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PAGES PORTABLE SAW MILL.

This MACHINE has been in operation in tn is
city for several days, and has been witnessed
with curiosity and satisfaction by great number of
persons, including many members of Congress. 1t is
considered very important invention, particularly for
sections of country in which water power cannot
he readily obtained This machine be moved 10
miles per day, and be ready for working the next eth
by steam horse or other power. Four horses will
cut 200 feet of boards scantng, or timber of any
dimension per day Eight horses 600 feet. Shingles
20 per minute clear also to cut without any alteration;
wood at common length can be cut at the rate of a
cord in five minutes and cross-cu block for shingl
at any length desired. mill of this construction,
propelled by 10 horsesteam power is now in operation
six miles from this city on the w ashneton and Bal
umore Railroad, farm owned by Mr.. Charles b.
Calvert, which is cutting, while In operation, 1000
feet PER day and il is fair to estimate that it will
at least 10 900 per day making proper allowances for
all necessary delays. Numbers of respectable and
competent persons who have witnessed the operation
of this MILL will ch,erfully bear testimony TO the fact
here stated Attached to this machine Is post-mor-
sing and rail-shaTpening machine
The price, we understand of the horsepower and
saw-mill sufficiently long to II feet is $780, and
two dollars and fifty cents will be charged for each
additional foot. The expenses of attending norris
ing machine to the horsepower is from TWENTY-FIVE to
fifty dollars the addition of head blocks for the pur-
pose of cutting shingles will cost twenty dollars per
pair, and the additional saw for wood or shingles
block twenty dollars the price of the saw-mill
including feet saw, without the horse power is
three hundred dollars the price of the steam sawmill
exclusive of engine, extra saw head block, is FIVE
hundred dollars for each additional foot in length Of
mill three dollars, including engine, b iler with port
ables, and all other fixtures such sings, carts,
chains, bars, cart-hooks, Sc three thousand dollars
stationary, five hundred less the machine for
ing and sharpening rail to be propelled by steam
costs two hundred dollars; the machine now the
city will, at the particular request of of MIR.
Pages friends, remain here until Tuesday bext.
Many persons who DESTROYS of witnessing the ope-
ration of the mill on the Washington and Baltimore
railroad will go out, for that purpose, this evening
in the cars.
aug 27-3t GEO. PAGE
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UMBER. LIME WOOD Am co..,

II CNoLNt LIME, WOoD, AND GOAL
IL The Subscribers have hand and offer tor
sale, al their yard seventh street Centre
square, the largest and best selected stock of Imhe
IN this DisiIict consisting in part as follows, viz
100000 feet Al White Pine Cuttings
100000 do do Select Cuttings
10000 do "A, Ga, and ga White Pine me,.
charitable and panel
100000 do store Yellow Pine Joists and Sc,,,.
ling, various lengths
5000 do "A, Ga, and 6-4 Allegheny Pine
100000 do White Pine aud Henlock Joists and
Scantling
10000 do 81 Hemlock Fence Rails
$4,000 do North Carolina Josls Scantling ana
Stills
10000 do 5-4 do do Flooring Boards
% 900 do Sd Ga, and 81 Cypress, a prime
article
10000 do "a Cypress Weatber-boarding
Cypress timber l2rl2 and l4xl4 inches
Ash, Poplar and Maple Plank and Scanthng
Together with general assortment of Shinges
sawed and split Laths, Pickes for fencing NORTH
Carolina Fence rails, Fence posts, and every other
description of Lumber usually kept for sale in a um.
Der yard
We have alsn on hand, and are receiving white
and red ash Coal of the best quality. Also Sydney
CRATE and backsmihs' Coal Oak and Pine Wood
all of which they offer for sale low prices as the
same articles can be obtained for in this District
Persons wishing To obtain their supply of Coal for
the wio-l oy leaving their orders Office imme.
diatey, be supplied from the vessels at unusually
low prices.
SHEPHERD & HANLY.
iuly 3D-co3W
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NV Z would respectfully call the attention of all
w persons in pursuit of the most fashionable
French and English goods to give us call few
doors west of Browns Hotel.
N b. Great Inducements held out mem
bers of Congress, and all Others to purchase, as
are selling oul our stock positively at cost.
Best quality black velvet shawls
Velvet scarts and plush shawls
Elegant silk shawls, 8, 9 and I0-4 in size
Dress handkerchiefs and scarfs in great profusion
Blue black satin stlpe and colored yard wide silks
(none superioD
$50 pieces silks, every style and price
case Irish linens, (warranted puIe)
3 cases long cloth shirting, for gentlemen
A few Paris imported short cloaks half prite
10 pieces best mating and ingram carpetings
Lupin's patent black bombazeens
Linen cambria and silk hdkfs, every kind
Silk hosiery all kinds and prices
Best quality wool-dyed black cloths
Summer wear, generally, less than cost
Table danask diaper
Do do napkins
ToweIng of every kind very cheap
Together with large and desirable stock embrac-
ing every variety of goods usually found in our line
Goo Is will be carefully packed and sent to any
part of the country.
N. b. We feel grateful to our numerous customers,
who have SO promptly paid their accounts and
specially press all others to make immediate settle
ment. VIM. & GEO. STETTlNIUS
July s-Octeod
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ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.

