Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 9 December 1869 — Page 10

citations, either entire or in sepan voted upon at the discretion of the JSxec Under this authority the elections were called, in Virginia the election took place on the 6th 01 ouiy, 1809. The Governor and Lienienant Governor clected have been installed. The Legislature met and did all required by this resolution and py ail the reconstruction acts of Congress, and abstatnea from all doubtful authority. I recommend father Senators and Representatives be admitted, and tnat the State be fully restored to its place in the ramuy of States. Elections were called in MissUsippi ana Texas, to commence on the 30th of November, 1869, and to last two days, in Mississippi and tour da* sin Texas. TTie elections have taken place, out the result is not known. It is to be hoped that the acts of the Legislatures of these States, when they meet, will be such aa to receive your approbation, and thus close the work ol reconstruction.

Among the evils growing out of the J"®6®"1??' and not yet referred to, is that of an irredeemaDie currency. It is an evil which 1 hope will receivc your attention. It is a duty, and one of tne nifcu eft duties of the Go\»ernment, to secure toine citizens a medium of exchange of fixed unvarying value This implies its return to.a speclejMsis, and no substitute for it cat be

deviscd.

be commenced now and

It should

reached-at

the earliest

practicable moment consistent with a

r®= nmr.

the interest of the debtor class. Immediate resump tion, if practicable, would not be desirable It would compel the debtor class to pay beyond the contractors^premium on gold at the date or heir tmrchase, and would bring.bankruptcy and ruin to thousands. Fluctuations, however, in the paper value of the measure of all values—gold—is detrimental to the Interests of trade. It makes the man of business an .involuntary gambler, for in all sales when the fiiture payment is to be made, both parlies speculate as to what will be the value of the currency to be paid and received. I earnestly^ recommend to you, then, such legislation as will insure a gradual return'to .specie payments, and pat an immediate stop to fluctuations in the value of the currency. The methods to secure either of these results are418 numerous as are the speculators on political economy. To secure the latter, Isee but one way, and that is to authorize the Treasury to redeem its own paper at a fix^d price whenever presented tq withhold from circulation all such currency redeemed until sold again for rold The. vast resources of the nation, both developed and undeveloped, ought to make our credit the best on earth. With a 1JFS burden of taxation than the citizen has endured for fcix years past the entire public debt could be paid ten yaars. but it is not desirable that tiie people should be taxed to pay it in that time. Year by year the ability to pay increases in a rapid ratio, bat the burden of interest ought to be reduced as rapidly as can be done without the violation of contract. The public debt is represented in a great part by bonds, having from five to twenty and from ten to forty years to run, bearing interest at the rate of six per cent, and five per cent, respectively. It is optional with the Government to pay these bonds at any period after the expiration of the leist time mentioned upon their face,. The time has already expired when a good part of them may be taken up. The time is rapidly approaching when all may be. It is believed that all which are now due may be replaced by bonds bearing a rate of interest not exceeding fonr and a half percent. and as rapidly as the remainder becomes due they may be replaced in the same way. To accomplish thi* itmay be necessary to authorize the interest to be paid at either of the three or four of the money centres of Europe, or by any Assistant rreasorcr of the United States, at the option or the holder of. the bond. I suggest this subject for the consideration of Congress alsosi-muftaneou-ly with this, the propriety of redeeming our currency as before suggested,at its mark* value, at the time the law goes into effect, increasing the rate at which the currency will be bought and sold fromday to day or week to week at the earoe rate of interest as the Government pays upouits bonds.

The BUblect of ihe tariff and internal ^taxation •will necessarily receive your attention. "The reve­

nues

of the country are greater than the requireiments, and may with safety be reduced,.but as the funding of the debt in a four or four and a half per cent, loan would reduce the anniial current expense largely, thus, alter funding, justifying a greater reduction of taxation than would be now expedient, I suggest a postponement of thte queaticta untll 'the next meeting of Congress. Kmay be advisable to modify taxation and tariff in instances where unlust or burdensome discriminations are made by the present laws, but a general revision of the laws regulating this sultfect, A recommenauie poatpone"ment of fat the present. .' also suggest the renewal Of the taxpn incomes.

Ifeeleafi? in saving? that ^e taxes and revenue from imports may be reduced (safely, froggy.10 eighty millions per aginnm at once, and be still further reduc^ «s .the Jffsp'W** of th« cowitrr ETC dcvfeldpdu.

