Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-10-22

1000 pounds worsted yarn, folds
100 dozen cotton flag handterchiefs
50 do Madras do
100 do fancy cotton do
25 do black silk do
100 do 81 cotton sbawls
30 do Ga do
30 do "A do
60 do 8 4 wollen do
500 pounds linen thread
20 do sewing silk
100 pieces ribands
$50 gross woIsted gathering
0p!eces silk handkerchiefs
IS 600 yards calico
25 900 do Merrimac calico
5000 do blue drilling
Is ONO do white do
1900 do Georgia stripes
500 do blue denn!ns
500 do co.tonade
30 900 do bed ticking
1,5OO do Kentucky Jeans
300 do sattinets
1900 do plain linsey
5000 do bleached shifting
$1,000 do domestic shifting, unbieached
10000 do checks, stripes, and plaids
$50 dozen wollen socis
500 yards 6annels, assorted
800 pounds cotton thread
100 dozen spool cotton
300 pounds best Chinese vermillfon
Zoo 900 DO DO brown A Ching sw.ns 40 No. 30
] 200 do cotton maitre
3,500 flannel shirts
4,tUO Calico 90
$500 pounds beads, white and black, assorted
1850 pounds beads, ruby and blue, assorted sizes
CLAssNo 4.
Ready-n,ade CIofhisg.
25n blue cloth frock coats
$50 do pantsloons
$50 do vests.
$50 blue and mixed satinet coats
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Hardware and Agricultural Inpsemests Lad
1900 pounds brass kettles
| 200 tin kettles
$50 nests japanned do, in nestj
IS dozen l0quart tin pans
40 do 6-quart do
90 do 4-quart do
500 do bufeher knives
200 do scalping do
rs NJ gun Aints
100 gross gun worms
!50 do squaw awls
Us do fsh hooks, assorted
800 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
8 DO d0 s ss,ia do
~ do grubbipg hoes
60 do wedding do
20 pairs names
16O do trace chains
$50 log chains
300 drawing knives, 10 and Is inches In length
'o as sga In equal proportions Of III l. ~
30 cross-cut saws, = feet in length
Is do do do do
30 dozen hand saw files
do cross-cut saw hles
do wood rasps
$50 quarters socket chisels, n, 1, and s-ineh
70planes, fore and jack
10 dozen shovels
Is do spades
$50 camp kettles
q 900 short handled frying pans
80 dozen ba.ting spoons
$50 do iron table spoons
80 do tin cups
is do scythe snaths
Is do axes, to weigh from n to sk pounds
l4O do half axes, to weigh az pounds
~ 40 h Sa,csets. to weigh X pound
$50 do Zinc mirrors
CLASS No.o.
Northwsst Gxas.
600 northwest guns, flint look
800 do do percussion loot
Said goods to be furnished at Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, PittsburQ, Cin-
cinnati, st: Louis, Detroit, or Chicago, Is NAV
be specified In the accepted bids, and the delive.
res thereof to be made on before the LIST day 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 q greater
or less quantity Of anv Of the articles named than
that specified In the above schedule; and also any
others Of the sameclass, but Of different descrip-
ton, that may be needed, at the lowest market
prices
Goods Of American manufacture Of tn REQ uired
styles and quality, will be preferred but as most
Of the samples Of blankets and cloths are foreign
fabrics 1t vii be . neoesss T In proposing do
sample thereof shall be forwarded TO this ONCE
at as early a date as practicable.
Each bidder Tor guns will be required to exbib-
II a sample or samples Of the kind and quality he
proposes to furnish and the department re,e,ves
the right Of accepting such bid or bids az are he
lieved to be most advantageous to the Indians,
The articles to be furnished must in al ,esn..,.
conform to, ana be equal with, the sampIes
which may be seen at this office, or such 1mnIs,,
2, .nd AID may be
Inspected and compared with the samp q. b. a5
agent or agents appointed for that puIpo,. yneh
Ss Ds unequal thereto in any particular viii
bound to furnish others OF the rec nj ya6 s,nd y.
duanty within three days; or, II that be mot done
tnsy VIII Dc purchased 1T his expense Psvmsni
, VII oe made Tor the goods received ON invoices
to insn Oenea by the agent or agents appointed
Bonds will be required In the amount of the
v,u toI .ne faithful performance Of the oontact
Win swo OF more sureties, whose sufaciency must
DC cert ned by United States Judge or district
4, The proposals must embrace the articles. Win
quantities thereof, rs they arranged in the
foregoing schedule, with the prices annered 70
eacn IN collars and cents at which they VIII be
annned, ana The amounts must be carried out
ana Footed up for each class. They should be
submitted with the following heading:
81 Tor vel hereby propose to faruish for the
sersice OF the lpdtan Department, aad according
:" ne terms OF 10 advertisement therefor, dated