The New York Herald Newspaper, December 5, 1849, Page 4

THE REPORT POSTMASTDR GENERAL. Post Orricy Duranrment, December, 1649. Si umber of post offices ii siose of the year ending 16.747, there havin, commnun wane in the United States June 30, 1849, was blished and 333 dis- eo year, making an imerease within inted within the | Add 9 per cent, .....esseeseeeeeeres Probable reven' 1860, ws eeee To this add balance on hand Ji 80, Appropriation for free matter fer depart- ments for year ending June 30, 1850, June 30, 1859, was 6,333. um ber, 2 782 were appoloted in consequence uted in consequence of ppointed in consequence of changes 2,103 were ap ited in consequence in consequence of yale ; oe sainelons expired and not sapeyedi ted in conrequenc y income exceeding $1,000; of new offices. important cha! and mail cervice 0! 931 were appointed were made by lawin the the United States. Ome of redaction of postage. important one to the @ lowest bidder, irre- nd abolishing the e new contractor to predecessor. This sing! jet under that | men! 000, Anether law of 1545, ifeation of the railroad service, ice of those class ‘ished the price of mail im) 80 8000 come derived from | 8U‘ ition of this de] niary condition acu ‘of the mode of conve] tion reduced ne. contaneee of 1845, Jand and New York, the $250. tha: that requiring ® clase! tb the. maximum pri ene ome pore transportation, an Hof the tervice within the je reduced postage, of service te greeny, enbanced, corresponding proporti ‘The mail contracts, made one section in each year; di the proce: pete pyr ‘these laws Xs June, 1848, condition of the Department is, as it was expected to d most favorable as to its expenses at the close ear ending June 20th, 1849. The actual cost for each mile the mail was tran! preceding June, 18: der the operation of ef the mail transpor six mills, making @ per mile, belng more thau one ,. The number of m ‘the firet day of of contractors the The | be the 80 that now, though the amount ite expense bears no which are for four years, are that the whole ser- of reduction under th 4, in the year one mill, and un- f the laws of 134, the cost per mile rtation in June last was five cents ifference of two and a half cents in the United States on , 1849, was 4943, and the number 4,180.’ ‘The length of these routes was es the mail was transported 42,547,069 615, which makes the aver- 6 mail last year five cents ‘To this should be added the trans- ‘by Southampton to Bre- i] from Charleston and ; and also the transportation of the mail across isthmus of Paname; all which is done at the ex- ‘of this Department to the amount of $256,602. extent and eost of this service the past year, as of the year preceding, will be most 45, was eight cent On these rout miles, at the cort of $2,428 t of transporting portation of th Tl compared with t clearly seen by @ tabular = _ ——1.— Miles. Cost, tion, mode not spe~ . 41,012,879 2,394,708 Route of Agencies and Mail Mes’ revenue for the year ending June 30, 1849, $4,905,176 28, derived from the following 4 93,582,762 62 aescrite} $4,705,176 28 | From the appropriation made by the 12th section of the act of 3d March, 1547, for mail services to the government, $4,906,176 28 | § DURING THE TRAR WERE 1. «$2,677,407 TL 1,820,921 34 Compensation to Postimaste a steamboat, and cftices, (ofllces of Exoees of gross re jations under the ¢ ect of 3d March, 1847, re- maining in the Treasury undrawn, ex- clusive cf the appropriation for the past year, already notice mounted to.... g the sum of $001,682 70 unex, the revenue of the past year, inclu propriations granted to this D portation of iree matter of th 5 THE CURRENT YkAR, ENDING JUNE 90, The provisions of the laws of 1845, for reducing the | ‘cost of nail service, having produced their entire have now passed under iment for the trans- asexproted that in the further contracts a of cost would ensue. This expectation was in some mearure verided by the letting to contract, laet epring, the N log Now England and New York. 7 for the fervioe wi The whole cort for contracts made in 1% at that lotting mu: vice in that section, under the Including agenotes, was $O51412 delivery of nine-t ‘The whole cost ter service in that section by the contracts of 1849, is... Making an increase of... One eavee of th tracted for there » ie, that more service is now con- fostend of 10.919,174 iniles of traneportation per year, 11 508,825 is performed, { (40,501 miles perannum, atest, perhaps. is owing to the chan m cox bes to the many newly finteb- @d rajireads in that section, whieh is a much more ‘The tevice in that section in oar- riages or cn horseback, which was open to free compe now been let at even @ more feduced rate than Defore, snd amounts only to about three cents for each mile the mail is transported. the railroad and steamboat service, where excludes competition, the expense is increased, aud the transportation amounte to nive cents for each mile ried, even under the law of 1845, fix! to the classes of service of the service of the department for the nding with Juse wext, will therefore be mount ef ineress by the cost of new routes in other being an inere on of mail service On the other hand, in maximum of p dncreared, by the inthe aster ed by the department YS vided @ pr bable sum of $20 0C0, for California, and ® um to meet other con- dditions to the ex Jaet year will com of this year ae thu » provements ord: 3, to which must Ungencies, of $2: Of the rerviee cf t ¥ O49 12 eng feost of service | tin other rections. . 