The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-02-22
WASHINGTON CITY, SATURDAY,

hAS W. 1901.
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE.
AND OFFICIAL ADVERTISER.
. To show ,ohsi is done, aud wkat should be done,
IN e6ice..4U
cn.sx q wX W Editors and Proprislo,s
Terms. -" The United States Postal Guide and
Official adrertiser containing about 81 srper-royai
ocfaro pages, is published monthly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per anntns, payable IN adusnce-or fire
dollars for sir copies ordered at any one time
i PREPARATORY 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 10 follow, has
for its no less purpose, than to impart IN
struction, in the general and detail TO the Officers
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-
partrnents of their Government. There has hith-
erto teen 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
qu~ss, in the absence Of the construction Of those
Laws, as applied to particular cases, ana OF details
and illustrations to make the regulations and In
structions Ineligible. The valuable documents
and are 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 policy.
These publications in their various forms
highly useful in themselves far they go, and
: some of them Indispensable but there il much
that do not reach the hands OF all, nor if 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 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 ex-
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 ex-
: tent at least-apart from, and independently OF
any party or personal interest or question what
: ever.
: 1t liz known to most Of those to whom this pa
i per will DO sent, that the Senior Editor Audi
Tor of the Post-Othce Department until the month
of November last; with by far the larger portion
. of both poslmasters and contractors, he has had
direct intercourse, in person or by letter. lie en-
tered the department fourteen years since, and for
e many years previously, had been, first in the War
Department, ard subsequently in the Treasury.
e He has therefore had the best opportunities for
understanding the arrangements OF business IN all
the departments, and being acquainted with those
who carry il on. Since his official connection with
the Government ceased, he flatters himself he has
preserved the respect and regard OF most Of the
present ncumbenls of the departments, and Is on
. becoming terms Of intercourse and civiity with
= them all. The Junior Editor has been asssduousy
: engaged for several years, IN studying, by per
u,h fhp al M
y daily routine and details Of the PostOfhce ant
other branches Of the public business. II is with
this stock Of experience, and these advantages fo
reaching the various sources of administrative ac
ton, and for imparting minute and illustrative In
v structon, and valuable periodical and Statistical
u information, that challenge your confdenc,
and solicit your support and patronage.
J. We have fixed upon the 18th OF each month n,
the day for the publication of our paper, 30 as to
afford time for obtaining from the departments
all the ORDERS notices and changes issued or made
0 by them during the preceding month. Tables OF
0 Post Offices, and computations of the Laws and
0 Regulations are issued by the Post Office Depart.
O ment only once in two or three years. 1t IL q
0 matter of Inconvenience and complaint, for which
O hitherto there has been remedy, that IN one
0 month from the time of these issues, there are Of
fees in the tables which no longer in ope alton
0 and offices in operation which not in the tables
At this time there perhaps over three Thousand
q offices of the two descriptions. In like manne
laws have been passed and regulations established
o since the issue Of the last volume Of regulations
: Of which many postmasters and others IRE wholly
q 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 pape
will furnish the additions, corrections, and mOdih
s cations, made in each month, and by being fet
and preserved will afford to postmasters full
q exact information upon both subjects, up to and
al Tor time being. How much of the present misGi
O rection, remailing, doubt confusion, error, and
q imposition, will be saved by the progressive STATE
q of full and exac, knowledge, for which we have
q provided, and for which we engage, every lntei
M cent postmaster can estimate for himself
M These advantages alone and independently OF all
o. others, are worth many times the price we charge
4 for the paper and will, it is hoped, induce every
n postmaster who feels Just pride IN hls Office, OF
a patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity and
% efficiency Of the whole Post Office syslem-at once
q to subscribe. The same considerations apply te
0 the orders and notices, decisions, and instructions
Of the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and interior
departments, and the course is intended il
respect TO them. Notices Of the decisions of tn,
Supreme Court in cases turning upon questions
of official duty or national interest, will fnd place
in this rapsr.
al department Of our paper addressing itself no
" merely to puatmasers and other officers of The
" Government but to all other citizens who give at
tention to the affairs OF the nation and the progress
n and development of the c. untry, Will embrace IN
condensed form the matters submitted to, or aris
ing in Congress-, At each session vast deal OF
:, valuable information is communicated TO Con
gress, by the several departments and their subor
: dina,e bureaus, and profound and comprehensive
;, reports are made by committees of both Houses
= Blu, the great mass Of the community know moth
!, mo Of the &C ntents Of these documents and re-
g ports, except the brief notices Of them, which
IS from time to time appear IN the puo'c papers
% TIE standing number printed of each Document
. and report, is only twelve hundred in the Senat.
: and fourteen hundred in the House Of Representa-
(, lives. which at once shows the impracticabty o
n their dissemination. The ApvERrIsER will con
= tain short abridgments or analysis OF all these
c documents and reports, and the compend viii
!, therefore not only prove exceedingly useful and
instructive in itself. but will furnish easy index
to those interested whenever il is found desirable
n to obtain and examine the document at large