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The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-31

DESIRABLE CITY RESIDENCE FOR SALE
FTNHE subscriber intending to remove from Wash
i ington in April, will dispose of the house and
premises he now occupies, on very accommodating
terms. The house is situated on F, near 18th street,
one of the most elevated healthy, and desirable loca
tons in the city. 1t is three stories high, of brick
with slated roof built and finished in the most sub
stanal manner hrougho ut, witha two story kitchen
in the rear, connected to it by large entry There
is also in the large room twenty five feet square,
and about twenty feet high to the roof well lighted
and finished, recently erected.
The lot contains about six thousand square feet of
ground well enclosed, planted and paved connecting
to G street by ten feet private alley.
The property may be examined, and terms made
known on application to the subscriber the pre-
misses. Possession may be had Immediately if desired.
JOHN G. CHAPMAN
mar 19--dtf
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STATIONERY, OF SUPERIOR QUALITY.
~ FOREIGN AND AMERICAN--Th sub
scribers have constantly hand extensive assert
ment of Foreign and American Stationery, of the
finest qualities and they receiving by each arrival
from London and Paris new varieties of the best Sta
tlonery articles of those cities
They arc also engaged IN manufacturing almost all
kinds of American Stationery, and particularly of
BLANK BOOKS,
OF the most durable kind, made from the finest linen
paper, and bound in manner unequaued in this
country for strength and durability. Books made by
their predecessors upon the plan still followed have
been in use upwards of si1ty gears, without giving
way, and any ofther superfne books which may be
ordered will be warranted to stand usage for that length
of time.
Orders from public offices, institutions, and indiv-
duas, will be attended to with promptness and at fair
rates. HOGAN & THOMPSON,
No, 80 North 4th ST., and No. 1903.
Chestnut, st., Philadelphia.
may 2S-lY ~
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BOUQUETS, CUT FLOWERS and PLANTS
ID Having now at the Greenhouse adjoining our
store extensive bloom of Csmelias and other choice
flowers, we will be prepared, during the whole winter
TO supply at the shortest notice Boques Cut Flowers
and Towering Plants for the balls and parties The
Public respectfully invited to call and examine the
house, which is open at all hours OF the day.
Flowers, Plants Bulbous Roots, Flower Seeds
Fruit and ornamental trees and Shrubbery &c., pack
ed to 60 to any part of the country.
J. F. CALLAN & CO.,
Opposite the New General Post Office.
feb Seo3tf
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JAMES PHALEN & Co.. Managers Office, cor
ner of 9th st. and Penn av.

The following magnificent scheme of Lottery is
presented to the public and recommended TO their pa
ronage being decidedly the best before offered
The Scheme contains million of dollars--and
the prizes SO arranged that every person. in purchasing
a Ticket, stands good chance for capital of some
sort, and in purchasing by the Package, may draw
the four highest, making 100000. The scheme is
published thus early, to give persons at distance
opportunity ofpurchasing Tickets by order other
wise All orders for Tickets, Shares Packages,
Certificates of Packages will be attended to promptly
and faithfully, and every endeavor used to give salts
faction.
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BERNARD HOOE,

ATTORNEY AT LAW, AND GENERAL AGENT
"AVING removed from Alexandra, d. c., to
II this city, has opened office on 10 street
one door north from Pennsylvania avenue, and offers
his services TO the public.
He will undertake the prosecution and manage
ment of all claims before Congress, and the several
public departments and offices of the Government;
claims arising under treaties the procuring of patent
rights, and patents for land from the Patent and Ge
neral Land Offices; and he will attend to all claims
for revolutionary invalid, other pensions, and to
all other business be transacted in the District OF
Columbia, requiring the services OF an attorney or
agent.
Persons residing at a distance, who may not find it
convenient to visit Washington, can address him by
letter. postage paid and may be assured that all BUSH
intrusted to him shall receive the most prompt
and faithful attention.
WASHINGTON CITY, ID. c., March 23
mar %. co m&w2m
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]. e. w YOUNG.

