The New York Herald Newspaper, April 21, 1859, Page 2

} \ ISTERISTING FROM ALBANY. What the Legislature has Ac- complished. MEPORTINT FACTS. FOR THE PEOPLE, & a, Ao, @ur Albany Avaayy, April, 19 1859. The Late Legislature—lis Acts ond Transactions—Iis Deeds end Misdeeds—An Empty Trersury, and Forty Millions Dett— Investigation of Charges of Fraud and Corruption Wheeked—Action on Quarantine Remoral—The Insurance Bil—The Casal Loan and the Velo—Pro Hate Railroad Preight Dill to Help the Canal Interest—Negros Voting om Biqual Booting with) Whites— Fate of the Personal Li- Derly Bili—Hiistory of the Charter Bill—Application of Beuntry Members for Railroads—The Brooklyn Tunnel Bil—Corruption of te City Railroad Lotty—The Go- werner’s Veloes and the Republican Party. "She body of men who assemble at the capital of our Bate, denominated its Legislature, are annually sinking ower in the estimation of the people. If an expression of he great aud honest masses could be had, they would wadeubiedly decide upon biennial sessions, and most Bkely would extend the time between them to triennial farms. Ninety-nine hundredth of the business which hove men are cpgaged in during the hundred and odd days is for pilfering, plundering and direct stoaling pur- poses. The State treasury is bombarded from every side; ihe battering rams against its vaults are absolutely irri- mstible. The treasury is not only empty and hollow, but Shore is at this moment a debt of near forty millions of elders banging upon the necks of the people, one-quarter wf which, upon the most charitable construction, has been aquetlered by partisan State officers, upon their pet poll- ‘Meal bedfollows. Year after year we receive reports Svem the financial officers of the government, assuming to Smlighten the people as to the condition of its financial ‘wGiairs. In those reports we find wonderful displays of ‘arithmetical skill, produced by the mathematical clerks $m the various departments. We find the ge- meral fund debt, the old canal debt, the new canal adobt, canal revenues, deficiencies,Joaned from one fund te another. Great reliance is placed upon what is called the Canal Sinking Fund, spoken of in the constitution, ‘whieb provides that, alter paying the expenses of coliec- Mon, superintendence and ordinary repairs, there shall be ‘appropriates! and set apart, in each fiscal year, out of the Tevenucs of the canals, the sum of one million soven hua- ‘@red thousand dollars. Now, from this sinking fund, the Biate officers have been in the habit of borrowing for the ose of what is called the goneral fund. But it is now @iscovered that there is no such thing as a sinking fund to borrow a dollar from. Such loans were made upon the pwedit of that fund, at the same time that the State sfoers knew there existed no such fund, and never would. It is a mere myth—it possesses not a shadow of ‘wB wabstance. Aad, although the payment of the greater portion of this smormous forty million debt is put off for the longest | period of time, falling upon the next generation, the State | ypeesesees not a single dollar which can be appropriated directly to the payment even of the interest upon these | ends, annusily due. Taxation, direct taxation, is ro- | worted to, from session to session, and the real aud per- | wenal estate of the people, of the whole people, is made | wesponsible for the payment of this enormous debt, two- | Mhirds of which has accrued for “canal purposes.” In- | mead of a prospect of decrease, there is yearly an enor- amoes increase of taxation, and no prospect of boing dis- semtinued, £0 long as the lobby of the Legislature is Alled | with canal cormorants from tide water to Iake Erie. | Motwithstanding all theee facts are prominently staring | | ing from our great public canal down to July next wil themeelves be paid by the Ist January, still the cual ovn- tractors, the bankers, capitalists avd speculatore who | hold thee drafie were not satistied: NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1859~TRIPLE SHEET. now only left to the resource of ee ‘at Seguine’s Point, and detaining versels near ity, as was the cage the last & may prove highly ad Quarantine bill did not organize an Insurance ok city offices were in constant attendance in Capitol during the entire session. The & department that the placed at the hi of the Insurance office a man who had been president of a bogus insurance company in the city of New York, which repudiated the pay ment to the Harpers of ten thousand dollars, for which they held a policy at the time of their great conflagration; that the com refused payment upon some small quib- bie, and final) led without paying the Harpers or any one else who held their policies. This president of the bogus New York company was Royal Chamberlain, who, having forfeited the ponttence of the on falta com- panies, was appointed by Mr. Comptrol! super- intend insurance matters under the laws as then exisiiug. Tt wes stated before the Select Committee, and alsu in the Honse of Assembly, that he blackmailed the oom panies enormously, and peremptorily refused to issue the nece: certificates to allow them to proceed to business uniess bis exorbitant demands were complied with. Sach is the origin, and these are the reasons why several of the insurance companies in the city of New York have labored 80 zealously during the entire session to take from tho Comptroller the supervision of all insurance matters and place them in an independent department organized for the especial purpose. Ite principles are somewhat similar to the Banking Department, inasmuch as itis to be supported mainly by the insurance com) , pro rala, who transact business in this State. i people—the policy holders—have not been consulted in this new or- ganization. It may work well, and losers by fire, marine or life may find itall right and proper; but if it should prove a swindling operation, or if a single insurance com- pany under it should refuse to perform its promises and engagements, then a speedy effurt will be made to demo- lish the department. It does not go into ion until next January, after the Comptroller and his clerks retire from office; consequently, the charges made against him are virtually withdrawn, We believe the Senate commit- tee reported that no reliable charges existed against the Comptrolier’s department. ‘The propriety of submitting to the people the proposi- tion of making @ loan of two million five hundred tho sand dollars to pay the debt created by Canal Comm’ sioners’ drafts was greatly doubted by many intinenti legielators, Had the people not been burthened with a heavy State tax, indispensable for the present financial year, then most probably that method would have beon directly resorted to in order to realize the above amount. But it was already too onerous to be more heavily lajen with additional burthens. Others, again, were for ripping open the bowels of the constitution in order to raise some three or four millions. The people, who have not yet been informed concerning the judicious expenditure of the ten millions obtained in that manner, would never consent to another financial butchery; and the most wise and judi- cious plan was to adopt the method of submitting to the people of this generation the question of Mrrowing the two and a half millions, provide for the payment of an- nual interest, and leave its final liquidation to the next generation, who will more fally enjoy the benefits rezult- works than we now on the stage can possibly expect for ourselves. Although the money can be realized upon the eutira amount as soon as the people give their assent, which wiil be in November next, and the interest upon the drafts fi then be liquidated, and the dratts |; they procured the passage of a bill entitled ‘ An act for the payment of iute- Test on the drafts and certificates of