6.902 00 | samey department for the current year... xperditere, in addition tue of the 12th reeth ~ done by taking t ceding years # 4 by, some more safe To exhibit reparately t rived from letter postage, and from printea matter, follwing comparison te instituted between the past and (he preceding year Newepsper acd pemphit It will be cbeerved that the letter postage Inor: in the past year 15 2-10 per cent, and that the The rate of jocrease upon let- extreordivery. and much beyond the natural our population and busin je that of the previous year, it te incrense io 141-5 not be expected to ialiy a* the causes to which it is main- dave consed to operste, retaliatory postage ast of the 27th June, 1548, which 1 postal treaty with Great Britain, ter frequency of corres. dential convenes in the estimating the revenue for the cur. it will therefore be necessary te assume the natural increase of the revenue ae = merter( the basis of calculation. To arcertain as nearly as may be what Is that naturel rate of increase, | take the ag — year by year, eines the These were the was ruepended gregate revenue fr Deen the annual ra ee ee thus: — r ding Jone 9, we iy 20th J Revenue 80, 1848 Add’ per 1860, thus:— Eerie postages, ending June . cpt ‘¢ «$4,117,680 00 Revenue for year 1849, dy natural increase. $4,448,226 00 403.940 00 Presi. | Deduct expenditures before stated...... 4,750,183 13 | tracts, provision is that the time ———— | departure and connection of the malls is Leaving a balanee on the 30th of June, order of the department, This feature has never been W850, Of. ec ssececeeesescee see «$1,088,710 57 | admitted by the railroad prop ‘Rate OP Postado! their comtracts. It is prot ‘It seems | in | change is made without their consent, they may aban- this department, that its expenses shoul kept within the income fu! d by postage; and all ertiens at the improvement and extension of for year ending June 30, 849, 601,682 70 $5,783,848 70 to have been the received princely ays the ser- vice are to be Hmited to, and fail within, such receipts. The opinion of the community, without the depart- le | ment, believed to be, @ General Post Office, that being for the dissemination of intelligence and advance- of buriness, is not a proper subject of taxation— that no burthen for public service should lean upon it; and that the rate of postage should only be such a will e care, views ar tion xpense of t! ter on which the mate to the way incompatible, and may both be partment for the service it per- forms, by those for whose benefit such service is re- quired, Tt must be cable meth h particular letter or paper, as it fluctuates ‘ost in ench different section of the country; vice on ith th mail ser- of ascertaining the expense but what is the Pro} er proportion of each class of ser- vice, may be set! led with a good Bere of ineee » if when ascertained, it is to bear ite fair proportion, an that only. ‘The classes of service now required are three: care, tran tation, and delivery; first, of lett se- cond, of n papers and pamphie' ird, matter ‘care fed without compensation. It is by postage om tho rh two first classes of ser the department are nor § Je number of letters charged with postage h the mails the past year, reckoned om | the mails on the Pacitic, be! nia, once in each month. By New Grenada is bound to transport the mail across the Isthmus. Thi Atlantic and acroes fectly performed, and t unsuccessful. This th entirely to remedy, th its control, Exertions service. matter? Cong.) assuch ie ———— | Receive + $426,127 16 | the pontege received, agreeably to a basis proved. amounted to sixty-two millions. On all these letters the postage collected was $3,382,- 762; on ne’ known that the postage on th lets, in proportion to their wel @ very great degree less than letter postage; ti their proportion of the expenses of the tl they do not pays not only for i er postage fails shert of its proportion, the otber operations and services of the department, including the expenses of all the matter carried for the public without pay from government, T' to inquire what is the extent of this class of service rendered without pay trom the employers. Firet, what is the nature and amount of this franked and the only provision since for tothe executive departments, is an appropriation of two hundred thourand dollars per annum. It is always to be recollected that no amount of sppropriation, however large, to pay for franked matter, will ever, in any degree, Telieve Ibs.; printed speeches, folded for ), which are estimated at o1 631 }bs, The one half of this shows the | ef this matter from the How | two past years. This does not include the written eof the members, or the mail matter by | them received. No report direct from the Senate is Teceived; but 4 ‘& report from the port office in this city, it appears t! correspond: 40, The number of free