Postage by the New York, Southampton, and Bremen Line of Steamers. The following are the rates of postage prescribed by the act of the 3d of March, 1845, for mailable matter sent by this line to Europe: For all letters and packages not exceeding half an ounce in weight, 24 cts. For all letters and packages over half an ounce and under one ounce, 48" For every additional half-ounce,

For every letter, newspaper, pamphlet, and price-current,

15"

3"

The United States postage will be charged in addition to the above upon all mailable matter sent through the mails of the United States to New York, whence the ships sail for Bremen.

It should be prepaid on letters addressed to any of the following countries and places, viz.: Denmark, Norway, St. Petersburgh or Cronstadt, Sweden, Alexandria, Austria (empire and provinces), Baden, Basle and other parts of Switzerland, Bavaria, Cairo, Constantinople, Greece, and the eastern towns of Italy. On letters addressed to the following countries and places, the foreign postage, to the place of destination, may be added to the United States postage, and the whole be prepaid, or the American postage alone may be prepaid, - -or the whole postage may be left unpaid, at the option of the sender, viz.:

Altona,

:

Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 12 cents.

Bremen,

Brunswick,

Cassel,.

Coburg,

Darmstadt,

6 cents.

6 cents.

Nothing. Nassau, .
Oldenburg,

Prussia (kingdom and prov

Saxe-Altenburg,

Saxe-Meiningen,

Saxe-Weimar,

Saxony (kingdom),
Schaumburg-Lippe, .

Schwartzburg-Rudolstadt, 12

Schwartzburg-Sondershau

222

12

12

66

12 66 •

Lubec, .

9 66

sen,

12 66

The postage on single letters, not exceeding half an ounce in weight, from any part of the United States to Havana, or any part of Cuba, is 12 cents; to Chagres, 20 cents; to Panama, 30 cents; all to be prepaid. On letters for any South American port on the Pacific, or for the Sandwich Islands, the postage to Panama only is to be prepaid. A single letter to Halifax by the British steamer is rated at 5 or 10 cents, according to distance; to Upper Canada and New Brunswick, 10 cents; to Lower Canada 5 cents, all to be prepaid. These rates to Lower and Upper Canada and New Brunswick pay only to the lines, whence the letters are immediately forwarded to their place of destination.

Newspaper and Pamphlet Postage.

On each newspaper sent between Great Britain and the United States, except by the Bremen line, (see p. 155,) the postage is 4 cents, -2 cents to be paid in each country. On each newspaper sent to or from a foreign country, through Great Britain, the postage is 4 cents, to be paid by the party sending or receiving it. There must be prepaid on each newspaper to Cuba by the Charleston and New York steam-packets, 4 cents; to Chagres, Panama, any South American port on the Pacific, or to the Sandwich Islands, by steamer from Charleston, 4 cents; and to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Upper or Lower Canada, 14 cents. On each periodical and pamphlet between Great Britain and the United States, the United States postage is 2 cents, if not over 2 ounces in weight, and 1 cent. per ounce or fraction of an ounce over 2 ounces, always to be prepaid. additional British postage of the same rate, when not exceeding 2 ounces, must be paid in England; but the third ounce raises the British charge to 6 pence, with 2 pence additional for each additional ounce. 7. Table of Mail Service for the Year ending June 30, 1849.*

States.

Length
of

routes.

Annual Transportation.

Mode not In
In
In
specified. Coaches. Railroad. Steamboat.

An

Total Transpor- Total tation. Cost.

*The entire service and pay of the route are set down to the State under which it is numbered, though extending into other States, instead of being divided among the States in which each portion of it lies.

†This is for express service; the regular steamboat service on Lake Champlain being performed by a New York route.

I The Baltimore, Wilmington, and Philadelphia Railroad is under a Maryland number.

§ This embraces the steamboat service from St. Louis to New Orleans.

This embraces the steamboat service from Louisville to Cincinnati, and from Louisville to New Orleans.

This includes the route from Mobile to New Orleans.

8. Number of Post-Offices, Extent of Post-Routes, and Revenue and Expenditures of the Post-Office Department; with the Amount paid to Postmasters and for Transportation of the Mail, since 1790.

*The returns for 1846, 1847, 1848, and 1849 are for the first four years under the new law, passed March 3, 1845.

X. REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.

[From a Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, December 24, 1849.]

1. Statement of Duties, Revenues, and Public Expenditures during the Fiscal Years ending June 30, 1848, and June 30, 1849.

The receipts into the Treasury were as fol

Year ending Year ending June 30, 1848. June 30, 1849.

$11,106,257.41 $8,991,935.07 5,379,152.74 5,181,870.56

9,383,092.92 8,378,676.79

5,888,567.89 5,794,256.40