The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-10-14
THE HARD TIMES IN NEW YORK.

Under the above head the New York Times of
yesterday morning gives most deplorable picture
of the present state of affairs in that city. We make
the following extracts
There was no let up TO the pressure yesterday We
are in the midst of Indian summer and that Is about all
that keeps the peoples spirits up The wolf business
goes the ferry, up Broadway in the omnibus in the
car, wherever man. woman, or the shop-girI goes, in
close companionship. He will not be preached away
laughed away, read away. In Brooklyn the run on
the Brooklyn Savings Bank caused such crowd to
obstruct at times the passage Of the cars In New York
as targetcomany INSTRUCTED the passage Of the all
the passengers fell to talking oil the folly OF target expe
ditons while the times hard The panic haunts
all circles IL cannot but be the topic of conversation
everywhere Every new failure throws gang
of workmen out Of employment Yesterdays formidable
catalogue, however including principally dry gooden,
furnishes fortunately shorter list of discharged per-
sons than might be expected from its length.
1.-THE bluest of all the blue times has fallen on the
dealers of luxurles and by luxuries do not mean
the ornaments Of the outer man or woman diamonds,
jersey pearls emcralds opas gold and silver gew-
gaws Books and music are luxuries now, as much
silk and satin dresses and their adornmens Our
great publishing firms crushing in, and the retail
stores are in state Of thorough sagnation Yesterday
several booksellng and publishing houses went TO tho
wall, while the retailers, for two weeks have done
nothing, literally nottingham not as they acknowl-
edged, 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 very large one, toowc positively
assured that during the last week less than SIT
taen including orders from the country, where the
cage daily receipts, before the crisis, from $50 to
SO daily And this is only example of the state of
things under the present pressure in similar establish
ments.
The effect of the troubles upon the ygoods trade
is very marked The Wholesale dealers doing very
little One of them, Lambert Co., In Chambers street.
has hit upon expedicnt which, presume, will be inn
itated He proposes to throw open his entire stock at
r but at schoesae prizes pclerng to meet the sacri
flee which this will involve rather than make sales
all He in this way, probably, dispose of ten or
fifteen hundred thousand dollars worth, and procure
the money which all heavy dealers need much just
The misery that is to in the train of this
Brooklyn in the Of poor girl who learning in the
morning that she had been discharged went home and cut
her throat A for help had already commenced upon
the ChiIdrcns Aid Society, The Home for the Frcnde@
and the other charitable institutions of the city The
intelligence Offices crowded past all precedent We
begin enumeate tho people thrown out Of bust
ness by this terrible financial rcvuson knowing that
figures in almost every fall below the TRUTH whle
from whole branches of industry information Is in
definite, not justified in reducing 1t to tabular form
The following, however, compiled from definite data
which we have already published.
Then follows a tabular statement which foots upa
total of over eleUen thousand thrown out of en-
ployment! The makers head the List, number
ing four thousand and fifty!