Connecticut western news., 1874-12-11
U. $. POSTAL DEPARTMENT.
Report of Inc Postmnsscr-G cnerBl for th,
 Last Fiscal Year.

Report of IhC P0stmasscr-C cnerBl for the
 Last Fiscnl Year.
 The ordinary revenues of the United States Postal Department, arising from sales of postage stamps, stamped en- velopes, newspaper wrappers, and post al cards, letter and newspaper postage, box-rents, and other emoluments, fines, penalties, and forfeitures, money found in dead letters that could not be re- turned to the writers, and miscellane- ous items, during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1875, were $24, 4,596, 568 94, and the expenditures of all kinds $32, 126,- 414 58. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 1873, the revenues from the same source were $22, 929, 157.57, and the ex- penditures of all kinds $29, ,O84, 945. 67. For the last fiscal year there was an in- crease of revenue, exclusive of revenue from the money-order business and from official stamps, of $1, ,674, ,411.27, or 7.30 per cent, and an increase of OK penditures of $3,041, ,468.91, or 10.457 per cent. A comparison of the fiscal year 1873'74 with 1871-'72, shows an in crease in revenue, exclusive of revenue from the money order business and from official stamps, of $3, 130, 576.2S, or IA. 5S per cent, and in expenditures of $5, ,468, ,222.27, or 2O.51 per cent. The increase or decrease in each item of revenue or expenditure during the fis- cal year 1S73-'74, as compared with the years 1872-'73 and 1871-72, respective ly, is shown by Table No. 2 accompany ing the report of the Third Assistant Postmaster-G General. To the ordinary revenue of the Department should be added the amounts drawn and expend- ed for subsidies to mail-steamship lines ($662, ,500, which will show the amount drawn during the year from the general treasury, under the appropriations to meet deficiencies, to have been $5, ,259,- 933.55, against $5,265. .475 in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1873.
 ESTIMATES FOR 1876.
 The estimated expenditures for the year
 ending June 80, 1876, are.......... $36, ,964, ,034 The ordinary revenues are es-
 tmated at 12 per cent. over
 those of the past fiscal year,
 making .-......:.. .....; .$27,54S,156 Estimate revenued from the
 money-order business. 1O0,0CO Estimated revenue from ofh-
 cial postage stamps and
 stamped envelopes supplied
 the various Departments. 1,5O0,0O0 Making the total estimated revenue for
 the year ending June 30 1876 .....,.. 29, 148 156 Leaving deficiency to be appropriated
 out of the general treasury of. $7,8l5,878
 The foregoing estimates do not in- clude the special appropriations to be made out of the general treasury. The number of ordinary adhesive
 postage stamps issued during the
 year 632, 733, ,420 representing l7,275, PAP co Stamped envelopes, plain 65 101 ,50O. ,927,952 80 Stamped envelopes, request ,940 25O 1,733,738 40 Newspaper wrappers, ordinary, 19,-
 
 Postal cards, 91 .O79 00O. ........... 9l0,790 % Official postage-stanps, 32 2320, ,9S5. 1,415,s45 20 Official stamped envelopes and wrap
 pers, 12, 900, BOO OO.................. 353, ,456 66 The whole number Of postage-stamps
 stamped envelopes, newspaper
 wrappers, and postal cards
 9O5, ,45l ,3O5, of the value 23,937,526 62
 Third Assistant Postmaster General fully sets forth the operations of the dead-letter division of that office dur ing the past year, which may be sum. marized as follows Number of domes- tic letters received, 4,348, 473 number of foreign letters received, 253, 300; total, 4, 4,601, ,773-representing an actual or nominal value of $4, ,637, 429 OS. Number of letters delivered, 1892, PA, representing B, 909, ,86S. 46 Calculating 225, 893 foreign letters returned, un- opened, to the countries whence they came); number filed for reclamation, "A, 863, representing $24O, 1S3. 62 num- Der at the close of the year either re- maining not acted upon or outstanding in the hands of postmasters for de- livery, 561, 767, representing $4S7,377 number which, containing circulars, or, failing in delivery and being worthless, were destroyed, 2,622, ,619. The num- Der of applications for dead-letters was 6,425. In 2,14O of these cases the let ters were found and properly delivered.
 The number of recorded complaints for the past year of missing letters of value was 5, 233, of which 2,040 were registered and 3,193 unregistered. The registered letters contained, as report ed, in bonds, drafts and currency, $105, 778. 80, and.the unregistered, $189,- 301.70. Of the registered letters, 9l5 were satisfactorily accounted for, 507 ore reported as actually lost, and SIS cases are in the hands of special agents for investigation. During the year, 285 persons were arrested for violations of the postal laws and regulations. Of these, go have been convicted, 15 have been acquitted, five have escaped before trial, two forfeited bail, prosecu- tion was abandoned in 38 cases, and 126 are awaiting trial.