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which they have declined becoming par. | those labor, living, and commodities generally, in that | graduated by distence, and while {t greatly reduced the ‘The cont of the service for the last fiscal yoar on the | the United ; but payment to destinstion is | sage of an im by satey ts peg npr Tam -eme iless. aie bfyree tg . rates a by the act af 1846, ‘upon publications | reveral United States mail steamship nes and acroas the | not permitted. Pte mater bce psy ence i Tam uns er any tule ‘While auch have been some of the difficulties which the alt discrepancy appears on comparing | issued to regular subseribers, it in the rates upon | Isthmus of Paname is as follows :— own postage to ond the line, seoasiecescatt comme a Thalia for Department bas had to ercounter with these railroad | these which the government pays in Qol:fornis | transient newspapers and other descri; of priated | New York to Liverpool—Oollins ine—twenty- The arrangements with Canada and New Brunawick in- seoverieless. Ap. on aad incur expenssa is the that eervice, with its necessary attendants, | with those which it receives for the same work—I mean | matter. Under this graduated scale, was foundex- ix Fea Ths toulbiss: yi weseeeee +++ $858,000 09 | volve the keeping of no internations! accounts; and atk fom that they will be paid, and Consroms, mare (0.8 = tt, and mail messengers, has absorbed mor the rates of postage. Tne one is uated to the cesdipgly inconvenient in practice, owing to there being | New Y« ‘vis Southampton, to Bremen, eleven hitherto their operation has been satisfactory. — vate sympathy than from public pawn or be: {han one-third of the entire revenues derived from post- | scale of prices, and the other to the !vwest. For s ingle | no less tham six different rates of postage on regular | |. voyeges..- Frain + 135,333 33 | | The statement annexed, from the Fourth auditor of the | induced to yield tos measure to whic its prior sanction me- 68. letier ‘of halt an ounce the department receives six conta | newrpapers, according to ¢istance, the revenue New York, via Cowes, to Havre,twelve 150,000 00 | Treasury, shows thaton the navy mail contracts, in ad- | Vr. a ave ween 3 tained.’ vaste hap vide aibion meen: Ge ba the 20th of ber last there were in operation | when prepaid, and tea cents when uopiid, and for h ted matter, which had amounted to $1,085,130 89 in | New York and New Orlesns to Aspinwall, twen- dition to fines on two of the lines, the ten percent de- | yivitan poety land Inland Com; “4 within the United States 202 railroad routes; their aggre- | pound of printed matter, which comprises a very he yearending June 30, 1851, sunk in the your ending ty-nine voyages, including twenty-four yoy- duction on the origins! advance to the companies hae ‘By the third section of the act ‘Maroh, 1853, Twas a gate lov, was 13410%; mites. and the cost of mail | proportion of the contenis of the mails, about Ave cents | June 30, 1862, to $169,246 36; beirg a decline of $245,- ayes between New York and New Orleans, been made. On tne New York snd San Francisco line a | rected to make certain inquiries, report fat trans) ion thereon, $1,618,432 38—being at tho rate | ® pound; the cost to the department for transportation | 884 63, or 28% per cent. via Havana. srecteneeeesicseeesse 284,510 00 | fow extra trips were performed in the months of April, | what sums the several services now performed ui ‘com of $1206 7 10 per mile. Include the pay of wail messen: | across the isthmus alore being twenty-two cents a In order to remedy the inconvenience to postmasters | Astoria, via San Francisco, &., to Panama, Mey, and June last, without additional expense to the wae ee Post Office fata as gegen gers, route ein agents the whole expense of this | pound. The necesssry consequecce is, that the coat of | end the public, arising from the charging of postage on twenty nite voya between San Francises Cepertinent. rma wy eon! L ae pod the. service is increased to $1,809,264 78, or $139 48 6-10 per | wail service in Calif'rnia greatly exceeds the revenue it | printed matter by distance, as woll av t.rimaplify therates | snd Panama, and twenty.four on residue of ho mail eervice from New York, by the way of South- | Scesruing te contract, aud soll " wile. “si : yielda, ‘on such yet beh the act amendatory of the act line....+++ neeseeeeeseeess 346,639 00 | ampton to Bremen; that from Charleston to Havana, by ord ‘get this information, I ¢: On estimating other kinds of service fa the «ame min- And notwithstanding the government incurs @ heavy | of 1861, *‘to juce and modify the rates of postage,” | Charleston, v'a Savannah and Key West, to the way of Savaunab avd Key West; and that from New | be inserted in vome of the newspapers im the pri discovered | wrefiindec expenditure in supplying the o'tizen of that | &c., was passed on the 30th August, 1852, to take ellect Havana, twenty four voyages... 60,000 00 | York to Havre after referring to the sot of Cor length of routes, tt Cowes, is pait for out of the funds af | of he Union. ia w rvise ia $5445 per | Stato with his letters, newspaper er upon the aggrogat ve d other mail m on the Ist October following; but this act still further re. | New Orleans to Vera Orur, five voya +++ _7,750 09 | the Post Office Department, amounting, if sil the service na in tho different contracts pro Bhat the average com of Mes per miley and of modes Aot | ter, the citizen biueeif employe other factities for the | duced the rates of postage on printed mutter, ao that the | Aspinwall to Panama, TD e5}214 00 | he performed, to the sum $400,000, ° Forshee of the stoamers, and to whe nature pa cited, $7 86 per wile. conveyance <f his letiers, and piys therefor at a three-quarters of the fiscal yenr eading 30th June, 1355, ——— | In additioa'to this, there was paid by the department | ““fidu have been received, contiaot w gry belo, tbe condition of this branch of the service, | from twenty to forty fold greater the government nounted to less than the three-quarters which immadi- Total.......00 srasvesscees sees $1,905 527 33 | the last year, for the tiansoortation of the mail across | ment are attached, (marked B) In the sa nexed hewe- ‘and the onal paid for it, the attention of Congress is | charges ‘or sitmilar service, ately led them by the sum of $' 184 47; beiog 9 The report of the auditor for this dvpartment, herato the Isthmus, a » arvice performed ia @ foreign country, | if naeky hy pag mm pment » different lines, ami garticular y requested to this wabjects ‘the facilities x fered to are the expresses. Govern- | reduction tetow the revenue on printed matter produced | ancexed, shows that the aggregate amount of postages, | the sum of $65,514, which will be greatly increased, | ip Dro! coals to de tua tame SOrvic) apioas tae tion of the act of Congress establishing | ment hae oot been abte to keep pace ia its organized mail | by the act of 1851 of more than 36 percent. This graat | inland, sea, and foreign, on letters and other matiable | Judging from the last quarterly returns, during the @D- | 9...” No. to San Francisco is much & than porns Wevapproved august aly 100%, 1 was made | arrangements with the movements of the aminer, Hu | Feluction ismaialy attributable vo that proviioa ta the | uattor, recalved aud aout 27 thove soveval nos Qusing | °W.RE Year. i from’ New Work to San Francisca ig mich lowor sham, *the duty of the Postmaster tieneral to {ss 1e propos settlements sud‘evly made and rapidiy extended, long | act of August, 1862 which requires only half