THE DAILY EVENING TELEfiKAHl PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1870. Mlm." there f P'rap Homo on yon chnpfl Might know Jim Wild? Well no offense: Thor ain't no senao In gittin' riloil ! Jim was my chum Up on the Mar: Thntn why I como Down from np yar iookin' for Jim. Thank yo, air I You Ain't of that crow Blent if yon are ! Monoy ? Not much: That ain't my kind: I ain't no such. Hum ? I don't mind, . Beein' it's you. Well, this yer Jim, Did you know him ? Jes boot yonr size; Ham kind of eyes ? Wall, that is strange: Why, it's two year binee he came here, Bick, for a change. Well, here's to us ! Eh? The yon say ! Dead? That little cuss ? What makes you star You over thar ? Can't a man drop 'h glass in your shop But you must rar' ? It wouldn't take Much to break You and your bar. Dead! Poor littlo Jim ! Why thar was me, Jones, and Bob Lee, Harry, and Ben, No account men; Then to take him ! Well, thar Good-bye-No more, sir I Eh? What's that you say ? Why, dornit! sho! No? Yes I By Jo! Sold! Sold 1 Why, you limb, You ornery, Dorn'd old Long-legged Jim ! Overland Monthly for January. I?inJ (ration. fYetn the London Saturday Review. The emigration movement appears to ex tend and gather additional vigor, and it is impossible not to sympathize to a very great degree with the views of its supporters. People are beginning to reflect, and not before it was time, upon the cruel state of poverty which exists among us. With 150,000 per sons in London alone living wholly or in part up an charity, and with the numbers increas ing every week, any prospect of relief is worth considering. We are forced to admit that it is an open question whether the vast sums which are spent upon charity do, iu the long run, more harm than good. We talk a great deal about organizing charitable re lief, and the associations whioh aim at that desirable object are slowly strug gling into existence. Yet it becomes evident that the task which lies before them is greater and more complicated than could have been anticipated. All kinds of petty local jealousies impede their action. If they restrict them selves to their original aim of bringing exist ing societies into harmony, they do not con ciliate the necessary amount of support. If they give way to the pressure put upon them and spend any considerable sum in relief, they are in dangor of simply swelling the stream of demoralizing charitios. To evade these difficulties and to Becure a strong posi tion will require skilful policy and a careful feeling of the way. It is improbable, there fore, that however much good they may ulti mately effect and the excellence of their in tentions is undeniable they will produce any immediate alleviation to the existing distress. The misery is amongst us; the cure, so far as it depends upon internal operations, must necessarily be slow in its action. A very natural impatience inclines us to any plau which promises to shake off some part of our heavy burden of pauperism by a sudden effort, instead of gradually reducing it by the alow action of charitable reform or schemes of educational and social improvement. Such measures may tell upon the next generation; but we are eager to do something for the crowds in actual existence, who are painfully supporting themselves just above the brink cf starvation. We seem to be in need of a harp surgical operation rather than a change of diet or habits, which oaa only be expected to produce a gradual constitutional improve ment. Emigration is obviously the only remedy of this kind at hand; and.it is plain that under certain oiroumstances emigration may really act as a great and immediate relief. The Irish exodus, for example, saved a large number of people from starvation at the time, and has probably produced a permanent im provement in the material comfort i of those who stayed behind. If we could colleot the whole existing body of paupers, and eet them down in any country that would be willing to receive them a condition not very easily satisfied we should certainly be sensi ble of an immediate relief, and we might use the breathing space so afforded to put matters on a better footing before our papulation was