The southern press., 1852-01-13
UNITED STATES pOsTAI Icu,nE

UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
AND OFFICIAL ADVERTISER.
~ TO show ,chas Is done, and what should be done
in o6ice.-ku
CnARLns M. WILLARD. Ed'sor's~d PrOprisior'.
IERMs-" The United States Postal Guide aud
Official .4drerser containing about 80 ,pper-roval
0cfauo pages, is published monthly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per annitm, payable in adyauce-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
and a sample of the papers that are to follow fos
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-
ero teen no vehicle for the regular and proper
communication of information of this kind The
publication of the Laws and the issue of instrur
tions, more 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.
structions Ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported to Congress, are too voluminoss
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 policy9
These publications. IN their various forms are
highly useful in themselves far as thew 90 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
pes for the despatch OF the public business which
render the discharge of public duty either safe
| hath ~ ,nrtt 4
self, or the department or bureau under which he
acts. We shall make an honest effort to suppy
this vacuum, and to provide for these necessities
If we succeed in rendering the functions of the
primary Offices more uniform, methodicaI and ex
act, shall make the administrative duties of tho
departments more easy and effective, and thereby
promote the real and substantial interests of tho
country And this we expect to do, to some ex-
| 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-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 all
the departments, and being acquainted with those
who carry it Since his official connection with
the Government ceased, he flatters 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 civty with
them ALL The Junior Editor has been asssiduousv
engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
sonal inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details of the Post-Ofice and
other branches OF the public business 1t is with
this stock OF experience, and these advantages for
reaching the various sources of administrative &C.
ton, and for impartins minute and illustrative in
struction, and valuable periodical and statistca
information, that we challenge your confidence
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 mads
by them during the preceding month. Tables a
Post Offices, and compilations Of the Laws and
! Regulations, issued by the Post Office Depart-
ment only once in two three years 1t 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
fees in the tables which no 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 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 modi6.
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 presen. misdi,,
rection, remung, doubt, confusion, error, and
imposition, will be saved by the progressive state
OF full and exact knowledge, for winch we have
provided, and for which we engage. every inteI-
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, 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 same considerations apply %
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 or national interest," will find place
| in this papsr.
TUNHE undersigned, a committee Of publication, on
| il the part Of the Muscogee and Russell Agrcul-
tural Society, respectfully invite public attention