Boise news. (Bannock City, I.T. [Idaho City, Idaho]) 1863-1864, 1864-06-18
[COrespondenoe OF be Boiae -NrV..l
i Letter from tLake. i.


81" Boise Folks, all Idaho, and the rest Of
Mankind--hope you are we'll, better aoquant,
~ance' Never having been, stage manager,
we are nothing on the stump, and are still
less on oratory Down here, we are all well
save the " childers,' who have inst now a
big dose of the measles. Offspring, need
hardly inform you, ia an institution in this
yeountry--a Aourishing institution--so the ep-
aldemic is pretty extensive. AL our bachelors
- -" those one.horSe arrangements I" gener-
ally managing to continue the wag Of the
RoFid, With from ten to twenty children each,
purely TO keep up family names, titles and
'hsEorles-with no eye, Of course. upon either
Moses or Brigham. The others, not bache-
Tors, all Of US are I" considerably married .
--by-Ihe-by, learned that from Artemus-
or mean to be, and that, though not lust the
same, in seasons like the present, when -four
and potatoes are high-priced, is always con-
ssldered something towards it. Now, this is
our de6ut-we have told you all we know
about "ourself and everybody else, in gem
ecfal way, and we exPectby this time that you
have learned all about US Our cliapeau re-
turns to ornamatlt our Wig-getting rapidly
ograyF-to finish the statuary of our five feet,
, SIX and ithree-quarters of an inch and an ex-
IRA sixteenth, and with the now complete pic
ture before you we hasten to notice few sub,
sLqnary affairs in g thirty minutes allottedrto
us bythe Express Agent brown, 4. d. p
"a 4 a EXPRESS AND y. S, NAIL. l. ','.3
VI AS a general rule for the government of
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life, we started after fortune, whstIpg that
classical text q Mind Your Own Business -
An old gentlemen got rich by attending
mechanically to its philosophy, and we are
rapidly rising in the wOrtA by the same re-
ligious observance of The Injunction This
perverse world, however, persistently follows
in the wake Of that old English Tar, who
placed his hand over his one daylight and
looked for the signal not to fight With the
other blind one, and then exclaimed he |
:" couldn't see it, Now, I have something
to cay about the United States Mail and /
Boise and Salt Lake Express By this de-
parture, the Express Agent, Mr.. Brown, IN
forms me that be sends a large package of
letters to Boise, and to othertplaces in that
directions letters that have already made the
journey to East Banhock and returned to this
city. On nothing is the public more Justly
sensltIve, than on postal irregularities /
ness and the dear ones at home are, not to be
triiied with. His letter to the Postmaster
here has been handed to me, pass it over to
your readers, the explanations therein are
called fors d i.rl.5r5 55I..rr.l srt .,sf7 5@a
49, -, d, GfB4T s1Lr LAKE CRY May 29thg 1861 /
!. +. /. b. H" SrENHotsE, ESQ, p MI received
from your Office today, over 200 letters for Boise
mines, with P.O. marks bearing dates includinpk
March 28th to April End. These have been to /
DdnnOck and returned! on Sd Of June We shall
dispatch these BY our first Express to Boise. and
about the nth june they will reach their deStida.
.ion' Perhaps the exerti0ns we have made to in F.
form the L. Mat st. Josephs, and his assistants
may in measure prevent similar blunders TIL
you think anything more can be done to inform
the partles-Chus, perhaps, iunocentlv iuiurinu
The Boise blk. COZ and tile publc-d0 it 'by allI
means teach them that East Bannock is not tie +
place to send letters toOr Idaho city CenterVflIe
fl@oerville. Fort Hog lem, Boise city==Boise,-or
West Blnnock,, Perhaps East BaunUcl1 may soon
become Montana Territ0ry-it not already d
think Z note from you explanatory TO editbrofll
Boise News, would Inform the people there, that Il
the detention OF nearly 800 of their letters for
lealy three months, should not be attributed eli Il
.her to the Boise Eek. Co.. their Agent, or the I.
u at this city. Thanking you for your courtesy I
bud assistance in putting this affair to rights 50 X
tar, lreman, ais ever respectfully yours, = la5iH i
T. ~ ~ 391'i ~ y p ~ TH0S. b. BROWN i
Away back in February, the Postmaster |,
here, assisted by the Express Agent sent all
to the distributing Postoffiee +
Ut st. Joseph, and furnished the names of alll
me cities, towns, diggings, hamlets, &C., sup
Piled by the Boise Elk press Company, and :
the separation Of sthat mail, from {
hat of Bannockf Prior to- that time, 3alll-t
Idaho mail packages had to be opened here, a
because there was no further U, S. mail ia .
1llltles, and the Express Agent had no diff 1 r
Guilty in diSpatching with regularity, certain 4
y and celebrity" letters for West Bannock. Is
The large patch Of letters referred to, in the
lbove letter of the Agent here, passed thro'l l.
his city in the regular mail packages for
3annock, which no one here could TOUCH
The Postmaster and Agent here again tele- :
graphed 10 St, Joseph for attention to their
previous written instructions, and tits hoped
hat the evil and nuisance will be abateG. II
rhe creation Of the Salt Lake Office, a Dis
tibuting Office, is the only certain remedy,I
nd the probabilities are that this will bell r
''tained before long, 2trteq !
- .-o aa 70 cGENERALITIEs. to aatr.y 7 n f.
My thirty minutes have been consumed, +
md / can only add that all is quiet here and !
very person busy. We.are having fine rains
nd prospects tor, an abundant harvest are