Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1840-01-09
BY SIP ell hxaress from Albany.
Governor,> yK~ssa.c.

ceived the Governors Message, by our individual
and special express from Albany. at least hour
in advance of our respectable niger contemporary,
the Sun, and sixteen hours in advance of all the
Wall street papers.
We have transferred to the Money Market all the
financial statements that Of much Importance
The rest is noaght but 6 leather and prunea'
His Small Pntaioe Hiehness begins by assuring us
that morality and the supremacy Of the laws pre-
vail; this is important. coming from distance,
il is to us in this city His Eycellency
u, also that peaceful relations nave b, en- main
tanned with foreign countries" This would have
been important news, had not Mr.. Van Buren, told
the thing in his sage OF like character is
three ourths of this tedious document.
The revenues OF the State have increased.
The auction and salt duties have increased.
The canal tolls have increased.
The school fund revenue, for the last year, was
S2s2, 900; the expenditure, S275 ,0G0
The fourth ms .ment, 81 33S l73 81, due from the
u. States, has been paid He insists its being
forthcoming.
His Small POtatoo Highness is eloquent on the
State Prisons, and thinks ielons improving
The House Of Refuge is filling up fast; and the
Blind School is looking up.
7 he Lrnatc Asy Luna is going ahead; and We hear
good reports from the Deaf and Dumb
he hopes Columbia College will no. be compelled
70 pay for the marble used in it' erection.
Harrer's school library is highly spoken Of
Foreigners 1attered and their children ca.
ressed; their naturalization fees to be sssened.
Geology is progressing, and the militia are i'm
proving.
Imprisonment for debt is CONDEMNED.
The Court Of Chancery is abused. aud h, says
requires reforming.
The Vice Chancellor and Circuit Judges are TO
be dispensed with, the Court of Chancery to be pu-
rhel, and costs for collecting debts lessened.
He wishes the Heilderbarrack tenants TO be re-
heved from oppression.
Re usties mis- refusal to give up slave stealers to
Virginia, and leans 20 the abolitionists.
1--WE arc commercial people," lays His Srsll
Potaoe Highness and therefore must look after the
currency. Then follows long rigmarole about the
currency, in Which nothing is elected.
Ke says -" The necessity of a revision of the
General Banking Law has greatly increased during
the past year. Ii isalleged, and with many evi
dences of truth, that the stock deposited with the
Comptroll;r basis for circulating notes, has been
in some instances purchased paid for with the
NOES issued upon tae stoc.. Such proceeding
anIfs sty evasion of the statute, and should
be taken to guard against for the future. Ssme Of
the ASSOCIATE have issued post notes currency
This practice is unque,tionably a violation OF the
spirit Of the law reprehensible in itself, and frau
dulent 10 TIE community"
He hopes the legislature will appoint Mr.
Talmadge 20 the Senate.
The usual details follow about the canals and rail-
ruads, the points Of which give in the money
market.
Then follows an abuse Of the policy OF the gene
raj government
lie as.erts that the $40 0OO0 900 debt wa. brought
abolt by the locofocos; and hopes that they will
not obi act to an increase Of liabilities for internal
improvements.
He Ioles we shall all "desire 10 be rem.mbe red
when we cease 10 EXIST and thinks that the best
way to sdce, this is to in debt for the benefit Of
posteri;y.
lie thinks that the question of revenue is psltry
consideration; and even that OF the present gen
GRAFTON p,ying their debts. compared with the
appearance Of our canal. aud railroads the
rection morning. is . matter Of no moment
lie saws those who oppose the state running ia
debt act ssprofaaely:r and he wishes to God" we
may have wisdom to improve our present sdyan
taxes b, running ia debt much possible, where
ever css get credit.
Hs is opposed TO the assumption of the several
State Dsbis by the general Government.
Ills Small Potaioe Excelency concludes by phi
ppic against the gene raj Government, which he say,
l. {" inrhcetuil TO promote the common welfare,
because they don't rely upon Divine Providence
PEooats, % CENrsALIzArIoS-iS NrwsPAPERs
Ltrrr.ruEr. Sc.-The Portland Courier, after an
existence often years, came 20 us yesterday for h
las, time. The proprietor states. that after siru-
glnra-an. debts an BAD pay for two years, he hs
at last given up the ship and stops the paper
II every city aid community there seems t. be
general fsrnlnfa'ian among the newspaper. Ever,
where somc are syinr-some are coming into eNis
tcnee Bot thisttndency - certsin-the daily news
paper press IN the pr1ecs, e ceniralizatio in tn
city of Nv York, a. 10 NV exists IN London an,
Paris While the ci culai.or Of the provincial pres
is dwihdus down daily. both BY sub.crlers fallin,
Oft and papers dv NJ the circulation Of The New
York pres is daily increasing IN every part Of tn
country MOI week passes that We do NJ, add se
ysral hundred ~ our circulation in the nsighborni
townsand Villages, connected with New York, b,
railroads or steamboat lines In enc or two years
eomplee re,oluiion will overtake tie press IN thi