New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-27

have sGyphsd hmseh with span q Il &c Df
bAIfthsi. v.lue, ore or tso specula, Vil maze
.. much a. they please while the dead loss T. ~
pe-ple VIII te q. least $500 goo. No5o.y here tss
r. commended the ssle of these mules; they vete
ke,pr berdsd. under the care OF detacauenIs OF
.le ARMY. a. 10 cost bu. for herl,m@n, and
trey could have been kept through next WiaieT u
secluded mountain valleys a. & cost OF shout SlU
Der head: where's TIE Army can ne7eF move
without purchasing al equal number and they
can neither be boug,t here nor brought here foT
$3.50 Oo0 more than these animals are roN fetching
SoI!lJOdy's interest il subssTed by this sale, but
i; is certainly no. that Of the Amy nor Of TIE
| People. The order is 70 sell seven L1ndred wsg-
ons as well. bit these would not bring $50 each.
while they cost q. less. l30 and could not be re
placed when wanted even for that, while the
Army cannot move without them, and keeping
them costs Absolutely nothing. Who i.sles such
orders sc this, snd for whose benefit
Ls,ok AZ another feature OF tbs transact %:
There il al Tbs moment large smouut de t. Off
cers and soldiers Of this Army ss pay, in sums Of
$40 70 $500 each. Many Of those 70 whom this
money is due would very much Ike 10 take mules
in part payment, either 10 use while here 10 sell
aeaia, or ~ bear them and their baggage 10 Cali
fornia, or back to the Missouri on the approaching
expiration OF their terms of enlistment. In many
instances two soldiers would doubtless CLUB 10 buy
q mule on which to pack their blankets, &C., when
ever their time Is ont. Hundreds Of mules would
thus have been bought, and the proceeds of the
sale considerably augmented, II the Government
BY is fanctiOnafies, hsd consented to receive re
own honest debts in payment. But no on some
ridiculous pretense Of ill-bl0Od between the Pay
and the Subsistence bursaux Of the W ar Depart
ment this ia reiused--it would oe too much trouble
70 take certificates Of soldiers pay actually due il
psyment for THESE mules; so the officers and sol
diers mus. purchase OF specuators al double price
OF 20 without and the mules be sold for far less than
the would have brought iftbose who must have them
had been enabled TO BID directly for them. Two
or three spectators reap harvest here at the sore
cost Of the soldiers and the Treasury.
But it vii be said that Forage dear IN Utah II
would suffice to answer that idle mules Obtsin save
in Winter, only growing on the Public Lands,
which may as well be eaten IN psr. by Government
mules 40 ali BY those of the Mormon sq1aters. But
et US see ho,o it costs go much. There has recently
been received here thirty thousand bushels OF corn
from the States at a net cost including transpor-
tatiOn of S3i0, goo, or over 81 per bushe No re-
u,stiCn was ever made for this Corn, which
could have been bought here, delivered, for - per
bushel, or 100000 IN ALL The dead loss TO the
Treasury on this Corn is $3.50, 600, even supposng
that the service required it at all Somebody makes
good thing of wsgoniDg this Corn from the Mis-
souri, at over SO per bushel: Who believes that
said somebody has not influential and thrifty con
nectons inside of the War Department
Twill not pursue this exposition: Congress may.
Let Inc now give sample of Retrenchment
in the public service in this quarter:
The mail from Missouri TO Salt Lake has hitherto
been carried weekly in good six.mue wagons
the contract time being twenty-five days. The I'M
portance of frequent and regular communication
with head. quarters at least 40 long large Army
is retained here at heavy extra COST and because
Of some presumed public necessity, is evident.
Yet the new Postma ster-Genera has cut down tie
Mail Service on this important central route from
weekly to semi-monthly. But the contractors
who are obliged TO run their stages weekly because
ofther passenger business and because they have to
keep their stock and pay their men whether they
work or play, find that they cannot carry the Mail
every other week so chesply as they can every
week For instance: A mail from the States now
often consists of twelve to sixteen heavy sacks
(most of them filled with franked documents),
weighing as many hundred pounds Double this,
and no six mule team would draw it at the requisite
pace, and no baggage wagon stand the jerks and
olts of an uDmsde road SO they say, please let
aus carry the Mail weekly, though you only pay US
for carrying il semi-monthly" But no this is
strictly forbidden The Postmaster at Salt Lake
has express written orders TO refuse it, and OF
course be at ST. Joseph also. And thus ali this
central region, embracing at least dozen import
ant Military posts and countless Indian Agencies
is reduced TO semimontby mail service, though
the contractor would gladly make it weekly at the
same price H. &.