The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-30
UNITED STATES POSI AL GUIDE
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AND OFFICIAL ADVERTISER.
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TERMS. SO The United States Postal Guide and
Official advertiser" containing about - -roual
octapo pages, is published monthly for ONE DOL
LAR ONLY, per anntm, payable IN adpanee--or fus
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 to follow, as
for its aim no less purpose, than to impart in
struction, in the general and detail to the Officer
and Agents of the American publlc IN respect both
TO their duties and their rights, and TO make them,
and the people at large, acquainted with the organ
zation, decisions and action of the Executive de-
partments of their Government. There has hith-
erto Teen no vehicle for the regular aud proper
communication Of information Of this kind The
publication of the Laws and the issue of instruc
lions, 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 voumino
and are printed in quantities too small for general
circulation; whilst the debates in Congress and
ings, and the proceedings OF the Executive branch
of the Government, besides turning mostly upon
general principles, address themselves only to
narty ends, and to matters of national poficyt
These publications in their various forms are
highly useful in themselves far as they 60 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 to provide for these necessities
| If we succeed in rendering the functions of the
primary Offices more uniform, m ethodical, 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 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 PostOlfice 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 foi
|
the departments, and being acquainted with those
who carry ii on. Since his official connection With
| the Government ceased, he fatters himself he has
| preserved the respect and regard Of most OF the
present incumbenls Of the departments, and is on
| becoming terms of intercourse and civility with
them all. The Junior Editor has been asssduousIy
engaged for several years, in studying, by per-
sonal inquiry and examination, the practical and
daily routine and details of the Post-Oifice and
u,ner branches Of the public business. 1t is with
this stock Of experience, and these advantages for
reaching the various sources of administrative &C
ton, and for mpartlng minute and Illustrative in
struction, and valuable periodical and statistical,
Information, that challenge your confidence
and solicit your support and patronage.
i We have fixed upon the 18th OF each month as
the day for the publication of our paper, 80 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 I
! Post Offices, and compilations Of the Laws and
Regulations are issued by the Post Office Depart.
ment only once in two or three years. Ii is n
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 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 and regulations established
since the issue of the last volume Of regulations.
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 modif.
cations, made 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
recton, 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 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 ndace every
postmaster who feels ust 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 t o
the orders and notices, decisions, and Instructors
Of the War, Navy, Treasury, State, and Interior
departments, and the same 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 paper.