Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-02-29

The MASSACHUSETTS, SrRIkE.-The develop
menS accompanying the current strike of the
shoemakers of Massac husetts for an increase of
wa,es, unfold to the gaze Of the outside world
state OF things as existing there without parallel
on th's side of the Atlantic-ce rtainly south of
Mason and Dxon's line. Thus it seems that the
shoemakers Of Massachusetts laborlng upon the
description of work known elsewhere as 'Yankee:'
shoes and boots number at least fifty thousand
and that the average weekly wages of tue thor
onghly competent men SO engaged is not s.:
While the females employed AZ binders. &c do
not receive more than from one to two doll per
Week and that both men and women work fifteen
hours per diem for these wages 1t strikes us that
such facts go to show the falsity of the current
boasts OF the better condition Of white labor the
North than at the South. The business of shoe
| making in this region has ever been perhaps the
worst paid mechanical en- ployment known among
| lis. yet at no time have journeymen shoemakers
here been paid an average Of less than s. per
week, apprehend. Throughout the whole
South the necessaries Of life-food, rent and
| clothing-such as laboring people are content
with generally, cost no more than at-the North;
while all there labor infinitely harder than here
These are facts patent to all and they prove that
so far as remuneration for such labor is concerned
there is no comparison between the North and
| the South.
-ipropOS. of the ''strike'' The fact TIA! nearly
half the usual southern demand for Mass ichu-
s,tts boots and shoes has fallen off must operate
20 defeat It's success. as with great Cu:taIl-
| ment OF the usual demand tie employers know
VIII that 'h'y must economist 1t every point "a
| saw" themselves from bankruptcy: and that for a
long time TO come they will require but half as
| many hands as heretofore. Abolit!onism In bring
ing about the less southern demand for Yankee
boots and shoes, has strengthened the hands Of
| the employers, immeasurably, and in that way is
working its legitimate results upon the New
| Fnnland millions who fancy tn indulue ia The
| Pastime of regulating the local and donsst
affairs of their neighbors instead of turning their
| attention to existing evils In their own midst
|
| How TO BE ELECTED.-The late apparent cleo
lion "f eX-i.ieut. Governor Ford of Ohio to be
the HOnSe Printer, WAS donbtless the result of a
| regular bargain by and through which the profits
I'm this case sPoils) Of the Offices Were to BE- d.
vded out as follows. Viz: The expenses OF Mr.
pefrees, Of Indiana, in his recent chase after II
Office 70 he first paid out Of them and then the
balance to he divided Out-2O per cent 10 Mr.
iiansconb. of Maine or Massachus 4 cores
| PoEdent Of the New York N.rGM at present: 20
| per cent to Mr.. Pangborn an editor Of d Boston
nv f'''ii'dn Parry PAPER VINO mas been writing
letters from this city durng the session: 81 per
cent. to MIR. Moran. Of Philadelphia nominal
American party newspaper man, representing the
'People's party interest in the transaction: 20
per cent. to be divided between Mrs Bailey Of
the National Era. and Mr. Ex-candidate Mitchell
OF the st. Louis Daily Nccs; and 20 per cent 70
be reserved by Mr.. Ford for himself Who saws
the public printing does not require to be re-
formed!
The Hos. VINCENT WITCHER-The news ~
the tragedy in which this venerable gentleman
bore so conspicuous part, received here this
| morning ito be found in our telegra phic coumpN
has filled his many friends in Washington with
Intense distress, as well astonishinent II we
remember correctly, he has served in Congress
Since then he has been the most conspicuous man
in northwestern Virginia in pushing on the work
of the development of its immense natural re-
sources. His influence there has been greater for
the last quarter OF century than that Of any other
man In the State, the result Of his Ugh character
nne Intellect, and remarkable energy Those who
know him we'll need hardly be assured that in this
sad elimination of the domestic di ficulty il will
De FOUND that In the circumstances attending it he
must have been acting wholly in self defence
The WEATHER.-rhe following report Of the
weather for the morning Is made from the Amer
lsan Consolidated Telegraph Line TO the Smith
srnian Institution. The time of observatio, i,
| about 7 o'clock.
49, FEBRUARY 80 1860.
New York n i........ .foyyy mild