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- The Character f IaMeelt
Frswt fas Leit Sttturfiny Re Dine. f
t Bit ThocoM Malory's oUefrtion iof the
i .ArthnHnn romanfru, if King ' Arthnr Is "flos
' Mgnnv1' Hlr lAncclot da Lake is "'llos erpii
trun ct clariRsimornrn viromm." He holds a
rank which foidignity and grace is second
nlj to that of Arthur, and in tragic interest
it hardly yields even to the king s. 1 A W.f
' ' rketch t such a character, as it stands in th ,
t! fmmct, cannot , be wholly uninteresting.
Contracted with the great heroic figures of
'Ihe ancient epic; it shows forcibly what a
'i. v. world of change bad been by the Christian
- i idea introduced into the region of the imagi-
' nation. 1 And, as a conception dating from
' ' ' mediKTval sources, it is a proof how fat the
-Mm "and truest ideal of oivilization the
basis in the individual of all that can really
Vl ' wake society move forward and move higher
HBiay precede the actual development of
i . ; those conditions which thd word civilization
- , now to us donotcs. Incidentally, a review of
. Lancelot's character cannot but bear on the
-''- magnificent series of poems which Mr. Tenny
aon has lately completed. To study what
must have formed the chief material for those
jwems is to recognize with greater olearness
than before the genius which has been at
work upon them, the intuitive delicacy in se
lection, the power and the beauty, which will
lender them immortal.
Sir Lancelot is the son of King Ban of
Benwicke, shadowy king of a still more
' shadowy kingdom. In the legend, Benwicke
v, - is deiined only by the details that it is beyond
. seas, and that when returning thence from
hiB wars with Lancelot after the final diflrup
" iion of the Court, and on receiving news of
Mordred's treason, Arthur lands at Dover.
"'When first established as a knight of Ar-
1 thnr's Court, Lancelot is chosen as the fore
most warrior, to conduct Queea Guinevere to
' ker marriage from the realm of her father,
' ,'. Leodogrance, of Cameliard. Then began the
, love between them the bond of true false
hood and of loyal disloyalty which lasted to
the end, and which made the tragic element
, ( in Lancelot's life. Only on two occasions,
and on both by the arts of an enchantress,
( Lancelot is unwittingly drawn from his faith-.
" fulness to the Queen. By the first of these
f magical deceptions he became the father of
Sir Galahad, and the whole matter was after
wards explained and confessed to the
, . Queen. When the deception 1 was prac
' ; ; tised a seoond time, and on his appearing,
' since the affair was instantly known to Gni
severe, twice convicted in her eyes, Sir
Lancelot falls into the terrific two-year fit of
" madness, half raving, half melancholy, which
makes an important episode in the romance.
' But he isheroio even in his dejection and
' ids remorse. Being partly cured at last by a
first vision of the Sangreal, he settles in the
Joyous lie, under the feigned name of Le
Chevalier Mai Fet, and his great deeds soon
bring Knights of the Round Table about him,
. said lead to his restoration at Court. Then
follows the great quest of the Sangreal, of
which his own son Galahad is the moving
cause, and it is during the quest that, within
an ancient .chapel, Lancelot has .the second
.t t- dreamy sight (mentioned in Manniori) of the
Beatific Cup, when - v. , ' '
"Slumbering, fet saw the vision nigh
He might not view with waking eye."
Before the quest was over, he met and con
versed long with his saintly and knightly son,
just before Sir Galahad's disappearance from
the world; and, being afterwards shriven, he
solemnly renounced the old offense which had,
so long hung about hit neck.
But when the remnant of old knights were
' tlSce again reassembled at Court; when the
. : table had been replenished with new men,
and the disturbance caused by the quest was
'I wearing off, Lancelot and the Queen fell back
, Ssto the old ways.) After clearing her name
' and fame in many a mortal combat, he is at
V 1 last overborne by Gawaine,' Agrawaine, . and
. .. Ifordred, the three nephews of. Arthur, , of
whom the first is more conspicuous as
Lancelot's mortal foe, the last as the plotter
against the King. Guinevere goes into sano
i tnary at Almesbury, and Lancelot retires 1 to
. ' Benwicke beyond seas. But he does not quit
' the Court without proffering the fullest terms
of satisfaction. His own request that Guine-
were may be reinstated and : he himself re
ceived into accord is backed by an engage
extent to spend all his substance in founding
religious houses at every ten miles between
Sandwich and Carlisle, himself making the
whole pilgrimage barefoot, and Papal bulla
are sent to second this fair and pious pro
posal. But Gawaine will hear of no compro
mise; and Arthur, with that curious weakness
which in the romance is allowed to stand part
of his character, lets depart his best and
: noblest, and follows him presently to Ben-
wieke in battle array. There Gawaine re
ceives his mortal wound from Lancelot, and
the forces are recalled by the news that Mor
dred has usurped the kingdom. The "great
tattle in the West" then follows, which is
not described but sung in splendid verse, in
"The Passing of Arthur."
