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B S V I E W OF SEW BOOKS.
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for young poplo, hy M. C. I'hillpotts. The
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of Good Word; Good Word for the
Young; and The Sunday Magazine. These
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Jfe have received from Messrs. Turner
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pamphlet published by them, entitled "The
United States Mint," and written by Colonel
"William M. Runkel, 'which gives a very tho
rough description of an institution of which
but little is known. Here we have in a book
of sixteen pages all that is really worth know
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the crude gold or silver, into the melting
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From the same house we have received
Appleton'e Journal and Our Boys and Girls
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February 15. This last named periodical,
which is fast winning its way to favor, is
made up of excellent selections from the best
foreign magazines and reviews.
The American Sunday School Union sends
vs "The Broken Rein" and "Perverse Pussy,"
a couple of religious stories suitable for
Sunday School libraiies.
From T. B. Peterson & Brothers wo have
received "Tne Planter's Northern Bride," the
seventh volume oT the complete edition of
Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz's works now in
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Claxton, Remsen & Haft" elfinger send us
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; Irlslt Juries. i '
"Cornelius 0'Dowd,"in the last Blackioood,
in an article about Irish juries, discusses the
various issues that must or do influence the
verdict of a juryman in Ireland. Not only
will patriotic and ethical motives influence
the mind of the Irish juryman, but he must
J bethink very seriously whathape the publio
opinion will assume when the verdict is pro
nounced: "If the crime be what the cant of
the day calls 'agrarian,' that is, if the tenure
of land enters in any way into the history of
the offense, no great discernment is. required
to guess how popular feeling will incline; and
the juryman who is burdened with a con
science, and feels the solemn obligation of an
. oath, has to bethink him howfar he lives from
the police-barrack whether it be the season of
long nights and dark ones how many near
relations the prisoner has what their charac
ters are whether the gun he saw one of the
family shooting crows with has a flint or a
percussion lock, and where they usually buy
their powder. These are not strictly evidence
on the trial, but, let me tell you, they will
bold a very considerable space in the mind of
the juryman notwithstanding; and, with the
' best possible inclination to acquit himself
bonestly and faithfully, he will tUink of that
long mountain road he has to travel after he
leaves the court house, and how little day.
light will be left by the time he reaches that
lonesome bit where the stone-pines throw
Iheir shadow's over the path." As illustrating '
the influences of purely extraneous matters
upon these juries, O'lJowd relates thn follow
ing Anecdote: " 'How could you h.ive, tho
Conscience to' give forty thousand pounds
damages in that seduction cnne'' was the
question put to the foreman of tho jury who
tried the celebrated Brandon issue, where the
defendant was an English peer. 'Begorra, it
was a fine thing to bring all that money into
Ireland!' was the answer. And against such
patriotic devotion what is to be said? 'So
you found him not guilty?' cried another,
when a palpable murderer was acquitted in
defiance of the evidence and the distinct di
rection of the judge 'you found him not
guilty?' 'By my conscience, I did,' was the
reply of the juryman. 'I'd like to see myself
hang him, and he the last life in my lease!"
Tbe llallet Ulrl. of Pari.
I made the acquaintance, not Ions since, of
a dashing young Frenchman, who, with' a
very fair stock of. brains ana very good heart,
yet was foolish enough to plume himself on
being "a man about town." He was pos
sessed of good looks and a reasonable for
tune, was inveterately lazy, and just about as
moral as Frenchmen on the average are.
The intimacy with which that fellow knew
Pans, from palace to garret, was wonderful:
and I managed, during the brief period I was
accidentally thrown witn nim, to glean much
of which I was not informed before.
Among other haunts Paul was especially
fond of the green-room and its divinities.
