Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-05-31

The Yankees, says the Charleston Mercury
are troubled with another rebellion" and thel
military forces have been summoned to put i
down. 1t is a new and other rebellion thar
that in the South, and is, by way OF distinction
called The Coal Miners Rebellion" it wa!
precipitated by an outbreak among the Goa
miners of the Schuylkill region in Pennsylvania
and is only the beginning of the many rebel
lions that must soon take place among th'
poor and lsboring classes Of the North from the
effects of the war. Poverty and destitutiOn are
Sorely p'nChing the artisans and labOreTs OF the
! North, and what we read here from the New
| York Herald is but a picture of the hundred
90 strikes " and riots " that this war must bring
about between the poor and rich OF the North
! The correspondent writes of the outbreak on the
| Schuylkill:
| have lust returned from the scene OF hostll-
tiles in Schuylkill county, having accompanied
the military force thither Since my return, up
wards of two hundred additional troops have
| been ordered to Miuersville, and also battery
! of howitzers, making in all about fOm hundred
soldiers, fully supplied with sixty charges each,
and food for an indefinite period. -Four other
compants in the United States service, connect
ed with Colonel VIM. Il Yeaton's regiment OF
militia are under arms and awaiting orders to
move.
Is ii possible that the fears Of the county au-
lhorties and of the mine owners have magnlhed
this difficulty but it is evident that the mutineeTs
are numerous, determined, and well armed, and
oul y need the will to make a long and vigorous
defense.
1t arises from the tyranny Of mining capitalists,
as regards both the amount OF wages paid to the
operatives and the manner in which such wages
are doled out
Probably an equal amount of wTetchedneSs is
remarked of no other class but the coal miners OF
this State. The average amount OF wages paid
to miners Is about five dollars pei week, and this
most generally is not paid IN cash but IN - o.
ders upon stoIekeepeTs II the employment of
the mining companies. The operatives II thus
way not only receive paluy pay, but they are
swIndled by tho capitalists, and compelled to
take merchandise at the capitalists own rate so
that they barely obtain the necesssIies Of life
The year was made an era for strike upon
a grand scale, and, taking advantage Of the alb
sence of all military organizations from the
unity, the operatives proceeded to insure their
demands by tOIce. They seized the cOllieries
the FoIes improvement Company (now con
trolled by New York capitalists inteTdicted all
employees from working under threat OF death,
and, by putting cut the hres at the colllerles
stopped tie pumps that cleared the mines OF wa
ter, whereby they were soon Hooded
The sheriff OF Schuylkill county found that De
mon posse of citizens TO assist him, the sym
pathies of the mass being with the " strikers
The latter grew defiant, held meetings at Forest
Vile Hecklevile Thomastown, and other points,
and made preparations to organize general
strike throughout the whole coal region. The
few that insisted upon working at the old rates
were roughly handed, the contractors and agents
of the mine owners were threatened with loss
Of life and property if they maintsined oP-
position, and the sheriff was too weak either in
spirit or in force to assert the law aud arrest the
ringleaders.
The latter had organized the strike cunningIy |
and executed it unhinchingly. Golfers of one |
mine enforced the strike upon another, SO that |
no employee appeared where he could be Tecog-
nized. In this way the officers are yet baff1ed |
as to the whereabouts of the ringeaders. About |
fifteen hundred men were numbered in the pri- |
mary offensive measures, and their numbers are
increasing. The locality where hostilities com
nenced is noted for the turbulance Of its deni-
zens murders and riots being frequent occur
rences there, and ignorance and drunkenness
being characteristic of the populace.
Their high-handed proceedings left the law no
option but force, and the Goyernor called upon
General Patterson (of Hsrper's Ferry fame) to
iepUtize certain men to quel the riot. They
Itealthily moved cut towards FOuestville, the
infected district, with loaded mUskets and set
1syonsts, and this morning had mounted guard
,veT all the Golfers, to the great astonishment of
he mutineeIs.
The latter are fierce, and threaten 10 retake
he mines l rode among them at dawn to-day,
md they seemed unanimous az to their griev-
lnces, asserting that they meant to abolish the
order system and to secure equal and definite
-ates for their services, SO that they would be
1Ut Of the reach OF want The sheriff mean
lime, has ordered the troops to stand fast, and
the TeinfoIcemeRts that went on to-day indicate
fears of rupture If difficulties occur they will
be of a serious character, as the miners are en-
Dittered by the presence of soldiers, and they
are all armed with their fayOrite mountain rifles.
Many of them were in the months service, and
nave the elements of military discipline among
hem. They are nearly all Irish.
The Forest Improvement company is working
mainly upon government orders, and if the sums
demanded are paid the capitalists say that they
,annot fulfil the contracts, which name a GER
ain amount of money per tun. The damage to
he mines has been considerable