But no sooner had Arthur withdrawn from
Benwicke than Lancelot prepared himself to
' follow, not for reprisals, but that he might
, aid his king and friend against Mordred. The
v ghost of Gawaine, reconciled in death to
Lancelot, appeared to counsel delay till these
succors should arrive, and it was a slight and
unforeseen accident alone that - prevented
obedience to the warning. After the battle
Lancelot betook himself to Almesbury, seek
ing an audience of the Queen. Bn learning
there her settled resolution to abide by a
holy life, he himself was received into the
cloister by the "Bishop of Canterbury, a her
mit," and renounced forever his last hope of
taking his old love away, beyond their com
mon sorrows, to the distant retreat of Joyous
Gard. When, after several years of the
silent life, he had been an admitted priest
for near a twelvemonth, he was miracu
lously summoned to Almesbury, whenoe he
was to remove the body of the . Queen,
then at the point ef death, and to convey it
to Glastonbury for a final resting place.
During his journey, the Queen, in her dying
moments, spoke freely of him to the owns.
Bhe had died but half an hour before his
coming. Sir Lancelot, she said, had been
priest near twelve months; and "hither he
cometh as fast as he mny for to fetch my
corpse. And beside my lord Arthur shall he
fcurv me." It should be said at this noint that.
in the romance, on the morrow of Arthur's
Passing, Sir Bedivere finds a tomb newly
craven, and a hermit crro veiling before it.
who informs him that at midniuht a corpse
. aad been miraculously laid there by the
queens and other ladies of the mystio barge;
so that, in the mind of the writer of the
legend, an actual burial co-existed with the
-visionary hope and prospect of Arthur's con
tinued life in Avilion, and of his future re
tarn. Before setting out on the journey to
Glastonbury. Sir Lanoelot "did all the ob
- servanoe of the service himself, both the
dirge at night, and the mass on the morrow."
She was buried with all the tender privilege
' ' and care that love and religion could bestow:
, and then at last the great knight's heart would
no more serve to sustain his troubled and
rareful body. Sir Bors, his kinsman, and
v . ihioufch all bin adventures his devoid and.
unswerving friend, could avail nothing to re
vive, him; thejtishop could avail nothing, and
then "be sickened more and more, and dried
and dwined away."
One night the Bishop awoke the whole
hermitage with a loud and unseasonable
laughter. He had never been he said) so
merry and well at ease. For "here was Sir
Lancelot with mo, with more angels than I
ever saw men upon one day; and I saw the
angels heave Sir Ijancelot towards heaven,
and the gates of heaven open to reoeive him.
,. Go ye to his bed, and then shall ye
prove the sooth."
"Ho when Sir Born and his fellows came to his eel
they found him stark dead, and he lay as he ha 1
smiled, and the sweetest savor about him that ever
they smclled. and the greatest dole tbey
made that ever made men. And on the morrow the
Jtlshop sang his mass of Requiem; and after, the
HlHhop and all thone nine knights put Sir Lancelot
In the name hoinchler that tynecn Guinevere was
laid In before she was buried."
He was entombed by them with all honor at
Joyous Gard.
Such Is the naked framework on which the
French rematocer has portrayed one of the
most beautiful and splendid characters to be
found in the literature of the imagination. To
say that Lancelot combines the tine qualities
of an Achilles and of a Hector is to say what
is inadequate and even beside the mark. To
the body and spirit of Achilles has been here
united the soul of a Sir Philip Sidney. King
Arthur reaches to a wider grasp of sovereign
and large-minded design; the conception of
the Cid is drawn in grand and generous pro
portions; but . in the whole region of ro
mance, will there be found such another union
of strength with delicacy, of profound sensi
bility with entire capacity, as was dreamed by
the author of the character of Lancelot ?
Generosity and courtesy and forgetfulness of
self are its broad basis, its pervading elements.
To forbear his own advantage ' ; j -
' "In open battle or the tilted Held" ..
is with Lancelot, as with Arthur, a second
nature. This part of him, like his complete
tranquillity and self-possession never once
broken by danger or by insult, never by any
thing but the full stress of grief and of re
morse comes of his supreme and conscious
power. During the final war before Ben
wicke, after long enduring almost passively
the assaults of Gawaine, by. whom every kind
of aggravation and disappointment has been
brought upon him, Lancelot at last puts out
his 'Btrength and unhorses his old enemy.
