New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-24
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Z INcftherh journal q gloomy picture drawn OF on
suffering in this section representing as on tn
point Of starvation for the want Of hreadstuffs be
sides being in perpetual state of alarm, not onl.
on account Of apprehensions of a servile insurreo
ton, but of the opposition of thing that does
exist. which the Abolitioniss call tile antislayeT,
element of the Southern States.''
I We nave 50 often, in common with the press gen
orally an over Che South, corrected these false AM
wicked statements that it it is tiresome to have Il
refer to then, again. But when paper like til,
New York Herald, which is usually SO well.in
formed intimates doubt, as it does in the follow
ing paragraph of the ability of the South to suppl,
itself perpetually with breadsufs, it is hardly
matter Of surprise that ignorant and mendacicu.
4 Black Republican papers should go still further
and assert, as they are constantly doing, that WE
are on the very verge Of starvation. Referring tC
the active movements in COTTON and the high price
thereof, the Herald says
i We are, therefore, not surprised to learn that
/ orders have been sent out here from Eurone1 ia
buy up all the cotton that can be purchased within
| q certain margin of ADVANCE The effect of this
will be TO place the slave States in position much
4 stronger than was calculated upon by the Repub.
licans. For present, at least they e1R be e,aa-
bed 70 purchase al The bfeddstts hat tte 1,aa
/ require and when the pinch does come upon
them, it comes ct all lit will arrive too late to force
them into compromise.
Such ignorance is hardly excusable in paper
/ having the reputation of the Herald. A simple
| reference tosthe census returns for Is5o-since
which time the production Of cereals in the South
/ ern States has largely inereased-wi be sufficient
| to show that the three States of Kentucky, Mis-
| souri, and Tennessee alone can produce bread
stnffs enough to supply the entire South, if no
other Southern State produced bushel. Viz.
iYYta5 ~, fNo-
| own population, export largely of breadsuffs
every year 10 Northern and foreign markets
Besides these i've States there is no better grain
growing region in the world than the northern
half Of Texas, which is empire Of itself, to say
nothing Of Arkansas, and the northern portions Of
all the States of the Gulf There is in fact, not a
STATE ~ hte soatt which may not easily produce
sufieiency of breadstafs for its whole population,
and .at least half of them could furnish supplies
for five times the number of people contained
within their limits. When the Herald, therefore.
talks about our being able TO e purchase bread
stufs E for the present. it ought to have said
that we are not only able to do so now, but will
be for Ill time to come; but that even if we were
net able to purchase we have the soil, the
climate and the labor, at any time, to produce an
abundance Of what we may need.
The people Of the South, let everybody under
stand, are not suffering with hunger nor with any
thing else except the restraints and bonds of the
Union and ofthese they are getting rid as rapidly
as they possibly can.
On the contrary, how is it in the North? We
ind in the Philadelphia Ledger the following re-
port Of Charity Meeting in one of The wards
of that city
CHARITY MEErING-A meeting of A number of |
the citizens Of the Nineteenth Ward was held last
evening, at the hall of the Morse Institute for the
purpose OF devsing means for the establishment of
2 soup house in that section of the city. Mr.
Adam Wartbman was appointed Chairman. and |
Aid. Megongal, Secretary.
Mr.. Ghas. Brown, the Guardian for that district |
made statement relative to the condition of the
tdoorli7g classes Of that locality. Over two hundred
persons daily. make application at the office of the
Alsiaer for relief The appropriation of $500 which |
was made by the Councils for the present month. |
together with 500 more which was authorized bv |
me board OF Guardians has all been expended by
the Yisiter. Most of the factories and machine |
shops IN this ward are either closed or operating
upon short time, thus throwing many Industrious
and honest aborers out Of employment. 1t was
iurther stated that during the present winter there
have been five applicants to where there was one |
dnrlng the same period last year.
over two hundred persons in one Yard fed daily |
at soup houses, Y or taking the alternative of
starvation Not loafers, nor yagabonds, but the
4 lab0ring classesn g out Of employment There
are twentyfour Wards in the city; and in the same
proportion there would be daily nearly five thous
and people in Philadelphia subssting upon the |
slender fare ola soup house!i
nd thus it is in all the large cities of the North
and thus ii is not in solitary city of the South
the fareat those soup houses is such as the slaves
upon our Southern plantations would reject with
and contempt
II gives US no pleasure TO refer to these things.
i gives US pain. But when the Northern people,
n spite of the Wretchedness and suffering before
heir Own eyes, take SO malicious pleasure in
aislfying our condition in the South, human for
oearanee and patience can stand it no longer.
4 Even in the agricultural and manufacturing dis
riots of Pennsylvania, it is but little better Here
$ an extract from private letter to gentleman
II this city, giving most deplorable account of
he distress and destitution in district which we
ad supposed was comfortable and prosperous:
LAScAsTER, PEEssTLy4sIA. l.
, The report which see in
he Southern papers, that the times are hard in the
sorfh, IS true, and not half is told for, even in
his rich and abundant county of Lancaster the
eretoofe industrious classes are also ont of er,-
oyment, and their families suffering with extreme
.ant- Our factories, locomotive shops and ma
hine SHOPS IRE closed. No work. although many
y our best citizens are offering to work MI 25c
day. The banks have all in PENNSYLVANIA been
these three months, and are as rotten
$ they can be. and you must not believe what
gu see in The Philadelphia papers, for it il with
ne greatest difficulty that that Black Republican
lty Is able now to keep down disturbances on
ceoant OF the universal suffering there. Ouroyn
arnlers are now taking their -four TO New York.
hey feart TO trust the Philadelphia Bank currency
ne times have never been such since the reyoIu.
ltfon. Philadelphia is in a bad way, and the
ountrY here Suffers accordingly. Look for dire
efYs from Philadelphia. as there must very soon
e q sudden extraordinary change for the better,
total smash up. You may rely upon this. |
ne country hanks are ali trembling and cur
'f1ners are deserving them; and if it were not
u their trade now with New York we would be
danger of complete starvation. There is no
anger Of the North fighting the South; thew
aye too much to do to keep peace among them 4
alyes. The thousands now out of employment
our Northern cities and especially Philadelphia,
producing the most intense anxiety for their ),
fety. a number of the Philadelphia merchants :,
I'VE gone ont West to make some arrangements l.
maintain themselves, as they have lost the i
onthern trade. =
SIX FISGEnED.A Belgian family, from time i'm d
emorial, has presented instances Of six.fngered n
dren ateach generation; and, singularly enough,
bile the boys have but i've fingers, as most PEG. g
g, every girl born in the family presents the :
range phenomenon of six fingers on each hand,
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