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cnnss gossip.
die of the reputed origins of r.hoss Is that it
was expressly lnventod lor the purpose of
teaching a youthful rtrcpot that alnfr,aitr all,
although of connte the mottimportaDt pcrsonago
in the realm, is still able to effect little or nothing
without the ABfiptance and support of hi sub
ject!. The Indian onjre who thus undertook
the duties of reformer of royalty and professor
of cheHB, improved the occasion both to convey
tbcr truths and lender bccchs to the presence
cusior.
Ii cbcpB at the outett wrved im le'ton and
blho aa an opportunity of communication be
tween great pemmnpes and those below them,
it has subtequcntly not l ss frequently answered
the same purpose of introduction. When noble
Ebbeson went to Ilobcmia to seek a wife for bii
master, Kin Valdemar, of Denmark, they
dressed the I'rinccts In blue silk, and led her
into the great hall. They then brought the
chess-board and the table of massive gold, that
the noole Ebbeson might play w ith the Princess
and converse with her alone. At the third
move they were agreed; noble Ebbeeon had won
a pood wile tor hi Kinp.
Ferdinand and Miranda's game, in the Temwf,
had much the same sort of character, with the
pieitsant difference, however, of love rauliintr in
person instead ol by proxy:
Miranda. Bwret lurd, vou nlay W; ialse.
Ferdinand No, my defrost love,
I would not fir the world.
M i ami a. Yes, lor a (core of kingdonis you should
wrangle,
And I would cull it fair play.
A similar desire for semi-official Mc a-te!cx with
gentlemen nttu'-hed to ner (knnl inignt be one
rensou of -our Qurpn Elizabeth's fondues for
chess. She even lliiic 1 by inoaim of chc-sincu;
as when she sent Sir Cliuries iilount, ufterivurls
I)ke of lievonshire, a tcoldcn che.-sinan, and
lhat the queen, which be wore with a red favor,
anil w h ch caused the Larl of Eex to remark,
with affected contempt, "I nereoive now tout
every tool will have bis lavor." Ths consequence
was that Hir Charles challenged him. Tlioy
fought in Marybone 1'nrk, where Essex was dis
armed and wounded in the thigh.
In Westei n Europe the game of chess is played
by two adversaries only, aud never, like domi
noes, cribbnge, and some other games, by one
against one or by two partners atrainst two, at
pleasure. Hut the Kussinus have a chessboard
lor four players at once, who play two nguinst
two. The nicn for this chessboard aro also more
numerous than ours.
Chess is supposed to be an Imitation of war.
Phrenologists tell us that the faculty denotpd by
the organ of Locality gives what is called coup
d'all, and judgment of the capabilities of ground.
It is necessary to the military draughtsman, and
is of great importance to a general. Dr. Gall
mentions that he had observed the organ large
in distinguished chess-players; and he conceived
their talent to consist in the faculty of clearly
mastering a great number of possible positions
of the men.
The squares of the chessboard, amounting to
sixty-four, constitute a very remarkable num
ber. It is not divisible, in any way. by an v odd
numbers, but is divisible by multiples of two,
and by two itself, until unity is reached at last.
It is both a square number and a cubo number:
it is also both the square of a cube number, and
the cube ot a square number. For it is the cube
of four, which is the square of two; and it is the
square of eight, which is tho cube of two:
twice two are four, and twice four are eiirht, and
four times four are sixteen, and tour times six
teen, sixty-four.
Chess has been played on a regal scale, with
living men, in appropriate costume, on a natural
fighting-ground a lawn conveiled into a chess
board by paring the grass for the scuares of
white, or on a floor prepared for tho 'purpose.
Pon Juan, of Austiia, used one of tbe halls iu
his palace as a chessboard, tbe different squares
being represented by pavements of black and
white marble, while disguised boldiers acted as
tbe men.
At chess each player has sixteen men, occu
pying at the outset the two rows of squares
nearest to each player, and consequently leav
ing the four inteimcdiate rows (consisting alto
gether ot thirty-two squares) vacunt and open
for the conflict. The chessmen are of two
classes. Eight pawns, pions, pioneers, or com
mon soldiers, alike iu form, occupy the second
row from the player; while eight principal
pieces, of different name, shape, aud power, are
ranged behind them. The positions ot the
pieces on the board are noteworthy, because
they are not exactly the same for both players.
It makes some difference, in tho earliest niovs,
whether you are in the habit of playing black or
white.
The chessboard is placed between the players
in such a way that each has a white corner
square to his richt. Tin- cestles occupy tbe cor
ner squares. Tne name and signification ol the
castle have curiously varied. In the middle ages
it was rol-h, from the name of the fabulous
Arab bird which fetched Siobad the sailor hW
diamonds. The Italians converted this into
rocca, signifying also a rock, or a fortress,
whence the French naturally called it a tour.
But the operation known as "casthug.'Mn which
the rokh pastes over the kh.g, is evidently a
much more appropiiate act to be performed by
a bird than by a fortress. On the Chinese chess.-
board the castles are called tche, or chariots of
war. The Icelanders replace the castles by little
captains, which the schoolboys naraecenturions.
They have swords by their sides, and their
cheeks are swollen, as it" they blew iu the horn
which they hold in both hands. The castle
moves perpendicularly and horizontally, up or
down, to tne rnrhl or to the left. Its value is
estimated as equal to five pawn. Next to the
castles, on the same row, stand the two knights,
and after them, in the same way, the two
bishop?.
Of all the pieces on the chessboard the knight
is the only one whose movements have never
been modified; they are also the moBt singular
aud original, resembling those of none of the
other. He goes from his own square to the
second from bim of an opposite color, passing tho
square directly betore, behind, or on either side
ot him, to the one diagonally situated either to
the ripht or tne left of it. In doing tb's, he only
is at hbcity to leap over either bis own pieces
or a his i adversary's. Ihe sole condition re
quisite is that the square to which he moves be
vacant or oecupied by an enemy's piece.
