The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-04-05


City Intelligence.
TIFF COMMISSIONERS OF EMIGRATION, AND THEIR EN-
rfo.EFs-A NEW METHOD OF GETTING RID OF THE
EalGgASrs
1t seems the paternd Commissioners of Emigration
have hit upon plan getting of the emgrants
aad saving themselves the trouble of providing for them
They their employees afhdayts of yagrancy
against them and have thorn committed to Blsckwells
Innd Within the last few days three emigrant have
been 80 disposed Of who Migrants. in the
legal any other Of the term than the Commits
sioners themselves One of them young girl named
Hsnion, and the other respectable young who
waiting for money from his father to take him into the
interior II done at the Office in Canal
1t is stated that the Commissioners are net done with
ths business and that legal proceedings will taken
for false imprisonment. The poor people have been
crodtiy informed, beaten and kicked both in the
once in the Park and in Canal street even women
subjected to this treatment We have heard of
of q woman (who pregnant) being kicked and
- huh money being given her when il found she
was going to make complaint to the newspapers.
The general agent in the Park has compelled to ten
der hi resignation to the Commissioners Emigration
o. rather 10 committee Of three Of the Board who
81 friends This step was by
the fact Of the leading members of the legislature when
they down here utterly refusing to pass laws which
the Commissioner want 20 have passed TIN they dismissed
the general agent Dr. Griscom The committee the
Board Of Commissioners hold the resignation and will
not subn,it it 20 the Board TN they what Les-
"a
viii be restored TO Office and If they should pass he
viii surely he restored and his resignation will be handed
back TO him so that he II douty armed We have also heard
that there intention Of obolishng the office
~ the session Of the Legislature j. and creating
another one. 70 which DIR. Griseom is to he appointed
But this intended TO he kept profound and
IL only the light for the first time in this
paragraph. II Il stated that the Warden Wards
leland l. also in trouble. II the enormous
expenditure in proportion to the inmates each costing
more than double as much a. each 81 the IN.
mates a. the Amshouse, who AT least we'll
taken a. Affairs the island all dsorganized
and the Legislature much disgustsd at the whole
concern that they hurried rapidly away from " on their
recent visit ON Staten Island Sidney Doane the Health
omeer, a woody head, and Dr. stewart the Resident
physician of the Marine Hospital. silver grey
loeyerh, ads. and carrying - before the Board
OF Commissioner and into the Legislature In both
bodies they have their respective hackers How the
contest will end remains TO b. seen So much for
the beautiful regime a the Commissioners Emigration
PETITION numerousiy signed has been sent - Albany
TO sbolsh the present commission and to give the people
the power q eiectng commissioners to Office just in
the case q the head II city departments This If
acted might perhaps the evil-perhaps not IL
sppesr to b. very general opinion that the all
the confusion and misrue is the appointment Of the
Commissioner, their agents aud employees for political
and paTtizan considerations and from any regard to
their qualifications and fitness for Office.
TIA MuRprR CAsT ~ ErGHrrFNTu Srarrr.-The Co
foncr yesterday concluded the inquest the body Of
Michael Mcmahon. sged 10 years, born in Ireland who
came % hi. death Ina consequence ~ blow inflicted by
Timothy Clas cey with some instrument while in a dis
tartsncc on sunday evening the sd Il March which
fraeturrd the skull Two witnesses, George 4 Pfstcr
the blow which fcd Mcmahon 10 the ground who wa.
picked W and conveyed home TO No y West Eighteenth
rtrc, whore he fingered insensle for several days and
expired The jury returned the following verdict
That the deceased to his death by blow inflicted
by one Timothy Clancy. the afternoon n the 23l
March ls5l. At the corner Il Seventh avenue aud
Eighteenth street, said blow eausing Of the
skull Clancy arrested al the time. but .ub~e
qucbtiy liberated from custody Ilc has yet been
arrested again and Il Is said he has m the city and gone
tosfa
SAP CArssrnorHr-As OLp sSp MroH ESTEEMED Crrr
zss kIiSD-THg Eryer Ftnious Dnrv~6.-hs Mr.
