Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1853-03-02
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- A MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.
Almost painful and melancholy occurrence took
place in this lGrsnvile) Comfy, on Wednesday
evening the 18th instant.
Charles. the little SON Of ArcI'd williams, about
years Of age, while endeavorng TO climb ca,body
that had been placed end wise, caught under il,
by the falling Of the same producing instantaneous
death. At the time Of the sad catastrophe, Mr. VIII
liams in an adjoining County. Little did he
think when he len home. that ere his return. this
beautiful, interesting and promising little boy would
be ushesed into another world. And with what erush-
ing force must this sad bereavement fall upon the
heart of his affectionate mother. The only mitiga-
lion Of grief his parents and friends can have, s In
the consolatory reflection that ltrie Charles pure
spirit has been transpianed from its abode on earth
TO more congenial habaiion in Heaven J. A.sW.
SHADES OF NEw YoRK LIFE. From an article
in The New York Courier and Enquirer. of February
4, extract the following detail Of misery and crime
in two wards OF ihatcity:
1--WE sa, down with the pnrposeo detailing some
Of our own personal observations of household
wfe,chedness la the Fenrth and Sixth Wards Of our
city; bui taste revolts and our pen shrinks from
the narration. We could Tell Of one room, twelve
feet by twelve, in which were FIVE resident families.
comprising twenty persons. OF both sexes and all
ages with only beds without partition screen,
chair table. and all dependant for their miserable
support upon the sale Of chips, CLEANED from the
StrectS al our cents oaSket OF anotne, stll tmdis
Ter and more destitute, Inhabited by man, women,
Two little girls and boy who supported by per.
milling the room to be used as rendezvous BY the
abandoned women Of the street: Of another attic
room seven feet by five, containing scarcely ar
tcle of furniture hut bed which lay fne-look.
ing in a raging fever, without medicine or drink.
suitable food Ibis foil-sorn wife engaged in clean.
ing dirt from the foar, and his little child asleep
bundle Of rags in the Of another Of the same
dimensions, in which found. seated on low boxes
aroud candle placed on keg, woman and her
oldest daughter (lhe latter girl Of fifteen, and.
were told, prosuie) sewing shirts, for the maxi
ing Of which they were paid four cents apiece, and
even at that price, out of which they had TO support
two small children. they could mol get a supply Of
work OF another of ABBOTT the same size. occupied
by street picker and his family, the income Of
whose industry eight dollars month; of anoih.
err scarcely larger, into which we were drawn by the
terrific screams Of drunken beating his wife,
containing article Of furniture whatever: of anoth.
e., warmed only by Tin pail OF lighted charcoal,
placed in The centre Of the room, over which benta
blind man. endes vorng 10 warm himself-around him
three or four men and women. swearing and quarel-
ling-in one corner, ou the floor, woman who had
died the day previous Of disease. and another two
ofthree children, steering pile Of rags In regard
10 this may say that its occupants color.
ed people, and from them. but few days previous had
been taken and adopted, by one Of our benevolent
citizens, a beautiful little white girl fopr five years
of age, whose father was dead. and whose mother
wssat B'ackwell's Island. Ofanother, from which.
long SINCE twenty persons, sick with fever.
taken to the hospital. and every individual of them
deado
ARRIVAL Of rHR PACIFIC. This steamer arrived
at her wharf in New York on Monday morhipg about
, o'clock Her news is three days later than any
previously received. Her commercial news 10 all Of
importance that she brings. Will be seen from the
markets which we appeT-6, that there has been
action in Cotton. and Breadsieffs have advanced
MARKETs.-Lirrpool,F Feb. STD. Cottor-sales Of
three days 10000 bales. Uf which Spectators took
900, and exporters LOCO. The quotations New
Orleans fair 63; MiddIing Upland fair 81; Mid
cling 81. The advance noted by The previous steam
er has been lost. ard the market closed quiet. 4s
! Trade at Manchester has slightly declined. 1o5
Brezdstufs-Flour had advanced Sd. Western
Canal 25s. Cd; Ohio 26s. cd. Corn was in fair de-
mand at full prices Wheat advanced Id. Fslef
| Loadnn, Feb 8. Cotton was in active demand at
full rates. Sugar was in geed demand Coffee was
in moderate request al prices favoring buyers.
Harre. Feb. S., Cotton unchanged sales Of 2. 500
bales Middling Orleans OF; fair 95f.