The peculiarity of the knight s move has civen
rise to a curious problem, whose origin is lost in
that convenient hiding place, tne night of aie.
Tbe knight's problem consists In making him
move to every one of the squares of the chess
board without alighting on the same square
twice. Two thousand years aso the Brahmins
had a way of doing it, which they seem to have
kept a secret known only to their own caste,
transmitting it from generation to generation.
Modern travellers in the Indian Peniusula have
seen the teat performed by priests, who refused
to communicate the clue to their method. About
tbe middle of the last century the question at
tracted the attention, of the leerried; and in 17");)
the Berlin Academy ot Sciences offered a prize
of 160 for the best treatise ou the subject.
Since that date many have been the solutions
given, some even overcoming an increase ot the
original difficulty; thus the Abbe Dtirand aud
ne fcSolvyus, or Slyvons, ma le the knight start
trom any indicated square, to tiniFh on any other
indicated square of the opposite color to the
tirst. The latter author demonstrated mathe
matically that there xi:'t 20,1 different ways
of resolving the kuiehts problem. Troupenai
made the knight traverse the chessboard in fvo
series of moves; tho tirst series completely over
running the thirty-two lower squares; the second
series the thirty-two upper ones. Morever, at
the sixty-fourth square the knight is exactly
within a move of the tirst. Van der Monde also
gave a solution w ith a like termination.
We give three cities to this chequered laby
rinth, in order somewhat to satisfy our readers'
ruriocily. In the first, the knight starts from
tbe square numbered 1, then to 2, then to 3,
and so on, till he arrives at 04, the square con
THE DAILY EVENING IELEGKaHI. PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY,
tiguous to that
travels:
from which he set out on his
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In the secoiid, Moivre's, he pursue a different
course, finishing on a square remote from his
starting point:
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l 7 I 18 I 45 i 80 I 6 I 10 I 43 I 28 !
It is evident that both these solutions can be
commenced lrom any one of the tour comer
squares ol tbe chessboard.
Ihe third, and the most ingcniius, was pub
lished by Euler, the a lcorat' d mathematician,
in 1760, It is performed as tollows:
42 . 67 44 9 ,40 21 43 "7 "
j f Id 41-58 45 i 8 3D 20 !
1 12 I 43 . 60 61 i 22 i 59 6 ;"47!
' 63 54 11 . 80 ' 25 28 19 !j
; f2 1.13 i2 27 CO 23 . 43 jo!
; 3 04 31 24 29 2li 87 "liT
14 S3 2 51 16 85 4 .49
I 1 I 52 15 31 3 E0 17 "&T
This set of moves has the signal merit of re
turning on it; elt, or being endless. At square til
the knlaht is within a move ol equaio I. With
the rou i? well impressed on jour memory, you
niny make the kuigiit start lloni any indicated
squaie on the chessboard. Suppose square 2$
to be fixed on; you have only to move to square
29, and so on till square 27 be reached, when the
board will have been completely traversed.
The piece which we call bishop is named bv
the Fiench fori, meaning thereby not "madman,"
but tool, jester, or buffoon, as appears, amonust
other proofs, lrom a chess masquerade danced
before Ht-nry IV, in 1607.
"The order thereof was this: Two men,
masked, spread a great cloih chessboard, whose
squaieswere red and w hite, each about a loot
and a half in width.
"After that the violins sounded, and two
dressed in Spanish costume. c:ich with a loni
wand in their hand, entered ditneing a bald of a
grave measure, and then placed themselves each
on a camp-stool on opposite sides of the hall.
When they were seated, to another air (if halct
entered the eieht carnaiion-coiored pawns. They
were little children, who danced very prettily,
and who performed amongst themselves a bakl
of sundry and diverse figure". At the last tigure
each took rank on bis square. The eight white
pawns had also their own proper balrt, differing
in airs, steps, and figures. These took their
places straieht in l"ont of the others. The four
rocs made their entry, and, niter several tiirurc,
stationed themselves behind the pawns, each on
his proper square. In like manner the knights
danced their entry, and ranged themselves in
their places. Also the fools, aimed with baubles
and buckler" in hand, with a certain torm of
combats and different figures, betook themselves
into their squares."
The Abbe Itomain, in his poem on chcs,
says:
"Au jea d'echecs tons Ics reupls ontmis
Leg aniiaaux cummui.i dans lour nays:
L'Arabe y amut le leger dromuduire.
Et l'lndien t'olephant; quant a nous,
l'euplo lulut, nuns y muttons den to us "
"Amone their chessmen, nations have put the
animal6 common in their country. The Arab
takes the Iiaht dromedary, and the Indian the
dephnnt; as for us, a comical people, we employ
fools."
Vida, in hi6 Latin pnero, "Scacchia Indus,'
which has been greatly admired, culls the
bishops sagitliiin juveum, archers, a title very
suitable to their diagonal movements. Among
Charlemagne's chessmen, preserved in Ihe Abbey
ot S1. Denis, the bishop was represented as about
to let an arrow fly. m ,
Turk'sh and Arabian chessmen, in obedient
tc religious scruples, never imitate the forms of
men or animals. The Abbe Todcrini saw a set
made of oriental agate, enriched with gold. In
Persia he found a creator tolerance of graven
..mages on chessboards. An elephant (our castle)
lu:d two men on bis baeif ; and the kins was en
shrined, as it were, in an elaborate kiosk, belve
dere, or bov cr. Loudun ilockly.
Observations Upon Wine.
