THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JULY 2G, 1870.
THE AUC.tST MAUAZINES.
IIAIIPKR'H."
The contents of tho August number of
Harper's Magazine, which wo have received
from Turner A Co., aro as follows:
"The Ilaquette Club," Charles Ilallock,
with thirteen illustrations; "South Coast
Saunterings in England (Saunter VI), Can
terbury I," M. D. Conway, with nine illustra
tions; "My Modking Bird," Julia C. R. Dorr;
"The Electric Light," Jacob Abbott, with six
illustrations; "A Visit to Bangkok," Allan D.
Brown, with eleven illustrations; "The Auto
da Fe of 175.-," W. W. Woodson; "Early His
tory of Colorado," William M. Byers; "Two
Hearts," Harriet Troscott Spofford; "Frede
rick the Great IX. Tho Campaign of Mo
ravia," with five illustrations; "The Old Love
Again," by Annie Thomas, with one illustra
tion; "By-pnths to Prosperity," William C.
Wycoff; "riayed to the End," by the author
f "My Daughter Elinor;" American Artists
in Italy," Samuel Osgood, D. D.; "As Easy
as Lying," Leonard W. Sewell; "Two Foets,"
Charles Landor; "Only Clodhoppers," Mrs.
Frank McCarthy; "Female Suffrage A Let
ter to the Christian Women of America (Part
I), Susan F. Cooper; "Anteros," by the au
thor of "Guy Livingstone;" "Heart Ache,"
Carl Spencer; "Editor's Easy Chair," "Edi
tor's Literary Record," "Editor's Scientific
Record," "Editor's Historical Record," "Edi
tor's Drawer."
We quote as follows from "By-paths to
Prosperity," by W. C. Wycoff:
In certain trades long apprenticeship is re
quired to confer by practioe the requisite taste
and skill. But when there is added to the
necessity for experience and practice to in
sure good handiwork the restriction of a small
demand for the product of such labor, the
craft can comprise but few members, and it
may become a monopoly. A branch of the
industry over which Saint Crispin presides
has recently come into existence, to meet the
separate requirements of a class itself widely
removed from saintly patronage. There is
now in almost every important city in this
country a "theatrical bootmaker;" and if the
statements that have appeared are reliable,
the price obtained for the adjuncts to the
elegance of "the buskined stage" is about
five times that of the ordinary calf-skin foot
coverings. The addition of genius to the dexterity
which is acquired by training may in some
occupations convert the artisan into the artist,
and by the perfection of handiwork secure
the meed of fame. Of these, type-cutting
and hand-printing, in the early days of those
arts, tapestry-work and line-engraving, pre
sent familiar examples, and the names of
John Baskerville, William Caxton, the Gobe
lin family, and Albert Durer are not likely
soon to be forgotten.
There is an artist in New York who has de
veloped a peculiar skill in the rare art of cut
ting cameos. Do yon wish the stone to repre
sent your own lineaments or yiose of your
most loved one ? is there a scene, a device,
an emblem that is dear to your memory? name
your desire, and he will reproduce the like
ness in high or low relief, perpetual, in stone;
From the actual sitter, from the bust, the
photograph, the painting, or perhaps even
the pencil-sketch with a few words of descrip
tion, this man of genius can construct the
counterfeit presentment. He, and the admi
rable artist who has recently furnished the
public with silhouettes of marvellous delicacy
and singular beauty of outline the original
cuttings of black paper being now copied as
engravings and popularized through the
agency of the printing-press are probably
. not much troubled by competition.
The manufacture of artificial noses is a
unique business in which rivalry is not apt to
be excessive; and should we pity the person
who makes this his specialty at a season when
his trade is dull, we must yet hesitate to
. accord him such sympathy as to wish him an
increase of customers. A certain studio in
the fifth story of a building in Broadway
need to be better known to the "fancy"
than any other rooms in the city where the
painter's skill may give to fancy shape.
The artist who occapied those premises
rarely bad in daylight an idle hour: sitters
thronged upon him, and waited for their
turn with their faces in their handkerchiefs,
their hats drawn down over their eyes, or, if
ofj the gentler sex and there were many
such closely veiled. His especial skill and
constant occupation was in painting to a
natural tint the human countenance, when
its divinity was obscured by bruises or by a
"black eye."
Of a humbler grade is the "artist" who
confines his efforts to repairing the injuries
. and fractures of meerschaum pipes. There
are professional destroyers of vermin who
contract by the month or quarter to remove
rata, mice, and roaches from hotels, restau
rants, etc. Some of these hunters of small
deer also furnish live rats in large numbers
within twenty-four hours from order, for the
exhibitions of dog-pits.' They do not keep
the rats on hand, but catch them as required.
It is generally believed, and is perhaps true,
that they use some bait or attractive scent in
trapping the vermin. Such is not, however,
the explanation as the writer heard it from
the lips of one of the most skilled in this
vocation.
"I never use bait or drugs. I have studied
the animal." Here be drew himself up in the
consciousness of superior knowledge, and
proceeded with a lofty air. "No mm that
tmderBtands the rat needs such things; nor
are fancy rat-traps of any account. Look at
a rat's nest ! It is hid behind a wall. It is
near a chimney or a heat flue, so that it is
kept warm. It is lined with soft stuff
rags, hair, lint, torn paper. Would you
catch rats? Make a nest for them. Use a
box having a sliding door to a small
aperture. Put rags in the box, or saw
dust, or both, and leave it in the warmest
part of a room that the rats frequent, cov
ered with an old carpet, the aperture left
open. No one must disturb the room; the
longer things are thus left the better. There
will be a time when you can walk in quietly,
drop the sliding door, and carry off the box
under your arm with every rat inside that
was in the building.
