The Kanzas news., 1857-08-22
KANZAs, AUGUST D, 1867.
Our National Post ONCE.

Dir. Piiny Miles, Secretary of the NJ
Postal Reform Committee, publishes let
ter In the n. Y. Tribune, from which We
compile the following Information:
New York writes annually e9 ,959, ,943 let
ters; Pennsylvania, 1905, 863; Massa-
chusetts, II 1862, O61; Ohio, 9,e03, ,343; II
linois, 6,797. .370-total 68, 1868, $50. The
fifteen Southern States together write 80, ,92l,-
521 per annum, or triie more than one
half the number despatched by the fTse Nor
thern States. The six New England States
furnish TO the national correspondence 49,
l641, ,197; while the States of Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas,
Arkansas and Missouri, contribute &c, 95z=
| 82. Ohio and Illinois Hsritszf6, coo, z l3,
against 14,0I2,93I from the territory emz
braee1 IN Virginia, North Carolina, Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas.
New York and Massachusetts indulge In a
postal correspondence of 40, ,622, OLA letters
per annum, while the fourteen States south
of the Potomac and the Ohio, and west of
the Mississippi manage to conduct business
with 1858, All. While such is the rela-
tive state of correspondence, the revenue
and expenses exhibit a more serious differ
ence: The postal expenses of New York,
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Il
linois are S3,l71, 433, and the revenue from
the same is S., $40, ,356-excess of revenue,
S198, 1913. The expense incurred in carry
ing one-half the number of letters for the
fifteen Slaveholdihg States, Is 50, ,846. .333,
and the revenue derived 81 ,555, 723-defic-
| it Sc, ,990, ,61O. The only Southern State
which pays its own postage is Delaware,
which shows credit balance of S171. The
expense for the New England States is
S989, ,233; revenue, 81, $50, ,475-surplus
S571 ,249, which goes to hquidate a def
cheney account of S2,O94, ,682 in eleven
Southern States conducting nearly the same
correspondence. New York and Massachu-
setts contribute SO, $50, 800 to the revenues
of the Department, which disburses ON their
account 81, ,493, 305. The States South of
the Potomac and Ohio, and west of the Mis-
sissippi are credited with S2,739, PIT, and
charged on the other page with 81, ,318,780;
that is, the Southern and Southwestern
States contribute less sum per annum to
the postal revenue of the Union than New
York and Massachusetts, while their postal
expenses are three times greater.
Mr.. Miles gives also the comparative cost
of Transporting one letter in each of the
States of the Union. The average expense
in the New England States and New York
is one cent and eight mills; in the Middle
section, including California, three cents and
three mills; In the South and South west,
six cents and seven mills. For each 10000
letters carried in the Northeast section Of
the Union, there an outlay of S4O0. The
same number of letters in the Southwest
are delivered at an expense of 81 ,514. In
Massachusetts, the expense per 10000 let
ters is S34O; in South Carolina, 81, ,446; In
Rhode Island. S31O; in Florida, 50, 588:
in Illinois, 1915; in Arkansas, S4,130.-
The expense per letter in the State of Arkan-
sas is eighteen cents and three mills.
The grand total of Post Office revenue In
the nation is Sc, 587, ,622, and the expense
| So, ,971, ,132-leaving deficit of 50, ,383,- :
$40, which is probably about the sum an
nually wasted by III. C.'s, whose mail mat
ter is transported at the expense of those of
US who have not yet got office. When this
nonsense is abolished, and the Government
of the United States ceases to be a dead head
on one of its departments to the tune of two
and half millions per annum, the surplus
of Post Office revenue in the North viii un-
doubtedly keep the Department out of debt:
that is, the three-cent pieces of the mechan-
les, factory girls and washerwomen of the
Free States, will continue to carry the pos
tai literature of that section of our country
monopolized by ''chivalry. &C Chicago Tri-
5une.