The governor's message, dated Dec. 7, 1863, includes such topics as: pay of soldiers, extortion, militia and home guards, substitutes, rail roads, lunatic asylums, literary and scientific institutions, currency, the ordnance department, quartermaster and commissary departments, paymaster general, Adjutant General's report, the penitentiary, impressment of slaves to work on the fortifications, compensation of officers, legislative, executive and judicial, finances, our unpaid interest abroad, and the death of John Seddon, Esq.