His position and money gave him ready ac
cess to them; and I implicitly believe that he
was on easy terms with half the ballet-corps
of the metropolis. It was his description of
these ballet-girls, their profession, their mode
of life, their character, and their training,
which particularly struck me; and he so freely
imparted his information that I have quite a
stock of it in my head, which I am anxious to
put to paper. Well, thanks to Monsieur Paul,
I arrived at the knowledge of this fact, that
the Paris ballet-girls, in their motives for
pursuing the saltatory art, in their mode
of life, in their characters, ' and in
their morals, are as various as all the
rest of laboring and ambitious mankind;
that .virtue and good motives- are not
wanting, though they are vastly ovcrweighed
by their opposites; and that in each ballot girl
there is an individual, different life quite re
cognizable from all tho others. It is a mis
take, it appears, to consider the ballet-girls as
usnaHy ignorant and low-born; many are very
decently educated, the children of "poor, but
respectable parents," and very few have been
born so low in life as to have been set to
manual labor; so that their company-though,
if a man has any notions of morality at all
(which many Frenchmen have not), it is ex
cessively corrupting is not always coarse or
unrelieved by the graces of wit and sprightly
conversation. One has her villa at Montreuil,
another her cottage in Switzerland, where
they pass the summer months and indulge in
romantic retirement with their lovers for all
have lovers. Among the gay and brilliant
throng which one sees on the afternoon of a
spring or summer day, whirling in every sort
of vehicle up and down tne Champs lysees,
and in and out among the enchanting paths
of the Bois de Boulogne, many are actresses
and dancers, who rival the first ladies of
Pans in dress, and equipage, and who fear
lessly brave the sneers of the beau-tnonde in
thus mixing with them in the democratio
pleasures of riding. They may be seen, too,
on their "off-nights," seated, in all the glory
of satin and peach and rouge, in the stage
boxes of other theatres, smiling graciously
on their Bister performers on the stage, and
aiming their mother-of-pearl lorgnettes at the
more striking figures of the audience before
them. They are prominent at the races and
reviews, always paying well for the best
places, and always appearing in the very top
of the fashion. They are careless and reck
less in money matters; their generous
salaries melt as fast as they come, and
their lovers seldom issue from the connection
without very material loss of fortune.
Paul told me of one who had, sit or eight
years ago, been one of the wildest and most
reckless of her order, who was now a very
proper landlady of thirty, keeps a highly re
spectable hotel in the region of the Chaussee
d Antin, and sticks smartly to her new voca
tion. '
"No one would ever guess," said ho, "that
she had ever been anything exoept the keeper
of an hotel.
Another, after a career of dissipation and
prodigal expenditure, had all of a sudden
been dismissed from her theatre for careless
dancing, and married a young mercer, who
had long tried to get her, settling steadily
down to the assistance of her husband in his
business.
But these cases are very rare; the usual
road of these poor ereatures after their day of
success is a very steep inclined plane; they
commit suicide, or become inebriates, or in
sane, or adopt the worst of all professions.
have myself seen a poor old woman, long
crazed, feeble in body, going about the streets
with a guitar which had lost all its strings but
one, ana singing, m a horribly cracked voice,
snatches of the old songs of fortv vears aero.
She was once, they tell me, a renowned singer
in Paris, and sung more than once before old
King Charles the Tenth in the Tuileries; had
led a dissipated and reckless life; had lost her
reason; and now imagined herself still the
favorite of the multitude, and the songs
she sings the delight of all who hear them.
People give her a sou here and there, and
rass pit vine on: and the movins wreek still
fails to warn the other thoughtless ones from-
the rock on which it shattered. Many of
these actresses and daniemcs come to the
ground "gently." They avoid the abyss of
utter destruction, and yet do not have to
find another way of getting a livelihood. It
is mostly the very proud and sensitive who.
like Lucifer, fall utterly. But some who have
enjoyed a first-class reputation, and have been
the heroines of the Paris stage, see the fool
ishness of that pride which destroys and when
tkeir star is dimmed, and others take their
wonted place, do not rush off in despair
ana km memseives or plunge in degradation,
These, looking at their position in a couioion-
sense way, when they have to give up the
best places, taxe me best ibyr cau get, keep
ing steadily at their profession. For instanae,
the principal actress of a threatre beoomes a
trifle pamee, a rival comes alone, and she is
ousted. Well, if she is one of the sousible
I sort of whom I speak, she goes out into one
! of the provincial French cities, plays the
' first-class ridin to which she has become ac.
; customed in Paris, and is announced as tho
"distinguished Madame Soandso, from such
, a Pans theatre.
j On her past reputation she is able to keep
' up an excellent series of engagements in the
provincial theatres; and she has now come to
learn the necessity of saving, and is quiotlv
laying by a comfortable "pile" for a rainy
day. When the "distinguished-artist-from.
