REPORT OP THE POSTMASTER GENERAL. Post Off j Ml Department, No v. 2, 158 L fikanciai. condition. Rrrt • The postal revenue* f>r the yearendingihsaoth of 7B. and the expenditures of tffi Department daring tne wme pariod were $12,- ‘•MTM 8?3iowI»g an excess of the letter of $206,5*2. 4&. The average annual receiptsof this Department from 1869 to 1661, inclusive were $d 745,282.62. and tee -tve rsae annual expenditures fcr tVe *ame perltnlweresi4,« 4f15.CC8.44. showing an annual exceS* of ex penditures over receipts of $3,736 72? 82;and the average annual recaps from 1862 18*4, inclusive, were sto>- 871,650.97. and the expenditures $11,694 785.72. showing an excels of expenditures over receipts m»s» of receipts in 1864, over 1861, the first year Of the rebellion, va« $4,088,957. 88. , ■ A though the proportion of receipts a* against the ex nendiiurea has, doubtless, been increased, on account, of the suspension of the postal service in the insurrec tionary States, the above rnnusbea the evidence of an Improving financial cone itlonof the Department highly creditable to the administration of my immediate pre decessor* The estimate of expenditure for 1864 was fixed at $lB,- 000.OcC. in which was Included th* sum of $1,000,000 rperlally appropriated for the overland mall service, being $3&5,2i5..8t mote than the amount actually ex- P< On the other hand. therevennesof 1881 were estimated at en Inc? ease of flveperrentnm on those of 1863. making $8 714.000. While they sctualjy reached $12,438,268 78, or $3*724 768 73more than the estimate. This increase of expenditures, in 1884, compand with those of 3663 Is 11# par cen tum, and the Increase in the nvenaes for the same year 11% per cent. This exhibit promises an increase of the revenues for .1865 over the estimate aufamiUed in the report of last year. ESTIMATES FOR 1868. The expenditures of all kluds for tlie fiscal ytar ending June SO, 1860, 6,W9 60, or about 8% per cent The value of the stamps and stamped envelopes cold was $10,776,689 6S, 4 and th« amount used in the prepay ment of postage was $9 &78 155 81. Notwithstanding this issue, the losses, of stamps in the zuaiie amount**! only to $1,206, and of en velopes to $31. 80. Thid re*u t may be in part attribn.ed to the system of registering each package of stamps and envelopes mailed, and to the fact that route agents and postmasters at separating offices are also instructed to keep a record of ail such pack* gee passing through their offices. During the year 1859, (' he yea* Immediately preceding the adoption of this system of registration,) the value of postage stamps issued amounted to $3,2i9,- 406, whilst the losses in traoMuissionduring the last six months of that period were $4,373. Since that time the losses have decreased, althoogo the issue has increased about 92K per cent. The number of packages of stamps sent out during the year was 53,6(0, of stamped envelopes 38,688, ana the claims allowed tor deficiency's in the numbf r of stamps Amounted to only $29, and in the stamped envelopes SQ cents, showing great care on the part of those entrusted With this branch of the husisess. Postage 8 tan. ps are regularly supplied io the armies of the Potomac and Cumberland, through special agents of the Department located at or near the headquarters of each. Since the inauguration of this practice—about the Ist of Juiy last—the agent stationed at City Point, Virginia, has sold stamps amounting to $29,773.96, and the agent of the army at Chattanooga $5,210. Under the act for * s the relief of postmasters who have been robbed by Confederate forces or rebel guerillas, ’ * one hundred and thirty-nine claims have been made, representing losses of postage ..stamps and money Amounting in the aggregate to $5,958.97. Of the claims thus reported, sixty-two have been examined and re ported on favorably, the aggregate of the credits al lowed being' $2,130.60. The balance of the claims— eevenfcy-seven—representing $3. 828. 47, are still pend ing, the evidence furnished being la most cases insuffi cient. Losses of a somewhat different character frequently occur, relief fox which cannot be granted without addi tional legislation 1 refer to oases where, by reason of the pTesenceof armed forces a postofficeis destroyed,and the postmaster lose* the fixtures and furniture, and to cases where the loss is occasioned by ourown troops. The report of my predecessor two years since recommended that such losses be provided foV, and i invite attention to the subject, as revere! such-claims have been where the losses have occurred through no fault ofThe postmaster. During the last session of Congress abill was passed for the relief of the contractor for furnishing the De partment with stamped envelopes and newspaper wrap pers, under the provisions of which the existing con tract expired on September 11, 1864, when a conditional contract waa made, to expire December 31, 1854, at an ■adv&nctd rate for stamps and envelopes. 1 ISSUE OP NEWSPAPER WRAPPERS DISCONTINUED. After the a*w ard of the conti net above referred to, the Department aid the contractor received a protest from a party la Hew Tor* claiming to he the patentee of newspaper wrappers, with notice that he should assert Ms rights. Uncer these eircumataices, and in view of Ihe enormous advance in the contract pries of the ar ticle, the Department decided to discontinue the Issue for the present notwithstanding - the advance of every article used in the manufacture of stamps, and fhs large increaae'ln the number required by the Department, the National Bank Note Company, of »«w York. havB fulfilled, in a satisfactory manner, ail their obligations. It is due to these contractors 5o add that thev receive l«r postage siampsbut twelve cents per thousand, whilst the con tractors for internal revtnne Biamps receive thirty three cents per thousand. Seven temporary clerks hare been employed for seve ral ytaia. who are paid out of the appropriation for postage stamps and stomped envelopes, and as they con st! tote a portion of the necessary force of the Depart ment, I suggest the propriety of providing forthemby law. CONTRACTS. On the 30th of June last, in the States of Maine. Now Hampshire, Vermont Massachusetts, Khode Island, Connecticut, Hew York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware. Maryland, Ozio, We<-t Virginia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, lowa, Missouri, Minne sota, Kentucky. California, Oregon, Kansas, and the Territories of Hew Mexico. U«ab» Nebraska, Washing* ion, Colorado, Dakota, and Nevada, there were in ope* ration 6.C83 mail routes, the number of c mtractore be ing 6)553 The length of thsse routes was 1&9,173 miles, and the service as follow», viz: hallroad, 2?,616mi1e5; steamboat, 7,278mi1e5; ,fce lerity, certainty and security,” 109 278 miles—costing $5,818,469. divided as folows. viz: Railroad, 28,301,942 miles of transportation at *2,6G7- (K 4 about 11 cents a mile; steamboat, 2,112.134 at $2*3,274, about 19 cents a mile; “celerity, certainty and security, “90,901,281 at $2,885,1.'J, about 0 7-10 c-itts a mile. The length of routes was decreased 4?6 miles, whilst there was an increase i , lie asnnai transportation of 89,842 miles, and in the cost of $77,893. The aggregate compensation of route agon's, local agents, mail messengers, baggage masters m charge of express maths aid agent* employed on steamers con veying mails to Southern ports, was $346,733.48 which, adaed to the cost of terries in operation on 30th Tune, 18(4, ($(,818, 469,) makes the total cost of mail transpor tation at that date $6,366,222.48. The contract term for the middle section, comprising the States of New Jersey. Pennsylvania. Delaware, Maryland, and Ohio, expin d on the SOth of June last, and the new term commenced on the Ist of July follow ing. The service under these lettings, for the first quar ter of the contract, ended cfeptemoer SO, 1864, is ex hibited by the annexed statement, viz: Kai1read....~...... Steamboat-.-....... ** Celerity, certaln ty, and security.. 7,492 7,834,701 $952,319 892 218,088 17,735 Other tables showing the operations of the Contract Office, are appended to this report. RAILROAD COMPANIES. Notwithstanding an express provision of law. (sec tion 290 f act of July 2 1&4, which provides “that no person whose bid for the transportation of the mail may be accepted shall receive any pa; until he shall have executed his contract according to law and the regula tions of the Department, * * bat few of ths railroad com panies engaged In carrying malls are under contract; and the practice of recognizing their service from quar ter to quarter has been necessary for a series of years to enable the Audi* or to issue orders in favor of the companies for the collection of moneys in the hands of postmasters on the and the adjustment of ac counts for services rendered Attention has been called to this subject by my prede cessors for the purpose of eecnrU g addition ai legisla tion Investing the head of this Department with power to compel compliance with the law by prohibiting pay ments exempt on executed c< ntract*. The matter is dis cussed by Postmaster General Holt in his report of De cember 3,1869,and agalna luded to December and also bym? immediate predecessor i» hie reports of De cember 2, 1561, and December 1,1862; but, believing that the law la sufficiently explicit as it now stands. 1 do notpiopose further legislation, in the hone that the several railroad companies will no longer refuse to en ter into the obligations assumed bya.l other persons contracting with the Government Should Ibe disap pointed in this reasonable hope, I shall not fail to call upon Congress for suck legislation as the necessities of the servioe require. MAILS OK THU ATLANTIC IXD PACIFIC. In the last annual report attention was called to the unsettled accounts of persona employed to convey mails by sea to the military and naval forces and inhabitants at New Orleans. Pensacola,rand other Ports rendered necessary by the insurrection in the Southern States, and also tor service performed in steamships on the North Pacific coast during the winter Of 1862, when the BBual land routes were Interrupted by extraordinary floods. These services were necessary to provide for communication with the soldiers and sailors engaged in the defence of the country, and the people isolated by an act of Providence, and were authorized by several acts of Congress. The Auditor of the Treasury foi this Department, adjudging the contracts illegal, declined acting on the accounts of cos tractors and orders of the Postmaster General, rendering an appeal to Congress secesiary. This resulted in the legislation contained in the 6th section of the “ Act to provide for the convey ance of mails to foreign ports, ae., approved March 25, 1864, under which the sum of $18,660 has been paid to several parties for the sea service, performed by order of the Postmaster General on the Atlantic coast and Gulf of Mexico, to the 30th of September last. The claim made by the i teamship owners for service on the north Pacific coast, during the Hoods of 1862 on the land, was at the rate of SB,OCO per month for three months, but the amount deemed adequate by the De partment was $8,642 ter the whole service, and this was the turn reported to the Auditor as d*e the claimant*; but Congress having fixed iheysum to be paid for this service at $1,600, which they declined to receive, the claim is still unadjusted. OVEBLAKD MAILS. The contract for service on the route from the Missis •ippi river, ,1a Salt take, to Wararriile, California, aDderactof March 2,J851, expirto, on th« 30th Juno last, ao arrange in,nt was made with the Tame parties for continuing the service on the same terms to Beptom- UDdtr^n"advertisement dated March22,lB64,inviting proposals for service from AicWson Kansas, or st. Jo seph. Missouri, to Folsom City, California, John H. Heistand, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was the lowas) bidder, at $760,000 per annum; but his bid having been subsequently withdrawn, contracts have been made with Ben. HoUaday, of hew York, for the service be tween Atchiflon. or Bt. Jo«»ph, and Salt Lake City, at $866,000, and with Wlillam n Dintmdie, president of the Overland bail Company, also of New York, from Salt bake City to Folsom City, at $886,000, making an aggregate of $760,000 per annum. These parties are be- Hevea to be able to fulfil their obligations. Ths con tracts are from October 1.1864, to September SO. 1868, the trips tobe made In sixteen days eight month* in the year, and in twenty days the remaining fourmmths,to oonvey through letter mam only, mail matter prepaid at letter rates, and all local or way mails. Paper and document mails for tne Pacific coast are to be carried by ses, via New York and Panama, tempo rary arrangements haying been made for their convey ance, within the sum named in tho law of March 25. 