Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-10-23
$38O,437 40 $490,l6 "a


| The gross amount of taxes for 1856, was $38O43
40, and for 1857 $490l68 "a. To this is to be added
the tax bank stock, which in 1856 was SAL 1872 49,
and in 1851 $33,988 u.s. The total gross income from
| taxes was therefore, for 1856 $3946l9 49, and for
1857 $525,l57 09 showing difference in favor of
1857 of 129537 o. The nett public tax for 1856 was
$34l 1888 "a, exclusive of the bank tax and the nett
public tax for 1857 exclusive of the bank tax is 457
422 46. The difference between the gross and nett
amounts given is accounted for by the commissions al
lowed the sherifs The total nett income therefore,
from public taxes for the year 1857, is $49l All 81
or 81 35 1876 04 than in 1856. We have not in
cluded however in the nett tax for 1851 several items
which go to the Literary Fund--$8570 for example
retailers of spirituOus liquors. and smaller sums max
ing in all 1898 O9. Add these to the above amount
of $49l All 81 and the total amount of nett public tax
for 1857, will be $500,344 29.--Raleigh Standard
The Hard Times N New York.
Under the above head the New York Times of yes
terday morning gives most deporabe picture of the
present state of affairs in that city. We make the fol-
lowing extracts
There was no let up to the pressure yesterday. We
in the midst of Indian summer and that is about all
that keeps the peoples spirits up The wol-business
goes over the ferry, up Broadway in the omnibus in
the car wherever man. woman or the shopgirl goes in
close cOmpanionship He will not be preached away,
laughed away read away. In Brooklyn the on the
Brooklyn Savings Bank caused such crowd as to OBJ
struct at times the passage of the In New York
as targetcompany Obsructed the passage of the car
all the passengers fell to talking of the folly of target
expeditions while the times so hard The panic
haunts all circles. It cannot but be the one topic OF
conversation everywhere. Every new failure throws
some new gang of workmen out of employment. Yes
terdays formidable catalogue however including prin
clpay drygoOdsmen furnishes, fortunately shorter
list of discharged persons than might be expected from
| its length
"The buest of all the blue times has fallen on the
dealers of uxuries and by uxuries we do not mean the
ornaments OF the outer man or woman-diamonds, Jer
sey pearls, emeralds Opas gold and silver gew-gaws
Books and music are luxuries nOw much so as new
silk and satin dresses and their adornments Our great
publishing firms crushing in, and the retail stores
in state of thorough sagnaton Yesterday several
bookselng and publishing houses went to the WALL while
the retailers for two weeks, have done nothing literally
nothing-have not as they acknowledged, sold books
enough to cover in profit half the amount of their clerks
salaries. 1t is the same, worse with the print
and music sellers. In of the latter hOuses-a very
large one Oowe positively assured that during the
last week less than ST. was TAKEN including orders from
the country where the average daily receipts before the
crisis, from $50 to $40 daily. And this is only an
example of the state of things under the present
in similar establishments
1.-The effect of the troubles upon the drygoods trade
is very marked The wholesale dealers are doing very
little One of them, Lambert & Co., in Chambers ST.
has hit upon an expedient which, we presume will be
initiated He proposes to throw open his entire stock
at reta but at uhoesae pricesprefering to meet the
scacrtice which this will involve rather than make
safes at ALL lie can IN tlS way, probably, dispose OF
ten fifteen hundred thousand dollars worth and pro
cure the money which all heavy dealers need so much
just
"The misery that is sure to come in the train of this
panic to the homes of the poor was fOreshadowed in
Brooklyn In the case of poor girl, who learning in
the morning that she had been discharged went home
and cut her throat. A run for help had already com
menced upon the Childrens Aid Society," The Home for
the Frendess, and the other charitable institutions
the city. The intelligence Offices crowded past all
precedent We cannot begin to enumerate the people
thrown out of business by this terribly financial revu
sion, knowing that figures in almost every case fall
below the truth while from whole branches of industry
our information Is SO indefinite, are not justified in
reducing it to tabular form. The following however
are compiled from definite data which we have aread,
published
Then follows tabular statement which foots up a to
tai of over eleven thousand men thrown out of employ
ment! The cigarmakers head the list, numbering fou,
thousand and fifty!
ANOTHER CowHIDING AFFAIR AT New ORLEANS
The vicinity of Josephine and Laurel streets was ter
rlby thrown out of its equilibrium a few nights since
says the Crescent by foot race, in which the parte
were man. woman, and a cowhide; the man being il
'front.' the cowhide close after him. with the woman bring
ing up the rear. The woman and the coWhde starte,
the in the coehouse at the corner of the street
named the man run about two spaces wben fndin!
that the cowhide lit his shoulders at nearly ever
jump, he doubled and put back to the cofeehouse int
the coeehouse, and up stairs the coeehouse thu
cowhide and the woman following him the whole time
and cornerlng him and giving him his full dost at last
The man, we learn, was husband addicted to tod
dies, cards and late hours, and the woman was hi
strong minded wife She had repeatedly taken him ava