The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-14
UNITED STATES posTALGUInE

| D STATES POSTAL GUIDE
IND OFFICIAL ADVERTISER.
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IN Office s-H
PETER q. WAsHrseros, gsfr
CHARLES M. WILLARD, Editors and PropristorS
- thms' - The United States Postal Guide and
CIeiat .1dpertiser, containing about 20 syoeo,,aI
oe'a'o pages, % published monthly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per annum, payable la adpanes-or I'm.
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 sample of the papers that to follow, / as
for its no less purpose, than TO impart in
siruction, 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 Leen vehicle for the regula and proper
communication of information of this kind The
publication Of the Laws and the issue of lnstrur
tons, more or less comprehensive, and at intervals
more or less extended, have proved wholly made
quate, IN the absence of the construction OF those
Laws, applied to particular cases. and of details
| and illustrations to make the regulations and i'm.
structions ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported to Congress, are voluminolls
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 10
! party ends, and to matters of national polieya
These publications in their various forms are
I highly useful in themselves far they 60 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
Piles, 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
4 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
| II we succeed IN rendering the functions of the
primary Offices more uniform, methodica 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 ey
tent at least-apart from, and Independently,
any party or personal interest question what
\ ever.
| 1t is known to most OF those to whom this pa
| per will be sent, that the Senior Editor was ud
tor of the Post-Otfce Department until the month
of November last; with by far the larger portion
\ of both postmasers and contractors, he has had
direct intercourse, IN person or by letter. III en-
tered the department fourteen years SINCE and for
many years previously, had been, first in the War
Department, and subsequently in the Treasury
lie has therefore had the best OPPORTUNITIES for
understanding the arrangements OF business I'm all
the departments and being acquainted with those
who carry IT on. Since his official connection with
IL as
preserved the respect and regard OF most OF the
preseft incumbens of the departments and is on
| becoming terms OF intercourse and civIlity with
them all. The Junior Editor has been asssiduouslv
engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
ri sonai inquiry and examination the practica md
daily routine and details of the Post-Ofice and
other branches OF the public business Ii is with
this stock or experience, and these advantages for
reaching the various sources of administrative nc
uon, ana Tor impartinS minute and Illustrative in
ysln Il
information, that we challenge your confidence
and solicit your support and patronage
We huve7xed upon the 18th OF each month "a
the day for the publication of our paper so as 10
AFFORD Tune Tor obtaining from the departments
all the orders, notices and changes issued or mad
by them during the preceding month Tables n
Post Oitices, and compilations of the LAWS ana
Regulations, are issued by the Post Office Depart
ment only once IN two or three years IL il a
matter of inconvenience and COMPLAINT for ,,bicb
hitherto there has been remedy that in one
month from the time of these issues there are ors
hces In the tables which longer in operations
and Offices IN operation which are not in III hesi
Al tins time there are 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 postInasters 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 naner
will furnish the additions corrections, and modi6r
cations, made IN each month"; and by being filed
and preserved, will afford to postnlasters full and
exact information upon both subjects, up to and
for time being. How much Of the present misdi-
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 ndepende en- tlv of all
others, are 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 o r
a patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity. AMI
efficiency Of the whole Post Office system-at once
| to subscribe. The same considerations apply tr
the orders and notices. decisions, and Instructors
Of the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and Interio
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.