San Andreas independent., 1857-02-21

REPORT OF THE CONTROLLER OF THE
STATE.-This report is at last out of the
hands of the public printer. 1t occupies,
with the tables, some forty pages. The
expenditures and resources of the Gov
ernment are fully shown. The report
says:
"The idea seems to have prevailed, not
only in the Convention that framed the
Constitution, but with succeeding Legis
latures, that the sources of wealth to the
State were commensurate with the extra
ordinary rewards that have resulted to in
dividual enterprise From this seeming
idea a system of government has been in
stltuted, the ordinary cost of which even,
when frugally administered must, for
many years to come, greatly exceed rev.
enue the collection of which would be at
all tolerable to our people, and has like
wise stimulated plan of extravagant and
reckless expenditure, the consequence of
which has been to involve the State in a
large debt and seriously to impair her
credit"
The funded debt of the State, exclusive
of the Indian war debt, is placed at 49,
239, ,48S, upon which we pay an annual
interest of s226,764. On the gross
amount of this debt it is estimated that
the State has only realized seventy cents
on the dollar
The expenditures for the fiscal year
ending the 3Gth of June last, it is stated
to have been 81 1868 ,664, while the re-
ceipts only amounted to s723, ,289, show
ing a deficiency of s645,394 For the
year 1855, the total expenditure for the
ordinary expenses Of the State Govern
ment of Ohio only amounted to $685.
$50! The public printing of California,
from July 1855 to January 3lst, 1856,
a period of nineteen months, cost the sum
of $40, ,469! The salaries of County
Judges and the Incidental expense of the
Courts of Sessions and the County Courts,
are given in the aggregate at $4,000
annually. Although a poll tax is levied
which shoF'aa bring into the treasury of
the Stsse net revenue Of Sl6o, 300 hnt
S63, 900 is paid in. The report suggests
Che abolishing of the office of Superintend-
ent of Public Instruction, office of Quarter
Master General, office of County Judge,
enactment of law taxing sales at auction,
restricting sessions of the Legislature to
sixty days, taxing all lands claimed against
the government, &c. 1t contains no ar
gulnents but few brief suggestions, all of
which are found in four pamphlet pages,
and then we come to the tables. The
first is receipts for the fiscal year, showing
that San Francisco Co. paid s130,S46 of
the $723, 900 collected.
The expenditures are next; the Execu-
tive Department amounts to S114,000 !;
the Judicial, to s105, 900; the Legisla-
tive, to 1922, 900; for Hospital purposes
Sl41 1853; for Schools, 52,255 for
State Prison purposes, S370,174; for
Printing, s171, ,778; Miscellaneous ex-
penses, including transportation of pris-
oners, prosecuting delinquents, Supreme
Court reports, State Agricultural Society,
&c, s120,706.
The amount of real and personal prop
erty assessed for 1856, is given. at $685.
007 ,440, on which State tax of seventy
cents on the 500, amounts to S655,315.
The taxable property of San Francisco
county, is nearly one-third of the entire
amount of the State, being $40, 1868 900,
with State taxes of s212,577 The as
sessment of 1856 nearly doubles that of
1850, and 1851 is the same as 1858,
s16,000,000 less than 1854, and 50 ,000,-
600 less than 1855.
The War debt of the State is S1,061,-
It's. The receipts of the present fiscal
year, are estimated at $4,000, and ex-
penditures S727 900. This, if reliable,
indicates change for the better, the pre-
vious year showing large deficit How
far the facts will sustain the estimates,
remains to be seen.-Doily Globe.
A New DANCE.-A Petersburg paper
says, in select circles of Richmond society,
a new dance, bearing the name of "The
Persian Ring" has just been introduced;
it is somewhat amusing, and may be i'm
agined from the following description:
1t begins by some six or eight couples
chair is suddenly introduced
into the centre, in which the first gentle
man seats his partner. He then leads up
and presents each of the other gentlemen
in succession. If the lady rejects, the dis
cordad ratirac hahind tho chair Int uboY,