The report or the Secretary of the Treasury ebows the. receipts otahe cdvernjnefit for the fiecal

|i9B VVt IUW

mote lavoraoie me government,•• ^0^t,ehow alarge decrease of the Trablic debt, he recc\pt8.

t|,e

Treasury Beyond expenditures

jTrhave eM«e4Bfl tho amount Mcepaw-y^tOt p' tce to the credit o^ siritin^fufltf, ^pftvtaed law. ?0'°Hk,uP^e '"wplns in the Treasury, at .1 withhold it from circuUv,\on, would lead to sncl a contraction of the currency as to erippletradeund se-

Jiously afiact the piwspeuty ofthe'COffDt/Tfl Hoder the^e circumstances the T/Jf!) ,. and, myseir heartily concurred S5«© using.-a 11 surplus currency in the purchase or governm»nt bonds, ttiuiir, ... IntereatrbearTng debt of the country anfl' Af iiisroitunpto Copgrees the questiS^ o?the

in*, and a char.er lot therti ht of way to by pritate enterprise such work, If.^the survey proves it to tie practicable.

In order to comply with the agreement or the United States as to a mixed commission at Lima, for the adjustment of the claims, it became necessary to send a Commissioner to Lima in August last. No appropriation having been made for this purpose, itis BOW

were steps

the'

offices of the United States to bring

about a peace between Spain and the S«utn American Republics, with which she Is at war, having been accepted by Spain, Peru and Chili, a

CongreM

has been InVhed to be held in Wash­

ington during the present winter. ... j.. A grant has been given the Europeans,of an exclusive right of transit over the territory of Nicaragua, to which Costa Rica has given its assent, which it is alleged, conflicts with vested rights of citizens of the United States. The Department of Sthte has now this subject under consideration.

The Minister of Peru having made representations thttt there was a state of war between Peru and Spain, and that Spain was constructing in and near New York thirty gunboats, which might be by Spain in such a way as to relieve the naval at Cuba so as to operate against Peru, orders given toprevent their departure. No farther having been taken by tno representatives of

Peruvian

pe be

Government to prevent the departure

of these vessels, and I not feeling authorized to detain the property of a nation with which we are at eace on a mere Executive order, the matter has sen referred to the courts to decide.

The conduct or the war between the allies and the Republic of Paraguay has made the intercourse with that country so difficult that it has been deemed advisable to withdraw our representative from

'^Toward the close of the las} Admistration a convention was signed at London for the settlement of all outstanding claims between Great Britain and the United States, which failed to receive the advice and consent of the Senate to its ratification.. The time and the circumstances attending the ne. gotiation ofthe treatywere unfavorable to its accep tanceby the peopled the United States, and its

provisions

were wholly inadequate fprthe settle­

ment ofthe groes wrongs that had been sustained by this Government, aa well as by its citizens. The injuries resulting to the United States, by reasor ofthe course adopted by Great Britain during..o.p late civil WBT, in iijcre^jed rates of insurance, in the diminution-llSf WtpoMs- raSl'Jniporta, and other obstruct kHULto dbmeutic industry and production, in its upon thesforeign coiwngfcij.of the iouiitry,,in'the decrease atfdlransferfroGreaeBriTait or ottr commercial marine, in the prolongation of war- 'and increased cost, both, in treasure and hi lives, of its suppression could not, be- .'abjhsted «Bd. satisfied as ordinary cominercla} clalmswhich continually arise between commercial nations, and yet the Coav'cntipn tre'ated thettttfrnply as Buch ordinary cl*ims.,ftom which they differ more widely in the gravity of their character thauln the magnitude of their amount.: Great even as is that difference, not a word, was found, inihe, treaty

