The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-03-11

A Curious Case--ImcreRge Of Crlme--ThS
pie WAnt-The Soldiers Monument
Fair, EtC.
ERvHNINe TELEeRAPH SPECIAL coRREspoHpENcE
PIrTsBURG, March 8, 1867.
little affair is being itemized in the news.
papers here, which promises to gain consider
able Importance. 1t appears that during the
term OF Mr.. Lowery as Mayor of this city, a
man by the name of May, who had been but
lew days before liberated from the pen
tentiary, was arrested and again installed
within the prison walls, charged with the
same misdemeanor
After some time had elapsed the man was
liberated, and nothing more was heard of the
case until few days since, when Mr.. Lowery,
whose term of Office expired some months
since, was charged before Alderman MacmasteI
with having kept the money taken from the
man May at the time of his arrest Mr..
Lowery waived a hearing, and the case will go
TO Court for trial. II is alleged by the friends
OF ex-MayOr Lowery that the whole affair has
been gotten up with the idea to damage the
reputation of that gentleman, by Alderman
Aacmaster and the present Mayor OF the CITY,
Mr.. Mccarthy, who are bitter political enemies
The affair is creating considerable talk among
the politicians, and it promises to develop
some rich proceedings in regard to now ana
by whom the elections are carried IN TINS Guy.
The increase of crime in this section'ls be-
coming a subject of remark. Not day
passes but what there is some high handed
robbery takes place. and the facility with
which people are plundered in their own
houses bids fair to rival our more populOus
cities in the East. That this is occasioned by
there being so many men out of employment
there can scarcely be a doubt. Nearly all the
glass and large iron establishments are unem-
ployed, and the consequence is that hun
dreds of people are left without the means to
live. This lamentable condition of affairs
appears to be growing worse every day instead
of better. The puddlers have struck for
higher wages, and refuse to work until their
demands are complied with. The employers
have offered a considerable advance over
former prices, but refuse to meet the demand
made by the laborers, on the ground that,
should they do so, the manufacturers of the
East, where labor is cheaper than here, would
be able to undersell them, and thus drive
them out of the market. The glass men are
almost in the same predicament. l am of
the opinion that the offers made by the en-
ployers is as fair one as the workmen could
expect, and should be taken advantage of.
Should they, however, refuse to go to work at
the prices now offered, it is probable that the
furnaces will be out of blast for some time to
come.
The Railroad bill continues to be the theme
OF conversation in all circles of society, and
the eastern members of the Legislature, as
well as those of the west, who are evidently in
the interest Of the Pennsylvania Central Rail
road Company, have the Just indignation of
our people heaped upon them, for the pains
they take in behalf of that corporation. The
gentlemen from your city who occupy seats in
the Legislature at Harrisburg, are certainly
very shOrt-sighted if they believe they are
legislating for the benefit of Philadelphia when
they enact laws which give the right to mo-
nopOlize all of the Western trade to the Penn
sylvania Railroad. Apropos, the Commercial,
Of this city, gives the following which will be
recognized by every Philadelphia merchant as
a fact. After speaking of the difficulty expe-
Tienced by your merchants in raising enough
money to establish line of ocean steamers,
the writer says:-
with the trade of the interior very conside-
rably diverted TO New York, as the certain
result of permitting the legislation of the State
to be controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, this is inevitable. Philadelphia will
be Il commercial city only as she graSpS the pro-
ducts of the country. Her steamship enter
priseS fail, or have a siclSly existence simply
because the trade and products OF the country
are diverted from her. New York has two
great competing lines of railroads, and their
great competitor, her grand canal, delivering
wharves. There is no competition for the bene-
Mt of Philadelpha-it is all against her. With
but single line of railway linking her with
the great West-and that too with a divided
allegiance-how can she expect to be q COM
mercial city-what wonder is there that capi-
talists hesitate TO subscribe the paltry sum of
halt million of dollars towards establishing
steamship line?"
There is more real sound logic and truth in
the above than the half of the people in your
city are aware of Our State is one of the
richest and most populous in the Union, but
it has been ruled to such an extent by the
gigantic railroad monopoly, that the trade of
the great West is gradually but very surely
leaving her, and going to New York and Balti-
more. The Commercial, after quoting the
recent speech of Senator Cameron, on the
wealth and almost unlimited resources of the
State, SAYS
"If Philadelphia would only avail herself OF
these dormant elements of trade and commerce
so wonderful in extent and kind, and so near
TO her door-there would be little occasion for
her begging a few hundredl dollars annually to
keep up a sickly line Of steamships. She would
grow, her commerce would expand, and instead
OF one poor line, she would have many lines OF
steamships to all parts of the world. But in
stead of doing this, she folds her arms and
trusts her future toa single ecorporation-which
after all, gives her but share of its business-a
corporation which, like the grasping landholder
who cultivates but small part of what he owns
and continually grasps for more so that he may
prevent cultivation by others, virtually seals
up the sources of wealth so graphically de-
scribed by Senator Cameron, but which Phila-
delphia might, if she would, call all her own"
This is what may be called pretty strong
language, but it is none the less true. For
the proof, let any man take trip through the
State and mark how, at every conceivable place
extraordinary facilities are offered for mer.
chants to send their goods to New York, and
little or none are offered on behalf of Phila.
delphia.
x meeting of the Soldiers Monument Asso.
citation was held yesterday afternoon, and the
Fair, which was to have taken place this
n tha