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The March number of Lippincott'S Ifagru
tins baa the following lint of articles:
"The Vicar of Bnllharuplon," a novel, part
ix, by Anthony Trollope; "Oive Me a Tin
and I'll Show Yon a Show 1" by Trof. J. D.
Dross; "Jim Lane," a biographical flketoh;
"The Coming Revolution, in England," by
Arthtu Tember; "The Btranger of Nahant,"
a tale; "Hreains;" "Villainous Saltpetre," by
J. Franklin Fitta; "Marble Fann-ing," a tale,
by Annie L. MargregoT; "The Vaudout in
St. Domingo," by II. Hargrave; "Concerning
Shelley," by Miss II. Tierson; "To-Day," a
poem, by Prof. Henry Hartahorne; 'Errors
of the FreBS," by General James Grant Wil
on; "The Forger's Bride," a tale, by Rose
ft i a l , n 1 1 T" :
.lerrj; --uovernmeni ana me uruiu rrauium,
by Hon. Amasa Walker; "Onr Monthly Gos
sip;" "Literature of the Day."
From a very interesting biographical
Bketch of "Jim Lane," by Jacob Stringfellow,
we make this extract:
The late Senator Lane was the most finished
actor I ever saw. He was a sporadio French
man of the eighteenth century, strangely oat
of time; a Bristol rocking-stone; a diamond
made in a laboratory. Looking at him in
this view, we feel the subdued and deep en
thusiam of the offioier du roi who captured a
solitary frog on one of the Sandwich Islands,
a sort of Selkirk, carriod there, poor fellow!
in the spawn by sea waves; for we will add,
on that drowned continent of name unknown
which we call Oceanica the esteemed family
of Batrachians is not aboriginal.
I said he was an actor. Every one knows
the sequence of the two. Cruikubank knew
it when he tilled French Eow in Vanity Fair
with slim-legged ballet girls. Lane's faults
were Gallic; so were his virtues, of which he
had a share. As Siddons always talked in
chest tones, and dragged one foot after her,
so Lane always trod imaginary boards. The
Komans did those things to perfection. When
the effect demanded poison or the falling on
a sword, it was done without flinching.
In the eighteenth century, when everybody
in France went distracted over Greece and
Home, and the women read nothing but Plu
tarch's "Lives," it became fashionable to
talk like Brutus and Coriolanua, weep like
Xerxes, and embrace like Damon and Pythias.
The judgment of Dumouriez was singularly
aoute when he said of the Girondists, who
gave tone to the revolution, "They are exiled
Komans. The republic, as they understood
it, is the romance of a woman of mind. They
intoxicate themselves with fine words, while
the people will get drunk with blood."
Imagine a worn cowskin coat surmounted
by a fur cap, or an old hair trunk standing
upright upon two sticks, with a moulting
chicken-cock at roost upon it. Hair trunk
loquitur:
"They say Jim Lane is illiterate" (looking
an exclamation point with every sentence)
"that he is ignorant, and not fit for the
United States Senate ! Why, men of Kansas,
his mother was a Connecticut schoolmanu
and a most devout Methodist, and from his
youth up he was most carefully educated for
the Christian ministry; but his modesty, his
insuperable" (long drawn out) "modesty, kept
him out of the pulpit ! They say Jim Lane
is a libertine ! Why, when he was twenty
one years old he had sever smoked a cigar,
sworn an oath, or kissed a girl ! But he does
love the ladies ! He loves his angel mother"
(in a sepulchral tone), "and he loves his
angel sister ! lie loves his darling wife; yes,
and he loves all the virtuous and loyal women
of the land!"
Let it not be supposed that his rough audi
ence laughed at this display of emotion. Did
a Boston audience laugh at Choate's nonsense
when he told them how the dark-eyed Mexic
maids wailed to the Lent guitar, "Woe is me,
Alhama ! for a thousand years?" Does the
gallery laugh at "Hamlet's" soliloquy ? The
poorest devil that ever contemplated self.
slaughter (and who has not ?) has rehearsed
its arguments to himself. We all have our
moments of nervous exaltation, and feel that
our unspoken thoughts are our best. It was
this set of nerves wnicn tnat cunning anato
mist, Lane, knew how to play upon. He sent
a shiver down the backs of his auditors like a
charge of electricity down a lightning-rod,
and raised the goose-flesh on their skins as
though a regiment were marching over their
collected graves. .
"They say Jim Lane is profane." (The
biographical was his chosen style.) "Great
God ! What ! Jim Lane an irreligious man?
