The New York Herald Newspaper, April 7, 1876, Page 4

CONGRESS. The Rate of Postage on Third | Class Mail Matter. | n (NTERESTING DEBATE IN THE SENAT Passage of the Pill for Reducing the President's Salary. | RN as ae es THE LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATION BILL, Looking Closely Into Every Item of the Bill, -- SENATE. Wasmixctox, April 6, 1876. Mr, Suenxay, (rep,) of Ohio, trom the Committee on Finance, reported favorably on the House bill to pro- | jide fora deficiency im the Engraving and Printing | Bureau of the Treasury Department, and gave notice | ae would call it up for consideration on Monday, Placed on the calendar. | fhe Senate proceeded to the consideration of the villa on the calendar not objected to, and a number of | bills of a private character were passed. THIRD CLASS MAIL MATTER, The Senate then resumed the consideration of the dill fixing the rate of postage on third class mail mat- ter and for other purposes. Mr. Harvey, (rep) of Kan., submitted an amend- ment in the nature of a substitute so as to strike out all after the enacting clause of the bill and insert the following: of the third class retorred to in ised Statutes of t w is net a hereby repen wed shall be held | to change or at d Statutes. | Mr. Harvey spoke in support of his amendment, He gai he was satisfied that the law increasing the rate of postage on third class matter had not met the approval of the people of the country and bad not in any de, gree been a benedt to the revenues of the Post Office Departmevt, The amendment he submitted, he be- Heved, embodied the views of the majority of the peo- ple of this country, He did not concur in the idea that the Post office Department should be self-sustaining. He read from a letter of the late Superintendent of the Raitway Postal Service, showing that the cost of trans porting third class matter was not as expensive as that | Of the rst and second class, because third class mat- | ter was handled at leisure by the employés of the de- | partment. Kesuming, he said there were 30,00) post | oitices in the United States, and to maintaim them it | wus necessary to en.ploy a humber of postmasters and clerks. Upward of 40,000 persous were employed, and the payment of these per:ons constituted more than one hail of the expense .of the whole postal service. For cight cents a pound package of merchandise could be trausported anywhere within the boundaries of the United States, It had been stated that packages of that kind could be transported around the world at that rate | of postage, 1n conclusion, he would adyocate a return to the old system. (dem.) of Mo., said the Senator from | nlia) aimed to make the Post oilice a ¥ ineitution He (Mr. Bogy) thought the had come wen that idea should be abaudoned, Was it reasonable at this day to require the depart- mentto be self-sustaining? Was it wise to curtail mail tacilities, or increase the price of mail to accom- plish this object Y The concition of the country at the present day must be consiaered. 8! 1841 new jerritory had been acquired. The people of Texas, | Cahfornia, Vvadu aud Oregon must bave mail facili. o on lies, The products of those States amounted | to Hous dollars annually, He thought — the fication of mail matter was deiective, and doubted the pohey of reaucing the postage on letlers to two cents. Second Class mail matier, consisting of newspapers and periodicals, was attended wih considerable loss, The decond class as Well as the first clars was intended to tarry out the vriginal idea held in organizing the de- partment, which was the transmission of intelligence sbroughout the cont.nent. ‘Tho transp rtation of Newspapers and periodicals | bught to be scattered (hres lout the land, and if there Must beatax to tranje.t"them, the people of this sountry could not pay for a beier or a more usetul ob ject As to third clues mattar he thoi t was all er- foneous He lavored the increase of the rate oa merchandise, but increase in the rate on news- If the maus should be re- letters, papers, &., could be apers and period 1eved Of merchandise, carried without cost to the goverument. He iavored ; the amendment of the Senator trom Kansas (Mr, Harvey), and said it merebandise must be carried | through’ the mail jet it be as jourth class matter and pay the cost of transportation, Mr. Maxey, (dem,) of fexas, a member of the Com- miti¢e on Post Ollices aud Post Roads, said the bill bad been prepared by that cominitice with great care. The commitice bad sought iviormation trom all sources on the subject, He favored only two classes of mail mat- ter, and believed that most of the Uhird class maner might bave been excluded from the mail and the bake ance put in the second class, Merchandise should not de allowed m the mails, buts bulbs and cuttings should be, as they Were a necessity to the people of the West. It) was not wise that the whole people of this souniry should pay for the (ransportation of merchan- aise tor the benefit of the few. The transmission of | merchandise through the s Was a convenicuce to | those who sent it, bet the ad been paid by the | people of the country. I the Seuaie would sustain the | | | rommittec 4s this bill the government would gave avout 00 per anuain, The investigation made by the tee in framing this bill was made in the inter peopl ion there was to a fourth | dise only. Mr. Many said if the classes should be inereased | here woulu be move liability ot frvcd. He thought the sorrect principle Wee lo have two classes only. Re- wuming his avgetmeathe said he supposed after this | third class mail matter had been setuied the committee | | | would ke a lorongh investigation as to second Hass mail master, and inquire why uw did not pay its | way through been considered by dhe comm.tice without the slightest regard to political | purtisanship and be hoped it would be passed. Mr. Sacisncky, (dem) of Del, spoke in tavor of the nil fixing the rate of postage on third class matter, | and said there was a Geliciency of $8,000,000 or $9,000,000 in the Post Office Department, Which must Le supplied from the National Treasury unless some measure be adopted tv make the depariment gelf-sus- | laiwing. He apprehended that there would be no acqui- Pscence on the part of the Senate to increase the pust- age on second class matt If there was to be any alteration it must in regard to third class matier. | One cause for the deficiency in the department was ihe excessive amounts pad for mail contracts, There Was po question but what there had been a loge sys- | tem of contracts for carrying the tail, especially in the Jar West. There had been a system of robvery | through the medium of “straw bids?’ Another cause for the vast amount of money required to | carry ono the postal system now, Was the large bumber of employés in the postal service. In the Bal- there were 70 clerks; in Boston about 375, although thus city had not a larg ton than Baltimore; in Chicago there were ployed, und in Philadelphia there were only 210, | Mr. Hamiin said be bad addressed a note to the Post- master Generai, calling his attention to these very mat. | ters. Mr. Savisuury, resuming, said in the Cincinnati Post Office there were 100 clerks, in Cleveland about 60, in Inara. epolis about 49, in New Orleans $0 and in St Lous lzv pere was also a large army of letter carriers emp!ayed, and there might be a material re- clorks and jetter carriers. .) of Minn., said be could ‘hot see | ustained a loss by carrying pact The Committee on Trans- portation Row: de a careful estimate of the 208t to railroud companies for carrying matter. The d demande+t of the government thirteen Jout per mile tor postal ears for cach Would amount to about thirty-nine sents per mile for cach car Allowing thi lance which thix merchandise 1,000 niles, at one cent an ounce it would yleld a goud revenue, When he compared the amouut collected from the people on third class mail matter with the mauds of the railroad companies le was anabl tee how any loss was sustained by the d the transportation of that matter, He then re the report made on the oi eon Transp Routes as to the cost of running and argued that jhird class matter could be trausported in iucxpensive sages at a proat, Mr. Davis, (dem.) of W. Va, favored the passage of the Bul reported by the committee, As he under- Bond it, it reduced the postage on all transient paper matier. Formerly the postage on su ‘was one cent for two ounces, fiut this bill proposed to make it ove cent for three ouaces, Newspapers aud periodicals sent trom the office of publication to actual sabserivers were not touched by the bill It persona, asa matier of convenience, desirea to send mwerchan- dise through the matis which should be sent by e: press, doch merchanvise shoul! pay the cost of t portation, kxpress companies charge according t distance which packages wero conveyed, and it was periectiy proper tor the government to do so as pro- posed in this bill, Mr. Mexnimoy, (dem.) of N. C., sald he was notin | | favor of making the postal system seli-supporting, but | olconfining it to the parpose for | o timore Post Oflic news| nominal. The cheaper the postage gence of this character would go to the people through. Out the land. He covld not 1d why Congress should undertake to make the postal system a system ‘Bf cheap transportaiion for merchandise. It never was Bontemplated hat such # thing should be done and it qas illegal to do it He thonght pamphlets, prices curtent, posters and books suould go as second Clase | | planation of the charges, which had reference to the | eration the bill to carry into effect the Hawaiuan | trolled and dominated over either by England or | months of last yea: | Dump expense: i | Loads of street dirt NEW YORK HERALD; FRIDAY, APRIL matter instead of third classy and he would like to sew m put in the second class, He submictes an amend- nt to strike out of the first section the following clause, inserted after the arcicles enumerated as cou- stituting Uird class matter: — Aud all other matter which may be declared matlatte by law, and ail other articles not above the weight prescribed law, which are not, from their form or nature, liable roy. detuce oF otherwise injure the contents of the mail r iho person of any one eugaxed in the postal service. He then submitted another amendment providing for a fourth cias¥ of mail matter for arlicies rot euumer- ated in the first, second and third class, to be tans- mitted 1,000 miles or Itss at — cents for each ounce or fractional part thereof, and for ull distances over 1,000 miles — cents for each ounce or fractional part thereof. It was ordered that both amendments be printed, Mr, Hawiix said he would not ask a vote on the bill totars ag several Senators had requested him not to 0 80, Pending discussion on the bill fixing the rate of post- age, the Chair laid before the Senate a message from the President, enclosing au additional report from the Secretary of War in answer to the Seuate resolution of January 7, 1876, in regerd to military arrests in Alaska, Referred to the Committee on the Judiciar: Also announcing that the bill to amend ¢ the approval and sanction of Congress to th termini of the Anacosta and Potomac River Railroad, and to regulate its construction and operation, and tbe Dill to Incorporate the Citizens’ Building Company, of Washington, D. C., bad become laws without his signa- ture; the ten days allowed for their return having ex- nate then, on motion of Mr, Wricnr, went into executive session, and when the doors were opened at bal! past four ?. M. adjoarved until Moaday, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Wasmorox, April 6, 1876. Mr. Favixyer, (dem,) of W. Va., rising toa personal explanation, referred to an article published in the Wash- ington Republican (which he spoke of as the recognized organ of the administration), and gvhich was headed rious Charges Against C, J. Faulkner,” He would not digni{y such a scurrilous article by having it read at the Clerk’s aesk, und so having it incorporated in the official record, He then proceeded to read an ex- appoiutment and payment of mechanics at the Harper's Ferry arsenal prior to the war, He suid he should have been disappointed if, in tho flood of ebloquy and defamation that had recently been poured upon almost every active and leading member on his side of the House, he had not come in for some share of abuse trom that reckless and habitual defamer. It was some consolation to hum, however, that in an official life ex- tending through many years und challenging the most unsparing scrutiny, und with un eager disposition on the part of those hyenas of the press to feed upon filth | und garbage, nothing had been .ound worthy of attack except tbe perverted and easily explained matter con- tained in that artiel : Mr, Ban.ot, (rep.) of R. L, from the Committee on Printing, reported @ resolution for an appropriation of —— doilurs tor the purchase of all the property of the Congressional Globe, embracing all the stereotype plates, bound and unbouad volumes, copyrights and lireproot building in which most of the plates and bound volumes are stored, Reierred to the Committee on Appropriations, THE PREBIDENT'S SALARY. Mr. Houmay, (det of Ind., from Un Appropriations, reported back the Senate bill, tixing the Presidential sulary, alter the 4th of March, 1377, at $25,000, Passed without discussion, ‘The question was then taken up on the motion made j{ yesterday by Mr, Holman to refer to the Committee of the Whole the bill reported adversely from the Com- | mittee on Banking and Currency, to regulate therate | of interest throughout the couptry on national money (that is greenbacks, national bank notes, &c.), and to make it six percent. ‘The motion was rejected—yeas, 75; nays, 136 —and the bill was laid on the table. Mr. WARD, (dem.) of N. Y., from the Committee on Cominerce, teported buck adversely the bill to restore | the ocean carrying trade of the United States. Laid | on the table. ‘Also a bill exempting masters of vessels engaged in trade between the United States and British North America or the West Ludies or Mexico, and’the masters | of vessels of less tham seventy-live tons burden | bound trom @ port on the Atlantic to a port on the Pa- | cilic and vice versa, trom the necessity of shipping | ant-Tammany purty, and as Uy sarees rr their crews or procuring their shipping articles 10 be signed belore a shipping commissioner, After expla- nation the bill was p. Various other bilis were reported by ‘Mr. Ward and | passed as follows: —Ghanging the names of four steam. | | i | | boats, one of them being trom ‘Senator Mike Norton to “America,” The House then, at two o'clock, resumed the consid- ‘Treaty. THE HAWAIIAN TREATY. Speeches in support ot tye bill were made by Mr. Money, of Mississippi, and’ Mr. Garii@d, of Ohio, the tier