1864, viz: $160,0C0 per annum, making the whole ex pense of territorial and Pacific mat's not over $910,000 per annum, or t9O«OCG less than under the former con tract. , • ♦ * Owing to Indian depredations, the overland service was much interrupted durisgtho months of August and September last, and, for a period of four or five weeks, 'the whole mail for the Pacific coast and the Territories was necessarily sent by sea from New Y ork. The contract for the California and Oregon route- Sacramento to Portland—terminating September 16, 1864; proposaJs wereiuvitedfor the continuance of the service to 1806 and 1868 But one bid was received, that of the California Stage Company, at $mGOO per an num, which was deemed extravagant for the service required, and accepted to June $), 1865, only, with a view to again Invito competition, which has been Pursuant to the Bth section of the Act of March % 1561, and the 2d section of the act of February 24 1883, tbe contract lor service on the route from St. Cloud, Minnesota, to Tembintj in Dakota Territory, was ex tended to June 30, 1866, and the trips increased from one to two per week, at an increase of compensation of $17,167 per annum. As the contracts on ail other routes tauthe State expire June 30,1866/this will be relet for one year only* so that it may be embraced in ib* contract section to which it belon«*. The topographer of the Depot meat haying been In structedny mj predecessor to prepare a ret of maps, by States or troops of States, designed to show aU the per manent routes, distances, and poet offises thareon, in the United States, with other statistical, information, I have to communicate that progress has 1)6611 made in their preparation. -It i"found, however, that in con sequence of the enhanced price of all articles purchased through the contingent fund, chargeable with the ex penses, that the fond, as previously estimated, will be insufficient, having regard to other demands upon it; and I therefore recommend that an appropriation of 910 000 be made for preparing and publishing these maps. It is believed that the proceeds of the sale of such as will not be needed for the use of this Depart mast will eventually more than reimburse the entire cntl&y, leaving a surplus which will diminish, to that' extent, future appropriations for contingent purposes. On she 5d of March, lew, the Inspection -office of the Department, in its distinct and separate form, was abolished, and its duties transferred to the Contract office, in charge of the Btcdnd Assistant Postmaster General. The net amount cf hues imposed and deductions made during the year from the pay of mail contractors, for failures ana other delinquencies. was $14,375 55. By the 17th section of an act of Congress approved July 1,1864, chapter 1&7, page 889, it is enacted “that the special agent of 1 the Poat Office Department on the Pacific coast lhall receive a compensation of five dollars per diem.*’ The salary of this officer wee 93,500 per annum under the act of March 2, 1861. and for all tra velling and incidental expenses no greater sum than two dollars for eacu day employed eould he allowed under the act of March 3, 1845. . It is not supposed that Congress intended, to reduce the pay of this officer from $3.3# to $1,845. bni such is the effect of the law. and I Iherefcru recommead such a modification of that section as will restore his full sa lary of $2 SCO per annum from the date of the passage of saidacr, and to provide for his actual.traveling ex penses a sum not exceeding five declare per diem. Al though, at the time of the passage of said act, two dol lars per diem was considered snmeient for the travel ling and incidental expenses of iheae.offi’cers, it is now inadequate, and 1 recommend that 'ail other special agents be allowed a sum nut exceeding four dollars psr day.while empjoyed. For several years after the occupation of the Pad 1c coart by the United States, the are nt of this Department stationed at San Francitco had larger powers than usually confided to special Agents in the Atlantic States, particularly in reference to the adjustment of con tractors’ accounts, the practice being for him to give certificates of service performed under mail contracts, on which the postmaster at San Francisco made pay ments, The- accounts were then, transmitted to ,the Auditer for fctttrj and final set-lament. In tuts manner payments- to mail oomractora w*r« fJfoSl&biSi doubts arising as to the authority of the roaster General to confer bueh powers onja subordinate officer, they were withdrawn the PhcWc aganimw °r} the same footing with ail othar officers of his class. It U believed that *.ne. functions of this officer couJd be enlarged with advantage to the public service, andi.as previous legislation is necessary, attention is called to tie subject In this connection it is pioper to add that, from information which has recently reached me. I am apprehensive that the portal terries in the Pacific Slates is not in as good condition as should be desired: and I may have occasion to communicate with Con gress upon tiie subjeet during its approaching session. i ARMVMAtIB. * Inquiry has been made o? Lieutenant General Grant relative to the existing arrangements for supplying oar armies with mall?, with the assurance of my earnest purpose to co-opeiate with him Ip osrryiDglhto eff«ot any desired improvements of shat service; and lam gratified to learn from his reply that the system of re ceiving and forwarding lie mails no win operation is entirely satisfactory; and that, “onr soldiers receive their mail matter with as much regularity and prompt ness as is possible for aimies in the field, and, with per haps as much celerity and security ah the most favored portions of the country.' ’ Be also info/ms me that the policy originally adopted of excluding civilians from the mall service within the lines of the army, and de tailing for that duty enlisted men of intelligence and reliability, will be continued. For many years the regtdationa of this Department h»VB required that every post office should mail letters direct to every other office not on the route to any dis tributing office, and that ail other letters should be mailed to the first distributing office on the route to their destination, Involving considerable expense and delay ain the transmission-of the mails. This subject has been frequently refe.red to in the reports of this Department. Elaborate distribution schemes have been proposed to improve the existing system/ which is still considered defective. The majority of letters are now subjected to delays, while the expense attending the work in twenty-two distributing post offices amounted, during the fourth quarter of 1864. to nearly two hundred thousand dol lars, being at the rate of eight hundred thousand dol lars per year* or about sixty-two p«r centum of the whole expense of clerk hire In ail offices The mailing of aU letters direct from one office to an other, however situated, ia so vast a territory as that ; embraced within the United States, is objectionable. The ordinary distributing post offices not meeting the necessities of the service, experiments have been com menced with railway or travelling post offices. The re quisite cars for the purpose areprapared for one daily line between Washington and fifew York, and by means of clerks takes, temporarily, from the port offices at Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York, letters intended for distribution at either of those points are distributed in the cars, and so arranged that they-can be despatched without delay on connecting routes. Thus it is found that the transmission of letters is expedited irom twelve to twenty-four hours, being the time usually lost in dlatribatu g offices. Similar ex-, periments have been made on the routes from Chicago, Illinois, to Giinton, Davenport, and Dubuque, lowa, with equally satisfactory results. Attention has been given to the putting in operation the railway distribution to other prominent points, and the companies which have been asked to furnish the ne cessary car facilities have generally responded favora bly. On the great Eastern and Western routes to Gieve land, as well as between W&shicgtonand New York, the size and importance of the mails and the amount of distribution to be done are euch as to requhe accommo dations to me extent of an entire car.' West of Cleve land only a portion of a car will be used on each route. m In OTder to make the work of railway post offices ef« Tectual, a change in the mode of mailing letters is neces sary. Ail offices cannot mall direct, neither can all mail to a railway office. The work will, therefore, be divided between head offices and route offices, the for merbeing those which are the initiator terminal points of routes, atd the latter those offices or stations on the direct line of a road from which there are no post roads diverging. Additional clerke, as well as superintend ent* and travelling postmasters, will be required, for Whom I recommend provision be made by law. The introduction of the proposed scheme will neces sarily be attended with difficulties, and must be accom plished gradually. The clastificarion of offices alone will require time and labor, and for the present opera tiona will be limited to a few principal railroad lines. Until the necessary classification Is completed, and the railway distribution organized, it is anticipated that additional expenses will be involved; but it is hoped that the final effect will be to reduce the expenses con nected with the present plan of distribution. Under the new law, also, which took effect first of July laßt, all accounting for paid letters has been dispensed with, .thus saving much labor heretofore required in mail ing letters aud in keeping accounts. The trans cripts of mails sect and received under the old sys tem at five of the principal offices amounted to CO, COO folios. The accounts from the same offices for the quarter ended 30th September last, during which changes were only partially introduced, show a saving in.thfs respect of nearly fifty per cent. Thus in various ways was the ordinary expenaesofpoßtofficesaTeexpsct ed to be dimii ished so as to compensate for the cost of railway distribution. But, whether this result be fully attained or not, the expedition of mails will be insured. The statistics of the foreign service for the fiscal year ended June 30,1664, show the following general re sults, viz: The aggregate postage (sea, inland, and foreign) upon the correspondence exchanged with Great Britain, Prussia, France, Hamburg, Bremen, and Belgium, amounted to '51,£99,605 69. being an increase of $174,- 950.48, as compared with the last year, and $21,458.37 ;n excess of the largest amount realized in any previous fiscal year. Tie collections in this country amounted to $881,730. $3, acd in Europe to-$517,875.01; excess of collections in the United States $393,855.67 This result is significant and gratifying.showing a largely* in creased correspondence with Europe, notwithstanding the civil troubles agitating the country, and the inter ruption of postal communications with the Southern States. - ’ The transatlantic mail transportation was performed as follows; By the foreign steamships of the New York and Liverpool, Canadian, Bremen, and Hamburg lines, $770,365.01. By Bi itish contract mail packets of the Canard Gelway lines, $629,240 68. The amount paid by this Department for mail steam ship service to and from Enrvpe was $371,740 44 the steamships employed receiving the sea postage on the mails conveyed as compensation frr-the service. Of this amount the Liverpool and New York and Phila*. de phia Steamship Company received $232,9i4 34 for fifty-two outward and flit)-three inward trips between New York, Queenstown, and Liverpool; the Canadian mail packets, $77,175:30 for fifty-three round trips be tween Portland and Liverpool and Quote-c and Liver pool; the North German Lloyd Steamship Company. $46,149.61f0r sixteen outward and fifteen inward trips, and the New York xsd Hamburg Steamship Company, $45,501.13 for thirteen outward and twelve inward trips between New York and Southampton The total postages on the correspondence exchanged with British North-Amegican provinces during the year amounted to $307,371.39 being an increase of $81,028.09 over the amount reported last year, and of $129,618 S 8 over that for the previous fiscal year. The postages col lected in this country amounted to $168.765.74, and in the provir ces to $138,615 64--excess in favor of the Bai ted States $30,14X 20. This extraordinary increase of correspondence is probably fpartly owing to the fact that large numbars of rebel agents, sympathizers, mid refugees, have taken up their temporary abode in Ca nada and the other provinces. WEST IKDIA MAILS axd cost of traxspobtatiok. The total postages on the mails conveyed to and from the West Indies amounted to $59,990 18, and the cost of transporting the same to and from Havana and other West India ports was $40,337.03, oeing $19,653 15 less than .the United States postages on the mails eonveyed. Heretofore the steamers employed in this service received as compensation' the gross amount of United . States postages upon the correspondence transported, without allowing for the expenses of the inland service; but as no contracts ware exe cuted with the Department calling for - the per formance of a specified number of trips, according to a fixed schedule of sailing days; and as the malls they conveyed received no greater care or attention while in transit than is ordinarily given to first- class freight, it was considered by my predecessor proper (hat the com pensation for the sea portion of the service should be so adjusted as to prevent loss to the postal revenues; and arrangements were accordingly concluded by Him with the proprietors of all the steamship lines, except two, pljing between New York and Havana, for a fixed, compensation by the trip of $125 each way, or $250 per round trip, if not exceeding the United btates postages on the mails conveyed. The proprietors of two of the steamship lines in question declined