written mail matter sent w ice that the whole expenses of tained. retofore ap- $819,016. tare 6] ers and pamph- t aud numbers is 1 ‘so that pers and pamp! erefore follows that the letter postage win cost, but also for what the pa- \d also for all ‘his brings us ‘dhe beads of the different departments frank all the mail matter sent from thelr respective depart avd receive free all to them directed. Under the act of 1£45, an account was kept by the post office of the city of Wasbington, of all such matter received by the de- partmente for the year ending June 30, 1546, but no ac- count of the matter sent from them. The gr. that received, at the present rate, was $250.353 53, a1 the amount as then estimated at the treasury on the matter sent would be fully geal #0 that tho same then amounted to $500,76766. (Ex. In 1847, this mode of pernans was abolished, ents, . Doo, 64, 24 Sess. 29th service rendered e letter or paper postage, 80 long age actually pays the whole expense of the phe pn whereby such appropriation romaios as surplus withdrawn from the treasury. But the Free 4 part of the franked matter for | which no payment is | in the lett members 0! The amount of this matter cannot be ascertained with entire accuracy, as much is forwarded of which no ac- —_ is en Bya — - the F agh hdgr ned of the House of Representatives, it appears that, during the two sessions of the thirtieth ei ch last, the extra number of public doouments for made to the Department, consists popes, and documents franked by the a Senate and House of Representatives. ingress ending ia 350, and their weight was 467.762 ounce each, 411, nual ameunt f Representatives the at during the year ending June 30th, Making .... Printed Senate spe | D do, deew | ome 668, 265,565 65 | Houee documenté....... sss eeeeeeeeres aaasias §,520, ‘The letter te erap- | this matter would may computed by itrbould let postage to which ject, if not franked, is 700. that report at $7927 recollected that th ment je not oply required to mail and transport this matter, often reqpiring the hire of addition: and teams, but is also subject to the actual payment of | ct | money contributed entirely b; this manner by law, two cent 5 portmaster for delivery of Mt bis ipcome does not exceed $2,000 per annum. proportion of there free ters of $2,000 income wil cents enc tenth was $95,161, increased, | ere for delivering t of the millions of printed ach) theres paid two cents each, not by the person who sends or by the person who reo ves it, or by the coun- try a8 for a public rervice, but by those who pay postage ou their private correspondence, Congress is expected | Valuable public service, proper to continue; and it is net intended to make hr f remark on that tople. Were | it abcliched, there woul probably be very much lese of ruch matter printed. But the postage om the re. | mainder, togetber with that on the correspondence of | the members and the relief of the expense of the trans. | portation and delivery of this franked matter would evable the Department (to sustain iteelf, though the post e wore .materially reduced on letters. Hut if if Congrese continues this franking ass valuable public service, it fe but just and proper that ti pondence, by a feduction on its postage, be relieved from ita support, and that provision be made therefor in the same mat er that other branches of pabiic ser View are susteiped Another great additional demand by the Post-offer made this year—that is, th lic sertice ithout compensation, is namission of all the pertm: bianks, returns and correspondence reyuired in taking the o bianky fettied t The next this reducti *, and being dou. | would it aflect the Treasury’ It is not persible, from any returns or data in the department, to ascertai er of letters passing annvally in the mail under this charge of ten cents. Kven it cont Jette fon; but it is pot to be therefor DY ‘increase of that postage is propored, It has been regarded as o policy to promote | vice the circulation of th: and it may be by Co b hat would be the pre bebe eilect of coe measure ‘The most obvious and prominent em more faeile and perfect — wor feetion arieing from wos of 1850 Three thousand reams of these already sngeaed. t said that the pewspeper and pamphlet proportion to the co# understood 7 cheap po jeation, provided ao de- ne to the post masters within that and arranged but that course js 1m- * Treasury cannot be produce this ef. i As public servicets required to ontng® we degree or measure of the redac- on to be pretfully to e erence in the postage the same it parte of the country, it, in preeiae proportion T means of interoommunication are rlow t. ” inquiry is, what would be the effect of D on the recvipts trom postage, aud how with much precision the ete actually known. It would still beim. | Se to determine bow many of them were ten cont jetters from being double, ‘ihence arises the Gifference in the estimate of lone of 1 ae was prevented im the report of the Post. | eral lest year to wit $710.187; aod that of the b iret Asstetant, $306,738 From a careful examination now made of the data | in the departanent. it is eatimated that the whole w 5, and chow whathas ber ef charged letters