The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-06-08
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
AND OFFICIAL .aDVER TTSER

UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
AND OFFICIAL .aDvERTTSER.
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| Terms. 80 The United States Postal Guide and
Official .4drertssr," containing about 80 soper-royai
octauo pages, is published monthly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per amman, payable in adpaaee--or flee
dollars for sac 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 tas
for its aim no less purpose, than to impart in
struction, in the general and detail, to the Officer
and gents 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 no vehicle for the regular aud proper
communication Of Information Of this kind The
publication of the Laws and the issue of instruc
tons, more less comprehensive, and at intervals
more or less extended, have proved wholly made
auate in the absence of the construction or those
Laws, as applied TO particular cases, and of details
and Illustrations make the regulations aud in
structions Ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported TO Congress, are too voluminols
and printed IN quantities too small for general
circulation; whilst the debates in Congress aud
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 poeys
These publications in their various forms are
highly useful in themselves far as they go, 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
Plies, for the despatch Of the public business which
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 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, mebodcal, and ey
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 expect to do, to some ey
tent at least--apart from, and independently to
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 AUDI
tor of the Posl-Office Department until tie month
of November last; with by far the larger portion
of both postmasers and contractors, he has had
direct intercourse, IN person by letter. He en-
tered the department fourteen years since aud for
many years previously, had BEEN first in the War
Department, ard subsequently in the Treasury
lie has therefore had the best opportunities loI
understanding the arrangements OF business in all
the departments, and being acquainted with those
who carry II on. Since his official connection with
the Government ceased, he hatters 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 civiIity with
them ALL The Junior Editor has been asssiduously
engaged for several years, IN studying, by per-
sonal inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details Of the Post-Olice and
orner branches of the public business. 1t is with
t,i ~ und n
reaching the various sources of administrative &C
ton, and for impartng minute and Illustrative in
struction and valuable periodical and statistical
information, that challenge your confdenc,
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 mad,
by them during the preceding month. Tables Of
Post Offices, and compilations of the Laws and
Regulations, issued by the Post Office Depart
ment only once in two or three years, Ii s a
matter of inconvenience and complaint, for which
hitherto there has been remedy, that IN one
month from the time of these issues, there Of
fees in the tables which no longer in operation
and Offices in operation which not IN the tables
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 modi
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 tbs present misdi
recton remailing, doubt, confusion, error, and
imposition, will be saved by the progressive state
Of fun and exact knowledge, for which we have
provided, and for which we engage. every ntelll
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, it is hoped, nduce every
postmaster who feels Just pride in his office or
a patriotic regard fer tie credit, prosperity, and
efficiency Of the whole Post Office system-at once
to subscribe. The same considerations apply o
the orders and notices. decisions, and instructors
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 CAGES turning upon question
of Official duty or national interest, will find plac