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Show MAIL GRIEVANCES. A gt-iitleinan of thu city, in a written writ-ten ' ommunicatioti, makes complaint in strong terms: rehtive to the manner man-ner in which the mailu are curriwl brtwr. ii S.dt Lake City and Igan. e wouM give the communication i but that we propone making cltUjrial I ciii:::Mti cuvuring all the ground j taken by the writer, and extending j eon.-id.-rably farttu-r. He think.- that ' it -hould uA. take a ktk'r as long to tij be earri-d to I.gan :w to New Y'ir!;. but appears to forgft the difference dif-ference between the commercial nic-trojwili.s nic-trojwili.s of the I'nit.il StaUs and the capital of ji unrthrn cnimty in this1 Territory. In Vw York and other j proiuiiirjit places Ka.-t, or Wet, the j old-i'a.-hi.niid idea prevails that i mailriare rarrinl for tlie benefit audi a 'roiiimoJation of the people, by em- j ploy.'s of the piHjpIr's servants, which ! the various members of Government including tho Postoflicc department depart-ment are supposed to be. Here it i better understood that the mails are carried or rather that mail contracts con-tracts are let for the benefit of the contractors. A gentleman in this oilier had occasion to write a business busi-ness letter to gentleman in Logan a few days ago. He mailed that letter in Salt like City on the morning j of Thursday, 4th iast. On Sunday, ' 7th uirft,, he received a telegram in reply, stating that the letter had not reached Logan until Saturday night. ire mailed another letter here on Saturday morning, which Wiis received in.Logan, in hid own presence, on Tuesday morning. On Monday night, the Sth inst., we, nersonallv. mailed a communication at Logan for the Herald. It was re-ceivctl re-ceivctl on Friday, the 12th, bearing the Logan postmark of the Oth. These are the experiences of a week in this oflice. In Logan tho most reliable people say mail matter from Salt Lake is never expected under three to seven days; nnd one gentleman informs in-forms us that ho usually receives his daily paper in weekly hatches of half a dozen together. This makes mails interesting. It is no difficult matter to account for valuable letters turning up missing; for there is iimplc time to turn the U tters inside out, one by one, re-turn , them, and finally dispose of them as the accommodating servants of the obliging contractors choose. Logan is some ninety miles from Salt Lake with through rail communication every day. It is supposed to receive and forward a try-weakly mail, but appiuently that mail is like one of S. I's old tri-weekly ones, which went down one week and trial hard to get, back thu next. A temporary daily mail service was arranged for bv Colonel Wickizcr, but it only was carried a few times, if at all; and although a daily service is about being put on by tho department, we do not sec that matters will be improved unless un-less the mails are carried by those who have the contracts. Logan is the distributing point for Cache County, and when Logan docs not receive its mail the entire county is similarly de-prived. de-prived. But then why should the people complain! It evidently is not for their advantage that mails arc con-tractol con-tractol for and earned. The only wonder is that they receive mail matter mat-ter as frequently as they do; and that it is not held back until there is enough to make a respectable -sized load of it. The idea of a gentleman who condescends to take a Government Govern-ment contract troubling himself over a small parcel of letters or a few annoying an-noying papers is too absurd. If there were a wagon load the bulk might make the thing worth attending to and trying to put it through on schedule sche-dule time. But as for accommodating accommodat-ing the people! That is simply preposterous. pre-posterous. There is one of two ways, apparently, appar-ently, by which this may be remedied. One would be to hang a few mail contractors and derelict mail oflicials; tlie other to deduct from the sum ttal of the contract which Government Govern-ment agrees to pay a. proper amount for all failures to keep schedule time, unless where such failure was phunly unavoidable. In Britain if a mail steamer fails to leave harbor and put to sea, no matter how strong the gale that may be blowing, her owners are not paid by the government. govern-ment. A few doses of this kind of malicinc would be very efficacious in remedying numerous postal grievances griev-ances in this region. Perhaps the hanging plan would be too severe. On second thoughts we think it would. But the other, which would only l towards Government, would be found efficacious ; for nothing touches your ordinary contractor so much as cutting down the amount out of which h? en levors to do'" the Governnunt in ),m "Prigbt ami religious manner. We do not blame any uf these grievances relative to the Northern mails, on the post-oflice either at Salt Lak-- or Logan. There is ample evi- j deuce that tiie mails duly leave K'th j offices. But the trouble seems to be ; on the railroad : and very probably is on t'ne Pacific line. The -.uhjeet will j hear investigation, and a large degree of improvement. Of one tiling g-n- . tlemeu connected with the service may be assural: that the Hkuald pro- ; poses continuing its work of ventilat- iug the matters amplained of until the proper rcmedie areapplii-d. |