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The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-11-02

MISS SEDGWICK'S LETTERS from abroad
wi to kindred at home. This day received for sale
by F. TAYLOR. aug IL
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~ ARDENING, FARMING, BOTANY, AG-
" RICULTURE, for sale by F. TAYLOR, list

~ ARDENING, FARMING, BOTANY AG-
" RICULTURE, for sale by F. TAYLOR, list
continued
Rufiin on Calcareous Manures Mecklenburg on
grasses
Useful and Ornamental Planting vol. London.
The Planters Guide by Sir H. Steuart vol
Busby's Visit TO the Principal Vineyards of Spain
and France their Methods of Cultivation and of
nufacture.
The Culture ofthe Vine in France Italy and Swift
zerand, and the art of wine making by s. Fisher
Marshalls Rural Economy Of the West of Eng
land vol. London
Agricultural state of Great Britain vol.
Outlines of the Husbandry of East and West
Flanders, vol. London.
Natural History of Vegetables, by B. S. Barton,
ND
Anderson's Agriculture
Smiths Flora Britannica 3 vols, London
The Cultivator's Almanac, 1910 and lS4i
Report of the Secretary of the Treasury to Con-
gress on Cotton, its cultivation manufacture and fo
reign trade
On the Culture Of the Beet and on the manufac-
ture of Beet Sugar, vol. 25 cents
Cobb on the growth of the Mulberry Tree and the
Culture of Silk 25 cents
Childs Botany ninth edition
The Flora ofthe District of Columbia by Brereton.
Loudons Cyclopadia of Gardening; do. do of
Agriculture do. do Of Plants do, do of Rural Ar
checture, do. Suburban Garlener-and many other
of hich the list will be continued may
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COLLECTIONS OF THE NEW YORK HIS
~ TORICAL SOCIETY-New series, vol i,
just published and this day received for sale by F.
TAYLOR, containing Verrazzano's Voyage from
Carolina TO Newfoundland, 1854 Lambrechten ;
History and Van der Donck's description of New Ne
therlands Extracts from the voyages of Devries and
De Laet; Juel's Journal of Hudsons Voyage Cor
respondence between New Netherlands and New Ply
mouth 1927, Argaifs Expedition to Acadia and to
Manhattan Island 1913 and much other interesting
matter-wrh map Of New Netherlands and a view
of New Amsterdam (now New York; in 1856.
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NEW BOOKS. Memoir and Po.ms = Lucrsiis
Y Davidson, collie, led and arranged ~ her nsthef
with Biography nv Mis-. Scdgwek4l sol
Confess on o. the Blind Heart, ~ the author Of
Guy Rivers, kInsman, 81.
The October No of the North American Rss,s~.
J~s, received by r. TAYLOR, Immediately esst y
Gau-,,'s go ~
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CULTIVATION, MANUFACTURE AND
~ FOREIGN TRADE FCOTTON-B the
Secretary of the Treasury--Senate Document-l20
pages with Notes and Tables. few remaining CO.
pies foi sale by F. TAYLOR price 81 cents
may
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C,ARLYl.E's GERMAN ROMANCE-speci-
~ mems Of lts chief authors, With critical and b'o-
graphical notices, by Thomas Carlyle : vols Jus,
published and this DAY received for sale BY
sep, 30 3. TAYLOR
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-11-02

u ANCROFT'S HISTORY OF THE COLO
IL NlZATION Of the United States. BY George
Bancroft Complete in two limo volumes.
Just published and this day received, for sale by
may Is F. TAYLOR.
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+ CHARLES GILMAN,

ATTORNEY AT LAW, QUINCY, ILLINOIS,
Will promptly and faithfully attend to any profess
sonal business entrusted to him in Western lllineis
and the river counties of Missouri and Iowa, above
Hannibal,
grParticuar attention given to the collection OF
DEBTS
Refer to Hon George Evans, u. S. Senate Hon.
Elisha Fl. Allen, House of Representatives; juyl-tt
NOTICE THE ALPHABET FOR THE
IN DEAF AND DUMB.-The undersigned re.
specially requests the ladies and gentlemen of this
city and Others to buy the Alphabet for the Deaf and
Dumb, and signs for the figures price 25 cents for
one card. Apply to p. d. J. ROGER, born deaf and
dumb, at Mr.. VIM Morrison's julyl-3t
g TEyENS' NEW BOOK ON THE RUINS
- and AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES IN CEN
TRIAL AMERICA, COPAN, PALENQUE, &c.
&c. this day received for sale by F. TAYLOR, two
volumes, with many engravings. june %
TINE MONEYED MAN, a Novel, by Horace
i Smith, one of the Authors Of the Rejected Ad-
dresses" just pubshed-and The Life and Literary
Remains of L. E. L., vols, received this day by F.
TAYLOR, and for the use Of the Subscribers to
the Waverly Circulating Library. june "a
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-11-02

