The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-06-25
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE.
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1855
Ia Office
PETER u. WAsnrseTos,
CnARLEs M. WILLARD, Editors and Proprietors.
Terms 80 The United States Postal Guide and
ODIcsds ADVERTISER, containing about 10 sp,,yyoal
octave pages, Is published mo,,tAlu A., dn, nor.
LAR ONLY, per annuns, payable IN adpaaee--or 6ps
dollars for sic copies ordered at aay one time
PREPARATORY NOTICE.
The enterprise ia which we now embark. AMI
OF which this paper is at once the commencement
and sample Of the papers that are to follow, / as
for It's aim no less purpose, Than to mpart in
structon, In the general and detail, to the Officer
and Agents of the American public, in respect both
TO their duties and their rights, and 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
srto Teen no vehicle for the regular and proper
Communication of information Of this kind The
publication of the Laws and the issue Of insruc
lions, more or less compre cnsve and at intervals
more or less extended, have proved wholly made
qunte, 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
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
ings, and the proceedings Of the Executive branch
of the Government, besides turning mostly upon
general principles, address themselves only to
|
These publications in their various forms are
highly useful in themselves us far as they 60 and
some of them Indispensable; but there is much
that do not reach the hands OF ALL nor if thew did
plies, 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 or bureau under which he
acts. We shall make an honest effort to supply
this vacuum, and to provide for these necessities
. in tha f,ruc <,f
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 Of
any party personal interest or question what
1 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-Offce Department until the month
of November last; with by far the larger portion
| Of both postnlasters 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, and 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
the Government ceased, he latters himself he has
preserved the respect and regard Of most Of the
E becoming Of intercourse and civility with
them all The Junior Editor has been asssiduously
engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
] sonai inquiry and examination, the practical and
f daily routine and details of the Post-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 imparting minute and illustrative in
structon, and valuable periodical and statistical
information, that we challenge your confidence
/ - ,,t and
We have fixed upon the 18th Of each month
the day for the publication of paper, so as to
afford time for obtaining from the Departmental
all the orders, notices and changes issued, or mads
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 or three years 1t is
matter of inconvenience and complaint, for which
hitherto there has been no remedy, that in one
month from the time of these issues, there are of
fees in the tables which no longer in operation
and offices in operation which are not in the tabess
AT this time there 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,
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 modih-
\ cations made in each month, and by being filed
and preserved VIII dffOTu 10 full anu
exact information upon both subjects, up to and
| for time being. How much Of the present nisdi
| rection remailing, 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 mteili-
| cent 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, 1t is hoped, induce every
postmaster who feels just pride in his Office, or
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 Instructions
of the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and Interior
departments, and the same course is intended IN
respect 10 them. Notices Of the decisions or the
supreme Court, in turning upon questions
of official duty national interest, will ind place
| A den.rtrnent of our paper addressing itself not
! merely to posmasters and other officers OF the
| Government but TO all other citizens who give at
enton TO the affairs Of the nation and the progress
| and DEVELOPMENT of the {, untry, will embrace in
condensed form the matters submitted to, or aris-
| np i'm Congress. At each session a vast deal or
| valuable information is communicated to Com
eress by the several departments and their subor-
| dinate bureaus, and profound and comprehensive
| reports are made by committees of both Houses.
| But the great mass Of the community know moth
| inn of the contents Of these documents ana re-
| ports. except the brief notices OF them, which
| from time to time appear IN the puo'ic papers,
The standing number printed of each doeumen
| "a ~.nor, lie only twelve hundred in the Senate
anJ coprteen hundred in the House Of Representa-
,;ves which at once shows the impracticability ?
their dissemination. The ADVERTISER will con
tain short abridgments or analysis of all these
documents and reports, and the compend will
therefore not only prove exceedingly useful and
instructive in ITSELF but will furnish an easy index
% those interested, whenever IT is found desirable
10 obtain and examine the document at arge.
Their, Is a large field before us, the materials are
annie. IL will be our jealous care to collect and
arrange them in the proper form We have every
consdsnce that the subscriptions will be ample to
| enable us 10 accomplish it all. The information
we propose to give, compromising and confnec
to the action OF the Government, is solid, usefd
and 1--WE might almost say necessary to the of
cer-if not to the citizen 1t is intended for all,