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NOTICE.

II.
PROPOSALS will be received at the Office of the
i Commissary General of Purchaser in Philadel-
phia to furnish the following materials and articles
for the United States Army, for the year 1872 viz.
Blue cloth GA wide, dyed in indigo and in the wool
Sky blue twilled Cloth GA wide
Unbeached Cotton Shifting rs wide
Bleached do do do
Flannel of Cotton and Wool, rs wide
Cotton Flannel, 81 wide
unbeached Cotton Drilling, "a and 7-s wide
Beached do 81 wide
Uniform Caps, for Dragons, Artillery and Infantry
Pompoons, for Artillery and Infantry
Hair Plmes, for Dragons
Bands and Tassels, do
Aiguillettes, Artillery and Infantry
Worsted sashes, do do and Dragons
Do (brass) for Dragons
Epau!ettes, Non. Cvmd, STAFF, Artillery, and In
fantry
Wooen half Stockings
Laced Bootees
Leather Stocks
Blankets, 10 feet long, feet wide, weight
pounds
Metal Cap Equipments, for Dragons, Any., and
Telling Axes
Hachets ~.
Spades
Drums, complete with Sticks, Sings and Cases
Worsed Binding ard Cord, OF all kinds
Common Tents
Wall Tents and flies
Hospital Tents
Painting and Swapping knapsacks
Casks and Cooperage, for one year from 1T April
next
(The quantity and number of these articles will be
determined hereafter)
The whole to be of domestic manufactured ma
terias. Patterns of all the required Wooen and Cot
ton Cloths and articles, deposited in the Commits
sary Generals Office in Il is city, for examination
Sample of the Wooen and Cotton Cloths will be
sent to any manufacturer on application to this Office
by mail and such information given may be desired
The Bootees to be of eight sizes, and the Gaps
of fire sizes The sizes and proportions Of sizes will
be stated in the contracts.
will be founded and inspections made, and no art Gle
will be received that is inferior to the material
workmanship to- or does not correspond in every
spect with the pattern which contract is founded
The supplies are to be delivered at the United
States Arsenal, Philadelphia, for inspection, in
equal monthly portions, and the contracts are To he
fulfilled on or before the LIST day of July, 1912.
The proposals must be in writing sealed, and en-
dorsed Proposals" and must reach the Office of the
Commssary General Of Purchases, on or before the
nth day of January, 1912 No proposals will be
ceived after 3 o'clock of that day.
Security will be required for the fulflment Of con-
tracts.
J. WASHINGTON TYSON,
Commissary General of Purchases
Commissary Generals Office,
Philadelphia, December H. 1871. dec 2l-tJl7
HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL GOVERN
II MENT FOR FIFTY YEARS-from March,
1889, to March, 1889, by Alden Bradford, LII. d., 1
vol. octave.
An additional supply this day received for sale by
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NEW STATIONERY-W FISC HER. import
IN er and dealer in Stationery, is now opening the
most extensive assortment of English, French and
American Stationery, that has ever been offered in
the District and which is not surpassed by any other
house in the United States. To due appreciation
of his stock and the qualities Of The articles, an in
spection is necessary, and which he respectfully in
vitcs at Saioncrs Hail. where strict uniformity Of
dealing is observed An enumeration of the articles
&c, will be given in subsequent advertisements.
doc 20
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STATIONERY, OF SUPERIOR QUALITY,
- FOREIGN AND AMERICAN.--The sub
scrlbers have constantly on hand extensive assert
ment of Foreign and American Stationery, Of the
finest qualities and they receiving by each arrival
from London and Paris varieties Of the best Sta
tionery articles of those cities
They are also engaged in manufacturing almost all
kinds OF A american Stationery, and particularly of
BLANK BOOKS,
Ofthe most durable kind made from the finest linen
paper, and bound in manner uneguaiied in mis-
country for strength and durability. Books made By
their predecessors upon the plan still followed, have
been IN upwards Of si1ty gears, without giving
way and any of their superffe books which may be
ordered will be warranted stand usage for that length
of time,
Orders from public offices, institutions, and indiv
duals Will be attended to with prompness and at fair
rates. HOGAN & THOMPSON,
No, 30 North 18th st., and No. los,
Chestnut, st, Philadelphia
NAV 9S-lv
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7 Avs OF ETIQUETTE in ono pocket vol.
price 30 cents treating of nrolucuons, Visiting
he Drawing Room Dining out society Converse
ton. Dress, Fashion, Letter Writing Good Breeding
Sc. &c. just received for sale by
june L. +. TAYLOR
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1870 White Oak deck knees l2i hackmetack deck
knees.
