Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-10-13

| DIV G0ods.
| 600 pounds worsted yarn, 3 folds
100 dozen cotton dag handkerchiefs
50 do Madras do
100 do fancy cotton do
IS do black silk do
lOO do 8-i cotton shawls
80 do "a do
90 do ga wollen do
600 pounds linen thread
20 do sewing silk
| 100 pieces ribands
| $50 gross worsted gathering
20 pieces silk handkerchiefs
| as, 600 Yards calico
| 25, 600 do Merrimac calico
1000 do blue drilling
| Is 900 do white do
1000 do Georgia stripes
500 do blue DENNIS
l 500 do cottonade
| 30, 600 do bed ticking
800 do Kentucky Jeans
| 1900 do sattinets
5000 5000 do do Bie ee sG' shifting
5000 do domestic shirting, unaleached
| 1900 do do sheetine do
| $1,000 do checks, stripes, and plaids
$50 dozen wollen SOCKS
| 800 yards fann5ls, assorted
200 pounds cotton thread
100 dozen spool cotton
800 pounds best Chinese vermllion
1,5OO do American do
1000 do brown gilling Irvine, No. 30
200 do cotton maitre
$500 flannel shirts
1900 calico do
1850 pounds beads, white and black, assorted
1880 pounds beads, ruby ard blue, assorted sizes
CLASS No.4.
Ready made Closksag.
$50 blue cloth frock coats
ESQ ESQ do do pa. psnt'ioOns
$50 blue and mixed satinet coats
80 DO DO DO DO DO DO Rs.i.l
CLASS Nos.
Hdrdtoavs and Agricultural Insvi.msnfs and
Ares.
1000 pounds brass kettles
eco tin kettles
aso nests japsnned do, in nesl
rs dozen quart tin pans
An do 6-quart do
Gu do 4-quart do
1850 do % art do
500 do butcher knives
200 do scalping do
rs M gun fints
loo gross gun worms
$50 do squaw avis
125 do fish hooks, assorted
300 dozen do lines do
$50 gross needles
$50 dozen coarse tooth combs
$50 do nne-tooth combs
$50 do scissors
10 do bush scytbes
IS do grass do
do grain do
8 do AIDES
60 do wedding do
40 pairs names
100 do trace chains
$50 log chains
$50 au2ers, In equal proportions Of IL, TX,
and Winch
2C0 hand saws
30 cross cut saws Z feet in length
Is do do 6 do do
2oO dozen hand saw fles
do cross-cut saw files
do wood rasps
$50 quarters socket chisels, X, 1, and 2-inch
20 planes, fore and jack
10 dozen shovels
Is do spades
$50 camp kettles
4,0Oe short handled frying pans
50 dozen basting spoons
$50 do iron table spoons
30 do tin cups
Is do scythe snaths
Is do axes, to weigh from n to5K pounds
lao do hah axes, to weigh 81 pounds
20 do hatchets, to weigh i pound
do broad axes, ordinary size
$50 do zinc mirrors
700 do fire steels
CLASS Nos
NoythUsst Gsx,
600 northwest guns, flint lock
500 do do percussion lock
Said goods to be furnished at Boston, New
YORK, PSiladeiPhia Baltimore, Pittsburg, Gin
be specified In the accepted bids; and the delive.
res thereof to be made on or before the LIST dav OF
April next, or at such time or times thereafter
during the year 1857 as may be ordered by the
Commissioner Of Indian Affairs
The right will be reserved to require greater
or less quantity Of any Of the articles named than
that specified In the above schedule; and also any
ton, that may be needed, at the lowest market
prices
Goods Of American manufacture, OF the REQ uiysd
styles and quality, viii be preferred but as most
M n m nj NJ kafS and rln
fabrics, II will be necessary, in proposing do
nestle article Of either Of those classes, that
sample thereof shall be forwarded TO this ofaoe,
at as early date as practicable.
Each bidder FOR guns will be required to eShib.
IL a sample OF samples of the kind and ouality he
proposes to furnish; and the department reserves
the right OF accepting such bid or bids as are be-
lieved to be most advantageous to the Indians.
considering serviceable qualities, prices &c.
The articles to be furnished must In ali re-
conform TO-, and be equal with, the samples.
which may be seen at this ONCE, or such sampIes
Of American manufacture and guns as NAV be
furnished and approved. They will be rigidIv
inspected and compared with the samp q, by ~
agent or agents appointed for that purpose. Such
be rejected; In which case the coutraetor viii III
bound to Furnish others OF the required kind oT
quality within three days; Or IL that be mot done
tney VIII oe purchased at his expense. PAYMENT
thereof certified by the agent or agents nno,nsed
to inspect them. 'pPoi"'e~
bonds VIII be required in the amount OF the
Da ior inc faithful performance Of the contract,
attorney. 'NNe' VI u''"i1'
=. The proposals must embrace the articles with
ae quantities thereof, as they are arranged in the
foregoing schedule, with the prices annexed TO
sach In dollars and cents at which thew WIN be
tdrnished, and the amounts must be carried out
ana footed up for each class. They should De-
submitted with the following heading:
for wei hereby propose to furnish TO- the
70 the terms OF Its advertisement therefor, dated