Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-04-19
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4 Thas ossrssr, 1855.
Water. for elk month, is5 90
One bronze inksssnd 10 %
/ One clock 10 90
One rosewood desk 2s 90
Bookcase and desks 25S 90
Fo~rih Quarter. 1855.
| Brussels earpeting i39 90
| Travelling expenses III q
Painting, gliding aud bronzing the mint
| gates 100 90
and digging 5000 90
| Extra gates 10 10
eis,ern 1900 90
FH,t Quarter. 1889.
For spre on a sentry box $50 90
| Two hat trees PC 90
Two laborers TO clean up the lot 922 90
-Four penknives ~ SD
Three reams (ioolscap and letter. paper PC 90
Another desk, tonly one 2is 90
pair OF porcelain spiIboSes 90
Second Quarter, 1889, Sc. Sc.
One inks,and 10 90
Set silver coins, case, Sc. s. 90
Secret lock for vault so OO
Subscription TO the Louisanian & 90
Some seven hundred trees, Towering
shrubs. principally rare exotics, Tor the
grounds around the mint. in this sin
gle quarter. including aborers to at
tend ,hem-uearly COO 90
wore porcelain spuboxcs : 90
louisiana Courier, in advance I2 90
NO more desks, and railing on another
=, Tor treasurer, and a table $50 90
Travelling expenses 275 90
Des'ues winch are enormous expenditures, un.
Der the head of certain EXPENSES -,St,tionetv -
Tue. -'watching the mint fire m,ttens ,Z.a
oofers IN The yard,'-rcpairr, whitewnshing paint-
ing, eean'ns, sui 'pipc LAYING What thinks the
reader OF SIG $50 Tor baths aud water closets for
,he 'a"orers IN the branch minll-rhe price Paid
m My l.., LII.
the attention II the most casual reader of the above
curious table.
But 1 must hasten 70 another consideration
suggested by this report. These luxurious estab
hshmen's have entirely failed. after oil, to accom-
plish the object for which they were erected and
thus mDgni6cently and extensively furnished In
"ead oi increasing the metallic circulation as was
oonhaenty predicted at their inception that circua
Ton has been falling oil ever since their establish.
menL"
such exhibits as these-showinc tho waste OF
millions OF collars by Van Buren, X Co prove very
eoneiusvely the truth Of tina, self evident PROPOSE
non;-"Ths Uhigs hare ruined TIE countrv.",!
We hazard nothing in affirming that no modern
government can furnish any parallel to the waste
and corruption parctised 10y the Van Buren, Dyna,.
". The iobhins Administration of wsipole. TO
which the mind naturally reverts at the mention of
pubic corruption, dwindes into insigni6cance COM
pared TO this. This stands alone-whethsr regard
be had TO the deis cations Of the I.inns, Boyd,,
Speneer', Collins, &c. by the connivance Of the Co
vernment-to the depredaiions of Buekner. in which
the Nice-Presdent shared-to the universal pillase
10y Government employees IN the Florida war or
to the case of the Min,s-now under consideration.
The revenues Of all the gold and silver mines Of
South America could not have saved the Govern.
ment bankruptcy, under this system Of general
'polia'ion and roguery.
But these ,hiEgs are not at all surprising. They
are the legitimate, tho predicted, the inevitable re-
suits OF that great and fundamental principle Of the
Loco Foco Party: That the PUBLIC OFFICES
are the SPOlI.S OF VICTORIOUS PARTISANS.
This doctrine. promulged and acted upon, explains
every thing. The country could rot, under il,
operation, reasonably expect different result. Ac.
cording TO 1t, the public Offices were not held in
trust for the benefit Of the peOple-but for the as-
grandizement of the ofice-hoders. The more these
list could piIfer for themselves and their friends-if
at the sam; time they increased the supporters or
the Administration the more able and faithful were
they considcrcd-as was proved by the appointment
and re-appoininent Of such to office.
The same result will, invariably, under similar
circumstances, follow the same cause. When the
Government gives a bounty to couuption-corup-
ton will flourish. Van Buren, might be restored TO
the Presidency 10. morrow, with full treasury. and
IN four years, by the same system of pillage and
rosuery, tolerated and encouraged in every branch
OF the public service, bankruptcy and demoraliza.
lion would 6e again the consequences.