The southern press., 1851-06-26
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE.
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PREPARATORY NOTICE
The enterprise in which we now embark. ana
of which this paper is at once the commencement.
and sample Of the papers that are to follow, has
for its ann no less a purpose, than to mpart in-
struction, in the general and detail to the Officer
and Agents ofthe 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 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 inade-
quats in the absence Of the construction Of those
Laws, applied TO particular cases and of details
and illustrations to make the regulations and in
structons ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported to Congress, are too youminol,s
and are printed in quantities too small for general
circulation; whilst the debates in Congress and
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 10
party ends, and to matters of national policy.
These publications in their various forms are
highly useful in themselves far as they CO. 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
pies, 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
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, methodcal, 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 ex
tent at least--apart from, and independently Of
any party or PERSONAL interest or question what
| ever. 47 te
| 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 postmasters and contractors, he has had
direct intercourse, in person by letter. He en-
tered the department fourteen years since, and for
many years previously, had been, first in the War
| Department and subsequently i'm 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 1t 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 civility with
them all. The Junior Editor has been asssduously
engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
! sonal inquiry and examination, the practical and
f daily routine and details of the Post-Ofice and
| other branches Of the public business 1t is with
this stock Of experience, and these advantages for
reaching the various sources OF administrative
tion and for imparting minute and illustrative in
information, that 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 our paper, TO
afford time for obtaining from the departments
all the ORDERS notices and changes issued, or made
| by them during the preceding month. Tables ca
| Post Offices, and compilations Of the Laws ana
| Regulations, are issued by the Post Office Depart
| ment only once in two three years. IL is
| matter of Inconvenience and complaint, for which
| hitherto there has been remedy, that in
month from the time Of these issues, there are of.
fees in the tables which longer in operations
and offices in operation which not in the tablesl
| 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,
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 modif
! 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 presen, misdi-
recton, 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.
These advantages alone and independently OF all
others, are worth many times the price we charge
for the paper, and will, IL is hoped, induce every
| postmaster who feels just 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 I'm
| respect to them. Notices OF the decisions OF the
| Supreme Court, in cases turning upon questions
Of official duty national interest, VIII hnd place
| in this palsr
department of our paper addressing itself not
merely 10 postmasters and other officers Of the
Governments but to all other citizens who give at
tenton 10 the affairs OF the nation and the progress
and development of the untry, will embrace IN "a
condensed form the matters submitted to, or aris-
ino in Congress At each session vast deal Of
valuable information in communicated to Con-
grcss by the several departments and their subor-
dipnte bureaus, and profound and comprehensive
repor,s are made by committees of both Houses
But the grent mass Of the community Know noun
ing of the contents Of these documents ana re-
nn,,s sxcent the brief notices Of them, which
rom time to time appear in the public papers,
The standing number printed of each documen
and renort. is only twelve hundred in the Senate
and fourteen hundred in the House Of Representa-
lives which at once shows the impracncabipty
49,, d;assmnation The ADVERTISER will con-
tain short abridgmens or analysis of all these
oocnmsn,a and reports, and the compend will
therefore not only prove exceedingly useful and
instructive in ITSELF but will furnish AN easy index
to those interested whenever !. ~ found desirable
a. ob,an and examine the document at large.
There il large field before us, the materials are
,mnle IL will be Jealous care TO collect and
.rrnnre them in the proper form We have every
confidence tina, the subscriptions will be ample to
enable us to accomplish It alt The information
we propose to give, comprehending and con6ne'
20 the action Of the Government, ~ SOLID, usefu &
and 1--WE might almost say) necessary to the of
cer-lf not to the citizen. 1t is intended for all,