The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-01-12

Thursdays and Saturdays OF each week.
The agents of each of these lines having
declined to transport the mails for the
) reduced rates of sea postage established
, by the additional postal convention with
the United Kingdom, which went into
operation on the first of January, 1870.
! the service was for short time inter
rupted but new arrangements were
speedily concluded on the basis of the
reduced rates of compensation for regu.
lar semi-weekly conveyance of mails TO
Europe by the steamships Of the Liver
pool and great Western Company,
Williams g. Guion agents, on Wednesdays,
and by the steamships of the North Ger
man Lloyds, of Bremen, on Saturdays,
which were soon followed By an arrange
ment with the Hamburg American
Packet Company for an additional week
i ly service on Tuesday, on the same terms,
thus securing tri-weekly dispatch of
mails by steamers of average good speed
At present, three weekly mails are dis
patched from New York to Great Britain
by steamships of the Liverpool 81 Great
/ Western, Cunard and Inman lines sailing
on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Satur-
j DAYS, with an occasional extra mail by
steamships of.thc Cunard line, sailing on
other days Of the week. When the Ger
man st amships of North German Lloyd
and Hamburg line resume their regular
trips, and the new steamers, of Increased
size and greater speed, which have been
rendered by the Ocean Steam Navigation
Company, of Liverpool, for the convey
ance of the mails from New York, Mon
Il, 4 l Al
port and Liverpool, there will be at least
six frst-class weekly lines of s-Atlan-
tic steamships leaving New York for
European ports, sufficient to establish a
regular dispatch of mails to Europe on
each week day, provided the sailing days
Of the respective lines can be so adjusted
as to secure that desirable object.
The United States postage on the
mails conveyed to and from the West In
dies, Mexico, Panama, South Pacific,
Belize, Honduras, amounted to $l20951.-
SO, and the amount paid for the sea con-
veyance thereof was $72,456,81.
[ respectfully renew the recommends
ton made in my last report for an in
crease Of mail service from monthly to
seml-monthly trips on the mail steam
ship route from San Francisco to Japan
and China. Impressed with the great
national importance of maintaining this
line OF American steamships, and the ne
cessity OF providing increased facilities OIL
communication with those counties in
order to retain and extend the CONNER
cial advantages already gained by its es
adjustment, felt it my duty to address
a special communication On the subject
to the Chairman of the Senate Committee
on Post Offices and Post Roads under date
OF 21st April, 1870, [Senate Document No
1875, Fortyfrs Congress, third Session |,
in which statements were presented, OBJ
tanned from official sources, showing the
growth OF our trade with Japan and Chi
Ma since the line was established, and the
amounts of correspondence transported
and the financial results of the enterprise
beg to refer to that communication for
the special considerations which render
it expeQient, in my Judgment, to sustain
this important national enterprise, and to
express the hope that Congress will
promptly pass the bill reported by the
Senate Committee on Post Offices and
Post Roads at the last session, authorizing
an increase of the service to semi-month,
| ly trips under the same terms and condi
tions as the present monthly service
The excess of business of the Depart
ment, as compared with last year, is as
follows: Letter carrier, 116; mails deliy-
cred, l7,740,778 local letters delivered,
3, 1902; newspapers delivered, 5,912,
1875 letters collected, 79,060,370; amount
paid carriers $4,916 1874; postage on TO-
cal matter, $1,569,728. a
During the past year, the Salaries of
%, 492 Postmasters have been readiusted.
The establishment of new offices and the
increase Of salaries will not, it is thought
exceed the appropriation of $4,OO0,000
for the current year.
Whole number of letters received at
the Dead Letter office during the year, d,
152,460, of which 220,415 were foreign
letters; 223, 231 letters containing money
in sums of 81 or more, amounting to S92'.
969.92 of this amount $7,11622 was de.
livered to the writer's or persons address,
ed 1884 letters contained money in
sums less than 81, amounting to 5000.
60 of which 5,056.72 was delivered to the
writer's or persons addressed 1880 let
ters contained checks, drafts, deeds, &C.,
to the nominal valuelof $3,075, 554.9O, of
which So 1886, 10000 was restored; 312.-
6S4 letters were detained for postage not
prepaid 68,l33 letters were misdirected. |
3,016 had no address whatever 382 new
money order offices were created up to
August l. The whole number now open.
2,706 The number of domestic money
orders issued was 1871, 1858, of an aggre-
gate value of $34, 054, 184.71, an increase
of $4,000, 1878. Amount of fees, 1886. !
1850; increase, $59,04490; average
amount of each order, $23.73; profit oil
the money order business, $9O1, 174.63.