Gawaine challenges him desperately to take
his life outright, "for if thou leave me thus,
when I am whole I shall do battle with thee
again." "Sir, I shall endure you by the grace
of God," said Sir Lancelot; "but wit you well,
Sir Gawaine, I shall never like thee smite a
felled knight.'' During all the taunts of Sir
Gawaine at time the when the restoration of
Guinevere and of himself still hung in the ba
lance, Sir Lancelot never fails to answer rea
sonably, liberally, and courteously. And
when Sir Galahad is knighted, and a myste
rious lady rides to tell the new knight's
father that he must no more look to hold the
first place of chivalry, "As touching that,"
said Sir Lancelot, "I know well that I was
never the best." ' '
His fidelity is, if that were possible, even
more than a match for his large and generous
courtesy. It is as if the romancer had de
signed to show to what moral heights a man
may climb while a mortal sin still hovers,
abeut him. In Mr. Tennyson's "Guinevere"
the great excuse for the relation between
Lancelot and the Queen is distinctly spoken
of. It was a misadventure that Arthur should
have Bent his best and greatest to represent
himself; that he should have dazzled a young
fancy with "warmth and color", before it had
grown to love the i
"puro severity of porfect light" ' j
which hung round his own character and de
signs. But though this misadventure lends a
palliation, and though nearly every chapter in
the romance hints a further extenuation in the
general customs of the early age, yet it' is
clear that the connection was to the writer a
mortal sin, and nothing short of it. In the
long episode of Sir Tristram and La Beale
Isond (the "Iseult of Ireland" in Mr. Matthew
Arnold's charming poem), it is easy to recog
nise a secondary reproduction of Lancelot and
Guinevere. As Lancelot conducts Guinevere
to Arthur, so Tristram conducts Lsond or Isolt
to King Mark of Cornwall. And, if we assume
this secondary relation as a fact, it is interest
ing to notice that in the subsidiary story the
mortal taint has been provided against
by throwing a supernatural halo over the rela
tion of tbe two later lovers. A miracu
lous philtre has been prepared by the father
of iBolt of Ireland, by which she is to become
firmly, indissolubly united to King Mark.
Of this philtre she and her knightly guide in
advertently drink during the voyage, and
their destiny is thus sealed beyond the power
of their own wills to alter. Yet, though there
is no blinking the romancer's view of Lance
lot's fault, it is wonderful to observe the
labor and care which he has spent in drawing
a portrait, this great fault notwithstanding,
of lifelong and unwearying faithfulness.
- "Ills honor rooted In dishonor stood,
- ' And faith unfaithful made his falsely trus."
In those lines the complexity of the charac
ter is admirably and " perf eotly described, but
in the mind of tbe romanoer it is clear that
the ruling tendency was to set the honorable
and the faithful qualities in the stronger re
lief. The whole poem of "Elaine," in ( its
threat and multifarious beauty, is a tribute to
the faithfulness of Lancelot. It might almost
bear these words for its inscription, if it were
not a picture of his generosity as well. The
great and tracicol madness which occurs in
the story fell upon Lancelot for the sole rea
son that he could not bear so much as the ap-
Eearance of infidelity. He could not brook to
e thouoht "wanderingly lewd." Nor was he
faithful to the Queen alone but the one dis
loyalty excepted to Arthur also. Against him
he would never lift a hand; and, when once
the King bad left beleaguring him, he was
following on nis tracK, not as foe, oui as Dro-
ther and ally, ne was never petulant, never
recklessly neglectful of what (even in ex
treues) might yet be done for those friends;
never nagging in devotion while they lived,
nor after their deaths.
Of his magnetio power of attaching others
to Himself there is no need to speak, enoh
a character, even in a low degree, cannot live
and move without exercising something of
that power. And some of the most striking
episodes m the legena arise out of this lnnu
ence, which drew to Lanoelot Sir Lavaine as
well as his sister "the lily maid of Astolat"
which was fult at times and seasons by knights
like Sir Tristram and Sir Gareth, and which
entirely dominated a character so different
from that of his great kinsman as was Sir
Bors, a figure which, if not one of the first
magnitude, is among the most distinctly
I drawn and the most interesting in the whole
, romance.
Lancelot is not a man "of gramarye," not a
master of technical instruction, such as was
i then confined to the clergy, and would not
' have beseemed a great knight of chivalry.
I But he is manifestly intended to be held as a
!. man of Intellectual penetration and (though
I not furnished with its technical machinery
and instruments) possessing the essence and
spirit of tiue culture. W (Kteota the xeiU eg.
cellenee of the ow-comr, Beanmaias, when
others fail ,in that perception, and when many
of the Court hold him for no betW than a
kitrheb-page; and by Lancelot's countenance
and encouragement he is lost' knighted ai
Sir Gareth and recognised for a nephew
of the King himself. And when the
damsel Maledisaunt has explained that the
discredit she- has throw on a certain
knight arose 'from' no malicious intent, but
through a desire to detain him from the
danger of tbe field, Lanoelot not only con
dones her offense but decorates her courte
ously with the hew name' of BienpensaUnt.
