The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-11
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE.
AND OFFICIAL .aDyERTySER

UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE.
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CHARLks nj. WILLARD, 1aaors and Proprtetors
rEn =, The United States Postal Guide and
cc'" ADVERTISER, containing about 80 svpey-rouai
oetouo pages, IS published monthly Sr ONE pcr.-
LAR ONLY, per assaim, payable in adpance--or FIVE
dollars for sir copies ordered at any one tim.
PREPARATORY NOTICE .gol
The enterprise in which we now embark. mi s
OF which this paperis at once the commencement 4,
and sample OF the papers that are to follow, as
For It's ann no less purpose, than to mpart in
structon in the general and detail, to the Officer
and Agents 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-
4 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 instrur
lions, 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, applied to particular cases, and of details
and illustrations to make the regulations aud in
structions Ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported to Congress, are too voluminous
and 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 as they go, and
some of them Indispensable; but there is much
that do reach the hands OF all nor if thew did
do they furnish those rules, methods, and exam
plies, for the despatch OF the public 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 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, methodcal, 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 leaBt-apart from, and independently Of
any party or personal interest or question what
| ever. M lu
| 1t is known to most Of those to whom this pa
per will be sent, that the Senior Editor Audi
| tor of the Post 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 all
the departments, and being acquainted with those
who curry it on. Since his official connection with
the Government ceased, he natters himself he has
preserved the respect and regard of most Of the
present ncumbents Of the departments, and is on
becoming terms of intercourse and civiiity with
them all. The Junior Editor has been asssiduously
! engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
sonal inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details of the Post Office and
other branches of the public business. 1t is with
this stock Of experience, and these advantages for
reaching the various sources of administrative
tion aud for imparting minute and illustrative in
structiou, and valuable periodical and statistical
information, that we challenge your confidence
and solicit your support and patronage.
+ We have fixed upon the 18th or each month as
| the day for the publication of our paper, to
afford time.for obtaining from the departments.
all the orders, notices andchangcs issued, or made
| by them during the preceding month. Tables @. ,
Post Offices, and compilations of the Laws ana
Regulations, are issued by the Post Office Depart
| ment only once iii two three years. Ii is
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 longer in operations
and Offices in operation which not in the tablesl
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 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 modIi-
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-
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 inte-
gent postmaster can estimate for himself. "a
These advantages alone and independently Of all
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, or
a 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, 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 national interest, will find place
/ in this pap<r. r-
A department Of our paper addressing itself not
! merely to pOstmnsters and other officers of the
Governments but to all other citizens who give at
ention to the affairs Of the nation and the progress
and development of the q untry, will embrace ina
condensed form the matters submitted to, or nris-
ing in Congress. At each session vast deal Of
valuable information is communicated to Con-
gress by the several departments and their subor-
dinate bureaus, and profound and comprehensive
reports made by committees OF both Houses.
But the great mass of the community know moth
inr of the contents of these documents and re-
ports, except the brief notices OF them, which
from time to time appear IN the public papers,
The standing number printed Of each document
and report, is only twelve hundred in the Senate,
and fourteen hundred in the House of Representa-
t,ves which at once shows the 'mpracticability of
their dissemination. The ApvERrIsER will con-
tain short abrdgments analysis OF all these
documents and reports, and the compend viii
therefore not only prove exceedingly useful and
in itself but will furnish an casv index