Proposals for the White Oak to be received until
3st December. To be delivered on orbeioIe The LIST
of March next For the Yellow Pine and Knees un-
I'll the tat. January. To be delivered on or before
the Isl ~ next, all at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn,
New York, subject to its oestion and measurement
price per cubic foot delivered
Any further information from the Constructor at
the Yard.
ROBERT c. WETMORE, Navy Agent
Navy Agents Office, So Water street. Dec 8, loil.
dec 2l-dtJanl
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BOARDING HOUSE-MRS. Common, lonh
IL side of Pcnnsy lvania Avenue few doors East
OF 18th street-has spacious and pleasant accomnloda
tons for a mess of SIX seven gentlemen with or
without their families, during the OF Congyes
nov 3l-lm
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BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED PARIS
IL EDITIONS imported direct by F. TAYLOR,
and this day opened-each volume containing several
hundred spirited illustrations engravings, vignettes,
&c, for sale at very limited advance upon the low
price at which they published in Paris.
LIE Dable Bolteaux par LIE Sage Musre par Tony
Johannot
Vie de Napoleon, illustre par Horace Vernct.
Paul ct ViIginie, ustre par Isabey, Steinhe Jo-
hannot, &c.
Fables de Flerian, illustrees par Victor Adam
Fables ct Poemes de La Fontane, iusirees par
Grandyille
Gil Bias, ornec de GOO vignettes par Gigoux.
Don Quixolte de la Manche, avec 800 desseins par
Johannot
Euvres de Moliere, avec 800 illustrations par Jo-
hannot.
Les Eyungiles de notre Seigneur Jesus Christ illus
trees par Fragonard.
Imitation de Jesus Christ-et l. Historic de Noveau
Testament desselns, vgne,tes ct illustrations.
Avenures de Teemaque ustrees par Daubgny,
Seguin, ct Johannot.
Voyage Sentimental de Sterne, edition illustre
Les Miles ct me Nuts, Contes Arabes illustrees
par les mcllle1rs Artistes Francois
Avcntures de Robinson Crusoe iustre par Grand
Vile.
LIE Robinson Suisse, orne de 200 wgnettes ct des-
SENS par Lemercier
L Enpercur Napoleon Tabeaux ct Rect DIES Bat
TALES, Combats, Actions fats Nilitaires DIES Ar
mics, -usrees dc 80 Gravures
49, And others too numerous foran advertisement
two copies of each only received. aug 81
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MEDICAL NOTICE - TO The Sick and oDfieted
wi Nth Disease--lhe Subscriber pre- pares med
cines that will cure the following diseases Cancer,
without cutting it, Consumption, Deafness and all
diseases Of the Ears; Piles and FstuIs; Scrofula
monty called the Kings Evil; Stone and Gravel Ash-
ma; White Swellings; Dyspepsia; Rheumaiisms Gout
Bronchitis; lnhammaons of the Liver and Lungs
Infammatory Sore Throat; lnlammaiions Of the Eyes
Feyers and Agues; Ulcers Of the Legs, any Erup-
tons OF the Skin and Diseases of Women.
DIR. PURCELL has by interchangeable labor, for
years over fires glasses, and retors, with great
pense made the greatest discovery for the preserya-
ton Of the lives of men, from the awful and extermlt
mating diseases Of the Plague and Yellow Fever that
was ever made by any man or nation 10 the p esenr
day. Lavoiser was the greatest chemist that France
has produced and he great chemist indeed. Sir
Humphrey Davey the greatest chemis, that Eng
land has produced These great men, and all The
chemists that came before them, have been look
ing and aboring for the medicine that Providence
pleased reveal r the preservation of the lives
of his creatures Thr invaluable medicine is pre-
ventive and a specific Plague, Yellow Fever, Small
Pox, and all CONTIGUOUS diseases IN nature.
A man by taking table spoon full OF the medicine
in the morning, fasting may 90 into an hospital where
people are dying with the Plague or Yellow Fever.
