The southern press., 1851-11-04
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE

/ UNI Ell STATES FOSIAL GUIDE
AND OFFICIAL .ADYERTTSER
III TO sho~ ~hut is done, and ,oh4i should De done
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caAslns NJ Hs1,,ssr9s' W%ssra' Editors md Prop,stors
I.RMs. :" The United Sfufss Postal Guide and
Hne'ai Tduerfiser," containing about 80 spper-royaI
ocfauo pages, is published nlo,,ihly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per a,'a'un, payable in adpance-or Gps
dollars for siI copies ordered. a.tf.fgi
PREPARATORY NOTICE.
The enterprise in which we now embark, and
Of which this paper is at once the comm encemert,
and u sample Of the papers that to follow as
for il aim no less purpose, than to impart in
struction, 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 psope at large, acquainted with the organ
ization decsions and action Of the Executive de-
partmens of their Government. There has hith-
| erto Keen no vehicle for the regular and proper
communication OF Information of this kind. The
publication OF the Laws and the issue of lnstruc
TONS more or less comprehensive, and at intervals
more or less extended, have proved wholly made
quate, in the absence of the construction or 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, voluminolisl
and 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
general principles, address themselves only TO
party ends, and to matters of national policys
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 reach the hands of all, nor 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 safe
or easy, whether IN respect to the incumbent him.
self, or the department bureau under which he
Iucto hill akea hOnap ta{T, ~,
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 evi
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 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
tered the department fourteen years since, and for
many years previously, had been, first in the War
Department, ard subsequently IN the Treasury.
FIe 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 latters himself he has
preserved the respect and regard of most OF the
pres-rt incumbents of the departments, and is
becoming terms of intercourse and civty with
them all. The Junior Editor has been asssiduousy
, engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
= sonal inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routins and details of the Post-O Office and
other branches Of the public business. Ii is with
this stock OF experience, and these advantages for
reaching the various sources of administrative ac.
ton, and for mpartng minute and illustrative ins
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 as
the day for the publication of paper, 80 as To-
afford time for obtaining from the departments
all the orders, notices and dchanges issued mad,
by them during the preceding month. Tables q
Post Offices, and compilations of the Laws anu
Regulations, issued by the Post Office Depart
ment only once in two three years. Ii is u
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 no longer in operations
and offices in operation which in the tablesi
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 are 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 modifss
cations, maue IN eaCn HhoHth, anu ny De'HS Hleu
and preserved, will afford to postmasters fall and
exact information upon both subjects, up to and
for time being. How much Of the present misdi
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 intellI-
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
patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, and
efficiency of the whole Post Office systenl--at once
to subscribe. The considerations apply tf
the orders and notices, decisions, and instructors
Of the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and lnterIot
departments, and the same course is intended IN
r,snrct 10 them Notices of the decisions OF the
supreme Court in cases turning upon questions
+ of official duty or national interest, will find place
r
! in this paper.