The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-01-24
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
and OFFICIAL .aDvER TTSER.
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TERMs-" The United States Postal Guide and
Official .7dvertiseY' containing about 80 spper-royaI
ocfauo pages, is published monthly for oNx DoL-
LAR ONLY, per anisuws payable IN aduance---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 are to follow, as
for it's 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 hth-
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
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 voluminos,
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
Darty ends, and to matters of national policy5
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 thew 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 or the department or bureau under which ne
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, methodlcal, ana 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 ut least-apart from, and independently to
any party or personal interest or question what
| ever.
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 wears previously, had been, first IN the War
Department, ard subsequently in the Treasury.
He has therefore had the best opportunities fol-
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, ne Hhttcts HIusc'i lie mas
preserved the respect and regard Of most OF the
present incumbents of the departments, and is on
becoming terms of intercourse and clvity with
| them all The Junior Editor has been assslduously
engaged for several years, IN studying, by per-
sonui inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details of the Post-Ofhce and
vrner 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 impartng minute and illustrative In
struction and valuable periodical and statistical
| information, that we challenge your coincidence
| and solicit your support and patronage
We have fixed upon the 18th Of each month as
the day for the publication of our paper, as to
afford time for obtaining from the departments
all the orders, notices ndchanges issued, mad.
| bv them during the preceding month. Tables CT
Post Offices, and compilations OF the Lays and
ment only once in two or 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 are no longer IN operation,
and Offices in operation which are not In the tables
A. this time there are perhaps over three thousand
| Offices Of the two descriptions. In like manner
In WIS have been passed and regulations established
since the issue of the last volume or regulations,
| Of which many postmastefs ana others are wholly
ignorant. We propose to prevent, Tor the present,
| nnv increase OF the evil OF either kind, and from
| the time another issue shall be made, our paper
will furnish the additions, corrections, and modlh,,
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 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 intelli-
| cent 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
| postmaster who feels just pride IN his office or
patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, and
efficiency of the whole Post Office system--at ono
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 same course ~ intended IN
respect to them. Notices of the decisions OF the
Supreme Court, in cases turning upon question:
of official duty or national interest, will find pac'
in this pap.r.
| YuNHE und ersigned, a committee Of publication, on
| III the part Of the Muscogee and Russell Agricul-
tural Society, respectfully invite public attention
to the following prospectus of MONTHLY
JOURNAL. to be published in this city under the
| ,nsnices OF the above named association.
The work will be devoted to the interests of .4g-
ricuLfure and HORTICULTURE, Domestic and Rural
| Ceonomv. Under these several heads will be in
| cluded all that concerns the culture of crops, the
| Improvement of the SOIL the management OF the
arm, the garden, the orchard, the flower yard,
and the house keepers department: In their con-