New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-07

This is a reduction in the rate OF - mills. aud
in cash of S3,623,259 -.
The Controller says that, after much delay
the State accounts with the United States
growing out OF tho raising and equipment OF
volunteers, have beea adjusted so that the bal
arce on either side is but n trihe. Under the
State act 10 provide for the public defense,
about $500. 900 has been expended, mostly for
Enfield rifles, which were turned over to the
General Government and are not yet paid for.
During The furry following the seizure of Ma
son and Sldel so, 900 worth of timber was
bought to prepare deienses for Newlork Har-
Dor. This Las since been sold so that nothing
will be lost on il.
The State has paid in bountIes to volunteers
enlisted since the I'd Of July last To recruits
for new regiments, S2,72i, s25; recruits for
old regiments, S7l3,G5O. Total, $3,43S.475.
The public works are finished. Tie enlarge
ment Of the canals, begun in 1895 and then
estimated at a cost Of Sl2 ,000, 900, to be done
in II years, has gone on Tor q years, at n
cost Of $40, 900. 600 The Controller suggests
that no more public works be undertaken on
the part OF the State believing that private
enterprise ia equal to the creation OF any I'M
proyement which is likely to be remuneraive.
He does not favor reduction OF canal tolls,
aud thinks that if shippers have any reason to
complain the fault is with the forwarders aud
not with the Staten
The debt of the State is now $50 5l7 .i2i 62;
OF which S24, 0O0 900 is for the canals. II tho
funds are preserved az they may and should
be, oil this deb, may be paid of as 1t be-
comes due within twelve years. The balance
in the State Treasury, at toe close Of the iis-
cal year, was 81 1855. 732 o.. The report
proceeds to detail the condition of the several
funds under the Controllers charge.
The Militia Law of last session 10 reviewed,
and tho Controller questions the propriety OF
putting it in full operation, In consequence OF
the large expenditures it would inyoyc-toward
five millions of dollars. He refers to the
late enrolment as developing the manner IN
which work varies where 10 regular law con-
trolls it, instancing the fact that in Chemung
County two men did the work at cost OF
$50, while in Schenectady, smaller county
with le,s population, II men were employed
at a cost OF SEQ; and in one company district
in Troy 500 WIS charged.
The Controller intimates the unfairness OF
taking the money of the whole State for aid
to Benevolent Institutions that arc almost en-
trely local in character, inasmuch as those
localities that support their own unfortunates
ought not to be taxed doubly for that object.
Still, he recommends the usual appropriation,
and especially the continuation for two years
of the conditional donation to tho Woman's
Hospital, which Las been seriously retarded by
the war distractions.
The State Prison finances contrast fayorably
with last year, and show gratifying improve
mcnt. II Is a noteworthy fact that the num-
Der of convicts in the prisons is rapidly dimin-
isbing.
The County Treasurers, several of whom
were in arrears last June, have been brought
to settlement, and have paid up, except in
BroOme. Essex, Montgomery (ia party, Rich
mond and Westchestcr. In view of the defal
cation of Sl27 ,5s5 Sc in the last named county
tho Controller recommends o stringent law t,