New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-10-08
BROOKLYN ITEMS.
THK Lone ISLAND RAILROAD QUESTION

Tx L0NG ISLAND RAILROAD QUESTION
TIE Co,noN Gov cIL--At an early hour on Monday
evening the audience portion Of the Common Council
Chamber filled To It's utmost capacity win inter-
ssed spectators, who had been draw hher to witness
the action Of the Board IN regard TO tins absorbing
QuestoD. IL which great numbers of the inhabitants
Of this City and the Island generally are either
directly indirectly interested After the usual
rvrtine OF opening several petitions were read from
enzens asking tire repeal OF the ordinance pro-
hitting the OF steam by the Long Island Railroad
Company IN Atlantic St after which, Aid. Marvin
vfesented a memorial from the President and Dlrec-
tors of the Long Island Railroad Company, request
INK the appointment of "A Committee OF Conference
10 ARRANGE with them some plan for the satisfactory
management OF the road, OF which the following Is
an abstract
II represents the great expense Of building the
Railroad the diferen, Companies having exhausted
capital amounting TO $3.0OOOO0, and the real accom-
modaon Il affords to passengers between Brooklyn
and Greenport and other places that the benefit OF
expenditure has only begun 70 develop nsef IN the
increasing number of travellers, aScoTtaed to have
amounted within the last four months to io342I tha'
business is accommodating, and houses and improving
villages are being built up along the line that the
road originated the necessity for, and gave increased
activity to. the South Ferry. and also contributed
essentially TO The rapid increase OF South Brooklyn :
ha at fIst the steep ascent IN Nanticst coulu ohy
be overcome by use of horses al great cost ana oe-
lay tha; this deficiency mas 0cen rCmedleo d! paw
ing Atlditlc-st at IN expense OF $Su'ooo anu oS
building under the ewes and with the assent of the
Corporation of brooklyn long and deep tunnel, at
an expeg So 81 100000 that the Company has the
contract ior carving the mails, and are entitled 10
the most favorable aud liberal construction but the
legal measures adopted BY the Board deprived the
COMPANY Of The benefit of the tunnel and OCCASIONS
great de- as go passengers and freishS that the speed
of lOCOmOuvcs within the CITY bounds snail De re-
strlc,sd 80 moderate rate, rendering them less dan
geTous tnaE horsepower. the adoption OF which
would iIelcaSe rather than diminish the number OF
accident, that the measures pursued by the city
authorities VIII njurOuSy affect the interests of the
mass OF The population Of Long Island and on all
these grounds memOrlalSts ask the withdrawal of
the ordnance, ana that the public may have the &C
tOmmodailon of dispatch, by the Company beng
gain permitted 20 use steam locomotives.
After The reading OF the memorial Aid Marvin
noved the appointment by the Board OF Special
Committee II i've 20 confer with the Company, ard
10 whom he petitions relating 10 the subject be re-
esTed AID. Spiuola hoped The matter would be re-
srred u lie special COMMITTEE which previously
lad this subject III charge, and moved as an amend
men, that the old Committee on Railroads be APP
Nm,ed Lost ayes, - noes. After which the
sheet generally was discussed AT great length,
when Ala Snlwoll moved that when The Committee
ssppontei II be instructed 20 receive no propo-
lions oher than those presented IN writing, which
vas lost, agd on the main question beng put 1t was
ssrled. motion was then made by AID. Spinoa,
haithe (ommittec Oe appointed by the Board and BY
hlo,, both Of which we're lost, and the following
Committee was subsequently appointed, VIZ MeSSrS.
Marvin. Peli. Booth, Litchdeld, and Hustled.
Anumbel Of petitions, numerouSly signed, IN favor
aeHs,,g ordinances prohibiting steam IN Atlantic
y, wete presented by AID. Lambert, which were
40 referred to the new Committee.
JUVENILE PICKPOCKET.-On Sunday eve
mig, MI. Vim. Woolsoy, a fireman on one Of the
taien ieiy-D0ats discovered that $40 III biiS had
wen ao>t acted rom his coat pocket, and suspechng
uesi shd dumb boy named John Hurley, aged
soov' !. Neais, lie followed and overlook hlm al the
,aharne ferry where he found the money III his pos
SESSION We Was brought over 10 this City and gwen
VI ue coS'ody OF officer Coiycr, and Yesterday morn
ns wa ,aAen before Justice King, convicted and
imqueniS
.aNplDATES FOR ADMISSION TO THE BAR.
=, w we 'eiitrd Term Of the supreme Court, held
hs, vo,snor'S Room OF the City Hall Yesterday
tSa IN o1se Morse, Justices BarculO and Brown,
sIav'ohhs applicants for admission 20 the Bar
TSSn..Mtls an examination by John 4. Lott, VIM.
Rsr,'on ana VIM. Peet, ESQrS, VIZ George C.
r. ~ NJ Joan Oakley, Edwin VI Daniel, Moses Ely.
.;SeNAS, Frederick Lackeu, joan Hess, Robert
as ,h snler' Jesse {. Young. After the conclusion
sn,s, examinations. Mr.. Lott informed the aSpr
rs " tsl u The morning, until which time the de-
s~oh OF the Court l. reserved