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CHARLES NJ. WILLARD, Edfors and Proprtefors.
TERMs.- The Uaiied States Postal Guide and
Official advertiser" containing about 80 sper-royai
octauo pages, is published nonihiu for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per anau,, payable in adpancs--or fire
dollars for SIR copies ordered at any one time. w..
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 lis aim no less purpose, than TO impart in
struction, in the general and detail, to 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
ization, decisions and action of the Executive de.
partments Of their Government. There has hith-
erto Eeen no vehicle for the regular and proper
communication Of information Of this kind The
publication of the Laws and the issue of instruc-
tons, more or less comprehensive, and at 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 volumnous,
and are printed in quantities too small for general
circulation; whilst the debates i'm 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 far as they go, 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 thepublic 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 all honest effort TO supply
this vacuum, and to provide for these necessities.
Ii we succeed IN rendering the functions Of the
primary Offices more uniform, mehodicaI, and en-
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 or personal interest or question what
ever.
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-Oifce Department until the month
of November last; with by far the larger portion
, Of both postmasers and contractors, he has had
direct intercourse, in person by letter. He Ell.
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 foi
understanding the arrangements OF business in al
the departments, and being 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 incumbents of the departments, and is on
becoming terms of intercourse and civty witt,
them all. The Junior Editor has been asssiduously
sonal inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details of the Post-Ofice and
other branches Of the public business. 1t is with
this stock Of experience, and these advantages fol
reaching the various sources of administrative
ton, and for imparting minute and Illustrative in
struction, and valuable periodical and Statistical
information, that we challenge your confidence
d and solicit your support and patronage.
We have xed upon the 18th Of each month a
the day for the publication of paper, so as t.
afford time for obtaining from the departments
all the orders notices and changes issued or made
by them during the preceding month. Tables o.
Post Offices, and compilations OF the Laws and
} Regulations, are issued by the Post Office Depart
ment only once in two or three years. u is a
matter of Inconvenience and complaint, for which
hitherto there has been no remedy, that in one
month from the time of these issues, there are Of
fees in the tables which no longer in operation
and Offices in operation which not in the tables
At this time there 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 present
any increase Of the evil of either kind, 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 postmasters full and
exact information upon both subjects, up to and
for time being. How much of the present misdi
} recton, remailing, doubt, confusion, error, and
imposition, will be saved by the progressive
} Of full and exact knowledge, for which we have
D provided, and for which we engage, every intei
, gent postmaster can estimate for himself
4 These advantages alone and independently Of al
D 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 o,
D patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, ant
efficiency of the whole Post Office systen,-at once
0 to subscribe The same considerations apply L
the orders and notices, decisions, and instruction
0 Of the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and Interio
departments, and the same course is intended il
respect TO them. Notices Of the decisions Of til
Supreme Court, in cases turning upon question
of official duty or national interest," will fnd plac
in this paper.
A department of our paper addressing itself no
n merely to postmasters and other officers of tn
n Government, but to all other citizens who give at
tenton TO the affairs Of the nation and the progress
and development of the country, Will embrace IN
condensed form the matters submitted TO, or arts
ing in Congress. Al each session vast deai
valuable information is communicated to Con
II gress by the several departments and their subor
/. dinate bureaus, and profound and comprehensiv
n reports are made by committees Of both Houses
4 But the great mass Of the community know notl,
ing of the contents Of these documents and re
? ports, except the brief notices of them, whic
& from time TO time appear in the public papers
6 The standing number printed Of each documen
I and report, is only twelve hundred in the Senate
!, and fourteen hundred in the House Of Representa-
I tives, which at once shows the impracticabity o
/ their dissemination. The ADVERTISER will con
O tain short abridgments or anal ysis Of oil thes
documents and reports, and the compend Wi
q therefore not only prove exceedingly useful am
4 instructive in ITSELF but will furnish easy indie
3 to those interested, whenever il is found desirabl
y to obtain and examine the document at large
,r There is large field before us, the materials ar
+ ample II will be our jealous care to collect an
i arrange them in the proper FORM We have ever
d confidence that the subscriptions will be ample
enable us to accomplish it all. The informatio
uue nronose IN rive COMMUNICATING and confne