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ExCLUsIVELY FANCY DRY GOODS.

EACLUSlVELY FANCY DRY GOODS
II H. MOORE x CO., 122 Broadway, corner OF Cedar
Lie street. New York, have in and receiving
Of the best assorted stocks of Fancy Dry Goods which
or liberal discount for cash. consisting part follows
millinery Goods.
10000 pieces No. to Sc ladies' and misses Bonnet and
Sash Rbands
10000 do to % plain Satin Ribands
Do do do Tafea do
Plain changeable, chine watered, and corded Bonnet
5000 pieces Belt Ribands
Full assortment Velvet Ribands '0.
Black and colored Grapes, Grape Lisse
!sristons Zephyr Illusion, and Brussels Lace
Cap Tabs, Crimped Ribands, sc.
Large assortment Of DraperIes.
Embroidered, wove and tamboured in Lace and Muslin
81 to l4-4 Mosquito Net, Curtain Fringe
Needework and tamboured Book, Cambria Swiss, Null,
and Jaconet Muslns
Plain do do
Bishop Lawn @.,..m
Mems plain and fancy Silk Cravats
rs Lnencambrc Handkerchefs, Gloves, suspe nde &c
Sundry Goods.
Marceliines Florences Satns, and India Silks
SIR Button, in great variety
higerine brads, Gimps, Dress Trimmings, Fringes
Oil Silks, LineA Cambrics Is.
Large assortment Kid Gloves
Sewing Silk Gloyessnd Mits ".."" ..m.
Mohair do. N do #,......
Ladies ii Fancy a Silk ft crava 40
Love Wells, black and green
Barge and Barege Wells, Pui,e Twist
Embroidered and plain Linen Lvn, and Cambria Hdkts
OOHpicte VI Cambria Insert
ings and Edgings
Capes, Collars, Cuffs Caps, &C.
Sc inches Madras and Swiss Cravats
Lace Goods.
Thread, Cotton, and Valenciennes Edgngs
Flouncings and Insertings
All widths plain and embroidered Cotton and Silk Asces
White and colored for Dresses, Caps, &c.
Splendid assortment Lace Wells
Black Silk and Mohair Trimming Laces.
large proportion of the above goods are entirely new.
some the richest this Market and would respect
fully invite you to examine Them
feb 1-d&citOt 122 Broadway, (up stairs New York.
CLASSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL,
West Point, New York, by EdsO0rd " Atnstey.
nARENTS and Guardians intending to place their sons or
wards this Institution, at the commencement OF the
spring term will please make application at an early day.
Pupils are fitted for College, United States Military Acade-
nv, and for the various business pursuits OF life.
"CoLUMBIA COLLEGE,, IN. " JAS.16, 1881.
aI take pleasure in stating my opinion that the Classical
and Mathematical School West Point, New York, under
the charge of Edward v. Kiney AM, is worthy OF the
confidence of and guardians The OF nstruc-
judging part from students received in this College
from that school, is thorough and udcous and the discipline
and moral culture efficient and successful.
"CHARLES KING, LID.
president Of Columbia College"
REFERENCRs:
c. p Kirkland Esq, N. Y. President and Professors OF
Joseph Burnett, Esq, Boston. Yale College
COL A. Pleasonton, Pha Superintendent and Profess
Burwell Boykin, ESQ.,. Mo- of the United States
bile, Alabama. Military Academy.
Paul F. Vllepigue, Camden,
South Carolina feb 6-cp2w
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LADY who has had experience in teaching, desires 20
~ obtain situation as teacher in seminary. She
graduate Of Northern institution, and is competent to IN
srct in the higher English branches French Spanish Draw
ing and Painting. Address j. A. H., Box 1885, West Troy
Post Office, New York, feb7-eo
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addona allowance Tor clerk hire under such limitations and
restrictions may be prescribed by Congress the Post
General These commissions should then be dsburs
ed and accounted for under existing laws.