GEOLOGY AS A SCIENCE, applied to the Re-
~ clamaton of Land from the Sea the Construc-
hon OF Harbors the Formation of Rail Roads and tho
Discovery of Coal. BY John Rookie vol London
1910, just imported by +. TAYLOR, and other yaIu.
able works on Geology ,Mincraogy and other branch
es OF NATURAL Science. may
OUTLINES OF ANATOMY AND PHYSI-
- VLoGf, translated from the French Of Milne
Edwards, by ). +. Lane NJ. D.. volume octave, Just
published, 1871, for sale by r. TAYLOR.
INHE CURRENCY OF THE u. STATES,
and the present state and future prospects Of the
country, by Publius, New York lS40
Also, additional remarks on the currency of the
unteu States, by the same author, New York May,
ia, ust received both in pamphlet form, for sale BY
+, J AfLOR-price 81 cents.
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-11-02

I = and Marine Corps, jus, published by authority OF
the Navy Department, vol
Laws OF the u 5. in relation to the Army and Mil
itay affairs, complied by Col Trueman Cross, U. S.
Army, vol.
The practice of Courts Martial, by the late Major
General Mscomb I vol
Are for sale by r. TAYLOR together with large
and valuable collection of works (mo-tly imported by
himself and many of them entirely new, J on Courts
Martial, Gunnery, Forihcaiions, Marine Surveying,
Military History and Biography Ship Building Drill
Tactics and Strategy and the other branches OF Mill
tary and Civil Engineering and Military and Naval
Science and Servce.-F 4 being in constant receipt
OF every thing that appears either here abroad be-
longing 10 those classes of Science. sept -.
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-11-02

MIR and Mas MlcHARDs Boarding and Day Schoo
IVl for young Ladies, f street, between 18th ant
18th. This establishment will reopen on the 9TH o
September. Five teachers 1.-TWO ladies and three gen
ilemen) will be in attendance to perform the duties
the school in all the branches Of substantial and re-
fined education.
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-11-02

~ F. TAYLOR, for sale at an extremely low price,
put up by professional mineralogst-two Cabinets,
one Of ~, the other Of IL specimens of minerals
Salts Earthly Salts Earthly Stones, Combustlbles and
Ores-all numbered and labelled with localities, sc.
SC Price ~ and 20 dollars each.
Also two Cabinets OF Gems and Precious Stones.
And a large and valuable collection of the best
works on Geology, Mineralogy, Conchology Chem
isiy and all their branches many Of them recently
imported by himself from London-sevefal of them
entirely new sept 80
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HAIR MATTRESSES.
ANY CoMMIssIoNER's OFFIoE,
December Is, l84l.

DROPOSALS, sealed and endorsed, will be re-
i ceiyed at this Office until three o'clock i. NJ OF
the 18th January, 1912, for manufacturing, furnish
ing, and delivering twenty-lour hundred Mattresses
for the use of the Navy, to be delivered as follows
500 at the Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachu-
sets;
800 at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York and
800 at the Navy Yard Gosport, Virginia,
on or before the lst of April, 1912
The said Mattresses must be six feet in length,
twenty eight inches wide, and made OF the purest I'M
ported curled horse hair of the first quality. The
ticking TO be of American manufacture of the best
quality-either of 1moskeag Ticking, equal there
to- the gross weight of each of the said Mattresses
10 be eleven pounds, or nine pounds of hair without
the tick The hair must be uniform IN quality, and
perfectly ccan in its raw state when imported Each
Mattress to have cotton check cover of the best
quality with tape strings al one end, so as to be taken
oil and replaced At pleasure
The said Mattresses TO be subject on delivery TO
such inopection the Commissioners of the Navy
may authorize or direct and must be in all respects
perfectly satisfactory to the commanders or com
mandmg officers of said navy yards, respectively
Bonds, with two approved suretes IN one-third the
amount of the respective contracts entered INTO, VIII
be required, and ten per centum, III addition VIII be
withheld from the amount Of each payment to be
made as collateral security for the due and faithful
performance thereof which will not be paid until the
contracts be complied with After deducting ten per
centum, payment will be made by the United States
within thirty days after said Mattresses are inspected
and received and bills for the presented to the
respective Navy Agents at Boston, New York, and
Norfolk, approved by The commanders or command
Ing officers Of said yards, respectively, according to
the terms of the contracts.
All the said Mattresses must conform to, and be IN
quality equal with, the samples deposited in the Office
Of the Commissioners Of the Navy.
s;fTo be published in the National lntelligencer,
Nladisonan, Globe, and Army and Navy Chronicle,
District of Columbia; Boston Atlas and Boston Morn
ing Post, Massachusetts Express and Commercial
Advertiser in New York American Sentinel and
Pennsy vanian, in Pennsylvania; Baltimore Patriot
and Baltimore American, in Maryland; and Norfolk
and Porthmouth Herald, in Virginia.
dee 2l-dt 18th Jan.
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FARM For SALE.

