, 1865-07-31


work. Some days We may ,un over that a
little, and some days ws may fall 3 little
short Of It; bu. l hope we shall put ont
aoouta million ard : half per day as soon as
we get thoroughly organized" That was
The utmost he dared anticipate. Since that
evening have been cne hundred and aftJ-two
working days, In which hare been taken four
hundred and twenty million dollars OF seVen-
tbistlcs-being an ayesnge of oTer two and
three quarters millionslpe- day. What grand
nation It's, to be sure!
Now the seyen.thi1ty is all sold L; and men,
seeing the fact that the army Is disbanding
sud must at once be paid that the navy fs
discharging fifty thousand men who must
also be paid; that..wlth the close Of the war
there come hundreds Of incidental bills which
press for payment that the internal revenue
does not yield such fatnees OF income as wss
anticipated-seelng all these things, some
men predict, come men hope, and some men
fear, tluanclal trouble before Congress can
ueet the emergency. Let US sec.
The Secretary Of the Treasury can hope for
NO aid from Congress before about the n,st
ofnext February. What must be rely upon
TIL then! The act of March 5. 1861, author-
Lied loan Of s200. 900. 600, Of which there has
betn Issued In ten.forty.fiT per cent bonds
the amount Of s172, &C, ,1oo-leaying yet ava1-
able the sum Of e., -, 800, which msy b
Issued at any ratio OF interest not ex-
ceedIng sI1 per cent in gold. or five twenty
Elk per cent bonds authorized By aud
adopted under the act Of june 80, 1864, there
remains untssufd the sum Of Il, I'll ,0W. OF
other bonds authorized BY the same act there
remain e70, ,0c0 900, which may Ia issued
either as seyen-th1lty loan OF Is three years
SIX per cent compound Interest notes. OF
fractional currency authorized by the acts
Of July, 1862, md March, 1868. these remains
about *, ,0oo. 600, which may be issued either
in currency or some form Of loan. OF the
amount Of tempora ~ lonn authorized by the
act ofJnly ii, 1869, there remains at the Sec
retary's command abonk459, ,Q0o, 900. Hero IL
an aggregate Of s1s4 ,440, 900, which the Sec
rctaly may put out as q loan In soma form or
other Without any action on the part Of Con-
Gress. The internal revenue receipts arc
not 50 large a. estimsted, but the amount
rom this source from August l, 1865. to Feb
ruary !, 1865, cannot be less than $1s0, ,00o. :
600, and msy be even ten Or fifteen millions
more. The receipts FROM cuatoms within
that period will hardly be under IL. COX, 600.
t9nrs Tne rsce,,ta r+om ali ,n1aca1,sncons
san-cea n ths same ~ na,,oa vii rrach At
,sost "a mn m Uo-s H. .n an1,.1a,a ~
-a,,nn,,a ~ ~ ,os. +hsn ara nm nS1Cnna IN
all CASES am taking the lowest estimates Of
any one who can be considered as an. au-
iho,;tv uhua The es,{mates of good nu-
thau 500, ,0oo, 600. The amount Of rold
now in Treasury is about $4,000, 90;
snd of balances In the sub-treasurtes to the
credit Of the Department about Sc, ,O0O, 900.
Here Ia m aggregate Of actual available
rntans t,r tbe coming al1 months a. follows:
loan s184 tOo. ooo. Yeyenue from al sources.
ct lesst s17e .ooo. 900: cash on hand s65 .ooo..
COO being a total s42s 900 900. 1 must
main add that not a few gentlemen in posi-
4io1 IN knouinp1v ;udre fr the revenue re-
ce,nts 5rrino the ne1,od In the frat nY Feh.-
mary mt fhe amount at over sa00 ma an
;a-.sn5 - a,-o m m -,soh a-,-s + vs.
~ IT. ~ .,xs..'eIota ~, s.oa ~ na6 ,ors+ ~
E.s.'a es -! Ill .rs;~s ~
T.s.s1, "a p ~ aaa.aes sn,,,r. -. ~ ~
80. - ...ta.;.Ht - ,s.1a eas.;saa,ss ,,' -
pdA1, 1v3}hnuf 1fruff U{fhfr q yan $hA
lnoeoeane.s M "'.nous li'a.e. ",.naa seAs ~.
aaso neo ~ ~ .s @ ,ass .saa s1an IN M
erd NJ cor,aa s10o mn nm ran ,,e tssued
4;tbent r ~ ; -. -,;sr,sr %str,msnt ~ tha narrst -
H.rr tbe,. ia crnpd arpTrpate az oyer
s5oo ooo 0o0 which the secretarv OF. the
T;easrrv csn me between his sate and the
49, -. Tsn-n,r~ns-t 1do mt sov that h.
nra,oses n,n NJ ~ nse fhe ,oan nowcr n ths
anannt ~ s,ea nm m ~ n tba oronnt of
anr othe- acnrr nf HI, intent,oas + tav
no}1,,ng at ali :: his power ia e1ch as | have
he,e,r e ehoxn
nf r. conrse u Il hecome, now imnortapt 10 in.
o,,5re rvrot 11,le Ma ncrartment must mect
1r1or % n nc,t Febrna1y. On tbls beaa 7 nre.
,.ce r Nv .sx;rg that H. ,rorcc,te estimate.
tar ths rho,s f,sco, resr en;1Inr x1th ne1t
IN In,a ~. a.. % nv ahout sc5i, m oGD The main
s.as - 49, 49, sst;ma.. = easn m M, a. tba
NV sm ~ .s the sFho1e ves, Tcn,rr.
~. a, np ~ ~ ~ tha ,ntsrven,nc s;x months
te,o ocn ~ cn1 ~ ~ Tb,a wa msae IN The
s~n1os,,snr that we sbon1d hare a
~ r. rnar of .roons Il, se+r,ce IN fs11 t,a