THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH TUIPLK SHEET. PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20,-1860.' CHRISTMAS KVK IN A GREAT CITV. VIEW OF THE LONDON MARKETS. 'Amateur Caaual" Amoug his I-'rlcnda. tIT JAMES (itlKENWOOn, THE "VOFNO DIORKNS," ACi noK Of "A NIQHT IN A WORKHOUSE," ETC. Close observers of the habits and customs of the lower order of lOimlinh workmen have re corded the BiiHfuhir luct that, as a rule, the Sun dny is by them regarded, not us uu entire, but ns 'a balf-holidny. Nay, cleanliness beiiifr h kin dred virtue witti (.'odliness, it is; lndi-piitublo tbnt, s rcirnrds the foiepiirt of ISiinilny, he is fmiltyof desecration, not out ol nefib-ct and cire fwn'ess, but deliberately and hy design; lor, whcrcHe all the working (inys ot the week he sits down to breakfast wuh a visage tlie brialiter lor acquaintance with soap and water, and a head of hair reclaimed lrom nocturnal tangle, the Sabbath brcakfast-titm; finds him at his own hearth prio? valid unkempt, lie can uilord to be untiuy. 1 lis time is hia own, and he may di just what he plraHes with it. Not that it pIcRHefl him to wear a dirty face (no man can accuse him ot that: he washes his lace, and arms, and hands every day, his I'ect once a tortnisih', or 01 toner, if a ( old necessi tates their immersion in hot water, and never a suinrner tiasses but he has a dip in the Merpen tineTor the font penny swimming baths): but, the Im i, is, his everj-day matutinal ablutions are in a deciee coinr u'sorv. It is one amongst the 'Shop" rules, and an lnlrinirenieiit of it is visited by a line of twopence; and yesterday's sinut on his nose, and yc-teitinv's itubble Mill adorning his chin, arc indubitable symptoms that to-dny he calls no man his master. Throuph the Sunday forenoon although, if his every-day employer was to say, "Jones, if you like to' brim? thai pared up to the house, there's halt a crown lor your trouble," Le wouU reject it with scorn he employs hinisoif domestically, and works like a lilicr. lie will sole-aud-hcd Tolly's bnois, put in broken windows, make pood detective drain ge in the rear of his premises, "set" a copper. or dig w hole rods and perches of garden ground until his blue-ribbed shirt reeks with perspiiM tion, and all with the complctest clieerfuliiess, aud until it is noticed to iiim that dinner will be ready in twenty minutes. From that moment he is a changed man. In that announcement breaks on hcii tne lir.st glim juerma ot Sunday da. vinnu'. With a face grow ing each moment mote sober, he puts away hi tools, and straieht retires t the privacy of his chamber, lrom w'nisli he emerges just in time to sharpeu rhe carving-knife for an attack on the suouhler of mutton that Joe, The eldest born, lias fetched from the bake house. L!ut how changed a man Is ho lrom the cobbler, or the digger, or the copper-setter ot half an hour ago! His blue-riboed shirt is exchanged lor a white one with a rigorous stand-up collar; his l ice is clean and shiny, his chin is a' smooth as a biby's; and he has oil on hw hair. The time of day has begun when he should "bring up his children ir. the way they should go," aud lie sets about it with an uncom promising air that would have won tor hi m a name in the bygone times of Prai-e-God-Biirp-bones. With strictest impartiality, as regards crackling and gravy, he charges the seven plates ranged on either side ol'tlie tutde, and behind each of which appears a wistful face and .a pun of eyes that by anticipation have already eaten up every scrap ol ttie smoking ration, and then he father Jones, that is raps the table with the buekl orn halt of the carving-knife, aud seriously commands Joe to say grace; and glibly as one who has it already at liis tongue's tip, an ! wiiose mouth, wafrs for what is to lollow, Joe complies, His ejaculation ot the lat syllable of the word 'thankful," that concludes the prayer, is like the application of the match to the touch-hojes of a row of cannon as regards the duino waiters behind the charged plates, and instantly tln-y lire auay. Father, too, lie rites away, but still preserves a severe eye for the proprieties of the Sunday dinner-table. "J,s it proner to cat your Huuday dinner wi ll yowr fork wrong side up'e.rds, Maria?" "I thai the manners they learn you at (Sunday School, John? Keep your elbows oft the table,' sir." '"It I have to.teii you about that chafing noise again, Amelia Mary, j on go into the back kitchen, mis-. 