rent through the mails, | post sear, wee 62,000,000; and of thie number, about | 16,600,000 were subjected to the te & redvetio seoount of dirtance. If, then. the reduction were to | Amount of Rate of | bripg no more letters in Inareare, imerease, | edly inereace Io yearr, by ne'aral acoumula Lieb, Bud by ieerease of tue number of istters acing ence from such em 6, on being an 200,000 00 | insome don conveyance, and delivery | sand tage is laid. ‘Thess ried, sin leabel, with $86 066 22. mail twice in also for thi received, as to gl mails will bereafter re this entire route of great and increasing i By the present organization of the Post 0: ment, established in 1836, the United States ie sustained by appropriations entirely from the money derived from portage. Congress, by the act of March 3 act providing for the building an aval steam: when complete: the Treasury. Whether this or extended, is entirely a question for Congress; but it teems proper to observe, that this shall be declared mail service. and this great ad- Aitional demand be made a claim on the income from postage, will greatly embarrass and endanger the ope- ductions of p dition. embers te (rank, | ter o partment. It ie, how this service, now do: pads, is very tardily an compensation under the treaty probab! Reliable information would w y yield cing it under the mount required by the treaty to ry , being other way pro- vided for by Congress, has been paid by this Depart- ment up to this time, No steamship has yet been despatched on the mail | service from New York te Liverpool, under the con- | tract with the Navy Department, but it is expected the postal treaty ito full operation, ui . ‘thi Post Office Depart. | coaches | which pone is free letter or package, | daivwred by pecinse- | tet ateene | this Is, not exceed one-tenth. Two | formed by ¢ on the foregoing number, deducting one- | his free matter, out of money re- | oelved for letter post it i rpeeches franbed and transported in tho mail, without | pat oy mpd par com peneation. the printing of which eost about onecent | the at Calitor ments for ance of mai aot frem sietan port fro last, another age: and entered upon his duties 1400, who jou received on to belie’ crs at the end they would be rent bi 4 in density, and business in mall must bare ® tollows unavcidably that the busin the Department Oemendivg. from their performance. ws publio service must euler. oreane ef the department labor ts mech care of the deed I of the quarterly reta eevived 2,100,000 dead letter RAILROAD BERVICR. ‘This is a constantly increasing service. 870,587 00 | rent year, the length of railroad routes is increase, within two years, of 1,1: itis almost sally Searenes completed. On these rot ported 5,749,040 miles service is dove with ++ $4,802,106 00 | amount of service in rations of the Department. So great is the cost of building and sustaining these easels, and so small the postage to be derived there- from, that it will, if'so ordered, defeat the present sys- tem Of sustaining the msils within this eountry—put an end toall extension of ite accommodations, all re- oatage, andall improvement of its con- It is much to be hoped, that no proposition so itastrous in ite consequences will be entertained any course Congress may think proper to pursue in re- lation to thore war *' tinued, must be drawn from the ‘adopted, and as is now done, transportation of the mail acrors the Isthmus, being ip @ forvign country, is the yt within t] respectfully s% + the a wn selves, Witguare Hiying ite protection th at ny votection the: Girection of this Department da for owrrying that soon to be done. Bince the last sersion of Con with Great Britain has beem carried regulations settled in pursuance of the treaty, by # Department and the Post Office Department of that country, which regulations have been promulga- ted. The leading feature of that arrangement is, that lettre on which the postege le wholly pre: paid, or on , pees through the malls between the letter postage im | the two conntstes, and are despatched and delivered in cach is allowed overy | the rame manner as if those countries were one; and anaccovnt is kept in each, of the postage collected for riodically settled. The effect of @ sea rervice is almost entirely eetorne’ by the British steamships, the sea postages jonging to them makes the balance in ascountio which is actually paid to postmast- | largely against us. The operation of this is no injury i actually receive all we pay; but itis stated in Thus it appears that for the | order to explain that now all this postage goes inte the received in this Department, and to amount, when it is subject always to reduction of this balance payable to Britain, Whenever our mall steamships shall perform terview between New York and Liverpool, which is soon expected, it will tend to correct this ¢ efforts to extend this arrangem eng. to. denis whether thio Raahing by feo mombete ts'@ | loca te Peanee bons ct tee ee MAIL SERVICH IN CALEFORNEA By the third seetion of the act of Congress “hn act to establith certain post rout, gust 14 148," the Postmaster General to appolut Postmasters at places on the Pacifi and to sppoint agente f tal at of