once more pressing upon the means of sup port. The Irish emigration transplanted still greater numbers in a few years, and did it chiefly at the expense of a population in still greater depths of poverty. Many of the pre vent advocates of emigration would probably shrink from so heroio a remedy. Bir James Lawrence, for example, endeavored to prove at the late meeting that there was no danger of an excessive movement. This, however, is just one of the points upon whioh it is im possible to speak with confidence. The idea of emigration has been evidently spreading with great rapidity amongst the working classes. Four years of commercial de pression have taught them a lesson whioh may be oonverted into practice more speedily than we erpeot. Nearly 00,000 Englishmen, as appears from a late return, sailed from Liverpool to the Unitod Btates in the course of last year. If a great demand for labor Bhould agaiu spring up in America as it re . covers from the various evils of the civil war, it might find xoom for many times the pre sent number. Emigration as controlled by official persons will of course be direoted to wards our own colonies; but if the English working-nan finds that there is a better chanoe of employment in the United Btates, he will certainly not be restrained from moving there, even if he rises Canada as a stepping-stone. There is room enough in the West, as the Americans like to remind us, for the whole population of these inlands. If the thought tf leaving their hemf s once becomes familiar to the masses in this country, thry will rush into any vacuum tlmt may jrest'tit itself in certainly as the atuior.1 line Hows into au ex'iiusted air-jimp. It in possible, then, tU.d the remedy ior over-population may come iu a stronger unripe than our physicians are in clined to prescribe. The exodus haa not dis tinctly set in, partly because under existing circunmtnnefs the demand from the other side is not so great as it may onsily become. But the state of mind favorable to it seems to be widely prevalent, and efforts direoted to a different purpose may supply the occasion for an outward rush on a large scale. These, however, are matters for specula tion, and we can exercise little control over them. If the working-classes should resolve to emigrate in large numbers, we oannot restrain them, and must be oontent to make the best of the result. The movement has not as vet becrun on a large scale, and may perhaps never tako place. The praotioal question is as to the duty of Govern ment and of charitable associations. One rart of the recommendations of the Emi gration Societies may be accepted without hesitation. Air. JlcUullagli lorrens sug gested at the late meeting that agencies should be established by the co-operation of the Homo and Colenial Governments, at which information should be given to in tending emigrants, and that arrangements should be made for superintending their pas sage, and securing their proper reception on arriving at the colonies. An effective machinery ought certainly to be providod for the purpose indicated. At the present, the emigrant is too often in a state' of profound ignorance as to every circumstance of his future home. He does not know where it is that his services are reallv wanted; and he mav find that, from being a burden to his own country, he has simply become a burden in n Btranee land. Some better organization for helping the stream of emigration to direct itself towards the places where it is most re. quired might be of essential service. So far the proposal of the Emigration Societies is unimpeachable; but the real difficulty is to decide how far their further request should be cranted for promoting emigration- by direct necuniirv aid. The view: of the emigrating classes themselves is islmple enouch. Thev would, of course," like to have their rassnee mid, and be provided, free of cost, with a few fertile acres of laud in the colonies. If we were simply discuss ing the propriety of a permanent system of emigration, it would be easy to show that such demands, even in a moderate form, are liable to the objections which beset other forms of gratuitous charity. It han indeed