The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-03-18

TRENTON, March 10, 1851
The Nep Jersey Legisature-- Sketches ofa feU o,
the most P,omtsewt Members Chartr Of Jersey
City, &c.
The assembled wis Tom of New Jersey has gone
home to spend Sunday, and will meet again in
legislative council on Monday, finish their BUSH
ness, and sdjoura finally on Wednesday. The
Senate is body respectable in talent and contains
some fine minds. Thus, among the democracy,
we have Colonel William c. Alexander, of Prince
ton, son of the celebrated DR.. Alexander. This is
a remarkable family, numbering three eminent d.
yines-the father and two sons, Drs. Addison and I.
w. Alexander-all in the Theological seminary at
Princeton-and another, younger son, popular
a gentleman of rare talents, and winning manners,
which contributed not little TO his success in the
whig county of Mercer. Another son is lawyer
in your city Henry M.-and one a physician at
Princeton. DR.. Manners, another democratic men,
Der Of the Senate, il one of the most ELEGANT men,
in address and cultivation, in the State. On the
wing eide is Abram o. Zabriskie, of Hudson, an
eminent lawyer; and Asa Whitehead, Of Essex
county. These are all men of fine talents, and
physically three of them are very great men. In
the House of Assembly, just now, the most promi-
nent men are Drs. Whitehe ad and Hoxie, the wing
boilers, on the election of Commodore Stockton as
United States Senator; Mayhem and Williams
likewise wbigs who went over, body and breaches,
TO the opposition on that occasion.
The democracy. too, has its ecusants-Opdyke
aud Brown in the House, and Garfield in the
Senate. The daguereotypes OF all these men
have been taken, learn, for future use.
Thus you see how party lines fade in New
Jersey. The old Senator, Dayton, has returned
from Washington, and resumed his practice.
Among the acts of the Legislature, little is wor
thy of notice in yesterdays proceedings, except
the breeze kicked up by the Jersey city charter
This document, long as the moral law, wa passed
by both Houses on Thursday, but Governor Fort
refused to sign il, on the ground that it contained
a clause giving the corporation the power TO tax
the property OF tie railroad companies, and dim-
nish;ng by so much the State revenues derived
from the tax on said companies There was eat
search too, for the Governor yesterday, by parties
interested in the charter but no Governor could be
found. Like the Gods of Baal, she was either
asleep or hunting, in the inner chambers" finally
he turned up and his scruples could net be over
come, the charter was withdraw from his custody,
the obnoxious CLAUSE struck out, and the bill ag ain
passed in the Senate. You must have an eye ON
that little city now, with its ne charter. Ii
tends all the way to Bergen Hill, and from Com
m 1npaw Cove 10 Harsimus Bay. Who can pre-
dict its future greatness The Senate also passed
a bill TO appropriate 900 to complete the House
OF Refuge, while the House resolved that work
shall be suspended In the latter case, | am as
sured by one of the commissioners, that the da-
IMAGES 10 be recovered by the contractors nearly
EQUAL the amount necessary 10 carry the work on.
am sdmonished that you like short letters, go
conclude