to accede to this rate of compensation, claiming that they were en titled to the gross amount of postages under the provi sions of theiourth section of the act of June 15, 1860, which authorizes the Postmaster General to cause the mails to he transported between the United States and any foreign port or ports, by steamships, allowing therefor the sea and inland postage if by an American vessel, and the sea postage only if by a foreign vessel The provisions of this section have not been/ construed by this Department terequirin a the Postmaster Gene ral to allow the sea end inland postages on the mails conveyed, to all American vessels, boi simply as limit in* the compensation, in.any case to that amount. The payment of $250 per Tound trip, limit-d to the postages, having been generally accepted by the pro pi letors as amine remuneration for the steamship ser vice between New York and Havana, no reason occirs to me why It should not he adopted as the uniform com pensation for all steamships em cloyed on that route. as doubts have arisen relative to the proper construc tion of the 4th and sth sections of the act of the Ufch of June, 1858, and the 4th section of the act of the 15th of June, 1860, which in effect superseded the last-men tioned section, I recommend additional legislation au thorizing tbe Postmaster General to cause the mails to be transported between the United Btates and any fo reign port or porte, or between ports of the United States touching at a/oreigu port, by steamship, allowing and paying therefor, if by an American vessel, any sum not exceeding the se&and United btates inland postage, and if by a foreign vessel, any sum not exceeding the sea postage os the mails so conveyed To protect the postal revenues from losses incident to the unauthorised convex anee of letters by private ship* or vessels departing from the United States for foreign countries. I recommend the p&ssage.of a law requiring, as a condition of clearance, that the master er com mander of any steamship or othervessel departing for a foreign port or ports, shall make oath or affirmation that he has not received on board bis ship or vessel, and has not under his care or within his control, any letters addressed to a foreign country iprhich have not been receive d directly from the past office at the port of departure, except such at are directed to the consignee of the ship or vessel. j . The United States postages upon the correspondence exchanged with Central and South America, via Aspiu wall and Panama, amounted t 0514,208.61, allot which, was paid to Cornelius Vanderbilt for the sea and Isth mus transportation. UNITED STATES AMD CANADA .Miles of annual t* anspnrtatloo. uost. 6,845.996 407.071 SPKCIAI. AQIXTS, DISTRIBUTION, x EXPENSES OP RAILWAY DISTRIBUTION. FOREIGN MAIL SERVICE. The provisions of article three of the Halted States and Canada postal convention have been so modified, by agreement between the respective poet departments, as to abolish the international letter ptstage of fifteen cents per single rate, heretofore levied open letters passing between Canada and California, Oregon, and Washington Territory, thus establishing a uniform in. tarnations! postage for letters often cents tbe single rate, prepayment optional, between Canada and all parts of the United States, without regard to distance or route of conveyance, and the benefit of the same nnifoim international rate of ten cents has also been, extended to the correspondence exchanged with the' province of New Brunswick. Our arrangement with Canada adopts the principle of optional prepayment in both countries of the combined rate, of international postage, each country retaining all the postage which it eoll«ct*.. It is the moat simple form of international postal arrangement, inasmuch as It'dispenses entirely with accounts between there* scectivO post departments, and has been adopted with all the other provinces excent Newfoundland. With the view of securing uniformity in our postal relations with those provinces, a recent effort was made to obtain Uie concurrence of Newfoundland in a like arrange ment, which ! regret to say wsß unsuccessful, the Bri tish Post Department declining to give its assent to the measure, on account of the additional British packet pontage of four pence gteriiCK. Willett is levied for the as, service to and from tlie island, aad accrues to Qreat atepa taker to conclude similar postal arrangements with the colonial) cf Vancouver's island and British Columbia, referred to in the last annual report, have not as yet been attended with the success anticipated. GREAT BRITAIH.^ Additional articles to the United States and British postal convention have been agreed upon, constituting the British packet agency at Colon an office for the ex change uf mails with the post office of flew York, by means of the United States packets plying between those porta, the object being to prevent the delay to cor respondence forwarded from tbe United States to ports and places on the Atlantic coast and interior of new Granada, previonalj rained by ita transit across the Isthmus to and from Panama. An arrangement hae also been concluded for expe diting tbe trantmUsion to destination of unpaid letters addressed to the United States, received at Panama by British packets from countries on the west coast'of bouth America; this Droariment agreeing* to collect, and account to Great Britain, through the office of the Bri tish packet agercy at Panama, for the unpaid postage charged thereon. SRBMBN AND HAMBURQ. An additional article to the United States and Bremen, and to the United States and Hamburg conventions, re spectively, wae exeouted on the 28th of March last, au thorizing the conveyance of the international corre spondence in time of war, or threatening war, by steamships tailing under neutral flag, whenever the same vc&noot be safely conveyed by United States, Bremen, or Hamburg steamships. In view. Of the. apprehension then felt fchat.the war pending in the north of Europe might interrupt the mail servioe so long and advantageously ..performed by the Bremen and Hamburg lines of mail, packets, steps were taken to ascertain whether the" neutrality of the'said steamers might not'be secured byrneans of diplomatic correspondence;, but this Department has rot teen advised ofthe result. Our poet** conventions, with Great Britain and Mexico, respectively, recognise the pzinoiple that, even in time of war bet ween the con tracting parties, their respective m*il packets shall con tinue utetr cavigatlon without impediment or molesta tion until six vbeelis after a notification given by either cf the, two Governments, and* delivered to tte other, that tiie service ie to be discontinued; and, ae au govern ment* have a common Interest in *2**®],°? treatment for mail imokete in caseof war.lo thesndof maintaining regularity ih international postal commu nications,- it ie a subject worthy,of consideration whe ther, by treaty e*ipulati<>»B between. nntioM or ojher-, wise a like principle nflght not be established between all govern meets, with proper safeguards against tho transportation of persons or articles contraband of. war. FEW USES OP MAll*-PACKETS ESTABLISHED. During the put year a new line of French mail pack ets has been establishedbetween France and the United States, th* steamships plyibg, for the present, direct between Havre and Me *r York, and making regular departures from each port, on Wednesday of every fourth week. The Unf ed States exchange offices of N-w York. Boston, and Philadelphia, deepatch .aad receive nails, regularly by means of this line, c&rtea* pon tfngwifch the-French exchanging offices or ram acd Havre, and with the French mail agent embarked on board of each packet. l i -1 *■’ This Departmentbai a l so concluded an arrangement forthe Boston ana Halifax, ran io. .and Yiotou.f Soya Scotia.) and Charlotte Town, ( Prince Edward Island,) the pro prietors ofthettesmerto. receive* aefqli compensation for the sea service, a moiety of ,th# United htatss post oner on the mails conveyed. > „ A correspondence has been opened w’th several.<>f the poti dtparimen’.s represented by CommtsalonersAl the Furls International Foetal Conference, having -for its object the negotiation of postal conventions, on the ba . sis of the Paris resolutions, with those.enuatrpss on the eonttnentof Europe with which the United-States has hitherto sustained so direct postal relation, as well as for the revision and amendment of-existing postal eon-. vemions,so as. to. make them conform as n-arty as practicable to the liberal principles of postal, progress recommended by that Conference as the basis ofiXnter- . national arrangements: Favorable responses have bVen received from the several post departments Interested in this subject. STfAMSHIP SBRVKmW BRAZIL In conformity with the provisions of the act “to au thorise the establishment of otoeSn mail steamship ser vice between the United States and Brazil, “ approved May 28,1864, an.advertisemefit was Issued inviting. j>ro potals for carrying the mails of the Untied States or a mouthy line of nrst-class American sea- going steam ships, b etw* en ‘ a pot to f the United States north or the Potomac river, and Bio ds Janeiro, in Brazil, touching ' at 8t. r Thomas, in the West. Indies, and at Pernambuco and Bahia, in Brazil, for a contract term of ten years, to commerce on or before the first day of September, 3865, and to date from the day the.first steamship of such line shall leave the United States with tire mails for Brazil. . • ' - Three proposals were r;oeived for this service, the lowest and the accepted bid being that of the Mew York, Kuevitav, and Cuba Steamship Company, with Thomas AaencioA Go. and Manuel J. Mora, of Hew York, as ,the performance of*thA re quiredjm/vice', atthe Bum of sS4o.uwpar annum, to be between the two Government*. , x The act authorizing the establishment of this line of American steamships was the beginning of a new era in •thehistory.of.onr ocean mall servioe, which is being Serformed priucipalyby stesineresailinguader foreign ag. The Government by this measure -adopted the policy of co-operating with thedudividual onr citizens in esteblishlog a direct mail steamship communication with the principal' country of South .America, with the object of providing a reliable and spec dy transmission of.correspobd.snco, and developing a profitable commerce, legitimately belouginff to us by reason of our geographical position, but which has been ' diverted ioto other channels by means of regular steam ship commuDlcations with other go favor ably situated as ours for conducting an extensive trade wiihhrasil. - At present our only regular and reliable route of pos tal communication with Brazil and and. adjacent Sonth American States is by the rirpnitons rouse via Great Britain or France, each of those countries maintaining a subsidized line of .mall steamers, plying to and from Bio de Janeiro, ertabiished noniinaliy for pustal pur poses, but really in the interest of commerce, which ie fostered and developed by regular mail steamship communication. ROUTS' FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO JAPAN AND CHINA. There are other ccean routes,besides the one to Brazil, which can be safely and profitably occupied by Ameri can lines of mail steamers, among which the routs be tween San Francisco, Japan, and China, at present un occupied by foreign mail packets, Is perhaps the most important in a commercial point of view, and"may be made available in securing to us a large participation in the commerce of the East, the greater portion of which is now enjoyed by Great Britain through her mail steamship connections, via Baez, in the Indian ocean ard China seaß. The central position of the United States between Eastern Aria and. Western Europe, affording routes bur little longer, if sny, than those now traversed* bet ween these distant regions, aided by the superior expedition of railway transportation between the Atlantic and Pa cific coasts: will furnish such facilities as will make teeir adoption a practical necessity for the commercial Intercourse between Europe and the populous countries of Eastern Asia. These considerations, and'others which will readily suggest themselves,'render it im portant that toe Pacific routes properly beloneing to us should be occupied by American mail steamers, the profits of which, with the addition of a small subsidy for the m ail service, would j ustify the establishment of oneor more steamship lines, which would be resume, rative to the proprietors. - Ixperlence Has demonstrated the impolicy of appro priating large sums of money out of the public treasury to gratify a spirit of national emulation in the support of expensive mail service upon routes the profits of which are shared by the steamships of other nations, and without regard to the compensatory benefits to ba derived from thedevelopment of our national resources, instead of granting incidental aid to such projected steamship Imeß to neighboring countries as promise to be self-supporting after their establishment, affd open up to our citizens ntw avenues of profitable trade ana commerce. ■ • . The principle adopted in the law authorizing mail, steamship service to Brazil, of inviting competition for: the service, is in such harmony with the spirit of onr commercial policy, and promises so beneficent results, as to commend itself to my approval as one that should be Invariably adhered to. Bat if there be a. departure from this policy, it