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The Inequalities of Tor tune arc strongly illustrated in the following paragraph from the English correspondence of the New York Evening Post :The recent •‘drawing-room’’ at which Wales ai)d wife represented to Queen, was the first held since the death of Pfince Albert, and one of tlie most Inilliant known ; hut there was a fearful skeleton at the least, and the elegant ladies there have been startled to find blood upon their garments. A sewing girl, employed by one of the fashionable dressmakers, was killed by overwork 011 dresses ordered for that very drawingroom. 'I he papers took up the matter, and the revelation in the Mary Ann Walkley case—with which your readers are probably familiar—have created a wide-spread excitement. The whole London season of 1803 has been overdone. It ha3 been more awfully in* congrous than the splendor of Paris last winter. Millions of pounds have been spent in brilliant gaiety and courtly banquets, and yet I beard a Lancashire operative say this very week to a relieving officer: “1 would rath^ throw myself into the canal than to see my children starving slowly to dealli any longer; isn’t it hard to see a child starved to death ?” raising as lie spoke, the sheet which covered the sharp peaked features of a dead,starved little boy.
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Milledgeville Confederate Union
Milledgeville, Georgia, US
Tue, Aug 25, 1863
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