The southern press., 1851-11-01
UNITED STATES POSTAL G UIDE

UNITED STATES POSTAL G UIDE
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NnAHLLs M. WILLARD, 'u"" 'op"'e'o''
Terms =" The United States Postal Guide and
Official adueriissr, containing about 20 srn,r-ro,aI
ocfdpo pages, Us published uoathhq 6r ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per annun, payable in aduance-or fus
dollars for SIR copies ordered
w so PREFARATORY NOTICE ~
The enterprise in which we now embark and
OF which this paper is at once the commencement
and a sample of the papers that are to follow, an
for it's no less purpose, than to impart in
struction, in the general and detail, 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-
! partmens of their Government. There has hith-
erto Leen vehicle for the regular and proper
communication Of information of this kind 3 The
publication Of the Laws and the issue of instrur
lions. more less comprehensive, and at intervals
more or less extended, have proved wholly made
quate, in the absence Of the construction OF those
Laws, applied TO particular cases. and Of details
and illustrations to make the regulations and in.
structons ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported to Congress are too voluminous!
and printed in quantities too small for general
circulation; whilst the debates in Congress and
the commentaries of the press upon their proceed.
of the Government, besides turning mostly upon
general principles, address themselves only 10
party ends, and to matters of national policyI
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 if they did,
do they furnish those rules, methods, and exam.
pies, 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 himz
self, 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, 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
any party or personal interest question >whsi
| ever. T.
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-Ofice Department until the months
of November last; with by far the larger portiQR
of both postmasters and contractors, he has had
direct intercourse, person by letter. He en-
tered the department fourteen years since, an6for
many years previously, had been, first in the War
Department, ard subsequently in the Treasury. !
He has therefore had the best opportunities fors
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 natters himself he has
preserved the respect and regard of most Of the
preset incumbents Of the departments, and is
becoming terms of intercourse and civity 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-Ofhce and
other branches Of the public business. IL is with
this stock Of experience and these advantages for
reaching the various sources of administrative ac
lion, and for impnrtins minute and illustrative in
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, 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
ment only once in two or three years. Ii rs a
matter of incon enIence and complaint, for which
) hitherto there has been no remedy that in one
month from the time of these issues, there are off
ices in the tables which are no longer an opeatons
and Offices in operation which are not IN the tablese
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 evh of either KIND, and from
4 the time another issue shall be made, our paper
will furnish the additions, corrections, and mods
, 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, remang, doubt, confusion, error, and
y imposlton will be saved by the progressive state
| OF full and exact knowledge, for which we have
. provided and for which we engage, every Intelll-
D gent postmaster can estimate for himself. |
These advantages alone and independently OF all
$ Others are worth many times the price we charge
for the paper, aud will, it is hoped, induce every
postmaster who feels just pride in his office
a patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, and
efficiency Of the whole Post Office system--at once
to subscribe. The same considerations apply h
the orders and notices, decisions, and instructort
= OF the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and lnteriot
departments, and the same course ~ intended IN
respect to them. Notices of the decisions OF the
RS Supreme Court, in cases turning upon questionF
y Of official duty or national interest," VIII md place
- in this pap~r. .rW