Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1869 — The Economical Democracy. [ARTICLE]

The Economical Democracy.

Wk beg our readers through th* country who are disposed to think that the extravagance of the Republican party is so prodigious, to remark the economies of the Democratic party as illustrated in the State of New York. The annual tax levies for the city and county of New York, which were not only generous but enormous, were submitted to the Legislature, and they were carefully revised before their passage. The Atsem bly, or Lower Hhuse, is nominally Republican ; but the majority has been constantly overcome by the skill of the Tammany leaders. At the lart moment Mr. A. B. Hodges, of Brooklyn, a member elected as a Republican, introduced a substitute increasing the amount of the city levies by some three millions of dollars, and the county levies by a similar sum. After a vigorous protest from eminent Republicans in the House this infamous bill was passed, and every Democrat in the House, every member of ths party that it sonstantly denouncing the horrible oppression of taxation, voted to increase the taxes nearly six millions of dollars! Twenty Republicans voted with them, and secured the passage of the bill; but the opposition was all Republican. We again remind our readers that when they hear the Republican Legislature of 1869 denounced as the most venal that ever disgraced the State, they are to remember that of the seventy-two Republicans voting .fifty-two voted against this crowning iniquity and twenty for it, while every Democrat voting—forty eight in number voted for it. Harper's WeeJcly. --- Not long ago, in tearing down an old English house, the workmen came across a secret cupboard, in which were found aquantity of diamond* and jewelry to the value of several hundred pounds. It is believed that the articles had not before seen light for centuries.