The Fiscal Year

The report of the Intornal Reveuue Commiasioner for the fiscal year ending Jnue 30, 1875, is a rather vohiminous document, and we can flnd room for oniy a brief synopsis of it. Cquamissioner Pratt says it niay be some consolation to know that grievons asare our bnrdens. laid uponsuchof our population, forty-twomillions or more, as consume the aiticles taxed by our Internal lteveuue laws, tb Britiah public, numbering less by one-fourth than onr people, paid under their excise Jawa during the year euding March 31, 1875, taxes measured In gold to the amountof $183,962,756, agaiuet $110,545,154 paid in currency by the pcople of this country during the fisca"! year ended June 30, 1875. The report shows that the actual amount of receipts in the Treasury from all sonrces from and af ter June 30, 1861, to June 31, 1874, exclusive of loans and Treaaury notes, was as follows : distólas $1,973,749,367 Iuternal revcuue 1,956,32P,725 Direct tax 14,810,189 Public lands 22,151,058 Mlsoellaneous '236,084,982 Premiums on loans and eales of gold coin 19-2,557,117 Total $1,395,038,341 The net amount received from all sources of internal revenue during the last fiscal year in the several States is given as follows : Alabama $ lll,816!Missonri 4,591,856 Arizoun 10,203 Montana 23,68 Arkansas 71,823 Nobraska 302,473 California 2,983,595 Novada 53.147 Colorado 70,351 N. Hampslúre. 298,812 ConnecUcut.. . . 022,225 New Jersey 2,362,470 Dakotu 10,040 New Mexico. .. 21,965 Delaware 360,331 New York 15,200,898 Dist. Columbia 111,027 North Carolina 1,W,99 Floriila 184,547 Ohio 14,656,295 Georgia 387,154 Oregon 47,93!) Idaho l!l,136 Peunsylvauia.. 6,149,954 Illinois 17,627,668!KhodeIsland.. 231,767 Indiaua 4,650,883lSouth Carolina 120,818 Iowa l,()40,064'Tenne8see 858,910 Kansas 133,535 ToxaB 257,448 Kentucky 9,022,636 Utah 31,545 LoniRiaim 583,151 Veriïiont 08,251 Maine 107,261 Virginia 7,639,639 Maryiand 2,766,8481 Washington. .. "21,24 Masflaeliusetts. 2,670,491 West Virginia. 508.684 Michigan 1.930,501! Wisconsin 2,7.'(l,8fi8 Mmncota 228,362 Wjoming 11 ,942 Mississippi.... 9Ö,08öl Tho Commissioner says public attention has been often called withiu the past few montlis to the extensivo frauda committed in certain localities upon the revenue by distillcra and rectifiera of distilled spirits. He givea an account, first, of the checks, guarda, and protections against frauda establisbed by law; secoud, of the marnier in which the whisky frauda, so-called, lately xposed, were perpotrated upon the Government; third, the extent of these frauda; fourth, the checks recently eatablished to prevent a recurrence of the 1 same; and, flfth, suggests legislation whioh, in i his opinión, is necessary to insure a f ulier coliection in fntiu'e of the taxes upou distilled j spirits. Mr. Pratt ia of the opinión that, with tional legislation to enforce the honest tion of the tax on diatilled spirits, the revenue ; can be collected with little loas. TUK PENSION OFFICE. Pension Commissioner Atkinson, in his anuual report, statea that the number of pensioners added to the rolla dnriug the last fiscal year nas 11,557, and the number dropped by reaaonof death, re-enlistment, remarriage, expiration of minora' peneions, failuro to apply within three years. or the diaeovery of t'raud, was 12,977, making a net decrease of 1.420. Tho number of pensions iucreased was 15,501. The total number of pensioners borne upon the rolla June 30, 1875, was 234,821, by claasea as follows : An.iy Invalide 10ö,478 Arm y widows aud dependent relativos 104,885 Survivors of the War of 1812 15,875 Widows of soldiere of the War of 1812 5,163 Navy invalids 1,636 Navy widows and dependent relatives 1,784 Total 234,821 I The iuvalid roll continúes to increase, and, j uotwithatauding ita loaaes, numbered 3,021 more on the 30th of June, 1875. tbat at the i close of the preceding year, and for the first time sinco 18C3 exceeded the roll of widows and depeudent relatives. lts increase largely counterbalances the lossea to the other rolla, and makea the decrease of the aggregate roll comparatively email, lts animal rates are siso eteadily incrèasing. In 1871, the average rate of pension paid to the army invalid pensioners annuallvwau t8'J.18: in 1872, $90.26; in 1873, 9C16; in 1874, $98.14; and 1875, $103.91, or $8.65 per nionth. The ratea vary from $1 to $50 per montli. The total disburaements of tho Pension Bureau during the last fiscal year wero $29,683,116.63. leaviug a balance from tho appropriations of .371,883.31, which has been covered into the Treasury. The appropriationa for the enrrent fiscal year were: For army pensions, $29,500,000; for navy pensions, $500,000 ; total, $30,000,000. Dnriug the past fiscal year 12,236 original applicatinna for army and navy invalid pensiona and 17.111 claims lor increase of the aame clasa were received, and 933 claims have been withdrawn from the rejected filea and reopeued upon additional evidence. At the close of the vear thero remained upon the pending files 32,228 original and 6,722 increase claims of this clasa. THE IiUREAU OF EDUCATION. Commisaioner Eaton, of the Iiui'eau of j catión, in his fifth annual report, presenta some interesting statistics. The followiug is a summarv of a number of tables tbat are preaented ahowing the most important school statistics : States. Territorial. Total. School populatiou.. 