The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-05-07

The STATEN ISLAND FERRY.--On the Let Of
May this ferry was to have been sold at auc-
ton. The sale was postponed, as in April, in
consequence of difficulties thrown in the way
BY the present Ferry Company, which has OBJ
tanned an Injunction against the Comptroller,
forbiddiDg him to sell the clip and fran.
chise. The Injunction was based on the Of
fdavit of Jacob L. Smith, who ewears that
the company have new, good and proper
boats, at all proper hours; that they have
built convenient ferry houses, &c.-together
with other matters equally interesting and en-
pertaining. Shortly after the Injunction was
issued, the counsel for the committee allowed
it to be known that he would receive evidence
in rebuttal Of Smiths affidavit; in about cou.
pie of days, over one hundred gentlemen called
upon him, and made oath to statements contra
dieting that Of Smith in almost evtry particu-
lar. 1t was hoped that with these, the injuuc-
ton might have been dissolved in time for the
ferry to be sold on the first; but the glorious
delays Of the law have frustrated this expecta-
ton. No resource has been left for the com.
mittee entrusted with the ferry matter but to
meet the Ferry Company with their owl arms
and to apply for an injunction to restrain them
from using the ferry until the litigation
between them and the city shall have
been brought to a close. The injunc-
ton was applied for last week, on the
affidavit Of some fifty leading Staten Islanders,
and, unless cause is shown to the contrary, it
will be granted on Monday next No appre-
hor no fol- nv
Staten Island lest their communication with
the city should be cut off. Arrangements have
already been made for temporary steamers to
run in the place of the present line while the
litigation is pending should the Injunction he
granted, there will not be any interruption OF
the regular communication between the island
and the city.
The committee have been driven to this mea
cure by the mode of warfare adopted by the
company. 1t is understood that in the hands
Of good lawyer an Injunction case may be
made to last several months, during which
time the lives Of parties using the boats
are daily endangered and the stipulations of
the lease openly evaded. Probably, when the
company discover that the claws delays may
be made to cut both ways, and they are cut of
from their weekly profit of thousand or so,
they will come to terms and agree to let the
case be decided on its own merits This is all
that the public desire.
1t may be mentioned in this connection
that the Journal Of Commerce was deceived
when it stated that by the 26th April oil the
boats of the line would be provided with life
saving apparatus. On board some Of the
boats there are a few wooden benches, with
box seats, in which there may be anything or
nothing, for oil the public know; if these boxes
contain buoyant material they might alto
gether sustain fifty or sixty people; that is to
cay one-tenth Of the number that is carried on
fine afternoons in this weather. But of proper
life-saving seats--hour-g glass stools--such as
other steamers have, there is not one belonging
to the line.