The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-02-03
OUR NEW YORK LETTEE.

NEW 1ORh, January Z4th, 1874.
The threatened demonstration of the
unemployed laborers of the city took
place on the 14th. 1t amounted to moth.
ing. An effort has been made for weeks
to incite the laboring population to riot
and violence, but with little effect. The
real laborers looked with suspicion upon
the orators who were believing at their
meetings.
"Who is be, and where does he work."
became very common question as to the
red-nosed individuals who were making
spread-eagle appeals in behalf of I'VE la
borers.' And, as it never could be az
certained that the red-noses had ever IL
Illuminated any shop or factory, or other
place of labor, their claims to be consider
ed laborers We're secuted. Nothwith-
standing the inhammatorz appeals to the
lacorers out of work to Join In q demon
stration Tuesday. and demand bread"
presenting the alternative of blood"
only three or four thousand gathered in
Tompkins Squire, and of these but few
were laborers, that is, regular laborers.
They were agitators, whose ideas of pro-
perty were exceedingly vague-men who
believe in the doctrine that the man VINO
has saved something by industry and
sobriety, shall share it with the man
whose intemperance and laziness has pre-
vented him from saving anything These
fellows. mostly toreingers, met with red
flags and badges, and-that was all.
The police ordered them to disperse
few of them showed fight, and were
promptly knocked down, and the rest
the orators being irst-ran for sweet life.
And that ended it. Thirty of the agita-
tors were arrested and committed TO iail,
They were ali foreigners. which fact has
significance. There are in New York
thousands of French. English, and Ger
mar communists, who are working Wig
orously to organize the labor of the coun-
try into raid upon capital; but the real
laborers are steadfastly opposed to any
thing OF the sort, and the movement
failed. The prudence and good sense of
the laborers saved the city terrible
riot.
TAMMANY's DEMANDS.
Tammany has no idea of giving up the
ghost, or Of relinquishing single iota Of
its former power. The society has been
somewhat modest for year or two, but
the election last fall going Democratic.
as they did, gave it new courage. Tam
many proposes to take charge of the
courts again, and as the first step, has
divided up the appointments, acithout
consulting the judges. One Mierson, re-
presenting Tammany in the Twentinth
Assembly District. notified Judge Hacket
that one Deputy Clerk and one officer of
his Court had been assigned by Tammany
to his District, and that he should de-
signate the two men.
Judge Hackett was somewhat surpris-
ed at this, He could Mt understand what
the ring Of thieves, headed by gambler,
had to do with making appointments of
officers In his court, and so be told Mr.
Mierson, Thereupon Mr.. Mierson wax
ed wroth. and notified Judge Hackett
that, when the time came, Tammany
would so for Judge Hackett's scalp.
You see what chance New York has
for decent Courts, so long as a mob of
rum-mill frequenters dare to dictate ap-
pointments like these.
WHAT WE DRINK FOR WINE.
There is shaking among the dry-bones
that are kabitually moistened with wine.