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T11E DAILY EYENllSG TELEfiRAFH PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY JANUARY 31, 1870.
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Succession of Revolution Their
Instigators The Lamentable
Condition of the
Ccuntry.
In iew of the recent execution of Salnave,
the following loiter, publinbcd in the New
York Tribune, will possess unusual in
terest: roRT-AU-FBiNcn, Jan. 9. Now that the
Government of Halnave has been overthrown,
after s struggle lasting for nearly three yearn,
ft brief review of the revolutions through
which llayti has pawed since her independ
ence was gained niRy not be regarded as in
opportune. The subject is full of a peculiar
interest, and the short history I now propose
to pen may, perhaps, be found not the least
interesting chapter in the annals of the New
World, llayti, the first spot in Amerioa
where the European discoverer set foot the
first soil in the Western Hemisphere watered
by the sweat of African slaves the first com
munity in the world that witnessed tbe aboli
tion of African slavery and the political en
franchisement of the blacks in modern
times llayti, so full of thrilling historic
recollections, is still the theatre where the
great problem of the capacity of the negro
race for self-government and civilized pro
gress is being most laboriously, and, I may
add, impatiently worked out.
It is from such a commanding point of
view that one must study the civil wars and
internal commotions that have not ceased to
agitate the bosom of society in this island
since 171)0, in order to obtain a just apprecia
tion of tbe late desperate struggle which has
threatened the overthrow, if possible, of the
national existence of llayti itself, by seriously
menacing the destruction of its sovereign in
dependence. For eighty years that is, since
17D0 when the men of color of San Do-ningo
demanded equal political rights at the bar of
the National Assembly of Trance, society in
this island has carried on one long and pro
tracted revolt against the unjust proscrip
tions and unreasonable distinctions of caste.
From 171)0 to 1804 the Haytiens were en
gaged in a terrible hand-to-hand struggle
against patriarchal slavery; and had the satis
faction of seeing their desperate efforts
crowned with success, in the branding of
African slavery as a crime, long before the
so-called Christion and civilized nations of
Europe and America had legislated against
the African slave trade as piracy: The United
States, the first to legislate on the subject, ,
only provided in their Constitution that this
abominable traffic should be deemed piracy
from and after 1K08 that is, four years after
the independence of Il'iyti had been esta
blished. From 1S(K to 1S20, or thereabouts,
Jlaytien society entorod upon its second revo
lutionary pha.se, in a struggle against the
brute force of an ignorant military feudalism
that trampled on the rights of its citizens.
After the war of independence, the
military chieftains who had conducted
that struggle to a successful issue
were, by a sentiment of national gratitude,
deservedly given the first place in the affec
tions of their countrymen. As there were a
great many of those leaders who had distin
guished themselves in that trouble, they were
arrayed in hierarchial order, according to the
amount of energy they had shown in triumph
ing over their inhuman oppressors. Accord
ingly the most ferocious and ignorant gene
rals were placed in the first rank, and at the
head of them the sanguinary Dessalines. He
was, accordingly, made the first 'ruler of
llayti, under the title of Governor-General,
but he afterwards usurped the title of Em
peror. The nation, in naming such a chief
tain, behaved exactly like every other race of
men in the infancy of society; and this ruler,
in usurping a mote ambitions title, acted pre
cisely like the First Consul of France at the
beginning of this century, and like the first
President of the same great nation at the
middle of the same century.
But the savage infancy of Haytien society
was of short duration. After bearing the
yoke for two years it revolted. Through a
struggle beginning with the assassination of
the Emperor Dessalines in 1800, and ending
with the suicide of King Christophein 1820
(the next General ranking after Dessalines
in point of brute force), the Haytien people
succeeded in delivering their country from a
reign of ignorance, though not entirely in
ridding it of the reign of a military feudal
ism, now somewhat modified by intelligence.
When Christophe wonld not accept the
Presidency offered to him by the Senate
under a written constitution, after the tyrant
Dessalines bad been despatched, Petion, the
third revolutionary general in rank, was
elected and accepted. Christophe resisted
both him and the Senate, and succeeded in
dividing the island into distinct governments,
making himself king in the northern part,
while Petion remained President of the south
and west. Petion was an educated man, and
laid the basis of civil institutions in llayti.
At his death, in 1818, the fourth revolution
ary general in rank, also a man of intelli
gence, was elected to succeed him in the
Presidency. At this moment the yoke of
Christophe became intolerable to his
subjects; and a general uprising against
bim, which he vainly resisted, caused
him, in a fit of desperation, to
commit suicide. The institutions founded
by Petion in the West and South not only
spread over the North but also over the
Spanish quarter in the East, and the govern
ment of lioycr was eventually consolidated
over the whole island. The country entered
npon the reign of law, The six codes of llayti
were promulgated under Boyer, and the courts
of law began to exercise tnoir lunctions f reeJy.
