Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-02-11
Buying a SempStreSS.

WANTED.-By a young GIRL, a com
petent Dressmaker, the loan Of ONE HUN
DRIED DOLLARS, for which she will rive
one year and a half of her time as Dressma-
ker and Seamstress. The hest of reference
given as to capacity, &c.-PuJiic Ledger,
Dec. 9.
Thank Heaven that we live in a free coun-
try, where we have o~ra,ions and fireworks
every Fourth Of July. and elect our own rep,
resentatives and presidents, and have poor.
houses and prisons built by Government, and
Soup and Missionary Societies instituted by
the benevolent?
God save America and make her armies
invincible What sAre the Mexicans bn,
dogs? God save America
But the poor sempstresses, who help them?
Let us make a purse up, o We millionares.
who vote money for medals, let us raise a
hundred dollars. and buy a sempstress for a
year and half! We can speculate-we can
double our money! Let us make her work
for the slop-shops, and pocket the profits,
and send aid with them to the Hottentots
A sempstress for a hundred dollars She
can make our daughters dresses, and mend
the childrens' s~tockings-ay, and take charge
of the nursery, and walk out (when her work
is dcne) with the musings. dragging a TOW
coach with a baby in it. IT'S a famous spec-
%ulation, o ye phiIanthropic patrons of popu-
lar charities!
n gear and a half! That is a long time
But we must be careful. Let us examine
her well, this sempstress! Is she healthy !
Will she lastl Perhaps the seeds of con-
sumption are IN her system! Perhaps she
has a stitch in her side, or a dizzy headache,
that may kill her in a month Let W be wa
ry.
And yet, after all, we can't lose much
We can work her as long as she can stand
it-just as the factory owners work their OPP
%eratives SempstresSes are ,enacious-quiie
tenacious Of life-especially when they have
mothers starving TO death, or little brothers
without shoes. o it's a speculation.
And, besides, we may prevent her from
committing suicide, and save a Coroner's in
quest, and the consequent expense. Or, per-
chance, we may keep her from desperate
crimes, and thus subserve good morals, and
preserve our first young men from contamin-
alton. Let us unite and raise the hundred
dollars! But, if we do raise tiff we use
this wretched sempstress for a year and a
halt, we must be careful and discharge her
tntn. W. SHdll nave lulIllleu all lndt con-
science requires, and she must then shift for
herself. But, after all, that is not 10 be
thought Of! She cannot last more than that
time, if We use her like the rest of the semp-
stresses. And if she die on our hands, we
can at least make something out Of her, for
post-mortem purposes at the Charity Hospi-
tai.
So millionaires, let us do this benevolent,
this holy, this glorious act Of humanity
Let US buy this poor sempstress fora hundred
dollars PHI. Sal. Courier.
A Day IN THE SoUrH.-The local de-
partment OF a New Orleans paper Of the l7th
inst. contains an account Of a row in the Com
mon Council Chamber, 1--WE should think
such a Council somewhat uncommon) in the
course Of which Mr.. Mackey threw an ink
stand at Mr.. DeSaulle's head, hitting him
on the temple and scattering the ink all over
his face. In the evening, one Mrs. Amelia
Holmes proceeded to the house of her friend,