EVENING BULLE T IN. fIATIIItDAY, DECEMBER;3O, 1865. THE EVENTS 01' THE YEAR. Oirthe 2d, 11th and 12th pages of to day's BULLETIN will be found a care fully prepared summary of the import ant and interesting events of the year just closing, arranged chronologically. It will be found useful for reference, and especially interesting in the future, and is therefore worth preserving. Artivus muktßrus. Before another number of this paper is printed the year 1865 will have run its course. It is scarcely fair to say that it has been the most memorable year of our history, for that might be doing in justice to the memories of 1861, 1662, 1863 and 1864, each of which was big with events of tremendous consequence to the American people. But for the glory, the honor and the happiness of the United States, the year 1865 is the one that , will probably take the first place in their history. It was the year of final victory over rebellion; the year of a peace that is not likely to be ever disturbed; the year of absolute, final, universal freedom among all the people; the year in which was re-consecrated the perpetual Union of the States. There was one black and dismal period of the year, when the American people suffered the greatest sorrow that ever befel a nation. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln, their beloved, .twice-chosen President, not only ex cited universal horror and indignation, but it created a profounder and more wide-spread grief than was ever known probably in any country of the world. We can all recall, with swelling hearts and moistening eyes, the fearful, oppres sive sorrow that hung over every com munity; the sudden, spontaneous cessation of all business; the universal closing of houses and hanging them with mourning emblems, as if every family had lost a father; the solemn services of the churches, and the grand national obsequies, at which millions of mourners followed the remains of the martyred President in the long funeral journey from Washington to Spring field. No such sorrow ever before befel a people, and we may safely predict that the Americana will never again mourn for any man as they mourned for Abraham Lincoln. E.slc,ept for that time of horror and grief in the spring of 1865, the year has been one that we may, always look back upon with pride. Grant and his heroic lieutenants and their noble armies fin ished the work assigned them, by a few well-directed blows, and the monstrous rebellion collapsed with a suddenness and completeness that even yet excite wonder. Then followed the gradual dis banding of the vast army and the reduc tion of the enormous navy that had done such glorious deeds. This has been effected witha quietness that is amazing, and about a million of men that were engaged in war have gone back to their homes and to the pursuits of peace, without creating any disorder. Most of them are all the better citizens, and they are respected by their brethren who did not go into the field or the fleets, all the more for thus combining good civic with good military qualities. The recession of Andrew Johnson to the Presidency, after the terrible shock of ,the murder of Mr. Lincoln and the attack on Mr. Seward, is another of the great events of 1565 that make us prouder than ever of our people and our govern ment. There was no popular disorder of any kind, and the machinery of state went on, in the midst of all the national horror, as, smoothly as it would have done had Abraham Lincoln lived. The work of the executive has been done with great prudence, and thus far with entire suceess. The defeated Southern States are complying with the terms of the President on whichthey are to be re established, and are awaiting the action of Congress by which their representa tives can take seats in the capitol. ~.,When we think of the immense difficul ties of the situation last April,and of the vast progress that has been made in re storing the South from the terrible pros tration produced by the war, we cannot but congratulate the country that the succession to the executive chair was so wisely ordered. The development of every kiwi of wealth in all the States of the Union, and especially in our own, during the year 1865, will give it a new claim as a year of mark. Agriculture has been prosperous and