The southern press., 1851-03-29
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE.

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CHARLES M. WILLARD, Editors and Proprietors.
TERMs.--' The United States Postal Guids and
Official .9drerser, condiaing about 80 spper-rouaf
ocsaro pages, IS published monthly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per an,a,ua, payable i, adranee--o,. Gpe
dollars for sir copies ordered at amy one time.
PREPARATORY NOTICE
The enterprise in which we now embark, and
OF which this paper is at once the commencement,
and sample of the papers that are to follow, has
for it's aim no less purpose, than to imp.rt in
slructon, in the general and detail, To the Officer,
aud Agents of the Amercan public, in respect both
to their duties and their rights, and to make them,
and the people at large, acquainted with the organ
iZntion, decisions and action of the Executive de-
partments of their Government There has hiih-
erto Leen no vehicle for the regular and proper
communication Of information of this kind The
publication of the Laws and the issue of instruc
tions or 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
structions ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported TO CONGRESS-, are too soIumI Jolls
and printed in quantities too small for general
circulation; whilst The debates in Congress ard
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 10
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 not reach the hands Of all nor if they 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 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 east-apart from, and independently Of
any party or personal interest question what
ever.
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 flatters himself he has
preserved the respect and regard of most Of the
preset ncumbents of the departments, and is on
becoming terms of intercourse and civility with
them all. The Junior Editor has been assslduously
engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
sonal inquiry and examinations the practical and
I daily routine and details of the Post-Offce and
other branches of the public business. 1t is with
this stock OF experience, and these advantages for
reaching the various sources of administrative
ton, and for imparting minute and illustrative IN
structon, and valuable periodical and statistical
| IIufOrmatiOn
and solicit your support and patronage.
| We have fixed upon the 18th Of each month as
the day for the publication of our paper, so to
afford time for obtaining from the departments,
all the orders, notices and changes issued or made
by them during the preceding month Tables o.
Post Offices, and compilations of the Laws and
Regulations, are issued by the Post Office Depart
ment only once in two or three years IL is a
matter of Inconvenience aud complaint, for which
hitherto there has been remedy, tho, in one
month from the time of these issues, there are of
fees in the tables which are no longer in operation
and Offices in operation which not in the tables
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 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 modi-
and preserved, will afford to postmasiers full and
exact information upon both subjects, up to and
| for time being. How much Of the present msdi-
| rectIon, remaiIIng, 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 engage, every ntelli-
| gent postmaster 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
| ,y.f a..
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 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 find place
in this paper.
department of our paper addressing itself not
merely to pustmasters and other officers Of the
| Government, but to all other citizens who give ut
tention to the affairs of the nation and the progress
and development of the j, untry, will embrace in
condensed form the matters submitted to- or aris-
ing in Congress. AT each session vast deal OF
valuable information is communicated 10 Con-
gress, by the several departments and their sutor-
dinate bureaus, and profound and comprehensive
reports made by committees Of both Houses
But the great mass Of the community know Moth
ing 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 docume
and report, is only twelve hundred in the Senate,
and fourteen hundred in the House Of Representa-
tives, which at once shows the mprncticability OF
| their dissemination. The ADVERTISER will con-
tain short abrJgmens or analysis Of all these
documents and reports, and the compcnd will
therefore not only prove exceedingly useful and
instructive in ITSELF butwill furnish easy index
to those interested, whenever it is found desirable
to obtnin and examine the document at large
There is large field before us, the materials are
ample. II will be our Jealous care 10 collect and
arrange them in the proper form. We have every
confidence TINT the subscriptions will be ample to
enable us to accomplish it all. The information
we propose to give, comprehendng and confined
to the action Of the Government, is solid, useful
and Eve might almost say) necessary to the off
cer--if not to the citizen It is intended for all.