llio H TP JL JLLiJU 17U vo A Of! i y ti i til v 11 11 11 .JJL UUJl rniunn 1 1 I X I El VOL. XNo 146. PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY; DECEMBER 21, 1868. TUirLE SHEET THREE CENTS. OUR CHRISTMAS TURKEY. It wa Cbilntnoas Eve, ani our little drawing room looked sntiR and bright as a room could look. It was Dot bj any meins riiOieult apart ment to llpbt, belug soinevbat lesa than four teen feet square, the r-pitclouB bo-wlodow not Included, and, cxfcrable as Is suburban gas, you might have seen to read tho most dlinly ptlnted peimy pnper In our wort distant corner. But small as was the room, it was the sort of evening that would have made jou Instinctively draw jour chair close up to (he cheerful fire that went bluziiiE up tho LUiputlan chimney. By the way it crackleJ, you could tell there was a bitter frest outbicle; you miht have guasseJ it, loo, by the maiked difference of temperature you experienced in the aforesaid bow-window. Suburban window-frames would unruly cavry off gold medals at universal exhibitions as triumphs of menuiserie. It was, Indeed, most seasonable weather for any one vho had a eniig roof overhead, and credit wi-h his coal merchant end tradespeople generally. With these and an capy m'ud, the intense cold without ought to Lave plven but a keener zest to tho quiet enjoy ment within. Unfortunately the minds of both my wife and myself were mnch disturbed. Tho fortunes of the morrow depended on the events of the night; and-we were waiting expectant, in all the feverish anxiety of wishes uusa'.hlled and Lopes deferred. "Kiue o'clock striking, John. Well, if it does rot come in TUio'ber hour I sive U up." "Alter all," said 1, aUVctlugaronQdence I was very far Iroin leehne, "the rail way cornpnnlea must have a great ileal to do tonight. Upon my word, now that 1 think ot it, it's much , moro likely that they will deliver it the first thin? to-morrow." "Nonsense, John. You knov that Uncle Wnrzel BPid it should be here by Christmas Eve at latest, and he Is qui!e Burn t j have kept the safe side, and Bent it off in time." It was our Cbrietutsts turkey t'aat was in ques tion oars by promise and by eift, at least; although doubts, shadowy at tirst, had gone on gradually asumin;; consistency and shape, until we had nearly arrived at the conclunon that it mast have become soma one eL-e's by rl!.'ht ot enptnre. My wH'p'j nncle, old Mr. Wurzel of Wi-Btrcpps, had ronr!ed to contri bute to our Ciirisiiiui ilinn"r oih of tltii prioiost of liU celebrated luted ot Nou'oik turkeys. In the he--pitality of our ho.trts wo had imuie uhitely taken stop acpordiiioly. Tue la'.'ert turkey being, ai we foully imagined, provided, we hivi iuiin?liately bidden the guests to coa.e and least on hiin. Uur little rlming-roorn was but a small edition of the drawing-room; and even when lour chuirj wers arranged round its dwarf table, there wa? but (scant spuce left for the evolution? of our plump jnaid-BervHiit. So Ihe invitations issued were perforce limited to two; these were addressed, tirht to rny fnend Quilter, whose articles to au eminent solicitor had just expired, and who was "looking abjut him" with a view to starting on Lis own account: and secondly, to my wife's cousin Palette, a zealous tintfc, v, ho hoped one day to take high rank as au hu-torical painter, and who meantime 1 -)t no opportunity of mak iutr a etudy of the passions. O.iiltcr, as kae ir, had thrown over several othfr engagements to come to us, for he had told ran so; and as for Palette, he was the most frank of men, and had Ind small scntf le in intimating to U3 that he looked forwurd with at least as much pleasure to u meeting wiih tlu Westrenp turkey as to the reunion with his cousin and her husband. For VeMrep:s is and has from tiaie immemo rial been famed for its turkeys; and Mr. Wurz-jl Las made a reputation by them, as his neighbor, the late Lord Leiccater, has doa j by his sheer). In autnnin you see them trooping by hundreds over tho wteut stubble, and througli tho rick-yards among the falling grains. Tiioy pass a brief but a happy lilc in that .Norfolk Ecluti, earning and rctiorging their pouly persons. ''hen cut down in their golden prime, aud despatched to the Loudon market, they enjoy a pottVi unions triumph m the ero mvai, glories of the choicest stalls in Leadenhall. rtoasted, and leposing on a monster dish, overhearing in death as in life, they almo-t elbow the lcs substantial fare trom a modest-sized table: and nest day, when it reaopears eiille.l and peppered, the very thigh bus more Bubst ince to eho ,v than a leg of black-faced Welsh mutton. Wo wonder, then, with so much at stake, that we felt anxious and depressed. We ielt that, if our looked-for guest ehould not arrive in time, we should have but a blank board and blank faee3 rouud it at our little Christmas merry-making. How we longed and listened as each footfall on the pavement echoed clear and loud in the trosty air I How we hoped that it might pause, and, turning in at onr little doorway, be fol lowed bv the peal of the c'angmg bell. Thanks to the liberal arrareements at St. Alirtiu's le Orand, we had a postal delivery about once in each twenty mmu'ea; and when we heard tho ro.