Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-10-24

,o,t-,c,s are often taken by the employers on
sbort notice: at other times they have very
! littie work to give, and so It becomes heceSSa'
far them to employ or discharge their men ac-
cording TO the work winch lhey nave lT' me-.
The coopcrage business, like every other, mas
bepn affected by the financial pressure, fewer
GOODS are put IN in casks or cases for trahspor-
Iotinn now than formerly by the merchants, De
Z ca,I>e trade is dull; the shipping and coinmlS-
sion INGREDIENTS have less TO do IN these nara
than they used to have; fewer cargoes IN SasAs
I and barrels recurring repairing are brought IN
10 nort. the general suspension. Of trade, IN
I short. affects all who depend on trade IoI en-
nlovment. and the coopers among the num'er,
RAIDERS AND BEAgDs.
! IT,. t,,rl,srs feel the crisis" They complain
or an ,,nwonted economy of cents on the part
or their customers. One.half of their patrons
,,bo shaved regularly every morning, now give
their ,Lins the benefit OF two day gTo"u'
,vbiIe hirSute appendage to the CouhIenal' s'
= sssidnously cultivated by hundreds, who have
80, s5rre1 tl,c idea of wliSkerS, nou-
st.cbn or even a mild goatee. And II sha'i'g
CaIl but note having) labors under me gel'eI'Il
1,nr.,sion h1ir.drcsSing and hair-culuhS seem
az, the verge Of Stagnaton Peop'G give no
p,rticS. a.id therefore 90 TO none. bau'es arc
Ir,.,,,, IA, r,rl their own ringietS, aiId accom-
pliSh themselves IN te AT. VI P'esot ,,'.s' a.'g
identifying. those luXurlant treSSeS winch we
Inv, high authoitY for calling "a glory TO every
quo nr Them. while the men, though 1t Is to lie
trusted that no panicky times will lead TO habits
or personal neglect or uncleanlincSs, seen less
careful Of their heads than they were month
ago. THE hair-cutters scissors arc less busy;
the sharp 'snip, sup, is less frequently heard
in their saloons AS for wigs, if The panic con
tinues long enough, the trade will he suspended
for bald men viii own mp. cast aside their diiap-
idated prefenccs and admit that they are NOT so
Young as they were twenty years ago. 4he iaii,
ing off in bears grease, hair inVlgorator, ana
such things, Which. when the pocket Is iuli Oh
money. n man is easily seduced into purchasing,
is wonderful. The most persistent dandy can
not he brought to regard bottle taken from a
shelves with ordinary compla-
s HUBBLE CKAFT-To show how nicely
calculate their economies at the present time,
one Of orr reporters, who had some leisure on
his hands, spent an hour with the boot-bIacES,
those miSchieyOusly useful little urchins, who
infeSt the Park and the doors the Hotels,
and nrgingly request you to get your boots
BACKED. In the palmy bright summer days,
many of them earn from one dollar TO twelve
ShilingS day. (''Blark your boots, Sir; only
six cents, y and when Fortune particularly
especially when California steamer
arrived, some of them have reached as high as
two dollars, and an odd siXpcncc over. But,
fcmp0ra RutaHtur, the boot blacks suffer with
the merchants. Our reporter missed many of
"the old familiar faces The boy who had poll
ishcd his boots for two months past, had gone
in with the BanES,-brushes, backing, foOt-rest
and all were departed, so that his place knew
him no more. Aud it was so with many others.
The profits would not sustain them, and they
had TO 90 into liquidation. OF those who re-
manned. not more than one-half the usual NUN
Der the majority had determined for the next
week on initiating the dry goods embellishments
ih Broadway, aud selling below cOSt,-that is,
backing a pair of boots, with good polish
guaranteed, for three cents