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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-09
TRESH BEEF AND ETABLES-
4 NAVY DEPARTMENT,

BUREAU OF PROVISIONS AND CLOTHING,
March o. 1866.
Sealed Proposals, endorsed Proposals for Fresh
Beef and Vegetables" will be received at tins Bureau
until O'Clock p. M, on the 18th DAY OF March
instant for the supply OF Fifty Thousand pounds of
FRESH BEEF and Fifty Thousand pounds OF
FRESH VEGETABLES, at the Philadelphia Navy
Yard and Station, as required
he Beet and Vegetables must be of good quality,
and the, best the market affords, ana each article
must be offered for by the pound
The Beet to be in equal proportions, fore and hind
quarters.
Bonds, with approved security, will be required in
one-balt the estimated amount OF the contract, and
twenty per cent in addition Will be withheld from
the amount of each yment to be made collateral
security Tor the due performance of the contract,
which will, on no account be paid until it is fully
complied with.
Bvery offer made must be accompanied by written
guarantee, signed by one or more responsible per-
sons that the bidder or bidders will, if his their
bid be accepted, enter into an obligation within five
days, with good and sufficient sureties, 10 furnish
the articles proposed.
No proposal aDiH De considered unless accompanied
by such guarantee, and by satisfactory evidence that
the bidder is regular dealer in the articles proposed
and has the license required By act of Congress.
The Department reserves the right to reject any
proposal not considered advantageous to the Gov
ernments 30 lOt
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SALE OF GoVERNMENT PROPERTY
BY direction of the SECRETARY OF WAR, all
BUILDING MATERIALS,
STEAM ENGINES,
MACHINERY, TOOLS,
IRON, COPPER, LUMBER,
AND STORES OF VARIOUS KINDS,
which were collected at Macon, ia by the Con-
iederate Government, for the erection and perma-
nent operation of q large armory, laboratory, and
lBsenal; and also
TOOLS, MACHINERY, AND MATERIALS
collected from iron works and armOrles the States
PUBLIC AUC ZION.
Among the articles to be sold are:-
9,gC0 ibs' Gopper-plgs.
$4,000 lbs. COpper-bar.
10000 lbs. Copper-sheet.
0C0 lbs Wrought Iron-bar and rod.
SO tons Pig Iron.
ESQ tons Cast Iron -unserviceable shells.
ga, COO lbs. lead-piPs.
1000 lbs. Tin block and sheet
1000 lbs. Chain--crane and cable;
1900 yards Cloth-Cotton, English Serge, oiled
and enamelled.
so 600 lbs. Powder.
5000 ieet Betting - gum and leather, assorted
900 Machines-DriIs, Planers. Milling, Screw
cutting, Steam and Trp'hammers
Besides -
Saddles iron and bronze,
Infantry and Cavalry Ac- 8, Materials, tu, 60.
coutIements, spare IM@ kheWl LOT
Blankets, oprngn9u huskets anu
Wagon and Gum Carriage Colts ReVOlVers, and
Irons an assortment Of
so broken Gun Carriages,
PAINTS AND OILS
The attention OF Northern buyers is called to this
sale which is q large one, and of valuable property.
Full printed Catalogues of the property to be sold
Washington1 ID, c. and from the Cen nGnding
| OfGcer Of the Augusta Arsenal, Georgia.
The sale will commence on
WEDNESDAY, April A, 1885,
| and continue every day until ali the property is
| sod
ID w. FLAGLER,
Captain Ord Brew Lt.-COlonel,
| 922N Com. Augusta Arsenal.
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A R MY 81 P E S.