profitable; but in manu factures, in internal commerce by rail roads, canals and rivers; in mining and oil-boring, and in other branches of en terprise, the year has been one of extra ordinary prosperity. In the far West population and capital are establishing themselves and preparing for an annual product of mineral and other wealth that has had no parallel in any other coun try. When, in addition to all the mar vels and blessings already enumerated, we add the recollection that the country has been free from pestilence, although other countries have suffered, we may well claim that Providence has favored 'us especially during the year 1865. The events of the year in other lands are dwarfed by those of our own Country. Nothing that has occurred in Europe, Asia or. Africa can be compared in mag nitude or importance with any of the chief events of the United States. Even the anomalous condition of Mexico excites interest only in view of the pos sible way in which it may be regarded and treated by the United States; and the various wars and revolutions of the Sonth American continent scarcely elicit comment from the public men or jour waists of this country and Europe. If - we were disposed to be vain-glorious as a THE DAILY EVENING BULLETIN : PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1865.---TRIPLE SHEET. people; we might exult in grandiloquent terms over the exalted position which our history in 1865 has given us- among the nations of the earth. But the dispo sition is sufficiently developed, and each reader can exercise it according to his individual fancy. Onr office was simply to indicate a few of the mighty facts of the year, and having done this, we can leave the subject, wishing for every reader and every good American citizen a Happy New Year. ASSUMPTION OF STATE AND CITY WAR DEBTS. A telegram from Washington an nounces that the assumption of State and City war debts by the government is being strongly pressed; also that Sec retary McCulloch opposes it. This assumption by the national government appears to us eminently just and right. The debt was incurred to put down a rebellion. We should be justified by the laws of nations in putting the whole cost of its suppres sion on the guilty. To offer to share it with them is liberal and generous. To undertake to bear the whole burden of any portion of it, is utterly wrong. It is not a measure which the people them selves would sanction, nor one which the government is justified in.requesting them to bear. The temporary condition of matters tends to conceal their real position. The South is, for the moment, poor and suffering, and the feeling is that that region is not in a condition to make its portion of taxation a very available one. But this is very temporary. The South has been, and will be again, enormously rich. The war has demonstrated that the Southern States have practically a monopoly of the cotton crop; it is only at enormously enhanced rates that other countries can compete even at the present exaggerated prices. India and Egypt can hardly produce it profitably. With every year the demand for cotton will increase, until every available acre in every Southern State is brought under cultivation. The elements of wealth are at least as great South as North, and now that slavery is dead, the future of th Southe is to be magnificent. We are legislating now, not for the present alone, but for the future. Even at the present time, the South is eager to bear a portion of the cost of supporting the rebellion. Shall they not then pay their fair share with us of the expense which they, not we, have entailed? Again, the general government has enormous sources of revenue to draw upon which individual communities have not. The revenues from duties, all paid in gold, come from us as much as if we paid them direct to the treasury, since we pay them in purchasing the articles on which they are levied. Our States and cities are wholly debarred from these sources of revenue; conse quently our taxation falls with enor mous weight on those interests that support it. In our own city, taxes must act unfavorably upon industry. We see that the city of New York, tinder this and other loads, is actually declining iu population. We cannot help thinking that Secre tary McCullough is too