The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-15

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| UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
and OFFICIAL ADVERTISER.
~ To shoc phat is DONE, and phat should be done
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PETER G WAsHrNcroN, Ed;,ox. o,,d p,ou,;s,ors,
CHARLES M. WILLARD, ''r' ''''''
TERMS" The United States Postal Guide and
Official .7dpertiser containing about 80 superroyai
ociapo pages, is published monthly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per ani,Hn, payable IN ddudnce--or frs
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 u sample the papers that are to follow, as
| for its aim less purpose, than TO lmpart 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 ct large, acquainted with the organ
izaton decisions and action Of the Executive de-
partments of their Government. There has hith-
erto Teen 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 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
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 policyt
| These publications. in their various forms
highly useful in themselves far they 90, and
some o. them Indispensable; but there is much
that do not reach he hands Ola nor fthey 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
| If we succeed in rendering the functions of the
primary Offices more uniform, m ethodcal, and ey
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 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 was AUDI
tor OF the Post-Oilice 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, hrstin the War
Department, ard subsequently in the Treasury
He has therefore had the best opportunities ioi
understanding the arrangements OF business IN al
the departments, and being acquainted with those
who carry ii 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 on
becoming terms of intercourse and civility with
them all The Junior Editor has been asssiduously
engaged for several years. in studying, by per-
al nd eYa M
daily routine and details of the Post-Olice and
utner branches Of the public business. Ii 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 we challenge your consldenc'
and solicit your support and patronage.
We have fixed upon the 18th of each month az
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 CT
Post Offices, and compilations of the Laws and
Regulations, are issued by the Post Office Depart
ment only once 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 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 ana regulations estabushed
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 modiis
cations made in each month, and by being flied
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 stat.
of full and exact knowledge, for which we have
provided, and for which we engage, every intelli
GENT postmaster can estimate for himself.
These advantagea alone and independently Of all
others, are worth many times the price we charge
for the paper, and viii, 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 system once
to subscribe. The same considerations apply o
the orders and notices, decisions, and Instructions
of the War, Navy, Treasury, Safe, and Interior
departments, and the same is intended ia |
respect to them. Notices of the decisions Of the |
Supreme Court, in cases turning upon question:.
of official duty national interest, will find plac