The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-16

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UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE.
AND OFFICIAL .aDyER77SER.
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TERms. So The United States Postal Guide snd
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PREFARATORY NOTICE.
! Tho enterprise IN which we now embark, AMI
Of VI iich this paper ia at once the Commencement
and a sample of the papers that TO follow, an
| for ts aim no less a purpose, than to impart in
ssruction, in the general and detail, 10 the Officer
aud Agents Of the American public, in respect both
70 their duties and their rights, and to make them
and the people at large, acquainted with the organ
ixation. decisions and action Of the Executive de-
partmsnts of their Government. There has hith
ERIC Eeen no vehicle for the regular and proper
communication Of information Of this kind. The
publication Of the Laws and the issue OF lnstruc
lions, or less comprehensive, and intervals
more or lsss attended, have provsd whoo9 A2Ads-
u,iate in the absence Of the construction oS those
Laws az applied 10 particular cases, and Of details
and illustrations to make the regulations and in
structons Ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported to Congress, are too volumno,s
and are printed in quantities too small for general
circulntion; 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 10
party ends, and to matters Of national policy.
These publications in their various forms are
highly useful in themselves far they go, and
some of them Indispensable; but there is much
that do not reach the hands Of all. il they did.
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 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. methodical. and ev
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 ev
tent at least--apart from, and independently Of
any party or personal interest or question what
ever.
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 portiosi
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
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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 latter8 himself he has
preserved the respect and regard Of most of the
present incumbents of the departments and is
. becoming terms of intercourse and ciyility with
them all. The Junior Editor has been asssiduoucly
, engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
l aud ~urtic md
+ daily routine and details of the Post-Ohice and
other branches Of the public business. 1t is with
this stock Of experience, and these Advantages for
reaching the various sources OF administrative ac-
ton, and for imparting minute and illustrative in
struction 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 departments.
all the ORDERS notices and changes issued, made
by them during the preceding month. Tables o.
Post Offices, and compilations of the Laws ana
Regulations, are issued by the Post Office Depart
| nent only once in two or three years. Ii is
natter of inconvenience and complaint, for which
hitherto there has been no remedy, that in one
month from the time of these issues, there Of
ices in the tables which are no longer in operaona
md Offices in operation which not in the tnblesl
II this time there perhaps over three thousand
,ffces of the two descriptions. In like manner
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| since the issue Of the last volume OF regulations,
,f which many postmasters and others wholly
gnorant. We propose to prevent, for the present,
INV increase OF the evil of either kind, and from
che time another issue shall be made, our paper
will furnish the additions, corrections, and modlf-
| ,at,ons made IN each month"; and by being filed
tnd preserved, will afford to postmssters full and
| .xact information upon both subjects, up to and
! or time being. How much of the present mIsdi-
~ection, remaiIing, doubt, confusion, error, and
m r.tion, will be saved by the progressive state
| IF Gt and exact knowledge, for which we have
| provided, and for which we engage, every intelli-
| tent postnaster can estimate for himself.
| These advantages alone and independently Of all
.thers, 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,
/ patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, and
efficiency Of the whole Post Office system--at once
| o subscribe The same considerations apply to
The orders and notices, DECISIONS and instructions
Of the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and Interior
Iepartrnents and the course is 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 aplace
IN this pm
A department Of our paper addressing itself not
merely to postniasters and other oitcers OF the
| Government but to all other citizens who give at
ention to the affairs Of the nation and the progress
and development Of the {, untry, will embrace IN a
condensed form the matters submitted to, aris-
| 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 are made by committees Of both Houses
But the great mass Of the community know moth
Ling Of the contents Of these documents and re-
ports, except the brief notices Of them, which
rom time to time appear in the pnbIic paoers,
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 ADVERTISER viii con-
tain short sbrdgments or analysis Of all these
documents and reports, and the compend will
instructive in Itself, but will furnish easy index
10 those interested whenever it il found desirable
TO obtain and examine the document at large.
Their, ia a large field before us, the materials are