port-oMice: price of labor, o for office ined by Nor can nile be tronaported will furni-b. No sufficient returns have been received by which to determine th done, but it fully much bey ond t ntion of ¢ OVP RATiON® WITHIN As our countr; beolutely to requ In the contract cfliee, where the care and arrange mont of (he wail rerview te extending in daily demand, | and where theextent of corrrependence ie permanently | the i Ht 4 fl Fe S| = ; H 5 i 3 i = i 2 F i a: i i ing. as ne ites, the £F contractors in Length of routes in 1837 transportation ia jeof hams unioations received at the de- | were dull. at partment annually, cannet be less than 370,000. Dressed per service, the present force isinade- | 5 a 60. quate, and it has been found absolutely to clerk service, some permane! supply, that the publJc service may not suffer. - AUDITOR, A most im} t branch of the Post Office Depart- organization of 1836, committed to the ere despato! any other way. yetit isate eater cost. The law of 1845, requiring this serv! claseed, and fixing the maximum oompensati: , reduced the cost. There is on 1 this service which frequently tion of the department. In all made t! 4. 167,708. Annual mail 42,544 | rietors to be inserted in ed in them that ifany e contract. This often deprives the department ef the power to make such changes and improvements, in the time of the transpertation of mails, as the pub- lle convenience requires, and subjvota it to consure by those who know not this ciroumstance, FOREIGN MALL SERVIOR. The mail service, by the way of Southampton, to Bremen, has been, under the contract with this depart- ment, carried the past year by the steamsbi: ington and Hermann, for the sum of two huadred thou- dollars, and the gross amount realized in postage from that service for the year ending Oot. 4th, was $61,114 20, The gross amount from Ist June, 1947, to ssfully regarded, provided a reasonable cempensa- | October 4th, 1848, was $20,082 51. de Notice has recently been received from the proprie- tors that this eervice will be euspended until February next, in order to make the necessary repairs now re- uite obvious that there can Le no practi- | quired for the safety of these steamships. ‘The mail from Charleston, via Savanah, to Havana, under the contract with this department, has bean care he 18th of October, 1848, im the steamer ood degree ef regularity, at a cost of 'No other foreign mail is carried by con- tract with this department. By acontract with the Navy Department, made by the | dircetion of law, provision was made for o h month betweem New York and Orleans, via Charleston, Savannah and ‘transportation be res, This was entered upon in December, ae been partially performed. with the Navy Departmen’ uditor: not only that of auditi vice, but more particularly that of all moneys derived otherwise. The manner in which this has been ry by bis report, hereto annexe: lence as well of the efficrenc: system, as of energy and success in its execution. Our Baltimore Correspondence. Battimone, December 4, 1849. John Price— The Markets, $c. Jobm Price, convicted of the murder of George W. Campbell, was yesterday handed over to the Warden of the Penitentiary, and commenced his service of four- teen years and six months, ‘The afternoon steamboat line, between Philadeiphia and Baltimore, reaching here at 10 o’clock at night, has ceared running, rendering it neo the North who wish to connect with to travel all night, leaving Philadelphia at 10 o’clook, and reaching baltimore at five o’clock in the morning. In our markets, yesterday, on account of the bad weather, there was but little business done, there were no transactions worthy of note; neither was duce of any kind, day part of br Eleanor’s cargo, as follows:—2,500 boxes bunel 1; 1,000 half boxes bunch do., $1 8 66 cents; 350 boxes layer do., ‘a $3 05; 5 casks sun do , $7; 50 boxes figs, 7%<c.; 100 half boxes figs, 54 a7 25 a $3 35; 60 halfdo, $1 monds, 167 @ 18 cents: Corn, - for those from e Southero mail, doing in grain Under a like contract teamsbips are carry! M ralsias at $240 a $2 80; 1,€00 quarter de., treaty, the government uarter casks sweet Malaga following were the —40 shares Parmers and Planter’s Bank, U de. Mech. Bank, 15%4; 11 do. Our Philadeipnia Correspondence. apetruta, Dec. 4, 1849, The News from Washington—Father Mathew—The Mar- ive a good degree ef confiden with the co-operation of the Navy Department, the regular despatch through servics in the | ‘The failure to elect Speaker yesterday, and thus portponirg the organization of the House, has made public anxiety the more keen to hear from Washing- Both lines of telegraph be! Baltimore are down; we do receive from the capital, ceme by the circuitous generel here, that ker, Mr. Forney’s are decidedly the best, Inas- much as be will be able to secure the free soil yote through the influence and agency of Mr. Wilmot, be- tween whom there exists the warmest personal and po But there is not much use in 4) in regard to events which may be realized re the ink is fairly dry on this papor. x raloon of the Chinese Museum was eagerly anxious to @ great apostle of temperance Florence madea speech in behalf of davghters of Philadelp! Colonel ” handsomely acquitted birmself, father made a suitable reply. He leaves some time this week for the South, The annual meeting of the venia was held at the street, Inst evening. W elected Grand Master for t! No change to netice in tl ely Limited. Wheat is in cus quotations. Rye is nominal at 620 ; yel Old, 58¢ ; new, 47e. & 4¥e. jd, 1847, entitled “An d equipment of four ips,” entered on the policy of encourag- ing the erection, by individuals, of to that, on the emergency of & war, ready for public use, red made, by the Navy Department, for three lines of stenmers; one from New York, Orleans, and from Havana to Chagr ma to California and Astoria; an York and Liverpool; all which, requiring thirteen steamebips, were to carry the mail, and to receive, 4, the sum of $874,000 per annum. from icy is to be continued thi ge of news which s 5 Harrisburg route. po matter who may be elected 8 chances for the clerkshi, Contracts wero 01 javana, to New one from Pava- y change by which their respects to tl in which the “ handsome Grand Lodge ‘asonio Hall Sales of Penntylvania oats held at 290. 30c. Vie,, on time, of Lagvayra coffee rovisions, but he je quiet, and the fe: Not much doing iders are firm, The cotton mar- 8 thet are made are at full are more buoyant to-day, State 6° roper subject mat- e power of this De- has been received, thi they | den and Amboy Interesting from Vener Extract of a letter from a respeotable source ia Mara- der date 6th November, showing the state of af- fairs in Veneruela to be more gloomy than ¢ generally bolieved, and the precarious situation in whic foreign, ers, both English and Americans, are placed: and tierces, at 635 a 6. sation for | Butter und cheese were in fair steady. aoe, Estate.—1 lot on 45th 100 feet 5 inches inches in depth, $47! Bacr.— A cargo of Long Island sold Sxevs —Sales of 100 tierces (free) deliverable in Philadel, ‘all claims for ser- Sccans —Quotation: theasocounts | while tho sales were but Orleans at 54; a 6%0.; 50 do Porto Rico at 53¢ a hand consisted of 1,500 Wu — Flour, barrels. . Wheat, bushels. Mr. by thi Misa Ba Died, On Tuesday morning, suddenly, of disease of the heart, Joun Jackson, aged 64 y His friends and those of 54 years. er friends and acquaintances are respect! vited to attend her funeral, om Thursday, at 11 o’ol A. M., from the residence of her son-in-law, Edw Dennis, 161 Greenwich street. On Tuesday morning, December 4, Txapoxus Dean, aged ridence. da: T lends of ti attend the funeral, from bis lat invitation, « attend her funeral, t at two o'clock, from her lumbia and Summit street The funeral Hamilton Ferry to New York, and proceed Catnolfe Cemetery, corner of First avenue and over to the rleVenth street, On Tuesday a(ternoon, of consumption, in the 26th year of bis age, Devnis Scansete, Hie friends, and thoee of his brother, David Scannell, are reepectfully invited to atte Main etreet Brooklyn.to-morrow (Thursday) afternoon, at two o'clock, without farther invitation. ‘At Claverack, Columbia count: November 29, Joun L.,son of the late Robert Le Roy Liege, of the above place, aged 30 years, 3 mouths, apd 10 days. On Friday moraing, November 23, at Old Point Com- fort, Va, Jane Evizanernt Gattwer, daughter of James E. Gallwey, Eeq., aged one year and one month. ‘At Stoughton, Mas#.. Bessastn Bisex, aged 90 years, # soldier of the revolution. At Cincinnati, November 28, aged 57 Tuomas H. Drake, formerly M. b ‘Bee general by magnetic tol Ships—Excelstor Nephew; Kiehard Ali Borke— Kk “1 would entertain you with an secount of the | Bri ta | Co; Frances aving for ita ch): of ail the foreiane styled ‘ oligatoan’ or I's: ad, ‘and (he pes ded with the plum commandant of UJ offiver, who lost a measures tothwart the ob- | 07 + and to scoure | Pe the design was revealed to ‘There ie no business wi ntin the country who it tho sacrifice of one-half solution sanctioning the call fer Scuthern States, by Mississippi, to ville, Tenn, on th @ firet Monday in J CITY TRADE KEPORT, Tensvar, Deo. 4—6 P.M. t for the receipt of another steamer’s news, via Halifax, the general aspect of trade | was rather languid, Cotton sold to a fair extent, with- | ™; out material change in quotations. mostiy held on at outside quotations. flour was heavy; and prices for the lower | qualities, and mediam grades, ruled in favor of the he Kest and loos! trade was ‘The time drawing » 1548, ® postmaster isco, and agents were aa. That postmaster entered attempted their dis- g as he writes, no auilicient income gents has ever been received. There was no change of moment in | orm was dull, with @ moderate inquiry expert, with moderate sales, on terms be Togulating the Post OM respects. il llere were above with rales on terms which favored purchasers, eese continued in good de The atocks of sugars and with molasses, cofiee were light; rather dull, wh eoiTee continued firm rteady, with o fair a mnt of produge offering for | Asner. There was a and for both for pots, and $6 81 Flowr—The sales for the day re State, at $4 tion which the postage received there favorite Ohio and Miobi- | Michigan and the better grades were in the sales were t what bas al ya gress, and at the same time pi vision should