1 must send to your Sunday School, and tell 'em to set you a text to learn against such awful manners." Dinner over, Joe, the grace-: ajer, returns thanks. The children go to Sunday School, and father, turning down his s-hirt-fcleeves ( which have been " tidily tucked back behind his ulboivs during the carv ing process), puts on his Sunday bl ick coat, charges his fc-undiiy long pipe, and composes liioisell cleau ana Christianly to smoke, while Joe reads the latest murders, forceries, and bigamie out of Lloyd's I'timij IVedsty. The Jones above ((noted, who is but a type of ten thuu.-aiid, is equally eccentric in h;s obser vance of other high holidays and festivities. Christmas eve. lor instance. His Christmas purchases must be sauctilied by season in the cxtrcmest sense of the term. It is idle your pleaching to Jones that daylight is the time tor niaiketing, that cheats thrive by lamplight, that hurrying and crowding and .-qiieezing are fatal to bargaining, that yellow cow in eat, looks ruddy and lair as the best, seen Dy the light of tlamiug gas. He is ready enough to believe it on ordinary occasions, but on this special occasion he turns a deaf ear. It may be endeavored to explain this appareut ececuiricity of Jones' by the lact that Christma,cve is, as a , rule, a wages-receiving time, and that, it is really dusk and "eve" before Jones reaches home. This is true as lar as it goes, but really it applies scarcely at all to the case. Jones' does not depend on the earnings of the previous few days for his annual banquet ot banquets. He "6aves up" foi it by means of a shop money club, or otherwise, a Lid has the cash in hand in good time to mul: b purchase two days pre vious to Christmas, if he had a mind. But he has no mind; Christmas day falling on a Tuesda, he would no more think of lining in his stock of Cbrhtmas-d inner provision on the previous Saturday, than he would of retiring to rest on Christmas eve without uaviug a lusty "stir" at the pudding stulf iu the pan. ' lieef so bone hi would not be 'Christmas'' bee!. He knows as well as any man that the poultry for Christinas consumption are immolated and exposed lor sale several days before the festival, aud he cannot be blind to the tact that if he took a quiet stroll to the rendezvous ot the goose and turkey merchants on the evening before Christ mas eve, his opportunities of choice would be more extended, and as likely as not he would save a shilling in purchase-money; nevertheless Le would scorn to avail himself of such advan tages. He has fiicnds coming to dinner, and he Is the last man in the world to treat them shab bily. With what countenance could he reply to the inquiry ol a guest who, with the privileged familiarity of an old acquaintance, might require to know when and where the bird was purchased? It would scarcely be worth bis while to tell a falsehood about it; but how could he find words to confess that it was not a Christmas irooe at all, having been bought "last week !" His char acter for loviality aud hospitality would sutler from that moment. A suspicion would creep into the breast of each guest that the dinner was one contrived on economical principles Whether it were true or no, when the miiiee ples appeared, the pie-shop in thr High street would be privately assigned as their hirthpUcp, and the berry brownnesn of the hostess's pud ding, while it was audibly commended and its complexion ascribed to natural richness, in secret would be attributed to some of the penny-a-packet coloring trash manufactured by that great cnaoiplon of the washing-tub and deally enemy