Show 40 p EASTERN MAIL I 1 vern ment pays quarterly a large amount to those who have for said amount contracted to carry the mail from kansas to california with celerity and certainty from this city west the contract has been and is fulfilled by the carriers with most but the resultant benefits of that stat fidelity are sadly curtailed by almost constant and long continued fal fai failures lures between here and the missouri river during the more moge inclement periods of the past winter with ith the inadequate preparation made failures could be more readily understood and more patiently endured and until grass started in the spring as forage was scant on portions of the route disappointments in the non arrival of mail matter could be endured with tolerable tole tolo rabi patience as also while melting snow was impeding the crossing of nn zin bridged streams but those hindrances have long gon gone by more than half of the kummer mummer summer is ready already al past and still malls mails arrive only at long intervals and then with but small portions of the large amounts that i must be somewhere on the way it is doubtless true that a few renegade indians ran off some stock and killed some persons and destroyed some stations 0 on n the line but troops were en route from fron different points at an early date for for its protection and have subsequently up to the present been mustering at the places of disturbance and are still being forwarded from the frontiers but mail matter yet fails falls to arrive except as already stated though passengers during C most odthe of the tae under I 1 CO consideration have come and gone with goodly regularity 0 and dispatch when government in addition to the stipulated large quarterly payments is and has been furnishing I 1 numerous troops for protection how is jt it that passengers can be transmitted so regularly and almost invariably so safely while the arrival of a full mail from the east cast is of sueh such rare occurrence whether any one is really to blame in this matter or whether all have done the best that could be done is not now what we so particularly care about but it is earnestly desired and ra rv quested that from this time forth the mails malls be carried with at least as much fidelity and d dispatch as are passengers gerd gera |