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CERnzAN LLOYD.

PRICES OF PASSAGE
From New York to Bremen, London Hayre and
southampton:
First Cabin sos; sd Cabin S62 50 Sseerage $37 So
From Bremen to New York:
First Cabin SIP SO; I'd Cabin $50; Storage $45.
Price OF passage payable in Gold its equivalent
In currency
The above vessels have been constructed in the most
approved manner they of $500 tons and 700 horse
power each, and are commanded by men of character
and experience who will make every exerton to promote
the comfort and convenience of passengers They touch
at Southampton the outward trip for the purpose of
landing passengers for England and France
These vessels take freight to London and Hull, for
which through bills OF lading are signed.
An experienced Surgeon is attached to each vessel.
All letters must pass through the post Office.
49, No Bills of Lading but those of the Company will
be signed Bills of Lading will positively not be deliv-
cred before goods cleared at the Custom House.
NJ Specie TAXI to Havre, Southampton and Bremen
at tie lowest rates For freight passage apply to
OELRICHS & CO.,
No 68 Broad st., N. York.
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A TLANTIC AND MISSISSIPPI STEAM
"A Ship Co.'s Railroad line of Steamers for Natchez,
Vcksburg, Memphis. Cairo and st. Louis
One OF the following magnificent first class passenger
steamers will leave New Orleans for Cairo and St. Louis
every other day:
Pauline Carroll, Capt. H. L. White
Ben Stickney, Capt Jos. A. Aiken
Mississippi, capt. II. H. Symmes.
Leviathan, Capt. J. W. Carroll.
Missouri, Capt J. Y. Hurd
Niagara, Capt p. Young.
Mollie Able, Capt D. N. Greenleaf.
Continental, Capt H. G. Carson.
w. r. Arthur. Capt N. s. Green.
Olive Branch, Capt Ben. Tabor.
Passengers and Shippers can depend on the regular
departure this line Of boats advertised time Boats
will leave on the odd days in April odd days in May
even in June, even days in July, and odd days in
August.
Passengers DESTROYS of stopping at any point on the
procure Lay Over Ticket at the office on each
boat, giving them choice of twenty-one steamers to
continue their passage.
State rooms be engaged and through tickets pro-
cured to all principal points by applying at the Agents
office
JOHN J. ROE President.
JOHN N. BOFINGER, Supt.
r. PEGRAM, Agent
80 Poydras street
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PROPOSALS.
D X o p o S a L $.
PROPOSALS FOR HIDES, TALLow, HOOPS,
HORNS, CHUCKS, Sims, AND TONGUES.


HORNS, CHUCKS, SHINS, AND TONGUES.
OFFICE DEPoT CoNMIssARY OF SUBSISTENCE,
WAsHINeToN, D. c., July 10, 1856.
Sealed Proposals. in duplicate are invited until the
2lst day of July, at IL O'Clock M for Hides Tallow
H9ois, Horns, Chucks Shins and Tongues of ali Gov,
eminent Cattle slaughtered within the ancient limits of
the District Of Columbia for four months from the COM
mencemen OF the contract such time the Commits
The above articles be collected by the contractor
and removed from the various places which the cattle
officer in charge.
The number of cattle used monthly vary and are now
Killed at Chain Bridge, Giesboro, Convalescent anp,
Washington, and Alexandria; but other places may
within the prescribed limits where these articles
wi i be required to be collected
The contractor shall be liable for all the Hides Tai
low, Hoos Horns, Ohucks Sinus, and Tongues coming
rom all the Government beef cattle slaughtered unless
It can be made satisfactorily to appear to the Subsistence
department that all due exertion, diligence, and care
was made to obtain said articles
Payment will be required every avs, in Govern
ment funds.
The bids will stats the amount per animal, for the
articles referred TO- and be accompanied by guarantee
ceIuncate' amdayts OF each guarantor, and oath of
allegiance Blank forms can be obtained by application
to the undersigned.
The responsibility of the guarantors must be shown by
the official certificate of United States district attorney
OF United States judge The certificate must be in the
following form
hereby certify that, from evidence entirely sasfao-
tory me, the above named guarantors are good and
suhclent as suretes for double the for which
they offer to be security.
nifty with the usual fol m, and are accompanied by
guarantee, certificate, and afidavits.
All bidders must forward with their proposals an oath
allegiance, unless one may be file with the officer
VINO shall open the bids, and proposals fully
plying with these requirements win be considered
tisement
The contractors will be held accountable for the
Hldes, Tallow, Hoofs, Horns, Chucks, &c, from the
morning ofthe 9th inst.
must be present at the opening of the bids
respond to their Names and all bids must be endorsed
Chucks, &c." and be directed to the undersigned.
G.. BELL, Lieut. Col and G. S.
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YALE OF sERVlChABLE MULKs.

