Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-06-25
S249.S9l 90
I980l5 81

Receipts, S249,6 ,69l 70
Expenditures, 19o,Ul 81
Alleged profits, $5I,S76 sc
What do the taxpayers think of these state
ments? Mr. Mott SreaTs the public works
have never yielded enough to pay for keeping
them in navigable order, yet as canal COM
missioner and politician he says they do pay
And then he don't want them sold because
they don't pay. We should guess that Mr.
Mott must be one of that class whom old
acquaintance of ours used to designate as
smart man, d-n fool !"
Mr.. Mott seems to have been equally uD-
fortunate in making an exhibit of injuries"
the State would receive from sale, which
the following will show:
The value of personal property,
locomotives, cars. &c, on the
Main Line, is stated IN MIR.
Motifs exhibit at $l,170 900 co
The true amount, at fair yalu-
alton, shown by the afhda-
Wits of Mr. Thomson and Mr..
Foster, viii not exceed 100000 90
Motifs estimate is Over-rated 1920 600 90
It was admitted in court, by Mr. Motifs
counsel, that his estimate was over-rated, but
to what amount was not known.
Mr.. Mott states the tonnage tax Of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany for the year 1886 at S2260l8 )
The true amount is l97 29S %
Motifs estimate is ever-rated 28.7l9 sc
The tax on dividends for 1856, is
stated by Mr.. Mott at 10000 90
The true tax was 505S4 90
Over estimate by Mott S45,4l6 90
The tax imposed by law is five per cent. on
the dividend. The stock is Sl2 64G, ,000 The
dividend declared is s per cent. This
amounts on the whole stock to the sum Of
S50584, as is shown by the books of the
company--is sworn to by the offcers-and
will be seen by arithmetical calculations.
In statement of Motifs Exhibits, purpor-
ting to be made up and certified by the Au
ditor General, balance Of $395,550 0l ap-
pears in fagor of the State.
The expenditures being set down
at S928. .S54 96
Mott states them at only 81 ,42G Al
Being an under statement Of SOL, ,42S 50
expenditures, and 4 consequent exaggeration
Of the net revenue to that amount
1t will also be remarked that even the Au-
ditor Generals statement, though $l0I ,42S SO
more than Motifs estimate does not include
any allowance fer relaying the south track Of
the Columbia Ralroad-or the new street in
Colunbia-or the new railroad Of the Portage
-ner any allowance for interest, nor any
item carried to construction account Ma
king the proper charges to expenditures, there
would be no balance in favor of the State,
but an annual loss Of at least half a million.
8c2.The losses Ly fire of the Lycoming
Mutual Insurance Company for the past year
amount to $l35,7l8 p. The assets not be-
ing sufficient to meet TIC liabilities, new
assessment has been ordered.
nsapA young lady, who had 'mysterously
disappeared" from New York, was seen re-
Gently at Catskill, with married man, who
had also disappeared in the same way from
q.
EA-The Selinsgrove Democrat deyotes
column and half to a denial of our asser-
ton that Mr.. Wilmot acknowledges our nat
uralization laws defective, &c. There are
none 50 blind as those who will not see.
EGE'In Marion county, Ohio, q few days
ago, man sued another for the rent of
house. On the trial, evidence was adduced
that the house was haunted, and the jury de-
cided that the defendant be paid SIS damages,
instead of paying rent.
sea-Jacob Matthias, Esq, Cashier of the
Bank of Westminster, Nd, in attempting to
get on tho cars while in motion at Hanover,
York county, was thrown on the track, had
both his legs cut off, and died in a few min
utes thereafter.
4 Water Spom-Reports Of remarkable
atmospherical phenomena come from different
portions of the country. In addition to the
whirlwinds, hailstorms, &C., already noticed
as having occurred in New York State and
Connecticut we have accounts Of water
spout in Massachusetts, and tremendous
storms at the South.
A Painful Berearement,-We have already
recorded the death Of seven children of the
Rev. B. Hutchins, of Albion, Illinois, former
ly of York, Pa. The GRANVILLE Herald con-
tains an obituary of the eighth, daughter
seven years old Within few weeks the
parents have buried eight cut of nine, all
from scarlet fever N. T. Erening Post
Bo65jng Round.-The Aurora editor thinks
he will vote for Hazlehurst for Governor next
fall. This announcement is quite as crafty
ing (perbaps more so) to the canal patriots
as if he had announced his determination to