V OUR POLITICAL HISTORY. FAST PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS. TART tit. 15Y JAMKS PARTON. 110 election ever disappointed so 1 1'eiliaps people, and satined so few, as that W.vieli resulted in the elevation of Taylor aud FiLaiore. How Lard for the old friends of Hen."y Clay to give up again the idolized chief Who lad been their standard-bearer In so many hard-tijight contests! The heart of Massaoha setts, tH, was set upon seeing Daniel Webster raised, it length, to the Chief Magistracy of a nation o which they believed him to be the noblest filament. The Whig Convention of 1843 cons.&ed of two hundred aud eighty members, tie hundred and forty-two of whom constituted majority. The first ballot, though not decisive, pi ainly foretold the result . Taylor received one hundred and eleven votes; Clay, ninety-seven; Scott, forty-three; Web ster, twenty-two; scattering, six. The success ful soldier gained at every ballot, and on the fourth secured a majority. Some of the dis contents, headed by Henry Wilson, of Massa chusetts, left the Convention, joined tho Free Soilers, and thus contributed their part to the election of General Taylor, who was, perhaps, of all the men who have filled the Presidential chair by the choice of the people, the one least competent to perform its duties. His adminis tration leaves few traces upon the history of the country, and those few are not favorable to the system of rewarding military services by civil honors. Calhoun, soured by his miserable failures, but not instructed by them, continued to play his sorry game. "The last days of Mr. Polk's administration," says Colonel Benton, "were Witness to an ominous movement nothing less than nightly meetings of large numbers of members from the slave States to consider the . state of things between the North and the South; to show the aggressions and encroach ments (as they were called) of the former upon the latter; to show the incompatibility of their union; and to devise measures for the defense and protection of the South. Mr. Cal houn was at the bottom of this movement, which was conducted with extraordinary pre cautions to avoid publicity. None but slave State members were admitted. No reporters were permitted to be present, nor any specta tors or auditors. As many as seventy or eighty were assembled; but about one-half of this number were inimical to the meeting, and only attended to prevent mischief to the Union, and mostly fell off from their attend , ance before the work was concluded. At the first meeting a grand committee of fifteen (Mr. Calhoun one) were appointed to consider of resolutions: when they met, a sub-committee of five (Mr. Calhoun at their head) was carved out of the fifteen to report an address to the slave States; and when they met, Mr. Calhoun produced the address ready written. So that the whole contrivance of the grand and petty committees was a piece of machinery to get Mr. Calhoun's own manifesto before the publio with the sanction of a meeting." This manifesto was equally preposterous and wicked. It declared that the North was resolved upon the foroible aboli tion of slavery in the Southern States, and drew an awful picture of the fell consequences of such an event, which was well calculated to alarm the igno rant masses whose votes Mr. Calhoun sought. We need not, however, dwell upon the vaga ries of this false, ambitious man; because, although they have since kindled the flame of civil war and filled the land with mourning, they had little to do directly with the nomi nation of candidates for the Presidency. There never was a moment, after the attempted nul lification of 1832, when there was the remotest possibility of a national party putting Mr. Cal houn in nomination for any office whatever. The nullifiers themselves never contemplated it; for their object was never the elevation of . an individual, but always the promotion of an interest. At all times they preferred to pull the cheBnuts out of the fire by a Northern cat's paw. A new character appeared upon the soene. The reoent struggles for power had beea be tween the aged politicians, who derived most of their importance from the favor of General Jackson, and it seemed as though no new man could entertain hopes until their ambition had been satibfled. But an individual now loomed np, who represented the young men of the Democratic party, who was not disposed to j yield the precedence to the grey-haired sires of the last generation. This was Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois. Of the subsequent his tory of the Democratio party, this bold, able, and impatient man was at once the central figure and the impelling force. How interesting, and how instructive also, the story of this man's life t In the autumn of 1833, at a frontier town of Illinois, there was a great auction