of pulrx irri'unn, Fiddler DoUnsticks. It wouldn't do at all. Very pos-dbly evi dence of their dissatisfaction might not bo found in a falling oil of the appetite of the guests, but it would be talked of afterwards, undoubtedly. And, in cae that Jones, reading the-e lines, should imagine that I am holding up this weak ness of his to ridicule, let me ha-ten to set my Hdf right in his eyes. Your weakness, Jones, is laudable, proper, and 1 have a great mind to say a Christian. You act on the simple belie'" i aitnoiign, iiko many another iinrisunn neiiei ot yours, you are contented to eniov it in your heart's warm depths, and without ifeclaring it from the summit ol an upturned tub that the season of Christmas eve is a sanctifying season, and that to buy and prepare for the feast during the hallowed time, is like asking a blessing on it. You don't think of this, Jones, as you are cheapening a turkey or in vesting twopei.ee In horscradi ih as n earnHi for jour roast beef (how is it that you never cat horseradish at any other time of year, Jones?), but reverence for' the glad season is in you, and you are governed by it 'n all your actions. The good inlluence shines in your face, Jones, a-, j on may convince yourself if you will take a peep at it in the draper's plate-glass, as you wait outside lor your qcod lady who is proudly within the shop investing that tmexpocte'd three-and-sixpencc of yoms in a new cap with cherry bows. Nay, Mr. Cynic, you arc quite wrong when ou cry, "liosh ! twaddl" ! cant!" You never will convert mo to your opinion that theeheeiful serenity of Jones' countenance on this particular evening is due. not to any sort ot "mystic inlluence.'' but simply to Jones' rare prospect of a feed off turkey and rich pudding, mid a merry evening of pipes and grog to fol low, 1 don't deny that Jones is a man with an animal appetite, and with a hankering after the lleshpots, and that the weight of the viands with which his basket Is crammed is conside rably mitigated by the buoyant properties of much of his soul there too. lint you must know that Jones has bought other goods than will come to the spit or the pot. He has the worth ot threepence in holly and the same in mistletoe. You may see that he bus, for there it. dangles by the side of his basket. And theie, I am landed high and dry again on the ground on which I take my stand, Mr. Cynic, when you broke in with your'unploa sunt oljsei vations. How is it that Jones incom modes hiiisell by carrying home that bulky, prickly bush, when he has so much eljc to catrv? You know. I know, everybody knows, that'holly and mistletoe have been seen hanging in the shops of the ercencin-ers for a week pad; it has b 'cn hawked and bawled about the streets by costerniongers ever since last Wednesday. Why then did' not Jones, since he must gpelid his money in such nonsense why didn't he make hi holly purchase any day as he cime home to dinner or leturiied at niuht any time during the put week? Why! for the best of all icasoiLs he didn't believe in holly or mr-tletoc till this evening. He has seen lot's of it about, but lie had no mind for it no more tliau he would for plucking urecu apples growing within reach. He is glad to see so lair a prosorct, but l ire fruit for his money. Holly, with him, is not ripe until this "eve." The ri.ddv berries have now tin interest lor hi,n tlcey possessed not in the morning. Had he then, bv '.tceident. pricked his hand with the holly thorns, he prof ably have exclaimed blow"or "bothpr" it, or may belor he is a lin.ityman and not over choice of words when put'out he would have used a stronger expletive, than either; but should such a calamity belall him now, I'd wager us much spirits uswo'ild serve to make Jones's snapdragon to-inorrow, that he bears the scratch without the use of any uaughtv words whatever. You may laugh, 'Mr. Cynic; perhaps 1 know Jones better than you. It any one doubts whether Cluistmaseve marketing is an institution amongst the poorer sort of people, let him go toLeadenhall, or