Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-10-16
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

The Already news of the dis
charging of workmen and women in all quar-
tiers of the non-slay sholdng States comes IN
upon us, thick and fast. A fsw moments since,
in reading four exchange papers from dlnerent
States. we found in them accounts OF The dis
charge of some six thousand in the immediates
vicinity where they were published, and am
nouncements of the expectation that the pres-
emit short time" on which most of the balance
are working must soon be reduced to no time Mt
all. We were told, yesterday, by heavy en-
ployer of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, that 5000
have already been discharged in that CITY, and
that as soon as his orders received before the
panic set in-sre finished, his largo force must
necessarily go. Since the commencement Of
the panic, very few orders have been given out
fer anything, anywhere, that could possibly be
avoided. 1t will be safe to estimate that mil
lion of persons-actiye, sober and industrious
people-willing and anxious to labor, most of
them never before knowing a difficulty in OBJ
tanning work, will find it impossible to procure
it during the coming winter. Three-fourths Of
them have not laid up the means of providing
bread for week, without work. Who is to
feed them?-for eat they must, should and will,
ut allrhazards ? ...r
As they are located in considerable bodies in
the Northern cities and manufacturing towns
and villages, it is clear to our mind that the
country is to experience series of bread riots
in the course of the winter, certainly unpsral-
lelcd in its history, if not in that of Europe
riots, wherein the sympathy of all at distance
must and will be with the unfortunate helping
themselves by violence to the means of pre-
serving life, because their unfortunate situa-
ton will be by no means the result of any
wrong doing Of their own. 1t is utterly i'm
possible that the business condition of the
country can be so changed IA to afford work for
these people ere the opening of the spring; for
the effect of the panic, in preventing merchants
and consumers from buying, cannot fail to las,
month for every week during which it may
exist from first to last. In New York the ap-
pretended danger Of bread riots is already so
great as that many are preparing to carry
their families beyond the reach of danger from
them.
Those who have means, have hanging over
them in such times heavy responsibilities, in
deed. 1t is their duty to share their abund-
ance freely with the poor around them. By so
doing only, can they hope to escape the evil of
such riots as we describe above.
The WHITE 81 AVERY OF CUBA The slavery
of white men to capital in this country is being
explained most forcibly just now in the current
vicissitudeS of the commerce of the North, as we
explain in another article to-day upon the ter
rible social and domestic evils that arc about
to fall on million of our fellow-citizens by the
loss of work. In their case the trouble is by
no means voluntarily brought on them by their
employers. 1t is an unavoidable incident of
manufacturing communicate communities
whe rein large numbers Of persons live on the
wages paid by few-a condition Of life in
which no American citisen should exist, if we
could have our way. Nevertheless their stu
alton of prospective abject want is Paradise it.
self to that of the free white laborers'' as they
are termed, which English nominal philanthro-
Ply (but real cupidity) have introduced into
Cuba. The latter is as much more terrifying
to the south Of one contemplating it, compare
lively, as British professions of anti-slavery
christianity are louder than those of our own
North, where the want of bread We refer to is
"iioeuy Pi.IV..-s -. .r------i -
men and children. Of the condition of the
unfortunate '.frec white laborers" of Cuba the
Rtchmond Dispatch says:
Few persons have the faintest conception of
the horrors attending the awful system of free
coionists which meets the appreciation of Eng
, ,ano ana france, two countries which profess,
tue IoiHer especially, 10 regard the mild and
inercifnl slave system Of the South as the con-
summation OF human iniquity. The French, the
Dutch, and the English flag are all engaged i'm
transporting white slaves under the name of an
Prentices, to the West India Islands where they
are often worked and whipped to death before
theiT period OF apprenticeship expires A French
vessel arrived at Havana on the 18th ult with
80 a Dutch vessel on the 10TH with 34O Ofthe
nrst cargo, sixty died at sea Havana cores
pendent of the New York Herald mentions some
circumstances which show the cruel treatment
tIese poor Willie slaves undergo upon the supar
estates In Cuba. [ pom one estate titled almost
altogether by Chinese, three or four committed
suicide The number attracted the attention of
inc authorities, and an investigation was made
Upon examining the persons not only OF the de-
ceased, but uiso of the living Chinese, II was dis
covered that they were covered with sears ca used
ny the whip, I ON the Dape Of the neck down to
the very ankles-that no negro had ever been
more cruelty whipped. The correspondent of
The Herald furnishes copy OF the contract en-
tered iLto by the Chinese and their masters in
Wnicn they agree to submit to "the discipline Of
the estates" upon which they engaged By
THIS, Us stated by an Intelligent Chinese they un.
derstood conformity to the hours Of labor on the
estate, the performing of such work IA they might
be directed TO do, TO the best of their ability and
IN short; conducting themselves good laborers
should DO; but they did not suppose they WERE
uhoef any circumstances, 20 DE whipped with the
Lash " III" said the Chinese, "any one com
Ini1tsd theft, then We thought the punishment
would be Imprisonment, and in bad cases the
bastinado." Not few of these Chinese are edu-
Gated men, and possess pride and dignity of char
acter Nothing more thoroughly shows up the
hypocrisy of anti-slavery fanatfcism I'm Europe
and England, than its enceurag cement Of this
diabolical system Of white slavery which 1t has
not the candor and courage to designate by its
right name.n
The GOVERNMENT SALARIEs.-Few persons
at a distance who are not in the habit Of So
journing at the Federal Metropolis can comprc-
bend that the salary Of the President OF the
United States is insufficient for the proper
maintenance Of the dignity and expense of that
office Nevertheless it is SO. Fifty years ago
every dollar of the S25 1000 per annum would 60
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