sale, which drew to the place a concourse from the surrounding country. When the sale was about to begin, the auctioneer looked about in the crowd for a person to perform the .office of clerk. He fixed his eyes upon a young man, short, pale, sickly-looking, apparently about nineteen, with his coat upon his arm, who looked as though he might be able to write well enough for the purpose. The auctioneer called to the youth, and offered him the vacant place, which was promptly and gladly ac cepted. This young man was indeed in most pressing need of employment. He had made his way from his native Vermont, and had walked into the town that morning with six teen cents in his pocket, all his worldly elleots upon his person, and had not a friend within a thousand miles. As the sale went on, he exhibited a remarkable aptitude for the work he had undertaken, and in his intercourse with the crowd, he displayed that nice tnrn of urbanity and familiarity which is so captivating to frontiersmen. His repartees, though somewhat rough, were always ready, and, by the time the three days' sale had ended, he was master of six dollars, and of the good-will of the people. Such was the first popular triumph of the "Little Giant," the wandering son of a Yankee doctor. From teaching school to managing petty cases before justices of the peace, from that to the regular practice of the law, from the law to the Legis lature and to State offices, were transitions so easily and rapidly made as to justify his ex pectation of a Bucoess equally brilliant in national politics. Douglas had the "sniartnoss of a Yankee" without his conscience; and Lis whole areer as a national politician Betnns to iow that he had no conception of politics ex ept as a means of personal advancement, omiug to Washington, after a singularly suc essful career in Illinois, he distinguished h'un elf immediately by the promptitude and fc.nl with which he availed hiniRelf of the adiest means of securing personal proral nce. Too young to aspire to the highest THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPHPHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, honors of the party, he perceived that the ' leading politicians around him owed their im portance to their connection with Andrew Jackson, and he proceeded forthwith to con nect his own name with that of the dying chieftain of Tennessee. In the debates upon repaying the fine imposed upon General Jack pon at New Orleans, for contempt of court. Douglas went beyond all other men In Justi fying Jackson's conduct, and denouncing that of the court which had condemned him. lie made a pilgrimage to the llermi tuge, where he received the warmest aokuow ledgments from General Jackson, aud such an indorsement from him as gave him at once a certain standing in the Democratio party. Upon national topics he always took the popular side, and always went to an extremo. In the debates upon the Oregon question, for example, be was the most strenuous and audacious of the fifty-four-forty men. "Up to that line," said he, "the title of the United States is clear and unquestionable; never would I, now or hereafter, yield one inch of Oregon, either to Great Britain or any other government." Nay, more, he went so far as to propose "an immediato military occupa tion" of the territory in dispute; he recom mended an instantaneous preparation for war, and declared that, if war resulted from these measures, we ought to drive "Great Britain, and the last vestiges of royal authority, from the continent of North America, and make the United States an ocean-bound republic." Here was evidently a man who knew the im portance of the Irish vote, and of whose future much might be predicted. Nor was he slow to discover what was in reality tho ruling power in the Democratic party, and what were the meaus by which alone that power could be conciliated. He re solved to pay the price. There was no mea sure favored by the Southern oligarchy, or likely to be favored by them, of which he was not, for several years, the ablest and extreme supporter. The whole of his policy as a seekerof the Presidency consisted in one idea to extend the area of slavery by making that extension the act of the settlers in the territo ries. In other words, his aim was to do the work of the Southern leaders effectually, with out incurring a personal responsibility for it. He made the most prodigious and obvious bids for the support of the planting interest, with which he was allied by marriage. As Chairman of the Territorial Committee, he uniformly maintained the principle that Con gress had no power to interfere, in any way whatever, with the question of slavery in the Territories, but that the people resident in them should be left absolutely free to esta-blii-h or exclude it. As far back as 1848, he began to tamper with the Missouri