From a rcadaule article in the Cincinnati Com
mercial on wine, we extract: The precise origin
ot the Catawba grape is not known, although it
is supposed to derive its name lrom the Cataw ha
river, in North Carolina. It was first brought
proniuiently into notice about torty years siucp,
by Major John Adlum, a well-kuon American
wine-grower, who found it iu the garden of a
Cerman, near Washington, D. V. The most cele
brated grape now grown in North Carolina is
not the Catawba, but the Scuppernong. The
yield ol this variety is prodigious, and it is said
that 2UH0 10 I'.OOO gallons ol wine per acre have
been made iroui it. This sounds rather apocry
phal, when it is considered that the average
yield ot the vineviirds ot France (the most pro
lific w ine country in the world) does not exceed
2U0 gallons per acre that, in this .iciuity, it is
au uncommonly hue vineyard which yields H00
gallons ot Catawba wine to the acre. Dr. Mosher
givts Buncombe county, North Carolina, as the
oiifin ot our Catawba: but we never supposed
anything halt so good could have come lrom
Buncombe, which we should rather credit with
such stories as the above about the yield of the
Scuppernong.
There are over ore hundred varieties of Ame
rican grapes, the most f which are of little
value tor cultivation. The kinds chiefly grown
in the West are ihe Catawba, Cape, Isabella,
Herbeinont, and Missouri, the tortner being by
far the niott vulueble and successful, and, in
fact, tbe only one grown on a large scale for
wine. Our wne is quite distinct in character
from any of Earopemi oriirin, having a peculiar
musky flavor, which is displeasing to mauy when
firBt tasted, thoueb. preferred by some, aud, alter
long ufc, relished by mof-t w ine-driukers. The
California red wines have become, of late years,
somewhat noMl, but they are, in character, less
pure and whole.-oiue than the wiues of Ohio.
The American w ines are none of them rich iu
alcohol, containing, in ta'H, the smallest per
centage of spirit oi any w ine in tbe world. The
following table now shows the relative percent
age of alcohol in tome of the principal w ines in
Use:
Vet cent, of
Alcuhul.
Port Wine 23
Aimlciru 22
Cherry 20
Knrruady 20
Claret. 13
Catawba 9 to 11
Ihe white Khinc wines, hawever, must be ex
cepted lrom the abuvc statement, as tucy contain
from eight to ten per cent, of alcohol.
A voiinp niiin mimed Julius Merritt, ot Cam
bria, Michigan, ace dentally shot himself on Fri
day night, while Mowing into the muzzle of
his gun. The charge passed into his mouth
and out of the back of his bead, killing him in
stantly. Mr. I-link, a neighbor, aced about
sixty years, who was sent for to come to Mer
ritt's, s to oxen-cine by the occurrence that
he dropped read at the gate just before he
racbtU tbe sen t ct the accident
j PnOPOSALS.
jMHEAClTE COAL FOR THE NAVT,
Navt Di"4TMnr, )
ErjRtAC o Eqcipmhut and Krcruitinci, J
, December 2fl, lWVi. I
Pealed Proposals for fnrnihlrjr Anthraoite ( oal
for the Navy, to te delivered flnrinr the balance of
the flscsi jtar ending 8th June. 1866. will be re
eivod at this buroaa until 10 o'clock A. M 23d
Jauuaiy. 1866.
Tim so proposals mast be endomsd "rroponals for
Anthraoite Coal lor Htemners." that tliey may be
aictinpuithed lrom other business letters
I he Oder most be lor tho delivery of 60(0 tons, ot
2240 ponnan.
I I e ci al mast be of tln t est Bnck Monntain or
Black lieuth. or ol a kind equal to them In all ro.
spects, lor ihe purpose intendi!, which eqnnhtT will
he deipimiTtco bv a Itoard appoiMcd tr the Secre
tary ol th Navy afti r tlie reception ol tho bids.
Ihe name of the coal proposed to be lurnished
must le stated in tho oflur.
It fa to be delivered in lunps of nitable size tor
naval steamer", clean, ot uniform qnanty, solocted
frrelrom impurities, nnn ixed, of which the con
tractor will I e required to InrnfMi inch evidence as
will he tatisfactorr, ard bo subject to such inspec
tion as to quality and quantity aa the Department
may dliect 'Ihe coal muai, in ah respects, be satls
lnctery lo the nippector or mrnectorsto be appointed
by tho tnreau, who will have the rlht of peremptory
rejection.
Tho coal is to he delivered on boa' d vessels, at
nch plnce in the port of New York an may be desia.
nated by the Bureau, and in such quantitit and at
snch timet as. In tho opinion of the Bureau, tho
exipft iK of the service may require; commencing
when t lie vrrrel is reported readv to receive earj?o;
furiimhltif, il dmandcd otieithan lOOOtnnsper
day, to be i1intiiLiucd to card vessel, as moy be di
rected, until the loading is eompletod.
In the ease of failure to deliver the cat In proper
qnanntv, of the prntirr qna'Py, and at the proper
lime and place, the bureau will reserve in the con
tract tl e rieht to purcl ase forthwith, at tti coo
tiEdor's ripk and cxpee-e. that which may seem
ntccpenrv to supply the oeticipncy.
Artv rkniurruire or other charges to Which Ihe
Ksvy l ei nrtnienl mur be subjected from do'av In
tho promt t de ivery of the coal by the contractors
wi l le d;'Jiicied from tluir bills.
1 he j rice must be tor the conl delivered on toird
tpjhiIh, on the terms and conditions above sia'td
at tho contiacior's r if 1; and expense, and without
cxtin ci nrcc ol anv klrd.
Ihe (flcr. as nqimpd bv 'aw. must be accoirpa
ni it 1 y a wiittcu juiithiiteo, sicned bv one or more
responsible persons, to the elli ct that they under
take tl at the bidder or bidders will, if his orthpir
bid leaeceptdl. f ntfr n. to obturation, ar. snch tune
nsmny be prcsclbid bv tho Bureau, with good and
ftiilxiect securities, to lun.ish the supplies pro.
posed.
Jio proposition will be considered unless aecom
pnnieo bv snch jrunrantee; and the liennrtiiient re.
ri ves ihe richt to reject nil ti e oilers, if considered
to lo to the inteie-t of tho si'rvico to do so.