This intellectual delicacy 'is naturally accom
panied by a keen sensibility on which the ro
mancer has bestowed the most striking
touches. The tone of : the character may be
indeed resembled to the string of Ulysses'
great bow in tbe Odyssey. Its strength made
all other strength seem weakness, yet it re
sponded to the slightest; touch, v Ulysses did
but try and test it, J
"And In a low tne beaaUXnlly it sang
Voiced like a swallow. " (
Thus Lancelot, tbe undisputed master of the
tilted field, is represented as being also a man
frequent in self -converse, and responsive, not
only to the lightest word or look from the
Queen, but to appeals from his own inner
nature of the most subtle kind. Quite late in
the romance, when tbe direct and settled
attacks on himself and the Queen had begun,
end when he bad just been doing mortal com
bat in her defense, he comes into the conrt
at a moment when a wounded knight, Sir
Urre, is occupying Ihe full attention of the
King. As the leeches have all failed, the
King and the best knights are trying the
effect of "handling the wounds" themselves,
a process resembling the ."royal touching"
for various maladies in later times. Last
of all, , Sir Lancelot is .called to try
where every one else has failed. He comes
forward, not the man that once he was;
though outwardly unchanged, he is in
wardly aware of ' personal default, of failing
name, of uncertainty and danger.
But he touches the wounds, and one by
one they are all healed. Then Arthur
and all the other kings and knights
gave loud thanks and praise, and made
a sort of triumphal procession in honor of
Sir Urre's recovery; but "ever Sir Lancelot
wept as he had been a beaten cliild." No com
ment should be needed on those words, which
supply the key to some of the finest concep
tions in this complex and magnificent nature.
. Mr. Tennyson will have many claims upon
Eosterity. And this will not be the least, that
e has from amongst a masB of ill-arranged
romance disengaged and placed in a fair and
perfect setting the portrait of this great
knight, who,
"Marr'd as he was, seemed yet the goodliest man,"
and whose character will have been by his
means Landed down and remembered as one
of the most remarkable creations of niedireval
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Hngb Craig,
John D. Taylor,
George W. Bcrnadon,
William C. Houston.
THOMAS C. TIAND, President !
JOHN C. DAVI8. Yice-rTfiHldent.
HENRY LYIXURN, Secretary. . .
HENKY BALL Assistant Secretary. - . 1 1
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
No. SOS BROADWAY, corner ot
ILUeYenth Street, New-York, I c
' . i-f . '. '1 j: J rt 1 .. i.' I
CASH OAPITAL...................................$iiin;ooo
8126,000 deposited with the Bute of New York as security
for Doha holders.
LEMUKL BANCS, President. ' .
GKORGK ELLIOTT, Vioe-President and Secretary.
EMORY MoOLlNTOOK, Actuary.
A. E. M. PURDY, M. D., Medloal Examiner,
PHILADICLPHIA BJaTKBXNOa. I
Thomas T. Tasker,; John M. Maris, 1 J. U. Lippinoott.
Charles Spencer, William Divine, I James Long, ,
John A. Wright, I S. Morris Wain, I James Houter.
Arthur O. Comb, 'John B. MoCreary. K. U. Worn. 1 '
Oraanlsed April, leos. 876 Policies issued tint sis
months 1 over 2000 in the twelve months following. , i
All forms of Policies leaned on most favorable terms. '
Special advantages offered to Clergymen. ' I r
law good agent wanted in oity or oonntry. Apply ',
JAM KB M. lxNGAGrtkV " '
i Manager for Pennsylvania and Delaware,
Office, No. 802 WALNUT Street, Philadelphia. 1
SAMUEL POWERS, Special Agent. 4109
TNBURE AT
HO M E,
in tm . j
Penn flutual Life Insurance'
, COMPANY. j
NO. 831 CUES NUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
; ASSETS, 83,000,000.
CHARTERED BY OITR OWN 8TATK.
MANAGED BY , OCR OWN CITIZKH
liOSSES PROMPTLY PAID.
OUC1ES ISSUED ON VARIOUS PLASS.
Applications may be made at tbe Home Office, and
at the Agencies Uiroughout tbe State. (1 18$
JAMES TRAQCAIR.. ............ .....PRKSIDENT
SAMUEL, E. STOKES VIOE-PRKSIDHNI
JOHN W. IIORNOR .A. V. P. and ACTUARY
HORATIO B. STEPHENS BJCOBJtTAJtY
IFICE OF THE INSURANCE COMPANY
OF NORTH AMERICA, No. S WALNUT fitreei.