DRUGGISTS, 1.-TWO doors east of Gadsbys,) re-
- spectfully inform their friends and the public
generally that they determined to be up with the
times and prepared to sell Medicines, Fancy Ar
uces or any thing in their line of business cheap for
cash fresh supply of English, French, and Ameri-
can Periumery, LiIseed Oil, White Lead and Win
dow Glass, just received. Also, just received,
small lot OF DR.. Beckwth's Anti-Dy spectic Pills,
fresh. mar 2S-3t
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We give below the Message of the President of the
United States to the House of Representatives in re-
ply to resolution requesting him to furnish the names
of members of Congress who had been applicants for
Office under the present administration. The course
adopted by the Executive, is such we should have
expected from John Tyler. 1t is manly and decided
yet dignihed and respectful In refusing to furnish
the information called for, he takes high and honora-
BILE ground.-Boston Mercantile Journal
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Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT,

Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
March 2lst, 1912
TNHE operation of the regulation adjusting the
L commissions to be charged by Postmasers from
the lst of January last, is hereby suspended
The regulation will take effect from the LIST day of
April, 1912; therefore the quarterly returns of Post
masters for the present quarter will be made out as
heretofore
G.. A. WICKLIFFE.
mar. 22-dt lap.
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TO RENT.

I'll TO RENT.
l2 ND The spacious and delightfully."- situated
snsK three story brick dwelling, next door to
e3:s&EiEt the residence of the Hon. Judge CIanch,
on Capitol Hill. The building is spa
cious, containing fourteen rooms besides Kitchen Sc.
and has attached to it good stable and coach-house
Possession given Immediately.
For terms, apply to Col. VIM. Brent, at the City
Hall MARIO DIFF
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A NEW ARTICLE.

A NEW ARTICLE
CTEP HENS INSTANTANEOUS BLACK
- INK.-W. FISCHER, importer has Just re-
cieved direct from the manufacturer. Henry Stephens
of London, large supply ofhs unequaed and inlmla
BILE black writing fluid, which has the property OF writ
ing Immediately black. 1t is tho purest black ink
ever offered to the public it has no sediment and
forms no incrustation about the pens or holder
and flows with remarkable facility. 1t is put up in
stone Jugs, the smallest of which serves as an ink
stand-for SALE wholesale and retail, only at Station
er's Hall mar III
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BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL FOR
ID YOUNG LADIES' MIKE MEG HEGARAY

ID YOUNG LADIES-M'ME. MEG HEGARAY,
having resumed the charge finer old establishment in
New York, with the view of permanent residence
in the city, respectfully informs her friends and the
public that on the first of May next she will remove
her school from its present location No. 663 Broad
way to the spacious newly erected buildings south
corner of 18th street, opposite Union Park This 81
tuation at the branching of the two great of
New York, combines the advantages Of city and
country residence and is also of the easiest access by
ne daily line of stages starting every five minutes
rom either point of the two main streets.
Circulars at Messrs Berard and Mondons, &c
CORTLAND street, and at Roe Lockwoods, Al Broad
way mar S-2m
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PROPOSALS FOR IRON.

NAVY CoMMssIoNERs' OFFICE
MARCH / l, 1912
ME time for receiving offers for furnishing IRON,
Il under the advertisement of the 5th instant is
hereby extended to O'Clock, p nj. of the LIST April
next The papers authorized to publish that adyer-
tsement will please note the extension.
march Ia
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DATENT VAPOUR BATHS-For the safe
i and convenient external apple alton of ire
spirabe gas vapour from herbs, &C., to the human
SYSTEM in which the lungs not only defended from
any esprable vapour that may be used but also from
exhalations discharged through the pores from all
parts of the body by profuse perspiration to which
they exposed when the head is nclosed in the
usual way. A practice always offensive in some dis
eases dangerous, and quite unnecessary, any de-
sired vapour be inhaled in these apparatus, with
out this loathsome accompany In these applica-
tions will be found powerful yet safe, general aux
iiary to the efforts of the physician for the removal of
disease, but particularly 80 in diseases of the skin,
In rheumatic and equity affections, and after the
off any mercuria preparation.
Applied, during the session of Congress, on the
south side of Pennsylvania avenue third house west
of 18th ST., or in the chamber of the sick.
mar % ROYD REJIIY
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MY wife, ELLEN SIPEs, having left my bed and
lNl board, without cause provocaton, hereby
warn all persons against giving her credit my
count, as will pay no debts so contracted.
march 28--3r JOHN SIPES.
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SUPERIOR INDELLIBLE INK.

