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lOl, ,e56 Os Alter history, somewhat in detail, Of the Mail routes and contracts, the Postmaster

 General goes on to say:

 On entering the Department, my attention

 was, at an early day, drawn to the manner in

 which its funds were received and disbursed. Circumstances transpired at the very threshold of this inquiry. which indicated l0oscness and responsibility entirely incompatible with that system which ought to characterize eve- " branch of the public service. Monies had been advanced to different persons contrary to law |; and persons in the immediate em- plOyment of the department, who receive stipulated salaries, defined ndapprOpriated by law. had received monies iD advance frOm the funds Of the department, beyond the allow ances so provided, and which had not been appropriated.

 He then suggests the mode in which here after the accounts are to be kept, so as to prevent the mingling of private with public monies, or the salaries of the officers with the receipts from the Olice.

 The public were not prepared. we imagine, to see the official conduct of the late Post. Master General thus assailed more especial y as bis was the only department. of which the efficiency. and perfect accountability in it's money concerns, met with unqualified praise from last years famous Committee of Retreachmcnt

 MT. ClGy.-A gentleman of Philadelphia IS procuring subscriptions tO a likeness of Henry Clay, to be drawn on stone, under the direction Of Mir. Childs, by Albert Nescsom the deaf and dumb artist.

 MGine.-Another runsuccossfisl triaIhas been made to elect a representative to Congress rom the district represented in the last Con- gress by Hon. Jeremiah O'Bricn.