-tman ply knocker or pull bell-wire anywhere in tho neighborhood, Low anxiously we waited, in some vague Lope of an explanation that we ielt to bo impossible. 1 believe we had some undefined idea that the mighty fowl might Lave been despatched at the eleventh Lour by pattern post, aud be delivered with Lis blue drumsticks hanging out at one end of the pareol. anil hia red wat tles depending from tho other. Oars is a semi detached rnaiiwnct'e, aud the gravel waits that lead up to our door and to our neighbor's are merely separated by a low wire railinjr; consequently, wbftti a foot, treads on either, it is heard with equal distinc'ueas In one house and the other, and for a moment it remains mutter of speculation fur whteia the new comer is bound. Twice was thu cap of hope raise ! to our lip by such a footfall, and twice wus it dasucd down asain, as we woke to the patnlul truth that the errand was not to us. Once a sustained conversation car ried on in the neighboring garden boiled -up my wife's excivemeut to fever point, and at last, declaring that it was evident that there was some mistake which waute.l clearing up, the insl-fed on my going out to examine the night and be in tho way to recilTy any mljun demanding. The voices of the night came from the servant next door and a railway porter, Kotwithstand iug the extreme lowm'ss of the temperature, ho seemed to Lave been l'ghtening with stone pass trig gallantries a conversation which must have been ot a business character, in so far as it regarded a hamper which lay at their feet. On my emerginp, me young lady made a snatch at the hamper, aud cut short the dialogue with au Irate flam of the door. The young man glanced muligndutly at me from uudrthe tfas-lainp, and seemed to be breathing somctbli'g the very re verse of the good will supposed to be oongcntal to the especial eaon ot love and charity. A. sudden thought struck me Providence had sent me, not the turkey, unluckily, but ptrhaos the means of relieving our minds aKut it. I sup. panaed the sulky oflieial with a sixpence, whereupon he smoothed bis frowns and con sented to stp into the witness-box and be examined. His answers were at first vague and extremely una'isfactory: "The 'a 1 'ad a many turkeys through their ands that dav, ay, and mayhap for ten days or fortnight back. They 'ad ail been a-leavln' turkeys bevery where hall over the place." Questioned further, he bad heard no complaint Of anv bcinor delivered auywhere at wrong aiVreeaes. Thought It was tue parties that titty went astray front that was more likely to make complaints of that sort thtn the parlies they came to by mistake. Had left one himself at Victoria Villai the loiutnRmo of the twin residences inhabited by the Bobshys and niyelf that one wan addresfed to Mr. Bobsbv: "but I'm sure I ses another at the station ticketed lor Victoria Villas, perhaps two. I don't rightly remember the names on them; but as tht one was for Mr. liobbby, why them ones In course would be lor you. Anyhow, they've all been delivered some where: for there were none laying at the station when I came away." 8o far the porter; and I re-entered tha bouse, with my mind, as I believed, somewhat en lightened, but certainly very far from puclfled. My wile aud I talked the matter over, aud airived, not very reluctantly perhaps, at tae tame conclusion which the communicative porter seemed io Lavo come to. If to turkey had really beon Ielt at Bobsbv's, why, one of ihera must of course be ours. Who ever heard of a couple of turkeys coming lawfully to the larder ot a little semi-detached villa? Wo never bad thought much of the Bobsbys. Bobsby himself wns certainly a quiet, unassuming looking little man, with a not unpleasant face. But then he habitually camo homelafc in the evening, and at the most irregular Lours. Eithf r his business was a disreputable oue, and his deeds ot the darkness, orhishabits'were In tolerably dissipated. Whether criminal or only vicious, he was iu any case a hypocrite, and tin most uudesirable ot neighbors. My wile deci dedly inclined to pronounce him criminal. The tr,th is, that Jlw, Bobsby glorified in an end lei t variety of the most dazzling toilets, and a waUh of drets and lavish prolusion of colors lb. ( set expense and good taste alike at defl aq,:. It was therefore much more probable tbi