declaring that in the event of its’ rejection the Hawatian Islands would be within a tew mouths con- France. He had printed as part of his remarks article from the New York Evening Post of yesterd: setting forth the grounds on whica the treaty should | be adopted, and declaring thatif the treaty were ren- | dered inetlectual the rejected advantage would be offered to Great Britain, and that tor it the American Congress would amply deserve a vote of thanks from the British Parhament. Mr. Ginsox, (dem.) of La., spoke against the bi] At the close of Mr, Gibson’s speech, Mr. Wood, of | New York, who has charge of the vill, gave notice that as there were bus two other speeches to be made oa it—by Mr. Banks, of Massachussetts, aud Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, he wolid endeavor to get a vote on the bill next Monday. The House then, at four o’clock, went into Com- mittee of the Whole, Mr. Cox, vt New York, iu the chair, | on the Legisiative Appropriation bill, and at ball-past | jour o'clock the House took a recess Ull half-past | seven o'clock, the evening session to be for the same busivess. n EVENING SESSION. The consideration of the Legislative Appropriation Dill during tue eventug was characterized by biver partisan iecting upon both sides, the republican leaders | al king the measures of the majority with great | virulence, and so bringing together the democrats on the most important points, and resulting in strict party votes on ull questions which arose were not of great importanc STREET CLEANING STATISTICS. ‘The following is the quarterly report of Commis. | stoner Voorhis, Chairman of the Street Cleaning Com- mittee, as compared with the corresponding three JANUARY, Loads of ashes Loads of street mt ow, t of collecting and removing the PRURUARY AND MARC ad garbage removed. art. iy T follows Gangmen and sweepers, Hired carts Police Dep: nent cart drivers. Staviemen and mechanics, . Care of scows Unioading scows. Deputy insp clerks. Foremen Inspectors of dumps Steamtug bands... cleaning’ ‘Twelith, Twenty-third ‘an Twenty-tourth wards as per contract... For Gand totals sede csetsseeasy JANUARY, FRURUARY AND MARCH, 1876 Swept aud cleaned 94 miles of streets. Loads of ashes and garbage removed. Loads o! snow.. siedeves: 7100 forts Cost OF collecting and removing the same was us foliow Ganginen and sweepers. Hired carts... Police Depart Dump expenses. Unloading and care of sco Deputy inspectors, superintendent and ts : 9,024 97 Dump inspector: 2418 73 Steamtug banus . 2,863 05 Total Supplies. . Grand total Showing a The United States frigato Minnesota, flying the fag of Vico Admiral 8, C. Rowan, and training ship for boys for the naval service, left the Navy Yara yester- day, for her old anchorage off the Battery, aud will participate in the reception of the Emperor ef Brazil, ‘The loilewing is a correct of her officers:—A, W. Jonnson, captain commanding; J. H. Sums, | commander; O, W. Farenholt, heatenant; W: Hewman, lieutenant; A. J. iverson, lieutenant; F. Symonds, heutenwat; H. 1. Tremain, leutenant; £. B. Barry, eutenant; Jared Linsly, paymaste BM. Wharton, chiet engineer; G. W. Magee, past assistant enginee . J. & Well surgeou; M. L. Ruth, past — assistant sargeon ; J. M. Ambier, assistant surgeon; K Hudson, chapiain; L. 1. Dawson, captain of marines; | marines; C. Milier, | A. 3. ‘Vaylor, first heatevant boatswain; RB. J. Hill, cui J. ©, Bradford, sail” BARRETT’S FORGERIES, It te believed tnat the forgery by the abdsconding lawyer, William C. Barrett, of the jorsement o1 Ives & Waters upon the eheck of Kunhardt & Co., for $19,000, was not his only falsification in this singular case, but that he aiso forged the signature of ©. F. Betts, Clerk of the United States District Court, cer- tityiog to the discharge court upon which the che 1s yesterday stated his belief that be bad signed no such certificate, | There is no reason to believe that the Commissioners | than in the hands of three. | Of the other members did not get hun | pursuance of this resolution, w | House in accordance with a re ' which yon have heard. You are brought bere charged ' doubt, felt that he bud to do something | fore the Committee on Cr T2E STATE CAPITAL. Rumored Change in the Spirit of the Governor's Dream, Will There be Another Change of Tactics? © . THE QUARANTINE DEADLOCK A Member Reprimanded Before the Bar of the House for Improper Conduet, ———— POLICE BILL. THE ALuanyY, April 6, 18" The story goes now that Governor Tilden, in despair of seeing the divided domocracy of New York reunited: bas resolved té ally himself to the younger and more vigorous anti-Tammany party and smash up the old concern, inclading John Kelly, It is clear evough to his mind that Kelly, whois Tammany Hali, bears him no good will, but on the contrary has already ex- pressed a determination to oppose him, tooth and nail, ju the State Convention, Within a few weeks past ‘Tilden has heard the voices of more than half a dozen county conventions speak out for lim, and he has the assurances that twice as many more wil, pledge themselves in his behalf within another week. He feels stronger aud more emboldened in conso- quence, and John Kelly grows less of a nightmaro in his dreams, Tammavy Hall has httlo influence over the country democrats. Its association with Tweed a few years ago and with the Custom House republicans at present, has wrought the ruin of its once imposing name. Its power and patronage, too, are yastly | crippled, and it would need but very few further blows to give the machine its final coup de grdce, Tilden has | been turning all this over in bis mind, and cal- culating from the results of jast year whether it would not be wiser to ignore Tammany and throw himself vn the support | of the 0; position. He must, of course, uct at once and decisively, and that he i reported as being about to do, To win over the anti-Tammany party acd grapple them to his side with hooks ol steel he must by deeds show the strength of his good intentions, which are sajd to he these:—To recall the appoint- ment of P. J. Sinnott to the Marine Court and substi- tute the pame of Ira Shaffer, anti-Tammany; to re- move Sheriff Conner and put Ewanuel B, Hartiu bis | | j | | place; to appoint tor the vacaney in tho cy of Surrogate Penis McMahan, of West- chester, whom tho anti-Taminany people iutended to pbomivate for the posiee last fal, and to sign extending Comptroller Green’s teri, Deeds those, it 18 supposed, will make fast irlends ot the | js nowhere | without patronage—in fact, is but a shadow without the subsiance—the fustinct of all the natural born democrats of New York city will impel them to the side of the organization that controls the spoils. Til. den clearly has the juside track, TUB QUARANTINE DEADLOCK. The deadlock conunues over the vill relating to quarantine in the Committee on Commerce and Navi- ation, The Commissiuners and the Healtu Otlicer have told their respective tales to the committee, und enough has been learned to justiy: the proposition that quarantine should be made self-sustaining. The other proposition, that its management should be | turned over to the Commissioners, who should have the authority to collect ail the ees and pay the Heaith Otiicer a salary of $10,000, is open 10 criticisin. The Health Othcer is willing to — cunduct the management of quarantine from — hence- jorth witout any expense fo the Siate, will do any better than