THE DAiLY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDA ST, DECEMBER 1, 18G9. G MOTHER PATER'S TUMPKIX. BI FRANK It. STOCKTON. Long ago, in a year when pnmpkind wore ery cheap, and sugar coRt but little, and nearly everybody could buy Hour, and butter wan not moro than twelve cent a ionn I, TbankHgiving Day approached. On the ontnkirts of a small village there lived at that time an old woman named Mother Tater. In her garden was a pumpkin vino, on which had grown quite a number of pumpkins; but as the old lady only dosirod two of these vegetables, sho had picked off ah tho rest when they wore but littlo-groen things. "One of these pumpkin," said she, "is for my Thanksgivin' pies. Tho other, ti a sinking fund." By this sho merely wished to convey tho idea that if ono of these pumpkins failed at the festal period, to would fall back upon the other. I do not know whothor sho always made herself understood on tho subject or not. At any rate, one of these pumpkins did fail failed most decidedly, and died; so all her hopes wore centred on the othor one. Her son Inbum, a fine boy of fourteen, un usually old for his ago, tended this solitary ogctublo (or fruit whichever it was) with all possible care; but whon the day, which was three dnys before Thanksgiving, arrived, it became evident to his mind that "that sink-in'-fund pnnkin-' would not bo ripo in time. (It may be hero remarked that Thanksgiving clay used to come a good deal earlier in tho year than it does now.) When Mother Tater came out and looked at her pumpkin, it became evident to her mind that her son Isham was right; thoro was no hope of the pumpkin ripening in three days. Mother and sou looked at each other. What was to bo done? Thoy wero both persons of resolution and energy, never ncenstomed to giving way to obstacles. Fold ing their arms as they stood in tho little gar den, they busied themselves in thought. In a few moments they, both caino to tho same conclusion there was nothing to bo done Lut to ask the Governor to postpone Thauks-giving-day. Accordingly Mother Pater wont into the house, put on her mob- cap, her spec tacles, her Sunday short-gown and petticoat, and with her umbrella in ono hand, and her trusty staff in tho other, sho set off for tho Governor's house. As sho went out of her little gate, her son put into her hand a card on which was written the earliest date at which, in his opinion, the pumpkin could possibly ripen. The old lady put this in her pocket, and told Isham that wero sho in his placa, Bhe would gravel the front path, and white wash the fence that morning. "To be sure," said she, "nobody mat come, but although the Governor will believe me, of course, whon I tell him about my pun kin; still to satisfy the people at the State House, he may have to come and see it him, uelf." So off went sho, trudging bravely along the Toad, but as for Lsham, he only waited until Bhe was out of sight, and then, instead of trying to fix up tho old homestead, ho ran off to tell all the village that Thanksgiving day was to be put off. "When the people heard that Mother Tater had gono to tho Governor to have this done, they mourned from the bottom of their hearts, for they knew that she never undertook anything that Bhe did not carry out. And what would become of them? Everything prepared or nearly so; in sonio houses the pies even made, and the turkeys and geese already killed and hung up to 'tender," and all arrangements made to cele brate the following Thursday. If Thanks giving day was put off, a gloom would settle over the entire community. Ho, from every hill-top, bonfires blazed and bells wero rung, and horns blown, and men mouutod in hot haste and rode hither and thither to arouse the populace, and bring them together to consider their impending fate. Everything was shortly in an uproar; all business was ne glected, and the roiula wero crowdod by the Country people hurrying into town. In the meantime, Mother Pater walked by the most direct road to the town, and marched up the main street to the Governor's house. On the way, she met a good many persons whom she knew, and when they asked her what brought her to town, sho told thorn right out. If