New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-22

river, crowding as many {. possible into the United
States Receptacle, and scattering the rest along the
banks Of the river into such houses could be pro-
cured And these are small huts-generaTy one story
high, with only single room, from ten to twelve feet
tquare, and into such, a whole family, from FIVE to
twelve or fifteen placed. Many Of these huts are
built of twgs interviewer, and plsstered outside with
common mud. The matched roofs let down any
quantity Of water on their beds, and often they
compelled to change their positions constantly and
bold their umbrellas 70 escape being saturated with
rain. But what the facts in regard TO this United
States Receptacle II is an old, shsbby, rickety
building originally designed for the Pons csptives,
and since used by the Colonization Society for the re-
cepton and NJ months residence Of emigrann IL
is only one story high, with garrett and Is built oil
brick II contains twelve pens below, and four gar
ret apartments These rooms If they deserve such
namel are about six feet by nine, having one small
window without elass, which must be closed during
the rsirs and at night, thus making suitable dun
eeon for a murderer Within these rooms have
seen nothing but an excuse for bedstead made out
Of rough green ssplngs lsshed together with bark or
rope. and stuck up against ons eide OF each stall,
about four feet from the floor. inst visited ths
nlace and saw these stalls, about three weeks after
NV arrival in this country, and remarked to my
fe,ds that if had to stay in them, should surely
.,nsct 10 die. ! saw nothing else in these except
ubs, the emigranis had brought, and upon this bag
,,oe MANY of them had to make their seats Some
81 these stalls contained each whole families
civ N ten and fourteen. DR.. Jacob W. Moore, who
was employed by the agent here, to attend them for
the six months, declared to me that they had no
Mace to keep their provisions except under their
beds and there at any time, you would find their
rat;ons Of salt beef salt pork rotten fish, &C., with
oil the other ipdescrbable necessaries Beside this
there are always some sick persons in bed. This
ferev /, no kuubug. II is stern reality and, Of a
family of sr after two months, they never will find
three successive days that all Of them well short
If Al, or nine months. Thus / maintain that the
host house in town and the best of medei skill and
the hes, of fresh food are nothing too good for an emf
GRANT if he can afford il, while passing through the
ordeal Of acclirnaton But such is the development
of hone in the Afric American 1.-THE Fowlsrs will sus-
tain mel that whatever may be the suffering and
misery be eDdures, as soon as he escapes them he
forpets the past and descants with rapture the ia
ture Who Goes not know how miserable, servile and
DEGRADED is the condition of the free coored people in
Douglass g. Co. preach to these people the certainty
of elevation and social and political equatyin Amer
ion while the Million educated free from their preu
dices. could not come to such conclusions in their
widest dreams Of philosophy. The former would
eomplsh much more good for our race if they would
come over and help us correct the abuses and op-
nression here and make this country wha, it might
be- than by staying there and wasting their energies
in exbaustng efforts, which always avail nothing.
have inst taken the pains TO measure hut one story
high. with one room, and ganet, twelve by sixteen
foo, into which seventeen Of the emigraats of the
Ransbee were placed, and in which they remained
nearly two months till The fever broke out when they
were separated leaving ten in the hut. Another hut
close nv has four persons in ROOM twelve by four
teen feet This is the way they live. We think they
have. in Mr. II. w. Dennis, an honest upright, faith.
full and attentive agent; but there are no better
houses TO be obtained for small rent and he is not
furnished with any money by the Society but is COM
pelled to trade, and twist, and turn many ways to
meet the cash pay mens for the rent, nursing, wash
ing &c. Of the emigrants, or compel the Society's
creditors TO take trade goods and provisions when
they do lot want them. He has the confidence or
Il, Is community and we all think he will do right and
give satisfaction the emgrants to the fall extent
Of the power and means conferred upon him by the
Society. He is perhaps the only man here that does
or ever did give his whole attention to this business
exclusively The emigrants by the LEILA de Cuba ave
pet;tiopsd 10 the Directors of the New York State
Society to send their friends in future to Mr.. Dennis
but il seems to me unfair unless they also give him
an additional small salary. Such man, if he were
white possessing the same qualifications, would
ceive salary Of twelve or fifteen hundred dollars,
while now he receives only six or seven hundred.
ANY man like him can make four times this amount
by trade; and shall be sorry for the poor emigrauts
if they lose him.
No class of men are more needed in this country
than thoroughly educated and skful physicians.
| never have heard Of a country in which life
is SO cheap. But here again is the one man power.
The Society employ regularly but one physician
DR.. Roberts-whose estimate Of poor emigrants
is very small. While he will visit some few of the
reputed wealthy families of Northern emgrants three
times day uncaed, the majority of the rest can get
no attention; and the poor Southern emigrants de-
clare to me that they send and send and send again.
and he will not see them himself once in re or three
weeks, and sometimes in two three months, but he
will send them boy heather native with calosel
OIL and pills. and will doctor them in this way and ii
these do not cure, they must die One poor family,
and the single men Of expedition have been treat
ed in this way. People here generally build houses
by piece-meal, occupying some years in completion.
The Doctors time has been absorbed in building his
house this year. and think some years before Nov,
in these circumstances the Society should have en-
ployed some one to assist him in medical practice
This neglect Of duty is partly owing to the want of
competition and an independent supervision by some
agent or commissioner who is too honest and
brave to be influenced in favor OF wrong by kind
treatment, good wine or splendid dinners have
heard this complaint twice in whispers, in the
States, and hundreds of times here. But peor men
As The mass Of emigrants are they dare not make