Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1865-12-15

Tn British North American Prov
Ard on West Iudics. Ceatrsi ana
south American mails $500 q
."-r"- 81
The cost Of the United states trans
atlantic service performed ~ steamships
receivingsea postage only was f5. f7J s..
OF this amount S2l3,351 - gas earned
by the New York, Queenstown and Lfv-
eTpO0l dale line 7l,Iej 90 bv tie
Canadian line S73,273 II by the New
York, Southampton and Bremen and
81, 169 > by the New AJrk, SJuthamD-
ton and Hamburg lines, respectively.
The cost of ocean transportation OF
mails To and from West India ports bv
United States steamers, receiving differ
ent rates Of compensation within tl8
limit of the hostages, was S5J,s63 Sd.
being Sells 50 less than the total post
ages on the mails conveyed. And SI4-
6gI 81 was paid for the sea and iSrhmus
: conveyance of the correspondence with
! Central and South America.
The excess Of collections in this coun-
Try e the pOStageS collected abroad,
upon the correspondence exchanged with
I Great Britain and the Continent or Eu-
rope, was S4ll So p, causing balances
against this department on settlements
Of the quarterly accounts with the re-
spective post departments, amounting
| 70 S332, 439 -.
Full particulars of the foreign service
are stated in the appendix.
No progress has been made I'm the ne
gotiatiOns Of postal conventions with
European countries on the basis of the
resolutions adopted at the Paris internal
tiODal postal conference, and referred to
in the last report.
\ convention with Venezuela. which
! adopts the principal recommendations
of the Paris Conference. and iiSpenSos
with postage accounts between the re-
spcctive departments, has been agreed
upon, and executed upon the part Of the
United States, and only awaits CEecu-
ton on the part of Venezuela
The details of q convention with the
United States Of Colombia have been
agreed upon, which It is expected viii be
concluded at al early day.
Additional articles to the United States
and British Postal Convention have been
executed, constituting Baltimore a new
office of exchange on the side of the
United States. a copy Of these articles
is annexed.
The service to Brazil, authorized by
Act Of MAY ., 1861, has been put into
operation, the first steamship Of the line
having left New York with the mails for
Brazil on the 3Jth Of October last.
The contract for the mail steamship
service to Japan and China was awarded
on the 18th Of June last, o. the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, whose bid for
the required service at thesUm of ~5lo,GuO
for twelve round trips per snnum, be-
tween san Francisco and Hong Kong,
touching on the outward and homeward
passages, to land and receive mails, at
the port of Honolulu, in the Sandwich
Islands, and the port of kanagawas in
Japan, was the only one received under
the advertisement of this department in
wiling proposals for the service. The
company are to build four frst-claSs sen
going steamships, Of from $500 to 1000
tons burden each, government measure
ment, and commence the service on or
before the first Of January, 1861.
By existing law, no provision is made
for cOmpenS3tlng sailing vessels convey
ing the mails to foreign ports. II is
recommended that authority be given -p
the POstmaster-Genera 10 allow such
vessels so employed compensation not 20
exceed the sea postage
Prior to June /, lS57, three lines OF
American steamships were employed I'm
transporting the mails to and from
Europe, receiving subsidies under spe-
cial acts Of Congress amounting 10
81. 2OS,OO0 per annum. The New York
and Liverpool Collins Line reccivedau
annual subsidy Of SS5S,O00 for twenty
six round trips, the New York, South
amptoR and Bremen Line S21o.e00, and
the New York, CoWes and Havre Line
SI5O. 900, for twelve round trips each
per annum.
The contracts with the Bremen and
Havre lines expired on the first Of June.
eighteen hundred and tfty-seyeu, ard
were not renewed but temporary con-
were made with the prOpTietOrs to
continue the service on both routes for the
States hostages on the mails con-
veyed, thus inaugurating a system Of
selfSustaining ocean mail service, subse-
luently adopted as the policy oftne Gov
By act of June fourteenth,
eighteen h~undredand fifty-eight, limiting
the compensation to the sea and United
inland postage when the convey
ance IS bv an American, and 70 the SCI
postage only when by a foreign vessel.
The service Of the New York and Liv-
collins Line ceased in the month
IF February, 1858, since which time the
mails have been carried between those
ports for the hostages.
In 1858, the average earnings Der
'ound trip Of American steamships, re-
sea and inland postages, was
z ,l25 between New York and Liverpool,
S,62l between New York, Southampton
md Bremen, and S7,49l between New
York, southampton and Havre.
In 1853 American steamers received
199,16l, averaging S7,663; and foreign
.teamers. employed as United States
nail packets, Sl25-3f9i averaging AI15O
Il per trip.
In 1860 An. ricau steamers received
2S,I49, ave-aging S7,G04; and foreign
steamers S147,0 S5, averaging S2,S2S per
rip.
In 1861 American steamers received
I57,174, averaging S6,S33; and foreign
teamers S23jI13, averaging S2,74O per
rip.
In 1862 American steamers received
30, 500, averaging S5,5S4; and foreign
reamers S2S5, SSi, averaging S2,O94 per
rip.
In 1858 the entire Transatlantic service
performed BY foreign steamers, at the
e. hostages only receiving S332,lS4, an
o fS2, SIG per trip.
InlS64the earnings Of foreiCnsteamers
Tere S3Tl, 40, an average Of s2-455; and
1865 S405, 479, an average Of 1870 per
During the rebellion American steam
engaged in the carrying trade be-
this country and Europe were
-ithdrawn from service, resulting to the
dvantage of foreign lines which con-
their regular voyages; and while
NJ subsidies granted by Great Britain
} the Cunard line, and By France to the
recently established between Havre
nd New York, materially aided those
mes, it does not follow that they would
Of have been self-suppOrting- and even
.~munerative, without such aid; neither
As this department information var
the conclusion that American
mes would not have been sustained
ring the same period under the pro-
of the existing law allowing the
States postage as compensation
7 the service.