Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1845-12-30
Coal Pit Hands Wanted.

THE Midlothian Coal Mining Company wish 10 hire,
for the year 1916, able bodied healthy wedisposrd
Negro Men. For such full prices will be given, and ad
vances made upon The hires if required by the owners
The Company have been liberal in the expenditure Of
money and labor, TO put their Mines in good working
condition, and they under the superintendance OF
skilful Mining Agents.
There is service in which slaves better treated
fed, clothed, and attended in sickness crj better
health well conducted Hospital, under the care OF
careful steward, and daily attended by three Physi-
cians is provided al The Mines; aud owners of slaves
may have them secured from all medical AMI surgical
charges by The payment Of three dollars each per annn
No slaves hired who unwilling tn cuter the
Company's Service and il il desired that none of bad
character should be offered, the COMPANY using
every effort to improve tho moral character Of their own
slaves and hrcllnss, 10 which end they have the pre-
sent year sold three disorderly men.
The slaves have Church of their own al the FITS,
and divine service IS regularly performed on The sab
bath by white ministers. Al least one half OF those
now In the Conpany's service Temperance men, and
the use of spirituous liquors discouuteual ced.
The Company Il al satled in being able 10 say, that
their slaves and hrlinss as orderly wcl-heiaved
and moral, generally, like number Of laborng men
any where TO be found. There Ia no work in which
slaves arc better satisfied and contrntcd than coal min
ing; and there IS no service in which they have
equal chance Of making money for themselves There
have been fewer deaths gst the Company hands,
from disease casualties since its organic alton,
twelve years aso, than will b: found in like number
Of men any where. The Company have in their EN-
ploynen several free coored men, who hire themselves
annually, upon the aud onditlons slaves,
and are subject To the discipline and have been
employed for years. They have also 10 their mines
many white laburcrs. There has been but instance
OF any slave IN The Company's service being committed
for felony, and that discharged the instance
of the Commonw eah5 Attorney, " no stated that tho
p oof did mol sustain the charge
The Companys apology for this prolix advertisement
Is founded upon the pr"prity Of freeing the Company
from the impItatun that has for long me attached
Incorporated Companies generally. unworthy oi
hdence, and Of aiding in placing The coal mining opera
rations IN Eastern Virginia in the position t-
erto nj distance from the mInes the pits have been
regarded as places where the worst slaves
eregacd, and considered as dens of vice, crime and
otueitles
An appeal Is now made 10 tie owners Of slaves
throughout Virginia, aud they advised, that what
has been said the Midlothian Coal Mines and the
treatment Of slaves and hlrenr' there Is mainly appli
."ine dozen different establishments, where wners
have ample selection in disposng of their slaves,
and where constant profitable employment may he
found. From one 10 two hundred hrelings more than
naw employed may find places, and the distribution
Of from 00 10 500 goo for that number of slaves,
amongst their owners, forms item that prudent men,
cwnins unproductve negroes, ought not 10 DISREGARD.
Communications, in writing, upon the snlDrc'' VIII
meet with prompt attention. by being directed y" le
Richmond T. o., and personal applications may be maze
nj the Mines Of the Company, in ChesteInrn county
thirteen miles above the city, nj Their toal frd AT
Rockets or nj the Store 81 ". w. Woodbridge, ESQ., 4
trw doors below the Bel Tavern, Richmond
A. :. WOODBRIDGE, President.
We the under isned, heins the Physicians referred 10
in the above advert take pleasure in stating that
il contains fair statement Of facts.