The New York herald., 1877-07-23


OF ,hcir presence being required Washington
Five under quartcrmastcr will be left in charge
of tho fort The put In readiness Batteries
and NJ Third United States artillery. General Bran-
commanding, leave Fort Trumbull o'clock
on Monday morning Tor New York, ard thence they
will go 10 baltimore.
Two companies OF United States troops stationed In
Boston have received orders and to night for tho
scones Of disturbance at rt;sburg and Baltimore
PROVIDENCE, r. l.. July o. 1871.
Orders hsve been received at Fort Adams from
New York to send all tho available fort troops
airecty to Baltimore. General vagdurs has ordered
Battery Is, Colonel Frank Battery C. Major Taylor.
md Battery i, Major Aiken, 10 proceed at once
When the Ola Colony boat reached Fort Adams she
vas signallcd and the troops probably embarked
OHIO.
ALL FREIGHT TRAINS STOPPED NEAR cLEvE-
LAND.
(pY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.
CLsvxLASD, July %. 1877.
Tho strike OF Hremen and brakemen has
laken possession Of the freight trains Of
ne Michigan Southern and Lake Shore
Railroad with Colinwood, few miles east OF Glove.
land. as an objectng point beyond which no trains
LOCAL FEELING ON THE STRIKE.
BUSINESS MEN AND MECHANICS ON THE sI1UA-
r1oN-sYMpArHY WITH THE STRIKERS, BUT
LAW AND ORDER FIRST
The news Of yesterday from Pttsburg and from other
parts wnerc the strike OF railroad employees either
threatened or in actual accomplishment produced
profound impression in the city. Never since tho
stirring days OF the late there much anx-
ious and eagor discussion Of any public occurrence
particularly ono happening In . mouth SO given over
10 rest and indifference July. Thoughtful men
smoug many who congregatcd At the Fifth Avenue
Hotel in the cool of tho afternoon vsbly agated
n she iamentabe evonts transpiring IN Ptsburg One
OF them. leading merchant Beaver street
heard 1, say that while believed the foundations
the Republic oil safe the social abr,c serious
Iy IN danger II strikes such these in progress
were capable OF arresting the business OF great
try OF provoking the interference OF city, State and
national governments OF filing the with howl
ing irresponsible mobs ready 10 take the cue from
the agents OF sheCommunc, and proceed to pilluge,
iuccnd,arism and wholesale devastation.
Tho men who listened 10 this earnest merchants
words contended that the whole affair
lash tho pan, but nc quickly re,ort ed that only
lash revealed the enormous danger at their doors,
or II the strikers given 10 understand that the
lhcm down whom they transgrcsscd the law and pro-
ssedcd nets OF Violence goodby 10 social order and
security In the future
AMONG RESORTS
Al oil the hotels nothing but the strike and the
situation IN Pittsburg discussed. 1t tho
same the clubs the samc in tho beer saloons and
moro fashionable drinking places. Tho anxiety 10 hear
some WORD about the fatcd Philadelphia division of
troops blocKaded In the round house Of the Pennsyva
mia Railroad at Piitsturg by the mob great
It was 10 hear the fate OF Sherman whom he started
from Atlanta TO The sco.- All the young men con-
nccted with our National Guard specuated with fervor
on the prospect OF being called out by proclamation
from Governor Robinson, and, Lord, o. Massey how
high and heroic they did talk Certainly 1t was OK
pecled that the Governor Of Pennsylvania might make
call troops the Governor ot New York, and Tho
latter would It Is thought promptly respond
THE sUBJECr DISCUSSED WORKING rBorLK
Nsluraaiy enough the great stssks -~ss svssywhcre
the topic among tho laborng and mechanic classes.
To them came home with especial force consdcnDG
that a struggle o labor, s'pge handed against
the united forces Of capital. Among the unsk,lied Ia
boring class thcrc was universal sympathy for tho
strikers but the more intelligent OF the working
people, who think ior themselves and look AT both
sides Of the Issue, not thus carried away and
Judged the matter or less oil discrimination
A SIGNING STRIKE
Al the corner of Forty second street and Tenth ave-
uve group of men happened to be standing, appa-
rcnty stevcdores, listening 10 one OF their number
r..dc The HERAIp,s account OF the urcat trke when
one exclaimed -"Bc me sow. we'll have to be doiu'
somethin' here purity soon There haven't done
sthroke o. work in three months. and hcres this
bckase can't pay the rlnt. An why is II can't pay
the rint bekase bad luck TO them, they won't give
..Oh you're no worse on than ourscis," unsymps
hzingly remarked one OF the groups I'VE wor all wol
=, stale he peoples money Nobody knows ho " we'll
he's of till he's worse of, an think that's the way
wid them chaps down IN Pennsyivania don't want
10 sthrike, an have more ra'son iur II than they
have"
.Mick, you never was good for king or country"
Yctorted the previous speaker, with whom the rest of
tho company clearly IN sympathy, tor whom he
asked the momcnt, N by Wouldn't We sthrike II
VIC thought could make dollarr Why wouldn't
we have share o. what's 2oin' as we'll the thieves
on vnggybonos that runs them railroads?" his audi
ercc heartily appauied.
GENERAL SYMPATHY FOR TIE STRIKERS.
Here and there the reporter in his ramblcs over town
found man 81 sage appearance smoking clay pipe
who would shake his head aud say, Them strikes 10
bad business" but there was preponderang major.
i,y as many, in fact, as hupdredto one, among the
tunes Tor the railroads at the expense OF their
fellow workers Among tho better order OF mccnanics,
will bo seen by lew oi the supjohed interviews.
strikes deprecated aud sensible given Tor
irowning them down.
AN INSTANCE WHERE THE srxIKnns ARE JusrIrEn
Mr.. Turnball, Of tho General society OF Mechanics
and Tfadesncn, said, From all l can learn, and
have given good deal OF thought and considcrauon
10 this Strike, tho Baltimore and Ohio road pushed
things ar This was third reduction, and IL was
made without any inquiry into the condhon and ne
Of ali kinds not founded upon Migrant sense
OF unjust treatment by employers. We
understand tho fcly OF strike
based upon nero caprice or arrogant assumption
Of services being Indispensable but IN uis Baltimore
aud Ohio the clearly rendered daspcr-
by tho treatment they received, and there Is much
ympa,hy for them rho same sympathy IS by no
neans gwen TO other strikers more fortunately cir
rumstauced, who appear have gone INTO II less
a sense Of injustice than Tor the excitement OF
tho thing"
DOWN on rBE MoSoPoLrsTs.
Mr.. Joseph Hal, OF the Coopcrs' Union said tits
. damn shame the way these (mcaning the strk-
ers bnvc been treated by these yere railroads striker
They hadn't ougher give tn TIL II costs these suckers
Iutbin' Tor their dcrned aI'-nrcd plcayunc
mcnnncss III man ha'nt got tho
privilege 10 protest against his wages
benz whitfield down TO the 0cxt little end 10 nrwthin
where is American freedom: whcrc is American grit
and ndepr ndcDce2 Everybody knows these railroads
ha' ben maxim money hand 1si and now because
they happen to got p,ncu OF tho hard they 60
TO work clppin the wages OF the poorest class o men
In thor empliment Look tnat old pcppcrcon n
Jcwctt, OF the Erie Railroad be the paprrs tins
mornin, that he ses he'll not bulge an inch TO tho