Paris" dodge is "played out," she descends to
the second-rate ports in the plays, becomes.
j perhaps, the regular attache of a provincial
theatre; until, when she has drawn at last
into the broad proportions and matronly air
of middle sge, we find her taking such parts
as tie "mother of the family," "the maiden
aunt," "the pompons housekeeper," or "the
tyrannies! head milliner," in fact, the role of
the ,'old women. Inns, as I said, she Talis
to the ground from her onoe dazzling height
eauily, hardly perceiving the gradual down
ward steps, and very reasonably satisfied with
her well-filled bank account, the preservation
of ber health and her profession. London
bocitty.
' We nlnoe-.
Not . a writer of recent times is of tener
read by men of letters who seek to rise above
the laxities of ephemeral workmanship; not
a writer in the language is more worthy of
devout scrutiny by him who would , master
the resources of that rhetoric which1 can be
acquired by study. Gifted with brilliant
powers as a thinker, and more variously
learnea man any merory artist ol nis
time, De Quincey was disproportionately
endowed with the faculty of expression.
Even in the narrow world of the nursery,
with no other audience than the wayward
brother who smote him with awe, and the
young sister to whom his passionate rhetoric
has given an immortality in literature, the
dreamy boy found language an instrument of
miraculous power. Afterwards ha studied
all its rhetorical- resources with a keener
eye for the devices by which its riches might
be unveiled, than any other student of whom
our literary annals present a token. Hence,
if his frequent seasons of literary debility
permitted him to be criminally feeble and
trivial, he has left passages which, in struc
tural perfection of sentence, in command
over all the resources or the English tongue,
in a marriage of rhythmical and impassioned
music with a logical aoouracy of thought and
a Greek-like propriety of phrase, can scarcely
be excelled in the literature of England.
At bis best, De Quincey has no superior as a
stylist. His rhetoric is separated from
that of Macanlay by all the distance which
cuts off the mechanically regular patterns
of the old silk fabrics from those which now
glow with the form of flower and living thing.
And it is the comparatively defective charac
ter of De Quincey s mind that has contributed
to make him pre-eminent as a rhetorician,
and to give him a first place among the
teachers or expression. Since, the richness
and fertility of his thought do not equal the
richness and fertility of his language, the
style seems to stand out from the page like a
bas-relief, and to claim study for , its own
sake. It presents the student with palpable
models. It challenges dissection, and seems
to submit itself to the dissecting knife. It
reveals the artist in the act of working, osten
tatiously proud of his skill, and inviting a
crowd of gazing eyes. t
Unlike Opie, De Quincey would not say
that he mixed his colors with "brains," but
could tell the exact components of each tint.
Unlike those painters who can give no reason
why they work in a particular fashion, and
who lay tint on tint nt the mandate of a mys
terious instinct, De ijmncey could oner a
philosophical reason for the choice of each
word, for the architectural structure of each
clause. He was guided by the dictate of the
conscious analytical faculty. Even in his
highest flights he was ever a rhetorician. Even
in tracing with magnificent power the linea
ments worn by the "Three Ladies of Sorrow,"
he did not rise above the tyranny of rheto
rical rules;, be did not emancipate himself
from the rigidity of the schools; nor could he
free the reader s mind trom the idea that the
rhetoric was indebted for a share of i its pas
sion and its beauty to the touch of some
mechanism which, although wonderful and
mysterious in its power, was mechanism still
Hence, De Quincey forever dwells in the
second hierarchy of letters. JJut, we repeat,
he is for that very reason a more potent
master of what is technically called Style
than writers of more ethereal genius, and a
better teacher of rhetorio even than the
masters of literature themselves. That is
the reason why. his name is oftener ! cited in
the literary schools than the names of loftier
intellects. . . ;
On the other hand, by that great reading
public which is but imperfectly acquainted
with the technical merits of literary art, and
has but a feeble interest in artistic methods,
De Quincey is read with less enthusiasm. In
this respect he may be classed with Landor,
Landor s prose, it is true, lacked some of the
qualities which lend to that of De Quincey its
potency of charm. It has neither his variety
and richness of hue, nor his power of falling
into a conversational ease, or of fsing into a
Miltomo rapture. But it has terseness, point,
and polish beyond any other prose in the Ian,
gnage. If not exempt from the artificial air
which clings t6 all academic styles, it is at
least an academio style of the highest rank,
Had England such an Academy as that of
1 ranee, it is the style of tbe "Imaginary (Jon
versations" that would be singled out for tho
highest eulosrv. It is. indeed, the only Eng
lish which we can place into competition with
the French of Paul Louis Courier. jWith all
their faults, Landor and De Quincey are the
most perfect prose . writers of i modern
England. . f t
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circulars), 8j by X inches, of same colors as No.