ID ANYWAY, the second time from the subscriber
II on the 29th August, between two O'Clock and
sunrise, mulatto man named PETER MATTHEWS,
aged about "a years. about five feet ten inches high
Of good form and looks good house servant and
carriage driver, in which latter capacity he has been
employed for the last five years
Peter is very civil in his department, with mild
voice. His teeth quite defective, and he chews
tobacco. His hair black, and bushy on the sides OF
his head.
He took with HIM light-colored summer clothes, a
green cloth frock coat with yellow buttons, dark
colored fur cap and black hat.
| will give $50 if said Peter is taken in the State OF
Mar, land, and secured that get him again 500
If taken and thus secured in any other State and $50
if secured in the District Of Columbia.
JAMES HARMED.
aug 30-3t (Bat Sum-
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CANNON, SHOT AND SHELLS.

BUREAU OF ORDNANCE AND HYDRoGRAPHY
Sd September, IS42.
CEALED PROPOSALS will be received at thi,
~ Bureau until o'clock, P. NJ, of the 18th Oc-
tober next for furnishing and delivering the pro-
portions, and at the places herein designated the fol-
lowing number and description of Cannon, Shot and
Shells for the Naval Service of the United States viz
Thirty, eight inch Paixhan guns, of about 60 cwt.
each.
Seventy, thirty-two FOUNDER guns Of Al cwt. and
upwards, the precise weight of each to be deermln ed
hereafter
Five hundred, eight-inch shells
Three hundred eght-inch, solid shot and
Seven thousand, thiriy-two FOUNDER, shot.
Deliverable folors:
10 eight in. Paixhan guns ! Deliverable at Sack
200 eight ill., shells ett's Harbor, N. Y
100 eight in solid shot son or before the l5th
20 thirty-two Founder guns May next.
2,5OO 'h'rty-two FOUNDER shot
10 eight in Paixhan guns
$50 eight in. shells Deliverable at Buffalo
100 eight in. solid shot IN. Y, on or before
20 thiry-two FOUNDER guns the 18th May next
300 thiny-two FOUNDER shot
10 eight in Paixhan guns
100 eight IN shells Deliverable at Erie
lOO eight In solld shot Penn or before
20 thirty two p,under guns the 18th May next.
1000 thlrty-two FOUNDER shot
The proposals must state distinctly the rate per ton
(oftwenty-lwo hundred and forty pounds,) for the
guns and the rate per pound for the shot and shells,
deliverable as above, all 10 be subject to- and undergo
such proof and inspection, this Bureau may deem
proper TO authorize and viii be paid for that
shall not pass such inspection may be entirely sa-
sfactory.
Bonds, with two approved sureties will be required
in third the estimated amount Of the contract and
ten per centum of the amount of all bills will be
tanned as collateral security for the faithful perform
ance hereof which will he paid only the sastac-
tory completion of the contract and ninety per CEN
tum of all deliveries will be paid bills properly au
hentica,ej according to the provisions of the CON
tract within thirty days after their presentation to the
Navy Agent.
The Offers mus, state at what agency the contractor
may desire payment to be made
Drawings OF the guns will be furnished from this
Bureau, and they must be cast and finished to con-
form to them in every respect.
No hot blast metal is to be used, and the shot mus,
be cast in sand nouids.
sept 5-2awti5 Oct
To be published in the Madisonan Globe, Intelll-
gencer, Washington; Southern Patriot Charleston
5 c.; Richmond Enquirer, Journal of Commerce
and Union, N. Y. Times, and Mercantile Journal
Boston Daily Gazette, Pittsbure, Pa; Buffalo Cou.
rier N. T.; Evening Express, Philadelphia.
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aug 3l-s
NOTICE.