the Canal Commis. sioner.” The main section provided that any party holding drafts heretofore drawn by either of the Canal members directly in the face, they have not the least ef: | Commissioners, or certificates given for work done on the feet in producing economy. Though our benevolent and | canals, and for awards made by the Canal Appraisera, the Papen n " | Canal Board—a Board of Canal Commissioners—may ‘pre- sharite))!e institutions are made to salfer, the private inva- | gent the e tothe Auditor, who aall register and number wien of the treasury is more determined and formidable | the same the date such presentation is made; from that Sean ever. There is no end to the claims made upon the | date such drafte and certificates shall draw interest at the ade, simply for “canal damages.” There are premises | dying alongeide of the Erie Canal, the value of which hag | | rate of six per cent per annum, payable semi annually. This bill Governor Morgan felt it to be his duty to veto, Tne Houge of Assembly, under the control of Littlejohn and ‘been paid three times over again, under various pretences | Hutchinson insidé, and a host of draftholders and canal and to different parties, under the assumption of “claiins igainst the State for damages.” Pretended damages of | this nature have twice becn paid to one-half the residents wf Cansjobarie. The empty condition of the treasury dovs net in the least weigh with the Legisiatare. The mesvers im the two houses are many of them directly linked witir their partners in the lobby, and the business of obtaining ‘@aimes has become organized to such an extent, ant each | a fermidable combination cemented, that it is impossible | fer the few honest men in the Senate or House of Assem- Diy to interpose succeestul resistance against them, The plan is to get the Legisiature to authorize the Board of Appraisers to examine and adjust the diitrent amounts, ‘and then the treasury in sure to bleed, and the peopie, by Iegisiative direction, mustadvance the money, There are at this moment not leer than three millions in amount be- fare the Board of Appraisers and Cana! Board, of this kind af claims, two thirds of which are spurious, unfounded and wujest. But this scarcely inakes # difference—the several Doards are composed of politicians. At an early stage of the scetion, a committee of the Senate was instituted, ander o paragraph in the Governor's message, 10 investigate matters relative to bribery and | eorraption inthe passage of laws by venal logisiation. 1B was evident that there were Senators then in offico who were opposed to euch inquiry. From the moment when the committee organized, veveral Sonator® commenced (erow lug impediments in the way of a success{ul proeeca. fiom of the investigation, though there were scores cf eases in which corruption was believed to exist; but when | She committee asked for power to send for persons and papers, a majority of the Senate restr: them to My Asingle case, which the committee might select. Being @bained down to this narrow limit, they relected the Albany bridge case. It was weil understood when that Maw was passed that the Central Railroad Company had fas emizearies inthe lobbier, in the seats of members, at their boarding houses, in the streets, aud everywhere lee, clectionecring for votes for the bridge. This investi- gating committee issued subpwnas demanding the at- Yendance before the committee of several well known agents of the Central road, wo were conspicuous on that contractors outside, forced the passage of the bill th the Assembly over the Governor’s veto. the Senate ai abje discussion énsued, whica lasted until near midnight without arriving ata vote, Morning discussion was resumed, very decidedly sustained the velo, and the inierest vag On being soatto On Monday and the Senate bill was deservedly defeated. The coutractors outside the Asgembly, in conjunction with their partners inside the Chamber, nothing discomfited by a defeat both in the executive departmentand in the Seaate Chamber, pro cured, through Littlejohn, Morris aad Hutchinson, the insertion of @ clause in the Supply bill, compeling the ‘State to pay the interest, thus tacking iton a bill which was indispensable to be passed. fais was a shrewd movement of the draft holders, both in the looby and in the House of Assembly. ‘Their purpose was to compol the Senate and the Governor to take the ‘‘bacg track,’’ staltify themselves, and reverse a solemo and well considered determumation. This was athreat that the Supply bill ould never pass unloas the interest account was ruade a prominent feature in it. The Senate took up the subject as #oon as the bill was returued to them. Another spirited debate ensued, as appears jrom the reports in the papers, Atthe last moment this scheme was defeated, aud the Supply bili paesed without the appropriation for the pay- ment of interest on the canal dratts. Only two bills of any iinportance relating to railroads ‘were introcaced into the Legislature during the sezsioa— | one to re impose canal tolls on railroad freight daring tho season of catal navigation, the other to compel the roads to establish a pro rata freight table for local freight, Both these propositions were introduced at the instigation of the canal interest, the forwarders believing that if both or either bills were enacted into laws their own bustaees would be increased, and consequently the canal revenues enhanced, Thie tolling railroads has been attempted every year since the law was abolished by the coup d'itat of George Geddes, then in the Senate. Whether proper or expedient to impose those tolls on railroads, in tho tires instance, is not now the sabject of inquiry; and thoagh bow, in the dilapidated condition of the canal fand everybody may be anxious to improve it, etill the period bas elapeed, the time has pissed, for any Legislature of this State to restore those tolls. How can it be done? By an honest expression or vote ot the two houses? That never can be expected hereafter. The railroads hold the Iegislatures in their iron grasp. All the members are bribed with free tickets over every road im the Biate, which are presented to them the moment after they have taken the oath to resist the offer of all species of bribery or corruption. During the entire session members of botn houses are dead-beuded over every road, daily aod hourly if they desire. This is down- right bribery, and the members of both branches of the Legislature are copsequently bound to pass any bill or prevent the passage of any bill ag their ratiroad masters may dictate. Look at the railroad power in the Senate, memorable oocation. The Sergeantut-Arms of the | Tyers i William A. Wheeler, President of the Ogdensburg Senate was directed to serve these subpanas. Be! every case of importance he failed to bring the reluctaat ‘witueazes upon the stand. One Senator wok the respon- sibility of urging him not to serve the subponas; the very atniable Clerk of the Senate demanded to bave the swabpoonas in bis possession , in order that he might Accreta them from the Chairman of the fnvestigating committee, A dozen bangers on in the lobby, and others weil sus- pected of peing engaged in distributing money w procure wotes for the Bridge bill, abruptly absented themselves @ from the capital and their homes; some of them fled as Mr ae the island of Cuba, to evade a peremptory order to ‘aestify in the matter. One member of the select commit- fee was in constant conference with the lobby, and at | every meeting of the committee, threw bis power and in. in favor of rendering the investigation a bur- | Resque or of breaking it wp entirely. About the time | when the testimony was becoming interesting—when cer- ‘tain partis were about being exposed in that corrapt af- fair—wher Thurlow Weed, Joho L, Schoolcraft, Erastus @orning, Farmer Abel and Gilbert