The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-15

Proposals must be made for each class separately,
and separately for each district, and must state
the price per ream for classes i and 2. and per
pound for other classes; and in determining the
bids, the Postmaster General will accept the bid
for each class separately which shall seem best for
the interests of the Department.
Each proposal must be accompanied by and re-
fer to sample of the article proposed to be fur
nished; and the quality of such sample will be taken
into consideration in determining the bids.
Each proposal must be accompanied by sufficient
evidence of the ability of the BIDDER to comply with
the terms of his proposal.
The successful bidder will be required to enter
into contrast with two sufficient as required
by law.
Failures to furnish the articles promptly when
ordered, furnishing those of inferior quality in
any respect, or any attempt TO evade the true mean
ing of the contract, will be considered sufficient
cause for its forfeiture.
Payment will be made, on the production of the
proper vouchers, quarter yearly, one month after
the expiration of each quarter.
A price, and one price only, must be specified for
each and every article bid for; the amounts must
be accurately extended, and the aggregate amount
of each class separately exhibited. Proposals not
made in accordance with these directions will not
be considered
A discrepancy between the price set down and
the extensions which would afford the bidder an
opportunity of fixing his price after the bids
opened, by electng, as may be his interest to
tract for the other, will be considered fatal
to the bid.
Proposals should be marked on the outside of the
ehVelope, Proposals lot wrapping Faper, &c,
and addressed to the +" Second Assisgnt Postmaster
General, Washington, ID or
Oct 10 N. X. HALL, Postmaster General.
LITTELL'S LIVING AGE, NO. 3ss-I2s cts.
CONTENTS.
/. Southey's Life and Correspondence.-E din-
burgh ReUie0.
2. Eagles enHeys Miscsliany.
3. Lie OF Chalmers-Spectdtor
4, Crebilon, the French lKschylus.-Fraser's
Magazine.
5. Companions of my Solitude Eclectic Revie,p.
6. The Work of the World. Household Words.
T. The Yankees Called For.--Neto York EDening
Post
s. Personal History of Charles H. Taips Nigga
zine.
g. Bayard DECENTRALIZATION Transcript
10. State Of Europe.-Morning Chronicle Times,
and Spectator.
IL. United States and Cuba.-Trmes
IL. The Bloody Hand in Ireland.-Spectdfor.
SHORT ARTICLES: The Poorer Glasses i'm Eng
land Untaxed Orange Trees in the Garden of the
Tuileries; American Picty Abroad; Poisonous Satu-
rations under Towns; American Daguerreotypes.
New Books.
Or new volume has recently commenced.
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this country, this has appeared to to be the most
useful. IL contains, indeed, the exposition only of
the current literature of the English angua ge, but
this, by it's immenseextent and comprehension, in
cludes portraiture of the human mind in the ut
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