Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-09-10
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.

JTGJ561he IetsrSm Cd6e -AIHstcd! ana ""te' u"'s''
and Monetary AJhrs
The excitement growing out OF thu la~ieSs deSruo
ton of property at the Quarantine fluids no Abatement
either in the city or On Staten Island.
The recent incendarsn, at Quarantine with The
sttendaE: atrocities, is without parallel IN ms
country. There il now every reason TO believe fnai
many wealthy citizens OF Staten isand' "bo are
large owners OF real estate aud which WAS purchased
on The island ut low figures, since the establishment
If the Q larann., either sympathlse with or approve
of The acts Of the mob A few men who applied fhe
tnrc il s sad received ROW each for their services.
Who paid this money The poor wretches who took
,hs brides TO commit arson aud murder, were they
,one the Less guilty than the persons who paid them
hs money! Many of the large property owners on Inc
Island openly defend and approve OF the act OF me
mob. Not that they fear the fever, but soleIy
on selfish and pecuniury considerations
They imagine that the destruction OF me proper,
ty on Staten Island will greatly enhance the value oi
their lands.
Several arrests have bssn made, including two
Jus,ices of the Peace, Mr.. Garrett, and MIR. DIS
Forest, the latter a nephew Of Cornelius Vanderbilt,
The steamboat king. His brother. Capt. jacob Van
Gerbt has also been arrested, win other reaprcfA.
bile parties, and held to bail 10 The sum of $20u0
each Mr.. Garrett was held by Justice Welsh, tor
examination, but was brought up befors Judge Da-
of the Supreme Court on writ of ha6eos corpus;
and his discharge claimed by counsel on the ground
Of want of jurisdiction. 1t being alleged that II
gay of the offence charged, no couid only %
tried in the county where it WAS committed The case
wss also argued by counsel for The peoplo-aftrr
which Judge Davis reserved hs decision to be de-
l,vered TO day There appears to be very little hops
II; present, that the parties arrested Will oe punshed
Several of the sick who were hastily removed from
the devoted buildings on the night OF their destruc
tion have since died.
Governor King issued his proclamation yesterday
calling upon all good citizens of Staten Island 10 aid
IN the execution of the lava &c. This document
la M
uerind 10 be of any essential service ne Quaran-
line laws, framed for the government o Tins purt' are
n tumble of contradictions, and recognize 81 many
divisions of authority As 10 cause conflicting views
I'D arise between their heads. The commissioners oil
emigration have the control Of sick einigrapis, and
m. se of the late marine hospital for their accom-
r,odation willis the health commissioners have the
control OF all other departments a. Quarantine THESE
! paltn commissioners are composed o the heafh
officer DR.. Thompson, aud OF the resident physician
ut Qna.autine, and of His Honor the Mayor, and
john Clancy and Charles II. Haswell, members ot
the Common Council including, also, MIR. Morton,
who is called city inspector; but, in reality the custo
0lan Of the sanitary condition Of the city. This OH
Ca also appoints what are called health wardens Tor
each ward Of the city.
Now the fault Of the system, is that none of these
Imen are physicians. His Honor the Mayor. is mer
chant in paints and oils Mr.. Clancy WAS said TO have
heen Il coal merchant but now the editor OF Sun
day paper. MIR. Haswrll is an engineer. Mr. Morton
was brought up clerk, and ia quite young man,
rud Was elected TO his Office BY the Know Nothing
party, solely political grounds And his appoint
IIcnls Of health wardens have been conferred HI
POLITICAL rewarus, on butchers, bakers, and other
t-adrsmen. Now all these ruen are no doubt very
good in their way but cannot, probably, for the lite
al them, tell the difference between n case of yellow
jsundce and yellow fever, between con'egion and
u c;lun, or between yphu- fever ana bilious lever
The const quence is that they ara continually
imposed upon by quacks in tho city, and by DR..
Thompson aud his crew at Quarantine. u they rs-
port cases Of yellow uver, suggest extraordinary
measures for the promotion Of their personal pecu'
rarv Interest," or of relations or friends, they ar1 not
capable of Judging whether the disease is yellow fever
or something else. They ARE all politicians aud nor
medical men. Hence, DR.. Thompson, who is 4 shrswd
inan, has all pretty much Lis own way. He has had
organised All expensive and exclusive ighternge sys
tenn, which charges double, or more than double, or
Ginary rates. He has organised stevedore depart
ment and put his brother and two Others at the head
Of il. The vesses hs denins The larger are HE
receipts; and hence, his administration has amounted
almost entire embargo OH versels coming from
the West Indies, and from our principal Sou hrrn
ports. lie has decided that Infection can be carried
by Goals and he has actually lad vessels loaded with
s1, from Turks Island, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF which
he charged $ll tor iumigarng. II Is eald that h;s
receipts. this year, will amount 10 about 3l2O OO0.-
lie IL said TO paper Albany, Where il Is stated
he formerly conducted drug store. He is a Black
Republican, and Was appointed by the Albany regen.
cy of that creed, xrn Wred AT the head of il.
