New-York tribune., 1877-07-24

,rmincd 70 leae the city TO its fate Ihayo an ac-
| count If their retreat from nm important eye WIZ
| ness by which il appears that they moved out oi
| tbo CITY i'm good order covering carefully thclr
Calling uns marching with slow step, and by COM
maud of their officers rcfranlpg from hrihg on tne
! mob, which was keeping up desuliory lHSlialo
upon Them until they got out Of the recently se.'eu
districts where there were women ana el'ii',,"
Then they turned and gave their pursuers Voley
which put them 10 liighI III tnI' ih"i'" ''''' 'O
seven men killed. A.,
There is 40 difficulty in finding where the
,lor,e ro,lIv belongs The conduct of the two
PIT .burph regiments was disgracciul II they
had dome one-half their duty the ears wouh not
have been Gred nor the depots destroyed resolu.e
bearing on their part would have arrested the Wiole
shameful catastrophe. But what did they DO
They actually disbanded, skunk of to Their homes
toor of tbcir uniforms and left their brother Ma
tonal gnaTdsmep from Philadelphia to DC Du'chered'
The behavior of the police was beneath contempt
cannot learn that they tried to suppress the MOD
As TO the citizens land by that name do hot mean
ui,creants. men who actually did the burning ana
,1nd,icgl they appear to have looked on the fear
mi bayocas spectacle, until the fire menaced Their
own property. The most charitable view possible
20 ,,, If tbeir conduct IS that they were stunned
bv o,nozcnent into supiness and cowardice. Five
hundred or.aYzcd rs special pole men yesterday
,norpna would have saved five millions OF property
and betier still saved Pttsburg from indclbe dis
grace.
A REvUISION OF FEELING.
0pm.-The excitement has rapidly subsdeu to-
day and there have been 10 acts OF laWlessess eA-
cept an attempt to piIlage tie freight cars on the
corth Side. which was speedily suppressed. Inc
,,ur,ipal authorities appear to have the city well
in hand 4 ouiet night is expected. The local troops
bove tent nnder arms all day, and have been
marched about to make an impression on 'nc
violent classes large force Of veterans OF the ae
war were armed tins morning by the Mayor anu
added considerably to the show OF Iorce' eans
- ,bont !. coo miners coming down the river with
threatening intentions, were stopped ana turned
hack in the suburbs By a force under Gen. Negley'
All occounts Of Yesterdays riot agree that the
railroad strikers were not concerned in the burning
AMI, ,;Il,re Same of them went to the Mayor and
wanted TO be enrolled in force for puttng down
ohe mob and saving their property, saying tat the
opes,ion of wages could be settled when peace
was restored. The conduct OF Maj.-"en'
Pearson. the local militia officer VINO 'ooN
command of Inc troops on Sa'nruy' Is
denounced on all hands. He has disappeared rom
The city, going oif oa a steamboat IL is sal" '"'ie
bos becu a complete rcyulson of feeling among the
hnsiues men i'm relation to the behavior OF te Ii-
,dciphia iroops. Yesterday they had no irien"S.
Now fine brs. citizens SPY they did their duty and
ought to have been aided.
Much alarm is felt by the tax-paylng community
on account of the liability Of the county to be sac"
died with all the losses inflicted by the not
ers ON the railroad company, amounting
it is variously estimated, at from hVe 10
fen millions. |. Is also feared that the trade
Of the city will suffer heavily, and that the Com
rany will punish it by reducing it to way y-Stauoh'
and running all its through business around IT,