peopical

asked that ote be

made covering the past and fature expenses of

t^The°cood

rand

not an

inference could be drawn from it, to remove the sense of the unfriendliness of the course.of Great Britain in our struggle for existence, which had so deeply and universally impressed itself upon the people of this count ry. Believing that a convention thus misconstrue in its scope and made quite different in its provisions would not have produced the hearty, cordial settlement of the pending questions which alone is consistent with the relations whtch I desire to have ettabllshed between te United States and Great. Britain. 1 regarded the actiou of the Senate, in rejecting the treaty, to have been wisely taken In the interest of peace, and us a necessary step in the direction of a perfect and cordial friendship 'between the two countries. A sensitive people* conscious ot their power, are more ait ease tinder Sgreat wrong wholly unatoned thatfhnder the restraint 'of a gettlemcnt which "satisfies neither their idieas of justice nor their grave sense of the grievance they have sustained.- The rejection of the treaty was followed by a state of public feeling on both sides, whlfch I thought not favor-1 able to an immediate attempt at renewing .negotiations. I accordingly so instructed the Minister of the United States to Great Britian, and found that vieW6ill,il-'" Whfcr Mafnmrfa my —.. -j— Minister. I hope that'the time may soon |mve when the two Governmeiits.can approach the solution of this momentous question vnth an asautence of what is due to the rights, dignity and honor of each, and with the determination not only to-re-move the causes or complidnt in the past, but to lay the-foundation of abroad principle of public law, which will prevent future' differences, andltend to iflrm^od contUM peac^aiid frienddiip. This is" dow^the only 'igravo" questidn Vhlch flie United States haw with any foreign nation.

The question or a treaty for Reciprocity be-' tween

toe

UnitedStatesaudthe British Provinces

on this continent has not been fevorably considered by the Administration.' The advantage of such a treaty would be wholly in favor of the British producer, except possibly^ few engagedin the trade between the two sections. No citizen 0f the United States wouWIbe hefiefited by reoprocity. Our internal taxation would prove a protection to the British producer almost equal to the protection which opr manuracturerenow receive froiu tfie'tartffi flfeme Sfhui^tosnt, however,_for thu re^la^^bt commerdal intercourse between the uStid Sta^fand the Dominion of Canada BMty be commission for adiosting the claims of the :udsm Bay aod Poret's Sound Agricultural Com.

which would be shipped abroad. The tension of railroads In Europe anil the East is bringing into competition with our agricultural products, like products of other countries self-jnterett, if not self-preser-vation, therefore, dictates caution airainst disturbing any of the induftrial interests of the country. It teaches us, also, the necessity of looking to other markets lor the sale of our surplus. Our neighbors south of us and China and Japan should receive our special attention. It will be the endeavor or the administration to cultivate such relations with all these nnticas so as to entitle us to their'confidence, and make it their interest as well as ours to establish better commercial relations.

Through the agency of a more enlightened policy than that heretofore pursued toward China (largely due to the sagacity and efforts or one of our own distinguished citizens), the world is about to commence largely iucreased relations with that populous and hitherto exclusive nation. As the United States haye taken the initiatory in the new policy, so they should be the most earnest in showing their good laith in making it a success. In this connection I advise such legislation as will forever preclude the enslavement, of Chinese upon our soil uoder the name of Coolies, aiid also prevent American vessels from engaging in the transportation of Coolies to any country tolerating the system. I also recommend that the m'sslon to China be raised to one of the first class.

On my assuming the responsibilities of Chief Magistrate of the United States, it was with the conviction that three thing were essential to its peace, prosperity and fullest development. First among these is strict integrity in fulfilling all our obligations. Second, to secure protection to the person and property of our common country, wherever he may choose to roam without reference to original nationality, religion, color or politics, demanding of him only obedience to the laws and proper respect for the rights ot others. Third, a union of all the States-with liqual rights indestructible by any unconstitutional means.

To Bccure the first of these Congress has taken two essential steps. First, in declaring by joint resolution that the public debt should be paid principal and interest fu coin. Second, by providing means for paying. These measures, however, could not secure the object desired without proper administration of the laws for collection of the revenues and economical disbursement of them. To this subject the administration has most earnestly addressed itself, with' results, I believe, satisfactory to the country. There has been no hesitation in changing oiHcials in order to secure the efficient execution of the 'laws eomeMmefe, too, where in a mere party view undesirable political results were likely to follow lor any hesitation in sustaining efficient officials agaist remonstrances wholly political. It may be well to mention here embarrassments possible to arise from leaving on the statute books the socalled Tenuie-of-Uffice act, and to earnestly recommend its total repeal. It could not have been the intention ot the framers of the Constitution, when providing that appointments made by the President should receive the consent of the Senate, that the latter should have the power to retain in office persons placed there by Federal appointments against the will, of the President. The law is inconsistent with a faithful and efficient administration of the government What, faith can tbe Executive put m| officials' forced upon him, and those too, whom he has suspended for reason? How will such officials serve an administration which they know does not trust them For the second requisite to our growth afcd prosperity, time and.experience will affirm bdt a humane administration of existing laws,-amended from time to time, as they prove ineffective, or prove harsh and unnecessary, are probably all that are required. The third cannot be attained by special legislation, but must be regarded as fixed by. the Constitution itself, and gradually acquiesced in by force of public opinion.

