Danbury Times

DISTRESS OF EMIGRANTS. The facts below, from the New York Gazette, present an appalling aspect of the condition of some of the wretched emigrants, many of whom, probably, have been deluded and seduced from a comfortable home, by the instrumentality of some persons acting from motives of cupidity, and are now perishing on our shores from want and disease. The N. Y. papers state that some startling facts respecting the 'system' and the actors engaged in it will be furnished to the public in a few days:

On Monday four hundred emigrants, with their bags and baggage, were landed at Amboy, and most of them remained for two days exposed to the broiling rays of the sun, the heavy showers, and the foggy nights which have intervened, besides the torment of the gallinipper which infest that coast.

The ship fever and the small pox were at so great a height that not a boat could be found to land these wretched passengers, nor to take them to any creek in Jersey. Sixty, with the latter disorder, had been towed in a scow from the ship to a point in the woods about two miles distant, where tents had been erected by the Mayor for their temporary shelter.

In addition to this, the scarlet fever was raging among the children of that place, and the alarm excited there by the diseases of the emigrants was so great that several houses had been abandoned and closed.

A man and his wife had died on board the ship, leaving three helpless babes, who were humanely taken into as many different families at Amboy: and melancholy to relate, one of the infants has since died, after communicating its own disorder to the lady who had taken it to her house for shelter and nourishment; the kind lady is since numbered among the dead, and our informant attended her funeral yesterday morning.

To add to these scenes of calamity, we regret to state that one hundred more of these objects of pity are at quarantine, arrived yesterday from Hamburgh.