Compro mise itself, by proposing to extend the line established in 1820 across the continent to the Pacific Ocean a measure which he thought would quiet the North by prohibiting slavery above i hat line, and satisfy the South by recognizing its existence south of it. This adroit proposition was accepted by Southern politicians as giving its author a claim to their support. In the convention of 1852 he was the favorite candidate of the Southern leaders. The choice on that occasion lay between the aged Cass and the "Little Giant" of the West, both of whom had sur passed all living men in assiduous and un scrupulous subserviency to the reigning power. Neither of them, however, wa3 strong enough in the convention to supplant the other. The struggle was severe and pro tracted. The ballotings continued for five days, and the vote was taken forty-nine times. It being then evident that neither of them could obtain the nomination, the Southern leaders resorted to the device which had succeeded so well in 1844, when Polk was sprung upon an astonished country, and elected to the presidency over Henry Clay. The person chosen in 1852 was Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire, a gentle man of excellent temper aud highly agreeable manners, against whom personally not a word can be said. Having associated chiefly in Congiess and in the army with Southern men, he was not only captivated by their frank and easy demeanor, but he sincerely believed that, in the great controversy which appeared to be rending the Union asunder, the North was wrong and the South right. He thought that the Southern people had a natural and a con stitutional right to take their slaves into the new territories, and to be protected in so doing by the law. The device, as we all know, suc ceeded once more. Franklin Fierce was elected, and the whole moral power of his administration was given iu suppert of tha measures ultimately designed to make slavery national and universal. Jefferson Davis was a member of his Cabinet, and distinguished him- selt by the vigor of his administration and the malignant obstinacy of his temper. ibere 13 no example, we believe, in our politics of a man who has proposed to himself to become a tenant ot the Presidential man sion, who has voluntarily given up the pur suit of his object. It rages in a man's blool like a mania, and blinds his eyes not only to all considerations of the publio good, but to the tacts of his own position. There are men now seeking the Presidency, spending money for it, performing continual labors in the ex pectation ot gaining it, who have little more chance of being President than one of the Japanese jugglers. Two or three of them have been employed in this business for twenty years or more, and at every convention they succeed in getting a tew delegates to vote for them. And still they pursue this will-o'-the-wisp, floundering through swamp3 and mire, disturbing corruption as they co, Nothing can cure them of this madness. You may see them at their rooms in Washington literally up to their eyes in public documents and pamphlet speeches, which two or three clerks are preparing for the mail, while their employer Bits assiduously franking them to the uttermost parts of the land. Vain and ridiculous pursuit I If the history of our politics proves anything, it proves that a pub lio man who makes the Presidency the jlr.it obiect of his endeavors will never be Frosi dent never I We might infer that this would be the case even if we did not know that it uniformly had been. v e admit that one or two, or even three, Beekers of the Presidency have attained their obiect; but it could be demonstrated that, in each of these in stances, the result was not owing to their own exertions, but to some one luckv and well-timed accident. A publio man in the United States, whose first objeot is his own advancement, cannot be a man of genuine and great ability, and can never be a man pos sessing the cast of character which wins uni versal reeard. Stephen A. Douglas, disappointed in 1S52, but determined to win iu ihuu, proposed a measure which he confidently supposed, and linii rHn.son to suppose, would unite the South as one man in his support. From tampering with the Missouri Compromise he now ad- vniK.erl to its repeal. 