The New York herald., 1851-08-05

to death; James d. Fortune succeeded in getting
out Of the window, but died few hours after; f.
N Pollock, as also stranger named Hades
shared the melancholy fate Of Mr.. Fortune. James
Thorp, who was violently bruised and much harm j
cd, is not expected to survive. Mr.. Sypes, and
stranger, name not known, who were also in the
room, are the only ones that are expected to re-
cover.
Meeting OF the Licensed FOrwarders, Run.
ners, and Emigrant Boarding Hou'ckceP-
On Saturday evening last, preliminary meeting
was convened at the Broad street House, by the
forwarders, runners, and emigrant boarding house,
keepers of New York. for the purpose of considering
the necessary steps to be taken to counteract the
proceedings of the Commissioners of Emigration,
and to form themselves into association for the
purpose of self defence.
Mr.. FREDERIC SMITH having been called to the
chair, briefly stated the objects of the meeting
He was pleased to see so many Of his fellow workers
meet to denounce persecution; and panied that, in
the nineteenth century, in this country, it should
be necessary to do So. No country more loudly
vaunted of its individual liberties than this and yet
We have often reason to be ashamed Of the CALLING
prosecutions it witnesses. Here are we, in numbers
upward of five hundred men, paying licence each
Of $40, and giving heavy bonds for good moral
conduct-that is, we pay annually to the city
Golfers $4,000, and give very heavy bonds for good
moral conduct, to the amount Of $loo OOo-and yet,
because the Commissioners of Emigration are in
terested in the stock of the Erie Railroad, they
must endeavor to trample upon us, to the detri-
ment, also, of all other lines of travel under pre-
tence of protecting the emigrant." Protection,
indeed Such protection as vultures give to lambs,
plundering and deveuring them. Most OF these
Erie Railroad stockholders are also parties to
charging the poor emigrant at least one hundred
per cent higher than legitimate profit for his tran
sit from Europe to America; and in their greed,
desire to monopolize the exclusive right OF his
conveyance in this country by misrepresenting us,
and all the other modes Of travel. He the chair
man, for one, was determined to resist such inter-
ference; and he called upon the meeting to take
steps to obtain the best legal and other advice, to
collect fund for rendering assistance to the perse
cuted, and to assist in forming more enlightened
and just public opinion, well as to record all ar
bitrary proceedings against them by crafty capi-
talists and bullying monopolists
The following resolutions were carried
sociation, to be called "The Licensed Forwarders,
Runners and Boarding Housekeepers' Mutual Pro-
lection and Benevolent Society"
I'd. That this society do now elect President,
Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer.
3D. That in consideration of the public and press
being sadly msinformed in relation to the true posi-
tion of the "runner to the emigrant, we present
for their consideration these facts Instead OF the
"runners" oyercharging the emigrants, as menda-
ciousy asserted by the interested stockholders of the
Erie Railroad, the "runners" are necessarily, by
their numbers, and the law of competition, obliged
to reduce their prices down to the lowest point OF
subsistence whereas, the present aim Of official
interference has for its object the destruction OF
competition, and the transferment Of the emigrant
into the hands of monopoly Of capitalists, with
whom he will have neither choice in the selection Of
routes, nor redress from insult and injury, rs expe
riencc has rendered it proverb, that monopoles
much more the masters thin The servants OF the
people, and for these, and similar reasons, we re-
quest the press to correct the Misrepresentation OF
ignorance, and 70 unmask the jesuitry Of an over
bearing monopoly
4th. That thi. meeting, being desirous of setting
the public and authorities of this city right as to
the real views and actions of the licensed forward
ers, runners, and emigrant boarding house keepers,
have convened this meeting to express publicly
their determination TO uphold the la VS. of The United
States faithfully and particularly, by due obser-
Of its statutes, connected with the forward
ing ofemigan.s and also TO press their regret that
the Commissioners of Emigration should have issued
circular SO reple.e with errors and calculated to
defeat the object it processes to uphold, namely,
protection TO the eInigrant."
9th. That in the professions of forwar1ers,
runners, and emigrant boarding-house keepers,
there is n vast number of persons employed, and
many families supported but by the recent uncalled
for, and unprecedentedy unfair, interference OF tho
Commissioner Of Emigration, all these individuals
will be totally unable To follow their business, and
thus occasion much collective and individual dis
tress and call upon the public and press for that
sympathy and aid which the perEecuted never fail
to receive from an American public against official
tyranny.
9th. That this society deems Il palpaby absurd,
and unscrupulously unfair, first to exact go for
license to legal calling, long since ackno vedged
TO be great public reccssi.y, and afterwards to
take steps to render that license non-efective and
that calling degrading, by sabjecting it to uncon-
stitutionai and vexatcus interferences, under the
pretence Of "prOtection TO the emigrant," but too
evidently TO entrap these emigrants inso the hands
Of the Ere Railroad pets for party paargoies
ton are prating about the protection Of emigrants,
they are nulfyng the law. and deceiying both the
emigrant and the public, by causing police officers
to be taken from their paidfor duties TO inveigle
emigrants TO travel by the Erie Railroad, and ac-
cept its odations, they hold its stock. and
thus the public is robbed Of the services for which
policemen are legitimatey employe t-the emigrant
is BAN mboozled and worse treated-hve hundr cd men
who pay au annual city tax Of Sl0 900 are cheated
and insulted, aud the rcpublcenism Of the country
soOrnod and laughed at. The said interested COM
missioncrs arc rerpetrating this high-hand,d out
rage In defiance OF the eighth clause Of the Revised
Statutes, which Fay that" " o person holding Of
fee under the government Of the United st ites, or
that Of this state, If directly indirectly interest
cd, in any way shall solicit custom for any trans
portaon line, under penalty Of not less than one
hundred dollars'-yct these commissioners actually
solicit custcm for their owa line and we, therefore,
invite the cooperation Of all In putting stop to
such interested illesay, and also TO assist as In
ompellirg wealthy monopolists to reduce the fare
Of the emigrant from Europe to America, which
being from to three hundred per cent more than
Is Necessary, is therefore in reality the most crush
ing imposition which the foreign omigraut under.
goes, and for which he most claims protection.
Sth. That the members OF this society pledge
each other not to their influence for any poti-
cal candidate who will not assist US in resisting an
off .ial imposition, which 6lches $4,000 from five
hundred men for licences, and then with unprovoked
miscreancy would turn the current Of our business
into the laps Of o few railroad capitalists. That
we cannot support with our influence any candidate
who will not enieavor TO arrest that b bsrality and
illegalty which would crush our, or any othe,
licensed, legal and moral occupation, for if the
commissioners can harrass, with impunty, our bus-
ness, may they also interfere with ali Others and
thus the sanctuary Of individual freedom be polluted
by tic assumption Of public good, and the uncapi.
talizod community become pasture to feed the
interests Of officials who hold stocks in certain
speculations.
9th. That this meeting a. adjourn TO Tuesday
evening, st tis place. and that we invite the press
OF New ork to attend, and ascertain our griev-
abcts, watch our proceedings, and faithfully report
them FOR the public behoof
The meeting was numero0sly attended, the re So
lutions were carried unanimously, and oaln but