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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-05

For blood SKIN. stomach and kidneys use
Plummer Bromue Arsenic Water from ma
lures own laboratory.
Ladies Will find this water the very best cure
for indigestion and dyspepsia, and it will at
the same time clear UP all blotches, freckes
and pimples on the skin. and thus beauuty
the complexion This water is from Uhe cele-
brated Healing Springs of Ashe county, \.
c.. and is being generally used in dyspepsia.
indigestion. acid stomach, kidney troubles OF
all kinds, impure blood, old sores, pimples,
blotches scales and rough skin BE sure to
Get the Plummer Bromine Arsenic Water.
Owens q Nixon DBUG Co., Agents,
Opposite PostOfice. Richmond, Va
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-05

CHICAGO. May4-Whoat was raidcd by. the
bears TODAY. and closed &C.. lower. inc short
sellers received their announcement from the
weak tone of foreign markets and heavy re-
ctipts at the Northwest. Receipts. $50 cars
Corn-lhe corn market was deprecated by
the heavy receipts ana large increase IN the
visible supply. July closed l34c. lower. Receipts
ia cars.
2l3 cars
Provisions-The provisions market was weak
and closed e0e25c lower FOR pork; 5eI%1sc'
lower tor lard. and .0@l2lac. lower IoI TlDs.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-05

viii you heed the warning-the signal, per-
haps, of the sure approach Of that more terrible
can afford for the sake Of saving 30 cents,
TO run the risk and do nothing for 1t. We know
from experience that Shiloh,s Cure will cure
your cough II never fails. This explains why
more than million of bottles were sold the past
wear trclicves Group and Whooping Cough
al once Mothers, do no. be- without IT,. Sample
bottles free. Sold by Bodeker BROTHERS and
II. VI. Shields d Co.. corner Of Fifth and Mar
shall streets.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-05
JAMES RIVER DIVISION.

(R AND A. h. R)
LEAVE RICHMOND:
900 A. NJ, mall daily, for Lynchburg, Natural
Bridge, Lexington. Buena Vista,
Glasgow and Clifton Forge.
l:30 2. NJ, except Sunday. for LynchDurg con-
Meeting with q train leaving Lynch
burg at 600 A. vi. for Natural
Bridge. Lexington aud Clifton
Forge. Sleeping-car 10 Lynchbura
ARRIVE ATRlCHMOND.
$50 2. NJ, daily from Clifton Forge.
$40 A. NJ. except Sunday, from Clifton ForlD.
Station. Eighth and Canal streets.
For further information apply TO A. W. Gar
bers Office 00l east Main street. Chesapeake
and Ohio Railway Companys stations; Chesa-
peake and Ohio general office. Eighth and Main.
JOHN d. POTTS,
Division Passenger Agent.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-05

ST. Louis. May 4-Flour dull and weaker;
Xxx. SO 4Oas850: family. $500 % %; choice,
Si1Oas4 %: fancy, s4i5o 34S0; patent, s5.ole
s515 Wheat. weak and lower; May, S1O31s
asked: July. q6lc; Augustus C asked; Deem
her 911bc nominal. Corn, weaker: May, 6l9tc.;
July soc. Oats quiet and lower; Nay 5lHec.
Pork. standard moss, 1880 $3.50 ard,
prime steam. 6l4c. Dressed meats-Shoulders,
$500; longs, $500; clear ribs, 500; short clear,
$500 Bacon boxed. shoulders $3.50; longs,
$3.50; ribs. S6.S716; short clear, $500.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-05
We Challenge

any man. woman or child who Us affected with
CONSTIPATION, Dyspepsia, Headache or Torpid
Liver 10 prove that a few doses of simmons
Liver Regulator viii not relieve them l. never
fails. and is pure, so sure so harmless that an
infant can take lt and never haye @ second spell
of collie. An adult can take it, keep tho bowels
regular. and secure health
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-05
TRAINS NORTHwARD.
Daily