anxious to lighten the burdens of the South. His recom mendation to remit to the South the taxes that have accrued through the war years was, we think, mistaken lenity. But opposition to the assumption of the war debt is a graver mistake, and one less easy to be explained. TESTIMONIALS The "Testimonial" is one of our curi ous American institutions, which has risen to a perfection almost amounting to a science. Everybody who occupies any sort of position which enables him to dispense favor and patronage receives a "Testimonial," when he retires from office, or is advanced to a higher posi tion of emolument or honor. All fore men of worshops, all managers, super intendents, office-holders, everybody who can give anything to anybody else, Is entitled to a testimonial. The more profitable his position has been to him, the more substantial is his claim upon the dear little "public" of which he is the particular little "head centre." The nature of the Testimonial varies accord ing to the taste, means and patronage of the recipient. It is of course a profound secret to the happy man, andhe receives it at the proper time with an outburst of enthusiastic surprise, and so neatly is this fiction preserved, that the fact that he is himself usually the largest subscri ber to the "Testimonial Fund" is never alluded to in the festivities which, in a properly ordered presentation, accom pany the gift. When the proud recipient has grace fully retired from his office, whatever it may happen to be, his successor, who has been a joyful contributor to the "Testimonial," makes a note of it, and when his turn comes, Official No. 1 is expected to come down with a similar amount in his behalf. An official who retires from office, or an occupant of any important post who moves up to a higher rank and larger salary without having a "Testimonial," is wanting in the first elements of proper self-respect. He evinces a want of enterprise as well as a disposition to undervalue his per sonal importance which should close the avenues Of success and promotion to him forever. A man who employs other men, and has not the wit to convey to the bluntest perception the simple idea that a contribution to his Testimonial will be a cheap and profitable invest ment, ought not to be allowed to con trol the labor and the wages of other men. Seriously speaking,these testimonials to officials and other public men have degenerated into the broadest and most absurd farce. They are, in most Oases, gotten up by the recipients themselves, to gratify their own conceit 'and vanity, and - are paid for, partly by themselves and partly by poor employs and others .who can illy afford the expense. Peo ple,upon whom the Testimonialized in uividual has no claim whatever, are ap plied to for subscriptions, and we • re cently heard of - a case where an indi vidual was called upon to contribute to a policeman's service ' of plate or gold headed billy, or whatever it might be, on the ground that the officer had' on one occasion taken him to jail with much civility! Our testimonial hunters might take a sound lesson from the sturdy republi canism of President Johnson, who will not accept gifts from anybody, much less encourage their presentation. In its popular form, this testimonial busi ness is a humbug and a sham, and ought to meet the same fate which awaits, sooner or later, the numerous family to which it belongs, and which seems to ' flourish so naturally and prolifically upon our American soil. 101:114 mat) The report of Paymaster General Brice, lately submitted to the Secretary of War, bears strong testimony to the zeal and fidelity of the various paymas ters of the army. It shows, too, that the enormous disbursements have been effected with remarkable economy. During the four years of war, the whole amount disbursed by the Department was $1,029,239,000. Of this vast sum only $541,000 was lost by defalcations. The total expenses for disbursement, including pay and allowances to pay masters and their clerks, mileage, tra veling expenses, &c., for four years and four months, were only $6,970,000. So that the total expense for the enormous disbursethent was less than seven-tenths of one per cent. We doubt whether the history of any war shows such remark able economy. It proves the excellence of our