may be well to cons’der the expedi ency of adopting the plan of using a portion of the large number of Government vessels that will be unemployed upon the restoration of peace, in the forming of mail lines with the principal commercial marts of the world in such manner as will promote the interests of com merce in the transportation of persons and property. APPOINTMENTS. Including the suspended post offices, the whole num ber on the 30th June, 1864, was 28,878; of which 19,976 are in the loyal, and 8,902 In the disloyal States. The number of Presidential offices is 7Q5, and 28,173 are un der the appointment of the Postmaster General. Daring the year 619 post offices have been established, 78S dis continued, and 211 changes made of names and sites. The dumber of cases acted upon wss 6,579 Four thou sand seven hundred and thirteen, postmasters have been appointed, of whom 3,028 were to fill va cancies occasioned by resignations; 674 by re movals; 269 by death; 133 by change of names and sites, and 639 on establishment of new Offices. Under the provisions of the act approved July 1,1864, “to establish salaries for postmasters, and for other pur posts, ,J the salary of toe postmaster of Mew York, and of the postmasters at offices of the first, iecond, and third classes, have been fixed as provided by law. The 6th section of the act above referred to authorizes the Postmaster General to allow at the office of New Yoik,- and at the offices cf the first and second classes, a reason-1 able Bum for the necessary cost of rent, fuel, lights, and clerks. No authority is given to allow for other neces sary items, suchas repairs of furniture, cleaning, sta tionery, printing, and other incidentals required in IsTge offices, and Ibegleavetoauggest that the neces sary authority be given to appropriate a reasonable amount out of the revenues of the respective offices to meet such contingencies. . . : . At the close of the fiscal year (here were twenty special agents whose salaries amounted to *34,100; four hundred and fourteen route agents, receiving $313,912:* flfty-ihree local agents, $32,Cb9; and one hundred ana five baggage masters in charge of through and express mails, - $6,780. The free delivery of mail matter by carriers has been introduced at sixty* six, offices, em ploying at present 685 carriers, at an aggregate annual compensation of $317,061,22. DEAD LETTERS. The number of dead letters of every description re ceived, and examined during the year was 3,608,825, being an increase of 958,409 over the preceding year, at tributable mainly to the return of large numbers of army and navy letters which it was found imprac ticable to deliver. During the year there were register ed and remedied to the respective owners, ae containing money, 35,752 letters, containing an aggregate of $l3l, - 6H.34, of which number 20,059, containing $104,665 *l, were delivered; 4,412 letters, containing $21,48-5 49, were returned- to the Department, being address ed chiefly to soldiers ana sailors, and persons transiently at places of mailing or address. The number of dead letters containing papers of value, other than moaeffi as deeds, bills of exchange, drafts, checks, &c., received, registered, and returned for delivery to the owners, was 12,486, and the nominal value of the enclosures therein was $1,615,694 75, being an increase over the previous year of 4,104, or about fifty par cent., while the increase in the value of the enci< saxes was but $71,416 94. The number of these letters delivered was 11,378, or ninety per cent. During tbe year 45,380 letters and packages weie received containing photo graphs, daguerreotypes, and articles of -iewefry... Of this number, 29,9b9 were sent out for delivery, 26,607 of which contained photographs and daguerreotypes, 1,410 articles oi jewelry, and 1*983 other miscellaneous jurticles. Of the whole number sent ant, 38 213 were de livered.to either -the senders or parties addressed, the pottage on which amounted to $1,944.24 In Way last a large number of packages, containing miscellaneous articles Which bad been accumulating for several years, were classified and sold at public auction, the proceeds amounting to $1,175 27. Tne number of valuable dead letters registered and sent out for delivery was 68.187, being 23,574 more than the pre cedis gyeari. and -there were returned to the Adjutant General’s, Quartermaster General’s, and other public offices, 11,116 letters and packages containing muster rolls, descriptive Bats, and soldiers 1 discharge papers; 60,692 letters containing postage stamps and monej in less sums than one dollar, or articles of less than one dollar in value, were returned to the senders. The number of letters which it was found impossible to forward from the offices where deposited, or to deliver to the parties addressed, because of the post age being unpaid, or on account of being illegibly directed, and which were in consequence sent to tbe dead letter office, was 135,812. Of this number, 72,- 074 were.“held for postage, 11 being addressed to fo reign countries, to which the prepayment of postage is compulsory, or to those conntrits with which the United States have no postal arrangement :35,0680f the number were I 'misdirected, ll orso imperfectly or illegibly ad dressed That their destination could not be ascertained. A large number of this last clasß were without any ad dress whatever, and In many instances contained en closures of value. l uring the year there were received at ihe Department 6,112 applications for missing letters, for all of which examinations were made And.the appli cants notified of i he result. . A large number of letters addressed to rebel localities have been returned from various sottrees to the dead letter office, amounting in the aggregate to 31.423, of which number 28,421 were of domestic, and 3.002 of foreign origin. They were all endorsed “mails sus pended,ll and returned—the domestic to the writers, and the foreign to the countries in which thev origi nated- Within the past year, 4,256 letters addressed to fictitious persons or firms were sent by postmasters to the dead-letter office, and thence returned to writers or senders. The addresses were assumed evidently for the purpose of conducting some fraudulent business, and in many instances these letters were found to con tain remittances. Under: the provisionsiof the act ap proved January 21, 1862,1,068,499 ordinary dead letters, or those not evidently worthless, were returned to the writers, after -having been placed in new envelopes. Out of this number, 4,0*4 ware returned to baake and insurance companies, 90,856 to business firms, and 917,599 to individuals. Included In the above aggregate are 9,761 letters returned free of postage; tl ess consisted of official letters from the various departments, and let ters sent to the various hospitals for sick and wounded soldiers 41,016 .dead letters written in foreign lan guaa es were also returned during the year. About 24K percent, of the whole number sent out for delivery to the writers failed to be delivered and were again re turned to the Department. . » AWBIfDMBHT SUGGESTED. The gross revenue derived from the dead letter post age collected on tb%-letters cent out and delivered amounted to $28,658.38, out of which were paid the clerks employed in redirecting them. The collection of postage on such retunAd letters complicates the ac counts under the law fixing salaries for postmasters. These letters must be entered at the mailing, and then at the receiving office, and postage collected; and such as cannot be delivered must be credited to the postmas ter when sent to the dead letter office. The aim of the; Dtpariment is to have no unpaid letters In the mails, and to collect all revenues by means of postage stamps, avoiding the necessity of keeping accounts. Id future, postmasters are' to enter in their accounts only unpaid letters, which are mostly from or to foreign countries, and it seems inconsistent to send thonsav as daily from this Department with instructions to enter them and coUect postage The amount Is comparatively small, and yet the attendant labor very considerable- I there fore suggest, as a matter for the consideration of Con gress, the propriety of restoring prepaid letters to the owners,- tree of postage, especially in view of the fact that a very large proportion go to persons of moderate means. The number of domestic letters of all descriptions seat out f> cm the dead letter office during the year was I,* 403.998. In addition to ti ese large numbers of Utters bearing requests for their return to the writers if un claimed a specified time, are returned by postmasters w ithont passing through ti e dead letter office, and con stant efforts are made to promote this mode of return. The number of letters returned unopened to foreign countries during the year was 162.591, the amount of unpaid postage on which was $9,161.53. The number received from foreign countries in the same condition, during the same period, was 62 427, and the amontff of unpaid pottage thereon $2,088.57, During the first year of the rebellion, the number of letters which passed be tween tbe United states and European conntries de creased,. while at ihe same time the ratio of letters re turned increased. Each subsequent year the corres pondence has been increasing, while the ratio of dead letters returned to Europe has decreased. By authority of an act of Congress, the unearned money from dead letters is used to promote the t ffieiency of the dead letter office, by providing temporary clerks to assist in the examination and return of letters The fund thus real zed was $5,083.47, to which were added the proceeds of tt-esaie, heieinbefore referred to, $1,175.27, making a rotajof $6,258 74. Deducting the amount expended for clerks, $2,906 82, and incidental expenses, $32 80, a Balance remained, June SO, 1864, of $3,259 12 POSTAL MONBY-ORI>BB*SrBTBH. The act approved May 17, 1854, authorized the Post master General to establish, 11 order such rules and iegulationB as he may fiod expedient and necessary, a uniform rconey-breer system at all post offices which he may deem suitable therefor;” and it furtherpro vided that this system ehonld be put into operation da ring tbe fiscal year ending June 80.1865. A superin tendent and assistant have bean appointed, one hun dred and forty-one post offices have been designated as money-order offices, and the operation of the system < ommenced on tbe first instant. The maximum amonnt 'or which a money- oidercanbaisfued Infixed by law ,t Uitrtr dollars, tbe objeet of tbe ajatam bets* to THE PRESS-PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 8, 1864. CAwd a cheep, immediate, end safe'agency'for the transfer through the mail* or &pta'lsum*ot mou"y- The tendency of the ey stein.is to exclude money from the mails, the presence of which la letters is a frequent cauf? of the loss of correspondence, even when the lat ter does not contain money. The limit of thirty dol lars is believed to be sufficiently large to Include all tbftt class of remittances now sent la money through the malls, bat in exceptional cases more than-one or der can be procured. The average amount contained la eaob money letter received at the dead letter office da* ; riiff the fiscal year 1862 was $1 08; during 1863, it was $£ SO; and in 1884, ss.lB—showing that, ii a rale, mo easy remittances by mail are made la small amounts. The mode by which safety in. the transfer of money is secured corshts.ln leaving out of the order the name of the paj ee or.parly. for whom “the money, is intended. Itt this respect a money-order differs from an ordinary .bank draft or check. 1 ! When a -money-order is applied for, the postmaster, will furnish the applicant. with a printed form of application; in- which the latter will enter all the particulars of amount, name, address. Ice,, reaniredtobe stated in themonay-oraer*udad- vice. From the items contained in such application the postmaster will fill up. the _ money-order, and also the cc-rresponcinu form of advice. The order, when com : pleted, is handed to the applicant, upon payment ofthe sum *npressed therein and of the feecharreablethere on. By the mail immediately followingthelsiae of a the postmaster transmits the correspond ipgaiyUe to the postmaster at the office upon whloh it is-drawn- The Ifttteristhu*. furnished, before the order itself can be presented, with the neces sary information to detect fraud, if any should attempted. A money-order U rendered in valid unless it is presented .to the postmaster on yhom it is drawn within ninety days from its date; but the Postmaster. General can i?sne a new order on the application or the payee, upon the payment ofas«- oond lee. The same course is co he pursued should the order be lost. Ifi this cise the payee is to furnish a statement, under oath, that the order hasbacn lost or destroyed, accompamedby the certificate of thepoat master that it has sot been paid,- and will nofbe tfai&'if thereafter presented. .The payee may transfer,hia or der to another party 'by* his endorsement to tbateffeot: but more ti an one endorsement 1s prohibited. Persons, therefore, residing atplhcesinlhe vicinity of those de signated in the lut of money-order offices can generally avail. themselves of this system. In-oomi&encinif-the money* ozder business, it has bean deemed expedient to begin with the larger offices, and extend it to others as rapidly as possible. Measures will also be taken for its introduction in the army. The establishment of the system in this country wilt no doubt lead to arrange ments forth© interchangeof international money-orders with the seyeralfoEelgncGuntrles with which we have direct postal relatione .By the eleventh section of the act above referred- to, pommaeteza are prohibited from depositing inauy bank money-order funds of which they have the custody. I woujd thebuaine&awQaia be facilitated bj enabling the postmasters bavin* moneys from this source to deposit in the national banks de signated by tbe Storetaiy of the Treasury as deposi tories of the public moneys, to their own credit, and at, their lisk, and thereby relieve the Department from the necessity of; fumtahlng'vaalts and' safes, v Substantial advantage* would dlio result to the publitf interests by permitting all deputy postmastem to deposit in r ,these bftfika any public moneys in their hands, under like condition©; and I recommend such modification of the law as will authorize such deposits to be mads u|der the direction of the Postmaster General- I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your ohe dientaeryant, WILLIAM DBNMaOS. \ General, AT TUB KBBOKAKTS’ BXOHAKQS, PffU.ABULPKIA. g&jP Coburg, Gilson*.... Liverpool, soon. Brig BU& Beqdt (Br), Tw0................ HoTjMt','soaa. BHg E 7 Av Bare ard, Crowell. .Yortorfipaiu, won. BHg Junta Wellington; Johnson. 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Consultations free. _ .. Offlcebours9 A. M. toS P. M. Testimonials at the ■ DB.-THOMAS ALLEN, Medical Electrician, seil t ja4 154,H. ELEVENTH St,, below Base., TAR. A. H: STEVENS, ONE OP THE -S- 7 founders of this new system of treating diseases successfully by modifled ELECTBICAL action, with out shocks, announces that he has resumed his oflee duties for the treatment of diseases, at fifi-lB Bouth PENN SQUARE, where, for the last three years, he has had almost unbounded success In cases pronounced In curable by medicine. Please sail, or send for a pam phlet, and learn particulars. N. B. Physicians or others desiring Instruction can enter for a Ml course at any' tlpca.-after Monday, TX&&W& GREAT TOBACCO, CIGAR, JL f . AND RITE STORE, No. 413, GHESTNUTBfcreet, PMfadelphia, Fa. Dean keeps the greatest assortment. _ Dean keeps she greyest variety. Dean keeps the largest general stock. You cam get any kmd of Tobaceot • You can get any kind of Cigars, s You can get any kind of-Pjpee, .: You can get any kind of Snuffs, AT DEAN’S GREAT TOBACCO STORE, No. 413 CHESTNUT StreeV Philadelphia,. Pa, When you go to Dean’s you cab get anythin* you want in the wav of Plug, Erne Cut and Smoking Tobac coe». Domestic and Havana Cigars. Pipes, &o. Dean keeps the largest general- stock of Tobacco, Girars, Pipes, &e., in the united States. Dean’s sales are *0 extensive that he can afford to sell at about one* half what others sell for. Dean celts to the Array of thePotoroao. . Dean sells to the Array of tteroifiesr' Dean sells o the Army oTthe Tennessee. Dean sells to the Array of the pumbarlatLdj— Gunboats ail order their Tobacco, Cigars. Pipes. Ac., from DEAN’S, No.4I3CHESTNUTStwet. Pennsylvania merchants all buy at Dean’s, New Jersey merchants all buy aVDean's, Delaware merchants all buy at Dean's, As the) can always get just what .they want, aud at a much lower price than they .cite eh ewhere, and they do übt have to pick up their goods at a dozen little stores. l . *, < . All goods ordered areguaranteed to give satisfaction. Order once nnd you will always order from Dean’s, as his plug and hue cut chewing and smoking.tobaccoes noffi-tf ‘ Philadelphia! Pa. CABINET FURNITURE. yj MOOBB & CAMPION, : ■ M#l Bonth SECONDStreet, - are prepared to follow the dentine In the .Market In the price of their furniture. Pnrshnsen will please sail ud mm 1«» Aitf nMr. ■ eel ftp Y AMI WEB, HOTELS, DYE-HOUSES, Ac., unscpplied with we Universal Cog-Wheel Clothe* wringer—thc best and only tellable wringer— will Had it to their interest tense .one of these invalu able labor end clothes- ffawfno utensils. For sale whole-', sale and retail, by E.L. BURNHAM. H&nutactorer’s .Agent, No, 87 South SIXTH Street. noia-lm PEACHES.—E,OOO DOZEN HERMETI raIIy sealed Peaches of the fine.st 'quality, prepared by B. liwards* 0« ? . coin TOT Booth WATER Htraat- TOMATO CATSUP.—NEW TOMATO A Catsnp ln quart and ■ pint bottles of choice duality. Also, barrels. Bor i& tr KBOMB .ON South WATBV.MneI fIOTTON AND FLAX SAIL DUCK yj AND CiNTAS, of aUnnmbeisand brands. Tent, Awning, Trunk, and Wagon Cover Duck. Also. Paper Manufacturers’ Drier Pelts, from 1 to fi feet wide; Pauline, Belting, BaUTwine, Se. JOHN W. BV&HMAN & 00., ' no-t-tf , No. 103 JONBS' Alley. A SAFE STEAM BOILER.—THJ subscriber is nrefsred to.nceiTe orddrs forth. "HABBIBONBTXAM BOJLBB,” In sires'to snltpur ■haaers, The attention of and others h called to the new Bteam Generator, as combining es sential advantages In absolute, safety from destructive explosion, first-cost and durability, economy of fuel, facility of cleaning and transportation, do. Be., not nos cessed by any boiler now. in use. Thom boilers eahbt men In dally operation, driving the extensive workso’ Meson. Wm. (Sdleri fc Co., sixteenth and Hamlltor etreete, at S. W. Catteil’sfactorr.Bprneestreet, Sehny . kffl, and at Oaned’i Tremont MU, ftiuMord, Washington Building, seiJ-tf *l* Bonth THlEDutreet. Phlladn. HENSERVO FOR THE TEETH AND Lr GUMS.—For strengthening the gums, for »»• serving the teeth from deeny, and for beeping then hoanti fully, clean and the breath sweet, this is be Ueved to bs the belt preparation that science and expo dance has ever produced" 1113 CHESTNUT Street, PhilUdelphU, **, •tlf.gns fftp ttl* hw fh* itmnriitfi. Ii »otUt MACKEREL, HERRING, SHAD, &o. ax -3,500 bbls. Mass. Nos. 1,2, and 3 Maokerel, l»te-canght fat Ssb, In assorted packages. 8,000 bbls. New Baslport, Fortune Bari and Halifax Herring. - - i.OOO boxes Lubsc, Soalad, and No. IHerrla*. loObbI» new MewShad.^ 1 250 boxes Herkimer-countr OheeEe.&o. Instore and for sale b, STiTIOinBBV Jt BLAm BOOK*. 0 1L ' MINING, coal, and other V NEW COMPANIES. 1T« an prepared to forntsh New Corporations with all th. l ook. tboV reattire, at short notice ud low prices, of Arstqnittp. All stpiee of BiadUf. btbbl plats certificates or stock, LITHOGRAPHED « «■ TRANSFER BOOK, . : OBDBB3 OF TRANSFER, STOCK LEDGER, STOCK LKDOKE BALANOBS. REGISTER OF CAPITAL STOCK. BROKER’S FBTTT LBCOBR. ACCOUNT OF BALES, DIVIDEND BOOK. * , MOSS 4c 00., BOOK MANUFACTURERS AND STATIONERS, . MI OHESTRPT'gtreot. LE6AL. PS' THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CITYJLHD_COIJKTY OFJPHUApYLPHI A._ DAVID J hoab*vs *EOBaifriir eg hry. Venditioni Exponas of September Term, 186*, Me. 39. TbeAudßor appointed by tbe wort to report distirbu tira of the fund produced by the ShstUTs sale nnder the • above writ of the following properties,'to-wit: ho. ;1. All that certain lot or piece of .round situate at the northeast corner of Thirty' third street and Bin street, in the Twenty-fourth ward of the olty.of Phila delphia; containing in fronton raid Blm street twenty flyefeet, and extendingor that width in lenath or depot northward along said "Thirty-third street Olehty-three •feet. .Thera is»e reeled upon the said lot of grouse a sub stantial two-story. Btoae dwelllnghouse, with bam-/ mdnt,.s4ronteen front and thirty-two feet deep. - . • < Ko. 3. All that certain lot or piece of ground sHu&e &t the southeast corner of Thirty-third street and Grape street, la the Twenty-fourth w ard of the city of Phil*, .delpbia: containing In front on said Grape street fifty ■ feekand extendinrfn length or depth south word of the* jjioth along said Thirty third street eighty-soye a feet. There Is erected upon said lot of around a stone slaugk* ter honse, containing in width'fifty-five feet* and in depth twenty-five feet Also, a two-etory stone wagon. fcouse<&Bd«etabfe,-: each sixteen feet'Sgaare. Will attend to the duties of his appointment on MOI< BAT, theiathdayof December,’ a. D. 1884, at F. M,at Ms office. No. 114 South BIXTH Street,in the city of Philadelphia, when and where aU parties inte rested must present their claims, or they will he de barred from coming in on said fund. __ noSO-lOt JOflff BOLMAJf, Auditor. TN THE ORPHANS 7 COURT FOR THE 4- CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA. EstateofPßTEß CURRAN, deceased. The Auditor appointed by the Coart to audit. settle, and adjust the account of ENOCH SEX, Administrator of the estate of PETES CURRANjdec’d.andto report die* tribution of the balance in-the hands of the accountant, will meet , the parties interested, for the purposes of Us appointment. »~ On WBDNEBDAT.the 14th d&r of December,.lB64 at 3 e?clock P. ST. , at his office. No. 16 South THIRD Street, la the city of Philadelphia. 7' ' RICHARD ASHUK9T, Auditor. NoTgMBBB 80th, 1861 del-thataSt* ESTATE OF DB. WILLIAM PEFPJSB, A_i Deceased. Letters tostamentorrapon th« Bitot, of WILLIAM PEPPER, M.,D.,1»t90f the olty of PbiUdslpMa, de ceased, haring bee. granted to too nndsrslgn.d, all poisons indebted to B»ia Estate are redoes ted to nutka payment, and those haring claims against the same ttrerWttMW B&rp D |?pTß^r«T.teet. ■ OEO.RPEPPEB,'M9 Walnut etreet, 1 ' 7 FREDS'. 8. PEPPER, 1621 Walnut street, i , QEORaE PSPFEB.IMS Wslnnt street, WILLIAM PEPPER, 1215 Walnut street, . Bxeenters. All bnslnees eenneoted with the Above Estate will be attended to by GEO RITE S. PEPPER, At 683 WALHITP Street. d«7-4t* ■ Second story, front room. TESTATE OF W. CARR, -AA Deceaeed.r-Letters of Administration, with the- the Estate of EDWARD W. CARR, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned, aIL. parsons indebted to said Estate MU please make pay ment, and those having claims will present the same wtihout delay, to , LOUISA B. CARR. Administratrix d. b. n. e. t. a , S 2. cornerFIFTAENTH and POPLAR Streets. Or her Attorney, a CHARLES U. wAGh kR, n024-th6i* 341 North SIXTH Street. TREASURY DEPARTMENT* A OPPIOX 07 THB COMPTROLLER OF THB CXTBAKHOT* Washingitox. September 27,1861 Whereas, by satisfactory evidence presented to the undersigned, it has been made to appear-that the EIGHTH NATIONAL BANK O? PHILADELPHIA, U tiie City of Philadelphia, in the County of Philadel phia, State of Pennsylvania, has been duly or ganised under and according to the requirements of tiie Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to pro vide a national currency, secured by piedgeof Unit ed States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof," approved June Sd, 1864, and has complied with all the provisions of said Act required to beoomplied with before commencing the business of banking under said Act„ , Now, therefore, I, HUGH HoQULLOOH, Comp troUer of the Currency, dp hereby certify that the . Eighth National Back of Philadelphia, in the City of Philadelphia, in the County of Philadelphia; and State of Pennsylvania, is authorised to commence the business of Banking under the Act aforesaid. In testimony whereof witness my hand and seal of office this twenty-seventh day of September. 1864. * *■*•*-* , ' HUGH tfoCULLOGH, j Comptroller of the Curreagr, HOTEIS AND RESTAURANTS. QENTRAD EATING HOUSE, Opposite the Post Office, PHILADELPHIA. oolT-3m THEvWASHINGTON house—a A CARD.'-It having been announced by the Bulletin of the 26th instant, that this hotel would be dosed on or about the Ist of December, the Lessee from January Ist, 1566, begs to inform the public that during the time the House maybe closed if will be thoroughly reno vated and refitted in a manner that cannot fail to give satisfaction to those who. may patronize the establish ment. . ' Mr- CHARLES M. ALLMOND, formerly of the "Indian Queen," Wilmington, but mere recently of the ** States Union," Philadelphia, will have the en tire management under the new. administration, ana he assures the public that no efforts will be spared on his parr to make the House in all respects pleasant and agreeable to his guests. The .House will be re-opened on the 16th of January, n026-tf THE MAHONY HOUSE, IN Ash land, Schuylkill county, after being dosed for two months, Is being .handsomely fitted up, and is now open for traveller* and visitors. Hr. HENRY ,B. WEAVER, the present landlord, lately of. Northumber land county, who has had long experience in this line of business, will keep a FIRST GLASS HOUSE,and one that will compare favorably with the best Hotels in the country. Ashland, Fa., Nov. 9.1864. n024-lm ’ COPARXMBBHIPS. T\IBSOLUTION OF COPARTNER XJ SHIP.—AII persons are hereby notified that the .copartnership..heretofore existing Jaetween SAMUsL MELYIN and SAMUEL B. HILT,-date trading under the firm of MeLvin 4t Blit, is totally dissolved by mu tnal consent. The remabiisg business of the firm will be settled by S. R. HILT, at Ms office, 515 CHESTNUT Street. PM jadeiphiu. - de7-6t* PAITNEBSHIP DISSOLVED.—THE * firm of BILLINGS, BOOP, & 00., of IMs oity and New York, expired THIS DAT by limitation. The bu sinetwof the said firm will be settled by either of the nadersUned. J. M JHLLUTGS, S. W. BOOP, B. W. BOOP, jrofW.F. Washington H B, KIBBE. Phuadelthia, Deo. 1, 1864. LIMITED PABTNEBSHIP NOTICE.