the Health Officer. Neither party will lose any perquisites that hands n be laid on, and it 18 just as fair to suppose the Commissioners will push the exactions on ihe com- merce ot the port as far as the Health Officer has Leen in the habit of doing, except that the later knows the | business more thoroughly, and Jess confusion would arise from having it placed in the hands of one man PELIN’S PIX. Felix Murphy may thank bis stars that his foolish trick of taking documents out of the Post Oltice boxes nto more serious trouble than the Commitice ou Privileges and Elections, who had bis case m charge, put him to to- day. The committee were satisiied ‘Murphy did not commit a criminal act, and that if be bad bud his ; senses about him when he did what le was accused of | doig he would not have got himself into. such unen- | viabie notoriety, The report of the commitwe was submitted to-day to the House and it recommended that the Speaker should publicly reprimand him. In ch the House adopted, Murphy was brought belore the bar of tne House in cusiody of the Sergeant-at-Arms, The Speaker ad- dressed bim us foliows:— Mr. Murpby—You are brought betore the bar of the ution adepted by the House, which has been adopted im your presence, and with having violated the dignity of this Hoase by en- tering the Post Office and taking thereirom books be- | longing to other members, However, in extenuation, the committee who have haa charge of ths matter, and who have examied it, have decided thattbey do not beheve that you were guilty of any criminal intent, and that this act was commitied when you were not reaily yoursel!. Tam direeted, therefore, by the committee and by ‘vote of the House’ that, in the presence of the Ho you are to be reprimanded, fur your'act. In so eprimanding you I desire to say, what I be- | heve every member will concur with me in; suying, that during "hid experience here as a member you have had always the confidence, the respect und the esteem of this Assembly, Never | | before have L heard a word tiered against you; never belore, 1 think, have you committed any act which | woutd io any way diminsh the respect and the esteem | of your fellow members for you. 1 trust that this ma: be @ Valuable lesson tor you in the future, and f su bel:eve your condact hereatter will be such as to resiore to you the confidence, the respect and the es- teem in which you have heretofore been held. You will resume your scat, Murphy looked considerably humiliatea, and will, no doubt, look upon his experience ol to-day a8 & “valuable lesson” for him in the future, The Speaker was a little extravagant, inthe opinion of many, about the ‘confidence, respect und esteem” in which ng fellow members held Murphy; but he, no to make Murphy feel at his ease curing the batance of the session, A WORD To THE POLICK. Charles &. Spencer and Orlando Stewart a] ‘De- of the Assembly this after- noon to oppose the new Police bill They agreed that | it was a bad measure in that it mjured the very men in the vepartment w!o shoud be protected—the patrol. men; increased the salaries ot their superior officers and reduced theirs. It may be stated st here that if the policemen have been foolish envugh to subscribe money to kill the vi toolts! indeed, as tl have been very it stands meets with no favor with o majority of the Committee on Cities, and the sentiment: ry ge Majority of the Assembiymen ts dead against it, The clause which gives the Commissione authority to dismiss the men without any formal | charge im writing being made against them, or after | trial, 18 especially condemaed as too ‘arbitrary. This clause, as well as the Frye giving the Com- mis. toners power to grade the salaries of the officers, will be stricken out, even if it 1s reported favorably. If reported 11 will be reported and so amended that all those features in it which are rather unjast to competent patroimen of the force will be shorn of | their harshness; and In the bill, if it reaches the House for consideration, the Police Commissioners will not be given the power to dismiss the men at will, Under ali these circumstances it 1s not at all necessary | the two or three Iellows who are here from New York pretending that they came to “look after’ the pohee bill shoald be bere at all. Ifthe policemen have sub- scribed any money and placed it in the hands of any men who pretended it was necessary for use at Albavy | they have been cheated. It is an old practi ed out political hacks to get other people pockets for the ostensible purpuse of influencing the .cgislature, aud then to come here, stay three or four days and yo away without making use of either their | iigotten money or their influence, simply beenase they got the money for their own benett, and they have no Influence with anybody. There is a stroog suspicion hereabouts that sme one Las been playing this upon the police force of late, MILLS REPORTED PAVORADLY, The bili to suspend the operation of the Parade Ground act for two years, and the Lill prohibiting the sale of lottery tickets ia this State were reported lavor- ably this evening im the Assembly. PERERA (QoTEnan Baronre ¢ bill giving the Canal Board extraordinary powers, and the bill providing. that tno State sauil pay tor | transportation of the National Guard of the State to Fhiladelpbia during the Ceutennial were reported ad- versely. LEGISLATIVE NOTRE, The bill to authorize the Purk Commissioners to make a contract with the American Museum of Natu- ral History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the occupal of the buridings erected, or to be erected, tor U accommodation in the Central Park was passed in the Senate, NEW JERSEY LEGISLATURE. AN AMENDMENT DEFEATED TAXING CHURCH PROPERTY—THE GAMBLING BILL PASSED & SECOND READING, ‘Trestoy, April 6, 1876 | In the House of Assembly to-doy Mr. Egan, of | Elizabeth, offered an amendment tothe General Tax | Dill providing tor the taxation of Church property, In | ‘The win was blowing strong Irom the northeast, and, | washing of the embankment «bove pot yet faced with . 7, 1876.—TRIPLE an elaborate speech he advocated the amendment, and stated iat the Catholic was iu favor of it it all other denominations were. Messrs. Dodd, Patterson and Rabe, supported the amendmen: It was stoutly and warmly opposed by Messrs. Scovel, Herring, E. Drake, Youngblood and Lewis. The argument used by the op- was that it was not proper, fair or justto tax perty. Alter a protracied debate the amend- ment was defeated, by a vow ol 15 to 42 gas-—-Messrs. Birsi, Beauticam, Dodd, Ean Gtizes Uar- Howell, Jacobus, Maihews, Matterson, Rabe, Kich- ow , Swayze, Vail and Winant—15, fi Avs—aleanrs. Ashley, Bergen, Brewer, Campbell er, Carscalten (Speaker) Gavileer, “Cotes Cui rows, Cunningham, ” din, Hulsey, Hannon, me Herring, Hutehin: ‘eusbey, Lewis, Lodge, Lund, } Moore, Owen, an, Rolie, Kue, Sunderson, Seavel, Skellenger, ‘aylor, Totey, Traphagen, Van Rensaeler, Voor: hees and Youngblood~—42. The Senate ia doing its utmost to dispose of the busi- noss befure it tu view of the adjournment on the lth inst. ‘The jomt meeting named jor to-day has been postponed until Thursday of next weex. The commit- tee appointed to investigate the management of the ‘Trenton Asylum rendered their report to-day. In sub- stance 1b comnmends the admini ton of Dr, Buttolph and pronounces everything conuected with that tnsti- tution in the best possible condition, ‘The