But the social regime of aristocracy was now
inaucmrated by a coalition between the sur
giving military heroes of the revolution and
the civilians who hud resisted Dessalines and
co-operated with Petion in founding the
republic inose, witn lsoyer at tneir hoad.
were unwilling to make any concessions
to the party of progress, headed by the
representatives of the people in the legisla
tive body. The Progressists memorialized
in vain for reform irorn 18.!8 to 184.5.
The President, his Hocretary of State, and
the Senate, whose members he had
the right to nominate, remained deaf to the
appeals of the young men composing the
House of llepresentatives. The Chamber
where they deliberated was even surrounded
by a military guard. This unreasonable
method of governing gave birth to the revo
lution of 1843, which, in overthrowing Boyer
and his satellites, broke up forever the old
despotio military aristocracy. However, one
of the old military aristocrats, in the person
of Soulouque, was called to preside over the
country three years after this revolution, and
he, like Dessalines and Christophe, availed
himself of party strifes, and set up a throne
of usurpation. The country did not obtain
a ruler representing tbe ideas that had tri
umphed in the overthrow of Boyer until fif
teen years after that is, until the revolution
of If CR, which called Gcffrard to the Presi
dency. Geffrard was faithful to all the ideas
of the psrty of progress from 1838 to 1843
under Boyer, and had the honor to put
most f them in practical operation. During
the eight years that he was President he diu
more to promote the real progress of llayti
than all tbe preceding chieftains put together.
He organized 200 schools; caused the Uoman
Catholic hierarchy to be established in the
Church, to reform the degrading manners of
the debauched men who oillciated at its altar;
opened a seminary to educate a native clergy;
introduced steamers into Haytien waters for
coast transportation; established a Govern
ment foundry; opened medieal, law, and
music schools, and also a school for instructing
Haytien youth in thetiscful arts and trade; and
formed the nucleus of an eflioient navy. The
culture of cotton, favored by the civil war in
tbe United States, was encouraged by him, in
the distribution gratuitously of cotton soed
among cultivators, and the introduction at
Government expense of cotton-gins so that
this product became during hia administration
an important article of export.
But in spite of this commendable progress,
Haytien society had not yet reached its equi
librium; it still oscillated on its base. Why
so ? Because notwithstanding the progressive
ideas which triumphed in 184.1, and received
their definite realization in 1858, the large
substratum of Haytien society was left in
ignorance and superstition. The surviving
rival leaders of 1843 became jealous of Gef
fard. The new generation grew np in preju
dice against a new aristocracy, of which Gcf
frard and these generals were supposed to be
the component parts. Divisions, jealousies,
and heart-burnings gave occasion to a class
of half-educated young men, raised np from
the ignorant masses since 1843, to make re
sistance ta the existing rule. A new revolu
tion found its leader in Salnave, who headed
the formidable rising at Cape Haytien in
18CA, from the effects of which Gofl'rard's
Government never recovered, and which ulti
mately resulted in the call of Salnave to the
Presidency in 1807.
'lhe rnasRes, in nil their ignorance, were in
stalled in power and place by the lost revolu
tion, against which whatever is left of intelli
gence and civilization iuthe country has been
struggling with a deadly tenacity, in order to
prevent an entire relapse of Haytien society
into barbarism. Superior intelligence and
civilization have at length prevailed, but caste
rule and aristocratic cliques ought now to be
at an end in llayti. lhe roughest piequet of
the mountains holds with the most accom
plished native of the cities the much
coveted brevet of general. With the
terror which his pointed spear has
spread around the aristocratic cities of the
South lately in rebellion against tho Govern
ment of which lie is a devoted soldier, the
piequet has conquered a respect for his class
which cannot be disregarded by any future
government of llayti without peril of being
instantly overthrown. The present, I trust,
is the last important revolution in llayti.
Although a counter-revolution may be neces
sary to settle definitely the idea gained by
Salnave's advent to power, as 18.r8 was needed
to supplement 18(3, yet the rights of the
democracy have now been Aindicated past re
call, and Hay ti is ready to enter upon a career
of peace.
XVE ARE TWAIW.
lie Writes About Chinamen and Desperndoea.
from ttt$ Buffalo Kxprcsi.
One of California's curiosities the people
in the States will some day become familiar
witn through the l'aciho Kailroad. I mean
the Chinamen. California contains 70,000 of
them, and every ship brings more. There is
a Chinese quarter in every city and village in
California and Nevada,' for Boards of Alder
men will not allow them to live all around
town, just wherever they choose to locate.
This is not a hardship, for they prefer to herd
together.
PECULIARITIES ANT) SUrEHSTTTIONS.