From the foundation of the Government to the preseat, the management of the original inhabitants of this continent, the Indians, has been the subject of embarrassment and expense, and has been attended with continuous robberies, murders and wars. From my own experience upon the frontiers and Indian countries, I do not hold either legislation or the conduct ol the whites who come most in contact with Indians blameless for their hostilities. The last, however, cannot be undone, -J~ttnd the question must be met as we now find it. I have adopted anew policy toward these wardS of the new nation—they cannottbe^regarded in any other light than as wards—with fair results so. far as tr'ed, and whlch I hope will be attended ultimately with great success The society of

Friends Is well known as having fucceedea in livJng in peafce with tho lagans the early settlement of Pennsylvania, when .their- white neighbora' offe other sects ii» Nfrrher sections were constantly-embroiled.. -They are als^knoVji for their opposition to .all strife, violence ehdivar, an^ afe gentertttly noted for their stiicSt integrity ancfiir dealings. These consideratioftrtinauced die ttt giVe the management of a few reservations of tndiahs to thein. and to' throw thehuifden of the selection of agents npon the eqclet/ itself,' and the result has proven most satitfafctory. It will be found more fally ^t forthin tfie'report of the Commissioner Indian Affairs. 'iFbrSnperlntendenta and Indian agents not on reeeivajtione, officers of the army were selected. The reasons for this are numerous. When Indian agents are sent there or near there, troops must be sent also., The agent said the commander or the troops are iniependent of each otheri.and are subject to orders from the different departments of the government. epi The army officer holds a position for "life, the agent One at tne will of the President. The former is personally interested in living in harmony with tho

incrcflscs The method by which postage should be paid upon public matter is tet forth fnllj the report of the Postmaster General.

show wa?7,66^154 acres, exceeding that or the preceding year by l,010,4t acres. Or this amount 2 WW,544 acres were sold, for cash,, and 2,737,865 !.cre8 under the homestead laws. The remainder was granted to aid in the construction Of works of internal improvement approved to tho States as swamp land, and located by warrants and scrip. The cash receipts lrom all sources were $4,472,S36 exceeding those ol the previous year, $2,840,140.

During

the last fiscal year, 23.1C6 names were

added to the pension rolls, and 4,870 dropped therefrom, leaving at its close, 187,U63. The amount paia to pensioners, including the mpcosation of disbursing agents, was, $23,422,884, an increase ol $441,192 oa that of the previous year. The munificence of Congre-s has been conspicuously manifested in its legislation for the soldiers and sailors who suffered in the recent straggle to maintain that unity of government which makes us one people. The addition to the pension rolls of each successive year tlnce the conclusion ot hostilities result in a great degree from the repeated amendments of the act of the 14th of July, 1862, which extended its provisions to cases not falling within its original scope. The larger outlay which is thus occasioncd is further increased by the more liberal allowance bestowed since that date upon those who. in the line of duty, where wholly or permanently disabled. ,,

Public opinion has given an emphatic sanction to these measures of Congress, and it will be conceded that no part of our public burden is more cheerfullv borne than this branch |of the service. It necessitates an outlay for the next fiscal year, in addition to the amount justly chargeable to the naval pension Tund, an appropriation or $110,000,000.

