The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-07
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE

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AND OFFICIAL ADVERTISER.
~ 10 sho0 ,ohat is done and ,chat should be done
W otice.-EU
CHARLES M 1 WlzsnD Editors and propristors
TERMs.-" The United States Postal Guide aud
Official advertiser, containing about % sppey-rouaI
octave pages, is published monthly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per dnntsm, payable in adpance-or Gps
dollars for sir copies ordered.
PREPARATORY NOTICE.
The enterprise in which we now embark, and
or which this paper is at once the commencement /,
and sample of the papers that are to follow, has
for its aim no less purpose, than to impart in
strucon, 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
izaton, 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 made.
guate IN the absence OF the construction Of thoss
Laws, as applied TO particular cases and of details
and illustrations to make the regulations and in
structions Ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported to Congress, are too voumnous!
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 TO
party ends, and to matters of national pocyS
These publications in their various forms are
highly useful in themselves as far as they go, and
some of them Indispensable; but there is much
that do not reach the hands Of ALL nor if thew 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, methodical 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 ndepedenty to
any party or personal interest or question what
ever.
1t is known 10 most Of those to whom this pa
per will be sent, that the Senior Editor was Aud,
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, ard subsequently in the Treasury
He has therefore had the best opportunities for
understanding the arrangements of business in ali
the departments, and being acquainted with those
who carry it on, Since his official connection with
the Government ceased, he haters 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 civiity with
them all. The Junior Editor has been asssiduously
engaged for several years, in studying, by per
sonai inquiry and examination, the practical ant
daily routine and details of the post-Office ant
otner branches of the public business 1t is will
this stock OF experience, and these advantages 70
reaching the various sources of administrative nc
ton, and fov Importing minute and illustrative in
struotion, and valuable periodical and statistca
information, that challenge your confidenc,
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 andchanges issued, or mad,
by them during the preceding month Tables a,
Post Offices, and compilations of the Laws and
Regulations, are issued by the Post Office Depart
ment only once in two or three years. 1t is o
matter of inconvenience and complaint, for which
hitherto there has been remedy, that in ont
month from the time of these issues, there are Of
fees in the tables which no longer in operation
and offices i'll 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 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 modf.
Ications, made in each month, and by being filed
and preserved, will afford to postmasers full ant
exact information upon both subjects, up to anc
| for time being How much Of the presen. misdi
rection, remang, doubt, confusion, error, an,
imposition, will be saved by the progressive stat,
OF full and exact knowledge for which we hav.
provided, and for which we engage, every intelll
gent postmaster can estimate for himself.
[ These advantages alone and independently Of al
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 OF
a patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, and
efficiency of the whole Post Office system-at once
| to subscribe. The same considerations apply c
the orders and notices, decisions, and instruction
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 question.
of official duty national interest, will find plac,
in this paper.
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