possible, the town folks wero more excited about tho matter than the country people. They rang thoir alarm-bells, and fired off cannon on tho green, and shut up their stores, and the circulating library closed, and free lunch was given at all the taverns, and the firemen got out their apparatus (for who knew what might happen ?) and the Bchool8 were closed. Such a hubbub as arose in that town in about an hour you never heard. When Mother Pater reached Governor's door, she knocked on the knocker, and then straightening herself up, she waited to bo let in. In a few minutes an Irish girl came to the door, and Mother Pater informed her that Bhe wished to see the Governor. "And where's your card?" said the servant. "My card ?" replied Mother Pater. "How in the world you should have found out I had one, I don't know, but here it is. What do you want with it ?" "To take it to his honor, suro, and boo if he'll Bee you," said tho girl; and leaving the old lady in the hall, she went up stairs with the card which Isham had given his mother. Before she reached the Governor's study, she looked at the card, which was one of an old pack which Isham and his mother used to play cribbage with before eight of tho hoarts and six of tho clubs got lost. "Arrah!" Baid the girl. "The Qnoon of Spades, is she ? If I'd known that, I'd taken a better look at her. 'Tisn't every day that the Queen of Spades is to be seen walkin' about with an umbrella." When Bhe handed the card to tho Govornor, he glanced at it and turned pale. Ileing a profound man, he felt sure that the card meant that a game was about to bo played in other words, treason and that it would ripen in twelve day! Hastening down to meet the mysterious messenger, lie found it was Mother Pater. When he heard what sho had to tell him, though relieved, he was still very much troubled, especially as ho saw the matter had got out, and that the street and green in front or his nouse were nnea by an agitated crowd, What to say to satisfy the old lady ho knew not, and he asked her if she was sure her pumpkin would not be ripe in time. "I in as sure as sure can bo," she replied, 'and so is my son Isham; but if you are not satisfied, or if any of these other gentlemen are not satisfied (for tnouauinet nad now come down stairs), yoa are perfeotly welcome to come and look for yourselves. Bo the Governor thought it would be better. oerhans. to co and see exactly how the thing atood; and he therefore called together a com mittee composed of gentlemen from the Legislature, a couple of clergymen, gome merchants, and a president of a bank, and they all went out to look at Mother Pater's pumpkin. When they reached the garden, escorted by Isham and his mother, they saw in a moment the old lady's story was correct. Even it laid in the minnicst part of tho ennniest Bhed in the village, it. would be utterly impossible for tht pumpkin to ripen by the following "j-um-dny. Without a word, they looked at each oli'iC ftnc dismay sat upon every coun tenance. Therf, "'"ng Dame Pater that her case should rect?vc his earnest attention, the Governor, followed bj Committee, re turned to town. When he got home he found all t.ho cl r.eiis, together with all the country people w-? had come to town, anxiously awaiting his re poi t. When he told them what he and tho ron mittco had seen, snch a commotion arose ns never before was known in the town. For a while the Governor thought that thoro was danger of a riot, and he had tho militia-bell rung. As most of tho disorderly persons be longed to the militia, and had to go to thoir halls to put on thoir uniform when the bell, rang, comparative quiet was soon removed. Then to the sensible people who;emained the Governor said that, as far ho was able to judge of the matter, 'u0 COuld not Bee how he could help putting off Thanksgiving Day; but if any of thoin could think of any other expe dient b.z should bo happy to hoar it. For a fitiie Bilenco reigned, and people looked at each other with blank faces. At Inst a happy thought struck a citizen, and he cried out: "Let somebody give her a pumpkin!" Like a flash of electricity, this idoa ran through tho crowd, and altogether they set up