The southern press., 1851-03-31
UNITED STATES postal CUIDE

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PETER u, WAsHrNGros,
CHARLES M. WLLARp, Editors and Proprieiors,
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| PREPARATORY NOTICE
| The enterprise in which we now embark, and
OF which this paper is ut once the commencement
and sample Of the papers that TO follow, hsf
| for its aim no less purpose, than to impart H..
sruction, in the general and detail to the Officer
and Agents Of the American public in respect botA
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 hiih-
erto leen vehicle for the regular and proper
communication of information OF this kind The
publication of the Laws aud the issue Of nstruc
tions, less comprehensive, and ut intervals
more or less extended, have proved wholly made
quate, the absence or 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 document
annual reported to Congress, are too volumnotg
and are printed in quantities too small for gener.
circulation; whilst The debates in Congress ans
the commentaries of the press upon their proceed
ings, and the proceedings Of the Executive brancl
of the Government, besides turning mostly upo
general principles, address themselves only |
party ends, and to matters of national policy
These publications in their various forms
highly useful in themselves far as they go, ana
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
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.
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-Oflce Department until the month
of November last; with by far the larger portion
of both postmaslers and contractors, he has had
direct intercourse, in person or by letter. He en-
tered the department fourteen years since, and for
many years previously, had been, first the War
Department, and subsequently in the Treasury.
He has therefore had the best opportunities for
| understanding the arrangements OF business in all
| the departments and being acquainted with those
who carry il on Since his official connection with
the Government ceased, he ilatters himself he has
|
| preset incumbents of the departments, and is O.
! becoming terms of intercourse and civty wit
them all. The Junior Editor has been asssduous,
engaged for several years. in studying, by per
sonal inquiry and examination, the practical am
I daily routine and details of the Post-Office am
other branches of the public business 1t is wit
this stock Of experience, and these advantages 70
reaching the various sources of administrative ac.
ton, and for inlpartIng minute and illustrative
struction, and valuable periodical and statistical
information, that challenge your confidence
and solicit your support and patronage.
| We have fixed upon the 18th Of each month az
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
Post Offices, and compilations Of the Laws an
| Regulations, issued by the Post Office Depart
ment only once in two three years. 1t 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 are no longer in operation
and offices in operation which are not in the tabei
AT this time there are perhaps over three thousanG
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 wholly
ignorant. We propose 70 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 modf-
cations, made in each month, and by being filed
and preserved, will afford to posmasters full and
| exact information upon both subjects, up TO and
| for time being. How much of the present misdi-
rectioD, remaIIing, doubt, confusion, error, and
| imposition, will be saved by the progressive sale
OF full and exact knowledge, for which we have
| provided and for which we engage, every inte-
gent postmaster can estimate for himself
These advantages alone and independently of all
others, worth many times the price charge
for mar nd WI ia inlu
postmaster who feels just pride in his Office, or
patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, and
efficiency of the whole Post Office system-at once
TO subscribe. The same considerations apply TO
the orders and notices, decisions, and Instructions
of the War, Navy, Treasury, State, aud 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 find place
in this payer lr
/ A department Of our paper addressing itself not
merely 10 postmasters and other officers of the
Government, but to all other citizens who give at
tenon to the affairs OF the nation and the progresG
and development Of the {, untry, will embrace IN
condensed form the matters submitted to, or aris
ing in Congress. AT each session vast deal OF
valuable information is communicated to Con-
grcss, by the several departments and their sutor-
dinate bureaus, and profound and comprehensive
reports made by committees of both Houses.
But the great Of the community know moth
ing of the ccnten,s of these documents and ee-
ports, except the brief notices of them, which
/ from time to time appear IN the public papers.
| The standing number printed of each docume
and report, is only twelve hundred IN the Senate,
and fourteen hundred in the House Of Representa-
tives which at once shows the impractcabIlity OF
their dissemination. The Advertiser will con-
tain short abrdgments 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 II is found desirable
to obtain and examine the document at large.
There is large field before us, the materials are
ample 1t will be our jealous care TO collect and
arrange them in the proper form We have every
confidence that the subscriptions will be ample to
enable us to accomplish it all. The information
we propose to give, comprehending and confined
to the action Of the Government, is solid, useful.
and Eve might almost say necessary to the III
cer--lf not to the citizen. IL is intended for ALL
and put at price which can constitute no obstacle