HAVING removed to Prince George County, Ma
IL ryland, i am DESTROYS TO close my business in
Washington, d. c. Those indebted to me are there
FORE respectfully called upon to pay and those hev
ing claims against me will please to present them.
shall be in Washington, at my old establishment from
a. m. to p, m, generally, every day or, in my
absence, Mr.. Philip Gabriel Poss is duly authorized
to act as my agent.
aug 27--3t CHARLES ROSENTHAL.
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To THE LADIES.
aug 23-Std (Globe)

TO THE LADIES.
ORNAMENTAL HAIR-Perfumery, and Fancy
~ Store, Pennsylvania avenue, between 9Th and
9th streets--where can be found large assortment
of Wigs, Frizettes Curls, Braids, Plaits &c.. with
every variety of Ornamental and Plain Hair-work,
or made to order. Ladies can have the hair of
their friends relatives worked up into bracelets,
necklaces, watchguards, &c., at the shortest notice
with general assortment of Perfumery, Combs,
Brushes, Soaps, Oils, Sc, with variety of fancy
articles.
N. b. Milliners and others supplied with Curls,
Braids Frzettes, sc. at the lowest rates.
j. H. GIBBS
aug 3l-3ts Geo. Adv
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GEO. PAGE.
MONUMENTS OF wAsHINGToN's PATRl

INl OTlSM-Contaning a collection of valuable
documents relating to his military and civil admins
traton, with the fac-simile of his account of Expen-
ditures during the Revolutionary War, the original
Of which may be the Registers office, in his
own handwriting his Address TO the Citizens of
the Union-a valuable legacy of the Father of his
Country. 1t contains also variety Of plates-his
portrsit-News of Mount Vernon, &c with fac
SMILES of recommendation
NJ The profits to be applied TO the establishing
an Institute to be called Washingtons Manual
Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum for destitute
Boys"
Copies may be had at Tayior's, .Morrison's, Farm
ham's and Kennedg's Bookstores
aug 29-lw
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PENMANSHIP.

MIR. C. II. CHASE has, from the several solicit
1Nl tations, been induced to make such arrange
ments to enable him remain in this city until the
first Of October next. Twenty-four lessons tuition
S.; should more lessons be required they will be
given until the above date, without extra charge.
For further information, inquire at the Academy, OPP
posite Centre Market of 9Th street and Penn.
Avenue.
I|Mr. c. would like two or three respectable
young to qualify for teaching. He will not only
engage to learn them to write beautiful hand but at
the same time, learn them the best method of teach
ing now in This fact is sufficiently proved by
the rapid Improvements made under his instructions.
Should they fail, after dong justice to the instruc
tons, the required time (Which will not exceed four
weeks TO pi oduce writing which shall handsomely
initiate engraving they may withdraw their names
without charge
7. 5. For the encouragement Of pupils under the
age of Is several valuable premiums will be awarded
to those making he best improvement
Parents wishing to send their children would do
well to make early application; the sooner they com
mence the lessons they receive for the same
price. aug. 23-u
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TO RENT

A LARGE and convenient three story brick house
IA on street, near the Treasury Buildings For
terms which will be moderate and view of the pre-
misses, apply
JOHNSON & CALLAN.
And for sale neat and comfortable two story
brick house on street, the State Department.
sep 6-3t 0ntelligencer)
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FOR RENT,

a NEAT two-story brick dwelling on New York
"A avenue between 18th and 9th streets App-
Gallon made on the premises at the Grocery Store
OF he undersigned, north side of Penns ylvania ave-
nue, near the new Theatre, between 18th and lfth
streets where he solicls call from his friends and
citizens generally, he intends keeping an assort-
ment of fresh goods, for cash. which will enable him
10 sell unusually low, 10 suit the times
Ais, neat two-story brick dwelling on 18th street
south of Pennsylvania avenue, near K Waters ;
woodward. VIM. Il. DOVE
sept 5-3t Intel and Globe
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GEORGETOWN LOTTERY.

CLASS No. 10Y.
To be drawn at Wilmington, Delaware, Sept Goth.
Capitals S20,000-S, 5000-and 10 Of $1,000
IS numbers-I4 drawn ballots.
Wholes S5-Haives 81 50-QuartersS 81 25
Certificate of package of 25 wholes So5 90
l5 halves 81 80
25 quarters lS IS
For tickets and shares certificates of packages,
address as above apply at the old stand, OF
Pennsylvania Avenue and 9th street aug 25
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Patent Orrlce, Sept. 2, 1912.

