The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-07-23
PREPARATORY NOTICE.

PREPARATORY NOTICE.
The enterprise in which we now embark, and
OF which this paper is at once the commencement
and a sample of the papers that are to follow, has
for its aim 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 hth-
erto Teen no vehicle for the regular and proper
communication of information of this kind. The
publication of the Laws and the Issue of instrur
| lions, more or less comprehensive, and at intervals
more or less extended, have proved wholly made
auate, in the absenceof 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 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
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 polIeys
! These publications in their various forms
highly useful in themselves as 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
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.
4 If we succeed in rendering the functions of the
primary Offices more uniform, m ethodIcal, 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 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 AUDI
tor of the Post-Office Department until the month
of November last; with by far the larger portion
Of both posmasters 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 foi
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 hatters himself he has
preserved the respect and regard of most OF the
present incumbents of the departments, and is
becoming terms of intercourse and civllity with
them ALL The Junor 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-Ofiice and
otner branches of the public business. 1t is with
this stock Of experience, and these advantages fol-
|
ton, and for imparting minute and illustrative in
sruction, 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, 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 Of
Post Offices and compilations of the Laws and
Regulations, are issued by the Post Office Depart.
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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 are 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 are wholly
ignorant. We propose to prevent, Tor 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 modifs
cations made IN each month, and by being filed
and preserved, will afford to pastmasters full and
exact information upon both subjects, up to and
for time being. How much of the present misdi
| rection, remailing, doubt, confuson 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 intelII
| gent 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 feelsa just pride in his Office or
a patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, and
efficiency of the whole Post Office system--at ono
to subscribe The same considerations apply %
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 place
! in this papsr,
| TEyHE undersigned, committee of publication, on
n the part of the Muscogee and Russell AgricuE
tural Society respectfully invite public attention
| to the following prospectus of a MONTHLY
! JOURNAL, to be published in this city underth
.usnices of The above named association.