The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-26

LEWIS, of Montgomery, Alabama and their as
sistants, are our only travelling agents for col
Mall Mlsnanagcnents- Screws Loose Some
Whcrc.
We conceive it 10 be hard case enough thu
the Postmaster General should, in defiance q
law and equity, deprive US of our due in tn
printing at his disposal But it is harder sti
that we should be made to suffer additions
losses by the miserable mismanag cement of hi
department, on which the zeal of his incapacit
has stamped itself in unmistak cable characters
Every mail brings US from every quarter com
plants of the vexatous delays to which oul
subscribers are subjected and in numerou, in
stances the Irregularities Of the receipt and the
circuitous route by which they come, fasten the
blame on the post office. From our exchanges
of all parties, rises the same complaint, for il
bears heavily on the press, punctuality in the
receipt of which is all important To country
subscribers especially, who get the news but
once week, this is a nuisance past enduring
and they are very apt, in their indignation, tc
visit the sins of the post Office on the uufortu
nate publisher.
We have lost some subscribers from this
cause, and this alone; and numerous Others
have written us on the subject, making com
plants, but declaring that they would take the
paper even in spite Of the delays and difficulties
attending it's receipt. This laundering with the
newspaper mails was bad, but complaints now
have broken out in new department of that
service
The following letter, from highly respecta-
BILE source, is but one Of many received from
the South. 1t was sent with the request for
publication.
We have repeatedly been written to by our
subscribers, urging us to expose the deliberate
suppression of the Southern Press, or its stop
page in transitu, which they said then could
prore and were we'll satisfied Of But we have
foreborne, because we did not desire to throw
an imputation on class ofmen, most of whom
are above the suspicion of such scoundreism.
We are loAth to believe it now But whether
the thing arises from incompetency, ignorance,
or knavery,i it should be rectiied or the Post.
master General resign an office he is unfit to
FILL
We believe the fault to be in the head more
than in the members.
-, Georgia, May 81, 1852.
The Postal System-The Violation of Letters.
GENTLEMEN: There seems to be lust about
now considerable cause of complaint against cur
postal system, with regard to the destruction, or
relation, of envelopes surrounding letters.
There are to our personal knowledge, more in.
stances than one, in which Southern men have
had their envelopes ,iolaied and their manu-.
script letters, or articles sent under new cover
to their destination. The error seems, there
fore, to exist in the postal arrangement. and cries
aloud for reform or is it part Of our govern
mental policy to open private letters? If 80,
you would do the Southern people a vast deal
of service, by exposing the fact, its causes, etc
If the people of the South, cannot write to their
private friends, or indite manuscript, without
having the matter examined by some govern
ment agent, the sooner we know it, the better
We drop you these lines, by way of suggestion
ndiDQuiry. The evil should be exposed We
know nothing of the postal machinery with
reference to the matter, hence, we do not wish
TO cast Odium where it does mol belong, and
hope you will make an exhibition of the case in
general terms.
The error should be speedily rectfed; no
man likes to have his private correspondence
violated, in country where the liberty of speech
and freedom of thought are guaranteed, and
the principle of self:government paramount ri
the postal agents are acting sua sponte, the de-
partment should modify it if it be the error of
some postal knave, the fact should be invest.
gated. Respectfully,
A SourHERNER.
W- We have received many letters of the
stamp of the following in the last few days, to.
gether with the unmistakeable indication of new
subscribers. We received one of the latter
last night:
EAToNToN, Georgia, May 2lst, 1852
Messrs. FISHER g. DE LEON Gentlemen ::
Enclosed are two dollars, subscription money
for your paper.
The course pursued by the Compromises"
in regard to the Congressional printing, has ex.
cited contempt for them in the bosom of all
honest-hearted and right-minded men. The
conduct of the submission section of the so
called Democrats-the believers in the unlimited
sovereignty of the federal government, towards
their more Democratic brethren, the State Rights
Democracy of the South, is not at all calculated
to effect reunion in the Democratic ranks.
If that "old fogy," Gen. Cass, is nominated
as candidate for the Presidency, he will run in
Georgia as he did in lS4S. The Democrats of
this State attribute TO blockheadsm or to dena-
gogueism the singularly absurd position, that
the first intruders on the public domain have the
right to exclude n portion of the Joint owners
OF the territories, if the latter undertake to cany
their property there. Long may you live to do
battle for common sense and constitutional
freedom. Very respectfully.
~ The patience of the border States is fast
giving way, under the insolent aggressions and
outrages perpetrated upon them. The Balti
more American, generally a very meek pa