this advantage, that tho pauper id perma nently taken off our handc. He is not likely to be constantly fulling back upon us for assistance. But in its degree assistance so given would be ermfUlv clanreroiis to the soli respect and prudence of the recipient. If a man is entitled to be providod for at the na' tionnl expense, his spirit of independence is equally lowered whether the provision is in England or abroad. V. e snould do merely introducing a new form of out-door relief Moreover, there is the special objection that we should be interfering with the natural working of the Kibor-maiket. ine colonists want intelligent laborers; if we send thorn paupers, in orJe to relieve the rates, we should be giving thorn a bad material to the injury of those who could supply a better. By making known as widely as possible the nature of the colonial wants, and probably even by advancing pas sage money in some cases, we may promote a very useful circulation of labor; but as soon as we extend our views and regard the colonies as so many waste places upon which we may recklessly discharge the crowds which fill our workhouses, the benefits of the plan become questionable. It is an excellent thing to facilitate the intercourse between dif ferent parts of our empire; but it is a mistake to assume that we can regularly sunt our burdens upon our dependencies. As a temporary measure of relief, when a sudden calamity has pauperized a particular district, it may be occasionally worth while to adopt something like a wholesale scheme of emigra tion. But even there we encounter the diia- culty that, in the first instance, it is not so easy to find immediate room for large masses of the least valuable classes of our population; and that, secondly, temporary measures of relief have an unpleasant facility for becom ing permanent. Most charitable acts do good at the moment: it is onlv when thev nass into a system that they become positively perni cious. Theso and other obvious considerations may be adduced to show that emigration is far from being the panacea that some people fancy. It may do much good under judicious regulations, but it is not likely to bring about the millennium; and in order that it may do good at all, we must scrupulously observe cer tain conditions. And it is the more necessary to make tne remam because mere is a par donable tendency to look about for some sudden and spasmodio means of relief. We are impatient at the presence of so much misery, and are anxious to throw it aside by some desperate effort. Yet we must remem ber that such efforts can rarely be successful, and that, even it the most sanguine anticipa tions wore realized, thev do not point to a very satisfactory ideal. It should not be aocepted as a permanent condition of things that we should be constantly encumbered with a population incapable of supporting itself in decency and comfort. If the working-classes were as intelligent, as solf-respecting, and, in short, as civilized as they ought to be, there is no reason why tho whole existing popula tion should not live and thrive within these islands. We ought not to give up the hope that the English poor may some day or other be made sullloiently prosperous not to regard emigration as a door of escape from neipiess misery, but as an excellent liold lor men of superfluous energy. At the present moment, it is true, we are far enough from mat desirable consummation; but the advo cates of State emigration ore to apt to turn away our attention from natural means of im provement at home, and to convert what ought to be a subsidiary measure into tho one permanent source of improvement. Surely, if we are wide and enemotio enough, va cmi even yet do somothing bettor with our poor than turn them loose into any country that is willing to take them. If we act upon that principle, we are only too likely to find that the plaoes of those who depart will be speedily filled by tne expansive powers or population; and that after sending some hundreds of thousands of our countrymen abroad, there will be as many hundred thousand who will be anxious, for precisely the same reasons, to follow their example. Mr. Frret' Opinion