New-York daily tribune., 1843-04-03
Immigrant Associatlons.

Within the past winter, Society has been formed
in Boston and anothar in Albany to furnish advice
and information to all Immigrants arriving from
Foreign Countries, and to aid them in procuring
suitable employment or direct them to that part
Of the Country where they will be most certain of
employment, or where they may most advisably
settls and commence for thems elves. These Soci-
cites are composed Of the most eminent and phi
lanthropic citizens without distinction of creed or
party, and we calculated to do great good in
quarter where it is imperatvely needed. But every
consideration which urged the formation of such
Societies in Albany and Boston applies with ten
fold force to this City. This is the port at which
most Of the immigrants are landed here are the
swarms Of d.pirates, who, in the guise ct trans
nertation agents, runners forward ers, &c. to say
nothing of shop boarding g-houses anel still vier
haunts, succeed in robbing the poor immigrant Of
ten of his long .hoarded gold, and set him adrift
obtain neither subsistence nor redress. These
frauds must be counteracted and exposed the i'm
migrant must be protected from imposition and di-
rectcd, as expedi.iously and cheaply as possible,
TO that part of the Country where his capacities and
skill may be made most effective for his own bene-
fit. So IN lch i. due to Humanity and Good Poli-
cy it is due also to our City, whose labor is
depressed and its burdens, voluntary and ether
wise, seriously increased by the accumulation here
of immigrants who can find here work in their
several callings and who eager to do any thing
at anv price which will afford them a subsistence.
Itis high time that the Benevolence and the Intel
lieence of our City were combined and made eff
cient in their behalf.
We have several excellen Societies in our city
but they are partial in their character and
answer the great end proposed. What is mainly
wanted is one great Intelligence Office for lmmi-
grants, centrally and conspicuousy located, where
each may obtain reliable information of the respec-
tive advantages offered him by every section of our
country, with explicit directions for reaching any
place he may choose, and the best means of con-
veyance on the very lowest terms. Here all in
formation would instantly centre; most in,el-
gent, upright and devoted Secretary or Actuary
should be constantly in attendance, affsrding all
desirable information free of cost except to those
who chose to pay for it. With such an organlza-
,ion our Irish, German, and other Benevolent
Societies would doubtless rejoice to cooperate; TO
its funds our honest Emigraat Shippers and For
warders would gladly contribute, and extend to it
every aid in their power.
An informal meeting to consider the propriety
of organizing such Society was held at the
Mayors Office on Saturday, and adjourned to
Wednesday evening at o'clock, when genslene
favorable TO the object are invited to attend and
aid the project by their advice and cooperation.
70 Hon. SAMUEL McRoBERTs, U. S. Senator
from Illinois, died in Cincinnati on Monday last,
aged about 40 years. He took cold in crossing the
Mountains on his way home from Washington, and
became SO i'll that he was obliged to stop at Gin
cinnati, where he languished and died.-His sue
cessor will be appointed by Gov. Ford-Loco-Foco,
of eou rse.
~ w. E. ROBINSON, Esq, OF New-Haven,
CT, lectures this evening in that city on the Irish
Female Charscter, % exhibited in History, Poetry
and every day lie.
~ Mr. E. II. CoLToS delivers bis third Lee
lurc this evening, at the University Chapel. The
subject is the Frcnch War, embracing the career
of Pontiac ana Life Of Tecumseh.