C. Davidson, were about being brought before the commit: fee—and when every honcet man in the State was the result of their evidence, their abettors | tmside the Senate suddenly dissolved the committee, and arrested al] further expowures of the moans employed to warry the Albany Bridge bill through the Lagisiature, ‘This transaction is convincing proof that the republicans | ‘im the Benate dared not allow the investigation to proceed, Bearing an exposure which would confirm Governor Mor gan’s assertion that @ large amount of legisiation wax mecured by the moat corrupt and proiligate use of money im the purchase of votes. Lot it theretore henceforth be | understood that a majority cf the Stave Senate emohered | am inquiry which would have enlightened tne people of | fie manner ip which rich and powerful person: and cor. | erations control the that are sent w Albany ‘wo mannfacture laws. The mowent that investigation | ‘was arrested the telegraph informed ua that th Capito! was again immediately filled with the same lass of poblic robbers; and the subsequent trane- actions conclusively show that the [agislature was | Merally besieged from that moment to the termination of the session, Bot unwillingly besieged either, because both | ‘Ihoures made an unconditional surremder to the looby the _ tmetant Senator Wheeler's Lobby Investigating Committee ‘was suspended from farther action. Quarantine matters were introduced in the House of As- sembly early in January. A bill was introduced making | Se ae removal from Staten Inland should | ily be done. Another bili, that all alloged offenders, | er suspected individuals of the county of Richmond, who prem in the conflagration of the buildiags, should | Still another | made respon- nap ag ent than e treasury of the “tate the amoont of damage which Un! Contlageation aused. Toone threo bills, after a sharp contest, finaily wumet Use F 5 of Assombiy. The Senats, a short por . frat above mentioned bili under considera, ‘eaimportant amendments, aud ‘The latter body took @ vole upon faned to agree with the Senate, and invetowt of ritarning ‘the bill with a meesage that or the bill thas amended, a8 i uiformip ui if & select commitice of Risbinond county. Tiey the Quarantine bill shoalt ‘nover the Sonate passed the other two the alleged incentiarier, ant : | atvormpt at log roling road: Alrick Hubbell, President of the Utica aad Black River road; Alex. S. Diven, President of tne Canandaigua and Elmira road; Samuel Sloan, President of the Hudson River road, How many railroad officers there ace in the Houee of Asrembly is not ascertained, but no doubt exists ‘that a large number in both houses are directors or stock- holders in some one or other of the railroads in the State, Uneophisticated people, in both city and coantry, need no longer wonder why bilis are rejected compelling the rail- road companies to agaist in paying off the public deot or to carry freight from Aibany to Uviea upon terms as resronable as the same is conveyed from New York to Chicago. The ratiroud power te omuipotent in the State of New York, and if not soon checked in its career of despot. ism wil! scon forge fetters upon the people which nothing short of @ revolution will be abie to burat into fragmenta, ‘This power can prevent the imposition of tolls, pro rata freights, and pass Inwe allowing the use of steam down to Forty-second street in the city of New York, by tho Har. jem Company, for more than a quarter of’ a centary to come. Such id ite potency that it can dissolve any legia- | ative committes instituted to inquire into the corraptions of ita agents in or out of the Logistavure. ‘A majority of the Legislature adopted a resolution amending the State constitution, so as to permit every negro in the State to vote at elections, This was depo- | ited in the Secretary of State’s office, and uot trusted to the *« pigeon holes” ia the executive chamber, a8 was re- cently the case. The next Legieiature will be require! to vote upon the resolution, and if a majority of bow hoases shall then be black republican it will be adopted. The proposition must subsequently be submitted direct to the people, and it is for the sovereign ‘ winte”’ paopie to decide whether the negroca, without distinction or discri- mination, shal! be entitied wo the right of universal suf- frage equal with the whites—whether they shall enjoy equal privileges with white people, and be entitled to social intercourre, be invited to the jury box, elected to office as members of municipal bodies, as Jegislatore in the capital of the State and judges upon the bench. Under the system of registry, the runaway negro, fresh from the cotton fields of Alabama, will be as justly ent- tied to vote as any white man who ag resided in the town, ward, or ection district three score years and ten. Well, let the matter be again settled. The Conatitu- tional Convention of 1846, though adopting the property | qualification, adopted also a resolution submitting the question to the people, ia these words:— Resolved, That at the next general election, and at the same time when the votes of the clactora shall be taken for the adoption oF rejection of the amended couatitution, we addi- tional amendment shall be separately submitted Wo ine people Xe jal qo 7 by the first pestion of the ‘account article of the couali wont olber thay the property qualification, shall have the right ‘vote for al) offices that now are, or hereafter may bu, erosive by the people, alter the first day of January, 1847. ‘The ballots were written—Fqual suffrage to colored por. sous? Yes. And, Banal sullrage to colores porsoux? No. ‘The former received 85,208 votes, the ltior 223.834, tn king armajority of 188 686 againet universal negro anf fraye. That vote was taken thirteen years ago. It was supposed to be definitely rettied for a jong period. But aboiltionints Daving secured an acct ental strength Legiviature sofliciens to adopt a resolution for wach mendment of the Constitution if the next Legiviat yous. The York aod Brooklyn will roll ap a baudred at negro wullrage, al Liberty bill was early brought forth in the and after slumbering awhile, sent w the Sonate, The Judwiary Gosomittee took the bantling in charge, aud Senate struck out every section which Messrs. Busteed desired to be enacted, thus frustrating their at tempt to continue certain incumbents in office after ie expiration of their terms, for several:years to come, by legislative enactment, ‘The few days, when it was taken up and rua through the Committee of the Whole in the Senate, without any amendment or alteration being permitte/,as Seaators Mether, Schell, Ely and Sloan desired. ceding the adjournment, the Charter bill was taken 1p for a final vote, and after another struggle only fifteen Four republican Senators voted with against it, under the belief that such an. important matter = mending the charter of a city containing three-fourths o are struggling for a raiiroad from Bing The argument of the petitioners waa a substance it was this:—That section of country has, for ‘the last quarter of a century, contributed its quota, equally with the most favorod localities in the State, in faruisbing aforded to all the reat of ag if they ought to receive a small’ bounty from the Stato to assist them in obtaining access to the Erie road on one side and the Hudson river on the other. Such facts, and many others which were adduced, convinced both branches of the Legislature that the asked for as- sistance was due to those counties, and the bill for that Purpose was persed and sent to the Executive chamber. ‘There it slumbered several days, when Goveroor Morgan returned it to the Assombly unsigned, accompanied with a meseege that he entertained constitational scruples against allowing it to becom: to pase the bill nox of the Central Railroad, both in the House and in the