The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-27
UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE
AND OFFICIAL ADVERTISER

UNITED STATES fOSIAL dOAOE
AND OFFICIAL ADVERTISER.
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TERMS. =" The United States Postal Guide aud
Official .4duertissr containing about 30 super-royai
octopo pages, is published monthly for ONE
LAR ONLY, per amman, payable in adpance--or Jivs
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 that are to follow, as
for its aim no less purpose, than to inpart 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 orgGh-
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 Of the Laws and the issue of instrur
tons, mere less comprehensive, and at intervals
more or less extended, have proved wholly made
auate 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 voumnols.
and are printed in quantities too small for general
circulation; whilst the debates in Congress and
1.
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 policys
These publications in their various forms are
highly useful in themselves far as they 60 and
some OF them Indispensable; bur 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 III 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 etho dcal and ey
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 " hat
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-Otce 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 for
the departments, and being acquainted with those
who carry it on. Since his official connection with
| the Government ceased, he 1atters 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 civiity with
them all. The Junior Editor has been asssduously
engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
s0nnl inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details of the Post Office and
otner 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 imparting minute and illustrative in
struction, and valuable periodical and statistical
| information, that we challenge your confidence
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 made
| by them during the preceding month. Tables 1
| Post Offices, and compilations of the Laws and
Regulations, issued by the Post Office Depart
ment only once in two 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 not in the tables
At this time there perhaps three thousand
offices of the two descriptions. In like manner
laws have been passed and regulations established
since the issue of the Inst 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 modih..
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 misdi
rection, remaiIing, 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 intell
gent postmaster can 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 just pride in his Office or
patriotic regard for the credit prosperity, and
efficiency of the whole Post Office systenl-at ono
to subscribe. The same considerations apply o
the orders and notices, decisions, and instructed S
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 questions
of official duty national interest, will find pac
in this papr.
TUNHE undersigned, a committee of publication, on
IL the part OF the Muscogee and Russell AgrculA