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

~ DO M6QfdS 90
100 do fancy cotton do
25 do black silk do
100 do Ga cotton shawls
60 do ga wollen do
600 pounds linen thread
20 do sewing silk
100 pieces ribands
$50 gross worsted gathering
aOPleces silk handkerchiefs
Is, 600 yards calico
25 600 do Merrimac calico
Is 600 do blue drilling
Is coo do white do
1900 do Georgia stripes
500 do blue dennins
I 500 do co'tonade
30 900 do bel ticking
500 do Kentucky jeans
5000 do satdnets
$4,000 do plain linsey
5000 do bleached shifting
$1,000 do domestic shifting, unbleaohed
$50 do do sheetina do
1000 do checks, stripes, and plsids
$50 dozen wollen SOCKS
2 800 yards fannels, asserted
500 pounds cotton thread
100 dozsn spool cotton
300 pounds best Chinese vermillion
Zoo 600 DO brown h giiins ewine 40 No. 80
200 do cotton maitre
$500 flannel shirts
4 900 calico do
$500 pounds beads, white and black, ASSORTED
500 pounds beads, ruby and blue, assorted sizes
CLAssNo.4.
Ready-ruade CIoth,ns.
$50 blue cloth frcck coats
80 80 do vs ean"i00h'
CLASS No. S.
Aa1d.1ars and Agricultural Imp<emsnfs cnd
1000 pounds brass kettles
l,2uU lin Kettles
$50 nests japanned do, in nest
rs dozen 10quart tin pans
~ do 6-QuaTt do
so do 4-quart do
$50 do 2q7art do
500 do but her knives
200 do scalping do
rs gun hints
l00 gross gun worms
$50 do squaw avis
les do ash hooks, assorted
300 dozen do lines do
$50 gross needles
$50 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
30 do grubbing hoes
60 do wedding do
10 pairs hamts
100 do trace chains
$50 log chains
500 drawing knives, 10 and IL inches In length
$50 augers, In equal proportions Of IL, TX,
and y finch
200 hend saws
80 cross cut saws, Z feet in length
30 dozen hand saw files
do cross-cut saw files
do wood rasps
$50 quarters socket chisels, \, 1, and 2.inch
70planes, fore and jack
10 dozen shovels
Is do spades
$50 camp kettles
so dozen basting spoons
$50 do iron table spoons
80 do tin cups
Is do scythe snaths
is do axes, to weigh from " o5X pounds
lao do half axes, to weigh 3k pounds
20 do hatchets. to weigh i pound
do broad axes, ordinary size
$50 do Zinc mirrors
200 do fire steels
CLASS No.e.
Northeast Guns.
600 northwest guns, flint LOCK-
500 do do percussion Ioch
Said goods to be furnished at Bos,on. Nev
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsbure, Gin
cinnati, st. Louis, Detroit, or Chicago, a. NAV
be specified In the accepted bids; and the delive.
res thereof to be made on or before the LIST dsy Of
during the year 1857 as NAV 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
others Of the eclass, but Of different descrp
ton, that may be needed, at the lowest market
prices
Goods Of American manufacture, of Il REQ uired
styles and quality, viii be Preferred but as most
Of the samples OF blankets and cloths are foreign
fabrics, 1t will be necessary, in proposing do
nestle article of either Of those classes. that
sample thereof shall be forwarded to this once.
at as early date as practicable.
Each bidder for guns will be required to eXhib-
II a sample or samples Of the kind and uality he
proposes to furnish; and the department reserves
the right Of accepting such bid or bids as are he
lieved to be most advantageous to the Indiana.
considering serviceable qualities, prices, &c.
conform to, and be equal with, the samniss
which may be seen at this office, or such "a nanie,
Of American manufacture and guns as maj hs
furnished and approved. They will be riqidIv
inspected ana compared with the samp es by nj,
agent or agents appointed for that purpose. such
as may be unequal thereto In any particni., Viii
be rejected; In which case the Contractor will he
bound to furnish others Of the reouissS tind y.
quality within three days; or, II that be not done.
me, ,., WIN DC paIcnSsto at his expense. Payment
VIII ne made LOT the goods received on invoices
Thereon, certified by the agent or agents Appointed
Bonds will be required in the amcunt n, IN.
Dla TOT me faithful performance Of the contract
he ns',"so more sureties whose sufaciency must
attorney. - - '" '1uks '" o'sefict
>, me proposals must embrace the articles, with
soe Quantities thereof, they are arraneed in the
eocS schedule, with the prices ANNEXED to
escn IN dollars and cents at which thew win be
furnished, and the amounts must be osryse1 ont
ano Footed up for each class. They should be
submitted with the following hesIinp:
- loI wei hereby propose to furnish for the
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