the regalar | the last {isea! year, waa ns follows :— = fee If Congress intends that the mail servioe of thecountry | regua Company propore to carry ® somi-montaly msil for @ sportstion of a datly mail be. | before the mzil contractor and postmaster can be pro- | rates of postage to be paid on newspapers and periolicals | By Collins line, New York and Liverpool, on shall be sustained by the mousy derived from postages, | aum not to exceed $800,000 per annum, ‘This inc don the tween Me an! Cairo, 5: Louis and Cairo, Ouiro and | vided. The expressmen are at aand, and the wants of | when payment is made quarierly or yearly in advance, letters ., we gndachs adie ce BOG TRE 10: those charges should not by placed upon it. Ta providing | isthmus transportation, and will make tho yearly ovat to the wee Memptis and Now Ociesns, and to supply | the mixer are’ immediate. His orders are all sent by | either at the office cf wailing or <elivoty. On newspapers, including thoss by or the builc equipment of naval steamships, | fovermment somo four or five hundred thousand, dollars less Jnebintermediate points as he may erder from time to | them to the central post office, to which—not kaowing | ‘The act of 1861 does notseom thus far to have auswared | closed mail \........-ssve0e++0» 6,628 28 Congress seems to hare meant to encourage the erec'ion | “an the present. | ae tne means of onmmemis time, on suitable and enfe rteain boats.” wkere his eventual location will be in the gold region— | the expectations of its friends; but while such has besa —— $310, 36! 93 | by individuals of war steamships, which might, om the | cation hitween our Atiautic and Pacitic oo ho In compliance with the provisions of this law, an ad. | be has directed his letters to be addressed, The post- | its eflect upon the revenue, the expenditures of theds- | By New York and Bremen line, touching at emergency of a war, be ready for public use; and auch ba- | fre and urreatrioved ws possible, vertinement wae prepared with much care by my prode- | mester has favored the exp essman in the prompt deli- | partment, particularly for transportation, have been very Sout? ampton, on lettera..... 100 297 79 ing ite design, and the carrying of the mails bat au inci- | freight and passage sho o brough! dawn to the lo} cesser, dated Dec. 41, 1852, aud published in tne papors | very of hia letters, aud had received in returns compen- | much increased. On newspapers, by closed maila.. 12 26 dental purpose, the public trestury should bear the cost, | rns. The present prigrs paid to the New. Yor of Washington, New York, Pitsburg Cineiunati, Tekis. | satlon much larger per Istter than any cozmmission ever | _ Whilst from 18:2 to 1849, including the sum of $256,- ____—""i09,370 05 | Thesmouné of postage derived from these veisels is but Competition, ard leave compants at ville St. Louis, Memphis. Little Rock, and New Orleans, | allowed him by the government. The express charge is | 602 paid in the latter year for foreign service, the cas: of | By Now York and Havre line, touchiog at tall, an Las been siown; aud in view of the extension | orito cerr,ing and parseager tees bebe inviticg proposals for a daily express line bet ween Louis. | $) per letter, $2, and so on, risiag, in some instance: transportation, in part owing to sowe salutary changes ‘Cowes, on letters......... . 100,070 44 of mail accommodations assed for from evyory pert o! the | and Paciticoonste, Thi: ville aad New Orleans, touching at seven points, and | $5, ececrding to distance, Once-commencod, the habit | made In 1846, decreased in the sum of $493,589; since | Onnewspapere, by closed mails... 99 74 country, which bas now to be frequently denied, I would | our Atlantic States, ané P it iy ails runing down in six days pidly increasing. In the 100,176 13 | suggest that these lines be now paid for in the manner | towing interests of Califormis and our P dup in seven ; and also for | of the miner of relying on the dered is continued long | that thne it has gone on very ray by a oe “ Pe 5 dt seeins to demand from the general goverament a wit way lines between Louisville and Evansville, Evansville | after the Post Office andthe mail route have reached his | yearencing 20th Juno, 1549, the transportation of the | By Charleston and Mavana line, touching at now provided for in relation to the other lings. | 9pi® the fa mt eneral and Cairo Calro aug Memphis, Memphis and Napoleon, | neighborhood. mail cost the department the sum of 62577,407 71; in | Kay West, on lotters and nevapapert.... 0.7 7,046.63 | The extending settiemouta of out country, and the great | treteg cuties liner Viewed tacty ie connect he Napoleon snd Vicksburg, Vicksburg and St. Francisville’ Different influences combine to produce this result, | the vear ending SCth tune, 1850, the sum of 32,965,- | By Now York, New Orleans, Havana, Aspinwail, increase and activity of business of every desc iption, | mails, the Nicaragua company would carry a wetkly St. Francisville and New O.leaaa, to be ran i olose con. | The principal one, asis allegod, ix the utter failure or re. | 786 $6; in the year ending June 30, 1851, $3 538,063 64; Panawa, San Francisco, and Astoria lines, on require all tho mail accommoiations that can bs | accordiug to s pro rata, for a mucn less sum than is Bow nection, and supplying in'ermac iate offices and also con-*| faral of the central postmaster, at whose office his letters | ia the year ending Juno 80, 1852, $1 226,811 23; wu: letters including newspapers only to and frou given, and the department should not be burthened w She parson mail and lotbmus companies i onttsing 8 etbe necting ling betweek St. Louis and Cairo, come from the States, to forward them in the mail. in the year ending 30th June, 1853, tho sum of $4,906,- Charleston aud to and from New Orleans)... 255,127 51 | Payment for services which do not properly belong to i mah ane rots requons comm waeen on ae ‘The hoten appouded to this ndvortissment provided that | Im rorpect to the vidious practioes wt the large offizes | 903 05. being an tnoreare of $1,968,284 41 fortransjorta- | Dy New Orleaus “and Vera, Ores lise, Ceou- No materia! change has been made in OUF posta eo i ee ee a ae are at a the maila mast be conveyed in ‘safe and suitable in Californis, which have s0 much retarded the use of t tion alone ince the act of 185i went into operation. ‘menced 1dth April, 1853,) on ietters and vention with Great Britain since the datect the lust an- 7 A, ® weebly jice of communie: oats’! of the ver~ best class, that they should carry the | mails end encouraged the employment of exprosses, the The commissions allowed to depaty postmasters by the ne wapapers ... 30 $4 | nual report from the Postmaster General. Under this | much lerssum than is aw mail and passengers only; that the whole nambar re- | prerent incumbents of those offices bave been spaciaily | 6th section of the “act to establish certain post roads ‘The amount of @ collected in the Uaited States | convention the additional eriicles, to which allusion was ms tome that there ahs (aired for tho soreioe raust be provided before thecontract | instructed, and have given the assurance that they thal | and for other purposes” approved #4 March, 1883, havo | ard Great Brita on lertors wanes made in that report, providing for a regular exchanga of | ¢f tie goversl zovermment in adoctag it) | would be con idered as commenced: that they would be | be discontinued, proved insuflicient at several of the distributing offices to | By Collins lino, collected in the mails between the United States and tha Went Indies, | 275 Qy° Casing of The mail wows Nee athe Nur York gnbject to a tigid inspection by agents appointed by the Much confusidn is found to exist in the arrangement | defray the expenses indispensable to their efficient ad- United Sta @8.....scesecsee.s00 BLOG, 188 53 were duly executed, and the arrangewent las been ia | gyd Galway Steamship Company will perform twonty-aas department, that none could be withdrawn without the | and operations of the offices in California, Svveral ap- | ministration. So inadequate, indeed, have been theeom- | By Collins line, eoilected in Gre successful cperation since about the 15th of January last. | round voyages perannum between New York and Livorpool, consert of the depart, t, and nO new ones admitted | pear to be im operation that were never established by | missions which accrued at some of this class of offices, ‘Britain. . 