Jehn Brnbley q the oldest residents Il The city
yesterday crossing Pike rect at East broadway he
knccktd down BY horsr driven a. full speed 6y Ger.
nan Several persons who the accident fastened
the assistance q the odd gentls lie carried
INTO store near by where H. llsi In few minutes aftpr
he ed catastrophe Many besida the immediate rela-
dves q the decreased will hsvc occnsun 10 lament his
o. lie retired from business about twenty year ago.
md has, since that time. devoted much a hi time
making those around him comfortable Ills custom
otske walk through the ward in which h. lived every
knsw him waited his aIprtaeh pas. the cmtdirneuts
q the dsy With him The beggar- 90 knew HIM perfectly
ves and msde sure Il addition 10 their gains
they him approach. Their are In the
Seventh ward several Posr persons who have lived
his bounty for year, past among these old blind
vtnhn ~ whose nsecs+tous condition he became In
formed BY chance ~ hrst he aided her by occasional
depstion until finally b. as-u,n- the responsibility ~
seeing thst he was Kept fum want ie ~as the almncr
II hi- Own ehsrss. making personal Investigations
whom be vas sbuut to bostow any con.idrsbe ampunt
Ie exact IN busiuers. making sttaInents always
balance o. fraction, but, While with hand h. took
the lat pcnny in bu-iness matter with the other he
distributed the whole pr0ht q The transaction Ia ehar
ties Everybody in the ward knew him and everybody
that knew him loved him. Mr. rs fortune not large
when he first retired from bu-intss but his nv.-
judicourly made hs property increased IN
vslue-snd AZ hi demise amounted to quite fortune
notwithstanding his lbcrslics The deceased was =
relative q Weir the artist
Aarp LApr Res Oyrn.-Ycstrrlsv forenoon nm AGED
lady run the ~ Broadway aud Canal
street ny horsc and cart and considerably hurt
A~orHyR AccrrnEr "A small boy named Michael Car.
roll over In jackson street by one 81 Chisuns
tru X and severely injured c was taken 70 his house
IA 1hsuy street, near Jackson.
y 7, srsend and Carter arrested ny the Nine
tesnh ward police. charge q furious driving they
having their h0rc and cart against another horse
driving tho shaft into the body ~ he latter and njuring
him tadiy II octurred in broadway Tenth street
FRt-SusrfCrrp TvcESpisRrsa-At half pat
Oct ~ lat evening fire discovered in the planning
MI IN Twenty -s,venth street. between Tenth and
fsvenih avenues, owned ~ VIM. johnson. The fire.
MN ~ nual were promptly the spot and exiingnish
20 ih' damage Il trfing n i suspected t. ~ the
49, ~ ~ incsndiary - man was coming out
over w. i'ret frtm the mil a few minutes before the
nN w - "ui aud further because there Is considerable
prejudice sgainst the mill
fWL-kest evening Gre took place between Thirty
ninth and Fortieh streets. near second avenue which
destroyed two shsutics.
DAnrrc kSp IsGrviots Acr or Rorrrpv Lat evening
at seven o'clock most ingenious and daring oct a rob
berry perpetrated VI the jcwclry store a welsh 4
Payne. L2Grrtnwch street The entrance ~ the 4torr
y hy folding doors with knobs handles attached "a
ea half yeung lad about ~ u u ar n age came
the door and tied the two knobs together with twipc
10 NJ person opening the door from tho
inside he then went deliberately the window and
eu.asbinQ a. sway with two three watches aul
rtrte a. California gold several - Tie watches ~ tho
winaDw broken Wy the blow The very impulance
~ the set was the means a his escape One ~ the
owners him from the inside. but could a. nothing