New gate, or Newport, or Spitateields, especially the two former, at the time in question. Take Newgate Market. One night a week on a Saturday night some business is done bv gas light, but by comparison not more than a penny to a pound with the amount ot trade done there on Christmas eve. Kartcr is not at a standstill all through the day, but it is strictly confined to big and little meat merchants. Ordinarily be twixt these two classes the consignees and sales men, ami the shopkeeper who comes there for his goods there exists a comfortable amount of cordiality; money and meat changed hands smoothly, and all is harmony and content. But on the day before Curistman day it is slightly different. Once a year the wholesale ones of the market tind it profitable to go into the retail trade, and the regular retailer very natu rally does not like it. He sulks and grumbles at the wholesale one's prices. The wholesale one, however, takes his unkind remarks in per fect good humor. "Never mind about rive ami eight pence being a cruel price," he says; "if you don't liketogive it, you may leave it ttiaf'8 the figure; it'll letcli it, and a good djal more for the trouble ot cutting up between this and twelve o'clock. They'll be swarming here like Hies socn as t lie gas is lit." Dy "tlicv" he means Hie Christmas-eve mar keters, and he is quite correct in his prognosti cation, liy the time the gas is lit the market is "laid out;" the covered ways are rool'e l and arched with meat, the narrow lanes are helged with ii; there are groves ot pork, thickets of mutton, and, allowiug four of the huge quar ters to every bullock an ordinary an I rea-ou-abie allowance more animals ot thiu kind than i in lite could have found browsing on Mitchani I Common. All cuts of prime narts too. At ordinary times are freely exposed lor sale every part of a beast, irom hi tail to liis; snout; you may see the heads of sheep and sheep's I "trot-ers," and lipids of ihi; bovine species in ' heaps bip high, the tails of o.vn in hunches, and the intestinal pavts of sheep. Via", oxer.. and calves burdeniug by the hundred-weight : mighty hooks screwed into posts and beams, i There is none of this on Christmas eve; all is cleanliness and propriety. Taere is saw-dust rn the market stones and white c othsonthe butchers' boards, unl cleau apro.is aud sh-eves on the butchers' selves, and the butchers are losy and the meat is rosy, aud the gas spouts out with a jolly bum. There are three or four hole-and-corner tav erns attached to the market. One of them, a low-crowned looking editice, the red-curtained doors of which' arc approached by three downward-steps, a greasy, murky-looking hotel inouiih in general, but this evening all alive aud beaming with extra i!ajet and hollv festoon ing the frowsy ceiling, and a big bunch ot mis tletoe, imp'iled to the middle post behind the bar to which the "Old Tom"' mo is attached, and against which the bar-maid leans ana chats with the customers In the intervals ot bu-iness. "Keg-hot from live to twelve1' is the legend on the wall, and it being now five and past, Ire quently the red-curtained d'-or swings to aud fro, and with watering motif lis sly b utcher-ni'-n slip in, and with satisfied mouths sly bincher-nien slip out, brushing their lips with their blue sleeves, and lurrying back to their tails. They'd nap it if their masters caught them at it, only the best of it is, tho masters take care not to calch'eiu at it, so Ion; as they take no more than is good tor them, knowing th sort of evening's work they have before them. And now the trade begins. Swarming iu at the lanes aud alleys come the, buyers, iu some few cases singly, but in pairs, as a rule, man and wife; and the number ot their children may be estimated with tolerably accuracy from the size ol the market-basket the latter carries hundreds of them, thousands ot them, until there is scurcely elbow-room, and for satety the butcher-nieii carry their knives, when not in use, in their mouth?. All very well, but it must be confessed that Neweate Market or Leadeohall are not, undoubt edly, the i best places to purchase the primest aiui cheapest. Jones is in this respect no w eaker than his well-to-do brother; we are all alike, all anxious to till our little tiu do's at Niagara. If I wain a pen'oth of plums I piel'er them out of a hu!icl; if I have lifty pounds to bank, I lodue it with ihe Cnuid WVstniinater ud Middlesex, rnpital RPventenn millions. 