They are a people who fondly stick to their
ancient customs. They dress in the quaint
costumes their ancestors wore five hundred
years ago. They build temples, gaudy with
gilding and hideous with storing idols, and
tkere they worship after the fashion of their
fathers. A strict record is kept by their chiefs
of the name and residence of every China
man, and when he dies his body is sent back
to China for burial, for they can never get to
their heaven unless they start, from China.
And besides, Chinamen worship their ances
tors, and they all want their share of worship
after they ore done with this world. Even
when the Chinese Government sells a ship
load of degraded and criminal coolies to a
Cuban or Sandwich Island planter, it is
strictly stipulated that the body of every one
of them must be sent back to China after
death.
The Chinamen being smart, shrewd people,
take to some few of our commercial customs
and virtues, but somehow we can't make
great headway in the matter of civilizing
them. We can teach them to gamble a little,
but somehow we can't make them get drunk.
It is discouragingbecause you can't regene
rate a being that won't get drunk.
The Chinaman is the most frugal, indus
trious, and thrifty of all creatures. No mat
ter how slender are the wages you pay him,
he will manage to lay up money. And China
men are tho most gifted gardeners in the
world. Give one of them a sand-bank that
would not support a lizard, and he will make
it yield generous crops of vegetables. The
Chinaman wastes nothing. Everything has a
value in his eyes. He gathers np all the
castaway rags, and bones, and bits of glass,
and makes marketable articles of them. And
he picks np all the old fruit-cans you throw
away and melts them np to get the tin and
solder. When a white man discards a gold
placer as no longer worth anything, the pa
tient Chinaman, always satisfied with small
profits, and never in a hurry to get rich,
takes possession and works it contentedly for
rears.
The Chinaman makes a good cook, a good
washerwoman, a good chambermaid, a good
gardener, a good banker's clerk, a good
miner, a good railroad laborer, a good any
thine tou choose to put him at; for these
people are all educated; they are all good
accountants; tney are very quiet ana peacea
ble; they never disturb themselves about
politics; they are so tractable, quick, smart,
and naturally handy and ingenious, that you
can teach them anything; they nave no joa
lousies; they never lose a moment, never
require watching to keep them at work; they
are gifted with a world of patience, endu
rance and contentment. They are the best
laboring class America has ever Been
and they do not care a cent wno is rresideiu
They are miserably abused by the laws
of California, but that sort ot thing will
i cense some day. It was found just about im
possible to build the California end of the
; Pacific Kailroad with white men at $3 per day
I and take care of all the broils and fights and
strikes; bnt they put on Chinamen at $1 a
I day and "find" themselves, and they built it
without fight or strikes or anything, and
saved Ike bulk of their w,r;es, too. Yon will
have these long-tail toilers among yon in
the States" some day, but yon will find
them right easy to get along with and you
will like them, too, becauso they will stand a
hesp of abuse. You will llnd them ever so
convenient, because when you get mad you
can snatch a club and go out and take satis
faction out of a Chinaman, 'lhe native
American negro is getting so insolent, now,
that the patriot from Ireland cannot take a
little recreation out of him without getting
into trouble. So the Chinamen will atford a
needed relief.
VOPEPT VILLAINY.
Is evidence that Chinamen are satisfied
with small gains, I will romark that they drill
five holes into the edge of gold coins drill
clear through from edge to edge and save
the gold thus bored out, and fill np the hole
with some sort of metallic composition that
does not spoil the ring of the coin. Their
counterfeiters put nine ports good metal and
onlv one part base metal in their bogus coins
and so it is very lucrative in the long run,
and the next thing to impossible to detect tbe
cheat. It is only greedy, bungling Christian
counterfeiters that blunder into trouble, by
tryiDg to swindle their fellow creatures loo
heavily.
rr.sr-ERAnoKs.
Another curious feotnre about California
life was the breed of desperadoes she reared
and fostered on her soil, and afterward dis
tributed over adjacent Territories through
her Vigilance Committees when she had had
enough of their exploits. These men went
armed to the teeth with monstrous revolvers,
and preyed upon each other. Their slightest
misunderstandings were settled on the spot
by the bullet; but they very rarely molested
peaceable citizens. They robbed and gam
bled and killed people for three or four years,
and then "died with their boots on," as they
phrased it; that is, they were killed them
selves, almost invariably, and they never
expected any other fate, and wore very sel
dom disappointed.
SAM DROWN.
Sam Brown, of Nevada, killed sixteen men
in'his time, and was journeying towards Ks
meralda to kill a seventeenth, w ho had stopped
the breath of a friend of his, when a party of
law-abiding citizens waylaid him and slaugh
tered him with shot guns. Mourners were
exceedingly scarce at his funeral. It is said
that bam Brown colled for a drink at the bar
of the Slaughter House in Carson City one
morning (a saloon so nicknamed because so
many men had been killed in it), and invited
a stranger up to drink with him. The stranger
said ho never drank, and wished to be ex
cused. By the custom of the country that
was a deadly insult, and so Brown very pro
perly shut him down. He left him lying
there and went away, warning everybody to
let the body alone, because it was his meat,
he said. And it is snid also that he came
back after a while and made a cotiiu, and
buried the man himself though I never
could quite believe that without assistance.
