(No. 72.) From the Wisconsin Banner, (a German paper.) MILWAUKIE, June 12, 1847. The New York Staats Zeitung, as well as the New York Democrat, contain daily advertisements of agents about the transportatation of emigrants to all parts of the United States. Every agent presses the advantages of his particular line, and represents it as the most honest and cheapest one. We have now seen what it is to come into an agent's hands, and we think that we are doing a service to those, who may travel after us, if we inform them of the manner in which we were treated. On the 29th of April instant, we went into the office of Messrs. J. F. Wolf and Rieschmuller, 119 Greenwich street, in New York, to get four tickets for going to Milwaukie. Mr. Rischmuller sold us them at the price of $12 each; he took one dollar for the passage from there to Albany; five dollars from Albany to Buffalo, and six dollars from Buffalo to Milwaukie. Mr. Rischmuller pledged himself to send us to our place of destination without retard, and told us that a steamboat was ready at Buffalo to take us on board, every day, Sundays. excepted. We left on the 29th of April, in the evening, reached Albany on the 30th, early in the morning, and at one o'clock at noon of the same day, we were sent on by the freight train of the railroad. Mr. Rieschmuller had promised us that we should be in Buffalo in 25 hours, but we reached it the fourth day after we had left. Albany, on the 3d of May, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon. On the first day we were sent from Albany to Utica, where we arrived at 12 at night. We were told that we should leave in two hours, but this we did not till 11 o'clock in the forenoon of the next day. We were treated similar on two other stations, and were obliged to remain on horrible, hard wooden benches, in a miserable car, for three days and three nights. On arriving in Buffalo, we went to the office of Messrs. Wolf & Co. to get a passage ticket to Milwaukie on delivery of our receipt. Then we were told that the next steamboat for Milwaukie would not leave before the evening of the next day. At the same time with us there were four other emi nts in the office to procure tickets for Chicago (about 90 miles further than Milwaukie,) and they were asked only $4 each. On inquiring why Mr. R. had charged us $6, these gentlemen declared: “that this was none of their business; they were there to give us a ticket for the receipt of their New-York house, and that we had to arrange all with Mr. Rieschmuller himself." We then went to the captain of the steamboat to inquire about the price, and now we were informed that the usual regular price was $4, but that Mr. Wolf paid only $2 per head; consequently Messrs. Wolf & Rieschmuller had profitted from us $16 for the passage from Buffalo to Milwaukie only. After having been cheated thus of $8, been obliged to incur considerable expense produced by the tedious voyage on the railroad, and our stoppage at Buffalo, we finally arrived here on the 9th of May. Consequently, we advise every emigrant to take care of agents. It is decidedly the best to pay from station to station, and to address ourselve to the offices of the lines direct; time and money will be spared thus. The German" Volks Verien," in New-York, who takes so much interest in the fate of emigrating Germans, is requested to pay some attention to this statement. Milwaukie, Wisconsin Territory, June 11, 1847. (No. 73. ) Case of Ellen Mead. "Ellen Mead, the bearer of this, was sent up here by the agent from Quebec, in the Rowland Hill. She will go out in the morning to the States; as she is quite destitute, she will require a lodging at the sheds until morning. Mr. Hoy will please see to her. `Friday Morning, 5th November, 1847." WILLIAM HEDGE. It is customary for the emigrant agent at Montreal, to furnish those who wish to come to the States, with means to come to St. Johns, and then pay their passage across the lake to Whitehall. Ellen Mead's passage is understood to have been thus provided. William Hedge is the emigrant agent at Montreal. (No. 74. ) The Dutch ticket. [Referred to in the testimony of John J. Rickers, and translated by him.] [Baggage free.] 216. Mr. B. O'HERN, Washington-street. Main Passage Office to every part of the United States. I hereby certify to have received from Christian Scheuinz seven dollars, on account of passage money for seven persons, making six full passengers from New-York to Tiffin county, Ohio, (due thirtysix dollars.) Dated, Anvers, 13th April, 1847. Signed, J. BOOM, Agent. NOTE BY THE COMMITTEE. The committee take this opportunity to return their thanks to all those who have voluntarily furnished them with information, or the sources from which it could be obtained; particularly to David Neligan, agent of the Commissioners of Emigration in Albany, to whose untiring industry in the matter, the committee are indebted for a great amount of information contained in the foregoing. |