The Molly Maguire riots have revived in Pennsylvania in a
different form. The coke-making business appears to have fallen into the hands of Hungarians, that is, Slays front Hungary, and they, for reasons not stated, recently struck in County Lafayette. A few, however, refused, and the strikers, after beating two of them to death, attacked the workmen employed by Messrs. Frick and Company at Davidson, and killed the chief engineer, Mr. Paddock. They then dispersed over the country, terrorising and plundering the inhabitants. The Sheriff assembled the respectable citizens, and at least twenty Hungarians have been killed ; but so great is the number of the rioters—ten thousand—that the Governor has been asked to call out the State militia. The leader of the strikers, a Mr. Davis, has been arrested, and there is little doubt the insurrection, for it is nothing less, will speedily be put down with the strong hand. The Americans were slow to deal with the Molly Maguires because they were Irishmen, but the dislike of Hungarians and Italians is universal, and if they resist the law, they will be shown no mercy. It is by no means certain that the Hungarians had no case before they began killing, and it is not quite fair either of Renter's agents or the Times' cor- respondents to suppress the rioters' complaint so completely. The murders may be hideous crimes without the cause of striking being wholly unreasonable.
