Daily Ohio Statesman, 1861-03-15

'"A Souther nor In Europe" write to the Men pnis Apftat from jjonaon, under date of Jana ariS4ih, as followi: . England is In a deplorable condition. Her working population are nearly all la a state of starvation eoarcely earning enough to sustain life. There are orer 250,000 fed br the almi- boniei ia London alone. Tbli great dlitreu ia attributed to two Ciuiee the trouble In the unitea Btatei and the lerere winter. The re porta from the manuraotuHne diitrlots may giro auBie laictiuoa. oi "ireeaom," oi "wniteilave rj" in "free," enlightened and aristoeratio Eoflf land. In no country on the face Of the earth can tnere ne louna suca neart-rending diitress, Holland, with her soil innndaied to the ex tent of two hundred iqnare mllw sweeping wj laniij-iwo Tinageg, ana aesiroying cat cattle, - tle, cattle, grain end everything owned by Its inhabit inhabit-ante - ante inhabit-ante is not half as bad off ai the "labor ma. eAwre" of Eogland. A lew extract! from the reports or the leading citizens will suffice, and prove the assertion, and serve ai a compariton between the eondition of the Southern States and tnote who traduce her and her Inatitntlnnn. who oan afford no better words than "rillaiM," "ilajen," murderers," "man stealers," "rerl "rerl-leri - leri "rerl-leri of all law-, reliction, justice and hnmanlt-." Birmingham. Trade ia completely paralyzed. The American trade is entirely snapended. The employers can only work their hands tbras or four days in the week, and the majority only work two days. The proapeot tor nest week is still worse. Business of all kinds is depressed Indeed, there has not been so much distress for yearr. Bradjord. No improvement this week. The stoppage of American trade has particularly ad rer lo inflnenoe this week. The goods manu manufactured - factured manufactured for the United States have been thrown upon the market here, Spinners are stopplog some of their machinery, and ihe reduction of tims has been a weighty blow to the working classes, snd 8,661 are now fed by the Bradford Union alone. Halifax The asptot of both American and foreign affairs is not of an assuring 'sharacter, nor is the money market in, such a state as to give buoyancy to commercial transactions There is a very large number of hands out ei work; times are bad. LttdtK good deal of caution Is manifested here, owing to ' the signs ot the times." We have rarely worked lull time. All orders for America have been suspended or countermand ed. : ' - Meneheettr. Times as nsual; cotton is advanc advancing, - ing, advancing, and the fabric must rise; market dull do meitlo exceedingly slow of sale. In no depart department - ment department oi the market Is there any tendency to speculation in anticipation of events likely to arise in the United States. -. . . . iVeieeatie upon Tyne Trade dull.' The pti rate advices from our best cuaomers (American) are not favorable. Orders to continue shipments of iron and other merchandise to the Southern States have been received this week by some firms in the iron trade. The disturbed statu of America and the Continent is noting very preju prejudicially. - dicially. prejudicially. There is considerable suffering among the working classes. " " - ... Aonoidk The depression 'In lbs shoe trade has breated great distress. A town meeting waa called, and 4,000 collected lor the sufferer Over 88,000 one-third of the population-ap- JIIIVU IW MWBMDCO. , ... iVoWnoAam. Business Is more dull than it has been for many years past. Machinery is at a no, aaa ine lacemacere are snnering to a jvanui euenirana great autre among work. ug poopie generally, i , . i , ...rrrefprftavfoa, Advices from America arc uniavoraoie, and some bouses have stopped which were confined to that trade-. Our fur furnaces - naces furnaces ars not going half the tlme.land mach dis tress exists among onr working olaaie. ShifHtld Trade la deceased. Adeinaa frnm America this week are gloomy, and bring more countermand Instead of orders. Nearlr all the branches ot trade ara on bait, time.: The pau pauperism - perism pauperism of this town is within a fraction of 50 per weu.. in cuce oi tan year. ., Cwewrrw Upward or 0,000" are supported by public subscription here and lo the adjulning diltriCiSH.; .-. ?w .'. i; . f:l ... . . 1 j . JJr(oil.-Upward of 100.000 spindles have stopped, and many of the mills are on half time. There is not much real distress, the poor being provided for. The troubles In America may prove serious; they arc our great custom customers, - ers, customers, and all orders have been countermanded. A rector of London send a report to the rim- that it required $300,000 per week to support the people on chanty;' Snd that at this season or tne year it required tSUO.000 oer week. -The average amounts to 115.000,000 per annum for toucon. (jommentla nnneces sary.' Tbeae are fasts published to the world, and we believe the distress is maoh worse than represented. Let missionaries, ' Abolitionists, "sunn! 8- i ,. , . . . ,. r wiatiuue, auu-Biavery societies, cxeter and ranenii nan fanatics, read this cbspter The number of deaths laat week in London smounted to 1,926; exceeding the estimate by 685. 