He may take the sick by the hand and turn him
in his bed, and shall not take the disease and if the
9Th Of the patient is exhausted the medicine
will cure him. This is the first public notice have
given of the discovery Of this medicine and do not
intend TO offer il for sale at present, every one
knows the weather at this of the year puts
end TO the awful effects of the Yellow Fever
My object at present is to inform the public that in
the disease should return the year. that the
people may be informed that there is medicine,
above described, 10 be had. | would advise Captains
and Merchants trading TO the countries where the
Plague Yellow Fever ia prevalent, to take some o.
my medicine with them. lalsoprepare medicines that
will efiectuay cure IIydrophobia, or the bite of any
rabd animalor the bite ofthe most poisonous snakes
/ if applied in time
Dr. p. destroy any of the fatal poisons and
their deeterious effects, that I've obtained from
Animal, Vegetables or Minerals. | can also deprive
all the Corrosive cids Of their poisonous and delete
rious effects in instant.
| III NO IMPOSTER CAN COUNTERFEIT
| THIS MEDICINE gave this medicine To DR.
| Hare Professor of Chemistry in the University OF
Philadelphia gentleman | consider first rate
Chemist, TO ifhe could anayze il and ascertain lis
component parts He tried all the that could be
tried and could not ascertain component parts
Nor is it in the power of any to ascertain the
component parts Of this medicine except the pro-
pretor.
JJThe above Medicines are to be had by applica-
ton to DR.. PURCELL, Jefferson street. Georgetown,
I'D. G. dec tim
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PROPOSALS FOR STATIONERY,
PosT OFFICE DEPARTMENT,

PosT OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
December 2, 1871.
CEALED PROPOSALS will be received at the
- Post Office Department until the oath instant
al 5 o'clock p M, for furnishing the following de-
scrpon of Stationery for the period of three years
from the Isl day Of January 1912
Best handmade Folio Post Paper, plain, satin
finish
Same, feipt-lined common distance.
Best handmade Quarto Post Paper satin finish,
and of hnen laid and wove.
Best handmade Quarto Post. plain white, satin
finish, laid and wove.
Same, feintned, common distance laid and wove.
Best hand made Quarto Post Paper, blue, satin
fniss laid and woye.
Same, feint-lined common distance, laid and wove.
Best machine-made Folio Post, plain.
Same, Quarto Post, plain-
Best ma1e>>Foolscap plafS, satin finish and
Best hand M de fooacap, plain, satin finish, laid
and wove.
Same, nsl. common distance, laid and wove.
Best machine made>F oolscap, plain white
Same, lined, common distance.
Best Drawing Paper, y by 40 inches per sheet
Same &c 80 by 80 F"
Tracing Paper IL by "a :"
Same T" 26 by 80 " q
Best SUPERFICIAL buff Envelope Paper, smooth SUR
face.
Best super-royal white do do do
PAPER FOR BLANK BOOKS, VIZ.
Best hand made Super-royal.
Do do Royal.
Best handmade Demi.
Do do Fooscap
QUILLS.
Best Opaque No. 50, per thousand, weight not less
than OF. per hundred
Bes clarified Quills, do do do
Metallic Pens pei Dozen Perrys and Giilotf
best
Red Office Tape price per dozen for each number.
Cut-gass Inkstands large size, per dozen.
Do do small do
Ink, Maynard and Noyes black, in quart bottles
per DOZEN
Do do do in pint do
WATERS per pound.
These articles are all to be Of the very best quality
which can be had from the best manufacturers.
"A sample or specimen of each article of Stationery
must accompany the proposal of each bidder, and the
contract will be given to that who in the judg-
ment of the Postmaster General Offers the best arti-
c'es at the lowest price The samples of the
full bidder will be retained by the Department, and all
the articles delivered under his contract will be
pared with them, and rejected if inferior
If at any time articles of inferior quality be fur
nshed the Department will proceed to purchase others
for It's immediate use, charging the contractor with
any difference of cost over the contract price.
No bid will be considered which contemplates more
than price for any article.
Each proposal must he accompanied by ample est-
monials of the ability of the bidder to fulfil the con-
tract.
Failure to deliver articles promptly when ordered
or OF quality interior to the specimen any attempt
to evade the true meaning of the contract, will be
considered sufficient for its forfeiture and Of
ten per cent. on each payment, which will be retained
for that purpose.
