Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-10-22
me CoInptrolIer,s Tteport.

prompting from us, .-...., s.'.
The ColnptrolIer's Report.
The biennial report of the Comptroller to til
Legislature is the financial record of the State, am
is looked to by the people as the public ledger from
which they learn the financial administration 0
affairs 1t is also looked to By the creditors of tn
State as the showing by which they Judge of tn
kolvency Of their debtor and its ability to meet it
engagements.
The report lately Laid before the Legislature b.
Comptroller DUNLAP is very full and satisfactory
Making, as it does lightweight pages, and much 0
st heavy tabewOTk, cannot print it entire in on
columns but we purpose, from time to time, to Civ
such extracts of its most important statements a
will place our readers in possession Of its cOnclu
aions. .sa
The receipts and disbursements for 1858 are thu
referred to:
"A marked difference win be observed, upon ex
animation Of the receipts for 1858 and lS5g-thosC
for the first year being 69l4l4l, while those for
the latter Sl,l7SS5S47, making S509,sI2.O6 IN
favor of 1889, This heavy increase is more acct
dental than the result Of any xediaW bringing about
such progression. IN 1855 the Bank of Tennes-
see paid no profits into the Treasury. In 1859 it
paid 420, 4O332. This sum divided between the two
years would make the receipts Tor 1895 SSly34LOl
and these for 1859 Sy6s. 75lS-a difference of but
$S9.4lO64. This balance will be further reduced
when the increased receipts for the present year
from the Sinking Fund il taken from It. increase
of S242S9.6O. which would leave in favor of 1859
only S6jl2lI4- about the State tax upon the $751;
O00,00O more Of taxable property this year than
gast - rr '.... .s
The disbursements for 1859 exceed those Of 1855
S292 7G0.09 The payment OF one single item in
1889, without reference 10 the temporary and spe-
eial disbursements for the same year, will account
for this There we're paid for the present $500 Si3
81 more interest upon the state than was paid last
year; SIl6529 of which was were for arPearages
of interest due in 1857 II the interest due in 1887
had been paid in IS, the expenditures in that year
would have been greater than Tor 90; but if half
The excess paid for this year had been paid last the
disbursements would have been for 5S S945 1855 |
10 $3.50 10 for Jg-the former years eXpendi-
lures usually and naturally being the greater the
Legislative expenses are included in it, But it is not
important in which of the two years the greater pay
ments were made, If they were proper OF them
selves and made in conformity to,law
Il" The aggregate expenditures for the two years
ending the Isl October, 1853 were S20l, $50 more
than those forthe two preceding years The receipts
and expenditure almost necessarily grow with the
increase of pOpulation-tl4sFp more producers
of wealth 10 be taxed to bring in revenue. there is
more necessity for government 10 pay it out more
crimes to be punished. and more misfUrtuqes 10 be
alleTiated by STATE charities But if the debt due
for 1857 1.-THE 81 I6jZ9 arearages of interest due in
that year) had then been plid the expenditures for
than for the two wears preceding. In addition to
this there many items OF a temporary, acciden-
tai or special character not Included except S5.OUD
Of them, in The preceding two years, and but small
portion Of them 10 remain as permanent eXpendi-
lures which ought 90 be credited ~ the last twp
wears, and but small portion Of them 10 remain
permanent expenditures which OughttObecFedited 70
the last two years. This lst Of SPECIAL and mostly
temporary expenditures runs up to S342,l3S7l-
Nor Is the Legislature of o5S spOnsi bic for most
of them. There were paid IN the last two years
S25s 906.6s. which The Legislature neither appropri
ated or contracted the debts tor which that amount
was paid---the Sil6529 OF interest due for
the year IS5T-SS5 096G0 of Sinking Fund
which goes into and out Of the Treasury IN
der the control of the Governor, Conlptrol-
Ter and President Of the Bank Of Tennessee, with
out affecting it in anywise. except ~ swell the re-
Ceipts and expenditures which II VIII continue to do
40 larger extent each succeeding yeaT-S42 GOO Of
Capitol Bonds that fell due and paid the pres
cnt year-tlc Sl%6Sl US, bonus Of the Union Bank
that was paid into the Treasury by mistake and
paid out again being subject under the act Of 1891
alone 10 the check fthe Governor and Comptroller
IN payment tor-otatc B0uds-aRd the S33OO interest
on - Capitol Bonds appropriated by a preceding
Legislature hu issued since the lst October, 1891
Excluding these items making up the S25I .306 6o, as
having accidentally fallen IN tine last two years, II
Syll be that the ordinary expenditures of 1858
ana 1859. including all the appropriations of the
last Legislature, are less than those for the years
1856 and . 81.
We find room to-day for no further extracts We
VIII resume the ubject tomorrow,
The InsurrectsnlS at Harper's Perry.
The Washington Sales taxes the same view Of the
causes Of the instruction Al IiSrpers Ferry which
we took, YESTERDAY SomeOf the Opposition papers
sre attempting To divert Southern attention by
charging the iusurrcction upon Democratic agita-
tion of the slavery question" On the contrary, it
IL, .+.. 20 al.
Of the real purposes Of the Aboltionists are true.
The S0teS says:
TrF INSTRUCTION at Harm a7ERKY-This is al
together the most alarming and daring insurrecton-
AIRY demonstration thai has ever been made in the
United States
1t Is natural corolsGv to the irrcprcssible con
fict " docuinc-au emaaatlon and essence Of |
Black Rgpuhlicani~m. go
The plan seems 10 have been deliberately precon-
certed. TO what exteulI he leading Sewardites are
complicated in it, by their AID and advice may never
be ascertaincd. -.----,' 30 |
1t cannot be reasonably doubted that it was form
ally inspired by Them; and we hope means will be |
found 10 bring every guilty wretch connected with
il 10 condign puuis hmput
The saveholdIug States are now moro distinctly
forewarned than ever 10 that which Black Re
publicauIsm j. prepared 10 Cunsummate when il nets
possession OF the rcius OF the National Government
u is the part of wisdom for them to forearm
In the mean time let the metropolitan authorities
look Tigllanty and act diligently on behalf of the
security of the District
Let every welliisposed resident consider himself
a special constable for The purpose of asoartaning
the inquitOus dUs of incendaFy Sewarites Il
That there desperate Abolitonists in this COM
munity prepared to apply the match to the Union
cannot be reasonably doubted.
Have the AHioaa Era and RepoJEc any subscri-
hers in this city. If such in hostile array to
its durable well being.
We suspect that e.bloody scheme If Harper's
had M and xlae
We shall not be surprised If it is a concentrating
point for the concocting Of desperate Black Repub
lican schemes.
The tine for striking was in all likelihood arrangi
ed here. No moment was 50 favorable rs that which
brought the intelligence VI triumphant Sewardism
IN Pennsylvania, Ohio. &c
Happily, we have an Executive who knows how
10 conscientiUusly discharge its duty Suppose it
were represented by a Seward Chase Banks or
any other Black Republican, what would be the CON
dition Of the country? 49,
There must be no temporizing policy pursued
EDWARDS the insurgents. Their enorniities bavei
been such a. 70 turn mercy itself into an execu-
joiner 81