Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-11-04


either very rtupid or else desperately
reckless aud nendaeious Individual Ia
his last paper, he informs his readers thss
the House of Delegates here have adopted
the rsPOrtOf eO1mittee PrOPosioE to lease
the Linsiey Institute Eas an Institution Of
IIearnibg" for term Of years, and there
apou be goes Of into aburss ofIndignation
about establishing SCHOOL here Al the e1-
pense of The State ard 70 the neglect Of
other portions ofibs eonDonEeaiih. Nr.
CarfiIs has either stupIdly or matieiously
stated fa.sshOOd. The Hoase Of Dele
gates have not proposed to lease the Lins-
" Institute aas an Institution ofIearninR.''
Saeh an idea has never been entertained
By them They have proposed to lease it
Es temporary capitol only that and
nothing more. They meet IN il now and
use j. as capitol, aud they propose 10
establish ia il the officers of the state GOV
eruusnt Who are GOV "Ieaants OF c0nrie-
sy'' Of the o. S. Custom House In This city.
10 addition to Mr. GzrIiie's PerversiOos of
the IraLh in the ADORE particular, We mo-
tiee similar false statements about the
Township system of the mes State, in his
review Of the Legislation mere. he is Try
leg to make The people of Harrison county
believe that their taxes are TO be increased
macy thoussrds of dollars by means Of
toEnship o6eers and the school system,
49, qUUis Dis remarks:
Harrison county Is laid OF isto ten
loSDshipsr and Ia addition TO its county
officers each township Is to have record
Ct, tEO iu5tieesy two eOnsts bliss, one school
commissioner, one township commissioner
or supervisor, and God only knows how
many other little officers. These 0Heers
will all have 10 be paid cut OF the county
levy, which heretofore has been SEINE Eve
thousand dollars OF less per AnDum. Tn
der this new system the fees and salaries
Of these new thumb paper officers will be
much larger than the whole county lew
heretofore; add 70 this the school TAX for
baiidirg school houses, ana the fees of
teachers as well IS the other necessary
county expenses, and ne may fairly esIi-
mate the sam required 70 be raised snnU
ally BY county lew alone al not less than
City thousand dOiiaCs-it may 20 10 double
that sum. When the people add 70 this
the poor tax, their State tax aud the tax TO
The Federal government, and what they
have % pay for permits. &c, they will find
their Incomes sadly deficient We were
promised an improved condition if We
would only vote for free State-thus far
We have been unable 10 see IT.
We doubt not that Mr.. Cariile himself
sees only a very small modicum of truth in
the above remarks. In the first place each
township does not have two justices unless
said township has over 1900 inhabitants
In the next place, the justices are not paid
out of county levy. They are paid fees
by those who palronize them-just as is
the case in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and
they are not paid any longer three dollars
per day for court services as they used to be
in the old State. So much for the justi-
ces.
In the next place, no such officer as
Township Recorder is known TO the Con-
stitution and has no existence except in
Mr.. Carlile's newspaper. 1t will therefore
be hard for such an individual to draw
support rom q county TeFy.
The two constables alluded to, like the
two justices, are to get what little they
receive, from fees, and those who patrenize
them with civil or criminal business will
of conrse pay the fees.
The school commissioners and the town
ship commissioners are officers of very
important character, whose work viii be
for the most part gratuitOusly performed.
The law provides that the township COM
missioners (wbo stand to each county as
the city council here does to the ethyl shall
| not be on duty more than twenty-five days
in any year, and it is not presumed that,
on an average, they will not be engaged half
that number of days. But even if they
we're the expense would not exceed. fifty
dollars per year to the township.
AS TO the comparative expenses of any
one, or all, of the counties under the new
and under the old system we are not pre-
pared to say. Ne one knows yet how that
will certainly be. Those in whom we have
confidence, and who ought to be able to
form an Intelligent estimate, tell us that
the expenses will, 10 all likelihood, be re-
duced, once the new machinery is fairly at
work. It makes little difference to the
people, however, whether the expenses
are few dollars more or less, provided
only they get value received. That is
the important item to be considered, AS
a matter of course We cannot have schools,
and school houses and school teachers,
without paying something for them, and
inasmuch as We had no school system be-
fore, except in few places, like this city,
We win have an expense that, outside of
such places, we did NOT have before. But
it is to be remembered that our state aud
county taxes are now twenty five per cent.