system and the fidelity of the numerous paymasters and their clerks, through whose bands these vast sums were expended. AN OPERATIC CENTRE. The Chieago papers give the particu lars of the failure of U. H. Crosby, of that city, with liabilities amounting to about half a million of dollars. This heavy indebtedness was chiefly incurred in building the splendid opera house which bears his name, and which, according to the New York lb raid, has made Chicago the great opeiatic head centre of America. But the truth is,the opera has not paid at all in Chicago, and the building itself has been a losing con cern to its owner. The Chicago Re pub lican says, as a business speculation, notwithstanding its numerous and costly °tikes, and the splendid basement of stores, it is "a failure for the present, and is likely to continue so." This is a rather uncomfortable confession, iu view of the claims L-et up for Chicago as the great "cperatic centre" of America. The Italian Opera. The success of the opera season, that is to begin on Monday at the Academy of Music, is assured in advance, by a season subscrip tion exceeding any ever known before in Philadelphia. The manager opens wisely by giving us an opera that is popular and not hacknied—Fam3t, for the first time in Philadelphia in Italian t and with an admira ble cast that is also new to us. On Tuesday Meyerbeer's great posthumous opera, L'.if riraiae will be played fur the first time here. All the scenery, machinery, dresses, Ace., that were prepared for it at heavy expense in New York, have been I rought on to this city. This will be sure to attract a great audience. It is not likely to be repeated, as the season is short an other operas must be played. SILVER MINING.—The silver mining in Nevada is being prosecuted with a degree of energy and enterprise which warrants the most sanguine expectations of the largest returns. Of all the various mining projects in that region, that of the "Revenue Ex tension" company is rerhaps the most promising. This enterprising company, as will be seen by the advertisement in another column, has recently extended its field of operations by the purchase of several large and valuable properties, which are to be worked by means of the Hopkins Tunnel, which cuts twenty-five distinct silver bearing ledges, and which has already been opened to a distance of two hundred feet. Few investments at thin time promise larger or more certain returns than the mining companies of Nevada, and the "Revenue Extension" has established itself so judiciously and is prosecuting its work so vigorously that we are not at all sur prised that it is proving so attractive to our enterprising capitalists. Amrsratimirs. THE CausTurT.—There is no diminution of the desire to witness "The Sleeping Beauty," if we may judge by the immense audience which thronged the house last evening, filling the seats, aisles and every spot from which a view of the stage could be obtained. The drama is eminently spectacular as well as wittily burlesque, and it combines the finest features of a "show piece" with the funniest imitations of the opera and the most dashing takings -off of the Ethiopian Minstrels. That it is fully up to the times one can easily see by the love scene between Lady Abigail ( Mrs. Keach,) and Baron Factotum (Mr. Lennox,) in which the latter 'pronounces on such questions as Fenianism, the eight hour law, the salaries of the schoolteachers, the Broad Street Railroad, &o. In the hands of artists like Miss Josie Orton, Chapman, Foster and Mrs. Chapman, with fairies like Teresa Wood, Mrs. Mordaunt, Miss Cooper, &c., theplay went off beautifully. Of the scenery and appointnients we can say nothing save in hearty eulogy. No detail was omitted which could add brilliancy to the mice en scene, and no costume was spared which could'contribute to the gOrgeonsness of the spectacle. Of the puns,putls and local allu sions we have heretofore spoken; we can only add that they now run as glibly as in Sam Weller's phrase, "a wheelbarrow with the wheel greased," and they can be e ! e njoyed by every one without offence politi ly or otherwise. This' latter statement is more than can be made of all burlesques. "The Sleeping Beauty , " will be given at to-day's matinee and - until further notice - at the 'evening , performances. ThE ARCEL—We have never seen a play more fmely cast by a single company than ,"Lost in London." In addition to Mrs. John Drew as the heroine, we have the following in the main parts: Owen Marlowe, 'McKee Rankin, Stuart Robson, J. B. Ever barn, T. A. prees, Mrs. C. Henxi,, Miss Fanny Reeves, Miss Griffiths, Miss - C. Reed. The scenery is of unsurpassed beauty, and the effects are superb. In each act there is at least one scene which alone would repay the spectator for attending during the entire evening, while the denouement is really thrilling. It will be repeated till further notice. THE WALNIIIN—We have our usual re port to make of full and delighted audiences at the Walnut. The mysteries of "Faust and Marguerite" and the comicalities of "Brother Sam" have given the greatest satisfaction to the holiday crowds who have filled the house. The same bill will be re peated until further notice. SIGNOR BLrrz holds forth at Assehibly Buildings, giving extra performances to delight the children and youth. "DRIFTING Axiom" is the title of the lec ture to be delivered by "Jeemes Pipes, of Pipesville" (Stephen Massett), at Assembly Buildings next Friday evening. It is the regular lecture of the Press Club course, and will be one of the most popular. NEXT MONDAY AT CONCERT HALL.—It may be seen by those who take the trouble of referring to our advertising columns that Mr. Robert Heller has completed the whole of his arrangements and will open his Salle des Seances Magiques on Monday evening next—i. e., he will commence the new year by ui • ing it a matter of peculiar uncertainty to those who visit him, as to whether they stand upon their head or their heels. Nor IS it only in his diabolism that Heller will bewilder those who go to see him. He will enchant his hearers by the utterance of the liquid notes which he calls from the piano, and prove to them that the poet who called music the "Magic of Heaven" was not altogether wrong. At all events, his unparalelled success in New York, where he remained for more than a year, justifies us in believing that he will more than delight those who may not hith erto have had the chance of hearing him in our sister city. We consequently commend him heartily and frankly to public appre ciation,and advise those who wish to secure seats for the first evening not to delay visit ing Trumpler's Music Store and obtaining them. SEEPORT. At the party last night was Stimms, whom we tempted with dry Verzenay. The poor fellow shook his head, indicating his oppo site spouse, frowning Candloasly across the table, and whispered, "1 . have partaken thrice." " Ha!" we recklessly replied. "it is a question of drei or . fier, is it?" Easy joke for German beginners. The foreign news is that four gunboats have proceeded to Cork. Why are they like General Butler at Bermuda Hundreds? No cards. Senator Nye, of :Nevada, is to make a speech on reconstruction. Bat how can a never-dar Senator be a Senator nigh. The National Sorghum Convention is now in session in Washington. It is expected' that Sorociont will be the favorite with the Sore gums. Under the supervision of Major Gardner, of the regular army, the batteries in Belfast and at other points on the coast of Maine are to be dismantled. The guns are to be carried to Fort Knox. The guns in Charles ton harbor were carried to Knock Forts. A nian has been convicted in New York of keeping a gambling house for children. Poets must now stop talking about the inno cent gambols of children. The colored people of Richmond have "resolved" that they do not intend insur rection. They mean, however, to rise as fast as they can. Since Mr. Carlyle's election to the Lord Rectorship of Edinburg University, he has suddenly taken to speaking English. His note of acceptance as a first effort, is won derfully intelligible. He says: "Mr. Car lyle desires it to be made known to the elec tors and others concerned, that he is very sensible of the great honor done him, that he cheerfully accepts the otlice of rector.and that he will to the best of his ability, endea' vor to discharge its duties." Jamaica is populated by three colors, whites, blacks and maroons. The title of Sir, given by the Queen of England lately to Mr. 8., the inventor of Gas Candles, is generally considered scan dalous. What