of Feclitcr. We copy the following from the Boston Transcript, simply as an interesting and frank expression of opinion by one noted actor on another. Mr. Forrest's allusion to "the Bohemian" is in bad taste, as well as unjust. Our own readers know how highly we esteem the genius of Mr. k echter, and that we had no hesitation about expressing our admin lion, but critics whose ability and integrity u lmve every reason to re .pect thought otherwise. It will da thetu no hurt, however, to see what Mr. Forrest thinks aud Kivfl. Wo quote; Edwin 1 orrest, writing m n irioua m mm city, says: 'I hope Mr. I editor will ie ft pticresp, for in suou piayn h tuo Mttto I presnmo he is without a rival. If he acts in Boston, I hope you will go to see him. He is doubtless a most nnisneu aruut, naving been educated in the beRt schools of art. The best reason to bo given that tne Bonomiansor New York dare not pronounce definitely upon the merits of his acting is that thoy have not the intellect to comprehend It. Had tney seen any other actor of eminence in the parts, they might have said he was bottor or worse than he who gave them the first light on the subject. That is the total of llinir rriticlDiil- The Kino's Motto is an obvious mistake or the writer or of the printers. The livmt of the llurnesi. The following piece of humor is going the rounds of the pnpers: IN HARNESS. A poet sayR: "Oh! she was fair, but sor row cumo and left his Traces there. what became of the rest of tho harness he don t state. Erie LimaicJi. Oh, no! Further down tne nui oi poo cry - . m a it says: "Come wi me, my lassie, and 1 11 take thee to thv Ilame." The balance of the harness is still missing. La Crosse Demo crat. i You are mistaken about that. The same poet, speaking of the same young lady, says: -4"And all the Lines that sorrow had loft faded out in joy." Tho rest of the J harnet4 is still uiissing. EurMnac. No: null another piece nos turned up, ior fiirther on the muse informs us that "Loving hands and simple flowers hud docked her for the Bridol." Nothing has yet transpired as to whereabouts, of the rest of the jharneBa.- Y,ork Repvhlican.'- ' ' All a mistake, for had not Walter said:- f 'Give me but what this Belt hath bound, take all the rest the sun goes round." Don't be discouraged, friends, the rest of the har ness is bound to come. Unto htatc journal. Of course it is, for bath not the poet said: f'When Greek meets Greek then comes tne Tug of war." Pass along the balance. lolcdo made. No more; no more. We'll oivo you only what Gratiano proponed for Shylock: "A Halter grutiP; nothing tije, for uod s sako. Jnduina vapcr. For the information ot our contemporaries we con tell them mat ail me rest oi mo nar- ihbk, together with Rome previously found by them, cm be found in bliakespeare: Ckittek? The adlcr had it, sir; I kept It not. C' mean of Error. Act I Scene 2. Fetruchio Is coining, Ms borne hlnped with rrn old motley FAvm.K, one girt six times pierced, aim a woman's crupper or venire. Taminri of the Xhrew, Act 'II, Sceno 2. We have strict statutes ami most biting laws, Tee hettUul bits and cuaiis for headstrong steeds. Meaxuie fur ihawe. Act I, Soeno 2. The TKAfPS of the smallest spider's web; 11; e ccLi.Ai.y of the moonshine's watery beams. Uomeo anrl Juliet, Act I, Scene 4. The fair reverence of your Highness curbs mo From giving ntiNS aud si-uvs. JttMiara in, scene l. INSUHANOfc. "IftOO O II A 11 T E 11 PERPETUAL. Franklin Fire ftunce Company Office, Nos. 425 and 437 CEESUUT St. fcssetsJan. I, '69, $2,677,37213 CAPITAL ftOO,0iX)BO Ai;i;ntMi built .bUB 1.083,52370 PREMIUMS 1,193,848-43 UNSETTLED CLAIMS, INCOME FOR 1S69, Losses paid since 1829,ovt3T$5,5QO,OQO Pcrtta&l und TeruDorarr Potioiea on Liberal Tiwmi The Uomnanr also iwities Policies on Rmiiu nfKnit.i.naa DUUtOl'ORS. Alfred G. Baker, , Alfred FHIer, Samuel Grant, I Thomaa 8park, George W. Kioharda, William sTurant, Isaac 1e.n, I Thomaa 8. Kllia, George t ale. , ' GoaUvas 8. Benaoo. A LFRED O. U A K im. Pt..i,i..i GKOKGE FALK8. Vioa-Fraaidank. JAS. W. MCALLISTER. Seoretary. TliK.ODOKK M. KKUKR. Aeaiatont Becretary. 