The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-12-07

receive and transport the mail under this arrangement
and orders for It's delivery 10 that company have been
issued This will expedite very considerably the
portation across the lsthmus. respectfully recommend
an appropriation for the compensation which will be
equilably due 10 the railroad company.
The contract with the Collins line of mail steamers be
tween New York and Liverpool requires the
OF bat twenty trips out and back during the year For
The purpose however OF arranging weekly trips in Amer
ican steamers, alternating with those Of the Cunard
steamers, which depart weekly from this country and
England these steamers have made departures each
alternate week. and have thus completed weekly line
OF American steamers from New York. II these trips
are continued as heretofore, there will have been per
formed in The present three trips than pro-
vided for in The contract and TO continue The weekly
trips hereaiter VIII require SIX additional trips per year
As the English government had made new arrange
menis by which the weekly trips OF the Cunarl steamers
were 10 be continued through the year. il was deemed
highly Important 10 continue the weekly trips OF the
American steamers also Under these circumstances Mr.
Collins was requested TO continue his trips every other
week, and was assured that the payment by Congress
OF pro rata compensation would be recommended II ~
claimed by the contractors and is believed Justly that
pro rata compensation Tor these extra trips the
ter season, will mol fully indemnify them and If the extra
trips performed, il is earnestly recommended that pro
rata compensation, with such addition, if any, may be
necessary to give TO the contractors fair and liberal
compensation for the extra service. be authorized by
Congress. The unrivaled qualities and speed OF the
ships of this line, and the very satisfactory in
which the service has been performed establishing the
superiority OF American skill and enterprise in the con-
ton, ente the poprieors OF this line 10 the most favor,
able considerations and cannot doubt that Congress will
make the appropriations recommended
From the Auditors report, II appears that the whole
amount OF postage, including inland sea- and foreign,
letters, &C., received and sent by the different lines oil
United States mail steamers, during the last fiscal year.
was SsG7.s9l SO, as follows:
Line from New York to Liverpool, (Collins) $2O5s4 II
Line from New York via Southampton TO
Bremen oI,59s 03
Line from New York via Cowes to Havre,
(tOr months Ony) 3SIiO IA
Lines from New York and New Orleans,
via Havana, Chagres, and Panama, 10
California and Oregon 500 .3I Oh
SGT sol So
The hostages accrung letters carried by the lines
from the Atlantic cities TO California and Oregon Will be
much diminished in consequence OF the reduction post
age made by the act OF 1851, and OF the increased
number OF letters sent by private expresses UIon the
other lines very considerable increase is confidently ex-
peeled.
The attention of this department having been directed
10 the subject OF postal communication between the I'M
ted States and Mexico, it has ascerained that saisfac
tory propositions probably be obtained for line OF
Vera Cruz.
The establishment OF such line would nc doubt
greatly facilitate and increase the postal intercourse be-
tween the two countries, and in that regard alone wor
thy OF the consideration OF Congress But il would also,
il is believed, be productive of grea, political AMI com,
mercla advantages would abae national antpates and
preudces promote and increase friendly views aid rela
tons between the people OF the two countries; and unite
more closely by mutual benefits the two great republics
of the western hemisphere For the thus briefly
adverled TO- respectfully advise that the establishment
of line of mail steamers TO Vera Cruz be recommended
to Congress An examination OF the treasury tables Of
exports and imports 10 and from Mexico for the asst ten
years will, ii is believed, show the importance OF such
line to the interests of the whole country-especally to
that large portion of situated the Mississippi and its
Northumberland justify defIaying from the treasury the
expense OF its establishment
Offers have been made to this department 10 contract
for mail service from New York TO Antwerp;
NrrE Nthr,l
TO Genoa
From New York to San Francisco. by the Nicaragua
route which is now in operation
From New York TO Galway, in Ireland
From Philadelphia TO Havana;
From New York, by st. Thomas, &c, TO Venezuela
From Philadelphia 10 Antwerp, and from New York 10
New Orleans, by ocean steamers IN connexpn with a
contemplated railroad service the State Of Florida
Believing that the future of the department
would prove insufficient TO justify the employment, OF the
service embraced these offers, most OF the parties
king them have been informed substance, that
tract for the service would be made by this department,
and that their applications should be submitted to Con-
gress. Some II not all, oil these lines would be found
exceedingly useful and advantageous If the service could
be obtained al rates not dspopoioned TO the public ben
efs secured by their establishment.
Ii is understood that the Belg government is ready
to operate in the speedy establishment and maintenance
of the line to Antwerp That pon, favorable for
the correspondence between this county and the cont
nen OF Europe and is not doubted that the establish
ment of such line would be exceedingly advantage
10 The two countries, not only in respect 10 their postal
intercourse, but also in much higher degree to their
commercial interests. hope is entertained that this
subject will be found 10 deserve favorable consideTa.
ton
copy OF the proposition OF Mr.. Ambrose w. Thomp-
son, in behalf OF himself and his associates for the
Enlistment OF line OF mail steamers between New York
and Galway, is herewith submitted. This proposition
received the 2sth instant, too late Tor deliberate
consideration. Ii will be that Mr. Thompson pro.
poses 10 into contract TO carry the mail for yeats
IN steamships readily convertible INTO steamers for
500 900 per Tor each ship employed; 10
tract for such service, and receive therefor only the
postages which shall arise from such mail matter may
be actually transmitted in the ships of the proposed line
This department has, perhaps, no authority 10 make
tracts giving 10 such line the postages aecruing thereon
and. II has, there is manifest proprely sub
hitting the matter Congress There is much reason TO
believe thai such line would lessen the time now re.
CURED Tor The Transmission Of the mails between this
county and England aud Ireland and other and cogen
reasons not directly connected with its usefulness for
mail purposes, have been strongly urged IN favor OF its
establishment As these will, without doubt be
presented 10 Congress by those familiar with
the subject shall perhaps best promote the object by
SIMPLY recommending II 10 the early and favorable
sijeration of that body
Application has also been made for the extension OF
the trips OF The steamers of the New York and Havre
line 10 Bremen The subject is yet under advsement.
postal agreement with The Canadian Post Office DE.
partRen has been concluded, and the arrangement for
which provided is now in successful operation Under
this arrang ement the postage single letter from any
point in the United States any point in Canada il ten
cents or slxpence OF Canada curIency-except where
the letter is 10 be transmitted 5000 miles from the
boundary line at the point OF crossing, when the single
rate of postage is fifteen centspayabe in either country
a copy of this agreement is hereto annexed
An agreement OF similar character has been made
with the Post Office Department OF New Brunswick en-
bracing in It's provisions Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and
Newfoundland
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