The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-06-24
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE

| UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
AND OFFICIAL ADVERTISER.
o To shOio Ohat is dons and ichat should be done
in o0ics.=sIi
pErER q WAsHrNeroN, rJi,or,a,,s pro,,,.;. ,or,
CHARLES M. WILLARD, ~"'''' gun" '0P''''o''
Terms. -" The United States Postal Guide and
Qieial advertiser" containing about 80 srper-royai
ocfapo pages, is published monthly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per aflnttpl, payable in ddpance-or fps
dollars for sir copies ordered
PREPARATORY NOTICE.
The enterprise in which we now embark, and
OF which this paper is at once the commencement G.
and sample of the papers that are to follow, as
for it's aim no less purpose, than 10 impart n-
struction, 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
lzation, decisions aud action of the Executive de-
partmenis of their Government. There has hh- |
erto Leen no vehicle for the regular and proper |
communication of information Of this kind The |
publication of the avs and the issue of nstr,lr
tions 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 in
structlons Ineligible The valuable documents
annually reported to Congress, are too voluminolis
and are printed in quantities too small for general
circulation; whilst the debates in Congress- and
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 polieyH
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
pies, for the despatch of the public business which
can render the discharge of public duty either safe
N IN fnf ,l>,,
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
| II we succeed IN rendering the functions of the
primary offices more uniform, methodcal 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 ex
tent at least-apart FROM and independently TO
any party or personal interest question what
| ever.
II is known to most OF those to whom this pa
per will be sent, that the Senior Editor was Audi
tor of the PostOffice 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 by letter. III en-
tered the department fourteen years since and for
many years previously, had been, first in the War
| Department, ard subsequently in the Treasury.
He has therefore had the best opportunities fo
understanding the arrangements Of business in all
who carry il 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 cviiy with
them ALL The Junior Editor has been asssiduol,slv
engaged for several years, in studying by per-
sonai inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details of the Post Office and
v,ner branches of the public business. 1t is with
this stock of experience, and these advantages for
h,E,r flany xf
ton, and for imparting minute and illustrative in
struction, and valuable periodical and satstlcni
information, that we challenge your confidence
and solicit your support and patronage.
we have fixed upon the 18th Of each month ms
5 the day for the publication of paper, so as to
\ afford time for obtaining from the 1epartmerss,
! all the orders, notices and changes issued or made
by them during the preceding month Tables II
Post Offices, and compilations of the Laws and
Regulations, issued by the Post Office Depart.
ment only once in two three years IL is a
matter of inconvenience and complaint for which
hitherto there has been no remedy, that in one
month from the time of these issues there are Of
d fees in the tables which longer in operation,
and Offices in operation which not ID the Tables
q 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 modifs
cations, made in each month, and by being filed
ard preserved, will afford to postmasters full and
exact information upon both subjects up to and
I for time being. How much Of the present misdi
rection, remailing, doubt, confusion error, and
imposition, will be saved by the progressive state
3 OF full and exact knowledge, for which we have
provided, and for which we engage, every intelll
gent postmaster 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, indHce 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 instruction s
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 cases turning upon questions,
of official duty national interest, will find place
p N this M