13,736,672 139,378 13,875,050 Enrolled in public schools 8,030,772 69,209 8,090,981 Average daily attendance 4,488,075 33,489 3,521,564 ! Number of children between 6 and 18 years old 16,536,674 ! Number of teachers employed 211,3',0 Total incoine, public schools (8tates).. .$ 81,277,686 Total ineome, public schools (Territorios) 881,219 Total $ 82,158,905 Total expentlitures (sites, buildings, furniture) States $ 14,852,259 Total e.xpenditures (sites, buildings, furniture), Torritories 193,649 Total $ 15,043.908 Salaries of superintendents $ 924, 77s Salarie of teachers (States) r 45,201,609 Salaries of teachers (Territories) 502,280 Total ' $ 47,628,688 i MiecellancoUB expenditiires (States) . ... $11,009,159 lUiwellaneous expeuditures (Territories) 93,936 Total $11,703,695 Í ToUl expenditiiros for schools (States). $74,109,217 Total expenditiires for schools (Territories 805,121 Total $74,974,388 I Total value buildings, sites, etc. (States). $104,180,947 Total valué buildings, sites, etc. (L'erriI tories 1,572,500 Total $165,753,447 Every State reporta one or more Schools of dcieuce : twenty-seven States report Schools of ! Theology ; twenty Statea report Law Sóheol ; wenty-three States report regular Schools of ■ine. TUE ENG1NÍ.EK SKIÏIU'K. Gen. Humphreys, Chief Engineer ol the U. S. Army, has completed his annual report, detailing the work on fovtiñcation. and giviug i citimatcBOf additiona! proposed improvementa. , Expcriments witli torped'Mïs in tho niauyhar; hora along the coast have euabled the Eugincer Department to determine the size snd buoy■ ancy of these destructivo agoute applicable to thedifferent chamiela, and t,o complete are the ! details in tliis connection that, in case of ! emergeucy. tho ship-chamiel of any harbor threateued by a foreign foo could be so obstructei withtheae cxilosive maohines within a very few hours that n flet of war vp-m-Ih venturiDg to enter would be blown to atoms. The importanoo of torpedoefi wan well üIuhtrated in the Franco-l'russian nar. wherein France with her immense navy waa reudered enürely powerlees as againet the thorough aquoous system of batteries adopted by the Germán Government. Gen. Humphreys says it is requisito that the battalion of engineers be increased to a minimum peace orgauization of 520 men, that number being requisite for the efficiënt coudition of the torpedo dofenses of the United State. stretching as they !o along a sea-coaat frontior of 12.000 miles. For continuing the pnrchases of such parts of the torpedo apparatus and material as cannot be fluddeniy obtained in time of war, the amonnt of $150,000 is asked. Gou. IInmphreys devotos a large portiou of his report to a description of the jetty system, and the eurvey of water-lines to the "seaboard. He correcta an erroneous impression thatseems to prevail concerning the nse of jetties in this country, and shows how moro than forty j bors on the great lakea have been improved for the benefit of commcrce, without whicli that commerce could not exist. SFCRETARÏ BRISTOW'S RKPORT. The report of the Secretary of the Treasury will this year be of great lengtli. It will be aa earnest in favor of resumption and hard money as it waa laat year. The report will show a ] f allin oft' in customs receipts for tho firnt six j months of the present fiscal year as compared with tbe correspondiug period of last year, but an iucreaee in the interna] revenue receipts au slioRU by the report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenuev In the absence of the : tionftl legislation increaeing the tax on distilled spirits fi'om 70 to 90 cents a gallon, the Secretary estimatoB the recoipta from the excise at ílú(i,000,000 for the present fiscal year, but the increased ratee will add to bis estímate, according to the report of the Comnrmsioner of Internal Revenue, some L16,000,000, making ■f122,000,000 in all. TUK CENSUS BUREAU. Gen. F. A. Walker, Superintendent of the Ninth Census, has submitted hia annual report ! to the Secretary of the Interior. He states that the work of the office, whieh consista of coiTespondeuce arising out of the publicaron of the United States census of 1870, or having reference to the projected State census in 1875, j or to the International Statisücal Ceugreas, has i been done by himaelf, without expense to the i Government, except that of postage. He grets the paucity of rosnlts in the State census I of 1875, and says that in a country as young as the United States, statistical information is of I special importance in guidiug its social and ! dustrial