The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-06-02
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
AND 0PFTCL9I 4DYERTTSRR

UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
and Official ADVERTISER
If 10 shoio ioha is done, and sohat should be done
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PETER q. WAsHrNGroN,
CHARLES M. WILLARD, { Id"o'S ana rroprsefoT'
Terms. =" The United States Postal Guide and
utesal Advertiser, containing about 80 sppsy-voval
oefaoo pages, IS published mo',ihly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per annu'n, payable in aduawce--or 6us
dollars for sic 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, as
Tor ITS aim no less a 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, cquainted with the organ
ization, decisions and artion of the Executive de-
partments Of their Government. There has hith.
erto Teen no vehicle for the regular and proper
communication of Information of this kind The
publication of the Laws and the issue of instruc
ticns more or less comprehensive, and 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, too voluminot,s
and are printed in quantities too small for general
| clrculatlon; 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 policy.
| These publications in their various forms are
highly useful IN themselves far as thew 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
Piles, for the despatch OF the public business which
"a nf a,t,,o 1,
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, m ehodical, 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 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 Audi
tor of the Post-Ohice 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. 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.
fIe has therefore had the best opportunities fo,
understanding the arrangements OF business in al
the departments, and being acquainted with those
who carry it on. Since his official connection with
the Government ceased, he hatters himself he has
preserved the respect and regard Of most OF the
present lncumbents of the departments, and is on
becoming terms Of intercourse and civty with
them all, The Junior Editor has been asssiduourv
engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
sonai inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details of the Post-Oficc and
| otncr branches of the public business. 1t is with
this stock OF experience, and these advantages for
reaching the various sources of administrative ac
ton, and for impartng minute and illustrative in
struction, and valuable periodical and satstlca'
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 paper, 80 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. Ii is
matter of inconvenience and complaint, for which
hitherto there has been no remedy, that u, one
month from the time of these issues, there are 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 modiGi
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 the present misd
rection, remailing, doubt, confusion, error and
imposition, will be saved by the progressive state
OF full and exact knowledge, for which we have
provided, and for which engage, every inteh |
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 will, it is hoped, induce 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 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 cases turning upon questions
of official duty national interest, will find pac
in this paper.