Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-04-23

We are indebted to Capt. John g. Breshwoa1, for a
New Cr Is True Delta of the 18th inst. 1t is filled
with extracts from New York papers. There is not
word OF comment the events of the war. It gives
terrible account OF the condition OF affairs in New Or.
ears, from which We extract the following.
We beIiev. we shall be found greatly within strict
acts when state that We have at this moment twenty
five thousand ren, and children entirely desti-
tue, and not thrown upon the streets because Of the
enforcement Of the laws for the collection of
against them In addition to this fostering mass, whose
utter ruinous decentralization is rapidly taking place,
there are: we feel perfectly safe in declaring from fifteen
to twenty thousand persons, who supporting
life by the sale of little thrgs accumulated IN
prosperous times, when trade active, labor in
quis ton, aud industry adequately rewarded, and who
nave 10 the ealy future before then hope for
cape from all the horrors OF want and starvation
IN the contributions OF the generous affuent-aas now
very small nurnber-in public charity the
ces OF the national comuissariat, hitherto bountifu
~ dispensed to thousands of negroes who allowed
TO swarm, in ignorance, fth and unbridltd leWdness
around the camps of the solderY. Should it not be
withheld rom by watchul and mercifuk Pro
whence, ptstilence, well as famine may be among
the fearful evils from which doomed to suffer,
r population entirely destitute of all tire comforts
aud many OF the Eecessares Of le invulnerabe at all
points aud fortified against no visitation The most cruel
fate may have In store for it.
OF the causes which have brought these caamities
upon can leave Others to speak-our business is
with the facts they exist every one conversant
to be and in time, possible many of our thrifty, intel
gen and industrious poor to make suitable exertions
ossave themselves and families from calamities clearly
to minds, impending. Shut out from communica~
ton with the interior the season rapidly approaching
for suspension of the little commercial intercourse
with the North now existing with full consciousness
of the inability of the plantations inside the Federal
lines to furnish more than will supply their wants.
if indeed they can do anything like that he must be
oddly coustitu ed, who suppose that the condition
of the population of this city is not pable and mel
anchoy in the extreme and full of peril, only to
themselves but to all those who come Voluntarily or
otherwise brought in contact with them 1t is not
for US to advise those whose perceptions Of their
urgent suferings it is presumabe, are perfectly IN
clouded what they ought, should can do to enable
them to ride over to more suspicious days. and keep
soul and body together. They themselves better
understand what should be DONE than any els for
them and every one must do so for himself and those
Immediately dependent upon him, unless indeed he IN.
manfuy resigns himself with struggle to restitution
and DEATH
In our experience in this and other countries we
have not witnessed greater nay equal distress and SUIT
ering, of the voceless description, that exists here
while the multitude daily augmenting, of mportunate
street mendicants, is absolutelo appalling.
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