79,084 21 (A copy of these articles is annexed, maried B ) or such other ports of Great Britain and Ir ry without the lite inspection and assent, the Postmaster General; and a general misunderstanding | that the postmasters, besides being obliged to forego their similer additional articles have been agread upon, and | directed by Congress, in forty eight hours loss time than f ‘Bidders i rf 4 submitting their proposals, in- | prevaila smon:; stmasters ga to the restrictions im- | Own compenration, have been brought in debt for ex- | By Cunard line, collected the an arrangemert comoludedy which went into effect in frase cio bed Ly the present, contractors), for» com Fae eran i vaca charantars end post, | Posed by law toon thelr expenditures ta respost to ofime | pense absolutely neceseary to de incurred in the public | “United States’. se” 555,055 14 Ontober last, with respect 2 mails between the United | pytete audited ip Sie ldeention of Caan Fe onaee masters ia certifying to their sufficieacy, were requested | rent, clerk hire, &c. These things have all been brought | service. By Cunard line, collected in Great Slates aud the wost coast of South Amarioa, Under the | mont required, cannot be zront. If tho design of C: to bear in mind that the object of Congress in enacting | to the attenticn of the special agent of this department, This state of things is unjust to the postmasters, alike Belthiiiee.s oo sesconcterenescsine 222780 25 latter arrangement the British packet oflice at Panams ia | to withdraw from the Coliias liue #h the law, aud of the department in executing it, was to ob: | who bas been instructed specially in relaticn to them, | urjast to those upon whose fidelity and diligence they ———— 578 033 89 ye the exchange ofice on the part of Great Britain; and | tion which they now re t « Gecaral a vos 67,051 97 | New York, Charleston, Savannah, Now Orleans,’ and | be authorized to nay every stenmor running, betw 531428 6: | San Francitco, are the oblices of exchange on tha part of | Unit d tater ond Sdeland a.fixed sama for eaah single tel. the United states, By this agreement tho United states | Britint en vernacnt sould fo indeed. to outer «$021,782 07 | Syalts elf ofthe facitiigs of gommouication Sooure by | tansement by whuch ty abvuld pay a given sum for evec Jia tho Audi. | existing poatal trestion between Groat Britain an the | mail to the Uniged States, while we paid’s like sum foe trol the | Several gaveromenta on the west coat of Sonth Amorice, | Scot #0 England, without Feeard to Tay, nationality of teamship the mails being tranop»rted by a line of British steam. vesacl#, except, that they thou'd be American or tain regular and reliable lines of mail packets on these | and instructed to report; and this leads me to the con- | must rely for the performance of the onerous and re- | By the Bremen line. waters, srrivivg and departing at fixed times at the prin. | sideration of the defective nature of the agency provided | sporsible duties of their offices, and cannot be permit:ed | By the Havre line, cipal poi: ts al: the year round, and that a strict compli+ | for that remote section of the Union. An agency of | to continue without serious public injury. To remedy nce with the contrast obligations would be demanded, | higher functions than those of a more special agent | this evil, 1 would respectfully recommend that Congress Under this adzertisevent several proposals were re. | shou‘d be provided for the charge and supervision of the | restore to the Postmaster General the discretion confi’ed cvived, the lowest of which waa that of Glover & Mather, | entire mail service on the Pacitie, This officer should be | to him by the rixth rection of the ‘act to reduce end | tor’s office, it appears tl of Louiavitle, at $450,000 a year for the whole cervice ba- | of the grade of Assistant Postmaster General, aud should | modify the rates of postage,’ approved March 3, 1851, 80 | last year from the several United States mail s the the strifo which now exists batween the Colling and Cunard tween Icuiaville and Now Orleans; end of J. E, Caldwell, | receive a calary equal to those received by officers of a | that he may be authorized to allow to postmasters at di lines is as follows, vis.:— Packets plying between Panama and Valdivia, touching | jinog would boasan end, the whole matter would be theowm. at $40 000 for the line between St Louis and Cairo, and | similar grade in California, Under the charge of s faith. | tributing offices such sum, in addition to the commision’ | From the Collins line, deducting in'and post at the p'ominent immediaty ports, On letters sent from | opea to individual competition, the facilities of commanton- these proposals were accepted by my predecessor on the | ful and able officer of this description, the routes couli | now aliowed by law, as will be sufficient to defray rea- | age, but allowing for the sea conveyance the United States the rate of postare for which the United | tion between tio two countries woul ataweend 508 D- Ist of March, 1853, Ue let to contract at less cort to the department, and | sonable and ‘mecossary expenses; and that the auditor of clored mails.........006 $192,313 87 | States has to account to the British Post Oflive, under | creazed. and a direct mail communication with England be Soon after assuming the charge of the Department, my | more eflicient contractors obtained, than under the | bo authorized, under the direction of the Postmaster Gen- | From the Bremen line do. 09,951 45 | this arrangement is eight oents the single letter between | extended to every priveipal seapert town ia the Union. attention was directed to this matter, and coubts arose | present system--he, however, only to have the power to | eral, to credit the account of any postmaster of a dis- Do, Havre do. do, do. 41,7 14 | Panama aud Bueneventura, Now Granada; twalve conts | in'edigtion to the contract of A, G, St09, myestta le whether the service called for by tae accepted proposal | receive the bids and pass upon them preliminarily. tributing office with such sum or sums as may be found | Do. New Ycrk, New Orleans, and Cal between Panama and Peru: and twenty-four cents ba- | ie he ane Keiko sae gracias hecan Now Pork te Mew ‘was not only more than was intended by Congress, but ‘The dead lotters, instead of being sent back to Wash- | necessary to defray the expenses of his office from the 13¢ fornia line, inclu¢ing inland postage and tween Panama and any other port on ssid coast. Oa les- | Orlears. Charlestony Savannah, Havana. and Chagres, aa@ also more than was required by the public convenience, | ington, as they now are, at much expease to the depart- | April, 1853, or from such time thereafter as he bessme receipts from British and Cali‘ornia ters received, the British packet postage as above, is | back, per act of March 3, 1547, f r the purpose of ascertaining, Being satisfied on these points, and the accepted didders | ment, could be opened by him, and only such lettera postmaster. : closed mails portaining to thi line......., 272,242 63 | required to be prepaid. To the above raiaa rexprotivaly, | how far the contract gorceapo nde wits Sheeran BAD. ue petween Louisville and Rew Orleans having waived the | turned {othe General Post Office, ag contained moneys, While this power should thus be given to meet exizen- | From the Charleston and Havana line, includ- the United States postage of trenty cents to New (i: matt “from Nee Work vis’ Havans, wn Gata. to Mew Cae acceptance of their propveal, an order was made. on the | documents, or other valuable enclosures. Such aa officer, | cies that may arise ins particular class of cases, abund- | ing inland posinge.........sese.