YNHE Subscriber offers for sale his farm at Belts
Il Vile Prince Georges county Md, consisting of
about TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE
ACRES. Ii is situated on the Baltimore and Wash
ngton railroad the Beltsvllle depot, twelve miles
Gan half hours rde) from the latter place. and there
fore convenient to this market. 1t consists of wood
land meadow and upland the latter capable of produ
cling and is now bearing excellent crops of corn ana
tobacco and the meadow, in good seasons, producing
80 to 60 tons of hay The farm is well supplied with
water, and has upon il house and barn. The rail
road divides the meadow from the upland
wsell also my stock upcn ii, consisting of horses
cattle, Berkshire hogs, &c
THOMAS ALLEN.
WAsnINGToN July 81 lS4l
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PROPOSALS FOR INDIAN GooDs-sealed /

PROPOSALS FOR INDIAN GOODS-Sealed
proposals will be received at the office Of the Com
missioner Of Indian Affairs until the Both day OF De
cember next, at O'Clock, p M for furnishing the
following goods for the use the Indians;
Maeknac Blankets, various sizes and coloIs
Cloths Of different quality and colors
Strouds do
Flannes do
Wooen So ks do
Yarns do
Linseys and worsed Catering do
CaIicoes, assorted qualities
Calico and Flannel Shirts
Beachcd and unbeached Cotton Shifting and Sheet
ing
Domestic Checks, Plads and Stripes
Cotton Shawls and Handkerchefs
Black Silk Handkerchiefs
Sewing Silk, assorted coors
Cotton and Linen Threads, assorted coors
Chinese Vermillion
Beads, assorted
Pipes do
Brass and Tin Kettles assorted sizes
Tin Pans and Cups
Frying Pans
Fire Stees
Britannia and paper lined Looking glasses
Avis, assorted
Buttons do
Brass nails assorted
Ihlmbles do
Scissors do
Gmlcts do
Table Knives and Forks
Pewter Plates
Fish Hooks and Lines
Combs assorted
Northwest Guns Powder Horns and Shot Pouches
Gun Worms and F'linls
Half Axes and Haches
Gun Powder and Bar Lead
Knives.
schedule of the above articles with samples, may
be seen al the office of the Commissioner of Indian
Affairs in Washington exhibiting the quantity OF
zach article qlred but the right is reserved to me
Department 10 alter, increase, diminish any OF The
articles named in said schedule.
The amount of money to be applied to the puT-
chase of these goods will be about $40 600 90, OF
which some $4,000 will be wanted on the seaboaId
and the residue in the west, and goods Of American
manufacture, all other things being equal will be pre-
lerred The contractors will be required TO deliver
them at suchtmes and places may be designated in
the contracts
A separate contract will be entered into for the
transportation TO the several points of delivery
Bonds with two sureties the suflclency TO
be certified by ned States Judge district attorney
will be required for the faithful performance of the
contract and payment will be made after the contract
is completed upon duplicate invoice accompanied by
the certificate OF The agent of the Government autho
rized TO receive them that the goods have been deli
verod in good order, and in CONFORMITY TO the con
tract and samples.
T. HARTLEY CRAWFORD.
Detachment OF WAR,
OFFICE OF INDIAN Affairs,
ODD November, lS4l,
To be published in the R2e'on Atlas and Morning
Post Boston the New York Express and Journal
of Commerce New York the American Sentinel
and National Gazette Philadelphia; the Madisonian
Washington the Patriots Baltimore; the Bulletin
ST. Louis nov 23-d30thdec
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JoALS FOX BINDING.