The Proposals 10 be addressed to the Postmaster
General and TO be endorsed Proposals for Station
cry" Dec did
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ID PSYCHOLOGICAL OFFICE of DR., HERNIS
Il '(from Paris) on Pennsylvania avenue nearly
opposite Browns and Gadsby's hotels at Mrs. Mid
dletons
Examinations Of the head, with descriptions Of cha
acer and talents be obtained every hour in the
day and the evening. Chdrens heads examined
with regard to their capacities education and qua-
cations for business or professions, at half price.
The object and use of Phrcnolpgy is to make each
individual acquainted with all the powers of his mind
so that he may be able moro judicousy TO choose a
profession avocaton, business To which he is natu-
rally adapted, TO enable parents TO judge of the proper
education of their children, &c.
N B. Ladies and parties visited, if desired at their
own residences. Oct. 236t
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TIMBER FOR THE NAVY.

For the Medium Steamer.
PROPOSALS., sealed will be received by the Ma
i Wy Agent, New York, for the following hest
quality White OK Timber, which shall have grown
ON land within the influence of salt water, viz
81 floor timbers 100 first fut,ocks, 100 third fut
tocks to side l0s inches, and to mould from to 6
inches, and to shape per moulds, which will be
furnished About 3 900 cubic feet
1880 cubic feet OF plank stock.
Also, the following best quality long leaf fine grain
Southern Yeiiow Pine, viz:
30 beams IL to 81 eetong, sided 10 inches, mould
ed IL inches. nett size IL by 10 inches 10 spring
inches IN ~ ieet about C. H. OO5
81 beams, 1910 n feet long sided II inches,
moulded 10 inches nett size 10 by inches, to
spring as above, SIT
. beams, 81 feet long, IS by Is inches, to
spring ~ inches 400
Timber to make 2 800 running feet OF lodges,
by inches square, (nelt size,) TO
Thinker to make 800 running feet earnings,
6 by inches square, (nett size 44O
2 pieces % feet long IA. by "A inches,
(slraighD I54
Plank stock for plank, water ways, &c 6,l75
eject $40.
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MISS LANNON'S POEMS.-The Poetcal
ltl Works of l.. f. l.. complete in two miniature
volumes, richly bound and gilt price : . Publish
LOR.
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T ANE & TUCKER, Merchant Tutors haNns
IL just returned from New York have now thcIi
ofoiieng 10 their friends andthc Public lar
and splendid assortment of British and French CIptIs
Cassimercs and Neslings, of the most fashion,. ar
shades and Patterns carefully selected from the ,cv
latest importatluns and they confidently believe q
more rich and beautiful stock OF goods was never ohc
ed in this civ They lave also received from Paris
handsome and fashionable suit Of clothes IN the la
test French style, madc'to their order and they ar
now prepared to execute all orders IN their line in tn
usual elegant style If fit and finish The Public are
most respectfully invited to call and examine at thar
old stand under the National Billiard Saloon
dec > 3,aw2wif
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INK AND WRITING FLUIDS Superior Ent
i rIisk and American Writing lnk Steven hlg'
black and brilliant red WritinG Fluids in latc
small jugs.
Arnolds Copying Ink
Tcrrys British do.la For alc by
WM. + BNYLY,
(Agent for J 1cuaN
Pennsylvania As between 18th and ih+'F'
nov IS
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JOURNAL AND CORRESP ON DENCE of Miss
y Adams, daughter OF John Adams second President
of the United States, written in France and England
in l7S5, vol.
,Thc Life and Times Of Red Jacket being the Legend
to the History oflhe Six Nations by w l.. Stone, vol
Every Body's Book, a volume for the steamboat or
railroad ear Just published and this day received
for sale by F. TAYLOR. aug 10
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WALTER LEMON,
Alto NElA AT LAW

OFFERS his professional services to the public
~ Instruments of writing carefully prepared notes
and accounts received for collection and prompt re-
turns made Of al moneys collected
OFrICE on Louisiana Avenue few doors above the
Old Theatre. NAV IF
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ROOk OF THE INDIANS, being the Biogra-
ID ply and History OF tie Indians and Indian tribes
of North America from its first discovery up to the
year lsll, by Samuel g. Drake, eighth edition with
large additions.
And many beautifully executed cnrr0yings. Just
published and this day received Tor salehy
noy2 r TAYLOR
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II ONDON SOUVENIRS for lsi2-The Book
IL of Beauty, small quarto size; Friendships Offer
ing the Keepsake; the Picturesque Annual, are
this day received for sale by f. TAYLOR, together
with valuable and varied collection of richly trimmed
and ornamented books embracing the most esteemed
among English literature. not. 20
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CHARLES GILMAN,

ATTORNEY AT LAW, QUINCY, ILLIN IS,
Will promptly and faithfully attend TO any profess
sional business entres,ed'to him in Western lIlines,
and the river counties of Missouri and Iowa above
Hannibal.
srParticular attention given to the collection OF
DEBTS.