-sseeeee 7,045 63 | BAdRand Peru, and twenty-four csnts the airgle rato in | jeans, ard back, once a week, for the. annual com! 20:h of Msy last. to contract with the sare persons for | too, would give assurance to the government and tha | ant reacons will appsar in this report why a larger share | From tne New Orleana and Vera Cruz line 1 other cases, has to be added. Oa newspapers the Bri- | of two hundrod thousand dollara,” oF “once ia two wooks itm the daily express line between Louisville and Now Orleans, | country that the proper control over the offices and af | of the postages cannot be withdrawn {rom the use of the (part of year,) includiog inland postage... 630 84 | fish packet postage is four cents, to which is added the | the annual compentation of one hundred thousand dollars. the mail fecm New Urleans, inseven days each way, and for additional cate way- | fairs of the department was exercised; that proper post- | General Post Office. Bat great relief can be afforded to ‘colombia, and back, once United States postage also, of four ceata each. in copy lines between Louisville and Hvarsville, Evansville and | masters were selected; and that the mail arrasgements | the offices by simplifying their operations and lessening Total, ) of the artieles of agreement is annexed, marked 4 i ‘ t ion of ninety thousand de! Cairo, and St, Francisville and New Orleans, and at the | were adjusted ina skillful and upright manner, suitable | the amount of Iabor they require. The exorbitant rates of postaga on pamplets and maga- tthe Jine trom Naw York to davea, comporaution of $297,975 per year, boing the agzrozate | to the wants and requirementa cf that active audener.| For instauce, were pre-payment of postage made Fe ee eee ete au. | tines between the United Statis, and Grest Britain, the | and extension ¥o Bromen, wore mace“ upyathe Condtsiew amount of the lowest bids for the same service separa‘ely, | getic people. absolute, how much time and labor would be ed im | gucted, in Guma set down to the’ other lines it isin: charge for works of this bind above the we'ghtof two | tiattho United shou d furnish ono half the fads This ecntrect hes since been executed, with suretios | Congress, at its last session, appropriated 850,000 for | filling up the po:t bill, and how much more in the busi- | Ciidea’ onnees being fous. canis an Suapnon eishes aide; having .) jo.eansuney she Saamabine 19 Be Gnalatabcen essay believed to be amply suficiont, and is to tako eflect on | maildepredations and special agents. In order to keop | ness of collecting postage and keeping the accounts, It will be seen, also, that the only newspaper postage | £0 Long beens cause of just complaint on the part of | [rom New York to Havre, and from New Kerk to New Ge- the Int of December current, andto expire on the 30th of | myrelf as much an porsible within the appropriation, I | |, A developement of important beariagon the interests of | credited (o the Bremen and Havrs lines, Us that resaived | Cocayitn ty cemue the rcepeattion, at ae eee REY | it—oay five bundred thousand Geltars ga aaah Foube; 3 June 1657 appointed eighteen agents, to one of whom was assigned 4 4 from newspapers conveyed thereon ia closed mails, mo | Secessor fur a reduction of the United States prstage from | 5c 8 for, ; it they sbink proper, to retnin g Hen on the veaiel The contract of J, E Caldwell for the St. Louis and | Ca-ifornia;to another, Oregon :mq Washiagton Terrrito- | operations of the act of 1851. A large amount of letter | separate returns having been mate of such as were went ity and for the faithful performance of ti borviees ” in the Z X a jes: q correspondence passed through the maii, chiefly fiom the four cents to one cent an ounce, on condition that the | case bis bids for the ite from New Orledus to Ghagres Calro Tine, at $10,000 a year, is also exeguted, to com- | ries; and to a thicd, the State of Texas, | There ware three.) rte kad principal villages; a¢ but one cent joatage per | DY these lines in the open mails, Admitting that the | some nduction bo made in the Britian postage. Th tod, he proposod that“ them the United States shomh, mence and terminate at the sam: time, At mj request, | app ree. at Now York, Louisville, and | cities and a eh eae proportion of newspapers by there two lines, ax compared | fem my Yvrcrns ty stare iaatiiy oceiey etek 20, upon ke condition, fifty thousand dollars to bald the Secretary of the Treasury detailed two inspectors of | Wa:hirgton; and the remaining twelve were distributed | letter; wi Se ee eT ee Pon ict tate ceent# | with the number by the Cullina ting, was about the same Tohgh not ateolutsiy decined. by the Britiah goveramont, | 8 Suitable steamehip fer the service.” The sorvico was all be Heambonts anpclated vider the law of Angust 80, 1854, | encom ree A RS aot Tinted he that great measure of reforii, ‘The letton ce, | a4 it isin respect to letters, it is fait to ereiit the former shoul iWhoasoedod to, it will comain onty to, make a iiks | bosn sleamabipe of certain dlmensions, scribed at Lengul i act in conju: ction with e #pecial agent o} jepar rtm . ith $2, . adi tion to the west f South ' > | the hid, * convert into ships of war.” fuent in tho examination of tho steamboats pressatad by | much of the local’ information nessassry to enable it to | ferred to areeo cent at two-thirds lose than letters gene. | <tc with $2,000 for newspaper portage, In addition to | Fine en oo te a coat ge United ataaa wont ae ape , tively 2 furm rate of ono cent an ounce United States postage on Ho als> proposed to carry tse mail from New Yeek to The contractor for this day, who have resorrod iautrus. | determine what eervice fs required im the diferent States, | rally, because the body of them fs prin‘ed or lithogeapuod | Me *Ums above respectively aot down to thalr credit. | | Oiftis'and marssinen between. tie Univad aeaies. and all | Tet éaitlng ay Cowes, and from New York, by avanm, tw tions to accept none which do not conform in alt respscts | aud how the service is performed. It iy an important | instead of being written. In every respect they i f Except #4 above msntioned, I have a Now Orleans or on eit thege ror for the postage em. regard to the}New York and Csliforais linos; but I have no reliable data from which to determine what additional sum ehould be placed to their credit for postage on priat- to the reyo tisement, and the letrers and printed matter o Rye thereon, tho United States would furnish the funds requisite to the steamships 2 ecessary for the performah cements mentioned in the contractand adver- | part, also, of their