8 It with Joues oiul his wife. They bavc ten bliillint;s tu spend in butchers' meat, and tbey miut needs hanker alter tbe "whole-ale." Any well-conditioned bullock lu cupuble ot stipplyln!? four times more fdvloin than they arc likely to want, but they prefer to pick their cirloin out of the pro dure of a hundred and fifty bullocks. There is no (Jeuyiiif?. Mr. Joues, that you are a tolerable iudire f meat, and may avc a penny a pound by coming here, porhaps three half-pence; aud no you otiiiht, coiiHideriuu: that you have trmfctPd n mile uud a half, had th? crown of vour bonnet atove m by eollieiou with a meat tray, aud uultcrcd ugnuii fi lrom the trampliiiRr id iKih'nailed boots on oiir corns. How much better now it would hare been to have youe quietly to Wlpcins. who is not extensive in trade, but invariably civil and oblialng, and given him your Christmns custom. It would have been better for various reasons. In the first place, you are well acquainted with Wiggins, and stand in no awe of In 'it. If he asked jou tenpence a pound tor sirloin, and you thought that nine pet ee was a plenty for it, you would have no scruples about telling him so to his head, and declining to purchase unless he bated: but would jou date to do as much bv Suverside V Co.? The meat merchants who are In such u ttenicndous way of business, make no more of j our purchase of sixteen pounds of beef thaii Wiggins would of your demand for two pen'orth of suet. That in the first Place; and then, pray, how about your knowledge of the arithmetic ot whole sale meat-dealing? You may readily enough conipichend what a joint will C03t, the price per pound ol which is li'nepence or nine pence halfpenny; but when the talk is of "six and four" and "live and eight," it is question able if you are not somewhat abroad, iou may have some inkling of the fact that the figures mentioned represent the price required for a stone ol eight pounds of the joiut you have fixed on; still your bating tactics are thrown altocetherout of gear; and whether to bid "live and eevenpenee" or "rive and two pence," you have not the least idea. The pro bability is that you will yield withouta struggle, or allow the bargain to escape you, while you turn nwny to reckon how many eighlpeiices there arc in the live and fourpence. lint flatter not thyelf, good Jones, because of your i( holarshio iu figures, that it only requires ou to undertake the meat bu)ing. and all will eo well. You know all about "six aud eight" and "live and lour," but you don't know every thing. Pardon me, Jones, if 1 tell you that your great weakness lies in your prodigious confidence in jour strength of niiud, in your sound and cool judgment, and your complete invincibility to trade tricks and dodges of every manner am) k.ud. "I know, every one knows," say you, "how women arc gammoned and whee dleo by shopkeepers; iliey should have men to deal with; I'd like to sec the butcher who would come the old soldier over hip.'" Take the market-basket, Jones, mix in the crowd this blessed Chiis:mas eve, and you shall see all that yon ask. You silly fellow! do you imagine that you arc the tirst Jones that ever came to Newgate Mar ket? As there is one bait for roach, and another for chub, nnd a third tor gudgeon, so are there waysol angling lor customers. Toe butcher before whose shop you pause, my good Jones, has already "taken your measure,'' as i lie saying is. He see's the independent manner in which your hands are thrust inro your trousers pock ets, and the determination Lot to be im nosed on or wheedled visible iu every line of your expressive