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May 24-3tawtds

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To mail contractors applicants for the appointment Of
Postmasers, &c., &c.
TIME undersigned having been associated with
i the General Post Office Department for more
than twenty years, and being perfectly familiar with
its details of business, offers his services to such
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10 patronize him, to transact any business which
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A CARD.--The subscriber, finding it impossible
n to close his old business for want Of time and
attention, has appointed Mr. JOHN scmyESER his
collector All accounts and notes unpaid will be put
in his hands for immediate settlement. To save any
further delay he is authorized to close all accounts
put in his hands, either by money or notes at short
dates
All accounts due ID. CLAGETT & Co., standing
over six months, will also be placed in his hands for
settlement All those who make settlement with
him will receive my thanks. D. CLAGETT,
May H.
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HARPS.-REMOvAL OF wARERo0MS
INGTON HALL NEW YORK;. F. Browne,
from London, maker and importer of double and
single action harps has constantly for sale as above
very fine selection Of these beautiful instruments
in every variety Of finish, superior in Tone touch,
and perfection Of finish to any Una. can De obtained
elite of musical taste will sufficiently prove. Please
observe the number-2sl Broadway. Harps re-
Mr.. Fischer Stationer's Hall, Washington City,
will attend any inquiries or orders for the subscri-
Der. -. r. bhOWNE,
London and New York, established 1910.
May 26-lm
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a GENCY FOR CLAIMS AT WASHING
n TON, ID. C.--CHARLEs De SELpNo, Gen.
eral Agent No. IL, Todd's buildings, Pennsylvania
avenue, Washington, d. c., offers his services to
those who may have claims on either of the execu-
tive departments, Congress- or private claims on
individuals
Particular attention paid to the settlement of ac-
counts of disbursing officers who may find it ncon-
venient to attend personally, especially those of the
navy.
Also attends as agent for nonresident property
holders, collecting rents, procuring pensions, &C.
Charges will be moderate, and regulated by the
amount claimed and the extent Of services required.
Communications (post paid) will receive immedi-
ate attention.
He has the honor to refer to the Navy Depart
ment, and the several bureaus connected with it;
Second Comptroller and Fourth Auditors offices,
and the senior pursers in the navy and also to Hon
C. C. Cambreleng, New York; Commodore Charles
Stewart, Philadelphia; Commodore John Downs,
Boston; Hon. Henry L. Ellsworth, Washington;
Hon. E. H. Foster, Nashville, Tennessee; and
Thomas NJ Blount, esq, Pensacola.
April III
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STATIONERY, PRINTING, AND BINDING
NAVY DEPARTMENT, May IL, ls45.

NAVY DEPARTMENT, May IL, l845
@ EPARATE PROPOSALS will be received at
- the Office of the Secretary of the Navy, until
o'clock, p. M, of Saturday the l4th day Of June
next, for furnishing all the stationery, and executing
all the printing and binding, that may be required
by The Navy Department, or any Of its bureaus,
for the year commencing LIST July, 1845, and ending
on the Both June, 1886.
All the articles to be furnished and work to be ex
ecuted must be of the best quality, Except where
otherwise stipulated delivered without delay when
ordered, and to the satisfaction of the head of the
Office for which they are required.
The department reserves to itself the right Of or
derng greater less quantity Of each and every
article contracted for, as the public service may
quire.
Bonds, with approved security, to be given by the
person or persons contracting; and in case of fail
ure to supply the articles, to perform the work.
the contractor and his surees shall be liable for the
forfeiture specified in such bond, lqudated DANA
ges to be sued for in the name Of the United States
in any court having jurisdiction thereof
To insure uniformity in the proposals, blank
forms will be furnished to all persons desiring to
bid. But price must be affixed to each article,
and each article must be bid for.
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Wan DEPARTMENT, May l845.

