The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-05-28
A Sensation for Wall ST.

The great disaster. While the Who'll
country is stricken by the terrible calam
iry which has beiallGu its Commercial
metropolis, the people Of Chicago, 81
closely affiliated to those of New York b.
every possible tie, are especially overcome
with horror and prolonged apprehension
THR DEsoLATED CITY.
The midnight kilograms, although
somewhat involved, assure US that I
measurable degree Of quiet has settled
down over the dGsolRtion and mourning
Of the devoted city. The carnage anC
destruction arc at an end, but only aftel
tue most heroic sacrifices Of patriotic
blood, the defamation of the murderOul
hordes, and utter determination Of thell
lrenzied, defiant leaders. Our first and
third pages are occupied by tho persona
report OF u correspondent, who was at hi.
post in New York throughout the perilE
u last week, aud who now sends US the
first succInct account OF all that one man
could observe, tossed hither and thithel
by the riots hideOus Cbb and flow. Moth
ing can be of more thrilling interest tC
our readers than even this partial nsrra-
tive Of events, which arc the absorbing
theme in every city, hamlet. and house
hold of the Republic The land is bowed
down with the humiliation Of its peerless
and beautiful metropolis; OF the spol
which to o degree beyond mere local at
l4chment, has been the glory OF Ameri-
cans, ut home aud RbrOad-ihG centre OF
finance, culture, science, and the arts; but
which, alas nurtured within itself those
elements Of ruin ind death, that have
finally overwhelmed it with the fate
which world is chronicling to-day.
We therefore make no apology for usr.
rendering our editorial columns 10 br!eI
summary o! the causes which originated
and matured this irightful Rebellion o.
the dangerous classes. BY such q name
wc must designate the movement; for
although gathering in its course all the
criminal and OutlawCd masses Of the pop
ulACe, tue growth o! the brutal forces
which developed it was commensurate, as
all now plainly sec, with the growth oil
the dGspOtism Of lawlessncss in the great
city. Tho wise have predicted some such
climax TO tho events which have marked
the history Of New York and lis govern
ment Tor two decades Men of thought
and reading have loreseen 1t, The press
has done its duty, again and again sound
I'd an alarm. Prophecies and admoni-
lions have been uttered by all journals
not in the base employ OF the acOundrel!
who are leading the city TO It's DOOM
themselves gorged to the full with plum
der and i'll gotten power.
But such utterances have been oil as lit
lie practical avail as the rawlings OF Cas-
sandra in Troy Town, or the despiset
warnings OF Mr.. Recorder in Bunyan's
MAN Soul"
How could men believe that such Q
catastrophe was possible, aye, even neal
at hand? This stately and cosmopolitan
city, spread in the bright MONDAY O
modern life-how, at busy, practical
c0mmOn.sensc epoch, could II be reserved
for such honOrs as beiel great capitals
of Europe in a barbarous Middle Age
At the height Of our national supremacy
aud at a time oil profound peace with
other countries, how could this American
city be dGyOured by fire bursting from it
own entrails, and repeat the tragedy o
Paris after the German seigc? 1t wa!
too incredible to think OF it; II was the cry
Of partisan alarmists. mot in our day
at most" Yet II came, and with darkCl
horrors than the gloOmiest dared predict
1t came on the birthday Of the nation
and, before the light oil another morning
plunged the whole country into wrath ant
I,s,nav Eyop NOM Nyn coo Frnly. rnn bp-
'ieYe the record; yet it is all too true
Thousands of our American fellow citi-
lens are slain; women. our fair American
sisters, have met cruel mercy at thu
hsnds of imbruted men; tho princelies
houses arc in ashes; the churches Of Coz
arc destroyed; millions upon millions o
prOperty are scattered TO the winds! w
have not heart to look beyond this awlu
catastrophe. New York, though she re
cover all her greatness in some futurC
time, can never again be TO this genera
ton as she has been-the Queenly city o
orr ancient affection and delight
20 Roma Roma!
Non cplu come era prtma.
THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL.
Yet,who will deny that warnings, NOR
ominOus than mere words Of their ap
proaching calamity, have been given I
Inc citizens OF New York? Events ar
recorded, each Of which, like the striking
If the clock in "Thc MasQuo OF Re-
Death" has made men shudler, pause
turn aside from the whirl OF business AM
pleasure, and ask each other. "HOw vii
MI this endS" But, as tho immediate
danger has gone by, the dance has beef
renewed; responsibility has been shtttet
from one to another, until that final pun
ishment has come, which, history shows
is always inflicted upon a people VIII
withhold their individual services from
the maintenance Of the public veal.
The Draft Riot Of July, 1854 das
tsrlly uprising, which sent lear through
out the loyal State and was worth doIeI
victories to the South-rCvealed th
tFcaChCrous nature Of the underCrust Q
New York. Enrolling officers were dc
moshed, public edihces burned, obnoS
ouS mansions sacked, negroes and white
hunted down or hanged at the street cor
ners Fora time men held their breathe
nor was the revolt suppressed until sol
diery had returned from the front, an
cannon had belched their vollCys down
score Of streets.
The warning had been given; It cam
and went. Such a thing, people sale
could happen only in wartime. 500
the game Of speculation, the pleasures an
wees OF an upstart society, went on a
Orlskly rs before and in season the cit
politicians were again catering 10 th
preludiCes Of the very classes which ha
enacted the bloody drama
THE BALLOT AND THE BLUDGEoN.
Men know why New York, throug
all these years, was governed SO entirel
in one interest: that while taxpayers wei