December I'd, 1871.
CtEALED proposals will be received at the Post
- Office Department until the 2ith lnst al 8 o'clock
p NJ, for the following descriptions of binding for
the period of three years from the first day OF January
1912.
Super royal blank books in full Russia, fent lined
extra ruled with printed captions and headings Of
columns with spring backs, lelered and numbered.
Same, without captions and headings, and with al
phabets separate or annexed
Same in calf with extra Russia bands.
ROYAL blank books in full Russia, tent lined, ruled
and letered with printed captions spring backs, and
indexes separate annexed
Same, without indexes.
Same, without captions and with indexes, separate
or annexed.
Same, in calf with extra Russia bands.
Same, without ruling.
Same, IN calf with extra Russia bands, with and
without ruling.
DENY blank books, in fun Russia, with spring
annexed. s#a
Same, indexed hut without captions and ruling.
Foolscap blank books in full Russia, with spiing
buc ks, ieint lined and ruled, bank distance
Same in nalf Russia teint lined, and ruedto pat
Ruling quaro post paper ed, and feint lined 10 Dat
tern, per quire
Ruling cap paper red, and frnt lined TO P
qure
Ruling DENY royal and super royal red, and fem
lined 10 pattern.
Ruling DENY royal and super royal red, and feint
lined pattern, with painted captions, per qure, for
all the above
Folding, stitching cutting and quarter binding 10,
to Is 600 copies of the Laws and Instructions, should
! the Department order their publication.
| Specimens of blank books now in use, may be seen
in the various Offices and divisions of the Depart
ment The paper will be furnished by the Depart
| mcnt
The bids for binding books must specify the price
per quirc.
| The price must be annexed to each item contained
in the advertisement, and no bid viii he considered
| which con,emplaes more than price for any one
article or kind of work.
The Department reserves the right Of prescribing
the patterns for fcu lining and ruling in all cases,
The bids must be accompanied by ample tcstlmonl-
ais OF the ability of the bidder TO perform the wok-
Ten per cent on the price of the work executed viii
be retained, as security for its faithful performance.
| refusal or failure to execute any work in due
time after it ordered dsregordng the instructions
Of the Department to the manner of its execution,
sovenly execution of the work, failing to account for
or return demand paper handed over to be bound
substituting other paper or any other attempt to evade
the true meaning of the contract, will be forfeiture
of the contract and of the ten per cent retained.
| Piopo ais should be addressed to the Postmaster
| General and endorsed Proposals for Binding
/ Dee Odd.
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Redwood Grove TO be supplied from Mount VIII
ling, miles and back, once week
Spring Hill to be supplied from Cheneyville, IS
miles and back, once week
The Village TO be supplied from Point Coupee,
miles and back, once week.
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t.. CHARLES GILMAN,

ATTORNEY At LAW, QUINCY, ILLINOIS,
Will promptly and faithfully attend to any profess
sional business cntrestcd to him in Western lIlneis
and the river counties OF Missouri and Iowa, above
Hannibal
g1TParticuar attention given to the collection OF
DEBrs.
Refer to Hon George Evans, y. $ Senate Hont
Elisha III. Allen, House Representatives, julylt
NOTICE THE ALPHABET FOR THE
IN DEAF AND DUMB.-The undersigned re-
spectfulIy requests the ladies and gentlemen of this
city, and others to buy the Alphabet for the Deaf and
Dumb, and signs for the figures price % cents for
one card Apply 10 r d. J. ROGER, born deaf and
dumb, at Mr. VIM Morrisons july
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NEW STATIONER w FISCHER, import
v 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 he articles in
spectton is necessary and which he respectfully in
vtes at Stationcrs Hail. where strict untiunAiy OF
dealing is observed An enumeration ofthe ARTICLES
&c, VIII be given in subsequent advertisements.
dec
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PROPOSALS FOR STATIONERY
PosT orFlcE DEpAnrMrSr

