The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-10-12


800 yards fancy list cloth, blue
$50 yards fancy list cloth, scarlet
$50 yards fancy list cloth, green
1000 yards gray list cloth, blue
5000 yards saved list cloth, blue
| 800 yards saved list cloth, scarlet
500 yards saved list cloth, green
go pounds worsted yarn fold
100 dozen cotton flag handerchiefs
$50 dozen cotton Madras handkerchiefs
It's dozen black silk handkerchiefs
80 dozen ga cotton shawls
so dozen Cd cotton shawls
90 dozen A cotton shawls
40 dozen "a woollen shawls
2S 200 yards domestic calico
5000 yards English and French calico
10, 900 yards Merrimack calico
$500 yards blue drilling
5000 yards Georgia stripes
1900 yards blue denims
900 yards cottonade
7 900 yards domestic shirting, bleached
$1,000 yards domestic shirting, unbleached
$1,000 yards domestic sheeting, unbleached
5000 yards checks, stripes, and paids
400 dozen woolen socks
1000 yards plaid linsey
1880 yards fannels, assorted
900 flannel shirts
TOO calico shirts
430 pounds linen thread
$50 pounds cotton thread
400 dozen spool cotton, Nos. TO 80
so pounds sewing silk
700 pieces riband, assorted
1900 yards bed ticking
1000 yards Kentucky jeans
500 yards sattinets
$50 gross worsted gartering
POO pounds Chinese vermillion
20 dozen silk handkerchief bark and Bandana
$50 gross fancy and clay pipes
Hardware.
l,7S0 pounds brass kettles
900 tin kettles
IS nests of iapanned kettles, $ in a nest
go dozen butcher knives
2S 900 gun hints
% gross squaw avis
900 fish hooks
% dozen fish lines
% 900 needles, assorted
100 dozen combs, assorted
10 dozen scissors, assorted
10 gross gun worms
u dozen axes, to weigh from Al to 5. pounds
so dozen half axes, 10 weigh 81 pounds
"A dozen hatchets, to weigh ! pounds
agricultural Implements, &c.
100 axes, to weigh from a to 5, pounds
400 half axes TO weigh g. pounds
200 hatchets, 10 weigh / pounds
% broad
POO drawing knives, ~ inches in length
700 augers, in equal proportions of !, !, Z, and
inch
$50 pairs names
$50 pairs trace chains
300 pounds brass kettles
800 wedding hoes
IT'S hand saws
40 cross cut saws, feet in length
40 cross-cut saws 8 feet in length
100 hand saw files
100 cross-cut saw files
40 log chains TO weigh IS pounds each
600 Whittemore cards, No. 10
100 quarter socket chses
go planes, fore and jack
Northwest Guns.
$50 Northwest guns two-thirds Of which must
measure 80 inches in length of barrel, and
one third AZ inches, 10 be delivered in the
city of New York or Philadelphia, as may
be required
Samples Of all the above articles are deposited in
the office Of the Commissioner Of Indian Affairs;
and il may be proper TO remark that those of hard
ware, agricultural Implements and northwest guns
are entirely new, and Of better quality than the
ticles heretofore furnished under former contracts.
The proposals may be divided into four parts, viz:
LIST. Blankets.
ID. Dry goods.
Sd. Hardware, to include agricultural imple-
nents &c.
4th. Northwest guns.
The lowest competent responsible bidder will re-
ceive the whole any part of the contract accord
ing 70 the above scale, the Department reserving u
itself the right TO determine whether the bidder is
competent and responsible, or not.
The whole amount in money TO be applied to the
| purchase Of goods will be about 800 900 but the
! Department reserves the night to increase di-
minish the quantity Of any of the articles named,
substitute others in lieu thereof to require al
similar prices, such goods as may be wanted for
presents other purposes, In the administration oil
| the affairs Of the Department. Goods Of American
manufacture, all other things being equal will be
preferred; but all the samples Of blankets and
cloths are Of foreign manufacture, II will be neces-
sary, when a domestic article is bid for, that a
sample Of il should accompany the bid, 10 enable
the Department TO decide whether it il Of equal
quality with the samples 10 be exhibited.
The party proposing TO supply the articles will
make an invoice Of alt the items embraced in the
| AL IAt. "A q
at which he they will furnish them, deliverable
IN New York Tor If the contractor prefers it, about
one-half Of the quantity may be delivered in St
Louis Missouri, free Of expense 10 the Government
on or before the 18th day Of May next, assuming
the quantity Of each article specified in this adj
! vertisement, and extending the cost, making ar
aggregate of the whole invoice constituting th,
| bid. The goods will be inspected in New York
(and in St Louis, If any portion Of them should b,
delivered there) by an agent Of the United States
| who will be appointed by the Department for the
purpose, and " ASCERTAIN the conformity Of the
ticles purchased with the samples exhibited, wher
the contract shall be made, and with the terms d
the contract itself, which shall contain clause tina
II the articles not furnished within the tim,
prescribed, If they Of insufficient quality in
| the opinion OF the agent aforesaid, and if within
! FIVE days after notice Of such insuficiency tn,
party shall furnish others in lieu thereof Of tn,
required quality the United States shall be author
lied 10 purchase them Of others, and TO charge any
| increase Of price they may be compelled 10 pay
therefor, the contractor who shall pay the sac
difference 10 the United States.
Bonds will be required, in the amount Of the bids
| with two good sureties the sufhciency Of whom u
be certified by 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 a. afore
| said 70 an agent Of the Department, upon dupli
cate invoice certified by him.
| Communications TO BE- marked " Proposals fo
Indian goods"
The BIDS will b. submitted with the following
heading, and none will be received that no
made in the form and term. here prescribed
Tor weD propose 10 furnish for the service o
the Indian Department the following goods, at tn,
prices afhEed % them respectively, viz
tHere insert the list Of goods.)
Deliverable in the city Of New York Tor st. LOUIS
on or before me - day Of re1t; and Ia u