The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-25
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE

UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
AND official ADVERTISER.
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FERNS. s." The United States Postal Guide and
Official ADVERTISER" containing abo,, 10 s's~.ay
ocfdpo pages, Is published month";, -. r. ~"
LAR ONLY, per a'lnana, payable in adyan,~N-or a..
dollars for sir copies ordered J'''
PREPARATORY NOTrcr
The enterprise in which we now auL..,, -.
Of which this paper is at once the commsmsa, a'u
and sample OF the papers that are to follow Va
for It's ann no less purpose, than to imna,t in
struction, in the general and detail, to the Ocsr
and Agents of the American public, in respect botb
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-
psrtments of their Government. There has bith
erto teen no vehicle for the regular and proper
communication OF Information Of this kind The
publication of the Laws and the issue of inatruc
lions, or less compreh ensive, and al intervals
more or less extended, have proved wholly made
quats In the absence OF the c0nstructon a. fhose
Laws, applied 10 particular cases, and of details
and illustrations 10 make the regulations and in
structons Ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported to Congress, are too vouminous
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 unon
general principles. address themselves onlv 10
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 thew 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 saf
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 uniform, methodical, and er
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. f4ylas
Ii is known to most Of those to whom this ma
per will be sent, that the Senior Editor was udi-
tor of the Post-O Office 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 or 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 ali
the departments, and being acquainted with those
VINO carry IL OH. olDCc MS OFFICIAL connection with
the Government ceased, he hatters himself he has
? preserved the respect and regard of most OF the
preset I ncumbents Of the departments and s on
becoming terms of intercourse and civility with
them all. The Junior Editor has been asssiduously
= engaged for several years. in studying bv ner
II sonni inquiry and examination, the practical and
e 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 for
reaching the various sources of administrative &C
-,
struction, and valuable periodical and statistical
information, that we challenge your confidence
and solicit your support and patronage. "a
We have fixed upon the 18th Of each month as
the day for the publication of our paper, so as to
afford time for obtaining from the departm ents
all the ORDERS notices and changes issued or nadf
by them during the preceding month. Tables a.
Post Offices, and compilations Of the Laws an.
Regulations issued by the Pos, Office DEPART
msnt 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 issues there are Of
fees in the tables which no longer in operations
and Offices ia operation which not in the tablesl
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 present,
nny increase Of the evil of either kind and from
will furnish the additions, corrections, and modi6-
: | cations made IN each month, and by being filed
and preserved, will afford to postmasters fun and
> exact information upon both subjects, up to and
for time being. How much Of the present rnirdi-
rection, remang, doubt, confusion, error, and
imposition, will be saved by the progressive state
| Of full and exact knowledge, for which we have
provided, and for which we engage, every ntslli-
| gent postmaster can estimate for himself
These advantages alone and ind pendentlv of all
/ - me- he ric Il.
for the paper, and WILL II is hoped, induce every
MASTER who feels just pride in his Office or
a patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity and
efficiency of the whole Post Office system--at once
| TO subscribe The same considerations apply n
the orders and notices, decisions, and instruction
OF the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and Interio
ldepartments and the same course is intended in
respect 10 them. Notices Of the decisions of the
|, SUPREME Court, in cases turning upon questions
of official duty or national interest, will find place
in this paler.
A Department of our paper addressing itself NOT
u merely 10 p,stmasters and other officers of the
Government, but TO all other citizens who give at
tenton to the affairs OF the nation and the progress
and DEVELOPMENT Of the e, untry, will embrace in a
condensed form the matters submitted to, or aris-
ino in Congress. At each session a vast deal of
| valuable information IL communicated to Con-
eress by the several departments and their subor-
dinate bureaus, and profound and comprehensive
! reports are made by committees Of both Houses
! RI, the great mass Of the community know moth
inc Of the contents of these documents and re-
ports, except the brief notices of them, which
rom time to time appear IN the public papers,
| Ths standing number printed Of each docun,elt
and report, is only twelve hundred in the Senate,
and fourteen hundred in the House of Representa-
uves. which at once shows the impracucabiitySof
their dissemination. The ApyERrfsER will con
tam shor, abridgments or analysis of all these
documents and reports, and the co mpend vii
therefore not only prove exceedingly useful and
instructive in itself, bu, will furnish easy index
10 those interested, whenever it il found desirable
to obtain and examine the documen at large.
There is a large field before us, the materials are
annie IL will be jealous care To collect and
arrange them in the prope form. We have every
confidence that the subscriptions will be ampleto
enable us to accomplish it all. The information