New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-01-07
Gov. Hunt. Message.


year Just closed exceeded s3,1O0,OOO;
which sum, after paying all the expenses OF
Repairs ard Management, Sl,6j0,OOO prln-
cipal ana interest of the Canal Debt, and
$500, 900 toward the ordinary expenses of
the Government, left a surplus Of S950,OOO
70 be devoted to the completion Of our Pub
lie Works. OF the S9,O00,000 to De bor-
rowed to complete those Works, 81 900
has recently been obtained on SIX per cent.
bonds which the State agrees to pay only
in case the Canal Revenues shall suffice for
that purpose, let these bonds have sold
above par. The Individual Property sub
ject to Taxation by the State is officially
valued at s1,lOO,OOO,OOO, and is doubtless
worth $50 100000. The Canal Reve-
Hues of the past year exceed those of the
preceding by S235,000, and the Hall Mill
Tax for general purposes has also loving
to more Just and equal valuation of pro
perty) yielded a large increase over the
proceeds Of any former year. Gov. Hunt
suggests that this tax may be reduced, but
exhorts to caution in the reduction OF our
Canal Tolls in view of the pledges OF said
Tolls to secure the payment of our new
Canal Stock. Our School Fund exceeds
S6,500,000 which. added to the fair pro-
ductiye value of our Pubiic Works, makes
total of over Fifty Millions of Dollars
against Public Debt Of some Twenty Mil
lions. The State Of York, therefore,
has available assets worth Thirty Millions
more than all she owes. How many other
Political communities, State or National,
can show SO fair balauce-sheet
Our Common Schools taught 726, 29l
children during the past year, at cost for
Teachers Wages and School Libraries Of
81, 432 ,696, or a little over 50 per pupil.
We estimate, however, that only about
100000 children constantly attended, in
cressing the cost to nearly So per scholar
still cheap enough The Governor says
eur new Compromise School Law of las
winter is popular and works well but he
does not say whether the Number of pupils
has increased under it as fast as under the
Free School law, nor what is the state and
progress of education. We fear our
Schools have rather retrograded than ad-
vanced since we abolished the County SUI
perintendents and we heartily wish the
Governor had recommended a return to the
Superintendent system. We should prefer
one for each senate District. chosen by the
People thereof at each election ofSenators
ard paid fair salary A good officer in
that place would richly earn $500 per an
mum, travelling expenses included. He
should be required to visit personally every
school in his District within his two years.
We totally dissent from the Governors
recommendation of farther donations Of
Public Money to Colleges Those institu-
tons swarm among us like the frogs of
Egypt, and State gratuities are the slime
wherein they are bred. We trust the Legis-
lature will never give them another dollar
We firmly believe that we should have had
fewer but stronger and far more efficient
Colleges to-day il no shilling had ever been
taken from the State Treasury for their en-
dOwment, and we trust the present Legis-
lature, instead of giving away more money
70 4 fnlioUne mill loNE chorr,Itr tafo ID
nations to Academies. and see whether
these are all well bestowed. We suspect
they are not. Why is the Governor silent
with regard to the State Normal School
As to an Agricultural and Mechanical
College mot tco, by any means) we are
warmly in favor of it, but not of its endow-
ment by the State. We want good one,
and not such drones nest as we fear a
State endowment would give US.
What the Governor says of State Prisons,
Crimes, Judicial Revision Of Capital Trials,
the Pardoning Power, &C., we like We
are not Convinced, however, that the pris-
oRers might not be SO employed that their
products should not at all interfere with
the honest mechanical industry of the
State.
We heartily approve the Governors sem
timents respecting our Charitable Insttu-
tons ard the Protection of Immigrants
from Europe. Also, his endorsement Of
our system OF Free Banking, and his sug-
gestien OF law to prevent Railroad Acct
dents. Such law should punish walking
on 4 track and other independent causes of
such accidents as well as those in which
the Companies and their agents are culpa-
bic.
AS to the prevention of Bribery at