The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-24


washingsoa CITY.
UNITED STAIRS POSTAL GUIDE.
and OFFICIAL .aDrERTYSER-
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CHAxLEs M. WILLARD, Ae"ovs ssA rTeF'ssse''
TEKms :" The United States Poslsl Guide smx
Official idosrfiser, containing about 80 svpsv-royat
ocfavo pages, - Published monskIy Jf6r ONE DoL-
LAR ONLY, per aHnua, payable II sdussce---ay fire.
dollars for rr copies ordered at any ore time.
PREPARATORY NOTICE.
The enterprise In which now embark, anil
OF which this paper is at once the commsnceueI +,
and sample of the papers that are 10 follow. kaS
sruction, in the general and detail, to the Odioer
and Agents Of the American public, ia respect both
70 their duties and their rights, and 10 make them
and the people at large, acquainted with ths organ
ization, deciaions and action Of the Executive de-
partmsnss of their Government. There has hiih +
erto Teen 10 vehicle for the regular and proper
communication Of information Of this kind. The
publication Of the Laws aud the iaGQs Af instruc
tons, more or less comprehensive, ind At intervals
more or less extended, have proved wholly inads-
quate, in the absence Of the consfxu64l0n ofrhoss
Laws applied to particular casssy and ~ dsails
and Illustrations to make the rsguIaaiens and in
structions Ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported TO Congress, are toQ 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 AZ they 60, and
some Of them Indispensable; but there 10 much
that do not reach the hands Of all, if they did,
Do they furnish those rules, methods, and exam
pies, for the despatch Of the public business whick
render the discharge of public duty either safs
or easy, whether in respect to the incumbent him
self, or the department or bureau under which he
acts We shall make 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 or personal interest or question what
ever.
Il 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 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 all
the departments and being acquainted with those
who carry it on Since his official connection with
the Government ceased, he fatters 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 civility with
them all. The Junior Editor has been asssiduourly
engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
sonn1 inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details Of the Post-Ofice and
other branches Of the public business. II 10 with
this stock Of experiences and these advantages for
reaching the various sources of administrative
ton. and for impartng minute and illustrative in
structon, 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
the day for the publication Of our paper, so as to
afford time for obtaining from the departmentss
all the ORDERS notices andchanges issued, or made
by them during the preceding month. Tables 90
Post Offices, and compilations of the Laws ana
Regulations, are issued by the Post Office Depart
ment only once in two or three years. Ii is 4
matter of Inconvenience and complaint, for which
hitherto there has been no remedy, that in one
month from the time of these issues, there off
fees in the tables which no longer in operatons
and Offices in operation which are not IN the tablesI
At this time there are perhaps over three thousand
Offices of the two descriptions In like manner
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 modh-
cations, made in each month"; ana by being Med
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-
rection, remailing, 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 intelli-
rent postmaster can 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 il hoped, induce every
postmaster 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 subscrjbe 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 IL intended In
respect to them. Notices Of the decisions of the
Supreme Court, in cases turning upon questions
of official duty or nntion1 INTEREST," VIII nhu P'ace
in this papsr.
A Department Of paper addressing itself not
merely TO postmasters and other officers of the
Government, but to all other citizens who give at
tenton to the affairs Of the nation and the progress
md DEVELOPMENT of the {, untry, will embrace in
condensed form the matters submitted to, aris-
ng in Congress At each session vast deal Of
ya1uable information is communicated to Con-
,ress. bv the several departments and their subor
Innate bureaus, and profound and comprehensive
.eports are made by committees Of both Houses.
But the great mass Of the community know moth
no of the contents of these documents and re-
,orts, except the brief notices of them, which
rom time to time appear IN the pubic papers,
rbe standing number printed of each document
md report. is only twelve hundred in the Senate,
nd fourteen hundred in the House Of Representa-
ives. which at once shows the impractcability Of
y cir dissemination. The ADvERrisEa will con
ain short abridgments or analysis Of all these
documents and reports, and the compend will
= srefore not only prove exceedingly ussfdl and
Instructive in itself bu, will furnish an easy index
!, those interested, whenever i is found desirable