Nos. a. % and 30 make no stops. Nos. . and
rs stop on signal at Manchester DreWrys biuh'
Centralia and hester. Nos. 81 and - stops on
signal at Manchester and Chester. No. - stops
ON signal &c Manchester only for passeAs ers pur-
chasing tickets 10 regular stopping places Tor
his train south of Petersburg. Nos. y, 81, 50
and n will stoD 10 all stations tor passengers.
PULLMAN CAR SERVICE.
On Trains Nos. II and . sleeplng-cars between
New York and Tampa. Fla. WA JacksohNll4eh
On Trains Nos. IA and q sleeplng5ears between
and ~ seeping-c8rs between New York ana
Jacksonville. On Trains Nos 81 and II Sleeping
cars between Richmond and LynchDurg. Va
THE ONLY ALI.-RAIL LINE 10 NORFOLK
Richmond. 'o05 A. NJ. Norfolk. ..II:i7 4. y.
Richmond. I@I0 - NJ. Norfolk. go. $3.50 T. NJ
NN oFioik oo + Eiehmond $50 II
The trains leaving hichI lond at 1905 A. NJ and
Norfolk az 400 T. NJ arc solid trains between
without change Of cars. Close connections are
also made at Petersburg by the 1910 /. VI. tram
from Richmond and the s:S5 A III. tram from
trains leaving Richmond at 9:15 A.. NJ. and
H. l.. NJ, and arriving az richmond at 14t
A. NJ. and !: 40 p. NJ make close connection at
Petersburg 10 and from tarmyllle, LynchDurg
and southwestern points. ,r
SUPERINTENDENT.
ET d. MYERS.
General superintendent
TN. EMERSON. General Passenger Agent
T1ARNVUIE AND POWHATAN RAILROAD
L General Office, No. f03 east Main street.
Schedule in effect VI 1891.
LEAVE RICHMOND;
EOS p. NJ. via Atlantic Coast Line for Ber-
muda.
o.,K A NJ. Via Atlantic Coast Line for Winter
peck and intermediate stations.
40 T. NJ, via Richmond and Danyillo for
Farmyille and all stations west Of
Minterpock.
ARRIVEAT RICHMOND:
ll:i5 A. NJ. VIA Atlantic Coast Line from Ber-
muda.
amp NJ via Allan ic Coast Line from Win.
o'" terpock md intermediate stations.
A.,o p. NJ. via Richmond and Danyille from
' Ninterpock, FarmYillo aud inter-
mediate stations.
e.EA NJ via picnmonc and Danyille Railroad,
o''' from larmyille and intermediate
stallo.is 10 Mosely Junction
All trains daily except Sunday.
For tickets baggage checks, timetables, DC,
call nnon A. W. GAhBER, the Atlantic Coast
Line and Richmond and Danyille depooitss;o,
AN' ~ w. 4. LAUGHION,
General Passenger Agent
JA,xs H. WxHTH. General MaaageE Apss-u
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-05

The Southern Manufacturing Company are
putting IN every residence ia Richmond an
order ior o. can of their Perfection Baking
Powder DO not fail to send the order 10 your
grocer and get free q can of the best baking
powder made.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-05

Sleeplessness, nervous prOstrstlon. hts, st
Vitus dance. nervousness, hysterla, headache
hot Pushes. nervous dyspepsia, confusion are
cured by DR.. Miles Neryine. Trial bottles and
fine books free az Owens Minor Drug Com
many. No. 1901 Main street. opposite Postofice
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-05

When Baby was sick, We gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castorla'
When she had Children, she gave them Castorla'
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-05

HICKOE'S No. j. II. -. C., FIG, AND
CAROLINE SI-N-CL RED AHE ia RE, CLEAN
AND CHOICE SUN-CUKED TOBACCOs. 1RH
THEM
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-05