!" FISCHER, importer, has just received d.
w rect from the manufacturer, Henry Stephens
of London, his improved composition for marking linen
which writes with equal facility the coarsest tex
ture on the finest fabric and which, requiring no
drying holding to the fire, is the expeditions
mode of marking linen offered to the public
Also, lndebe Ink ofexceent quality, made by Kent,
Edes, Felt & Co., and Smith & Hodgson, all Of which
is for wholesale and retail at Statoners Hall.
mar 16
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$3OO,OOO!

$3UUUUU!
Divided into prizes of $4,000 each, making
800 900!
Divided into 20 prizes Of Vs. 900 EACH making lO0000
Divided into 100 prz's of $1,000 each, making 100000
GRAND CONSOLIDATED LOTTERY,
OF ELAWARE.
Glass A for 1912.
To be drawn at Wilmington, Delaware May &C.
1912.
Under the superintendent of Commissioners APP.
pointed by the State.
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All the aforesaid IRON must be OF the best quality
| and of American manufacture, without any admiX-
ture of foreign iron, and must be free from all defects
whatever.
The deliveries to be in the following proportio
and at the following stated periods, viz.
One-third the quantity of the Chain Cable and An
Choir Iron to be delivered before the LIST July
next. feEF
One other third part on or be re the 1st Novem-
Der next and the balance before the LIST March,
1843.
LIST June next
One other third by LIST November next and the
balance by Isl February, l843.
And Of the Camboose Iron, one-half on or before
the LIST June next and the other half before the
LIST August next.
The offers must be separate and distinct, and en-
dorsed, offer for Chain Cable Iron, offer for .A,,chor
bon offer for Tank Lon offer for Caaboose Iron, Gas
the case may be) Each will be considered and acted
upon separately and portions of each will be award
ed separately, If the Commissioners of the Navy
should deem ltproper
All the aforesaid iron will, on delivery be subject
ed to such proofs tests, and Inspection the Board
of Navy Commissioners may authorize or direct,
and must be entirely satisfactory to them or to the
commandant or commanding officer Of the said Navy
Yard.
Persons DESTROYS of offering to furnish the said
iron any portion thereof, (should further infor
nation be required to enable them TO make their Of
fers,) are re ferred to the commandant command
ing officer of the Navy Yard Washington, District
Columbia.
To those persons whose offers may be accepted par
tcular schedules drawings, and models, descriptive
OF the several parts and portions of each kind of iron
required 70 each object, will be furnished by the
Commissioners of the Navy, when contracts pre-
pared for Aecution.
Bonds, it'll two approved suretes, will be required
in one-thld the amount of the contracts and ten
per centum in addition Of the amount of all bills will
be retained collateral security for the faithful per-
Torrance of the contracts, which will only be paid
on their satisfactory completion And ninety per
centum of all deliveries will be paid on bills properly
auhentica ted according to the provisions of the con-
tracts, witn thirty days after their presentation to
the Navy Agent. The offers must state at what
agency tn contractor may desire payment to be
made.
In case Of failure the part of the contractor to
furnish al deliver the aforesaid iron Of the quality
and at the times specified above the officers or agents
at the Ma yYard shall be authorized purchase such
quantities may be necessary to supply the defcen
ces and any of cost the price agreed to
be paidbv the contract shall be charged to and paid
by the coz tractor
~ To be published twice week in the
National Intelligencer, Madisonan, Army and Ma
Wy Chr ncle, and Globe, District of Column
bia; and three times week in the New York
Commer al Advertiser and New York Express
North American and Pennsylvania Reporter, at
Harrisburg Pennsylvania; Baltimore Sun, and
Baltmol American, Maryland; Richmond Enquirer
Virginia. mar 8-2tawtd
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c.. H. VAN PATTEN, M. d.,
DENTIST.
Pennsylvania avenue, few doors from Browns
Hotel. nov. %, is1y.
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PROPOSALS FOR IRON.

