EVENING INJIAUUN
MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, '1865.
THE HOLIDAY SEASON.
If the readers of theBuLLETIx needed
a reminder of the approach of the holiday
•season, they would find it in our adver—
tising columns. Holiday advertisers
Ikave, in fact, fairly overrun our regular
space, crowding editorials, ndws, poetry
and miscellaneous matter to such a de
gree that •we are compelled to seei relief
and room by publishing triple sheets.
Cur:pages furnish a complete directOry
for holiday shoppers, and we need
Scarcely. repeat the well-known fact that
advertising houses are the best to shop
at; for those who do not thus endeavor
to maketheir business known have not.
tbe enterprise to prpcdre choice stocks of '
geods.
,The coming holiday season promises
- to be the most brilliant ever known in
Philadelphia. It will be the first for six
years of unalloyed pleasure; for since
the Christmas (if 1859 we have had dis
tress; anguish and anxiety at every re-'
currence of the annual festival; The
Christmas of 1860 was made dismal by •
the act of secession in South, Carolina
and the first threatenings of the war
that.prevalled through the four years
that followed: .Even, one year ago, we'
still.had the fearful war on our hands,
-and we could not but think,in our gayest
moments, of our brave brethren in the
camps about Richmond and Petersburg,
in the long marches through the Caro
linas, and on the fleets blockading our
bleak coasts. Thank heaven, this is all
over, and our warriors are at home to
celebrate with us the festival of the
Prince of Peace.
The feeling of the people, in view of
the coming holidays, is affected by this
happy change, and we see in the
crowded streets, the thronged fancy
stores and the infinity of preparations
for holiday gifts, tokens of the gayest
celebration of thereat Christian anni
versary that has ever been known among
us. The little folks are excited with
sxpect4ion,and the larger ones in every
home are busy with mysterious work
that is to be kept for the pleasant sun..
prises of Christmas morning. The sale
- -of evergreens has already begun, and
the decoration of the churches will be
dime during the present week. Of balls;
partiesand other entertainments there
will -be an unusual number. The mar
kets are even now amply stocked with
everything needed for the Christmas
feasts. As, we all provide for our own
tables we should remember also those
that are less able than we are to make
such provision. Every one knows some
-deserving family that is in thiq condi
tion, and on or before Christmas day,
they should be remembered by a gift of
a turkey or some other ' substantial
viand, or of money or clothing. In this
= way we may secure a really happy .
Christthas for the whole community.
THE NE63O. ON CHARIBEIZS.
Rev. John Chambers had his say con
cerning the colored man, on Thanksgiv
ing day, when he almost exhausted the
vocabulary of eolding because the slave
trade had been \ stopped and slaveryitself
abolished within the borders of the
United States. The colored individual
now claims the inalienable right to bit
back, and at a recent meeting of the
Philadelphia Institute, composed of ne
„groes, a series of rablutions was adopted
which leaves the reverend gentleman in
the position of having come out of the
contest second best. We copy a few spe
cimen sentences:
"When a pretended minister of God, in
the year of Grace, 1865, dies in the face of a
liberal civilization and declares, as does
Rev. John Chambers, the sin and crime of
hum.aii bondage preferable in a Christian
republic to the glorious sunlight of freedom,
he not only acts the part of a hypocritical
libeller, but is actually a blot on the fair face
of a Christian age.”
"That the Rev. John Chambers, who ,left
his own country (Ireland) to be freed float
the same oppressive and unequal laws which
he seeks to fasten upon a whole race of men
here (equal in number to more than half the
entire population of Ireland), is.a fair sam
ple of the cowards and sneaks who, through
out all our terrible rebellion, lacking the
courage and manliness of their Southern
masters to face the music against the coun
try on the field, lurked in loyal communities
at a safe distance front danger, and did their
Utmost to poison the minds of the masses
and overthrow the Union of the States which
our fathers fought to establish, but which
Rev. John Chambers' fathers, manlier than
their descendant, boldly fought to keep
vassalage.
