The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-04

Atchison end Folsom and Tor 40
mai transportation between New FORK
and ca lorna. 49,. 100000
cisco, japan, end China. i,r one year
For steamship service between the United
Statee and Braz,I, for tho same period. $50 600
s165OOOO
For detailed information as to the finances OF the
department, reference s made TO the iun ADD salis
lac ory report OF the Auditor hereto appended.
Inc number OF postage stamps Issued during the
year was 347 784 325, representing $40 SIG G6l;
500 80; stamped envelopes Learing printed cards
and requests, 1883 625, representng $3.50 OO6 76;
max ns in ali sii oss Is, decrease of gs5s YSs S
as compared with the previous year.
Inc aggregate OF stamped envelopes and stamped
wrappers lssued duIinG the year enOed June 30,
hSCe was SsS9a eoa go representing g07 70 an
nearly 90 cent being largely in excess OF issues
during any previous year since the Introduction of
the sale of stamps, envelopes etc. during the
past year amounted to sl22o4729 a. OF s2le 061 20
that extent of the stock remaining unsold in the
hands o. pc stmaseTs which amounted ON the Let of
The ISSUES of postsg pc stamps and stamped en-
yelopes during the current fiscal frou LIST of
issues fos s tho E 9NGs; OF me
being at the late OF more than one million of dollars
The Increased demand since 1st July for envelopes
with printed cards and requests or returning direct
TO the sender, If not promptly delivered to the
The general use OF such enve opes will tend largely
to rec uce the number OF dead letters.
During the year sIxty-six cases of claims, on ac-
count OF robberies by armed forces, involving an
amount OF S4226 06 have been acted upon Fifty
been allowed under the provisions of the acts APP
p0V Apr ~ sa9a lS9a 90 ana March 3 1852 and nne
coming within the provisions of the law.
Contracts.
There were in the service of the Department on
the Both June 1866 6069 contractors for the trans
pOTi alton of the mails.
aggregate ensth $50 s2 mes aSsFegste wSse
transportation II S37 9l4 miles; aggregate annual
route agents, local agen 5, mail messengers, postal
railway clerks and baggage mas ers in cuarge of
So, 4l0,l6 1hls service was divided as follows
Ralroad routesm % Leng aSn b. 81 O92 miles; annual
"a All Sas aSont II e. csnts ner i annuai COST
Steamboat routes-Leneth Ii SAC miles; annual
transportation, Al 962 miles; annualcost $4OS S44
Celenty, etc.-Routes' length, 1874, ,4ss miles;
annual transportaton, 1886 1876 miles; annual
The length of routes was increased over the pre-.
cedlDe year 985s1 mlles the annual transportation,
IL 724 42O miles; and the cost, 81 1893 $50, the in
crease arising principally from the restoration OF
service in the southern States. ..
Atabe herewith annexed shows the tate of pay
per annUm Tor mail transporton in operation in
The late lnsurgent States on the 3oth June, 1866,
vice actually rendered in those states in the year
ending with that date, S7602lS; the difference,
S4Ul0ll, reSultlng from the TACT that much OF the
service was in operation only part OF the year lhe
net postal recelpts from those states for the same
period being $69S,sS5, the liabilities twithou, in;
cluding the compensai ion of route agents. local
ssgI SIS sss anu man e''enR'r' exceed 'n0 f'0''p'' OS
table is annexed showing the mail service in
operation in these States September 3d. 1866 COM
pared with the eondiu9a Of the s.ry,ce IN the same
this SsSs sPs % mp p IN last
there are in operation in the States enumerated
ninety railroad routes with an aggregate length of
Sloa miles, at cost OF $5s7 5Sl per annum twenty.
5557 miles, at cost OF $195 565 per annum and
@ aG FSIss N 4s WITH a. an so go
per annum; making the whole service now in ope-
ration in these States of al grades. 1858 routes,
with en- aggregate length of 01704 miles, at cost
OF 81 S45.623 64 per annum.
Compared with the service in operation on the
LIST November, 1865, viz :-Seyenty one railroad
routes, with an aggregate length of 6,242 2-lO
miles. at a cot of S4S7,257 per annum; twelve
9se9I miles, at cost Of s9S go per annum; and
l64 star service routes, with an aggregate length
Of 1885, miles, at cost OF s17774S per anDum.
1,928 66-lG0 miles, and $3.50 3A annual cost OF rail-
road service; fourteen routes 2971l miles, and
$l02 3O6 annual cost of steamboat service; ana 9S3
routes SS 2605 miles, and 1884 734 "a annual cos of
routes, Al o2 561OO miles, and 81 1S7 1858 "a annual
cost. - . .--r ... ,t .r.r1.
| teImini, and length OF Southern railroad routes not
in operation September 80, 1866: tho number being
only fourteen, and the aggregate Length 696 u 100
Il
| ton, having an aggregate length OF 81703 miles.
shows remarkable progress in the resusciatIon of
the railroad system of the South. There being two
! thousand two hundred and fifty routes in all the
States enumerated, these stat menis snow more t1an
| half the whole number to be in operation, CON
Drsing nearly nne-tenths of the railroad routes All
the routes in these States duly advertised to be
let to contracta part from 1st of January 1885, and
the residue from LIST of July. 1866; but ON a large
numt er OF them no proposals were received under
the advertisement, and many others the bids were
extravagaptly high. In the latter case offers OF the
highest admissible rates were submitted by the De.
! partment to the lowest bidders and in some in
stances negotiations were opened through special
agents, postmasters, and lead ng citizens. b. oil
these means % combined the amount of service here
The existing contracts in all the States named ex-
cept Tennessee will expire on the Both of June, 1867
New advertisements, inviting proposals tor four
issued, under which il is hoped all routes OF real
! utility in the whole section will be let. st.
Foreign Msil Service.
The aggregate amount of postage, sea, inland, and
| foreign, upon the correspondence exchanged with
foreign countries, was So .219 80, beng an in-
year. or this amount 81, $40 800 90 accrued upon
| the mails EXCLAIMED with Great Britain, France
| Pluesa Bremen, Hamburg and Belgium
| $326,34l SO on mails EXCHANGED with the Br lsh
| correspondence transmitted to and from the West
| Indies, Mexico, Central and South America.
| Ihe transatlantic msil steamship lines employed
| in the service of foreign Governments conveyed
mails, the postage on which amounted to 1915 109
and those employ ed in the service OF this depart
| ment conveyed mails, the postages on which
| amounte to 1856, ,691'69.
The United States portion of the poStages uaon
| and the continent of Europe amounted
| $775,647 SO; with the British North American
| Provinces, $1SS 683 53; with the West Indies,
| Mexico, Central and South America, Sl20 07705
he mi nj in tha Tnoi lie