The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-05-15

gislative representatives Of the people of the Fin.
pire State, adjourned sine die on the 18th instant
and bent their ways to their respective homes
The session continued one hundred and twenty
eight days, and the whole number Of bills passed
was three hundred and thirty-scven, making an
average of two bills and a fraction passed each
day.
The last few hours of the session were marked
with some excitement, growing out of the war in
Mexico. Joint resolutions were introduced into
the Assembly authorizing the Governor to cali into
requsition the services of fifty thousand volunteers,
and appropriating the sum of one hundred thou
sand dollars for the cxigency. These resolutions
We're passed almost unanimously in the House,
but the Senate adjourned without acting upon
them.
Among the most prominent of the bills passed
by this Legislature, the bills authorizing the
New York and Erie Railroad Company to lay a
part Of their track in the State of Pennsylvania,
on the line of the Delaware river an act to au-
thorzc the construction of railroad from New
York to Albany an act to abolish distress for rent;
and to tax the rents of landlords and likewise an
act virtually cmancpating the people from the
oppression of the odous militia laws. Each one
of these laws is OF an important nature, and will
affect the interests of the people Of this State to
great degree.
The actiabolishng distress for rent was carried,
through the influence Of ant-rentism the act
concerning the militia laws cuts up the oppre sson
under which the people have groaned so long,
and dcprvcs the famous Mr.. Gulick of the
greater portion of his fees. Othello's occu-
patton is Virtually gone Alas poor Gulick
We pity your fate; but we fear there are but few
will join us in commissioning thy fallen condi-
ton. BY this law, the fees for non-attcnding mill
tia trainings reduced to seventy-Rvc cents a
year, and the fees collected in this way will 90 to
the support and encouragement of volunteer and
independent corps.
We congratulate the people of this State, and
more especially the citizens OF this city, on the
partial reform that this bill will make. 1t is not,
to be sure, as thorough as we have wanted; but
half loaf is better than no bread. 1t will, at all
events, excuse military service, on paying seventy
five cents year. And this fine will be paid more
readily, when it is known that instead OF its be-
ing expended as heretofore, in providing oyster
suppers, &C., &C., Tor the epaulettcd coxcombs
who have tortured our citizens to death with their
courts martial, it will be disposed of in a way
that will be satisfactory to all concerned.
Our NAVY AND IT'S PosIrIoN-The Secretary of
the Navy will find himselftrammelled, in procuring
a sufficient number of seamen for the present
emergency. Our sailors, the few we have of
them, are patriotic, and will join the fight with
alacrity, but they are too scarce. We have Off
GERS in abundance, but seaman for the Navy have
never been encouraged properly. The pay is too
small, and there is no chance for a talented man
to obtain post on the quarter deck, if he COM
menced among those who have been so Jealous
as to ship as a sailor boy. We have brave Off
GERS, and we would not disparage them, for
time must show that they will not lose character
by lying broadsde to broadside with any in the
world, in war or peace /; but we have too much
exclusivencss-too little of reward for real merit.
What to the nation is the school for middes at
Annapolis! Is our navy to be manned with mid
shipmen Or ought we not rather, to adopt the
really republican plan, of throwing plebeians and
aristocrats into one great national mill, from
whence to grind future couan,odores and
common sailors, according to real merit Mr.
Secretary Bancroft bestows too much care upon
the "sprgs" at Annapolis, and too little upon the
" bone and snew," for good rcpublican-and
we fear that the day is not far distant, when the
country will pay for this unfortunate discovery.
BY the way, what has become Of. Tom Coins Ma
val School /? 1t was established in 1887, and nine
years should have turned out for us, ut least 900
able bodied, educated American seaman Who
murdered this inestimable plan Give us his
name.
MUSICAL MovEMENTs.-Musical affairs are be-
ginning to look up. During the last six months
they have been in a state of allegiance. Last fall,
De Meyer, Templeton, and Madame Pico, after
successful and brilliant careers left for the sun
ny SOUTH Since then, up to the recent concert or
Madame Pico, there has been no successful effort
to enliven the musical world, and no great fash
ionable excitement Attempts have been made,
during the interval, by many persons to give con-
certs, but they only reminded of the negro carl
catures of the great men of past times, and only
served to provoke ridicule and laughter. Musical
matters seem now to spring forth with the buds of
the season. and to keep time with the melody of the
forest Madame Pico's concert was most bril-
liantly attended.
Templeton, we believe, has arrived in the city
from Almost successful tour in the South and West,
and will be ready to give a series of musical en-
tertainmcnts in few days. His temperance
will cause some stir among those persons who
upon every professional character that appears
amongst us, and who begin their supporters,
then their private traduccrs and lastly as their
open foes-brutal, beastly and backguard.
There are few individuals in the lower ranks
ofliterary and newspaper society, who have con-
ccived the idea putting down Mr.. Templeton on
his temperance in New York, because he did not
choose TO comply with their impudent calls upon
him for black mail, when he was here before.
These persons have attempted, by writing news
paper squbs, and depreciating reports, to injure
him while on his Southern and Western tour, and
to hold him up to contempt and dcrision. These
attempts have been defeated by the good sense of
the people who went to his concerts, paid their
money, got the worth oft and were satisfied. A
grand demonstration is now to be made, VIC UNI
derstand, on his temperance, TO put him down.
Whether IL will succeed we do not know: bur we