8, and under a like condition as to the proportion of
each.
No. 6, Extra letter size. 8 M bv V Inches, of same
colors as No. and under a like condition as to the
proportion of each.
No. 7. Official size, t by inches, of same
colors as No. , and uudvr a like condition as to the
proportion oi eacn.
No. a Extra official size. M bv 9li inches, of
same colors as No. , and under a like condition as
to the proportion of each.
NKW8PAPKU WBAPPHTIS.
X oJ W Inches, of bud or manllla paper.
ah iiiu Biiove envelopes and wrappers to oe em
boRRed with pontage stamps of each denominations,
styles, and colors, and to tiear such printing on the
face, and to be made in the most thorough manner,
of paper of approved quality, manufactured specially
for the purpose, with such water marks or other de
vices to prevent Imitation as the Postmaster-General
may direct
The envelopes to be thoroughly and oerfectlv
gummed, the gumming on the flap of each (except
for circulars) to be put on not less than half an inch
in wiatn the entire length.' The wrappers to tie
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 fiitv of the letter or extra
letter size, and one huudred each of the oUl-
ciai or extra oniciai size, separately. The news
paper wrappers to be packed in boxes to contain
not less than two nunnred and nrtv eacn. The
boxes are to be wrapped and sealed, or securely
iaaieneu in strong nianuia paper, so as to Barely
bear transportation by - mail for delivery to
fxiBtmasters. When two thousand or more envel
opes are required to fill the order of a postmaster.
the straw or pasteboard boxes containing the
same must oo pacneu in strong wooden cases,
well strapped with hoop-Iron, and addressed;
but when Icbs than two thousand are required,
proper labels of direction, to be furnished by an
agent of the Department, must be placed upon each
Dackacn bv the contractor. Wooilen camp... con
taining envelopes or wrappers to be transported
dt water routes, rouse De provided wnni suitable
water-proofing. The whole to be done uuder
the inspection and direction of an agent of the
neparunent.
The envelopes and wrappers must be furnished
and delivered with all reasonable despatch, complete
in an respects, reauy lor use, ana in suun quantities
as may be required to till the dally orders of post
masters; the deliveries to be made either at the Post
omce Department, Washington, D. C, or at the
office of an agent duly authorized to inspect and re
ceive the same ; the place ef delivery to be at the
option of the Postmaster-General, and the cost of
delivering as well as all expense of packing, ad-
uressuig, laneimg, ana water-prooimg, to ue patu uy
the contractor.
Bidders are notified that the Department will re
quire, as a condition or tne contract .that the en
velopea and wrappers shall bo manufactured and
stored in such manner as to ensure security agaluBt
loss bv lire or theft. The manufactory must at all
nines ue atiuject ui me inspection oi an agent or tne
.Department, wno win require tne stipulations of the
contract to be faithfully observed.
une oies lor enioossino' the Dostaa-e s tamos on the
envelopes and wrappers are to be executed to the
satisfactlou of the Postmaster-General, in the best
style, and they are to be provided, renewed, and
kept in order at the expense or the contractor. The
department reserves the right of requiring new dies
for any stamps, or denominations of stamps not now
nsed, and any chaiiges of dies or colors shall be
made witnout extra charge.
Specimens of the stamped envelopes and 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
accoruMigiy.
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: and no proposal will
be considered unless accompanied by a sufficient
and satisfactory guarantee. The Postmaster-Gene,
ral also reserves the right to reject any and all bids,
if in his judgment the interests of the Goveram ent
require It.
Before closing a contract the successful bidder
may be required to prepare new dies, and submit
impressions thereof. Tub ess of tub prkbent dibs
MAT OK HAT K0T SB CONTINUED.
Bonds, with approved and sufficient sureties. In
the sum of 2AO,ooo, will be required for the faithful
performance of the contract, as required by the
seventeenth section of the act of Congress, approved
tbe 26th of August, 1643, 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 or 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 aide to fulfill the condi
tions thereof than the original contractor. The
right is also reserved to annul the contract for a
failure to perform latthfully any ef its stipulations.
