New-York daily tribune., 1846-01-16
NexY...IerncH.

The Message of Gov. SrRATToN was delivered
on "Wednesday. Ii is short and 10 the purpose. The
receipts into the Treasury during the past year amount
to s132 49a 5O-the expenditures to sl27,2l3 52.-
Balance in the TreasuryIS5,27s 95. The estimated
receipts for the next year amount to the sum OF
Sl577s6 53-more than sufficient to meet all cxpensea
without resorting to- increased taxation
The income of the School Fund during the year
amounts S7274 55 of which only sis72 6s has been
expended leaving for deposit 500 4ol s7 The whole
amout of the Fund is S350,6S3 20.
The State Prison has yielded income during the
year over its expenses of IS 22 81 of which $4,000 has
been paid into the Treasury. The average number OF
prisoners has been l6i. Accompanying the Report OF
at the su sgcstion Historical Society ofNcJersey
with great labor commencing in the year l79s and eN
tending down to the present time showing the whole
number of convcts admitted and how discharged the
country of their BIRTH the county where the offence was
committed the character of the offence the age and pre-
vious occupation of the offender
The gentlemen appointed to collate and revise the
public acts of the Legislature will submit the result OF
their labers at an early day.
The alteration and improvement of the State Houses
and the erection of four public offices in connection there
with authorized by of the Legislature passed
the last session This work is nearly completed and
the whole fabric presents pile, which. in external sp
pearauce, hg hly credabe 20 the Commissioners ap
pointed and in internal arrangements calculated 10 pro-
mote tine convenience of the Legislature the Courts ana
Officers and afford additional room and security Tor
the library and public records.
Vigorous measures have been taken for the erection
of Lunatic Asylum near Trenton. The extreme length
of the building will be four hundred and eighty feet the
width of the central part eghtyour feet and OF the
wings thirty nine feet The central part is to be four
stories high. and the wings three stories the found
alton and external walls TO be of stone and the whole
covered with State The estimated cost is seventy-hve
thousand dollars The building is calculated for the &C.
commodaon of two hundred patients
There are eighteen deaf and dumb and fifteen blind pu
pills supported the expense of the State in the nstitu
tons established for their instruction in Newfork and
Pennsylvania The expenses about equal to the ap
preparations for these objects.
The Governor speaks in highly commendatory terms
of the New Jersey pilots.
These the principal topics of Message creditable
the judgment OF the Governor in every way but espe
caly for its brevity.
CoSNEcrlcU1.-The Wings of this State held
Delegate Convention at a New-Haven on the l4th
inst--lal towns representation. Chas. W. Rock
well Of Norwich, President-and nominated the
following ticket in place of the present State officers
who declined reelection:
Gorernor -. CLARK BIssELL Norwalk
Il. Coz ---.--CHAs. J. MCCRpY Lyme:
SEC. Of e--Dr. JOHN B. ROBERTSON. n. Haven
Treasurer. JOSEPH 3. GILBERT Hartford
Comptroller -.AB1JAH CATLIN, Harwinton.
These nominations were made with cordial una
nimity, by of the largest Delegate Conventions
ever held in the State. We trus, they are to be
elected by decisive majoriiies.
MAssAcKusErTs.-The Legislature in convention
"Wednesday elected John P. Bigelow, Edmund P.
Tiles,on, Samuel Hoar, Ebenezer Bradbury Hon.
Chs,rles Russell Edward Dickinson, Daniel L.
Dewey, James C. Starkweather and Charles Mars
ton. as members of the Executive Council. John
G. palfrey was elected Secretary, and Joseph Bar
rett Treasurer of the Commonwealth. These gen.
,lemen were the Whig candidates for the several
Offices which they have been appointed 10 fill.
ISpIASa-A Loco-Foco State Convention as
sembled at Indianapolis on the ssh inst. and nomi-
mated Hon. JAMES WHlrcoMB the incumbentl for
Governor and PARRISH c. GARDNER of Monroe Co.
for 1t Governor in place OF Jesse D. Bright elected
U. s Senator. The Globe calls the Lieutenant
Paris B. Dunning. The Convention appears 10
have been harmonious, and they talk OF electing this
ticket by 5000. We shall see
B The Charleston Courier says that the major
i,y of GEo. w. TowSgs Loco, for Congress in the
Hid Distric, of Georgia is 400.
F JOIN G. WINTER has been reelected Mayor
OF Columbus, Ga
B We are again under obligations to Messrs
Livingston Wells or Albany papers in advance OF the
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