*Embraces the steamship service from New York via Panama to San Francisco, Cal., heretofore set down to California. + The Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore railroad is under a Maryland number. This includes steamboat service from Louisville to Cincinnati, Ohio; and from Evansville, Ind., to Cairo, Ill. GILES A. SMITH, Second Assistant Postmaster General. Table showing the increase and decrease in mail transportation and cost during the year ended June 30, 1869. h Occasioned by failures and deaths of contractors, and service having to be re-let at higher pay i Route from Bridgeport to Decatur curtailed to commence at Guntersville, saving 104 miles, and service between Guntersville and Decatur increased to six times a week. Pay on route from Mobile to Selma increased. j Service on 47 miles of route from Vicksburg to Meridian reduced to six times a week, and pay to $75 per mile. Route from York Station, Ala., to Meridian, Miss., 273 miles, put in operation. k This is owing principally to the fact that the service re-advertised in January, 1868, to go into operation July 1, 1868, was let at a much lower rate of cost than had been previously given for it. 7 Steamship service from New York via Panama to San Francisco, Cal., transferred to New York section. GILES A. SMITH, Second Assistant Postmaster General. Statement showing operations and results of foreign mail service for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1869. The postages on United States and European mails were as follows: The aggregate amount of postage (sea, inland, and foreign) on the mails exchanged with the United Kingdom.... With North German Union........ With France... With Switzerland. With Italy.. Total postages..... Being $202,694 71 less than the amount reported for the previous year. The postages on mails sent to Europe were as follows, viz: To Great Britain... To North German Union.. To France... To Belgium.. Total..... The postages on mails received from Europe were as follows, viz : From Great Britain.... From North German Union. From France... From Belgium... Total.... Postages collected in the United States. Excess of collections in the United States.... Number of letters sent from the United States.... $661, 112 50 521,236 22 243, 026 96 11,563 04 17,583 59 30,286 20 18,964 54 1,503, 773 05 $347,617 05 257,104 27 133,370 33 5,752 05 9,001 19 14,191 90 7,333 80 774,370 59 $313, 495 45 264, 131 95 109,656 63 5,810 99 8,582 40 16,094 30 11,630 74 729,402 46 $939, 348 95 564,424 10 374,924 85 6,083, 504 5, 345, 047 Total..... 11,428 551 Being an increase of 1,359,892 over the number reported for the previous year. The excess of postages on mails sent from the United States to different countries of Europe over that accruing on mails received from the same countries was as follows: The excess of postages accruing on mails received over those sent was as follows: North German Union.... |