The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-01-27
UNITED STATES POSTAL & UIDE
AND OFFICIAL .9DVER TTSER

| UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
| and OFFICIAL ADVERTISER.
~ To shO,o ,ohat is done, and oha should be don
IN oDice.-sIs
CHARLES nann IS Nv WmKsnD and popreio
| TERMS &c The United States Postal Guide and
Official .4drertiser," containing about 80 spperroya
ociapo pages, is published monthly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per annul, payable IN adrance-or fire
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 IN
structon, in the general and detail, 10 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
izaton 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, 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 voIuminous.
and are printed in quantities too small for general
circulation; whilst the debates in Congress and
the commentaries Of the press upon their proceeds
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 poeyi
These publications. in their various forms
highly useful in themselves far as 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
pies, for the despatch of the public business which
,f
or easy, whether in respect to the incumbent him
| self, the department or bureau under which he
acts. We shall make an honest effort to supply
l this vacuum, and to provide for these necessities.
/ If we succeed in rendering the functions Of the
primary offices more uniform, methodica, and ey
act we shall make the administrative duties of the
departments more easy and effective, and thereby
promote the real and substantial interests of the
country And this we expect to do, to some en-
tent at least--apart from, and independently to
any party or personal interest or question what
ever.
It's known to most OF those to whom this pa
per will be sent, that the Senior Editor was AUDI
tor Of the Post-Oic 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 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 ali
the departments, and being acquainted with those
who carry it on Since his official connection with
the Government ceased, he hatters himself he has
) preserved the respect and regard Of most OF the
, preset incumbents of the departments, and is on
becoming terms of intercourse and cvihty with
: them ALL The Junior Editor has been asssiduousy
. engaged for several years, IN studying, by per-
sonui inquiry and examination, the practical and
q day routine and details Of the Post-Oilce ant
o urner branches OF the public business. 1t is with
this stock of experience, and these advantages fol
: reaching the various sources OF administrative &C
ton, and for impartng 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, to
afford time for obtaining from the departments
all the orders notices and changes issued, or mad
J by them during the preceding month. Tables
} Post Offices, and compilations of the Laws ant
Regulations, are issued by the Post Office Depart
} ment only once in two or three years. 1t rs
} 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 are no longer IN operation
md offices in operation which not IN the tables
AT this time there are perhaps over three Thousand
} Offices of the two desert pons. In like manner
laws have been passed and regulations establishes
since the issue of the last volume OF regulations
Of which many postmasters ana 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, ana modh
cations, made IN each month, and by being filed
and preserved, will afford to postmasiers full ant
} exact information upon both subjects, up to ana
J for time being. How much of the present misti
} recton, remailing, doubt, confusion, error, ant
D imposition, will be saved by the progressive stat,
J OF full and exact knowledge, for which we hav'
D provided and for which we engage, every intelli
} rent postmaster can estimate for himself.
D These advantages alone and independently of al
} Others are worth many times the price we charge
S for the paper and will, it is hoped, induce every
D postmaster who feels just pride in his office OF
n natriotic regard for the credit prosperity and
0 efficiency of the whole Post Office system-at once
IN subscribe The same considerations apply q
the orders and notices, decisions, and Instructors
: Of the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and interior
departments, and the same course IS intended In
resnect to them Notices Of the decisions of the
Supreme Court, in cases turning upon questions
of official duty national interest, Wilt plac'
in this paptr.
4 ygNHE undersigned, a committee capitalization, on
\ the part OF the Muscogee and Russell Agricul
tural Society, respectfully invite public attention
to the following prospectus Of a MONTHLY
JOURNAL, to be published in this city under the
....,.;oo, ,,f tho ahove named asgOciatIOn