Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-11-16
RIGnTs.
RICHMOND WHlG.
MONDAY MORNING, NOV. Is, 1858.
rrnnhlss in Yankasland.

The laborpg classes at the North are beginning to
zeal the pressure of the war Late Yankee papers
t,p whole columns devoted to labor strikes The strike
among the New York machinists, of whom there are
some eight thousand in the city, has assumed regularly
organized shape. Several small firms have given in to
their demands but the larger establishments still refuse
to yield but the mAchinists express themselves de-
tsrmined to hold cut at every sacrifice. The wages of
the Second Avenue Railroad Conductors have been
raised to 81 IS day. an advance Of twenty-five cents
over the old wages. In Boston, the Workmen in the
Navy Yard have combined against recent order re-
curing labor to in the yard at sunrise, and
there will be general strike against the order. Six
hundred boiler and plate iron workers in East Boston
have struck and the work several monitors now in
course Of construction has ceased in consequence
Fifteen hundred Workmen attached to the Charleston
Navy Yard have had meeting on Bunker Rll to con-
slider their grievances and of thiItyeight hundred
men employed 10 the ard only five bundled COntGue at
work Its rumOred that there will be general strike in Il
iron OfSouth Boston and other parts ofths
city A general move among the working classes in
Philadelphia 20 institute 10 advance
of Wage is going and attracting much notice in the
papers.
eiitOriab which we find in the New York TIbms.-
They based says Greeley, "On the enhanced money
cost Of all the necessaries of lfs-n other words on
the diminished purchasing power Of the currency dol
ar The cost Of living, though popularity exaggerated,
is stubborn realty. Coal costs nearly twice much
a. Just before the war broke out There has been no
former period within thirty years when all the elements
Of laboring man's livelihood dear at pres
enL The average cost of subsisting AbOriDg mans
family is twenty Eve per cent advance ordinary peace
Prices"
So in spite Of important Union victories on the Rap
pahannOck, At LeWsburg and elsewhere, IN spite Of
Sherman's successful junction with Grant, in spite Of
the exposure of the rebel plot to release the prisoners
on JohnsOnS Island in spite of the detention of the
rebel rams in England and France enough nothing is
said about the vessels at Nantes and Bordeaux in the
attest foreign GdVices,) in spite of overwhelming de
eats of the Democracy in all the great Safes 10 FpiIe
Of dsserers from Braggs army, who tell ali his plans
entrusted TO LOngsreet in st Tennessee in spite Of
Burnside's impregnAbe position at Knoxville, and,
above all 10 spite of Chass's consummAte ability Z
inAncier aud the enormous subscriptions to the $40
IOan gold keeps steadily up aud the cost of living be-
gins tell severely almost the loyal as upoa the
rebel mechanic Social disturbances are wide spread
and increasing; labor and capital at var nothing
said about the 900 volunteers who have been called
for before the 9th of January another drf ia at hand
and Yankee troubles increase in weight aud force with
the certainty of fate.
We do not overesIimAts these troubles They WILDE
easily quisted for greenbacks plentiful. But Lin
OOn does not intend that the oOr Of his dOminions shall
and cay 70 Subsist outside the army. As the time
of the draft approaches there W be need foe myriAds
OF hungry stonschs which only army rations will sat
fsfy. "RationI nothing" will be the cry. Mean
While the s1uth must remain cool and steady, hiding
IL time. Ohsss has ability, and sslece on that
account TO al the place he holds but neither Chase
nor the loyal souls Who purchase his loans alter ia
evtAble laws or save YAnkselGnd from the doom Of
And iIrstrevable 6rAncial Jun.