N1Hy
TIME appropriations applicable to such objects
i are so limited by law, that no books, aliases,
maps, newspapers, or periodicals., sent to the War
Department without subscription or order previous
ly given can be paid for considered public prop.
erty. All claims and accounts against the depart
which supplies Of any kind were ordered and fur.
nished, except for newspapers and periodicals SC
ordered, which will be rendered and settled yearly
The accounting quarters of the fiscal year term,
nate on the 30th of September, 3lst of December
3lst of March, and goth Of June.
May l3-2aw1m
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April 3-6m
CARPET HALL AND DEPOT, PTIlLADEL

CARPET HALL AND DEPOT, PIIlLADEL
PHIA.
HARPETINGS, floor furniture, silk and carriage
- oil cloths, mattings, and window shades
House-keepers "attention!''
100 pieces Brussels and Wilton carpetings
500 Go super three ply imperial and ingram
do
1000 do medium and fine ingram do
500 do venjtian and damask, assorted widths
500 do hemp, cotton and rag carpets
500 do Nankin, Canton and Spanish mating
100 do druggets and woollen floor cloths
100 do furniture oil cloths, "a TO GA wide
1000 yards floor oil cloths, from ! to 8 yards
wide
600 transpa rent oiled window shades Italian
moonlight and landscape views
1000 New England patent blinds
100 bales alicant mats, assorted sizes
200 do MANILA and jute mats
500 Wilton, Brussels and tufted hearth rugs
cases embroidered Partisan muslin curtains
do worsted carpet binding
500 dozen brass stair-rods
5 cases embroidered cloth and worsted piano
- and table covers
This mammoth stock, laid in for cash, comprising
every variety Of pattern, will be sold wholesale and
retail at the warehouses, 10 and 20 north Second
street, up stairs, at five per cent advance for cash
city acceptances, with interest added.
J. SIDNEY JONES.
Jan. 2S-ly
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sheet, per ream
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mail-carriers, on foolscap, ON a sheet,
do postmasters' commissions, on folio post,
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ruled, on foolscap, per rearn
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printed on both sides, and cross ruled,
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of from one ream to twenty, as offices may need
them.)
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require, per 900 ems for composition, and per to-
ken lot press Work.
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ment proportionaby equal to that of the kind which
is most like it.
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partment, to be recepted for and accounted for by
the printer, on demand.
The work must be executed in the best manner,
with new and perfect type.
The department reserves the right to prescribe the
letter on which its printing shall be executed.
In order to secure uniformity, blank forms for
proposals will be furnished application to the de-
partment Each proposal must be signed by the in
dividual or firm making it, and must specify the
price, and but price, for each and every item in
the foregoing advertisement! otherwise 1t will not be
considered
Each bid must be accompanied Ly ample tes-
timony Of the ability Of the bidder to perform the
work.
Bond, with security in twice the estimated amount
of the work to be done, will Gas the law demands)
be required of the person or persons contracting and
in Of failure to perform the work. the contract
or and his suretes will be liable for the forfeiture
specified in the bond, hquidated damages, to be
sued for in the name of the United States, in any
court having jurisdiction thereof.
The head Of the department will, in all cases. de-
eide whether the terms Of the contract have been
complied with, and reserves the power to annul the
contract upon any failure to comply in reasonable
time.
C. JOHNSON,
May 23-1aw4w Postmaster General.
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DDMoCRATIC REVIEW FOR JUNE, 1s45,
IL Is this day redeived, price IS per annum, or 80
cents the single number. The present number COM
pletes the seventh year Of this work, and offers
convenient point for new subscribers to commence.
The work will be regularly forwarded, strongly
enveoped to any post Office in the United States, If
application be made to F. TAYLOR, Bookseller,
Washington City
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PROTECTION INSURANCE COMPANY.

PROTECTION INSURANCE COMPANY.
q HYATT, Agent for the Protection Insurance
y. Company of Hartford, Connecticut, offers to
insure houses Mills factories barns, and their con-
tents, and all other descriptions of nsgrable proper
ty, against loss or damage by fire. The rates of
premium offered as low as those of any other
similar institution, and every man has now an OPP
portunty, for a trifing sum, to protect himself
against the ravages Of this destructive element,
which often in single hour sweeps away the earn
ings Of many years.
The course the office pursue in transacting their
BUSINESS and in the adjustment and paying of loss
es, is prompt and liberal
For terms of insurance, application may be made
to the above named agent at his Office, opposite
Browns Hotel, in the city Of Washington, who is
authorized to issue policies to applicants without
delay.
ID. w. CLARK, President.
w. CONNER, Secretary.
s. HYATT, Agent
June Sly
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ADVERTISER EMF.

I5-Observe CHARLES WILMER has no con
nection whatever with Messrs. Wilmer & Smith
and all orders and communications for Charles
Wilmer must be addressed in full to the
TRANSATLANTIC NEWSPAPER OFFICE,
5South John street, Liverpool.
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NEWS! NEWS! NEWS!!
TRANSATLANTIC NEWSPAPER OFFICE,
South John street, Liverpool.

