New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-12-19
sixth Auditors HerOrt.

The report OF the Slxtn = uuIlor ioi ZIG
fiscal year ending June 3oth, has been pub
lished. Unlike either of the other Auditors,
this office is required to make tvo annual re-
ports, one to the Secretary OF the treasury
and the other to the Postmaster General
Together they make a volume of nearly sew
enty pages, every one of which is pregnant
with important and interesting facts. Each
report is entirely distinct from the other
that to the Secretary of the Treasury being
devoted exclusively to the labor performed in
the Sixth Auditors Office, as part OF the
Treasury Department, and that to the Post
master General to detailed statement of
the financial condition and general operation
of the Post Office Department.
In looking over this report, and the state
ments of the principal clerks, or Chief of Di-
visions, to the head of the Bureau, We are
gratified to state that far more decent re-
spect is paid to the kings English than
in the report commented upon last week,
and for which, we fear, we were mis-
understood. Indeed, we find very little to
crticise. And yet there is a single sugges-
ton we will make to the Principal Clerk Of
the "Stating Division" If we were required
to give him the circulation Of our paper, and
should inform him that it was from t,centy
thousand to fifteen thousand, and that the
subscription price is from tao dollars and fifty
cents to t,co dollars, he might very properly
hint that our sliding scale had been turned
wrong end up, or, that we had put the cart
before the horse. From t,centy-t,co hundred to
tpenty-eight hundred, and from five hundred to
one thousand would seem to be a form of ex-
preston more in accordance with good usage
than the one he adopts. But our purpose is
to give our readers some Of the facts with
which the report abounds, rather than to fer
ret out its triding imperfectiops Of language.
A most striking feature of the report is the
very great increase in the business of the Of
fee as exhibited by comparison with the
report for 1871. For instance, the number
of quarterly accounts annually received for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1871, was
IL, $50. For the last fiscal year they were
ll9 ,204, being an increase Of 6,643.
The amount involved in the settlement of
Postmasters' accounts in the year 1871 was
800, llo, $50, and in 1872 to s2l SCI 500, be-
ing an increase Of about million and half
Of dollars.
The whole number of general postal &C.
counts for this year number 80, 065, and last
year 80, 324, being an increase of LA.
| During the present fiscal year the accounts
of contractors settled were in number 2S,-
364, amounting to sll, 793, 935-Foreign l68
| in number, and s ,022, Sic in amount. Last
year they were q, 456 in number, amounting
to s10, 959, 1850. Showing an increase of 1OS
accounts, amounting to SS33,579.
| The money-order system of the Govern
ment, though, as yet, almost in its infancy,
has already begun to assume magnificent
proportions, and is rapidly increasing in popu-
larity and Importance. The people Of every
part of the Union are availing themselves as
rapidly as possible Of its great advantages,
and even foreign nations are beginning to
adopt it. AS it is a subject of so much gen.
eral interest, We give from the report the fol-
lowing comparison Of the extent of the money
order business for the present year with 1871 !:
Number ofmoney-order state
mcnts received, examined,
andregiStered during the tis-
cal year ended June 80, 1872 lG4,99G
Number OF money-order state
| ments received, examined,
and registered during the
fiscal year ended June 80,
1871 Observation-Disclosures. 109, 22l
increase ......-........ 5J,1 ,
Aggregate ofmoney-orders is