Show our washington correspondence washington i dec T 1854 mr postmaster general campbell does not disguise enough his partiality tor for sundry favorite mall contractors contractor sy and his strong prejudice against sundry other contractors who sho have pr proved oved to too independent to toady to his imperious highness ills conduct touching the mall route between mobile and montgomery in alabama and the mall route b between et independence and salt lake Is very striking and deserving of animadversion the favorites favor iter lter on the mobile and montgomery route wae were getting per annum asked for an increase of per annum and desired the post rost postmaster Taster general to recommend congress to renew tho the contract for four years a at per pen annum lie lle complied most readily w with ith their requests request and congress upon his recommendation renewed the contract as desired accordingly but as it if this was not sufficiently kind and indulgent in the shape shap ot relief of these favorites to carry cany the mall over the same ra route by water watery up and down the alabama river three times a aweeky week tor for five me months la in the year yeary and six times a week for fok the remaining seven months at a compensation of per annum of course this mall by water r greatly reduces the weight and bulk of the mall carried by land between tho same two points the contractors have lost nothing by indian depredations and murders and yet they ha have ve had readily granted to them all ail the extras elaras they asked for itow how diff lerent larent the line of official conduct pursued by the post office department towards the conductors for carrying I 1 t the lemaa heman mali mall between independence and salt lake I 1 mcgraw and contracted for tor carrying tie the the latter fali fall fitall monthly Lat at per annum deemed a yary very low compensation the route la Is I 1 1250 miles long and tile the mall was to be carried in four mule carriages the contractors ory orl started the enterprise on the july last they stocked the route at an expense of more than and made male every necessary preparations for the winter and had freighted out tut at tf lif derent lerent points on the routes route grain for the mules and provisions for the men built stati stations ongy onsy made hai haj hay ac to the amount of the indian difficult difficulties les ies now abw so terrible along that route fad not exist and were not forese foreseen enor or anticipated at the tho time the contract for carrying the mall was entered into mr mcgraw one of the contractors has jurat returned from the route to the states 6 on his bis way in with the september mall ha he learned near fort of the massacre of 69 G rattan grattan anahis and his party near fort lara mie m le this however did not deter him from making his best exertions to go on with and carry out his contract but bu t on his arrival at fort laramie he found that his keeper era auguste augusta lucia lucian had been killed by byr tho the indians thirteen mules run ruh off and that he had bad been deprived of hin bin relay of fresh moles mules with his tired animals he stared started 0 on j and traveled into inde P en dence from fort port laramie Lar amle amie seven seve n hundred and fifty miles in nine days lie ile remained at independence until within a couple coupie of weeks past pasty completing ills its arran gratny for tor the winter winten service be levin ievin that the necessary arrangements had been made to carry cany out the contract in spite of the indian de depredations p r editions edat lons ions he left for the State states sj on a visit to his family f in n pennsylvania ile lie arrived here and received soon after the sad intelligence thattie that the pawnee indians had attacked and seriously wounded his big keeper keepers F frank prank rank berri berry who was trying to save his stock amounting to seventeen mules the indians succeeded however attar after wounding the keeper in i getting ten of the mules within yards of fort port kearney and in full view of heath ileath the commanding office rot of that post math from alada a lack of men and means meang was compelled to be a witness of an outrage which he would omd odd but could not punish on the spot I 1 when mr mt mcgraw first arrived here he detailed the tho losses he had sustain sustained id in hils lils hig his enterprise the difficulties and obstructions he had encountered and mhd manner in which he and his men had been harrasser harr assed by the hostile Ind indians tansy lansy and suggested to the post office department that it must either make further and better means for carrying the mail mall over the route in question or he would be com corn belled to abandon and give up the contract to neither ot of these propositions would the department assent the post master general would not allow more compensation for lor carrying carryl ns the mail mall through in safety gaiety nor yet consent that the contractors should surrender their contract meantime the melan cholly intelligence has arrived by telegraph that three of mcgraws mcgrawsr McG raws meny men honest honesty faithful fellow sand a passenger a mr kinkead kin EIn kead of st louisy louds louis with ten thousand dollars in specie with himy him have been attacked robbed and murdered by a party of hostile sioux indians this intelligence has nearly prostrated mr mcgraw r draw raw who has gone to his family in pennsylvania ile ha had gone over the long rough and dangerous route with these men and shared with them in all its hardships and privations ne ile had found them jack jemiso jemison Jem lson ison n tom hackett and jim wheeler all honest and faithful and now they are no more morel intelligent members of congress have havo expressed their feelings in social circles in a very plain and emphatic manner on this subject and no doubt congressional action will promptly be had in the matter our government seems very sensitive on the subject of redressing wrongs outrages and indignities real or imaginary inflicted on our citizens abroad but here Is a case of robbery and murder on our own soil soll which the government seems in no hurry to avenge a V enge some sixty persons have been murdered by the hostile indians between independence and the salt lake within a year past why Is it that proper and suitable provisions are not made tor for the safe transit of the mail mall over that route routed a mall that averages from one thousand to eighteen hundred pounds in weight why Is it that mr postmaster general campbell neglects elects this mall route as be he doese does doeg and takes such special and expensive care of 0 the mobile and montgomery mall route perhaps itts it Is because he Is a roman catholic and the majority of the population of utah are mormons Mor mons editor of the deseret news Is it because the contractors on the latter route are his favorites whilst one of the contractors on the former route Is the mr mcgraw who a year ago published a card in this city against col john W forney does col forney exercise supreme control over the post office Depart departments department ments menty or not will be not let iet the postmaster general do justice to col mcgraw because the latter happened to whip and put to flight the five or six forney bullies who were set upon him last year at the national hotel in this city headed by one of the editors of the evening star EXPOSITOR |