General Railroad Taxation bill, which taxes all ra‘lroads jor State purpose one-half of ove per ceut on their trae value—as certilied to by State Commissioner of Railroad Taxation instead of on actual cost—passed the Houge this alternoon by 40 to 8. It has already passed the Senate and it will be approved by the Gov- ernor this week, The bill making tt enlaw/ul to use or sell the game knowp as the “Paris nu.uel pool’ and to play ‘three card monte,” “keno,” cards, or any other game for Profit on race tracks or fair grounds, pussed the second reading alter a suarp debate, Mersrs, Egan, Dodd, Scovel and Youngblood advocated the bill and it was opposed b¥ Messrs, Hendrickson and Conover, Mon- mouth county members HEMPSTEAD | NO IMMEDIATE DANGEL—A PREMATURE TEST ON AN EXPENSIVE PLAN, The violent storm of rainoa April’ and 4, accom- panied by a heavy gale from the northeast, swept through the Hempstead Valley, teariug down trees and fences, flooding the roads, swelling the streams on the southern watershed of that beautiful section of Long Isiand, and filling with alarm the minds of the resi- dents of Rockville Centre and Kast Rockaway. ‘he greatest danger anticipated was the possible rupture of the new Hempstead reservoir dam, With iis seven hundred and fifty million gallons of water stored ow elevated ground, from one to two miles distant, having its natural outlet to the sea running throuzh the two settlements, there secmed sufficient cause fur dread. ‘The storm passed, and the work of the engineers at the reservoir withstood the test. The Hempstead storage reservoir is located about two miles southwest of Hempsiead, The busin has an average width of 2,000 feet, and is one mile and nine-tenths of a mile in length. It was constructed by excavating We carth on bow sides of an old and narrow Walter course, passing through a slight vadey in a southwesterly direction trom Hempstead ( emp- stead Bay, on the soutnero shure of the island, The earth removed trom the proposed basin was banked upon the sides, forming levees on the easterly and westerly vides, about one hundred feet wide and eight fect above the level of the adjacent land. At the southern end of the basia or reservoir a dam was con- structed, with a water gute and water weir. The water ate Opens ito a conduit, connecting the basin wih jempstead Pond, one of the natural reservoirs used Jor supplying Broalpga with fresh water, On Luesday last, when tae storm was at its height, there were thirteen feet of water in the great reservoir, ERVOIR, RES 2 sweeping over the surlace of near.y two miles of water, heaped up the Waves and drove tem against the dam with terrillc force. A trestle bridge which spanned the reservoir midway of its length was carried sway anatorn to pieces, The timbers of the bridge swept vpon the dam and by jocessant beating broke down the temporary shield of planks placed above the finshed stone facing of the dam and intended to prevent the granite. Eye witresses say that the waves broke six | Jeet high against the unfinished dam and hed the | sand fucing of the clay embankinent away, solving | it Lke sugar in a cupof tea.” The foreman of the | works With anxious eyes Watchod the progress of the storm, and us soon a8 possible commenced to repair SHEET, PROTECTION OF INMIGRANTS. Bill to Establisn a New Fede- ral Bureau. National Supervision Over the Af- fairs of Alien Passengers. HEAD TAX TO BE CONT!NUED. Watehful Care of Passengers from Beginning to End of Voyage. WEED'S RECOLLECTIONS, a THURLOW No time has been lost in acting upon she suggestion made by afr, Justice Miller in the decision he recently flelivered, in which the collection of head tax ou im- migrants by Staten was held to be unconstitutional, Me intimated that the control of the whole subject of immigration properly belonged to the federal govern- ment, and that it was the duty of Congress to make suitable provision for the protection of alien passen- gers after their arrival in the United States, On Tucs- day last Mr, Harvey, of Kansas, introduced a bill in the Senate which is intended to bring immigration under national direction, and, at the same time, the measure Is intended to meet the difficulty occasioned by the New York Commissioners of Emigration being deprived of the means of support. The bureau to Le o8- tablished will be a charge on the Treasury until such time as sufliciont funds are available from tae head tax, which, it is understood, will bo xed at $1. The chiet of the bureau igto Le styled Commissioner, and his vilice will be in Washington, the operations of which are to be under the control of the Secretary of the Treasury, Superivtendeuts are to be appointed in the principal ports and agents are to be stationed abroad to look after the interests of emigrants on the eve of their departure from Europe. The act allows arrange- ments tobe made with existing Commissioners, so that it 18 entirely probable that the United Stat wili consent to the cuntinuance of the landing depot at Castle Garden under its present —manage- ment There ts hardly any doubt as to the passage of Mr. Harvey's bill, which contains many admirable provisions, The means prescribed for the punishment of petsons who practice fraud or imposi- tion on immigrants will prove much more eflective thau those beretolore in force. During the voyage the Interests of the passengers are kept in view, and the Tegulations for the separation of the sexes shouid be eniorced strictly. Railroad companies are to be brought more fully to responsibility, and they are to furuish bonds, Altogether, if the provisions of the. bill ure fully and honestly carried out there will be an improvement in the protection of the immigrants which will be experienced not alone in New York, but in every part of the Union where alien passengers are in the habit of arriving. The following will be found to be a fair synopsis of Senator Harvey’s bill;— OUTLINE OF THE MEASURE The bill provides in the first place for a new bureau in the Treasury Department to huve charge of passen- gers arriving in the steerage from ports not contiguous to the United States, and for the colicction of a head tax -ou cach such person, All moneys received are to go directly into tbe treasury, and out of the fund thus the datoage. A wall of granite bowlders was ran across the face of the dam, 1,700 feet in length, | and coarse pebbles, sercened of sund, were pourcd be: | bind the walls to keep, by their weight, the sund ot | the embankment irom turther washing. Alter th water became stila new line of planking was co: ‘structed outside of the temporary stone wall, to pro- | tect 1 still further. ' On ‘ning the water measured thirteen feet ol icptb, and when sounded yes. terday morning gav2 a depth of jourteen fect one and a half inches, ‘The dam, in fs present unfinished | condition, 18 mended to "withstand a pressure of | (welve feet of water, and when completed ts calculated | to withstand a pressure of a depth of mimeteen fect, | with a compact embaikment faced with granite rising | nine teet higher, giving » total height of tweuty eight ‘ feet along the entire face of the dam, ‘A carelul inspection made yesterday afternoon showed that the easterly “aud westeriy embankments | were good order and perfectly safe. From the n cmbankment, the one nearest Hempbtead, jallin the grade of the bottom of voir of nine feet toward the dam. Thereiore, u greatest pressure is at the southern end