Connecticut western news., 1874-12-04
U. s. INTERNAL REVENUE.
The Annual Report of the Commits - siOner-. What has been Done during
 the Fiscal Year.

U. $. INTERNAL REVENUE.
 The Annual Report of the Commits siOner-- What has been Done during the Fiscal Year.
 Hon. J. W. Douglass, Commissioner of Internal Revenue of the United States, has submitted his annual re- port to the Secretary of the Treasury.
 The aggregate receipts from all sources, exclusive of the duty upon the capital circulation and deposits of na- tional banks and the collections made by contract under the act of May 8, l 1872, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1874, were $102, ,644, TAG. 98, exceeding the estimates of the Commissioner by $2,644, ,746.98. This amount includes sums refunded and allowed as draw backs. Two hundred and thirteen thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars and thirty-four cents of these collections have been covered into the Treasury and appear in the statistical tables of the next annual report. The Commissioner estimates the receipts for the current fiscal year, under the present law, at $107, 900, 900. A com parative table showing the receipts from the several sources relating to dis titled spirits for the fiscal year, ended June 30, 1873 and 1874, shows a net ag- gregate decrease for the year 1874 of 2,655, ,281. 93. This st. tement shows that while there was very considera- ble increase in the tax on spirits with drawn from bond and on export spirit stamps, there was quite large falling l off in the receipts from brandy, the special. taxes of dealers and rectifiers, stamps, other than tax paid stamps, and certain sources repealed by act of June 6, 1872.
 The receipts from special taxes now on the tax list were $144. .573, about the average of the receipts for three or four months previous. In April, 1873, they increased to $566, ,O88, and in April, 1874, to $2, ,139, ,030. Thus $422, 916 more were returned in April, 1873, and $1, ,994, 457 more in April, 1874, and col lections which were formerly made in the first quarter of the fiscal year are 1 now returned in the last quarter of the year immediately preceding it. | The receipts from all sources relating to fermented liquor during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1874, were $9. 304, 679.72. The number of persons en- gagged in the manufacture of liquors during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1874, was 2,524, distributed as follows Alabama, 2; Arizona. '; California, 195; Colorado, 20; Connecticut, g Dakota, 3; Delaware, 3; District of Columbia, 16; Georgia, 3; Idaho, 10 ; Illinois, l73 Indiana, 92; Iowa, 129 Kansas, 40 Kentucky, 34; Maine, 3; Maryland, 65; Massachusetts, 40 Michigan, 68; Minnesota, 109; Mis- souri, 97 Montana, 23; Nebraska, 5 /; Nevada, 33; New Hampshire, 2; New Jersey, 54 New Mexico, r; New York, 349 Ohio, 22S Oregon, 26 Pennsyl- vania, 346 Rhode Island, G.; South Carolina, Tennessee. 2; Texas, 42 /; Utah, 29; Virginia, 6; Washington Territory, 13 West Virginia, IF; Wis copsin, POI Wyoming, 9.
 The total receipts from tobacco for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1874, were $33, O24, ,28762 showing, as com pared with the previous fiscal year, a decrease of $1, ,l43, ,427. AT. The total amount received on account of cases compromised during the fiscal year end ing June 30, 1874, was $6, 267, ,913. The whole number of suits commenced was 5,61O; number decided in favor of the United States, 2, 228 against the Uni ted States, 527 number settled or dis missed, 1,655. Total number pending July 1, 1874, 7,246.
 The total amounts assessed during the last special tax year, commenced May 1, 1873, and ended April 30, 1874, were $4, ,785, ,667.45 of the tax against banks and bankers, which remained unchanged by law. There was collected during the fiscal year ended June 20, 1874, $3, GOO, 735. IS, showing an increase of $4O3, ,O13. 22 since last year. It is believed this increase may in great degree be fairly attributed to the new system of assessment, as the period in which the increase occurs includes the fall of 1873, memorable for great financial disasters. This opinion is further sustained from the circumstance that during this year more than seventy banks have been for the first time as- sessed, although doing business and liable to be assessed during previous years. The improvement is still more ! apparent in the collection of special taxes. The amount collected from this source during the last quarter of the fiscal year of 1874 was $3,303, 539 S3, showing an increase over 1873 and 1872 of $510, ,5O4.82. The new system has led to steady increase of collections and tended to make them more prompt and regular. The collections from the tax on banks and bankers, exclusive of savings banks, was, in December, 1872 and Janual y,v 1873, $103, ,366, 957 the amount assessed for the preceding half year, $158, ,584, ,o67, showing that in the first two months after the tax became due 65. IS per cent. of the total amount assessed was collected, while under the new system the taxes collected in June and July, 1873, were $1,2O5, 79O 52, from a semi annual assessment of $1, 498, 795. .45, giving rate of 8O.4 pe1 cent. For the first two months, and in December, 1873, and January, 1874, we have collection of $1, ,587, 747. AZ, from an assessment of $1, ,92S, PIG. 33, increas- ing the rate of collection to 82. 34 pel cent. -#.. t DiVerting Commerce from New York.
 The New York Tunes gives statistics to show that, considering their previ- ous trade, Baltimore and Philadelphia are making more progress than New York that Philadelphia is progressing as rapidly in imports as in exports that Boston is doing better than New York in exports, but losing in imports, and that New Orleans is doing the worst of all. The strenuous efforts made, especially in Boston and Balti- more, to accommodate in convenient and secure, manner the export trade that seeks those harbors, have in part accomplished their object. The delay, and, we mlght almost say, indifference to this matter in New York, says the Tunes, has placed our city thus far at 8 disadvantage. That this disadvan. tage IS very serious as yet, or that il will be permanently, we do not be. lieve but that it is considerable, and that it may hacoma hnth serinns and