Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1860-01-19
Gov. Newell's Message.

The Message OF Gov. Newell, to the Leg
islature of New Jersey, is an able and we'll
written State Paper, and can not fail to add
to bis already well-earned laurels as sound
and judicious Statesman. He will retire to
the shades of private life. with the full knowl-
edge that large majority of the People of
New Jersey heartily concur in his official acts
But we feel assured that the People will not
permit him long to so remain, and shall look
for them at no distant day to again call him
into the active and exciting scenes of public
life, for which he is so eminently fitted.
We would be glad to have given Governor
Newell's Message entire, but we did not re-
ceive copy in time for our last issue, and as
it has already appeared in some of our county
papers, we will present our readers with the
following brief synopsis of it, which we find
in the Newark Mercury:
We have pursued the Message of Governor
Newell with the greatest pleasure and salts
faction, and we commend it to our readers as
one OF the ablest State papers ever presented
to our Legislature 1t gives in clear, intelli-
gible language full details Of the present con
dition of New Jersey, and is replete with val
liable information upon all the various interests
of the State While referring in appropriate
terms to its general prosperity, various sugges
tions and recommendations are made, which. if
adopted by the Legislature, will confer impor-
tant advantages upon u.s. The message is
well written throughout and fifty closes the
Gubernatorial term of t,ov. Newell during
which. he has sought to discharge his dnties
with fidelity to bis friends, and strict regard
to the interests aud welfare of the State.
After an acknowledgement Of dependence
upon God, the message opens with an ausion
to the present prosperity of the State, and to
its high character as one of the members of
this great confederacy, and urges upon the
Legislature the necessity of benefcent legis
latlon in behalf of its great interests.
The finances OF the State are then given as
furnished by the Treasurer of the State, but
they present little real information because
they are based upon system of anticipating
the revenue, which ought to be broken up
The liabilities of the State are given as $685.
096 IS, but this does not give the true
amount The whole expenses Of the last year
were 20l, 498 "a, while the receipts were
207, TAO g. The estimate receipts for 1860
are 19S,378 90. The message refers to the
fact that some debts have been paid by a sale
Of stock to the Joint Companies, but it urges
the necessity of retrenchment, and makes sew
eral recommendations of peculiar value The
message refers to the pecunlary interest which
the State holds in the Joint Companies, aud
recommends more thorough inspection of
the business and accounts of these companies,
and also of those corporations which pay into
the State Treasury a tax upon their capital
stock
The affairs of the State Prison claim con.
siderable space The members in confinement
are now 81, while there are but $50 inhabi-
table cells. and as this precudes solitary con-
finement it is suggested that the Statute had
better be repealed The enlargement of the
Prison is absolutely needed, and the recon-
mendations of the Message show that much