The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-12-16
ONWARD TO RICHMOND.

ONWARD TO RICHMOND.
The dispatches, this morning, solve ne
problem that has bothered the newspaper
correspondents and editors as well as the
telegraph reporters and the balance of
mankind for fortnight past. Banks,
with strong and web appointed force,
was last heard Of far up the Chowan Riv-
er, about rs far south Of Richmond as
Burnside is to the north Of it. Having
made junction with the forces from Suf-
folk, Gen. Banks will be at the head of
we'll appointed army, strong enough to
march on 10 Richmond from the south,
while Burnside is engaging the entire
force of the enemy at fredericksburg, and
Sigel is marching onward to Richmond
by way of Gordonsviile.
The programme seems to be perfect in
conception and it seems hardly within
the range of probability that it, can be
marred in the execution. The new year
is likely to dawn upon a defeated, broken
and dispirited, though still rebellious
South, with the armies of the Union eve
rywhere victorious and triumphant, occu-
plying the most favorable regions of Reb-
eldom and offering protection and Free
dom to loyal inhabitants of all shades of
complexion. 1t will no longer be said
that the rebellion cannot be crushed, and
that the proclamation Of freedom is null
lity-of no more practical effect than so
much waste paper.
T The Democratic Board Of Supervi-
sors Of Wapello county, have defrauded
Gillispie, Republican candidate for Clerk,
and who was elected by the soldiers vote,
OF his office, by adopting incorrect returns
aud rejecting the corrected returns of that
vote. Nothing is too mean for tory.
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF
TINE TREASURY.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Dec. A, 1869.
SIR:-In obedience to the act which
requires the Secretary Of the Treasury to
prepare and lay before Congress, at the
commencement OF every session, a report
on the subject of finance, embracing es,i-
mates OF receipts and disbursements and
piaps OF revenue, he submits respectfully,
the following views and statements:
The breaking on, of the existing rebel
Lon, soon after the incoming Of the pres
ent Administration. demanded the employ
Ment Of all necessary means for the pres
ervatlon of the territorial integrity of the
Republic and for the maintenance of the
constitutional supremacy of the whole
people. through their National Govern.
ment, over every State and every citi-
gen.
10 authorize and prescribe the EMPLOY
ment OF these means was the peculiar
province of Congress to call forth and
direct the armed force, which might be
authorized, belonged to the President,
and, under him, to the Departments of
War and to the Navy; while to provide
the means to meet authorized expendi-
lures IN its employment devolved, under
the legislation Of Congress and the direc-
tion OF the President, on the Secretary of
the Treasury.
Varying exigenoics have required
adapted measures and necessitated unan-
tcipated expenditures. Estimates cor
rect when made, have been rendered in
accurate BY changed circumstances
Such conditions always attend war,
whether external or civil, and we hope to
escape them.
is not, therefore, matter of surprise
that the estimates submitted in july.
1901, Tor the year ending the 3Oth Of
June, 1907, were exceeded by the actual
expenditures, or that those submitted in
December, for the year which will end ON
the SOth of June, 1868, will probably be
IN like manner, exceeded.
The estimates of the Secretary must
necessarily be derived chiefly from infor-
nation furnished by other heads OF de.
partments; and this information. adiust.
ed to existing and probable crcumsta nccs.
cannot possibly anticipate all the yicissi-
tudes OF war or legislation.
Thus. the estimates for the las. f;.c,,
year, submitted at the July session Of
1861, were based on estimates from the
war department for an army, including
regulars and volunteers, of three hundred
thousand men and from the Navy De.
partment, for a,nayal force quite inconsid-
erabie in comparison with that after ward
found to be indispensable. Congress,
thinking the proposed military force in