The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-26
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
AND OFFICIAL .aDVER TISER

UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
AND Official ADVERTISER.
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TRIMS. SO The United States Postal Guide and
Official .4duertiser containing about y spper-royaI
octave pages, is published monthly for ONE DOL
Lar ONLY, per an"~'H, payable ~ adpance--or Jips
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 mpart 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
ization, decisions and action of the Executive de-
partments Of their Government. There has hith-
erto Eeen no vehicle for the regular and proper
communication Of information of this kind. The
publication 6f the Laws and the issue Of instrur
ions mnre 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
annually reported to Congress, are too voumno,s
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
marty ends and to matters Of national policyi
These publications in their various forms are
highly useful in themselves 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
ples for the despatch Of the public business whck
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 ethodica, and ey
act, 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
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-Oifce 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, frat in The War
| Department, ard subsequently in the Treasury.
| He has therefore had the best opportunities foi
understanding the arrangements OF business in ali
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 incumbenis of the departments, and is on
! becoming terms Of intercourse and ciyiitY with
them all. The Junior Editor has been asasduouuIy
engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
sonuI inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details of the Post Office and
orner branches Of the public business. 1t is with
this stock of experience, and these advantages for
reaching the various sources of administrative nc
ton, and for imfartiag minute and illustrative in
struction, and valuable periodical and statistical
information, that we challenge your confdenc,
and solicit your support and patronage.
! We have fixed upon the 18th Of each month as
the day for the publication of paper, so as to
afford time for obtaining from the departments
all the orders, notices and changes issued, or made
by them during the preceding month. Tables 1
Post Offices, and compilations ef 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 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 and regulations established
since the issue of the last volume or 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, correotons, and nodif.
cations, made in each month, and by being filed
and preserved, will afford to postmasters fun and
exact information upon both subjects, up to and
for time being. How much of the present msdi
rection, remang, doubt, confusion, error, and
impositon will be saved by the progressive state
Of full and exact knowledge, for which we have
provided, and for which we engage, every intelIl
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 just pride in his office or
patriotic regard for the credit, prosperity, and
efficiency of the whole Post Office system-at ono
to subscribe. The considerations apply 10
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 turning upon question:,
of official duty national interest, will find plac
in this paper.
TUNHE undersigned, committee of publication, on
IL the part Of the Muscogee and Russell Agricu-
turel Society, respectfully invite public attention
to the following prospectus of a MONTHLY
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