The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-12-05
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE


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UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
AND OFFICIAL ADVERTISER.
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CuARLrs M. W VILLAS Editors and Proprisiors7
iERms. -" The United States Postal Guild, and
'ye'a' .'aoerser, containing about 80 super-royaI
49, PaseS, :" published monthly for ONE DOL
Ian oNLf' per dn'l'im, payable in aduance--or fus
dollars for SiI copies ordered
PREPARATORY NOTICE
The enterprise IN which we now embark and
OF which this paper ls at once the Commencement
and sample of the papers that are to follow. as
! for it's no less purpose, than to imnart in
struction. IN the general and detail, to the Ohcer
and Agents of the American public, in respect both
to their dutlss and their rights and to make them
and the people at large, acquainted with the organ
lzation decisions and action of the Executive de-
partments of their Government. There has hith-
erto Leen no vehicle for the regular and proper
communication Of Information of this kind The
publication Of the Lava and the issue Of instrur
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, applied particular cases, and of details
and illustrations to make the regulations and in
structons Ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported to Congress, are too voluminous5
and are printed IN quantities too small for general
Congress-
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 onl-
party ends, and to matters of national
| The8s publications in their various for
| highly useful in themselves as far as thew
| some of them Indispensable; but there IL
that do not reach the hands OF all, nor if Il 8vG
do they furnish those rules methods and exa
Piles, for the despatch of the public business WIN
can render the discharge of public duty either
or easy, whether in respect to the incumbent h t.a
sell, or the department or bureau under which !
acts. We shall make an honest effort to supprv
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
tent at least--apart from, and independently
any party or personal interest or question what
| ever.
| 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 month
of November last; with by far the larger portion
Of both postmasters and contractors, he has had
direct intercourse, in person by letter. He en-
tered the department fourteen years since, and for
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 on Since his official connection with
the Government ceased, he fatters himself he has
preserved the respect and regard of most OF the
present incumbents of the departments and is on
becoming terms of intercourse and civility with
them all. The Junior Editor has been asssiduou,ly
engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
sonai inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details of the POST Office 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 az
| 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 made
by them during the preceding month. Tables On
| Post Offices, and compilations of the Laws ana
Regulations, are issued by the Post Office DEPART
| ment only once In two three years. Ii ia 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 of
fees in the tables which are no longer in operation
and Offices in operation which not in the tables.
At this time there are 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 10 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 modfs
! Cations made IN each month, and by being fled
and preserved, will afford to postmasers fall and
exact information upon both subjects, up to and
for time being. How much of the present msdi
rection, remang, 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 we engage, every intelll-
| 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 and 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 to
the orders and notices, decisions, and Instruction.
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 question:
of official duty national interest, will find place
in this papsr.