—The under signed have THIS DA'S entered into a Limited Partner ship, agreeably to the Aet of Assembly of the Common-. wealth of Pennsylvania, entitled an Aet relative to Li nailed Partnership, etc., passed the twenty-first day of March, A. D. 1836, and the supp ements thereto, and they do hereby give notice that the name of the Firm under which-sajfl partnership is to be conducted is HOOP & KlBBEjtbat the general nature of the busi ness to be transacted is the general Dry Goods, Import ing. and Commission business, and that the same will be canted on in the city’of Philadelphia; that the names of the General Partners of the Bald Finn are SAMUEL W. BOOP, ELBE BY B KIBBB. CLINTON J. TROUT, and JOSEPH C. EOOP, and the name of the Special Partner is JAMES M. BILLINGS, all of the city of Phi ladelphia; that the capital’'contributed by the said James tt. Billings, the Special Partner, to the common stock, is one hundred thousand dollars in cash, and that said partnership 1b to commence on the first day of December, A. D. 1884, and terminate on the thirtieth dav of November* A, D, 1867. uay vi iwimuei, SAMUEL W. BOOP, HENRY B. KIB6B. CLINTON J. TBOUT, JOSEPH C. BOOP,- General Partner*. JAMES M. BILLINGS, Special Partner. PHILADELPHIA) Dee. 1, 1864. NOTICE.—The undersigned encceesors,of HILLINGS, BOOP, & CO., in Mew Pork, will conttnne the Import ing and Commission Business, atjso.3B WAK&EN Street. J. M. BILLINGS & CO. J. H. Billihgb, B. J. Chapfbb. Bbw Tpbk, Bee. 1, 1861 william: h. tbvis is .this day > i Associated in hn*lneis with ns, the style of the firmremainingimehanfed. _ COOPER & GRAFF. Stock Brokers. Ho. 11 MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE. Philadelphia, December 1,1664. del-12t WOOD, WOOD, WOOD.—OAK, PINK, TT sad HICKORY WOOS, for sals at lowest cast F. D WATSON, VINE-STREET WHARF. prices, aoSO-lm* ftOTTON MACHINES FOB SALE.— l set'of Worker and Striper SB-inch card*, Jeaks* make. ' 1 do. flat do., fflS-lack do , leaks’ make. 2 Drawing (Toiler Frame*, 6 revolvers. 124-stand nine-inch Bobbin Speeder. 2 band moles, 600 spindles, each. 6 King-Throstle*- In compute order. Applv to de7»gfc» B. TBAINBB, LIS WOOD STATION, Penna. VELOCIPEDES and army wa- T OOKB for Boys. 300 jut raceivedand f-r sale, . ROWS a BXfSTOH. artxSaSfe-. 157 and 159 N. THIRD-Bt. PIUB WINES.—PURE OLD PORT AKD SHBBBY WINBP, in oase«, bdttled e*ptess ly for medicinal purposes, Bor mus by „ „ B. P. MIDDLETON, 5 North PKONT Street. A IV CROSKEY, CHICAGO, ILL • Alcobol. 95 cent ; Bye Whisky, proof; Oo loine Spirits. 95 $ cent ; Columbian Gin, proof. For sale in lots or from 5 to 50(>bbls. JOHN H GOBI* Sole Agent, 80. 154 Worth DELAW-ABB Ayenue, de&6t* Box £B% Poat Offloe. . rjiABB SHADES, OVAL. VJ GLASS SHADES. BOUND. GLASS SHADES. SOUABB, ■ FBBJIBBT’S GLAESWABB OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS. HABTELL ft LETCHWOKTH, Mo. lSHorth FIFTH Street. ASTROLOGY! ASTROLOGY 1! AS ■IX- TEOLOOTI! I-THB FUTURE FORETOLD! 8. JOBMtOU, Astrologer, Ko. 846 North RLBVBNTH Street, Phiiadelpbisu Hopra-IQto 12A.M. and 2to 9 P.M. desCt nr OOD, WOODIWOOD.—OA.K, PINE, ** aad HICKQRI WOOD, for sale at lowest cask •• ■ F.-D. WATSON, YINB-STEBEP WHaEF. prieu. no3P-lra* CTBAM AND-WATER GAUGES—THE AJ largest assortment In Philadelphia—constantly on hand. 1L BBOWH. Street. no7-2m* T7ANCY GOODS. A . Mantle Vases, Flower Pots, Hanging Vases. War dian Cases, HignlomeUe*Hyaelnth, and Crocrul Pots, with many other choice goods, imported expressly (or oar own sales. „. ... PASIAN BUSTS. ' Shakssesre, Flora, Seott, , Bto, Milton, . Clytle, ; -Tasso, Beatrice, Arlsto*. .Lisbee, ' Petrarca, Psyche, Garibaldi, Bacchante. Rapole on* I Ariadae, ; Mozart* Cupid, Beetboves, 6oetha Baste* BoMLier., _ . Marble and Parian Pedestals *|42; I H4 C R&raoz? & °' no2B-stnthtf tOIO CHESTNUT Street, BUCKWHEAT FLOUR. WHITB CBOVRR HONBY. 'S NEW FABBD PBACHXS. _ OTLTIVATBD OBAKBBBRIBB, 41. ALBERT O. ROBERTS. Pettier In Fine Grolerles, nol.tr- - Corner BBBVFNTH and VJjbjk Streets. roKKi* p. HoaunennAp. wm. u. skat**. UOLLIKBHBAD & GRAVES’ tl INBUBAWCB AGENCY, ufnte to* eOBOTCK FIRE I&cSnoS 7 Sew Vos*. ~ IeHT-fim PROPOSALS. PHIKF QUARTERMASTER’S OF v FICB, Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 9* J{ «n«i PBOpt'SALs are invited bvtfae WEDNESDAY, December 14, 1864, atpofockf., for the immediate delivvryoftbe fol • o *£;i c ]£*' * * «,,. - GOO pairs PEGGED BOOTS, 80. f Army Stajdard, 600 do do do »o. J, do Jo. 2,000 do do do go. T, do do, 3,C00 do do do 80. 8, do Semple* of tho standard articles may be seen at the Office of Cloihteg and Equipage in this city. _ _To be delivered free or charge at theU. & *sf? B Sii*w Warehouse, in this city, in good.new saokuea, .with the name of the party furnishing, the hind and quantity bf goods dtst-sctly marked on each article and package. Partite offering goods must distinctly *tas« in their bids the quantity tbey propose to furnish* the price, and time of delivery. - ■ , • ,r Samples, when submitted, must be marked and num bered to correspond with the proposals and the parties thereto must guarantee that the goods shall be* in every reepect, equal to army standard, otherwise the propo sal will not be considered. A guarantee, signed by two responsible persons,must accompany each bid, guaranteeing that the bidder will supply the articles awarded to him under his proposal. Bids will be opened; on Wednesday, December U, 1864, at 12 o'clock, roon, at this office, and bidders are requested to be present. Awards will be made on Thursday, December 16, 1834. Bonds will be required that the contract will be faith fully fulfilled. . , „ * Telegrams relating to proposals will not be noticed. Blank forms of Proposals. Contracts, and Bonds, mar be obtained at office. _ . Tbe right to reject any bid deemed unreasonable, is reserved • Endorse enrrfope * ‘Proposal for fhars Insert tie n»* 1 tkeartitco offered], ■ ■ w. MoKtM, d«7-,t Chief Quartermaster Cincinnati Begot. rwFICB OF assistant quarter W MASTER. N». 1103 GIRARD Street. _ ■ . PaiuDBLPSiAt Bee. 7,1864. SEALED PROPOSALS will he received at this office . until noon of WEDNESDAY, 21st iuat.» for furnishing the Stationery that may be requited at this office, in accordance with the following scnedule, for six months commencing January 1,1845: White Cap taper, ruled, to weigh not lees than 12 pounds per ream. White Legal Cap Paper, ruled, to weigh net less than IS pounds per ream. White Letter Paper,, ruled, to weigh not less than 9 r pounds per ream. p White Commercial Paper, ruled, to weigh not less than 4 pounds per ream. White Polio Post Paper, ruled. Name price of paper per ream. ■■ Baft Envelope Paper. 24x3! inches. Blotting Paper, 19x34 inches. Prtoe per tkeet. Blank Books, demi size, full bound Price • per quire. Blank Books, folio size, fell bound. Price per quire. Blank Books, capsize, half bound,' “ " Envelope*, white or buff, No. 12. Price per LOO*. •* * c 9x4inches. ** •* “ ' " “ “ - Letter Copying Books, letter and cap size, 609 and 1,009 puma eaen, ; perdo*en. Memorandum Books, ociavo, per dozen. Writing Fluid, equal to Arnold's, quart and pint bottles. * Copying Ink, equal to Arnold's, quart and pint bottles. Carmine Ink, equal to Davids', glass bottles End stoppers. • . , » Ink Powder, per dozen papers. . Lead Pencils, equal to Faber's, Nos. 2 and 3, per dozen. . Bed and Blue Pencils, equal to Faber's, per dozen. Class Inkstands, assorted, per dozen; Steel Pens, assorted, per gross. SteelPene,OHilet’e, No. foSand 404, per gross. Pen Holders, assorted, per dozen, din Paper Fordors, per dozen. Bed Sealing Wax, K-ounee and 1-ounee sticks, per pound; Bod Tape, No. 23, per dozen pieces. Glass java of Mucilage and Brushes, large'and small sizes, per dozen. , All the articles must be of the bast quality. Samples of each article must accompany each bid, with the name of the bidder distinctly marked thereon, and only one price must be named for each article. Should any articles not enumerated above bff wanted they muss be furnished at the lowest market price. Proposals must be made only upon the regular forms furnished it this office. ... The Halted States'rosorre* the right to reject all bids, or parts of bids, downed Incompatible with iis interests. ALBERT 8. ASHuISAD, v deT-t2l Captain and A. Q. M. OFFICES ARMY CLOTHING AND v EQUIPAGE, TWELFTH and GIBAKD Streets. Philadelphia, December 3,1884. SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this office until 12 o'clock M., on SATURDAY, the 10th instadt, for supplying the Schuylkill Arsenal with the following articles: . • HOSPITAL TENTS AND FLIES* Army Standard. The Tents to be made of 28&-inoh Gotten. Duck, to welch. 12 ounces to the linear yard. The Flies to he made of 2834-inch Cotton Duck, to we’gh 10 ounces to the linear. 'shelter TENTS. Army Standard To temade of Cotton Duck, 33>£ inches wide, to weigh 8 ounces to the linear yard. All of the above Tents and Flies to be made according to the adopted- by the Quartermaster's Department. Bach bid must be guaranteed by two responsible per sons, whese signatures must be appended to the gua rantee, and certified to, as being good and sufficient se curity for the amount involved, by some public func tionary of the United States. Bids from defaulting contractors, andthoaethat do not fully comply with the requirements of this advertise ment, will not he considered.. Blank forms for proposals, embracing the terms of the guarantee required imeach bid, can be had on applica tion ac this office, and none ethers which do not em brace the guarantee will be considered: nor will any proposal he considered which does not strictly conform to the requirements therein stated. The bids must state the number and quantity of each kind of article proposed to be delivered Proposals must;be endorsed "Proposals for Army Supplies, ’ * stating on the envelope the article bid for. BERMAN BIGGS, des-6t Col. Quartermaster's Department. OFFICE of assistant quabteb- KJ MASTER. No. 1103 GIRARD Street, Philadel phia, December 5,1881. SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this office until noon of MONDAY, December 12, 1864, for the prompt'd-livtiy at Mower Hospital, Chestnut Hill, of Six (6) pieces 6x6 inch white pine, 32 feet long, wall seasoned. ■' Twelve (12) pieces 6x6 inch white pine, 18feet long. Bight (8) pieces 6x6 inch white pine, 8 feet long. Ten (10) pieces 6x6 inch hemlock. 22 feet long. Eighteen (18) pfeces 6x6 inch hemlock, 12 feet long. Ten (10) pieces 3x6 inch hemlock, 20 feet long. One hundred (ICO) pieces 3x4 inch hemlock, 16 feet long. Nine thousand (9,G00) feet third common white pine fiooringhoards. Five thousand (6.0C0) feet third common white pine boarcs; all well seasoned. Twenty-eight sash- glazed, 9 lights each, 10x12. Eight (8) pairs butt'hinges, with screws, (4-inch butts.) ■ l Eight (8) knob-locks; heavy. One (1) keg 7-inch spikes. Four (4) kegs of nails; 1 of 20d, loflOd, and 2 of 8L Twenty-five (25) perch building stone.. Twenty-five (26) bushels of lime. Three hundred (300) pounds round iron, % inch. All to be approved, after delivery,by the Government Inspector. No propcsals will be received except upon the regular blanks famished at thisoffice; and toe United States re serves the right to accept parts of bids, and reject all bids deemed incompatible with its interests. ALBERT 8. ASHMEAD, de6-£t Captain, and A. Q. M. n&l BP QUARTERMASTER'S-0F- V;. PICK, CMTonriri.Tr, Ohio, November 30, 3854. PROPOSALS are invited by tbs undersigned until TD£SI)AT, December 13.1864, at 12 o’clock M.,for fur nishing this Department (by contract) with— Camp Colors, for Infantry ..........Army Standard: Hospital Tent Polee, Bets, . do do Walt do do do do do Hospital Taut Pins, larger do do .Do .do .do* small, do do Wall do do, large, do do Wall do • do, small, do do Company Order Books, do do Do Clothing Account Books, do .do Do Descriptive do, do do „ Morning Beport do, do do PosfcOrder ' do, do do Post Morning Eeport do, do do Poet Letter do, do do * Post Guard Eeport do, do * do Regimental General Order do, do do , Do Better do, do do * Do Descriptive do', do do Do _ Index __ do, do do He cord Targes Practice do, do do. . Ssmfiles 0/ the standard articles may he seen at the office of Clothing and Equipage in this city. „ To he delivered free of charge, at the United States Inspection. Warehouse m this city, in good new pack ages, with the same of the party furnishing, the. hind and quantity of goods distinctly marked on each article and package. . Parties offering goods must distinctly t t&te in their hids the quantity they propose to furnish, the price, and time or delivery.-* / . , Samples when submitted must he marked and num bered to correspond “with the proposal; and the par ties thereto must guarantee that, the goods shall he, in every respect, equal to Army Standard, otherwise the proposal will not be considered. . • A guarantee, signed by two responsible persons, must accompany each hid, guaranteeing that the bidder will supply the articles awarded to him under his pro posal. Bids will he opens* on Tuesday, December 13,1864, at 12 o’clock H., at tide office, and bidders are requested to he present. Awards will be made os Wednesday. December 14, 1864, and preference will he riven to'bidders agreeing to complete their deliveries within three months from date ofcommencement. , Bonds will be required that the contract will be faith fully fulfilled. Telegrams relating to Proposals will sot be noticed. Blank roxms of Proposals, Contracts, and Bonds may beobtained at this office. The right to reject any biddeemed unreasonable is reserved. Endorse envelope “Proposals for [here insert the name of the article ottered]. 