The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-09-25
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE

UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
IND OFFICIAL ADVERTISER
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IERms.-'' The United States Postal G,.id, and
Official .9dreriissr, containing abo,i 20 srnsnal
octapo pages, Is published monthly fbr ONE non
LAR ONLY, per annis'n, payable in adranes--or fra
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 are to follow ! an
for It's aim no less "A purpose, than TO mpart in
structon, ia the general and detail, to the Officer
aud 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 organs
ization, decisions and action of the Executive de-
purtments Of their Government There has hh
erto Teen vehicle for the regular and proper
communication Of information of this kind The
publication OF the Laws and the issue OF insrur
tons, more or less comprehensive, and at intervals
more or less extended. have proved wholly inade-
quate, in the absence Of the construction OF those
Laws, applied to particular cases, and of details
and illustrations to make the regulations and in
structiona Ineligible The valuable documents
annually reported TO Congress, too voluminousn
and printed in quantities too small for general
circulation; whilst the debates in Congress and
the commentaries Of the press upon their proceed
ings, aud 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 are
highly useful in themselves far az they go, aad
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,
plies, for the despatch OF the public business whck
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, n,ethodicaI, 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
4cOuntry 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 Office 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 il on. Since his official connection with
| the Government ceased, he iatters himself he has
preserved the respect and regard Of most OF the
preser incumbents of the departments, and is on
becoming terms Of intercourse and civility with
them ALL The Junior Editor has been asssiduously
engaged for several years, IN studying, by per-
sonn inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details Of the Post Office and
other branches Of the public business. Ii is with
afn of p p. epdy
reaching the various sources of administrative ac
ton, and for mpartins minute and illustrative i'm :
struction, and valuable periodical and statistical
information, that we 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, SO as to
afford time for obtaining from the departments,
all the orders, notices and changes issued, or made
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
| matter of inconvenience and complaint for which
hitherto there has been no remedy, that i'm one
month from the time of these issues there are of.
ices in the tables which no longer in operations
and Offices operation which not in The tabes@
AT this time there perhaps three thousand
offices of the two descriptions. In like manner
laws have been passed aud regulations established
since the issue Of the last volume Of regulations
Of which many postlnasters and others wholly
IL.
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
aud preserved, will afford to posmasters full and
exsct information upon both subjects, up to and
for time being. How much of the present msdi-
recton remailing, doubt, confusion, error, and
inn posltion 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 we charge
for the paper, and WILL II is hoped, induce every
| postmaster who feels just pride in his Office or
a patriotic regard for the credit prosperity, AMI
efficiency of the whole Post Office svstem-at onc,
| TO subscribs The same considerations apply n
the orders and notices, dsc,soDs, and instruction
| of the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and Interio
departments, and the same course Is intended in
respect 10 them. Notices of the decisions OF the
Supreme Court, in cases turning upon questions
of official duty or national interest," WIZ hnd place
! in this papsr.
| Department Of our paper addressing itself not
merely 10 postmasiers aud other officers of ths
Government but TO all other citizens who give at
tention TO the affairs of the nation and the progress
and development Of the q untfy, will embrace in
condensed form the matters submitted to- or aris-
| inc in Congress. At each session vast deal OF
valuable information is communicated 10 Con-
gress. by the several departments aud their subor-
dinste bureaus, and profound ana comprehensive
/ renorts are made by committees OF both Houses
| RI, The great mass OF the community know moth
| ing OF the contents 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 q
and report, ~ only twelve hundred IN the SENATE
and fourteen hundred in the House of Representa-
| tiyes which at once shows the Iiupractcnbhty OF
their dissemination. The ADVERTISER will con-
tam short obridgments or analysis Of all thes.
documents and reports, and the co mpend vii
therefore not only prove exceedingly. useful and
instructive in itself, but will furnish an easy index
to those interested, whenever it is found desirable
to obtain and examine the documen at large
There 10 a large field before us, the materials are
ample II will be jealous care collect and
arrange them in the prope form. We have every
confidence that the subscriptions will be ample 10
enable us to accomplish Il all. The information
we propose TO give, comprehending and confined
to TIE action Of the Government, is soIsd, useful,