Virginia City was full of desperadoes, and
some of the pleasantest newspaper reporting
I ever did was in those days, because I re
ported the inquests on the entire lot of them,
nearly. We had a fresh one pretty much
every morning. Towards the last it was
melancholy to see how the material was run
ning short. Those were hslcyon days. I
don t know what halcyon days are, but that
is tho proper expression to use iu this con
nection, 1 believe.
JACK TOLUM8.
Jack Williams was ono of the luckiest of
the Virginia City desperadoes. 1 Le killed a
good many men. He was a kind-hearted man,
and gave all his custom to a poor undertaker
who was trying to get along. But by-and-by
somebody poked a double-barrelled shot-gun
through a crack while Williams was sitting at
breukf ast, and riddled him at such a rate that
there was hardly enough of him left to hold
an inquest on and then the poor unfortunate
undertaker's best friend was gone, and he had
to take in his sign. Thus he was stricken in
tbe midst of his prosperity and his happiness,
for he was just on the point of getting mar
ried when Jack Williums was takeu away
from him, and of course be had to give it up
then.
CKMETERIAL CintIOKITTF.8.
It is said that the first twenty-six graves in
the cemetery at Virginia Uity were those of
men who all died by the bullet. And the first
six in another of those towns contained the
bodies of a desperado and five of his victims
and there in the bosom of his family, modo
dear to him by ties of blood, ho calmly sleeps
unto this day.
MB. BLADE.
At the Ilocky Bulge station in the Itocky
Mountains, in the old days of overland stages
and pony expresses, I had the gorgeous honor
of breaki anting witn Mr. blade, the x'nnce of
all the desperadoes, who killed twenty-six
men in his time; who used to cut off his
victims' ears and send them as keepsakes to
their relatives; and who bound one of his
victims hand and foot and practised on him
with his revolver for hours together a pro.
ceeding which seems almost inexcusable until
we reflect that llocky Bidge is away off in the
dull solitudes of the mountains, and the poor
desperadoes have hardly any amusements.
Mr. Slade afterward went to Montana and
beLan to thin out the population as usual
for he took a great interest in trimming the
census and regulating the vote but finally
the Vigilance Committee captured and hanged
him, giving him jnst fifteen minutes to pre
pare himself in. The papers said he cried on
the scan old.
The Vigilance Committee is a wholesome
regulator in the pew countries, and bad char
acters have a lively dread of it. Iu Montana
one of these gentlemen was placed on his
mule and informed that ho had precisely fif
teen minutes to leave the country in. He
said, "Gents, if this mule dou't balk five'li
answer." ,
But that in sufficient about the desperadoes
I merely wished to make passing mention of
tbem as a Ctdifornian production.
ROOFING.
RE A 1) Y K O O F I N G
Tins Rooting u adapted to all buildings, itcaabe
aprlisd to
STF.KP OR FLAT KOOF8
at one-half the eipensa of tin. It is reidily put on eld
Shingle Roofs without removing tho shingles, thus avoid
ing the damaging of ceilings and f uroiluie while under-
foini' repairs LtNo gravel uned.)
'ittSHliVK VOIJR TIN ROOFS WITH WELTOS'S
ELASTIC PAINT.
I am elwaya prepared to Repair and Paint Roofs at short
notice. Also, PAINT KOH S ALE by tbe barrel or gallon,
the best and cheapest in tha market.
W. A. W ELTON,
I 175 Ho. 711 N. NINTH Street, above Uoaius.
TO OWNTSR8, ARCHITECTS, BUILDERS.
AND ROOFERS. Koofsl Yes. yea. Every aiie sod
4 RIO AN CONCRETE PAINT AND ROOD' OOMPAfli
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files roof covering, the beat ever offered to the pablio.wiUt
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WILLIAM P. OLTDK A OO ,
Ho. 128. WHARVKS and Pier 1 N. WH AUVKS.
W. P. PORTKR, Agent nt Richmond and City Point.
T. P. CROWKLL 4 CO.. Agents at Norlolk ti 1
FROM CHARLESTON TO
tMXZ t'l-ORmA, VIA SAVANNAIL-TRI-
?T&t The followinir steamers will Iarva
CLanesion tor Florida, via Saviinnah, tlireo times a week,
after arrival of the Now York steamships and tho North
eastern Railroad train: -
PILOT BOY (Inland Route), every SUNDAY MORN
ING at 8 o'clock.
DICTATOR, every TTTKSDAY KVENINO at S o'olock.
