The southern press., 1851-10-24
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
AND OFFICIAL ADVERTISER.

AND OFFICIAL ADVERTISER.
hI To sho'o what is done, and ohat should be done
in office .-SU
cnAalns NJ 1S%hrps Wm1aso Editors and Proprisiorss
IERms. :" The United States Postal Guide and
OFFICIAL idueriser," containing about 80 spper-royal
oetapo pages is published monthly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per amman, payable la aduance-or fu
dollars for sac copies ordered.
PREPARATORY NOTICE.
The enterprise IN which we now embark and
OF which this paper is ut once the mmencemert,
and sample of the papers that are TO follow, as
for its ann no less purpose, than to mpart in
strucon 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
ization, decisions and action Of the Executive de-
partments Of their Government. There has hith-
erto teen no vehicle for the regular and proper
commu nication Of information of this kind. The
publication Of the laws and the issue of Instrur
tons more less comprehensive and at atlntervaIs
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
annual reported to Congress, are too voluminous
and are printed in quantities too small for general
circulation; whilst the deLates 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 polieys
These publications IN their various forms are
highly useful i'm themselves MS 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 whch
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
this vacuum, and to provide for these necessities
| 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 eY 4
| tent at least-apart from, and independently .
any party personal interest or question what
| ever.
| Ii il known to most Of those TO whom this pa
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
4 many years previously, had been, first in the War
Department ard 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 Since his official connection with
l the Government ceased, he faters himself he has
preserved the respect and regard Of most Of the
| preseLt incumbens of the departments, and is on
becoming terms of intercourse and clvllIty with
| them all The Junior Editor has been asssiduously
engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
| sonai inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details of the Post-Ofice and
other branches Of the public business. 1t is with
this stock OF experience, and these advantages for
reaching the various of administrative ac.
tion and for imparting 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 paper, so as TO
| afford time for obtaining from the departments
all the orders, notices and changes issued or mad,
| by them during the preceding month Tables Or
| Post Offices, and compilations of the Laws ana
Regulations, are issued by the Post Office Depart
| ment only once in two three years Ii is
| matter of inconvenience and complaint, for which
| hitherto there has been no remedy, that in one
month from the time of the9e issues, there of
fees in the tables which no longer in operationa
and offices IN operation which not in the tabes9
| At this time there are perhaps 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,
| INV increase Of the evil of either kind, and from
| the time another issue shall be made, our paper
| will furnish the additions, corrections, and modihs
| cations, made IN each month, and by being filed
| md preserved, will afford to postmasers full and
exact information upon both subjects, up to and
| for time being. How much of the present msdi
recton remailing, doubt, confusion, error, and
lmposition will be saved by the progressive state
| ,f full and exact knowledge, for which we have
| provided and for which we engage, every intelI-
| rent postmaster estimate for himself
These advantages alone and Independently y Of all
| jthers, are worth many times the price charge
Tor the paper and will, 1t is hoped, induce every
postmaster who feels just pride in his office
4 patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity and
efficiency of the whole Post Office system-ai
| 10 subscribe. The same considerations apply tC
the orders and notices, decisions, and instructlorI
| IF the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and lnterlol
\ departments, and the same course is intended in
| respect to them. Notices of the decisions of the
| supreme Court, in turning upon questions
Of official duty or national interest, will find place
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