Philadelphia.
AABlsk''iN'iAND'ANb MRg DSSURAJn?'0'
OVKB $WXXft0l LOB8E8 PAID BINGE ITS OHO AN.
. . . ... . LIATION. ..1 - ,
Arthur O. Co Bin,
Samnel W. Jones,
John A Brown, . .
Charles Taylor,
Ambrose White,
v.'til;. Wal.U
-Sncl.ROoWL ,
.
Edward H. TroUer,
. Edward H. Clarke, '
T. Charlton Uenry,
Alfrari 11
B. MonriaWaln,
. Louis O. Made7ra7
uoiui r . TY 111
.1...
John Mason, J . . Charles W. Ouahmaa '
on U ART&UR G COFMW, President. !
UXU.JwA.nrf3 AAA. A A, V JO-rTUAll,
III
F
AME INSURANCE COMPANY.
' No. 809 CHESNUT Street, 1 ' !
INCORPORATED 186. CHARTER PERPETUAL.
CAPITAL, tmOOO. '
rnUE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. I
Inruree against Loss or Damage by Fire either by Peg.
petual or Temporary Policlea,
DIRKCl'V.Hhi
OharlM Richardson, Robert Psaree,
W illiam H. Rhawn, . Joan Keealer, Jr.,
William M. Beyfert, Edward B. Orno,
John V. Umlth, Charles Stokes,
Nathan Hillea, ' . John W. Kvermaa,
Uoamm A. West, Mordeoai Buxby.
, OHAKIJED KiuiiAttuaun, rreaiaaati
WILLIAM H. RHAWN, Yloe-President.
WnxiAXS L HiaWchabp. BecreUry. SM
ryiLE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE
1 COMPANY. i
Incorporated lifio Charter Perpetual. .
No. DO WALK OT Street, opposite Independenoo BVrnara,
This Company, favorably known to tbe ooaun unity foe
over forty years, oontinons to insure against loss or dam
age by fire on Publio or Private Buildings.leither senna.
nently or for a limited time. Also on iurniture, Stqokg
of Goeds, and Merchandise generally, on liberal terms.
Their Capital, together with a large Surplus Fund, la
tmwtA in the most careful manner, which enables thm
to otler to the insured an undoubted oeuifay in kus ease
of loss.
puutox at
Paniel Smith, Jr., I John Devereux, ' '
Aleaanaur dodwd, i ."w" muul
Isaao xlazleburet, 1'enry Lewis,
Ikoniaa Robins, Cillingiuun Foil.
uaniei nauuoca, or.
ww DANIEL SMh'H. J.. Proddent. '
WM. O. OROWELL, Secretary. 9MU,
TMl'ElUAXs HERE INSURANCE OoT
LONDON. ,
ESTABLISHED 1803.
paid-up Capital and Accumulated Funds,
08,000,000 IN GOLp,
PREV0ST & HEEEINO, Agents
1 41 No. 10T & TXUKD Street, Philadelphia, ,
' CUAS. J4. PRSY0ST, CHAS, R DJLSysXNQ
PBOPOBALS.
IJKOPOflAl FOR STAMPED ENVKLOPKH AND
WIJAITKKS.
roer omo DtpTnttrf,
Jannarv 10, 1
Healed Trvwosals will ne reoelved an til S P,
ft
the 1st av of MARCH. lftfO. for farnlshinir all
tbe "Stamped Envelopes" and "Newspaper Wrap
pTn wliwh this Department may require daring
a period ef four years, commencing 1st of July,
M7, viz. :
STAMPED ENVELOPES.
Vo. l. Note sisc, 'Vi by inches, of white
paper.
No. 9. Ordinary letter sise, S l-; by
taekes, or white. bufT, canary, or cream
colored paper, or in such proportion of either as
Baay be required.
No. A Fall letter stse (unirnmmed on flap, for
Iranian). 8 V by inches, of the same colors as
No. a, and ander a like condition as to tbe propor
tion of each.
No. a. t all letter slee, 8V by 6 Inches, of same
olors as No. S, and under a like condition as to the
proportion of each.
No. 5. Extra letter sire (ungummed on flap, for
circulars), 8)4 by V Inches, of same colors as No.
8, and ander a like condition as to the proportion of
each.
No. 6. Extra letter slie, 8f by 6X inches, of same
colors as No. 3, and under a like condition as to the
proportion of each.
