The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-11-23
The UnemployeSA
SUGGESTIONS FROM CoRREspoNDENTS-s0ME OF THE
MEN WONT WORK.
TO THg EDITOR OF TIKI HERALD.

EDITOR HERALD.
Eeht cents per day this will purchase more food
ind clothing than dollar last season Let Corpora
ton ODER those three thousand who represent them
telvee 70 be starving dollar per day, and my
word for it, not half will go TO work. but whatever
number take up the shovel the day the app
Giants will be greatly decreased and at the end of the
week they will have, say three hundred men. For in
stance required twelve for two days offered them
one do work from 10 O'clock allowing them
srse 70 give them 81 2s they went t. work and when
s O'Clock struck they into the Office, and paid them
xcqucetipg them 70 DO on the promises O'Clock noxt
clay One who appeared TO be appointed spokesman
aid he would damned before he would work for
such and sure enough only three Of the number
came IN the morning. JEW.
vmGNIA LAND wARRANTs-No PLACE TO LOCATE
THE LAND.
10 TILE Epr0R OF
ALEXANDRIA, Va, Nov. 10, 1857.
noticed in the WEEKLY HERALD of the 31s OF October
paragraph headed "shocmakors bound fer Virginia."
ea.ing that several of that class your fellow
paying out Of the proceeds of their labor doa
Per acre for Virginia land warrants that there ar
600 ooe acres OF land opon to purchase Virginia u
Iseased inform the people OF Lynn Mass that any
number Of land may be bought directly tn
Virginia Land Office Richmond the capital Of the State
nj ton cents but tina, the difficulty great
find lands in which " locate them that very few sold
CIvIS.
LABoRERs AND ARTISANS NEEDED IN VIRGINIA.
TO THE EDIToR TIKI HERALD.
SrAUNToS, Va, Nov. 49, 1857.
In common with many others in Virginia, have read
OF the disturbances in New Xork the part of the
ployed iaborers, and take the liberty of making sug-
gton by which all danger OF the kind may be avoided
In tho future
there should those parts Of country where there
demand for labor In this part of our State, and, in
deed in the whole Of Western Virginia there press
ing demand for almost every kind OF laboring hands
have few negroes-ln some counties there hun
dredand those We have rapidly being carried of to
the cotton and growing States of the South Their
place can only be supplied from the free aborers Of the
North So you will be doing your unemployed poor and
ms, too, service by sending men here We need farm
hands, gardeners men, blacksmiths, miners
and indeed common aborcrs and artisans of every kind
last year could employ aborers my farm at SIS
month boarding them. GOOD blacksmths get from
- to $40 a week
Western Virginia is as healthy as any portion of the
world the climate unsurpassed for agreeablity
believe that Of thousands of laborers could
through and find constant employment. The Germans
Swedes and Danes, English and Scotch preferred.
yIRGINIAN.
THE BARD TIMES IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS.
From the Springfield, Mass Republican, Nov. 2ll
We give large variety Of interesting details collected
from original and authentic the condition
affairs IL the principal manufacturing towns anu villages
OF this section of Massachusetts, These statistics serve to
give pretty faithful idea of the way the business revul
tion affecting the interior of New England All classes
OF manufactures Frustrated alike if in one
town. the cotton mills are better than the wool
ien IN the next state OF things balances the
count and IRON hardware paper with the every variety
Of smaller interests, share the deah-like chill
Our details show that as compared with the LIST of Sep
tember Greenfield has total OF 400 unemployed persons
Northampton 500, Ware 700, Williamsburg $50, South
Hadley 200, Huntington 100, and Easthampton 300
total for Hampshire 1850 Springfield o0O Chcopee
300, Hoyoke LOCO, and westned 2oo-to,al for
Hampden county $500 Adams $780, Pittshed 100,
Lee 200 Dalton 1oO and miscellaneous 200-Total for
Berkshire Joe These figures but approximations
some cases however; but basng calculations upon
the Information they give, and the other details
received, we think may BIO fairly estimated
number OF persons in the several counties who had
poymeni on The Is, of September, and have now
as follows
Franklin ............. 900 Berkshire 900
Hampshire. .......... 800 -
Hampton ............ 5000 Total ...........s,5 500
This IA immense subtraction from the productive
labor OF these countries and must tell heavily upon their
wealth Bot this amount of totally suspended labor
substantially such, is equaled If not surpassed By the
reduction from working short time. Our returns show
that while threefourths not more Of the manufacturing
establishments kept in operation, not than
tenth OF them work full time do ordinary days work
each day. What with reduced time aud reduced wages,
those operatives who kept employment receiv
ing but about two thirds their former pay.
While there Ia much that Ia sad In the details pre-
sent there CLEANS Of sunshine scattered through them
In many cases, apparently the crisis past aud work