CITY POINT, every FRIDAY KVKNINU at 8 o'olock.
Tbroogh tickets to be had of all Charleston and Savan
nah Steamship Line Agencies in New York.
J. D. A1KK.N A OO..
Agents at Cbsrieitton.
L. J. GUILAI ARTIN ft CO.,
14 A gents at Savannah.
FOR ST. THOMAS AND BRA
ZIL. unitkd states and BRAZIL
MAIL STE&MbHIP COM PA NY.
Regular Mail SLaamara a&ilin on tha
2JU ol every month :
tiKhhlHAuX, Captain Wier.
SOUTH AMERICA. Captain E. L. Tinklepaugh.
NOR'i H AMERICA, Captain . B. Slooum.
These splendid steamers sail on schedule lime, and eall
at St. Thomas, Para, Pernambuuo, Bahia, and Kio da
Janeiro, going and returning,
tor engagements of frets lit or passage apply to
WM. R. (iARKISON, Agent,
14 Wo. 6 BQWLINO tiRK.KN. New York.
FOR NEW ORLEANS DIRECT.
THE CROMWELL LINK.
Staamsuma ot this Line will leave Pier
No U Nor! Ii Itiver. nt. 3 n'.ilr li P M ii
Sal U1VDA V'S.
CihORCE WASHINGTON, Gager.
MARIPOSA, Remain.
Freight taken for St. Louis, Mobile, and Galveston at
thinugh rates. Cubin passage, H.'m.
For ueseage (first ano second class) or frsight apply to
vm- Hm B. CROMWELL A CO.,
14 No. o WEST Street.
NEW EXPRESS LINE TO
A le Jandria, Georgetown, and Washington, D.
acauia C via Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, with
oouuections at Alexandria from the mostdiruot route for
Iiincliburu. Bristol, knox villa. Nashville. Daiton. and tha
Southwest,
hteainrra leave regularly ovary Saturday at noon from
the first wharf above Market stioet.
Frntre.dallyvVlLL.AM P. OLYDK A CO..
No. 14 North and South wharves.
HYD TYLER, Agents, at Georgetown: M.
F.1JJK1DCK ft CO., Agents at Alexandria. i l J
v-9 NOTICE. FOR NEW YORK, VIA
lW,7 Delaware and Ruritan Canal. 8W1 DTSITRK
jy:.:h..'w. transportation company. uiui.
iTicH AND SWlrTSUHK LINK.
Tbe business ul these lines will be resumed on and after
the mh of March. For freights, which will be taken on
accommodate rem, apply to M baird
1 3( Ko. IXi South Wharves.
r- l 8. MAIL TO HAVANA.
AT? AKT1,) MAIL STEAMSHIP til).
.sV'frf swung reguiariy r.vr.ivv lliucvnxr-v
iT- at II o'clock P. M.. precisely. Iroui Piur
No. 4 North River.
Mimn cami.s, i;apiain , a num.
COLUMBIA, Captain K. Van Sic.
EAGLE, Oaptaiu al. R. Oreune.
For freight ar pot sage apply to
h. O. W IlKEf.ER, .Tn., Pn-d.lent,
14 No. 6 kiOWLINIi uREEN.Nnw York. 1
FURNITURE.
RICHMOND & CO.,
FIRST-CLASS '
FURNITURE WAR ERO 0F.1S,
Ko. 45 SOUTH SECOND STREET,
BAST SIDE, ABOVE OHKSNUT,
U6U PHILADELPHIA.
I UY YOUR FURNITURE AND BUY YOUR
BEDDING.
TI112 Ull EAT AJIIiKICA
Is wltbont a rival, ia witbont a rival, being tha Finest,
Cheapest, and Largest stocked Furniture aud Beduln
Warehouse in this c t.y. and lis prices being wholesale te
all. You can save at loaet Isi per cent, on any purchases
tou m.y make at our establishment. And our prices
sing One rice, makes it the loading store la the buai
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We. 1MI MAJUVxtl' atraet. 1 87 Lib
PROPOSAL.
1)ROP08A!.S FOB STAMPED KNVKLOI'KS AND
vYltAlTKKH.
row Omci PRPAaTMinrr,
January 10, UN). I
Pealed rroponAlu will lie received until a p. M.
on the 1st day of MARCH, 1870, for furnishing all
the "Stamped Knvp.lopt's" And "Newnpaper Wrap
per"." which tbm Department may require during
rt period of four yearn, commencing lit of July,
W70, vl.:
STAMPED ENVF.UrKS.
No. 1. Note size, i by 4 luchea, of white
paper.
M. 9. Ordinary letter fdze, J M by B1,'
inches', of white, burr, crtiiarv, or cream
colored paper, or in such proportion of either ma
may be required.