8 1 T B I r T I V mm m m E W S IM W I W M la a Prevident Life and Trust Co. OF PHILADELPHIA. OFFICE, No. Ill 8. FOURTH STREET. Orfranlzed to promote LIFE INSURANCE amono- moml.irii j-if lha U.iririr sf U.l..n.ln iUCUil'VIO Va UIV UUljlt 1 J VI f HCUUBa uoou nsKS oi any ciafla aocepted. Policies Issued on approved Dlans. at tha low.. A l nun .1., w.-iiUKiju -1L Jjai, Vlce-Presldont, WILLIAM C. LONOSTKETH, Actuary. ROWLAND PAWhV TtAa1fiAt- B A TLTTttD'T T5 CTTTT1T nrw The advautascg offered by tula UomDany nr nn. CJaUCleCUa IU76 THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO. OF PHJLAIKLFHIA. OIKce 8. W. corurn of 1-OUKTli and WALNUT Btreota. 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CiUiughain Felt psntel Haddock, Jr. DAMKL bum., Jb.. President Vffl. O. CROWKLL. beoretary. 5 JMPEWAIj FIKB IIISU1U.NCK CO. LONDON. ESTABLISHED 180 J. Paid-up Capital and Accumulated Funds, tH,000,000 IN GOLD, PREV0ST & HERRING, Agenti, S it No, 107 & THIRD Street, Philadelphia. CHA& M. TREVOBT. CHAS. R. HERRING PROPOSALS. )KOPOHAI.H FOR STAMPED KNVELOrF.S AND L WKAITEltH. Poht umci IKPABTtFKT, 1 Jnnnary 10, 1T0.( Bealcrl PmpoRaltt will bo received nntll 8 P. M. cnthelut tiny of MARCH, l7i, for fiirnlsninff all the "Stamped Envelopes" ami "Newspaper wrap pera" wliieh tlila Depiirtnieiit may require durum a penon oi lour yeam, commeticmg isi oi ouij, 187U, viz. : hTA Ml r-l) EN VK1AJI-K!!. No. i. Hole Bine, VA by 4 luchcg, of white PnXer . ... no. a, v-ruinary tetter if., a i-io nj o i lnehea, of white. biHT, CBiinry, or r.reain colorerl paper, or in such proportion of either as Diay be required. Ho. 8. Full letter alze (nriffummed on flap, for circulars). 8V by tjtf luetics, of tlie nanio colors as No. il, and uuiler a like condition as to the propor tion of eaeh. No. 4. Full letter mre. $( by tin Inches, of samo colors as Na and under a like cjuilltlon us to the proportion or eaeti. No. 6. Extra letter size (iitiRuninied on flap, for clrculnrn), 8X by 0 Inches, of sumo colors as No. S, aud under a like condition aa to tho proportion of eiirti. No. . Extra letter size, BV by "V inches, of game colors as No. aud under a like condition an to tho proportion of eaeiu No. 1. Clllclol Rlr.e, 8Ts t'T S? inches, of samo colors as No. 8, and uuiler a like couuitlon as to the proportion of eaen. No. 8. Extra official size, 4V by 9ii Inches, of name colors as No. 8, and under a like coudttiou as to the proportion or enen. NKWM'Al'Ht WRAPPERS. by 9 Indies, of bull or niunlllii paper. Ait tne Hoove envelopes aim wnippers tn on nn-bof-sed with poHtape stamps of sueh denominations, styles, and colors, and to bear such printing on the face, and to be made In the most thorouuli manner. of paper of bpproved quality, manufactured specially for the purpose, with such water marks or other do vices to prevcut imitation aa the Postiuiuiter-Ucueral niav n reel. Hie ctivelt.pes to be thoroughly and perrectly tumnicd, the gumming on the Hap of each (except or circulat'H) to be put on not lens than luiif an Inch in width tho entire lencth. The wrappers to be cnnimed not lens than thrce-foui tha of an Inch In wiiiin across uie end. All envelopes and wrappers mttst be banded in Parcels of twent v-Ilve. aud packed In strouir piiHttboard or ptraw boxes, each to contain not Icmi than two hundred and Ufiy of the letter or extm letter size, and ouo hundred each of the olll- cial or extra olllclnl size, separately. Tho news paper wrappers to be packed In boxes to contain not less tnan two iiunorea ami tuiy eacn. una boxes are to bo wrapped and sealed, or securely fastened In strong liiuullla paper, so as to surely bear transportation by mail for delivery to poHtmaKters. When two thousand or tuoro enve lopes are required to till the order of a postmaster, the straw or pasteboard boxes containing tho same must be packed iu strong wooden cases, well strapped with hoop-Iron, and addressed ; but when less than two thousand tire required, proper labels of direction, to be furnished by an agent of the Department, must be placed upon each package by the contractor. Wooden case, con taining envelopes or wrappers to bo transported bv water routes, must be provided with suitable water-prootlng. The whole to be done under