The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-06-09
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UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
IND OFFICIAL .aDvERTISER.
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CaAnIEs M. W mr,sn' Editors and Perpetrators,
TERMS" The United States Postal c,,;s. ..s
Oncia1 .ddrertiser, containing about 80 sppey-royaf
octaro pages, is published nlorshlv Ar nnr no,-
LAR ONLY, per onn,s'n, payable in adrancs-or fps
dotiarstor sic 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, las
for it's aim no less purpose. than to impart in
struction, in the general and detail to IT, 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-
erto Teen 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, applied to particular cases. and of details
and illustrations to make the regulations and ins
structions Ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported to Congress, are too vouminous,
and printed in quantities too small for general
the commentaries of the press upon thei proceed.
lngs, and the proceedings of the Executive branch
OF the Government, besides turning mostly upon
general principles, address themselves ONLY to
narty ends, and to matters Of national policys
These publications In their various forms are
highly useful in themselves as far as thew 90 and
some of them indispensable; but there is much
that do not reach the hands Of ALL nor if they did
do they furnish those rules, methods, and exam
pies, for the despatch Of the public business whick
! ,,J,.t L,J a
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 uniform, m ethodcal. and ex
act, we shall make the administrative duties of tho
| 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 least-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-Ofice 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 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 ii on. Since his official connection with
the Government ceased, he Aatters 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 civility with
| them all. The Junior Editor has been asssiduouslv
| engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
sondl inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details Of the Post Office and
otner branches Of the public business 1t is with
this stock OF experience, and these advantages for
reaching the various sources of administrative nc
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
| .dord time for obtaining from the departments
all the orders, notices and changes issued or made
| by them during the preceding month Tables a
| Post Offices, and compilations of the Laws and
Regulations, are issued by the Post Office Depart
ment only once in two or three years. 1t 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 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 pOstmasers 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 modifi
| cations, made IN each month, and by being fled
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 intelIl-
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, 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 once
to subscribe. The same considerations apply O
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 national interest, will find a place
! in this papsr.
| TayHEundersgned, a committee of publication m