The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-15


subScript'oas at our risk Address, postrpAiD
ELLwOOD FISHER
washinrt CITY
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
and orFTCL4L .9DVERTYSER
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onHRIEs M WILLARD, A"ao's ana f'vopS7ss'"
ERms - The United States Postal Guide and
Official .8dcerfser,'' containing obo,,, 40 s~xonoy
ocfaro pages, Is published ,nonahlu Ar onr nor
LAa ONLY, per Tsaiuns, payable IN odvancs-or fys
dollars for sir copies ordered. Us
PREPARATORY NOTICE
The enterprise in which we now emhnrk and
Of which this paper is at once the commencement
and sample Of the papers that are TO follow an
for its aim no less a purpose, than TO impar in
structon, in the general and detail, to the Officer
and Agents ofthe America 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-
partments Of their Government. There has hith
erto Eeen no vehicle for the regular and proper
communication Of Information or this kind The
4 publication of the Laws and the issue Of instrur
lions, or 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
Structf0na fnteiifStDie. Inc vduaDte documents
annually reported TO Congress, are too vouni,o,,s
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 10
party ends, and to matters Of national policy
These publications in their various fosms 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 they did,
do they furnish those rules, methods, and exam
Piles, for the despatch Of the public business whicI
can render the discharge of public duty either SAT.
or easy, whether in respect to the incumbenthim
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 necessitiea
If we succeed in rendering the functions of the
primary Offices more uniform, methodicaI, 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
any party or personal interest or question what
| ever.
| II 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
of November last; with by far the larger portion
1 of both postmasters and contractors, lie 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 in all
the departments, and being acquainted with those
who carry it on Since his official connection with
the Government ceased, he Aatters himself he has
preserved the respect and regard Of most or the
present incumbents of the departments, and is on
becoming terms Of intercourse and ciylIitv with
then, all. The Junior Editor has been asssiduousIv
engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
sonal inquiry and examination, the practical and
+ daily routine and details of the Post Office and
other branches Of the public business. Ii is with
this stock or experience, and these dyantapes for
reaching the various sources of administrative ac
ton, and for imparting minute and illustrative in
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 M
the day for the publication of our paper, SO as to
afford time for obtaining from the departments.
| all the orders, notices and changes issued or mad
| by them during the preceding month Tables a.
| Post Offices, and compilations of the Laws ana
Regulations, are issued by the Post Office Depart
ment only once in two or three years IL is n
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 ofs
fees in the tables which longer in Operations
and Offices in operation which not in the ablesi
At this time there perhaps over three thoasand
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 pener
will furnish the additions, corrections, and u,odiG-
cations, made IN each month, and by beng filed
and preserved, will afford to postmasters full and
exact information upon both subjects, up to and
| for time being. How much of the present misdi-
| ,I,.,r I,,,ltt 49,
impostion will be saved by the progressive state
of full and exact knowledge, for which we have
| provided and for which engage every int.ll,-
gent postmaster estimate for himself
These advantages alone and independently OF all
others, are worth many times the price we charee
FOR the paper, and will, IT is hoped, induce every
postmaster who feels just pride in his Office or
a patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, and
efficiency of the whole Post Office system-at once
| to subscribe. The same considerations apply 90
the orders and notices. decisions, and instructions
of the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and interior
departments, and the same course is intended in
respect to them. Notices Of the decisions OF the
| Supreme Court, in cases turning upon questions
of official duty national interest, will fad place
! in this papsr.
A department of our paper addressing itself not
merely 10 postmasters and other officers of the
Government, but to all other citizens who give an,
tenon TO the affairs OF the nation and the PROGRESS
and development of the c, untry, will embrace in a
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-
dinnte bureaus, and profound and comprehensive
reports are made by committees Of both Houses
But the great mass OF the community know moth
ing of the contents of these documents and re-
ports, except the brief notices of them, which
from time to time appear in the public papers.
The standing number printed of each documeat
and report, is only twelve hundred in the Senate.
and fourteen hundred in the House OF Represents
lives which ut once shows the n,prncticability of
their disseuination The ADVERTISER will con-
tain short abridgments arnvs's of all these
documents and reports, and me co mpend vii
therefore not only prove exceedingly useful and
instructive in ITSELF bnt will furnish easy index
To those interested, whenever it is found dssra ls