Show EDITORIAL correspondence PRESIDENT it E YOUNGS TRIP V NORTH t SALT LAKE CITY august 26 THE drive between logan logon and beus ville is always quickly accomplished by president young toung and his company the road ia is good and the ten miles is generally aa traveled meled within an hour we reached there a little little before sundown on sunday evening we heard in salt lake city that wellsville crops were almost e entirely cut off again this year by grasshoppers bu but t upon inq inquiry ulry were pleased to learn earn that the tho th e citizens had saved half their crop this place has suffered more than any other in the valley but we noticed no feeling of discouragement coura gement the people have llave sufficient to keep them until another harvest and they are thankful that their condition is no worse we were hospitably en entertained ter the bishop wm win maughan and the entire settlement being evidently pleased to have the president and his company stay with them we were lulled to sleep that night by the sweet singing of the choir preceded by the brass and string bands they went to the houses where president young and the different members of the company were stopping and serenaded them this is a practice which prevails in the settlements and the tho effect is very tery charming since bince our visit last year to the northern northern settlements the improvement of choirs an and d bands in singing and music is very perceptible the pleasure of the evenings we spent in logan was much enhanced by the delightful singing of the hoir choir of that place in their serenades their selections were very fine and were sung with much taste and beelin feeling g BRIGHA 31 CITY leaving wellsville on monday morning we reached brigham G olty city ity a little before fore fone noon A school of the kroph prophets e ts met at 12 m and was organized by president young who spoke in a most pointed and powerful manner his remarks will long be remembered by those who heard them after dinner we drove to ogden city which place we reached at dusk the greater portion of the company stopped at bishop bests A meeting had been appointed to be held at 2 2 pm on tuesday the at centerville Cent Vent erville davis county the company left ogden at about am on of tuesday morning and reached center ville in time to eat dinner with bishop wm B R smith before meeting the display here was very creditable to the good taste and good feelings of the bishop and the people A cle nine fine arch with the word WELCOME painted in large letters spanned the main street and send the children with their bann banners ers and attired for the occasion were drawn hp up to receive the company THE MEETING was addressed by elders geo Q cannon geo dunford wilford woodruff wo 0 d ruit joseph F smith A 11 musser andi anai and aad president young in brief and and pointed remarks nat rat 6 pm the company reached salt lake city it would be to place too high an estimate upon the value of these visits of president young to the various bettle nettle settlements ments the people have local officers whose counsels and instructions are sound and reliable but a visit from the presidency and twelve Is refreshing to the officers and people they partake of the spirit which prevails at headquarters head quarters and can better keep pace with their brethren who reside there without these visits the people might become narrowed up in their fe feelings elines and sectional intercourse beaw between een the settlements and hud between the officers of the church who reside mide at this cit city yand sand and those who live elsewhere has the tendency to prevent this in the early days of our residence here when president young and his bre brg brethren thren visited the settlements they had bad to go prepared to camp out they took wit with them their own food feed for their animals an imala bedding ac c and nd the they slept in their vehicles but now all ali this has changed the settlements are close together and he and his com comi j can now travel from salt lake city to the extreme north and the extreme south without being under the necessity of carrying any provisions or bedding or camping out a single aright night A A still greater change awaits us ere long iong on 1 it t is not too much to expect that in a ie few w years hen cewe will have a line of rails laid from one end of the territory to the other and if president young wishes to attend a conference at st george he can step into the cars on saturday morning and be there by evening and with a nights rest be ready for meeting next morning 11 not in vain the distance beacons forward forward let us range I 1 let t the he great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change 11 MAIL communication WITH BEAR LAKE VALLEY A TEW FEW days ago we received a letter from general Q C rich bich dated at paris rich county which stated that the contract for the mail service from huntsville to bennington the only mail service to bear lake valley had been annulled this contract was let to montana mentho men who should have commenced the service on the first of july the only reason that presents itself for the annulling of the contract is that the men who had got it had been bidding ing for rou routes s 0 of wh which ch they c knew new now nothing t 1 and then when they found they could uld not ot get any one to take their bad contract off on their hands and carry the mails malls for a less price frice than they had bad foolishly agreed to do they by misrepresentations obtained its annulment we cannot suppose that the hon geo W mclellan second assistant judging from his hormen former formen liberal course towards the territory could have consented to A ma matter ater of this kind unless gross in misrepresentations is had been made to him the facts in connection with the settlement of bear near lake valley now rich bich I 1 county and the histo history of the postal communication which the settlers maintained with the world outside of their valley show how much they are entitled to have this right extended to them the colony went therein there in 1863 they found an inhospitable climate and a soil the sterility of which had to be conquered with a short season in which vegetation could grow and mature with late snows and frosts in the spring in with early frosts in the fall and pd I 1 heavy beavy e vy snows in the winter which covered the mountains and blocked the callons caf lons making the valley almost inaccessible for months they toiled tolled