Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-12-15

die county. who. having heard the Nhhf ''h
f,laipt. dismissed the charge of an Assault win
intent to commit rape and bound the defendant
10 keep the pence for II months in penalty 81
$50.
Al.stract of the Postmaster Generals Report
There are 235i- post Offices in the | states;
the annual compensations of 257 of which amount
IL II 900 and upwards. During the lat year.
| aj2 offices were established and Oh dl=eon-
tipued. Number of postmasiers appointed du-
ring the same time, s.6ls. Removals, l,9'|.-
Number of mail routes. 6.697 Number OF mail
contractors. 5.167. Total annual transportation
e mails. g. 81 .OO5 miles. at IA cost of -i.63O,-
GO thus. q .267 6O3 miles by modes not specified
At five cents per mile; 90. -90. so miles by coach
at xix cents per mile; l5i:gi3-9 miles by mil
road at II cents 1 mills per mile; 5795, i53 miles
hv steamboat at 8 cents mills per mile. In
crease in the transportation during the past year
- per cent.
The expenditure Of the department during the
past wear were SS. ST. i2i T. and the revenue
s6.955,5s6 -. TO the former must be added
sI334S} 81, balances due foreign offices, which
would leave the total deficiency for the year 1884
Mt sI755.32l %. The deficiency for the year
1853 was S2.1l7.O7s 20-lenving difference in
favor of 1883 of 1851 ,756. The increase IN the
revenue of la5i. compared with the revenue OF
1853 S970.:E9 i2-or about 10 per cent.
The Postmaster General alludes at considera-
bic length to the difficulties between the depart
ment and raito companies. relative to the
rates Of compensation for carrying the mails
The companies. he says, alege that the govern
ment should not ask expect them 10 perform
for it any service at less rate than that paid to
md viduals for similar services. The principle
he contends, he has always been willing to recog-
mise in the adjustment of prices. What is now
required he believes, il, that the railroad com
panies should be paid according to the bulk of
the mails, the speed with which they are convey
ed. and the accommodation required. The sums
paid by express companies no fair criterion;
for, they uninilueneed by competitor, they
pay any price demanded of them and assess
II upon their customers. England, France, Ger
many, and Canada pay less to railroads for mail
service than is paid by the United States. Com
plant is mnde of the insufficient accommodations
general rule, for route agents. Alluslon is
made to the hubit of irresponsible parties obtain
ing by gross nsrepre senthtion. mil contracts,
md subsequently throwing them up because of II
failure their part TO sell the same at n profit.
\ remedy for this fraud is suggested.
Owing to causes not within the control of the
department, the expenses of the current year will
greatly exceed those of the past year. They
are estimated at S9,sii.92l 81 This increase
will be owing to the additional compensation Of
postmas ters and the enhanced prices demanded
by contractors at the last lettings
\ uniform plan Of registration is warmly re-
safe delivery of letters of value. The want of
such safeguard has long been felt; and the
cost of its maintenance will fall directly upon
those who will eheerfully bear the expense, we
good reason why it should not be incorpo-
rated into our postal system as one of It's princl-
pal features.
During the three years commencing July |,
1851, $500 1902 Oh postage stamps and stamp
ID envclopes have been issued by the department,
of which l5,nD2 3DI were sold
For the last year the cost of the service on the
various United States mail steamship lines, aud
across the lsthmus, was n follows: Collins line,
twenty-six round trips. S75S,0O0. New York
and Bremen, eleven round trips, Slso,533 70;
New York and llavrc, eleven round trips, -lh',-
5nO; Astoria and Panama, via san Francisco,
twent Y four round trips, S3lS,2JO New York
and New Orleans to Aspinwall, S2T9,oJO Charles
ton and Havana, $500 New Orleans 10 Vera
Cruz, twenty four round tips, SH 900; Aspin-
wall to'l'anama, Sll9,727. Total 81. 023,0l0 20.
The service performed by several lines of ocean
mil steamships is treated ut large. The Post
Master Generals of the opinion that the eompen-
sauon NOW received is too large, and that the pres
ent system is calculated To drive off private
petition. He also states TINT the Nicaragua com
pany have offered to carry n weekly mail between
sew York aud California for the sum of sGO0,OOO
per annum which ho thinks Is the highest rate of
pay which ought to be demanded. he cost this
year for semi monthly mail, by the lsthmus
route, i, S757,977 OBJ
No progress has been made since the last re-
port III the pending negotiation with Great Brit
AIN relative to the admi- sion of France into the
arrangement, H. contemplated 10y the provision
in the 18th article o! our postal convention. No
ostal convention has rs vet been effected with
France; but one Is about being made with Mexi-
-.
Arrangements have been made with the Aus
tralia line OF monthly packets To convey mails reg
nlarly between New ork and Australia. he
rates on all outgoing matter have been fixed at five
per ecntp letter. two cents each for newspapers,
and one cent am ounce for all pamphlets and mag
allnes. These rates embrace both the United
States inland and postage.
The fines and reductions during the past year
amount to Sll0,4Si. The amount for the prryi-
Gus year was S7i,92O.
The appendix which accompanies the report
contains II vast amount ofuseiu information which
will repay thetroublc ola calefnlp crusal
"Manied Yesterday
Every day in the journal that with the first
CLEAN Of tue sun is flung within our portals, we
read this little sentence: Marrird yesterday, SO
and SO. Every day there is II wedding feast in
some OF the mansions of the earth: casping of
hands and union of hearts in the dim aisles of
some holy temple plcdging of eternal love and
constancy during all the hours that are yet to
come down. like spring flowers upon LIES path
way. Each day some new marriage crown is put
ON, and ,ha who wears it, leaning upon him whose
is the brightest Jewel amidst its leaves steals
away from the "dcar old homc," and nestos
tremhlngly in the fairy cot where Loves hand
has trained the honey suckle over the iatticed
poarch, aud placed Eolan Tyres in all the case.
ments'
"MARRIED YESTERDAY"
There are pearl and gold shining now amid the
flowers that fringe Loves pathway: and stars
cleaning like chandelier in the armament of
Homo. Thrre nre hnrns fink linn nnv ,uln... IL.