Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-09-08

all purposes In Ohio tor few years past:
TOTAL TAXES FOR ALL PURPOSES IN OHIO
ISIS So 4o0,I7I 1850 s4e27, ,70s
las 2,SnUi? 1851 4.9J1 ,OI9
i5i7 2.e47 612 1852 5674 33J
lS4d 3.2Il 9j5 1858 7,cUl Jos
ls49 3,63l,s1s 1854 9,o92, ,336
The intelligent reader will readily under
stand under whose administration this
rapid and enormous increase has been made.
1t is proper to state, however, that The
school tax prior to the ado ptiun of the new
constitution was not includee in the grand
duplicate.
EXPENSES OF THE STATE GOVERNMENT FROM
lS48 TO 1852.
1913 ssas .is.I9 ls!e sao7, ,,ss .sl q q
The yearly average was S54s,O7S.47.
1859 s5z7.s4s.6s 1854 ss6a, 49, IS
ls53 $50, ,99i.s6 1855 1882 90
The yearly average was Sj45,3l5-57.
There was no session of the Legislature
in 1855, which was the only year since the
organization of the government without
session. But the Republican Legislature
of 1852, the first under the new Constitu-
tion. opposed TO the Democracy. found an
immense debt to pay. which was contracted
before tina: year. LIE, US look at these items:
DISBURSEMENTS OF 1856, TO PAY DEBTS IN
CURED PRIoR To NOV. Is, 1855.
supcrintendenee and repairs of canals so Oqo Is
New State House 2i675'..I
Deaf and Dumb Asylum 3+S5. 90
Blind Asylum 23N 90
C oiumbus Lunatic Asylum ai,u25 Al
ayton Lunat:c um 4I5I5 20
Newburgh IuEalic Asylum AZ. "a Al
Payments for swans revised statutes $3.50 %
Total s5I7 SIS
The auditor, in addition, reports over
81 900 of other claims not included in
the above appropriations OF this sum
$780, 900 were claims for work .on The State
House. These claims. almost without
exception. have since been pad. his sum
of at ieas, $500 900, added 10 the expenses
Of 1855, would meke an average n the asr
four years OF 1910, 90 against he aver.ge
of SS4S,O7s Of the our,preceding wears, ,r
under the new Constitution and L1c9fDco
rule OF nearly twice the expense Of the
preceding four years. Reccllect, these ars
for the ordinary expenses &c the State gov
ernment. /; does not include interest cn
our debt, schools. &c.
We al rememb tina; last ysa- nnr state
officers expended SIS 900 on The Horkiuc
aud Scathcrn Ohio Canals mDre than was
appropriated, and that our Locofocu legis-
.atufe refuSed 20 make al appropriation fer
it, Yet IN 1855 tha state cfficer-, being o.
that party, expended sir hundred thousand
dollars beyond the appropriations, and then
asked Republican legislature to pay it.
81 far as this was found 10 be due in good
faith, it was promptly voted. The differ
ence between the acts of tine two parties is
apparent, and most damaging to our oppon-
ents.
By reference to the tables published in
Gov. Chase's message on the 5.h Of January,
1857, it will be seen that the aggregate Of
taxes was largely reduced BY the RepubIi
can administration The following is the
statement:
| T otal tsxes for 1855, (Iast year Medirs
administratipn) Ss.'5i oil
Total taxes in loJ6, a,dN9 Jil
Decrease of taxes in 1855, 1914 9g-
Here is falling off of nearly a million
of dollars during the first year of Repuhli
can rule. II may be claimed that this diff
ference arose from decrease of local taxes
only. This is not true. The local taxes
are decreased, but the taxes for State pur-
poses have decreased in about the same
ratio.
| lo56 GOT, l3s
Decrease of taxes for State purposes SO sisss75
The records demonstrate that during the
two years, in which the Republicans had
the control of both the executive and the
| legislative departments OF government. they
not orly fully sustained the credit OF the
State, and paid all its current expenses
with the saving above named, but tina, they
actually paid off over ha.f million OF debts
entailed upon them by their opponents.
But. it has been claimed, as an Offset to
the great expenditures Of our opponents
that they greatly reduced the debt of the
State. The facts are. that while they re-
duced the debt from 1852 to 1856, Sl.l2j,-
767, they received from other sources beside
taxes during the same time the sum of S2,-
o93, ,79O, or S96s,O32 more than they re-
duced the public debt. So that this pre-
tense is not available. This public debt
question we propose to examine at some
length in our next %. s. JourRal, S;pt
ARRIVAL OF THE MOUNTAIN MEADOW
CHrLDREN.-A despatch from Mr.. WIN. G.
Mitchell, the agent in charge Of these chill
dren, states-tha, they have arrived safely al
Fort Leavenworth in excellent health, and
that arrangements wtrc immediately to be
made for restoring them to their relatives
aud friends. There We're seventeen in all
rescued, but only fifteen were brought TO
| Fort Lesvenworth-- two having been detain-
ed at Salt Lske City Tor the purpose OF Civ
ing testimony in relation TO the massacre Of
their parents aud fricnds.-Ndi,oHgi IRtel-
Hgrncer.