CHARLES WILMER, Newspaper Forward.
~ ing, and General Agent, continues to supply to
order, with greater promptitude and regularity than
any other house, and on the most reasonable terms
Ia London daily paper for &c los. sterling per an
num- newspapers, prices-currents, shipping lists
magazines, books and stationery type, printers and
binders materials, and merchandise ofevery descrp
ton, to all parts of the United States, Canada, Move
Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland, by the
mail steamers, sailing the 4th and 18th of each
month from Liverpool, and to all the West ndia
islands, Mexico, and Texas, by the royal mai
steamers, sailing every fortnight from Southampton
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GREAT ATTRACTION!

GREAT ATTRACTION!
AT THE BALTIMORE CASH STORE.
VIZ will open tomorrow morning the following
w articles for gentlemen's wear, viz:
peices green and black French cashmeret
black drap d'cte, a very superior article
s doube-width tweed for sack coats
5 real French black cloth
3 super English do do
2 do do blue do
S fancy-colored do
FOR PANTALooNs-
3 1" sngle-miled black French doe-skin cas-
simeres
. double-milled black French doe-skin cas-
simeres
10 I" fancy-colored single-milled cassimeres
new style French linen drilling
" white 40 (super)
very fine duck drillings
IN vEsrMGs-
2 best English satin vesting
z &C buff ValentIa 10
Q double white Marseilles vesting
10 fancy-colored silk :, DO
On do Marseies do
All Of which we will have made up to order, in
the most fashionable manner and at the shortest mo-
tce-fts in all cases guaranteed.
On hand, and daily receiving
Gentlemen's linen and buckskln gloves
best-make kid gloves, white, black, and
best English silk gloves, white, black,
and colored
French cambria cravats
twilled silk cravats, (of Polka style)
white and colored silk pocket hdkfs.
linen cambria hdkfs,--a large lot
cold bordered do do
very superior silk shirts
do Angola do
do cotton drawers
With many other articles not mentioned
PITTMAN g. PHILLIPS.
May 23--eof llnteI'l
ECENT IMPROVEMENTS, by Andrew
II Ure, being a supplement to his Dictionary Of
Arts, Manufactures, and Mines" vol, l645.
The World In Pocket-book, or Universal Popu-
lar Statistics, small volume, ls45
/ May 16 r. TAYLOR
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+ H. NEvETT, Pennsylvania avenue, opposite
d. Fuller & Co.'s Hotel, has just received Sc
lect assortment of jelly, blanc mango, and pudding
inoulds, Of beautiful patterns. Also
Ice cream forms
Improved ice cream freezers and buckets
Block tin coffee pots, superior Britannia ware,
walters
Furnaces, with or without cofee-roasters attached
Summer-bakers, a very convenient article
Large and small bath-tubs, with without heaters
Hollow ware, consisting Of pots, ovens, skillets,
&c.
Together with a full assortment Of plain and ia
panned tin ware
To GRocERs.-He is prepared to furnish grocers
with japanned tea-canisters, scoops, scales and
weights, oil cisterns, and all other articles necessary
in their line; all which will be sold at the lowest
prices.
May 12-eod1m
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A GENCY FOR CLAIMS AT WASHING
IA TON.-The undersigned offers his services as
an agent for claims upon either of the departments
or Congress.
Particular attention will be paid to the settlement
of accounts of disbursing officers, who may find il
inconyenient attend personally, especially those
of the navy. His experience and practical knowl
edge will afford many facilities.
Charges will be moderate, and regulated by the
amount claimed and the extent Of service required.
Communications (post paid) will receive immediate
attention. CHARLES DE SELDING,
Room No. III Todd's Building,
Pennsylvania avenue.
REFERENCES.
Commodore Charles Stewart, u. 8. N.
Commodore John Downes, u. s. N
Stephen Cambreleng, esq, New York.
A. 0. Dayton, esq, Fourth Auditor, Treasury
Department
A. T. Smith, esq, Chief Clerk Navy Depart
ment. ~
Rev. Septimus fusion, Chaplain to the Senate.
John G. Rives, esq, Washington, d. c.
John Boyle, esq,
James Hoban, ESQ.,,
Charles Q; Handy, esq, Purs0r U. s. Navy.
John De Bree, esq,
R. R. Waldron, esq, {"
April 9-tf
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JAMES /. DICKINs,