No. 8. Full letter rtlxe (nnfrnmmcd on flap, for
f lrcnlars), 8 V by t inches, of the satnn colors as
No. 8, and under a like condition as to the propor
tion of each.
No. 4. Full letter alze, By by 6)tf Inches, of sumo
colors as No. 8, and under a like, condition as to tbe
proportion of men.
No. 6. Extra letter size (nnmimmcd on flap, for
circulars), 3! by 6 Inches, of enmo colors us No.
S, and under a like condition as to the proportion of
each.
No. . Extra letter sire, 8,'f by ( Inches, of same
colors as No. 8, and under a like condition as to the
proportion of each.
Ko. 7. Olllclal size, S' by Stf Inches, of same
colors as No. 8, and under a like coaultlou as to the
proportion of each.
Ko. 8. Extra olllclal size, 4',' by Ojf tnohe, of
same colors hh No. 8, and under a lUo condition as
to the proportion of each.
NKWSPAPhU WRAPPERS,
SJtf ny Inches, of hull or niaullla paper.
All the above envelopes and wrappers to bo em
bofaed with poHtuge HlHinpH of sin ti duiiomitnttlDtis,
styles, and colors, and to hear such printing on tim
face, and to be made In the mont thorough manner,
of pnper of approved quality, manufactured specially
for the purpose, with such water marks or oilier do-'
vices to prevent Imitation as the J'ostmaster-Ucncral
may direct.
'lhe envelopes to be thoroughly and perfectly
fmmmed, the gumming- on the flap of each (except
for circulars) to lie put, on not lemi than hair au im-li
In width the entire length. The wrappers to be
gummed not less than turee-fourths of an incli lu
wliii Ii across the end.
All envelopes and wrappers must bo banded In
parcels of twenty-five, ami puckeil In strong
pHHtt lionrd or straw boxes, each to contain not less
than two hundred and fifty of the letter or extra
letter size, and one hundred each of the olll
clal tir extra official size, separately. The news
paper wrappers to bo packed In boxes to contain
not lens than two hundred aud llfty each. The
boxes are to be wrapped and scaled, or securely
fastened in strong- iiiutitlla paper, so as to safely
bear transportation by mall for delivery to
postmasters. When two thousand or more enve
lopes are required to till the order of a postmaster,
the fcttaw or pasteboard boxes containing tho
sumo must be packed in strong wooden cases,
Well strapped with hoop-iron, aud addressed;
but when less than two thousand are required,
proper labels of direction, to he furnished by an
agent of the Department, must be placed upon each
package by the contractor. Wooden case, con
taining envelopes or wrappers to be transported
by water routes, must be provided with Bultubie
water-prooilng. The whole to be done under
the inspection aud direction of an agent of tho
Department.
The e
envelopes and wrappers must be furnished
and delivered with all reasonable despatch, complete
In all respects, ready lor use, aud in such quantities
as may be required to till the duily orders of post
masters; the deliveries to be made either at the Pout
Ofllce Department, Washington, D. C, or at the
olllce of an agent, duly authorized to Inspect and re
ceive the same ; the place of delivery to bo at the
option of the l'OHtnuistcr-deneral, and the coHt of
delivering ns well us all expense of packing, ad
dressing, labeling, and water-proofing, to be paid by
the eniitiaclor.
llliHU Tri are notified that the Department will re
quire, as a condition of the contract ,that the en
velopes and wrappers shall be manufactured and
stored tn such manner as to ensure security against
loss by lire or theft. The manufactory must at all
times be subject to the Inspection of an agent of the
Department, who will require the stipulations of the
contract to be faithfully observed.
The dies' for embossing the postage stamps on the
envelopes and wrappers are to be executed to the
satisfaction of the PostmuHter-deneral, In the best
style, aud they are to bo provided, renewed, and
kept in order at the expense of tho contractor. The
department reserves the right of requiring new dies
for any stamps, or denominations of stamps not now
used, and any changes of dies or colors shall be
made without extra charge.
Specimens of the stumped envelopes and wrap
pers now in use may be seen at any of the principal
post offices, but tlicao specimens are not to be re
garded us the style and quality uxed by tbe depart
ment us a standard for the new contract; bidders
are therefore invited to submit samples of other
anil uiiierent qualities and styles, including the
paper proposed as well as the manufactured en
velopes, wrappers, aud boxes, and make their bids
accordingly.
The contract will be awarded to the bidder whose
proposal, although It be not the lowest, Is con
sidered moHt advantageous to tho Department,
taking Into uccount the prices, quality of the sam
ples, workmanship, and the suillciency and
ability of the bidder to manufacture and deliver the
envelopes and wrappers In accordance with tho
terms of this advertisement: and no proposal will
be considered unless accompanied by a Butllcleut
and satisfactory guarantee. Tho Postmaster-General
also reserves the right to reject auy and all bids,
II In his judgment tho interests of the Government
require IU
Before closing a contract the snccessfnl bidder
may lie required to prepare new dies, and submit
liiipreshlons thereof. Thk ik op Tub i-bosknt pint)
MAV OK WAV NOT II K CONIIM EO.
