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UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE.
and Official ADVERTISER.
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IERhs.-" The United Statss Postal Guide and
Cscal Advertiser" containing about 81 sppe,-roual
ocfGro pages, Is published uonthlv for oNr DOL
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PREPARATORY NOTICE.
The enterprise in which now embark. AMI
Of which this paper s at the commencement.
and sample Of the papers that are to follow ! as
for its aim no lees purpose, than to impart in
struction in the general and detail, to the Officer
and Agents Of 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
ixntion, decisions and action Of the Executive de-
partmsnts of their Government There has hith
erto teen no vehicle for the regular and proper
communication Of information of this kind The
publication Of the Laws and sAe issaa of instru~
tions or less comprehensive, and ut intervals
more or less extended, have proved wholly made
quate, in the absence Of tho construction Of those
Laws as applied TO particular cases, and Of details
and illustrations to make the regulations and in.
structions Ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported TO Congress, are too voluminous
and are printed in quantities too small for general
circulaton; whilst the debates in Congress and
the commentaries of the press upon their proceed
ings, and the proceedings or the executive branch
of the Government, besides turning mostly upon
general principles, address themselves only to
narty ends, and to matters Of national policy
These publications in their various forms are
highly useful in themselves far as they 60, and
some of them indispensable; but there 10 much
Il, oh he hand OP oil fhaxy1 dir
do they furnish those rules, methods, and exam
ples for the despatch Of the public business which,
can 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 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 ey
tent at least--apart from, and independently OF
any party or personal interest or question what
| ever. a
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 Office Department until the month
lof 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
Y,
| 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 aatters 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 asssduously
, | engaged for several years, in studying, by per
l H. 4
sonu inquiry and examination, the practical and
E daily routine and details of the Post-Ofice and
other branches Of the public business. II is with
this stock Of experience, and these advantages for
| reaching the various sources OF administrative ac
tion and for mparting minute and illustrative in
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 as
. the day for the publication of our paper, to
afford time for obtaining from the departmentss
all the ORDERS notices and changes issued made
by them during the preceding month. Tables &c
Post Offices, and compilations Of the Laws ana
Regulations, are issued by the Post Office Depart
Il ment only once in two or 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 off
fees in the tables which no longer in operatons
and Offices in operation which not in the tablesu
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,
anv 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, and by beng 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 msdi-
rection, remaling, doubt, confusion, error, and
imposition, will be saved by the progressive state
4 of full and exact knowledge, for which we have
provided and for which we engage, every intelli-
| cent 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 is hoped, induce every
postmaster who feels just pride in his Office, or
a natriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, and
efficiency of the whole Post Office system--at once
to subscribe The considerations apply to
the orders and notices, decisions, and Instructions
Of the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and Interior
departme ents, 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 lind place
A department of our 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
and DEVELOPMENT of the {, untry, will embrace IN
| condensed form the matters submitted TO, or ars-
ing in Congress. At each session vast deal Of
| valuable information is communicated to Con-
gress. bv the several departments and their sabor-
3ina,e bureaus, and profound and comprehensive
repor,s are made by committees of both Houses
But the great mass Of the community know moth
| ing of the contents Of these documents aud 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,
.nJ eoprteen hundred in the House Of Representa-
tives which at once shows the impracticability Of
their dissemination. The ADvERrIsKa will con-
,n,n short abridgments 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
IN those interested whenever it is found desirable
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