The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-12
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PREPARATORY NOTICE s ID
| The enterprise in which we now embark. AM,
Of which this paper is at once the commencement
and a sample Of the papers that are to follow. taa
for its ann no less purpose, than to impart in
struction, in the general and detail, the Officer
and Agents of the American pubc 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 teen no vehicle for the regular and proper
communication of information Of this kind. The
publication of the Laws and the issue Of instruc
lions, more 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 in
structons Ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported to Congress- are too yoluminol,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 to
party ends, and to matters Of national policy.
These publications in their various forms are
highly useful in themselves as far az 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
pies, for the despatch OF the public business which
can render the discharge of public duty either safs
or easy, whether in respect to 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 necessities.
| If we succeed in rendering the functions of the
primary Offices more uniform, methodical, 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 Ieast--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-Offce 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 in all
who carry it on. Since his official connection with
the Government ceased, he nntters himself he has
preserved the respect and regard of most of the
preset incumbents of the departments, and is on
| becoming terms of intercourse and civllity with
! them all The Junior Editor has been asssduousIy
engaged for several years, IN studying, by per-
sonai inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details Of tie Post-Office and
other branches of the public business. Ii is with
this stock Of experience and these advantages for
| reaching the various sources of administrative
| tion, and for imparting minute and illustrative in
structon and valuable periodical and statistical
information, that we challenge your confidence
and aoicit 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 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 three years. II is a
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 of
fees in the tables which no longer in operation!
and Offices in operation which not in the tablesa
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 postinasters 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 paper
will furnish the additions, corrections, and modlh
cations made IN each month, and by being filed
and preserved, will afford to poatmasters full and
exact information upon both subjects, up to and
for time being. How much of the present msdi-
rection remang, doubt tonfuson, 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 ntelIi-
ffp1af To fpr m III
These advantages alone and independently Of all
others are worth many times the price we charge
for the paper, and will, 1t 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
10 subscribe The same considerations apply 10
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 or national interest, VIII nho pace
I IN this paper.
| a denartment of our paper addressing itself not
merely 10 pvstmasters and other officers of the
Government but TO all other citizens who give at
tenton 10 the affairs Of the nation and the progress
and development of the {, untry, will embrace IN
condensed form the matters Submitted to, or arts
iny in Congress- At each session a vast deal OF
valuable information is communicated 10 Cons
press. by the several departments and their subory
dinate bureaus, and profound ana comprehensive
reports are made by committees OF both Houses.
Rut the great mass Of the community know MOTH
inc 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 documest
and report is only twelve s !" ,se
tive. which at once shows the Impractcablty OF
,ha;r determination. The ADvERTIsgR Will con-
tam short abridgrnents or analysis of all these
documents and reports, and the eompend Will
,nerefore not only prove exceedingly useful and
v,ructive in itself but will furnish an easy index
~ those interested whenever It is found desirable
20 obtain and examine the document at large
There Is large field before us, the materials are
ample. 1t viii be our Jealous care 70 collect ana
ARRANGE them in the proper form. We have every
sJsnce thai the subscriptions will be ample TO
enable ms 10 accomplish it all. The information
VOC nronose To give, compromising and conhne
a. ,be action Of the Government, is solid, uSeft 9
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