"We do also assure the Reverend Cham
bers that the colored race, whom he con
tpmatn ously seeks to degrade by a vulgar
appeal to the prejudices of unthinking, men,
and to the brutal passions of the mob, have
an abiding faith in the ultimate triumph of
justice, the irrepressible spirit of progress,
and the genius of American principles."
We are free to declare that the iesolu-
Mons of the Philadelphia Institute are far
more logical, far better phrased, and in
finitely freer from blunders than the.
harangue to which they are a reply;
while in the matter of fairness and as
an appeal to humanity, they leave the
production of the reverend gentleman
far in the back ground. Mr. Chambers,
in the course of his Thanksgiving day
address, in speaking of negro suffrage,
used the strange argument that the
system of white suftrage was - "rotten to
the core," and he declared that white
voters could be bought up like sheep in
the market. A strange -'muddle of an
argument that the framers of the phil
adelphia, Institute' resolutions would
have been ashamed to have used.
Mr. Chambers has declared in public,
in this city, on several:occasions, that he
fled from Ireland to escape from the
oppression of English laws, and the poke
in the ribs which the negro gives him
• for fleeing from, oppression only to op
press others . in his own - 'turn, is
admirably well put and it .fif a home
thrust before which all his sharp words.
-THE DAILY EVENING ' BULLETIN
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,about the beauties of, thz slave trade in
the way •of christianizi , g niggers, and
concerning the deplorable results of the
aholition of.:slavery; are pOhttless
weapons,if not absolUte boomerangs that
return to plague' their inventor..
Mr. Chambers, in his sermon, set him
self tip . as the leader of a superior class
and he went eonsiderablyout of his way
to deride the negro a 1 4:I to taunt and
insult those who ask fai rn play fro him.
He did this •publicly ahas d he no
right tucomplain if he ' the suhject 'of
public criticism and of a pungent reply
to his own. tirade.! The despised black
man has entered the arena and if there
is anything in superior logic, sounder
argument, clearer language, a broader
christianity and a more comprehensive
humanity, he has completely floored his
White opponent. Mr. Chambers first
invited' the comparison between the
blacks and himself intellectually, and he
has no right to, complain if she has been
worsted.in the conflict.
ABS LONGA EST.
We doiot doubt that most of our readers
have been saturated with appeals in the
name of Art. We have never known these
cries to be so blatant, so incessant, as during
the present season. Like the "barkers'
who carry out the appetites of their exist
ence on Second Street and 'Market Street,
the Art Societies catch us and worry us, and
pass us on to•other Societies more cruel■
until at length we come to look upon the
Club of Hercules, and the funded miseries
of Pandora, as trifles in comparison with the
Clubs and Funds of the present day.
Yet we do not despise the claims of Art
It is by its amenities that baly civilization is
finally judged. The Beautiful Arts have
after all the function of hdnor. When War
has swept the floor, and Power has planted
itself in the chair, then come the bland
muses, and cover the table with flowers.
They were born, said old Hesiod, to be
forgetfulness of evils, and 3. truce from cares.
There is Somenaistake, when by any chance
they come to be instead ot4 bothers and hor
rors. That is what they'are to-day. It is
vain to protest that we want no zinc bronzes,
that we prefer 'a good engraving to hasty
duplicates by German artists, and that we
cannot afford the dear benevolence of paying
American schoolboys for their drawing
books. It is the dynasty of the barkers,
and they are choking us at pleasure with
advertisements and circulars.
In such an extremity, had we not best
look our affairsin the face, and try to' stare
them out of countenance? Let us see what
is before us. The most imminent and
deadly of these challenges appear to come
from the Artists' Fund and the Sketch Club
now can anYbody find out, at a small ex
pense of temper and attention, what it -ie
they want to say to us ?
Here is the Artists' Fund, thirty years old ?
