Show till THE EASTERN main MAIL arrived on the loth dinst bringing 30 brass lock sacks containing papers and letters belonging to each mail from nov I 1 to april I 1 inclusive that the public and the post office department at Washing washington toll may know how the tiie contractor on the route between ence and this akis city fulfills liis his obligations wa pub lish the following official monthly schedule of the departure of the mail from independence durla duria six months nov 1 1855 left with 12 brass lock sacks dec 1 6 6 14 it 69 jan 1 1856 is 5 66 9 feb 1 ad 14 4 4 1 a march 2 11 14 6 and 9 sacks of books april 1 4 total 45 besides the books arrived liay may 10 30 brass lock sacks sachs thus leaving lea iea on the road 15 through sacks and 9 8 sacks acks con containing public documents the above account does not include tte the iron lock way aud and drop letter sacks for it often happens that they do not contain much mucho if any for lor points this side gide of laramie Is not the above a rich exhibit of the postal posta facilities of a great nation after delaying over six months nearly one half of the through matter is stil left somewhere on the route in a what condition and at how many and what points are ate to us entirely unknown and that is not all for we are informed that tiie ilia contractors agent at independence told the to bring through any but the letter latter icks s and that too at a time lime when he knew that there were neither hostile indians deep snows snow enow or high watern waters to prevent traveling what have llave the contractor and the postmaster general to say to all this in addition to the previous 8 unendurable abuses of a like description Deseret ians have carried the eastern mail regularly through springs summers and fais fals flis and nearly so through the ge severity verity of winters and they can do it again and they have been und end probably alethe only ones who have done or wil wll do so this fact is well known in ill washington but dould could conid could utah get any of her reason reasonable able abla and responsible contract conti act bids taken no for reasons reasone tolerably well understood even here but which we forbear mentioning for the present ma AIR MAXWELL the richly earnd the thanks of the inhabitant inhabitants of utai by disobeying the tiie scents orders and bringing through all bil that his animals and wagons would admit admits and WE wr most heartily commend command his conduct in so doing the latest dated papers from new york albany and philadelphia Philadel ahia allia are march 22 from memphis tenn march 14 and from independence march 29 it would please us could we now dismiss 1 the subject but we fear that laramie is at even worse than its old tricks for on the of dec dee TWO BRASS SACKS were sent from the ilia office in this city but mark the matter of that mail arrived in independence feb ad in ONE holk main HAiL rack sack will the official at laramie inform the post master nt this city or P mcclanahan esq P lii III at independence or the postmaster general managed to transfer the THROUGH matter milt from TWO drass BRASS LOCK SACKS into ONE OSE HORSE marl MAIL sack the department departmental at washington after our maili mails had been repeatedly plundered very wisely furnished brass locks for all backs sacks containing matter and it was well known by all au on the route that such was the case with a view to prevent that wholesale sale plundering which utah had llad been BO so long iong subjected to but bat it would seem that even government BRASS LOCKS are no bar to some itch ill lit hig dingers fingers dil all ers still larking at laramie La rami can any anyone one give glie information as to how the above ni no med nied TrANS TRANSFER FM to use usa no harsher term was made in defiance of law and of rights supposed to be under brass locks |