The rates Of postage printed matter, and especially
bound books least for great distances fixed by House
BILL too low for the interests Of the department There
fear that the large increase of printed poduc-
ed by this bill will overburden mails and than quad
ripple the failures and Irregularities much complained
Of and which to great extent caused by the
weight Of the printed matter ee and chargeabe)
by mail If there is increase great as may perhaps be
anticipated the present horseback service on mail
will be required to be raised two horse coach SERVICE
and two horse to four horse coach service thus requiring
increase Of our expenditures for transportation
II the department is to the business of express
panes and other common carriers should be allowed to
graduate its prices at least in respect distance. II will
be perceived that with the unoim fixed BY this
the department will only be allowed to carry over long
the post Office rates. From Houlton in the State Of Mne
Santa Fe in New Mexico, from ST. Paul in Minnesota to
San Francisco in California the Post Office Department must
carry reprints Of novels and other books and other printed
NATTER the Of fifteen pound while no private
express would undertake carry the same in parcels of one
hundred pounds at five times that rate.
Prepaid magazines and what will not be magazine If this
bill passes be carried seven and half cents or less
per pound from Philadelphia San Francisco while the pri.
expresses charge per pound for
of hundred pounds from New York to San Francisco
The department pays from eighteen twenty cents pound
for of the transportation Of this matter across the
alone and after allowing the fifty per cent commissions
to the posmastes gets but 81 per pound for carving
it the whole distance from Philadelphia, by the way of New
York, to San Francisco
Our present semi monthly mails which cross the Ishmus
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, will il believed soon exceed
thousand pounds in weight than twenty thousand
pounds month"; and their weight under this bill will depend
great extent upon the quantity Of books and other printed
NATTER weighing than thirty ounces EACH which the
booksellers and dealers Of San Francisco can sell at the reduc-
ed prices they put them, when carried in the mail at
oneouh the freight charged by private expresses
The provisions Of the second section would embrace
printed circulars and reduce the postage Of those not weighing
than from the present rate of three cents
prepaid to cent without regard prepayment If there
to be any such reduction would be better 10 make Il only
when at least five hundred put in Office at the same
me and prepaid by stamps which should be authorized for
! such purpose.
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SIMPLY put TWO or three single stamps On your letter there
no Inconvenience resulting from this currency It works
out the greatest possible convenience, and think the
try could adopt itwith the greatest satisfaction know
the honorable chairman Of the Committee on Post Offices
suggests that you suddenly stop the present system, and
introduce system with which the public unacquain
ed, little Inconvenience and confusion would follow
But to be considered that great change be
worked without some inconvenience u.
Sir will enter into the financial view Of the subject
but experience has shown that when reduce the
rates the correspondence throughout the country increases
and we have every to believe both from
peence and the experience Of other countries that have adopt
ed system Of this sort that the instant is resored to, and
the country discover how cheaply they command the post
fed in the by the increased which passes
through the office. There is every thing, in my judgments
to recommend system of this sort, and to commend to
fair and discreet trial in the country. have been anxious
from the first efforts made here to reform postage rates. to
change the rate of payments have been anxious to
at once to some system of this Sort and to uniform rae
and would insist prepayment in all and would
give the currency have adverted in order make
venient to body think you would enough
think the country would be Satisfied with it. These
considerations which impressed my mind and which
felt anxious to embraced by the country But hope
that the Senator from New York will of Difference the
opinion Of the department, and the condition Of the finances
lei the rate Of three stand The department say they
will struggle with and get with it. will meet them in
the spirit of compromise for that be the fashion of
the day. will meet them that ground would be glad
TO see uniform rate of prepayment do much to
recommend an increased rate unpaid letters What would
be the effect Suppose chooses write to me, and
does not pay the postage although may be his af
fairs and his own business he is punished The reci
pent OF the letter is punished and that will out to be
the case in about nine times out of II you raise the rate
unpaid letters in order to nhct slight penalty you
Dfct on the individual who takes the letter from the Office
instead Of him who sends it. You nct the penalty on the
wrong man. You do not place the penalty on the right
shoulders; and do much to recommend system Of
that sort nor do perceive that there is any thing to
mend the discrimination proposed believe the English have
such principle but do wish to see it adopted here.
would be very glad if this motion Of the Senator from New
York was drawn in form in which could give my sup
port. should be very glad to aid in establishing uniform
rate Of three cents.