the Inspection and direction of an ajent of the Ijerartiuent. The envelopes and wrappers must be furnished nnd delivered with all reasonable despatch, complete in ail respects, ready for iihc. and iu such qttnutitlcs us may be required to till the dally orders of post masters ; the deliveries to tie made cutler at the i'oat Cilice Department, Washington, D. C, or at the titv.ee of an ageut duly authorized to inspect and re ceive the same; the place of delivery to bo at the option of tho Postinabter-GeDeral, und the cost of delivering as well as all expense of packing, ad dressing, labeling, and water-proofing, to be paid by tne contractor. Hidden are notified that the Depirtmcnt will re quire, as a condition of the contract ,that the en velopes and wrappers shall be niuuulaetured and Btnied In such inauner as to ensure security against loss by lire or theft. The manufactory must at all times be subject to the luspeullou of tin aeut of the Department, who will require the stipulation of the contract to be faithfully observed. The dies for embossing the postage stamps on the envelopes aud wrappers are to be executed to tho satisfaction of the l'ostmaster-Uencral, In the best style, and they are to be provided, renewed, and kept in order at tho expense of the contractor. The department reserves the right of requit ing new dies for any stamps, or denominations of stamps not now usul, ami tiny chunges of dies or colors shall be iuado without extra charge. M eelinciiH or the stamped envelopes and wrap prrs now in use may be seen at any of the principal post omces. out tnese specimens ure not to be re curded as the style and quality lixed by the depart ment as a standard for the new contract; bidders are therefore Invited to submit samples of other aud diUereut qualities and styles. Including the paper proposed aa well as the manufactured en velopes, wrappers, and boxes, and inako their blda accorasigiy. Hie 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, aud the sufficiency and ability cf the bidder to manufacture aud deliver the envelopes and wrappers In accordance with the terms of this advertisement; aud no proposal will be considered unless accompanied by a sufficient and satisfactory guarantee. The rostmuster-Gene-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. The cue of tub i-kkbkut ued MAY OK MAY NOT BE COKTLKUED. Uonds, with approved and BufTlclent sureties, In the sum of '2()0,ooo, will be required for the faithful performance or the contract, as required by the seventeenth section of the act of Congress, approved tho VOth of August, lt42, 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 ottered for sale for the purpose of speculation ; aud under no circumstances will a transfer of the contract be allowed or sanctioned to any party who shall be, In the opinion of the I'ostmiister-General, less able to fulfill the condi tions thereof than the original contractor. The right Is also reserved to annul the contract for a luilure to perform luithfully any of Its stipulations. The number of envelopes of different sizes, and of wrappers Issued to Postmasters during the lineal year ended June 80, 1SC9, was as follows, viz.: No, 1. Note size 1,114,000. No. 8. Ordinary letter size; (not heretofore nsed). No. 8. Full letter size, (u n gummed, for circulars) 4,160,000. No, 4. Full letter Size 67,8CT,B0O. No. 6. Extra letter size, (urjgmnuied. for circulars! 843,600. No. 6. Extra letter size 4,204,600. No. 7. OlllcuU size Cti4,C'M. No. 8. Extra official size 1700. Wrappers 8,608,260. Diiis should be secarely enveloped and seal ad, marked "Proposals for stumped Envelopes and Wrappers," aud addresHud ti tne Third Assistant Postmaster-General, Post Office Department, Wash ington, D. C. . JOHN A. J. CRESWSIX, 1 11 codtMl Postmaster General. ROOFING. R EADY ROOFI This Roofins-is adapted to all buildinsra N G. It caa bs iiitliftMi tn BTKKP OR FLAT ROOF8 at one-half the expense of tin. It is readily put on old bhinxle Roofs without removing tho stimulus, thus avoid inif the ilnuiuKing of ceilings and furniture while under- ruing: repairs. i No gravel used.) RibJlRVK YOUK TIN ROOFS WITH WELTON'S KLAKTfO PAINT. I