Richmond, Va, May 4, 1891.
OFFERINGS.
Wheat .Q04 bushels.
COrn-20l0 bushels
Oats-I,OO0 bushels.
sALEs REPORTED 10 SECRETARY,
Whest-600 bushels.
Como bushels.
QUOTATIONS..
Wheat-Longberry, SI2O. Mixed S119 10
sl2i Shortherry, S11S TO Sl.20; No. ., red,
Sll1 90 - u.s.
Com-White slcto s2c. Mixed, zoe. to soc.
Oats-No. 81 sc. 20 sec. Rejected, 4sc. TO 55c.
hyc-goc. 10 Vs.
COTTON REPORT.
Market steady
Qu9ta10qs.- Middling, S3sc.; low middling,
fsc.i GOOD ordinary. 13sc.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-05

UICKOfK'S 40. I, ~. ID. C.. FIG, AND
CAROLINE Sun CURED AXE PURE, CLEAN
AND CHOICE sCN-CUEED TOBACCOs. Try
THEM.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-05
Cincinnati.

C1vc1NNAT1, O.. May Pork regular at
sl2 2s@sl2ST15; family, sl237l6@Sl2D. Lard
Kettle dried. 7ll@1asc. Bacon-Short clear
sides, 81 l214cS7.15. Whlsky-Sales So barrels at
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-05
Trerv Mother

should see that her little ones are protected, and
that bottle Of Or. Davids Cough Syrup Is at
hand TO give III case of Group, Coughs or Colds
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-05

In time FOR coughs. colds, Group. consumption
bronchitis. hoar-encss and all throat and lung
troubles that Northumberland Or. David s
Cough Syrup. of pure pine tar. horehound and
wild cherry.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-05

DICHMOND AND SEVEN PINES RAILWAY
IL SUMMER SCHEDULE,
UNION LINE ELECTRIC CARS CONNECT
WITH ALL TRAINS.
DAILY.
Leave Richmond: Leave Seven Pines:
$50 A. NJ; - VI. 5:30 A. NJ; 100 4. NJ
$3.50 7. NJ; 7:l5P VI. 1P NJ; 6:l5 2. NJ.
SUNDAY.
1OA. M.;12M. ga. NJ; II A. VI.
PIP. NJ; lP. M;7:3OP. VI. 1PM;3P.M.; 6OP. NJ.
Round trip tickets twenty-five cents.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-05
STEAMSHIPS.
OLD DOMINION STEAMSHIP COMPANY
FOR NEW YORK.

Steamer leave Richmond EVERY TUESDAY
and FRIDAY at 3 =. VI. Manifest closed ons
hour before sailing time.
Steamers leave New York for lichmOni
EVERY WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY 40 l..
NJ. arriving in Richmond MONDAY and FRI
DAY mornings.
Passenger accommodations unsurpassed
Cabin fare 10 New York VIA James river
route Including meals and berth) ......S9 %
Round-trip tickets limited 20 thirty days
after date OF issue ........................ "a 81
Storage with subsistence. ................ %
Stcerage, without substance .........,.... %
Cabin fare via Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
Cabin fare via Richmond and Petersburg .
Railroad. .......... Observation-Disclosures. 10 ID
tickets can be obtained at A. W Carriers,
eOl Main street, Chesapeake and Ohio and ,lch-
mond and Petersburg depCts, and 80 con anys
Offices, 1901 Main street and wharf, kockotts
Freight received daily until !. ~. .
Passengers leaving Richmond on MONDAYS,
TUESDAYS. WEDNESDAYS, THURSDAYS and
SATURDAYS by the Chesapeake and ONO raul
way via Newport News at $3.50 a. NJ, and by
Richmond and Petersburg railroad, same Day as
l2:l0 Z. N. will make connection at NOAtOLh
with steamer leaving those days
GEORGE ". ALLEN a CO., Agents
No 1901 Main street. ami
jyl0-f Companys Wharf Rockets
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-05
NHEsAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY COM.
PANI.
SCHEDULE IN EFFECT APRIL /. 1891.