"At what hour of the day or night do you
find all the rats in?" we inquired.
"You would not ask the question if you
bad studied the rat," was the somewhat
evasive reply.
About once a week a man puts his head into
our office, and says "Wanchewredinkmister?"
and, not receiving any reply, departs. Some
months elapsed before we succeeded in dis
covering the intent of his Inquiry. He is
presumably a German, and vends carmine
writing fluid to tho jo who apprehend and
affirmatively answer his question, "Want you
red ink, mister?" A man well known in en
graving establishments seems to make his
of his existence is to sell diamond points for I
engravers' use one lasting the best part of a
lifetime. An industrious individual makes
barrel-bungs for a living. A Boston gentle
man feathered his own nest by producing
wooden nest-eggs. A new commercial busi
ness is confined to furnishing nil to be used
only on bo wing-machines. In Paris an "In
ternational Exhibition of Fans" is announced.
In New York there is a house exclusively en
gaged in the manufacture and sale of church
furniture. In Boston there is a shop devoted
to the sale of glass chimneys for kerosene
lamps.
With patience, success in a retail bnsiness
devoted to a single article is almost certain in
a large city. Thus, let a man sell nothing but
dolls heads, keeping his prices well down,
and remaining in the same store for years,
and althoxigh, perhaps, for a long while
unnoticed, and strongly tempted to expand
his business into a toy shop or a variety store,
if persistent in the one idea, he will eventu
ally attract an exclusive trade, and draw cus
tomers for dolls' heads from distant quarters;
for it is alike the observation of buyers and
sellers that the best place to buy an article is
that where only that article is dealt in. But
if the dealer in the case supposed were to
include the bodies, the garments, and tho fur
niture of dolls, he might procure a larger
business in the first few years, but with no
Buch prospect of ultimate increase or perma
nency. The specialties of scientific knowledge give
occupation to men possessed of thorough
knowledge of peculiar departments. To enu
merate these special' callings is but to give
the designations appropriate to the divisions
of science. The professions are similarly
pursued in individual lines; and we have
patent lawyers and divorce lawyers, cancer
doctors, and chiropodists. Of the last there
was one who went travelling from house
to bouse, before the days when citizens
hired a "corn doctor by the year to operate
monthly, whose reputation was founded
upon an alleged capacity for extracting the
roots of corns. After nicely trimming the
afflicted feet, he would affect to pull out the
said roots with tweezers. He bored a small
hole in the corn, and his legerdemain was
very neat; but a gentleman on whom he
operated kept a "root, and examined it
under a microscope. It was a piece of a
fish-bone.
With special reference to human frailty,
there is a business reduced to a system in
Paris, employing a number of discreet
deputies, who go around to liquor shops
and places of public resort at night, and
aocompany, or otherwise assist to their
homes, for a consideration, inebri
ated gentleman, who would otherwise fall
into the hands of the police. In that city
there is also, at almost every alternate street
corner, that most valuable of messengers,
the commissionnaire. Licensed, and amena
ble to strictly-enforced penalties if he over
charges, defaults, or even blunders, he is yet
your servant for the occasion, capable, for a
reasonable compensation per hour, of the
greatest variety of service. Ho can procure
for you a ball-ticket; order your dinner, and
summon your company; ascertain the where
abouts of a book in the public libraries or
the shops; perhaps even collect a bill or pre
pare the preliminaries of an affaire du cwur.
lie is frequently employed by a jealous hus
band or wife to lollow, and report upon the
movements of the suspected party; and occa
sionally the same aent is hired by both the
partners in domestic infelicity.
A business nas grown into iormiaaoie di
mensions within a few years in London
which it is impossible to regard with com
placency. The nearest approach to it in this
country is the Association lor tne suppres
sion of Gambling, which, with a worthier
motive, adopts somewhat similar means.
"Private Inquiry" offices are an invention to
the credit of which England is perfectly wel
come; and we devoutly hope that nobody on
this side of the water will either copy or in
fringe upon their peculiarities. Employing
great numbers of young men and women ap
parently engaged in other pursuits, as house
servants, clerks, etc., to collect and commu
nicate to a central office all the gossip, soan
dal, and personalities that they can pick up
and acquire in the families or firms where
they have such opportunities, these establish
ments obtain information in vast quantities,
which is carefully recorded and tabulated.
This information, these family secrets ob
tained by infamous bribery and espionage,
are for sale. To these offices a husband or
wife proceeds in search of evidence when
thinking of applying for a divorce. Thither,
also, go morbid wretches in search of food
for jealousy; partners who doubt each other;
employers who suspect their agents. And so
widely spread are the ramifications by which
this institution has penetrated the privacy of
British households, that it is seid that an ap
plicant rarely calls at an office without find
ing that there are at least so me details already
"booked" respecting the object of his in
quiries. But no profit which may accrue to
employers or employed caa com pensate for
the utter loss of self-respect invol ved in such
an occupation.
