The southern press., 1851-04-26
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE.
and OFFICIAL .4DYERTESER.

~ shoO Un0t Is d0ftc ana fObdt ShOttQ 0e d0ne,
IN QGice.-Ss
PETER G WAsHrsGTox,
CHARLES M. WmIAsp. Editors and Proprietors.
TERMs.--'' The United States Postal Guide and
Official fdusrtiser," containing about - spper-royL
ocfapo pages, Is published monthly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per dnnuni, payable in adrsssce--or Grc
dollars for sir copies ordered at any one time.
PREPARATORY NOTICE.
The enterprise in which we embark, and
OF which tins paper is at once the commencement,
and sample Of the papers that are TO follow, has
for ils ann no less a purpose, than to impart M
struction, in the general and detail to the Of6cer
and Agents of the Americas 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 hlih-
erto Leen no vehicle for the regular and proper
! communication of information Of this kind. The
publication of the Laws and the issue of Instruc
tions more or less comprehensive and at intervals
more or less extended, have proved wholly made
auate in the absence Of the construction OF those
Laws applied to particular cases, and of details
and illustrations to make the regulations and 10
structions Ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported to Congress, are too ,ollminos
and are printed in quantities too small for general
circuIaton; whilst the debates in Congress ard
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 10
party ends, and to matters of national policy.
These publications in their various forms
highly useful in themselves as far as they go, and
| some of them Indispensable; but there is much
that do not reach the hands OF all, if they did,
do they furnish those rules methods and exam
Piles, for the despatch OF the public business which
can render the discharge Of public duty either safe
or eusy, 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, methodca., 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 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-Ohice 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
| the departments, and being acquainted with those
who carry it on. Since his official connection with
the Government ceased he fiatters 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 cvility with
them ALL The Junior Editor has been asssiduoualy
engaged for several years, IN studying, by per-
sonal inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details Of the POST Office and
other branches Of the public business. 1t is with
this stock Of experience, and these advantages for
reaching the various sources of administrative
ton, and for imparting 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
the day for the publication of our paper, so as to
afford time for obtaining from the Departmental
all the orders, notices and changes issued, or mad
by them during the preceding month. Tables
Post Offices, and compilations of the Laws ana
| Regulations, are issued by the Post Office Depart
ment only in two 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 Of
fees in the tables which are no longer in operation
and Offices in operation which not 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,
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 modf-
cations, made IN each month, and by being filed
and preserved, will afford to postmasters full and
exact information upon both subjects, up to and
for time being How much of the present misdi
recion, 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
G. arxI II, 10 hon ,I,,c
postmaster who feels jus, pride in his office, or
patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, and
efficiency of the whole Post Office system-at once
to subscribe. 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 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 paur.
A department of our paper addressing itself not
| merely TO postmasters and other officers Of the
i Government but to all other citizens who give at
tenton the affairs Of the nation and the progress
and development of the {, untry, will embrace in
condensed form the matters submitted to, or aris-
| ing in Congress. At each session n vast deal OF
valuable information is communicated to Con-
gress by the several departments and their subor-
dinate bureafye, and profound and comprehensive
reports are made by committees of both Houses
| But the great Of the community know moth
/ ing Of the ontents 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 docume
and report, is only twelve hundred in the Senate,
and fourteen hundred in the Iouse Of Representa-
lives, which at once shows the imPraclicabty of
their dissemination. The ADVERTISER will con
! tain short abridgments analysis of all these
documents and reports, and the compend will
| therefore not only prove exceedingly rsefu aud
instructive in itself, but will furnish an Easy index
TO those interested, whenever It is found desirable
| to obtain and examine the document at large.
There is a large field before us, the materials are
ample IL will be our Jealous care to collect and
arrange them in the proper form. We have every
confidence that the subscriptions will be ample 10
enable us to accomplish j, all The information
we propose to give, comprehending and confined
to the action OF the Government, is solid, useful
and 1--WE might almost say) necessary to the Off
cer--if not to the citizen. IL is intended for all,
and put at price which can constitute no obstacle