Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-09-18
.wAsHINoroH NEWS AND GOSSIP.
The Post otfice Laws.--This afternoon v


commence the publication in the columns OF
the Star, of complete and very valuable
digest of all the laws governing the transpor-
tation of the mails and the Post ONCE Depart
ment, in all their intimate and mutually de-
pendent relations. 1t has been quite thirty
years since the last previous general digest
was prepared and published. Since that
time various important postal-statutes have
been enacted by Congress, materially chang
ing many Of the most important features
Of the postal system Of the United States
The complete, intelligent and satisfactory
digest to which we refer above, we hear,
may be fairly credited to the Postmaster
Generals labors to master the subject in
principle and detail, which has been con.
fded by the President to his guardianship.
The labor of acquiring the information in de-
tail necessary to enable the Postmaster Gen.
eral to supervise, so as to assume the response
bility for such work, while deeply immersed
in the discharge Of the multifarious executive
duties of the Department, must have been
great indeed. We presume that his purpose
was to facilitate, if not to insure, the proper
comprehension Of the postal laws by his army
of deputy postmasters, agents, and contrac-
tors, numbering some IS, 200 in the aggregate.
We publish it, not only for them, but for the
benefit of the business men of the country and
the legal profession, all of whom are more or
less interested that the laws governing the af
fairs of the Post in the United States, shall
hereafter be much better understood by the
public at large, than at this time. We shall
print small edition of this important digest,
in pamphlet form, with an index, so as to
furnish it. on orders, at fifty cents post paid)
per single copy, printed on excellent paper;
and are now ready to receive and register or
ders for the work. We will send three copies
for dollar, or twenty for FIVE dollars.
Confusion VS.. Fusion-Yesterday we no.
ticed the fact that the National Inteiiigenesr
endorsed heartily the propriety of the pro-
posed action of the Wings of Massachusetts, in
following the example of their brethren in
Maine in the recent election, wherein they
sturdily refused to be transferred, g boda-
ciously," to Republicanism Tin black domi-
no.) The weight and influence of the Intelki-
gemcer on the councils of its party throughout
the Union are deservedly superior to those of
any other journal whatever. tits the favorite,
most trusted, newspaper of the conservatism
and wealth of the Wing party-of its erudi-
ton, and its sober sense and sound intellect.
Its advice to its friends, to decline abolition
izing themselves, cannot fall on barren ground
and will have powerful effect in New York and
Ohio as well as in Massachusetts,, where the
Webster Wings, represented by the Boston Id
Uertiser and Courier, ard headed by "the
solid men of Boston," took the stand in ques
ton before it was taken by oun respected
Washington cotemporary.
The straight Wing vote in Massachusetts, at
the last State election, when the Know Moth
ings carried the State by such an avalanche,
was %, 600. Then no serious effort was made
to preserve the int gritty Of the organization
Now, however, the old fashioned Wing leaders
Of Observation-Disclosures who were at the head
of the Wing party there during the last ten
years of the life of Mr.. Webster-are straining
every nerve to put new life into their organi
zation, and can hardly fail to poll some thirty
or forty thousand votes, though much Of their
strength will probably vote for most of the
Democratic ticket in order to be sure to defeat
the Republican Know Nothing candidates :;
while the few Know Nothings in the State who
are not also Abolitionists, bid fair to support
candidates Of their own. The foreshadowing
Of this state Of things it was that induced the
Boston correspondent ofthe New York Evenfug
Post not long since TO write the letter quoted
by US, wherein he prophesied that there was a
strong chance of the Democrats proving strong
est this fall in Massachusetts,.
We perceive that the Commercial Advertt-
ser of New York, conservative Wing journal
Of high standing and great influence, also
takes strong ground in favor of the unity and
integrity of the old Wing party in that State,
arguing with great force to prove that the par
ty in the black domino is merely seeking to
use the Wings to draw the chestnuts from the
fire. That journal shows, first, that the object
of the new party is first to eradicate slavery
from the United States at all hazards and with
out paying the slightest regard to the Consti
tuition, and next to bring about the other
changes in the government and institutions of
this country suggesting from time to time in
the idiosyncracies of the New York Tribune
1t then shows that the Wing party proper
have never had and do not now have lot or
part in that proposed new governmental poll
cy; and also that the new party will surely re-
fuse to place in office, by their vote, any for
mer Wings, unless they are known to be at this
time out and out abolitionists. It then calls
upon wings who yet adhere to the conserva-
tive principles that were commended for by the
Wing party ten years ago, to take due care not
to permit the party made up of out and out
abolitionists, free-soilers and renegade Demo
Gratis to use them in the approaching New
York State election.
1t viii be remembered that the Commercial
Advertiser is equally as emphatic in its oppo: