Southern shield., 1870-08-20

coffee three cents pound, Ill place OI five, molassS five cents per galion' m- stead of eight sugar will be reduced an average of one cent. per pound; and dried fruits from five cents to two and a half cents per pound. Here, we are sorry to say, the relief to consumers of staple commodities by the modified tariff will stop.
 The internal taxes which we shall be wholly relieved from in October next are as follows:
 PRESENT TAX.
 On carriages of every description, S6 to $10 each.
 On watches, $1 to S2 each.
 On billiard tables, S1O each.
 On silver plate of all kind, 9 cents per pound. :,
 On gold plate, 50 cents per pound,
 On boats, barges and flats, s3 to Sl0 each.
 On gross receipts, including those of railroads, stea3boats, canal boats ana all other vessels, and stages, 7 l=2 pel cent. of receipts.
 On gross receipts of telegraph com panies, ferries, bridges and turnplkes 3 per cent. of receipts.
 On retail dealers, llicMse tax,) Sl' each.
 On wholesale des lers, CT those Hhos' safes exceed s25, ,00a A yen, $50 each and s1 additional u every Sl,GO0 Q sales exceeding $50,0OO.
 These taxes on sales are ali repeal
 at eSsH7rzuu liguOr and tC '.tea on banks and Al'' NaPifaI al s.S on oso every every Ss sl ~ sapifal above
 On brokers, Qisenese,1 $50 each.
 Hotel keepers, Qieense,) s1O to $500 each.
 Auctioneers and peddlers, qicense,) $10 to $50 each.
 Clalm agents, insurance agents. real estate agents, tpaten right dealers and conyeyancers $10 each~
 Manufacturers, Qicense,) $10 each.
 Proprietors of theatres, circus and concert halls, $100 each.
 Proprietors of gift enterprises, $150 each.
 Lawyers, physicians, architects and builders, $10 each.
 Express carriers and agents, $10 each.
 Miners, photographers, apothecaries, butchers and eating house keepers, S10 each.
 AU others aow chargable acith license tar cf dny kind, except dealers in spirits and tobacco, are exempted.
 On bills and receipts, to any amount, and on promisory notes for less sum than S1O0, (now paid by stamp,) 9 cents and cents each.
 All other stamp taxes are continued in force.
 On legacies and successions, $1 to $6 on every $100 of property devised or inherited, according to the degree of relationship. All repealed.
 TAXES REDUCED.
 On incomes exceeding 5000, for the years commencing January 1, 1870, and January 1, 1871, ? 1-2 per cent. The exemptions are, in addition to $2,000, all taxes and interests paid during the year, losses and bad debts, rent or repaires on dwelling houses, and amount paid for labor to cultivate land, or to conduct any other business from which income is derived. This is the personal income tax. It is tol.rabsy easy one.
 Ou dividends of all corporations, for the year 1871, including banks, rail road companies, insurance companies, | trust companies, ? 1-2 per cent. This tax to be paid by the compa- 1ies, who may deduct it in disburs- ng their dividends to individual holders.
 Such is a complete view of the ex- 'mptions and reductions of taxer under he internal revenue system. The whole constitutes a long step in the
 
 fight direction, of throwing off burdens lpon industry and. enterprise, and as he treasury can now spare the revenue hey have been yielding, they viii go nto effect not an hour too soon., The towns of Amphirsa and Galaza- i, Greece, and several villages, have