Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-03-22
The Neaele women OF London.

of the London Times describing one Of the
great nlantua-malzirg establishments in that
CITY, communicates the fgllowing distress
ing facts. How thankful American women
should be, after reading Of the slavery of
their English cousins, for the invention of
Sewing Machines. The Times correspon-
dent saws work IS commenced every morn
inc at I o'clock and continued till eleven
at nigkt-a period Of sixteen hours, the
1 only intervals allowed being about ten min
utes for each meal the total amount Of
time allowed for-eating their food I
was going to say; but surely "boit;ng"
it is the most appropriate phrase-be-
ing forty minutes per day, thus leaving
fifteen hours and twenty inmates as the Pc
r;od devoted to work. md thls, be it re-
mcmbercd. is not merely during the busy
season, as at the west ead, but tie year
roand, from January 10 December; for you
must understand thai at the establishment
10 which I refer, the greater part the sew
ing is given cut to shoP-workers in the
/ busy season-and all that is done indoors
/ is the original cutting out and ultimate fit
ting together of the seperate parts; but
when the slack season comes there is al
wavs as much sewing reserved as will keep
the girls employed up to the full pitch, so
that there IS in fact 10 slack" season at
/ all for them.
Aad yet fer this continued and unre-
lcuting pressure Of eixteen hours per day,
1 from years end to years end, this firm as
sumo to themselves the greatest possible
credit They thank God that they are not
as other firms are at the west end-oppres-
sors and destroyers of young women
I They never-not even for a few weeks in
/ the busy season-make their people sit up
till three or four in the morning. Oh, no!
their gas is always turned off in the work
room by eleven O'Clock. Why, sir, the
west end system, with its few weeks of Sc
verify, followed as 1t is by months Of COM
parative leisure, is mercy itself wnen view
ed alongside Of unmitigated, -'neyor end
| ing, still beginning slavery to which | am
/ referring.
The only day Of leisure which the
! girls Of this establishment have IS Sunday.
From Monday morning to Saturday night
they are complete prisoners as any at New
gate. They know not whether the sun
e1loI,J u, - -, tI, +i,@sLLaI4
,,,,~oIosa - r. 49, - ns-- o-.,-.,,
lar tbamsaIIas anJ ,1,,st s,,r,1oy iJa;r
friends outsfae 10 do t}7z for them,
..Nor is the accommodation indoors sucb
as in any way TO reconcile them to this
close confinement. The work room, in
which +nn or tvcIva If thero are anrIorod
i onIv ahout - foat eanaro a1d i enfira.
" IaroiI or sr,,ar,,o,,,e.-t, r,r ,.o,,t,7.t;or,
wbisb is tbe more f. be denlrrod as dnrinq,
the evening thew have 10 encounter tbe
baot and fG,,I p;r of +lroo famine oos b,,r,,
o,.e o1-or tls-r Ids go Go,@ al ,r;n-
dov heinz STINT ~ yvI;cb = lraat6 of n-1ra
air n,ioht noss;brv enter The bo1-rlo,ns
ero oo7,aIIt ,,ncc..,s,,,ts n. M So tI.,n
Siv rarsons hs;ro l-5si.5 into ona and
! forr into ano.Iat',
L is imnossibl, to c3n}an7Iatc tba oon-
dition Of this class Of wor r,L-Tomen (as dis
closed bv the facts oueted.1 without l-s,n-
! L. srmnatbizino With i aal 0,;shinc that
! something might be done to nitrate its
evils and miserv.
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New i~-ineEal Discoveries IN California.
a recent number Of the San Francisco
Alta California furnishes accounts Of new
and extraordinary rich vines Of gold and
silver ore that have lately been brought to
| light on the eastern slope Of the Sierra
Nevada range. Mines that bid fair to
equal if not surpass anything known in
| the history Of California, are now being
| opened in Nariposa aud Tulare counties,
in the southeastern section Of the State
In the Coso district, in the eastern portion
of Tulare county, the gold and silver ores
have been asSayed at the rate of S1500
TO $4,000 per ton, from pieces ehipped off
/ from the Weather-WCTn out-cr0Tpings, with
/ slelge-hammers, crow-bars, &c. But az if
/ this we're not enough to excite the cupidity
of luore-loving humanity, startling dis
coTery Of gold and silver bearing antimo-
/ NAL ore has recently been made, specimens
Of which have been assayed at San Fran
cisco and yielded the astonishing amount
OF more that sixteen thousand d0jt0TS 10 the
ton. This extraordinary dead IS IN the
/ hands OF parties who, naturally enough,
/ do nor court publicity in regard to the 10
/ caIty OF Their splendid prize.
! Besides these dazzling discoveries, the
Mono Lake district, which is located at the
junction OF Calayeras, AariEosa and Fresno