their patience was exhaust.
ed, and he could not warrant but they would
put forth their physical power and help them
selves, and that, in short, the cry of the people
was, work or death. Up to late hour on Thurs
day afternoon, the crowd still continued in the
Park, listening to fierce harangues in various
dialects. 1t was understood that grand de-
monstration would take place on last Monday.
The cry was the people will have patience till
Monday, but no longer. Such is the situation
of New York at the present moment, her streets
filed with proetarian bands, clamoring that the
city government shall furnish them with bread
or work, or threatening openly to resort to vio-
lence and plumber. The Mayor of the city, the
originator in fact of this state of things, by the
infamous suggestions of bis message, coming for
ward and openly addressing and sympathzing
with the yociferous and threatening mob, and
the mass of the citizens gazing on these proceed
ings with stolid Indifference. There is in all this
too much reason for the most fearful anticipa-
tions a