The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-09
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE

UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
AND OFFICIAL ADVERTISER
III 10 show 'ohai is done, and iohat should be don
- IA office. = IL
CHARLES M NWS1 m,,' Editors and PyopristOrs
Terms. :" The United States Postal Guide aud
cWeiai Advertiser containing about 80 sppsr-royaI
octapo pages, Is published monthly for ONE pol
LAR ONLY per ana,.m, payable in aduanes-or five
dollars for sic copies ordered
PREPARATORY NOTICE
The enterprise in which now embark and
OF which this paper is at the commencement.
and sample Of the papers that are to follow as
for its aim no less purpose than to impart in
structon, in the general and detail, the Officer
and Agents ofthe American public, in respect both
To their duties and their rights, and to make them
and the people at large acquainted with the organ
| zation, decisions and action of the Executive de-
partments of their Government There has hilh
erto Leen vehicle for the regular and proper
communication Of information Of this kind The
publication Of the Laws and the issue of instrue
tons, more On 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
structons Ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported to Congress- are too voluminous!
and printed in quantities too small for general
crculation; 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 onlv TO
party ends, and to matters of national policy5
These publications in their various forms are
highly useful in themselves far as they go, and
some of them Indispensable; but there il much
mat do not reach the hands Of all, nor ifhey did,
do they furnish those rules, methods, and exam.
pies, for the despatch of the public business which
can render the discharge of public duty either SAT-
or easy, whether IN respect to the incumbent him,
self, or the department or bureau under which he
e nall ma Ike hon taff,,r
this vacuum, and to provide for these necessities
Ii we succeed in rendering the functions of the
primary Offices more uniform, methodicaI and ey
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,
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-Offce Department until the month
of November last; with by far the larger portion
of both postmasters and contractors, he has had
d direct intercourse, In person or by letter. He
tered the department fourteen years since and for
It many years previously had been, first in the War
: Department, and subsequently in the Treasury
He has therefore had the best opportunities for
e understanding the arrangements Of business in al
r the departments, and being acquainted with those
who carry it on. Since his official connection with
is the Government ceased he hatters himself he has
Of preserved the respect and regard of most OF the
IN preseI incumbents of the departments and is on
ne becoming terms of intercourse and cvility with
e. them all The Junior Editor has been asssiduously
IN engaged for several years, IN studying, by per-
III sonai inquiry and examination, the practical and
of daily routine and details of the POST Office and
other branches of the public business. IL is with
this stock OF experience, and these advantages fo
reaching the various sources Of administrative ac
ton, and for imparting minute and illustrative in
strucon, and valuable periodical and statistical
l..,H,c f,nf chaIIA
and solicit your support and patronage.
We have fixed upon the 18th Of each month as
e the day for the publication of our paper, so as to
az afford time for obtaining from the departments,
all the ORDERS notices and changes issued or made
OF by them during the preceding month. Tables a,
o. Post Offices, and compilations Of the Laws ana
@ Regulations issued by the Post Office Depart.
~ ment only ohos In two or three years Ii is a
~ matter Of Inconvenience and complaint, for which
" hitherto there has been no remedy, that in one
II" month from the time of these issues, there are of
fees in the tables which are no longer in operatoni
IT. and offices in operation which not in the tables|
IN AT this time there are perhaps over three thousand
. Offices of the two descriptions. In like manner
in laws have been passed and regulations establishct
nd since the issue of the last volume OF regulations
~ of which many postmasters and others are wholly
81 ignorant We propose TO prevent, for the present
ed any increase of the evil of either kind, and from
srs the time another issue shall be made, our pape
cal will furnish the additions, corrections and modi
W cations made in each month, and by being flee
and preserved, will afford to postmasters full anC
X exact information upon both subjects, up to anC
us for time being How much of the present misdi
r. rection remailing, doubt, confusion, error and
OF mnosition will be saved by the progressive state
of full and exact knowledge, for which we have
in oroyided and for which we engage, every intei
an rent postmaster estimate for himself. .-,
X These advantages alone and independently Of al
ms others nre worth many times the price we charg,
eY for the paper, and wills II Is hoped, induce every
postmaster who feels a just pride in his office
patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, an,
efficiency of the whole Post Office system-at ono
IN subscribe The same considerations apply II
A. Itbe orders and notices, decisions, and instruction
Of the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and Interio
departments and the same course is intended il
resnect 10 them. Notices of the decisions of tn
ers S,nprenna Court in cases turning upon question
en- If ofcia duty or national interest, will find pac
or in this pay.r.
A department of our paper addressing itself no
100 ,oreIv ~ postmasters and other officers of TN
D. Goy,nnent but to all other citizens who give at
for ention TO the affairs Of the nation and the progress
at and development of the e. untry, will embrace
condensed form the matters submitted TO, or ars
;na in Conrress At each session vast deal O
valuable information 10 communicated to Con
be oress Inv the several departments aud their subor
ers dinate bureaus, and profound and comprehensiv
rm repors are made by committees OF both Houses
De- Rut the great mass of the community know moth
ks ;np of the contents of these documents and re
ain por,s, except the brief notices of them, whic
rrom time TO time appear IN the public papers
The standing number printed of each docume
,al and report is only twelve hundred in the Senate
30, and fourteen hundred IN the iiouse or representa-
In lives, which at once shows the imPracucabty o
en- their dissemination. The ADVERTISER will con
tam short abridgments analysis of all thes
documents and reports, and the co mpend wi
%. therefore not only prove exceedingly. useful ap
h instructive in itself but viii furnish easy indie
10 those interested, whenever it is found desirabl
TO obtain and examine the documen at large
There is a large field before us, the materials ar
- ample. 1t will be our jealous to collect an
at arrange them in the prope FORM We have ever
the confidence that the subscriptions will be ample
'rt. enable us to accomplish it all. The informatio
is, we propose give, comprehending and con6ne
III TO the action of the Government, is solid, usefu
and 1--WE might almost say necessary to the Off
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