When in literature the subdivisions of in
dustry are placed upon a mere trading basis,
singular effects follow. Experience in a re
stricted avocation results in peculiar skill,
and the work of the expert in some branch of
literary pursuit is not apt to want dexterity
or finibh. Yet, whenever the produce of one
man's brains is sold to be fathered as
another's, whatever benefit each may
receive pecuniarily, morally both
must be injured. Although for years it has
been customary to sell sermons in England,
and the practice is alluded to by the poet
Cowper, we cannot admire it. More recently
their newspapers advertise to furnish either
sermons or the mere skeletons of sermons,
with illustrations, on subjects selected by the
Eurchaser, or from a general assortment; to
e sent by mail on receipt of price.
Lecturers also can be similarly supplied
with "original MS. lectures." Some of the
subjects are thus enumerated in an advertise
ment: "Coincidences. Freemasonry its
history, seoret rites, and mysteries. Super
stitions. Social and Humorous Sketches.
Swiss History. Inventors and their Oppo
nents." There is in England a class of re
porters who do not themselves write anything
for the journals, and are not known as con
nected with them; they simply collect in
cidents for others who write descriptive re
ports.
The French capital is famous for providing
literary wares adapted to all exigencies. At
the time of the Exposition Universelle, there
were scribes to be found who could produce
light or solid essay f upon any topic, division.
or article illustrated or exhibited therein, in
any language required. One of thesa literary
hacks furnished the complete and exhaustive
report upon industries represented in the ex
hibition which a commissioner from a foreign
nation presented to his Government as the
result of his own investigation. And this
elaborate report, upon which the commis
sioner was generally complimented, was not
oDly written in bis native tongue, but wis
tdt'j &q JiStfUXftte juiitutivu of his iwu.U bfuU-
writing. Perhaps it is not too much to say
that the Pascal-Newton forgeries may be
accounted the ripe fruit of so dangerous a
vocation.
Edgar A. Toe, the poet, had acquired a
facility in imitating handwriting which he
once turned to account as a practical joke. A
lady at Washington left with him her book of
autographs, containing those of a large num
ber of celebrated individuals, with the request
that he would add his own. The autographs
in the book were scattered through it without
any arrangement. Poe kept the book a few
weeks, and when he returned it there ap
peared a duplicate of each autograph upon
the page opposite or nearest adjoining.
Neither the owner of the book nor any one
else was able thereafter to decide which were
the genuine autographs and which Poe's fac
similes. In her "Letter to the Christian Women of
America," Mrs. Susan F. Cooper makes a
strong and forcible argument against female
suffrage, which is well worthy of the atten
tion of those especially who have only con
sidered the subject from a sentimental and
theoretical point of view:
Let us Bupposo that to-day the proposed
revolution were effected; all women, without
restriction, even the most vile, would be
summoned to vote in accordance with their
favorite theory of inalienable right. That
class of women, and other degraded classes of
the ignorant and unprincipled, will always be
ready to sell their votes many times over to
either party, to both parties, to the highest
bidder, in short. They will sell their vote
much more readily than the lowest classes of
men now do. They will hold it with greater
levity. They will trifle with it. Thev will
sell their vote any day for a yard of ribbon or
a tinsel brooch unless they are offered
two .yards of ribbon or two brooches.
They will vote over again every hour of every
election !ay, by cunning disguises and
trickery. And thus, so far as women are con
cerned, the most degraded element in society
will, in fact, represent the whole sex. Nay,
they will probably not unfrequently command
the elections, as three colored women are said
once to have done in New Jersey. A hun
dred honest and intelligent women can have
but one vote each, and at least fifty of these
will generally stay at home. If, which God
forbid, it actually comes to .female voting, a
very small proportion of the box will, at com
mon elections, appear at the polls. Avoca
tions more urgent, more natural to them, and
in which they are .more deeply interested,
will keep them away. The degraded
women will be there by the scoros, as tools of
men, enjoying both the importance of the
hour, the fun, and the pay. Fifty women,
known to be thieves and prostitutes, will
hold, at a moderate calculation, say two hun
dred votes. And, as women form the
majority of the resident population in some
States, that wretched element of society will,
in fact, govern those States, or those who
bribe them will do so. Massachusetts, very
favorable to female suffrage now, will probably
come round to the opinion of New Jersey
in former days. Great will be the eon
sumption of cheap ribbons, and laces, and
artificial flowers and feathers, and tinsel jew
elry, in every town and village about election
time, after emancipation is achieved. We
are compelled to believe so, judging from
our knowledge of human nature, and of the
use already made of bribery at many elec
tions. The demagogues will be more power
ful than ever. Their work will be made easy
for them. It seems, indeed, probable that
under the new era our great elections
shall become a sort of grand national gift
concerns, of which the most active demago
gues of all parties will be the managers. Not
that women are more mercenary or more un
principled than men. God forbid! That
would be saying too much. We entirely be
lieve the reverse to be true. Bat the great
mass of women can never be made to keep a
deep, a sincere, a discriminating, a lasting
interest in the thousand political questions
ever arising to be settled by the vote. They
very soon weary of euch questions. On great
occasions they can work themselves up to a
state of frenzied excitement over some one
political question. At such times they can
produce a degree 01 nnreasoning prejudice,
of passionate hatred, of blind fury, even be
yond what man can boast of. But, in their
natural condition, in everyday life, they do not
take instinctively to politics as men do. Men
are born politicians; just as they are born ma
sons, and carpenters, and soldiers, and sail
ors. Not so women, lheir thoughts and
feelings are given to other matters. The cur
rent 01 ineir cnosen avocations runs in
another channel than that of politics a chan
nel generally quite out of sight of politics; it
is an effort lor them to turn trom on to the
other. With men, on the contrary, politics,
either directly or indirectly, are closely, pal
pably, inevitably blended with their regular
work in life. They give their attention un
consciously, spontaneously, to politics.
