The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-11-19
GOVERNMENTAL REPORTS.
Annual Report Of the Postmaster Gene

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The annual report OF the Hon. Alexander W. RAN
dali Postmaster General has not yet been finished,
but all the statistics and the ordinary information
which Is TO be communicates 20 81 ,s IN Decs
ment, finance, contracting and auditing bureaus,
and the material points in the report have already
General for the ordinary expenses Of the
department. including the service q the
mails for 1870, Is placed at va, S4o,s 10 Ins
service to China, Japan, Brazil and the sandwich
Islands, which will require an additional sum OF
sI2Sooo The entire receipts Of the department. fSs
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1865 derived rom the
s s 300 q aoo stamps postage collected &C. t ars
fas tSe %neS q
that the expenses Of the department. nsvs
the receipts. i win sfe ALSO show that the
expenditures have been so great that they nave
preparations and all the funds standing to the credit
OF the department 30 that the department has
nothing to fan back upon except the current re,
this condition OF affairs win ask for de-
hciency appropriation for the current year OF
$4OO0,00O. The overland mail SERVICE
very expensive enterprise, has tended greatly
to increase the deficiency, owing to the fact thar
last Year The new and expensive NAH routes estaS
lished In July last by an Get OF Congress will also help
to swell the deficiency The Postmaster General
does not expect the department to pay its expenses
OF the ordinary receipts and says that the latter
will be inadequate In the future as they have been
IN tfe past TO SuppOrt tuo INC lTcc ucuVc-
ry system cost for the year s4 SO. The report
win allude In detail to the nonpaying routes and
will show that the maintenance or the postal service
on expensive routes in the remote States and Terri
tories has cost $3.50, 900. or this sum only
s,0l47oo 20 has been reimbursed by postalEreceipts
The restoration or the old and the opening OF the
new routes in the South and Southw estern States,
which were suspended during the rebellion, have
been the source Of large expenditures. The
excess OF the expenditures over the receipts
In those States Ia $1,335 900. The foreign mail
service, the railroad postal car system and other
matters OF large expensei are also alluded to BY the
Postmaster General as helping to make up the de-
ncencies. The working Of the money order system
is alluded to with satisfaction. The system continues
to grow in general favor and Is selfsupportng Tho
number Of orders has increased from In 1897
to So, 1897 In 1865 having nearly doubled The az
gregate amount transmitted In 1867 by this
system throughout the country was $9,2so,s22,
and in 1868 1t is $40, 1877, $685. The amount
OF revenue to the department realized by this system
is s5l,l5S, which Is than sufficient TO pay the
various expenses. The number OF post Offices In
operation In the United States and Territories Is
264sl; the number OF changes OF postmaters during
tho year, 1881; stamps and stamped envelopes sold
during the year, ,0d5 1879; stamps ana stamped en-
yelopes issued to postmasters during the year,
1855, 1874; number OF mail letters delivered by car
rers g., $40 1856; local letters delivered l40ol, 906;
newspapers delivered. 169l0,715.