New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-10-29

Actual Increase 10 1852 for only 81 monihsSSO0,it S3
The above table does not show the charges
for Croton water rent for public offices, for
which $4,000 was appropriated, and three
fourths of which ought to be due.
II must also be borne in mind that many
bills have been purposely held back until after
Election, such as those for Refreshments for
the Aldermen and hangers-On, no tes-room ac-
counts having been rendered since July last
Among the bills held back are several thousand
dollars on account of tho funeral expenses of
Henry Clay all the Tea Room expenses since
June all the carriage hire since July, &c
&c, amounting very probably to 100000.
There are also many heavy payments COM
ing due at the close Of the year, so that it will
be entirely within the mark TO add rs per cent.
to the above increase, thus showing for the
year the startling increase of ONE MIL
LION DOLLARS on account of the City
Government alone, and that too over the waste
full and universally condemned Government of
1851.
Dul thie 10 hOt dh lHclc - oioo q worry
large increase in the department Of Trust and
Special Accounts CITY Debt) We have not
compared the figures, but there is ample prom
Use of proportiOnste growth here. This will
make the expenditures of the Loco Foco Re-
form Common Council of 1852 not less than
ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOU.
SAND DOLLARS MORE than even the in:
tOlerable total of 1851
TOmeet these enormous expenses, the Com
mon Council have got 100000 additional ap-
preparations already through the legislative
MILL and more must follow.
The only Department of the City Govern
ment which is exclusively Loco-Foco in all its
ramfcations, is that of Streets and Lamps,
Henry Arcularius being the Commissioner
thereof In that Department the Chief Bu-
reaus are Lamps and Gas" and "Street
Cleaning" and as they are entirely hey Ond
Wing interference, they afford a fair example
of Democratic economy. We have already
given Arcularieus $956il 81 more than the
Wing officer had in the same time in 1851 for
Street Cleaning Will any one presume to say
that the streets have been cleaner this year
We have also given Mr. Arcularius 1913, 1872 AZ
more for Lamps and Gas; but where is the
evidence Of more light, except in Loco-Foco
torch-lght PROFESSIONS And, by the way,
whose cart load of oil was that taken
from the City oil house few nights ago to
rum-shop in the Fourth Ward and there used
for filling these same torches Mr.. Arcula-
RUS has increased the expenses of his depart
ment in all (iucluding Markets. ONE HUNDRED
and NINETY THOUSAND, TWO HUNDRED and
FORTY DOLLARS or nearly SEVENTY PER CENT.
over the enorraities Of the year 1851.
The entire taxation laid upon this City in
1S51, was S2,924 ,495; the Controllers esti-
mates for 1852, foot up $3,41777O; and the
inevitable result of the operations Of the LO-
cO-Foco Reform Government will be levy for
1852, of at least s4,6OO,O0O, of which sum the
Controllers estimate allowed nearly three and
a half millions. Under the most favorable
view of the matter there is but this one con-
clusion instead Of Economy and Reduced
Expenses, promised about this time last year
by the LOco-Foco candidates for Aldermen
and Assistants, We have had extravaganza,
waste and public robbery without parallel in
municipal history and instead Of lighter tax
es We have an addition of more than Million
of Dollars to the heavy burden.
We commend these facts and figures to
the earnest study of men of all parties They
prove beyond dispute that whatever reform is
necessary in the City Government, tina. which
We are likely to receive from the so-called De-
mocracy will only aggrsvate the evil. Tax.
payers of New-YOrk how long will you submit
to be plundered 50 severely