u
OFFlcE OF SUPERVISING CoMMIssARY /
MILITARY DIVISION OF THE TENNESSEE,
NASHVILLE, enn.
SEALED PRoPoSALS.
which must be IN duplicate, with copy of this ad-
verseme mt attached TO each. Will be received at this
Office until II O'Clock NJ,
THURSDAY, March 15 1866,
for supplying FRESH BEEF. of good and mar
ketable quality, in equal proportions of fore and
hind quarter meat (necks shanks, and kidney tai
low TO be excludedj for issue to the troops ana
others supplied by the Government with ralions, at
the following posts in the Military Division of Ten
nessee:- Atlanta and Macon, Ga, Nashville, Chat
tanoOga, Tenn Huntsville, Ala. ana at all spoSts
drawing supplies from the above. named posts.
Contract TO be in force SIX months, commencing
on the LIST day of April, 1866 and ending the 30tn
day OF September, 1866 or such less time as the
Iommissary General o Subsistence may direct.
The necks of the cattle slaughtered Tor beef to be
cut OF at the fourth Vertebral joint, and the breast
tllmmed down.
three to four inches above the knee JOINT, and Of
hind quarters nom SIX to eight inches above the
gambIel or hook JOINT
Payment will be made monthly, or as early there
after funds may be received therefor, and in
such funds as nay be furnished by the United
States.
Separate bids will be received for each of the
above posts or one bid may include them all.
No bds will be received from persons who come
un der the exceptions of the Presidents Amnesty
Proclamation. Nor will bids in which such persons
interested eIthes directly Tor indirectly, be re-
ceived. unlese they can produce the pardon Of the
President,
BIDS from all other persons under said Procla-
nation Lust be accompanied by the Amnesty
Oath.
Proposals must be accompanied by proper
guarantee, signed by two responsible persons,
stating that il a contract is awarded they will
enter bonds for the faithful tuflment of the con-
tract.
The undersigned reserves the right to reject any
and al bias offered.
lndorse envelopes proposals for Fresh Beef -
ana aOorl IS the same to the undersigned.
M p. SMALL,
Brevet Colonel and Q. s.,
226 16t Nashville, Tenn.
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ERANKFoRD ARSENAL, PHILADELPHIA,
T Ia, March 8, 1865.
Sealed Proposals. in duplicate, will be received by
the undersigned, at his office, at FRANKFORT
ARSENAL, up to IL O'Clock M of the 10th instant,
Tor furnishing - -
of the best quality necks and shanks excluded, to
the detachment stationed at this Arsenal.
The beef to be delivered four (4) tunes week, at
the rate OF l30 pounds, more or less, each time.
The COmmlssary Of Subsistence reserves the right
TO reject any unsatisfactory bid.
GEORGE ID. RAMSAY, JR.,
385t Byt. Captain U. s. A., A. G. s.
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CoyEgNMENT SALE OF SURPLUS BARD

SUBSISTENCE OFFICE, U. S. A.,
No s. GAY STREET, !
BALTIMORE, Nd Fe ruarY ~, 1865
Sealed Proposals, in duplicate will be received at
this office until SATU RDAY, March IL, 1866, for the
purchase OF surplus HARD BREAD ON hand at this
depot
Proposals must state that the offer is made under
advertisement of this date
The bread IN boxes of nifty (5O) pounds each, No
proposals received Tor less than twenty (20) boxes
Purchases will be delivered on board OF transports
without expense to the purchaser.
Payment required in government funds on Motif.
Cation OF acceptance of bid. Twenty days allowed
purchasers to remove stores.
Proposals to be endorsed on the envelope, "Propo-
sails for lard Bread" and addressed 10
THOMAS WILSON,
Brevet Lt.-Col. and q. s. U. S. A,
22Gl7t BTevet Brig. Gen. Volunteers,
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The Emperor Napoleon's recent speech CON
sisting of one thousand seven hundred and
eighty-four words, was transmitted to the furthest
part of France by the tslegraphh in little over
alf an hour.
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GALE OF STEAM GRIsT MILL
- AT THE
CAVALRY DEPOT GlESBORO, ID. o.,
QUARTERMAsTER GENERALS OPFIOR.
EIRen
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GOVERNMENT SALES.

