Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-01-01
COLUMBUS:
wednesday Morning, Dec. go, 1852.
The Official Reports,

We will continue to publish from day to day
anal Uses OF the reports of the several departments
because we know that our readers will scarcely
have patience to wade through the solid columns
which compose them. Still there are facts con-
tanned in these documents which it interests the
public to know, and these the newspapers should
carefully collect and present to their readers
From the Report of the Postmaster General we
extract the following statistics At the end of the
fiscal year, Nov. LIST, 1852, there were in opera
ton in the United States 81 191 post Offices, and
GIL mail routes, their aggregate length being
ga, 284 miles. The annual transportation Of the
mails on these routes was So $685. 782 miles, at an
annual cost of SIS, $50 971, being about 67-1O cts
per mile; of these So, 985 1928 miles of annual
transportation, ii O82, 768 miles were required to
be performed upon railroads, at cost of 81 ,275,
$50, being about IL J cts. per mile; 1888, 400
miles in steamboats,, at a cost of $500, 8l5, being
about cents per mile; 90, $685. $50 miles in coach
es at a cost of ST. 1913, 1856, beng about 10
cents per mile; and 90, $685. 21 miles in modes
not specified, at a cost of 81, O29 $780, being about
go cents per mile.
The inland serice when compared with service
at the close Of the preceding year. shows an in
crease Of II, 994 miles in the length of mail routes;
of 5,713, 476 in the miles of annual Transporter
ton, and of $685. 17 in the annual Of trans
portation.
There were in operation on the 3Oth of June
rregate length of &c., $40 milrs-the number of
miles of annual transportation thereon is estimated
at csc, 400. The service OH three of those routes
is under contract with this department, the annual
transportation thereon is estimated at 600, 500
miles, at a cost of $500, 600, being about i 80
per mile The service on the other three routes
is under contract with the Navy Department.
The annual transportation thereon is estimated at
ass, 344 miles, at an annual cost of 81 ,495, $50
al 81 satin Fl,
the Collins line at the last Session of Congress, J
being about So 90 per mile"
The gross receipts of the Department for the
year ending June 30th 1852, were SO, 925971 %,
from which must be deducted $IOl 1888, SO, pay
able to the British office under The postal arrange
ment Of l848. The total expenditures for the
year were 81, 1O8 459 Ga. The estimated cxpcn-
diturcs for the present fiscal year are S8,745,
III 90, and the estimated revenue S7,417,799 So;
leaving deficit Of 81 1927, 986 SO, to be provi-
ded for by direct appropriation rom the Treasury.
The whole amount of postage, inland, sea and
foreign, on letters and other mailabe matter re-
ceived and ant by the several lines of United
States mail steamers, during the last fiscal year,
was follows, viz:
By Collins line New York and Liver
pool, S220, 06I 6l
BY New York and Bremen line, touch
ing at southampton, England T,2l9 ~
BY New York and Havre line, touch
ing at Cowes, SO, 8O4 Us
By Charleston and Havana line, ll,950 ~
OF the Collins steamers, the Report says -
1.-THE ships of this line have preserved their ear
" reputation for unrivalled speed and seaworthl-
ness Their departures have been Punctual, and
they have performed their voyages with great regu-
larity. The company has kept spare ship In port
ready to replace any ore which might be tempo
rariy disabled or withdrawn for repairs and has
in other respects manifested disposition to per
form the service in a creditable manner"
The Havre and Bremen line also meets with
commentator.
Since it commenced running the exports from
Germany to this country have increased from 3,
600 600 to &c, 600, 900 dollars, the number of emf
grants is increasing, and the gross sum which they
at present bring to this country amounts to $15,
DOC, 600 annually
1t was for the purpose of extending our inter
course and increasing our mercantile relations witt
Germany that this line was established. The re
suits have equaed the expectations OF Its frauds
and it now remains for Congress to decide whethe
the necessary aid shall be extended and the obIec
realized; or whether we shall abandon to the Eng
lish the profits Of our increasing trade with LII
advantages that flow from it.
The recently consumated postal Convention will
Prussia is referred to. 1t is estimated that tn
countries including the German Austrian Posta
Union which are thus brought into postal com
munication with the United States embrace
population of seventy millions.
A Postal Convention between this country ant
Belgium mutually advantageous is expected to b
concluded and put in operation in short time
France has manifested disposition for improves
mail facilities with the United States, and propose
to establish a Union line of Mail Steamships be
tween New York and Havre. The following para
graph, showing how England pushes forward he
steam mail service we quote entire
"Under our postal treaty with great Britain, 40
ditional articles have been agreed upon and ar
ready for signature, providing for regular ma
arrangement between the United States and tn
West Indies generally, and points on the coast
Mexico and northern coast Of South America q
which the British mail packets now touch. 10 tn
British West Indies, the United States single rat
of letter postage, which must be prepaid on lei
ters sent from and collected on letters received
the United States viii be ten cents where the dis
lance from the mailing Office is under two thousan
five hundred miles, and twenty cents when tn
distance exceeds two thousan! five hundred miles
To the West Indies-not British-Mexico an
South America, by this channel, the British posi-
age Of twenty-four cents the single rate, also r.
CURED to be postpaid must be added to the te
Or twenty cents United States rate, according
distance as above. This arrang cement, it is e.
pected will 90 into effect without delay.
The remaining portions Of the Report are Of lei