a Bobsby earned enough by his ill-gotten eaiji to gratify the follies. ot both, than that he 3tglected his business, and laanched out in iiOi ile dissipation. Even when my wife had con den (fueled to questionlourservantscauallyon the ubjfctsbe could get llttie Information. Our man and those next door happened to be at feud (but our servant had heard from those on the tilier side that all that liob'by's servauts coulctsny about the matter was that they had good Vages, paid punctually, Rnd that Bobsby was 1 ibusiuess In the city. So of course we kept the Bob bjs at arm's length, and my wife repelli'4 some offhand advances that Mrs. HobslM threatened ua with, with a chilling dienlta nhat la nil her own. It was clear, then, that Bobsby was just the man to embpzzlo bis neighbor's turkey. What steps to take towards its recovery was quito arotber thins;. It was a delicate nii'.ter to tax a well-to-do householder with athelt, and that, too, upon bnre suspicion. But, on tue other luiod, time pre.-sed. To fay nothing of the im portance to us of Living ilia matter decided tiu ly ni xt day, if we h jpi-d to meet our blid at dinner, if a crime bad really been committed, the 7?rcf dnconvio'wn might by that time Lave vanished altogether. "Wait till mcrning, at 11 event," recom. mended my wifo, utter we h;il discussed the matter hnd the cbnt'ceot our tilcus!.ing the turkey in all its buarinus "wait till to-morrow. Mr. Qutlti-r mid Frank. I'alrttc come down early to have a loug afternoon at the Palace. We live near Sydenham, and Quilter knows the law, and will conduct the ca?e tor us." So we retired to rest, and lnid our Leads on the pillow, firmly plede bv this time to a faith in the guilt of Bobsby. W had abroken nleht, as miglt be expected. The vicHins of afoul crime could hardly hleep peacefully nnder the tame roof with the perpetrators of it. Next morn'ng we rose late, and seated ourselves at breakfast, worn and anxious, with what appetites we might. We had trifled with ea-gs and1 toast, and sent tbem away, when our olfactory organs became conscious of a marked, nnd not an uni.icasaut odor. Wo eniit'e.l and sniffed; there was no mistaking it. As often on previous occasions, It let us into the secret of what was gciug on in our neighbor's kitchen. Early as it was ti turkey wa3 roasting there. "PleiiFe, sir," just then exolairoed our excited cook, heedless of cere mony, and plunging head foremost iLto the rom "please, Bir, them Bobsbys is a coukln'of our turkey, mid I've been out. and a looking in at th'm: and aud and tuert'd another a lying on the dresser." I rot-e, rather excited myself, 1 must conrcs, but I expressed myself with deliberation and severity. "fu liny other circumstance, Mr. Brown, I should consider it beneath coutempt to play tho spy upon a neighbor, whatever I mav think of his general conduct. If I do it now, it is only in discharge of a duty that I owe to society and to ourselves, in bringing him, if necesary, to condign punish ment. I believe 1 could swear any where to a Westrepps turkey, and shall proceed to satisfy myself at once as to the question of this Bobsby 's guilt or innocence." "Yes. yes, for gooduess' sake go at once," ex claimed my wife; and putting on my hat, I sauntered out at the door, down the little gravel walk, and then leisurely back agatn; gazing the while btearilHstlj into the kitchen nett door. The tnrkey then revolving on the spit was, for judicial circumstances, beyond the reach ot satislactory identification, but the companion bird, reposing on the dresser, illuminated by the full blasse of the glowing fire, his points, Lis shape, his plumpness he was a Westrepps lowl all over. I felt that I could swear to him among a tLousiind. "O. come; this is really too much of a pood thing. I ain to look on turkey less, while that splendid bird, almost, a member of the family too, Is handled familiarly by strangers 1" "A merry Christmas to yon, and many of tbem. Brown," said and lepjated a duet of friendly voices, aud Quilter aud Palette came stalking into the little garden. I took Quilter and Palette Into the house, and had the satisfac tion of pouring my tale of sorrow aud anger into tympalhlzing ears. As I had foreseen, they thowed themselves at least as indignant as our selves, Pslette gave foicib e expression to his feelings, with the most elaborate etudted dra matic leaturcs to match. Alter the first outburst, it was very different with Quilter. Here was an opening for the display of his professional eagi.city. To bring tho culprit to justice and tne turkey to table would be a triumph of Lis power", and at the same time give the bird a zest that no suuco that artiste had ever projected could come up to. He threw Limseltbeuit and soul into the ease. He put myself, my