The southern press., 1851-04-10
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE.
.A.VD Official .aDVER7TSER.


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CHARLES M WILLARD, S""o's a"a ''"''e'"s
Terms. =" Tho United staies Postal Guide'nnd
Ctcai Hdpertser," containing about 80 srpsr-royaI
oet"ro pages, is published monthly ybr ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per a''nun, payable 'e adpance--ors 6re
dollars for sir copies ordered at any time.
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, has
for its ann no less a purpose, than TO impartn-
strucon, in the general and detail, TO the Officer,
and Agents 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
ization, decisions and action of the Executive de-
partments Of their Government. There has hih-
erto teen vehicle for the regular and proper
communication Of information Of this kind. The
publication of the Laws and the issue Of instruc
tlons more or less comprehensive, and at intervals
more or less extended, have proved wholly made
q,iate, in the absence Of the construction OF those
Laws as applied to particular cases, and of details
and illustrations 70 make the regulations and in
structons Ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported to Congress, are too voluminous
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
party ends, aud to matters Of national policy.
These publications in their various forms
highly useful in themselves far as they co. 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
pes 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
! nd IN fort thaaa
| IL we succeed in rendering the functions of the
primary Offices more uniform, methodicaI, 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 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
| 1t is known to most Of those to whom this pa
per will be cent, that the Senior Editor Audi
tor of the Posl-Offce Department until the month
of November last; with by far the larger portion
of both pos,nlasters and contractors, he has had
direct intercourse, IN person or by letter. lie en-
tered the department fourteen years since, and for
many years previously, had been, first in the War
| Department, ard 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 1atters himself he has
|
presert incumbents of the departments, and liz on
becoming terms of intercourse and civIity with
them all. The Junior Editor has been asssiduously
engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
sonal inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details of the Post-Offce and
other branches Of the public business. 1t is with
this stock Of experience, and these advantages for
reaching the various sources Of administrative
ton, and for impartnig minute and illustrative IN
struction, and valuable periodical and statistical
inf, hat oh.
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 to
afford time for obtaining from the departments,
all the orders, notices and changes issued or made
| by them during the preceding month. Tables o.
Post Offices, and compilations of the Laws and
Regulations, 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 remedy, that in one
| month from the time of these issues, there Of
fees in the tables which no longer in 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 ore wholly
ignorant. We propose to prevent, for the present,
my increase of the evil OF either kind, and from
! he time another issue shall he made, paper
will furnish the additions, corrections, and modIh
|
and preserved, will afford to postmasers fun and
exact information upon both subjects, up and
for time being. How much of the present sGi-
recon, remaiIing, 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 intelli-
| ,ent 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, it is hoped, induce every
- fc.l mat la IA, htc rf.n
a 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 TO them Notices of the decisions of the
Supreme Court, in cases turning upon questions
Of official duty national interest, VIII lind place
IN this PAIR.
A department of our paper addressing itself not
merely TO pustmasters and other officers Of the
Government, but to all other citizens who give at
tenon to the affairs OF the nation and the progress
and development Of the {, untry, will embrace in n
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-
dinate 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 pr'e' nouces oi lnep' wnicn
| from time to time appear in the public papers.
The standing number printed of each docume
| and report is only twelve hundred in the Senate,
and fourteen hundred in the House of Representa-
tves which at once shows the impracticabiIity OF
| 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 easy index
to those interested, whenever il is found desirable
to obtain and examine the document at large.
There is a large field before us, the materials are
ample 1t will be our Jealous care TO collect and
arrange them in the proper form. We have every
confidence that the subscriptions viii be ample to
enable us to accomplish it all. The information
we propose to give, comprehending and confined
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. 1t is intended for all,
and put at price which can constitute no obstacle