New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-09


wvs for your sturdy young farmers TO get to Msh
gsnf They are at work. perhaps at common shirts a,
seven shirgs dozen or drawers at Eve sh Linz
dozen and never had will have except by accident
or crime money enough to pay their passage your State
How ore they 10 get there Advise us that aud you al
have al you find husbands for keep good employ
mont
Another correspondent in Ohio, who dates his letter
My Own Preside Jan 1 gives better advice. His ad.
vice il to form EmgrantS Assistance Society in the City,
with branches all the country aid the industrious
honest poor who suffering here get away while tbs
branch Societies would tell them where go and aid them
TO get employment when they get there lie says tina! he
is fully Of the difficulty the poor labor unier in the
City and Of their total inability to get away ye; il their
cases were made known the phlanthropts OF the Wet
il would result in finding locations for hundreds where they
would enjoy comfortable independence. Without some
such eang, it would be useless for the benevolent
here assist these poor strangers to reach that very ado
mite point" Out West"
Our correspondent at his Own Firesde" asks II some
o statements made under the head of Labor and its
Wants in the CITY are ideal sketches because if
they ere not he thinks that many people in the country
would be willing contribute for the relief Of such suffer
inc many cannot understand why we here in the Ciy
where there is 50 much wealth do relieve such Of
abec poverty and suffering Simply bee iuse there 80
much oft There many benevolent people here as
ways zee fresh objects of charity for it is here tina. Europe
Asia Africa pour out their of thousands Of poor who
must be fed or die To feed and cohe and house al these
il more than we can do and feel that the lnt should
give Us help Give the and we will give you as
good laborers and as wiling hands as ever worked.
Ifyou think our sketches are ioeal and see. You
stall see more than you thought of beforenot OF pow
ery from crime ntoxicaton or laznes Of which the City
is lun but poverty through unavoidable misfortune.
The City is full of honest men. women and children,
who would be willing to work. and would make good in
dusious citizens in any Of the agricultural districts or
manufacturing towns of America if they knew where to
20 and had the means to get there.
We have several other letters before written from
various parts of the country all advising the parties whom
we have named suffering for want Of labor TO leave
"tbe City and where work is plenty provisions
"chesp and rent and fuel almost nothing" VIII these
pores give them one piece Of good advice how
they shall get there As to the FIRST feel pretty conf
dent that we are about well able anybody TO give
that but the latter must be backed up with sort OF prac
teal advice which unable TO give.
The SIxrESSY SlvIsGs BANK This institution is gain
ing favor with the people beyond the most sanguihe e1
pecaons Of Its projectors and most ardent friends 1t IS
one of the best Chldrens Aid Societies" estab
lished 1t aid TO all reform movements 1t teaches
fugaity the advantages of saving and draws manga
sxpence away from the bar and other sinks Of waste
1t makes children proud Of being dePositors in bank"
There something attractive in the very name and the
class for whom it was established fas. as they find
out flock there every deposit night in small droves
Last Saturday night there fifty five depostors
and these with few of the old ones this dulles part Of
the season deposited srfeeH hundred dollars making up
tic total deposited since the bank was opened in
July s53963 49, by 2243 depostors. This is gain Of
625 new posiors and s229 90 since notice OF the
in,ttuon in November AT the annual election last week
the following named gentlemen were appointed Trustees
for the prcfcnt year:
Eff Furdy joseph HOugh, VIM Adam. WIN. Hall wn Mll.,
biTn M ktE. VIM hnd Sqs jacob Miller saith 8ft
". Church Cssia' Peck Jane C9nleI Ioaathn
PuIty John Enz SSoo BSotson Isaac Eo% TEL q s s
p D sse f6y MiSS oI JGa FsImei Uaisi
lane, Rob T Hswes David Wsfd ThOs J Barr.
TIE following gentlemen elected officers
Elijah Purdy Presidents William Miles Wills Adam: Vice
The evenings of doposi; Mondays Thursdays Satur
DAYS but if the business continues increase as 1t has
lately it will become necessary to keep open all the TINA
day as well as evening many OF the dposors are women
and children and small boys and noticed while present
Saturday evening that many Of them came from far up
town.
One lady and her three little girls came to deposit 1929
for the use of the children
My husband said she, started for California to day.
and left this sum with for spending money want to
should be taken away from them before he returns
Two bright manly boys came from distant street to
make an addition TO the little already in bank. AS
they retired we heard of them say Now, Sis, and
swe et modest little girl of nine ten came forward and
said Please sir will you take this and give me bank
"book o. and she held out her hand with % cents. Ger
"tanly my dear fit not quarter as much What
"your name All you are sister to those boys
Yes Sir she our sister and she heard talk about
the Savings Bank and she said why can't save my money
too and 10 she came down with us
These cases of the force Of example exhibited every
day.
We noticed only three drafts made while we were present
one lad drew fifty dollars 1t was the savings of several
months
"Wil you please to give il to me in gold, Sir
Certainly, but Why do you draw it OUT
lam out Of work now and am going home to my
mother and thought would take Il to her all in gold 1t
is not often she sees that much the country And besides
want to show the boys and tel them how and where
keptt for they take the papers up there and have read
about the 'Sxpenny Savings Bank
At little socs supper given by Mr. Miles at the Cooper
House opposite the bank Friday evening to the old and
new trustees several interesting incidents were related
MI Miles said that he believed he owed his success in
business TO the influence of Savngs Benk upon his mind
when bow He received little of money for carrying
ont bundles of leather which he deposited until reached
the sum of six dollars and that he has still in bank &C
cumulapg interest and often his mind recus n 1t 70
nds him of the advantage of early savings and ffugay
til 10. Alderman Purdy gave credit to Mr. Mules Tor
ocip,ted the idea Of the present institution and in
connection with himself and Mr. Legset CARED through
the rs struggle in which they had been assisted By several