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From the city of Laon on easy Journey
tabes the traveller to anothor city whone name
is in mont people's earn far more familiar
the renowned metropolis of Rhei hh. It would
mot be hard to draw out a scrum of points of
contrast between the two. Tirnt of all, no
two towns could be more unlike in position.
Instead of the hill of Laon, Kheira, if not,
like some EngliHh cities, absolutely in a hole,
stands in a plain, with no obvious reason at
first sight why it should have been pitched
on that particular spot rather than
en any other. Booondly, while Laon
is emphatically a city of the past,
Itbeims has a firm hold on the present as a
flourishing seat of modern business and mo
dern wealth. The history, too, of the two
cities is full of points of contrast. Though
the history of Laon really does spread itself
over the whole range of the last thirteen
hundred years, yet it is only for one short
and remote period that it becomes of para
mount importance, llheims, as never having
been a seat of royalty, never beoomes quite so
prominent as Laon was in the tenth century;
but the interest of its history is spread in
a more equable way over the whole of the
ages from the Frankish conquest of Gaul
down to our own day. As the metropo
litan see of France, the seat of the first
ecclesiastical Feer, as the scene of the con
version of the first Frankish King, as the
burial-place of so many early sovereigns and
the crowning-place of an all but unbroken
line of sovereigns of later date, llheims, in
its two great churches, unites many of the
different sources of the interest which is
awakened in an Englishman by Canterbury,
by Winchester, and by Westminster. As
contrasted with Laon, llheims, as the burial
place of the Laon Kings, may claim a
joint interest in them. And as regards
the succession of its prelates, Laon
supplies no names which at once
Hash across the mind like those of
llcmigius, Hincmar, and Gerbert. And if
Laon was the great centre of the history of
the tenth century, it is to Rheiuas that we
owe the preservation of that history. By a
sort of special propriety, the two great eccle
siastical foundations of llheims supplied the
two historians who recorded the memorable
struggle between Laon and Taris, between
the Frank and the Frenchman. The metro
politan church numbered the discreet, if
Home what meagre, Flodoard among its canons,
while the livelier tale of Iticher was penned
under the shadow of the great monastic
church of Saint ltemigius.
To an Englishman Laon and Rhei ma have
each alike a special interest of its own. The
king who made Laon most famous was all
but an Englishman, the son of an English
mother, the pupil of an English uncle. And
each of the two minsters ef llheims has its
points of connection with England. The
abbey of Saint Remigius became in the ele
venth century a sort of place of meeting for
men of other lands, amongst whom some of
the most famous Englishmen of those days
were not slow to appear. And in the
metropolitan church, the crowning-place of
the Gapetian kings, there is one special
crowning of which we can hardly fail to
think. On that spot we cannot but be re
minded of the day which forever checked the
English dominion in France, when the Maid
stood by at the consecration of the king for
wnoni sne nad opened a pathway to ms crown,
and when Englishmen were driven to strive
to wipe out the moral effect of that great rite
by a fantastic coronation of their own king,
not at Rheims but at Paris. Yet it may be
some comfort to reflect that the formulas of
the august ceremonial were borrowed from
ourselves, and that the kings of the French
were fain to be admitted to their office with
rites which were at first devised for the sove
reigns of the Island Empire.
To write the early history of Rheims would
be almost to write the early history of the
Frankish Kingdom. We can hardly turn to
a page ef Frankish history without lighting
on some mention of the metropolitan city. A
king is to crowned or to be buried; a saint is
to be translated or a synod is to be held; a
primate is to be appointed or to be deposed,
and all Gaul and half Europe is in excitement
about the merits of the several candidates.
In the tenth century especially, when the see
of Rheims had attained something like the
position of a German ecclesiastical princi
pality, the revolutions of the Arch
bishroprio, each commonly involving a
eiege of the city, well nigh divide
the interest with the revolutions of
the kingdom. Nor is Rheims less fertile in
matters of more purely ecclesiastical concern;
it has its crop of saints and of miraoles of
which any church in Christendom might be
proud. Let us take one out of many. A band
of sacrilegious Northmen, bent on plundering
the city and the minster of Saint Remigius
without its walls, were kept then from their
wicked purpose by a preternatural mist of
three days which hindered them from finding
their way either to the minster or to the city.
