Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1845-12-19
Goal Fit Sands Wanted.

rINIlE Alidlcthiln Coal Mining Company wish in hire
for the year lsi6, able bodied, healthy, wrli.hspnsrd
Negro Men, For such full prices viii he given and nd
vabces mad, upon hr hires II required by the owners
The Company have been libera in The Expenditure o
money aud labor, 10 puI their Mines in good working
condition.. and they under The Slperinrndancr Of
skilf'il Mining Agents
Ttre service in which slaves are better treated
f. clothed, and attended in sickness, cTjuy better
health well conducted Hospital under the care If
y careful steward, and daily attended by three Phy.
clans. provided at The Mines; aud owners Of slaves
may have Them secured from ali medical and surgical
charges BY The payment al three dollars per anIim
No slaves are hired who unwilling To enter the
conpanys service, and il is desired that none of bad
character should he offered. the Company using
every effort Ia improve the moral character their avn
slaves aud hIreling., 10 which end They have The pre-
sold three dl-orderly men.
The slaves have Church of their own at the Pits
and divine servre u regularly performed the Sab
bath by white ministers. Al least one. half of those
in the Conpany's service arrtrmperance men, and
the u-r Of sprltuons liquors di. coiinrrnanced.
The Company feel graiiied in being able 10 .ay that
Their slaves aud hIrelnss orderly, wrhelavrd
and mural, generally like number of lnorIng men
any where Ia he found. There IL no work in which
slaves better satisfied and contrnth than coal min
ing; and there IL service which they have an
equal chance Of making money for themselves. THREE
have been fewer deaths amongst the Companys hands,
from disease or casualties since its organizations some
Twelve years aro, Than VIII he found In like number
of men any where. The Company have in their en-
ploymen several free colOrrd men, who hire themselves
annually upon the same terms and conditions slaves,
and subject la the discipline and have been sn
employed for years. They have Also in their mines
many white sborrrs. There has been but one instance
oI any slave IN the company'- service being committed
for felony, and that one was discharged the instance
nf the Commemorative Attorney " no stated that The
proof did mol sustain The charge
The ConpaDy's apology for This proiy advertisement
Is founded upon the prcprrfy nj freeing the Company
from he impnfaon that has for long TINE attached
incorporated Companies generally. unworthy ri
idence aud Of aiding in placing The coal mining opera
atinns IN Eastern Virginia IN the pforr position llith
nj distance from The mines. The pits have been
regarded places where The slaves were con
grcaated, and considered dens of vice, crime and
ctnrltirs
An appeal il made 10 he owners of slaves
throughout Virginia, and they advised, That what
has been said III. Midlothian Coal Mines and the
treatment Of slaves and hiIellngs iheic, mainly npp
cable To the coal mines Of this section consisting Of
DOZEN different establishments, where owners
have ample selection in dispOSing Of their slaves
and where constant profitable employment may lie
found From one 10 two hundred hrelings than
employed mly lind places, and the distribution
IL from $4,000 10 S20,0O0 for that number of slaves,
amongst their owners forms item that prudent men,
owning nnproductire negroes onght not 10 disregard.
Commnnicati"ns IN writing, upon The subject, win
with prompt attention. by being directed In the
Richmond + o. and personal applications may b, uIade
at The Mines Of the Company, in Chesterfield county,
thirteen miles above The city, at their Coal Yard al
Rorkr:ts, At the store Of W. w. Woodbridge Esq.,
few doors below the Bell Tavern, Richmnnd.
a. :. WOODBRIDGE, President.
We The under sned beine the Physicians referred 10
in he above advert take pleasure stating
il contains fair statement of facts.
WIN. B. BALL, NJ. u.
]. HANCOCK, NJ. D.
5. II. ROYALf, 81. u.
We, whose names are hereto appended have FOR
n:;ny wears hired hands 10 the Midlothian Company,
and believe the facts stated the foregoing
npni are rus. our transactions with The Company
have always heen most satisfactory. The Company's
sovency, and prompude in fulfilling its engagements,
We iegild as uDqnrstionable.
n. HANCOCK.
JAS. McTYRE, e." .hes'rine'
THOMAS FOR5EE
JNO. C. PORTER o ro"ha'ah.
THOMAS TtHn1nss co Msits Of Richmond.
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