The New York herald., 1867-03-13
THE STATE CAPITAL.
SPECIAL Correspondence Of the HERALD.

ALARn REPUBLICAN, PoIIIIrAys
The proceedings In the Senate last evening, when
another bill for the organization OF commission, thi
time 10 supervise the railroads OF the State received
several fatal wounds which leave very little hope for
tho life OF the measure, indicate the reluctance with
which the present Legislature is disposed TO enact any
that may tend to make the party unpopu-
too close Q shave and is feared that
persistence in the obnoxious legislation which
rolled up such tremendous majority in the city las
November will render certain at the next election de-
feat which was imminent at the last The Railroad
Commissioners contemplated in the measure Just re-
ferred TO we're be four In number with salaries OF
5000 each per annum The latter portion Of the bill
provides for the endowment OF railroads b. the State
the rate Of s. 600 per mile. This unnecessary n not
outrageous measure was considered In Committee OF the
Whole last evening when the first sixteen sectionsthe
bill has twenty In all and covers eleven iarse pages OF
ainder Of the bill was postponed in consequence ol The
absence OF quorum
the past twelve months, and are anxious TO retrieve
their missteps The ethargic Ben Field who seldom is
seen in motion even on the most important occasions,
and yet from his quiet retreat Ike true magician
controls the movements Of his machine has been very
active OF late and may be- seen IN the lobby or 70 inc
parors, in earnest converse with the members OF his
party. II win be noticed that the democratic members
repeal Of any OF these measures Whatever lobbying
has been done against them has been by
other reasons. Thus tho pressure for the repeal
or modification OF the Excise law has been applied by
liquor dealers and men interested In the liquor business
from New York. That this will be madc very
much less stringent in its provisions there s little or no
doubt There VIII, OF course be the usual hous'ering
to retain the friendship Of the temperance advocates,
n0's Sas sliding sese sssS~ es esase cSsses win fH"
the indulgence in their national beverage; a limited
Sunday traffic permitted and the stores allowed 10
open at an cary hour 70 h"se ~nSse occn
ing stmulant, such as market men, drovers, butchers
and other industrious citizens With these changes the
law, under the pressure which Is upon the Legislature
from cyery section, will be extended to the whole State
METROPOLITAN MARKET
company bill has advanced to third reading In the
Senate and Will very probably pass This company viii
give New York system Of markets on the Philadelphia
plan-so much admired by all who have its work
Ing In view Of the location OF any Of the markets
the river the company given the sole Of the
water front where II Is not already conferred.
REsoDEILiSG new YORK CITY
| Mr. Lent submitted a memorial this morning from
Colonel James f. serrel Civil Engineer, with Plan
and Description Proposing TO Remodel the city Of New
York and It's vicinity, by annexng Brooklyn. Williams
burg, Bushwick, Greenpont, Hunters Point, Astoria
Newtown, Flushing Also extending into Westchcster
county about nine miles north of the proposed Grand
Centre In Long Island, opposite Harlem
| this memorial. which. is printed in pamphlet
! form and proposes the aggrandizement OF New
| York city to degree which would make it the
rival Of London in its close corporation Of communities
and vast extent metropolis After an introduction
pointing out the faults and wants of harbor system
and the prospective Of New York 10 be tho
largest city in the world the memorial OF Mr.. Serre
continues my proposition Is TO change III shape Of
the boundary tho eastery side of the city Of New
York and the westerly side OF Long Island opposite
thereto, by cutting New East River OF the dimcnslons
as hereinafter described through Long Island from
Hunters Point TO Long Island Sound to be comprted by
sectoHs and not oened until nnised alter which the
old cannei may be closed and filled up, thereby avoiding
and doing away with He'll Gates, both large and small,
and adding TO the city OF New York the width OF the
channels each eide OF Backwell's Island, the sand
itself and the land Long Island aud also Wards and
Randaii's islands. ihe proposed Now East River
channel could 10 completed before the present channels
hye and quarter miles long three thousand three hun
dred feet wide md forty feet deep.
As 10 the engineering difficulties In the way Mr. Ser.
re contends they greater than those experienced
at St. Petersburg and at Cherbourg. He claims among
other advantages for this plan the fowing "A snbsan
tial and groundwork tor svs
OF river and halbor improyements with Anew means
from the Atlantic Of European and other
the addition to New York city proper Of some two thou
sand i've hundred OF iand tho expansion OF the
city to metropolis worthy OF its position aud character
( as the chief city OF the Western Hemisphere.
The memorial roferrcd to the Committee on Com
| merce and Navigation
THE CANAL TROUBLES
portion sof last evening was occupied BY another
debate the Assembly on the canal investigation,
which, being regarded a OF family quarrel of the
Western members, 10 voted general bore by the city
and Hudson river members
To day was devoted to general orders, and number
of bills passed hom 10 authorize joint stock
hre and marine insurance companies to reduce their
capital stock, by vote Of SO TO II.