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get it too.W. P. (Norham.)—Your best plan would be to wateb the advertisements of vessels for the part referred to, and then write to the owners and make the best bargain you can. Government may resume sending out emigrants, but you cannot get out under its auspices at present.T. Andrews.—To answer your numerous queries in an^ embod-’ed form we will do our best, but we must premise that it would be needless to expatiate upon the care necessary to be exercised in considering the profit or loss you may sustain by the change of locution. Were we to exhaust our time and your patience by a lengthened treatise, it would amount to but the effect that care is necessary—ail the illustrations we furnish of our meaning would probably meet but the case of one in a thousand of your number, and would be inapplicable to the rest, and hence the great body of emigrants would be by them in no measure enlightened. We therefore beg you to remember that when you emigrate, you leave home. Supposing you to have properly or otherwise concluded to go to New York, if you have money in iirittsh srold do not change it at all, and if at all, not for bank bills nor drafts upon Ametica. If you do, you will to almost a certainty have palmed off upon you in exchange some worthless trash which you will upon the other side of the Atlantic discover to be mere rubbish. British gold can be used in New York with as much convenience as i heir own currency. In stances have eoine to our knowledge in which persons have attempted to obtain American money in Liverpool and elsewhere, and almost iu-vaiiably they have been defrauded. Upon the coining of the ship into the harbour of New York, or upon her arrival at thewharf, she will be boarded by a large number of persons known“as runners** (many of whom are Irishmen, speaking the Irish language), who make it a business in this manner to apply to emigrants to take board and lodging at the different boardinghouses for which they may be employed.y Of these persons beware! They will agree to furnish you with good board at atrifli. g price, and after’having got you and your baggage attheir homes, will give you a meagre entertainment, and upon your leaving will demand two, three, or four times what they ' agreed, and will refuse to permit your baggage and furniture to leave their premises until their extortionate charge be paid, and will, perhaps, maltreat you besides. Supposing you to have avoided the fraudulent boarding-house keepers, there is another species of fraud to which you are exposed. Many persons have established in New York offices where they pretend to conduct agencies for certain railroads, steamboats, and other modes of transportation, and they also employ “ runners,** who will board your ship. With these have no communication, for however full may be the dependence you havo upon your own ingenuity . and knowledge of the wprld, they may be entirely insufficient to enable you to avoid the ever-varying devices of men who make knavery theii study, and plunder their livelihood. In perhaps the very cases in which a man of prudence would be disposed, if uninformed, to venture upon his own judgment, the greatest danger exists. You will, therefore, find much advantage in consulting some one in whom you may have •acquired confidence during the voyage, and doing nothingwhich involves the outlay of money, or the incurring of responsibility without advice and approval.
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London Standard of Freedom
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Oct 06, 1849
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