New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-03-11
VOC. III. NO. as5.

VOC. III. NO. 2s5.
RAILROAD LEGIsLATIoN.- our citizens who
have signed the petition for breaking up the exist
ing Railroad arrangements between ALBANY and
Buffalo, by which q passenger may pay his fare
! through from one extremity to the ether aware of
the effect the granting OF their prayer will have on
the travelling community We cannot believe it.
Similar petitions have been presented from the
Western part of the State, and on Thursday last
Mr.. Allen of Otsego, as Chairman of the ComHit-
tee to whom the petitions were referred, made a
report favorable to the petitioners accompanied by
bill which compels each company to cushion the
seats and backs of each and every car (thus cut
ting off the cheap or halt-price cars, and prohib
its each company from using the cars Of another
company aad comPes them To stop thirty min
utes at the termination of each road. As there
are eight different companies between the Hudson
River and Buffalo, this would consume four hours,
to say nothing of other stops for wood and water
which must be added to those four hours, as none
of the companies have water station in their de-
PUlS. IL oiSO IoIdSclS GA companies w OpcU
their depots to two agents runners of each
steamboat, stage, packet boat line boat, railroad,
or other association for the conveyance of pas5en
gers, and each proprietor thereof; and infic,s
penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars for each
violation. BY this bill the depot at Albany and at
Buffalo would have to be opened to about four
hundred gentlemen runners, and proporlionate
number at each of the intermediate places.
The title of the bill as reported is " An Act in
relation to Railroad Companies, and to protec,
Passengers and others from imposition and annoy
ance." We would suggest amendment of the
title so that it should read, can Act for the an
noyance of Passengers and the benefit of Pickpock
cts" Read all petitions before y0u sign them.
MILITIA DUTY.-A petition is now in circula-
ton, asking the Legislature dispense altogether
with the useless and absurd parades Of the flood
wood Militia of our City ard State, as not re-
qnired by any public emergency and answering no
good end, while they are serious vexation to and
tax upon the People. We heartily hope these pc.
titions will prevail Let the Enrolment of the
Militia be preserved, if thought advisable, but the
trainings are farce, and behind the intelligence
Of the age.
MEDICAL CoLLEGE.-By the annual catalogue
of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the
University Of this State, we perceive that 100 stu
dents have been attending the lectures at that
highly respectable institution during the session
that has just closed, larger number than for
some years past. The Spring Course of Lectures
is announced to commence on the | 9TH inst. The
subjects of this course important and interest
ing, the gentlemen who are to lecture upon them
able, and the price Of the ticket only $40.
STREET SwEEPERs.-We perceive that the
Contractors are operating with very cemmendable
energy now that the streets are in condition to
be cleaned We observed through almost the
whole line of Broadway, squads efmcn-we should
think two hundred and fifty or three hundred in
number-working with picks, brooms, shovels and
carts, in such manner 10 secure the contrac-
tors against complaints OF dirty streets This is
right. We hope they will continue as they have
begun, and demonstrate to the public that great
advantage is to be derived from the centrect-not
TO the finances of the city alone, but to its health
and cleanliness.
Iy The Post-Ofice letter box of Mr.. }. 5.
Lake, broker in Cleveland, was broken open on
the Sd inst and robbed of package of 1920 in
Bank notes, and two drafts--oHe of $500 and the
other of $500. They were thrust into stove Ter
concealment by the robber, where they were soon
after accidentally found by clerk.
ARrIsT1cAL TRIAL OF STRENGTH lnman,
Huntington, May, Page and Harding have gone
northward, to paint the portrait OF Ex-Governor
Seward Higesr prize, $1,000; lowest, SOU
This is the right way; every artist gets paid or MS
TALENT though it may create little heart-ournlng.
Old aud Young artists contending-exPecta CRASH
Evening Post.
SAD EFFECTS OF MILLERI5M.--Ihe Augusta
(Me Banner states that four maniacs were brought
to the hospital in that place last week. from one
town a. the East, who were made insane oy the
Miller deluson.
MORE FRUITS OF MlLLERlsM.-Ihe dead body
of Mrs. Luther, of Somerset, Mass, was carried
through this city last week for burial. MIS-. La'
Their was made ravisg maniac by the preaching
of Mierism, and was carried from Somerset ABOUT
ten DAYS ago to the Insane Hospital at Worcester
where she died in the most awful PareNysms. one
has loft worthy husband and nine children to de-
plore her melancholy fate. Gospel Grow MES.
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NJ We regret to learn that the domestic con-
Germs of several families in this city are disturbed
BY Millerisn,, that the property is beng wasted
and a ccmfortless age insured to some, by mise
rable reliance, on the part of the acting members
&c ,bs family anon the assertion that the weird