New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-01-11
Finance. Of the state of New.Yorh.
Correspondence Of The Tribune.

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On "Wednesday last, Mr. FlAgg. the Controller
sent to the Legislature his annual account Of the
moneyed affairs Of this State from which the follow.
Ing particulars are selected
He says tia; will be necessary to have appro7rs
ton BIZ passed Immediately. authorize hun pay the
ordinary current demands the treasury interest,
dividends TO schools and academies SC. under the 70
quiremenis Of the Constitution Of lsi6
To educate these annually appropriated siS5g7l
including si276s for schools TO deaf dumb and blind
which institutions ike the Lunstic Asylum In UEcs are
honor 10 the country md to the sge in which we live.
The operation OF the Constitution will take from
certain colleges Of money hitherto annually paid
them and unless continuance voted BY the moneys
viii be added (as understand the Report) to the Com
oa School Fund which will also receive yearly from
Let inst, $4,000 from L. 5. Deposit Fund
Nj Flag, states as the cost OF al the csras sj0as7.
$50 and as the tolls for the fiscal financial year s7Oi
l2l The interest on Iaf cost At 3 per cent which be
say. the average paid on the present debt sl6is
and he tells that TIE net canal revenue after deductng
the cost OF superntendcnce and collection Is S2i56497
showing that the canals. under the present reduced
tolls yielded revenue beyond the cost o, maintenance
nearly equal 10 per cent on ABOUT 81 mliiols, the
capital expended.
Twenty two millions nine hundred and thirty seven
thousand six hundred and nifty six dollars s the amount
of the public State debt which en- interest Of 81
30 80 is PAYABLE OF this nearly Il millions in canal
debt and nearly millions what he calls Treasury
debt OF the canal debt sj6i7lJ6 pay the enormous
interest Of per cent
II understand his language. which is so technical
and full Of had almost said opcs as well as figures that
il is not fully understood cursory perusa he
assumes that the surplus at the disposal OF the Legss
,ure, for canal Improvements, will De much less than the
Governor estimates itat The payments for Legislative
printing for 1916 amounts 10 500 including $3.50 for
the Convention. Mr. Fis-g complains that S2lc-. WAS
charged for the printing merely Of the state Census be-
side s5fl5 for binding 800 copies. Mr. p Is printer.
and he afirms that this Census Is spread out and
made occupy much space ought 10 be covered by
the Census OF the United States. in other words,
that the intention of the contract act Is openly evaded
in the face OF the state ccers and the public and -
COPY paid for work which ought not and by law did
MOI So 30j the ne says he paid The American
Institute, very useful ssd prsseworihy corporation az
New York received from the state Treasury las, year
g. 49, sil3il4 have been paid bounty salt coal
gypsum &c. The Ha proceeds OF tho three hiths Of
mill tax are <il3u2
The Anti Rent troubles az managed by the late Execu
tive have been costly The payments from the Treasury
To enforce the execution OF the laws as Mr. Flsgg
calls stated at S33ll2 tor Columbia county, and
s7oi91 for Delaware county beside payments to the
Shers Of i've counties and which he says, charged
y the said counties of lss60 Whether these large
items embrace Nc John Van Burens god sends of which
so much has been very properly said Is no, stated
SLAVERY n NIRGINIA.--A Petersburg VA cor
respondent, under date OF the 3lst nit. writes to
The ChroHotype as follows:
This IL the season for ne gro hiring for IN, coming
year and for the last four days this business hiss been
actively conducted in the street under the window of
the house put up at Hundreds of negroes of both
and all ages and sizes mixed up with their mas
ers and buyers ard persons wishing to hire have
been constantly blocking up the whole stree, dnrng that
time questioning examining. and bargaining like 80
many Jockeys at a horse market The terms OF hiring
at this Slave Exchange these the hirer gives bond
and security TO pay the stipulated amount 10 the master
or agent for much OF the business Is done by the
onecrs brokers Al the end of the yearthat s the
next lat OF January The hirers feed and clothe the
ne erocs, and nothing but death cancel
mute the bond the doctors bill only is allowed as
an Offset. | remarked to a gentleman at the table
that ii this was allowed thought the master would get
said he sometimes got little enough, but II the doctors
bill not charged to the master, he would be
very apt to have niger at the end OF the year. but
dead one The hirers.' he continued would let
them die before they would call la doctor at their
expense.
reflect upon the people but can't help thatthey must
take of the fg0 Today heard OF a Circumstance
which reflects much harder. II said at the dinner
table that a negro buyer here. named Henry Davis had
drove OF negroes with which he going South, and
that he did not want the women who had infants 10
be troubled with them he had sold several of the in
iants for hyc dollars piece The lsndlady said she
knew of three he had sold and she believed there
The children thus ruthlessly torn from
their mothers breasts very very young from three
weeks 10 n month or two old. asked ID such brutality
passed here without notice People was the reply
might express their private opinion about IT, but there
was no public notice taken. Thereupon expressed
my private opinion publcly-tha; H. at the tsble-ss
thing infamous that the man guilty of il deserved
hanging and quartering. What do you think