New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-25
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eDy one VINO can panuic noe tnsy nnd "ViA IL
the country; for then the farmers necessity CON-
pa,es with tia. of the lsborers now. But bear
in mind that the great body Of our unemployed
men are recent immigrants, not yet accustomed
to our Industrial wsys-not choppers, nor par.
ticulsrly skilled with any Of the Implements used
BY our faruers-many Of them, alas no. bref 70
any persistent productive labor az all bu: brought
up in cities or villages as clerks, porters, bar
beIs &C., &c some Of them nearly spoiled for
any substantial efficiency by being run through
colleges yet taught nothing that will help them
in this emergency TO gain a living; not few
brought up by foolish parents in genteelidleness,
10 the confident expectation that they would
never need to bend their backs to downright
work. These are willing to be industrious snd
useful, but they cannot at once chop saw-logs nor
Dske fences; if they were good farm laborers OF
The Yankee school, they wouldn't be believing IN
the Park ror eating charity soup. 1t is precisely
because they are tins untitled for immediate aud
perfect efficiency that we ask humane farmers 10
employ them, teach them, and qualify them for
lives Of independence and usefulness
Bot do not expect the advantage to be all On
ole tide Do not ask us TO send Out to you men
who may not suit you when they arrive because
they happen to be unqualified to do just whatyou
require, and ho will thus be left pennilesssmon
utter strsngers here their chances Ofsoon indlog
work might be even worse than here. Come here
and hire such Labor as you rant-i. is superaound'
ant, and you Can obtain 1t as cheap az any man oil
conscience can consent to buy it. Come here and
select Just what you want, out of the Thousands
living on charity and seeking any chance TO work.
Apply at the Office of the Commissioners of Emf
grafton, or at that OF the Society to provide En-
ploymen. for the Poor, or at the Five Points
Mission. or any one Of the National Benevolent
Societies, but first at that Of the Commissioners
aforesaid because there the supply is amp.est
and the need most urgent. Pick out such men
and women as you want, make fair written bar
gains with them, take them home with you, and
set them to work You can hire far cheaper now
than two or three months hence, and when your
spring work comes on you will be measurably
prepared for it,
Not that every mon who wants help should
come down here-that would cost too much.
But let those in township who will soon wan.
help, club together, make out list of such per-
sons as they will severally want, make up purse
for expenses, and send one of their number down
to hire and take home such persons as will sub
serve their respective needs. They need not be
afraid Of exhausting the supply-if Ten Thousand
were required, they could all be found here at
any time in February. A month later, the case
D,,k L.. E.I
accustomed to the care of horses, another who has
had the care of sheep, third who has been en-
plOyed in draining, and so on, and may select just
which you require; while ii we should undertake
to send them out at random, we should probably
tend the ditcher where the shepherd is wanted,
and the Oster where tn ere Is need Of gardener.
No-heIeis the proper focus whence Labor is to
be distributed as it ia wanted, aud most of it will
remain here at this nclement season, until dis
tnctly required elsewhere.
And now a word to our farming friends as to
the alleged demand for Labor in their several To-
csties We do not wish to contradict their ex.
pre.s averments, but we know it is not the fact
that there is generally a good demand for Labor
among Forue~s at this season. There are Lum-
beIiDg regions, and sections where cordwOod is
chopped for Railroads, in which capable ax-men
are wanted; but we know that nine-tenths of our
Farmers employ far less labor in January than
they require inMay, June and July; consequently,
there must be surplus of labor among them at
this season; and it is 10 part from plethora of
laborers dismissed in November by the farmers
of Long Island, New.Jersey, &c, that our City
is now suffering. If our Farmers really fertil-
lied the soil they cultivate, instead Of skinning
it, they uoald employ great deal more labor in
winter than they do for this s the season for get
ting muck out of swamps, forming compost heaps,
cutting off water. bushes, &c, and good deal
may be done in winter at draining, deep blowing,
&c, by those who really try. But the majority
of our Farmers when they have Invested their
soil of one crop, act as if they had nothing more
to do until the season comes round for putting in
another; AMI while this notion prevais there will
always be large and distressing surplus of La
Dor in winter. Let truer and more generous
ideas prevail and the gigantic evil Of non EN-
ployment in winter, from which we are now suf
fering, will gradually diminish.
ODD EVERY WAY.
AT a recent election of Oyerseers Of Harvard