NAVY COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
MARCH 5th, 1912
PROPOSALS, sealed and endorsed, will be re-
Il ceived at this office, until O'Clock p NJ, of
the Goth of the present month"; for furnishing and de-
livering at the Navy Yard Washington, District of
Columbia, free of charge to the United States all the
Iron required in the construction of the following
Chain Gables, .4,,chors Tanks, and C@nbooses, viz
CHAIN CABLE IRON.
=, 400 fathoms for LIST class Shops of war
goo do for I'd class Shops of war
5000 do for Frigates
! 200 do for Ships of the Line
Addition to sheet cables for ships of
$50 do the line and frigates, in lengths of
As fathoms
ANCHOR IRON
80 anchors for LIST class Shops of war
l6 do for I'd class Shops Of war
40 do for Frigates
&c do for Ships of the line
TANK IRON.
sets for Shops of war
do for Frigates
10 for Ships of the Line
CAMBOOSES
6 mbooses for Frigates
6 do for Shops of War
6 do for Small vessels
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READING ROoM.--rhe undo

NATIONAL READING ROOM.--The under
Y signed al the solicitation of many members Of
Congress and citizens of Washington, who have
long felt the want of establishment ofths kind has
opened Reading Room, in the rear of his store on
Hotel The room il handsomely fitted up and files
of the latest papers from every portonof the country
may always be found on hand. He has also made ar
rangemens to obtain the English newspapers by the
Boston and New York line of steam packets in adj
vance of the mail This arrangement, he trusts will
meet with share OF general patronage, owing to the
numerous calls of transient persons who in Wash
ingon for papers from their different sections of
try.
He respectfully invites all strangers well as the
residents of the District to call and examine his files
where they will I've permitted 10 read the latest journals
gratutpusy. ANDREW X, JENKINS.
ian 3 Gleof
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PROPOSALS FOR COAL
Navy coMMlsnoNra's orrret