a great shout: "Give her a pumpkin!" The very lightning-rods trembled, and all tho weathercocks turned round, so tremen dous was the burst of enthusiasm. Then every man of the citizens rushed home and got a pumpkin, and hurried away with it to Mother Pater. And every man among the countrymen mounted his horse or his mule, or ran as fast as he could, and got a good pumpkin from his pile and hurried with it to Mother Pater. About sunset they began to arrive, and in an hour Dame rater's garden, her front yard, her back yard, her cellar, her parlor, her kitchen, her bed-rooms, and her garret wore all rilled with shining yellow pumpkins. In tho wood-shed Mother Pater and Isham had to eat their supper; and iu that shed, although tie night was cool, they had to sleep. The next day, these two arose to look at their pumpkins. A tino largo ono was se lected for tho Thanksgiving pies, and tho rest Dame Pater determined to give to the poor. So she sent out Isham on Mr. Scott's horse and gave him tho dinner-horn, and he went all over town and country for two days and invited the poor to come and eat pumpkin-pie on Thanksgiving day. Hearing of this, a great many folks gave flour and sugar, and butter (for, you know, they wero all cheap in those days), and all tho women set to work and every ono of Mother Pater's pumpkins was baked into pies. And on that Thanksgiving Day there was not a poor person unywhero within twenty miles who had not as much pumpkin-pie as he could eat, and even the smallest child had a whole one. Everybody who was rich could cat dinner that day without thinking that anybody else was suffering; and everybody who was poor bad no occasion to envy the rich. All looked happy and gay. Joy sparkled in every direction." I suppose the folks cou'u have got up a Thanksgiving-dinner for tho poor, even if Mother Pater's pumpkin had ripened; but then, you see, they didn't think of it. As for tho Governor, he was well satisfied with the way things had turned out; but he didn't want to put Thanksgiving Day in such jeopardy again. So the next year he mado it come a good deal later, when everybody's pumpkins would be sure to bo ripe, and it has been that way ever since. Hearth and HolltC. OCLE TOM'S CABLV. A Business Peep Into It. The Washington correspondent of the Chi cago Tribune writes: Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has been tho heroine of two extraordinary acts of notoriety, both publications, and in this fresh period of the last of them, I have taken leisure to walk over to the Capitol and examine in the library there perhaps tho only complete filo of tho National Era existing, wherein she printed her great novel. The Era is a weekly folio paper, Ions afro extinct, of seven columns, printed on soft, thin, cotton rag paper, and announced as edited by G. Bailey, with John G. Whittier for corresponding editor. It is mainly a lite rary paper, and partly an anti-slavery paper, with news, editorials, etc., thrown in. Tho first look that you get of it shows you that it is the paper of a man of principle, and a man ot literary taste, x or Borne time before Mrs. Stowe wrote much for it, there were deferen tial netices of her name, and then a few little contributions to her credit, but the stock Btory-writer for the paper was Mrs, E. D. E. N. Southworth, who, if she had been a woman of education, would have been a better novelist than Mrs. Stowe; for she has moro contrivance, vigor, and theatre than the greater fume can lay claim to, and is the victim of her imperfect opportunities in early life. There is never a strong portraiture iu Mrs. Stowe's stories; her people ure mere vehicles for various condi tions and emotions to show themselves upon. Died was her only free agent, and he was a dreadfully clumsy angel of darkness. Take notice, too, that in Mrs. Stowe's Southern stories, none of the whites speak in Southern white fashion; every mortal one of them tuned his ear east by north of Manhattan Island. However, on the 1st of January, 1851, at the commenc ement of the Uncle Tom volume. this announcement appeared: "Mrs. 15. 