Xo. 7. Official size, by 8J Inches, of same
colors as "Ho. S, and tinder a like conaltlon as to the
proportion of each.
ho. 8. Extra orrtelal slse, H by t inches, of
same colors as No. and under a like condition as
to the proportion of each, , ,
NKVVSPA PKK WRAPPERS,
X by inches, of bull or manllla paper. 1 1
All the above envelopes and wiappers to be em
bossed with postage stamps of snch denominations,
styles, and colors, and to hear such printing on tne
face, and to be made in the most thorough manner,
of psper of approved quality, manufactured specially
for the purpose, with such water marks or other de
vices to prevent imitation as the PosUnaster-Uenoral
mav direct.
The envelopes to be thoroughly and perfectly
gummed, the gumming on the flap of each (except
for circulars) to tie put on not lens than half an inch
in width the entire length. The wrappers to be
gummed not less than three-fourths of an inch in
width across the end.
All envelopes and wrappers must be banded in
parcels of twenty-five, and packed in strong
pasteboard or straw boxes, each to contain not less
than two hundred and liny of the letter or extra
letter sixe, and one liuudred each of the oiri
cial or extra oiilclal size, separately. The news
paper wrappers to be packed in boxes to contain
not lees than two hundred and fifty each. The
lioxes are to be wrapped and sealed, or securely
fastened in strong manllla paper, so as to safely
bear transportation by mall for delivery to
fiostroastcrs. When two thousand or more enve
opes are required to fill the order of a postmaster,
Uie straw or pasteboard boxes containlDg the
same must be packed in strong wooden cases,
well strapped with , hoop-Iron, and addressed;
but When less than two thousand are required,
proper labels of direction, to be furnished by an
agent of the Department, must be placed upon each
package by the contractor. Wooden cases, con
taining envelopes or wrappers to be transported
by water routes, must be provided with suitable
water-proofing. The whole to be done under
the Inspection and direction of an agent of the
Department.
The envelopes and wrappers mnut be furnished
and delivered with all reasonable despatch, complete
in aH respects, ready for use, and In such quantities
as may be required to fill the daily orders of post
masters; the deliveries to be made either at the Post
Olltce Department, Washington, D. C, or at the
olllce of an agent duly authorised to inspect and re
ceive the same ; the place ef delivery to bo at the
option of the I'ORtmuster-Geueral, and the cost of
delivering as well as all expense of packing, ad
dressing, labeling, and water-proofing, to be paid by
tbe contractor. , ;
Bidders are notified that the Department will re
quire, as a condition of the contract ,that the en
velopes snd wrappers shall be manufactured aud
stored in such manner as to ensure security against
loss by lire or theft. The manufactory must at all
times be subject to the inspeotlon of an agent of the
jjepnriuiviib, who win require ww stipulations of the
contract to be falthfullv oWrvod
. t The dies for embossing the postage stamps on the
envelopes and WraiVinera ar tn ha nivntiiii tn rhn
satisinotlOB cl the Postmaster-General, in the best
ltie, and they are to be provided, renewed, and
kept in order at the expense of the contractor. The
department reserves the right of requiring new dies
for any stamps, or denominations of stamps not now
usea, ana any changes oi dies or colors snail be
made without extra charge. i .
specimens or tne stamped envelopes ana wrap
pers now in use may be seen at any of the principal
post offices, but these specimens are not to be re
garded as the style and quality fixed by the depart
ment as a standard for the new contract; bidders
are therefore invited to submit samples of other
and different qualities and styles, including the
paper proposed as well as the manufactured en
velopes, wrappers, and boxes, and make their bids
accordingly. ,(. i
The contract will be awarded to the bidder whose
proposal, although it be not the lowest, is con
sidered most advantageous to the Department,
taking into account the prices, quality of the sam
ples, workmanship, and the sufficiency and
'ability of the bidder to manufacture and deliver the
envelopes and wrappers in accordance with the
terms of this advertisement; aud no proposal will
be considered snless accompanied by a sufficient
and satisfactory guarantee. The PoBtmaster-Uene-ral
also reserves the right to reject any and all bids,
If in his Judgment the interests of the Government
require It
Before closing a contract the successful bidder
may be required to prepare new dies, and submit
impressions thereof. Tug usb of thb pkbsbnt dibs
MAY OR MAY NOT BK CONTINUED.
Bonds, with approved and sufficient sureties, in
the sum of 1200,000, will be required for the faithful
performance of the contract, as required by the
seventeenth section of the act of Congress, approved
the 2;h of August, 1843, and payments under said
contract will be made quarterly, after proper ad
justment of accounts. .
The postmaster-General reserves to himself the
right to annul the contract whenever the same, or
any part thereof, is offered for sale for the purpose
of speculation ; and under no circumstances will a
transfer of the contract be allowed or sanctioned
to any party who shall be, in the opinion of the
Postmaster-General, less able to fuliiil the condi
tions thereof than the original ooatractor. The
right is alBO reserved to annul the contract for a
failure to perform laithfully any of its stipulations.