Iwo or more sureties each in a fum equal to tho
amount spccithd to be paid will ho required to
siFii tie coiitrnct, and their responsibility will bo
certilled bv a United States District Jiidce. C'nitod
Stntis liislrict Attorney, Collector, or Kavy Airont.
As additional and collateral security, twenty par
rent, will be witl held from tho amount of all pay
mi nts, which reservation is not to be paid, except
by authority ot tlie erretary of the Navy, until tho
contract shall have been in ail respects compiled
with; and the remaining eighty per cent, or other
s n eunt that rrny I e due uron each bill, will, when
a propt r certificate is lurnis hod by the inspector, and
tho bill approved by tho Bureau, be paid by such
navy Bp uts as tho contractor niav name, wilhin ton
days atiertLe warrants lor the same shall have becu
passed bv fie Secretary ol tho Treasury.
It w ill be stipulated in the contract that if deta-ilt
be made in iho delivery of the conl In the quan
tity or the quality, and at the p ace and timo di
r'ctedby the burenii then, and in that case, tho
contractor and l is sureties will lorleit and pay to
the Li ited Slates, ns liquidated damages, a sum of
money not ixcceding twice tho contract price,
which may bo recovered from time to time, accord
ing to the act or acts of Congiess in that caeo pro
vided. '
Biddi rs whose pronorals Bhall be accepted, and
nom other, will bo notified, and, as early as prac
ticable, a contract will bo tram-mitted to them,
which tin y will be required to execute within ton
daysallPi its receipt at the ptst ollice or navy agency
named by them.
J fe form of offer, guarantee, and certificate id here
with iilven:
KORM OF OlFFfiK.
I (or we), or , Mate ot , hereby agree to
furnish and oelivi thousand Ions of an-
thraeiic coal tor steamers' use, at , at tho rate
of per ton ol 2240 ponnds, amounting to
dohurs, the whoie in coi loimilv with the provisions
and terms of tho adveifw icont ot the 20ih nay of
Urcemher, 1806, lrom tho Kavy Department, and
lieu unto appended
Should my (or ourl offer !bo accepted. I (or wo)
request to bp inarmed at , and ibat th cos
tract rrny be forwarded to tor signatures aud
ceriitican s.
(I ace.) (Signed) A. B.
(La.e)
FOI5M OF GUARANTEE.
We, the undMsigiied residents oi , in the
Stuteol , and of , in the St ito of ,
hero bv jrintly and severally covenant with tho
Unned States, and guarunteo that iu case tho fore
going biu of le accepted. will, within
len oays alier the receipt of the contract at ,
exci ule the same, with eood and sullicieut sureues
lor the elivtr.v of tlio antt.racito coal proposed, ir
comp itmeo with tho terms ol tho advertiie'inent ol
the 2iith Uec- mber, 18(15, hereto aptientled, and undet
which it was made; and iu otsnihesaid shal'
tail to enter into tho conl met aforesaid, wo guaran
tee to make good lho dilleieuco between tho oiler ol
tl.e said , and that wuicli may be accepted.
Witness, (Signed), C. D.
(llace) E.p,
(Hate)
1 hereby crtily that, to the lest of my knowledge
arabehcl, tne above-named guuiaulors, aud
are i;ood and suilicient.
(t-igncd), G. II.
To fco signed by the t'nifed States District -udgo,
United States District Aitoruey, Collector, or .Navy
Agent. 122tu4t
ASSISTANT G.UAIilEHMASTER'8 OFFICE.
1 liiLAMLCiiiA Dti-oT, Junuary t), lWirt.
Sealed Troponins will be received at this Ollico
until 12 o'clock M., SATURDAY, January 13, 1800,
lor tLo delivery at tho United States btorohoue,
lianover street wharf. 1'hilade phia, properly
packed and leady for transportation the following
UcrcriLed Quarter matter's Stored, viz.:
H O l'aiut Blushes, lrom 4 to 6 O. best Clinton's,
26 t. arMsb Biuthea, aborted, lest Clinton's.
ytC'oal Oil Lamps, JS'o. 2, bonr, lor ollico desks.
It 0 Lamp Chimneys, coal oil, Mo. 2.
1()0 do. do. do., io. 2).
1(1 dokeu Lamp Wicks, do , 1 j inch wide.
10 grocs Wicks, Nos. 1 and 2.
8 gross "Wicks, 1 inch whlo.
1,810 pounds Manilla Hope, i inch wide, for Wagon
Covers.
2 dozen Chamois Skms.
bli barrels Coal Oil, in very best barrels.
10 lands Sperm Oil, in voiy best barrels.
6 gallons t usior Od.
10,110 pouiuls While .Load, in oil, Lewis', In 25, 50,
anu 100-i ouiid kegs.
2 000 pound l'titty, iu 2u0-pouud kegs.
l.CCO pcuiuig Venetian lied, in oil, in 3, 6, and 10
pound caiu.
4(0 pounds Chrome Yellow, in oil, In 8, 5, aud Id
pound caiu.
800 pouuiis l atent Dryer, in oil, in 3, 5, and 10
pound cans.
5 barrels Spirits of Turpentine in tight and best
barrels.
2 pounds rulvenzed I'uinlco Stone.
2 Luno s Japan Drying, Lexr Thrptutiue.
1 pron one-pi und Tucking Itott es.
- gns two-otiud l acking Butties.
2 giOcB l an e l!ott;o Corks.
2 pioss Vial Corks.
All ol the above-named articles to I e of the best
quality, and to bo subject to inspection.
feamplch of the ai helm bid lor must be delivered
at the li.itcd Mate Warehouse, llANOVii.lt
STittLT W1IAKK, twcutyiour hours previous to
ihe opening ol the bidB.
Bidders will please state tho time or dolivory of
article.) bid lor.