be made for extending mails to Oregon aud New Mexioo, mon to good brands bbls. Jersey, at $2 97. W heot—Tranenctions Seutbern at $1 16; 14000 bushel dian at $1088 $104, and edeas and delivered, at $1 225¢ @ $1 25, part for ex- Barley 1,000. bv 1 bbis, good State at $2 65. fe 500 bushels prime white fair to good Cane- els prime Genesee, pande in dimensions. aod our sete as our population increases tivity, the service of the if sivancement; andit and labor withia corres poud! 4 Corn Salen were 17.500 bushels Jersey at dle. a 450 toi), 2 O80 for Western mixed 58,0 term yellow, and very year 6 to time, ad 1884, the department was re- invercourse, by | organized; and, by lew, a much lers namber of clerks proviced for than bad thereto: ting thet organization into 0; \ | distely found impracticable to preceed with Fuoh re. duced foree only, and tempor of right, were einployed in 189 | by temporary appropriations, until 1842, when, by they became permanent; but no provision node for evy additional clerks tinoe 18 the meantioe has been the pi | euch the inerrase of busi the namber of ten | clerks bes become £0 gicat, and delays #0 unavoidable, additional fores, or t ‘The pressure is on ali ti Brown, Bndicett, ry hy, ‘ation, it wae ionm Prices are well mai very generally refuse to make eesrions from Ubeir ar king rates stormy weather bas not been without {ts cifeet on the | clerks, to the number he re These wore coats The recent cold and at the pressure on t fiompe of te Northward, Im the appo'ntment office business in eof the oumber of 0 under the third asststant, t business continued light. ‘The market was dall, and price to New Yark, tow of provisions, which she proeered, voyage. Aud the reoript and charge | the Inst year, t well beld. Sales 2,5¢0 boxes, inoludi bait do. at $1 90, and | better, with rales of boxes, at at $12 50; 60 buch. Curacen pecan nate, 30.000 Ban Bias coocanuts, receiy tittle doing io freight, The molading corn at 64, 22a 64, cottos &d been ne, 4.964 contained 18 been reglatered, the owners, an’ comsty Ine. at private Fasvcnve— Chere wae rater were firm to Ly flour Is. 84., 0! i matters re. | nil servios, all eapoly A mail ooiled the Schre— Ca rsa «ry, r G 320 Marmion arrived of the i 9 tre thick weathe a Smyrna, Bprage. RB tod L Phipps & Co. Cope Pri Prio beuring ¥en! t iio from Kichmon: ship Amit N Brig Sarah (Br), Jo doys, in Lalinet, to belle, Ab wen ro. Beh Steamer Win J round her, apd green be muiat have gore t covert we could other bark. Laren Baos of steamer Tennessee, for Rie J: the Paoitto, Letiors cam be prepaid at the Horaid office ve any pact of the world. DenRA, Bally Whe hime Cloared— Bari Siti Whee Bere Unrer, Asnone—The ship Urict, Capt Simpron, from ent aahore at South ight Some of the towboats hav Boston for this port, gone to her aa- short time.—(N O of the 284 inst. tistence, and will probably got her off in & Crescent, Nov 26, 1p Aswone—Ship Princot Fothe reports that om the 1d¢ saace, oy ile N of the lights to Ononrnna, om the 20m alt, Pores, eprom wleek, Lagrenne—At Catler, , ‘alifornia Pocket, was iat 2 nail amano ¥ oes a LS were American. E thipe Sharks, pane tua ia 90 , 9 bar! ry rs 3 Bromea, the Bid from Providence, 34, ship Liem, Pacitie, Sid from New Bedford, 2d, bark Paulina, Tatob, [adisa Dartmouth, of New at ‘A loiter from Capt - er ra with 199 dble ep, 2: Joseph P Machsd whoil, for Japan Sen. Tative of Azores, aged 21. Spoken. ip Vancourre, Puller, henoe (May 3) for Canton, Aug 22, : rown, from New Orleans for Livorpeol, Nov 33, Ship Elien Mary, from Boston, Nov 12, on tho Bahama Havre bound to Valparaiso, Oot 2, verpool for Vors Crus, no data, — Brasoe reported hems to 25 feet fromt by ‘at 230., 4 mos. ) new prime clover, pecial chai brnolog 100 hhds, »4 mos. The stock boxes, and about the same number of hhds. Toracco.—The demand was fair, in with sales of 150 bhds' Kentuck: cases Connecticut seed leaf at 13c., usual tim market was less , 2 days 1 ; sain of thee active, and rather heavy rales. 150 bbls. Ohio and prison at 270, Drudge was dull at 20e. time. wo Tat de New Orleans, bound N, Nov 17, lat 23 Reevipts af Produce Hudson River Lines, M, gots B00 barrels... ee ow, for Beston.) A Amer bark, ith diamond, | 181500 Ashes, and Jetters in the diamond, bound jabwarl, Nor is , +. 3,700 Whiskey, “ ak. Barley, “ .... 1.100 Cheese, boxes.. Oats, Ww stat Announcements of Births, not inserted, unless duly ai Renney ed, At the Oliver Street Baptist Chureh, on the 3d inst., 4 Armitage, Mr. Wittiam H. Urr to et Emx.ine, daughter of the late Mr. Wm. H. Weld, all of this city. ‘On Sunday ovenin by the Rev. Dr. Cov! janta L, Daaivson, all of In Brooklyn, on Thursday, Nov. 29, by the Rev. Cox, D. D., Mr. Ronert McEnvow, late of Armag! land, to Mics Cuantorrx Painctx, of the former place. a ane New York fur Mobile, Nov 14, Hole im w ‘k Milton, from Charleston for Vera Crus, Nov 1 ke. Brij Job fr Bal sy? rs oheeen, from! jalom for Rie Grande, Deol, 2 St John, NB, for the River Plate, X0days 28, lon 30. FOR CALIFORNIA. Barmah, Sears, frem Francisco, Aug 1, lat 24 N, Fo! ign Ports. ‘eonsnciaan sand Deaths are WRN, Suly UW) for Valparali Brann Vole 10 Parsons, from Maria, Osgood, | , Nov 