| Show more of the drowned mail it will be remembered that the carriers lost a portion of th the may mail in weber river on the of may that they brought in several sacks on the ath of june the contents of many of them being much damaged and that one sack was recovered from the water and brought in anthe on the ath of Ju june neall neali oil of its contents being 0 thoroughly soaked we are informed that the carriers of that mail reported that they delivered all they had started with together with what they had taken in on the route Bs be e that as it may since then still another sack is found by indians only 3 or 4 miles below where the mail crossed weber river how many are still in and near that stream the indians will probably 1 inform us as fast as they may casually discover them while roaming a in quest of berries roots and game at any rate it will take at least one sack to contain the letters which a P 0 clerk I 1 at independence informed mr L I 1 smith a passenger 0 with that mail had then been mailed for utah aside from other sacks still somewhere on the route official report of the discovery OGDEN CITY POST OFFICE july 10 1836 1856 postmaster AT G S L CITY sm sla I 1 send you a portion of the mail which was as lost os in weber eber river on the of may the he circumstances connected therewith are as follows on tuesday last little soldier an indian sent for me to came come to his camp with word that he had found a sack of papers some three or four miles below the emigrant crossing of weber and had brought in some few printed documents and the mail lock also that he e had fixed them good 0 od 11 until n 1 til I 1 could send for them I 1 immediately immediate immediately fy sent sent t two w 0 of my sons E thos and isaac and an indian guide who found a mail bag ham cut open letters and packages torn apart aar and some way bills missing I 1 have packed up the letters as well as I 1 bouldy could also a part of the pa papers ers both of which are herewith forwarded I 1 cannot send all the papers at this time they are too wet but I 1 wiil win send the balance by next mail JAS G BROWNING P M the recovered sack contained letters mailed at independence april 29 as learned by carefully comparing loose letters with a loose waybill way bill 9 letters probably mailed at independence no waybill way bill and a few presumed to have been mailed at council bluffs also having no bill in all about fo together a bether gether with quite a number of newspapers all in a very damaged condition and some entirely spoiled i reflecting C upon the present and sometime some time I 1 past we can but rejoice that the of august angust next will probably terminate one W IL F ma magrass Mag 0 raws connection with route no for congress has appropriated large sums of money to him for which he has fen ien rendered dered next to no serviced ser vicel and though nume numerous rou other harpies have haire their foul claws in the money chests of the nation reckless of consequences consequences so they but pocket the cold still it is to be hoped that postmaster general campbell will arouse from his lethargy and use a little effort to free the mail facilities of a thriving territory petitioning in 0 for admission as a state from the abominations which have so ion lon long iong beset I 1 thiem hem and this too not alone for justice right a and nd mutual advantage but that the rising generation may not laugh to scorn the pre present sent wanton squandering of the peoples means for which there is no adequate return |