But the main historical interest of Rheims
mainly grows out of the connection of the
city and its Primates with the conversion of
the German conquerors of Gaul. It is with a
true instinct that the crowning group of
statues on the west front of the metropolitan
church represents Hlodwig in the font, his
Christian wife on one side of him, and the olfl
ciatingPrimate on the other. Thelegendof the
miraculous oil who does not remember Mr.
Froude and Saint Ampull ? is possibly due
to the inventive brain of Hincmar; but it is
certain that the baptism of Hlodwig made the
fortune of Rheims. It was no doubt the
memory of that great event which made
Rheims so often chosen for royal consecra
tions and royal burials, till, under the
Parisian dynasty, it became the one place
where a king of the French could be rightly
admitted to his office. And whatever may
have been Remigius' other claims to sanctity.
we may suspect that, had he not had the good
fortune to baptize tne nrst t runkisu kmc;, he
might never have become the patron of his
city, ana tne minster wnica Dears ms name
might have been dedicated under some other
invocation. But one special feature in the
history of Rheims, the almost habitual way
in which it was chosen as the seat of eccle
siastical synods, was no doubt, partly at
least, owing to its geographical position. The
city was conveniently placed for the assem
bling of prelates from both the Eastern and
Western kingdoms. It lay not far from
their common frontier, and it possessed the
advantages of lying within the boundaries of
the weaker State of the two, and of being the
seat of a prelate who came nearer than any
other west of the Maes to the position of un
ecclesiastical sovereign.
The interest of Rheims, historical and
architectural, is pretty nearly divided between
the two great "ohmrob.es of the eity. Those
two churches, it will be remembered, were
confounded in a grotesque passage of Dean
' Stanley, ' who characteritically went on to
build up an. elaborate theory on, his own
' blunder. But any one who, even without
' going to llheims, has paid common attention
to ecclesiastical history, knows, how to dis
tinguish the two. No two churches can be
more different in their aspect The metro
politan church of Our Lady, the seat
of the long line of Primates of Belgio
Gaul and Premier Peers of France,
is well knowu as ' one of the
noblest churches of Gaul and of Chris
tendom. The church with which it seems
most natural to compare it is the nearlv
contemporary cathedral of Amiens. Each
has the advantage, as much to be prized
in an artistic as to be regretted in an his
torical point of view, of being a perfect and
almost untouched specimen of a single style,
and that the beautiful French style of the
thirteenth century. Both these noble
buildings are intensely French; neither shows
any sign of that approach to English or
Norman work of which we can see some
clear traces at Laon. All the distinctive
characteristics of the great French churches
come out strongly in both of them; the
apse and its surrounding chapels, the vast
portals of the western front, the great rose
windows of the transepts. In point of
height Amiens surpasses Rheims; but we are
not sure that this excess of height is wholly
an advantage on the side of Amiens. The
vast height of Amiens not only cuts off all
hope of a central tower, bi;t deprives the
church of any adequate towers at all.
The western towers of Amiens,
if towers we may call them, strive,
feebly and with imperfect suooess, to rear
themselves above the ridge of that mighty
roof. At Rheims two noble and well-proportioned
towers, still expecting their unfinished
spires, form the proper finish of the building.
In short, while Amiens outside is simply
shapeless, Rheims forms as well-designed a
whole as any church can which lacks that
crown of the central tower which English and
Norman eyes will always crave as indispensa
ble to a perfect outline. The vast height
of Amiens, again, makes the transept
fronts look almost like towers, while at
Rheims real fronts with side towers,
like those of Bordeaux and Rouen,
have been designed and partly carried up. In
the internal effect Amiens must claim the
first place; the majesty of its vast scale and
faultless proportion puts it above competi
tion. Yet Rheims treads close upon its heels,
and in some of its arrangements it is perhaps
more satisfactory. The proportions of the
arcade, triforium, and clecustory at Rheims
are admirably managed, and the pillars are
better and more truly Gothic than those at
Amiens. The huge floriated capitals, how
ever, are certainly disproportioned, and they
arrest the eye more strongly than the capi
tals of clustered pillars ought to do. In point
of furniture Rheims has nothing to set
against the unrivalled stalls and sculp
tures of Amiens. But Rheims, like Saint
Ouens, seems to us to gain greatly, both in
side and out, from the absence of those
chapels between the buttresses of the nave
which in some churches were designed from
the beginning, and which at Amiens are a
later addition. At Amiens by this means the
bold simplicity of the ranges of buttresses at
Rheims and Saint Ouens has been exchanged
for a flat wall.