LEAVE RICHMOND:
$40 A. NJ, daily. for Old Point and Norfolk.
Pullman sleeping car konceyerte to
Old Point.
II 100 A. NJ, express, daily, for Cincinnati. Pull
man Sleeper Old Point TO Romeo
Yerte.
$40 P. NJ, express, daily for Old Point and
Norfolk. Pullman Sleeping Car
Cincinnati 10 Old Point.
4:SO p. NJ, accommodation, except sunday, for
GordOnsyillo and Orange.
1890 p. NJ, the f. +. Y. Limited. daily. Pull
man Sleeping Car Old Point 10 Cln-
cinnst. Solid yestibule train, with
dining-car and Pullmans, Cor
louisville 20 Cincinnati and Pullman
toLouisville Pullman sleeping car
Richmond to Washington via Cor
louisville.
ARRIVE RICHMOND:
$40 A. NJ and 2:55 L. NJ daily from Cincin-
natl.
7:45 2. NJ, daily except Sunday, from Hinton.
1880 A. NJ. and $50 p. NJ. daily, from Norfolk.
Station, Broad street near Seventeenth.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-05
Ise Perfection Bnkinc Powder.


Always guaranteed to give satisfaction. Made
bv tie Southern Manufacturing Company,
Richmond Va.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-05


SIMPLY apply "Swayne's Ointment" No in
terual medicine required. Cures letter eczema,
itch. all eruptions on the face, hands, nose &c,
leaving the SKIN clear, white, and healthy. lts
great healing aud curative powers are possessed
Wbno other remedy Ask your druggist Tor
SWaJne's Ointment.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-05

PHILADELPHIA RICHMOND AND Noh-
FOLK STEAMSHIP COYlPpANf,
Annointed sailing DAYS every TUESDAY ana
FRIDAY at is NJ and every SUNDAY at a, ~. M
Freight for Tuesday and Friday steamers a,eam ss
tiIl5P. Nj. Saturday freight received dAily u"
BP. M. ,,-,A s6Ol
for i"A 'A'' j. ". McCARRICk.
General Southern Agent.
Once, Rockets
W. 4. CLYDE 4 CO
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-05

R4J.1t iDiS.- MldQllng o1sc; low mlCdlln
8 80 good ordinary. 13sc.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-09-24
what Free-Trade Does for the British.

VHAS 4 ee.ArAue Does iOr inc brlCiSh.
In the city of Glasgow alone Al, 900
out Of every 100000 live in homes having
only one room, and, further, nearly one
third of the whole people dwell in homes
of only, one room, and more than two
thirds of the people of Scotland dwell in
homes of not more than two rooms
John Bright.
Though England is deafened with
spinning wheels, her people have not
clothes; though she is black with the
digging of fuel, they die of cold; and
though she has sold her soul for grain.
they die Of hunger. Ruskin.
1t is an awful fact-it is really not
short of awful-that in this country
Great Brittany, with all its wealth. all
its vast resources, all its power, 45 per
cent.-that is to say, nearly one half-of
the persons who reach the age of sixty
are or have been paupers. say that it
is tremendous fact, and l cannot con.
ceive any subject more worthy of the
attention of the legislature, more worthy
of the attention of us all.-John Morley.
There are few classes of workmen
who in many respects are so thoroughly
wretched as the English agricultural la
borers. They are in many respects so
miserably poor that if they were con-
verted into slaves tomorrow it would
be to the interest of their owners to feed
them far better than they are at present.
Throughout large agricultural districts
not single agricultural laborer will be
found who has saved so much as a
weeks wages. A life of toiling and in
cessant industry offers no other prospect
than miserable old age.-Henry Faw-
cett.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-09-24
Why ! Am a Protectionist.

/ am a Protectionist because in our
history trace all our prosperity as a ma
tion to the protective system, and all
our periods OF financial and business dis
tress to the abandonment or threatened
abandonment of that system.
Because, as read history, all expert
ence shows that nation can only be
prosperous or become wealthy or long
remain SO under system which protects
the labor of its citizens, creates diversi-
fed industries, and enables it to produce
at home largely the articles it consumes.
Because believe it to be the duty of
the government and wise craftsmanship
to provide, SO far as legislation will ac-
complish it, that the people who labor
with their hands and who III this coun.
try are in majority and are to control
the destiny of this government, and upon
whom the prosperity and perpetuity of
the nation depend, shall be permitted to
do our work, instead of foreigners across
the sea, and to receive for the same such
compensation as will enable them to live
comfortably, educate their children and
prepare them to perform their duties as
American citizens intelligently and in
dependently. - United States Senator
Dolph in American Economist.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-09-24
Meaning OF Americanis,n.


