Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-06
LETTER FROM NEW YORR.
Special Correspondence.

OPeceM Correspondence.
New YORK, July 80, 1877.
Nothing like it been seen since war
times" That's what every New Yorker
has said to his neighbor every morning
for week, and the remark, though get
ting little stale now, has been an en-
inently just one. When the vast labor
agitation which has only now begun to
subside first doomed up upon the horiz-
on, the few items in the papers which
indicated the difficulty were read with
only the transient and distant interest
which attaches to a local disturbance
among miners or some similar class,
which is apt before the news reaches
US. But this time instead of being
speedily forgotten the uprising was kept
more and more prominently in mind by
kilograms which, within four hours from
the first news, began to appear with in
creasing frequency upon the bulletin
boards. AT first we read these with the
calm curiosity with which disinterested
spectators are wont to watch any fight
IN which they are not called to take
part. But pretty soon troops were call
ed for, and our dispatches told us that
blood was commencing to flow and vast
fires to burn, and then we began to say
to each other that they were having
quite little row out there in Pittsburg
and Baltimore. Then trains began to
stop, and telegraphed requests for our
militia to be received. The trunk lines
running out of the city began to sell
tickets cautiously and for short distan-
ces only, and to refuse freights altogeth-
er. Incoming merchandise failed to ar
rive. Western mails, containing impor-
tant letters and anxiously expected re-
mittances, delayed their coming. The
army of country buyers which the open
ing of fall trade has just brought to the
city paused in giving the orders that
were already half out of their mouths,
and kilograms from everywhere counter
manded the orders, previously bestow-
ed. By this time New York began to
think that she had some interest in the
troubles Of the lesser cities, especially
as the wave of disafection was evidently
creeping around and toward her. Then
the members of our crack regiments
dropped their pens and their yard sticks,
donne1 the ferocious trappings of war,
and stalked about their armories with
an infinite rattle of bayonets and clank.
ing of sabres. Two regiments even
kissed the girls they left behind them,
and marched away mid hurrahs and
tears and waving handkerchiefs. to brave
the brickbats of distant strikers and the
revolvers of their rowdy allies.
In proportion as the excitement wax
ed, business waned. Freight movement,
grew less and less, and finally ceased
except by boat and toward New England
Steadily the mass of vehicles, which us
ually pack the streets. thinned out anC
disappeared, until by Wednesday Broad
way looked like Sunday, except for tn,
buses, which alone piled undisturbed
On the side streets, idle trucks lay rang
ed along the shady spots, while team
sters, porters and loafers liked the wall
discussing the situation or reading tn
papers. And here by the way, is on
of the points wherein the week has mos
resembled war times. Never, sine
Lees surrender, has there been In NeV
York such protracted and insatiabl
thirst for news as during these days
Edition has followed edition, almos
} without interval. only to be snapped u
by hungry public. Merchants paus
In their work to devour the latest pal
ticulars, and clerks hurry along tn
streets, carOming against half the peOpl
they meet, but still keeping their eye
bent upon some one of the numerous ez
tras which the clankiDg presses throv