strike of the coal miners
and furnace men in the Pennsylvania
coal regions has become general, and
is assuming formidable and alarming
proportions. The strikers march
from one coal region to another, in
an army of hundreds, and force those
who wish to work to stop. The
strikers are an armed mob, and a
reign of terror previals in all the coal
mining regions of the State. The
strike was occasioned by the new
State Eight hour law goinginto effect,
the workmen claiming the same wag
es for a day’s work of eight hours as
they’ received for a day’s work often
hours. The employers refuse to
comply with this demand, and the
employers seem determined to force
them into it. There are serious ap
prehensions of violence and blood
shed.
would have been a nice thing
for Gov. Seymour’s rebel friends to
have secured the suspension of the
only practical measure of re inforcing
the Union army during the leisurely
progress of a judicial proceeding to
determine its constitutionality.—
While Gov, Seymour’s lawyers were
“sounding their quillets shrilly” in
the forum, and making long-winded
speeches on constitutional law, the
armed hordes of rebellion could have
pushed on to victory, buck were the
tactics of Horatio Seymour during
the war.
a®»lt. is a curious historical fact
that Jefferson and Hancock, whose
names are so popularly associated
with the Declaration of Independ
ence. were both serving as substitu
tes in the .Continental Congress.—
Mr. Jefferson was the alternate of
Peyton Randolph, detained in Vir
ginia as President of the House of
Deputies, and John Hancock was the
substitute for James Bowdoin, who
who was kept at home in Boston by
the illness of his wife.
