East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-01-24

LIE pprluRheiu hepuOdcaN says tnat
the Commission on revenue and taxa
ton appointed by the Secretary of the
Treasury have arrived at a scientific
basis for system of internal revenue
easy to be borne, simple in collection,
and yet adequate to all the. needs of
the Government. They think that
suitable taxes on whisky, beer, tobacco.
and raw cotton, with proper tariff on
foreign imports, will produce all the
revenue that is required. They think,
too, that the tax on whisky is alto
gether too high, and that ~ a gallon
SO diminishes productionand consump-
ton that less revenue is raised from
it than would be afforded by tax of
81 gallon.
The following is an exhibit Of the
bushes of the Pension Department
for the year just expired: Number
of applications admitted from invalid
soldiers, 1890, number of the same
rejected, 1872; number Of applica-
tions admitted from widows, mothers
and orphans, 2l;962'; number of the
same rejected, 1900; number Of cases
still waiting to be disposed Of $4,000,
of which 81, 66l are from invalids, and
the balance from widows, mothers and
orphans. During the last month of
the year 32,970 letters and circulars
relating to the cases on file in the
office, were mailed to the parties in
terested or their attorneys.
A MASSACHUSETTS paper notes as a
curious coincidence, that the Maine
and Massachusetts Legislatures organ
lied this year by electing gentlemen
named James III. Stone, as Speakers
of their respective Houses. In 1913
the Presidents of the Massachusetts
and New Hampshire Senates were
named Josiah Quincy. a
THE census returns show that the
total number of Indians in the United
States is three hundred and seven
thousand. About FIVE thousand were
in the service of the Government dur
ing the war, and some thousands more
were on the side of the rebels.
SOME of the capitalists of Erie,
Pennsylvania, are contemplating tho
establishment Of line of vessels be-
tween that port and Europe for the
/ transportation of oil
e. The New Orleans P,cayane
states that the Adams Express Com
pony has loaned $4,000, 600 of its ac-
cumulated capital TO, several of the
Southern railroads, TO enable them to
resume operations.
The CHICAGO Post gives an ac-
cout of family in that city in starry
sng condition, and one of its members
a child three years old had died of
starvation.
Boston has turned Fanuil Hall into
a bazaar for n charitable fair, and the
Rev. Baron Stowe, who is superinten-
dent, offers 20 marry couples in the
old cradle of liberty 'as low as else
where the proceeds TO go the fund
All ready one marriage has been cell
ebrated-the first it is said ever sol
omnized in the Hall.
A DIAMOND pin, containing thirty
diamonds, and worth many hundred
dollars, was found at Bangor, Maine,
the other day, in lot of rags imported
from Smyrna.
They manage things funnily in Cal
ifornia- military funerals, for instance
After burying tho deceased the band
comes back and serenades the widow.
The Queen of England is now the
temporal monarch of more Roman
Catholics than the Pope, and more
Mussulmen than the Porte.
General Grant has expressed the
very sensible opinion that there is no
necessity for keeping large bodies Of
troops in the Southern States.
The Congressional Committee have
made a report exonerating Mr.. Lin
coins family from taking away prop
erty belonging to the White House.
The commanders of thirty vessels
destroyed by the Alabama have been
summoned as witnesses III the Scmmes
case.
TnE Prince and Princess of Wales
recently paid visit Of three days to
Lord Sufiield, and it cost that noble
man $4,000.
DocroR Evans, the American dentist
in Paris, has been appointed dentist
to the Prince and Princess of Wales.
The aggregate income of Ascension
church, (Episcopal) on Fifth avenue,
New York, is slS,000,000 year
ALARGE cargo of assorted goods has
arrived in Savannah, direct from Eng
land.
The supper for the Seventh Regi-
ment ball in New York will costS50,-
900. aterg,.
CHICAGO has shipped 2G2, 446 cattle
this year.