of tbe basin, and there the dauger, if auy, exists, Above the { | carried out by American consuls at the ports of de- created all charges for tnaintaining the officers and agencies of the bureau are to be paid. A super- visidn of emigration, as far as practicable, is to be parture, and complaints for wl usage made by immi- rants after landing are to be summariy tried before Tnited States Commissioners, Jt 1s provided that the Commissioner ot Emigration (head of the proposed bureau) shall have power te cn into @ contract, with the consent of the Secretary of the Treasury, with: aby existing State commission ander prescribed rues and regulations based upon the provisions of the bill, The new conrmissioner is to be appointed by the Presi- Gent, with the consent of the Senate, to hold office tor aspeciticd number of years. He is to be charged, un- der the supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury; with the execution of all laws relating to immigration, and he is suthorized to make necessary rules and regulations. The Secretary of the Treasury is to ap- | puint a chief clerk and such other clerks as may be requisite, Estimates for the expense of the bureau ure to be laid beiore Congress iv the usual manner, | and until the capitation tax becomes availabie the bureau is to ve supported by the Treasury. The com- finished stone fac ng the action 0! the waves during the late storm was viable to the height of six oF cight | feet, but the material that had been washed | away had not at any point uncovered the | main object of resistance, the compres-ed | clay bank behind the sand. The outer slope ot | the dag, about tuirty leet in height aud nearly 1,800 feet in length, did not extibit any deiect nor indication of interior damage, Twelve men —ali that have been at work since the storm—were employed in covering | the inver slope with coarse gravel and pebbles and car- | rying the temporary stone wall higher, in order to | meet, if necessary, the increase of the depth of water | to nineteen feet, that being the depth which the Common Council of Brooklyn propose to have in the reservoir betore they will aliow the contractors to | 2° open the gates and reduce the pressure of water on | the dam. j The cost of carrymg up tlie temporary stone wall | and its backing of gravel and pebvies, to resist niu teen feet pressure, vefore the intended stone facing 1s properly Jad, will be about $5,000. Then, after that experiment ‘has been fisted and’ the water lowered to tweive feet, the temporary work will have to be removed and the grantte facing built up to tho | required height—twenty-eight feet. Al present there seems to be no tiamediace cause of alarm jor te Salety of the work, and the numerous residepts between the dam and East Rockaway feel secure trom an inunda- | thon from that source. Ip constructing the dam the earth was excavated to the proposed depth of sho reservoir, and a trench made 160 feet in width. fwo parallel rows of piles, | owe feet part, were then driveu to a depth | of sixteen lect mio the and, the piles of eac. row bemg tongued and grooved and made water nght. The space between the piles was then excavated to a depth of five lect and in it was laid a bed of concrete three feet in thickness. Spot this was placed a puddle wall twelve feet wide ut the bottom, sloping on beth sides until tt reached a height of tweuty-elght fect, witha | width of "six feet atibe top, This puddie was made | by layers of clay three inches in thickness id rolled down with « roller weighing 5,000 pounds, Then three inches more of clay ‘ same pressure, and ‘so ou until the wall was completed. As cach layer ot clay was roiled down, a layer of hard sand, six inch deep, Was rolled with a 5,000 pounds pressure on the inner and outer faces. The front of the sand and cla} Dank or dam toward the reservoir was then faced wit! granite, eighteen inches thick, laid ‘n one foot of gravel. ‘the slope ot the gran ite iace is three feet, and one toot in height, the ovject of granite face beg simply to he sand from washing away. The stone face is feet high on the perpendicular and 36 feet on now the slope, and ihe water is, therefore, two feet one and @ halt inches above it, Mayor Schroder, President Slocum, of the depart- ment of Brooklyn City Wor! Colonel Adims, chief engineer, and Colonel Keeney, of Kingsley & Keeney, the contractors, visiied the reservuir yesterday and | made an cXamination of the works, but ata late hour | last evening bad not made their report RAPID TRANSIT AGITATION. A meeting was held last evening, at the residence of E. A. Morrison, on Forty-seveuth street, to take action in regard to the proposed ecievated railroad along Sixth avenue. A large number of storekcepers aud property owners attended tho meeting. After discussing the subject at length, a report was drawn up by tho Execu- ) tive Committee—Messrs. Moir, Pheips aud Scholle— and adopted, the purport of the report being that the property owners along Sixth avenue will oppose the elevated Sixth avenue railroad project tor the follow- ing reasons :—That (he proposed structure: erent fruim the one speciied in the bill providing tor the Toud. Instead of being an attractive looking peers panning the avenue from curb to curb of an ornamental character, the company have pling for ad unsightly structure with posts on each side of the street car trucks, thus dividing the avenue into two narrow lanes 14 ieet 6 inches wide and de- stroying traffic, The action of the company was do- nounced as an evasion of the law regarding rapid tran- it and an attempt to destroy the proporty vaiue and ppearance of one of the leading thoroughiares uf the UY Nontit River Inox Works, 266 axp 467 West Staxer, DR. VANDERPOEL AND THE GER- TRUDE. New York, April 6, tet To Dr. 8, Oaxuey Vayperrort, Health Oficer:— Dear Sin—We are ready at any timo to go before the committee and show that all repairs done by us for the Gertrude were paid for by you, individually; and that no deductions on your bilis wore ever made by rea son of any work on the State boats, No work done on the Gertrude was ever put in tho bills paid by the State. The accounts tor work done for the State were not paid by you, but were paid the Commissioners, The accoun' k tively dist Traly yours, n wore LRICHEA 1 & oO | mck, * parture and ex | essary information to emigrants and to periorm ail ; | to issue duplicate ceruiicates stating whether the law missioner is not to bave any pecuniary interest, directly or indirectly, iu any railroad, steamship or Poe age company nor in the settlement of tracts of lan THR HEAD TAX, 1 to be paid by the owner, agent or master of any vessel, | on every statute immigrant in the steerage to the | United States, sto be applied to assist the teinporartly | aud | | to bire or construct proper landing pluc F the benetit of immigrants generally, Ace lo be audited by the Fourth Auditor of the Tr nd the Commissioner of Customs, A statute nities and includes one passenger over twelve years of age or two under twelve, infants less than one year | veing considered in the estimate of space elsewhere mentioned, AGENTS AT FOREIGN PORTS. It is further provided that at the ports of Liverpool, Hamburg, Bremen or any other foreign rt whence alarge uumber of emigrants sail annually, an agent | shali be statioued, whose duty it be inspect | Vessels carrying steerage passengers before their de- be Whether the provisions of the