During the year ending September 80th, 1869, the Patent Office issued 13,7C2, patents, and its receipts were $086,389, being $213,'.«6 more than the expenditures. 1 would respectfully call your attention to the recommendations of the Secretary of the Interior for uniting the duties or supervising the education or frccdmen with the other duties devolving upon the Commissioner of Education. If it is the desire of Congress to make the census, which must be taken during the year 1870, more com"Igest np-

Congress, at tbe last session, appointed a

committee to take into consideration such measures as might be deemed proper in reference to the census, and to report a plan, I desist from saying

I recommend to your favorable consideration the claims of the Agriculture Bureau for liberal appropriation. In a country so diversified in climate and soil as ours, and with a population so largely dependent upon agriculture, the benefits that can be conferred by property fostering this bureau are incalculable. desire respectfully to call the attention of Concress to the inadequate salaries ot a number of the most important officers of the government. In this message I will not ennnierate them, but will specify only the Justices of the Supreme Court no change has been made in their salaries for fifteen years. Within that time the labors of the Court have largely increased, and the expenses of living have at least doubled during the same t'me Gmigivss has twice found it necessary to increase largely t*e compensation of its members, and the, duty whicu it owes to another department Of the government deserves, and will undoubtedly, rcceivo its .due consideration. ...

There are many subjects-not alluded fin this message which might with propriety be introduced but I abstain, believing your patriotism

whole people. On my part, IpfOtnlse a rigid adherence to the l«ws and their strict enforcement. (Signed) U. S. GRANT.

—At Oxford, some twenty years a' o, a tutor of one of the colleges limped in his walk. Stopping one day last summer at a railway station, he was accosted by a well-known politician,

fwho

recognized

him and asked if he was not the chaplain of tiie college at such a time, nataitag tfie year. The doctor replied that he was. '.'I was there," said his, interrogator, "and knew you by your limp." Well." said the doctor, it seems that my limbing made a deeper impression than myprcachirig." Ah, doctor," was the reply* With ready witj it is the highest complimettt we can pay a minister to, say that he is ^own by his walk rather than by his conversation."

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A few years ago, says the New Hampshire Mirror, we heard Dr.- Oliver W. Holmes,' one of the medical professors of Harvard College, say that for over twen-ty-two hundred years physicians hadused, the common elder (8ambumti), and that they h'ad jU8t found out that it possessed ho virtue whatever as* a remedy for any known disease.

profit, must charge a much higher rate oMnteJSst to realize the same relative profit, supposing, of course, that the deposits of the two institutions ire equal. 1 he government, therefore, confers a greater hoon upon the bnsiness public, by enabling it to borrow money at moderate rates of interest, than is generally realized or admitted. If all the banks were deprived of their circulation during the coming year, by act of Congress, the rates at which money could bo borrowed in most sections ofthe country would be nearly doubled. The assumption by the government of the sole power to issue jcirculating notes would in no wise furnish relief.

The average dividends made by the banks during the past year will probably not'exceed ten per cent, upon their capital, after deducting taxes and expenses. And as the premium on gold shall diminish, and the National Banking system shall be made free to all who are able and choose to comply with the conditions, the average profit, will conform to the law which governs all business. It will be a fair living profit and no more.

There are two kinds or currency in use one issued directly by the Government the other issued .by the .banks. One kind would seem to be enough. The best should be preserved and perfected the other withdrawn. The very moment the government issues are made redeemable, they will cease to answer the purpose of enrrency for, after they are redeemed, they are in the treasury and cannot again be paid out, except upon appropriations made by law, in accordance with the constitutional provision, and consequently cannot again be put in circulation, except as disbursements may be necessary to pay expenses and debts or the government. So that Government circulation is convertible, and therefore is not elastic, and cannot be made so without first making a radical change rn the organization or the United States Treasury, by which it. should be converted into a huge banking institution calculated to receive deposits, make loans, and otherwise perform the functions of a National Bank.

The notes issued by National Banks arc nominally redeemable and, if the legal-tender notes wcrq out of the way, would be actually so, and, being issued by institutions in sympathy with trade,would contract and expand in obedience to the' law of supply and demand, so that they would also possess the element of elasticity.

As to the comparative merits of the two different kinds of currency, an impartial consideration would probably decide in favor of a bank circulation. principally because it would possess the power of adaptibg itself to the exigencies of tr: de. ir government issues could be made to .-s-e^'the same, power or adaptation,' the verdict would be in their favor. A candid investigation, however, cannot fail to develep the fact, that there is no branch of the fiscal service Adequate to the direct issue and care of such a currency as the country requires. The Treasury system is so arbitrary in its collections and disbursements, sO little in harmony with the business interests of the commnuity, that it frequently absorbs large amountB of currency at most inopportune seasons, and disburses them with just as little regard to the wants of trade.