1). E. N. Southworth, tho American no velist, who tlrst became known to the public through the columns of our paper, lias engaged to furnish a Btory for our new volume." It was not till tho filh of May, in the same volume, that the following respectful an nouncement appeared: "A new story by Mrs. Stowe. "Week after next wo propose to commence in tho Kra the publication of a new btory by Mrs. II. If. stowe, tho title of which will be 'Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, The Man that wus a Thing.' It will pro. bubly be of the length of the tale by Mrs. South worth, entitled 'Retribution.' "Mrs. stowe Is one of tho most Rifted and popular of American writers. We announce her story lu ad vance, that none of our subscribers, through neglect to renew their subscriptions, may lose the beginulng of It, and that those who desire to read the produc tion as it may appear in successive numbers of Hie Era, may send us their names lu season." The next notice appeared on May 22: "The Ilrst two chapters have been received, but we nna.li not ue auie u uegia their publication till week after next." The story finally appeared June 5, 18.11, with the better Bub-titlo of "Life Amonc the Lowly," and over it was the shrewd precau 1 tionary announcement: "Copyright secured ! 1 41. ..4V, . While the Btory was going along, week after week, a bioeraphv anneared of 15. F. Wade, Senator elect from Ohio, and also, on June 2i, the third week, the news that Schuy ler C olfax, the proprietor of the bt. Joseph Jfrginter, had been nominated as the Whig candidate for Congress from his district in Indiana. During the early parts of the story, tho Era had denunciations of Daniel Wobster's speech at the opening of the Erie Railroad, and an attack on A. Oakey Hall for a slander on Kos suth, as the poor exile was on his way to our hhores. After three months this editorial notice ap peared: Tilde Tom's Cabin We rereive letters by every tall Inquiring whether 'I'ncle Tom's Cabin' will rm J:,., .'tied In book form after Its completion In the v Mrs Howe having taken out a copyright, ot co,' iu:f11 publish u m form. When It vf."' .c ko published, and what will be the price of It, nut w?;.tA, from the author touching these points might be of ftivlcc.'' Little exuberant notices like this occasion ally arrcared, but while the merits of the story were manifest to all its readers, the lady and her friends were taking care that t should have all due attention clsow'ucre, and a month after it commenced the itereotyherg were working on it for the book. Tho novel ran in the Era ten months, and that paper said on April 1, 1H.'2: "Mrs. Stowo has at Inst brought hor work to a close. The last chapters appear in this week of the Era. With our consent, tho Boston pub lishers issued an edition of r.OOO on the 2th of March, but it has already boon exhausted, and another edition of fiOOO has appeared. While the story was going on, tho Em was a free trade, anti-slavery paper, and was little helped by the tariff people anywhere. The New York Tribune Baid, at one time, while "Uncle Tom" wns running: "The National Era is about the most unfair and untiring enemy of the Whig party that we know." In those days, as now, tho free sentiment of tho pioneers in progress embraced freo trade as a cardinal maxim. It appears by tho tiles of the Era that Dr. Bailey, pleased with the writings nnd conscious of the social in fluence of Mrs. Stowe, had sent her .f 100, with a request to write as good a story for the amount as sho could. Afterwards he sent her 200, and finally a third payment was made by mutual agreement. On this literary occasion Mrs. Stowo involved herself in a quarrel with tho New York Obxt rcer, which accused her of "a libel on the Kev. Joel Parker, for which that Christian minister had brought suit against her, laying the damages at $20.0(." Two or three things seem to be evident about this story that it grew unconsciously, and told itself by tho same sort of process that India rubber stretches. The weekly cry for copy kept the writer up to work, and several weeks she failed to come to time with her chapters; and also that its business interests were managed with genuine shrewdness. As soon ns Mrs. Stove became aware that she hud done a good thing, sho turned