wile, and oar nialds through the mot earchiug of examination. He collected and arranged the facte, and drew from them dedue'lons most fatal to the character of Bobsby. But The proofs the proofs 1" he said, impa tiently. "You oroless yourselves willing to swear to the turkev. I do not see that you can do more than Identify the breed. You see you never knew the individual personally. If we could manage to trace him, iudeed. I'll just sten down to the raMway, and lake the evidence of all the poiters; nxtra-judiclally, you know.. rou'ci net ter snow me tue turkey oerore 1 go. His personal traits will guide me lu any ques tions I may have to put to them." So we took him out into the garden, and armed him with an opera glsss, and Mrs. Bobs by, watchful nt her first front window, detected blm, as she believed, and with my connivance, ogling her chlgnoned maid servant, and bonuoed nown stairs accordingly. Meantime gutter am been looking about him. He stretched his arm over t be l artitloa fence, and picked up the torn trayment of an address curd. "In an inquiry or this ktud, nothing, however trivial apparently, is unimportant," he re marked; and then, as sin read ff the Inscription, ho turned round to me, ill-concealed triumph beaming from bis sharp crev eyes. - WLat did jou say was the name of thai Norfolk farm ?" "The farm f oh! Westrepps. Why do you fk?" "And yon say that yon Lav had nothing at all sent you from there lately r" "Why, of coure, I'll swear they sent that turkey, nnd old Bob.'by stopped II." "O yes; of course they did. Bat nothing else, I mean V "No: nothing whatever." "Very good, then. By Jove I we have him I You may send round and fetch a constable. I should say even for a first ollense of the sort they can hardly give bim less than a fortnight and hard labor. Look there!" Aud he held before my astonished eyes the damning evidence of Bobby's guilt. The csrd, Indeed, had baen torn across, but on the half picted p was wnt'en, in bold characters, in old Mr. Wurzel' familiar Land, "From Westrepps Farm." ' Look here," satrgested Pule'te, who had Litherto left the afiair in Qtiilter's hands. ' You've catrled the matter eo far, and very creditable to you it is; but if you go handing tliis respectable Mr. Bobsby over to the law, why you'll have to haud over the turkey too; In the meantime, at least, remember that. Got anything ehe for dinner, Brown, eh?-' Quilter and I stared blankly in each other' faces. "No, by Jove! there's something in what Palette says." "Ai.d nothing in the larder, I suppose you mean. Well, but we can't let the beggar slip through our fingers, either,'.' remonstrated Qnilter. "You'd better not let that tutkey spleJdid fellow he spems. by tho by slip through your fingers," retorted Palette. "I vote for a com piomlse." "Compounding a felony," murmured Quilter, visibly relenting. 'lf we bad a second turkey, as Bnbsby has, I should be on the side of principle," said Palette; "as we have not, 1 lean to expediency, and am still of opinion that at this Christmas season it would bo both wise and right to temper justice with mercy. Besides, that is a singularly heavy bird, and will want a great deal ot roasting. I vote we look sharp and secure him with as little delay as possible. Keep the law and the policemen in the background if you will, but let us confront Bobsby at once. I see he's stuffed tbo bird for us perhaps with chesnuts, possibly truffles; he looks as if he had sound ideas of comfort. Small wonder, for he lays in his supplies cheap." Palette's Achitoplielian counsels carrlel the clay. We all thren successively sleppsd over the little railings, our pio cceding., as we could see, watched by the enemy from the dim background of their drawing-room. We ruug the bell. Some scclliing ot loet and whispciiug from within, and the rlugieled maid came to present herself. A brief parley, and we were uihtred into Mr. Bob-bj'a presence and back parlor. In ad mirably allected surprise ami with much hj poeritical bo7)honne) e received ns, aud begged us to be seated. Ue stood himself on the hearth rug, rubbing his hands, 'and looking at us uneasily. "We Lave called, Mr. Bob-by, I am sorry ti say, on a difagreeibie busings, which. I have no doubt you BUkpect." "Keally. gentlemen, unless you have come as a deputation, ai-kieg subscriptions for some thing or other, 1 have had at least half-a-dozen of them here iu tho la?t two days. I am quite at a loss, but" britib'.ening np a little"! am sure I am always g!ud to raako the acquaintance of any neighbor." "I could wish, Mr. Bobsby, that the acquaint ance had commenced in more pleasant circu n btances. The turkey" Mr. Bobsby's face sndderly clouded over. He hushed mo to silence with an agitated, impatient gesture, and, ii lancing uneasily at 'the door, opeued it tbarply, nr.d closed it again suspiciously. "Didn't I tell yon !" Biild Qalltcr, nudging my elbow. "Clear as mud. Leave the matter to mo 1 II h in !" lie began, cleariug his throat, straightening himself in ins chair, and assuming a most judicial and imposing manner. U's a bad business, Mr. Bobsby, as my friend says a very bud busme.