1 his repeal, it is true, was merely a reassertion, in another form, of the old Cass and Douglas principle, that "the people should be everywhere free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own wav." Not the less, however, did the measure alarm and excite the people of tho North. H was one of those acts, unimportant in them selves, which strikes powerfully the popular imagination, ana it had the elleet of making its author odious to all that portion of the people whose approbation confers honor. He had cone too far. In his own Chicago, which had formerly delighted to honor him, he was publicly hooted, refused a bearing, and the hotel in which he lived was surrounded by a multitude after midnight shouting execra tions. Long had this man known that there was a South, and that the South governed the country; he was now astonished to discover that there was also a North. The Republican party f-prang into being, formidable from birth, and destined to victory. Nor did Mr. Douglas really strengthen his ground with his own j any. it has never been the policy of the Democratic party in recent times to nominate its extremest man the man peculiarly identified with the measures moKt distasteful to the opposition, aud who has made himself personally odious to them. ibe Democratic Convention ot lfcil met in Cincinnati. Its results should be a warning to all publio men who are more ambitious for themselves than for their country. James Buchanan, an aged politician of Jackson's day, whom Jackson had tolerated, but never liked or trusted; who had been absent from the country during the recent excitemeuts ; Oivausi' he had been absent, received the nomination, and his young competitor was again disappointed. Upon the sixteenth bal- ot Buchanan received one hundred and sixty- eight votes ; Douglas one hundred aud twenty-one; Cass six. This display of strength on the part of the nged functionary was pre liminary to his unanimous noumiatiou. Mr. Douglas, it must be confessed, had a port to play of extreme difficulty. In the minds of some of the bouthern leaders there was always, perhaps, a lurking distrust of him. With all his apparent subserviency, he only stooped to conquer; he was not born to be a tool. Reared in free, intelligent Ver mont, a man of force, ideas, and courage, he would go very tar in pushing his own fortunes and in serving his party; but there was a point beyond which he would not have gone. The real object of the Southern politicians was disunion, and the founding of a Southern Confederacy. But, at the last moment, this son of Vermont would have recoiled from trea son, and joined in crushing the traitors. He was no coward. If he had been President in lStJO and in the spring of 18(il, he would not have stood passive, and permitted a fort of the United btates, garrisoned by troops or tne United States, to be surrounded by hostile works and menaced by hostile cannon. At the last moment he would have thrown him self without reserve on the side of his country, and, using the forces she had placed at his command, would have dealt with incipient treason as Andrew Jackson dealt with it thirty years before. If he had not done this from a tense of duty, he would from a sense of inte rest; tor this man was as little oi a iooi as ne was of a coward. Southern members felt this to be the case,' and preferred a man of less calibre and less force. We can also assert that among Northern Democrats, especially among the grey-haired sires who assumed to be the legitimate neirs of Andrew Jackson, the "Little Giant" had several powerful and determined ene mies, some of whom were willing to sacri fice their party rather than consent to his ele vation. Mr. Van liuren tells us, in his work lately published, that his candidate in 1852 was Chief Justice Taney; and the reader may have noticed that Colonel Benton, in his "Thirty Years' View," which relates events down to 1850, scarcely mentions the name of the "Little Giant," and never mentions it with honor. Indeed, the whole class of aged func tionaries regarded this man of forty years as a youthful interloper, and considered his resi dential aspirations in the light of an imperti nence. This secret hostility was exceedingly bitter, and would probably always have pre vented, or long postponed, the gratilicatiou ot Mr. Douglas' ambition, even it he had not destroyed himself. A remarkable triumph ot wire-pulling, pure and simple, was the selection of Johu C. Fre mont as the first candidate of the Republican party. Outside of the little coterie of politi cians who placed him in nomination, not one human being in the United States had ever so much as thought of him in connection with the Presidency. As a Lieutenant-Colonel in the army he had won 6ome distinction as an explorer, but was absolutely unknown in poli tics. For precisely these reasons he was chosen in preference to the many able and eminent men who were m lull sympathy with the new party, and who in reality had no expectation of electing their candidate. It was, perhaps, a wise selection, because the object of the movement was not to elect a President, but to form, strengthen, and educate a party, and the selection oi an unknown name tended to con fine the attention of voters to the princi pies involved in the contest. Colonel Benton, the father-in-law of the Republi can candidate, was too old a politician not to understand that