Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1860-01-17
sntsre,,inn letter from New York.
Correspondence Of The Richmond Enquirer.
NCw York, Jan. 10th, 1860.

temperature on that day was down to G degree
| below Zero; to-day, the mercury stands at Il
degrees in the open air. The coolest day cS
uericnccd this winter was on Monday. the q
inst, which was observed rs New Years holi
day, when the mercury was down to G degree
above zero; which, from slip of the pen, o
Of the types, in my letter referring to the fes
tiyitics Of the occasion, WAS printed, "G0 dc
grces above Zero"
We have more TraShcry-tArc. or rather Aig
y-ture, in prospect The Rev. George Is
| Cheever, he Of the church Of the PuritanS
gave notice last night of his wish to publish
4 compilation of all his old fanatical nigge
TRADES, ofwhich he has delivered himself with
in the lust two or three years, in the, form OF ;
book of 400 pages! lie announced:this at al
anti-slavcry monthly prayer meeting, held il
his church last evening. He said, 10 publist
his book, would require 900 subscribers!
Beecher held forth last night in lecture n
the Baptist Church in '162d Street, on 1.-THE
Head and Heart" in which he could not &c
through, without an cuoguln on John Brown
which brought down Kisses and applause.
The Rev. Peter Cartwright, known as tht
frontier preacher of the West, lectured las
night in the Green Street Methodist Episcopal
Church, to an audience Of about 9, 900 persons
| lie Informed his hearers that he was native
of Virginia, and while quite young, went with
his parents to Kentucky, then quite wilder
ness, infested with wild beasts and still more
savage Indians. His discourse abounded with
anecdotes Of his frontier trials and scenes, many
Of which have already appeared in print.
Speaking Of tymshcry.ture, another volume
of Appletons -4msrican Encyclopedia has mp
pcared, bringing it down to the letter II: The
life OF Horace Greeley figures prominently in
this volume, as that of Hale & Co., and We have
mo doubt but if the letter B. had not been pub.
lshcd, the life Of Ossa1oattomie Bropn would
be made to figure in extcnso.
The committee appointed oil the subject
have reported 10 the Legislature that it would
be the best policy fnr the State 10 sell out its
claim to the made land in front Of West Wash
inston market, for $3.50, 1000, than to continue
the litigation with the city.
The statistics Of the poor in this city, one
would suppose, were sufficient to absorb all
the floating philanthrophy of ocr citizens,
without their going crazy about the negroes at
the South. The whole number Of paupcrs and
destitute sick, with all in prisons and lunalics
dependent upon the city finances for sup.
port, and under the charge Of the ten Govern
ors, amounts 10 over 1000. That is, the city is
compelled to furnish daily bread, with clothing
| and fuel, 10 this great number Of wrctchcd
beings This is not all. Mr.. kcllock; supcrin.
] tendant Of the outdoor poor, says, that III
| 1859 500, 7S2 were paid out in donations to the
out door poor, and about 1900 tons Of coal
were distributed The total number Of persons
relieved amounted to 81, 56l. OF these, 5,04G
were relieved with money and o9,5l5 with
coal Those relieved with money had 7,Sl2
! children, and those with coal had 46,0I3 chill.
dren Independent Of this city relief, almost
all the churches have associations for visiting
| and relieving the poor, while several large Sec
ular associations exist also, for the same pnr-
pose Notwithstanding all this. begging chll.
dren and women and men are constantly en-
countcred in the streets.
Have the oAs.iGcd ne5rD 'coJshippers. has
any Northern mind, seriously contemplated
what would be the result to the poor Of our
Northern cities, should their reckless !anaticism
drive the country into dissolution Of the
! Unionf The eye has not seen, nor the car
, heard, the wall that would rise from Garth to
Heaven, should the Southern States be sudden
ly Withdrawn from the Northern States. In
IT,. -. '''iV reside here in com.
paratire comfort and happiness, wour.. be cor,
PEELED to flee the city or run the r;ax OF agra.
rianism revolution and starvation.
Having alluded the other day to the Shoe
and Leather trade OF the North, we supply q
few additional facts gathered from weekly
paper published here, and known as the Shoe
and Leather Reporter, dated January the 9TH,
1850.
There are few people, who have not cxanI'
ined into the facts relating to the subject, that
arc aware Of the magnitude Of the Shoe and
Boot trade of the North, and the value Of the
Southern patronage upon which it SO largely
depends for support. The seats Of the largest
Boot and Shoe manufactures are in New Eng.
land OF the towns most extensively engaged
in this business are Lynn and Natick III Mas
sachusetts; and yet, strange to say, they are
the rankcst hot-beds OF Abolitionism to be
found in the State Lynn casts over 5000
votes, Of which the Democratic candidates
usually receive about 1000. This extraordi-
nary spectacle is presented people work
ing all day on brogan shoes for the negroes at
the'South, and who 20 TO Abolition prayer
meetings at night The working men are
taught the monstrous absurdity that the negro
labor at the South, which gives them employ.
mcnt and bread, is inimical 10 their labor, and
that slavery ought therefore, ~ he abolished
Natick is the residence Of Senator Wilson
and of the notorious Henry C. Wright, and
fostering hot bed ofabOlitionism: This town
also manufactures immense quantities Of shoes
and boots for Southern consumption. There
ought 10 be some plan devised by Congress or
the States themselves, BY which the statistics
Of the immense trade, coastwise and inland, be.
tween the North and South, might be arrived
at. The figures would astonish The po!ltica!!
economist. The chief seats Of the boot and
shoe trade send four Black Republican meIn'
lSers to Congress.
We have before US the export OF boots and
Shoes from New England by railroads, from
December 9th, 1853, TO January Sd, 1860, by
which it appears that in this, the dnllest week
of the year. the following shipments were made
to the places at tho South named below:
IN New Orleans ~ cases.
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