The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-11
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
and OFFICIAL ADVERTISER.

UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
AND OFFICIAL ADVERTISER.
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PErER G. WAsarsGroN, rJ;,or,a.a tro,.;.,ov,
CHARLES M. WILLARD, "@''""" 'oP''''"''
TERMS. -" The United States Postal Guide aud
Official advertiser, containing about 81 spper-royai
ociaro pages, is published monthly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per Gnnnm, payable in adparce-or 1--WE
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 sample Of the papers TINT are to follow, as
for It's 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
10 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 hlh-
erto Eeen vehicle for the regular and proper
communication Of information Of this kind. The
publication Of the Laws and the issue of instrur
tons, more or less comprehensive, and at 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
structons Ineligible. The valuable documents
annually reported TO Congress, are too vOuminous
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 poicys
These publications in their various forms are
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, nor 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 provide for these necessities.
! If we succeed in rendering the functions of the
primary offices more uniform, m eth odical, and ex
act, we shall make the administrative duties of tho
departments more easy and effective, and thereby
promote the real and substantial interests Of the
country And this we expect to do, to some ev
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-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 Wsr
|
He has therefore had the best opportunities fol
understanding the arrangements Of business in ali
the departments, and being acquainted with those
who carry it on. Since his official connection with
I the Government ceased, he latters himself he has
preserved the respect and regard Of most OF the
preset 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.
sonuI inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details of the Post-Oifice and
o.nar branches of the public business. 1t is with
this stock Of experience, and these advantages fol
reaching the various sources of administrative &C
ton, and for ilnparting minute and illustrative in
struction and valuable periodical and Statistical
information, that challenge your confdenc,
and solicit your support and patronage.
4 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 Ghanges issued, or mad,
by them during the preceding month Tables G
| 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 i'm operation
and Offices in operation which are not in the tables
At this time there perhaps over three thousand
offices Of the two descriptions. In like manner
laws have been passed. anu TeSuiutIoHB cataDUShcl
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, paper
! will furnish the additions, corrections, and modf
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
recton remang, 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 intelI
Gent postmaster can estimate for himself.
These advantages alone and independently Of all
others, are worth many times the pries we charge
for the paper, and will, it is hoped, indace every
postmaster who feels a just pride in his Office or
/ a 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, wall find nlac
in this pap'r.
TIME undersigned, committee Of publication, on
IL the part Of the Muscogee and Russell Agricul-