A great deal of the internal effect of Rheims
cathedral is due to its great store of rich and
early stained glass and to the admirable color
of its stone. It is a church through which
one may walk day after day and find new beau
ties at every visit. And it is pleasant too to
sit and study the exquisite work of the west
front, its harmonious proportions, its noble
doorway and rose wmdows, its ranges of
sculpture adapted to the architecture and not
thrusting themselves forward to its prejudice.
And we need not say that there is no luck of
historic interest in a church which has wit
nessed the crowning of so many kings, and
where the interest of the two latest corona
tions is certainly not the least. Here Louis
the Sixteenth and Charles the Tenth received
the crown which each was in different ways
to lose. Here Louis the Eighteenth forbore
to seek the outward ensigns of a kingship
which he, alone of the three brothers, con
trived to keep to the end of his days. And it
is with a strange feeling that we tread the for
saken chambers of the palace, standing,
through so many changes of the last forty
years, swept and garnished, ready for the next
ruler who may deem the consecrating oil of
Rheims to be a needful part of his investi
ture. Yet, with all this, a higher interest
still attaches to the other great church of
Rheims, the famous Abbey of Saint Remi
gius, "the mickle minster at Remys as it
stands recorded in the language of our ancient
chronicles. To an ordinary observer there is
no comparison between the two churches.
Without, instead of the noble towers of the
metropolitan church, Saint Remigius pre
sents an outline which is absolutely shape
less; a long awkward length of roof is broken
only by a difference of height in the roof
itself, and by way of towers there is nothing
beyond two insignificant turrets flanking the
west front. Within, instead of the uniform
style and soaring height of the cathedral, we
have a building whose main feature is in its
enormous breadth, and whose architec
ture, simple and massive, is a mere
patchwork of various dates. The tomb
and shrine of the saint himself, which by
unusual good luck have weathered all
storms, are fine in themselves, but of late
eate and workmanship, the tomb being sur
rounded by figures representing those twelve
Peers of France, temporal and ecclesiastical,
who were extemporized, as it would seem, to
suit the convenience of Philip Augustus.
Yet, as the eye ranges over the wide expanse
of the "mickle minster," it soon learns to
feel that excess of breadth, coupled with the
vast length of Saint Remigius, has in it an
element of majesty of a diff erent kind, no
less then excess of height. The eye also
soon picks out much detail of no small beauty,
and it rests with greater satisfaction still on
parts of the building which, though they have
small claims to artistic beauty, have an in
terest not easily surpassed alike in the his
tory of art and in the general history of
Europe. The mere antiquity of the building
would alone moke it worth a pilgrimage.
The nave and transepts of Saint Re
migius are among the few buildings on so
great a scale which belong to the first
half of the eleventh century. By their side
the metropolitan church seems comparatively
modern. The two hundred years whioh sepa-,
rate tnem saw no smaii revolutions in the
building art. Saint Remigius indeed cannot
go back, any more than the cathedral, to the
old days of Meriwings and Karlincs. No
stone remains in either church to witness to
the one day when Rheims beheld the conse
cration of an Emperor. It is not quite clear
which of the two minsters was the scene of
the great, rite of 810, when Pope Stephen
drew near to the city, when Louis, already
King and Ciusar by every temporal title,
went forth to meet the Pontiff, bowed
, himself thrice before him, led him
to the church and received the Im
perial Crown and the Imperial unction
Vi J a Vanila Itvif 111 TiAairHaat naua A dao t Yi A
existing church contain any portion which
the eves of that Pope and that Ciusar could
have looked upon. Far different is it with,
the next time when a Tope and a Cwsar met
in the metropolis of Belgio Gaul. In 104!)
