The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-10-25

DTy GOODS.
200 yards scarlet strouds
500 yards blue strouds
500 yards fancy list cloth, blue
$50 yards fancy list cloth, scarlet
$50 yards fancy list cloth, green
| 200 yards gray list cloth, blue
1900 yards saved list cloth, blue
| 600 yards saved list cloth, scarlet
500 yards saved list cloth, green
225 pounds worsted yarn, fold
100 dozen cotton flag handerchiefs
$50 dozen cotton Madras handkerchief
IT'S dozen black silk handkerchefs
80 dozen 81 cotton shawls
50 dozen Ga cotton shawls
65 dozen "A cotton shawls
40 dozen S-4 woollen shawls
2S 900 yards domestic calico
5000 yards English and French calico
10000 yards Merrimack calico
$500 yards blue drilling
5000 yards Georgia stripes
1000 yards blue denims
900 yards cottonade
1000 yards domestic shirting, beached
10 900 yards domestic shlrtlng, unblcached
$1,000 yards domestic sheeting, unbleached
5000 yards checks, stripes, and plaids
400 dozen woollen socks i
1000 yards plaid linscy
| 500 yards hannels, assorted
500 flannel shirts
100 calico shirts
430 pounds linen thread
$50 pounds cotton thread
400 dozen spool cotton, Nos. ! TO 80
50 pounds sewing silk
700 pieces riband, assorted
1900 yards bed ticking
900 yards Kentucky jeans
500 yards sattincts
$50 gross worsted gathering
200 pounds Chinese vermilon
20 dozen silk handkerchiefs, bark and Bandana
80 gross fancy and clay pipes
Hardware.
$50 pounds brass kettles
900 tin kettles
76 nests of iapanned kettles : in nest
go dozen butcher knives
% 900 gun fiints
% gross squaw avis
1000 fish hooks
25 dozen fish lines
$4,000 needless assorted
100 dozen combs, assorted
10 dozen scissors, assorted
10 gross gun worms
Y dozen axes, TO weigh from a to 8. pound.
so dozen half axes, to weigh 81 pounds
% dozen hatchets, to weigh pounds
agricultural Implements, &c.
1870 axes, to weigh from Al to s, pounds
400 half axes to weigh - pounds
200 hatchets, TO weigh pounds
% broad axes
200 drawing knives, ~ inches in length
700 augers, in equal proportions of !. /, 2, and
] inch
$50 pairs names
$50 pairs trace chains
300 pounds brass kettles
800 wedding hoes
l15 hand saws
40 cross cut saws, feet in length
40 cross-cut saws, feet in length
100 hand saw files
100 cross-cut files
40 log chains W weigh 25 pounds each
600 Whittcmore cards, No. 10
100 quarter socket chisels
90 planes, fore and Jack
Northwest Guns.
$50 Northwest guns, two. thirds of which must
measure 80 inches in length of barrel, and
one third ~ inches, TO be delivered in the
city Of New York or Philadelphia, as may
be required.
Samples of all the above articles are deposited in
I the Office Of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs
and il may be proper 10 remark that those OF hard
ware, agricultural implements, and northwest guns
are entirely new, and Of better quality than the ar
tclcs heretofore furnished under former contracts
The proposals may be divided into four parts, viz
LIST. Blankets.
ID. Dry goods.
Sd. Hardware, to include agricultural nipple
| ments, &C.
4th Northwest guns.
The lowest competent responsible bidder will re-
ccivc the whole any part Of the contract accord
ing 10 the above scale, the Department rcserving 20
! itself the right 70 determine whether the bidder is
competent and responsible, or not.
The whole amount in money 10 be applied ~ the
! pure hasc Of goods will be about S90OO0, but the
/ Department reserves the right 10 increase di.
minish the quantity of any of the articles named,
substitute others in lieu thereof or TO require, at
similar prices, such goods a. may be wanted for
presents or other purposes IN the administration OF
the affair of the Department Goods Of American
Manufacture all other things being equal, will be
preferred; but as all the samples Of blankets and
cloths Of foreign manufacture it will be ncces-
sary, when a domestic article is bid for, that a
/ sample Of il should accompany the bid, 70 enable
the Department 70 decide whether it IL of equal
| quality with the samples ~ b. exhibited
! The party proposing To supply the articles will
/ make an invoice Of all the items embraced in the
above list and afix the prices in dollars and cents
urltr Ha will furnish them deliverable
in New York, Cor II the contractor prefers H. about
one half of the quantity may be delivered in st
Louis Missouri, free Of expense To the Government
on or before the 18th day OF May next, assuming
the quantity of each article specified in this ad
vcrtisement, and extending the cost making an
aggregate Of the whole invoice constituting th,
bid. The goods will be inspected in New Yorh
(and in st. Louis, II any portion OF them should b.
delivered thcrc) by an agent Of the United States
who will be appointed by the Department for the
purpose, and "a ascertain the conformity OF the ar
tices purchased with the samples exhibited, wher
the contract shall be made, and with the terms o
the contract itself which shall contain clause tina
If the articles not furnished within the hm'
prescribed, if they Of insufficient quality II
the opinion Of the agent aforesaid, and u within
FIVE days after notice Of such insufbCiency th'
party shall not furnish others in lieu thereof Of thu
required quality, the United States shall be author
lied 10 purchase them Of others, and to charge any
inc rease OF price they may be compelled to pay
therefor ~ the contractor, who shall pay the saic
difference b. the United States.
Bonds will be required, in the amount Of the bids
with two good surcties, the sufhciency OF whom Il
be- certified by a United States Judge or Distric
Attorney, for The faithful performance Of the con
tracts. Payment will be made after the contract i
completed and the delivery Of the goods as afore
said 10 agent Of the Department, upon duph
cate invoice certified by him.
Communication TO BE- marked "Proposals 70
Indian goods"
The bids will be- submitted with the following
heading and none will be received that no
made in the form and terms here prescribed:
81 (or WEI propose 70 furnish for the service 0
the Indian Department the following goods, at tn
prices affixed 10 them respectively, viz:
(Here insert the listof goods.)
Deliverable in the city of New York Tor ~. Louis
on or before the - day e. next; and IN case 0
the acceptance Of his proposais the quantity beinl
prescribed by the Department., (or we) will exc