Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-09-14

! Why III xroxsurT = Imply.
er@s IS 8ofs3ng enFihg TIE coming Winter
asns q asssisasy hill. Thsss bills have beel
sszsslly growing larger; . that knowing tn
shzsaie propensity Of tbs Aduinistration % vast
| ncaefs1t mag - anaeznced Beforehand thai III
nexl ill eserlsp any 81 les predecessors. Yet 10
IL ~ a this harvesting ds9aisucv. an impudsn
pfs<~use Of seenony l. ses Up by the Official organ
81 The party. A lew laanng clerks are discharged
from Cusfsm-Ifeass where for years they have
been mere partisan superpnmsrarics, and credit J,
| taken for Fet9paohmept. Almost In the same
| breath the scandal u enacted In Utah Of selling
700 valuable nniee ~ auction in neighborhood
who're there are no buyers but such a it had been
prearranged should be there, and then giving
them away at less than half price. When Duchan-
an came into power there we're $26 .OO0. 000 ia the
Treasury, yet In ten months it had oil disappear
ed. aud 800 .000, 900. had to be borrowed. Eight
months Afterwards another $40 O00. 900, were Dor
rnwej, and I've months later another $40. 0O0, 900
were had In the same way, or $66.OO0.0O0 in all.
But on the heels Of this camo the further demand
for $50, 900 900 with which to steal Cuba, making
il quite apparent that Ind the treasury unluckily
contained the aforesaid money, means would have
been found to IL 10 the accomplishment Of that
ne.arious project. The chance are that Congress
will be asked at an early day for such a
will swell the public debt To n round one hundred
millions Of dollars Whether House of Repre-
sentative will be found plant enough to grant
that demand remains to ne seen. Yet with all
this immense sum Of mo icy the Government main
tains but shutting NJ d hcggarly existanee. 1t
keeps its head above water only by the unexpect-
ell receipt Of duties on imports which destroy
ing the industry Of thu people. and which have
sent gold out 0i tho ronn,ry this year in conin-
uons stream at tho rate oi S3 000, 600 pes nnnum.
or S5000o,0Oo more than the previous year. and
S20. 900 900 more than tho disastrous year 1857.
N. tho n al hat INT aI n
crisis hat consequences are t, follow the draa Of
this? The management Of the PJsi-OIfre il %
scandal To free peoplcit would DO diS. graceful
even in dcspo,ism. In many places the neople
who pay large and ample sums for postage are
cut of from mail facilities, and are compelled TO
either carry their mails thcmsel,c s or do without
them. That Department shufiies along mere f.
nancal cripple. by s,uing scrip for it's debts, and
this scrip is pcddled among the money-changers
md contcmptuously shaved Mt 20 per cent grave
doubts being entertained of its legality. Shifts
and expedicnts Of various kinds unworthy Of the
power and resources Of the nation, are rcsorte to
keep it IN motion; some of them alleged to be 70
grossly illegal M to call for investigation by Con
grcss. Lot the imports only fall back to where
they stood u year ago and the Treasury is ut once
But there are many other ways by which the
public money goes than selling mules Mt half
price in Utah. That stroke of inancicring result
ted in n single loss. There outlets through
which gold runs from the Treasury all tho year
round The whole revenue collecting system Is n
sham. When Mr. Cobb was called ON
by the Senate to mike n clean breast Of it, and
saw how many lunfers he kept in his Custom
Houses, how much money these fellows collected
and how much they got for doing il, ho was COM
PEELED to ncknowledge thntat Wilmington, Della
ware, the sum collected in 1857 was $2,00l,j7, to
do which he employed eight men, whose salaries
amounted to Sl3, oiS.3S-a dead loss OF nearly
ll,OOo. At Annapolis, four men. ardent ~ II
Southern sun could make them were kept pin
fully busy whole year in collecting 1914, for
which they received S9S3 At Ocrakokr. North
Carolina, SS2 were collected ut cost OF Sl,3Oo.-
At Port Oxford, ir Oregon, $3.50 were collected.
by two stout, able-bodicd men, who received To !.
insignificant sum OF $2.I02 for this extraordinM Y
effort. Al Monterey, California, the amount CO l.
lected reached the snug sum of S42 but it rcqu r.
ed three men to perform the feat They perform
ed much greater feat by drawing salaries 10 the
amount OF 1850 AT Buffalo, in thisState. ) 10,
1903 were collected, lor which lab,rious ser .c,,
ten received the comfortable sum OF SIG, SOC,
81.
What h.nd OF man pluet Mr.. Cobb be to suffer
such atrocious abuses ~ these IL 20 unreioi med
Doubtless lao is not responsible Tor their o. gina
existence these locehes may have been he n ,ing
t" the public tent when he assumed ci,e- But he
suffered them u continue until the call r., IA the
senate uncovered their AUTHORIZATIONS. NAY. VIC
have no evidence that he has ever ,tap, "a. this
deliberate robbery If the public purse, uG any
that it is not continued tnthe present llur. OF
what anvil is it that duties or imports IA up t.
II high 6rurn ifthc nonrv is to he suuap d. red in
this scandnlous manner. Here are only ST Custom
Houses wh~se gross receipts are Sl2,6l5 05, t,
collect which costs S4i,779.S9, thus making n
dead loss of SS2, 1904 There must be gross
corrupt par,izanship involved in this shameful
waste of publ, money. This excess of CT at al s
have gone into the pockets of the tullios ant
whippcrs whom the Administration everywhcr,
retain to carry elections. Nedoubt n OF the mex
House If Representatives will uncover tissue ~