New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-08-14
LABOR NEw-YoRK
: crRcrNsrAScZs CONDITIONS AND REWARDS
No. I,...The Semstresses.

such as are paid by the large Depo,s for shirts and
clothing In Chatham street and elsewhere
For making Common White and Checked Cotton
Shirts -ix cents each. Common lannei ndershlrts
the sane. These are cut in such manner as 10
make ten seams in two pairs Of sleeves com
mon fast semstress can make Of these shirts per
dav Sometimes very swift hands, by working
from sunrise 10 midnight can make three. This Is
equal TO sevcniy-ive cents per week allowing no
thing for holidays sickness, accidents being out OF
work. Sc for the first class and sl,l2i for the
Others
Good Cotton Shirts with Linen Bosoms neatly
stitched. are made for twenty FIVE cents. A good
sems,ress will make one in day, thus earning
$50 per week. by constant labor
Fine Linen Shirts with Plated Bosoms, which
cannot be made by the very best hand in less than
fifteen to eighteen hours steady work. are paid
fifty cents each. Ordinary hands make one shirt OF
this Kind in two days.
Duck T-owsers. Overalls, SC. eight and ten cents
each. Drawers and Uudershiris, both Flannel and
Cotton from six to eight cents at the ordinary shops
and . at the best. One garment j. day. work
for some-oihers can make Two.
Saftinet. Cashmere and Broadcloih Pants, some
times with gaiter bottoms and lined from ls to 30
cents per pair One pair is good days work.
Vests. % to 80 cenrs-the latter price paid only
for work of the very best quality. Good hands
make one day.
Thin Coats are made TOR a5 to 81. cents piece.
Heavy Pilot.coth Goats, with three pockets 81
each. \ Coat Of this kind canno, be made under
three days
Cloth Roundabouts and Pea jackets, % to 80
cents Three can be made in two days.
A great number of females are employed in ma
king Mems and Boys Caps. BY constant labor ht-
teen or eighteen hours a day they make from Il
to - cents We are told by old lady who has
lived by this kind Of work a long time, that when
-h, begins al sunrise and works till midnight she
can earn - cents day.
4 large majority of these women are American
born from the great Middle Class OF life, many OF
whom have once been in comfortable and even aiiiu-
ent circumstances and have been reduced by the
death or bankruptcy of husbands and relatives and
other causes TO such straits Many OF them are the
wives of ship masters and other officers of vessels
Others are the widow. of mechanics and poor men.
and have children aged mothers and fathers, &c to
support, by their needle Many have drunken nus
bands 20 add TO their burdens and Affections and to
darken every fain, CLEAN of sunshine that domestic
affection throws even into the humblest abode
Others have sick and bed ridden husbands or chill.
dren or perhaps have to endure the agony of rcceiv
ing home a fallen daughter or an outlawed son sud
I denly checked in his career OF vice.
The manner in which these women live-the
s1nalidness and unhealthy location and nature OF
their habiations-thc undergraduates of their food
aud clo,hing-the mpossibity of providing for any
tho SLIGHTEST recreation or moral or intellectual cul
,ure or Of educating their chidren-can be easily
imagined but we assure the public that it wonld
r.ouire an extremity active Imagination TO conceive
the reality
These women generally keep house tina, is,
they rent single room, or perhaps TWO small rooms
in the upper story of some poor Demonstrated, I'M
ventilated house in filthy street, constantly kept
So by the absence of back yards and the neglect Of
the Street Inspcctor-where a sickenng and deadly
miasm prevades the atmosphere. and in summer
renders ittotay inf; TO beinhaled 10y human lungs
depositinr the seeds of debility and disease with
every inspiration In these all the processes
Of cooking eating sleeping. washing, working and
/ 3 ring are Unfortunately performed.
For these rooms the tenants never pay less than
/ three to four and half dollars per month-and pay
, they must and do Some of the very worst single
carrots destitute OF closet or convenience Of any kind
! and perhaps lighted only by hole cut in the root
rent as low as two dollars month Ofcourse every
cent of the inmates earnings is exhausted every
week and in many cases is not sufficient to buy any
other food than scanty supply OF potatoes and In
dian meal and molasses for the family. When win
ter comes therefore, they destitute OF the means
not only of adding comfortable clothing to their
wretched wardrobes. but of procuring an ounce OF
I fuel Their work too, al this season Is frequently
cut off and they are left 40 resource but the Aims
/ house or a pauperticke for bread and coal. Here
too they are too often banked The Aims house
i fall and overrunning-the Public Charities Ot all
kinds are choking with the fierce assaults OF SILVER
iug and iamished Beggary-what can these poor
! women do We are truly told that when some
fne. hunted ont by the hand OF private charity they
F have been found - given over to hunger and DIES
pair at their repeated rebuiis from the Ams-house
] ar the overdriven Comm ssOners that they had re-
solved to starvc without farther effort Understand
H., not as censurng the directors or distributors OF
these Public Charities. Al present we know nothing
/ but that they do all they can. We shall come to
! the facts about them in due time.
FROM MAyItLA-By the Ship Delhi. from Ma
nlla March 10th, learn that report was current
there when the Delhi left that the French had taken
possession of the Island Of Bassalsn
FROM PoRro PAN.-By the Schooner SAM
Roberts Capt Robinson July 81, we learn that the Hay
ten. had returned the Cape. Col Villsmneros was
forty miles east Of the Cape, waiting an attack. The
Dorninicans were left in possession of the field. No
American vessels were left. Coffee aud conse
quenty high.
- The Grand Jury Of Suffolk Co Mass have
presented the "yeilow-coyer literature as nuisance
VIVA, will they say when publish specimens Of
The -tring.Bean school OF literature %,
- Uderwel0ns the largest and hnest, from
ihe'domain of the n. Am. Phaanx) for sale this
morning the country side Of the Fulton Market oppo-
-iie stall No. 10.
From the Cincinnati Alas
BUSINESS on THE MIAMI CASAL-QUIcK CONVEY
.rr ar Coon. This channel Of transportation of