Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-10-05

I ca ~ for Bremen, anu tue ~ odAOuIaJ loI
Hamburg, are the favorites. The steamers
/ of this line stop at southampton, and passen-
/ gers are taken thence, on the arrival of
the steamer, to Havre. The rates of pas
sage are, from Hamburg, Southampton and
Havre, first cabin, upper saloon, SIP so;
lower saloon, $50; steerage, S45.
1 Besides the above steamers, we learn that
/ the well known vessels, the "FultOn" and
Garage" which were withdrawn from the
/ Hayre line at the commencement of the war,
/ will resume their places on the line between
/ New York and Hayre, ere long.
There is also the Trans Atlantic Steamship
CoHpanys Line OF French steamers, now
running fortnightly between New York and
Havre, and which is largely patIonized by
foreign travellers. The ships of this line are
new, and several large ones are being built
for it. Neither of the Havre lines of steam
ers carry storage passengers.
There are several lines of sailing packets
from New York to Liverpool, among which
is the old established "Black STAR" the
rates on which are for adults s22, for chill
dron sl2.
Emigrants, on arriving in New York, are
all landed at what is known as Castle Gar
den, which is at the very seward extremity
OF the city, where they are protected from
a class Of harpies known as emigrant run
ners, and are furnished with all the iuforma-
ton they require. Railway tickets for all
directions are furnished them on the spot, at
fixed price, and they aud their baggage are
trans ported, at 4 moderate rate, to the diff
ferent depots. Persons who expect TO meet
their friends are allowed to wait at the Gar
den for a short period, but those who are not
provided with the means to Subsist until
their friends arrive are sent to Wards
Island, where they can remain until the
friends arrive or they make engagements to
90 to work. The emigrant passage to Rich
mond from New York is, We believe, about
Sc. We think, however, it will be less
should the business increase. Such as desire
TO come this way, on application to Messrs.
WEED, BUNKER & MCDONALD, in New York,
will be sent by them to the steamer or rail-
road, as the case may be, at rates fixed by the
Commissioners Of Emigration.
We now proceed to give some facts con-
nected with the organization known as The
Commissioners of Emigration" in New
York, and which we are sure will prove in.
terestiug.
Nineteen years ago, the Legislature at
Albany, New York, passed law organizing
"The Commissioners of EmgratiOn"-the
object being to relieve alien emigrants from
the base impcsitions and injuries to which
they were subject at the hands of harpies of
every degree, such as boarding house keep
ers, emigrant runners, ct hoe onane genus
The law has since, more than once, been
changed to meet the requirements arising
from the vast increase in the number of emf
grants arriving, and other causes.
Since early in ls47, about three millions
of emigrants have arrived in New York
alone, and fully one-third of that vast nun
Der have received aid in various ways from
| the Commissioners, all, however, out of the
/ fund raised by Communication money, received
| from owners and consgnees of vessels for
/ alien passengers, and of the one-third above
mentioned, incredible as it may appear, at
\ least 200, 900 cases of sickness or bodily in
! Jury were treated in the hospital and Refuge,
under the immediate charge of the commits
I sion. Perhaps, in the worlds history,
| there was never known greater villainy
/ than used to be practiced on emigrants they
! became tho prey of remorselcss emigrant
! shippers, runners, boarding house keepers,
canal boat captains, and scoundrel crew
known as g." scslpers"-so much so that the
emigrauts were robbed aud left dependent
on public charity, while young and friend
less females were not unire luently outraged,
aud thus 4 heavy burden was thrown on New
York, witch the Aims House Commissioners
were unable to meet. To correct all this,
the Commission was founded, and, from that
day TO this, they have proved fathers to the
fatherless, and fast and true friends to the
poor exile from every part of the globe-so
true and fast that their names ought to be
hung up in every poor home in Europe, to
be venerated aud loved forever-and princi-
pal among them GULIAN @. VERPLINCx
and ANDREW CARRIGAN-men of as genuine,
enlarged and enlightened philanthropy as
ever did honor to humanity. But for these
men and their associates, sad would have
been the fate of many a stranger. Owing to
these men and their associates, many pen
niless alien has achieved independence and
home. True humanity everywhere will
ever say, God bless them.
The whole number of emigrants that landed
in the port of New York in 1864 was 222,-
33s, showing an increase of 27,OI2 over
lS63-lO6, 6lO over ls62-ll7,3 1897 over lS6l-
77.754 over IS6O-lO3, 1874 over ls59-lO4, 321
over Is5S-and S57 less than in 1851; whilst
the proportion to the average since lS4I is
S,ls2 more. OF the 222 1888, $1,000 were
from Ireland 81 .572 from Germany; 49,
s7l from Eugland and ll,767 from other
countries % 400 reported their destination
to be the State of New York; 23,5ls Penn
sylvania and New Jersey q, OLA New Eng
land; s,llS the Southern States; 1862
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota and California; and 1879
Kansas, Nebraska, Canada, &C., sc.
We have heretofore described how the
emigrants are selr.sustained for five years
after they land, out of the Communication fund
or capitation tax paid by themselves, that is,
BY ship owners and consignees, who add it
on to the passage money and then pay it out
of that money into the treasury of the Conn.,
missioners, and will content ourselves, for the