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Show LETTER FROM COUNCIL BLUFFS Regular Corros pond onco of tho Ilornld.J Traveling uy Railnates of travel and fi el glils "The ItriiAc excitement excite-ment at Salt Lake." Council Bluffs, Oct. 2, 1S7J. Editors Daily Herald; I had intended to write you a line sooner than the present date, but amid I tho excitement of traveling, and for ; other causes, have failed to do so, and even now do not know that I shall find anything of interest to the numerous readers of the wide-awake Herald. This I must be permitted to say, however, how-ever, that the Herald is wide awake, and am glad to know that your arduous labors to make it so aro appreciated. The late enlargement speaks volumes in favor of your triumvirate as well as your patrons. I found on the trip Ixithor that the t J. P. II. B.. was in its usual good order and the trains running generally on time, tho rate per mile for traveling being unchanged. Seven ccnta per mile ! II it would do any good I would suggest tho propriety of a reduc- ! uon or acio cents per mile. It doe j seem a little hard for tho tax-payers o : the United States to be compelled t i pay the interest on government bonds the proceeds of which built this road i and if they travel on it, to be com I polled to pay nearly a hundred pcrcen i more per mile than upon other road' ; But suggestions and complaints ar always null and void when they toue' corporations. Competition or judicii decisions will only correct tho evil I tho matter of high rates ibr freight : Utah has great reason lo complaic Lut even with llm i.rpCm,i f upon her industries,it is my iuipressk that Utah will ere long loom up as tl c richest of Unole Samuel's appendage I- for an appendage a Territory is ac d nothing more according to the dec d sinns of the crudito supreme cou ' ' whose sessions are held iu Paust's si r 1 blcs. J I Speaking of courts reminds u J that the third judicial district cou v ; has lately been and probably now i 1 in session if ono may place oonf i dence in electricity. And now I suj I po.-e comes the tug of war, not abst s lute, real hand to hand lighting, br. wordy war. I did notliave the plea; ' urc of rcadiug the charge of the chit , justice to the grand jury, but suppos ' that it would not be difficult for me t guess Us purport. 1 Uf course I bhall n,jt attempt t comment upon the action of the com ?.r ot, ,.tllc P0l,!c over whom th lu'pubhem parly seems to be holding i : rod of cociciou. You are not, Messrs Editors, responsible for what I ma' write, because if any one feels ag ' grieved you cm give my name, and". hold uiy..L'!f responsible for my owi ; opinions. Tin much, however, I lee 1 disposed to .-.ay: that whatever maj ' . be done by the United States otlieiali 1 iu Utah, as agiinst tho iiislituiioc : called polygamy is to all intents urn. I purposes the action of the Kepublicai party, tnrougti u. S. Grant, its om ; boatmen t. 1 ou doubtless rcmembei the peculiar plank in its platform ic c ; slavery and polygamy." I the wai s fare upon tho latter, the judges an t marshals, and o!h-r small fry, are oni y , carrying out tho order, emanatin ,- from headquarters, at least -udi i. r. y imprc-sion, nnd any jsjdse who rnlu contrary to the thi-orv and ll.c bct.e-t e of that party will tind his official hea j rolling into the receptacle of u ,i,;Ll i heads, in double quick. Hut these 1 iw-makiug jud -es an. ,- their backers had better rcmcmbc i that the p..up'e of Territories are no f pn-pcrty, but that they have eertai , rights which have been rawed an. ire not delegated, but which remain n tho people whether resident in tate or Territories. But why need I write ou these ubjects? I see your correspondents at . ionic arc doing ample justice to them, vet them continue to enlighten the pubic pub-ic mind in regard to the rights of the )Coplc. It may also be well for these lartics to remember that thoro are nany persons in I' tali who are not dormons, and yet v.Iio have persons ,nd property, and that these persons ' ,nd this property claim protection at he hands of the law. What protection an they expect in a country where the udges set a-idc express legislative naetments? , Yours, Hawk Ki'E. P.S. enclose a clipping from tho Council Bluffs JJaily Times of this vening. If its contents aro true I nust '"go back" on uiv encomiums of he IlEttAi.D, becau.se I have read your aper of the oili, and find no mention 1 .f the "Great Excitement" spoken of. ,'ome, gentlemen, you must do better I Jive us the tares, II. Tho clipping referred to by our orrespondent is that delectable tele-Tarn tele-Tarn by Mr. Korty, first published in ho Laramie Siittiud,nnl said to have 1 lad its origin in tho "playful remark" 1 f a couple of U. S. officials that they rere "fleeing from Salt L:ike." Our orrespondent nm.-t excuse us for not urnishing news that doon not exist; ; re leave such little ma'tcrs to the New ' 'ork Herald, "fleeing" officials, Mr. ! Corty, ct . They recm capablo of j applying that kind of pabulum rhich an eager public crave for. When there is serious (rouble here, the Herald will auuouncc the fact. |