The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-04

Tail denied ever having questioned the veracity
of Secretary Cowan and Commissioner Smith.
A visit vas paid last week to the President OF
the United States by the Papal ENJOYS now In
this country. The Holy Father at Rome had
especially desired to tender the compliments OF
the season to the head of the American nation.
and that was what il was all about
1t is stated that the appropriation for the pay
OF the army for the current fiscal year is made
ouate, and in consequence officers and soldiers
will receive only fifteen days pay at the end
of June, instead Of for full month. The de-
fciency will have TO be made up by the next
Congress.
Instructions have been sent by Attorney
General Pierrepont to the various District
Attorneys directing them to commence prose-
cutions against all the members of the whisky
ring. The government is experiencing some
difficulty in hiring additional counsel, owing to
the fact that the counsel already designated
have shown an unwillingness to accept the COM
pensation fixed by the government.
A summary statement of the receipts from
the various sources of internal revenue for the
first eight months of the fiscal year ending June
80, 1875, exhibits an increase over the receipts
for the same period of the previous year of over
Sl0000,000. The tax on liquors of all kinds
yielded nearly $4,000, 600; that OH tobacco
s26 100000. The tax upon the circulation
and business Of the banks gave about
%, 600, and all other sources less than 49,
600, 900.
Special Agent Hale, who was deputed by the
Treasury Department to make an examination
Of the workings of the system of customs
revenue collection at interior ports of entry and
delivery, has submitted his report, and is of the
opinion that some of the one-horse Custom
Houses of the West can be abolished.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Pierrepont has issued a
circular saying that he finds the appropriation
for the Office nearly exhausted, and command
, ing general economy and retrenchment.
general order issued from the War De-
partment announces that the appropriation
made by the last Congress for the pay, etc., of
the army for the fiscal year ending June so,
1875, is 5000, 900 short of the sum estimated
for the War Department. and pressnt indica-
tons are that the appropriation will prove def
ficient.
The following $50 coupon bonds, known as
''the fourth series, under the act OF Feb. %,
1862, dated May l, 1862, have been called for
by the Secretary OF the Treasury and made
payable on and after Sept. !, the interest on
which will cease after that date: Fifty dol
lars-Nos. 20,301 to 21,000, both inclusive !;
S100-Nos. so 601 to so, 100, both inclusive !;
S5O0-Nos. 27,5O1 to $1,000, both inclusive !;
s1,OO0-Nos. S0,651 to 1880, both inclusive.
Total, $4,000 900.
Mr.. Pierrepont has hit upon an expedient,
which, he thinks, will increase the efficiency of
the Department of Justice. He has divided it
up into dozen bureaus, and intends TO hold
the head of each responsible for the faithful
execution of the duties intrusted TO him.
The internal revenue receipts for the current
fiscal year promise to exceed the estimates by
about nine million of dollars.