Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-10-03


20 do sewing silk
100 pieces ribands
$50 gross worsted gathering
30 pieces silk handkegchiefs
a., coo yards calico
IS 600 do Merrimac calico
Is 600 do blue drilling
$1,000 do white do
2,000 do Georgia stripes
500 do blue dennins
1 500 do cottonade
10000 do bed ticking
500 do Kentucky jeans
5000 do sattinets
600 a,,CcO do Rie ee led' shifting
5000 do domestic shifting, unbaesched
Is 600 do do sheetinR do
10 0'0 do checks, stripes, and pleids
15B dozen wollen socIs
$500 yards fannels, asserted
500 pounds cotton thread
100 dozin spool cotton
300 pounds best Chinese vermfllion
1000 do brown giIling Irvine, No. 30
ZOO do cotton maitre
$500 flannel shirts
1900 calico do
2,oOO pounds beads, white and black, assorted
500 pounds beads, ruby and blue, assorted sizes
Glass No.
Ready-made cbosAt.s.
,25n blue cloth frock coats
$50 do pantsloons
CLASS No. s.
HardDars and Agricultural Emp1e.nexss cad
Ares.
1900 pounds brass kettles
300 tin kettles
$50 nests japanned do, g in a nes9
rs dozen 1o-quart tin pans
~ do 6-quart do
60 do 4-quar do
$50 do 90 art do
500 do butcher knives
200 do scalping do
IS gun hints
Ion grt IS gun worms
$50 do squaw avis
l25 do Ash hooks, assorted
$40 dozen do lines do
$50 gross needles
15O dozen coarse tooth combs
$50 do fne-tooth combs
$50 do scissors
10 do bush scytbes
Is do grass do
do grain do
do AIDES
o. do wedding do
~ pairs names
100 do trace chains
$50 log chains
500 drawing knives, 10 and u inches in length
$50 augers, In equal proportions Of IN, 1, !,
and X-inch
2G0 hand saws
30 Cross cut saws, feet In length
Is do do do do
40 dozen hand saw files
do cross-cut saw fles
do wood rasps
$50 quarters socket chisels. X, l, and a-inch
7Oplanes, fore and jack
10 dozen shovels
Is do spades
45O camp kettles
900 short handled irving pans
SO dozen basting spoons
$50 do iron table spoons
30 do tin cups
IS do scythe snaths
IS do axes, to weigh from X to 5k pounds
40 do half aNes, to weigh 3X pounds
20 do hatchets, TO weigh pound
s do broad axes, ordinary size
$50 do zinc mirrors
200 do dre steels
CLASS No.e.
Northeast Gsns.
,ea GEO northwest guns, flint leof
500 do do percussion lock
" Said good. to be furnished at Boston, New
cinnai, st. Louis, Detroit, or Chicago, az NAV
be specified In the accepted bids; and the delive
ries thereof to be made on before the Ist dav N
April next, or at such time o. times thereafter
during the year 1857 as may be ordered bv the
Commissioner Of Indian Affairs. ~
The right will be reserved to REQ uire a greater
or less quantity Of any Ct the articles named than
others Of the same class, but Of different dexcr,n
ton, that may be needed, at the lowest marked
prices
Goods Of American manufacture, OF the reou,,,d
StyAco oho oollty, Will Oc pISlerTo0. but most
Of the samples Of blankets and cloths are foreion
fabrics, 1t will be necessary, in prpposino = A.
nestle article Of either Of those classes. tLst
sample thereof shall be forwarded 70 this odioe'
at as early date as practicable.
Zach bidder f5r guns will be required to exhih
1t sample OF samples Of the kind ana ual itv he
proposes to furnish aud the department reaeyves
the right OF accepting such bid or bids A are r.
lieved to be most advantageous to the Indian,
considering serviceable Qualities, prices, &c.
The articles to be furnished must In All resn>c,.
conform TO-, and be equal with, the samniss
which may be seen at this once, or such samnls,s
OF American manufacture and guns an NAV he
furnished and approved. They will be riotaIv
inspected and compared with the samp Q, nv sy
agent or agents appointed for that purpose. such
as may De unequal thereto In any particular Will
be rejected; In which case the oontractor sr,,I III
bound to furnish others Of the reoni,sS ILL oe
quality within three days; or. II thai he No. d VI
they will be purchased at his expen,e P"vmr,
VIII oe made for the goods received on ,nvo,cas
to inspect them es0S oPPoih'oo
!, sonds VIII be required In the amount Of the
oIu ior the faithful performance Of the Contract
win Two OF more sureties, whose sufdeienrv rnn.}
attorney. 0'' Juuss !" oisrfcs
ne proposals must embrace the ARTICLES. vvtth
tne Quantities thereof, they are arranoe6 In the
foregoing schedule with the prices annered n
e4cn IN dollars and cents at which thev win hs
idinlsned, and the amounts must be cSrYied ont
snS iooteo up Tor each class. They should be
'uomitted with the following heading:
Tor wei hereby propose to furnish fer the
:. sefyIce Oh the Indian Departments, and sccopdipg
W ene "hns o. 10 advstsseGaspt tHsre1hf, dated