The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-07-03
VOL. I'LL
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
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Official .ddperfiser' containing about 80 sppey-royai
octauo pages, Is published monthly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per arnis'n, payable Ia adpance--or fUs
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 sample of the papers that to follow, tas
for its aim no less a purpose, than to impart in
structon, 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 hlth-
erto Eeen no vehicle for the regular and proper
communication of information of this kind. The
publication of the Laws and the issue of nstrur
tons more or less comprehensive, and at intervals
more or less extended, have proved wholly made
quate I'm the absence of the construction OF those
Laws as applied particular cases, and Of details
and Illustrations TO make the regulations and ia
structions Ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported 10 Congress, are too voluminons
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 10
party ends, and to matters of national poliey5
These publications IN their various forms are
highly useful in themselves far as they go, and
some of them indispensable; but there s much
that do not reach the hands Of all. if they did,
do they furnish those rules, methods, and exam
ples 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, 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, 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 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-Otfice 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 or by letter. He en-
tered the department fourteen years since, and for
many years previously, had been, hrstln the War
Department, ard subsequently In the Treasury
He has therefore had the best opportunities for
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 clvIlity with
them all. The Junior Editor has been assslduounly
engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
sonai inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details of the Post-Office and
o,ner branches of the public business It's with
this stock OF experience, and these advantages for
reaching the various sources of administrative &C
tion and for imparting minute and illustrative IN
struction, and valuable periodical and statistical
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 to
afford time for obtaining from the departments
all the orders, notices andchanges 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 three years 1t is u
matter of inconvenience and complaint, for which
hitherto there has been no remedy, that N 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 are 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,
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 modifs
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, 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 we engage, every intell |
gent postmaster can 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 !
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 t o
the orders and notices. decisions, and instructors
of the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and Interior
departments, and the course is intended in
respect to them. Notices of the decisions Of the
Supreme Court, in cases turning upon question:
of official duty natonalinterest, will find place
in this pa,,er.