Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-12-07

Tho report Of the Postmaster General for
the fiscal year ending joy 30, 1850. 10 CON-
paratively brief document, being confined
10 sAaAsAlies cad a. sccouNs 81 postal opera
siows daring tLc year, with . few RECON-
mcndAtions. The receipts during the year
amount Cd 10 "a, ~, 966 81, aud the expen.
ditures 10 els, So, O7e. 80, leaving deficit
Of Sy65, O030Y. The decrease Of revenue 10
one aud one fifth per cent, and the increase
Of expenditures ~ per cent. The estimate
Tor 1865 are. for expenditures, $17, 5S3, 900 +;
receipts, $l5, 500, 1856, leaving an excess Of
$l,716,G6j. No special appropriation will
to needed for this deficit, the appropriation
of previous years being sufficient. The fol-
loving special appropriations are asked =
For overland and marine transportation be-
tween New York and California, 5000, 900.
for steamship service from San Francisco e
China and Japan, $500, 900 for similar ser.
vice between the United States and Brazil
$l5, 900 total, 81, 100000.
The number Of stamps issued during ths
year was 347 ,744 ,325, and OF stamped envcl
opcs, 30, 366;2O0 the former repi cscnting Z
value VI elO.S 1861, and tbs latter cog l ),
5oo.50. The aggregate representative value
Of amps, envelopes, &c, was 81 1885,, 65S,.
"a decrease Of $S5S, 100 20, as compared
with the previous year. The sale Of stanps
and envelopes during the same time amount
Cd to <ie, s04,729 81, being IN excess of the
new issues $2l6,061 30. The sales Of
stamped envelopes aud wrappers are nearly
80 per cent in excess of those Of the pre-
ccding year. There is also q marked in
crease in the demands for envelopes bearing
printed cards and requests. The latter tend
greatly to reduce the number Of dead lets
| tiers.
Under the head Of Transportation Sta.
tlstics, considerable interesting information
is furnished. Tho aggregate number ol
contractors on the 30th Of Jupe last rs
5000 mail routes in operation, 1850; ag>
g,ceatc length, lsO,?2l miles aggregate
annual transportation, IL $751;, 9l4, ct cost
of$s, 4l0,lS The railroad routes amounted
to 2.oy2 miles annual transportation, 80
6o9, i67 miles, at = cost Of %, SOL, 500
about II cents per mile The length OF
steamboat routes was IL, 346 miles miles
run. 3,4ll ,So2. costing tA4O, ga, o. about
IL cents mile. The additions 10 postal
routes during the year amounted to 70 ,66l
miles.
The aggregate amount Of postage on for
eign letters, &c, was $2,2S9,2l9 3o-an in>
crease of e469, 200 70. or this som, 81 $40
500 % accrues frots mails exchanged With
Great Britain, France, Prussia. Bremen,
Hamburg, and Belgium, and $32S, 34l 33
from sxchsages With British American
Provinces. The number Of letters exchang.
Ell with foreign countries MAS 9,43O. $40, Of
which S,56A,s41 were with European coun-
tr,es; ass, 9lG wcfe cent from, and 4,543,.
$50 vers received 10, the United States. -
Ths nunber e newspspers sent abroad NJ
$500, 44e; number received. 1881, 794.
A liberal postal convention has been con-
eluded with Italy, and new treaty asrang-
ed WITH England comforting important ad
vantages to the United Stats.
The number Of postoikices established du.
ring the vesr Was l,l4s; number discontin-
ucd, VS6; postUoAces 10 operation June 80,
1906, -, SO, Of which 30, $50 we're in the
teyai. and s.77S in the insurgent States.
TIE free delivery system for Letters 10 cit.
les is growing into iases. Tho number 81
dsad -lsttses amounted 70 about four and !
half million. An investigation into Il,
caused = ssoNdslivGey cou6sas he stSls
,nsnt o. the lAst sspov{, that three. 1burths .
those which faite roach thsie deetiaotioe
do 40 through the fzuit q the writer's.
The aneuut e uuaUtFvrumifaA undo
the postal u1ouey ssasr systeM woe - ,of7,
259 2s, in ~, 600 sedssA The excess q
receipts from the systaa over expeudituss
was 81, 1873 70. The boslneos efthis bssncl
Of ~ department has trebled In the LEI
year.
, Among H. tcn6 q legiGlatisa susosste
I-&-- ~ A
postal money orders and rsgistered letter,
increase Of the salaries Of the postsGRs
clerks and other employees; authority I
appoint a superintendent o! foreign mail
aud another Of dead listers; and still farsh,
amsndment d the franking law, preventin
the abuse Of its privileges.