am always prepared to Repair and Paint Roofs at short notice. Also, PAINT 1 OH S A LK by the barrel o-gallon, the best and cheapest in the market. W. A. WELTON, S 17, No. 711 N. NINTH Btreet. above Coates. TO OWNERS, ARCHITECTS, BUILDERS, AMI) ROOi KRR. Roof si Yea. yea. Kvery size and kind, old or new. At No. 643 N. THlIib btreet, the AME RICAN CONOHETK PAINT AND ROOF COMPANY are aelUrjf Uteir oelebrated paint lor TIN ROOKS, and for preserving all wood and metals. Also, their solid oota plex roof covering, the best ever offered to ths publio, with brushes, csna, buckets, eto., lor ths work. Anti vennin, Fire, and ater-proof ; Light, Tight, Durable. Nooraok. ing, pealing, or shrinking. No paper, gravel, or hsat Good lor all climates. Directions given for work, or good work' men supplied. .Care, promptness, oertaintyl One riol Ca.H1 Kiaminel Judge! A gents wanted for interior oonntias. U JObiCPH LEKPfi. Principal T. XASTOTf. 1. M'MAHON. E AHTOH Ac M c J?I A It o nr, BBIVVINQ A HI COMMISSION MKHVMANTd, No. S. OOKNl'IK.H HUr New York. No. IS SOUTH WHARVKr), Philadelphia. Ha. 46 W. i'KA 1 1 btreet, Baltimore. We are ureDared to shin every description of Freight to Philadelphia, New York, Wilmington, and intermediate points with promptness and despatch. Oanal boats and b team tuns furnished at tha shortest notice. t CTJEVElSOI, UIIO., Si. CO, OMiH 1 1 3m Ma Vl'i BKCOKD Street. PROPOSALS. O1 FUCK OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR 'I HE ERECTION OF Ptmi.IO RUILDI.NUS. I'llll Al'KU'KIA, Jn. 17, H7'i. FEAI.ED PROPOSAL will lie received for the foPowlng work and niatelals required In the execu tion of the WALNLT Slrect portion of the PUULIO 1IU1LDINGH, to wit: For all the excavations, Including the trenches for the foundations. The price to bo suited per cubic yard, which Is to cover all digging, hauling away ibe surplus earth, and cutting down and re moving w hatever trees may come In the way of the excavations, without extra measurement or allow ance. For taking down tho terrace wall, cl 'anlng tho bricks, and piling thetu np adjacent to tho buildings, taking down the Iron railings, the gate piers, tha coping of the wall and tho steps, and depositing them on the grounds, aud removing all tho rubbish occasioned by the same. The prloe for tills portion Of the work to be stated in grot. For concretli g the entire foundation of the build ings with small broken stone, aud cement, mortar, and grout, In conformity with tho specifications. The depth of the concrete to be three feet, and tho lateral dimensions to conform to the plans. The price to. tic stated per cubic foot, and to Include all materials and labor. For furnishing and delivering large-size building stone, the price to be elated per perch of 124 cubto fret, measured In the walls. Also, for select build ing stone, averaging S by 6 feet, and from 1 j to 13 Inches thick ; the price for the sumo to be stated per cubic foot, b llvcred on tho ground. For building all the cellar walls, aud the outside w alls of the basement story, as high as the level line of tho pavement, according to the plans ami pccincatlons. Tho price to be stated per perch of VI 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 tho faithful performance of the samo. The plans and specifications may bo seen at tho oniec of t!te Architect, Mr. JOIIN McARTIlUR, Jb., No. ai'O S. SIXTH Street, The proposals to be sealed and endorsed "Pro posals for Public Buildings," and addressed to JAMES V. WATSON, Chairman of tho Comrulttea on Contracts, and to be left at the oillce of the Com missioners of Publio Buildings, in the new Court House, SIXTH Street, below Chesuut, on tho 14ta day of February next ensuing, between the hours ot 11 and 12 o'clock A. M., at which time tho bids will be opened. In the presence of sueh bidders as may wlBh to attend. By ort'er of the Committee on Contracts. 1 lOwfni lit II. C. PUGII, Secretary. OFFICE OF THE SOUTH BTREET BRIDGE COMMlbblON, Ma ill 8. FlPl'll btreot. Philadelphia, Jan. 17, 1870. Fralcd Proposals for erectinir a briilire over tha river Pchuylkill at fsuutb street wnl be reooived at ttio otHoe of the UMiimiiwion, in the Department of eurvpys, No. t.A K Flt'l II bUeet, nntil la o'clock M. of the 1'lKSl' DAY OF MARCH. Ibid, (ior the construction of a wrouRDt iron (frbttbriofie, wltu Murphy's modification of tho Pratt truts. 