The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-27
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE

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TERMs.-" The United States Portal Guide and
Official advertiser" containing about 80 srper-royal
octapo pages, is published monthly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per annuns, payable in adpance--or fire
dollars for sir copies ordered
PREPARATORY NOTICE.
The enterprise in which we now embark, and
OF which this paper is ut once the commencement,
and sample of the papers that are to follow, as
| for it's aim no less purpose than to impart in
struction, in the general and detail, 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 leen vehicle for the regular and proper
communication Of information of this kind. The
publication of the Laws and the issue Of nstrur
tons, 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 partcularcases, aud of details
and illustrations to make the regulations and in !
structions Ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported to Congress, too voluminous.
and printed in quantities too small for general
| circulation; whilst the debates in Congress and
the commentaries of the press upon their proceed
ngs, 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 policy!
| These publications in their various forms are
! highly useful in themselves as far they go, 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
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
| IL we succeed in rendering the functions of the
| primary offices more uniform, methOdcal and ey
nd, III
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 was Audi
! tor of the Post-Oifice 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. 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 al.
the departments, and being acquainted with those
who carry it on. Since his official connection with
the Government ceased, he natters himself he has
| preserved the respect and regard of most Of the
present incumbents of the departments, and is on
| becoming terms of intercourse aud civllity 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-Offce and
uuner branches of the public business. 1t is with
this stock Of experience, and these advantages for
reaching the various sources of administrative
ton, and for imparting minute and illustrative in
struction, and valuable periodical and statistical
information, that we challenge your confdenc.
and solicit your support and patronage.
| We have fixed upon the 18th Of each month as
the day for the publication Of our paper, to
| afford time for obtaining from the departments
all the orders, notices and changes issued or mad,
| by them during the preceding month. Tables C
| 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 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 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 msdi
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 intelll
gent postmaster can estimate for himself.
These advantages alone and independently of all
others, are worth many times the price 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 considerations apply to
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 pIac
| in this paper.
| TuNHE undersigned, a committee Of publication, on
| IL the part Of the Muscogee and Russell Agricul
j t=al Sacietlr reSpectglu invite nnalic