Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-11-03
ESoL1su LABoRrns.- according to some ofthe

ENGL1sn LABoREns.- Accordlng to some of the
British Journals, the condition Of. a large por-
bon of tho English laborsfs is truly deplorable.
hey can, with great dificdlty earn the meaps.of
Subsistence while their social comforts arc few
and fur beiRcenA Various efforts have been
made to produce change, but thus farswita
slittle success The NoFthefn Times, published
at Liverpool, takes up the subject in detail and
in the course of sympathetic article says:
eve boast ofour adherence ofnegro slavery;
eTomdHce3 wesmgFal lie, and actually weep
over the tales of African suffering, but cannot
afford aPassing thought for thesmiilions ofWhite
sislaVes sthesmasses otsourlaboring
population. What are these in reality but mere
animated machines n I employed only because
tlthas not as yet been possible to find others to
supersede them! AS theiremplo yment has been
the result of necessity, and notof choice, the
great object Of the employer is to tax the phys
zeal endurance of the employed to its utmost
IAlmlts, and reduce the rate Of renuneration to
the lowest minimum. Unfortunately, the fierce
competition of trade; and the unusually over
crowded state of the labor market, combine to
lrender this stateof things apparent yinevitAble.
This is, indeed, ,lamentdb ictuTe; but the
case is similar, we fear, TO a very considerable
extent in other portions of the world land even
in this country. There are few among the la
boring classes, however economical and indus
tr1ous, whoicven secure more, than a living for
themselves and families. Their lot is one OF
excessive toll. Those who ARE skilled in some
particular art or craft can of course dosbetter.
utthe.mereIla borer, even inshis best condition,
has hard task before him! There Isl moreover,
too little sympathy felt for this particular class
Their wants. their oyments, their recrcations,
are rarely considered They are regarded as
mere hewers of wood and drawers of water and
are treated accordingly How rarely, indeed,
do we. hear of. any movement sintendeduto ele.
vate the social condition or extend the social
enloyments OF, the merely working classes!-
Even philanthropy seems to look upon them
with Indifference or contempt. But this should
not be. There Isl season6for all things, and
tdue consideration should be felt for every mem.
Der of the. human fnmily.n "
New York TRAGEpY,7@The Geographic dis
patch of the other day saying that three Of the
Gouldy family had died from their wounds, was
incorrect. The Tribune Of Saturday, soth,
says: ..,.s 80. IS i5t =. ~
Mr. Gouldy through yesterday was quite com.
Portable, and was consciopssa great portion Of
the time. There is just the slightest possibility
that hemay yet recover, though the pr6babili.
ties are thathe Will not. Mrs. 8Gouldy is get.
ting along finely; she felt very weak ard feeble
yesterday' but her symptoms are all good
Matte was erather5worse yesterday; there are
dwellings upon his face something like eryspe.
las crnptions, and his symptoms indicate that
he is in q most critical state. Charlie remains
about the same; n slight suppuration commenc.
ed in his wounds yesterday afternoon, which is
not a favorahl indication. Tho two girls at the
Hospital remain much the. same. Johanna
Murphey is in q geryslow state, is verv delirious
and appears to be sinking. Fl
ii Ask " o0o0Rszs@z zSE.-s4 "a ISL
SINGULAR, CIRcu Dan TFitlsd Petri.
I1fet1 IHSte,--A few days since gentleman rcsid-
ing in Rising Sun, Ind, who had married. a
second time, wished to remove gtheSbpdy Of his
made to that effect, and flaborersl opened the
grave in the usual manner; but when they reach.
ed the cofin!they could not lift it, so great was
the weight. After obtaining considerable assis.
lance, however, the men succeeded insraising
the coffin from the tomb They then had sucIi
curiosity that they could not resist the tempta.
ftion ofrpeering into the coffin, and learning the
treason for its unusual weight They did SO, and
soon found, to their.surpriSe, instead of corpse
a stone figure, the exact counterpart of the wo.
man who had did. This strange story soon
spread, and hundreds thousands of persons
were present. to SEQ the strange SPECTACLE -
The husband took the body Of his departed
l'by hundreds of the curious and Scientific. The
body seems to have been petrihed, and to have
become perfect stone wonap.--C On. Eng. +.
gTnR lawyers in the Lafayette Indiau0 court,
had a fsty fight during trial, A local paper
says: 8. = = - =, s .z5i.!
Mr.. Chase gave Mr.. Jones the lie, wt1ereapSo5n
Mr.. JoResp planted L directed blow Between
the.tgq eyes of the. aforesaid Mr.. Chase and
was aboutlto follow his dyantage, when Mr..
Chase aforesaid "got home, as the stfahcy''
express it with q beautiful fright counter' on
the frontispiece Of the aforesaid Mrl Jones, and
the attorney 'forsthe plaintiff drop ped as timber
as four eentmualin He dameItd ItstIme,P how
ever, and closing with the railroad attorney,
piled him into the jury boxin avery uncomfor-
table shape $50 e g =
THE La Porte CTnd:9 Jz11i6sa says that Schuyler
Gofax9has received q lettergfrom SenatorID Doug.
las, which contains following remarkable
II see that the, Repn6 lican papers Of Illinois
and sMssodris and indeed, of Ethe3entire, North
west, still continue TO abuse me-. Why is this?
Did We. not expressly agree that this persecution
lshould cease? This is not fair. I have passed
| the RubcOns and burned NV. hoofs