Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1838-01-17

quality of her voice her sound and excellent musical
knowledge
Matthews a, Mentor was respectable; Mentor is a
respectable gentleman, and therefore Matthews was
good, being respectable. w II. Williams as Alexis
Pyon had an ungrateful part-a London cockney met
amorphosed into Greek Of the olden time; he made
the of it, but cond save it, in one very unInean-
ing and tedious scene, which hope VIII be cut out,
from Kisses. ]. Wallack, Jr played the devil and
played the devil with himself AND his part His sword
of fire. and the heat becoming intolerable, he
compelled drop il and beat precipitate retreat
much to the surprise Of The audience who seemed de
lighted, however, at the idea OF devils burning his
fingers Master Tiiss as orooo, an island spirit had
chiefly tickle the calf Of Alexis Pylon and TO be kick
ed for his pains did the wit of the charac
ter; it was above our comprehension Mrs Rogers as
Eucharia looked pretty and Miss herr as Lesbia APP
peared 10 greater advantage than have before
seen her: She is second in Rome but Queen in Crete
In conclusion, the sceAery and dresses truly
splendid and if the piece is abridged it must have
COED rur as two act piece
EMiGRAST AGESTs-A ROGUE BROUGHT To BOOK
The infamous system of plumber and deception made
use Of by agents. to induce persons to take passage ia
ships from England to this country has been before
ticed byus To show how the system works, we give
police report taken from the Liverpool Standard in re-
lation 10 emigration.
CHARGE AGAINST AN EMIGRATION AGENT.-At the
police Court Tuesday, Mr.. Jones' clerk to Lieuen-
ant Lowe, the agent appointed by government Tor the
against Mr. Salmon passenger agent tor having broken
his agreement with two emigrants from Ireland after
having received their passage money Mr.. jones said
that the complanans had taken their passage in the
Roger Sherman for New Orleans from the defendant
The agreement was that they be taken for fS
free of all expenses Next day when going board,
their luggage stopped the pier head for porterage
the consequence Of which that they lost their pas
sage. There other ship going to New Orleans.
and il was strongly suspected that Mr. Salmon
intended TO fulfil the arrangement James Kennedy.
nanyth a.
the semnboa, which brought them from Ireland, and
took them Mr. SamoBs Office who said he could get
passage for them. He offered 10 take them for IA
los each but ultimately agreed take him and his
panion for Is, free Of expenses" New Orleans
This was expressed on the ticket given them by Mr..
Mr. Salmon and they TO have gone board the
Roger Sherman Saturday.
On Saturday, when they went according TO agreement
to call on MI Salmon be put board, they had
Their ticket given them instead Of the they had pre-
viousy received and which had the words free of
all expenses on it and they thought they could 60
on board unless they gave up the first ticket The
man told them what he did was by Mr.. Salmon's
ders. Their luggage stopped the quay for por
terage, U.s. which they refused pay, contrary
agreement, and the boat went off without them
Mr.. Hall asked Mr.. Davenport, who appeared for
Mr. Salmon what he had TO after hearing that
ment. John Farren, tie second passenger confirmed
the statement OF Kennedy. Mr.. Davenport said that
the complalRants had not given statement
The agreement did include porterage. 1t was the
usual practice for passengers pay that Mr.. Salmon
had furnished carl, and taken the luggage his of
fce; after that he had nothing 10 do with IL Mr. Da
venport then called man named Maclntyre, who sta
ted that he in Mr.. Sanons office the time the
complsnanis came in, on Friday afternoon. Mr.. Sal
mon ordered him to write a copy Of The ticket The
copy was here produced and Mr. Hall asked for the
original He said il had been DESTROYED after il had
been entered in book. This their practice in
der TO prevent confusion, fren the mixture Of Mr. Sal
mons notes. and those Of the charterers Messrs Sher
lock. The answers of this witness confused
and unsatisfactory that it difficult collect his
meaning; and MIR. Hall said he would put il to MIR.
Davenport whether he would proceed fsrther in the
case-hs client deeper in the mire than Mr..
Davenport put further questions the witness,
and then called another man named Duffy. who mere
y stated what Salnons practice with reference
copying the tickets into his book
Mr.. Hall said that his evidence good for nothing
in OF law, and would satisfy any body how the
case was was regular juggle, cheating out of
their money One fthese things must be doRe-ether
the money must be returned TO the and some
pensaoa for the time they had been here they
lose time in being America without any adj
ditional expense. He would give Mr.. Salmon the al.
tentative.
Mr.. Salmon" If you saw the case Mr.. Hall"
Mr.. Hail." 60 entirely by evidence. The evidence
is all against YOU And tell you there is another
which shall adopt which may press in another way
Mr.. Salmon.
Mr.. Salmon.-You me before in your life,
and now st before you innocent the child un.
born The parties then left the court.
We have since heard that Mr.. Salmon refuses to
will appeal 10 higher Court. We would beg to call
the attention Of the emigration committee Of the town
council to this class of cases with view obtain some
tangible Legislative enactment the subject Il is time
that this wholesale and heartless pundering which Mr.
Hall well termed regular juggle cheat men" out
Of their Pittsnce Of money should be put stop to- and
the parties who practice it punished.
This only part Of the villany practsedbut shows
TO what lengths these agents will go for the pary
mission they get for their dirty work. There have
been may similar to the quoted-but carried
out further-in which poor individuals have actually
been shipped and only found out, after the vessel has
sailed when they have made provision for their voy.
age, that they have been trepanned and thrown upon
the compassion Of their fellow voyagers for their sup
portfor that maintenance, which they imagined they
had paid for. We heartily hope that all scoandres en-
gagged in such neareus business will be held up to con-
dign punishment. and TO public execraton.
Ny DEAR Mr.. BENNETT,
Excuse my calling YOU,
my Deqr bat cannot help it, The fact u.s. yeur little
paper is MY Dear" to me; and paper Is the edi.
tors soul in print, therefore you be one Of my
dears Don't you think that logic Mr.. b The cause
ofmy writing you, the sympathy have for the poor
Bachelors how they suffer with cold these long
winter nights. The poor fellows, the poor fellows they
can't get married Of the hard times and they
must certainly all Of them be very low spirited. Now
my Dear Mr.. b. you recommend the poor Eel.
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