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devoted to their class, contain live hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants—being eight families to a house, besides those who live in stable lofts and attics. Some of the large tenement houses, contain a population of eight hundred. In the fourth ward, two hundred and ninety thousand persons live on a square mile. The mortality of this horrid mode of existence, is twice the rate as in Liverpool, where the heaviest pressure of population, is one hundred and thirty eight thousand to the square mile. Many of these tenements have no rooms sufficiently lighted, to permit sewing on a cloudy day, without the aid of candles. The size of these rooms, in which whole families are stowed, are generally eight by ten, or at the outside, ten by twelve. These, as the Report says, are now overflowing, and still, there is a demand for holes to creep into. We forbear any further recital of these horrors, which if read in the history of Pekin or Canton, or of Pagan Rome, would seem incredible. But here they are but a common fact in our daily experience."

While writing this page, my attention has been called to a brief communication in the Pittsburg Evening Leader, signed "A Factory Girl," wherein she criticises certain ecclesiastical bodies, for their proscription of Secret Societies and suggests to them, that if they would find an evil worthy their earnest efforts in reform, to take a walk through the work-shops and factories of Allegheny City, where they will find “"little children ten years of age, toiling twelve hours each day, and not receiving pay sufficient to keep them in shoes."

How much better is a system like this, than was