The southern press., 1852-03-06
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE

ONIIED SEAtES fOSiA II GCiDE
AND ofFTCLaL .4DgERTISER.
IL 10 shoao piat is dons, and chat should be done
ia office. e&IE
CHARLES M 1 WmksrD Editors and proprielors
TERMS. -" The United Siates Postal Guide and
Official .ldperiiser, containing about 80 sppsr-roua
octaDo pages, is published monthly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per amman, payable in adpance---or Gus
dollars for sue copies ordered.
PREPARATORY NOTICE.
The enterprise in which we now embark, and
OF which this paper is at once the comm encemert,
and 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
zation, decisions and action of the Executive de-
partments of their Government. There has hith-
erto Eeen no vehicle for the regular and proper
communication Of information of this kind The
publication of the Laws and the issue of instruc
TONS more or less comprehensive, and at intervals
more or less extended, have proved wholly made
quate, in the absence ~ the construction OF those
Laws, 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 volumino,ls
and are 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
party ends, and to matters of national poiieyg
These publications in their various forms are
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 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
| ar hath H. A
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, methodical and es
act, 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 ex
tent at least-apart from, and independently 10
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-Office 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 Wer
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 il on Since his official connection with
the Government ceased, he 1atters himself he has
preserved the respect and regard of most OF the
present incumbents of the departments, and is on
becoming terms of intercourse and ciyility with
them all. The Junior Editor has been asssiduously
engaged for several years, in studying, by per
sonal inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details Of the POST Office and
otner branches of the public business. II is with
| = nd adj e.
| reaching the vatious sources Of administrative &c
ton, and for imparting minute and illustrative in
structon, 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 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 oi
Post Offices, aud compilations Of str. Laws and
Regulations, are issued by the Pos ciiice Depart.
4 ment only once IN two or three years. n ia a
| matter Of inconvenience aud complaint, for which
hitherto there has been no remedy, that i'm one
month from the time Of these issues, there are of
fees in the tables which are 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 10 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 10 posmasters fall and
exact information upon both subjects, up 10 and
| for time being. How much Of the present msdi
reciion, remang, doubt, confusion, error, aud
imposition, will be saved by the progressive state
| OF full and exact knowledge, for which we havi
provided, and for which we engage, every inteh
/ gent postmaster can estimate for himself
1 These advantages alone and independently OF al
others, are worth many times the price we charge
for tie paper and will, il is hoped, induce every
| postmaster who feels just pride in his Office OF
patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, anc
| efficiency OF the whole Post Office system--at ono,
| 10 subscribe The same considerations apply &
the orders and notices, DECISIONS and instructor
Of the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and interior
departments, and the course is intended IA
respect TO them. Notices Of the decisions Of IN,
| Supreme Court, in cases turning upon question.
Of official duty national interest," will find plac
in this paYsr.