The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-22
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE

UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
and OFFICIAL ADVERTISER.
- "o'o 'ohat Is done, aud schat should be done
IN. ~ 49,, IN q0ce.@sU
cnAsLrs M, WmL.nD, Editors and Proprietor
40 tH"s. - ne United States Postal (;,;dr ma
''o"' .'uoe'''ser, containing about 70 syory-ro,tr
oe'apo pages' (" published monthly for ON DO,
80, .SEs, m' aa"am, payaSte ia aduanee--or a.
PREPARATORY NOTICE
The enterprise in which we now emL.,l
OF which this paper is at once the commsncs,na,
and sample Of the papers that are 10 follow !,
for IT'S ann no less Il purpose, than to impart in
sruction, IN the general and detail to the Oifee,
and Agents ofthe American public, in respect Moth
to their duties and their rights, and 10 make them
and the people at large, acquainted with the organ
'zation, decisions and action of the Executive de-
apartments OF their Government. There has hth
erto Teen no vehicle for the regular and proner
communication Of information OF this Kind 7.be
publication Of the Laws and the issue Of lnstrur
TONS more or less comprehensive and nj intervals
more or less extended, have proved wholly made
guute, IN the absence Of the construction or those
Laws as applied to particular cases and of details
and illustrations to make the regulations and in.
structi0ns Ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported to Congress, are too volumnous
and are printed in quantities too small for general
circulation; whilst the debates in Congress and
the commentaries pf 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 far as they go, and
some of them indispensable; but there il much
that do not reach the hands Of ALL nor if thew did.
do they furnish those rules, methods, and exam
pies, for the despatch Of the public business whch
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 SUNNY
this vacuum, and to provide for these necessities
| III 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 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 n,
per will be SENT that the Senior Editor was Audi
tor of the Post-Officc Department until the month
of November last; with by far the larger portion
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 fatters himself he has
preserved the respect and regard of most OF the
present incumbenta of the departments, and il ON
! becoming terms Of intercourse and civiIitv with
them all. The Junior Editor has been asssiduou,lv
, engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
4 sonnl inquiry and examination, the practical and
Z daily routine and details Of the Post-Of6ce and
other branches Of the public business IL Is with
this stock Of experience, and these advantages for
reaching the various sources of administrative ac
ton, and for mparting minute and illustrative in
struction, and valuable periodical and statistical
information, that challenge your confidence
and solicit your support and patronage
We have fixed upon the 18th Of each month ss
the day for the publication of our paper so az TO
afford time for obtaining from the departments.
all the orders, notices and changes issued or mads
by them during the preceding MONTH Tables on
Post Offices, and compilations of the Laws ana
Regulations, are issued by the Post Office Denart
ment only once in two or three years III n
matter of inconvenience and complaint, for which
hitherto there has been no remedy, that in ope
month from the time of these issues, there are orr
l6ces in the tables which no longer in operntons
land Offices in operation which are not i'm the ahIrs2
AT this time there perhaps three thousand
Iofices 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 are wholIv
Ignorant We propose To prevent for the presenf
ANY increase Of the evil Of either kind and from
the time another issue shall be made our paner
will furnish the additions, corrections, and modif-
| cat,ons made IN each month, and by being filed
| and preserved, will afford to postmasters full and
| eyaci information upon both subjects up TO and
| for time being. How much Of the present n,isdi-
| rection, remaing, doubt, confusion, error, and
| ,mnostlon will be saved by the progressive state
| Of full and exact knowledge, for which we have
/ provided and for which we engage every Intelli-
| gent postmaster can estimate for himself.
| These advantages alone and independently of all
others, are worth many times the price we chargs
for the paper, and viii, !, IL hoped, induce every
westminster who feels Just pride in his Office OF
/ patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity and
efficiency Of the whole Post Office system---st once
| 10 subscribe The same considerations apply 10.
the orders and notices, decisions, and instruction
Of the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and Interior
| d.,,r,mepta and the same course is Intended in
\ r.,r.c, IN them Notices of the decisions of the
/ Snnreme Court. in cases turning upon questions
oic,al duty or national interest, viii find place
| in this papsr.
| nerev 10 posimasters and other officers Of the
C.oveypment bat to all other citizens who give at-
teuon 10 the affairs of the nation and the progress
| and deyolopment Of the g untry, will embrace in n
condensed form the matters submitted to, or aris-
Ing in Congress. At each session vast deal of
,.l,,.ble Information IL communicated to Con-
oresa hv the several departments and their subor-
dna,e bureaus and profound and comprehensive
REPORTS are made by committees Of both Houses
Bu, the great mass Of the community know moth
me Of he contents Of these documents and re-
ports, excep, the brief notices Of them, which
from time to time appear IN me pubic papers,
IRE standing number printed Of each document
and report. is only twelve hundred in the Senate,
and fourteen hundred in the House Of Representa-
,,vss which at once shows the impraclicability OF
their dissemination. The ApvERrsnn will con-
tam short nbridgnents or analysis of all 1hese
noe,uen,s and reports. and the mpend VIII
therefore, not only prove exceedingly useful and
instructive in itself, but will furnish easy index
q, those interested whenever il is fauRd desira 10
"a obtain and examine the documen at large
There is large isld before us. the materials nre
,n,ple n will be zeaons care collect and
arrange them in the prope form. We have every
confidence that the subscriptions will be ample tn
anahl. ~ 10 Accomplish II all The inflammation