Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-10-17

II From the N Y. Tmes.]
HARD TIMES IN NEW YORK CITY.
Eject on tie 7rades, on tho Hotsb, Do Workmen
out Of Employment

HARD TIMES IN NEW YORK CITY.
Eject on he Trades, on tho Hotsl, Do Workmsn
out Of Employment.
Daily, now, the effect Of the hard times are felt
in the large manufacturing abshments-on hun.
dreds Of mechanics, "shop girls" sewing women
and day aborers, who did not feel them the day be-
fore. We continue, to-day, our review OF those de-
partments Of labor where large numbers Of men and
women are employed in prosperous times.
Seven hundred laboring men, who had been en-.
ployed improving Central Park, were discharged
yesterday. Mr.. Mcintosh the disbursing clerk, CON-
menced paying them "the first nstament' Chat
which was due them down to the 5th Of September)
on Monday, and concluded yesterday. They were
paid in squads; :" and when informed, they came
up that their services no longer required there
were very many heightened visages but no partcu.
lar expression Of sorrow. They will be paid in full
to the time Of dismissal Friday-as soon astheir
accounts can be written up. The men discharged
were mostly Irshmen and Germans, though few
were Italians.
The men employed in the manufacture of cabinet
work, we are assured by eight heavy dealers in plain
and ornamental furniture will suffer very much from
this time forward until Spring They cannot give
correct statement of the number of men who will
be thrown out Of employment, because in many ca
SEES the workmen not employed directly by them
selves. BY some the work is furnished "in the
rough" and finished in their own shops; while 9TH
ers purchase their work finished, and few manu-
fac,urc themselves all they sell. Consequently, the
dealers can only estimate the effect of the panic up
the trade generally; that they are convinced,
will be very serious. Al this particular season, in
times when the public is not alarmed the retail trade
is brisker than at any other, except during the six
weeks centerng on the LIST of May. But for two
weeks last past there has been little doing, and the
prospect for the Winter is that business will be very
dull indeed The effect upon small manufacturers
is already serious. There is large number of per-
fla. hA laVtt ap.,d fpxp
hundred dollars from their earnings as journeym,., .,
have transformed portions Of their residences INTO
workshops and gone into the business Of manufac-
turing for themselves. On so small capital, with
wood of all kinds at high rates, and credit exceed
ngly difficult il not impossible 70 obtain, they find
it necessary, as they have finished few ar
ticles TO throw them upon the market without ref
erence 10 what its condition may be. The result al
ready is that many have been forced to close their
shops or to gain what money they can as rcjuvena-
tors of old furniture. Because. if they sold what
manufactured stock they had for cash, II was at
prices that hardly covered the original cost of the
raw material which good and sufficient rca-
son for not manufacturing any more until the mar
lset improves; and If they tailed TO secure cash
sales, and were obliged to put them into the hands
Of the auction aud commission merchants, their ar
ticcs still lying piled up in the upper stories or
easements waiting for a time when they can get
cost from under the hammer of the auciioneer.
done very well, without njurng those regularly cs.
tablished in that line Of business. From this fact
alone the real state of the trade is revealed. The
large increase in the "rtjuvenating department"
/ shows determination the part Of consumers to
make their old furniture last until Spring. until
the advent Of more prosperous times. Men in the
trade well qualified TO Judge estimate that the sales
during the season will not be than onethrd
the usual amount. BY this estimate many who deal
in common furniture have regulated their manufac-
tories and their ORDERS With ornamental furni-
ture makers it is believed the effect of the panic
will be still worse. Dealers prominent in that
branch of the cabinet trade say they will be agree.
ably surprised if their sales for the reach
one-fourth what they would have been had there
been arrangement in trade.
Tailors and taioresses, by trade, most undoubt-
eddy have n very gloomy prospect before them
The present dealers in mems read made clothing,
seeing the storm approaching, curtaied their orders
for Winter goods the close OF the season, dur
ing which Winter goods are made up; and now,
when making up for the Spring and for the South
ern trade should commence their employers are
holding back until they can have some assurance Of
Il prospective demand for their goods. This precau-
ton will throw thousands Of sewing girls and hun
dreds of men out of employment. 1t is the habit
of girls who employed during the Spring, Sum-
mer and Autumn in making up garments for the
New. York, Northern and Western maj kets to seek
employment during the Winter at the establish.
ments OF those who coniinc themselves almost
cusivcly to making up for the Southern market.
So they have in good times, work during the greater
portion Of the entire year. But unless better
feeling obtains among the merchants very soon, the
prospect is, that the manufacture of ready made
othing for the Southern market will be deferred
long enough to entail vast amount of suffering
upon sewing girls A more definite idea of what is
to may be guessed BY seeing what some large
dealers propose Books BROTHERS, of Catharne-
engaged exclusively inside their warcrooms, and to
about 8, 000 who obtain the materials at the store
and make up the work at their homes. 1t is not
probable that the lorrer will feel the effects of the
depression very sensiby, but the latter most as
suredly will suffer keenly OF the three thousand,
more than one-half females; and OF that num-
ber it is not probable that than third viii!
find employment from the present time until early
in January, when they commence their Spring
work. BARNUMs clothing establishment, in the
B0wcry, in ordinary times, gives employment TO
from sixty to seventy men inside their wareroOms,
and to about a thousand persons who obtain the
materials at the store and do the work elsewhere
There is some difficulty in getting at the exact num-
bers thus employed by them, because 1t is customa-
ny for men to take out work who employ number
of hands TO aid in finishing il and there are hardly
any who receive work who are not assisted by MEM
bers of their families. At present, however, II is
not probable that more than one-third that number
OF outside workers are employed, ana unless pros
poets change sufficiently to warrant risk for the
future, the number will not be increased FOR some
time to come. The statements of other large deal
ers are materially the same. All agree that it is
not probable that than one.third Of the thou
sands who are usually thus employed will find work
before January next
The number Of guests at our large hotels is thir-
y per cent less than year ago the present month.
Three of those on Broadway have diminished tho
number of their employees and two have cut down
the wages. Col. Stetson, of the Astor says that
yesterday he had over fifty applications for positions
as walters from men who offered TO work for their
board The general feeling among the landlords is,
that either provisions and rents must very soon
have precipitate fall from their present figures, or
board be raised fifty per cent, to enable them to
hold their heads up much longer. The proprietor