Mr.. SMITH II seems to me that il is desirable to m
the gentlemen to the precise question have before
That question IS whether we shall shall not cut down the
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dy stated the why think the treasury should con-
tribute produce that result to limited extent and for
temporary period.
think the history of the penny postage system in Great
Britain should not be lost upon and that Senators should
be alarmed have their fears excited that are throw
ing this department upon the treasury by establishing here
low rate that which is in operation in Great Britain
The mercantile community, all classes Of people in fact
competent the English the advantages of the
cheap postage system And whatever may be true Of that
system will be than here The system that has
been found to effect such great results there may, in my
opinion, be relied upon with the utmost safety here
MEMBER too, very well the humble part took in ef.cting
the reduction Of postage in the other branch the national
legislature, when reduced from the old the present
rates and think may say truly that precisely the
state Of alarm existed then in the minds Of those who
called to act in relation cheap postage that exists
That result has proved that low Of postage which did
not at first yield revenue adequate the support of the
department. has already began to yield surplus r.
This bill originally proposed propectvey to give the Post
master General power whenever the revenues should su
cient increase, reduce the from three cents to
cents But that provision has been stricken out The bill
then stands without any discretionary power being vested in
the Postmaster General and establish the rates which
specified, my word for you will have the routine,
you will have the process go again relation to
this whole matter think the public mind is already set
tied, that system Of very cheap postage be supported
in England can be supported here. And the evidence
which is furnished to us in relation recent reduc.
ton OF postage with the full force for further reduction
In my judgment it is vastly better once, by single rate
to establish that system which much DESIRED and which
think will be agitated until is accomplished than to adopt
at different periods Of time and subject the whole legislation
of the country to these periodical pepexities revising the
system, will not say annual but periods of every two
three years distant from each other.
These the which will control vote, but will
not elaborate upon them. had looked into the subject
fully and there calculations in figures, think, which
would to satisfy many least Of the feasibility Of the
proposed reduction but do not design espass the time
of the Senate for the purpose Of presenting them. have
| sta npv he uri ma
| which shall give
Mr.. DAYTON. entirely in the recommendations
which have been made different sides Of the chamber that
it desirable lower rates Of postage keeping at the
time the standard sufficiently high to enable the depart
approximate at least 10 support itself We have been
referred the system of postage in Great Britain where
believe postage is limited to penny, which is equal to
about two cenPepad and they have addition for unpaid
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desired TO submit that postage upon letters should IN all
be required be prepaid and should be fixed for all
distances two cents The House of Representatives have
adopted the of three cents for all distances in the United
States, without discriminating between prepaid and unpaid
letters The proposition of the committee OF the Senate is
adopt three the postage prepaid and five
as the rate on unpaid letters. shall deain the
Senate with argument upon my proposition because
phase of postage REFORM Called has been exam
ned and considered wish barely say that suppose the
adoption Of either principle this subject will make the
Post Office Department burden the treasury for
tme But if the principle which this postage reform rests
be sound believe to be- and has proved itself 10 be,
then that burden the treasury would shortly disappear and
the rates of postage would produce and believe
that ultimately will be produced by adopting the
standard of than by either of the other standards
which the consideration Of the Senate by the
bills before them.
The manner in which reduction Of postage operates as
all know by increasing the of correspondence
and of increasing the number of small charges which,
taken together constitute the revenue The adoption OF
the lowest standard will tend increase the revenue in
judgment OF course there is minimum beyond which
much revenue cannot be produced
The advantage Of adopting prepaid system in all cases.
would be to reduce the expenses of the department. reduce
them vastly, reduce them beyond calculation for large por-
ton Of the expenses Of the Post Office Department now
know incurred by Of the credit SYSTEM render
ing large number of clerks necessary the deputy
offices the multiplication of clerks rendered necessary
for the keeping Of complicated accounts that swes the ex-
penditures Of the Post Office Department.
do any why those who willing to pay
for the Of the post office should be afforded credit unless
be necessary to accommodate class Of the people
the United States orfo the benefit of the Post Office Depart
submit whether the reduction Of postage cents
would not bring entirely within the reach Of every person
who has occasion to the post Office For that
fer the amendment.
Mr.. RUSk. am not particularly opposed to the adoption
OF that amendment though perhaps due to the Posmas-
ter General with whom have consulted, and at whose in
stance great many othe provisions Of the amendment have
offered put 10, TO state that he is of opinion that Is
absolutely TO adopt the system of for pre-
paid and another for unpaid letters In the first place. there
has been no system in operation requiring the prepayment
Persons have been at liberty prepay not to pre-
pay as they chose The consequence would be that those
persons who were acquainted with the change Of the law
would throw unpaid letters into the Offices That is OBJ
ectionand one which has great forcsto the amendment
proposed by the honorable Senator from New York Another
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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.


