The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-01-03
Message of the Governor of New York.

Message of the Governor of New York.
ALBANY, Jan. 1.-THE Governors
Annual Message, delivered to the leg
islature to-day, says: 1t will be your
high privilege, in the name of the peo-
pie of the State, to ratify the Constitu-
tional Amendment, which Transmit to
you to-day, and earnestly recommend
your prompt action. The proposed
amendment seems to contain just the
conditions of safety and justice indis-
pensable for permanent settlement. 1t
also says that during the past year, con-
siderable progress has been made in
the work of retiring the circulation of
the few remaining banks doing BUSH
ness under the laws of the State. The
Governor recommends the most practi-
cal retrenchment and economy in every
departure of public expenditures. The
millions of dollars, and if to this is adj
ded the county, town and municipal
Indebtedness, the sum is more than
doubled. On the first OF January, 1866,
the enrolled and organized force of the
National Guard was slightly in excess
of fifty thousand men. The Governor
says there has been "a marked improve
ment in the National Guard organiza-
tions of the State during the past year,
in discipline and efficiency. He
directs attention to the importance OF
breech-loaders, and says he has deemed
the matter of sufficient Importance to
warrant the appointment OF u military
commission. The revenue from canal
tolls for the fiscal year was 81 PAS, 93l;
the auditor of the canal department es-
Inmates that by the close of the fiscal
year in 1865, IL whole debt contracted
prior to 1866 will have been paid or pro-
Vided for, and that the entire liquida-
ton of the general fund debt of 1916
may be looked for in the year 1872, the
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1850, tonnage carrying capacity of
four millions of tons, in each direction
since that time it has not been taxed at
any period with business or the transit
of boat carrying tonnage to exceed, very
little if any, seventy-tive per cent. of
that capacity. The Governor speaks of
circumstances that have conspired to
raise the charges for canal transpoIta-
ton and the complaints made by the
people of the Western States, and says
no portion ofOur country can ask of us
reasonable facilities, which it is not
even more our interest to grant, in this
spirit and with these views of
duty as well as policy. Therepresenta-
tives OF the people in the legislature
and coming convention will doubtless
act upon this important question. We
can construct an enlarged tier of locks
to the Erie and OSwego Canals from
tide water, to the Lakes Ontario and
Erie, which will admit the passage of
vessels propelled by steam of 600 tons
burden. 1t may be admitted that this
is the probable extent of our ability,
using the present of our public works.
These vessels would carry three fold the
tonnage of our present 200 ton canal
boats, and make the round trip in half
the time with the vessels of the tonnage
and description have mentioned pro-
PEELED by steam. Competent engineers
haye estimated that the capacity of the
canals will be insreased to over eleven
million tons, and the cost of transport
tation reduced SO per cent. From an
examination of their surveys and the
estimates made in 1864 and 1865, can
not place the cost at more than ten mil
lion dollars.