Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-02-18
DnvILspusT, THE oRpnAN noY

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AS an illustration of the dreadful pow
erty of the English factory laborers, I'VE
extract the following from q volume pub.
llshed IN London several years. since
Deyilsdust was the familiar appellatien
of strong lad, who really had no other,
baptismal or patrimonial. About a fort.
night after his mother had introduced
him into the world, she returned to her
factory and put her infant out TO nurse,
that Is TO say, paid threepenee week to
an old woman who takes charge Of these
newborn babes for the day, and giyes
them back at night TO their mothers as
tney hernedly return from the scene of
their LABOR 70 the dungeon or the den,
which Is still by courtesy called s'home."
The expense Is not greae-landAnum and
treacle, administered in the shane of
some popular elixir. affords these limo.
cents q brief taste of the sweets Of exis.
tenee, and keeping them quiet, prepares
them for the silence Of their impending
grave. lntantieide Is practieed as exten.
sively and as legally in England, as il Is
on the banks of the Ganges; a circum-
stance which, apparently, has not yet
engaged the attention of the Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts. But the vital principle Is an Inn
pulse nom an immortal artist, and some
times battles, even in its tenderest phases,
the Vaccinations of society for its exc
tinction. There are infants that viii de.
fy even starvation and poison. unnatural
mothers and demon nurses. Such was
the nameless one of whom we speak We
cannot say he thrived but he would not
die. So at two years Of age, his mother
being lost sight Of, and the weekly pay.
ment having ceased, he was sent out into
the streets TO play" in order to be run
over. Even this expedient faildd. The
youngest and the feeblest of the band Of
victims, Juggernant spared him. to
Moloeh, All his companions were dis.
posed Of Three months "play" In
the streets soon got rid Of this tender
campany-shoeless, hAlf-nAked, and um.
combed-whose ages varied from two 10
FIVE years. Some were crushed, some
were lost, some caught colds and feveis,
crept back to their garret or their cellars,
were dosed with Godfrey's Cordial, and
died in peace The nameless one would
not disappear, He always got out Of the
lost his own. They gave him no food;
he foraged for himself and shared with
the dogs the garbage of the estreets. But
still he lived stunted and pale, he de.
fed even the fatal fever which was the
only habitant of his cellar that never
quilted 1t. And slumbering At night ON
bed Of ofmouldering straw, his only protee.
ton against the splashy surface Of his den,
with a dung heap at his head and cess.
pool at his feet. he still clung 70 the only
roof which shielded him from the tempest.
At length, when the nameless ono had
completed his 6fth year. the pest which
never quilted the nest or cellars Of which
he was citizen, ragged in the quarter with
such intensity, that the extinction Of is
swarming population was menaeed. Tho
haunt of this child was peculiarly visited.
All the children gradually sickened ex'
cept himself; and one night when ho re.
turned home he found the old woman her.
self dead, and surrounded only By corpses.
Tho child before this had slept on the
same bed Of straw with q corpse, but then
then there were also breathing beings for
his companions. A night passed only
with corpses seemed 10 him in itself kind
Of DEATH He stole out Of the cellar, quit
ted the quarter Of pestilenco, and after
much wandering laid down near the door
of factory. Fortune had guided him.
Soon after break Of day, he was awoke by
the sound of the factory bell, and found as.
sembled a crowd Of men, women, and
children. The door opened, they enter.
ed, the child accompanied them. The
roll was called his unauthorized ap.
pearancc noticed he was questioned: his
acuteness excited attention. A child was
wanted in the Wadding Hole, a place for
the manufacture Of waste aud damaged
cotton, the refuse Of the mills, which iS
here worked up into counterpanes and
coverlids. The nameless one was prefer.
red 10 the vacant post, received even .
salary, more than that, name for aS ho
had none, he was ehristoned on the spot
Deyilsdust. Devilsdust grew. up TO mans
estate In factory and being somewhat
smarter than the usual run Of such people,
he was promoted 70 an OYeTseerSbiP; and
the last knew Of him, bid fair 70 be
somebody 10 the world.
HosEsrY OF PfSrERs.--At the Frank
lin banquet at New York, on the 10th In.
slant, Mr.. Bigelow, Of the New York
Evening Post, said that he had the honor
OF being, for many years, Inspector Of
Of the prisoners confined there, every or
der Of mechanics was Represented except
printers. There is something In that fact
which merited their consideration, Mr..
B. concluded by proposing the memory
and honor Of that calling which IS unrcp-
resented in the State prison.
ADVICE TO GIHIA.--Dr. BeoswaT, In
his admirable Essay on Domestic Econ;