The number of envelopes of different sizes, and of
wrappers issued to Postmasters during the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1H09, was as follows, vis.:.
No, 1. Note size 1,114,000. t
No. 8. Ordinary letter size; (not heretofore
used).
No. 8. Full letter size, (ungummed, for circulars)
-4,160,000. , '
No. . Full letter size CT.BOT.BOO. (
No. 6. Extra letter size, (ungummed, for circulars)
843,600.
No. 6. Extra letter size 4,804,600.
No. T. Official size 004,86a
No, 8. Extra official size 1700. !
Wrappers 8,66,S60.
Bids should be securely enveloped and sealed,
marked "Proposals for Stamped Envelopes and
Wrappers," and addressed to tbe Third Assistant
Postmaster-General, Post Office Department, Wash
ington, D. C
JOHN A. J. CRESWELL,
1 11 eodtMl Postmaster General.
ROOFING.
I
READY ROOFIN G
Thia Roorins ia adaplad to all bnildinsa. It ha
applied to i
8TKKP OR FLAT ROOFS
at one-half the eipenae of tin. It ia readily pat on old
bninsi. nooia wituoui removing we aningiea, tuna avoid
ing the damaging of ceilings and furniture while under-
PRJCSKRVK YOUR TIN ROOFS WITH WKLTOITS
lfXASTIO PAINT. t
I am alwava nrenared to ReDair and Paint Rnnfa at ahnrt
notice. Alao, PAINT FOR BALK by. the barrel or gallon,
the beat and cheapest in the market.
W. A. WJCLiTUN,
- No. 711 N. NINTH Btreet. above Ooates.
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OX) OWNERS, ARCHITECTS, BUILDERS.
X AND ROOFKRS. Roofat Yea, yea. Every sice and
kind, old or new. At No. MS N. TH 1Kb Street, the AM HJ.
RIO AN OON(JRTK PAINT AND ROOIf OOMPANV
are selling their celebrated paint for TIN ROOFS, and
for preserving all wood and metals. Also, their solid oom
plex roof covering, the best ever offered toths publio, witii
brnahee, nana, backets, .to., lor th. work. Anti-vermin,
Fir., and 'Water-proof ; Light, Tight, Irorable. N.oraok.
Ing, pealing, or shrinking. No paper, gravel, or beat. Good
for all climates. Directions given for work, or good work
Den supplied. Oare, ri niiiitaiai. ertQkr! On. prio.1
Oadt Emin.1 Jndgel
Agents wanted for interior otmntlef.
tf JOSEPH LF1CP8. Principal
I. T. BARTON. . H'tf AHOW.
EANTON Ac MclTIAHOrt,
emrviNH Airn roMirrs.norMMncaAMra,
No. 8. OOFNFIRS BLIP. New York.
So! 18 SOUTH WH ABKS, Philadelphia,
No. 46 W. PRATr Btreet, Baltimore.
We are prepared to aliip every description of Freight to
Philadelphia, New York. Wilmington, and intermedial,
points with promptness and deepatoh. Canal UoaU and
Steam-tngs f nrniahed at tbe shortest notice, i
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OILS
I Man Ka. 133 B. SKCODD Straat.
PROPOSALS.
OFFICE OF TIIF. COMMISSIONERS FOR
PitiLAPRLrnu, Jan. IT, 1870.
SEALED PROP08AIJ will be received for the
following work and materials required in the execu
tion of the WALNUT Street portion of the TUBLIO
BUILDINGS, to Wit:
For all the excavations, Including the trenches)
for the foundations. The prfce to be stated per
cubic yard, which Is to cover all digging, hauling
away tho surplus earth, and cutting down and re
moving whatever trees may come in the way of the
excavations, without extra measurement or allow
ance. For taking down the terrace wall, cleaning the
bricks, and piling them up adjacent to the buildings,
taking down the iron railings, the gate piers, the
coping of the wall and the steps, and depositing;
tnem on the grounds, and removing all the rubbish
occasioned by the same The price for this portion
of the work to be stated in gro.
For concreting the entire foundation of the build
ings with small broken stone, and cement, mortar,
and grout, In conformity with the troceincations.
