The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-19
WASHINGTON CITY, WEDNESDAY, MAY 49, 1852.
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
IND OFFICIAL ADVERTISER

UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
| and OFFICIAL ADVERTISER
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TERMS" The United States Postal Guide and
Official .4dpertiser containing about 80 srperroyai
octauo pages, is published monthly for ONE poL-
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dollars for sir 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, as
for its aim no less purpose, than to impart Ia
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
zation, decisions anu action of the Executive de-
partments Of their Government. There has hith-
erto Leen no vehicle for the regular aud proper
communication of information Of this kind. The
publication Of the Laws and the issue of lnstrur
TONS more or less comprehensive, and at intervals
more or less extended. have proved wholly made
auate 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 voumnous,
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
| 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 if they did,
| do they furnish those rules, methods, and exam
ples 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 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, methodica, and ex
act, e-shal make the administrative duties of the
departments more easy and effective, and thereby
promote the real and substantial interests of the
country And this expect to do, to some ey
tent at least-apart from, and independently to
any party or personal interest or 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 postinasters and contractors, he has had
direct intercourse, in person or by letter. He
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 fol
understanding the arrangements OF business in all
the departments, and being acquainted with those
who carry it on Since his official connection with
the Government ceased, he ilatters himself he has
| preserved the respect and regard of most OF the
present ncumbents of the departments, and is
becoming terms of intercourse and ciyiiity with
them all The Junior Editor has been asssiduously
engaged for several years, IN studying, by per-
| sona inquiry and examination, the practical! and
| daily routine and details of the Post-Ofce and
v,ner branches of the public business. 1t is with
this stock of experience, and these advantages lOi
| reaching the various sources of administrative
tion and for imparting minute and illustrative in
struction, and valuable periodical and Statistical
information, that we challenge your confidence
and solicit your support and patronage.
We have fxed 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 Gl
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 Of.
fees in the tables which arc 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
|
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 modi6.
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 misdi
rection, remailing, doubt, confusion, error, and
imposition, will be saved by the progressive state
OF full and exact knowledge, for which we hav-
provided, and for which we engage. every inel!l
cen, 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, induce every
postmaster who feels just pride in his office
patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, and
efficiency of the whole Post Office system-at once
to subscribe The same 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 turning upon question:
of official duty national interest, will find plac
in this pap'r.
! YQyHE undersigned, committee of publication, on
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