THE DAiLY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDA ST, DECEMBER 1, 18G9.
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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.
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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