Why, I never swore in my life ! Yes, though"
(in tragio bass), "once ! once ! It was at the
head of my Indiana regiment in Mexioo, at
the battle of Buena Vista. (He knew
bettor than this.) "I looked to my Trout,
and there were acres and acres of Mexicans"
(taking off his coat); "to my rear, and there
their cayalry were drawn up, their richly ca
parisoned steeds and their murderous spears
glistening in the morning sun" (jerking off
his cravat); "and to my right and left there
were more acres and acres of Mexicans."
(Tragio bass again.) "Then, in the excite
ment of the moment, and forgetful" (accent
on for-) "and forgetful of my religious
principles, I exclaimed to my brave Indiana
boys" (a shrill tenor), " 'Charge on 'em, God
tl n'em! charge on 'em!'" (Tragio bass.)
"The only time 1 ever swore in my life !"
To some this may appear simply vulgar,
but not to those who have heard Macready
any, "The handkerchief !" in such a way that
the sciatic nerve twitched sympathetically
and the hair seemed to stand up on the head;
for there is no better test of an electrical
atmosphere than these electrical manifesta
tions. Every sentence was a lighted trans
parency, uttered as if written in Roman
capitals.
While all the interior evidence justifies our
French hypothesis, I cannot learn that this
extraordinary man had Gallic blood within
four generations, though a collateral branch
of the Lanes emigrated to Indiana from the
Carolines, where it is stytisn to claim ue
aoent from the Huguenots. It was a strong
stock, and effloresced in suoh men as Joseph
Lane, of Oregon, Henry S. Lane, and
Amos Lane, a lawyer of distinction, member
of Congress and father of our hero. In
Lawrenceburg, Indiana, 1814, bis son, James
Henry, was born, according to some biogra
phers, though, as we shall show, a mystery
always hung over Ms real place or nativity.
His mother was of those New England Footes
who have enriched the blood of the world in
statesmen, jurists, popular preachers, and
obscure men of talent everywhere. Of suoh
parents James Lane was born, in the
Augustan ane of their maturity, in
the fulness of the mind's reflective
epoch and the firmly-braced body,
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AmOS 1J&UO was a uiiiu vi ixjiuuiuuuiug
powers, and the mother; was notable in her
town, and owned the propitiating manner
and honey-dropping tongue of her Bon. He
aid she was a pious woman: we knew, a
fiotUriori, that she was a bright one, whose
awn's rich birth-right was true roothcr-wit, I
the power of winning hearts, and a restless
ambition. Our Conuooticnt schoolmistress,
with a ooal of fire in her heart, in some un
searchable way endowed bet son with ber
magnetism. Hue made him the administrator
of her nngratifed yearnings; her secret am
bitions had their fulfilment in him, even unto
sickness of life. ,
What this magnetism was may be guessed
when men of calm blood like the late George
L. Sterns, on leaving him, would say, "What
a captivating man Senator Lane is! His
tones are as sweet as a woman's." Flushed
with triumph or confident of success, he was
irresistible, his voice soft and musical and
his manner confiding. His presence could
be as distinctly felt aa a regiHter, and there
was companionship even in his silence. It
will astonish some to whom his name was
once an imprecation and a terror to know that
scholarly men and men of travel would pro
nounce him the most pleasing person they
ever met, though there was not a common
thought between them. If in the plentitude
of his power he was surrounded by knaves
and vagabonds, it was not only because power
is warming and grateful, but the animal
spirits of a successful man are themselves a
harm. , ,
How much of his attraction was due to a
sincere delight in his humanity it would be
hard to sav. for his unconscious power of ad
justability to his surroundings was marvel
lous. Like that versatile Chelonian, the mud
turtle of negro superstition, he contained
within his shell the flavor of every creature
dear to the palate of man fish, flesh,
or fowl. In the midst of . Christians, he
had been carefully educated for the
Church: among sooffers, religion was
but a cloak for hypocrisy. In Kansas he
wore the fells of wild beasts: in Bos
ton he appeared in black broadcloth and
white cravat, and whined through his nose
as religiously as the melodeon of a country
parsonage. Among New lEnglanders, his
motner was a Connecticut scnooimarm;
with Southerners, he was a Kentuokian;
among Western men, a Hoosier; and thus it
was his real origin was as great a mystery as
the source of the Nile. Like another French
man we wot of, he bowed to the Crescent or
the Cross as occasion required, The grim
chieftain's flow of politeness was as natural as
the breath he drew, and as painless; with
everyday people it is a morbid secretion, like
the pearl in the oyster.