The number of envelopes of different sizes, and of
wrappers issued to Postmasters during the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1869, was as follows, vis. : i
No, 1. Hole sice 1,114,00. 1
No. a. Ordinary letter size; (not heretofore
sed).
No. . Fall letter size, (nngummed, for circulars)
4,160,000.- I
No. 4. Full letter size 7,8eT,600.
No. 6. Extra letter size, (ungummed, for circulars)
S0,DUU.
No. o. Extra letter size 4,204,600.
No, 7. Official size V4,eco.
No. 8. Extra official size 1700.
Wrappers 8.66,860. -
Bids should be securely enveloped and sealed,
marked "Proposals for Stamped Envelopes and
Wrappers," and addressed to the Third Assistant
PoBtmaster-General, Post Office Department, Wash
ington, D. C
JOHN A. J. CRESWELL, I
llleotUMl Postmaster General.
ROOFING.
KEADY ROOFIN G.
This Hooiing it adapted to all buildings. It can be
applied to i
BTERP OR FLAT ROOKS I .
at one-half the expense of tin. It is readily put on old
Bhinirle Roofs without removing the shingles, thus avoid
ing the damaging of ceilings and furniture while under
going repairs ( No gravel used.)
PKiBhKVifi YOUR TIN ROOFS WITH WELTOH'S
ELASTIC PAINT. T
I am always prepared to Repair and Paint Roofs at short
notice. Alao, PAINT TOR BALK bi the barrel or gallon,
Mio pen atnu vsospen w uio uuarsu. f
W. A. WKLTON.I ,
1 171 No. 711 V. NINTH Street, above Ooataa.
1 1 I
rpo OWNER8, ARCHITECTS, BUILDERS.
A AND BOOFERS. Roofsl Yes, yes. Kvary sl.e and
kind, old or new. At No. 148 N. THIRD Street, the All K.
RIOAN OONURJCTX PAINT AND ROOi" OOMPANx
are eelltng their celebrated paint for TIN ROOKS, and
for preserving all wood and metala. Also, their solid ooa
plex roof covering, the beet over offered to the public, with
brushes, cans, bucket, etc., lor the work. Anti-vermin,
I'm, and Water-proof ; Light, TUU. Durable. Mooraok
Ing, pealing, or shrinking. No paper, gravel, or heat Uood
men supplied. Oare, promptness, certain tf! One tvioel
or ail oimiatee, inreouona given n
r.ir wnrK. or sooa eork.
Ualll maminei Jndgel .. I
AfcnwwaatoaiortotorioTjoOTiiuo
v e&ti JOHKrU LEEDS, Principal
- .' 1 - - 1 ' " ' "P
J. T. IABTON. J; H'MAMOW.
17AP4TON & McMAHONi
ho IL OOKNl'IF.H HI. I P. New York.
' fiSlS BOOTH WHARVES. Philadelphia,
svt it far Ot) ATT Ht ratM Hull linnra.
We are prepared to ship every description of Freight to
Philadelphial New York, Wilmington, and intermediate
points with prompt-ess and despatch. Canal lioat and
Steam-tugs furnished at the shortest notice. t
gTISYENSON BIIO., fc CO.,
O I li 8
I ussa Re,13!8.6KOOKDIWtft,
PROPOSALS.
OrjflCK OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR
Pnii.AMi.rnu, Jan. 17, 1870.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received for the
following work snd materials required In toe execu
tion of the WALNUT Street portion of the PUBLIC
BUILDINGS, to wit:
For all the excavations, Including the trenches
for the foundations. The price to be stated per
cable yard, which is to cover all digging, hauling
away the surplus earth, and cutting down and re
moving whatever trees may come in the way ef the
excavations, without extra measurement er allow
ance. For taking down the terraoe wall, cleaning the
bricks, and piling thera np adjacent to the buildings,
taking down the Iron railings, the gate piers, the
coping of the wall and the steps, and depositing
them on the grounds, and removing all the rubbish
occasloued by the same. The price for this portion
of tbe work to be stated fn cross.
For concreting the entire foundation of the build
ings with small broken stone, and cement, mortar,
and grout, in conformity with the specifications.
The depth of the concrete to be thtt4 feet, and the
lateral dimensions to conform to the plans. The
price to be stated per cubic foot, and to include all
materials and labor.
For furnlBhlng and delivering large-size building
Stone, the price to be stated per perch of 21 cubic
feet, measured In the walls. Also, for select build
ing stone, averaging 8 by B feet, and from 12 to 18
inches thick ; the price for the same to be stated pci
cubic foot, df II vered on the ground.
For building all the cellar walls, and the outside
walls of the . basement story, as high as tbe levet
line of the pavement, according to tbe Diana and.
specifications. The price to be stated per perch or
22 cubic feet, laid in the walls, without extra mea
surement, and to Include all labor and all materials
except stone.