nN the petition of o. W Whittier. Of Concor ,
W New Hampshire, praying for the extension OF
a patent granted 10 him on the 30th day of May,
1897, for au improvement in fire arms, for seven
yoars from the expiration of said patent, whic h
takes place on the 3Uth day of May, 1891:
ltis ordered that the said petition be heacd t the
Patent Office on Monday, the nth day of Mar h,
ls5, at II o'clock, NJ and all persons are notified
to appear and show cause, if any they have, why
said petition ought not to be granted
Ordered, also, that this notice he published in the
Republic. intclligcncer, and Union, Washing ton,
ID. c.; Tribune, New York; Providence journal
Providence, II. Daily Bee, Boston, Macs; jour
nal, Portsmouth y H.. once a week Tor three sue
cessive weeks previous to the said l1.h day of
March next. rHOS. EWBANk,
Commissioner Of Patents
L. Editors OF The above papers will please
copy, and send their bills TO the Patent Office, with
paper containing this notice.
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LIFE ASSURANCES.
National Loan Fund L.ife Assurance society
20 CORNHlLL, LONDON, AND II WALL
STREET, NEW YORK.

a6 CORNHLL, LONDON, AND II WALL
! STREET, NEW YORK.
| CAPITAL, t50O0OO sterling, or S2,50OO0O
| " (Empotrered BY -dct of ParlihmeHt) 2d PIC
Royal Assent, 27h July, 1888. "a Savings Bank
for the Widow and the Orphan" I. Lamie. Muir
ray, George street Hanover Square, ChairmGne Of
/ tie Court Of Directors, London.
UNITED STATES BoAnD OF Local DlI coroRs.
New YosK.-C. Edward Habcht Chairman;
John S. Palmer, James Boormap, George Barclay,
Samuel ). Howiand, Samuel VI. FuX, W iliian Van
Hook, Aquila G Stout, Tanning G Tucker, Bsche
PnrLAnnlpnlA. Clement c. Biddle, George r.
Graham, W. Peter, Ci. Is NJ Consult Louis 4.
Cooley, william Joncs.
BALTIMORE. Jonathan MEREDITH John McTavish,
III. B. NJ. Conaul,) Donald McIlvain, samuel HotI.
man. Henry Tiffany, DR.. J. il. McCuloch.
BosToy.-George NJ. Thatcher, l=rael Whitney,
Franklin Dexter, Benjamin Seayer Elijah H. .hr,g-
ham, f. a. Crattan, III. b. NJ. Consul.)
j. LEANDER STARR, G5nerGi 3gent
EDWARD +. RrcHARpsoN, GeGnal iccounia,t
for the United States nd b. \. Il Colonies
Pamphlets containing therateso PrcnuIn, pros
pcctus examples, naunds OF gents medical exam
ncrs, Sc, can be had free OF char-s, on arpcaton
at II Wall street, and of az tnts.
Part Of the capital is permanently invested IN the
United States, in the names of three OF the local d.
rcctors, Understandable always to the assured
in cases OF disputed claims (shoutd ANY SUCH arise)
or otherwise.
Thirty DAYS arc allowed, after each payment oi
Premium becomes due without forfeiture of policy.
The United states Local Board meet every Wed
neatiay, at their Office in Wall street, where all
business connected with the Society operations in
America is transacted--afo ording thereby every
possible advantage of pronptness and attention TO
parties in OF leave to travel, loans settlement
&c.
Medical examiners attend daily, At o'clock, p.
M. at IL Wall street, and az the once oi the diff
fcrent Local Boards and Agcncics:
All communications to bc addressed to
/. LEANDER STARR, Genera! -Agenf
/ for the United States and fer y. n. 4 Colonies
/
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MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE AND EIKE IN
SUKANCE COMPANY OF LOUISIANA.

MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE AND FIKE IN
sURANCE COMPANY OF LOUISIANA.
INCORPORATED APRIL lS49, AND DECLARED
DIVIDEND OF 20 TER CENT ON II MONTHS BUSINESS.
Business Of the Company confined to Life
Insurance only.
Permanent Fund by Actor Incorporation,
100000.
