New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-27

pto"pirc. They wers soon liberated from 81
harness and got Up, .ni We went out; but just tn.
an emigrant Oh the bank espied carpet-osg IN the
Rster-mine, Of csurse-s1d hshed It out. An
examination Was then hid. and showed that my
trunk was mis.ing-the boot OF the stage having
be'l opened the night before our arrival st tae
/ Si-,ioD, and cup.bly lel unfastened. We made s
| h search for the estray, but without sucSs,s,
an after sn hours delay, our conductor drove Of
lsl ing ny trunk still in the bottom of Sweetyster
: " h s said to be ten feet deep just below our
fs would rather have sunk thousand dollars
ID g. Efforts were directed 10 be made - f 81 it
OF but my hope of ever seeing il sssin is faint
Oh We forded Sweetwater sil times Yesterday
sfi that without single mishsp; bit I have
Ia y yet become reconclled % the loss Of my
tru, k, ard, on the whole, my Fourth Of July WAS
oot l'spPy one.
C''r ,-uad left southerlg bend Of SSeetwater
site inn, r and took its way over the hills so IS
not strikA it sgsin TIL sitter dark. st point
threa miles fr,'m where | now write. We were
row nearly st the summit OF the route, with snowy
u,on ltsins Fear us in several directions and enc
iarge spow-bank BY the side of creek We crossed
ten miles back Yet our yesterdays road was no
rougher. while il was decidedly better, than that Of
any former day this eide of Laramie. as ulsy be
judged from the fact that. with late start, We
made sixty miles with one (six-mule) team to our
hesvy laden wagon The grass is better for the
l,st twenty miles than Oh any twenty miles pre-
yiously: and the swift strcsms that frequently
cross our way are cold and sweet But, unlike the
Platte. the Sweetwater has scarcely tree or bush
growing on It's banks; but up the little stream on
which ! en- writing. on q box in the Nail Comps |
uy's station tent, there is glorious water, some
grass, and more wood than have seen close to-
gether since emerged from the Gold Diggings on |
Vasquers Fork, FIVE hundred miles away. A |
snow-bspk, forty rods long and several feet deep,
lies just across the brook; the wind blows cold at
night, and We had rain squsll-just rain enough |
TO lay the dust-yesterdsy sfternoon The Matt |
Agent whom we met here has orders not to run !
into Salt Lake ahead of time; he keeps US over
here to-day, and will then take SIX days to reach
Salt Lake, which We might reach in four. am
but passenger and must study patience.
"A word on the Salt Lake Mail OF the seven
Teen bags on which have ridden for the last four
DAYS and better at least sixteen filled with large
bound books msiny Patent Office Reports, |
judce-but gil Of them undoubtedly works ordered
printed at tie public cost-yoSr cost, reader by
Congress and now on their way to certain favored
Mormons. iranked (by proxy Pub. Doc. Free
81 NJ. Bernhisel. NJ c." | do not blame Mr.. D.
for clutchiug his share OF this public plumber, and
distributing il 80 So TO increase bis popularity
and Importance; bu, do protes, sganst this bust
nrss Of printing books BY wholesale at the cost OF
the whole People for free distribution 10 part only
1t is every way wrong and perDicious. Or the
Sl90,Gt@ per annum psd for carrying the Salt
Lake Mail, uine-leDtbs Is absorbed IN the cost OF
carving these ranked documents to people who
contribute little or nothing 70 the support OF the
Government in any way. Is this fair Each
Patent Office Report will have cost the Treasury
four or FIVE dollars by the time it reaches its des
,ination, and will not be valued by the receiver st
twenty five cent?. Why should this business go
on Why not reform it altogether ?" Let Con-
sress print whatever documents are needed for it,
own information, and leave the People to CHOOSE
and buy for themselves I have spent four days
and fse nights in close contact with the sharp
edges Of Mr.. Bernhses pub. Doc have done
my very utmost to make them present smooth, or
st least endurablo surface and am sure there is
no slunber 10 be extracted therefrom unless by
reading them-s desperate resort which no ra.ona
person would recommend. For all practical pur-
poses, they might as well-now that the Printer
has been paid for them-be where | heartily wish
they were in the bottom Of the sea NC