New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-31
COMMISSIONERS OF EMIGRATION

ssd alien pssss bsers Observation-Disclosures. 7Ss
Eusber yirs eitizens %, 20
j.hess 4sl8 citizens aud s.s23 aliens viz 49, o.s
Natives Of Germany "a so2
Natives Of lrelsnd......s. .....'.'.'''''''' ~ S-s
Natives Of Epsiand. SaS57
, ss,. :r, IL 1's5 Ss port Of @ $40 N
Total number Of patients trested IN the Marine nus
visl 1922 being 81 less than IN TIE year po..nt
Total number cared for and treated 70 I"s'""'
Refuge and Hospital, Wards lslasd, 10, ,oa
Total csses ss ut from Park Office TO hosp.ai, ~.
Total Lunatcs, eco; Of whom ~ oiso uuins .L 70
,.ar i0l discharged III remained at the emo oi Inc
There were temporarily relieved in this City, by
TOD money, or other articles, 1870.
Forwarded by the Commission TO vanous PAGES IN
xrd in " hole or in part, 4 ls4
Ssrpphed temporarily with board and lodging in the
~, door poor in the City bu,ed at the expense of
As Comnistion 10 whole or in part ], e32.
Number cent back TO Europe at the charge OF the
connission in whole or in psrt, 44f
Persors supplied with situations at the Intelligence
Ofhce in Canal st.: males, 4,9e5; females, 1896
total Is, 96f. 80
Grand total Of persons relieved or assisted by this
Commi,.ion in the State Of Ne~-York, $3.50.
Number of days spent in Marine Hospital, do. in
Hospital and Refuge, Wards Island, ~ 1881.
Number Of letters written 70 inc Hienos OF iatey-
urived emigrane, ,1l2.
Amount Of money received at the once 10 reply
thereto, IS col "a
TIRE emigration 10 this port lat year was greater
han in an previous year by ,l3l persons the Dext
largest number arrived in the year $50. Thls IN
crease was occasioDed entirely by the augmented
number of German emgrsnts, being 81 342 Tor about
one.hal more than 1883 and about three times the
average Of preceding years. The number Of emf
grants from Ireland continued 10 decrease, being in
1854 80 soy less than in the year preceding and
el42s nearly oneh sf less than In the remsrksoie
wear of Irish emigration 1851 The emigration from
he other countries OF Europe has also increased, but
not in any large proportion except that from Swtzer
land which hes risen from Ga in 1888 TO o,s53 IN
le54 The number Of patients affected with cont+
eous or infectious diseases, and treated for the sane
o. the Marine Hospital was ten per cent greater thsn
In 1853.
Amount of money received at the office Of the Irish
Fmigrant Society, from friends Of recently arrived
smigrsnts and applied to the forVsrding of emgrants
tfargesble TO the Commission, sl2 $50 90
Amounts Of money which have been received atthe
,aHce nj The German Society. applied solely 10 the
ysltf OF immigrants who would have been otherwise
ehsrpeable 10 the Commission SIG 9l7 20.
The number Of persons for whom places OF perma
nept employment III the city aud country were pro
cuYed was $40 less than during the past yesr; this
- caused by the veXstiJ Jus interruption OF the du
ties of Office by Injunction which closed 1t for the
two frt weeks in May, the most important period IN
The year for the purpose. The 10 anctOn was then
dissolved Had the operation Of this part OF the es
fsblsbuent not been thus suspended, the number go
proyioed for would probably have exceeded that OF
isst year By more than thousand:
The moneys received from friends OF the emgrsnts,
for Their use were applied to the expenses Of sending
the IN from this port to the several places of Their u
mate destination under the protection OF the agents
of this Conisson i'll THE City and Albany, aud along
the lines Of Internal communication When the seve-
raj sums were ecu TO the whole expense the
mainder was advanced by the Commissioners, upon
satisfactory proof that the party was otherwise unaoe
to make up the deficiency.
The experience OF another year again confirms the
opinion heretofore expressed in preceding reports,
that no pert Of the arrangements OF this Commission
has been of more practical value than those now ln
the sixth year Of successful operaoD for al ing emil
1. 800 lar nal v.a labor
or places o. employ in city country, by wrtog
and receiving letters for the uneducaed or those r.
norsnt Of our language by proviOng those entireiy
destitute Of the of convey 20 distant places
wb.re they had friends or the means OF support Of
fered 10 them apd1n numerous other ways assisting
and protecting the newly arrived stranger
During the gre alter part Of the year. there was COM
paratively little demand or necessity for temporary
out door assistance in the City but the severity WITH
which the winter set in at an early period when the
CITY was filed with immigrants just landed, pro-
duced many claims Of this nature during the as SIX
weeks of the year 1854 which could MOI Do re)sc'eu
The bestowing Of such relief is open to continual
abuse from imposition, and even where there Is no
ground TO suspect Intentional deception subject TO
the general objection Of fostering habits Of relying
upon pub ic private charity Tor support, 10 the
NEGLECT Of industry and economy. fetn severely in
element sessons and in times like the present, wnen
the ordinary demands for labor are suddenly olmln-
isbed many cases will occur which neither hu nahiy
nor Justice can suffer to be left unsded and wnl'h
may be aided with more economy, and Win better
effect on Themselves, in other modes thah oy senuHB
them TO a Refuge or Aims. House Such nave oeeh
aided by small allowances of various kinds, ana oy
Temporary provision for lodging destitute emigrans
for night or In cases of urgent distress l5rge,
aid has been given, and many such are visited ana
prescribed for their homes by the physician OF inc
Office. The whole number OF families thus assi''eo
in 1854, was -. e,,;
The winter has thus far proved very untavoraoe IN
this spec and the expenditure so caused mss afa"n
heavily on the funds Of the Commissioners. ciHce
the let of January ii has been iouho 10 dp
non an. csl searied visitors for the WINTER 10 pre-
vent imDositiop and secure efcacious and econo-
mcal an application of the means OF relief as pos.ioe
II ia hoped and trusted that this state OF things WI" DC
Of TO long duration. ..,.,
Maid commutation money since the organization OF
his Comm ission in May, ls47, to 3lsI December,
1854 is 929 1856, of whom 5ls GAS arrived curing TUG
6rst three years OF its operations aad tne Survivors
Of them are by law no longer entitled 70 us oeneuse
man. nj removals TO distant States or Territories SIM
the compsri,o ON Of the probable number remaining
and entitled to the aid of this fund with the nun,
hers actually having recourse 10 lis assistance, win
chow how large proportion Oh tne mnole mss zen I
able TO place themselves above the necessity oil puo
Dnrine the year the attention of the Commissioners
has been repeatedly called. through the vigilance OF
their ofhcer 10 the fact OF oaTcoes 81 hepless ana
broken. down psupers having been shipped to tins
mort by the loo a authorities OF the cities or villages
IN Europe upon which they had been a charge. Dc
ossopay too, there appeared sufficient thst
convicts for crimes dangerous 70 soS'7y ma go. ;a
s.pt ont by the Governments or other autao 1ues
abroad IL would be most desirable to return 10 the
own countries all of the latter class and most OF those
Of the former but this direct power Is nor rahtei oy
the exstnc laws of this State, and "a. perhaps, reu
laion of The interc with foreign nations not within
The nee of State legislation ms subject mas
bsep brought becr re the Congress of the United States
where il is trusted that remedy w DO iur9oea 10.
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