Show AN extraordinary netter LETTER IN another column of to io days daya paper will be found a correspondence between lieu lieutenant ten ant general daniel H wells and governor J W sham shaffer flar it will be read with interest by our subscribers the difference in the tone of the two letters will strike every reader resident or nonresident non resident of the territory that of general wells wella is respectful and gentlemanly tle manly a letter in which there is no want of courtesy a letter in fact that no gentleman would be ashamed to acknowledge having written and no gentleman would be offended at receiving we leave the public to pronounce upon governor shaffers hamm haff ers erb merely adding that if we wished 8 to be brutal in writing or to publish studied insults we should be anxious to know the man whom governor J W shaffer employs for this purpose he contrives most effectually to insult the persons to whom he writes he did so in the case of general da de he has tried to do so in the present resent instance we scarcely think Eo however however wever that the letter to general wells was penned by the same hand that wrote that to general de do we saw the original manuscript of the letter to the latter gentleman wo have seen the original manuscript of the letter to the former the handwritings a are not alike disgusted with ris gis his former amanuensis who wrote such an indiscreet letter to gen de do we conclude the governor has employed a new now assistant to write this letter to gen wells but governor shaffer has not gained by the change he ought to have btuch stuck to his first amanuensis he horatia it Is probable learned something from the de correspondence and would not have been betrayed into writing such a letter as this which we publish today ignorance of law of military practices governmental affairs of the customs of the states and and territories and of gentlemanly breeding crops out of every line of it and if governor shaffer had the vigor of mind and perception which we suppose he must once have had he would perceive and be ashamed of it that he did not perceive it before publishing it is conclusive evidence to our mind that his sickness affects his judgment but has he no friends who have respect for his reputation or do the members of the ring surround him exclude eve every ry one from his society who has any regard for him and use him reckless of all consequences but the accomplishment of their own base ends 4 there is one point of similarity in the manner in which the governors governor correspondence with gen de do and gen wells wella id 13 made public gen genda dd first haw saw at provo in the columns of the EVENING NEWS that addressed to him had gen wells been out of town his would probably have reached him first through the same channel As it was he received it the day after it was written and in the interim it had doubtless been put in type we have not time or space today to day to dwell further upon the extraordinary production which is signed by governor shaffer Sha frer fren we maysum may sum it up for the present by saying that we do not recollect a plainer case of ad captan dum the letter contains the best evidence of the character of the governors own proceedings ho deliberately ignores and tramples upon the laws of the territory sets seta at defiance the laws congress of and by his vexatious and unwarrantable acts eab exhibits lebits most moat clearly his intention to wield despotic and dictatorial powers if this is not the governors true position then th the e writer of his letter has haa done him great g reat i injustice Dj ustice |