it into property, and guarded her title. Fifteen years before "Undo Tom" (Richard Hil droth) wrote "Archy Moore; or, The White Slave," for which, after fresh labor, he ob tained a pitiful publisher, and yet ho was able to make up the circulation of this strong novel during the fever attendant upon "Uncle Tom," and it bocaine remunerative to him. This is the newspaper history of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," for which, next to Mrs. Stowe, the world is indebted to Gamaliel Bailey, Doctor of Medicine and Philanthropy a Phiiadelphinn. When Dr. Bailey died, after his gentle life but stormy career, his widow could have Bold the Era for .$ 25, 000. She preferred to con tinue it under her own management, and it speedily went down. Mrs. Bailey is now a resident of Washington City. HOSIERY, ETCi NOW opnu AT llOFaiAXX'S HOSIERY STOIiE, No. 9 NORTH EIGHTH STREET, GENTS' WniTE WOOL SHIRTS, GENTS' WHITE WOOL DRAWERS, GENTS' SCARLET WOOL SHIRTS, GENTS' SCARLET WOOL DRAWERS, GENTS' MERINO SHIRTS AND DRAWERS, LADIES' MERINO VESTS, LADIES' MERINO DRAWERS, LADIES' CASHMERE VESTS, CHILDREN'S MERINO UNDERWEAR, GENTS' COTTON SHIRTS AND DRAWERS, LADIES' COTTON VESTS AND DRAWERS. Also, a very large assortment of 7 wsly COTTON, WOOL, AND MERINO HOSIER'S. PIANOS. ftil STEIN WAY & SONS' Grand Square and Upright Pianos, With their newly patented RESONATOR, by which the original volume of sonnd oan always be retained, the same aa in a Violin. ELASITJS BROS., No. 1000 CHESNUT STREET, 5 27 wstf PHILADELPHIA. STKINWAY SON'S UPRIGHT rir'r PIANOS. It will be welcome nows to the musi cal Duhlio that Steinwavs huvo succeeded, by the niot friftanlio improvements, in ruining the Upright Piano from its well-known state of imperfection to that of tho most perfoct amongst the liitforent shapes of pitnos. Tho I'pi'iKht fiuno of Steinway A Bone now is more durable, koups better in tune and in order, has more power, u purer and more mimical tono, and a belter touch than the cquare piano, and rivals in most of these points even the Grand Piano. Its advantages are so plain and striking that the most prejudiced against this shape of a piiino are converted by examining them: and out of twenty who want to boy a Square Piano, nineteen prefer now ulreudy an Upright one of H. & 8. Purchasers will do well to oxuuune them, at the wureroom of BI.ASIUS BROS., S 27wstf NoMlti t;llb'SNUTStreet. ALBRECHT, RIEKKS A SCHMIDT, MANtlKACTIIIlEllg OK FIRST-GLASS PIANO FORTES. Vu'l guarantee end moderate prices. a- WAKICUOOMS. No. 610 AROIl Street. BRADBURY'S AND OTHER irai npianos, 8.KX). Taylor A Farley's, also Oarhurt A Nei (Ilium's Organs, from $5(1 upwards. WILLIAM G. HHCl Kit, No. lolt) AltCU Street and Wo. 21 N. K'.K FN 'I'll Street. 1123 2m QE NT.'S FTmNISHlTsfTdbO D 3. pATENT SHOULDER-SEAM 6IIIRT MANUFACTORY, AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE. PERFECTLY FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWER made from uieHfluronieut at very short notice. All other articles of GENTLEMEN'S DRE3 GOODS lu full variety. WINCnESTER CO., 11 No. 106 CHESNUT Street. F IKE DRESS SHIRT . AND GENTS' NOVELTIES. J. W. SCOTT & CO., No. 8l CHESNUT Street, Philadelphia. BTRrp Fonr doors below Continental UoteL PAPER HANGINGS. T OOKI LOOK ! ! LOOK! ! ! WALL PAPERS J and Linen Window Shade Manufactured, the cheapest in the city, at JOliNb I ON'S Depot, No. 1(118 bl'KINI) G AkDKN Street, below KievanUt. Branch, No, 07tJaALbtreet,Cawdo,MeWiferr. J DRY OOOD8. GRAND CLOSING SALE or RICKEY, 8HARI & CO.'S ILTIYIErjCE STOCK DRY GOODS At Retail. Unprecedented Bargains or SILKS, VELVETS, DBESS GOODS, and MISCELLANEOUS DRY GOODS. THIS STOCK IS THE MOST EXTENSIVE AND VARIED EVER OFFERED AT RETAIL IN THIS CITY, AND CONTAINS MORE NOVELTIES AND 8TA TLES OF RECENT IMPORTATION THAN CAN BE FOUND ELSEWHERE. ONE PRICE AND NO DEVIATION. RICKEY, SHARP &CO., No. 727 CHESNUT STREET, 1 tfrp PHILADELPHIA. 