Quartermaster Generals Office,
Washington, D. c., June Is, 1865.
By direction Of the Quartermaster General the re win
be sold at public auction to the highest bidder at the
times aud places named below, viz 1
Cleveland Ohio, w ednesday, July s.
aollidaysbnrg, Pa. "Wednesday, July IL.
Carlisle, Pa, Thursday, July is
Huntingdon, Pa. Friday, July IA.
Reading, Pa, Monday, July II.
Esston, Pa, Thursday, July 20.
Philadelphia, Pa, Monday, July "a.
Pittsburg, Pa. Thursday July n.
Two hundred serviceable mules at each paca except
Cleveland, where five hundred will be sold.
Many of them were bought at the beginning of the
war as young mules accompanied the armies in all their
marches aud camps and are thoroughly broken, har-
hened by exercise gentle and familiar being SO long
SUR ounded by the soldiers.
Though sound and servceab'e they are no longer re-
CURED in the army and be purchased at these ga es
at far less than their value The attention of both
miners and farmers is especially invited.
Mules sold singly.
lies to commence at 10 A. NJ,
Terms cash, in United Stases currency.
JAMES A. EKIN,
Brew. Brig Gen. in charge
iva First Division Q. M. g, o.
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STEAMERS.
NCHOR LINE OF TRANS-ATLA
N STEAM PACKET SHIPS,

in Great Britain, Ireland, United and Canada.
The well known avorite butt iron teamers the
Anchor Line are intended to sail regularly between
NEW YORK AND GLASGOW,
forwarding passengers at through rates their
tion on either side Of the Atlantic.
RATES OF PAssAGE-To OF from New York, Glasgow w,
and $780, intermediate, $S5; seerage, $25 Payable 10
gold or its equivalent in currency. hidren, between
and IL years. half fare infants under year. free.
Fer passage or further information, apply to | .
PATRICK McCLATCHEY, -
E.t-A4... 40 Broad st., Newark, N. j.
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MISSISSIPPI DAILY AND WEEK
.lXE IX CI.A RIA& -Tha Nailu and w eek LIZ

W 66kIy
Clarion is still published Meridian, Miss land
taius the latest kilograms from parts of the
country. Its present subscription list now ex-
Mississippi, having circulation in every county
in that State. 1t has been published for twenty
nine years, and been suspended during that time
but eight weeks, caused by the destruction OF
their cfice by the Federal troops under Gen.
Sherman, in February 1864. 1t is also the Off,
cial Journal of the State 1t has large and in-
creasng circulation in Western Alabama, in
Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas, constituting il
o Of the best and most profitable advertising
mediums to be found in the Southwest
Address J. j. SHANNON Il CO., Editors and
Proprietors, Meridian, Mis-.
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The works will be printed on a greatly smprov-
ed quality Of paper, and while nearly all Ameri-
can Periodicals are either advanced in price or
reduced in size-and very generally both--sos
shall continue to give faithful copies OF all the
matter contained in the original editions
Hence, our present prices will be foundas cheap,
for the amount of matter furnished, as those OF
any of the competing periodicals in this country
Compared with the cost Of the original editions
which at the present premiums on gold would be
about $l00a year, our prcea ($1b) are ezcesd-
ssgly low. Add to. this the fact that we make
cur annual payments to the British Publishers
for early sheets and copyright IN Gold-$l costs
ing US at this time nearly 50 30 in currency
and we trust tina in the scale We have adopted
we shall be entirely justified by our subscribers
and the reading public.
The interest of these Periodicals to American
readers is rather increased than diminished by
the articles they contain on our great Civil War,
and though sometimes tipged with prejudice,
they may still, rslderipg their great ability
and the different stand points from which they
are written, be read and stadied with advantage
by the people of this county of every creed and
party.
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GENERAL ORDERS.
PAMOLhn PHIsuNMas