his daughter's husband was to be used, not elevated, and he strenu ously objected to Colonel Fremont's accept ance of the role. Colonel Iremont, however, did accept it, and issued unscathed from the liery ordeal ot a Presidential canvass. If the Republican chiefs had really wished him to be President, they would have pressed his nomi nation in 1800. But his name was not men tioned in the Chicago Convention. To return to Mr. Douglas, who was incom parably the most important person during the years immediately preceding the war. It was his impatient ambition which split the Demo cratic party and permitted the election of Abraham Lincoln. When he discovered in 185(5 that there was a North, he became also aware that his position as a Senator representing Illinois was in imminent peril. Then it was that he placed himself in opposition to the Democratic ad ministration on the test question of its whole career the Lecompton Constitution and he opposed it on just and unanswerable grounds. By so doing he restored, in some degree, his position at the North, but eternally estranged the South. How curiously the ambition of politicians sometimes defeats itself! and what unexpected obstacles it sometimes itself evokes! Going home to Illinois to look after his elec tion to the Senate, he there encountered upon the stump Abraham Lincoln, a man unknown beyond the boundaries of his own State, to whom this open-air debate of mouths' con tinuance gave such celebrity and honor as to place him, with no very arduous effort of his own, in the place for which Mr. Douglas had vainly toiled for fifteen years. Mr. Doug las obtained his reelection to the Senate, and it was then to be seen whether the strength he had gained in the Northern States would suffice to neutralize the distrust and odium under which he rested at the South. The Democratio Convention of 18C0 met in the city of Charleston. No one can understand it who reads merely the verbatim reports of the debates published daily in the newspapers. The entire secret of its proceedings consisted in the invincible resolve of many Southern politicians, and a few Northern, to frustrate the ambition of Stephen A. Douglas, and in the determination, equally invincible, of Ste phen A. Douglas not to be set aside by them, even at the cost of dividing the party. The device by which it was Intended to secure hia defeat was the making of a platform upon which he could not and would not stand. liver rising higher in their de mands, the disunionists now required the insertion of resolutions declaring that a ter ritorial Legislature had no power to exolude slavery; that the Federal Government was bound to protect by its naval force the reopen ing slave trade;, and that the Island of Cuba hbould be acquired at "the earliest practicable period." When this new platform, by the adroit and vieorous opposition of Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts, was voted down, and when the nomination of Douglas appeared to be impending, the delegates representing eight of the Southern States withdrew from the con vention. The party then seemed divided be yond hope: but it could have been instantly re united it the name ot Air. Douglas naa ueen withdrawn. According to the traditions and es-tablit-hed usages of the Democratio party, he ought then to have withdrawn his name, and . . . ... i in other nays he would have promptly none n. Bv bis positive refusal to take this course the division of the party was complete, and two candidates were presented. It has often been asserted that Mr. nreckin- ridce, of Kentucky, was in league with the disunionists, and accepted the nomination with the express understanding that, iu case of the election of the Republican candidate, which his friends considered almost certain, he would take the lead in the movement for breaking up the Union. This was not the case, in selecting so young aud unimportant a nerson as their candidate, the "regular" Democrats took a hint from tho conduct of their opponents in nominating Colonel Fre mont. "He is a young man," they said to one another: "in all probability he will be defeated; Douglas also will be defeated; and the division ot the party being distinctly seen to 1 Ins work. Ids standing as a Democratic politician will be forever destroyed. The Re publicans, inexperienced in the administra tion of the Government, and inheriting peculiar difficulties, without precedents to guide them, will make mistakes, will cover themselves with odium, and prepare the way for the triumph of the Democratio party in 805. Our candidate will then still be in the flower of his days, and we can easily eleot him." Such was the language of the leaders of the Democracy who were untainted with treason, and who attributed the disunion threats of some of their allies to Southern bluster. In this light, too, Mr. Breckinridge contemplated his nomination, and his sub sequent desertion of his country in her hour of need was solely due to his weakness as an in dividual. 