countenance, and so far from being intimidated thereat, he regard you as one of the easiest of victims. He "would rather deal with three of your sort thau with one of your good lady's any day in the w eek, bin on a Christmas eve especially. With the air of a man w ho knows what meat should be, on cast your eje along the rows ot ribs and sirloins, and presently Ik' catches your eye. He doesn't rush out on you, ho wever; he preserves his calinues-, aud nods towards you as recog nizing iu you an old and worthy customer. That is your impression, and meanly availing jouiself'of his apparent mistake he is man extensive way ana highly resectable you nod nihility in return. He conies forward iu a identify way, and says, "(food evening, sir; selecting your Christmas roast ?" just, as though n was a matter of course that ou should come o his highly respectable establishment to select it. "Well, yes, I was thinking about it, Mr. Hotelier." sajs you, in patronizing sort of way. "Let us see, then; you don't like it over hit, if 1 recollect, sir" (as though you had dealt with him tor years). "What do you say to that cut, -now?" "How much?" 'Oh, well, tee won't have a dozen words about price; say six and four. Weigh this, Jim, cure nilly." "One of the beft butchers in England, Sarah," you "remark to Mis. J , as, having paid for your eighteen pounds ot beef, you walk idf with it. "Very gentlemanly tellow, too, as you must have observed." 'There's a good bit of bJiie in it, Joe, isu't there ?" "Of course there is; you can't have good meat without; and this is tir.st-class." 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MiRICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL UrtlQN, No. 1122 CHESNUT STREET, IUILADELPHIA, Has so uu usually lare vsriety of beauciiu'lr prtuted profusely illustrated, and handsomely bound NEW AND SUPERIOR BOOKS SUIT ABLE FOB HOLIDAY GIFTS. Also, an extensive assortment of BIBLE3 AMD DEVOTIONAL BOOKS. Complete Catalogues ot tbu Society I'ubhcatloui UiiiK.liyil 4tuin,u..l'. 11 IU lit NEW PUBLICATIONS. TJOOKB! BOOKS! PrcpEiTC for Uic llolhlajs! Now is the time to mnko your selections. We hare now completed one ol the most extensive and complete n-watments that we have cvoi had. comprising AN IMMENSE VARIETY OF CHILDREN TOY BOOKS, Beautifully colored; largo pictures and small STANDARD JUVENILES. 1 LEL.ANTLV ILLUSTRATED COOKS OF POETRY, Religious, Bentimenul, aud Maivlai 1 PliOTOGRAl Ii ALBCS1S, G:F1' BO )RS, BIBLES AND PRAYER BOOk. The largest and moH extensive avsorlment iu the city. OXFORD BIBLES, We invite rarticular atlention to. They must be seen to b-j appie latcd. n.11 cf which wo oflor at the very LOW EST PRICES. Our store whl bo kept cneu until If.1 o'clock every eveii fug. stna tor the new I!o!Mn Catalogue tor tree distribu tion. JAMES S. CLAXTON, (Successor to William t-. A Airr d Hartlen,) 12 iT'itln No. 1214 CEE3NUT Street. THE RIVERSIDE MAGAZINE, FOR YOUNG PCOPuE. I'OIi ih(;7. HANDSOMELY 1LLUSTRATEO. JAN7AS.Y NUMEEIi READY DECEMBER 20. CONTENTS: FROA'TISMECE-" T Ii It E E GOTHAM. WISE WEN" Ot" I. THE EM Ii ANTMENT OF OLD DANIEL. '2. .IN hXTEMl'OKANEOUS PAttTY. By Jacob ALboiu Ulusiraicd. 3. A NEW YEAR'S CAKE. By R. F. i. THE MIUMGHT CO 1ST. By ioux Moustache. Illusiiated by Wlns.ow Homer. 5. TRAVELLING IN GREECE. By 8. G. W. Benjamin. ii. UTILE NORA. Illustrated. 7. STEREOSCOPIC Blc'll'RES. 8. THE l'KINCJS OF I'EACE. A Christmas Carol. Words and i'.uslc b)Casonella. Illuminated bot her by Hows 9 I' KIN CESS IMOGEN: OR, TOE TRIUMPH OF LOVF. By A. b. AlcFarlaud. 10. THE SLEEI'T OLD TOWN" OF BRUGES. Witu an Illustration. II. 1 HE SONG OF THE RT3. 12. FKANK GORDON. By F. It. Gouldinjr. 13. SOME Will IE MICE AT HOME. lUuslrated by (Jerries. H. Tnt. NEIGHBORS. By Horace E. t'cudde. Illus trated by H. L. Stephens. 15. BOOK FOR YOLTU 1'EOPLE. 10. THE WINDOW SEAT. By tae Editor 17. ENIGMAS, E'IC. llh.rt'bted. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One cony, cno year, ?2 S0. 'i hrte copies, ti fO; Ave copies, 810. Ten copies fr'20. and an extra copy gratia. 