The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1863-01-15
EBESsEURS
THURSDAY ! :::::::::::::::::::::::J AN [ AIRY 10
Tlsc Governors Message.

To the exclusion Of our usual variety,
we this week give place to the Annual
Message Of Governor Curtin, delivered on
Tuesday of last week, Considering the
Importance of the topics discussed-the
position which our Commonwealth, from
Whatever stand point we view it, now oc-
cupies-the crisis in which the Union is
involyed-the Message deserves double
importance, both as State paper and the
cnunciation Of the Chief MagistSate Of one
Of the, if not Of the most powerful Com
monwealth in the Union.
Tie structures Of the Harrisburg Trlc-
groph On this subject are so pertinent
aud to the point that We adopt them as
our own: The first topic touched is Of
course one relating to the peculiar inter
csts of the State. Those interests are
involved in the business prosperity of the
people, and this prosperity is of course
more or less controlled by the financial
health and secnrity of the local state
government. In this particular, the mes
sage presents a spectacle of security and
success which seems almost fabulous.
From tables embraced in the wes~acc,
We derive the information that the receipts
from ordinary sources Of revenue Cor the
year 1852, are in excess of the receipts OF
the year 1861 one n,igion thirty thousand
one hundiea and serenty-sic dolIGrs and
eiyltty-t' t'eo cents, 1.-THE excess of interest
paid in. 1862 over that in 1861 being
51H, go 37;l and that the ordinary ex-
penditures for 1862 were ninety FIVE thou
sand three hundred and seventeen dollars
and sixteen cents less than the year pre-
vious. What other state can present q
similar account Of its finances None
certainly, in this Union, and Of course
jasone out OF its limits 1n either side Of the
Atlantic And with this spectacle of the
health of our finances, while the nation is
devising plans for the increase Of its rev
enues the Chief Magistrate Of Pennsylva-
liza deems it just to recommend reduction
of the burdens of taxation, because the
resources and the finances OF the Common
wealth are such assto enable the State
| Government to sustain itself, to certain
| extent, without direct ala from the people
! We deem this bare fact, extracted from
| the figures with which the message set,
! forth the financial condition Of the State
/ sufficient to elicit our warmcst congratula
ton, not OILY for the people, who are So
largely benefited by the result, but alsC
! for the Executive, who has so steadily and
zealously labored for lis realization.
! The message in dctai! refers 10 Other
! interests affecting the credit Of the State
and contributing to its resources, all ot
which arc in healthy and prosperous
condition. In reference to the military
operations of the Commonwealth, tho
message conveys facts which have alrcadJ
| found their way to the public in uno!hca
/ shape These facts are now the fair boas
and honest pride of every true Pcnnsylva
man. ie not of every loyal man and patri
I otic lover Of the Union. Every call made
for troops was promptly answered, and The
men, without a mu-mur or expression o
| dissent, were mustered into the service o
/ the Government, and are now eithe
braveiy battling in defence of the Union
| or after having fought the good fight, arr
resting in graves covered with the slor,
of the deeds in which they participated.
1t is best tha. the reader reviews 70
himself the history and the figures which
the message presents. When these ar
! fairly weighed and dieested. when tn
| local government OF the Commonwealth j
tested by the force which these present
Pennsylvania will be. found in position
at once prosperous and impregnable-
prosperous when considered in rcfcrenc
to her internal trade and resources, an,
impregnable when contemplated as life
giving power to the existence aud stabilit
of the American Union.
Uo, V,ob,r;.b (tban,iior hoe Loo