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M., to hn continued I mm tiny to tiny, the following articles of Army Clothing Rinl Kqulimgc iz.mw ureal Cohih (loor men's). hK.I'OO (In n I Coats (uorsuineu's). 60.1X0 Uniform Ham. fiO.OUO Ostrich Feathers. W.IK O lint Oorrts and Tassels (blue). 60,000 1'otnne Cap. 8,111 llnlfoiin Krock Coats. 4i'i,000 Uniform JuckeU. b,4;l Veteran Kmi rve Jackets. SUH Knit JackelH. 1HO0 Lined Hack Coats. CO, 212 Uullned Back touts. 7,000 Overall. (1,100 (Stable Frocks. Knit HhirlH. frx 44 Knit Drawers. iO.Ooo I.eallier Neck Stocks. 1.000 Worsted Panties. Pairs Hoots. lO.O&H Pairs Bootees. 12,HMI Palis Trowsers (fool men's). 16,4100 Pairs Trowsers (lioiseiueti'n). 60 (J00 HaverMacks, 60 000 KntiptackB. 'A000 Rubber Blanket. (i 0 ollen lilankots. lio.ooo Pick Axes. Jf,4G0 Pick Axe Handles. 1 iiehe articles ai'H all now. and offer irrpat In. ducerntiiis to dealers throughout the couurrv. A small oiiDhtily ofdamauuil Droiuirtv will ba sold at ti e buino (line and place. Humpies of all maybe seen at the Depot within teu duys ol sale, and cntitlogueH had. Teinih C'ufh in Government funds, ten per cent, down, tho balance before Urn .goods are taken ironi the Depot, whloh must be wlthlu five days alter tbe sale, under forfeiture of the purthiise and the len per cent, deposilod. l.y oiuur oi tne (unrtermaster-iipneral, JOHN F. HOOOEIt-4, Captain aud Military storekeeper SI Ont t. United Halos Ai my. y L A HUE SALE OF NEW MATERIAL. DFl'OT Ottartiihm astkr'h Oiriririt. 1 Washington, I), v., Aunust 15, imn.f By direction of the OiinrterniuHl er.UHiini-.il n large lot of new (.uartermaster's Stores and Horse Medicines will be sold at public auction. at Lincoln Depot, under tbe supervision of If re vet, Lieutenant-Colonel James M. Moore. Quartet master U. S. A., on MONDAY. Sep tember 2, commencing at 10 A. M., consisting In part of ICS lbs. lneot corner. no coal on lamps, 5.000 table legs, 7,4 14 lbs.asst. Iron nuts, 7,181 lbs. iron aud cop per rivets. 575 coal oil burners. 40001 lu cups, . 2.")00 lbs. iron wire, oos ins. it. iv. ana otner spikes, 103 tai penters', etc., clamt's. 14,013 handles, axe.plck, plane, etc., 110 wukou saddle trees, 210 wrenches, Oov ernuiout pat tern, 0 (rang saws, 244 ydH. paper muslin, 1.8S2 ft. linen hose, 200 ft. gutta peroba tubing. 7079 lbs. oil tanned leather, 846 lb. sole leather. V1S3 lbs. oakum, 177 lt8. JNllca. 21b lbs. packing hemp, Z7ibpnols W. and Ji, thread. 8100 ft. coil clialn, m lbs. aloes. ALSO, 3U0 ins, suipnate cop- per, 100 lbs. alum, ou'2 lbs. glauber salts, loo !ts. epsom raits, 100 lbs. nitrate potus- sie. 100 lbs. calomel, 10(1 lbs. sugar lead, 540 lbs sulphur, 100 lbs. tartar emetic. 75 lbs. corrosive subli mate, 39 lbs iodide potassa. 56 lbs. cream tartar. 447 lbs, oils juulper,bpike,amber,wintergreen, British, croton. hemlock, etc. etc.: 473 lbs. tinc tures, lobelia, ginger, iodine, myrrh, hemlock, etc. Red precipitate, spatulas, prescription scales, syringes, ointment, uo. jars, etc. eto. Catalogues of salecau be hud upou applies ticn. Terms Cash in Government funds. By order of General (J. U. Tompklus, Depot uuaiterni aster. JAMES M. MOORE, 8 17 13t Bvt. Lleut.-Col., Q. M. in charge. QUARTERMASTER STORES AT AUCTION, TiwTnT fJninTRRMAfiTKi'g Ciwwimr Washington, D. C, August 0, 1887. J Will be sold at public auction, under the supervision of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel James M. Moore. Q. M. U. S. A., at Lincoln Dtpot, on MONDAY, August 19, atl0A.;M.,;u large lot of quartermuster stores rated as un serviceable, among which are the following: .10 2-h, ambulances, 55 lanterns. i,s 4-n. wagons, 10 2-h. wagons, 10 2-h. spiiug do., 30,000 lbs. scrap iron, 6,000 lbs. old horse shoes, 1,500 lbs. iron wire, 15,012 carriage bolts, 830 lbs. olu rope. 500 yds. cocoa mat ting, 28 yds. carpet, 1 hose reel, 0 Laud trucks, 2,009 leet assorted hose, large uud small, 59 olliee chairs, 101 McC. suddles, 23 scales, pluUorm and counter, 100 shovels, L. and S. 2,03 horse and mule collars. 1,091 trace chains. 8,(110 baiter chains, i.tzi oreasi onains, 421 asst. bridles, 24U saddle bags, 115 saddle blankets, 237 horse covers, 010 wacon covers. 2,457 H. and M. tmines 2,075 head halters, 408 sets asst. harness, loo wagon ana atub. wheels, 50 auvils, 6-1 B. s. wagon whips, 60 vises, assorted, 20 tool chests, 402 planes, assorted, 105 saws, assorted, handle, with tools of all kinds, brkiies, bits, horse medi cines, wagon tongues, chisels, axes; saddlers', blncksniltlib', and carpenleis' tools, etc. etc, etc. Terms Cash, in Government funds. CHARLES 11. TOMPKINS, 8710f)Bvt. Brig.