Legislative Trickery

The Editor of the State Journal writos f rom Detroit : "There aro a number of bilis bcfore the legislatura Tor incorporatir.g Ruil Road and Plank Road Companies, most of thein dêisigned, it wouW seem, to give a fictitious mportance to certoin localitie-, to give a ficiitious valué to proporty in certain viltoges, &c. - in oihar words, to cnable cerinin people to pocket money llial hns been earned by tho industry ol certain other people. It is a shocking thing for the Legislature to lend itself to such schemes. Mr. Noble stated to-day that the amount of Rail Road capital ni lowed by the various charters already enactcd in ibis State was not lesa thon thirty millions of dollars ! The assessed value of all the properiy in this Staie doej notexcecd thnt amount."