The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-01-08
Message of the Governor of Penn
sylvania.

The annual message of the Governor of Penn.
sylvanis sent to the legislature of that State
on Wednesday last. 1t Is model in the way of
brevity. We give the foilowisg condensation of
its contents:
The actual debt-funded and uufunded-is 500.
2GS Ill 10, against which the State holds bonds TO
the amount OF S1l Isl 000 received from the sale
Of the public works, thus leaving surplus of debt
OF S2S,0S7, Ill Is, which, the Governor thinks,
may be reduced, during the current year, Que
million of dollars.
The Governor then proceeds to narrate the de.
tails OF the sale Of the canals TO the Sudbury and
Erie Railroad Company Tor S3,500,O0o in bonds OF
that corporation, secured by NOR tgagcs. He tells
also of the RESALE of the canals by that CORPORA
tion for s. S15 900. Following this, he saws on
information of a reliable character, that the pros-
poets of an early completion of the Sunbury and
Erie Railroad are very encouraging, and that, Ia
the opinion of the President within two years
the road will be entirely flashed, and the cars
running from Philadelphia to Erie. The Governor
considers the sale of all the pubic works NOS.
Fortunate. thinks the State happily rid of them,
aLd would regard it as a calamity should she agaiD a
become the owner. The coustitu,ionality of the
act authorizing the sale having been endorsed by
the Supreme Court. there is no further use for q
Boa Ard of Canal Commissioners, and the Governor
therefore recommends its abolition, and the trausy
fer OF its records to the Auditor Generals office,
The Governor calls attention to the system of
common schools, which, in the State. comprises
81, POI pupils, ,2Sl schools, $50 eacbers and
cost, during tue last school year, SAP. .G32 H.
He urges the Organization OF a separate depart
meur of public instruction to have charge of these
schools, and also the supervision OK all the literary
aud scientific institutions of the State He cou.
slders it a startling fact that of the IL SIS teachers
outside of Phiadelphla, only 5,0S7 reported as
qualified, while 5,3S7 are returned AS .mediun "
and , 3l3 unfit that OF the $50 600 school chill
dreu outside OF Philadelphia, only go 600 are un-
der proper instruction. while i0 900 are receiving
Insufficient instruction from interior teachers nd
100000 are in charge Of persons wholly unfit. of
the 12,S2S teachers, 10,SS9 under thirty years
of age. and lO,9io are natives of Pennsylvania-
Twelve normal schools for the training of teach
ers have been authorized by law, aud the Cover
nor suggests the passage OF an act guaranteeing
the payment OF a moderate sum 10 one such
school in each district. Up to the present time
pennsy lvanis has appropriated 5000 600 in aid OF
her colleges and academies. The Farmers High
School aud the Poly College are both alins
Ged to in complime ntaTy terms.
Then follows declaration against any fnrther in.
crease OF banks or banking capital under the pres
ent system, and, from the tenor OF the subsequent
passage, IL would seem that the Governor wants
the banking statutes amended SO as to provide
that each bank shall deposit with the State trea-
surer enough State ipt 10 secure it's note hold
eIs, or that this provision should be put in any Le
charters.
The erection of the monument to the dead of the
Pennsylvania volunteers in the Mexican war has
been postponed, in consequence Of the inadequscy
of the appropriation. The Governor says that the
work cannot be done for less than $50 00O and re
commends the increase of the appropriation to
that amount. Some additional safeguards upon
the treasury are recommended, and the Governor
concludes with an argument on two national
tOpics-ihe Tariff and Kansas. On the first he
comedies with President Buchanan's message to
Congress. On the second he takes ground in
favor Of popular sovereignty, and can never sub.
scribe the theory OF Cong interven tiop
as'unierstood and supported by the opponents of
that doctrine.