The southern press., 1851-09-04
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UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE

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Cu.n.rs M W',.sp'' Editors and Propyieiors
Terms --' The United States Postal Guide and
Official .fdusriser'' containing about 80 sppsr-roual
oefaco pages, IS published monthly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per ann'sm, payable in aduance--or fire
dollars for sic copies ordered.
PREPARATORY NOTICE.
The enterprise in which we now embark. and
Of which this paper is ut once the commencement. C..
and sample of the papers that are TO follow las
for its aim no less purpose, than to impart n-
strucon, in the general and detail, to the Officer
and Agents ofthe American public, in respect both
to their duties and their rights, and to make them,
and the people at large, acquainted with the organ
|izaton, decisions and action Of the Executive de-
partments of their Government. There has hiih
erto teen vehicle for the regular and proper
communication of Information OF this kind. The
qualification Of the Laws and the issue of instrur
tons, or less comprehensive, and at intervals
more or less extended, have proved wholly made
quate, the absence OF the construction OF those
Laws, as applied TO particular cases. and of details
/ and illustrations TO make the regulations and in.
struclions nteliigibIc The valuable documents
annually reported to Congress, are too 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
|
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, if they did,
do they furnish those rules, methods, and exam
piles, for the despatch Of the public business whck
can 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 an honest effort to supply
Itbi nd idn for
If we succeed in rendering the functions of the
primary Offices more uniform, methodical, and eY
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. $40
Ii 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
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 Wsr
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 he =
preserved the respect and regard of most of the
present ncumbents of the departments, and is on
: becoming terms of intercourse and cvty with
them all The Junior Editor has been asssduousy
. engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
J sonnl inquiry and examination, the practical and
{ daily routine and details Of the Pos-Office and
other branches Of the public business 1t in with
this stock Of experience and these advantages for
reaching the various sources of administrative ac
ton and for impaTtiHg 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 as
the day for the publication of our paper so as 10
afford time for obtaining from the departments
all the orders notices and changes issued or made
by them during the preceding month. Tables q. :
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 liz 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 Off
fees in the tables which longer in operations
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 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 modif
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, remaining doubt, confusion, error. and
impositon will be saved by the progressive state
OF full and exact knowledge, for which we have
provided, and for which we engage, every intelli-
cent 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, 1t is hoped, induce every
posnss,er who feels a Just pride in his office or
a patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity and
efficiency of the whole Post Office system-at once
,o suhscribe The same considerations applv tf
the orders and notices, decisions, and instruction
Of the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and Interio
depsrtmeuts and the same course is intended i'm
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 papsr. .l
"A depsrtment of our paper addressing itself not
merely to postmssters and other officers of the
Government but TO all other citizens who give at
tenon 10 che affairs of the nation and the progress
and development of the q untry, will embrace in a
condensed form the matters submitted to, or aris-
inc in Congress- At each session vast deal OF
| valuable information is communicated to Con-
vress bv the several departments and their subor-
dnate bureaus, and profound and comprehensive
reports are made by committees OF both Houses
Bu, the great mass Of the community know moth
| mo of he contents Of these documents and re-
ports. except the brief notices of them, which
fyom time to time appear in the public papers,
Thr standing number printed of each docome
and report, is only twelve hundred IN the Senate,
| and fourteen hundred in the House of Representa-
nves. which at once shows the inpracticabillty of
| their dissemination. The ADVERTISER viii con-
tam short abridgments or analysis Of all these
documents and reports, aud the co mpend viii
| therefore not only prove exceedingly useful and
instructive in itself, but will furnish easy index
To those interested, whenever il is found desrnbe
TO obtain and examine the documen Mt large.
There is large field before us, the naterals are
ample. 1t will be our jealous care 70 coIlsct and
arrange them in the prope form. We have avsrv
confidence that the SUBSCRIPTIONS will be ample To
enable us to accomplish it all. The information
we propose to give, comprehending and confined
TO the action OF the Government, Is solid, usefdl
and I've might almost ssy) necessary 10 the off
cer-f not to the citizen. II ia intended for Al 4
and put price which constitute no obssAcls .
With any. Ifat the end of the year, any subscriber