Smyrna times., 1857-11-18
The Riotous Idlers of New York and
PHILADELPHIA.

For several weeks past the papers have col
taned lengthy accounts of Working Men
Demonstrations" in Tompkns square, the Parl
&C.. in New York, and Independence Squar
and other places in Philadelphia, mostly anon
the Foreign Population, which at times ASST
med riotous aspect-severa of the speaker
threatning to use violence and compel the ric
TO open their purse strings to them. The peo
pie are beginning to see through the farce
That there is and will be much suffering no on,
can doubt, but these demonstrations inctead O.
being set on foot by the really needy, are got
ten up by organized bands of rowdies who will
do anything in preference to honest labor for q
livelihood. Those low theatres in New York,
mainly supported by such persons as compose
these clubs we see by the New York papers are
crowded nightly, while at the same time those
same persons are daily complaining about not
having means to support their families, aud de-
claring that if bread or work is not given them
they will sack Wall street, &c.
How different from the Wilmington me-
chanic5, who really deserve sympathy. Mr.
Jeandell, writing from Dover, says:
About one mile and half above Dover. on
the Railroad there are about fifty men buisIlv
engaged chopping wood for the Railroad com.
pany-they are principally from Wilmington.
Otdferent trades-the shoemaker, tailor, black
smith, mlllwright, wheelwright, ca binet maker.
&c. Indeed the change of exercise is quite Sc
we're on some who are not accustomed to this
Kind OF labor; but the manly spirit prevades
our industrial class-sooner than beg thew would
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ln conversation with them | found that thew
could not earn much more than their living
Poor fellows Many of them have been accus-
toned to receiving $40 10 $l2 per week, but
qu.elly and hum5ly submit 20 the severe pres.
sure and look forward 10 the future with brioht
hopes OF change for the better.
We think with the Boston Journal that the
distressed poor do not tiaunt their misery be-
lore the public eye, nor crowd together to ap-
piaud agrarlan and insurrectionary speeches,
n'r encourage hints of robbng store-houses and
SUB Tr' asury vaults. They have 10 be sought
out IN obscure hooks and alleys; or if their {
wants are voluntarily made known, it is in gem
eraI only to those benevolent and sympatbizing I
individuals In whom they have confidence {
Aud such Poor-lndeed all the poor-n New |
York, as well as in other cities, are morally |
sure OF being cared for. All the benevolent so. y
cletles are In unusual action, fully determined b
10 meet the demands of the crisis; and cha rita i
ole individuals are giving their time and atten- v
'loh 10 the work. At the same time work has u
been resumed in several large manufacturing
establishments in and around New York, and s.
on buildings and public works, to say nothing s.
Oh Ihe new unsertaking set agoing by the city Il
In Short there is now no reason "
10 anticipate that spectacle hitherto unknown tc
IN Amerca-starVation beyond isolated, and
or the time concealed, instances.
And yet, these "hunger meetings." with u
heir imported title and strange ideas, continue =
9 disturb the peace of New York, and spread u
erouS aPprehensiOns all over the county, q
from their proceedings, at times, one might IT
udge them to be collection of English Char ~
iss' pouring out invectives against a grinding a.
government, while at others, one sees the spirit III
u the Partisan red Republicans with the fierce 81
l1ernatlve of bread, or barricades. Then comes l"
the strain OF German Ucry "free-thinking" -
bout the rights of the laboring classes to ap. e'
roprlate all the capital they can lay their hands III
pom, diversified with the monetary hobby of I'll
Ome crack-brained American. Segar-smokers
nd oeer-guzzlers, gentlemen in gold specta- W,
les notorious rowdes, and public-spirited la in
les, OF the Miss Theresa G. Ranke order. all to,
anticipate in the gatherings and aspire to lead pc
md at every movement of the waters, the 6n DR.
some dirty politician appears, to show that erf
lere are more things below than are allowed bo,
operate on the surface. Indeed, we should an
once ascrIbe the whole of these demonstra- tel
0nS ts low city delnagogues, were not the
aulng sentiments avowed so hostile to the in.
rest OF any party-sentments anarchical, in ",
'rrectlonary, and at war with the safety of all
1T institutions 1t is the promulgation of n-' -'
ese views, so novel in this country, but so "
lngerous in times of general depression and ~
ant, that, in our opinion, these meetings in
e" York have had any real Importance. In 10"
her respects. they are idle demonstrations of :" W."
lers. Pa
ExHIBIfION.-An exhibition of the Smyrna Io,,
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