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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Tho Spanish insurrection is spreading spread-ing and dissatisfaction is reported among the troops. John Stuart Mill is out in the New York Tribune with a letter xm the consequential damages muddle. The Vermont Republican State Convention Con-vention was to moot yesterday, and it was expected to strongly endorse gen-oral gen-oral Grant. Judge Davis' dispatches, from Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, leave the impression that he will bo thrown overboard and a new man nominated. Grant and Colfax are in constant receipt of dispatches from Cincinnati. Their advices indicate the nomination of judge Davis. Tho 7'imes and Tribune comment unfavorably on governor Hoffman's veto of the New York city charter bill; the Sun and World commend the VetO. -r: ; It ir reported 1 that judge Oardoza of New York, has tendered his resignation resig-nation anticipating an unfavorable report re-port by the judiciary investigating committee. com-mittee. The passage by tho house of representatives repre-sentatives of the bill taking the duty off coffee, it is thought, will render easy a solution of the tariff question. It is proposed to pass the internal revenue bill, providing for a reduction of about tivo millions in the revenue from that quarter. - Secretary Fish says if Spain continues contin-ues to declino an amicable settlement of tho question between the two governments, gov-ernments, Sickles will demand his passports pass-ports and inform Spain that the United Uni-ted States will not send another minister minis-ter there until our demands are complied com-plied with, A charge d' affairs will remain to represent tho United States. just think of our situation, waiting, days for our mails until a man louts itj through the mud from one setili'inent ; to another; and through his inability, we only receive part of it when he does come, unless the roads are extra good. On last Tuesday the mail arrived in I Blooming i on (dir-tant twituiles from I here), laid there until Tluiixby, no i which day it arrived in i'aris--tin y -ix ' hours occtlpitd in curry ini; t' twn uiil'! i And on beiuif r untu.it i a ted with lur detaining de-taining I In' mad, the carrier answered I In- "ivuti'd ins earrv the mail aw he had hern doiiiLt," a- he was doing jnt j what Mr. liowi-toM him in Jay. tsitw, j if this in iitrrj nig mails according to. schedule time, we w:iii to Limw i'. j i 1'robably the next time we talk with' j him on tho nil'jrel lie will trll ih, as I Mr. NcL-im toid wlii-n he va- car rier, thai "ifyuudo hot shut up, L will not carry them ai ail, then you will have no mail.'' Now, what a dreadful .illnrnti. ii t li i 'I' lii l:iL tlu'in n.-i itlCV :ome, or have none at all! Mr. Ncl-;' ;on, when he was carrier put his threat ji into execution and actually stopped the mail for several weeks. This thing may he repeated al any liuie, for Mr. Howe and his sub-contractors do not seem to be under any obligation to carry the mails, but they go and come when it suits them, and slop and commence again at pleitsuie. I wish to propound aouc-lion to colonel Wickizcr: Has Howe received his full pay for carrying ihc mails o Kich county during the past wittier ? If so, he has received what he was certainly not entitled to, and a screw inusl be loose somewhere. Wo received last week tho WnM.i ViS'-ret A Vies, hut no semi-weekly nor daily, and uo lIllRAl.lis nor Junctifn, nor any other newspapers; through, no I doubt, Mr. Howe's penuriou-ness in not having liulp. u t no mau matter of Rich county and part of Idaho is to be limited to what one man can pack on his back, aud the mail belonging to the settlements north of Bloomington must lay in the Bloomington postolliee until he has walked through the settlements settle-ments south of IMoomington, and distributed dis-tributed the mail there, occupying Irom one to two days, we want to know it.' Tho tirst trip that Hansen mr.de he brought the mail to I'aris and left it there, without distributing it, until he : tin.:, 1 1, ..n,ni.l Came UgUlll. -i ma iiiau iuu uu n- puaii-u i at aoy time, and we have no means of redress Irom Mr. Howe or his subs. Knowing this to bo the case we apply, i thus publicly, to colonel Wickizcr l'or redress of grievances, hoping he will take the matter in hand. Tho alterations altera-tions we apply for are these: First All of our mails forwarded from Franklin Frank-lin (according to schedule) the first opportunity. op-portunity. Second That the distributing othee be in l'aris (where it ought to be, according ac-cording to the government contract) instead of Rloomington; also, for those reasons, Paris is the headquarters of this county, and js the most central place, and it has always been the distributing dis-tributing office until Nelson, for his own convenience changed it, without consulting cither the department or the people, and if it is left to the people peo-ple ninetcen-twcntielhs will vote ibr Paris. Third That the mails be distributed north and sourth at tho came time; so that one portionof the oounty may not have to wait until the carrier returns from distributing in tho other portiou, (especially as the mails are carried at the rate of two miles an hour.) . Fourth That we have a semi-week-' ly mail (according to contract with the government) and not a semi-occasional ono as we aro having, and have had, ; ever since Howe became contractor; and carried according to schedule time, and not to suit the convenience of Howe or his sub-contractors, as this has been the principal object heretofore. Now, if colonel Wickizer, or anyone olse, desires proof on any part of this communication, they can have the same on application either publicly or privately, and if this matter ii not attended at-tended to forthwith, we will conclude that colonel Wickizer is also in the plot, and reaping advantage from this contract, either pecuniarily or otherwise. other-wise. If tho colonel was ignorant of these facts, wo might have some excuse for him, but as he has been applied to repeatcdly.through the press and otherwise, other-wise, he certainly is to blame, and if action is not taken by him, we will be compelled to carry it to a higher sourco. yours respectfully, Walter Hoge. |