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Show A-X EASTERN JIAIL SEVEN TIMES A WEEK. Seven days a week a mail is carried between New York and Chicago. Seven days a week a train leaves Omaha for San Francisco. But one day in seven no mail leaves Chicago for Omaha, and the result is that the entire west is without an eastern mail one day in the week. When Wednesday Wednes-day night comes in Salt Lake City, everybody knows that the mail which should arrive is a day behind, Caving been detained a day in Chicago. It is not that the Chicagoans are more pious on Sunday than the New Yorkers, York-ers, for an evening train is dispatched from the former city for Omaha; but Chicago does not send out a mail west on Sunday. We believe the contract con-tract is to carry the mad seven days in the week, but, if so, there is weekly a failure to fulfil iu terms. This matter is an important one to the west. The delayed mail has its lull share of business communications; and every kind of business depending upon it is compelled to lay over a day, to await the arrival of a mail twenty-lour twenty-lour hours behind its time. If the aiter were properly represented at the office of the j Postmaster General, and the claims of the great west for a rejular daily mail placed in their true light, there is little doubt that a change would be effected; and the only wonder is that San Francisco Fran-cisco has not made itself heard before now on the matter, with the transcontinental transcon-tinental railroad running regular time. We request the attention of the entire en-tire Congressional delegation from the Misseuri river to the Pacific coast to this subject Their influence should be exerted to have a through mail every day, instead of six days out of seven. |