The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-15
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE

UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
AND OFFICIAL ADVERTISER.
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NHA@Lhs M. WILLARD, Hd'iors and Froprietors
.snns, - The United STATES Postal Guide and
P0'" -1aoertiser, containing about 30 spDsr-rouaI
oofapo pages, Is published ,ponihi,, a. arv 80,
LAR ONLY, per aiv.un,, payable la adpanoe---or fp.
dollars for sic copies ordered.
PREPARATORY NOTICE
| The enterprise IN which we now embark! and
OF which this paper is at once the Commencement
and sample of the papers that are to follow las
for It's aim no less a purpose, than to impart in
struction, in the general and detail, to the Officer
and Agents of the American public, in res 1ectb both
TO their duties and their rights and TO make them,
and the people at large, acquainted with th organ
izaton 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
tions or less comprehensive and al intervals
more or less extended, have proved wholly made
quate in the absence Of the construction or those
Laws applied to particular cases, and of details
and illustrations TO make the regulations and in.
structions Ineligible. The valuable documents
annual reported to Congress, voIuniho us1
and are printed in quantities too small for general
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 TO
party ends, and to matters of national poIieys
These publications. in their various forms are
highly useful in themselves far as they 90 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 incumbenthim
sell, 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 ey
| tent at least-apart from, and Independently,
any party or personal interest or question what
ever.
| tbs known to most OF those to whom this pa
per will be sent, that the Senior Editor was ud
tor of the Post-Ofce Department until the month
\ of November last with by far the larger portion
OF both postnasters and contractors he has had
direct intercourse, IN person or by letter. II en-
tered the department fourteen years since, and for
many years previously, had been, first i'm the War
Department, and subsequently in the Treasury
tie has therefore had the best opportunities for
understanding the arrangements OF business in all
the departments, and being acquainted with those
who carry IL on. Since his official connection with
the Government ceased, he natters 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 cvity with
them all. The Junior Editor has been asssiduousy
ehsaSeu LOT several years, IN studying, by per-
sonni inquiry and examinations the practical and
daily routine and details of the Post-Oifice and
other branches Of the public business. IL ia with
this stock or experience, and these advantages for
reaching the various sources Of administrative ac
uoD, and for ImpartIng minute and illustrative I'm
struction, and valuable periodical and statistical
Information, that we challenge your confidence
ana solicit your support and patronage '3
1 we have liked upon the 18th OF each month n q
the day Tor the publication of our paper, so as to
| afford time for obtaining from the Departments
all the orders, notices and changes issued or mad
| by them during the preceding month Tables a
Post Offices, and compilations of the Laws an.
Regulations, are issued by the Post Office Depart
ment only once IN two or three years. Ii ia a
| matter OF inconvenience and complaint for which
hitherto there has been no remedy thar in one
month from the time of these issues there ,,e off
fees the tables hicl are no Ion ger IN
and Offices III operation which not in the tabIess
At 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 postmasters and others are wholly
Ignorant. We propose To prevent, for the present
|
the time another issue shall be made our paper
will furnish the additions corrections and modi6.
cations, made each month, and by being filed
and preserved, will afford postmasters full and
| exact information upon both subjects, u p to and
for time being. How much Of the present nisdi-
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 inteI-
gent postmaster can estimate for himself d,
These advantages alone and independently of all
others, worth many times the price we charge
for the paper, and will, it is hoped induce every
postmaster who feels just pride in his Office OF
| patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, ami
| efficiency Of the whole Post Office system-atbnce
| 10 subscribe. The same considerations apply te
the orders and notices, DECISIONS and Instructors
Of the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and InterIo,
departments, and the same course is intended i'm
| respect to them. Notices Of the decisions of the
Supreme Court, in cases turning upon questions
of official duty national interest," win find place
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