Uut once in tne presence ot an undeclared
enemy, and nis impulse to persuasion ana
all the little arts of conciliation became an
uncontrollable passion. Surveying his sus
pected antagonist, whose only sign of dislike
was a felonious evasion of tne eye, be tnrew
himself, a storm of snow, wind, and rain,
against him; and f ven hearts of granite
yielded to the elemental war at last. A long
ing for approbation would turn him from
friends to surmount tremendous natural an
tipathies, and curry favor with hearts that
mantled and creamed with hatred.
"What!" said he, meeting on the roadside
a member of a Bourbon county convention
packed against him "what! vote against
Jim Lane, and come from Indiana!" iu his
most wheedling notes and a smile that fairly
lifted the subject out of his boots, .hnoncm.
The fellow went to the convention next day
and log-rolled for .Lane.
Header, now smiling as in scorn, ask not,
"Who was Jim Lane, of whom such imperti
nences are recorded ?" I confess that the
famouB rejoinder of Clay to the old hunter,
which superannuated Wmgs chuckle over as
a triumph of happy repartee, always inspired
me with a similar contempt. What Henry
Clay was to early Kentuckians was Lane to
the pioneers of Kansas, and he represented a
society not one whit behind in general intel
ligence, i
His mother, with a frequent ambition,
designed her son for the pulpit; and perhaps
the maternal instinct was right. Ho had all
the constituents of the showy preacher, with
the superadded advantage that in no atom of
his could a trace of veneration be found. For
the modern purposes of those holy men a
railroad banquet or a trades' union meeting
he would surely have, made his mark.
"James," he would make the good woman
say, "the only obstacle between yon ana tne
pulpit is your insuperable modesty!" All
that he had of good he owed to her. When she
died that great marsupial tne woria tooK mm
into her pouch and completed his eduoation;
and most of tne ill tnat was in Him, 1 do not
doubt, was imparted by the foster mother.
The pious wish of nia motner was thwarted
in a way she little suspected, for the insidious
immorality of a certain publication of the
American Sunday School Union, whose paU
tern boy was rewarded for a life of virtue by
a seat in Congress, gave a secular direction
to her son's aspirations. Discarding the black
coat, he went up into the preparatory depart
ment , and by way of preface, to show that
some things may he done as well as others,
made fifty thousand dollars in one winter,
out of pork, with the easy dexterity that Herr
mann turns a pudding out of your hat.
This was only a preliminary flourish,
like the swans and other fabulous animals
of the commercial schoolmaster. He proved
that a man who is great in one calling may be
so in another, and disproved for ever the
popular fallacy that a man must graduate
from the poor-house to command peouniary
success. Because Rufus Hatch carried a
peddler's paok, Vanderbilt rowed a huckster's
boat and ueimooia was a caoin-boy, it
is not absolutely necessary xor a man ot
genius to be one of these, any more
than roast pig requires a whole house for
fuel. Let those who esteem it a misfortune
that they were born into a decent living
take heart, for, though tne chances are
against them, and it : is about as easy
for the son of a rich man to make an in
dependent fortune as for his father to enter
the kingdom of heaven, yet notning is aeniea
to well-directed enort; ana coma point to
more than one millionaire who never handled
a blacking-brush, rowed a boat across the
Sound, or peddled newspapers.
The virus of the Sunday School book being
in mm, he turned from the seductions ot
pork to law, politics, and marriage in his
twenty-ninth year. His rival before the
courts and on the hustings was Judge Pettot,
a man of strong rud original genius. In
their encounters the popularity of Lane often
turned the scale in his favor. Slowly and
Burelyhe rose on the wings of popular favor to
the Sunday School hero a pinnacle a seat in
uongress. uertatn phenomena marked his
political history from beginning to end. He
was never easy unless safe within the party of
tne aaminiHtrautm. juuss men of gem as
aeugnt in me Bensanou oi resistance over
come which the opposition gives. True as
the heliotrope to the sun, Lane turned to the
party in power, because be loved petting, lie
went to Mexico and fought for the adminis
tration to Congress in 1852 and voted for
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. It
would not be safe to limit the probable
achievements of so ounning a man had he
remained in Indiana, tie had won the first
five hundred dollars of his political capital.
and the rest was easy. But here his career
reached a crisis. He saw the drift of popular
opinion in the Middle States. It was against
the slave power. He wan tod a place large
enough to turn around in if it became
necessary.
