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UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE

UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
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Terms. The United States Postal Guide and
Official advertiser containing about 30 sper-royai
Octapo pages, IS published monthly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per anntaa, payable IN adpanos--or fire
dollars for sir copies ordered al any one time.
PREPARATORY NOTICE.
The enterprise in which we now embark, and
OF which this paper is at once the commencement,
and sample of the papers that are to follow, has
for It's aim no less a purpose, than to impart in
struction, in the general and detail, the Officers
and Agents of the American public, in respect both
TO their duties and their rights, and TO make them,
and the people at large, acquainted with the organ
lzatlon, decisions and action of the Executive de-
partments of their Government. There has hith-
| erto Teen no vehicle for the regular and proper
communication of information of tis kind. The
publication of the Laws and the issue of instruc-
lions, more or less comprehensive and mt intervals
more or less extended have proved wholly made
quate, in the absence Of the construction of those
Laws, as applied to particular cases, and Of details
and illustrations to make the regulations and in
structions Ineligible The valuable documents
annually reported to Congress- are too voluminous,
and are printed in quantities too small for general
circulation, whilst the debates in Congress and
the commentaries of the press upon their proceed
ings, and the proceedings of the Executive branch
of the Government, besides turning mostly upon
general principles, address themselves only to
party ends, and to matters of national policy.
These publications in their various forms are
| highly useful In themselves as far as they 60 and
| some Of them Indispensable; but there is much
that do not reach the hands of all, nor if they did
do they furnish those rules, methods, and exam
Piles, for the despatch Of the public business which
can render the discharge Of public duty either safe
or easy, whether in respect to the incumbent him
| self, or the department or bureau under which he
acts. We shall make an honest effort to supply
| this vacuum, and to provide for these necessities.
| If we succeed in rendering the functions of the
primary offices more uniform, methodical, and ex-
act, we shall make the administrative duties of the
departments more easy and effective, and thereby
promote the real and substantial interests Of the
| country. And this we expect to do, TO some ex-
tent at least-apart from, and independently of
any party personal interest or question what
ever. '..7
1t is known to most Of those to whom this pa
per will be sent, that the Senior Editor was Audi
tor Of the Post-Ofice Department until the month
of November last; with by far the larger portion
| OF both postmasters and contractors, he has had
direct intercourse, in person by letter. He en-
tered the department fourteen years since, and for
many years previously, had been, first in the War
| Department, and subsequently in the Treasury
He has therefore had the best opportunities for
understanding the arrangements Of business in all
| the department9, and bong acquainted with those
who carry it on Since his official connection with
the Government ceased, he flatters himself he has
| preserved the respect and regard of most Of the
| present ncumbents of the departments, and is on
becoming terms Of intercourse aud cyilitY with
| them all. The Junior Editor has been asssiduously
engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
soma! inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details Of the Post-Ofhce and
other branches Of the public business, 1t is with
n aN nd a,, G.
reaching the various sources of administrative
tion, and for mpartlng minute and Illustrative in
struction, and valuable periodical and statistical
| information, that we challenge your confidence
and solicit your support and patronage,
| We have fixed upon the 18th Of each month as
the day for the publication of our paper, so as to
atard time for obtaining from the departments,
all the orders, notices and changes issued made
by them during the preceding month. Tables of
Post Offices, and compilations of the Laws and
Regulations, are issued by the Post Office Depart
ment only once in two or three years. 1t is a
matter of inconvenience and complaint, for which
hitherto there has been remedy, that in one
month from the time of these iaaues, there are Of
fees in the tables which are no longer in operation
and offices in operation which are not in the tables
At this time there are perhaps over three thousand
offices of the two descriptions. In like manner
laws have been passed and regulations established
since the issue OF the last volume Of regulations,
| of which many postmasters and others are wholly
ignorant. We propose to prevent, for the preaent,
any increase Of the evil of either hind, and from
the time another issue shall be made, our paper
will furnish the additions, corrections, and modif-
cations, made in each month, and by being filed
and preserved, will afford to postnasters full and
exact information upon both subjects, up to and
for time being, How much of the present misdi-
rection, remailing, doubt, confuson error, and
imposition, will be saved by the progressive state
Of full and exact knowledge, for which we have
proyid cd and for which w infalli-
gent postmaster estimate for himself.
These advantages alone and Independently Of all
others, are worth many times the price we charge
for the paper, and will, it is hoped, induce every
postmaster who feels just pride in his office, or
patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, and
to subscribe, The same considerations apply to
the orders and notices, decisions, and Instructions
Of the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and Interior
departments, and the same course is intended in
respect to them, Notices Of the decisions Of the
Supreme Court, in cases turning upon questions
Of official duty national interest," will Ghd place
in this paper
A department Of our paper addressing itself not
merely to pustmasters and other officers of the
Government, but to all other citizens who i've at
tention TO The affairs Of the nation and the progress
and development of the country, will embrace in q
condensed form the matters submitted to, aris-
ing in Congress, Al each session vast deal Of
valuable information is communicated to Con-
gress, by the several departments and their subor-
dinate bureaus, and profound and comprehensive
reports made by committees Of both Houses.
But the great mass Of the community know moth
ing Of the contents of these documents and re-
ports, except the brief notices of them, which
from time to time appear in the public papers.
The standing number printed of each document
and report, is only twelve hundred in the Senate,
and fourteen hundred in the Hnaae OF Representa-
tives, which at onco shows the impracticabty of
their dissemination. The ADVERTISER will con-
tain short abridgments or analysis of all these
documents and reports, and The compend will
therefore not only prove exceedingly useful and
instructive in itself, but will furnish easy index
TO those Interested whenever it is found desirable
to obtain and examine the document at large.
There is large field bofore US, the materials are
ample, II viii be our jealous care to collect and
arrange them in the proper form. We have every
confidence that the subscriptions viii be ample to
enable us to accomplish il all, The information
we propose to give, eomprehending and confined
to the action Of the Government, is solld, useful,
! and 1--WE might almost say necessary to the Off
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