1869. "AT TIIOZirjLEY'S." ATTRACTIVE DISPLAY. GREATLY REDUCED TRICES. AN IMMENSE STOCK OF GOODS. We beg leave to make a "common sense" statement to sensible people," namely : That from a Ion experienoein basinrsn. a ckae application to business, running nndur light expenses ana baying all goo.ls for cash, ws can Bi ll very mncn cheaper tlian parlies whose expenses are four or hrn humtred per cent more thiin oura, and who don't sell any more (foods. And furthermore, our alore ia large and well lighted, and "Centrally Located," (N. E. Cor. Eighth and Spring Gardeu, Of easy aoooM from every part of the citv by the cars ami cichnuRe tickets or passes, and we deliver all Roods punctually, and freo of charge. PrLK 8, BHAWUI, DRKSS GOODS. BLANK KTS. KLANMKLH, (JAISSIMF.RKS. oix)Tuh. (;loakin(;k, linkn ootms. KID ULOVK8, (JOKSKTS, SKIRTS, 11UKFS., ETO. JOSEm II. THORNLEY, N. E. Cor. Eighth and Spring Garden, 10 16 tf PIIIIMLPIUA. JNDIA CAMEL'S HAIR SCARFS FOB Clii'istmaH I?ieseiits. Real Point ace Collars FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. EYRE & LAP1DELL, FOURTH AND ARCn STREETS. Y 1 E MOX4A SUA W I S FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. FASHIONABLE PLAID SERGES. FASHIONABLE SILK FLUSHES. SILK SASHES, EXTRA WIDTH. EYRE & LANDELL. v it i: & ii a :v i i: i, i, OPEN TO-DAY THEIR THIRD INVOICE OF BEST Lyons Velvets, NOBILITY QUALITY, SUCH AS AR USED BY THE ARISTOCRACY ABROAD. BLACK SILKS, SAME GRADE. 10 10 smw Li I N E N . Wc arc offering unusual attractions to LINEN BUYERS, Having received a very large anJ varied Importation. PERKINS & CO., No. 9 SOUTH NINTH STBEET, 9 8 mwfSmBp PHILADELPHIA. C"TlAS. I SIISOi" & Mltol. Nos. fc2 and KM PINK Street. Cheap Goods, Bargains. ,. . . 6 cases yard-wide fine Shirting Musltng at 2V,o., by piece or yard; this Muslin is worth ltk)., and is suited lor all kinds of underwear. Willianisville Muslin 20o. by yard. All other Muslins as cheap. Nainsook Plaids at 25 and Mo. Swiss Stripe Muslins at lrt and 20o. Nainsook, Cambric, and Swiss Muslins, all ffrados, Linen Towellings at 7, 10, 12, and loo. ptr yard. Linen Nupkina, cheap. Linen Table lainank at very low prices. Bird-eye Nursery Diaper by piece, cheap. Ballardville and other Flannels, cheap. Great inducements offered to persona buying Black. We havealargeaasortmentof Mohairsand Alpaoa Poplins, all which were purchased at low prices at the end of the season, and hundreds of our customers have taken advan tage of this opportunity to secure cheap goods lor the com- t-4 Water-proof Clonkings only 1 per yard. Lon't forget our hue yard-wide buirtiug is only 13X0. ""VilAW. P. SIJII'NO & into., 8 UswtDUl Nos. W2 and K24 PIN K Street. NDIA SCARFS. INDIA SHAWLS. REAL INDIA CAMEL'S HAIR SHAWLS AND SCARFS, FOR A VALUABLE CHRISTMAS PRESENT. CHEAP AT U K O 11 U E ritlE H'M, No. 916 CHESNUT 8TKBKT, 10 8 8m PHILADELPHIA. IEPI1YR8 AND GERMANTOWN WOOLS. i-i Stocking Yarns of all kinds; Tidy, Crochet, ana Mending fciotlon, wholesale and retail, at FacUiry, No, m LOMUAKD Buvel. U i 3ia DRY QOOD8. JJAKDKEROIIIEFd I HANDKERCHIEFS! We hare hint" received a larce atoelc of FINE LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, direct from the ruauu laoturers, at very low pr'ces. One lot fine Linen llunitkerchlefs at 10 cents. One lot Linen Hanilkwhlefa at Is cents. Full line Ladlea' Handkerchiefs from 15 to 60 cU. Hemstitched Handkerchiefs, extra quality, from 81 to 76 cents. ' Gentlemen's Hemmed Handkercnlefa, in boxes, from sn to To cents. Bilk Bandanna and Ponjfee Handkerchiefs. W bite Silk Handkerchiefs, extra quality. STOKES A WOOD. 8.W.COR, SEVENTH AND ARCn STS., PHILADELPHIA. awl PRICE & WOOD, EN. W. CORNEK EIGHTH AND FILBERT. Paris Silk Fans, Gilt Stick Fans, and Black Silk Fan, snltable for holiday presents. I-adles' Oloves, In Clotn, Rorlln, and Spun Silk. Genu' Cloth Gloves, 60, 68, 69, 80, 85c., 1, f l-12tf. Gents' Kid Gloves, Lined. Children's Gloves, Cloth, Berlin, and Spun Silk. Ladies' and GenW noslcry, etc rortemonnales, 20, 2fi, 81, 85, 40, 44, 60 up to Fancy rnrses, 26, 81, as, and 60c. Black Velvet Ribbons, all widths. Wide Safth Ribbons, In black and colored. Ladles' HeniBtltched Handkerchiefs, all linen, 19, Sfl, 81, 88, 45, 60, CO. jr Gents' Hemstitch and Colored Border Hdkfs., etc. FLANNELS-FLANNELS VERY CHEAP. One bale all wool Flannels, 25c., worth 31c. Heavy Shaker Flannels, yard wide, 41, 60c. tip to 85c. Hornet Flannels. Bleached and Unbleached Canton Flannels. A large assortment of Blankets, at tho very lowest prices. Black Velveteens, 62tf, 90c, 11-25, 11-60, 11-75, f 2, 12-60 and 13-25 per yard. Black Silks, good qualities, 2, S2-25, (2 50 up to $3-80 per yard. Black Alpacas, 37X. 45, 60, 60, C2'c. up to l per yard. PRICE & WOOD, 10 31 sw N. W. CORNER EIGHTH AND FILBERT N. B Will open on Tuesday, December 7, severa lots of Fancy Goods, suitable for Holiday Gifts. 