The contract or contracts will be awarded to the
best and the lowest bidder or bidders, who will be
required to give approved security for the faithful
performance of the same.
The plans and specifications maybe seen at the
office of the Architect, Mr. JOIIN McAKTUUK, Jr.,
No. 208 S. SIXTU Street.
The proposals to be sealed and endorsed "Pro
posals for Public Buildings," and addressed to
JAMES V. WATSON, Chairman of the Committee
on Contracts, and to be left at the office of the Com
missioners of Public Buildings, In the new Court
House, SIXTH Street, below Chesnut, on the 14th
day of February next ensuing, between the hours of
11 and 12 o'clock A. M., at which time the bids will
be opened, in the presence of such bidders as may
wish to attend. , . . .' , , ..
By order of the Committee on Contracts. ' ,
1 19 wfm lit H. C. PUGH, Secretary.
Q F F I C E , O F THE,,,
CUMBERLAND COAL AND IRON COMPANY.
NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING1.
A special meeting of the Stockholders of the Cum
berland Coal and Iron Company has been called by
the President and Directors of said Company, to be
held at Its offlee, No. .90 BROADWAY, corner Wall
street, in the city of New York, on the 19th day or
February, 1870, at 12 o'clock M.
The objects of said meeting are : To accept, as aa
Increase of the powers of the Company, and as 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
panies having coal lands la Allegheny county, Md. ;
to arrange the terms of such consolidation and the
manner or carrying the 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 15,000,000 of the capital stock
of said Consolidation Coal Company of Maryland,
and to agree with that company upon the terms and1
conditions upon which such subscription shall be
mado, and to convey and transfer to the last-name
Company in free payment for the amount of stock,
which may be so subscribed for, such portion of tbe
lands and other properties of this Company, includ
ing its railroad, as may be agreed apon. And gene
rally, to pass upon all ojuestlons which may arise
touching such proposed consolidation, or transfer of
property, or subscription for stocks, and the dispo
sition to be made of the stock subscribed for, and If
deemed expedient, to authorize a lease of the pro
perties of this Company or any part thereof, and to
make all alterations in the by-laws which said meet
ing may deem necessary or proper. ; 1
IMotlce is hereby given that, for the purpose of
holding a stockholders' meeting or the Cumberland
Coal and Iron Company on the 19th day or February
next, the transfer books will close on SATURDAY,
Jan. 29, 1870, at o'clock P. H. , ,
By order of tbe Board of Directors. , '
J. RICHARDS, Secretary.
New York, Jan. 18, 1870. . l20tF18
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IIA.RII3NGrS EDITIONS
i (OF .
j. i
. THE HOLT BIBLE. ; i
FAMILY, PULPIT, AND PHOTOGRAPH BIBLES,
, " t . ! ; oa ,. i". .i. , , .' .I i -
WEDDING AND BIRTHDAY PRESENTS
ALSO, PRESENTATION BIBLES FOR.
CHURCHES, ' ' J ':u' ' '
' CLERGYMEN, -u ' . ''
SOCIETIES AND ' '
w ' - TEACHERS, ETC
New and superb assortment, bound In Rich Levant
Turkey Morocco, Paneled and Ornamental designs,
equal to the London and Oxford editions, at less than,
half their prices. ;.. -t t
No. 820 CHESNUT Street
STRENGTH, BEAUTY, CHEAPNESS COMBIXED T.
HARDING'S PATENT CHAIN-BACK
, rilQTOQRAPIl ALBLMS, j
For Wedding, Holiday, or Birthday Presents, these
Albums are particularly adapted. ! " ' i '
Tbe book trade and dealers a fancy article will
find the most extensive assortment of Photograph
Albums in the country, and superior t? any (hereto
fore made. For great strength, durebllty, and
cheapness, Farding's Patent Chain-back Albums are
unrivalled. Purchasers will find it greatly te their
advantage to examine these new lines of goods be
fore making np their orders for stock. " '
Also, a large and splendid assortmeot of tew styles
of Photograph Albums made In tbe usual tanner.
No, 326 CHESNUTtreet,
..!, . . . .
, i Phittdelptiia.
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GALVANIZED and Painted , WTREGUARDS,
tore fronts and windows, for factory id warehoua
windows, for churches and cellar whdows.
IRON and WIRE RAILINGS,' for hCoonies, offices
cemetery and garden fenoea, ' ' ' '
Liberal allowance made to' contactora, ilnllde
and Carpenters. All orders filled with promptaei
and work gTiaranteed, '
KOBEKT WCOD A CO.,
2 3 ituvhom . , . He, uae uiyX Annua ftUiftV