New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-11
REMOVAL OF QUARANTINE

A third meeting Of the people Of Staten rsIssl .
favor Of removing the Quarantine was hed Il NJ
Brighton Tuesday evening. VIM. :. Pendks,.
eaa presided Commodore Sioat and Dr. Jo5a
Westervelt, Vice-Prcsidents, and Alexander ]. H.s
ilton esq, Secretary.
George A. Ward, esq, having stated the oho.. =.
the meeting, called up the Hon. Gabriel p n"
way. who, while member of the Legislature. soS..
wears ago. had procured the passage of the law urS
which il is proposed to remove the Quarantine,
Sandy Hook.
Mr. Disosway gave a history of the law and Of A.
NEGOTIATION Of the General Government during t;e.
Trylors admnf tration. He produced the agresns,,
cedipg the ground at Sandy Hook, in Gen. r,yhr,
oun Handwriting At that time 1873 much sscr.
mont existed relative TO the yellow fever at Quasntns
many persons having died Of il in the village AID
Preside Mt Taylor took great interest In It's removal u
SANDY Hook, fearing that ii the epidemic visited the
CITY the General Government would lose algge pan
az The twenty millions year Of revenue collected q
he New-York Custom-flouse. Mr.. Disosway ooa,
cluded by reading the law, and explained, by mals
and drawings the eligibility OF the site al Sandy hcok
Commodore Soat remarked that the site at sandy
Hook was further from New-JeIsey than the prsz;
Quarantine. and that New-Jersey would be benehA
- much az New-Xofk by its removal thlther.
Mr.. Disosway quoted statement OF GEORGE Chs
wold ESQ., the Nestor Of New-fork merchants, that
Considered his ships safer at the Horse Shoe than at tie
n,esent Quarantine anchorage; that he had had ves
ola at tie Horse Shoe ride out gales OF greater
evor,v than those which had driven vessels ashore
he present anchorage.
William Farley Gray, esq, beng called upon, al.
dressed the meeting resIve To the law authorizing ue
Yamoral of Quarantine 20 Sandy Hook, and the gres:
loss which would be inflicted upon New-fork by only
one seasons ravages of the pestience. New-foN nae
become n great financial center. Much OF her recen.
nrosn.r;,v has arisen from the flowing in Of capitl
from all PARTS of the world. Notl ng Is more sensitive
than capital dies insnctiyey from real ~ well ~
imaginary dangers.
Jtbed been estimated that seasons ravages Of ne
,es,epce in the city would intiict upon the merchants
q loss Of eleven millions of dollars. But this wolf
moi he the only oss Twenty millions of dollars adiy
circulated in Wall street alone-that vast amount Of
capital would fly from the pesence to other cilss,
in the case of New Orleans which only few yess ago
YVES rising TO an equality with New-lork, but from the
ravagos of the yellow fever had not been ape 70 mann
tain her position Sc with other cities as Norfolk, Sa-
yannah and Charleston.
On motion of George A. Ward, esq.,, the following
were appointed Committee for New-br ghton 10 con'
fer with other Committees from the Island, New-fo B.
BROOKLYN and New-Jersey, viz: VIM. Farley Gray
Beverly Robinson. jr. Geo. Goddard, VIM. y. Pende
ton. Com Soat, Dr. John S. Westeryelt and AIexan
der j. Hamilton. n
DIR. Anderson called attention 10 the fact that tn
coune of the Health Officer in anchorng infected shi
down the Bay, had undoubtedly been the means o
saving the city and suburbs this year from the pesti
lence. He suggested that the law, which now made >
discretionary with the Health Officer TO anchor inecec
ships in the Lower Bay ought to be altered so a.
make il obligatory In this way the contagon nigh
be greatly mpeied in its progress toward the city.
Resolutions were then passed in favor OF removal O
the Quai at the earliest possible day and thank
ing The Boards of Health of New-YOrk and Brooklyn
and the Health Officer DR. ThOmpson) for their eiclen
efforts to stay the progress of the pestience.