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New Yonn, Nov. 26, 1861.
EDIroR OF THE Tiurs:--Every year.
about this season, the benevolent peop, o,
our city, and many who are not benevolent,
are called upon to grapplc with an evil.
! gigantic and growing evil, OF wh.cA you i'll
the country know bu. very little. If. b. d.
Iating on this subject, can furnish yon ani
your readers, with some raw m.,era. 'Ur
pous gratitude for the substantial blessing
Of your lot, and send you 10 bed wiih hcM-
tier ''thank Cod than usual, slaIl 10
have written in vain. TIE evi! to wl.icl,
refer is PovrRTY, consequent upon wAn, 0,
work, k,-PovERrY, haggmd, anxious, help
less, City PovERry, in the winter!
First; let me state the facts. Tie aver
age number O; persons in this city, who, in
the winter, have TO employment, may lie
computed at Fifty Thousord. This vas' ;r-
ray OF our wrclched fel!ow-crcaturcs is mace
up of several descriptions OF pcrsons.--
Above all others, in point Of numbers and
in need, are the cmigrants, who having just
con,rived TO raise the amount Of their pass
age-moncy, land upon our wharves, at the
rate OF one thousand a day, destitute, hungry
and eager for employment. Those tina: az
rive in the Spring Or Summer have not much
difficulty in obtaining employment. Il Trey
cannot find work in this city, 'hey can with
comparative ease, reach those sections Of
the country where labor is in demard.-
But at this season, public works are sus-
pended, private building slachens, canals are
clio ed, the rivers frozen up; and here they
must remain, until the opening spring gives
them work, or cheap access to tie Far
! West"
The same contraction of business throws
out of employment thousand, OF our own cit
liens. Steamboat and Sloop hands, brick
layers, ship-cNrrenters, and other mcclan-
les, particularly people CONNECTED in any
way with travelling, find themselves about
this time of year, cut of from ther custona-
ry means ofliving, and thus go to swell The
ranks of the needy.
a few days ago, for example, the Poverty
Works. in this city, discharged, at one stroke
four hundred hands. Think of it-proba-
bly, Twelve Hundred human beings trans
ferred. withou, moments warning, from
the class OF the comfortable and well provi-
dcd for, to that OF the suffering, Ill least, The
anxious, and the sore-pcrleX,d. What Ii
dings Tor a father to bring home, oua Satur-
day night, to his family, al this season OF the
year! Il am discharged, here is the last
week S wages that slall have to bring YOU
= until-God knows when!"
Another large class OF the unemployed is
composed Of persons, especially young men
who leave good homes, and sure emp oyment
in the country, 10 Try their fortunes in thC
, city, This is the class, which perhaps is
\ beyond all others, the most pitiablc; not be,
t cause they suffer more physical pain thar
i the others-thcy do not, generally, suffer as
q much; but observation-disclosures 10 the sur,
abundance of a country life, leaving hom'
under a sort Of iniIiu0tion as TO the grca
things they are sure to achieve in this ely
: and possessing, zoo, keen appcttcs Tor III
expensive pleasures OF the ci'y-the ss,rl
c realty takes them completely by surTri c
u and painfully dsappoints and crrl,Lcs them
y am acquainted with one OF this class, VIII
spent seven months in this city, and in part
- adjacent, seeking employment, before !
found it. He then obtained some work j
folding newspapers, at three dollars reei
"a He was collcge-bred, and is really iint
\ able fellow; but, like thousands Of others, h
could easily learn to DO fry things, bu liz
actually learned 10 DO nothing. Our pcop'
: in this driving metropolis cannot stop
ID teach young men what they ought to hay
u learned before applying for employment.
" A large number or,hese country aspiran
for city honors and city incomes, are youn
- gentlemen of literary turn. Most csp'
IN cially do they long 10 join the corps cditorio
lie A distinguished literateur informed me, ii
es other day, that in his opinion, there are q
ne ways in New York, one thousand pcrsoT
e. seeking literary employment of some KIM
es Il receive" satd he ''at least two thousa0r
er pieces Of poetry, annually, which are oiltre
either for sale, or for my opinion upon The
of merits, or for gratuitous publication in n
paper; and every week, prose matter enoug
of to fill the paper twice over; YETI added h
"ifI want man to do a certain kind of wor
its in a creditable, workmanlikc manner, ! m