The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-06-27

a new and glorious career, whose mission will
be that true reconciliation which will give US
the invaluable boon of a restored Union.-
The nation has already suffered enough; and
it cannot afford to wait another generation in
order that the fires of revenge may be burned
out, in order that by fostering new brood OF
fierce passions, certain politicians may induce
the people to give them power and place
Let the living be reconciled however we may
mourn the dead; and let none forget that II Is
bitter mockery to speak OF preserved OF re-
stored Union, when measures for dismemoef-
ment and the wreck of our best hopes, con-
time to meet our gaze, because she politicians
will haye it So aTn.
Pauperism in England and New York.
From contemporary who has seen the
statistical abstract of the United Kingdom, We
learn that excluding Migrants, for several
years the number receiving relief from the
General Unions and Parishes, under Boards
of Guardians, have varied from 793,s22, in
1928, to 1,142,624 in 1863, or 981,S 800. in
1864 The population in these Parishes, in
1861, Numbering as Unions or Parishes,
from GAO to 655) was 19,s75,000; while
New York, with population of 3,38S,0o0
supported 265,816 at a cost of $l,653, 906
or in other words, the whole population of
England and Wales, in 1868, was 20,079,322,
and the Paupers were ,079, 1888; while New
York, it is known, supported considerably
over quarter of a million, in a population of
| 8, $50, 900, which, of course, gives bad look,
relatively, for New York, as compared with
England and Wales. But then it should be
remembered the great bulk Of our paupers
come from the Old World and that we should
not have them but from this great source Of
supply. 1t is true that we get much good
with some. evil, but it is fair that in making
+ up the account, the evil aud she good should
be counted
But If the palper side has bad numerical
look for U.s. there is nothing in the United
States quite as bad as the following, drawn
from the inquiry and report Of the Parliament
tary Committee tsass tgsIsIsgY q
I'm the English potteres there are now
employed 699 children not over five years
ole, and more than 5000 children between
the ages of five and ten, an aggregate Of
5,9l8 children, of whom 2,917 are girls.
Fifty-fve per cent. only IF these children die
for want Of motherly care" and tile borax,
soda, potash, and carbonate of lea !. used in
daubing the cheap earthen ware, are quite
effective in introducing consumption and
epilepsy among the young workers. There
are only 1900 children in the United King
dom are employed in the unhealthy business
of dipping matches--as machinery for the
business is cheaper, probably, than even chill
dren. In the lace-making business, children
have been found who had been set at work
at the early age of two years to pull out
threads Children of ten, and, in private
houses, of five years, work all night, ''simu-
lated by the cane," and in the coolest weather
sit barefoot SO as to keep the lace clean. The
best workers earn as much as three shillings
and sxpenee week. Seven Thousand chill
dren are in the straw-plait manufactures, and
"this business causes greater misery than lace
making" and there are thousands of children
employed in stook-making, "many of whom
die from mere exhaustion" Children are
FUSED up" in the metal manufactures, and
lads have been worked "for two days and
two nights r~-Anina till they foil dawn u
Those who live through this sort of childhood
grow up ignorant and untaught"
And yet John Bull is shocked at the mall
treatment of the negro in the United States