New-York daily tribune., 1859-12-29

lance has already accomplished nuen ill.,; 'i y abnses
I;h b moro hereafter for the suppression OF 1DlS
brt am thoroughly persuaded that tnc etnei lo -
fr he safety of the mails must be fonnd in ln1 H.
rroaehab,e persona problty Of those ehaIeeu " u" ~
transportation and delivery; ~ ,ocor, sums
up az follows .. l.aa inland and
The aggregate amount OF Pos'"ee, 80, 80, Errone by
foreign ON mails conveyed to ana rom l1"1 ~ M
the several lines Of mai steamers empo!G H. I,ri,;.h
a.tto,s of Ire Cupard line, PERFORMING an sl'oi uuIi
her of trips ss05 go Ga. The Nortn "Sria 3
and Hamburg lines of mail packets, Mso ,;sIy eon;
mails 10 and from Bremen and iianiOuIg'
h S,o1es ON which amounted 10 SiS, iol miHn5
the Total hostages On United States ana Lir"pe""
,ns r,a;ls conyeyed by all lines during the ye"''
81 33S 449 50. ;,o ,,..coroe5 by
.,.srosb;ys smuloyed by this Department. gnder tnc
,o;siors Of the act OF June 4, lSIs-whieh hnnS
he eompensatou tie United STATES Posase,; So
ard inland when the conveyance Is oy s,.a;-,,
s,eaueTs and 10 the postage when Oy Iorelsn %
s,eamer,-was 1924 6l0 62; twentysA ronilu uLls
ia;rI srformed by American steamships Tor the sum
Of sleg 96l Co--averagiDg y ot5 90 per rouhu hip'
and twenty-six and half trips by foreign ~
., sIs5 349 81 averaging 473l IL per round mp. vi
a. latter trims four and a half were run by the Jana
I;o, line Of steamers between Portland anu IINor
rool This line is hereafter to run weekly, Win,
be,no the terminus this eide during the " in'eI'
"a 9orehee dnripg the Summer season; ana III COM
,sc,on with the Grand Trunk Railway over tne We
ts Tr doe a, Montreal completed, u WIZ anora
The means of the most direct, and proDaoy he 1os'
EXPEDITIONS communication between ehcago aHu i AZ
ernnool Arrangements have been made with me
canadian Post Office Department 20 transport or ,no
sea postage any mails may be desirable TO SEM
line and in order to give them as much eXpedtlon as
nos,,ble il il intended TO have Chicago and Detrot,
IA well as Portland constituted onlces OF eAenanSe lVi
United States and British mas.
Temporary arrane ements have also been made, on
the terms Of the act of 1883, for the continuance oi
weekly service by American foreign steamships, DE-
n ,o,l AontlamOfOn.
bTacino semmonthly trips TO Havre, and trips once
a month 10 Bremen and back. This, IN connection
with the Cunard line semweekly service be-
tween this country and Great Britain, and with the
Bremen and Hamburg steamers, direct mail, az least
as frequently three times month, to and from Ter
many. -. -. -..o..oa
the rerea Of that canse of the act approved June H.
1883 which declares that in forwarding mails 10 Tor
eipn countries the preference shall always be gwen
70 an American, foreign steamship, when de-
partjng from the same port for the same destination,
"scithia three days Of each other Could we MAINTAIN
even daily postal communication with transatlantic ma
tons il would be subject OF congratuiation on tne
part of the whole country, and would be as grateful
10 our social relations it would be promotive of our
best commercial interests.
The amount of letter postage upon mails exchanged
during the year with Great Britain was $40 O66; with
Prussia, $sS,6i2 68i France, S2l8,1IO % bremen,
s3s 1903 81 and Hamburg, s2 5Sl 95i being decrease
on British mails of So, ,6S4 so; on Prussian mails OF
$31 l2U Sl and an increase on trencn mails OF 3i<,-
943 60; and on Bremen mails Of slO,46 i5; and on
Hamburg mails Of $6,70i 81, compared with the
preceding wear. Net decreased letter postage
European mails, $39 695 i3.