was the use of be-Knighting such a man ? The seamen belonging to a Neapolitan brig, lately wrecked on the coast of Sicily. near Catania, turned banditti; two of their number being arrested they impudently as serted their right to rob, since their Captain paid them to be Brig hands. The French and English Ambassadors left the court Jae at Berlin immediately after the marriage of the Duke of Mecklen burg-Schwerin, because no places had been provided for them at the table of the King. Thus they left the Dutch Duke swearin'. The Chinese Government reports now state that Bnrgweine was drowned while in irons. That is, he was ironed before he was washed;—bad for his clothes. The English Government are likely to make a muddle of their colonial affairs. The Governor of Malta is about to take charge ofja little Old Jamaica,and the inhabitants of that unhappy island are expected to live hereafter without Eyre. Mrs. R. E. Lee wants to go back to Ar lingt n even if she has to "live in the black quarters." Her ladyship would be a good deal better off there, than our poor soldiers who were left by her amiable husband in the "Black wholes" of the South. DROWNED.—Mary Sawyer, a young lady of Oldtown, Me., was drowned on Saturday last. She had been visiting across the river, and started to go home in company with a young man on skates, who drew her on a sled, but skated into a hole and drew her after him. He got upon the ice and gave his band to the young lady to help her out, when his glove came off, and she was car ried under the ice and drowned. Sale of Store, Church Alley. James A. Freeman, Auctioneer, will sell on next Wed nesday the Gore No. 238 Church alley, without any re serve, by direetionof the Court. CATALOGUES NOW .ILEADY. NEW VICAR'S PRESENTS.—Photographs of supe rior quality of style and execution, just the thing for presents, prices reduced, go early, days short. B. F.:RTABLE.It, 624 Arch street. STORE TOOLS, such as Tinned Cheese Knives, Yardsticks, Truck Wheels, Sugar and Coffee Gum leta, Cotton Samplers, Bale Hooks, Ham, Cheese and Butter '1 esters, Tap Borers, Box Chisels, Saws Mal lets; Hatch ets,&c..for sale by TRUMAN & SR& W, No, Mb (Eight Thirty-five) Market street below Ninth. GIFTS FOR NEW YEAR-0o to REIMER'S Gal lery. Second street, above Green, and obtain a fine and naturally colored Photograph. Prices reduced. go early, days short. TF A PUDDING is proved by its eating, why not a .1 ClotheS W ringer by its use ° The wide-spread use of these labor and clothes saving articles has placed the question of tbeir usefulness and +economy beyond cavil. Several of the best kinds are for sale at TRU MAN* SHAW'S, No. 83,5 (Eight Thirty-five) Market street, below Ninth. pREFIENTS FOR NEW YEAR.— Einuisite styles Cartes de Visite made by F P. REDS.LER, e 24 Arch street. just the thing prices reduced. Lose no time, days short. SBELVING, Counters, Show Cases. Glass Sashes, 13-Store Curtains, bigns (one a mill saw), an Iron Awning Frame and other surplus store fixtures, for sale by TRUMAN& SHAW, No. 835 (Right Thirty five) Market Atzeet, below Ninth, FTTLER, WEAVERnufac & Maturera of MANILA AND TARRED CORDAGE, Cords, Twineo, &c., No. id North Water Street, and No. 22 North Delawar Avenue, Philadelphia. Envoi H. Frmarn. M1C224X2. W 12417122. 00222 AD P. Owriszira. Facts and Fancies. IMPORTANT " TO , THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE REVENUE EXTENSION SILVER MINING COMPANY, NEVADA. Capital. - - $5 00, 000. DIVIDED INTO 50,000 SHARES, Par Value and Subscription Price $lO Per Share. The Directors - have secured the following valuable properties, situated •upon LANDER HILL, Lander county. Nevada. to wit: On Lander RICHARDS LEDGE.....-- 2,000 FEET. W. E. JOHNSTON LEDGE 2,000 " COPPER HARBOR .LEDGE.....- 2,000 " N. B. PENNOCK LEDGE............ 2,000 " VALLEY VIEW ...... 2,000 " TAYLOR LEDGE.-__ 2,000 " PARALLEL LEDGE.......... 2,400 " TYSON LEDGE. 2,000 " MACKINAW LEDGE.- 2.44:0 " MINER'S JOY LEDGE _. 2 400 " CHLORINE LEDGE 2,400 " SULPHUHET LEDGE.---.......- 2,400 " UNION TRUST LEDGE. 2,400 " MARQUETTE LEDGE......_......_2,400 " HOUGHTON LEDGE ......._ 2,400 " QV A VVR, CITY LEDGE.. - 2,400 " ASSOCIATED LEDGE. ..... 