The Nevada journal., 1858-01-15

might be in a better condition in the
value of taxable property and in variou.
other Particulars. But accuracy is not
to be expected from the Governor. Mi
cawber is more precise in giving utter
ance to the same sentiment
Income, ten pounds six; expenditures
ten pounds five shillings six--sum total
happiness. Income, ten pounds six
expenditures ten pounds six shilling;
nine pence--sum total, misery.
We are told in the Inaugural that
"Ihe expenditures for State Prison
purposes, and for printing, alone, in the
year ending 30th June, 1856, amounted
to mare than halfa million Of dollars"
The idea intended to be conveyed is
that the onl y year of American rule in
this State cost in the items of State Pris-
on and Printing expenses the enormous
sum mentioned. We impeach the ac-
curacy, not the veracity, of the Cover
nor on this point. 1t will take the ap-
priations of two legislatures TO make up
that sum.
We ask the Governor to be more spe-
cific in his language. What does he
mean by saying
"lt is notorious that many persons hold
property which annually yields-and in
all probability will continue to yield for
a series of years-a handsome income,
on which no taxes are levied !'
The meaning is we'll understood to be
mining claims ought to be taxed. But
we want no slippery politician to have a
chance to escape. Notwithstanding the
oft-expressed impatient wish of John B.
Weller to retire to private life, he may
want something else at the hands of the
people by and by. and it would be we'll
not to allow him to explain his TRADE
about equal taxation to have reference
to some lone, lorn Know Nothing or
Black Republican who had dcxterously
covered his property to evade his taxes.
The miners want to know if the Cover
nor has an eye to their claims when speak
ing of interests that do not contribute
their share to the support of the govern
ment.
We indorse the Governors remarks on
Education-it is our only hope of ever
bringing the people of this State to see
the light of political truth.
Speaking Of emigration aad the fnan-
cial storm lately burst upon our sister
States and the dcstitution it has left,
the Governor says;
"The victims of a villainous paper
money system could here find in our
mountains, banks which never issue an
1rredeemable currency, and seldom, if
ever, fail to remunerate the industrious
laborer. But the Mormons and Indians
on the one hand, and a hcartess mo-
nopol y, having no sympathy with our
people, on the other, may diminish the
emigration, so essential in developing
the resources of the State"
Ourminers have learned there are nu-
merous banks in these mountains, banks
of deposite, where, if it were possible, a
little honest sweat might be wrung daily
from even John B. Weller for years and
not dollar be obtained from natures
inexorable cashier
In reference to that "heartless monop-
oily" if it would not be impertinent, may
we not ask if Senator Weller ever lifted
his voice against the Steamship Compa-
ny ? Did he throw a straw in the way
of that Company when it was obtaining
enormous sums from the government to
foster and sustain their heartless mo-
nopoly!
The idea of the Governor that, in
stead of military posts along the routes
of emigration to hold in check the Indi-
an tribes, the marching of full regi-
ment to and from the Pacific coast once
a year should be substituted, is ridicu-
lous-so clearly so as to need no COM
ment.
The remainder of the Inaugural we
leave to posterity.
PLANK AND TURNPIKE ROAD.-Two