The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-12-15
THE POOR

| ITO high price or fuel tbis Wahbers ana In
deed Of all the necesearies of life. will rem
der essential an increase of charitable con
tributions on the part of all who arc LIBERAL,
or even moderately endowed with world,
goods. There is in our city Benevolent so
ciety, which hss for its object tho relief o.
tho INDECENT, and we take il for granted tina
| it will appeal to every member of the com
rnunity in behalf of the unfortunate and suf
fering.
1t has been said, that ZONE half OF the
world don't know how the other half live "
Few people certainly in rich or even indie
pendent circumstances have any personal
| knowledge Of the wants and distresses of tho
poor, even In their own towns and neigh
oorboods. They have q general idea that
po0< people are often hungry, ragged
and cold. and that once year it becomes
those who are rich to bestow dollar. or some
such enormous contribution for their relief.
If they could look face TO face upon the daily
realities of poverty. they would put their
hands deeper in their purses. IL every mem
Der of community would give as much to
tho poor as he sometimes throws away in q
day IN unnecessary pleasures and amuse.
m5nts, every extreme case of suffering In
that community would be relieved. This
would be true of london, Paris, New York,
aud much more of Richmond, for the mum
Der Of our poor is small in proportion to our
population, when compared with that OF tho
Northern cities
Few but those who have tasted the cup of
poverty, can realize its bitterness The scan.
ty morsel, got st hap hazard, and do,od ont
III miserable fragments to many rayepous
mouths; the clothing, so thin and ragged tina,
1t almost chills the well-clad spectator to look
al Il; the miserable howell. which the rain and
snow enter at pleasure, where The winter
WIND, cold as the charity of the world,
plays its widest pranks, and shouts in tr;
unph as the wretched inmates, subdued and
shivering, COVER over few peer embers;
these form the daily experience of poverty,
while close at hand are abodes filed with
comfortable and contented people, and pa
isce-hke structures, whose very servants are
better housed and clothed than the poor, and
who waste enough from their own tables to
preserve from starvation the wretch who dies
snheeded at their masters gate.
Let all men, blessed with the common oom-
forts of life, do something for the relief of
the poor. Poverty, at all times an evil and
calamity, must be insupportable in times
Like this, when even men III moderate circum-
stances are straitened and oppressed by
me increased cost OF the necessaries Of lie
The Bulletin certainly did ask us questions
touching the short road to Charlottesville As for
Temperance. our views will be knoXn Ia good
time.
II is said that Mrs. Mowatt's i'll health confirm,
to al extent which will proven. her resumi1g i,
dntiea OF her profession at present. if at.l
WIN. Henry Mortimer has been arr .,.o3
stealing SIC from T. J. p, -
coal burner, from Virginia - ="
MARRIE~
On the 18Th inst, ia let ~
Res issf SRicK GF .gs b
w. Allen, Esq, ali Of eldest daus ator ec Russei
e.--.=szsa
Ia this Cit Af&-EiL%s
ROBERT On the 9th instant, n: half past o'cl'k
leaving WALKER, in the 18th years Of his age
. wife snd eniy daughter to mourn his loss.
ou " ednesday morning, at o'clock, of Pnearno
nia, ALBERT RUSSELL, eldest OF Nathaniel
and Sarah 9 August in the 18Th year Of his age. Hi.
funeral viii take place on Fd4y morning. doth iust
| at II o'clock, from St. james Church.
The friends ofthe family. of his Grand father
Philip August, respectfully invited 70 attend.
| .s.EzzxIz1sza
| RICHMOND MARkETS-Dec- IL
CORRECTED DAILY.
! FLOUR-The market is more firm to-day, with .
better demand for export. We quote at &jf0S7
| WHEAT-Sses az 81 iG33i So
| SOkN-65 Genus for new; 70G072 cts for old.
| SlOG&20.
We have no change to note in the BEEF ana
| fokh 1naIket-Tather dull, with downward ten
dency.