New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-04-08

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Correspondence OF The Tribune.
ALBANY Saturday, April 3.
v.,.g;pr the Public Money hath in all ages
-, s.,eemed a most profitable art and mystery.
..lnsrs in his Political Annals page 355, quotes
svynor Lord Culpepers account of VIRGINIA
,s,pces. delivered to the Committee of Colonies
,Dec lesl, as follows
] n. charges of Government are msntained-l. BY
- leyies rased in each Parish. for the Minister,
S.,eh Courts Of Justice Burgesses wases &c. WHICH
!, xryFa BROUGHT TO THE AUDIT, and yet are high,
.,r.l and burtbensome as any other; being most
] -rponly managed by SLY, CHEATING FELLOWS that
-s'oe 10 defraud the public. and ought to be super
j - Nv the Government 9. BY public levies.'
.sv cheating fellows" managed In the Colonies with
a, .uSi,-Wslker at Washington plundered the Re
M, le.aly and by the millionFlagg Puritan fashion,
s BY deputy a, Albany and as to extorton in print
and false or unjust Anti Rent war claims, what knows
ID them while Even & Co. down at New-York
III, The combined honesty of Tsmmany the Aims
s.,. md the Custom. House, raise such regiments of
.ry eeehes that the landlords will soon have to join
!. National RefOrmers the easier alternative OF the
Irsnklin talked OF swsrms Of officials sent from Eu
- 70 eat out the substance of the Americans. What
ram was ever seen earth TO equal the Polk and
,ray kne who annually issue forth from the portals of
al tavern opposite the Park and extract more plum
~ 4, salaries &c from the 100000 citizens OF Gotham
IN 4 obtained by monarchy In the heaviest taxed city
the old world London always excepted There Is
q need Of $4,000 defacation by the Lloyds, Ahrens
>yensons &c. OF other iimes-the locasts OF LocoFo
ssm eat Up sl-Egypts locusts were not fit 10 hold
,adle 10 ihem-L0CUST and not Loco, shall they be
LED. Phsraohs ten plaques were quite endursble;
our suferings is intOlerable.'
Tie assessed real and personal property In the City
fEexYork Is A5 millions of misunderstanding bad
ITS losses casualties &c. &c; and considering much
ttis property as unproductve let US suppose II per
ct the net ncome-ths is Sl06l6,G66. The proiigate
q guardians @ not only expended the whole public
asnue In 1876 but they also added, by direct tax, %
- cent upon the whole assessed income or over p
Lions Of dollars In some my estimate of pro-
rblcw but In others far too high
The inequality In the rates OF City Taxston-the COM
LATED and III understood accounts returned by its
asacsl ofcers--the prohigate expenditures OF its
srnts one half of whom are, like wealthy British
hsfs household, worse than useless-and the inten
u the control and management of its local affairs
zysd up they are through the Custom House, Post
se6e with the politics of conquest loving rulers
wsshDgton are subjecting the great body of the
Ne Inhabitants and owners OF real estate to great priva
txs and cruel expressions
Hthese onerous burdens only fell Messrs. Aston,
yn Rensselaer,, Lorillsrd, Lenox and other very
rse popretors they could perhaps bear II for time
Ut they harTass and cramp industrious careful men,
many Of whose small properties heavily morgsged.
The City taxes since 1889 more than doubled, bu.