4 ' deaths from starvation; bronchitis. 471;- phthlsil, 183;' pulmooary complaints, U2. - -- ..... . Births for the week, 933 boys and 930 girls: in all, 1,859 children. The estimated number. i.ujj. i do population oi Aionoon is nut down at 3,000,000. - - The number of deaths last week In Lon don exoeeded the largest mortality of an weak in 1849 - (the worst time o( cholera) by over fir.A - -i . 4V. .... The Poor-rates of England Is $45,000,000. Add to this the almshouses and other institu tions of charity, with Scotland and Ireland, ana yoa nave a sum equal to tne expenditure of the United States, about $70,000,000 annu Bllyt 1 J' ' . ' , England is pauperized, having, on an aver average, - age, average, 1,600,000, equal to SO per cent, of the popu lation ' The paupers of London are put down at 50,000, beside thoie in private Institu Institutions. - tions. Institutions. -' '.' i-j ... . Downtrodden Ireland Is not as bad as either England or Scotland. A considerable excite excitement - ment excitement exists m Dublin, owing to the large ex ex-port - port ex-port of potatoes to England, and the price has advanced to 8d. per stone, about $1,50 per 100 pounds.'" "' ; A - - The potato crop of England, Scotland, France and Belgium has been very bad, and that of Ireland and Germany very good.' . England requires 8,000,000 quintals ot wheat, or an equivalent, to feed her until the new crop. At an average price this will cost her $110,000,. QOO.j She la on the verge of a commercial orl- l I V . a 4 a. i 1 IS a . " na. , i "ouwiuera - uo not - seem to see nor oare,

If we were to judge by the numbsr'of new song published yearly, we Should conclude that nothing was so essy aa to compose lyric Does a young gentleman, whoa college days are not ye over, iai in love with a pretty aobool girl lortuwuu ne sits ao wn to inoit a song, wntcn, if it can be made to mnelo at all, he persuades some mosio dealer to publish, with a eonaplcnons dedication to the bread and-butter inamorata. Does the music dealer himself find trade get getting - ting getting low forthwith he hire some hack to man manufacture - ufacture manufacture a few doggerel verses, which he sets to some plagiarized air, and give to the world as ine novelty or tne season, me consequence is that most of Ihe modern songs, whloh are inflict inflicted - ed inflicted on visitor in fashionable parlors, are traah of the vilest kind.; To paraphrase ths words of AiOrd .Brougham, In his famous criticism on Sheridan's oratory, the are neither good songs, nor bad songs, nor indifferent songs the not is, tney are not songs at aiL ; For sone-writinr is tha moat difficult art lo all poetry. It requires a rare combination of qualities, and such as few men or genius pos possess - sess possess tbemaelves. A sonr should have bat one main thought should go at once to the subiect: should never turn aside even for the most beau. tiful simile; and should be clothed in language In which thought and feeling are fused, ao to speak, into one glowing metal, as in ths ancient Corinthian brass. . No man, however great bis , oan sit down and any, "1 will write a song." Yet, neither can a person with but or dinary ability write a good song. For though successful songs have been often written bv persons wno nao maoe no pretensions before to being poets, yet such Individuals have Individ Individually - ually Individually bad the ortranlzttion of the noeta. and generally united also with that of lbs mnaician. "Anld Robin Gray," and "I'm Bittin' on the Stile, Mary," for example, were composed by ladles who were not profound authoresses; but lu both cases, the fair writers were celebrated for general talents, taste for music, and sensi tive natures The beart must be on fire as well as the imagination, if a good song is to be writ written., - ten., written., i ... , . a .; As projf of the soundness of these views, we cite the fsct that, while thoaaanda of eon pa have been published, very few comparatively sur- rive, oome lait stui-oorn from ine press, some linger lcr a few days, and some hold out a lit little - tle little longer. It is rare, indeed, to find one out outlasting - lasting outlasting its generation. Even the great major majority - ity majority of Moore's bave "died and made no sign." Those of Bayley perished still more rapidly The lyrlos oi no song-writer survive to the ex extent - tent extent of those of Burns Of living songs the best of his snd a few older ones are nearly all that remain. Time has winnowed the bad, the indifferent and the ordinary good away, till on only - ly only those are left which approximate . toward per lection. How much better It would be If those old lyrics, which bear the approval of ages, were oiteoer sung: . we do not compre hend how ladles of culture can patronise the trasny tongs wntcn lumber up tneir muelo racks. vitiate their own taste, and outrage the ears of tneir listeners, w e are, at least, certain that, if they would sing the really good songs the language affords, there would be less talking while they were at the piano, and probably more