SALE OF STEAM GRIsT MILL
CAVALRY DEPOT, GlESB0RO, ID. O.,
QUARTERMAsTER GENERALS OPPICE, l
FIRST DIVISION,
WASHINGTON ID. G., February 21 1853.
by order OF the Quartermaster General, there will
pc sold on the premises at public auction under the
Sheoton oS St SSPEsi5A George BTSyng 1sSa g
O'Clock M the following described public property.
ONE CD STEAM GRINDING AND FEED
drame, with massive granite foundatiOns),4O by 80
const Of tbS yeTY n II naerS aSSnGa anS % s
most substantial manner.
A-so, at the same time and place, the machinery
AID appliances OF the mill, consisting of
ONE tl) eNGlNE OF lOO.HORSE POWER
with cylinder OF twenty-five (22) inches diameter
cast iron bed-plate, with cold ana hot water pumps
and heater and q cast iron hv.wh with driving
pulleys OF tho same material ten l0l feet in dame
Ter and twenty-iour (24 inches lace, with Judsons
patent governor.
1Wo t2I BOILERS, Of SIXTY-HoRsE POWER
made Of theIbest boiler Irop FIVE sxeentbs 5 1s, Of
an inch in thickness FIVE t6l feet in diameter and
fourteen (l4) feet five (5) inches IN length; each
boiler containing seventy-sx (76l lap. welded fues
each three t3J and fourth (fJ inches in Diameter
len 1O) O)PAlRSiOF K EED' IS PATENT BUCKISG-
ham THIRI \ Y(8ol INCHES SPRING MILLS,
constructed OF solid French burr milestone, and set
in heavy, well-balanced frames with hay cutters
elevators and cOnyeyOrs sufficient to cut and handle
the bay, gram and prepared feed on the most eoo-
The chatting is OF n,shed wrought iron, and the
pulleys of castir0n, faced and balanced, with
hangers and boxes ,uficient to drive ten 10l ppirs
OF burrs etc. The main drivins-beit is Of tour a.
ply rubber, and twenty-tour tz4) inches WIDE. The
belts for driving the mills etc. are of The best oak
tanned patent streic ched leather
The Engine, Boilers, Machinery, and Fixtures Of
every description are OF the very best materials and
workmanship, and are shll in excellent cOndItiOn
and fine working order the mill having been in ope-
raton only about fifteen menths
If deemed advisable by the agent of the Govern
meht on the day OF SALE the buildings will be sold
separately.
1erms-Cash, IN Government funds.
Purchasers Will be required to remove their
property before the first (1st) day of May next,
grounds.
boat for Giesboro will leave the Sixth street
wharf every hour during the day of sale,
Any further information that may be desired will
be gwen upon application in person or by letter, to
Captain GEORGE L BROWNING, A. q. M, Gies-
boTo, or 10 this office.
JAMES A EKN,
Brevet BTigad1er General
226 31t In charge First Division Q. NJ G. o.
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u OF OR IN A N c E.
ID NAVY DEPARTMENT
WAsHINeToN CITY, March 2. 1886.
SALE OF NAVY POWDERS AT THE NAVY
YARD, BROOKLYN, N. Y.
There will be sold at Public Auction, to the highest
bidders, In the Office of the Inspector OF Ordpance
OF the Navy Yard BROOKLYN N. Y at noon, on the
Sd day of April, 1866, four thousand tour hundred
and ninety nlne 4499l barrels Navy Powders
These Powders will be sold by sample, in lots of
one hundred, two hundred, and three hundred
barrels Purchasers to furnish barrels into which
The powders may be emptied from the tanks.
1eIms-One half cash in Government funds, and
the remain der on the removal of the Powder, for
which period of ten days will be allowed II not
then removed the Powders will revert to the Govern
ment.
III. A. WISE,
3swt41 Chief of Bureau.
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T. U r Z K Al
THE INFALLIBLE HAIR RESTORATIVE.
THIS rs NO HAIR DYE.

TEE IMMENSE SUCCESS with which this prepara-
ton has met during the short Jme IL has been before
the public Induced the thousands and tens OF thou
sands who have used ana attested Its virtues pro
1ounce IA the ONLY and TRUE Hair Restorative The
Eureka has been Introduced into all the principal cities
both as and West and having faithfully performed all
that Is claimed it, has superseded al other Hair Pre-
paraons he Eureka restores Grey Hair 10 Its original
color; prevents the hair from falling OUT by causing
healthy condition of the scalp. mpartnR to the hair
solness and goss, and youthful appearance that no
other Hair Preparation produce The Eureka is free
from all impurities pOsenou drugs ana can be used
without soilinR scalp or hands.
Manufactured and sold wholesale and retail by
ROBERT FISHER, Sole Agent,
No. 25 N. FIFTH Street St Lous, Mo.
Agents for Pennsylvania DYoTT CO., No 292 n
SECOND Street, Philadelphia. 2Osmw3m
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Musical sound is composed of continual vi
orations OF equal rapidity, which already implies
a mathematical relationship; in the second place
two sounds being given, the second may be COM
posed of vibrations two, three, OF four times the
rapidity OF the hrsti accordingly there is be-
tween these TWO sounds mathematical relation
ship, which is figured by placing them at an
equal distance from each other on the musical
stave. II, instead of taking two, we take a mum.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-04-26

