Litchfield enquirer., 1869-07-08
In the Dumps.

One or the raclest 0f Dickens characters is Mark Tapley. Marks chief trial in life
 was his; irressistable Ainclinstion ito be ts.iolly." In one portion of his career He. find him located in aperfect Dismal Swamp in one of our new States, lising in g log cabin surrounded by stagnant water, rat-. tlesnakes and alligators-just such loca-
 ton as every intelligent Englishman of forty years since honestly pictured to him. self when he thought of life in the United
 States. Even there Mark was s.jolly';; na-
 ture was too strong for circumstances. Just
 now the whole race of Democratic politi-
 clans and journalists seem to have been
 transported into what we should call an
 anti -Tapley state of existance. Everything
 appears to them in its dolefn1est and dis:
 malest light. Grant has proved a failure;
 the revenues are falling off; andthe debt is
 increasing on us. Without wishing to flat
 ter our neighbor of the Ssntina we cheer fully accord him. aopre7eminenees in this gloomy business over all that has comelunll der our notice outside the funereal columns of the New York World A pretty speci-. men of our friends ability in this line oc. CUTS ir his last issue 's'' 2 5-,,-
 eff congressman can make his fortune by job. ping legislation he cares little for the evils which aflict the nation so the treasury is piundered, our industrial interests are neglected and the di vision of the public plunder absorbs nearly all the attention of our government With business cripr pied and leaks every where Mir. Boutwell, is trying to invert Poor Richards maxim so as to read, get one cent day and spend two and then use my specific to make the balance right. The thing will not work. No nation can enjoy high degree of prosperity while it has corrupt government, and ours is rotten through and through. *'*
 Mir. Boutwell,. by selling gold, buying bonds, and other cunning projects is trying to regulate the between the income and the expep- sress is f that I of man on the verge @ to get money for the time though he pays fifty per cent. interest for it and he knows that the n terest will eat him up at last" ir 4, r.jan ofit
 It so happens that with the close of the. fiscal year ending June 31, come figures that enable us to judge how the balance; does really stand with the government and -tu- -eetiaaa.e sishtly the Democratic ieremi- ads, of which the foregoing is a sample. The Internal Revenue Receipts for the year foot up to $15s, ,2s7, ,176; twenty mill ions more than Secretary McCulloch pre- dicted, last fall, and three millions above the estimate of Commissioner Wells, the gentleman on whose calculations Republi- cans placed most reliance The receipts from customs for the year are 1892 millions, twelve millions more than Mir. Wells esti- mate, which, with revenue from .niscella- neous sources, will bring our revenue up to about three hundred and seventy mill ions, more than forty millions in excess of the expenditures. In short, so far from the hundred and fifty millions deficit confr dently predicted by Messrs. Alexander Del mar, Horatio Seymour and Samuel J. Til-- den, we have, notwithstanding the rednc7 tion of taxes, large surplus. Moreover. reform and retrenchment is the order of the day in every Department; expenses are curtailed, and, above all, the revenue is collected Since incoming of Grants g. administration. the public debt has been reduced exactly $a6, ,46O, ,779s' Now,i if that is " corruption" and the Percy Fuller and
 Sheridan Shook regime of the late lament ed A. J. seems to our friend preferable style of administration, then verify there | is no accounting for taste. eg-a ila LGa