"the mickle minster at Remys," begun in
1005, had been brought to perfection by itfl
Abbot Heremar. A goodly assemblage, in
deed, was gathered for itH hallowing. A Pope,
and that Pope Leo the Ninth, came to per
form the ceremony; an Emperor, and that Em
peror Henry the Third, formed one of a con
gregation gathered from all parts of Western
Christendom. Few assemblies could be more
illustrious than the Synod gathered at the bid
ding of such a Pontiff and such a Cmsar. One
thing that specially strikes us is that in the
list ef prelates and ambassadors no
mention occurs of the King of Paris, and
only a very secondary mention of the Primate
of llheims. The Metropolitan of Trier was
there; so were the Metropolitans of Lyons
and of Besancon these two last still cities
of the Empire not yet swallowed up by the
Parisian Maelstrom. But the prelate of
Rheims itself is placed lowest on the prima
tial list, and Pope and Emperor seem to have
held their Synod by their own authority
without any reference to the Capetian King.
What, they might well ask, was he in the
presence of the Lord of the World and the
worthy Pontiff of his choosing ? When Sun
and Moon shone side by side in all their
brightness, such lesser lights might well
withdraw their shining. For once in the
world's history, the successor of Augustus
and the successor of Peter Bat side by side to
judge the nations and their rulers.
For once the two swords clashed
not with one another, but were
drawn to smite with a common blow a host of
ecclesiastical and moral offenders. Most of
them were the princes or prelates within the
Parthian kingdom, and among them the sen
tence went forth which forbade William the
Norman to aspire to the marriage of his
Flemish kinswoman. And among the crowd
which filled the minster stood three ambas
sadors of England, one of whom, Dnduc, the
Saxon Bishop of Somersetshire, first raised
to dignity by the Danish (Jnut, and now sent
by the English Eadward to the Frankish
Henry and the Lotharingian Bruno, might
seem in a special way to represent on Gaulish
soil the union of all the brunches or the Teu
tonic race. And the stones on which they
gazed we can gaze on still; the mas
sive arches and rude capitals ot
the church which Leo hallowed are still
there, partly disguised by additions of the
next age, but still essentially unaltered,
forming one of the most living witnesses of
an ago of which so lew great architectural
works remain. And yet another thought
occurs to connect those massive arches with
the history of our country. Twelve years
later Gyrth and Tostig and Eoldred
stopped there on - their return from their
Roman pilgrimage, and there liurcnard, the
son of iSiltgur, the grandson of Leofric, was
buried in the churchyard of the minster. To
the heart of an Englishman the thought of
Popes and Ctesars hardly speaks with so much
force as the thought that the stones on which
he is gazing were gazed at in all the freshness
of their first days by the stainless hero of his
own land.
And yet Rheims contains one piece of an
tiquity besides which even the minster of
Saint Remigius may seem modern. The
1'orta Martis, the old Roman gate, still sur
vives, speaking of days when Popes were as
yet unknown, when Crcsars still bowed, not
at the shrine of a Christian saint, but at the
altar of the father of Rome's founder. The
genuine fragment is a noble one, but will it
be believed that the demon of restoration has
seized even on this venerable relic, and that
modern work, modern pillars, modern capi
tals, are brought into close neighborhood
with the grand, if shattered, remains of the
time which has so utterly passed away.
Other objects of interest, both ecclesiastic
and domestic, may be found in Rheims, but
these are the chief. A city which can show
one church of such artistio perfection as the
Metropolitan Church, and another of such
surpassing historic interest as the "mickle
minster," claims a high place, indeed, among
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CAPITAL, gjuu.oou.
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
Insures against Low or Damage by Fire either by Pag,
petual or Temporary rouoles.
DIRECTORS:
(lharies Rlohardson, Robert Pearo.
Willism U. Khawn, John Keealer, Jr
W illiam M. Seytert. Edward JB. Orne,
John F. Smith, Charles Stokes,
Nathan Uillra, John W. Everm,
Ueorge A, West, Mordeoai Busby.
CHARLES RICHARDSON, President.
WILLIAM H- RUAWN. Vice President.
WILLIAMS L IiL-SCBA-D. Secretary. 7 ggg
fVIlE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE
l.w.nljwi lKib Charter Paminki
Ho. MO WALKUT Street, oppoait Indeeendenoe Bqojapg,
l uiauompany, la-1" "-- - eomrannity lor
over forty years, oontinues to Insure against loss or dam.
age by Ore on itiiiiio ,. "uuuingsjeiuier penna.
nently or for limited time. Also on Furniture, Stocks
of Goods, sod Merchandise generally, en liberal terms.
Their Capital, together wltn large Surplus Fund. !
inve.-oea in uu mow-fuv, men eaaoies to
to oHer to the insured an undoubted Secaxiay la log
of lose. !
