The New York herald., 1869-01-22

tic, commercial agricultural and Industrial are So 10,
while on the Continent OF Europe the average is con-
seyentyfour cents per day. and In the United States
81 Is. The number OF letter carriers employed by
the Brtisn Post once Department Tor the year 1860
for each man. The number OF letter carriers EN-.
ployed by the Post onice Department Of the United
States for the year 1866 was $685. ana the total ex-
pendtures for the same $3.50 236. being an average
iyered 7o5 900 600 letters for the wear lsss. while
the United States Post ONCE delivered but
66,ooO,ooo. The assertion that the consolidation
increase In the rates for teegraphing is not true In
no instance mas the tariff been increased since the
steady decrease-the rates to more than one thou
sand stations having been lowered, and this
Is stiIl being rapidly continued. The Western Union
OF rates based upon air line distances between all
stations, which will still further simplify and
company favor reduction Of the rates on despatches
a.. as rapidly as the necessary expenses Of
the the saa service viii admit, and 1t offers, 4
receipts for transmitting telegrams to lower
its rates until the reduction upon the gross amount
remitted This would lessen the rate for telegraph
ing nearly ten per cent, and would be far better
plan for furnishing cheaper teegraphc facilities to
the people than the construction and operation of
government lines at the expense OF the national
treasury, not to mention the creation Of q new
lines. In Great Britain, where there are 2l5l tele-
graph stations, seventy.sx per cent. of the entire
receipts are taken in at eighteen stations fifteen per
cent at eightyone stations and only nine per cent
at the residue Even Of the 70 per cent received ut
the eighteen stations One-haf of the whole percent
age was received in London and onequarTer from
the other cities. In France three departments col
lect ATS, 1872 out OF total Of 707 $50 francs per
francs, being more than one-tnird Of the total re-
ceipts OF the whole empire. The Western Union
Telegraph Company derives its revenues IN similar
manner. From 1856 offices 1t receives IS per cent
and from !, 1876 offices rs per cent.
Mr. Hubbard's bill to incorporate the United STATES
and % to
telegraph lines to all cities and villages OF 5000 in
habtants and over in the United States We're this
enter into, partnership with the new COM
pany In the telegraph business in accordance
oe o hs Smaller Of e @ a to 20 the the
census OF 1850 there are only BIG cities and villages
in the United states having the 5000 inhabitants
necessary to entitle them to an office under the pos
tai system. Who, then, Is to maintain telegraphlc
facilities at the remaining 3,S13 towns now having
oflcesg Private companies if driven out Of the
field by the establishment Of this semi government
competing line, could not do it, and as this scheme
makes no provision for them they must necessarily
this bill Arkansas, Florida and oregon would
not be entitled to an office: Minnesota,
Mississippi and sSTh Carolina .nG to but ONE
to but two each Delaware and Tennessee to but
three each; Connecticut, Georgia. Kentucky and
Maine, Missouri, New Hampshire, Rhode Island,
Virginia and Wisconsin would be entitled to less
than ten each, while those provided for the whole
United States would be less in number than the
branch Offces furnished for the convenience OF the
public by the Western Union Telegraph Company at
the hotels docks piers and other places In the large
towns alone. The paper concludes as follows:
The proposal presented to Congress which the gov
ernments Of Europe. from which processes to draw its
spiraton have entertained No there
attempted to engage in any public by
srcton OF the of Its people except after
pensaton The recent example Great Britain acquiring
the British lines Of telegraph s emnenty illustrative Of this
ton OF their structure cbeapenne the value OF their
property nor detaming the officers Of any company,
the British Parliament doubts the valuation
of it's owners and pays price therefor which satisfies the
most exacting In striking contrast TO this Is the
proposed the American Congress- which begins by attack
Ing the integrity OF the official the existing
SYSTEM deprecang the value Of its property and proposing
the competitive use of grand invention which refused
to purchase and proposes, without consideration
possess In such project there s national example
which would give sanction respecabiy in times
OF great national peril and amid the necessities despoc
governments Monarchies have at times seized and made
their own the profitable traffic and pursuits of the people,