The Ohio union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1849-1854, 1853-11-16
Ashland Lodge.

land Lodge No. ISL, Of Free and Accepted
Masons, held on Friday evening last, lhe
following officers was elected for the en-.
suing year, viz:
II. D. RUTH, W. NJ; W. B. ALISON,
S. D.; CHARTS PIPER, J. WI JuDsoN
McCoMB, Sec; G. OsrERLlN, Treasurer;
Il. G. BUSHNELL, S. d.; G. Il. PAiKER,
J. D.; G. Il. DEMiNo, J. L~AUrEaRAuoH,
ISAAC GATES, Committee on Grievances.
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The United States Surplus Revenue.
Tile London Times has an arIIclc on
the sarplns revenue in our Nat;dnaI Treas.
ury Ia which, after say Ing that Of all the
paclica!ors which the present warIike 'cri.
Sis has called into action, the difficulty of
finding money is %undoublly the most po-
tent, and that the Chancellor Of The TX.
chequer is always er'c6iciO a man of
peace, adds:
That cuts oTthe WAYS and means, while
it enormously increases The expenditure
which dams up the sources Of taxation at
The very moment when it is draining them
dry--lhal which can convert a surplus in.
10 a deficit, and a deficit into a bankruptcy
is a legitimate object of financial abhor.
renee. Austria cannot keep the expendi-
lure over income within the monslrous
amount Of fifty million of %fldrins. In
France, imperial omnipolence cannot
coerce The budget within reasonable di
mansions and even we show too much
pride at our surplus for persons who re.
gard il as a durable and permanent posses.
sion. But there is one man in the world,
and that man a finance minister, who il
troubled with none of these difficulties
nay, is jusl now suffering under difficulties
Of a precisely contrary character. The
American Secretary of The Treasury, Mr..
Guthrie, is prosecuted by an obstinate sur.
plus, which clings TO him like the old
Man Of The Sea to the neck of Sinbad,
and is perpeluaIIy claiming appropriation
where no means exist Of devoting 10 The
public service The superintendent riches Of
The revenue.
tits refreshing to turn from the contem.
plaIlon Of the worn out and tlrele despO.
lIsms Of tie old world, where the revenues
Of the Slate are absorbed by proflIess
standing armies, and squandcred in The
maintenance of a police employed to sup,
press thought, and of spies organized Ia
detect il-where the annual deficit threat.
ems 10 absorb in its ponderous jaws all
and more than all, which can be wruna
from the exhausted peasantry-lo this new
and vigorous country, actually bowed
down by the weigh, of its own prosperi
~, aud embarrassed in selecting those bur
dens which it is actually compelled by TIT
iorce Of circumstances to remit. With us
when a liule surplus gives US the opporlu
nifty of remission, there are always 8,
many injuslices 10 remedy, SO many erioy
ances 10 redress, that the difficulty Of Sc
lection Is extreme, and every remission
s!',s almost as much pain as pleasure, b.
The disappointment ii %lnllcts on the advo
cafes of other remissions. In the Unite,
States the difficulty seems not 10 choos
which of a number Of pressing cases i
the most urgent, but 10 find any pressing
case at all. We congratulate our Trans
atlantic brethren on the exuberance of thei
resources, and sincerely hope that this dill
icully oil finding a tax TO remit may b
the only one which their Chancellor u
The Exchequer will ever have 10 encoun
ter.