The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-06-23

me RESIDENT PHYSICIAN AT STATEN ISLAND has
we have been informed, given great offence, by
conduct, which, if really committed, is certainly
most rePrehensible. He claims, it seems, under
some obsolete requisition, the right of compelling
all passengers from foreign ports to deliver to him
their solled linen and clothes. in order that they
may be washed before the owners land in the city.
He has himself established very extensive wash
house, and charges at the moderate rate of one dol
lar per dozen.
The packet ship koscius arrived at quarantine on
Monday evening last, with number Of cabin pas
| sengers, some OF whom reside in Cincinnati, and
others IN various portions of the interior, and on
landing, were OF course very anxious to proceed
to their respective homes. But the doctor, on
boarding the ship, made them all hand over to him
their dirty clothes TO be washed, and by keeping
them, has put the passengers TO the hardship of
naming nearly a week in the city, at much ex-
pense and serious Inconvenience. One young lady
VINO was returning from a visit to her friends in
Europe, and was very anxious to reach her friends
In Cincinnati, has thus been detained under circum-
stances of peculiar hardships.
fthe Roscius had come from Havana, or New
Orleans, and the yellow fever had been prevalent
there at her departure, this doctor would have had
some show OF excuse for his proceeding. But
coming, as she ship did, directly from Liverpool,
which, at the time of her sailing, was much more
healthy than New York, this proceeding seems
utterly unjuslifabe.
If the facts in this case be really as they have
been stated to us, we have no hestatian in saying
that the proper means of putting an immediate stop
to such conduct should be at once resorted to-
CHEAP LrTKRATURE.-The only species of cheap
literature for which the newsboys appear at present
to find a market, consists of TRANSACTIONS of the
licentious novels of Paul de Kock and others of
that school The publisher of these filthy works is
in fact, the Napoleon OF cheap literature, who is
driving the Harpers and Winchester quite off the
field. We are thus presented with a counter revo-
luton, similar TO that which overwhelmed the
monthly governments of France during the Revo-
luton, and in which bad system uniformly took
the place of one little better. First there
toerably fair-then 1t made way for worse one
II, In Its time, being succeeded by still more in
feror one, until at the last all were swallowed up in
the government, save the mark of the canaile.
Thus with this cheap literature amongst us. First
we had the republication of some good standard
works-then came novels and romances-hen the
productions of such novests as Bulwer-now we
have Paul de Kock-and the next brood will be
that of books which we cannot name.
The news boys find it, we doubt not profitable
traffic. Nice, moral, well-conducted, pure-ninded
men and women, who would not dare to go into a
store to purchase bawdy book, can obtain it very
conveniently at the corner of street, or the en-
trance to an unfrequented alley. Alas the devil
and the flesh seem more omnipotent than ever.
ANOTHER CLASS FROM WEST PolNr.-AnOther
class Qhe third we believe), arrived in town last
evening from West Point, where the examination
has just closed. Most of them stop at Cozzens'
Amencan, and a more wild, harum-scarum set OF
fellows, seldom sees, unless it be in class just
broke loose from college. 1t reminds us of the old
holiday school song
Omne bene
Sine poena
Tempus est ludendi;
VENT bora
Absque
Libros deponendi.