President, Mr.: RiChardo, a famous artist;
members few, skilful, and overworked; they
have to paint every year a picture that will
sell' for fifty dollars, and give it to the Fund;
if it sells for less, they must make up the
difference from their own pockets ; and if it
sells for more, they only get returned to
them the excess over a hundred dollars. The
treasury is for an occasional artist's widow,
or an accidental supper sometimes. The
collections for their annual sales are small,
exquisite, and open gratis. The sales them
selves are at auction, and peremptory. From
the very neat and clear prospectus attached
to their presentcatalogue, we learn that they
cherish grander schemes, and from the same
gentitel source derive the impression that
these schemes are languishing at present
from Impecuniosity, and trom the anarchy
which Impecuniosity plants within the
temper. The details of any plan are to be
determiiied,by circumstances, they remind
us, and we imagine that those circumstances
will prove to be of a financial quality ; but
the general intention is to establish an Art
Exchange, where the recent pictures of
Philadelphia artists can always be seen ; and
also other important works of American
art, which might not otherwise be exhibited
in this city. With commendable labor and
self- sacrifice, the artists of the Society have
established a Free Gallery for the exhibition
of Home Art, and the present collection of
pictured is given to insure the continuance
of this exhibition, as well as to secure the
original interests of / the Society.
So much we learn of the gentlemanly
Artists' Fund, at its own mouth : for the
present moment, a neat and beautiful little
exhibition of pictures, 'almost all gems,
waiting to be sold at the summit of a lofty
tower out Chestnut street ; ant for the fat ure,
still more neat and beautiful dreams of
grandeur, beneficence, and an illimitable'
perspective—" to be detefmined by circuut
staiices."
The Sketch Club, on the contrary, has
scarcely existed for a decade, and has only
been. heard of by anybody within a couple
of y'iars. Their little circular—we wish we
could praise it for its elegance and tone—ex
plains, in a somewhat overbearing and
breathless manner, that they too intend an
'Art Exchange, exhibiting to the people the
latest and best efforts of American artists,
and offering these works for sale without a
commission to the purchaser or patron. As
an earnest of their intentions, they point to
their present exhibition of three hundred
'nd fifty works of art, at the Chestnut Street
Academy, Having attracted the attention of
artists by the proffer of some prizes, and col
lected the considerable number mentioned,
they have opened their stores for a month in
the hope of attracting purchasers. Their
plan, now operating, is pretty much the
same as that which waits in the atmospheric
chfiteau of their neighbors of the Fund, ex
cept that they charge some nominal price
. for admission. do not suppose that their
twenty-five cent ticket begins to pay the
expense of collecting prize - pictures from
New. York and Boston and Chicago. The
Club seems very anxious for us to under
stand that they are not speculating with
their exhibiticas. If their Boursedes Beaux
Ariz could exist withoit an admission-fee,
it 'Would be rnam l tam' edlgratis ; and as'soon
as the fee shall prove , remunerative, it will
either be naoddrated, or the excess applied
to the prize-purse: i The business details Will
continue to be managed by their President,
Mr. H!uaeltind, himself a practical man of
affairs as well as an amateur artist, and by
the rampant energy of some forty' artist
members. - .
There, havewe not done these schemes
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and schemeri justi :7 We ,have:addeved
the perusal of their , rospectnoes, and have
tried
.to make a fai and impartial state
went. We have . iguod . ourselr's Con
siderably, but we ra yto say one final word.
We believe the ;time had come when Some--
thing of
. this sort was deinanded. Phila.:.
delphia needed a school of taste.' The mart
of American wsthetics is getting to. be re
garded as settled in New York, and a few
Of our own cleverest artists, laboring, not
for ,civic patriotism but for their families,
have already begun o send thoir works by
the outside line, dir et ;from their homes in
our suburbs to oupil ' s and Avery's.
Meanwhile the po War cultivation was
being inadvertantly kept down by dealers,
sweeping their custo era by crowds towards
their sales of wretc ed work, themselves
fattening on huge commissions. In the
Societies we have oticed, the working
power exists, not • their cupidity as mer
chants, but in their enthusiasm as artists.
Sketch Club is nothing, and Artists' Fund'
is nothing, but the Graces are a blesSing. In
the friction of rival enthusiasts the heat is
created where Art can grow, and our painters
have been effectually stimulated during the
autumn to exertions never approached
before. Let either Society Succeed, or both;
but meanwhile there can be no harm in our
quietly enrolling ourselves among those
who, in the words of the little blue circular,
" are desirous of having Philadelphia main
tain itself as a centre of the Fine Arts."
