Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-06-17

No. 51o2g.-W Way Line.
Prom St. Francisville. Louisiana, by Waterloo.
Hermitage, Port Hudson, Lobders Sore, Baton
Rouge, Brply Landing, Mauchac. Plaeuemine her
vile, Bayou Goula, New River, Donaldsonville,
Tureaud, Cow. Mt, Edgar's, Bosnet Care. Taylors
and Logan's Landing. to New Orleans, l16 miles
and back dsi y, Ia suitable and safe steamboats,.
Leave st. Frsncisville Gai v at S am:
Arrive at Rev Orleans next day by Gam;
Leave New Orleans daily at g m;
Arrive at st. ErancisyiIle next day BIZ 10 N.
Proposals may be made for the express and way
lines between Louisville and New Orleans in one
ing line between st. Louis and Cairo distinct bids
should be offered.
No. 1920 Connecting Line.
From st. Louis Missouri, by Csrondelet, JEFF rs,n
Barracks, Hsrrisonville Illinois, Herculaneu. @i.
souri, Selma, st. Genevieve, Chester. Illinois, Bau
Ohio City, TO Cairo, Illinois. LIZ miles and back
daily, in .'suitsble and safe steam boats"
Leave St. Louis daily at am;
Arrive at Cairo next day by am;
Leave Cairo dsi,y at m
Arrive at st. Louis next day by a. u
The department may require the supply Of any
otter Offices on the way and connecting ires at its
pleasure.
The service must be Performed in suitable and
safe steam boats Of the very best class. In
of low wa-er smaller boats msy bs used but tteF
must be Of equal au aliiy and of sufficient power to
make The trips in the time mentioned. are to be
ustl CDiy uuT1ng fuc1 tlIle OF low water
Route aga nts may be employed on each boat, az
for their sccomE citation. and for the safe keeping
asserting, end making up the mails, suitable snd
convenient room or Rooms must be assigned, 10 br
under the exclusive control of the agent.
The agents are 10 be appointed aud paid by the de
partmeu', but they are be conveyed and provided
Tor by the contractors free of charge.
Local agents will he app tinted and paid by the de-
partnent at the points named in the express and
connecting lines and the te-mipi CT the way lines
viz: st. Louis, Louisville, Evansville. Cairo, Mem
phis, Napoleon Vieksburg, st Frsucisvile. and New
Orleans; at all other places messengers, TO convey
the mails TO and from the boats at the landings and
the post Offices, are to be employed and pensa ed
by the Contractor: but they are to be supervised
and directed by the oca otL-r agents of The de-
rartent, end t. be discharged or csnsed at any
tins when requested by the Postmaster General for
good and sufficient reasons
In Of accident to the boats of either the ex-
press. way, or connecting lines by which sa a boat
may be detained he mail and agents are to ba trans
erred to the first boat passing t. same wsy whether
such boat be or be not neil boat, belong or
not to the same contractor 10 be carried to its Ce
tnaon and delivered free of charge to the depart
ment.
Special agents of the departments are 90 be con-
vey6d free OF charge, exhibition Of their creden
Iias. Also banlls, mail locks, ard mail bags.
No extra pay will ne given should the distance on
either OF the routes prove To he greater than stated
The proposals must be guaranteed by two more
responsible individuals, and the guaranty duly GER
tilted by postmaster, or judge clerk of court
Of record.
TIE department reserves the right to reject any
bid which may he deemed extravagsnt; and also to
set aside lower bids in favor Of higher ones unless
the most unquestionable evidence be presented of
the entire suciency and responsibility of the par
ties bidding, and OF their guarantors
Bidders in preparing and submitting their propo-
sails individuals in cousenting to become guars utors
and postmasters in certifying to tn ir suficieucy
are requested to bear in mind that the object of Con.
gress IN enaetng the law, and of the department in
executing l is To obtain regular and reliable lines
OF mall packets on this important thoroughfare ar.
irving and departing at fixed times at the principal
points all the year round ard that strict compli-
ance with the contract hgations will be demanded
The whole number of boats required for the ser
viee accepted to each contractor must be provided
bFf0re the contract will be considered as commences;
and they will be SUBJECT the in spection of an agent
or agents appointed by the department, who will
certify to each by Dame, that they of sufficient
size, strength, quality and capacity, and in sll re.
pects adapted to the duty to re performed No boat
once accepted into the service can be withdrsw WI
without tie assent of the department, and anv new
boat Proposed so to be employed will be subject to
like inspect: on and acceptance.
Bidders and guarantors are referred, for the pro-
visions Of law the subject of their liabilities to
the 9th section of the Act to charg &c the orgaui-
cation OF the Post Office Department. approved Ju-
iy 3, 1886
Articles OF contract to re- executed by the nc.
copied bidder snd by his sureties by or b. fore the LIST
day of November, 1854 TIE contract Is to provide.
ong other things that the pay of the trip to be
forfeited when the trip is not performed, and not
more than three times the pay Of The trip when the
trip Is not run. and no sufficient for the fail
u-e is furnished, and du. proportion of it when
grade OF service is rendered inferior to that specified
in the contract; and that fines may be im7cSed. I'M
less the delinquency be satisfactorily exp snei in
due time for failing to take from. deliver into
the post office at the port Of landing the mail be
longing thereto or any part of said mail; for suffer
ing the mal or any part of it, TO be wet, injured
lost or destroyed; for conveying it in place
ner that exposes it to degradation, loss. injury
for refusing, after demand made, TO convey a mail
by any additional steamboat run by the contractor
on the route over and above the specified number of
trips in the contract, and for not arriving at the
time set also for trar shifting Intelligence, or ur
nishing the means of transmitting intelligence, IN
advance of the mail. The Postma ter Genera may
annnl the contract for repeated failures Tor violaos
the post Office laws; for disobeSn me
of the del artmept for refusing to discharge car
rier when REQ ured by the depart- MT ior ass sniug
the contract without the consent OF the postmaster
General or for setting up or 'unnlnS an express as
aforesaid. ,
Tha postu stsr General may alter the contract
and slter the schedule, he allowing pro rata in
cre,sa of condensation, within the restrictions i'm.
posed by law for any Increased feryIee required.
The Postmaster General NAV also continue or chr
tail the service or any part Of it, he allowing one
months extra pay on the amount dispensed with.
The route, the service the yearly pay tbs bidders
name and residence and the name of each member
of the nrm, where company offers, should be dis
tinctly stated in the proposals.
FORM OF BID.
llor wei - Of -, propose TO carry tbs
mails on route Mo-, from -to-.sc ree-
ably to the advertisement of the Pos master Gene
roll dated It'll june, 1854, and by the following mode
CT conveyance. viz:
- for the annual sum Of dollars.
Dated. tigned.
FORM OF A GUARANTY.
The undersigned undertake that If the foregoing
bid for carrying the mail on route No. - be 40
cepted by the Postmaster General, the bidder shall
prior to the first day Of November, 1854, enter into
the required obligation to perform the service pro-
posed with good and tuficient sureties.
Dated. (signed by two guarantors)
"a FORM OF A CERTIFICATE
The undersigned, postmaster Of -, csrtihes
that he is we'll acquainted with the above guarsntoas