The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-23

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PRERARATORY NOTION.
| The enterprise IN which we now embark, AMI
Of which this papsri IL at once the commencement,
and sample Of the papers that are to follow, | as
| for it's aim no less purpose, than to impart in
struction in the general and detail. to the Officer
and Agents Of the American public, in respect both
70 their duties and their rights, and 70 make them,
ra.ion, decisions and action OF the Executive de-
partments Of their Governmsat. Thsss has hith
| erfo Teen no vehicle for tho regular ADD proper
communication Of information Of this kiqd. The
publication Of the Laws and the issue Of iDstsur
ions, NOR o. s.s ;nsss
quate, in the absence Or hS conSttpcdo9 ~ those
Laws az applied to particular casss, and Of details
and illustrations TO make the rsgulatiens aPds AN
structions Ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported 70 Congress. are TOO vosum'nosls
and are printed in quantities TOO small forgensra
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 70
| party ends, and to matters Of national policy.
| These publications in their various forms ars
highly useful in themselves far as they 60, and
some Of them Indispensable; but there j. much
that do not reach the hands Of all, nor 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 sas
| or easy whether in respect to the incumbent HIM
| self, or the department or bureau under which ne
acts. We shall make an honest effort TO supply
this vacuum, and to provide tor these necessloes.
urinary Offices more uniform, methodical, ana ex
sct we shal make the administrative duties of the
denartments more easy and effective, ana thereby
promote the real and substantial interests pr the
country And this we expect 20 90, 20 some et
tent at least-apart from, and Independently OF
any party or personal i"''.''' - d1'-
ever. .4..l .L;
n.r will be sent, that the Senior Editor was Audi
tor Of the Post Office Department until the month
If November last; with by far the larger portion
of both postmasters and Contractors, he has had
Jrsct intercourse, in person or by letter. He on
tired the department fourteen years since, and for
MANY wears previously, had been, first ~ the War
1ensrtment. and subsequently in the Treasury
He has therefore had the pest oPPor:unla;s 20. sm
the departmerts, and being acquainted with those
,rho carry II on. Since his official connection with
,ns Government ceased, he fatters himsalf he has
7 nreseryed the respect and regard or most OF the
present incumbents OF the departments snd - on
e becoming terms of intercourse aud civiiity with
) them all The Junior Editor has been assslduouaiy
n sngryed for several years, in studying, by per.
II sonn3 INQUIRY and examination, the practical and
# ds;lv routine and details of the Post-Ofce and
other branches Of the public business. It Is with
this stock Of experience, and these advantages fol-
r.achinp the various sources of administrative &C
ion and for importing minute and Illustrative in
.truction. and valuable periodical and statistica
INCARNATION, that we challenge your confidence
and solicit your support ana ps'ron age ,. :.
the dav for the publication of our paper, so as to
!. afford time for obtaining from the departments,
ali The orders, notices andchanges issued, or made
. bv them during the preceding month. Tables or
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 q
" n.,t.r'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 operstionj
and Offices in operation which are not IN the taoIes
A. This time there are perhaps over three thousand
Offices of the two descriptions. In like manner
Ia We have been passed and regulations established
since the issue Of the last volume or regulations
= of which many postmasters and others are wholly
! ignorant We propose 70 prevent LOT she Psesen
rs he time another issue shall be made our paper
will fnynish the additions, corrections, and modih
Y cations. made in each month, and by being filed
and preserved, will afford to postmasters full anc
{ exact information upon both SUBJECTS up 10 ano
of ~ nj m
Z recton. remailing, doubt, confusion, error, and
d .,';on will be "a we'd by the progressive stats
~ mi, and exact knowledge, for which we hav,
n nrovid.d. and for which we engage, every intei
n cent postmaster can estimate Tor nimseH. !,
!, These advantages alone and independently OF al
others. are worth many times the price we charge
for the paper, and will, 1t IA hoPed' induce every
nostm.s,er who feels a just pride in his Office, o.
n patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, ant
efficiency of the whole Post Once system--at one
10 .nhscr;be. The same considerations apply Il
sbs orders and notices, decisions, and instruction
OF the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and interio
d.,.r,rents and the same course Is INTENDED II
resnect TO them Notices of the decisions or IN
RS Supreme Court, in cases turning upon question
n of official duty or national INTEREST," vi" III" P"o
Or in this patwr ;...,c -
p ..l,, Ia nostnasters and other officers of thu
% ov.ynment but TO all other citizens who give Al
tenon to the affairs Of the nation ana the progress
At and development Of the G. untry, wi embrace ~
condemned form the matters submitted TO, or aris
ing in Congress At each session a vast dea! o.
vn7nah,. information is communicated to Con
e gress by the several departments aud their suoor
= dnnte bureaus, and profound and comPrehensiv
n .snar,. ar. made by committees Of both Houses
: Rn, the great mass Of the community know moth
Is inr Of The contents Of these documents and re
n na,,s except the brief notices of them, which
from time 10 time appear in the public papers
The standing number printed OF each Document
Al IN -sanr, ,s only twelve hundred in the Senate
and fopr,een hundred in the House of Representa-
!. ives which at once shows the impractcabiity o
! IVES 's' s;n.srn;nation. The ApvERrIsER will con
L ,s'n short abrdgments or analysis Of all thss.
documents and reports, and Inc compend WI
ms,rnc,;ve in Itself, but will furnsh an easy indie,
49, ,ho.s interested, whenever il is found desirab
~ nb,s,n and examine the document At large