The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-03-18

and TO reduce the onerous taxes now levied upon
the ..bone and sinew'' of the land for the ex
press purpose of keeping in order and use
works that have already cost US too much mo-
ney. Whether the bill for the ''better regula
ton of the public works." which we published
some weeks ago, and which has passed our
State Senate, is the most certain remedy we
are not finally prepared to say. However, there
is something, in fact, much in it. Instead OF
our public works producing an annual revenue,
they annually in debt, and the deficiency
sinking fund" win soon require adoption to
sustain them. In the hands of individuals our
State works would nett handsome revenue,
and q gentleman of long experience in the man
agement of canals, and railroads, suggested to
Us two weeks since the propriety of renting,
say for the first year million dollars or less,
and increasing yearly fifty or one hundred thou
sand dollars, until the amount reached its real
level, which he supposed in ten years could not
fail to be yearly revenue of one and half
million dollars, which amount would pay three
fourth the interest on our State debt. The per-
sons renting to keep their respective lines in as
good repair as when received. Even should the
amount not exceed half q million, it would be
better than the present system of losing that
amount.
The HoIlidaysburg Standard, Pittsburg Post
Pottsyille Emporium, and Bedford Gazette, have
spoken their sentiments freely and deserve cred
it for their exposition Of the feelings Of the
people on the Frequency with which men of
no use to the party, are appointed to lucrative
Offices in preference to those who keep up the
organization of the democracy" The ,Philadel
phia argus, also speaks out, and from its col
umns We extract the following
''We had sincerely hoped that the official action
of the Canal Board upon this subject of such vital
Importance to the future success Of the party in
the State, would have saved US from the necessi-
t. of speaking in terms Of condemnation Of
their conduct. Butwe have hoped and waited
il vain. There appears to be some unseen and
powerful influence which controls the action Of
certain members of that body, and compels
them to a course Of action, not only totally IN
satisfactory TO the Democracy Of the State, but
provements over which they preside If there
IS bad management in a Board possessing the
power over SO vast an amount Of public in
vestment, the people should know it, and it be-
hooyes the Representatives of the people at
Harrisburg, TO watch with jealous eye, the
actions Of those who have thus forgotten the
hands that raised them to power. It is vital to
the purity Of our republican institutions, that
the interests OF private speculation should not
control the action Of men in public trusts, yet
It IS said that some appointments have been
and are controlled and made with a view only
to their operations upon the financial schemes
that are in the keeping Of the interested ones,
and that others are appointed and kept in Office
as result of corrupt bargains made to secure
the success Of Il peculiar dynasty in that Board
may be certain and fixed. The honest tax pay
ers Of the State will, we are sure, repud ate
such a course Of conduct, and applaud the ez-
p0se, no matter where the arrow may strike
The doings Of the Williamsport Convention are
already sufficiently obnoxious to the honest vo-
ters of the party, and We trust that the revela-
ton of the truth of such hints may not render
them still more So"