The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-06
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CHARLES M. VILLAS mrsrp' Editors and I'ropprietors,
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| M PREPARATORY NOTICE
The enterprise IN which we now embark. and
or which this paper is at once the commencement
and sample of the papers that are to follow bss
for It's aim no less a purpose, than to impart in
structon, IN the general and detail to the Officer
and Agents ofthe American public, in respect both
to their duties and their rights and to make them.
and the people at large, acquainted with the organ.
Iizaton, decisions and action of the Executive de-
partments of their Government. There has hiths
erto Teen no vehicle for the regular and proper
communication Of information of this kind The
publication Of the Laws and the issue of instn,c
lions, more 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 to particular cases, and of details
| and illustrations to make the regulations and ins
| structiOns Ineligible. The valuable Documents
annually reported to Congress, are too yolumnous1
and are printed in quantities too small for general
circulation; whilst the debates ia Congress- and
the commentaries of the press upon til cir proceed.
ings, and the proceedings Of the Executive branch
Of the Government, besides turning mostly iIpon
general principles, address themselves onlv to
party ends, and to matters of national pocyS
These publications In their various forms are
| highly useful in themselves as far as thew 20 and
some OF them Indispensable; but there is much
that do not reach the hands OF ALL nor if thew did
do they furnish those rules, methods, and cyan.
pies, Tor the despatch of the public business which
can render the discharge of public duty either safe
or easy, whether In respect to the incumbent hims
sell, or the department or bureau under which he
: acts We shall make an honest effort IN sunnI,y
this vacuum, and to provide for these necessities
Ii we succeed in rendering the functions Of the
primary ofhces more uniform, methodica 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 HE
country And this we expect to do, to some ev
tent at least--apart from, and independently of
any party or personal interest or question what
ever. : -sTEfs-5
1t is known to most of those to whom this M
per will be sent, that the Senior Editor was 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 en-
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 i'm 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
Il present incumbents of the departments and is on
e becoming terms OF intercourse and civty with
E. them all. The Junior Editor has been asssduousv
N engaged for several years, in studying, by per
II sOnui inquiry and examination, the practical and
Of daily routine and details of the Post-OHce and
other branches of the public business IL is with
THIS STOCK or experience, and these advantages for
reaching the various sources of administrative &C.
ton, and for impartiDg minute and illustrative in
structon, 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 our paper, SO as 10
!, | afford time for obtaining from the departmenis
- all the ORDERS notices and changes issued or mads
!. by them during the preceding month Tables az
IS Post Offices, and compilations of the Laws ana
!. Regulations issued by the Post Office Depart
n ment only once IN two or three years IL is 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 offs
fees in the tables which are no longer in operations
and Offices in operation which not in the tabest
10 At this time there perhaps three Thousand
Offices of the two descriptions. In like manner
u laws have been passed and regulations established
y 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
rs the time another issue shall be made our r,aper
a. will furnish the additions, corrections and rnodif
!, cations, made in each month, and by being filed
e exact information upon both subjects up to and
Is for time being. How much of the present nisdi-
: recton, remailing, doubt, confusion, error, and
u imposition, will be saved by the progressive state
OF full and exact knowledge, for which we have
y provided, and for which we engage, every intelh-
n cent postmaster can estimate for himself
{ These advantages alone and independently OF all
Is Others are worth many times the price we charge
for the paper, and will, it is hoped, induce every
tnostmaster who feels a Just pride In his office r
ard for the credf 4
efficiency of the whole Post Office ystem.-at once
to subscribe. The same considerations apply tc
the orders and notices. decisions, and instructiorf
of the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and Interiot
depertments and the same course is intended in
respect to them. Notices Of the decisions OF the
RS supreme Court in cases turning upon questions
of official duty or national interest, will find place
DR. in this papsr. sHt
department of our paper addressing itself not
y merely TO postmasters and other officers of the
y Government but all other citizens who pive at
enton to the affairs OF the nation and the progress
1t and development of the e. unry, will embrace in
condensed form the matters submitted TO, or aris-
inc in Congress-. At each session a vast deal Of
valuable information is communicated, to Com
e ress by the several departments and their subor-
- dnate bureaus, and profound and comprehe rsiye
N reports are made by committees of both Houses
y But the great mass of the community know Moth
n inc NJ the contents of these documents and re-
n ports, except the brief notices OF them, which
from time to time appear in the public papers,
The standing number printed Of each document
Al and report is only twelve hundred IN the Senate
D, and fourteen hundred in the House of Representa-
4 rives which at shows the mpracticability Of
J. ,hs;r d;ssennination The ADVERTISER viii con
L tain short abridgments analysis Of all thess
documents and reports, and the co mpend wild
/, therefore not only prove exceedingly. useful any
instructive in itself, but will furnish an easy indes
to those interested, whenever il is found desirsbl
tn obtain and examine the documen at large
There is large field before u.s. the materials are
ample 1t viii be our jealous care to collect and
? arrange I'll em in the prope7 form. VIZ have every
confidence that the SUBSCRIPTIONS will be ample to
enable us to accomplish 1t all. The Information
!, we propose to give, compromising and confined
TO tie action OF the Government, is solid, useful
and 1--WE might almost say) necessary to the Off
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and put at price which constitute no obstacle
with any. lfat the end of the year, any subscriber
shall find that he has not received the fun value Of