The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-02-25
By II II K M AILS.
LE0ISLATIVE PROCREDINGs

H Senate.
ALBANY, Feb. as, 1877
Bright and beautiful morning one foot Of snow ID
sparkling in the beams Of winters sun; convocaton Of
seighng parties In State street.
- MOHAWK AND HUDSON RAILRoAD.
MIR; bErKMAr presented the petition Of the Mohawk
and Hudson Railroad Company, asking for change Of
pany" and for addition of $3.50 900 to the capital Of
the company The petition was referred to tho commit
tee on railroads.
Mr.. sANyorD presented tho memorial of Townsend
Harris j. &. Bosworth, and John L. Mason oommittee
Of the Beard Of Education of the city Of New York pray
ing the passage OF law authorizing the board to estab
sh free academy in said city. The petition was refer.
red to the Committee on Literature.
,umhs. ~ presented tns several petitions Of large
New York. setting forth the existence OF gross frauds in
the sale OF goods at auction and asking the imposition
State duty on all property knocked down and not &C.
uaiiy sold The memorial was referred to the Judicial
Ky Committee.
Mr. BAcKus reported bill TO increase the powers Of
this State. "
The bill was referred to the Committee of the Whole
II IS SAID to be an unconstitutional nd outrageous bill
and mat 1t cannot get four votes in the Senate II has
been sent to the printers, and in day two will re-
cur to it again.
RELIEF or IRELAND
Inc Assembly bill, to allow railroads to carry conri-
Dauons oil nour nc Tor Ireland free Of tolls defeat
cd by the SeEate-ayes II; noes
Inc President pro tenn expressed the opinion that the
bill was two-bird BILL and that il was The reore lost
Mr. SPENCER appealed from the decision of Ia Presi
dent and the appeal was laid upon the table
An. the Senate went into Committee of the Whole on
Wo uiu IePOIeu ny MI DenngtOn, from the Comm
on Canals entitled An act making appropriations for
the canal debt and for the support and maintenance Of
the canals during the year 1877
For the payment Of the interest on tho canal debt and
Tor the expenses OF the Office in the Manhattan Company
Tor the issue and transfer of canal The bill appro
PIRATES $940 I6I 81 appropr $685. 900 for the
penses OF collection and ordnarv ra
ana - quo Tor the proportion OF canal tolls belong
ing to the proprietors OF the Albany Basin
The committee did not vote upon the bill
Assembly,.
ALBANY, Feb %, Is47
Is not forgotten that several days since the Uou.e
instructed the Adjutant General to furnish complete
history OF the Organization of the California regiment
commanded by Col stevenson and the manner in which
the officers Of that regiment we're commissioned etc
etc, etc This report will be presented to the House TO-
morrow: il will be accompanied by some peculiarly
rscy and funny correspondence between silas WRIGHT
and VIM L. Marcy relative to the organic alton of this
regiments It IS confidently stated that OF tho dis
closures will be amazing.
Immediately after the meeting OF the House this morn
ing the rules wero suspended and the House. in Com
Senate bill as amended by tho House. divide the State
into judicial districts The question was upon agreeing
with the section Of the bill as passed by the Senate
eral election IN November The result OF long debate
upon this section was that the bill was reconmitted to
the select committee, with instructions report subssn
tally, that after the first special election for Judges in
May next required by the constuton) the judiciary
officers shall be elected at general elections
TELKaRAPHIc.-The papers are full oil encemi.
ums upon the wonder working telegraph. The
albany Epsning Journal says, cannot aecustom or
amarze ourselves TO the magical rapidity with which
Intelligence passes over msgne tic wire. Ten minutes
after the steamer Cambria arrived at Boston, on Saur
day. the fact was announced to US by Mr. Carter This
morning We received request from the editor of the
Toronto &c. W. Co!onist, for the Cambra's news by
telegraph An answer referring them TO Buffalo for tho
news was returned. and response received, saying
that they would get their from Buffalo ell in the
space Of half an hour We take this occasion also TO
tender our acknowledgements to Mr. Carter who super
intends the telegraph station here for his uniform kind
and attention lin and of season. in facilitating
our efforts to obtain early information.
The New Haven Herald Of Monday, contains a sum
mary oil the foreign news brought by the Cambria The
editor says Tho foreign news in our columna This
morning was sent from Boston to the station in this city
on Saturday afternoon, and rewritten immediately after
word TO New York. This in conse1uepcs Of some
defect in the insulation of this city which
ga The I'm. wokng through from Boston to New York
the number OF verbs each letter Of which requires TO
be written out in character yet the whole
OF was sent from this station the line TO New
York in one hour and ten minutes.
We leara that the wires Of the Boston and Nav York
were cut on Saturday, about half an hour
after the steamers nsws was received. The two iron
wires were filed Of Mt Brighton about four miles from
this city but the vigilance of the telegraph officers
and their wachu suspcions Of certain parties
in this infamous transaction, together with the praise
worthy cooperation OF Mr. Monroe, the conductor of
he o;n, 81 ,h ,rn, IN Stopping the engine AZ
line Dsomuch that before the guilty parties Zone of
them was femsle) reached tho Worcester station,
where they hoped to have communicated 10 New
York, large portion of the news had been sent on
Boston Mail
Arrangements hat been contaminated for the exten.
sion OF the magnetic telegraph from Toronto to Mont
real Messrs Livingston Wells have the contract for
its construction. The distance 10 about 400 miles and
the work 10 be done in the most SUI stanal manner
by the LIST OF August next IL could not be confded 10
more capable and energetic hands. Commercial
The New Orleans Bulletin OF the 18Th states that MIR
Lloyd, the agent Of the Washington and New Orleans
Telegraph Company, met the Chamber of CONNIE last
evening, at special meeting called for the purpose in
order to explain the intended plan Of connecting New
orleans with the Northern cities, by OF the mag
netic telcbraph The details and general information on
the subject, as given by MIR Loy highly impor.
,snt ana interesting The line Is already established to
Ietersbufg, and the stock subscribed carry Il on 10
Charleston and Savannah, and subscriptions are now
wanted Tor the route from the latter place 10 New Or
eshs Inc line to Pittsburg is being extended 10
cincinnati and Louisville and will soon no doubt DO
Csrnsa 70 NJ Louis The chamber appointed commit
us OF nve members to confer with Mr. Lloyd examine
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