New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-08-18
From our SECOND EDITION OF yesterday
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.

tbrtyour Regret for the reduction OF the ratio of repre-
senatiop will be relieved by the perfect expression
the popular voice which viii be obtained by elections in
uniform single districts
tender you congratulations on The general prevalence o
health and the abundant harvess OF the year.
The edfce OF the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, at Lima,
aourishng institution hic has been favored with aid
,he treasury has bees destroyed by fire. but private
lberaty, encouraged by iobearance the part OF the
| institution.
The administration Justice has become efficient
overlooked, well the manifest necessity for e
f.ctualy securing the attendance Of grand and petit
in courts having jurisdiction in criminal cases.
The discipline in the State prisons now blends kindness
and religious instruction with regular but not oppressive la
or and producing results proptous 10 morality and con-
soing vruouS rnpaly but deeply regret The failure
Of all my efforts 10 induce the Legislature To prevent the
growth OF crime by reform ia the construction Of houses OF
detention and correction End ~ the government OF such In
sli;utions.
An agent has been appointed 10 explore mineral dis
ricts and inquire into The expedency OF substituting labor
in mines for the presen. noae Of employing conyics
by urbuen, outbreak in Which officers engaged in can
wasting votes were compelled TO leave The boxes and the
and he dwelling Of It's minister The interruption Of the
resulted in the suspension of the functions of the
common council during nearly TWO months The principle
tranquility with which the people awaited and obeycd de.
cisions the questions in issue by The judicial tribunals
spacious Aqueduct has been constructed by which the
River having been raised The blight Of hum
ded and sxtysix feet above tide diverted from its
raj channel in Westminster County, conveyed nearly forty
miles formidable inequalities OF surface, and the
Harlem River discharged into capacous reservoirs,
from which the dispersed throughout the city of
New-York. This and successful achievement the
march Of internal improvement provides the metropolis
with an element Indispensable 10 health comfort ard
curity exceeding in volume the supply Of the city OF
don, and fully anticipates the wants of the vast population
capital The cost OF The work exceeds uelve millions
dollars and deem il subject Of just pride that the credit
Of municipality has proved adequate 10 an enter
prise which in any other age could have been attempted
only by The sro.g OF imperial despoic govern
nen. The Structures not less enduring Than useful will
public spirit ofthe municipal council but also OF the adj
vanced state Of science in our country.
The remainder of The journals of the Revolutionary Lee
islaure and Convention, containing the correspondence
of those bodies with Congress with other States with citl
liberty in America ami Europe has been printed viii
vindicaie the memories OF our ancestors from contempt
lance our already high generation by making fully
acquainted with their trials aud vlrrucs.
Aided by the liberal inerpo on OF the President OF The
United States the efficient assistance OF the American
Ministers In London and Paris agent has Obtained
procured in Holland, will furnish complete trans atlantic
annaso The colony of New York from It's foundation until
Great Britain for very to
library ask your permission to mark our appreciation of
the high national cour,eses we have received from Euro
pcan States by transmitting TO them copies OF the forth
coming reports tue natural history oour commonwealth
great pleasure in informing you that the pubca-
ton OF those reports IN such rapid progress that portions
viii be submitted at tie present session suite OF the
specimens which have been colectedas been partially ar
ranged in the Geological Museum, and the seven other col
ecOnS intended for The scmnarieS OF learning will soon be
ready ol their destination The enterprise thus
mated, originated merely in an economical desire
p!ore mountains in search of coal All that has been
gained in that view is certain knowledge that THIS I'M
potant mineral does exist within borders and that
It's ample supply only be introduced by improving and
extending The channels Of trade with other commun
ties absence of coal beautifully compensated by
saline springs, and rich accommodations OF lme GYPSUM
marble and hydraulic cement in the Silurian ormatons by
mari peat the quaernary regons by pumbago and
by deposits of ron lead zinc and copper in the granite
districts, in the vicinity Of almost inexhausbe forests fur
0ftb
erals Our yceums moreover will be enriched with spec
all the animals and plants, and every soil rock
The field within which medicinal science, agricultural
chemistry mneraogy and economical geology have hither
enarct and such are the regularity OF our rock
and their exposure and such the variety and perfection ct
yet but partially disclosed regarded in the European
schools aording contribution OF great value to the
of science with data for more pniosopkcal clas
erring and mpershable records in which nature has writ
ten her annals on the globe we inhabt
call your attention TO some cases in which the law oil
Virginia. realiatng peaceful citizens Of New York In
urfs supposed to have been committed by her Executive
Legislative authorities has been put IN operation Al
though our commerce greatly embarrassed by these
unraernal proceedings yet unoendn citizens ought not
in sach cases TO be left incur Inconvenience, or suffer
loss therefore renew my request EutbOry instruct
them test the validity OF the law OF Virginia i'll the legal
tribunals.
States assigned for their Judgment in recent case
between Maryland and Pennsy!ania, wonia nvaiHa.s
should fail facilitate the capture even without legal
process OF persons as slaves me , aN;bo pau
of the decision cannot be extsndes 10 cases presenting facts
materially varying from those marked s ae ease as
habea corpus and the right OF trial by jury as yet re-
main unipared in this State; and we are not Obliged to
towards that complete political and legal equality which l
stersss Of manbnd viii Ultimately constitute the perec
ton of our republican institutions.
Rhode Island has been made theatre OF resistance 10
author IyipcOI
acter Of ce Magistrate of that State nsmii,ed to me
Legislature announcing the Executive and Legislative
authorities of this State the organization OF new govern
ent in thnt Commonwealth under Constitution approved
nv portion of the people in election held and conduct
ed without previous legislative authority Almost simalta
neously the Governor, conformity with constitutional
laws of the United States guye me notice that The nd
vidual who had thus assumed Executive functions had
taken refuge in the city OF and e 10
committed in attempt to subyerf the government OF
Rhode Island by military force conphsd win lLe re,
quirement by Issuing process but the offender was mol
found within jurisdiction also adopted proper mea
snres 10 prevent and military stores in our arsenal
near seaboard from beng used In The atenpt 10 desc
late with civil the bosom OF sister State. The people
of Rhode island soby sustained their Government without
the aid they had right expect from the federal Execu
tive and measures have adopted by their Lee
rsature, designed udy public discomfort ana sauSy
just claims for an enlargement OF suffrage. s,,,a.
Great Britain supposed TO be on the eve OF COM
peton by treaty in which our nSr.nern
rtor, the shore Of Lake Campan important to Its de-
against future aggression, and controversies which
have endangered the peace the two nations VIII be per-
manenty settled principles consistent with The national
honor
have forborne to demand fugilives from justice who
have fed the British Provinces and also TO surrender
criminals from those Provinces who had taken refuge IN
this State from the time when the Supreme Court OF the
United States virtually decided that the powers necessary
those purposes exclusively national and therefore
belonged to the Federal Government. The Governor,
General OF British North America however, surrendered
fogves upon informal request until instructions very
recently received from the Royal Government have obliged
him discontinue such eoar,eses The evil resulting from
the facility with which offenders against the laws of either
country may npuni for their crimes great
that have thought proper 10 invoke The constitutional In
terposion General Government in the hope that the