act | peen complied with ; to give all nec- ‘of Congress have such other duties as shall be required of him by tho bead of the burean. Agents abroad are also required | has been complied with, one copy to be delivered to | the United S.ates Consul and the other mailed to the department at Washington, Cousuls are to discharge functions of gents where none of the latter are sta- toned, AT THE PORT OF NEW YORK inspectors acquainted with ti German, Frenc' Swedisu and otver languages are to be appointed, an one inspector at such other ports where immigrants usually arrive in erable numbers, who are to ac- company the castoms othcers on buugd vessels conveying steerage passengers on their arrival. It willthen ve their | duty to muster the immigrants aud inquire whether any o! them has just cause of complaint; and, if there | be probable cause, the complaint or complaints shall | be reduced to writing and the same lorwarded to the | Superintendent or Collector of Customs, and also totho | head of the bureau. i superinte’ | the Collector of Customs, to prosecute i alt of the immigrants tor personal damages. | United States Commissioners are to hi Juris- diction and ‘cases | re Lely a in al ‘on account of 11) treatment on rd ships, insufficient | or badly cooked food, damage to baggage, swindling in | the exchange of money or by boarding house keepers, | abuse by any person or ageut while in transitu, loss of time while on rariroads, overcharge om betug placed in | improper or overcrowded cara The jurisdiction of | | the Commissioner is aot to exceed fine or Feo Mes ot | $100 iu each case, with power to commit the defen Until payment is satistied, A LANDING DEPOT §s to be established in New York and in such other orts as nay be designated by the Secretary of the | Treasury, who shall appomtateach of such ports an | | oficer to be known as superintendznt of emigration, who is required to give bunds Toe latter ts to have | power to nomiuate such subordivates at sach rates of | Compensation as shail be approved and established by the Secretary of the Treasury. Iti made the duty of | the Commissioner to provide surtabie Soe for the re- ception of passengers ou thor arrival, the neces- | sary wharves aud piers and to erect suitable buildings | | thereon ; to supersutend the disembarkation of imimi- | grants and the landing of their effects; to protect them | against imposition and fraud; to make preserve an | accurate record of the name, age, vocation, place | aud present destination of each; toassist such as desire | | 0 obtain occupation as far as ole; to provide, at | | the expense of tho vessel, for immediate and tem- — porary uccessities of those who arrive destitute; to | lurnish such iniormation and iaciiities as will enable | immigrants to proceed to their respective places of | destination in the cheapest and most expeditious ma! ner, The superintendent shall also make arrangements with ratiroa au portation companies for the couveyance of immigrants at the most advantageo terms, which must specify particalarly that comiort bie and commodious cars will in ail cases be provided, | | and that | IIMIGRANT TRAINS | shall be run at no less than, tweuty miles per hour and | Without uanecessary detention, and that the oilicers and 7 shall pay due regard to ihe eafety, comfort | } and health of immigrants, The superintendent muy | | issue permits to proper persons to convey passengers | to the landiug from vessel depot, and als tv persous | Sho may Lave legitimate business with the forwarding | of steerage passengers, the conveyance of their lug- | Fase sR¢ ior other neceasary and convennent purposes, | oO person without a permit wili be permitted Heit emigrants for any purpose whatever. Ai Uon of the established rules and ons wil cause the offending party to be excluded irom all buildi: wites* and enclosures under the control of RAILROAD COMPANIES MUST PILE BOXDS with the Commissioner of Emigration vetore obtain: | trates—one in the city and two in adjouw | came to New York im the hope of inducing the munici- | sembly | try, tiekets over their lines, Duane to pares op sims tent or ungsval router. Steamboats are to furateh the same accommodation as t space aad food as oceam yorsels. Vrovisiun is made in the bill to preveat frauds in tho saly of railway tickets in Europe overt roads in the United States, In many instances these have beon sold at extravagantly high frequently have turned out entirely wort now to be enacted that coniracts mado in a country lor the transportation of immigrants to the in- terior portious of the United States shall be illegal un- leas stamped by the Commissioner of Emigration, PORSIGN CRIMINALS, It ig mado oniawful to land in the United States person convicted of an infamous crime, or whe has been Ib State Prison tor ather than political ee, ton condition may and it it or who has ben pardoned or release: emigrating tothe United States, Such 4 berson aria JSacic evidence exists un- tained, and said criminal be taken 1n custody ff til bis character be shall be revuraed to his own country at the ex} of the vessel on wiich he came passouger, and mas+ ter, owner ur agent thereof 5) ta special pen- alty of $500, ' ei ON THe MUM sham | ‘The provisions of tho bill relasive to the safety, beaith and morality of immigrants while the Adaitic are carefully drawn, if carried out must prove of the greatest beneilt, a space ‘allowed tor ench passenger is minutely speci: Throe meals a day are to be furnished, equal in quantity and: ity, loa een States Navy bre Tne lower ure to be divided into three distinct compartments, separ- ated by well constructed bulkbeads, and each to connected witi the upper deck by saitable com; ways, The foremost compartment ts to be used for single males above twelve years old; next abaft for husbands, wives and their Children, and the next for single females above twelve, Theremust be tor each sex, anda quahitied physician, with a suitable supply of medicines and surgical instruments, Dan gerous commodiiies, such as guopowder, Lenzino, &c., are prohibited from being taken as freight, us well at green hides and other articles likely to injuriously affect the bealth of passengers, 1t is uinde, finally, Mlegal to convey passengers from ony foreign port to any United States port in contravention of the provi- sions o1 the act, nud owners, agents or m re at. tempting to land immigrants in vioition of its ia sions become liable to & penalty not exceeding 000, to be recovered in any Circuit or District Court of the United States, THE STATE COMMISSION. The memorial of the Commismouers of Emigratiot laid belore Governor Tillen Wednesday ast, was ol course prepared betore it was kuown that Scnator Har- vey had a b.jl prepared on the subject. As slated above, it 1s contemplated by that measure to have the expense of the care and protcetion of immigrants, after ding, a charge on the United States Treasury, which one of the modes the Board mentions tor maintain: wz the present system, Tho state, therefore, when the bill becomes 4 Jaw, will be relieved of all hal responsibility in the futare, though there will stil main an obligation to provide for the indigent, sick and imsane who acrived prior _ the lute decision of the ie Supreme vourt. Howe re only bound to provide tng to av act passed in 18 for the indigent for two, aud not, ag belure thut time, Jor tive years, und as the humber of that clasn must be necessarily