-s indeed." Mr. Bobtby looked btnpofled. "A bad busi ness!" ho repeated slowly, and half to himself "a bad business? What can ycu possibly know about U? Few better businesses in the hue; lew better, indeed." "Then let me tell you, sir, the line must b an abominably bud one; and 1 may warn you, moreover, a lino excet-Jrugly likely to twt itself into a halter, if jou go on as you hive berun." The little man's face blackened again; then it flushed up, as standing on the hearth, ruiiltng up like a pugnacious bantam, he said, "I have no wish to be uncivil in my own house, gentle men: but I won't be insulted in it cither, aud.so I lell jou once lor all." Palette had got out a note-book and pencil, aud was dashing olf with the facile baud of a master our host's admirably feigned indigna tion, probably to be used hereafter in one of his great pieces. Quilter, altogether forgetful of our proposed tactics, and hurried away by pro fessional feeling, was preparing, I saw, to re sume the address from the bench where he had left it off. "Permit me," I said, recollecting just in time that our dinner was depending on our diplo macy. "To come to the point, Mr. Bobsby, we came to you about a turkey." "Well, sir," he said, expressing an amazement very real, or very admirably acted, "how you have found out anything at all about the tur keys I can't lor the life of me conceive; but now you have got at the secret I'll do anything you want. You shall have the turkey; I'm sure I'm always willing to be neighborly." "Neipl burly, sir ? nelahborb I devilish neigh borly ! rather too neighborly, I call it, to take iu turkeys addrcit-ed to me, and use thefn pre cisely as if they were your own ! Read that, sir ! Had you fort'ot youiself when you did not tear that up smaller?" Aud I thrust the fragment of curd bclore his eyes. Bobsbv read the same Without moving a mnsclc of his countenance. "Well, sir; and what of it;" was the sole re rrark he vouchsafed, and with a certain dignity. "What ot it, sir! Of all tho unblushing Why. tliat card, sir, is addressed by Mr. Wurzel, of Westrepps, Norfolk, and was lied to a tuikey 1" "Ot course it wa't and wbat then, may I a.k ?" 1 was fairly dumbfoiinded by the man's Lard ened conscience, "Why. he must be a thief by habit and repute! He nruBt live by plunder and nothlug else I" I exclaimed, turning to Quilter. "Send for the policeman at once," rejoined that gentleman. "I can't stand this; aud devil take the dinner!" "estop a minute, gentlemen !" said Bob3by, earnestly. "It's absurd to bo angry; for tnere must ue some extravagant mistake somewhere. Will you just oblige nie before yon do anything further, by telling me in plain words what you mean and what jou want?" Quilter stated the case with a beautiful con cheness of precision. The little roan looked Ant astonished, then annojed, then savagely angry. Finally he burst out into a roar of laughter. "Now, sir, listen to mo in turn. You oblige me to let jou into a secret which I xhould much sooner keep to myscf; but as you seem to have got bold of a part of It somewhere, I must ask you, as gentlemen, to promise that it snail go no further." We bowed coldly, but acsentlngly. "My name is Bobsby, as every oae kuows. By trade I am a poulterer; and that is what I believed that no one down here knew at all. Mrs. Bobsby accepted my hand only on condi tion that I should always keep it dark. I am sole partner Id the great firm In Leadenhall, trading nnder the name of Plover, Pigeon & I Company. At this teuton, in the way of busi ness, of course I get no end of turkeys from Norfolk, and the best and primest come from my old acquaintance, Wurzell of Westrepni. It is always his that we use for ourselves, and at Christmas time, especially, we Lave generally a good many going in the Louse. Wnrzel does not know my coun try address; but the card you have picked up happened to be tied to the leg of a very fine bird that came in after the great consignment forgotten, 1 suppose, before and that reached my shop only yetterdny. He was such a splen did one, that I thought I would bring him down and eat him at Lome, That's my story; aud, unless some of you are in tho trade too, what you know about Westrepps and its turkeys I can't conceive. But when you canie in and talked of tbem, I thought jou must have found me out somehow, and had come to ask me for a Christmas turkey; aud slthough, of course. I do no business In the country, yet, as I said, I like to be neighborly; and Lave it you shall, even after all that is done. Only rromlse that you will tell to no one what I Lave told to you, or Mrs. Bobsby will torco me t6 give up this house, and move oH somewhere else, baa and baggage." The explanation coundod honest and plausible, and Bobsby cllncbpd conviction by producing a note from Old Wurzel, which ho happeued to have in Lis pocket-book. With what grace wo could we proceeded to apologiee; Quilter pointing it out, with elaborate and elegant niinuteuc.