Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-11-06
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP
The TINES IN NEW YoRk.-Clouds porten.

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who can find no work and are without TIE
means of buying bread, in New York, than
those who have bread and all the comforts and
luxuries of life to spare. While gaunt hunger
impels the aforementioned class to deeds OF VIC
lence, the timidity incident to possessions shakes
the nerves of the class we mention last above.
The newspapers of New York are already bust
ly and earnestly discussing the chances of bread
riots to come off there with perhaps the first
freeze of winter. The unemployed and hungry
are holding open air meetings, demanding what
they call their rights-thank God, no native
born Americans are yet of the same opinion as
to their rights, because to be OF that opinion
argues one to hold to the doctrines of Danton,
RObespiere, and the quite as dangerous Social
lists of later times. They talk in their fierce
appeals of governing classes" in this country,
which proves that they are persons wholly in
capable Of approaching the theory and prac-
tee of our Government That they are among
US, but not CT US.
The trouble lies in the main, in the inter-
minable propensity of the improvident to insist
on continuing to 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 one
nine-tenths of the present hungry crowd in
New York at this moment are improyident
people, who, had they been working in villages
instead of in such a seductive city. would have
had by them the means of living comfortably
thrOug bout the winter without either begging
or threatening to procure bread, without the
loss OF self-respect. or virtually proclaiming
themselves enemies to society. That the reader
may comprehend the state of things among
them, we quote first the Courier and Enquire,
of the day before yesterday, and, next, the New
York correspondence OF the PeHnSyiraHian
The tNENPLoYED.-The threats of personal
violence uttered by number of UNEMPLOYED
woTklngmen at their meeting on Monday. do not
appeal 10 nave been idle or unmeaning. Yester-
day morning squaiid troop of men, old women.
boys aud giIls to- down the wooden rail- in" that
surrounded TOmpkInS Square, and carried item
oil for trewood. Hammers and axes We're viz
oIouSIy applied, 10 root up the posts which re-
naired fast in the ground, and SO successfully
was the work accomplished that. Were it not for
the trees the Square would now present the sp-
DedTdnCe OF Il w st vacant lot. Even the benches
wefc carried of. Another party encounterng a
baker ; wagon in avenue ID, made attack upon
it, and seized some fifty loaves Many articles
wefe stolen from stores where they were placed
upon the sidewalk for show, and u general clos
ing OF stores of all kinds was the necessary COLI
sequence throughout that quarter Of the CITY
deputy superintendent Carpenter instructed the
commanding officers of the different precincts not
TO wI:hd 1dw the men stationed az the polls on
any account whatsoever and 10 keep the res,
OF their force in the station houses in readiness
to De dispatched TO any quarter where their ser
vices might be needed. The rowdyi>ru which
prevailed to some extent in some petitions of the
city, was looked upon Il feint to draw the DO
tlce away from the polls. and in consequence the
>plrit OF idwle>n"NS spent itself for the want Of
opposition 10 give zest to its enjoyment"
Correspondence of Philadelphia Pennsylvania ]
NEW YORK, Nov. =, 1857.
There have been oaIinous doinrs in our streets
to-day. ~ O'Clock this morning a numerous
body of w0.kingmen. between 200 and 900 strong
assembled IN Tompkins Square, in obedience TO
Il call published in the German HewSplDcrs TO
deliberate upon the nd times, and to take com
sci in reference to means of relief. The great
majority OF these woTkmen appeared TO be Ger
mans and other foreigners
several speeches Of a rather alarming character
were made, and then the workmen formed in
procession, end marched down to the Park ran
2lng themselves III d semi-ciTcle in front Of the
City Hall. Additional speeches of an infiarn,ua-
toTy kind were also made here, and for awhile NOT
d little excitement prevailed.
One of the speakers said nothing but physical
force could be expected to redress their vrou"s
now. There were but two classes in this cou1.
try, now-those who cat roast bcef and drank
champagne, and these who could not get acrust
OF bread To eat. He proposed that those who
had The roast beef should share with the latter
After good deal more of this kind of talk
the crowd all the while incred-in g-it was finally
resolved {" draw up d petition TO the Common
Council, praying that the woTkmen out of en-
pioy may he given wo On the Central Park
also that the Mayors recommendation for the
PufcLas" Of $1,000 barrels of flour he favorabIy
acted upon.
a committee to prepare this petition was D.
pointed, and the meeting then quietly d persri
10 meet again on Wednesday evening TO 90 to
tue Board % Aldermen in d body 10 present il
Though not little IF the talk at this mectipy
was sound and fury, signifying nothing, " still
Thee meetings OF hungry Hen thus early in the
winter foGeshddow serious trouble
RESCAPTIOS--We are glad to learn that the
Citizens Bank Of New York city yesterday re-
Sumed specie payments, and that specie COLI
unues to increase. steadily and satisfactorily in
the vaults Of the banks Of that city. Of course,
the banks now keep two accounts-a specie ac-
count, and current-funds account. Other
wise. depositor Of specie might as well drop
II into iathomless well as so to deposit il
We trust that each succeeding day will bring
Us news Of the resumption Of an additional
bank somewhere.
heat III Iowa, Oh the banks Of the Missis-
sppi river, is selling at forty cents PER busheI
and standing corn, yielding well, in portions Of
Wisconsin and Illinois, at five dollars per
acre-the work of the defaulting banks and
Spectators. That is TO say, the deranrc-
ment OF the exchange of the country il trace
able to the non-sPecie payment of the banks
and the over-tradng of the Spectators; and
the impossibility Of procuring safe exchange.
or its equivalent, where the produce exists in
immense quantities, compels its holders thus to
give 1t away, as it were, to get rid of it. Ii
strikes US that such lessons as the farmers of
the West are now learning, will teach them the
necessity for the enactment of laws by which
speculation will be repressed, and bankers will
be prevented from future suspension.
NICARAGUA.-The Star's readers will recol-
lect how strenuOusly we have contendcd to in.
duce the assurance Of the Nicaragua transit