New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-17
uyIyr I1cKFT REBELLTON

Persons of African descent are OF an lmltat-
i've nature and the cOlOrcd dlsh-handers anu
water-passers ut the White Sulphur springs
have proved themselves disinclined to be out
of fashion. Ii Is a relief, ouch as variety ell
WAYS Affords to read of a strike, not fOf
higher wages. but purely for the qualification
of tbe nobler passions'of the soul. A battalion
of military arrived at the Springs for the pur-
pose of attending the Lee Beneht Dan. ror
some reason the walters aforesaid do not IKE
the military, and not merely deciihed'to prihS
IN them in the dining room choice cuts ana
sayory mcsses, but otherwise were excessively
impudent and unclvil Finally 200 OF the
plate-carrying guild assembled en- mdSse IN
front of the hotel, and made all hldeous with
their revolutionary vociferatioDs. They melted
away. however, under the influence OF fixed
bayonets-nobody being killed, and nobody
wounded-and when last heard from were
holding n Convention somewhere In the neigh
borhood, and sOlemnly resolving to wait no
more upon soldiers. Here is trouble when
might have been nipped in the bud by judlcIous
distribution of the smaller varieties of currency.
We doubt if a single rioter, however lnilamed
and pucnacious, would have been proof against
The Establishments of one quarter OF dollar.
We have seen that insignificant sum restore to
an attendant the use of his eyes, legs ears and
intellectual powers, all Of which seemed before
f. bc i'm allowance We have known that specific
70 enable him to distinguish between the tough
and the tender, the hot and the cold, the stale
and tbe fresh. We have seen it work re-
markable geological change, aad convert a snail
into greyhound. We have marked ITS effect
in covering the sulkicSt of cOuntenances with
smiles, and it has even caused 4 dubious table
cloth TO disappear and another OF snowy white
ness to take its place. The militiamen at
SULPHUR Springs should certainly have tried the
magic quarter.
There is nothing like n good, stiff reductio dd
Gbsurdnm. The sulphur Springs commouon
was like q travesty of tragedy. III was
stupid. ridiculous, and amounted to nothing but
n big noise the bayOnets probing the msrr-
gents in the neshy parts of their constitutions,
but doing nc mortal mischief There was no
need of bringing out the Cuttings there was
no occasion for cavalry. The funniest of it all
was that il was a strike of sentiment. The
Knights of the Napkin lid not like soldiers.
The might not have liked Jews They might
have experienced distaste for some other class
Of visitors But it will be quite novelty il
the walters OF hotel ale to dictate to the pro-
prictors thereof, declaring who may and who
NAV not be admitted to bed and beard and bar.
This is, indeed, n very mixed sort of period, for
nobody seems to have definite idea OF the
proper limitation of his own functions, and
everybody to think that it is he who is to run
the railway or the hotel, and not the legal
proprietor thereof A public house with four
hundred eentlcmanly though cOlored propre-
tors would he a novelty, but most travellers
would prefer, however weary. to go on to a
house of entertainment which had landlord,
clerk, walters, cooks and bootblacks, each and
all moving in his or their legitimate sphere.