-s, how the circumstantial evidence in the caso was absolutely irresistible, and that It was only by courtesy that a legal mind could let it be outweighed, even by the po-itive proof's which Bobsby had advanced on the other side. At that instant a ring resounded through the little house, aud the maid brought in a letter, aylng It bad been brought down from town, and was marked immediate. "Queer coincidence," said Bobsby; "here is another note from Wnrzel. enclosed from my shop. It may perhaps interest you, ns you know him." Ho read it and then handed it to me. It ran thus: "Dear Sir: I find that my man has stupidly sent a tuikey to jour address which f intended for a nephew of mine. As I should be sorry that he was disappointed, would you 6bllgo roe by passing it in to him atones; or, should you already have dis-posed of it, let him have the very best you can supply in its Place. Ills address is John Brown, Victoria Villas," etc. etc. ' "So, now, gentlemen, I Lope your minds are rjulto satisfied: and. i.iVr read'ng tbnt, your consciences, I think, nrrty be eay, when I oll'er you Hip very identical bird." Humiliated .n I felt nt my precipitate Injus tice, I could hardly decline, moie especially as b'-ili Quilter and Palvte dfdare-l at once, with marvellous unanimity, that nothing could bj more honorable than Mr. Dobsby's behavior, and that the only way I could possibly atone an invcluntaiy wron was by aeoepting the turkey In tho spirit in which it wis olfered. So I did accept, and a very capital dinner we made cf it. To my wife, I think, it was tainted by the atriere pensee that it might bridge the gulf that had hitheito been flccd between her and her vulgar and dressy neigh bor. She need not have troubled herself on that tcore. Henceforth the repulsion seemed to be on Mrs. Bob.-by's side; and at next term Pob-bj's little house was to let. Bo'ibtlesj his wife had learned that we were privy to tho fatal eecret, and so took the precaution of car rying it away to Lido It elsewhere. And, after all, no friendship with the Bobsbys followed on the episode of our Christmas turkey. SPECIAL NOTICES. rT,y COLH WlilTtlEft D093 NOT CHAP tr roiiK- en the nk!u nllur rising WRfdKT'j ALCONA KIfUIiYAUIN 1'A BLK TO j-ftObl UI 3l K L) i. J A t. lutlN. I'b ilmly use uialtes the skin tuii civtelj suit and henuttlul. - jr, is tiilKiitfully n-agrstu, tmnspiirent, and liicoiuoai ab'.a as a ioUhi, nnan. W.n- si-Im l.y all iJnugtlhls, R it . A tVKIHHr, ttj iNQ. li-a ClihSJi U 1' fetreot. rr7 CflKISTMAS DINNEBTO THE PO JU. rl lie Teaeiiors f 'he 8rliiniig auu Mauarrs ot Uie XE.ltVHi.lt BTHSKT MISSION will Bivre a Jjlri' er oil CHKtHTilAa JOAY lo llift Buh'ilurn ot their Dry and Hubb .in Schools, at ilie MISSION iiOVSlO, No. 61 JJKDi'OJtD Street. Dinner ou tin I able m 12 o'clock. Ti.e trluncts of ltit Mission, u. all n ho leel an Interest l i the poor ol that d Krailm! section of our city, wro cordially Invited to bi preionl. sniKiiiK by the Ucholars In ice (Jnspul preyloiu io the Dinner. COLtrlbntions of money, poultry, provisions coal, and cloililiig UianktuUy received by tue undersigned r HiiuKciB ci the Mltclou, for Ulotiioaiiju auioug ihe aicjt auil Fiinerlnn: KDW'ISU e. YARD, No. 20! Spruce street. JAUOB 11. IIUKUH'V.LL. Nu. 1121 Chesnut. "WaLI-IAM A. SiMK rUL'KSt'. No. 7 Jt :l. J Afc JfH I., btsellAM. No. 710 b. teconrt. K. A. JOHN-4. N. V. cor. Fourth anil Arch. GKOKGJi lit II.L1 KJI N, No. tCSAroh, KHV. J. D, tiUNO, Ro. 61U Bedford. 12 16 8t PETROLEUM V. NiSBY WILL HBL1VKH Hrs CELfcltKATKi) liKCTUitE, "CUSSKD li K C A N A a N," KKV1HED AND BEW1UTTEN, AT THJC ACADEMY OU' MUSIC, WEDJSKBDAY, December 13, J968. IN AU OK THIH WIDOWS' AND ORPHAN FUND, 1'ObT No. 2, ti. A K. C5y Tl'kots for rale at tho ThUMrtiiK'S. Academy and at 12 IS ltt 19 21 22 23 tKSTT' CITY TREASURFIt'3 OFFICE, l--3y l'n lUADKia hia, Deo. 1, 180s. NOTICE. Tho Heuit-annual Interest ou the flye and nix per cent, loam of tue Uity of Pulla del)blu duo Jauuuty 1, will be paid on anil utter that dttte. JjoauH uiuturing January, 1869, will be paid on prebcntuuon, Uueretsl ceublug from date of wiiturily. The ordinance of Councils approved MayO, 1SU8, directing that "all certificates of city loans Khali be registered previous lo Uie payment of the luieitB'," will be btrlotly adhered to at the payment of the Interest due January, lSfl'J, to ooUU reuilfciu and nou-resldent loau-liulderi, JOSEfU N. tfKUWOL, 1 2 3J27 City Treasurer. rS" l'PNNSi LVANIA RAILROAD. NO, l&ri iillKKd bTUlCUT. Pllll.i DKl.l'Hl A. DdOrtinber 1;. IRK-t. NOTICE. The raits ir irausfiorlutiou of Has aud othrr BUmulroiiH (joat to be carried over Hie Hrun rylvanla Hullrood, We.i'era Feauulvaula Kallriaj and Philadelphia niid Krle Rall'OAd, to tnku etl'cl JApl'ARV l. lu.u can be obialntd upon applica tion M this Oillce. 