Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-05-31

All this we get ourselves from official
sources but we cannot refrain from adding
the following delightful item to which we
have seen reference made as given in a Re
port to the Senate by the Secretary of the
Treasury, although we ourselves have no
access to the document. 1t is stated that at
Port Oxford, Oregon, there was collected in
1857, the sum of fUe dollars and eighty.fUe
ceits-that il took tICO men to collect it, and
cost 50 ,2O3 0S! And, also. that in the same
year, the receipts from Customr at Monte
rey, California, amounted to the sum of
S45 25-taking three men and costing ST.
$50 80.
Such are some of the astounding facts
with regard to the reckless conduct of our
public servants? -Four million SIR hundred and
serenity thousand for custom-house! Three
millions for another SeUen men to collect
$3.50 at one place; RUloteea men to collect
81 400 at another; seueH to collect $500 at
another; four to collect $50 at another; SIR
to collect 1895 at another; nee to collect
S47S at another; three to collect S45 at anoth-
er; and, to finish the picture tiCo men 10 col
lect SIS, at the pay of S2,203 OSi Certainly
we are a great Republic. Barnum doesn't
touch it. His woUlly horse amt patching
to it.
There are nearly 200 men (averaging
s ,0OO) in the New York Custom House
MIR. Pierce, it is stated, added 300. Doubt
less one half of the men could do the work.
But we must get on; we will give our Dem
ocratic friends. however, the following sum:
If it costs $4,000 to collect 81 IS, what will
a man make by putting claim for $40 so
in the hands of a constable?
Here is another sum " " hy are the peo-
pie so PATIENT Why slumbers the wrath of
the Democracy
THE EXPENSES OF OTHER GOVERNMENTS.
Let us see whether we are doing the Adj
ministration any possible injustice in the ex-
hibits we have made, by instituting some
comparison with the expenditures for the
same objects in other governments. Let us
take the army. Our army, according to
Senator johnson, Quoting from Adjutant
GENERALLY numbered in 1858, Is, 900 men,
The expenditures are S23, 000, 900, as we have
seen, or about 81. 700 per man. The British
Government maintains in Great Britain some
90. 900 soldiers, the rest Of the army being in
India, Canada, &c; these provinces dis
charging themselves lin the main) the ex
penses of the soldiers stationed in them.
Prior TO the late Indian War. and the Rus
sian War, Tin lS53-f,) the cost Of the British
War Department was 40,00O, 900, of which
Sl2,000.000 was spent in the colonies The
remainder was applied to the 10000 men
stationed at home, and TO supply the ord
nance of the whole army (l3O,00O men.l-
This would give S466 per man. The British
u httFt
agant in Europe. It's minister in Washing
ton gets as much as the President. Its min
lister at Paris twice as much, &c, IL is the
most expensive country TO live in the
world. Yet British soldier is maintained
at S466, while we pay Sl.700.
France has an army of 900 men; (per-
haps morel According to the Paris Aim0-
nae. for 1858, the expenses Of the French
War Department for 1851, were SAC, 0O0, 900
francs (s65. zoo. O00.l OF Sis5 per man. Now
they talk of our Indian skirmishes; but the
French are constantly carrying on war in
Algeria, and maintain very large force
there. The expenses for Algeria are enbra-
ced in the foregoing Hgurvs.
Again: The An.trians have an army OF
some $50, 900 men, costing in ls47, Zee the
Paris Almanac, p. 5l,l l0s 100000 forms OF
S54, 000, 900, making sl20 per man. IL is a
large emplre-troops always held ready
for anx outbreak. aud constantly passing 70
and fro
Take Russia ItE army costs still less.
Gentlemen say, our territory Is 50 large;
the territory Of Russia IL much larger, aud
! she is always lighting in the Caucasus.