The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-05
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
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| IN Office. -Eu
PErrR G. WAsHrsaToN,
CHARLES M. WILLARD, 1s"''''' a"3 'oP''e'o''a
TERMs. The United States Postal Guide and
oetaps, pages, is published ssoxakty for ONE DOL
Lar ONLY, per a,satls, payable - adpance-Or fire
douars Jor sir copies ordered.
PREPARATORY NOTICE.
| The enterprise in which now embark, and
of which this paper is at once the commencement,
and sample of the papers that are to follow, as
for its aim no less purpose, than to impair; in
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
izaton decisions and action Of the Executive de-
partments of their Government. There has hith-'
sr.o Keen no vehicle for the regular and proper
communication Of Information of this kind. The
publication of the Laws and the issue Of instrur
ticns more less comprehensive, aud mt intervals
more or less extended, have proved wholly made
uuate, 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
annually reported to Congress- are too voluminous,
and are printed i'm quantities too small for general
circuation 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
|
marty ends, and to matters of national policy
These publications in their various forms are
highly useful in themselves far 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
plies, 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
| Il. r. Al.
| Ii we succeed i'm rendering the functions Of the
primary Offices more uniform, M ethodcal, and eg
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 was 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
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 fol
| 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 hatters himself he has
preserved the respect and regard Of most Of the
| preset ncumbens of the departments, and is on
| becoming terms of intercourse and civllity with
| them all. The Junior Editor has been asssiduously
engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
| sonui inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details of the Post-Ofice and
o.ner branches Of the public business. 1t is with
| this stock OF experience, and these advantages for
reaching the various sources of administrative
ton, and for imparting minute and illustrative in
struction, and valuable periodical and statistical
information, that we challenge your conhdenc,
and solicit your support and patronage.
We have fixed upon the 18th Of each month
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 q /
| 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 a
| 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 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 posmasters 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 auOltlOnB, COITeCtlOHS ana mOuln
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 misd
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 inte
gent postmaster estimate for himself
| These advantages alone and independently of all
others, are worth many times the price charge
for the paper, and will, it is hoped, induce every
postmaster who feels a just pride in his office or
patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, and
efficiency Of the whole Post Office system-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 pac
in this paper.
| TuyHE undersigned, a committee Of publication, on
Il the part Of the Muscogee aud Russell Agrcul-
tural Society, respectfully invite public attention
| In the following prospectus of a MONTHLY