The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-08-29

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q. Liksa esrsnleus ga aAmel Win
reason h.lEasthrsns1 b. 80 aud fbFget.
Gulnsus. b rsiserateB from. tine %. tins
the sillisnf lhlsehoodA 4lfhoueh - ofi6n
refntsd, hnd rcfsr1ncesailen5 30 the rec
ord which no y eEsnsnss can dis
Puts.
OF this character l. rambling hoteh-
potch article IN thai paper Of the lst
insA, which uhs overlooked By. us at the
time Our nflenti0n has been called
toe portion cf Il relating 70 our State A.
nancss, pa1ncnt of intofsSt on tae pub
lie asba in New Yorks,&t; which glar-
ing fhlsshoods have been published IN
that paper, and repnblihed In almost
she same language ssEersf times, at IN
tervals Of . few moptfb, although com.
gle.ely dispEoyed hy Ik paper On is'
Ths old friends Of tie Journal, II il
have any left, cannot bdt feel annoyed
and ashamed IT this exp6s1re, from time
to time, Of the former his arrangement
ofths inanees Of ths Htfts By its shig
friends, By which the credff Of the State
was seduced to less tkaas fTty cents on
the doTIaFl Il coaffSsfs beautifully
with present high prIcesof 0hi6 Stocks,
which ever in these Hafd7ihes, are now
up TO 10 or ~ per cent, premiudR une-
'q1alsd by ssy State sid-the Union, ex-
cept New York. and bRtsasbade below
her. 80 -
By reference to this pSpsf, Of the
18th January last, We ind the folloNine
quoted fromthe Journal Of the 26gh ult.
preceding az %.slisfrS -
"Wswsnt to know why 81, 600 per
ssn1nm of our money Il paldrto . pet of
the State officers for gerforming servi-
'ees which have been regularly perform
ed sincs 1896, withQut costing the State
- dime; and withont-the loss Of q PEN
10 which hi. psgsrsfh3r replied as
aThers Is nothing IN xfs annals of
the State, that will throw any light up
soa the a~pocryphaI 66Sshete- put. IF he
refers 20 the Transfer AKeney. at New
York, ne have to inform him that under
the lssless md loose system ef The Wing
admnisfrasion, the State paid NOMINAL.
~ s2,o0oand 81, 5e9per year, 20. the
Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Co, for
services as TransferAgent, but actually
lOUA Oh LIN4 AnAD AILOuut.
Since the new Constitution has been
in tie hands Of its ffiends, We have q
Roverhment Of lanes; and-ihe law re-
quires that the Transfer Agent shall
take an oafh, and gffasbohdg to . large
amount, for the faittfdfd ischaIgeofthe
responsible duties OF thsasposition.
Hon a EdgsrtopTa nan whose
talents, integrity, and 8dsinesss capacity
are surpassed By those ofno man in the
country, WassPpoiatsd' 70 that ofice.-
Noresponsible man WHg'o or Democrat
will question the iIaes5 81 this appoint
neut-siu aliege DAT his salary is ex-
trsvsgsnt, or viii say that the duties
have not been faithfully discharged
The paragraph therefore, shove quoted,
in mere falseho0d and Fig5naEelt
Auditor Woods, in bis last annual re-
port, made to the Gepefsl Assembly in
$780, page %, hal tie .follo8ing small
iters among the esfiuates for fhee.ex-
penditures of 1850, which the journal
correspondent can, peEhaes, explain.
"Exehange and EXPENSE !. SsSl2,o00."
This is something mere than q dime
and would pay Dir. Eagertun's salary
rAtout four years. -s - /.
Again BY the 4ast -repoIt made by
u n. Sill, the Whig s-ti1g Commission,
-arsOf the Sinking FaEd tsee pub. dec,
1852, PsrtI, page 62l9 we discover
the following iten.sEyeyy Snaa Z itelhs,
1t % true, but of very frequent occur
renee under the Wig management of
State finances, and,.in Sthe. aggregate,
something more than iodine =
AE1pensss Transfer one. 3,5s2,50
$as,eOl 25,,
Twenty-Five thonssna dollars expend-
ed N twelve or eighteen months of
Wing rule for q exshapges Bd expenses
ut the New York Trahsfer Office, be-
sidea respectable item fol. the. Home
O6Ece, under q Wing administration in
coilusion with the anopster7 harlot, the
Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Compa-
ny. Whiggery keekbeea- rather an ex-
peesiTe q lnstitu61h ;, to the good peo-
ME of Ohio ID sG- -. /.
Under the Wing administration of the
State governmA6t the 5hiterest on the
public debt was CLONE RENTED to New
York and paid, and the journal falsely
represents that-iEis only the interest
now. that Is paid, which it sets down at
S675 .00O. Il istrne that The Journals
friends only yaid the intererE : but since
the administTafIon has been IN the hahds
Of Democrats they have paid from half
million to one million . year Of the
principal, thus reducing our public debt
fromsabOut eighteen million to little
more than fourteen millions Of dollars !
and all this 10 done for much less than
the co { of remitting fhe interest only,