1 wenty coi Ks, 035, ana an estra copy gratis. l;in(Jo copies, 25 eoniseach. A sample copy lient by mall, prepaid, ou receipt ol 20 cents. m m) & liOl'GUTON, Pulillshers, r,o iro HROOME Street, I.'ew York. I'iewmtn nud Teacher wtl! at i? '2 per annum. be supplied with the 'VI Htuih2t A N ELEGANT 15 O O K lC'iC 1HK HOLIDAYS. THE CHRISTMAS HOLLY, BV MARION IIAHI.AD, Author of "Ah 'tie, "Ilddin rath,' "(Sunnybauk, etc etc 1 volume, 4to Printed on delicately toned paier, and beautifully illustrated by wood engravings, printed In three colors. i'.iuno In fancy cloth, full gilt, bevelled boards.... 4 U0 Bound In 1 ui key morocco 8 00 alurlon Uarlaud is one oi tbe most Kitted and culti vated witters that this country ba ever produced. There Is an orlg nalltj and purity about her writings which not only i harm the Intellects, but.cultlvate the hearts of her readers. Tho Christmas II oil v Is a collection ot her moat attractive stories, especially adapted to the tender aud beautiful season ot hrHimai. No exoense has been spared in making the boik as attractive as Its intrinsic merits deserve. 1 1 will be higblv appreciated by any rriend asaChriat ii. ns present, fent by mall on receipt ot tbe price. SHELDON & COMPANY. Nos. 498 aud 500 IJ ROADWAY, 12 1.1 tbs4t NEW YORK. HOLIDAY BOOKS, Standard and Illustrated Editions FINE iK SALE BIND I NCS, AT LOW PRICES BY LINDSAY & BLAKISTON, PUBLISHERS AND BO0XSE1LEES, Ny. ,25 SCITU SIXTH STREET. msjnOt ABOVE CHESNUT. NEW PUBLICATIONS. STORY OF KXQUISITK A BEAU1V FOK EVERT AOK. BATHMENDI! A Terslnn Tale. Translated fto-n the French of Dorlnii. I'rlce 'US rents. I ni euts see that It is lucked into one stocKlnit, Christ mas I .ve LOIUNO, 12 19 it rUBLISIIER, BOHrOtf. I A V K II MARTINGALE'S (HON. JOUS b. BLEEl'ER) new Hea fitory- MARK ROWLAND, Mcts with gTost favor lrom boolt-baten. TiiJE MARYAiT OF AMEdlCfV Is t;ie high pool. Ion asslnncd to the author, and MARK UOtVLANO Is n book every young man will read with thn diep.n interest. LOIUNC1, I2 1!2t ruilLISlIEll, 1O3T0N. JURAT 10 AL(KH$ STAND AT TUB HE ID. hooks CRAVLtK CO) MAN 8 CRUISE. BAI L BKESCOTT CilAKUK. FhANKS t'AMl'AION. HELEN roiiO, THE hUCCKH.St'UL. V0C3M.tr. LOIMNCJ, PUBLISHER, BOrtTOH. 12 111 lit 1LLY; OH, THE HIDDEN CIIOSH A hToRY FOR EVERT 8CH )OL OlttL, ( Ol'NTH.sS K Al F, by Miss Younge, 1 A11II OAltTNEV.S OIELIIOOI), XAIGaHI.T AM) I1KK BRiDEsMAITtS. Aie the best Books you can Hive a voang Mt.ss LOGING, 11 1 it rUBi.lSllKB, BOSTON. PROPOSALS nKbii ijki:f and vec ktahl kh. Navy Dkpartment. I BUnEAC OK I'ltOVIdlOJfS ANI CLOTHINO, Koconiliei 1H. lHli'l Pea'od Proposals, pndorsed 'l'ronosala lor Krush Beet anu Veuotabies," will bo received althu Ituroai until 2 o'clock 1'. M., ou the 3d day ol January, 1847, lor the supply ol 100,000 POUNDS OK F11E6II BEEF. 100 000 POUNDS Ol- FRESH VEGETABLES, at the lTiiJauulpiiiB iNavyl urd aud Station, us re quired. (be Heel anil Vte:ni!i's inii't he of cood quality, and tin- mt the iiiarl.ct iillords.nud c.icli article musi Lo otlered lor by (do pound. The Uu?l to ho in t'(iial proportions, ioro ana hind rjuarters Bonus, with approved security, will be required in ime-liait n.e estimated amount of the conn act, and twenty per cent in addition will bo withheld irom llin amount of each payment to be made, as col lateral security for the due performance of tho con tract, which will, on no account, bv paid unti. it is luiiy complied with. .Every olibr made must bo accompanied by a writ ten uaratitte, signed by ouo or more responsible persons, that tio oiddor or bidders will, if his or ineir hid be accepted, enter iuto an obligation wiitam five oars, with Rood aud tuUiciout sureties, to luruish the articles pn- posed. Ao pTopotul will be considered vnless accompanied by such guarantee, and by talis factory evidence tliat the bidder is a regular dealer in the article.i iropostd fur, and has Me license required by act $' Coitgrrs. The Department reserves the richt to reject any proposal t.ot considered advuntagtoua to the Gov ernment. It is io bo understood that in case the rtlpulnted quuiuily ci either article snail be delivered, leaving a bulni'CO due on the other article, tbu contract may he cousiuered as completed iu fall at the option of the Department. 