Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-06-14
Post once statistics,

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The number of post Offices, including the
suspended Offices in the insurrectionary
States, was 29,047, an increase over the
preceding year of l72. Of the postmas-
ters, the President appoints only $50 of
this number-the Postmaster General the
remainder. Of the 398 offices in this State
the President appoints only l5-of the
1884 in New York, only 81 receive COM
missions from the President; in Pennsyl-
yania, 43 of the 2,4S7. Eight hundred
and thirty offices were established in the
year, and 65S discontinued. There were
only l6 special agents in the service, at an
aggregate salary of S26,500; number OF
route agents, 3S7, at an aggregate expense
of S289,260; baggage masters, in charge
of through and express mails, SO, at pay
of S27, ,440 and the number of local agents,
10, at compensation of $27,S24.
The law authorizing the free delivery of
mail matter by carriers went into effect
July |, 1868. Forty-nine of the princi-
pal Offices have carriers, numbering in the
aggregate 449, at an expense of $l00,6SO.
Where the system of collection and deliy-
ery has been in operation, % per cent. in
crease of receipts has been the result. New
York city has 1877 carriers; Boston, 30;
Baltimore, %; Philadelphia, ll9; Brook
lyn, l8; Cincinnati, IL; Washington, IL;
st. Louis, Z; etc., down to a single car
rier.
The amount of postage collected in the
United States on foreign letters, was $751;
O3S 90; in Europe, $466,636 %. Num-
Der of letters sent from the United States,
2,720, ,236-being an increase in the year
of 4O2,37S. Number of newspapers sent
from the United States to different coun-
tries of Europe, over that accruing on
mails received, was S35,295 OF. In the
exchange Of postal matter with Prussia
there was an excess in her favor of 3d.
$50 2S.- The Government paid foreign
steamships for the transportation of mails,
Sl,22A675 81. The balance due foreign
post office departments, on final settle
ment, in 1868, was $l33,276 l29. Bal
ances due and in favor of the United
States, $30,23S 81.
The length of mail routes in the United
States, l39, 9,598 miles, over which the mails
are carried at an expense of $6,236,662.
The aggregate annual transportation of
mails is Sc, ,226,05 miles. Paid to steam
boat companies $224,542; to railroads,
S2,548,5l7; stage companies, ETC., S2,-
977,463. The contract for the great Over
land mail expires on the 30th inst, and
the Oregon and California on the 18th OF
September. .........- ....---......
The total expenditures of the Depart
ment for the year 1868 was $ll,3l4,2O6
GA; revenue, $ll,l63,7s9 59-showing
deficiency of $l60,4l7 25. The expenses
of the Department in 1860, Immediately
before the rebellion, was $l4,S74,7l2 SO,
showing an excess over 1868, of $3,560,
566 O5. The actual receipts in 1868
were $l1, ,l63,7S9 50; in 1860, including
the whole South, $S,5lS,067 40-show-
ing IN increase Of $2,645,772 l9. 1t is
expected that the receips of 1864 will con-
siderably exceed the expenditures. The
number of post Offices in operation during
the year was 20,l46, and quarterly re-
turns received from 1929. The value of
stamps issued was $9,6S3,3S4; stamped
letter envelopes, $634,S2l; and stamped
newspaper wrappers, $20,545. The num-
Der of dead letters received and examined
was 2,550,416, being an increase of $685.
39S-of which, l60,04S contained $685.
627 p, and which finally reached their
destination. The number containing pa
pers Of value was 1882, Of which 1850
were forwarded to their owners. The
aggregate nominal value of their contents
was $l,544,277 81. During the year To-
673 valuable letters or packages of third
class were received and registered. or
these, 1859 were sent out for delivery,
10, OILS of which contained Daguerreotypes
or photographs, 764 articles of jewelry,
and S97 miscellaneous articles. Out of
the whole number, 8,273 were restored to
the writers or senders. There has been
great increase in this class of letters, most
of them containing daguerreotypes or
photographs. Upwards of 5000 money
letters, being nearly one-fourth of the
whole of that class of letters, received du-
ring the year, were addressed to soldiers.
Fifty-five thousand and forty-four letters
reached the dead Office, containing letter
stamps and other articles of less value
than one dollar, which were returned to
the writers or senders, without registra-
ton. Letters of this description, which
are not susceptible of restoration, are de-
stroyed with their contents. The num-
ber of stamps destroyed during the year,
found in such letters, was 1919.
The number of letters held for postage.
or unintelligibly directed, was 1864
The number intelligibly addressed, 49,
566, of which nearly 1000 were without
any address or direction whatever, and in
several instances contained sums of mo-
ney or other enclosures of value. Of this
class of letters, 1882 were dispatched
to the writers. By means Of the suspen-
sion of the mails in the rebel States, "a,
3l4 letters addressed to persons in these
States found their way to the dead-letter
office. These letters were placed in GUS
tody of the Department by the military
,authorities-most of them having been
received at Fortress Monroe by flag Of
truce. These letters were, after examina-
ton, duly mailed to the persons address
ed, charged with dead-letter postage. OF
the 2S7,2ll dead letters sent out for re-
storation to the writers, % per cent. were
returned to the dead-letter office. The
receipts of the dead-letter Office exceeded
the expenses by $2l, ,533 20. The De-
partment has instructed the postmasters
to return all letters unclaimed one month
after being advertised, instead of two, as
heretofore.
TATTLNG.-"I 1t is a great thing to mind
ones own business" said certain philos-
opher, and he was right. 1t is great
thing to let other peoples business alone.
and this much is implied by the maxim
above quoted. In our view, there is hardly
class of people in modern society-and
they are numerous-so superlatiyely con-
temptible as that class known as tattlers,
or meddlers in other peoples business.
We don't admire thief; We have no af-
fnity for gamblers; abominate drunkards,
and have no respect for misers; but any
one of these is frst-elass gentleman in
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