The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1868-12-19


We make the following digest Of
The Postmaster 9ener9Is Annual
Report
nSrIM ANN ENrFNSE FOR 1870,
Cho estimate of the Postmaster
General for the ordinary expenses Of
The department, including The ser
vice OF the mails for 1870, Is placed
at sos, ,54O,41 This does not include
the expenses for the special service
in China, Japan, Brazil and the Sand
wich Islands, which will require an
additional sum of 5000.
RECEIPTS.
The entire receipts of The depart
ment for the fiscal year ending June,
1865, derived from The sale OF post
age stamps, postage collected, DC,
are $40, ,292, 800. This Is the ordinary
revenue of the department for the
year, which last year was bat Sl5,-
l37, ,026.
TNCREASEU EAPENpTIUkGS
The report will show that the cN-
peuses oil the department haNe been
in greater proportion
than the receipts. II will also show
that the expenditures have been 50
great that they have absorbed not
only all of the receipts, but all ap-
preparations and all The funds stand
ing to the credit Of the department,
50 that the department. has nothing
to fall back upon, except tue current
receipts Of the coming year.
DETUlENCN APPROPRIATIONS ASK
Ell FOR.
Mr.. Randall, in view OF this cundi-
tlou Of affairs, asks for a deficiency
appropriation for The current year Of
$4,000, 900,
THE OVERLAND MAIL SERVICE,
A very expensive enterprise, has ten
ded greatly to Increasing the def
cheney, owing to the fact that it has
cost largely III excess Of the approprt~
ation,Of last year,
NEW AND EXPENSIVE AlAu4 ROUTES.
New and expensive mail routes,
established in July last by act ot
Congress, also help to SWEET the de-
ficiency
INADEQUACY OT RECEIPTS.
The Postmaster General does not
expect the department to pay its ex.
penses out of the ordinary receipts
and says that the latter will be inad'
equate in the future, as they have in
tho past, to support the service.
FREE DELIVERY SYSTEM.
The free delivery system cost, iOD
The year, $995, ,93+
NoN~PAYINa ROUTE
The report alludea in detail 10 tht
non-paying routes, and shows tha'
the maintenance of the postal ser
vice, on expensive routes In remote
States and Territories, has cost S3,
940, $50. OF this sum, only $I,OI4, 7Oi
has been reimbursed by postal re
Celpts,
BoUTE5 IN THE SOUTH hNp SOUTH
WE8T
The restoration Of the old, and tn
opening Of the new routes in th
South and the Southwest which wer
suspended during the war, have heel
the source of large expenditures. Tn
excess of expenditures over receipt
in those States Ia 81 ,3h, ,000,
OTHER 3iATTFFg0F LARGE FXPFN6
The foreign mail service, the rail
road car system, and other matter
Of large expense are also alluded /
/ By the Postmaster General as hnlT
| ing 10 make up the deficiency
TIE MONEY ORDER SYSTEM.
The working of The money orda
syatam Il alluded 10 by the Postmaf
/, Ter General with satisfaction. Ih
system continues to grow in genars
favor and il self-suppOrtlng. Th
number Of orders has Increased irdr
t67, 496 in 1857, to 9al ,927 in 1868, haJ
| ing nearly doubled. The aggregai
amount transmitted in 1867 by thi
system throughout the country
| =, 90, ,327, and in 1858 is Sl6,197, So
The amount ofrevenuc to the dt
partment realized by this system
more than sufficient to pay the var
Gus expenses.
/ NUMBER or r0ST0FFlCFS.
Thenumber OF po5tOi1iees in Oper
ration in the United States and Te
ritories during the 6seal year is g
4S1.
CHANGES or P0srAfAsTERs.
The number Exchanges OF postma
ters during the year was 1901
STAMPS, ETC.
Stanps and stamped enYelOpi
sold during the year, Sl4,066, III
stamps and stamped envelopes ]
sued to postmasteTs during the yea
), Sl3, ,S63, ,134
LETTERS AND NEWSpAPEEN DELI
Erred.
Number OF mail letters deliver,
by carriers, %, $40, 1856; local letters d
Iivcred, l4,08l ,006; newspapers deli
) cred, 16,9l0,7i5.
The following table will show u
comparative cost OF mail service
the States named for the past thr
years this service has been put
| operation since 1855;
! States, lStG. ls5i less
Virginia ........ sl9l, ,l9l S257 lJs $26t j,
North CHrGliua.. III, ,203 l3i,;i ias,