Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1852-12-16

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STATE FINANCES Sufficient information
says the Richmond Wing, has not yet been re
ceivcd To determine the precise amount raise
by the lax bill of last session. Bun an idr
may be formed OF the amoant
The Committee estimated that there VA
500 millions Of taxable property in The State
and that the tax ill would produce ahou
sl.i00 000-and that $1,000 600 would 1t
sufficient for p,eseni purposes. The return.
we hear, indicate, that there il only 4I0 nj
lions OF taxable property and that the Ia,
bill elds Little less than 100000 OF lbi.
amount, licenses yield $40 0O0 - and aad
and other property $4,000.
According to this statement the merchants
pay nearly oue-third Of the whole tax-aI
though they do nol Compose one hundredll
part Of the community The injustice of such
system must be manifest To all
The Collins steamship Baltic Leh cleared
for Liverpool last Saturday, III proceeding
down the Bay, got ashore on The Mud Flats.
about ons mile beow Red Hook. \ dense
fog perfectly obscurcd the Bay when the b.
lett her dock, which circumstance, in conncc.
ton with the fact that the dde nas at ha'f ebb.
probably caused her to mistake her Course
Her position Was upright and mol at all dan
gerous. and ii WAS supposed rhat she would he
able to get away, without assistance, up, the
rise Of the tide.
Therearc 5000 hotels, drinking saloons and
dram shops in New York, aud the amount ex.
pended in them is amazing, almost exceeding
belief If the daily sales average $40 each
which is a very low estimate the amount, vii
be $500 day, $4,000 600 a month anc
$4,000 900 year
Tie Syracuse Journal states that about .00t
acres of tobacco were grown in Onondag,
county the past season; and that the averag
crop Is about lA00 lbs. per acre, though 2 90
lbs are often produced. The entire crop {
the county is estimated at 9, 2i0, 900 lbs whic
at ten cents makes the snug sum Of S22iO0
gained by the culivators.
We read in our exchanges that Mis-. Pin
nell, niece Of the Hon. Horace Mann, of Mas
sachusetts, has been appointed Professor of tn,
Latin language and Literature in Antioch Col
lege, Ohio, of which Mr. Mann is elected Pre-
sident and that Mrs. Nichols, the womani
rights editor of the Windham County vt.
Democrat received 6 votes in the Vernon
Legislature, for Director of the State Prison
We arc progressing people.
Gen. Lane proposes to divide Oregon, an
make new territory North of the Columbi
.tiver to be called Columbia Territory.
The bill lately introduced into the Legisl,
ture of South Carolina for giving the electio
of Electors of President and Vice Presider
to the people, (they are now chosen by III
Legislature) has been postponed. after som
discussion, to the next session Of the Legisla
ture.
Inc correspondent Of the Morning CHy0n,
writes from Vienna that Mr.. Webster
oea'h WIZ restore relations between Austri
ana The United States. Mr. upl,o,,,rp NIL
return to Washington.
o'ooo nave been subscribed towards ,be
monument to Webster in Boston - &c '"'
The Cholera is raging to dreadr,l
at ST. Jago, and in some other towns =; sN. :,
part OF Cuba-late private letters from ,bor
say. sPeople are dying off by hundred,
week. The mortality at ST. Jago alone
upwards sixty day.
1t is stated that the cost Of railroads il ii
Y nlted States has been found to be abor
$4,000 per mile.
Col. Gentry of Tennessee, who refused {
support General Scott, made a speech