lobby, was irresistible, and the biil for the benetit of the A\bany and Susquebanba Railroad fell for the session. share of the anticipated beuelts, competing railroad routes were stiked out upon the city map, thus producing contention and counterpulling which prevented either set of speculators in succeeding, This Year a more ekilifal and appatentiy succosstul combina. tion exiuted. All the railroad app) in the compact. portions. fluence, of power and of wealth. At the head of this un- paralleled combination stood the notorions Albaay Mo- gul. George Law was induce! to contribate hie all-power. ful influence, under the promise that the Legislature shouid confirm bis’ Ninth A ceeds two fold any otber arm of the in the country, ‘then applications for money are made for expenditure at the entire South, where even a ‘barge scarcely ever bas occasion to 8 cargo. the New Yort Hospital, the most deserving in the gountry, solicite aid from the Legislature, then all hospitals throvghoyt the State, moat of whom not a patient a ment, tapes rr ashen oe z went country members, haviogalways a mujority, Tit allow no aselstanoe to the New art’ Heopiial, tos mode! institution of the e Various propositions were submitted to alter, amend or remodel tbe New York city charter. Senator Ely, taking the most sensible view, proposed a bill nting Wash- ijogton Hunt, Charles 0’Conor and Het Selden a com- mustion, with authority to calmly deliberately pre- pare amendments to the present ong or compile a new ‘One altogether. No three names worthy of the highly important trust could be ge! from among the many able and distinguished citizens of the city and State. Our impresaion ig that Senator Ely’s Bill would bo now a law had not some of his democratic refused to support it, on the ground that there two republicans to one democrat on the proposed cammission, Surcly there ought not to have been this objestion, as the yours of the city of New York were to pass Jaagment upon the mew charter, and that was to be in the mative before it could bave been presented to the Legislature for con- firmation. The migerable a) for # charter subse- quently run through the House of Assembly by the influ- ence of Oskey Halland Richard Busteed was never sean by adozen citizens of New York before it was thrast in the Legislature by a country member of the Assemb!: if ae ani bill remained quiet for & ‘On Monday pre- votes could be secured in ite favor, and the bill was lort. the democrats million of people should not be the act of auch ‘hasty Jegislation,’” ‘The people of the counties of Broome, Chenango, (tse- g0, Delaware, Schoharie aud the southern sectioa of Al- rtion of the Stata, amton, on the Erie 2 State, They sent baby county, comprising an isolated road, to tide water at tbe capital of to the Legislature petitions containing the names of several thousand residents on and near the Jine of the coutem- plated improvement, aeking the Legislature for the sum of two handred thousand dollars, to be given the direciors in instalments, to agerst in the construction of the road. lausibie one. In means to construct the great number of canals. In addi- tion, they bave paid their sharo of the interest, and ure equally holden a8 to the liquidation of the three million git to the Evie road, They are also under obligations, forced upon them ‘by State laws, to assist in paying tho losses incurred by loaning the credit of the State to the Ithaca and Owego road, the Hudson and Berkshire road, and the Catakiil and Canajobarie rosd, making in the ag- gregate four millions and a half. Now, all the improvo- ments in canals and railroads bave proved an immeare detriment to that isolated section of the country. The people have no such facilities for markets as is the State, and they felt jaw. The House made "pe aitompt itustanding the veto, but the power The Brooklyn Tunnel bill kept a lobby at the Capitol nearly the entire session. The bili provides that the rail- road company will abandon the running with steam throogh Atiubtic street, aud surrender their real estate along that street, upon th hundred and filty vider, alo, that this sum shail be sesessed apon property } iying’ upon that sirect, because by withdrawing steam | from it the proj The coutention was whether a eingle locality should pay this sun or whe taxed for it. the opponents burried to the Executive chamber to @ condition that the sum of one weand dollars is paid for it. It pro- ty will be greatly enbancod in value, r the whole city of Brooklyn should be ‘The former proposition prevailed, and then cure u veto. The Governor, however, signed the bill. It is a matter of the greatest wonder why half 2 dozen New York city horse railroad charters wore aot inflicted upon the people of that city. To all the attempts previously made to cut up streets aad avenues, without the consent of property holders or the Common Council , there never was sach ® formidable combination—guch perfoct organtzatiou—such a bond of union and oopcen- trated interest, such an amount of brivery and corruption fund, as during tho recent seesioa. Horetofore, the Broadway parallel, as an example, was defeated mainly on account of the obstinacy of Jacob Sharp and company in preventing certain other speculators from enjoying a Consequently other cations wero included The scheme was one of magnificeat pro- ‘here was nO want of distinguished men in- ‘enue grant, thus speedily re- moving the Stuart injunction, and summarily overriding the action of the court. By this coup de main Mr. law would forever secure the invaluable franciise of moaopo- lizing both Greenwich and Washington streets ia the city of New York, from Canal street wo the Battery, without the cost of a dollar. Efforts were made to jw those bills to be #0 amended that the corporation of the city should realize eome pecuniary benedt in the construction of those tracks. But it was not allowed. There was a certain per centage imposed upon each road which the anticipated corporatore, itis eaid, stipulated and agreed to, tobe paid toa certain invisible committee of politt- cians in case the Charier bills became Jaws, which in the ‘aggregate would amount to the sufn of five hundred thou- fand dollars. This fund was to be invested and securely pledged for electioneering purporea in 1860. It requires bo gort of sagacity to conjecture for whose benefit this fund was to be appropriated, nor who the arch dema- kote in into whose hands this money was to be ns a “eecret service fund” for the next Presidential con- test. Well, this irresistible lobby run all these half dozen railrond bills throngh the House of Assembly without permitting one word of debate, of amendment or aitara- tion. No opportunity was aflurded Mr. Opdyke and others on the floor to utter a syilable against them. They were all in one corrupt batch sent to the Senate for coatirma- tion, and there they remain, The teveral vetoes of Governor Morgan show an inde- pendence of mind, Several of them are of minor impor- tance; but he put bis seal of condemnation upon two im- portant measures in the direct face of the intorest of the re- publica party, aud these were the Susquehanna Railroad grant and the Ganal Draft Interest bill, Had he consulted the wishes of the leaders of that party he would have sanc- tioned both these bills. But his duty rose above and be- ond mere party considerations, and he performed a duty ‘which he believed his conscience demanded. He no doubdt had in his mind’s eye the dieappointment which wou d be created in the counties along the line of the railroad, and algo the fatal effects to his pariy which would be produced by withholcing bis signature from the Interest rae Jud, Pattergon, a leading republican in the Senate, opsnly de clared that in consequence of this veto} tens of thousands of votes are lost to his party along the Erie canal. Bat Governor Morgan, anticipating such a feeling among the People, did not hesitate to follow the dictates of his judg- ment rather than the arrogant belests of party. For ma- vifesting such indepenstence of iniud he ought to recoive the commendations of the people, if by this bold act he does diseppoint the expectations of hie party friends, The occupants of the executive chamber have too long beou mere automatons in the bands of audaucious lobhy lead- ere. itis high time that the spirit of Old Hickory should be in some light degree manifested at Albany, Atnany, april 19, 1959, Departure of the Lotby—How the Charter and Railroad Bile were Defeated—Who Paid the Extra Expensesof Members !