121'J212U284t 1 JROPOSAL8 FOR CAVALRY AND ARTIL LERY UOliftES. UtrOT OUAUTE.tMASTEU'fl OFFICE, I Baltimoke, Md., Decemoer 15, lob' f Scaled l'roposals are iuviiod and will be teceivod at tins tlieo until l lilDAY, 12 o'clock M., Decem ber '28, IStjli, tor the delivery in tho city ol Ita'.imore ol Oue Uumired aud Twuutr-ix (12G) cavalry lloises, and Twelve (12) Artillery Horses. The Horses will bo subjected to cirelul inspection be'oie befn k accopted. i ho ( avulry Horses must bo eounu in all respects, well I rokeu, in lull llo-h and Kood condition, from Ultcen to sixteen nnnds hih, iioin hve to nine )euis o.d, woll adapted in every way lor cavalry purposes. The Artillery Horses must bo of dark colors, f-oiiMl in all respects, stionu, quick, and active, well broken, aud quaro trotters in harness, in pood flush oLd couditiou, lrom six to ten years od.and not less tliuu tilteen and a half hands hih, each horse to v.oifch iiotless tui.n ten hundred ana liny (1060) pounds. Ibo ability of tho bidder to fulfil his agreement must be guaranteed by two responsible persons, w hich ptiaraiitce must accompany tho proposal. Tho Hoi ses must bo delivered within iorty (40) days from date of acceptance of any proposal. 'I ho (.iovernment reserves the riut to reject unr or all bids. Payment to bo mudo ou comjileiiou of contract. Bids will be endorsed "Proposals for Cavalry and Artillery Horses," and addressed to tho undersigned, Eultimore, Md. By order of the Quartermaster Oeueral. A. S. KldB-lLL. Captain and A. Q M., U. 8. A , 12 lt 8f Depot Quartermaster. pitoro SALS FOR COPPER. Navy Department. ! 8. ) iSvne.AU op Constuuction and If ki-aiu Uecenibcr 19, M. Sealed, l'roiiosals (o furnish 400.000 uounas oi IiiKOt Copier, ouo hulf "Lako," hostgua'ity, will be received at this ltureaii unlit 1 o'clock I'. SI., of Jonuurv 3, 1HG7, at which time the proposals will be opened. i be prorosals must bo addressed to the "Chief of the llurcau ol Construction ana Repairs Navy Do punmont, Washington. " and be enuorsod ''l'ro posaig lor Ceppt r," (hat tbey may be distinguished from other business lottors, and must be nride in compl unco with tho " Instructions to Bidders n uWini? ollors (or supplies to the Navy Department," which can ho obiuiued irom the Commandant's oilico at any .Navy Vard, or from the 1'urchusiujr l'av master at any 'aval Station, or irom this llurcau. lh. i Copper to bo subject to the necessary tost and inspection of the proper olliccr of the Washington Kuvy Vard, whero the who'.o quantity is to be oe hvi red ; 150,000 pounds to be delivered on or bef ro the 1st ot lobruurv, and tho remaiuuor on or betoro the 1st ot April, 1867. 12 20ihm4t GOVERNMENT SALES. o1 FKICE Of ARMY CLOTHING AND tQUirAUh. o IliUAUnAI, I New York, December 19, I860. ( Vill be f old at pub.io auction, at tbe depot of Army Clothmir and Equipage, corner of LAIUUX anil W AMllNbTOK Mroeis. New York olty, on THL'HSDAY, the 8d ol Januury, 1807, oommonciug at 11 o'clock, A. M. , bUOOO IO 40,000 AliM Y BLANKETS, NEW. tramples ol the above mav be aeon at tbe Depot, and further mlormatiou obtaineo at this ollioe. I'erm0 Cash, in Uovornmeut lundi; ten per cent, down, and the balauce before the iroods are taken li ni the Depot, which must bo within three days ot solo, under lorKiture of purchase aud ten per ceut. Urovct llrltradier Generul V. U. V1N I ON, 12 20 llijAs-sttiuartermasterUenoral, U. b. A, J-T O It O E t Tt oi I est, most beaat'ful, and cheapest assortment in the cliy of 1HAMES FOll PICTURES AND JTCTUllES FOll Fit AMES. Fit AM EH lor everything made to order. Oil Chroinas, Engravings, Photographs, Eto. Eto. I1NC ABT G ALLKBV NOW OFEN. WILSON & HOOD, Photograph Goods, Frame and Pictures, 1213 lit No. O ARCH St., PhllulrtliU.
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