Look at a family of children, half boys,
half girls: the boys take instinctively to
whips and guns and balls and bats and
horses, to fighting and wrestling and
riding; the girls fondle their dolls, beg
for a needle and thread, play at house
keeping, at giving tea-parties, at nursing the
sick baby, at teaching sceool. That diffe
rence . lasts through life. Give your son,
as he grows up, a gun and a vote; he will
delight in both. Give your daughter, as she
grows up, a gun and a vote, and, unless she
be an exceptional woman, sho will make a
really good use of neither. Your son may be
dull; but he will make a good soldier, and a
very tolerable voter. Your daughter may be
very clever; but sho would certainly run away
on the battle-field, and very probably draw a
caricature on the election ticket. There is
the making of an admirable wife and mother,
and a valuable member of society, in that
clever young woman. She is highly intelli
gent, thoroughly well educated, reads Greek
and Latin, and has a wider range of know
ledge and thought than ninety-nine
in a hundred of the voters in the same
district; but there is nothing of the
politician in her nature. She would rather
any day read a fine poem than the best
Eolitical speech of the hour. What she does
now of politics reaches her through that
dull but worthy brother of hers. It is only
occasionally that we meet women with an
inherent bias for politics; and those are not,
as a rule, the highest type of the sex it is
only occasionally that they are bo. The
interest most women feel in politics is
secondary, factitious, engrafted on them by
the men nearest to them. Women are not
abortive men; they are a distinct creation.
Tbo eye and the ear, though both belonging
to the same body, are each, in a certain sense,
a distinct creation. A body endowed with
four ears might hear remarkably well; but
without eyes it would be of little use io the
world. A body with four eyes would have a
fourfold power of vision, and would oonse-
auently become nearly as (sharp-sighted as a
(wider; but without hearing its powers of sight
would avail little In both cases, half the f iiao-
Uvns of the fcuiUttU btu?t.', whether hywisl or
mental, would be very imperfectly performed.
Thus it is with men and women; each has a
distinct position to fill in the great social
body, and is especially qualified for it. These
distinct positions are each highly important.
And it 1b reasonable to believe that, by filling
their own peculiar position thoroughly well,
women can best serve their Creator, their
fellow-creatures, and themselves, No doubt
you may, if you choose, by especial education
from childhood upward, make your girls very
respectable politicians, as much so as
the majority of your sons. But in
that case you must give up your
womanly daughters you must be content with
manly daughters. This essential difference
between the sexes is a very striking fact; yet
the advocates of female suffrage constantly
lose sight of it; they talk and write as if it
had no existence. It is not lack of intellect
on the part of women, but difference of in
tellect, er rather a difference of organization
and affinities giving a different bias to the
intellect, which is the cause of their distinct
mental character as a sex. And, owing to
this essential difference, the great majority
of women are naturally disinclined to poli
tics, and partially unfitted for action in that
field.
PERSONAL.
PROPOSALS FOR NAVAL MATERIAL.
Navy Dkpaktmknt, )
bckeauof equipment and recruiting, v
Julyll. 1870. I
SEALED PROPOSALS to furnlBli material for the
Navy for the tlscal year ending June 3i, 1S71, will be
received at this Iiureau until 10 o'clock A. M. of the
6th of August next, at which tune the proposals will
be opened.
The proposals must be addressed to the "Chief of
tne unreau or equipment ami Kecruiting, Navy
Department, Washington," and must be ludorsed
"Proposals for Materials for the Navy," that thev
may be dlst'Bguished from other business letters.
Printed schedules for any class, together with In
structions to bidders, giving the forms of proposal,
of guarantee, and of certificates of guarantors, will
be furnished to such persons as desire to bid on ap
plication io tne commandants or the respective
navy yards, and those of all the yards on application
to the Bureau.
The Commandant of each navy yard and the pur
chasing Paymaster of each station will have a copy
of the schedules of the other yards, for examination
only, In order that persons who intend to bid may
judge whether It is desirable to make application for
any 01 me classes oi inose yaras.
The proposals must be for the whole of a class.
and all applications for Information or for the ex
amination of samples muat be made to the Com
mandants of the respective yards.
The proposals must be accompanied by a certifi
cate from the Collector of Internal Revenue for the
district in which the bidder resides that he has a
license to deal In the articles for which he proposes.
and be must further show that he Is a manufacturer
of or a regular dealer in the articles which he oilers
to supply. The guarantors must be certified by the
Assessor of Internal Revenue for the district in which
they reside.
The contract will be awarded to the person who
makes the lowest bid and gives the guarantee re
quired by law, the Navy Departmeut, however,
reserving tne ngnt to reject tne lowest bid or any
wnicn it may deem exorbitant.
burettes in the full amount will be required to
sign the contract, and their responsibility must be
certilled to the satisfaction of the Navy Department.