Daniel Smith. Jr.,
John DwrereaSa
Thpmag Smith,
Henry Lewis.
Alexander Benson,
Thomas B-bu.,., HdUinghai Fal
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lasae ilaxlehursb,
President,
na. u. uav
INSURANOfc.
A S B U R Y
LIFE INSURANCE CO , N. Y.
Number 0! Policies Issued by the Mr largest New York
Companies during the first years ef their sxistenoe:
MUTUAL (28 months) 1034
n" ivnR (inmontnit) iw
Manhattan f.Troonthd) 9M
KNICKEPHOCRnK. .. (29 months) M
EQUITABLE 07 months) 8s
Daring the si months of lt existence the
AHIJURY
HAS ISSUED 2600 POLICIES,
INSURING N EASILY 0, 000,000.
Rellsble Canvassing Agent wantad throtuhout the
eoumry.
rfAHKH M. LONOACRK,
Manager for PennsyNmau and Delaware.
Office, No. H WALNUT Street, Philadelphia.
8AMUKL POWERS, Speolal Ageul 4 Id?
JMPEBIAIi FIRE INSURANCE CO.
LONDON.
ESTABLISHED 1803.
rald-np Capital and Accumulated Panda.
08,000,000 I IN GOLD.
PEEV0ST & HERRING, Agenu,
let No. 107 8. THIRD Btreet, Philadelphia,
CHAR, M. PRBVO8T CHAR. P. HBRRTNO
OLOTHS, OA8SIMERES, ETO.
JAMES & HUDER,
Snccesflori to JAMES ft LEE,
No. 11 North NECOrVK Street.
Sign of the Golden Lamb,
Are now closing ont their entire stock of
"W inter O o o 1 s,
consuming or CLOTns, cassimeres, vest-
INO8, etc, of the best makes and finest texture,
which they are selling far below Importers' prices.
preparatory to the reception of their SPRING STOCK
OK GOODS. 3 28 mws
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS.
jyjICIIAEL MEAGHER & CO.,
No, S23 sontn sixteenth street,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers In
PROVISIONS. OYSTERS AND TERRAPINS.
Btabler'i Kxtra Canned CORN.
.. ,. .. pAS.
PKAUHKS.
Maryland Canned TOM ATOKB.
Katra Canned ASPAKAUUS. 28
IIARDIING'S EDITIONS
OF
THE HOLT BIBLE.
FAMILY, PULPIT, AND PHOTOGRAPH BIBLES,
FOR
WEDDING AND BIRTHDAY PRESENTS.
ALSO, PRESENTATION BIBLES FOR
CHURCHES,
CLERGYMEN,
SOCIETIES AND
TEACHERS, EIC.
New and superb assortment, bonnd In Rich Levant
Turkey Morocco, Paneled and Ornamental designs,
equal to the London and Oxford editions, at less than
half their prices.
No. 3M CHESNUT Street.
STRENGTH, BEAUTY, CHEAPNESS COMBINED!
HARDING'S PATENT CHAIN-BACK
FU0T0GRAPI1 ALBLM8.
For Wedding, Holiday, or Birthday Presents, these
Albums are particularly adapted.
The book trade and dealers a fancy articles will
find the most extensive assortment of Photograph
Albums in the country, and superior fi any hereto
fore made. For great strength, durability, and
cheapness, Harding's Patent Chain-back Albums are
unrivalled. Purchasers will And It greatly to their
advantage to examine these new lines of goods be
fore making up their orders for stock.
Also, a large and splendid assortment of new styles
of Photograpn Albums made lu the usual manner.
No. 320 CHESNUT Street,
1 17 Philadelphia.
rp H I PRINCIPAL
DEPOT
FOR TBI SALS OF
REVENUE STAM
P 8
No. 804 CHESNUT STREET.
CENTRAL OFFICE, NO. 105 S. FIFTH STREET
(Two doors below Cbesnut street),
ESTABLISHED 18CS.
The sale of Revenue Stamps Is Btlll continued at
the Old-Established Agenclce.
Tlio stock comprises every denomination printed
by the Government, and having at all ttmas a large
supply, we are enabled to fill and forward (by Mall
or Express) all orders, Immediately upon receipt,
matter of great Importance.
United States Notes, National Bank Notes, Drafts
on Philadelphia, and Post Office Orders received In
payment.
