Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-19
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Special.C Correspondence.

We have been RECALLED during the
past week with an introduction to the
workings of the Congressional Labor
Committee, of whom the Hon. A. S.
Hewitt, of this city, is the chairman,
and Messrs. Rice of Massachusetts, Boyd
of Illinois, and Thompson of Pennsylya.
MIA. the constituent members. Had
Congress given these gentlemen vaca-
ton, and instructed them to stop in
! New York and witness or take part in
farce, the instruction could not have
been more fully developed and realized
than it was when they issued a general |
| invitation to all classes to appear before |
them, and give their views as to the |
causes of the existing depression, and
to suggest measures for its relief Those
who have thus far aired themselves,
have as general thing been Utopians,
IN the fullest meaning of the word.
Communists, Socialists, Womens' Rights
men and women, Spiritualists, long,
haired reformers of every kind. all have
appeared, and have gwen these gentle
men to understand that they are the
masters of the situation, and that it is
only by their sovereign will that Con-
E gress or the Government is permitted to
exist. Under their propositions there
! is to be or would be general millennium.
Property is to be equally divided. The
n man who works and saves is to have no
!. more than he who idles and spends, and
" Government is to act the part of patri-
archal parent, and see to everything.
.. Government is to run the railroads, tel
e egraphs, and all other works now carried
on by companies. Government is to
: employ everybody, pay everybody, hold
to everything in trust for everybody. but
above all things, Government is to be a
at strictly honest papa; no more Credit
s. Mobiliers; no more substituting railroad.
;, telegraph or steamboat companies. There
at is to be but one general christian
ur brotherhood, under which all will act
" IN concert, and every man will take his
neighbor by the hand, call him brother,
a. and divide his substance with him.
as as The most amusing feature that this cold
and unfeeling world which does not
no sympathize with these visionary views
b. encounters, is the extreme pertinacity
d, which these same Utopians hold on to
s. the little worldly pelf in their posses.
sion. Even that extreme communist
IN and socialist, Justus FL. Schwab, will
not give suffering brother a glass Of
Re beer without the necessary quid pro que
A. in the shape of five cent piece.
| hope that we shall not soon be in
volved in war which would enable u:
e, to use our new style of submarine weap
ons, but if we should happen to become
II, so involved, think we could show {
thing or two to any men-of-war which
G. might seek to invade the harbor of New
York. Major General Abbott, of tn,
Y. regular army. has been busy for weel
experimenting with some new torpedoe
oh at Wizards Point, and the results O
these have been to prove that the heav
II, lest vessels may be blown into the al
at moments warning. A large numbe
IS, of torpedoes were exploded at differen
depths and under various conditions
W. the effects in each case being CAREFUL.
noted for future reference. The fna
P. experiment was the blowing up of
200-ton schooner in the presence of
er- large number of spectators. The seen
on this occasion reminded one of til
ow memorable blowing up of Hell-Gate.
The torpedo, containing hundre
~, pounds of powder, was sunk beneath th
vessel and connected by an electric wiz
IN, with the station on shore. When al
was in readiness, Gen. Abbott touche
TT the key, and Immediately there was
violent commotion of the water undo
st, the schooner. She snapped asunder g
if made of pasteboard, with loud dee
CHI report; her timbers were torn as if the
were straws, and confused mass
er, water, planks, fragments of wood, blac
dust, and volume of smoke, throug
Be- which darted large red globe of fir
was hurled up to height of at lea
yn. $50 feet. For a moment the who
mass balanced in the air and then fel
All that remained of the schooner W;
=; the top of the cabin deck. Photograph
was called in to record the experimel
several instantaneous views of the e.
49, plosion being obtained in its differs
-. stages. RADIx.
Vhe Mr.. G. G. Fulton, Editor of the Ba
ctl- timore american. writes from Ron