The Home of Washington.
We have received from T. B. \ Peterson
Brothers a copy of the new edition/ of Mr.
Benson J. Lossing's delightful and most
valuable book, "The Home of Washington."
Mr. Lossing is known as 'the most indus
trious, pains-taking and faithful of
American annalists, and in his minute ac
count of Mount Vernon, he gives an
invaluable collection of interesting facts
concerning its illustrious owner and his
family. The literary portion is extremely
well done; for Mr. Lossing has the happiest
gift of narrating facts concerning the promi
nent charactors of American history. The
illustrations are numerous and very good.
INlount Vernon, inside and outside, with all
its contents, and all the reliCs of Washing
ton and h 1 family, are faithfully repre
sented. There are also numerous portraits,
not only of the WashingtOn and Custis
families, but of distinguished persons that
were associated with them. As the book is
very tastefully printed and bound, it will be
a favorite in the gift-making season.
Messrs. Petergnn Az Brothers are the sale
agents for it in Philadelphia.
MISS ANNA E. DICKINSON.—Tbis tnu,•h
admired and much distinguished young
champion of humanity, will deriver her
great lecture on "Flood Tide,"at the Acade
my of Music, on Thursday evening next.
It is said to be a most eloquent and -mas
terly appeal appeal in favor of universal
suffrage, as the only means of restoring
harmony and tranquility to the nation. She
eloquently remarks "We must put at the
mast head the lamp of li betty, equality and
fraternity and sweep forth on the stream a
beacon to the world." She details s•jme
affecting inhidents of her recent visit, to the
Richmond prisons and battle-tleldi.
this is the last opportunity tier friends wit
have to hear her this season we presume
that the Academy will be thronged. The
hale of tickets will commence to-morrow
morning.
SALE OF ENGRAVING:S.-A collection of
choice engravings, from the establishment
of A. S. Robinson, will be sold this even•
ing, to-morrow and Wednesday evenings,
by B. Scott, Jr., at his gallery, No. 1020
Chestnut street. There are nearly four hun
dred in the catalogue, and it includes ex
amples of the best artists of Europe and
this country, including a number of colored
prints and chromo-lithographs. They are
all handsomely framed in every variety of
style. The sale offers an opportunity of
procuring at a low price a work of art that
will be valued by people of taste as a holi
day present.
SAFE ARRIVAL OF GOV. CURTIN AT
CUBA.—Colonel WA:t. B. Thomas, Collector
1 .
of the Port, has received a letter from Gov.
Andrew G. Curtin, dated at Havana, Dec'
12. The Governor arrived there the pre
vious day, in improved health and spirits.
He speaks in his letter of the kindness he
experienced at the hands of the officers of
the revenue cutter McCullough, and thanks
Col. Thomas for his "considerate kindness"
to the writer.
GARRISON'S LECTURE THIS EVENINti.-
At the Academy of Music, this evening,
Mr. Wm. Lloyd Garrison lectures on a sub
ject whose most practical and interesting
points will touch on Reconstruction. His
views, as the great anti-slavery Abostle,
have been considerably modified by the
war, and his course for the past four years
has been eminently judicious, patriotic aad
statesmanlike. He will have a large,louse.
BOOKS IN THE OLDEN TlME.—Before the
art of printing, books were so scarce that
ambassadors were sent from France to
Rome to beg one copy of Cicero's works,
and another of Quintillian's, because a com
plete copy of these books were not to be
sound in all Fiance. Albert, Abbot, of
Gemblours, with incredible labor and ex
pense, collected a library of 150 volumes ;
and this was considered a wonder indeed.
In 1494 the library of the Bishop of Win
chester contained parts of seventeen books
I L
on various subject ; and, on his borrowing
a bible from the C nyent of Saint Swithin,
he had to give ahe vy bond, drawn up with
great solemnity, at he would return it un
injured. When a book was purchased, it
was an affair of au h consequence that per
sons of distinction were called together as
witnesses: Previo sly to the year 1300, the
library of the II 'versity of Oxford con
sisted only of afe tracts, Which were care
fully locked up a small chest, or else
chained, lest they, should escape; and at
the commencemen of the 14th century the
royal library of F ante contained only four
classics, with afe • devotional works.
