(p. 2, c. 6)
Letters for Trans-Mississippi Will be taken by Warren Adams, at Five Dollars, with postage paid, to the 31st of July inst. Send to the care of Advertiser and Register. References, H. O. Brewer & Co., W. G. Clark.

Note by Vicki Betts
By this point, the regular Confederate mail crossing the Mississippi had almost entirely broken down. Warren Adams would advertise in Houston, stating a departure date, and have the mail sent to the newspaper in double envelopes, with fee prepaid. He would gather it and elude the federal gunboats on the river. On the other side, if the mail was not for one of the armies, he would post it at the first active post office he came to. He would actually track down the major Confederate armies, however, to deliver mail and then pick up what needed to go back. At one point he advertised that the $5 (later $10) entitled the sender to free mail back from the front. The Confederate post office didn't like this, but with mail stacking up on this side of the river they finally had to admit that they couldn't handle it, and quit protesting. As you might expect, Mr. Adams was a favorite with the local Houston newspapers, because he came straight from any front that included Texans.