Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1843-11-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

/ Female La5our.--The circumstance
must have struck all observers, that in The
United States, especially in the cities and
large towns, Female labour is inadequate
| ly remunerated. Some recent meetings
of Seamstresses in Boston have disclosed
facts which have surprised the Oldest in.
habitanls of the country. 1t appears
that the TaiIors of that city have been
awarding prices for female work by which
they must have appropriated enormous
profits to themselves, while they were i'm
posing severe tasks at a remuneration not
ADEQUATE 10 the most limited wants and
meanest Of employments. This is in real.
ity extracting from the poor and necessi-
tous the fruits Of their earnings.
| There is no scheme Of benevolence
more worthy of the consideration Of the
Echari'able than the condition of the work.
ling female in the large cities ofthe Union.
There is no plan for the amelioration of
their pecuniary condition more worthy of
the association of The humane than to place
the rewards of their labour on level with
their exerlions-to find employment for
them that will elevate them above want
and dependence. Societies. instituted for
the supply Of their necessities should be
considered as auxiliary to this end.-The
source of the evil should be reached by
obtaining for them remunerating prices for
their labor-by procuring for them en-
i ploymeut, and letting occasional assist
ance.. in pecuniary aid, be subordinate TO
this leading consideration. Much might
be done in, this way by proper combina-
tion among The influential and benevolent.
The working Female in the U. States
IS peculiarly circumstanced. She has no
dependence scarcely but on the needle.
10 Europe many of the employmenls filed
by men in,his country, are there occupied
by women. Females not only toll in the
fields, butt the chiefcilies are found be.
hiud the counters OF shops and engaged in
those lighter mechanical employments
thatrequife delicacy of execution aud taste
in design There are many such employ
ments that belong of natural right 10 wo
men; but men have usurped them. II is
only OF lale that females have been permit
| ted 10 share with men in the profits Of Ill
erary labor. Why notin The remuneration
forlhe more delicate operations ofmechan-
ism! Some of these and other rewards OF
female industry, as we have said, are di-
vided in Europe among the sexes. But
alas! in the United States there is buI
one field Of employment for the poor desti-
tute Female, depending for her subsistence
and often that of her children on her man
ual labor. There cannot. therefore, be n
subject more deserving of The benevolent
attentions of the charitable in the United
States, at period full of plans of social
amelioration, than the inadequate remun-
Grafton for the labor of Females in our
principal cities aud their consequea, de-
pendence and destilution.-Charis. Pat.
I Critical State Of the Western Frontier.
The .Arkanzas lntelligencer Of the 30
ult says:-"From all the Information we
have received concerning the late outra-
ges in The Cherokee Nation, we are con-
vinced that irregular rebellion was organ
lied against the constituted authorities OF
The Nation. Revelations OF all the plans
of the conspirators (of whom the murde-
rers'of Mr. Wore and family were bu, in-
struments) have been made, and subse-
quent events have confirmed The truth of
of those statements, that Dir. Ross the
chief Of the Nation, Mr.. Bushyhead, the
Chief Justice, w. S. Goodey, John Ben
ge, and Elijah Hicks. five ofthe most
| popular and influential men in the coun-
try, were to have been assassinated on the
18th inst. The reason assigned for the
killing Of the. FIVE persons named, was,
that they were the heads Of The party,
and by Topping them off, the party, would
be paralyzed and The balance could be
esily managed. The killing of Mr.. Wore
was TO have taken place the same night as
The .6rhers, but for some reason Unknown,
part oflhe banditti anticipated their as.
sociales, and killed him on the 22d. He,
was not murdered for any party purpose,
but merely for his money. ii being suppo-
sed that he had very large amouni-it is
certain that he had at least $500 on hand
There are persons supposed to be impli-
Gated 10 the whole Of these nefarious and
bloody transactions, whose names have
not yet been mentioned 10 public. They
have much to answer for, and we hope
that none, whether principals or accessa-
ries. will escape the. punishment they
merit"
The following letter from Revolution
ary Patriot ninety four years Of age, has
been handed US for publication. in the hope
that if IN shonld meet Tho ava of opy ,vidou,