The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-04

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THE WRONGS OF THE WoRK1NGwoMEN.-O day last
week. starving girl caused the arrest of her employer for
refusing pay her for making wooden pantaoon at cents
pair, while he being middle man. received 20 cents
she demanded'wh her just due. The Tribune
menting this suggestive fact tells Like cases. but
perhaps agrantly outrageous of frequent
renee A correspondent calls attention the necessity of
legislation to protect the workingwomen and says "There
thousands of industrious in this city who have
work hard for three dollars weekless than enough
furnish the bare necessares of fe class of middle
and women correspondent continues are persseny
advertising in this city for good operators linen coats and
they pay only from &c. to 12c each, four coats being
average days work. visit the piecepaid factories of
this city, they called would move the heart of even
the stoid There crowded together in ighted badly
ventilated rooms hundreds of these hastarved half
clad less than hapad daughters of toll Although still
young the buoyancy OF youth has departed from their spirits
and the glow of health from their cheeks Sorrow and suf
ng have powed deep burrows into their countenances and
still they forced to toll though the brow be evered and
the frame exhausted This is when business good When
the market full and trade dull the workngwoman is the
first suffer- for then reduction of wages and loss of
work. and the poor girl driven desperation has but
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. life of crime And yet, in the
midst of all this the employers growing immensely rich
While the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty Animals
has secured the laws and caused the penalties
to be visited upon the inhuman wretches that wlfully
careesy nct unnecessary pain upon the helpless BEAST
who will interest himself in the prevention of cruelty to
women and bring down just odum upon their oppressor
The communication closes with: "The fellow who fired his
the other day in order to cheat the Insurance Companies
of $780, 900 and is under arrest had $4,000
worth of property in his life but for years past had been
pracicng every kind of imposition upon his employees and
paid them in full only when compelled by law"
A RELIC "Reminiscences CH1vALRY.-At
Newcastle, Delaware lately took place the semannual
whipping instituted by the law of the State for the punishment
of criminals The first thing entering the Jail yard
prisoner undergoing the punishment of plory Stand
ing platform, which appropriately supported by its
twin reic of barbarsm, the whipping post young
man. well dressed and pleasant looking who had been
yced of forgery His head and hands thrust through
bola tho MIA he hOur and
then taken to his cell for three months of solitary
fnement -Four had stood in the pllory before that
morning The pory have lost its attractions for
spectators and except few children the yard compare
lively empty. AS it understood that the
forger taken down the whipping would commence
crowd gathered composed great variety of elements
At about eleven o'clock the first victim brought out;
he coored boy about eighteen and had been convicted
of assault and battery with intent commit further
rage the person of white girl. He had of ashy
hue induced by ea he naturally expected from the char
of his oense to be severely logged His wrists
fastened the post and could by the workings of
his muscles and his teeth that he had nerved him
self stand the ordeal His sentence thirty lashes and
they were in the language of the law swell laid his
bare back but the involuntary shrinking with each blow
the only sign he gave of pain. The second victim
another coored boy who received twenty ashes for stealing
pair of boots Though you could his muscles working
with the pan he made outcry and off with forced
laugh the Jail. The prisoners nearly all make it point
to give sign of PAIN and far possible they pretend
that they not hurt The next small coored boy,
who had stand block put his hands in the links
He was very fraookng, physically and the Sheriff struck
him very lightly and could not have hurt him much He
received twenty ashes for theft The next two
black man and bright mulato who had been convicted of
stealing corn and received twenty lashes each The last
whose oht coored skin showed the red welts plainly
than did those of darker hue stood itwell the first WINGED
and moaned considerably The next victim was tall coored
man who had been convicted of stealing horse and brde
and sentenced to receive forty ahes He is said to
have previously good character and he pesstenty
asserts that he received the property from another man. not
knowing was stolen. He evidently had nerved himself
for the Punishment but the muscular contraction great
and beads of rolled down his naked body during
the whipping The next victim was white boy, who mao
lashes He stood it WE'LL making no cutlery The next and