The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-10-30

OF 1t.
It is claimed that none OF the "public
improvements, y TO create which tue deDI
was made, were located in What IS now
West Virginia, except turnpike ana . 1u-
matte asylum However, as Inc thfupthe
leads to fhe lunatic asylum, the apprcpflate-
ness of the investment Will not ne CUES.
toned by any one acquainted vain tnat par.
OF the country. q But as yet West Virginia
has mot, raid The mother State even for
these Besides this, successful secession
reduces the basis OF taxation, .as West Vlr-
einia cannot now be reached by the tax
9afherers OF the mother State. SO matters
drift along with accumulated interest) to-
wards reputation. T',s1 -.
THE bondhofders feel Indignant at their
treatment, and will not willingly consent
to much OF q " shave" but they Will nave
to all the same. Matters need not nave been
so bad OR the State so far in arrears nao
taxation been equal to what it Is in moss OF
the other States, But with the rate LOT
years ct only five mills for all purposes IL IS
no wonder what the creditors and school-
teachers suffer. While other States less
involved have been subjected to rate
OF taxation from six to eighteen mills,
Virginia has. deirauded her creditors
BY levying only five mills. Ihat ls tne
plain English OF the matter. In the State
of New York, with its immense aggregate
OF property, and with a comparatl!Tiy
small debt, the State tax is often six mills.
What would people say Of New York If she
owed SAC, OOO,O 900, and refused to levy rate
OF taxation above five millsP There would
be but one inference. That Virginia Is
Door is true, but 500 in this State can re-
spond to taxation as easily as the like sum
in Nnw York or elsewhere. E =
The evils OF the course Virginia has taken
with her debt come home to roost In many
WAYS. We see it in her recent failure to
borrow small sum to keep the schools
open. Her credit is gone; she cannot Dor
row, Some time ago $4,000, raised Tor the
Lee monument, was put into Virginia Sc
curities, by order OF the Legislature, be-
lieye, and these securities have deprecated
forty per cent. At present the holders OF
trust FUNDS do not invest in Virginia obllga-
tions at ALL. They choose, rather, United
States four-per-c which are secure, al
ways marketable, and, although the interest
is low, it is certain.
THE STATUE OF JACKSON ..
has been received and put in place since
last was in Richmond. It is in Capitol
Square, and upon the very spot where the
negro troops for the Confederacy, raised
during the closing days OF the reDelllon,
were drilled for the first and the last time.
The statue Is OF bronze, life size, and upon
q pedestal about six feet high. He is rep
resented as clothed IN the Confederate uni
form, but otherwise there is nothing about
the monument or inscription to suggest that
it was other than 4 private citizen. The
inscription is this: ..-s ~ ......'. '...
"Presented by English gentlemen as a
tribute Of admiration for the soldier and pa
triot, Thomas j. Jackson, and gratefully ac-
cepted by Virginia in the name OF the south
ern people, \. D. 1875, in the Tooth year OF
the Commonwealth OF Virginia" .....
Not Il word about the United States, or
the Confederate States, or the war, or even
the fact that Jackson was general. Ii the
object of the designers was that nothing
upon the work should give offence to the
most sensitive Union man, they certainly
succeeded. -..-.. ..
DANIEL COME TO JUDGMENT.
Major Daniel, OF Lynchburg, who is reck-
oned the foremost Virginia orator, is stump
ing this district for Johnston, probably
upon the ground Of Confederate memories,
for each OF these men have eleven wounds
received in hattie. The affinity cannot be