Arizona miner., 1866-05-23
" CELEBRITY, CERTAINTY AND SECU.
 ETTYn


 These are the time honored watchworls of the Postoiiice Department, and bids that propose to transport the mails with cclcri ty, certainty and security" having been de- eided to be the only legal bids, are, according to the instructions of the Department to bid ders and postmasters, (section 20,) construed as providing for the entire mail, however large, and whatever may be the mode of con veyance necessary to insure its 'celerity, cer- tainty and security, and have the prefer ence over all othes, and no others are con sidered.n
 Of course the bids of the present contract or were made and received upon this basis, and yet how grossly has it been disrecarded. There has been no approach to "celeritv. certainty and security or to either of these important requirements. Tie proceedings of meeting of the citizens of Yayapai county. elsewhere given, show the popular judgment of the course of the contractor, and how greatly relief is needed. We hear that simi- lar meetings will be held throughout the Territory, for the dissatisfaction is every where intense. \ late letter from La Paz says that the mails between San Bcrnardino and that place are now almost as irregular as between the Colorado and Prescott. The Wickenburg carrier came up on Sunday even ing last with a mail week'or two behind he having left Wiekenburg a few hour. be- fore the La Paz mail was due there. as he and his predecessors have done for months past. When asked why he did not wait. he sad he had nothing tO to with the connec- ton of the mails, and that he had tn come when he did in order to return to Wicken- burg, and then go to Pima Villages. and back to w. and here, within the week Think of this route for one man with poor animals! + well illustrates the picayune policy of the contractor, by which it would seem that in total disregard of public convenience. and in order to save few dollars. he exaets from one carrier what would be sufficient work for two or three.
 Bat we will not enlarge upon the subject, although facts come to us from every quarter proving s most surprising remis,F,e-s on the part of Mr. Poston, and calling for immedi- ate reform. We see that a special Postofffce Agent for the Pacific has been appointed. That official should either come to Arizona. or send deputy here at once, that thor. ough investigation of postal affairs may be had. The people are entitled to it; the country, So long disturbed by the Apache. should not be made the victim of defective mail arrangements, when the government is paying liberally for service. We hear that Mir Poston boasts that he has new contracts and that he will show the people of Arizona that they cannot get ahead of him. We are sure they do not desire to get ahead of him. or to molest him in any way, if he will sim ply perform his duty. fhey do not care how many contracts be has, or how much money be makes, provided their letters and papers come and go with "celerity, certainty and security" This they demand, and are de- termined to have, whoever may be the con tractor or contractors. As the mails have been carried for six months past, they have been positive injury to the country. Only
 N~" ~-y 0iiS'e parry Vi miners From Reese River, who came here to prospect the country for wealthy men in the East, and who were pleased with the lodes, assigned as their req se''i for turning back and leaving the Territo- ry in disgust, he impOss5Rby of eoaamuaioa- tfrn with their friends. To use their own lan- guage, "they could neither receive nor send away letters with any degree of promptness, and the country was too remote to operate in while such was the case"
 This is but a specimen instance. Our mer- chants, our mill owners, and all our business men have suffered until patience has ceased to be a virtue, and they will not rest until MT. Poston, or some one else, carries the mails according to the requirement of the De partment, with celerity, certainty and se- curity.n