Bonds, with approved unit sufflclent sureties, in
the sum of 1'Jj0,juii, wld bo required for the faithful
perfoununce of the contract, as required by the
seventeenth section of the act of Congress, approved
the'jtirhof August, 1842, ami paymcnta undersold
contract will h made quarterly, after pruper ad
justment of accounts.
The poKtmustcr-Ueneral reserves to himself the
right to annul the contract whenever the same, or
a n j patt thereof, la offered for sale for the purpose
of speculation; and under no circumstances will a
transfer ol the contract be allowed or sanctioned
to liny putty who shall be, In the opinion of tho
1'ostuiasU'r-iieiiera), less able to f u 111 11 the condi
tions thereof than the original contractor. The
right Is also reserved to annul the contract for a
fuilnie to perform faithfully any of Its stipulations.
1 he number of euv lopes of ilill'ereut sizes, and of
V) rappers issued to Postmasters during the llscul year
enueu June uu, isok, was as ioiiows, viz. :
No, I. Note size l,114i)00.
No. v. ordinary letter size; (not heretofore
Used).
Ku 9. Full letter size, (ungummed, for circulars)
4,1 ,0,(1(10.
Xwi. 4. Cull letter size u7,!ifiT,W)0.
No. ft. Extra letter size, (ungummed, for circulars)
t'.IH.Kll)
No, Extra letter size 4 2i)4,oOO
o 7. tillicial size im,KK
No. 8. Mi a olllclal size 1700.
W tilppl IS S,M6,!4.10.
Bios should bo securely enveloped aud sealed,
T in k l "I'ruposals for M, luped Envelopes and
V tappets," sud address d t tuc Third Assistant
Pi blniusii r-d. ncidJ, Post iilt'ico Department, Wash
ington, D. :.
JOHN A. J. ORKSWELL,
1 l'i coiltMl PoelOiablor General.
1)liOPOKAI Hilt l'UKCIIASS OF RIFLED
CANNON, L1C.
Bl'KKAU OF OKONANCI.
1
H70.1
Mavy Dkpartmknt,
Wakiiinoton citv. January 4. 1H'
Scaled Propositi for the purchase of SO-nounder
and ao-poundcr Parrott liilles, with Carriages, Itn-
?lemeiil8, and Projectiles, now on hand In the Navy
arils at Portsmouth, N. II.; Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, Washington, and Norfolk, will be re
ceived at this Bureau until lii o'clock noon, January
81, loin.
In the aggregate there are abont 890 Guns, 854 Car
riages, and WO. 107 Projectiles. Schedules lu detail of
the ai tides at each yard will bo furnished on appli
cation to this Bureau.
Bidders will state the number of guns, carriages,
Implements, and projectiles they desire to purchase
at each yard separately, specifying the calibre of
gun, kind of carriage, whether broudslde or pivot,
and the kind of projectiles.
The guns, etc., will be delivered at the respec
tive navy yards, and must be removed by the pur
chaser or purchasers within ten days after the ac
ceptance of his or their bid. But no deliveries will
be made of any article until the parties purchasing
Shall have deposited with the paymaster of the navy
yard the full amount of the purchase money In each
Case.
Many of the guns are new, and all are service
able. Bidders will therefore oiler accordingly. No
tier for these article! aa old Iron or wood will be
considered.
The Bureau reserves the right to reject any or all
bids which it may not consider to the interest of the
Government to accept. i
Proposals Bhould be endorsed on tbe envelope
'Proposal lor Purchase of Kined 'nnu. '"
A. LI'IlJGW CASK,
1 8 ws7t Chief of Bureau.
DR. M. KLINE CAN CURE CUTANEOUS
K' options, Msrka on the Bkin, Ulcer in the Throat,
Month, and Nose, Hot Lea's, and Sores of every conceiva
ble ebaraeter. Ofnoe, No. S b. JOJ V JCN'l'll, between
Viteanul and Market itifete
PROPOSALS.
OFFICE OF THE COMMISBIONKRS FOR
V'' 1UK EHKCTION OF Tl BLIO BUlLDTSni.
rniLAPKt.rnu, Jan. 17, 18T.
HEALED PROPOSALS will be received for tha
following work and materials required tn the execu
tion of tho WALNUT Street portion of the PUBLIC
BUILDINGS, to wit:
For all the excavations, Including the trenched
for the foundations. The price to bo stated per
cubic yard, which Is to cover all digging, hauling'
away the surplus earth, and cutting down and re
moving whatever trees may como In the way of the
excavations, without extra measurement or allow
nee.
