The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-01-04

Bremen Post offices to June 80, 1S55....... 1886
Total. .slOls3 ~
The available for the service OF the yea, 1850
To wit: Balance Of the credit Of the revenue
on the 30th June last as stated by
From tais SsIasce should be dedu ted Tor bad
and doubtful debts, the accumultton Of
long series of years, and for suspended Gre
dts not less than 100000
Probably available. .................. saz7,7 o4
Estimated Ievenue from hostages and miscel-
isseous receipts. ........... 7o7e, s22
ton of the act Of March 1851 in further
payment Of mall services to the government 900 900
The ap preparation made by The act of Mar ,h 3,
1855, to supply deficiencies in 1856 11os 1877
Total means for 1866 50 OlO 07a
LEAVING q cef,iency to be provided by act of
congress- O.... lS0 l0l
Total. $40 loo GA
The service on the several United States iii steamship
with regularity AMI in accepta ,le manasr. Ths
steamers of the Collins hue have made theic trips wi
wreck Of the Arctic in SEPTEMBER, 1854 new steamer
to take the place Of the Arctic Is 10 OF
structon and II Is uaoerssoos win soon be PLACED upon
Der OF trips has been pert On the line from Ne
York to Aspinwal there has been no irreguariy but
several failures, principally owog as the contractors
allege to the prevalence Of yellow fever at Havana and
New Orb Between San Francisco and Havana the
mails been conveyed WITH great regularity des-
PATCH and with two exceptions, the connections
have Oeen duly maintained a. San Francisc, Win the
Havana line have been performed riding to contract
but yet the New Orleans aud VEGA Cruz route semi
monthly service only has been rendered.
have adopted the plan pursued in my last annual
port OF presenting in the to of appendix the proc
the year. shows in the tabular sta ements
the Auditor which accompany this report rhess results
ss stated IN the s and
ing year; to SONS OF the mofe prominent OF which in
vite your attention.
The aggregate amount of hostages, sea, inland aud
fereign, the mails conveyed during the year by the
United States lines of Weeds tbs
vous year in the OF S181 067 IT, This increase is
chiefly confined to the malls conveyed by the Collins
steamers, and was caused by the temporary with:
d1awa in N .S 1857 Of the British mail
New York and Liverpool, IN consequence of
which the amount OF mails conveyed between ports
by the steamers of tbs Coins line largely in,esi
As it is understood to be the purpose OF the British gov
ernmeut to phase their s'eamrs upoa this line In
their regular trips from New York every alternate
Wednesday, the temporary increase of revenue from the
Collins line caused oy their withdrawal Will of
cease. The increase of postage, compared vita tae
previous year, mails conveyed by thu Collins line
$780, 81; BY the New York end Havre lae $50 49,
and by the NewOreans and Vera Cruz hne SOIL ST. while
the decrease by the New YORK and Bremen line
1883 o. by the New York and California lines $3.50
0b; and by the Charleston and Havana Hae So 1896 81
1t afact worthy Ct notice that the cnrrespo
exchanged with Great Britain during the year. Ter
postal arrangement with that country cou leraby
OF the amount OF the hostages being S50050 So.
The gross snoue Of hostages on letters conveyed be-
der postal treaty with that country S2B9 578
being an increase of S31 s15 % the ealized
during the previous year on that class Of eorrespon
depce.
During the last fiscal year net revenue of S. ISL 4s
has been derive by tuis Department the correspou
cence exchanged with Bremen after dedlcting com MIS-
paid to postmasers and also the United States in
land hostages those mails which shows improve.
ment in that branch Of the foreign mail service
operations x
hbited net deficit to the United States Post Office of
sl,5ol "a. 1t should be observed, however, that
the sums paid by the government for ocean trans
porfation, under the existing contract with the
different steamship lines, are not embraced in
this Department the results Of viii are stated the
appendix the actual cost Of transportation also
heavy loss TO the postal revenues of the United States
fom foreign mail service. TIE extent of the cost is
readily ascertained by comparing the receipts from
lines.
The annual compensation of the Collins line is SS5s Oo
The amount paid to that line for mail transportation
during the yearthe omission Of half trip having been
caused by the loss of the Arctiowss $8 $780, while the
total United States postage both o. and inland the
during the year, s454 681 H. Deducng the inland
postage letter mails which cannot be claimed be-
pOsiagss only was ys7i e2-showing an excess Of
expense BY this line Of s4tO,17 80.
num- while the total United States postage on mails CON
veyed during the year Silt 31 70. Deduct the in
land postage mails conveyed by this lne and the
The contrast pay Of ths Hsvre line is per an
num- The total hostages on mails conveyed during the
year $50 oil L. and the postage after 6educng
the United States inland, was s727ss ii.
The total postages inland included, mails conveyed
sa sse y hs New Yh and
ton, including the Isthmus service, s77l6a5 &c.
The total postaees malls conveyed BY the Charleston
cost Of transportation s5s, s3s w.
The total postage mail, conveyed by the Now Or
paid for transportation, ss4 Oo3 IL.
Other valuable statistical information, showing the
practical alton ofth foreign mail ryice is con-
is recommended
In my last annual report I referred to the large
amounts annually dra from the Treasury BY the Col
Inns line of steamers ana recommended that the six
months notice, required by the act of July 81, 1852
should be given il not necessary that should ag Lin
refer to the important fact that the Collins line Of steam
eIs is recev from the government eghs hundred and
afy eight thousand dollars for six tries while
died and sixty six thousand hundred dollars for
fytwo trips; Dor to the injurious effects which the
establishment Of this monopoly must have upon the
commercial interests OF the country Their original
contract entered into by them, after full consider aton
subsist four passed midshipmen and mail agent, and
for the mail e'vice they to receive the Of
Sle,2so nip Congress has relieved them IRON that
part OF their agreement which obliged them to maintain
the four midshpmen. The Post Office Department has
not taken advantage Of that part of the conrt which
empowers it TO send out q mail agent. aai which
obliges the company TO accommodate and sub.st him;
ard the company instt ad of buicIg five steamships
stipulated in their contract have built but four. With
the knowledge that the company had built but four
steamships; that they had been relieved from two
onerous conditions of their contract, one by CON
gress and the other by the action OF the Post office De-
partr ent in spirit of muD6cepce and bersityon the
Dist Of july 1852 the amount of compensation 10
creased to $4,000 trip. Temporary embarrassment
caused by the compapys entering into enterprise
may Fave been the IF this acon the part OF
Congress- but these reasons can longer exist Apart
from The prices fixed In their contract the pad
by the British government IL In my opinion full equv
lent for their service and II Ia for this that
again refer to out whatever pected outays there
the part Of he company Congress has certainly
dealt with them in truly liberal and generous spirit.
Since the passage Of the act OF July 81 1852 computing
from the first Of January, 1862 the time when the add
tona allowance commenced tc the Let Of De 1855 the
company will have received million four hundred aod
two tbousand five hundred dollars than they would
have entitled 10 MI o. vic