".
February H. l54z
PROPOSALS, sealed and endorsed, will b. 70
i ceiyed at this Office until O'Clock p NJ ~ -
10th March next, for furnishing and deyering ~
the use OF the Naval service OF the United States
seven thousand tons of Biiumnous Coal q 240 no,,
10 each ton, in the following proportions at aeL ~
the following navy yards, viz
1000 tons at the navy yard, Gosport Virginia
1000 tons al the navy yard, Charlestown Mas,
chusetts.
5000 tons at the navy yard, Brooklyn, New Yorl
One-half the respective quantities deliverable !,
each OF said navy yards must be delivered on or he
fore the lst day of May next, one-half the remand
on or before the LIST June next and the residue on n
before the lst July next.
SAID coal must be from American mines, mus, he
oil tie best quality, screened, clean very free from
foreign substances, and particularly from sulphur
Said coal must be delivered at the respective na,
yards Aforesaid at the risk and expense of the co
tractor, subject to such inspection as the Comms,or
ers OF the Navy may authorize or direct and mus,
be entirely satisfactory to them or to the CONNIE
dants or commanding officers respectively Of ,a,3
yards.
In case OF failure on the part Of the contractor i,
furnish and deliver the said coal in the pronorton
and at the periods above named the officers or
oil the navy shall be authorized to purchase such
quantities as shall be required TO supply the de6cen
cies, and any excess Of cost over the price agreed
be paid by the contracts to be entered INTO shaU ~
charged TO and paid by the contractor
Bonds in one-third the estimated amour, Of he -.
spectlye contracts will be required with two approy
ed suretles, and ten per centum in addition Win b.
withheld from the amount of each delivery made ~
collateral security for their faithful performance
which will on no account be paid until the contracts
are complied with in all respects, and which viii be
forfeited to the and benefit Of the United State
IN the event of failures to complete the deliyene.
After making the deduction of ten per centum pay.
ment of the balance will be made BY the United
States within thirty days after the coal shall have
been inspected, approved, and received and bills ol
the same (duy authentcatedb certificates of nspec
ton, by receipts of the respective Navy Storekeep
ers at said navy yards and by the approval Of the re-
spectiye commandments commanding officers of sad
yards,) shall be presented to the NAVY Agent by
whom payment is to be made.
L3@To be published three times a week until 10Th
! March IN the National lntelligencer Madisonian
Globe Army and Navy Chronicle, District OF Colun,-
bia Boston Atlas, Massachusetts New York Ex.
/ press, New York Commercial Advertiser New YORK
American Sentinel, North American Daily Advert
ser al Pittsburg, Pennsylvania Reporter al Harris
burg, Pennsylvania Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Ame
rlcan, Mary Wand Norfolk and Portsmouth Herald
Richmond Enquirer Petersburg Intelgencer, III
| gina
Feb l9-3taw l0Alar :,s.
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ANOTHER NATIONAL EXcHEQUER.-The Select Com
mittee of the Senate have reported their project for
administering the finances In its general outlines,
like Mr. Cushings plan, it is founded on the basis
proposed by the President-dferng, however, from
both, in one or two important particulars 1t propo-
composed of three Commissioners, who may appoint
agencies wherever they think proper and may, if
they please, employ State Banks as such agencies.
The general round of duties is the same proposed
by all the various projects that have been presented
The power ofbuyng exchanges is taken away. Gold
and silver may be received on depose, provided IN
Mr. Cushing's bill The Sub-Treasury and these two
bills approximate so near to each other in general
principles, that trust the friends of each will be
enabled to come near enough together, after compar
ing notes, to adopt measure that will be salts
factory to the whole country.-fmerican Trarelier
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A IR-TlGHT STOVE.-H w Edwards, High
II street, near Gay, Georgetown, is now ready to
supply the people of this District and OF the surround
ing country with the Alright Stove TO the best Of
his ability Dealers supplied at liberal discount
Mr. Edwards is now my sole agent for this Dis
trct. As far as my health and occupations allow, |
will that he sells the genuine article All others
are "humbugsn
nov 9-wSw ISAAC ORR
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% GROSS WRITING FLUID.-W. FlS
~ CHER importer and dealer in fancy and sta
pile stationery, has just received, by the ship yelling
ton, direct from the celebrated manufacturer, Henry
stephens, OF London the above quantity of his I'M
equalled Whiting Fluid, comprising dark and light
Interchangeable blue and red. Also, his Black Writ
ing Fluid pat upin neat A, 8, l6, and 30 o. stone
jugs All of which he will sell the trade as low
price they purchase them for in New FORK OF
elsewhere in the United States
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HOO LBS SUPERIOR WAFERS.--A FIS.
oOO CHER, importer and dealer in Fancy and
Staple Stationery, has just received by the ship St
James the above quantity of superior waters of as
sorted sizes and coors which he will sell to the trade
at as low price as they can purchase them for
New York or elsewhere.
Jan 22-tf
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INRENCH FANCY ARTICLES. w. Ei-
CHER has just received from the import!
consignment, two cases of beautiful fancy ann "a
which he will sell at the invoice prices Ladc- un
gentlemen are invited to an examination of them
Stationers Hall, where large collection ofusclul *
cles are constantly kent for sale f,b5.
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DATENT COFFEE CLEARER article
i will be found on trial to be equal if not superior
to any thing heretofore used for the purpose of clear
ing or settling coffee clear amber and its cheap
ness, adds another inducement to its use as b.,
contains sufficient to " settle" 25 gallons There il
nothing in the composition that in any way be in
furious TO health For sale by
LAMBRIGHT s. CRANDEI.,
Pennsylvania Avenue, near the depot
Jan eft
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JUDGE UPSHUR ON TIE cONSIlTU-
y TlON-A Brief Inquiry into the true Nature
Review Of Judge Storys Commentaries on the Con
stitution of the United States by Judge Upshur Sc
cretary Of the Navy volume Of l32 pages Just Ie-
ceved for sale by lA1LOk,
feb 26-3tif
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NEW METALLIC PENS-W FISC HER ha
E1N just received from the manufacturers Aessrs
Josiah Hayden & Co, 1870 gross of Their Mr'alH
Pens, for the superiority of which the Anert an III
stitute in New York awarded gold medal
The assortment comprises the followisg kinds
Short Falcon, Combination Barrel Elongated Barre
Pointed Fine Pointed Damascus, Elongated F,Gt
Barrel, American Perryian Double Patent Long Fal
con, Combination and School Pen. For sale whoeso
and retail only at Stationers Hall the proprietor
which is agent fol the manufacturers.