The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-10-21
More Troops Ordered into the Field.

Tor me Caledona, as well as Tor the Great Britain
She is now in her seventeenth day.
More Troops Ordered into the Field.
We perceive that our government IS exercising
more vlgor than ever in prosecuting the war with
Mexico. The Secretary of War, it is said, has
called upon the State OF Pennsylvania to furnish
six regiments of men, and it is expected that
New York will be called on in short time to fur.
nish her quota We understand that our citizens
have been engaged for some days past in polish
ingtheir accoutrements and putting their traps in
order, so as to be able to take up their march at
a days notice.
These measures indicate determination on the
part of our government to use more means and
greater strength than il has yet done, in order to
bring the Mexicans to terms, aad conquer peaoe
This is undoubtedly the best and the wsest po.
licy that can be pursued towards our unruy
neighbors, and one that will have the desired eff
feet. Let Tampico be taken, and a large force
concentrated in its neghborhood, ready to march
10 the capital, and terms of peace will soon be
prohered to u.s. and the war ended
AZ long as that important point is in the hands
the Mexicans, and also the city Of Vera Cruz,
II is idle 10 hope for settlement of our diff
cutes, but Tampico or Vera Cruz once in our
possession, the would be all but finished.
SToRauNG OF MONTEREY The gallant charge of
the Sd regiment'of the United States Infantry, at
Monterey, and the tremendous loss sustained by
that noble regiment was parallel to the deeds of
the 7lth OF the British army in India, commanded
10y the Duke of Wellington, at that time General
Wellesley.
Our gallant Sd, consisting of four five hundred
men, in storming the Notifications of the enemy,
los nj its off Hal tha nh md
with the exception of seventy-one men.
Z. AT the battle of Assaye, with the Mahrattas, in
the Deccan, General Wellesley says
lone company OF the pckets alone of the 74th con.
ssng Of one officer and fifty men, lost their officer and
foEty-our rank and file"
Nothing, however, could arrest the steady adj
vance of the 7lth which moved direct upon AS
save. The British loss was severe, and the victor
found himself weakened by loss of one-third of
the whole British force. ''The fire. said the
Duke, ''was so severe, that / doubted i'll should
be able to prevail on the troops to advance 1t
was the fercest battle that had ever been seen
in India"
Old Rough and Ready says that his severe loss
was owing to the eagerness of his men in pressing
on. he is now ordered to advance; and in all
probability, we shall have, at San Luis de
Potos, another parallel for the Iron Duke.
The WAGES OF FEMALES .-We think it full
lime that the eyes of the community were OPEN
ed TO the gross impositions practsed on our fe-
male operatives There is a large class of females
in our midst, who depend solely on the labor Of
their hands for support They are varousy EN-
ployed--at cap making, umbrella sewing shirt
making, tailoring, bonnet making, Sc, and the
wages they in general receive from their hard
hearted employers, altogether insufficient to
maintain them in any degree of comfort.
These girls seldom make more than twenty
five cents day, and not always even that sum.
On. Of this there are many drawbacks, the un
principed employer often laying down arbitrary
rules for their guidance during working hours,
iniraction Of which rules is visited by the
imposition of fine, which diminishes the alrea
dy wretched amount of their weekly pittance
and reduces il even below the sum they have to
pay f,r board. We see those poor girls walking
az evening from their workshops to TER homes,
perhaps in distant part OF the city, their cloth
ing insufficient to protect them from the cold
their delicate forms shivering in the cold blast
whilst at the same time their employers are uxu-
rating in the wealth wrung from the unrewarded
toll OF these poor girls.
We are by no means DESTROYS of exciting the
envy OF the poorer classes against the rich, nor
no VIC JON III dgrdflan cry OF lnOSe dreamy
visionaries, who would at once enrich the poor
by taking from the wealthy their honestly ac-
CURED gains. We know that the best of
measures have their wicked and foolish adj
vocates, and this question of a Just and eaui-
table reward of labor has been so mixed up
with Fourierism, humbug, and cant of every
description, that 1t is difficult to approach it with
out subjecting ourselves to the suspicion of enter
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iect of labor and its reward. But the evil is too
crying a one to be passed over in silence.
The wages of young females being so low, and
their outlay for necessarcs being greatly above
their income, it is not at all surprising that SO
many of them should fall into life of moral de-
gradation rather than be dependent on the will of
heir hard tas<masters for a miserable livelihood
hose reared IN the lap of luxury, who have ne
erknown the pangs Of hunger, and all the bitter
Il ardships of pinching poverty cannot imagine
that any amount oil suffering would drive them
70 the commission OF crimes; but before condemn
ing those unfortunates who prowl our streets at
night, and seek in the wages of their iniamy a
precauous subsistence, they should reflect how
long and agonizing was the struggle between the
promptngs of principle and the bitterness of
want, before virtue finally succumbed.
That man IS not to be envied for his wealth
who enriches himself on the toll of these poor
girls; and who, in addition to the misery his sor-
ddness has caused them whilst in his employ has
the further remorse of having eventually, by his
fraudulent and misery system of imposition dri-
ven them to destruction.
c trust that public attention will be drawn TO
this matter, and that some check upon the ava
rice of employers will be suggested.
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LATE FROM YUcATAN.-We have received
files OF Ell Amigo del Puebies, published at Cam.