Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-12-12

undone. New York has. got TO do some
thing to hold her supremacy.
STRIKES.
The strikes are virtually oyer Inc
'longshoremen had the best chance OF
all the trades for success, for while fac
tory NAV shut down and do without op-
era,iyes a newly arrived ship must be un-
loaded at once, and it takes skilled labor
to do it, but they, with this advantage,
were forced to succumb TO hard times,
and they have gone TO work again. The
strikers discovered what they ought o
have known all along, that with, $4,000
unemployed men in the city. they are al
the mercy of their employers, and will
be TIL labor is in demand again. Il is
the old story over again, capital can lay
still, labor cannot But for heavens
sake, do your best to keep impecunious
young men from coming TO New York
this winter. 1 say it, and know there
are fifty thousand men out of employ
ment here to- lay, and the number will
be doubled in two months. And they
embrace all classes of people. There are
clerks, statesmen, book keepers, every
body. For instance, the grand Opera
House advertised for two hundred young
ladies for the ballet in the revived Black
Crook, and the morning brought eight
hundred, all eager for positions at SIX
dollars per week. These were not bad
girls-they were girls who wanted some
thing to do, keep soul and body together
t1lI there was work at something else.
Two hundred were taken-siX hundred
were left out in the cold crying from
disappointment An advertisement Of
two lines in the Herald for a clerk wanted
will bring thousand applicants by nine
the next morning. My young friend If
you have got anything under the heay-
ems to do keep out OF the big cities.
SCORE ANOTHER FOR BERGH
Henry Bergh, the friend of dumb ami
mails, has achieved another triumph
Heretofore he has only been able to con-
vict the drivers of stages and cars who
have over-worked horses but last week
he got the iron claws OF the law on pro-
prietor and brought him up with a round
turn. This is as it should be, for the
proprietors compel the drivers to over
load their stages. Now let him get after
the street car companies. 1t is nothing
uncommon to see pair of horses going
up steep grade with heavy car loaded
with eighty or ninety passengers-the
poor beasts straining every nerve and a
brutal driver lashing them as though his
heavy whip could add to their muscular
force. Bergh has only commenced his
work in this city But it does do one
good to see a 1.-the, active man dart into
, crowd and jerk a brutal cartman, who
is beating his horses. off his cart and
march him before a magistrate. 1t is
sight calculated to restore ones con-
fidence in human nature. Bergh's police
are all dressed in plain citizens clothes,
but when one hol ds back the lapel of
his coat and displays his badge. the br ute
who is abusing other brutes, knows who
he is and he becomes as meek as lamb.
shall, one of these days, write a iull
account of Bergh and his mission. hoping
to stimulate other men to be become
Berghs.
THE LIQUOR DEALERS
have taken alarm, and getting out their
licences as fast as possible. The courts
are determined to enforce the law at all
hazards. and the conviction o f Schwab,
which was made test case, has shown
them the futility ofopposition. The rum
mills, the small thieves, Boss Tweed,
and all the dangerous classes, sigh for
the good old times when Barnard was on
the bench, and Fisk and those fellows
ran the city There was no trouble for
them then. They had the courts and
everything else. Will the new Demo
cratic administration restore them any of
their lost privileges ? We shall see. A
great many Republicans in the city were
willing to take the chances in Novem-
Der. Possibly by another November
they may change their minds.
BUSINESS
is slower than last week, which is one
of those things that cannot be accounted
for. Certainly the purchases have not
been so heavy as to have supplied the
country with goods. How long this
stagnation is to continue no one can tell,
nor can any one give reason for it.
But it IS, and that's all that can be said
about it.
THE WEATHER AND HEALTH.
tits deliciously cool, but altogether too
dry. The city is not healthy Diphtheria
Is almost an epidemic in Brooklyn, and
smallpox is spreading in the city too
rapidly for peace of mind to the cit
izens. There is no special alarm. but a
feeling of uneasiness is developing. An
experience similar to that of Philadel.
phia two years ago is dreaded Some
ought TO be expected to follow
such an election as that of last fall and
the citizens may congratulate themselves
that it is nothing worse than smallpox
and diphtheria. PIETRo.
New York, Dec 8, 1874.