The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-01-10
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CHARLKs M. WILLARD, -" ""1 'e'0'''
TERAs. -" The United States Postal Guide and
Official .advertser," containing about - srper-royai
LAR ONLY, per anmum, payable IN adrancs--or five
dollars for ix copies ordered at aHy one time.
PREPARATORY NOTICE.
The enterprise in which we now embark, and
of which this paper is at once the commencement.
and sample of the papers that are to follow, has
for its AIM no less purpose, than TO lmpart IN
struction, in the general and detail, to the Officers
and gents 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
ixntion, decisions and action Of the Executive de-
paftments 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 instruc-
lions, more OF less comprehensive and at intervals
more or less extended, have proved wholly made
quate, 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
structons 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
EiDgs, 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 are
highly useful in themselves far as they go, and
some Of them indispensable; but there is 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 or 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 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
lany party or personal interest or question what
ever.
Il 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
lof November last; with by farthe 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 nh0 Dectis III inc w
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 on. Since his official connection with
the Government ceased, he hauers himself he has
preserved the respect and regard OF most or the
present incumbents Of the departments, and ID or
8 becoming terms Of intercourse and civility with
q them all The Junior Editor has been asssduously
e engaged for several years, IN studying, by per
= sonaf inquiry and examination, the practical ant
:, daily routine and details of the Post Office ant
other branches of the public business. 1t is with
e this stock ofexperience, and these advantages fol
e reaching the various Of administrative &C
ton, and for impartng minute and illustrative in
= struotion, and valuable periodical and statistical
n information, that we challenge your confidence
and solicit your support and patronage.
: We have fixed upon the 18th OF each month al
1.-THE day for the publication Of our paper az t.
afford time for obtaining from the departments
all the orders, notices and changes issued, or made
D by them during the preceding month. Tables O
Dl Post Offices, and compilations of the Laws and
D Regulations, are issued by the Post Office Depart
D ment only once in two or three years. II is .
d matter of inconvenience and complaint, for which
0 hitherto there has been no remedy, that in on
III month from the time Of these issues, there are OF
ices in the tables which no longer in ope alton
and Offices in operation which are not in the tables
Al this time there perhaps three thousan'
D omces Of tne Two dssc3'pAohs, Al pAe msnne
laws have been passed and regulations establishes
since the issue OF the last volume OF regulations
: of which many postnasters and others are who'll.
O. ignorant. We propose to prevent Tor the present
any increase Of the evil OF either kind, and non
the time another issue shall be made, our paPpe
. will farsish the additions, corrections, ana mooin
& cations, made in each month, and ny being hIe'
and preserved, will afford TO postmasters full an
0 exact information upon both subjects, up to an.
o for time being. How much Of the present m'sdl
0 rection, remailing, doubt, confusion, error, AM
O imposition, will be saved by the progressive stat
0 Of full and exact knowledge tor winch we nav
b provided and for which we engage, every inteiIr
d gent postmaster can estimate for himself.
o. These advantages alone and independentiyof al
others, are worth many times the price we charg
for the paper, and whl, II 10 hoped, induce ever.
O. postmaster who feels JUST pride ~ MS oihce'
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