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We observed an article in Saturdays lntelhgeneer, in which notice is taken of a rumored deficiency in the funds of the Post-office Department.

 he administration Of the affairs Of that department, by its present chief, has been distinguished by rapid extension of mail routes to every quarter of the Union, and by such improvements upon the great arte- ries of communication as have secured to to the principal cities, opportunities ofmore frequent and rapid correspondencewith each other.

 By the last Congress an act establishing an unusually large number of post roads was passed. This threw upon the depart ment load, which, with the unexpected increase in the price of the contracts fer the eastern section of the Union, was shewn in the last annual report of the Post master General, to amount to heayy sum, the most of which was exclusively for the new routes, which are always unproduc- tive at the beginning.

 This heavy and unavoidable expendi- ture, with the cost of the great improve ments before made, the productiveness of some of which has not answered the ex- pectations of the Postmaster General, were found, during the present year, to have carried the expenses of the department be- yond it's receipts, though it is believed not much beyond it's actual credits, if the sums due 10 1t could be promptly colIected.-~ Yetas this cannot be done, the Post-mas- ter General has applied himself with ener- gy to the business of eurtailing the expen- ses in way, which, together with the great saving effected with the contracts just let in the South, will soon bring them within the current revenue of the department.

 In the mean time the credit of the de- partment IS unshaken, and the annual re- port which the Postmaster General is short 1 ly to submit to the President, will fully ex- hibit its condition, and, we believe, will flil- ly satisfy the public of the faithful and cor- rect administration of it's concerns.