Solohg ais the collection of revenues is liable to bo a process of contraction, and their disbursement a process of inflation, the agencies through which ,collections and disbttrsenieals are effected cannot be regarded as suit-able agencies for furnishing a 8ohnd-cnrrency to the poople. -.The argument that the government shou'd furnish the currency in order that it may realize the 'profit upon its circulation Is a common one, but will not bear scrutiny. There is no profit to the government on the circulation of au inferior currency. Only a sound currency will promote the material prosperity of the people aiid the government can realize no profit from anything detrimental to their interests. As a currency, therefore, goverment issues are not profitable. Asa loan without interest they are equally unprofitable, because they are injurious to the national credit, and add enormously. to the.expenses, of the government. if, however, it is impossible for the government to comply with the conditions necessary in order to famish a sound currency, it can at least provide for the withdrawal of its own notes, and prescribe the conditions .upon, which, and the agencies through which, abetter currency may be provided. As before stated, there should be but one paper currency in tbe country, and that should emanate ftom a source that is influenced by,-and is amenable to, the laws of trade. No check or limitation should he imposed upon it, other than the law of supply and demand.

FRBE BANKING.

A, self-adjusting .currency is the only, one that-is adapted to the exigencies of trade, and to thfe wants of the country and it is a vital question at this time, whether this result can be reached before the return of specie payments. If possible at all, it is only possibleihrdugh the agency of the National Banks- The machinery of the Government is not adapted,to such cuds And further, if possible, it is only ^pon the adoption'6f a policy which will iffhal" vto aresum tendgtad pagnpents. It must. be the gradual development.of .a process Mrhicli shall absorb legal tenders, and put

!in

rhtiir place pancV currency which shall at all times'and tinder all ciftsuinstances be' exchangeable lor coin either of paper, (legal.tenders) or of:gpld ^a,t?p.er currencj '.which snail gradually Increase, while ihe legal tenders for'its redemption

Khali

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dually (li'Ci'ea.-e. iii such ratio as a healthy demand forbauking facilities may .determine Whert! 'banking fucilit ca were already abundant, there would be iio inducement for the establishmerit of banking- Institution's r-r tbe issue o'ctf rency upoiir conditions ibat would inevitably diminish tlie volUAU-*- ot lawful mouev applicable to JtB'red.t-hipdQJirjad.sjo"teradu*liy. bnr'soteiy. enhance ibsr ot u!h redemption whikr'.iii 4iur ssctlous diistUute. ta whole or ju purt, of banking

itself, Gen. snerma: •tion by Congress of the new army regula tions, as prepared by the special Board of

Officers. In referring to army consolidation, he says: There are 509 unattached officers, of whom 150 are awaiting orders the number of retired officers is 177. He urges that cavalry and artillery regiments be officered alike in regimental and company organization, and asks for an extra lieutenant for cavalry companies. He argues that it is unjust that a reduction ef the army should fall exclusively upon the infantry arm of service, and recommends that, after Congress has enacted the necessary laws, the President assemble a board of disinterested general officers, to whom shall be committed the whole matter of reduction and reorganization. Gen. Sherman comments upon what he calls the absurdity of the staff of the army making their reports to the Secretary of War if this is icontinHcd, he says, we have the absurdity of the General commanding the army, with his chief staff officers reporting to somebody else. He hopes for legislation that will allow officers of the army to call upon the General for troops instead of the President. He advocates an increase of pay for the soldiers. He recommends that forts covering the cities of Portland, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, and San Francisco, be completed as soon as possible. He calls attention to the earnest recommendation of Gen. Thomas, that the Islands of Alaska, St. Paul and St. George, be sold to the highest bidder. He is informed that parties iw San Francisco are ready to bid several million dollars, which, he says, would go far toward indemnifying the Government for an otherwise poor and and costly country. ..

Commissioner Delano's Report-.

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According to the report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the receipts from all sources, exclusive of the tax on bank circulation and deposits, for the fiscal year ending June 30,1869, were $160,039,344.29. This includes the sums refunded for-taxes illegally assessed andcollected, amounting to $36»,235.12, nearly ail of which was for taxes assessed and collected on previous yeisrs.