—Cause of the Vetoes— Wood Satiehied— Manage- ment of the Repeal Police Bill in the Senate— Washington Heights Commission Kitled by the Herald, ‘The derertion of the third house, and the sparsely filled tables of the Delavan and Congress Hall, betoken the ap Proaching adjournment, for the flight of the lobby pro codes that of the members, Never was there a Legislature 60 completely under control of the lobby and of Wood, Littlejohn, Abel. Oakey Hall & Co. as has been this, Even the apparent failures bave been the succens of the leaders. Railroade were allowed to go under with an affectation of seeming ruccess, because the Governor wns going jp veto. The stage men and nabobe about Madison Union squares may flatter thernsclves that they killed the road; it wae but the address of leaders, whilet the tag rag are duped, The charter could have been pened, and | would have been, but forthe alterations by Diven, Blunt Co, in the Senate. Could it have been origionily report. ed as partod by the Houre, the log rolls and epoltations underneath would have put it through, Bat the oataide | #poile being removed by tho committee pincers, there Was but an attempt t pase it. Docs any sano politician fuprowe that if the vote# of Messrs, Hobbell, Pattorson, ‘Truc man and Prosser--four republicans—had heen wanted, Weed and Co, couldn't have got them? Somebod made money. Men have been hero for the va owe months who certainly wouldn’t have stwid that time verill Ore bed, 6 jobs have been than bave been snows in lpwarreach five bundred; there are terest, re cheated, Even deeigns. ‘The Susque! veto satisied rail- roaders. The Canal Certificate veto was to oblige Weed, Tie eet ils wore vetsed to eulge spposente poosnto and re: ttl were ¥ monstrapts out of private friendsifip. machine will Tun vptil next November, when the democracy will sweep the State like wildfire, Mark that. Quarantine is not to be removed, because Dr. Thompson and bis Littlejobn bro’-in-law want revenge on the Staten Ielander#, and to beat Chrystie, as also to oblige the Commirsioners of Emi and the shipping in- terest—to which Weed and Morgan belong. ‘Wood went home satisfied with his visit, but even he bad to make # bargain at headquarters before bis twenty He gave s parting kiok at four votes—a thousand dollare went through. the Health bill, which was lost for want of Dill of abominations, which made thecity, #0 far as boalth is concerned, governed by @ lot of doctors of medicine, ‘who were also to clean the stree! » John A. Kenpedy’s bill, to take away. the inspectors of election and canvsseersfrom the ), and give them to that close been lost. iron jobs to Peter Cooper and family. The new bill as to taxes and assessmenta gives the Com- missioners of Taxes and Asaassments to the appointment of the Comptroller, who will name Messrs. Williamson, Allen and Dan, Conover as bis aids in the matter. Notaries a take affidavits ata sbilling a piece. ‘There are one hundred and fifty adaitional ones just ad- ded. £0 you wil) have in New York an army of vy dred commissioners and notaries ready to make you all swear like the army in Flanders, and perhaps competition may reduce $0, urine of caine wo sizpenoe, Some men’s oaths are very cheap any price. The Re Police bill would have pasted in the Benate had it been allowed by Weed and Oaxey Hall to come to avote. Mesers. Brandreth, Barvham, Diven, ’ Ely, Johnson, Mather, Paterson, Pratt, , Schell, Scott, Sloan, Spinola, O. B, Wheeler and John D. Wiilard—17 (repubficang and Americans in talica)—wero ready to vote. Halihas been here for four weeks inoes: rantiy, and prevented, by parliamentary tactics, the vote, Of course it would have failed in Senate vote would have been a rebuke. The Houee bill to reduce Sheriff fees was reported, but ‘that was aleo killed by the same gentleman, who is one of the attorneys for ben Be is also said to have advieet against the bill to abolish the Court of Seasions. So, with eo ie public and private mischief, he has done somo b The bill to provide for vacancies in the Superior Court and Common Pieas is now a law, after two trials in the Legislature. From the asaiduity with which the Judges worked for it, one would think that they anticipated a death or two every year—per! rightly, if all which ia written abont your court rooms be true, ‘The Weshington Heights rascality commission never survived the HkRALD’s expositions. It tried to gasp in the Houge, but never reached a third reading. It could not have got the needfal sixty-five votes after its objects were understood, Amendments to the Code of Procedure. ‘The following are the amendments made by the late Legislature to the Code of Procedure. They will be found in many respects quite important:— ONE SKSHION OF THE COURT OF APFRALS MAY BE HELD IN NRW YORK. Sec. 18. There shall be four terms of the Louryut Ap- peais inearh year, to bo held at the Capitol in the city of Albany, on the first Tuesday of Repirah hs the fourth Tues- day of March, the third day of June, and she las ‘Tuesday of September, and continue for as long a period ag the public interests may require. Mut the Judges of said Court may in their discretion appoint one of said terros in each year to be held in the city of New York. Advitional terms shall be appointed and held at the fame place by the court, when the public interests re- quire it, The court may, by general rules, provide what causes shall baye a preference on the calendar. On a fecond and each subsequent appeal to the Court of Ap. peals, the cause shall be placed on the calendar as of the time of filing the return of the first appeal, SERVING SCMMONS. Sec, 184. The summons shail be served by delivering a copy thereof, as follows:— (1.) If the suit. be against a corporation, to the presi dent or other bead of the corporation, secretary, cashier, treasvrer, a director or managing agent thereof; but such service can be made in reapect to a foreign corporation, only when it has property within this , or the cause of action arcse therein, or where such service shail be made within this State personally upon the president, treascrer or recretary thereof. (2) If against a minor under the ago of fourteen years, to uch minor perzonally, and also to his faiher, mother or guardian, or if there be none within the State, then to any person having the care and control of such minor, or mich Grol he ebali reside, or in whose service be shail ba employed. G. vir ‘against a person judicially declared to be of un- round wind, or incapable of conducting his own affairs in coveequence of habitual diunkeuneas, and for whom a committee has been ppoiated, to such committee, and to the defendant personally. (4.) In all other cases, to the defendant personally. PLRADINGS MAY PR AMENDED. Sec. 172. Any pleading may be once amended by the party, of conree, without costs and without prejudice to the proceedings at any time within twenty duys afier it is kerved, or at any time before the period for answering it expires, or it can be eo amended at any time within twen- ty deys after the eervice of the answer or demurrer to such picading, unless ft be made to appear to the court that it was done for the purpose of delay, and