duties, tosee that the -postmastera | tere, and serve the purpose of letter co:respondenc: ampblet and mags! h will receive the mails and passengers | properly perform thelr duties, and report a want of abili | adventege is taken cf the provision of law in regard to iy 00 sorrion, only, excluding all articles of freight. ty, attention, or fidelity on their part, or on that of con: | printed circulars, and they are mailed («nd legaliy, too,) ch nf oe 3 it being understood that they should be built by him under The sabject of failures on. tbe great northern and | tractors, promptly to the department’ under that provision, I need not polat outits etfeot in | matter Of which no separate account appears 3 : ae No reduction hes ea yet heen mado in the high tronsit | the supervision of 9 naval constructor, to be appointed by the The number of letters conveyed between the United | aortas charged on the’mails pareug through Beglied ty | coverbLicnt, aud that allrepaire ehould be at ihn, the cokease and from tao Unitod States; ror has an3 succeas attended | %0z’s, expense. the meaenr's adopted tay * such arraagemon's ‘Theeo snd yario' southern mail line between New York and New Orleans | If inefficient or neglectful of their duties, the public | reducing the revenues and disappoiniing expectations in + is one of absorbing public inte ‘est. It has had a place informer rep snd the department ‘mast suller; but in order to make | the worsing of the low-postae measure; nor need show | H'tie Gerard iad ware nec as rts of this department, | them truly useful, too much territory must not be as- | how vital the difference this provision makes between our | yo" Goins do. other propositions for ficcien molt me time Under an advertisoment of Sueti: . ie ft i of vice, reotived atthe and Pas alo claimed the special attention of Coogress, | signed them. A most important part of their duty is | sxperiment and that of England, or the injustize (un- | 19° Bremen do. freoty with Grest Beicatn) Convey se ot Leta ee at | Post Otice Department, dated 4th October, 1815, | ted ware During the winterand spring moaths, especially, embrac- | that connected with depredationa. derigned. indeed) in relioving a class of letier-writers of | Do’ Havre do. apers, and closod 0 territories of the | Bil reported to Congross in @ lettor from the: P ing the active business portion of the year, the service The citizen who intrasts his moneys in the mails | two-thirds of thejr postage tax, and imposing it on other: 3 4 U2 | United States, ot tho United’ Kingdom, and of Franca, re- mere}, Mr. Johnsou, under date of th Maroh, 1846; hhas been of the most unsatisfactory character. and the | should have every assurance given him thst bis property Soon after coming into the administration of this de Total $a O11 | *peckively. es should be most conducive to the interests of letter I beg leave iY ‘er, as conlatainas: more sacthane efforts of the dopartment to improve it have been almost | will be properly cared for, and that if it be abstracted or aaa felt it my duty to inquice particularly into ‘Tha gumber-of be St ae Sepharose ayes i ie, ee 8 0 House document fruitless, stolen, every exertion will be taade by the government to | the mode of examizing and checkicg the quarterly ra- | p."the Corned lina wee Sinuss Wwelve sad alent conte bn oman toate team at ike, | _ Ea abieneper ohnecn ead that, ‘‘aa the catablisheneme The stormboat route between Wilmington, North Caro | restore i: to him, and bring the oifenters to justice, To | turns of portmasters pursued inthe cepariment, and be- | "po culling do. Dee ae an ae arene foe the teanedt Of the | org ting of wuld vessels, Cteamiahips) to" Cbiikees: Gag aoa lina, and Charleston, South Carolina, is one on whica it | perform these dutics in a satisfactory mauner, more | came requainted wita the fact, that, althourh tho re- Do Bremen do. (ia elosed mails ork, and Boston, it hao been, L think, most uajustly de- | P'onama to Oregon, wil! roquiremesns from the is well known a large proportion of failures occur, | sgents are necessiry, and they should be divided into | turns are carefully examiced, to test the accuracy of Do. Havre bbe a: ? mending and % swenty-tour oonts an ougee forthe | {# ol doubtful pelicy, it has been thought the most notwithstandiog the most persevering efforts to prevent two claeses : toone class should be assigned the super- | the additions, and other calculations iavelved in their Tio. | savaeae United trans. tefthe Wrench mails through England, aad the effeot | to cubmit tho prop.sitiona to Congross, without an them. virion of the transportation of the mails, end busine: settlement, there is, nevertheless, ro proses ia uss, ta ‘Tho difficulties to be encountered are of @ character so | counectad with tie appointment and contract ollice hae beon greatly to iaconvenionco ovrrospondents both ia the | Reo, 60 that an appzopriation may ba made for it, if, tm which the postbills are compared ‘and checked with the United States aud Fransa, and to postpono, fro the date opinion of Congress, tho line should ba establiabed.”* ‘Sulsequently, under the closed mail { tie posti r a eae 0) t of Congress aoproved Mage well understood as not to require particular explsnation. | end to the other class, all matters oonaeced with mail | trauecripts of “maila received” and ‘mails aeat;”” nor are Total, : wee Cee ere rl ef mwa 2 AOHS to Ws Peovent | oy ysfr, the prosont ecntract. was made at 5200 par ame The trips‘cf the boa's are necessa ily affected by wind | depredatiors, thowa transcripts eneckec with each other to ascertain | Ty number of letters by the New the dvecution of an agrermeat wiich wonld at ioast co-duos | BUD, for service from Now York tv» New Orleans, and weather, and alo by the tides, especisily at the Jnd+r the preeent system, it very frequently and ne- | whether the receiving postinester charges himsel! with mouth of Capo Vear river; so that regular confermity to | cessarily bappena tbat when an agent is wanted for im | all the unpaid matter rent to him, as weil aa the p» avy given schedule of departures aud arrivals is harcly to | yor‘ant tranaportation duties, heis ina distant section | matter placed in his office for tianamicsion, Hane it fol- ‘expectad. ot the country attanding to dapredations. lows that the postmaster at Amay mail upon the port to ti e f two c mm month sad back, touching at Cha leston, Gf practi 9 th of two couutrias inteaded to be beaoulted by | Month end back, touching at Cha lostop, (Qe fr, on the justnoss of the olnims of the | back, twicos month. Orlowua, Aspinweil, and Pacific mail steamship lines, was. seats By the Conrisston and Havana line... ‘ Jaited , Uhave oy s communication to thy Seoretacy sits eeunee erate coeetion, vo wee five, such cireumstancer. it is matter of congratula: | The expenditures of the departiaent during the Inst | master at Ba certain amount of unpaid letters, and Bee nedinm ales rb Lord Chavee den taxon pains ohare’ thiswholy sevice cam | Tapplied ts the Secretary cf the Navy, wader. the diressem t on that a land route ix rapidly approaching completion, | fiscal year, as stated by the Auditor, amounted to $7,982, | postmaster at B may exter the amount short of the trae | “Eine dine was seated in its proper lighe ty our Minister at London, | of which department the vessels were constructed, fur thede- which will supersede the present cne by son, with all its | 156 59, vic :— su stated on tho pestbill, or he may suppress the post. | po tie New Orioa an end Vera rus line doubt not, wall use every honorable means to press’ is to a | ized IRELSEA HOD, One te ane ere ee ne GL tate attendant difticulties. Compensation te postmanters..........