As additional security, twenty per centum will be
withheld from the amount of the bills until the con
tract shall have been completed, and eighty per
centum of the amount of each bill, approved in
triplicate by the Commandant or the respective
yards, will be paid by the Paymaster of the station
designated in tne contract in iumis or certificates,
at the option of the Government, within ten days
alter tne warrant xor tne same snail nave been
passed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
The classes of this Bureau are numbered and de
slenated as follows :
No. 1 Flax Canvas, etc. iNo. 13 Soap and Tallow.
wo. ! t-otton canvas, etc. jn o. 14 ox nidesforrope,
no. b uouon uammocK -o. jo urusnes.
Dag and Cot stair.
No. 16 Shin cnandlerv.
No. 4 Iron and Steel.
INo. IT Tar and Tar Oil.
'No. IS Stationery.
No. 6 Galley Iron.
No. 7 Chain Iron.
No. 8 Hardware.
No. 9 Cooking Utensils.
jno. la ury tiooas.
No. 20 Firewood
coal.
No. 21 Sand.
and
No. 11 Tin and Zinc
No. Vi Leather.
CH A RLESTO WN NAVY YARD.
Classes NOS. 2, 3. 4, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, IS, 16, 17,
18, 20.
BUUUIVLIiN, JNH.VV lOKli.
C'asses Nos. 1. 2, 3, 8, 9, 12. 13. IS. 16. 17. IS. 19.
2i 21 - -
Classes Nob. 2, 8, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.
WASHINGTON.
Classes Nos. 2, 4, 8, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 10, 17, 19, 20.
NORFOLK.
Classes Nob. 2, 3, 8, 9, 11, 18, 13, 15, 10, IT, 18. 19, 20.
PORTSMOUTH, N. H.
Classes Nos. 2. 8. 12, 13. 16, 17. 18, 19, 20.
21. Tl2tu4w
OTICE RELATING TO ARTIFICIAL LIMBS.
War Dbpahtment.
tENT, )
IFFICC,
15, 1S70.J
oUKGEON-uENEKAL 9 OF
WASHINGTON. JulT
Congress having provided, by acts approved June
IT, June 30, and July 11, 1870, for the reissue every
live years of Artificial Limbs, or the value thereof In
money, to oillcer, soldiers, seamen and marines
who have lost limbs In the service of the United
States, the following instructions are published for
the benefit of those interested.
Applications should be made direct to the Surgeon
General, from whose onlce the necessary blanks will
be furnished on request.
I'pon applications for limbs In kind, orders will be
given by the Surgeon-General, upon any manufac
turer selected, who shall first have filed a bond in
the sum of five thousand dollars, with two sureties,
to furnish good and satisfactory limbs, without extra
charge to the soldier, and make good all defects of
material or workmanship without additional charge,
subject In all cases to the inspection of such persons
as the Surgeon-General may designate.
Blank forms of bonds will be furnished by this
office.
Transportation to and from the place of fitting the
limb will also be furnlsncd upon a written request
addressed to the Surgeon-General.
Applications for commutation will be certified by
the Surgeon-General, and transmitted to the Com
missioner of Pensions for payment, through the local
pension agents.
As full instructions will be forwarded from this
onlce with the blank form of application, the ex
pense of employing au attorney or agent will be in
no case necessary. J. K. BARN ,
7 23 4t Surgeon-General U. S. Army.
FURNACES.
Established in 1835.
Invariably the greatest tncoeu over all competition
whenever and wherever exhibited or used in tiie
UNITJCD STATES.
CHARLES WILLIAMS'
Patent Golden Eagle Furnaces,
Acknowledged by tbe leading Architect and Builder to
be tbe most powerful and durable Furnace offered, and
the uiott prompt, ay&teniatio, and largeat bouse io this
bne of business.
HEAVY DEDUCTION IN PRICES,
and only first-clasa work turned out.
No. 1132 and 1134 MARKET Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
N B-SFND FOR BOOK OF FACTS ON HEAT
AND VENTILATION. HiHia
Corn Exchange Bag Manufactory
JOHN T. BAILEY,
N. E. Cor. WATEE and MARKET Sti
ROPB AND TWIKR.BAGS and BAGGING, for
Huur Klt.8uper-Phosi)hatof Lime, Bone Dust, Eto,
LartfaaadamaUOUNNY BAUSounaUaUr on band.
, " uo AJao, WOOL 8 AOK&
A LEXANDER O. CATTELL & CO.
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Ho. 17 NORTH WATFB STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
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PROPOSALS.
1 PROPOSALS FOR BTAMPKD ENVELOPES
AMD NEWSPAPER WRAPPERS.
POPT OFFTCB DKrARTMKNT, Joly 11, 1ST0.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received until 19
o'clock M., on the 11th days of August, 1ST'. for
furnishing ail the "Bumped Envelopes" and "News
paper Wrappers' which this Department may re
quire during a period or four (4) years, commencing
on the 1st day of October, 1870. vis:
STAJHr"Kl JCN VULUrKS.
No. 1. Note size, S by inches two qualltlev.
No. 8. Ordinary letter size. 8 1-18 by 6 inches-
three qualities.
No. u. full letter size, s. by inches three
qualities.
No. 4. Full letter size, (for circulars), ungummed
on flap, 8J, by B)tf Inches one quality.
ino. &. jcxtra letter size, bj uy oji incnes tnree
qualities.
