The Morning herald., 1875-10-11

the brakcsman on the rear portion. The
damage to property is considerable, as the
depot is partially in ruins and the engine,
etc., a total wreck.
OUR PHILADELPHIA BUDGET.
SENATOR WALLACE MARsHALLs THE DEM
oCRACY.
At Concert Hall, in this city, on Saturday
evening, Senator William A. Wallace Of
Pennsylvania, whose ambitious telnpera-
ment has been made to aspire to presiden-
tial distinction, addressed mighty con-
course of Democrats. The meeting was
gotten up through the efforts of the Ameri-
Gus Club, and right well did they perform
the duty assigned them. So attrrctive is
the uniform make up of these gentlemen
when they appear collectively, that the Ia
dies even cannot refrain from paying tribute
to their manlness by turning out GU masse
to witness their martial pcdestriansm. Nor
was the lecture of Saturday night All ex-
ception in this ingredient of the audience,
for the fair damsels were present in un-
usual numbers, and waved:their appreciation
of the proceedings with costly handker-
chietS-lace and m-stitched-greatly to
the cxubcrance of the hour, and to the
encouragement of the speaker as he weaved
together the threads of his able discourse
and turned mcllifluously his periods.
When Mr.. Wallace appeared upon the
stage lie was greeted by this glittering
audience with succession OF cheers
that gradually gave place to continu-
Gus and hearty applause. 1t was a
graceful ovation and during its con-
tinuance the Keystone leader bowed
and bowed again, his Acknowledgements.
And when at length the rapturous greeting
subsidized, he approached the footlights and
proceeded to expound the political entangle-
mcnts of the hero from his standpoint.
can enormous debit" said he, "mort-
cages all our industries and encumbers our
property. Under its exacting influence, the
people have become exhausted, poverty
stricken and depressed. Oppressive taxa
tion has eaten up their substance, and they
can no longer bear the weight that crushes
them. Our promises to pay are below par,
and bear the stamp of utter falsehood upon
their face. This wide spread desolation and
poverty is done to the character of the rul-
ers who preside over the immediate des-
tines of our land. Through their nefarious
agency the wonderful recuperative powers
Of the people from 1865 to 1875, have been
taxed to the utmost. The people have paid
more than five hundred millions Of debt,
twelve hundred millions of interest, and
more than two thousand millions for other
purposes. Can there be any excuse for the
expenditure of thirty-two millions more for
civil service, in 1873 than was expended in
1862
Can an increase in this single item, from
81, ,OOO, 900 to $73, 900 900, be explained or
defended. Is their an excuse or justiflca-
tion for an increase in the expenditure in
the Nayy Department from Sc, 900 600 in
1869 to $31, ,6O0, 600 in 1875.
Instead ofdecreasing the expenses of this
country, Congress has increased them. In
doing so, it has committed foul wrong on
the people, and should, and, thrust will, be
censured on election lay. There is no good
reason why the Government should not act
like the honest business man or mechanic,
who, when he finds himself in debt uses all
his resources and practices all his economy
he can to remove from himself the incubus.
"Now, let us see how this Government has
practiced economy" continued the speaker.
s.During the last year of Mr.. LincOln's ad-
ministration, the cost of his office was
81, 7,9O9. In 1874, General Grants execu-
tive expenses were $ll8, 100. During the
last year of President Buchanan's admins
tratiOn, the executive expenses were S4l 900.
These facts are not TO be disputed. They
are figures copied from the official docu-
ments. In 1860 the Executive department.
cost S15,5OO; in 1868 it cost $9G, ,S75; in 1874
it cost $40, SOB.
In 1860 the Auditors department cost
S1l 300; in 1865 it cost SIC, 400; in 1871 it
cost $23 ,237. The Surveyors department
in 1860 cost s9,955; in 1868, S92,S0O; in 1874
s25,237. Expenses are, it is true, greater
than they were in 1866, when we had re-
dundant currency and inflated prices, but
with this in view, the difference is by no
means satisfactory. The people who arc in
power to-day are unable to retrench even
thou. h they were willing to do so; and we
can come to this much needed rctrenchmcnt
and economy only by n change in the ad-
ministration. The present government has
not pursued the part which would have
been adapted by the prudent business man.
We of the North feel it's effects III the loss
Of market for our surplus products, ana
in the diminution of those staples from the
south. which in former years aided so
largely in paying our indebtedness to for
cign % people. Whilst we of the North were
marching forward, increasing in population,
multiplying in productions and resting in
the apparent strength that stimulants had
produced, they of the South were dcereas
mo in number, dwindling in production, and
s DEPRESSED e in gloom by the destruction Of
thrir Industries, and by the refusal to per-
nit nit them to govern themselves. Ihe laws .Y'.s
enacted lla. by Congress have restrained TN the
nrocess OF development in the South. No.