1t is known that our naval offers are
making an earnest effort to get an in
crease of pay. The Philadelphia
Ledger shows by a comparison of the
present rates of pay OF officers of the
navy with the rates received by them
before the war, that nearly all these
meritorious officers now receive much
less pay than they did then. Com
modores who were paid 5000 in gold,
in 1850, now receive 81 900 in currency.
Captains, who in 1860 received s., 500 in
gold, now receive So, 500 in currency.
Commanders, who then received 81, 1857
in gold. now get S2,SOO in currency.
Lieutenant Commanders, who then re-
ceived 81, 800 in gold, now get 81, 34S in
currency. Lieutenants, who then re-
received 81, ,S96 in gold, now get 81 ,S75
in currency. Besides the difference be
tween gold and currency, there has
been an actual decrease in the rates OF
pay of all these officers. Sailing Mas
ters and Ensigns have had their pay in
creased since 1860. Masters, who then
received 81, 200 in gold, now get 81 500 i'll
currency; and Ensigns, who then got
$1,000 in gold, now receive $1,000 in
currency.
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Good Substitute for Paint.

For the benefit of our readers. both
in the city and the country, we publish
the following recipe for making wash
for fences and out-buildings, which is
said to look almost as well as paint.
We quote from tho Chemical Gazette:
"Iake a clean water-tight barrel, or
other suitable Cask, and put into it n
half bushel of lime. Slack it by pour
ing boiling water over it, and in suf1i-
cient quantity to cover i've inches deep,
stirring it briskly till thoroughly slack
ed. When Stacking has been effected,
dissolve in water, and add two pounds
of sulphate of zinc and one of COM
mon salt These will cause the wash
to harden and prevent it cracking,
which gives an unseemly appearance
to the work. If desirable, n beautiful
cream color may be communicated to
the above wash, by adding three
pounds of yellow ochre, or good
pearl or lead color by the addition of
lamp vine or ivory black. For flwn
color, add four pounds of umber-
Turkish or American-the latter is the
cheaper, one pound of Indian red and
one pound common lampblnck. This
wash may be applied with common
whitewash brush, and will be found
much superior, both in appearance and
durability 10 common whitewash."
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..Tramp, tramp, Tramp."

Americans are peculiar in one thing,
they will sing a song to death. In our
brief existence we can read many in
stances of the kind. We remember how
often "old Dan Tucker" was tainted
with being too late for his evening
meal; how little rest we gave "Oh Susan
nah," 1--WE owe Susannah a weighty
debit and how entransingly we alluded
to the ewes of dearest May" those
orbs that rendered midnight intirely
superduous. For long time "The
Poor Old Slave" was allowed little re-
pose, although he had ostensibly "gone
10 rest" "The Old Folks at Home, !"
ere ruthlessly torn from that quiet
and seclusion which their age
imperatively demanded, and forced to
duty in every minstrel and concert
company in the land. "Old Dog Tray" F"
the faithful old pup, was for long
time. drawn by the tail through all
manner of brass instruments, wound
up to an agonizing pitch by piano keys
and made to howl plaintiyely in. four
voices. 1.-The Silver Moon" has to "roll
on" by day as we'll as night, constantly
performing the unremunerative task OF
guiding "the traveller on his way" ap-
parently regardless as to whether the
"nightingale's song" was in tune or
not. "Home, Sweet Home" has been
so successfully invested of all its at
tractiYe features that many people
have been satisfied to become wan
derers for the remainder of their
existence. "Gentle Annie" was
"A great bore for long time, aud al
that "Thou wilt come no more, gentle
Annie" she still kept coming. There
was no end to those winds that "Blew
Bitter Across the Wild Moor" We got
very sick of so much "blowing" over
the moor. Othello, the Moor of Venice,
wasn't blowed ever more. "Nelly was
a Lady," sang everybody. Well she
might have been, but where an asser-
ton of that nature is made SO often
and persistently, we are inclined to
question the foundation for the asser-
ton. We have heard young ladies
singing "Who will Care for Mother?"
while their mothers were wearing
themselves out in the Kitchen over the
family washing. Then there is John
Browns Body" Instead of being per-
mitted to lie quietly 'mouldering in
the grave" itswas kept marching on"
with enough "knapsacks strapped on its
back" to supply a regiment with that
necessary article of camp and garrison
euuipage. "When this Cruel War is
Over" had pretty good run. The
heartiest congratulations that were in
duced by the termination of the war
arose from the fact that the people got
over singing when this cruel war is
over, &c. Now the popular tongue is
singing and whistling Tramp, Tramp,
Tramp, the Boys are Marching." We
are in great danger of being tramped to
death with it. You hear it in the work
shop and in the billiard saloon. "Be-
meath the starry flag we will breathe
the air again." We have been holding
our breath, or else breathing chloro-
form up to this period, we suppose; but
now tive breathe the mir again." The
air is breathed by great many p eople
about now. What next2 We wait the
reply of the popular song writer.
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IT will be remembered that after the
surrender of Gen. Lee, the military in
Georgia captured SIOO, ,OOOin gold. which
was claimed by the Farmers, the
Richmond, and the Bank of Virginia.
Recent Investigations of the facts show,
however, that few days before the
evacuation, the Legislature of Virginia
passed law authorizing the said banks
to loan the Confederate Government, on
the faith of the State, $500, 900 in gold to
purchase supplies for Lees army. This
sum was placed by the respective banks
to the credit of the rebel Government,
and before the surrender of Lee, $50 600
was paid. leaving $4,000 belonging to
the rebel Government with these banks
at the time of the evacuation. The
Government therefore claims not only
the 100000 captured in Georgia, but
also the Sl4O,O in the custody of the
banks. This is the condition ut present
of the question. The notes OF these
banks have been bought up with the
expectation thatthe Government would
relinquish its title to the S24O, 900 OF
gold.
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FEMALE INCONSTANCY.
An Episode or the RebeIIIon.