Kansas was then tne cookpn or tne nation,
and to Kansas be went. Slaveholders and
Abolitionists, Black Republicans, Free-
soilers, Border Unmans, , Red Leg", d
United States iteguiars wera all engagea u
hot. inextricable contest, i A Wight fissure was
peroept'ble in the Democratic party. It did
not take inose Keen eyes long to see iimn uu
party was beginning to quarrel over a point
of casuistry which might have engaged the
Sorbonne ton years without solution. We
doubt whether the delicate! balance of Cal
houn himself could have weighed the Bubtle
ties of the Lecompton theory, as promulgated
from the White House, against the maze of
squatter-sovereignty theses that issued from
the bouse of Douglas. Grocery politicians
and Btump-speakors hammered away at an
abstraction fine enough to have set Duns Sco
tus crazy. .
Hit Lady's Friend for March; received
from Turner & Co., has a steel-plate frontis
piece and many fashion illustrations. The
reading matter is up to the usual standard of
excellence. j
Turner & Co. also send us Arthur's Jlome
Magazine and The Children's Hour tot March,
which are filled with attractive illustrations
and interesting articles.
We have also received from the same house
ApplcUm's Journal for February 20 and T?ie
Transatlantic for March 1. This last named
periodical now appears with a handsomely
illustrated title-page that adds much to the
attractiveness of its appearance.
, Porter & Coatos send us the eleventh
monthly part of Avvleton's Journal, whioh
contains all the numbers for February.
2he Jiivcrside Magazine for March is
finely illustrated, and it presents an enter-,
taining series of stories, sketches, and poems
suited to the tastes of young readers. 1
From the Central News Company, No,
o05 Chesnut street, we have reoeived the
latest numbers of London Society, Temple
Bar, 2he Cornhill Magazine, All the Year
Round, The St. James Magazine, ranch, and
Fun. ,1
Hie Gardener's Monthly for March con
tains a variety of articles of interest to horti
culturists. I
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80,867 00
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100,900 00
80,00000
; .' a,78MoTa
- i vinnuivnn.
Arthur O. Coffin, i Prsnois R. Cope,
Baanuel W. Jones,
John A. Brown.
Charles Taylc r,
Ambrose White,
William Welsh,
8. Morris Wain,
John Mason,
Ceo. L. Harrison,
jLawara 11. Trotter.
Edward 8. Olnrke, . -T.
Charlton Henry,
Alfred D. Jessup,
Louis O Madeira, '
Chas. W. Cnahman, .
Clement A. Oriscooi.
William Brookia.
ARTHUR O. COFFIN, President.
CHARLES PLATT, Vio-Prs't.
Matthias Mabis, Secretary.
C. H. Rkkvkh, Assistant Secretary,
910 1
THE ENTERPRISE IN8UKANCE CO. OF
PHILADELPHIA.
Oflic S. W. comer of FOURTH and WALNUT Street
nun iiHDUiAntjn aAviiuoiVALx.
PERPETUAL AND TERM POLICIES lHRmrn
CASH Capital (paid np in full).. $J00,0O000
Cash Assets, Jan. 1, 1M70 8344,3(1313
F. Ratchford Starr,
Nalbro Frazier,
John M. At wood,
Benj. V. Tredick,
Gaorre H. btuart,
J. Livintftfnn TfrHn... '
James L. OlaghomT " ' ' '
Wm. G. Boulton,
Charles Wheeler,
j uvmas tx. Montgomery,
OQHm ri. rirown
JJ.IITT II.
. ttA iUo'wnu di Ann, rreaident.
THOMAS H. MONTGOMERY, Vio-Presldent
ALEX. W. WISTKR, Beoretsry. ' ra"0"ufc
JACOB K. PKTERaOM. A Mutant Secretary
TMPKIOAIj FUIK INSURANCE CO.
LONDok .
!. ESTABLISHED 1803.
Pald-np Capital and Aotmmmated Fonda,
08,000,000 IN GOLD,
PBEV0S',: & HEEELUO, Agentt,
Bt 1OT 8. T1IIRI) Street, PHaadelpnla.
CHAS. M- PRBYQ8T CHAfl. R. HgRRINQ
QROOERIE8 AND PROVISIONS.
jIOHAEL MEAGHER & CO.,
No. 823 Sontli SIXTEENTH Street,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers In
. 4 PROVISIONS, OYBTEKtj AND TERRAPINS.
Stabler s Extra Canned CORN.
rr.Asl.
PEAOHK&
Maryland Canned TOMATOES.
Kiln uuiki ADrimuug,
139
PAPER HANGINGS.