smal the burden capnot hea very heavy als leave one, At least seventy per cent. of the Now York betore claim for immigrant ts residin; the State. As to inmates of the hospital and lunatic asylum, the obhgation continues tive years alter their arrival, but the Commismoners own property on Ward’s Island worth, a3 they state, $2,000, purchased by money collected from immigrants, acd which is en- cumbered only to the amount of $300,! ed on mortgage, a portion of which 18 still unexpen and which wiil enable them to carry on their business for some time to come, Under these circumstances there ig reason to rejoice that there cau be no penis ot the sick, insane and others entitled to the benefits of mmutation fund suffering after the new federal es into Operation, * THURLOW WKED'S RECOLLECTIONS—HOW. EMI- GRANTS WERE ROBBED BEFORE THE BOARD OF EMIGRATION WAS ESTABLISHED. A Henavo reporter paid a visit yesterday afternoon to Mr. Thurlow Weed, und found him in the midst of a number of little boys and girls to whom he was dis- tributing oranges and candy, Their littte faces were beaming with pleasure as they toddled off with their ailowance, which, it appears, they are in tha habit of receiving every week, When Mr, Weed learned tne object of the AxRALD reporter’s mission he very cour. teously made the following statement, giving his views on the Emigration Commission:— Mr. Weed stated:—‘‘Before. the law passed. by which Castic Garden was made a landing place the head money was paid to the Commissioners of Almshouses and Was in part devoted to support pauper emigrants, but it was alleged it was also largely used for political purposes. There was no form of protection for emi- grants, who became an easy prey to emigrant board- tng house keepers and emigrant runners, by both of whom they were inercilessly deceived and defrauded, The boarding bouge keeper and runner business was so profitable that men of auscrupulous charactor bat of courage and intelligence became engaged tm it, Those ‘who remained in the city, unless they were fortunate enough to obtain employment, soon became: rs OF thieves. Those whose destinations were westward were compelled either to pay extortionate prices tor tickets or were deceived with less ones, Large numbvers reached Albany daily who supposed they had paid heir passage cither upon the Ene or Champlam Canal to their various destina- tions and found themselves with utterly worthless tickets, At Albany, as in New York, there was a largo combination of adroit ranners who contrived to get what was left to the emigrant by the: New York, I saw and heard much of the wrongs aud sufferings of emigrants at Albany, and, aided by two or three friends, endeavored to. protect them against the sharks, Having denouncet them by name in the Evening Jot ] was immediately plastered with suits for libel. Twe or three lawyers of disreputable character became counsel for the thieves. [was one day required te appear at the same hour before three different Cones towns. pal government to interpose its protection, but found i4le OF No disposition 10° : AID THE EMIGRANT, Meantime the Legis(uture assembled and I determined to see whut could be done in that direction. Prelim- wnarily | conierred with Bishop Hughes, Robert B, Minturn and Androw Carri; minentiy good cit zens, vow deceased. The bili for the protection of elaigrants which was Introd encountered the op- | position of the Mayor (Fernando Wood) and the mon Council, As it was progressing through the As- committee, consisting of three democrats and two oe was sent to Albany to oppose Ms passage, The wmg members of that committee were Abraham Wakeman and Thomas McElrath, both ot whom alter a very brief tuterview saw that they had utterly misconceived the character and object of the vill, and smmediately returned to New York. The city government, however, strengthened themselves by sending John Van Buren to Albany. The city dele- gsiun, being democratic, sympathized with the Mayor and Common Couuc:! There was, however, one honor. able exception—Jobn E. Devlin, always true to the !m- pulses of justice and humanity—who gave his support to the bill, and carried 1 through the Assembiy, aided largely 1 his good work by the zeal and efforts of the Inte Judge Harris, who waa chairman of the committee to which it was referred, In the Senate it encoun wred a still more determined opposition, and bat for the casting vote of # de Lieutenant Governor (the Hon. Addison Gardiner, of Rochester) it would have beon lost. ‘the first Emt- grant Commissioners who were named in that law were men of the highest, purest and most benevolent char acter. Among thom | remember Gulian C. Ve Robert B. Mintarn, David C. Coiden, Wilham C. Haver- meyer aud Andrew Carrigan. Tnoso gentlemen set Mhemselves to work batting the emigrant boarding house keepers, the emigrant runners, scalpers, &e. who were aided by the Mayor and his minions, amid the perils of ship fever with the courage of martyrs i the tenderness of Sisters of Charity. After a truggle of several months, tn which all the enemies of ‘the emigrant were discomfited and an end put to their plunderings and robberies, their jons were trans Jerred to Kurope, where fora tew mouths tuey were successful in paiming worthless American railway, steamer and canal boat tickets upou emigrants dopart- ing from the various rope. fhe Commis- sioners, on learning U had established themselves abroad, sept au agent (iKobert Murray) to Europe, fortified with letters from Governor Marcy, then Bon ntoe of \tate, who, im less than three ‘mon! ROUTED THE RASCALS in every port where they bad astablished themselves, And bow, for more thau ten years the Emigrant Com- inissioners, by the luctlities Castlo Garden bms aifo have tected the emiztants irom robbery; have tar- mished them not only with ail the information they de- sired, but with tickets throughout the Union and to - while from the igi miees » whil or tax tl td edifices and inetitutions ‘which formab the orphans and support tothe joirm sioners Huot, King and Morgan were Oiled with gentlemen ‘the highest character, by whom the ‘flciove fulness of the Board was continued, however, partisan influences: ness of the Hoard was thus nor Dix, by the appointment of an excellent non- hee commission, restored the charactor of the rd, I regard tho decision of the United States | Court, if it should have the effect of vroaking Emigrant Commission, as a great calainity, the evils of which will nov only be leit turoughout our own coun- jut subject the citizens of the Old World who will hereafter seek homes among us to a renewal of the scenes of plunder and rapacity which haps ory our city and State previous to the passage of the law which es tablished Castle Garden as a landing depot f cherish the hope that this groae wrong may Legislature,” Craverted by some action of our HOTEL ROBBERY. On Monday night two young men entered the Wash: ington House, No. 1 Broadway, and asked to bs shows fome rooms. While the clerk was going over the house with one the other remained in the office, ‘@ while the two young men left the house, nov room. A fow hours ™ ission to, sell iekets to at the | a'dtove and Are woes ueaded, aud witha supply ot clean water for with walter clo-ets and competi , lines that bave Foquired may any the bag of silver, containing ‘whieb been left 1 ine oflee hong pete Mls bo yd P. ‘8a i ia ppesed a young wan 4 ' 5 Rt he = “y j ‘ (