We visited ih- Quarantine on the 4h instant, and
walked over the gvunds, and Witnessed IN. ruins o.
the fine buildings destroyed by tbs mob. Staten
Island s elevated mass 0f granite and Gneis rock
The gne,s blocks with which broadway is paved were
obtained from quarry On III. Island Ii is An tx
remely healthy and beautiful place, and no instance
il known, in which yellow fever has ever been pro
psgaed from one family or person 10 another There
are many fine Residences the Island, occupied BY
wealthy families Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose for
tune is estimated al seven 10 eight millions o:
dollars, has fin. house aud owns large pro-
perty ou The lsand Robert Il. Muturn. OF
tue firm Of Gfinnel, Miuiurn, 81 Co, the Aspin-
walls, Messrs. Brown Brothers, August Belmont,
aud Witherspoop Of the large Scotch house., OF
Whherspoon. KiDgsiord g. Co. all own property and
residences the Island. Th-r places generally, are
elevated much scatrered like any other rural die
rict and free from any possibility OF cs.chug yellow
fever, though they resided on the Blue RIDGE yet
some Of these persons sympHthss with the moo VI
these We can name Mr. WhherspoUn and, probably.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, who bard out hls nephew
aud SONS others when arresied. As IN the Others,
We do not know what their feeiings may DO, with the
exception of Messrs. Brown Brothers. who are down
upon the mob, and 20 for having the houses rebuilt
gu the spot SO of David Ogden, who resides
on the Island. Nothing short of the cable has pro
iuced 30 much excitement the inceEdlarism AT
Quarantine
Regarding the conditions and workings of tbs At.
lantic Cable, IN. public know little or nothing. The
story il that Professor Whitrhouse il shut up in the
office at Trinity Bay, trying, without any satisfactory
SUCCESS, 10 get hs INSTRUMENT 10 wOrK, which Is said
TO ba modification of Burns chemical telegraph. IL
s claimed that Hughes printing telegraph ia the only
instrument that can DO relied on To work fhs cable.
That Whiiehouse has until the 18Th iust., in which
tn try his instrument, when If he does not succeed he
ia to give way Hughes aud his friends and that a
Mr.. Bishop. Hughes agent, ID on his way ~ The Upi
ted States TO take bis position at Trinity Bay, while
Hughes will ateud at the Valencia end Of the cable
1t is supposed that admitting the Hughes instrument
to work we shall not receive regular dispatches
before the first of October.
Since the cable Juror commenced. several catch.
penny books have appeared purporng 10 DO histo
res of the telegraph, which have been msde up from
newspaper publications and plagarsDs from Jones
History of the Eelecric Telegraph, the only standard
work which has ever appeared on the subject. We
understand that new edition of the work will soon
appear, greatly enlarged and improved the first hBv
irg be-n for some time out of print Ii will be
panied with a map OF the world with all the telegraph
lines marked upon it, whether complete, in progress
or projected.
The Journal of Commerce eaye that the steam fri
gate Niagara ia a complete wreck, aud that IL will
take about as much to repair her az would 10 build
a new eIeam gun boat. This being the CAGE, do
not see that she be got ready very to carry
the Africans froln Charleston TO Lb-r'o.
1t is stated in paragraph in the Express that it is
proposed TO get up splendid dinner in honor Of Ma
dam Leve,t and Anna Cora Richie, now in New
York, at $40 per ticket snd that The surplus will he
appropriated to the Mount Vernon purchase fund.
Its now settled that we are TO have new opera
troupe in New York, this winter, the prima donna
will be Picoomini, of the Royal Italian Opsrs in
London.
This "Athenaum" of the 2lst August states. that
Alban was engaged 10 sing At the Crystal Palace.
SydenhaIn, and that Madam Visdot was with some
members of Dir. Lumley's Troupe, singing in Dublin.
A Mics Thompson, young English lady, has ap-
peared with euccess III the Italian Opera in Pars.
Ii is said that full orchestra, composed exclusive
ly of women, ia soon 10 appear in Berlin.
drv fFaH nj AT ifa hal md
those houses engaged in the Southern and Middle
States trade, are excessively busy.
Many cizsns who have been in the country are
returning.
SEPTEMBER 8, 81 p. M.
MONETARY AND FISANcIAL.-Mon ey is in more
demand, but the supply ia 80 abundant that no ad
vance in the is percep,ibls except be for long
nAner of which The nnarlfY lie steadily increasing