3VTI LLIKEN'S LINEN STORES. OLD STORE. No. 828 ARCH STREET. NEW STORE, No. I 123 CHESNUT Street. HEW DEPARTMENT BED CLOTHING. BEST BLANKETS, fresh from the mills. MARSEILLES BED QUILTS. HONEYCOMB QUILTS, all sizes. ALLENDALE AND LANCASTER QUILTS. LINEN SHEETINGS, all widths. COTTON SHEETINGS, all widths. PILLOW CASINGS. We bid for a large trade in BED CLOTniNG, by Belling reliable goods at the lowest prices. 8 21 mwf JEWELRY AND SILVERWARE." L A T E D OF TEE GOODS riKTST QUALITY AT THE LOWEST RATES, AT No. 804 CHESNUT ST , SECOND FLOOR, by V. II. liOCilSIfcS. We are daily receiving from our Factory, In Connee 6icut, tho latest styles of (j'ooJp, of all patterns, from Rogers Brothers, and "Meriden Britannia Uo.'s" inunu factories. TrIplc-IIatoI Silverware, (Suitable for BRIDAL GIFTS AND HOLIDAY PRKSKNTS. No. 001 CHESNUT STREET, Sooond Floor. 11201m A Jl- ROGERS. ENGINES, MAOHINERY, ETO. nt PKNN BTKAM. ENGINE AND KNUINKKKH. MAUHINI8TS. HOII.KiL b.AKr.,K.S, BLACKSMITHS, and l'OUWtKH.S, having for many years been in successful operation, and been ex clusively eiiR-aged in building and repairing Marina and River Engines, liigb and low pressure, Iron Hollers, Water Tanks, Propellers, eto. etc, respectfully otfar their ser vices to the public as being fully prepared to contract for engines of all sizes, Marine, Kiver, and HUitionary ; having Bets of patterns of different si7.es, are prepared to execute orders with quick despatch. Every description of pattern making nntde at the snortest notice. HiKU and Low pres sure ine Tubular and Cylinder Boilers of the best Penn sylvania I'Qarcoal Iron, rorgingsol allsizesand kinds. Iron and BraBS Castings of all descriptions. Koll Turning Screw Cutting, and ail other work connected with the above business. Drawings and specifications for all work done at the establishment free of charge, and work guaranteed. The subscribers have ample wharf dock-room for ropairs of boats, whore they can lie in perfect aufety, and are pro vided with shears, blocks, falls, eto. etc., fur raising heavy or litfht weights, JACOB O. N FA FIE, JOHN P. LEVY, 8 1 BEACH and PALMER Streets. SOLT1IWARK FOUNDKY, FJJfTII AND WASHINGTON Streets, pnir.A pflpota. MKKUK'K A SONS, ENGINEERS AND MACHINISTS, mannfneture High and Low Pressure Steam Engines, for Land, River, and Marine Service. Boilers, Gasometers, Tanks, Iron Boats, etc. Castings of all kinds, either Iron or BriiHs. Iron Frame Roofs for Gas Works, Workshops, and Railroad Stations, etc. Retorts and Gas Machinery of the latest an most improved construction. Every description of Plantation Machinery, also, Sugar, Saw, and Grist Mills, Vacuum Pans, Oil Steam Trains, Defecators, filters, Pumping En gines, etc. Sole Agents for N. Blllenx's Sngar Boiling Appa. ratus. Nesmyth'B Patent Steura Hammer, and AhpIu. wall ic Woolsey'a Patent Centrifugal Sugar Drain ing Machines. a BOt QIRARD TUDE WORKS. JOHN H. MUKPHY & BROS. Manufacturer. ef Wrouaht Irsm Pip, (. PHILADELPHIA, PA. WORKS, TWKJNTY-TIIIKD and F1XHBK BtrU. OFFICE. II No. 43 North FIKTn Htrt. FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF SAFE J. WATSON & SON, fuaTi Ot the lata firm of EVANS A WATSON, jtflJJ FIRE AND BURGLAR-PROOF 0 SAFE STOKE, NO. 63 SOUTH FOURTH STREET, g 81J ' a few doors above Oneennt St., Phllada nOTTON BAIL DUCK AND CANVAS, JOHN W. IVKRM1N. NO. 103 CUUUUU Stftot (Uti stores)! U of all numbers ana crana.. jwiv, mn, irani and Wagon-cover Duck. Also, Paper alauutaotarsra1 Prior telta, from thirty to seven tjr-aU luohea wlds Paulina. Ualtisc Ban" Twin, to. . JEVVJUBLIOATIONS. II OLID AY HARDING'S EDITIONS or THE HOLY IJI11LE. Family, Pulpit, and Photograph Bibles, FOR CUIUS! MAS, WEDDING AND LIHTI1TIAY TRKSENTS. " ENTS. "J Alio, Presentation Bibles for Cli U HOiLKN, CLEKGYMEN, SOCIETIES AND