The southern press., 1851-07-01
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE.
.fND OFFICIAL .4DVERTISER


IND OFFICLaL .4DVERTTSER
= To shoe ,ehat Is done, and ,shot sho,id he do,.
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PETER u. WAmrHeroN, e.,
CHARLES M. WILLARD, H""ofs ana FroPftefofS'
Terms. -" The United States Postal f,,,;ds and
official .4drertiser, " containing about 20 srosra,al
octapo pages, is published monthly for ONE poL-
LAR ONLY, per anntr, payable in adrancs-or frs
dollars for sic copies ordered at any one time
PREPARATORY NOTICE.
| The enterprise in which now embark, AMI
OF which this paper IL at once the commencement
and sample of the papers that to follow, / as
for its aim no less purpose, than TO impart in
struction in the general and detail, to the Officer
aud Agents 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-
partmenis of their Government. There has hith
erto Eeen no vehicle for the regular and proper
communication of information of this kind. The
publication Of the Laws and the issue of instrur
TONS more or less comprehensive, and at intervals
more or less extended, have proved wholly made
quate, in the absence Of tbe construction OF those
Laws applied to particular cases, and of details
and illustrations to make the regulations and In
structions ineligible. The valuable do ,'ments
annually reported to Congress, are too vclumino *
and are printed in quantities too small for eneral
circulation; whilst the debates in Congress I'D
the commentaries of the press upon their proceed
ngs, 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
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
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 hm-
self, or the department or bureau under which he
acts. We shall make an 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 eY-
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 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
| of both pos,masters 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, 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 incumbents of the departments, and is on
becoming terms of intercourse and civllity with
them all. The Junior Editor has been asssiduously
engaged for several years, IN studying, by per-
sonai inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details of the Post-Ofice and
other branches of the public business. II is with
this stock Of experience and these advantages for
reaching the various sources Of administrative ac-
md rSfr tIya 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 as
the dav for the publication of our paper, so as TO
afford time for obtaining from the departments
i all the orders notices and changes issued, mads
by them during the preceding month Tables az
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 a
matter of inconvenience and complaint, Tor 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 operauons
and Offices in operation which are not In the ablesS
Al 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 postsnasters 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 modIh-
: cations made in each month, and by being filed
and preserved, will afford to posmasers full and
exact information upon both subjects, up to and
: for time being. How much of the presen, misdi-
| rection, remang, doubt. confusion, error, and
imposition, will be saved by the progressive state
of full and exact knowledge, for which we have
proyided, and for which we engage, every intei-
cent nostmaster 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, 1t rs hoped, induce every
postmaster who feels JHt ptiae IN MS once, or
a patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, and
efficiency of the whole Post Office system-at once
IN suhscribe 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 H. intended IN
resnect 10 them Notices Of the decisions of the
3 Sunreme Court, in turning upon questions
of official duty or national interests will find apacs
in this papsr. -
A Department Of our paper addressing itself not
merely 10 pustnasters and other officers OF the
Government but to all other citizens who give at
ention 10 the affairs of the nation and the progress
and development of the untry, w'l embrace IN
condensed form the matters submitted TO, or arls-
ing in Congress. AT each session vast deal or
valuable information Is communicated 10 Con
gress bv the several departments and their subor-
! dipsts bureaus, and profound and comprehensive
] renor,s are made by committees of both Houses
: But the great mass Of the community Know noth-
10 ~ he contents of these documents and re-
, ports, except the brief notices OF them' which
from time TO time appear IN the puohe papers
The standing number printed OF each oocnmen
! and report. is only twelve hundred in the Senate
and fourteen hundred in the House Of Representa-
,;vss' which at once shows the impracticability
their dissemination. The ADVERTISER will con
tain short abridgments or analysis OF all these
so.,,r,enta and reports, and the compend will
tosrefore not only prove exceedingly useful and
Instructive in itself but will furnish an easy index
10 ,hoss interested whenever it is found desirable
10 obtain and examine the document at large.
There is large field before us, the materials are
arrange them in the proper form. We have every
confidence that the subscriptions will be ample to
enable us to accomplish it all The information
we propose to give, comprehendlng and conhne
10 the action OF the Government, Is sohd, usefg :
and 1--WE might almost say) necessary to the OF
1 oa~,f mot to the citizen 1t is intended for al 4