CIIBIOITS Jorrax - gy oF A NEEDLE.-A gen
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tleman of Chicag , a few days since, cut
from the left ban of an acquaintance in
that city a piece of eedle, five-eighths of an
inch long, which broken off in the palm
of the right band years ago. He states
that, the first he fe or the needle was about
six months ago, in the wrist of his left arm.
The needle was m h corroded, and the gen
tleman will of co e preserve it as a curi
osity, it having tr elefl the entire length of
both arms, besi s passing through his
body. Needles w ichhave been lost in the
flesh have before been' known to make
strange: passages, but this is one of the
most curious cases on record.
Facts and::Fsincies.
James W Addison a clerk in the Boston
Post Office,was arrested yesterday on three
complaints • for stealing letters. This not
stated whether his arrest was caused by a
Spectator or by , a Tattler.
,
• A 'miner who shot a. Digger Indian by
mistake near Oroville,Cal., settled the mat
ter with the tribe by "pSying the aqua* of
the deftmct $20,. four eacks of flour and a
new eAlico dress. She declared herself per
fectly re-dressed.
rmon t i
Bishop Hopkins, of Vies lecturing
through the Southern States for such chari
table; objects as the citizensdesignate. Won
der if he is lecturing the Southern people for
abandoning the "Bible view of Slavery."
A Virginia clergyman residing at New
Bedford went to the polls on Monday, on
purpose to see what to him was a phenom
enon—a negro deposit a vote. He stayed
half an hour arid saw four negroes vote,and
went home satisfied that his candidate had
been black-balled". '
A bachelor uncle, to whom his niece ap
plied for advice on the question of choosing
between two suitors, one of whom was rich
and the other poor—the latter, of course,
being the most ardent, as well as the favorite
lover—sententibusly replied—"My dear, the
question--beMg stripped of all illusory ele
ments, your choice simply lies between love
and beef. Now, love is an idea, while beef
is a reality. Love you can get along with
out; but beef you must have, therefore, ,
make sure of your beef." In that case :
would be sure of a help-meat.
General Scott has arrived in New Orleans,
with General McClellan. Gen. McClellan
is a low pressure steamboat.
The rumor that Nader, the 4 lballoonatic,"
is going to America is untrue, writes "M.
D. C." to the Round Table. It is the great
photographist Nadir who contemplates a
brief visit to the United States. Should he
make a pedestrian tour of it, he might be
calle the great promenadir.
A espondent of the Scientific American
sugge a new way to clear a boat of water
with° baling." We have some:aldermen
in Philadelphia, that could clear a whole
boat's crew, without bailing.
The New York Evening Post "gets in
heavily "on Harper's Weekly, in this wise:
"Harper's Weekly, replying to the Even
ing Post on centralization, says that in at
tacking it we are like Don Quixote assailing
a windmill. We had given that journal the
credit of being impelled by something more
substantial and stable than wind, but we
suppose it knows itself best. Of course,
being assured now that it is not a giant at
all, not even an intelligent and responsible
adversary, only a machine that grinds ont
what happens to be put into it, that is,when
the wind blows, we are not to be expected to
make any rejoinder."
There is a man living in Auburn, Me.,
who is boarding, and who is required to
sleep in the attic. He says he sleeps up - so
high that he can hear the apostles snore.
The man is a fanattic.
Two thieves have been sent to the State
Prison, fur stealing $2,000 worth of furs in
Boston. The defouce was that a man can
not steal hititself, and that amongst the
Latins fur and a thief were the same thing.
AM US E. 31 EN I'S.
THEATRICAL.-Xlr. Wolf's new play from
the French,called"A Nation's Destiny, - will
be produced at the Chestnut this evening.
The cast embraces the strength of the com
pany. After this week ."The Sleeping
Beauty" will be the grand attraction. At
the Walnut to-night John Brougham will
appear as Captain Cattle, in his own admi
rable adaptation of Dickens' interesting
story of "Dombey and Son." This is one of
the parts in which Mr. Brougham displays
genius of the highest order, and the picture
be presents of the kind-hearted old tar is
truly refreshing. He will be supported by
Misq-Germon as Mrs. Edith Granger, Mr.
t;riffith as Major Joe Bagstock, and Mr.
