The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-07-30

ernici0us as an element OF society, 10 unquee-
tionably the former. They are mere agitators,
slaves to ideas, mental negroes, sea lawyers and
crazy reiormers, Who while they eternally prate
about freedom, seek by every means to control
the acts of their neighbors. 1t is not enough
that they guide the STAKEHOLDER; they must
also dictate to the free mind of Kansas. The
right Of self-government, with such minds, signi-
ies submission to their silly schemes Of policy:
Kansas is in horrid disorder Influenced by the
South, and in sublime order If controlled by
the North.
The CRY TAxEs-FLAea FLoGGED.-We
are under the necessity, this morning, Of ex-
planning somewhat at length how the business
OF thesCity Treasurers department is bunglej,
and Of administering the usual dogging to that
old delinquent, Mr.. Comptroller Flagg.
1t appears that on June oath the rep rt of.the
Committee on Annual Taxes was presented by
the chairman to the Board of Supervisors. The
report was Of cou rise based on the assessment
rolls, and other documents laid before the com.
mittee by the Comptroller. At the first glance
Mr.. Alderman Ely perceived that from some
residents liable to taxation under the act passed
Febru ary u, 1855, was distinct from the ordi-
nary assessment rolls" and that "if the report
had been adopted as at first submitted" -shat
is to say, in accordance with the Comptroller
tables and suggestions-sthe omission of the
non: residents from the ordinary assessment
rolls might have seriously involved the au-
thority of the couRty to collect taxes on
nearly $l5,OOO,OOO He therefore moved the
recommittal Of the report to new committee
on the stated ground that "there did not ap-
pear any taxation on the fourteen millions and
a half Of personal estate owned by non-resi-
dents and which by recent act was liable to
taxation;' and it was so recommitted. The
committee reported at the next meeting Of the
Board that they had amended the resolutions
60 as to include the omitted property, and
exonerated the former committee from respon-
sibility for the error.
When the omission was first noticed, we drew
public attention to the fact, and animadverted
upon the Comptroller's carelessness or unfair
ness in running a risk Of jeopardizing the
county's claim to the tax on 80 large sum as
$14, 49l 100. We likewise observed, as a curious
coincidence, that the non-residents who SO
nearly escaped taxation happened to include
among them number of the so.called munich
pal reformers of 1853.
Very naturally CALLED by the exposure, Mr..
Flagg attempts to justify himself by reply in
one or two contemporaries, over his own name >
In regard to the assessment on non. residents of
w NJ ho Am Nhn itah1v
supposss the Comptroller suppressed for the Of
screening the old municipal reformers from taxation
CA @. Fsgg" and published in the HERALD of Wednes-
day. that the following item Ia includei at the bottom of
the Comptroller also to the Board Of superv
list of all the names furnished to him. with the
sums attached to each name, which make up the above
total Of 81, 49l ,13o. A. G. FLAGG.
If this be co. how does it happen that Alder
man Ely moved the recommittal of the report
1t is quite true that Mr.. Flagg did add that
item to his table, but how could the addition
that or any other figure to mere Statistical
memorandum affect the tax levy! Mr.. Flagg
might as well have written the figures
4,49l $50 on any odd corner Of his desk as
on the pepper in question. The proper place for
it was on the tax levy and the assessment
rolls; and it was because Mr.. Flagg did not
write it there, that the city would have lost
$4,000 but for Mr.. Ely's vigilance, and that
the HERALD called him to account in manner
which has wounded his sensibility.
This however is only sample of the manner
in which business is conducted in the bureau
over which Mr.. Flagg presides. On the Gath
Of July, the report Of the meeting of Superyi-
sorr, for which Mr.. Flagg's subordinates and
therefore Mr.. Flagg himself is responsible,
stated that the committee recommended "tb vt
there shall be raised by tax on estates real anl
persOnal Of the freeholders and inhabitants Of
the city and county of New York a sum not
exceeding $2,393, 600;' and this sentence of the
report was copied into all the daily papers next
day, making it to appear that the city taxes
fell short of two millions and half How the
blunder arose, it is hard to say; we simply
state the fact OF the bunder.
We are free to confess that in no dep artment
OF the federal government, disorganized as most
of them are, could SO many and SO gross blum
ders have been committed or SO general sys
tenn of bunglng be tolerated. Any other man
but Flagg would be overwhelmed with shame at
their exposure.
WHEAT FROM TENNEssEE.-NEw FACTS IN
OUR CRY TRADE.--The market report of Satur.
day has rather curious item, to the effect that
large quantity of Tennessee and Georgia
wheat, part to arrive, was sold at good prices
1t appears that there is an extensive and vau.
able grain growing country in Eastern Tennes.
see, between the Cumberland and Allegheny
mountains. The produce Of this district has
heretofore been almost shut out of any market
but now Tennessee has railway commuuica
ton with Charleston and Savannah and can
send its wheat direct to Atlantic ports, from
whence it may be shipped direct to Europe
Over one hundred thousand bushels of this
wheat have been sold in New York. The capa.
city of supply OF this district has been estimated
as high as 100000 bushels. An offer, il was
said had been made within a few n No tn del;y