Americanism means the development,
the culture, the expansion, the progress
and the protection of everything Ameri-
can. 1t means the growth of our indus
tries, the increase of our mills and fur
naces, the development Of our mines and
agriculture, the prosperity and happiness
OF our people. The apostle of that
American idea is William Mckinley.
We greet him here, and in planting his
elm, too. principle which began with
Washington and Hamilton, and has been
80 conspicuously defended by him, we
wish him godspeed in his canvass in Ohio.
When he shall have served as gov
ernor of Ohio, and in the future as
president Of the United States, in the
evening Of his days, when this elm shall
have grown to height where a large
proportion of his Ohio constituents can
find restful shade under its branches, we
hope that he will come here again to
greet the elm whose auspicious planting
preceded and preigured his election. and
whose longevity typifies the perpetuity
OF American prosperity when fostered
by the practical operation of American
ideas.-Chauncey NJ. Depew In dedi-
eating tree to Mr.. Mckinley at Wood
stock, July 4. 1891.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-09-24
WAGES AND THE COST OF LIVING.
The English workingman Even Worse
or Than the Hindoo.

l.
The English workingman Even Worse
or Than the Hindoo.
Few points are insisted on with greater
pertinacity or with more emphasis by
British writers in referring to our higher
wages, than that the expense of living
is much greater here than in England.
although all who know enough about
the subject to be more than mere re-
peaters of other mems assertions know
that except in the matter of rent and
wages, the cost of living with such COM
forts and luxuries as wage earners COM
mand in this country is substantially the
same as in other countries, and that it is
only where persons or families are in
such position that they require two or
more servants that marked economy
results from living in England. The
economy of living on the continent of
Europe, however, commences sooner
This question of economical living was
reduced to a reductio ad absurdum by
Mr.. Isaac Whitaker, the manager of q
cotton mill in Bombay, who wrote as
follows to the Manchester Guardian of
the Hindoo workman's prosperity under
low wages:
IA worker here can save more than u
worker in Lancashire il so inclined. A
spinner with his twenty to twenty-five
rupees per month is better off than an
English spinner with his thirty to forty
shillings per week. The native spinner,
if he is disposed to be steady, can live on
five to seven rupees per month, keeping
his wife and family, thus saving
twelve to fifteen rupees per month.
In about eight years he retires
from the mill landed proprie-
tor. The greater portion Of our weavers
have earned close on twenty rupees this
month, many as high as twenty-four ru-
pees Out of that they may, if they like
save twelve and sixteen rupees, or per-
haps more, and the purchasing power of
a rupee in this country is equal to two
shillings English money; whereas in
Lancashire it takes weaver all his time
to make both ends meet, and instead of
a bit of land and bungalow up in his
own country where he can sit under his
own vine and fig tree, what has the Eng.
lish weaver to look forward to but the
workhouse and suit of corduroy with
brass buttons, the horror of an English
workingman2"
"a rupee, it should be noticed, is
worth about Is. Cd. sterling, SO that the
greater portion of our weavers have
earned close on $3.50 for the work re-
ferred to. Also that the taxes wrung
from the poor Hindoo for Famine Re-
lief and Insurance has increased from
Rx. 104, 900 in 1s70-80, to Rx. 5000 in
the fiscal year 1SS9-9O."
An American workingnan expects,
unless he lives in some of our larger
cities, to die in his own house. An Eng
lish workingman looks forward to death
in workhouse, and If the Hindoo ex-
poets to die in his bungalow, the famine
and relief insurance tax is swindle,
and the English workingmen should
emigrate, not to this country but to In
dia, where his still lower wages will buy
him bit of land and his own fig tree:
the wages in India being lower than in
Ireland, and tho position of the working
man, of course, so much the better
thereby.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-09-24

cess, but when we have Republican VIC
tories we are not indebted to any calam-
ity.
That, my friends, is one of the reasons
that am Republican. Thirty years
Of this policy has given us the greatest
government in the world, and today we
beat the world in manufactures, in agri-
culture and mining. When this protec-
tive policy went into effect we were a
small nation. We are in the first ranl,
now, and Republican and Democrat arc
alike proud of it,
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-09-24
Farm Life in the "Good Old Times"

