The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-19

vhsss punber which VIII b. found On close ealsah-
~ to bs rather over than under twenty thoesand We
Asrs ths predicon that the deprsssn viii - b.
60 approaching spring may be realized
In Brootlyn, Williamsburg, Jersey City, aAd other
yees the vicinity Of Now YORK. the depression has
Heea attended with thu esastrous results 1t
tsnas even to work under the government exhibited
u the discharge Of i've hundred laborsrs from the
Rssklyp Navy Yard, Friday last From the India
rubber works in the city eleven hundred
abe discharged quite recently In fact could hardly
nsntion trade business that has not experienced
sme loss from the present revuson and, proof Of
As need only mention the fact that the rsstau
rants and eating saloons not doing than half
~ business they transacted formerly.
500 Prom the Hartford rrmes, Dec le.l
There to fear that the poor Of city Win
szpereHce unusually hard winter. In addition to the
high rates Of food, fuel &c the severer hardship o.
vant Of employment will be felt by many who cannot az
Dra 70 hive without The want OF someth'ng to do
probably not more general in Hartford than in most
ether places but there nevertheless hundreds OF
aAls bedied men in our midst without work, AMI des
tate Of the Of subsistence Many CASES OF actual
xss az Of Ss fact and an
appeal TO charity There ars-th among as who have
10 fuel and who are compelled to go without Are We
barn Of enc poor who was found in the act Of
nsYnng her last chair In order to preserve little
warmth. Such cases appeal to the sympathies Of all
generous men and women and show the necessity Of
! We copy the Following from the New Haven Passa
There are now this town some hundreds of persons
Who are wholly out Of employment; and many, very
any who know not when they rise in the morning, how
10y to put bread into their mouths during the
About week ago, we'll dressed stopped me in the
sssst and said that he had lived here twenty years,
and until now had been out Of work. appeared,
inquiry, that he had been for thirty hours without
fsea Every one who Is acquainted with the state Of
ss Ss1s snSws that already shsrs !. ths
feel ard yet have but just begun the winter What
Win - the condition Of hundreds during four months
meet the crisis that 10 coming on lady, passing two
- m the street few days ago, heard one Of them
Ct 10 have MIN
/ can steal pr
sseh suffering a. here portrayed can exist in our
hing like the Of things prevails among the
Dser Of Hartford It Is for the investigation and
sst1en Of the ehaTtable.
TFrom the Newark Mercury Dec ls.1
ne Association for the Relief OF the Poor prose-
s.sng their duties with great vgor At the meeting
Sesn 2aisea and The indications are that az much more
Aan be obtained without much difculty The visiters
= the several wards searching out all Of dss
tutOp and suffering, and making such provisions for
families to last : ssems s ss
ssssArss In most instances the heads Of families thus
Aitaated willing and anxious TO work, but unable
:. And employment even st starving rates sI Indeed in
Drsssed disposition to perform the most mental services
At The rate Of two shngs day urging that
something for the maintenance Of their families
cases. however, the visiters met With
sse whom they would serve In ali such cases charity
BAsuh b bestowed carefully and dscriminatngly the
Visitors withholding everything which might be convert
sAould be matter Of pride to every citizen Of New
Arb that this association l. thus faithfully performing
the exercise Of charity and the mnisration the
sadsrnss Of the poor and needy The conquests Of he
en- me oass'e nsG o. o. statesmen SINE. N the senate
1ses achieved by the Kind and good want and suf
1srg in the homes OF the poor The applause Of the
sr everlasting recompenss. Let>no one fail in the
sesd work upon which he has entered.
The Commercial Crisas-Dlstsess OF ths Work
Ysrk and vlcisssy.
InON WORKS.
e hon business in this city Is very much depressed,
mont. In recent tour through the foundries aud
shae shops learned that upon the average not
subscriptions for the future hold out s goomisr pros
have Ssen recently thrown out q employeat and
A6oNt like number now at wOrk--many Of them,
Awever upon half time One shop that enpicys . large
number Of hands has discharged quarter Of them and
y.t TIE rest On time and expects 70 10
xsssrs. Stim an, Alien Co., Of the Novelty Works,
Dat. q w the assa nt Write Us the
vary depressed condition. We have about twenty
i've per cent fewer in employ than at the
Man vt this time last year the rise in the time
having becnkconiderabe 1t is impossible for say
Of the prospect before than that it is involved
- uncertainty
Experienced say that they have not known 30
great depression Of the printing business for many
years Many of the leading offices havo discharged
rds Of their employees and have reduced the remain
E. hay. % the
working day or two In week substitutes In the
cces Of the daily journals; but many totally
Ne Union has not been materially departed from yet
Tat -e can learn although employers Iay that con
proves, and that right speedily.
~ ~ 6TEnEOryPERs.
This business rs consequence, exhibits much the
N IT, time last year II was Impossible to obtain SUI
Accent assistance to get out the works In progress
Now not more than onethird of the sereotypers are
s1ployed.
\ this branch scarcely anything Is doing We are
zenith, showed decline Of business to the extent Of
ss.e pounds Of type as compared with the same
1sEsod OF Ian year.
n the same category this branch Of bookmAking
nay be classed At recent meeting Of the Bookbnders
been worse The Tract Society Bible Society, Methodist
Book Concern HarPsra and other establishments had
ether discharged lsrye number q their hands. Or
- this branch Of industry between 200 and 300
sut Of work. e4at
BUILDIEG. .etA
ne builders have scarcely anything under way Many
q the masons bricklayers, plumbers carpenters and
Shsrs have left the city, to seek employment elsewhere
large contracting mason estimated the quantity OF bust
doing in his profession ct about oneeghth Of
mat u the period in 1853 He says that not more
Nhan 600 Of the 5000 to 900 usually employed
IN New York now At work. workmen who last year
commanded % per day, new be hired the street
for 81 so and laborers who then obtained from
70 70 IL shings fortunate If employed at 81
aAy.
House carpenters among the principal sufferers.
Many Of the small employers have closed their chops;
ne extensive carpenters have greatly
Suced the number Of their employees, and curtaed the
hoars Of labor Of those yet at work We have not heard
That wages have been reduced In this branch. 1t IL
scarcely necessary sperk Of the condition Of the ship
yards, weeks since gave extended state
ent Of their business. The majority of the operative
ship carpenters in this city numbering mary hundreds
mem arc now out Of employment and the number de-
pived Of labor daily augments by the completion OF the
Wogk In progress. At q recent meeting Of the ship