Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-12-15
rHE POST OFFICE.

THE POST OFFICE.
The report Of the Postmaster General will
make known TO you the operations of that
Department for the past year.
Ii is gralifyin 10 find the revenues of the
Department., under the rates of POSTAGE now
established by law, so rapidly increasing
The gross amount Of postage during The las,
! fiscal year amounted to $i.37l,077, exceed
ing the annual average receipts Tor The nine
years Immediately preceding the passage OF
the Act Of the Sd of March, 1915, by the sum
Of S6,453, and exceeding the amount receiv.
ed the year ending the Both Of June, Is47,
by the sum OF Si25,l 1871.
The expenditures for the year. including
the sum Of S9I,672, allowed by Congress al
its lasl session 10 induce claimants. and in.
GLIDING the sun of SlO0,5 paid for the
services OF the line of steamers between Bre.
men and New York, amounted to $4,I9s,.
Sl5, which is less than the annual average
for the nine years previous 10 The Sale OF
1915. by S30O,749.
The mail-routes on the 30th day of June
last were lG3, POS miles in extent-beinp an
increase during the last year of 1890 miles.
The mails were transmitted over them, dur
ing the same time, Al ,0l2, 579 miles ; making
an increase of transportation for the year, of
2,l24, ESQ miles, while the expenses was less
than that of the previous year by 1926.
The increase in the mail Interpretations
within the last three years, has been $685.
30 miles, whilst the expenses were reduced
1856, 737-making an increase Of service at
the rate of 6 per cent.
During the past year there have been en-
ployed, under contracts " it'll the Post Office
Department, two Ocean Steamers, in con-
veying the mails monthly between New
York and Bremen, and one line since Octo-
Der last, performing ~semi-monthly service
between Charleston and Havana and a
has beer made for the transmission
of the Pacific mails across the lslhmus from
Chagres to Panama.
Under the authority given 10 the Secreta-
ry of the Navy, three ocean steamers have
been constructed and sent TO the Pacific, and
are expected to enter upon the mail service
between Panama and Oregon, and the inter-
points on the LIST of January next,
a fourth has been engaged by him for the
service between Havana and Chagres, so
hat a regular monthly mail line will be kept
Up after that time between the United States
md our Territories on the Pacific.
Notwithstanding this great increase in the
nail service, should the revenue continue 10
Increase the present year as it did in the last,
here will be received near $l50,000 more
han the expenditures.
These considerations have satisfied the
Post Master General, that, with certain modi-
ications of the Act of lS45, the revenue may
10 still farther increased, and reduction of
made to a uniform rate of five cents,
an interference with the principle,
which has been constantly and properly en-
orced, of making that Department sustain
Itself.
A well-digested postage system is the
best means of diffusing intelligence am9ng
The people, and is of SO much importance in
a country so extensive as that Of the United
that recommend to your favorable
consideration the suggestions of the Post
General for its improvement.