Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1852-03-25

have been corrected, have been suffered
10 exist merely as a reward for the zeal
and devotion ola party press. When The
resolution was offered Mr.. Lewis Of Har-
rison, than whom, more thorough pari-
Fan does not exist. without urging any
reason for such step. moved TO lay It up
on the table, which was defeated. Wheth-
err or not the motion Of that gentleman
was dictated by desire to shield the
Editor of the Enquirer. from reduction
of price and to keep existing abuses I'M
der cover, | have no means Of knowing
When il is known that the Public Print
ing can be executed as well as now, at a
reduced price of twenty per cent, that a
large and burdensome public debt calls
for as rigid a system Of economy, as a due
regard to the public interest will admit, and
wheniti is known that the Public Printer is
now elected for two instead of one year.
asformerly; that inasmuch as the General
Assembly met annually, salary OF 5i'Soo
was allowed him by law, and that as the
law now stands he would be entitled to
receive 50, 600. for doing that, for which
he heretofore only received Sl.S00, tthe
Legislature meeting biennially,) It IS as
,onishing how any man. other than a most
rabid ard hidebounI partizan, who would
under all circumstances make the para
ountinierests of the country yield to those
ofparty. could atremptby miserable par
liamentary manGuvre, TO defeat all efforts
at reasonable reformation.
If the Public Printer received $4,000,
for doing the Public Printing of two ses-
sions of the General Assembly. J would
suppose it would not require Solomon,to
find out that as be now is elected for two
wears, and has the printing Of only one
session to do, justice and economy would
demand a reduction OF his salary. But
the dictutn of Jackson and Van Buren,
memory, "that to the victors belong the
spoils," is sill the watch word among the
immaculate. patriotic, country-lovinG and
economical Democratic leaders. twill be
remembered that some week or two
since. by a resolution offered by Mr. Bur
de,t, and adopted by the House, special
committee was appointed, TO inquire INTO
alleged abuses. connected with the build
ing the Washington Monument, now being
erected on the public square. The com
mittee has been in session for several days,
is attracting much public attention, and
is bringing TO light system Of peculaton
and fraud upon the public, Of no ordinary
character. A hundred thousand dollars
was, by an act passed during the winter
before the last, appropriated for the pur-
pose, and as that amount was deemed sui-
icicnt for its completion, the community
will be astonished, when it learns. that
tLree-iourths Of the amount 50 appropriat-
ed has been ex pended already, and that the
work is not half finished. 1t is by such
system Of recklessness and extravaganza,
on the part Of public functionarieS, that
our public debt has reached Cf it does not
exceed twenty millions of dollars, and
when it is well understood, who arc its
real, responsible authors, tie public indig-
nation will be loud and deep, but it will
be too late.
The committee for districtng the State
for the election of the Board Of Public
Works sometime since appointed two sub
committees, to lay off the State into dis
tricts, and to report two plans for action
of the committee. Only one plan has been
submitted {by Mr.. Price, of Greenbrier, )and
it seems to meet with favor on the part Of
the committee. All the valley counties,
including Giayson, Carroll, Floyd, Hen
ry, Pittsylvania, Franklin, Bedford, Camp
bell, Lynchburg, Amherst Nelson, Abe
marie, Green, Madison, Rappahannock,
Buckingham and Appomattox, with an
aggregate population Of 65,G01 white
males, above twenty-one years compose
one district. All the trans-aleg hany coun-
ties, except Carroll, Grayson and Floyd,
with an aggregate population of white
males about twenty one years ola ge,ofG5,-
057, compose the second, and all the tide
water counties aud cities, and the following
Piedmont counties, Amelia, Brunswick,
Charlotte, Culpeper,C umberland, Dinwid
die, Fauquier, Fluvanna, Goochland, Hall
fax, Loudon, Louisa, Lunenburg, Mecklen-
burg, Nouoway, Orange, Prince Edward
and Powhatan, wi;han aggregate popuia-
ton Of 65, 239 whites above twenty-one
years of age compose the third district. This
report throws all the great leading inter
est of the State pretty mach in the same
districts, and as its population approaches
as near equality as practicable, regard
the adoption Of the report as not improba-
BILE
The committee on county organization.
made its report on Saturday. 1t provides
thatthe commissioners ora majority ofthem
are TO meet at the court house, on the I'd
Thursday in April, to proceed immediate
~ to lay off the different counties into dis
tricts, to adjourn from day to day, and from
place to place, to establish not more Than
two precinct elections in each districts.
(rhe courthouse to be one precinct) TO
file their report in the clerks office, and to
receive for their services 81 80 per diem.
The county Of Campbell. is TO be laid off
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