The New York herald., 1861-12-06

Paccrvie also to convey tho cnre mail thsee times
aweek to Denver City and Salt Lake tho entire letter mail
to California to be carried whatever may be its weight,
ana IN case II should not amount to coo pounds then suf
hcient OF 9th mail to DO carried each trip mako that
weight tho residue Of all mail matter TO be conveyed
II thirty five days with the privilege of sending IL from
New york TO San Francisco in twenty five days by sea,
and tho public documents in thirty FIVE days. pony
press to be run twice week until tho completion of tho
overland telegraph, through in ten days eight months
ana twoye Gays four months, IN The year. conveying for
the government free OF charge, Ave pounds OF mail mat
ter: the compensation for tho whole service To b.
million OF dollars per annum, payable fem the general
treasury os provided by the act; tho service to
mence July L. 1861, and terminate July L. 1864 The
transfer OF stock from the Southern to the Central
was commenced about tho 1st Of April and was com
petcd SO that tho first mail started from st. Joseph
on Tho day prescribed by the Order July 1861 Whle
tho carriages have believed departed regularly since
that te the mail service has not been entirely satsac
tory 10 the dopartm Tho causes Of complaint. how
ever, 1t is hoped will be removed by the measures
progress The route selected is that by Salt Lake City
That that ONCE has now the advantage Of daily mail
and Denver City is supplied three times wock. Tho
overland telegraph having boon completed, the running
OF the pony express discontinued October 26 1861
BY the terms Of the law tho contractors required
convey only the California letter mail cach trip by the
short schedule and this they were to do whatever might
bs its weight but by voluntary agreement hoy stipulated
that IN case IL should fall short Of six hundred pounds
any occasion they would take other mails as TO make
that weight As the letter mails seldom equal
to 600 pounds in weight papers conveyed in
Doxion with tho letter mails each trip by the short
schedule, while others necessarily delayed This has
occasioned complaint, and complaints have also been
mado Of other delays, and that bags OF printed matcr
nave DeGn thrown OIL en- route Tor tho admfsS0n OF
scnges and express matter. These charges denied
by the contractors but while the conditions Of the con
tract axed by law allow longer time for the transit of
mails than others. Comp laint and disappointment
must of necessity occur.
At the commencement of threatening disturbances in
Missouri order this great daily route from
interruption ordered the increase of tho weekly and
Mi-wcekly service then existing between Omaha and
Fort Kearney to daily and an increase OF pay thereon Of
$4,000 per aBnum by that means alternative and
certain daily route between the East California was
obtained through Iowa. by which the overland mails
been transported when they became on the rail
road routo In Missouri.
In sending them from Davenport through the State OF
Iowa joining tho main route at Fort Kearnoy Kansas
the only Inconvenience experienced was slight delay,
no mails being lost so far as known.
NEW YORK AND BOSTON
This important addition to the facilities for conveying
correspondence these cities announced in the
last annual report as having been commenced three
months experiment, proved to be so satisfactory and sue
ccssul that the arrangement continued with tho
companies viz those composing tho inland line,
through Hartford and Springfield until tho 1st of August
last when negotiations with those corporations failing
secure renewal OF their services tho mail was trans
ferred to the shorc ino,' from New Haven, through
New London, sionngton and Providence, over which
line 1t is carried with great regularity and much to
the satisfaction OF tho citizens Interested and OF the de-
rartment.
NIGHT MAIL FROM NEW YORK 70 WASHINGTON
This mail leaves New York at II in tho evening and
arrives at Washington by $50 the next morning. Con-
necons are thus made at New York with railway trains
from Montreal, 0gdensburg, Buffalo, &c. arriving a.
1890 r NJ, and by recent change in tho hour OF do
parturc Of tho express train at Boston from TO 2p NJ
connecting with that train also, that mails and pas
sengers leaving Boston at r. NJ arrive at Washington
by $50 A. M, or in loss than twenty three hours.
This is about the tmo occupied by the other lines but
II constitutes tho third daily direct and unbrokcn Tine Of
travel for mails and passengers from city to city, and ut
hours causing the least loss Of business time.
The details Of tho financial operations OF this depart
men during the fiscal year ending June 30. 1861
fully exhibited in the accompanying very elaborate and
interesting report Of the Auditor for this department
from which the following statement Is derived
Revenue and Erpsnditures.
The expenditures Of tho department in the fiscal year
ending June 80 1861 amounted to Si3 606 759 II viz
For transportation Of inland mails, inciud-
ing pay ments to route agents, local
agents ard mail messengers. ....... s. 406, $50 81
For transportation Of foreign maiis to