Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-04-27

as most English families know TO their cost-tof
enable the proprietors to retain competent staff
OF work-peopie, and at the same time to secure a
very handsome profit TO themselves. Wherein,
then, lies the remedy? viii the case Of these
poor sealnstresses be bettered if the ladies' OF Eng
land abstain partially, or in great measure from
giving their usual orders to their usual houses?
In that case 1t may be said some of the seamstresses
Will be dismissed as before. We freely confess
we DO not see our way through the difficulty; for
we hold the most probable event in our social ar
rangenlents to be the fact that lady of fashion
will employ second-rate instead of first.rate
house for the chase of her annual fnery. lie
leading miliners and dressmarkers OF London have
hold OF English society at both ends. They hold
the ladies by their vanity and their love of tine
cloths and the seamstresses by what appears to be
their interest and y their love of life. Now, love
OF ine Clothes and love of life two very strong
motiye-sprngs of human action. 2g9 ~ .
~ a correspondent who has addressed us upon +,
this subject, suggests that the ladies of England
The censuTerst OF American. Siayery-with the
Duchess OF Sutherland at their head should re-
iuse give their patronage to any houses in which
the twelve hour system strictly adhered to-
Wy confess we see difficulties in the way, but not
greater than swoman's wit might overcome, if
fairly brought TO bear upon the question: The
customers, the principals The seamstresses, are all
women. They are more competent TO deal with
each other, than men could by any possibility be-
If the Sutherland House Committee would fairly
set the example, and carry out their design with
cute the task. Theyiid notshrink from the whole
sale difficulty of emancipating the ,OOO, 900 or
1000, 900 negroes ofthe United States,-why hes
ltate graphing with The London inantua- makers.
who are dependent for their existence upon the
good will and patronage of their customers? No
doubt their eiligsnce will ind way out of DIFF
hculties whic puzzle the masculine BRAIN. We
should be glad indeed to see any effective move
ment afoot which would compel the miliners Of
the Metropolis to employ sufficient ntlmDer ofs
lands, and consequently to work onlyfof a 6limi-
ted Z. numbes of hours. God knows, twelve hours
OF labor and confinement are quite sufficient for
any young woman 10 go through in the course Of a
day. For ourselves, I'VE can point to other clir
mates where toll meets with its appro pirate re-a
ward, and urge these unfortunates pleaye their
native shores as soon as passage money can be-
rscraped ogether. Those who 60 will find a n
England at the other side of the globe. and those
who remain will find the marketin more whole
some condition. Almost every week we have to Il
record a Strike for Increase of wages among GER
tam classes Of male laborersit is time thatithe
turn OF oyeryorked woman had come. ~
- The Secretary Of. the Interior, McClellsnd, is
confined to his room in w ashingt by neuralgia.
~ The Statesman says there are Oil conyicts
NOW IN the Ohio Penitentiary. ~ J