The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-05-31
NEW YORK HERALD FRIDAY 81 1ss7-TRIPLE SHEET

OF the college are making preparations for grand ban
qne 70 be gwen afer the commencement exercises on
the night Of tho 20tn OF June.
All the efforts Of H. Iiyes Pollard got up
ton about his lecture The Chiyalry Of the South
have proved utter failures Having Obtained permission
from General Schoned deliver this lecture, no Hxed
last night as the time for its delivery at Lynohburg
but for some other the benghted people of
that town refused to patronze this woaldbe typc OF
Southern chyalry who never shouldered a muskst to
sustain the which now superservccabiy essays
to defend The lecture did not take place for wan, OF
an audience. AT eight O'Clock the lecturer appeared
upon the stage and announced empty benches that
the lecture would DO indefinitely postponed Wise con-
ciusion. Since permission given to deliver this
lecture il was announced and postponed half dozen
times from one another farccal termination
has thus come to what II thought would result In
fame and fortune to the unlucky advenurcr Poard's
career hero and elsewhere has been one continued sue
cesson OF trials trbi and adverses. Tho peo-
PIE could not be induced to patronze any enterprise OF
his, no matter under what guiss II may DO presented.
He IL played out In Virginia
The exodus OF ab,rers and mechanics from Richmond
on account Of the dearth Of employment has very
great during the past two or three months. Clerks and
statesmen are also leaving In large numbers, until the
lower class OF boarding houses almost wholly
serted year ago there scarcity OF business and
Hair dozen OF the siarge business houses recently
erected on Main street would accommodate nearly all
the trade that Ia done In the city, while the population
Is diminishing in ratio that forebocos still greater de-
preston. The question with business men is not how
they can moot their obligations, but how they pro-
cure the nccessares Of lo. How tho interval 10 better
tines OF which there is prospect oe brdged
over, Is mystery which fow solve The distress
and embarrassment is appalling Richmond at this
time when trade should be active presents the sonbre
duncss Of graveyard. The sadness and depression of
despair seems TO have settled upon every onntenance
and heads OF families are almost rarayzcd by
dread apprcheusons of extreme want which
they are ppwerless 10 aver. Not a cheerful
counlenance hopeful word IL heard
In the course OF month. All looks like funeral scene
without friend 10 comfort word to cheer. Nobody
can help his suffering neighb,r aud If sentiment Of
hone could relieve the depression, is not offered for
the gloom is universal and all alike victims OF
row and suffering This is sad picture but be
sured 1t is true one Tho real facts cannot be
color d. Tho trials Of distress and suffering reach tho
utmost capacity OF the people to endure They
without hope, which might mitigate their agony.
The country IS sinking gradually and steadily like a
foundered ship, and the sufferers contemplate their
AWFUL doom with very much tho same feeling of horror
that passengers do the inevitable fate that awaits
ture may seem to DO overdrawn, but those intimate
with the true state of facts attest tho truth OF what
Is stated Scores Of small dealers have had 10 discontinue
business. well, because Of the exactions Of unscru
pulous landlords me general depression OF the times
AS proof Of the distress existing here would state that
there about two hundred applications to the
Mayor OF this city for positions the police when not
one vacancy exists.