+-+.81,408,477 05 | dill sltogetber, ecllsct the pestage oa tho letiers re. | py tbe New Orlowas end Vera Crus line. “ bs . Titty secvad Congress, anrponenioiag ail tha telteteanton ‘The late Postmester General’s report referred to the | Additicnsl compensation by act Slat March, ceivel, aud appropriate it to bis own use, without aay collected during | 4 tio mail rave, With reepoct to a’ postal ron- 5, rene) + fp ve! ‘0 countries, ara etill in pr greau; aad | the ethject in possession of that departmont, including * $1 259 15 | excopt in reqard to two or threo tmpertunt pulse of aiiter | Cunmuct feenyoaed Be Sreiptee ebay iW pict bana DERE Ee 49 §g | Shee, the basivofa1 arrangement har been agrosd upon, | bective bosrds appointed to examine the MMiliaois, ina unt paid Gre bred smog ie hattae nce propogas tho yartee-otince geale for Jett-rs, tho par- | S#4.Vhio the only vossels, he saya, acceptod under ‘the law he amount received from Grea tain on dan’ tters | tial intrcduction of which into cur poste. tor, isis aporc- | cf March St 1847." Po this dosumert, therefore, I take oe returned to the Londen offi 6 -314,024 92 | bended, woutd greats confusion and Jead to inntnerab.c casion elso respectfully to refer for authentic intormation om ties in charging and collecting postage. Lhaveveemed | this subject. » le Go thalsb ost che Hele ones ace ‘Tho manver in which the mail serrico has boom lane, BadtH ter oFihe for the yoor ending Juve 3 80 prom sea to moke a unpaid letters, in tosd of aduptiag 9u0 nad UL letters, wactner propa‘. or wos, which slo. L ea inclin » probable employment within this year of the Wilmington | 1851............0.+ Ae and Manchester railroad for conveyivg tha grest Northern | Ship, steemboat, and way letters and Southern mail. But twelve x ile; now remata un- | Transportation finished, aud arrangements have been made to transfer | Wrapp'nz paper the great mails from the steamboats as soon as possi Office furniture, and convey itin eonebes for the short distance stated, y Advertising. until the ratIroad is complete, which, it is hoped will be | Mail bega..... by the Ist day of Janusry ext, after which time much { Elanks., more regular and exprditious service may be contidently | Maillocks, keys avd stamps expected on this portion of the New York and New Or | Sew moil locks and keys.. Jeans mail lize. Mail lepr dations aud special agents..... There is, however, between Montgomery and Stockton, | Clerks for offices, (oflices of postmasters) other portion uron which delays and irregu’ | Oficlal letters received by postmasters. 414,526 10 | great risk of cetection. I am informad it is true, 23,105 83 | that whore there is reason to suspect the integrity of 4,906,803 05 | © portmmaster a rigid scrutivy is instituted iato hia 411453 94 | accounts; but such instances are not oom ox <1 “sia41 50 | For the purpose of such inve tigations, and for the £ . 70,346 00 | ther purpose of tracing letters reported to be lost or 49,303 63 | stolen irom the maila, all the post bills belonging to tia 21/053 92 | returpe of Postmnaste's are retainod for tho period of » 14,733 80 | year and. half. and then gold as waste paper; but the il 18/935 64 | Whole system of accounting, to the extent jnst aoticed, ia 5 teers 3,275 43 | 0 littie calculated to protec: and secure tie public reve | 1Hé balance in favor of that govars 602,820 24 | nue thet! cannot rest under the grava responsibility of | this inree'beldure ne stes mer turned to Washington ..,. oe ee By 86 The United States revenue, under the postal treaty with the United Kingcom of Great Britaia and the last fiscal year, amounts to, wduotions from the pay of com= nee na panetions Will bo found t amount, e cl: oo veces SISLS the United States a defective provide for fn and deductions > balance againgt 4, of detail in every point of view ia ao @ d omitted service. ern is al Alabama 472 41 | permitting it tocontinue any longer thaa the propor re: Neg teke ; ation ig au to tho propa:tioa cach Leersenry for secuting regularity and presision ia 6 larities have been oxcurring to an extent equalling taose | Postage stamps... 2,804 50 | medy can be devised B course, mainly trom the circumstance that although eno 5 and éelivertug tho mails. Thote is always in the dep there were on!y three more tripa by the Cunard line than ‘on the sea route above referred to, althoogu arisiog from | Stamped envelopes, were per’ornied unitedly by the Collins, Sremeo, and fo dieporition to encourage contractors, and to a quite different causes. Post office lami, list, cious or vareagonalle penalties, and iano casa ise aed PP 10,391 03 | The number of postage stamps issued to postmasters fur 1,670 00 | sale during the fiscal years ending Juve 30, 1352, and C. d States, three ¢ One daily live of coaches haa heretofore been provided, | Repayment fer dead letters "34 96 | Juno 80, 1858, is shown by the followlog statament :— | Havre lines, much the greater part of the mails was | sn uapaid correspondence that thes shvo obealiuiey valld and sneistestecy coastua fakut bo vere running (in connexion with a steamboat betwoea Mobile | Paynients to letter carriera 113,017 73 Denomina- Denmina- Denomina While the-postaze on the Istiers sent during the yea; | comparative extoxt and tho cost cf tho m ioa | Vherefor and Stockton) over a natural road of 160 milosin length, | Postage stomps returned, old issue. 63 05 | Year ending tion, tion, tion, Amount. | VE etokt Britain to tha United States by Cansei | ti thetwo countries, 1 have thought ft suticleatty jiveral ou | ,, 4 failure to exact Gnos and penaitier, or a disposition to xm frequently able to ebstructions from high watr and Stamp on band overcharged 85 90} June dd.’ Loml Semis. | 1teenls Dillane. | gteanme mpl aeraaes os $345,209 33 | QUEDATE to olsen France throa eights ty the Uultad Statoa, | Jetse lela when exacted, leads to the grosseat iecoqulanibeg other causes and not kept in good repsir, traversing as it | Miscellsveous paymente........ 116,408 31 | 15 +6,459,2 , 410, 87,042 1,655 603 SE ys siearea. me iab tate. oe Ste ie 36 Bub: f rattro: i creased Goes a sparse!y populated section of country. Sush mode | Miscellaneous accovut of British pow 139/692 03 | 18: {4186811 61,461,040 146'655 1,603,702 O1 | BY fhe Collins atesmers, porvorming just half | || | | | the patty. by witch ti nats 9289 tne comaicd for trail basa tly: tonfold. Dutta tus toe Soe of conveyance, upon such a road, bas beon found eatirely | Miscelianeous account of Bremsn postages. 3,605 09 —-- —-——— PS sor khiihet AAbtiendd tied Fras proposed $0. 3opnoo ate abORDtath: EE they tang | C&l Fenr mors than twenty-three thousand new pa ll tuen ea inadequate for the vast accum «lation of mails at Montgo. —- Total ....10,225,558 09,871,075 883,697 3,144,431 42 Showing a difference of. T iat Bf | bo Lee mo socinus obstavis to tie early comelucton oc pos | 2 figes and hinds, were procured, mire than one: mery, couveyed thither from Boston Now York, andotner | Tottl.s..ssssssssseaecvsesseserses sess s+ $7,982,755 59 | The amouat of postage stamps sold during the year | yorq than treplo the number of letters having bee sent | i, Arsansomout which alia by mutuaily bonotoral, and | Ybich were canva cities altng the whole extent of that great line. Consi. | The gress revenue of the year from ail sources amount: | ending June UO, 1852, was $1,316,505 39, and the sales | {ths country by the Guard than by the Coline steam’ | Wilich isco carnostly desired by tho pyople of both ‘coun: | forthe transporra oak dering the increase in the amount of mat! matter of all | ed to $5,(49,724 79, viz during the year ei ding June 30, 1863, amounted to | (0,4 conntry by the Cunard than by the Coiling steam: | tries tuate the provisions cor talaed in the tel ecineat the oo ae descriptions, especially printed matter, the tranemission | Leiter portage, including foreign postage and $1,620,262 12) leaving in the hands of postmasters usaold | ii the <am paid {9 Great Britaia for tha conraysne The pending postal convention betweon tho United States | Sist August 1352, will dowhtloss tond to chock waste of bows d velunes and ot er public doonments, priated by | stamps sold........ ++ $4,473,227 64 | $198,605 71. Loloned toatle for (he JOAE WAS ftscncece SID CEL 10, | ane Belgian analle only 4 of the British transis | abuse in this braoch of the service; bat such is the oont order of Congress, inoreasing as they do. frei yoar to | Newspapers axa petnplilets 611,333 42 | | During the quarter ending the 30th of September, 1853, | 7% SOMA MAIS OMe eee ae tothe ne ted dang st in eparstl Benet alae Tent) <eRe | cesieasies chsecadlshoeriease descents coe ene ee ae year, aud of all the matter from the several executive de pins 8 there were issued to poatmasters for sale:— Voltao tian: exslenivevee theacrt : put mn oper tiun mated that o loes number will be required heremtter. e of tha sum ree 8.118259 | 02 the Calitorma cloeed mails, via the Wes! Mi50'909 | , 22: (e8 and Panama diroct, was only, 181,059 | 424 this inelaces the laad conveyance of tas Brisa aad 1999 | Canods closed matla partments of ths general gorvsrnment, also raplily in- | Fmolam creasing in quanti! anc in wof the fact, also, that | lead letters.........- 006 ali tha mails for Mobile, New Orleans, and beyoad, thua | Dameges frem failing contractors accampviated by contribations fom Boston to Montgome | letter carriers....... ent with Prussia seems to opers ho States in Sovthern Germany ems, and have tc for the United Note size three cont stamped envelopes tter size‘ “ “ Do. sixcent = “ OMiiciet size © “ | reasons urged by them mre cvery year acauiriug addi fires. The in actoremodations ot the cl: ‘The extension of tle building oceupied this dep: oe ben utrennly recommended by my progecasscrs, and ing businets of the department, the in the different bursaue “ 5,292 69 ° and ry, are conveyed to the latter pola: by railroad) and | Siccetlancous receipts ee 8/248 60 | amounting in all to $2 ni : , i tae the Avaitor's cfhca, and the want Of roam, f tant Pex steamboats, espe the ii isa matter of sur- | Apiual appropriations from the treasury ia Taubjoin tabalar statements exhibiting the operations | 4, 2%0 Peitieiity of the Pilih government tn boll? o pera, which havencw to be p'a-od in the hads and prise that they have been forwarded by one-daily coach | ccmyr uration of avail se: vices performed of the dead letter ofice during the two flscal years ened | {pe Cunard line is prsento’ ia & Atill atroager ti gulzeet to be destroyed by fire ox mildew, nequiey Abe o in a iaavner at ali approaching regu lari for the gevernment,...... 709,000 00 | the 0th of Jone Jans. Let ate, Spe ching) nd . ‘There fx the matter simp of sea pow ters of th: Much ¢ificw'ty is experienced fp finding suitable rooms, udered most impecative tho nocessity of esroo ally for distributing post cfil-es tn owr larger cities, providie, immediately mors moans of couvey TLis estimated that the expenditnres of the current Get 4 ‘ fisea! sear will amount to $3,716,691 ed apy i slau atradeon! ‘dhe apouns for re. t which ean be tal sree pete 9 nd accordingly, on oder last, a fecond c aregoing Ftn ements 1 Cost of mail cervice, foreige and inland, ax it stood at Fhe Trick ceerpaet idem ce ticoa, in wany 0 oot Aatee ine cf fournersa corches was ordered betwaea | revenue of the yexr en¢ing June 80. 1853, tho close of the last Uscal apt | Sieaey eee news deen ae PUR asec Re eet piomreacpay vroperdiseusngy a SUE Scdy Un clic Upevastockon GoNeRiGTAOOTIE Che LAC Cee ee ve gacks)- | AnnasL eR aE DER cot “While during the same time the United States resaivet iva a5 tha ust Untied | Incrder the bettor ty serve the pablic, post offees mmew at Hee between st n nad Mobila, with tha | (31 89. cormtnenes Ist July ‘ se ie Tose ots Buitaoan ag iis. : Ve loon ted in the bu: parte of the different cicios, where pulation shat the coutractor shoald farnian vehicles of | The fo jancy shonl1 ba d'minished by the | _ minated 8th Juve, 18 Sie af igi sak eid eipore ri gloat foe ! ; cotion coneludec on th» sth of Auswet Inet, | igh vente are to be paid aud theme ths deparément i Vere pufficient capacity to coavey w'a'evor mail may bo | rum of # 5S due tha United States to the J0th fana, | Redaction made upon new Nort . ‘ ae veon the United States men, the main provisions | tequently wable te allow. If Congroes would deom it wism Gaily received at Momtgomery oy Stockton, aud that , beder the postal convention with Prnsela, and ia- New Yok, a8 compared w “HH aly | the areas cement of 164i » oporntion betwesa pecient t) apurepriate moveys to enable the departments ftesmbort yyed between Scoot le at aset by the quarterly balances i which ex;lred June @ Fone 2) Rae suite nle pisces. Fire cilices in tho larger muek would ba saved to the departmont, 13 be pommanently secured, aud the 1 the mails deap to nd by thera two @ regi and be underthy entire | ¥ p to the some pr sd leate the det Tnerease ° Coat of tine from Louisvill 1, amounting to $125,5 iency in the revenue of the yoar h illere - > 4 sent : . t : ver | Thus, taking the ee accommodated, ‘ a se the cvatractors, 99 that no | Lat $2.117,07 leans, eats a here, tbe p “ and othor clerks, deserve myspoaiak reaches of jen ehould occur by rea iy rupply the deficiency last mentioned the depart- | Cost of iime from Cairo to 8 Sieh wines thanks tor (heir prompt aud faith{ul attention to their duties, other pervone b ere with its srrivais | 1 ad nt its dieposal the followirg means, viz, ey By Collins steamer To the PResionwr, JAMES CAMP BML, and desat! The available balurce to the credit of the additional service is Cepartment, on tip books of the auditor, 8 thas pro rata of on the Ist of July, 1852 : hat, if the sa The appropriation to supply any by the act of March 3 1861. m mace by the ac 1853, to supply defeiens Suet ar aviona oo \ ¥ ress tamiathio setts Torin lic sgpitancger coh Wastixctox, Dee. 5, 1858. Tr James Gorpow Bexwerr Eoq.— Drax SitIn @ telegraphic desP\toh sant from thte city, wli’ch sppeared in the Hreano of Satardsy, one of my colleagues. Mr. Outing, ts said to have “declared that the Forney Je ter bad not impaired his opicion of the writer bat that,oa the contrary,he rather lired him botter imoam- 600,009.00 | Rate ofa‘ ditional cost from lat Decon bor, 1813, at...... . esting to ifionel pay aball till ov e-eixth lees than be residue of the existing terin. h the contractor, by the ‘4 place on the route a fall hd 1 156,661 ————— | Additions! service betwean Monty teen cease vee SI,TL O32 67 bile, from Ist N T sum of $5°5,445 63 t» be provided by Additional servi or the eervice of the year en“iog Jun 40, 1853, | October, 185 dofic.ency in tho rev: aunt Dper anoum 16,000 0 Chicago to Shefisic, from i2th to Juce 80, 1854, at $1,400 wit was further et det November, 1853, 1,908 Aitieaal every other day Ins si double the road, ifna ar, it may be of use briefly 40m Adéition authorities pie ot Ap aequence, «te It in not, ef course, to be presuined that essary, 10 city off all the m Oy are which have tember, 1853 to’ J tor the transmission of thei Ahi trendy