The Mail That Stopped Coming to Puget Sound

A little while ago we had regular semi-monthly communication by mail with California and the Atlantic States. Through that channel, for the wants of the increasing towns of Puget Sound, it was thought by some that an overland mail to Olympia daily, and thence twice or thrice weekly to towns on the Sound, would prove of material advantage over the other. The new route has been inaugurated; now see the difference.

Since the arrival at this place of the Pacific Mail Steamer, more than ten days ago, we have not had a single mail from California and the Atlantic States. The steamer Oregon, of the same line, arrived here on Saturday, the 22d ult., but brought no mail; the Postmaster of San Francisco refusing, under instructions from the head of the Department, to place it on board.

How many more weeks shall elapse before we get a mail from California and the Atlantic is impossible to say; but certain it is that a vexatious interruption has taken place in our mail communication. The Overland Mail has failed to bring, as yet, a single letter. So far as we can learn from our citizens, since the mail brought by the California, a few straggling letters came to hand shortly before, but none since. For news we have to say that, with the exception of two California papers, one in San Francisco and the other in Marysville, both of which have reached us, we have received neither papers nor mail during the time mentioned; and if it were not for the Portland Daily, whence we usually get our news, we should have found it impossible to have published from week to week.