The southern press., 1852-04-10
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
.aND OFFICLaL ADVERTISER.

UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE |
AND Official ADVERTISER.
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TERMS. -" The United States Postal Guide and
Official .ddusrtissr containing about 30 spper-roycl
octapo pages, is published monthly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per annum, payable IN adpance--or fps
dollars for sic copies ordered.
PREPARATORY NOT4CE.
The enterprise in which we now embark and
OF which this paper is at once the commencement
and sample of the papers that to follow, as
for its aim no less purpose, than to impart in-
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
zation, decisions and action of the Executive de-
partments of their Government. There has hith-
erto Leen no vehicle for tue regular and proper
communication Of information Of this kind. The
publication of the Laws and the issue of instrue
tons, less comprehensive, l-.d al Intervals
more or less extended, have proved wholly made
quate in the absence of the construction OF those
Laws as 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 vouminouss
and are printed in quantities too small for general
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 policyy
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, 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 honest effort to supply
this vacuum, and to provide for these necessities.
l.If we succeed in rendering the functions of the
primary Offices more uniform, methodica, and ey
act we shall make the administrative duties of tho
| departments more easy and effective and thereby
promote the real and substantial interests of the
country And this we expect to do, to some ey
tent at least-apart from, and independently to
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 Aud,
tor of the Post-O1ice 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
tered the department fourteen years since, and for
many years previously, had been, first in the Wsr
/ Department, and 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 il 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 asssiduously
engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
sonai inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details of the Post-Ofhce and
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this stock of experience, and these advantages for
reaching the various sources of administrative &C
ton, and for imparting minute and illustrative in
structon, and valuable periodical and statistical
information, that we 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, are issued by the Post Office Depart
ment only once in two or three years 1t is
matter Of inconvenience and complaint for which
hitherto there has been remedy, that in one
month from the time of these issues, there are Of
fees in the tables which are 10 longer in operation
and Offices in operation which not in the tables
AT this time there are perhaps 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 posimas'ers 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 modih.
cations made in each month, and by being filed
and preserved, viii afford 10 postmasters full and
~xuci Information upon both subjects, up to and
for time being. How much Of the present misdi
rection, remailing, doubt, confusion, error, and
imposition, will be saved by the progressive state
Of foil 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, worth many times the price we charge
for the paper, and viii il il hoped, induce every
postmaster who feels just pride in his Office or
a patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, and
efficiency Of the whole Post Office system--at once
to subscribe. The considerations apply TO
the orders and notices, decisions, and Instructors
OF the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and Interior
departments, and the same course n intended in
respect to them. Notices Of the decisions Of the
Supreme Court, in cases turning upon question
of fetal duty national interest will find plac
in this papsr.
YuNuxnnderoirned cofnrosffc. n q hl,c.t.o.