The Southern Press

The Southern Press.

We have the pleasure of announcing, on good authority, that the subscription of the Southern Press is at length larger than that of any daily paper in the city. When we consider that this result has been achieved in a single year, without and against party and government patronage, and from a single section of the Union, and that not the most populous, the event is the more remarkable.

In the South we have more subscribers than all the other papers in the city together.

We think this victory over the party organs is adequate evidence of the prevalence in the South of the principles this paper has advocated, and of the intelligence of those who support the cause. Indeed, in looking over our subscription list, we are struck with the number of distinguished Southern names it comprehends.

Nor can we omit an acknowledgment for the cordiality and emphasis with which our course has been and is endorsed. We received last evening a letter from a gentleman who remits next year's subscription for himself and two more for connections, and says that he intends to do so every year as long as he lives and the paper continues. Another writes that he approves of every word it has contained. Another from Mississippi says that it comes so irregularly, that he seldom gets it, but is determined to have the chance of getting it. We trust we shall not be accused of egotism in referring to these letters just received, on this occasion. For we think we have indulged in that way much less than customary.

We have multitudes of such letters to which we have never before referred.

We must beg the Postmaster General to confer more regularity and efficiency on his Department, as complaints of it are very numerous, not only among our subscribers but others.