Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-12-24

Inferior grades l55,4y7
The tota! annual transportation of
mails was 74,9O6.O67 miles, costing So
622 ,O4j, and divided as follows:
Railroad, 24,267,944 miles, at s., ,55e.-
o4I-about ten cents and five mills a mile.
Steamboats,, 4,5ls,ll9 riles, at s99I,-
99S-about twenty-five cents Il mile.
Coach, i9,090.93O miles, al Sl,4IO,9a6
about seven cents aud four mills mile.
Inferior grades, 27,O29 ,O74 miles, at ST.
o59 ,375-ahout six cents mile.
There have been put IN operation steam
ST IP route, twice a month, between San
Francisco and Olympia, and weekly line
in Puget's Sound. The overland route,
from San Antonio, Texas, to San Diego.
California, has also beer successfully com-
mencei' and contract has been made for
conveying the mails six times a week be-
tween Prairie du Chein and st. Paul, in
coaches or sieishs during the suspension o
navigation son the Up2,r mississippi
These are all important additions to the
service. =.
RkEssEE AND EXPENDITURES.
iss js.'s - ~ wsss F,,s yes, = a,: 4
The reeGipiS for the same time, inclu
ding the aniuai allowed fur
fidnked mslinr. were sG5s.95I 7G
Excess OfeApenses over receipts s3.45s.7lo 40
ESTIMATES FOR 1858.
Appropriations by Congress sIa Oj3 ai7I
Revenue ana balances hand it5oIG54 |
Expense to the Treasury fer 1853 sl.i6g,I3G
MONEY ORDERS.
The Postmaster General makes but bricl
allusion to this i'm Urtant subject. He re-
lers to the outline OF plan Transmitted to /
a committee of Congress by his predecessor
but makes no recommendation further than
to remark that the system has worked sue
cessu!ly in Grett Britain. The number
OF money orders issued in that country has
increased from 1855 1921, in 1910, To 6,I7S,-
9S2, in 1856; and the aggregate OF money
thereby transmitted from E3l3,l24, in
ls40, 10 fll,SO5,562 in 1856 Ii is to be
hoped that sOme plan will be devised that
VIII give the people Of this country the ad-
vanages of such system.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP AND FOREIGN MAILS.
In lieu of certain expired Contracts for
conveying mails between New York and
and Bremen, and liavre, new contracts
have been made, the compensaticn being
limited to the United STATES postages, sea
and inland, accruing from the mails ctn-
veyed. These hot only affect an imp;r-
;aEt saving 10 the Treasury, but they IN.
augurate d system Of se.i-sustaining ocean
mali serv ce, which may lead to the aGop
ton OF this as permanent system. A
new contract has been made with the Pan
anna Railroad Company, different from the
old plan OF Pry;ng by weight, which saves
annually more than 100000
The tabular information in this part of
tie report is quite interesting. From one
of them the following is extracted with
reference 10 the correspondence between
Grea; BRAIN and the United States during
the lour years ending 30.h June, 1857:
Number OF letters sent 10 Great Britain 7,s9c6 Ca
received from GseNt Bel
tain 1876. HIS
Number Of newspapers sent 10 Great Bri-
Nnrnber CT newspapers resolved from Great 49,
Britain 4,65lSI5
1t will be observed that The exchange ol
letters is very neuriy equal, but the bal
ance Of new papers is largely iu our favor.
o. the postage collected ON this cores
puncenIe. thste was collected iu the
tHI ted S.aies s94ioIis %
Co"estid II IreSt E'i itaih l,>J-, 2U3 -
Negotiations are pending for RADICAL
change of our postal arrangements with
G:eat Britain; bGI as ne proposition OF the
British Otice, in its present shape, car
not be accedet 10, aud as i involves, also,
II preliminary agreement requiring the
sSnciioE oi the treaiy-making powers, def
nite action upon II has been necessarily
postponed Tor the present.
Ii contract, can be made for ocean mai
service, limiting the compensation to the
United States poStages accrung on the
mails conveyed, tie Postmaster G neral
recommt ndS an increase of the nUaidcr oi
Urirs by existing lines, aPd that all In,
Lines be put In'O operation that have been
or may be proJ cred by our cnterpri,ing CIT
izeus. Among these are tie proposed lines
from Norfolk To Milford Havra; iru,n New
dreams 10 BnrIeaux; from New lo,k To
Aui%crp. Hamburg, OF G.ucast-d;; irom
Savannah to Pa,u, in South America; iruu.
Panama TO Valparaiso, &c.
EXPRESS AGENTS FOR rBRuUGg MAILS.
One ct the rrumin ut subjects which
have dcmanied attention is that ul prcv:-
ling more etlectualy Tor the regularly aad
safety OF mails conveyed by railroads.
Ii is frequently charged that the mails
have not uniformly equal expedition with
travellers on railroads; and, in 50 far as this
may De the TACT, it is considered attributa-
BILE to the want of attention TO the mails on
the express lines which are without agents