PosT OFFICE DEPAhrMENT.
December 2 i,il
S,EALED PROPOSALS will be received i !,
~ Post Office Department until the 2ltl lps,a,
at o'clock p. M, for furnishing the fuluwip, VA
scripton of Stationery for the period Of three lc
from the LIST day of January, 1872
Best hand made Folio Post Paper am ,ato
finish.
Same, feint lined, common distance
Best hand made Quarto Post Paper satin 6bih
and Of linen, laid and woye
Best handmade Quarto Post plain white ,an
finish, laid and wove.
Same, fent lined, common distance laid onl Nh.
Best handmade ouaro Post Paper bloc ,stn
fDiss laid and woye
Same fent lined common distance laid and no,.
Best mechinc-made Folio Post plan
Same, Quarto Post, plain.
Best handmade Foolscap, plain, satin hai.h arj
Of linen, laid and wovc
Best hand made foolscaP plain, satin fni,b. lad
and wove.
Same, fant.lined, common distance laid apd oo,s
Best Elachine-made Fonscap plain whiic.
Same, feint,lined, common distance.
Best Drawing Paper, q by 40 inchts Ier shcc;
Same 80 by 90 "
Tracing Paper lsby "A
Same +" % by 80 4"
Best super-royal buff Envelope Paper siqooh .q,
Best SUPERFICIAL white do do %
PAPER FOR BLANK BOOKS, VIZ
Best hand made Superroyal.
Do do Roysl.
Best handmade DEM.
Do do Medium.
Do do Foolscap.
QUILLS
Best Opaque No. 50, per thousand, wreltnot cs
than s or per hundred.
Best clarified Quilts do do 10
Metallic Pens, PEI dozen, Perrys AMI Gio~
best
Red Office Tape, price per dozen for eac nu,0fs,
Cul-rlass Inkstands, large SIR, per dozen
Do do small do
Ink, Maynard and Noycs, b.acl,in Ipat b ll
per dozen.
Do do do III pint d6
Waters per pound,
These articles are all to be Of the very tcst QUALITY
which can be had from the hest manufacturers.
A sample or specimen of each article Of Stl,QHety
must accompany the proposal Of each bidder and tle
contract will be given to that one who, 10 the ludl
ment of the Postmaster General, otels the bestbIn
c'es al the lowest price The samples OF the success
fu bidder will be retained by the Department anit4.a
the art cles delivered under his contract will We Coils
pared with them and rejected if inferior
If at any time ARTICLES of inferior quality be iur
nshed the Department will proceed TO purchase oatr
for its immediate use, charging the contractor With
any difference of cost over the contract price.
No bid will be considered which contemplate mQfs
than one price for any one article
Each proposal must he accompanied by ample ie.t
monials of the ability of th6bidder to fulfil thec4a
tract
Failure to deliver articles promptly when oraCta
or of quality inerorto the specimen, or any -1t' fi
to evade the true meaning Of the contract " 4. lt
considered sufficient cause for its torteltufe and
ten per cent on each payment which wlll9 reti4o9.
for that purpose.
The Proposals to be addressed TO the Pp,tarsia
General and to be endorsed s. Proposals Tor SlaaAat
cry" rs 9-"Nl
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w WASHINGTON HOUSE, No 223 Chestnut
w street, next door to the Masonic Hall, PhIadc.
phia. H. +, HARTWELL, Proprietor lhis re"
and splendid house is now open, and fitted up in the
most fashionable style for the accommodation OF gen
tIemcn and families
The location for health and convenience, to places
of fashionable resort or business, has no superior
while the parlors, dning-rooms, and chambers Wlll
bear comparison with any similar establishment IN the
Union.
The ladies will find in ii all the quiet and elegance
Of stately private mansion and the gentlemen every
luxury that may be expected from hotel OF the first
class in the city Of Philadelphia
liberal patronage for the Washington House, and to
tive entire satisfaction to all who may honor i WITH
their company. malch -"
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I ONION SOUVENIRS for lSi2.-Thc Book
IL OF Beauty, small quarto size; Friendship Olcr-
inr the Keepsake; the Picturesque Annual, are
this day received Tor sale by +, TAYLOR together
with avaluahe and varied collection of richly uimmed
and ornamentcd books embracing the most esteemed
among English literature not 20.
The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1841-12-29

100 White Oak deck Knees, IA hackmctack deck
knees.
Proposals for the White Oak to be received until
3lst December To be delivered or before the LIST
of March next For the Yellow Pine and Knees I'M
ill the 18th January. To be delivered or before
the lst April next all at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn,
New York subject to its inspection and measurement !;
price per cubic foot delivered
Any further information from the Constructor, at
the y ard.
ROBERT C. WETMORE, Navy Agent
Navy Agents Office, IS Water street Dec. s, ISL.
dee 81 dJanl rH