The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-03-05


rett, of the Baltimore and Ohiolroad.
wrote that his great nationalhway
could be restort to public usly by
the interpositiol of the Unitetates
army Presidelt Scott. of the nsyl-
, vania Railroad, elegraphed the hori-
ties at Washington. Il fear thaless
the general government will ass, the
responsibility of order through,the
land, the anarchy which is nowent
will become more terrible than liver
been known in the history Of the w." {
The governors Of ten States-Weir- :
ginia. Mary land, New Jersey, Newk, I
Pennsylvania, Ohio. Illinois, Wistn. :
Missouri. and KeBtucky-issued DIS {
ing which aid not dis. {
The governors Of four of them-t |
Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania l
lllinois-appealed to the national 60 t
ment for help against domestic insu- !
ton, which the State could not supp i
The President of the United State |
sued two national proclamations tt q
insurgents. The State troops were h
most useless. as in nearly all cases Il n
fraternized with the strikers. All f.
national troops that could be spared RI f
the Indian frontier and the South W
ordered back TO the centers of civil 8
ton. The regulars were welcomed :
the frightened people of Chicago VIII
cheers which those who heard will new,
forget. Armed guards were placed
all the public buildings of Washingto,
and iron clads were ordered up for til
protection of the National Capital. Cal
met meetings were continuous. Gener;
Winfield S. Hancock was sent to Bait
more to take command, General Shel
man was called back from the West, an
General Schofeld was ordered from Yves
Point into active service. Barbados, i
the French style, were thrown up by tn
voters of Baltimore. New York an
Philadelphia were heavily garrisoned.-
In Philadelphia every avenue of approach
to the Pennsylvania Railroad was pa
trolled, and the city was under 4 guar,
of six thousand armed men, with eigh
batteries of artillery. There were ell
counters between troops and voters, wit
loss of life, at Martinsburg. Baltimore
Pittsburg, Chicago, Reading, Buffalo
Scranton, and San Francisco. In tn
scene at Pittsburg, there was every hor
ror of revolution. Citizens and soldier
were killed, the soldiers were put t.
flight, and the town left at the mercy O
the mob. Railroad cars, depots, hotels
stores. elevators. private houses. wcr
Quilted and burned. The city has jus
compromised for $lS10,0 900 claims 70
damages to the amount of 50. S3S. AGO
and has still heavy claims to settle. Thu
situation was described at this point by
leading newspaper as one of "civil wa
with the accompanying horrors of muir
der, coniiagration, rapine. and pillage
These were days of greater bloodshed
more actual suffering, and wider alarm
in the North than that part of the coun
try experienced at any time during tn,
civil war, except when Lee invaded Penn
sylvania. AS late as August Bird, til,
beautiful valley Of the Wyoming, il
Pennsylvania. was military camp. ira
versed by trains loaded with Gatlina
guns and bayonets, and was guarded b,
Governor Hartranft in person with five
thousand soldiers. These strikes, pene-
trating twelve States and causing insur.
rections in ten of them, paralyzed the
operation of twenty thousand miles OF
railroad and directly and Indirectly threw
one million men temporarily out of en-.
ployment. While they lasted the,
caused greater losses than any blockade
which has been made by sea or land in
; he history of war. Non-sensational oh.
';ervers. like the Massachusetts Board of
railroad Commissioners, look to see the
,,utbnrst repeated, possibly to secure a
Sc of wages. The movement of the
ilroad trains of this country is literally
a e circulation of its blood Evidently.
), I'M the facts we have recited, the States
tnot prevent its arrest by the struggle
=, ween these giant forces within society,
= side the law.
10 erosene has become. by it's cheapness,
a. peoples light the world over. In the
S ed States We used 900. 600, 900 gallons
IL otroleum last year. 1t has come into
T. S'demand abroad that our exports of
rs itreased from %, 45S. SsS gallons in
/ icto 411,64S,544 in 1879. 1t goes all
Al oV1urope, and to the far East. The
10 Oral demand for it is increasing faster
lie 'hsny other. We are assured by the
&c eiont petroleum editor of the New
l. 1oHippi"g List that 1T blazes across
20 'he Is of Babylon and waste Persepo-
p u.s. 1 that AL over Polynesia, and
re Far hay, in Burmah, in Siam. in Java.
ii 'he med denizens toll and dream,
IL s'iiobium and swallow hasheesh, WOO
IL anu love and hate and sicken and
1t o'e VI the rays of this wonderful pre-
> ouct flr fruitful cave,ns." However
III '''"e be, it is statistically true that
IS oh'''a the East Indies took over TO-
Is ooo'oohlons in 1877. and nearly 3d.
ooo'ooqlons in 1878. After articles of
II 'ooo' ! country has but one export
IL ore valuable than petroleum
l" IL was tn s6l.sS9. ABS in our foreign
K trade iBT; s4G514.974 in 1873; and
d ''o4o'' il the five months ending
as Nov. 1919 Tn the Tinted States in
the c'ties veil as the country. petro-
III leuh IS General illumination. We use
81 more KEN lamps than Bibles. The
+ ID" iliate If this worlds light s pro-
u'ceu III 'r'itory beginning at ;atta-
Is raus1s So in New York, and e,tend-
- NY 0f':erly through eight o. nine
10 counties opnsvlvari, m,k;pr holt
Is ABOUT one dred and fifty miles long,
II ana '"eiV' fifteen miles wide and
Is 'lieh' WIN Interval, running toWest
~ Virginia. Kclv and Tarpessee rhoro
l. the yield iimnortant Tho NIL of
% inc Oh ce'ntom two counties
n raugus in ! York and ,IcEep :,
,r PennsylvaniTbere arc few n,oas
D. elsewhere throduce rock, such asthe
lie shales of Eng Wales and Scotland
e, but the oil is s,rtbat Amsr;o,r ,,ro
A. sehe' aiter o. carried thousands of |