the plain. tif or defendant will thereby lose the benefit, of a circuit or term for which it is or may be noticed; and if it appears to the court that such ameudment was made for such purpose, the same may be stricken out, and such terms imposed as to the court ecem just. In such a case, a copy of the amend. ed pleading must be served on the adverse party. After the decision of a demurrer, either at a general or special term, the court may, in its discretion, if it appear that the demurrer was interposed in good faith, allow the party wo plead in upon sach terms as may be just. If the demur- rer be allowed for the cause mentioned in the Gfth subdi- vision of section 144, the court may, in its digcretion, aod upon such terms as ‘may be just, order the action to be divided into as many actions ‘us may he necosgary to the poor Cetermination of the cause of action therein men- med. JUDGMENTS—HOW SATISFIED. See. 237. In care jodgraent be entered for the plaintiff in gucn on, the Sherif shalt satisfy the same out of the property attached by him, if it shall be sufficient for that purpoge. (1) By paying over to such plaintiff the proceeds of all sales of perishable property and of any vessel or share, or interest in any vessel, sold by him, or of debts, or credits collected by bim; or 80 much as be necessary to ua- tiaty such ju¢gment; (2) If any balance remain due, and an execution shall bave been iseued on snch judgment, he shall proceed to geil, under such execution, #0 much of the attached Property, real or personal, except as provided in the House; but the | subdivision four of this section, as may be necessary | to eatiefy the balance, if cnough for that pur; ball reroain in his hands? and in case of the wale ot any rights or shares im the stock of a corporation or agsocia- tion, the Sheriff shall execute to the purchaser a certificate of sa'e thereof, and the purchaser shall thereapon have all the rights and privileges ia respect thereto wuich were vey fan Cpree belong’ the de. .) any Property ing, to - fesiune shall have passed out of the hands of the Sheriff without having been sold or converted into money, such Sheriff shall repoesess himself of the same, and for that tof ac shall have all the authority which be had to seize same under the attachment, and any porson who shall Wiifully conceal or witbhold such property from the She- riff, shall be liable to double damage at the suit of the party injured (4.) Until the judgment againet the defendant rhall be paid, the Sheriff may proceed to collect the notes and other evidences of debt, and the debts that may have been seized or attached under the warrant of attachment, and to prosecute any bond he may have taken in the course of such proceedinge, and apply the proceeds thereof to the payment of the jadgment, ‘At the expiration of six months from the dock- eting of the jodeoam, the court shall have power, upon the petition of the plaintiff, accompanied Pr an affidavit, setting forth fully all the proceedings whi have been had by the Sheriff since the service of the attachment, the property attached, and the disposi- tion thercof, and also the affidavit of the Sherif, that he bas used diligence and endeavored to collect the evidence of debt in bis hands so attached, and that there remains ‘uncollected of the same any part or portion thereof, to order the Sheriff to geli the same, upon such terms and io such manner as shall be deemed proper. Notice of such application shall be given to the defendant or his attor- ney, if the defendant shall have appeared in the action. In case the summons has not been personally served on the defendant, the Court shall make such rule or order as to the service of notice and the time of service, as shall be deemed just. When the judgment and al! coste of the proceedings whall bave been paid, the Sheriff, upon reasonable de mand, eball deliver over to the defendant the residue of the attached property,.or the proceeds thereof. Sec. 266, At any time after issue, and at least fourton “ne party ‘che motive shall Carnie the Oietey - +9 notice shall farnieh the Cier! we Sedov Court, witt'e ote of teeve, con! Clerk shall thereupon according to the date of the ‘TRIAL i 5 3 f E Court. They sball have the same to grant adjourn- ments and toalter (allow) emesdinenta ‘to any ‘and tothe summons as the the same terms and with the ilk: r arene contempt for non attendance or re- rence {# to report the fact, the report shall bave the effect of a special verdict. RXKOUTION AGAINST JUDGMENT DROTORS, When an exectition the ot the jodemenh dvbeot; oF ot say Ong of ths, never dove ql ment ‘Any leh: eae Lestlamme Jndgmbat, lavwed tothe sheriffot the oon ty where he rerides or has # place of business, @r, if he do not reside in the Siate, to the Sheriff of a county where a judgment roll, or @ tramseript of m juatice’s judgment for ‘$26 or upward, exclonive of Conte, in filed, is returned oo- satiated in whole or in part, the Judgmeal creditor, at aay ment the action had been tried by the Court. When the rete. | a to he unjustly refuses to to errs requiring the shor iff of seied Nunes heioe teotghh bees tae dotge, be may bo judge. yu Cramsived ‘on cethenad if lt then is danger of the debtor leaving the State, aad that he has operty which he has unjustly refused to apply to sach Jrogment, ordered to enter into one ‘or mor. that he will from time to pooh Gots. ‘a8 he shall direct, and that he will not, dur- 1g the fa Ge property favit of entering into such undertaking, he may be com. mitted to prison by warrant of the Judge, as for a con- |, OD examination pursuant to as evidence against him in any criminal proceedings or progecuticn. COSTS T0 UR ALLOWED. Sec. 307, When allowed, costs shali be (1.) To the plaintiff for ‘all iD trial (including judgment when rendered Inan action where judgment upon failure to answer may be bad without application to the Court, $10; in an actiqn where judgment can only be taken on’ application to the Court, $15; and $2 for cach additional defendant, upon whom process shall be served; except in actions for the foreclosure of a mortgage, the allowance for addition- al defendants i limited to wn such defendants, and in other cases to five such defendants. (2) To the defendant, for all proceedings before notice of trial, $10, es (3.) ‘no either party, for all subsequent proceedings be- fore trial, $10. 4 (4.) To either party, for the'trial of an issue of law, $15; for every trial for jesue of tact, $20. (5.) To cither party on appeal, except to the Court of Appeals, and except appeals in the cates mentioned in section 49, before argument, $15; for argument, $30, aad the same costs shall be allowed to either party before ar- gument; and for argument, on application ‘judgment, upon special verdict, or upon yerdict sabje 0 the - ion of the,Court, as for a new trial on a cage made, and in cases where exceptions are ordered to be heard, in the frat instance, at a general term, under the provisions of sec! . (6.) To either party, on appeal to the Court of Appeals, re argument, $25; for Kees eres $60; and when a judgment is affirmed, the Court may, iw ‘'8 discretion, also ‘award damages for the delay, not exceeding 10 per oent upon the amount of the jadgment. ¥ (7.) To either party, for every circuit or term not ex- ceedibg five circuits, and five special and five general terma, at which the cauee is necessarily on the calendar, and ig notreached or postponed, $10. But in an action hereafter brought to recover dower, before admeasurement of real property aliencd by the busbund, tbe plaintiffshall not recover costs, unless it ap: pear that the dower was demanded before the commence- ment of the action and was refused. Therame costs shall be allowed to the plaintiffin pro. ceedings under chapter two, title twelve, of the sscoud part of this code (sec. 375 to 381), as upon