LOOK! LOOK ! ! LOOK! I ! WALL PAPERS
and Linen Window Rharlea Manufacture, th
cheapest In the city, at JOHKBTON'8 Depot, No. IMS
6PK1NO UARDKN btreet, below Eleventh. Branch, No,
a iff KKPFBAL St reet. Oamdea, Waw Ja
1U
ua
c
O R N EXjCHANGK
BAG MARCFA0TOR7,
iiunni.Dsn.ivi,
; II. R. eornar of MARKET and WATER Street,
, . Philadelphia.
, PEALTTR IN BAlie) AMD BAGQIRGI ,
Of every description, for . '
Oram, , Floor, Bait, rinpar Phoaphat si Lima, Boa
Unit. Ktfl.
Largs aad small OTJKNY R AOS ermstantly I
Alaa, WOOL aACJaii,
INSURANCE..
1829 nABTKU r&iirKTUsUj.
Franllifl Fire taraiice. Comply
OF rUMJl'MJ'Blai
Office, Koi 435 and 437 CHSSnUT 6t
Assets Jan. I, '69, $2,617,31213
CAPITAL 1400,000-flO
ACCRUED SURPLUS l,0R3,B2fl-70
PREMIUMS l,l8,843-
UNSETTLED CLAIMS,
IN COMB FOR 18M,
en-is.
Losses paid since 1829,QTer $5,5QQ,Q00
PtrtMtnaJ anA TMinmn Pollela M TJharal Torma.
-i ds uompany also Imn rouotot oa hmusi sMtMiasj
M au aintia,uraani Hants, an sonM
Alfred O. lUka. AKrd PttlW.
Bamool Omit, ' I Thonuta Sparks,
(tnorxs w. Hlebard. I VlllUm STOraatb
bmUs, I ThossM B. KUts,
Uss ValSj 1 OissUvns 8. banana.
SL.rnr.uu. at a ain, rTsainans.
(1HIIUI1II VAI.fcH in... TV ..Irl.nS
JAIL W. ltoAIXISTKR, 8aortajr;
TiHtODOKK M. HKUKB. AsatsUnt BaeraUry. 1 1
STRICT L Y M UT UAL.
Frevident Life and Trust Co.
OF PHILADELPHIA.
OFFICE, N. Ill 8. FOURTH STREET.
Ortranlsed to promote LIFE INSURANCE amons
Dmnocn ui uie chk ictj ii r nenna.
uood risks or anv class accented.
PoUcles Issued on approved plans, at the lowest
rates.
PTrSldnnt, BAMUBO K. HTTTPLEY.
Vice-President, WILLIAM a IAjno8TKETH,
Actuary. ROWLAND PARKY.
The advantages offered bv this Jompanr are nn
ezceuea. mi
T7AMB INSURANCE COMPANY.
jc
no. aw uukhhut Btraet.
INCORPORATKD IBM. CHARTER PERPETUAL,
. , CAPITAL, 1300,000.
FIRB INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
Insure acakist Los or Damac by Fir ltbr bf Pf
pataal or Tamporarf Poliol.
PULUUTOK8:
Charls Rlohardson, Bobart Paaro.
-William 11. Khawn, John Keatilar, Jr
William M. Hevlart, 1 Vdward B. Orna,
John V. Hmtlh, Cbarlea Btokas,
Nathan Billaa, . Job W. K.Tarmaa.
ttaors A. Wast, Mordaoai Boibj.
OHARUTS RICHARDSON. Prasidant
WILLIAM H. RUAWN. Vlos-Pnaldent
WnxuM L Buwchabjo, Saorstary. 7 839
PBS
PENNSYLVANIA FIRB INSURANCE
UUmf Aai.
Inoornorated ltflo Chartav ParpatnaL
No. 110 WALN UT Street, opposite inaependenoa nouara.
This Uompany, favorably Known to tne oomm unity lor
ivar fortv vears. continues to In. tire aaainat loss or dam.
ac by are oa rnbilo or rnvat unuainxsjeiuiei perma
nently or or a limited time. Also on Fnruitnre, Htooks
of Goads, and Merchandise aeneraliy, on liberal terms.
Their Capital, together with a lama Bnrplns Fund, la
invented in the most earefnl manner, whioh enablee shea
to offer to the insured aa nndonbted aaoazita in ths oa
01 loss.
Daniel Smith, Jr., John Derermi,
Al. under Bensoa, Thomas Smith,
Isaao Haslehnrst, Henry Lewis,
Thomas Robins, J. Gillmgham Fail
DANIEL SMITH. Ja . President
WM. O. OROWELL. Secretary. 0t
OREAT WESTERN
Mutual Life Insurance Co
OF NEW YORK. ,
EDWIN E. SIMPSON, MANAGER,
IVo. 513 St., Plillada,
All th rood, qnltable and liberal feature of th best
Life Insurance Companies are (oaranteed to the policy
holders of this Company. , ' lSSsiuth2m
Liberal arranements made with camp tent agents.
