The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-01-29
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
AND Official ADVERTISER.

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AND OFFICIAL ADVERTISER.
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Official advertiser" containing about 80 spperroya
octapo pages, is published monthly for ONE DOL
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PREPARATORY NOTICE.
The enterprise in which we now embark, ant
OF which this paper is at once the commencement {
and sample of the papers that are to follow, al
for its aim no less purpose, than to impsrt IN
structon, in the general and detail, to the Officer
and Agents of the American public, in respect botl
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 hih
erto Eeen no vehicle for the regular and proper
communication of information of this kind TIL,
publication of the Laws and the issue of instruc
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 voluminous
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
party ends and to matters of national policy
These publications in their various forms are
highly useful in themselves as far as they go, and
some of them Indispensable; but there is muc,
that do not reach the hands OF all, if they did
do they furnish those rules, methods, and exam
Piles, 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, 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 ex-
tent at Ieast---apart from, and independently to
any party or personal interest 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-Onice 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. lie ell
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 ali
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
prese1t incumbents of the departments, and is on
becoming terms Of intercourse and civllity with
them all. The Junior Editor has been asssiduously
engaged for several years, in stud lying, by per-
sonui inquiry and examination, the practical and
1oH, nd is nt 10 -{1f nd
urner branches of the public business 1t is with
this stock Of experience, and these advantages 70,
reaching the various sources of administrative &c
, ton, and for mparting 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 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 G.
Post Offices, and compilations of the Laws ant
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 remedy, that in on,
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
At this time there perhaps over three Thousand
offices of the two descriptions. In like manner
laws have Deen DaSSeu anu eSldDilShc.
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 mod6,
cations, made in each month, and by being filed
and preserved will afford to postmasters full ant
exact information upon both subjects, up to and
for time being. How much of the present misdi
recton, remaiIing, doubt, confusion, error ant
imposition, will be saved by the progressive stat
of full and exact knowledge, for which we havi
provided, and for which engage. every intelll
gen, postmaster can estimate for himself
These advantages alone and independently Of al
others. are worth many times the price we charg.
for the paper, and will, it is hoped, induce every
postmaster who feels ust pride in his Office o,
patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, ant
efficiency of the whole Post Office sysem--at
to subscribe. The same considerations apply tc
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 tn.
Supreme Court, in cases turning upon question:
of official duty national interest, will find plac
| in this pap.r.