the com- Mencement of an action. Sec. 309. These rates shall be estimated upon the value of the property claimed or attached, or aflected by the ad- judication apon the will or other instrument, or sought to be partitioned, or the amognt found due upon the mort- in an action for foreclosure. And whenever it shall bo necessary to apply to the court for an order the payment of an inegtalment falling due after juc isnt in an action for foreclosure the plaintf shall be entitled to the rate of allowaece in the last section prescribed, but to no more in the aggregate than if the whole amount of the mortgage had been due when judgement was entered. Such amount of value must be determined by the court or by the commissioners in case of actual partition. in difficult and extraordinary cases, when a trial has Deen had, except in any of the actions or proceedings spe- cifled in section three hundred and eight, the court may aleo, in its discretion, make a further allowance to any party, not exceeding live per cent upon the amount of the recovery or claim, or subject matter involved, Sec. 836. If the appog) be from a judgment directing the payment of money, it shal! not stay the execntion of the _Rdgment, unless @ written undertaking be executed on ibe part of the appellant by at least two suretieg, to the effect that if the judgment appealed from, or any part thereof, be affirmed, the appeliaut will pay the amount directed to pe paid by the judgment or the part of such amount as to which the jodgment shail be affirmed if it be affirmed ooly in part, and all damages which shall be awarded against the appellact, upon the appeal. Whenever it shall be made satisfactorily to appear to the court that since the ¢xecution of tho undertaking, the sureties have become insolvent, the court may by rule or order require tue appellant to execute, file and sorve a new undertaking ag above, and in case of neglect to exe- cate such undertaking within twenty days after the ser- vice of a copy of the rule or order, requiring such new an- dertaking, the appeal may on motion to the court be dis- | missed with coats. APPRAL TO THR GENERAL THEM. Sec. 348, Tn the Supreme Court, thy Superior Coart of the city of New York, and the Coart of Common Pleas for the city aud county of New York, an appeal upon the iaw may be taken to the General Term froma judgment cn- tered upon the report of referovs or the direction of a sin- le Judge of the same Court, in all cases, and uy the fact when the trial is by the Court or referees. bh ao appeal, however, does not stay the proceedings, unless se- curity be given, as upon an appeal to the Court of Ap- peals ‘nd such ‘security be renewed as in cases required yy fection 825, on motion to the Court at Special Term, or unless the Court, or a Judge thereof, #0 order, which or- der may be made upon such terms, a8 to security or oth- erwise, as may be just—euch security not to exceed the amount required on an appeal to the Court of Appeals In the Supreme Court the manner as if it were an appeal from an jor court. A PARTY TO AN ACTION MAY BE A WITNESS IN 113 OWN RMWALP. Sec, 399. A party to an action or proceeding may be exa- amined as @ witness in his own behalf the same as any otber witness, but euch examiation shail not be had, nor any other person, for whose immediate benefit the game is prosecuted or ‘defended, be 80 examined, unless the adverse party or person in interest is living, nor when the opposite party shali be the assignee, adminis- trator, executor or legal eee of a deceased per- ton. And when in any action or proceeding the ite party shall reside out of the jurisdiction of the rt, such party may be examined by commission issued and executed as vow provided by law; and whenever a party or person in interost has been examined under the pro- visions of this section, the other party or in in- terest may offer himself as a witness in his own behalf, apd shall be so received. When an assignor of 2 thing in action or contract is examined as a witness on behalf of any person deriving title through or from him, the ad- verge party may offer himeelf as a witness to the gamo matter in bis own behalf, aud ehall be 80 received, and to any matter that will discharge bim from any liability that the testimony of the assignor tends to render him lia! for; but such assignor shail not be admitted to be ¢: amined in behalf of any peraon deriving title through or from him against an assignee or an executor or adminis. trator, uplese the other party to such contract or thing ia action’ whom the defendant or plaintiff representa is liv- ing, and bis testimony can be procured for such examina- tion, nor unless at least ten days’ notice of such intended examination of the assignor shall be given in writing to the adverse party. ORDERS AND MOTIONS. Sec, 401. (1.) An application for an order is a motion. (2.) Motions may be made io the First Jndicial district to @ Judge or justise out of court, except for anew trial on the merits, (3.) Orders made out of court, without notice, may be made by any Judge of the court, In any part of the State; and they may aiso be made by a ene eons ty where tbe action is tiabie, or by the county Judge of county in which the attorney for the moving party re- sides, except fo stay proceedings after verdict. (4.) Motions upon notice must be made within the dis trict in which the action i triable, or in a conuty adjoin- ing that in whieh it ie triable; ex that where the ao- tion is truble in the First Judicial district, the motion must be made therein, and no motion upon notice can be made in the First Judicial dwtrict, in an action triable elaewhere. . (5.) In all the districts, a motion to vacate or modify a {sional remedy, and aa gen from an order aliow. tog & provisional remedy, shall have preference ovor all r motions if. (6.) No order to stay proceedings for a longer time than twenty days shail be granted by # Judge out of court, ex- cept upon previous noties to the adverse party. SRRVICE BY MAIL. Seo, 412, Where the service is by mail, it shall bo dou. ble the time required in cases of personal service, except service of notice of trial, which may be male sixtoon days before the day of trial, including the day of servive. Action of the Legislature on the Removai of Quarantine, The following in the mode in which the provision for the removal of Quarantine was treated in the Logisia- tore ‘The Senate failing to override the veto of tho Excontive on the bill to intereet on the indebtedness of tho State, the friends of that measure in the Assembly adopt- ‘ed the expedient of forwarding it by engrafting an aporo- priation of $75,000 upon the Supply Dill, to bo ured in the payment of interest upon the drafts up to January 1, 1860, Senate, it will be recollected, inserted in the Supply bill an item of $200,000 for the romoval of Quarantine. ‘This was emasculated in House, 80 a8 to appro. priate 000 for removal and $75, for interest, it protrasued end exciting debate folloered this proper tion. bonnes slyly ee ng the encouragement lienee—there was rome- ‘thing of rebellion to party leaders in the” contemplated ppeal must be heard in the same | tb, | cognise that higher and more solemn duty—the obliga- These jailed, and the Chair appointed Messrs. Diven, and im. A, Wheeler the comuatice, The fut thas the hounte asked a committee of conference being communicated the House, a like committee beng crepe by thas. body, conneting of Messrs. Morris, Ireland, Van * This Committee of tho Soane reported thes they agtenl by striking out the appropriation seed the ont of the interest on the canal di }, leaving in $50,000 for a tem hospital for the reception of as ce yel- low.fever and other infected paticnis; red the migaion appropriation to By 005 inserting -00d for pecul 8] water on a marshes, and iuter immaterial concessions, mas the House. agreed. In