mate cho re. | men of henovable and well established reputation ace 26th Ve er, a full acoitt ov io reduce and mod! srnom., ugh the Ualted States 1 thet ali will come | expected to stoop toa grave refutation of every charge eompensation to commences, in casa of a faitnfal com nited fintes, and for other purpoe Aeaitional rervice in wbich stonymous toribbiers, whose filegit{mats and dase pliause nish there terms, on the lat of November, %, 1861, an compared with the two years which im: from let January, 1854, at $26,490 4 a capeyeee oi{mate a The terme ot this agreemeus sre favo able, followed the reduction of rates eflusted by the | Tbercase of rai’road service year ead livelibood depends upow such dirty serviess, may choose the great La Le benefis exy r tee cherefrot a 5 For the purpcss of this comparison 1854....... seen seevecncees ts r tomebe egeinst bim The morals motives aud aims ot nhution nof the % - reve iene fe : reacont ble n the p-otent contract ex- tan dorsaciak Initio Bn Total ‘ , perforin shove creatures, are eo generally known and undsestood 0 orf coald ces tesnltirg in fevoref tha London | Deduct éeoreass on stasmboat transp «Sa s emong intelligen( men-—partcalarly hore—that mo mam provide st gre the addi Sl, 1882 and 1958 under the tish tine... 51 ory rroter thinks of treating their elanders or misrep- ‘tiene otherwire than as Mr Cutting has treated this—with silent and dignified contempt. I should have been very loth to disturb that silence, were it not for the editorial which appeared in yesterday’a Hxaato, to refer~ . Few persona of my age have been the ject of more newspaper rituperation and injastics thas myrelf; and inasmuch as I have never written linesither in explanation or defence, when I have boon the party ae- ewiled, I trust you will permit ms to contradict thie b obal cl arge this flegrant and srrocious charge tgatnat @ J FAnGHION IE by 8h9 pave sn | mon who stauds deserverly high as one of the mst emil- Srey st tuto effect, Oa tho loth of Jima, | eet meabere of an honored pro’eaton, & chien of wn yg tem Rober: G. |b emtahed jutegrity; an: a patriot, whom no promise qm _ " ploryect of future prefermer hantter how + xattodes con Reduce trem an toflexidle devotion to the beat inter | cate ot bia country, and full malevenance of tts coum tay's constitutional rights threngbout tha: I ns and | bieacth ofthe lewd, Sir, Cottiog “hes never raid & word | m-rerer done an act whioh could, by any possible tay cation, be constraed into angth wy less than marked proval of that letter, Rowover mush be may, tm come « neecssiry for 9 eecond Line, for seven oF ei without some guarantee ag yhid in the coupaiition e the existing not providing, , that new contractors shall purchase the 0 superseded, tain mmportnot benefits to tha mail eer- mo A Were fone yours sinceauthoriaed by rerelutiow gress on rontes from Washlagtoa city to AquiaCroek, aud New Ur'eans to ¥ It is besiewed that b . tien by which f thet it wilt public are t ‘This troprovement, t gether with thet on the 1 ing. | cov ton and ): ster Ruisread, will place the ern spd fea"here mali line in wneh condition, ectire lev gut | peste arr ait loss ia case ngement wit Under tho operat h Great Britai the actof 1945 the gross of in the year 184%, the 8 02, or 87 per cant: but Total tranepor tations... ...6..se ,erdivg Jone 30, 1947. tho letter postage in- | Compenation of iaaters; ahi 50 40, or 13.3.6 per cent over 1946, ar entivg Fave Sch, 1852 the first after the 18D1, the gies ambant of reveane from Lot $1,185,096 73, or 2214 por cent; Mowing year, ending 80th Jana, 1803 the in? ve fom the same a urea was only $251,- home. ctioabie ed. Whilst these w ¢ dixeriminations hare taking place, other f be borne ia mi i bags, blanks, euteen and a helf cent vhilat the Untred jeif cents ap our alla, tho ext ye Lagenta; clerks for ¢ nts, postage stawp bite will tt heretofore ito the se € of tho raverue frora letter prs'age to re- fhe means of the departmant 4» od of slmoct unexampled prospari y | ditures of the prevent vear are os ¢ cial activity with the came rapitity uader | Baisnce on the Auditor's book om the Ist the act of L851 nw it did undor tho act of 1f 45, may beac Joly, 18(3, considered ‘ultiniately avail for vp n the supposition that the latter act had i y stiouleted the correspendence of the county nearly to the highest point of whict it waa capable, and that, fore tho act of 1861 alforded but iis.io further veement to we the meila, oy high | The etanges ia the rates of postage on rewapapora, 4 to eno © eemnivg y veyed wi la degree ef cert tom pestages, fore ng sales of stampa a tiers’ receipts , uepaid aot from Uni rom Prussia. 10, e i z prada vison eos das trees onbaged swith ot myself ntong the namber—phraomalty 5 4 people the mail joted matter, made by the ast of 5, | Annual appropriations in compenes cn ey “i & > sew pony opus from t ee transection; Ap Gee i Ab Ibo some tims, it ap jaimportant, and did not materisily rail rervices rendered tho goveret to | wits bs tty ef sicinr dewpatehor ¢ontha pearn froin the reports toat the perfermares of the 49: m this source, which, with the ex. | Apprepriations to eupply cencte in the Ne wer 4 vn with the view of arving cexponse 1} will bo wall for newe- | paper propria‘ork, rapsciaily such aa have * reputation | jorskrew' nets era hoces$¥, to soratinize them previous o publicaton Tf vot, the end sought may Ls dp nd vice uader tho contracts is characteriaod by fidelity and evergy—quelites whick ara ut in great requed the flooded sate of the roads at particular seasoas of tho v covetde : tha route nef the sesr 1847, contiaued stew fly to ts prerent year bie Oth Jure, 1861, when it reached the « Dedust amiount drawn to supply 0 89 as rhown by the followicg statemsnt, from |. .ficiencivs of the pant year..,..... 659,000 which the suin: recoive 1847 are excluced $1,509,005 1,250,000 09 +) The precont cost of tra naportatton In eteamboats fa Call- te i | bef re the wr wd. 1 fornia ie about thirteea cents eight mills per mile; in r ending June 30, 1945., WAL sisi Wy obs ac pease sms ges’ 889 70 ; | aaa ct wricioge tite eommretinetton witaeed rte te coaches, kb ut twot ty conta per ij and in moles not Do, ‘The entimated ¢xpenditares for ting dOth | Col! . ho» att: dative ! coum a6 or knuwlecgs of Mr Cutiing. M tee Wake specifier, shout thicty-four cen@ ex mills pes mils; Ny, f June, 1804, na already slated @ 716,001 00 4 @ United Staten... cdracce degre aie whlle the cot of similar eorvice in the United S ates, ex Do 14.334 85 | Tre ewtims ted moans, as abot 4,8 stilt fortuer som of $12.00 RS . . eluding O egon, New Mexiao, and Utah, 17 in stew Do. 618,016 20 gant, 9 in favor of provinces fs ae ae | Powrran Conerta i About nine coats per mila,’ in coaches about fire evnta Yo 919'436 4 | Deficiency June 30, 1864... P Foutage ou printed matter to wed. trom ¢ C + | eee qed thedene aS Corel ot Coleen Se er A TS id not specified aby, Do. do, } ikea ten ” Of the cefic hy tated, the wim of 4%) vinces com t e accent of domed . pa of Koy Todiane: amd Ooel em oar cents and neron mille per mile, The act of March 5, L861, provited a sey aoale of port. | belong to the fincal yoar auled Jame 4, y Mad be | TeApeCt 10 RtOh pruutod mATIOT, THO FAIS mre vie Hate Lu eostrlotion of ; fi , Ube as wo Boerw 2, 1861, > 1895, 4 . if contained in yours, UhTintten imuesm our te ruwOn Lint law Those wall prices, Boworer, are aot Out Of seRle wise Big hE open feb) Gatier, | remesader 1 the prevent your, ad trom the ico, a0 th weed Clcpulated wholly within | “y'gtina fis once Se retsnty Seda iy meee ane Rea Tene se ore - .