Farm Life In the "Good Old Times"
Under the heading, "Our Farmer
Fathers" The Tribune, Minneapolis
says:
1t is sometimes well to look back over
the road, take bearings and measure
progress. When we find farmers and
laborers politically in arms against al
legged oppression and hard times we
naturally turn to view the conditions OF
"the good old times when everybody
was prosperous and contented.
The farmer of the day makes two
special complaints: High prices for
what he buys and low prices for what
he sells. How was it with our farmer
fathers?
Take the staple dry goods article, cali
co. In 1890 it cost So cents yard; in
1880, 20 cents; in 1860, II cents; in 1891,
cents.
Take the staple grocery article, sugar,
In 1900 it cost 1871 cents for cheap, brown
grades; in 1880, Is cents; in 1860, 10
cents; in 1891, 81 cents for granulated.
For what the farmer sells, take the
staple dairy product, butter. The prices
in Massachusetts are as follows: In 1890,
II cents; in $780, 18 cents; in 1860, 20
cents; in 1891, 80 to 30.
The staple meat product, dressed beef,
in Massachusetts, sold in 1890 at only 81
cents; in 1880, n cents; in 1860, 12
cents; in 1891, 12 to 1s.
Our farmer fathers of Revolutionary
days whisted among the stones and
pumpkin vines of sterile New England,
attired in cotton jeans and shirtings that
cost 60 cents yard, slept on ticking
at 80 cents, and, if rich enough,
wiped the perspiration from their brows
with handkerchiefs that cost 70 cents
Their wives, if they were unusually
stylish, paraded in muslin at e5 cents
yard, ginghams at 55 and cambria
at 81. Pins were Is cents paper;
for matches everybody borrowed fire,
and for farm implemt nts and ma
chinery the hoe and scythe were as all
important as today's srlhy .'low and self
binder
Those were the "good cd days" when
there were no debts nor Donnellys, no
machinery nor mortgages, and few pro-
ducts, profits, Peffers or peoples parties
Yet what the farmer sold brought not
much more than one-half what it brings
today, and what the farmer bought cost
more than double what it costs today.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-09-24
Free-trade and. "Hard Times"

The period of Free-trade from 1S47 tc
1861 cost this country, in the destruction
of it's industries. far more than war with
Mexico. Although the influx of gold
from California began in 1S49-5O, and
was at its height in 1878, yet as early
as the fall of 1858 general dearth of en-
ployment prevailed among artisans,
manufacturing establishments of various
kinds were closing, and in the spring of
1854 hard times came, and came to stay.
Almost daily, professions of the suffer-
ing ones formed in Astor place. in New
York city, and marched down Broad
way, 5000 to 10000 in number. They
fled past the city hall bearing rude rag
banners on which were inscribed, "We
are starving. We don't mean blood, but
we must have bread" etc.
Long, winding lines of laboring men
and women gathered in front of the
numerous souphouses, waiting for their
turn at the soup. One Of the city mis-
sions gave away free food tickets to the
poor, which had been paid for by those
having means. But in spite of the ut
most exertions Of all charitable commit
tees and Of Individual efforts, starvations
and deaths from hunger were daily re-
ported.
President Buchanan said in his mes
sage, Dec. 8, 1857, ''In the midst Of un-
surpassed plenty In all the elements Of
national wealth we find our manufac-
lures suspended, our public works re-
tarded, our private enterprises Of differ
ent kinds abandoned and thousands Of
useful laborers thrown out Of employ
ment and reduced 20 wsntr