Each bid must be guaranteed by two responsible
ersoiis, whoso sigi aiuros must bo appended to the
guarantee, and ceititied to as hem if good and sufli
eient secuiily tor tho amount involved, by the
United Mates District Judge, Attorney, Collector,
or oi lit r public officer.
The right is reserved to reject any bid doomod too
hifch, and no bid from a delimiting contruoior will
le received.
All propesa's to 1 o made out on the regular lorms,
which win be furnished on application at thisotiice.
By order ot
Colonel V), W. McKIM.
. hief Quarter ma-sier,
l'hiludo phia Depot.
HENRY KOWllAW,
1 10 ot Captain aud A. Q. M.
N
JEW MUSIC STORE. -WILLIAM II
1 BOSIR CO .
i- . JIMCHE8KUT Ntrtet.
nralen Id Auierlon aod Foreign Music; Pianos, Melo.
fleons.snd Musioal IustrumcnUof a 1 kinds i . a suite
rtcrjuulu of buius cututly on Loud. 1113iu
PROPOSALS.
'1 JtKARUKY DEPARrjaKNT, OFFICE LIUIU
X ilOUSK 1 OAHD.
Wasiihotoii Citt, Jannary 0, 18G.
Fealod Froposaia win be reepivedat this olDce
nntil 1 o'e ork 1. M., on FRIDAY, ttho9ih day of
lebiuary, lblid, for supplying the Lignt-Dotie luda
Dhshmcnt with sixty ihousand gallons of the best
quality Dure fV inter Strained Oil, either lrd or
Sperm, to be divined into tour lots, and to be de
livered at the times nndormoutioned, alongside of
ihe Government supply vessels, or at tho warououso
or other place of deposit, to be doslgnatpd by the
Inspecting Ofllcrr, or other ant' prized agont of tho
Light-home Hoard, in strong, tight, iron-bound,
we.i-mado casks, tuitable lor shipping, in good order,
ot a capacity raca ol from fifty to eighty mllons
not to exceed tho Utter. Tho O.l may be de ivcred
at Boston or Npw York, at tbe option of the bidders,
Ihe i lace or dohvtry in each caso must bs dis
tinct y ftatrd in the tuna, anu wil. be embraced in
tbe con ti acts.
The lour lots will be delivered is follows, viz. :
Lot Ho. 1. Fifteon thonsand (15,0 si) gallons on
the 2a day ol April, 1B86, or as soon thereafter as tbe
proper teats and gauging ean be completed.
LotKo. 2. Filtoen thousand (16,10) gallons on
the 10th day ot April. 1K06, or as soon thernaltcr as
the proper testa aud gauging can bo eomplotod.
Lot o. 8. Fifteen thousand (16,000) gallons on tho
1st day of June, 1866, or as soon thereafter as tlie pro
per tests and gauging can be comple ed.
Lot. No. 4. Kb teen thousand (16,000) gallon on
the 1st day of August, IBM, or as booh ttiereaitcr as
tbe pro ur tots and gauging can be completed.
Separato proposals will be reooivnd at thesamo
time lor COCO gallons of Colza or Lard Oil, to be de
livered ns above supnlafed, at Detroit, Michigan, on
the Ut dav nl May. 1800
No bid will bo considered unlets Item a manufac
turer ol the article.
Ix o part of the Oil proposed for and to be embraced
in tho contracts uuder tins adver'iscment will bo
accepted, received, or paid tor, until it shall have
been proved, to the entire aat.staction ot tho person
or vcrsi ns charged with its examination, tost, aud
inspection, to le ol the best quilitv pore xViuter
S lamed Oil. and iree from mixture with other or
mierior oi s and admteratious.
I be usual meat s lor determining the character and
qua ily cl tlio oieiiii.Ui wiil be employed, viz : spo
ntlo tiavlty, burning, the amount of rusiuuiim. aud
any oiler proper tests to arrive at correct conclu
sions that niav be deemed necessary.
lie Lurd O.l will bo subjected to special tests, and
will le rejected unless louud to be, in regard to burn
ing and fluidity uodtr redue.ion of temperature, aud
iu every other respect equal to that of the standard
adopted by the lleaid, oi which a sample will bo lur
nished on application t tho Light house Engineer at
ISoMon, Masi-aehusetts.
The casks must be guaged, under the direction aud
pei soi a; supervision of thu Inspecting Officer, b a
custom house or other legally auihonzod aud sworn
gamier, accoiding to the l ulled States standard, and
must be marked and accepted belore thoy are re
moved tiom the collar or warehouse of tho contrac
tor. Ihe tcmi.crati.ro of tho Oil will bo accurately
noted, aud the meat-oi oinents rciuced to the staudard
temperature ot 60 deg. Fahrenheit, by tables pro
pared lor the purpose.
1 reposals will bo received and considered for each
lot separately, or lor all ot tho bus, at the option of
the bidder; but no bid will be considered for a less
quantity thau that spooilied as one iot, to be de
livered at one time and placo. Each bid ninst a'atn
explicitly, written out in full, tho kind of oil ofTorod,
whet' er Sperm, Laid, or Colza, the ratn per gadon,
the number ol tlio lot or lots bid tor, and the placo of
delivcty, conforming to this advertisement. -
Bid suba itted by different mom bora oi tho same
firm or copartnership will not bo considered.
The Light-house Hoard, under tho authority of the
Deparment, reserves the right to reject any bid, al
though it may be tho lowest, lor other considera
tions than tho price.
IS o bid will lo considered for any other kind or
description ol oil than those specially called lor in
this advertisement.
A bond, with security to tho satisfaction of the
Depart mint, iu a penalty oqtml to one-fourth of the
amount of each cuutiact mudo under tbeso pro
posals, will be required of each contractor, con
uitioiicd lor tho laithinl performance ot the contract,
to be executed within ten days alter tho acceptance
of the lid.
