The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-29
UNITED STATES POSTAL G. IDE
AND OFFICIAL .aDVER TISER.

UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
AND OFFICIAL ADVERTISER.
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TERMS. =" The United States Postal Guide aud
Official .7dpertser," containing about 32 spperroyai
ocfapo pages, is published monthly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per annum, payable in adranee-or fps
dollars for sir copies ordered.
PREPARATORY NOTICE.
The enterprise in which we now embark, and
Of which this paper is ut once the commencement
and sample of the papers that to follow, as
for its aim no less purpose, than to Impart IN
struction, in the general and detail, to the Officer
and gents 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
ization decisions and action of the Executive de-
partments Of their Government. There has hith-
erto Leen no 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 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 voluminous
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 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
ples for the despatch Of the public business which
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.
! IL we succeed in rendering the functions of the
primary Offices more uniform, m ethodical, and ex
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 ex
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-Oifice 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
He has therefore had the best opportunities iol
understanding the arrangements Of business in al
the departments, and being acquainted with those
who carry it on. Since his official connection with
the Government ceased, he iatters himself he has
preserved the respect and regard of most OF the
| present ncumbents of the departments, and is on
becoming terms of intercourse and civility with
thempll. The Junior 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-Oilice and
olner branches Of the public business. 1t is with
this stock Of experience, and these advantages for
reaching the various sources of administrative &c
ton, and for imparting minute and illustrative in
struction, and valuable periodical and Statistical
information, that challenge your conidenc.
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.
ment only once in two or three years. Ii is q
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 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 desert puohs. In like manner
laws have been passed ana regulations eSthDlISncu
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 modif
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 msdi
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 inteIlI.
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 feels ust pride in his Office or
patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, and
efficiency of the whole Post Office system-at one
to subscribe. The same considerations apply o
the orders and notices, decisions, and instruction
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 questions
of official duty or national interest, will find plac
in this paper.
THNHE undersigned, a committee Of publication on
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