Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-12-07

anu FORMING business fclAlOhs Win every part
| OF the known world, navy strong enough to
command the respect OF our Aag abroad is
necessary for the full protection OF their rights
1 l recommend careful consideration by Con.
gress of tue recommendations made by tic
Secretary of the Navy.
POsToFFICE DEPARTMENT.
The accompanying report of the Postmaster
General furnishes II iull and satisfactory ex.
hiblt OF the operations of the PustOflice De.
partment during the year The ordinary rev.
enue OF the department for the fiscal year end
ing June Both, 1872, amounted to sci ,0l5,4a6
81, and the expenditures, S28, ,65S lg23l. Com.
pared with ihe previous fiscal year the in
crease of revenue was $l,S79, ,2S095, or 937 per
cent, and the increase of expenditures So ,26S,
| O5o,23, or 920 per can't Adding to the ordin-
AIRY revenue tue annual appreciation OF $780,
900 tor free matter, and tue amounts paid TO
the subsidies on mail steamship lines from
special appropriations. the deficiency paid out
of the general TTcasury was $3,3l7, ,76j. .04, an
excess oi $3S97,007.2S over the deficiency for
Tue year 1871. Other interesting statistical in-
formation relating To our rapidly extending
postal service - furnished in this report. The
total length of railroad mail routes on the Both
Of June, 1872, was 57,Yll miles, S,077 addition
al miles o such service having been put inlo
operation during tue year. Eight new lines
Ol railway postoihces have been established
with an aggregate length OF 2,o09 miles. The
NUMBER OF letters exchanged in the mails with
foreign countries was "A 1862 300, an INCREASE Of
| 4OOO0O2, or twenty per cent over the number
III 1871, and the postage thereon amounts TO
! $lS7 ,l25, ,725. The total weight OF the mails
exchanged with European countries exceeded
| $40 IONS. The cost OF the United States trans
Atlantic mail steamship service WAS $32J 30l,-
! ~. The total cost of The United States ocean
steamship service, including the anOunts paid
| To the subsidized linrs OF mail steamers, was
Sl,O21 ,O2O.s7 The following are the only
steamship lines now receiving subsidies for
mail service, under special acts of Congress
| The Pacific Mail Steamship Company receive
| 100000 per annum, for carrying monty
mail between San francisco, Jap IN and China,
which will be Increased to 81 900 900 per an
Nnum for semi-mOnthly mail, ON and after
October 1st, 1873. Tue United States and Bra.
I'll Mail sleamship Company receive $l5O, 300
per annum for carrying d monthly mail he
tween New York and Rio dc Jancrio, Brazil
and the California, Oregon and Mexico Steam
| snip Company receive $4,000 per annum for
carrying IN Jnthly mail between San Francis
Co and honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, making
the Total amount Of mail steamship subsidies at
| present S12j,O0O per annum. Our postal com
| municatlUns with ull parts of the civilized
world have been placed upon a most advanta-
geous footlng by the improved postal cUnven-
| llOns, aud The arrangements recently conclud-
| ed with the leading commercial countries of
| Europe aud America. The gratifying state
| ment is made that, with the conc. usion OF
| satisfactory convention with France, the de-
tails vi which have been definitely agreed to by
| The head of the French postal department, sub
Ject TO The approval ol the Minister OF Finance,
| llttle remains To be accomplished by the treaty
| Tor some lime to come, in respect to the reduC-
| ton OF rates or improved facilities for postal
| intercourse. Your favorable consideration is
respectfully invited to the recommendations
made by the Postmaster General for an in
crease OF service from monthly to semi-month-
| ly trips on the mail steamship route to Brazil;
Tor subsidy tor the establishment OF an
American line Of mail steam rs b tween San
Francisco, New Zealand and Australia; for
the establishment OF pOst-Utfice saving banks,
and for the increase OF the salerics OF the heads
ol bureaus. L have heretofore recommended
the abolition OF the tranking privilege, and see
no reason now for changing my views on that
subject. 1t not having been iavordbly ret ard
ell Dy Congress, however, | now suggest IA
mobilization Of that privilege, to correct its
g!arlng and costly abuses. | would recon-
mend, also the appointment of II committee on
| commission to take into consideration the best
method, equitable to private corporations who
| have invested their time aud capital in the eS-
laDlishmenL of telegraph lines now in opera
| tlon, anu ot connecting this service with the
postal service ot the nation. 1t is not probable
that this subject could receive the proper con
sideration during the limits of u short session
of Congress, but ii may be initiated So that
further action may be fair to the government
| ana To private parties concerned. There are
| but three lines ol ocean steamers namely, the
| Phcihc Mail Steamship Company, between
san Francisco, Cnna and Japan with pro-
vision made for semi-monthly service alter
| October, lst, 1873; the United States and Bra.
I'll line, monthly, and the California, New
Zealand and Australian line, monthly, plying
between the United States and foreign ports,
and owned and operated under our flag. |
| recommend ihpr
| tracts lor carrying the mails be authorized
with these lines as will insure their c1ntinu.
ance. Ii the expediency of extending the aid
OF Tie government to lines of steamers which
! hitherto have not received il, should be deem
| cd worthy OF the consideration OF Congress
political and commercial Gbiecs make il adj
| visable to bcslow sucn aid on line under our
| haS between Panama and the Western South
American ports. BY this means much trade
now diverted to other countries might be
brought to us, to the mutual advantage OF this
country and those lying III that quarter of the
continent OF America.
THE CARRYING TRADE.
The report Of the Secretary of the Treasury
will show All alarming falling off in oar car
rying trade for the last len or twelve years,
and even for the past year. / do not believe
that the public treasure can be better eXpend-
ell in the interests of the whole people than in
trying To recover this trade. An expenditure
OF 50 ,U00OOO per anum for the next hYe years.
ititwOuld restore To us our prop p1rtion OF the
carrying trade Of the world would be prof.
table expanded, The price oflaOor ia Europe
has 50 much enhanced within the last few
years that the cost of building and operating
ocean stetmers in the United States is not 50
much greater than in Europe that believe
the time has arrived for Congress To take this
subject into serious consideration.
KU KLUX.
Detailed statements OF the disbursement
through the Department of Justice will be fur
nished by the report of the Attorney General
| and though these have been somewhat iucrAs-
ed by the recent acts of Congress to enforce
the rights ol citizens of the United States to
vote in the several States OF the Union aud to
force the provisions ofthe fourteenth amend
ment 10 the Constitution OF the United States,
and the amendments thereto. cannot ques-
tlon the necessity and salutary effect of these
enactments Reckless aud lawless men, l
regret to say, have associated themselves to-
gelher in some localities TO deprive other clti-
zens of the rghs guaranteed 10 them by the
Constitution or of the United States, and 10
that end have com nitted deeds OF violence,
but the prosecution and punishment of many
of these persons have tended greatly 10 the
repression fsuch disorders, do not doubt
thata great majority OF the people, in all
parts of the country, favor 10 the full enjoy
/ mpnt hv nil clnssps of DersOnS of those rights