TEACHERS, ETC New and snperb assortment, bonnd In Rich Levant Turkey Morocco. Paneled ani? Ornamental Destine l.rlKi'prloesf 00 ,nJ 0XfrJ edUi0UB' a No. 320 CIIESTUT STREET, STRENGTH, BEAUTY. CHEAPNESS. COMBINED I Harding's Patent Chain-back PHOTOCRAPH ALOUMS- For Wedding Uolldiv.br Birthday Presents, these Albums are particularly adapted. The book trade and dealers In fancy articles fop holiday sales will find the most extensive assortment of rhotograph Albums in the country, and superior to any heretofore made. For great strength, dura bility, and cheapness, Harding's Patent Chain-back Albums are unrivalled. Purchasers will And It rrcatly to their advantage to examine theso new lines of goods before making up their orders for holiday stock. Also.a large and splendid assortment of new styles of Thotograph Albums made In the usual manner NO. 326 CHESNUT STREET "g71m PniLADELPlif . VJ E W J U V E N I L E 8T JU8T PUBLISHED BY Dl l l ll i n ASIUIEAli. No. 724 CHESNUT STREET, 'Tom Harding and His Friends," (being volume 4 and the concluding volume, of the Sunny Hour Library), by Nellie Eyster. lTol.ltimo. fl-aa. "Beacon Lights." by Paul Cobdes, author of ltcasle Loveli," "Maage Graves," etc eto I vol. . ''People and Fairies," by Paul Cobden. 1 vol 16mo "Carrie's Idol," by May. lvol.icmo. fi-28. .J.' uI,ymeB', PIetnres and Stories" lor Children, wita 800 illustrations, l vol. fi-as ' "Two Litt.e Apple Merchants," by Jean Mace. 1 vol. lflmo. l -co. "Nut Cracker and Fugar Dolly." 1 vol. lSmo. 65 cents. (A republication of an old and popular iave nlle book). r ' Alt the New Books are for sale by DUFFIELD ASHMEAD, 11 27 8trp No. 724 CHESNUT Street. PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE.- h . A..New Coure ?' Lectures, as delivered at the New. York Alusemn of Anatomy, embracing the anbjeota: How to Live, and What to Live for; Youth, Maturity, and Old Ane; Manhood Generally Reviewed; The Oaueeot Indigestion ; Flatulence and Nervous Diseases AoooanteoV Jor; Man-iuge Philosophically Considered, eto. eto. Pocket volumes containing these Lectures will be for. ?"V1S'l'Jf??t Pd. on receipt of 26 cents, by addressing W. A LEAfiY,jB.,6 E. corner a iliTH and WALNUT Btreeta. Philadelphia. 88 O L7d T H STOA S S I M E RE sTe TO. CLOTH HOUSE. JAMES & LEE, No. 11 NORTH SECOND STREET, SIGN OF THE GOLDEN LAMB, Are now receiving an entire new stock of Pall and Winter Coatings, To which they Invite the attention of the trade anct others, AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. 8 29 w FURNITURE. RICHMOND & CO., PIRST-CLASS FURNITURE WAREROOMS, No. 45 SOUTH SECOND STREET, EAST SIDE, ABOVE CHESNUT. 116U PHILADELPHIA. FURNITURE. T. & J. A. HENKELS, AT THEIR TNEW STORE, 1002 ARCII STREET. Are now selling their ELEGANT f CRNITURE at very reduced prices. 8 20 srarp FURNITURE WAREROOMS, No. 808 MARKET STREET. PARLOR, DINING ROOM, and CHAMBER FUR. NITURE, the Latest Styles and best Manufacture. Also. FEATHER BEDS and MATTRK8SKS. 10 6 niwf3iii WINDOW CLASS. " I IV 1) O W It LA H S .' EVANS, SHARP & CO.tCA No. 613 MARKET STREET, Are dally receiving shipments of Glass from their Works, where they are now making lo.ouo roct per day, They are also receiving shipments of rnrucii window glass. r ugh Plate and Ribbed Glass'Enamclled, Stained, Engraved, and Ground Glass, which they oiler at LOWEST MARKET RATES. 0 25 Sax STOVES. RANGES, ETO. THOMSON S LONDON KITCHENER or EUKOl'KAN RANCH, for families, hntols, or Ipublio institutions, in TWKNTV Dlft'EHKN'P -MZKH. Also. Philadeliihia Kanaoa. Hnt.Air usees, Portable Heaters, Ixm-down Orates, Firaboard) Moves, Bath Boilers, Htew-hole Plates, Boilers. Docking blcvos, eta., wholesale and retail, !v the manufacturers. KHARPK A THOMiSON7 II 87wfm 6m No. jjUMN. BKOONU Street. O R N EXCHANGE BAG MAHUFAOTORY, JOHN T. BAILKY, N. E. corner of MARKET and WATER Btreeta, Philadelphia. DEALER IN BAU8 AMD BAGGING Of ever description, for Grain, Flour, bait, Super-Phosphate of Lime, Boa Hint. Kto. Large and imall GUNNY BAGS constantly on hand. m Also, WOOL HACKS. ILLIAM ANDER80N & CO., DKAI.EU3 IB flu. Whjekies. ho. 16 Nort SOOOND Btreat, PhilatlvliJhMk
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