Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1850-12-12
Reports or Departments.

From the p. M. Generals report. we learn
that there were fourteen hundred NM 6r,,.-
tour removals OF Postmasters during the wear.
The number Of mail routes within the Irn;,.d
States is $500, annual cost 50 1874 .4os a.
the last Of June there were five foreign mail
routes of Is ,079 miles, involving an expend;-
tnre of S264, 500. Number of postmas,ers an.
pointed during the year was 65l6. The whole
number of post offices in the country was 49,
AIT. Gross revenue of the department for the
year SIS 500 ,97l As; expenses $5,2l2 ,052 40,
leaving an excess in favor of the department Of
S3i0,0ls OF, and making all of its available
funds 81, 1872 ,04S 50 The increase Of income
Tor the next year it is estimated will be | 4 per
cent, and the excess of receipts over expendi-
,nres STAG 800 %, Between the Atlantic and
"a aci'1c sixteen mail steamers are in service
Inc +. NJ. General recommends reduction
"l .he inland letter postage to a uniform rate
Oh inree cents, prepaid, and five cents not pre-
PAID also reduction to twenty cents on cor
respondence to and from the Pacific coast.
South America, and the Eastern continent and
Its islands, and points beyond either. and to
Ten cents on all other sea-gong letters except
when the rates shall be otherwise fixed NV pns-
tai treaies. He recommends a reduction ou
the postage Of newspapers sent ont Of the
- ulC CtHt. stttu dlSO Il ItuuCtlOQ
pamphlets, periodicals, &c.
The secretary Of The department ofthe interi-
or asks congress to define more definitely the
jurisdiction of his department, and TO give it a
more precise name. He estimates the expens-
es of the department for the coming year, to
be 81 ,l32 ,0I3 AZ, an excess over those Of the
present year SIZES, $40 SO. He states the
whole number of pensioners TO be 1875,
deaths among them during the year SAG
Number OF revolutionary pensioners under the
act OF 1882, 52i7, not half of whom applied
Tor their pensions during the first half of the
present year. Number Of pensioned widows
OF revolutionary soldiers under the act of Is4S.
1876, and of April, 1913, CSC. The number
OF invalid pensioners is 1872, and the number
of pensioned widows and orphans on account of
the Mexican war, l456. Expended for pen
slons during the past year, 81 1000 The
claims presented for service in the Mexican
war amount to Si,705. The number Of claims
presented under the general bounty law of last
September is 9llS, but they are increasing
very rapidly. The total quantity of public
lands disposed of in the wear 1919 was 5,lS4,-
ilo acres, and during the first three quarters
of the present year, 2,Sl4, 366 acres.
Report Of the Secretary of Wharf.-The az
gregate strength of the army is 10, 1876 men,
though only 60 or 20 per cent. of that number
are now actually in service and fit for duty.-
OF the army 1876 are apportioned TO Texas,
/ New Mexico, California and Oregon. sad 1880
in the other states and territories The secre-
tary recommends the formation Of a retired
list of officers of the army, and estimates the
expenses of the quarter masters department,
for the year, ending. June 30, 1852, at 81 $50
600. The cost of transportation for the army,
during the year ending in June last, was S.
| 900, 900.