New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-09-23

laws Of the port and poison q commmity,
will be found N the accompanying afRdavit:
TOMfKmsviLLE, s. L, September l6 l1O.
7 The undersigned, special inspector Of the
treasury department, being duly sworn, de:
poses and says: That, upon information re-
ceived this morning concerning the brig III.
G. Berry, which arrived in the lower bay
last evening from Havana, and anchored at
the Southwest Spit, he bad reason to sus-
which were to he landed at Sandy Hook,
and from thence shipped to New York: thai
he obtained the use Of the steam tug James
Ray to visit the aforementioned versel;
that upon going alongside the brig he in
quired fer the captain, and was told by the
chief officer that he had gone on shore at
eight o'clock. A. NJ, with four of the crew
and the pilot that brought them to port lit
being then about twelve o'clock NJ. that
he then demanded the briggs manifest,
but was refused, the mate alleging
that the captain's room was locked and
that the captain had the key in his pocket;
that he then proceeded to inspect and search
the vessel; that he found the matches open
fore and aft, and that on entering the lower
hold he found the dead body of the late cap
tain of the brig, slowed away among the
sugar which constituted the vessels Cargo,
although there was plenty Of room to stow
the box containing it above deck; and fur
thermore, that he ascertained that the cap
tain had died of cholera, and one OF the
crew died Of yellow fever at Havana, and
that another, suffering from the latter
disease, was left in the hospital At that port
Sworn to before me. this sixteenth day Of
September, 1870. KENNETH REID,
- Deputy Health Officer.
This single instance speaks volumes in
Illustration OF how far some men will go to
evade the laws, and how much they will do
for paltry greed. The brig H. G. Berry,
tainted with yellow fever and cholera. four
of their crew, dead or dying with these dis
cases. with % cargo consigned to New York,
and in it the decompOsing corpse of the
master of the vessel, dead with lOathsOme
epidemic, sails up to almost biscuit toss
of the city's environs, and it's officers, know
ing that the jurisdiction of the quarantine
officials there ceases, drop anchor and await
orders from firm whose members have
been among thOse warning against high
officers in the fllfillment of their Oaths and
their duty in preserving the metropolis from
an epidemic.
What more need be said And these are
some Of the kind of men who, aided by cir
cumstances, were 80 far successful ut one
time as to carry out their nefariOus schemes
Ill 3rrcSllnS SuCn OIUCeFS. w no UOuDtS THAT
Perth Amboy would not have been used as
o base of systematic smuggling, if possible!
Who doubts that the arrest Of Drs. Carno-
chan and Reid at the instigatiOn of three or
four irIns-happily, not the representatives
Of the merchants Of New York, for they, a.
|, class, uphold all just enactments-was to
aid some such scheme! Aud the Secretary
If the Treasury, at last seeing through it,
stopped it, as it should have been long
before. And who doubts that those who
would allow the dead body of one reeking
With the rot of cholera in cargo of sugar
designed for consumption in New York, is
lot guilty of heinous offenses Who can
ay that this sugar, whatever the processes
t hereafter undergoes, will ever be free from
he faint of infection, and that it would be
afe to expose it for sale or use it with safety
or any purpOsee
When Perth Amboy. with its avenues 80
u;g,gestive of smuggling, its shores so ready
0 be the agencies Of sending abroad infec-
ion, ia barred and stihed, then New York
nay breathe free and its inhabitants feel
afe; but not until then.