Tbe receipts tor,the,current year are estimated at $175,000,000. receipts for the llrst bix. liiofiths of fue fiscal years 18(58 and 1809 are compared, arid a comparative statement is submitted, showing the total receipts from the same general sources of taxation the. 'flrft' six months of the fiscal year 1S63 to liaye been $66,110,030 for the first six months of the fiscal year 1869, $67,290,388 total gain for first six months of 1869, $1,186,358. For the last six months of the fiscal year 1868, the receipts from the same general sources were $64,479,948 sa&3 period 1869, $90,542,769 gain, 1869, $26,062,812. Receipts from the same getieral sources for the six months ending September.30th, 1869, were

q.uaiiici vi uuc yw* *v 30th to September 3uth,18G8, Bhow an gregate. ol $46,641,415, against $38,620,898 for the same months in the preceding vear. The ^girecate receipts from June 30 to November 80,1869, are $74,816,704, against $60,385^471 of the fame months in the precedin^ye«.»---

The number of gallons of spirita in bonded warehouse, produced .before July 1,1868, was 24,516,637. The number of gallons produced .frtm ^.Tuly 20, 1868, to Juue .30, 1869, was 37,'575,417, showing that ftoui June 30, 1868, to June 30, 1869, the tax was collected on 62,092,417 gallons, which was 55,-382,871 more gallons than paid tax in 1867. Duriiig the eleven mouths ending June 30,1869, there were produced and the tax collected oa 37,573,-

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—Investigations once showed that of seven hundred male convicts in Auburn prison, six hundred were there for crimcs committed under the influence of liquor— five hundred of whom testified that using tobacco was the beginning of their intemperate habits.

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THB OLD BP burn's PUBLICATION.—Mr. Nathaniel Willis, lather of N. P. Willis, started a Youth's paper in Boston in 1827. called the Youth Companion. It has been pnbliBhed weekly from that year until tho present time (13 years), and is to-day one of the most vigorous and enterprising sheets in the country. ...

CHAFPBD HANDS, face, rough skin, pimple*, ringworm, *a!t-rheum, and other cutaneous atfectlons cured, and the skin made soft and smooth, by nsltiR the JTJNIPBK TAR SOAP, made by CASWELL, I1AZAHD 4 CO., New York. It Is more convenient and easily applied than other remedies, avoiding the trouble of the greasy compounds now In use.

Tun purest and sweetest Cod-Liver Oil in the world Is Hazard & Caswell's, made on the sea shore, from fresh, selected livers, by CASWELL, HAZARD & CO., New York. I-t Is absolutely pure and mceei. Patients who have once taken It prefer It to all others. Physicians have decided It superior to any of the other Oils In market. p.1. unnr TMiurnstiue! Is the exclamation ol "Sr.-MifE22.lV'tn Rnntv thfiordi-

Western

SALVA­

TION FOR TIIE HAIR. Nothing defiles its frefly 'lowing crystal. There Is no sediment, no gum,no foul gas. Itts harmless, and Its operation perfect. Wliat a discovery

ASTHMA.—This disease causes great difficulty of breathing, and tightness across the chest, and sometimes attended with a great deal of snflocation. The paroxysm generally comes on at night, while lying down- sometimes it is attendea with great violence. ALLEN'S LUNG BALSAM will always give immediate relief, and in manv cases if perse­

vered

in, it will cure the disease altogether. For sale by all druggists.

Preparatory Medication."

The human system, the most delicate and sensitive of all created things, should be duly prepared to meet the shock occasioned by a sudden change in the temperature of the air. Even the solid metals contract and expand under cold and heat—so that If man were composed of iron, instead of frail tissues and fibres, circulating fluids and brittle osseous matter, his frame would not be proof against the vicissitudes of climate. As it is, it behooves every one, especially the feeble, to fortify tho frail tenement of mortality agauist the inclemency of the present season. A wholesome, strength supplying vegetable tonic and alterative is the preparatory medicine required, and among medicinal Sgents of this character, HOSTBTTEB'S STOMACH BITTERS tland supreme. In a successful carcer ol nearly a quarter of a century, the preparation has never been equalled or approached, and its sales are now larger than those of any half dozen articles. purporting to -belong to the same class, that have fever been advertised in this country. As a remedy and preventive of DisrosU, and all its complications, it may be said to have lived down competition and to be the standard specific of the

Hemisphere. A course of this genial re­

storative at the commencement of Winter the surest safeguard against all. Uio complaints which are caused or aggravated by exposure to ool|.