Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-12-24
'Overfy, DestitulIOn and Starva-

ttOD.
Untold suffering pervades the land. aFrom1
,wns and cities, North, South. East and
Vest, goes forth the statement that recol-
'ction finds it difficult to Instance time |
Vhen before there was such acute distress
mong the working classes as now. few |
lays ago we gave reiteration to statements
.de by eastern journals that manufacto-
Siesthad been stopped, that others were
on short time, that the pay of tin.
lsborers in yet Others had been ,considera-
hly reduced; and now before us we have
appeals in behalf of the destitute of Utica.
Mass, they have not for at least fourteen
years had such dull times as now. Most
of the boot and shoe manufacturers have
CLOSED their manufactures. With the ex-
ception of but few, all the manufactur
Ing establishments of New Britain, Conn.,.
are running on seven and half hours
time. To such an extent have its fabrics
Accumulated, that the Washinoo gWooleii
Mill, at Salisbury, Conn.,. has suspended
operations. CAnd while -destitution pain
fully abounds, crime stalks abroad with
an audacity that alarms fearfully.
Even arapid glance over the wholecoun-
try WIFI serve to convince that never be-
fore were the times as they are at present.
The following extract is from a letter writ
en- few days ago at Sumter, 5. C.. to a
, 'orthern journal:
.Helper was not very arwrong in his
stiuaate of the prison and peor-house ca
wrvlx IL Nt<<,A la e a.
south would soon demand. No cout.try is
more terribly scourged with rogues and
narauders than this is at present"
Z The following orders just issued by Cen
raj ORD show that the Freedmen. chat is
de Negroes, in large number of the
ounties In Mississippi are in a starving
tss-a sss2<-ass MEMPHIS, December %.
General Ord has issued the following or
Ter, to-wit: -s.,.s
HEADQ'Rs FOURTH MILITARY DISTRICT,
I MISSISSIPPI AND ARKANSAS,
-,-- HOLLY STRINGS, Miss, Dec. 10, 1867.
f: Special Order No. p20S.,ss.z z5s=stssr.ss
.zs-zelExtract.] s2ss=,3 11o9ss
Brevet Major General Alvan G. Gillem
Colonel of the 24.h United States Infantry
Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau of
3
i,,r the State of Mississippi, will proceed to
Washington, District of Columbia, and rep
! esent to the President and Secretary ol
Var the staruin1 condition Of the freedmen i,
Itarge number Of the counties in his su6-district
lie To the ruin and bankruptcy of Gotten
I planters, and the absence OF corn or thr
Z means to buy it. He will report the abso-
ute necessity of some provision being made
l. y the Government to teed the armed freed
men, and arert a ,oar of races In such Sec
! ons as are without foud.
General Giliem will take with him sncf
eports and letters Oh file as bear on thi;
subject. s1T 7roH %
BY command of Bv't Mai. Gen. Ord.
s-tSigned o. D. GREEN, A. A. G.
He also issued, on the 18th inst, the fol.
towing important order:
Commanding officers are directed to no.
| 'ify the leading colored men and take such
timer measures as may be necessary t.,
give general publication of the fact tina,
ait1reedmen, who are able, win be required
to earn their support during the c Imins
Iyear. and to go to work upon the bes
terms that Can, be procured, even should il
ftriii<ha a support only. and thus prevent
their becoming burden to the Govern
ment. ;All frt etimeh who can, hut will
not, earn livelihood when employment
lean he procurid. willzlay themselves liable
Incorporation Ot sheriffs. constables, polio,
aud magistrates is requesttd d in the enforce
ment OF this order aud any just action o
fheir's under its provisions will be sus
Gained by the military authorities. a3@
All this is pitiable to contemplate. -Tha
tits in great measure due to the bad leg
Station and Infamous policy of the Repub
iican party is unqueslionably true. Tha
party came into power upon professions o
retrenchment and reform. They assures
he people they were going to reform ey
rything. There was to be no rascality. il
my department-there was to be no waste
fulness; no improvidence; no extrava
.ance: but economy and Integrity were {
ule, to the end that the burthens of Gov
.rnment should fall lightly on the people
90 that they. should be prosperon
and happy. 4 The lsborer and me
hanis were to have abundance of work
with high wages, while all they had to bu
they should be enabled to buy at low p, ices
Under their rule the Negroes in the Soutl
re free-frce to starve, while through u
the North poverty. destitution and starv;
ion abound. While the well to do shoul
betimes minister to the necessitous, th
resolution should be formed to vote out {
power the party under the rule of whic
hese calamities have been permitted t
.ome upon the country.
The Cost of the Freed mems Burea
It from, no off. ial tb.