Office No IS Camp Street, bepeen Grauier and Com
mon streets, Ne,p Orleans.
This permanent fund to be invested as per char
ter for the benefit of the policy holders, i'll bonds
and mortgages on unincumbered real estate valued
at double the amount loaned thereon, and in stocks
OF the State and of the United States government.
This company, being organized solely for the
protection of the policy holders and their families
against want and poverty, is in its operations
great national benevolent institution, conducted
upon the most secure and solid principles, and af-
fording, for n small annual sum, paid during life,
I, large and handsome legacy to widows and chill
dren after death.
All policy holders, whether for life shorter
terms who continue the insurance till death, par
ticpate in the whole of the profits Of the company
Creditors can insure the livee of debtors. A
married woman effect insurance on the life of
her husband for the sole benefit and use of herself
and children free from the claims of creditors
TRUSTEES.
John Hagan Samuel Stewart
Peter Conrey jr. Henry $. Buclner
Robert J. Ward John 5. Allison
Isaac johnson VIM. r. Levcrich
Joseph Walker Edward Sparrow
Maunsel White
PETER CoNRRY, Jr., president BOARD OF trustee
DIRECToR6.
Joseph w Stanton Geo w Smith
John l.. Lewis Junius Bebee
n. G.. Hall NJ NJ. Cohen
John l.. Safarans Edw. Jenner Cox
r. w. Sewell A. Van Bbber
Cornelius Fellowcs William II. White
J. Morgan Hall rheo. II. McCacb
r. II. barton b. NJ. Norman
Andrew Carr e.. C. Snetbcn.
JoHN HAGAN, Prcsidcnt of the Company.
Epw. JgsNEn COKE, Vice President.
A. J. WEppERBuRS, NJ. d. Medical Board oi
THOMAS iluNT, NJ. ID. s Consultation.
H. G.. HEARTT, Actuary.
T.. l.. GooLp, Attorney.
RioHAnp BEiS. MD, No. 21l Magazine street,
Medical Examiner who will be at the office daily
from ~ 20 > O'Clock, D. m.
BY the Charter only y 5000 is taken ON a single
life.
0s- This Company is prepared to entertain ap-
pcations for Life Insurance, and issue Poicics on
all sound and healthy White persons and Negroes,
at the Table of Rates established by the Board,
which are less than the rates charged by the New
York and London offices, and without their resrlo-
ions 10 residence in the South. by the charter,
Dvidcndes of Profits declared annually, and
the profits draw interest, and can be made availa-
bic at once 10 the extent of two thirds of their
amount. where the party has paid his premiums in
full
tIys California Permits at New York and London
Rates. Prospectus, Table OF Rates, and all intur-
nation as to Life Insurance and all papers neces-
cary TO effect Insurance can he had at the office of
the Company.
Gks- Extensive Travelling Prvilegesare allowed.
90 Office hours, 9 a III. 10 p.
August 2-ly
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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
DscEMneR 2l. lSjO


EeN the petition uf j. \ Pitts, OF Springfield,
~ Oaio aud H. \. Pitts, Of Alton, Illinois,
praying nr the extension of patent giauted TO
them On the 29h day OF June. loS1, for an improve
hcnt IN throshiug and cleaning grain Tor scre n
years FROM the expiration OF said patent, which
takes uiacc on the 29tll day OF JGnc, 1851:
II ie ordered that the said petition be heard at the
Patent Office. Monday, the 3D. day of March.
1851 al II O'Clock. Nj and all persons no
tilicd 10 appear lnd show cause, II any they have,
why said petition ought not to be granted.
Pcrsuus opposing the extension required to fl
in the Patent Oice their obec tions specifically stt
forth in writing atlenzt ysbeforo thoday ofhear-
ing, Nl testimony filed by ,ithcr party to he used
az the said hearing must bc taken and transmitted
in accordance with the rul,e oi the Office, which
will br furnished un application.
Ordered, al-o that this notice be published in the
Republic. intclligentcr, and Union, Washington
city, ID. q; Tribune, New York; Daily state Jour
mall Columbus, Ohio; Daily Atlas, Cincinnati
Ohio, week for three successive weeks pre-
vious To- the 81 day of March next.
TIiOS EWBANk,
Commissioner of Patents
y s.. Editutr vi the above papers will please
COPY, and send their bills To the Patent Office with
a paper containing this notice
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