The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-03
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE.
AND OFFICLlL ADVERTISER.

| 'A''D OrfICLiL ADVERTISER.
~ 40 '"o'o whst Is done and ,ohai should be done
IN office. IA
CHARLES M. WnLAnp. Editors and Propriefors.
TERMs. =" The United States Postal enid, and
O0csGI ADVERTISER" containing about 40 srperyo,aI
ocfavo pages, IS published monthly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per anntna, payable in adpance-or fire
dollars for sir copies ordered al any one lime
H 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 to follow, has
| for It's ann no less purpose, than to lmpart in
struction, in the general and detail to the Officer,
and Agents of the American public, in respect both
to their duties and their righs, 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 hilh-
erto tesn no vehicle for the regular and proper
communication Of information Of this kind. The
publication Of the Laws and the issue of nstruc
lions, or less comprehensive, and at intervals
moro 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
structions Ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported to Congress, are too volumno,m
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 10
narty ends, and to matters of national policy.
These publications in their various forms are
highly useful in themselves far as they 20, and
some of them Indispensable; but there Is much
that do not reach the hands OF all, if they did.
| do they furnish those rules, methods, and exam
Piles, for the despatch Of the public business which
render the discharge of public duty either safe
or easy, whether in respect 10 the incumbent him.
self, or the department or bureau under which he
acts. We shall make honest effort TO supply
this vacuum, and to provide for these
If we succeed in rendering the functions of the
primary Offices more uniform, meihodical, 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. t5r4
| 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-Ofics 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 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 beng acquainted with those
who carry it on. Since his official connection with
the Government ceased, he hatters himself he has
preserved the respect and regard Of most Of the
! present incumbents of the departments, and is on
becoming terms Of intercourse and civility with
them all. The Junior Editor has been asssiduously
, engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
sonal inquiry and exarnination the practical and
daily routine and details of the Post-Ofice and
other branches Of the public business. 1t 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
and solicit your support and patronage.
We have fixed upon the 18th Of each month
the day for the publication of our paper, to
afford time for obtaining from the departments,
all the orders, notices and changes issued, mad
by them during the preceding month. Tables
4 Post Offices, and compilations Of the Laws ana
Regulations, are issued by the Post Office Depart
ment only once in two or three years Ii is
i matter of inconvenience and complaint for which
hitherto there has been no remedy, that in
month from the time Of these issues, there Of
fees in the tables which no Ion ger ope, alton
and offices in operation which not in the tables
At this time there perhaps over 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 IRE 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
=
cations, made in each month, and by being filed
and preserved, will afford postmasters full and
: exact information upon both subjects, up TO and
!, for time being. How much of the presen, misdi-
I, recton, remalling, 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 lntelli-
? gent postmaster can estimate for himself.
These advantages nlone and independently OF all
; others, are worth many times thepree we charge
lr = .- Il k,.x LODI,
postmaster who feels Just pride in his office, OF
patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, and
efficiency of the whole Post Office system--at once
to subscribe. The same considerations apply "a
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
Is Supreme Court in cases turning upon questions
l. Of official duty or national Interest," will find place
" in this PAIR. IN. -.
A department Of our paper addressing itself not
= merely to psstmasters and other officers of the
3 Government, but to all other citizsns who give at
n tention 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-
ing in Congress. At each session a vast deal OF
D valuable information IL communicated to Con-
gress by the several departments and their subor-
. dinate bureaus, and profound and comprehensive
n reports are made by committees of both Houses
; But the great mass Of the community know moth
- ing Of the ccntents OF these document" ana 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 docums
, and report, is only twelve hundred IN the Senate
Al and fourteen hundred in the House of Represents
u ives which at once shows the Impracticabilty oil
= their dissemination. The ADVERTISER Will con-
y tain short abridgments analysis of all these
L documents and reports, and The compend vii
therefore not only prove exceedingly useful and
:, instructive in Itself, but will furnish an easy iAde,
to those interested whenever il found desirable
4 Tn iobt,ip and examine the document Al large
There is large field before US, the materials arr
ample. II will be our jealous care TO collect an,
+ arrange them in the proper form. We have ever,
e confidence that the SUBSCRIPTIONS will be ample t
|. enable u, to accomplish it ell. The information
). we propose to give, compromising and confines
!, to the action OF the Government, is solid, useful
and 1--WE might almost say) necessary to the off
cer--lf not to the citizen. II is intended for all
n and put at price which can constitute no obsscl
u,;th env II At The end Of the wear anv subsc rbp