New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-02-04


laid before the House Of Representatives on Saturdays
letter from the Postmaster General, accompanied win
estimate OF the appropriation necessary ior the fos
Office Department for the fiscal year commencing on he
first OF July. lS46, amounting to S4loOOo, divided INTO
the following items: -
For trans portation -So'uJV'uoV
For compensation OF Postmasters- ,OUOOoO
For ship steamboat and way leiters.--.---.- i2uuV
Wran,jnp noner 10000
Furniture for the Post Offices 1000
sdvsrr;sinr . 10000
Msl bars . 10000
blanks 1900
Mail locks ...-..... 1000
Mail deured,,iops and srecal agents - 1900
Clerks ior Post Offices 100000
Miscellaneous 10000
Total. $4,000
The expenditures OF the Department for the
year ending Both June 1915 81 $40 i32
The estimates for the Department for the years ending
June 30th 1915 1916 1917, placed in comparison arc
For lei3- i'oJUuUU
For Isie. -------------.-----------' 1aiSH0E
The Postmaster General states that the expense oil
transportation in New-iork and NeT-England was re-
duced at the lettings the Spring past about thirtynVe
per about S50Oo0 from the former prices and
that il is probable there will farther reduction al
the ettings the ensuing Spring in the Northwestern sec
non, IN the cost of transportation, OF - or 81 PEI cent
upon the amount now paidmahins IN all recucuoh OIL
500 600 in the OF transportation for the neAt
year. The estimates notwithstanding continued
the the last year because OF the increased ser
vice required by Inc OF the last Cangrssf IN putting
into operation the in the new states ana TIE
additional service that will be required 70 extend me
mail service 20 Texas. which will probably ncrchse me
of transportation much for me next year as the
reduction expected from placing the contracts unoe inc
&C; of3d March last.
He farther that special agents, as regular ON
OF ine department have been dispenser "it anu
the services required OF them will hereafter be perform
ed by the principal posiinasters and officers oil Tue &C.
psrtInent. Yet there will be occasionally necessity
for the employment of special agents but ther une VIII
be limited the performance OF the particular service
required These agents and other expenses cost the
department S7349 Is each quarter OF the last year,
whilst the expenses for that service Tor the Two ias
quarters ending 30i September snd tae 5lst December
last averaged s. s5 20 each quarter The estimate 10"
this service OF the year has been reduced 10 to"o
IL be The pleasure of Congress II continue tue mag
netic telegraph between Washington and Baltimore IN
der the control of the Post Office Department ana tue
income received from il be applied 10 lis expenditures
the Postmaster General says that the appropriation re-
CURED for its maintenance for the year commencing Isl
February $40 and ending 3lsr January isi' may oe
reduced TO $4,000 beiag $1,000 less than the preceding
year.
COLONY IL WEsrERS TExAs-The Corpus
Christi Gazette OF January sh which has reached Us N
the ordinary course Of the mails says ira, ne Colony Vi
Mr. Castro, on the Medina river IS in 1oursHDs s'ae
The inhabitants Germans. The Gazette says:
The settlement Of Css,roville numbers over 4VV AZ
hsoiants possessing abou. LOCO head OF csue IN one
OF tbs finest ranges Tor stock be found IN Texas new
settlements are being laid OF and i IS more tnan poo
able that within siN months chain OF villages VIII eS
tend from Csstrove The Rio Fro near the Laredo
road thus connecting San Antonio and Corpus Cfrisn
The progress already made by the ergranis Is an ear
nest Of the advantages which Western Texas Will derTe
from the introduction OF This population conessedy oe
best adapted for colonization that Europe can furnish
Oftwo hundred introduced in March last ihreetour'hs
planted corn enough for their consumption and next
year crop II is expected will make them indePenGenI
Nneiy ernisrants for the upper country, ron west
phsa and Asece, had landed =. Corpus Chr7sa reg
uar line OF wagons for the separation o; goods iro
Corpus Christi to CastroviIe has been estabhshed-
GREAT FIRE AT kEENE. \. Hive learn by
Biseiow's Fitchburg and keene Express that Z q '"
s Briggs cabinet mandatory. large carpenter shop
and dwelling house and other buildings belonging 10
the same, We're entirely destroyed By IRE on sunday
morning about ocIock Loss ak thousand dollars