PAhOLkD PHIsONERS
Headquarters Military Division of West Mississippi,
New Orle ans, La May % 1866.
General Orders No. IS.
|. The terms of the surrender agreed upon by Lieut.
Gen Taylor aid Major Gen. CANDY, the 4th inst
inc udes all officers and soldiers Ct the CONF derate
serving within the limits of the Departments of
persons within the limits OF this division who I'VE not
been paroed by of having been absent rom the
appointed places rendezvous, will report hemselyes to
the commander OF. the nearest United States Military
Post surrender the and other public property that
may be in their possession, and give their paroie Fail
ing do this within the next thirty 1907 DAYS thew will
be arrested and North prisoners of war. Com
manders of Military Posts to whom these parties report
elves, will give paroles and passes as autho-
rizd by the terms of surrender. register of the
paroles giving the name rank and regiment the
paroled and date of the aroe, will be kept and
copy OF to the Provost Marshal Gene
raj at these headquarters the last day of month.
H. The following extract from Special Orders No. 210
from the Headquarters of the Army,is published for
general information and commanders of Mlitary Posts,
within the limits of this command authorized to
administer the oath If allegiance to persons coming
within the provisi ms of the ORDER and to give them
passes to return to their homes The the oath
has been administered and the date of administering t
will be endorsed the pass register of the persons
avaling themselves OF this order will be kept and
copy OF to the Provost Marshal General
Division HeaCq quar- teIs. fHf ssr5+3 +fEffJtr
..paro,ed officers aud men Of the late rebel armies
whose homes at the date OF their joining their
armies in States that have been in rebellion
who not accepted from the benefits of the Presidents
Amnesty Proclamation, will, upon taking the oath of
be permitted to return to their former homes
\ r y
Ill The authority of military Commanders in relation
to the status Of persons residing within the nsuirec
onary districts is and controlled by the Pro
clsmaon of the President of December g. 1868, and
March 20. 1864, and the Executive Order of April 20,
1865 and the provisions of these procamations and this
order cannot be extended restrained otherwise mod
fed, by aay subordinate authority ANY orders that
may have been issued within the limits of this command,
conflicting with the and spirit of these procams
os and this ORDER revoked and the attention OF all
commanders is special called to the requirements of
War Department General Orders, No. 242 of august 8,
1864.
BY order OF Major Gen. E, R. s. Candy.
q, III. DYER,
Cunt Asst lint
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SSIST ANT STEERS
IA once. Forage Department, cOrner
whitehall aad Brt sc Streets, New York
CITY.
Proposals invited for the delivery of Corn Oats
and fay to this Department in the city of Philade
phia Pa.
state the quantity, description kind, price, and time
of delivery. rs
Payments to be made upon the completion of the de-
livery, thereafter the Office may be funds
and liz such funds may be received disbursement.
s. D. BUA. HARD,
Captain and Assistant Quartermaster,
EoraQe DEPARTMENT. 81
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LINE OF SUPERIOR SCREW STEAM
"A ERS daily between Providence and New
York, in connexon with the Boston and Providence
Railroad making decidedly the cheapest Railroad and
Steamboat route for Freight between Boston and New
York. The steamers of great power and built ex
pressy for this route. Freight taken Philadelphia
aud Baltimore at low rates.
For information, apply to DANIEL MASON, sup't
B. P. R. R., to E. H. Rockwell, AGENT Is State st.
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QUARTERMAsTER GENERALS OFFICE, D
FIRST DIVISION,
WASHINGTON CITY, June 26 1866
viii be sold at public auction during the month of
july 1862 to the highest bidder the times and places
named below, viz: -
Baltimore, Nd, Wednesday, July 5.
Giesboro, ID. o., Thursday July 6. .s
Giesboro D. c. Friday July T. on Tuesday, Thurs
day, and Friday, of each week thereafter
York, Pa, Friday, July T.
Mitfiintown, Pa. Friday, July7
Wiiiamsport, Pa, /" ednesday, July H.
Reading Pa, FRIDAY, July ~
Easton. Pa, Tuesday, July Is.
baltimore. Md. ednesday, July 10.
Newport, Pa- Friday, July Il.
Pottesvle, ta.. Friday, July %.
Wimingtown, Del Saturday, July 49,
Baltimore, Md, Monday July 81. 4tH
Two hundred Cavalry horses each day.
For road and farming purposes, many good bargains
may be had Horses sold singy.
Sales to commence at 10 A. M
Terms cash, in United States CURRENCY
JAMES A. EKIN,
Brew. Brig Gen. in charge
lyz4 - LIST Division q. NJ @. o.
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DROP0saLS FOR MATERIALS FOR
THE NAVY.
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING,


BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING,
June "a, 1866.
Sealed Proposals to furnish materials for the Navv for
the fsca year ending 3Oh June, 1865, will be received
az tine bureau OF Equipment and Recruiting until 10
O'CLOCK M OF the 25th day of July next which time
the opening will be commenced
The materias and articles embraced In the classes
named are particularly described in the printed sched-
ules any Of which will be furnished to such persons as
desire to OFFER application the commandants of the
respective Navy Yards and those of all the yards upon
application to the Bureau
Bidders are referred to the commandants of the re-
spectve yards for SAMPLES instructions or particular
description OF the arcles aso for blank of offers
and guarantees.
The classes of this Bureau numbered and designa-
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EOR SALE.-Four centre board schooners
Il one 100 tons, carries 1870 tens coal, SOM Lum%
Der, one 65 TOMS carries COM Lumber, one 81 tons,
and one Az tons, also several fishing schooners,
from 90 to so TONS. Apply to A. X. CHASE,
l02 Commercial street. @ - ei@ n7tA' +--'' ~
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GPECIAL @ALG nF SERVICES gil
- DRAFT HORSES

QUARTERMAsTER GENERALS OFFICE
WARRINGTON, d. c.. June 20 1866 /
By order of the Quartermaster General there will be
sold at public auction, during The month of July 1885,
at the times and places named below, viz:
Giesboro. d. C., Monday and Saturday of each week
New York City, VI ednesday, July 5.
New York City, Friday, July z, and on Tuesday and
Friday of each week thereafter the Government sta
bles corner Tenth avenue aud Thirty. fifth street.
Philadelphia, Pa, Thursday of each week
Baltimore, Md. w Wednesday, July H.
Baltimore, Md, " ednesday, July %
Johnstown, Pa, Wednesday, July g.
ElmiIa N. Friday, July Ia.
Lancaster, Pa, Friday, July 49,
Two hundred serviceable DRAFT HORSES each
day.
An opportunity to purchase superior class of Draft
Horses at far less than their value is now offered
to the public The animals, though sound and scrvcea
BILE are no longer required in the army and must be
Sold The attention of managers city railroads and
manufactures is especially called to these sales
Horses sold sngly. Sales to commence at 10 A. NJ
Terms cash, in United States currency.
JAMES A. EKIN,
Brew. Brig. Gen. in charge
JyZ4 LIST Div, O. nj. @. u.
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An ACT to increase the pay of Midshipmen and
others