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
DRACTlSES in the Supreme Court of the
United States, and the several courts Of the Dis
tricl OF Columbia; prosecules claims before Con-
gress and the several Departments of the General
Government; and, in general, does all business re-
curing an agent or attorney Office, No. A. wesr
wing of the City Hall, Washington city, d. G.
Oct 26--dly
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10 resms Folio Post paper, ruled
80 do Quarto Post do
40 do Envelop do
do Note Paper, gilt edged
40 40 do do copying or tissue paper d qua post
do white cap, flat
10 do blotting, royal
IL wafer stands, or boxes, cocoa
IL pounce boxes, cocoa
dozen bottles blue ink, in quarts
8 do do do in pints
do, do best London copying ink, pin,
jugs, Arnold's or Terrys
dozen quart bottles black ink
3 do pint bottles red ink
6pounds pounce
5000 6uills, No. so, opaque and clarified
800 cards Of Steel Pens, IL on card
100 do Perryisn Pens
SO gross Steel Pens
rs dozen Red Tape, No. Is to IS
. do Taste
80 pounds best superhne Sealing Wax
20 do second quality do
Is do best quality Waters
1000 large office Waters
SO Penknves, Rodgers's best four-bades
"a Erasers, ivory handles
SO ivory Folders, 8 inches
"a Sand-boxes, cocoa wood
IL pairs of Shears and Scissors .,.,
60 quarts Black Sand
"a Wafer Stamps, of ivory
81 Poance Boxes, do
pounds India Rubber
"a dozen Black Lead Pencils, Monroe's best
do Red do do
500 sheets of Parchment, best prepared, IA by 10
"a Inkstands, of glass and wedgewood
10 pounds Gum Arabic
"a Paper Weights, of brass, composition, or
10 pounds Cotton Irvine
10 do Flax do
200 sheets Drawing Paper, from medium to an
tiquarian
SO sheets of Tracing-paper
IL sticks India Ink
Printing.
$500 copies of Navy Register, in nonpareil type,
about .r 70 folio post sv fod. mostly SHY
stitched, with blue printed covers, paper
SO copies of Navy Register, same matter over
run into quarto form, to be half bound, and
10 Of the copies to be interleaved and faint
Circulars and other blanks, paper included
SO SO T Tssm. s susr'0 post or pages
10 reams folio post do do
Book work, exclusive of paper, viz:
Composition, per 1000 ems
Press-work, per token
Binding.
10 volumes of newspapers, daily, per yearly
volume
100 volumes Of books, Svo., full bound, in calf
and sheep
100 volumes do half bound
Blank books for records, &c, similar to those
now in use, which may be examined by all
inclined to bid
Manuscript letters, to be half bound, per pattern
Faint ruling 20 reams letter paper.
May l2-iawl4J
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~ mnnIv received by w. MANN,
Sign Of the LARGE BOOT,
and ]. K. FOWLER,
April il'n ana suests'
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DLUE LAWS OF CoNNECTICUT.--on'
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PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING.
PosT OFFIcE DEPARTMENT,

May %, l845.
I'm compliance with the seventeenth section Of the
L act of Congress "legalizing and making appro-
priations for such necessary objects as have been
usually included in the general appropriation bills
without authority of law and to fix and provide for
certain incidental expenses of the departments and
Offices of the government and for other purposes, /"
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CHARLES wILLMER'S
AMERICAN NEWS LETTER

rs published for transmission by every steamship
L sailing from England for America; and its lead
ing feature is to give, at glance an account of ev-
cry important event that has occurred in Great Brit
ain, Europe, or Asia, in the interval between the
sailing of each steamship, whether in politics or
commerce. correct and comprehensive shipping
list, in which will be found faithful record of the
arrival and departure of American vessels at and
from all the British, European and Asiatic ports,
with notices of such casualties or disasters as may
from time to time occura complete prices current,
in which the greatest care is taken to give the latest
reports of the markets for the various descriptions
Of American produce, from the most unquestiona-
BILE thus combining, in one sheet, ne,Dspa
per, shipping is and prices current.
Annual subscription, payable in advance, lbs Cd.
sterling.
All orders must be accompanied with remit
lance or reference in England for payment.
NOTICE.
All communications must be postpaid, and adj
dressed
CHARLES WILMER,
Transatlantic Newspaper Office,
SoUrH JOHN STREET,
Liverpool:
Or they will not reach CHARLES WLLMER's
Office.
NO connection with Messrs. WILMER & SMITH
Oct 3l-1aw1y G.Af0i