The depth of the concrete to be thru feet, and the
lateral dimensions to conform to the plans. Tho
price to be stated per cubic foot, and to Include all
materials and labor.
For furnishing and delivering large-size building
building C
Mcubio 1
set build- I
latoli 1
stone, the price to be stated per perch of H i
feet, measured in the walls. Also, for select I
lng stone; averaging 8 by 6 feet, and from
Inches thick; the price for the same to be Bta ted per
cubic root, delivered on the ground, .
For building all the cellar walls and tho outside
walls of the basement story, as high as the level
line of the pavement, according to the plans and
specifications. The price to be stated per perch of
82 cubic feet, laid in the walls, without extra mea
surement, and to Include all labor and ail materials)
except stone.
The contract or contracts wis be awarded to the
best and tbe 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. JOHN McARTHUR, JR.,
No. m S. SIXTH 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 tbe Com
missioners of Publio 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 tho bids will
be opened, in the presence ot such bidders as may
wish to attend.
By order of the Committee on Contracts.
1 19 wf milt n. C. PUGH, Secretory.
OFFICE OF TIIE SOUT17 STREET BRIDGE
(JOMMIbSION, Mo. 224 8. FIFTH Street.
,. , . PmK ma, J. 17. 1879.
Pealpd Proposal, for .reotlnji a brio ovor the river
Foliuylkil) at boutta atreet will be received at the office of
the (iommiuion. In tbe Department of burvoya. No. 8S4
8. FIfcTH tit. set, until 11 o'clock at. of the F1K8T DAY
OF WAItCH, llrio, ftor the eonatrnetion of a wrougat.
iron drawbridge, witn Murpby'a modification of tbe Pratt
truta. To have cant-iton piera tn river.! and atone abut
ments, with approaohe of retainin. walla; arches of
brick, and iron I girder, aa deaoribed In the apeciflca.
Hon. The entire length cf atraoture to b. 34 tw feet,
the truaa apana to be lhMeet each, with pivot draw, giving
an opening of 77 feet on each aide.
Tbe prouoaal to be lor an aggregate bid, to be ao
eonipauied by a bon1 with two approved auretiaa to an
amount ot 50,)u. Fifteen per eont. to be retained a.
the work proceeds, until the aame. inclneive of the)
ffo.OOo noted in bond, shall amount to fifteen per
cent, af tbe contract prioe, after which the current esti
mates will be paid in fall.
Plana may be aeen and tpeoifleationa obtained at
the otfioe of the Conimiawon on aad after the 2sth in
atant.
" M08E8 A. DROP8IE. .
1 HotnfBt President of the Uoinmiaslon.
Q F F I C E OF THE
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 by
the President and Directors of said Company, to be
held at its office, 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 an
increase of the powers of the Company, and as aa
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 In Allegheny county, MJ.;
to arrange the terms of such consolidation and the
manner of carrying the same Into effect, and to
authorise 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 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 upon. Aud gene
rally, to pass upon all questions 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.
Notice is hereby given that, for the 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. 28, 1870, at S o'clock P. M.
By order of the Board of Directors. ,
J. RICHARDS, Secretary.
New York, Jan. 18, 1870. 1 20 tFlS
rpHE PRINCIPAL BirOT
rOK TUB 8Jt OP . .
REVENUE ST A MPS
NO. 804 CHESNUT STREET.
CENTRAL OFFICE, NO. 103 8. FIFTH STREET
(Two doors below Chesnut street),
ESTABLISHED 186 S.
Tbe sale of Revcnoe Stamps Is still continued at
the Old-EBtabllshed Agencies. - '
The stock comprises every denomination printed,
by tbe Government, and having at all times a large
supply, we are enabled to 1111 and forward (by Mail
or Express) all orders, Immediately upon receipt, a
matter of great importance.
United States Notes, National Bank Notes, Drafts
on Philadelphia, and Post Oillce Orders received la
payment
Any Information regarding the decisions of tho
Commissioner of Internal Revenue cheerfully and
gratuitously furnished.
Revenue Stamps printed apon Drafts, Chect
Receipts, etc
The following rates of commission are allowed
Stamps and Stamped Paper: ' .
On 126 and upwards. .2 per
100 ...8 "
too ' ,..4 '
Address all orders, etc., to
STAMP AGENCY, '
' No. 304 CHESNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
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