PATENT OFFICE, oept. z, IofE'
PROPOSALS. will be received until r. NJ. OF
i Monday the l2th inst, for delivering at the Pat
ent Office on or before the LIST of October next, fifty
cords Of seasoned Oak Wood.
The wood must be sound, straight and free from
knots and corded and measured at the office, at the
expense of the contractor.
Proposals will also be received until the 18th inst
as above for fifty tons Of the best Anthracite Coal,
to be delivered as above stated, both wood and coal
to be equal in quality to samples at the office.
Each proposal must be sealed and addressed TO the
Commissioner Of Patents
Ii. l.. ELLSWORTH,
Commissioner Of Paients.
sent 3-6td
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OrFIcE OF COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIc BUILDINGS,
August 10, 1912.
PROPOSALS will be received at this office until
/ the 10Th instant to furnish eighty cedar lamp
posts, with the iron fixtures complete, of the same
and pattern Of those around the Capitol square
The posts be delivered at such places on the Penn
sylvania Avenue as the Commissioner shall direct.
Proposals will also be received to furnish and to
fix on the lamp-posts eighty lamps OF the same KIND
of those around the Capitol square.
aug. I'D
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july 30-eo3w

PATENT OFFICE, 10Th August, 1912
IN the petition of James Wood, of Rockland
" county, New York, dated the 9th day Of July
1872, praying for the extension of patent granted
to hum for an Improvement in the mode Of making
brick, tile, and other clay ware for years from
the expiration Of said patent, which takes place on
the Sd day of March, lo43,
1t is ordered that the SAID petition be heard at the
Patent Office on the first Monday in November next,
at II o'clock, NJ and all persons are notified to APP
pear and show cause if any they have, why said pc
tition ought not to be granted.
Ordered also, that this notice be published in the
Madsonian and National Integencer printed AT
Washington, ID. C.. the Baltimore SUM- printed al
Baltimore; the Journal of Commerce, printed at
New York the Saturday Courier, printed at Phila-
delphia aud the Times, printed at Boston once
week for three weeks previous to the first Monday in
November.
HENRY l.. ELLSWORTH
aug. ll-lawtlNoy
p. S. Editors of the above named papers will
please copy, and send their bills to the Patent Office
with paper containing the notice.
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Males and Fsmaies.--The CINCINNATI Chronicle
states that in the present condition OF the white pop
ulativn Of the United States the females born per
mum are in number about twelve thousand less than
the males. This determines of itself that polygamy
IS not natural condition of man, and that the laws
oil nature and religion the same--that man
shall be the husband of one woman
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ORCHESTRA MIISIC-

FNHE following pieces OF Orchestra Music he
4 had very cheap if early application be made at
w FIscHsR's, Pennsylvania Avenue, between 1ltb
and 18th streets.
Two Quadriles and COMMUNICATION Adams op
era the Brewer of Preston arranged for full
orchestra by Musard.
Three favore waltzes, composed by Strauss
ranged for full orchestra by A. Fessy.
Overture from the comic opera of La rein dun Jour-
composed for full orchestra by A. Adam.
Overture from Macoa-composed for full orchestra by
Auber
Overture from Action composed for full orchestra 10y
Auher
Overture lie lac dees fees-composed for full orches-
ira by Auber. aug -
NEW MU SlC.-Just received the follow ing pieces
IN ol New Music at the old established store three
doors east of 9th street Penn
w. FISCHER
have roamed the world over; by 4. J. Loder.
Old friends and true friends; by j. p. knight.
Come to me gentle sleep-Romance; words by Mrs.
Hemans.
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ORpHANs' CouRr, Aug II, ls42.