Britain was sss5 s84 fi3 to Prussia, sl67, ,ssi 3d. to
France Sl06 $50 Oh TO Bremen, SlS, 229 8O and to
Hamburg, $l5,5s4 5S.-Total SENT s673,3a0 81. On
mails received from Great Britain, s404, AGA IL from
Prussia, sl20758 35 from France, Sll2,720 04; from
Bremen, $50 SO 81; and from Hamburg, &c. ,997 IT,
Total received, s665,O79 0i-Tcta postages collected
in the United States, 1909 $50 70; in Great Britain,
Prussia France, Bremen and Hamburg, $52S, $50 l6.
Excess of postages collected in the United States,
,,,ss:l 81.
Balance due Crest Britain adjustment Of account
for the ending June SO sa 81
Balance to France. 6JE5s ~
Balance due to Bremen. ~ $40 10
Balance d1e to HeInbUTg SsOs SI
Total. s26saso 80
Total hostages for she year on mails transported on
the New. York NewOrleans, Aspinwall, and Caliior-
MIA lines ncluding mails for Panama and Acapulco,
Mexicol $299, ,972 90. On the New-Orlsans and San
Francisco via Isthmus OF Tehuantepec $40 6S.
On the Charleston and Havana route, $40 057 66;
the New Orleans and Vera Cruz route $2578 26 and
on ue various lines to the West Indies, ETC., s5230l
A. Aggregated total postages on mails conveyed by
the above named home lines of steamers S37l i9 H.
The weights of closed letter mails received and sent
during the year. weIe as follows;
Prussian closed mails received 100, 525l ouncea and
cent 75 l96 ounces; total, 3O6O2l ounces. Closed
mails from Great Britain for Canada ll3,O6O ounces,
and from Canada for Great Britain l0l,47l ounces;
total, 27 53l ounces. British and California Havana,
and Mexican closed nails received and gent, 3046ll
ounces.
The amount paid Great Britain for sea and territorial
transit on closed mails conveyed through the United
Kingdom was Sl95 979 7Si, and the amount received
from Great Britain on British closed mails in transit
through the United States was 81, ,47i 81.
The negotiations which were temporarily sus-
Iended having in view the reduction of the rates of
postage upon letters and upon printed matter between
IA an1 (traa Hrita haov a.,oA
but, regret to say without any encouraging result.
The theory Of the Post-Oice organization is that it
shall be selfsustainng. In 1886 Congress provided
that The aggregate required for the service of the
"POstOffce Department in each year shall be appro-
"pIated by law out of the revenues of the Dcpdrt-
" meht" This is still the existing law, and more
emphatic declaration that the sefsupporting principle
Oh which the Department has been previously c)nduc.
ted should be continued, could not have been made
In gOthe first year Of the new Goyernmentin which
the financial status Of the Department is brought TO our
notice-its revenues exceeded its disbursements by
1920 From that time up to lS3S-with occasional
and slight exceptions, occurring at remote intervals
an excess OF receipts constantly exhibited. AT the
period last named in consequence Ct rapid expan-
son Of the service and the substitution costly railroad
transportation upon many of the old and hitherto
comparatively cheap routes, there was manifested the
nIst tendency to permanent OF expenditure.
This tendency, however, not decided nor did IL
lead to any alarming results. The deficit was small
and during several of the years intervening between
1888 and 1876 fully recovered from. Afterward
came the acts of 1Si5 and 1851 whereby the rates of
postage Were reduced and the receipts of the Depart
ment, IN consequence, suddenly diminished upward of
two millions Of dollars per annum. The introduction
too, OF the telegraph, medium Of social and COM
mercisl Intercourse, began at this time in a marked
manner TO divert from the mails the public aud
private correspondence OF the country. This
diversion Las continued to enlarge, until il NAV
be safely estimated that the annual loss TO the
Department from this }one cannot now be less
than 81 CC0 C00 Under the influence of this abrunt
and rapid decline in It's revenues and of the pressure