Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-06-28


sidering the hundreds of mechanics and
laborers, at present out Of employment.
Several of the public journals OF tins city
have taken up the subject, some OF which
write witha seeming angry feeling, against
all arrivals Of emigrants, and CHASING all
as foreign paupers; we think this rather
unjust, il Is as much the misfortune OF an
industrious mechanic that he should come
here now, as it is Of those at present out of
employment. We have here selected a
few paragraphs which we consider about
as near the point as any we have yet seen.
". y Weekly Messenger.
Emigrants.-We learn that seven hun
dred foreign emigrants were landed at
Hackensack bridge day before yesterday.
They were brought up in lighters under
deck, and until the vessels were alongside
the wharf, nothing was visible to indicate
that any passengers were on board. But
Immediately afterwards they were landed
in a trice and the vessels went of. The
emigrants strewed the road all the way to
Jersey City. We are told that at Amboy
there is much distress among them, as
there are more than can possibly find shell
ter. We think there are two sides 10 this
matter, as to almost all others. There
are q good many poor persons among the
emigrants. no doubt; perhaps some pau
pers helped away 10 get rid Of them
But there are great numbers who bring
some money and good habits and honest
intentions-who come here for purposes
for which they have right to come, and
who actually make good citizens. Among
the thousands who come, the percentage
is very small which gets into the Aims
house Another consideration is, that they
cannot be kept out Of the city. In such
a country as this, it is in vain to attempt
any such thing as the prevention Of per,
sons entering our city. Ifthey will come
they are not less likely 10 require the help
of our charity for being put to extra cx'
pense and made sick by exposure in New
Jersey. The emigrants themselves are
not to blame for breaches Of the quaran
tine. They contract to De landed at New,
York, and after suffering too often from
the frauds Of the shippers, it is quite ar
aggravation Of their suffering TO be landed
at Amboy. Much the greater portion o
these persons make little stay in the city
The streams Of them which set up thu
Hudson and in other directions are, We
presume, at this moment quite equal II
the aggregate TO the current which sets il
upon US. Extra expenses, delays ant
sickness may be attended with ruin t
many industrious families who intend t.
make no stay in New Y ork, and as w
said before, will not certainly furnish an,
security against their falling into our aims
houses. We do not know how the fac
is, but we have heard it stated that the com
mutation money of one dollar head
more than remunerated the city for all 1t
: expenses Of charity to ernigrants. A dol
lar is about as much as can be collected
, and if the duty is put high, say five dol
, lars, or ten dollars, the consequence WI
be that they will all be Struggled in. an
! no duty at all be collected.
The subject is full of difficulty, in " ha
ever light it is contemplated. Our Ain
y House, it is said, is always full to oveI
n fowing-the number Of inmates being u
n wards Of 5000, and the expense at II
j. rate Of over 100000 a year.-Jorr Can
81 FoRE1eN PAUPERs-We publish b.
D low a communication from an evenIn
g paper in relation to recent arrival fro
Aberdeen-the British ship Arkwrigh
n with l64 passengers, who have broug
e with them something besides their own il
n dustry. The respectable writer, WI
signs himself an Aberdonian, states We
- ba1ly in addition, that those emigran
brought over large quantity Of gold
one Of them to the amount Of eight tho
% sand dollars. The most sweeping exai
q gerations have been put forth on the su
\. iect Of foreign pauperism. There arrive
:, at this port in 1886 more than sixty tho
~ sand emigrants, yet ali the foreign PauPe
u admitted during that time into our aim
-, house, collected from the imPortatlons
~ the last half century do not amount to
~ thousand.-N Y. Ere, Post.
in From the Commercial Advertiser.
"a Messrs. Editors-In such a time
re, excitement in regard TO emigrants arr
,r- ing at this port, should take it kind
ad you will publish the following fact, 1t
ne ing, believe, very great contrast
y most of the present arrivals at New 1oI
no. In your paper of Thursday, you give
% your list Of arrivals the British ship Al
- wright, Aberdeen, (Scotland) with Is CT
- in and LAG Storage passengers. Atpr
e5 ent the papers Of this city class all SUI
he arrivals as foreign paupers, coming TO
81. the poor house Of New York. Now
II. can, from the best authority, inform y
De that Of the above l64 passengers, tn.
are not ten of the number now rema1nI
in New York.-,he greater proportion
'ed them being farmers; sixty-six were des'
the ed for one township in Ohio, nearly TO
ay' for Upper Canada, part for the inlerIo,
or this state, and part for the far west. !