Fawcett as Mr. Toots. The bill at the
Arch has been changed owing to a second
attack of illness suffered this iuorning by J.
E. Murdoch, Esq. "The Stranger" will be
Played. with Madame Ponisi as Mrs. ,Elal
ler. "Slasher and Crasher" will be the
afterpiece.
THE THREE PLACES devc)ted to eircus
performances give lively tolls each bight
and on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons.
They try to out-do each other in variety and
offer tine bills.
SIGNOR BLITZ at!"Asserably Building
draws good houses each evening, and on
Wednesday and Saturday afternoons.
AT CONCERT HALL "Paradise Lost" is
still the enthralling attraction, and it will
remain so during the present week.
BLlND'frost.—On Christmas afternoon a
series,of farewell concerts Will be begun by
"Blind Tom" at the Academy of Music.
The Concerts will continue throughout tut•
holiday week, on each afternoon and
evt-ning, as will be seen by the a.lvertise
ment.
Row at an Indiana liar'''. Race
The Evansville t Ind..foto-not, of the I:2th,
has the following: On Friday afternoon, ac
a horse race near Decker's Station, Knox
county, a free fight sprung up between some
ut the parties 11l attendance, and aa it pro
gressed a desperado, named Homer John
son, who had been suspected of having been
implicated in the murder of Purcell, near
Vincennes, some two years ago, struck a
man named Case, who was taking no part
in the row, with a pair of brass knucks,
kr 0C.15 iDg, nut his ye and inj n rim; hi
severely that he died on Sunday morning
at daylight.
An - Oth - ei desperado named Henry Hi11 2 : 2-
no connection of our young friend, George
W. Hill, connected with the E. and C. Rail
road—commenced firing indiscriminately
into the crowd, wounding several persons
and killing a horse. The crowd made a rush
for him, arta he fled, but was pursued,
about fifty shots being fired at him, eight
or nine of which took effect, one passing
directly through his body and another
sti,iking him in the hip,: which brought him
down. He returned thefire, and even after
he fell, continued to fire until he was over
powered. He was-taken to Vincennes and
lodged in jail, but it is not thought possi
ble for him to recover. Johnson, who
killed Case, had not been arrested at last
accounts.
ENGLISH MORTALITY REPORTS.—The po
pulation ofeveral of the principal English
cities, with their weekly average of Births
and Deaths, are returned as follows :
Cities. Population. Births. Deaths.
London, 3,034,906 1,949 1,377
Liverpool, 479,341 323 276
Manchester 1 356,396 265 201 1 ,
Salford, J 111,605 82 56
Birmingham, 330,804 257 159
Leeds, 225,577 167 114
Bristol, 162,503 104 72
Large Sale of Valuable Real Estate.
Messrs. Thomas & Sons' sale to morrow, at the Ex
change will include a number of very valuable busi
ness properties, elegant residences. neat dwellings,
large lots, valuable farm and country seats, small
dwellings, &c. Also; valuable stocks and loans. Bee
auction column and pamphlet catalogues.
Sale of choice English Engravings. at the auction
rooms, this day, at 4 o'clock. Valuable oil paintings,
at -the auction rooms,, to-morrow 'morning, at 11
o'clock. Sale on the premises, No. 22s South Twen
tieth:street, on Friday Imorning, 22d inst.,;neat resi
dence and furniture.,
Peremptory. Sales of Valuable Real Estate
and Stocks.
Tames A. Freeman's sale on Wednesday is composed of
valuable Estates, to be sold by order of the Orphans'
cburt, Executors and others. Also, a Large amount of
Stoehr,Cemetery lota, Leasing of City Wharves,ft
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SUPERB NATIONAL GIFT BOOK;
THE HOME OF WASHINGTON
Its Associations
HISTORICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL and PICTORIAL
'New Edition, Revised, with Additions
By Benson S. Lossing
Illustrated with 150 Engravings mainly from original
Drawings by the Author, embracing numerous ,
Views of Mount Vernon, various interesting
• objects upon the Grounds. Copies of famous
- Pictures, Portraits of Washington and
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well as Distinguished Personages `.