PROPQ8AL8. '
U SKWKRS, ETC. OFFICK OF CU1KF COiLMJa-
blosU,no. 104 . riirrii ntreet. . .
r- ( I NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Sealed Proposals will be received at the ofllce of
the Chief Commissioner of Highways until 13 o'clock
M., on MONDAY, Slat Instant, for the construction
oi a sewer on tne niie oi names street, iroui rweuia
to the east cnrb-llne of Thirteenth street, of two
feet six inches in diameter: on Bare street, from the
sewer In Twenty-fourth street to Rlmreold street.
thence on Ringgold street to within eighty feet of the
south line oi Airown street or mree ieei diameter;
on Thirty-eigntn street, rrora wainuo to icnst
streets, thence on Locust street to Thirty-ninth
street, of three feet diameter. W 1th such man-holes
as may be directed by the Chief Engineer and Sur
veyor.
The understanding to be that the sewers herein
advertised are to be completed on or before the 31st
day of December, 1870. And the contractor shall
take bills prepared against the property fronting on
said sewer to the amount of one dollar and fifty
cents for each lineal foot of front on each side of the
b ...n... ii on ,,,.h ..anil ttfifil . ttia halanna aa llmtturf
by ordinance, to be paid by ths city ; and the con
tractor snail r required to Keep tne street anil
ewer In good order for three years after the sewer
Is finished. ,
When the street Is occupied by a City Passenger
Railroad track, the Sewer shall be constructed along
side or said track in sucn manner as not to obstruct
or Interfere with the safe passage of the cars thereon;
and no. claim for remuneration shall be paid the con
tractor by the company UBing said track, as specllled
in ACl 01 ABseiuuiy approved may a, isoo.
. Each proposal will be accompanied by a
certilicate - that a bond has been Died In
the Law Department as directed by Or
dinance of May 20. I860. If the lowest bidder shall
not execute a contract within five days after tiie
work is awarded, he will be deemed as declining, and
will be held liable on his bond for the dirrcrenco be
tween his bid and the next lowest bidder. Specifica
tions may be had at the Deportment or surveys.
which will be strictly adhered to. The Department
of Highways reserves the right to reject all bids not
deemed satisfactory.
All bidders may be present at the time and place of
opening the said proposals. No allowance will be
made for rock excavation unless by special con
tract.
MAHI.ON II. DICKINSON.
9 18 8t Chief Commissioner of Highways.
TDROPOSALS FOR STREET CLEANING.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at the
office of the BOARD OP HEALTH, 8. W. corner
of SIXTH and HANSOM Streets, Philadelphia, until
19 o'clock noon on the U6th day of February, lbTO,
for cleaning and keeping thoroughly clean at all
times from the 1st day of MARC1L 1870, to the 81st
day of DECEMBER, 1871. all the paved streets,
alleys, courts. Inlets, market houses, gutters, gut
ters under railroad crossings, gutters of unpaved
streets, and all other public highways, and the Im
mediate removal of all filth and dirt therefrom, after
the same has been collected together; also, the
removal of ashes and the collection and burial of all
dead animals embraced within the following dis
tricts, viz. : . i
FtrHt. That part of the city lying north of ALLE
GHENY Avenue, known as llrldeslmrg and Frank
ford; to be termed the Twentieth district. .
Second. That part of the city known as MANA
YUNK.; to be termed the Twenty-flrst district.
Bids must be for separate districts, naming the
Dumber of the district.
The Board reserves the right to reject any and all
bids; also the right to award contracts for one dis
trict only. I ,
Warrants for the payment bf said contracts will
be drawn In conformity with section 8 of the Act of
Assembly approved March IS, I8tu.
Envelopes Inclosing proposals must be Indorsed
Proposals for Street Cleaning," eto.," naming the
Dumber of the district bid for.
K. WARD, President,
r-ma W TtiniiKTT- Rcretarv. H 18 Ct
WANl"8.
TO TUB VORKINO OLASa -W are now pre
pared to forntsh all clssse with constant aiuploy
meat at home, th whole of the time or for the spar
mwienta T liuliness new. Uttht, and profitable. Persons
of eltbeTsei easily earn rem too. to o per evening, and a
proporttonal sum by devotins their wool time to th
tosVnW Boys and glr amnarhf .. much as men
That all whose this norlo mas send their address, and
tait the bosinass, we mske this unparalleled otler:-'ro
iuch M ara not wall saUHad, we will send tltopay for
the ioolle of writing. ull particulars, a valuable sam
Hih will do to eonimeao work on. and a aoo of
Thi rVw'r'' tMtrmv CauttxyiitmpaB of the largo and
.,il ewsiDra published all sent free
Kesder.if von want permanent, protttabl work, address
o.ALLK1 CO., Augusta, Maine. iwaut
i uy
PROPOSALS.
