Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1862-06-04
eIrAarlrLp. PA. JUNE 4. 1893.
nHrtNsHs or rHn GOVERNMENT

no many conflicting statements nave hetss
tetsfe been made, relative 10 the expenses OF
The National Government since tho commences
msBt of the Rebellion, that people we're IN
great doubt as 10 the real condition OF affairs
in this particular, II 10 gratifying, therefore,
% have something reliable on the subject, par
tieuIariy as the leaders of the breekihridges
Vsilandigham party at the North have been
assiduously engaged in misrepresentihg the
expenditures, with viiw Of beneiiing their
organization at the approaching election,
The speech OF Voorhees,, of Indiana, to which
We alluded in our last paper, abounded In
falsehoods as TO the cost of the war, aud was
probably intended as a textbook for the dis
consolate editors who are to do the blowing
in the uphill work of reorganzHg the Dem
ocratic party. 1t had, however, the effect of
bringing out the correct figures, which were
given to the lower House of Congress by Mr..
Dawes, of Massachusetts,, on the 9th ult.
Mr.. Dawes remarked, that "from reliable
data, the expenditures of all the departments
of the Government outside OF the war aud navy
since the administration came into power are
as follows For the Interior Department,
Indians and pensions, to the 22d of May,
So, ,681, $50 civil list foreign intercourse and
miscellaneous, S2i ,685,0l0; making total of
nearly $25, 1867 90. The expenditures OF the
War Department during that time amounted
to 1914, ,172 900, and che Navy, during the
same time, SAP ,065 900, or a total OF S4I6,-
227 900. The average daily expenditures in
the War Department have been 1897 ,295, and
those of the Navy, Sl00, ,S52, making the aver.
age in both Departments S998, l47, No requi.
sitions are unpaid, excepting of few thousand
Jnll T,r llou lislp I'M
meBts last Thursday were only SS64,9l7. yet
the day after, when the paymasters came in
the expenditures were So 900 900 (; but on
Saturday only $500 900 and the expenditures
of the Government up to the 22d Of May last,
in round numbers, were for the military,
sS74,Oo0, 900 Navy, 1000, 900 all other
expenditures, S25, 900 ,000-a total of SAL >.
600, 900. From the 4th of March, 1861, till
the 22d of May, the public debt, including
$4,000 900 old debt, bequeathed by Buchan-
an, amounted to,the aggregate on Friday last,
to $481, ,796, Jas.
These figures were evidently obtained at the
different Departments, and, although not given
as official, can doubtless DO relied on, as Mr.
Dawes would scarcely attempt to refute mis-
statements without knowing positively what
he was asserting. And as to the financial
credit Of the country, there is no comparison
between what It now Is, and what 1t was at
the close OF Mr.. Buchanan's term of Office
Then the Treasury was bankrupt, and the out.
going Administration had failed to borrow
money, needed for ordinary expenses, al
twelve per cent, the bidding ranged from that
figure to thirty six per cent. per annum. Bu
now, such is the confidence in Mr.. Lincoln:
Administration, the Government can borrow
money at five per cent, and its bonds have
recently been selling above par. These are
facts which it may be well enough to remem
Der. They are patent to all, and cannot b'
controverted by the leaders of the Breckn
ridge-Vallandigham party, which inauguratet
the rebellion, and whose policy has been prac
tically "rule or ruin"