7'obi.vo cast-iton piura iu river,1and atone abut- rm-tite, with approaches of rotaintrur walls; arches of brick, end iron I Birders, aa described in the specifics tinn. The entire leriirtU cf struoture to be 211H foot, tho 1 rum spsns to be l-6tett each, with pivot draw, giviug an opt-ninK ol 77 feet on each stire. The proposal to be tor an sifirrpfrste bid, to be ao cnuipuuieu by a bon with two approved sureties to an amount ot IfDiV'OU. - Fit teen rer ceut. to be retained as the work procoeds, until the same, inclusive of tho It-wi.MiO noted in bond, shall amount to fifteen per cent, of tlie cent rsct prine, alttr which the current osti nistcs will be paid iu lull. Finns im.y be sen and specifications obtained at tho otlioo of tho Commission on and after the th in stant. MOSES A. DROPSIE. 1 25tnfCt President of the Commission. Q F F I C E OF THE CUMBERLAND COAL AND IRON COMPANY. NOTICE OP STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING. A special meeting of the Stockholders of tho Cum berland Coal and Iron Company has been called by the TreBldent and Directors of said Company, to bo held at Its ofllce, No. 90 BROADWAY, corner Wall Btreet, In the city of New York, on tho 19th 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 as aa amendment to Its charter, the provision contained the charter of the Consolidation Cool Company of Maryland, which renders it lawful for all bodies cor- ' porate to become subscribers for and owners of ths capital stock of the last-named compauy; also, to consider and act upon the question of a consolida tion with the last-named company and other com panies having coal lands in Allegheny county, MJ. ; to arrange the terms of such consolidation' and the manner of carrying tho same into effect, aud to authorize the Directors to effect the same ; to autho rize the Board of Directors of this Company to sub scribe lu its behalf for 5,000,000 of tho capital stock: of said Consolidation Coal Company of Maryland, and to agree with that company upon the terms and conditions upon which such subscription shall ba niado, and to convey and transfer to the lust-named Company In free payment for the amount of stock; which may be so subscribed for, such portion of tho lands and other properties of this Compauy, Includ ing Its railroad, as may be agreed upon. Aud gene rally, to pass npon all questions which may arlsa touching such proposed consolidation, or transfer of property, or subscription for stocks, and the dispo sition to be made of the stock subscribed for, aud 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. Sotlce Is hereby given that, for tho purpose of holding a stockholders' meeting of the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company on the 19th day of February next, the transfer books will close on SATURDAY, Jan. 29, 1ST0, at 2 o'clock P. M. By order of the Board of Directors. J. RICHARDS, Secretary. New York, Jan. 18, 1870. 1 20 tFl8 rp H E PRINCIPAL DEPOT ron tux Bali of REVENUE STAMPN NO. 804 CUESNJJT STREET. CENTRAL OFFICE, NO. 108 8. FIFTH STREET (Two doors below Chesuut street), ESTABLISHED 186 2. The sale of Revcnne Stamps Is still continued at the Old-Established Agenclce. The stock comprises every denomination printed by the Government, and having at all tlnivs a large supply, we are enabled to fill and forward (by Mali or Ex pre an) all ordera, Immediately upon receipt, a matter of great Importance. United btates Notes, National Bank Notes, Drafts on Philadelphia, and PoBt Oillce Orders received lu payment. Any Information regarding the decisions of tha Commissioner of Internal Revenue choerrully an gratuitously furnished. Revenue Stamps printed apon Drafts, Chect Receipts, etc. The following rates of comralsBlon are allowed Stamps and Stamped Paper: On tits and upwards. .2 per 100 too Address all orders, etc., to STAMP AGENCY, No. 804 CH.ESNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. i warn n
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