1JROPOHALS FOR STAMi'JtD ENVELOPES AN 11
, WRAPPERS. I
roeT Ornc DurtHTM sut,
January 10. 1870. v
Sealed Proposal, will be tvived until IP.
oath 1st day of MARCH, 1HT0, for furnlshlnff
the fltamrtMt Knvolniws" and "Newsimner Wrati
pars" which this Department may require durtnl
1B70, Via. . . hi nnnn
i. now aus". ' iuvukb, i ""y.
no. . urnmarv irtwT iaw, a i-i ny v
Inches, of white, buff, canary, or creaiJ
colored paper, or In sucn proportion of either
may oe reqturen.
no. o. fuii letter sme (nngummea on nwr, i
circulars), by tx Inches, of tlio same colors
no. a, ana unaer a in conunion as to tne prop
tlon of each.
No. , Fall letter size. 8W br evf Inclios, or sa
colors as No. S, and under a Ilk condition, aa 10 f
proponioa or eacn.
No. a.- Extra letter sine fnnirumracd on flap,
elrenlarav RVf bv W Inches, of aame color aa I
1, and under a like condition aa to the proportion I
No. 6. Extra letter size, B v ry 6 V inches, or aarf I
colors as No. 9, and under a like condition aa to liJ
proportion or each. f
No. 1. Ofllclal lr.fl, V by 8T lnchet of sarrf
ootors as No. t, and under a like condition aa to
proportion oi eacn.
No. e. Extra otllctal Bice. 4V by 9 Inches.
Same colors as No, 8, and under a like condition
to the proportion or eacn.
v NEWSPAPER WRAPPERS,
t6 bv 9V Inches, of bull or maullla paper.
AU tne aoove envelopes ana wrappers in nw ei
bossed with postage stamps of sncli dcnnmlnattoi
styles, and colors, and to bear such printing on t
face, and to be made in the most thorough mann
of pnper of approved quality, manufactured special
T.I.. inn nnm.ua if n am-n wain, m.ru. ir nmHr M
vices to prevent Imitation as the Postmaster-denen
may airecu
'ine envelope to do tnorongiuv ana penec
srammed. the anmrulnir on the flan of each (exec
for circulars) to l put on not lens than half an in 4
in wimn tue enure tengiib -ine wrappers to
gummed not leas than thrce-fourtha of aa inch
wi'tin across tne ena
All envelopes and wrappers must tie nanaea
parcels of twenty-five, and packed In stroa
pasteboard or straw boxes, each to contain not h
than two hundred and nay of the letter or ext
letter size, and one hundred eacn or tue o
clal or extra oiflcial Slue, separately. The neJ
paper wrappers to be packed In boxes to oont.
not less man two nunorea anu uity eacn. u
boxes are to be wrapiied and sealed, or securtJ
fastened In strong maullla paper, so as to aafel
bear transportation bv mail for delivery
lostmaBters. When two thousand or more envf
opes are required U) fill the order of a postmasM
the atraw or nasteboard boxes coiiUilnlua ti
same must be packed In Strong wooden catf,.
well strapped with noop-lron, and addressf i
but when less than two thousand are requirj
proper laoeisoi airection, to oe itimisnca dj i
agent of the Department, ranst be placed upon esj
package ny tne contractor, wooden cases, ci
taining envelopes or wrappers to be transport
py water rontes, must oe provided witn suitati
water-proofing. The whole to be done nm
the Inspection and direction of an agent of
Denartiuent. ,'....,,
The envelopes and wrappers must be farnlshif
ana aeuverea witn an reasonaDie aespatcn, compiii
in all respects, ready for nse, and in such quantlttl
as may be required to fill the darly orders of pod
TY,aat..rfl tha rlulLoorl.ia In Via tnmla i1thnr at th. prf
Ofllce Department, Washington, D. C or at t
onice or an agent uuiy autnorizeu to inspect ana ii
ceive tne same : the place or delivery to ne at t
option of the Postmaster-General, and the cost
delivering as well as all expense of packing, i
dressing, labeling, and water-proofing, to be paid
the eoutractor.