No. . Extra letter Size, 8)tf by 6'i Inches (fer cir
culars,) niiRummed on flap one quollity.
No. 7. Onlctal size, 8 18-10 by 8j, Inches two quali
ties. No. 8. Extra official size, AJi by Inches one
quality.
STAMPED NEWSPAPER WRAPPERS.
Six ami a live-eighths by i v inches (round cut)
one quality.
EMBOSSING, WATER-MARKS, PRINTING,
RULING PAPER STYLE OF
MANl'FACTURK.
All of the above Envelopes and Wrappers muBt bo
eriibDssed with postage stamps, of such denomina
tions, styles, and colors, must nave such water
marks or other devices to prevent imitation, and
bear such printing and ruling as the Postmaster-
uenerai may direct. The envelopes must be made
in the most thorough nianjer, equal In every respect
to the samples furnished to bidders by the Depart
ment, ine paper ciubi 09 01 approveu quality,
specially manufactured for the nurnose.
Whenever envelopes are order ot the styles known
as "uiacK-nnea or "tseir-ruiea," (lines printed la
side, or ruled on the face), the same shall do fur
nished without additional cost, the contractor
to pay all charges for royalty In tho use of
patented Inventions for said lined or ruled
envelopes.
DIES.
The dies for embossing the postage stamps on
the envelopes and wrappers are to be executed te
the satisfaction of the Postinastcr-Oeneral, lu the
dcbi styie. ana tney are to do 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, and any changes of dies or colors
snail De made without extra charge.
Before closing a contract the successful bidder
may be required to prepare and submit new dies for
the approval of the Department. The use of the
present dies may or may not be continued.
The dies shall be safely and securely kept by the
contractor, and should the nso of any of the in be
temporarily or permanently discontinued they shall
be promptly turned over to the Department, or its
agent, as tue rosimasier-uenerai may direct.
GUM.
The envelopes must be thoroughly and perfectly
gummed, the gumming on the nap of each (except
for circulars) to be put on by hand not less than half
an men me entire icngtn ; me wrappers to be also
hand-gummed not less than three-fourths of an Inch
in wuitn across tne end.
SECURITY FROM FIRE AND TTIEFT.
Bidders are notitled 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 a manner as to Insure security against
loss by tire or theft.
The manufactory must at all times be subject to
the inspection of an agent of the Department, who
will require the stipulations of the contract to be
faithfully observed.
PACKING.
All envelopes and wrappers must be banded In
parcels of twenty-live, and packed In strong paste
board or straw boxes, securely bound on all the
edges and corners with cotton and linen cloth, glued
on, each to contain not less than two hundred and
City of the note and letter sizes, and one hundred
each of the oitlcial or extra ottlclal size, separately.
The newspaper wrappers to be packed in bnxea, to
contain not less than two hundred and llfty each.
The boxes are to be wrapped and securely fastened
In Btrong manilla paper, and sealed, so as to saiely
bear transportation by mail for delivery to post
masters. W hen two thousand or more envelopes
are required to fill 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 agunt of the De
partment, must be placed upon each package by the
contractor. Wooden cases, containing envelopes
or wrappers, to be transported by water routes,
must be provided with suitable water-proofing. The
whole to be done under the inspection and direction
of an agent of the Department.
DELIVERY.
The envelopes and wrappers must be furnished
and delivered with all reasonable despatch, complete
in all respects ready for use, and In such quantities
as may be required to mi the dally orders of post
masters; the deliveries to be made either at the Post
Office Department, Washington, D. C, or at the office
of an agent duly authorized to lnspeot and receive
the same ; the place of delivery to be at the option
of the Postmaster-General, and the coat of deliver
ing, as well as all expense of storing, packing, ad
dressing, labelling, and water-prooling to be paid by
the contractor.
SAMPLES.
Specimens of the envelopes and wrappers for
which proposals are invited, showing the dlilerent
qualities and colors of paper required, the cut,
and style of gumming, with blank lorms of bids,
may be had on application to the Third Assistant
Postmaster-General.
This advertisement and a specimen of the sample
envelopes and wrapper furnished by the department
must be attached 10 and made part of each bid.
GUARANTEE.
No proposal will be considered unless offered by
a manufacturer of envelopes, and accompanied by
a satisfactory guarantee signed by at least two re
sponsible parties.
AWARD AGREEMENT BONDS.
The contract will be awarded to the lowest re
sponsible bidder for all the envelopes and wrap
purs, the prices to be calculated on the basis of the
number used of the several grades daring tae last
tlscal year, which was as follows:
Note size 1,469,250
Letter size, first quality 60,46T,M)
Letter size, second quality S.UCxi. 7."0
Letter size, second quality (ungummed).... 3.618,000
Extra letter size, first qualky 6,815,700
Extra letter size, second quality (un
gummed) 454.000
Official size &o9,ioo
Extra official size ,n0
Newspaper wrappers 4,93o,250
Total...' 8,2S9,6(iO
Within ten days after the contract nas 00011
awarded, the successful bidder shall enter into an
agreement in writing with the Postmaster-General
to faithfully observe and keep the terms, conditions,
and requirements set forth In this advertisement,
according to their true intent and meaning, anil
shall make, execute, and deliver, subject to the
approval and acceptance of the PoBtraasterGene
ral, bonds with good and sufficient sureties lu the
sum of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars (4oe.ooo)
as a forfeiture for the. faithful performance of said
agreement or contract, according to the pro
visions and subject to the liabilities of the seven
teenth section of an act of Congress entitled
"An act legalizing aud niskiug appropriation for
such necessary objects as have been usually Included
In the general appropriation 6111s without authority
of law, and to fix and provide fer certain lucidental
expenses of tbe departments and offices of the Gov
ernment, and for other purposes," (United States
Statute at Large, vol. 5, page 258), approved August
20, 1842, which act provides that lu case the con
tractor shall fall to comply with the terms of his
contract, "he ana his sureties shall be liable for
the forfeiture specified in such contract as liqui
dated damages, to be sued for in the name of th
United Stales in any court having jurisdiction
thereof."
