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The expenditures, including

 ll,5O0, 900, applicable Co the

 Uuhlic debt, are estimated At S2S, ,755, 596 87

 Tho balance which will be in the Treasury on the lst January, 1881, Is estimated at 4,40l,545 Oa, an amount 1t will be seen differ. ing very little from the amount Wf estimated balance on the lst of January next.

 TRe Report of tAe Post. Master General. says the New.YOrk American, being cOmpar- atively of minor importance, we content our selves with making some extracts from it. instead Of publishing tt entire. The history Of the establishment is thus given: When the Federal Government was organ ized under the present Constitution, in i7SS: the Post Office establishment was revised ana perpetuated. There were then. and to the close of l790, only seventy -four Post OIhces in the United States; and the extent ot POST Roads in the United States, in l79O, am0unt- ed to 1875 miles. Now the number of Post Offices is eight thousand and four, and the ! Post Roads amount to ll5,000 miles. 1 The first line of mail coaches tn the United States was established tn pursuance of au Act of Congress, passed September 2, l7SS extending from Portsmouth, in New-Hamp' shire, to Savannah, in Georgia. The trans portatiOn of the mail in coaches amounts, al this time, to 6,5O7,8l8 miles in one year, ant from the first day of January next, it will b' increased to 6,785,8lO miles. The whole yearly transportation of the mail in coaches sulkies, and on horseback, amounts to about lS,70O,O00 miles.

 The whole amount of postages (the only source of revenue to the Departnent) from l78s to July 1, 1899, was Se,44l'4St

 The whole expenses of the Department dur ing the same period, were as follows:

 Compensation to Post

 Masters 7,829,925

 Incidental expenses 896,967

 Transportation of the

 | Mail l6,O52,51S ! 0A.770. 5Os