are corresponding rise in the value OF City prop
rg
stumbled this morning upon a well printed copy OF
Ne Annual Report not of Controller Azsriah c. Flagg
at Controller JOHN EVEN, which processes to show
be the condition Of your City Funds-he should have
aid Debts for there $l2257 9O7 of Debts. and
'ssds ct all-the deficiency Of means for 1886. being
DL737 after directly taxing the over or illgoverned
sope Of Gotham proper just So 504,352 in that one
ear. The Introduction OF the Croton water was an
vent which reflects high honor on those who planned,
ID on the enterprisng citizens who sanctioned iit
ns heslthiu moral, religious, political, commercial
"a manufacturing movement of vast magnitude but
rely after the proceeds OF its sale are deducted not
very much of the above annual taxation can be re-
sltd for pure water. Whence then this immense an
al and very unequal impost on the business OF the
~ exclusive Of the taxation laid ON Williamsburgh
u Brooklyni
The City Debt ia January, 1887, was Sl,2e2lOi, or
'sut tenth OF its present amount Why should the
r1pal Of the wsterdebt be so soon paid BY install
<t,s thus expressing property and business with
sry tax eight times as large as the rich In England
~ Why not continue 10 borrow, at moderate inter-
With power 10 pay the principal when 1t suits the
~ ana wait till the water yields larger incomef
'sse is steadily the increase and that II would
Cd Tar more than IL does were more attention PAD 10
rse pcportioHGAy some who consume immense guam,
ues Mr. Morris in his first message as Mayor, said
At the management OF property which is to be rented
I saords inducement and opportunity TO the officers
ne Government to practise gross ana injurious Ia
ntsm." Win not this apply 10 the waterrentng ar
'ssnents and to many other financial departments oil
City proper
There Is one feature in the Ecw-York City accounts
Re those Of the State) which embarrasses the casual
'derhe great variety OF balances trusts and funds II
City and State books kept as they should be, en-
~ BY double entry the only way TO get true balance
thorough review and test OF the system would be
xamine and anayz the several entries and then bring
whole 10 a general debtor and credit balance. In this
J the FUNDS rs they call en- would be no berrer TO
Efficient examination. Do Messrs. flsgg and hwen
these things dixie the printing bls) by DEPUTY and
clerks Are their Offices POLITICAL, or are they
., the law Gala them THE chief auditors OF ten mil
s OF annual revenue and thirty eight millions OF pub
iebts
II the Two.and 8. Half Millions levy, which is los
"a on each $780, not Of income but OF capital or
ned estate that H. on nearly "a Millions oil Dollars
ents per 500 are laid 10 meet an annual deficiency
he product Of the Wster as compared 70 the cost
Water revenue being only $4,000 nearly, which,
h nearly Half Million more. is absorbed in the pay
al of interest the Water LFns. In 1899 the City
res were but 81 cents per sl0J-now they are MORE
N poUpLFD-snd the City now requires great hnan-
skill an united effort, and the utmost regard TO
nomy with the ability 10 choose III men for every
r. instead of making the public Offices an out door
shouse for the idle, noisy and worthless
0 long as we have one large division OF the people
and powerfu afiuent and ostentatous, and another
nervous division. wretchedy poor and dependent rs
be case In New York prohigscy, crime and deosuch'
. immorAty and gross corruption viii DC there
hence the necessity las In London) OF civic ARMY
umerous Municipal Police, which. with the prisons
e New York more than half million OF dollars a
r. The Aims House bill is $2e03l4, including VI, .54
Powder $5e2 for Snuff and Tobacco $500 Tor
ndy Wine and Beer There are also sl5OOO for
nsHouse Salaries
mong $4,000 Of Contingencies, find 5000 OF
ndly DONATION to a regiment FOR the conquest OF
,co land with this the City Council had no business)
early SO 500 for law costs including 600 10 John
Keen and d. Graham-sr0o0 paid for the hkenesses OF
Msyors-<4256 10 Mr.. Conner County Clerk, =" for
eial seryices"-fwhere does this favored ofheers Inn
nee income end fl-for killing dogs, s23ls-icoald
tho H. P.'s do that il-Psid for WAS MEETING IN
; PARK MAY 1896 S403 81 n il-Tea Room Tor
4 and liquors 10 the Common Oouncill $3eO2-July
Celebration, 81 ,455-Refreshments exsrs, Tor the
uncil Committees $755 The Aldermen also charge
% 10 Judges 1874 as Excisemen and 500 as super
1rs
eaniog Streets sl5s440. Too little by far sl662i4
re expended In 1897. The filthy streets are positively
most prominent feature about New-fork, ana the
Gusts nuisance for their nsstiness The streets
zen the poor inbsbit are the worst cleaned nope
present Sc, will get leave OF absence 20 purify them
Fes. politically and otherwise. The Street Cemmis
ners establishment 10 another $1,000 item OF xpend
Ie
When Gen. Csss lectures sgsn on his elect0neering
70, on FRocRrss" in New. York, put him IN mind OF
No. IL twn fAWfh n x