11 and address Con. WM W. McKIM, de3-7s Chief Qnartermaster Cincinnati Depot. OFFICE of the depot quarter- V/ MASTER * _FCO£T_tEATEWOMB, jTAKSAS, OV. iQjJBM. FEpTO'SALSJPOB IEMf’fKiNS^OBTiTtoN. SEALED PIIOPOSALS will be received at this office until 12 H onthe 31st day of December, 1864, for the Transportation of Solitary Supplies during the year 1866 on the following routes: Sours So. 1. —From Forts Leavenworth., Laramie, and EUey, and other depots that may he established during the above year on the west bank of the Missouri river, north of Fort Leavenworth, and south of latitude 42 degrees north, to any posts or stations that are or maybe established in the Territories of Sebraska, Da kota, Idaho, and Utah, south of latitude 44 degrees north and east of longitude 114 degrees west, and In the Territory Of Colorado north or 40 degrees north. Bidders to Btate the rate per 100 pounds per 190 miles at Which they will transport said stores in each of the months from April to September, inclusive, of the year 1866. " .Boots No.2L—From Forts Leavenworth and Bilay,in theStatei or Kansas, and the town of Kansas, in the State of Missouri, to any posts or stations that are or may. he established in the State of Kansas. or in the Temtory of Colorado, south of latitude 40 decrees s,®rth. drawing supplies from Fort Leavenworth, and to Port union, or other depot that may be designa ted in that Territory, to Fort Garland, and to any other point or points on;the route. Bidders to state the rate per 100 pounds per; 100 miles at which they*wiU transport said stores in each of the months from April toSeptem her, incluslve>bfihe year 1966. Boots No. & 7Rom Fort Union, or such other depot as may beustabUshed in the Territory of New Mexico, to any posts , or. stations that are or may be established in. that Territory, and to such posts or stations as may be designated in the Territory of Arizona and State of Texas west of longitude 106 degrees west. Bidders to etate the rate perlOO pounds per m miles at which they will transport said stores in each of the ninths from June to November, inclusive, of the year 1865, tobe tranroorted each yearwill not ex* seed 10,000.000 pounds on Houtefio.-l: 15,000 000 pounds onßoute No 2: and 6,000,000 pounds on Route NoT 3. No additional per centage will be paid for the trans portation of bacon, bard bread, pine lumber, or any other stores. , * Bidders their names In foil, as well as theiy place of residence, and each proposal should be accompanied by & bond in the sum of ten thousand dol lars, signed by two or more responsible {persons, gua ranteeing that in case a contract is awarded for the route mentioned in the proposal, to the parties proposing, the contract will be accepted , arid entered Into, and good and.sufficient security furnished by.said parties in ac cordance with'theterms of this advertisement. The amount of bonds required: will be as follows: On Route No. 1 *lOO.OOO Onßoute No. *OO.OOO _ Onßoute No. 3-..,. ................ fPO.OOO Satisfactory evidence of the loyalty and solvency of each bidder and person offered as security will be re quired. ..Proposals must be endorsed ''Proposals for Army Transportation on Boute No. 1»” “2, or “8,” as the case may be, and none will be entertained unless they Amy comply with all the requirements of this adver tisement. Parties to whom awards are made must be prepared to execute contracts at once, and to give the required bonds forth© faithful performance of the same. Contractswillbe made; subject Jo the approval of the QuartemaeterOfaeral. but tbs right is flaemdlo re ject any or all bids that may bo offered. Contractors must be inreadinesa for service by the first day of April,lB66, and they will be required to have a Place of agencies at or In the vicinity ofFortslSiav en wprft and Union and otter depots that may be eßtabll.h -eo, at which they may be communicated with promptly and readily. By order of the Quartermaster General. H O. HODGES, nolMdsflS Capt and A. 0. M., U. 8. A. 'N'OTICE. SEALED PROPOSAL, endorsed PROPOSALS FOB FUBNISHING SUP- boabdof controllbbb of pub lic schools, will be recel vedtat the office, southeast coiner SIXTH and AD EL PH I streets, addressed to the undersigned, until December 13,1864, at 12 o’clock M., for ths supply of all the books and stationery to be need in the Public Schools of Philadelphia for the year 1866. The proposal* must state the price and qua lity of the book s and articles oi stationery proposed to be furnished, and accompanied by a sample of eaeh item. A list of books, &c.,ae authorized by the Board, can be seen at the Secretary’s office, Southeast comer of SIXTH ahd"ADELPHI Streets, By order of the Committee on Supplies. HBNBT W. BALLIwkLL, Secretary . no - thstdelO Controller}* of Public Bchools. MRS- JAMBB BETTS’ celebrated A"-*- SUPPOBTBBS FOB LADIES— h « only Supporters under eminent medical patronage, Ladiea and physicians are respectfully requested to call only on Mrs. BETTS, at bar residence. 10% WALNUT Street, Phlla., (to avoid counterfeits. 1 Thirty thousand lnvaUdsbayebeen advised bytteirphysictans tonne her appliances. Thoae only are tennlne bearing the United States copyright; lahelson the box, and signatures, and also on the Supporters. with teatlHtonlaU, odß-tuttatf TOBU B. MYEBB * CO.. AUCTION t* SERB, Nos. 23» and 83* MARKET Street T.AKOTt POSITIVE RAI.B OF 1.000 LOTS BRITISH, FBBBOH,oWmaSLAHD AMERICAN DRY HOOD* A C CABD/--We , iiTlle the early partlouiar attenti otr of dealers to the valuable and extensive assortment of British French. German, and American dryeoods, embracing 1,000 packages and lote of staple and Outer articles, to be peumptonly sold by catalogue, on four month.’ credit and part lor cash, mmmenelng this morning, at M .o’clock precisely, to be coattnued thronihont the dar, withoat latermfaelon. LABOR PEREMPTORY BALB OF EUROPE AH AHD> i,A«ujs atm* MKRICABI DJtT GOODS tea. - We will bold ■» Jarge'Balewf.Brithib, German, French, and Amerieandry goods, by catalogue, on faar months' credit, and partfor^h,^^ Dec. Bth, commencing at precisely IS o’clock, com prising TOO PAOKAOES AND LOTS of British, German, Frenco, India, and American dry goods, embracing a large, full and fresh assortment of woolen, worsted, linen, cotton, and slllt goods Cot otty ’ i^OB D SALEOF DOMBSTIB DRY Included in o^Oe^forehruand domestic dry goods, December Bth, will be found, ta part, tbs following da- , bales allwool flannels. * bales heavy brown drill*. bales heavy brown sheetings. cases }i and 4-4 bleached myelin*. canes brown and bleached naanem cases heavy corset jeans. . - —* cases colored cambrics and paper WiUai. cases Manchester ginghams. cases indigo blue tickings. - ; cases Eobßoy cloakings. cases miner*’ plaid flannel*. eases super Kentucky jean*. eases all-wool tweeds. ; cases mixed casstmeies. cases plain anAprinted satinet*. NOTICE TO CLOTmBKS—LABGB SAX* OP TAILOR - r ING GOODS. • , Also, on THURSDAY, December sth, * pieces Belgian broad cloths. * pieces henry velours. • > -r pieces Castor and President beavem Esquimaux and Moscow beavers, pieces Whitney and pilot beaver*. - • pieces Astraehaa coatings. pieces Belgian tricots and seal skins. pieces silk and wool caesimeres. —; pieces Devonshire and Melton coatings. pieces dark-mixed reoellants. pieces cap and cloak cloths. pieces mohair, Italians, vestings, paddings, can' T^Baof' dress goods, white, .goods, travelling shirts, army shirt* and drawers, hosiery, cravats, ties, sewing silk, skirts, notions, Ac. ' BO OH DALE BtANKETS. , . Included in sale ©f/THUBSDAY next, a fall assert ffientof . ■ 10-4©12-4 Rochdale blankets. HOSIERY. GLOVES, SHIRTS, AMD DRAWERS, TWTNB, &c. __ ► < Also, ONTHUfcSBAY, / Dec. 8, wUI be sold about 5,000 dozen hosiery, gloves, ebirls. and drawers, tim- Telling shirts, spool cottOo, twine, Ac., Ao.; POSITIVE SALE. OF CARPETINGS, Ac. ON FRIDAY MOKM«G, v . Deci 0, at precisely 11 o’clock, will be Sold, by ca talogue, on four months 1 credit, an assortment of su perfine and fine ingrain, Venetian, hemp,. cottage, and rag carpetings, which may be examined early on the morning of sale. " - v PEREMPTORY BALE OF FRENCH, INDIA,GERMAN, AMD BRITISH DRY GOODS, Ac. ON MONDAY MORS ING, December 12th,‘at 10 o’clock, will be sold, by cata logue, oh four mouths’ credit, about TOO lAOKAGBB AND LOTS . of French, India, German, and British drygoods, Ac., embracing arlarge and choice assortment or fancy and staple article in silk, worsted, woolen, linen, and cot ton fabrics. . » N. B. —Samples of the same will be arranged for ex amination, with catalogues, early on, the morning of sale, when dealers/will find it to thMr interest to at tend. \ 1 i LARGE PEREMPTORY SALE OF BOOTS, SHOES, BROGANS, Ac. ON TUESDAY MORNING, Dec. 13th, at lOo’olock, will be sold, by catalogue* without reserve, on four mouths* credit, about 1.100 packages boots, shoes, brogans, balmo'atSy.gum shoes, army goods, travelling bare, &e. .of city and Eastern manufacture, embracing and prime assortment of desirable articles for men, women, and children, which will be open tor examination early on the morn ing of sale. ' rOM SALE Am) TO EJS'T. ■ TXEAVY IKON GRATES FOR SALE, U for drainags under Horses, at Second-hand Depot, SEVENTH Street, above Thompson deS-tt ' NATHANW. ELLIS. TRON STAIRS FOR SALR CHEAP, Aat Second-hand Depot, -SEVENTH Street above Thompson. [de3-fit3 NATHAN W. ELLIS. M fob sale—ten superior buUt three-story HOUSES, located on COATES Bt., between Twenty-third aad Twenty-fourth streets Qnnc tion of Union and Coates* street Railroad): lots extend ing back to Virginia street For sale at great bargains, and on easy terms. For particulars inquire of HIRAM MILLER, 1836 GREEN Street, or W. G. BEDFORD, 53 N. TENTH BL, and OCIB-Wfa24t* 1913 GALLO WSILb Sfc PUBLIC SALE OF LARD,HI IN NEWCASTLE COUNTY, DELAWARE -3Z Will be exposed to public vendue, on THURSDAY, the Bth of December. 1869, at ii o’clock. A M, at ST. GEORGE’S STATION, on tee Delaware Railroad- the following real estate, situate In Pencader Hundred, Newcastle county, Delaware, late the property of Man love Jester, deceased, to wit: No. l- A tract of land, bounded by the road leading from Summit ’Bridge to Red Lion, and br the Chesa peake and Delaware-C&nal, containing 78 acres, with a Dwelling House, Granary and Stable, thereon. No. A A tract of land, bounded by the toad leading from Middletown to Summit Bridge, and by the Chesa peake and Delaware Canal, containing 113 acres, with a brick Dwelling House, Granary, Stable, Carriage House, Store, and Dwelling House, five tenant houses, blacksmith shop and wheelwright shop thereon. No 3. A lot of land, bounded by the road leading to Back Creek, containing 3H acres. All the above property is within two miles of St. George’s Station. Ten per cent, of the purchase money to be paid on the day of sale, and the balance to be secured by a recogni zance token under the direction of the Court For particulars apply to T. W. McORACKBN, Summit Bridge, Delaware, or to the subscriber. W. 0. SPRUANCE, Trustee, no2B*lot NEWCASTLE, Delaware. m TO LET—THREE FIRST-CLASS •SSL fout-story houses (new), and with all the modern improvements, on east side of Broad street, near Whar ton. Terms moderate. Apply to _ GEO. SERGEANT, ForF. M Drexel’s Estate, noSO-wfm 1m 336 South FOURTH Street. m FOR* SALE —THE FOLLOWING -K&DSSIRABLS PROPERTIES: 2 on the north side Spring Garden street, west of Twentieth-side yard. 1516 Green street—-with side yard. 2010 do. do. 2034 do. . do. 2027 do 20-toet front, 1826 Wallace Btreet-~2Q-faet front. 8. B. corner Seventeenth and North streets—neat and well built. 2146 Green street—in perfect order. 2125 Brandywine street. 520 and 524 North. Fifteenth street. 638 North Fifteenth street. 1116 South Fifth street—6 rooms and bath. Store and dwelling, 241 North Seventeenth street, 1928 Hamilton streets -146 North Fifteenth street. 455 and 443 Dauphin street. ISS9 Mount Vernon street. 18)1 Tallow street. Also a large hutabfct of others in various situations.' For FARMS, see JSforth American and United States Gazette. , B. F GLENN, South FOURTH aud S. W. comer SEVEN TEENTH and GREEN-Streets. - de3 fpl .FOR SALK OR TO LET—A NUM lor of convenientnow DWELLINGS, with modem toprovmojts, on North Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thir teenth Btreets. Apply to TATLOW JACKSON, 614hCHS8T£i UT Street, or at nol2-tf ISSB North TWELFTH Street M for sale—excellent mill PROPERTY, located on tie Delaware Railroad, at Camden Station, Rent County, Delaware, a GaI,ST MILL (water power), STEAK SAW MI hi, THREE DWELLINGS, will tell altogether, or the Saw Kill alone, or the Boilers, Engine and Searing of the Saw Mill. Tor particulars address E. 0. JtTSTIS, no3o-13t» . Camden, Del. M LARGE AND VALUABLE PRO PERTY FOB SALE.—The very large and commo dious LOT and BUILDING, 80. 308 CHERRY Street, near the centre of business, containing Glfeet on Cher ry Street, depth lCfi feet, being 76 feet wide on the rear or the lot,and at that width opening to a large cart-way leading to advantage or are rarely met with. Apply on the premises, ' selS-Sm* M for sale.—the subscriber offers for sale hi* country Beat, within half a mile ofWilminßton, Delaware, out tie Newport pike, con* tabling eienfcacres of good land, in the centre of which is a large lawn with a fine variety of shade trees, ma ples, lindens, evergreens, etc,, in all over a hundred roll-grown trees. She improvements consist of a large and commodious Mansion, flanked on the west by two towers, one of whichia four stories in height There are four large rooms on a floor, with a halleleven by forty-two feet. The house has the modern improve ments. A hydraulic ram forces water from a spring into the upper story of the tower. There is also an iron pump and hydrant under a covered area at the kitchen door. The ont-boildingß consist of a carriage house and stable sufficient for four horses and several carriages; also, a hen, ice, and smoke houses. The stablehas a hydrant in it, Good gardes, with several varieties-of dwarf-pear and grape vines, in full hearing. There are also several va rieties of apple, cherry and chestnut trees. Terms accommodating. Foigeasion given at any time. Apply to LJSVI G. CLARK, no2*-tf on the premises. MPtFBLIC SALE OF BEAL JR ESTATE. 