14—Bark Fenelon, Poole, for York, _ |, Mr. Geo. H. Lamson to this EZ Barstor. (Eng), wero, Oct 2—Brig Gambia, Bailey, for Salem, about 16 about Sept 27-Sid_ bark Sonthera , _Hamberg bark Mereurius, Sehr, Cunacos, Noy 9 Brig Abram, Coleman, for New York, next day; echr Bliss pairing. For several days previous, andoa the 6th, th frech from the W. 5—Bark Pontricket, Taylor, discharged, ps Malabar, Foster, for NY ; barks Mary Y (Sw), and Andres (Sw i, j Berane | H m ob, for NOrleans, " 'Q—Are bark TO Brown, Hortoa, | Nov 6—Bark Lyovrgus, Brown, for Gibral- er NOrleans cargo, 12—Bark Wallacs, Turner, for Bosten, Russell, Willis, for Salem, 14 | New ¥, ears, f the family are invited to at- tend his funeral, from his late residence, 60 Oliver street, on Wednesday, 6th inst., at two o'clock, P. M. On Tuesday, December 4, Mrs. Rose Banxon, aged Lreuonn, Nov Teaae Allerton, Smith, ‘ork. #3, Nov 8—Wark 61 years. The ‘Pievds and scqusintances of the family are rerpectfully invited toattend at two o’clock, without further invitation, st his re- 2 Grand street. His remains will be taken to dC ry, for interment. 4th instant, James R. Benson, aged 4 TTKRDAM, Nov ‘the funeral, on Thursday, 8. the family are respectfully invited to on Weduesdsy, at four o'elock, residence, 169 Mott street, without further In Brooklyn, on Monday, December 3, Junta Sunta- wife of Michael O'Connor, in the 36th year of hi “ene friends of the famlly are respectfully invited to is day, {(Wednesday,) 5th inst, residence, corner of Co- latter port, aad became s ig Ni User, une. bsig Hobe — from Baltimore, une. ‘nuz, Nev 15—Ship Diana, Mowe, from and for New | rc. 7k, Oct B—81d barks Onmanli, Gardaer, Boston; ‘£lla, Smith, ‘ork. ton, Atbelia, Knudson, York, Post, for Europe, his faneral, from 91 la, Bulkley, for Bal’ for Boston, ldg; Athalia, »N. Y., on Thursday, r Baltimore, Sleight, NYork. t,o; Delia Walk ‘hares, Philsdelphis; Chilton, Whitit MARITIME INTELLIGENCE. Byer, Fetes har ra Peay Pree jomds, abhi Port of New York, Dec. 5, 1840, anchor Im Nanteshes vs news column for the latest Maziae Tataltigenod jostaph. “Vork, Cld sobre Cadet, a5—ars oe Bitgeal L NY ork; “ Liverpool, bs ‘Smith, do, T P Stanton. ira, W Nelson; Roderic Dhn, 0. Bermnds, Middleton & Apalachicola, & D'Huribi ‘3, AM—Arr sobr Mi D Soul, Sovil ‘Tachinvar, West ship Geo & Mortin, Gibratiar amas tuarkets keveh A. Deo 1, AM— Arr bark Velocity, ship Laake, Roll i Bt B ‘anderdi ater; Aun Baker, F. delphia, J Freeman, Tuthill, do. — rande, Cubs. ha Preach, Jeffrey. P ee, Gilelirist, Yeh, Worow Sotb, bark Lotele Lisay (new), Jones, West 7 28—Arr brig North America, Foster, NavonT. Nov 7—Std bark Amaz 0Us, ship Arvam, Rankin, He a Steamship Northorner, Budd, Charleston, Saturday, ith mdse, to Spoford, Tileston & Co. 7! from the #£ to NE, the mos nd necommonly hi inion, Freeman, pasvenaers, to = on, Thompeon, Ha~ 7, ir hale Gipery, fro |. 10 daye out; Mth, lat 46 35, ‘Ancess, from —— for C ¢ k for N n $2 30, spoke Be b h, 864049, lon 4, Tuscarora up to mm unchanged, wad rrow morning the seam pumps ou board of her Ath, lat 19 50, lon from Manilla,” 118 clock this afternoon s large ship ogme in and con~ Wind changed to NNW, and cr Upward course. Dg. AM¥—The ship which om Ww ren spoke in lat 05 in yesterday. proves to 4, via Newport, RI, pe Four brigs im bales .) with sugar and in on account of ith & Walon. ‘on, St John, NB, via Frovidonoe, 3 ia porfect safety. Commodore, Coo: with mdge, to the her clundy. co fromm indian River bas been reeeivod this Manly, Havana. Cli jeme ‘at this port on S: jor Apalachicola. dra, Sherman, New Haven, 2 day y 22 days, with salt, to J ce St Jobs, NB, 10 days, with Nov 2—Are brig Lish ia, Boyle, Liverpool a \fast (Br), McKinney, ay {, Boston, 8 dae. acole, Southerner, Nickerson, Boston, 8 days. Bay State, Ryder, Weston, 3 t. th Arindue. Avery, New Rrpronn, Deo 1—Arr tohrs Gwenemina, Pe i Henriette, Need, Philadelphia. Sid 24, he ork. 1—Atr brig Sea Beau, Merrithow, Adi Bottes. Phite~ ‘Cla Ben, sobre feuee, doyon, NY¥ork; Sth, sch Bay State, 1-—Arr cohr Mary A Lovell, from Al- joop Teaser, from Mew York for Naa- Pont, Dec 2--Are sehr Win Penn, Steriong, orders. Sid 24, bri Lt a Une: juare-rigged ve ‘ov 00-- Arr sehr *i | Lewis, birher, do. Balled, thip Excelsior, for Liverpool, and others. nohor shere Riker's Island, bark George Thomas, and (Wind during the day from the NW. ‘and Frieodsbi Oxford, Reavery, wn B Fenner, Philadelphia. of ctoamer Tennessee, fer Rio Janel Bs Room ( NYork: Align A Brown (ne mm, Whoatom, NY istaren®s}e Fin Cation rd. oma, Tarley, NOrl Arr \tis Jomese, Wheeler, ; Kent, Pieres, Stom eamnere Pouobseet, Se Sid tehre Kichmon, Witmisorom, Now eral (8 Wobver' ae sohrs Bowditeh ‘iiliame, N Tork arrived yontertay inet, ein milen large shipashore, with painted ports an ain. Tay wit) ar head o hy Bai J hat ne AcHone—A 4 wat goon ashore on Caryetord Reef, Darien, Oa, bownd Drocecded sn het A Brio was aah Secs Shoal, Flotidea Reef, uh alt. She'wan' fall ‘vessel. a Sewn Nitm, Thackaberry, cleared trom Wilmingt New Orloama, with & carne to W oom the 2th im joat her deck load and mar enched by Usps —Capt B Mottes, Charleston, from » of ebed off Charisaton bar Wh alt