The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-26
THE sITuATIONI IN pITTsBURG
PROVISIONS GIVEN oUr AND A BnEAD
RIOT THREATENED.
A Defense os the Act NJ Yhlladel elpls' n
Militia In shooting on the People.
AMERICAN PHHss DISPATCHES.
By the Atlantic md faetae 7elepraph Ill,

By the Atlantic and Iaetfe Telegraph Line
| PtrrsBU1a, July 9j.-A serious trouble is
| anticipated here from the growing scarcity Of
Hour. bread and provisions, and 1t is feared
that bread riots may be next inaug1tated
! The newspapers were requested 10 suppress
anything relative 10 this matter. but facts are
that women and children are now OF, the
streets begging for bread The supply OF
ilUur will scarcely last a week and. as there is
TO be no freight communication trouble must
certainly arise from this multitude Of dissatis-
fled humanity whtn they feel the pangs Of
hunger.
There Is lio change In the situation here
! among the strikers, who say they are more
determined than over to hold the fort. Affairs
| today ate precisely In the satne condition as
when the strike begun / understand that
United States and State troops arc eoncen-
trating at tho Blatsvile intersection forty
miles from tho city. II their forces arc thrown
| into the city they will have the effect of re-
| assuring tho citizens and queting the stfih-
Ing mob. 1t Is understood that tho Pittsburg
| militia, the Fourteenth and Nineteentli Hegi-
| ments, who ran away In such d eowardly
manner when tho Philadelphia troops were
under fire, will be mustered out of the Statss
service and couit-martialed for cowardee.
Affairs arc III terrible condition to-day;
there Is u lull In the storm, which Is expected
to break forth again tomorrow,
Some Of tho city papers have commented
very uhfayorably upon the action Of the Phil
| adelphia troops on Saturday. Officer Caul-
sons, o ronndsnan uf the Mayors police who
was with the Philadelphia troops on satur-
day, states that they were Justified In firing
on the crowd on tho hillside He followed them
up from the Union Depot. and states that be.
fore they reached the bloekaded crossing,
Harry Gor fired OH them He continued to
fire at them Mt different points, and while a
portion OF tho force were engaged In clearing
the platform, stones were hurled from the
crowds on the hillside. He expects TO be able 10
arrest the party who fired the first shot. and
TO secure evidence establishing the fact.
Col. Gray, who was interviewed by tho
Chronicle representative, at the municipal
hall this morning, corroborates Officer Caul-
sons statement that the Philadelphia troops
were first fired ut before delivering tho terri
bio volley which caused SO many casualties
among those congregated on the hillside.
A resident Of Laurencevile relates an incl
dent which occurred shortly after the murder
OF Philadelphia soldiers on Butler street.
which serves to illustrate the diabolc charae-
ter of the mob, and foreibly recalls tho worst
days Of tho Partisan COMMUNISTS A rough
cut the buttons from q dead soldiers uniform
as he lay near the gate of the Allegheny Gene
terry, and with profanity OF the vilest sort
publicly announced his intention TO dispose
of them as "brenst-plns.
On the 18th inst. the business done In The
exchange department Of the Pittsburg Clear
ing House footed up. In round numbers
", 900, 900: on the 24th yesterday the same
account footed up 2soOo-a falling off by
reason Of the railroad trouble, of s5720OO
This shows the condition Of the business done
by our banks this calamitous week. Most of
our banks have taken ample precautions
against any attacks from u mob. Extra
guards have been supplied, with plenty of
ammunition. At the Bank OF Pttsburg alone
there was guard Of twenty-five. who were
supplied with over 100 stand Of arms. besides
revolvers without stint. Other banks were
ready and AZ well cared for. This precaution
will continue while tho present trouble lasts