The Post-office

During last year, (1842) the revenue derived by the Department frora the North was $600,000 more than its ex)enditure - white in the South, the expenditures exceeded the receipts, by $571,000. The total lengtli of the mail routes in the free states, is 70,390 miles - the toal transportations, 20,506,882: and the otal annual cost, #1,598,875V In the lave states, the length of route is 75,636,niles - transportaron, 14,489,643, and he annual rate of cost $1,575,500. - While the North is taxed over half a milion annually to keep the Department in operation at the South, we can look for nothing but exorbitant postages, and corcive measures to have newspapers, magazines, &c. conveyed by mail, at an expense ten times as great as would be ncurred if sent by the expresses. The ïeople are very patiënt in all things which nvolve their allegianceto the slave povvr - but their endurance must be greater hiat we have estimated it, if they will ear this increased taxation without