For taking down the terrace wall, cl ;anlng the
britka, and piling them np adiacent to lhe buildings,
taking down the Iron railings, the gate piers, tbe
coping of the wull and the steps, and depositing
them on the gnm nils, and removing all tho rubbish,
occasioned by the same. The price for this portion
of the work to be stated in grout.
For concreting tho eutlre foundation or thebnlld
Ings with small broken stone, and cement, mortar
and grout. In conformity with tho speciacational
The depth of lhe concrete to be (We feet, and the
lateral dimensions to conform to the plans. Tbe
price to bo slated per cubic foot, and to Include all
materials and labor.
For furnishing nnd delivering large-ilzo building
stone, the price to be stated per perch of Ii cubio
feet, measured In the walls. Also, for slect build
ing stone, averaging 8 by 6 feet, aud Iroin ia to 18
inches thick ; lhe price for the same to be stated per
cubic foot, d llvercd on the ground.
For building all the cellar walls, and the outside
walls of tbe basement story, as high us the level
line of the pavement, according to the plans and
specifications. The price to be stated per perch ot
VI cubic feet, laid In the walls, without extra mea
surement, aud to Include all labor au 1 all materials;
except stone.
The contract or contracts will b? awarded to the
best and the lowest bidder or bidders, who will be
required to give approved lecurlty for the faithful
performance of the same.
The plans and specifications may bo seen at the
oOlce of tie Architect, Mr. JOUN McAUTUUR, Jr.,
No. .06 S. MXTH Street.
The proposals to be sealed and endorsed "Pro
posals for Public Buildings," and addressed to
JAMES V. W ATSON, Chairmon of tho Committee
on ContiactB, and to be left at the olllce of the Com
missioners of l'ulillo Buildings, In the new Court
House, SIXTH Street, below Chesuut, on the 14th
day of February next ensuing, bclweeu the hours of
11 and 12 o'clock A. M., at which time the blda will
be opened. In the procure of such bidders aa may
wish to attend.
By order of the Committee on Contracts.
Il9wfm lit II. C. rUGH, Secretary.
QFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS Off
JAIRMOUNT PARK, Wo. 224 8. FIFTH Street,
PaiLADkl.PHIA, Jan. 17, 1870.
PROPOSALS for tha privilege of running Park Car
riages for tha year 1870 from ttands ailhin the Park
through its entire limba will bo received at this offloa
until tbe first day of February, 1870. at 10 o'olock A. M.
Tbe conditions and stipulations npon which proposal
will be received may be seen at this office between the
hoors of 9 A. M. an 4 P. M.
By order of tha Committee on Superintendence and
Police. DAVIU F. FOLKY,
1 17 mwf 7t Seorelary Paik Commission.
o
FPICK OF THK
CUMBERLAND COAL AND IRON COMPANY
NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING.
A special meeting of the Stockholders of the Cum
berland Coal and Iron Company has been called bjr
the President and Directors of said Company, to be
held at IU ofllce, No. 90 BROADWAY, corner Wall
street, in the city of New York, on the 10th day of
February, 1670, at 12 o'clock M.
The objects of said meeting are: To accept, as aa
increase of the powers of the Company, and aa an
amendment to Its charter, the provision contained
the charter of the Consolidation Coal Company of
Maryland, which renders it lawful for all bodies cor
porate to become subscribers for and owners of the
capital stock of the last-named company; also, to
consider and act upon the question of a consolida
tion with the last-named company and other com-.
panics having coal lands In Allegheny county, Md. ;
to arrange tbe terms of such consolidation and the
manner of carrying tbe same Into effect, and to
authorize the Directors to effect the same ; to autho
rize the Board of Directors of this Company to sub
scribe in Its behalf for f.1,000,000 of the capital stock
of eald Consolidation Coal Company of Maryland,
and lo agree with that company upon the terms and
conditions upon which such subscription shall be
mado, and to convey and transfer to the last-named
Company In free payment for the amount of stock
which may be so subscribed for, such portion of the
lands and other properties of this Company, includ
ing its railroad, as may be agreed npon. And gene
rally, to pass upon all questions which may arise
touching such proposed consolidation, or transfer of
property, or subscription for itocks, and tbe dispo
sition to be made of the stock subscribed for, and If
deemed expedient, to authorize a lease of the pro
perties of thlB Company or any part thereof, and to
make all alterations in the by-laws which said meet
ing may deem necessary or proper.
Sotlce la hereby given that, for the purpose of
holding a stockholders' meeting of tho Cumberland
Coal and Iron Company on the 19th day of February
next, the transfer books will close on SATURDAY,
Jan. 29, 1670, at 8 o'clock P. M.
By order of the Board of Directors.
J. RICHARDS, Secretary.
New York, Jan. 18, 187a 1 to tFW
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