Litchfield enquirer., 1838-01-11
THE ENQUIRER.
LlTCHFIELD, JAN,Y m. 1sSs.

L1TCHFIELD, JAN'Y III, 1888.
 TIE BALL IN MUr1oN.-Preparations begin to be making for the opening of the political spring cam paign. The last Courant contains a notce sor q Whg St0e COncentiOn to be held at Hartford on the l4tn or reoruary next-the Patriot has notice for State convention of the Conservatives to be held also at Hartford on the 9th of February-and the Times for LOcOtocO Van Buren Democratic RepubIcan Sub Treasury Federal 0Gce- Holders Convention at Mid dletown on the 2lst of February.
 Nec-Yor Legisl0tUre.-This body assembled at Albany last week on Tuesday. The House chose Luther Bradish, of Franklin county Speaker. He had 99 votes, Preston King of St. Lawrence 27 The other officers ofthe House were chosen by about the same vote. On the same day Gov. MARCY transmt- ted his annual Message. It is very long, occupying four or five columns of the New-York papers. The New-York papers pronounce it loco-foco but it is not entirely so. We have room for only brief svnopsis
 After short exordium the Governor commences with the subject of the Judiciary in which he recom mends some changes He then adverts to the subject o education, and discourses at considerable length upon the subject of common schools, &c.-recom- mends that additional schools be provided for suppy ing competent teachers, and enumerates, from the returns the number of school districts and scholars the number of school districts in 1896 was lO,345-the number ofscholars reported between and l6 years is 536sS2, and the number instructed during the year 5,lSS: of students in academies there were upwards of 6O0O reported of which about 45OO were classical students.
 The Governor next passes to that prolific sub- ject the currency and connected with it, Banking institutions and the credit systenl-and after few well rounded paragraphs. and recommending gen. eral banking and restraining law, the subject of the pressure. He says" It is now more than year since we began to feel the effects of pecunary pressure unprecedented in extent and severity- Though timely warnings were given of its approach, they were not needed and the causes that conspired to produce it were left to operate with undmnished force. Its intensity increased with its progress and it has at length pervaded all sections of the country and all interests have felt it's withering power Upon this State containing the great commercial emporium of the nation the centre of domestic as we'll as foreign trade and of the monetary transactions of the Union it fell with crushing weight
 He then goes to talk of over-tradine, specula- ton, &c which locofocoism so we'll understands how to use, as the principal of the pressure though he acknowledges doubt very reluctantly, that the action of the General Government had its effect in bringing about tEe present state of things. His Excel ency then branches upon the subject of the sus pension act regarding the Banks, thinks sit was de- signed for the common good, and has emnently sub- served that purpose, by giving time to the creditors ot the banks, we'll as the banks themselves, to call m their debts. He then says,-" There was undoubt edly some reason to apprehend that the banks, after being released from the penalties incurred by failing to redeem their bills, might be tempted to an exces- sve issue their paper, and that the currency would thereby become greatly deprecated; bu, it is gratfy- ing to find that such has not been their course They have evinced commendAble desire to sustain the currency Tn sound condition, and to prepare for an early resumption of specie payments. With this view they have steadily, and as rapidly perhaps the pub lie good required contracted their issues Their cir culaon, including therein the amount of each others paper held by then has been reduced within the last year, about nine millions of dollars" He recom- mends that the act allowing the banks to suspend spe cie payments be not extended beyond the year first proposed. He then passes from the subject of banks to the Sub-Treasury scheme proposed by the Pres- dent, and comments the measure as one likely to pro- duce favorable results. He mixes with some good suggestions considerable loco-focoism throughout his remarks upon the currency, banks, credit, &c.
 His excelency next proceeds to give an account of the various canals in the state, their revenues, &c. and compares them the past year with former years shows diminuton this year from last, which he at. tributes to the shortness of the crop of ls36 and to the less amount of merchandise going upward, in conse- quencc of the pressure of the times. It appears from the Governors statements that the receipts from the lateral conals in various sections of the State fall far short of keeping them up and paying the interest for their construction.
 His Ex. then gives view of the finances of thc state, safety fund, and passes speak of the State prisons. The number of convicts in both prisons on the lst Dec. l472 The earnings at Mount Pleas ant prison for the year ending 30ih Sept were $7s ls and the expense S6042 At Auburn prison, earnings $46469 and expenses S6i 679-a very great disparity between the two prisons In the former the earnings being $l7,76O than the expenses; while at the latter the expenses were the largest by 1a.2l0 He then alludes in brief manner to the State Lunatic Asylum, at Utica. to the geological survey of the sae the organization of the militia, and in few words to the fact that some of the field pieces of the west had been taken out of the state to Canada and that he had despatched the Commissary General to take the necessary measures to recover" them he closes with general assurance that he will cooperate with ] the legislature in the performance of the important duties devo!ving upon them.
 Living as we do upon the borders of the State, and feeling interest in her politics little less than in own, we should be glad to furnish some further ex- tracts from Gov. Marcy's speech, but want of room | forbds. On the same day that he communicated his annual message, he despatched also brief extra mcs saue communic no the facts resnactino the recent outrage Schosser and recommends that provisions