The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-20
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE

| UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
AND OFFICIAL ADVERTISER -
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IN office. =sH,
CHAaIrs M. W mI.sD Editors and Proprielors'
Oh ems. - The United States Postal Guide and
Q0le,% Advertiser" containing about 40 spneryo,,oI
oeia0o pages, Is published monthly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per alnttn, payable in adrane,-o, 6ys
dollars for sir copies ordered.
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 are to follow tas
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
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
tons, less comprehensive, and at intervals
more 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.
structons Ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported to Congress, too voluminous,
and printed in quantities too small for general
circulation; whilst the debates in Congress and
the commentaries of the press upon their prooeed3
of the Government, besides turning mostly upon
general principles, address themselves only to
| party ends, and to matters of national poliey5
These publications in their various forms are
highly useful in themselves far as 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.
ples 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.
. H. h.. 4
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, 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 ey
tent at least-apart from, and independently
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-Ofice Department until the month
of November last; with by far the larger portion
4 of both postmasters and contractors, he has had
direct intercourse, In person or by letter. He
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 Since his official connection with
} the Government ceased he hatters 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 civIty with
them all. The Junior Editor has been asssduously
engaged for several years, IN studying, by per-
sonai inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details of the Post-OAice and
other branches Of the public business. IL is with
this stock Of experience, and these advantages for
reaching the various sources of administrative &C.
ton, and for imparting minute and illustrative in
struction, 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 as
the day for the publication of 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 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. Ii is a
matter Of inconvenience and complaint, for which
hitherto there has been remedy, that in one
month from the time of these issues, there are off
fees in the tables which no longer in operations
and Offices in operation which in the tables
At this time there perhaps 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 are wholly
ignorant. We propose TO prevent, for the present.
anv increase of the evil of either kind, and from
the time another issue shall be made, our paper
will furnish the additions corrections, and modify
cations, made in each month"; and by being fled
and preserved, will afford to postmasters full and
exact information upon both subjects up to and
| for time being. How much of the presea. msdi,
rection, remailing, 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-
| gent postmaster can estimate for himself.
These advantages alone and independently Of all
Others, are worth many times the price charge
for the paper, and will, 1t ia hoped, induce every
postmaster who feels a just pride in his office
a patriotic regard for the credit prosperity, and
efficiency of the whole Post Office system---at once
10 subscribe The same considerations apply 10
thebrders and notices, decisions, and instructorl
of the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and Interiol
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, will find place
in this papsr.
Il YuNHE undersigned, committee of publication, on