New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-26


aud tolls Aud stn tho Canals a'e u1fnissei aud
tie great advantages to be derived therofrdm in
chesper transportation aud augmented t,lls unreal.
lied. So long Is single mile Of the Enlarged Erie
Canal remains unfinished, we have practically no
Enlargement at all, 90 far as through freight is co.,
cerned, since each boat must be constructed aud
loaded with reference to the least favorable portion
Of the route it il destined to traver'e The People
Of our State have more than Thirty Millions OF Dol
lars invested in an enterprise which requires bait
fraction Of that sum for its oompeton yet there arc
these who would have them wait till the unfinished
Inc Elective Canals shall have earned tina! fraction
foregoing meantime, apy bene the Thirty Nj
lioE. already expended. We cannot but regard
that as a narrow and suicidd policy, unworthy Of
o or mmon wealth Of intelligent ffeemeP.
But the question of Speedy Completion is com.
plicatd by the palpable profsacy and waste which
inheres somewhere in the management Of our
Canals. The People voted to open the Consttu-
ton in order to borrow sum deemed adequate to
the completion Of those Canals. That sum was
borrowed and spent, yet the Canals were not TO-
i,hed. Our last Legislature added a special Mill
Tax for the express purpose Of finishing the job;
this tax is about to be psd into the State Treasury
and may be used to pay for work done this Winter
AID the ersuipg Spring; Jet we do not hear that
the Canals are now to be completed, while We do
hear that further taxation will be required. How
can we avoid the conclusion that the State is being
robbed by some COLLISION between certain Canal
contractors and portion of the States we'll paid
Engineers If tae little joker is not uuder this
tlimble, where il hef The Controller, the Tfea-
surer, the Canal Auditor belong to party adverse
to Us, but we have no reason to suppose them
thieves-quite the contrary. How is it, then, that
the moneys raised to complete our Public Works
seem to vanish life water spilled on dry sandf If
tie Engineers should not be able 10 tell what
bes mes Of it, who aheuld We hope the new
Legislature, before imposing further tax will take
care to be well assured that the taxpayers to
receive their moneys worth in some shape and thst
their hard earnings are not to be psrcsled out in
aIy den of thieves.
Two years ego, our Sts,e saw fit to choose
"American" State officers-two Of them ft for
their places, and the residue tcandaloasIy unfit.
They have now chosen " Dem ocrats to take their
places. We earnestly opposed the successful can
didstes in either case, but we waged NJ partisan
war on the former while in office, and shall wage
more on the latter. Had the former been able to
asve the State from spoli1tiop, we should have
gladly rendered them Cue honor therefor; and we
shall stand ready to do the like by the latter Tho
fact that tho cohtrac ors and canal jobbers gen.
orally went in for their election does not implcate
tteR in any understanding with the later, though
the lew officers will undoubtedly be a'saed With
temptations and seductions on behalf of their in
krested friends. Unbl the contrary 10 proved, We
shall presume that those temptations VIII Do q rmIy
resisted.
The new Legislature is closely divided in poll.
ties. Tie American hold the balance of power
in tie Assembly, while Mr.. II. j. S.ows indie
pendent elected by "Amercan votes over the
Republican candidate, has Ike control in the
Senate. We are quite Indifferent as to the side to
which that balance may incline, while we should
much prefer that tie strongest Democrats in the
Assembly, such as Mewrs. AlvOrd of Syracuse,
EDgs of this City and Democra. from B1tf.o,
Oswego and Rochester respectively, were to be
plsced IN the Committee of Ways and Means, no
matter which party may choose the Speaker and
t1e Clerk. We would have that party compelled
10 take is stand either for or against the prompt
completion Of the Canals, and for or against taxa
ton to that end II is not right it is not fair, that
this load should asin be thrown on the shoulders Of
the Republicans. We are for the prompt compe-
ton; We are for whatever measure Of taxation
msy be necessary to secure this without involving
the State in further debt. If our political adVsr-
saIies are a,o for ths let them be made to say so,
ard stop their demsgOgue attempts to make patty
capital cut Of the Canal Tax. If they are hostile
to this, and in favor of something else, We would
have that something else tried. We would not i'm
pose another dollar of Sta.e Tax unless the Demo-
Gratis would give their fair quota of the vote re-
quired to pa,s it.
On one iubject which will come before our Leg.
,lature thii Session, we trust there is no srencs
amorg honest men. We allude to the Registration
of the nsmes of Legal Voters 10 as efeciualy to
prevent Illegal Voting. Every Eastern State has
iuch Registry in some shape, and no one pretends
to bewropged or oppressed byit. Why should it be
terror to any but swiuders and b,'lotbOx suffers
here' Our City las just pOled-i, season of con-
neical prostrstiOn, which had driven thousands Of
men away in quest Of employment E ghty five
thousand Votes for Mayor-nearly Five thousand
more than there were pOled 10 the flush times, and
at TIE close Of the protracted CANVASS Of the last
Presidential contest. Will anybody pretend tina.
this enormous vote for Mayor was Legal onel
Can any intelligent citizen doubt that at least an
eiohh &C IL wat thrown bv uDnaturalizad ajiens by