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This new edition of this popular National work has
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This superb work is acknowledged to be one of the
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printed. by Alvord on superfine paper.delicately tinted
and elegantly , bound in heavy beveled boards, in new
styles of binding designed for the boudoir, parlor ta
ble and home library.
OPINION OF EDWARD EVERETT.
"This very interesting memorial of the home of
Washington is a fit companion to Jr ving's valuable
history, and should be included with it to make the li
brary complete."
Small quarto, extra cloth; new designs gilt sides and
edges, fr 50 Morocco antique, and gilt sides and edges,
vo 50. - Published by W. A. TOWNSEND,
55 Walker street, New York,
And for sale at Retail or WholeSale,at the Sole Agency
for Philadelphia, which is at
T. -B: PETERSON & BROTHERS.
306 Cheitnut street, Philadelphia.
A large collection of Choice Holiday Books is at Pe
tersons'. fifirStore open Evenings.
UO`' LEC. T R E
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF WSW
ON MONDAY EVENING, Dec. 18,186 5,
BY
WM. LLOYD GARRISON.
Subject :
National Guilt,
Retribution,
Redemption.
Being the Seventh of the Course under the auspices of
the
PRESS CLUB OF PHILADA,
Doors open at 7. Lecturatit 8.
Admission. 25 cents.
Reserved seats, 50 cents, to be had tit Trumpler's.
Seventh and Chestnut; at romer's•Great -Agency, 4U3
Chestuutetreet, and at Evening Programme effice, 431
Chestnut street. . •dels-31 4p
1805. •
HOLIDAY" PRESENTS.
BAILEY & 00.,
819 Chestnut Street.
Loh:sorted and Domestic
W .1E IL.. la Nir
OF THE
Choicest winds. •
FINE and ELEGAIT
SITArBEIVARE
AND
SILVER PLATED GOOD 3,
European Fancy G00d5.,"2
selected from the FACTORIES OF EUROPE by a
member of the firm.
VIENNA FANCY GOODS
In great variety.
PARIS FANCY GOODS
Select and beautiful.
A LARGE STOCK OF FINE wArullEs and
JEWELRY, imported DIRECTLY from the most ult . -
brated Factories of Genera, Hanau, Napier. and Lon
don. noIS-lm 4P
NEW PHOTuGRAREIS.
Charming New Photographs,
Prom ,IfODER.H PAINT:EMS.
A large assortment.
Colored and Uncolored.
• JAMES S. EARLE & SONS,
816 Chestnat street.
dl5 6t rpl
' a '
ESTABLISHMENT.
S. R. PHILLIPS,
Nos. 30 and 32 South Seventh Street,
Now offers to his numerous patrons, the trade and the
general public, hisnsual large and elegant assortment
of everything pertaining to the
SADDLERY AND HARNESS BUSINESS,
OF HIS OWN MANUFACTURE IMPORTA
TION,
Among which may be enumerated Light nd heavy
Buggy Harness, all kinds, Single and:Deubl Harness,
Plain, Medium and Magnificently mom! arness .
SADDLES.
Ladies' English Shaftoe Saddles, with Leaping Horn
Ladies' English Shaftoe do., without Leaping Horn
Gentlemen's English Shaftoe Saddles, Military Sad
dies of every grade.
BLANKETS,
SWEAT ELANXETS, •
• STABLE BLANBETS
I offer a large and varied assortment. Also,
English Carriage Mats,
Of Every Deserttioil.
WHIPS;
Of Every Style.
Clipping Shears and Combs, Staging Lamps, Cha
mois, Blacking, Sponges and all other articles requi
site to the complete outfit of a first•class stable.
