Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-12-18
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Cans unoer ANY be du1iffAd.
Terrible Effects or the Cotton F.,.,n. :, ,r,.-,..,
Quarter a Million OF People IN one D,.,riet an.
OF Work and Living Charity.
We give herewith, from rsates English files some
information concerning the nature and extent of the
suffering IN the cotton manufacturing district Of Ian.
cashlre, England The reports generally brought
up to the close OF the first week in the present month
EFFECTS AND GROWTH OF THE FAMINE.
The returns from the Boards of Guardians slow that
for the eight weeks from November g. the increase has
been at the rate offom 5000 to 5000 per week. and
the figures OF the Relief Committee if they were COM
pete would give even startling proof Of the rapid
spread of destitution The Effects too of the long con-
unued stoppage OF employment making themselves
visible In many quarters. Each weeks destituon
makes more rapid strokes among those various classes
OF uadesmen' VINO though not counted in the number
of mill hands, live entirely on their wages and to whom
the withdrawal of el36 900 fnpn weekly circulation
makes little less than total ruin. Tailors, shoemakers
bakers, miners beerhouse keepers and all such per.
sons whose customers mainly belong to the work
classes now making their appearance in large NAM
bers the books, both of the Guardians and The Re-
lief Committee. The stagnation of business in Man
chester too is being etin various ways In many of the
warehouses; every opportunity is taken of keeping down
expenditure Some have reduced their staff of packers
porters, and all employers of similar class in Others
they have been put balf time and it is feared that
should there be speedy Improvement of trade there
will soon be many of higher class, such clerks
book keepers and warehousemen, thrown out Of employ
ment, and already many have had to submit 70 reduc
ton OF salary 1t is rare thing to sny of the
great workhouses lit up at night for where there is
nothing to do it better to lock up at dark and save
the expense OF gas.
THE NUMBERS SUFFERING
On October 25h there were 209 62I persons receiv-
ing parocha relief being above four times the number
of those relieved last year. and by g. 56 than the
return for the last week 10 August last We are fur
her told that l43,87O persons not in receipt of pa
rochal relief were aided by local committees OF $780,
ISL operatives in the twenty-four Unions upon which
the pressure is greatest, but 58,688 are working full
time, l49,742 are short 1imers," and 1872 40l are
thrown entirely out OF employment The weekly loss
of wages is estimated at el36,094 and 9l36 O94 a
week is more than 97,000,0O0 year. Nor does this
prodigious sum represent the whole loss incurred
these districts for the ordinary receipts of mauuac-
turer must be such tocover not only wages but the
expenses of machinery and the interest of capital sunk
in buildings and land besides handsome profit.
Now, to supply the fearful deficit of el36 694 in
weekly wages the Boards of Guardians provide sum
which cannot be put higher than 910OO0 since out of
their total expenditure of el2 937 in outdoor and in
door relief must be taken the normal cost of paupersm
in average The Central Relief Committee at
Manchester dispense about 5000 (E25OO0 per
montb) and the Mansion House Committee sent Co.
$50 last week. All the grants therefore from these
sources scarcely amount to more than sixth OF what
these workpeople have been in the habit of earning
and it is impossible to suppose that private charity and
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fraction to redress this balance. Altogether the sub
scriptions hitherto published approximate to the sum
of 9400000 but of this very large proportion s
| already expended.
The General Relief Committee, in their report for
the week in October say that the number of persons
in receipt Of parochal relief in "a Unions of the dis
trict had risen to 208 23 addition of 225 during
the month of October and further l4387 persons,
not in committees The number operatives in the same
district in full work is now reduced to So O38 while
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and 18l ,40l are thrown entirely out of employment
The loss of wages estimated at 9l36 O94 per week
and there is doubt that the savings Of the working
classes almost exhausted By the close of the first
week. OF September the reports show that the number
of operatives entirely unemployed had risen to about
| 25000O.
AMERICAN AND THE DISTRESS.
| The General Relief Committee, ip a report says
" Your Committee express their regret that toe as
pect of the American struggle leaves hope that the
suferngs OF our population will have early termna-
ton, Should this be Immediately settled it would
still take months before spndes and looms can be
again hunmng their sing Of industry. We therefore
conclude that the distribution OF bread, meat, SOUP
clothing bedding and Goals must be continued through
out the ensuing winter"
| [From the Times Correspondent
The prospect darkens each day. and unfortunately
| there seems no chance of break in it. Business in
the Manchester market is virtually at stand still and
Notwithstanding the recent arrivals of cotton the course
of what trade there steadily tends dimhution of
consumption. Il is difficult to oresee in what quarter
way OF salvation be opened for the next four or
five months at least for anomalous it may seen the
announcement of speedy settlement of the American
difficulty would probably have the effect of throwing
out of employment large proportion of those who are
fortunate enough still to be in receipt of wages Nj
Gadstones speech at Newcastle, which by many WIS
looked sort Of semioffcia foreshadowing of
something being about to happen which might possibly
berate the Southern cotton CROP said have cTe-
ted quite little panic here and Induced many manu-
faclurers to stop their mills altogether. If we
could only have a perfect assurance that the
war would last another twevemonth, or that
no cotton would come from the South for two
years eighteen months hence, we might hope spite
of the large accumulated socks to some least Of
the giant chimneys, which at present bear witness so
orcby to the stagnation of the district set smoking
again, and week the pressure on the charitable
funds would tighten, instead Of increasing Ii the
duration of the war could only have been foreseenif
less faith had been placed in Mr. Lincolns ninety
days things would have got to their present
desperate pass and it may be but just to the mill own
to say that probably they would have made ade-
quate preparations to meet the necessities of their work
ing people had they anticipated anything but tenn
porary crisis So now it is in great measure the un-
cerainties of the American confct-the dred of being
caught in full work with hgh-priced cotton by sudden
arrivals from American-whch tie their hands.
| FLIGHT OF CoUNTERFEITERs The Texas caSe-dI srs,
the Messrs. Paynes for time confined in the chez
Ndtchez Courier.