Litchfield enquirer., 1867-05-09

improve and DeauGiy the appearance Of the city. The establishment of the Petro- tleum Company, which was consumed by fire l&st winter, is again rebuilt. Messrs Fowler {; Go. have erected building in which to nanrflcture new kind of bricks, which are said to be 6 patent and very su- perior article.
 But it is time I had brought to close 8 letter fear ycu will find much too long.
 ". ;. EXTRACTS FROM THE GOVERNORS
 MESSAGE
 Fsllo.c- Citizens of tle Ssnata cad lie Honse 9 l Representatives
 In entering upon the duties to which ] have been called at this interesting period fof our history, ! am impressed with the consciousness of my inability to meet the expectations of those who have so gener- ously honored me with the trust and 1 should be destitute Of feeling were 1 not deeply affected by the confidence reposei in me by my fellow v-citiZens.
 1 NArIoNA1. AFFAIRS
 The situation Of pnblic affairs is in every aspect important. Two years have elapsed since our country emerged from civil var such as the world has never witnessed a var which had been waged to maintain the supremacy of the federal Constitution and the integrity Of the National Union. Over the calamities of that unhappy conflict which desoJatel so large Q portion of our country and carried sorrow into 50 many households, we long shall mourn but as citizens Of 8 common country We should strive to eXtinguish the v;nt};ctiTe resent ments It engendered.
 1 have thus particularly brought to youl attention these acts of the Federal Congress, because, in my judgment, theic tendency is to revoll!3onize the character Of our Gov ernmen5 and, therefore they Eitally con cern the people Of Connecticut. That the inhabitants of the prescribed States will peaceably submit to the rule that has been provided for them, no one can doubt Their heiple2sne8s to do otherwise, if noth ing else, assures tl.is That Union of CO., result from their submission. is my most fervent hope.
 Trusting in the intelligence of the Amer ican people, let us indulge the hope that, from our experience Of danger, we may learn to secure our future safety, that when calmer times succeed. the true prin- ciple of our republican system may be re established by means of legally coustitu ted Convention, and that the foundations oi the Union shall be relaid upon the endur ing principles of civil liberty and the equal rights of the States, with the limited pow CTS of the Federal Government and the in dissolubility of the Union so clearly defined } that our continuance as 8 people-One anC Eindivisible-may be perpetual.
 The paramount importance which the events of the past few years has given t subjects affecting the federal relations O ! our State, is my justification for dwelling thus at length upon them at the presen time. To those matters which are especial ly com omitted 10 our local legislation, ] nov beg leave to call your attention.
 , FINANCIAL CONDITION.
 From the detailed reports of the Treas urer and Comptroller which will be lai( , before you, 1t will be seen that the finan , cial condition of the State, at the close 0
 the fiscal year ending March 31s5, 1867, i
 quite satisfactory. At the commencement l of the year the funded debt of the Statt ,. amounted to ten millions four hundred 2 thousand dollars, (S10, ,A00, ,000, with Q Sinl; ing Fund of one million two hundred ant eleven thousand seven hundred and sixty = seven dollars and thirty-five cents 1,2ll, f 767. .35l The debt Of four hundred thous
 and dollars, which was due year ago iron the State to the Sinking Fund, has beel , provided fer by the purchase of State bond to that amount, which have been placed t.
 the credit of the Fund. A further purchas
 of State bonds has been made to the amour
 of one hundred and seventy-one thousan,
 six hundred dollars, which are now in tn hands of the Treasurer, and, as they are n, longer needed for the purposes contempla ted by the law, authorizing their issue, s would recommend that the Treasurer ana , Comptroller be directed to cancel and de
 stroy the same.
 The Sinking Fund has been increaset l during the last year seventy-four thousanG r dollars, which amount has been invested il State bonds, making the whole amount c :, the Fund, at the close of the fiscal year, on l million two hundred and eighty y-four thous
 and three hundred and seven dollars ant thirty-fve cents q, ,294 ,3O7.35). The fund
 ed debt has been reduced the past year fv hundred and seventy-one thousand si. r hundred dollars, leaving the total amount 2 at the present time. nine millions eigh
 hundred and twenty-eigh5 thousand fou
 hundred dollars (9,828, ,400) If agains : this we place the amount of the Sinking , Fund, and the market value of the Banl
 stock owned by the State (53S3, 5o0), to !, gether with the cash on hand at the clos of the fiscal year (amounting to S499, l15. l O9). it will leave the total liabilities of tn
 State over and above it's assets, seven mil ; lions six hundred and sixty-one thousant four hundred and seventy-seven dollars ant !, fftysix cents (S7,G6l, ,477.56).
 9 The State tax of three and half mills ol ? the dollar, realized the last year revenu
 of one million fifteen thousand forty-fiv'
 dollars and ninety-eight cents Sl,Ol5, ,045, r 9S) while the receipts from other sources , amounted to eight hundred and ninety-fou
 thousand twenty-nine dollars and fftee1 | cents ($S94, 029.1 .15). Of the total amour 9 of expenditures, reaching one million eigh r hundred and six thousand nine hundred
 and ninety three dollars and eight cents ($1, SOC, ,993.08), six hundred and three thousand sixty ynine dollars and fifty cent r (603, ,O69 5O) was paid in interest on Stat.
 bonds, and six hundred and forty five thou , sand six hundred dollars (s645, ,600) in tht purchase of State bonds.
 l The balance in the treasury on the Is day of April, 1867, to the credit of the civi !