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Show A BLAST OX KICH COl'NTY MAILS. Paris, Ktcu County, April 11, 1872. Editors Herald: After the controversy which took placo a lew weeks ago through the columns of your paper, in regard to mail matters to and from this county, and, also, from the promises of Mr. Samuel Howe, through tho same source, we were led to believe that a reformation would be effected, and that a regular Bomi-wcekly mail would be run from that time; and depending upon this promiso of Mr. Howe, we have held our peace until now; but at last we have arrived at the conclusion that "forbearance ceases to be a vir tue," and that we have been imposed upon by Mr. Howe, his sub-contractors, and tho postmaster in Franklin, as long as we can stand it; and with your permission, Messrs. .Editors, I will proceed to lay the facts of the case before the public. Mr. Nelson has been sub-contractor from Mr. Howe until lately, and Mr. Nelson took the contract cheaper than he could afford to do it, consequently ho could not perform the services required re-quired by government, and the people have been tho losers. To prove this, the November and December numbers num-bers of the Herald and other newspapers news-papers of that date arrived here a week ago. The correspondent of the "Agricultural Department" informed me to-day that he had not received the blanks all winter until they were two or three months old, and through this he had been unable to send in his returns. 1 received an invoice ol some very choice seeds over one month ago, and no seeds have arrived yet; and I could, if necessary, mention numerous numer-ous instances of this kind, where mail matter has been laid over for one, two and as much as six months; and one parcel that was sent by Staines & Co., of Salt Lake, over a year ago, has not yet reached its destination. Now the reason of this is, that the sub-contractor has not been paid sufficient for his services, and not being able to hire assistance, as-sistance, he had to bring what he could and leave the rest. Thus mails accumulate lor months, and a gentleman of my acquaintance, passing through Franklin about a year ago, was requested to bring a wagon load of it around by Soda springs, which of course he refused to do. Ijuery Has the postmaster any right to keep back the mails, or portions ol them? Or is it not his duty to forward ail mail matter? The mails have not been carried to any specified time, so that the eon-tractor eon-tractor has suited himself, and not the ! people, and some of our settlement-have settlement-have not had a mail for weeks. I, with many others, have not subscribed tor the Herald or any Dewspaper this winter, for the simple reason, that we had no xssurance of getting them, through the .insufficiency of our mail service; or U" they did reach here at all, they would be from one to aix months old before wo revived them. About two weeks ago Mr. Howe was indebted 10 Mr. Nelson to the amount jf one thousand dollars, and he (Mr. Howe i still owe- that amount, although another man by the name ot Lianson dlli Mr. Nelson's place; and be, independent inde-pendent of all horses, mules or jackasses jack-asses ic the country, takes the Kich county mail oa his back, and foots it from Franklin to 8c-ia springs "afoot and alone.'' Now, in diid last ago, |