Bidders are notified that the Department will
autre, as a condition of the contract .that the
velopes and wrappers shall be manufactured a
stored in sucn manner as to ensure security agair,
loss by are or tnerr. The manuractory must at
times be subject to the lnspetion or an agent of.
Department, who will require the stipulations of tf
contract to be lalthfully observed. 1
Tne dies for emooBsing the postage stamps on ti
envelopes ana wrappers are to De execuiea to ti
satisfaction of the Postmaster-General, In the bt
style, ana tney are to do provmeu, renewea, a
kept in order at the expense of the contractor. T
aepartmeut reserves tne rignt or requiring new a
for anv storms, or denominations of stain na not n
nsea, ana any cnanges or aiea or colors snau i
made wltboat extra charge. It
Specimens of th stamped envelopes and wrjsf
pers now in use may De seen at any or tne prinois
post offices, but these specimens are not to be J
garded as the style and quality fixed by the depaq
memaa a siaiuioru ror tne new contract; mai
are therefore invited to submit samples or ot
ana ainerent qualities ana styles, lnciuaing
paper proposed as well as the manufactured
velopes, wrappers, and boxes, and make their U
accoroMigiy.
The contract will be awarded to the bidder wh
proposal, although it te not the lowest, is d
sldered most advantageous to the Departm
taking Into account the prices, quality of the a
pies, workmanship, and the sufficiency .
ability of the bidder to manufacture and deliver
envelopes and . wrappers la accordance with
terms of this advertisement; and no proposal
be considered unless accompanied by a sumel
and satisfactory guarantee. The Postmaster-Gel
ral also reserves the right to reject any and all b
If In his Judgment the interests of the GovenurJ
require it
Before closing a contract the successful bid
may be required to prepare new dies, and sub
Impressions thereof. . Tbb cbk of thb raasuMT rj
MAT OR MAT MOT BB CONTINUED.
Bonds, with approved and sufficient sureties,
the sum of $200,ooo, will be required for the faith!
performance of the contract, as required by t
seventeenth section of the act of Congress, appro J
tne jtoin or August, ltvw, ana payment unaer m
contract wiu oe maae quarterly, arter proper
justnient or accounts.
The Postmaster-General reserves to himself
right to annul the contract whenever the some.
any part thereof, to offered for sale for the purp
of speculation : and under no circumstances wil
transfer of the contract be allowed or sanctlol
to anv partv who shall be. in the opinion of
Postmaster-General, less able to fulfill the coi
tlons thereof than the original contractor.
right la also reserved to annul the contract ft:
failure to perform faithfully any of its stipulate
The number of envelopes of different sizes, and
wrappers issued to Postmasters during the fiscal jj
enuea June bo, ihov, was as rouowa, via. :
No. 1. Note size 1.114.000.
No. 8. Ordinary letter alze: (not heretofl
nsedl. .1
No. U. Full letter slie. (ungammed, for clrcull
4,160,000.
No. 4. Full letter size oT,86T,600.
Na 6. Extra letter size, (ungummed, for elrcul
848,boft. : . . .. -No.
6. Jlxtra letter size 4,204,600.
Na 1. Official size 604,860.
Na a Bxtra otllctal size 1T00.
WraDPers 8.BD6.860.
Bids should be securely enveloped and sea
marked "Proposals for htamned Envelopes
... (. 1 .1 Ka Thl- ioal.J
VVrappcIB, UUU WIUICNU w bun a 11 1 v. nun m ,
Postmaster-General, Post Office Department, Wii
lngton, D. C . . . CRKSWEXL.
llleodtMl , , Postmaster Gener4
DRUQ8. PAINT8, TTO.
OOIIKIIX SIIOEMAUER & CU
N. . Corner FOTJBTH and RACE S
PU1LADBLPHIA,
WHOLESALE DRUGGIST
Importers and Manufacturers of
WHITE LEAD AND COLORED PAINTS, PDT
VARNISHES, ETC.
AGENTS FOB TUB ,. CELEBRATED FR8H
ZINC FAINTS.
Dealers and consumers supplied at lowest prl
for cash. ' 1 .-. i
DRUGGIST AND CHEMIS
AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
PAINTS, OILS. GLASS. Al
PATENT MEDICINES,
Nos. 1301 and 1303 MARKET
uiaithstttl
Oil. 8
turn Ho. t:t'ja.BHOONDBtxa.
DR. M. KLINE CAN , CURE CUTANEl
KiDpllona, a! arks on the Bkln, Ulcers in ths Th'r)
Month, and Nose, Sore Legs, and Hore of ever, oono J
ble oharaoter. Office, No. 1 B. KLKVKNTU. btv4
(Jhesnatand Market straat ,