Any Information regarding the decisions of the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue cheerfully and
gratuitously furnished.
Revenue Slumps printed upon Drarts, Checl
Receipts, etc.
The following rates of commission are allowed
Stamps and Stamped Paper:
On t'2C and op wards. t per
100 " 8 "
800 " 4 "
Address aU orders, etc., to
STAMP AGENCY,
No. 804 CHESNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
CORN KXCHANQK
BAG MANUFACTORY',
JOHN T. BAILKY,
H. X. oorner Of Jd A KK KT and WATER Street)
Philadelphia. .
DEALER IN BAU8 AND BAOODia
Of ever description, for .
Grain, Flour. Salt. rlur-PbosyhaU Of Ume. Boa)
Largo aao aaU OtTNN Aa& bAd.
PROPOSALS.
JROrOBAI.H FOR STAM TED ENVELOPES AND
L WRAPPERS.
POBTOFFICI DKrArJTstltKT, '
January 10, lfrro. J
Sealed PmpoMlfl will be received nntll 8 P. M.
on the 1st dav of MARCH, 1B70, for farninhing all
the "Stamped Envelopes" and "Newspaper Wrap,
pers" which this Department mar require during
a period of fonr years, commencing 1st of July,
1870, via.
STAM FBI ENVELOPES.
No. 1. Not sue. H by v inches, of white
paper.
ro, s. urmnary letter sue, M6 try fH
Inches, of white, buff, canary, or cream
colored paper, or in such proportion of either a
tuny vv rrtiniieu.
No. 8. Full letter sice (nnonmmed on flnn. for
circulars). BV by b Inches, of the same colors u
no. v, ana uuder a like condition aa to the propor
tion of each.
No. 4. Full letter size. 8V by BJrf lnohes. of same
colors as No. 9, and under a like condition as to the
proportion or ea;n.
No. 6. Extra letter sire (ungnmmed on flap, for
circulars), 8X by 61i Inches, of same colors aa No.
8, and undfcr a like condition as to the proportion of
each.
No. 6. Extra letter slr.e, 8V by 6V Inches, of same
colors as No. S, and under a like condition as to the
proportion or eaciu
No. 7. Oillcial sire. B' by 8X Inches, of same
colors as No. 8, and under a like condition aa to the)
proportion 01 eacn.
No. 8. Extra oillcial slse. 4. by Inches, ot
same colors as No. 3, and under a like condition as
to the proportion of each.
NKWSPAl'KR WRAPPERS,
X D7 X Inches, of butt or raanllla paper.
All the above envelopes and . wrappers vo bo J 4"
bossed with postage stamps of such denomination!,
styles, and colors, and to hear such printing on t a
face, and te be made in the most thorough manner
of piiper 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 perfectly
gummed, the gumming on the flap of each (except
for clrculare) to be put on not leas than half an Inch
In width the entire length. The wrappers to bo
gummed not lesB than three-fourths of an inch la
width across the end.
All envelopes and wrappers must be banded In
parcels of tweuty-Uvo, and packed In strong
fasteboard or straw boxes, each to contain not lest
han two hundred and Ufiy of the letter or extra,
letter size, and one hundred each of the oill
cial or extra oillcial size, separately. The news
paper wrappers to bo packed lu boxes to contain
not lees than two hundred and fifty each. The
boxes are to be wrapped and sealed, or securely
fastened In strong manllla paper, so as to safely
bear trauxportation by . mall for delivery to
poHtniusR'n. When two thousand or more enve
lopes are required to 1111 the order of a postmaster,
the straw or pasteboard boxes containing the
same must be packed In strong wooden cases,
well strapped with hoop-iron, and addressed;
but When less than two thousand are required,
proper labels of direction, to be furnished by an
agent of the Department, must be placed upon each,
package by . the contractor. Wooden cases, con
taining envelopes or wrappers to be transported
by water routes, must be provided with suitable
watcr-prooilng. The whole to be done under
the Inspection and direction of an agent of the
Department
1 he envelopes and wrappers must be famished
and delivered with all reasonable despatch, complete
In all respects, ready for use, and In such quantities
as navy be required to till the darly orders of post
masters ; the deliveries to be made either at the Post
Oitlce Department, Washington, D. C, or at the
oltlce of an agent duly authorized to Inspect and re
ceive the same; the place ef delivery to be at the
option of the PoHtmoHter-General, and the cost of
delivering as well as all expense or packing, ad
dressing, labeling, and water-proofing, to be paid by
the contractor.