8. B. KINGSTON. Ooimml trelybt Atsent. 12 IB 15t Poannylvun'a ltatlnmd Company, gggp HOLIDAY EXCURSION B. PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAILROAD EXCURSION TICKETS, AT RKDUOBD UATEH BET WER S ALL BTATIONB, GOOD FROM DEO 13 to JAN. 2, mo, INCLUSIVE. IVili 6t prj??" CAMBRIA IRON COMPANY. TUU -JC- Annual Meeting of the Btock holders ot the Cumbria Iron Company will be held at their otMoe, No. 0 CHKSNUT Blreet, Philadelphia, ou TUES DAY, the luih duT of JANOAltY Dezt, at 4 o'oloolc P. At., when an election will be held lor aaveo. Direc tor! to terve lor Ihe ensnluc year. JOHN T. KILLE, Secretary. Philadelphia, Dfc. 17. 18ta. 12 in dtJlO ISf FARMERS' AND MECHASICB NA- fr35"' T10.XAL BANK, Philaiikli'UIA, December II, 14(8. Tbe Anaual Election for Dliectontof this Bank will be held at the Bank log House on WKONKSDa Y, the It'll day of Janua-y next, between the hours of II o'clock A. it. and i o'o ock P M. 12 11 i!7t W. ltUMH rON, J Caihler iKtST- BOUTIIWARK NATIONAL BANK. Philaubi.I'Hia, December 12 ihu The Annual Election for Director of this Bank wlll,be held at the Banking House on TUKBDAY Ja u.try li. 186U. betwteu the hour of lo o'clock a, ttl and 12 o'clock M. J, LAMB, jilBwfiutJli Caauifr. SPECIAL NOTICES. K$T BATCH ELOR'S II AIR DYE. THU iplendid Hair Dye la the bent In tbe world; Ihe only trne nnd perfect Bye: hnrmletie, reliable, loitanianeouaj ne disappointment: no ridiculous tint; remedies the 111 eilects of bad dyoa; Invigorate and leave the Halrsotiand henutiful. black or brown, boid i by all I)rolli nd Perfaranrss aud properly applltdat Batcueloi's Wl Vactoiy, No. le MOSD street. New York. 4 87mwn frrvj" ONE POUND OF ELASTIC SPONOR will go at far as one aud a naif pound i of curled ha'r. The latter after short uvace becom. s matted and hard, while the former always retains Its elasticity and can be used again alter haying been Iu use tor years, g 8 ruwl ) SKATING AND SKATES. CHESEDT SHRINK ASSQCIATIOH 2000 fill A It IIS . . . 100 EACH. Pkkmdknt How. J08KPIIT. THOMAS Tbearcbeb B. JIAMMETT. ' DIRECTORS; WM.G.MOORHIAD, JOHN FALLON, li ATTHEW BAIKD. B. HAMMETT, THOMAS A. BCOTT. HON, J. IL CAMPBELL, HON J. T. THOMAS, LUTHFR DOCK, H. E. BROWNE. A LIMITED AMOUNT OP BTOCK FOR SALE. The Company who own the SPLEHBID HEW SKATING RINK, Corner of CHESNUT and TWENTY-THIRD Streets have Instructed us to offer a limited amonntof the stock for sale In shares of One II u ndred Dollars each. A large amount of money has been expended In the erection of this building, which Is 220 by 110 fiet. The main hall Is 86 feet blah. It lo coallJeutly expected that tho IUok will be ready for use on Christmas Day. Kuchleliaro of Ftock will be entitled to an advance dividend, payable yearly, of uveuty per ceut. (940) In tickets. Bucti dividends :ay be taken In single, season, or coupon tickets, which are transferable. BfKmdlng tbe succrfsor the project there oan be no doubt, as the building Is Intended for a pubUc hull, to be used lor t'oist'prtM, (Imi't'li Fairs, TVsilvnls, Con Wi;Uoii,.;vri'lfuraI i:.v!lb;? ious. fc. It Is understood that laimerou.i luBtituilons of a Bluii'ar characte. In various parts of the cuiiitry have been ijiilte remunerative, and It iacontlden'ly bellored tli nt this will not prove an exception. I'urlhtr particulars cau be olt'-aiuod at our otUoe. dc HAVurj a onoTr.sn, iTa nkers, Kc. 40 South THIRD Strcot, 12 nimrp PaiLADKLPHIA. Q II R I 3 T th A G, At No. GOO AHCH Street. OniFFITH & PAGE OFFER S Iv -A. rr 13 fS HOUSE rUHNISUIXG GOODS FOR THE HOLIDAYS. 12 10 Giro SKATES! SKATES!! HKATB3!!! 10ui)FAlK3FlKKNi:V AND ItKUOND-HANI) BKAT'S AT ONE-HAL.' T'llW UtiUArj PRICKS, atlhe Broker's OtUoe, N. W. corner of THIRD aud UAf-KiliL, etreeta below Lombard 12 VI tot HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS. ANA A K E R ' S F1UST-CLAS3 DINING ROOMS FOB LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, So. 4 S M:CONl Street, Above Chewiiut. ALSO, DKLAWARE AVENUE AND SPKUCE ST., rillLADELPHIA. The Deal and Cheapest Places lu rUilatlolpUiu to get a Good Meal. U 14 I2trp 4Q5 CHE3NUT STREET, OLD IlYi: IIOTKL,. I.TJNCH OF VEKISON, and other Game In btaucn, tveiy dey from v;4 lo U M. ROBERT BLACK, 12 91m TEMPLE RIDDLE IIOII L AND Itl.STAl ItAXT, No. 110 Soutli SIXTH Street. 