The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-04-03

When these extra numbers shall be printed, |
am confident that twill appear that he has 'ssaved
Ito use one Of his iaiieized words in speaking of
mc) more than $4,000 by using paper in print
ing them inferior to that stipulated in his contract
Add to this sum what he saVes by not working at
night on the public printing; the ten per cent
which he saues on tho binding, and the $Il ,S12 SO
which he has "saped'' on the Supreme Court doc
ument, and the amount will exceed $4,000. l
think he would do well to turn his printing office
into A GRAND NATIONAL SAVINGS INsTIryTIoN
AND Insurance OFrICE, to insure oil persons who
take Government contracts too low against loss
The investigation which have recently made,
and the amount OF profit have asccrtained will
result from the immense number of extras ordered
on large documents, enables me to make ga still
more brilliant offer' than the one submitted TO
Mr.. Rtchic in my last number, to save him from
the ruin which he says the execution of his con-
tract will involve him and his family. Iofcrcd to
give him thousand dollars for the last Job, or the
Patent Oadce report. This job Mr.. Richie said
would make an Traditional sacrifice to the loss he
his hands,, which he says he "attempted 10 persuade
them Congress] to assign TO another Office" For
this Patent Office job, which was to pile "addi-
aonai sacrifice" on previous ruin" Mr.. Towers
satisfaction of Congrcss) offers to give Mr.. Richie
So 500, which is S. 500 more than offered. The
sum Mr.. Towers offers is the one contemplated
offering myself in the first instance; but reduced
it to 600, because the amount of profit over
the premium rendered would about make good to
me the interest Mr.. Richie withheld from me on
the balance of subscription due me the Con-
gressionai Globe, furnished TO his subscribers by
me. am willing TO give way to Mr.. Tow
ers, and let Mr. Richie have the benefit of the
$ 500 offered by him for the job. But as
Mr.. Richie says in his vaedictory that he wished
"to assign the printing on hand to another Office"
now propose to take it all, and save him from the
spirit in Congress which he intmatcs is disposed to
crush him. will take all the extra numbers off
his hands, (and it will be from the table above,
showing the number on hand ordered by the SEN
ate, and not yet printed that they are very large
and give him premium for them, to be computed
at tho rate of So, 500 premium the Patent Office
report for the first session Of the last Congress,
which he has printed, and can therefore calculate
how much he can make by accepting this propo-
sition.
/ will print all the regular numbers for the prices
mentioned in my calculation showing that he can
make money on the extra numbers, including the
regular numbers ordered on the same document,
which calculation he published in the Union. All
the prices set forth in that calculation taken
from the evidence of his witnesses who testified be-
fore the Printing Committee, except those for COM
position, which fixed, and are as follows:
decomposition ofsmall plea, plain, per page so as
Do do do rule, do.... rs
Do do BREWER, plain, do.... 25
Do do do rule, do.... 80
For paper, per ream.. Observation-Disclosures. rs
For presswork, per ream. ..,............... 20
For contingencies, 10 per cent. on the cost of the
paper.
will give him bond and security TO execute all
the printing, both regular and extra numbers, in
better time, better style, and better paper than
he has done it.
This proposition is made in good faith. think
can "saUe'' money on it. II Mr. Richie will let
me have the printing, will take any of the printers
who work in his Office Except John II. Trenholm,
his foreman,) into mine, to that the work is
better done than he has been doing it; and will
give him right to reclaim it, with forfeiture, in
case it shall not be performed according to my
bond. ! am willing to take Mr.. Belt in whose
name he holds the contract
say to Mr.. Richie, in conclusion, that when he
has finished his elaborate series of fabrications in
reference to me- from which it appears he means
to speak out his session editor for my advan-
tage, will take his track and trce him, or him
into hole told him at first, and now tell him
ject of deliberate defamation without exposing the
libellcr. JOHN c. RIVES.
April