ORPHANS CouRr, Aug IL, 1912.
Rls.i,s' sa Columbia sSunay. to wit
TN the case of Lewis Johns on administrator OF
l. William Otis, deceased. The administrator with
the appreciation of the Orphans Court of said coun-
ty, has appointed Tuesday, the Goth of September
next, for the settlement of said estate, and for
payment and distribution, under the courts direction
and CONTROL of the assets in the administrators hands
far collected and turned into money to the ere.
ditors of said deceased. When and where the said
creditors requested to attend.
Provided, copy of this order be published in the
Madsonian and lntelligencer newspapers of the city
of Washington, week for four weeks, previous
to said Goth of September next.
Test ED. N. ROACH
aug l6 (lnt) Register Of Wills.
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MIR. AND MRS. MICHARD's Academy for
wi young ladies' + street, between 18th and i5.h,
will reop~n the 9th of September. The studies
will as heretofore, be under the care Of competent
Teachers and include ali the br inches OF complete
English and French education.
TERMs-PAYABLE QUARTERLY IN ADVANCE.
PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT..
Engli.h studies, 50 cor quarter. ,,,;.,
French language, % 90 additional
Stationery 81 W
The quarter contains twelve weeks.
TERMS FOR THE HIGHEST BRANCHES,
All branches OF English education $40 90 per quarter.
French grammar rhetoric, Sc, 80 w
Stationery, 81 OO
An extra charge oftwo dollars for every scholar
will be made for fuel during the winter.
TERMS FOR SEPARATE BRANCHES.
MUSIC.
Piano guitar, $40 90 quarter, or "A lessons.
Vocal music, S25 90
Do. lin classes $40 90
Harp, Professors price.
Latin, Italian Spanish, Tin casses) Sc quarter.
(private lessons) S25
Drawing, painting, and dancing, Professors price
The payment for separate branches are to be made
also quarterly IN advance.
Persons DESTROYS OF knowing more particularly
about the details of the school wall find them pros
pectus which be obtained Mr.. Michard's, at
the stores of Messis Fischer, Fanham, Taylor, Bay
ly, Kennedy, Morrison and Riordan.
aug 30-3aw4w
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YOUNG LADIES ACADEMY OF THE VISI-
TATION, BALTIMORE, MD.
TINE duties of this Institution will be resumed on
l. the fist MONDAY in September
TERMS-Board and tuition per annum, $50 90
Half-boarding per annum, Go 90
Tuition for half-boardeIs and day scholars
in the higher branches, per annum, 60 90
Elementary instruction., 40 %
The usual extra charges made for instruction
in the Foreign Languages, Music, Drawing and
Painting, use'of Philosophical apparatus, &C., &c.
au %. eotlstS
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O. FISH & CO.'S

nj EW YORK STYLE FOR GENTLEMAN'S
~ HATS.-.4,du,nn, 1912, will be introduced in
this city, this day This style will be introduced ST.
mutaneous with our house in New York and we
think will fully sustain reputation caterers for
the " beau-monde"
Sales Rooms Browns Hotel, Washing on; and 1877
Broadway, N. Y. sep 3-3t
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Is~A Meeting Of the TOTAL ABSTINENCE
SOCIETY of the several Civil Executive Depart
ments of the National Government, will be held at
the Apollo Hall, on TUESDAY EVENING next
(the 9th nst.) at o'clock
GEO. c. WHITING,
sept 5 Cor. Sec'y
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indigo Superseded.--A late English paper SAYS that,
at the an nworks belonging to the Marquis of Nor
mandy, IN Yorkshire, discovery has just been made
which IS likely to supersede the use Of Indigo in dy
ing cloth and other fabrics, and which promises 10
be source OF considerable wealth 10 the Marquis
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II rescue.-Two men named James Freeland and
William Adams were capsized yesterday between
Long Island and the flats, and would inevitably have
persisted, had IT not been for the timely aid of a col
ored man named John Spy, who made good his name
by reaching them in another boat just in season to
save them.-Bosfon Mail
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Dtg0.

In this city, ON Thursday morning last, of con-
gestive fever, after an illness Of four five days,
which he bore with that iortitude which character
ICES the Christian, MIR. WALTER CHEW, aged
about SO years a native Of Maryland, leaving wife
and one child and other relatives, to regret
his loss
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A FARM w ANTED

A FARM containing sixty or one hundred acres,
II in the vicinity of this city, say from three to five
miles, is wanted Immediately. 1t will be necessary
that there shall be the place dwelling house and
the usual OUT houses. Apply to
JOHNSON e. CALLAN.
aug 23--3taw2w
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GEORGETOWN LOTTERY.

SLhSS. INO. w.
To be drawn at Wilmington, Delaware, Sept Goth.
Capitals $4,000 ,000-and 20 of $1,000.
70 numbers-l6 drawn ballots
Wholes S5-Halves 50 50--Quarters 81 25
Certificate of package of 26 wholes $50 90
60 26 halves 25 90
I" T." &c quarters ~ 80
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Ryles.-AtSt. Adams, Vermont, they are now man
ufacturing cast iron rifle barrels equal to wrought.
They will stand nine-nch charge of powder, with
out the least appearance of fracture or strain.