Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1845-09-11

of the board to the pits about Brampton.-
The seams are so thin that several of them
have only two feet Roadway to all the work
ing. They are worked altogether by boys
from TO IL years of age, on all-fours, with
dog-bet and chain. The passages being
neither ironed nor wooded and often an inch
or two thick with mud. In Mr. Barnes pit
these poor boys have to drag the barrows
with one cwt. of coal or slack 60 times a
dav 80 yards, and the empty barrows back,
without once Strengthening their backs, I'M
less they choose to stand under the shaft and
run the risk of having their heads broken
by falling coaI."-Rep. on Mines, 1912,
D. II. ain Shropshire the seams are no
more than IS or 20 inches. ''-Ibid, p. e..
cat the Booth pit,'' says Mr.. Scrven, 81
walked, rode, and crept 1906 yards to one
oflhe nearest faces."-Ibid. "Chokedamp,"
:sFredam," "Wild fire." "Sulphur," and
"Water' at all times menaced instant death
to the laborers in these Mines" "Robert
North, aged 49, Went into the pit at years
of age, to ell up skips. ] drew about IL
months When | drew by the girdle and
chain my skin was broken, and the blood
ran down. burst not say anything. If
we said anything the butty, and the revee
who works under him, would take a stick
and beat us.''-I6id. 'The usual punish
ment for theft is to place the culpril's head
between the legs of one of the biggest boys,
and each boy in the pit-sometimes there
are 20-inhicts IL lashes on the back and
rump with cat'-I6id. Substances occur
in which children are taken into these mines
TO work as early as years of age, some
times at 5, not unfrequently at 6 and z,
while from 8 to 9 is the ordinary age at
which these employments commence."-
Did, The wages paid at these mines is
from $3.50 to $3.50 per month for laborers,
according to age and ability, and out of this
they must support themselves. They work
! II hours day.-Ibid.
In Calico printing ii is by no means un-
common in all the districts for children
or years old TO be kept IA to Is hours
consecutively."-Rep. on Children, 1912,
p. So.
| could furnish extracts similar to these
in regard to every branch Of your manufac-
lures, but will not multiply them. Every
body knows that your operatives hahitually
labor from II to Is hours, men, women.
and children, and the men occasionally 90
hours per day In lace-making says the
last quoted report, children sometimes COM
mence work at 2 years of age.
Destituion.-It is stated by your COM
missioners that 10000 persons in Liverpool
and $4,000 in Manchester, live in cellars;
while $4,000 in England pass the night in
barns, tents or the open air. "There have
been found such occurrences as z, s, and III
persons in one cottage. cannot say for
one day, but for whole days, without NOR
sci Of food. They have remained on their
bed of straw for two successive days, under
the impression that in a recnmbent posture
the pangs of hunger were less felt."-Lord
Brougham's speech, 11M JulH 1912. A
volume Of fright(ul scenes might be quoted
to corroborate the differences to be necessa-
rily drawn from the facts here stated.
will not add more, but pass on to the i'm
portant inquiry as to
Morals and Education.-" Elizabeth Bar
reH, aged IA: always work without stock
ings, shoes or trousers. | wear nothing
but shift. have to 60 up to the head
ings with the men. They are all naked
there. am got used to hat."-Report on
Mines. {" AS to illicit sexual intercourse il
seems to prevail universally and from an
early period of life" ''The evidence might
have been doubted which attest the early
commencement of sexual and promiscuous
among boys and girls" "A lower condi-
ton of morals in the fullest sense of the
term could not think be found. do moi
mean by this that there are many more pro-
minent vices among them, but that moral
r feelings and sentiments do not exist. Theg
hare no morals" 'Their appearance, man.
ners and moral natures-so far as the word
moral can be applied to them-are in &C.
cordance with their half civilized condition.
Rep. ON Children. "More than half do
zen instances occurred in Manchester, where
man, his wife, and his wi(e's grown uE
sister, habitualIy occupied the same bed."-
Rep. on Sanitary Condition. Rober
Cruchillow, aged Is: don't know any
thing Of Moses-never heard of France.
don't know what America is. Never heard
of Scotland, or Ireland. Can't tell how
many weeks there are in year. There
are IL pence in shilling, and 20 shillings
in pound. There are eight pints in a gal
Ion of aIe,"-Rep. on Mines. Gam Eggly
i, aged Is: walk about and get fresh air on
, Sundays. | never go to church or chapel
never heard of Christ at all."-Ibid
! Others: "The Lord sent Adam and Eve or