Each offer must be accompanied by a written guar
antee, signed bv one or more responsible persons, and
known to the Depanment as such, or certified by a
United ISfatcs district indue, attorney, navy agent,or
collector ol tbe customs, to the e fleet that, if tho bid
bo accepted, tho bidder will duly exoruie a contract
in good laith, according to the provisions and terms
of this advertisement, within ten days a It or accept
ance; and that in cane the said party otfonug shall
fail to enter into the contract as aforesaid, he or they
guarantee to ninko good the difference bttweon tho
oiler of the said arty and the next lowest biddor.
All bids must be sealed and endorsed ' l'roposals tor
011 lor Lht-houses," and then placed in another
envelope, ard rbroctod, prepaid, to tho Secretary ot
thp Lighr-hoii?e Hoard, tVashington Citv.
All bids will be opened, publicly, at tne hour and
on tho dav specified.
laj ments will be made for the aovsral lots of oil
within thirty daj a alter they shall have been re
ceived by Ihe United States.
H v order of tho I.ight-houso Hoard.
1 11 25t ANDREW A. IIAUWOOD, Secretary.
Ol FK E OF THE DEI'OT QUARTERMASTER"
ioai Leavknwouth, Kansas, I
December 19, 1S05. J
riiorosALs for army transportation.
Sealed Proposals will bo recoived at tuis otlioe uuul
12 o'cioek ou the 81st day of January, 1800, lor the
J rausportatioii ot Anlitary Supplies during the year
lJ-'tJO, op the lollowiug routes;
liou'lK Kq.,1. From Forts Leavenworth, Laramie,
aud Kney, und oilier depots that may boustubiished
during the above year ou the west ban of tho Mis
souri rivi r, north ol Fort Ltaveuworth and south of
latitude 42 degrees north, to any posts or stations
that ure oi may be established in tho Territories or
NeLrnn, Dacoiah, Idaho, aud Utah, south ot lati
tude 41 uegr-cs north, ana east oi longitude 111 do.
greesxyesf; and in tho Territory of Colorado north
cl 40 degrees north. Ladders to state tho rate per
100 pounds per 100 miles at which they will trans
port saiu stoics in each of the mouths lrom April to
September inc usivo, oi the ear 1800.
litL'TK Iso. 2 F'lom I'orts Leavenworlh and
Rilcv, in the state of Kansas, aud the town of Kan
sas, in the State of .Missouri, to any posts or stations
that are or may be established in tho Siato ot Kan
sas, er in tho Territory ol Colon-do, south of lati
tude 40 degrees north, drawing supplies lrom Fort
Leuvenxvorth ; and to Fort Union, N. M., or other
depot that may bo desiguatedin that Territory, to
F ort Gar and, and to any other point or points on
the route, liidders to stato tho rato per 100 pounds
per ToO nines at which thoy will transport said stores
in each ol tho months lioin April to September in
clusive, el tho year 18C0.
Route No. 3. From Fort Union or such other
depot as may be established in tho Territory of New
Mexico, to any isists or stations that are or may be
established in that Territory, and to such po.-ts or
stations as may be 'cmguujicd in tlio Territory of
Arizona and State of Texas, west of longitude 105
degrees wost bidders to stato Iho rate per 100
pounds per 100 miles at which they wnl trauspurt
said stores iu each of tho months noui Juno to No
ve mber inclusive, of tho year 1800.
The weight to bo transported each yeai-witl not
exceed 10,000,1,00 pounds ou Kouto No. 1, 1 ',000,000
pounds on Kouto No. 2, aud 0,000,000 pouuda on
Route No. 3
No additional percentage will bo paid for the
transportation ol bacon, lard, bread, pino lumber,
shingiPS. or any other stoics.
ladders should give their names in full, as well as
their places of rosidenco, and each proposal should
le accompanied by a bond in tho sum of ten thou
sand dollars, Bignod by two or more rosponsiblo
persons, guaranteeing that, iu case a contract is
warned for the roir.e mcntiom d iu tiio proposal to
tho parties proposing, tlio contract will bd acoepted
and entered into, and gone! und sullicieut security
lurnished by said part as, in acooruuuoe with the
terms of this advert semcut.
T he Qinount of bonds icquircd lrom tho contrac
tors will bo as follows:
On Route No. 1 $100,000
" " 2 200,0o0
" " 8 00.000
Satisfactory evidence of tho loyahy aud solvency
ol each I iduer aud pel eon ottered as security will bo
equued.
1 1 ero: als miiBt be indorsed :
1 reposals lor Army Transportation on Route No.
1,' '2 ' or '3 ' " as the case may be, and none will be
entertained unless they fully comply with all the ro
Cjiiireiiieiits of this advertisement.
fames to whom awards are made must be pro
pared to execute contracts at once, and to give tho
required bonds lor tho laitbiui perlormuuco of tho
Ruine.
Contracts will bo mado subject to tho approval of
the Ouarteimafter-Opueral ; but tho ricrht is reserved
lo reject any or all bids thut may bo oll'jrcd.
Contractors must bo in radimes for service by the
let day of April, 1800 and thoy will be required to
havo a placo oi business or agon at or in l no vlci
nitr of forts Lcuvonworth nil Union, and oihoi
depots that may be esiublislmd. at which thoy may b
communicated with promptly and readily.
By ordoi ol tho QuartoruiasUjr Clouorni.
J. A 1'OfTER
12 12 S3 Colonel and Chief Quartermaster.
TTWY. STAMP AGENCY", NO. 304 CHFSNOT
J Bl KKET, A HOVE Till Hi, WILL BE CONTItfUkD
"mffi oKVtRY PKRCRITTION CONST VTf-T
ON UAhl ASD IK AH t AA10C.NT. 11 IS
JANUARY 11 18CG.
MARSHAL'S SALES.