-Geu., Depot Quartermaster. rjULLUKAPH MaTEEIAL AT AUCTION. Depot Quartermaster's Offiob, Washington, D. C, August 9, 1807. By direction of the Quarterniaster-Geueral, the following-named TELEGRAPH. MATE RIAL will be sold at public auction, at LIN COLN DEPOT, under the direction of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel James M. Moore, Quarter master United States Army, on TUESDAY, August 20, at 10 A. M., to wit: 204 cells for Portable Battery. 1000 Rubber Insulators. 7 lbs. Gutta Percba. 210 lbs. Galvanized Wire. 14 miles Vulcanized Wire. 11 miles Insuluted Wire. 251 Coppers. 171 Rubber Rings. 25 Reels. 801 Zincsf or Portable Battery. 1051 Telegraph Poles. 1 erms Cash, in Government fnnds. iOU Ull niuuu-i, By order of General Tompkins, Depot Quar termaster. JAM. M. MUOltlS, isrevet Lieuteuani-uoiouei, 8 14 5t Quartormasier iu oharge. p-RCr.CH STEAM SCOUKIXSTG. ALBEDYLL, MARX & CO. WO. 182 MOITH ELEVENTH STKEET AND . MO It ACH "TKKKT. niOrnwr QHARLES RUM PP. P4IBTKMONNAIE,' POfKGT-ROOK, AND MATCliEL MAM'FAtTUItfcK, NO. 47 KOBTli MIXTII STKEET, ueiow A rcii, riiUadelpula, PortvMonnalas, Pocket-Books. HichHl, Wont Boxes, -Bunkers' Una es, PllTHBH. Fortiouos, IrHliK Cases, CIkki t wjea, Mutiny Belts, Klulua, etc. WHOLK8AI.R AND RKTAIL, 7 2'ltf PKIVY WELLB OWNERS OP PROPERTY The only place to (tt Privy Well oltwuedand dlblulecled at very low prices, A. PKTHON. W anuftrtnrer of poudrMta, eiO QOLDSHITU'U J1ALL, LlJS&AttY blrttet PROPOSALS. )ROrORAI-H VQll TIONLRY. FOR AG K AND STA- Philadelphia Prcror. ! Assistant Quaktkhmahtku's office, I JNO. UiSV UIKAK1) BTKKKT, August 10, 1807. tUKAWli Sealrd Proposals will be received at th)AOfn until 12 o'clock M., MONDAY. August 20, lHtfT. for Jiii tiishlDK this Depot with Foraire for period of six (ti) months, commenolpa Soptetn her 1, 1807, uud ending lhe2thday of February, 108, Inclusive, viz : , CORN, OATS, HAY, AND STRAW, for the use of anlmaH in tne publio service at this depot, or at any other locality within sixty (00) lnl'es of the City of Philadelphia, when re quired. All tiraln to be of the best quality. Oats, SJ rounds to the bushel; Corn, 66 pounds to the dusbel; Hay, ot tbe best quality Pennsylvania Timothy; Mraw, to be of Rye, of the best qua lity. All subject to inspection prior to delivery. Proposals will state price per nuudred pound for Hay aud Straw, and per bushel for Corn and Oats, delivered at places of consumption la such quantities and at such times as may be oidcied. (The price to be staled both lu words aiid figures.) Bl ATIUiNJLUX. Sealed Proposals will also be received at this Oilioe until 'i o'cloclt M., MONDAY, August 20, 1807, for luiuishliig this Depot with Hta tloueiy, for a period of one (I) year, cotn ineucu) September 1, 1S07, and ending the 31st uay oi a tii; us i, itH, inclusive, via.; Folio Post 1'aper, to weigh uoi, less than 38 pounds to ream; Legal Cup Paper, to weigh not lese than 10 pounds to ream; Cap Paper, Plain arid Ruled, ro weigh not less ttrin 14 pounds to it am; Letter Paper, Plain and Ruled, to weitl not h ss than 12 pounds to ream; Note Paper. Plain and Ruled, to weigh not less tliau 8 pounds to ream; F.uvelope Paper, to weigh not It -n than 40 pounds to renin: Common Printing I'lipi; While Blotting Board, size 19x21, to wt lull not less than 10 oounda to ream. While Envelopes: size. SUxs'i. 4x9. 4UxlO4 Gkx'J'J. Letter En velot.ts. wuite: slz-. 3x5V Letter Copying Books; size. 0x11; 750 pages, lap Copying Bonks; size, 10x11; 750 pages. lilniiK l looks, to 1Z quires, deml, nalf-Douno, patent backs, Russian comers. Blank Books, lo 0 quires, )V6)Jt half roan, 20 sheets to quire. Memorandum liooks, deml, 8vo., flush, 69 leaves. Arnold's Fluid, Writing and Copying; Blaolc Ink. "Duvid's;" Carmine luk. "David's." 4-oa. bottles, glass stopDers: Inkstands, ulans. as sorted slzei-; Penholders, assorted; Steel Pens, Gillotl's," 202,308 404,004; Steel Pens, "Harri son and Krau lord's," 14, 15, 20. aud 605: Lead. j'trciis. "raoer's," inos. ana 8; raper f asten era, "Hamilton's" and "Boynton's;" Offlca Tape, rolls, No. 23, 100 yards to roll; Order Files, assorted, as per sample; Sealing Wax, "best specie hank;" waters, 4 oz. boxes; India Rub ber, "Faber's Improved Artist's;" Rubber Ink Eraser, "Faber's;" Mucilage, 4 oz., 8-oz., and Suarl Dottles; Gum Bands, assorted sizes; ;i users, "Wosienholm's;" French . Violet Copying Ink. All of the above-named articles to be of tho best quality and to be subject to Inspection. Samples of the articles ol Stationery bid for must be delivered at this olliee twenty-four (24) Lours previous lo the opening of the bids. Each bid must be guaranteed by two respon sible persons, whose signatures must be ap pended to the bid, and certified to as being good and sufficient security for the amount in volved, by the United States District Judge, Attorney, Collector, or other public oflloer. Blank lorms for bids can be had on applica tion at this olliee, and bidders are requested to be present at tbe opening of the same. The right is reserved to reject any bid deemed too high, and no bid front ft defaulting con tractor will be received, Endorse en velooes, "Proposals for Forage and Stationery," respectively. ; By order of Brevet Maj.-Gen. G. H. CROSMAN. -Asbt. Quartermaster-Gen. U. 8. aJ HENRY W. JANES, Captain and Asst. Quartermaster, 810 8t Brevet Major U. a A. I" MPKOVEMENT OF THE DES MOINES RAPIDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. V. S. Enoinkek's Offok, 1 Davenpokt, Iowa, July 24, 1867. J Sealed proposals, in duplicate, will be re ceived at this oflice until 12 M WEDNESDAY. September 4, 1807, for excavating the prism and constructing the embitnkmeut wall of the Canal for the improvement of tbe navigation of the Mississippi river at the Des Moinea KflplUH. The Canal is to be about T (seven and one half) miles long, extending from Nashville to Keokuk, Iowa. The width at the water surfaoe inside the canal to be 800 (three hundred) feet in embankment, and 250 (two hundred and tlity; leet lu excavation, and in low water to be 5 (five) leet deep. All the material exoavated lrom the prism of the canal to be used In build ing the embankment. The latter throughout the greater part of the distance will be about 800 (three hundred) leet lrom the Iowa shore. Where rock excavation occurs, the bottom of the canal will have a slope of 1J4 (one and one half) Inches to the mile. The embankment is to be built of earth clay and rock; to be 10 (ten) leet wide on top, Including the rip-rap cover ing; to be 2 (two) feet above high-watermark, with slopes of l4 (one and one-half) base to 1 (one) vertical. The average thickness of the rlp-iap protection lo be 2 (two and one-half) ' fetton the river side, 2 (two) feet on the canal side, and 1 (one) foot on top. All propositions taunt state the price at which each and every kind of work specified in the proposal Is to be done, and no bid will be con sidered that is not definite in this respect, , The Government reserves the right to reject any aud all bids. A printed copy of this advertisement must be at tached to each proposal. . Each bid must contain a written or printed guarantee signed by two responsible persona. Blanks for proposals of tbe form required, with form of guarantee, will be furnished at this oflice on application. The price or prices in the contract will be con sidered as including the expense of furnishing all the materials and performing all the work, according to tbe plans and specifications exhi bited at the letting. The entire cost of the canal Is estimated at 2,008,845 (two million slxty-eluht thousand three hundred and forty-live). The amount ap propriated by Congress is 8700,000 (seven hun dred thousand dollars) the contract can only be made to cover this amount. Fifteen (16) per cent, of the amount of any work done or materials furnished, at the con tract price thereof, will be reserved until the whole work which is the subject of contract shall be entirely completed. Persons desiring further Information can obtain the same by calling at this olliee, where maps, plans, specifications, and form ol con tract can be consulted. Proposals must be addressed to the under signed, and should be endorsed "Proposals for work on the improvement of the Des Moinea Rapids." J. H WILSON, Lieut.-Col. 35th Infantry. 7 30 4w Bvf Major-General U, a Army. PHILADELPHIA DEP 0T. Assistant Quartermaster's Office. no. 1139 oikakd stkekt, PllILADELPlirA. AnciiHi. 1U iSfi? Proposals will be received at thi o'clock M.. SATURDAY, August 21th, 1807, to restore to its original condition eleven hundred and fifteen (1115) feet, mote or less, of "Willow Grove Avenue," Chesuut Hill. Philadelphia, on the grounds formerly occupied by the United States Government in connection wltn tho "Mower" Hospital. Each bid must be guaranteed by two respon sible persons, whose signatures must be ap pended to tbe bid, and certified to as being good and sufficient security fortheamountinvolvsd, by the United States District Judge, Attorney, Collector, or other public officer. Blank forms for bids can be had on applica tion at this office, and bidders are requested to be present at the opening of tbe r"e' The right is reserved to reject any b d aeema too high, and no bid from defaulting con tractor will be received. , T?naira ti Endorse envelopes, Proposals for Repairs to Willow Grove avenue." .i n ir Hr na il y order of Brevet Msjor-General G. IL Cros man. Assistant Quartermaster-General, United States Army. HENRY W. JANES. Captain and Assistant Q,?1??' 8 19 5tJ Bevet LieutenantrColonol, V-- HARDWARE, CUTLERYJTC, r9 C U X lb K Y. BHKAUJtt, i-'lV., u v. HJCLMOLD'S ., c.,.. wo. 1M South TKNTH Street, buu TJjrM door9 Bt)()Ve
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