this form it was sent to the Senate. Mr. Noxox moved t© non-concur in every item, exceps the a to pay the interest on the Canai drafis, Mr. Diven raised the point of order, that the question Taust be taken on the whole report, ‘The Cxar sustained the point of order. After remarks by Messrs. Diven and Noxon the report ‘was agreed to, by ayes 20, nays 6. . Foote, Laflia, Noxon, Patterson and Prosser voted in the negative. The New York Theatres. ‘This act provides that it shall be unlawful for any owner, lessee, manager, agent or officer of any theatre in the city of New York, to admit to any theatrical exbibi- tion, held in the evening, any minor under the age of fourteen years, unlegs such minor is accompanied by, aud is in the Care of, some adult person. The law makes any person violating this provision guilty of » misdemeanor, and liable to a fine, not leas tham twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment for # term not less than ten, nor more tham ninety days, for each offence. State Documents Before the Legislature. On the suggestion of Canal Commissioner Sherrill the last Legislature passed a law providing for the prepara- tion, publishing and circulat'on of the annual reports of the various State departments one month in advance of the Saas bing-<e Legisiature; according to which these reports shall be printed by the printer to the Legis- lature, and forwarded to each member elect of the lege jature in advance of his coming to the ital. By many members will be able to understan of the statements and suggestions made by our officials, and Ban cave yt pate wx pencil ine ler the present system reports are not members until far into the session, and of course one-half” never bave time to read them, ‘The Divorce Bilt. ‘The bill to modify the divorce law of this State, whict> we believe was calculated to facilitate parties in obtaining Givorces, was defeated in the Assembly, on the first vow, and almost without discussion. Speaker Littlejohn Barned in Effigy. ‘The citizens of Newburg, indignant at what they deemed the unparliamentary course of Mr. Littlejohn, ite Speaker of the Assembly, in defeatmg the Highland Goun- ty bi, hung and burned ‘him Jn omgy. rons gallows | in the lie Square, on lay evel presence of some Fires br wut thousand persons. si The Prayer Meetings of the Legislature, In imitation, we presume, of the prayer meetings. which were established in this city during the last faan- cial panic, similar gatherings were proposed in the Albany lature at the ing of the session a view to invoke the aid and grace behalf of the members of that body. The subjoined re- , sa the Chairman will show the result of the proceed- inge:— REPORT OF THE LEGIBLATIVE PRAYER MEETING. To nme Frxps or Keucrox, Gresriva:—It seems bat Justice to you, who watched with so much the ogress of the Legislative Prayer Meeting of the last sen-. sion, that its condition dui ‘the term now about to ex- pire should be made public. Comparatively have attended ta ; vot theve Jittle gutheri ve, We trust, Deen biesced Of God.” His tefnite, soodners’ bas there been roauifest, bis divine presence has ‘the soul with joy and peace unutterable. Thovgh public duties have made large and constant exactiop# upoa our time and stren; could but re- ba ae: service and thanksgiving before the Father of Mercics, Underlying all that is noble and praiseworthy ie the spirit of Christianity. Asa quickening power it perme- ates and adorns ali that makes us distinguished as a na- tion, To it civilization is a debtor. Upon it are based our political and social institutions, Emioently fit, then, is tt for those who have been called to ot dis tinction and high responsibility as legis to make a humble acknowledgement of our dependence as indi- viduals—as a State, und as a nation—u) that inizite arm that uphojds and governs the universe: in whose breath are the nations; by whose fiat worlds fade away and new exigtences spring into being. Here, as in every other position in life, does {man need that wisdom whic cometh from above. Entertaining these views of our duty and necessities, we bond bs our rae Led and oad our Lived aed re ather. We humbly trust our asking not been in vain, Wether iil or well done, our public labors are about te close. So, too, our connection with the ive Prayer Meeting. ‘its past history has been full of joy and bless- mgs, its future we leave to be determined by those whe shall come after us. In bebalf of the committee, WILLIAM BRIGGS, Chairman, The Governor Taking Back His Veto. Governor Morgan, it will be remembered, vetoed the Port Byron and Conquest Plank Road Company bill on Sa« turday, but subsequently changing his mind on the mat- ter,on Monday he sont & message to the Assembly, ro- ’ questing the veto to be returned. His reasons for so do~ ing are explained in the megeage, which ie as fol- lows :— ‘Stare or Naw bebe pew 2a Pie tesa” f LBANY, ril 18, 1859, To 1m AstmmuLy— aca? which this toad crosses by a long bridge, has been de- clared a public highway. Had I known this fact, I nhould- have given to the bill my approval, for the reason that I take it to be clear that a compan; bo apd under the general plank road act cannot origi ly erect a bridge across navigable waters, and that there is a doubt whe-~ pd ee, 80 fo reer can rebuild and maintain an existing bridge after the expiration of ‘the special which authorized its erection." paper tie In this view of this doubt, and of the inconvenience which would result to tho public if the bridge was por- manently removed, i requeet that your body will, if con- fintont with your rules, return the message and the bill to me, that { may give to the latter my approval. E. D. MORGAN. Titles of Acts Passed at the Session of the Legislutare of 1859. CONTINUED FROM THK HERALD OF YRSTERDAY. ‘ 429. For the reliet of the trustees of the Onondaga Aca~ lemy. 430. To pay Pdward Roggen for certain water privileges taken for the canals, 431. To reviee the charter of the city of Auburn. 4282, To incorporate the Peekskill Savings Bank. ae P straighten and reduce the width of River street. ‘ooklyn. " 434, To amend an act entitled ‘An act to revise the charter of the city of Butfalo and enlarge {is boundaries,’” Poe ae 18, 1853, and the several acts amendawry ereot. 435, For the rolief of the Ansabie Plank Road to 436. To authorize the appointment of referees to —* of dacob D. Kingsland against the Clinton State * 437. In relation to reports of Stato officers, 458, To amend the articles of incorporation of tho Mar- ket Fire Insarance Company of the city of New York. 439, To amend the aot incorporating the village of Sing Sion in the Ry uty - tlc i go April 9, 1858, and the acts supploment mnendatory bene ‘a - ne 440. To amenil an act entitied “An act to County Judge of Dutchess county to sppointa. pear pond courte of record to be held in and for said county,” 441, To provide for additional compensation for Jnrore ‘” _—— upon courts of record in Washington and: the Poughkeepsie and Salt Point Plank Road Company ,"” pane’ acl 28, 1864. ime. t Ralroed tbat jo the charter of the Long Island 445. To provide for the construction of a colvort untor the Champlain canal in the town of Stillwater, Saravnga onH6. To tocorporate the Jamaton Catal Now . To incor) the Ji y Inland Navigation Company, ns yy bey 447. In relation to school district number nix in the towns of Soutpiteld and Castleton, Richmond county. 448, To incorporate the Ocean Engine ana Hose Com- pany number one In the village of Chatham Foor Cor- = bg Vg 4 = York. " . provide for the transfer of oe moneva from the General Fund to the Canal Punt ana w ap- propriate Be ey Ln also to appropriate certaim moneye received for prom{ums on lo wise iy elon : oans to the funds to " the re! amos A, al vr the role Story, Calob M. Pierce 161. Te continue in force the act entitled “An ant to