MRFjriAL'8 RALK.BY VIRTUE OF A
writ of sale by the Hub. John Cadwatader,
Judge cl the D strict Court ol the liuUe4 States lor
the Eastern District of rennsylvanfa, to u;dirpeted,
will be sold at public ale, to Ihe highest tod bent
hldrter. for cah on the premise. S. K. corn prof
Bit OA D and WALLACK Streets, on 1 UURS
DA I, the 18th day ol Jannary, A. D. 180fl, at 12
O'clock M. : ' .
85 barrels Smoking Tobacco. t ;
' 1 Roger Steam Rollor.
2 Rogor Uottlm? llaohines.
l Koeer I'ress.
1 Stram Engine and Gauge.
1 I'lattorm Scale
2 lines Shafting and Belting.
1 DrcFslng Table.
1 tin Can.
1 Hox aud Tools.
2 Stoves.
T Emp'y Parrels.
8 Empty Half Parrels.
1 barrel pure Yara ; 1 bale, CO pounds.
4 box L qaorice 1 aete.
1 lot Stems.
1 Vice.
1 Tress and Rnxe.
1 Drayton Maehtnp.
1 Drying Apparatus (pipes),
lCofloo ihll.
1 Scae.
6 Sievea.
1 I a bio.
1 racking Table and contents,
P half barrels t hewing lot acco.
26 Iba. l'ulverized Luinorioe
9 cases and 4 lbs kil ikinick.J
124 Il ls. Smoking Tobacco.
6 bMs., part In il. Stems ot Tobacco.
17 bbls. Sipm Tobacco.
8 half bbls , part full, Chewing lot acco,
262 lbs. ba!ed lobacco.
i lb'. Morta
2t0 It a. I
broken Stems.
Empty Barrel.
2 cases Stom Pmokinc.
1 lot Drvlng Frames and Racks,
1 let Steam I'ipcs.
2 Shovols.
1 Fork.
1 Stove.
1 ream large Wrapping Taper.
20 mptv Hall Barrels
10,672 11 s. Smoking Tobacco.
1 case Dusi r Hmrts.
1 hhd. Leal Tobacco, with sample, No. 6fi BHJ5
1 hhd. Leal Tobacco, with sample, No. 21 47'
1 hhd. Leaf Tobacco, with sample, No. 20 8R2.
1 hhd. Leaf Tobacco, with sample, No. 65 987
1 hhd. l.cat Tobacco. No. 68,401. ' '
1 hhd. p'craps, No 68 277.
J hhd. Uaf Tobacco, No. 62 2S2.
1 hhd. Leaf Tobacco, No. 71 679.
1 hhd. lat Tobacco, No. 68.009.
lblid Leaf Tob'ioco, No. 63 204.
1 hhd. Leaf Tobacco, No. 70,623.
4 hbd. Leaf Tobacco, No. 68 4(KV
1 hhd. Leaf Tobacco, No 63008.
1 hhd lxaf Tobacco, No. 60,761.
1 hhd. Scraps.
10 hhd. Sterna. 8 R., No. 211, 20(1, 205, 198, 212.
j r 108. 201, 208. SW. 212.
2(10 pounds Scraps.
200 pounds Stems.
10') Staves
1 Lot Samples.
1 Elevator.
2 Hoisting boxes.
2 Casing boards.
1 Drying apparatus.
79 barrels Smok'ng Totacco.
1 Df sk. drawers and can's.
1 1'air Scales.
1 t-iBfe.
3 Chairs.
1 Move.
1 Iron Hat Rack.
1 liCtter Press.
821 lbs. Heartsease Smoking Tobacco.
260 Iba. r-kating Club do do
277 lbs. I'ure Yara do do
1 Steam Boiler.
1 Shalting and Belt.
2 Grindstones.
3 Cases Seed Leaf Tobacco, 629, 08, 560.
1 Lot coal one ton.
1 Horse.
1 Fusiness Wagon.
1 Sot Harness.
1 ttraw Cutler
2 Buckets, and other small ar'iclcs
V. C ELLMAKER,
United States Marshal,
Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
rhlladolphla. January 2. 1860. 1 8wfm8t
MARSHALL SALE. BY VIRTUE OFA
writ of sale, by the Hon JOHN CADWAL ADER,
Judge of the District Court of the United Htates in and
for the Kasicrn District of Pennsylvania, tome directed,
will be sold at public sale to the highest and best bidder,
for cash, at Powell Heigpr & Co 'a store. No. 17 N
Front street, at 12 o'clock M. on FRIDAY, the 19th day
ol January. 18UH. TWKN1Y THOUSAND CIGAItJ,
packed in one tenth boxes.
yt P- 0 TTXMAKEK.
, Pl. ?r,,11a, for Tastern District ot I'eJina.
Philadelphia. January 8, lB6tt. 1 4 fhstubt
FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF SAFES
'pIE FIRE IN CIIESXUT STREET
Letter frcm "Wells, Fargo & Co.
SllVio SAVED IN HERRING'S rATNT SAFE.
rniLADRLruiA, January 2, 186B.
SlEssns. Fabiifx, Hr.KiiiNO & Co. Gentlemen : We
have Just opened our Safe, eno of your manufacture,
which passed through the destructive fire In Cbesnut
street, last night. The Safe was In our office, No. 61)7,
which building was entirely destroyed. The Sa'e was In
a warm place, as you may well suppose, and was red
hoi when taken out of tho embers. We are well satisfied
n 1th the result of this trial, and rind our books, papers,
and some ten thousand dollars In money almost as per
fect as when put in tbe Hafc. .Nothing Is Injured, It we
except the leather bindings of tho books, which aro
fcteauitd; the money and papers areas good as ever.
Truly yours,
WELLS, FARCJO & CO.,
Per J. H.COOK, Agent.
The abeve Safe can be Been at our store.
FAREEL, HERRING & CO.,
1 1 Mo. 629 CHE 91s UT t-TBEET.
ANOTHER, TK8T
HEERISO'S FIBE-PRCOT SAFES.
