The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-09-26
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
The Condition Here as Cleaned
From an Aged Publication.

: Thursday. Six Dollars per Annum
I in Advance. Office. Postofice Build
ing. Advertising, ETC.. With a not
Z at the bottom, Book, Job and Carr
Printing Executed to Order" 1t is al
!. eight page Gheet, about 10x16 inches
printed in peRt and clear type, min.
ion and .nonpareil faces, but the
workmanship, of course, is after thG
old fashion. The frat thing is poem
signed Lyon, and beyond all question
the work OF Mr.. John Lyon, the
lyrist Of Utah, aud for many years
+ territorial librarian. Il is called
Home, Sweet, 6seet Home" and
underneath the heading. 10 smaller
type, are the words, ''As sung by
| VIM. 9 Dunbar" the same who IL
now business manager OF the HERALD.
There is s two column and bali
article clipped from the HiiIennial
Star of April, 1871, headed, differ
sreDce between Baptists and Latter
day Saints, from the North Stafford
shire Mercury" Following this is a
Sermon by MILFORD Woodruff, Tab
ernAole Feb. 25. 1856. Reported by
g. d. Wsttl," which occupies about
seven columns OF solid matter. There
are q number of selected pieces,
chosen from standard works, and on
topics that are az interesting to day
81 they we're then. One page of the
paper is devoted to correspond
ence. partly foreign and partly
local. Among that coming un-
der tbo former head is q
letter bearing thres dates. Glasgow.
Scotland; London, England; and
Dublin. Ireland. November q, 1854,
addressed ITO the Lieutenant Gen
erRl, Officers aud Soldiers OF the
Nsuvoo LEGION" to which is at
taohed three signatures, "G. D.
Grant. Scotland; W. II. Kimbal..
Eogland; and James Ferguson, Ire
land" The foreign correspondence
is devoted to church matters, as is
also she domestic or "Homs" ia the
main, though reference is frequently
made to the material interests of the
places from which the letters are ad-
dressed. Among the signatures
found in the Home" department.
sre those of Geo. A Smith, Elias n.
Blackburn. II. E PhsIps and Orson
Hyde.
At the heading OF the editoria
department, after the words. The
Deseret Nei0s," is 8 small beehive, on
the left band side of which is the
word Truth" In small capitals, and
on the right hand side the word
Liberty" then comes ALBERT Car
rington, Editor. Great Salt Lake City:
Wednesday, March 81, 1856" Be.
meath this is . note. Advertise
msnts, to insure insertion in the cur
rent number. must be handed in pre-
vious to l o'clock pm. on Tuesday"
Immediately below the above appears
this: Advertisements sent to this
Office for publication should be writ |
with ink, and in a plain, legible
style;" and then follows the editori-
ais, the 6rst being entitled HThe
Last Eastern Mail. and is so pscu-
liar as showing the mail facilities in
those days. and arraigns the govern
ment in 20 characteristic q style that
it merits perusal:
The last eastern mail left Independence
February lat and arrived in this city
about 3 pm. of the 10Th inst. 1t started
with one through and one way letter
bag, both Of which came to hand with
their contents in pretty good condition.
1t also started with four canvas sacks, in
which papers, books and documents are
put, and merely tied up. Only three Of
these sacks were brought through, one of
them full, one one-hAlf and the other
one-ihird full.
As these sacks are easily united, snd
the latest London Times bore date De-
cember 18th, while q MlLLenniGL Star of
January 6.h came in the same mail, and
the New York Evening Post of January
18th was the latest paper from that city,
and only Nos. z, 9 aud 10 Of the st. Louis
LRnli5lGTy have reached here since No.
l, and the New York Herald, London
Times and all exchange and subscribed
for papers generally arrive with from one
half 10 tWo-IhirdS Of their numbers mis-
sing, and GLeGSoR'S Pictorial, Hd7per's s,
Grnhdn's, Gody'S and other magazines
and illustrated papers seldom get through
at all, and none Of the large amount Of
back matter was brought on, it demon
strHtes to certainty that UtAh's popu-
latiou are very patient under gross abuse,
and that the eastern mail facilities fur
nished this territory by our most kind
government, or our moJt E0vtng post
mA,ter-generAl, are little more than .
farce.
We are not yet able to prove who Of
thos east Of the Rocky Mountains are
the most to blame in this matter, but
presume that quite number have hand
IN the business, and more especially
those who are in and Sround the different
postoffices between here and Indepen-
denee.
If the government really designs 10
have a mall carried on the route in ques-
ton, let them allow living compensa-
l,ion for the service to energetic, honor
able and resp ntible men, anu furnish
good, substantial bags for all kinds OF
mail matter, with locks on all bags con-
tanning through matter, that the Keys at
the way Offices cannot unlock.
This course will insure the transporta-
ton Of the mail, and the arrival of all
letters, papers, magazines. books, etc.,
that are put into it on leaving the from
tier. All pluDdering and irregularity
happening previous to that period we are
perfectly willing TO bear in common with
I, fellow sufferers 10 The states.
II In case the through bags should b
cut or broken open, betNeen the point
of departure and arrival, let secre
! mail sgent be put upon the trail, al
7 officer long since due to Utah, and on
she has oflen asked for, and should hay
been allowed, or at least the duty b
assigned 10 one already appointed, an
who could and would ferret cut impesi
8 ton and plunderers.
D This territory is by no means alone IN
! terested in the correction OF the abuse
: now complained Of, but every publisher
every business man, and every lover {
justice, order and proper dispatch
public duties, residing east Of her Dor
ders, is more or less concerned.
Did the mail arrive regularly, excel
elemental hindrAnces, and in,good eond
% ton and with just contents. hosts Of OF
le people would subscribe FOR eastern publ
I'd cations, and be gratifed and benC
or fted by their perusal.
But how has it been Hundreds
g dollars have been forwarded for msg
zines and papers, and only here AT
IN there has one made its appearance. Is
III presumable that the fault is with Z
We publishers? No. On the other hand,
I'D It sIpposable that we are always going
furnish money to provide the choict
publications to postmasters and {
iiosfers and pilferers that they allow
overhaul and plumber in their otheS
e. We think not.