RESERVATIONS.
The Postmaster-General reserves to himself the
following rights :
1. To reject any and all bids, If, In hia judgment,
the Inreat8 of the Government require It.
2. To annul the contract whenever the same or
aoy part thereof is oifured for sale for the purpose of
speculation ; aud under no circumstances will a trans
fer of the couiract be allowed or sanctioned to any
party who shall be, In the opinion of the Postmaster
General, less able to fulfill the conditions thereof
than the original contractor.
8 To annul the contract, if, in his Judgment, there
shall be a failure to perform faithfully any of its sti
pulations, or in case of a wilful attempt to impose
upon the Department Envelopes or Wrappers In
ferior to sample.
4 If 'the contractor to whom the first award may
be made should fail to enter into agreement aud
give satisfactory bonds, as herein provided, then
the award may e aunul ed and the contract let to
the next lowext responsible bidder, and so on until
tbe requuod agieointrit and bonds are executed;
ardsuchpext lowest bidder shall be required to
fulfil every stipulation embraced herein as if he
were the original party to whom tbe contract was
awarded. .
Should be securely enveloped and sealed, marked
"Proposals for Stamped Envelopes and Newspaper
Wrappers," and addressed to the Third Assistant
FoBtoiaster-uenerai, vv asningtou, i. .;.
JUU'l .1. CKCSWELL,
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PROPOSALS.
PROPOSALS fOR CLOTHING AND CLOTHING
L MATERIALS, .
NATT DKTARTMltJiT.
Bureau or Provisions and 0.0 ra ino.
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Sealed Proposals, Indorsed "PtodobhIb for Cloth
Ing," will be received at this Bureau until S O'clock
P. M, on the 87th day of July, 1870, for the supply of.
the following 8rtlcies,'vlz.:
tso.ooo yards Dark Blue Flannel.
10,000 yards Blue Nankin. ,
10,000 yards Harnslcy Sheeting.
sr,H)0 pairs Woollen Socks. '
8,000 pairs Calf Shoes. . I
4,otH) pairs K1p Shoes. ,
The above-mentioned articles must, be delivered
st the Navy Yard, New York, within ninety days
from the date of contract, and muBt conform to navy
standard, and be equal in all respects to the samples
at the several Navy Yards, and must pass the usual
inspection.
The Flannel must be all wool, twilled, and wool
flyed with pure ludigo, and must be In pieces of
about fifty yards in length, twenty-seven inches
wide, weighing five and one-half ounces per yard,
and to have a list on each edge of four white woollen
threads woven in the whole length of the piece; the
pieces to be rolled separately without cloth boards,
and no piece to have a less average weight than Ave
and lour-tenths ounces per yard. The quality and
color of the flannel to be equal to the samples at the
several Inspections.
The Nankin must also be pure lndlgo-dyed.
The Sheeting must be free from cotton, eighty
Inches In width, weighing twelve ounces and thirty-one-
one-hundredths per yard, texture 4 by 4 to 1-ld
Inch.
The Shoes must be delivered In boxes made Of
seasoned white pine, planed and tongued and
grooved; sides, top, and bottom five-eighth Inch
thick, and the ends one inch thick ; the sides to be
nailed to the bottom, and the top to be secured by
not leps than ten one and three-fourth inch sorews,
one screw at each end of the box, to be counter
sunk one quarter inch by oue and one-quarter inch
in diameter.
The sizes of the Socks and Shoes ninst conform to
the schedule to be supplied by the Inspector at New
York.
Bonds, with Approved security, will be required In
one quarter the estimated amount of the contract,
and twenty per cent. In addition will be withheld
from the amount of each payment as collateral
security for the due performance of the contract,
which reservation will not be paid until the contract
Is fully complied with.
Every otTer must be accompanied by a written
guarantee, signed by one or more responsible per
sons, that the bidder or bidders will, it his or their
bid be accepted, enter into an obligation within Ave
days, with good and sufficient sureties, to furnish
the articles proposed.
No proposals will be considered nn'.ess accompa
nied by such guarantee, nor from, an; parties who
are not bona jide manttacturers 0 cr regular dealer
in the articles they nff'er to unlink, lu conformity
with the second section of the Joint resolution ap
proves March 8, 1803.
The Department reserves the right to reject any
proposals unless the responsibility of the guarantors
Is certilled to by tho Assessor of Internal Revenue
for the district in which they reside; and unless
the license required by act of Congress is furnished
with the proposal, as well as to reject any proposal
not considered advantageous to the Government.
