New-York daily tribune., 1843-08-26

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receiver is as bad as the thief, ne must 90 IL Oh
his own hook.
Frauds upon Immigrants.
With others, we endeavoTed last .oPf.hg 20 ge'
I'D Society in our City which should nave ior Its
special purpose the prevention and exposure OF
frauds upon the thousands OF Immigrants who
are annually pouring into our City, and the diffu-
sion among them of such information as they
need, without respect to country, sect or party
rhc partial and local Societies already in exist
ence among US have doubtless done much good
,hough they can never do all that is needed. But
one comprehensive, vigllant, universally known
Society, which should vigorously restrain Its
agents from jobbing or money-making IN connec-
tlon with the destination or transporting OF LIN,
migrants but which should place before all VINO
come here the best and fullest information re-
spcctng the advantages OF tbs and that location
and the cost of reaching them respectively
which should make no bargains, favor no llnes'
but simply give information and advice and put
stop to extorton and rascailty, would 9e OF III
| estimsbe benefit to thousands who stand III I'M
m;nent need of it. Yet the public would not take
interest in any movement Of the kind, and, alter
month of perseyerng effort the originators were
compelled to give it up.
Instead of this, a very different sort Of arrange
ment was coddled up, under the auspices OF the
Mayor whereby Mr.. Jonathan ID. Stevenson g.
became the general agent of the Transportation
Companies and the guardian of the rights and
interests of the Immigrants, booking the passen-
rers for the West and North at specified rates.
dividing them among the companies, &c, &c,
for 4 consideration which, we have been informed,
is apportioned between his own needs and those
Of Tammany Hall. OF this, however, we have
no evidence, beyond mere surmsc and assertion.
We consider even this mode of doing the busl-
ness much better at points than the chaos which
antecedently prevailed, in which all manner of
honest men (?) and rascals appointed themselves
passenger agents, and shaved both passengers and
forwarders to the last cent Of their peerless ability
But there must be better way than this.
We have been furnished with number Of afii-
davits, in manuscript and print, setting forth
grievous frauds and extortion on the part of for
warders, and charging them to the " New York
Passage Association" which processes to be the
right thing, and sets forth that "All engagements
of this Association with passengers arc guaran-
teed by bonds in a heavy penalty, held in trust
8 by his Honor the Mayor" One Of these pas
sengers, Mr.. ]. Scovcl, testifes that he paid ten
dollars "a very liberal sum- to a Mr.. ]. Center,
agent of the New-York Passage Association, for
two passages to Buffalo, being promised cabin
passage on the River and Packet passage on
the Canal but he was compelled to pay his own
passage on the New-Jersey to Albany or sleep on
the deck and at Albany he found there was no
packet for him, but a freight-boat; and he could
yet such passages in abundance for 81 50 each.
So he threw up his ten-dollar ticket and went
ahead on his own hook. Mr.. Robert Nicholson
swears that he paid SC Ga large price, for an lm-
migrant Passage to Rochester, but had to pay in
addition his steamboat passage to Albany, and
there found that his ticket was on its face re-
cept for but So IS, and he could have been car.
red from Albany to Rochester for 81 80 with
all ease.
We have other like statements, but these suf.
fee to show that gross abuses still exist. There
is one which we have personally noticed. An i'm
migrant pays his passage to Buffalo or Detroit
bv steamboat and canal-boat,' supposing OF
course that ne is to have passage for human
beings, and not for cattle. But on the steamboat
he finds that his wife and children, as well as
himself, must spend the night on the scarce shell
tered deck lying on boxes or the floor, with per-
sons tramplng over and among them though
they were COWS or swine. This should be re-
formed and we wish the Mayor, whose name
stands at the head of the Associations tickets as
a guarantee for the good conduct OF iorwarders,
would see fit TO look into it.
d" AMOS KENDALL is fully eycul paied from
the imputation resting on him in regard TO the
rotten Northampton Bank. 1t appears that the
note for $1,000 reported by the Investigating
Committee as Amos Kendall, $1,000, is merely
di aft drawn on Kendall by Rice, the Presidcn,
of the Bank and Mail Contractor but not ac.
cepted by Kendall. Ofcourse, 1t IS mere sham
of Rice's to cover part of his own defalcauon.
IT Hon. WILLIAM SLADE, who was nominated
for Congress by number of the Wings of the
lid District, Vermont, in opposition TO Mr..
Marsh, the regular Wing candidate, has honor
ably declined the nomination.
u The Columbia Tenn Observer says that
the Locos in that vicinity claw off from Van Bu.
rem since the Election, and are coming out for
Gen. CAss for President