developmont. and that the indifference I of our people to the advantages of enen I mation is certainly not proof of a wisdom I perior to the uoed. Af'ter naming a few States in which the cenHus has been taken the present year, Gen. Walker closea by saying that tnongb ia already knowu of tlie resnlt to indícate quite elearly that the progresa of our nlation has received a témpora' check. The Reronue Frauds. The revelations in tbe St. Louis whisky cases, so far as they exposé official depravity, are appalling. They show h"ow wide-spread was the corruption of the public ofticers. The Supervisor of Internal Revenue, the Inspector of Internal Revenue, the Collector, the Gacugers, the Storekeepers, and the Chief Clcrk of the Revenue Office at Washington, and the snccessive Special Agents sent to investígate - all, from 1871 to 1875, deliberately combined to appropriate to themselves the revenue of the Government. One of the parties states I that he has no record of his share of the I plunder, but it was not less than $50,000 ! during the fourteen months in which he j participated. He received one-fifth. i The bu&iness began in September, 1871, and was brought to a sudden stop in September, 1875. At iirst, and during the fourteen months covered by the testiraony of the witness only a few distillers were included; but the demand for money and tho number of the officials j to be bribed increased, and so all tho manufacturera were gradually drawn in. The tax on spirits dwing this time was üfty cents on the gallon, and the average sum paid by the distillers to the Government offlcers was thirty cents per gallon. The división, therefore, of the taxes was twenty cents retained by the distülers and thirty cents by the dishonest ofticers. If the share of ono of these officers during fourteen months was .$50,000, and be received one-ñfthof the thirty cents, tlien we have, as the total revenue taken during that term, $250,000 by the revenue officers and $167,000 by the distillers, which was equal to the tax on 380,000 gallons. Subsequently, the tax was increased to seventy cents, and since then to ninety cents. We have not yet had the revelations covering the later period, bnttho practice was continued on even a lavger scale - that is to say, there was more manufacturera, and of course, a largor amount ol whisky made and sold free of tax. Occasionally, in addition to tho thirty cents per gailon paid to the revenue officers, there were special levies for round sums to silence visiting officers, and a levy of $300 per week wa,s made to quiet a complaining ofiïcer in the Revenue Bureau at Washington. One special official ! manded and received .$10, 000 for silence, and sums of various amounts were j manded in the names of eminent men. - Chicago Tribune. A Strong Man in His Oíd Age A Salt Lake City letter to the New York Graphic says : The close of Brigham's career as President of the Mormon Clrarch bids fairto be quite as stormy as its opening. Four timos since he embraced Mormonism, in 1832, has he been compelled to abandon a fine property and flee to a new "gathcring of saints." With all his troubles as head of that peculiar people, he still bids fair to live out the century. He was bom June 1, 1801, and endowed with the finost physical constitution a man could be blessed with. He was put up to live a hundred and twenty years - the patriarchal span of lile. Troubles and hardships in early days have undoubtedly shortened his lifo from twenty to forty years, so that, accidents excepted, ha will probably die between eighty and a hundred. He is six feet high, and uncommonly compact and well mafcjled. He measures f ortyfour inchesBTiround the chest; and such is his broadth in mid-person that strangeis who soe him for tlie first tipie in his short, gray, business coat, imagine him a rather " stinnpy " man several inches shorter than he is. His teeth are 1 rows of dianionds, for solid strength ; his oyes a peculiar bright blue-gray, and his hair of that light, golden hue and 1 line texture which indícate just enough í and not too much of the sanguine temI perainent. A surgeon of the United i States Army, who is iutimately aoquaint! ed with his physical characteristics, ! pronounces him the most perfect type I of a good constitution he ever treated. ! Take him ft'r all in all, those who look ' forward to lus death to begin a revolution in Utah may as well dismiss their hopos, for if not worried by imprisoument, he will doubtless live to witness the funerala of Itis enemies and outlusi anotüer generation of wivos, M he al; ready has outlasted two. Somebody has uudertaken to deoion! strate that feöbeB toe ao (xpensie i'olly, those in the United States having OMt $2,300,000,000. Their annual repair, depreciation, and interest on flrst oost is put at $400,000,0(10. In Pennaylvania they oost an aveiageof tl.4O pei o re : in Rhode lsknd 19.50. They ateo sometime3 prove vtry expensivi' tn politioians who bestiiue them.