THE TIERT OHDEAL FASHED TRIUMPHANTLY
The Herring hale I'se d In the office of onr warehouses,
destroyed by the disasUoua Ure ot the msbt of the nth
insiunt, v as subjected to as intense heat aa probably
any sate will ever be subjected In any dre go Intense
thut the brass knobs and mounting of the exterior 01
Hume were melted off and the whole surface scaled and
blistered aa If it bad been In a furnace, aud yet when
opened the contents books and papers weie iound to
be entire aud uninjured
This Hale Is now on exhibition In onr warehouse on
Seventh street, wl b the books and papers still remain
mg In It just as it was when taken from tbe ruins. Mrfr
cliHiits. PunkeiB, and others Interested In the protection
ot their hooks and papers are Invited to coll andu
amine it. J. P. BAi THOLOXV,
A tent tor Herring's Ha'ea,
1 1 No f88 SEVENTH St.. Wasblnuton. 1. O
WEATHER STRIPS.
R O W N E ' S
METALLIC WEATHER STRIPS
AUD
WINDOW BANDS
ritEVENT BATTLING OS1 SASH,
A nd totullv exclude Dust, Noise, and Odor in summer,
as well aa Cold, Wind, and Bain In winter, lrom uoora
and windows of every description, without Interfering
with their lice ae at all times.
WARRANTED dOOD FOR FIVE YEARS,
For Chcnlara, with Price List, itelereutes, Ltc,
eddrcti the Metallic Weather (Strip Company.
DAVID II. LOSEY, Sole Aoent,
II 23thstii2m No. 38 S. FIFTH STREET, Fhllada.
O W E N HOUSE,
LATE "WABKHAM'S HOTEL."
ON TUB I
EI'ROPKAN PLAN.
ADJOININO WILI,ABl'8 I10TIL,
WAHllItllON, 1). O.
12Wlm THOMAB P JACKH, Proprietor.
J. L. CAPEN, PHRENOLOGIST, 8U0
. eersor lo Fowler, WeUa Co., oivea written and
verbal description of character with Charts,
daily, at-
liaiumiin Xe. 29 8. TENTH Btreeb
financial:
U, .'8 JSU-U Kl'f lisS
a -
A SPECIALTY.
SMITH, RANDOLPH & CO.,
BANKERS & BROKERS,
16 S. THIRD ST., 3 NASSAU ST.,
I
FHlLADELFniA. ' NEW YOKK.
STOCKS " AND GOLD
BOUGHT AND SOLD OX COMMISSION.
IIIEIIEST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS. 1 a
STOCK BROKER,
No. 39 S. THIRD STREET,
(ROOM No. 4).'
Government, State, and Other Loan:
and Stocks Bought and Sold
on Commission.
BTECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO H
GOVERNMENT SECURITIES!
II
A 11 V E K, D U II X E Y & C O.,
BANKERS,
STOCK A2D EXCHANGE BROKERS,
No. 55 S. THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
Stocks and Loam bonsrht and sold on Commission,
I nennent Bank Notes, Coin, Etc., bought and sold.
Special attention paid to the purchase and sale of
Oil Stocks. Deposits received, and Interest allowed,
as per agreement. 12 1 8m
5'20s-
7"30s,
WANTED.
IDE HAVEN fe BROTHER
l-T ito. 40 S. THIKD STBIET.
gMITII, llANDOLm & CO.,
No. 18 S. THIRD STREET,
Bankers and. Brokers.
Specie, Blocks, Quartermasters' Yanehert and
Checks, aad all Goveraaieat BeeuriUei Boaght and
Bold. i.io
STOVES RANGES, &o.
C U L V E R S
New Patent Deep Sand-Joint
HOT-AIR FURNACE.
RANGES OFALL SIZES.
Also, Phlegar's New Low Pressure
Steam Heating Apoaratus.
yon BALK ST
641r
CHARLES WILLIAMS, '
No. 1132 MARKET STREET.
LIQUORS.
CHESNUT GROVE WHISKY.
MEKIT ALWAYS ITS OWJf REWARD.
An article poseaaslBg Merit will always conquer preju
dice, abuse, villfleatton, aud aught that envjr,
hatred, or malice can impose upon IL
CHESNUT CROVE WHISKY
Is a strong evidence of tbe fact Decried by numbers
for what simply If Its merits were known and appre
ciatedit could not tall to become popular other tnlnga
less so In proportion. There is no stimulant giving evl
dense of so much, purity as to produce certificates from
such highly respectable parties as Uessrs. Booth, Gar
ret, and Camao, of Philadelphia ; L. B. Chilton, Mew
York ; and Dr. A. L. H ayes, Boston.
For Nervous Debility, and all diseases requiring a pure,
mild stimulant, there is nothing like It. For sale by
bottle, demijohn, or barrel, at
11 MO- i3ij5 N. THIRD STREET.
NATHANS &.SONS,
IMPORTERS OP
OP
BRANDIES, WINES, GINS, Etc.
No. 19 N. FRONT STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
MOSES NATHANS,
HOKACK A. NATHANS,
OKLANDO D. NATHANS. B 20 ly
nunrraovoBiB or
LOOKING-GLASS,
' PORTRAIT,
PHOTOGRAPH,
AND
PICTURE FRAMES,
AND GILT MOULDINGS'
No. 929 ARC II STREET,
rniLADELKlIA. '
PAINTINGS, AND A GREAT VARIETY
OF ENGRAVINGS ON II AND,
OLD WORK RECILT EQUAL
TO NEW. 11 A 4m
B
RIDESBUBG MACIIINK WORKS,
JfO. M J. FHOKT 8TKEET,
ruiL.lri.rtl!..
We are prepared to nil orders to any extent for our
well ti own
MACHINERY FOB COTTON AKD WOOLLEW MILLS,
Including all recent lmproveuieuM la Caralug, Bpiiialua.
and W eavlog.
We invite the attention of manufacturers to our utsa
afe works.
1 1 ALFBED JESK8