| Show TROOPS IN thiv THE fild FIELD AT iak fak closi OP OF dim walt walf f 4 i the most decent recent re record si in the war ipe 0 established the fact that about lion and seventy five nive thousand men were on the pay rolls roll of the tiie army at the time the disbanding of df the armies commenced of this number about have already been mustered out and paid off or ordered oi to be mustered out the will be continued until tho number Lb abrought rought down to on the rolls which will leave ail an effective strength th of about tilbee three i fifths of which will probably be macks bl aeRs i this will klif vilf be less than one seventh of the force drawing pay at the close dds of bf the war one ione seventh of the total expenditure pend iture of the war department ili in 1864 65 6 would be abolia about one hundred and thirty four million but the whole whom of sis lis this amount will 4 not be by any means required for foi the force retained in service so no latke lale it bounties will lier iier hereafter dafter have to be iiii paid ld many millions mil mii liong will nomore be required for f or the th e mo movements from the exigencies 0 of f wari war of whole armies arpin one part of the count country ry to another the quartermasters ter master masters 4 department can ban dl dispense with the costly institutions of hofts iti immense steam and sailing fleets a and nd of its railroad enterprises field transportation will be necessary only west wei t of the mississippi its ime workshops wor 0 s are being closed and it t 0 fw r t men discharged the commissary general will no longer be obi obliged 1 tou tob uy at prices forced r 9 manufacture of arms and ammunition will cease and so on one hundred millions will be amply sufficient to feed clothe and pay all that will remain in the service at the opening of the tile next congress NT IN OTHER DEPART MENTS in tho the navy d ment equally equall NY beep ceniu j g 4 io ns been made mado uti ull iafe lafe making icing 7 afi bout one tenth ne he vessels in active service at dt the of the war will be retain retained edin in com gil gildion sion slon its force on the pay lists of forty thousand will be reduced to to seven or eight thousand after the e expense of constructing numerous new vessels shall have halve ceased the yearly budget of this department will not exceed millions in the other departments retrench ments rients are also being eino elno effected but the restoration of the mail service in the south and the additions to the pension ision list will probably ably swell the expenditures under thor the head of the civil service gome some millions mr mx Fess endens estimates for the civil service proper in 1864 ao were thirty five millions and for pensions and indians eleven millions allowing 0 ten millions for the probable increase we ha have ve a total of sixty sity one millions I 1 FUTURE ANNUAL EXPENSES OF hie THE government the interest on the public debt on 7 september ls t was one hundred and r thirty eight millions supposing the principal to be increased to three thousand millions the interest will be say one hundred and fifty four millions thus thug we hade haie ha ie for the war department loo 1006 for the navy department 9 zat lai for interest on the public debt axi xay forthe fordye civil service pensions and indians 3 laking making a total of as the aggregate of annual expenditures to be incurred in the future before next summer thi the the progress work of confiscation wiit wilt probably enable the waw yan department Yar to reduce its expenses still fur fuT furmer ther then but allowing even that three hundred and fo foty tty mildous vill be required for a number of years a comparison will show that the receipts of the government will be large enough not only only to meet a regular demand upon j the treasury to that extent but also to i y leave teave a surplus for a sinking fund TREASURY RECEIPTS since the first of july last the internal revenue receipts have been more than seventy nire five millions and they are expected to reach ninety five millions at the end of the quarter but as tha the income tax is included in these returns it would not be safe to make them the basis of an estimate of receipts from the same source for a whole year but 32 a year hereafter will not appear as too high 0 an estimate when the taets facts that commerce and industry indeed every human pursuit has expert encee a mighty impetus since the close y of df the war and that the states late in rebellion will now become tax taxpayers p ayers from customs the receipts have lately been at the rate of a month and it is more than probable that with the opening reopening re of the southern market I 1 importations of foreign wares 0 of every description will be e v very heavy eavy for some time I 1 e 74 0 a year ar can be safely relied on thus us the t e receipts of the government may be expected to reach r and with its expenditures no more than a surplus of r will be left |