12 9 1ra H. BEIJSTIABP. Proprietor. Mt. Vernon Hotel, ' 8 1 Monument street, Baltimore. Elegantly Furnished, with unsurpassed CuUlne. On the European Plan, D. P. MORGAN, QEOUtiE ZIELLEY, Formerly Fitzwater A Zlelloy, Filbert blreot, above Eighth Street, baa opened trie old stand, N. W. COH. TII1KD AND WOOD STS., where he will be glud to see his frlonda. 12 11 lm GEORGE ZIELLEY. TRUSSES. HOLIDAY GOODS. "SEELEY'8 HARD RUBBER TBUSS, NO. 1MT OUBNUT Btreek. This Truaa oor. rei-tly applied will cure and retain with ease the toutl difficult rupture; always clean, light, easy, safe, ana ooinfortabie, used In bathing, nttnd to form, nevex ruaia, breaks, soils, beoorues Umber, or move from place. No strapping. Hard Rubber Abdominal Hop porter, by which the Mother, Oorpnleut, and Ladles utlerlDg with female weakness, will find relief aud Krfeot support; very light, neat, and effectual, put strumenU Hhoulder Braces, JUlaallO Btocklnre lo Weak Umbs, Busiieuaioua, eto. Also, large stock bee Leaihax 'iTuasea, kali aaual Prloe. laj In attend uninis WEDDING INVITATIONS, ENUUAVED IN the newest and best manner. . LOCfUa lBibKA, Htatlonqr and ITneraver, 1W lUMOHKetNliT Btrart. i ,. Q II R 1ST M AO GIF TQ, BOXIS Ot FINE BTATIONKBY. . INK81AND8, a large assortment WKITIIia Cl!K8. CABD CASE'S. POOKKT BOOKS, BOOTCH GOODS. FINE ENQLTSn PLAYING CARDS. ENQLISH KNICK-KNACK3 1) II E K A, BTATIONEB AND OABD ENQBAVSR, 12 12 12t yo. 1Q33 CUESXUT Street HOLIDAY P R ESENT8! WRITING DESKS, A very Lnrte Assortment, From f 1-50 to $35 00, WALNFT, KOSEWOOD. MAHorjANY, PAPIKK-MACHK, AND LEATJtllfiU BACK UAMiIOJ UOAKDH, PORTFOLIO?, SCOTCH GO0D3, And a variety of FANCY GOODS AND GAMES. 1L HOSK1NS & CO.. No. 913 AHCH Sireot. 9 lniWE8m Open Kvenlng. t HOLIDAY PRESCNT&. TIIE LABGE3T A8EOBTMKNT OF fiioio;kaiu albuixs, AT THU LOWEST TBICE TO BB HAD IN THE CITY. A very large aMCrtment of Writing Desk's from $1.25 to $25-05, CABD CASES, WOBK BOXES, BACKGAMMON BOABDS, PORTFOLIOS, CUKES, DOMINOES, QOLD PENS, . WALLETS, PLAYING CABD, ETO. . XKW GAilKS IS UBKAT VARIETY.., J. LlfJZRD. Ko. S21 yPiUXU UAUDEN Street, 12 11 suiw Ct PHILADELPHIA. pSEBEKTS I'1 Oil IIOLLDAYS 1 " 1 A, J. LANDER, JR., KO. 1802 CllESSUT STKEET, oilers for sole alHhe laUst sty )es Iu lilll'lS, iUAHDAOJiftl l OOl UEMTS, NH l&H CiKVEK UOiUtS, a good wwortiueut, UASUKTS, . ETC. etc. Era Also, a a tie lot ot my own Importation ' ' FE.ll, filtkSS BOIIIII.IW atOD1. Please tall aod examine before you go elsewhere. Ourprlcea t-ro as low as any where lu the city. A. I. LANDEB, JK., 12 14 mwsrpst No. 1302 CHEBNUT St.. Phlla. HOLIDAY AMD VVEDDirjQ ritKSKN'JS. . No. 1028 UlIIiSNUT 8TRKET, nilLADKLnilA. W A T O II E S, JEWELRY, DIAMONDS, BRIDAL SILVER, MUSICAL P.OXE3, AND FINE FRENCH CLOCKS. All Of which we are oflerlug AT KEUUUKU KATES. I2171-U LIOLIDAY GOODS. EDWARD OIIRISTMANN OFEEES A LABQK VARIETY OF FANCY ARTICLES, DBEtSING CAH18. PEiUUMEBV, IOILK.T BEQTJISITKS, COTLEBY, ETC. ETC, ALL AT THE LOW ST PBIOES. EDWARD OIIRISTMANN, 12 16 Htrp So. 703 t'll'r.SXUT Street. T"T yEFUL AND OltNAMKNTAL HOLIDAY Li PBJkbEN'lS. UltH. IT. A. BTKDEB'H, Ko. im CHKivNDT B.roet, Dolls, Card UasHctH, tiKor Cases, Hmoklng Caps, Portemonuale, Leather (io.ids. Zepbyr biippera, CnshloiiH aud Tidies, Lace UuoJu 1'. Thrund, Unipure, (.limy, VbltnclHimta, P ilut Applique, Collars. Huts and fiarbes, CollliireH. Dauukoruhibls, White Waists, Berthas. ChemUettes. A beautiful assortment of Fine Jewelry, new styles. Jet, Gilt, 1'enrl, IStei 1. tJoral, and Flaln nets. Chains, Necklaeis, Handkerchief Holders, Btuda, Bleeve ButtoDS aud Bmee ets, Head Drekses '-r Parites and Operas. wine Pans aud Faury Goods. IllbbODB. Jouvln'a Kid Gloves, Bridal Vel's and tV retail. 8. Frei.ch Corsls, Hoop Mkln. lfo pairs very rich Eiubroldomd bllppers at (l 73 and i. Bture open evenln s during holidays. 12 11 12k Q O L D - HEADED iPRIifcENTATION CANES AT 1VRIUUINS k CO.'S, U IS 7Mp B. E. Cor. TENTH aud CHESNUT Sts. THE HOLIDAYS. rnmcB wikea, whiskies, br indie1': im. PUB'l'ITD ALKrt, CHA M PAONK, Cll A US, Etc., IN LAKOUi OB BMALL QUANTITIEd. SMUEU & CADAVALLiDEIt, 1215 lw M No. 03't AltCII ISTltKET. y m H GUARDS, FOB WOBB FRCHTS, ASYLUMS, PA; lOBtt sr, ETC. Patent Wire Balllug 'Iron Bedsteads, Ornament Wire Work, Paper Makers' Wires, and every variety of Wire Work, maunfactnrrd by N. WALHm A sons, S uwl No. it North BIX I II Street, BAG MA KlJ FACTORY. JOHN T. BAIL BY. S, M. oornet ot MABT and WATKJt Btreeu. DKALEBS IN BAUU AND BAQQINQ Of every decrlptlon, for Brain, Flour, Bait, Birper-PboaptuUa of Lima, Boat Diist, Eto. Laire and small QXmny Baus nonstantly on3ian4 ' &4i Aiao, WOOL sVAjUsUh .
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