An ACT to increase the pay Of Midshipmen and
others
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep.
resemtatives of the United States of america n,
Congress assembled, That mldshipmen, after their
final academic examination and until their pros
motion to the grade of ensign. shall be paid at
the rate of eight hundred dollars per annum,
while on sea service.
SEQ. Q. And be it further enacted, That acting
masters, mates shall be sty led ates and the Sec
rotary of the Navy is hereby authorized to in.
crease heir pay to a sum not exceeding sixty
dollars per month.
SEC. 8. And be 1t further enacted, That here
after mates may be rated, under authority of the
Secretary of the Navy, from seamen and ordinary
seamen, who have enlisted in the naval service
for not less than two years, and such rating OF
enlisted man, or his appointment as an officer,
shall not discharge him from his enlistment
Sec. 4. And be 1t further enacted, That no per.
son appointed or rated an officer or clerk in the
navy shall receive any bounty while holding an
SEQ. S. And be 1t further enacted That all acts
or parts of acts which are inconsistent with the
provisions of this act are hereby repealed.
SEC. 6. And be 1t further enacted, That acting
passed assistant surgeons and acting surgeons
may,,no appointed in the same manner as acting
assistant surgeons are now appointed, who shall
receive the compensation of their respective
grades.
Approved, March 8, 1865.
AN ACT authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury
to lease or sell certain Property of the United
States situated at Bath, in the State of Maine.
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentatiues of the United States of america IN
Congress Assembled, That the Secretary of the
Treasury is hereby authorised to lease the wharf
property belonging to the United States situated
at Bath, in the State of Maine, for term of
years, the lessee making all repairs thereupon
or he may sell the same at his discretion if it is
q lnnuap in II "A n renuirnd for the public
vice, and he ia hereby authorized to make, exa'
cute and deliver all needful conveyances to the
Purchaser or purchasers thereof
Approved, March 3, 1865.
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QUARTERMAsTER GENERALS OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, D c., July TO- 1866.
Sealed Proposals will be received at this office until ~
Tuesday, August 1865 for the purchase of twenty.
three hundred Mules, in lots of fifty and one hundred
each, at the places named below, viz:
HARRISBURG. Pa, 8 lots so each
IS lots, 100 each.
WILMINGTON, Del lois SO each.
/" lots, 100 each
WASHINGTON, D. O., lots SO each
:" lots, 100 each.
PITIsBURG, Pa, 4 lots, 80 each.
&c lot, 100 each.
These Mules will be put aside, each lot by itself and
will be free for the inspection Of bidders at the places
named respectively, for ten days prior to August l.
Many Of them were bought in the beginning of the
war young mules, companed the armies in all their
marches and camps. and thoroughly broken, har-
dened by exercise, gentle and familiar from being so
long surrounded by the soldiers
Though sound and servceable they are no longer re.
quired in the army, and can be obtained less
than their true value. s1
The successful bidders will be notified in person or by
telegraph and required to receive the animals or
fore August 3, 1865.
This Office reserves to itself the tight to reject all bids
that may be offered. ''.a4--sa
Propose should be addressed the undersigned and
marked Proposals for the purchase of Mules"
Payment must be made in Government funds at the
time of delivery.
BY order of the Quartermaster General.
JAMES A. EKiN,
Brevet Brigadier General, in charge
First Division O. M G. o.
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certain" approved on the niBeteenth of June, in
the year ne-thousand eight hundred and THU
teen, shall extend and apply to the master or
skipper and seamen of vessels of the but then OF
twenty tons or upwards, qualified according TO
law for carr ying on the mackerel fisheries, bound
from q port in the United States to he employed
in such fisheries, in the same way az iE such fish
cries had been embraced 10 said act: Provided,
That the agreement named in said section shall be
duly made, Endorsed ard counterslgned.
Approved, March g. 1865.
AN ACT to incorporate the Celored Union Be-
pevolent Association.
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives Of the United States of Ame RIGA IN Cons
gress assembled. That Gurden SRowden, Charles
Brown. famed Wright, Sandy Alexander, Henry
Logan, Charles Wilson, Henry Brooks, John
Shorter, Joseph Shorter, and their associates
and successors, be, asd they are hereby, consti.
tuted and declared to be body polite and cor
porate, by the name and title of the Colored
Union Benevolent Associs ton located In the City
of washington, and by it's corporate name said
association shall have perpetual succession with
mower to sue and be sued, to implead and be im-
pleaded, in any court of the United States or OF
the District of Columbia, of competent jurisdic
ton: to receive subscriptions, gifts and benefits,
and to make such rules and bylaws as shall be
deemed necessary and expedient for the govern,
ment of tbs association, and to alter the same,
| from time to time, in such mode IS bail be pres
scribed therein: Provided, al,oays, That such
rules and bylaws shall be in nowise inconsistent
with the constitution and laws of the United
States. or with the objects of the association.
The objects of the association are hereby declars
ed to be to provide for the care and con fort OF
| such members as shall be sick, disabled, or der
pendent and of the families of such members as
cases where the proper officers of the association
shal deem ii expedieRt, and also to provide for
the scent in terment OF such persons as may dis
| in membership of the association or belonging to
| the fau,ilies of such members.
SEQ. 2. And be It further enacted, That said
association shall have power to bold real estate,
or per~onal and mixed estate, by purchase, gift,
or devise, for the purposes of such association
and no other, and to lease, sell, or convey such
real astate, or mixed estate, or personal property
| as may be devised or donated to such association
and the leasing or sale of which will promote the
| interests of said association.
| SEQ. 8. And be It further enacted, That Con.
gress shall have the right at any time, to modify
amend or repeal this act.
Approved, March 8, 1865.
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