The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-31
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
AND OFFICIAL ADVERTISER.

UNITED STATES Postal GUIDE
AND OFFICIAL .aDvERTTsER
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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 t.,
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 leen vehicle for the regular and proper
communication of information of this kind. The
publication Of the Laws and the issue of instrur
tons, more 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
structons Ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported to Congress, are too volumino,s
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
marty ends, and to matters of national policyt
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
.tsch anf
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
If we succeed in rendering the functions of the
primary Offices more uniform, m ethodical, and ey
act shall make the administrative duties of tn
departments more easy and effective, and thereby
promote the real and substantial interests of the
country And this we expect TO do, to some ey
tent at least-apart from, and independently to
any party personal interest 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-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 War
Department, ard subsequently in the Treasury.
lie has therefore had the best opportunities for
understanding the arrangements Of business in al
the departments, and being acquainted with those
who carry il on. Since his official connection with
the Government ceased, he flatters 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 civility with
them all. The Junior Editor has been asssiduousy
engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
sOnal inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details of the Post-Office and
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this stock Of experience, and these advantages for
reaching the various sources Of administrative &C
ton, and for imparting minute and illustrative in
structon 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 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, mad.
by them during the preceding month Tables
Post Offices and compilations of the Laws and
Regulations, issued by the Post Office Depart
ment only 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 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 are 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 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 modf.
cations, made in each month, and by being filed
and preserved, will afford to postmasers 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 have
provided, and for which we engage, every intel
gent postmaster 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 or
a patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, and
efficiency of the whole Post Office systen,-at once
to subscribe. The same considerations apply o
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 question,
of official duty national interest, will find plac
in this paper.
THNHE undersigned, a committee Of publication on
Il the part Of the Muscogee and Russell Agricul-
turel Society rpsnectf1IIv invite pubIic