2,400 " ANNA SWAN LEDGE__ 2.400 " Which consists of Eighteen different Ledges or Mines and amounting In the aggregate to about 40,000 feet together with the Hopli ins Tunnel. Which Ls already opened about 200 feet. Work upon this Tunnel is now being prosecuted with the utmost vigor, and will CUT D ITS COURSE ALL THE ABOVE NAMED LEDGES, and also the Revenue, Provident's, Savage, Morgan and Money, ;Rooker. North star, and, in fact, all Ledges situated upon Lan der Hill. These propesties have been secured from the original locators, which only could be done by giving them a large interest in the Company. Uniting these properties with the Revenue Extension without in creasing the Capital Stock, or the price per share, stamps this as one of the best enterprises ever offered to the public. Samples of the Ore and Mare of the Property, and for further particulars, apply at the office. Assembly 13u.ildings, Tenth and Chestnut Streets FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY'! FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY" FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY \- 1 FRIDAY EVENING, Jan. 5, 1866. Friday Evening, January 5, ISM NR. STEPHEN MASSBTT. Mr. Stephen Massett.. Mr. Stephen Mamett. "Jeemes Pipes of Pipesville." Jeemes Plpes of Pipesvillo. Jeemes ?Ices of Plpeacille. In his celebrated Seri° Comic Monologue, Drifting About ; Or, Sketches of Travels in Many Lands In which he will introduce the Two (=reit. Sensational Poems, (oriKinally recited b➢ Min ) TBS. Vetin.l34.NLS and BEAT - TIFCL SNow. Also ids wonderful Imitation of Awns Bishopi and dwin Forrect. BB._Becollect for One Night Only, Admission, Fifty Cents. N. ht.—The above will be given under the auspices of the Pries Club of Philadelphia, and is the Eighth of the Course. Tic.kets can be bad at Trumpler's Seventh and Ctit nut; Sromer's Great Agency, VC Chestnut and at the Office of the Evening Pcoornnunc, i3l Chestnut street- Doors open at 7: commence at 6. Stereoscopes, Stereoscopic Views, Card Photographs, 4 -a,„, Thermometers, Mathematical Instruments, epy Glasses, Microscopes, Magic Lanterns, &c., &c. WM. Ir, MoALT,ISTER, No. 72S Chestnut St. EDWIN HALL & CO., No. 26 South Second Street, Would call the attention of the Ladles to their stock of Silks and Other Materials, FOR EVENING DRESSES. wkiirry. ciAcyrns FOR OPERA CLOAKS. N. 8.- OPERA CLOAKS MADE TO ORDER. de2B T'OR SALE—A FINE PORTLAND SLEIGH and a full sot of SILVER TtNIT.TA Price 00. S3l WAL NUT street. It* TBAAC NATHAN% Auctioneer and Money Broker, 1. r e E. corner of Third and Spruce streets, only one squar below the Exchange. NATHANS'S Principal Office, established for the last forty yearn. Money to loan in large or small amounts, at the lowest rates, on Diamonds, Silver Plate, Watches. Jewelry, Cloth ing, and goods of every description. Office hours from B A. M. till 7 P. M. de2Stfrp, OOP SIECRT hfit...l - I:I7AOTORY.—Hoop Skirts H ready-made and made to order; warranted of the best materiale. ALso, Bkirte re m l ul aired. E. BAYLEY, cx2B-amp 812 Vine street. above Eighth. THE HARRISON BOILER, A SAFE STEAM BOILER.—The attention of manufacturers and others using Steam Is confidently called to this patent Steam Generator, as combining essential advantages in absolute safety from explosion, in cheapness of first cost and cost of repairs, in economy of fuel. facility of cleaning and transportation itc., not possessed by any other boiler now in use. This boiler is formed of a combination of cast iron hollow spheres, each sphere 8 inches external diameter, and 3-8 of an inch thick. These ;are held together by wrought iron bolts, with caps at the ends. Nearly one hundred ofthese boilers are now In operation, some of them In the best estab lishments in this city. For descriptive circulars or price, apply to JOSEPH HARRISON, Jr., Harrison .Boller Works, Gray's Ferry road, adjoining the H. S. Arsenal, Fhlladelphia. deS4rarpl ITKB.Y ELEGANT witarE POINTLACE SHAWLS. V —GEO. W. VOGEL, No. 1016 Chestnut street, has just received from Bruxelles, sbr: very - superb "Point guille," and Point Application Lace Pointes (half Shawls), fresh designs of real merit, to which he in vites the attention of judges of what la truly good and beautiful in Lace. deo.3-arns litrAßSlNG W/THINTHo7.I - FILTO INK, Embroider .111. Mg, Braiding, Stamping, dtc. I H. A. TORREY, iBOO Filbert stre et, N 0.558. THIRD Street. dew IL rp - RICH SILKS; FOE EVERING DiagfisEs. RICH SILKS for STREET DRESSES, BICH SILKS OF EVERY VARIETY. All at very low prices. . Scarlet and Black Plaid Poplins. All-Wool Wine Color Poplins. Handsome Green Silk Poplins. Handsome Black Silk Poplins. "Pim's" Black Irish Poplins. Black Empress cloth Poplins. Green and Blue Scotch Plaid Cloths. For Mantles and Suits: Bich Printed French Merinoes, reduced to $l, sold) early this season at $1 75. 