The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-07

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UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
IND OFFICIAL ADVERTISER.
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CHARLES NJ. WILLARD, '""" ''p' '''''
TERMS. =" The United States Postal Guide and
Official advertiser, containing about 80 sUper-roya
octave pages is published monthly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per annum, payable in aduanee--or five
dollars for sir copies ordered.
PREPARATORY NOTICE.
The enterprise in which we now embark, and
| of which this paper is at the commencement {,
and a sample of the papers that are to follow, as
| for it's aim no less purpose, than 10 impart IN
struction in the general and detail, to the Officer
and Agents ofthe American public, IN respect both
to their duties and their rights, and to make them,
and the people at large, acquainted with the organ
izaton, decisions and action of the Executive de-
partments of their Government. There has hith
erto Leen 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 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
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
marty ends, and to matters of national poicyj
| These publications. IN their various forms are
highly useful in themselves far as they go, and
some of them Indispensable; but there il 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, or the department or bureau under which he
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, and ey
act, 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
tent at least-apart from, and independently to
any party or personal interest or question what
ever.
II is known to most Of those to whom this pa
per will be sent, that the Senior Editor AUDI
tor of the POST Office Department until the month
| of November last; with by far the larger portion
of both postinasers and contractors, he mas had
direct intercourse, in person or by letter. lie en-
tered the department fourteen years slnce and for
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! Department ard subsequently in the Treasury
| He has therefore had the best opportunities foi
| understanding the arrangements Of business in al
| the departments, and being acquainted with those
who larry it 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 civIIity 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-Oifice and
v,ner 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 mparting minute and Illustrative in
struction, and valuable periodical and statstica
information, that we challenge your confdenc.
and solicit your support and patronage.
| We have fixed upon the 18th Of each month
the day for the publication of our paper, to
afford time for obtaining from the departments
all the orders, notices and changes issued, or made
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 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 are not IN the tables
At this time there perhaps over three thousand
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 modif.
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 we engage, every inte
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, indace 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 to
the orders and notices, decisions, and Instructions
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 question:
of official duty national interest, will find pac
| in this pap'r.