The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-08-25

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Evidence.
NEW YORK, August l8, 1877.
EDITOR CHIEF:
The labor troubles are not over yet
by any means, though the long
threatened strike in the city has not
yet taken place. The workingmen are
not yet organized to make it the sue
cess they desire, and it will be put off
till the leaders have their arrange
ments thoroughly and completely
made. Swinton, Schwab and Thomp-
son are busy among them, organi-
zing by trades and raising funds to
support the movement when the
break is made. They expect to have
million of dollars, and SO complete
an organization that they will be able
to effectually stop all business and
dictate terms to the city, and that
without any rioting or blOodshed.
One workman asked SwintOn whether
it would not be better to take the
million, and pay it over to the unem-
ployed workmen, to help them along
| till times got better SwintOn's an-
swer was characteristic : What is
the use of feeding men in that way I?
Do you want to go OIL feeding them,
or will you compel capital to pay
them so that they can feed them
selves ? A million of dollars is mere
nothing, to pay for what we want y
Justus Schwab says little, but he
sells beer and looks wise. He has the
German element well organized.
When the strike is declared, he says
they will turn out to man.
This season has been made memoir
able by the unprecedented number
and severity of the storms that have
swept over this coast. Last Sunday
night, Coney Island, on which at the
time were more than $4,000 visitors,
was swept by a storm that was as
severe as it was unexpected. Bath
houses were taken "up and carried
bodily quarter of mile inland,
tables on the piazzas were swept
away, aud men and women sitting
at them were hurled violently against
the walls ofthe building. Fortunate
ly the hotels were sufficiently strong
to resist the beatiugof the winds, else
there would have been terrible loss
of life. There is thunder storm OF
two every day, and the nights are
made lively by the same agency. Il
was amusing last Sunday Oh the boats
that carry New York out to get g
breath of fresh air on the water. Or
the boat to Fire Island there were
seven hundred passengers, furi0u:
storm came up, and every one of the
seven hundred was seasick. The sigh
of seven hundred people vomiting a
once is not often vouchsafed, and j
would have been amusing had no
the bellolder been too busy with hi
own individual sickness to enjoy tina
of others.
The big camp-meeting at Ocean
Grove, New Jersey, is in active oper
alton. At this now famous place ther,
are substantial cottages that shelte
resident population of 1000, VIII
stay there all the summer, aud th'
tents accommodate as many more
The place is owned by an association
who enforce the most ultra-religiou
rules. Intoxicating drinks eau no
be had for love or money, boating
! and all classes of amusements ar
prohibited on the Sabbath. and asid
from the printed regulations there
a moral influence that makes it ex
tremely difficult for sinner to b
comfortable in the prosecution q
any kind of semi-sinfnl or even friv
: olous amusement. The business of til
t place is religion, and tits very closel
: followed. There are meetings at day
light and then all day, with interval
of rest, and till 10 o'clock at nigh
: Mrs. Lizzie Cook is there exhorting
dozen times a day, as we'll as Mr.
Van Cott aud all the noted reviyalist
a Bishops Simpson and Peck hav
: charge of the exercises. 1t is an in
mense success this year.
q Not since the summer of 1873 hf