Bidders are notified that the Department will re
quire, as a condition of the contract ,that the en
velopes and wrappers shall be manufactured and
stored in such manner as to ensure security agaiust
loss by lire or theft. The manufactory must at all
times be subject to the lnspeutlon of an agent of the
Department, who will require the stipulations of the
contract to be faithfully observed.
The dies for embossing the postage scamps on the
envelopes and wrappers are to be executed to the
satisfaction of the Postmaster-General, In the best
stle. and they are to bo provided, renewed, and
kept in order at the expense of the contractor. The
department reserves the right of requiring new dies
for any stamps, or denominations of stamps not now
used, mid any changes of dies or colors shall be
made without extra charge.
Specimens of the stamped envelopes and wrap
pers now In UBe may be seen at any of the principal
post oiiices, but these specimens are not to be re
garded as tne 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 aa well as the manufactured en
velopes, wrappers, and boxes, and make their bids
accordingly.
The contract will be awarded to the bidder whose
proposal, although It be not the lowest, Is con
sidered most advantageous to the Department,
taking into account the prices, quality of the sam
ples, workmanship, and tlio 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-General
also reserves the right to reject any and all bids.
If in his Judgment the interests of the Government
require lu
Before closing a contract the successful bidder
may be required to prepare new d.es, and submit
Impressions thereof. Tub ubb or tbb fhbhknt diks
MAY OK HAY MOT BB CONTINUED.
Bonds, with approved and sufficient en re ties, In
the sum of 2fl0,ooo, will be required for the faithful
performance of the contract, as required by the
seventeenth section of the act of Congress, approved
the 26th of August, 1842, and payments under sold
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 ; 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
I'OBtmsster-Ueneral, lens able to fulfill the condi
tions thereof than the original contractor. The
right Is also reserved to annul the contract for a
fuilure to perform faithfully any of its stipulations.
The number of envelopes of different sizes, and of
wrappers Issued to Postmasters during the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1669, was as follows, vis. :
No, 1. Note size 1,114,000.
No. 8. Ordinary letter size; (not heretofore
used). 1
No. 8. Fall letter size, (ungnmmed, for circulars)
4,160,000.
No. 4. Full letter Size 67,867,600.
No. e. Extra letter size, (ungummed, for circulars!
843,600.
No, 6. Extra letter size 4,204,800.
No. 7. Official size 04,660.
No. 8. Extra official siz 1700.
Wrappers B,696,S50.
Bids should be securely enveloped And sealed,
marked "Proposals for Stamped Envelopes and
Wrappers," and addressed to the Third Assistant
FoBtinantcr-General, Post Office Department, Wash
lugton, D. C.
JOHN A. J. CRESWEU,
1 11 eodtMl Postmaster General.
r0 ALL WANTING FARMS IN A LOCAL-
lty Exempt from Fevers and Lung Complaints.
To Farmers, Horticulturists, Mechanics, Capitalists,
Gentlemen of Leisure, Invalids, and all wanting a
homestead In a climate of unsurpassed salubrity,
exempt from the rigors of a Northern winter, and
In close connection with tbo commercial ocutras oX
the South. Few If any soctlons offer such a combi
nation of inducements as the town of Aiken, S. C,
and Its vicinity for a desirable and permanent home.
A pamphlet of 84 pages now ready, containing a
description of the climate, soils, and the nuturo of
the products in the vicinity of Aiken, eHpm-UUy
fruit, cereals, cotton, corn, vegetables, etc.,' In
cluding extracts from letters of dlstJngulNluid visi
tors, correspondents, action of town come'Ds in
vltlng emigrants, etc., to which Is edited a evscrlp.
tive list of property for sale, Including improved
farms, orchards, vineyards, water power", kitolln
deposits, unimproved lands, and town resldoncoa.
For sale by E. J. C. WOOD, Real E-suwa Aeut,
Aiken, 8. C. The book will be sent by malt on
receipt cf price, 60 cents. Address J. l utiltliY,
Publisher, P. O. Box No. H39, New Vor, until 1st
of February, after that time at Aiken, a c. 11 17 3ra