The southern press., 1851-04-09

When these extra numbers shall be printed,
| am confident that it will appear that he has
+" Sared" Ito use one of his italicized words in
speaking of mel more than $4,000 by using
paper in printing 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 sares on the binding,
and the 1882 80 which he has "sared' on
the Supreme Court document, and the amount
will exceed $4,000 | think he would do well
to turn his printing Office into A GRAND Ma
TIoYAL SAvING's INsTITUTIoN AND INSURANCE
OFFICE, to insure all persons who take govern
merit contr lcts too low, against loss.
The investigation which have recently made,
and the amount of profit have ascertained will
result from the immense number of extras or
iered on large documents, enables me to make
"a still more brilliant offer" than the one sub
mitted to Mr. Richie in my last number, to save
him from the ruin which he says the execution
of his contract will involve him and his family.
| offered to give him thousand dollars for the
last job-the Patent Office report This job
Slr. Rt HE said would make an additional
acrifice" 10 the loss he would incur by The i'm
nenSe quantity of,ioork on his hands," which he
says he attempted 10 persuade Them Congress-
IN assign 10 anuther office" For this Patent Of
flee j. b, which was to pile Traditional sacrifice"
on previous "ruin," Nir. Towers tone who has
executed work faithfully and to the satisfaction
of Congress- offers to give Mr.. Richie $4,000,
which is 81 800 more than / offered The sum
Mr. Towers offers is the one ! contemplated
Offering myself in the first instance; but ! re-
duced il to $1,000, because the amount of profit
over the premium rendered would about make ,
good to me the interest Mr.. Richie withheld
from me on the deferred instalments for the
GLobe Office, and the balance Of subscription due
me on the Congressional Globe, furnished to
his subscribers by me. ani willing to give way
to Mr.. Towers, and let Mr.. Richie have the ben
eft of. the $4,000 offered by him for the job.
But as Mr. Richie says in his valedict ry that he
wished " 10 assign he printing on hand 10 another
offce," now propose to take it all, and save him
from the spirit in Congress which he intimates
is Opposed to crush him. will take all the ex-
ira numbers off his hands, (aud it will be seen
from the table above, showing the number on
hand ordered by the Senate, and not yet printed,
that they are very large) and give him a pre- Z
MUM for them, to be computed at the rate Of |
$4,000 premium on 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 PROPOSE
ton.
will print all the regular numbers for the
prices mentioned in my calculation showing that
he can make money on the extra numbers, in
GLIDING the regular numbers ordered on the
same document, which calculation be published
in the Union. All the prices set forth in thai
calculation were taken from the evidence OF
witnesses who testified before the Printing
Committee, except those for composition, which
fixed, and are as follows:
For compost n ofsma plea, plain, per page 80 IS
Do do do rule, do 10
Do do BREWER, plain, do 22s
Do do do rule, do so
For piper, per ream %
For presswork, per ream IS
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 num-
bers, in better time, better style, and on better
paper than he has done it.
This proposition is made in good faith. /
think can sare' money on it. If Mr.. Richie
will let ME have the printing, q will take any Of
the printers who work in his Office Except John
III. Trenholm, his foreman,) into mine, to see
that the work is better done than he has been
doing il and will give him a right to reclaim
it, with forfeiture, in case II shall not be per-
formed according to my bond. ] am willing to
take Mr.. Belt in whose name he holds the con-
tract
I say to Mr.. Richie, in conclusion, that when
he has finished his elaborate series of fabrications
in reference to me, from which IL appears he
means to speak out his session as an editor for
nv advantage, will take his track and tree
him, or run sim into hole told him at first,
and now tell him again, that will never suffer
myself 10 be the subject Of deliberate defama-
ton without exposing the libeller
April 3. JOHN Z. RlVES.