The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-06-17

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CHARLES M. HW mrsso' Editors and PropristOrsl
| TERMs.-'' The United States Postal Guide and
Official .ddpertiser, containing about 80 spper-rovaE
octaUo pages, is published monthly for ONE poL-
LAR ONLY, per annum, payable in adpance-or fps
dollars for sir copies ordered
PREPARATORY NOTICE.
The enterprise in which we embark, and
OF which this paper is at once the commencement,
and a sample of the papers that are follow, las
for its aim no less purpose, than to mpart 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 thems
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 teen no vehicle TOR the regular and proper
| communication of information of this kind. This
| publication of the Laws and the issue of lnstruc
lions mere 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 lns
structions ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported to Congress, are too volumnousl
and are printed in quantities too small for general
circulation; whilst the debates in Congress and
the commentaries of the press upon their proceedi
ings and the proceedings Of the Executive branch
| of the Government, besides turning mostly upon
| general principles, address themselves only 10
| nartv ends and to matters of national polieye
/ These publications in their various forms are
4 highly useful in themselves far as they CO. and
| some of them Indispensable; but there 10 much
that do not reach the hands Of all if th1y did,
do they furnish those rules, methods, and ,xam-
pyes for the despatch of the public business yhick
can render the discharge of public duty eth safe
OF easy. whether in respect to the lncumbe lm-
| self, or the department or bureau under WI
| acts We shall make an honest effort to 81
this vacuum, and to provide for these necefg
| If we succeed in rendering the functions
primary Offices more uniform, methodica, an
J act we shall make the administrative duties OI
| departments more easy and effective, and ther
promote the real ahd substantial interests Of b
! country And this we expect to do to some
tent at least--apart from, and indepedenis -
Eany party or personal interest or question SlSl-
Eever.
II il known to most of those to whom this pa
aer will be sent, that the Senior Editor AUDI
Tor of the Post-Otfice 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 en-
tered the department fourteen years alnee and for
many years previously had been, first in the War
D apartment, 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 il on Since his official connection with
the Government ceased, he hatters himself he has
preserved the respect and regard of most OF the
present ncumbents of the departments, and is on
becoming terms of intercourse and civlllty with
them all The Junior Editor has been assslduously
engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
, spnai inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details of the Post-Ofice and
oener branches OF the public business. It's with
this stock Of experience, and these advantages for
reaching the various sources OF administrative &c
ton and for imparting minute and illustrative in
struction, and valuable periodical and statistical
information, that challenge your confidence
and solicit your support and patronage.
We have fixed upon the 18th Of each month an
the day for the publication of our paper, so as TO
afford time for obtaining from the departments
all the ORDERS potices and changes issued, made
by them during the preceding month"; Tables al
Post Offices, and compilations of the Laws and
Regulations, issued by the Post Office Depart
ment only once in two three years. 1t is O
matter of inconvenience and complaint, for which
hitherto there has been no remedy, that IN
month from the time of these issues, there 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 manner
laws have been passed and regulations established
since the issue of the last volume Of regulations,
of which many posmasters 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 modifs
cations, made in each month, and by being filed
and preserved, will afford to postmasters full and
exact information upon DOM SUBJECTS, up 10 ana
for time being. How much of the present msdi'
rection, remang, 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-
4 gent postmaster estimate for himself
Y These advantages alone and independently of all
i others, are worth many times the price 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 once
70 subscribe The same considerations apply to
he orders and notices, decisions, and instruction
o the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and Interior
a ,partments, and the same course is intended in
re spect to them. Notices of the decisions of the
Su preme Court, in turning upon questionn
of official duty or national interest, will find place
in this paper.
I'm yHE undersigned, committee of publication. on
A the part Of the Muscogee and Russell Agricu-
tur,, Society, respectfully invite public attention
to the. following prospectus of MONTHLY
JOURNAL, to be published IN this city under ths
4 ,,,.,,cae of tho ahove named association