Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1842-01-12
miscellaneous.

Distress in Great Britain The last acs
counts from the other side Of the Atlantic,
show The cxis,ance of great distress among
the lahoring and poorer classes IN Greal
Britain. a corresdouden, Of the Lnndon
Globe describes The state nf Nottingham
Hundreds are starving on straw beds,
wilhou, food, FIRE, or covering: and these
are people who would work il they coa'a
ye, it. Each day. parties of men, with
starvation in their looks and dressed in alb
solule rags have been parac'ns ths ,o""
in professions of Two, three, and lour nun.
drcd, carrying hoard on which Is printed
in large letters" Distressed ana ont OF
work" Other pur,ics, 10 The nn!nhrr o,
,hir,y or forty, drag carts loaded with sand
,hroy,b The streets, and beg from door to
door. Th, reliei-list AT the Union Work
bouse con,nins $500 recipients. The house
itself has 900 inmates crammed within us
w,lIs Besides those receiving
parish relief upward Of 1000 are s'arvIns
Disease and saunt misery haunt the whole
Town. Trade is dead; not snSlc mas
ter employs full hands. =. i.
Meetings to devise measures oil reHc!
are going on.
The Blackburn Gazette thus speaks OF
The condition Of The pour IN that section ei
lte country. -, -,
The situation of the poor in blackburn
and eiohborhoni is at present truly dep'o
rabIe. Even when in full w"rk, The con-
di,ion of the hand loom weaver Is snch as
:, cyclic cvmn,issera,iou but, al the pre-
sen; moment, when wages arc unusuanS
,,,v labor scarce or una;,ainahlc. anu the
season most inclement, their sui'erInss np-
,c,r ;, ,,,ye reached The last stage ol hu-
man endurance.
A London paper says thai the Debtors
prisons in Newcastle, Durham. Lancaster.
&C., are ali crowded TO excess, irom the
commercial failures which have taken
pIn,o within the last y-.r. Another Lon
duu journal tells US that OF the .o'n uh'
there were I'll persons conhncd 'o' aeot'
in five metropolitan prisons!
Seoi!cni-Thc ironni""Sers oi Sco:-
Junj have resolved To blow out tor SIX
p,,u,hs one fourth OF their furnaces. his
il . resolution Of dire necessity OH The part
of the masters. uud will Of course he ieIl
with rrca. severity by the numcrois ho"y
,r o,era,;y., in conncx:un With this branch
of Industry in the West Of Scotland A
ynin, the early severity Of The w'nlcr 'hfows
con,ulcrely idle. considerably before The
period. that industrious body the masons'
aud other u,-door woI keTs III connex'o'
with them. The city missionaries sec'e,
,,,;cs uf the different charity societies. anu
clersvu,en in populous district, ol Inc SUI
burhs. are all soliciting a"d "s every oe'
scription, to relieve lhe distress ihey ua''S
como ia contact with.
The caiico-prinius business Is III Inc
most hopeless stale; aud VIC are ee''a,h
we do not exasgerate when NC say 'hal 10
IN, West of Scuilund Que half OF the woTk-
crs are idle, and that the same number o!
masters would be bankrup, had they uo'
capital 10 fall back upon. A. to the wea'
wing poru!a,iou. they have for 50 long been
reduced to a s,a,e Of misery, aud we have
So irepucutIy had occasion 10 state the heip-
less state they are comet Ia, that we 40 not
feel iuciinu,i 10 say more about 'ieai,.
distress is unw taking general uirec'ioh'
and il j, To this fact that we Wish paf'icu-
larly 10 dircc, attention.
Tbe small dealers in many Of The manu-.
faclur;us dsrrirl, nav 6nd their capital
rcprc,cn,cd sy debts uwrm: by idle opera,
,;r.. who are utterly uns''lr IN paw. and
IN ,hcsr circumstances TO realize money or
Sim, mn ,hnp is IN c;::c- cas-" hopcicH.: they !
mus, :. hold on ,i!l money and credit are
zone, and then their ncX' step is--ru'''-
How lons this State nf matters viii con
,iuuc, j. now heQucsii"n asked by every
onc.-GiQssor ChToH.