New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-12-30
POSTAL INTELLIGENCE.

MARKED INCREASE OF BUSINESS IN THE MONEY
ORDER DEPARTMENT-THE NORTON DEFALCA-
TIoN-AwARDs FOR OCEAN MAIL SERVICE.
In no department of the Post Office has
business increased in greater proportion than IN the
Money Order Department comparison of tho bust
with that done in the period last year Is OF
interest:
issued aggregated s21s5 50; Tor the corresponding
week of 1873 s6s95 So an increase Of lo 90 For the
week ending Dec 90 1872 the money orders paid aggre
gated $l5,0l5 81 for the corresponding week OF 1873
49, an increase OF Sell Ihe aggregate ian a~o Sns
1868 for the corresponding week OF 1879 NiiSO' an
increase OF $i4.965.
The surplus funds Of all the post-offces throughout
the United States transmi.tedto the New York Post
Office receIped for by the Postmaster and turned over
to the United States Sub-Treasurer. For tho woek
ending Dec 90 1872 the aggregate amount received was
S2A for the corresponding week OF 1879 fg96s an
increase OF s5732 The increase Of business IN
the Money Order Department for the past year has been
about 80 per cent.
Gen. NJ. Larme HARRISON special Post Office agent, Ia
affidavit to rebut tho evidence OF John
W. Norton che Post Office defauter Norton swore
that Cen Harrison at consultation held with his SUI
rites in May last promised If Norton surrendered his
property TO the Government. and thus made up
the greater part of the defaoa,ion, he would
agree not to prosecute him. THIS Is denied
by Harrison, who claims that what bo said WAS that IL
Norton wife surrendered their property. appraised
ct 500 OOO while the defacaon Amounted 10 l5 O00 he
would certify the Attorney that Norton had
made all the restitution that he could and recommend
that the complaint against him be dismissed. The con.
ditions were not complied WITH the property was not
surrendered. and when the Attorney was APP
phed he said it would be time enough to move In the
matter when restitution had been made.
The Postmaster General has ordered that letters and
correspondence Of all kinds for NewZeslsnd and Aus
traa Francisco, be sent daily from this city to
that place of being made up I'm fortnighty mall
as has the heretofore The mails for those
points will hereafter be made up in San Francisco
In accordance with the plan settled upon by Post
master General Creswell, Mr. Bsckfan, Superintend
emit OF the Foreign Mail Service and Post
master James OF this city, the awards for
carrying the mails have been made for
January. There will be "a mails dispatched The White
Star steamers Will carry five; the Hamburg American.
Ss Williams mSr o and The oo The
White Star line ca lies the malls Tor The United Kn Inc
carries the Brit h. German, Belgian. Netherlands,
Swiss, and Italian closed mails via Plymouth the French
mails via cherbourg and the German drec, mail the
Swiss. Danish Swedish and Norwegian closed mails via
Hamburg The Sorh German Syd sws
and italian closed mails via Southampton. tho
German direct. an Swiss Danish, s swedsh
The Williams & Guion and the Cunard steamers carry
Italian closed mails via Queenstown. The Williams &
GuiOn Company was the only one which competed FOR
Tuesday mail for Great Bfltaln ana the continent,
with the exception of that Of the 9th OF January. for
which date the con,ractwas awarded TO Messrs Kuhne
g. Knauth OF the Eagle line. For Thursdays mail the
Hamburg American Company was the only one that
competed. The next awards will probably be made
about Jan. 10. The Postmaster General wishes in
each case send the mail by tue fastest steamer
on each sailing day. IL intended that the closed mail
for the Continent shall be sent by the
line via Plymouth, on Saturdays by the Bremen line
via southampton. The Williams & Guon Company
omitted to furnish the or their steamers sail
each Tuesday IN January. Whenever the steamers OF
the White Star line leave early In the day, they
sometimes compelled To do their great draft compels
them TO bar Ut high tide, ira mail will be
made up treat Britain and Ireland, and dispatched
by the Bremen line. which sails promptly at p. m.
The schedule OF the departure OF mails from this port
under tins arrangement is as follows. for January:
jan l. Hossa (smburg Amsrean) Sd Baltic white Stsr 81
Rheiu North Lloyd; Oh Wisconsin Williams Guion
cslsbna unsil; sb Cmbns Hamburg Amehan)i IOt Oce.nc
White stan; 10Th weser North Gesman Loy l3h Nerada VIII
ADennG l7 Repobhe white siaE l7tb Nuremberg Orih Ger
Lod); 2Uth, Manhattan civilians Guon); 2l, Russia
tCunsr; pa. ses 1ianbus Amehcan 2iih Adrate White
Sts 2ih Msu North Germsn Loyd) 9th Wyoming Williams
Guion) 9Th, Hrier age) 2oih Java Cunardl 29h Psa
ambug Amecan 3ls Celtic White starts 3lst. Donao North
German Lloyd).
It understood that the Inmsn. National State, An
eh0r. Great Western, General TRANSATLANTIC. and the
South Wales Atlantic lines, will compete for the next
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