A Columbia, S. c., correspondent of
the New York Times writes:
While here have heard a romantic
story that I am assured is true, and
which, as it reveals the Inconsistency of
woman, and the elastic character of the
feminine heart, am not disinclined to
reject. A young woman, possessed OF
fine person and property, a member
of one of the oldest and most fashion,
able families in the State, became en-
gagged to young man in her own grade
in life, who was Major in the rebel
service, and was to marry him at the
termination of the war, if he survived,
If he did not, she was to remain ever
true to her vows, and, being Catholic.
had promised to enter q convent, and
become only the bride of Heaven.
They were Il model pair of lovers, and
all who knew them believed they were
the embodiments ofpoetry, tenderness
and devotion TO each other; that they
lived what bardS have sung, and roman
ces had described. They were like two
blossoms on one stem-a planet and
its ray.
AS usually happens, fate frowned on
their felicity, and, jealous of their love,
cut the material cloud of the sentiInen
tai Majors being at Fort Wagner.
Eloisa was mad with grief, and incon-
Solable forevermore. Her parents be-
lieved she would not, and could not
live; and that if she died, she must be
bereft of reason.
Months passed. Charleston fell.
Columbia was threatened. Eliosa re-
manned. She was anxious to he slain
by the barbarions who had murdered
her lover. The Union forces arrived,
but had something else to do than kill
women, and Eloisa survived in spite of
herself.
She heard the regiment was in town
that had charged upon the battalion led
by her best beloved, and she resolved
to see the Colonel and denounce him as
the slayer of her prince and peace.
Eloisa saw him, and had tremendous
scene. The Colonel was handsome and
gallant; and when the fair girl thun-
dered, as all her sex do ut first, and
then rained, he was touched and inter
ested in the unknown woman. He
comforted and consoled her, realizing
the truth of the idea that the heart is
never so suspectible to n new attach
ment as when it is recovering from an
old one.
In four weeks she had learned to love
the Yankee savage, and expressed her
willingness to be his; while he was re-
signed as most men are, to be worshiped
by'her if she was bent on any such
folly.
They were married in spite of the
threatened anathemas of all her rcla-
tives and friends, and are now in Eu-
rope, renewing on the continent the war
that in America has ceased, but which
in dominions domestic has no end.
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DEATH OF GUsTAvE DE BEAUMONT
The foreign mails bring us the news of
the death of Gustaye de Beaumont,
who accompanied De Tocqueville to
this country in 1851 to study the peni-
tentiary system of this country. I'm
der the Republic of 1913 he was ambas-
sador at London and at Vienna. He
was arrested at the time of the coup
d'etGt, and since then has lived in re-
tirement. In addition to the report
Tocqueville on our prison system, he
was also the author of marie, or Sla-
very in the United States," and "The
Social, Political and Religious Condi-
ton of Ireland" All three of his
works were crowned by the French
Academy: We need hardly say that
he was Liberal in politics. His wife
was n granddaughter of La Fayette,
and was his cousin. He was 63 years
of age at the time of his death.