134 yardswide Black Queen's Cloth, at $l, $1 25 and $1 50, i% yard wide English Merinoes, at 65 cents, worth 8734• Double-width Plain Cashmeres, at 40 cents, worth 623;• Dress Goods or every variety. at greatly reduced prices, to CLOSE OUT 01TE ENTIRE STOCK. H. STEEL & SON, 713 and 715 N../ataw.u.a. Street. TWO GIFTS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE. RE-OPENING OF THE G. G. Evans' Gift Bookstore, No. 68 Chestnut Street; . On 7hnr sday, December 14. BUY YOUR HOLIDAY BOOKS AT THE BUY YOUR HOLIDAY BOOKS AT TDe, BUY YOUR HOLIDAY BOOKS AT THE BUY YOUR HOLIDAY BOOKS AT ets. BUY YOUR HOLIDAY BOOKS AT THE BUY YOUR HOLIDAY BOOKS AT THE Gilt Book Store, Gift Book Store, Gift Book Store, Gift Book Store, Gift Book Store, Gift Book Store, No. 623 Chestnut street. No. 628 Chestnut street, No. 628 Chestnut street. 'Tis the best place in the city. 'Tis the best place in the city. 'Tis the best place in the city. Books are sold as cheap as at any other store, Books are sold as cheap as at any other store, Books are sold as cheap as at any other store, And you have the advantage And you have the advantage end you have the adwintake Of getting a Gift with each Book, Of getting a Gift with each Book. YOU WILL F Of gettin IND ANg a wift with each Book. ENDI.Tw, VARIETY OF BOOKS Ili RITILRY DEPABTISLENT Olt LITERATURE RE]LEMBEB, That with each book that is purchased at this esta blishmentyon—--BVDSOITE plutswasrr WORTH FROM 2S OMITS TO $lOO. Whereby FOC GET TWO GIFTS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE, Call and one trial will assure you that the best place In this city where you should purchase Books is THE GEORGE G. EVANS' GIFT-BOOK ESTABLISHMENT, FILAXE BAYLE, No. 628 CH.ESTNIT Street, Philadelphia. Two doors below SEVENTH, South side. d=-Strp2 bUPERLATIVELY FINE CONFECTIONS, FOR THE NEW NOW READY. STEPHEN F. WHITMAN, No. j i 2lo Market Street; 'll 1;' AfimangusommA S. R. PHILLIPS, Nos. 30 and 32 South Seventh. Street,. Now offers to his numerous patrons, the trade and thee general public, his usual large and elegant assortment: of everything pertaining to the AOF HIS OWN: MANIIFit, rt, RE AND 121.2013. T- TION, Among which may be enumerated Light and heavy. Buggy Harness, all kinds, Single and Double Harness, Plain, Medium and Magnificently Mounted RIUMEISS. 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. RL.A.I,IE.ETIS, 111MZM I offer a large and varied assortment. Also, English Carriage Mats, Of Every Description. WHIPS, Of Every Style Clipping Shears and Combs, Singing Lamps, Cha— mois, Blacking, Sponges and all other articles site to the complete outfit of a first-class stable. So R. PI33LILAILI_E'S, Nos. 30 & 32 SOUTH SEVENTH ST. n0.30.1m 40 FANCY TI LHIVIOMETERS JAMES W. QUEEN 411 924 MISTNTIT STREET.. .. WATCHES AND JEWELRY, \./6 Silver and Silver Plated Ware ! , Clocks and Mantle Ornaments, London Fles.Bouquet,ft. J. T GAILLA.GHER, 1300 CHESTNUT Street. Late of Bailey & 1980 to deBo4pl formerly BALMY & ICITCO333IN ToB,DANS ICHILICRBATBD TONTO ALE.—Thet d truly healthful and nutritious beverage. now in use by thousands—invalids and others—has established a character fbr quality of material and purity of -mann- facture, which stands unrivaled. It is recommended by physicians of this and other places, as a superior tome, and requires but a trial to convince the most-. skeptical of its great merit. To be had, wholesale and eta% of L JORDAN, 220 Pear street. IDOR SALE,To Shippers, Grocers, Hotel-keepers 1. and others—A very superior lot of Champagne Cider, by the barrel or dozen. P J. JORDAN noe•rptf 220 Pear street. below Third and Walnut- ArgOA_L BOXICE, In handsome awe, playingfrans o to tWelvecholce melodies. for sale by FARR & BROTHER, Importers,: No. M Chestnut street, below Fourth., ABOVE O}U:EiVMI7T.
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