E1---z1@

 'a'KaRs ADVOCATE.

LITTLE ROCK, FEBRUARY F, 1886.

ssDsSest things rightly, touching the svea1

 Of t7ae Gommon.'5

The Eastern Mail failed on Monday and
{"character_count": 1592, "word_count": 289, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9718999862670898], "ccnet_perplexity": [2044.800048828125], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
The Eastern Mail failed on Monday and Wednesday last, on account, it is said, of ice ranning in the Mississippi. Tine Northern mail did not come in.on Monday, on account of high waters. We received it, however, on Tuesday. The Eastern mail is a disgrace to the Post Office Dapartment-ita ang thiag can be disgrace to 1t. Mails are .delayed---kept on the road-piled up at Memphis-parts cttlled and sent on, and others held back for a steam boat--or perhaps for the next mail ss Our sufferings Is intolerable''-and we ask for relief and get none. Why can't Amos asend the mail qaa1festy, in a balloon or a AEssnag boat. Ne shonld think the change for Fthe better. If he cannot find some better contractor than the one at present on the

 Memphis Route, he were better have none.

 When other contractors have had the route. the ss ice in the Mississippi has not stopped the mail. We believe the fact to be, that the present contractor has had number ofiitt!s soag mails placed along the road, so thatthey could be takenup and brought on here, when he was aboat to make a failure, yet the last two are considered no failures, because the rider came in-though without . mail. If the Government pleases to pay Messrs. D. A. 6c o. saltmarsh, for doing nothing and not half complying with their contracts, we have. no remedy. If Kendall is in earnest in his cry for reformation. he were better begin at the extremes and reform towards the centre. The first steps should be tc turn Messrs. D. \. S 0. SaltTnarsh head and heels out of their contract and put some man there who can and viii de his duty