Refer to Hon. George Evans, U. s. Senate 1ont
Elisha II. Allen, House of Representatives. julylt
NOTICE - THE ALPHABET FOR THE
In DEAF AND DUMB.-Thc undersigned re-
spectfully requests the ladies and gentlemen of this
city, and Others buy the Alphabet for the Deaf and
Dumb, and signs for tho figures: price 25 cents for
one card. Apply TO p. d. J. ROGER, born deaf and
dumb, at Mr.. VIM. Morrisons julyl-3t
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OAK PILES
w ANTED, for the repairs ofthe Potomac Bridge
w the following white oak Piles viz.
80 pieces, "a feet long.
~ pieces, 80 feet long
l0S pieces, AZ feet long
&c pieces Al feet long
252 total
All to be nattenel OF hewn on two sides, ~ tc lie,
ven inches thick a. each end, and perfectly straight
eliverable on or before the first day of April next
Proposals will be received until the 0h day Of Jp.
nj arg ncxt by the subscriber, at Georgetown, d. G.
VIM TRUMBULL,
Major Typographical Engineers.
dec l4--dlw&eodtl0Jan
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fFllE PROGRESS OF DEMOCRACY by A.
lexendre Dumas illustrated in the history of
Gaul and France volume, translated by an Amcri-
Just published and this day received for sale by
F.. TAYLOR
HISTORY OF ENGLAND Conbiing the
L i various histories Of Rapin, Henry Hume, Smo
lett and BcIsham corrected by reference To Turner,
Lingard, Haam NIackintosh Goodwin, Brodie and
others-competc in three volumes octave, London,
Just received and tor sale by by F. TAYLOR.
Also, Godwin's history of the Commonwealth A
vols
Pictorial history of England vols.
Therrys history of the Conquest.
Lodges illustrations of British history 3 vols.
Tytlers Reigns of Edward sixth and Mary.
Hume and Smollo a beautiful London edition,
complete for nne dollars
Hollam, Burnet, Clarendon, Rapin, Fndal, &c,
just imported and for sale together with other British
Historians by f, l.. OCT. 80
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DARtS EDITIONS OF THE ENGLISH Ian.
Il guage beautifully printed in octave volum, at
about one half the price of the London copies list
imported direct from Paris, by F, TAYLOR.
Moore's Life Of Sheridan, vol
Moorvs " Travels of an Irish Gentleman and We
moirs OF Captain Rock, both comprised in vol
llallans Literature OF Europe, vols
Selections of The best articles from the Ell Wg
Review from It's commencement, = vols.
The Living Poets Of England, vols.
sharon Turner History of The Anglo Saxo :
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b. L. POPE
Continues to practice as an
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AND SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY-
Office at 80 7

WETUMPkA, ALABAMA.
His Circuit embraces the counties Of Aut lea
Coosa, Talapoosa Montgomery; Dallas, Bib, g hel-
by, St. Clair, and Talladega The Supreme Co, ri OF
Alabama and the District Court OF the U. States for
Middle Alabama nov IS
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from inhabiting there and your petitioners shall
pray, &c"
When and why, this act of courts depriv-
ing ladies' Of the privilege of dwelling on the
islands was passed, we are not informed II
seems, however, that the court were not disposed
IN this case TO enforce this act, and separate
Mrs Reynolds from her "gude man. Proba-
bly, The petitioners were mostly bachelors !; al
any rate, only part of their request was granted,
as the court ordered as follows:
Whereas, by the aforementioned request,
the general complaint Of the chiefof the fisher
men, and Others, Of the Isles of Shoals that il
is great annoyance and prejudice for MIR. John
Reynolds 10 keep his swine and goats at the
Isles OF Shoals. II is by mutual consent Of this
court ordered, that Mr. Reynolds shall, within
twenty days, remove his swine and goats that
ne hath at Hog Island, from thence or any of
those islands, that are inhabited with fishermen.
And as for the removal of his wife, il is thought
fit, il no further complaint come against her,
she may as yet enjoy the company Of her hus-
band" Dated October 20, le47.