The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-28
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
IND OFFICIAL ADVERTISER.

UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
IND OFFICIAL ADVERTISER.
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CHARLES M. WILLARD, ''r' '''"''
TERMS The United States Postal Guide aud
Official .advertiser, containing about 81 scper-royai
octave pages, is published monthly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per 0Nntta, payable IN adoance-0r fire
dollars for sir copies ordered
PREFARATORY.N NOTICE.
The enterprise in which we now embark, and
OF which this paper is ut once the commencement /,
and a sample Of the papers that are TO follow, as
for its 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
| ization, decisions and action of the Executive de-
partments Of their Government. There has hith-
erto Ieen no vehicle for the regular and proper
communication Of Information of this kind. The
publication Of the Laws and the issue of instruc
lions, 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
structions Ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported to Congress, are too voluminous
circulation; whilst the debates in Congress and
the commentaries Of the press upon their proceed
lings, 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 CO. 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 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, m ethodcal, and eg
act, we shall make the administrative duties of the
departments more easy and effective, and thereby
promote the real and substantial interests of thu
, country And this we expect to do, to some ey
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 ma
per will be sent, that the Senior Editor was AUDI
tor of the Pos-OiIice Department until the month
of November last; with by far the larger portion
of both postmasters and contractors, he has hat
direct intercourse, in person or by letter. He en-
tered the department fourteen years since, and fo
many years previously, had been, frstin the Wa
He has therefore had the best opportunities fo
understanding the arrangements Of business in al
the departments, and being acquainted with thos,
who carry it on. Since his official connection viii
the Government ceased, he flatters himself he ha,
preserved the respect and regard of most Of tn.
present incumbents of the departments, and is or
becoming terms of intercourse and civility witt
them all. The Junior Editor has been asssduousl,
, engaged for several years, In studying, by per-
sonai inquiry and examination, the practical ant
daily routine and details of the Post-Ofce aDc
olner branches Of the public business. 1t is with
this stock Of experience, and these advantages fo
reaching the various sources of administrative nc
ton, and for imparting minute and illustrative in
, structon, and valuable periodical and statistca
! information, that we challenge your confidence
and solicit your support and patronage.
We have fixed upon the 18th Of each month az
the day for the publication of our paper, so as Ia
afford time for obtaining from the departments
all the ORDERS notices and changes issued or mad
J by them during the preceding month. Tables O
Post Offices and compilations of the Laws ant
Regulations, are issued by the Post Office Depart
ment only once in two three years. Ii is ,
matter of inconvenience and complaint, for which
hitherto there has been no remedy, that IN on,
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 manne
E since the issue Of the last volume of regulations
of which many postmasters and othersare wholly
ignorant. We propose to prevent, for the present
any increase Of the evil of either kind and from
c the time another issue shall be made, our pape
E will furnish the additions, corrections, and modif
cations, made in each month, and by being FLEE
and preserved, will afford to postmasters full ant
, exact information upon both subjects, up to AMI
: for time being. How much of the present misdi
: recton, remailing, doubt, confusion, error, ant
imposition, will be saved by the progressive stat
OF full and exact knowledge, for which we hav
provided, and for which we engage, every intelll
gent 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 indace every
postmaster who feels just pride in his Office OF
patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, ant
efficiency of the whole Post Office system-at ono
, to subscribe. The same considerations apply to
the orders and notices, decisions, and instruction.
Of the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and lnterio
departments, and the same course is intended il
respect to them. Notices of the decisions Of thu
Supreme Court, in turning upon question:
of official duty or national interest, will find plac
3 in this paper.
$ TINHE undersigned, u committee Of publication, or
Il the part Of the Muscogee and Russell Agrictl