S. R. PIua.ALLIPS,
Nos. 30 & 32 SOUTH SEVENTH ST.
n0.40.1m 4r4
- pm BALE.—To Shippers, Glneerii, Hotel-keepera
L and othere—,A. very superior lot of Champagne
Cider, by the barrel or dozen. P, J,4OIIDAN,
noe-rptf .2m Pear street, below Tldrd an d• Walnut
MU&MAL BaXibiLin handsome sona t a/Mt:44o l a
ALL two to twelve choice melodies . for sale by
PARR & BROTILKB, Immortals;
No. 3e Etheetrint street, below Fourth.
Gnu TkrE
IVebst,er's -IJl'!abiidged Dietionqyi.
Thoroughly revised and much Enlarged,
. .
OVER 8 , 00 0; FINE ENGRAVINGS ,
,12 a well nigh indispensable requisite for
EVERY, TEA.C7H.ER'S,DESK,'
Giving Important old' in every branch tanghf in 011 r
schools, and of constanC use and convenience in
EVERY INTELLIGENT' FAMILY.
It contains 10,000 WORDS and MEANINGS not found;
in other Dictionaries.
Over Thirty able American and European scholars
. employed noon this re - Vision, and thirty i ears oflabor
expended upon it. being more than in the original
preparation of almost any other English Dictionary.
It is now believed to be by far the most complete,
useful and satisfactory Dictionary of the langtkage
ever published as it is by tar the largest single vol
ume ever issued in any language. -
The possession of any other—kJ. :Wish Dictionary, or
any previous edition of this, cannot compensate for
the want of this.very full and complete one. In its
present perfected state, it must long remain the
And once possessed, remain, of constant and abidiag
value.
What book. besides the Bible, scrindispensable as a.
good Dictionary?
Containing ono-fifth or one-fourth fore matter than
any formeT editions
From new electrotype plates and tho Riverside P re i s
•
In one vol. oflB4oßoyal Quarto Pages.
"GET THE LATEST." • GET THE BEST.';
Published by
G. & C. MERRIAM, Springfield, ]less. •
• AND
J. B. LIPPJUITCOPT & !CO., Philadelphia.
Sold by •
• E. H. BUTT & CO..
LINDSAY u, BLARISTON, do.
JAMES CLAXTON, do.
U. HUNTS EON. do.
BMITR 44. RN GLUM". do.
HIGGINS S PERKRULNE, do.
MOSS do CO., do.
SOWRB, & BARNES, do.
TREO. BLTS9, do.
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS
SUPKESEDED BY THE
•
'NEW INVENTION.
The Photographicon,
By which the Photographs are presented to the eye
by a revolving process. The whcile inclosed in a neat
walnut case.
As only a 44 , of this novel invention can be ready,
for delivery by Christmas, parties are invited to call
and et, mine it, and leave their orders.
JAMES S. CLAXTON,
Successor to W. B. & A. Martien, ,
No 600 Chestnut Street.
~tock - of Photograph Albums
=WED DURING
HOLIDAYS.
50 pictures, morocco clasp, gift ornaments, .1 50
50 " velvet 0 • 0 u 2CO
Juveniles, Gift Books, 4tp., at .proportionate prices.
W. G. PERRY,
delE-St rp2 S. W. cot% FOURTH and BACR.
HOLIDAY PRESENT&
A CHOICE COLLECTION OF
Holiday; Standard,
Juvenile and Toy Books,
At the Store of
JAMES S. CLAXTON,
Suctbssor to W. S. & A. Marten,
606 CHESTNUT STREET.
Call and get the New Holiday Catalogue for Frees
Distribution.
1000 ARCH STREET,
SILVER FLINT !
Triple Crown Raisins,
Paper Shell Almonds,
Choice White Clover Honey.
DAVIS& ^ItICHARDM.
ABOVE OMESTNIIT
Nevi Elnstrated Edition,
Best English Dictionary.
"9E2 WEBSTER."
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THE CFLRRRATED
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BUCKWHEAT.
A Large Invoice of
FRESH PEACHES,
FRESH PEARS.
FRESH TOMATOES.
Also, a choice assortment of
Crown and Basket Raisins,
New' Citron and Fresh Currants,.
Moller's Triple Golden Syrups,
Latour Olive Oil,
Arch and Tenth st&
n027-13:n 4p
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