E. T. DUNN,
T 2 ftn8t Chief of Bureau.
rpo CONTRACTORS AND HU1LDBR3. SttALEO
X PROPOSALS, Indorsed "Proposals for Building
a Public School-house in the Twentieth Ward," wiu
be received by the undersigned at the office, south
east corner of SIXTH and" AD1XPHI Streets, until
THURSDAY, August 4, 1870, at 12 o'clock M., for
buiidiDg a rutiiic school-house on a lot of ground
situate on Eleventh street, below Thompson,
Twentieth ward.
Said school-house to be built in accordance with
the plans of L. II. Esler, Superintendent of School
Buildings, to be seen at the office of the Board of
rumic n.aacauon.
No bids will be considered unless accompanied by
a certificate from tte City Solicitor that the orovl-
Blous of an ordinance approved May 25, i860, have
been complied with. ,
The contract will be awarded only to known mas
ter builders.
By order of the Committee on Property.
H. W. 1IALL1 WELL.
J20 23 26 80aul 4 Secretary.
TO CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
SEALED PROPOSALS, endorsed "Proposals for
Building a Public School Houbo In the Twenty.
nrsi wara, -win oe receivea oy tne undersigned,
at the office, southeast corner of SIXTH and ADEL
PHI Streets, ontil THURSDAY, August 4, 1870, at
12 o'clock M., for building a Public School House on
a lot of ground situate on Washington street, Mana
yunk. Twenty-first ward.
Said School House to be built In accordance with
the plans of L. U. Ealer, Superintendent of School
Buildings, to be seen at the office of ibeBoard of
public Education.
No bids will be considered unless accompanied by
a certificate from the City Solicitor that tne provi
sions of an ordinance approved May 26, i860, have
been complied with. The contract will be awarded
only to known master builders.
By order of the Committee on Property.
H. W. HALL1WELL,
7 20 23 26 80 anl 4 Secretary. .
WATCHES. JEWELRY. ETO.
WILLIAM B. WARNE A CO.,
Wholesale Dealers in
S. B. corner SEVENTH and CUESNU'r Streets.
8 Second floor, aud late of No. 35 S. THIRD St,
CLOCK8.
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MARBLK CLOCKS.
BRONZB CLOCKS.
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VIENNA REGULATORS.
AMERICAN LOCKS
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No. 22 NORTH SIXTH STREET.
PATENTS.
A T B H
8.
OFFICES FOR P ROC UK 15 Q
Patents in the United States and Fo
reign Countries,
FORREST BUILDINGS.
119 6. I OI H1H Ht, l'kllada.
AJ-D MARBLK BUILDINGS,
tfKVJUai II Street, above JP,
(Oppoait U. 8. Patent Offlo),
WASHINGTON , D. O,
u araurartia Bi;tk o.i
O. UOWSUN, Attornej-trLw. 1
Oomnnmloitop to b addwud to th Principal Offlo '
Philadelphia. lumwf
tTNITEl STATES PATENT OFFICE.-.
J Wmumnuton, D. C, July IS, 1870.
On the petition of UEORUE TUOMI'SON, of Phi
ladelphia, Pennsylvania, praying for the extension
of a patent granted to him on the 21st day of Octo
ber, 1866, aud reissued on the 1st day of February,
1669, and again reissued In three divisions, num
bered respectively '2Miy, 14870, and 2571, on the 16th
day of April, 1867, for au improvement inPUTTINU
UP CAUSTIC ALKALlES.it is ordered that the tes
timony lu the case be closed on the um day of
SBPTEM.BER next, that the time lor tiling argu
ments and the bxaiiilner'B report be limited to the
8uth day of SEPTEMBER next, and that said peti
tion be beard on tue sth day of OCTODLU next.
Any person may oppose this extension.
SAMUEL S. FISHER,
T SO tu 8t Commlssionor of Patents.
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE, WASH
INGTON, D. C, July 8. 170.
On tho petition of EDWIN KILBURN, of St.
Louie, Mo., AKI'EMAS K1LBURN and CHENEY
hll.ULlCN, 01 rmiaueipuiu, ra., urajiug ior tue ex
tension of a pate' t granted to them ou the 7th day
of October, ls66, for an Improvement in Method of
Bending Wood, It is ordered that the testimony in
the case be closed on the 6th day of September next,
that the time for tiling arguments and the Exami
ner's report be limited to the 16th day of September
next, and that bain petition be heard on the 81t day
of September uext.
Any person may oppose this extension.
SAMUEL S FISHER,
T H tuSw Commissioner of Patents. -
STATE RIGHTS FOR BALE. STATE
Rivbti of a lcabl In ntion just patent!, and tot
tbe bLICING, CUTTING, and CHIPPING ol dnd bf,
oabbaR. ato., ar hereby offared for aala. It la an artiol
of croat value to proprietor of hotel aod roataoraata,
and it ahould bo introduced into Oferj Uiuily. S t ATM
R1UHT8 tor &!. Model oan be coos at 1 KLKGUAPH
O MCK. COOPKR'S KMlIf A HOFFMAN.
AVOID QUACKS A VICTIM OY EARLY IN.
discretion, causing nervous debility, premature
decay; etc., having tried In vain evry advertised re
medy, has discovered a simple rueiua of self-cure,
which he will scud free to his fellow-S!incrr ,.J. K.
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