32 Pursuant to an order of the Orphans* Court of Mont gomery county, will be sold at Public Sale, on the premißes, on TfnjBBDAY, the Isth day of December, 1864, following described SEAL ESTATE, late of CHARLES B WENTZ, deceased, situate iu WRlTE marsh township, Montgomery countsMi mile east of the Chestnut Hill and Bethlehem Turn- Pike, .and midway between, Sandy Ron and Fort Washington stations on the North Pennsylvania Rail road, 12% miles from Philadelphia: No. 3. A FARM, containing IG2 acres and 31 perches of land, or less, including 4 acres and 7 perches of land conveyed to the North Pennsylvania Railroad Company for the. use of a railroad —about* 7 acres of which is woodland, 12 acres of meadow, IHth two streams of water running through, and the remainder in a high state of cultivation. The improvements con sist of a large substantial Stone House, with eleven rooms, stone cave and well of good water near by; a large stone Barn, wi»h hay-mows and wagon-houses attached; stone granary, barracks, &c. Also, % mile distant, a new double tenement stone house, a frame blacksmith shop, and well of excellent water. No. 2. A LOT containing 7 acres and 85 perches o landyfrosUng north on the Chestnut Hill aud Bethle hem Turnpike, k mile south of Fort Washington sta tion,' and adjoining the above described farm on the southeast. * Three acres of which is woodland, and the balance rich and well cultivated. This lot has a very eligible building site on it. No! 1 presents Borne of the most desirable building sites-in this vicinity—high, yet easy of approach, ana commanding an extended and very beautiful prospect of the surrounding countri —situate on Camp Hill, three miles north of Chestnut Bill, near the turnpike leading thereto, and about one*fourth of a mile from Fort Washington station, where all the trains stop, running to and from Philadelphia several rimes dally. Convenient to churches, schools, and stores. Persons wishing to view the premises will please call on the family living thereon, Sale to commence at 1 o’clock P. M. Conditions made known on day of sale, by GEO. S. WENTZ, , x Administrator, MARY ANN WENTZ del-thktp7t* Administratrix. m VALUABLE FLOURING* JE» MILLS AN® rABK-FOX KALB-Known uX SHBLHIRE’S MILLS, on the to»k, In MOST-' OOMBRY COUNTS, near the Morth Tsunvrl-rSii* Railro&d. fonr^nmlle; from Philadelphia; oomprlstng a lane MERCHANT MILL, with three ran ofTramt, and all necessary machinery, in good.orde. for mann factoring all SI ado of grain. Also, a GRIST KILL, with two run ofbnrra. Mansion Honee, several Tene ments, Barns, Bhone, Ac., with 48 Acres of highly pro -ductive Land. As the owner is engaged in the tq filing and grain business 40 miles distant, this property, now in successful operation, will be sold a bargain, and u desired* immediate possession will be riven, including the custom, stock or grain, twins, implements, Ac., &H ready established for an enterprising bnsiness man to make money.* v For terms, which will he easy, apply to M_ THOMAS A SONS, Philadelphia, Or to the suhscrlber, at Downingtown, Pa, nolO lm DAVID SHBLMIBB m forge property at private -“SALK, Hi miles sonth of Christiana, Lancaster CO., onthe'Pennsylvanla Railroad, known as SADSBURY FORGES; two good thonsand tons of good forge cinder, rad a FARM of EQO acres In a high state of onUtynUon. For fall jpaWionlars address „ . ■_ _ JAKKBGOODMAN, FeantogtonTUle P. 0., Chester county. Penna. Immediate possession given. Also, in the same neighborhood (on the Railroad), a yatnable STORE PROPBRTYTgeidhSiKiB/raMl lent stand. Address as ahoye, selO- tntham m FOR SALE—A STORE STAND, Dwelling attached, on Main street, GBBMAN TOWN, doing an exoellent business. Also, a House and Lot, with plenty of shade, on a cross street* suitable for a large family, within six minutes’ walkofrailroad station, G ermantown. Apply to JOS. KING, . n 02- tilths- 6t* Conveyancer. Germantown. THE UNDERSIGNED, HAVING RE- A moved his real, estate office to No. 53 TENTH Street, corner of Aroh. has there reopened his REGISTER, in which the pnUto may entortheir PROPERTIES FOR SALE, And Is wepmed to collect IHTERBOTS, Ground end House BERTS. Inerery oel7-ta* WILLIAM G. BRDF^ttD. Jtohsai PURNESB, BRINLBY~&7rr''-- SALS OF FKMciBR* „„„ Wising ajreueral assortment. roacil cartoi*KotK pieces blunk do SFLBNMD QUALITY YYATERBIi Bin. AHD PLAIH POULT M SOBWIBiS Alßw FOR BEST CIIX R TRADE aiiET A line of UKk ooet waters .MkribioM. s&assi? - *' . , . , VRLV KI RIBBOK&. An irvoic- of colored and T-lvet ribbon. CLAM TARTAR WOOL LONG aHD RQr? A %- 0 m „ , , OF EXTRA QUALITY. SS gg 7r T,n^L^»u. PABCOABT & wlrnoc£^.^ I TIOHBKRS. »«> MARKET Stnsat. illO. SPECIAL POSITIVE SALE OF OYew,. FARCY KBIT AHDH^afl^,, OR FRIDAY MOsifnm DeA 9, OTmmeiio'nrat 100 . W«1 beifoond a Yeiyattractlraassorioian' J; lable stYlee boodß, nublan. Sootaei. scarfs. *« , &c.. for ladies’, aid THOMAB & SONS; • Noe.' 139.aad 141 South FOURTH SALVE OF STOCKS AND REAL gcvi >«_ At the EXCHANGE, ■every TofiK*T noon. * w “ t'A. Z*" Particular attentlen given to Bales »t sidoncee, Ac, SDPBBIOR FUaNH-URBl 4 BILL*ARin^sfe l BORA FIEB-P^FSAF^ At , o’clock, at Aka Anction Stors. suiL t carpets, Sc. jjj SALE OF RARE, VALUABLE, AHD BOOKS. THIS AFTBRHOOH, Dec Stk, at the anorioßsfore, the rslnabi.n. tlui late Edward Fas non, which t M Uids!f.L , "¥l»! raloable works on theologr. hlstorr. "■!«, SALE OF VALUABLE LAW BOOlrs On FRIDAY »FrER»O)H K3 ‘ December 9th.at toe auction store Talnablai.*. from a library, including the PettasrlTial. rJ!'*** reports. / **»»«. - Pale Ho. 2200 Cbsstnst street HOUSEHOLD PIAKO.^aP,,,,, , . On TUESDAY MOR UNO, ISth Inst, at 1, o’clock, hr catalegne. at n. Chestnnt street, the household furniture by Loud, oak book ease. Meh case clock, t carpets. Sc. “»t!r be examined at 8 o’clock on the Exeootor’s Sale. Ho. atOFRAHEXIif B,_, RESIDENCE AHD FUENITOEg 1 OH WSDHBSDAY MORHHO,' 14th lait, at 10 o’clock, by catalmne, _ Franklin street, shore Race, the superior fi rosewood piano forte. In chandeliers, ftiol'rJL mattresses, dm. Hay be Qicamiuedal3o c i,,.. mcruinc ot the sale. B SCOTT, JR., AUCTIONEgjrSr • 6*» CHEBTHDT and 81S SAHSdM CARD.—We axe authorized to anaouaea i -.i . fine French bronzes, Bohemian gUsswam >,* d goods, &c_. of the importation of Messrs vrti > teke place at our sales rooms, on- Thur-lay ‘ Dec. 16 ih. Full particulars in future advmßßAßt* SALE OF A VALUABLE COLLECTION 07 nrr PAINTINGS. yu * ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY IVkSrgaa Bthand 9th but., at IH o'clock, willbs ga)lers , t the mo»t valuable collection of QiUiiJtS that have been offered at public sale this paimlngs are all mounted in rich gold leaf the lAtett and mott fashionable styles. Tke roWm] embraces about 176 specimens, from the stiadici»li. following talented axtlsis; G. W. Nicholsaa g?«S Mo? an. H- Boc«e, Otter, Currie, 8. P. ) ykt=, F fiS? J. B. Dufay, Cbardon, Kriupendorf, ScbimeL K'im andpthersof reputation. The paia-togß a« bsv n exhibition, with descriptive catalogues, which tsA had’on appll cation at the oust, PHILIP FORD & OO. s AUCTIONEERS A gag MARKET and 533 COMMERCE £t m n ' POSITIVE SALE'OF 1.200 CASES BOOTS m * SHOES. THIS MORNING. Dee- Bth, ISM, commencing at 10 o’clock pmtafr will be sold, by catalogue, 1,200 cases boots, sbsL brogans* balxnorals, cavalry boots, Ac.; wobsss’l misses’, and children’s boots, shoes, gaiteri, rats, Ac., from city aad Eastern maaufactgrera. POSITIVE SALE OF 1,106 CASES BOOTS AND SHOES. ON MONDAY MORNING, December 12, commencing at 10 o’clock precisely, *j ®?ill sell by catologue, for cash, 1,100 cases bmvtoK, brogans, balmorais, gaiters, cavalry boots, ftm first-class city and Eastern manufacturers "RY BERRY P. WOLBERT, A> AUCTIONEER, No. 203 MARKET Street, south side, above Second 4. Pales, of Dry Goods. Trimmings, Notions, &e.. erm MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and FRIDit «oraU& commencing at 10 o'clock. jgALB OF CONDEMNED H083E3, QH-AKTEHMAaTEE OEkKEAI’S OfriOL Fikat Dtyisios. . ~ Washington City, November 59, ISC Will be sold, at public auction, to the highest Mddtf, at Gieshoro, D. C., ou FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2,186 i, ONB HUNDRED AND FIFTY CAVALRY HOMSS. „„2S.. FEn>AT ’ DBC«H«ER 9, 1854, OHB HUNDRED AND FIFTY CAVALRY HOBSH These horses have been, condemned as unfit fortii Cavalry service of the Army. For road and farming purposes, many good bamin may be had Horses sold singly. Bale to commence at 10 AJI . Terms cash in United States currency. ,a T,. JAMES A SKIN, Colonel in charge First Division Quartermaster Gene. ral’a Office. de2-7t ODARTEBMASTER GENERAL’S OF PICE, FIRST DIVISION. Washikutok, November 30, ISM. Will ho told at Pahlic Anctioa. to the highest bidder, at the times and places named below, viz; WILLIAMSPORT, Pa- THURSDAY, Decembers. 1861 JOHNSTOWN, Pa, THURSDAY, December 15; ISM. TRENTON. N J., THDRSDaY. December 21- 18H. TWO HUNDRED CAVALRY HORSES at each place. Horses have been condemned as unfit finds Cavalry Service of toe Army. For Bead and Farming purposes many good b&rgsiai may be had Horses sold singly. % % Sale to commence at 10 o’clock A M. Terme—Cash, in United States currency, * JAMES A EKlff, polonel in charge of First Divisiai* demist " General’s Ofiea gALE OF STEAMTUG AND Baß® ' . Chief Quartermaster’s Office, (Deput of Washington). Washington, D. G.» Nov. K>lgHL Will be cold ri public auction, at Governiseai wtart, feocof G street, Washington City, D. 0 . oa THUfiS* DAY, December 15, 1864, •one Steam Tag sad fiw Schuylkill Barges, as follows: Steam Tug C. G. SAWTSLLE Barges ANTHONY CLINTON, CITIZEN. MILTON WILKINS. UNITED STATES. Sale to commence at 12 o'clock noon. Terms —Cash in Government funds. D. H. BBCEBS, Brigadier General and Chief Quartermaster. no2B-16t Depot of Waahingtea. P- CADE OF CONDEMNED CLOTH ING, CAMP AND GARRISON EQUIPAOE, TOT CUTTINGS* Arc. Chief Quautbumastbs's Offics, Depot of Washington Washington. D. G.. Nov. 25. I* l Will be sold at Public Auction. house No. 6, on SEVENTEENTH, between Hal> Btreets north, Washington City, D ConTHtJBSWL December 16,1864. under the direction of Captaiafl “■ THOMAS, M. S. K„ U. S. A., a lot of eondemnad cl* injr, Ste. , consisting of „ v , . Infantry and Chivalry Coats, Trowsers. SMrts, wa* era, Felt Hats. Trumpets, Bugles, aetahe Drums, Flags, Tents, Books, Mess Pens. Camp Spades! Shovels, Axes Hatchets. Haversacks, ur teener Old Iron* Brass, Boge^&c. About 100 tons of Tent Cuttings. Sale to commence atlO A. M. Terms cash, in Government funds. Successful bidders must remove theirpfcrrtMesM* before December SL D. H- SUCKER Brigadier General and Chief Quartermw^- uoSQ-lSt Depot of SKATES. WILSON’S SKATE DEPOT, IT 409 CHBBTmJT Street, PaiUdel?^ We hare just received the largest 4 ndjaioiHe* lM, j stock of LADIES’, QISBTB 1 , AND BOYS’ SKA® ever offered in this city, which we wiH pleasure in showing all who desire to enjoy Tfle ful recreation of Skating. PHILIP WILSON * CO. des-lm 409 CBBSrNPTSjra^ C KATES AND SKATE STBAPS.' DeaUrs are reouested to caused of new styles Of Cues’ sad floats winch will ho furnished at tta lowort prices,-by Kt. BCTKKBAM, Manularturer s no- ay South B.XTIT Street. JSBjZ* CKATEB, SKATES, SKATES © A full assortment of EKATBS and SKATE STHit» for sale at Tory law at m * SOB'S, n056-tf - 589 and Oil COMMEBCSS TOHN O. BAKEB & CO.’S CODi#®* tl OIL.—THE TBTTE AHJ> auamyand^^b^^^ In Conghe, Colds, BrouchUis, Asthma, 0o ft» pient Consumption, and all Scrofulous oftentimes produces Immediate and certain en«j» M st other remedies have been taken with little orn o Sold by all Druggists in the oity, and by t“eP™E tor. Ho 718 MAEKIg; Street. aall-WgS TOYS, TOYS AND FANCY Goo£3^ J- Just received from Europe, ft large i 'Toys, of every description. Also, Fancy 2 treat variety; Meerschaum, Briar, and a igaw&!y?' THOMSON’S LONDON KlT®’ <^IJMEB, OB BCHOPKAH KAHOHfcrJfslF hotels, or imhHc institutions, iaffiffir gUti*. BJZHB. Also. FhH»dstoM» Hotutir Furnaces, Portable Heaters, “®olb Firebeard Stoves, Bath Boilers, Stewhole FW&J>{£ M er% Cooking Stoves, Be., at wholesale and »““• S'KwiS®- ESTEY’S y- OOTTAGE ORGANS, Jtatraga?ii.BBp»g of Tone and Power* designed especially and Schools* hut found to he egp*&7,‘ Wß H» M the Parlor and Drawing Boom, ror g gllOCi, >Bro^ 3 eS 6 on^P^^l gß3g» BECKER BROTHBB3’ n ITT 'ANOS.-The public,, profession, are invited to examine these w* aB? strum ents, which in meeting with sacn or *, led degree of popularity aad eale in New * 3t i 'Wherever Jtaowm desideratiim so for. i e the strength of the iron, and 8°R oT Lt>>i the wooden Arams, to happily attained their Pianos Incomparable -with any other* qualified teatlmon&la of names *sJT£>i -Bill*. Mason. Hager, Thomas, ZBndal, others, amply establish their high rant. ££*_. , by W. J. COCHKAJJ, 908 CHESTNUT d .: a large assortment of other new and Pianos., for sale and to rent. 3 grrm hitsb-s hbwi« y Mfi-Sn Wwwoonu. >O. t*» ASCHffr^- DBNTISTBY. DR «!fflß>hurarte ARTIFICIAL TBBTH on SSSS?* oU Btr&6t» belOYr uociui- --—■ — BLEEPER’S U’A^ANU- b > XACTOBY, MAKEEC BT., cm A TBBTH. . pABD AND JOB PR|| st \J ATSIEGWALT 4BKOWM s,i«- c