and labored and suffered and endured and successfully built up a colony numbering some twenty nive five hundred persons but communication with other parts of the territory 1 and with other territories states and nations was not merely desirable it was a necessity from 1863 3 when the valley vailey was settled up to the first of january of the present year mail service was kept up by private enterprise and for but six months of the time was any expense to government for months each winter while the settlements in the valley were all but cut 0 kofl ff from the outer world the mail was packed by hardy men on snowshoes snow shoes over the mountains through numerously signed petitions forwarded to washington and representations made by our delegate hon ron IV H hooper a special service was obtained for six months which ended on the first of july when a regular letting took place it is clear to our mind th that 3 t the men who obtained the contract at that letting are the prime movers in annulling that contra contract ot and depriving the people of rich county of the mail service to which they are so justly entitled and with the representations that will be made to the department by our delegate we have no doubt but a mail service will be immediately ordered general rich bich the former carrier makes a most liberal offer with regard to carrying the mails which we believe will receive the consideration of the department he will carry them fora very small sum if the starting point of the route is changed from huntsville to franklin this change would not inconvenience anyone any one and would greatly reduce the expenses of the service general rich nich continues to carry the mail even without any pay bein being guaranteed guaranteed to hinr him by government as is he did in previous years for the citizens cannot do 0 without mail communication although much slanderous matter has been repeatedly circulated concerning he the i ignorance noran e of our citizens no people lold old oldin in higher appreciation the advances of postal communication nor laor laior more energetically to possess them our people have been taught by experience fience to rely on themselves and when they are thus denied a privilege like this and there is scarcely any that they deem greater at once a privilege and a right they bend their energies to the task of supplying themselves but our postal laws contemplate nothing of this character and we simply ask that the postal rights which are due to us as american citizens be extended to the inhabitants of bear lake valley in common with the other inhabitants of the tile territory and the other territories and states in the union THE ALLIES IN HUMAITA our OUK dispatches this morning contain an account of the occupation by the allies of the fortress of humaita Hu maita which has been bolong so long iong and desperately defended by the paraguayans Paraguay ans this will probably lead to the speed speedy y termination of a contest as remarkable probably for the obstinacy and endurance manifested by the besl besieged besiege eged das dab as any that can cad be found within the whole range of m military alitar history 0 one report says the paraguayans Paraguay ans evacuated humaita Hu maita maits being compelled to do go fo by want of provisions another says they evacuated it after having spiked the guns and removed all their stores steles simply because they had prepared a line of fences defences de on the ary and that they are as confident as ever of ultimate success for three years the inhabitants of paraguay numbering at the commencement of the war about a million and a quarter have successfully contended against the combined armies of brazil and its allies the argentine republic and uruguay whose population is to that of paraguay guay about seven to one brazil has talked considerably about her wounded honor hondr and has repeat edly refused the tho mediation of this country to effect a settlement of the difficulty fi the tha real cause of which is said to be the formation of a secret treaty something over three years ago between brazil and her allies by which tile tiie they a agreed reed to partition the tho territory 0 of A paraguay daguay between them upon overrunning and subjugating it for the accomplishment of this scheme thousands of lives and millions of money have been expended by the invaders and with little promise of success the heroism and self devotion man manifested by the Paraguay paraguayans ans have been such as to command the admiration of all who have the least sympathy with the weak when battling for their rights with the strong males and females have manifested the same determination to resist the advances of the invaders of their country since the co commencement of the war the tho jaragua paragua paraguayan t an women have tilled the land rals rais raised e t the e grain and other things necessary for the supplying of their own and the army ardys S support and latterly through the fearful drain on the male population thousands of them have fought in thi the trenches defended important positions and performed military duty with as much alacrity and determination as men and henceforth mesdames brigadier i general Lynch Lieutenant colonal colonel ferreira and captain herrero with their corps of amazons will rank side by side with joan kfare of are arc and other military heroines of the world it is not likely that the war will last much longer public opinion throughout christendom is beginning to be roused to the enormity and injustice of this crusade against the little republic of paraguay and what will have more weight with the brazilians Brazi lians probably Y I 1 is is that the national exchequer is in a far from flourishing condition besides this the ministry just inaugurated in that country are said to be in favor of peace and the people are beginning to murmur at the exactions this crus crusade ade necessitates so that it is more than probable that this war which seems to have been entered upon as most wars of invasion are merely for the purpose of gratifying royal ambition will soon collapse which is I 1 a consummation devoutly to be wished for nothing is lost although every everything thing is the victim of mutability the skins shins of the dogs drowned at our pound are converted it is said into gloves the tho sheet of paper upon which we have been writing may have once been the material aerial ofa of a ladys apron change is the grand principle to which all things earthly are subjected |